well see I read slashdot when i bought my 80 gig drives, right about the time they started calling IBM deathstars, so i have two really nice 80 gig ibm drives that came from their OTHER plant and they're doing real nice.. FWIW my smallest HDD that works is a 3.5" 4.3GB maxtor, I always researched every HD i ever bought after losing almost 2 GB of irreplaceable data to my first ever HD failure (was a maxtor, ironically I RMAed it and got the 4.3 GB that is currently my smallest, they no longer were selling the 2 GB models etc etc free upgrade.
I also am somewhat good at using optical media for backup (used to use zip drives, then tape, now optical discs) but it didn't stop me from loosing about 120 GB* of data this year to 5 count em 5 HD failures, only 1 of them was electrocuted by me buying a cheap PSU to try to get my long not used 'buggy asus' Dual AMD MP 2000+ system to run because i figured it needed a 500 watt ATX1.4 PSU something that i ran across online last year (it shipped with a 400 watt PSU because that was the best ATX 1.4 PSU the company i bought from had, even though the damn system locked up every 45 minutes of run time, no matter the OS because of under-voltage) was actually a really nice 400 watt PSU, but 400 watts didn't cut it, for those watt hungry Athlon MP's not even with 1 hd and no optical drive, and minimal fans.
plus to complicate it 1 TB of my optical media is infected with a nasty windows rootkit. (sigh) but i found a solution to cleanse my files safely. (linux machine + 'clean' windows usb drive enclosure, sadly I'm missing part 3 a GOOD (google mail good) windows rootkit scanner for Linux) no, the stupid scanner people recommend for cleaning email sucks and can't detect the rootkit. i've yet to find a windows solution that can detect it, so far only Diff can tell between a system that is infected by exposure and one that isn't. based on files that update for no reason when optical media is inserted) detecting the files it modifies != detecting the rootkit. all i know is gmail detects it and no virus/rootkit scanner i've tried has. and i don't have time to send 1 TB of data through gmail not even on cable.
*= not total capacity total capacity was 210 GB or so, but i only lost around 120 GB (max) since i was pulling one drive, 2 drives test drives in test setups (no data loss) 1 was electrocuted in my asus POS workstation from hell no loss and 1 was already backed up and formatted when it started corrupting data on a test system during configuration no loss) i'm not sure what was on the 120 GB i lost, so i might have had most of it backed up with the exception of about 20-30 GB(was backing up those files when it failed ahh sigh for not backing up my old server drives before they got 8+ years old)
actually the wiki says 22 MHZ and there are 13 channels with 2mhz apart from each other and many devices can produce interference.. (microwaves most notably, other 2.4 ghz stuff like phones etc s well)
so they can't get the full 54 mbits because of interference.
so if they were using the same technology and had less interference they would get roughly 150 mbit/second a far cry from the 500 mbit suggested by vague non specific wiki's on broadcast technologies.
I'd think the 700-800 mhz bandwidth is significantly clearer than the widely used 2.4 ghz it was originally slotted as channels 52-69 UHF
since there are no wireless b/g/a/n devices, no wireless(handset not cell) phones, no microwaves...
Well, going back to square 1, with the video stream size, I said 24 gigabytes for good transcoded 1080p streams of 110 minutes, that suggests the 3mhz digital TV signal (1080i ) is squeezing 14.54 megabits/second or
106 megabits per 22 mhz of bandwidth This is assuming that digital TV went from analog tv's 3.5 mhz per channel to an assumed 3 mhz per channel. the wiki CLEARLY states it's less.. the only other option is that they're using mpeg-4 technology.
which would drop the file size roughly in half, to tada 53 mbit/second per 22 mhz of bandwidth.
I'd say this means digital TV is all using mpeg-4 encoding. either that or TV channels are so clear due to FCC regs that they get double the bandwidth of a polluted 2.4 ghz frequency
blah and the wireless in in bytes, not bits, so now i'm off on 2 posts, and don't know the exact factor to which i screwed the pooch on this one... 494 mbit/second for the total 5 blocks, but part of it is for government use.. well, 66% of an OC-12 is still not bad...
whoops math error. big one gah, MB/second NOT gigabit/second off by a factor of 1000 ouch, only in comparing wireless internet to OC-carriers, figured it out while reworking my sig.
math 8 GB DVD ~= 110 minutes (at least that's the number i used) * 6 = 1080P but this doesn't take into account the larger spectrum block C has over 2 DTV signals broadcasting 1080i but i was very generous on size per minute to compensate (guesstimating) also i didn't differentiate between 2MHz difference in bandwidth (it's around 20%) so 20% more would mean that the larger bandwidth winner got 20% more bandwidth, and in general it means that since 17 UHF channels were auctioned off in 5 blocks, there was actually 17/2 of my gustimate Total bandwidth in any market, or by my gustimate a total theoretical bandwidth of 61,818,179.5 bytes per Second in any market where all 5 blocks are saturated, about 20% less than 2 OC-768 lines. (since there aren't any OC 1536 lines in operation yet)
Yes all 5 blocks provide more wireless bandwidth (in theory) than the current fastest single optical carrier in practice it will produce much less, but i have a feeling that hooking a 250GB mp3-player to a 4g phone might be Slightly required to download your latest film over bittorrent
Really UHF TV signal to be used for wireless... and frankly one got a little less than 3 UHF channels worth of spectrum, and the other got a little more than 2 channels worth of spectrum.
