In the end, it looks like it will take separate physical plants to stir up some real competition. These people should switch to FIOS when it gets rolled out.
Dude. If there was enough current to melt the wires and cause a fire, it would have happened before you moved in. However, it looks like it was just short of melting, so you were relatively safe. Stop your retrospective fear:)
Once I brought some prototype gadget with me on the subway in a totebag. It was hooked up to a small 12V lead-acid battery. Yeah, I know. Luckily the other sharp stuff in the bag only shorted the power leads when I left the train. The current immediately melted the power leads, stopping further damage, so there was never a real danger. However, I'm sure the trigger-happy public safety officials wouldn't have appreciated the resulting impressive cloud of smoke had it released inside the train;)
So long as the blogger in question has not made any actual false statements, and has couched all opinions as such, rather than as facts--then he should STFU and GBTW.
I print out all my opinion blog posts and keep them on my sofa.
It's the php generation. The height of obfuscation is base64, and masterful hacking is considered typing URLs by hand. Long gone are the days when this email address would be found hidden in the code page of a binary. Lord have mercy!
Sucks to be a content middleman these days. Maybe now we'll see a lot more of the baroque "patron model," which gave us a bunch of great classical names like Strauss or Mozart. Or the money will get redirected from the leeches to university-type places where musicians can go crazy. Praise the Lord!
Like above, I'm thinking low-bandwidth subscriptionless data modem that could be built into laptops, handhelds, phones (using existing cell infrastructure). There are plenty of applications that could run on that.
I agree it's a long shot:) Here are some counterpoints.
1) Deployment- could be cheaper than cellular due to 700MHz propagation. Maybe reuse the existing towers. Get a WiMax vendor to cut some equipment for it.
2) Devices- upcoming handhelds will start to have DTV tuners and WiMax anyway, so perhaps adding a receiver wouldn't be too costly. No cost to Google.
3) Teletext- it's one way, that's a non-starter. There isn't a two-way technology except for the celullar data, which are user-hostile in that they require contracts and subscriptions, and don't allow application experimentation due to vendor locks on the devices.
4) Application- delivering ads is just how Google makes money without requiring nasty subscriptions and contracts. Users would benefit from a rich ecosystem of open, low-bandwidth, wide-availability applications. Things like location-based search, directions, email, translation, etc. etc. Plenty more would come up thanks to the openness of the devices and the band.
I thought it would be a good vehicle for low-bandwidth applications such as text searches and ad delivery, both of which are Google's forte. 700MHz is ideal for that, since the bands are small (20MHz) and they reach really far.
Why assume that "public" necessarily means anyone should be allowed to transmit at arbitrary power? The 2.4GHz band licensing is already a decent compromise. Furthermore, there might be some technical solutions to using empty spectrum using cognitive radio, especially at short ranges such as within a home.
I guess there are some strings attached to the 700MHz spectrum, like requiring open access. Is there any requirement to allow arbitrary, power-limited transmitters? That would be equivalent to the current 2.4GHz ISM rules.
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In the end, it looks like it will take separate physical plants to stir up some real competition. These people should switch to FIOS when it gets rolled out.
I hear your pain, friend. Time to strap on some C-4 and head for the Slashdot headquarters!
Dude. If there was enough current to melt the wires and cause a fire, it would have happened before you moved in. However, it looks like it was just short of melting, so you were relatively safe. Stop your retrospective fear :)
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Once I brought some prototype gadget with me on the subway in a totebag. It was hooked up to a small 12V lead-acid battery. Yeah, I know. Luckily the other sharp stuff in the bag only shorted the power leads when I left the train. The current immediately melted the power leads, stopping further damage, so there was never a real danger. However, I'm sure the trigger-happy public safety officials wouldn't have appreciated the resulting impressive cloud of smoke had it released inside the train
How about detonate an H-bomb in the middle of a cube of steel or something, and then let out the pressure to spin a turbine?
Use two spinning in opposite directions?
Maybe they will finally kill off Qt and let the community focus on the one true toolkit!
I know this feeling-- many programmers call it being in 'the zone'. Being in the zone rocks!
Yeah, the GP nailed it. Mod up, disable comments, and let's move on to the next article!
This would be a bad idea for the same reason that Russians failed running their tanks on vodka in WWII.
Not to knock on anyone for being frugal, but they should really upgrade to something more secure than DOS.
Being a wireless guy the first thing I thought of is the way the 802.11 IBSS protocol merges ad-hoc cells.
IIRC Youtube streams at around 70 KBytes/sec, or 560kbit/s. Imagine maxing out at 20 users in a 70km cell :O
I would say cut your losses. This kind of thing is the cost of doing business on eBay.
It's the php generation. The height of obfuscation is base64, and masterful hacking is considered typing URLs by hand. Long gone are the days when this email address would be found hidden in the code page of a binary. Lord have mercy!
Citibank has this feature. They call it "Virtual Account Numbers."
It could be just me, but a bunch of robotic probes going from asteroid to asteroid to drill samples in search of useful ores would be really cool.
Sucks to be a content middleman these days. Maybe now we'll see a lot more of the baroque "patron model," which gave us a bunch of great classical names like Strauss or Mozart. Or the money will get redirected from the leeches to university-type places where musicians can go crazy. Praise the Lord!
Like above, I'm thinking low-bandwidth subscriptionless data modem that could be built into laptops, handhelds, phones (using existing cell infrastructure). There are plenty of applications that could run on that.
I agree it's a long shot :) Here are some counterpoints.
1) Deployment- could be cheaper than cellular due to 700MHz propagation. Maybe reuse the existing towers. Get a WiMax vendor to cut some equipment for it.
2) Devices- upcoming handhelds will start to have DTV tuners and WiMax anyway, so perhaps adding a receiver wouldn't be too costly. No cost to Google.
3) Teletext- it's one way, that's a non-starter. There isn't a two-way technology except for the celullar data, which are user-hostile in that they require contracts and subscriptions, and don't allow application experimentation due to vendor locks on the devices.
4) Application- delivering ads is just how Google makes money without requiring nasty subscriptions and contracts. Users would benefit from a rich ecosystem of open, low-bandwidth, wide-availability applications. Things like location-based search, directions, email, translation, etc. etc. Plenty more would come up thanks to the openness of the devices and the band.
I thought it would be a good vehicle for low-bandwidth applications such as text searches and ad delivery, both of which are Google's forte. 700MHz is ideal for that, since the bands are small (20MHz) and they reach really far.
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Why assume that "public" necessarily means anyone should be allowed to transmit at arbitrary power? The 2.4GHz band licensing is already a decent compromise. Furthermore, there might be some technical solutions to using empty spectrum using cognitive radio, especially at short ranges such as within a home.
I guess there are some strings attached to the 700MHz spectrum, like requiring open access. Is there any requirement to allow arbitrary, power-limited transmitters? That would be equivalent to the current 2.4GHz ISM rules.
We should start charging big business for the 700-400nm band, think of all those billboards and displays out there!