This eats up valuable bandwidth at each cell tower
The ban was put in place when there was only analog cell phones. 333 wireline channels and 333 non-wireline channels. 3 planes in a holding pattern could swamp all channels on an entire city's cell network as everyone tried to call in the late arrival.
Only one tower would talk to one phone, but all towers would get a nice strong signal from the airborne phone while trying to figure out where to hand it off and how much to reduce power so it is picked up by just the 3-4 closest towers.
We now have more channels as the original analog band has been expanded and later competition opened up new digital bands above 1 Ghz. The blanketing of an entire city still is a problem. More channels and towers have not fixed the problem. There are more users to disrupt by tying up an RF frequency citywide instead of just the nearest 2-4 towers.
it is laden with DRM that the previous thing wasn't
It's also laden with high prices. The most expensive conventional DVD's (with few exceptions) are priced in the $18-$22 range. The average price of DVD's I pick up are under $12 each.
The HD DVD's listed are in the $20-$40 range. When DVD's are good enough, doubling or tripling the price is going to slow adoption. The old Laserdisk format came with the promise to drop in price to below VHS. (When VHS was $20 each for blank tape)
Due to the requirement for the format to be DRM free and the higher quality, the studios simply refused to release content except at very high royalty rates. The promise of lower prices never materialized. (much like LP's and CD's) DVD's finaly started to drop enough in price to gain market acceptance over VHS.
It is here all over again. New format, high prices, good enough format in the channel. Unless someone does something to kickstart the format like a good price war, things are going to have a slow start. DRM is going to slow it even further as the restrictions on ripping to the kids Zen or iPod video and to Media Center PC's cripple the functionality.
You have a new format at higher prices that does less than your old format. A higher quality picture is nice, but the price (dollars and function loss) is kinda steep.
Stuff like printers and scanners do need drivers, but all the other crap bundled is not install-worthy. Just extract the driver from the CDs and be good.
On Linux, I skipped the extract the driver step entirely. My HP printers (older) were truly plug and play. Same for my Cannon scanner. The only thing so far I have had to install drivers for (if you call them drivers) is the media codecs to play flash, DVD's and such. I also needed to complile and install MTP to connect my kid's Creative Zen.
What I like about playing DVD's on Linux is you do skip the bundled crap. The movie starts.. If you want the previews or menu or FBI Warning, you can go back to them later.
I think most such keymaps are not produced by the companies themselves, but by the OS community.
So the companies would not be able to guarantee Linux compatibility.
And when it is known that some distro's include the keymaps, it could easly be printed on the box; Tested on Red Hat ver x.xx, Suse ver x.xx, Ubuntu, Breezy/Dapper/Edgy/Fiesty etc. For other versions, the keymap can be installed from www.sourceforge.org/logitechM610.html
I expect to see more of this on the box in the future.
Companies which provide their own drivers do provide compatiblilty lists and drivers online. A good example is Intel who has released Linux drivers for much of their Centrino Mobile Technology tm. products.
Some of their older hardware is still unsupported and probably never will. Not enough demand. For example some of their webcams and other toys.
My first easter egg goes a ways back. Any old copy of Linux that still has the text adventure game will have it. I originaly was shown it at work in the late 1970's when working on a PDP-11/35 computer. Just type in the single most common curse word you know and smile.
If you make a disparaging remark about Windows, even when true, you will get modded down in a BIG way.
Please read the comment again. I didn't say anything bad about Microsoft or Windows. I did say, that I was interested if the hardware does support Linux. I am very happy to report that the number of products reporting Linux compatibility is growing very quickly.
I needed a presentation pointer (Power Point remote) 2 weeks ago. Visiting Office Depot, I found a set of remotes. Many listed software requirements and Windows versions it was compatible with. The one I picked up is the one simply listed as "No Drivers Required" Plug and play compatible with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. The package was right. The remote simply was a remote page up page down and enter USB keyboard.
