To summarise the article: indie cafes bad, but on the First of Some Month Starbucks will give you free internet for as long as you want. Not "a major chain of coffee houses" but STARBUCKS.
How much was this person being paid to plug a company's offerings?
first of some month? we get free wifi here at all the Starbucks all the time
When my local school system, here in North Carolina, had consistently sick students, they temporarily closed the school down, did a thorough toxic sweep. When they did infact find biological factor, primarily as a part of the centralized air and heating system, they closed the school indefinitely until the entire school could be rehabbed. That meant the offending ac/heating system had to be replaced, old carpet ripped up and replaced, the school scrubbed down completely, and any other materials that could have been exposed or otherwise allow any fungus or bacteria to fester was destroyed.
I doubt wireless is making their school children sick, I could be wrong, but they need to look a little bit closer.
At my job, we have a mix of department shorthand+username or dept shorthand+position/number. The main IT group is getting ready to implement serial number based naming conventions for the desktops and laptops. We are a primarily Dell office so that would mean the ServiceTag, which is short, but it can still be confusing and a little too much. However, I guess it helps ID a computer without even having to turn it on. I don't know if they are extending this though to network printers, servers (named based off of streets in our city), etc. I prefer a department in shorthand and ID# my self.
I am not saying ham radio is needed just because I am a licensed operator, but because every time a disaster or communications failure occurs, ham radio is most often the only people that can communicate for emergenency services/coordination and the general public to pass traffic (such as wellness) and other important information. Even just to let a family member know another member or group are ok (or vice versa). Remember the cable cuts in California ealier this year? Disabled a lot of communications, even emergency services groups (police, 911, etc). ARES (amateur radio emergency servicess) was called out in full effect to provide comm for the entire length of the comm outage.
Go see a doctor. Have you ever had concentration issues before? Did you often procrastinate on projects in school? Or did it get worse over time? If you have medical benefits, go see a doctor first before you try anything that could give you more problems.
It feels kind of good that, at 26 years old, I am using an IBM flavor of UNIX (AIX) that runs great and of which the core is older than I am. I remember seeing System V books at my mom's old job when she use to work for AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Go UNIX!
Of course software engineering and computer science are different, but only in the sense that a square is a rectangle but not all rectangles are squares. Computer science goes FAR beyond software development/engineering and maintenance; and no I don't mean general information technology. For example, the hardest part of producing software comes before the development phase, solving the problem. Any engineer or team of engineers can take a solution and turn it into code but if they have no solution, it does not matter how much they know about.NET, JAVA, php, or whatever, they will sit around like every other person beating their heads about how to apply their discipline. There is no argument here. You have excellent computer scientist that can solve problems but aren't very code savvy (and don't really need to be) and you have software developers that can take a solution and bust out code as if they were acing some simple test. You then have people that can do both.
I never really though of it like that, interesting. Over the past many years that functional commercial, government, and other types of satellites have been put into orbit, there has been a huge network of underutilized satellites. That is, in the sense that many operational satellites are backups or can handle additional traffic within their bandwidth. The multi-GHz bands (such as the high L-band and Ku-Band up through Ka-Band) are inundated with lots and lots of satellites. As companies change services, fold, get acquired, or sell or lease their satellites, services can be changed easily instead of launching new satellites.
However, many of these satellites too, are going out of service for various reasons. Some were rendered useless the day they were launched, lending to the piles of useless stuff up there. I do not believe that creating a few large satellites to cover many services is a great idea. Of course, it depends on who is controlling the satellites, but my concern is the vulnerability of fewer satellites.
This information is nothing new, honestly. We've seen people literally stay up for several days, and then die. We've seen people sleep a few hours here and a few hours there and then die. Lack of sleep is extremely dangerous. Nothing new and then you have people that like to pop Adderall on a regular basis. These people are scary after they've been up for more than a couple of days on stuff like that. Do your self a favor and GO TO SLEEP!
