Exactly, there is nothing spectacular like this. Allowing someone to buy a subdomain of one of your domains is not what I would call newsworthy material. Don't most blogging sites do this already?
If you don't currently have a provider offering terresterial wireless or DSL/cable, WiMax isn't going to change that at all.
The exciting thing about WiMax is that it can provide high speed (50Mbps+) over long distances (tested at over 60 miles). So, yes, you'll still need coverage, but providers won't have to put nearly as many access points as they would with WiFi or have to lay the cable they would for DSL/cable.
There is no equipment *today* that is certified to be WiMax. Everything we're seeing right now is "Pre-WiMax". This is equipment that will probably pass certification, but hasn't yet. The certification lab just started accepting equipment for test a couple months back. The belief is that by the end of the year we'll see some actual certified hardware available. See wimaxforum.org - the official wimax site.
"If you are going to get one; get two: one for you and one for your best friend."
Because I know my friends would just love it if I secretly replaced their keyboard with one that had no labels on it. Of course they wouldn't be able to email me their problems any more.... hmmm maybe it is a good idea after all.
Most of my math classes were 50% for the answer and 50% for the work. I remember one test where I couldn't figure out one problem, I wrote down x=4 as the answer without any work showing (I hadn't read HHGTTG yet). The answer was 4, I got 1/2 marks for the question. I've also done questions where I did all the work correctly but for some reason wrote the incorrect answer at the end, something like: ....
x=4/2
x=4
Yes, I got the answer wrong, but up till that point everything was correct, I got 1/2 marks again. Seemed fair to me in both cases.
Though I can't read the article (its refusing connections, even without the referer set), I'm guessing the car will look for a key in a particular file. So, hacking it to start more than one car would involve convincing a USB device to deliver a different file based on who is requesting it. Now, if each car looks for a different file, then its not really a hack, its copying a file.
Hmmm... did some reading, and the drum (older style) are still being sold all over the place. Besides, my place was built in the late 70's. The injector style do appear to solve the mold problem the drum style had, might have to look into getting one.
Yes, and I don't think anyone will disagree with you. There are lots of game for Linux. There aren't may mainstream games for Linux. The workarounds to get these games working on Linux are available, but have questionable results, performance, etc.
I keep a W2K box around where I play my games. But for damn near everything else I do, I really do, much prefer working on Linux. My W2K box is an Athlon 2400 OC'd with 1GB RAM. Yet, for production (coding, development, document writing, etc), my 600Mhz with 128MB RAM is about 90-95% as responsive. If I need a tool, its usually as simple as apt-get install (I always install the apt suite for RedHat).
Pretty rare that I've had my glasses ice up, though I have had it happen. While a good heating system does add humidity to the air in the cold winter, you have to weigh the benefits. The old style humidifiers that attach to the furnace need to be cleaned DAILY. The amount of mold, spores, etc. that can form in those (think warm, dark , moist area) is unbelievable. In our case, we were better off with a couple small, room size humidfifiers which are much easier and conveinant to maintain. My wife has bad allergies and asthma, which make her especially sensitive to this kind of thing.
When we bought the house, the first think the inspector said was, rip that thing (the humidifier) out and throw it out. If it gets to dry for you, bug one or two smaller humidifiers, and clean them regularaly.
If you can't find what you're looking for, build it. Everything you've mentioned (torrent tracker, tip jars, ordering CDs) can be found in OS projects that are available out there. Put them together, or hire someone to do it for you. Then you just have to find a printer for your CDs which shouldn't be too tough.
I'd love to know as, though I'm more interested in DoD: Source, which I hear is coming soon. I can't see them being hung up on the voice stuff since they've had it for quite a while in the other mods. My guess, its not a top priority. The big hits these days are more realistic mods, like CSS, DoD, etc.
Universal health care, for example, has led to long waits for service and a shortage of qualified doctors
This shortsighted, irrelevant, offtopic comparison shows your complete lack of understanding. Universal health care is not the cause of long wait lines or qualified doctors. If that were the case, European countries with similar health systems would have similar problems.
Canadians (as a rule) do not think of health care as a "free lunch" as you seem to imply. We know, and (for the most part) willingly pay higher taxes for our social safety net that results in Canada repeatedly placing above the US as one of the best countries to live
I don't know who modded you as a Troll, but they should have their mod rights revoked, or get paid by Sun.
I have also been on the user side of Sun's Messaging service. I can't express how frustrated I am with it. Calendaring is a joke. The web interface is behind what most OSS products were years ago. Whatever you do, don't rely on the "JES Connector" to get your Outlook client to interface with the calendar. Have my entries are missing through outlook, but show up fine in the thin client. Speaking of the thin client, if you use it, and use it to store bookmarks, don't let your session time out. Clicking on a bookmark is not a direct link to the site you want to go, but to some internal redirecting script which needs to authenticate you.
