This is an interesting question, comming at the same time as Mattel looks to be unable to overturn the GPL on CPhack, and I see that "deep hyperlinking" is allowed, these are good. if people are not given freedom they tend to rebel, in a big way, and there is always a company willing to help, for example Napster. I think regulation will come in, it will of course do good, and bad, hopefully it will leave flexibility to the current internet standards groups, and make the internet more internationalised.
Yes, there will be taxes, there is no way you are going to stop that, but feel free to exlpain why there wont.
And, if, for some reason, a couple of governments do destroy a perfectly good working internet, there will always be BBS's, and packet radio, no, they can't stop me!:)
I am a bit or a programmer, and I have a good abbility of being able to write short, concise documentation, but my questions is what do you think of documenting programs like javadoc & doc++, I use both (depending on language, of course), and I know they are really only programmer documentation, but, if maintained correctly, can give document writers a better idea of what they writing, if they are programmers themselves...
I understand radio frequecies really well, but businesses, and poiticians who don't understand them can be hazardous, how would you feel about having your radio listening wiped out every day to work, just coz some business got a license to transmit where it looks good on paper, belive me, hams in Australia understand what I am on about, when multi killowatt pocket pagers were given a frequency rage right next to highly sensitive amature frequencies (for those in the know, 148.0125Mhz, and repeater inputs go up to 148 over here), and anyone suggesting digital transmissions everwhere, my gsm phone drops out after getting 10km's out of my "rual city" (~100k pop.).
There is only so many frequencies out there, and I am sure there isn't enough to go around, so most of these will only go to the highest bidder, and there is hard evidence to say that there is a point where it's no longer safe to transmit from a residence (stuck your head in a microwave lately?), being that a microwave over generally runs at a few hundred watts at 2.5Ghz.
So, the internet, for bandwidth hungry people is always going to be limited to landline, unless we see some real fancy tricks done. But remember, radio signals are analogue, and digital signals take up _twice_ there bandwidth in the air, plus all the other noise the create, although we do have compression, and of course, you cant talk a file to a friend.
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There are lots of reasons why use-net will remain as popular only as it was, only because of what it was, because of money... how mant people they can get in, in a month, and in our part of the world, (australia, that's how it seems)... I wish so many ISP's were'nt interested in cash, and cash only, but thems the way it goes....
This only lists a small portion of browsers that are capable of running in linux, there was an article not long ago with quick reviews on 21 Linux Web Browsers?, the article can be found here.
I have a personal preference to any browser that is not capable of javascript, although, it does have it's uses, as we have seen this week, with the CERT release, there are some things it can do that we may not like...
I personally use some of these browsers after Netscape has Crashed (TM) for the 10th time in as many minutes, it reminds me too much of another OS I do my best to get away from:)
When I get the cash together:) I have a nice 'papper' design for a pda/wearable, with 'no particular interface' designed to put info on a display, or use a voice synth, voice recognition may now be achieved through sphynx2, and maybe a home made twiddler clone - for my hand:)
This really is very close to what a werable is, but, that is all I need a mobile pc to do, with the addition of checking email, etc... using a packet radio interface, and using ham radio frequencies, and have IM-ing with jabber maybe even rig it up, so I no longer need a mobile phone, just transmit / receicve the voice data through the system to my home phone:)
A small ammount of AI would be a good addition, using another suggestion, so that you can tell the wearable a persons name, and what you might be engaging in with this person (great for keeping track of multiple girlfriends:)), and it will be able to, at the least, relay back some notes that you have previously left.
In summary, it would make my life easier, and I can think of the more imortant things, like programming, internet & persons of the oposite sex:)
well, as far as I see it, d'net would be good, except, how wuld you make sure a usre wasn't lying? pick a random algoroithinn you never use, and,a buingssobject. "",,,;
My Satellite Pay TV operator in Australia (Austar) has this on screen TV guide built in, has done for ages... The really cool thing is that I can not only browse what is on the current channel, I can check what's on other channels, while I am watching my show, and what's on next, plus it has a full screen tv guide, info on the movie/show (blurb), only about 32 chans all up, but damn good stuff:) Anyway, this is really a silly patent, what about if I am watching TV on my PC, via the net, and I have a pretty web page telling me what's on, is that an infringement too?
There really isn't enough radio frequenies to allow this.
Lets say your in NYC, and the whole 5 to 6 Ghz (if it were not already allocated to other things) was allocated soley too wireless networking, this means millions of people have to share 1Ghz (= 1Giga bit / second, without error correction, etc...) of bandwidth. This is why home 802.11 have such a limited distance & bandwidth, there just isn't enough room to put everyone, and low power means that most people don't interfere with each other, but put one or more wireless lans together that use the same frequency, and you get errors, etc...
