At least you have voice coverage in those areas, which is better than with most other service providers.
VZW has the widest voice coverage of any service provider. In theory Cingular/AT&T could beat them, but the merger is still proving to be a technological nightmare. I've heard numerous stories of Cingular customers whose phones would not talk to an AT&T tower unless there were NO Cingular towers accessible, even if the AT&T tower had a much stronger and more reliable signal.
VZW *just works*.:) In upstate NY where I went to college as an undergrad, VZW was and still is the coverage king by a long shot. Most other providers don't have any coverage whatsoever (not even voice) 4-5 miles outside of Ithaca, NY.
But for broadband, wired is currently the only option until 4G wireless capability comes along. (For example, Flarion's FLASH-OFDM system provides much lower latencies than EV-DO/RTT, and higher throughputs too. But it's only been deployed in a handful of small test areas so far, nothing major yet.)
Oops, yeah. Little typo there, WK is what I meant.
And yes, my point was that it takes 0 resources from the design people, and minimal resources from other people (test pilots/maintenance) that were probably idle to begin with, and the money coming in from these rentals will fund the new designs.:)
1xRTT has a peak throughput of 144 kbits/sec. Realistically you'll only get 60-80 kbits.
1xEV-DO has a peak throughput of a bit over a megabit. You'll see about half that or less realistically. EV-DO is only available in a handful of metropolitan areas right now.
Also, both EV-DO and RTT have very high latency. I recently talked to someone very familiar with the technology (works for a company that's developing what is basically 4G wireless), and apparently EV-DO has 300-400 ms latency.
They would be specifically granting the Linux kernel developers a license to their patents. Or more specifically, issuing a general unlimited-use license to use the patents in any GPL software, which is a legally binding document and not just a PR promise.
(Maybe they have done this? In which case RMS should shut up and go home, once Nokia issues such a license they can't take it back.)
It is possible to issue such a license - A few years ago Cornell issued such a license for a few videoconferencing patents related to their CU30 algorithm, which was initially released as an open-source implementation. Basically anyone could use the patents for free if it were in software with specific licenses, but if you wanted to use them in close-source commercial software you had to pay $$$. Also, I remember someone with a number of font-related patents (Including the underlying patent behind Microsoft's ClearType technology) did something similar - issuing a free unlimited-use license for any software that met certain open-source criteria.
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It's simple.
He's developed SS1. He has test pilots on his payroll that he probably has contractual obligations to pay whether they're doing something or not.
Both SS1 and its pilots are currently not doing anything, and operating them right now doesn't take ANY resources away from other projects. By renting out SS1, he's converting a possible money sink into a moneymaker, money he can use to further the development projects he wants to pursue.
"What there is little evidence of is that frequency in radio range causes damage."
There's plenty of evidence that high-power RF can doe plenty of damage. Physical contact with an antenna radiating as little as 10-20 watts can cause an RF burn. And of course, there's the obvious example of microwave ovens (1000+ watts concentrated into a small chamber.)
Thanks to the inverse square law, the chances of being in an RF field strong enough to be harmful and not knowing EXACTLY what's causing it (ooh, look at the huge feedhorn/antenna!!!) are slim to none. Even wood siding would be sufficient to block/absorb a significant amount of any type of RF that would be absorbed readily by the human body.
Basically, RF can cause significant damage via short-term heating. This requires very high power levels and close proximity though. Cell phones don't emit enough RF at their maximum transmit power to even cause damage if ALL of the power were absorbed by a fraction of a square centimeter of the surface of your skin (such as if you held a 1/4 watt resistor running at its maximum power).
Similar problems had at Rutgers University - Voting registration forms for hundreds of students were conveniently "lost" by a Republican county official.
Definately the best use for a home network is media distribution.
You can use cheap Cat5 cable with lots of choices in your architecture and cheap switches, as opposed to shielded audio cables and either shielded composite video cables or coax cable, either of which require a star topology for the "network". While in many cases a central media server containing all content makes sense, unlike with traditional "home media networks" (coax RF or baseband distribution), a centralized server is NOT required.
