Depending on country, there are one to fourteen channels. The problem is that the band used is much wider than the given channel, so "b" and "g" only have three non-overlapping channels. Some people say that they managed to squeeze out four without serious degradation of speed. Unless the government is offering some sort of remediation system, I don't see the point.
In an apartment housing situation, you have the potential of twenty six neighbors that might interfere with you even at a low power, if you count the adjacent apartments, the one above, the one below, and those apartments sharing corner walls, and so on.
The problem is that it might mean "back to wired we go"...
Really, it sounds like a taxation on progress. It's not as if wireless "b" or "g" were all that well thought-out, with only three channels but this is insane.
Only those people with no respect for intellectual property rights kept using them.
I think you are sweeping a pretty broad stroke there. You leave a heck of a lot of variables and nail it down to one knee-jerk category. Very few people are aware of the UNISYS issue, despite many of these people having some amount of respect for IP. I suppose that you might say that ignorance isn't an excuse, but very intelligent people might never stumble on this.
while the open source community showed far more respect for intellectual property law by going through great effort to avoid violating such patents.
Mostly by hosting GIF extensions, add-ons and patches on servers outside of the patent jurisdictions, such that people inside those patent jurisdictions can still download them?
I think it is leaving out that not a whole lot of programs have good PNG support. I don't know anyone that would switch to GIMP from Photoshop just to get PNG, especially as Adobe licences a lot of necessary technologies that can't go into GIMP, and that's not mentioning GIMP's less efficient interface and slower operation.
They do not: any time binaries are distributed, source code must be made available.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Sveasoft does this. The source code for the respective firmware is available in both the public and subscriber section. And yes, I am a subscriber.
If you are getting spam so quickly after setting up such an account, either the company you are using is selling the accounts or there is someone on the inside that is leeching them, like that AOL account, and I've read people suggesting that is what happens with Hotmail.
If I ever saw that kind of thing, I would drop them in a hurry because such a company cannot be trusted.
If caller IDs are blocked, wouldn't the easy way to stop it is to allow users to chose whether or not they want to accept SMS and phone calls that are without caller ID information?
When I got a mobile phone, for some reason all the "friends" of the previous user of that number had their caller ID sending disabled. It was usually easy to avoid accepting calls. Even on that, I get caller ID info without using up any minutes.
I would think that the people that don't see the value of these things have no contact with those with artistic talent, and possibly have no artistic talent themselves.
Think about it. A lot of artists that have to use a computer insist on using a pen / tablet control system. These tablet PCs integrate it right into the screen. How is that not a slick drawing system? CAD types can use it as well. Coders, like a lot of slashdotters, probably don't need it. That doesn't mean that non-coders can't benefit from it.
I love PDAs but there were times that I wish there were some larger ones. Now there are.
The thing is people point to bulkier, clumsier looking products and use the price of that to say the iPod is "overpriced" or something. The problem with that is the compact design comes at a price, and of course, a good package design comes at a price too. Zen looks pretty nice but it is pretty boxy and bulkier too. I've seen an iRiver that is very close to an iPod's size but has an awful large protruding arrow pointer and costs just as much as iPod.
The MuVo2 does look like a decent competitor to iPod mini, but nowhere have I found actual dimensions to the product. They love bragging about the small 1" hard drive, that doesn't mean much because that doesn't say what the actual product size is.
Why do they refuse to offer an iPod for $200? They'd sell like hotcakes. Not everyone needs 40 freakin' gigs.
Seems like a false argument by pointing to the top model when discussing a hypothetical bottom end? If one doesn't need 40 freakin gigs, why not buy the 20 gig version for $100 less than the 40 gig version?
Yes, I much prefer playing a computer game on a 30Hz 525x525 blurry display than on a 72Hz 1024x768 display.
They need not be so different. My primary entertainment display is an XGA* projector. In such a case, a TV video modulator is irrelevant.
* XGA == 1024x768 I'm not sure why the slashdot crowd likes spewing numbers when there's a perfectly good acronym for it and many other standard screen resolutions.
