DSP's are made for number crunching and are the best for communications that require waveform processing. Compare the performance of using your main CPU versus a hardware modem. It will work, but its like a video card without the accelerator. Everything will be slow.
Those 300 interrupts you talk about are just to move memory into the buffer and hardly CPU intensive. Software modems are a different beast, where ALL off the free CPU time is spent trying to mathematically create a decent signal. Now, if we had this "software modem" flashed to the modem's DSP, or offloaded to an alternate processor off the main bus, this would be a huge win.
A winmodem is like a video card without the accelerator.
An external winmodem? The closest thing I have seen is from the Sound-HOWTO about using the sound card to impliment 9600 bps FSK methods. This method is more useful for hams, but I'd imagine you could use a modemless laptop coupled to a payphone handset in a jiffy.
The only problem I have with Gore is his going to bed with the NSA and I do remember some things relating to internet censorship. He supports higher education, which is very important.
you're neglecting a large part of what teachers do in a classroom - facilitating social interaction.
If the focus of relationships in the classroom ever disappeared to boxes on the desk, there might be an interesting struggle that might develop among our youth. Kids might be too young to express "the good old days when we got together and played games." Physical education, which may be considered as an advanced form of social interaction, in such a culture might be too intimidating and as an option.
Computers are great learning tools, but are no replacement for a good education from teachers and peers.
I have seen too much brutal competition among the CS crowd. Imagine starting now and graduating in a recession. It might be better to diversify your talents to include a stronger foundation if that field dries up. Get an electrical engineering degree. You will have many more opportunities, especially if the CS field is saturated when you need a job the most.
Start with building blocks in electronics with a BSEE, where you will build your computer, first in simple sections from latches and logic gates, to real wire wrapped monsters, complete with 8 bit bus and NTSC video. Write the software in assembly and make a crude interface to control simple devices like stepper motors making something such as an electronic bartender.
I felt it was more fun starting from scratch with a new computer and having the intimate knowledge how to make it tick.
And if they don't honor the contract, don't be passive, complain in every way, escalate the incident to the top.
I say this is that pretty soon, if you want to buy a computer at any store at the advertised price, you will have to buy it with a free "marketing research" rebate certificate with some long term strings attatched. How long will it take for that rebate check to be mailed? Not to mention basic internet service is going to be very competitive and cheap in a year. What if you buy two computers? Two internet rebates. Oh, goody!
Why would the Chinese government not honor the GPL? If it kept the source code a secret, it would hinder their development just like the Windows code base is within Microsoft. To keep it a secret would cripple their development.
Cut their pipe? Who are you to censor a nation? The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it. Technology is very diverse and IP packets can be sent in many ways and there will always be those who will connect (unless its spam, and no one lives for that.) It would take many bigots with a great many nuclear weapons to censor a large nation such as China.
the commie turds.
Why don't you start with censoring yourself and learn from it. Better yet, get an education.
Spare parts? I'd like to see the power supply in that thing. Ultra-life-Radiation powered super cell. The ultimate UPS. Just wear a lead suit when servicing.
DOS attacks from China? I haven't seen any connection attempts from China, except for the http logs on my box. Most of the portscans I have seen are from here in the states and have yet to see one from China.
Looks are one thing, but is there a one-button-mouse-mac-HOWTO? Its like chopping off all fingers and your opposable thumb, but one, and trying to navigate one menu that controls everything. I like how macs look, but I like my mouse buttons.
It wasn't an arbitrary moment for me. It was a great excuse to shake free bottles of cheap champagne at eachother on a wet dancefloor. That and 13 kamikazes, 6 pack of Guinness Extra Stout, and one hell of a headache the next day.
For the people who had to work at the mercy of colossally stupid PHB's who never wrote a line of code and watched to many media shows about the Y2K disaster, I have deep respect. I was one of the lucky ones. I had to show up Monday morning, "just to make sure" everything started up ok.
At work, I was reading some of the major industrial engineering catalogs and most had a section on security. Stealth clocks, pinholes, etc. We even had a hidden camera in a thermostat here last year in the receiving department. It wasn't hard to trace where that cable went too either. Needless to say, that manager isn't very popular these days. So, we could have got the FBI on his ass?
Its not just the government, its the media and anyone else that wants to ride them.
It seems like media outlets like CNN in quests of higher ratings are going to bed with these agencies, unloading us with sensationalist "news" of dubious references. I see without proper references stories describing raids of "suspects" backed up by "sources say..." "the FBI uncovered..." "authorities disclosed..." Seems like no one individual is responsible these days for anything. Its those damn three letter agencies.
