Anyone know what the ping times are like with UWB technology? Is the responsiveness good enough for gaming?
If it is, this can really overhaul the idea of lan parties. Managed switches will still be needed for a large scale, intelligent network. Power will still be a limiting factor, but gaming capable laptops are coming of age. If someone can slap down a UWB hub with a DHCP server, lanning can take place anywhere.
Here's a fun idea. Slap down said UWB hub and DHCP server in a downtown area, let people wardrive to find the lan location (maybe in a parking garage, or even a coffeeshop), and have flash lan mobs.:P
I currently carry two cell phones (one is work, one is personal), often an iPod. I have my gmail setup to notify me on my cell via text messaging if I receive email from close friends and family. I can check my email with Opera, or even with POP3. As well, I like to blog. I like to snap pictures of the odd thing that I might not see everyday, but I don't want to carry a big camera around. I'm a gamer too.
Enter the Nokia 6682, a cell phone that is a year old and only recently was introduced in North America. (Can't wait for the N80! WOO!) This is my personal cell, and if my work let me forward the work cell phone, I would take all calls on my personal phone. Functionality with Outlook is seamless with Nokia's software.
Bluetooth lets my phone talk to my laptop with no cables. It automatically syncs my tasks and dates, and has a POP3 client. It automatically uploads new pictures and vidoe taken. It runs the S60 platform so I can install anything, from push email technology that mimics Blackberry to emulators. I have NES, SNES and Gameboy emulators installed, as well as Wolfenstein 3D (Doom for S60 is available, but requires 4MB of RAM, 6682 has 2MB for RAM, 10MB of local memory and replacable 64MB MMCmobile chip). It will soon have a 2GB stick in it, effectively replacing my iPod. I keep my pictures of family and friends in it. The camera is 1.3MP, and pictures are good enough to post on a blog. Nokia has released LifeBlog that lets me post directly to my blog (livejournal) with zero effort. Moblogging is second nature to this thing. I've got news for you; this thing picks up teenage girls by itself. The fucked up part is that no one is marketing it with the functionality actually explored. Maybe if the wireless providers marketed wireless bluetooth headphones with the phone as a full iPod replacement, there might be more interest.
If you're used to a brick or flip phone that just takes calls, sure, all you're going to want is a replacement. Wait until you've really played with a convergence device before you pass judgement on something you don't understand.
First, let's ask ourselves, who might be using this sort of software? Probably not Dad, as the office will set him up with the requisite Microsoft software for their environment. The kids though, they'll be at school, their friend's house, maybe a library if you're lucky. They'll have cell(smart?)-phones that let them moblog to their myspace or livejournal account. Google's deployment of their homepage services to mobile phones is the most revealing as it's a step in a direction towards a different content distribution system.
Writely and Google Spreadsheet (Will we see presentation software soon?) will let students use any computer to edit files. Losing a USB key (or hard drive) with your midterm papers is a students nightmare. The very privacy that we are concerned about when it comes to our porn is relinquished when it comes ensuring we will never lose our critical data. This online software will let students edit papers wherever they are so long as they have a computer and internet. Watch for Google's emerging interests in putting computers in the hands of students, as well as the hands of people who cannot afford them.
As well, the timing of the purchase of MySpace ad rights with the Writely registration release and the nearing school year is circumspect. Google is targeting the largest demographics it can reach for the most impact.
We haven't seen the full potential for abuse of wireless yet. Everyone loves the fact we can get rid of cords, but no one realizes that as soon as you send something over the air, it can be intercepted. Interception is very difficult with wires, as data is essentially moving from Point A to Point B. With wireless, data is emanated from Point A, and a receiver at Point B detects it and picks it up. That data is now moving in a three dimensional space that is interfered with by wireless phones, cellphones, and anything else that has a strong enough electromagnetic field.
I will repeat myself. The abuses for wireless is unbelievable. If you have a wireless mouse and keyboard, all it takes is someone who wants to tap your connection. It doesn't take AT&T and the NSA to see what you're doing on your computer, it only takes your pissed off neighbor.
