It's been a while since that last economics course, but the rule of Adam Smith's invisible hand is basically that a capitalistic market will naturally pull itself to equilibrium. Regulation creates deadweight social loss and a false sense of equilibrium. Everyone pays the price for something to remain out of equilibrium.
We have to ask ourselves if we have been living in a flase equilibrium due to over-regulation, and now we're whining because the invisible hand is trying to do it's nature...pull us into a true equilibrium.:(
One feature that Windows XP has that OS X 10.2 does not is the way it sets up terminal sessions for logins. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right...rather than having a single console session when you log in, you can "Switch Users" and get a second console for the other user, while leaving your users logged in and programs running.
Sort of like typing screen in unix, but doing it for the GUI, and with a different userid.
I really wish Apple would pick up on that one. OSX is still better though.:P
The problem is that I don't think that I've ever seen an instance where software was hardware restricted in such a way that it *could* work with other hardware, but only works with *their* hardware because it checks to make sure it belongs to them first.
I'm talking all platforms, not just Apple.
I think it's rather petty and childish, especially considering that there are little to no other alternatives for DVD burning on OS X outside of iDVD.
1. Windows 95 is so crash crazy (now, OSR2B isn't too bad, at least by Win9x standards) that I don't see why anyone would want to keep it around.
2. If you want to run DirectX8.1, it probably just checks the windows version number. Run a program that lies about the version number and I'd bet that the Win98 version will install. Any takers?
Agreed. That's the first thing I thought of when he started this thread. He's describing an iBook. The only diff is that it's PPC and not i386, and if that's a real hang up for you there's Virtual PC for the few binaries that are only available for i386.
Um...you're forgetting the burden of proof is on the law enforcement, not you. The fact that the IP of the 'offending' machine is hooked to a wireless tranceiver should in itself place doubt on your guilt.
You're no more responsible for the actions of people on your network than an ISP is for users on their's.
You don't have to live in Manhattan to do this!
There are groups all over the world doing this. I'm in Mile High Wireless, and we're doing it here in the Denver/Colorado Springs region!
http://www.milehighwireless.net
http://www.seattlewireless.net
I'm sure there's others, off the top of my head I'm blanking out. Follow the trail of links my friend!
Numbski
Why on earth are you worried about that certain someone that will trash it all?
I mean really, how many people are willing to shell out the cash for wireless hardware just for the purpose of screwing it up for everyone else???
Logically, if you're going to spend the money, you want to see it grow just like the rest of the community. Once 802.11g gets approved, I want to see someone eat up the 100Mbps of bandwidth that can fly across.;)
Numbski
Agreed. Anyone working on these community wireless projects are doing so because they want to see something good happen. So...problems MAY arise along the way. So what? To each problem there is probably a solution. I for one will devote a reasonable amount of time to the one in my area, and I sincerely hope to see it take off. Besides, with directional antennas that can shoot as far as 20 miles, get two or three people in 'the middle of nowhere' and all of a sudden you've linked two communities. Imagine running a 'free' 11Mbps LAN across two communities, and you haven't utilized a single major telecom! To me, we're talking about a major level of freedom. We no longer have the telecoms deciding who gets how much bandwidth....and with the likelihood of 802.11g getting passed by the end of the year, we may be doing this very soon as 100Mbps....oh yeah...:)
Numbski
Indeed, I'm in the infant group Mile High Wireless. The network isn't even up yet because we're still at the 'purchase hardware' stage.:) It's an inevitability though. My current roomate and I really don't want to have to set up seperate mp3 servers, and it would be really nice to run IPX/SPX across town to play starcraft without a bnetd.;)
Anyway, any project needs as many nodes as possible. Here's some more URL's:
Seattle Wireless: http://www.seattlewireless.net
Mile High Wireless: http://www.milehighwireless.net
Cheapest directional antenna: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
I believe this a group of coders at Seattle Wireless working on this as we speak:
http://www.seattlewireless.net
We'll probably 'borrow' it for use with Mile High Wireless as soon as we get some more people involved:
http://www.milehighwireless.net:)
Numbski
They're using 802.11b, just like we are over at Mile High Wireless (http://www.milehighwireless.net) for Denver and Colorado Springs. The channels used I believe are Channels 1-11 on the citizen's band. I might be mistaken there. Seattle Wireless and several of the Antenna building sites have info on it. It is VERY legal though.:)
We're still looking for more help at Mile High if anyone is interested.
Numbski
Mile High Wireless is still a very TINY group, but we need people in Denver and Colorado Springs. We'll shoot for the entire Front Range, one community at a time.:)
http://www.milehighwireless.net
Drop me an e-mail specifically if you have any questions.:) numbski@hksilver.net_spam_suxx
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It's been a while since that last economics course, but the rule of Adam Smith's invisible hand is basically that a capitalistic market will naturally pull itself to equilibrium. Regulation creates deadweight social loss and a false sense of equilibrium. Everyone pays the price for something to remain out of equilibrium.
:(
We have to ask ourselves if we have been living in a flase equilibrium due to over-regulation, and now we're whining because the invisible hand is trying to do it's nature...pull us into a true equilibrium.
The answer may not be so good.
The idea I read months ago was to forgo Neilsen.
