Just like your cable companies, wireless providers like the company I work for have already figured this out. The people getting on our servers get a "modem" that connects to the wireless. I know it's just a bridge with an amplifier in it, but the customers don't care as long as they get their "modem box thingy". We've configured it to attach only to our SSID with WPA. When they get online, they have to enter in their username and password, and off they go. We put a little box on their roof, and they get something to plug into inside their house. Simple as they. Unlike the cable companies, we actually help set up the computers with antivirus, and make sure their inside network firewall works ok. Of course this is all for fixed wireless. When the problems of truly mobile wireless internet comes up, then we will have to worry about what you're talking about. It will most likely have to involve better individual system integrity, and that will mean better software firewalls or better protection at the access points. And if you're worried about Joe Schmo not understanding all of this, then it will just be the job of our customer service to educate them as best we can.
Chase has a secure login Located Here But most customers are not smart enough to know that. You should have seen the mess I got into when I tried explaining to my wife to use that one instead of the home page one.
The truth of the matter this will have little to no effect on what many people do on the internet. I use the internet as a tool to promote local businesses, events, news, etc. The ISP that I work for is out in a rural area, where most of our customers aren't thinking on a global scale. I'm not trying to be a "self-centered" American, but how are backwoods farmers, 9th grade level-educated folks, going to even think about this stuff - they're just playing Yahoo! Games. Even if other countries try to "take over" the basic infrastructure that I use will still be there. Nothing I do is global, and I like it that way.
Good luck returning the CD. I yelled for as long as my voice would allow when I tried to take a CD back to Best Buy. The best I could get was returning the CD for another one. The problem with the CD that I purchased was that it did not even play in my car player. It ended up only working in one player in my house which was my CD player alarm clock. Then when the next one didn't work, I yelled even more and eventually got store credit. When you think about it, returning it only bother Best Buy since they've already paid for it.
To tell you the truth, I've actually seen the knowledge difference the other way around. Many of the older "technology experts" I have known and met, had to learn their computer knowledge as the technology came out. They were true power users, able to maintain and upgrade emerging equipment when Moore's Law actually meant something. But because of my Computer Engineering Education, I've had training in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and everything in between. The people I work for don't know about pipelining and load management, etc. Ask THEM how things work and you get a very accurate generalization, but ask some of my peers how things work and you could get a very boring two hour lecture on modern computing from processor to compiler and beyond.
When I first pulled up the page, I immediately noticed that they had to be using CSS. Did everyone else notice the CSS change right away, too? I've been trying to figure out why some people can tell right away what makes a site tick without looking at code or anything. Anyway, great job, I love times of transition; They can be so exciting.
I myself spend a couple hundred in bowling every year. Do you know how many movies I've seen in the theatre this year? Four. Two of those were in the cheap theatre that smells funny. That's about $18 I've spent at the movies.
This line of reasoning sometimes disturbs me. There are definately legitimate bases for some of the lawsuits out there. For instance, if I owned a gun company and promoted them as "Guns! Get your kids one for Christmas!" or "Guns: every psychopath should have one and shoot somebody!" then yes, I deserve to be sued if a kids shoots off a toe or something. It's just that the courts have had some problems recognizing who's at fault in many of the grey areas out in the real world.
I know, but we don't give everyone 1.2-1.5 Mbits. I figured by the time we could afford to give everyone that much, we'd be putting in T3s or OC3, or OC12 etc.
How is my company supposed to be able to afford the equivalent of a couple hundred T1s (ok, hyperbole) underneath this uber hot spot to handle all these users? Can't wait till one of our customers calls us this week and asks us to give him 800Mbits up and down. We already have to filter all spam perfectly without deleting a single one of their legitimate e-mails, and well as ensure they never get a virus or any spyware. Evar.
What did phone lines and television give us access to? Yes content delivery, but not only that. More communication with the outside world was the goal. My mom can find out about her family in Greece at almost any time of the day. Broadband access could potentially lay down the groundwork for better communication. I don't know about you, but the more options available for talking with, as well as seeing and hearing from my fellow humans, the better.
This sort of thing does work for rural broadband. Right now, a couple hundred dollars in equipment gets customers hooked up to the company I work for. 512-768K up and down for $39.95 per month. Not as cheap as DSL, but as cheap as cable and definately better than satellite. Plus, people can actually use it for VPN.
Why people think things like this are the only deals in town will never cease to amaze me. If some people would only look around in their own cities/states they could find some great deals. I found a local leasing company and got a PIII 1GHz Dell Latitude C610 for $300 (included port replicator!). He had PIII 500MHz Latitude LS's (small form factor) for as little as $100. These had all the CDs and original cases and legitimate licenses. Plus nobody was running me over!
