Wow...so they only have to make special phones for the US Market?
I wonder what frequencies Canada, Mexico, and South America (minus Brazil) use? Maybe the carriers have to make special version of their phones for Europe?
At the end of the day, it is impossible for the US to use the same spectrum as Europe. We've allocated our spectrum one way, and they have allocated their spectrum in another. Currently 900 (used in Europe) is used in the US for cordless phones. 1800 (also used in the US) is reserved for the military(IIRC). With all the infrastructure out there, it would not be practical to move all of these devices to another spectrum.
Programmers on Slashdot.org, a new site on the Sourceforge.net open source development site, posted messages urging open source developers to help in the cleanup process to help reduce the possibility of security outbreaks for all customers
I think that this could be a good start, however, you can't link main->secondary->secondary... or at least in any of the products I've seen. If you tried to do this, then you would need the access point to be someplace in the middle, and still have a strong enough signal to reach the furthest away router...
IIRC, didn't the ESA pay for ~15% of the HST's design and development? In exchange, they controlled a certain percentage of time?
Even if the ESA did fund it, if NASA says "No Shuttles to anything but ISS", what can anyone do about that? There aren't any other options to get to the Hubble! (IIRC, the Hubble is at the very edge of Russian capabilites)
Hopefully, this is a non-issue, and NASA changes their policy and fixes this telescope...
During all of the "Spirit is broken" columns, I kept reading/. comments saying that it was likely a memory error due to the non-consistent errors...I guess a million monkeys with a typewriter can be correct:-)
The internet is designed to withstand broken routes, etc. However, if all of the nameservers go down, then you'll have to remember IP addresses!
If this building went down, then you wouldn't notice anything. IIRC, (and the article says so, I belive), all DNS info is cached at your local ISP. That's why it takes a few days to propagate across the any IP address changes to your domain...
While I don't claim to know everything that there ever was to know about USB and SCSI, it wouldn't surprise me if SCSI (or something similar) was implemented as USB storage. I do know that when I mount my USB keychain device in linux, I use/dev/sd1 to mount the drive.
Here in the US, it's just taking off. Currently, the pricing is too expensive for most people to take advantage of the 3G advantages.
It is still advantageous for operators to roll out 3G networks. The usage of the spectrum is better, so more people can make higher quality calls using the same space as before.
Also, ATM is very commonly used in cellular networks. I'm not sure how anyone could claim it is a dud...but, like the parent, I didn't read the article...
It's called Local Number Portability for a reason. As of right now, if you move out of the area, then you can't port that number to another carrier.
ie: If you move your landline to your wireless phone, then move from Los Angeles to San Francisco, you can still use your wireless phone up there. However, you cannot port that number to another carrier or landline...
The exploit was made public before the official fix is that Apple had 48 days to fix the issue. Also, by releasing information about the exploit, Apple Sysadmins can make a minor change to their setup to prevent this exploit from occuring...
Just because the exploit isn't public, doesn't mean that somebody else doesn't know!
If that was the case, then why doesn't Apple begin to support other music formats on the iPod that will help drive sales? Even if they support.wmv files, then all of the Napster, buymusic (both of them?), etc customers can buy iPods...
This is one of the best posts I've read on/. in a long time! The new OS X GUI isn't very consistent. Why do some applications quit when I close the last window, and others don't? Why can't all applications use the "services" menu? Why is the GUI still significantly slower than OS 9's GUI?
I'm typing this on a new 15" Al Book running Panther. I do like what I can do with OS X...I like the stability, I like being able to run Kstars in X11, etc. However, if Apple ever offered an option to switch back to the old User Interface, I have a feeling a significant number of Mac users would switch back!
In the terminal, run "top -u" to see what process is taking up all the CPU time. If your processor is running at 100% for hours on end, then that's why you are getting less battery life! Panther slightly improved my battery life on my 15" AlBook.