In theory, a home network can be used for home automation, but good home automation systems are still way too expensive. (X10 is way too limited, but it's the only reasonably economical system so far. I recall reading about a new system being released that is supposed to be as cheap as X10 but much more flexible though.)
Apparently the Mirror Universe has occasionally showed up in previous Trek episodes, it apparently makes much more sense if you remember those. (I don't, but looking at the ep summaries at tvtome make those two episodes MUCH more sensible.)
Stargate: Atlantis and SG-1 - I'd be willing to pay a modest fee to view these, but $80 a month for content with commercials? NO WAY! Yes, the cable package that includes Sci-Fi is $80/month here and nearly every channel still has commercials.
Enterprise - I'll watch this the way UPN wants me to when they upgrade their POS transmitters in the NYC area to be on par with the other networks in the area. Their digital signal (piggybacked off of FOX's transmitter in NYC) is utter shite that is even uglier than their analog signal here, which is pretty amazing considering how horrible their analog signal looks due to low signal strength.
The key advantage of CDs (and any subsequent lossless digital transmission) is that they produce far less degradation (in fact, no degradation whatsoever) from the original recording, typically made with very high-end equipment which has very low distortion and very little noise.
Whereas other storage media such as analog magnetic tape (which CDs replaced) has inherent losses no matter how high-end your recording/playback equipment is due to physical limitations of the media itself.
FM transmission is another example - No matter how good the input is, FM transmission is inherently limited in its audio SNR, frequency response, and dynamic range, even in situations with a strong signal. Over any moderate distance, additional channel noise at the receiver will degrade things even more.
"The only major downside of DRM, if it's unobtrusive enough"
And therein lies the problem.
To this day, no one has pulled off DRM that is by any means "unobtrusive enough".
In fact, no one ever will. There simply is no technical way to provide redistribution prevention without royally screwing the user.
The best one can do is some form of watermarking. In addition to DRM which restricts playback only to Apple-approved software/hardware (read: iPod or nothing if you want portable playback), iTMS-purchased music contained your Apple ID and hence could be tracked back to the original purchaser if redistributed. IMO, this was a Good Thing, because previously DRM removal tools such as Hymn would not remove the identification info from a file since there was no legitimate reason to do so. Unfortunately, this has changed, as Apple made iTMS 4.7 refuse to play un-DRMed songs that contained Apple ID atoms. Funny, they claim the DRM is for anti-piracy, but they cripple their player when the *one single* anti-piracy element of the DRM is left in. Every other aspect of the Apple DRM is about control and vendor lock-in, not anti-piracy.
You don't even need to RTFA, he's asking where to get parts for the types of repairs you just described as possible. (In his case, replacement of the logic board).
As another earlier poster pointed out, there is no market for such replacement parts because 95%+ of hard drive failures involved the portions of the drive that are basically not repairable. Specifically, almost all drive failures involved the mechanical parts that are sealed within the drive. Logic board failures are VERY rare.
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At least you have voice coverage in those areas, which is better than with most other service providers.
:) In upstate NY where I went to college as an undergrad, VZW was and still is the coverage king by a long shot. Most other providers don't have any coverage whatsoever (not even voice) 4-5 miles outside of Ithaca, NY.
VZW has the widest voice coverage of any service provider. In theory Cingular/AT&T could beat them, but the merger is still proving to be a technological nightmare. I've heard numerous stories of Cingular customers whose phones would not talk to an AT&T tower unless there were NO Cingular towers accessible, even if the AT&T tower had a much stronger and more reliable signal.
VZW *just works*.
But for broadband, wired is currently the only option until 4G wireless capability comes along. (For example, Flarion's FLASH-OFDM system provides much lower latencies than EV-DO/RTT, and higher throughputs too. But it's only been deployed in a handful of small test areas so far, nothing major yet.)
