GSM - Global Standard for Mobile commnications (this one runs at 1800mhz, pretty standard, used throughout the world... with the notable absence of one country.)
HSCSD - High Speed Circuit Switched Data (this is a little like GRPS, however it's point-to-point based and provides more bandwidth than packet switched GPRS, but it isn't connected 24/7)
GRPS - General Packet Radio Service, (always on, packet based mobile network, ip based).
ASDF - Association of Synchronous Data Formats (the synchronous carrier format to provide a level of QoS and ensure delivery.)
LMNOP - ?? got me on that one, sounds like some protocol for binding ip to the wireless standard.
Damm... I always wondered why 21" monitors were so big, it's for generating all the raditation to roast your nads?
I find it quite ironic that ppl use their 21" monitors as display of their manhood... "hey, look at me I've got a big fscking monitor", but in reality all that radiation is making them impedent.
This is quite right, instead of the wave impacting on the rocks and eventually eroding them, it simply hits a different structure. The energy has to go somewhere, be it a turbine or impacting and eroding a rock face. On a normal coast line the energy is already lost as it is, but not in a useful fashion.
I guess environmental damange is relative... and a matter of balance, I'm sure this approach is better than pumping huge amounts of hydrocarbons into the air.
Actually they don't use fat wires at all, they step the voltage up into the thousands with very low current, this allows them to transport electric very efficiently on tinner cables, there is actually less resistance so less power is lost through the network, i.e. the cables don't heat up a significant amount (that's why birds can sit on them).
If you have a high current, low voltage, the opposite is true, they would need huge cables that would basically heat up like a big electric heater, the loss would be so great the distance you could span would only be a few miles. Also... the poor little birdy would be roasted if he sat on one of these wires.
Actually, the "British Board of Film Censorship" are a bunch of liberal hippies, that's why we get all the nice scenes in films that the US board decided to cut out... mainly because they believe the american public may not be able to handle seeing a womens minge on the silver screen, the British board isn't quite so narrow minded.
... So your theory is like the pot calling the kettle black, get your priorities right and sort out your own censorship first, i.e.:-
"USA 1st, France 2nd, UK 3rd, then Germany, and on and on."
for a second I thought we'd have a bunch of puritanical right wing law-n-order assholes drafting oppressive legislation that violates civil liberties and freedom.
... and we're meant to have a left-wing government in power at the moment, imagine what it would be like if/when the conservatives get in!
The standard was set ages ago, it's DVB + COFDOM, it's used throughout Europe, MiddleEast. Most broadcasters went live with digital TV in 98/99, I'm surprised you haven't heard much about it in your country.
The US hasn't gone with DVB + COFDOM because it's a European encoding scheme... ATSC allows broadcasters to use their same allotment of frequencies, however the viabilty of sacrificing the advantages of COFDOM for backward compatibility is questionable, the signal covers a lesser distance and needs to be outputted with more power.
In the UK the digital satellite broadcasts use DVB, the digital terrestrial broadcasts use DVB and the digital cable services with DVB with less error correction (fibre is less prone to interference), the advantage of having a single standard benefits having a less price of equipment and synergy between the different systems, i.e. the same channel will look the same across all the systems.
The new digital system is actually DVB, which is totally abstracted from PAL, obviously the old PAL broadcasts still exist.
The DigitalTV system deployed in the UK by the BBC and around Europe and the Middle East actually scales to variable bitrates depending upon the broadcast.
The DVB mpeg2 stream can scale between SDTV and HDTV qualities, you may of noticed this if you've watched football matches on Sky... they up the quality.
You're correct about the prices of the sets, a highend Sony 16:9 set with an intergrated digital tuner, 100hz screen refresh, dolby pro logic, retails for about £900... a highend Sony PAL+ set cost about the same a few months back.
They have a digital archive system that is maintained at radio house in london, it isn't mp3 however, more like a pure PCM/DAT audio quality.
