The in-development technology will use lasers fired at scanning, switching MEMS mirrors to produce an image. It's kind of a cross between DLP, laser scanners, and nanotech.
The best part about it? No lens. No bulbs to replace (Though your lasers might burn up), and your throw distance can be basically any length without the distortion you'd get out of traditional optics trying to do the same thing. Want a 100 inch picture three feet away from the projector? No problemo.
If I get someone who doesnt care, I just tell them the virus e-mails, at random, their web history and any files/photos/etc. it can find on the hard drive to any address it can find in the e-mail application.
This works suprisingly well. Even though it's a lie, they are spooked about it. If they pester me, I'll tell them the truth but add that viruses in the past have done this and probably will do it again.
Oh yeah! I remember that game.. it rocked. The best part about it was that it was free to play. It wasnt very hard, but there were all these weird transitions that played between levels. The game existed for sure, but all this talk of mind control isassssofo nngggrrrrff afsfsffasfaff gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggg gg ggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggg
It's very funny how they suddenly are on your side when you sign the check. You don't call up the state employment commission and ask this question. You tell a lawyer, "Figure out how to do this legally." and they do it! Amazing!
Even if they did change the license to something like this to prevent SCO from using it, they'd still have the problem of having released the old code under a license that DOES allow SCO to use it and will continue to allow SCO to develop on it and enhance it (providing that the software remains under the GPL of course)
Eating it might not, but if you eat a bag of fritos and don't wash your hands, you might end up smearing all that grease on your face, and that actually will affect you.
A new virus is on the loose that apparently causes people to think up stupid names. You are likely infected if you have changed the name of your business recently to present a "hip new image" or if you have started a fork of a major open source product and changed its name.
If you are contemplating either of these actions at this time and wish to make sure you do not accidentally select a stupid name, please seek treatment from a state-licensed therapist to insure you are not infected with this virus.
90% of the comments here are about the name. It seems these guys really picked a really shitty one. Unless they do really good work, the project will probably die due to the name alone!
A better choice?
"Y-Window System".. The name would imply that it is somehow a successor and furthering of X windows, yet in an entirely new and advanced incarnation.
Xouvert.. "It's like banging your head on the table repeatedly!"
I assume you were making a joke, but I have a few of these too. They are amazingly quiet, at least compared to the 10K SCSI's I've used in the past. They are also really smoking for ATA drives..
Yes. Rosegarden does this. I have not used it very much at all in a long time, but it does work fine, and if they have improved it since I last used it, then it may be a very slick application indeed.
The certification they have gotten still implies that the APSL may still have limited free-ness. I believe that the DFSG standards are a better guideline for what is really "free."
Does anyone know if the Debian people have had a chance to review the new license?
Well as I said in my other post in reply to my original, I did not intend to discount the frottle project in any way. I am always impressed at how proper traffic shaping can solve problems. It's very strange, isn't it, that Alvarion will charge 1000 bucks for an AP and then tell you that traffic shaping can do nothing for wireless networks! I do not necessarily like their equipment; I was just using it as an example of some that support polling.
I also did mention that proper polling support might easily be added to the HostAP project as pure software. This would actually fix the real problem and add real polling to the WLAN... at least for 802.11b, anyway. 802.11g cards seem to be doing AP functions in firmware rather than host-processed.. A shame, really. It's really pushing the bar down on the consumer equipment (without someone reverse engineering the firmware anyway!)
I didn't say this was crude or pseudoscience. I said that a lot of 802.11b people spew crazed ramblings about radio that could not be farther from truth.
I also did address using a computer as an access point. This software belongs in the HostAP driver in that case as I said. Running the access point and running the firewall on the same host is often done (I do it myself on my home firewall.) This is the only real solution to the problem as posted. The frottle people should not say they implemented AP polling modes with a software firewall because that is not what they did!
Finally, in the end, I said that frottle may be just fine for smaller installations and that traffic shaping often gets the job done even when it is not the best solution. I traffic shape my upstream bandwidth on my cable modem which fixes the problem of a large upload killing bandwidth even though it's not the real problem. The real problem is the cable modem's internal TCP/IP queues are way too big for multi-user environments (but great for single user environments where they most often are)
All that said, I'll probably fire frottle up on my unit here and see how it works and why. Crosstalk problems often occur in metal buildings and other consumer-level situations where an inexpensive solution like this could prove very effective in treating an annoyance like this.