As wireless comes of age, people will love the simplicity and ease of use. Things will pair up easily and we will build our own personal networks. We will assume privacy because no one else is around. Case in point: Disney Mobile. What is intended for Mom and Dad to be able to keep tabs on their kids has been around for years, it's application intended for surveillance on Mom and Dad.
Lies are becoming a thing of the past. Now how honest are you? Who do you want watching over you?
The technology for surveillance is here and has been for a long time. It's time we recognize it and begin calling for transparency in the governance of those who monitor the surveillance.
Look what Google just did. They cornered the advertising niche for the largest single techno-social group on the web. They are going to put ads for brand new cell phones in the myspace addicts hands, deliver performing equipment ads to bands, and they will probably turn around and let bands advertise their gigs for next to nothing.
As we watch it, google is inventing the new economy in the new society. They will establish themselves in such a way that a severe impact on Google's functions will be visibly noticed, and by everyone. So they collaborate with MTV, the largest major youth/indepedant media business in the myspace nation. One metaphor would be that MTV is the natural gas that these kids cook things up with.
This now becomes political, especially with Google where it is on the net-neutrality issues. Say the government forces Google to do something that adversely impacts these members of myspace. Voices begin to be heard, and these people will be voting soon.
Here's a couple of questions. How many members of MySpace will be turning old enough to vote by the time Bush is to be replaced? Is that enough to sway a victory? And, what's going to happen when the myspace nation finds a political leader?
The shit's boiling over and the fans are on high. I don't want to be in here but I'm wearing my yellow slicker.
I became clued into writely when Google acquired them. Ever since I've been on a waiting list for when they start accepting new users. As an existing user, might you have any clue as to when this might happen? I would love to use this service. Might you know of any other similar services?
What's needed are people who can apply this technology well. VRML never took off because it required more technology to make and view than was financially viable.
Proper application of this has a lot of potential for information organization. Say a corporation wanted to represent what they're doing for the community. Instead of offering a bland community section on their website, they can represent the different aspects of the community within the actual community, and how their efforts changed the community superimposed. What if you could navigate the island of Lost on the web? There's a lot of potential within this, it just needs to be properly implemented.
Hell, to expand on it, why not just turn each iPod into a WiFi bittorrent seeder? Broadcast what you want (legal stuff of course;) ). Gives new meaning to swarming.
Idea: implement a form of wireless connectivity that the TVs and monitors of next year will have (WiFI perhaps?), so that when you go to a friend's place who has such a TV, all you have to do is set your iPod on broadcast and you can both watch the newest movie.
Buy another camera and start it rolling as the end of the tape on one nears the end. Use your timecoding to match up properly when you pull it to computer.
If you're contemplating suicide, or even would like to know more about this taboo subject, check out fiercegoodbye.com. My dad produced and directed this show that takes a decidedly faith-based perspective on it. There's also stories on the site from people giving their own suicide attempts. The show aired on the Hallmark channel, and also ABC TV. You may have seen it, or may have a family member that's seen it.
...until the spam trojans setup redundant bittorrent seeders and leechers?
It seems to me that the most obvious solution to this is to overwhelm the ignorant public with infections that the RIAA red flags as compromised intellectual property. Once people who are unaware that such silly laws exist actually become affected by it will anything begin to change. What if the next major exploit revealed in Windows NT-class operating systems were to setup a exactly the kind of thing seen here? Courts would be overrun with baseless cases and the Supreme Court just might make a real effort to get rid of this annoying leglislation known as the DMCA.
Thing is, it won't really be needed. That's the cool thing with these modern games, they're very scalable in allowing older hardware to run it playably. If you want to see the graphics as the developers made them, sure, most recent hardware will show you it. But the physical impossibility where upgrades were forced by games is slowly being phased out.
What's more important to you? Graphics or gameplay? Do you have the budget to spend money on hardware just to play Half Life 2 at a gorgeous setting, or are you content with gameplay on lower settings?
begin rant Since when did any law passed in recent memory actually protect the indivudal?
