If you've ever been in a delorean (the ones at universal studios excepted) then you'll realise that the speedometer is pinned at 85mph.
Still I have no doubt that it could do that speed without too much effort.
My other concern would be the fact that deloreans are fecking heavy beasts - completely the opposite of any other pure electric (or even hybrid) car i've seen.
Gotta love them - at first they look like a 25-pin serial but on closer inspection they've got 3 little bnc-style connecters and a bunch of control pins:)
Secondly, that's with current technology only- a more advanced technology would allow multiple networks on the same frequency by using directional aerials- this can multiply up the usage maybe 20 times.
I see - so do i mount the directional antenna on my head and make sure i always look north?
Connecting things in a mesh is all good and well and certinaly more efficient - but is it efficient enough?
Wireless networking occupies a relatively narrow band of the frequency spectrum, and probably less than the 3G ranges offered to telcos.
I highly doubt that an 802.11 mesh will ever provide that much bandwidth - especially once things start relaying in many directions at once.
Imagine splitting it up into cells, each one where a user is. As something transmits from one cell to the next, it'll use bandwidth (or available frequency space) in the neighbouring cells.
Anyway this could work for dense areas but screws over the people living in the country - worse still, it's not dependable. What if you need to make an emergency call and nobody is within range?
I heard nokia were wokring on a hybrid tech that allows you to use mesh networks when they are around and 3G otherwise - that would be cool:)
Also i could raise the usual problems of accounting for bandwidth use on this kind of net - who pays for it all?
I dont think i've ever actually owned a sony minidisc.
The one i have here is aiwa (and i'll admit pretty dated) but even still i suspect sony at least have the sense to keep licensing to third party manufacturers.
Anyway minidisc is pretty widely used. There are surely more md players in the world than mp3 players.
I've recently signed up to vonage digital voice and the techincal service is fantastic.
With some wrangling i've since taken the ata-186 router back to scotland with me. I work for a company in the USA and this gives me a californian phone number and (once i upgrade to the $40 service) unlimited minutes across the usa.
Latency doesn't seem to be a problem although i'm definitely with one of the better uk broadband providers. I'll also soon experiment with setting up QoS on my network to ensure that my 1024/256 doesn't saturate to the point that my voip packets drop.
The main downsides to vonage are: - They dont let you have the password to the Cisco router which YOU have bought from them - meaning you cant use the second line or easily connect it to a h232 gatekeeper to do intelligent things with.
- They wont bill any credit card which doesn't have a US billing address and wont ship outside of the US (and guyana for some reason)
These companies are trying to advocate that it is fair use to take something you paid for, rip it into another format (removing some of the superflous data), and trade it on their networks... [personally i agree with that]
Yet it is wrong to take something you paid for (remember they provide it FREE - they dont provide it in exchange for spying on you and stealing your cpu cycles - they say FREE), rip it into another format (removing some of the superflous data), and trade it on their networks.
Get real, this is going to cause more damage to their legal cases than anything else.
I'd be very suspicious of 'cleaned' applications floating about on p2p networks.
Whilst it's likely the author had your best interests at heart there's some chance he didn't.
It wouldn't be too hard to build a trojan into one of these, and if it were done well you could have your trojan version of kazaa send requests onto the network that immediately identify to anyone watching that it's an infected copy.
That'd would mean that the trojan wouldn't have to either 'phone home' or be detcted by randomly portscanning subnets.
however this still might be the lesser of two evils.
I dont see why a eurocentric distro like suse couldn't include decss code since they dont have to worry about the dcma.
But 5c a minute for calls to the US!?
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Even for foreigners 5c a min isn't a great rate to the US.
I pay ever so slightly less using a calling card FROM MY CELLPHONE in the UK to call the US. A rate like 1c a minute would catch my attention and I used dialpad a lot when it was free - but i'm not going to pay that kind of money, sorry creative.
As I understood it from when i last read up on this it was to do with having monocylcic pulses spread across the entire frequency range, and the analogy to a spark gap is a pretty poor one.
A spark gap interferes with the entire radio spectrum - using it to send only one bit of data.
UWB sends very brief signals over the entire radio specturm but jamming no part of it for any more than a tiny fraction of a second. Even then power output can be so low that to conventional radio a UWB transmission will fade into background noise.
Basically what ISPs could do is offer a high bandwidth cap for traffic within their own network and enfore a far lower cap at boundary router level.
The ISP doesn't have to run a gnutella server, their users will set up a protected network with it's own connect strings and all will be good.
I'd sign up for an ISP that provided that service in a heartbeat, just because it would be fantastic for so many things:
- file sharing - vpn's with my friends
- gaming with my friends to name a few...
I guess we'd almost move back to a more bbs style environment where most of the content is local but some of it comes off the net.
I think it's the principal of locailty at play. My UK isp must have thousands of broadband subscribers and it's likely that 95% of the mp3's i'd ever want already exist on their network - but their poor upstream caps force me to retrieve that content from US college hosts and the like.
I think computer games are a reasonable analogy since they are *reasonably* priced (at least in the US).
