Even in a crowded environment you might to well to remove the antenna from a router and place it very close to the mobile device (inches). This would reduce the gain at the receiver and allow the nearby mobile device a significant SNR advantage over the rest of the access points in the room.
Within Western Europe, the USA and Australia (Plus others) the money gained from private sales of pirated music is not used to fund terrorism, generally speaking.
That is also the case for the factories manufacturing the material (actually, pirated CDs are much more of a rarity than DVDs, because of the ease of either DIYing it or downloading music as opposed to video) the majority of which are in China, Pakistan and SE asia.
However - the middle-men, those transporting the Media and the private sellers in the Middle East and SE Asia are a very different story, some very, very unpleasant people can be found here, not usually actually members of, but very certainly sympathetic towards and contributors to terrorist organizations.
As someone who has owned some very dodgy DVDs in the past I can also attest to another MPAA statement that is absolutely true - the quality is poor (8 movies on one DVD sounds great until you try to watch them!), they don't last and it's rare that you actually manage to have a film finish without glitching or just refusing to play.
I'm no fan of the MPAA or RIAA and their tactics, but Piracy isn't fighting back, it's just Piracy - at the end of the day, like it or not, the MPAA and RIAA own that music and have the right to sell it to you.
If you really care about music, and want to hear new songs from people you've never heard of services like Finetune and last.fm are a far, far better proposition, are licenced and legal. Now if only the RIAA would stop shooting down that market with it's royalty fees!
Leaving Nintendo aside, as they've at the fringes of TV-console gaming at the moment this battle is basicly between Microsoft and Sony and quite frankly, what do Sony expect? I mean, (speaking as a PSP owner and PS2 owner) when you bring a console to market 18 months late, have a price over double that of the competator and show the sheer bold-faced greed and lack of respect for the customer that Sony has (have you seen the price of PSP games? They're DOUBLE the price of DS and often more expensive that TV-console counterparts).
And down the frontpage I see an article about Sony increasing game prices - then remember the DRM spyware thing - what is this? I think Sony is just bleeding the existing customer base dry because they know that the PS3 is a dud and need all the revenue they can. And don't get me started on the crappyness of the potentially excellent PSP firmware (Disabling Homebrew? Can't play MP3 from browser? SLOW browser? Outdated flash when launched?)
Wake up Sony, you're a failing company - both from an internal and external point of view - your products are late, you over-control your customers and treat them like dirt.
There was a time when Sony was the only brand that i'd but - why? - QUALITY.
Good riddance - i'd love it if they lost this 'war' because they don't deserve to win. If only I didn't loathe M$ so much i'd be buying me a 360.
SONY - wake up and smell the coffee.
Forget Blu-ray, no one will pay that price for a console just for a pseudo-functional movie player (remember how crappy the PS2 DVD player is!!)
Respect your customers.
Get the PS3 to market at a price that will actually sell some units.
I take it by 'stable' you mean 'reliable' rather than 'someone's life actually depends on it'??
If someones life depends on it for christ sake don't use any of the high level languages, that's what languages like ADA were written for - but it'll mean a long development cycle and serious cash.
If you just want cast iron reliability (banking sector reliability) the best advice is to get back to basics with the development - don't try to do it on the cheap, because it'll fail - don't let anyone you don't trust do it. It will go over budget and it will take longer than planned but use a proper development model (Booch, for example) and propper integrity testing (Z for example) and be prepared for a long haul.
Craxy Taxi on the PS2 had the worst in game advertising i've ever seen... "Take me to Pizza Hut", "Take me to the LEVIs store"... etc..
And billboard posters as well, the whole thing made for quite an uncomfortable gaming experience. In fact, I really felt that I was being ripped-off, I literally felt like I should have been being paid to play the game rather than paying £20 for it at the time!
That it probably contributed alot to the fact that I only purchased two more games and the PS2 gathered dust before I sold it on EBay years later. Perhaps I would have used it more if I had been presented with an enjoyable initial gaming experience?
Sir Humphrey: "You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don't want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think they respond to a challenge?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Oh...well, I suppose I might be."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes or no?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Of course you would, Bernard. After all you told you can't say no to that. So they don't mention the first five questions and they publish the last one."
