Leasing rooftops has nothing to do with it.
I would be more then willing to buy the
wireless router and put on my roof to be a part
of Googles Internet. The only thing is that
the 700Mhz is best used in a rural environment
as its is used in the Australian outback. For City
use the GigaHz bands are better for the job.
The problem is the FCC should not be selling
this. But rather defining standards of use and
allowing ISP's to compete for your dolars. Allowing
you Internet access from the local wireless grid.
Oh and the wireless grid is going to be able to give you
not only full coverage, but a good distance of free access
or your cellphone as well
That's is how you get a pony!
The alternative is to let the telcos turn the Internet
into another broadcast technology where the only
thing you can get that's is high bandwidth is the media
cashed at the telco's ISP, IE TV and the like.
And then the telco's do not have to pay for more backbone.
ITs easy to get hardwired bandwidth to the end user,
given the end user pay big buck for it. you know one or
two hundred dollars a month. And even better there will be
no need for more infrastructure. Just a little maintenance
now and then. Thats what makes the biggest cash flow for the
Telco's. So why would they do more.
If all you want are movies and TV on demand get a DVR and
use a satellite feed. Your not looking for Internet access.
It is as simple as this: AT&T owns the FCC.
The FCC is afraid for some reason to takeaway
the money-pit monopoly of the phone company
Yes If we had a proper radio network, built by you and me.
The phone company would simply not be needed.
There last usefulness for the home user would be
obsolete. You cell phone would work better and
would not come with a price tag for air time.
There would be true competition for access
to Internet backbone.
My CSS rules remove the left hand menu, thank you. The is that the '+' menu is also off the screen. Would it be possible to move that menu to the right like the '-' menu. aTdHvAaNnKcSe
39MHz, 900MHz, 2.4GHz and 5.4GHz unlicensed bands not enough for you?
Ah, right. Too congested. Well, that's what happens when you, you know, take away the licenses for monopolistic use!
How is it congested? Its power limited.
To inside or a few 100 feet outside.
You can only build a LAN with that.
We need a last mile network. One that
can link us with our community and 100's of
competing ISP's
I don't know a lot about Radio Engineering.
But the Apple Computer Inc.'s Petition to the FCC (1994)
Claimed that units could be built with bandwidth
for a metropolitan-area and with a 10 to 15 Km ranges.
And at that time the frequencies existed, I think
much of that has been stolen from the people and
sold to the Telco's since then.
I believe Apple has the Engineers to know this could be done.
Yes like today's ether-net the units have to play
by the rules. You can't just flood noise and expect
an network to run, be it on a wire or on the radio.
Your saying we have to pay how much for the network
police? And why should we have a private police force?
When most people will play fare since they got the box
for the purpose of networking.
If you look at an Internet last mile as two parts,
1) physical component 2) placement/power.
Given the FCC stop stealing all of the air waves and gives an functional
portion of the airwaves back to the people. A demand for cheap
physical components will exist. People will put them on there
roof tops and this will create a network. Not with the nearly
useless low power units we can get at best buy and wall*mart,
but the ones that can interact over 10 to 15 kilometers.
Given this radio network, ISP's will to pop up
all over the place. Creating 100's if not 1000's of
competitors to the Telco's that will connect you
to the Internet. As for local cell phone usage,
over say a 100 to 1000 mile range this will be
free. Since it will be require no Internet access
just packet switching on the roof tops.
So All Ted need do is put in a few ISP's in each county.
And at most generate some incentive for people to make
and install the roof top boxes.
What ever happened to the public airwaves. This is what is call it the bands where we watched TV.
So rather then give a small part of the spectrum to the public for open commerce. The FCC sell out airwaves to the biggest monopoly.
With out an open network we will never have more then a few providers of the last mile(access to the Internet). the result will be take over, not competition.
The real problem with Internet connectivity in the US is the FCC. Look around where you live. Do you see the possibility of 2 or even 10 or 100 Internet users with in 5 miles of where you use the Net. If so then you have the potential of a free "last mile" network that has the possibility to put you into contact with 100s of possible Internet providers. If The FCC only did not give away our freedom of speech to the highest bidder. The FCC needs to be told to give up or reclaim spectrum for the public infrastructure.
Only then will manufactures make the radios for home use to connect nodes with enough power to be practical. and only then will Internet providers become plentiful enough to create the competition required to beet the monopoly. This all dates back to the days of Al Gore the "Destroyer of the Internet". Apple computer of all people gave him the chance back in 1995 to get this started, but he missed the boat. and we are stinking as a result.
