As far as I knew, IDT wasn't a player in the cell phone market, just the landline long distance market...
I'd have more confidence in this going to market if one of the big cellular players like Verizon, SBC/Cingular, or T-Mobile was the one doing this test.
Here's a possible extention to this idea... allow the participating WiFi sites to announce the availability of a VoIP link back to the cell-provider's network, basically allowing anybody who roams by to borrow the WiFi as a mini cell tower, and letting the hotspot owner pocket a few pennies of savings on their bill for helping the stranger.
This could become a low-cost way of extending a cell network into rural areas where it's hard to put up a traditional cell tower due to zoning hassles, but virtually anybody could mount a WiFi antenna on their roof next to their TV antenna.
It means that the standard came from the same standard organization that set the original, so you can be pretty sure that they didn't do anything stupid that'd lock out the wired-generation devices from using a wired-to-wireless bridge.
In short, basing on an existing wired standard means all the wireless standard needs to do is to define a radio link that emulates a wired link. Only the radio bridges need to be aware that wireless is being used, the other end of the bridge can just claim to be a typical powered or unpowered hub. There'd likely be some sort of way to issue an "Are you wireless?" query to hubs so that appications that can't tolerate the small delay wireless creates can scream about not having a good enough connection, and things like that... but most of the heavy lift operations can just lean on the wired standard.
Why doesn't/. have a Linux section? It has an Apple section so why not a Linux one.
Because then they'd start getting GNU/Complaints.
This story is properly filled under the GNU icon, but not the Linux icon because as RMS says it's "GNU/Linux" and Linux refers only to the name of the kernel piece. In order to even interface with Linux as an OS, you need some other shell on top of it.
Basically, there's no Linux section exactly for the same reason it took Google so long to reach icon status... there has to be enough stories to justify a section that apply to the topic coming out regularly.
It looks like all of the made-by-TechTV shows are going to end up suffering a downtime while they relocate to be with the rest of Comcast's TV operations in Los Angeles (which include G4 as well as The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, E! and Style Network).
Therefore, there's going to have to be a bit of a stop-and-reboot before new "TechTV" content comes out of the merged network.
I thought there were consumer protection laws that stipulate the availability of service and support for 7 years from the date of the original sale. Isn't two years a fairly short end of life cycle for a consumer electronics product?
I know of no such law. Once your warranty is up, you're at the vendor's mercy for what kind of support, if any, is going to be available to you.
This is more or less what always happens when a vendor discontinues a product line... you've got an orphan product that you might as well toss when it breaks.
Then again, what's the point of servicing a broken $50 router... most flaws that would cause it to stop working usually are more expensive to fix than the thing's worth.
Microsoft had no real way to apply "embrace and extend" into the networking world. When it comes down to it, there isn't much different between equal models accross the brands on the consumer networking shelf.
I've even noticed some AT&T-branded networking equipment showing up at CompUSA stores. More or less, that shelf was getting a little too crowded and stores were going to drop the weakest link if Microsoft or some other player didn't gracefully bow out soon.
Robot Wars is actually on the "safe list" however its 5pm and 10pm ET timeslots are going to get pre-empt for the next three weeks by TechTV simulcasting G4 programming in a pre-tease of the merged network.
Some of the crossover blocks will contain live coverage of the E3 convention.
Will that sweet sweet maiden Sarah Lane still be on Screen Savers, and will she dump Kevin Rose for me?
The more likely question is whether the two of them are going to live in the same appartment if they relocate to Los Angeles when the show moves...
BTW. For casual fans of the show... Kevin's real-life roommate at the time is fellow cast member Dan Huard... together they rent out the garage of an otherwise large house.
Actually... ZDTV/TechTV used to have a computer graphics division reponsible for powering animated personalities Dash and Tilde. They were all let go when the 9-and-a-half-hour version of TechLive folded.
G4 has had a weekly video-game news program called "Pulse" based out of their LA operation. If Pluse were to expand its topic area to the tech world at large beyond video games, it'd essentially become TechLive.
