Because for some reason, I don't think you can do that. You can't simply read a whole CD block-by-block. You can use DD to grab a single track perhaps..... but the whole thing?
But having worked with a lot of 2.4 Ghz stuff.. I wouldn't imagine the properties of 2.5Ghz are much different.
You certainly cannot go through 'lots of trees'. 2.4 scatters like mad.. it doesn't penetrate worth crap.
Is it just the power levels this operates at that make it work through obstacles?
I think line-of-sight still means unobstructed view, though perhaps the odd tree or something will be okay.. but if you are underground, behind a hill, or something, you're probably out of luck.
Nowhere does it say that this is 'wireless DSL'. The article mentions Sprint rolling out wireless (sounds like MMDS) and then goes on to talk about the DSL situation, two separate issues.
Most wireless is either MMDS, or 2.4Ghz ISM band stuff (I know there is some 2.4Ghz ISM stuff going on in central IL, http://www.illicom.net)
And this probably has nothing to do with DSL, and everything to do with MMDS or something...
It is entirely possible to use the modulation techniques of DSL over RF.... you simply modulate a different carrier. I know we've looked at using DSL chipsets to do wireless before.. I believe the spectrum required or something was just not feasible..
They don't 'owe' you anything . They are under no obligation to give you an image of anything. That's at their discretion.
The only time they have an obligation to provide anything is if they distribute a binary version to you, they must give you source, or make it available to you. So if you bought the CD from them, they would have to provide source as well, on a commonly accepted medium.
The GPL only requires a couple thigns that are relevant here.
1) that anyone you distribute to gets the code licensed under the GPL as well.
2) That you provide/make available source to anyone you distribute binaries to.
So.. accordign to #2, if your 'friend' somewhere has binareis he received from them, they are not obliged to give you the source... they are obliged to give your friend the source.
They are not charging for the work.. they are charging you for a distribution in a cd-image format, which is a lot of work. They are not charging for 'other people's work'. They are not pretending the 'own' the copyrights on the work, and not telling you you can't go and give it out to everyone after you get it from them. They are simply saying 'if you want to download the cd image from us, you pay us $15'
That's perfectly fair.
They can do this, absolutely. Nothing, I repeat, nothing in the GPL *requries* you to distribute to anyone, it just requries you license what you DO distribute under the GPL.
So.. nothing prevents someone you 'sold' a copy to from simply giving it away to all your potential customers. Nothing at all.
It also only requries you to provide source to people you have distributed to... so if I pay for a copy, and then give it to you, the people I got it from have no obligations towards you at all... I do.
It's not like there's hardcore porn, but that's somewhat a different issue. Naked people abound, even in commercials. It's no biggie here.. no biggie at all. People get more worked up about violence. As it should be.
The only people who will impose these ratings on you are your parents, otherwise known as 'those who own the tv and pay for the cable'.
If you have an issue with the ratings, you should talk to them, no? They are the ones trusting the ratings.
And if you are a parent (I'll guess you are) then from the sounds of it, you simply won't use it.
Many cable boxes in the US, and all satellite receivers have ratings; TV is just the last to follow. Many many people simply never use it. The v-chip was simply a way to encode the rating in the existing signal cheaply.. nothing more.#
The V-chip takes away NO rights and NO responsibility of parents...parents are not obliged, or even pressured, to use it. That's not taking away anything. It's a choice, like most other thigns parents do.
Okay. I'll buy that. But opto-isolating copper is also easy.
I'm not saying that fiber doesn't have advantages.. just that, for today's purposes of the home user, it's not 'leaps and bounds' above other methods of broadband digital. THe media itself has great potential.. but will not be beneficial now.
Also, telecom lines have lightning arrestors all over.
Open Source doesn't mean it was developed by the masses. It just means it's licensed under an open-source license. It means that if others want the design, they can have it, and use it.
You can bet that Nasa usest he same quality controls on these circuits as with any other.. they just release it to the public.
Why? For the purposes you want ot use it for, copper cables are just as adequate. Where you really win out with fiber is either long-distance, or extreme-bandwidth per strand, neither of which you will be using in your house.
Also, BSE *IS* Mad Cow Disease, called Scrapie in sheep, and Cru(can't spell)-Jacob disease in humans (CJD)
I also don't think this is kuru... though kuru is also a prion disease.
Prions spread chiefly through cannibalism, yes. Foot&Mouth is highly contagious, also airborne. Hence the mad quarantining. The mad cow outbreak was due to the forced cannibalism of the cows.... they cattle feed contained rendered cattle.
Question: Do you think it's remotely possible that someone who is doing this is a neighbor or something and doesn't know? perhaps they have their own airport and think they are using it?