If you try and broadcast compressed audio like mp3 on the DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) it produces awful quality since the audio is being decoded then re-encoded into mpeg2 for the digital stream, it makes a £500 DAB tuner sound like a cheapo AM receiver.
The BBC mainly faced this problem with MiniDisc's since they're used quite frequenly in radio stations now apparently, however the ATRAC compression MD uses caused the forementioned problems, so no more MD... but they should of always used DAT anyway.
Yeah... but my point being there's loads of unlimited services, BT were wholly against any sort of unmetered service what so ever... so when BT are forced to offer their own unmetered service it shows you what the market is like.
Even AOL offer an unlimited package £15... and that's saying something.
On the patent side of things, the patent office doesn't let you patent algorithms, since RSA could never be patented over here, why would frauenhoffer be any different?
I'm surprised the British Phonographic Indusitry isn't shitting bricks about Napster, they do have piracy info on their site, but I think their main objective is to concentrate on dodgy CD manufacturers that pump out illegal CD's en mass.
Since 25% of the worlds music comes from the UK, they probably are shitting bricks, but maybe they're just too nice to say anything about it and are plotting like a bunch of cads behind closed doors? I can remember a few artists went to Brussels to pledge their support for some European legislation to counteract mp3 (because legislation will work, right?), they seem to forget it stamps on all the 'fair use' terms out there. I doubt they're ignoring what's going on though, they obviously have links with RIAA and are supporting their actions.
Yeah, I love the irony/hypocrasy too, remember NSI have disabled the domain record for vote-auction.com? It was originally registered at an European registry, and site was also hosted in Europe. They haven't deleted the nic record, since somebody could reregister it, but they've made the dns void, hence the site is down for all intensive purposes (but obviously the ip works, whatever that is).
Is that legit you may ask? Hmm, well at the moment there's a trial going on in France, where the state wants Yahoo to take down content related to the Nazi era, etc. There's a lot of synergies between these cases, but obviously the French government couldn't just contact NSI or a cosy (US) government picked group like ICANN and persuade them to take a dns record out. As for ICANN's elections and the new 'hacker' member from Germany's CCC, it's just a token election, the 'right' people are put into place without question.
It's just a matter of who's interests are at heart, all the "freedom" sentiment goes out the window.
I dunno why you're bitchin about phone charges for, have you been walking round with your eyes closed for the last year?;) Even BT offer unmetered dialup access, and starting December they're offering unlimited local calls from your BT line for ~ £15.
The cable companies like ntl; Telewest, C&W etc have been offering unmetered access since the start of the year, and the first two have cable modems available.
This reminds me of the IBM advert, remember the one where the guy goes walking through the store putting goods in his coat and pockets like a shoplifter then walks through a scanner at the end that resembles a metal detector, it looks like the technology is here, very clever;)
In the future Safeway's will look like a bunch of people shop lifting en mass.
This is quite true... for instance I think it's a safe to assume the British government has had the technical ability to intercept internet traffic well before the RIP came into power, however how do you try somebody in a court of law if the prosecutors have illegally obtained information? There are many examples of murders being let free because the DNA evidence that links them to a crime has been kept in the database over the three year limit, and therefore it cannot be used in a court of law.
Even if they CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) did decide to go to court with some 'suspect information' then this would ultimately undermine the whole covert surveillance thing, so now we have various acts to legalise the surveillance and take it out of a 'grey area'.
Obviously if you're running surveillance operations against hostile governments or foreign spies like what happened in the 60's, they you generally work outside the rule of law anyway, so these acts are irrelevant.
The BBC have been using KDE + Netscape for when they demo webpages on TV for sometime now, I've seen it used on Tomorrows World quite a bit. Linux is used around the corperation quite a lot apparently.
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MPPC - Microsoft Point-To-Point Compression
GSM - Global Standard for Mobile commnications (this one runs at 1800mhz, pretty standard, used throughout the world... with the notable absence of one country.)
HSCSD - High Speed Circuit Switched Data (this is a little like GRPS, however it's point-to-point based and provides more bandwidth than packet switched GPRS, but it isn't connected 24/7)
GRPS - General Packet Radio Service, (always on, packet based mobile network, ip based).