Many items which list Windows compatiblility have the listing only for the included software. I picked up a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and assumed that I would only get basic 102 key functionality without installing the Windows software.
Woo! Hoo!.. All the buttons I tested worked. The volume, mute, play, internet, email... all worked on Dapper Drake. I wish they had noted that on the outside of the box.
Most hardware comes with the assumption of Windows or Macintosh compatibility.
Now not bashing Windows... What I want to know is Is it Linux compatible? Lots of stuff is, but they don't mention it on the box.
Since I am transitioning away from Windows.. I don't care much if it is Windows compatible.
"The bug affects all the recent Windows releases, including its new Vista operating system. Internet Explorer is the main attack vector for the exploits.
Are there enough exploited boxes to increase Vista traffic by.3%?
On the other hand , most anyone trying to buy a generic run of the mill PC has no choice but to get Vista.
Based on traffic alone, I wonder how much the stats based on visitors counts the number of port scanning bots as visitors. The amount of Windows based activity is huge. I guess anything MS can count as an indicator of Windows activity works for the PR campaign.
"EMI's new DRM-free products will enable full interoperability of digital music across all devices and platforms."
EMI does not have a retail online music store where you can buy digital music for all devices and platforms. They sell to wholesalers like Apple who chose just one format which is in compatible with almost any player which is a member of the Plays for Sure camp including almost all Janis and MTP format players and most DVD players and car MP3 CD players.
EMI is supporting all devices and platforms has now also signed up the Microsoft Zune store. There is yet to be an announcement from Microsoft on what format they will supply to the Zune store. Somehow, I suspect it will be incompatible with the Plays For Sure devices. I also suspect squirted tunes will somehow become encumbered by the 3 day 3 play restriction due to how it is implimented. I am not expecting Microsoft to purchase DRM free MP3's. I do suspect there will be connectivity issues for those with a Plays for Sure player and a Zune account.
Keep an eye on e-music. Somehow I suspect they will be left out simply because they are not going to pay the high prices. EMI is not going to make an exception on price for emusic because Apple and Microsoft would have a cow if they did undercut them with emusic.
It's the sound of all the real virus authors collectively spinning in their coffins/cells/cubicles.
Actualy it's them all rolling on the floor laughing. The article states it only infects iPods which are running Linux. This has a chance of rampaging through the monoculture of Linux iPods at the same rate as a virus which only runs on an Altair S100 bus based machine. Getting from machine to machine to machine is a problem due to lack of connectivity and the very low chance a machine finding another to infect.
I personaly have seen more Zunes than I have seen iPods with Linux. A Zune has more connectivity device to device. This is a non-issue.
Don't know if you ever owned a Tascam DA-30 DAT recorder, but the owner's manual gave explicit instructions on how to circumvent the SCMS "copy code" copy protection.
I didn't have Internet in those years. Pre-purchase info was nil. What was known is the DMCA made circumventing DRM a MAJOR crime and DAT recorders were required to contian serial copy protection. Only a few select professional models would not have DRM. This made DAT a typical home consumer item much like the U-Matic videotape.
This was a recording studio, TV or radio station item only. There were no consumer models known to exist without DRM. This killed the format.
Nobody's found out how long it takes on linux, they're still working at it!;P
I keep finding things to continue tweaking it. Earlier this year Flash 9 is out. For my kids, just last month the MTP lib came out so they can sync their Zen player. I just found a decent replacement for my stage light console program and I'm just now getting it compiled and installed (Q-Light).
Not bad as a nubie since I first installed Ubuntu when Dapper came out.
DAT might have flopped in the consumer sector (I blame CD for that),
I don't blame the CD. The CD and CDR is whe white knight that rode in and saved the digital audio format.
I supose some explination is in order..
The RIAA killed the DAT. The pushed for and got a DRM serial copy restriction buried into the format.
