The HBM-30 is cool, and there are already phones that play MP3s, or radio, but it is not exactly what I had in mind. I was hoping for a phone that allows me to use an existing device. Like not rely on 2 megs of storage space on the phone for my MP3s. Like using my own MP3 player / MD player / CD player / walkman / you name it...
I understand that in their business model it is better to sell me one gadget after another, but I would gladly pay extra to be able to use my existing music, and I am sure that it would cost them like nothing to add a simple 2.5mm jack to the phone and circutry to drive it.
Ok, this is slightly OT, but it is my current peevee against cell phone manufacturers - they are producing the car handsfree sets that can mute the radio, just as it is done with TV in article, but why not implement it also for standalone walkmans?
I already have a handsfree headphones and mic. I want to listen to the music I have on my MD player. If I listen to the music, chances are that I will not hear the phone ringing, and when I hear it I have to fumble to change the headphones.
Why not put a simple 2.5mm jack on the phone, route the sound from the walkman through it and on to the handsfree headphones? Phone rings, music fades off, you get a beep-beep through the headphones, and you pick up. OK, the music is still running, and you would have to pause your walkman, but I think it is a minor issue. Furthermore walkmans can now be operated from the dongle on the headphones cord - I think that Sony could make their phones work with their walkmans...
My next idea is to have a soothing female voice tell me through the headphones which button should I press to retreive the call - somehow I tend to botch it.
And, yeah, if somebody tries to patent it - you saw it firs on/.
Apart from the obvious (no air in space), the other reason would be that AFAIK the differential thrust acts in opposite direction from the solar wind force.
The solar wind works by bouncing the tiny photons off the reflective surface, whereas the differential thrust works on the priciple that the nonreflected light heats the surface, which in turn heats the air (on both sides of this thin surface) creating the inbalance in pressure.
The again, there's been a lot of water under the bridge since I've done this stuff in HS...
I am sorry if this is OT, but I have wondered for some time now - if they have mapped the human gene map, wouldn't it be possible to construct a list of characteristics of the suspect based on DNA resude left on the crime scene. Can't they guess the things like body size, hair color, color of eyes, race, susceptibility to miopia, and other stuff from the sample? It is all written there.
I guess it would be helpful to police to know that the suspect is 5' blond male, probably wearing eyeglasses.
What they COULD do is force the manufacturers to produce the equipment with lower radiated power, probably by declining licenses and certificates to products that do not follow these guidelines. And yes, even if the country is a signatory party to this recommendation, they still can impose restrictions on their teritory (the bands were allocated for WiFi use, not deregulated).
This generaly gives the time to other implementations using the same bands to move to another frequency. Because, in any case, government regulations or not, after 500 people go and buy equipment in a country where such regulations do not exist (either to contraband it, or simply out of ignorance) - there is nothing that anyone can do to stop the further proliferation. This is what had happened long time ago in some countries where some military radars used the same frequency as the microwave ovens. They've tried to block the ITU recommendation, without success. They've tried to ban the said ovens, without success since people could still buy the ovens in some other countries. Result - the frequency became so dirty that the military HAD to move.
1. ITU-R (the part of ITU concerned with radio communication - all frequencies included) issues RECOMMENDATIONS, that should be followed by member countries, but the member countries retain the sovereign rights over the use of their spectrum 2. The part of the spectrum used for WiFi is recommended for unrestricted use in science, personal communication, and automation (think WiFi, Bluetooth, RC cars...) in most ITU regions 3. Given the nature of propagation of signals on these frequences there is no need for further international negotiations, since the signal rarely crosses the borders and is not considered as harmful interference.
To summarize, ITU-R has decided that frequency band used by WiFi is unrestricted, the devices and implementations should take into consideration that others may be operating on the same frequency, and sorry but St.Lucia can charge as much as they want, non restricted by any treaties.
It is an amazing coincidence, but I was at the sales pitch for DRM last Friday. Well, apart from things being rehashed here on/. some insider information:
DRM is going to be certified by ITU (International Telecomms Union), basicaly the body that gives the certs for these kind of things.
