One thing that I can see this benefiting in the cable world is the delivery of low penetration (no not porn) services to those who are willing to pay for them. Rather than locking up a full channel in an MPEG stream for Broadcast or worse, VoD, cable operators would be able to provide this through future STBs with IPTV support. Most of the higher end set top boxes Motorola provides (6412/6416) come with a DOCSIS modem built in.
As a cable operator I would hate to see IPTV become wide spread as there is such a well suited deliver mechanism in place through HFC networks as it is. But for those operators that want to provide a wider range of services to meet everyones needs, this could be achieved through IPTV. Without having to undergo expensive bandwidth upgrades, or invest in expensive statistical MPEG4 muxes, or even switched digital broadcast, this could be a very good for Motorola.
IP is great, but I don't see it as being the solution to all problems, and a HFC Broadcast/Narrowcast/Switched Digital Broadcast/IPTV mix is attractive for providing cable customers with the greatest range of choice with the most economical solution for the cable operator.
Also for Motorola's sake, other hardware providers are doing the same thing and are already begining to eat away at Motos market share. With OpenCable not far on the horizon, this is a must do for them.
I work for a cable company that already carries a PBS feed from Seattle and Detroit (we are a Canadian Cable Co). We also have a community/public access channel both in Canada and a small 600 home network in Polint Roberts Washington. It would be kind of cool if we could provide this, in the wee hours if people were keen on that.
I suppose too that we could also just host a torrent or provide support for that.
If you equate the worth of HAM radio operators in saving lives then of course you probably won't be impressed with their involvement until they race into a burning building or pull people from a demolished building.
The fact still remains that HAM radio is an excellend form of decentralized communication. In the event that there is some regional disaster on the scale of say, the December 26th Tsunami in SE Asia, then their aid in communicating relevant information to those impacted is important. That said, VHF radio does a fairly good job of reaching a large area, but it is far shorter in reach than any comparibly powered HAM radio.
Sometimes routine traffic is just as important as critical time sensetive operations oriented communications.
isn't going to be that high. Narad is not designed for high density deployment. It is in essence an overlay network that makes use of unused spectrum around the 1GHz range, allocating itself up and downstream spectrum suitable for 100mb/s data rates. But to achieve this it needs to install triplex filters and active elements at EACH CATV active on the plant. What is more, the access devices can only be connected to two ports on each Narad active element, with three being available off of the last element.
We have deployed Narad on our network with great success but not as a residential service. Narad is a fit for us where we need to have fibre quality data circuits to businesses where running fibre would be costly/timely.
If a customer is willing to spend the dollars, I am sure they would be able to receive internet access from us, but at this time it is only for our larger municipal customers.
GunBound makes fists full of cash. There are two ways to upgrade your characters, one is through points, received during game play for good shots and take outs. The other is by buying 'cash' that will allow you to spend that on upgrades.
It is huge in Korea and South America, gaining popularity in Canada and the US every day.
Previvously when we had received an infringement notice from copyright holders, we would notify the customer to remove the infringing files, and that would be that.
Now, we have to inform them that we have had a complaint, and then keep record of the notification for some reasonable length of time.
I do like the notice and notice aspect, just not the keeping record part. The responsibility is now on us to maintain accurate records of contact.
I work for an ISP and we recently had a friendly informational meeting with our local police. It was pretty much a get to know you kind of thing.
In talking, the topic of child porn came up as it would be something we cooperate should that type of investigation land on our networks door-step. The Officer said that they could have found 20 images of a 'child' in various stages of undress, and the last one was an image of a fully disclothed child, but without a clear shot of their face. Out of all of that they would have no way (with out obvious birthmarks and the like) to classify any of the images as child pornography because there was no definitive way to link the final image to the identity of the child.
Pretty depressing stuff, but that is the reality the poice face when trying to prosecute this kind of thing.
Imagine the steps ISPs would have to do to come to the same conclusions.
I second that. (/me also works for a cable company)
I have never been a fan of equal access legislation, and thankfully we haven't had to see much of that. The cable company I work for is small enough that we skirt under the radar up here in Canada. Currently only the top 3 have to allow 3rd party access.
As more and more broadband companies (Cable and DSL) offer VoIP (Digital Voice) services to their customers, they are going to have to ensure the product they provide is hardened against competative network resrouce usage (i.e. ANY other traffic). In the Cable world, MSOs are going to be applying QoS tags to the bits containing Voice calls from their customers. When a call originates behind one of their MTAs or eMTAs, they are expected to do this. As a result ALL other traffic should, and will suffer to some degree. Whether they are deliberately trying to break the Vonage call or not, it is going to happen.
