Hahah, I love this idea, I wonder if Camp Chaos could be convinced to create this?
The way I see it, Bill Gates would be in place of Lars Ulrich telling the story about how the GPL is bad and so on, Steve Balmer would take the place of James Hetfield saying Windows GOOD! Linux BAD! and so forth...
Gates: "Like good afternoon, my name is like Bill Gates from the software giant Microsoft. I'm here today to to talk about open source software."
Balmer: "Open Source BAD!"
Gates: "Yeah so like these open source coders are out to destroy our company and destroy the American way. Open source licences are like a virus or something and they well infect you, and your mother fucking code if you use it. You will also turn into an evil communist if you write open source software."
Balmer: "Communist BAD!"
Gates: "We spend upwards of 24 to 48 hours writing our code and we don't want you open source zealots to steal our hard earned money!"
Balmer: "Money GOOD! Open Source BAD!"
Okay, so the story line isn't great, but I wrote it quickly...
And the list goes on, and on! All networks would be useless if there was no p2p!
** this brings up a usefull p2p use (if we are discluding client/server transactions), some of the instant message protocols out there use p2p to exchange messages between users, I think this is fair use and actually useful (disregarding the inherit security concerns that is...)
I would have to second the consulting option, if you are willing to go out on your own to run the business. The knowledge you have gained from being a sysadmin should help you to understand what is the right tool for the job. There are lots of companies out there that are looking to upgrade or install new systems and you can help them chose what they need to get everything up and running as well as install it. Basically you can keep doing administration (wiht a few other jobs) while working for different companies all the time. You should also be able to set basically your own schedule and that should help you avoid your pager!
Note: I am not a consultant, the views are based on only what I have seen in the consulting industry.
I would like to extend this question by asking if it is feasible to rip and play at the same time? I don't see why not if you are ripping at >1x but has anyone ever managed to do this?
What I was wanting to do is to be able to pop in a CD, listen to it, and when I'm done listening to it, it will be archived in my MP3 collection for easier listening later.
I really haven't done much CD ripping though, so I'm no expert on the subject. Is this possible? Are there any tools out there that allow this (while still allowing the automated ripping like the origional poster asked)? Or can the music be ripped/encoded fast enough that the MP3 can just be listened to as it is being ripped? Anyone have any solutions?
Why can't the virus be useful instead of just destroying everything? Everyone always maintains these viruses are to exploit the shortcomings of a particular system. If it is such a big deal to them, then why not fix the problem with thier virus instead of reaving havoc!
Although even this would be malitious to a certain extent, I always thought it would be interesting if someone created an Outlook virus that installed Linux on the system, while maintaining the users current settings, and giving the default interface to one that looks like Windows. Most users would never even notice the difference!
It'd be great if we could port current linux-based games to this unit. If this system can boost popularity of games written specifically for linux systems, will that also mean a huge increase in linux games for regular desktops?
Well as long as the games can be easily ported back to the Linux desktop then the desktop can run the games designed for the console system. I believe this is the beauty (well it really isn't beautiful, but I digress) that the Xbox games used the same API as the Windows desktop systems making porting between the Xbox and Windows a snap. Lets hope Nokia does the same for Linux!
I don't think this will be the case down the road, why would "Grandma" want to buy a full-fleged PC (with all the added hassels and costs) when all she does is send e-mail? It may seem cheaper to some people to buy a dedicated gaming device and a dedicated e-mail device and a dedicated (insert your favorite digital system here). Sure you and I would rather have the real thing, but it isn't necessarly right for everyone.
Lets say for example the kids want to play some games, and you want to write an e-mail, it is hard to share the same system (unless you happen to have an X terminal handy).
And with all these devices lying around with some CPU time to spare can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of all of them? (Not trying to troll here, I'm being serious) You could share the resources across all the devices, your e-mail device needs a little more power to decode a video attachment? No problem, ship off some of some of the work to the gaming console, or even the toaster! This is assuming that everything will be networked together, but I feel that every new device should support networking right out of the box, it just seems natural to the progression of the networked world.
Obviously the code where you have to directly access the hardware will not be portable but the rest should be portable across basically everything. In essence you have your hardware layer and the "everything else" layer(s). You can focus on one platform if you chose, but by just modifying the hardware layer you can get your OS to boot on any system (atleast in a perfect world)!
As per which platform you want to initially work on, I would actually recommend working on embeded systems. Unless you are looking to build the next big server or desktop OS, the embeded market seems like a good place to start. Embeded systems are all the rage now-a-days since computers are going into almost everything.
