I am a representative from USHSIA (United States High Speed Internet Association). We were until recently planning to give evreyone in the US more bandwidth for the same price. We figured that we've been giving it to you in the ass for all these years we would finaly give you a break.
After reading your post we came to conclusion that we were wrong.
This is very noble of you to spend your time and resources to stick up for the Open Source Community.
But instead of you taking all this upon yourself why don't you work with the member of M.A.M.E to obtain the legalities and let them have it in their name? That would be the much nobler course of action? Have you contacted the MAME group? I'm sure they would be thrilled to have a new oppertunity or be involved in 'cleaning' their hard work from those who take advantage.
We thank you David for your hard work on the matter and we are glad that we are now aware of your situation. I hope the MAME team will be effective as possible in registering their trademarks to prevent this from happening again
You are the first post I've read to give a extra deep thought into the matter. Why do people think that we have already discovered evreything? What makes you think that you know evreything that is going on with your mind? Do you really know how it influnces your day to day life, or even understand?
I think we belittle ourselves in many ways and we seem to feel that anything more that what we have would be 'god like'. In terms of the universe we just got here, What makes us think we have it all done?
Those with the open minds will be the ones to uncover these 'sences' or 'abilities' that most likely effect us evrey day of our lives already. We will just have a cleaner point of view on how it all works.
And also how did they really know the length of risk?
The infamous JPG overflow was a vunerability since win98(or earlier?) . So they just took the time at which it was reported to the public to the time the patch was applied. Well Microsoft being a corporation definately has an agenda and would strategicaly let people know at an oppertune time like all the other problems that get found and the people who found them sit on their thumbs until they go mad and tell the world anyway.
To tell you the truth I think Microsoft is barking up the wrong tree. They can't kill Linux it will just continue to evolve. By him bad mouthing it doesn't make a diffrence it just makes people assume they are on the same stage.
The funny thing is it just started out as a school project and it got this far, I can't wait to see it in 5 years.
As "scientists" they should be ashamed to go about flawnting conclusions when they know that the data is the reson they are scientists.
If you read scientific journals or are a true scientist your self you would be ridiculed by your peers and told to go teach highschool math producing data like this.
Doing this while claiming your title would most likely be considered 'occupational suicide'. Who in the scientific community will take you serious or give you funding? Now the community knows that your a pawn.
You talk like you signed the deal yourself "i can speak partially to why Navision was purchased." well did you? Really?
You work in the "Business Solutions group",you sell copies of 2003 server. At least try to tell us your CEO of department.
You quote a position within the company like you recieved it in an email. Well what did they email you with today? Nothing, ya thats right. Did you get the email to green with the CEO's ? Did they also chat with you about the future of other acquisitions ? NO
I just had to bite on this one you come across as some one who has a nextdoor neighbour that knows someone....
Anyway to make it short I think your just full of it but then again evreyone is entitled to their own opinion
That seems like a reasonable thing to say, doesn't it ?
Well I guess your right now arent you? All they have to gain from this is billions in lawsuits and get to keep all of the EU under his thumb. Sure it sounds reasonable. This is an example of strategic aquisition. You think Bill bought this company because of their technology or merely on the fact it employed so many country men?
Like wake up man!! Its bone heads like you that try to make this kind of thing look ok. These guys are not mom and pop shops, they buy people and things like chess pieces.
Ask your self this if this company did not have so many Danish people working for them do you think Bill would have bought them out?? Look at the company and figure that out for your self...
Action you refer to should be more along the lines of us learning how to live first. Do you think that us going around and screwing up other planets the same as we do ours is progress?
Seriously.
We wont be doing more than prolonging the enivitable. So we go to mars wipe our brow because earth is nolonger inhabiable. Now we do the same thing to mars because
.... drum roll....
We still have our heads up our ass
Then we turn to you being the great and fearce leader that you are and what do you reply? Ummm I fucked up sorry. Then you die a painful death and take the whole race with you.
Why you ask? Well lets for a minuite look at him not as BGates@microsoft.com but just a guy with billions of dollars.
Most of the people in this forum think of money in a diffrent way, i.e. tv's, cars, houses etc. In other words to buy things or to have the feeling of power. Now what else can money get you? Well donating gets lots of admiration and it also gets mind share. When you are in company of the richest they look down upon you if you don't donate anyway as they see it as 'uncouth' so that could be another reason.
