As a vonage & comcast customer, i can confirm that outgoing calls to Canada at the moment are not working. Havent tried in the us. was working earlier today.
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This would help to solve one of the problems with an auto driving car, as witnessed in the DARPA grand challenge: vision. If the roads were implanted with these with an rfid tag (uniquely identified for each road/lane) it would be easy to reckon your absolute position relative to the road and detect things like an upcoming dip in the road, etc. making it much easier to drive a car autonomously. Cruise control that adjusts speed according to the traffic ahead of you is already present. The only issue is what would happen in fail safe mode where there were markers missing or burnt out/ slashdotter vandalized.
Often. Here at the University of Minnesota, we have had PETA raids upon research labs and Earth First set fire to a construction site (Biotechnology building sponsored by Cargil). Whether you call this terrorism or extreme activisim... but Earth First is generally regarded as a terrrorist/ extreme activist organization.
Actually, even if the labor cost approximately the same as it did here in the states it would still be cheaper to outsource for many companies. This is due to US laws that promote foreign investments, essentially allowing the company to tax defer all of the earnings as long as they are kept abroad. Thus they play a shell game where they either reinvest in foreign operations, or simply hide the money overseas, evading US tax law entirely. This is something that my state (Minnesota) is dealing with on a state level as a similar provision is in our tax code. One of the reasons that despite corporate profits increasing over 15% in the state, corporate income tax is actually down.
Gas prices arent increasing (well with regard to inflation). Besides refineries here in the US retool every spring in order to meet increased demand and so preventative maintenance goes on at this time of the year. Additionally it is the refineries that control gas prices more than the price of the crude oil barrel, which Standard Oil at one point (wisely) had a monopoly on (refineries). If a refinery accident happens, we see a higher gas price spike than if a crude goes up a dollar or so a barrel. Obviously the refinery companies have a bit of incentive to collude. Lastly there is quite a bit of market fragmentation within the U.S. as the additives that are in gasoline are regulated locally, creating over 100 blends of gasoline that the refineries have to supply.
This would be really cool in combination using something along the lines of Vonage, to allow you to make a call from anywhere and route it to POTS anywhere in the US/Canada for a flat fee. An interesting concept to say the least, allowing you to call anyone from anywhere wi fi is offered. Wonder how it works with the Asterix PBX as a gate keeper?
what's surprising is that even faced with this new competition, britannica still refuses to publish poorly-spelt and grossly ill-informed posts from my blog! the web has my blog. britannica doesn't. the web is winning. isn't it obvious what people want?
Sweet, now I have a good example to reference whenever someone is confusing correlation and causation!
Openoffice.org also is missing a data import function. Comes in handy when your instrument (Chemistry labs) produces data in tab deliniated or comma seperated values. Would make work a lot easier than having to import into excel, then open with open office. Also open office is missing many of the statistical tools that come with office (detailed regression output, histograms to name a few) that make life easier for students.
Also, there is quite a bit of an issue with the core OS of the dell Axiam (windows CE). As i remember, all current versions of the windowsCE family are optimized for the last generation of ARM processor cores (ie the cores that topped out at 206mhz rather than the faster x-scale cores). On the otherhand, since the Zaurus is based upon linux, a recompile of the core operating system to optimize for the x-scale core would be much simpler and doable without microsofts permission. Combined with the parent posters points on comparing the two machines, comparing the dell Axiam to the C750 is just plain ignorant.
Assuming you are using windows as your platform of choice, a little program called firedaemon: FireDaemon will do the trick. Its free for noncommercial use, and there is a fully enabled professionaly verion. In my expierience i've found it works well for Folding At Home and SETI At Home before.
Sun spends a lot of the time on the things that everyone who knows something about computers bitches about, ie the bottle necks in modern computers. Things like wider and faster busses (suns proprietary S-bus, etc) and working on the storage problem (fast drives and scsi) along with inteligent design on the part of the processor etc. Also since they have a control on the hardware (like apple) they dont have to compete with commodity cutthroat hardware so that they can do the little extra nice things that help out. Ie like using the appropriate capacitators and over building the equipment for reliablilty. Since they make a large chunk of their revenue from support, they then build the boxes to last forever. Just my two cents.
Perhaps we should then call it "server to server" networks. Then it wouldn't be illegal, since they could only attack p2p apps:P If they then extended it to server to server, well watch out! Although, thinking about it, the server to server network creates copies of copyrighted material (within the memory of the browser, caches, etc). Ah well, guess im just another techie realizing how silly this proposed law truly is.
