Yet I don't see telcos rushing out to give competive DSL and I certainly don't see Comcast rushing out to give HSD service to every end of their market.
You think that this technology is going to be any different? I don't.
If you mean less reliable and slower, I believe it will be different.:P
The supposed "showdown" on Jay Leno was a highly unscientific and inaccurate test which pitted the world's fasted morse coder using very expensive morse equipment against a teenager using a cheap cell phone with a membrane keypad.Um, that was only about 30wpm. Nowhere near a record for IMC sending speed. That is the typical traffic speed I hear on the radio every day. If the pro-morser had been forced to enter morse on a phone keypad instead of his $200 morsing 'bug' then I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have won. It takes several keypresses to send a single character in morse and just because it's morse, it doesn't mean that you can press the keys any quicker. He could only key quicker because of the equipment he was using.
It was not a bug. It was a paddle with an electronic keyer.
That's kind of the point. Create touch sensitive pads on either side of a cellphone and you can use it as a paddle.
I think anyone's efforts would be better spent designing better keypads or improving predictive text rather than wasting time trying to put morse code (designed for carrier wave) onto a phone (designed for voice and data).
Morse was designed for the telegraph. Continues Wave transmitters came much later. Spark Gap transmitters were not CW.
Sorry, I'm incredibly negative towards the IT industry right now. I was even advised by an older timer (I've been in IT for over ten years) to get out.
Thanks for the reply. But I still don't understand what that has to do with "Xen "does the right thing technically," unlike other technologies, which are mainly workarounds for the fact that the operating system is not appropriately licensed, Morton said."
What OS are they talking about? The one running in the virtualization? I don't understand.
On the enterprise front, Morton said he expects to merge code from Cambridge University's Computer Laboratories' Xen virtualization technology into the Linux kernel within the next few months. Xen "does the right thing technically," unlike other technologies, which are mainly workarounds for the fact that the operating system is not appropriately licensed, Morton said.
The problem lies in that not all users know anything beyond point and click. For these users, getting to a site that says "You will need the flash plug in to view this site correctly" is a deal breaker. Even more so when all they see is just some inocous little image that doesnt explain to them why it isn't working. (Ala the little jigsaw piece)
He's good at designing, managing and coding the Linux kernel but aside from that, his "political" interventions are always very poor, and not always well-thought. One example is his handling of the whole free BitKeeper issue.
OSDL's BitKeeper license got revoked. Linus has little or nothing to do with that.
I've got vonage, and when I signed up, I got to pick phone numbers from essentially anywhere in N. America, so really, where the customer is located doesn't matter.
I have been a Vonage customer over a year and hoping that they will add Knoxville,Tn.
Let me know when they have service for the 865 area code.
"closed source has no real advantage on open source." -->Except for that little thing called "Developers getting paid"... Sure, there's all this "support" argument, but I worked my ass off to get out of support. I don't want to do support. I want to write code that is so good it doesn't -require- support, and be paid for it.
Yep, nobody over at MySQL, RedHat, IBM, OSDL, Novell or the Apache Project (to name 6) are getting paid.
Just because you are not a sucessful Opensource developer does not mean that others are not.
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Yet I don't see telcos rushing out to give competive DSL and I certainly don't see Comcast rushing out to give HSD service to every end of their market.
:P
You think that this technology is going to be any different? I don't.
If you mean less reliable and slower, I believe it will be different.
That is, just because bin Laden believes that the US should get out of Saudi Arabia, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't.
Seems like bin Laden needs to take that up with the government of Saudi Arabia. I am sure that we would leave, if asked.
Tragedy? Sure. Atrocity? Hell, yeah. Terrorism? I don't think so
If the purpose was not to terrorize, what was the target? Does the military use those tunnels, trains or buses on a regular basis?
This is *SO* flame bait, but I can't resist. Maybe Anime (We used to call it Japanimation) sucks.
:)
God. There. I said it. Now I know what it feels like to be one of those whiney guys complaining about ham radio articles
The supposed "showdown" on Jay Leno was a highly unscientific and inaccurate test which pitted the world's fasted morse coder using very expensive morse equipment against a teenager using a cheap cell phone with a membrane keypad.Um, that was only about 30wpm. Nowhere near a record for IMC sending speed. That is the typical traffic speed I hear on the radio every day.
