I would probably tend to be one to side with the "crackers deserve what they get" folks, being that I always pay for my software and don't like the fact that folks take stealing software so lightly. However, about a year ago I had installed some shareware that was somewhat crippled until a valid license key was entered. A friend of mine took the liberty of going to a warez site, finding a key for the software and entered that key. He did not ask me nor did he tell me he had activated the software. I found out when I came back from the bathroom. Had that software deleted my entire home directory, I would have been seriously ticked at my friend and the author of the software. I might have been ticked enough to talk to a lawyer.
$60 Canadian is about $46 US Dollars, in case anyone wanted to know. If the latency is good (which it likely won't be), this might not be a bad broadband option.
One interesting use for SVG is the ability to define cursors in CSS level 2 revision 1 documents. You simply set your CSS cursor parameter so that it points to the URI of the SVG file which contains an SVG cursor definition. Although certainly not the most important use for SVG, it is still useful and worth noting. I can imagine that in the future there will be loads of web sites with all kinds of obnoxious cursors.
No, you won't, unfortunately. The FAQ is found at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/numbport.html. Although the FCC does not specifically talk about VoIP, here is the answer they provide for portability between land lines and mobile lines:
Can I Keep the Same Wireline Telephone Number if I Switch My Local Telephone Service to a Cellular or Personal Communications Service (PCS) Telephone Service Provider or Vice-Versa?
Cellular and other wireless carriers are not required to provide telephone number portability at this time. For this reason, customers cannot retain the same local telephone number if they change their local service from a wireline local telephone company to a wireless carrier, like a cellular or PCS service provider. Likewise, customers cannot switch from a cellular or PCS service provider to a local wireline service provider and keep the same cellular or PCS telephone number.
At this point in time, the FCC does not regulate VoIP. Some people want that to change, but for now they don't. Therefore the FCC will not be mandating number portability between VoIP and any other phone system anytime soon. And there won't be any voluntary effort to setup NP between VoIP and anything else because it costs money to setup the NP system and the phone companies fear that creating an NP system will result in the loss of customers. In my view, only the phone companies that suck should have to worry about that.
To expand on that statement a little bit, when a web page is fully compliant with the HTML 4.0 or XHTML standards, the browser will operate in "standards-compliant mode" (aka "strict mode", "full standards mode" or just "standards mode"). If not standards compliant, the browser will operate in "compatibility mode" (aka "Traditional mode", "Loose mode" or "quirks mode"). The standards-compliant mode will render the page much faster than the compatibility mode. That is true for both IE and Mozilla. The mode is selected by examining the DOCTYPE declaration. Also, the way that the page is rendered could vary depending on the mode the browser had decided to operate in.
His Catholic Majesty has appointed the Most Excellent Lord Don Luis De Onis, Gonzales, Lopez y Vara, Lord of the town of Rayaces, Perpetual Regidor of the Corporation of the city of Salamanca, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Isabella the Catholic, decorated with the Lys of La Vendee, Knight Pensioner of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles the Third, Member of the Supreme Assembly of the said Royal Order; of the Council of His Majesty
I have trouble sometimes squeezing my relatively short name onto forms, how did this guy ever manage?;-)
Wow, you were answering my question just as I was writing it (see my other post). That's spooky;p Thanks for your useful post!! If I were a moderator I would mod you up.
I was wondering... would it be possible to remove the DRM and convert to MP3 by recording your new music file to a CD-RW and then ripping the song from the CD into an ordinary MP3 file? Has anyone tried this? Is some trick employed to prevent this?
If that were the case, I might actually buy music from BuyMusic.com. I've got no problem paying 79 cents for music I like, but I don't want to have to buy it again later if I change computers (which happens at least once every 2 or 3 years).
So if you did want to encourage law makers to pass anti-spam laws, I think it may be fairly easy to make it happen. Borrowing from the recent campaign to harass a spammer, what if people started putting the e-mail addresses of various lawmakers on the lists of spammers? I would imagine that if the lawmakers started getting tons of spam, they might be encouraged to do something about it. And I'm not just talking about US lawmakers, I'm talking about lawmakers everywhere. If Chinese or Russian lawmakers are overwhelmed with spam, they might just do something about it.
I also use SpeakEasy DSL and host my own servers. The SpeakEasy guys are very cool about setting up the reverse DNS records for you. They did it for me. You just need to ask them. The DSL provider I had before them (now out of business) also was totally cool about configuring the reverse DNS as I requested, so I suspect other DSL providers might be willing to do the same...people just have to ask for it.
I will say that SpeakEasy is very cool about geeks who setup their own servers. Some broadband providers are not. When selecting your broadband provider, it is a good idea to make sure you pick one who is not anti-geek. Check www.dslreports.com if you need info on a specific provider.
