It's very strange. I think in most of the world, you don't get charged for incoming calls, neither on landlines, nor on mobiles, neither local or international. It doesn't make any sense to me (think of abuse).
The only exeception is when you are with you home mobile in a differnet contry, registered with a foreign network. You are using their network, so it kind of makes sense to pay a bit more (actually a fee comparable to the - overpriced - international calls from mobile abroad when at home). The charges for international calls from the foreign network (both to home country or to some other countery) are also higher - also comparable to prices of international phonecalls.
I have a question - GSM phones have a SIM card, which holds your phonebook and SMS among other things. So when you buy a new mobile, you don't have to manually re-type your entire phonebook, you just plug the SIM card to the new phone. Is the opposite still the case in the US?
Mobile cells for disaster relief or for big public gatherings (concerts, festivals..) have been in Europe for years.. Here are
pictures from floods in Prague in 2002.
Well, I still use SpamAssassin, some 30 spams a day, no false positive, and 1 false negative in a month or so. Why is it so successful? I have spent a lot of time training it's Bayesian filter on both ham and spam. That's the key to success for any spam filter nowadays..
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And iRiver has something that iPod/Creative doesn't - it's a standard USB Storage Class device, meaning you can connect it to any computer (PC, Apple) with USB and operating system better than Windows 98 (and there's even a USB Storage Class device driver for Windows 98). It also plays OGG and displays text files, and has directory structure navigation, not some sort of silly database Creative ZENs have..
It took 4 days to make it, the first try resulted in a crash becuase of insufficient power, but replacing the motor with a CD-ROM brushless motor it worked. Or something like that.
Unfortunatelly it's not easy to have support for many codecs in portables. Their system is too embedded - 8 MB flash + 16 MB RAM is normal.. And you have to fit in whole OS, use RAM for disk caching etc..
iRiver tried very hard to support OGG on players designed without OGG in mind - see
here.
Yeah. I own one since the first day they were available here.. Key feaures:
standard USB storage class device, no proprietary crap like Apple or Creative - plug in to any computer with USB, works fine with Linux
you can browse the contents of the drive hierarchically, subdirs and all, no database crap like Creative Nomad Zen (though you can browse through your mp3 files via a database based on ID3 tags, too)
you can use it to transfer files from one computer to another
HQ Li-Pol battery, 16 hours runtime
nice BIG display, nice display on the remote
you can even read text files on your iRiver while listening to music
iRiver's great customer support - they actually listen to their customers and base their firmware upgrades upon customer suggestions (hence OGG, even when it was very difficult to implement in embedded hardware)
Not really. Sometimes burstable lines are sold, so you have, say 300 Mbps on Gigabit Ethernet, and you can have full 1000 Mbps in 5% of the time. But normally you just buy capacity, not data volume..
It doesn't make that much of a difference - you need to buy more expensive higher-bandwidth lines to the peering centers.. And from what I see (I could be wrong as I don't know ownership relations etc.), Comcast Cable (AS23266) is buying connectivity from Sprint and AT&T, anyway. And even major backbones sometimes buy connectivity and not just peer. And you cannot definitely count on them to subsidize cable Internet from Cable TV..
Elementary. The more people use their connections, the more bandwidth you have to buy from your upstream. Ideal ISP customers are those who use use their line very little, in fact, this is core of their business. They can aggregate - they can buy 1/4 (or even less) of total sum of bandwidth their customers need and still everybody has what they bought. Statistics.
It just ends where your default route ends - be it Telia or Level3 or whatever. This IP address just isn't routed on the global Internet (it's not anywhere in BGP routing tables as far as I have checked). It's the same as 1.2.3.4 (try traceroute to 1.2.3.4 and it will end on the same place the 217.26.193.10 trace ends..
I think somebody has hacked slashdot. Maybe alien-driven conspiracy. Or do you really think that this very poor review (card X costs $ Y and has chipset Z, the driver doesn't work in Windows XP and the control panel has fancy buttons) was submitted intentionally?
What puzzles me is that they talk about Ebone all the time.. And that Ebone and KNPQwest networks never fully integrated. Which is strange, they may have not ingerated physically (i.e. switch to KPNQwest's Eurorings fibre network instead of leased capacities old Ebone was using), but Ebone's autonomous system 1755 has been merged with KNPNQwest's autonomous system 286. I have really no idea what consequences will have shutting the power off on the Ebone part.
