Ingrates. Back in my day I had 128 kilobits to work with, and I was privileged. Most of my friends only had 64. We had to write our own games, and we had to save them on Floppy disks! We didn't have hard drives. Hell, we didn't even have mice. We worked with our bare hands on keyboards, and by gum we were grateful.
Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes which make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.
Again, the authors conclusions are that nothing beats having a nice dark block to trigger alerts.
I resemble that remark. (Mmmmm, three class C's...) Benefits or working for an organization who got on the net back when Arin was handing out blocks like candy.
Funny that. Up until recently I too kept a copy of Gentoo as my "main" machine, with Win4Lin as the "game" box.
Well, the wife finally got her way, and we reformatted the machine to XP. In her words, so our drivers and stuff would work. They haven't, and even she has made noises about putting a Linux partition back on.
Maybe something more stable, like Debian. Gentoo has pissed me off about 8 times too many.
No, actually herbicide resistent crops mean that you can dump herbicides with wreckless abandon. (I.E. without worrying about taking out your crops with weedkiller.)
Now, what effects those herbicides will have on the people eating said crops, I leave to the peanut gallery to debate. Just because the plant's immune doesn't make humans immune.
The problem is that the analog TV airwaves carve out an enormous swath of the EM spectrum. Back when they were allocated, the powers that be thought there would be a hell of a lot more television stations that the ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox. So they allocated a ton of channels. (Every play around on the UHF dial. There is an awful lot of static out there.)
Digital TV signals have a definite range. Once you hit a certain distance out, you go from perfect signal to nothing. This means that New York and Philadelphia can use the same channels without worrying about them bleeding into each other over Jersey.
My plan did one better. We are going to rent out space on 27 or so Cell towers spaced around the city, and run 100Mb ethenet over fiber to them. That sounds expensive, but each cell tower will be supporting up to 6000 users.
With the right antennas, we'll never have to go more than one hop. My projections show that we charge $7.95/month and turn a profit. (Assuming we get 160,000 users by year 5.)
The most expensive part of the project is actually the staff to maintain it.
Actually, I need the smarts on the edge of the network. Someone crapflooding an access point with traffic is annoying. Someone crapflooding your trunklines is a disaster. One a network this size, almost every component needs to be actively shaping traffic.
FWIW, most of your "dumb access points" are actually running an embedded form of Linux. D-Link and LinkSys/Cisco equipment comes to mind.
Everyone is subject to regulations on output. The Armed Forces and folks like NASA get around them by having licensed communications operators.
Boosting output may increase the range of the access point, but my problem is population density. We have 30,000 people per square mile. As it is, each access point will have to cover 80 users, even spaced 300 feet apart. Not saturating the access points is a bigger problem than range.
For what it's worth, the City is no longer funding the project directly. They have handed it off to a 501c3 organization called "Wireless Philadelphia".
Wireless Philadelphia is going to be putting out it's own bonds and whatnot to fund the project. I don't believe it's getting a nickel of state money. (At least not according to the financials I've seen.)
About the only thing they have going for them over anyone else setting this up is the City's blessing to use light poles. My plan actually calls for renting space and hardwire links from Cell towers.
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Ingrates. Back in my day I had 128 kilobits to work with, and I was privileged. Most of my friends only had 64. We had to write our own games, and we had to save them on Floppy disks! We didn't have hard drives. Hell, we didn't even have mice. We worked with our bare hands on keyboards, and by gum we were grateful.
Chapter 4, the Tao Te Ching
Now that I think about it, my retirement is looking a bit like a trip to the glue factory.
So a corporate merger is just casual sex?
And pound for pound, a lot of the propellents used to get the nuclear stuff into orbit is FAR deadlier than the nuclear payload.
Oh look at the ID number on that chucklehead. Gloat away.
And Skippy was enlightened.
I resemble that remark. (Mmmmm, three class C's...) Benefits or working for an organization who got on the net back when Arin was handing out blocks like candy.
What, your business doesn't use email or advertise on the Web?
Well, the wife finally got her way, and we reformatted the machine to XP. In her words, so our drivers and stuff would work. They haven't, and even she has made noises about putting a Linux partition back on.
Maybe something more stable, like Debian. Gentoo has pissed me off about 8 times too many.
Yes they do. They say I, customer #14,515,626, am special. Just like all of their other clients.
All told, a Japanese car probably employs more Americans in its manufacture than anything made by the big 3.
VMS is what every OS aspires to be.
Amen to that. Car analogies have just plain run out of gas. People get too much mileage on them. They start more flamewars than a Pinto.
(Stuffing canned goods and shotgun rounds under mattress as we speak.)
Read up on the reasearch being done on Mycorrhiza a type of fungus that lives in the roots of plants.
Now, what effects those herbicides will have on the people eating said crops, I leave to the peanut gallery to debate. Just because the plant's immune doesn't make humans immune.
After all FCC regs state that you cannot broadcast encrypted traffic over the public airwaves.
Digital TV signals have a definite range. Once you hit a certain distance out, you go from perfect signal to nothing. This means that New York and Philadelphia can use the same channels without worrying about them bleeding into each other over Jersey.
With the right antennas, we'll never have to go more than one hop. My projections show that we charge $7.95/month and turn a profit. (Assuming we get 160,000 users by year 5.)
The most expensive part of the project is actually the staff to maintain it.
FWIW, most of your "dumb access points" are actually running an embedded form of Linux. D-Link and LinkSys/Cisco equipment comes to mind.
Boosting output may increase the range of the access point, but my problem is population density. We have 30,000 people per square mile. As it is, each access point will have to cover 80 users, even spaced 300 feet apart. Not saturating the access points is a bigger problem than range.
Wireless Philadelphia is going to be putting out it's own bonds and whatnot to fund the project. I don't believe it's getting a nickel of state money. (At least not according to the financials I've seen.)
About the only thing they have going for them over anyone else setting this up is the City's blessing to use light poles. My plan actually calls for renting space and hardwire links from Cell towers.