I agree with some of your points, but what is an "open source mesh broadcast tower"? Do you mean a tower that has a mesh node on it that is controlled by open source software? If that is all you are looking for, you could probably build it with existing wifi equipment and a tower like hams use for HF antennas, the trick is convincing all of your neighbors to get similar systems so that your node has other nodes to be a mesh with. Plus someone still has to have an internet connection with this setup, but you could build it if you really want it. It would probably cost the equivalent of 5 years of DSL service for one node especially if you have to get a tower over 50'.
I agree with your concern. If we assume an S/N ratio of 20db (about 3 S units on my HF rig or noise at S6 and signal at S9 which I consider a good copy) then Shannon-Hartley's theorem says that they will get at best 333kbps. I used the example calculation #1 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem and just substituted 50kc for 4kc to get this.
I don't agree that C is hard to use, it's just more time consuming to do things because it doesn't include built in libraries for everything and you have to manage memory yourself (also Microsoft can't create decent C APIs because they're all a bunch of VB flunkies at heart). However once you get used to those caveats you can write anything from an OS kernel to Web apps. I do wish C had complex number and bit variables though (C99 has the former and I guess the boolean type is close to a bit from the programmers perspective. However C99 support is kinda sketchy as far as compilers are concerned ).
I hate any language that places significance on whitespace (if they would have just put a complex type into C we could have killed fortran before the 77 version and this Python shit wouldn't be here but alas).
I also only find Monty Python mildly amusing at best (the jokes are funny but go on for too long and I'm growing tired of all the idiots that quote it all the time).
Fact - C is the best language of all time. If your program is more than a few lines of bash it should be in C. Ritchie is God (yeah that's right, capital 'G') and Stroustrup should be shot for sacrilege!
To mod troll or funny; that is the question. The thing is I'm not kidding.
I had a VIA 533 MHz C3 based micro-itx board and I hated it. It performed about as well as a P2 at 350MHz at best. Things that I could do on my Athlon 64 3500 in 2 hours took 12-13 on the VIA system (converting downloaded AVI files to DVDs for my folks who didn't have a DVD player that could do anything but DVDs) so instead of doing 2-3 movies at night after work, I would have to leave it run overnight and hope that it didn't encounter any errors in the process. The graphics card did not really work under BSD and I'm told that the Linux support was bad too (don't use it). Their bragged about hardware accelerated crypto was also not supported by anything so it was effectively useless. I also couldn't get Windows XP to work with it (it installed but crashed all the time) so I ended up with a machine that dual-booted Win2k and FreeBSD 6.0 without X windows. I thought about building a car PC, but I ended up selling the system instead.
Copyright infringer? Not really-doesn't apply.
Pot smoker? Nope-doesn't apply.
Violent video games? Sorry, no games for me, I have more work to do and I like to play outside. Don't think they should be banned, but don't have a real concern if they are either.
They came for the file sharers and I did nothing because I did not share files
Then they came for the pot smokers and I did nothing because I didn't smoke dope
Then they came for the people who played violent video games and I did nothing because I did not play them
Then they came for me and there was no one left to do anything
Digital files can be copied without depriving the original owner of theirs, be it software or music. Your money was taken from you leaving you with less (I hope your insurance covered it).
Now just imagine once 3d printers become cheap enough for the common household... Manufacturers of small cheap trinkets had better be worried because their time is next.
You have NO right to take and steal from me. If you don't accept payment for my product, then don't take it.
You have to pay him to use your software?
Thanks to your post, I'll embed a "self destruct" feature into my software. If you pirate and/or don't have a proper key on my white-list, the program will delete itself. Oh, and I will kindly state as such in the EULA.
Thanks to your post, I'll keep the old Hex editor installed. I still won't read your EULA, so you can write whatever you like in it.
What happens when they don't listen to your warnings and make you set up the network to be totally un-secure and then still blame you when they get hacked? Those meeting minutes with your warning will be gone if it prevents Colonel Pomp from looking bad. I think the gp poster is right to cover his ass first.
Instead of bitching about the rich, why don't you go out and get rich yourself? Either that or go and eat some cheese as it would go well with your whine.
They can out run and out bite but if they have a collar on, you've won. Just grab the collar and put some weight into it, you'll find that you can hold their teeth away from you.
If you think that everyone agrees on feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, or trying to spread peace you sir have not been to a republican convention.
What does having a better understanding of the universe get us, nothing.
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I agree with some of your points, but what is an "open source mesh broadcast tower"? Do you mean a tower that has a mesh node on it that is controlled by open source software? If that is all you are looking for, you could probably build it with existing wifi equipment and a tower like hams use for HF antennas, the trick is convincing all of your neighbors to get similar systems so that your node has other nodes to be a mesh with. Plus someone still has to have an internet connection with this setup, but you could build it if you really want it. It would probably cost the equivalent of 5 years of DSL service for one node especially if you have to get a tower over 50'.
