Unless your out in no-mans land where there isn't much for population density there is no way you can consider than free license spectrum could or can be reliable and uninhibited. The 2.4 spectrum is way too small as with 802.11g there are only 4 non-overlapping channels and with 802.11n there is only a single non-overlapping channel that can be used.. in the %G spectrum you have much more room.. but that is still only 11 usable channels for 802.11n..
So Unless your going to start to use licensed spectrum all you need is a small handful of people to start to generate some wireless traffic and you will start to feel the impact..
You will likely see that you are getting associated with traffic that is not for you... (All Broadcast traffic will likely be included.. EG ARP Traffic as well as any potential Multicast traffic that has not been properly setup) Also depending on how they gather Stats you might see Network Management Traffic associated with your connection as well...
It would be interesting to see if Comcast is including their IPAD streaming feeds in your data caps or excluding it...
Stop rewarding companies with your hard earned $$ when they fail you in the long run..
Too many people remain loyal to companies that screw them over... I have the patience of a gnat when it comes to a company that has wronged me in some way and don't seem interested in making things right.... More people should have that mindset so companies will realize customers are fragile and you need to treat them with respect rather than property that they can treat how ever they want cause they have you for the long run..
The sad part of it is that any app that has access to any file on your phone can read and send the data.... The simple fact that apple is keeping it and its super easy to access is of major concern... At least andriod's file that is keeping with similar or the same data has got significant roadblock to stop apps from accessing it.. (eg the phone needs to be rooted..)..
There are a million ways to do this... You can hide data in photo's.. Videos... MP3's... just about any innocent file can have a hidden payload in it if you know what to look for.. The big key is that you just can't have a hunt/find/decrypt executable on that pc..
I would like to know under what pretense that can search your phone in this manner... minor traffic violation... unless they think you were on you phone they have no right.. and to search photo's contacts ect.. is way out of the scope of why they stopped you.. but under proper handsfree operation they have no reason to know whats is on your phone...
When Blu-ray players drop below 100$ and dics are 20$ they will catch on... Right now... you can get a dvd player for 40$ and most movies are 15-20$... compared to a Bluray player thats 150$ and movies that are 40$...
Court rooms and payrolls should be tacked onto judgments on who ever loses...
Anything patent related should be heavily heavily hit with administration fees... all proceeds to go onto the national debt...
After all... who better to tax than companies that are more interested in leveraging patents to keep competition at bay so they can gouge the end consumer.
Why not just approach all bands popular that have due contracts and sign them and start their own less restrictive label and bring change to the industry...
This will cause the Music Industry to Panic and make bands sign very long term contracts with very restrictive conditions which will make bands turn away from any label associated with the RIAA..
Once Google has success things will begin to change... and its highly likely Googles success will also been seen by artists unlike what goes on with the RIAA labels where artists see is the short end of the stick of success..
Dont forget the Windows 7 and Vista do bad stuff to packets and end up increasing latency by 200+ ms that any gamer should know... a packet can go pretty damn far in 200 ms... then as you mention link congestion/last mile technology can also increase latency aswell..
Well in the land of Lawsuits that plaintiffs expect trillions in penalties.. Telsa while they might be whining about a fun show is only expecting a reasonable down to earth resolution..
1 Gig connection to every house... say 3 people on average per house (to keep the numbers easy to work with) they say it has roughly 150,000 people.. Thats 50,000 homes...
Topeka is about 60 Square Miles... thats about 833 homes per square mile if its all evenly distributed(it wont be but hey I am trying to make life easy)... So say 800 homes a square mile..
To have a wireless equivalent of a fibered infrastructure that means you would need 800 Gig's per square mile of wireless bandwidth.. (We are talking data capacity not wireless spectrum)
Lets use WiFi Draft N's spectral efficiency.. its pretty close to 8(7.22 really but lets round it up) bits per hertz and thats a number to keep our numbers easy...
800 Gb/s = 800,000,000,000 bits/s (thats with bad math which everyone seems to be using) so that would translate (accounting just for spectral efficiency.. no other factors which or numerous and none of them make the numbers better) to 100,000,000,000 hertz OR 100 GHz worth of wireless spectrum..
Realistically your not going to go for the wired equivalent.. You will go by the capacity of one of the points of aggregation/concentration which will make the number quite significantly but you have only served 1 Square mile.. You have 60 more to go so your requirement for spectrum is going to bounce back up for adjacent areas so they wont interfere...
