GSM? Nope, you're limited to a smallish number of concurrent calls per cell, so you're not getting through when lots of others are also trying to call: ever tried to make a call when there's an accident on the motorway and everyone's phoning their SO to say they'll be late for dinner? You can't.
Why not carry around a walkie-talkie, a carrier pigeon, a set of semaphore flags, a satellite phone (won't work in a city though, not with those tall buildings).
Better still hide in your basement and stop worrying about things you have no control over.
No, you might not have it in your country. But what happens if you're peering with a US person? IANAL etc but it would seem it would could be used to make you Very Unhappy...
On The Register today, talking about Ashcroft's new PATRIOT extensions:
The new law against "Unlawful use of encryption" would establish prison terms for anyone who "knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any incriminating communication" relating to a federal crime that they're committing, or attempting to commit. Offenders would face up to ten years in prison, in addition to the jail time the underlying crime carries, if any. A Justice Department analysis included with the proposal suggests that the illegal encrypting carry a mandatory minimum term of five years in prison.
On the news everywhere in a few months:
Guatanemo Bay camp X-Ray expanded to house an estimated 600,000 p2p users from across the world, guarded by armed RIAA security.
To quote: "The large volumes of passive content in any electronic device means that you have that many more chances for a product to fail".
I can see that motherboards that pop are going to be a major pain in the backside, particularly for us small system builders, but what other devices use these suspect capacitors? aircraft? cars? lifts? phones? routers?
Anyone care to speculate?
Oh, bugger off.
It's a tool designed to do a job, which is not to be flashy, or out-perform your frickin' PDA.
Has your PDA been tested in a vacuum? extremes of heat and cold? shock, vibration? radiation? had x thousand hours of burn testing? have a power draw of less than x milliamps?
Think, for godsake, think.
PROBLEM? THIS IS SOLUTION. ARE YOU THERE?
The expense of guitar cable? For chrissakes, how many do you buy? How much do you spend on them? How long before people start selling OFC, silver core, directional monster CAT5 cable to idiots with too much money who think it'll sound different?
You can control your effects from your guitar? That's what your bloody feet are for, aren't you using your hands to play the thing?
Fer chrissakes, people don't know how to *rock* anymore...
Anyone want to bet how high a percentage of ordinance dropped on Iraq is going to be good old-fashioned, dumb heavy lumps of metal filled with explosives? This and other media fluff about smart weaponry seems to be designed to present war as a videogame...
This was one of the original selling points of bluetooth: libraries, theatres, and other places you don't want to hear that bloody nokia tune disturbing you would have a bluetooth transmitter installed. It would broadcast the standard "shut up and go to vibrate mode" signal to all phones nearby...
Assuming you've already got a big ass hard drive full of tunes sitting on a pc in your house (hands up?) then I think you'd be better off with QCast Tuner for your PS2. Your PS2's already hooked up to your hifi, right? Stick this on it and add a network card and you can use your PS2 as a media player over ethernet from your PC.
Alternately, if Onkyo added a Kazaa Lite client to it...If this is running a form of Linux is it practical to add this?
Thank $deity for that...
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I thought this was a foregone conclusion after David Blunkett et al's usual draconian bills.
For all UK readers, this is probably a good idea to publicise http://www.faxyourmp.org - a very quick, easy and above all *free* way to get a digitally-signed paper fax to your local MP from a webpage.
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Just a matter of time...
write a decent AUP, periodically scan for mp3s and *bitchslap* anyone who breaks them.
Fear, uncertainty and doubt will cut it's usage.
Why not carry around a walkie-talkie, a carrier pigeon, a set of semaphore flags, a satellite phone (won't work in a city though, not with those tall buildings).
Better still hide in your basement and stop worrying about things you have no control over.
No, you might not have it in your country. But what happens if you're peering with a US person? IANAL etc but it would seem it would could be used to make you Very Unhappy...
The new law against "Unlawful use of encryption" would establish prison terms for anyone who "knowingly and willfully uses encryption technology to conceal any incriminating communication" relating to a federal crime that they're committing, or attempting to commit. Offenders would face up to ten years in prison, in addition to the jail time the underlying crime carries, if any. A Justice Department analysis included with the proposal suggests that the illegal encrypting carry a mandatory minimum term of five years in prison.
On the news everywhere in a few months: Guatanemo Bay camp X-Ray expanded to house an estimated 600,000 p2p users from across the world, guarded by armed RIAA security.
To quote: "The large volumes of passive content in any electronic device means that you have that many more chances for a product to fail". I can see that motherboards that pop are going to be a major pain in the backside, particularly for us small system builders, but what other devices use these suspect capacitors? aircraft? cars? lifts? phones? routers? Anyone care to speculate?
Oh, bugger off. It's a tool designed to do a job, which is not to be flashy, or out-perform your frickin' PDA. Has your PDA been tested in a vacuum? extremes of heat and cold? shock, vibration? radiation? had x thousand hours of burn testing? have a power draw of less than x milliamps? Think, for godsake, think.
PROBLEM? THIS IS SOLUTION. ARE YOU THERE? The expense of guitar cable? For chrissakes, how many do you buy? How much do you spend on them? How long before people start selling OFC, silver core, directional monster CAT5 cable to idiots with too much money who think it'll sound different? You can control your effects from your guitar? That's what your bloody feet are for, aren't you using your hands to play the thing? Fer chrissakes, people don't know how to *rock* anymore...
Anyone want to bet how high a percentage of ordinance dropped on Iraq is going to be good old-fashioned, dumb heavy lumps of metal filled with explosives? This and other media fluff about smart weaponry seems to be designed to present war as a videogame...
This was one of the original selling points of bluetooth: libraries, theatres, and other places you don't want to hear that bloody nokia tune disturbing you would have a bluetooth transmitter installed. It would broadcast the standard "shut up and go to vibrate mode" signal to all phones nearby...
Assuming you've already got a big ass hard drive full of tunes sitting on a pc in your house (hands up?) then I think you'd be better off with QCast Tuner for your PS2. Your PS2's already hooked up to your hifi, right? Stick this on it and add a network card and you can use your PS2 as a media player over ethernet from your PC. Alternately, if Onkyo added a Kazaa Lite client to it...If this is running a form of Linux is it practical to add this?
For all UK readers, this is probably a good idea to publicise http://www.faxyourmp.org - a very quick, easy and above all *free* way to get a digitally-signed paper fax to your local MP from a webpage.
Shout loudly or lose yet more digital rights...