AT&T got one chunk, and verizon got another chunk, (there was 2MHZ of spectrum difference not sure who got the smaller slice) but this will be used for digital data transfer in 4G phones... each full channel of spectrum can broadcast more than a full channel of 1080i Possibly 1080P but wiki didn't say how many less HZ digital broadcast has over analog UHF channels. but at any rate, they will have the spectrum (in total) to theoretically do full 1080P since wiki states that 1080P requries double the bandwidth of existing DTV spectrum, but i doubt DTV supports MPEG-4 compression either... (wiki mentions off hand MPEG-2 but that's what DVDs have, etc and even that isn't anywhere specifically specified as a standard of DTV broadcast capabilities)
Full 1080P signal in mpeg-2 is available on Blu-Ray and anydvd broke BD+ but i still don't know how big a blu-ray movie is (blu-ray has 25-50 gigs but i never ripped a blu-ray yet so i have no idea how much of that space they really use)
a pure mathematical formula says that 1080P should be 6 times as large as a DVD, but MPEG compression can work better on a larger stream... but then again I've seen transcoders than can convert a long long movie from DVD-9 to dvd-5 without making a huge impact on quality... (even though the stream is reduced to 50% or below of its original size... ahhh well since most DVDs are under 8 GB that would mean mathematically that BD-roms would need 48GB, but transcoded would still look good at 24GB...
so where was I ah yes 7,272,727 Bytes per second. roughly speaking in wireless internet capacity if the full spectrum is saturated. that's really not too bad, they get 7 megabits of bandwidth for internet in each market... and that's just Each of the 2 C-block winners. I can imagine in a crowded city like new york all 5 blocks getting saturated, simply because the cost of using wireless internet is so cheap compared to wiring the whole city with fiber optics.
MMM bandwidth depends on how wireless carriers price it, $50 a month for about what cable internet already provides would be quite tasty...
and they plan to roll out early 4G phones and towers before 4G standards are done and who knows what kind of problems that will expose in the new standards and technology.
no they're too busy digging in their D&D manuals making character sheets as per tacos commands on the last article.
to stay on topic: the openness Helps verizon, IMO that means people can make laptop wireless devices and don't have to be in lockstep with what verizon wants wants such devices to be etc... at the end of the day that means in markets where verizon is a small fish, the 'big fish' can set up a deal with verizon for all it's customers, can still use their own phones laptop wireless/home wireless install devices, but still offer high speed internet via collective bargaining with verizon...
plus people can use google's andraoid on the network if they have a verizon contract
Like they say, you don't HAVE to be crazy, but it HELPS. Especially if your life ambition is to play video games for FUN not necessarily to win, mind you but for fun. (mind you the 6 months in mental hospitals + 6 months in group homes is NOT FUN a 5 digit back pay check from social security, is something any geek who doesn't have a HDTV or a playstation3 yet dreams of. (plus my best PC only has 1 gig of ram and 300 GB of HD storage and a 3000+ (2000 mhz) processor)
We're dreaming quadcore with 4 gigs of ram and 3 TB of raid. and at least 128 pixel pipelines/shaders, haven't ruled out SLI for 256 pixel pipelines/shaders.. haven't ruled out BD-recordable yet either. especially in light of easter's BD+ cracked news from our friends at slysoft, Ahh a computer that might actually run vista slightly slower than it runs XP.
although i understand that cracked BD+ discs non-encrypted style require a laptop to watch them in the car, so that hasn't been ruled out either. although I'm not 100% crazy, so i won't get wireless N technology, i mean the Standard isn't even out yet, and i recall how well that worked for 56k modem users. I'm actually mostly paranoid so I'm thinking of using one of my old PCs as a smoothwall 3.0 before the wireless router, and using the best security on that wireless router.
(mainly i need wireless for my nintendo-DS, small apartment, where they base the rent on my Current disability check, so now it's free, i think it'll be 1/3rd my check, at most, maybe less)
Did I small town, awesome Cable internet?
no fiber to the home, but with me being the only guy who's even heard of bittorrent here, welll....
