I use Vonage VOIP for my home phone and they require 90kbps both ways in their default config. They have an option to reduce the call quality, and thus the size. 90kbs is about 2/3rds the way to standard phone quality comming from cell phone quality, if that makes since to you.
It's my primary DVD player, you get the AC3 out, as well as HDTV if your TV can handle it.
Actually, you don't get HDTV, the DVD playback is limited to 480i, no better then, well anything that outputs 480 lines. It's not even fsking progressive 480, it's interlaced. It says so right on the back of the package.
And, yes, I do have a Widescreen HDTV. I also happen to be using the X-box as the DVD player on it, but simply because our other DVD player doesn't have progressive scan either.
This sounds like a very, very, *very* interesting idea. This is the question that leaps to mind, if you were using Ham privs then id'ing would be required, how would that be acomplished? With the various forms of packet, no biggie stuff is standard. What about 802.11b? Perhaps SSID = Call Sign. Okay, so I think it was simpler then I first thought. 73's DE KD5PVW
Though I haven't used Clara OCR I went to that page and it looks like it might work for you. It looks like it learns the font for the page and once you tell it what the symbol is once it learns that and uses it the rest of the time you tell it to use that font. Looks like something I am definatley going to try, what could it hurt, it's opensource so no money out of pocket.
However it works well. CAT5 doesn't fall prey radio interference. With my wireless network, I've had some interferenece when using my 2.4 Ghz telephones.
Let me just point out that you are missing a wonderful oportunity. "Honey, I'm sorry but we really must get that new featureful 5.6ghz (or is it 5.8ghz) multi handset cordless phone system if you want to continue to play the sims on the laptop and talk on the phone."
Took a bit of convincing but it worked for me! =)
I don't know about earthlink but ticketmaster's sys uses random different patterns obscuring the text. As for the text, the fonts they use vary, size varies, lines are not straight, and most of the fonts look like they are hand written (with even a single letter appearing differently in the same image)
I think that might even work out very nicely perhaps with a little notice at the top of the message with instructions to add the address to the allowed list (perhaps a link) or deny further messages from the address
with most systems you can automatically add address from your addressbook and address from outgoing mail, problem solved. Of course that's just one problem, I don't really know where I stand on this issue but I think it is a good thing to have out there so people can choose for themself.
It will be interesting to see how well this method works now that it is going to be out there for mainstream non-geeks to use. I am a little curious about how the address will work for order confirmation, the article seems to hint at throw-away type address but doesn't give much detail.
And just for kicks, here, is RadioShack's home automation section on the online catalog.
I have equipped my parents home with an X10 based system and all of there light switch modules and appliance outlets (all the in-wall variety) came from Radio Shack with only computer interface and software comming from online. It's been four years and no problems yet.
They are mainly amained at logging at various points on a network but they provide programming APIs which could be of use to you or someone in your organization to work towards implementing a system.
This place has readers from what appear to be pretty good prices that support the opencard api. There are other readers at the first side and even a list of supported card formats at the opencard site.
Towitoko even has some POS type readers with keypads for PIN input w/ and w/o LCD displays.
I did a bit of research into the topic yesterday and those are the most promissing bits.
the homepage for the book is on a Microsoft server but the pdf is on a small server where space was donated... this is mentioned in the slashdot blurb but then again who even reads the post let alone the article.
They don't state that that particular project utilizes linux, it simply uses the PC/104 standard for *hardware*. PC/104 is a hardware spec not a software spec.
I'm not a PC/104 expert but from all that I've read that is a pretty good summation. Of course, a regular person could build a standard PC out of it. Along those same lines you could take that standard, other then size, and use it as a compact MP3 player.
One of the greatest aspects is the stacking ability, just place the modules one over the other with them connecting with a header. I've seen everything from I/O with serial/parallel etc to 10/100 ethernet and then of course other interface boards w/ A/D converters. Can make things really easy for software people to get a small chunk of hardware to run thier software on for hobby projects.
It mentioned it several times spread pretty evenly through the article. The 3Ware controllers switch in the hot backup and that specific drive is replaced. It doesn't directly say but it sounds like the defective drive could be hot-swapped, perhaps a function of the controller? In addition from the rest of the article it would be no problem to take down a single node for the short few minutes to switch out the drive.
I definatley agree with you there... We do have a widescreen HDTV sony and that point gets a bit anoying but it scales 4:3 content pretty good. It is nice having the 5.1 sound as if watching the DVD
This person obviously put a large bit of effort into this. Their graphs are great. I was thinking about giving Netflix a try but I'm thinking probably not now. Afterall that's what the digital cable is for and my wife already says we don't watch enough to make it worth it;-)
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I use Vonage VOIP for my home phone and they require 90kbps both ways in their default config. They have an option to reduce the call quality, and thus the size. 90kbs is about 2/3rds the way to standard phone quality comming from cell phone quality, if that makes since to you.