Maybe you would even create a niche for your operating system, oh I don't know, say in internet connected toasters? Maybe a toaster of that caliber doesn't really need a full-fleged multi-user OS such as Linux, but security is still a concern, I don't want people on the net burning my toast and that is where you could fit in!
Again it all goes back to what you want your OS to do, if you want it to be something that will replace Windows then you aren't going to want it to run exclusivly on toasters, but if you are just interested in OS design and want to build one for the sake of just building it, I would go for the embeded market.
I must admit I know nothing about broadcasting but my concern is hardware support. I'm guessing that you aren't just using a plain old run-of-the-mill sound card to play the audio (but I could be wrong), so how does the software communicate with whatever hardware is used? Is it well documented? Easily reversed engineered? Or is it propriatary which forces you to stick with the Windows software?
If hardware is a non-issue, then it shouldn't be too hard to do the rest, I'm assuming all you need is playlist type features, allow the DJ to pipe into the broadcast, and of course if it is open source it would be easy to add other needed features.
I could be wrong, but I believe that some (if not most) touch screens interface to the computer via RS-232 (serial port). It should be fairly trivial to get them working in Linux, you just have to figure out how to read the input, but I would suspect it would be a simple format (I would hope so! what more do you need other than coordinates?)
I just wrote up a comment stating basically the same as this just mintues before reading this post. I believe an XML defined windowing system would be great! It could be cross-platform allowing UNIX and Windows (and other OS's!) apps to run on each others machines. (over the network even!) I also like how it could be converted to HTML pretty easily, I don't know if you want to go as far as using it for text based stuff, but why not eh? I believe we could also solve the piping problem that we have with current windowed apps using this!
I've often wondered if a XML defined windowing system was feesable? Instead of calling windowing functions as we do now, one would define the GUI in XML (it doesn't have to be XML but since it's all the rage these days why not?) and then transport it to the windowing server at the network level (yes I know this is just basically X, but hear me out;) this could then be easily implemented on different systems and programs can run with ease on all systems.
The benifits I can come up with right now are as follows:
Cross-platform capability - like I said above, if all systems supported this markup then they could display the GUI, whether that be a Windows machine or a UNIX machine, and you could even run the app on the UNIX machine, but display it on the Windows machine (and vice versa).
The syntax would be mostly human readable and it should be even possible to do something as easy as echo "<?xml><dialog><button>cancel</button></dialog></xml>" to display a window.
The data wouldn't neccesarily have to go strait to the screen, instead it could be parsed by another program - an example of how this could be useful is grabbing all the text out of a window for instance, this might even lead to making piping of GUI apps possible!
I don't know how extesible this could be but I don't see why there couldn't be a drawing tag when you need to free drawings. For things such as bitmap graphics they could be included sperately like they are in HTML pages, they could just be sent in another request or inline if that would be better performance wise. Just some ideas, I'm sure someone who knows more about creating GUIs than I can comment on whether this would be possible and whether it would be a good idea or should we just stick to X?
The touchscreen is a nice idea for some applications, but in the case of POS where you have to enter in, for example, the customer's name. In this case you'll end up having to take your hands away from the keyboard just to touch the screen which not only takes time, albeit not much, and it doesn't solve many more problems that a mouse could do.
On the other hand, I have see touch screens used in business' such as resturants and it seemed to work well, all they had to do was touch what was ordered and so on and it created the bill. In cases where data entry is limited to just touching what is being purchased then this is a good idea.
In the case of the former though I think a plain old text based "gui" would be ideal, if you're up to the task then nothing is really lost, and who knows it might turn out to be a killer app for Linux? And if not it still wont hurt to add to the plethora of Linux apps out there.
As someone who is Canadian and has received over 1/2 a million dollars worth of operations and tests at no cost to myself
So what you are saying is that you made me, the canadian tax payer, pay for your health care instead of yourself? Just kidding, I realize what you are saying.
I agree that the Canadian health care system is light years ahead of the USA. As for wealthy Canadians going to the states and paying for thier own health care for faster service, I have no problem with this! It seems like a win-win for the rest of Canadians (except possibly the doctors themselves) but
they are not using up the valuable resources of our hospitals which can be better used on other people
they still have to pay taxes (and more at that I might add!) which helps pay into the health system, and they are not even getting the benifit of the service
we don't have to pay for thier care because they are not using our service
Now if wealthy people were able to go to Canadian doctors and pay we might have a different situation because obviously the doctors are going to give better service to the highest bidder and therefore changing our system to what the americans have today (basically anyway). But if they are going to the states more power to them!