The government is being taken for a ride and we are the ultimate victims. Patents. Zoning. Taxes. Those who have money will leverage the government to favor them and control the FBI, IRS, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Very few take responsibility in these super organisations anymore and promote growth like cancer.
That's right, man, you can see through everything! Up until now, I've had a well paying daytime job doing electrical work and Linux was just my hobby. But now, all this hype is making me consider running my own IPO too. No FUD at the moment, but just the facts:
Announcing LinuxTwo IPO:
We plan to sell twice as much bogus software as LinuxOne.
We use a proven S-1 form, with our name inserted over LinuxOne's.
We hire software programmer icons for free, and just like LinuxOne, to cut costs.
We do not waste gas traveling to those educational conferences, such as the Atlanta Linux Showcase and rub shoulders with the caffeinated programmers that can make keyboards smoke.
And LinuxTwo's web page is served through a dialup connection, which offers the same speed as LinuxOne's. Coincidence?
OK, I'll shut up. But my point is that I use Linux and am offended by a cheap knock off that has apparently nothing to contribute, besides being an apparent 100% fluff machine. I sure don't want bullshit to be worth $23,000,000 dollars. That's a lot of bullshit that's going to come from the sky.
I'd benefit from investments that actually have a chance of helping people who are known to put effort and acheive results. Linuxone is mighty secretive and I don't think they have anything concrete they are hiding.
A few weeks ago I went into work to find the local paper with a front page article stating the utility company of this small town was going to upgrade the substations. I had a spare car battery hooked to the UPS and thought it would ride through. Uh huh... looking at the logs, it looked like the battery was a half an hour shy of the four hours of no power.
Traffic slowness occurs because perope are trying to cut people off and are generall driving poorly, not because they can't drive fast enough. Haven't you ever been in your car and wished that everyone would just drive 60 together.
Sounds nice, but I have seen people cutting each other off happens at the exit and entrance ramps, not in the fast lanes. Tightly regulating the speed limit would not help those lanes that have to deal with people moving on and off the highway. There still is a problem of following distances and people slowing down to accomodate the newer traffic. I see accidents in these lanes, by slower moving cars, due to these problems.
I have seen two fatal accidents in my life. One may have been caused by the beer cans and empty cases of beer that littered the scene where the convertible ramped the ditch, ejecting the three unbelted occupants from their seats. Just because it was a red convertible, does not mean it was speeding. Scene was about 10 years ago on Noland Road in Independence, Missouri.
The second, recently, apparently was caused by someone who no longer was aware of other cars on the highway. The other cars swerved out of the way, allowing the car to continue into the guardrail, where it flipped not once, but twice before landing into the ditch. Emergency vehicles took 15 to 20 minutes to arrive. This was in Eastern Missouri last thanksgiving day.
Anyhow, speed related? No. If you have a satellite control things like following distances, etc., we might as well give up on cars and take the train. We could have technology drive our entire lives, but at what point do we want our freedom?
If we had autopilots drive our cars, how reliable would they be? Would people rely on them too much and if they only crashed twice a day, would that be an acceptable risk?
photoradar was implemented for a time and this wasnt a problem because people were actually going the speed limit for a change
hehehe... there was a demonstration by a firm who was trying to sell their photoradar technology to the Kansas City, MO police department. I think the police department did get stuck with that $150,000 setup, but its been several years ago. Anyway, there were salesmen trying to sell this product. Fancy equipment, all that jazz. So, they set up a roadside demonstration on the side of the highway with reporters and were giving a good show.
Until the demonstration started. As it was described in the Star, the traffic started acting funny, likely due to brakelights of those who had detectors. A tractor-trailer jacknifed and came close to swiping the spectators. That was the end of that.
So I thought. I remember also several years ago where they tried it on some road and tried to get people to show in court. Lots of funny cases where the person driving was not the owner, his spouse, but someone else. Who was that woman? Well the burden of proof became an invasion of privacy.
Let me tell you about the flash taking vans that take the pictures. I have seen filters you can put over your license plate and suppose any dirty looking license plate cover would munge a flash picture. Photo radar got lots of attention. I think it was turning into a game of those who had the technology and those who wanted to play with it.
I suspect that this is just the government's new attempt at reducing the number of cars on the road. Sounds like politics in action. Rather than spend more money on building the road infrastructure, they'll spend it on technology in any form. OK, so you now have cars going the "speed limit" on the highway or about 15% slower than they usually do. Now this fixed number of cars traveling to work take 15% longer to get there on the same highway. 15% more congestion, until the density reaches a critical level, where people start stopping and jamming up traffic. Then the accidents happen.