Say your going to end up 1GHz(Which is still totally unreasonable for any wireless deployment by todays standards..) per square mile thats 8Gb/s (using the bad math above).. 100 homes per Gb/s.. Or 125Mb/s (Hmm... 125Mb/s doesn't sound as good at 1Gb/s per house)..
But any way you look at it... To do a project like what Google is envisioning is not feasibly done because neither the spectrum availability is there nor equipment that could provide this type of point to multi-point network.
Considering the 700MHz spectrum auction raised 19.5 Billion but only consisted of 62MHz of spectrum should give you an idea how far away from reality thoughts that wired is expired and wireless is the way to go are..
There are a ton of other factors to consider this is by no means taking enough into account..
No Ebook readers will have a Niche that a Netbook/Tablet will not be able to fill... Battery life... If you don't have any silly wireless crap turned on when you do not need it... a Ebook reader will last Forever when compared to a Netbook...
E-Paper/E-Ink or what ever display technology they use, requires next to nothing for power were Netbooks/Tablets/Phones the display is a huge hog of battery life.
Tablets are a FAD... They have been working on tablets since the late 90's... They have been pushing people towards them for ages... They even developed a special build of Windows XP for them...
I think they got tired of banging the drum trying to get people to move to tablets because they missed the mark of what a tablet needs to be... or possibly just ahead of their time?
This just might be that they cannot admit that the smart phone revolution brought the last few key elements into the picture to make a tablet device a success and they didn't realize it and don't want to admit it.
I would like to see the data behind this statement... But there probably isn't any what they do have is likely 5 or more years old which doesn't include anything about smartphones.. That or he was reviewing data while he was sleeping..
Hopefully these rulings will be overturned by the supreme court and this judge will be sanctioned for having a beyond obvious bias and not recusing herself from these cases.
The thing with buttons.. I find they are placed for someone with the hand the size of a 8 year old.. Very awkward to reach most of the buttons for me..
as for performance.. the DPI is huge difference... I find with a regular 800 DPI mouse I am either picking up the mouse and moving it back to using 90% of my desk for a mouse pad when I use high resolutions (Which is all the time).. Adjusting the sensitivity just changes teh number of pixels the cursor moves at a time and when its all cranked up I am skipping over what I am trying to aim for...
Sorry but you are Extremely wrong... there is a finite quantity of spectrum thats usable.. as the frequency gets higher its properties change.. for an example once your reach the terahertz range your starting to emit light and not sound anymore.. and we all know that light doesn't pass through solid object very well.. Which makes those ranges unusable for Mobile use where you definitely will experience impairment in your line of sight.
Another thing as you increase frequency the amount of power required to go the same distance increases aswell... At one point you will either be microwaving everything until it starts on fire or you have a transceiver every few feet to keep the power low enough to make it safe.
Its not the Vendors that are holding up IPv6.. Vendors have been ready for it for a long time... Until recently there have been few to no companies deploying IPv6 networks.. Equipment vendors never make alot of products which do not have demand..
The reuse the signal in both directions... So your logic (Which you can't call it that because its not logic at all.. just shows you how you didn't read)...
So if you stop transmitting on the up... you can't use it for down because your already using it for down..
The title is Totally misleading... this doesn't double the speed...
Personally When I fire up any Sun app and see oracle on it... It feels like I am looking at Grafiti.. Only time will tell if Oracle will be open source friendly like SUN was.. Only time will tell.. but somehow I doubt they will be as friendly as SUN was.
But the real Question is... Who's lobby group is lining the pockets of the correct politicians.. Thats how the biggest battles are won these days... in the pockets of politicians..
And with the Exhaustion of IPv4 address space.. everyone will be behind a NAT for a number of years and it will be easier than ever to make everyone look the same on the internet...
All they need to do stop sending info to the servers because they cannot be trusted. This has been needed for a Long time.. Servers on the internet cannot be trusted and should not be.. the whole trust relationships have been made with the client trusting the server... This needs to shift to where the server must prove its trustworthy to the client...
Still this feature is kinda irrelevant.. Turning it on does not force the website your visiting to obey..
For this type of Opt-in style Feature to work (I use Opt-in as the websites would have to want to comply) there would need to be some way to verify that they are actually not tracking you.. In all likelyhood they will still track you and this feature will end up being as effective as a big sign on your lawn that says "My house is unlocked.. But I do not want anyone to steal my stuff.. So don't please"
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Unless your out in no-mans land where there isn't much for population density there is no way you can consider than free license spectrum could or can be reliable and uninhibited. The 2.4 spectrum is way too small as with 802.11g there are only 4 non-overlapping channels and with 802.11n there is only a single non-overlapping channel that can be used.. in the %G spectrum you have much more room.. but that is still only 11 usable channels for 802.11n..