My other comments:
50% of European Internet traffic carried via Ebone+KPNQwest is way of an overstatement. I don't believe it's that much.
Also, lot of the European daugther companies of KPNQwest, such as Eastern European division has not filled bankruptcy protection yet, and have their connectivity backed up via other IP transit providers. (The Czech KNPQwest+GTS use BT and SprintLink via GTS Hungary.)
Right now, it's 17.13 and Ebone still seems to be alive, even in Beligum and Netherlands:
3 inway.k.telia.net (193.45.9.49) 7.994 ms 1.361 ms 1.428 ms
4 213.248.76.153 (213.248.76.153) 9.360 ms 1.657 ms 8.429 ms
5 ffm-new-b2-pos1-1.telia.net (213.248.76.141) 20.434 ms 25.261 ms 26.440 ms
6 hbg-bb1-pos3-0-0.telia.net (213.248.64.173) 46.174 ms 50.120 ms 45.800 ms
7 kbn-bb1-pos2-0-0.telia.net (213.248.64.29) 51.553 ms 57.683 ms 52.923 ms
8 adm-bb1-pos0-1-0.telia.net (213.248.64.18) 63.009 ms 69.511 ms 63.573 ms
9 adm-b1-pos1-0.telia.net (213.248.72.2) 56.644 ms 54.084 ms 54.100 ms 10 r4-PO3-1.Ledn-KQ1.NL.KPNQwest.net (134.222.249.77) 66.515 ms 67.437 ms 69.472 ms 11 r3-PO6-0.ledn-KQ1.NL.kpnqwest.net (134.222.229.122) 68.316 ms 67.024 ms 72.428 ms 12 r1-Se0-1-0.ledn-KQ1.NL.KPNQwest.net (134.222.230.5) 56.098 ms 58.623 ms 56.102 ms 13 nlams0605-tc-p6-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.71.21) 57.973 ms 57.703 ms 58.233 ms 14 nlams0910-tc-r5-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.69.179) 56.918 ms 59.852 ms 60.050 ms 15 bebru0421-tc-p3-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.70.113) 60.133 ms 59.639 ms 60.028 ms 16 bebru408-nc-r1-0.be.kpnqwest.net (213.174.69.107) 75.493 ms 73.059 ms 73.376 ms 17 beXPL001-1-s0.cust.kpnqwest.net (213.181.136.101) 77.309 ms * 75.688 ms
2 rib-off.inway.cz (212.24.132.65) 8.421 ms 0.993 ms 1.131 ms
3 inway.k.telia.net (193.45.9.49) 8.760 ms 8.802 ms 1.217 ms
4 213.248.76.153 (213.248.76.153) 6.470 ms 1.763 ms 9.104 ms
5 ffm-new-b2-pos1-1.telia.net (213.248.76.141) 28.248 ms 24.308 ms 20.823 ms
6 213.248.68.86 (213.248.68.86) 20.762 ms 25.753 ms 26.480 ms
7 r5-PO1-2.Ffm-IXA1.DE.KPNQwest.net (134.222.249.89) 45.512 ms 40.712 ms 39.720 ms
8 defra0228-tc-r12-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.68.17) 47.529 ms 38.075 ms 41.792 ms
9 nlams0921-tc-p4-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.70.90) 51.055 ms 46.508 ms 52.263 ms 10 nlams0910-tc-r5-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.69.179) 38.279 ms * 44.290 ms
Well, they are bankrupt, so they would only pay their SLA obligation from what's left after the bankrupt process.. Which will be a few per cent. And their biggest customers are pissed off REAL good, as you put it, already. Those Big Contracts have other connectivity now, I think..
Or heat, for that matter. They definitely do. But they have different parameters, such as ability to traverse walls, or how willingly they bend and reflect.
Take this thought experiment: you have two dark not interconnected cellars, a SW walkie-talkie, a flashlight and a heater. You can use only walkie-talkie to communicate.:-) As the others won't pass through the walls even with much higher power.
But yes, using laser point-to-point links such as
Ronja, interception comes out of question unless you are on one of either of the roofs or anywhere in direct line between the two lasers..
That's very incorrect. Directional antennas won't help that much from interception and interference. You will still get the signal out of their projected beacon (which is still several degrees wide, BTW), but a bit lower. Radio waves don't work the same way light does, it's like thinking that nobody will hear you shouting when you go behind a building..