If the pro-morser had been forced to enter morse on a phone keypad instead of his $200 morsing 'bug' then I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have won. It takes several keypresses to send a single character in morse and just because it's morse, it doesn't mean that you can press the keys any quicker. He could only key quicker because of the equipment he was using.
It was not a bug. It was a paddle with an electronic keyer.
That's kind of the point. Create touch sensitive pads on either side of a cellphone and you can use it as a paddle.
I think anyone's efforts would be better spent designing better keypads or improving predictive text rather than wasting time trying to put morse code (designed for carrier wave) onto a phone (designed for voice and data).
Morse was designed for the telegraph. Continues Wave transmitters came much later. Spark Gap transmitters were not CW.
Have you flashed the drive with the latest firmware? There are updates avaliable.
Sorry, I'm incredibly negative towards the IT industry right now. I was even advised by an older timer (I've been in IT for over ten years) to get out.
Why?
With the CD writing thing. I realise that has worked out well for most people, but for me and anyone else with a Cyberdrive CW058D it hasn't.
As I recall, this was a problem with the drive not properly adhearing to the IDE specification.
With this new-fangled Intarweb thing, they've never run FrontDoor, so they've never heard that sound.
FrontDoor? We ran Binkley, and we liked it!
s/RFID/Induction
Linux doesn't just exist in the US, you know. There are big opportunities in other parts of the world, and apparently they want to be there.
:)
What is this "other parts of the world" you speak of? Is that were all those exotic callsigns I talk to on my ham radio are?
Thanks for the reply.
But I still don't understand what that has to do with "Xen "does the right thing technically," unlike other technologies, which are mainly workarounds for the fact that the operating system is not appropriately licensed, Morton said."
What OS are they talking about? The one running in the virtualization? I don't understand.
Please don't mod me as a troll. I just don't understand what Morton ment by that?
Can someone explain it to me or is this just a badly written article that is referring to the license of other virtualization technologies.
On the enterprise front, Morton said he expects to merge code from Cambridge University's Computer Laboratories' Xen virtualization technology into the Linux kernel within the next few months. Xen "does the right thing technically," unlike other technologies, which are mainly workarounds for the fact that the operating system is not appropriately licensed, Morton said.
Huh????
The web is based on trust, and the whole thing is gonna collapse at some point, and I am truely amazed it hasn't collapsed yet.
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The problem lies in that not all users know anything beyond point and click. For these users, getting to a site that says "You will need the flash plug in to view this site correctly" is a deal breaker. Even more so when all they see is just some inocous little image that doesnt explain to them why it isn't working. (Ala the little jigsaw piece)
IE does the same thing.
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He's good at designing, managing and coding the Linux kernel but aside from that, his "political" interventions are always very poor, and not always well-thought. One example is his handling of the whole free BitKeeper issue.
OSDL's BitKeeper license got revoked. Linus has little or nothing to do with that.
I've got vonage, and when I signed up, I got to pick phone numbers from essentially anywhere in N. America, so really, where the customer is located doesn't matter.
I have been a Vonage customer over a year and hoping that they will add Knoxville,Tn.
Let me know when they have service for the 865 area code.
Getting paid is not necessarily "success".
This is true. However, it is a good metric for someone that wants "to get paid".
How many users can a free public WiFi network handle before it's saturated and becomes unusable?
I guess we will find out May 20,21, & 22
"closed source has no real advantage on open source." -->Except for that little thing called "Developers getting paid"... Sure, there's all this "support" argument, but I worked my ass off to get out of support. I don't want to do support. I want to write code that is so good it doesn't -require- support, and be paid for it.
Yep, nobody over at MySQL, RedHat, IBM, OSDL, Novell or the Apache Project (to name 6) are getting paid.
Just because you are not a sucessful Opensource developer does not mean that others are not.
Its not about needing an enterprise system. If you want to use RedHat's more stable product offerings then you have to pay.
You mean if you want their support. You can run as many copies as you would like.
It's all RedHat's fault! You could do it better Postgres because it's ACID. And Microsoft isn't *REALLY* all that bad.