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WiFi & Cellular Unite
blake213 writes "Newsfactor is reporting a story on how WiFi Metro and Green Packet are teaming up to do a 90-day field test of combined WiFi and cellular romaing technologies in the S.F. Bay Area. Supposedly a user can roam between two coverage areas with uninterrupted service."
or more appropriately, when I see the bill for it!
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I am reporting that myself and my hand are teaming up for a 90 day field test on chafing. NOW THATS STUFF THAT MATTERS!
It's just that people who need constant access aren't really the kind of people who like to go outside :)
Sharp Light! Sharp liiight!
they can aim there mobile at Jim's house.
WiFi is evil. Do not support it.
Why? It is in the details.
I'm a bit confused, though. Isn't this what GPRS is supposed to accomplish?
Like you, I am a nerd, and am not a member of the not-nice-guys set of categories. My girlfriend, who I love, and have been with for four years now, turned me down the first time I asked her out. During the next two years she dated loser after loser, got raped, hit, ignored each by different people.
Suddenly I looked a lot more appealing. Choosing the "nice guy" in the first place saves trouble that will follow you for the rest of your life, ladies. We're the ones you're comfortable talking to, the ones who don't scare you.
Obviously, my girlfriend learned that lesson, and saw that stopping to judge the real value of a person is better than ignoring him because he seems weirder than some "really cool guy". It's a lesson that you shouldn't have to learn at all. It should be obvious that a nice person is a better person, and more worthwhile.
So here I am, happy now, suffered before, and probably only finally got recognition because someone else had to do something torturous and evil to make it happen. These things can't always be prevented. People make mistakes, but they should really think things through.
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I see these ads for desktop refridgerators. They mention warm bawls? What the heck is a bawl?
But you can bet it will be a phreakers heaven. Bruce Schneier is always saying that holes occur when you try to force together 2 systems that were not designed to work with each other.
I'm willing to bet that stealing other users sessions will be common place for quite a while if they ever get the thing into full production ...
DWR is Ajax for Java
Who taught this guy to spell? Taco?
There are now also chipset which combine WiFi and Bluetooth. I.e. the plugin card can be used for both protocols and they both share the same antenna.
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Music to your sweet ears, my love, is like catching spiders with a Hoover.
It's really too bad that there's no Linux alternatives for the Pocket PC platform because it seems like it's finally taking off. Taiwan OEMs are going nuts this year at Computex with wireless Pocket PCs and stories like this about ironing out the wrinkles in GPRS are starting to convince me this might become a significant market where I used to be convinced it was an overpriced gimmick. If the prices come down into the few hundred dollar range in the next few years these things might become ubiquitous.
Hey man, I know how you feel. A similar thing happened to me, the only differences being that I actually really loved my girl, and the bastard who seduced her away is a fucking spotty ginger geek.
Don't worry, you will get over it eventually. Whether you actually will want another relationship is another matter - I have dismissed anything like that since then, despite having a few girls 'telling me how they feel' etc.
Hope you feel better soon, and don't do anything crazy like hit the guy or burn his house down, you most likely will regret it. You sound like a nice sort of guy who is above such things as that.
WLAN is a short-range solution, GPRS is long (or mid)-range. WLAN provides (if available) relatively high band-width for limited amount of users. GPRS provides more trustable relatively low-bit rate for more users. WLAN is governed by laws of a jungle. GPRS is strictly governed. I quess these are the main differences that the user will see, in addition that the standards are very different.
Nokia sells a card with support for both WiFi 802.11b and GPRS, maybe because the two things are different.
What you might see is automagic switch to 802.11b network when it's scanned to provide better and trustable bit-rate, and switch back to GPRS when the WLAN network fails.
Well as life goes own, people hopefully get more mature. Speaking from experience, I used to go for the wierdo chicks, because they were interesting. Nothing attracted me more than an interesting-looking (maybe had odd piercings, or very short hair, or a curious but pretty face) girl who didn't say much about herself, who had a lot hidden away.
.. well, that relationship just ended due to personality differences. Basically, we argued too much. She was nice, though, and occasionally we still talk. Cordial, like.
Unfortunately, five out of six of these girls turned out to be crazy whores. Crazy, because they were a bit odd in the head emotionally and more likely to get in some bad mood. One was actually certified mentally ill and had been sectioned before. Most were depressed a lot of the time. Whores, because they were so desperate for attention that despite going out with me, they would persist in throwing themselves at any other guy who showed an interest. This is how most of those relationships ended.