Bill is light years past having enough money to buy any particular item the one thing he does not have is willing support (unpaid willing support). No one on this planet will do anything for Bill with out even the illusion of power or money comming their way. And that is also what money does. The question he should be asking himself is,"Am I attracting the right people?"
Regardless of what Bill sais he is a pioneer and has taken the computer to wide and high levels but if he thinks for a minuite that he can keep the world running just on Windows for ever he really needs help.
Suppose it were Microsoft buying up all the ad-space for Red Hat
Good example as you know AdWords are triggers so if Microsoft wanted ad space in Google they would include 'Red Hat' or linux, or OSS or whatever. By doing that they get their one ad included on the side of the page when that search item is encountered.
I don't see the problem. They get one ad space 1 title and 2 lines of text and a url all max of 40 chars. By a "$SMALL_CHAIN" geting AdWords with Walmart in it to you does it seem like giving the end consumer more selection or does it sound like that small chain is getting an unfair advantage.
And in terms of Louis Vuitton I don't understand why they are so scared of letting customers descide if they want $50K handbags made by them or some guy in Louisiana. We are in a new age where there are so many choices that those with mind share are scared that, that alone may not get them as far. Now we have alternatives and they are scared of that.
The way you seem to be viewing this is that a search for Louis Vuitton would return the GAP or something. That is definately not the case, it just means there may be ads in the side bar that will show other fashion designers as well. And if they have any pride they will be happy to be tested against their competitors. We should even be so bold as ask why they are scared of other fashion designers.
But as in the example you gave I hope I've shed some light on the subject and the example you have given was a poor and misleading one.
No mom and pop shops are going to be hurt in fact this is a great oppertunity for them to be considered along with the pros. And it gives the large stores / chains the oppertunities to prove thier product are superior to their competitors.
every Linux user who is also a gamer is dual-booting Windows
That is a valid point. Now if we look at how M$ has been looking at invalid keys lately. How about if people are locked out of future upgrades, and are even patched to store in pagefile more than ram ? That would kill proformance so all of a sudden gaming on your $3k PC isn't so cool.
Now you feel sick to your stomach when a new game is released because you cant afford the OS and the game. So the game company loses a sale. IMO I think this is the route M$ is taking. Luckily most gamers are also geeks! If the PC game companies get enough geeks to send letters saying they havent bought games this year because of M$ and have switched to Linux. That is when games will come to linux, not before though. Oh ya and since most linux gamers whine too much I doubt they will do much until they lose out in the pocket.
Another way of looking at it is has telecom really been done to the point where its time for these big companies to move on to something else?
These guys are squeezing evrey last inch out of it they can, have they already taken enough? You mention the founding of a great country and hint of innovation, but when you look around do you really see it?
Personally I see color screens that were invented in the early 90's but streached out over 15 years to bring them down to the prices we pay for LCD's today. I see broadband access which is half the speed (or less) of evrey one else in the world but we get charged 2 - 3x as much. I see chips from Intel and AMD that have been sitting on their shelves for 2 years or more that they only release because thier revenue stream is getting below corporate targets.
These companies want you to think that there is nothing else for them to do. There will never be any inventions or innovations to take note of so if you take this away they will starve and bring the economy down with them. I call bullshit, corporations have turned society into such obiedient consumers that they will continue to purchace with or without them. And this will bring new businesses to take up that cash just sitting there.
When there is this much cash don't let these guys fool you with out big companies others will be formed.
I'm really shocked that this seems like news to you people...
An example, company A is first to develop and market water pipe. This pipe is efficient and innexpensive they are given the money to lay the pipe across the country and charge each household a fee for the use of that pipe. They continue to make lots and lots of money.
Now as technology goes there is a new way to get water to your house, it still involves placing pipe under soil but it provides much more efficient transportation of water. This makes company A's implimentation obsolete, although they are large and powerful they will lose out on the per household revenue.
Using this example it should be easy to see that this reaction from telecom (i.e. Bell) is natural survival instinct. They _will_ kick and scream louder and louder until they get their way. POTS *may* be able to support higher then rolled out data speeds but with fibre being rolled out is it worth it? Or are they just trying to make it look like they don't really need fibre optics so they don't look desperate.
Obviously for the past 80 or so years these companies have gotten fat on the network of wires now with the internet and VOIP they are becomming optional. They *do not* like that and they will invoke evrey law and terrorist scandal to stay where they are.