All it takes is to piss off some corporation and they've got the weight of all sorts of laws and acts that they paid off senators and congresspeople to pass so that they can come after the individual. Since when did any federal agency act on the concerns of the indivudal, and not with vested interest from those corporations and foundations that donate big bucks to election campaigns and federal agencies? Since when does America actually give a rats ass about the individual?
I'll tell you when. It was when the corporations became more powerful with deeper pockets than the goverment.
Taxes? You're giving more profit to your beer manufacturer, or your gas manufacturer than the government sees in taxes. What do you spend the other chunk of your income on that doesn't go towards taxes? Consumables that are being produced at ever cheaper rates in factories that aren't in the US. Guess where the employment goes towards? THOSE TAIWANESE KIDS WHO WORK UNTIL THEIR FINGERS BLEED!
People must be starting to realize that to pursue it means to continually shift and change. I dropped out of the IT field because education was inadequate, and the constant curve was ridiculous to keep up not only in terms of material to know, but also in terms of hands-on experience needed. That, and there's no decent jobs to be found.
Was it challenging? Sometimes. But what's the point to a challenge? I'd rather pursue passions.
First, if you're going to apply for a rebate, call the number on the form and make sure everything is correct. Don't assume you're doing it right. The person on the phone will be glad to help you make sure everything is done right.
For the love of god, make photocopies of everything! Rebate form, UPC codes and receipt. Rebates will rarely ask for the original receipt, so don't send in your original! Keep it, because if you want a refund, that's when your original will likely be asked for. Always keep some sort of backup for yourself. The USPS is horribly unreliable. If you can, call the 800 number and as for the street address, not the PO Box, and tell them you want to send it certified mail.
Right after you've bought your product, go to the post office and get an evelope stamped so that you can forget about the cut off date and still be able to qualify.
Read all the fine print. Don't assume anything. Often there's little catches where you need to buy something else in order to fully qualify.
Yes, mark the cut-off date. Also mark on your calendar to call in and check the status after a month. It usually won't take more than a month for a rebate to arrive in the fufillment center and be processed. Verify your mailing information with them to make sure that when it was entered by the datamonkey that everything went in wrong. The unix database that I put stuff into must have triplicate records for every fourth entry, with half of them entered by people who put "Drive" instead of "Dr.", or put an extra digit in your address, or grossly misspelled your last name.
If you're calling in to check status, the Customer Service Rep will love you because it'll be a short call that will keep their call times down.
And for fucks sake, if you DO fuck up and don't send in a UPC code, or are late, the person you speak to on the phone can't change a thing. Speaking to a supervisor isn't going to change anything either. The policies are put in place by senior management, and there is nothing we can do for you. If anything, the supervisor is going to reiterate what the CSR just told you and waste your time.
It makes almost no difference if the telemarkter is located in Canada.
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are naive inherently. So we've confirmed that water and oxygen are required for sustaining our own carbon-based lifeforms on this tiny planet called Earth. There's eight other plants in our solar system that may utilize something like, for example, methane in a completely different way that we never would have thought of. Sure we need a place to start looking, but let's also stay open to the possibilities that our conceptions of what life requires may not be the same in every solar system, much less every planet.
I work for a telemarketing company. (There are no IT jobs in Winnipeg, it's a cesspool) Our policy is to only put someone on our Do Not Call list if they say the words "Don't Call", "Do Not Call", or something very similar. Just saying "Not Interested" won't get you off our list; you'll get called when we have something new to offer. Once you've indicated you want out of our list, we indicate that you may still recieve mail or calls from us up to 90 days because we as telemarketers cannot stop mail or calls already scheduled. We then tell you how to opt out of all solicitations and not just ours, and include the snail mail address:
Mail Preference Service Direct Marketing Association PO Box 9008 Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
You write them and indicate you want to be removed from all solicitations.
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Anyone know what the ping times are like with UWB technology? Is the responsiveness good enough for gaming?
:P
If it is, this can really overhaul the idea of lan parties. Managed switches will still be needed for a large scale, intelligent network. Power will still be a limiting factor, but gaming capable laptops are coming of age. If someone can slap down a UWB hub with a DHCP server, lanning can take place anywhere.
