I live in a rural area, but with access to lte. My config consists of Cradlepoint router, with 2 lte modem's connected , one from Verizon, the other from AT&T, used to also have sprint as well, but canned it due to them never upgrading speed of their networks. Connection speed varies from 22mbps to 44mbps via speedtest.net. I have two external antennas attached to the modem, which gives me solid 5 bar signals,
Latency varies constantly, 15-60ms variance.
Good news am have access, quick, semi reliable Bad news, expensive $300/mo per carrier for 30gb per carrier per month, despite being set up highly available the lte modems hang frequently, yes the Cradlepoint resets and the system fails over to the other carrier, but it never fails that that both will fail at the same time when I need it the most. Those fails require a rest of modem, which can be done by the web interface. Latency varies heavily, 15ms-60ms.
As expensive as it is, it is a tremendous improvement over satellite based Internet. Prior to lte, I installed Hughes commercial internet service at my house. (Not the wimpy personal service, the big 1 meter dish based system). Satellite is an absolute last resort solution.
Voice over the lte, is great until a modem decides to mess up, then it goes from bad to dropped. Movies are capable to stream, but some services like Netflix, Hulu, do better recover than others. Gaming is non-existent. The latency varies too much, first person shooter become first person target.
Main issue is the obscene pricing. Att is cheaper than Verizon, but neither will deal on more than 50gb per month usage.
I have LTE as the only internet connection to my house, not by choice, but its the only game faster than t1 speeds, and latency that is tolerable. (have tried satellite, and local "wireless" plans)
Speed is great, but the cap at 30GB per month of around $298(phone usage included) is pretty steep, and the overage charges are even steeper. Yea there is competition, but their prices are higher with even more draconian overage fees.
I expect all wired data plans here in the US start mimicking the wireless plans with high rates and low GB usage amounts.
I love motorcycles a lot, but refuse to drive one to work, due to the speedbump factor. Motorcycles are neraly invisible on the roads. Avoided many accidents that nearly occured because driver didn't see me.
Got tired of it, after witnessing too many friends become speedbumps because they weren't as agile at dodging the merging Dodge as me.
I'd rather be alive and able then not, so my mode of transportation to work is a car.
When I ride motorcycles, now, I do it away from cities on roads that little traffic.
If you watch the web cast that GM had, they addressed this question in the Q&A. Cold weather testing has been going on and the 40 mile range on battery alone already had this factored in. Plus there is a really cool display that shows power utilization. Don't forget that it has a generator to kick in if there is a less than 40mile range.
This is pretty cool. Always wanted to do this myself. Have made some trips from Detroit to LA in 22hour and 26 hour attempts and found that taxing. Also made some trips from Bowling Green, KY to LA, Ca in 26hours.
Someone at work chose the same combination of external drives.:)
didn't see much merit in the review, Good experience with the Lacie, Comdata, Maxtor, and Western Digital drives.
Just wish they had a better power adapter for the WD, mine is intermittently loses power connection.
As an owner of both Blu-ray and HD-DVD, I have found less issues with the HD-DVD format then Blu-ray. On my Blu-ray devices (samsung and LG) I have had issues with Crank and Speed. On the Xbox 360, no issues experienced. I have played Children of men in both my living room and bedroom xboxen with no issues.
Checking blu-ray forums shows many disgruntled blu-ray owners.
Personally, I dislike either format and would, and would do direct download of HD, if there was a thing as high-speed network connectivity where I live.
disgruntled blu-ray owner.
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I work at primarily a UGS house, but AutoCAD is still entrenched in the facilities layout, Electrical Controls, facilities management areas. We do cheat though, we use factoryCAD a add-on which provides parametric capabilities.
Now this suit does raise concerns, we manage all data with Teamcenter, We require one data management solution to keep all of the relationships of parts, tools, and layout linked to reduce effort. With the suit AutoDesk may break some of those links. Also our Parametric plugin may cease making valid DWGs.
Make Millions of dollars sharing information. Call 1-800-sir-spama to get into this multi-level advertising oppostunity.
Do you want to get paid to attend parties, movies, and rock concerts? Maybe you are into exercise? How about making money on your way to work? If you sign up today, those hours of congested traffic and annoying public transportation experience start making you money.
