I see that frequency hopping is limited to 1 watt, but did not see anything regarding direct sequence. In fact, none of the categories I saw in that document really fit direct sequence. From what I've read in the past, the rules as they apply to point to point are the same for direct sequence, but I could be wrong.
Networks will be free when they don't cost anything to build. My company http://www.mvn.net is currently bringing wireless Internet access to the home. It's not perfect yet, but it's getting better. And we do use encryption/authentication on our network. We do radius-based authentication, as well as MAC-layer authentication via our equipment. But, in answer to your first paragraph, we're broadcasting everywhere...not just to corporate customers. It'll get to everyone soon enough. It's too cost-effective/profitable not to.
What type of cable were you using? Using LMR-600, we get about 10 miles tops. Using 1200, I could see more, but still doubt I would see 25 miles *reliably* out of our 2.4 stuff. When you did this stuff, did you amplify over FCC regs? What was your total output db? Just curious...
I am part owner of an ISP that does wireless service. 25 miles is not feasible from what we've seen. It is possible, but with the stuff we're using (2.4Ghz unlicensed), it's not going to happen. Even with most of the licensed stuff, you're only going to see around 15 miles. The most we've seen reliably from our 2.4 stuff is 10 miles, and this was with an 80 foot tower at the customer location. We also use 5.7/5.3 Ghz equipment for 8mbit point to point service. This is in the UNII band. We have gotten a max of 11.1 miles from this stuff. Could probably get 15 miles with 2-foot dishes.
Hills and things do improve the situation with the equipment that we use with our 2.4 network. The perfect situation is one where you have some sort of blockage just a little before the end of your range. This helps to prevent your transmitters from interfering with their counterparts in case they're transmitting just a bit farther than they should be able to. The best idea would be a cellular style delivery. No reason to go 25 miles with a link. Why not saturate a town or city with transmitters? Build the system (as we are beginning to build ours) where the customer only has to have a small, inexpensive 11db (or lower) flat-panel antenna on their house, without an expensive amplifier or huge LMR-1200 cable.
Wireless is in its infancy, and it's probably going to give us all cancer, but I like being able to take the telco out of the loop (no pun intended).
What I don't understand is why *I* didn't turn out to kill anyone when I was young. I mean, I played "violent" video games, I was picked on unmercifully by other kids because I was/am a nerd. It upset me a great deal, but I never even once thought about shooting anyone. I've never really ever been a violent person. Even playing Quake 2 every day now, it's never been a thought to fill someone full of lead. The "experts" comback may be to say that not everyone reacts that way to the violent video games, TV, etc. But, I'm of a different opinion. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. The world is violent. Take away violent video games, TV, media, you still have parents beating their kids, bullies, teachers beating/mentally abusing their students, child molesters. The list goes on. The problem is not what children have to deal with, it is that we're not equipping our children to deal with these issues. That is why I did not go out and shoot anyone. I was equipped with enough self-esteem and knowledge to know what was right and wrong, and how to deal with things that seemed impossible to deal with. That's what kids need. They don't need to have their harmless hobbies taken away because adults don't know what to do. This will probably only frustrate our children more, and, since we're not teaching them properly, they'll probably start adding us to the list of people they shoot.
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It's nice to see that someone in this world has some pride about something. This is something ebbing away in the US. I'd agree that Mir was/is a great achievment. Communist or non-Communist Russia, it's what will be the catalyst and set the precedent of the entire world's next generation of space exploration projects.
Do what you want to do. If those others are talented, they will find work. Or, you could go out on a limb and start your own company and hire all of them. Don't waste your time doing something you don't want to do. Life is too short.
I agree that my use of the word "Communist" was probably improper. Maybe "Collectivist" would have been a better choice. Basically, if you disagree with the government and the majority, and you let it be known, you get hit, shot, etc. Look at Ayn Rand's "Anthem" to get a partial idea of what I'm talking about.
heh...I wrote a story about a band geek that went crazy, killed about 5 peopl in class that bullied him, and then jumped out of the window. I handed it in to my creative writing teacher. Got a 96/100 points on it. Funny thing is, this band geek was quite similar in description to myself. Now, I never would have killed/would kill anyone ever, but I guarantee I'd be arrested and in psychiatric care if I was in high school and turned that story in today, seeing as how I used names and events that happened in the band class I was a member of. Yet, I'm a fully functional member of society. Adults hold kids to different standards than maybe they should, and everyone is up tight and think that kids are Columbine-ish hackers with no morals. They watch for the wrong signs, and arrest them for dumb shit way too often. I'd like to see them arrest an upstanding businessman in the same community for doing the same thing. They probably wouldn't. Especially if it was someone with money. Salem police, maybe you should think about the dumb shit you did when you were younger:D I'm sure you're not a bunch of angels.
