I forgot to be clear on this, I'm having a T1 set up, and will re-sell the bandwidth via WLAN. I'm not installing T1 for everyone as some interpretations of my post might suggest.
It is a nice gesture, on the surface. The thing is, I am relatively certain that you aren't allowed to share a connection like that, much like most ISPs disallow servers on their residential internet accounts.
When I get going with my own small ISP, I certainly won't be allowing stuff like this. I'm going to be paying through the ass just to get a high speed connection (T1 is the only viable high speed connection here), and I have negative incentive to give away "free WiFi" as you say because I need to sell accounts to pay for the connection and maintain the network. Thankfully the people I talk to understand that.
I remember a figure from last year saying broadband was only in 25% of US internet connected households. This site didn't give any information on past history based on their collection methods.
I think you are forgetting that there are plenty of other search engines that don't require a change of OS, hardware or other infrastructure to switch, unlike Microsoft.
I doubt Google is a monopoly, and there are other search engines vying for the top spot should Google mis-step. If they sell out to shareholders and Yahoo or MSN ends up being more useful as a result, then the shareholders are only hurting themselves.
My understanding is that only a small portion of shares are being sold, so those votes don't really count compared to those of the insiders.
The speed may not be necessary, but one less potential "b" device means that it isn't dragging down the connection speed of OTHER devices that would benefit from a faster connection.
The stem cell thing is a bit more clouded than people think. Only federal money is prohibited, private research can continue, so it's not a ban on stem cell research. Not only that, the previous Democrat president didn't financially support stem cell research at all, Bush actually allowed some.
I personally found the card to be less than useful. The software included with the card IS flaky. I CAN'T just download new drivers and software because it is 50MB to 60MB, I'm not about to tie up my line for that. (I'm just a few hundred feet too far from any form of broadband)
Despite the Matrox G450 clearly being in one of their compatibility lists, it does not work, even with the latest drivers, unless I only wanted to watch the analog broadcasts.
As for QAM, the older versions didn't work, but the current version is supposed to work with unencrypted QAM.
I thought the "security" was broken only by physically accessing the device.
Given that there would be several variations of installed firmware, I think it would cut down on the number of worms that can hit all of them.
Even then, that is just a hypothetical exercise right now, I don't remember any big worms that targeted the Linux kernel, nor any proof-of-concept demonstrations.
And most of these hacked units woould be behind firewalls, I think you need some of them to be direct connected to the Internet to start such a worm spread.
If you want ssh, telnet and all the other toys, plug a real linux box into your network !
It is a real linux box. It was when it was packaged too.
The thing about this and WRT54G is that it can do things with more efficient hardware than setting up an inefficient ATX based system. These things consume watts, not hundreds of watts and are also fanless, lighter and more compact.
The problem is that people still might blame Apple for something that's not Apple's fault. And it's not as if Apple can get away with voiding warranty or support if unlicenced third party software happens to be on it - because iPod was never intended to run third party software.
In the past, the CRT RPTVs were the cheapest way to get a big screen, and well, they still are.
The DLP ones are very thin, sometimes half as deep (or less) as the CRTs. You should at least know what you are dissing.
I personally don't see a point in the displays that are thin, like plasma and LCD panels. I don't see a point in the display being thinner than the accompanying components are deep, because the components would protrude or you'd have a big air gap behind the display, if the display is flush with the DVD player, amp, etc. So I'd consider a 15" to 20" depth to be pretty comfortable.
A lot of 4:3 TVs do anamorphic squeeze too, so you can get the same resolution by collapsing the vertical scan height. It looks very nice. Until most of the video (TV, games, cable, DVD) you watch goes widescreen, there is little reason to get a widescreen with such large price discrepencies. It is sad that for less money you can get a wider 4:3 screen which will make even the 16:9 image area larger, and for 4:3 video, you get a MUCH bigger screen.
LCOS has already been around for five or ten years. JVC and I think some others have been selling some LCOS RPTVs for a few years now.
It has the advantage of having the highest fill ratio, which means a very minimal gap between pixels. While the LCOS systems are more expensive, they are the most affordable digital display for high resolutions such as SXGA+, UXGA and even 1080p.
Currently TI holds the patent on micro mirror arrays. If you want DLP, it must use a TI chip. I'm not sure if home DLP has the huge manufacturer mark-up that you claim, but I've never seen any dealer vs. street price comparisons, anywhere.
IBM doesn't pretend that Windows is the only game in town, it is just that they don't offer it on many of their desktops yet. IIRC, they do offer and ship it on many workstations, servers and some business desktops (I think) though.
I think it is worthwhile to tune your message to your market. If the target market doesn't care about Linux, why offer it?
You are right that businesses like IBM will try to do what suits them, and will ride what they see to be fads or trends, if they think it is profitable.
