I have had the official Adobe PDF viewer availible under Linux since... I don't remember when. I think Adobe reader was availible for Linux before PDFs became popular.
So they are releasing the latest version under Linux. Doesn't seem like earth shattering news to me.
It is hard enough getting people to understand the difference between.org,.com,.net,.gov, and.mil, the origional non country specific domain names.
Domain names are confusing to the masses. The addtional top levels are only making it more confusing. How many companies find a domain name, and register it in as many top levels as they think are relevent? Most? Certainly seems to support the theory that this is just for the registrars.
When I was in the 9th grade (1993, and the Internet existed but was still largely accedemic, dailup modems peaked at 14.4kbps) I had a computer teacher say that we didn't need the.us on the domain names because the border routers would recognize we were in the US. I corrected him several months later after I setup my first DNS server.
You typically have a lot more channels to work with in cellular systems (unless it is cdma, but that is another animal) and 802.11b/g doesn't lend itself to this type of coniguration as easily.
I wasn't saying it was the only way to do it either, I was just following up on omni antenna and gain.
I agree that they are looking for problems in this regard, however it should idealy only degrade performance. Unfortunately the real world experience proves otherwise.
The city doesn't have the authority to regulate the ISM bands, so there is not telling where this could go.
Not to mention that HAM operators have precedence and very few restrictions in channel 1.
Uh, a powerfull omni is high gain, it just has a very flat coverage pattern. Since you need to recieve signals, a powerfull transmitter won't do, you need a high gain antenna.
All antenna gain comes from restricting the pattern. In your typical high gain directional antenna you have a conical pattern of anywhere from 3-45 degrees. There are 18dbi gain omni antennas, typically co-linear arrays. They will have a very flat pattern (typically 3 degrees vertically), but cover 360 degrees horizontally. The problem is that if it is on top of a flag pole you won't have any coverage below it, but that could be solved by using a standard antenna on a different channel closer to ground level.
Many of my posts have been opposed to municipal wireless, but this Mineapolis project seems a little different.
The city is proposing a private city wide network. Sure they will be using City provided facilities, but so does every phone and cable carrier (the right of way for the cables).
The private carrier will also be allowed to sell their services to end users. It basically sounds like the government has invited the private industry to bid on the opertunity to setup the network, with the city as their largest customer.
There is far less chance for the government to censor the network in this arangement. Sure, as the carriers largest customer the city will carry weight, but they already carry weight with the franchises offered to cable and phone carriers.
The iodine test is not very acurate. IIRC it respondes to the starch present in most paper but not US currency. Finding better paper that doesn't contain the wood starches is not that difficult.
It wouldn't be impossible for a bill to become contaminated and then change color, at wich point other security features of the bill should be checked. I don't believe the $2 bill has these.
The pens are designed to stop the causual color copier countifiter.
None the less, it is absolutely absurd that the arrested this guy. The origional installation threat also seems absurd. They knew who he was, etc. The installation charge shouldn't have been a criminal matter at that point. They could demand payment and threaten to sue for payment plus Attourney fees, but shouldn't be able to have him arrested as a shop lifter (how do you lift an installation?)
I have always said most people are stupid, but this confirms it beyond my wildest nightmares. The cashier, manager, police, etc. all too stupid to do their jobs.
It seems like there are a lot of companies doing WiFi than just SBC. Sure, they don't want it taking from the DSL or cable revenue, but I doubt that is likely to happen. So how does asking the government not to drive corporations out of a new industry give them a monopoly?
This just prevents the government from getting a monopoly.
Everyone here is just eager to get taxpayer provided Interet access. think about this not in the terms of what you get out of it. Think of it more as "do we want the government owing our ISP?" Think of the goverment abuses and censorship that happens now.
But what about all the companies that have invested to put WiFi where it is? Is it fair for the cities to decide that it should be free and drive them out of business?
How is this different than Microsoft giving away Internet Explorer to drive Netscape out of business? How is this different than Microsoft giving away Media player hurting real? These are all things that have seemed good to a vast number of consumers, they got something for nothing. It also drove competition between Netscape and Microsoft, but led us to the spyware hell we are in today.
Corporations looking to protect their interests aren't evil. If the cities are going to drive the inovative hotspot providers out of business what incentive is there for the next innovation?
Disclaimer, as in the past, I have a small financial interest in a national WiFi provider. Before you tell me to get rid of it, its a bad possition, sometimes we don't have that choice. Dispite this disclaimer, I believe everything I have written.
Maybe a restriction of some sort, but this sounds bad.
Some people invent. They don't care to bring the products to market, there are others that are very good at that. This allows them to sell their idea, get money, and move on to the next invention.
Some people even invent usefull stuff, although that is far less common.