All you need to do is download our "music" everyday from our service onto your AD-pod and it will do the rest. It will share all of the its content with anyone who passes by, making you money in return.
Our technology works by attaching ads to snippets of popular music and sharing those ads with those around you. Our ads give full credit to the artists and records label and get our messgaes out to the masses.
I live in BFE Michigan. I have the same problem, but luckily live near a major interstate highway (I69). WIMAX is being considered along the entire stretch and is seen as one of the few hopes to get reasonable rate broadband access by the communities around me.
Even so, the earliest estimate for me is around 2 years until it is ready. Until then, it looks like Cingular will have its edge network in place, and it will be a likely alternative. Although it looks like it will be 8 months until the EDGe network is in place here.
I rarely ever print. About the sole exception is that I print Photo's. For that I use an older Epson Photo 700 series, with elcheapo inks (Less then 5 for a set of cartridges) and an Epson 2200 with premium inks.
All non-photo stuff, either is stored in my PDA cell phone, or printed off in quickie draft mode on the Epson 700.
For these uses I find Inkjets fine. The printers are calibrated and print prints which I sell or hang around the house. If I need more then a 13x19 print, then I send it off to a print lab. Usually I am more please with the rendition from Epson more then the labs. (Camera 16.7 Mpixel)
For less then the special printing, I'll stick with my inkjets.
I have two real annoying ringtones. One humorously annoying and the other has people seeking me out everytime they hear it.
Bananaphone by Raffi
Everybody Everybody!! from Homestarrunner
Bananaphone has people at work call me so they can hear the song.
Never saw the need for the ringtone company though, past phones permitted me to type in songs, when I was bored in a meeting. Current Phone permits me to take any sound out there wav, mp3, midi, etc and play it. Heck I can even record annoying phone calls and make them ring tones.:)
I love my PDA Cell Phone. All of the devices it eliminated from my inventory are not missed. Only one unit to charge. (two of them if I use my Blue toothe headset)
I have the audiovox 5600. I am not a windows lover, but i haven't seen a convergence item in any other OS, that has all of the features of this phone.
I can't wait for the samsung prototypes.
The issues that you mention above are not issues at all.
I regularly use my phones as a PDA while talking. There is a thing call speakerphone, if you don't like annoying the neighbors, use a blue tooth headset.
The camera, hey, i thought is was hokey, that was until I had to go get some goodies for a friend which couldn't be describe. A couple of quick pics back and forth allowed the camera to become a useful commodity.
Heck I have 512MB of miniSD ram, and it stores enough songs to amuse me while waiting for an appointment or on the drive home. I wouldn't complain about more space.
Video, another feature that can provide amusement in times of none. Not a feature that I use much of, but oh well.
I think the convergence is great. I want my superphone. I want my email to arrive to my cell phone. No need for a blackberry. I want to not have to charge a PDA, one source for phone numbers when mobile.
Coverage is something that will always need improved. My superphone has just as good of coverage as my old plain jane.
This remnds me of a presentation I saw the otherday being presented by M$. It was the positioning of M$ in the industry of tomorrow.
On the slides they showed the complete secured model from USB to Bios and all the layers stacked on top, all the way to the virtual machine layer.
One of the occupants of the meeting joked about linux, which prompted our M$ shill to smile and shift us to the next slide.
That slide showed the complete layer, with Linux running in a VM on the future windows platform. Our presenter then spoke up and proudly announced that M$ supported linux as well as other insecure apps in a VM.
Although for the life of him, he couldn't figure why anyone would want to run Linux, when they could just eliminate that overhead and run a more guaranteed app instead.
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I live in a rural area, but with access to lte. My config consists of Cradlepoint router, with 2 lte modem's connected , one from Verizon, the other from AT&T, used to also have sprint as well, but canned it due to them never upgrading speed of their networks. Connection speed varies from 22mbps to 44mbps via speedtest.net. I have two external antennas attached to the modem, which gives me solid 5 bar signals,
Latency varies constantly, 15-60ms variance.