With all of the constrains you have given I would assume you want to stash the P3 in each room to output to the speakers. As a geek I would assume you like *nix:)
You would need a main server that would contain or know how to get at the raw music files (mp3, wav, etc) and of course have the software to play it. They sync problem can be solved by sending out a timing signal to each of the clients (P3's). It is also a good idea to make sure all of the machines clocks are working properly and set to the correct time;). This signal would arrive to the port of your choice (unused hopefully) and would contain the time on the server the diffrence between your time and the servers is your refrence time. You send that back to the server. This way your server knows by the delay how much to buffer to achive its goal. Final step is when the command to play is given the server sends a specific time in the future for the music to begin (as accurate as possible, milliseconds) using the refrence and buffering time as a factor.
This way each client can be fed and synced with the others at the request of the server, this also means the server can send diffrent streams (using threads) to each client.
The client could even run on a script but hacking the software its self might be a good idea. Since they are pretty quick machines you dont have to worry much about cpu latency as much as timing within the mp3 or audio file its self. That might be worth reading up on.
Also you could skip a step and decode the audio to PCM from the server. It shouldn't take too many clock cycles but it will eat your bandwidth. Also rememeber each connection to each pc (WIFI) is unique, meaning 1Mbps to the family room and 2Mbps to the bed room is 3Mbps of your total 54Mbps and PCM (although not sure how much) would be much greater then sending compressed mp3 over.
One thing to keep in mind is that you will need an amplifier. Most soundcards struggle at giving out a full watt let alone powering speakers so your dream of complete wireless is going to be short lived (unless you buy a whisper 2000).
Well I guess they would take a year or two and start making a space station there. Once that is done they would start to work on a powersupply and then a simmilar microwave transmitter on the planet surface or more pratical in orbit around mars.
This way it would be more like a ping pong effect and the remaining work would be the vectors that the ship would have to get hit by the wave to effect acceleration in the way we want.
This would be akin to 'paving a road'. Once the road is ready then we wont have the problems most of the short sighted are worrying about.
They need the RFID chip in addition to the physical key
Picking the physical lock is easier then you think. Its just a bunch of armatures that once pushed to the proper location give an audible response. Thats why in the Bond flicks they have a box with a little metal pick it just expands like a baloon to satisify the lock.
Now with the RFID it would be very difficult to get in especially the fact that you want to be out of there as soon as possible. Now if you walk around and 'sniff' a key you can use that to help you out.
I bet the boxes are expensive to make / buy (not that I have) but when you are getting into a 50K+ car its not a bad investment (provided you dont mind be caught and arrested)
So yes it is a problem because the first 'layer' of protection is not that good to begin with.
Doesn't it seem like the next thing they were gonna say is "that the reason initial prices will be so insanely high?"
These are companies that are used to making insane amounts of money do you really think they would go this far to do something at a cheap or reasonable price. Ever noticed that the word cheap usually gets a negative implication? Why? because they make you think you are taking food from someones mouth?
Well just wait these companies and carriers are aware that right now 1's and 0's are traveling via POTS, Coax(cableTV), Sattelite, etc. What happens when they can get it from WI-FI? I would tell my phone CO to take a hike for Vondage or set up Asterix in a hearbeat.
First question is who installed the 'priated' XP key in the first case, the local geek of course.
Now who is gonna get the call again when the computer is slower than day time tv drama? The local geek of course.
Now does the local geek want to tell this family that they will have to go back to the windows 95 that came with the computer? Or tell them they will have to spend $150 on a $50 computer to be legit? Buy a new computer for $500?
Now you have the option of throwing a copy of Linspire / Fedora et al and sleep good at night. All of us 'local geeks' know that most of these computers that are worked on are *not* gaming machines and at most are used for solitare. Why not throw a copy of *nix on there it is recognizable enough just take all the packages *OFF* of the machine except what they really need because we all know if they click something and a console gets left behind they will freak out.
All of you pseudonerds preach the next comming of Linux when it is you that are going to install it anyway. Get going already!!
I agree, but what BillG is also gaining here is general public. Thats what the OP was jerking himself on, Bill has just dropped $1.50 this shows other ways in which he is benificial to our society. By doing this Bill buys insurance against people swaying their opinion quickly to another alternative given the chance.
