Umm... $40/mo for both ends? Very good deal. Except in places where telco's have graciously deployed DSL services, the ONLY high speed digital services you can get cost a LOT of money.
Oh.. yeah. wavelan cards (and proxim, and several others) can go about 10 miles with NO signal amps, only using proper antennaes. I've done 14km links using proxim rangelan II cards (100mW, I believe) using some simple yagis.
One has to be careful with inline amplifiers, as you may exceed allowable power levels.
what you say about the fresnel zone is true, however.. I must say. Wireless IS very good, even in unlicensed ISM bands. Certainly, it's not for everyone, but if you can engineer the link, they do work well.
It's too bad we don't see more 915Mhz ISM products out there... 915 is much less succeptible to reflection, and you can clip trees without too much difficulty.
Of course, bandwidth tends to be a bit lower, but I've had 1.5Mbps links going over 900Mhz ISM.. even across the top of a small forest (read: there were a few trees in the way, but not many) approx.
And T1 runs over balanced synchronous lines.. known usually (I believe) as HDSL, and they consist of two pairs instead of one, and are rigorously tested for quality.
T1 is still T1. Frame is still Frame. You're describing different layers. Though most ISP's that sell you 'T1' access really just sell you T1 access to a frame cloud, then do whatever from there on out.
Alarm circuits are single pair copper, exactly what is used in your house for your analog phone, but wihtout the dialtone/switching gear hooked to it.
Not necessarily the same as a 56k circuit, though many parts of it might be. Charges for local loop of normal plain jane dry copper are generally super cheap. It's just not a common sale.
This isn't really new.. though perhaps there are some misconceptions about what adsl really is (or xdsl..)
The whole big huha about adsl originally was that it would work over our existing copper infrastructure. This means, anyone with a dry pair between two places can use DSL. Period. So long as the distance requirements are met. It is not something that is specific to a phone company, or something requiring 'special' switches. Many ISP's (at least, here in Canada) actually lease loops off the telco and run their own DSL services. Now.. certainly, the telco is in the best position to know their own network (you would think..).. and in the best postiion to centrally roll thinsg out (racks of DSL devices in their switching center.. half the distance others would need to go..e tc..) but anyone can do this. So. Go to it! Dry pair is cheap... The hard part, usually, is finding the ISP who is willing to let you drop your equipment in there. They'll probably want to charge you an arm and a leg.
Well, it could be, but not always. When a gnutellaNET search query goes out, it is not transmitted 'peer to peer', ie, directly from you to each of the 2000 other servants. It is routed through gnutellaNET from host to host.
If gnutellaNET is a peer to peer network, so is the internet.
It's funny. Yes, it does support SMP, unless you are booting from windows9x, which disables SMP.... but I have to wonder.. What idiot would be running win9x on an SMP box anyway??
This was posted weeks ago, no? The article was something to do with 'notes on runing linux on a mainframe'. They made a good point, though. One IBM mainframe, and you could present thousands of 'virtual' linux boxen to your web clients.... virtual machines in the extreme.
We have tons of space. And you are more than welcome to join us up here.. but you'll have to leave a small part of your capitalist extremist attitudes back in the US when you leave. We take things a little easier up here... there's more to life than money.
On another note, though.. The US *IS* a great country, and a fine neighbor.. but rather than run away, you have to MAKE NOISE! Let your politicians know how YOU want your country to be run. Remember.. the US is supposed to be a shining example to the world of a country goverened OF FOR AND BY the people, and more and more often, it appears that the people have no control over the government. Even us Canadians have a better grip on what's going on (or so it appears). I'd say you should continue that example, all get together and 'splain to your government how it is. And as your friendly neighbors, you'll get all the support from us canucks you can handle.
I think your statement that very few countries would not follow the US in their decisions is very wrong. I am not trying to speak positively or negatively about the US, but even if you look at our own Canadian laws, we tend to follow Europe far more than we follow the US.
Firstly, because the "Internet" is != "The US" and any restrictions placed solely on US internet providers will simply create a market outside the US for services.
And besides.. regulating the internet is like herding cats.
Yes. For spacelift service, to put up satellites, that's a good idea, at could be profitable.
But those Europeans don't put people on the moon, or try to land robots on mars, or put up space telescopes, or.. the list goes on. Nasa is about RESEARCH, not profits.
Where does the job posting from sun say it requires 7+ years of java experience? It asks for 2+ years of relevant experience, and mentions that java is a plus.