Well, this idea is good and all (that's why it's a part of the spec!) But the problem with a firewall-based solution is that it is behind the AP and thus the solution of traffic control through client polling is only simulated. Without the AP performing the polling, you don't acutally solve this so called "hidden node" problem.
802.11b people have a bad habit of thinking that the problems they face are new or unique, so they do a lot of re-inventing the wheel. This, normally is not a bad thing, but quite often "WiFi" supporters produce a crude solution while spewing insane amounts of bullshit radio pseudosience. When did "crosstalk" suddenly mutate into "hidden node problems?" Alvarion (Breezecom) has had polling support in their AP's for... about 6 years or so, even the 802.11b ap's! It's like trying to make steel in your fireplace. The consumer-grade equipment is not designed to take the heat. Consumer-grade AP's are going to lack some of the features needed in carrier-grade equipment such as polling. It makes them cheaper - no doubt they are missing features.
What someone who wants to fix this really ought to do is modify the ihostap drivers to do polling 'on the air' -- If it is possible, at any rate.. I am unaware of the specific implemenation, and it's likely that even toying with the HostAP drivers will not allow one to work with the radio at a low enough level. Still, you know, if it works, it works. Traffic shaping can make things seem faster on congested networks of any kind, so if it throttles the abuser down enough where other radios can get a word in edgewise, then it does a little towards curing a symptom of the real problem. For the freenets and coffee shops, this may be entirely sufficient.
Comparing battery capacities based solely on V*mAh is fine -- if you don't care about what the output voltage is, what the physical size of your battery is, the charge retention, or how many charge cycles the battery will last. I suspect that the digital camera battery is not lagging *that* far behind the GBA battery as far as battery technology goes.
If you take battery technology and compare bang (V*mAh), physical size, and price, there are few things that beat a lithium (not lithium-ion) battery.
Well, digital cameras generally DO have monster batteries. Besides, the thing only has to fire up the wireless once in a while. It seems it's a "push" sort of device where the camera sends the image out, not where you visit the camera from another computer to retrieve it...
You know, I was thinking about this a little bit, and I think that there really may be an actual safety problem with the narrow wheelbase. It has nothing to do with the car, though.
If you have ridden a motorcycle you are probably aware of the dangers you face due to cars that leak oil. The oil falls out down the middle of lanes, and so you should ride a motorycycle down either the left or the right side where car tires always tread so that you dont pick up all of this slippery stuff (and other debris too). In big cities (Houston is worse on this than most), rain can create a nice little oil slick over the entire highway, posing a problem for everybody.
With the extremely narrow wheelbase of this car, you don't really have an option not to have some tires in the middle of the street. If you drive on either side, you have a set of wheels in the center, and if you drive in the center, your wheels are both in the middle of the crap.
Probably, this problem would result in a higher likelyhood that Tango drivers get flat tires or have more accidents that are the due to the driver instead of the car versus most other cars. Still, it's probably going to be very small.
If you set up some kind of test to determine at what speed a car would tip for a given turning radius, I would place money on this car winning the tests against over 90% of the SUV garbage on the road despite the wheelbase. Remember that 3000 lbs is mostly batteries. All the weight is so low, the roll angle will be pretty extreme.
As an example, take two off road vehicles as an example. The Hummer (Not the suburbHan2) will tip at about a 45 degree roll angle. Depsite having a wheelbase just over half as wide as the hummer and about 2 feet of extra height, a Pinzgauer vehicle will not tip until about 56 degrees of roll.
Some of the very newest SUV's are pushing the center of gravity down lower and lower due to driver incompetence. I imagine that most new SUV's coming out will have all but mutated back into station wagons within about 6 years.
I wonder if he sent them a Mobius Fax also? According to legend (and probably a true thing) some old thermal fax machines would catch on fire after a while if the mobius fax was not discovered and interrupted (and your construction paper didn't slip) - basically what you did was to feed a long strip of black paper into your machine and when it came out the back, loop it over and tape it together so that your machine faxed an endless stream of black. Funny stuff (until the arson charge anyway)
Man that detour app looks killer. I sure wish something like that had been available on windows about 3 years ago when I really needed it. Ah well, at least it's fairly easy to do on Linux..:)
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Not LED bulbs, buddy... Laserbeams!
The in-development technology will use lasers fired at scanning, switching MEMS mirrors to produce an image. It's kind of a cross between DLP, laser scanners, and nanotech.
The best part about it? No lens. No bulbs to replace (Though your lasers might burn up), and your throw distance can be basically any length without the distortion you'd get out of traditional optics trying to do the same thing. Want a 100 inch picture three feet away from the projector? No problemo.
