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Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: > > > Am I the only one who is surprised that here we are now - over 7 years > later - and the electric grid industry still hasn't found/implemented a > design fix for this problem? Guess what... Real Time is Hard. Real Time when dealing with amounts of energy sufficient to move mountains, with dv/dt in milliseconds, is even harder. Spread it out over a grid that measures fractions of a wavelength, it gets harder still. Then run parts at 105-110% and it gets really hard. Now, play Prisoner's Dilemma with it.... and watch the sparks. I'm no power engineer but I do not envy them. Can YOU build an equal size TCP/IP network with the added requirement that you never drop any more than say one or 2 bits/hour? And if you do, you cold boot it all again? -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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