Oops, yeah. Little typo there, WK is what I meant.
:)
And yes, my point was that it takes 0 resources from the design people, and minimal resources from other people (test pilots/maintenance) that were probably idle to begin with, and the money coming in from these rentals will fund the new designs.
a) As mentioned before, it doesn't protect the sharer, only the person asking for the file. The sharers are the ones the MPAA/RIAA want to go after.
b) The fact that every connection is tunneled through an intermediary will significantly reduce scalability and throughput.
1xRTT has a peak throughput of 144 kbits/sec. Realistically you'll only get 60-80 kbits.
1xEV-DO has a peak throughput of a bit over a megabit. You'll see about half that or less realistically. EV-DO is only available in a handful of metropolitan areas right now.
Also, both EV-DO and RTT have very high latency. I recently talked to someone very familiar with the technology (works for a company that's developing what is basically 4G wireless), and apparently EV-DO has 300-400 ms latency.
They would be specifically granting the Linux kernel developers a license to their patents. Or more specifically, issuing a general unlimited-use license to use the patents in any GPL software, which is a legally binding document and not just a PR promise.
(Maybe they have done this? In which case RMS should shut up and go home, once Nokia issues such a license they can't take it back.)
It is possible to issue such a license - A few years ago Cornell issued such a license for a few videoconferencing patents related to their CU30 algorithm, which was initially released as an open-source implementation. Basically anyone could use the patents for free if it were in software with specific licenses, but if you wanted to use them in close-source commercial software you had to pay $$$. Also, I remember someone with a number of font-related patents (Including the underlying patent behind Microsoft's ClearType technology) did something similar - issuing a free unlimited-use license for any software that met certain open-source criteria.
It's simple.
He's developed SS1. He has test pilots on his payroll that he probably has contractual obligations to pay whether they're doing something or not.
Both SS1 and its pilots are currently not doing anything, and operating them right now doesn't take ANY resources away from other projects. By renting out SS1, he's converting a possible money sink into a moneymaker, money he can use to further the development projects he wants to pursue.
A minor correction:
"What there is little evidence of is that frequency in radio range causes damage."
There's plenty of evidence that high-power RF can doe plenty of damage. Physical contact with an antenna radiating as little as 10-20 watts can cause an RF burn. And of course, there's the obvious example of microwave ovens (1000+ watts concentrated into a small chamber.)
Thanks to the inverse square law, the chances of being in an RF field strong enough to be harmful and not knowing EXACTLY what's causing it (ooh, look at the huge feedhorn/antenna!!!) are slim to none. Even wood siding would be sufficient to block/absorb a significant amount of any type of RF that would be absorbed readily by the human body.
Basically, RF can cause significant damage via short-term heating. This requires very high power levels and close proximity though. Cell phones don't emit enough RF at their maximum transmit power to even cause damage if ALL of the power were absorbed by a fraction of a square centimeter of the surface of your skin (such as if you held a 1/4 watt resistor running at its maximum power).
Ever heard of wind?
The sheeting didn't look like it was fastened very well in the picture in the article.
I sort of remember it actually being 1-2k also, but I stated the number somewhat smaller because I wasn't totally sure.
Either way, it was a pretty screwy incident.
Similar problems had at Rutgers University - Voting registration forms for hundreds of students were conveniently "lost" by a Republican county official.
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Definately the best use for a home network is media distribution.
You can use cheap Cat5 cable with lots of choices in your architecture and cheap switches, as opposed to shielded audio cables and either shielded composite video cables or coax cable, either of which require a star topology for the "network". While in many cases a central media server containing all content makes sense, unlike with traditional "home media networks" (coax RF or baseband distribution), a centralized server is NOT required.
In theory, a home network can be used for home automation, but good home automation systems are still way too expensive. (X10 is way too limited, but it's the only reasonably economical system so far. I recall reading about a new system being released that is supposed to be as cheap as X10 but much more flexible though.)