If I get someone who doesnt care, I just tell them the virus e-mails, at random, their web history and any files/photos/etc. it can find on the hard drive to any address it can find in the e-mail application.
This works suprisingly well. Even though it's a lie, they are spooked about it. If they pester me, I'll tell them the truth but add that viruses in the past have done this and probably will do it again.
Oh yeah! I remember that game.. it rocked. The best part about it was that it was free to play. It wasnt very hard, but there were all these weird transitions that played between levels. The game existed for sure, but all this talk of mind control isassssofo nngggrrrrff afsfsffasfaff gggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggggg gg ggggggggggggggg ggggggggggggggg
It's very funny how they suddenly are on your side when you sign the check. You don't call up the state employment commission and ask this question. You tell a lawyer, "Figure out how to do this legally." and they do it! Amazing!
How about if they use radio collars and ear tags too?
Even if they did change the license to something like this to prevent SCO from using it, they'd still have the problem of having released the old code under a license that DOES allow SCO to use it and will continue to allow SCO to develop on it and enhance it (providing that the software remains under the GPL of course)
Eating it might not, but if you eat a bag of fritos and don't wash your hands, you might end up smearing all that grease on your face, and that actually will affect you.
Warning!
A new virus is on the loose that apparently causes people to think up stupid names. You are likely infected if you have changed the name of your business recently to present a "hip new image" or if you have started a fork of a major open source product and changed its name.
If you are contemplating either of these actions at this time and wish to make sure you do not accidentally select a stupid name, please seek treatment from a state-licensed therapist to insure you are not infected with this virus.
After Z-Windows comes A-Windows for a nice new beginning (Wouldn't you be wanting one after three forks?!?) :D
90% of the comments here are about the name. It seems these guys really picked a really shitty one. Unless they do really good work, the project will probably die due to the name alone!
.. The name would imply that it is somehow a successor and furthering of X windows, yet in an entirely new and advanced incarnation.
A better choice?
"Y-Window System"
Xouvert.. "It's like banging your head on the table repeatedly!"
~GoRK
I assume you were making a joke, but I have a few of these too. They are amazingly quiet, at least compared to the 10K SCSI's I've used in the past. They are also really smoking for ATA drives ..
Would you put your brain in a robot body?
Yes. Rosegarden does this. I have not used it very much at all in a long time, but it does work fine, and if they have improved it since I last used it, then it may be a very slick application indeed.
~GoRK
The certification they have gotten still implies that the APSL may still have limited free-ness. I believe that the DFSG standards are a better guideline for what is really "free."
Does anyone know if the Debian people have had a chance to review the new license?
~GoRK
If you have a TiVo, you owe SCO $32. Don't forget to send them a check!
~GoRK
Well as I said in my other post in reply to my original, I did not intend to discount the frottle project in any way. I am always impressed at how proper traffic shaping can solve problems. It's very strange, isn't it, that Alvarion will charge 1000 bucks for an AP and then tell you that traffic shaping can do nothing for wireless networks! I do not necessarily like their equipment; I was just using it as an example of some that support polling.
I also did mention that proper polling support might easily be added to the HostAP project as pure software. This would actually fix the real problem and add real polling to the WLAN... at least for 802.11b, anyway. 802.11g cards seem to be doing AP functions in firmware rather than host-processed.. A shame, really. It's really pushing the bar down on the consumer equipment (without someone reverse engineering the firmware anyway!)
~GoRK
I didn't say this was crude or pseudoscience. I said that a lot of 802.11b people spew crazed ramblings about radio that could not be farther from truth.
I also did address using a computer as an access point. This software belongs in the HostAP driver in that case as I said. Running the access point and running the firewall on the same host is often done (I do it myself on my home firewall.) This is the only real solution to the problem as posted. The frottle people should not say they implemented AP polling modes with a software firewall because that is not what they did!
Finally, in the end, I said that frottle may be just fine for smaller installations and that traffic shaping often gets the job done even when it is not the best solution. I traffic shape my upstream bandwidth on my cable modem which fixes the problem of a large upload killing bandwidth even though it's not the real problem. The real problem is the cable modem's internal TCP/IP queues are way too big for multi-user environments (but great for single user environments where they most often are)
All that said, I'll probably fire frottle up on my unit here and see how it works and why. Crosstalk problems often occur in metal buildings and other consumer-level situations where an inexpensive solution like this could prove very effective in treating an annoyance like this.