Marijuana is not legal simply because it is not a capitalist drug. Look at caffeine: I would bet it is just as bad, if not worse, for your health but it seems to be prefectly legal, not to mention it is in many different products.
But why is caffeine legal and not marijuana? Caffeine gives a boost of energy to its users. People with more energy can do more work. Ganja does not give this same effect and it's results are actaully quite the opposite.
Now I will point the problem out in my argument: There is a time and a place for everything, and that time is college^H^H^H^H^H^H^H while not working. It should not matter what you do outside of business hours, but it is quite obvious that business runs our society, and since they have no good reason to legalize it, they will not.
It should be possible (don't know how easy though) to modify shoutcast (meaning one of the open source servers, as I don't recall the "official one" being open source) to handle multiple incoming streams, and then mix the streams, much like how esound does with different audio apps running at the same time. Each user on the conference would then send a stream to the shoutcast server from thier microphone as well as listening to the stream which can easily be done with many of the existing programs that work with shoutcast.
Bandwidth is obviously a concern but if you stream with the bitrate to suit the lowest common denominator you should be alright.
Also I might add, PCM encoded files are smaller than the equivalent MP3 for voice communication so if you can get PCM files to stream over shoutcast you might be better off, then again maybe you want full stereo sound?
**WARNING: I don't really know the circumstances of the creation of Gnutella and I don't know of the agreements between Mr. Frankel and AOL the statements below are what I have heard about the story and may or may not be true.
Anyhow, It is my understanding that Gnutella was made on company time (although not an official AOL project) so unless there was an agreement that Justin's code was owned by him, the code is owned by AOL and hence AOL is the owner of Gnutella.
IPv6 just needs a "killer app". Then pressure from consumers will force IPv6 on the consumer OS's.
What would be neat is if a non-filtered Napster moved over to IPv6 (leaving the filtered version on IPv4). I assume most people affilated with the RIAA (atleast the big-wigs) use a Microsoft OS, they will not be able to see this Napster, however those of us who have access to the IPv6 network can use it.
mind you, you could always reverse proxy the hosts based on virtual host address.
Multiple DNS addresses coming in -> Proxy on firewall reads the HTTP header for virual host and passes the request on to the selected box on the internal net -> internal box returns HTTP data to firewall -> firewall passes the data back to the host.
Of course this isn't pretty and will only work for HTTP requests or any other protocol that sends the host name, but it would work if there was no other solution.
I don't know what percentage of the population use Napster, obviously it will be low due to the fact that not everyone has Internet access, but how about what percentage of the Internet using population uses Napster? If the percentage is considerably large, then shouldn't the laws about all this nonsense change? I mean isn't the government suppose to represent the people?
Might a referendum be the answer here? If the majority of the population believes that the law should be changed then so be it. It may screw up the economy, it may not, but it is the people's decision either way.
That old saying about "If you download MP3's, you are downloading communisim." is completely backwards. "If you don't download MP3's, you are promoting communisim." is more like it!
The difference is that I have yet to find a good radio station, however there are good radio stations on the net. I can also stream my own radio station, pr I can grab some new tunes on the road when I want to listen to something different.
I agree for the most part it is a waste, but until regular radio stations will play what I want to hear on demand, then it just isn't going to cut it. Also there are millions of other uses for that connection that doesn't involve radio/video and that is where the power lies (but being able to grab mp3s on demand is an added bonus). We must look to the future and see the possibilites of what may come of wireless broadband and not what we have at the present time.
64k isn't fast enough to stream my mp3's to my car. It definitly isn't fast enough to stream video. What if say I wanted to stream live video out from my travels? (I've already done this with a remote control car and a wireless video camera, next step is to hook the controller up to the computer) Well 64k would do a low quality stream, but not while playing my mp3s;)
What would be ideal is that each speed category had it's own price range, so your 64kb would cost less than my 2.4Mb while still giving me the option of the greater speed and still giving you a better price that fits your needs.
Broadband wireless internet will open up so many possabilities that we just don't have right now. I will go back to my car example. The internet and the car make the perfect combonation! I don't think that anyone should be surfing the web while driving, but who says the internet is the web (well many people do, but not I). Obviously streaming radio would be great in the car, other very useful features would be weather and road conditions. The possibilities are endless when the connection is there, and I for one hope this is the start of what will bring us wireless net access everywhere (and I do mean everywhere, I want my connection out in the middle of nowhere, not in some city where I can just take the bus or walk and hence there is no need for the connection in my car)!
