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Directional driller/ Equipment operator with a Flagging certificate for over 10 years here! I have been installing fiber optic and power lines for the past decade on roads just like this. Let me say first off that Comcast broke multiple OSHA and DOT regulations here. When working within any easement that is under 10 feet from the road or working from the road a minimum of 2 signs facing each lane of traffic must be placed a minimum of 500 feet from the site of work. To be a proper Lane closure they needed a roadwork ahead sign at 700 feet followed by a men working sign at 500 feet then a series of 5 cones minimum at the back of the truck forming a wedge from the right of the work lane to the left corner of the truck. -Reddit

I know where i live even on residential streets i often see a flagmen when there is only one lane for two way traffic.

(OSHA) Lane Closure on Low-Volume, Two-Lane Road (Part way down the page) https://www.osha.gov/doc/highway_workzones/mutcd/figures.html

Comcast Apologizes https://consumerist.com/2016/12/14/comcast-apologizes-for-tech-crew-whose-truck-may-have-caused-multiple-accidents/

A 1/4" hole drilled in the wall and a fiber optic camera w/ LED should reveal all, no?

EMPIRE maybe they can get some ridiculously high bandwidth link up and going wirelessly?

OK... well at least have it use a single dinky fiber optic cable to do it.

Hey, as long as the resolution and frame rate is there, I dont care if they pull their displays out of old Tempest arcade machines.

Wow! You knew about high speed fiber optic trading in the 70's? Can I borrow your time machine?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Seems like this kind of lag has gotten a lot worse over the years in telecom. You would think that digital switches and fiber optics would help rather than hinder. I know, you can't beat the speed of light - but there is definitely some non-speed-of-light latency happening here. It bugs me the most on news broadcasts.

Bone nobody complains about the fact the movies cost money (they do, Netflix charges you/month).

This is a small overlap of American lawmakers not going after Net Neutrality. While Netflix creates a lot of usage there are prices for everything on the net. WoW (or any MMO and ultimately every game) costs money, Videosift costs money, Amazon, Comcast, "x", "z", etc... We're already paying through the nose.

Your Grandma might disagree with the "fabricated" .63 cents if she knew how little ISPs pay in regards to bandwidth. It's a joke. What ISP doesn't already have a hard cap? Comcast (and before that, XMission) has always had a fairly high cap. Congestion on the large scale are from inept engineers and planners. If your area block should only have 35 users at 240 GB/month and it gets congested because they let 40 people into the block, that isn't "our" problem. It's poor management with bad design and engineering; no one wants to build infrastructure.

If it was solely P2P stuff I might agree, but your talking about paid, "doubly so", Internet usage fees. Guess where all the "extra" (money for Blizzard, Microsoft - for Gold & Zune, Netflix, and many, many, more) money goes. To the ISPs. Bandwidth IS dirt cheap for them and will continue to be the same as long as the tech goes up at "x^2".

The fault is entirely at the ISPs feet. If they don't innovate they find themselves not offering "the best product". Legislating away your problems is like the U.S. Congress and Senate.

Anyway... I said my two cents before, but these kind of moves are horrifically laughable when you know how fast you'd go "uncapped" and the bandwidth available (in our area, Salt Lake City, heavy fiber optic lines; which again I payed for as a taxpayer).

As I mentioned on a related vid, I'm sooo happy I switched from Shaw to Telus on 30 Dec. I would definitely be on the receiving end of a massive bill.

@MaxWilder I only switched my service at the tail end of December - days away from this new policy - and I did not receive any notification (and I know I would have been over my "limit"). It is an obvious cash grab be the company.

As for charging for bandwidth like electricity, that is hardly the same. Generation of electricity has a cost associated with it, per megawatt hour, bandwidth doesn't cost the company anything (especially not the $2 per gig) after the initial investment of the lines/stations/etc. This is especially true throughout Canada where the lack of real competition means the ISP owns the lines, as opposed to renting them. For all intents and purposes Shaw owns all of the Cable in western Canada, Telus owns all of the phone lines in western Canada. We pay for internet service and that money goes to the upkeep of the service; as Telus has said, there is no need to charge per gig.

A further problem, and one of the reasons Shaw is doing this IMO, is that Shaw has not updated any of its cable or hardware since 2002. As the Telus rep said in the video, they have all new hardware (including one of the most advanced Fiber Optic networks in North America), so they don't have any major future expenses when it comes to internet service. Shaw needs an upgrade and this is how they are paying for it.

