CDMA Push-to-Talk is implemented through the 1X data service, it's like making a VoIP phone call.
You can also connect one-to-many, not just one-to-one.
Also, the only phones that do PTT for Sprint are made by Sanyo.
The phones themselves allow you to talk almost immediatly upon pressing the button, and will buffer it while it makes the VoIP connection to the other end. Once the connection is established, as long as it doesn't idle for more than (i think) 10 minutes, then you have a nearly instant downlink. Now, of course, you're used to Nextel which just plain transmits analog-data straight from you to the tower to the receiving phone, and there probably will always be a slight longer lag time, especially since Sprint's data network is not a flawless entity.
But, although I've only used the Sprint phones for very short periods of demonstration, I've had a ton of praise for them, and zero problem reports.
I just wanted to add that although I'm not going searching for it, this is like 4-5 year old news here. I know I've read this before, and a long damn time ago, too. Looks like the network news reporters are starting to have to go back to old shit.. cuz all of those events.. are years ago.
Well, if you prefer communications quality as the most important qualification, then you should be on a CDMA network. Unless you have the voice of a mid-20's white male with a mid-western accent, the voice compression used on the GSM network will totally destroy your sound. And for everyone you talk to.
Until last month, when Verizon implemented a serial number lock system, that makes it so that they will only activate phones that they have already pre-approved, all you had to do was give them the serial number, and reprogram the Sanyo phone. Of course, it usually took some nasty social engineering tricks to get the MSL so you could reprogram the phone, but that's not all that difficult really.
Anyway, it's not gonna happen anymore, unless you can find a way to change the ESN in the firmware of the Sanyo phone.
I would just like to point out that the existing GSM networks with AT&T and Cingular (i'm not sure about "T-Horrible" as someone as earlier in the thread called them, as I'd never touch them with someone else's phone) are transmitting GSM over TDMA as a carrier protocol. Now, we all know that TDMA sucks ass.
Cingular has contracted Nortel to build an entire network for them that consists of transmitting GSM over CDMA as a carrier protocol, because flat out CDMA is a billion times better than using TDMA or AMPS or the European GSM transport protocol.
Sure, but GSM makes you sound like you're talking in a wind tunnel, on the voice end, the data end isn't nearly as fast as CDMA 1X, until the whole GSM system with Cingular is upgraded to GSM over CDMA, and the whole amount of coverage in the U.S. is a piece of shit. *shrug*
Actually, Sprint's push-to-talk is probably far superior to Nextel's, as well. Just looking at the service map for Nextel (one color = nationwide PTT, one color = local only PTT, one color = voice only, one color = roaming, most of the country = not covered) and comparing to Sprint's (one color = everything on your phone works, one color = roam voice only, one color = no service).. HUGE difference.
And on the plans in the price range that Nextel users usually use, the PTT function is included for free with Sprint.
Why on EARTH would you want Nextel for wireless data? Their phones BARELY have any kind of data support whatsoever, and their network is limited to 9600bps!
That ended either a month or two ago. Verizon now has a list of ESN's that they will accept.
The good side of it is, is that they will never accept a phone that is a piece of shit and makes their network look bad.
The bad side, of course is, that you have to use phones that you may not necessarily like.
*shrug* I prefer Verizon. If I ever pay off my debt to them, I'll get a phone with them again, and keep my Sprint phone so that I can play with third party apps.
Perhaps the Linux driver handles it better.. (this is a 486sx/33 that is hammered by doing routing for anywhere from 3 to 10 other computers, email services for a whole metric arseload of accounts that receive a ton of spam a day..) still pulls out around 80-95Mbps on transfers within the network, and gets me up to the max 3Mbps incoming speed for Internet usage.
I'm presuming that Mpps = Million Packets-per-Second and Kpps = Thousand Packets-per-second.
Not exactly a standard notation that I've ever heard of, but I'll go with it.
Great, now, let's see if you can actually GET a Million Packets in a Second just to the hardware, let alone to the software. Hmm.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but to be able to RECEIVE that much data, in the smallest POSSIBLE TCP/IP packets, you would need 500Mbit network link. Sure, I realise that faster than 100Mbit exists, but it sure isn't common.