Japan is doing well because they are the primary instigators of all the cheap tech coming from most of Asia, the middle east is doing terrible because the rich don't give a damn about the poor there(if they did they became a terrorist), and the rest of the world doesn't care as long as wealthy elite of the middle east keep investing in Asia, Europe and America with their fat wallets. (and you wonder why the terrorists scream die infidel American scum)
where was i Oh yes, Oh Canada, the number one oil exporter to the united states, not to mention the favorite loophole in importing cheap Chinese gear into the us while circumventing US customs. especially if it's just bundles and bundles of basic parts(or food ingredients, especially substandard feed and animal food) to be assembled they import it into Canada change the cartons that hold it and ship it into the US...
oh yeah, Plus there are all these Americans buying cheap Canadian drugs, because they'd get screwed based on the market value in the US... cant remember if that one got shut down so someone correct me if that's a closed loophole, last I remember was reading about getting cheaper meds from Canada being advocated in the letter section of the AARP magazine.
oh yeah and what's with American kids who expect a hand out, because they keep getting fired from McDonalds even though they dropped out of college... you know the ones whining to their folks to let them live rent free, and oh yeah pay for that monthly WOW subscription, while they're at it.
you jest, but seriously Even In a Recession People Need To Eat. why do you think most of the small independent millionaire/billionaires founded their own regional food chain. consider, for instance, Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Do you know ANY Other Way for a HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT to become a billionaire? do you really? really? I'd like to know, because I have one year of college, and I'd like to be e billionaire too...
this reminds me of google product search. for a while i was bothering to report pirate software sites on google product search to suitable websites where you can report software piracy... but it was getting really hilarious after a few attempts, the EXACT product search i was doing to find the pirates was now turning up ad-sense ads for Pirate software sites!! LOL because i had managed to get enough pirate software removed from product search, they were now using Adsense to get their products out to the those thinking they 'were getting a bargain' buying say photoshop or windows xp for less than $50...
I stopped doing it at that point, because it was a severe waste of my time. as the saying goes 'a fool and their money are soon parted' a lot of online scams ARE very easy to spot, i don't use auction sites, but then again most of what i would buy would cost more on an auction site anyways.
A lot of online crime doesn't get reported as online crime. say for instance, most types of identity theft, in general they're gaining the information online, but doing the crimes offline, so they don't get reported as internet crime.
so there is a huge skew between the amount of money stolen online, vs the amount on 'online crime' reported. I've heard (on TV shows) of figures as high as $6 billion a year globally for credit card/bank fraud etc that is done online, but because the victims don't go to a website to enter that information it isn't counted as 'online' crime even though the credit card data was transfered over the internet via compromised computers, and the stuff purchased with those credit cards was done online as well, but still, it's not called online crime because the person finds out when they try to get a new credit card and are denied... they find out off-line so it's considered an off-line crime even though the bad guys could do nothing without computers to do their dirty deeds.
So how long until you find malware on your systems;)
2 weeks later? seriously even SP3 doesn't fix all the security holes in windows XP. there is this annoying port 139 bug that Microsoft has been trying to patch for ages, every time they release a patch hackers come out and say' "it's still working" (meaning some of the time, where before it used to work all of the time) they've never fixed it and the only protection is a hardware firewall to block all port 139 requests. it's such a common issue that linksys routers have been shipping with port 139 automatically blocked for a couple years now. pathetic.
actually, some old windows games are already broken by 64-bit processors. I should know, i built an XP machine around a 64-bit AMD processor, and roughly 50% of my old games no longer run, even though XP installed on an old 32-bit athlon run just fine.
people might blame vista, but in reality it's the 64-bit processors of today that are already breaking backwards compatibility.
NT 4.0 had too large of a hardware footprint, when it was developed, so they created 'windows 95' in about a year, as a complete rush job to keep consumers happy (nt was supposed to take the place of dos in 1994)
windows 95 was horribly broken, so god awful that I started using FreeBSD because of windows 95... windows 98 was much more stable, but again that came out because windows NT still took too powerful of hardware, and nobody was ready for it to replace 98 until after year 2000 when XP was finally ready for prime time.
I read a really nice article about the history of Dos and windows and journaled about it here. would have been nice if they'd brought up how direct3d was MS's response to opengl or how they stole office from apple's own in house office suite.. but it only covers DOS and Windows and xp/nt etc. http://slashdot.org/~kesuki/journal/199834
interesting you say 'ready for beta testing by 2010' when the reactos site itself claims version '0.5 beta' will be out in 2008...
i would think that if they've got a beta application by 2008 that is feature complete, and now only needs bug fixing, that then 2008 not 2010 would be the year to start trying reactos out on a test system.
From what i understand he took working XP drivers, tried them on vista, maybe did a little hex editing when they crashed, figured out ways to get them working without crashing, without needing to compile any code, but it took him months of formatting and reinstalling vista to get all the drivers working.
BTW with the exception of creative reinstating the forum links, all of this information was in the first article... about how he got mad at creative and did stuff to really piss them off, and even how he decided to remove the offending software, and keep modding just the 'approved' mods.
But yeah, seriously, if he was able to make working vista drivers in a few months when their own guys couldn't manage it,(and without having access to the source code either) they really should have offered him a job.
getting a hold of the rights holder, arranging a meeting and discussing license fees is a long arduous process. since (usually) the right holder is a major company... it's so much faster to just hire someone to make new intro themes. that's why i said it was unlikely the contacted the right holders, since they knew their price point for the rights was probably below 10 cents a disc and they knew the right holder would want 50 cents a disc or more.
Yes, ice is free in parts of America, for up to 6 months a year, and prior to electrification, there was a healthy industry made up of ice cutters, ice-warehouses, and ice distribution networks.
