I used a wireless ISP in Austin, TX as a beta tester. The company was named Nobell. They rule. With them, the only limitation to my bandwidth was my 10Mb ethernet hub. Apparently their repeaters/routers could handle 11Mb and before I moved out here to San Francisco 6 months ago they were testing 25Mb wireless repeaters. Each repeater covered a radius of a few miles and they had coverage of a few key places in Austin. What's best is that it was cheaper than the Roadrunner cable modem service. I paid for 8 static IP's and hosted my domain and a few for my friends. The service was extrememly reliable, though a couple of times when it rained I had outages of a few minutes at a time while it was coming down. Apparently the microwave signal can go through 10ft of concrete but not a wet tree leaf!
The equipment they used looked like all off-the-shelf wireless networking stuff you could find in the Black Box cataloge. Some of the equipment was mfr. by them though.
Their setup was a small box (router running one of the BSD's) at my home that had two nic's. One went into my ether hub, the other went into the wireless radio (slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes). A cable from the radio went out to an antanne on my porch. The antenna was no bigger than those small digital satellite TV dishes. The antanne was pointed to the nearest router which, in my case, was the one on top of their office building!
All of the IP traffic was 3DES encrypted from radio (repeater) to radio (my home), and they also used spread spectrum which if you are not familiar with, frequency hops like every half second or something to that effect. What's best is it operated in a free band.
If you want their service, and things are like they used to be, good luck. They told me they turned down on the order of 60 requests for service a day because they just couldn't set them up fast enough.
Update: I just checked their site, and it looks like they just got pretty expensive, oh well.. it was good while it lasted.
Please remember that your audience of primarily geeks/nerds on/. prefer facts and objectivity to fuzzy numbers and subjective (unsupported) comments. Statements like "managerial staffs have grown without interruption despite the loss of employment for millions of workers" don't cut it. Millions? That's odd. I thought unemployment was way down, maybe I'm wrong. So where did this Millions come from? Did the "line-worker" segment simply shrink because of the growth of the "middle managment" layer within growing enterprises and service organizations? Were these people laid off? Really? Where do these numbers come from? Honestly Jon, you're worse than some politicians.
This is characteristic of your work on/. and it is my belief that this is why you get much of the flak that you do.
From the article: "Jeffrey Schiller, a security expert and network manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the fine print in the DOJ's request for review would place numerous unacceptable restraints on the process, including giving the department the right to read, edit and even junk the report before the public saw it.
In other words, any negative feedback from scientists could be cut out -- while the DOJ would still be able to claim that those scientists, and the universities associated with them, reviewed the software."
So this isn't going to be any kind of review at all. With the knowledge of the DOJ's control over the "review" I don't see how any intelligent soul could believe the final report. If that aint sad enough the university has to pay to review it!
Anyone got a mole inside IIT? I'd love to see the source leaked!
"Whenever technological change becomes intense -- as it is now -- old conventions, ideals and institutions become severed from the new. Moral standards shift, and people begin to treat institutions with increasing indifference and contempt. That seems a perfect description for the widening divide between Netizens and the political institutions beyond, girding for yet another barren, outdated exercise."
Then I suppose we should all be very grateful for the technological revolution we are experiencing now. If it did not exist possibly we would not have the current mass impetus to break our bonds and free ourselves from the large institutions that govern, restrict, and encroach upon our rights. Then, where would we be in ten years?
I understand that Indreama plans to license developer kits for a significantly smaller $ amount than say, Sega. Also, Indreama plans to make money by "certifying" games and apparently Indreama plans to sell those games through an online service (i.e. your website).
Could you please expand upon the notion of "certified" and uncertified games, what the system will and will not play, and the open sourcing of your internal API's used for game development (the ones contained on the developer kits) which apparently will be closed source?
Lithography aint the problem. The problem is when "wires" on a processor get so small that they can't make turns. Yep, that's right, when a path on a processor gets too small electrons flowing happily down a "wire" just keep on going when they reach a bend. They just shoot right on through to the wire next door or until they find something conductive.
