so..exactly what does this mean for all of those emergency 911 handsets that have been given out to beaten spouses, people worried about their safety, grandmas driving around with an old handset, etc? all of those people are left in the dark, and worse, with a false sense of security that their handset will still contact emergency services.
cdpd had great bandwidth for its time, and solid 14.4k on a cdpd capable handset [such as the mitsubishi t250]. unfortunately, att pocketnet service has been phased out many years ago...
let me clue you in on something, since obviously you don't understand it:
microsoft doesn't write drivers. they do not get hardware from manufaturers and write drivers for them. the manufacturer makes their own driver and deploys it.
linux developers have to reverse engineer most of the hardware on their own, without help from the manufacturers because they don't want to contribute, fear lost trade secrets, etc. (remember broadcom, anyone? they are so anti-linux, it ridiculous)
so before you start badmouthing something, step back and compare apples to apples. and look at where the true problem lies: hardware manufactures are failing with the drivers, NOT LINUX!
the netscape 4.x tree was very useful (i used it all the way to 4.78), but the one that went kaboom was netscape 6, when they rolled out the first gecko browser implementation. that thing was bloated and horribly slow...plus rendering was broken.
that's the one that forced me back to netscape 4.x, and eventually, mozilla. (that, and moving to linux)
what happens to the mobitex network? that's still analog, and it's used a lot in emergency and industrial. in the us, it's handled by velocita wireless, last time i checked. the network was sold to them from att/cingular.
two notes on this reply:
1. the linux installation may very well void the warranty, true, but for a different reason. they say that the system needs to be in the same state that it has left the factory, with the installation of the original os still on the hard drive. that's why some people take the preinstall of windows, shrink the partition down to about 5GB, and leave it in emergency cases like this. it's warranty reasons.
2. stating matter-of-factly, with installations of debian, there is a package option for "laptop" that installs cpu throttling applications, which so far have worked on my thinkpad x20, thinkpad t20, latitude c640 and lifebook n5010. and if anyone was to state that the warranty is voided because there is no management utility, they should be reminded that the idea should be invalid because:
a. older microsoft operating systems also had "laptop" management stuff enabled via a checkbox in the initial installation. so if i was to go an reinstall windows 98se on a laptop and forgot to check the box off, i voided my warranty? software should have nothing to do with hardware. if the system sat running at the bios screen for infinite, that's no good reason for the hardware to self-destruct. which leads to
b. most systems have power throttling built into bios, so that without any power utility whatsoever, bios still clocks down in extreme heat conditionns to prevent damage
that's correct...soundexchange is still legally allowed to take royalties on any music that is taken at any time, in case that the artist later signs with the riaa, to possibly take some of their ill-collected royalties back.
most of the commercial market are applications competing to complete the same task...whereas open source is filled with applications trying to fulfill the name of "killer app"...say, fetchmail, apache, busybox, etc. it is pretty much king in that area because it fills that "application void". in open source, when an application fills that void, it pretty much has a lock on that arena because it does it, and does it well. there's no incentive [read: money] to go develop another application like it to compete against it, unless there's a functionality or hierarchy problem that can only be rectified by another project [read: fork].
this isn't a "recent project"...it was started in july of 2003...hardly stolen from microsoft or apple if older incarnations existed before they were developed. this is merely a version release.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3cow
i've torrented for a couple of years, no concern to my trunk isp...but what shoves me over was shoutcast streaming. i started using "streamripper" with soma.fm so that i can sort through, find new artists, remixes of what i know i like, and have fresh music.
a 128 kbps shoutcast stream downloading for a full month will consume 38.562 GB of bandwidth.
my bandwidth went to 64GB for the month of february, and when i got the letter, i noted my utilization for march was 45GB.
i feel really bad for people that use things like "locationfree", xbox360's game downloading service, shoutcast streams, and other legitimate bandwidth hogs. using your bandwidth as advertised and 100 percent legal is still wrong, and it's horrible.
