So Nextel is going to 1900MHz while the GSM providers (pardon me, I meant the two providers that actually have licenses for it) go to 850MHz. Somewhat ironic, I think, and an interesting reversal. Currently where I live Nextel has a slight advantage in coverage because their network is 800MHz and can go farther from a single tower, while AT&T is still converting TDMA 850 towers to GSM. I'll be interested to see if this changes when Nextel moves to 1900MHz on towers spaced for 800, etc.
Only if your projectile is going at escape velocity, which, if you'll recall from the SpaceShipOne thread, is around 11.2km/s. Significantly faster than the 2.5km/s muzzle velocity given in the PDF. So no, the projectile will not travel in a straight line, it will experience gravitational attraction and follow the curve of the earth.
New technology coming down the pipe. Haha. You won't see this for five years if you see it at all. I'll stick with my Optimum Online until I see something better (either in the form of this new DSL or fiber.)
Besides, this is just another way for them to squeeze more time out of a dead technology (namely, copper pair). They need to get off their asses and build out fiber.
Yeah, that too. If they want us to use the content, they have to make the access cheaper. It's something like $0.03/Kbyte on AWE. Ridiculous. Only businesses with major accounts at the wireless providers have pockets deep enough to get any decent usage out of cellular IP services.
Human interface. I know I don't want to watch movies on a 2" cell phone screen, nor do I want to write email on a touch-tone keypad (I don't care HOW smart your prediction software is). What the industry needs before this so-called "convergence" can occur is a new method of getting information to and from the humans using it. I've seen a lot of things that look like they could be promising, but they're all still being researched or are much too expensive to mass-produce. Until someone solves the issue of deciding between making users cramp their fingers by typing on tiny keypads or making them cart around massive pieces of equipment, convergence is going nowhere.
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I'd probably use it if it weren't such a resource hog... I'm running on a P3 1gHz with onboard graphics, so not that much to work with, which is why I use flux. Lightweight but still has useful stuff.
Yeah, I don't even use a graphic filebrowser on my Linux desktop, can you believe that?
I save time on performing batch operations on files with bash instead of a filesystem browser, I know that much.
mv/cp, when used with wildcards and other matching expressions, is much faster than selecting a set of files and dragging them to another window/folder, etc.
And there are a million other things that CLI is more efficient for than a GUI is. I use fluxbox because it's a window manager and doesn't give me any crap I don't want.
Isn't this the point of tools like BSD and Gentoo's systems (ports and portage, respectively)? They're designed to solve dependencies and automatically merge software into an operating system. Portage can even satisfy conflicting dependencies by maintaining multiple versions of one package in the system at once.
Quad-band phones are becoming available these days- NEC 515/525 on ATTWS, Moto v.600, etc.
AWE and Cingular both use GSM 850/1900. T-Mobile is the only provider that has a 1900-only network, as that's the only thing they have licenses for in many areas.
Agreed, I can leave ten tabs open in firebird with no slowdown while running xchat, gaim, and xmms! And I can crunch ~40 blocks/day on a P3 1gHz for distributed.net RC5-72. All this and I still have over 30MB of memory free.
I absolutely love having an OS that knows how to manage resources correctly, a lightweight GUI, and good apps that are debugged right.;)
Prior art: my NEC cell phone having a button that if pressed and released goes to the voice memo screen, and if pressed and held for two seconds, activates a prompt for voice dial.
That's the worst load of bull I've ever seen. By 3G I assume you mean GSM, which, as far as I know, does _not_ support any sort of "rate throttling". GSM's TDMA multiplexing method means that there's a hard limit on the number of calls per cell and they each get a dedicated amount of bandwidth for good quality. What kind of phone did you buy from them? It probably had shit for RF.
You've got to be kidding me. T-Mobile with good coverage in NYS? I live in northern Westchester and my old T-Mobile had a million dead spots and dropped calls if you were actually moving and talking. Once Cingular gets the network equipment integrated they'll have the best GSM network in the US and T-Mobile can kiss its ass goodbye.
It seems obvious to everyone who just takes a step back and look at it, but the government (or big business) won't do anything without evidence that the subject has been researched and the statement proven.