And I would highly doubt it's ability to re-route 500Mbits of data per SECOND.
well a 486 wasn't designed to do a full out kernel build.. heh! my k6-2/450 used to overheat on kernel builds or rpm upgrades. turns out that there was so much crap stuck UNDER the fan, where just blowing it out with dust remover wouldn't reach, that none of the air from the fan was actually reaching the heatsink..
completely right, though, that DVD players are built to play DVDs and are going to have hardware that should be able to deal with any disc. However, it is possible that it ran into something un-expected, and did the embedded device equivalent of a blue-screen.. but not likely that two different players would freak the same way...
well, it could be possible that the SOFTWARE in the DVD player has somehow managed to get into a state where it's horked.. i suppose a normal reset would probably help that.
And a firmware update could keep it from happening again..
i know one of the firmware updates that i saw for a cyberhome recorder once fixed a bug that kept a machine burning coasters instead of usable discs after a certain series of things happened...
Aside from the GOOD versions of Mortal Kombat and MK:2, everyone I know always referred to Acclaim as "ACK! LAME!".. because almost all of their titles sucked ass.
Really, Mr. Nimoy, and Mr. Shatner, are still working. The rest haven't done anything, afaik, professionally, since Generations.
I don't blame them either. Everyone is far beyond retirement age - I don't particularly feel like going and looking up Shatner and Nimoy's specific ages on IMDB or anything, but I'm sure that after the careers they've had, mostly all together, there is definitely a feeling amongst them that they are too old to keep working! I know after 40 years, i'd be about done with it!:D
Just look at the commercials for priceline.. Nimoy and Shatner look.. definitely.. aged. I'd be willing to bet that very likely, the rest of the cast had been invited around the priceline ads, and probably turned it down...
It's odd, though.. obviously Shatner and Nimoy would have preferred to have a bit larger career than just the Star Trek part of their careers.. and Nimoy's done a lot of other stuff in the business since the last Star Trek movie with him.. and Shatner's done some TV ads, parts in some TV series, and such.. I'd bet that created a rift between the cast that was happy to be practically personified by their roles in the Star Trek series.. vs those who would've like to have done more.. and I can't blame anyone for any part of that. But it's kind of surprising, that the two that have tried to shrug off the reputation of BEING their Star Trek characters.. are the two that end up doing TV ads together:D
Just to comment on all the first 11 posts I see here:
(1) I've not used WinAmp in many years [like i've not used Windows in many years], but when secunia says the advised course of action is "use another product", i'm guessing that that probably means this feature can not be disabled, or at least not easily? or if it can be, then it's disabling can also be circumvented?
(2) Absolutely right, having a component of the system that is active to ALL programs, wether it wants it or not, is inviting the most bizarre of security holes. Of course, the WinAmp people probably should come up with a better, more secure transport method for getting their skins around, but it's not really their fault that IE is a pile of crap security wise.
(3) what kinda genius would figure out that you could embed an xml file, with instructions to run a specific executeable file, within a zipped skin file, and then manage to trigger a security hole in a web-browser module that really shouldn't have a damn thing to do involved with the program that you're sending this virus through? The people who are BREAKING the security I figure have got to be infinitely more intelligent than the people who are CREATING the security.. or at least a whole hell of a lot more creative..
i really can't imagine that anyone could be thinking, when they write a program like this, "oh, what if someone tries to take advantage of such and such known security flaw in this way through our program, even though they don't have jack and shit to do with each other?"..
obviously, you're going to try to cover in advance for security things, but who could predict in attack in such a convoluted fashion?
I'm certain that there was a bit to pandering to the fans, but.. really.. I don't know if it was the original plan to use Boba Fett's daddy (or granddaddy? did they ever say his son is Boba?) to create the clones.. though everyone knew of the general idea of the clone wars.. but pretty ingenious, if it hadn't been the original plan (maybe boba was supposed to have a larger part in the original movies, but the finances weren't there.. or something?), to recycle characters, and have it mean so much more.
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CDMA Push-to-Talk is implemented through the 1X data service, it's like making a VoIP phone call.
You can also connect one-to-many, not just one-to-one.
Also, the only phones that do PTT for Sprint are made by Sanyo.
The phones themselves allow you to talk almost immediatly upon pressing the button, and will buffer it while it makes the VoIP connection to the other end. Once the connection is established, as long as it doesn't idle for more than (i think) 10 minutes, then you have a nearly instant downlink. Now, of course, you're used to Nextel which just plain transmits analog-data straight from you to the tower to the receiving phone, and there probably will always be a slight longer lag time, especially since Sprint's data network is not a flawless entity.
