I'm sure I'm not the only IT person who has to turn on a cell phone in movie theater. In my case, I can check and respond to a situation with WAP or more modern browser. Who says you need to make noise?
I own my business... I'm on call 24x7 but work 50 hours a week (sometimes more, sometimes less).
I love the freedom of being able to go into a movie and only having to read a couple text messages. I keep my phone on my lap, try not to create any light pollution.
For all those who think jamming is cool - why not just force people to use silent text messaging or web browsing?
I mean a silent pager with vibrate worked for me in the 1980's? Is it these stupid new kids who don't think that are causing all of us to suffer?
Wow. I'm glad you can eliminate hardware just because it has a brand on it.
That brand must mean that motherboards don't have overheating problems, RAM doesn't ever fault or fail, hard drives don't crash when the system is jarred.
Yep, you have proven that a bluescreen could not be caused by hardware - as it is branded hardware.
It is now always easy to find a cell phone that allows external antenna + power + data cable all at once. Kyocera has some nice car kits that include rs232 serial (Verizon). Motorola sometimes has right combination of adapters. Others...?
I am a full time RVer and we have found Verizon is way better than Sprint. They let you use phones with real antennas instead of Sprint's limit of using cards. And Verizon coverage is now better than sprint on 1X data (not the case until recently).
Actually... it can be more complicated. Even though DirecTIVO gets the channel listings from the bird, the phone line is still used for Tivo software updates.
It is best to have a phone line at least for the first updates... after that I think you get a nag screen after 30 days, but not too bad.
I work 50 to 60 hour workweeks like most hard-working geeks. My "home office" is a RV. So I always "camp with my laptop"...
If you have the skill it isn't that hard to do. Sprint and Verizon will give you unlimited internet for $80/month to use on your laptop. We have ours shared with a WiFi network using a laptop running OpenBSD 3.4 with pf firewall.
A cubicle with high-speed internet is fun for a while, but it gets old. I'll suffer with high latency (250ms) cell phone internet to have the freedom to park my home office where I want to go.
With the WiFi uplink the cell phone, it isn't that expensive... and sitting at picnic table in the woods is a great place to hack code.
PBS is the most problem channel for 'on the road'! If you are a full time RVer or trucker, you can get Distant Network service that allows you special options.
I guess the big problem is sports. People with RV's would go to sports games and have tailgate parties in the parking lot of the stadium during regional blackouts!
You have to sign a special waiver to get the local network feeds when mobile. DirecTV does directional broadcast of 'local channels' only to the regions they are required. Once you drive out of your region, you can't get your local channels.
They let you get around this by getting ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX from both New York and Los Angeles. Problem is that you can't get UPN / WB / PBS when you are outside your "home area". When you full time in a RV (no house, just live in your RV) - this is a pain - as your home area is just where you get your mail sent, not really where you are!
PBS is the most problem. They really want those local pledge drives, so they won't let you have the "national PBS feed" unless your "home area" is in a place where there is no local PBS channel on DirecTV. So 90% of the locations you can't get the national PBS feed if you have the Distant Network package.
These are pretty common on RV's these days. I full time in a 1987 Bluebird Wanderlodge bus (both mobile office and home).
We installed a Tracstar SV360 9 months ago, one of the low-profile ones. This is supposed to be one of the better units.
They work ok... yes, signal skips under bridges.
I5 in southern Oregon is pretty much useless with mountain and tall trees next to the highway.
DirecTV requires you to point "toward Texas" for the bird, so northern states are much worse. And these dishes tend to be smaller, so clounds can hurt you too. Seattle is not a good place for this... steep angle to aim and clouds consipire against you.
I use the in-motion dish for "instant on" more than watching while cruising. It is nice to pull over at a rest area and be able to turn on the news for a few minutes.... since the in-motion always has signal lock, no need to wait to align like the lesser dishes.
When camping in wooded areas, you pretty much decide what your priority is. Nice woodeed spot or clear TV reception? Low tech is often better for camping. 100' of coax and a regular dish on a tripod is much better for camping... as you can always carry the dish out into a clear area. So having a fancy expensive in-motion system isn't always the best... it depends on your needs.
The first to do this on a large scale that I encountered...
3com Ethernet cards, when they were the most popular (1997?). They came out with new chipsets that required different drivers under the same product name.
Started doing the model "a", "b", crap.
At least LinkSys puts "Version x.x" on their boxes!
Given the SSN is tied to taxes (Social Security Witholdings)... and most people who have credit have a job... and pay income taxes...
makes some sense. Of course, also assumes you credit agency is only tracking US citizens. Fails when you want to rent a house to someone from outside the USA...
But a decent retailer is going to have a return policy. A friend could have a Mac. There are users groups you could hookup with a new friend.... maybe someone who even switched and can focus on differences that relate to your needs.
And of course, much like a IBM or Toshiba laptop, macs have good resale value.
Not going to be out the full price unless you try.
Actually mono uses EXE for executable convention and can run a binary file on multiple platforms. So Linux, FreeBSD, OSX - can all run the same EXE binary.