Here's a fun idea. Slap down said UWB hub and DHCP server in a downtown area, let people wardrive to find the lan location (maybe in a parking garage, or even a coffeeshop), and have flash lan mobs.
I currently carry two cell phones (one is work, one is personal), often an iPod. I have my gmail setup to notify me on my cell via text messaging if I receive email from close friends and family. I can check my email with Opera, or even with POP3. As well, I like to blog. I like to snap pictures of the odd thing that I might not see everyday, but I don't want to carry a big camera around. I'm a gamer too.
Enter the Nokia 6682, a cell phone that is a year old and only recently was introduced in North America. (Can't wait for the N80! WOO!) This is my personal cell, and if my work let me forward the work cell phone, I would take all calls on my personal phone. Functionality with Outlook is seamless with Nokia's software.
Bluetooth lets my phone talk to my laptop with no cables. It automatically syncs my tasks and dates, and has a POP3 client. It automatically uploads new pictures and vidoe taken. It runs the S60 platform so I can install anything, from push email technology that mimics Blackberry to emulators. I have NES, SNES and Gameboy emulators installed, as well as Wolfenstein 3D (Doom for S60 is available, but requires 4MB of RAM, 6682 has 2MB for RAM, 10MB of local memory and replacable 64MB MMCmobile chip). It will soon have a 2GB stick in it, effectively replacing my iPod. I keep my pictures of family and friends in it. The camera is 1.3MP, and pictures are good enough to post on a blog. Nokia has released LifeBlog that lets me post directly to my blog (livejournal) with zero effort. Moblogging is second nature to this thing. I've got news for you; this thing picks up teenage girls by itself. The fucked up part is that no one is marketing it with the functionality actually explored. Maybe if the wireless providers marketed wireless bluetooth headphones with the phone as a full iPod replacement, there might be more interest.
If you're used to a brick or flip phone that just takes calls, sure, all you're going to want is a replacement. Wait until you've really played with a convergence device before you pass judgement on something you don't understand.
First, let's ask ourselves, who might be using this sort of software? Probably not Dad, as the office will set him up with the requisite Microsoft software for their environment. The kids though, they'll be at school, their friend's house, maybe a library if you're lucky. They'll have cell(smart?)-phones that let them moblog to their myspace or livejournal account. Google's deployment of their homepage services to mobile phones is the most revealing as it's a step in a direction towards a different content distribution system.
Writely and Google Spreadsheet (Will we see presentation software soon?) will let students use any computer to edit files. Losing a USB key (or hard drive) with your midterm papers is a students nightmare. The very privacy that we are concerned about when it comes to our porn is relinquished when it comes ensuring we will never lose our critical data. This online software will let students edit papers wherever they are so long as they have a computer and internet. Watch for Google's emerging interests in putting computers in the hands of students, as well as the hands of people who cannot afford them.
As well, the timing of the purchase of MySpace ad rights with the Writely registration release and the nearing school year is circumspect. Google is targeting the largest demographics it can reach for the most impact.
The real question to ask is, what's next?
We haven't seen the full potential for abuse of wireless yet. Everyone loves the fact we can get rid of cords, but no one realizes that as soon as you send something over the air, it can be intercepted. Interception is very difficult with wires, as data is essentially moving from Point A to Point B. With wireless, data is emanated from Point A, and a receiver at Point B detects it and picks it up. That data is now moving in a three dimensional space that is interfered with by wireless phones, cellphones, and anything else that has a strong enough electromagnetic field.
I will repeat myself. The abuses for wireless is unbelievable. If you have a wireless mouse and keyboard, all it takes is someone who wants to tap your connection. It doesn't take AT&T and the NSA to see what you're doing on your computer, it only takes your pissed off neighbor.
As wireless comes of age, people will love the simplicity and ease of use. Things will pair up easily and we will build our own personal networks. We will assume privacy because no one else is around. Case in point: Disney Mobile. What is intended for Mom and Dad to be able to keep tabs on their kids has been around for years, it's application intended for surveillance on Mom and Dad.
