So he's building a "cloud platform" for cars and he didn't bother checking to see if fast internet was available BEFORE purchasing the lease?
FTFA:
Katta’s Internet odyssey began on April 10, 2015 when he checked Comcast’s website to determine whether business Internet would be available at his company’s office in the Clyde Avenue Business Park. The website informed him, “Comcast Business is available at your address.” In fact, the website still provides that same message to this very day, albeit with some fine print that says customers have to “Call a Comcast sales representative to explain availability in your area.”
Over the next 10 days, Katta told Ars, he signed a lease for the new office space and spoke on the phone with two Comcast representatives. Each confirmed that SmartCar would be able to get Internet service.
That appears to be in the correct order, so I'm not sure what you're on about.
You would have to be breaking the law in order to be above it.
Now, I grant you that Apple, and the newly-found et al. are doing things that fly in the face of a court order, however, they appear to be going through all the proper channels to invalidate that court order.
My real world experience is that in my relatively flat residential neighbourhood, 400m is about the limit between handheld UHF radios (tried on both 450ish and 915ish MHz frequencies), ranging from 500mW to 7W. VHF (around 140-155 MHz) goes a little further under those circumstances (there are lots of trees in my neighbourhood, and trees have a larger negative impact on UHF than VHF).
At the same time, put one end on top of a hill, mountain, tower, building, or other tall thing, and the range, even at the same power level, becomes what they say on the package and often then some.
(Before someone asks, because radio nazis are everywhere, yes, all my radios are legal. I am a licensed ham, but also use MURS and FRS as well as some proprietary spread-spectrum radios on 915 MHz)
The way to get around it is to define the parameters tight enough to get what you want. For instance, adding this language: "The device shall feature a 4.3" AMOLED display. It shall be compatible with all CDMA networks, 802.11 a, b, g and n, and LTE bands 25, 26 and 41. It shall use the Android operating system and support one Micro-SDcard. It shall require a SIM for LTE connectivity, but not for CDMA connectivity." will pretty much knock things back to one specific version of one specific device, that being a Samsung S4 Mini that has been configured for Sprint (an SPH-L520).
Some manufacturers will even provide you with the verbiage to get exactly one particular specific product of theirs and no other.
As a radio hobbyist, one of the things that really irritates me is all of the consumer-grade two-way radios that make increasingly bold claims about the distance you supposedly can reach with them. This is an extension of that same behaviour. Any claim, at any power level, of an ability to reach a particular distance, without defining the terrain, is speculation at best, and marketing bullshit more oft than not.
I wasn't aware that anyone other than T-Mobile supported it, but it's good to hear otherwise.
I can confirm firsthand that Sprint does, on some models of phone (I have a Samsung S4 Mini that supports it). Additionally, there is another carrier, Republic Wireless, (they are an MVNO) that bases their network model on having you connect to WiFi as much as possible and using it for everything when you are connected to it. There may be others.
That said, I will say it's got good and bad points. This is my personal experience:
The good: 1. Call establishment is instant. You tap the "talk" button and the other end starts ringing immediately (or as close to it as you can humanly tell), as opposed to the several seconds pause using the cellular networks. 2. Sound quality is solid, bordering on what you would expect from a landline - no flanging, no fluttering. 3. You can use it where there's no cell coverage. That was once a significant number of places with Sprint.
The bad: 1. handoff between APs is disabled during a call (or at least it seems to be). I have two APs in my house (same SSID, same subnet, different channels) and I have no idea how many dozens must be at my workplace (same type of configuration) and the signal will start to break up when I move from the coverage are of one AP top another, with it never actually handing off. 2. No HD voice. Sound quality is solid, as I said under "the good", but it is the pedestrian 300-3000 Hz (or thereabouts) frequency response rather than the nicer sounding alternative. 3. Just as you can't hand off from AP to AP, you also can't hand off from WiFi to cellular. Walk away from your WiFi and the call drops.
They were a conversion from the laserdisc masters, weren't they.
This is my understanding, yes. As such, they are necessarily not HD, but should certainly be up to the best of what SD can do, short of separating out the luma/chroma channels.
Curious, how did the traditional pay-phone work with the deaf
The deaf would use a TDD terminal. You could carry one with you, or some payphones had one built in. If you carried your own, it used acoustic couplers to connect to the phone, and the bitrate was sufficiently low to make it usable with them.
As for now . . . SMS should work well enough, or a video call so you can communicate with sign language.
For other disabilities, I don't have any specific answers.
I would like to suggest one better: If your phone is one that allows you to remove the batter (i.e. not an Apple or a OnePlus or a few others), just get a spare battery of the type that the phone takes. When your phone dies, reach into your pocket, pull out the spare battery, and switch it for the one that is in the phone. It's instant, efficient, and doesn't require you to juggle your phone plus another box for whatever length of time it takes your phone to charge.