At home I run Postfix with MySQL, amvisd-new with SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Zero problems, simple administration, and between Spamassassin and RBLs, I see about 1/100th of the spam that directed at me.
But who says a private individual (or even company) couldn't do the same, skipping or delaying the public television release in favour of a downloadable episode(s). Put in some overlay advertising or such. Actually putting in real commercials would result in the comercials being cut out and then the video being redistributed.
Aimed at entertainment PC users--particularly those who use rack-style home theater systems
Is this a particularaly large market? I'm not a big audiophile, and don't have a huge plasma HD TV. I know some people who do. In all the stores I've been in, I've never seen rack-style home theatre equipment. Now, I'm not in the high end stores, but lets face it, if the big box stores aren't carrying it, there's not a big market for it.
So, if most satellite and other TV providers already have PVRs and some have similar functionality (networkable, can play music, etc), where is the market for this? Is this going to be a high priced toy for those that can afford it?
Of course, there is the possibility that they meant component style, which probably covers a pretty big majority of people who would be interested in something like this.
From the article: The database is running on a P4 2.4Ghz machine with 1Gb of RAM, and the database server is on it's knees.
This at least gives us the impression that his database is on a seperate physical machine. Enabling (or disabling) gzip will do absolutely nothing in this case. The compression will happen on the web server, thus making absolutely no difference to the database server. If they were running the same hardware, gzip will use more CPU time and thus make the situation even worse.
True, but Intel has made huge investments in WiMax. They've got the first chips undergoing testing for certification right now. They've dedicated a lot of time and man power to it and this is just a continuation of that investment. In fact, depending on how you look at it, this is almost more marketing than anything else.
I'm no expert, but I'm going to point out a couple of things that I think you have stated slightly incorrectly. I believe the accepted rule is that you cannot accelerate a mass to c, however, it may be possible to create matter which when it is created is travelling at c. I belive there is also a debate on as to the mass of a photon. It may (or may not) have mass. I'ver heard some people state that the mass is infinitely small. However, light having no mass raises other problems, like for example a solar sail. How does a zero mass particle striking an object transfer momentum to said object?
Which leads me to a question for you physics experts out there. Its been explained to me, that when a photon strikes a solar sail, the photon reverses direction (okay it might be angle I = angle R), in doing so, the solar sail gains a small amount of momentum which overtime can amount to incredible velocity. If this is the case, then unless I'm missing something, energy has been "created". The photon, by definition, is travelling at c before and after striking the sail and thus has not lost any energy. However, the sail has gained energy in the form of momentum. So, where did this energy come from? And what would stop us from bouncing a photon between two sails (okay more than 1 photon) and tranferring the momentum of those sails into a generator and thus producing the perpetual motion machine. All we'd need to do is control the angle of reflection.
No, but it does become more viscous at lower temperatures. I once put a bottle of Smirnoff in the freezer several hours before a little gathering. Unlike Polar Ice (which is meant to be used at that temperature) Smirnoff thickened. Pouring a normal (1-1.5oz) drink tasted like a triple. So, even if a liquid doesn't freeze (become solid) it still can affect its intended use. Of course assuming this lens isn't water, there's not the fear of it expanding and damaging the rest of the camera as water/ice would do.
Geez, wish I had your budget. As others have stated, an outlet on each stud is overkill, and incredibly expensive. Especially when you start talking about running more than one circuit through the wall. Also, I belive in most residential areas building permits restrict the number of plugins on a single circuit. 15 seems to ring a bell as the local limit, but I don't remember for sure.
Wiring Cat (5,5e,6) when building/rebuilding is a good idea. 5e is relatively cheap. Run extra. Run your phone system on Cat 5e as well. Have a central block where phone and network end up. Label everything, and label it well. Then you can drop your switches, voip box, cable/dsl modem etc. here. Add in a UPS if desired. Servers can go here, or in a seperate room. Since you've run and labelled all the wiring properly, should be a problem. Just plan it all out in advance.
Agreed. My MythTV setup is wonderful. I let it automatically mark the commercials. My wife really likes one particular show (Holmes on Homes). So, its records every episode we don't already have. I spent an hour or so the other night checking and touching up the commercial markings. I've now exported them all to VCD, and am in the process of burning about 10 hours worth (minus commercials) to a DVD for her.
True, but how many times, when searching, do you look past the first 1000 results? Heck, I rarely get past the first 20 or 30 before refining my search. I don't belive the usefulness of results past even the first 100 or 200 results should be considered when comparing search engines. An interesting survery would be how many pages deep a person will look when using search engines.
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Try reading the article. Lets say you register: rtfa.com for $15USD. How much do you pay to then register idont.rtfa.com?