Here if I really want a game, i'll go out and buy it. I'm perfectly capable of leeching it from gnutella or trading it on irc, but for me (and i'm not on any huge salary) the convenience outweighs the cost. Now if i could legally download iso's of that game from a blisteringly fast site then i'd do that in place of buying it in a store.
Also once i've bought a game i'll sometimes make a couple of copies so i can play multiplayer with my housemates - and I feel that this sort of piracy doesn't hurt the publishers since it's unlikely we'd all feel strongly enough about the same game to buy 3 copies in the first place.
Music is the same - given the speed of cable connections, i could have an album in under 10 minutes. Sure i'll stick that straight up on a samba share to share with my housemates but again - does that really hurt?!
As with video games there will always be an underground group of traders, but for the mass of the music buying public a cheap fast reliable unrestricted service would be better an a free slow unreliable one. Just look at how many people in the US still use free isps like netzero - there are a few but most people would rather pay the small amount for decent access!
except he strapped an ATX mobo, DC/DC converter, and a tonne of led acid batteries to his body.
He then ducttaped a webcam to his shoulder and grabbed images every few seconds, saving them to a laptop disk. The next mission was to have that dialed up to a cellphone to post images to the net every few mins - but i dont know how far he got with that.
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If you've ever been in a delorean (the ones at universal studios excepted) then you'll realise that the speedometer is pinned at 85mph.
Still I have no doubt that it could do that speed without too much effort.
My other concern would be the fact that deloreans are fecking heavy beasts - completely the opposite of any other pure electric (or even hybrid) car i've seen.
Gotta love them - at first they look like a 25-pin serial but on closer inspection they've got 3 little bnc-style connecters and a bunch of control pins :)
Secondly, that's with current technology only- a more advanced technology would allow multiple networks on the same frequency by using directional aerials- this can multiply up the usage maybe 20 times.
I see - so do i mount the directional antenna on my head and make sure i always look north?
Connecting things in a mesh is all good and well and certinaly more efficient - but is it efficient enough?
:)
Wireless networking occupies a relatively narrow band of the frequency spectrum, and probably less than the 3G ranges offered to telcos.
I highly doubt that an 802.11 mesh will ever provide that much bandwidth - especially once things start relaying in many directions at once.
Imagine splitting it up into cells, each one where a user is. As something transmits from one cell to the next, it'll use bandwidth (or available frequency space) in the neighbouring cells.
Anyway this could work for dense areas but screws over the people living in the country - worse still, it's not dependable. What if you need to make an emergency call and nobody is within range?
I heard nokia were wokring on a hybrid tech that allows you to use mesh networks when they are around and 3G otherwise - that would be cool
Also i could raise the usual problems of accounting for bandwidth use on this kind of net - who pays for it all?
So at 50Tbit/in^2 that means that a 3.5" drive with 4 double sided platters might hold
.5" hole)
:)
Area of disk (considering
9.62 - 0.196 = 9.424 in^2
8 Data surfaces
8 * 9.424 =~ 75 in^2
Total data storage:
75 * 50 / 8 = 471 Terabytes!
471 TB = 517869976682496 bytes
Bits needed to address this number of bytes:
ceil (ln (517869976682496) / ln (2)) = 49
And thankfully so long as we have a 64 bit architecture then reiserfs will happily work
Far better than using taxpayers money on things like the DCMA (usa), RIP (uk) or bombing the shit out of [insert favourite rebel country].
Universal broadband is something i'd be more than happy to see government money spent on.
I dont think i've ever actually owned a sony minidisc.
The one i have here is aiwa (and i'll admit pretty dated) but even still i suspect sony at least have the sense to keep licensing to third party manufacturers.
Anyway minidisc is pretty widely used. There are surely more md players in the world than mp3 players.
God i hope so.
It's a challenge to find 'Coke Classic' anywhere in the UK these days. I knew one place that kept it but they went out of business.
I just spent a year in the us where coke tastes fantastic and it's still foul tasting over here - but most people dont know any different.
I am totally serious here - go into a mcD's in scotland and they'll serve you new coke.... scary
If anyone else needs a referral then let me know - 40 bucks in it for each of us :)
Or if you have any other questions then i'll try, although i've shared both the good and less-good about vonage.
Cool except i need to actually refer you and since you are a coward here i dont have your email address...
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I've recently signed up to vonage digital voice and the techincal service is fantastic.
With some wrangling i've since taken the ata-186 router back to scotland with me. I work for a company in the USA and this gives me a californian phone number and (once i upgrade to the $40 service) unlimited minutes across the usa.
Latency doesn't seem to be a problem although i'm definitely with one of the better uk broadband providers. I'll also soon experiment with setting up QoS on my network to ensure that my 1024/256 doesn't saturate to the point that my voip packets drop.
The main downsides to vonage are:
- They dont let you have the password to the Cisco router which YOU have bought from them - meaning you cant use the second line or easily connect it to a h232 gatekeeper to do intelligent things with.
- They wont bill any credit card which doesn't have a US billing address and wont ship outside of the US (and guyana for some reason)
StarOffice may no longer be free but Open Office will remain free.