The DECstation is not based on the Alpha processor, but rather on MIPS R2000-R4000. They were not very powerful, say, 386 or 486 level. Alpha was the next generation after MIPS based DECs.
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The only exeception is when you are with you home mobile in a differnet contry, registered with a foreign network. You are using their network, so it kind of makes sense to pay a bit more (actually a fee comparable to the - overpriced - international calls from mobile abroad when at home). The charges for international calls from the foreign network (both to home country or to some other countery) are also higher - also comparable to prices of international phonecalls.
I have a question - GSM phones have a SIM card, which holds your phonebook and SMS among other things. So when you buy a new mobile, you don't have to manually re-type your entire phonebook, you just plug the SIM card to the new phone. Is the opposite still the case in the US?
Don't worry, Americans, one day you will have cell phone services as good as it is in Europe (and Asia)..
Only in USA. :-)
The PHB wins:
see here.
Mobile cells for disaster relief or for big public gatherings (concerts, festivals..) have been in Europe for years.. Here are pictures from floods in Prague in 2002.
Well, I still use SpamAssassin, some 30 spams a day, no false positive, and 1 false negative in a month or so. Why is it so successful? I have spent a lot of time training it's Bayesian filter on both ham and spam. That's the key to success for any spam filter nowadays..
And iRiver has something that iPod/Creative doesn't - it's a standard USB Storage Class device, meaning you can connect it to any computer (PC, Apple) with USB and operating system better than Windows 98 (and there's even a USB Storage Class device driver for Windows 98). It also plays OGG and displays text files, and has directory structure navigation, not some sort of silly database Creative ZENs have..
It took 4 days to make it, the first try resulted in a crash becuase of insufficient power, but replacing the motor with a CD-ROM brushless motor it worked. Or something like that.
I have searched for it on google and it has nothing to do with ADD..?
Unfortunatelly it's not easy to have support for many codecs in portables. Their system is too embedded - 8 MB flash + 16 MB RAM is normal.. And you have to fit in whole OS, use RAM for disk caching etc.. iRiver tried very hard to support OGG on players designed without OGG in mind - see here.
Not really. Sometimes burstable lines are sold, so you have, say 300 Mbps on Gigabit Ethernet, and you can have full 1000 Mbps in 5% of the time. But normally you just buy capacity, not data volume..
It doesn't make that much of a difference - you need to buy more expensive higher-bandwidth lines to the peering centers.. And from what I see (I could be wrong as I don't know ownership relations etc.), Comcast Cable (AS23266) is buying connectivity from Sprint and AT&T, anyway. And even major backbones sometimes buy connectivity and not just peer. And you cannot definitely count on them to subsidize cable Internet from Cable TV..
Elementary. The more people use their connections, the more bandwidth you have to buy from your upstream. Ideal ISP customers are those who use use their line very little, in fact, this is core of their business. They can aggregate - they can buy 1/4 (or even less) of total sum of bandwidth their customers need and still everybody has what they bought. Statistics.
Actually, when you search for smoking crack", the first link says: SCO smoking crack. :-)
Well, even for luxury ("gourmet coffee") products? I don't think so..
Don't know about exploding batteries, but exploding gas stations are certainly a hoax:
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp
It just ends where your default route ends - be it Telia or Level3 or whatever. This IP address just isn't routed on the global Internet (it's not anywhere in BGP routing tables as far as I have checked). It's the same as 1.2.3.4 (try traceroute to 1.2.3.4 and it will end on the same place the 217.26.193.10 trace ends..
I think somebody has hacked slashdot. Maybe alien-driven conspiracy. Or do you really think that this very poor review (card X costs $ Y and has chipset Z, the driver doesn't work in Windows XP and the control panel has fancy buttons) was submitted intentionally?
Well, that router (with .net at the end) is not in the DNS (anymore). Other nodes in Frankturt are OK:
--- defra0202-tc-f3-3.ebone.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max = 46.6/50.8/54.3 ms
So far, from what can I see here, Ebone/KPNQwest works.
My other comments:
50% of European Internet traffic carried via Ebone+KPNQwest is way of an overstatement. I don't believe it's that much.
Also, lot of the European daugther companies of KPNQwest, such as
Eastern European division has not filled bankruptcy protection yet, and have their connectivity backed up via other IP transit providers. (The Czech KNPQwest+GTS use BT and SprintLink via GTS Hungary.)