Bernard Woolley: "Is that really what they do?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren't many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result."
Bernard Woolley: "How?"
Sir Humphrey: "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the growth of armaments?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes" Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?" Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample."
I've been using t35.net a year and a half, they're cheap, reliable, have generous space and download limits, provide full cPanel admin backend and allow as many domain names and subdomains as you want.
I've been using arch for about 18 months now and it's a great distro - I like to keep bleeding edge and it allows me to use all the latest libs with ease.
I aggree that it's not for beginners, and still takes considerable user effort at times but it's got a sensible conf file layout and syntax and provides complete control over the OS, it much harder to FUBAR that a Mandrake or a Redhat.
Agreed, I use Evolution as my main client bacause it syncs up to my Cell and Palm - this article is basicly a steaming pile of crap - why did it get a mention here (bet the author submitted it himself - looser!!)
Popcorn keeps for quite a while, so the key would be to prepare before hand.
You can purchase electric popcorn makers for about £10 ($20) and a bank of ten or so of these kept topped up with popcorn should be able to produce enough in a day or so - the only problem would be the heat generated and probably melting the makers before they'd finished. Failing this, maybe some form of deep metal drum with a mixing padal and some heat guns?
As for storage, hire a cement mixer for a week, that's the only way I think you could do it. I can't think of a way to produce the volume required in a few hours for only a few hundred any other way - a specialist machine could do it but you're be talking tens of thousands to build it.
A method for defining and specifying an object, idea or concept in order to exercise control over it's application wherever its implementation is attempted by persons outside the control of the rights owner without prior consent and/or payment.
And then charge a license fee to anyone who tries to patent anything.
All my digital pictures, MP3s, Divxs get put on the server and I use Slimserver for streaming mp3, Scry as a photo album, and stream Divx over an NFS mount.
I can access all the files from my laptop and desktop, and have an iPlayer on the TV so that I can stream MP3s through the stereo and see pictures on the TV.
I havn't got the power to videlan-cast DivX as MPG realtime to the iPlayer, but Divx playing is in development.
All in all, it works well and the fanless design doesn't use much power and is very quiet.
It also has the advantage that I can setup various CGI scripts and the like to carry out those little tasks.
You see, 'Open source' and 'Open standards' are now becoming fashionable, which means they become buzzwords, which means marketeers and journalists will try to place them in their literature as often as possible to make themselves seem 'clued in'. And since when to people in Marketing actually care about correct application of terminology as opposed to slick presentation (see just about every shampoo advert!).
All of this plays into Microsoft and the likes hands, because they would like to use the term 'open' in the same way they use the term 'innovate' - to mean what they would like it to mean rather than what it actually means.
You see, 'Open source' and 'Open standards' are now becoming fashionable, which means they become buzzwords, which means marketeers and journalists will try to place them in their literature as often as possible to make themselves seem 'clued in'. And since when to people in Marketing actually care about correct application of terminology as opposed to slick presentation (see just about every shampoo advert!).
All of this plays into Microsoft and the likes hands, because they would like to use the term 'open' in the same way they use the term 'innoovate' - to mean what would like it to mean rather than what it actually means.
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Even in a crowded environment you might to well to remove the antenna from a router and place it very close to the mobile device (inches). This would reduce the gain at the receiver and allow the nearby mobile device a significant SNR advantage over the rest of the access points in the room.
You see - this is how it starts.
All flee before the super-mutated radioactive jellyfish. The Blob is coming.....
Well actually...
Within Western Europe, the USA and Australia (Plus others) the money gained from private sales of pirated music is not used to fund terrorism, generally speaking.
That is also the case for the factories manufacturing the material (actually, pirated CDs are much more of a rarity than DVDs, because of the ease of either DIYing it or downloading music as opposed to video) the majority of which are in China, Pakistan and SE asia.
However - the middle-men, those transporting the Media and the private sellers in the Middle East and SE Asia are a very different story, some very, very unpleasant people can be found here, not usually actually members of, but very certainly sympathetic towards and contributors to terrorist organizations.
As someone who has owned some very dodgy DVDs in the past I can also attest to another MPAA statement that is absolutely true - the quality is poor (8 movies on one DVD sounds great until you try to watch them!), they don't last and it's rare that you actually manage to have a film finish without glitching or just refusing to play.