The simple fact of the matter is that the Triple-Play threat (Voice, Video, Data) should be more of a concern to Vonage, as bundling will end up being more of a concern than network performance.
I have been looking at the types found at friendly robotics and the way they have things going is pretty slick. It simple, and pretty efficient.
They employ a mulching style blade that minimizes the size of the clippings, with the thought that they fall between the remaining blades and compost their way into lawn food.
There isn't much in the way of obstacle avoidance, instead obstacle redirection. Sensors on the front are depressed as it bumps into something, it turns and then moves on.
You define a perimeter of your cutting area with a 100m wire placed at the lawns edge. This wire provides a low power rf or some similar signal that the mower picks up on. If for some reason the wire breaks, the mower shuts down (blade spin time in 2 seconds). When the mower reaches the perimiter, it treats it like an obstacle, turns and mows on.
Finally, the mower runs for 3 hours (the big one of the three models). For 5 minutes prior to rolling off of the charging stand, there is an audible alarm warning of the mowers impenting departure. When the mower is closing in on the 3 hour mark, it starts heading back to the charger, charging time tales 24 hours.
So yeah, looking at these things... I would suggest some kind of 'remote control'. If the mower doesn't detect some sort of rf signal, it doesn't start rolling, allowing for a emergency shutoff. If you want to venture into the obstacle avoidance realm, perhaps hold off on that, get the obstacle redirection down first, then mod ify again, baby steps...
Some kind of charging system is in order... try for solar, or line power, I would steer clear of gas.
Would love to see any work you do on a project like this.
I think the problem would be getting the low orbit organ express to the location of the donor. Unless you mean to have ground crews in every city with the ability to turn around the rocket in a matter of minutes.
We are in the process of building a Solar array for our summer home and I was blown away at the inefficiencies in DC to AC conversion. In fact they were on the order of 30% - 40% and the amount of solar power needed to maintain any sort of charge on the battery system was way more than expected. We found that finding a nice balance between AC and DC lighting would be the best win in our case as the efficiencies in DC to DC conversion (yes I was surprised about this one too) were much greater.
In the summer months there is more than enough sunlight to power our inverter system and keep the batteries charged enough, but we will have had to add a small hydro electric system for the winter months, which will allow for up to 40 AMPS (48V DC) which won't die through the night.
I would be interested to know if the fact that cable companies have the lower customer satisfaction, based on the fact that it is much easier for customers, and 'anomolies' in gerneal to interfere with the service. Having worked for a cable company for a good portion of my working years, I know all to well the type of problems that can arise from customer intervention.
When customers are approached (admitedly, not always with the best method) regarding their handiwork, they do become defensive on the matter, perhaps citing poor customer service in the process. Additionally, the broadband RF spectrum that cable providers make use of (53MHz to 850+Mhz) is filled with oodles of sources of interference. (Pagers, Ham Radios, etc)
Also, my work in the cable industry has been entirely in Canada. I think that the canadian cable industry is a lot more mature, and two of the 3 major companies have strong family roots. I believe there is a stronger sense of customer responsibility north of the border when it comes to cable.
I am not fully aware of Brown's expertise in the subject of OS history and computer science in general, but do you think that Tanenbaum might have an edge in that department?
From what I read Brown has a B.A in English Literature... WOW, this is so not impressive. Andrew has been a larger part of the CS community and probably has a better idea where the 'any key' is than Kenny does. I find the self-righteous B.A. types to be just that. You will never win an argument with them because they will never be able to ascertain when it is over. I think Andrew deserves a lot of credit for even writing a rebuttal to Ken's comments.
Ken Brown is serving a personal agenda by writing for the right, and to bolster his own personal exposure with those who he wants to work with/for. Doing some research, Brown's first Open Source article came in June of 2002. 2 years vs a life time... I think the term is 'on crack' when someone thinks they are correct over someone with a lifetime of exposure on the subject.
Andrew Tanenbaum has been there done that, and probably has more knowledge of what is going on than most people out there. I read a lot of ASTs textbooks, and still have them on my shelf. I think its pretty easy to side with him on this one.
There is an option that works well in both win32 and *nix. I have adopted it just for the very same reason it frustrates the hell out of me when I type ls in win32 and dir on solaris.
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One thing that I can see this benefiting in the cable world is the delivery of low penetration (no not porn) services to those who are willing to pay for them. Rather than locking up a full channel in an MPEG stream for Broadcast or worse, VoD, cable operators would be able to provide this through future STBs with IPTV support. Most of the higher end set top boxes Motorola provides (6412/6416) come with a DOCSIS modem built in.
/IPTV mix is attractive for providing cable customers with the greatest range of choice with the most economical solution for the cable operator.
