No software patent issues in Europe, so while you could patent the entire process with a business patent or something, no patent can prevent you from implementing the software parts.
When your access depends on someone else doing something to their detriment (giving away something for nothing) be prepared to lose it at any moment.
True but they are rarely doing it to their detriment, they gain customers and the WiFi costs nothing compared to the extra profit made on selling more products. I'm not just talking about coffee shops/sandwich shops/bars, it's a tactic even our train companies are using (and it works I'll spend the extra 2 pounds and get a national express train over a competitor because of it)
I do think the "free wifi" business model is dead, and it does look like the municipal wifi trend is at a dead-end.
Municipal WiFi is not the same as "free wifi" and attracting customers by giving away something that isn't your primary business is definitely still alive here (uk). I think Municipal WiFi is dying simply because there is not much benefit now that people can use WiMax/3G to get internet anyway.
I'm talking about underground trains i should have made this clear, the article seams to suggesting similar soultions (only instead of a cellular card using their own wireless tech), which seams to competently ignore the fact the underground trains are constantly connected to the rails (from which they draw their power).
Firstly, authentication and billing are solved problems. WiFi is made significantly less useful by the way every public hotspot has its own random billing infrastructure,
Funny most places i go to offer their WiFi for free, i find this a much nicer billing solution than my phone company charging me whatever the fuck they want.
Secondly, LTE is a natively IPv6 based protocol.
WiFi is protocol neutral, so all your IPv6 stuff is meaningless as you can use IPv6 over WiFi, just as easily as IPv4 over WiFi.
Finally, the LTE protocols include support for true single channel multi-cast.
While im no expert on wifi protocols there seams no reason that multicast can't be worked into them.
Thirdly, hand-off actually works in mobile protocols.
I'll give you this one, however I'd rather have a fully controlled home network and only be at the whim of my phone company while im outside.
It didn't work well in London either though over 2 administration and with much less Telecom interference. I doubt red Ken listened to the Telecom much and even under Boris Johnson I don't think it was Telecoms that killed it. The benefit of it (in london anyway) was that it would give everybody a constant connection and businesses would find this valuable, however in the advent of WiMax/3G businesses can simply get their employees those.
In my experience the problem is simply that most wirelesss chips in laptops/netbooks can't transmit far enough, if you can see an AP the problem isn't with B/G itself. AFAIK there is no DIY hack to fix this (e.g i don't the antenna mods that can boost your reception range will allow you to transmit further, but i may be wrong), although newer laptops seam to suffer from this problem less.
Why cant they simply use Ethernet over powerline to get internet to the trains then have APs retransmit inside the train? makes more sense than all the wireless stuff mentioned in the article (as a bonus, due to the variable latency its pretty useless for phone signals:D )
I skimmed the article and couldn't find anything on their method. There is a lot of relevent data that i simply couldn't see 1) Which has the lowest wakeups/bat usage once the page is rendered (some of us still read content instead of loading pages all day)? 2) Which has the lowest wakeups/bat usage on an active page, facebook,gmail,etc? 3) Which uses the least CPU/bat to render pages? 4) is there any difference in CPU/bat usage of flash?
Then there is so much to be asked about the method: a)Was the environment controlled? b)as i understand it, using a mouse uses quite a bit of battery, was all the navigation done using keyboard shortcuts? c)was it scripted? (if so where all scripts equal?) d)Was this done continuously rendering pages? e)Does it really matter which lasts the longest if it takes longer to render the pages?/How long did each browser spend rendering pages? (e.g if chrome spend 10% less time rendering pages then you could end up with 13 more mins to actually viewing pages)
OK i get that this post has an incorrect assumption that is clarified by trepity, but how the fuck is this trolling? Its a genuine question, and tbh i would be pretty angry if it were true. or to put it another way, learn to mod fscking noobs!
Not only that but you can chip your cd-drive (apparently you can soft mode it too) to accept any game, this means that your game is only protected if it's only available through xbox-live (no cd version), this surely reduced your target market.
Whats the rush? people can put out products on an interoperable standard they agree on through wifi allainace, WiMax or whatever. When IEEE standardises something I want that to mean, the shit run for sure, I would rather wait let vendors implement draft-n for 2 years than have another FUBAR in the standard like WEP in 802.11.
And all of that would no longer be visible if you turn your head. Your point supports mines, unless you mean they would put additional info where you would have to turn your head, which is retarded because generally the point of a HUD is you can glance at it without loosing focus/aim on your main view (this is why eurofighters have HUD overlays instead of separate screens to relay information). Perhaps you mean that looking at the HUD ruins the immersion and while partially true it ruins it much less than turning your head (and this will continue to decrease as HUDs spread into real life)
the question is: What license? Apache v2.0 What the fuck is GCD?