I think this is part of some master plan to conquer the problem of corporations who dont like free software because nobody is acountable.
Seems like a win-win situation - we get openoffice, corps get staroffice, microsoft get less sales.
...he can release his own GNU/Linux
Anyway i think GNU probably get enough credit purely because the GPL is mentioned so frequently in association wiht linux.
This isn't at all unusual - they've been doing it religiously to me for yrs.
I first bought from the USA in 96 and got charged VAT AND IMPORT DUTY.
Some items are import duty exempt (varies from 0% to 22%) and some are VAT exempt (17.5% in the UK) and you have to pay BOTH + handling fee.
Tip - have the shipper mark it as a gift worth $35.
Here we have the CEO of Turner (part of AOL Time Warner) saying that PVR users are theives and yet his same company are embracing them for profit.
Good to see AOLTW have their departments in sync... the whole gnutella thing is ringing in my head too.
So targetted marketing campaigns can track which users look at what and for how long.
These companies are trying to advocate that it is fair use to take something you paid for, rip it into another format (removing some of the superflous data), and trade it on their networks... [personally i agree with that]
Yet it is wrong to take something you paid for (remember they provide it FREE - they dont provide it in exchange for spying on you and stealing your cpu cycles - they say FREE), rip it into another format (removing some of the superflous data), and trade it on their networks.
Get real, this is going to cause more damage to their legal cases than anything else.
I'd be very suspicious of 'cleaned' applications floating about on p2p networks.
Whilst it's likely the author had your best interests at heart there's some chance he didn't.
It wouldn't be too hard to build a trojan into one of these, and if it were done well you could have your trojan version of kazaa send requests onto the network that immediately identify to anyone watching that it's an infected copy.
That'd would mean that the trojan wouldn't have to either 'phone home' or be detcted by randomly portscanning subnets.
however this still might be the lesser of two evils.
I dont see why a eurocentric distro like suse couldn't include decss code since they dont have to worry about the dcma.
Even for foreigners 5c a min isn't a great rate to the US.
I pay ever so slightly less using a calling card FROM MY CELLPHONE in the UK to call the US. A rate like 1c a minute would catch my attention and I used dialpad a lot when it was free - but i'm not going to pay that kind of money, sorry creative.
As I understood it from when i last read up on this it was to do with having monocylcic pulses spread across the entire frequency range, and the analogy to a spark gap is a pretty poor one.
A spark gap interferes with the entire radio spectrum - using it to send only one bit of data.
UWB sends very brief signals over the entire radio specturm but jamming no part of it for any more than a tiny fraction of a second. Even then power output can be so low that to conventional radio a UWB transmission will fade into background noise.
It will make it illegal to film someone without their consent for a lewd or lavicious purpose.
.prn idea.
Nanny cans et al should still be fine since the intent is to protect your kids.
Hidden cameras in hotel rooms or bathrooms are not on.
Quite simply and still quite unrelated to the dumb
I've been advocating this for some time.
Basically what ISPs could do is offer a high bandwidth cap for traffic within their own network and enfore a far lower cap at boundary router level.
The ISP doesn't have to run a gnutella server, their users will set up a protected network with it's own connect strings and all will be good.
I'd sign up for an ISP that provided that service in a heartbeat, just because it would be fantastic for so many things:
- file sharing
- vpn's with my friends
- gaming with my friends
to name a few...
I guess we'd almost move back to a more bbs style environment where most of the content is local but some of it comes off the net.
I think it's the principal of locailty at play. My UK isp must have thousands of broadband subscribers and it's likely that 95% of the mp3's i'd ever want already exist on their network - but their poor upstream caps force me to retrieve that content from US college hosts and the like.
I think computer games are a reasonable analogy since they are *reasonably* priced (at least in the US).
Here if I really want a game, i'll go out and buy it. I'm perfectly capable of leeching it from gnutella or trading it on irc, but for me (and i'm not on any huge salary) the convenience outweighs the cost. Now if i could legally download iso's of that game from a blisteringly fast site then i'd do that in place of buying it in a store.
Also once i've bought a game i'll sometimes make a couple of copies so i can play multiplayer with my housemates - and I feel that this sort of piracy doesn't hurt the publishers since it's unlikely we'd all feel strongly enough about the same game to buy 3 copies in the first place.
Music is the same - given the speed of cable connections, i could have an album in under 10 minutes. Sure i'll stick that straight up on a samba share to share with my housemates but again - does that really hurt?!
As with video games there will always be an underground group of traders, but for the mass of the music buying public a cheap fast reliable unrestricted service would be better an a free slow unreliable one. Just look at how many people in the US still use free isps like netzero - there are a few but most people would rather pay the small amount for decent access!
except he strapped an ATX mobo, DC/DC converter, and a tonne of led acid batteries to his body.
He then ducttaped a webcam to his shoulder and grabbed images every few seconds, saving them to a laptop disk. The next mission was to have that dialed up to a cellphone to post images to the net every few mins - but i dont know how far he got with that.