After reading the wiki link (Which is like a big ol ad for Wi-Fi) I have some concerns.
It's supposed to be backwards compatible yes? But wi-fi G and B have far lower ranges (let alone A) so I'll likely be blanketted with several wimax networks which my card won't be powerful enough to respond to. How long will my auto handshake take to resolve that?
Also since it doesn't support Ad-Hoc are we sure this won't be run by ISPs and not leave us a chance to run personal networks?
Third I know there has been a breakthrough in power consumption and moving to higher frequencies makes data transfer less power hungry but these kind of distances seem to make wi-fi in hand helds and laptops impractical, it would be nice not to wire things but wiring is probably a better solution then hamstringing 802.11b when that has the possibility of universal deployment and replacing the cell networks.
Who's going to want to put a wimax antenna in a subway? Or on a train?
Let's hope this isn't going to stamp out the old standards...
Don't get me wrong I'm looking forward to it, just some concerns.
If it delivers it will replace most home networking, upstream will be a problem but ISPs will love that (They sell the upstream as web server, bloody bastards)...
It's going to royally suck if people switch to this and you can't set up a private network anymore, it's been nice to know that no matter how bad residential ISP's get you could always get some commercial cable and share it.
In a few years we might not be able to do that anymore:( I guess I'll have to add 5 usb wifi's to my stack of ethernet cards:(
Age of consent is actually quite well outlined, it basically says that young people can't have sex with people a certain age older than them.
So a person who is 13 can have sex with a 14 year old, heck an 8 year old can bork a 9 year old.
The idea is that children should be protected from people of higher intellectual and physical development who could capitalize on their naivate.
It's quite clear that there are lots of emotionally confused youngsters running around who older people could convince to do anything if they offered a sense of purpose, I say protect em.
Have you seen a pocket pc recently? They can come with cell phone irda, wifi, bluetooth, 800x600 screens, gps, mic, headphones, linux or windows or palm OS (Which is pretty damn sweet actually).
If they came with a projector that would just be it... there wouldn't be any innovation ever again.
Political agenda? Encourage producers to include the functionality out of the box or just piss of slashdot readers enough that they'll solve the problem?
Yes but they aren't total walkthroughs that can be navigated easily. They usually aren't translated into more than one language. And they don't have software tools visual aids, auditory aids, feedback to check you are doing well.
All of the above would obviously be in well written instructional tools but they aren't available on the internet.
Well since Intel is throttling back to 3.2 for these things I guess we'll have to suffer marketting crappola for a while.
Amd is releasing at 2.4 (Their fastest) as well as a 2.6 and 2.8 dual core within weeks of their first announcement. So they will just be faster and dual core so um sweet!
There is some term I forget what it was but it allowed my girlfriend to plug her camera directly into her 40 gig mp3 player on our trip. This was obviously very useful as a backup medium.
Increadibly she could naviage in the file system of the mp3 player from her phone and inside the phone from her mp3 player. So she could play mp3's on her camera.
I'm constantly surprised by the poor quality of learning tools on the internet. You'd think someone would have the funding to get these things right the first time. There are some good ones, like go. But for a complete guide to some of the most basic principles like Calculus, French, English, C, physics, these things should have the equivalent of amazing text books available online but they don't. Sad:(
Bugger giving them manufacturing equipment... give them the specifications for all the devices then they can build what they need and compete with western companies in manufacturing.
Will we be able to connect to several networks at once?
The really badass cisco servers have been able to do this for like 40 years.
But it never filtered down, it would have been awsome to have 2 Modems and phone lines or Use Both my and My neighbors Cable while he used both his and mine.
I guess they are making good use of the wifi channels but this could still be better:(
The same is the case of those who don't take advantage of education, the government does make decisions where they force changes on their people because they are just too damn short sighted for their own good.
Oh right republicans, they um play electric guitars right... That's funny....
We also got BattleStar though with an American cast (eeeewwww).
At least all the hot ones are still Canadian.
As far as outsourcing goes, Sci-Fi has been able to keep the same budget but produce way higher quality by moving outside of L.A. and really the whole concept of producing television in L.A. is outdated, you don't need guest appearances by movie stars every week to keep a show with a decent plot alive.
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Post when you can actually buy it from Dell and get it shipped within 5 days.
:( I was really hoping they'd get these onto the streets.
This is starting to look like a paper launch
But perhaps people will wake up to the fact that Intel is getting it's ass handed to it. (AMD superbowl ad?)
If Dell get's caught with it's pants down it could lose a generation without negotiating with the key AMD chipset makers and be totally destroyed.
I did the above except I deleted all the plugins... yea the program complains... but quickly.
After reading the wiki link (Which is like a big ol ad for Wi-Fi) I have some concerns.
It's supposed to be backwards compatible yes? But wi-fi G and B have far lower ranges (let alone A) so I'll likely be blanketted with several wimax networks which my card won't be powerful enough to respond to. How long will my auto handshake take to resolve that?
Also since it doesn't support Ad-Hoc are we sure this won't be run by ISPs and not leave us a chance to run personal networks?
Third I know there has been a breakthrough in power consumption and moving to higher frequencies makes data transfer less power hungry but these kind of distances seem to make wi-fi in hand helds and laptops impractical, it would be nice not to wire things but wiring is probably a better solution then hamstringing 802.11b when that has the possibility of universal deployment and replacing the cell networks.
