The article says it ran out of fuel
I think you are getting confused between geostationary orbit and legrange points.
Geostationary orbit is just the narrow band where you can have a stable orbit at the same speed as the earth's rotation (so it stays in the same place in the sky) no other gravitational bodies involved.
The vendor technical lock in side is difficult - there is lock in because they have developed a service to differentiate themselves from the competition....
You can reduce the lock in by reducing their feature set to a reduced level - most multi clout implementations basically use containers to do everything I think?
Should the fine not be the cost of a mission to move the satellite? It's within our technology now.
Anyone want to run the maths on an afternoons lightning as renewable energy?
It's probably the only environmentally friendly base load option other than overbuilding renewables and building lots of battery storage.
Nuclear is probably cleaner than building that many batteries...
The micro reactors aim to (hopefully) reduce the main issues with traditional nuclear power.
Possibly expansion relief? They get some pretty wild temperature swings.
I prefer it to black on white. Inferior to dark mode though.
Yeh, seems like an oversight. Maybe they thought that as the tanks were metal they wouldn't need it?
The base limit is the speed of light/electricity it takes X time for a signal to travel. This is your base latency. For example it takes about 70ms for light to travel half way round the world (it has to go round, not through). This can be improved by talking to servers that are closer to you and by taking links that are direct. But can't be improved beyond the rules of physics.
On top of this you get really small amounts of processing delays as data is passed through various routers/computers on the way to the destination.
The real problem comes from congestion - if there is a lot of data being transferred between two destinations, the infrastructure between them might not be able to cope. This may result in messages being queued (causing a delay) or dropped (your controls don't make it to the server!) To avoid this, the network will route your message via somewhere else with less demand, increasing the distance and delay (but spreading the load)
Unfortunately, if that overloaded cable is the one bringing data into your neighborhood, then there likely isn't an alternative route. In the UK at least, we are (finally) building out a fiver to the premises internet network that effectively fixes any local bottlenecks.
If you want to see where your latency is coming from, you can run a trace route using various applications (or even directly in windows). This will show you the latency between each router that your data is traveling through on its route to it's destination.
Edit addition: for game streaming the network delays are added onto the natural delays of running the game (controls -> computer -> processing -> display/speakers).
The other big additional delay for streaming is that in order to reduce the network load of streaming the game the image is compressed and encoded to be sent to you (much more than is done for your monitor cable).
This is a computationaly intensive operation that can take a good few ms. The better the computers at either end, the faster this can be done. However the big way forward here is hardware encoding/decoding. By using hardware that is made to just do encoding/decoding and nothing else this can be done much faster.
These encoders are commonly on graphics cards, and the graphics parts of CPUs. As newer encoding formats are created and hardware encoders created (and actually included) this area will becomeuch faster.
Source: programmer with a computer science degree and a vague interest in networking.
On mobile, so sorry for bad editing.
On the other hand, does the world really need more people to support? Is it not better to let people move to where they are needed instead?
You either need batteries or a Europe wide energy grid. It's quite possible for it to be still (not windy) over the whole of the UK for example.