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WiMax: When, Not If
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In cities, WiMax will enable cellular and wireless companies bypass Telco's through urban mesh networks. And with it's 40Km range it's possible to begin reaching out to the last mile crowd in a way that has not been possible until now.
IMO the first cellular company that can roll out large scale mesh networks in tower dense urban areas letting them not pay several thousand dollars a month per tower will have a huge economic advantage over their competitors.
I havent verified it yet but Cedega IIRC did fully support the game. In face full sound worked and all that other jazz that we expected but did not get in the full release for Linux.
Lost my Job in 2002 spent 6 months getting new one at lower pay.
My health care premiums have risen every year.
The first Tax break was really a loan to be repaid the next year. Funny I had to pay it while I was on my unemployment.
My friends are now fighting a war and have emailed me several times to never believe what their superiors have said. Believe the News.
No WMD's and I'm sure Saddam is still laughing inside about it.
Our freedom is threatened by the Patriot Act.
Bush wants to amend the constitution a document that has historically given rights to individuals. This time he wants to take away individual rights.
Cuts money to the police while at the same time allowing the assault weapon ban to expire.
Oh despite a 87billion dollar boost in money soldiers (I was one) are still getting raises that are lower than inflation and many make much less than poverty level with housing and food considered.
That second tax break amounted to 15 dollars a month for me and I make 60k a year. However I'm paying more than 40 dollars extra a month in Gas for my veichle and nearly 50 dollars extra in energy costs for my house.
Oil prices are high reguardless that there's no shortage and in fact Saudi Arabia has consistently said consumption is far below supply. Yet nobody is doing anything to stop the price runup's.
Also I've learned something. Americans need to pay attention to who they're voting for. That senator or govenor you're voting in may have more ambitions than just helping your state or their constituents. Cheny is a grand example of who we may not of had to put up with if they didnt vote him into congress years ago. In fact he may never of joined up with any of the Bushes and Gore could be president today.
Once again we see a company who has acquired technology, watched it be infringed but knew that a lawsuit early on would not net them any cash and wait until nearly every computer in the world along with many CE devices use this tech now is asking for a payment.
There need to be set limits on when a company can come out and say they're infringing on my patent. Even less time if said patents were acquired by merger or buyout. Otherwise the motto will be Litigate dont Innovate.
RIAA Says you pirated music and shows the titles you pirated. Gives you 30 days to respond if you intend to pay or go to court. You dont respond so they consider their claim valid and hire a collection agency to begin a collection process. Of which they threaten your credit rating and such.
I'm sure it will eventually happen and those who have agreed to pay who dont may face this situation.
"For example, Wiederhold said QuickTransit will allow the next-generation Xbox (which will have a Mac-like PowerPC chip) to run first-generation Xbox software (which was written for an Intel chip)."
So they already have a deal in place for this? Doubtfull.
Has anyone found a time estimate this has happened? I'm also looking for several different seismic graphs to check for any telltale signatures that nuclear devices tend to leave however I cant find any on google lately? There's one 3 hours away in Meers Ok but other than the barbque they have there I'm not too interested in drivng up from Dallas if I can find it online.
Either way the US government has already denied that it was a nuclear bomb and for the size of the explosion and resultant cloud I dont believe them. Even the MOAB does not make a cloud that big. So unless the NK's have invented something better than our MOAB I'm more inclined to believe a underground blast, perhaps it was not far enough underground. And that would lead the question of any radation release
An electrical engineering professor at UTD has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate new methods for broadband multimedia wireless communications.
What will they do about new cell phones that are coming out that associate with WiFi hotspots to increase their coverage and cheaper voip charges you get.
Either way I think this will end up in court with both the students and the school losing money to the lawyers.
So now MicroSoft thinks they've reinvented Post Code Modulation, or any number of modulation techniques that have been in use in the RF and telecommunications industry for nearly 30 years.
It's definately prior art if the tech was invented before the company existed.
I would think in 10 years and maybe even sooner if fiber to the premise deployments speed up.
We will be able to subscribe to video library providers, select what we want to view, it downloads to our systems and plays back. True video on demand. That way I dont have to concern myself with hordes of dvd cases floating around the house.