Getting paid has little to do with programming open source. Oh, well sure I work for the government. Programs I write should be for the public. Don't you think so too? Look at Larry Wall, PERL is open source, he gets payed. You do not have to program for free to make open source. You just need to use your brain a little to figure out how to do both. Perhaps programing closed source you do not need to think so much. You are certainly not going to have as many criticsc.
The court is now debating whether or not software is actually patentable
Its about time.
The court needs to redefine software as something
that is actually soft. Software should be that set of programs
that are deliverer with the source code and making
that completely un-patentable. Some of have a new
term for this its called open source. But in reality its
the only software that deserves to be called soft.
You can still buy commercial-ware, if you want to.
Lets just call commercial-ware, commercial-ware.
There is nothing soft about it.
TV should be Broadcast. You should use your MythTV( not Tivo ).
We don't need to fill the Internet backbone with copies of the same old
thing over and over. It will be worse then spam. clogging the Internet.
At best your ISP's should Work TV like it was Usenet and store
the Broadcast shows locally. But that would only add the the
Monopoly. And we don't need that. But rather we need to
bypass the ISP's and use the "NII BAND" that the FCC would not let us have.
If Microsoft will not work(with it, for any value if It).
Your problem is your using Microsoft Its in Microsoft's best interest that other stuff will not work with Microsoft software. Its called a trap, and your in it.
If after ten years you have not discovered the way out, then perhaps you should give up. Linux has KVM support so I don't know why you are duel booting. Better to run windows then to be stuck in them.
I also don't know why your using Exchange? Outlook will run off of sendmail. Sounds like the problem is not Linus, but rather the IT staff. There are a few good open source office sweets. never mind that you have to work with clue less people sending you emails from inside the Trap.
I have to wounder if Vista promotions pay for articles like this one.
The problem the layman has with understanding computers is the language. We need more words to describe software. In this case Source code would better take advantage of a new architecture. The problem is the old "commodity ware" that so many people run on PC's. Contrast that with the portability of UNIX. A operating system that has been ported to (for me) countless hardware architectures. The advantage UNIX has is its portability is based on Source code. Not a binaries compiled for a single thread Intel architecture.
The issue is not that software will not run well on many cores. It the old binaries will not run.
Many new software architectures(eg. java?, smalltalk?, perl6? ) Could/should run on many core with out programmers doing any thing special.
Even with peer to peer file sharing getting TV over the net
will not be the way to go, unless you want to pay to the
nose to the TelCo's and CabCo's for the bandwidth.
We all are better off with http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtv> MithTV,or TVo, for time shifting
the broadcast media. Rather then spending all that money
on unneeded bandwidth. It not like your going to miss
anything. Right now most shows are broadcast twice a week
and there are marathons to catch you up with shows like 24.
The bandwidth we need is for playing World of Warcraft.
But first the FCC works for Us the Public. It needs to provide resources to the Public, not just the Telco's
I don't care about some dumb paper work. I want the Public to have a share of the radio spectrum. My Wifi FON [fon.com] router should have a 10 to 15 km range. not 100 to 500 foot range. It should be illegal/unconstitutional that we don't have reasonable Free Speech in digital spectrum.
But no We have to pay the Teloc's, the King ( of England ). This is the sort of thing that created this country. But some how the government has lost sight of this,
Its time to throw your cell phones (Tea) into the harbor.
I don't care about some dumb paper work. I want the Public to have a share of the radio spectrum. My Wifi FON router should have a 10 to 15 km range. not 100 to 500 foot range. It should be illegal/unconstitutional that we don't have reasonable Free Speech in digital spectrum.
But no We have to pay the Teloc's, the King ( of England ). This is the sort of thing that created this country. But some how the government has lost sight of this,
Its time to throw your cell phones (Tea) into the harbor.
Last Week I was trying to install a mod into Oracle's 10g web server. running apxs was hope less. The version of perl that Oracle shipped included libraries that did not exist. How good is it that "use strict" would not load, And after switching that perl , oracles apxs wanted to load *.o files that Oracle did not ship. In effect Oracle's version of Apache will only work with software shipped by Oracle. And the perl software and libraries shipped by Oracle are useless. I have to ask my self why Oracle shipped them in the first place.
When they do that to a Linux distro I expect a computer that can only run Oracle software. How useless will that be?
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That's is how you get a pony!
The alternative is to let the telcos turn the Internet into another broadcast technology where the only thing you can get that's is high bandwidth is the media cashed at the telco's ISP, IE TV and the like. And then the telco's do not have to pay for more backbone. ITs easy to get hardwired bandwidth to the end user, given the end user pay big buck for it. you know one or two hundred dollars a month. And even better there will be no need for more infrastructure. Just a little maintenance now and then. Thats what makes the biggest cash flow for the Telco's. So why would they do more.