The death of one is a tragedy,
The death of millions is just a statistic
Unfortunately, police departments on the whole do not understand how to deal with this stuff yet. I personally was involved in a case where a kid was stealing service from the ISP I run. I had proof of it, but the police had no idea how to read the logs that I had, but just went along with what I said. Now, I was telling the truth, and after more qualified police personnel looked through the logs, they made the same decision I had made and it held up in court. But, the original search warrant was written on information that they didn't understand at all, and really didn't know if the search should have been warranted. Now, turn this case into a case where someone is badmouthing the police. As with many people (and especially those with executive power), they don't like it when they're being made fun of. So, what do you do? You use the same lack of knowledge to go on a cyber-witchhunt. The cops probably wrote up a search warrant based on the thought that they were mad, and then thought naked pictures == obscenity, so there's our probable cause. What they don't/didn't realize is that, unlike my case which was true, their case will probably be thrown out as unconstitutional. The bottom line is that one of two things is going to happen. We're either going to have to achieve proper education for those with executive power (state's attornies, police officers, etc) or we're going to turn into a Communist police state. I don't know about you, but given most of the news headlines I see these days, I have a feeling I know which one is going to happen...
I don't have much experience with fonts myself, but wouldn't it be a good idea for someone to come up with a "free", high-quality font format? I don't know the programming implications of this. If anyone has any info, I'd be happy to look into it to see if I can maybe get started on something like this. Is there any reason that TrueType fonts are the only way to go?
It sounds like you are being consciencious about the whole thing, and they're being unreasonable. If you're qualified for the job, then you'll have no problem finding work else where. If I were in your situation, I would explain to them that I like the job I am in, and want to stay there. If they don't like it and fire you, it's not your fault. You did the "Right Thing".
I've spoken with Mike Hart on many occasions. It seems they are not interested in much of anything except getting etexts made. This is understandable, considering the amount of time it takes to do this. His basic idea is he'll be alive for X years, and in that time, he can do Y etexts. And if people volunteer to help him, even better. PG wouldn't even have a web page if it weren't for it being maintained by someone else, and the fact that it makes more people interested in helping. PG is doing the raw work to make these texts available, but its up to the rest of the world to use them. Post your utility on Freshmeat. Hell, I'll post it on my web page. But, don't say "Screw PG!" just because they're focused. I think being focused on the elimination of illiteracy is a good thing. Make your own page with your utility interfacing to their texts, and advertise it wherever you can. It sounds like you have some good ideas.
First of all, I'd like to say that the user comments on this article have been atrocious. Yeah, I'm going to get flamed for this, but hell, this whole thread has been nothing but "WTF is Slashdot posting HOWTOs", but not a real discussion. Email the people that run the site if you're really that pissed off.
Anyway....
I've had a question for a while, but wondered if anyone here knew any details. If I stream in an "Internet Radio" type situation, do the same rules that apply for radio apply for Internet streaming? For example, let's say I start an Internet radio station, I play music, sell advertising, etc. Do I still have to track songs and pay royalties? When I worked at a radio station, we had to track what we played on a computer or on paper, and the station paid royalties on it. Anyway, just curious if anyone had any insight on this.
I wouldn't say that it's stupid for these items to have static IP addresses. Some small devices will need them to do all of the neat little things we want them to do via the 'net. However, I do think that NAT needs to be used in more situations where client-pull rather than client-push technology is being used. For example, an office of 20 computers with normal, web surfing, email downloading users. Rather than giving them a/27 network of IP addresses, they should use NAT. I'm seeing increasing laziness in the industry towards NAT. Granted, if the network needs real IP space, use it. But definitely do NOT use it if you don't need it.
I completely agree. This actually goes right along with what I said in my post. I find it much more valiant to be proud to be a part of something, then to tout that one *is* that something. But, by nature, people are greedy. They'd rather say "I did this" than "We did this, and I'm proud to be part of it".