Granted in the grand scheme of things if the Linux community was to come up with a comparible offer then it would give people a reason to switch because it shows the nature and character of OSS which would make the public curious and more comfortable with the concept of OSS.
But as I digress the fact/. is obviously pulling some propaganda out of its ass to look for money rather than making an intelligent statement, this post will be modded down to oblivion and OP will be flamed for months to come any way.
IMHO if they were really smart they would take the role of leaders get IBM, HP, OSDN to chip a couple of mill in to the bucket and I bet most of the lowly coders could probably make another mill or two and that is called progress. Not taking a penny out of your pocket and expecting the working class to make up your share is the same reason you arent getting a penny from me
If you are a company emailing me about your product and I tell you to stop why would they not honor that if they were on 'the up and up'?
This guys too quick to ask for money for this as well, Slashdot alone could make him 10g's over night.
If I was a prospective donator I would tell him to take his cause to the EFF and donate there, they would be able to more effectively look at this problem and have more pull with the right people to maybe stop this from going to court.
I think this guys case is worthy I just have a feeling about it, FWIW
The problem wasn't really about the information it was that AA was unwilling to be accountable for it. When he asked what the policy was, they didn't know. So basically they wanted all this info and it could have been given to anyone or used for anything from marketing to surveilance.
With your friends and families information, would you agree to not only broad terms but no terms at all?
But why should you have to logout of a user level account to login as root to install? Why not just click and if necessary ask for the password to continue automatically? Hell distros should even take out the shell and point it to the bin bucket.
The only thing it needs is authorization the user is smart enough to do that. The rest of us are smart enough to logon as root and rm -fr/* on our own.
Listen to yourself you work for them? Walk thier dogs or something? If a company holds onto a service for you that you have paid for and they give it to someone else, what ever the problem they tell the domain fuck off and let it ride till monday?
That is just sick and no matter how 'human' they are they should pack up and start the company under a diffrent name because I will never deal with them or anyone affiliated with them.
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I am a representative from USHSIA (United States High Speed Internet Association). We were until recently planning to give evreyone in the US more bandwidth for the same price. We figured that we've been giving it to you in the ass for all these years we would finaly give you a break.
After reading your post we came to conclusion that we were wrong.
Thank you for honesty.
Sincerely
The guys who are raping your bank account
Well David,
This is very noble of you to spend your time and resources to stick up for the Open Source Community.
But instead of you taking all this upon yourself why don't you work with the member of M.A.M.E to obtain the legalities and let them have it in their name? That would be the much nobler course of action? Have you contacted the MAME group? I'm sure they would be thrilled to have a new oppertunity or be involved in 'cleaning' their hard work from those who take advantage.
We thank you David for your hard work on the matter and we are glad that we are now aware of your situation. I hope the MAME team will be effective as possible in registering their trademarks to prevent this from happening again
MDS
You are the first post I've read to give a extra deep thought into the matter. Why do people think that we have already discovered evreything?
What makes you think that you know evreything that is going on with your mind?
Do you really know how it influnces your day to day life, or even understand?
I think we belittle ourselves in many ways and we seem to feel that anything more that what we have would be 'god like'. In terms of the universe we just got here, What makes us think we have it all done?
Those with the open minds will be the ones to uncover these 'sences' or 'abilities' that most likely effect us evrey day of our lives already. We will just have a cleaner point of view on how it all works.
I have a question for you ...
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Do you believe your mind is in control of you or do you feel you are in control of your mind?
Now when you answer this ask your self what part of me controls my mind
And also how did they really know the length of risk?
The infamous JPG overflow was a vunerability since win98(or earlier?) . So they just took the time at which it was reported to the public to the time the patch was applied. Well Microsoft being a corporation definately has an agenda and would strategicaly let people know at an oppertune time like all the other problems that get found and the people who found them sit on their thumbs until they go mad and tell the world anyway.
To tell you the truth I think Microsoft is barking up the wrong tree. They can't kill Linux it will just continue to evolve. By him bad mouthing it doesn't make a diffrence it just makes people assume they are on the same stage.
The funny thing is it just started out as a school project and it got this far, I can't wait to see it in 5 years.
I do agree.
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As "scientists" they should be ashamed to go about flawnting conclusions when they know that the data is the reson they are scientists.
If you read scientific journals or are a true scientist your self you would be ridiculed by your peers and told to go teach highschool math producing data like this.