I agree with your concern. If we assume an S/N ratio of 20db (about 3 S units on my HF rig or noise at S6 and signal at S9 which I consider a good copy) then Shannon-Hartley's theorem says that they will get at best 333kbps. I used the example calculation #1 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem and just substituted 50kc for 4kc to get this.
Anyone disagree?
Now you resort to personal attacks. What are YOU an authority on? Quoting other people's blogs on Slashdot?
Sorry, but an appeal to authority doesn't prove a point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority
I can't tell if you're being serious or if you are trying to mock the way Christians try and convert me all of the time.
They would be just as clear if you used a regex library and didn't manually parse the characters or something silly.
You can slander the Gods all you like but the fact remains that C is actually in widespread use. Lisp and Haskell are not.
I don't agree that C is hard to use, it's just more time consuming to do things because it doesn't include built in libraries for everything and you have to manage memory yourself (also Microsoft can't create decent C APIs because they're all a bunch of VB flunkies at heart). However once you get used to those caveats you can write anything from an OS kernel to Web apps. I do wish C had complex number and bit variables though (C99 has the former and I guess the boolean type is close to a bit from the programmers perspective. However C99 support is kinda sketchy as far as compilers are concerned ).
I hate any language that places significance on whitespace (if they would have just put a complex type into C we could have killed fortran before the 77 version and this Python shit wouldn't be here but alas).
I also only find Monty Python mildly amusing at best (the jokes are funny but go on for too long and I'm growing tired of all the idiots that quote it all the time).
Fact - C is the best language of all time. If your program is more than a few lines of bash it should be in C. Ritchie is God (yeah that's right, capital 'G') and Stroustrup should be shot for sacrilege!
To mod troll or funny; that is the question. The thing is I'm not kidding.
My experiences with VIA are similar.
I had a VIA 533 MHz C3 based micro-itx board and I hated it. It performed about as well as a P2 at 350MHz at best. Things that I could do on my Athlon 64 3500 in 2 hours took 12-13 on the VIA system (converting downloaded AVI files to DVDs for my folks who didn't have a DVD player that could do anything but DVDs) so instead of doing 2-3 movies at night after work, I would have to leave it run overnight and hope that it didn't encounter any errors in the process. The graphics card did not really work under BSD and I'm told that the Linux support was bad too (don't use it). Their bragged about hardware accelerated crypto was also not supported by anything so it was effectively useless. I also couldn't get Windows XP to work with it (it installed but crashed all the time) so I ended up with a machine that dual-booted Win2k and FreeBSD 6.0 without X windows. I thought about building a car PC, but I ended up selling the system instead.
I don't plan on buying VIA products again
If you mix up "your" and "you're" you deserve to be in prison. If you mod someone insightful for doing so, you should be shot.
They came for the file sharers and I did nothing because I did not share files
Then they came for the pot smokers and I did nothing because I didn't smoke dope
Then they came for the people who played violent video games and I did nothing because I did not play them
Then they came for me and there was no one left to do anything
I wish that anyone who invoked Goodwin was automatically kicked in the nuts.
You have identified the problem with democracy right there: 51% votes that they get to rape the other 49%.
Try googling 3d scanners, you'll find out how much you've been missing
Who/What would that be?
Digital files can be copied without depriving the original owner of theirs, be it software or music. Your money was taken from you leaving you with less (I hope your insurance covered it).
Now just imagine once 3d printers become cheap enough for the common household... Manufacturers of small cheap trinkets had better be worried because their time is next.
You have to pay him to use your software?
Thanks to your post, I'll embed a "self destruct" feature into my software. If you pirate and/or don't have a proper key on my white-list, the program will delete itself. Oh, and I will kindly state as such in the EULA.Thanks to your post, I'll keep the old Hex editor installed. I still won't read your EULA, so you can write whatever you like in it.
What happens when they don't listen to your warnings and make you set up the network to be totally un-secure and then still blame you when they get hacked? Those meeting minutes with your warning will be gone if it prevents Colonel Pomp from looking bad. I think the gp poster is right to cover his ass first.
No, we just have to worry about foot/extremity problems, Marfan's Syndrome, low blood pressure and people asking how tall you are all the time.
Damn, I was going to say that but you beat me to it. If you don't want them all, I am also willing to pay for shipping.
Instead of bitching about the rich, why don't you go out and get rich yourself? Either that or go and eat some cheese as it would go well with your whine.
If it drives it requires DMV certification. Why not the FAA too?
They can out run and out bite but if they have a collar on, you've won. Just grab the collar and put some weight into it, you'll find that you can hold their teeth away from you.
I don't need no understanding.
It's ironic that one of your examples was purifying water. Guess who researches that?
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/f_water.html