You are exactly right. If we don't like how patent law is happening, we should make sure we make our case to the government. If the government doesn't listen, vote someone in who will. We need to take our country back, instead of letting the few people that do vote decide who we're going to give our country to next. (Shameless Political Plug) Look at Harry Brown's platform. Even if you don't agree with him, his principles are what I think we need to get back on track. Give us back our freedom. We need the government to be there to perserve freedom, not to decide how we live our lives down to the very smallest detail. I know that last bit was a little off topic, but it honestly is how I feel about patent issues, mp3s, etc. Sueing, patent law, etc has gotten out of hand because we have let the government set up a system that allows for it to get out of hand. All I'm saying is, if issues like this make your blood boil, vote this year and at least try to make a difference!
Oh yeah, I forgot one last comment. I hate the idea of a computer storing my credit card information for a one-click order anyway. So I say let them have the patent, because I won't use one-click ordering anyway.
I can't say that this patent bothers me. In fact, few of these patent battles bother me. The fact that we have a patent system that allows these kinds of petty patent wars is what bothers me. When people see a chance to make a buck, and even more so when they have the chance to *exclusively* make a buck, they jump on the chance quickly and heavily. It's just human nature to want to aquire wealth. The worst part about this is that it just wastes peoples' time and money for them to sit around and argue over who had it first, and who has exclusive rights to it. Wouldn't it be better for all of the companies to just implement it, use it, and then come up with better implementations of it, and whoever climbs out of the rubble wins? I'm fully for a Darwinian capitalist economy. Survival of the fittest. If I come up with something, and Joe down the street hears about it, that's my fault for letting it leak. I had better do a better job at the same thing as him, or I deserve to choke. And our government should not be doing anything to go against this idea. It's a perfect example of capitalism at work. And call me old fashioned, but I love capitalism:D
I just think that comments like this are sad. I would be naive to say that Redhat hasn't been a major part in mainstreaming Linux, and at least awakening people to the idea of OSS, but come on, there were a lot of players before hand. I believe in being humble, and giving credit where credit is due, and I don't think Redhat has been that way in this situation.
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I see that frequency hopping is limited to 1 watt, but did not see anything regarding direct sequence. In fact, none of the categories I saw in that document really fit direct sequence. From what I've read in the past, the rules as they apply to point to point are the same for direct sequence, but I could be wrong.
Networks will be free when they don't cost anything to build. My company http://www.mvn.net is currently bringing wireless Internet access to the home. It's not perfect yet, but it's getting better. And we do use encryption/authentication on our network. We do radius-based authentication, as well as MAC-layer authentication via our equipment. But, in answer to your first paragraph, we're broadcasting everywhere...not just to corporate customers. It'll get to everyone soon enough. It's too cost-effective/profitable not to.
What type of cable were you using? Using LMR-600, we get about 10 miles tops. Using 1200, I could see more, but still doubt I would see 25 miles *reliably* out of our 2.4 stuff. When you did this stuff, did you amplify over FCC regs? What was your total output db? Just curious...
I am part owner of an ISP that does wireless service. 25 miles is not feasible from what we've seen. It is possible, but with the stuff we're using (2.4Ghz unlicensed), it's not going to happen. Even with most of the licensed stuff, you're only going to see around 15 miles. The most we've seen reliably from our 2.4 stuff is 10 miles, and this was with an 80 foot tower at the customer location. We also use 5.7/5.3 Ghz equipment for 8mbit point to point service. This is in the UNII band. We have gotten a max of 11.1 miles from this stuff. Could probably get 15 miles with 2-foot dishes.
Hills and things do improve the situation with the equipment that we use with our 2.4 network. The perfect situation is one where you have some sort of blockage just a little before the end of your range. This helps to prevent your transmitters from interfering with their counterparts in case they're transmitting just a bit farther than they should be able to. The best idea would be a cellular style delivery. No reason to go 25 miles with a link. Why not saturate a town or city with transmitters? Build the system (as we are beginning to build ours) where the customer only has to have a small, inexpensive 11db (or lower) flat-panel antenna on their house, without an expensive amplifier or huge LMR-1200 cable.
Wireless is in its infancy, and it's probably going to give us all cancer, but I like being able to take the telco out of the loop (no pun intended).
