I connect my laptop to my plasma TV with a DVI-HDMI cable. My video card is the nVidia Go 7900 GTX, and I don't believe they added HDCP support until the 7950.
I run the output at 1080p and Amazon unbox and Netflix play fine. This is on Windows XP.
I work for a small business that depends on its online revenue for 150 people to get a paycheck. There are 3 of us running the technical systems. Doesn't the paycheck still mean something?
Why should a commuter on a train be denied the right to be productive, especially with UTMS/EVDO data available, which would certainly be affected by the Jammers. Consumers pay the cellular carriers a fortune every month to use the frequencies. The carriers have paid a fortune for the air space.
Since the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA have stretched the definition of theft, this next comment should fit right in. I don't need some self righteous jerk stealing the air space I am renting from the cell carrier.
Cell phones (particularly PDA phones with data, etc) should come equipped with jammer detection circuits, so I can quickly remove myself from the area.
I can get GSM and CDMA coverage in very remote areas of North Dakota, so rural service will be expanding.
For maritime the problem isn't so much the amps/gsm/cdma, but the fact that old bag phones could transmit at 3 watts. I don't believe there is anything about GSM and CDMA coverage that prevents similar equipment for being manufactured, but it is very expensive. GSM cell capacity is reduced as the configured range is expanded (do to time division multiple access time slots needing more separation).
Digital cell phones have never been about improved quality, but they allow more services (UMTS, CDMA EVDO) and more capacity so the carriers can get more customers into the same spectrum. The forced obsolescence you refer to isn't to screw people into buying more equipment, but that it isn't feasible to support AMPS forever. Eventually only the special cases you mentioned above will use it, and many of those users will migrate to other technology. The network won't have enough users to pay for it.
Communications method. CDMA phones and GSM phones use the same bands in the US, although it can vary by region as there are two major bands in use and more carriers.
GSM phones use TDMA as the air interface technology (not to be confused with IS-136 or D-AMPS, the technology referred to as TDMA by AT&T and others, although it is also a TDMA air interface). TDMA stands for time division multiple access, and many phones will be assigned to the same channel and given a time slot. The interference you hear in speakers is being caused by the transmitter tarting and stopping.
A CDMA phone and TDMA phone are both going to generate interference as 850mhz or 1900mhz, but at a very low power and in a band that equipment isn't generally going to be sensitive.
If I place my UTMS/GSM phone on my laptop when connected to a GSM tower it causes spurious key presses. If it is in a UMTS cell, which uses CDMA signaling, this doesn't happen.
I lived across the street from the CO and got a 53k connection 90-95% of the time. I had a dedicated account with a static IP from a local ISP for $125 a month.
I occasionally would connect at 50k, and on a handful of occasions my USR v.Everything reported 56k.
There were only a few times I would make enough connections to collect any statistics and they were back to back. The line would normally be left up for months at a time.
It isn't impossible for something to go from luxury to necessity. I need food and shelter for myself and my family. In order to get those things I need money. In order to make money I need a job. It is very hard to find a job within walking or riding distance of my house. In our current society (at least in a city that has suffered from sprawl) it is very hard to call my car a luxury. Now that I choose to drive a small luxury car that only gets 30mpg instead of a true economy car pushing 50mpg is a choice, and that extra gas is a luxury. But the purchase of gas itself is a need if not very close.
I guess I could move to another city.. Oh wait, that would use gas too.
I will take my 8525 any day. I wish I new how that other poster got their 8525 for free... I left a $100 rebate on the table to keep using my cheaper unlimited data plan, but my total price ended up near $300.
I haven't written anything for it yet... I haven't had any needs or wants that weren't already covered by free software. I AM looking forward to WM6 so that IE will support the full DOM.
If the iPhone had 3G and a querty keyboard it would be in the running. But the 8525 works too well as a modem (using the new AT&T branded firmware replaces the modem application with an Internet sharing application that is great) to be stuck with EDGE. The difference when only browsing is night and day. I can use putty or remote desktop to fix things from lunch without having to use a laptop.
Your times zones are the wrong way around... (The international dateline plays a role here) So I guess AEST is the first goal, but since they just said EST, they could always say they meant the US time zone.