The thing is even though the Ice was free, nothing else in the network was. So electricity which can magically move energy thousands of miles from where it was produced, over relatively cheap copper(once upon a time) or aluminum lines, had a virtually free distribution network that no ice shipping company could match, and there now is not one ice distribution company that based it's product on free ice, they're all basing it on electrically made ice, because those damn electric utility companies wouldn't charge $20 a kilowatt hour for something that only cost them 5 cents a kilowatt hour to produce, ship and sell. No they sold it for $0.08 cents to $0.22 cents A price that made those $200 electric ice making machines so damn affordable. compared to using mules and men to cut and haul and store 'free as in god' ice. damn ice pirates. damn them all to hell.
You still get better photo processing at Wal-mart for digital photos than you could ever get from a $99 printer, even if if it can print direct from memory card and doesn't need a $300-$1000 PC to connect to. Part of Kodak's strategy was to corner the market on printing kiosks, etc through patents etc.
and with the ridiculous price and only 40% filled ink-cartridges etc, it's probably cheaper at Wal-mart too.
Personally, I haven't owned a printer in 7 years, the last thing i printed out at home was an income tax return. now you can send documents in online, you can do the same for digital photos, etc, and pick them up at your convenience.. there really is no need to buy a printer if you live in a town above 20,000 population that has a wal-mart and/or an office store.
unless you're doing something illegal, like downloading kiddy porn, then you probably want to buy a nice expensive photo quality printer, or maybe even a color laser printer, if you think you need to print out reams of photos for your local 'kiddy porn ring'
"Such printers already exist, and they cannot - and are not - used to print currency."
It's because they're designed to not print money correctly. There was a time when a $2000 color copier could make 100% perfect copies of say $20 dollar bills, then they introduced new features into money, to make it harder, the secret service also pushed printer companies very hard to make printers print greens off shade, to make counter fitting not work properly. I think now, that current expensive copiers and printers have a microchip that if it detects money shaped objects, being printed or copied that it instantly shuts down the print/copy operation..
The Secret Service tend to be very persuasive about getting things done their way. You Do Not Want to be waking up knowing your company sells a product that can make 100% perfect copies of twenty dollar bills, or else your kids might wind up as dead as JFK minus the publicity, but complete with the crazed gunman theory to take the fall, a gunman who conveniently dies in being apprehended, or while in police custody like Lee Harvy Oswald did.
"Sometimes I wonder how another industry would react if a magical technology dropped in their lap that made duplicating their product instantaneous and nearly free (people already pay their ISPs) to nearly instantly deliver it to customers. What would an automaker think of something like that?"
Well, based on how the automotive industry has basically avoided biofuels in any country that doesn't mandate it on their citizens.. I'd say they'd react the exact same way.
If automakers had pushed farmers to make cheap high sugar crops to produce cheap ethanol (examples include: sugar cane, sugar refinery slug, sugar beets... corn is perhaps the worst crop to use, but the corn industry pushed for corn ethanol in gas in corn country and they got what they wanted.) or had pushed for cheap biodiesel type crops (I'm less sure of which crops are great for biodiesel so w/e) we might have $2 a gallon ethanol fuel everywhere, remember, Brazil which mandated the switch to ethanol, sells ethanol around $1 a gallon, but they use sugar cane.
but no, the price of oil is always fluctuating, and they weren't sure that they could manage to compete with gasoline at $2/gallon biofuels , because OPEC facing the prospect of losing America would artificially drop the price of gas to $1 a gallon Just to sell their oil over biofuels.
Bush is tied to Big Oil in many ways and I'm certain his policy has helped contribute to America's $4 a gallon diesel prices (that's current price with only about $.50 in taxes on it)
The oil companies are feeling great right now, but even though there are plenty of biodiesel and bio ethanol fuels that cost Less than $3-4 a gallon, because automakers are afraid of the oil cartel they don't even make flex fuel a standard feature on cars (corn ethanol costs about $3.50 a gallon, mostly because you need as much natural gas(controlled by oil production companies) as you need corn... more viable sources of biomass and biodiesel are Cheaper than petroleum at current market prices, but they're still running scared, because opec can alway artificially deflate the cost of oil, if biodiesel or bioethanol take root in a country the size of America...
OPEC is not worried in the least about Canada's 'expensive' tarsand production, even though it means America buys less from middle-eastern countries. In part because Russia has become wealthier, and China's populous has become wealthier (and more likely to own gas powered vehicles) plus India has become a favorite country for American companies to outsource jobs too, which is increasing the amount of gasoline burned in India as well.
So no if nanotech/biotech could turn soil into free cars, with a simple seed that cost $1 to manufacture and it grew in 2-3 months (and grew above ground too) they would likely kill the inventor, debunk his invention as fake, or bad science and destroy all evidence of his invention.
It would probably take them a week after a popular blog talked about the technology to go about killing the researcher. They would be Just as bad or worse than the music industry.
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well see I read slashdot when i bought my 80 gig drives, right about the time they started calling IBM deathstars, so i have two really nice 80 gig ibm drives that came from their OTHER plant and they're doing real nice.. FWIW my smallest HDD that works is a 3.5" 4.3GB maxtor, I always researched every HD i ever bought after losing almost 2 GB of irreplaceable data to my first ever HD failure (was a maxtor, ironically I RMAed it and got the 4.3 GB that is currently my smallest, they no longer were selling the 2 GB models etc etc free upgrade.