Think of it another way, ever had a poorly shielded speaker wire crossing over a power cable? Remember that buzzing noise? Same concept, and it's true for processors too. In fact, comapnies like Intel and Motorolla have lots of research money invested in finding out how slow a turn has to be, what a turn can be near and so forth.
Pretty soon the lithography will be so small electrons will be useless.:-)
If you think this is cool you should checkout a Japanese book/magazine store near you. There are entire rags devoted to customizing PDA's, cell phones, etc... You wouldn't believe the cool ass phones and PDA's you can get in Japan. The stuff for sale there is amazing and proabably won't make it here for a few more years.
If you live in the SF area, there is a good book/mag store in the Japan Town shopping center with such rags.
The idea of using color to add another dimension to UML models is not that profound. I've been using color in ERD diagrams to subdivide data domains years before I used UML. Who couldn't figure out for themselves that color is a great way to subdivide Classes by Stereotype,et. al.?
I think the academic pressure to create something novel is what has fueled this UML-addon nonsense, things like JUML and others.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
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Dude you cannot sign with -ryan I own that! Its a trademark of mine. Plus I've used it longer than you.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
I run Red Hat 6.2 on a Dell Inspiron 7500 and it rocks! The sad thing is that they outsource the Linux support to a third party. Good thing I haven't need to use it.
That's way off. A close friend of mine happens to be a programmer for the mission control systems and from what he has described, their software (mission control, et.al.) is a patchwork of c, fortran, and an alphabet soup of extinct languages. The systems are scary he says.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
I thought "The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. Slashdot is not responsible for what they say."?
In that respect/. has nothing to worry about and what M$ should really be trying to do is subpoena the personal information of the posters' in question. But we all know/. would never give that up.:-)
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Why is it that America has proven to be the ideal breeding ground for the current corporation-driven global economy that has gotten so out of hand?
Because there's no one to compete with. For example, China is a massive military-industrial complex akin to one of the corporations that Katz is vilifying. No one can start a competing conglomerate there becuase the Gov't/Military runs everything. It was the same situation in the former Soviet Union. Over there communism is simply a tool for the consolidation of wealth. It isn't a gov't of the people, it's a gov't of the elite... they are the conglomerate.
In the US the gov't certainly over-stretches it's boundries and invades our lives but our system of gov't won't let it go as far as the conglomerates of today. I suspect this is because our gov't was not designed to deal with massive private institutions with large amounts of capital, but rather was designed to be inable of taking away our rights (still not doing such a good job).
This is history repeating itself... for a long time conspiracy theorists have suspected the central banks of Europe (where the real money of the world is) to be controlling the nations. This is essentially the same problem manifested slightly differently.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
This Metallica vs. Napster users issue is about breaking the law. I sense that you'd like to see a massive uprising of the *oppressed* Napster users as the result of your post. I'm sorry Jon but using Napster isn't about free speech nor is it some noble act of civil-disobedience, it's theft. If you have a problem with the law take it up in the courts/congress. If you don't like the price of music you boycott, not steal. Every time I use Napster I know I'm committing a crime... but if I get in trouble I'll know I have no one to blame but myself.
What's happened to you man? I used to love reading your stuff. It seems that your stories have been reduced to poorly crafted attempts at insighting the emotions of posters to generate traffic to/. Has Malda put you up to this?
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
The reason they can often be so wrong is that weather patterns are processed in areas of 100 square miles (it might be slightly + or -). Thus:
a) Weather predictions may not be derived from representative data.
b) Weather predictions may only be accurate for a portion of the area the prediction covers.
It's very possible for a weather prediction to say "90% chance of rain" and areas within that prediction not get a drop and others get drenched.
IBM tested out a weather computer of their own for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta that could predict weather down to something like five miles square. Obiviously much more accurate.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Microsoft has used prison labor to package software.
Wonderful! They're contributing to the rehabilitation of those poor fellows by teaching them job skills.