Doing this while claiming your title would most likely be considered 'occupational suicide'. Who in the scientific community will take you serious or give you funding? Now the community knows that your a pawn.
Guess the money was that good
Suuuuurrrrreeee buddy,
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You talk like you signed the deal yourself "i can speak partially to why Navision was purchased." well did you? Really?
You work in the "Business Solutions group",you sell copies of 2003 server. At least try to tell us your CEO of department.
You quote a position within the company like you recieved it in an email. Well what did they email you with today? Nothing, ya thats right. Did you get the email to green with the CEO's ? Did they also chat with you about the future of other acquisitions ? NO
I just had to bite on this one you come across as some one who has a nextdoor neighbour that knows someone
Anyway to make it short I think your just full of it but then again evreyone is entitled to their own opinion
That seems like a reasonable thing to say, doesn't it ?
Well I guess your right now arent you? All they have to gain from this is billions in lawsuits and get to keep all of the EU under his thumb. Sure it sounds reasonable. This is an example of strategic aquisition. You think Bill bought this company because of their technology or merely on the fact it employed so many country men?
Like wake up man!! Its bone heads like you that try to make this kind of thing look ok. These guys are not mom and pop shops, they buy people and things like chess pieces.
Ask your self this if this company did not have so many Danish people working for them do you think Bill would have bought them out?? Look at the company and figure that out for your self...
Good luck
Huh? That's suicidal.
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Action you refer to should be more along the lines of us learning how to live first. Do you think that us going around and screwing up other planets the same as we do ours is progress?
Seriously.
We wont be doing more than prolonging the enivitable. So we go to mars wipe our brow because earth is nolonger inhabiable. Now we do the same thing to mars because
.... drum roll
We still have our heads up our ass
Then we turn to you being the great and fearce leader that you are and what do you reply? Ummm I fucked up sorry. Then you die a painful death and take the whole race with you.
Way to go buddy!!
Why you ask? Well lets for a minuite look at him not as BGates@microsoft.com but just a guy with billions of dollars.
,"Am I attracting the right people?"
Most of the people in this forum think of money in a diffrent way, i.e. tv's, cars, houses etc. In other words to buy things or to have the feeling of power. Now what else can money get you? Well donating gets lots of admiration and it also gets mind share. When you are in company of the richest they look down upon you if you don't donate anyway as they see it as 'uncouth' so that could be another reason.
Bill is light years past having enough money to buy any particular item the one thing he does not have is willing support (unpaid willing support). No one on this planet will do anything for Bill with out even the illusion of power or money comming their way. And that is also what money does. The question he should be asking himself is
Regardless of what Bill sais he is a pioneer and has taken the computer to wide and high levels but if he thinks for a minuite that he can keep the world running just on Windows for ever he really needs help.
Suppose it were Microsoft buying up all the ad-space for Red Hat
Good example as you know AdWords are triggers so if Microsoft wanted ad space in Google they would include 'Red Hat' or linux, or OSS or whatever. By doing that they get their one ad included on the side of the page when that search item is encountered.
I don't see the problem. They get one ad space 1 title and 2 lines of text and a url all max of 40 chars. By a "$SMALL_CHAIN" geting AdWords with Walmart in it to you does it seem like giving the end consumer more selection or does it sound like that small chain is getting an unfair advantage.
And in terms of Louis Vuitton I don't understand why they are so scared of letting customers descide if they want $50K handbags made by them or some guy in Louisiana. We are in a new age where there are so many choices that those with mind share are scared that, that alone may not get them as far. Now we have alternatives and they are scared of that.
The way you seem to be viewing this is that a search for Louis Vuitton would return the GAP or something. That is definately not the case, it just means there may be ads in the side bar that will show other fashion designers as well. And if they have any pride they will be happy to be tested against their competitors. We should even be so bold as ask why they are scared of other fashion designers.
But as in the example you gave I hope I've shed some light on the subject and the example you have given was a poor and misleading one.
No mom and pop shops are going to be hurt in fact this is a great oppertunity for them to be considered along with the pros. And it gives the large stores / chains the oppertunities to prove thier product are superior to their competitors.
So whats the beef?
every Linux user who is also a gamer is dual-booting Windows
That is a valid point. Now if we look at how M$ has been looking at invalid keys lately. How about if people are locked out of future upgrades, and are even patched to store in pagefile more than ram ? That would kill proformance so all of a sudden gaming on your $3k PC isn't so cool.