And just 'cause I like to talk, let me ponder one more thing: will the ultimate result of all these anti-geek policies result in an OuterNet? In other words, with plenty of geeks already setting up WiFi hotspots everywhere, with the continually lowering costs of networking equipment in general and the ever increasing simplicity of their use, and with the increasing restrictions on what can be done on the Internet (think Napster), will we see the day when a second, open, lawless InterNet-like network will emerge run by geeks in their spare time? If that does happen, will it ultimately lower the revenues of the AOLs and Earthlinks of the world?
I would say that the answer is "probably". Hackers never cease to amaze me with what they can do. It seems like a reasonable idea, but I don't have a clue how easy it would be to do such a thing. And the SnapTrack system is used on other phones...I have a Samsung SPH-N400, and I understand that it also uses the SnapTrack system. I didn't know that Qualcomm bought SnapTrack...interesting.
That's not exactly what Enhanced 911 is all about. Dialing 911 from your cell phone has always patched you to the correct 911 center (unless the cell tower happens to be close to a border). The major goal of E911 is the tell the emergency operaror where you are located. You can read more about E911 on the FCC website.
There are many cell phones currently on the market which have what is called Assisted GPS. As another posted mentioned, Assisted GPS cell phones merely take measurments of the signal strength coming from various GPS satellites. These measurements are forwarded to the cell tower which calculates the mobile phones location. This is mainly implemented to support E911 in the cheapest way possible. However, I have seen numerous postings on the SprintPCS developer website forums that there are plans to put together a Java library which will permit application developers to write J2ME apps which can query the lat/long of the phone. Those postings are from Sprint employees, but they currently seem to be suggesting that we will see this as part of the Location API included with the Java MIDP 2.0 to be released 4th Quarter 2003.
If I did not state it clearly above, once the cell tower calculates your position, it currently has no reason to pass that info back to your phone. The Location API will work by asking the cell tower for your location, not by reading some registers in your phone. Without the Location API (and the supporting software on the towers), there would be no way for you to write a mapping application that ran on your phone, regardless of how much memory you have. For obvious reasons, such a library would have to query the phone user before permitting the application to obtain location information. I also imagine that Sprint would have to come up with a scheme to prevent folks from reverse engineering the Sprint library and then implementing their own libraries which would not bother asking for permission. That is probably at least part of the reason why it is taking so long to get support for polling your phones location.
I also bought the SL-5500 on HSN. I am also very happy.
My one complaint is that I can't hookup the SL-5500 to my cell phone, a Samsung SPH-N400. My cell phone has no way to connect to a regular serial port, but it does have a USB cable to connect to a USB host. The host computer can than use the cell phone as a modem to connect to the Internet using Sprint PCS's Vision network. The only way I have thought of to connect the phone to the PDA would be to use this CF USB Host adaptor to give the Zaurus a USB host port. I can't find anything that suggests whether the Zaurus supports this device or not. Anyone have any idea if the Zaurus supports the Ratoc USB Host CF adaptor? I think that adaptor sells for $150, so I'm not keen on buying it until I have a reason to believe it will work.
Unless I am missing something, this will not turn your monitor into an HDTV. This thing does not have an ATSC tuner. It only has an NTSC tuner (VHF & UHF). If you want HDTV, you will have to buy a separate HDTV tuner and hook it up to this box. Note the line which reads:
With a built-in NTSC TV tuner and multiple video connections for extras like a DVD player, digital camera, VCR, HDTV set-top box...
In the review listed in the post, they used an XBox to generate an HDTV signal.
Two weeks ago, my Dad told me that he ordered Call Intercept for the phone line at his new house. He was all happy because he was convinced this would reduce all that unwanted, dirty e-mail he keeps getting. I clued him in.
Also, there are notes written all over case of my fathers computer monitor. I don't think he quite gets the whole "use the computer to take notes" concept.
I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results.
I've found that you get better results on Google if you search for what you're really looking for instead of beating around the bush. Try searching for "pictures of breasts".;-)
I must have missed the posts where people were demanding free wireless Internet access. I think the dominent concern here, a concern shared by myself, is that if AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, T-Mobile, MCI/Worldcom, AOL, Verizon, Cox, Comcast, Earthlink, Erols, Speakeasy, XO Communications, MAE Dulles, Network Access Solutions, QWest, Covad, not to mention the large number of small Internet and DSL service providers and all the extremely small businesses (i.e. run/owned by the neighborhood geek) each have their 802.11a/b wireless access points close to my home, then the interference from the overwhelming number of WAPs will make it difficult or even impossible for me to setup my own WAP. My WAP connects to the DSL line that I pay for, so I am not asking for free Internet access. I just like the idea tht I can go anywhere in my home and connect wirelessly to the Internet. It would be shameful if the FCC permitted these companies to hog all the bandwidth and squeeze me out.
