Hmm Ok, so am I right in saying that you have WiMax providing a backbone of sorts and then the WiFi hotspots pulling their bandwidth from this as opposed to landbased solutions.
Is there really a problem right now with regards getting bandwidth to hotspots ? Is this solution targerted more towards rural communities than cities or am I still missing the point ?
Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone had this in a recent interview http://news.com.com/2008-1082-995667.html
"Wi-Fi is wonderful. It is a superb local area network--what it was designed to do--and it does that very well. When you try to make Wi-Fi cover a wide area, it's absolutely the worst way to do it. Think about it. In order to cover a city, you need a million sites; we actually did an analysis of that. And every one of them has got to have backhaul. So it turns out it's neither economical nor practical."
I realise this is WiMax but I wonder what they are doing to move beyond the limitations these guys found.
Come on there has to be a catch right ? Surely this violates untold numbers of patents or weighs three tonne, something! If not it's a very impressive little bit of kit.
Don't know about you but I get worried that this is as good as it gets salary wise, after big jumps through the bubble it's quite possible that this is the pinnacle of our (techies) earning potential for a long time to come (I know boo hoo, but still a strange position to be in)
It's a little sad that this guy thinks the entire sector hinges on this one company. IPOs while all well and good invariably change the nature of the beast which in Googles case would be a sad sad thing. Stay private, make your employees and customers happy and be your own man.
There seems to be a lot of knee jerkism going on around here. You are all right this can be easily defeated blah blah blah. But perhaps some kids would feel safer knowing that someone will know if something bad happens to them, from getting in a car accident to the far less likely kidnapping scenario. Things can happen and keeping the folks you care about in the loop as to your whereabouts (if you choose) isn't such a bad thing.
Well that's the problem isn't it, if the beta works just fine then nobody needs to purchase the final product (I'm not sure if Safari is free, but it's certainly valid for other betas I've seen)
I mentioned this earlier but perhaps the comment got buried but NextBus does just that, straps GPS to the bus and uses that to predict when it arrives based on where the bus is and not just when the schedule says it is. Here is a realtime map of San Francisco
Next Bus based in Emeryville do something cooler, they strap GPS boxes to busses and then using that data beam the info to busstops so you the time to next bus is based on where the bus actually is as opposed to where the scedule says it should be. Very cool. You can see a live map of the SF busses here
The key with a media PC is that it needs to be wireless and it also needs to be silent, the living room just isn't any place for a whirring, hissing PC.
First off he's not my pope. Secondly it's far from useless, understanding who we are has been a driving force for positive change through the ages, lets not kid ourselves into thinking that knowledge is a bad thing...
I couldn't find it in the release notes but until Mozilla implements NTLM it's a no go in a lot of organizations who rely on it for promptless authentication of users. There was mention in the past that it was being worked on but nothing so far...
It's interesting how little backlash there is against Sony and Nintendo. When Lik-Sang disappeared MS was completely demonized by the Slashdot community but now all the facts are out it's eerily quiet around here...
Lik-Sang unlike a number of other outlets not only sold modchips but also manufactured them and in doing so was infringing on the valid copyrights of the companies concerned. By being such a high profile player they were clearly just cresting the wave for as long as they could. MS & Co, didn't even force these guys out of business, all they did was prevent them selling the chips, seems pretty fair all in all.
There are no good guys, there are no bad guys, all there is, is business.
While it's a valid point that admins can often read passwords it isn't always the case. Storing the hash of a password is a good way to keep your customers passwords safe from prying eyes.
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Hmm Ok, so am I right in saying that you have WiMax providing a backbone of sorts and then the WiFi hotspots pulling their bandwidth from this as opposed to landbased solutions.
Is there really a problem right now with regards getting bandwidth to hotspots ? Is this solution targerted more towards rural communities than cities or am I still missing the point ?
Martin Cooper, the inventor of the cell phone had this in a recent interview http://news.com.com/2008-1082-995667.html
"Wi-Fi is wonderful. It is a superb local area network--what it was designed to do--and it does that very well. When you try to make Wi-Fi cover a wide area, it's absolutely the worst way to do it. Think about it. In order to cover a city, you need a million sites; we actually did an analysis of that. And every one of them has got to have backhaul. So it turns out it's neither economical nor practical."
I realise this is WiMax but I wonder what they are doing to move beyond the limitations these guys found.
Alrighty, however the list of emulators only list the Gameboy/Gameboy Color and not the advance.
It doesn't emulate the Gameboy Advance, just the gameboy and who knows how well it even does that.
Come on there has to be a catch right ? Surely this violates untold numbers of patents or weighs three tonne, something! If not it's a very impressive little bit of kit.
Don't know about you but I get worried that this is as good as it gets salary wise, after big jumps through the bubble it's quite possible that this is the pinnacle of our (techies) earning potential for a long time to come (I know boo hoo, but still a strange position to be in)
Nice to see a focus on keeping the engine and the codebase lean and mean. Good luck to em.
Nah the fp was me :)
It's a little sad that this guy thinks the entire sector hinges on this one company. IPOs while all well and good invariably change the nature of the beast which in Googles case would be a sad sad thing. Stay private, make your employees and customers happy and be your own man.
There seems to be a lot of knee jerkism going on around here. You are all right this can be easily defeated blah blah blah. But perhaps some kids would feel safer knowing that someone will know if something bad happens to them, from getting in a car accident to the far less likely kidnapping scenario. Things can happen and keeping the folks you care about in the loop as to your whereabouts (if you choose) isn't such a bad thing.
Well that's the problem isn't it, if the beta works just fine then nobody needs to purchase the final product (I'm not sure if Safari is free, but it's certainly valid for other betas I've seen)
I mentioned this earlier but perhaps the comment got buried but NextBus does just that, straps GPS to the bus and uses that to predict when it arrives based on where the bus is and not just when the schedule says it is. Here is a realtime map of San Francisco
Next Bus based in Emeryville do something cooler, they strap GPS boxes to busses and then using that data beam the info to busstops so you the time to next bus is based on where the bus actually is as opposed to where the scedule says it should be. Very cool. You can see a live map of the SF busses here
Not exactly high..
The DirecTivo also records the signal directly to the hard drive.
My friend recently did some UI testing for Tivo and said that they are integrating a DVD burner into the Tivo, goooo Tivo :)
The key with a media PC is that it needs to be wireless and it also needs to be silent, the living room just isn't any place for a whirring, hissing PC.
First off he's not my pope. Secondly it's far from useless, understanding who we are has been a driving force for positive change through the ages, lets not kid ourselves into thinking that knowledge is a bad thing...
I couldn't find it in the release notes but until Mozilla implements NTLM it's a no go in a lot of organizations who rely on it for promptless authentication of users. There was mention in the past that it was being worked on but nothing so far...
Lik-Sang unlike a number of other outlets not only sold modchips but also manufactured them and in doing so was infringing on the valid copyrights of the companies concerned. By being such a high profile player they were clearly just cresting the wave for as long as they could. MS & Co, didn't even force these guys out of business, all they did was prevent them selling the chips, seems pretty fair all in all.
There are no good guys, there are no bad guys, all there is, is business.
While it's a valid point that admins can often read passwords it isn't always the case. Storing the hash of a password is a good way to keep your customers passwords safe from prying eyes.
22 MegaPixel digital back now that's a lotta pixels