If you have a garage band and made a tape, and then wanted to copy the tape to do editing, your copy of the original is all the further the copy chain went. It dead ended right there. After you made edits on a copy, you could not make copies of the working master to pass to your band members.
The idea was you can make exactly second generation tapes, but not any 3rd and beyond generation tapes. Even Pink Floyd could not have used the format for the famous Dark Side of the Moon album which is a 3rd generation Dolby Pro copy as a master for the record pressing.
Basicaly the format was dead because the life of any content was pretty much DOA. Hard Drive based PC's and CDR's has replaced the broken format for any home recording.
Even the currnet pro use of DAT is mostly for onsite gig recording, which is later transferred (analog) to a PC for further editing and mixing. DAT to DAT mixing, editing, and production is dead thanks to the RIAA.
The local noon drift against UTC was what I was talking about. If you set your very accurate clock (or even a quartz clock) against local noon in November, it will not read noon at local noon in February. it will be more than 30 minutes off.
Thanks, I'm still accurate by using local noon as the time midway between local sunrise and local sunset. At local noon, the sun shadow is directly on a N/S line.
After adjusting for the time of year, depending on how accurate you want to be (+-3deg)
Please tell me about the +-3 degrees where local noon is not the halfway time between local sunrise and local sunset.
If you use an atomic clock, I am familiar with local noon drift against UTC due to our eliptical orbit, but I thought local sunrise and sunset varied in sync with local noon. If this is not the case, I've been doing it wrong and not noticing.
My "automatic" clock that I bought a few years ago is now worthless.
Not any more than a wristwatch, car clock, microwave oven clock or other DST dumb devices.
I have to manually turn it ahead myself, then a few weeks later, remember to manually turn it back because it automatically went forward on the old scehdule. Ditto for the fall.
Save yourself a few steps. Turn off DST.. Select a time zone to the East. In the fall move back to the correct time zone. My router at clock needed this fix.
If you have a local magnetic anomility, setting a C-band dish can be difficult as a magnetic compass may get your polar mount off enough to cause tracking problems. A sunny day and knowledge of local noon makes finding true North/South very simple. It's the direction of the shadow of the plumb bob line at local noon.
Do you people have any clue what the concept of "noon" is supposed to be? In case you've forgotten, it's supposed to be the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky. It's supposed to be the time when there is as much daylight behind us as is in front of us.
What you are referring to is now called local noon. A good GPS or sundial will povide that if you want it. Most portable GPS units will also provide local sunrise and sunset. Not all units provide local noon. Local noon can be easly calculated as the halfway point between local sunrise and local sunset.
Here is the bill from your lawyer... After all the outcome is after they took an image of your hard drive and fought the case and found this isn't the hard drive we are looking for and they tried to find out who in the last year may have brough over a computer such as parrents, children, siblings, girlfriends, boyfriends....
Or change their router's settings every single time they want to play online.
Stack routere.. Use the WEP router at the cable box. If it's hacked.. your other machines are behind another NAT router. If possible, set up MAC filters to just one. It helps detect unauthorised connections. A second duplicate (spoofed) client would cause a conflict. If you have trouble connecting, you know to check via hard connection or wireless traffic lights that someone has connected. An unreliable connection should help discourage them. (turn off wireless when not in use)
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This eats up valuable bandwidth at each cell tower
The ban was put in place when there was only analog cell phones. 333 wireline channels and 333 non-wireline channels. 3 planes in a holding pattern could swamp all channels on an entire city's cell network as everyone tried to call in the late arrival.
Only one tower would talk to one phone, but all towers would get a nice strong signal from the airborne phone while trying to figure out where to hand it off and how much to reduce power so it is picked up by just the 3-4 closest towers.
We now have more channels as the original analog band has been expanded and later competition opened up new digital bands above 1 Ghz. The blanketing of an entire city still is a problem. More channels and towers have not fixed the problem. There are more users to disrupt by tying up an RF frequency citywide instead of just the nearest 2-4 towers.
I know, I know, not nearly as l33t.