G4 presently has an "all video games, all the time" format that's going to get muddled with the TechTV content they're absorbing. It's still a bit unclear whether G4's original shows will start to change format with this merger, or if it's TechTV's surviving shows that are going to be asked to focus more on video games than they did before.
No, what you're seeing is are the two "crossover blocks" when TechTV content will appear for the first time on G4 and G4 content will appear for the first time on TechTV. Those will happen every day from now until May 27th when the two networks finally merge and become one.
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Comcast viewers without TechTV will be able to see a preview of some of the surviving TechTV content tonight over G4. The two networks will simulcast every day from 4pm to 6pm ET and 10pm to 12mid ET with one hour of TechTV original content and one hour of G4 content in each block. Basically, you'll be seeing X-Play and Unscrewed as TechTV's contribution to those blocks.
I mean the terrorist aholes should start scaring people left and right, force the threat level up and down. How much risk is there to leak false intelligance.. then not follow through. Sooner or later we will get fed up, let our guard down and whamo they get a free ride. Jebus I really should wash my gray hat its looking darker and darker every day.
This has more or less happened every time an "Orange Alert" has been issued so far.
The FBI is used to dealing with such clearly-fake names. If a tipster doesn't want to reveal their true identity, but does want to leave some sort of name so that they can be recognized when they call back, they give such a "codename" and the FBI just nods and accepts it. To them, it's a notch better than having to write the tip off as being fully annonymous...
There hasn't been a Sega console since the Dreamcast. However, as a result of getting out of the console-making business, Sega was then freed to write games for the other consoles.
In short, they saw themselves being trapped writing games for a fourth place console. They got more than quadruple the possible console audience they had by abaondoning their own platform and becoming an accepted writer for other platforms.
After what The Pentagon thought was successful military invasion to rescue that princess, they discovered what they thought was the woman and brought her out only to be told "Thank you GWB, but our princess is in another castle!"
Ironically, Fox 25 in Boston just ran a report about how insecure college dorms are because even with the magnetic-stripe or RFID based ID cards, somebody with a hidden TV camera could on every attempt get in simply by walking behind another student. In most cases, that other student even holds the door...
This really isn't the strongest security measure, but at least its better than not having any at all.
PPA believes that a strong grassroots effort combined with its recent lobbying efforts should be enough to keep this harmful bill locked in the subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection until Congress adjourns.
That's a sign of trouble right there. The PPA's goal is to see Congress lock this bill in committee. That's a legislative tactic to defeat a bill by having the comittee that's been assigned the bill simply never submit a report, which denies the full House any chance to debate or vote on the bill unless there is no objection to the House substituting a favorable report to make up for the comittee's inaction. Death-by-inaction is a way to get rid of a bill you don't like without having to actually make a "nay" vote that goes on the record.
However, this May 12 hearing is not something people supporting that outcome want to see. It's even very possible that the vote to favorably recommend the bill to the full House may come out of this session...
The bill doesn't really appear to have anything to do with the DMCA. All it appears to do is require cds labeled as audio cds to actually be valid audio cds. This would just prohibit copy-protected cds from being advertised as audio cds.
Read further down in the text of the bill beyond the point it talks about CDs. The last section modifies Section 1201(c) of title 17, a section that got much of its content from the DMCA. Basically, it guts much of this section by specifically allowing the use and distribution of DRM-defeating software if the goal is to enable fair use that is otherwise legal.
From the bill's text, if it is passed this sentance would be added to the Laws of the Land:
It shall not be a violation of this title to manufacture, distribute, or make noninfringing use of a hardware or software product capable of enabling significant noninfringing use of a copyrighted work.
It's the RIAA/MPAA's nightmare and the consumer's dream... the right to defeat DRM in order to make fair use of the resulting file.
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As far as I knew, IDT wasn't a player in the cell phone market, just the landline long distance market...
I'd have more confidence in this going to market if one of the big cellular players like Verizon, SBC/Cingular, or T-Mobile was the one doing this test.