I have learned a bit about this from the cable cards in my TiVo series 3. I could be wrong, but the number of problems I have had and the diagnostics screens provide some insight
The keys are transmitted to each cable card individually, but a channel uses the same keys across the node. They are however rotated frequently.
My 8525 took one heck of a crash to a tile floor and the keypad lifted up and the casing seemed bent. I pulled out at the casing (metal) and the keypad popped back into place and the case returned to its normal shape. The phone still works great (except of the occasional glitch (the phone occasionally won't repaint unless I slide the keypad to change the orientation) that seems like software, but the crash happened when the phone was way too new for me to know...)
Its hard to call this device fragile.
I do keep it in a pouch on my belt to protect it from keys and other crap in my pocket.
It plays videos, mp3 files, and all. I used it as a portable device for an Amazon unbox video (that I got on sale using a free unbox credit...) and lost the license when I upgraded the firmware. It is now seen as a different device and used my 2nd license.
Its processor is a little slow for those videos, I need to stick with DRM free video so I can compress it a bit more. I guess it could be the SD card speed as well.
In the early 90's they sold through Sam's Club. Those who worked tech support back then and the years shortly after will be able to attest to the difference in customer profiles.
Dell narrowed their target customer at that time and didn't do any TV advertising or retail sales. They have obviously widened that target a lot in recent years.
I don't do home computer support, but inevitably I get calls from friends of friends, etc.
I received a call from a friend of my grandmother who had purchased Windows XP and installed it on her friends computer and her own. It wouldn't let her activate one of the computers (so I believe it went more than those two places). When the 30 day grace period was up she called MS support and told them the truth. They of course refused to activate the software. She had no idea she wasn't able to share the software with all of her friends.
Another time I got a call was from a WGA check. The computer was installed by a contractor with who know what key. The OEM sticker was for Home edition and the computer was running professional.
While these steps don't foil the people deliberately pirating the software, they legitimately catch a lot of people who just wouldn't know any better.
Setting the phone to vibrate usually satisfies most people surrounding and in the case of Dinner a quietly answered and BRIEF call is usually not the end of the world. This allows those of us that are tethered to our jobs (only technical person and the site is expected to be up 24x7) to have some semblance of a life. In movie theaters I can check the caller Id, and if necessary quietly exit and answer the call (usually answering but not saying anything to keep the call from going to voice mail).
There are other people for whom it is far more important to stay connected.
No, Modem calls are not reliable with VoIP even with G.711 and QoS, even on a local LAN.
Yes, they usually work anyways.
Traditional circuit switched telephony (ISDN such as BRI or PRI, T1 Trunks, or any digital trunk, where the call ends up) uses synchronous timing to provide 8khz audio that is precisely timed at both ends of the connection. VoIP does not have the ability to provide a precise 8khz clock to both end points, there will always be some variation. This is compensated for by dropping and inserting samples as needed. Unfortunately do to implementation difficulty, this usually done in entire 10ms frames. Data calls (I have been focusing on Fax personally) WILL be affected by this.
A short call for a short fax, or a security system will probably be ok. We use an ATA for our alarm system at work to an Asterisk system 3 feet away on the same QOS enabled switch, and have never had a problem, but faxes on the same setup definitely have a higher failure rate.
I can get e85 for a flexfuel vehicle right here in the US at a growing number of stations, but I get reduced gas mileage. There is a slight increase in horsepower, but simply put, ethanol has a lower energy density.
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I connect my laptop to my plasma TV with a DVI-HDMI cable. My video card is the nVidia Go 7900 GTX, and I don't believe they added HDCP support until the 7950.
I run the output at 1080p and Amazon unbox and Netflix play fine. This is on Windows XP.
And then you could do what I did before I found freeware PDF printers, and run the resulting PS file through ps2pdf.
The series 3 TiVo will allow starting Unbox movies while they are still downloading.
Most consumers have cable or satellite and won't notice when the date passes.
So the LTO tape libraries I purchased at my last employer are worthless?
These will have a huge value in corporate backups (if they are as reliable as tape) and for media production (uncompressed HD)
We enter the few roundabouts we have to the right and exit to the right.