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Also not as much capacity. The linked page lists 2, 4 & 8 Gig model flash drives. The hack is a 16 Gig model.
CF is definately cheaper. A quick search turned up 16 Gig CF cards for $234
http://www.flash-memory-store.com/16gb-compact-fl
The 8 Gig flash drive on the other hand is $382. It is over $100 more for half the capacity.
it is laden with DRM that the previous thing wasn't
It's also laden with high prices. The most expensive conventional DVD's (with few exceptions) are priced in the $18-$22 range. The average price of DVD's I pick up are under $12 each.
The HD DVD's listed are in the $20-$40 range. When DVD's are good enough, doubling or tripling the price is going to slow adoption. The old Laserdisk format came with the promise to drop in price to below VHS. (When VHS was $20 each for blank tape)
Due to the requirement for the format to be DRM free and the higher quality, the studios simply refused to release content except at very high royalty rates. The promise of lower prices never materialized. (much like LP's and CD's) DVD's finaly started to drop enough in price to gain market acceptance over VHS.
It is here all over again. New format, high prices, good enough format in the channel. Unless someone does something to kickstart the format like a good price war, things are going to have a slow start. DRM is going to slow it even further as the restrictions on ripping to the kids Zen or iPod video and to Media Center PC's cripple the functionality.
You have a new format at higher prices that does less than your old format. A higher quality picture is nice, but the price (dollars and function loss) is kinda steep.
From the article, the 1.8 inch drive is not pin for pin compatible with ATA/CF. Pinouts for both are listed in the forum.
This makes not exactly hard into not exactly easy.
Stuff like printers and scanners do need drivers, but all the other crap bundled is not install-worthy. Just extract the driver from the CDs and be good.
On Linux, I skipped the extract the driver step entirely. My HP printers (older) were truly plug and play. Same for my Cannon scanner. The only thing so far I have had to install drivers for (if you call them drivers) is the media codecs to play flash, DVD's and such. I also needed to complile and install MTP to connect my kid's Creative Zen.
What I like about playing DVD's on Linux is you do skip the bundled crap. The movie starts.. If you want the previews or menu or FBI Warning, you can go back to them later.
I think most such keymaps are not produced by the companies themselves, but by the OS community.
So the companies would not be able to guarantee Linux compatibility.
And when it is known that some distro's include the keymaps, it could easly be printed on the box;
Tested on Red Hat ver x.xx, Suse ver x.xx, Ubuntu, Breezy/Dapper/Edgy/Fiesty etc.
For other versions, the keymap can be installed from www.sourceforge.org/logitechM610.html
I expect to see more of this on the box in the future.
Companies which provide their own drivers do provide compatiblilty lists and drivers online. A good example is Intel who has released Linux drivers for much of their Centrino Mobile Technology tm. products.
Some of their older hardware is still unsupported and probably never will. Not enough demand. For example some of their webcams and other toys.
My first easter egg goes a ways back. Any old copy of Linux that still has the text adventure game will have it. I originaly was shown it at work in the late 1970's when working on a PDP-11/35 computer. Just type in the single most common curse word you know and smile.
It simply replys "Watch it"
The page being linked to has so much advertising-related dreck that it uses 8-12% of the CPU just sitting there.
Do a Google search for a good hosts file.
1 It is Windows compatible
2 It is Linux compatible
3 It is Macintosh compatible
If the page is still covered in advertisements, you might be providing them localy. Time for an AV spyware/adware sweep.
If you make a disparaging remark about Windows, even when true, you will get modded down in a BIG way.
Please read the comment again. I didn't say anything bad about Microsoft or Windows. I did say, that I was interested if the hardware does support Linux. I am very happy to report that the number of products reporting Linux compatibility is growing very quickly.