Heh, except that they didn't exist right after the big bang. From what I've read on the theory, the quickly-expanding universe was still too violent and active to permit the existence of anything more cohesive than hydrogen for a good deal of time. It took a really long time for it to cool off enough for stuff like carbon and oxygen to form, let alone the heavy metals.
Am I the only one who thinks these abbreviations are getting out of hand?
"IANAL"? "IANASME"? Honestly, take a bit of extra time to type out the words and save everyone who's going to read your comment the trouble of attempting to decipher your ridiculous glob of letters. And why include the expanded form of the abbreviation in parentheses?
I agree with you on that. Linux needs a lot of work on hardware support and graphic interface frontends before it can be used comparably to Windows or Mac OS as a desktop. Right now, the initial install and setup are easy enough in a distro like RH9.. as long as all hardware supported and can be autoconfigured. If not, it almost certainly means having to configure things through a command line. It's gotten a lot better, but it still has a long way to go, especially if the user wants to do anything more than basic Web/mail/word processing. I mean, RH9 doesn't even include MP3 codecs for XMMS. Network autoconfiguration has gotten a lot better (DHCP works a lot better in RH9 than it did for me in 7.3) but anything beyond Ethernet-to-broadband-router (even dial-up) still takes a lot of work with configuration files and such IMHO. And out of the box, even Red Hat 9 isn't able to set up Samba by itself, so there goes filesharing to Windows machines on the network.
Basically my point is that it's gotten a lot better, but there is still a REALLY long way to go before it can be considered for widespread desktop use.
Yeah, SSL-enabled IRCds are available, including UnrealIRCd (www.unrealircd.com). Haven't tried to use the SSL myself, but it's a good IRCd with a nice set of features and good Services integration. I think you can even have SSL server links as well as client connections. The network I frequent uses Anope (www.anope.org) IRC Services, which include the password-based nick registration system mentioned above.
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So Nextel is going to 1900MHz while the GSM providers (pardon me, I meant the two providers that actually have licenses for it) go to 850MHz. Somewhat ironic, I think, and an interesting reversal. Currently where I live Nextel has a slight advantage in coverage because their network is 800MHz and can go farther from a single tower, while AT&T is still converting TDMA 850 towers to GSM. I'll be interested to see if this changes when Nextel moves to 1900MHz on towers spaced for 800, etc.
Only if your projectile is going at escape velocity, which, if you'll recall from the SpaceShipOne thread, is around 11.2km/s. Significantly faster than the 2.5km/s muzzle velocity given in the PDF. So no, the projectile will not travel in a straight line, it will experience gravitational attraction and follow the curve of the earth.
New technology coming down the pipe. Haha. You won't see this for five years if you see it at all. I'll stick with my Optimum Online until I see something better (either in the form of this new DSL or fiber.) Besides, this is just another way for them to squeeze more time out of a dead technology (namely, copper pair). They need to get off their asses and build out fiber.
Yeah, that too. If they want us to use the content, they have to make the access cheaper. It's something like $0.03/Kbyte on AWE. Ridiculous. Only businesses with major accounts at the wireless providers have pockets deep enough to get any decent usage out of cellular IP services.
Human interface. I know I don't want to watch movies on a 2" cell phone screen, nor do I want to write email on a touch-tone keypad (I don't care HOW smart your prediction software is). What the industry needs before this so-called "convergence" can occur is a new method of getting information to and from the humans using it. I've seen a lot of things that look like they could be promising, but they're all still being researched or are much too expensive to mass-produce. Until someone solves the issue of deciding between making users cramp their fingers by typing on tiny keypads or making them cart around massive pieces of equipment, convergence is going nowhere. $0.02
I'd probably use it if it weren't such a resource hog... I'm running on a P3 1gHz with onboard graphics, so not that much to work with, which is why I use flux. Lightweight but still has useful stuff.
Yeah, I don't even use a graphic filebrowser on my Linux desktop, can you believe that? I save time on performing batch operations on files with bash instead of a filesystem browser, I know that much. mv/cp, when used with wildcards and other matching expressions, is much faster than selecting a set of files and dragging them to another window/folder, etc. And there are a million other things that CLI is more efficient for than a GUI is. I use fluxbox because it's a window manager and doesn't give me any crap I don't want.