The company I work for always provides me with Non-OSS supplies like Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, MS Office, and Windows XP. But my work at home involves various types of media projects including audio, video, and web. Right now I use Nvu for development, Audacity for my audio editing, and I'm trying out Jahshaka for video editing. And of course Open Office for everything else.
Getting a desktop is a great solution for the upgradeability if you're going to be using it for many years. I had my desktop at school (upgraded a couple years straight), but I didn't need to own my own laptop at school. Why's that? My school provided laptops for checkout when they were needed. I could get a pentium 4 with windows xp when I needed it just by swiping my student ID. I had a USB drive that I used for all of my necessary files. You could even install custom software needed for computer science classes. There were even some that were set aside for particular classes. All I had to do was pay about $20 in technology fees every semester. Well worth it.
Don't blame games and TV, blame the parents of children growing up. When decisions of how to live are left up to children, they routinely devolve (Lord of the Flies anyone?). Parents are there to direct the lives of children towards healthy, smart decisions. Who are the people in charge of purchasing these consumer items for the children? Parents. Of course there anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but it all comes back to the personal responsibility of the parent.
Someone told me the same thing when I decided to go to school and major in computer science. He told me that I needed something that would give me a wider range of skills. I also didn't want to take all those foreign language courses and puff electives.
So I decided on Computer Engineering. Little did I know that I needed a foreign language called "Electrical Engineering." But anyway, it gave me some expertise on signal processing and got me a job with a wireless internet company that actually utilizes most of the things I learned at school. Who wants to work for anything larger than a small business anyway? I have flexible hours, good pay that people said I would get, and the chance for upward mobility.
Like I said, don't just get pigeon-holed into a "programming degree." For instance, one of my friends pioneered the bio-informatics degree at my school, because just computer science may not be the best computer-related studies anymore. Find your own way.
In this article from USA Today Gates seems disappointed that kids and students using the technology don't seem more interested in it. And I don't blame him. I don't know about many other Slashdotters around here, but every time I used to get a new gadget or toy, I wanted to know how it worked.
Oh, and Maria Klawe seems like a qualified lady to be talking about this subject.
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Just like your cable companies, wireless providers like the company I work for have already figured this out. The people getting on our servers get a "modem" that connects to the wireless. I know it's just a bridge with an amplifier in it, but the customers don't care as long as they get their "modem box thingy". We've configured it to attach only to our SSID with WPA. When they get online, they have to enter in their username and password, and off they go. We put a little box on their roof, and they get something to plug into inside their house. Simple as they. Unlike the cable companies, we actually help set up the computers with antivirus, and make sure their inside network firewall works ok. Of course this is all for fixed wireless. When the problems of truly mobile wireless internet comes up, then we will have to worry about what you're talking about. It will most likely have to involve better individual system integrity, and that will mean better software firewalls or better protection at the access points. And if you're worried about Joe Schmo not understanding all of this, then it will just be the job of our customer service to educate them as best we can.
"Cool Edit" is now an adobe product. Their old website takes you straight to Adobe
Chase has a secure login Located Here But most customers are not smart enough to know that. You should have seen the mess I got into when I tried explaining to my wife to use that one instead of the home page one.
The truth of the matter this will have little to no effect on what many people do on the internet. I use the internet as a tool to promote local businesses, events, news, etc. The ISP that I work for is out in a rural area, where most of our customers aren't thinking on a global scale. I'm not trying to be a "self-centered" American, but how are backwoods farmers, 9th grade level-educated folks, going to even think about this stuff - they're just playing Yahoo! Games. Even if other countries try to "take over" the basic infrastructure that I use will still be there. Nothing I do is global, and I like it that way.
Good luck returning the CD. I yelled for as long as my voice would allow when I tried to take a CD back to Best Buy. The best I could get was returning the CD for another one. The problem with the CD that I purchased was that it did not even play in my car player. It ended up only working in one player in my house which was my CD player alarm clock. Then when the next one didn't work, I yelled even more and eventually got store credit. When you think about it, returning it only bother Best Buy since they've already paid for it.
No more secrets. No more lies. No more disinformation and manipulation
Because everyone knows that the internet is where Truth lives. Along with the Easter Bunny.
To tell you the truth, I've actually seen the knowledge difference the other way around. Many of the older "technology experts" I have known and met, had to learn their computer knowledge as the technology came out. They were true power users, able to maintain and upgrade emerging equipment when Moore's Law actually meant something. But because of my Computer Engineering Education, I've had training in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and everything in between. The people I work for don't know about pipelining and load management, etc. Ask THEM how things work and you get a very accurate generalization, but ask some of my peers how things work and you could get a very boring two hour lecture on modern computing from processor to compiler and beyond.
