With this technology, it would be EASY for an apartment complex to put up a little 80211a tower to give every unit 56mbs connection speeds, then use this laser to connect to other complexes, creating a huge intranet.
If the complex pays for a single t1 line, every apartment would have incredible internet speeds.
Talk about a good start up idea for every out of work techie out there. Start visiting these complexes, and offering your services to set up all the back end stuff. I'll bet they would jump at the chance. A single smart guy ought to be able to maintain the equipment for several complexes, and I'll bet you could charge monthly fees per unit.
Advertisers will be using it a heck of a lot more than regular people... first time that restaurant finds out somebody is posting magic notes, they'll have a repeater drown it out with what they want to say.
Look, we have short wave radio devices like 80211a and 80211b. We have peer to peer tools like gnutella, and we have cache websystems like freenet. We don't need the corps. We can make a tool that combines the three, and hooks people in a neighborhood together... instead of a net, more like a hive, where everyone shares say 10% of their resources to create a distributed system.
The guy who writes THAT application is going to do well.
wouldn't it be easy to cut and paste the alphabet and bit phrases into a window, then cut and paste individual letters to log in? I'd think that would bypass the key logger problem. as far as I can tell key loggers have trouble with mouse movements.
I'm not a tech guru... but why can't we make a new "net" wirelessly, using 80211B connectors, that share information with a gnutella like interface with other computers around us? We could have a cloud of computers instead of a net. all the computers witin range of a connection, sharing 10 percent of its resources with all the others, which in turn share with the ones they connect to... this could actually replace the internet.
I'm not technically gifted here... but I have a question. What would stop people putting these up WITHOUT internet access, creating small local networks for trading data between people in the neighborhood, and hooking these neighborhoods up together to to make regions, and then linking regions to make vast conglomerates. we could build a network composed of hundreds of thousands of individuals with NO trunk lines NO gateways and NO ISP's. You wouldn't use it to access the internet, you'd use it to replace it.
I can think of gnutella like software designed to look for and link every signal it can find toegether, and then have every single computer act as server. This could also allow every computer linked this way to share resources like the way the SETI screensaver works, meaning every one attached gets a screaming fast data-crunching monster.
Help out a technically challenged person here. Why won't it work?
"And an American congressman is trying to introduce a law that would give all download services the same access to music regardless of whether they are affiliated with the record company that releases the songs. "
This could be a wonderful thing. I can see it working as long as it stays in small isolated areas full of smart techie people who don't mind sharing. But what happens when some sharklike business major realizes he can save a few bucks by routing into the middle of the free network, slowing everybody down to a crawl? For that matter what's to stop a telecom setting up a deliberate bandhog on all the free systems so that people will still want to pay for their (relatively) quicker service? I'm not as technically inclined as I'd like to be, so please answer as if you're explaining this to your grandfather.
An article from popular science, many years ago discussed the ability to create a fish-eye view camera of a large area, like a sporting event... Then crop a small section of the picture and do some math to make it understandable. The result was the ability to send a large signal through a television screen (for instance) that a person at home could then pan and look at whatever he wanted to on the screen. I have always wanted to be able to do that. I may not be interested in the football score, but hey,check out the blond in the fifth row center.
seems a supersonic airplane would just shatter a few windows... but a supersonic sub would send shockwaves that would kill a hell of a lot of fish... anybody looked into that?
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If the complex pays for a single t1 line, every apartment would have incredible internet speeds.
Talk about a good start up idea for every out of work techie out there. Start visiting these complexes, and offering your services to set up all the back end stuff. I'll bet they would jump at the chance. A single smart guy ought to be able to maintain the equipment for several complexes, and I'll bet you could charge monthly fees per unit.
Advertisers will be using it a heck of a lot more than regular people... first time that restaurant finds out somebody is posting magic notes, they'll have a repeater drown it out with what they want to say.
heh, I supose when I preview, I should look at the title
The guy who writes THAT application is going to do well.
wouldn't it be easy to cut and paste the alphabet and bit phrases into a window, then cut and paste individual letters to log in? I'd think that would bypass the key logger problem. as far as I can tell key loggers have trouble with mouse movements.
I'm not a tech guru... but why can't we make a new "net" wirelessly, using 80211B connectors, that share information with a gnutella like interface with other computers around us? We could have a cloud of computers instead of a net. all the computers witin range of a connection, sharing 10 percent of its resources with all the others, which in turn share with the ones they connect to... this could actually replace the internet.
I'm not technically gifted here... but I have a question. What would stop people putting these up WITHOUT internet access, creating small local networks for trading data between people in the neighborhood, and hooking these neighborhoods up together to to make regions, and then linking regions to make vast conglomerates. we could build a network composed of hundreds of thousands of individuals with NO trunk lines NO gateways and NO ISP's. You wouldn't use it to access the internet, you'd use it to replace it.
I can think of gnutella like software designed to look for and link every signal it can find toegether, and then have every single computer act as server. This could also allow every computer linked this way to share resources like the way the SETI screensaver works, meaning every one attached gets a screaming fast data-crunching monster.
Help out a technically challenged person here. Why won't it work?
"And an American congressman is trying to introduce a law that would give all download services the same access to music regardless of whether they are affiliated with the record company that releases the songs. "
THIS I want to know more about.
This could be a wonderful thing. I can see it working as long as it stays in small isolated areas full of smart techie people who don't mind sharing. But what happens when some sharklike business major realizes he can save a few bucks by routing into the middle of the free network, slowing everybody down to a crawl? For that matter what's to stop a telecom setting up a deliberate bandhog on all the free systems so that people will still want to pay for their (relatively) quicker service? I'm not as technically inclined as I'd like to be, so please answer as if you're explaining this to your grandfather.
An article from popular science, many years ago discussed the ability to create a fish-eye view camera of a large area, like a sporting event... Then crop a small section of the picture and do some math to make it understandable. The result was the ability to send a large signal through a television screen (for instance) that a person at home could then pan and look at whatever he wanted to on the screen. I have always wanted to be able to do that. I may not be interested in the football score, but hey,check out the blond in the fifth row center.
seems a supersonic airplane would just shatter a few windows... but a supersonic sub would send shockwaves that would kill a hell of a lot of fish... anybody looked into that?