Actually, the 802.11b network only needs to carry one stream per bar or stage
I understand that, you seem to be missing my point. Having to have a seperate connection for each individual user is an absurd waste of bandwidth. Granted, it probably doesn't matter than much just at a small bar, but what if you wanted to broadcast ogg over wifi to a larger audience? It just doesn't make sense to have to have a seperate connection for each individual listener, especially if you are broadcasting audio.
I hadn't thought about that, instead of each wifi AP sending out one stream and others tuning into it, it uses bandwidth for each listener, and with the limited bandwidth of wifi, that has to be a horrible waste of bandwidth.
It seems like if someone wrote a listening program(or plugin for winamp maybe), that put the card into promiscuous mode and grabbed the broadcast that way it would work. Now someone just needs to implement it:)
One thing I really wish google would implement is some sort of result-moderation system. People could sign up, and would be able to moderate search results, so that when other people searched for the same thing, higher rated results would appear towards the top. I think it would cut down on a lot of porn spamming and such that is extremely common on google. Some things, you just *can't* search for, because the results are so badly spammed by porn sites.
I think it makes sense, It would be nice for the world to switch over to electric cars in a year, but in reality, it's not going to work that way.
What will probably happen is that for the next several years, we will start to switch over to hybrid cars, and ease into the electric car idea, and as the prices of gasoline continue to rise, we'll start to switch to completely electric cars. I think it will be at least ten to fifteen years though, before such a thing happens. It's such a massive change to our economy, infrastructure, etc, that we can't really switch overnight like some manufacturers seem to think. This is probably a smart move on GM's part.
I find it horribly ironic that AOL cans more spam than Hormel(the company that makes the stuff). I have to wonder what the motivation is for these spammers, I mean does anyone here actually know anybody that has purchased something from a spam email? I don't care how good the deal on something is, even if it's genuine, I wont purchase it if I got spammed about it
Perhaps this is the future of truly wireless computing?
Doubtful, it only works line-of-sight, so there are only a few applications where this would be useful. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty cool technology, but I couldn't really see it replacing RF wireless anytime soon. Also, they say it is resistant to weather, but what happens when a snowstorm hits? Not something I'd even want to use for sharing and internet connection(who wants to be without their porn the the duration of a snowstorm:D )
The thing is, the government has maybe a few hundred people working on this software, probably not even that many, and yet there are thousands of people out there just waiting to tear them apart and find ways around them. A computer can only do what it is told. Yes there are some rather complex artificial intelligence programs out there, but still none come close to functioning well enough to filter content on the Internet. It's just the nature of the Internet to be an open network, and it is not only stupid of governments to try and censor it, it is a waste of time and money as well.
Just because there is a cloud of gas on the planet shouldn't rule out the possibility of life. Humans might not be able to survive in it, but just look at some of the conditions that life on Earth is able to survive in, from tubeworms on the bottom of the ocean, to bacteria in antarctican ice, life can adapt to a lot of things, and I think that it is important that we broaden our definitions of "habitable" in our search for life
"Makes one wonder about the integration and maintenance risks of systems like CAPPS II."
Does that seem like flaimbait to anyone else? Computers crash all the time, granted steps can be taken to ensure redundancy, but this is nothing new. This problem has nothing to do with the CAPPS II system other than the fact that they are both computerized systems, I'm not trying to defend CAPPS II, I just don't think that it is any way related to this this tokyo airlines problem. Computers crash, it's a fact of life, the real question here, is why weren't there multiple redundancies in place for such a mission critical application.
Is that a joke or what, I am astounded that there is a law against someone "practicing geology without a license", I'm interested, what does it take to get a "geology license", how much does it cost? What if someone in japan hosted a site predicting earthquakes in california, what then? This whole thing seems rather bizarre to me.