Okay. I enjoy dissing the US on occasion..but I must say. The US PEOPLE, through their tax dollars, as a nation, put a man on the moon, probes on mars and other planets, voyager, etc... A choice? There IS a choice. Space exploration costs MONEY! And NASA has had an ever shrinking budget because there is no taxpayer support. So. If the US People WANT nasa to succeed, they have to put the money into it. If they DONT want to do that, they should scrap it.
Imagine you are a contractor. Someone hires you to build a server for him. You explain to him that to do what he needs will cost $10,000. He says 'I only have $1000, but I want you to do it anyway'. You do the best you can, but his server cracks under the load the first day it is up. Should he blame YOU for it's failure, or himself for not listening in the first place?
I am not nearly as well educated on the subject as the previous poster, and I hope he answers your question.
I believe the answer, however, stems from the fact that 'particle' is not an absolute term.
As he mentioned, it can be viewed that a photon is just a localized distortion of the EM field. It is a quanta that an EM wave can be broken down into. It is not necessarily a 'particle' like an atom or a proton/neutron, though it may cause some similar effects in the universe. The same can be said of gravitons. It is not as if the object spits out a proton or something, and propells itself away. The graviton is a localized distortion of spacetime. The choice of the word 'recoil' is probably just misplaced.
I could muse that we could view this as 'spacetime' becoming more 'dense' between object, as gravitons are emitted, causing a percieved attraction.. but I'd probably be way off base.
You are describing a radiometer, and the reason a radiometer spins is due to the black/white surfaces. Light hitting the black surface is absorbed, heating the air next to it, and causing an imbalance. It is not due to any kind of 'photonic pressure'.
Well. I just know lots of unix guru wannabes are going to scream about how "BE sux! Linux rules! Be doesn't do blah blah blah".
I must say, I was excited to get my hands on the free edition today. I've always wanted to have a good hard look at BE. I find a few things that threw me off though.
1) The installation notes indicate that SMP is not supported, but it appeard to work just fine on my SMP box (even showing both processors in Pulse). 2) The installation notes indicate it is limited to a 500 MB installation. This may be true of the installer, but is definately not true once it is installed. You could migrate it to a pure BE partition, or whatever, of whatever size you want. Neither point #1 or point #2 seem to be actual restrictions in the software... just the way the installer works. If this is the case, it seems kind of sleazy to suggest that if you want to do either of these things, you should buy the Professional version. That's not how the crowd they need to attract works.
3) No GeForce support. Yes. I know. What do they say on the newsgroups? "Write it yourself then!". Well.. sorry guys, but if Be wants to get more mindshare by introducing this free distribution (which is cool! don't get me wrong), it would REALLY make sense if a 'multimedia' OS supported what may be the most common graphics chipset out there. And why is it that I can't even do 16 bit color by 1024x768? A reference SVGA card driver could even do this.. but for some reason the only thing available is 640x480, B&W. I certainly won't go out and purchase another graphics card just to use BE.
I find it funny that, althouth in their install README, and other documents they mention that BeOS 5 free edition can only install to a 500 meg container file, and that it is limited to single processor, and that you should upgrade to the pro version in order to support these things.
It appeared to support my dual processor box just fine (I did use a boot disk).
It also appears to allow you to migrate it to a different filesystem if you wish.. one that's bigger.
Now I could be wrong.. but the features not 'supported' in this version seem only to describethe installer behavior, and not the functions of the kernel itself.
First off, everyone is claiming that Mattel is screwing with the GPL. Folks..they haven't DONE anything yet. They haven't even announced an intention to do anything yet. They haven't tried to fight the GPL yet.
Also, everyone is saying how Mattel can't do anything about it. This maybe true, but if it IS really GPL (which it sure look slike), then the original authors may be in for more trouble. It has been mentioned several times that the settlement required the authors to state that they had not assigned the rights to the software to ANYONE else. This clause is there specifically to prevent against something like this. In other words... when Mattel figures this out (which will be today, probably) they could find themselves back in court on other charges, as they may have LIED about the status of the software.
Of course, it goes without saying that Mattel won't win this battle in the long run.
Well. Let's look at it this way. 1) Nobody is being further prosecuted. 2) They possibly got money for it 3) What were they fighting for, anyway? The genie was already out of the bottle. What exactly would be the point of standing up to mattel? They ALREADY accomplished their goal. 4) The software was originally released under GPL, and hence, those versions already out are ours for the taking, and there is nothing Mattell can do about it.
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Umm... $40/mo for both ends? Very good deal.
Except in places where telco's have graciously deployed DSL services, the ONLY high speed digital services you can get cost a LOT of money.