Why should saving lives be the only exception?
I work for a small business that depends on its online revenue for 150 people to get a paycheck. There are 3 of us running the technical systems. Doesn't the paycheck still mean something?
Why should a commuter on a train be denied the right to be productive, especially with UTMS/EVDO data available, which would certainly be affected by the Jammers. Consumers pay the cellular carriers a fortune every month to use the frequencies. The carriers have paid a fortune for the air space.
Since the RIAA, MPAA, and BSA have stretched the definition of theft, this next comment should fit right in. I don't need some self righteous jerk stealing the air space I am renting from the cell carrier.
Cell phones (particularly PDA phones with data, etc) should come equipped with jammer detection circuits, so I can quickly remove myself from the area.
False clicks redirect money from the publisher to other sites (AdSense). I doubt the fraud is for the google search page where Google get 100%.
This money is leaving the publishers and landing in the hands of criminals. This is going to hurt the legitimate businesses.
Some advertisers will jump ship, which will lower the rate for other advertisers.
I can get GSM and CDMA coverage in very remote areas of North Dakota, so rural service will be expanding.
For maritime the problem isn't so much the amps/gsm/cdma, but the fact that old bag phones could transmit at 3 watts. I don't believe there is anything about GSM and CDMA coverage that prevents similar equipment for being manufactured, but it is very expensive. GSM cell capacity is reduced as the configured range is expanded (do to time division multiple access time slots needing more separation).
Digital cell phones have never been about improved quality, but they allow more services (UMTS, CDMA EVDO) and more capacity so the carriers can get more customers into the same spectrum. The forced obsolescence you refer to isn't to screw people into buying more equipment, but that it isn't feasible to support AMPS forever. Eventually only the special cases you mentioned above will use it, and many of those users will migrate to other technology. The network won't have enough users to pay for it.
Communications method. CDMA phones and GSM phones use the same bands in the US, although it can vary by region as there are two major bands in use and more carriers.
GSM phones use TDMA as the air interface technology (not to be confused with IS-136 or D-AMPS, the technology referred to as TDMA by AT&T and others, although it is also a TDMA air interface). TDMA stands for time division multiple access, and many phones will be assigned to the same channel and given a time slot. The interference you hear in speakers is being caused by the transmitter tarting and stopping.
A CDMA phone and TDMA phone are both going to generate interference as 850mhz or 1900mhz, but at a very low power and in a band that equipment isn't generally going to be sensitive.
If I place my UTMS/GSM phone on my laptop when connected to a GSM tower it causes spurious key presses. If it is in a UMTS cell, which uses CDMA signaling, this doesn't happen.
Even better, the HD TiVo includes an over the air reciever.
I have a series 3 TiVo and live in Time Warner's SDV test market. I dumped their video service and went OTA as a result of SDV.
On the other hand, this is really old news.
I lived across the street from the CO and got a 53k connection 90-95% of the time. I had a dedicated account with a static IP from a local ISP for $125 a month.
I occasionally would connect at 50k, and on a handful of occasions my USR v.Everything reported 56k.
There were only a few times I would make enough connections to collect any statistics and they were back to back. The line would normally be left up for months at a time.
It isn't impossible for something to go from luxury to necessity. I need food and shelter for myself and my family. In order to get those things I need money. In order to make money I need a job. It is very hard to find a job within walking or riding distance of my house. In our current society (at least in a city that has suffered from sprawl) it is very hard to call my car a luxury. Now that I choose to drive a small luxury car that only gets 30mpg instead of a true economy car pushing 50mpg is a choice, and that extra gas is a luxury. But the purchase of gas itself is a need if not very close.
I guess I could move to another city.. Oh wait, that would use gas too.
I will take my 8525 any day. I wish I new how that other poster got their 8525 for free... I left a $100 rebate on the table to keep using my cheaper unlimited data plan, but my total price ended up near $300.
I haven't written anything for it yet... I haven't had any needs or wants that weren't already covered by free software. I AM looking forward to WM6 so that IE will support the full DOM.