Some companies charge what it costs. Check out coget at wwww.cogentco.com. 1000 dollars for 100mps of bandwidth is probably pretty close to as cheap as bandwidth gets. However you can only get it in major metropolitan areas. I think the root of the problem is somewhat like the farmer's dilemma, where if there is more produced, then the overall price of the commodity goes down. But if bandwidth is scarce, then it is possible to charge much more for yours. Just think if all the dark fibre was activated, and everyone could get their service for a mere 10 bucks for 1mps and just pay for whatever they need. Granted it would be a nicer world but i doubt it would be sustainable for isps to stay in buisiness, mostly due to support costs and overhead.
Because ethernet isnt deterministic (due to collisions you dont know when something will or will not be sent. In order to get around that you would need an expensive switch (one with more crossbar throughput than the total data load). Also you would probably need to do MAC address switching with partitioning in order to make each device work painlessly. This then requires much memory and overhead on the behalf of the switch. Lastly, ethernet is big relatively. USB chips cost less than a buck each (less than normal serial uarts, thus the reason for widespread adoption).Plus USB has a standard power over cable implementation, and so does firewire. Ethernet has many different implementations of power over network cable, so you would have to use compatible hubs and devices for each manufacturer. So, as everyone has said before, there is a place for each protocol.
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Is my brain small enough.
For you, to make me a star.
Give me a toot, Ill sell you my soul.
Pull my strings and Il'll go far..... my payola, my payola." - Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys
WI say let's all move for congress to take all communicaitons hardware and make it an independant co-op agency. Make it illegal to have for-profit communications. It has become a public necessity and it should not be in the hands of greedy or controlling people.
Or even better, have the government run fiber optics to everyone in the country and let anyone run their own telco/isp/cable service over it. Let everyone compete fairly. Charge everyone the same acess fee to the line and telco office. It would allow for a revamping of the internet, increased competion, higher bandwitdth availibility, and it would create a whole lot of jobs. Sort of like the eisenhower freeway system did for interstate commerce. Just my $.02
I think the solution to the problem is to have the government own fiber optic cable that goes to everyone's house. Have the switching at a central location, and let any company that signs up for a lisence pay a reasonable fee to acess the fibre. That way we would 1) solve the problem of the last mile, 2) have the infrastructure to take off as a country and get even further ahead as far as the internet goes 3) enable any future applications that we can think of (until something replaces fibre optic. Of course this would require something like insight/foresight, but think of it along the lines of the Eisenhower Freeway system in the US. Heck, in this day we could even justify it in the name of defense (like the highway system that lead to wider interstate commerce). It would even stimulate the economy and use up the glut of hardware produced in the dot bomb. Of course, not everyone would pay for an OC-192, but i think it would be nice to have dirt cheap bandwidth everywhere. I think we would be much better off as a society (with the downside that DDOS and what not would be infinitely more lame).
Now all we need is to create some sort of secure database, where people could donate use of thier landline (for local calls in their area code) for a period of time in exchange for credit to make calls to other area codes. It would be similar to ham radio telephone relays. Now all we need is a single combo ip/telephone # so that it would call your computer first (for long distance) and then your home phone. I suppose this could be implemented with dyndns.org or another similar service. Anything to spite qwest!
In order to get all of your web traffic accelerated, one could use port forwarding software to map all of the incoming traffic onto port 80. http://nucleo.freeservers.com/portfwd/tools.html contains a list of several programs that will do this, including several availible under the GPL.
AT&T killed at home. In fact they were intending upon profiting from the bankruptcy as well. They ran @home into the ground by expanding it and doing various infrastructure improvements, hoping to buy @home back for less than the debt once @ home went bankrupt. Thus AT&T would not only get rid of @home as a cable competitor, it would save on the always costly infrastructure in the process. However (as other slashdot stories testify) they did not get @home for the bargain price they were attempting to, as the judge in the case saw through it (I believe they tried to buy it for something like 300 million less than the debt @home declared). At least the judicial system is standing up to big buisness (at least the judges) unlike the rest of the bought out executive and legislative branches, but I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before some loophole allows corporations to "contribute" to judges.
I almost always back up all of my cd's, especially the ones I use in my car changer. Why you might ask? Because I have a cd text compatible changer and I enjoy having the data displayed on my tuner. Almost no commercial cd's have the cd text burned on them so I am forced to add my own data on it (albiet merely for my convienince/ appearance). Just my two cents.