Oh.. yeah.
wavelan cards (and proxim, and several others) can go about 10 miles with NO signal amps, only using proper antennaes.
I've done 14km links using proxim rangelan II cards (100mW, I believe) using some simple yagis.
One has to be careful with inline amplifiers, as you may exceed allowable power levels.
what you say about the fresnel zone is true, however.. I must say. Wireless IS very good, even in unlicensed ISM bands. Certainly, it's not for everyone, but if you can engineer the link, they do work well.
It's too bad we don't see more 915Mhz ISM products out there... 915 is much less succeptible to reflection, and you can clip trees without too much difficulty.
Of course, bandwidth tends to be a bit lower, but I've had 1.5Mbps links going over 900Mhz ISM..
even across the top of a small forest (read: there were a few trees in the way, but not many)
approx.
And T1 runs over balanced synchronous lines.. known usually (I believe) as HDSL, and they consist of two pairs instead of one, and are rigorously tested for quality.
T1 is still T1. Frame is still Frame. You're describing different layers.
Though most ISP's that sell you 'T1' access really just sell you T1 access to a frame cloud, then do whatever from there on out.
Alarm circuits are single pair copper, exactly what is used in your house for your analog phone, but wihtout the dialtone/switching gear hooked to it.
Not necessarily the same as a 56k circuit, though many parts of it might be.
Charges for local loop of normal plain jane dry copper are generally super cheap. It's just not a common sale.
This isn't really new.. though perhaps there are some misconceptions about what adsl really is (or xdsl..)
The whole big huha about adsl originally was that it would work over our existing copper infrastructure. This means, anyone with a dry pair between two places can use DSL. Period. So long as the distance requirements are met. It is not something that is specific to a phone company, or something requiring 'special' switches.
Many ISP's (at least, here in Canada) actually lease loops off the telco and run their own DSL services.
Now.. certainly, the telco is in the best position to know their own network (you would think..).. and in the best postiion to centrally roll thinsg out (racks of DSL devices in their switching center.. half the distance others would need to go..e tc..) but anyone can do this.
So. Go to it! Dry pair is cheap...
The hard part, usually, is finding the ISP who is willing to let you drop your equipment in there. They'll probably want to charge you an arm and a leg.
Well, it could be, but not always.
When a gnutellaNET search query goes out, it is not transmitted 'peer to peer', ie, directly from you to each of the 2000 other servants. It is routed through gnutellaNET from host to host.
If gnutellaNET is a peer to peer network, so is the internet.
It's funny. Yes, it does support SMP, unless you are booting from windows9x, which disables SMP.... but I have to wonder..
What idiot would be running win9x on an SMP box anyway??
This was posted weeks ago, no?
The article was something to do with 'notes on runing linux on a mainframe'.
They made a good point, though.
One IBM mainframe, and you could present thousands of 'virtual' linux boxen to your web clients.... virtual machines in the extreme.
We have tons of space. And you are more than welcome to join us up here.. but you'll have to leave a small part of your capitalist extremist attitudes back in the US when you leave. We take things a little easier up here... there's more to life than money.
On another note, though.. The US *IS* a great country, and a fine neighbor.. but rather than run away, you have to MAKE NOISE! Let your politicians know how YOU want your country to be run.
Remember.. the US is supposed to be a shining example to the world of a country goverened OF FOR AND BY the people, and more and more often, it appears that the people have no control over the government. Even us Canadians have a better grip on what's going on (or so it appears). I'd say you should continue that example, all get together and 'splain to your government how it is.
And as your friendly neighbors, you'll get all the support from us canucks you can handle.
I think your statement that very few countries would not follow the US in their decisions is very wrong. I am not trying to speak positively or negatively about the US, but even if you look at our own Canadian laws, we tend to follow Europe far more than we follow the US.
Firstly, because the "Internet" is != "The US" and any restrictions placed solely on US internet providers will simply create a market outside the US for services.
And besides.. regulating the internet is like herding cats.
Yes. For spacelift service, to put up satellites, that's a good idea, at could be profitable.
But those Europeans don't put people on the moon, or try to land robots on mars, or put up space telescopes, or.. the list goes on.
Nasa is about RESEARCH, not profits.
Okay. How would they make money? Holy capitalist pig.
Where does the job posting from sun say it requires 7+ years of java experience?
It asks for 2+ years of relevant experience, and mentions that java is a plus.
Okay. I enjoy dissing the US on occasion..but I must say.
The US PEOPLE, through their tax dollars, as a nation, put a man on the moon, probes on mars and other planets, voyager, etc...
