It was definetly not a very bright thing to do, but I dont think keeping quite about it would be the right thing either. Maybe like some other poster stated, it might have been better if he posted something about it on BugTraq (or similar).
I see this guy as a whistle-blower, who like most other wistle-blowers, got screwed (In his case the Government and inmates did the screwing).
Also when will software companies start being held accountable for this kinda crap. Its about time the government stops making examples of people like Mr. McDanels and starts makeing examples of corporations.
From what I heard last VoIP PTT on Sprint/Verizon network had call setup times of 2-8 seconds. I think Nextel has a call setup time of less than 1 second.
From the service providers point of view, PTT is better because it uses less system resources (at least in the Nextel case). Since a PTT call is half duplex, the same channel can be used by 2 different users. One uses the uplink the other uses the downlink channel.
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I have thought of hooking up a PC in my car, but since I live in Chicago and I have have always wondered if the HDDs would be able to withstand the potholes in the road...ie will I start seeing a lot of bad sectors and read/write errors ?
...what really matters is how competant (sp?) you are at picking up on solving issues. If you try hard enough you should be able to install any distro...and generally the more obstacles you run against, the more you tend to learn. I guess the well laid out GUI installers in some distros make it easy for a first time installer.
If you want to be adventurous / enjoy a challenge, just pick any distro and go with it.
Ok...so this might sound like a dumb question, but how did AT&T go about figuring out that MS infringed on their patent. Did they take some audio, put it thru the MS code and look at the output to see if it was similar to an output of the AT&T codec ?
Or did they dis-assemble the MS codec and compare it to their own ? If the did dis-assemble the codec, didn't they break the EULA ?
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Maybe what Mandrake should also do is give away X number of stocks to people when they buy the Mandrake distro. I dont know what the legal (SEC) implication of this is, but this way Mandrake could show good sales figures, which thoretically may drive up its stock price, and at the same time, the person who got the stocks when he bought the distro gets a little richer.
I think I heard that AOL is in some talks with DoCoMo, but that was to put AOL on the NTT network in Japan. Many speculate that AOL might try to tie up with someone in the US to bring i-Mode here.
It seems like there is a lot of confusion as to what WAP really is. WAP is a protocol....so all you guys who think WAP only works on circuit-switched networks are wrong. WAP will run on circuit or packet switched networks....just because the current implementation of GSM only supports WAP on circuit-switched networks, doesn't mean WAP wont work on a packet-switched network. Infact, in the US, Nextel already has WAP on a packet-switched network. All that is needed for WAP to be supported on a packet-switched network is a RF channel for packet data and a some sort of data gatway that will do all the packet switching between the phone and the internet.
2. Speed burns baby! WAP, at best can handle 9600.
This is bullsh*t.... WAP can go as fast as the service provider wants. If a provider were to dedicate 3 3:1 TDMA slots for a packet-switched WAP connection, you could probably get connect speeds as high a 19.2 k
Actaully right now in the US, Nextel is one of the few carriers that offers a packet-switched network. WAP can run on packet-switched or circuit-switched network....this is not a WAP issue but rather a service provider issue. Also note that with a packet switched network where many users access one packet channel, it is not necessary that actual transfer speeds are going to be too high. Even with 3G tech, I doubt if the end user is gonna see rates higher than about 56k
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It was definetly not a very bright thing to do, but I dont think keeping quite about it would be the right thing either. Maybe like some other poster stated, it might have been better if he posted something about it on BugTraq (or similar).
I see this guy as a whistle-blower, who like most other wistle-blowers, got screwed (In his case the Government and inmates did the screwing).
Also when will software companies start being held accountable for this kinda crap. Its about time the government stops making examples of people like Mr. McDanels and starts makeing examples of corporations.
From what I heard last VoIP PTT on Sprint/Verizon network had call setup times of 2-8 seconds. I think Nextel has a call setup time of less than 1 second.
From the service providers point of view, PTT is better because it uses less system resources (at least in the Nextel case). Since a PTT call is half duplex, the same channel can be used by 2 different users. One uses the uplink the other uses the downlink channel.
I have thought of hooking up a PC in my car, but since I live in Chicago and I have have always wondered if the HDDs would be able to withstand the potholes in the road...ie will I start seeing a lot of bad sectors and read/write errors ?
R
...what really matters is how competant (sp?) you are at picking up on solving issues. If you try hard enough you should be able to install any distro...and generally the more obstacles you run against, the more you tend to learn. I guess the well laid out GUI installers in some distros make it easy for a first time installer. If you want to be adventurous / enjoy a challenge, just pick any distro and go with it.
Ok...so this might sound like a dumb question, but how did AT&T go about figuring out that MS infringed on their patent. Did they take some audio, put it thru the MS code and look at the output to see if it was similar to an output of the AT&T codec ? Or did they dis-assemble the MS codec and compare it to their own ? If the did dis-assemble the codec, didn't they break the EULA ? R
Maybe what Mandrake should also do is give away X number of stocks to people when they buy the Mandrake distro. I dont know what the legal (SEC) implication of this is, but this way Mandrake could show good sales figures, which thoretically may drive up its stock price, and at the same time, the person who got the stocks when he bought the distro gets a little richer.
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I think I heard that AOL is in some talks with DoCoMo, but that was to put AOL on the NTT network in Japan. Many speculate that AOL might try to tie up with someone in the US to bring i-Mode here.
It seems like there is a lot of confusion as to what WAP really is. WAP is a protocol....so all you guys who think WAP only works on circuit-switched networks are wrong. WAP will run on circuit or packet switched networks....just because the current implementation of GSM only supports WAP on circuit-switched networks, doesn't mean WAP wont work on a packet-switched network. Infact, in the US, Nextel already has WAP on a packet-switched network. All that is needed for WAP to be supported on a packet-switched network is a RF channel for packet data and a some sort of data gatway that will do all the packet switching between the phone and the internet.
2. Speed burns baby! WAP, at best can handle 9600. This is bullsh*t .... WAP can go as fast as the service provider wants. If a provider were to dedicate 3 3:1 TDMA slots for a packet-switched WAP connection, you could probably get connect speeds as high a 19.2 k
Actaully right now in the US, Nextel is one of the few carriers that offers a packet-switched network. WAP can run on packet-switched or circuit-switched network....this is not a WAP issue but rather a service provider issue. Also note that with a packet switched network where many users access one packet channel, it is not necessary that actual transfer speeds are going to be too high. Even with 3G tech, I doubt if the end user is gonna see rates higher than about 56k