AT&T already pretty much controls excite at home. I read an article earlier about how AT&T was letting excite @ home rack up operating losses in order that it would go bankrupt and then AT&T could just buy it back up for cheaper than the actual debt was. If anyone else has heard of that, it was several months back that I read that.
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As a vonage & comcast customer, i can confirm that outgoing calls to Canada at the moment are not working. Havent tried in the us. was working earlier today.
This would help to solve one of the problems with an auto driving car, as witnessed in the DARPA grand challenge: vision. If the roads were implanted with these with an rfid tag (uniquely identified for each road/lane) it would be easy to reckon your absolute position relative to the road and detect things like an upcoming dip in the road, etc. making it much easier to drive a car autonomously. Cruise control that adjusts speed according to the traffic ahead of you is already present. The only issue is what would happen in fail safe mode where there were markers missing or burnt out/ slashdotter vandalized.
Often. Here at the University of Minnesota, we have had PETA raids upon research labs and Earth First set fire to a construction site (Biotechnology building sponsored by Cargil). Whether you call this terrorism or extreme activisim... but Earth First is generally regarded as a terrrorist/ extreme activist organization.
Actually, even if the labor cost approximately the same as it did here in the states it would still be cheaper to outsource for many companies. This is due to US laws that promote foreign investments, essentially allowing the company to tax defer all of the earnings as long as they are kept abroad. Thus they play a shell game where they either reinvest in foreign operations, or simply hide the money overseas, evading US tax law entirely. This is something that my state (Minnesota) is dealing with on a state level as a similar provision is in our tax code. One of the reasons that despite corporate profits increasing over 15% in the state, corporate income tax is actually down.
Gas prices arent increasing (well with regard to inflation). Besides refineries here in the US retool every spring in order to meet increased demand and so preventative maintenance goes on at this time of the year. Additionally it is the refineries that control gas prices more than the price of the crude oil barrel, which Standard Oil at one point (wisely) had a monopoly on (refineries). If a refinery accident happens, we see a higher gas price spike than if a crude goes up a dollar or so a barrel. Obviously the refinery companies have a bit of incentive to collude. Lastly there is quite a bit of market fragmentation within the U.S. as the additives that are in gasoline are regulated locally, creating over 100 blends of gasoline that the refineries have to supply.
This would be really cool in combination using something along the lines of Vonage, to allow you to make a call from anywhere and route it to POTS anywhere in the US/Canada for a flat fee. An interesting concept to say the least, allowing you to call anyone from anywhere wi fi is offered. Wonder how it works with the Asterix PBX as a gate keeper?
Sweet, now I have a good example to reference whenever someone is confusing correlation and causation!
CheersOpenoffice.org also is missing a data import function. Comes in handy when your instrument (Chemistry labs) produces data in tab deliniated or comma seperated values. Would make work a lot easier than having to import into excel, then open with open office. Also open office is missing many of the statistical tools that come with office (detailed regression output, histograms to name a few) that make life easier for students.
Also, there is quite a bit of an issue with the core OS of the dell Axiam (windows CE). As i remember, all current versions of the windowsCE family are optimized for the last generation of ARM processor cores (ie the cores that topped out at 206mhz rather than the faster x-scale cores). On the otherhand, since the Zaurus is based upon linux, a recompile of the core operating system to optimize for the x-scale core would be much simpler and doable without microsofts permission. Combined with the parent posters points on comparing the two machines, comparing the dell Axiam to the C750 is just plain ignorant.
Assuming you are using windows as your platform of choice, a little program called firedaemon: FireDaemon will do the trick. Its free for noncommercial use, and there is a fully enabled professionaly verion. In my expierience i've found it works well for Folding At Home and SETI At Home before.
Sun spends a lot of the time on the things that everyone who knows something about computers bitches about, ie the bottle necks in modern computers. Things like wider and faster busses (suns proprietary S-bus, etc) and working on the storage problem (fast drives and scsi) along with inteligent design on the part of the processor etc. Also since they have a control on the hardware (like apple) they dont have to compete with commodity cutthroat hardware so that they can do the little extra nice things that help out. Ie like using the appropriate capacitators and over building the equipment for reliablilty. Since they make a large chunk of their revenue from support, they then build the boxes to last forever. Just my two cents.
