fact is, if rfid are to be effective for baggage trackeing, it has to be introduced on every airport in the world. Or at least on the big hubs. Otherwise it is passenger/tax payer's money thrown out of the window. The whole baggage tracking relies nowadays on the barcode on the bag tag (which is basically the number of the airline - 4 digits - and the bag number - 8 digits), and a very complex message passing based machinery. So if only jacksonville has rfid, these are hopeless unusefull on the baggage sortation system in singapore, frankfurt or chicago. because they rely only on what is printed on the bag tag.
Will be introduced soon on GSM networks... Other system didn't SMS - short messaging systems. Any system will try to match the features of a competing system - that's how it should work.
I'm not a GSM advocate, but the feature you describe are available to GSM. Repeaters? yes of course. It depends a lot on the companies offering service and according to legislation. And by the way : It is very nice to have the same telephone number several stories under the ground or in singapour, hong kong or new york. Without changing mobile phone or service.
Would resolve a lot of issues ! a. Lower prices ! The telco equipment, because of competition, is reasonnably priced b. Interoperability ! 1billion GSM users, what should I say more c. Frequency to choose from ! Available are : 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz. Adapt to local regulations! d. Roaming ! When Nextel own service is not available, they could have local roaming agreements with t-mobile or at&t.
End the end the customer would be the winner !
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"Cebit 2004, the largest IT fair in Europe." Funny. Here we say that it is the largest IT fair in the world (www.heise.de) !
Hi, we have been in the discussion with being a high profile candidate for SCO (advertising our Linux Support for our customer's solutions)... Our Lawyer said simply : Buy a set of Linux CD Boxes and Support from SuSE, now Novell! The older, the better! If SCO or their Lawyers show, up show them that you are using this system, and friendly point towards the case between Novell and SCO, and that once the issues have been resolved between those 2 parties, you would be willing to comply with whatever the outcome is.
...with enough money to buy out SCO, Ray Noorda'S investement company and smash the whole thing so that we can start to do serious work ???? Maybe we should setup a paypal account, accumulate 1 or 2 billion (euros, dollars) and buy SCO.
I said "was called" because the system has been given up. It started in 2000. At its peak you could pay taxi/cabs, flights, petrol station, restaurants. The company didn't make enough money out of it, and closed the shop in 2002. The system was simple : The money receiver send a message with money amount and telephone nr of payer. The payer received a request for confirmation, replied to the message with id of the transaction. The money received the ack for the transaction. The whole transaction happened within 1 min.
Not Microsoft. They will have to convince 160+ countries/organisations entitled to send and receive mail around the world. And if those organisations feel like loosing a bit of their monopoly because the scheme is overtly favouring the competitors' system, then the state monopoly will kick in and suspend/suppress the system. Didn't they the lesson from an OS called Linux ???
set up a paypal account to gather the 4,5m USD, ship it to international waters, close to a big communication node, set up a server farm aboard of it, and say f... you to RIAA/DMCA/Whatever for the sake of freedom of speech and thinking !!! Of course no "illegal activities" like terrorism, drug trafficing etc. What do you think about it ?
And we value and honor that. Otherwise, why would the french president invite american soldiers to parade on the 14th of july on the champs elysees ? why is the president of germany honoring on the 3rd of october the american nation for the help of reuniting germany. Historically, Europe had always problems when a republican president was in place. When a democrat is in the white house, the relations are much warmer... Let the ice age pass, and everything will be become better. And don't forget, your ancestor came from Europe. Even if mr Rumsfeld denies this.
Dear Canadian, freedom loving fellows, if your are invaded, please feel free to come to "old Europe". There is still plenty of space and many kinds of freedoms to choose from - french, german, etc. Someone from good old Europe,
Just imagine : a spam mail using that code going to millions of IE / Outlook users... This would at least have one positive effect : Make the consumer aware that Yes, there are bugs and security issues in Windows and IE. You can no more read your email...
of the voltage and standard changes...
makr sure your appliances, especially you computer is dual voltage, and check the settings before you plug in your equipment. Otherwise, boom ! Fried power supplies.
If you take your DSL router from the US, as in my case, I had to buy a special transformer for the linksys box i had (220v ac to 24v ac).
As we are speaking dsl routers, make sure that your dsl router supports the terribly long usernames of t-online/deutsche telekom...
Good luck and have fun with relocationg...
that Homeland Security Agency is at the present time not able to process the data that is provided... We have ~25 european airlines with each its proprietary system, that are not compatible to the systems that HSA is using... Millions of records get lost for the moment, until the Windows NT/2000 server machines are able to cope with the data the Unix servers of the european airlines are bombarding them with...
First thing : A company employing you cannot screen your financial situation !
Second thing : A bank you have an account with cannot screen your financial situation outside of your account (another bank, etc.)
Exception : If you want a loan from your employer or bank, or your are about doing an investement on behalf of your company, your bank or your company is allowed to ask a state run institution to check your financial background, plus money laundring issues.
The ONLY reply they get :
YES, he is clean, NO he is not clean, STOP, illegal affairs in progress. In this case, you know what you were doing...
And you are allowed at any time to check for investigations with this institution. It is not perfect, but privacy is pretty good.
"...shockwaves..." This will be damn noisy for those living under water... Noise pollution will increase to the level that those mammals will be no more able use there sonar capabilities
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fact is, if rfid are to be effective for baggage trackeing, it has to be introduced on every airport in the world. Or at least on the big hubs. Otherwise it is passenger/tax payer's money thrown out of the window.