I also am somewhat good at using optical media for backup (used to use zip drives, then tape, now optical discs) but it didn't stop me from loosing about 120 GB* of data this year to 5 count em 5 HD failures, only 1 of them was electrocuted by me buying a cheap PSU to try to get my long not used 'buggy asus' Dual AMD MP 2000+ system to run because i figured it needed a 500 watt ATX1.4 PSU something that i ran across online last year (it shipped with a 400 watt PSU because that was the best ATX 1.4 PSU the company i bought from had, even though the damn system locked up every 45 minutes of run time, no matter the OS because of under-voltage) was actually a really nice 400 watt PSU, but 400 watts didn't cut it, for those watt hungry Athlon MP's not even with 1 hd and no optical drive, and minimal fans.
plus to complicate it 1 TB of my optical media is infected with a nasty windows rootkit. (sigh) but i found a solution to cleanse my files safely. (linux machine + 'clean' windows usb drive enclosure, sadly I'm missing part 3 a GOOD (google mail good) windows rootkit scanner for Linux) no, the stupid scanner people recommend for cleaning email sucks and can't detect the rootkit. i've yet to find a windows solution that can detect it, so far only Diff can tell between a system that is infected by exposure and one that isn't. based on files that update for no reason when optical media is inserted) detecting the files it modifies != detecting the rootkit. all i know is gmail detects it and no virus/rootkit scanner i've tried has. and i don't have time to send 1 TB of data through gmail not even on cable.
*= not total capacity total capacity was 210 GB or so, but i only lost around 120 GB (max) since i was pulling one drive, 2 drives test drives in test setups (no data loss) 1 was electrocuted in my asus POS workstation from hell no loss and 1 was already backed up and formatted when it started corrupting data on a test system during configuration no loss) i'm not sure what was on the 120 GB i lost, so i might have had most of it backed up with the exception of about 20-30 GB(was backing up those files when it failed ahh sigh for not backing up my old server drives before they got 8+ years old)
And i had 5 fail This year, welcome, the the law of averages. note i own about 15 hard drives including the 5 that failed.
actually the wiki says 22 MHZ and there are 13 channels with 2mhz apart from each other and many devices can produce interference.. (microwaves most notably, other 2.4 ghz stuff like phones etc s well)
/second or
so they can't get the full 54 mbits because of interference.
so if they were using the same technology and had less interference they would get roughly 150 mbit/second a far cry from the 500 mbit suggested by vague non specific wiki's on broadcast technologies.
I'd think the 700-800 mhz bandwidth is significantly clearer than the widely used 2.4 ghz
it was originally slotted as channels 52-69 UHF
since there are no wireless b/g/a/n devices, no wireless(handset not cell) phones, no microwaves...
Well, going back to square 1, with the video stream size, I said 24 gigabytes for good transcoded 1080p streams of 110 minutes, that suggests the 3mhz digital TV signal (1080i ) is squeezing 14.54 megabits
106 megabits per 22 mhz of bandwidth This is assuming that digital TV went from analog tv's 3.5 mhz per channel to an assumed 3 mhz per channel. the wiki CLEARLY states it's less.. the only other option is that they're using mpeg-4 technology.
which would drop the file size roughly in half, to tada 53 mbit/second per 22 mhz of bandwidth.
I'd say this means digital TV is all using mpeg-4 encoding. either that or TV channels are so clear due to FCC regs that they get double the bandwidth of a polluted 2.4 ghz frequency
blah and the wireless in in bytes, not bits, so now i'm off on 2 posts, and don't know the exact factor to which i screwed the pooch on this one... 494 mbit/second for the total 5 blocks, but part of it is for government use.. well, 66% of an OC-12 is still not bad...
whoops math error. big one gah, MB/second NOT gigabit/second off by a factor of 1000 ouch, only in comparing wireless internet to OC-carriers, figured it out while reworking my sig.
math 8 GB DVD ~= 110 minutes (at least that's the number i used) * 6 = 1080P but this doesn't take into account the larger spectrum block C has over 2 DTV signals broadcasting 1080i but i was very generous on size per minute to compensate (guesstimating) also i didn't differentiate between 2MHz difference in bandwidth (it's around 20%) so 20% more would mean that the larger bandwidth winner got 20% more bandwidth, and in general it means that since 17 UHF channels were auctioned off in 5 blocks, there was actually 17/2 of my gustimate Total bandwidth in any market, or by my gustimate a total theoretical bandwidth of 61,818,179.5 bytes per Second in any market where all 5 blocks are saturated, about 20% less than 2 OC-768 lines. (since there aren't any OC 1536 lines in operation yet)
Yes all 5 blocks provide more wireless bandwidth (in theory) than the current fastest single optical carrier in practice it will produce much less, but i have a feeling that hooking a 250GB mp3-player to a 4g phone might be Slightly required to download your latest film over bittorrent
Really UHF TV signal to be used for wireless... and frankly one got a little less than 3 UHF channels worth of spectrum, and the other got a little more than 2 channels worth of spectrum.