Good news am have access, quick, semi reliable
Bad news, expensive $300/mo per carrier for 30gb per carrier per month, despite being set up highly available the lte modems hang frequently, yes the Cradlepoint resets and the system fails over to the other carrier, but it never fails that that both will fail at the same time when I need it the most. Those fails require a rest of modem, which can be done by the web interface. Latency varies heavily, 15ms-60ms.
As expensive as it is, it is a tremendous improvement over satellite based Internet. Prior to lte, I installed Hughes commercial internet service at my house. (Not the wimpy personal service, the big 1 meter dish based system). Satellite is an absolute last resort solution.
Voice over the lte, is great until a modem decides to mess up, then it goes from bad to dropped. Movies are capable to stream, but some services like Netflix, Hulu, do better recover than others. Gaming is non-existent. The latency varies too much, first person shooter become first person target.
Main issue is the obscene pricing. Att is cheaper than Verizon, but neither will deal on more than 50gb per month usage.
I have LTE as the only internet connection to my house, not by choice, but its the only game faster than t1 speeds, and latency that is tolerable. (have tried satellite, and local "wireless" plans)
Speed is great, but the cap at 30GB per month of around $298(phone usage included) is pretty steep, and the overage charges are even steeper. Yea there is competition, but their prices are higher with even more draconian overage fees.
I expect all wired data plans here in the US start mimicking the wireless plans with high rates and low GB usage amounts.
4 wheels and a bumper.
I love motorcycles a lot, but refuse to drive one to work, due to the speedbump factor. Motorcycles are neraly invisible on the roads. Avoided many accidents that nearly occured because driver didn't see me.
Got tired of it, after witnessing too many friends become speedbumps because they weren't as agile at dodging the merging Dodge as me.
I'd rather be alive and able then not, so my mode of transportation to work is a car.
When I ride motorcycles, now, I do it away from cities on roads that little traffic.
The volt is in Yuma, AZ doing high temp testing as we speak. Will see how it does.
If you watch the web cast that GM had, they addressed this question in the Q&A. Cold weather testing has been going on and the 40 mile range on battery alone already had this factored in. Plus there is a really cool display that shows power utilization. Don't forget that it has a generator to kick in if there is a less than 40mile range.
I own a backhoe, not a ditchwitch, otherwise would use it.
Sure hope that this can become an option in the U.S. A couple days of using the backhoe to dig the ditch would pay for itself.
Is there no other monster to have as a favorite?
This is pretty cool. Always wanted to do this myself. Have made some trips from Detroit to LA in 22hour and 26 hour attempts and found that taxing. Also made some trips from Bowling Green, KY to LA, Ca in 26hours.
Definitely not easy, but sure a lot of fun.
Kudos go out to this driver.
EveryNickIsTaken Digital distribution is the way of the future, not Blu-Ray or HD DVD discs.
I wish this statement was true, but until bandwidth is available to every home with a TV, Digital Distribution will remain a niche player.
Someone at work chose the same combination of external drives. :)
didn't see much merit in the review, Good experience with the Lacie, Comdata, Maxtor, and Western Digital drives.
Just wish they had a better power adapter for the WD, mine is intermittently loses power connection.
Please do not talk trash about me. I have both and paid significantly less the $2500.
As an owner of both Blu-ray and HD-DVD, I have found less issues with the HD-DVD format then Blu-ray. On my Blu-ray devices (samsung and LG) I have had issues with Crank and Speed. On the Xbox 360, no issues experienced. I have played Children of men in both my living room and bedroom xboxen with no issues. Checking blu-ray forums shows many disgruntled blu-ray owners. Personally, I dislike either format and would, and would do direct download of HD, if there was a thing as high-speed network connectivity where I live. disgruntled blu-ray owner.
UGS NX is supported on OS X and Linux.
I work at primarily a UGS house, but AutoCAD is still entrenched in the facilities layout, Electrical Controls, facilities management areas. We do cheat though, we use factoryCAD a add-on which provides parametric capabilities.
Now this suit does raise concerns, we manage all data with Teamcenter, We require one data management solution to keep all of the relationships of parts, tools, and layout linked to reduce effort. With the suit AutoDesk may break some of those links. Also our Parametric plugin may cease making valid DWGs.
Make Millions of dollars sharing information. Call 1-800-sir-spama to get into this multi-level advertising oppostunity.