I'm no fan of the MPAA or RIAA and their tactics, but Piracy isn't fighting back, it's just Piracy - at the end of the day, like it or not, the MPAA and RIAA own that music and have the right to sell it to you.
If you really care about music, and want to hear new songs from people you've never heard of services like Finetune and last.fm are a far, far better proposition, are licenced and legal. Now if only the RIAA would stop shooting down that market with it's royalty fees!
The pathfinder rover is 63cm long. How many toasters are 63cm long? Come on Slashdot. If you're going to make a comparison, at least ensure it is apt.
Games drought - What about the console drought. They may be doing better than the PS3 but they're still like gold-dust. Where's my Wii???
Leaving Nintendo aside, as they've at the fringes of TV-console gaming at the moment this battle is basicly between Microsoft and Sony and quite frankly, what do Sony expect? I mean, (speaking as a PSP owner and PS2 owner) when you bring a console to market 18 months late, have a price over double that of the competator and show the sheer bold-faced greed and lack of respect for the customer that Sony has (have you seen the price of PSP games? They're DOUBLE the price of DS and often more expensive that TV-console counterparts).
And down the frontpage I see an article about Sony increasing game prices - then remember the DRM spyware thing - what is this? I think Sony is just bleeding the existing customer base dry because they know that the PS3 is a dud and need all the revenue they can. And don't get me started on the crappyness of the potentially excellent PSP firmware (Disabling Homebrew? Can't play MP3 from browser? SLOW browser? Outdated flash when launched?)
Wake up Sony, you're a failing company - both from an internal and external point of view - your products are late, you over-control your customers and treat them like dirt.
There was a time when Sony was the only brand that i'd but - why? - QUALITY.
Good riddance - i'd love it if they lost this 'war' because they don't deserve to win. If only I didn't loathe M$ so much i'd be buying me a 360.
SONY - wake up and smell the coffee.
Forget Blu-ray, no one will pay that price for a console just for a pseudo-functional movie player (remember how crappy the PS2 DVD player is!!)
Respect your customers.
Get the PS3 to market at a price that will actually sell some units.
Opera mini - awesome program and free!!
I take it by 'stable' you mean 'reliable' rather than 'someone's life actually depends on it'??
If someones life depends on it for christ sake don't use any of the high level languages, that's what languages like ADA were written for - but it'll mean a long development cycle and serious cash.
If you just want cast iron reliability (banking sector reliability) the best advice is to get back to basics with the development - don't try to do it on the cheap, because it'll fail - don't let anyone you don't trust do it. It will go over budget and it will take longer than planned but use a proper development model (Booch, for example) and propper integrity testing (Z for example) and be prepared for a long haul.
Craxy Taxi on the PS2 had the worst in game advertising i've ever seen... "Take me to Pizza Hut", "Take me to the LEVIs store"... etc..
And billboard posters as well, the whole thing made for quite an uncomfortable gaming experience. In fact, I really felt that I was being ripped-off, I literally felt like I should have been being paid to play the game rather than paying £20 for it at the time!
That it probably contributed alot to the fact that I only purchased two more games and the PS2 gathered dust before I sold it on EBay years later. Perhaps I would have used it more if I had been presented with an enjoyable initial gaming experience?
Sir Humphrey: "You know what happens: nice young lady comes up to you. Obviously you want to create a good impression, you don't want to look a fool, do you? So she starts asking you some questions: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the number of young people without jobs?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a lack of discipline in our Comprehensive schools?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think young people welcome some authority and leadership in their lives?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think they respond to a challenge?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Oh...well, I suppose I might be."
Sir Humphrey: "Yes or no?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Of course you would, Bernard. After
all you told you can't say no to that. So they don't mention the first five questions and they publish the last one."
Bernard Woolley: "Is that really what they do?"
Sir Humphrey: "Well, not the reputable ones no, but there aren't many of those. So alternatively the young lady can get the opposite result."
Bernard Woolley: "How?"
Sir Humphrey: "Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Are you worried about the growth of armaments?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think there is a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Do you think it is wrong to force people to take up arms against their will?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "Would you oppose the reintroduction of National Service?"