But, although I've only used the Sprint phones for very short periods of demonstration, I've had a ton of praise for them, and zero problem reports.
I just wanted to add that although I'm not going searching for it, this is like 4-5 year old news here. I know I've read this before, and a long damn time ago, too. Looks like the network news reporters are starting to have to go back to old shit.. cuz all of those events.. are years ago.
Well, if you prefer communications quality as the most important qualification, then you should be on a CDMA network. Unless you have the voice of a mid-20's white male with a mid-western accent, the voice compression used on the GSM network will totally destroy your sound. And for everyone you talk to.
Until last month, when Verizon implemented a serial number lock system, that makes it so that they will only activate phones that they have already pre-approved, all you had to do was give them the serial number, and reprogram the Sanyo phone. Of course, it usually took some nasty social engineering tricks to get the MSL so you could reprogram the phone, but that's not all that difficult really.
Anyway, it's not gonna happen anymore, unless you can find a way to change the ESN in the firmware of the Sanyo phone.
I would just like to point out that the existing GSM networks with AT&T and Cingular (i'm not sure about "T-Horrible" as someone as earlier in the thread called them, as I'd never touch them with someone else's phone) are transmitting GSM over TDMA as a carrier protocol. Now, we all know that TDMA sucks ass.
Cingular has contracted Nortel to build an entire network for them that consists of transmitting GSM over CDMA as a carrier protocol, because flat out CDMA is a billion times better than using TDMA or AMPS or the European GSM transport protocol.
Sure, but GSM makes you sound like you're talking in a wind tunnel, on the voice end, the data end isn't nearly as fast as CDMA 1X, until the whole GSM system with Cingular is upgraded to GSM over CDMA, and the whole amount of coverage in the U.S. is a piece of shit. *shrug*
Actually, Sprint's push-to-talk is probably far superior to Nextel's, as well. Just looking at the service map for Nextel (one color = nationwide PTT, one color = local only PTT, one color = voice only, one color = roaming, most of the country = not covered) and comparing to Sprint's (one color = everything on your phone works, one color = roam voice only, one color = no service) .. HUGE difference.
And on the plans in the price range that Nextel users usually use, the PTT function is included for free with Sprint.
Why on EARTH would you want Nextel for wireless data? Their phones BARELY have any kind of data support whatsoever, and their network is limited to 9600bps!
That ended either a month or two ago. Verizon now has a list of ESN's that they will accept.
The good side of it is, is that they will never accept a phone that is a piece of shit and makes their network look bad.
The bad side, of course is, that you have to use phones that you may not necessarily like.
*shrug* I prefer Verizon. If I ever pay off my debt to them, I'll get a phone with them again, and keep my Sprint phone so that I can play with third party apps.
Wow, those packets are damn cold. Yes, they are.
Hmm. My server has 3 RT8139's in it.
:)
Perhaps the Linux driver handles it better.. (this is a 486sx/33 that is hammered by doing routing for anywhere from 3 to 10 other computers, email services for a whole metric arseload of accounts that receive a ton of spam a day..) still pulls out around 80-95Mbps on transfers within the network, and gets me up to the max 3Mbps incoming speed for Internet usage.
I'm happy with my RT8139's
I'm presuming that Mpps = Million Packets-per-Second
and Kpps = Thousand Packets-per-second.
Not exactly a standard notation that I've ever heard of, but I'll go with it.
Great, now, let's see if you can actually GET a Million Packets in a Second just to the hardware, let alone to the software. Hmm.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but to be able to RECEIVE that much data, in the smallest POSSIBLE TCP/IP packets, you would need 500Mbit network link. Sure, I realise that faster than 100Mbit exists, but it sure isn't common.
And I would highly doubt it's ability to re-route 500Mbits of data per SECOND.
Words speak louder than TRUTH. George Bush.
well, sure, it's doable.. back in the 0.99 days, when 386s and 486s were common, 8 hour kernel compiles were the norm.. lol..
well a 486 wasn't designed to do a full out kernel build.. heh! my k6-2/450 used to overheat on kernel builds or rpm upgrades. turns out that there was so much crap stuck UNDER the fan, where just blowing it out with dust remover wouldn't reach, that none of the air from the fan was actually reaching the heatsink..
completely right, though, that DVD players are built to play DVDs and are going to have hardware that should be able to deal with any disc. However, it is possible that it ran into something un-expected, and did the embedded device equivalent of a blue-screen.. but not likely that two different players would freak the same way...
well, it could be possible that the SOFTWARE in the DVD player has somehow managed to get into a state where it's horked.. i suppose a normal reset would probably help that.
