Go read this page about how "The humble old rooftop TV aerial could bring superfast Internet to even the most remote shack in the Australian Outback and help solve the problem of how to connect isolated communities across the globe."
Thats what I heard on astronomy.fm (talk internet radio). So we have a week core and most likely
of the 29%, of us that understand Science, we will not all agree.
IMHO, we need more education.
Does anyone know if this would allow citizens to build a national network the could compete with the Internet?
Not the Internet, Not say cross country. But perhaps we can by pass the local cell(phone) towers. What we want are many
ISP's that can provide competition for access to the the Internet.
The goal being that we pay a fare price
for good service, and not just pad the pockets
of the monopolies. And not the 388kbit DSL that
most of us get when we do not live packed in like Sardines. and Yes I live only two miles from a brick and mortar Version switch building.
Roof top routers should allow phones
to work over much greater ranges as the data
hops from roof to roof. well over 100 miles.
with no paying for Air time. Or texting fee.
Voice takes a tiny 56kbs. compared to WiFi
as 54,000kbs. You are not going to find the
bandwidth for down loading movies.
Thats another story, all about NetIntegrity.
On the down side,
I thing this is designed to fail.
The dead space in the TV bands are
Best used out in Farm country. Where
the next house is a mile or more away.
In urban communities we should be using
higher frequencies closer to the WiFi ranges
but with less power restrictions.
The lack of bandwidth in this test is just
going to end up in a 'I told you so' ending
to the test.
We also need a commitment to the right
frequencies so that manufactures will
produce the appropriate hardware.
Without the hardware this will fail.
The FCC needs to recall bandwidth
for this. It is not the FCC's bandwidth
to give away like candy.
Then tell me how I ordered an Apple Ipad keyboard
with my pad on the apple web sight. Its got the same white apple keys, in the same size as does the
Imac keyboard, just with the right hand junk pads missing. I think you got your facts a bit off.
I think we should just ask Larry for an
embeddable perl script library. I mean if it's
not Perl Its Just not Perl.
PS. I started writing an extension script
language as a Lisp library 28 years ago.
But My boss told me that Fortran programmers
would not write in Lisp. We where using 'C'
on a VAX at the time. So I fired my Boss.
(Ya, I got a new job)
In the next year or so I saw Tcl at a UseNix
convention, and that would have been better
for the Fortran programmers. So I would pick
Tcl over lisp at this point. But Perl script
over Tcl, if there was such a thing.
'C' was primarily written to write
the UNIX operating system. The fact
that is was great for so many other things
was a plus. If your writing an OS you
want the control of a near assembly
language like 'C'. For the rest us,
in the 21 century,
there are great scripting languages.
Where strings are managed for us.
Windows uses have never used a real computer.
So have no idea what they are missing.
all they know is they got to have there
Office. and that no substitutes are welcome.
Software ports at the software level.
That makes many hardware platforms work
at all levels from a phone to a super computer.
Free open source software can be modified
wins over binaries. Most if the innovations
in Windows was implemented as free software
years before Redmond took the idea.
Where as the society would be better
off with more use of FOSS. The government
has no place using proprietary software or proprietary data formats. Thank you.
Would switch if it weren't stupid-expensive...
You are barking up the wring tree if you
want charity licenses. Have you not
figured out by now you are getting software
from the devil him self.
Thats why God sent us Ubuntu/Gnu/Linux.
Open office should do everything you need for
a Church's office.
All most all the ideas in Windows 7 where
done in free software first.
So if you are looking a
good looking / good working
user interface, Look for free software.
PS. I am not religious my self.
Just trying to put this into his perspective.
But add a fairing and two more wheels
and you do not get a lot of car.
I also know that we can do a lot more
with the internal combustion engine.
the ones we use today are hardly efficient.
It will be a while before we can replace
petroleum.
Then there are
that have two problems.
One - Storing a mobile energy source.
perhaps Hydrogen for use in a fuel cell.
Two - getting the energy in the first place.
I think Nuclear power, perhaps green/safe/unmaned
Thorium reactors, will help us split water onto hydrogen.
But all of this is a long way off.
And will require a force to get it started.
If only the government had any foresight.
But I will point out that virtual memory is
not on the hard disk. Thats swap space.
Virtual Memory is an address mapping that
lets all the simultaneous processes think
they all have access to the same address space.
I think of it as a base address register
that offsets a memory page from a process
address into a physical memory address.
It also has a nice side that memory pages
can be moved all around with only the simple
change of the base address register.
I am not a hardware guy, this is just what
I remember from school, 30 or so years ago.
effect that
'The draft bill says that in order for unlicensed spectrum to win out over a licensed bidder, an entity or a group of people would have to collectively bid more than a licensed bidder would. '
We the American people shall vote with our tax dollars. And put an end to the tyranny of the
likes of the Telephone Company.