I've got 230 or more DVD's I'm not about to rebuy just for a new standard. I dont need any of these "Special features and commentaries" on any of these movies and there's probably nothing else on them to entice me to switch. So for the time being I'm sticking with DVD.
The market should demand a open standard not one bribed by M$
IIRC there have been many lawsuits upheld on the basis of if the signal enters your property it's public domain. Otherwise people could say that company was liable to pay them to access their airspace and such. That's why decoders were technically legal for so long.
Now the DMCA makes it illegal to decode those signals.
Now I dont understand why some landowner who owns huge tracts have not sued the satilite broadcasters for using their airspace as a transmission medium again and ask for royalties and why cities have not charged tarriffs since they're essentially getting a free ride over the airwaves. If it was fiber optics buried in the ground they'd pay.
Also lets not forget the swivel base that made it easily adjustable for just about anyone. Good job apple you just innovated a design that's been tried and failed many times since the late 90's.
My wife just saw the new imac and she hates it. Said she still wants one of the old ones.
On another note I really dont like the idea of the proc and other devices so close to the monitor, it's probably harder to update than the older design and with considerations for heat updates beyond adding memory would void the warranty.
If a car crashes and you have safety devices euipped properly (seatbelt) you can survive. Two flying cars collide and not only can you have deaths of those flying, you also run increased risk these could fall on a house, or a busy highway.
Not only that until you can get around using standard jet fuel they're resource intensive.
For the average person the time to download a movie in the US on our abysmal brodband lines you could probably make up the cost of the movie by just being at work.
Along with half movies, bogus titles, viruses, poor quality, people that let you download and kill it after a few minutes it's just not worth it.
Mp3's were popular to download even on dialup because it took minutes to download vs hours or even days to obtain a movie.
As SBC and Verizon deploy FTTH/P then you'll see the rehtoric cranked up as it would then take a 15Mbit line a few minutes to get a whole movie.
Even so, the MPAA needs to get a clue. I can count more than 20 movies this year I have gone to see that I considered afterwards good enough for video. With the exception of the Last Samurai, iRobot, and a few others I feel ripped off. They need to quit previewing all the good parts in the movies and begin to come up with quality work.
Is that this may spread to other venues, cant wear a metallica tshirt to ozzfest.
Cant attend a sporting event with the same rules even going as far as saying you cant wear a hockey jersey to football game.
How long will it be until a corporation begins to fund roads or parks and have security banning other advertisers.
It's bad enough I cant watch the superior coverage of the olympics legaly here in the USA due to similar contracts. Though I wonder how the advertisers would feel if people began to boycot them becuase one tv station banned them from consumer choice of BBC's olympics vs MicroSoft NBC Olympics.
It's called Snow Hall I believe and it's at Ft Sill in Lawton, OK. I have friends up there that work at the place but they've never mentioned any signifigant upgrades. But being the military it does not mean that it didnt happen and they were probably not allowed to tell anyone at the time. I'll have to visit sometime to check it out hopefully.
The current system is broken actually. If our access was standardized and paid for in a manner that would spur quicker upgrades it would be much better. Nowdays the telecommunication companies are working on ways to keep compeitiors off their lines or cable which is in essence a monopoly. IE I cant get Verizon DSL which is priced better than SBC DSL if I have lines owned by SBC. If access methods were owned by one company that is in charge of maintaing the network while the companies provide the services things would be much different. They would push the infrastructure company to upgrade it's facilities so they could make money. These pushes could be through monetary or technology(IP) donations to spur adoption on the network.
Basically as it stands Verizon and SBC have sat on their hands for years on the fiber upgrades because they did not want other companies to piggyback on the network they spent money working on. So now the government has given in to them and they dont have to share with anyone which means no compeition at all. Evidence of this is Verizon's charges for their 30Mbit/5Mbit line at 199.99 a month vs their 15mbit/2mbit line at 49.95 a month. The 15Mbit line is barely capable of providing data/phone/high def television services at the same time. The 30mbit service would. However that 199.99 charge is for internet only so your phone and cable over that line would be additional charges. Now consider if there was competition from a company that could do that all over the 30mbit line for 120 a month then Verizon would think about their prices and compete.
But since the FCC gave in these fiber to the premise projects are basically cash cow's for verizon and SBC.