Here's a possible extention to this idea... allow the participating WiFi sites to announce the availability of a VoIP link back to the cell-provider's network, basically allowing anybody who roams by to borrow the WiFi as a mini cell tower, and letting the hotspot owner pocket a few pennies of savings on their bill for helping the stranger.
This could become a low-cost way of extending a cell network into rural areas where it's hard to put up a traditional cell tower due to zoning hassles, but virtually anybody could mount a WiFi antenna on their roof next to their TV antenna.
It means that the standard came from the same standard organization that set the original, so you can be pretty sure that they didn't do anything stupid that'd lock out the wired-generation devices from using a wired-to-wireless bridge.
In short, basing on an existing wired standard means all the wireless standard needs to do is to define a radio link that emulates a wired link. Only the radio bridges need to be aware that wireless is being used, the other end of the bridge can just claim to be a typical powered or unpowered hub. There'd likely be some sort of way to issue an "Are you wireless?" query to hubs so that appications that can't tolerate the small delay wireless creates can scream about not having a good enough connection, and things like that... but most of the heavy lift operations can just lean on the wired standard.
Why doesn't /. have a Linux section? It has an Apple section so why not a Linux one.
Because then they'd start getting GNU/Complaints.
This story is properly filled under the GNU icon, but not the Linux icon because as RMS says it's "GNU/Linux" and Linux refers only to the name of the kernel piece. In order to even interface with Linux as an OS, you need some other shell on top of it.
Basically, there's no Linux section exactly for the same reason it took Google so long to reach icon status... there has to be enough stories to justify a section that apply to the topic coming out regularly.
Furthermore, this creates a OSS project that now directly challeges Outlook, which will exempt users from most of Outlook's exploit issues...
It looks like all of the made-by-TechTV shows are going to end up suffering a downtime while they relocate to be with the rest of Comcast's TV operations in Los Angeles (which include G4 as well as The Golf Channel, Outdoor Life Network, E! and Style Network).
Therefore, there's going to have to be a bit of a stop-and-reboot before new "TechTV" content comes out of the merged network.
Mitsubishi is a consumer products maker with lines of computer monitors, high-end TVs, and cell phones among other things, as well as a well-known car maker.
Yes, all of these companies are related.
I thought there were consumer protection laws that stipulate the availability of service and support for 7 years from the date of the original sale. Isn't two years a fairly short end of life cycle for a consumer electronics product?
I know of no such law. Once your warranty is up, you're at the vendor's mercy for what kind of support, if any, is going to be available to you.
This is more or less what always happens when a vendor discontinues a product line... you've got an orphan product that you might as well toss when it breaks.
Then again, what's the point of servicing a broken $50 router... most flaws that would cause it to stop working usually are more expensive to fix than the thing's worth.
Call me a tinfoil-hat user if you like. But how do I know they wouldn't be logging info I don't have access to and having it sent to their servers?
Just wondering, who is the official network equipment maker of the tinfoil hat wearers?
Microsoft had no real way to apply "embrace and extend" into the networking world. When it comes down to it, there isn't much different between equal models accross the brands on the consumer networking shelf.
I've even noticed some AT&T-branded networking equipment showing up at CompUSA stores. More or less, that shelf was getting a little too crowded and stores were going to drop the weakest link if Microsoft or some other player didn't gracefully bow out soon.
Robot Wars is actually on the "safe list" however its 5pm and 10pm ET timeslots are going to get pre-empt for the next three weeks by TechTV simulcasting G4 programming in a pre-tease of the merged network.
Some of the crossover blocks will contain live coverage of the E3 convention.
Will that sweet sweet maiden Sarah Lane still be on Screen Savers, and will she dump Kevin Rose for me?
The more likely question is whether the two of them are going to live in the same appartment if they relocate to Los Angeles when the show moves...
BTW. For casual fans of the show... Kevin's real-life roommate at the time is fellow cast member Dan Huard... together they rent out the garage of an otherwise large house.
Actually... ZDTV/TechTV used to have a computer graphics division reponsible for powering animated personalities Dash and Tilde. They were all let go when the 9-and-a-half-hour version of TechLive folded.