I think what you're looking for is this:
The Hundredth Monkey
When I first pulled up the page, I immediately noticed that they had to be using CSS. Did everyone else notice the CSS change right away, too? I've been trying to figure out why some people can tell right away what makes a site tick without looking at code or anything. Anyway, great job, I love times of transition; They can be so exciting.
Exactly. Look at what the Wireless Institute of Australia has to say about some of this: Official complains and primers on interference.
I myself spend a couple hundred in bowling every year. Do you know how many movies I've seen in the theatre this year? Four. Two of those were in the cheap theatre that smells funny. That's about $18 I've spent at the movies.
This line of reasoning sometimes disturbs me. There are definately legitimate bases for some of the lawsuits out there. For instance, if I owned a gun company and promoted them as "Guns! Get your kids one for Christmas!" or "Guns: every psychopath should have one and shoot somebody!" then yes, I deserve to be sued if a kids shoots off a toe or something. It's just that the courts have had some problems recognizing who's at fault in many of the grey areas out in the real world.
I know, but we don't give everyone 1.2-1.5 Mbits. I figured by the time we could afford to give everyone that much, we'd be putting in T3s or OC3, or OC12 etc.
How is my company supposed to be able to afford the equivalent of a couple hundred T1s (ok, hyperbole) underneath this uber hot spot to handle all these users? Can't wait till one of our customers calls us this week and asks us to give him 800Mbits up and down. We already have to filter all spam perfectly without deleting a single one of their legitimate e-mails, and well as ensure they never get a virus or any spyware. Evar.
What did phone lines and television give us access to? Yes content delivery, but not only that. More communication with the outside world was the goal. My mom can find out about her family in Greece at almost any time of the day. Broadband access could potentially lay down the groundwork for better communication. I don't know about you, but the more options available for talking with, as well as seeing and hearing from my fellow humans, the better.
This sort of thing does work for rural broadband. Right now, a couple hundred dollars in equipment gets customers hooked up to the company I work for. 512-768K up and down for $39.95 per month. Not as cheap as DSL, but as cheap as cable and definately better than satellite. Plus, people can actually use it for VPN.
Why people think things like this are the only deals in town will never cease to amaze me. If some people would only look around in their own cities/states they could find some great deals. I found a local leasing company and got a PIII 1GHz Dell Latitude C610 for $300 (included port replicator!). He had PIII 500MHz Latitude LS's (small form factor) for as little as $100. These had all the CDs and original cases and legitimate licenses. Plus nobody was running me over!
The company I work for always provides me with Non-OSS supplies like Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Frontpage, MS Office, and Windows XP. But my work at home involves various types of media projects including audio, video, and web. Right now I use Nvu for development, Audacity for my audio editing, and I'm trying out Jahshaka for video editing. And of course Open Office for everything else.
Getting a desktop is a great solution for the upgradeability if you're going to be using it for many years. I had my desktop at school (upgraded a couple years straight), but I didn't need to own my own laptop at school. Why's that? My school provided laptops for checkout when they were needed. I could get a pentium 4 with windows xp when I needed it just by swiping my student ID. I had a USB drive that I used for all of my necessary files. You could even install custom software needed for computer science classes. There were even some that were set aside for particular classes. All I had to do was pay about $20 in technology fees every semester. Well worth it.
Don't blame games and TV, blame the parents of children growing up. When decisions of how to live are left up to children, they routinely devolve (Lord of the Flies anyone?). Parents are there to direct the lives of children towards healthy, smart decisions. Who are the people in charge of purchasing these consumer items for the children? Parents. Of course there anecdotal evidence to the contrary, but it all comes back to the personal responsibility of the parent.
don't you me phorwarder?
You know how hard it is to find an English to Arabic translator on the web that understands the phrase "Hulk Smash!"?
I didn't think so...
Someone told me the same thing when I decided to go to school and major in computer science. He told me that I needed something that would give me a wider range of skills. I also didn't want to take all those foreign language courses and puff electives.
So I decided on Computer Engineering. Little did I know that I needed a foreign language called "Electrical Engineering." But anyway, it gave me some expertise on signal processing and got me a job with a wireless internet company that actually utilizes most of the things I learned at school. Who wants to work for anything larger than a small business anyway? I have flexible hours, good pay that people said I would get, and the chance for upward mobility.
Like I said, don't just get pigeon-holed into a "programming degree." For instance, one of my friends pioneered the bio-informatics degree at my school, because just computer science may not be the best computer-related studies anymore. Find your own way.
In this article from USA Today Gates seems disappointed that kids and students using the technology don't seem more interested in it. And I don't blame him. I don't know about many other Slashdotters around here, but every time I used to get a new gadget or toy, I wanted to know how it worked.
Oh, and Maria Klawe seems like a qualified lady to be talking about this subject.
-1, Poor Impulse Control