You should keep backups anyway, just in case you accidentally delete a file.
I've never really had a major reliability problem with hard drives, although I did what I could to avoid the cheaper ones. I have yet to have a SCSI hard drive fail on me. This isn't to say they don't fail, I guess it is that you sometimes get what you pay for.
Geeks are an indicator of the usage of consumers in general. NOT!
Note: Sorry about the 80's term "NOT". If we can allow people to use l337, then I think I should be allowed this.
While floppies have been replaced, there is no single standard it was replaced with in terms of quick writing. Not all computers have CD-R, a flash reader or even a front USB jack.
I think I did get my mom away from floppy for her backups. She was happy on how quickly her file saved to a CF card. A problem here is that flash cards are still kind of expensive, which is bad for something so easily lost or damaged. Rather than allowing their price to drop to $10, they just quit selling them in favor of doing a capacity increase at the same price point.
Is this a rework of FMD? They always seemed suspicious, making grand schemes. It didn't help that their trade show listing was basically empty and the science behind it seemed to be snake oil.
Supposedly they demonstrated a functioning system, somewhere but by then they were dead anyway.
interference isn't regarded as an exclusion? If I am using a band over a certain area, that means no one else can use that band unless they wish to waste power or prevent me from using that band too.
I'd also like to see how eliminating the FCC would solve anything. Even if TV bands and specifications were decided by a consortium, they'd also have to be arbitrary on who can transmit where. If anyone can decide their frequency, then it is who is willing to pump out the most watts wins, which is expensive and still means the victor will be the one with the deepest pockets.
And that doesn't mention the amount of international action done to stabilize pricing, namely Gulf War I and II. Not that I think that Hussein should have remained in power but let's not forget why the many of the bigwigs decided to get involved.
The labor is much cheaper but a lot of other expenses make up much of the difference. Despite Mexican wages being 10% that of US workers, a $500 US refrigerator still costs about $470 when made in Mexico.
The Hush has a different advantage of being compact. Being huge only has an advantage of being able to put more things in it, at the disadvantage of, being huge.
Digital tuners also have analog ports and support analog tuning too. You only need two slots to do what you want, unless you expected to have three full tuners available at any one time.
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I forgot to be clear on this, I'm having a T1 set up, and will re-sell the bandwidth via WLAN. I'm not installing T1 for everyone as some interpretations of my post might suggest.
It is a nice gesture, on the surface. The thing is, I am relatively certain that you aren't allowed to share a connection like that, much like most ISPs disallow servers on their residential internet accounts.
When I get going with my own small ISP, I certainly won't be allowing stuff like this. I'm going to be paying through the ass just to get a high speed connection (T1 is the only viable high speed connection here), and I have negative incentive to give away "free WiFi" as you say because I need to sell accounts to pay for the connection and maintain the network. Thankfully the people I talk to understand that.
Email is also the preferred communication method
Email is exactly why everyone should have a 6mbps down / 1mbps up connection. Otherwise it takes soooo long.
I remember a figure from last year saying broadband was only in 25% of US internet connected households. This site didn't give any information on past history based on their collection methods.
I think you are forgetting that there are plenty of other search engines that don't require a change of OS, hardware or other infrastructure to switch, unlike Microsoft.
I doubt Google is a monopoly, and there are other search engines vying for the top spot should Google mis-step. If they sell out to shareholders and Yahoo or MSN ends up being more useful as a result, then the shareholders are only hurting themselves.
My understanding is that only a small portion of shares are being sold, so those votes don't really count compared to those of the insiders.
The speed may not be necessary, but one less potential "b" device means that it isn't dragging down the connection speed of OTHER devices that would benefit from a faster connection.
The stem cell thing is a bit more clouded than people think. Only federal money is prohibited, private research can continue, so it's not a ban on stem cell research. Not only that, the previous Democrat president didn't financially support stem cell research at all, Bush actually allowed some.
I personally found the card to be less than useful. The software included with the card IS flaky. I CAN'T just download new drivers and software because it is 50MB to 60MB, I'm not about to tie up my line for that. (I'm just a few hundred feet too far from any form of broadband)
Despite the Matrox G450 clearly being in one of their compatibility lists, it does not work, even with the latest drivers, unless I only wanted to watch the analog broadcasts.
As for QAM, the older versions didn't work, but the current version is supposed to work with unencrypted QAM.
Groan. I don't think I'll support another milking of the Star Wars franchise just because they don't want people to know, so they'd buy it themselves.
I thought the "security" was broken only by physically accessing the device.
Given that there would be several variations of installed firmware, I think it would cut down on the number of worms that can hit all of them.
Even then, that is just a hypothetical exercise right now, I don't remember any big worms that targeted the Linux kernel, nor any proof-of-concept demonstrations.
And most of these hacked units woould be behind firewalls, I think you need some of them to be direct connected to the Internet to start such a worm spread.