Exactly, there is nothing spectacular like this. Allowing someone to buy a subdomain of one of your domains is not what I would call newsworthy material. Don't most blogging sites do this already?
If you don't currently have a provider offering terresterial wireless or DSL/cable, WiMax isn't going to change that at all.
The exciting thing about WiMax is that it can provide high speed (50Mbps+) over long distances (tested at over 60 miles). So, yes, you'll still need coverage, but providers won't have to put nearly as many access points as they would with WiFi or have to lay the cable they would for DSL/cable.
There is no equipment *today* that is certified to be WiMax. Everything we're seeing right now is "Pre-WiMax". This is equipment that will probably pass certification, but hasn't yet. The certification lab just started accepting equipment for test a couple months back. The belief is that by the end of the year we'll see some actual certified hardware available. See wimaxforum.org - the official wimax site.
"If you are going to get one; get two: one for you and one for your best friend."
Because I know my friends would just love it if I secretly replaced their keyboard with one that had no labels on it. Of course they wouldn't be able to email me their problems any more.... hmmm maybe it is a good idea after all.
Most of my math classes were 50% for the answer and 50% for the work. I remember one test where I couldn't figure out one problem, I wrote down x=4 as the answer without any work showing (I hadn't read HHGTTG yet). The answer was 4, I got 1/2 marks for the question. I've also done questions where I did all the work correctly but for some reason wrote the incorrect answer at the end, something like:
....
x=4/2
x=4
Yes, I got the answer wrong, but up till that point everything was correct, I got 1/2 marks again. Seemed fair to me in both cases.
The Cadillac XLR is the first vehicle I know of that had these features.
Though I can't read the article (its refusing connections, even without the referer set), I'm guessing the car will look for a key in a particular file. So, hacking it to start more than one car would involve convincing a USB device to deliver a different file based on who is requesting it. Now, if each car looks for a different file, then its not really a hack, its copying a file.
Hmmm... did some reading, and the drum (older style) are still being sold all over the place. Besides, my place was built in the late 70's. The injector style do appear to solve the mold problem the drum style had, might have to look into getting one.
Yes, and I don't think anyone will disagree with you. There are lots of game for Linux. There aren't may mainstream games for Linux. The workarounds to get these games working on Linux are available, but have questionable results, performance, etc.
I keep a W2K box around where I play my games. But for damn near everything else I do, I really do, much prefer working on Linux. My W2K box is an Athlon 2400 OC'd with 1GB RAM. Yet, for production (coding, development, document writing, etc), my 600Mhz with 128MB RAM is about 90-95% as responsive. If I need a tool, its usually as simple as apt-get install (I always install the apt suite for RedHat).
Pretty rare that I've had my glasses ice up, though I have had it happen. While a good heating system does add humidity to the air in the cold winter, you have to weigh the benefits. The old style humidifiers that attach to the furnace need to be cleaned DAILY. The amount of mold, spores, etc. that can form in those (think warm, dark , moist area) is unbelievable. In our case, we were better off with a couple small, room size humidfifiers which are much easier and conveinant to maintain. My wife has bad allergies and asthma, which make her especially sensitive to this kind of thing.
When we bought the house, the first think the inspector said was, rip that thing (the humidifier) out and throw it out. If it gets to dry for you, bug one or two smaller humidifiers, and clean them regularaly.
If you can't find what you're looking for, build it. Everything you've mentioned (torrent tracker, tip jars, ordering CDs) can be found in OS projects that are available out there. Put them together, or hire someone to do it for you. Then you just have to find a printer for your CDs which shouldn't be too tough.
I'd love to know as, though I'm more interested in DoD: Source, which I hear is coming soon. I can't see them being hung up on the voice stuff since they've had it for quite a while in the other mods. My guess, its not a top priority. The big hits these days are more realistic mods, like CSS, DoD, etc.
Universal health care, for example, has led to long waits for service and a shortage of qualified doctors
This shortsighted, irrelevant, offtopic comparison shows your complete lack of understanding. Universal health care is not the cause of long wait lines or qualified doctors. If that were the case, European countries with similar health systems would have similar problems.
Canadians (as a rule) do not think of health care as a "free lunch" as you seem to imply. We know, and (for the most part) willingly pay higher taxes for our social safety net that results in Canada repeatedly placing above the US as one of the best countries to live
I don't know who modded you as a Troll, but they should have their mod rights revoked, or get paid by Sun.
I have also been on the user side of Sun's Messaging service. I can't express how frustrated I am with it. Calendaring is a joke. The web interface is behind what most OSS products were years ago. Whatever you do, don't rely on the "JES Connector" to get your Outlook client to interface with the calendar. Have my entries are missing through outlook, but show up fine in the thin client. Speaking of the thin client, if you use it, and use it to store bookmarks, don't let your session time out. Clicking on a bookmark is not a direct link to the site you want to go, but to some internal redirecting script which needs to authenticate you.