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), named for Grand Central Terminal, is used to optimize application support for multicore processors. It is an implementation of task parallelism based on the thread pool pattern GCD works by allowing specific tasks in a program that can be run in parallel to be demarcated as blocks.[2] To this end, it extends the syntax of C, C++, and Objective-C programming languages.[2] At runtime, the blocks are queued up for execution and depending on availability of processing resources, they are scheduled to execute on any of the available processor cores[2] (referred to as "routing" by Apple).[3] see also # Task Parallel Library - comparable technology in the.NET Framework developed by Microsoft. # Java Concurrency - comparable technology in Java (also known as JSR 166).
Pulseaudio simply provides a control panel that allows you to control the volume of every audio stream connected to the daemon. ALSA can't
alsa can do this with dmix and softvol.
and shouldn't do that. That's definitely the job of an user-space daemon.
even if you can do it with hardware mixing? 90% of the time even under pulse audio you are not using any of the user-space mixing, you just passing plain streams straight to hardware. The kernal guys have said they don't like the complex stuff going on in kernel, so push it back out if required, yeah its a bit ugly for that last 10% but it gets you 100% of pulseaudio with 90% less problems!
I remember seeing the same thing redone last year, linked from a bbc blog but: 1) I can't find it any more 2) Obviously it hasn't got much other attention
It would be better if they kept their advantage of having scanned all those books themselves but negotiated a deal allowing anybody to do what they have done!
Generally there will be a big feature release every few kernels (i could give a number but its done by whatever linux feels like doing for a release), then there is a lame release that is mainly bug fixes, then a couple of half lame releases where the drivers get upgraded to make use of the big features until linux decides he likes some new feature and it starts all over again.
Biggest problem with this is there are no male-male USB wires, and once you need a specialist wire to connect to PCs then you might aswell just use a crossover cable and hardware that's designed for the task. Now you could argue that you just use female -> male adaptors (like TVs), but: 1)until such adaptors are easy to get there is little point in writing the drivers 2)until such drivers are written there is little point in manufacturing the hardware (goto 1)
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No software patent issues in Europe, so while you could patent the entire process with a business patent or something, no patent can prevent you from implementing the software parts.
When your access depends on someone else doing something to their detriment (giving away something for nothing) be prepared to lose it at any moment.
True but they are rarely doing it to their detriment, they gain customers and the WiFi costs nothing compared to the extra profit made on selling more products. I'm not just talking about coffee shops/sandwich shops/bars, it's a tactic even our train companies are using (and it works I'll spend the extra 2 pounds and get a national express train over a competitor because of it)
I do think the "free wifi" business model is dead, and it does look like the municipal wifi trend is at a dead-end.
Municipal WiFi is not the same as "free wifi" and attracting customers by giving away something that isn't your primary business is definitely still alive here (uk). I think Municipal WiFi is dying simply because there is not much benefit now that people can use WiMax/3G to get internet anyway.
I'm talking about underground trains i should have made this clear, the article seams to suggesting similar soultions (only instead of a cellular card using their own wireless tech), which seams to competently ignore the fact the underground trains are constantly connected to the rails (from which they draw their power).
Really? In this house we obey the laws of electrodynamics, if the wifi chip is only transmitting at a set power how does changing the antenna help?
(Genuine question, i have not tried building an improved antenna because i assumed it was pointless)
Firstly, authentication and billing are solved problems. WiFi is made significantly less useful by the way every public hotspot has its own random billing infrastructure,
Funny most places i go to offer their WiFi for free, i find this a much nicer billing solution than my phone company charging me whatever the fuck they want.
Secondly, LTE is a natively IPv6 based protocol.
WiFi is protocol neutral, so all your IPv6 stuff is meaningless as you can use IPv6 over WiFi, just as easily as IPv4 over WiFi.
Finally, the LTE protocols include support for true single channel multi-cast.
While im no expert on wifi protocols there seams no reason that multicast can't be worked into them.
Thirdly, hand-off actually works in mobile protocols.
I'll give you this one, however I'd rather have a fully controlled home network and only be at the whim of my phone company while im outside.
It didn't work well in London either though over 2 administration and with much less Telecom interference. I doubt red Ken listened to the Telecom much and even under Boris Johnson I don't think it was Telecoms that killed it. The benefit of it (in london anyway) was that it would give everybody a constant connection and businesses would find this valuable, however in the advent of WiMax/3G businesses can simply get their employees those.
In my experience the problem is simply that most wirelesss chips in laptops/netbooks can't transmit far enough, if you can see an AP the problem isn't with B/G itself. AFAIK there is no DIY hack to fix this (e.g i don't the antenna mods that can boost your reception range will allow you to transmit further, but i may be wrong), although newer laptops seam to suffer from this problem less.