So, if you want wireless networking, you miss out on bandwidth, if you want bandwidth, land-line & optic-fibre is the way to go, this is why I see wireless networking really being for small devices, and the occasional laid-back mobile internet, nothing really special.
Maybe one day, someone will invent a way to not use radios waves (quantum entanglement anyone?), that is when true wireless communications will be as big and as fast as you want, but for now, your all just going to have to share what we have.
PS. If you have any suggestions or questions, I will check replies to this message for a few days.
hehe, I like it, and so do my friends, 'tidlywinks', and I'll keep going like that. A friend uses a linux machine as a dial-up router, he thought 'nerdbox' was appropriate:)
Just me, but I am more int the belif that maybe the AL's won't wipe us out, if AL's are more intelligent, would they not be more civilised, and look back at us like some of us would look at god? We would be thier creators, and a more civilised life-form would not want to harm us, are we all not finding out that we have to look after our environment, and the other species on this planet? don't we call this being "more civilised"?
Hollywood has mainly taken an approach of the bad side of what would happen, which is not that unusual, if aliens came to visit us, would there not me wide spread panic, just because there would be a significant amount of people that are scared, more than welcoming? Even the hacker world has had to fight hollywood's stereotypes.
So, I basically say, I am welcoming the AL's, and hope that they can continue what we have started, and go further, like we would like our own children to be.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but yer 12 students, and students doing first time programming stuff over here in Aus. are taught pascal, uni is C++/Java... Well, at least that's how was when I was at school a few years ago....
hehe, I happen to have an IBM PC XT (5151), dated DEC 10 '82 (inside case), pitty I live in Australia, $15K worth of server would be great. This thing has 10Mb HDD and all:)
About the start of 97, a law was passed in Australia that no-one can restrict the viewability of thier web site, by any minority, or they _can_ be sued, this was set in place by the equal opportunities board, the main point that I heard when I was listening to this, is that you should: "Always ALT tags, and always test it in as many web browsers as you can, even a browser called lynx...".
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This is an interesting question, comming at the same time as Mattel looks to be unable to overturn the GPL on CPhack, and I see that "deep hyperlinking" is allowed, these are good. if people are not given freedom they tend to rebel, in a big way, and there is always a company willing to help, for example Napster. I think regulation will come in, it will of course do good, and bad, hopefully it will leave flexibility to the current internet standards groups, and make the internet more internationalised.
:)
Yes, there will be taxes, there is no way you are going to stop that, but feel free to exlpain why there wont.
And, if, for some reason, a couple of governments do destroy a perfectly good working internet, there will always be BBS's, and packet radio, no, they can't stop me!
I am a bit or a programmer, and I have a good abbility of being able to write short, concise documentation, but my questions is what do you think of documenting programs like javadoc & doc++, I use both (depending on language, of course), and I know they are really only programmer documentation, but, if maintained correctly, can give document writers a better idea of what they writing, if they are programmers themselves...
I understand radio frequecies really well, but businesses, and poiticians who don't understand them can be hazardous, how would you feel about having your radio listening wiped out every day to work, just coz some business got a license to transmit where it looks good on paper, belive me, hams in Australia understand what I am on about, when multi killowatt pocket pagers were given a frequency rage right next to highly sensitive amature frequencies (for those in the know, 148.0125Mhz, and repeater inputs go up to 148 over here), and anyone suggesting digital transmissions everwhere, my gsm phone drops out after getting 10km's out of my "rual city" (~100k pop.).
There is only so many frequencies out there, and I am sure there isn't enough to go around, so most of these will only go to the highest bidder, and there is hard evidence to say that there is a point where it's no longer safe to transmit from a residence (stuck your head in a microwave lately?), being that a microwave over generally runs at a few hundred watts at 2.5Ghz.
So, the internet, for bandwidth hungry people is always going to be limited to landline, unless we see some real fancy tricks done. But remember, radio signals are analogue, and digital signals take up _twice_ there bandwidth in the air, plus all the other noise the create, although we do have compression, and of course, you cant talk a file to a friend.
There are lots of reasons why use-net will remain as popular only as it was, only because of what it was, because of money... how mant people they can get in, in a month, and in our part of the world, (australia, that's how it seems)... I wish so many ISP's were'nt interested in cash, and cash only, but thems the way it goes....