A choice? There IS a choice. Space exploration costs MONEY! And NASA has had an ever shrinking budget because there is no taxpayer support. So. If the US People WANT nasa to succeed, they have to put the money into it. If they DONT want to do that, they should scrap it.
Imagine you are a contractor. Someone hires you to build a server for him. You explain to him that to do what he needs will cost $10,000. He says 'I only have $1000, but I want you to do it anyway'. You do the best you can, but his server cracks under the load the first day it is up. Should he blame YOU for it's failure, or himself for not listening in the first place?
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I am not nearly as well educated on the subject as the previous poster, and I hope he answers your question.
I believe the answer, however, stems from the fact that 'particle' is not an absolute term.
As he mentioned, it can be viewed that a photon is just a localized distortion of the EM field. It is a quanta that an EM wave can be broken down into. It is not necessarily a 'particle' like an atom or a proton/neutron, though it may cause some similar effects in the universe.
The same can be said of gravitons. It is not as if the object spits out a proton or something, and propells itself away. The graviton is a localized distortion of spacetime. The choice of the word 'recoil' is probably just misplaced.
I could muse that we could view this as 'spacetime' becoming more 'dense' between object, as gravitons are emitted, causing a percieved attraction.. but I'd probably be way off base.
Recall that his intent is not that radiated photons act as a propellant, but that they negate graivty, acting as a shield, to block gravitons.
You are describing a radiometer, and the reason a radiometer spins is due to the black/white surfaces. Light hitting the black surface is absorbed, heating the air next to it, and causing an imbalance. It is not due to any kind of 'photonic pressure'.
Well. I just know lots of unix guru wannabes are going to scream about how "BE sux! Linux rules! Be doesn't do blah blah blah".
I must say, I was excited to get my hands on the free edition today. I've always wanted to have a good hard look at BE. I find a few things that threw me off though.
1) The installation notes indicate that SMP is not supported, but it appeard to work just fine on my SMP box (even showing both processors in Pulse).
2) The installation notes indicate it is limited to a 500 MB installation. This may be true of the installer, but is definately not true once it is installed. You could migrate it to a pure BE partition, or whatever, of whatever size you want.
Neither point #1 or point #2 seem to be actual restrictions in the software... just the way the installer works. If this is the case, it seems kind of sleazy to suggest that if you want to do either of these things, you should buy the Professional version. That's not how the crowd they need to attract works.
3) No GeForce support. Yes. I know. What do they say on the newsgroups? "Write it yourself then!". Well.. sorry guys, but if Be wants to get more mindshare by introducing this free distribution (which is cool! don't get me wrong), it would REALLY make sense if a 'multimedia' OS supported what may be the most common graphics chipset out there. And why is it that I can't even do 16 bit color by 1024x768? A reference SVGA card driver could even do this.. but for some reason the only thing available is 640x480, B&W.
I certainly won't go out and purchase another graphics card just to use BE.
I find it funny that, althouth in their install README, and other documents they mention that BeOS 5 free edition can only install to a 500 meg container file, and that it is limited to single processor, and that you should upgrade to the pro version in order to support these things.
It appeared to support my dual processor box just fine (I did use a boot disk).
It also appears to allow you to migrate it to a different filesystem if you wish.. one that's bigger.
Now I could be wrong.. but the features not 'supported' in this version seem only to describethe installer behavior, and not the functions of the kernel itself.
Just because we have a currently 'accepted' model does not mean that it is the truth. It only means it is accepted.
First off, everyone is claiming that Mattel is screwing with the GPL. Folks..they haven't DONE anything yet. They haven't even announced an intention to do anything yet. They haven't tried to fight the GPL yet.
Also, everyone is saying how Mattel can't do anything about it. This maybe true, but if it IS really GPL (which it sure look slike), then the original authors may be in for more trouble. It has been mentioned several times that the settlement required the authors to state that they had not assigned the rights to the software to ANYONE else. This clause is there specifically to prevent against something like this. In other words... when Mattel figures this out (which will be today, probably) they could find themselves back in court on other charges, as they may have LIED about the status of the software.
Of course, it goes without saying that Mattel won't win this battle in the long run.
Well. Let's look at it this way.
1) Nobody is being further prosecuted.
2) They possibly got money for it
3) What were they fighting for, anyway? The genie was already out of the bottle. What exactly would be the point of standing up to mattel? They ALREADY accomplished their goal.
4) The software was originally released under GPL, and hence, those versions already out are ours for the taking, and there is nothing Mattell can do about it.