There have been plenty of EXCELLENT German POV war games and shooters. In defense of the common German soldier, sailor, and pilot, many of them did not know fully what they were fighting for. Of course, you could argue that the cause was protection of their homeland through domination of their adjacent foes. The holocaust is not the issue here. Most German soldiers likely never saw a single concentration or death camp. The German military, as it stood, was NO different than the Russians, Americans, British, French (except for their propensity to give up), Italian, or Japanese military. The soldiers followed orders, they had to survive, and they had to deal with stress, death and destruction, not seeing their friends and family. Some of them were conscripted (drafted) into a war they cared nothing for. No nation in WWII was innocent of some form of unacceptable atrocity.
I am glad we have put BPL to rest, at least for now. I have seen the video demonstrations from hams (I am an amateur operator my self) driving around the BPL test sites showing the kind of interference caused with these systems. I also work for a water utility. There is no need for power companies to spend truck loads of money just to read meters. They can setup, easily, radio read meters where a very few number of people can drive around and read OR a wireless mesh network in which NO ONE has to leave the office unless a transmitter is not working properly. With that said, the power companies were not the biggest pushers, the FCC was and Michael Powell (at the time) and his chronies were trying to appease the idea to bring broadband to EVERYONE but with little forethought. The U.S. should have been and already have, by now, a national wireless internet service. BPL is gone, thank you to the ARRL, let's move on.
Careful, at some point there was the possibility for DNF to be completed. I remember seeing TV commercials about it but it just never happened. I never saw a single TV commercial for Blizzard's Starcraft: Ghost, and you know what, that game never happened. So if you see a commercial for Duke Nukem Forever, after the great success of Duke Nukem 3D, and playing Duke Nukem 1 and 2 (side scrollers) as a kid for hours, what would you think....THEY'RE MAKING DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Fast forward quite a few years, we've passed through many iterations of Half-Life, id Software was reborn and moved on, the Unreal team moved on, Call of Duty was rediculous, computers for the most part, all but lost the gaming wars and that is only because games like WoW exist on the computer.
This seems like a great idea, until you realize that any american geek who prods too deeply will be branded an enemy combatant.
Who knows what happens to enemy combatants.
Make them watch Hackers and Antitrust over and over again, until they crash and burn, then we'll pull out the old Prodigy internet service and make them use it at 2400 baud... much worse than AOL at 9600.
The issue comes down to bandwidth. The higher the frequency, the more you can do with it. The entire radio spectrum is extremely valuable, especially below 50MHz in the VHF "low band" area around 40 MHz and even getting into HF mixed in with the 10 and 11 meter wavelengths where military has some stuff. These frequencies all over the charts have ups and downs of use. Some are great for long distance communication with out the use of satellites but they have lower bandwidth. The higher ones don't skip off the atmosphere or ground very well but have higher bandwidth and some are actually pretty good about penetrating buildings, bending over geographic features such as hills and small mountain areas.
So Google is insterested in 300MHz and higher because anything less than that is practically useless. Also, there are major rebanding projects going on for 800MHz public safety systems to "free up" more space for other use.
We ham operators cherish our UHF, particularly the mid-400MHz area and many of us would like to get into 900MHz but there is little or no real consumer ham gear made for 33cm (900MHz) and we must rely on potentially pricey commercial radios and repeater equipment to make use of it effective. We also have spectrums well into the GHz arena. Just leave ham radio alone and we'll be alright.
You last section is like OPEC saying, well, we'll go find another major oil-demander because the US can't have any. . . .
I don't think so. You don't turn off one of your biggest sources of income because you decided to act like a five year old.
The United States is not going to just hand this service over to anyone. It is not that simple and while many Americans would be fine with it, it has to undergo significant and constant scrutiny.
There have been many government funded projects, from the United States, and other countries, that have gone "open" and willingly released to the public. Encryption, IP, Onion routing, NLS (!! Hyperlinks and mouse clicks!), portable open source security elements (POSSE), etc, etc.
Seriously, nothing is impossible. We learn often that our understand of general physics gets challenged consistently when outside of our normal human realm of perception. That is, for things that we do not normally experiece; massive objects such as stars, black holes, galaxies, Gamma-Ray Burst/Super Nova, "dark" matter & energy, quarks & sub-atomic particles.... That is why we have quantum and theoretical physics. To say anything is impossible is dumb. You can not honestly tell me that we can not fold or move space-time (cringe using the word time like it is a natural occurrence) because no one has every tried it that we know of and if they have they were not successful.