You idiot, look at Red Hat. They're swimming in money made off other people's hard work.
So, why don't you go to redhat's ftp site and "rip them off" by downloading a copy?
Some of us have unrelated daytime jobs and are swimming in money. Why should I sell my hobby and place restrictions on what I think is cool?
If your business is threatened by what I do in my free time, change careers. Either that or lobby to make it illegal to do cool stuff for your neighbors and whoever for free. Think about it, would you want it to be illegal to mow your neighbor's lawn to help him out? Why should I make more cash when I already earn more than twice the average family income and I wish to help others enjoy life more at times?
Oh, I could put work under the BSD license. I could certainly be someone's unpaid employee like I'm talking about, but their modifications to my work could not ever be seen. The GPL has the potential to keep my work growing.
Airport security has always fascinated me. When I went to California, I lost my driver's license. Oh, getting back on the plane was fun. Luckly, I was not of darker skin color and stopped by the border guards. Anyway, at the airport, they let anyone with cheesy suits and slicked back hair go on by, while all those who had piercings and tattoos were frisked down and had every square inch of their bags scrutinized. That's a hint for the novice drug smugglers.
Anyway, before I lost my driver's licence (proper photo id) they "searched" my laptop computer by passing this chemically wetted cloth over it. Didn't even open the lid to see if it worked or if it was really contained nothing but bomb materials.
I feel safer driving my car. Sure, it doesn't go 560mph and takes several times as long at an average of 85mph to see the family, but if security is that dumb, perhaps the maintainance is lacking too. Statisticaly, mile per mile, its safer to fly. Its more fun too. But, I like to take ground based trips and get to see more and don't have to deal with "terrorists."
Well, when I left work, I had to throw the switch. Or else no one would go home. "I need to go to a party, so everyone get out!" Seven substations and an electric buggy to drive between them, click, click, click, click, click, click, turn off the emergency firepump, click. Have a happy new year!
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DSP's are made for number crunching and are the best for communications that require waveform processing. Compare the performance of using your main CPU versus a hardware modem. It will work, but its like a video card without the accelerator. Everything will be slow.
Those 300 interrupts you talk about are just to move memory into the buffer and hardly CPU intensive. Software modems are a different beast, where ALL off the free CPU time is spent trying to mathematically create a decent signal. Now, if we had this "software modem" flashed to the modem's DSP, or offloaded to an alternate processor off the main bus, this would be a huge win.
A winmodem is like a video card without the accelerator.
An external winmodem? The closest thing I have seen is from the Sound-HOWTO about using the sound card to impliment 9600 bps FSK methods. This method is more useful for hams, but I'd imagine you could use a modemless laptop coupled to a payphone handset in a jiffy.
There had to be, and here is Mr. T vs. The Matrix site.
The only problem I have with Gore is his going to bed with the NSA and I do remember some things relating to internet censorship. He supports higher education, which is very important.
you're neglecting a large part of what teachers do in a classroom - facilitating social interaction.
If the focus of relationships in the classroom ever disappeared to boxes on the desk, there might be an interesting struggle that might develop among our youth. Kids might be too young to express "the good old days when we got together and played games." Physical education, which may be considered as an advanced form of social interaction, in such a culture might be too intimidating and as an option.
Computers are great learning tools, but are no replacement for a good education from teachers and peers.
I have seen too much brutal competition among the CS crowd. Imagine starting now and graduating in a recession. It might be better to diversify your talents to include a stronger foundation if that field dries up. Get an electrical engineering degree. You will have many more opportunities, especially if the CS field is saturated when you need a job the most.
Start with building blocks in electronics with a BSEE, where you will build your computer, first in simple sections from latches and logic gates, to real wire wrapped monsters, complete with 8 bit bus and NTSC video. Write the software in assembly and make a crude interface to control simple devices like stepper motors making something such as an electronic bartender.
I felt it was more fun starting from scratch with a new computer and having the intimate knowledge how to make it tick.
And if they don't honor the contract, don't be passive, complain in every way, escalate the incident to the top.
I say this is that pretty soon, if you want to buy a computer at any store at the advertised price, you will have to buy it with a free "marketing research" rebate certificate with some long term strings attatched. How long will it take for that rebate check to be mailed? Not to mention basic internet service is going to be very competitive and cheap in a year. What if you buy two computers? Two internet rebates. Oh, goody!
