I work for Motorola (in the Wimax area, so I actually sit near some of the people who've worked on some newer NextNet products), but I'm pretty sure most of this is public knowledge: Clearwire currently uses a technology that is similar to Wimax, but not the same, called Expedience. (www.nextnetwireless.com for your perusal) I think the OTA interface is different, but in the same general frequencies/ranges. They'll be moving to Wimax sometime in the near future... some time within 1-3 years maybe, but I have no idea when.
Motorola recently bought NextNet, which was the technology provider part of the nextnet/clearwire, uh, organism. This is basically the same thing that happened to Motorola and Nextel many years ago. Motorola made the nextel tech(iDEN phones/network) and initially ran it, then split off the service provider portion of the company to focus on providing the tech. Ditto here for NextNet/Clearwire, Motorola buying the technical development portion of the company, leaving Clearwire with the service provider/network carrier portion.
oh, and I think technically Wimax should be up-cased as WiMAX, but I'm no stickler, as you can see above.
Typical disclaimers about opinions, employers, etc. apply.
I've actually run into this in the Chicago suburbs.
www.foxvalley.net does it, unless you pay an extra 5 or 10$/mo (I forget, had them for a while, they have a traffic cap somewhere around 150-300gb/mo). They're hardly in the boonies, unless you're from the Chicago area... then yes, they're considered REMOTE.:)
Don't let my "high" ID fool you, I was also one of those who lurked on slashdot since the early days. I remember when the user accounts were started. Earlier in this discussion someone asked to gauge how long it took to hit certain milestones in slashdot uid #'s. I would say it was between 2 and 3 years before we hit 200k, based on how long I seem to remember reading slashdot before thinking to myself, "well, dammit, I really ought to get to making a user id, before these numbers get too big". Yeah, it took me that long to decide to create an account. This is like my 3rd slashdot comment in 10 years. I am a lurker extra-ordinaire.
anyway, that's a side point to my main question:
who here remembers the little text box form Taco had on CnD, that let you send a message to his console?
Taco, I wrote you maybe a dozen times or so, usually like 4 or 5 messages all at once within about the same number of minutes... I can't remember a single thing that I wrote to you through that little one line form, but I hope you got a laugh out of it. oh, and Hamster Havoc still rocks.
Just because you haven't, doesn't mean that no one has. I am one of those people who has built a "homebrew video server", although mine is a pretty vanilla file server.
The file server sits upstairs, it's a pIII 1ghz, 256mb ram, about 2tb of space, running Linux sw raid and samba. A modded xbox downstairs plays videos off of the file server, thanks to XBMC. Also plays itunes shares from my pc upstairs, and can act like a nice tv-sized digital picture frame for any nice pics I want to put on the file server.
While I have never had scratching problems on DVD's like you mentioned, and don't expect to have any any time soon(young single guy), I'd also prefer for my dvd's to be packed away in a box in the closet, rather than floating loose in my living room. This becomes increasingly valuable when you have multiple hundreds of DVD's in your collection, or if you have rare or just important DVD's that might be hard to replace, or arrived damaged. I have a "Swing Kids" dvd that was 5.50 in the Wal-mart bin, was the only one I saw, and when I got home, had a crack and some separation between the two plastic layers starting right around the hole. Yeah, it's not a big deal, but it kinda matters to me, since I like swing dancing and feel that the movie has a good message.
Sure, the primary application is copyright infringement. That doesn't mean that people like me don't have good uses for it. I expect to have even more use of/for it if I ever have a family, I've seen the use and damage that my friend's childrens' favorite movies have taken in a year or two of viewing. If I decide that BluRay or HD-DVD is worth it, then the current encryption deal with HD-DVD and BluRay discs will keep me watching, waiting, and hoping that a similar solution to what I have right now will eventually come out.
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I work for Motorola (in the Wimax area, so I actually sit near some of the people who've worked on some newer NextNet products), but I'm pretty sure most of this is public knowledge: Clearwire currently uses a technology that is similar to Wimax, but not the same, called Expedience. (www.nextnetwireless.com for your perusal) I think the OTA interface is different, but in the same general frequencies/ranges. They'll be moving to Wimax sometime in the near future... some time within 1-3 years maybe, but I have no idea when.
Motorola recently bought NextNet, which was the technology provider part of the nextnet/clearwire, uh, organism. This is basically the same thing that happened to Motorola and Nextel many years ago. Motorola made the nextel tech(iDEN phones/network) and initially ran it, then split off the service provider portion of the company to focus on providing the tech. Ditto here for NextNet/Clearwire, Motorola buying the technical development portion of the company, leaving Clearwire with the service provider/network carrier portion.
oh, and I think technically Wimax should be up-cased as WiMAX, but I'm no stickler, as you can see above.
Typical disclaimers about opinions, employers, etc. apply.
I've actually run into this in the Chicago suburbs.
:)
www.foxvalley.net does it, unless you pay an extra 5 or 10$/mo (I forget, had them for a while, they have a traffic cap somewhere around 150-300gb/mo). They're hardly in the boonies, unless you're from the Chicago area... then yes, they're considered REMOTE.
Don't let my "high" ID fool you, I was also one of those who lurked on slashdot since the early days. I remember when the user accounts were started. Earlier in this discussion someone asked to gauge how long it took to hit certain milestones in slashdot uid #'s. I would say it was between 2 and 3 years before we hit 200k, based on how long I seem to remember reading slashdot before thinking to myself, "well, dammit, I really ought to get to making a user id, before these numbers get too big". Yeah, it took me that long to decide to create an account. This is like my 3rd slashdot comment in 10 years. I am a lurker extra-ordinaire.
anyway, that's a side point to my main question:
who here remembers the little text box form Taco had on CnD, that let you send a message to his console?
Taco, I wrote you maybe a dozen times or so, usually like 4 or 5 messages all at once within about the same number of minutes... I can't remember a single thing that I wrote to you through that little one line form, but I hope you got a laugh out of it. oh, and Hamster Havoc still rocks.
--Josh
Just because you haven't, doesn't mean that no one has. I am one of those people who has built a "homebrew video server", although mine is a pretty vanilla file server.
The file server sits upstairs, it's a pIII 1ghz, 256mb ram, about 2tb of space, running Linux sw raid and samba. A modded xbox downstairs plays videos off of the file server, thanks to XBMC. Also plays itunes shares from my pc upstairs, and can act like a nice tv-sized digital picture frame for any nice pics I want to put on the file server.
While I have never had scratching problems on DVD's like you mentioned, and don't expect to have any any time soon(young single guy), I'd also prefer for my dvd's to be packed away in a box in the closet, rather than floating loose in my living room. This becomes increasingly valuable when you have multiple hundreds of DVD's in your collection, or if you have rare or just important DVD's that might be hard to replace, or arrived damaged. I have a "Swing Kids" dvd that was 5.50 in the Wal-mart bin, was the only one I saw, and when I got home, had a crack and some separation between the two plastic layers starting right around the hole. Yeah, it's not a big deal, but it kinda matters to me, since I like swing dancing and feel that the movie has a good message.
Sure, the primary application is copyright infringement. That doesn't mean that people like me don't have good uses for it. I expect to have even more use of/for it if I ever have a family, I've seen the use and damage that my friend's childrens' favorite movies have taken in a year or two of viewing. If I decide that BluRay or HD-DVD is worth it, then the current encryption deal with HD-DVD and BluRay discs will keep me watching, waiting, and hoping that a similar solution to what I have right now will eventually come out.