640 kbps (kilobits pers second) is not uncommon on "mobile broadband" connections and translates to 80 KBps (kilo-bytes per second). I have worked on several of my co-worker's personal AT&T mobile internet, tethering their laptops to their phones, and getting consistent download speeds similar to the mid-grade (now probably the lower tier here in the US) DSL because their 3G connections operated easily at up to 1.4 or 1.5 Mbps. The upload speed is in a similar situation being very slow, no faster than 128 kbps but it consistently operated just below that.
Users should be ditching acrobat reader anyway. The program is horribly slow, laiden with bugs and vulnerabilities, and has the worse method of updating. Off the internet, I think Adobe Reader and Acrobat are great but for viewing PDF's online, bad idea. Find yourselves another reader to use and if you need Acrobat only to author PDF files, get something free. Plenty of free PDF writers out there.
Unless there is a specific limit of use in the Terms of Use/Service, then a user should be able to upload/download as much data as they want. I can understand not wanting non-business users to setup major servers or commercial systems but not a user who downloads movies, music, play games, etc, etc. That is complete foolishness to limit these users and even worse to randomly shut them down. I am still pretty close to canceling my Time Warner Cable services here in Greensboro, NC and I would like to try and push a bond referendum to the Greensboro city council to do what Wilson, NC did with their fiber-optic network (right to the house) and the Greenlight services they created: http://www.wilsonnc.org/living/fiberopticnetwork/http://www.greenlightnc.com/
I do not trust this company: http://www.metatechcorp.com/
And you should check out their archive.org history.
I don't think this washing-machine sized resister that I am sure they want to build and sell will work. You are not going to solve solar flare issues from above by sticking "large" pieces of steel into the ground. You may help reduce lightning strikes. . . . but not a solar flare.
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so well stated. never thought of it like that
Why can't this happen for Space: Above and Beyond... I miss that show :-(
To summarise the article: indie cafes bad, but on the First of Some Month Starbucks will give you free internet for as long as you want. Not "a major chain of coffee houses" but STARBUCKS.
How much was this person being paid to plug a company's offerings?
first of some month? we get free wifi here at all the Starbucks all the time
When my local school system, here in North Carolina, had consistently sick students, they temporarily closed the school down, did a thorough toxic sweep. When they did infact find biological factor, primarily as a part of the centralized air and heating system, they closed the school indefinitely until the entire school could be rehabbed. That meant the offending ac/heating system had to be replaced, old carpet ripped up and replaced, the school scrubbed down completely, and any other materials that could have been exposed or otherwise allow any fungus or bacteria to fester was destroyed.
I doubt wireless is making their school children sick, I could be wrong, but they need to look a little bit closer.
That is perfect.
At my job, we have a mix of department shorthand+username or dept shorthand+position/number. The main IT group is getting ready to implement serial number based naming conventions for the desktops and laptops. We are a primarily Dell office so that would mean the ServiceTag, which is short, but it can still be confusing and a little too much. However, I guess it helps ID a computer without even having to turn it on. I don't know if they are extending this though to network printers, servers (named based off of streets in our city), etc. I prefer a department in shorthand and ID# my self.
I am not saying ham radio is needed just because I am a licensed operator, but because every time a disaster or communications failure occurs, ham radio is most often the only people that can communicate for emergenency services/coordination and the general public to pass traffic (such as wellness) and other important information. Even just to let a family member know another member or group are ok (or vice versa). Remember the cable cuts in California ealier this year? Disabled a lot of communications, even emergency services groups (police, 911, etc). ARES (amateur radio emergency servicess) was called out in full effect to provide comm for the entire length of the comm outage.
Go see a doctor. Have you ever had concentration issues before? Did you often procrastinate on projects in school? Or did it get worse over time? If you have medical benefits, go see a doctor first before you try anything that could give you more problems.
Look up news outlets from Chattanooga and look this person up.
