FUD, FUD, FUD. Look, at least try something before claiming to know how it works. As the parent poster said, iTunes does nothing to prevent you from making as many backup copies of your music as your heart desires, the only limit is how many machines you can play music on at any given time.
>That said it's ridiculous that tourist guides, free maps, and free-to-view billboards can carry the image, yet I can't load it onto an iPod.
And of course, nobody has said you can't do this, and that's not at all what this is about. You're more than able to download the map from legitimate sources and load it into your iPod yourself.
Somewhat, although unlike the Orb this doesn't appear to require a monthly service charge. I always kinda liked the idea of the Orb, but paying for service for a wireless device that would always be in a WiFi covered area seemed silly to me.
Glass blocks were also set into the decks of sailing ships, in order to pipe light below deck. Especially useful on warships, where candles or lanterns risked setting off powder.
"I know people like to make 'media centers' and other stuff..." Well, sounds like you answered your own question. I've got an Xbox, and have yet to play games on it. I got it because the platform was a nice, cheap option for a MythTV frontend.
The RG-1000 and the Airport are more or less contemporaries. In fact, they're the same hardware (although you wouldn't be able to tell looking at the cases!). About the only difference is the RG-1000's power supply is a different voltage (there is a small daughterboard in both products that the supply plugs into).
Ok, you see no point, that's fine. Me, I've been looking for one of these for a while now. A lot of my travel, especially vacation travel, is to places without wireless or ethernet access, for example when we've rented a house with some other families for vacation. In those cases we have several people wanting access, and this type of unit is ideal. In the past I've brought my Airport along, but a less bulky device would be good.
While VoIP will certainly push PoE, for us the big factor pushing it was deploying wireless APs. Pretty much none of the locations we were putting the units in had AC (not many outlets 8-10 feet up the wall), so being able to power them over the ethernet run was a major time and money saver.
Actually, from what I've been hearing here, I'd have to put ADM up as worse than any tobacco company. After all, smoking really doesn't affect anywhere as many people as ADM's BS would.....
Most likely, although some access points (Enterasys in personal experience) use the same MAC for the wireless interfaces and the Ethernet uplink port. I rather like that, makes IDing units easier, but it's not too common.
Of course, to make the sandwich story even closer to the war-driving example, the situation is that every time the guy walks past the house, on the public street or sidewalk, a sandwich comes flying out of the house and hits him. Ya know, like radio....:)
ut once (if) they kill OTA... next logical step would be Analog Cable in time...
Logical how? The logic for ending analog OTA is freeing up RF bandwidth, irrelevent as far as cable goes. So I don't see any mandate on the way.
That said, I think most cable providers are moving to digital to free up bandwidth in their systems. And of course satellite (Dish and DirecTV) have been digital since day one.
(A bit offtopic here) I find it interesting how the internet went from a primarily text-based medium, and suddenly exploded with MEDIA MEDIA MEDIA everywhere. We ended up with horrble frankensites like IGN and CNet, with maybe 1% actual content per page, the rest being graphical and media fluff. And now I hear what you say a LOT, where people are sick of going to sites and being overloaded with junk, and trying to find the buried content. Lots of people are finding the minimalist standpoint to be a valid one (my website for instance is pretty minimalist in that regard).
Ok, this is Slashdot, I admit. But it seems like so many comments are offering technical solutions for a now non-existant problem. The cafe had a problem, solved it by just turning off access, problem solved, business improved to boot! Why insist on suggesting schemes that won't help anything?
From what I've seen, the US has the most liberal rules as to allowable power in the ISM bands that 802.11b/g uses. Most equipment, even the "high-power" devices, don't come close to the limit, 1 watt.
Slashdot Mirror
At least with the current technology, how are they "forcing" you to repurchase?
FUD, FUD, FUD. Look, at least try something before claiming to know how it works. As the parent poster said, iTunes does nothing to prevent you from making as many backup copies of your music as your heart desires, the only limit is how many machines you can play music on at any given time.
so..umm... read the article? The coated a blue LED with the dots in a substrate and it gave off the white glow again.