So Unless your going to start to use licensed spectrum all you need is a small handful of people to start to generate some wireless traffic and you will start to feel the impact..
They will need to build in a Margin of error...
You will likely see that you are getting associated with traffic that is not for you... (All Broadcast traffic will likely be included.. EG ARP Traffic as well as any potential Multicast traffic that has not been properly setup)
Also depending on how they gather Stats you might see Network Management Traffic associated with your connection as well...
It would be interesting to see if Comcast is including their IPAD streaming feeds in your data caps or excluding it...
Lesson... Stop buying apple products...
Stop rewarding companies with your hard earned $$ when they fail you in the long run..
Too many people remain loyal to companies that screw them over... I have the patience of a gnat when it comes to a company that has wronged me in some way and don't seem interested in making things right.... More people should have that mindset so companies will realize customers are fragile and you need to treat them with respect rather than property that they can treat how ever they want cause they have you for the long run..
The sad part of it is that any app that has access to any file on your phone can read and send the data.... The simple fact that apple is keeping it and its super easy to access is of major concern... At least andriod's file that is keeping with similar or the same data has got significant roadblock to stop apps from accessing it.. (eg the phone needs to be rooted..)..
There are a million ways to do this... You can hide data in photo's.. Videos... MP3's... just about any innocent file can have a hidden payload in it if you know what to look for.. The big key is that you just can't have a hunt/find/decrypt executable on that pc..
I would like to know under what pretense that can search your phone in this manner... minor traffic violation... unless they think you were on you phone they have no right.. and to search photo's contacts ect.. is way out of the scope of why they stopped you.. but under proper handsfree operation they have no reason to know whats is on your phone...
Getting Gouged from the MPAA and sony...
When Blu-ray players drop below 100$ and dics are 20$ they will catch on... Right now... you can get a dvd player for 40$ and most movies are 15-20$... compared to a Bluray player thats 150$ and movies that are 40$...
Tax the living hell out of frivolous law suits...
Court rooms and payrolls should be tacked onto judgments on who ever loses...
Anything patent related should be heavily heavily hit with administration fees... all proceeds to go onto the national debt...
After all... who better to tax than companies that are more interested in leveraging patents to keep competition at bay so they can gouge the end consumer.
Why not just approach all bands popular that have due contracts and sign them and start their own less restrictive label and bring change to the industry...
This will cause the Music Industry to Panic and make bands sign very long term contracts with very restrictive conditions which will make bands turn away from any label associated with the RIAA..
Once Google has success things will begin to change... and its highly likely Googles success will also been seen by artists unlike what goes on with the RIAA labels where artists see is the short end of the stick of success..
(Is that coffee I smell... I must be dreaming)
Dont forget the Windows 7 and Vista do bad stuff to packets and end up increasing latency by 200+ ms that any gamer should know... a packet can go pretty damn far in 200 ms... then as you mention link congestion/last mile technology can also increase latency aswell..
Well in the land of Lawsuits that plaintiffs expect trillions in penalties.. Telsa while they might be whining about a fun show is only expecting a reasonable down to earth resolution..
Because wireless cannot provide the bandwidth..
1 Gig connection to every house... say 3 people on average per house (to keep the numbers easy to work with) they say it has roughly 150,000 people.. Thats 50,000 homes...
Topeka is about 60 Square Miles... thats about 833 homes per square mile if its all evenly distributed(it wont be but hey I am trying to make life easy)... So say 800 homes a square mile..
To have a wireless equivalent of a fibered infrastructure that means you would need 800 Gig's per square mile of wireless bandwidth.. (We are talking data capacity not wireless spectrum)
Lets use WiFi Draft N's spectral efficiency.. its pretty close to 8(7.22 really but lets round it up) bits per hertz and thats a number to keep our numbers easy...
800 Gb/s = 800,000,000,000 bits/s (thats with bad math which everyone seems to be using)
so that would translate (accounting just for spectral efficiency.. no other factors which or numerous and none of them make the numbers better) to 100,000,000,000 hertz OR 100 GHz worth of wireless spectrum..
Realistically your not going to go for the wired equivalent.. You will go by the capacity of one of the points of aggregation/concentration which will make the number quite significantly but you have only served 1 Square mile.. You have 60 more to go so your requirement for spectrum is going to bounce back up for adjacent areas so they wont interfere...
Say your going to end up 1GHz(Which is still totally unreasonable for any wireless deployment by todays standards..) per square mile thats 8Gb/s (using the bad math above).. 100 homes per Gb/s.. Or 125Mb/s (Hmm... 125Mb/s doesn't sound as good at 1Gb/s per house)..
