Here is a company that does this for you, at a price.
http://moniserv.com/
Their prices are:
14.1" or Smaller $115 Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard
15" to 15.4" Screen $125 Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard
16" to 16.1" Screen $135 Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard
17" or large Screen call Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard
So make an honest appresal of your skill level and the cost benefit to you, then go with what ever seems best.
Clarence has always been big on "vanity" law suits, just ask the locals in Fayetteville, NC. He, AIT, has lost more than a few but this looks to be the biggest yet. As for anyone else who might be entering in as the part of a class action suit, I'd get a new lead plaintif.
The Guardian's story has so man holes in it you can read The Times right through it.
BTW the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program (Part of the Navy's, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR))is based out of SSC San Deigo, California.
Actually in military wargaming with real troops and notional troops, the commanders tend to favor the real troops. All support assets are supposed to be allocated as though they were all real, but human nature being what it is doesn't work that way.
It's all in the implimentation and Location, Location, Location. I lived in a city where the local phone company's national level decided to impliment ISDN on their downtown loop. Unfortunately they never bothered to get a local survey of the potential market. The downtown are was old and mostly depressed, so there was little interest in their offering. By the time they had it figured out, Time-Warner Cable had implimented broadband throughout the urban area and owned the market. IMO any community looking to offer free (as in beer) WiFi needs to thuroughly assess the potential market and have a complete plan for it's implimentation. Orlando seems to have just put it out there and then waited to see if it would catch on. Why not tap the Disney and Universal Studios folks for some input. A lot of tourist might like the potential for Email, IM, VOIP, etc. to communicate to the folks and the job back home.
Joined the military, got into SOF and never did worry about doing the same old thing repeatedly. Saw most of the world, and not all as a combatant. Had many un scripted events and challenges, where solutions all depended on who asked and what you had to sork with. Of course the roll of the military has chaged, but there ae many other Gov and NGO organizations that offer similar opportunities.
1. Your pretty much stuck with finding a local service. National level companies are less than enthusiastic about a temporary customer, unless thay can turn it into a major advertising opportunity.
2. Satelite services are mostly download only, you would still need a major uplink ability. Multiple telephone lines, one per user, I assume is not an option
3. There are terra based WAN options. Point to Point (using directional antennas) from the nearest High Bandwidth access point to the campground would be in about 35 mile hops. Once they get the signal to the campground, it woulc be distributed via omni directional antenna to th individual users. The users would need a wireless NIC installed or you could use 802.11? calss WIFI routers to pass the signal around the venue. The real trick is finding a provider that can get you a trust for timely installations.
As a start point, you could look at as one equiptment provider. As a reference for an existing implimentation provider, I formerly worked for, try contacting . They have Wireless Dedicated Circuit T1 (1.554Mb Up, 1.554Mb Down) priced at $509.96. The cost of getting the service from the nearest wired high bandwidth access point site to the camp grounds would be an additional cost.
KC
Ah ha! I have just been reminded of another reason. The overlap of the WiFi foot print will be great for those cheap bastards watching from the upper floors and the tops of adjacent buildings. The stats, the play by play, and all for the price of a room.
Wait a minute now, I live near St. louis and the park there is Busch Stadium (as in Busch Beer, brewery and corp. office are here). Free beer and snacks sounds good to me. Let me count the other reasons.
1. The stats nuts will love it, it's all about the numbers you know.
2. Then there are the folks in the cheap seats who might like to actually see the players faces while the game is still being played.
3. A close play at the plate in the bottom of the 9th with the score tied always looks better up close. With some of the new cameras and the angles they can now get, the TV/Internet viewer can often see the play better than the guys in the box seats.
4. In the old days folks would bring radios because they might prefer the play by play from that source. Later when small battery powered TVs became cheap folks started bringing those. So this is really just a natural progression
Really situational.
With one company anything wrong in IT sent the upper managment into the incoming soviet strike mode. High level panic while the lowest level tech rebooted a server.
Their successors after the buyout, "IT problem, is it serious? Should mangement be concerned or have you got it covered? Need anything from outside the IT department? OK, let us know if it needs any thing at our level to fix it."
The best path I've seen is to educate the upper level of management enough that they don't panic over IT issues unless you tell them it is time to panic. Then they can be given small doses of bad news without a major turn over in IT staffing. AFter their immunity level is raised sufficiently you may even be able to give them the unvarnished truth without generating a major panic.
Think of it as a gradual inoculation and educational process.
The real issue is not whether this is good or bad as a stand alone issue about OnStar. It is about the slow, minutely incrimental errosion of personal privacy. That in and of it's self is not an issue even until some zealot decides to take control and define all others conduct by their personal set of rules and mores. Then there is the mindset that "I" find it suspicious the "you" have any objection to "The Government" monitoring your activities. What have you been up to? Where have you been? Arlo Guthrie wasn't totally wrong in "The Pause of Mr. Claus" or "What About The Last Guy". And lets not even get started about the "Red Scare" or the Mc Carthy Hearings, et al.
In a fully just and balanced society, it's a non-issue. In the real world it is only a non-issue until some one makes it so.