Right now, it's 17.13 and Ebone still seems to be alive, even in Beligum and Netherlands:
3 inway.k.telia.net (193.45.9.49) 7.994 ms 1.361 ms 1.428 ms
4 213.248.76.153 (213.248.76.153) 9.360 ms 1.657 ms 8.429 ms
5 ffm-new-b2-pos1-1.telia.net (213.248.76.141) 20.434 ms 25.261 ms 26.440 ms
6 hbg-bb1-pos3-0-0.telia.net (213.248.64.173) 46.174 ms 50.120 ms 45.800 ms
7 kbn-bb1-pos2-0-0.telia.net (213.248.64.29) 51.553 ms 57.683 ms 52.923 ms
8 adm-bb1-pos0-1-0.telia.net (213.248.64.18) 63.009 ms 69.511 ms 63.573 ms
9 adm-b1-pos1-0.telia.net (213.248.72.2) 56.644 ms 54.084 ms 54.100 ms
10 r4-PO3-1.Ledn-KQ1.NL.KPNQwest.net (134.222.249.77) 66.515 ms 67.437 ms 69.472 ms
11 r3-PO6-0.ledn-KQ1.NL.kpnqwest.net (134.222.229.122) 68.316 ms 67.024 ms 72.428 ms
12 r1-Se0-1-0.ledn-KQ1.NL.KPNQwest.net (134.222.230.5) 56.098 ms 58.623 ms 56.102 ms
13 nlams0605-tc-p6-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.71.21) 57.973 ms 57.703 ms 58.233 ms
14 nlams0910-tc-r5-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.69.179) 56.918 ms 59.852 ms 60.050 ms
15 bebru0421-tc-p3-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.70.113) 60.133 ms 59.639 ms 60.028 ms
16 bebru408-nc-r1-0.be.kpnqwest.net (213.174.69.107) 75.493 ms 73.059 ms 73.376 ms
17 beXPL001-1-s0.cust.kpnqwest.net (213.181.136.101) 77.309 ms * 75.688 ms
2 rib-off.inway.cz (212.24.132.65) 8.421 ms 0.993 ms 1.131 ms
3 inway.k.telia.net (193.45.9.49) 8.760 ms 8.802 ms 1.217 ms
4 213.248.76.153 (213.248.76.153) 6.470 ms 1.763 ms 9.104 ms
5 ffm-new-b2-pos1-1.telia.net (213.248.76.141) 28.248 ms 24.308 ms 20.823 ms
6 213.248.68.86 (213.248.68.86) 20.762 ms 25.753 ms 26.480 ms
7 r5-PO1-2.Ffm-IXA1.DE.KPNQwest.net (134.222.249.89) 45.512 ms 40.712 ms 39.720 ms
8 defra0228-tc-r12-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.68.17) 47.529 ms 38.075 ms 41.792 ms
9 nlams0921-tc-p4-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.70.90) 51.055 ms 46.508 ms 52.263 ms
10 nlams0910-tc-r5-0.kpnqwest.net (213.174.69.179) 38.279 ms * 44.290 ms
Well, they are bankrupt, so they would only pay their SLA obligation from what's left after the bankrupt process.. Which will be a few per cent. And their biggest customers are pissed off REAL good, as you put it, already. Those Big Contracts have other connectivity now, I think..
Or heat, for that matter. They definitely do. But they have different parameters, such as ability to traverse walls, or how willingly they bend and reflect. :-) As the others won't pass through the walls even with much higher power.
Take this thought experiment: you have two dark not interconnected cellars, a SW walkie-talkie, a flashlight and a heater. You can use only walkie-talkie to communicate.
But yes, using laser point-to-point links such as Ronja, interception comes out of question unless you are on one of either of the roofs or anywhere in direct line between the two lasers..
That's very incorrect. Directional antennas won't
help that much from interception and interference. You will still get the signal
out of their projected beacon (which is still several degrees wide, BTW),
but a bit lower. Radio waves don't work the same way
light does, it's like thinking that nobody will hear
you shouting when you go behind a building..
The DECstation is not based on the Alpha processor,
but rather on MIPS R2000-R4000. They were not very powerful, say, 386 or 486 level. Alpha was the
next generation after MIPS based DECs.