Coca-Cola? Nonsense. They are planning the acquisition of VA Linux (which includes Slashdot) instead.
Slashdot.org will no longer be viewable from "http://slashdot.org/" you will now have to use "AOL Keyword: Slashdot" instead.
Maybe I should keep my mouth shut, wouldn't that be awful if we all had to sign up with AOL just to view Slashdot?
Slashdot Mirror
Hahah, I love this idea, I wonder if Camp Chaos could be convinced to create this?
The way I see it, Bill Gates would be in place of Lars Ulrich telling the story about how the GPL is bad and so on, Steve Balmer would take the place of James Hetfield saying Windows GOOD! Linux BAD! and so forth...
Gates: "Like good afternoon, my name is like Bill Gates from the software giant Microsoft. I'm here today to to talk about open source software."
Balmer: "Open Source BAD!"
Gates: "Yeah so like these open source coders are out to destroy our company and destroy the American way. Open source licences are like a virus or something and they well infect you, and your mother fucking code if you use it. You will also turn into an evil communist if you write open source software."
Balmer: "Communist BAD!"
Gates: "We spend upwards of 24 to 48 hours writing our code and we don't want you open source zealots to steal our hard earned money!"
Balmer: "Money GOOD! Open Source BAD!"
Okay, so the story line isn't great, but I wrote it quickly...
And the list goes on, and on! All networks would be useless if there was no p2p!
** this brings up a usefull p2p use (if we are discluding client/server transactions), some of the instant message protocols out there use p2p to exchange messages between users, I think this is fair use and actually useful (disregarding the inherit security concerns that is...)
I would have to second the consulting option, if you are willing to go out on your own to run the business. The knowledge you have gained from being a sysadmin should help you to understand what is the right tool for the job. There are lots of companies out there that are looking to upgrade or install new systems and you can help them chose what they need to get everything up and running as well as install it. Basically you can keep doing administration (wiht a few other jobs) while working for different companies all the time. You should also be able to set basically your own schedule and that should help you avoid your pager!
Note: I am not a consultant, the views are based on only what I have seen in the consulting industry.
I would like to extend this question by asking if it is feasible to rip and play at the same time? I don't see why not if you are ripping at >1x but has anyone ever managed to do this?
What I was wanting to do is to be able to pop in a CD, listen to it, and when I'm done listening to it, it will be archived in my MP3 collection for easier listening later.
I really haven't done much CD ripping though, so I'm no expert on the subject. Is this possible? Are there any tools out there that allow this (while still allowing the automated ripping like the origional poster asked)? Or can the music be ripped/encoded fast enough that the MP3 can just be listened to as it is being ripped? Anyone have any solutions?
Why can't the virus be useful instead of just destroying everything? Everyone always maintains these viruses are to exploit the shortcomings of a particular system. If it is such a big deal to them, then why not fix the problem with thier virus instead of reaving havoc!
Although even this would be malitious to a certain extent, I always thought it would be interesting if someone created an Outlook virus that installed Linux on the system, while maintaining the users current settings, and giving the default interface to one that looks like Windows. Most users would never even notice the difference!
It'd be great if we could port current linux-based games to this unit. If this system can boost popularity of games written specifically for linux systems, will that also mean a huge increase in linux games for regular desktops?
Well as long as the games can be easily ported back to the Linux desktop then the desktop can run the games designed for the console system. I believe this is the beauty (well it really isn't beautiful, but I digress) that the Xbox games used the same API as the Windows desktop systems making porting between the Xbox and Windows a snap. Lets hope Nokia does the same for Linux!
In the end, everyone will have a PC
I don't think this will be the case down the road, why would "Grandma" want to buy a full-fleged PC (with all the added hassels and costs) when all she does is send e-mail? It may seem cheaper to some people to buy a dedicated gaming device and a dedicated e-mail device and a dedicated (insert your favorite digital system here). Sure you and I would rather have the real thing, but it isn't necessarly right for everyone.
Lets say for example the kids want to play some games, and you want to write an e-mail, it is hard to share the same system (unless you happen to have an X terminal handy).
And with all these devices lying around with some CPU time to spare can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of all of them? (Not trying to troll here, I'm being serious) You could share the resources across all the devices, your e-mail device needs a little more power to decode a video attachment? No problem, ship off some of some of the work to the gaming console, or even the toaster! This is assuming that everything will be networked together, but I feel that every new device should support networking right out of the box, it just seems natural to the progression of the networked world.
