I've seen Pi a million times, and it has opened up new avenues for my metaphysical studies. I can only hope he can bring some sort of "reality" back into Batman and make him once again the Dark Night, not some bozo in a stupid suit.
Being a marketing student, I have realized that this is the next form of marketing. Now that the means are there to track individuals directly and such, you no longer have to go off any demographics. You can just tell the computer "find me the people that like this and this and this" and it can give you an exact list.
Yes, you may hate it, but it does have it's usefullness. This way you can receive information on products you have proven to be interested in, and might actually want. Eventually it will come down to you won't receive and advertisments except for the things you express interest in, even though you might not have realized it.
It is not dangerous for any one company to have a small bit of information on you. What is dangerous is for any one entity to have all avalible information on you. If some company knows you went to their website, so be it. If some company knows what you do all day, then that's a different story. As long as the information is divided up between competing parties then there isn't really a need to freak out so much.
Being a marketing student, I have realized that this is the next form of marketing. Now that the means are there to track individuals directly and such, you no longer have to go off any demographics. You can just tell the computer "find me the people that like this and this and this" and it can give you an exact list.
Yes, you may hate it, but it does have it's usefullness. This way you can receive information on products you have proven to be interested in, and might actually want. Eventually it will come down to you won't receive and advertisments except for the things you express interest in, even though you might not have realized it.
It is not dangerous for any one company to have a small bit of information on you. What is dangerous is for any one entity to have all avalible information on you. If some company knows you went to their website, so be it. If some company knows what you do all day, then that's a different story. As long as the information is divided up between competing parties then there isn't really a need to freak out so much.
I think, from the ranges and speed, that they are deploying Clearwire's technology. Yes, this is a proven tech, but it's old and slow.
I feel sorry for all these companies investing in this architecture when it is going to be so completly bipassed by a faster and cheaper method within the next year
As a convicted felon (from something stupid when I was younger, but technology related), it is harder to get a job with most hi-tech companies. This has, in turn, forced me to do unsavory things to pay my bills...it sometimes feels like an unending cycle, that I can only hope (by letting the conviction get further in the past) will become at least just a badge of shame and not a hangmans mask over me.
I'm currently working with a company who is deploying broadband wireless via 802.11 in a major metropoliton area. We are, using currently avalible technology, acheive 10mb at a range up up to 25 miles with around 100-200ms ping time. The equipment is pretty cheap, and we are in the works of arranging a deal with the manufacturers to customize it with encryption to keep it from interfering with any other 802.11 network.
The only problem is it's going to such for anyone who has an american 2.4GHz phone, because it knocks them right off the band.
On our current configuration we can support up to 1500 concurrent connections. We are planning to wire up buildings with 100mb backbone on top to offer it to an entire building all at once.
I was a contractor at a large medical insurance company once installing a bunch of IBM GL300s. Inside the main box is the keyboard box, and inside that was a bag with the mouse, keys, and a little piece of paper that read "By opening this box you agree to any and all liscenses for all software included on this PC and any changes to said software can violate your warrenty". I had to open the box just to get to the paper!
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I've seen Pi a million times, and it has opened up new avenues for my metaphysical studies. I can only hope he can bring some sort of "reality" back into Batman and make him once again the Dark Night, not some bozo in a stupid suit.
Being a marketing student, I have realized that this is the next form of marketing. Now that the means are there to track individuals directly and such, you no longer have to go off any demographics. You can just tell the computer "find me the people that like this and this and this" and it can give you an exact list.
Yes, you may hate it, but it does have it's usefullness. This way you can receive information on products you have proven to be interested in, and might actually want. Eventually it will come down to you won't receive and advertisments except for the things you express interest in, even though you might not have realized it.
It is not dangerous for any one company to have a small bit of information on you. What is dangerous is for any one entity to have all avalible information on you. If some company knows you went to their website, so be it. If some company knows what you do all day, then that's a different story. As long as the information is divided up between competing parties then there isn't really a need to freak out so much.
Being a marketing student, I have realized that this is the next form of marketing. Now that the means are there to track individuals directly and such, you no longer have to go off any demographics. You can just tell the computer "find me the people that like this and this and this" and it can give you an exact list.
Yes, you may hate it, but it does have it's usefullness. This way you can receive information on products you have proven to be interested in, and might actually want. Eventually it will come down to you won't receive and advertisments except for the things you express interest in, even though you might not have realized it.
It is not dangerous for any one company to have a small bit of information on you. What is dangerous is for any one entity to have all avalible information on you. If some company knows you went to their website, so be it. If some company knows what you do all day, then that's a different story. As long as the information is divided up between competing parties then there isn't really a need to freak out so much.
I think, from the ranges and speed, that they are deploying Clearwire's technology. Yes, this is a proven tech, but it's old and slow.
I feel sorry for all these companies investing in this architecture when it is going to be so completly bipassed by a faster and cheaper method within the next year
As a convicted felon (from something stupid when I was younger, but technology related), it is harder to get a job with most hi-tech companies. This has, in turn, forced me to do unsavory things to pay my bills...it sometimes feels like an unending cycle, that I can only hope (by letting the conviction get further in the past) will become at least just a badge of shame and not a hangmans mask over me.
I'm currently working with a company who is deploying broadband wireless via 802.11 in a major metropoliton area. We are, using currently avalible technology, acheive 10mb at a range up up to 25 miles with around 100-200ms ping time. The equipment is pretty cheap, and we are in the works of arranging a deal with the manufacturers to customize it with encryption to keep it from interfering with any other 802.11 network. The only problem is it's going to such for anyone who has an american 2.4GHz phone, because it knocks them right off the band. On our current configuration we can support up to 1500 concurrent connections. We are planning to wire up buildings with 100mb backbone on top to offer it to an entire building all at once.
I was a contractor at a large medical insurance company once installing a bunch of IBM GL300s. Inside the main box is the keyboard box, and inside that was a bag with the mouse, keys, and a little piece of paper that read "By opening this box you agree to any and all liscenses for all software included on this PC and any changes to said software can violate your warrenty". I had to open the box just to get to the paper!