Now you feel sick to your stomach when a new game is released because you cant afford the OS and the game. So the game company loses a sale. IMO I think this is the route M$ is taking. Luckily most gamers are also geeks! If the PC game companies get enough geeks to send letters saying they havent bought games this year because of M$ and have switched to Linux. That is when games will come to linux, not before though. Oh ya and since most linux gamers whine too much I doubt they will do much until they lose out in the pocket.
Another way of looking at it is has telecom really been done to the point where its time for these big companies to move on to something else?
These guys are squeezing evrey last inch out of it they can, have they already taken enough? You mention the founding of a great country and hint of innovation, but when you look around do you really see it?
Personally I see color screens that were invented in the early 90's but streached out over 15 years to bring them down to the prices we pay for LCD's today. I see broadband access which is half the speed (or less) of evrey one else in the world but we get charged 2 - 3x as much. I see chips from Intel and AMD that have been sitting on their shelves for 2 years or more that they only release because thier revenue stream is getting below corporate targets.
These companies want you to think that there is nothing else for them to do. There will never be any inventions or innovations to take note of so if you take this away they will starve and bring the economy down with them. I call bullshit, corporations have turned society into such obiedient consumers that they will continue to purchace with or without them. And this will bring new businesses to take up that cash just sitting there.
When there is this much cash don't let these guys fool you with out big companies others will be formed.
Maybe it is time telecom was given to the people?
I'm really shocked that this seems like news to you people...
:)
An example, company A is first to develop and market water pipe. This pipe is efficient and innexpensive they are given the money to lay the pipe across the country and charge each household a fee for the use of that pipe. They continue to make lots and lots of money.
Now as technology goes there is a new way to get water to your house, it still involves placing pipe under soil but it provides much more efficient transportation of water. This makes company A's implimentation obsolete, although they are large and powerful they will lose out on the per household revenue.
Using this example it should be easy to see that this reaction from telecom (i.e. Bell) is natural survival instinct. They _will_ kick and scream louder and louder until they get their way. POTS *may* be able to support higher then rolled out data speeds but with fibre being rolled out is it worth it? Or are they just trying to make it look like they don't really need fibre optics so they don't look desperate.
Obviously for the past 80 or so years these companies have gotten fat on the network of wires now with the internet and VOIP they are becomming optional. They *do not* like that and they will invoke evrey law and terrorist scandal to stay where they are.
And we get to sit back and watch the show
Cheers
With all of the constrains you have given I would assume you want to stash the P3 in each room to output to the speakers. As a geek I would assume you like *nix :)
;). This signal would arrive to the port of your choice (unused hopefully) and would contain the time on the server the diffrence between your time and the servers is your refrence time. You send that back to the server. This way your server knows by the delay how much to buffer to achive its goal. Final step is when the command to play is given the server sends a specific time in the future for the music to begin (as accurate as possible, milliseconds) using the refrence and buffering time as a factor.
You would need a main server that would contain or know how to get at the raw music files (mp3, wav, etc) and of course have the software to play it. They sync problem can be solved by sending out a timing signal to each of the clients (P3's). It is also a good idea to make sure all of the machines clocks are working properly and set to the correct time
This way each client can be fed and synced with the others at the request of the server, this also means the server can send diffrent streams (using threads) to each client.
The client could even run on a script but hacking the software its self might be a good idea. Since they are pretty quick machines you dont have to worry much about cpu latency as much as timing within the mp3 or audio file its self. That might be worth reading up on.
Also you could skip a step and decode the audio to PCM from the server. It shouldn't take too many clock cycles but it will eat your bandwidth. Also rememeber each connection to each pc (WIFI) is unique, meaning 1Mbps to the family room and 2Mbps to the bed room is 3Mbps of your total 54Mbps and PCM (although not sure how much) would be much greater then sending compressed mp3 over.
One thing to keep in mind is that you will need an amplifier. Most soundcards struggle at giving out a full watt let alone powering speakers so your dream of complete wireless is going to be short lived (unless you buy a whisper 2000).
Well I guess they would take a year or two and start making a space station there. Once that is done they would start to work on a powersupply and then a simmilar microwave transmitter on the planet surface or more pratical in orbit around mars.