Well, the Apple site says 150 hours of video (H.264, and I assume for the 60Gig unit). Where were you getting your number?
>That said it's ridiculous that tourist guides, free maps, and free-to-view billboards can carry the image, yet I can't load it onto an iPod.
And of course, nobody has said you can't do this, and that's not at all what this is about. You're more than able to download the map from legitimate sources and load it into your iPod yourself.
Somewhat, although unlike the Orb this doesn't appear to require a monthly service charge. I always kinda liked the idea of the Orb, but paying for service for a wireless device that would always be in a WiFi covered area seemed silly to me.
...and an ear.
But meme is at least a word.....
Glass blocks were also set into the decks of sailing ships, in order to pipe light below deck. Especially useful on warships, where candles or lanterns risked setting off powder.
"I know people like to make 'media centers' and other stuff..." Well, sounds like you answered your own question. I've got an Xbox, and have yet to play games on it. I got it because the platform was a nice, cheap option for a MythTV frontend.
The RG-1000 and the Airport are more or less contemporaries. In fact, they're the same hardware (although you wouldn't be able to tell looking at the cases!). About the only difference is the RG-1000's power supply is a different voltage (there is a small daughterboard in both products that the supply plugs into).
Ok, you see no point, that's fine. Me, I've been looking for one of these for a while now. A lot of my travel, especially vacation travel, is to places without wireless or ethernet access, for example when we've rented a house with some other families for vacation. In those cases we have several people wanting access, and this type of unit is ideal. In the past I've brought my Airport along, but a less bulky device would be good.
While VoIP will certainly push PoE, for us the big factor pushing it was deploying wireless APs. Pretty much none of the locations we were putting the units in had AC (not many outlets 8-10 feet up the wall), so being able to power them over the ethernet run was a major time and money saver.
Actually, from what I've been hearing here, I'd have to put ADM up as worse than any tobacco company. After all, smoking really doesn't affect anywhere as many people as ADM's BS would.....
Most likely, although some access points (Enterasys in personal experience) use the same MAC for the wireless interfaces and the Ethernet uplink port. I rather like that, makes IDing units easier, but it's not too common.
Of course, to make the sandwich story even closer to the war-driving example, the situation is that every time the guy walks past the house, on the public street or sidewalk, a sandwich comes flying out of the house and hits him. Ya know, like radio.... :)
ut once (if) they kill OTA... next logical step would be Analog Cable in time...
Logical how? The logic for ending analog OTA is freeing up RF bandwidth, irrelevent as far as cable goes. So I don't see any mandate on the way.
That said, I think most cable providers are moving to digital to free up bandwidth in their systems. And of course satellite (Dish and DirecTV) have been digital since day one.
(A bit offtopic here) I find it interesting how the internet went from a primarily text-based medium, and suddenly exploded with MEDIA MEDIA MEDIA everywhere. We ended up with horrble frankensites like IGN and CNet, with maybe 1% actual content per page, the rest being graphical and media fluff. And now I hear what you say a LOT, where people are sick of going to sites and being overloaded with junk, and trying to find the buried content. Lots of people are finding the minimalist standpoint to be a valid one (my website for instance is pretty minimalist in that regard).
I like to refer to this stuff as nontent.
Ok, this is Slashdot, I admit. But it seems like so many comments are offering technical solutions for a now non-existant problem. The cafe had a problem, solved it by just turning off access, problem solved, business improved to boot! Why insist on suggesting schemes that won't help anything?
Well, my wife and I, both engineers (she with a degree in mathematics, I work in IT) have 2 girls.
It uses mp3s, and you can also use other formats like Ogg Vorbis. http://www.illadvised.com/~jordy/ Open enough?
The point is that the phone will NEVER have a good fix, unless you take it outdoors.
GPS doesn't necessarily work well indoors.
Well, he learned something alright....
From what I've seen, the US has the most liberal rules as to allowable power in the ISM bands that 802.11b/g uses. Most equipment, even the "high-power" devices, don't come close to the limit, 1 watt.