What I don't understand is why *I* didn't turn out to kill anyone when I was young. I mean, I played "violent" video games, I was picked on unmercifully by other kids because I was/am a nerd. It upset me a great deal, but I never even once thought about shooting anyone. I've never really ever been a violent person. Even playing Quake 2 every day now, it's never been a thought to fill someone full of lead. The "experts" comback may be to say that not everyone reacts that way to the violent video games, TV, etc. But, I'm of a different opinion. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. The world is violent. Take away violent video games, TV, media, you still have parents beating their kids, bullies, teachers beating/mentally abusing their students, child molesters. The list goes on. The problem is not what children have to deal with, it is that we're not equipping our children to deal with these issues. That is why I did not go out and shoot anyone. I was equipped with enough self-esteem and knowledge to know what was right and wrong, and how to deal with things that seemed impossible to deal with. That's what kids need. They don't need to have their harmless hobbies taken away because adults don't know what to do. This will probably only frustrate our children more, and, since we're not teaching them properly, they'll probably start adding us to the list of people they shoot.
It's nice to see that someone in this world has some pride about something. This is something ebbing away in the US. I'd agree that Mir was/is a great achievment. Communist or non-Communist Russia, it's what will be the catalyst and set the precedent of the entire world's next generation of space exploration projects.
Don't fucking post it and don't bitch about it if it's so irrelevant.
Do what you want to do. If those others are talented, they will find work. Or, you could go out on a limb and start your own company and hire all of them. Don't waste your time doing something you don't want to do. Life is too short.
I agree that my use of the word "Communist" was probably improper. Maybe "Collectivist" would have been a better choice. Basically, if you disagree with the government and the majority, and you let it be known, you get hit, shot, etc. Look at Ayn Rand's "Anthem" to get a partial idea of what I'm talking about.
heh...I wrote a story about a band geek that went crazy, killed about 5 peopl in class that bullied him, and then jumped out of the window. I handed it in to my creative writing teacher. Got a 96/100 points on it. Funny thing is, this band geek was quite similar in description to myself. Now, I never would have killed/would kill anyone ever, but I guarantee I'd be arrested and in psychiatric care if I was in high school and turned that story in today, seeing as how I used names and events that happened in the band class I was a member of. Yet, I'm a fully functional member of society. Adults hold kids to different standards than maybe they should, and everyone is up tight and think that kids are Columbine-ish hackers with no morals. They watch for the wrong signs, and arrest them for dumb shit way too often. I'd like to see them arrest an upstanding businessman in the same community for doing the same thing. They probably wouldn't. Especially if it was someone with money. Salem police, maybe you should think about the dumb shit you did when you were younger :D I'm sure you're not a bunch of angels.
The death of one is a tragedy,
The death of millions is just a statistic
Unfortunately, police departments on the whole do not understand how to deal with this stuff yet. I personally was involved in a case where a kid was stealing service from the ISP I run. I had proof of it, but the police had no idea how to read the logs that I had, but just went along with what I said. Now, I was telling the truth, and after more qualified police personnel looked through the logs, they made the same decision I had made and it held up in court. But, the original search warrant was written on information that they didn't understand at all, and really didn't know if the search should have been warranted. Now, turn this case into a case where someone is badmouthing the police. As with many people (and especially those with executive power), they don't like it when they're being made fun of. So, what do you do? You use the same lack of knowledge to go on a cyber-witchhunt. The cops probably wrote up a search warrant based on the thought that they were mad, and then thought naked pictures == obscenity, so there's our probable cause. What they don't/didn't realize is that, unlike my case which was true, their case will probably be thrown out as unconstitutional. The bottom line is that one of two things is going to happen. We're either going to have to achieve proper education for those with executive power (state's attornies, police officers, etc) or we're going to turn into a Communist police state. I don't know about you, but given most of the news headlines I see these days, I have a feeling I know which one is going to happen...
I don't have much experience with fonts myself, but wouldn't it be a good idea for someone to come up with a "free", high-quality font format? I don't know the programming implications of this. If anyone has any info, I'd be happy to look into it to see if I can maybe get started on something like this. Is there any reason that TrueType fonts are the only way to go?
It sounds like you are being consciencious about the whole thing, and they're being unreasonable. If you're qualified for the job, then you'll have no problem finding work else where. If I were in your situation, I would explain to them that I like the job I am in, and want to stay there. If they don't like it and fire you, it's not your fault. You did the "Right Thing".