Is it still on BitTorrent? :)
New episodes air every Saturday and wind up on BT within 2-3 hours. Episode 8 should be out sometime tonight.
He says "Terra Prime", but he describes the Mirror Universe episodes instead.
You mean the Mirror Universe ones?
Apparently the Mirror Universe has occasionally showed up in previous Trek episodes, it apparently makes much more sense if you remember those. (I don't, but looking at the ep summaries at tvtome make those two episodes MUCH more sensible.)
Heck, forget the decorated rolling rubbish bins, try the undecorated ones!
(Referring to the trascan that gulped down Rose's boyfriend...)
Yup, gnome-pilot does polling too.
My Treo 600 works perfectly with pilot-link and jpilot.
Dr. Who - Only aired in the U.K.
Stargate: Atlantis and SG-1 - I'd be willing to pay a modest fee to view these, but $80 a month for content with commercials? NO WAY! Yes, the cable package that includes Sci-Fi is $80/month here and nearly every channel still has commercials.
Enterprise - I'll watch this the way UPN wants me to when they upgrade their POS transmitters in the NYC area to be on par with the other networks in the area. Their digital signal (piggybacked off of FOX's transmitter in NYC) is utter shite that is even uglier than their analog signal here, which is pretty amazing considering how horrible their analog signal looks due to low signal strength.
It's the definition of sound.
The key advantage of CDs (and any subsequent lossless digital transmission) is that they produce far less degradation (in fact, no degradation whatsoever) from the original recording, typically made with very high-end equipment which has very low distortion and very little noise.
Whereas other storage media such as analog magnetic tape (which CDs replaced) has inherent losses no matter how high-end your recording/playback equipment is due to physical limitations of the media itself.
FM transmission is another example - No matter how good the input is, FM transmission is inherently limited in its audio SNR, frequency response, and dynamic range, even in situations with a strong signal. Over any moderate distance, additional channel noise at the receiver will degrade things even more.
AAC is far more open than WMA is.
If you're speaking about the DRM - They're both unacceptably closed. If it doesn't play under Linux and on my Treo 600, I don't want it.
(Actually, iTMS accessed via pymusique fits these requirements exactly, which is why I use it.)
"The only major downside of DRM, if it's unobtrusive enough"
And therein lies the problem.
To this day, no one has pulled off DRM that is by any means "unobtrusive enough".
In fact, no one ever will. There simply is no technical way to provide redistribution prevention without royally screwing the user.
The best one can do is some form of watermarking. In addition to DRM which restricts playback only to Apple-approved software/hardware (read: iPod or nothing if you want portable playback), iTMS-purchased music contained your Apple ID and hence could be tracked back to the original purchaser if redistributed. IMO, this was a Good Thing, because previously DRM removal tools such as Hymn would not remove the identification info from a file since there was no legitimate reason to do so. Unfortunately, this has changed, as Apple made iTMS 4.7 refuse to play un-DRMed songs that contained Apple ID atoms. Funny, they claim the DRM is for anti-piracy, but they cripple their player when the *one single* anti-piracy element of the DRM is left in. Every other aspect of the Apple DRM is about control and vendor lock-in, not anti-piracy.
MS Janus DRM is even worse...
Nearly all of the Deathstars from that era had problems.
My 30 gig unit included.
You don't even need to RTFA, he's asking where to get parts for the types of repairs you just described as possible. (In his case, replacement of the logic board).
As another earlier poster pointed out, there is no market for such replacement parts because 95%+ of hard drive failures involved the portions of the drive that are basically not repairable. Specifically, almost all drive failures involved the mechanical parts that are sealed within the drive. Logic board failures are VERY rare.
IBM used to be one of the best hard drive manufacturers on the planet in terms of reliability.
It took only one model of hard drive made for about two years to change all that. Witness the horrendous destructive power of the Death Star!
Maybe look into MMOGs?
I play Dark Age of Camelot, and my guild's GM convinced his girlfriend to start playing long ago.
Now she plays more than he does...