The whole baggage tracking relies nowadays on the barcode on the bag tag (which is basically the number of the airline - 4 digits - and the bag number - 8 digits), and a very complex message passing based machinery. So if only jacksonville has rfid, these are hopeless unusefull on the baggage sortation system in singapore, frankfurt or chicago. because they rely only on what is printed on the bag tag.
Will be introduced soon on GSM networks... Other system didn't SMS - short messaging systems. Any system will try to match the features of a competing system - that's how it should work.
PTT ? What does it stand for ?
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I'm not a GSM advocate, but the feature you describe are available to GSM. Repeaters? yes of course. It depends a lot on the companies offering service and according to legislation. And by the way : It is very nice to have the same telephone number several stories under the ground or in singapour, hong kong or new york. Without changing mobile phone or service.
Would resolve a lot of issues !
a. Lower prices ! The telco equipment, because of competition, is reasonnably priced
b. Interoperability ! 1billion GSM users, what should I say more
c. Frequency to choose from ! Available are : 850, 900, 1800 and 1900 Mhz. Adapt to local regulations!
d. Roaming ! When Nextel own service is not available, they could have local roaming agreements with t-mobile or at&t.
End the end the customer would be the winner !
"Cebit 2004, the largest IT fair in Europe." Funny. Here we say that it is the largest IT fair in the world (www.heise.de) !
Hi, we have been in the discussion with being a high profile candidate for SCO (advertising our Linux Support for our customer's solutions)... Our Lawyer said simply : Buy a set of Linux CD Boxes and Support from SuSE, now Novell! The older, the better!
If SCO or their Lawyers show, up show them that you are using this system, and friendly point towards the case between Novell and SCO, and that once the issues have been resolved between those 2 parties, you would be willing to comply with whatever the outcome is.
...with enough money to buy out SCO, Ray Noorda'S investement company and smash the whole thing so that we can start to do serious work ???? Maybe we should setup a paypal account, accumulate 1 or 2 billion (euros, dollars) and buy SCO.
I said "was called" because the system has been given up. It started in 2000. At its peak you could pay taxi/cabs, flights, petrol station, restaurants. The company didn't make enough money out of it, and closed the shop in 2002. The system was simple : The money receiver send a message with money amount and telephone nr of payer. The payer received a request for confirmation, replied to the message with id of the transaction. The money received the ack for the transaction. The whole transaction happened within 1 min.
Show here how to measure light with the chocolate she is just eating. What happens after is up to you ;)
Marsexpress : a european project, launched 2 days ago by a russian soyuz rocket !
Not Microsoft. They will have to convince 160+ countries/organisations entitled to send and receive mail around the world. And if those organisations feel like loosing a bit of their monopoly because the scheme is overtly favouring the competitors' system, then the state monopoly will kick in and suspend/suppress the system. Didn't they the lesson from an OS called Linux ???
set up a paypal account to gather the 4,5m USD, ship it to international waters, close to a big communication node, set up a server farm aboard of it, and say f... you to RIAA/DMCA/Whatever for the sake of freedom of speech and thinking !!! Of course no "illegal activities" like terrorism, drug trafficing etc.
What do you think about it ?
This a valid argument...
But I assure you that the situation improved a lot since those times.
And we value and honor that.
Otherwise, why would the french president invite american soldiers to parade on the 14th of july on the champs elysees ? why is the president of germany honoring on the 3rd of october the american nation for the help of reuniting germany. Historically, Europe had always problems when a republican president was in place. When a democrat is in the white house, the relations are much warmer... Let the ice age pass, and everything will be become better. And don't forget, your ancestor came from Europe. Even if mr Rumsfeld denies this.
Dear Canadian, freedom loving fellows,
if your are invaded, please feel free to come to "old Europe". There is still plenty of space and many kinds of freedoms to choose from - french, german, etc.
Someone from good old Europe,
Just imagine : a spam mail using that code going to millions of IE / Outlook users... This would at least have one positive effect : Make the consumer aware that Yes, there are bugs and security issues in Windows and IE. You can no more read your email...
of the voltage and standard changes...
makr sure your appliances, especially you computer is dual voltage, and check the settings before you plug in your equipment. Otherwise, boom ! Fried power supplies.
If you take your DSL router from the US, as in my case, I had to buy a special transformer for the linksys box i had (220v ac to 24v ac).
As we are speaking dsl routers, make sure that your dsl router supports the terribly long usernames of t-online/deutsche telekom...
Good luck and have fun with relocationg...
that Homeland Security Agency is at the present time not able to process the data that is provided... We have ~25 european airlines with each its proprietary system, that are not compatible to the systems that HSA is using...
Millions of records get lost for the moment, until the Windows NT/2000 server machines are able to cope with the data the Unix servers of the european airlines are bombarding them with...
Preinstalled with linux, subnotebook format...
It's just an idea...
First thing : A company employing you cannot screen your financial situation !
Second thing : A bank you have an account with cannot screen your financial situation outside of your account (another bank, etc.)
Exception : If you want a loan from your employer or bank, or your are about doing an investement on behalf of your company, your bank or your company is allowed to ask a state run institution to check your financial background, plus money laundring issues.
The ONLY reply they get :
YES, he is clean,
NO he is not clean,
STOP, illegal affairs in progress. In this case, you know what you were doing...
And you are allowed at any time to check for investigations with this institution. It is not perfect, but privacy is pretty good.
"...shockwaves..." This will be damn noisy for those living under water... Noise pollution will increase to the level that those mammals will be no more able use there sonar capabilities
what about Punch-Card Interface ?
There are power plugs in the first class and business class seats...
flynet by Lufthansa
According to Lufthansa, the system will be installed on all 80 intercontinental aircrafts if the test is successfull. So use it !