The tech is a phased array antenna, there was a good article about using it with 802.11 (notice there is no b) in the IEEE spectrum [ieee.org] a while ago.
Consider it a sort of software antenna, you have a series of antenna that you can bias towards a particular direction. You then listen for incoming signals and use a processor to calculate environmental multipath (RF signals bouncing off buildings, etc.) and then fire off your signal so that the main signal and multipath reflections arrive at the reciever at the same time. Instant gain.
I'm skeptical on the reported max range but they should get a good amount. If you're sitting in the middle of a parabolic dish and so is your target, sure I expect that kind of increase in range, but in the real world...
Games-wise, it's anticipated HomeStation will play both PC and Xbox titles.
MS is entering some interesting territory, they are COMPETING with their own customers. Compaq, Dell, IBM *also* sell PCs for this purpose... I wonder how they will feel when the XBox v2.0 starts to serve the same functions, in the home setting, as their product.
One of the cardinal rules of business: Never take a product 'direct' to market, and compete with your customers with the product that they BUY FROM YOU. It will leave a bad taste in the mouths of the people who *used* to be your customers.. there will be desire, on their part, to collectively THUMP you.
The Xbox is the single-handedly most astonishingly brash thing MS is doing right now - they are really looking at taking over the Home-PC market. Will XBox v4.0 be a Proprietary Computer? Will MS start selling full featured PC work-a-likes, sure they might call them appliances... but if it smells like a monopoly, and acts like a monopoly....
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Looking forward to David Fincher's Catcher in The Rye? Keep waiting, that book will still be in copyright over 70 years from now, and he will be long dead.
Well, I could wait seventy years, or I could spend fifteen minutes looking for a couple of quarters in the parking lot outside the used book store...
And I really hate to burst your bubble, but text mode Quake 2 really doesn't do much for the world. Oh, but wait, he learned so much from looking at the source code! Yeah, I can really tell. He's put together something spectacular. Uh huh. Look dude, I can fart and call it free speech; that doesn't mean it is inherently good, useful, or anything other than a bad smell in the air.
Here in the USA, the most technologically advanced society in the world, it's difficult if not impossible to get *any* high speed service outside a major metropolitan area.
That may have been a compelling insight if it weren't a total lie.
That will not happen. Many people see the encroaching powers of the U.N. as the beginnings of a "World Government." Handing over, or even selling, the GPS would increase that sentiment.
They don't register for the draft, they register for the selective service. No body has been drafted since 1973 and to reinstitute the draft would require an act of Congress.
Slashdot covered the governor's plan to give his 7th graders laptops, this article offers a glimpse of that all-too-rare breed, the insightful, technologically aware bureaucrat
Yeah, that's great. Take my hard-earned tax dollars and give a laptop to some greasy little punk so he can play quake during math class. There's nothing rare about a bureaucrat with no qualms about spending other people's money whenever and wherever it can buy him a vote or two.
By the time you buy a processor of a given speed, then buy the heatsink, then buy the fan, then buy the temperature monitor, then buy the water coolant system, them install the flow indicator, and then buy the refrigeration unit doesn't the cost/benefit ratio basically, to put it technically, go to shit? Sheesh. You can either spend $100 extra dollars to buy a processor that's 100MHz faster or spend $200 to overclock it.
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It's either X, or the X Window System. XWindows is considered incorrect.
The tech is a phased array antenna, there was a good article about using it with 802.11 (notice there is no b) in the IEEE spectrum [ieee.org] a while ago.
Consider it a sort of software antenna, you have a series of antenna that you can bias towards a particular direction. You then listen for incoming signals and use a processor to calculate environmental multipath (RF signals bouncing off buildings, etc.) and then fire off your signal so that the main signal and multipath reflections arrive at the reciever at the same time. Instant gain.
I'm skeptical on the reported max range but they should get a good amount. If you're sitting in the middle of a parabolic dish and so is your target, sure I expect that kind of increase in range, but in the real world...
Fuck you dude. No seriously, fuck you.
+1 Planet-sized Ego
Aren't moons just a subset of planets? I've heard them called "secondary planets."
http://www.michigancybercourt.net/ ?
Make the clickers and the copy/pasters happy all in one fell swoop.
What's the capacity of these things? Grabbing some numbers (length and bpi) from other posts my rough calculations show about 10.7 MB. Is this right?
Games-wise, it's anticipated HomeStation will play both PC and Xbox titles.
MS is entering some interesting territory, they are COMPETING with their own customers. Compaq, Dell, IBM *also* sell PCs for this purpose... I wonder how they will feel when the XBox v2.0 starts to serve the same functions, in the home setting, as their product.
One of the cardinal rules of business: Never take a product 'direct' to market, and compete with your customers with the product that they BUY FROM YOU. It will leave a bad taste in the mouths of the people who *used* to be your customers.. there will be desire, on their part, to collectively THUMP you.
The Xbox is the single-handedly most astonishingly brash thing MS is doing right now - they are really looking at taking over the Home-PC market. Will XBox v4.0 be a Proprietary Computer? Will MS start selling full featured PC work-a-likes, sure they might call them appliances... but if it smells like a monopoly, and acts like a monopoly....
Well, I could wait seventy years, or I could spend fifteen minutes looking for a couple of quarters in the parking lot outside the used book store...
And I really hate to burst your bubble, but text mode Quake 2 really doesn't do much for the world. Oh, but wait, he learned so much from looking at the source code! Yeah, I can really tell. He's put together something spectacular. Uh huh. Look dude, I can fart and call it free speech; that doesn't mean it is inherently good, useful, or anything other than a bad smell in the air.
Quite right.
B = byte
b = bit
512 Mb = 512/8 MB = 64 MB. Get it straight.
Is a criminal!
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>> JFS partitions were non-bootable
> correct. JFS volumes require LVM support,
> and it is currently impossible to boot from
> a LV. (Think Win2k Dynamic Disk.)
That wasn't a question.
I really don't want to be there.
That may have been a compelling insight if it weren't a total lie.
That will not happen. Many people see the encroaching powers of the U.N. as the beginnings of a "World Government." Handing over, or even selling, the GPS would increase that sentiment.
What's a rescrition?
Screw you, pinko.
Get yourself some cough syrup and learn how to spell "drool," ok?
Only if you're lactating.
By selective service I refer to the Selective Service System. The draft doesn't currently exist.
They don't register for the draft, they register for the selective service. No body has been drafted since 1973 and to reinstitute the draft would require an act of Congress.
That's In other words you *stinking* retard.
Two words for you: Microsoft Bob
Yeah, that's great. Take my hard-earned tax dollars and give a laptop to some greasy little punk so he can play quake during math class. There's nothing rare about a bureaucrat with no qualms about spending other people's money whenever and wherever it can buy him a vote or two.
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