Not all audio tracks are trying to constantly blare out as loud as they can, the ones that are are just action movies, I think. If one can hear the equipment during the quieter passages, then it can be distracting.
That said, there are ways to manage sound output to minimize this. The thing I am annoyed with is the whine of the microfans on CPUs, chipsets and graphics cards, as such, my machines don't have fans on any of them. A single larger fan with well-designed ducting handles the air flow.
Hope you didn't spend too much, seeing as you don't get 1080i.
For game play or any computer use, I'd take a 720p display over 1080i anyday. I'm pretty sure that display can scale it. The displays I've looked at didn't do too bad at scaling to 720p.
I really hope to get a 1080p display though. Some FP CRT sets can do it, but they are expensive, hopefully the LCOS sets coming in the next year or two will bring that price down significantly.
I suspect that the money given per work unit would be too small.
I wouldn't mind it if I could make a little cash to eventually help pay back for the computer, maintainance and energy (and heat removal in the summer), I doubt it would happen. I'd love to see someone prove me wrong.
Different rural regions may have different responses, but I went door-to-door asking people if they were interested in high speed internet. I even tried to sell it as a way to be online without tying up a phone line. I only got maybe 5% interest.
Despite the weak interest, I ended up just signing up for a T1 anyway, splitting the cost with my dad's business which is next door. I figure it is cheaper than moving into town. I might still try again, somehow tweak my promotion, but I need to experiment and learn how to do the relevant networking stuff in Linux and get it going before I try again.
I hope this effort succeeds and works better than DirecWay. Ku band might be something new, there are one or two C band internet services and at least two DSS internet providers.
Hot swapping components sounds great, but what if the screwdriver slips out of the finger of the engineer and causes a short?
The systems I've seen that have hot-swap PCI cards have plastic partitions between the slots to prevent the cards from touching each other when hot swapping them.
I'm not sure why the hypothetical screwdriver in such a tech's hands. Many systems have non-screw means of retaining memory, PCI cards, CPUs and such.
It is still too early to tie a commercial service like that to be linux-only.
The plan I'm on is that I am getting people used to not using Microsoft applications, using the closest opensource equivalent whenever possible.
There is still a danger that Microsoft operating systems would still have a stranglehold, but I don't think putting up barriers to easy transition is appropriate, even if there is fantastic stuff on the other side, an abrupt transition is still a turn-off. At the very least it would move people away from IE, OE and MS Office.
The rate seems pretty good, assuming the call quality is good. I'm getting a business internet / phone package where long distance is 2.99 cents a minute. One benefit of is that the time is metered in six second increments rather than the full minute.
I'm not sure exactly what technology is being used, I think it is similar to VoiP as each phone call takes away a small amount of bandwidth from the internet service, and the conversation doesn't happen over normal phone lines, at least on my end.
Well, this system is neither RISC nor CISC. Itaniums are VLIW. IIRC, it too does have an x86 translator somewhere, but they work far better with native code.
At first my reaction whas 'huh'? But bluetooth 2.0 might be nice, if there were good bluetooth headphones to go with it. I'd think it would work pretty well and not require hiding a wire or restrict movement.
Given that even these will have to be charged every other day, I'm not sure what synching is really necessary if it can be done over the charger dock.
One use I've heard of is using a Bluetooth mobile phone as like a mobile internet access device. Laptops with a Bluetooth interface can use an internet-capable bluetooth phone like a wireless go-anywhere modem.
If the phone acts as a PDA, the PDA information can be synched with a laptop or desktop.
Right now, I just use Bluetooth as an HID system. I wanted a wireless mouse that didn't need a potentially fragile USB dongle to work. My laptop happens to have a bluetooth module avalable for it. Now I have a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard set.
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With all the available wifi channels
Depending on country, there are one to fourteen channels. The problem is that the band used is much wider than the given channel, so "b" and "g" only have three non-overlapping channels. Some people say that they managed to squeeze out four without serious degradation of speed. Unless the government is offering some sort of remediation system, I don't see the point.