Ummm...CDMA2000 is more of a world standard right now than WCDMA is. You can pick up a CDMA 2000 signal in all of the US, most of Asia, and just about all of South America! Right now, you can only find WCDMA signals in a few areas of Europe, and Japan.
IMHO, by legislating what cell phone standards are being used, Europeans are possibly allowing buerocrats to decide what technology is better!
First, Verizon's Express Network is expensive ($80/mo)! T-Mobile's (GSM/GPRS/EDGE?) network is only $19.99/mo (voice-and-data-subscribers) or $29.99/mo (data-only-subscribers). While we could argue the technical merits of each system (CDMA would win in most categories, IMHO), and the relative coverage of coverage areas of each service (Verizon would win again), T-Mobile's coverage is good enough for the most part...
Secondly, you advocate paying a few hundred dollars for a wireless card, in addition to paying for your wireless phone! It seems cheaper to pay just a bit more money, get a phone that has bluetooth, and not need the second wireless card! Granted the data rates over bluetooth aren't great, but it is probably fast enough to handle the sustained 1xEV-DO rates...
Third...there is so much more you can do with Bluetooth! You can easily (and often) back up your contacts on your cell phone! You can transfer a game/ringtone/theme/picture/whatever between your phone and your computer...without having to worry about a cable being attached!
I will be surprised if we don't see a bluetooth CDMA phone soon. Look in the Sprint Section on Howard Forums...they are dying for the T608 from Sony Ericsson...just because of it's bluetooth capabilities...
Bluetooth is far from dead! It's just hitting it's stride!
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Wow...so they only have to make special phones for the US Market?
I wonder what frequencies Canada, Mexico, and South America (minus Brazil) use? Maybe the carriers have to make special version of their phones for Europe?
At the end of the day, it is impossible for the US to use the same spectrum as Europe. We've allocated our spectrum one way, and they have allocated their spectrum in another. Currently 900 (used in Europe) is used in the US for cordless phones. 1800 (also used in the US) is reserved for the military(IIRC). With all the infrastructure out there, it would not be practical to move all of these devices to another spectrum.
Mental Note...don't make Europa Landing probe out of metal...
(because it was M$'s first decent operating system)
I thought DOS 5 was pretty good, too...
Heh...there was a funny spot on an article:
/. was a new site!
Programmers on Slashdot.org, a new site on the Sourceforge.net open source development site, posted messages urging open source developers to help in the cleanup process to help reduce the possibility of security outbreaks for all customers
I didn't realize that
Is there even an API that goes along with iSync? I've looked before and haven't seen one...
I think that this could be a good start, however, you can't link main->secondary->secondary ... or at least in any of the products I've seen. If you tried to do this, then you would need the access point to be someplace in the middle, and still have a strong enough signal to reach the furthest away router...
IIRC, didn't the ESA pay for ~15% of the HST's design and development? In exchange, they controlled a certain percentage of time?
Even if the ESA did fund it, if NASA says "No Shuttles to anything but ISS", what can anyone do about that? There aren't any other options to get to the Hubble! (IIRC, the Hubble is at the very edge of Russian capabilites)
Hopefully, this is a non-issue, and NASA changes their policy and fixes this telescope...
Wasn't Windows NT for Alpha "true" 64 bit Windows...
only $10 billion in the last year
I guess $10 billion isn't very much money anymore...the US isn't required to give _anything_ to anyone...$10 billion can feed alot of faces!
During all of the "Spirit is broken" columns, I kept reading /. comments saying that it was likely a memory error due to the non-consistent errors...I guess a million monkeys with a typewriter can be correct :-)
in the meantime it's fun to compare licenses.
I don't know about CowboyNeal, but I sure have a different definition of fun than he does!
The internet is designed to withstand broken routes, etc. However, if all of the nameservers go down, then you'll have to remember IP addresses!
If this building went down, then you wouldn't notice anything. IIRC, (and the article says so, I belive), all DNS info is cached at your local ISP. That's why it takes a few days to propagate across the any IP address changes to your domain...