Perhaps we should then call it "server to server" networks. Then it wouldn't be illegal, since they could only attack p2p apps:P If they then extended it to server to server, well watch out! Although, thinking about it, the server to server network creates copies of copyrighted material (within the memory of the browser, caches, etc). Ah well, guess im just another techie realizing how silly this proposed law truly is.
Some companies charge what it costs. Check out coget at wwww.cogentco.com. 1000 dollars for 100mps of bandwidth is probably pretty close to as cheap as bandwidth gets. However you can only get it in major metropolitan areas. I think the root of the problem is somewhat like the farmer's dilemma, where if there is more produced, then the overall price of the commodity goes down. But if bandwidth is scarce, then it is possible to charge much more for yours. Just think if all the dark fibre was activated, and everyone could get their service for a mere 10 bucks for 1mps and just pay for whatever they need. Granted it would be a nicer world but i doubt it would be sustainable for isps to stay in buisiness, mostly due to support costs and overhead.
Because ethernet isnt deterministic (due to collisions you dont know when something will or will not be sent. In order to get around that you would need an expensive switch (one with more crossbar throughput than the total data load). Also you would probably need to do MAC address switching with partitioning in order to make each device work painlessly. This then requires much memory and overhead on the behalf of the switch. Lastly, ethernet is big relatively. USB chips cost less than a buck each (less than normal serial uarts, thus the reason for widespread adoption).Plus USB has a standard power over cable implementation, and so does firewire. Ethernet has many different implementations of power over network cable, so you would have to use compatible hubs and devices for each manufacturer. So, as everyone has said before, there is a place for each protocol.
"Is my cock big enough. Is my brain small enough. For you, to make me a star. Give me a toot, Ill sell you my soul. Pull my strings and Il'll go far. .... my payola, my payola." - Pull My Strings - Dead Kennedys
I think the solution to the problem is to have the government own fiber optic cable that goes to everyone's house. Have the switching at a central location, and let any company that signs up for a lisence pay a reasonable fee to acess the fibre. That way we would 1) solve the problem of the last mile, 2) have the infrastructure to take off as a country and get even further ahead as far as the internet goes 3) enable any future applications that we can think of (until something replaces fibre optic. Of course this would require something like insight/foresight, but think of it along the lines of the Eisenhower Freeway system in the US. Heck, in this day we could even justify it in the name of defense (like the highway system that lead to wider interstate commerce). It would even stimulate the economy and use up the glut of hardware produced in the dot bomb. Of course, not everyone would pay for an OC-192, but i think it would be nice to have dirt cheap bandwidth everywhere. I think we would be much better off as a society (with the downside that DDOS and what not would be infinitely more lame).
Now all we need is to create some sort of secure database, where people could donate use of thier landline (for local calls in their area code) for a period of time in exchange for credit to make calls to other area codes. It would be similar to ham radio telephone relays. Now all we need is a single combo ip/telephone # so that it would call your computer first (for long distance) and then your home phone. I suppose this could be implemented with dyndns.org or another similar service. Anything to spite qwest!
In order to get all of your web traffic accelerated, one could use port forwarding software to map all of the incoming traffic onto port 80. http://nucleo.freeservers.com/portfwd/tools.html contains a list of several programs that will do this, including several availible under the GPL.
AT&T killed at home. In fact they were intending upon profiting from the bankruptcy as well. They ran @home into the ground by expanding it and doing various infrastructure improvements, hoping to buy @home back for less than the debt once @ home went bankrupt. Thus AT&T would not only get rid of @home as a cable competitor, it would save on the always costly infrastructure in the process. However (as other slashdot stories testify) they did not get @home for the bargain price they were attempting to, as the judge in the case saw through it (I believe they tried to buy it for something like 300 million less than the debt @home declared). At least the judicial system is standing up to big buisness (at least the judges) unlike the rest of the bought out executive and legislative branches, but I'm sure it will only be a matter of time before some loophole allows corporations to "contribute" to judges.
I almost always back up all of my cd's, especially the ones I use in my car changer. Why you might ask? Because I have a cd text compatible changer and I enjoy having the data displayed on my tuner. Almost no commercial cd's have the cd text burned on them so I am forced to add my own data on it (albiet merely for my convienince/ appearance). Just my two cents.
AT&T already pretty much controls excite at home. I read an article earlier about how AT&T was letting excite @ home rack up operating losses in order that it would go bankrupt and then AT&T could just buy it back up for cheaper than the actual debt was. If anyone else has heard of that, it was several months back that I read that.