Who's going to want to put a wimax antenna in a subway? Or on a train?
Let's hope this isn't going to stamp out the old standards...
Don't get me wrong I'm looking forward to it, just some concerns.
If it delivers it will replace most home networking, upstream will be a problem but ISPs will love that (They sell the upstream as web server, bloody bastards)...
h owProdList&cmd=pl&id=NT.541 I'd like this one to go straight to mobo's and given it's power requirements it will probably have to...
:( I guess I'll have to add 5 usb wifi's to my stack of ethernet cards :(
I don't want the $130 - $20 price drop we got with 802.11 (http://www.canadacomputers.com/cc/index.php?do=S
It's going to royally suck if people switch to this and you can't set up a private network anymore, it's been nice to know that no matter how bad residential ISP's get you could always get some commercial cable and share it.
In a few years we might not be able to do that anymore
Age of consent is actually quite well outlined, it basically says that young people can't have sex with people a certain age older than them.
So a person who is 13 can have sex with a 14 year old, heck an 8 year old can bork a 9 year old.
The idea is that children should be protected from people of higher intellectual and physical development who could capitalize on their naivate.
It's quite clear that there are lots of emotionally confused youngsters running around who older people could convince to do anything if they offered a sense of purpose, I say protect em.
Have you seen a pocket pc recently? They can come with cell phone irda, wifi, bluetooth, 800x600 screens, gps, mic, headphones, linux or windows or palm OS (Which is pretty damn sweet actually).
If they came with a projector that would just be it... there wouldn't be any innovation ever again.
Political agenda? Encourage producers to include the functionality out of the box or just piss of slashdot readers enough that they'll solve the problem?
Yes but they aren't total walkthroughs that can be navigated easily. They usually aren't translated into more than one language. And they don't have software tools visual aids, auditory aids, feedback to check you are doing well.
All of the above would obviously be in well written instructional tools but they aren't available on the internet.
Supplements to classrooms exist, replacements no.
Why is this stuff considered so difficult. Artificial intelligence in areas like video games do things that are orders of magnitude more difficult.
This point is moot anyway since these chips will only come out in 64 bit.
So when you buy these systems (If you want windows) they'll come with winXP 64 Pro.
Well since Intel is throttling back to 3.2 for these things I guess we'll have to suffer marketting crappola for a while.
Amd is releasing at 2.4 (Their fastest) as well as a 2.6 and 2.8 dual core within weeks of their first announcement. So they will just be faster and dual core so um sweet!
There is some term I forget what it was but it allowed my girlfriend to plug her camera directly into her 40 gig mp3 player on our trip. This was obviously very useful as a backup medium.
Increadibly she could naviage in the file system of the mp3 player from her phone and inside the phone from her mp3 player. So she could play mp3's on her camera.
Camera olympus z-4040.
Mp3 player is iriver h-340
I'm constantly surprised by the poor quality of learning tools on the internet. You'd think someone would have the funding to get these things right the first time. There are some good ones, like go. But for a complete guide to some of the most basic principles like Calculus, French, English, C, physics, these things should have the equivalent of amazing text books available online but they don't. Sad :(
Bugger giving them manufacturing equipment... give them the specifications for all the devices then they can build what they need and compete with western companies in manufacturing.
Will we be able to connect to several networks at once?
:(
The really badass cisco servers have been able to do this for like 40 years.
But it never filtered down, it would have been awsome to have 2 Modems and phone lines or Use Both my and My neighbors Cable while he used both his and mine.
I guess they are making good use of the wifi channels but this could still be better
The last 2-3 wars Americans have bombed canadian troops by accident.
:)
Anything which would prevent that would be nice
We'll probably never get over it's reiterations.
Tactical of course Rainbow 6.
Violating someone's right to privacy is significantly more valuable than coywright infringement.
IF she wins she should be looking at 5-6 figures.
Um if you get municipal wifi, well they can't just spoof your mac.
You'll find comparing your country to America increadibly satisfying all other countries do.
But you'll find trying to get Americans to do something about thier situation increadibly frustrating.
On the upswing, things that involve numbers are starting to have more prominence so it's quite clear who the leaders are.
Rather than us having to explain to them that McDonalds isn't architecture, nor are the strip malls.
And hollywood isn't film.
The same is the case of those who don't take advantage of education, the government does make decisions where they force changes on their people because they are just too damn short sighted for their own good.
Oh right republicans, they um play electric guitars right... That's funny....
1500/256 HAHAHHAHAHA YOU SUCK!
Apparently for Americans they have embraced inefficient micropayments!
Wasting a whole families time because you can't do a tiny bit of research.
We also got BattleStar though with an American cast (eeeewwww).
At least all the hot ones are still Canadian.
As far as outsourcing goes, Sci-Fi has been able to keep the same budget but produce way higher quality by moving outside of L.A. and really the whole concept of producing television in L.A. is outdated, you don't need guest appearances by movie stars every week to keep a show with a decent plot alive.
Um Americans sling a lot of mud in their campaigns which is often totally unrelated to the issues.
they ended up with a two party system which is decided every four years with negativity.
They should mute their own press and let someone else's cover the election.