ASDF - Association of Synchronous Data Formats (the synchronous carrier format to provide a level of QoS and ensure delivery.)
LMNOP - ?? got me on that one, sounds like some protocol for binding ip to the wireless standard.
use Pornster
... the FMPAA (Filthy Motion Picture Association of America) will probably 'come' after you for disseminating copyrighted filth, oh well :/
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Why are the British evil? but more importantly... what about the Aztec's ? ;)
The radiation also fsck's up your spelling and grammar too ;)
Damm... I always wondered why 21" monitors were so big, it's for generating all the raditation to roast your nads?
I find it quite ironic that ppl use their 21" monitors as display of their manhood... "hey, look at me I've got a big fscking monitor", but in reality all that radiation is making them impedent.
The patent has long been expired, the generic form of Paracetamol is known a Ibufrophen.
This is quite right, instead of the wave impacting on the rocks and eventually eroding them, it simply hits a different structure. The energy has to go somewhere, be it a turbine or impacting and eroding a rock face. On a normal coast line the energy is already lost as it is, but not in a useful fashion.
I guess environmental damange is relative... and a matter of balance, I'm sure this approach is better than pumping huge amounts of hydrocarbons into the air.
Actually they don't use fat wires at all, they step the voltage up into the thousands with very low current, this allows them to transport electric very efficiently on tinner cables, there is actually less resistance so less power is lost through the network, i.e. the cables don't heat up a significant amount (that's why birds can sit on them).
If you have a high current, low voltage, the opposite is true, they would need huge cables that would basically heat up like a big electric heater, the loss would be so great the distance you could span would only be a few miles. Also... the poor little birdy would be roasted if he sat on one of these wires.
Az.
Actually, the "British Board of Film Censorship" are a bunch of liberal hippies, that's why we get all the nice scenes in films that the US board decided to cut out... mainly because they believe the american public may not be able to handle seeing a womens minge on the silver screen, the British board isn't quite so narrow minded.
:-
... So your theory is like the pot calling the kettle black, get your priorities right and sort out your own censorship first, i.e.
"USA 1st, France 2nd, UK 3rd, then Germany, and on and on."
Not at all... the Enigma in question was presented to GCHQ in 1998 by the Germany government, it wasn't stolen from WWII operations.
The article states something like this at the bottom of the article, however it isn't quite right.
In fact the machine taken from Bletchley wans't even stolen from Germany, it was presented to them in 98 as a gift from the German government.
Obviously the ones captured in the war were stolen, like the naval enigma and code book the British Navy captured from U571.
Az.
The standard was set ages ago, it's DVB + COFDOM, it's used throughout Europe, MiddleEast. Most broadcasters went live with digital TV in 98/99, I'm surprised you haven't heard much about it in your country.
The US hasn't gone with DVB + COFDOM because it's a European encoding scheme ... ATSC allows broadcasters to use their same allotment of frequencies, however the viabilty of sacrificing the advantages of COFDOM for backward compatibility is questionable, the signal covers a lesser distance and needs to be outputted with more power.
In the UK the digital satellite broadcasts use DVB, the digital terrestrial broadcasts use DVB and the digital cable services with DVB with less error correction (fibre is less prone to interference), the advantage of having a single standard benefits having a less price of equipment and synergy between the different systems, i.e. the same channel will look the same across all the systems.
Az.
The new digital system is actually DVB, which is totally abstracted from PAL, obviously the old PAL broadcasts still exist.
... they up the quality.
... a highend Sony PAL+ set cost about the same a few months back.
The DigitalTV system deployed in the UK by the BBC and around Europe and the Middle East actually scales to variable bitrates depending upon the broadcast.
The DVB mpeg2 stream can scale between SDTV and HDTV qualities, you may of noticed this if you've watched football matches on Sky
You're correct about the prices of the sets, a highend Sony 16:9 set with an intergrated digital tuner, 100hz screen refresh, dolby pro logic, retails for about £900
Az.