Plainly... if you want to put up some 802.11b gear without proper security.. you should know what you are doing.
I will be purchasing a new fancy powermac and OS-X later this year. Why? Simple.
1) I hate windows
2) I like Unix, for things unix is good at. It appeases the geek in me.
3) I like macs; they appease the 'I don't wanna fuck around with my computer when I want to run photoshop' guy in me.
4) Apple makes funky hardware.
Plus.. the lower-level components are open-source (please let's not argue about terms; fact is, I can mess with it)
I'm not claming it's the best unix in the world, but I've been told by some friends who I adminned unix with a while back that it's quite solid. I like the desktop. one thing unix is lacking is a user-friendly desktop for those who want it. kde is neat. gnome is neat... both have good points, but neither really fits the bill.
What apple has done looks to bee a good fusion of the most flexible back-end on earth (unix) and the most consistant desktop on earth (MacOS). Great.
We could debate the fine points of windows, all the unices & linux distros, and MacOS... but this is the reality. Unless apple blows it, or unless it's a big letdown out of the gates... this could be really cool.
It's too much to ask simply because he already gave it away. He already let it become popular and common, and a protocol spec, and NOW he's trying to backpedal a couple years of computing and enforce trademark. The name means what it means because of what it is, not simply because of his product, that's the issue.
It doesn't matter if it only moves the heat a small distance.. it still moves it. If you touch a surface with your finger, it doesn't matter if the material 1 mm down is at a thousand degrees.... if the surface you are touching is at 0 degrees, it'll feel cold. Period.
Peltier devices move heat away from one side to the other side.. and they also generate heat (which ends up on the hot side of course). That's why there is always a point where it's generating more heat than it can move, and becomes inefficient.
The point is, it moves heat away from the chip surface faster and more reliably.. that heat still has to be bled off with a heat sink/fan/whatever.
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You've done this? An entire audio cd? with dd?
Because for some reason, I don't think you can do that. You can't simply read a whole CD block-by-block. You can use DD to grab a single track perhaps..... but the whole thing?
A corporation or other organization looking at data freely available to them from all those gnutella clients is not a violation of your rights.
They are only finding out what your computer willingly offers them (and every other gnutella client)
Ever tried copying an audio track with dd?
But having worked with a lot of 2.4 Ghz stuff.. I wouldn't imagine the properties of 2.5Ghz are much different.
You certainly cannot go through 'lots of trees'. 2.4 scatters like mad.. it doesn't penetrate worth crap.
Is it just the power levels this operates at that make it work through obstacles?
I think line-of-sight still means unobstructed view, though perhaps the odd tree or something will be okay.. but if you are underground, behind a hill, or something, you're probably out of luck.
Nowhere does it say that this is 'wireless DSL'. The article mentions Sprint rolling out wireless (sounds like MMDS) and then goes on to talk about the DSL situation, two separate issues.
Most wireless is either MMDS, or 2.4Ghz ISM band stuff (I know there is some 2.4Ghz ISM stuff going on in central IL, http://www.illicom.net)
And this probably has nothing to do with DSL, and everything to do with MMDS or something...
It is entirely possible to use the modulation techniques of DSL over RF.... you simply modulate a different carrier. I know we've looked at using DSL chipsets to do wireless before.. I believe the spectrum required or something was just not feasible..
I was thinking of VM
OS/390 is *nothing* like unix or any other OS for that matter...
They don't 'owe' you anything . They are under no obligation to give you an image of anything. That's at their discretion.
The only time they have an obligation to provide anything is if they distribute a binary version to you, they must give you source, or make it available to you. So if you bought the CD from them, they would have to provide source as well, on a commonly accepted medium.
The GPL only requires a couple thigns that are relevant here.
1) that anyone you distribute to gets the code licensed under the GPL as well.
2) That you provide/make available source to anyone you distribute binaries to.
So.. accordign to #2, if your 'friend' somewhere has binareis he received from them, they are not obliged to give you the source... they are obliged to give your friend the source.
They are not charging for the work.. they are charging you for a distribution in a cd-image format, which is a lot of work. They are not charging for 'other people's work'. They are not pretending the 'own' the copyrights on the work, and not telling you you can't go and give it out to everyone after you get it from them. They are simply saying 'if you want to download the cd image from us, you pay us $15'
That's perfectly fair.
They can do this, absolutely. Nothing, I repeat, nothing in the GPL *requries* you to distribute to anyone, it just requries you license what you DO distribute under the GPL.
So.. nothing prevents someone you 'sold' a copy to from simply giving it away to all your potential customers. Nothing at all.
It also only requries you to provide source to people you have distributed to... so if I pay for a copy, and then give it to you, the people I got it from have no obligations towards you at all... I do.
Move to just about anywhere in europe.