Obviously the code where you have to directly access the hardware will not be portable but the rest should be portable across basically everything. In essence you have your hardware layer and the "everything else" layer(s). You can focus on one platform if you chose, but by just modifying the hardware layer you can get your OS to boot on any system (atleast in a perfect world)!
As per which platform you want to initially work on, I would actually recommend working on embeded systems. Unless you are looking to build the next big server or desktop OS, the embeded market seems like a good place to start. Embeded systems are all the rage now-a-days since computers are going into almost everything. Maybe you would even create a niche for your operating system, oh I don't know, say in internet connected toasters? Maybe a toaster of that caliber doesn't really need a full-fleged multi-user OS such as Linux, but security is still a concern, I don't want people on the net burning my toast and that is where you could fit in!
Again it all goes back to what you want your OS to do, if you want it to be something that will replace Windows then you aren't going to want it to run exclusivly on toasters, but if you are just interested in OS design and want to build one for the sake of just building it, I would go for the embeded market.
I must admit I know nothing about broadcasting but my concern is hardware support. I'm guessing that you aren't just using a plain old run-of-the-mill sound card to play the audio (but I could be wrong), so how does the software communicate with whatever hardware is used? Is it well documented? Easily reversed engineered? Or is it propriatary which forces you to stick with the Windows software?
If hardware is a non-issue, then it shouldn't be too hard to do the rest, I'm assuming all you need is playlist type features, allow the DJ to pipe into the broadcast, and of course if it is open source it would be easy to add other needed features.
I could be wrong, but I believe that some (if not most) touch screens interface to the computer via RS-232 (serial port). It should be fairly trivial to get them working in Linux, you just have to figure out how to read the input, but I would suspect it would be a simple format (I would hope so! what more do you need other than coordinates?)
I just wrote up a comment stating basically the same as this just mintues before reading this post. I believe an XML defined windowing system would be great! It could be cross-platform allowing UNIX and Windows (and other OS's!) apps to run on each others machines. (over the network even!) I also like how it could be converted to HTML pretty easily, I don't know if you want to go as far as using it for text based stuff, but why not eh? I believe we could also solve the piping problem that we have with current windowed apps using this!
I don't know how extesible this could be but I don't see why there couldn't be a drawing tag when you need to free drawings. For things such as bitmap graphics they could be included sperately like they are in HTML pages, they could just be sent in another request or inline if that would be better performance wise. Just some ideas, I'm sure someone who knows more about creating GUIs than I can comment on whether this would be possible and whether it would be a good idea or should we just stick to X?
The touchscreen is a nice idea for some applications, but in the case of POS where you have to enter in, for example, the customer's name. In this case you'll end up having to take your hands away from the keyboard just to touch the screen which not only takes time, albeit not much, and it doesn't solve many more problems that a mouse could do.
On the other hand, I have see touch screens used in business' such as resturants and it seemed to work well, all they had to do was touch what was ordered and so on and it created the bill. In cases where data entry is limited to just touching what is being purchased then this is a good idea.
In the case of the former though I think a plain old text based "gui" would be ideal, if you're up to the task then nothing is really lost, and who knows it might turn out to be a killer app for Linux? And if not it still wont hurt to add to the plethora of Linux apps out there.
So what you are saying is that you made me, the canadian tax payer, pay for your health care instead of yourself? Just kidding, I realize what you are saying.
I agree that the Canadian health care system is light years ahead of the USA. As for wealthy Canadians going to the states and paying for thier own health care for faster service, I have no problem with this! It seems like a win-win for the rest of Canadians (except possibly the doctors themselves) but
Now if wealthy people were able to go to Canadian doctors and pay we might have a different situation because obviously the doctors are going to give better service to the highest bidder and therefore changing our system to what the americans have today (basically anyway). But if they are going to the states more power to them!
Marijuana is not legal simply because it is not a capitalist drug. Look at caffeine: I would bet it is just as bad, if not worse, for your health but it seems to be prefectly legal, not to mention it is in many different products.
But why is caffeine legal and not marijuana? Caffeine gives a boost of energy to its users. People with more energy can do more work. Ganja does not give this same effect and it's results are actaully quite the opposite.
Now I will point the problem out in my argument: There is a time and a place for everything, and that time is college^H^H^H^H^H^H^H while not working. It should not matter what you do outside of business hours, but it is quite obvious that business runs our society, and since they have no good reason to legalize it, they will not.