Most of the digital radio concepts failed because they were able to produce a small run of say 10,000 receivers that would cost an arm&leg when they hit the streets. Well, it seems that DRM will not share this fate, since China, having poor radio coverage in rural areas (FM not viable, shitty AM/SW reception) has chosen DRM as their new standard. Starting run will be ~14mil receivers, so from start they will be able to produce them dirt cheap. Basically the deal is that the West will supply the transmitters, and China will flood the market with cheap receivers.
Otherwise the test rig shown at the pitch sounded really good.
INAFE (I am not a financial expert) but there must be some differance between Trolltech and SCO/Caldera given the large differance in investment by Canopy.
Canopy owns only 5.8% of Trolltech. On the other hand they own 46.2% of SCO (plus 93% of the company owned by C?Os is owned by ex-Canopy managers - Ralph J. Yarro III & Darcy Mott)
Well, you should have heard the commentary in french... The whole show was a complete flop. They used to show more of the reporters than of dominos, the five minute breaks were used to host a stupid quiz show with idiotic questions (like asking how many people built the setup - the fact that they repeated only 500 times before asking the question), AND showing the comercials just after the break would finish...
Of course, the commentaries like "the Dutch are the people of the world, almost like we French are", and repeated stating that none of the members of the french team were turned down (they had more volunteers than the final 90 they have chosen), were enough to make me wish I skip the show. The *dominos* were great, but the whole show just sucked.
Quaoar Their only god who "came down from heaven; and, after reducing chaos to order, out the world on the back of seven giants. He then created the lower animals," and then mankind. Los Angeles County Indians, California
Ok, they said that you can use variation GNU+Linux, but this should be spelled out. I really hate how that / in the name looks like, it sort of divides GNU from Linux.
If their idea is to associate one with the other, it would be much more appropriate to call it "GNU and Linux", or even "GNU&Linux".
Not really a law, but you are raising an interesting point - damages. The treble liability you have mentioned is based on the revenue you have generated by selling the product infringing the patent. That is in case you knew about the patent and thus knowingly infringed upon it. In case you did not know about the patent you just get a C&D order.
But Linux is in its very nature a non-profitable product. Treble damages equal... ZERO!
We recently had the same problem at my university. Regulations for either digging or placing antennae were quite rigid so the solution we finally used was to get two HDSL modems (we had plenty of phone copper going out) and asked the phone company to patch the two together. Like they would to their xDSL router. (sorry I am not a Telco expert)
This kind of setup can be arranged here in Switzerland, but I hope you can arrange something similar with your Telco. I think they are now discussing putting a real switch and router in the collocation facility, so we can connect all buildings there on the switch, and directly route from there to the net.
Is there a way to learn whether you are wanted by FBI or another govt agency before geting to US and facing the music? Some sort of public APB database? Can you ask that in the US embassy? And will you get the right answer?
Seriously, if they can give this sort of information to the most wanted guys, they surely can give it to not-so-much wanted, and least wanted, and unwanted.
Given the fact that the patent was granted, they now have to enforce it. Even if they were ethical, they cannot neglect their patent now.
Seriously, you are attacking the manifestation of the problem, not the problem itself. We know that there were bots before their patent. They know it too. But the one that should know it (USPTO) doesn't seem to care.
Funny side of the DVD regions is that they were created to protect interests of US studios. Therefore you should not be able to buy a region one DVD and play it in, let's say, Europe (region two), before they decide to sell it on european market, or even before it hits cinemas. But as far as I know no other country but US makes restrictions on region-free DVD players.
So, if you live in US you do not need to break the DMCA, since you get your DVDs before others and cheaper, and in Europe you do not have DMCA so you can break it as much as you want with region free player.
There must be something wrong with concept of DVD regions?
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The HBM-30 is cool, and there are already phones that play MP3s, or radio, but it is not exactly what I had in mind. I was hoping for a phone that allows me to use an existing device. Like not rely on 2 megs of storage space on the phone for my MP3s. Like using my own MP3 player / MD player / CD player / walkman / you name it...