I encourage people to read the (slightly outdated) article here for more info on Canada's backwards internet system.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'undersea cable, bandwidth, cable, underwater, alcatel, fiber, optics' to 'undersea cable, bandwidth, cable, underwater, alcatel, fiber optics' - edited by lucky760

>> ^Fade:

I love how divisive onlive is. You get 3 types of comments on it.
AWESOME SAUCE
I'm not sure but it could rock
and
TOTAL BULLSHIT, IMPOSSIBLE.
Just remember 5 years ago nobody thought cloud computing had any hope...look where we are now

OnLive is set to launch now, though. They can't wait another 5 years for everyone to have fiber optics to the home in order to provide a reasonable input lag for everyone. 50ms-200ms client<-->server lag can be playable in some games if they use good prediction but it's entirely different when it takes that long for the game to even know you pressed a button.

I also recently discovered that you will be required to pay a subscription to the service and still pay full price for the individual games. That greatly lowers their value, IMO.

I think there are still a bunch of problems with a head-mounted AR system, but to use it in cars as a HUD, like it's being used in Jet Fighters would be awesom-o! It just depends on how expensive the technology is and what real-world applications it could have. The above video is one example, but something "simpler" like a built-in GPS system would be fancy too.
>> ^bmacs27:
AR is the new VR. It has much broader applicability. Also, because the real world is also there, it often doesn't cause the discomfort that more immersive displays can cause for inexperienced viewers. It's still expensive, but there are low cost solutions that are beginning to emerge.
One problem with the technology has been the logistics of carrying the weight of a display on your head. A patent I'm excited about was filed by Apple a year or two ago. It's for a head-mounted display which is effectively projected on glasses in front of the face. Now that alone isn't innovative, but their idea is to pipe the projection through fiber optics from a hip, or otherwise mounted projector. That avoids the many of the freedom of movement problems associated with head mounted displays. Apple could once again show the rest of the market how to make preexisting technologies commercially viable.

AR is the new VR. It has much broader applicability. Also, because the real world is also there, it often doesn't cause the discomfort that more immersive displays can cause for inexperienced viewers. It's still expensive, but there are low cost solutions that are beginning to emerge.

One problem with the technology has been the logistics of carrying the weight of a display on your head. A patent I'm excited about was filed by Apple a year or two ago. It's for a head-mounted display which is effectively projected on glasses in front of the face. Now that alone isn't innovative, but their idea is to pipe the projection through fiber optics from a hip, or otherwise mounted projector. That avoids the many of the freedom of movement problems associated with head mounted displays. Apple could once again show the rest of the market how to make preexisting technologies commercially viable.

You can do the same thing with a light source and 3/8" fiber optic. Lasts as long as the light source too.

Only drawback is the complete lack of chemical danger, which is a downer.

Glad I could help. Efficient and self-sustaining design is one of my interests. I spend a little bit of free time at work wandering around the internet looking for interesting ideas and advancements.

Sounds like you are more concerned about keeping heat in than keeping the house cool at the moment. Can I assume you are in a northern region?

I think most people recommend adding wall insulation, insulation to the roof/attic, and updating the windows as the good steps to increase the R value of your old house.

lol... I reread you post. Floor to ceiling windows. If those windows get a good amount of sunlight, you might look into eutectic salt chambers (more information at David Allan's website.) That would help retain heat as it released it during fusion as your house gets colder at night.

I'm also toying with the idea of combining a eutectic salt chamber with a radial dish and fiber optics to heat rooms without large windows. They've been working on small radial dishes on the ceilings of houses that will track the sun (small photovoltaic cell and motor on dish) connected with fiber optic cables to run the sunlight into a building. They have been using a UV filter just before the fiber optic cables and disperser at the end to add natural light to the inside of a building. There is an immense amount of energy that comes through the fiber optics (without the UV filter) and they have actually been able to boil water with it. I believe that the commercial applications use plastic fiber optic cables instead of glass and don't allow as much energy through, but we'll see what advances come along in the future. If I can combine the eutectic salt chamber with an additional external case (reflective inside and a few slits for air flow at the top and bottom) and fiber optics bringing the sunlight down to it, I might just have a way to heat the middle of the house without having to loose heat with a window.

Well, I've got time. I'm still working and going to school. I'm years away from buying a house. But when I do, I would like to build my own on a piece of land.

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Whether shooting joints or wax
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Cause I'm a thinker
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The sum of each part forms an octagon
Let rhyme styles get sparked

Ep eight stpes to perfection
The sum of each part forms an octagon
Where rhyme styles get sparked

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history, the most forgotten tome of learning.

80 years ago. we were on the verge of a minor repression. we responded, for the first time in economic history, with a large government stimulus package. we languished in a depression lasting over three decades. an economic fork in the road which has brought us in no uncertain terms to the edge of the cliff we now peer over.

80 years older. we have cured polio. we have landed a man on the moon. we can build 4 billion structures on a piece of glass the size of a human fingertip. we have fiber-optically connected a third of the planet. we can analyze the composition of stars millions of light years away. we can predict the motion of an electron moving across a quantum barrier at fractions of the speed of light. we can manufacture tolerances to within 1/100th of a human hair.

we are about to respond to a minor repression with a large government stimulus package.