In an apartment housing situation, you have the potential of twenty six neighbors that might interfere with you even at a low power, if you count the adjacent apartments, the one above, the one below, and those apartments sharing corner walls, and so on.
The problem is that it might mean "back to wired we go"...
Really, it sounds like a taxation on progress. It's not as if wireless "b" or "g" were all that well thought-out, with only three channels but this is insane.
Only those people with no respect for intellectual property rights kept using them.
I think you are sweeping a pretty broad stroke there. You leave a heck of a lot of variables and nail it down to one knee-jerk category. Very few people are aware of the UNISYS issue, despite many of these people having some amount of respect for IP. I suppose that you might say that ignorance isn't an excuse, but very intelligent people might never stumble on this.
while the open source community showed far more respect for intellectual property law by going through great effort to avoid violating such patents.
Mostly by hosting GIF extensions, add-ons and patches on servers outside of the patent jurisdictions, such that people inside those patent jurisdictions can still download them?
I think it is leaving out that not a whole lot of programs have good PNG support. I don't know anyone that would switch to GIMP from Photoshop just to get PNG, especially as Adobe licences a lot of necessary technologies that can't go into GIMP, and that's not mentioning GIMP's less efficient interface and slower operation.
I think PNGs decode noticibly slower too.
Is this a reference to Micheal Jackson's penis (jackson's mosquito)?
They do not: any time binaries are distributed, source code must be made available.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Sveasoft does this. The source code for the respective firmware is available in both the public and subscriber section. And yes, I am a subscriber.
If you are getting spam so quickly after setting up such an account, either the company you are using is selling the accounts or there is someone on the inside that is leeching them, like that AOL account, and I've read people suggesting that is what happens with Hotmail.
If I ever saw that kind of thing, I would drop them in a hurry because such a company cannot be trusted.
If caller IDs are blocked, wouldn't the easy way to stop it is to allow users to chose whether or not they want to accept SMS and phone calls that are without caller ID information?
When I got a mobile phone, for some reason all the "friends" of the previous user of that number had their caller ID sending disabled. It was usually easy to avoid accepting calls. Even on that, I get caller ID info without using up any minutes.
I would think that the people that don't see the value of these things have no contact with those with artistic talent, and possibly have no artistic talent themselves.
Think about it. A lot of artists that have to use a computer insist on using a pen / tablet control system. These tablet PCs integrate it right into the screen. How is that not a slick drawing system? CAD types can use it as well. Coders, like a lot of slashdotters, probably don't need it. That doesn't mean that non-coders can't benefit from it.
I love PDAs but there were times that I wish there were some larger ones. Now there are.
The thing is people point to bulkier, clumsier looking products and use the price of that to say the iPod is "overpriced" or something. The problem with that is the compact design comes at a price, and of course, a good package design comes at a price too. Zen looks pretty nice but it is pretty boxy and bulkier too. I've seen an iRiver that is very close to an iPod's size but has an awful large protruding arrow pointer and costs just as much as iPod.
The MuVo2 does look like a decent competitor to iPod mini, but nowhere have I found actual dimensions to the product. They love bragging about the small 1" hard drive, that doesn't mean much because that doesn't say what the actual product size is.
Would you be willing to drop an hour or two of play time, another mm or two to the thickness, and fifty grams of weight for that wireless feature?
Hey, guys, how well do hotcakes sell?
And what if I wanted waffles?
Why do they refuse to offer an iPod for $200? They'd sell like hotcakes. Not everyone needs 40 freakin' gigs.
Seems like a false argument by pointing to the top model when discussing a hypothetical bottom end? If one doesn't need 40 freakin gigs, why not buy the 20 gig version for $100 less than the 40 gig version?
Yes, I much prefer playing a computer game on a 30Hz 525x525 blurry display than on a 72Hz 1024x768 display.
They need not be so different. My primary entertainment display is an XGA* projector. In such a case, a TV video modulator is irrelevant.
* XGA == 1024x768 I'm not sure why the slashdot crowd likes spewing numbers when there's a perfectly good acronym for it and many other standard screen resolutions.