I understand that in their business model it is better to sell me one gadget after another, but I would gladly pay extra to be able to use my existing music, and I am sure that it would cost them like nothing to add a simple 2.5mm jack to the phone and circutry to drive it.
Ok, this is slightly OT, but it is my current peevee against cell phone manufacturers - they are producing the car handsfree sets that can mute the radio, just as it is done with TV in article, but why not implement it also for standalone walkmans?
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I already have a handsfree headphones and mic. I want to listen to the music I have on my MD player. If I listen to the music, chances are that I will not hear the phone ringing, and when I hear it I have to fumble to change the headphones.
Why not put a simple 2.5mm jack on the phone, route the sound from the walkman through it and on to the handsfree headphones? Phone rings, music fades off, you get a beep-beep through the headphones, and you pick up. OK, the music is still running, and you would have to pause your walkman, but I think it is a minor issue. Furthermore walkmans can now be operated from the dongle on the headphones cord - I think that Sony could make their phones work with their walkmans...
My next idea is to have a soothing female voice tell me through the headphones which button should I press to retreive the call - somehow I tend to botch it.
And, yeah, if somebody tries to patent it - you saw it firs on
And just what would they expect from an AC? ;->
Apart from the obvious (no air in space), the other reason would be that AFAIK the differential thrust acts in opposite direction from the solar wind force.
The solar wind works by bouncing the tiny photons off the reflective surface, whereas the differential thrust works on the priciple that the nonreflected light heats the surface, which in turn heats the air (on both sides of this thin surface) creating the inbalance in pressure.
The again, there's been a lot of water under the bridge since I've done this stuff in HS...
I am sorry if this is OT, but I have wondered for some time now - if they have mapped the human gene map, wouldn't it be possible to construct a list of characteristics of the suspect based on DNA resude left on the crime scene. Can't they guess the things like body size, hair color, color of eyes, race, susceptibility to miopia, and other stuff from the sample? It is all written there.
I guess it would be helpful to police to know that the suspect is 5' blond male, probably wearing eyeglasses.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but WRC is a conference organized by ITU.
What they COULD do is force the manufacturers to produce the equipment with lower radiated power, probably by declining licenses and certificates to products that do not follow these guidelines. And yes, even if the country is a signatory party to this recommendation, they still can impose restrictions on their teritory (the bands were allocated for WiFi use, not deregulated).
This generaly gives the time to other implementations using the same bands to move to another frequency. Because, in any case, government regulations or not, after 500 people go and buy equipment in a country where such regulations do not exist (either to contraband it, or simply out of ignorance) - there is nothing that anyone can do to stop the further proliferation. This is what had happened long time ago in some countries where some military radars used the same frequency as the microwave ovens. They've tried to block the ITU recommendation, without success. They've tried to ban the said ovens, without success since people could still buy the ovens in some other countries. Result - the frequency became so dirty that the military HAD to move.
OK, now that Kevin Mitnick is out, my bets are on him!
From what I know of the ITU operation:
1. ITU-R (the part of ITU concerned with radio communication - all frequencies included) issues RECOMMENDATIONS, that should be followed by member countries, but the member countries retain the sovereign rights over the use of their spectrum
2. The part of the spectrum used for WiFi is recommended for unrestricted use in science, personal communication, and automation (think WiFi, Bluetooth, RC cars...) in most ITU regions
3. Given the nature of propagation of signals on these frequences there is no need for further international negotiations, since the signal rarely crosses the borders and is not considered as harmful interference.
To summarize, ITU-R has decided that frequency band used by WiFi is unrestricted, the devices and implementations should take into consideration that others may be operating on the same frequency, and sorry but St.Lucia can charge as much as they want, non restricted by any treaties.
It is an amazing coincidence, but I was at the sales pitch for DRM last Friday. Well, apart from things being rehashed here on /. some insider information:
DRM is going to be certified by ITU (International Telecomms Union), basicaly the body that gives the certs for these kind of things.
Most of the digital radio concepts failed because they were able to produce a small run of say 10,000 receivers that would cost an arm&leg when they hit the streets. Well, it seems that DRM will not share this fate, since China, having poor radio coverage in rural areas (FM not viable, shitty AM/SW reception) has chosen DRM as their new standard. Starting run will be ~14mil receivers, so from start they will be able to produce them dirt cheap. Basically the deal is that the West will supply the transmitters, and China will flood the market with cheap receivers.