Not to say I don't get your point.
Mono on FreeBSD or OSX not usable - anyone?
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Mono seems to be written with threading that only works on Linux and Windows. If you see their release pages, they only have Linux packages.
Several days ago I posted a thread on mono-devel about FreeBSD 4.8 not working and only got two replies - both confirming the problems. OSX seems to have the same basic problems.
This is even for console (text) applications - they just won't run.
Has anyone been able to get a working mono on FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1? Can you tell us how?
Reference: price.
The raw panels are only about us$270 for 80Watt panels (new Mexico Photowatt). The regulator and wire can be used with several panels (US$500 should get you a nice 50amp regulaor, remote panel, fuses, wire, etc.).
My point:
To pay CN$1000 for a single panel is pretty much a waste. You get 75/watts for US$700. For US$1000 you could have had 150 watts! One single panel has so much price overhead (the regulaor, wire, fuse, etc) that it only starts to make sense with 2 or 4 panels.
If you don't have space on top of your RV, OK - one panel - but your price is pretty much a worst case install.
Are you sure it was a true crash?
A lot of users use the term crash when they mean "does not work" or even a error dialog they consider a "crash".
Let alone how the word Bug is often used to mean "feature I want".
It really comes down to the marketplace has the power. Those of us who read Slashdot.
I expect a class action lawsuit will come of this. Are we willing to settle for $5 a domain? Should we start to think about more like $150 a domain?
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Ok, I agree with what you say relative to RAM... however...
Modern operating systems are going to do paging of these large loaded files. They don't care what functions you use, they track the usage of the memory by pages (4k ON I386 IIRC). So if you load a 8MB library (Windows DLL for example) and are only using 16K of code in it... windows will page out the unused part when RAM is tight.
It isn't a perfect solution, but it does solve the problem. Loading the massive libraries (paging them all in to init) tends to be the big hit.
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I'm sure I'm not the only IT person who has to turn on a cell phone in movie theater. In my case, I can check and respond to a situation with WAP or more modern browser. Who says you need to make noise?
I own my business... I'm on call 24x7 but work 50 hours a week (sometimes more, sometimes less).
I love the freedom of being able to go into a movie and only having to read a couple text messages. I keep my phone on my lap, try not to create any light pollution.
For all those who think jamming is cool - why not just force people to use silent text messaging or web browsing?
I mean a silent pager with vibrate worked for me in the 1980's? Is it these stupid new kids who don't think that are causing all of us to suffer?
Wow. I'm glad you can eliminate hardware just because it has a brand on it.
That brand must mean that motherboards don't have overheating problems, RAM doesn't ever fault or fail, hard drives don't crash when the system is jarred.
Yep, you have proven that a bluescreen could not be caused by hardware - as it is branded hardware.
It is now always easy to find a cell phone that allows external antenna + power + data cable all at once. Kyocera has some nice car kits that include rs232 serial (Verizon). Motorola sometimes has right combination of adapters. Others...?
Mailign List InternetByCellPhone is a good resource to ask other owners...
I am a full time RVer and we have found Verizon is way better than Sprint. They let you use phones with real antennas instead of Sprint's limit of using cards. And Verizon coverage is now better than sprint on 1X data (not the case until recently).
Yahoo Groups: InternetByCellPhone
Actually... it can be more complicated. Even though DirecTIVO gets the channel listings from the bird, the phone line is still used for Tivo software updates.
It is best to have a phone line at least for the first updates... after that I think you get a nag screen after 30 days, but not too bad.
I work 50 to 60 hour workweeks like most hard-working geeks. My "home office" is a RV. So I always "camp with my laptop"...
If you have the skill it isn't that hard to do. Sprint and Verizon will give you unlimited internet for $80/month to use on your laptop. We have ours shared with a WiFi network using a laptop running OpenBSD 3.4 with pf firewall.
A cubicle with high-speed internet is fun for a while, but it gets old. I'll suffer with high latency (250ms) cell phone internet to have the freedom to park my home office where I want to go.
With the WiFi uplink the cell phone, it isn't that expensive... and sitting at picnic table in the woods is a great place to hack code.
PBS is the most problem channel for 'on the road'! If you are a full time RVer or trucker, you can get Distant Network service that allows you special options.
I guess the big problem is sports. People with RV's would go to sports games and have tailgate parties in the parking lot of the stadium during regional blackouts!
You have to sign a special waiver to get the local network feeds when mobile. DirecTV does directional broadcast of 'local channels' only to the regions they are required. Once you drive out of your region, you can't get your local channels.
They let you get around this by getting ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX from both New York and Los Angeles. Problem is that you can't get UPN / WB / PBS when you are outside your "home area". When you full time in a RV (no house, just live in your RV) - this is a pain - as your home area is just where you get your mail sent, not really where you are!
PBS is the most problem. They really want those local pledge drives, so they won't let you have the "national PBS feed" unless your "home area" is in a place where there is no local PBS channel on DirecTV. So 90% of the locations you can't get the national PBS feed if you have the Distant Network package.