Lets take for instance if all the telecommunications companies in the US were forced to give up their lines and hand the upgrading and maint of them to a centeral company. This company would be regulated by the government for prices and what upgrades need to be done through contributions by the "Telecommunications Services Companies" and taxpayers.
It would be my belief that you would see wide adoption of Fiber to the Premises in a much quicker manner than currently being shown by SBC and Verizon. Futhermore those companies that have this huge debt cloud that the fiber would never make money can then focus on providing services over those lines. Also they would not be restricted to the areas they are currently in so in essence I could be a Verizon Customer until I get a better deal then switch over to Comcast who would provide services via my fiber connection.
In essence the national telecommunications network would be considered the Linux of our telecommunications backbone. Verizon, SBC, Cable Companies etc would be considered in the same light as Redhat, Novell, Mandrake and others. It's a common platform and the services are being provided.
The only problem with this is that Linux has yet to be standardized in a acceptable manner. Mandrake looks different from Redhat who looks different from Novell. Fix that, standardize what's being done to the kernel and fight for customers with support and product contracts and we can kiss MS goodbye.
Linux service providers (LSP)'s should be going to Corporations and telling them we'll provide you this service that will eliminate this problem or situation. You have to adopt Linux on that platform but for a fee we will make it do what you want and provide training and support for the life of it.
Other companies should be investing in end to end solutions built on Linux that are standards based and drum up companies to adopt this. We see it in many places today but adoption is slow but picking up very quickly.
Other companies who are standing on the sidelines wondering about this SCO business need to realize all the money they are throwing away and finally need to give the finger to SCO and get on with the conversion. Service disruptions to a Microsoft based virus over the last 2 years have far outshined any royalty payment you would ever have to pay SCO if hell froze over and they won their court cases. Go out and find those balls you had when you made these companies so great and use them again for once.
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In cities, WiMax will enable cellular and wireless companies bypass Telco's through urban mesh networks. And with it's 40Km range it's possible to begin reaching out to the last mile crowd in a way that has not been possible until now.
IMO the first cellular company that can roll out large scale mesh networks in tower dense urban areas letting them not pay several thousand dollars a month per tower will have a huge economic advantage over their competitors.
I havent verified it yet but Cedega IIRC did fully support the game. In face full sound worked and all that other jazz that we expected but did not get in the full release for Linux.
Lost my Job in 2002 spent 6 months getting new one at lower pay.
My health care premiums have risen every year.
The first Tax break was really a loan to be repaid the next year. Funny I had to pay it while I was on my unemployment.
My friends are now fighting a war and have emailed me several times to never believe what their superiors have said. Believe the News.
No WMD's and I'm sure Saddam is still laughing inside about it.
Our freedom is threatened by the Patriot Act.
Bush wants to amend the constitution a document that has historically given rights to individuals. This time he wants to take away individual rights.
Cuts money to the police while at the same time allowing the assault weapon ban to expire.
Oh despite a 87billion dollar boost in money soldiers (I was one) are still getting raises that are lower than inflation and many make much less than poverty level with housing and food considered.
That second tax break amounted to 15 dollars a month for me and I make 60k a year. However I'm paying more than 40 dollars extra a month in Gas for my veichle and nearly 50 dollars extra in energy costs for my house.
Oil prices are high reguardless that there's no shortage and in fact Saudi Arabia has consistently said consumption is far below supply. Yet nobody is doing anything to stop the price runup's.
Also I've learned something. Americans need to pay attention to who they're voting for. That senator or govenor you're voting in may have more ambitions than just helping your state or their constituents. Cheny is a grand example of who we may not of had to put up with if they didnt vote him into congress years ago. In fact he may never of joined up with any of the Bushes and Gore could be president today.
Once again we see a company who has acquired technology, watched it be infringed but knew that a lawsuit early on would not net them any cash and wait until nearly every computer in the world along with many CE devices use this tech now is asking for a payment.
There need to be set limits on when a company can come out and say they're infringing on my patent. Even less time if said patents were acquired by merger or buyout. Otherwise the motto will be Litigate dont Innovate.
It's probably already happened too..
RIAA Says you pirated music and shows the titles you pirated. Gives you 30 days to respond if you intend to pay or go to court. You dont respond so they consider their claim valid and hire a collection agency to begin a collection process. Of which they threaten your credit rating and such.