Otherwise the test rig shown at the pitch sounded really good.
INAFE (I am not a financial expert) but there must be some differance between Trolltech and SCO/Caldera given the large differance in investment by Canopy.
Canopy owns only 5.8% of Trolltech. On the other hand they own 46.2% of SCO (plus 93% of the company owned by C?Os is owned by ex-Canopy managers - Ralph J. Yarro III & Darcy Mott)
Come on, Rick... You can pronounce it... GNU! GNU! GNU!...
It would be a great leap for mankind if ex-MS employee calls the OS GNU/Linux.
Well, you should have heard the commentary in french... The whole show was a complete flop. They used to show more of the reporters than of dominos, the five minute breaks were used to host a stupid quiz show with idiotic questions (like asking how many people built the setup - the fact that they repeated only 500 times before asking the question), AND showing the comercials just after the break would finish...
Of course, the commentaries like "the Dutch are the people of the world, almost like we French are", and repeated stating that none of the members of the french team were turned down (they had more volunteers than the final 90 they have chosen), were enough to make me wish I skip the show. The *dominos* were great, but the whole show just sucked.
I think that mauve has the most RAM.
Quaoar Their only god who "came down from heaven; and, after reducing chaos to order, out the world on the back of seven giants. He then created the lower animals," and then mankind. Los Angeles County Indians, California
This idea is valid. However, I do not understand why would someone put Brail on the buttons in the elevator in the multilevel parking?
It seems to me that anybody using that elevator can either see, or is accompanied by a person that can see.
But, by Jove, if I can see it on the screen, I can retype it. Tedious - yes, impossible - no, if you really want to do it!
Ok, they said that you can use variation GNU+Linux, but this should be spelled out. I really hate how that / in the name looks like, it sort of divides GNU from Linux.
If their idea is to associate one with the other, it would be much more appropriate to call it "GNU and Linux", or even "GNU&Linux".
Not really a law, but you are raising an interesting point - damages. The treble liability you have mentioned is based on the revenue you have generated by selling the product infringing the patent. That is in case you knew about the patent and thus knowingly infringed upon it. In case you did not know about the patent you just get a C&D order.
But Linux is in its very nature a non-profitable product. Treble damages equal... ZERO!
We recently had the same problem at my university. Regulations for either digging or placing antennae were quite rigid so the solution we finally used was to get two HDSL modems (we had plenty of phone copper going out) and asked the phone company to patch the two together. Like they would to their xDSL router. (sorry I am not a Telco expert)
This kind of setup can be arranged here in Switzerland, but I hope you can arrange something similar with your Telco. I think they are now discussing putting a real switch and router in the collocation facility, so we can connect all buildings there on the switch, and directly route from there to the net.
Is there a way to learn whether you are wanted by FBI or another govt agency before geting to US and facing the music? Some sort of public APB database? Can you ask that in the US embassy? And will you get the right answer?
Seriously, if they can give this sort of information to the most wanted guys, they surely can give it to not-so-much wanted, and least wanted, and unwanted.
Given the fact that the patent was granted, they now have to enforce it. Even if they were ethical, they cannot neglect their patent now. Seriously, you are attacking the manifestation of the problem, not the problem itself. We know that there were bots before their patent. They know it too. But the one that should know it (USPTO) doesn't seem to care.
Funny side of the DVD regions is that they were created to protect interests of US studios. Therefore you should not be able to buy a region one DVD and play it in, let's say, Europe (region two), before they decide to sell it on european market, or even before it hits cinemas. But as far as I know no other country but US makes restrictions on region-free DVD players.
So, if you live in US you do not need to break the DMCA, since you get your DVDs before others and cheaper, and in Europe you do not have DMCA so you can break it as much as you want with region free player.
There must be something wrong with concept of DVD regions?
Yup, a donation to the Queen's election fund.
For that matter there is also a Microsoft(tm) page.