If you want ssh, telnet and all the other toys, plug a real linux box into your network !
It is a real linux box. It was when it was packaged too.
The thing about this and WRT54G is that it can do things with more efficient hardware than setting up an inefficient ATX based system. These things consume watts, not hundreds of watts and are also fanless, lighter and more compact.
The problem is that people still might blame Apple for something that's not Apple's fault. And it's not as if Apple can get away with voiding warranty or support if unlicenced third party software happens to be on it - because iPod was never intended to run third party software.
In the past, the CRT RPTVs were the cheapest way to get a big screen, and well, they still are.
The DLP ones are very thin, sometimes half as deep (or less) as the CRTs. You should at least know what you are dissing.
I personally don't see a point in the displays that are thin, like plasma and LCD panels. I don't see a point in the display being thinner than the accompanying components are deep, because the components would protrude or you'd have a big air gap behind the display, if the display is flush with the DVD player, amp, etc. So I'd consider a 15" to 20" depth to be pretty comfortable.
A lot of 4:3 TVs do anamorphic squeeze too, so you can get the same resolution by collapsing the vertical scan height. It looks very nice. Until most of the video (TV, games, cable, DVD) you watch goes widescreen, there is little reason to get a widescreen with such large price discrepencies. It is sad that for less money you can get a wider 4:3 screen which will make even the 16:9 image area larger, and for 4:3 video, you get a MUCH bigger screen.
LCOS has already been around for five or ten years. JVC and I think some others have been selling some LCOS RPTVs for a few years now.
It has the advantage of having the highest fill ratio, which means a very minimal gap between pixels. While the LCOS systems are more expensive, they are the most affordable digital display for high resolutions such as SXGA+, UXGA and even 1080p.
Currently TI holds the patent on micro mirror arrays. If you want DLP, it must use a TI chip. I'm not sure if home DLP has the huge manufacturer mark-up that you claim, but I've never seen any dealer vs. street price comparisons, anywhere.
IBM doesn't pretend that Windows is the only game in town, it is just that they don't offer it on many of their desktops yet. IIRC, they do offer and ship it on many workstations, servers and some business desktops (I think) though.
I think it is worthwhile to tune your message to your market. If the target market doesn't care about Linux, why offer it?
You are right that businesses like IBM will try to do what suits them, and will ride what they see to be fads or trends, if they think it is profitable.
You should keep backups anyway, just in case you accidentally delete a file.
I've never really had a major reliability problem with hard drives, although I did what I could to avoid the cheaper ones. I have yet to have a SCSI hard drive fail on me. This isn't to say they don't fail, I guess it is that you sometimes get what you pay for.
Oh, news! A geek has stopped using a floppy!
Geeks are an indicator of the usage of consumers in general. NOT!
Note: Sorry about the 80's term "NOT". If we can allow people to use l337, then I think I should be allowed this.
While floppies have been replaced, there is no single standard it was replaced with in terms of quick writing. Not all computers have CD-R, a flash reader or even a front USB jack.
I think I did get my mom away from floppy for her backups. She was happy on how quickly her file saved to a CF card. A problem here is that flash cards are still kind of expensive, which is bad for something so easily lost or damaged. Rather than allowing their price to drop to $10, they just quit selling them in favor of doing a capacity increase at the same price point.
I think it should go without saying that Doom 3 has nothing to do with the typical market for Xeon.
I'd also hesitate to make a choice based on performance on a single program unless that is the only program I ever plan to use.
Is this a rework of FMD? They always seemed suspicious, making grand schemes. It didn't help that their trade show listing was basically empty and the science behind it seemed to be snake oil.
Supposedly they demonstrated a functioning system, somewhere but by then they were dead anyway.
interference isn't regarded as an exclusion? If I am using a band over a certain area, that means no one else can use that band unless they wish to waste power or prevent me from using that band too.
I'd also like to see how eliminating the FCC would solve anything. Even if TV bands and specifications were decided by a consortium, they'd also have to be arbitrary on who can transmit where. If anyone can decide their frequency, then it is who is willing to pump out the most watts wins, which is expensive and still means the victor will be the one with the deepest pockets.
And that doesn't mention the amount of international action done to stabilize pricing, namely Gulf War I and II. Not that I think that Hussein should have remained in power but let's not forget why the many of the bigwigs decided to get involved.
The labor is much cheaper but a lot of other expenses make up much of the difference. Despite Mexican wages being 10% that of US workers, a $500 US refrigerator still costs about $470 when made in Mexico.
The Hush has a different advantage of being compact. Being huge only has an advantage of being able to put more things in it, at the disadvantage of, being huge.
Digital tuners also have analog ports and support analog tuning too. You only need two slots to do what you want, unless you expected to have three full tuners available at any one time.