They have a digital archive system that is maintained at radio house in london, it isn't mp3 however, more like a pure PCM/DAT audio quality.
... but they should of always used DAT anyway.
If you try and broadcast compressed audio like mp3 on the DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) it produces awful quality since the audio is being decoded then re-encoded into mpeg2 for the digital stream, it makes a £500 DAB tuner sound like a cheapo AM receiver.
The BBC mainly faced this problem with MiniDisc's since they're used quite frequenly in radio stations now apparently, however the ATRAC compression MD uses caused the forementioned problems, so no more MD
Az.
Yeah ... but my point being there's loads of unlimited services, BT were wholly against any sort of unmetered service what so ever ... so when BT are forced to offer their own unmetered service it shows you what the market is like.
... and that's saying something.
Even AOL offer an unlimited package £15
On the patent side of things, the patent office doesn't let you patent algorithms, since RSA could never be patented over here, why would frauenhoffer be any different?
I'm surprised the British Phonographic Indusitry isn't shitting bricks about Napster, they do have piracy info on their site, but I think their main objective is to concentrate on dodgy CD manufacturers that pump out illegal CD's en mass.
Since 25% of the worlds music comes from the UK, they probably are shitting bricks, but maybe they're just too nice to say anything about it and are plotting like a bunch of cads behind closed doors? I can remember a few artists went to Brussels to pledge their support for some European legislation to counteract mp3 (because legislation will work, right?), they seem to forget it stamps on all the 'fair use' terms out there. I doubt they're ignoring what's going on though, they obviously have links with RIAA and are supporting their actions.
Yeah, I love the irony/hypocrasy too, remember NSI have disabled the domain record for vote-auction.com? It was originally registered at an European registry, and site was also hosted in Europe. They haven't deleted the nic record, since somebody could reregister it, but they've made the dns void, hence the site is down for all intensive purposes (but obviously the ip works, whatever that is).
Is that legit you may ask? Hmm, well at the moment there's a trial going on in France, where the state wants Yahoo to take down content related to the Nazi era, etc. There's a lot of synergies between these cases, but obviously the French government couldn't just contact NSI or a cosy (US) government picked group like ICANN and persuade them to take a dns record out. As for ICANN's elections and the new 'hacker' member from Germany's CCC, it's just a token election, the 'right' people are put into place without question.
It's just a matter of who's interests are at heart, all the "freedom" sentiment goes out the window.
I dunno why you're bitchin about phone charges for, have you been walking round with your eyes closed for the last year? ;) Even BT offer unmetered dialup access, and starting December they're offering unlimited local calls from your BT line for ~ £15.
The cable companies like ntl; Telewest, C&W etc have been offering unmetered access since the start of the year, and the first two have cable modems available.
Az.
This reminds me of the IBM advert, remember the one where the guy goes walking through the store putting goods in his coat and pockets like a shoplifter then walks through a scanner at the end that resembles a metal detector, it looks like the technology is here, very clever ;)
In the future Safeway's will look like a bunch of people shop lifting en mass.
Az.
This is quite true ... for instance I think it's a safe to assume the British government has had the technical ability to intercept internet traffic well before the RIP came into power, however how do you try somebody in a court of law if the prosecutors have illegally obtained information? There are many examples of murders being let free because the DNA evidence that links them to a crime has been kept in the database over the three year limit, and therefore it cannot be used in a court of law.
Even if they CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) did decide to go to court with some 'suspect information' then this would ultimately undermine the whole covert surveillance thing, so now we have various acts to legalise the surveillance and take it out of a 'grey area'.
Obviously if you're running surveillance operations against hostile governments or foreign spies like what happened in the 60's, they you generally work outside the rule of law anyway, so these acts are irrelevant.
The BBC have been using KDE + Netscape for when they demo webpages on TV for sometime now, I've seen it used on Tomorrows World quite a bit. Linux is used around the corperation quite a lot apparently.