they also generally ban GPS receivers despite tests showing that their local oscillators are generally very well shielded and they are pretty close to being entirely passive devices
I am wondering whether they think that banning them has an anti-terrorist effect (makes it harder for terrorist to choose a target?) in some way?
what we need is a media-quality firesafe combined with an internal hard drive, a massively ruggedised hard disk... would need a special channel for power and data (would have to be firewire or usb2)... so if your house or office burned down, you'd have the equivalent of an airplane black box data recorder.
100% agree... directx was upgraded on win2k as part of optional extras. next, MS will be saying that a future release of MediaPlayer (e.g. v12) can't work on XP, so you'll have to upgrade to Vista.
will allow users to download data eight times faster than current
using the awesome power of slashdot it'll be possible to bring down servers at eight times the speed!
On a slightly serious note.. try asking your ISP what their contention ratio is, and their actual bandwidth at their peering points. chances are they won't tell you much detail. In practise they depend on their subscribers not trying to all max out their lines at once which is why P2P is hated by ISPs. Except for the really big companies, many organisations are probably not hosted or colocated with more than 10Mb/s or 100Mb/s anyway due to cost.
it'll take a while for 11n to really take off and cause congestion to 11a users, and by that point 11n will be congested and "useless" too, so you'll have to go for wimax/wibro or even just bite the bullet and put in cat6e cabling!
I agree and disagree; simply doing the gene therapy won't make your body magically regrow your retinas to be tetrochromatic. However, if you grew a clone of yourself using the modified DNA, you could then do a retina or eye transplant. If we also did the genetic mods to allow out bodies to regrow organs and limbs, then maybe you could simply remove part of the eye and let it regrow with the new feature.
I have a zaurus 3100, and with the appropriate kernel module update can use 4GB sd cards, coupled with the internal 4GB microdrive, that's quite a few mp3s you can carry, plus with USB host mode can take backups from digital camera (or, use it as intermediate copying point to save them to your ipod).
As well as web browsing and basic email, the Z allows me to make VOIP calls (SIP, not Skype) which saves me a bundle on roaming if I can find a cheap/free wifi zone (always pays to make a list of these and print on paper as well as save to text file). The only accessory needed is a compact flash WIFI card (make sure it's Prism2 or 2.5 chipset so you can use WPA).
You also get the benefit of an ebook reader, movie player, shoutcast listener, and can even do a bit of scripting or shell hackery if bored!
morning I was stuck behind a vapid looking blond in a Mercedes. She was driving erratically,
happened to me too this morning, she swerved across my path, causing me to drop my shaver, doughnut and mobile phone, the latter fell into my coffee and spilled it!
so many comments about ps/3 and built-in BR drive. how about the xbox360 and the cheap add-on hddvd? it's cheaper and has more games and a mature online system.
I don't have either, I'm hoping to see a 360 with HDMI and integrated hddvd before I leap off the fence into one or other camp.
ever hear of a garbage collector? maybe it's important to understand what goes on behind the scenes.. especially if writing deterministic applications. how about problems introduced by semaphores/locks, multi-threading? a programmer who graduated from a *programming* school and not a computer science school is more likely to use complex APIs blindly.
my example of a linked list was the simplest algorithm I could suggest where a crap programmer could do the wrong thing.
Why was this guy modded a troll? He's absolutely right.
blushes. thanks... I didn't expect to get modded up to max, but being marked down as a troll seemed very harsh to me.
many of the bgan satellite solutions overcome latency by spoofing part of the tcp protocol locally; provided the link is reliable it improves performance quite a lot by avoiding the round trip ground-sat-ground. however, try and you might, ssh over a satellite link does not provide a comfortable interactive session!
As well as off-the-shelf solutions, most SDKs, whether java, C# or even perl have such a rich API that in general the amount of "real" programming is relatively minimal. For example, I can't remember how long ago it was I had to write a linked-list (such as in C), as java makes it too easy to know almost nothing about how the computer represents data internally.
There are still "real" programmers around in commercial companies, they're writing device drivers, working with embedded micros, working alongside hardware designers doing custom chips in e.g. telecommunications and digital TV, and sometimes in compiler development.
The only fully "open" method of adding gsm/gprs to a small device is to use one of the compact flash GSM/GPRS adaptors, such as those from Audiovox or Enfora; I'm not sure but I think the new 3G modules in USB form don't do audio; there have been PCMCIA gprs/gsm modules but I discount those because they're not particularly small.
Long-time PalmOs enthusiasts might remember Handspring did a module (their modules being pcmcia in disguise) for mobile phone called VisorPhone and it worked well, but it needed its own battery to stop it sucking the attached Visor dry too quickly!
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I might be wrong, but hasn't connexion been closed down, or will be closed down?
they also generally ban GPS receivers despite tests showing that their local oscillators are generally very well shielded and they are pretty close to being entirely passive devices
I am wondering whether they think that banning them has an anti-terrorist effect (makes it harder for terrorist to choose a target?) in some way?
this is pretty much a dupe of a slashdot posting about 27y 10m ago!