It should be possible (don't know how easy though) to modify shoutcast (meaning one of the open source servers, as I don't recall the "official one" being open source) to handle multiple incoming streams, and then mix the streams, much like how esound does with different audio apps running at the same time. Each user on the conference would then send a stream to the shoutcast server from thier microphone as well as listening to the stream which can easily be done with many of the existing programs that work with shoutcast.
Bandwidth is obviously a concern but if you stream with the bitrate to suit the lowest common denominator you should be alright.
Also I might add, PCM encoded files are smaller than the equivalent MP3 for voice communication so if you can get PCM files to stream over shoutcast you might be better off, then again maybe you want full stereo sound?
This isn't as easy as it sounds, what is to stop Sealand from using RFC1149?
Or will the world's population of pigeons mysteriously become extinct?
Actually falcons will be used as firewalls, if a pigeon's packet is trying to breach security the falcon will take it out.
**WARNING: I don't really know the circumstances of the creation of Gnutella and I don't know of the agreements between Mr. Frankel and AOL the statements below are what I have heard about the story and may or may not be true.
Anyhow, It is my understanding that Gnutella was made on company time (although not an official AOL project) so unless there was an agreement that Justin's code was owned by him, the code is owned by AOL and hence AOL is the owner of Gnutella.
IPv6 just needs a "killer app". Then pressure from consumers will force IPv6 on the consumer OS's.
What would be neat is if a non-filtered Napster moved over to IPv6 (leaving the filtered version on IPv4). I assume most people affilated with the RIAA (atleast the big-wigs) use a Microsoft OS, they will not be able to see this Napster, however those of us who have access to the IPv6 network can use it.
mind you, you could always reverse proxy the hosts based on virtual host address.
Multiple DNS addresses coming in -> Proxy on firewall reads the HTTP header for virual host and passes the request on to the selected box on the internal net -> internal box returns HTTP data to firewall -> firewall passes the data back to the host.
Of course this isn't pretty and will only work for HTTP requests or any other protocol that sends the host name, but it would work if there was no other solution.
I don't know what percentage of the population use Napster, obviously it will be low due to the fact that not everyone has Internet access, but how about what percentage of the Internet using population uses Napster? If the percentage is considerably large, then shouldn't the laws about all this nonsense change? I mean isn't the government suppose to represent the people?
Might a referendum be the answer here? If the majority of the population believes that the law should be changed then so be it. It may screw up the economy, it may not, but it is the people's decision either way.
That old saying about "If you download MP3's, you are downloading communisim." is completely backwards. "If you don't download MP3's, you are promoting communisim." is more like it!
The difference is that I have yet to find a good radio station, however there are good radio stations on the net. I can also stream my own radio station, pr I can grab some new tunes on the road when I want to listen to something different.
I agree for the most part it is a waste, but until regular radio stations will play what I want to hear on demand, then it just isn't going to cut it. Also there are millions of other uses for that connection that doesn't involve radio/video and that is where the power lies (but being able to grab mp3s on demand is an added bonus). We must look to the future and see the possibilites of what may come of wireless broadband and not what we have at the present time.
64k isn't fast enough to stream my mp3's to my car. It definitly isn't fast enough to stream video. What if say I wanted to stream live video out from my travels? (I've already done this with a remote control car and a wireless video camera, next step is to hook the controller up to the computer) Well 64k would do a low quality stream, but not while playing my mp3s ;)
What would be ideal is that each speed category had it's own price range, so your 64kb would cost less than my 2.4Mb while still giving me the option of the greater speed and still giving you a better price that fits your needs.
Broadband wireless internet will open up so many possabilities that we just don't have right now. I will go back to my car example. The internet and the car make the perfect combonation! I don't think that anyone should be surfing the web while driving, but who says the internet is the web (well many people do, but not I). Obviously streaming radio would be great in the car, other very useful features would be weather and road conditions. The possibilities are endless when the connection is there, and I for one hope this is the start of what will bring us wireless net access everywhere (and I do mean everywhere, I want my connection out in the middle of nowhere, not in some city where I can just take the bus or walk and hence there is no need for the connection in my car)!
Coca-Cola? Nonsense. They are planning the acquisition of VA Linux (which includes Slashdot) instead.
Slashdot.org will no longer be viewable from "http://slashdot.org/" you will now have to use "AOL Keyword: Slashdot" instead. Maybe I should keep my mouth shut, wouldn't that be awful if we all had to sign up with AOL just to view Slashdot?