I posted this in another thread, but I think it applies to this article as well. A friend of mine had built his computer about a week previously, copied all his stuff over to his new hard drive, music, windows etc, and then formatted the old drive. Just as he finished the process, the hard drive refused to read, reboots, swapping cables, nothing would get it to work. In a rage, he ripped the drive out of the computer, and threw it accross the room as hard as he could(this was in a dorm with cinderblock walls). He kept the drive around and for a week or so and would occaisonally throw the drive around, down the stairs etc, just for kicks. Then, I got the wild idea to plug it in and see what happened. I hooked it up, turned it on, the BIOS posted, and then the *Drive booted flawlessly*
I had a friend copy all of his data over to a new 40gig a year or so ago, mp3's pr0n, you know the works...
Anyways, the drive dies, he goes into a rage, throwing the drive accross the room, stomping, slamming it against walls, etc. He repeats this for a couple days, tossing it around still mad that his data is gone. Then, just on a whim we decide to hook up the drive and see what would happen, what kind of noises it would make. So we plug it in, power up the computer, drive....boots...flawlessly.
Needless to say I use western digital now:)
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Actually, the 802.11b network only needs to carry one stream per bar or stage
I understand that, you seem to be missing my point. Having to have a seperate connection for each individual user is an absurd waste of bandwidth. Granted, it probably doesn't matter than much just at a small bar, but what if you wanted to broadcast ogg over wifi to a larger audience? It just doesn't make sense to have to have a seperate connection for each individual listener, especially if you are broadcasting audio.
I hadn't thought about that, instead of each wifi AP sending out one stream and others tuning into it, it uses bandwidth for each listener, and with the limited bandwidth of wifi, that has to be a horrible waste of bandwidth.
It seems like if someone wrote a listening program(or plugin for winamp maybe), that put the card into promiscuous mode and grabbed the broadcast that way it would work. Now someone just needs to implement it :)
I think it makes sense, It would be nice for the world to switch over to electric cars in a year, but in reality, it's not going to work that way.
What will probably happen is that for the next several years, we will start to switch over to hybrid cars, and ease into the electric car idea, and as the prices of gasoline continue to rise, we'll start to switch to completely electric cars. I think it will be at least ten to fifteen years though, before such a thing happens. It's such a massive change to our economy, infrastructure, etc, that we can't really switch overnight like some manufacturers seem to think. This is probably a smart move on GM's part.
Doubtful, only companies that contribute to the linux source code and have inside information about sco would have to worry about it, I.E. IBM.
Now if we could only have some kind of a pancake flipping robot.....
Yes, leave it to geeks to spend thousands of dollars, and countless man-hours developing a machine to flip a pancake over.
Doubtful, it only works line-of-sight, so there are only a few applications where this would be useful. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty cool technology, but I couldn't really see it replacing RF wireless anytime soon. Also, they say it is resistant to weather, but what happens when a snowstorm hits? Not something I'd even want to use for sharing and internet connection(who wants to be without their porn the the duration of a snowstorm :D )
What about hardware failures? Even the best code still has bugs in it, and the potential to fail
Does that seem like flaimbait to anyone else? Computers crash all the time, granted steps can be taken to ensure redundancy, but this is nothing new. This problem has nothing to do with the CAPPS II system other than the fact that they are both computerized systems, I'm not trying to defend CAPPS II, I just don't think that it is any way related to this this tokyo airlines problem. Computers crash, it's a fact of life, the real question here, is why weren't there multiple redundancies in place for such a mission critical application.
Is that a joke or what, I am astounded that there is a law against someone "practicing geology without a license", I'm interested, what does it take to get a "geology license", how much does it cost? What if someone in japan hosted a site predicting earthquakes in california, what then? This whole thing seems rather bizarre to me.
So does it stay out late, drink a lot and not function well in the morning?
needless to say, I use western digital drives now
I had a friend copy all of his data over to a new 40gig a year or so ago, mp3's pr0n, you know the works... Anyways, the drive dies, he goes into a rage, throwing the drive accross the room, stomping, slamming it against walls, etc. He repeats this for a couple days, tossing it around still mad that his data is gone. Then, just on a whim we decide to hook up the drive and see what would happen, what kind of noises it would make. So we plug it in, power up the computer, drive....boots...flawlessly. Needless to say I use western digital now :)