I needed a presentation pointer (Power Point remote) 2 weeks ago. Visiting Office Depot, I found a set of remotes. Many listed software requirements and Windows versions it was compatible with. The one I picked up is the one simply listed as "No Drivers Required" Plug and play compatible with Windows, Macintosh, and Linux. The package was right. The remote simply was a remote page up page down and enter USB keyboard.
Many items which list Windows compatiblility have the listing only for the included software. I picked up a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse and assumed that I would only get basic 102 key functionality without installing the Windows software.
Woo! Hoo!.. All the buttons I tested worked. The volume, mute, play, internet, email... all worked on Dapper Drake. I wish they had noted that on the outside of the box.
Most hardware comes with the assumption of Windows or Macintosh compatibility.
Now not bashing Windows... What I want to know is Is it Linux compatible? Lots of stuff is, but they don't mention it on the box.
Since I am transitioning away from Windows.. I don't care much if it is Windows compatible.
This is slashdot.
;-)
I want to know if it is Linux compatible..
Ducks
Does the animated cursor exploit work on Vista?
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The later article on the ANI exploit states Vista is vunerable.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.j
"The bug affects all the recent Windows releases, including its new Vista operating system. Internet Explorer is the main attack vector for the exploits.
Are there enough exploited boxes to increase Vista traffic by
On the other hand , most anyone trying to buy a generic run of the mill PC has no choice but to get Vista.
Based on traffic alone, I wonder how much the stats based on visitors counts the number of port scanning bots as visitors. The amount of Windows based activity is huge. I guess anything MS can count as an indicator of Windows activity works for the PR campaign.
Does the animated cursor exploit work on Vista?
"EMI's new DRM-free products will enable full interoperability of digital music across all devices and platforms."
EMI does not have a retail online music store where you can buy digital music for all devices and platforms. They sell to wholesalers like Apple who chose just one format which is in compatible with almost any player which is a member of the Plays for Sure camp including almost all Janis and MTP format players and most DVD players and car MP3 CD players.
EMI is supporting all devices and platforms has now also signed up the Microsoft Zune store. There is yet to be an announcement from Microsoft on what format they will supply to the Zune store. Somehow, I suspect it will be incompatible with the Plays For Sure devices. I also suspect squirted tunes will somehow become encumbered by the 3 day 3 play restriction due to how it is implimented. I am not expecting Microsoft to purchase DRM free MP3's. I do suspect there will be connectivity issues for those with a Plays for Sure player and a Zune account.
Keep an eye on e-music. Somehow I suspect they will be left out simply because they are not going to pay the high prices. EMI is not going to make an exception on price for emusic because Apple and Microsoft would have a cow if they did undercut them with emusic.
It's the sound of all the real virus authors collectively spinning in their coffins/cells/cubicles.
Actualy it's them all rolling on the floor laughing. The article states it only infects iPods which are running Linux. This has a chance of rampaging through the monoculture of Linux iPods at the same rate as a virus which only runs on an Altair S100 bus based machine. Getting from machine to machine to machine is a problem due to lack of connectivity and the very low chance a machine finding another to infect.
I personaly have seen more Zunes than I have seen iPods with Linux. A Zune has more connectivity device to device. This is a non-issue.
Don't know if you ever owned a Tascam DA-30 DAT recorder, but the owner's manual gave explicit instructions on how to circumvent the SCMS "copy code" copy protection.
I didn't have Internet in those years. Pre-purchase info was nil. What was known is the DMCA made circumventing DRM a MAJOR crime and DAT recorders were required to contian serial copy protection. Only a few select professional models would not have DRM. This made DAT a typical home consumer item much like the U-Matic videotape.
This was a recording studio, TV or radio station item only. There were no consumer models known to exist without DRM. This killed the format.
Nobody's found out how long it takes on linux, they're still working at it! ;P
I keep finding things to continue tweaking it. Earlier this year Flash 9 is out. For my kids, just last month the MTP lib came out so they can sync their Zen player. I just found a decent replacement for my stage light console program and I'm just now getting it compiled and installed (Q-Light).
