They have both a wireless PC Card and Wireless AP for your home (both of which are $50 for now, though who knows what the price of a nationwide rollout would be).
A coworker has been demoing the service for my office for a few months and has nothing but good things to say...DSL-like speeds with little latency, and no interupted service that he has noticed. It is definately more expensive than DSL, but may be a nice alternative for travelers or those who can't get DSL or Cable. At least there is no annoying Nextel "beep beep" when it connects...
It looks like MDI is finally rolling these machines into production. They have a range of 120 miles, (or 10 hours in urban conditions) and have a top speed of 60-75 MPH. I remember reading about this technology in WIRED a few years ago, and it looks like it might be ready to go!
When I was bored this summer I tried out every Java IDE I could find with Google. The best by far was Simplicity for Java. Check it out, its written in Java, very fast, and very intuitive. The only thing that sucks is the license. You can't save code unless you purchase a license ($150) which makes it pretty useless to me.
For more than a week now, two of the world's superpowers have been nose-to-nose
They have no where near the military or economic resources of the United States. US military spending is about 4 times greater than China's. Any national security expert will tell you that the US is unquestionably the worlds only remaining superpower at the moment.
The article makes reference to transmitting audio over fast ethernet as well as gigabit ethernet. So, they're going with ethernet (gigabit, 100BaseTX, and 10BaseT), not ONLY gigabit ethernet. Right???
For anyone who hasn't read it
Richard P. Fenyman's Appendix F to the Rogers Report on the Challenger accident is well worth reading. The Rogers report itself kind of sucks up to NASA, but as usuual Feynman was very open and thorough with his report. Read what the father of quantum computing had to say about Challenger...
does anyone else find it ironic that sony named the ps2 after one of the best selling computer models of all time? it just adds a bit more to the hype.
"A safe school environment is fundamental to helping North Carolina's students succeed in school," announced Governor Hunt.
So North Carolina is going to make schools safer by providing another opportunity for kids to make fun of 'nerds' and 'geeks' because they are already unhappy in high school and therefore will be more likely to commit a crime than a 'happy' jock or 'normal' person. And of course this is all due to the 'evil' internet.
In a newsmagazine survey taken earlier this year, 81 percent of Americans said they believed the Net was responsible for the Columbine massacre.
It's such a shame that people automatically fear something they don't understand. What contrast to the 'Internet that would unite everyone and create peace and non-discrimination' that we heard about a few years ago. Hey, if anyone would like to start writing letters to the Governor here is his address:
Governor James B. Hunt Jr.
Office of the Governor
20301 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-0301
I didn't see an email address after a quick glance at the state website, but I welcome someone to post it...
I don't see how France plans on enforcing this law when other countries don't have the same law. A single country simply can't successfully regulate the internet, it's not going to work. Solution - Use a server outside of France.
Is the Government hurting business by trying to regulate the internet (which seems pretty impossible), or should they be able to have export controls over encryption, or online gambling in the US. Seems like any regulations that they do make are going to be darn hard to enforce, so should they even bother...
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It makes a big difference if you are in college to LEARN rather than just pursue a degree.
You pursue a CS degree to learn how a computer works and the theories behind computing (plus getting an on-campus job troubleshooting or repairing computers part-time can help even a clueless CS major get some experience). Essentially with a CS degree you learn logical thought and problem solving, similar to pursuing a degree in math. This education is intended to allow students to be more efficient and be able to solve problems by providing them with a good background on the process of computing.
Yes, it's true that people who pursue other unrelated degrees will often get jobs working with computers and be better at their jobs than some people with CS degrees. The fundamental difference is often that people who haven't studied computing will know HOW to do something corectly, and maybe even efficiently, but they often won't know specifically WHY a bug or a problem occurs because they haven't studied ISA or OS architecture. They don't know that JAVA passes variables by reference and C passes variables by value, or they found out on their own (and i AM big fan of reading to teach yourself) instead of having a professor show them and explain WHY this is so.
The WHY of how things work can be learned without a degree in CS or engineering, just as anything else. But what seperates a degree in computing from working in the field of computing is this background knowledge. It's true that a lot of people will never use a lot of what they learn in college unless the pursue a post-graduate degree, or a highly-skilled job developing this knowledge. What a college degree does do is teach people to think for themselves while giving them a background of knowledge with which to start a career. You get what you make out of your own education. Enough rambling from me...
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Your droids.
They'll have to wait outside.
We don't want them here.
Nextel Broandband has been doing a trial of its 750Kbps - 1.5Mbps service in the Raleigh/Durham area for months now.