Additionally (and this is good for all phones), if you are traveling much by car, get a cigarette-lighter charger for your phone. Plug it in whenever you are in your car.
Yes, I agree with you. The only possible explanation that I can come up with is that they must have dubbed the next order of ten over EHF as "The Terahertz Band". If that's the case, it needs a better name. If we are to assume that they are keeping with the general pattern used for radio signals, then this band would go from 300 GHz to 3 THz.
This would be an extension of the standard used to class radio waves into bands of an order of ten, which gives us VLF (9-30 kHz), LF (30-300 kHz), MF (300-3000 kHz), HF (3-30 MHz), VHF (30-300 MHz), UHF (300-3000 MHz), SHF (3-30 GHz) and EHF (30-300 GHz). VLF is truncated because EM waves below 9 kHz aren't considered radio. The lower ones are sometimes also called by wavelenth rather than frequency, so VLF-HF may also sometimes be called VLW, LW, MW, SW, though these are usually spoken full-length, e.g. "short wave".
Back on topic, I'll repeat: it needs a better name. EHF stands for "Extremely High Frequency" . . . what's more extreme than extreme? Hyper, maybe? HHF?
I have always suspected that the slowness of X11 over a network was primarily latency, not bandwidth. I think it waits for acknowledgement after each step before moving in, rather than (ironically) windowing the traffic. Paradoxically, adding compression to the mix may actually make things worse, because the compression and decompression steps, even if they keep up with the bandwidth demands, will add to the length of time it takes to get a request fully received, acted on, and acknowledged.
It's just a suspicion, though. I could be completely wrong.
I'm not sure I agree with you. If you think about it, McCarthy was an authoritarian douchenozzle as bad as any caricature of a commie that could be come up with, and he was doing what he did in the name of fighting communism.
No, I think the best way to diff the cold war versus now is with this regex: s/communist/terrorist/g . The players who are doing this shit now would have been the ones doing that shit then if they were born a generation earlier.
History repeats itself over and over. Here's an example: Think Freedom Fries are a new idea? Look up Victory Sausage.
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FTFA:
Katta’s Internet odyssey began on April 10, 2015 when he checked Comcast’s website to determine whether business Internet would be available at his company’s office in the Clyde Avenue Business Park. The website informed him, “Comcast Business is available at your address.” In fact, the website still provides that same message to this very day, albeit with some fine print that says customers have to “Call a Comcast sales representative to explain availability in your area.”
Over the next 10 days, Katta told Ars, he signed a lease for the new office space and spoke on the phone with two Comcast representatives. Each confirmed that SmartCar would be able to get Internet service.
That appears to be in the correct order, so I'm not sure what you're on about.
You would have to be breaking the law in order to be above it.
Now, I grant you that Apple, and the newly-found et al. are doing things that fly in the face of a court order, however, they appear to be going through all the proper channels to invalidate that court order.
That's kind of how I understood it. PDF kind of has that reputation as well.
Exactly. Let me offer some anecdotal examples.
My real world experience is that in my relatively flat residential neighbourhood, 400m is about the limit between handheld UHF radios (tried on both 450ish and 915ish MHz frequencies), ranging from 500mW to 7W. VHF (around 140-155 MHz) goes a little further under those circumstances (there are lots of trees in my neighbourhood, and trees have a larger negative impact on UHF than VHF).
At the same time, put one end on top of a hill, mountain, tower, building, or other tall thing, and the range, even at the same power level, becomes what they say on the package and often then some.
(Before someone asks, because radio nazis are everywhere, yes, all my radios are legal. I am a licensed ham, but also use MURS and FRS as well as some proprietary spread-spectrum radios on 915 MHz)
Sort of.
The way to get around it is to define the parameters tight enough to get what you want. For instance, adding this language: "The device shall feature a 4.3" AMOLED display. It shall be compatible with all CDMA networks, 802.11 a, b, g and n, and LTE bands 25, 26 and 41. It shall use the Android operating system and support one Micro-SDcard. It shall require a SIM for LTE connectivity, but not for CDMA connectivity." will pretty much knock things back to one specific version of one specific device, that being a Samsung S4 Mini that has been configured for Sprint (an SPH-L520).
Some manufacturers will even provide you with the verbiage to get exactly one particular specific product of theirs and no other.
Yeah, I hear you.
As a radio hobbyist, one of the things that really irritates me is all of the consumer-grade two-way radios that make increasingly bold claims about the distance you supposedly can reach with them. This is an extension of that same behaviour. Any claim, at any power level, of an ability to reach a particular distance, without defining the terrain, is speculation at best, and marketing bullshit more oft than not.
So . . . I guess you're not staring at a monitor right now?
WiFi is already fast enough for about everything I do anyway.
I'm glad you don't need more speed. I do. Right now, for me, that means wires.
I wasn't aware that anyone other than T-Mobile supported it, but it's good to hear otherwise.