If all you want are movies and TV on demand get a DVR and use a satellite feed. Your not looking for Internet access.
Yes If we had a proper radio network, built by you and me. The phone company would simply not be needed. There last usefulness for the home user would be obsolete. You cell phone would work better and would not come with a price tag for air time. There would be true competition for access to Internet backbone.
My CSS rules remove the left hand menu, thank you.
The is that the '+' menu is also off the screen.
Would it be possible to move that menu to the right
like the '-' menu. aTdHvAaNnKcSe
Ah, right. Too congested. Well, that's what happens when you, you know, take away the licenses for monopolistic use!
How is it congested? Its power limited. To inside or a few 100 feet outside. You can only build a LAN with that. We need a last mile network. One that can link us with our community and 100's of competing ISP's
I don't know a lot about Radio Engineering. But the Apple Computer Inc.'s Petition to the FCC (1994) Claimed that units could be built with bandwidth for a metropolitan-area and with a 10 to 15 Km ranges. And at that time the frequencies existed, I think much of that has been stolen from the people and sold to the Telco's since then. I believe Apple has the Engineers to know this could be done.
Yes like today's ether-net the units have to play by the rules. You can't just flood noise and expect an network to run, be it on a wire or on the radio.
Your saying we have to pay how much for the network police? And why should we have a private police force? When most people will play fare since they got the box for the purpose of networking.
If you look at an Internet last mile as two parts, 1) physical component 2) placement/power.
Given the FCC stop stealing all of the air waves and gives an functional portion of the airwaves back to the people. A demand for cheap physical components will exist. People will put them on there roof tops and this will create a network. Not with the nearly useless low power units we can get at best buy and wall*mart, but the ones that can interact over 10 to 15 kilometers. Given this radio network, ISP's will to pop up all over the place. Creating 100's if not 1000's of competitors to the Telco's that will connect you to the Internet. As for local cell phone usage, over say a 100 to 1000 mile range this will be free. Since it will be require no Internet access just packet switching on the roof tops.
So All Ted need do is put in a few ISP's in each county. And at most generate some incentive for people to make and install the roof top boxes.
What ever happened to the public airwaves.
This is what is call it the bands where we watched TV.
So rather then give a small part of the spectrum to
the public for open commerce. The FCC sell out
airwaves to the biggest monopoly.
With out an open network we will never have more then a
few providers of the last mile(access to the Internet).
the result will be take over, not competition.
There goes your chances to compete with the international
community.
see Krugman On the Connectivity Power Shift
The real problem with Internet connectivity in the US is the FCC.
Look around where you live. Do you see the possibility of 2 or even
10 or 100 Internet users with in 5 miles of where you use the Net.
If so then you have the potential of a free "last mile" network that
has the possibility to put you into contact with 100s of possible
Internet providers. If The FCC only did not give away our freedom
of speech to the highest bidder. The FCC needs to be told to give up
or reclaim spectrum for the public infrastructure.
Only then will manufactures make the radios for home use to
connect nodes with enough power to be practical. and only then
will Internet providers become plentiful enough to create the
competition required to beet the monopoly. This all dates back
to the days of Al Gore the "Destroyer of the Internet". Apple computer
of all people gave him the chance back in 1995 to get this started, but
he missed the boat. and we are stinking as a result.
The PETITION FOR RULEMAKING of the "NII BAND".
What we get.
More things the FCC has taken away from us.
Getting paid has little to do with programming open source. Oh, well sure I work for the government. Programs I write should be for the public. Don't you think so too? Look at Larry Wall, PERL is open source, he gets payed. You do not have to program for free to make open source. You just need to use your brain a little to figure out how to do both. Perhaps programing closed source you do not need to think so much. You are certainly not going to have as many criticsc.
The court is now debating whether or not software is actually patentable
Its about time.
The court needs to redefine software as something that is actually soft. Software should be that set of programs that are deliverer with the source code and making that completely un-patentable. Some of have a new term for this its called open source. But in reality its the only software that deserves to be called soft. You can still buy commercial-ware, if you want to. Lets just call commercial-ware, commercial-ware. There is nothing soft about it.
At best your ISP's should Work TV like it was Usenet and store the Broadcast shows locally. But that would only add the the Monopoly. And we don't need that. But rather we need to bypass the ISP's and use the "NII BAND" that the FCC would not let us have.
That's what I would do. If I was the Ministry of Education.