G4 has had a weekly video-game news program called "Pulse" based out of their LA operation. If Pluse were to expand its topic area to the tech world at large beyond video games, it'd essentially become TechLive.
G4 presently has an "all video games, all the time" format that's going to get muddled with the TechTV content they're absorbing. It's still a bit unclear whether G4's original shows will start to change format with this merger, or if it's TechTV's surviving shows that are going to be asked to focus more on video games than they did before.
No, what you're seeing is are the two "crossover blocks" when TechTV content will appear for the first time on G4 and G4 content will appear for the first time on TechTV. Those will happen every day from now until May 27th when the two networks finally merge and become one.
Comcast viewers without TechTV will be able to see a preview of some of the surviving TechTV content tonight over G4. The two networks will simulcast every day from 4pm to 6pm ET and 10pm to 12mid ET with one hour of TechTV original content and one hour of G4 content in each block. Basically, you'll be seeing X-Play and Unscrewed as TechTV's contribution to those blocks.
I mean the terrorist aholes should start scaring people left and right, force the threat level up and down. How much risk is there to leak false intelligance.. then not follow through. Sooner or later we will get fed up, let our guard down and whamo they get a free ride. Jebus I really should wash my gray hat its looking darker and darker every day.
This has more or less happened every time an "Orange Alert" has been issued so far.
The FBI is used to dealing with such clearly-fake names. If a tipster doesn't want to reveal their true identity, but does want to leave some sort of name so that they can be recognized when they call back, they give such a "codename" and the FBI just nods and accepts it. To them, it's a notch better than having to write the tip off as being fully annonymous...
When was the last time you saw a Sega?
There hasn't been a Sega console since the Dreamcast. However, as a result of getting out of the console-making business, Sega was then freed to write games for the other consoles.
In short, they saw themselves being trapped writing games for a fourth place console. They got more than quadruple the possible console audience they had by abaondoning their own platform and becoming an accepted writer for other platforms.
After what The Pentagon thought was successful military invasion to rescue that princess, they discovered what they thought was the woman and brought her out only to be told "Thank you GWB, but our princess is in another castle!"
Ironically, Fox 25 in Boston just ran a report about how insecure college dorms are because even with the magnetic-stripe or RFID based ID cards, somebody with a hidden TV camera could on every attempt get in simply by walking behind another student. In most cases, that other student even holds the door...
This really isn't the strongest security measure, but at least its better than not having any at all.
Aside giving him free office space in metro Boston... just what resources does RMS get out of being with MIT that he can't get from the FSF anyway?
PPA believes that a strong grassroots effort combined with its recent lobbying efforts should be enough to keep this harmful bill locked in the subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection until Congress adjourns.
That's a sign of trouble right there. The PPA's goal is to see Congress lock this bill in committee. That's a legislative tactic to defeat a bill by having the comittee that's been assigned the bill simply never submit a report, which denies the full House any chance to debate or vote on the bill unless there is no objection to the House substituting a favorable report to make up for the comittee's inaction. Death-by-inaction is a way to get rid of a bill you don't like without having to actually make a "nay" vote that goes on the record.
However, this May 12 hearing is not something people supporting that outcome want to see. It's even very possible that the vote to favorably recommend the bill to the full House may come out of this session...
The bill doesn't really appear to have anything to do with the DMCA. All it appears to do is require cds labeled as audio cds to actually be valid audio cds. This would just prohibit copy-protected cds from being advertised as audio cds.
Read further down in the text of the bill beyond the point it talks about CDs. The last section modifies Section 1201(c) of title 17, a section that got much of its content from the DMCA. Basically, it guts much of this section by specifically allowing the use and distribution of DRM-defeating software if the goal is to enable fair use that is otherwise legal.
From the bill's text, if it is passed this sentance would be added to the Laws of the Land:
It shall not be a violation of this title to manufacture, distribute, or make noninfringing use of a hardware or software product capable of enabling significant noninfringing use of a copyrighted work.
It's the RIAA/MPAA's nightmare and the consumer's dream... the right to defeat DRM in order to make fair use of the resulting file.