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Here is a company that does this for you, at a price. http://moniserv.com/ Their prices are: 14.1" or Smaller $115 Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard 15" to 15.4" Screen $125 Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard 16" to 16.1" Screen $135 Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard 17" or large Screen call Parts and Labor are Included. Except Panel, Polarize Film & Motherboard So make an honest appresal of your skill level and the cost benefit to you, then go with what ever seems best.
Clarence has always been big on "vanity" law suits, just ask the locals in Fayetteville, NC. He, AIT, has lost more than a few but this looks to be the biggest yet. As for anyone else who might be entering in as the part of a class action suit, I'd get a new lead plaintif.
The Guardian's story has so man holes in it you can read The Times right through it.
BTW the US Navy's Marine Mammal Program (Part of the Navy's, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR))is based out of SSC San Deigo, California.
Actually in military wargaming with real troops and notional troops, the commanders tend to favor the real troops. All support assets are supposed to be allocated as though they were all real, but human nature being what it is doesn't work that way.
It's all in the implimentation and Location, Location, Location. I lived in a city where the local phone company's national level decided to impliment ISDN on their downtown loop. Unfortunately they never bothered to get a local survey of the potential market. The downtown are was old and mostly depressed, so there was little interest in their offering. By the time they had it figured out, Time-Warner Cable had implimented broadband throughout the urban area and owned the market. IMO any community looking to offer free (as in beer) WiFi needs to thuroughly assess the potential market and have a complete plan for it's implimentation. Orlando seems to have just put it out there and then waited to see if it would catch on. Why not tap the Disney and Universal Studios folks for some input. A lot of tourist might like the potential for Email, IM, VOIP, etc. to communicate to the folks and the job back home.
Joined the military, got into SOF and never did worry about doing the same old thing repeatedly. Saw most of the world, and not all as a combatant. Had many un scripted events and challenges, where solutions all depended on who asked and what you had to sork with. Of course the roll of the military has chaged, but there ae many other Gov and NGO organizations that offer similar opportunities.
1. Your pretty much stuck with finding a local service. National level companies are less than enthusiastic about a temporary customer, unless thay can turn it into a major advertising opportunity. 2. Satelite services are mostly download only, you would still need a major uplink ability. Multiple telephone lines, one per user, I assume is not an option 3. There are terra based WAN options. Point to Point (using directional antennas) from the nearest High Bandwidth access point to the campground would be in about 35 mile hops. Once they get the signal to the campground, it woulc be distributed via omni directional antenna to th individual users. The users would need a wireless NIC installed or you could use 802.11? calss WIFI routers to pass the signal around the venue. The real trick is finding a provider that can get you a trust for timely installations. As a start point, you could look at as one equiptment provider. As a reference for an existing implimentation provider, I formerly worked for, try contacting . They have Wireless Dedicated Circuit T1 (1.554Mb Up, 1.554Mb Down) priced at $509.96. The cost of getting the service from the nearest wired high bandwidth access point site to the camp grounds would be an additional cost. KC
Ah ha! I have just been reminded of another reason. The overlap of the WiFi foot print will be great for those cheap bastards watching from the upper floors and the tops of adjacent buildings. The stats, the play by play, and all for the price of a room.
Wait a minute now, I live near St. louis and the park there is Busch Stadium (as in Busch Beer, brewery and corp. office are here). Free beer and snacks sounds good to me. Let me count the other reasons.
1. The stats nuts will love it, it's all about the numbers you know.
2. Then there are the folks in the cheap seats who might like to actually see the players faces while the game is still being played.
3. A close play at the plate in the bottom of the 9th with the score tied always looks better up close. With some of the new cameras and the angles they can now get, the TV/Internet viewer can often see the play better than the guys in the box seats.
4. In the old days folks would bring radios because they might prefer the play by play from that source. Later when small battery powered TVs became cheap folks started bringing those. So this is really just a natural progression
Really situational. With one company anything wrong in IT sent the upper managment into the incoming soviet strike mode. High level panic while the lowest level tech rebooted a server. Their successors after the buyout, "IT problem, is it serious? Should mangement be concerned or have you got it covered? Need anything from outside the IT department? OK, let us know if it needs any thing at our level to fix it." The best path I've seen is to educate the upper level of management enough that they don't panic over IT issues unless you tell them it is time to panic. Then they can be given small doses of bad news without a major turn over in IT staffing. AFter their immunity level is raised sufficiently you may even be able to give them the unvarnished truth without generating a major panic. Think of it as a gradual inoculation and educational process.
The real issue is not whether this is good or bad as a stand alone issue about OnStar. It is about the slow, minutely incrimental errosion of personal privacy. That in and of it's self is not an issue even until some zealot decides to take control and define all others conduct by their personal set of rules and mores. Then there is the mindset that "I" find it suspicious the "you" have any objection to "The Government" monitoring your activities. What have you been up to? Where have you been? Arlo Guthrie wasn't totally wrong in "The Pause of Mr. Claus" or "What About The Last Guy". And lets not even get started about the "Red Scare" or the Mc Carthy Hearings, et al.
In a fully just and balanced society, it's a non-issue. In the real world it is only a non-issue until some one makes it so.