At home I run Postfix with MySQL, amvisd-new with SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Zero problems, simple administration, and between Spamassassin and RBLs, I see about 1/100th of the spam that directed at me.
But who says a private individual (or even company) couldn't do the same, skipping or delaying the public television release in favour of a downloadable episode(s). Put in some overlay advertising or such. Actually putting in real commercials would result in the comercials being cut out and then the video being redistributed.
Aimed at entertainment PC users--particularly those who use rack-style home theater systems
Is this a particularaly large market? I'm not a big audiophile, and don't have a huge plasma HD TV. I know some people who do. In all the stores I've been in, I've never seen rack-style home theatre equipment. Now, I'm not in the high end stores, but lets face it, if the big box stores aren't carrying it, there's not a big market for it.
So, if most satellite and other TV providers already have PVRs and some have similar functionality (networkable, can play music, etc), where is the market for this? Is this going to be a high priced toy for those that can afford it?
Of course, there is the possibility that they meant component style, which probably covers a pretty big majority of people who would be interested in something like this.
From the article: The database is running on a P4 2.4Ghz machine with 1Gb of RAM, and the database server is on it's knees.
This at least gives us the impression that his database is on a seperate physical machine. Enabling (or disabling) gzip will do absolutely nothing in this case. The compression will happen on the web server, thus making absolutely no difference to the database server. If they were running the same hardware, gzip will use more CPU time and thus make the situation even worse.
True, but Intel has made huge investments in WiMax. They've got the first chips undergoing testing for certification right now. They've dedicated a lot of time and man power to it and this is just a continuation of that investment. In fact, depending on how you look at it, this is almost more marketing than anything else.
I had to look them up:
Osiris
Samhain
I'm no expert, but I'm going to point out a couple of things that I think you have stated slightly incorrectly. I believe the accepted rule is that you cannot accelerate a mass to c, however, it may be possible to create matter which when it is created is travelling at c. I belive there is also a debate on as to the mass of a photon. It may (or may not) have mass. I'ver heard some people state that the mass is infinitely small. However, light having no mass raises other problems, like for example a solar sail. How does a zero mass particle striking an object transfer momentum to said object?
Which leads me to a question for you physics experts out there. Its been explained to me, that when a photon strikes a solar sail, the photon reverses direction (okay it might be angle I = angle R), in doing so, the solar sail gains a small amount of momentum which overtime can amount to incredible velocity. If this is the case, then unless I'm missing something, energy has been "created". The photon, by definition, is travelling at c before and after striking the sail and thus has not lost any energy. However, the sail has gained energy in the form of momentum. So, where did this energy come from? And what would stop us from bouncing a photon between two sails (okay more than 1 photon) and tranferring the momentum of those sails into a generator and thus producing the perpetual motion machine. All we'd need to do is control the angle of reflection.
No, but it does become more viscous at lower temperatures. I once put a bottle of Smirnoff in the freezer several hours before a little gathering. Unlike Polar Ice (which is meant to be used at that temperature) Smirnoff thickened. Pouring a normal (1-1.5oz) drink tasted like a triple. So, even if a liquid doesn't freeze (become solid) it still can affect its intended use. Of course assuming this lens isn't water, there's not the fear of it expanding and damaging the rest of the camera as water/ice would do.
Geez, wish I had your budget. As others have stated, an outlet on each stud is overkill, and incredibly expensive. Especially when you start talking about running more than one circuit through the wall. Also, I belive in most residential areas building permits restrict the number of plugins on a single circuit. 15 seems to ring a bell as the local limit, but I don't remember for sure.
Wiring Cat (5,5e,6) when building/rebuilding is a good idea. 5e is relatively cheap. Run extra. Run your phone system on Cat 5e as well. Have a central block where phone and network end up. Label everything, and label it well. Then you can drop your switches, voip box, cable/dsl modem etc. here. Add in a UPS if desired. Servers can go here, or in a seperate room. Since you've run and labelled all the wiring properly, should be a problem. Just plan it all out in advance.
Agreed. My MythTV setup is wonderful. I let it automatically mark the commercials. My wife really likes one particular show (Holmes on Homes). So, its records every episode we don't already have. I spent an hour or so the other night checking and touching up the commercial markings. I've now exported them all to VCD, and am in the process of burning about 10 hours worth (minus commercials) to a DVD for her.
True, but how many times, when searching, do you look past the first 1000 results? Heck, I rarely get past the first 20 or 30 before refining my search. I don't belive the usefulness of results past even the first 100 or 200 results should be considered when comparing search engines. An interesting survery would be how many pages deep a person will look when using search engines.