I even said so, sort of. Funny how this was not moderated as all.
But Alexander first mistake was that he did not use/teach Linux to his students.
On the other hand Bills mistake was to not give all students every where free License as a Windows promotion.
So your out of your domain.
IT was UNIX its self that came with the concept of "Software Tools".
It's the goal of any good programer to make simple tools that one can reuse over and over. But few can actuly do it, and do it well.
If Microsoft will not work(with it, for any value if It).
Your problem is your using Microsoft
Its in Microsoft's best interest that other stuff
will not work with Microsoft software.
Its called a trap, and your in it.
If after ten years you have not discovered
the way out, then perhaps you should give up.
Linux has KVM support so I don't know why you are duel booting.
Better to run windows then to be stuck in them.
I also don't know why your using Exchange? Outlook
will run off of sendmail. Sounds like the problem is not
Linus, but rather the IT staff. There are a few good open source
office sweets. never mind that you have to work with clue less
people sending you emails from inside the Trap.
I have to wounder if Vista promotions pay for articles like this one.
The problem the layman has with understanding computers
is the language. We need more words to describe software.
In this case Source code would better take advantage of
a new architecture. The problem is the old "commodity ware"
that so many people run on PC's. Contrast that with the portability
of UNIX. A operating system that has been ported to (for me) countless
hardware architectures. The advantage UNIX has is its portability is based on
Source code. Not a binaries compiled for a single thread Intel architecture.
The issue is not that software will not run well on many cores.
It the old binaries will not run.
Many new software architectures(eg. java?, smalltalk?, perl6? )
Could/should run on many core with out programmers doing any thing special.
The Internet is a send me one now media.
,or TVo, for time shifting
the broadcast media. Rather then spending all that money
on unneeded bandwidth. It not like your going to miss
anything. Right now most shows are broadcast twice a week
and there are marathons to catch you up with shows like 24.
Even with peer to peer file sharing getting TV over the net will not be the way to go, unless you want to pay to the nose to the TelCo's and CabCo's for the bandwidth.
We all are better off with http://sourceforge.net/projects/mythtv> MithTV
The bandwidth we need is for playing World of Warcraft.
But first the FCC works for Us the Public. It needs to provide resources to the Public, not just the Telco's
I don't care about some dumb paper work. I want the Public to have a share of the radio spectrum. My Wifi FON [fon.com] router should have a 10 to 15 km range. not 100 to 500 foot range. It should be illegal/unconstitutional that we don't have reasonable Free Speech in digital spectrum.
But no We have to pay the Teloc's, the King ( of England ). This is the sort of thing that created this country. But some how the government has lost sight of this,
Its time to throw your cell phones (Tea) into the harbor.
I don't care about some dumb paper work.
I want the Public to have a share of the radio spectrum.
My Wifi FON router should have a 10 to 15 km range.
not 100 to 500 foot range. It should be illegal/unconstitutional
that we don't have reasonable Free Speech in digital spectrum.
But no We have to pay the Teloc's, the King ( of England ).
This is the sort of thing that created this country.
But some how the government has lost sight of this,
Its time to throw your cell phones (Tea) into the harbor.
Good bye
Last Week I was trying to install a mod into Oracle's 10g web server.
running apxs was hope less. The version of perl that Oracle shipped
included libraries that did not exist. How good is it that "use strict"
would not load, And after switching that perl , oracles apxs wanted
to load *.o files that Oracle did not ship. In effect Oracle's version
of Apache will only work with software shipped by Oracle. And
the perl software and libraries shipped by Oracle are useless.
I have to ask my self why Oracle shipped them in the first place.
When they do that to a Linux distro I expect a computer that can only
run Oracle software. How useless will that be?
Now China will become vastly more advanced
since they will not be held back by windows.
yes, like the USA where I write this.
What I want to know is this:
If the roter comes out of its box will it go throw my leg?
I aggree with you, the View will be the selling point.
I almost did not put that last line in there.
What I would like to see is a space elevator.
And people are working on that as well.
Its one thing to get to some altitude, and back.
But when will private industry make it into orbit and back.
You need that if you want to stay for more then free fall.
Its the speed of orbit, and reentry from that speed, that makes this hard.
A real space tourist will want to stay a while.
As for several minutes of weightlessness, you can get
that from conventional aircraft.
Before the MMO was the MOO and MUD.
Sure it was text,
but it was the same online fun.
As for the fee, The Internet is not free.
Art and content to not grow on trees.
Perhaps you want to see posters for Coke and Fritos all over.
Oh and buy a Vegematic on line and get your monster slicer sword.