AT&T got one chunk, and verizon got another chunk, (there was 2MHZ of spectrum difference not sure who got the smaller slice) but this will be used for digital data transfer in 4G phones... each full channel of spectrum can broadcast more than a full channel of 1080i Possibly 1080P but wiki didn't say how many less HZ digital broadcast has over analog UHF channels. but at any rate, they will have the spectrum (in total) to theoretically do full 1080P since wiki states that 1080P requries double the bandwidth of existing DTV spectrum, but i doubt DTV supports MPEG-4 compression either... (wiki mentions off hand MPEG-2 but that's what DVDs have, etc and even that isn't anywhere specifically specified as a standard of DTV broadcast capabilities)
Full 1080P signal in mpeg-2 is available on Blu-Ray and anydvd broke BD+ but i still don't know how big a blu-ray movie is (blu-ray has 25-50 gigs but i never ripped a blu-ray yet so i have no idea how much of that space they really use)
a pure mathematical formula says that 1080P should be 6 times as large as a DVD, but MPEG compression can work better on a larger stream... but then again I've seen transcoders than can convert a long long movie from DVD-9 to dvd-5 without making a huge impact on quality... (even though the stream is reduced to 50% or below of its original size... ahhh well since most DVDs are under 8 GB that would mean mathematically that BD-roms would need 48GB, but transcoded would still look good at 24GB...
so where was I ah yes 7,272,727 Bytes per second. roughly speaking in wireless internet capacity if the full spectrum is saturated. that's really not too bad, they get 7 megabits of bandwidth for internet in each market... and that's just Each of the 2 C-block winners. I can imagine in a crowded city like new york all 5 blocks getting saturated, simply because the cost of using wireless internet is so cheap compared to wiring the whole city with fiber optics.
MMM bandwidth depends on how wireless carriers price it, $50 a month for about what cable internet already provides would be quite tasty...
AT&T got it's C-block spectrum in a Buyout not at auction. At auction they won B-block spectrum...
http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/3G/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207001878
and they plan to roll out early 4G phones and towers before 4G standards are done and who knows what kind of problems that will expose in the new standards and technology.
no they're too busy digging in their D&D manuals making character sheets as per tacos commands on the last article.
to stay on topic: the openness Helps verizon, IMO that means people can make laptop wireless devices and don't have to be in lockstep with what verizon wants wants such devices to be etc... at the end of the day that means in markets where verizon is a small fish, the 'big fish' can set up a deal with verizon for all it's customers, can still use their own phones laptop wireless/home wireless install devices, but still offer high speed internet via collective bargaining with verizon...
plus people can use google's andraoid on the network if they have a verizon contract
Like they say, you don't HAVE to be crazy, but it HELPS. Especially if your life ambition is to play video games for FUN not necessarily to win, mind you but for fun. (mind you the 6 months in mental hospitals + 6 months in group homes is NOT FUN a 5 digit back pay check from social security, is something any geek who doesn't have a HDTV or a playstation3 yet dreams of. (plus my best PC only has 1 gig of ram and 300 GB of HD storage and a 3000+ (2000 mhz) processor)
We're dreaming quadcore with 4 gigs of ram and 3 TB of raid. and at least 128 pixel pipelines/shaders, haven't ruled out SLI for 256 pixel pipelines/shaders.. haven't ruled out BD-recordable yet either. especially in light of easter's BD+ cracked news from our friends at slysoft, Ahh a computer that might actually run vista slightly slower than it runs XP.
although i understand that cracked BD+ discs non-encrypted style require a laptop to watch them in the car, so that hasn't been ruled out either. although I'm not 100% crazy, so i won't get wireless N technology, i mean the Standard isn't even out yet, and i recall how well that worked for 56k modem users. I'm actually mostly paranoid so I'm thinking of using one of my old PCs as a smoothwall 3.0 before the wireless router, and using the best security on that wireless router.
(mainly i need wireless for my nintendo-DS, small apartment, where they base the rent on my Current disability check, so now it's free, i think it'll be 1/3rd my check, at most, maybe less)
Did I small town, awesome Cable internet?
no fiber to the home, but with me being the only guy who's even heard of bittorrent here, welll....
I'll take a nice decent cable internet any day.
Personally I blame Ditech.com
you know the ad, 'no reams of paperwork to sign'
yeah yeah, that one... who do you think SHAFTED people the most with insane loans they could never repay while working full-time as mcdonalds.