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Speaking for myself, I would not be able to use up 20 GBytes. I'm kind of lame, though.
... how much space would be the ideal maximum?
For the rest of you, I'm curious
From the article: "I had a cell-phone like 802.11 phone"
... may I ask what were you referring to?
Anyone know what he is talking about? I looked around but cannot find anything like what Brad describes.
Brad, I know you are lurking on these pages
I would probably tend to be one to side with the "crackers deserve what they get" folks, being that I always pay for my software and don't like the fact that folks take stealing software so lightly. However, about a year ago I had installed some shareware that was somewhat crippled until a valid license key was entered. A friend of mine took the liberty of going to a warez site, finding a key for the software and entered that key. He did not ask me nor did he tell me he had activated the software. I found out when I came back from the bathroom. Had that software deleted my entire home directory, I would have been seriously ticked at my friend and the author of the software. I might have been ticked enough to talk to a lawyer.
Does anyone else read this and have visions of the HAL 9000? Here's another picture in case the first one gets Slashdotted.
$60 Canadian is about $46 US Dollars, in case anyone wanted to know. If the latency is good (which it likely won't be), this might not be a bad broadband option.
I've never heard of Richard Sandrak before; here is an interesting link. I swear, some of those photos look fake. Jeez that kid is flexible!!
One interesting use for SVG is the ability to define cursors in CSS level 2 revision 1 documents. You simply set your CSS cursor parameter so that it points to the URI of the SVG file which contains an SVG cursor definition. Although certainly not the most important use for SVG, it is still useful and worth noting. I can imagine that in the future there will be loads of web sites with all kinds of obnoxious cursors.
and makes pages load faster for MSIE users
To expand on that statement a little bit, when a web page is fully compliant with the HTML 4.0 or XHTML standards, the browser will operate in "standards-compliant mode" (aka "strict mode", "full standards mode" or just "standards mode"). If not standards compliant, the browser will operate in "compatibility mode" (aka "Traditional mode", "Loose mode" or "quirks mode"). The standards-compliant mode will render the page much faster than the compatibility mode. That is true for both IE and Mozilla. The mode is selected by examining the DOCTYPE declaration. Also, the way that the page is rendered could vary depending on the mode the browser had decided to operate in.
Wow! Did you catch that dudes name?
;-)
His Catholic Majesty has appointed the Most Excellent Lord Don Luis De Onis, Gonzales, Lopez y Vara, Lord of the town of Rayaces, Perpetual Regidor of the Corporation of the city of Salamanca, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Isabella the Catholic, decorated with the Lys of La Vendee, Knight Pensioner of the Royal and Distinguished Spanish Order of Charles the Third, Member of the Supreme Assembly of the said Royal Order; of the Council of His Majesty
I have trouble sometimes squeezing my relatively short name onto forms, how did this guy ever manage?
I'm still saving up to get my very own Pheonix 1000 Submarine Yacht. I've only got $77,999,900 to go.
Wow, you were answering my question just as I was writing it (see my other post). That's spooky ;p Thanks for your useful post!! If I were a moderator I would mod you up.
I was wondering ... would it be possible to remove the DRM and convert to MP3 by recording your new music file to a CD-RW and then ripping the song from the CD into an ordinary MP3 file? Has anyone tried this? Is some trick employed to prevent this?
If that were the case, I might actually buy music from BuyMusic.com. I've got no problem paying 79 cents for music I like, but I don't want to have to buy it again later if I change computers (which happens at least once every 2 or 3 years).
So if you did want to encourage law makers to pass anti-spam laws, I think it may be fairly easy to make it happen. Borrowing from the recent campaign to harass a spammer, what if people started putting the e-mail addresses of various lawmakers on the lists of spammers? I would imagine that if the lawmakers started getting tons of spam, they might be encouraged to do something about it. And I'm not just talking about US lawmakers, I'm talking about lawmakers everywhere. If Chinese or Russian lawmakers are overwhelmed with spam, they might just do something about it.
I also use SpeakEasy DSL and host my own servers. The SpeakEasy guys are very cool about setting up the reverse DNS records for you. They did it for me. You just need to ask them. The DSL provider I had before them (now out of business) also was totally cool about configuring the reverse DNS as I requested, so I suspect other DSL providers might be willing to do the same...people just have to ask for it.
I will say that SpeakEasy is very cool about geeks who setup their own servers. Some broadband providers are not. When selecting your broadband provider, it is a good idea to make sure you pick one who is not anti-geek. Check www.dslreports.com if you need info on a specific provider.