Lies are becoming a thing of the past. Now how honest are you? Who do you want watching over you?
The technology for surveillance is here and has been for a long time. It's time we recognize it and begin calling for transparency in the governance of those who monitor the surveillance.
Look what Google just did. They cornered the advertising niche for the largest single techno-social group on the web. They are going to put ads for brand new cell phones in the myspace addicts hands, deliver performing equipment ads to bands, and they will probably turn around and let bands advertise their gigs for next to nothing.
As we watch it, google is inventing the new economy in the new society. They will establish themselves in such a way that a severe impact on Google's functions will be visibly noticed, and by everyone. So they collaborate with MTV, the largest major youth/indepedant media business in the myspace nation. One metaphor would be that MTV is the natural gas that these kids cook things up with.
This now becomes political, especially with Google where it is on the net-neutrality issues. Say the government forces Google to do something that adversely impacts these members of myspace. Voices begin to be heard, and these people will be voting soon.
Here's a couple of questions. How many members of MySpace will be turning old enough to vote by the time Bush is to be replaced? Is that enough to sway a victory? And, what's going to happen when the myspace nation finds a political leader?
The shit's boiling over and the fans are on high. I don't want to be in here but I'm wearing my yellow slicker.
I became clued into writely when Google acquired them. Ever since I've been on a waiting list for when they start accepting new users. As an existing user, might you have any clue as to when this might happen? I would love to use this service. Might you know of any other similar services?
What's needed are people who can apply this technology well. VRML never took off because it required more technology to make and view than was financially viable.
Proper application of this has a lot of potential for information organization. Say a corporation wanted to represent what they're doing for the community. Instead of offering a bland community section on their website, they can represent the different aspects of the community within the actual community, and how their efforts changed the community superimposed. What if you could navigate the island of Lost on the web? There's a lot of potential within this, it just needs to be properly implemented.
Has anyone taken a good look at the iMuffs?
http://www.wi-gear.com/products/imuffs/
I love the idea, and they'd work perfectly with my iPod.
Well said. As well, if you're ever in Winnipeg, you've got a beer on me. :p
So, headshot becomes gutshot? Just doesn't have the same ring.
Will electromagnetic pulses affect quantum computers?
Hell, to expand on it, why not just turn each iPod into a WiFi bittorrent seeder? Broadcast what you want (legal stuff of course ;) ). Gives new meaning to swarming.
Idea: implement a form of wireless connectivity that the TVs and monitors of next year will have (WiFI perhaps?), so that when you go to a friend's place who has such a TV, all you have to do is set your iPod on broadcast and you can both watch the newest movie.
Buy another camera and start it rolling as the end of the tape on one nears the end. Use your timecoding to match up properly when you pull it to computer.
Not to play Moore here, but;
If there's so many guns in society, why isn't it safer? Why is there so much gun-related violent crime?
Here's an article on how to get every rebate you send in for.
If you're contemplating suicide, or even would like to know more about this taboo subject, check out fiercegoodbye.com. My dad produced and directed this show that takes a decidedly faith-based perspective on it. There's also stories on the site from people giving their own suicide attempts. The show aired on the Hallmark channel, and also ABC TV. You may have seen it, or may have a family member that's seen it.
...until the spam trojans setup redundant bittorrent seeders and leechers?
It seems to me that the most obvious solution to this is to overwhelm the ignorant public with infections that the RIAA red flags as compromised intellectual property. Once people who are unaware that such silly laws exist actually become affected by it will anything begin to change. What if the next major exploit revealed in Windows NT-class operating systems were to setup a exactly the kind of thing seen here? Courts would be overrun with baseless cases and the Supreme Court just might make a real effort to get rid of this annoying leglislation known as the DMCA.
Thing is, it won't really be needed. That's the cool thing with these modern games, they're very scalable in allowing older hardware to run it playably. If you want to see the graphics as the developers made them, sure, most recent hardware will show you it. But the physical impossibility where upgrades were forced by games is slowly being phased out.