It's not like there's hardcore porn, but that's somewhat a different issue. Naked people abound, even in commercials. It's no biggie here.. no biggie at all. People get more worked up about violence. As it should be.
The TV is actually better here...
The only people who will impose these ratings on you are your parents, otherwise known as 'those who own the tv and pay for the cable'.
If you have an issue with the ratings, you should talk to them, no? They are the ones trusting the ratings.
And if you are a parent (I'll guess you are) then from the sounds of it, you simply won't use it.
Many cable boxes in the US, and all satellite receivers have ratings; TV is just the last to follow. Many many people simply never use it. The v-chip was simply a way to encode the rating in the existing signal cheaply.. nothing more.#
The V-chip takes away NO rights and NO responsibility of parents...parents are not obliged, or even pressured, to use it. That's not taking away anything. It's a choice, like most other thigns parents do.
Okay. I'll buy that. But opto-isolating copper is also easy.
I'm not saying that fiber doesn't have advantages.. just that, for today's purposes of the home user, it's not 'leaps and bounds' above other methods of broadband digital. THe media itself has great potential.. but will not be beneficial now.
Also, telecom lines have lightning arrestors all over.
That aside.. what does that have to do with using the protocols on the internet? It doesn't.
The original post said 'cannot be used on the internet' not 'cannot be used to run the whole internet'.
Open Source doesn't mean it was developed by the masses. It just means it's licensed under an open-source license. It means that if others want the design, they can have it, and use it.
You can bet that Nasa usest he same quality controls on these circuits as with any other.. they just release it to the public.
Please explain what you mean by 'cannot be used on the internet'
Why? For the purposes you want ot use it for, copper cables are just as adequate. Where you really win out with fiber is either long-distance, or extreme-bandwidth per strand, neither of which you will be using in your house.
Mobile. Okay. It has wheels. Sure.
Air circulation? It's not a shop-vac anymore, it's the casing from a shop-vac. There is no motor, no airflow.
Right. Though you generally only catch prions from ingestion, so they aren't highly contagious.
I'm fairly certain that Foot & Mouth is a virus.
F&M Has *nothing* to do with BSE.
Also, BSE *IS* Mad Cow Disease, called Scrapie in sheep, and Cru(can't spell)-Jacob disease in humans (CJD)
I also don't think this is kuru... though kuru is also a prion disease.
Prions spread chiefly through cannibalism, yes. Foot&Mouth is highly contagious, also airborne. Hence the mad quarantining. The mad cow outbreak was due to the forced cannibalism of the cows.... they cattle feed contained rendered cattle.
Foot & Mouth (Hoof & Mouth n N. America I believe) is not Anthrax.
F&M is viral, Anthrax is bacterial.
F&M is not dangerous to humans. Anthrax is.
Question: Do you think it's remotely possible that someone who is doing this is a neighbor or something and doesn't know? perhaps they have their own airport and think they are using it?
Plainly... if you want to put up some 802.11b gear without proper security.. you should know what you are doing.
I will be purchasing a new fancy powermac and OS-X later this year. Why? Simple.
1) I hate windows
2) I like Unix, for things unix is good at. It appeases the geek in me.
3) I like macs; they appease the 'I don't wanna fuck around with my computer when I want to run photoshop' guy in me.
4) Apple makes funky hardware.
Plus.. the lower-level components are open-source (please let's not argue about terms; fact is, I can mess with it)
I'm not claming it's the best unix in the world, but I've been told by some friends who I adminned unix with a while back that it's quite solid. I like the desktop. one thing unix is lacking is a user-friendly desktop for those who want it. kde is neat. gnome is neat... both have good points, but neither really fits the bill.
What apple has done looks to bee a good fusion of the most flexible back-end on earth (unix) and the most consistant desktop on earth (MacOS). Great.
We could debate the fine points of windows, all the unices & linux distros, and MacOS... but this is the reality. Unless apple blows it, or unless it's a big letdown out of the gates... this could be really cool.
It's too much to ask simply because he already gave it away. He already let it become popular and common, and a protocol spec, and NOW he's trying to backpedal a couple years of computing and enforce trademark. The name means what it means because of what it is, not simply because of his product, that's the issue.
It doesn't matter if it only moves the heat a small distance.. it still moves it. If you touch a surface with your finger, it doesn't matter if the material 1 mm down is at a thousand degrees.... if the surface you are touching is at 0 degrees, it'll feel cold. Period.
Peltier devices move heat away from one side to the other side.. and they also generate heat (which ends up on the hot side of course). That's why there is always a point where it's generating more heat than it can move, and becomes inefficient.
The point is, it moves heat away from the chip surface faster and more reliably.. that heat still has to be bled off with a heat sink/fan/whatever.