Isn't this the point of tools like BSD and Gentoo's systems (ports and portage, respectively)? They're designed to solve dependencies and automatically merge software into an operating system. Portage can even satisfy conflicting dependencies by maintaining multiple versions of one package in the system at once.
Quad-band phones are becoming available these days- NEC 515/525 on ATTWS, Moto v.600, etc. AWE and Cingular both use GSM 850/1900. T-Mobile is the only provider that has a 1900-only network, as that's the only thing they have licenses for in many areas.
Agreed, I can leave ten tabs open in firebird with no slowdown while running xchat, gaim, and xmms! And I can crunch ~40 blocks/day on a P3 1gHz for distributed.net RC5-72. All this and I still have over 30MB of memory free. I absolutely love having an OS that knows how to manage resources correctly, a lightweight GUI, and good apps that are debugged right. ;)
Prior art: my NEC cell phone having a button that if pressed and released goes to the voice memo screen, and if pressed and held for two seconds, activates a prompt for voice dial.
As far as I know AWE has no UMTS service.
That's the worst load of bull I've ever seen. By 3G I assume you mean GSM, which, as far as I know, does _not_ support any sort of "rate throttling". GSM's TDMA multiplexing method means that there's a hard limit on the number of calls per cell and they each get a dedicated amount of bandwidth for good quality. What kind of phone did you buy from them? It probably had shit for RF.
You've got to be kidding me. T-Mobile with good coverage in NYS? I live in northern Westchester and my old T-Mobile had a million dead spots and dropped calls if you were actually moving and talking. Once Cingular gets the network equipment integrated they'll have the best GSM network in the US and T-Mobile can kiss its ass goodbye.
Are you using an alternate spelling because you're from a country where that's standard or to make a pun on the concept of a system 'daemon'? :)
It seems obvious to everyone who just takes a step back and look at it, but the government (or big business) won't do anything without evidence that the subject has been researched and the statement proven.
There's one of the major flaws in the construction of Windows. The entire registry system is horrible and needs to be thrown out.
Heh, except that they didn't exist right after the big bang. From what I've read on the theory, the quickly-expanding universe was still too violent and active to permit the existence of anything more cohesive than hydrogen for a good deal of time. It took a really long time for it to cool off enough for stuff like carbon and oxygen to form, let alone the heavy metals.
Yeah, and you also lock yourself into proprietary hardware and a cycle of costly software upgrades.
But how much of an improvement does it get on older hardware and/or software packages?
Am I the only one who thinks these abbreviations are getting out of hand? "IANAL"? "IANASME"? Honestly, take a bit of extra time to type out the words and save everyone who's going to read your comment the trouble of attempting to decipher your ridiculous glob of letters. And why include the expanded form of the abbreviation in parentheses?
It's been done, but not with GCs. Someone built a cluster of PS2s and then did work with it.
I agree with you on that. Linux needs a lot of work on hardware support and graphic interface frontends before it can be used comparably to Windows or Mac OS as a desktop. Right now, the initial install and setup are easy enough in a distro like RH9.. as long as all hardware supported and can be autoconfigured. If not, it almost certainly means having to configure things through a command line. It's gotten a lot better, but it still has a long way to go, especially if the user wants to do anything more than basic Web/mail/word processing. I mean, RH9 doesn't even include MP3 codecs for XMMS. Network autoconfiguration has gotten a lot better (DHCP works a lot better in RH9 than it did for me in 7.3) but anything beyond Ethernet-to-broadband-router (even dial-up) still takes a lot of work with configuration files and such IMHO. And out of the box, even Red Hat 9 isn't able to set up Samba by itself, so there goes filesharing to Windows machines on the network. Basically my point is that it's gotten a lot better, but there is still a REALLY long way to go before it can be considered for widespread desktop use.
Haha, funny how I didn't even stop to think about that. But sometimes redundancy is a good thing for security.
Yeah, SSL-enabled IRCds are available, including UnrealIRCd (www.unrealircd.com). Haven't tried to use the SSL myself, but it's a good IRCd with a nice set of features and good Services integration. I think you can even have SSL server links as well as client connections. The network I frequent uses Anope (www.anope.org) IRC Services, which include the password-based nick registration system mentioned above.