Fight this gimmick. Its evil.
Why would the Chinese government not honor the GPL? If it kept the source code a secret, it would hinder their development just like the Windows code base is within Microsoft. To keep it a secret would cripple their development.
Cut their pipe? Who are you to censor a nation? The internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it. Technology is very diverse and IP packets can be sent in many ways and there will always be those who will connect (unless its spam, and no one lives for that.) It would take many bigots with a great many nuclear weapons to censor a large nation such as China.
the commie turds.
Why don't you start with censoring yourself and learn from it. Better yet, get an education.
No, I don't remember "Jesux". What is it? Some catholic thing?
Here is your source for the Jesux Distro. Download and enjoy!
Spare parts? I'd like to see the power supply in that thing. Ultra-life-Radiation powered super cell. The ultimate UPS. Just wear a lead suit when servicing.
DOS attacks from China? I haven't seen any connection attempts from China, except for the http logs on my box. Most of the portscans I have seen are from here in the states and have yet to see one from China.
Looks are one thing, but is there a one-button-mouse-mac-HOWTO? Its like chopping off all fingers and your opposable thumb, but one, and trying to navigate one menu that controls everything. I like how macs look, but I like my mouse buttons.
It wasn't an arbitrary moment for me. It was a great excuse to shake free bottles of cheap champagne at eachother on a wet dancefloor. That and 13 kamikazes, 6 pack of Guinness Extra Stout, and one hell of a headache the next day.
For the people who had to work at the mercy of colossally stupid PHB's who never wrote a line of code and watched to many media shows about the Y2K disaster, I have deep respect. I was one of the lucky ones. I had to show up Monday morning, "just to make sure" everything started up ok.
At work, I was reading some of the major industrial engineering catalogs and most had a section on security. Stealth clocks, pinholes, etc. We even had a hidden camera in a thermostat here last year in the receiving department. It wasn't hard to trace where that cable went too either. Needless to say, that manager isn't very popular these days. So, we could have got the FBI on his ass?
Its not just the government, its the media and anyone else that wants to ride them.
It seems like media outlets like CNN in quests of higher ratings are going to bed with these agencies, unloading us with sensationalist "news" of dubious references. I see without proper references stories describing raids of "suspects" backed up by "sources say..." "the FBI uncovered..." "authorities disclosed..." Seems like no one individual is responsible these days for anything. Its those damn three letter agencies.
The government is being taken for a ride and we are the ultimate victims. Patents. Zoning. Taxes. Those who have money will leverage the government to favor them and control the FBI, IRS, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Very few take responsibility in these super organisations anymore and promote growth like cancer.
That's right, man, you can see through everything! Up until now, I've had a well paying daytime job doing electrical work and Linux was just my hobby. But now, all this hype is making me consider running my own IPO too. No FUD at the moment, but just the facts:
Announcing LinuxTwo IPO:
We plan to sell twice as much bogus software as LinuxOne.
We use a proven S-1 form, with our name inserted over LinuxOne's.
We hire software programmer icons for free, and just like LinuxOne, to cut costs.
We do not waste gas traveling to those educational conferences, such as the Atlanta Linux Showcase and rub shoulders with the caffeinated programmers that can make keyboards smoke.
And LinuxTwo's web page is served through a dialup connection, which offers the same speed as LinuxOne's. Coincidence?
OK, I'll shut up. But my point is that I use Linux and am offended by a cheap knock off that has apparently nothing to contribute, besides being an apparent 100% fluff machine. I sure don't want bullshit to be worth $23,000,000 dollars. That's a lot of bullshit that's going to come from the sky.
I'd benefit from investments that actually have a chance of helping people who are known to put effort and acheive results. Linuxone is mighty secretive and I don't think they have anything concrete they are hiding.
The power outages seem to win...
A few weeks ago I went into work to find the local paper with a front page article stating the utility company of this small town was going to upgrade the substations. I had a spare car battery hooked to the UPS and thought it would ride through. Uh huh... looking at the logs, it looked like the battery was a half an hour shy of the four hours of no power.
Traffic slowness occurs because perope are trying to cut people off and are generall driving poorly, not because they can't drive fast enough. Haven't you ever been in your car and wished that everyone would just drive 60 together.
Sounds nice, but I have seen people cutting each other off happens at the exit and entrance ramps, not in the fast lanes. Tightly regulating the speed limit would not help those lanes that have to deal with people moving on and off the highway. There still is a problem of following distances and people slowing down to accomodate the newer traffic. I see accidents in these lanes, by slower moving cars, due to these problems.