I can confirm firsthand that Sprint does, on some models of phone (I have a Samsung S4 Mini that supports it). Additionally, there is another carrier, Republic Wireless, (they are an MVNO) that bases their network model on having you connect to WiFi as much as possible and using it for everything when you are connected to it. There may be others.
That said, I will say it's got good and bad points. This is my personal experience:
The good: 1. Call establishment is instant. You tap the "talk" button and the other end starts ringing immediately (or as close to it as you can humanly tell), as opposed to the several seconds pause using the cellular networks. 2. Sound quality is solid, bordering on what you would expect from a landline - no flanging, no fluttering. 3. You can use it where there's no cell coverage. That was once a significant number of places with Sprint.
The bad: 1. handoff between APs is disabled during a call (or at least it seems to be). I have two APs in my house (same SSID, same subnet, different channels) and I have no idea how many dozens must be at my workplace (same type of configuration) and the signal will start to break up when I move from the coverage are of one AP top another, with it never actually handing off. 2. No HD voice. Sound quality is solid, as I said under "the good", but it is the pedestrian 300-3000 Hz (or thereabouts) frequency response rather than the nicer sounding alternative. 3. Just as you can't hand off from AP to AP, you also can't hand off from WiFi to cellular. Walk away from your WiFi and the call drops.
Seriously, no doubt. That's about as good as it can get.
They were a conversion from the laserdisc masters, weren't they.
This is my understanding, yes. As such, they are necessarily not HD, but should certainly be up to the best of what SD can do, short of separating out the luma/chroma channels.
There is a HOPE conference this summer. If it doesn't happen prior to that, it'll happen then.
Curious, how did the traditional pay-phone work with the deaf
The deaf would use a TDD terminal. You could carry one with you, or some payphones had one built in. If you carried your own, it used acoustic couplers to connect to the phone, and the bitrate was sufficiently low to make it usable with them.
As for now . . . SMS should work well enough, or a video call so you can communicate with sign language.
For other disabilities, I don't have any specific answers.
No idea why they're off the mirrors, but if you really want it, you can torrent it. I know there's at least one seeder out there.
Sure. They forgot to make it impossible to change the battery, expand the storage, etc.
It may come as a shock to you, but broadband is not yet universally available.
I know people don't RTFA, but at least RTFS.
I would like to suggest one better: If your phone is one that allows you to remove the batter (i.e. not an Apple or a OnePlus or a few others), just get a spare battery of the type that the phone takes. When your phone dies, reach into your pocket, pull out the spare battery, and switch it for the one that is in the phone. It's instant, efficient, and doesn't require you to juggle your phone plus another box for whatever length of time it takes your phone to charge.
Additionally (and this is good for all phones), if you are traveling much by car, get a cigarette-lighter charger for your phone. Plug it in whenever you are in your car.
Use your words.
No.
That is all.
Wouldn't even register. 2.4 GHz is so far out of the tuned range it's not funny.
Yes, I agree with you. The only possible explanation that I can come up with is that they must have dubbed the next order of ten over EHF as "The Terahertz Band". If that's the case, it needs a better name. If we are to assume that they are keeping with the general pattern used for radio signals, then this band would go from 300 GHz to 3 THz.
This would be an extension of the standard used to class radio waves into bands of an order of ten, which gives us VLF (9-30 kHz), LF (30-300 kHz), MF (300-3000 kHz), HF (3-30 MHz), VHF (30-300 MHz), UHF (300-3000 MHz), SHF (3-30 GHz) and EHF (30-300 GHz). VLF is truncated because EM waves below 9 kHz aren't considered radio. The lower ones are sometimes also called by wavelenth rather than frequency, so VLF-HF may also sometimes be called VLW, LW, MW, SW, though these are usually spoken full-length, e.g. "short wave".
Back on topic, I'll repeat: it needs a better name. EHF stands for "Extremely High Frequency" . . . what's more extreme than extreme? Hyper, maybe? HHF?
I have always suspected that the slowness of X11 over a network was primarily latency, not bandwidth. I think it waits for acknowledgement after each step before moving in, rather than (ironically) windowing the traffic. Paradoxically, adding compression to the mix may actually make things worse, because the compression and decompression steps, even if they keep up with the bandwidth demands, will add to the length of time it takes to get a request fully received, acted on, and acknowledged.
It's just a suspicion, though. I could be completely wrong.
So the jobs are still open, just as I said. The job is here. Someone who is willing to accept the going rate can take that job.
I'm not sure I agree with you. If you think about it, McCarthy was an authoritarian douchenozzle as bad as any caricature of a commie that could be come up with, and he was doing what he did in the name of fighting communism.
No, I think the best way to diff the cold war versus now is with this regex: s/communist/terrorist/g . The players who are doing this shit now would have been the ones doing that shit then if they were born a generation earlier.
History repeats itself over and over. Here's an example: Think Freedom Fries are a new idea? Look up Victory Sausage.