~GoRK
Well, this idea is good and all (that's why it's a part of the spec!) But the problem with a firewall-based solution is that it is behind the AP and thus the solution of traffic control through client polling is only simulated. Without the AP performing the polling, you don't acutally solve this so called "hidden node" problem.
... about 6 years or so, even the 802.11b ap's! It's like trying to make steel in your fireplace. The consumer-grade equipment is not designed to take the heat. Consumer-grade AP's are going to lack some of the features needed in carrier-grade equipment such as polling. It makes them cheaper - no doubt they are missing features.
802.11b people have a bad habit of thinking that the problems they face are new or unique, so they do a lot of re-inventing the wheel. This, normally is not a bad thing, but quite often "WiFi" supporters produce a crude solution while spewing insane amounts of bullshit radio pseudosience. When did "crosstalk" suddenly mutate into "hidden node problems?" Alvarion (Breezecom) has had polling support in their AP's for
What someone who wants to fix this really ought to do is modify the ihostap drivers to do polling 'on the air' -- If it is possible, at any rate.. I am unaware of the specific implemenation, and it's likely that even toying with the HostAP drivers will not allow one to work with the radio at a low enough level. Still, you know, if it works, it works. Traffic shaping can make things seem faster on congested networks of any kind, so if it throttles the abuser down enough where other radios can get a word in edgewise, then it does a little towards curing a symptom of the real problem. For the freenets and coffee shops, this may be entirely sufficient.
~GoRK
Neither of you are actually right.
Volts * Amp-Hours = Watt-Hours, not Watts
Comparing battery capacities based solely on V*mAh is fine -- if you don't care about what the output voltage is, what the physical size of your battery is, the charge retention, or how many charge cycles the battery will last. I suspect that the digital camera battery is not lagging *that* far behind the GBA battery as far as battery technology goes.
If you take battery technology and compare bang (V*mAh), physical size, and price, there are few things that beat a lithium (not lithium-ion) battery.
~GoRK
Well, digital cameras generally DO have monster batteries. Besides, the thing only has to fire up the wireless once in a while. It seems it's a "push" sort of device where the camera sends the image out, not where you visit the camera from another computer to retrieve it...
You know, I was thinking about this a little bit, and I think that there really may be an actual safety problem with the narrow wheelbase. It has nothing to do with the car, though.
If you have ridden a motorcycle you are probably aware of the dangers you face due to cars that leak oil. The oil falls out down the middle of lanes, and so you should ride a motorycycle down either the left or the right side where car tires always tread so that you dont pick up all of this slippery stuff (and other debris too). In big cities (Houston is worse on this than most), rain can create a nice little oil slick over the entire highway, posing a problem for everybody.
With the extremely narrow wheelbase of this car, you don't really have an option not to have some tires in the middle of the street. If you drive on either side, you have a set of wheels in the center, and if you drive in the center, your wheels are both in the middle of the crap.
Probably, this problem would result in a higher likelyhood that Tango drivers get flat tires or have more accidents that are the due to the driver instead of the car versus most other cars. Still, it's probably going to be very small.
Ever hear of "center of gravity"?
If you set up some kind of test to determine at what speed a car would tip for a given turning radius, I would place money on this car winning the tests against over 90% of the SUV garbage on the road despite the wheelbase. Remember that 3000 lbs is mostly batteries. All the weight is so low, the roll angle will be pretty extreme.
As an example, take two off road vehicles as an example. The Hummer (Not the suburbHan2) will tip at about a 45 degree roll angle. Depsite having a wheelbase just over half as wide as the hummer and about 2 feet of extra height, a Pinzgauer vehicle will not tip until about 56 degrees of roll.
Some of the very newest SUV's are pushing the center of gravity down lower and lower due to driver incompetence. I imagine that most new SUV's coming out will have all but mutated back into station wagons within about 6 years.
I wonder if he sent them a Mobius Fax also? According to legend (and probably a true thing) some old thermal fax machines would catch on fire after a while if the mobius fax was not discovered and interrupted (and your construction paper didn't slip) - basically what you did was to feed a long strip of black paper into your machine and when it came out the back, loop it over and tape it together so that your machine faxed an endless stream of black. Funny stuff (until the arson charge anyway)
~GoRK
For a little history, search for 'dot annoy' on google. It was a little unix script that did this with 'cu' back in the day.
Man that detour app looks killer. I sure wish something like that had been available on windows about 3 years ago when I really needed it. Ah well, at least it's fairly easy to do on Linux.. :)
~GoRK