GSM telephones only use digital, PCM in time divisioned slots. There is no modem in the phone. If you make a data call, the link goes from your computer to a bank of modems at the air-time provider's office. The link just provides error-recovery.
Same issue with CDMA, it is a digital standard. I don't understand what Intel are doing or even claiming.
It is possible to drive a GSM phone from a PCs processor, (a kind of digital Win-Modem), but I don't know of anyone doing it because all telephone instruments have the necessary logic already there as well as a processor and software.
A good Unix Sysadmin can manage multiple Linux distributions, OpenBSD and Sun/Solaris without blinking. NT is a little different but not radically so. A good sysadmin can manage both Unix and NT.
I intentionally specify systems built out of OpenBSD firewalls, Linux servers and MS/Win on the desktop. I would gladly skip the MS on the desktop, but sorry, StarOffice isn't quite there. However with the official interest being taken now, in Germany, South Africa and other places, perhaps that will change.
There wqa a big fuss in Germany about the Microsoft Tax. If you had a shrink wrapped MS package with your system, you could return it with the statement that the O/S s/w had been erased and the supplier was obliged to give you your money back.
This was actually based on the M/S end-user licence that states if you do not agree, you may return the software unopened for a full-refund. At first there was a fight about it as the system vendor wanted the entire machine back. The more sensible ones realised that it was a good way to bypass the MS tax for them too.
At the same time a grey market developed in OEM s/w and licences and software. Microsoft Germany didn't like it but individuals had no restrictions about the resale of an OEM licence (I guess this is what the US people call "doctrine of first sale").
I'm kind of curious that the the issues of ordering desktop PCs without paying for a Microsoft OEM Licence could be interesting. A number of vendors will still insist on you buying the system with an OS, which they will then refund you for, if returned unopened.
I don't know how this works now in this world of preinstalled systems but it was a legal entitlement that several local people tested. Getting that refund wasn't easy though. Maybe the Bundestag will do better!
I don't have a problem with Microsoft applications and operating systems being used by the German government. I have a problem if the Bundestag install Suse and StarOffice everywhere.
I want a variety of systems, ok, it may not be quite so easy to manage, but it means that your complete network doesn't get trashed because of one stupid vulnerability.
However, in crtical systems (either because of availability or confidentiality) then I want open source. Even there, I would like to see multiple system types though, i.e., OpenBSD as well as Linux.
Mind you, Microsoft applications and operating systmes are far from cheap. Buy them with OLP and you keep paying. Buy them as a one-off and there is a lifetime on the software before you pay for upgrades.
The measures discussed bring the WB a little closer to the beneficiaries. If this works, then great. In the past, it often hasn't. The WB is not unique in this and overseas aid is good business for the donor country. The World Bank is not evil, but it does make mistakes and their isn't really enough independent oversight at the moment.
However traditional WB loans are given to countries to purchase products or services from WB lendor countries. Often projects do not promote independance and can leave the beneficiary too dependent on expensive overseas supplies.
I don't work for the WB, but I have worked on a WB financed contract and I have seen enough to disillusion me.
In the Bazaar, there are many participants, both buyers and sellers of information. The sellers of useful information tend to prosper. It is difficult foor any one source of information to dominate the market.
This is a lot harder for a government to emulate. The danger here is that there are fewer sources and it becomes easier for a single viewpoint to override others. The Bazaar becomes necessary if only to give a sanity check on your own sources of information.
Yes, the US govt. needs its own sources of information, but if they don't look at CNN or even better read The Economist as well, then they are in deep trouble.
As for the accessibility of info for a potential enemy, doesn't it help things if that enemy knows that you have both the intention and the capability to respond to threats?
The commercial uptake of packet switching in the UK was slow though. The General Post Office who used to run all forms of communications in the UK from letters through to telephones (probably including carrier pidgeons) quite liked selling fixed lines.
the early nets did exist in the seventies, but these were research institutions and universities running on top of GPO leased circuits. They were vital for research infrastructure, but there wasn't much interest from other sources with deeper pockets, i.e., the military or commercial interests. The GPO eventially got some of the research switches rebuilt as products by GEC and it launched EPSS (Experimental Packet Switched Service) in the mid seventies.
The commercial PSS net didn't start until later. A lot of the early X.25 work was done in the UK and by that time other interests were getting involved, but now we are talking about the late seventies.
Effectively, the UK was running almost ten years behind the UK by then. Many companies started moving to X.25 nets but the initiative had been lost. I guess if defence interests had got interested in the technology, thst would have given it a financial boost.
Davies, though was not just an expert on packet switched networks, he also had quite a lot to do with computer security. Perhaps he didn't 'discover' PSS, but he certainly contributed a lot there as well as in other areas.
I have worked on large projects, the size of Windows or Office. SImply because of their size, you can't guarantee the level of all the people working there. It is possible that Microsoft have some very talkented programmers working for them. It is more likely that if you have any pretensions to coding whatsoever and are in the Seattle area, you have worked for Microsoft.
End result, some good code, but a lot of cruft. Get rid of that cruft and maybe you have a very small chance of fixing things. Leave it there and the serious bugs are buried by sloppy programming practice.
Strontium 90 is used in Radio-Isotope Thermoelectric generators (I guess that it why the snow was melted). The is an FAQ about the disposal of SR-90 RTGs in the US here. It is a government site and given current paranoia, I don't know how long it will stay up.
It is nasty stuff, being chemically similar to calcium. It is therefore absorbed by the body and used in bones.