Do you want to get paid to attend parties, movies, and rock concerts? Maybe you are into exercise? How about making money on your way to work? If you sign up today, those hours of congested traffic and annoying public transportation experience start making you money.
All you need to do is download our "music" everyday from our service onto your AD-pod and it will do the rest. It will share all of the its content with anyone who passes by, making you money in return.
Our technology works by attaching ads to snippets of popular music and sharing those ads with those around you. Our ads give full credit to the artists and records label and get our messgaes out to the masses.
Sign up today
I live in BFE Michigan. I have the same problem, but luckily live near a major interstate highway (I69). WIMAX is being considered along the entire stretch and is seen as one of the few hopes to get reasonable rate broadband access by the communities around me.
Even so, the earliest estimate for me is around 2 years until it is ready. Until then, it looks like Cingular will have its edge network in place, and it will be a likely alternative. Although it looks like it will be 8 months until the EDGe network is in place here.
Did they make 5 films before this one?
I rarely ever print. About the sole exception is that I print Photo's. For that I use an older Epson Photo 700 series, with elcheapo inks (Less then 5 for a set of cartridges) and an Epson 2200 with premium inks.
All non-photo stuff, either is stored in my PDA cell phone, or printed off in quickie draft mode on the Epson 700.
For these uses I find Inkjets fine. The printers are calibrated and print prints which I sell or hang around the house. If I need more then a 13x19 print, then I send it off to a print lab. Usually I am more please with the rendition from Epson more then the labs. (Camera 16.7 Mpixel)
For less then the special printing, I'll stick with my inkjets.
I would just DIE to see a prequel of America Grafiti. Imagine a series about young Ron Howard and company.
I have two real annoying ringtones. One humorously annoying and the other has people seeking me out everytime they hear it.
:)
Bananaphone by Raffi
Everybody Everybody!! from Homestarrunner
Bananaphone has people at work call me so they can hear the song.
Never saw the need for the ringtone company though, past phones permitted me to type in songs, when I was bored in a meeting. Current Phone permits me to take any sound out there wav, mp3, midi, etc and play it. Heck I can even record annoying phone calls and make them ring tones.
I love my PDA Cell Phone. All of the devices it eliminated from my inventory are not missed. Only one unit to charge. (two of them if I use my Blue toothe headset)
I have the audiovox 5600. I am not a windows lover, but i haven't seen a convergence item in any other OS, that has all of the features of this phone.
I can't wait for the samsung prototypes.
The issues that you mention above are not issues at all.
I regularly use my phones as a PDA while talking. There is a thing call speakerphone, if you don't like annoying the neighbors, use a blue tooth headset.
The camera, hey, i thought is was hokey, that was until I had to go get some goodies for a friend which couldn't be describe. A couple of quick pics back and forth allowed the camera to become a useful commodity.
Heck I have 512MB of miniSD ram, and it stores enough songs to amuse me while waiting for an appointment or on the drive home. I wouldn't complain about more space.
Video, another feature that can provide amusement in times of none. Not a feature that I use much of, but oh well.
I think the convergence is great. I want my superphone. I want my email to arrive to my cell phone. No need for a blackberry. I want to not have to charge a PDA, one source for phone numbers when mobile.
Coverage is something that will always need improved. My superphone has just as good of coverage as my old plain jane.
Hooray for super phones
This remnds me of a presentation I saw the otherday being presented by M$. It was the positioning of M$ in the industry of tomorrow.
On the slides they showed the complete secured model from USB to Bios and all the layers stacked on top, all the way to the virtual machine layer.
One of the occupants of the meeting joked about linux, which prompted our M$ shill to smile and shift us to the next slide.
That slide showed the complete layer, with Linux running in a VM on the future windows platform. Our presenter then spoke up and proudly announced that M$ supported linux as well as other insecure apps in a VM.
Although for the life of him, he couldn't figure why anyone would want to run Linux, when they could just eliminate that overhead and run a more guaranteed app instead.
Worked on firefox with my Mac, will see if it works on the PC version.
At least it appears to have real Actors in the Cast. Can never be disappointed by Morgon Freeman, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, or Gary Oldman.
Looks interesting and at least worthwhile to watch.