But any way you look at it... To do a project like what Google is envisioning is not feasibly done because neither the spectrum availability is there nor equipment that could provide this type of point to multi-point network.
Considering the 700MHz spectrum auction raised 19.5 Billion but only consisted of 62MHz of spectrum should give you an idea how far away from reality thoughts that wired is expired and wireless is the way to go are..
There are a ton of other factors to consider this is by no means taking enough into account..
No Ebook readers will have a Niche that a Netbook/Tablet will not be able to fill... Battery life... If you don't have any silly wireless crap turned on when you do not need it... a Ebook reader will last Forever when compared to a Netbook...
E-Paper/E-Ink or what ever display technology they use, requires next to nothing for power were Netbooks/Tablets/Phones the display is a huge hog of battery life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Tablet_PC_Edition
Tablets are a FAD... They have been working on tablets since the late 90's... They have been pushing people towards them for ages... They even developed a special build of Windows XP for them...
I think they got tired of banging the drum trying to get people to move to tablets because they missed the mark of what a tablet needs to be... or possibly just ahead of their time?
This just might be that they cannot admit that the smart phone revolution brought the last few key elements into the picture to make a tablet device a success and they didn't realize it and don't want to admit it.
I would like to see the data behind this statement... But there probably isn't any what they do have is likely 5 or more years old which doesn't include anything about smartphones.. That or he was reviewing data while he was sleeping..
Hopefully these rulings will be overturned by the supreme court and this judge will be sanctioned for having a beyond obvious bias and not recusing herself from these cases.
The thing with buttons.. I find they are placed for someone with the hand the size of a 8 year old.. Very awkward to reach most of the buttons for me..
as for performance.. the DPI is huge difference... I find with a regular 800 DPI mouse I am either picking up the mouse and moving it back to using 90% of my desk for a mouse pad when I use high resolutions (Which is all the time).. Adjusting the sensitivity just changes teh number of pixels the cursor moves at a time and when its all cranked up I am skipping over what I am trying to aim for...
Sorry but you are Extremely wrong... there is a finite quantity of spectrum thats usable.. as the frequency gets higher its properties change.. for an example once your reach the terahertz range your starting to emit light and not sound anymore.. and we all know that light doesn't pass through solid object very well.. Which makes those ranges unusable for Mobile use where you definitely will experience impairment in your line of sight.
Another thing as you increase frequency the amount of power required to go the same distance increases aswell... At one point you will either be microwaving everything until it starts on fire or you have a transceiver every few feet to keep the power low enough to make it safe.
So there is a very finite amount of spectrum.
Its not the Vendors that are holding up IPv6.. Vendors have been ready for it for a long time... Until recently there have been few to no companies deploying IPv6 networks.. Equipment vendors never make alot of products which do not have demand..
The only thing to do is go buy one of the first titles that does this and return it telling the store that its has aweful picture quality...
Retailers do not like returns and if they see a large influx they could stop bringing in titles that support this flag...
Did you read? Do you know how to read?
The reuse the signal in both directions... So your logic (Which you can't call it that because its not logic at all.. just shows you how you didn't read)...
So if you stop transmitting on the up... you can't use it for down because your already using it for down..
The title is Totally misleading... this doesn't double the speed...
Personally When I fire up any Sun app and see oracle on it... It feels like I am looking at Grafiti.. Only time will tell if Oracle will be open source friendly like SUN was.. Only time will tell.. but somehow I doubt they will be as friendly as SUN was.
But the real Question is... Who's lobby group is lining the pockets of the correct politicians.. Thats how the biggest battles are won these days... in the pockets of politicians..
What they should be doing..
"Do not track me or else the war will begin"
And with the Exhaustion of IPv4 address space.. everyone will be behind a NAT for a number of years and it will be easier than ever to make everyone look the same on the internet...
All they need to do stop sending info to the servers because they cannot be trusted. This has been needed for a Long time.. Servers on the internet cannot be trusted and should not be.. the whole trust relationships have been made with the client trusting the server... This needs to shift to where the server must prove its trustworthy to the client...
Still this feature is kinda irrelevant.. Turning it on does not force the website your visiting to obey..
For this type of Opt-in style Feature to work (I use Opt-in as the websites would have to want to comply) there would need to be some way to verify that they are actually not tracking you.. In all likelyhood they will still track you and this feature will end up being as effective as a big sign on your lawn that says "My house is unlocked.. But I do not want anyone to steal my stuff.. So don't please"