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Conferences will Continue
It seems that according to their press release, they have a plan and intend to continue with all conferences.
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Xybernaut to be used by COMDEX Chicago next week
According to this story at Wired, Xybernaut's Mobile Assistant® V product will be used at COMDEX Chicago by the event staff to reduce queues. I could envision two different ways that slashdotters could protest. If they are actually going to attend, they could wear something that states their position about the company and its practices. If they are not going to attend, but live in or near Chicago (big place, should be a few around somewhere), they could do the usual protest thing on public property at the border of the convention (I'm sure the COMDEX people would never allow them in the convention area).
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Xybernaut to be used by COMDEX Chicago next week
According to this story at Wired, Xybernaut's Mobile Assistant® V product will be used at COMDEX Chicago by the event staff to reduce queues. I could envision two different ways that slashdotters could protest. If they are actually going to attend, they could wear something that states their position about the company and its practices. If they are not going to attend, but live in or near Chicago (big place, should be a few around somewhere), they could do the usual protest thing on public property at the border of the convention (I'm sure the COMDEX people would never allow them in the convention area).
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Welcome back t0qer.I still think you have an incomplete understanding of the Ricochet network. ATS=304 sets the DTE rate between the radio and the computer. The 128k poletops were not the same as the old poletops. Hence, network upgrade.
I'm sorry you feel you have an axe to grind with Ricochet - I do too, being a former customer who lost service (though I no longer live in a service area). I also think they should have gone for volume with their pricing model, instead of catering to the overpaid-techie set.
Last time I questioned your assertion that the 128k upgrade was no more than "changing an S register on the poletops", you corrected me on a few points - namely that the old modems used frequency hopping to avoid collisions with the old poletops. I haven't tested this, but let's stipulate it.
You did not address my (correct) assertion that the newer poletops did use a different band for backhaul (2.3 GHz WCS/2.4GHz ISM), where the old poletops used the same 900 MHz band as the modems. (This information came not from "marketing drivvel" [sic] but from a paper presented at interop by Metricom engineers). (As to my other assertion - that the 128k modems used 4FSK vs. FSK, I admit that I don't remember where I read that.) So why do you claim that the new service was no different than the old?
No, I didn't work for Metricom. You worked tech support for Metricom. Based on my experience with Metricom's tech support, this explains alot about your attitude and (mis)understanding of the network. The upgrade was more than just "changing an S register on the poletop." Why do you insist on claiming otherwise?
-Isaac
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dhtml performance has *regressed*????
why god, why?
ok, seriously though, this browser has come a LONG WAY. i use it as my primary browser both at work and at home. i really think anyone who hasn't tried it out or tried it early on and stopped because it crashed too much should really try it out again. anyone who stopped because it was too slow might wanna wait till 1.0 -
Re:I'm Surprised
I'm also surprised by strong negativity towards the Segway. I guess a lot of Slashdoter don't walk a great deal. I personally prefer walking to any other forms of transportation. But I have to admit that after an hour or two it gets old. If I'm really pushing it I can do about 4 MPH walking. I think that's average for most adults. I love riding bikes too. If traffic is not too heavy and the average auto traffic is below 40 MPH. Lastly come public transit and then autos. PT often fails me due to poor scheduling. With autos, the costs associated with owning and operating them to me are excessive, (gas, insurance, parking, taxi fares, etc). I immediately see the benefits of owning or having access to a Segway. Especially in an congested urban area like Chicago where there's a lot to see and do in a rather small area. I would like being among other people on the sidewalks rather than being in the street dodging cars on bike or on a bus, taxi, car. The reason I mentioned Chicago is because I really like modern architecture and photographing them. I very leery about transporting good camera equipment (even a laptop) on a bike due to the high amounts of vibration they produce. In one small area there are forty-five important buildings and landmarks with a 2.5 sq/mile area. WOW! With a Segway you could visit each one in a single day. Plus with the 8 inches of additional height the Segway adds to your standing height and gyro stabilization it would make a great tripod. And what about those multi-acre trade fairs like Comdex? Imagine all the vendor-ware you could collect with one of these! If I were Segway & Co. I would rent them out at large shows like this to geeks like me for $$. It would be like those carts you rent at airports. Hmmm, airports!/? Another Slashdoter mentioned theme parks like DisneyWorld as a good example. But I think just about all tourist scenarios could benefit. Think about the benefits to shorter heighted women and men? 8" of added standing height with the Segway could really help their confidence interacting with taller people or reaching things on high store shelves.
