The million dollar valuation is the same one used to show how costly Kevin Mitnick's crimes were. And oh, remember that million dollar-ish document somebody dumpster-dove from a phone company, the one telling how to dial 911 or something? It probably cost MS over a megabuck to develop the new product, but the prototype was not, in and of itself, the thing of real value, and they probably lied to the PD in order to get them to do their dirty work for them.
The press articles are leaving out a lot of details. This is about MMDS, a spectrum originally raffled off as "wireless cable". That didn't fly in many cases and the companies largely went bankrupt. Within the past year, Worldcom has bought most of them up, with Sprint picking up most of the others. One per city, so that's it -- other ISPs Need Not Apply.
Cisco's contribution is, per some articles I've read, Vector Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplexing. It's a way of surviving multipath. It's not a panacaea for line of sight problems; rather, it means that if you can get the signal via one or more paths (vs. "just one" using some other codes), the multipath won't clobber it.
NYNEX was going to use MMDS here in Boston, but they discovered that the licensee's network didn't reach more than 2/3 of households. You do need something resembling line of sight at 2.5 GHz. Although VOFDM might make do with a more indirect path than plain old TV did.
I first read about Gold in a New Yorker article in the late 1980s. At the time, he was planning to dig a hole in the Siljian Ring in Sweden, a place that most geologists had no oil, but which fit his theory. Today's article reports that he *did* find oil there, in 1990, and they extracted 12 tons of it. I'd say that counts. Never mind that his theories about hydrocarbons just make perfect sense. They even seem to me to fit Occam's Razor.
He has made mistakes, no doubt, but overall his record is excellent. I'd trust him over an oil company geologist any day. If his theory pans out, after all, the supply of discoverable oil and gas goes up, and the price goes down!
An ironic quote from news.com's article on what's being added... noting that "forking" in the open-source world means something on its own...
For example, something that's present in Unix but missing on the Windows version is the "fork" feature, which lets a program make a copy of itself, Hardt said, a very useful ability for programs that use the network.
ActiveState will add the fork function into Perl for Windows and release the code to the open source community, he said.
Half of the original "Class A" space was never given out; the whole Net 65-126 range is vacant. Using CIDR allocations, that can last a long time!
IPv6 is too much work for too little gain. I'd rather see a total rethinking of the IP layer by some people who don't think that IPv4 was handed down to Moses on Sinai.
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The million dollar valuation is the same one used to show how costly Kevin Mitnick's crimes were. And oh, remember that million dollar-ish document somebody dumpster-dove from a phone company, the one telling how to dial 911 or something? It probably cost MS over a megabuck to develop the new product, but the prototype was not, in and of itself, the thing of real value, and they probably lied to the PD in order to get them to do their dirty work for them.
The press articles are leaving out a lot of details. This is about MMDS, a spectrum originally raffled off as "wireless cable". That didn't fly in many cases and the companies largely went bankrupt. Within the past year, Worldcom has bought most of them up, with Sprint picking up most of the others. One per city, so that's it -- other ISPs Need Not Apply.
Cisco's contribution is, per some articles I've read, Vector Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplexing. It's a way of surviving multipath. It's not a panacaea for line of sight problems; rather, it means that if you can get the signal via one or more paths (vs. "just one" using some other codes), the multipath won't clobber it.
NYNEX was going to use MMDS here in Boston, but they discovered that the licensee's network didn't reach more than 2/3 of households. You do need something resembling line of sight at 2.5 GHz. Although VOFDM might make do with a more indirect path than plain old TV did.
Oh, but he has done experimental research!
I first read about Gold in a New Yorker article in the late 1980s. At the time, he was planning to dig a hole in the Siljian Ring in Sweden, a place that most geologists had no oil, but which fit his theory. Today's article reports that he *did* find oil there, in 1990, and they extracted 12 tons of it. I'd say that counts. Never mind that his theories about hydrocarbons just make perfect sense. They even seem to me to fit Occam's Razor.
He has made mistakes, no doubt, but overall his record is excellent. I'd trust him over an oil company geologist any day. If his theory pans out, after all, the supply of discoverable oil and gas goes up, and the price goes down!
An ironic quote from news.com's article on what's being added... noting that "forking" in the open-source world means something on its own...
For example, something that's present in Unix but missing on the Windows version is the "fork" feature, which lets a program make a copy of itself, Hardt said, a very useful ability for programs that use the network.
ActiveState will add the fork function into Perl for Windows and release the code to the
open source community, he said.
Half of the original "Class A" space was never given out; the whole Net 65-126 range is vacant. Using CIDR allocations, that can last a long time!
IPv6 is too much work for too little gain. I'd rather see a total rethinking of the IP layer by some people who don't think that IPv4 was handed down to Moses on Sinai.