Its contracters often work without benefits of any kind and have 0 job security.
What contractor has either? I've never expected benifits from my clients. Nor have I ever expected anything beyond the contract that was signed. Being expendable is part of life as a contractor, if you want stability become an employee and forgo the extra cash. It's that simple.
It recently opened up its India research division (cool, cheap labor).
What's wrong with that? Those "cheap" programmers in India make MUCH more than their parents could have ever hoped to make. IT professionals in India are rapidly creating a new "middle class". Besides, it's not like India is as expensive to live in as Seattle.
It does try to make its work environment as pleasurable as possible, but I would imagine this is more to keep workers there longer than out of any innate 'goodness' it may have.
In case you haven't noticed, long hours are a characteristic of our jobs (Soft. Eng., Sys. Admins, etc..). I've been at several software companies that were alot worse to work late at than Microsoft (and few better). If you have an aversion to long hours, you might want to reconsider your profession.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
I'd say $20/hr is starving. Where in the US can you live happily on $20/hr except for Houston TX, Oklahoma, etc.. (places with REALLY low cost of living)?
$20 x 40hrs(minimum) = $800/wk * 52 = $41,600 - ~30%(~12,480 in taxes)
That doesn't leave much to live on.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
I've used TogetherJ, Rational Rose, and a few other closed source UML CASE tools and the one thing that none of them can shake a stick at is the cognitive support in Argo/UML. Argo actually critiques your model as you build it. Making suggestions and helping you avoid pitfalls. Besides, it's open source, and who doesn't love that? In the near future Argo will also be incorporating evalutaion of OCL statements into it's code generation capability. I encourage you to check it out.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
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same here. when I quit high school, i promised myself i'd be making 6 figures by the time i was 21. now im searching for my next big goal.
The equipment they used looked like all off-the-shelf wireless networking stuff you could find in the Black Box cataloge. Some of the equipment was mfr. by them though.
Their setup was a small box (router running one of the BSD's) at my home that had two nic's. One went into my ether hub, the other went into the wireless radio (slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes). A cable from the radio went out to an antanne on my porch. The antenna was no bigger than those small digital satellite TV dishes. The antanne was pointed to the nearest router which, in my case, was the one on top of their office building!
All of the IP traffic was 3DES encrypted from radio (repeater) to radio (my home), and they also used spread spectrum which if you are not familiar with, frequency hops like every half second or something to that effect. What's best is it operated in a free band.
If you want their service, and things are like they used to be, good luck. They told me they turned down on the order of 60 requests for service a day because they just couldn't set them up fast enough.
Update: I just checked their site, and it looks like they just got pretty expensive, oh well.. it was good while it lasted.
Will it be rerun? I wonder if anyone mpeg'ed it or recorded it in some way? If so I'd like a copy.
The power to tax is the power to destroy.
Please remember that your audience of primarily geeks/nerds on /. prefer facts and objectivity to fuzzy numbers and subjective (unsupported) comments. Statements like "managerial staffs have grown without interruption despite the loss of employment for millions of workers" don't cut it. Millions? That's odd. I thought unemployment was way down, maybe I'm wrong. So where did this Millions come from? Did the "line-worker" segment simply shrink because of the growth of the "middle managment" layer within growing enterprises and service organizations? Were these people laid off? Really? Where do these numbers come from? Honestly Jon, you're worse than some politicians.
This is characteristic of your work on /. and it is my belief that this is why you get much of the flak that you do.
"Jeffrey Schiller, a security expert and network manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the fine print in the DOJ's request for review would place numerous unacceptable restraints on the process, including giving the department the right to read, edit and even junk the report before the public saw it.
In other words, any negative feedback from scientists could be cut out -- while the DOJ would still be able to claim that those scientists, and the universities associated with them, reviewed the software."
So this isn't going to be any kind of review at all. With the knowledge of the DOJ's control over the "review" I don't see how any intelligent soul could believe the final report. If that aint sad enough the university has to pay to review it!