I think FPS games are MUCH better with mouse and keyboard than ANY controller out there.
Odd. Somehow I was thinking that mice and keyboards were controllers, just a different subclass than the ones connected to a typical console.
Not all audio tracks are trying to constantly blare out as loud as they can, the ones that are are just action movies, I think. If one can hear the equipment during the quieter passages, then it can be distracting.
That said, there are ways to manage sound output to minimize this. The thing I am annoyed with is the whine of the microfans on CPUs, chipsets and graphics cards, as such, my machines don't have fans on any of them. A single larger fan with well-designed ducting handles the air flow.
Hope you didn't spend too much, seeing as you don't get 1080i.
For game play or any computer use, I'd take a 720p display over 1080i anyday. I'm pretty sure that display can scale it. The displays I've looked at didn't do too bad at scaling to 720p.
I really hope to get a 1080p display though. Some FP CRT sets can do it, but they are expensive, hopefully the LCOS sets coming in the next year or two will bring that price down significantly.
I suspect that the money given per work unit would be too small.
I wouldn't mind it if I could make a little cash to eventually help pay back for the computer, maintainance and energy (and heat removal in the summer), I doubt it would happen. I'd love to see someone prove me wrong.
Different rural regions may have different responses, but I went door-to-door asking people if they were interested in high speed internet. I even tried to sell it as a way to be online without tying up a phone line. I only got maybe 5% interest.
Despite the weak interest, I ended up just signing up for a T1 anyway, splitting the cost with my dad's business which is next door. I figure it is cheaper than moving into town. I might still try again, somehow tweak my promotion, but I need to experiment and learn how to do the relevant networking stuff in Linux and get it going before I try again.
I hope this effort succeeds and works better than DirecWay. Ku band might be something new, there are one or two C band internet services and at least two DSS internet providers.
Hot swapping components sounds great, but what if the screwdriver slips out of the finger of the engineer and causes a short?
The systems I've seen that have hot-swap PCI cards have plastic partitions between the slots to prevent the cards from touching each other when hot swapping them.
I'm not sure why the hypothetical screwdriver in such a tech's hands. Many systems have non-screw means of retaining memory, PCI cards, CPUs and such.
It is still too early to tie a commercial service like that to be linux-only.
The plan I'm on is that I am getting people used to not using Microsoft applications, using the closest opensource equivalent whenever possible.
There is still a danger that Microsoft operating systems would still have a stranglehold, but I don't think putting up barriers to easy transition is appropriate, even if there is fantastic stuff on the other side, an abrupt transition is still a turn-off. At the very least it would move people away from IE, OE and MS Office.
The rate seems pretty good, assuming the call quality is good. I'm getting a business internet / phone package where long distance is 2.99 cents a minute. One benefit of is that the time is metered in six second increments rather than the full minute.
I'm not sure exactly what technology is being used, I think it is similar to VoiP as each phone call takes away a small amount of bandwidth from the internet service, and the conversation doesn't happen over normal phone lines, at least on my end.
Well, this system is neither RISC nor CISC. Itaniums are VLIW. IIRC, it too does have an x86 translator somewhere, but they work far better with native code.
At first my reaction whas 'huh'? But bluetooth 2.0 might be nice, if there were good bluetooth headphones to go with it. I'd think it would work pretty well and not require hiding a wire or restrict movement.
Given that even these will have to be charged every other day, I'm not sure what synching is really necessary if it can be done over the charger dock.
Will they eb covering the math competition?
That's about as likely as an Olympic Spelling eeB.
That takes too much work. They are above having to read articles or think critically. Heaven forfend that an editor actually RTFA!
One use I've heard of is using a Bluetooth mobile phone as like a mobile internet access device. Laptops with a Bluetooth interface can use an internet-capable bluetooth phone like a wireless go-anywhere modem.
If the phone acts as a PDA, the PDA information can be synched with a laptop or desktop.
Right now, I just use Bluetooth as an HID system. I wanted a wireless mouse that didn't need a potentially fragile USB dongle to work. My laptop happens to have a bluetooth module avalable for it. Now I have a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard set.