I keep it enabled, but mostly as a free space indicator. The TiVo will will all availible space with suggestions, and they are always deleted first. If I have 30-60 suggestions, I know those would go away before the TiVo deletes my shows.
Just don't cross the border as a US citezen from Texas with a Canadian. The border agents can possibly understand why people from that far apart would be friends, and will just about tear apart the car (or at least move mats, inspect hoses in the engine compartment, etc.). I was using a passport, and I think that made it worse.
Static IPs cost more because of the management overhead. IP addresses are very cheap from ARIN or such when purchased in bulk. For a small ISP (16 class C addreses) IP Addresses cost at most $0.50/year each. For a medium ISP (Class B), they are less than $.07/year. They get even cheaper from there.
Note the per year part. Now consider many ISPs whatn $5-15 per month. It is almost pure profit, but keep in mind a static IP also can affect a lot of other costs, bandwidth (different use patterns), management, customer tollerance for downtime, etc..
Well, wireless lans are at a much lower power output than cell phones, and they are typically operated much further from your brain (although with the wifi voip phones this doesn't apply).
If you are worried about wireless, move to the mountains or put on a tinfoil hat.
Your point? Those are general taxes and specific taxes to cover the damage to roads, and subsidize the same phone services to low income people. Not to use the money to setup an entirely new cable company.
The point I was trying to make with Gas taxes was the roads are mostly funded by use taxes. I could elaborate further by noting that gas can be purchased without these taxes, or at least Diesel can. At my previous employer our generator ran off of died diesel (usually for agricultural use), but if you get caught with died diesel in a road vehicle you are in a lot of trouble. Of course we are about to have every freeway replaced with a Toll Road where I live, and then we can pay twice for the roads. Isn't government wonderful?
At the risk of giving too much away, I have the stock as a result of working at the company for over 2 years, and when I started T-Mobile hadn't purchased Mobilestar.
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I have had the official Adobe PDF viewer availible under Linux since... I don't remember when. I think Adobe reader was availible for Linux before PDFs became popular.
So they are releasing the latest version under Linux. Doesn't seem like earth shattering news to me.
It is hard enough getting people to understand the difference between .org, .com, .net, .gov, and .mil, the origional non country specific domain names.
.us on the domain names because the border routers would recognize we were in the US. I corrected him several months later after I setup my first DNS server.
Domain names are confusing to the masses. The addtional top levels are only making it more confusing. How many companies find a domain name, and register it in as many top levels as they think are relevent? Most? Certainly seems to support the theory that this is just for the registrars.
When I was in the 9th grade (1993, and the Internet existed but was still largely accedemic, dailup modems peaked at 14.4kbps) I had a computer teacher say that we didn't need the
For this reason I wouldn't be surprised if governments try to force it, and regulate speach outside of it.
So what if only a few people can read the free speach.
Fortunately I think it has already been tried and failed.
You typically have a lot more channels to work with in cellular systems (unless it is cdma, but that is another animal) and 802.11b/g doesn't lend itself to this type of coniguration as easily.
I wasn't saying it was the only way to do it either, I was just following up on omni antenna and gain.
I agree that they are looking for problems in this regard, however it should idealy only degrade performance. Unfortunately the real world experience proves otherwise.
The city doesn't have the authority to regulate the ISM bands, so there is not telling where this could go.
Not to mention that HAM operators have precedence and very few restrictions in channel 1.
Uh, a powerfull omni is high gain, it just has a very flat coverage pattern. Since you need to recieve signals, a powerfull transmitter won't do, you need a high gain antenna.
All antenna gain comes from restricting the pattern. In your typical high gain directional antenna you have a conical pattern of anywhere from 3-45 degrees. There are 18dbi gain omni antennas, typically co-linear arrays. They will have a very flat pattern (typically 3 degrees vertically), but cover 360 degrees horizontally. The problem is that if it is on top of a flag pole you won't have any coverage below it, but that could be solved by using a standard antenna on a different channel closer to ground level.
Many of my posts have been opposed to municipal wireless, but this Mineapolis project seems a little different.
The city is proposing a private city wide network. Sure they will be using City provided facilities, but so does every phone and cable carrier (the right of way for the cables).
The private carrier will also be allowed to sell their services to end users. It basically sounds like the government has invited the private industry to bid on the opertunity to setup the network, with the city as their largest customer.
There is far less chance for the government to censor the network in this arangement. Sure, as the carriers largest customer the city will carry weight, but they already carry weight with the franchises offered to cable and phone carriers.
The iodine test is not very acurate. IIRC it respondes to the starch present in most paper but not US currency. Finding better paper that doesn't contain the wood starches is not that difficult.
It wouldn't be impossible for a bill to become contaminated and then change color, at wich point other security features of the bill should be checked. I don't believe the $2 bill has these.