I would own or rent one as needed if it were available today without question. I can easily justify the benefits of a $3000.00 Segway in contrast to another $3000.00 laptop. I can see the satire of poking fun at "IT." Yet when I look at all of the ancillary products and services the auto industry created (parking meters, parking lots, paved roads, filling stations, etc) I easily see why the Segway is a revolutionary innovation. -
Oh no you won't...
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Re:Using WTC as an excuse
- Banning non-vendor bags and laptops in no way increases security
Not really true. Cynical as I am, I think that this is a genuine (if token) attempt at security, not a restriction on unwelcome items. The policy is a blanket ban on anything that can be used to contain or conceal Something Nasty. It will stop stupid, lazy, people who don't want to die from walking in the front door carrying a bomb in their hand.
It's just a shame that people like the September 11th hijackers, are neither stupid, nor lazy, nor do they care about their own lives. They'll use the back door, or just strap 20kg of plastique on themselves, throw a jacket over it, and walk through the front door with their perfectly valid passport.
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Re:Ummm, it's not a bag, sir."
- If bags are banned, how can chick geeks (of which I'm sure there are a few going to Comdex) possibly bring their purse or handbag in? Will they have to wear a stylish yet goofy-looking fanny pack, or would that count too
Gee, maybe if you weren't such a lazy fuck, you could have read the actual security policy and found out. You lazy fuck.
- "Anyone carrying a purse or fanny-pack will be asked to go through a security check"
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What about UWB?
Ultra WideBand looks promising for PDA/ Wireless data transfer, and with that kind of bandwidth you could shove quite alot of stuff including video.. Lets just do away with 'traditional' broadcasters - Its the future already.
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Don't botherI've been to tons of conventions. Unfortunately, most are not worth the time or cost. I've also noticed that the number of conferences in computers has grown extremely high. There's a simple reason for this: Companies spend tons of money. I've found this is the only way to afford conventions. The prices continue to rise, becuase the companies continue to pay. What we need is a good boycott of these events to bring the price back into line. But hey, the same can be said for baseball tickets.
become a presenter
That's good in theory, but the Convention types are on to you. Now presenters have to pay, and in some cases the guest speakers have to pay. In fact, I had someone call me at home and ask me if I would like to speak at an upcomming Telephony Conference. Once I said yes, his next question was how I would like to pay for that (all $999 of it). Needless to say, I didn't go.
Oh, and since you asked, here's what I could dig out of my box-o-convention-forms, most of these I've attended once, and aren't bad. Some lean a bit heavy toward IT and away from coding though:
Java One (yes, there are a LOT of apache people there)
CMP Event list (good list of conference/trade shows)
I am just a little curious if these Cons are just ways for the Apache group to make money while CLAIMING that they are open source. I can understand donations to fund the effort, but $1200/person is more on the scale of a "political contribution". Wait... that just must be my paranoia...
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Don't botherI've been to tons of conventions. Unfortunately, most are not worth the time or cost. I've also noticed that the number of conferences in computers has grown extremely high. There's a simple reason for this: Companies spend tons of money. I've found this is the only way to afford conventions. The prices continue to rise, becuase the companies continue to pay. What we need is a good boycott of these events to bring the price back into line. But hey, the same can be said for baseball tickets.
become a presenter
That's good in theory, but the Convention types are on to you. Now presenters have to pay, and in some cases the guest speakers have to pay. In fact, I had someone call me at home and ask me if I would like to speak at an upcomming Telephony Conference. Once I said yes, his next question was how I would like to pay for that (all $999 of it). Needless to say, I didn't go.
Oh, and since you asked, here's what I could dig out of my box-o-convention-forms, most of these I've attended once, and aren't bad. Some lean a bit heavy toward IT and away from coding though:
Java One (yes, there are a LOT of apache people there)
CMP Event list (good list of conference/trade shows)
I am just a little curious if these Cons are just ways for the Apache group to make money while CLAIMING that they are open source. I can understand donations to fund the effort, but $1200/person is more on the scale of a "political contribution". Wait... that just must be my paranoia...
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It's vapor...need evidence?Just two comments.
1.) Why is everyone in the company selling out?
http://biz.yahoo.com/t/c/cfmd.html2.) Why isn't c3d listed as an exhibitor at Comdex? (looong load, even with broadband)
http://myplanner.key3media.com/comdex/fall2000/pla nner/exhibitorsall.cfm