This only lists a small portion of browsers that are capable of running in linux, there was an article not long ago with quick reviews on 21 Linux Web Browsers?, the article can be found here.
:)
I have a personal preference to any browser that is not capable of javascript, although, it does have it's uses, as we have seen this week, with the CERT release, there are some things it can do that we may not like...
I personally use some of these browsers after Netscape has Crashed (TM) for the 10th time in as many minutes, it reminds me too much of another OS I do my best to get away from
When I get the cash together :) I have a nice 'papper' design for a pda/wearable, with 'no particular interface' designed to put info on a display, or use a voice synth, voice recognition may now be achieved through sphynx2, and maybe a home made twiddler clone - for my hand :)
:)
:)), and it will be able to, at the least, relay back some notes that you have previously left.
:)
This really is very close to what a werable is, but, that is all I need a mobile pc to do, with the addition of checking email, etc... using a packet radio interface, and using ham radio frequencies, and have IM-ing with jabber maybe even rig it up, so I no longer need a mobile phone, just transmit / receicve the voice data through the system to my home phone
A small ammount of AI would be a good addition, using another suggestion, so that you can tell the wearable a persons name, and what you might be engaging in with this person (great for keeping track of multiple girlfriends
In summary, it would make my life easier, and I can think of the more imortant things, like programming, internet & persons of the oposite sex
well, as far as I see it, d'net would be good, except, how wuld you make sure a usre wasn't lying? pick a random algoroithinn you never use, and,a buingssobject. "",,,;
My Satellite Pay TV operator in Australia (Austar) :)
has this on screen TV guide built in, has done
for ages...
The really cool thing is that I can not only
browse what is on the current channel, I can
check what's on other channels, while I am
watching my show, and what's on next, plus it
has a full screen tv guide, info on the
movie/show (blurb), only about 32 chans all
up, but damn good stuff
Anyway, this is really a silly patent, what
about if I am watching TV on my PC, via the
net, and I have a pretty web page telling me
what's on, is that an infringement too?
There really isn't enough radio frequenies to allow this.
Lets say your in NYC, and the whole 5 to 6 Ghz (if it were not already allocated to other things) was allocated soley too wireless networking, this means millions of people have to share 1Ghz (= 1Giga bit / second, without error correction, etc...) of bandwidth. This is why home 802.11 have such a limited distance & bandwidth, there just isn't enough room to put everyone, and low power means that most people don't interfere with each other, but put one or more wireless lans together that use the same frequency, and you get errors, etc...
So, if you want wireless networking, you miss out on bandwidth, if you want bandwidth, land-line & optic-fibre is the way to go, this is why I see wireless networking really being for small devices, and the occasional laid-back mobile internet, nothing really special.
Maybe one day, someone will invent a way to not use radios waves (quantum entanglement anyone?), that is when true wireless communications will be as big and as fast as you want, but for now, your all just going to have to share what we have.
PS. If you have any suggestions or questions, I will check replies to this message for a few days.
hehe, I like it, and so do my friends, 'tidlywinks', and I'll keep going like that.
A friend uses a linux machine as a dial-up router, he thought 'nerdbox' was appropriate
Just me, but I am more int the belif that maybe the AL's won't wipe us out, if AL's are more intelligent, would they not be more civilised, and look back at us like some of us would look at god? We would be thier creators, and a more civilised life-form would not want to harm us, are we all not finding out that we have to look after our environment, and the other species on this planet? don't we call this being "more civilised"?
Hollywood has mainly taken an approach of the bad side of what would happen, which is not that unusual, if aliens came to visit us, would there not me wide spread panic, just because there would be a significant amount of people that are scared, more than welcoming? Even the hacker world has had to fight hollywood's stereotypes.
So, I basically say, I am welcoming the AL's, and hope that they can continue what we have started, and go further, like we would like our own children to be.
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but yer 12 students, and students doing first time programming stuff over here in Aus. are taught pascal, uni is C++/Java...
Well, at least that's how was when I was at school a few years ago....
Did Digital not do _Exactly_ the same thing with the Alpha, but hey, I could be wrong...
hehe, I happen to have an IBM PC XT (5151), dated DEC 10 '82 (inside case), pitty I live in Australia, $15K worth of server would be great. :)
This thing has 10Mb HDD and all
About the start of 97, a law was passed in Australia that no-one can restrict the viewability of thier web site, by any minority, or they _can_ be sued, this was set in place by the equal opportunities board, the main point that I heard when I was listening to this, is that you should: "Always ALT tags, and always test it in as many web browsers as you can, even a browser called lynx...".