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don't you mean "MC Hammer"?
is that one of those techie porno movies i've never heard about?
that's x500, right?
so..exactly what does this mean for all of those emergency 911 handsets that have been given out to beaten spouses, people worried about their safety, grandmas driving around with an old handset, etc? all of those people are left in the dark, and worse, with a false sense of security that their handset will still contact emergency services.
that's "CDPD", or "Cellular Digital Packet Data". obligatory link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_digital_packet_data
cdpd had great bandwidth for its time, and solid 14.4k on a cdpd capable handset [such as the mitsubishi t250]. unfortunately, att pocketnet service has been phased out many years ago...
let me clue you in on something, since obviously you don't understand it:
microsoft doesn't write drivers. they do not get hardware from manufaturers and write drivers for them. the manufacturer makes their own driver and deploys it.
linux developers have to reverse engineer most of the hardware on their own, without help from the manufacturers because they don't want to contribute, fear lost trade secrets, etc. (remember broadcom, anyone? they are so anti-linux, it ridiculous)
so before you start badmouthing something, step back and compare apples to apples. and look at where the true problem lies: hardware manufactures are failing with the drivers, NOT LINUX!
the netscape 4.x tree was very useful (i used it all the way to 4.78), but the one that went kaboom was netscape 6, when they rolled out the first gecko browser implementation. that thing was bloated and horribly slow...plus rendering was broken.
that's the one that forced me back to netscape 4.x, and eventually, mozilla. (that, and moving to linux)
what happens to the mobitex network? that's still analog, and it's used a lot in emergency and industrial. in the us, it's handled by velocita wireless, last time i checked. the network was sold to them from att/cingular.
hey, you forgot a crucial part of the revenue stream!
3.5. ???
its over NINE THOUSAND!!!
two notes on this reply: 1. the linux installation may very well void the warranty, true, but for a different reason. they say that the system needs to be in the same state that it has left the factory, with the installation of the original os still on the hard drive. that's why some people take the preinstall of windows, shrink the partition down to about 5GB, and leave it in emergency cases like this. it's warranty reasons. 2. stating matter-of-factly, with installations of debian, there is a package option for "laptop" that installs cpu throttling applications, which so far have worked on my thinkpad x20, thinkpad t20, latitude c640 and lifebook n5010. and if anyone was to state that the warranty is voided because there is no management utility, they should be reminded that the idea should be invalid because: a. older microsoft operating systems also had "laptop" management stuff enabled via a checkbox in the initial installation. so if i was to go an reinstall windows 98se on a laptop and forgot to check the box off, i voided my warranty? software should have nothing to do with hardware. if the system sat running at the bios screen for infinite, that's no good reason for the hardware to self-destruct. which leads to b. most systems have power throttling built into bios, so that without any power utility whatsoever, bios still clocks down in extreme heat conditionns to prevent damage
BallmerThrowsChairs is also banned.
that's correct...soundexchange is still legally allowed to take royalties on any music that is taken at any time, in case that the artist later signs with the riaa, to possibly take some of their ill-collected royalties back.
nice waste of time that would be, considering the analog hole. or maybe it's active discouragement?
most of the commercial market are applications competing to complete the same task...whereas open source is filled with applications trying to fulfill the name of "killer app"...say, fetchmail, apache, busybox, etc. it is pretty much king in that area because it fills that "application void". in open source, when an application fills that void, it pretty much has a lock on that arena because it does it, and does it well. there's no incentive [read: money] to go develop another application like it to compete against it, unless there's a functionality or hierarchy problem that can only be rectified by another project [read: fork].
this isn't a "recent project"...it was started in july of 2003...hardly stolen from microsoft or apple if older incarnations existed before they were developed. this is merely a version release. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3cow
yeah, it's called "super columbine massacre rpg!" IIRC, that game wasn't exactly well recevied...
at least we didn't start the fire...
i've torrented for a couple of years, no concern to my trunk isp...but what shoves me over was shoutcast streaming. i started using "streamripper" with soma.fm so that i can sort through, find new artists, remixes of what i know i like, and have fresh music.
a 128 kbps shoutcast stream downloading for a full month will consume 38.562 GB of bandwidth.
my bandwidth went to 64GB for the month of february, and when i got the letter, i noted my utilization for march was 45GB.
i feel really bad for people that use things like "locationfree", xbox360's game downloading service, shoutcast streams, and other legitimate bandwidth hogs. using your bandwidth as advertised and 100 percent legal is still wrong, and it's horrible.