The one who wasn't a crazy whore
But after the worst break up I had ever experienced (this was with one of the five mental girls), I realised a lot of things that I just hadn't considered before. A whole new outlook on life.
One of the things I realised is that it is best to go for the nice girls, the ones you can talk to. The ones least likely to go crazy on you. Most importantly, the ones you can trust the most.
For many months after, I stopped searching for a girlfriend. It sort of happened by accident almost, but then I met my current girlfriend, Vicki, brandishing a charity box in the city centre. Nice looking girl, in a not bizarre way. Put my pennies in and just got chatting to her.
And from there, love grew. I just can't describe how nice she is! We can talk about anything and we really understand each other. It's fantastic. I know she feels the same way about me too, unlike the crazies described earlier who would just say it for attention.
So the moral of this story is that not only should girls go for nice guys if they know what's good for them, but guys should go for nice girls too. It makes sense!
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Laa! Laa! Faa-laa-laa-LAA!
Laa-de-daa! Faa-de-laa! Do-do-do-do-doo-wop!
Mmm
Last week I clicked that goatse link for the first time (it's disgusting). The next day, my gf said she wanted to "try something a friend told her" with my browser, so I let her loose on the Internet while I shower. The next day she broke up with me without explanation. Only when I asked her best friend did I learn that my gf was "horrified by something in my browser history". So I'd like to politely declare that you and your fellow trolls can go to hell with your frigging goatse link.
Wouldn't "Come together, right now" have been a better choice?
Guess the old Beatles fan still exists in me.
Cool! Given the range of WiFi in my house, we will now have antenna towers every 50 feet rather than every quarter mile.
Hey, the tops of those telephone poles aren't being used - maybe we could use those. Go Global Irradiation!!
There is an IETF standard called mobile IP which has been capable of doing this for years. I have used it to roam from Fixed Etherenet to 802.11 to cellular with out losing any of my sessions. The are many implimentations available. Dynamincs is is an open source solution. Cisco has a complete line of solutions. As well as a number of other vendors. So why would you want a proprietary solution like the one from greenpacket.
Why don't cellular providers make an adapter to plug their cellular access into the junction box on the outside of a house? I use my cell phone as a primary (actually, I have two and it is still much cheaper than the rape provided by Ameritech) and this has worked well for me. I would really love it if I could plug in a cellular access module into my house so I could use my POTS infrastructure with the service.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
This sounds like a wonderful idea. While it'd be nice to be able to go sit in the park and get some exposure to the 'real world' outside, while having ones 'constant connection' to their laptop, how long will it take to push this sort of technology out from the heart of the Silicon Valley area?
I'm still waiting for Nextel to allow me to Direct Connect across regions, and they've really had most of the infrastructure for a while now. I think I'm more interested in seeing what sort of pricing structure and rollout schedule they're thinking of -if- things work out.
Awk! Pieces of eight. Pieces of eight. Pieces of seven... ERROR: General Protection Fault. [Paroty Error.]
How do you pronounce WiFi?
Is it more like "Wye Fye" or "Wee Fee"? Or do you just say the letters?
This is REALLY FUCKING IRRITATING at this point, now that you are barraging us with huge ads. Stupid typos and 10-year-old grammatical errors are way too common in your news stories.
Why don't you hire just one competitent person to deal with it if you cannot? Or maybe get a spellchecker into slashcode?
For Christ's sake, get your shit together.
Meanwhile, the geeks at the Shmoo Group are finding open 802.11 networks and making VoIP calls over the 'participants' Internet connection. Very clever.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
you shouldn't keep the IP from Cingular.
I'm surprise there arent more people using Linksys PLEBR10 ($79 ethernet over powerline). Seems like it is easier to set up a fast community network
From the greenpacket homepage:
Always Connected ...... With or Without A Network
.... iiiinteresting....
I think it's about time to re-think that slogan. I smell "dot bomb" if I ever did smell one. phew!
no cellular or wifi comm permitted inside building
I use "eight-oh-two dot eleven bee", I've also heard "eight-hundred and two dot eleven b" and "eight zero two one one b", what do you guys use?
Trollem mirabilem hanc subnotationis exigiutas non caperet
The only downside is the phones they support are not the latest and greatest.
Don't you wish you had as little to do with your life as this jerk? This little outburst, if it is not merely the result of drug/alcohol-induced psychosis, makes me wonder how you get to work each day without being involved in a freeway shooting. I find your sludge much more annoying than even the worst examples of dyslexic fingers. And, speaking of fingers, here's one for you, moron. And, oh yeah, "competitent" is actually spelled "competent". But then you wouldn't know that, would you?