And just 'cause I like to talk, let me ponder one more thing: will the ultimate result of all these anti-geek policies result in an OuterNet? In other words, with plenty of geeks already setting up WiFi hotspots everywhere, with the continually lowering costs of networking equipment in general and the ever increasing simplicity of their use, and with the increasing restrictions on what can be done on the Internet (think Napster), will we see the day when a second, open, lawless InterNet-like network will emerge run by geeks in their spare time? If that does happen, will it ultimately lower the revenues of the AOLs and Earthlinks of the world?
I would say that the answer is "probably". Hackers never cease to amaze me with what they can do. It seems like a reasonable idea, but I don't have a clue how easy it would be to do such a thing. And the SnapTrack system is used on other phones...I have a Samsung SPH-N400, and I understand that it also uses the SnapTrack system. I didn't know that Qualcomm bought SnapTrack...interesting.
That's not exactly what Enhanced 911 is all about. Dialing 911 from your cell phone has always patched you to the correct 911 center (unless the cell tower happens to be close to a border). The major goal of E911 is the tell the emergency operaror where you are located. You can read more about E911 on the FCC website.
There are many cell phones currently on the market which have what is called Assisted GPS. As another posted mentioned, Assisted GPS cell phones merely take measurments of the signal strength coming from various GPS satellites. These measurements are forwarded to the cell tower which calculates the mobile phones location. This is mainly implemented to support E911 in the cheapest way possible. However, I have seen numerous postings on the SprintPCS developer website forums that there are plans to put together a Java library which will permit application developers to write J2ME apps which can query the lat/long of the phone. Those postings are from Sprint employees, but they currently seem to be suggesting that we will see this as part of the Location API included with the Java MIDP 2.0 to be released 4th Quarter 2003.
If I did not state it clearly above, once the cell tower calculates your position, it currently has no reason to pass that info back to your phone. The Location API will work by asking the cell tower for your location, not by reading some registers in your phone. Without the Location API (and the supporting software on the towers), there would be no way for you to write a mapping application that ran on your phone, regardless of how much memory you have. For obvious reasons, such a library would have to query the phone user before permitting the application to obtain location information. I also imagine that Sprint would have to come up with a scheme to prevent folks from reverse engineering the Sprint library and then implementing their own libraries which would not bother asking for permission. That is probably at least part of the reason why it is taking so long to get support for polling your phones location.
That's the first I've heard of OpenPDA. Anyone know if their claim is true that the Sharp Zaurus uses their software?
I also bought the SL-5500 on HSN. I am also very happy.
My one complaint is that I can't hookup the SL-5500 to my cell phone, a Samsung SPH-N400. My cell phone has no way to connect to a regular serial port, but it does have a USB cable to connect to a USB host. The host computer can than use the cell phone as a modem to connect to the Internet using Sprint PCS's Vision network. The only way I have thought of to connect the phone to the PDA would be to use this CF USB Host adaptor to give the Zaurus a USB host port. I can't find anything that suggests whether the Zaurus supports this device or not. Anyone have any idea if the Zaurus supports the Ratoc USB Host CF adaptor? I think that adaptor sells for $150, so I'm not keen on buying it until I have a reason to believe it will work.
You might want to double-check the specs...this does not have an ATSC tuner.
In the review listed in the post, they used an XBox to generate an HDTV signal.
Two weeks ago, my Dad told me that he ordered Call Intercept for the phone line at his new house. He was all happy because he was convinced this would reduce all that unwanted, dirty e-mail he keeps getting. I clued him in.
Also, there are notes written all over case of my fathers computer monitor. I don't think he quite gets the whole "use the computer to take notes" concept.
I did a search for "pictures of mountains" and got exactly 1 million results.
;-)
I've found that you get better results on Google if you search for what you're really looking for instead of beating around the bush. Try searching for "pictures of breasts".
I must have missed the posts where people were demanding free wireless Internet access. I think the dominent concern here, a concern shared by myself, is that if AT&T, Sprint, Nextel, T-Mobile, MCI/Worldcom, AOL, Verizon, Cox, Comcast, Earthlink, Erols, Speakeasy, XO Communications, MAE Dulles, Network Access Solutions, QWest, Covad, not to mention the large number of small Internet and DSL service providers and all the extremely small businesses (i.e. run/owned by the neighborhood geek) each have their 802.11a/b wireless access points close to my home, then the interference from the overwhelming number of WAPs will make it difficult or even impossible for me to setup my own WAP. My WAP connects to the DSL line that I pay for, so I am not asking for free Internet access. I just like the idea tht I can go anywhere in my home and connect wirelessly to the Internet. It would be shameful if the FCC permitted these companies to hog all the bandwidth and squeeze me out.