It feels kind of good that, at 26 years old, I am using an IBM flavor of UNIX (AIX) that runs great and of which the core is older than I am. I remember seeing System V books at my mom's old job when she use to work for AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Go UNIX!
Of course software engineering and computer science are different, but only in the sense that a square is a rectangle but not all rectangles are squares. Computer science goes FAR beyond software development/engineering and maintenance; and no I don't mean general information technology. For example, the hardest part of producing software comes before the development phase, solving the problem. Any engineer or team of engineers can take a solution and turn it into code but if they have no solution, it does not matter how much they know about .NET, JAVA, php, or whatever, they will sit around like every other person beating their heads about how to apply their discipline. There is no argument here. You have excellent computer scientist that can solve problems but aren't very code savvy (and don't really need to be) and you have software developers that can take a solution and bust out code as if they were acing some simple test. You then have people that can do both.
I never really though of it like that, interesting. Over the past many years that functional commercial, government, and other types of satellites have been put into orbit, there has been a huge network of underutilized satellites. That is, in the sense that many operational satellites are backups or can handle additional traffic within their bandwidth. The multi-GHz bands (such as the high L-band and Ku-Band up through Ka-Band) are inundated with lots and lots of satellites. As companies change services, fold, get acquired, or sell or lease their satellites, services can be changed easily instead of launching new satellites. However, many of these satellites too, are going out of service for various reasons. Some were rendered useless the day they were launched, lending to the piles of useless stuff up there. I do not believe that creating a few large satellites to cover many services is a great idea. Of course, it depends on who is controlling the satellites, but my concern is the vulnerability of fewer satellites.
This information is nothing new, honestly. We've seen people literally stay up for several days, and then die. We've seen people sleep a few hours here and a few hours there and then die. Lack of sleep is extremely dangerous. Nothing new and then you have people that like to pop Adderall on a regular basis. These people are scary after they've been up for more than a couple of days on stuff like that. Do your self a favor and GO TO SLEEP!
There have been plenty of EXCELLENT German POV war games and shooters. In defense of the common German soldier, sailor, and pilot, many of them did not know fully what they were fighting for. Of course, you could argue that the cause was protection of their homeland through domination of their adjacent foes. The holocaust is not the issue here. Most German soldiers likely never saw a single concentration or death camp. The German military, as it stood, was NO different than the Russians, Americans, British, French (except for their propensity to give up), Italian, or Japanese military. The soldiers followed orders, they had to survive, and they had to deal with stress, death and destruction, not seeing their friends and family. Some of them were conscripted (drafted) into a war they cared nothing for. No nation in WWII was innocent of some form of unacceptable atrocity.
I am glad we have put BPL to rest, at least for now. I have seen the video demonstrations from hams (I am an amateur operator my self) driving around the BPL test sites showing the kind of interference caused with these systems. I also work for a water utility. There is no need for power companies to spend truck loads of money just to read meters. They can setup, easily, radio read meters where a very few number of people can drive around and read OR a wireless mesh network in which NO ONE has to leave the office unless a transmitter is not working properly. With that said, the power companies were not the biggest pushers, the FCC was and Michael Powell (at the time) and his chronies were trying to appease the idea to bring broadband to EVERYONE but with little forethought. The U.S. should have been and already have, by now, a national wireless internet service. BPL is gone, thank you to the ARRL, let's move on.
Careful, at some point there was the possibility for DNF to be completed. I remember seeing TV commercials about it but it just never happened. I never saw a single TV commercial for Blizzard's Starcraft: Ghost, and you know what, that game never happened. So if you see a commercial for Duke Nukem Forever, after the great success of Duke Nukem 3D, and playing Duke Nukem 1 and 2 (side scrollers) as a kid for hours, what would you think....THEY'RE MAKING DUKE NUKEM FOREVER. Fast forward quite a few years, we've passed through many iterations of Half-Life, id Software was reborn and moved on, the Unreal team moved on, Call of Duty was rediculous, computers for the most part, all but lost the gaming wars and that is only because games like WoW exist on the computer.
This seems like a great idea, until you realize that any american geek who prods too deeply will be branded an enemy combatant.
Who knows what happens to enemy combatants.