The pens are designed to stop the causual color copier countifiter.
None the less, it is absolutely absurd that the arrested this guy. The origional installation threat also seems absurd. They knew who he was, etc. The installation charge shouldn't have been a criminal matter at that point. They could demand payment and threaten to sue for payment plus Attourney fees, but shouldn't be able to have him arrested as a shop lifter (how do you lift an installation?)
I have always said most people are stupid, but this confirms it beyond my wildest nightmares. The cashier, manager, police, etc. all too stupid to do their jobs.
Dividends and short term capital gains (held 1 year) are taxed as income, although you are right about the FICA part.
On the other hand, why does slashdot seem more and more socialist everyday?
It seems like there are a lot of companies doing WiFi than just SBC. Sure, they don't want it taking from the DSL or cable revenue, but I doubt that is likely to happen. So how does asking the government not to drive corporations out of a new industry give them a monopoly?
This just prevents the government from getting a monopoly.
Everyone here is just eager to get taxpayer provided Interet access. think about this not in the terms of what you get out of it. Think of it more as "do we want the government owing our ISP?" Think of the goverment abuses and censorship that happens now.
But what about all the companies that have invested to put WiFi where it is? Is it fair for the cities to decide that it should be free and drive them out of business?
How is this different than Microsoft giving away Internet Explorer to drive Netscape out of business? How is this different than Microsoft giving away Media player hurting real? These are all things that have seemed good to a vast number of consumers, they got something for nothing. It also drove competition between Netscape and Microsoft, but led us to the spyware hell we are in today.
Corporations looking to protect their interests aren't evil. If the cities are going to drive the inovative hotspot providers out of business what incentive is there for the next innovation?
Disclaimer, as in the past, I have a small financial interest in a national WiFi provider. Before you tell me to get rid of it, its a bad possition, sometimes we don't have that choice. Dispite this disclaimer, I believe everything I have written.
Maybe a restriction of some sort, but this sounds bad.
Some people invent. They don't care to bring the products to market, there are others that are very good at that. This allows them to sell their idea, get money, and move on to the next invention.
Some people even invent usefull stuff, although that is far less common.
I keep it enabled, but mostly as a free space indicator. The TiVo will will all availible space with suggestions, and they are always deleted first. If I have 30-60 suggestions, I know those would go away before the TiVo deletes my shows.
In TX busses only stop every mile or so. Busses aren't even run within 2 miles of the schools.
Just don't cross the border as a US citezen from Texas with a Canadian. The border agents can possibly understand why people from that far apart would be friends, and will just about tear apart the car (or at least move mats, inspect hoses in the engine compartment, etc.). I was using a passport, and I think that made it worse.
RTFA. There is a company in Florida working on just such a solution.
Of course it won't work here (Texas), because landlines have no such requirement. My landline after I disconnected SBC service was completely dead.
In some states this works, the phone companies leave inactive lines connected but unable to dial anything but 911.
This isn't a requirement everywhere. My old landline is dead as a doornail.
Static IPs cost more because of the management overhead. IP addresses are very cheap from ARIN or such when purchased in bulk. For a small ISP (16 class C addreses) IP Addresses cost at most $0.50/year each. For a medium ISP (Class B), they are less than $.07/year. They get even cheaper from there.
Note the per year part. Now consider many ISPs whatn $5-15 per month. It is almost pure profit, but keep in mind a static IP also can affect a lot of other costs, bandwidth (different use patterns), management, customer tollerance for downtime, etc..
I know it sucks, but go to www.dealdatabase.com. They really have the procedure down and hacking your box to support HMO isn't too hard.
I don't believe the new R10 units can be hacked yet, but I bought a second unit the week the R10 units came out to avoid that problem.
Well, wireless lans are at a much lower power output than cell phones, and they are typically operated much further from your brain (although with the wifi voip phones this doesn't apply).
If you are worried about wireless, move to the mountains or put on a tinfoil hat.
Try 6mbps for $45 in the US.
Your point? Those are general taxes and specific taxes to cover the damage to roads, and subsidize the same phone services to low income people. Not to use the money to setup an entirely new cable company.
The point I was trying to make with Gas taxes was the roads are mostly funded by use taxes. I could elaborate further by noting that gas can be purchased without these taxes, or at least Diesel can. At my previous employer our generator ran off of died diesel (usually for agricultural use), but if you get caught with died diesel in a road vehicle you are in a lot of trouble. Of course we are about to have every freeway replaced with a Toll Road where I live, and then we can pay twice for the roads. Isn't government wonderful?
At the risk of giving too much away, I have the stock as a result of working at the company for over 2 years, and when I started T-Mobile hadn't purchased Mobilestar.
Its still pre ipo, I'm stuck with it.
Gas tax anybody?