I recall having this same discussion in 1996 over VOD versus VHS. At that time BT (in the UK) were running VOD (or almost VOD) trials on some crufted up (but adequate) technology and getting very poor feedback. One of the biggest objections was that any provider would only ever have a small subset of the things you actually wanted to watch - almost no better than premium cable channels - a case of VOS (Video on Supply) rather than VOD
Well no, actually. WiFi (802.11b) is an implementation of the 802.x standard which includes wired ethernet and is aimed at LAN access. It is immediately compatible with any other 802.11b device (OK, passwords may be needed) and runs at the physical/network layer of a TCP/IP stack. The fact that the packets are travelling over a spread-spectrum radio connection, rather than Cat5 cable is of no issue to the upper layers of the stack. 802.11b gives you 11Mbps. Bluetooth, on the other hand, is a wireless connectivity protocol which is primarily aimed at connecting individual devices together - for example, a cell phone and an unwired earphone. Devices need to register with one another and a maximum of 8 devices can be supported on a Bluetooth network. Bluetooth gives you about 700kbps. Yes, you can use Bluetooth for wireless networking, in the same way that you could use your IR port or a USB connection for networking - but that's not its primary purpose.
Because Bluetooth is for connecting peripherals together, 802.11 is for providing TCP/IP-style networking. I could see Bluetooth for connecting your wireless headset (maybe), however you can get Bluetooth cards for this.
Do you recall the organisation in some of Larry Niven's earlier books, called the ARM (no relation to a well-known processor...)? This had a mission to suppress weapons technology or any thing that could become such. And of course it was run by the UN...
Solaris.
People don't buy Sun just for the hardware, they're investing in 100's of person-years of 64bit software development and tools (and don't make me ROFL by pointing to M$ofts 64 bit efforts...)
It's quite clear that this is another example of not underestimating the lack of intelligence of the common criminal. If you are going to engage in criminal activity (not that I am condoning this) then it makes sense to do so in such a way as to minimise the risk of being caught. If you use a general ISP such as AOL to post your Melissa-alikes, then even the slowest lawman is going to use the standard tools at their disposal (such as subpeonas etc) to catch you.
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I recall having this same discussion in 1996 over VOD versus VHS. At that time BT (in the UK) were running VOD (or almost VOD) trials on some crufted up (but adequate) technology and getting very poor feedback. One of the biggest objections was that any provider would only ever have a small subset of the things you actually wanted to watch - almost no better than premium cable channels - a case of VOS (Video on Supply) rather than VOD
I think Magritte would have said...
this is not HTML
Well no, actually. WiFi (802.11b) is an implementation of the 802.x standard which includes wired ethernet and is aimed at LAN access. It is immediately compatible with any other 802.11b device (OK, passwords may be needed) and runs at the physical/network layer of a TCP/IP stack. The fact that the packets are travelling over a spread-spectrum radio connection, rather than Cat5 cable is of no issue to the upper layers of the stack. 802.11b gives you 11Mbps.
Bluetooth, on the other hand, is a wireless connectivity protocol which is primarily aimed at connecting individual devices together - for example, a cell phone and an unwired earphone. Devices need to register with one another and a maximum of 8 devices can be supported on a Bluetooth network. Bluetooth gives you about 700kbps.
Yes, you can use Bluetooth for wireless networking, in the same way that you could use your IR port or a USB connection for networking - but that's not its primary purpose.
Because Bluetooth is for connecting peripherals together, 802.11 is for providing TCP/IP-style networking. I could see Bluetooth for connecting your wireless headset (maybe), however you can get Bluetooth cards for this.
Get a life ( or should that be get Alife...)
Do you recall the organisation in some of Larry Niven's earlier books, called the ARM (no relation to a well-known processor...)? This had a mission to suppress weapons technology or any thing that could become such. And of course it was run by the UN...
Solaris.
People don't buy Sun just for the hardware, they're investing in 100's of person-years of 64bit software development and tools (and don't make me ROFL by pointing to M$ofts 64 bit efforts...)
So this works how? By slowing the RPM of the fan?
It's quite clear that this is another example of not underestimating the lack of intelligence of the common criminal. If you are going to engage in criminal activity (not that I am condoning this) then it makes sense to do so in such a way as to minimise the risk of being caught. If you use a general ISP such as AOL to post your Melissa-alikes, then even the slowest lawman is going to use the standard tools at their disposal (such as subpeonas etc) to catch you.
...and being RF based, it won't be licenced in the UK.....sigh