Japan is doing well because they are the primary instigators of all the cheap tech coming from most of Asia, the middle east is doing terrible because the rich don't give a damn about the poor there(if they did they became a terrorist), and the rest of the world doesn't care as long as wealthy elite of the middle east keep investing in Asia, Europe and America with their fat wallets. (and you wonder why the terrorists scream die infidel American scum)
where was i Oh yes, Oh Canada, the number one oil exporter to the united states, not to mention the favorite loophole in importing cheap Chinese gear into the us while circumventing US customs. especially if it's just bundles and bundles of basic parts(or food ingredients, especially substandard feed and animal food) to be assembled they import it into Canada change the cartons that hold it and ship it into the US...
oh yeah, Plus there are all these Americans buying cheap Canadian drugs, because they'd get screwed based on the market value in the US... cant remember if that one got shut down so someone correct me if that's a closed loophole, last I remember was reading about getting cheaper meds from Canada being advocated in the letter section of the AARP magazine.
oh yeah and what's with American kids who expect a hand out, because they keep getting fired from McDonalds even though they dropped out of college... you know the ones whining to their folks to let them live rent free, and oh yeah pay for that monthly WOW subscription, while they're at it.
you jest, but seriously Even In a Recession People Need To Eat. why do you think most of the small independent millionaire/billionaires founded their own regional food chain. consider, for instance, Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Do you know ANY Other Way for a HIGH SCHOOL DROP OUT to become a billionaire? do you really? really? I'd like to know, because I have one year of college, and I'd like to be e billionaire too...
this reminds me of google product search. for a while i was bothering to report pirate software sites on google product search to suitable websites where you can report software piracy... but it was getting really hilarious after a few attempts, the EXACT product search i was doing to find the pirates was now turning up ad-sense ads for Pirate software sites!! LOL because i had managed to get enough pirate software removed from product search, they were now using Adsense to get their products out to the those thinking they 'were getting a bargain' buying say photoshop or windows xp for less than $50...
I stopped doing it at that point, because it was a severe waste of my time. as the saying goes 'a fool and their money are soon parted' a lot of online scams ARE very easy to spot, i don't use auction sites, but then again most of what i would buy would cost more on an auction site anyways.
A lot of online crime doesn't get reported as online crime. say for instance, most types of identity theft, in general they're gaining the information online, but doing the crimes offline, so they don't get reported as internet crime.
so there is a huge skew between the amount of money stolen online, vs the amount on 'online crime' reported. I've heard (on TV shows) of figures as high as $6 billion a year globally for credit card/bank fraud etc that is done online, but because the victims don't go to a website to enter that information it isn't counted as 'online' crime even though the credit card data was transfered over the internet via compromised computers, and the stuff purchased with those credit cards was done online as well, but still, it's not called online crime because the person finds out when they try to get a new credit card and are denied... they find out off-line so it's considered an off-line crime even though the bad guys could do nothing without computers to do their dirty deeds.
"We adopted XP SP2 last year"
;)
So how long until you find malware on your systems
2 weeks later? seriously even SP3 doesn't fix all the security holes in windows XP. there is this annoying port 139 bug that Microsoft has been trying to patch for ages, every time they release a patch hackers come out and say' "it's still working" (meaning some of the time, where before it used to work all of the time) they've never fixed it and the only protection is a hardware firewall to block all port 139 requests. it's such a common issue that linksys routers have been shipping with port 139 automatically blocked for a couple years now. pathetic.
actually, some old windows games are already broken by 64-bit processors. I should know, i built an XP machine around a 64-bit AMD processor, and roughly 50% of my old games no longer run, even though XP installed on an old 32-bit athlon run just fine.
people might blame vista, but in reality it's the 64-bit processors of today that are already breaking backwards compatibility.
NT 4.0 had too large of a hardware footprint, when it was developed, so they created 'windows 95' in about a year, as a complete rush job to keep consumers happy (nt was supposed to take the place of dos in 1994)
windows 95 was horribly broken, so god awful that I started using FreeBSD because of windows 95... windows 98 was much more stable, but again that came out because windows NT still took too powerful of hardware, and nobody was ready for it to replace 98 until after year 2000 when XP was finally ready for prime time.
I read a really nice article about the history of Dos and windows and journaled about it here. would have been nice if they'd brought up how direct3d was MS's response to opengl or how they stole office from apple's own in house office suite.. but it only covers DOS and Windows and xp/nt etc.
http://slashdot.org/~kesuki/journal/199834
interesting you say 'ready for beta testing by 2010' when the reactos site itself claims version '0.5 beta' will be out in 2008...
i would think that if they've got a beta application by 2008 that is feature complete, and now only needs bug fixing, that then 2008 not 2010 would be the year to start trying reactos out on a test system.
From what i understand he took working XP drivers, tried them on vista, maybe did a little hex editing when they crashed, figured out ways to get them working without crashing, without needing to compile any code, but it took him months of formatting and reinstalling vista to get all the drivers working.
BTW with the exception of creative reinstating the forum links, all of this information was in the first article... about how he got mad at creative and did stuff to really piss them off, and even how he decided to remove the offending software, and keep modding just the 'approved' mods.
But yeah, seriously, if he was able to make working vista drivers in a few months when their own guys couldn't manage it,(and without having access to the source code either) they really should have offered him a job.
getting a hold of the rights holder, arranging a meeting and discussing license fees is a long arduous process. since (usually) the right holder is a major company... it's so much faster to just hire someone to make new intro themes. that's why i said it was unlikely the contacted the right holders, since they knew their price point for the rights was probably below 10 cents a disc and they knew the right holder would want 50 cents a disc or more.