I'm sure it will eventually happen and those who have agreed to pay who dont may face this situation.
It'll be harder to realize any type of high speed wireless that is affordable here in the US. We'll have to see what WiMax eventually does.
Is the fact that they were quoted as saying:
"For example, Wiederhold said QuickTransit will allow the next-generation Xbox (which will have a Mac-like PowerPC chip) to run first-generation Xbox software (which was written for an Intel chip)."
So they already have a deal in place for this? Doubtfull.
Has anyone found a time estimate this has happened? I'm also looking for several different seismic graphs to check for any telltale signatures that nuclear devices tend to leave however I cant find any on google lately? There's one 3 hours away in Meers Ok but other than the barbque they have there I'm not too interested in drivng up from Dallas if I can find it online.
Either way the US government has already denied that it was a nuclear bomb and for the size of the explosion and resultant cloud I dont believe them. Even the MOAB does not make a cloud that big. So unless the NK's have invented something better than our MOAB I'm more inclined to believe a underground blast, perhaps it was not far enough underground. And that would lead the question of any radation release
Does it run Linux?
From http://www.utd.edu
An electrical engineering professor at UTD has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate new methods for broadband multimedia wireless communications.
What will they do about new cell phones that are coming out that associate with WiFi hotspots to increase their coverage and cheaper voip charges you get.
Either way I think this will end up in court with both the students and the school losing money to the lawyers.
So now MicroSoft thinks they've reinvented Post Code Modulation, or any number of modulation techniques that have been in use in the RF and telecommunications industry for nearly 30 years.
It's definately prior art if the tech was invented before the company existed.
I would think in 10 years and maybe even sooner if fiber to the premise deployments speed up.
We will be able to subscribe to video library providers, select what we want to view, it downloads to our systems and plays back. True video on demand. That way I dont have to concern myself with hordes of dvd cases floating around the house.
I've got 230 or more DVD's I'm not about to rebuy just for a new standard. I dont need any of these "Special features and commentaries" on any of these movies and there's probably nothing else on them to entice me to switch. So for the time being I'm sticking with DVD.
The market should demand a open standard not one bribed by M$
One major developer cited their shift to DirectX over SDL due to the delay of the OpenGL spec's for the new version.
However if it becomes so bad for margins on games then dumping DirectX royalties over SDL which would be free for them would be a no brainer.
Our time would be best spent on getting SDL accepted in more gaming development houses and let market forces decide what to use.
They could claim that the heat from their processors enable newer hard drives to work.
IIRC there have been many lawsuits upheld on the basis of if the signal enters your property it's public domain. Otherwise people could say that company was liable to pay them to access their airspace and such. That's why decoders were technically legal for so long.
Now the DMCA makes it illegal to decode those signals.
Now I dont understand why some landowner who owns huge tracts have not sued the satilite broadcasters for using their airspace as a transmission medium again and ask for royalties and why cities have not charged tarriffs since they're essentially getting a free ride over the airwaves. If it was fiber optics buried in the ground they'd pay.
Also lets not forget the swivel base that made it easily adjustable for just about anyone. Good job apple you just innovated a design that's been tried and failed many times since the late 90's.
My wife just saw the new imac and she hates it. Said she still wants one of the old ones.
On another note I really dont like the idea of the proc and other devices so close to the monitor, it's probably harder to update than the older design and with considerations for heat updates beyond adding memory would void the warranty.
If a car crashes and you have safety devices euipped properly (seatbelt) you can survive. Two flying cars collide and not only can you have deaths of those flying, you also run increased risk these could fall on a house, or a busy highway.
Not only that until you can get around using standard jet fuel they're resource intensive.
For the average person the time to download a movie in the US on our abysmal brodband lines you could probably make up the cost of the movie by just being at work.
Along with half movies, bogus titles, viruses, poor quality, people that let you download and kill it after a few minutes it's just not worth it.
Mp3's were popular to download even on dialup because it took minutes to download vs hours or even days to obtain a movie.
As SBC and Verizon deploy FTTH/P then you'll see the rehtoric cranked up as it would then take a 15Mbit line a few minutes to get a whole movie.
