I wrote an OpEd piece a while back which touches on this whole issue. I argue that instead of auctioning all of the spectrum, the FCC ought to hold back some of the analog TV stuff for Open Spectrum, and instead auction off naming rights. I still think this is a good idea.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6318921 .html?display=Op+Ed
Big deal. We did this back in 1970 in West Quad at the U of Mich, with black light flourescent tubes, a really cool theramin, a light show that was actually the visual recording level-meter from a torn-apart reel-to-reel tape recorder..the whole babe magnet thing. Unlike these wimps, the highest tech item we had was a 40 watt RMS Lafayette Radio stereo receiver. We also discovered that when we wanted the instant party to end (a critical feature they apparently DO NOT DEAL WITH) we could put on Procol Harum and within 5 minutes the room would be cleared! Something about the lyrics; 'The corpses were rotten..' 5 karma points to whoever correctly identifies the song and the album..
Yeah, and sound is not even necessary IMHO. VNC (http://www.realvnc.com ) is one of the greatsimple ideas - hearkening back to the era of mainframes - where your fancy PC (or any Java client) essentially becomes a dumb X-terminal and your 'main' computer can be left running as a server. I don't see why the Carnegie-Mellon dudes are complicating things by virtualizing file systems, etc - a home-base computer, always on, left connected to the net and protected with some sort of SSH tunnel - is so cheap as to be not worth engineering out of the system. VNC is open-source.
As a side note, I wonder how much money the airlines have not collected due to having VNC as an alternative. Most of the time, for tech support (certainly for application-level support) you don't need to touch metal, so stay home and VNC in to the target's computer.
As a second side note, my wife was noticing a phantom controlling her mouse (on her Win2K box, I can't get her to move to *nix) - and it was some sort of IE-spread Dameware worm. Dameware is, of course, another VNC-alike....which lets me wonder how vulnerable a target this virtual stateless machine as proposed might be. The more I think about it, the more I like VNC as the elegant solution and the less I like this new thing.
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http://www.drayvision.com
This product has an innovative roof-dome-mounted camera that quickly flips over (front-oriented view becomes rear-oriented view.) The LCD reverses the image as it flops over the top. There is an in-cabin joystick for pan, tilt and zoom control, too.
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I wrote an OpEd piece a while back which touches on this whole issue. I argue that instead of auctioning all of the spectrum, the FCC ought to hold back some of the analog TV stuff for Open Spectrum, and instead auction off naming rights. I still think this is a good idea. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6318921 .html?display=Op+Ed
heh. They refer to the Ubuntu "Dapper Duck" release.
Big deal. We did this back in 1970 in West Quad at the U of Mich, with black light flourescent tubes, a really cool theramin, a light show that was actually the visual recording level-meter from a torn-apart reel-to-reel tape recorder..the whole babe magnet thing. Unlike these wimps, the highest tech item we had was a 40 watt RMS Lafayette Radio stereo receiver. We also discovered that when we wanted the instant party to end (a critical feature they apparently DO NOT DEAL WITH) we could put on Procol Harum and within 5 minutes the room would be cleared! Something about the lyrics; 'The corpses were rotten..' 5 karma points to whoever correctly identifies the song and the album..
nuff said. This is a hickey machine, plain and simple. Now, once the software patent is issued...
Yeah, and sound is not even necessary IMHO. VNC (http://www.realvnc.com ) is one of the greatsimple ideas - hearkening back to the era of mainframes - where your fancy PC (or any Java client) essentially becomes a dumb X-terminal and your 'main' computer can be left running as a server. I don't see why the Carnegie-Mellon dudes are complicating things by virtualizing file systems, etc - a home-base computer, always on, left connected to the net and protected with some sort of SSH tunnel - is so cheap as to be not worth engineering out of the system. VNC is open-source. As a side note, I wonder how much money the airlines have not collected due to having VNC as an alternative. Most of the time, for tech support (certainly for application-level support) you don't need to touch metal, so stay home and VNC in to the target's computer. As a second side note, my wife was noticing a phantom controlling her mouse (on her Win2K box, I can't get her to move to *nix) - and it was some sort of IE-spread Dameware worm. Dameware is, of course, another VNC-alike....which lets me wonder how vulnerable a target this virtual stateless machine as proposed might be. The more I think about it, the more I like VNC as the elegant solution and the less I like this new thing.
thats why I posted this...
http://www.drayvision.com This product has an innovative roof-dome-mounted camera that quickly flips over (front-oriented view becomes rear-oriented view.) The LCD reverses the image as it flops over the top. There is an in-cabin joystick for pan, tilt and zoom control, too.
Randy Newman had it right - "College boys from LSU. Went in dumb, come out dumb too."
Send me $50 or I'll make fun of this dog...