Bernard Woolley: "Yes"
Sir Humphrey: "There you are, you see Bernard. The perfect balanced sample."
I've been using t35.net a year and a half, they're cheap, reliable, have generous space and download limits, provide full cPanel admin backend and allow as many domain names and subdomains as you want.
Overall I would give them 10/10 every time.
I've been using arch for about 18 months now and it's a great distro - I like to keep bleeding edge and it allows me to use all the latest libs with ease.
I aggree that it's not for beginners, and still takes considerable user effort at times but it's got a sensible conf file layout and syntax and provides complete control over the OS, it much harder to FUBAR that a Mandrake or a Redhat.
D.
If I could run an ssh client and a web browser on a DS with a wireless connection i'd go out and buy one tomorrow!!
No it isnt - what the hell are you on about??
Slashdot editors - start reporting facts rather than opinions.
Fifth gear airs regularly on Channel 5 in the UK and the clips for download were all shown on British television last year.
Agreed, I use Evolution as my main client bacause it syncs up to my Cell and Palm - this article is basicly a steaming pile of crap - why did it get a mention here (bet the author submitted it himself - looser!!)
Popcorn keeps for quite a while, so the key would be to prepare before hand.
You can purchase electric popcorn makers for about £10 ($20) and a bank of ten or so of these kept topped up with popcorn should be able to produce enough in a day or so - the only problem would be the heat generated and probably melting the makers before they'd finished. Failing this, maybe some form of deep metal drum with a mixing padal and some heat guns?
As for storage, hire a cement mixer for a week, that's the only way I think you could do it. I can't think of a way to produce the volume required in a few hours for only a few hundred any other way - a specialist machine could do it but you're be talking tens of thousands to build it.
First Post!!
Perhaps I could patent:
A method for defining and specifying an object, idea or concept in order to exercise control over it's application wherever its implementation is attempted by persons outside the control of the rights owner without prior consent and/or payment.
And then charge a license fee to anyone who tries to patent anything.
I've built a home server.
500mhz fanless mini-epia board
120gb HDD
DVD-ROM
Debian
And setup all my PCs on a wireless network.
All my digital pictures, MP3s, Divxs get put on the server and I use Slimserver for streaming mp3, Scry as a photo album, and stream Divx over an NFS mount.
I can access all the files from my laptop and desktop, and have an iPlayer on the TV so that I can stream MP3s through the stereo and see pictures on the TV.
I havn't got the power to videlan-cast DivX as MPG realtime to the iPlayer, but Divx playing is in development.
All in all, it works well and the fanless design doesn't use much power and is very quiet.
It also has the advantage that I can setup various CGI scripts and the like to carry out those little tasks.
D.
VIA EPIA-5000 M/B = £45
Maxtor Diamondmax 40gb hdd = £24.67
64mb Jumpdrive USB = £7.00
El-cheapo 300w case + PSU = £11.99
Total price = £89, and this is at retail price (-tax)
Buying OEM and you could easily do this for a cost of under £60!!
Grab a keyboard and mouse for about a fiver too. EPIA can display through television too. (probably still rare, but more available that a monitor!)
Plus, the motherboard has no moving parts and runs very cool, great for dusty environments.
You see, 'Open source' and 'Open standards' are now becoming fashionable, which means they become buzzwords, which means marketeers and journalists will try to place them in their literature as often as possible to make themselves seem 'clued in'. And since when to people in Marketing actually care about correct application of terminology as opposed to slick presentation (see just about every shampoo advert!).
All of this plays into Microsoft and the likes hands, because they would like to use the term 'open' in the same way they use the term 'innovate' - to mean what they would like it to mean rather than what it actually means.
You see, 'Open source' and 'Open standards' are now becoming fashionable, which means they become buzzwords, which means marketeers and journalists will try to place them in their literature as often as possible to make themselves seem 'clued in'. And since when to people in Marketing actually care about correct application of terminology as opposed to slick presentation (see just about every shampoo advert!).
All of this plays into Microsoft and the likes hands, because they would like to use the term 'open' in the same way they use the term 'innoovate' - to mean what would like it to mean rather than what it actually means.
At that size, add a CF slot in the base and DivX Playback (or even recording) software and i'd be sold!!
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