While I don't claim to know everything that there ever was to know about USB and SCSI, it wouldn't surprise me if SCSI (or something similar) was implemented as USB storage. I do know that when I mount my USB keychain device in linux, I use /dev/sd1 to mount the drive.
Here in the US, it's just taking off. Currently, the pricing is too expensive for most people to take advantage of the 3G advantages.
It is still advantageous for operators to roll out 3G networks. The usage of the spectrum is better, so more people can make higher quality calls using the same space as before.
Also, ATM is very commonly used in cellular networks. I'm not sure how anyone could claim it is a dud...but, like the parent, I didn't read the article...
one of which I have code helping to control the cams
:-)
I assume you work for Malin Space Science Systems? Which orbiter did you work on...tell us more
It's called Local Number Portability for a reason. As of right now, if you move out of the area, then you can't port that number to another carrier.
ie: If you move your landline to your wireless phone, then move from Los Angeles to San Francisco, you can still use your wireless phone up there. However, you cannot port that number to another carrier or landline...
The exploit was made public before the official fix is that Apple had 48 days to fix the issue. Also, by releasing information about the exploit, Apple Sysadmins can make a minor change to their setup to prevent this exploit from occuring...
Just because the exploit isn't public, doesn't mean that somebody else doesn't know!
Where have we seen this before?
I'll put my home directory on Sourceforge! Everyone can now help me maintain it!
If that was the case, then why doesn't Apple begin to support other music formats on the iPod that will help drive sales? Even if they support .wmv files, then all of the Napster, buymusic (both of them?), etc customers can buy iPods...
This is one of the best posts I've read on /. in a long time! The new OS X GUI isn't very consistent. Why do some applications quit when I close the last window, and others don't? Why can't all applications use the "services" menu? Why is the GUI still significantly slower than OS 9's GUI?
I'm typing this on a new 15" Al Book running Panther. I do like what I can do with OS X...I like the stability, I like being able to run Kstars in X11, etc. However, if Apple ever offered an option to switch back to the old User Interface, I have a feeling a significant number of Mac users would switch back!
In the terminal, run "top -u" to see what process is taking up all the CPU time. If your processor is running at 100% for hours on end, then that's why you are getting less battery life! Panther slightly improved my battery life on my 15" AlBook.
Ummm...CDMA2000 is more of a world standard right now than WCDMA is. You can pick up a CDMA 2000 signal in all of the US, most of Asia, and just about all of South America! Right now, you can only find WCDMA signals in a few areas of Europe, and Japan.
IMHO, by legislating what cell phone standards are being used, Europeans are possibly allowing buerocrats to decide what technology is better!
First, Verizon's Express Network is expensive ($80/mo)! T-Mobile's (GSM/GPRS/EDGE?) network is only $19.99/mo (voice-and-data-subscribers) or $29.99/mo (data-only-subscribers). While we could argue the technical merits of each system (CDMA would win in most categories, IMHO), and the relative coverage of coverage areas of each service (Verizon would win again), T-Mobile's coverage is good enough for the most part...
Secondly, you advocate paying a few hundred dollars for a wireless card, in addition to paying for your wireless phone! It seems cheaper to pay just a bit more money, get a phone that has bluetooth, and not need the second wireless card! Granted the data rates over bluetooth aren't great, but it is probably fast enough to handle the sustained 1xEV-DO rates...
Third...there is so much more you can do with Bluetooth! You can easily (and often) back up your contacts on your cell phone! You can transfer a game/ringtone/theme/picture/whatever between your phone and your computer...without having to worry about a cable being attached!
I will be surprised if we don't see a bluetooth CDMA phone soon. Look in the Sprint Section on Howard Forums...they are dying for the T608 from Sony Ericsson...just because of it's bluetooth capabilities...
Bluetooth is far from dead! It's just hitting it's stride!
Write your congress person. Congress just needs to grant the FTC that power. Then the FTC won't be "overstepping their bounds!"