As a cable operator I would hate to see IPTV become wide spread as there is such a well suited deliver mechanism in place through HFC networks as it is. But for those operators that want to provide a wider range of services to meet everyones needs, this could be achieved through IPTV. Without having to undergo expensive bandwidth upgrades, or invest in expensive statistical MPEG4 muxes, or even switched digital broadcast, this could be a very good for Motorola.
IP is great, but I don't see it as being the solution to all problems, and a HFC Broadcast/Narrowcast/Switched Digital Broadcast
Also for Motorola's sake, other hardware providers are doing the same thing and are already begining to eat away at Motos market share. With OpenCable not far on the horizon, this is a must do for them.
Can't Oprah stick to Chicago?
I would imagin that key logging would be as simple as placing a piece of paper in the typewriter
I work for a cable company that already carries a PBS feed from Seattle and Detroit (we are a Canadian Cable Co). We also have a community/public access channel both in Canada and a small 600 home network in Polint Roberts Washington. It would be kind of cool if we could provide this, in the wee hours if people were keen on that.
I suppose too that we could also just host a torrent or provide support for that.
Could a cable company broadcast it in an available channel slot? Perhaps throw it in the mix of its community programming?
Any one have some answers on that?
If you equate the worth of HAM radio operators in saving lives then of course you probably won't be impressed with their involvement until they race into a burning building or pull people from a demolished building.
The fact still remains that HAM radio is an excellend form of decentralized communication. In the event that there is some regional disaster on the scale of say, the December 26th Tsunami in SE Asia, then their aid in communicating relevant information to those impacted is important. That said, VHF radio does a fairly good job of reaching a large area, but it is far shorter in reach than any comparibly powered HAM radio.
Sometimes routine traffic is just as important as critical time sensetive operations oriented communications.
is this the same David Alan Grier from In living color?
I believe it is a trupe, pronounced similar to toupe
isn't going to be that high. Narad is not designed for high density deployment. It is in essence an overlay network that makes use of unused spectrum around the 1GHz range, allocating itself up and downstream spectrum suitable for 100mb/s data rates. But to achieve this it needs to install triplex filters and active elements at EACH CATV active on the plant. What is more, the access devices can only be connected to two ports on each Narad active element, with three being available off of the last element.
We have deployed Narad on our network with great success but not as a residential service. Narad is a fit for us where we need to have fibre quality data circuits to businesses where running fibre would be costly/timely.
If a customer is willing to spend the dollars, I am sure they would be able to receive internet access from us, but at this time it is only for our larger municipal customers.
GunBound makes fists full of cash. There are two ways to upgrade your characters, one is through points, received during game play for good shots and take outs. The other is by buying 'cash' that will allow you to spend that on upgrades.
It is huge in Korea and South America, gaining popularity in Canada and the US every day.
Previvously when we had received an infringement notice from copyright holders, we would notify the customer to remove the infringing files, and that would be that.
Now, we have to inform them that we have had a complaint, and then keep record of the notification for some reasonable length of time.
I do like the notice and notice aspect, just not the keeping record part. The responsibility is now on us to maintain accurate records of contact.
nyet, from the Feb 26, 2004 article:
He will be collecting his gong from the Queen at Buckingham Palace at a "mutually convenient" time for him and Her Majesty's Government. ®
Looks like that mutually convenient time, is now.
just disable the ability to upload sprays... done.
sv_allowupload 0 in your server.cfg file
Your servers your rules...
I work for an ISP and we recently had a friendly informational meeting with our local police. It was pretty much a get to know you kind of thing.
In talking, the topic of child porn came up as it would be something we cooperate should that type of investigation land on our networks door-step. The Officer said that they could have found 20 images of a 'child' in various stages of undress, and the last one was an image of a fully disclothed child, but without a clear shot of their face. Out of all of that they would have no way (with out obvious birthmarks and the like) to classify any of the images as child pornography because there was no definitive way to link the final image to the identity of the child.
Pretty depressing stuff, but that is the reality the poice face when trying to prosecute this kind of thing.
Imagine the steps ISPs would have to do to come to the same conclusions.
I second that. (/me also works for a cable company)
I have never been a fan of equal access legislation, and thankfully we haven't had to see much of that. The cable company I work for is small enough that we skirt under the radar up here in Canada. Currently only the top 3 have to allow 3rd party access.
As more and more broadband companies (Cable and DSL) offer VoIP (Digital Voice) services to their customers, they are going to have to ensure the product they provide is hardened against competative network resrouce usage (i.e. ANY other traffic). In the Cable world, MSOs are going to be applying QoS tags to the bits containing Voice calls from their customers. When a call originates behind one of their MTAs or eMTAs, they are expected to do this. As a result ALL other traffic should, and will suffer to some degree. Whether they are deliberately trying to break the Vonage call or not, it is going to happen.