Anyone got a mole inside IIT? I'd love to see the source leaked!
Then I suppose we should all be very grateful for the technological revolution we are experiencing now. If it did not exist possibly we would not have the current mass impetus to break our bonds and free ourselves from the large institutions that govern, restrict, and encroach upon our rights. Then, where would we be in ten years?
Could you please expand upon the notion of "certified" and uncertified games, what the system will and will not play, and the open sourcing of your internal API's used for game development (the ones contained on the developer kits) which apparently will be closed source?
Think of it another way, ever had a poorly shielded speaker wire crossing over a power cable? Remember that buzzing noise? Same concept, and it's true for processors too. In fact, comapnies like Intel and Motorolla have lots of research money invested in finding out how slow a turn has to be, what a turn can be near and so forth.
Pretty soon the lithography will be so small electrons will be useless. :-)
Whatever happend to an "epidemic of Jeffersonian democracy"?
If you live in the SF area, there is a good book/mag store in the Japan Town shopping center with such rags.
I think the academic pressure to create something novel is what has fueled this UML-addon nonsense, things like JUML and others.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
It's all a conspiracy!
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
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-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
In that respect /. has nothing to worry about and what M$ should really be trying to do is subpoena the personal information of the posters' in question. But we all know /. would never give that up. :-)
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Because there's no one to compete with. For example, China is a massive military-industrial complex akin to one of the corporations that Katz is vilifying. No one can start a competing conglomerate there becuase the Gov't/Military runs everything. It was the same situation in the former Soviet Union. Over there communism is simply a tool for the consolidation of wealth. It isn't a gov't of the people, it's a gov't of the elite... they are the conglomerate.
In the US the gov't certainly over-stretches it's boundries and invades our lives but our system of gov't won't let it go as far as the conglomerates of today. I suspect this is because our gov't was not designed to deal with massive private institutions with large amounts of capital, but rather was designed to be inable of taking away our rights (still not doing such a good job).
This is history repeating itself... for a long time conspiracy theorists have suspected the central banks of Europe (where the real money of the world is) to be controlling the nations. This is essentially the same problem manifested slightly differently.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
What's happened to you man? I used to love reading your stuff. It seems that your stories have been reduced to poorly crafted attempts at insighting the emotions of posters to generate traffic to /. Has Malda put you up to this?
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
a) Weather predictions may not be derived from representative data.
b) Weather predictions may only be accurate for a portion of the area the prediction covers.
It's very possible for a weather prediction to say "90% chance of rain" and areas within that prediction not get a drop and others get drenched. IBM tested out a weather computer of their own for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta that could predict weather down to something like five miles square. Obiviously much more accurate.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
Wonderful! They're contributing to the rehabilitation of those poor fellows by teaching them job skills.
Its contracters often work without benefits of any kind and have 0 job security.
What contractor has either? I've never expected benifits from my clients. Nor have I ever expected anything beyond the contract that was signed. Being expendable is part of life as a contractor, if you want stability become an employee and forgo the extra cash. It's that simple.
It recently opened up its India research division (cool, cheap labor).
What's wrong with that? Those "cheap" programmers in India make MUCH more than their parents could have ever hoped to make. IT professionals in India are rapidly creating a new "middle class". Besides, it's not like India is as expensive to live in as Seattle.
It does try to make its work environment as pleasurable as possible, but I would imagine this is more to keep workers there longer than out of any innate 'goodness' it may have.
In case you haven't noticed, long hours are a characteristic of our jobs (Soft. Eng., Sys. Admins, etc..). I've been at several software companies that were alot worse to work late at than Microsoft (and few better). If you have an aversion to long hours, you might want to reconsider your profession.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
$20 x 40hrs(minimum) = $800/wk * 52 = $41,600 - ~30%(~12,480 in taxes)
That doesn't leave much to live on.
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."
-ryan
"Any way you look at it, all the information that a person accumulates in a lifetime is just a drop in the bucket."