Sheesh, slashdot, old news for old nerds, stuff that no longer matters!
whilst the data density of stone tablets is quite low, if carefully stored they're pretty much readable indefinitely!
what we need is a media-quality firesafe combined with an internal hard drive, a massively ruggedised hard disk... would need a special channel for power and data (would have to be firewire or usb2)... so if your house or office burned down, you'd have the equivalent of an airplane black box data recorder.
100% agree... directx was upgraded on win2k as part of optional extras. next, MS will be saying that a future release of MediaPlayer (e.g. v12) can't work on XP, so you'll have to upgrade to Vista.
you can also set it so that it plays the animation just *once*, which works for me (TM).
Your sig:
"But this one goes to 11!"
if it's a Diebold, it goes to any value that the hackers program into it!
will allow users to download data eight times faster than current
using the awesome power of slashdot it'll be possible to bring down servers at eight times the speed!
On a slightly serious note.. try asking your ISP what their contention ratio is, and their actual bandwidth at their peering points. chances are they won't tell you much detail. In practise they depend on their subscribers not trying to all max out their lines at once which is why P2P is hated by ISPs. Except for the really big companies, many organisations are probably not hosted or colocated with more than 10Mb/s or 100Mb/s anyway due to cost.
in which case, if notepad.exe and write.exe are part of the OS, why isn't Microsoft Office part of Windows Vista then?
repeat after me: Microsoft Windows is a suite of applications and utilities along with an operating system; it is not purely an operating system.
If anyone thinks that "solitaire" is part of the OS, they should be barred from posting to slashdot.
it'll take a while for 11n to really take off and cause congestion to 11a users, and by that point 11n will be congested and "useless" too, so you'll have to go for wimax/wibro or even just bite the bullet and put in cat6e cabling!
I agree and disagree; simply doing the gene therapy won't make your body magically regrow your retinas to be tetrochromatic. However, if you grew a clone of yourself using the modified DNA, you could then do a retina or eye transplant. If we also did the genetic mods to allow out bodies to regrow organs and limbs, then maybe you could simply remove part of the eye and let it regrow with the new feature.
are we playing a digital media version of rock, scissors paper?
my response was to discussion about how to make the most of 802.11b/g
I have a zaurus 3100, and with the appropriate kernel module update can use 4GB sd cards, coupled with the internal 4GB microdrive, that's quite a few mp3s you can carry, plus with USB host mode can take backups from digital camera (or, use it as intermediate copying point to save them to your ipod).
As well as web browsing and basic email, the Z allows me to make VOIP calls (SIP, not Skype) which saves me a bundle on roaming if I can find a cheap/free wifi zone (always pays to make a list of these and print on paper as well as save to text file). The only accessory needed is a compact flash WIFI card (make sure it's Prism2 or 2.5 chipset so you can use WPA).
You also get the benefit of an ebook reader, movie player, shoutcast listener, and can even do a bit of scripting or shell hackery if bored!
2. Find a free channel in you area
just bite the bullet and buy 802.11a equipment, nobody uses that frequency so much less interference!
morning I was stuck behind a vapid looking blond in a Mercedes. She was driving erratically,
happened to me too this morning, she swerved across my path, causing me to drop my shaver, doughnut and mobile phone, the latter fell into my coffee and spilled it!
so many comments about ps/3 and built-in BR drive. how about the xbox360 and the cheap add-on hddvd? it's cheaper and has more games and a mature online system.
I don't have either, I'm hoping to see a 360 with HDMI and integrated hddvd before I leap off the fence into one or other camp.
ever hear of a garbage collector? maybe it's important to understand what goes on behind the scenes.. especially if writing deterministic applications. how about problems introduced by semaphores/locks, multi-threading? a programmer who graduated from a *programming* school and not a computer science school is more likely to use complex APIs blindly.
my example of a linked list was the simplest algorithm I could suggest where a crap programmer could do the wrong thing.
Why was this guy modded a troll? He's absolutely right.
blushes. thanks... I didn't expect to get modded up to max, but being marked down as a troll seemed very harsh to me.
many of the bgan satellite solutions overcome latency by spoofing part of the tcp protocol locally; provided the link is reliable it improves performance quite a lot by avoiding the round trip ground-sat-ground. however, try and you might, ssh over a satellite link does not provide a comfortable interactive session!
calm down, it was just an example of a standard problem.
As well as off-the-shelf solutions, most SDKs, whether java, C# or even perl have such a rich API that in general the amount of "real" programming is relatively minimal. For example, I can't remember how long ago it was I had to write a linked-list (such as in C), as java makes it too easy to know almost nothing about how the computer represents data internally.
There are still "real" programmers around in commercial companies, they're writing device drivers, working with embedded micros, working alongside hardware designers doing custom chips in e.g. telecommunications and digital TV, and sometimes in compiler development.
The only fully "open" method of adding gsm/gprs to a small device is to use one of the compact flash GSM/GPRS adaptors, such as those from Audiovox or Enfora; I'm not sure but I think the new 3G modules in USB form don't do audio; there have been PCMCIA gprs/gsm modules but I discount those because they're not particularly small.
Long-time PalmOs enthusiasts might remember Handspring did a module (their modules being pcmcia in disguise) for mobile phone called VisorPhone and it worked well, but it needed its own battery to stop it sucking the attached Visor dry too quickly!