These are pretty common on RV's these days. I full time in a 1987 Bluebird Wanderlodge bus (both mobile office and home).
We installed a Tracstar SV360 9 months ago, one of the low-profile ones. This is supposed to be one of the better units.
They work ok... yes, signal skips under bridges.
I5 in southern Oregon is pretty much useless with mountain and tall trees next to the highway.
DirecTV requires you to point "toward Texas" for the bird, so northern states are much worse. And these dishes tend to be smaller, so clounds can hurt you too. Seattle is not a good place for this... steep angle to aim and clouds consipire against you.
I use the in-motion dish for "instant on" more than watching while cruising. It is nice to pull over at a rest area and be able to turn on the news for a few minutes.... since the in-motion always has signal lock, no need to wait to align like the lesser dishes.
When camping in wooded areas, you pretty much decide what your priority is. Nice woodeed spot or clear TV reception? Low tech is often better for camping. 100' of coax and a regular dish on a tripod is much better for camping... as you can always carry the dish out into a clear area. So having a fancy expensive in-motion system isn't always the best... it depends on your needs.
Do these numbers really be trusted when they aren't indepedently compared?
Side by side reviews (BYTE, PC Mag) often note big differences.
The first to do this on a large scale that I encountered...
3com Ethernet cards, when they were the most popular (1997?). They came out with new chipsets that required different drivers under the same product name.
Started doing the model "a", "b", crap.
At least LinkSys puts "Version x.x" on their boxes!
I agree with your basic idea... but...
Let's say you have a standard screwdriver, wher eyou have to hold the screw with your other hand when you start to screw it into wood.
Then someone takes this "prior art" and adds a device that holds the screw for you...
Can't they patent the new device? Doesn't Sears do this all the time with some new variation of an old tool (screwdriver)?
If you hang around Microsoft folks in Seattle area, they seem to have some facination with telling you what building things are in.
I don't know if it is because they all get lost, older buildings have higher seniority, or just competition between groups?
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Did these guys sleep through Y2K? Is that 1901 or 2001?
What results are you looking at?
What exactly do you consider a "spammer"? Just because it is commercial doesn't mean it is spam!
Some used to consider using "computer aid" was cheating.... calculators in math class.
You sure it was really $1,000,000.00? I bet it was only $250,000.00 which is expensive enough that most generalize as "$1million" :)
Given the SSN is tied to taxes (Social Security Witholdings)... and most people who have credit have a job... and pay income taxes...
makes some sense. Of course, also assumes you credit agency is only tracking US citizens. Fails when you want to rent a house to someone from outside the USA...
"Gold" is a older industry term. It has been replaced with "RTM".
"Final (after beta) retail release" is what it means.... in the context you describe, I would say they mean "prior to SP1"?
Just speculation.
Ok, in worst case this might be true.
But a decent retailer is going to have a return policy. A friend could have a Mac. There are users groups you could hookup with a new friend.... maybe someone who even switched and can focus on differences that relate to your needs.
And of course, much like a IBM or Toshiba laptop, macs have good resale value.
Not going to be out the full price unless you try.
Actually mono uses EXE for executable convention and can run a binary file on multiple platforms. So Linux, FreeBSD, OSX - can all run the same EXE binary.
Not to say I don't get your point.
Mono seems to be written with threading that only works on Linux and Windows. If you see their release pages, they only have Linux packages.
Several days ago I posted a thread on mono-devel about FreeBSD 4.8 not working and only got two replies - both confirming the problems. OSX seems to have the same basic problems.
This is even for console (text) applications - they just won't run.
Has anyone been able to get a working mono on FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1? Can you tell us how?
Reference: price. The raw panels are only about us$270 for 80Watt panels (new Mexico Photowatt). The regulator and wire can be used with several panels (US$500 should get you a nice 50amp regulaor, remote panel, fuses, wire, etc.).
My point: To pay CN$1000 for a single panel is pretty much a waste. You get 75/watts for US$700. For US$1000 you could have had 150 watts! One single panel has so much price overhead (the regulaor, wire, fuse, etc) that it only starts to make sense with 2 or 4 panels.
If you don't have space on top of your RV, OK - one panel - but your price is pretty much a worst case install.
Are you sure it was a true crash?
A lot of users use the term crash when they mean "does not work" or even a error dialog they consider a "crash".
Let alone how the word Bug is often used to mean "feature I want".
It really comes down to the marketplace has the power. Those of us who read Slashdot.
I expect a class action lawsuit will come of this. Are we willing to settle for $5 a domain? Should we start to think about more like $150 a domain?
Ok, I agree with what you say relative to RAM... however...
Modern operating systems are going to do paging of these large loaded files. They don't care what functions you use, they track the usage of the memory by pages (4k ON I386 IIRC). So if you load a 8MB library (Windows DLL for example) and are only using 16K of code in it... windows will page out the unused part when RAM is tight.
It isn't a perfect solution, but it does solve the problem. Loading the massive libraries (paging them all in to init) tends to be the big hit.