If the iPhone had 3G and a querty keyboard it would be in the running. But the 8525 works too well as a modem (using the new AT&T branded firmware replaces the modem application with an Internet sharing application that is great) to be stuck with EDGE. The difference when only browsing is night and day. I can use putty or remote desktop to fix things from lunch without having to use a laptop.
Your times zones are the wrong way around... (The international dateline plays a role here)
So I guess AEST is the first goal, but since they just said EST, they could always say they meant the US time zone.
You probably could, but I doubt you use enough gas to make applying for the refund worthwhile...
There might be a minimum as well.
I don't know what size lawn you have. If its multiple acres then it might be different. I can mow my lawn several times on a gallon of gas.
I have learned a bit about this from the cable cards in my TiVo series 3. I could be wrong, but the number of problems I have had and the diagnostics screens provide some insight
The keys are transmitted to each cable card individually, but a channel uses the same keys across the node. They are however rotated frequently.
They are still constrained by requirements to run Windows Mobile...
My 8525 took one heck of a crash to a tile floor and the keypad lifted up and the casing seemed bent. I pulled out at the casing (metal) and the keypad popped back into place and the case returned to its normal shape. The phone still works great (except of the occasional glitch (the phone occasionally won't repaint unless I slide the keypad to change the orientation) that seems like software, but the crash happened when the phone was way too new for me to know...)
Its hard to call this device fragile.
I do keep it in a pouch on my belt to protect it from keys and other crap in my pocket.
It plays videos, mp3 files, and all. I used it as a portable device for an Amazon unbox video (that I got on sale using a free unbox credit...) and lost the license when I upgraded the firmware. It is now seen as a different device and used my 2nd license.
Its processor is a little slow for those videos, I need to stick with DRM free video so I can compress it a bit more. I guess it could be the SD card speed as well.
In the early 90's they sold through Sam's Club. Those who worked tech support back then and the years shortly after will be able to attest to the difference in customer profiles.
Dell narrowed their target customer at that time and didn't do any TV advertising or retail sales. They have obviously widened that target a lot in recent years.
I don't do home computer support, but inevitably I get calls from friends of friends, etc.
I received a call from a friend of my grandmother who had purchased Windows XP and installed it on her friends computer and her own. It wouldn't let her activate one of the computers (so I believe it went more than those two places). When the 30 day grace period was up she called MS support and told them the truth. They of course refused to activate the software. She had no idea she wasn't able to share the software with all of her friends.
Another time I got a call was from a WGA check. The computer was installed by a contractor with who know what key. The OEM sticker was for Home edition and the computer was running professional.
While these steps don't foil the people deliberately pirating the software, they legitimately catch a lot of people who just wouldn't know any better.
Setting the phone to vibrate usually satisfies most people surrounding and in the case of Dinner a quietly answered and BRIEF call is usually not the end of the world. This allows those of us that are tethered to our jobs (only technical person and the site is expected to be up 24x7) to have some semblance of a life. In movie theaters I can check the caller Id, and if necessary quietly exit and answer the call (usually answering but not saying anything to keep the call from going to voice mail).
There are other people for whom it is far more important to stay connected.
No, Modem calls are not reliable with VoIP even with G.711 and QoS, even on a local LAN.
Yes, they usually work anyways.
Traditional circuit switched telephony (ISDN such as BRI or PRI, T1 Trunks, or any digital trunk, where the call ends up) uses synchronous timing to provide 8khz audio that is precisely timed at both ends of the connection. VoIP does not have the ability to provide a precise 8khz clock to both end points, there will always be some variation. This is compensated for by dropping and inserting samples as needed. Unfortunately do to implementation difficulty, this usually done in entire 10ms frames. Data calls (I have been focusing on Fax personally) WILL be affected by this.
A short call for a short fax, or a security system will probably be ok. We use an ATA for our alarm system at work to an Asterisk system 3 feet away on the same QOS enabled switch, and have never had a problem, but faxes on the same setup definitely have a higher failure rate.
And as far as I know (IANAL, but have asked one on this) Texas is one of these.
This article is about making diesel, not alcohol.
I can get e85 for a flexfuel vehicle right here in the US at a growing number of stations, but I get reduced gas mileage. There is a slight increase in horsepower, but simply put, ethanol has a lower energy density.