Actually, you don't get HDTV, the DVD playback is limited to 480i, no better then, well anything that outputs 480 lines. It's not even fsking progressive 480, it's interlaced. It says so right on the back of the package.
And, yes, I do have a Widescreen HDTV. I also happen to be using the X-box as the DVD player on it, but simply because our other DVD player doesn't have progressive scan either.
Same reason cars crash.... people ;-)
This sounds like a very, very, *very* interesting idea. This is the question that leaps to mind, if you were using Ham privs then id'ing would be required, how would that be acomplished? With the various forms of packet, no biggie stuff is standard. What about 802.11b? Perhaps SSID = Call Sign. Okay, so I think it was simpler then I first thought.
73's
DE KD5PVW
Though I haven't used Clara OCR I went to that page and it looks like it might work for you. It looks like it learns the font for the page and once you tell it what the symbol is once it learns that and uses it the rest of the time you tell it to use that font. Looks like something I am definatley going to try, what could it hurt, it's opensource so no money out of pocket.
It would also be a problem for people with text based email clients
I don't know about earthlink but ticketmaster's sys uses random different patterns obscuring the text. As for the text, the fonts they use vary, size varies, lines are not straight, and most of the fonts look like they are hand written (with even a single letter appearing differently in the same image)
I'd guess there system is pretty effective.
I think that might even work out very nicely perhaps with a little notice at the top of the message with instructions to add the address to the allowed list (perhaps a link) or deny further messages from the address
with most systems you can automatically add address from your addressbook and address from outgoing mail, problem solved. Of course that's just one problem, I don't really know where I stand on this issue but I think it is a good thing to have out there so people can choose for themself.
the article implies that an image would be part of the response, such as ticketmaster's please type the word in the picture into the box.
It will be interesting to see how well this method works now that it is going to be out there for mainstream non-geeks to use. I am a little curious about how the address will work for order confirmation, the article seems to hint at throw-away type address but doesn't give much detail.
I had trouble with dns for that link but was able to find this one. Probably to the same ZDNet article about fooling biometric scanners with Jello.
And just for kicks, here, is RadioShack's home automation section on the online catalog.
I have equipped my parents home with an X10 based system and all of there light switch modules and appliance outlets (all the in-wall variety) came from Radio Shack with only computer interface and software comming from online. It's been four years and no problems yet.
here is a link to the model railroad referenced in the last link... the link is to a case study w/ no pictures :-(
http://www.bekonscot.org.uk/index_railway.asp
have you come across opencard.org?
They are mainly amained at logging at various points on a network but they provide programming APIs which could be of use to you or someone in your organization to work towards implementing a system.
This place has readers from what appear to be pretty good prices that support the opencard api. There are other readers at the first side and even a list of supported card formats at the opencard site.
Towitoko even has some POS type readers with keypads for PIN input w/ and w/o LCD displays.
I did a bit of research into the topic yesterday and those are the most promissing bits.
Hope it helps!
the homepage for the book is on a Microsoft server but the pdf is on a small server where space was donated... this is mentioned in the slashdot blurb but then again who even reads the post let alone the article.
They don't state that that particular project utilizes linux, it simply uses the PC/104 standard for *hardware*. PC/104 is a hardware spec not a software spec.
I'm not a PC/104 expert but from all that I've read that is a pretty good summation. Of course, a regular person could build a standard PC out of it. Along those same lines you could take that standard, other then size, and use it as a compact MP3 player.
One of the greatest aspects is the stacking ability, just place the modules one over the other with them connecting with a header. I've seen everything from I/O with serial/parallel etc to 10/100 ethernet and then of course other interface boards w/ A/D converters. Can make things really easy for software people to get a small chunk of hardware to run thier software on for hobby projects.
It mentioned it several times spread pretty evenly through the article. The 3Ware controllers switch in the hot backup and that specific drive is replaced. It doesn't directly say but it sounds like the defective drive could be hot-swapped, perhaps a function of the controller? In addition from the rest of the article it would be no problem to take down a single node for the short few minutes to switch out the drive.
I definatley agree with you there... We do have a widescreen HDTV sony and that point gets a bit anoying but it scales 4:3 content pretty good. It is nice having the 5.1 sound as if watching the DVD
This person obviously put a large bit of effort into this. Their graphs are great. I was thinking about giving Netflix a try but I'm thinking probably not now. Afterall that's what the digital cable is for and my wife already says we don't watch enough to make it worth it ;-)
Yes, methinks I would have been very much happier if thier page would have been more informative then just "comming soon" for the XMMS plugin.
:-)
Thiere media player using the technology looks interesting too. I like thier names too
Thanks, that site is great and very readable/understandable. I definatley think you deserve a 5 - informative