And all you phone works can mod me down, I know you will.
Broadband is a way of sending data.
Broadband does not describe the amount of data.
not the bandwidth or latency.
We need'ed to establish at least a minimum
delivery rate.
I have DSL, its the best I can get, just 3 miles
from a brick and mortar Verzion switch.
My data rate is mostly below 500 Kilo bits/sec.
This is to slow to watch a video at 240p with
out a lot of time wait time to fill the input buffer. Sometimes my line degrades down to
300kbs. I am sure there are things that are
Broadband at much slower speeds.
Having broadband does not necessarily imply a adequate access. We need better
standards. Before we even staart talking
about this. Like perhaps. at least 1 megs bit/sec.
let alone 10mbs or even 100 mbs.
" In fact there already is a kind of rough standard, but it's rather an odd one. Not many people actually smoke in their cars these days, and the aperture in the dashboard which used to hold the cigar lighter is now more likely to be powering a mobile phone, CD player, fax machine or, according to a recent and highly improbable TV commercial, an instant coffee making gizmo. Because the socket originally had a different purpose it's the wrong size and in the wrong place for what we now want to do with it, so perhaps it's time to start adapting it for its new job." - Douglas Adams 1997
So its long past time to use the standard that is
inplace.
RISC is old news.
Linux was ported many RISC platforms.
Anything names advanced makes me wounder if it
is advanced. When ARM is ready for real computing
it will be ported to real computers.
It's is only news for Windows not Linux.
Since ARM will break all backwards compatibility.
I wounder if there will be a VM
compatibility option?
Probably not since Steve Ballmer wants
you to buy all new software.
We can only hope this will be the final nail
in the coffin for Windows.
Given what Apple asked for in the mid 90's
Public Radio bandwidth for 10Km ranged wifi
routers and we could easily have a roof top
cell phone grid and any long distance calls
could be handled my Ma and Pa ISP's for Internet
connections for long distance calls.
The only reason we did not get this in the 90's
was Al Gore was the Internet destroyer, when he was in office.
If you can't secure your software.
You should be running software that
is securable.
You should talk to the
Air Force I understand they have some.
For some of you that do not want to chase that
link, It's a Linux Boot CD that uses only
local volatile memory so that no untrusted
software can exist, after a reboot. The
disk has an optional copy of open office
and networking software for connecting to
secured servers.
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Go read this page about how "The humble old rooftop TV aerial could bring superfast Internet to even the most remote shack in the Australian Outback and help solve the problem of how to connect isolated communities across the globe."
Thats what I heard on astronomy.fm (talk internet radio). So we have a week core and most likely of the 29%, of us that understand Science, we will not all agree. IMHO, we need more education.
Does anyone know if this would allow citizens to build a national network the could compete with the Internet?
Not the Internet, Not say cross country. But perhaps we can by pass the local cell(phone) towers. What we want are many ISP's that can provide competition for access to the the Internet. The goal being that we pay a fare price for good service, and not just pad the pockets of the monopolies. And not the 388kbit DSL that most of us get when we do not live packed in like Sardines. and Yes I live only two miles from a brick and mortar Version switch building.
Roof top routers should allow phones to work over much greater ranges as the data hops from roof to roof. well over 100 miles. with no paying for Air time. Or texting fee. Voice takes a tiny 56kbs. compared to WiFi as 54,000kbs. You are not going to find the bandwidth for down loading movies. Thats another story, all about NetIntegrity.
On the down side, I thing this is designed to fail.
The dead space in the TV bands are Best used out in Farm country. Where the next house is a mile or more away. In urban communities we should be using higher frequencies closer to the WiFi ranges but with less power restrictions. The lack of bandwidth in this test is just going to end up in a 'I told you so' ending to the test.
We also need a commitment to the right frequencies so that manufactures will produce the appropriate hardware. Without the hardware this will fail.
The FCC needs to recall bandwidth for this. It is not the FCC's bandwidth to give away like candy.
Then tell me how I ordered an Apple Ipad keyboard with my pad on the apple web sight. Its got the same white apple keys, in the same size as does the Imac keyboard, just with the right hand junk pads missing. I think you got your facts a bit off.
I think we should just ask Larry for an embeddable perl script library. I mean if it's not Perl Its Just not Perl.
PS. I started writing an extension script language as a Lisp library 28 years ago. But My boss told me that Fortran programmers would not write in Lisp. We where using 'C' on a VAX at the time. So I fired my Boss. (Ya, I got a new job) In the next year or so I saw Tcl at a UseNix convention, and that would have been better for the Fortran programmers. So I would pick Tcl over lisp at this point. But Perl script over Tcl, if there was such a thing.
For the young people. It was 20 years ago today...
I know the feeling.
We need to store power so that we can only use that power at a constant rate 24/7.