I've spoken with Mike Hart on many occasions. It seems they are not interested in much of anything except getting etexts made. This is understandable, considering the amount of time it takes to do this. His basic idea is he'll be alive for X years, and in that time, he can do Y etexts. And if people volunteer to help him, even better. PG wouldn't even have a web page if it weren't for it being maintained by someone else, and the fact that it makes more people interested in helping. PG is doing the raw work to make these texts available, but its up to the rest of the world to use them. Post your utility on Freshmeat. Hell, I'll post it on my web page. But, don't say "Screw PG!" just because they're focused. I think being focused on the elimination of illiteracy is a good thing. Make your own page with your utility interfacing to their texts, and advertise it wherever you can. It sounds like you have some good ideas.
First of all, I'd like to say that the user comments on this article have been atrocious. Yeah, I'm going to get flamed for this, but hell, this whole thread has been nothing but "WTF is Slashdot posting HOWTOs", but not a real discussion. Email the people that run the site if you're really that pissed off.
Anyway....
I've had a question for a while, but wondered if anyone here knew any details. If I stream in an "Internet Radio" type situation, do the same rules that apply for radio apply for Internet streaming? For example, let's say I start an Internet radio station, I play music, sell advertising, etc. Do I still have to track songs and pay royalties? When I worked at a radio station, we had to track what we played on a computer or on paper, and the station paid royalties on it. Anyway, just curious if anyone had any insight on this.
I wouldn't say that it's stupid for these items to have static IP addresses. Some small devices will need them to do all of the neat little things we want them to do via the 'net. However, I do think that NAT needs to be used in more situations where client-pull rather than client-push technology is being used. For example, an office of 20 computers with normal, web surfing, email downloading users. Rather than giving them a /27 network of IP addresses, they should use NAT. I'm seeing increasing laziness in the industry towards NAT. Granted, if the network needs real IP space, use it. But definitely do NOT use it if you don't need it.
I completely agree. This actually goes right along with what I said in my post. I find it much more valiant to be proud to be a part of something, then to tout that one *is* that something. But, by nature, people are greedy. They'd rather say "I did this" than "We did this, and I'm proud to be part of it".
You are exactly right. If we don't like how patent law is happening, we should make sure we make our case to the government. If the government doesn't listen, vote someone in who will. We need to take our country back, instead of letting the few people that do vote decide who we're going to give our country to next. (Shameless Political Plug) Look at Harry Brown's platform. Even if you don't agree with him, his principles are what I think we need to get back on track. Give us back our freedom. We need the government to be there to perserve freedom, not to decide how we live our lives down to the very smallest detail. I know that last bit was a little off topic, but it honestly is how I feel about patent issues, mp3s, etc. Sueing, patent law, etc has gotten out of hand because we have let the government set up a system that allows for it to get out of hand. All I'm saying is, if issues like this make your blood boil, vote this year and at least try to make a difference!
Oh yeah, I forgot one last comment. I hate the idea of a computer storing my credit card information for a one-click order anyway. So I say let them have the patent, because I won't use one-click ordering anyway.
I can't say that this patent bothers me. In fact, few of these patent battles bother me. The fact that we have a patent system that allows these kinds of petty patent wars is what bothers me. When people see a chance to make a buck, and even more so when they have the chance to *exclusively* make a buck, they jump on the chance quickly and heavily. It's just human nature to want to aquire wealth. The worst part about this is that it just wastes peoples' time and money for them to sit around and argue over who had it first, and who has exclusive rights to it. Wouldn't it be better for all of the companies to just implement it, use it, and then come up with better implementations of it, and whoever climbs out of the rubble wins? I'm fully for a Darwinian capitalist economy. Survival of the fittest. If I come up with something, and Joe down the street hears about it, that's my fault for letting it leak. I had better do a better job at the same thing as him, or I deserve to choke. And our government should not be doing anything to go against this idea. It's a perfect example of capitalism at work. And call me old fashioned, but I love capitalism :D
I just think that comments like this are sad. I would be naive to say that Redhat hasn't been a major part in mainstreaming Linux, and at least awakening people to the idea of OSS, but come on, there were a lot of players before hand. I believe in being humble, and giving credit where credit is due, and I don't think Redhat has been that way in this situation.
I've mirrored ftp.xmms.org at ftp://ftp.ameth.org/pub/mirrors/ftp.xmms.org/. Feel free to grab XMMS from us if the actual server is a bit slow.
If you're looking for a mirror of the Windowmaker ftp, try ftp.ameth.org/pub/mirrors/ftp.windowmaker.org/.