Why cant they simply use Ethernet over powerline to get internet to the trains then have APs retransmit inside the train? makes more sense than all the wireless stuff mentioned in the article (as a bonus, due to the variable latency its pretty useless for phone signals :D )
I skimmed the article and couldn't find anything on their method. There is a lot of relevent data that i simply couldn't see
1) Which has the lowest wakeups/bat usage once the page is rendered (some of us still read content instead of loading pages all day)?
2) Which has the lowest wakeups/bat usage on an active page, facebook,gmail,etc?
3) Which uses the least CPU/bat to render pages?
4) is there any difference in CPU/bat usage of flash?
Then there is so much to be asked about the method:
a)Was the environment controlled?
b)as i understand it, using a mouse uses quite a bit of battery, was all the navigation done using keyboard shortcuts?
c)was it scripted? (if so where all scripts equal?)
d)Was this done continuously rendering pages?
e)Does it really matter which lasts the longest if it takes longer to render the pages?/How long did each browser spend rendering pages? (e.g if chrome spend 10% less time rendering pages then you could end up with 13 more mins to actually viewing pages)
noscript/flashblock to prevent flash ads, and i don't really care about image/text ads as ill just ignore them.
To be fair, the only reason they are in perfect condition is that the console red-ringed before he could play any of them!
OK i get that this post has an incorrect assumption that is clarified by trepity, but how the fuck is this trolling? Its a genuine question, and tbh i would be pretty angry if it were true. or to put it another way, learn to mod fscking noobs!
Not only that but you can chip your cd-drive (apparently you can soft mode it too) to accept any game, this means that your game is only protected if it's only available through xbox-live (no cd version), this surely reduced your target market.
Whats the rush? people can put out products on an interoperable standard they agree on through wifi allainace, WiMax or whatever. When IEEE standardises something I want that to mean, the shit run for sure, I would rather wait let vendors implement draft-n for 2 years than have another FUBAR in the standard like WEP in 802.11.
Wow its a Friday night they must all be at home (while their children are with the priest) and therefore have nothing better to do than downmod you :O
And all of that would no longer be visible if you turn your head. Your point supports mines, unless you mean they would put additional info where you would have to turn your head, which is retarded because generally the point of a HUD is you can glance at it without loosing focus/aim on your main view (this is why eurofighters have HUD overlays instead of separate screens to relay information). Perhaps you mean that looking at the HUD ruins the immersion and while partially true it ruins it much less than turning your head (and this will continue to decrease as HUDs spread into real life)
the question is:
What license? Apache v2.0
What the fuck is GCD?
Grand Central Dispatch (GCD), named for Grand Central Terminal, is used to optimize application support for multicore processors. It is an implementation of task parallelism based on the thread pool pattern .NET Framework developed by Microsoft.
GCD works by allowing specific tasks in a program that can be run in parallel to be demarcated as blocks.[2] To this end, it extends the syntax of C, C++, and Objective-C programming languages.[2] At runtime, the blocks are queued up for execution and depending on availability of processing resources, they are scheduled to execute on any of the available processor cores[2] (referred to as "routing" by Apple).[3]
see also
# Task Parallel Library - comparable technology in the
# Java Concurrency - comparable technology in Java (also known as JSR 166).
Pulseaudio simply provides a control panel that allows you to control the volume of every audio stream connected to the daemon.
ALSA can't
alsa can do this with dmix and softvol.
and shouldn't do that. That's definitely the job of an user-space daemon.
even if you can do it with hardware mixing?
90% of the time even under pulse audio you are not using any of the user-space mixing, you just passing plain streams straight to hardware. The kernal guys have said they don't like the complex stuff going on in kernel, so push it back out if required, yeah its a bit ugly for that last 10% but it gets you 100% of pulseaudio with 90% less problems!
I remember seeing the same thing redone last year, linked from a bbc blog but:
1) I can't find it any more
2) Obviously it hasn't got much other attention
Then you ruin the illusion of the video game as your view/aim is dissociated from the view/aim of the game.
I don't think you know what centre means!
It would be better if they kept their advantage of having scanned all those books themselves but negotiated a deal allowing anybody to do what they have done!
Generally there will be a big feature release every few kernels (i could give a number but its done by whatever linux feels like doing for a release), then there is a lame release that is mainly bug fixes, then a couple of half lame releases where the drivers get upgraded to make use of the big features until linux decides he likes some new feature and it starts all over again.
you where obviously running a preemtive kernel, the thiotimoline drivers will be developed for 2.6.40
Biggest problem with this is there are no male-male USB wires, and once you need a specialist wire to connect to PCs then you might aswell just use a crossover cable and hardware that's designed for the task. Now you could argue that you just use female -> male adaptors (like TVs), but: 1)until such adaptors are easy to get there is little point in writing the drivers
2)until such drivers are written there is little point in manufacturing the hardware (goto 1)