Make them watch Hackers and Antitrust over and over again, until they crash and burn, then we'll pull out the old Prodigy internet service and make them use it at 2400 baud... much worse than AOL at 9600.
The issue comes down to bandwidth. The higher the frequency, the more you can do with it. The entire radio spectrum is extremely valuable, especially below 50MHz in the VHF "low band" area around 40 MHz and even getting into HF mixed in with the 10 and 11 meter wavelengths where military has some stuff. These frequencies all over the charts have ups and downs of use. Some are great for long distance communication with out the use of satellites but they have lower bandwidth. The higher ones don't skip off the atmosphere or ground very well but have higher bandwidth and some are actually pretty good about penetrating buildings, bending over geographic features such as hills and small mountain areas. So Google is insterested in 300MHz and higher because anything less than that is practically useless. Also, there are major rebanding projects going on for 800MHz public safety systems to "free up" more space for other use. We ham operators cherish our UHF, particularly the mid-400MHz area and many of us would like to get into 900MHz but there is little or no real consumer ham gear made for 33cm (900MHz) and we must rely on potentially pricey commercial radios and repeater equipment to make use of it effective. We also have spectrums well into the GHz arena. Just leave ham radio alone and we'll be alright.
You last section is like OPEC saying, well, we'll go find another major oil-demander because the US can't have any. . . . I don't think so. You don't turn off one of your biggest sources of income because you decided to act like a five year old. The United States is not going to just hand this service over to anyone. It is not that simple and while many Americans would be fine with it, it has to undergo significant and constant scrutiny. There have been many government funded projects, from the United States, and other countries, that have gone "open" and willingly released to the public. Encryption, IP, Onion routing, NLS (!! Hyperlinks and mouse clicks!), portable open source security elements (POSSE), etc, etc.
Seriously, nothing is impossible. We learn often that our understand of general physics gets challenged consistently when outside of our normal human realm of perception. That is, for things that we do not normally experiece; massive objects such as stars, black holes, galaxies, Gamma-Ray Burst/Super Nova, "dark" matter & energy, quarks & sub-atomic particles.... That is why we have quantum and theoretical physics. To say anything is impossible is dumb. You can not honestly tell me that we can not fold or move space-time (cringe using the word time like it is a natural occurrence) because no one has every tried it that we know of and if they have they were not successful.
640 kbps (kilobits pers second) is not uncommon on "mobile broadband" connections and translates to 80 KBps (kilo-bytes per second). I have worked on several of my co-worker's personal AT&T mobile internet, tethering their laptops to their phones, and getting consistent download speeds similar to the mid-grade (now probably the lower tier here in the US) DSL because their 3G connections operated easily at up to 1.4 or 1.5 Mbps. The upload speed is in a similar situation being very slow, no faster than 128 kbps but it consistently operated just below that.
Users should be ditching acrobat reader anyway. The program is horribly slow, laiden with bugs and vulnerabilities, and has the worse method of updating. Off the internet, I think Adobe Reader and Acrobat are great but for viewing PDF's online, bad idea. Find yourselves another reader to use and if you need Acrobat only to author PDF files, get something free. Plenty of free PDF writers out there.
I think the iPhone is a little overrated. A lot of potential exist in the Google Phone, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile markets.
Unless there is a specific limit of use in the Terms of Use/Service, then a user should be able to upload/download as much data as they want. I can understand not wanting non-business users to setup major servers or commercial systems but not a user who downloads movies, music, play games, etc, etc. That is complete foolishness to limit these users and even worse to randomly shut them down. I am still pretty close to canceling my Time Warner Cable services here in Greensboro, NC and I would like to try and push a bond referendum to the Greensboro city council to do what Wilson, NC did with their fiber-optic network (right to the house) and the Greenlight services they created: http://www.wilsonnc.org/living/fiberopticnetwork/ http://www.greenlightnc.com/
I do not trust this company: http://www.metatechcorp.com/ And you should check out their archive.org history. I don't think this washing-machine sized resister that I am sure they want to build and sell will work. You are not going to solve solar flare issues from above by sticking "large" pieces of steel into the ground. You may help reduce lightning strikes. . . . but not a solar flare.