Even so, the MPAA needs to get a clue. I can count more than 20 movies this year I have gone to see that I considered afterwards good enough for video. With the exception of the Last Samurai, iRobot, and a few others I feel ripped off. They need to quit previewing all the good parts in the movies and begin to come up with quality work.
Is that this may spread to other venues, cant wear a metallica tshirt to ozzfest.
Cant attend a sporting event with the same rules even going as far as saying you cant wear a hockey jersey to football game.
How long will it be until a corporation begins to fund roads or parks and have security banning other advertisers.
It's bad enough I cant watch the superior coverage of the olympics legaly here in the USA due to similar contracts. Though I wonder how the advertisers would feel if people began to boycot them becuase one tv station banned them from consumer choice of BBC's olympics vs MicroSoft NBC Olympics.
Just hope it's not the one that had the ATM stolen back in 2000 or 1999 before I went to Korea.. otherwise more than that ATM might go missing lol.
It's called Snow Hall I believe and it's at Ft Sill in Lawton, OK. I have friends up there that work at the place but they've never mentioned any signifigant upgrades. But being the military it does not mean that it didnt happen and they were probably not allowed to tell anyone at the time. I'll have to visit sometime to check it out hopefully.
The current system is broken actually. If our access was standardized and paid for in a manner that would spur quicker upgrades it would be much better. Nowdays the telecommunication companies are working on ways to keep compeitiors off their lines or cable which is in essence a monopoly. IE I cant get Verizon DSL which is priced better than SBC DSL if I have lines owned by SBC. If access methods were owned by one company that is in charge of maintaing the network while the companies provide the services things would be much different. They would push the infrastructure company to upgrade it's facilities so they could make money. These pushes could be through monetary or technology(IP) donations to spur adoption on the network.
Basically as it stands Verizon and SBC have sat on their hands for years on the fiber upgrades because they did not want other companies to piggyback on the network they spent money working on. So now the government has given in to them and they dont have to share with anyone which means no compeition at all. Evidence of this is Verizon's charges for their 30Mbit/5Mbit line at 199.99 a month vs their 15mbit/2mbit line at 49.95 a month. The 15Mbit line is barely capable of providing data/phone/high def television services at the same time. The 30mbit service would. However that 199.99 charge is for internet only so your phone and cable over that line would be additional charges. Now consider if there was competition from a company that could do that all over the 30mbit line for 120 a month then Verizon would think about their prices and compete.
But since the FCC gave in these fiber to the premise projects are basically cash cow's for verizon and SBC.
Lets take for instance if all the telecommunications companies in the US were forced to give up their lines and hand the upgrading and maint of them to a centeral company. This company would be regulated by the government for prices and what upgrades need to be done through contributions by the "Telecommunications Services Companies" and taxpayers.
It would be my belief that you would see wide adoption of Fiber to the Premises in a much quicker manner than currently being shown by SBC and Verizon. Futhermore those companies that have this huge debt cloud that the fiber would never make money can then focus on providing services over those lines. Also they would not be restricted to the areas they are currently in so in essence I could be a Verizon Customer until I get a better deal then switch over to Comcast who would provide services via my fiber connection.
In essence the national telecommunications network would be considered the Linux of our telecommunications backbone. Verizon, SBC, Cable Companies etc would be considered in the same light as Redhat, Novell, Mandrake and others. It's a common platform and the services are being provided.
The only problem with this is that Linux has yet to be standardized in a acceptable manner. Mandrake looks different from Redhat who looks different from Novell. Fix that, standardize what's being done to the kernel and fight for customers with support and product contracts and we can kiss MS goodbye.
Linux service providers (LSP)'s should be going to Corporations and telling them we'll provide you this service that will eliminate this problem or situation. You have to adopt Linux on that platform but for a fee we will make it do what you want and provide training and support for the life of it.
Other companies should be investing in end to end solutions built on Linux that are standards based and drum up companies to adopt this. We see it in many places today but adoption is slow but picking up very quickly.
Other companies who are standing on the sidelines wondering about this SCO business need to realize all the money they are throwing away and finally need to give the finger to SCO and get on with the conversion. Service disruptions to a Microsoft based virus over the last 2 years have far outshined any royalty payment you would ever have to pay SCO if hell froze over and they won their court cases. Go out and find those balls you had when you made these companies so great and use them again for once.