Richard Stallman is one of the geniuses of our time. All he wants is to share software with his friends. and to have his friends share it back.
johanneswilm also wants to share. Its clear by his wanting to use FOSS in his process.
Perhaps you need to rethink who is the crackpot here? The answer is clear here.
Poul-Henning Kamp, is a non computer engineer.
'C' was primarily written to write the UNIX operating system. The fact that is was great for so many other things was a plus. If your writing an OS you want the control of a near assembly language like 'C'. For the rest us, in the 21 century, there are great scripting languages. Where strings are managed for us.
JAPH.
Windows uses have never used a real computer. So have no idea what they are missing. all they know is they got to have there Office. and that no substitutes are welcome.
Software ports at the software level. That makes many hardware platforms work at all levels from a phone to a super computer. Free open source software can be modified wins over binaries. Most if the innovations in Windows was implemented as free software years before Redmond took the idea.
I will be happy to spend it for you.
Where as the society would be better off with more use of FOSS. The government has no place using proprietary software or proprietary data formats. Thank you.
I love google.
But I have no need to start posting personal stuff all over the net thank you.
Would switch if it weren't stupid-expensive... You are barking up the wring tree if you want charity licenses. Have you not figured out by now you are getting software from the devil him self. Thats why God sent us Ubuntu/Gnu/Linux. Open office should do everything you need for a Church's office.
All most all the ideas in Windows 7 where done in free software first. So if you are looking a good looking / good working user interface, Look for free software.
PS. I am not religious my self. Just trying to put this into his perspective.
An electric motor can have as more torque then a 440 Hemi. And the electric motor will have a lot less mass.
Understood! not so good in the rain too.
But add a fairing and two more wheels and you do not get a lot of car.
I also know that we can do a lot more with the internal combustion engine. the ones we use today are hardly efficient. It will be a while before we can replace petroleum.
Then there are that have two problems.
One - Storing a mobile energy source. perhaps Hydrogen for use in a fuel cell.
Two - getting the energy in the first place. I think Nuclear power, perhaps green/safe/unmaned Thorium reactors, will help us split water onto hydrogen.
But all of this is a long way off. And will require a force to get it started. If only the government had any foresight.
Get a Scooter, or small Motor bike.
I will not mod you as a troll,
But I will point out that virtual memory is not on the hard disk. Thats swap space. Virtual Memory is an address mapping that lets all the simultaneous processes think they all have access to the same address space.
I think of it as a base address register that offsets a memory page from a process address into a physical memory address. It also has a nice side that memory pages can be moved all around with only the simple change of the base address register.
I am not a hardware guy, this is just what I remember from school, 30 or so years ago. effect that
'The draft bill says that in order for unlicensed spectrum to win out over a licensed bidder, an entity or a group of people would have to collectively bid more than a licensed bidder would. '
We the American people shall vote with our tax dollars. And put an end to the tyranny of the likes of the Telephone Company.
And all you phone works can mod me down, I know you will.
Broadband is a way of sending data. Broadband does not describe the amount of data. not the bandwidth or latency. We need'ed to establish at least a minimum delivery rate.
I have DSL, its the best I can get, just 3 miles from a brick and mortar Verzion switch. My data rate is mostly below 500 Kilo bits/sec. This is to slow to watch a video at 240p with out a lot of time wait time to fill the input buffer. Sometimes my line degrades down to 300kbs. I am sure there are things that are Broadband at much slower speeds.
Having broadband does not necessarily imply a adequate access. We need better standards. Before we even staart talking about this. Like perhaps. at least 1 megs bit/sec. let alone 10mbs or even 100 mbs.
Add a keyboard so you can type and you have a netbook at 8 or 10 times the price of an ipad.
Oh, and I can find a shell prompt the netbook.
So its long past time to use the standard that is inplace.
RISC is old news. Linux was ported many RISC platforms. Anything names advanced makes me wounder if it is advanced. When ARM is ready for real computing it will be ported to real computers.
It's is only news for Windows not Linux. Since ARM will break all backwards compatibility. I wounder if there will be a VM compatibility option? Probably not since Steve Ballmer wants you to buy all new software. We can only hope this will be the final nail in the coffin for Windows.
By pass the Telco's
Given what Apple asked for in the mid 90's Public Radio bandwidth for 10Km ranged wifi routers and we could easily have a roof top cell phone grid and any long distance calls could be handled my Ma and Pa ISP's for Internet connections for long distance calls.
The only reason we did not get this in the 90's was Al Gore was the Internet destroyer, when he was in office.
If you can't secure your software. You should be running software that is securable. You should talk to the Air Force I understand they have some.
For some of you that do not want to chase that link, It's a Linux Boot CD that uses only local volatile memory so that no untrusted software can exist, after a reboot. The disk has an optional copy of open office and networking software for connecting to secured servers.