What's more important to you? Graphics or gameplay? Do you have the budget to spend money on hardware just to play Half Life 2 at a gorgeous setting, or are you content with gameplay on lower settings?
begin rant
Since when did any law passed in recent memory actually protect the indivudal?
All it takes is to piss off some corporation and they've got the weight of all sorts of laws and acts that they paid off senators and congresspeople to pass so that they can come after the individual. Since when did any federal agency act on the concerns of the indivudal, and not with vested interest from those corporations and foundations that donate big bucks to election campaigns and federal agencies? Since when does America actually give a rats ass about the individual?
I'll tell you when. It was when the corporations became more powerful with deeper pockets than the goverment.
Taxes? You're giving more profit to your beer manufacturer, or your gas manufacturer than the government sees in taxes. What do you spend the other chunk of your income on that doesn't go towards taxes? Consumables that are being produced at ever cheaper rates in factories that aren't in the US. Guess where the employment goes towards? THOSE TAIWANESE KIDS WHO WORK UNTIL THEIR FINGERS BLEED!
end rant
People must be starting to realize that to pursue it means to continually shift and change. I dropped out of the IT field because education was inadequate, and the constant curve was ridiculous to keep up not only in terms of material to know, but also in terms of hands-on experience needed. That, and there's no decent jobs to be found.
Was it challenging? Sometimes. But what's the point to a challenge? I'd rather pursue passions.
I provide customer support for a rebate center.
First, if you're going to apply for a rebate, call the number on the form and make sure everything is correct. Don't assume you're doing it right. The person on the phone will be glad to help you make sure everything is done right.
For the love of god, make photocopies of everything! Rebate form, UPC codes and receipt. Rebates will rarely ask for the original receipt, so don't send in your original! Keep it, because if you want a refund, that's when your original will likely be asked for. Always keep some sort of backup for yourself. The USPS is horribly unreliable. If you can, call the 800 number and as for the street address, not the PO Box, and tell them you want to send it certified mail.
Right after you've bought your product, go to the post office and get an evelope stamped so that you can forget about the cut off date and still be able to qualify.
Read all the fine print. Don't assume anything. Often there's little catches where you need to buy something else in order to fully qualify.
Yes, mark the cut-off date. Also mark on your calendar to call in and check the status after a month. It usually won't take more than a month for a rebate to arrive in the fufillment center and be processed. Verify your mailing information with them to make sure that when it was entered by the datamonkey that everything went in wrong. The unix database that I put stuff into must have triplicate records for every fourth entry, with half of them entered by people who put "Drive" instead of "Dr.", or put an extra digit in your address, or grossly misspelled your last name.
If you're calling in to check status, the Customer Service Rep will love you because it'll be a short call that will keep their call times down.
And for fucks sake, if you DO fuck up and don't send in a UPC code, or are late, the person you speak to on the phone can't change a thing. Speaking to a supervisor isn't going to change anything either. The policies are put in place by senior management, and there is nothing we can do for you. If anything, the supervisor is going to reiterate what the CSR just told you and waste your time.
Hope this helps.
It makes almost no difference if the telemarkter is located in Canada.
are naive inherently. So we've confirmed that water and oxygen are required for sustaining our own carbon-based lifeforms on this tiny planet called Earth. There's eight other plants in our solar system that may utilize something like, for example, methane in a completely different way that we never would have thought of. Sure we need a place to start looking, but let's also stay open to the possibilities that our conceptions of what life requires may not be the same in every solar system, much less every planet.
I work for a telemarketing company. (There are no IT jobs in Winnipeg, it's a cesspool) Our policy is to only put someone on our Do Not Call list if they say the words "Don't Call", "Do Not Call", or something very similar. Just saying "Not Interested" won't get you off our list; you'll get called when we have something new to offer. Once you've indicated you want out of our list, we indicate that you may still recieve mail or calls from us up to 90 days because we as telemarketers cannot stop mail or calls already scheduled. We then tell you how to opt out of all solicitations and not just ours, and include the snail mail address:
Mail Preference Service
Direct Marketing Association
PO Box 9008
Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008
You write them and indicate you want to be removed from all solicitations.
Hope this helps.