And a firmware update could keep it from happening again..
i know one of the firmware updates that i saw for a cyberhome recorder once fixed a bug that kept a machine burning coasters instead of usable discs after a certain series of things happened...
There are also often firmware updates for non-computer based DVD players as well.
:D
I know that CyberHome and Panasonic have released firmware updates for some of their players over the past, and I'd bet others have too..
it works like:
burn a CD with the firmware file using a computer
put the CD into the DVD player
press "Play".
Hope you didn't fry it.
And Nimoy would make the most fantastic voiceover person.. I could imagine him doing the same things Vincent Price did...
Aside from the GOOD versions of Mortal Kombat and MK:2, everyone I know always referred to Acclaim as "ACK! LAME!" .. because almost all of their titles sucked ass.
Really, Mr. Nimoy, and Mr. Shatner, are still working. The rest haven't done anything, afaik, professionally, since Generations.
:D
:D
I don't blame them either. Everyone is far beyond retirement age - I don't particularly feel like going and looking up Shatner and Nimoy's specific ages on IMDB or anything, but I'm sure that after the careers they've had, mostly all together, there is definitely a feeling amongst them that they are too old to keep working! I know after 40 years, i'd be about done with it!
Just look at the commercials for priceline.. Nimoy and Shatner look.. definitely.. aged. I'd be willing to bet that very likely, the rest of the cast had been invited around the priceline ads, and probably turned it down...
It's odd, though.. obviously Shatner and Nimoy would have preferred to have a bit larger career than just the Star Trek part of their careers.. and Nimoy's done a lot of other stuff in the business since the last Star Trek movie with him.. and Shatner's done some TV ads, parts in some TV series, and such.. I'd bet that created a rift between the cast that was happy to be practically personified by their roles in the Star Trek series.. vs those who would've like to have done more.. and I can't blame anyone for any part of that. But it's kind of surprising, that the two that have tried to shrug off the reputation of BEING their Star Trek characters.. are the two that end up doing TV ads together
yes, yes, i can't wait
Just to comment on all the first 11 posts I see here:
..
(1) I've not used WinAmp in many years [like i've not used Windows in many years], but when secunia says the advised course of action is "use another product", i'm guessing that that probably means this feature can not be disabled, or at least not easily? or if it can be, then it's disabling can also be circumvented?
(2) Absolutely right, having a component of the system that is active to ALL programs, wether it wants it or not, is inviting the most bizarre of security holes. Of course, the WinAmp people probably should come up with a better, more secure transport method for getting their skins around, but it's not really their fault that IE is a pile of crap security wise.
(3) what kinda genius would figure out that you could embed an xml file, with instructions to run a specific executeable file, within a zipped skin file, and then manage to trigger a security hole in a web-browser module that really shouldn't have a damn thing to do involved with the program that you're sending this virus through? The people who are BREAKING the security I figure have got to be infinitely more intelligent than the people who are CREATING the security.. or at least a whole hell of a lot more creative..
i really can't imagine that anyone could be thinking, when they write a program like this, "oh, what if someone tries to take advantage of such and such known security flaw in this way through our program, even though they don't have jack and shit to do with each other?"
obviously, you're going to try to cover in advance for security things, but who could predict in attack in such a convoluted fashion?
In the case of Anakin building C3PO, and the case of all the clones being based on Mr. Fett.. well, that just all works out for the better anyway.
really, i was more contributing to the "ho-hum" factor of this story.
And today would be the 16th anniversary of the day I lost my virginity. w00t!.
I'm certain that there was a bit to pandering to the fans, but .. really.. I don't know if it was the original plan to use Boba Fett's daddy (or granddaddy? did they ever say his son is Boba?) to create the clones.. though everyone knew of the general idea of the clone wars.. but pretty ingenious, if it hadn't been the original plan (maybe boba was supposed to have a larger part in the original movies, but the finances weren't there.. or something?), to recycle characters, and have it mean so much more.