They have both a wireless PC Card and Wireless AP for your home (both of which are $50 for now, though who knows what the price of a nationwide rollout would be).
A coworker has been demoing the service for my office for a few months and has nothing but good things to say...DSL-like speeds with little latency, and no interupted service that he has noticed. It is definately more expensive than DSL, but may be a nice alternative for travelers or those who can't get DSL or Cable.
At least there is no annoying Nextel "beep beep" when it connects...
Why not try a car powered by compressed air.
It looks like MDI is finally rolling these machines into production. They have a range of 120 miles, (or 10 hours in urban conditions) and have a top speed of 60-75 MPH. I remember reading about this technology in WIRED a few years ago, and it looks like it might be ready to go!
When I was bored this summer I tried out every Java IDE I could find with Google. The best by far was Simplicity for Java. Check it out, its written in Java, very fast, and very intuitive. The only thing that sucks is the license. You can't save code unless you purchase a license ($150) which makes it pretty useless to me.
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They have no where near the military or economic resources of the United States. US military spending is about 4 times greater than China's. Any national security expert will tell you that the US is unquestionably the worlds only remaining superpower at the moment.
The article makes reference to transmitting audio over fast ethernet as well as gigabit ethernet. So, they're going with ethernet (gigabit, 100BaseTX, and 10BaseT), not ONLY gigabit ethernet. Right???
For anyone who hasn't read it Richard P. Fenyman's Appendix F to the Rogers Report on the Challenger accident is well worth reading. The Rogers report itself kind of sucks up to NASA, but as usuual Feynman was very open and thorough with his report. Read what the father of quantum computing had to say about Challenger...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/mram.html
does anyone else find it ironic that sony named the ps2 after one of the best selling computer models of all time? it just adds a bit more to the hype.
check out the posts under NET.Jobs. It seems that Intel was advertising for a summer intern who knew Unix. Wonder if anyone applied??? :)
This months issue of Wired (http://www.wired.com/wired/current.html) is devoted to MT.Some interesting articles and interviews, check it out.
So North Carolina is going to make schools safer by providing another opportunity for kids to make fun of 'nerds' and 'geeks' because they are already unhappy in high school and therefore will be more likely to commit a crime than a 'happy' jock or 'normal' person. And of course this is all due to the 'evil' internet.
In a newsmagazine survey taken earlier this year, 81 percent of Americans said they believed the Net was responsible for the Columbine massacre.
It's such a shame that people automatically fear something they don't understand. What contrast to the 'Internet that would unite everyone and create peace and non-discrimination' that we heard about a few years ago. Hey, if anyone would like to start writing letters to the Governor here is his address:
Governor James B. Hunt Jr.
Office of the Governor
20301 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-0301
I didn't see an email address after a quick glance at the state website, but I welcome someone to post it...
I don't see how France plans on enforcing this law when other countries don't have the same law. A single country simply can't successfully regulate the internet, it's not going to work. Solution - Use a server outside of France.
Is the Government hurting business by trying to regulate the internet (which seems pretty impossible), or should they be able to have export controls over encryption, or online gambling in the US. Seems like any regulations that they do make are going to be darn hard to enforce, so should they even bother...
It makes a big difference if you are in college to LEARN rather than just pursue a degree.
You pursue a CS degree to learn how a computer works and the theories behind computing (plus getting an on-campus job troubleshooting or repairing computers part-time can help even a clueless CS major get some experience). Essentially with a CS degree you learn logical thought and problem solving, similar to pursuing a degree in math. This education is intended to allow students to be more efficient and be able to solve problems by providing them with a good background on the process of computing.
Yes, it's true that people who pursue other unrelated degrees will often get jobs working with computers and be better at their jobs than some people with CS degrees. The fundamental difference is often that people who haven't studied computing will know HOW to do something corectly, and maybe even efficiently, but they often won't know specifically WHY a bug or a problem occurs because they haven't studied ISA or OS architecture. They don't know that JAVA passes variables by reference and C passes variables by value, or they found out on their own (and i AM big fan of reading to teach yourself) instead of having a professor show them and explain WHY this is so.
The WHY of how things work can be learned without a degree in CS or engineering, just as anything else. But what seperates a degree in computing from working in the field of computing is this background knowledge. It's true that a lot of people will never use a lot of what they learn in college unless the pursue a post-graduate degree, or a highly-skilled job developing this knowledge. What a college degree does do is teach people to think for themselves while giving them a background of knowledge with which to start a career. You get what you make out of your own education. Enough rambling from me...