Watch the show. Fill out your demographics. Mail them to SciFi, and all the companies that advertised during the show.
Do so weekly.
At what point do you stop ignorning the mail you're getting?
Always keep a functional Data backup.
It's a beautiful thing. :)
Oh, and if you weren't dumb enough to actually SET the region in DVD Player.app, then you have region-free dvd playback. Imagine that?
One feature that Windows XP has that OS X 10.2 does not is the way it sets up terminal sessions for logins. I'm not sure if I'm saying that right...rather than having a single console session when you log in, you can "Switch Users" and get a second console for the other user, while leaving your users logged in and programs running.
:P
Sort of like typing screen in unix, but doing it for the GUI, and with a different userid.
I really wish Apple would pick up on that one. OSX is still better though.
Good stuff.
I'm not remarking on AOL for Lindows. I honestly think the idea is pretty cool.
The horror is the installer.
Click N Run.
Uh....click to install! Uh...so, like how do I get to the installer? Through your ISP of course! My ISP is AOL.
Uh....
This chair has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
The problem is that I don't think that I've ever seen an instance where software was hardware restricted in such a way that it *could* work with other hardware, but only works with *their* hardware because it checks to make sure it belongs to them first.
I'm talking all platforms, not just Apple.
I think it's rather petty and childish, especially considering that there are little to no other alternatives for DVD burning on OS X outside of iDVD.
anyone?
Geez, that fast???
:(
How hard can it possibly be to write a small perl script, a few wget calls, and keep a running cron cache on links within stories?
Couple of thoughts.
1. Windows 95 is so crash crazy (now, OSR2B isn't too bad, at least by Win9x standards) that I don't see why anyone would want to keep it around.
2. If you want to run DirectX8.1, it probably just checks the windows version number. Run a program that lies about the version number and I'd bet that the Win98 version will install. Any takers?
Agreed. That's the first thing I thought of when he started this thread. He's describing an iBook. The only diff is that it's PPC and not i386, and if that's a real hang up for you there's Virtual PC for the few binaries that are only available for i386.
Apple is doing quite well these days.
Details are still sketchy on this one...but this is now FOUR planes to crash this morning....
You're no more responsible for the actions of people on your network than an ISP is for users on their's.
No worries IMHO.
Numbski
http://www.seattlewireless.com
We'll probably implement the same here at Mile High Wireless as well.
http://www.milehighwireless.com
You don't have to live in Manhattan to do this! There are groups all over the world doing this. I'm in Mile High Wireless, and we're doing it here in the Denver/Colorado Springs region! http://www.milehighwireless.net http://www.seattlewireless.net I'm sure there's others, off the top of my head I'm blanking out. Follow the trail of links my friend! Numbski
Why on earth are you worried about that certain someone that will trash it all? I mean really, how many people are willing to shell out the cash for wireless hardware just for the purpose of screwing it up for everyone else??? Logically, if you're going to spend the money, you want to see it grow just like the rest of the community. Once 802.11g gets approved, I want to see someone eat up the 100Mbps of bandwidth that can fly across. ;)
Numbski
Agreed. Anyone working on these community wireless projects are doing so because they want to see something good happen. So...problems MAY arise along the way. So what? To each problem there is probably a solution. I for one will devote a reasonable amount of time to the one in my area, and I sincerely hope to see it take off. Besides, with directional antennas that can shoot as far as 20 miles, get two or three people in 'the middle of nowhere' and all of a sudden you've linked two communities. Imagine running a 'free' 11Mbps LAN across two communities, and you haven't utilized a single major telecom! To me, we're talking about a major level of freedom. We no longer have the telecoms deciding who gets how much bandwidth....and with the likelihood of 802.11g getting passed by the end of the year, we may be doing this very soon as 100Mbps....oh yeah... :)
Numbski
Indeed, I'm in the infant group Mile High Wireless. The network isn't even up yet because we're still at the 'purchase hardware' stage. :) It's an inevitability though. My current roomate and I really don't want to have to set up seperate mp3 servers, and it would be really nice to run IPX/SPX across town to play starcraft without a bnetd. ;)
Anyway, any project needs as many nodes as possible. Here's some more URL's:
Seattle Wireless: http://www.seattlewireless.net
Mile High Wireless: http://www.milehighwireless.net
Cheapest directional antenna: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448
I believe this a group of coders at Seattle Wireless working on this as we speak: http://www.seattlewireless.net We'll probably 'borrow' it for use with Mile High Wireless as soon as we get some more people involved: http://www.milehighwireless.net :)
Numbski
They're using 802.11b, just like we are over at Mile High Wireless (http://www.milehighwireless.net) for Denver and Colorado Springs. The channels used I believe are Channels 1-11 on the citizen's band. I might be mistaken there. Seattle Wireless and several of the Antenna building sites have info on it. It is VERY legal though. :)
We're still looking for more help at Mile High if anyone is interested.
Numbski
Mile High Wireless is still a very TINY group, but we need people in Denver and Colorado Springs. We'll shoot for the entire Front Range, one community at a time. :)
http://www.milehighwireless.net
Drop me an e-mail specifically if you have any questions. :) numbski@hksilver.net_spam_suxx