Not bad as a nubie since I first installed Ubuntu when Dapper came out.
DAT might have flopped in the consumer sector (I blame CD for that),
I don't blame the CD. The CD and CDR is whe white knight that rode in and saved the digital audio format.
I supose some explination is in order..
The RIAA killed the DAT. The pushed for and got a DRM serial copy restriction buried into the format.
If you have a garage band and made a tape, and then wanted to copy the tape to do editing, your copy of the original is all the further the copy chain went. It dead ended right there. After you made edits on a copy, you could not make copies of the working master to pass to your band members.
The idea was you can make exactly second generation tapes, but not any 3rd and beyond generation tapes. Even Pink Floyd could not have used the format for the famous Dark Side of the Moon album which is a 3rd generation Dolby Pro copy as a master for the record pressing.
Basicaly the format was dead because the life of any content was pretty much DOA. Hard Drive based PC's and CDR's has replaced the broken format for any home recording.
Even the currnet pro use of DAT is mostly for onsite gig recording, which is later transferred (analog) to a PC for further editing and mixing. DAT to DAT mixing, editing, and production is dead thanks to the RIAA.
The local noon drift against UTC was what I was talking about. If you set your
very accurate clock (or even a quartz clock) against local noon in November, it will
not read noon at local noon in February. it will be more than 30 minutes off.
Thanks, I'm still accurate by using local noon as the time midway between local sunrise and local sunset.
At local noon, the sun shadow is directly on a N/S line.
After adjusting for the time of year, depending on how accurate you want to be (+-3deg)
Please tell me about the +-3 degrees where local noon is not the halfway time between local sunrise and local sunset.
If you use an atomic clock, I am familiar with local noon drift against UTC due to our eliptical orbit, but I thought local sunrise and sunset varied in sync with local noon. If this is not the case, I've been doing it wrong and not noticing.
Does Google have prior art? Google used an online game to catalog photos. The video of the process is here. They called it human computation.
8 0976635143&q=human+computation&hl=en
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-82464639
I wonder if Google has a prior patent and does the Amazon patent infringe?
My "automatic" clock that I bought a few years ago is now worthless.
Not any more than a wristwatch, car clock, microwave oven clock or other DST dumb devices.
I have to manually turn it ahead myself, then a few weeks later, remember to manually turn it back because it automatically went forward on the old scehdule. Ditto for the fall.
Save yourself a few steps. Turn off DST.. Select a time zone to the East. In the fall move back to the correct time zone. My router at clock needed this fix.
If you have a local magnetic anomility, setting a C-band dish can be difficult as a magnetic compass may get your polar mount off enough to cause tracking problems. A sunny day and knowledge of local noon makes finding true North/South very simple. It's the direction of the shadow of the plumb bob line at local noon.
Do you people have any clue what the concept of "noon" is supposed to be? In case you've forgotten, it's supposed to be the time of day when the sun is highest in the sky. It's supposed to be the time when there is as much daylight behind us as is in front of us.
What you are referring to is now called local noon. A good GPS or sundial will povide that if you want it. Most portable GPS units will also provide local sunrise and sunset. Not all units provide local noon. Local noon can be easly calculated as the halfway point between local sunrise and local sunset.
Case Dismissed!
Here is the bill from your lawyer... After all the outcome is after they took an image of your hard drive and fought the case and found this isn't the hard drive we are looking for and they tried to find out who in the last year may have brough over a computer such as parrents, children, siblings, girlfriends, boyfriends....
The Case Dismissed is still expensive.
Or change their router's settings every single time they want to play online.
Stack routere.. Use the WEP router at the cable box. If it's hacked.. your other machines are behind another NAT router. If possible, set up MAC filters to just one. It helps detect unauthorised connections. A second duplicate (spoofed) client would cause a conflict. If you have trouble connecting, you know to check via hard connection or wireless traffic lights that someone has connected. An unreliable connection should help discourage them. (turn off wireless when not in use)