Yes, ice is free in parts of America, for up to 6 months a year, and prior to electrification, there was a healthy industry made up of ice cutters, ice-warehouses, and ice distribution networks.
The thing is even though the Ice was free, nothing else in the network was. So electricity which can magically move energy thousands of miles from where it was produced, over relatively cheap copper(once upon a time) or aluminum lines, had a virtually free distribution network that no ice shipping company could match, and there now is not one ice distribution company that based it's product on free ice, they're all basing it on electrically made ice, because those damn electric utility companies wouldn't charge $20 a kilowatt hour for something that only cost them 5 cents a kilowatt hour to produce, ship and sell. No they sold it for $0.08 cents to $0.22 cents A price that made those $200 electric ice making machines so damn affordable. compared to using mules and men to cut and haul and store 'free as in god' ice. damn ice pirates. damn them all to hell.
s/ice pirates/digital pirates
You still get better photo processing at Wal-mart for digital photos than you could ever get from a $99 printer, even if if it can print direct from memory card and doesn't need a $300-$1000 PC to connect to. Part of Kodak's strategy was to corner the market on printing kiosks, etc through patents etc.
.. there really is no need to buy a printer if you live in a town above 20,000 population that has a wal-mart and/or an office store.
and with the ridiculous price and only 40% filled ink-cartridges etc, it's probably cheaper at Wal-mart too.
Personally, I haven't owned a printer in 7 years, the last thing i printed out at home was an income tax return. now you can send documents in online, you can do the same for digital photos, etc, and pick them up at your convenience
unless you're doing something illegal, like downloading kiddy porn, then you probably want to buy a nice expensive photo quality printer, or maybe even a color laser printer, if you think you need to print out reams of photos for your local 'kiddy porn ring'
"Such printers already exist, and they cannot - and are not - used to print currency."
It's because they're designed to not print money correctly. There was a time when a $2000 color copier could make 100% perfect copies of say $20 dollar bills, then they introduced new features into money, to make it harder, the secret service also pushed printer companies very hard to make printers print greens off shade, to make counter fitting not work properly. I think now, that current expensive copiers and printers have a microchip that if it detects money shaped objects, being printed or copied that it instantly shuts down the print/copy operation..
The Secret Service tend to be very persuasive about getting things done their way. You Do Not Want to be waking up knowing your company sells a product that can make 100% perfect copies of twenty dollar bills, or else your kids might wind up as dead as JFK minus the publicity, but complete with the crazed gunman theory to take the fall, a gunman who conveniently dies in being apprehended, or while in police custody like Lee Harvy Oswald did.
"Sometimes I wonder how another industry would react if a magical technology dropped in their lap that made duplicating their product instantaneous and nearly free (people already pay their ISPs) to nearly instantly deliver it to customers. What would an automaker think of something like that?"
Well, based on how the automotive industry has basically avoided biofuels in any country that doesn't mandate it on their citizens.. I'd say they'd react the exact same way.
If automakers had pushed farmers to make cheap high sugar crops to produce cheap ethanol (examples include: sugar cane, sugar refinery slug, sugar beets... corn is perhaps the worst crop to use, but the corn industry pushed for corn ethanol in gas in corn country and they got what they wanted.) or had pushed for cheap biodiesel type crops (I'm less sure of which crops are great for biodiesel so w/e) we might have $2 a gallon ethanol fuel everywhere, remember, Brazil which mandated the switch to ethanol, sells ethanol around $1 a gallon, but they use sugar cane.
but no, the price of oil is always fluctuating, and they weren't sure that they could manage to compete with gasoline at $2/gallon biofuels , because OPEC facing the prospect of losing America would artificially drop the price of gas to $1 a gallon Just to sell their oil over biofuels.
Bush is tied to Big Oil in many ways and I'm certain his policy has helped contribute to America's $4 a gallon diesel prices (that's current price with only about $.50 in taxes on it)
The oil companies are feeling great right now, but even though there are plenty of biodiesel and bio ethanol fuels that cost Less than $3-4 a gallon, because automakers are afraid of the oil cartel they don't even make flex fuel a standard feature on cars (corn ethanol costs about $3.50 a gallon, mostly because you need as much natural gas(controlled by oil production companies) as you need corn... more viable sources of biomass and biodiesel are Cheaper than petroleum at current market prices, but they're still running scared, because opec can alway artificially deflate the cost of oil, if biodiesel or bioethanol take root in a country the size of America...
OPEC is not worried in the least about Canada's 'expensive' tarsand production, even though it means America buys less from middle-eastern countries. In part because Russia has become wealthier, and China's populous has become wealthier (and more likely to own gas powered vehicles) plus India has become a favorite country for American companies to outsource jobs too, which is increasing the amount of gasoline burned in India as well.
So no if nanotech/biotech could turn soil into free cars, with a simple seed that cost $1 to manufacture and it grew in 2-3 months (and grew above ground too) they would likely kill the inventor, debunk his invention as fake, or bad science and destroy all evidence of his invention.
It would probably take them a week after a popular blog talked about the technology to go about killing the researcher. They would be Just as bad or worse than the music industry.