The simple fact of the matter is that the Triple-Play threat (Voice, Video, Data) should be more of a concern to Vonage, as bundling will end up being more of a concern than network performance.
Oh look, a Vonage advert at the top of the page.
The whole point of laying FTTP is to get rid of the phone lines and enable them to offer a broader spectrum of services (voice/video/data/beer on tap)
I have been looking at the types found at friendly robotics and the way they have things going is pretty slick. It simple, and pretty efficient.
They employ a mulching style blade that minimizes the size of the clippings, with the thought that they fall between the remaining blades and compost their way into lawn food.
There isn't much in the way of obstacle avoidance, instead obstacle redirection. Sensors on the front are depressed as it bumps into something, it turns and then moves on.
You define a perimeter of your cutting area with a 100m wire placed at the lawns edge. This wire provides a low power rf or some similar signal that the mower picks up on. If for some reason the wire breaks, the mower shuts down (blade spin time in 2 seconds). When the mower reaches the perimiter, it treats it like an obstacle, turns and mows on.
Finally, the mower runs for 3 hours (the big one of the three models). For 5 minutes prior to rolling off of the charging stand, there is an audible alarm warning of the mowers impenting departure. When the mower is closing in on the 3 hour mark, it starts heading back to the charger, charging time tales 24 hours.
So yeah, looking at these things... I would suggest some kind of 'remote control'. If the mower doesn't detect some sort of rf signal, it doesn't start rolling, allowing for a emergency shutoff. If you want to venture into the obstacle avoidance realm, perhaps hold off on that, get the obstacle redirection down first, then mod ify again, baby steps...
Some kind of charging system is in order... try for solar, or line power, I would steer clear of gas.
Would love to see any work you do on a project like this.
I think the problem would be getting the low orbit organ express to the location of the donor. Unless you mean to have ground crews in every city with the ability to turn around the rocket in a matter of minutes.
We are in the process of building a Solar array for our summer home and I was blown away at the inefficiencies in DC to AC conversion. In fact they were on the order of 30% - 40% and the amount of solar power needed to maintain any sort of charge on the battery system was way more than expected. We found that finding a nice balance between AC and DC lighting would be the best win in our case as the efficiencies in DC to DC conversion (yes I was surprised about this one too) were much greater.
In the summer months there is more than enough sunlight to power our inverter system and keep the batteries charged enough, but we will have had to add a small hydro electric system for the winter months, which will allow for up to 40 AMPS (48V DC) which won't die through the night.
Don't you mean The Cassini-Huygens mission? Phoebe is the little moon like thing that is cause for all this hubbub.
I am sorry... after posting this, I noticed it was slightly offtopic... my bad
I would be interested to know if the fact that cable companies have the lower customer satisfaction, based on the fact that it is much easier for customers, and 'anomolies' in gerneal to interfere with the service. Having worked for a cable company for a good portion of my working years, I know all to well the type of problems that can arise from customer intervention.
When customers are approached (admitedly, not always with the best method) regarding their handiwork, they do become defensive on the matter, perhaps citing poor customer service in the process. Additionally, the broadband RF spectrum that cable providers make use of (53MHz to 850+Mhz) is filled with oodles of sources of interference. (Pagers, Ham Radios, etc)
Also, my work in the cable industry has been entirely in Canada. I think that the canadian cable industry is a lot more mature, and two of the 3 major companies have strong family roots. I believe there is a stronger sense of customer responsibility north of the border when it comes to cable.
I am not fully aware of Brown's expertise in the subject of OS history and computer science in general, but do you think that Tanenbaum might have an edge in that department?
From what I read Brown has a B.A in English Literature... WOW, this is so not impressive. Andrew has been a larger part of the CS community and probably has a better idea where the 'any key' is than Kenny does. I find the self-righteous B.A. types to be just that. You will never win an argument with them because they will never be able to ascertain when it is over. I think Andrew deserves a lot of credit for even writing a rebuttal to Ken's comments.
Ken Brown is serving a personal agenda by writing for the right, and to bolster his own personal exposure with those who he wants to work with/for. Doing some research, Brown's first Open Source article came in June of 2002. 2 years vs a life time... I think the term is 'on crack' when someone thinks they are correct over someone with a lifetime of exposure on the subject.
Andrew Tanenbaum has been there done that, and probably has more knowledge of what is going on than most people out there. I read a lot of ASTs textbooks, and still have them on my shelf. I think its pretty easy to side with him on this one.
There is an option that works well in both win32 and *nix. I have adopted it just for the very same reason it frustrates the hell out of me when I type ls in win32 and dir on solaris.