I have seen two fatal accidents in my life. One may have been caused by the beer cans and empty cases of beer that littered the scene where the convertible ramped the ditch, ejecting the three unbelted occupants from their seats. Just because it was a red convertible, does not mean it was speeding. Scene was about 10 years ago on Noland Road in Independence, Missouri.
The second, recently, apparently was caused by someone who no longer was aware of other cars on the highway. The other cars swerved out of the way, allowing the car to continue into the guardrail, where it flipped not once, but twice before landing into the ditch. Emergency vehicles took 15 to 20 minutes to arrive. This was in Eastern Missouri last thanksgiving day.
Anyhow, speed related? No. If you have a satellite control things like following distances, etc., we might as well give up on cars and take the train. We could have technology drive our entire lives, but at what point do we want our freedom?
If we had autopilots drive our cars, how reliable would they be? Would people rely on them too much and if they only crashed twice a day, would that be an acceptable risk?
photoradar was implemented for a time and this wasnt a problem because people were actually going the speed limit for a change
hehehe... there was a demonstration by a firm who was trying to sell their photoradar technology to the Kansas City, MO police department. I think the police department did get stuck with that $150,000 setup, but its been several years ago. Anyway, there were salesmen trying to sell this product. Fancy equipment, all that jazz. So, they set up a roadside demonstration on the side of the highway with reporters and were giving a good show.
Until the demonstration started. As it was described in the Star, the traffic started acting funny, likely due to brakelights of those who had detectors. A tractor-trailer jacknifed and came close to swiping the spectators. That was the end of that.
So I thought. I remember also several years ago where they tried it on some road and tried to get people to show in court. Lots of funny cases where the person driving was not the owner, his spouse, but someone else. Who was that woman? Well the burden of proof became an invasion of privacy.
Let me tell you about the flash taking vans that take the pictures. I have seen filters you can put over your license plate and suppose any dirty looking license plate cover would munge a flash picture. Photo radar got lots of attention. I think it was turning into a game of those who had the technology and those who wanted to play with it.
I suspect that this is just the government's new attempt at reducing the number of cars on the road. Sounds like politics in action. Rather than spend more money on building the road infrastructure, they'll spend it on technology in any form. OK, so you now have cars going the "speed limit" on the highway or about 15% slower than they usually do. Now this fixed number of cars traveling to work take 15% longer to get there on the same highway. 15% more congestion, until the density reaches a critical level, where people start stopping and jamming up traffic. Then the accidents happen.
All those unused television UHF channels have great bandwidth possibilities...
For a search of Linux, as an example, see how this clean little hack works compared to this usual dejanews search.
You idiot, look at Red Hat. They're swimming in money made off other people's hard work.
So, why don't you go to redhat's ftp site and "rip them off" by downloading a copy?
Some of us have unrelated daytime jobs and are swimming in money. Why should I sell my hobby and place restrictions on what I think is cool?
If your business is threatened by what I do in my free time, change careers. Either that or lobby to make it illegal to do cool stuff for your neighbors and whoever for free. Think about it, would you want it to be illegal to mow your neighbor's lawn to help him out? Why should I make more cash when I already earn more than twice the average family income and I wish to help others enjoy life more at times?
Oh, I could put work under the BSD license. I could certainly be someone's unpaid employee like I'm talking about, but their modifications to my work could not ever be seen. The GPL has the potential to keep my work growing.
Airport security has always fascinated me. When I went to California, I lost my driver's license. Oh, getting back on the plane was fun. Luckly, I was not of darker skin color and stopped by the border guards. Anyway, at the airport, they let anyone with cheesy suits and slicked back hair go on by, while all those who had piercings and tattoos were frisked down and had every square inch of their bags scrutinized. That's a hint for the novice drug smugglers.
Anyway, before I lost my driver's licence (proper photo id) they "searched" my laptop computer by passing this chemically wetted cloth over it. Didn't even open the lid to see if it worked or if it was really contained nothing but bomb materials.
I feel safer driving my car. Sure, it doesn't go 560mph and takes several times as long at an average of 85mph to see the family, but if security is that dumb, perhaps the maintainance is lacking too. Statisticaly, mile per mile, its safer to fly. Its more fun too. But, I like to take ground based trips and get to see more and don't have to deal with "terrorists."
Well, when I left work, I had to throw the switch. Or else no one would go home. "I need to go to a party, so everyone get out!" Seven substations and an electric buggy to drive between them, click, click, click, click, click, click, turn off the emergency firepump, click. Have a happy new year!