Yep, but I love that big screen on the Dell 15" and 1400x1050. Regrettably, I was near the bleeding edge getting X to work properly at that res, but it is fully supported now. With new batteries, I got 3 and half hours, but now it is down to a couple. My original criteria was enough power to give me movies for a six hour flight. With a spare battery it works.
My Inspiron is now about a couple years old and I wonder a lot about a newer PC, i.e., less power and weight, better performance, but my budget doesn't stretch that far.
The fuel cell could probably power your iBook then, but then I would like to know whether it would fit inside smaller notebooks like the Vaio or your iBook. My beast may be large but so are the power-packs and if you tried very hard, you could probaly even get a small generator inside!!!!
If you are in busines or first then many airlines will have Notebook power available. If you are in Coach, then even opening a decent sized screen on a notebook without it being trashed when the passenger in front leans backwards, would be an achievement.
My notebook is a Dell Inspiron 7500 with LiIon batteries (14.5v 5400maH). The PSU can kick out a max of 70 watts, but the LiIon cells are rated at 28 watts charging current. Charging and operation are allowed at the same time (same as many other modern Notebooks).
The actual Notebook can take around 26 watts or more, depending upon what you are doing with it, especially heavy when watching DVDs (constant DVD motion plus the CPU running at full blast for the software decoder).
15 watts may be enough for a toy Notebook, but it ain't enough for mine!!!!!
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Same issue with CDMA, it is a digital standard. I don't understand what Intel are doing or even claiming.
It is possible to drive a GSM phone from a PCs processor, (a kind of digital Win-Modem), but I don't know of anyone doing it because all telephone instruments have the necessary logic already there as well as a processor and software.
I intentionally specify systems built out of OpenBSD firewalls, Linux servers and MS/Win on the desktop. I would gladly skip the MS on the desktop, but sorry, StarOffice isn't quite there. However with the official interest being taken now, in Germany, South Africa and other places, perhaps that will change.
This was actually based on the M/S end-user licence that states if you do not agree, you may return the software unopened for a full-refund. At first there was a fight about it as the system vendor wanted the entire machine back. The more sensible ones realised that it was a good way to bypass the MS tax for them too.
At the same time a grey market developed in OEM s/w and licences and software. Microsoft Germany didn't like it but individuals had no restrictions about the resale of an OEM licence (I guess this is what the US people call "doctrine of first sale").
I don't know how this works now in this world of preinstalled systems but it was a legal entitlement that several local people tested. Getting that refund wasn't easy though. Maybe the Bundestag will do better!
I want a variety of systems, ok, it may not be quite so easy to manage, but it means that your complete network doesn't get trashed because of one stupid vulnerability.
However, in crtical systems (either because of availability or confidentiality) then I want open source. Even there, I would like to see multiple system types though, i.e., OpenBSD as well as Linux.
Mind you, Microsoft applications and operating systmes are far from cheap. Buy them with OLP and you keep paying. Buy them as a one-off and there is a lifetime on the software before you pay for upgrades.
However traditional WB loans are given to countries to purchase products or services from WB lendor countries. Often projects do not promote independance and can leave the beneficiary too dependent on expensive overseas supplies.
I don't work for the WB, but I have worked on a WB financed contract and I have seen enough to disillusion me.
This is a lot harder for a government to emulate. The danger here is that there are fewer sources and it becomes easier for a single viewpoint to override others. The Bazaar becomes necessary if only to give a sanity check on your own sources of information.
Yes, the US govt. needs its own sources of information, but if they don't look at CNN or even better read The Economist as well, then they are in deep trouble.
As for the accessibility of info for a potential enemy, doesn't it help things if that enemy knows that you have both the intention and the capability to respond to threats?
the early nets did exist in the seventies, but these were research institutions and universities running on top of GPO leased circuits. They were vital for research infrastructure, but there wasn't much interest from other sources with deeper pockets, i.e., the military or commercial interests. The GPO eventially got some of the research switches rebuilt as products by GEC and it launched EPSS (Experimental Packet Switched Service) in the mid seventies.
The commercial PSS net didn't start until later. A lot of the early X.25 work was done in the UK and by that time other interests were getting involved, but now we are talking about the late seventies.
Effectively, the UK was running almost ten years behind the UK by then. Many companies started moving to X.25 nets but the initiative had been lost. I guess if defence interests had got interested in the technology, thst would have given it a financial boost.
Davies, though was not just an expert on packet switched networks, he also had quite a lot to do with computer security. Perhaps he didn't 'discover' PSS, but he certainly contributed a lot there as well as in other areas.
End result, some good code, but a lot of cruft. Get rid of that cruft and maybe you have a very small chance of fixing things. Leave it there and the serious bugs are buried by sloppy programming practice.
It is nasty stuff, being chemically similar to calcium. It is therefore absorbed by the body and used in bones.
My Inspiron is now about a couple years old and I wonder a lot about a newer PC, i.e., less power and weight, better performance, but my budget doesn't stretch that far.
The fuel cell could probably power your iBook then, but then I would like to know whether it would fit inside smaller notebooks like the Vaio or your iBook. My beast may be large but so are the power-packs and if you tried very hard, you could probaly even get a small generator inside!!!!
I see this as more useful on the ground.
The actual Notebook can take around 26 watts or more, depending upon what you are doing with it, especially heavy when watching DVDs (constant DVD motion plus the CPU running at full blast for the software decoder).
15 watts may be enough for a toy Notebook, but it ain't enough for mine!!!!!
I hope that no coffee can be spilt there! I can't see the amount of overhang from the picture, but if it doesn't, the first spill could be the motherboard's last!!!!