This way it would be more like a ping pong effect and the remaining work would be the vectors that the ship would have to get hit by the wave to effect acceleration in the way we want.
This would be akin to 'paving a road'. Once the road is ready then we wont have the problems most of the short sighted are worrying about.
This is the ultimate in car protection
Should be installed in all of Americas cars by 2006.
They need the RFID chip in addition to the physical key
Picking the physical lock is easier then you think. Its just a bunch of armatures that once pushed to the proper location give an audible response. Thats why in the Bond flicks they have a box with a little metal pick it just expands like a baloon to satisify the lock.
Now with the RFID it would be very difficult to get in especially the fact that you want to be out of there as soon as possible. Now if you walk around and 'sniff' a key you can use that to help you out.
I bet the boxes are expensive to make / buy (not that I have) but when you are getting into a 50K+ car its not a bad investment (provided you dont mind be caught and arrested)
So yes it is a problem because the first 'layer' of protection is not that good to begin with.
True
Doesn't it seem like the next thing they were gonna say is "that the reason initial prices will be so insanely high?"
These are companies that are used to making insane amounts of money do you really think they would go this far to do something at a cheap or reasonable price. Ever noticed that the word cheap usually gets a negative implication? Why? because they make you think you are taking food from someones mouth?
Well just wait these companies and carriers are aware that right now 1's and 0's are traveling via POTS, Coax(cableTV), Sattelite, etc. What happens when they can get it from WI-FI? I would tell my phone CO to take a hike for Vondage or set up Asterix in a hearbeat.
Repeat after me, they are all scammers....
I beg to differ.
First question is who installed the 'priated' XP key in the first case, the local geek of course.
Now who is gonna get the call again when the computer is slower than day time tv drama? The local geek of course.
Now does the local geek want to tell this family that they will have to go back to the windows 95 that came with the computer? Or tell them they will have to spend $150 on a $50 computer to be legit? Buy a new computer for $500?
Now you have the option of throwing a copy of Linspire / Fedora et al and sleep good at night. All of us 'local geeks' know that most of these computers that are worked on are *not* gaming machines and at most are used for solitare. Why not throw a copy of *nix on there it is recognizable enough just take all the packages *OFF* of the machine except what they really need because we all know if they click something and a console gets left behind they will freak out.
All of you pseudonerds preach the next comming of Linux when it is you that are going to install it anyway. Get going already!!
I agree, but what BillG is also gaining here is general public. Thats what the OP was jerking himself on, Bill has just dropped $1.50 this shows other ways in which he is benificial to our society. By doing this Bill buys insurance against people swaying their opinion quickly to another alternative given the chance.
/. is obviously pulling some propaganda out of its ass to look for money rather than making an intelligent statement, this post will be modded down to oblivion and OP will be flamed for months to come any way.
Granted in the grand scheme of things if the Linux community was to come up with a comparible offer then it would give people a reason to switch because it shows the nature and character of OSS which would make the public curious and more comfortable with the concept of OSS.
But as I digress the fact
IMHO if they were really smart they would take the role of leaders get IBM, HP, OSDN to chip a couple of mill in to the bucket and I bet most of the lowly coders could probably make another mill or two and that is called progress. Not taking a penny out of your pocket and expecting the working class to make up your share is the same reason you arent getting a penny from me
This doesn't make sence.
If you are a company emailing me about your product and I tell you to stop why would they not honor that if they were on 'the up and up'?
This guys too quick to ask for money for this as well, Slashdot alone could make him 10g's over night.
If I was a prospective donator I would tell him to take his cause to the EFF and donate there, they would be able to more effectively look at this problem and have more pull with the right people to maybe stop this from going to court.
I think this guys case is worthy I just have a feeling about it, FWIW
The problem wasn't really about the information it was that AA was unwilling to be accountable for it. When he asked what the policy was, they didn't know. So basically they wanted all this info and it could have been given to anyone or used for anything from marketing to surveilance.
With your friends and families information, would you agree to not only broad terms but no terms at all?
But why should you have to logout of a user level account to login as root to install? Why not just click and if necessary ask for the password to continue automatically? Hell distros should even take out the shell and point it to the bin bucket.
/* on our own.
The only thing it needs is authorization the user is smart enough to do that. The rest of us are smart enough to logon as root and rm -fr
Listen to yourself you work for them? Walk thier dogs or something? If a company holds onto a service for you that you have paid for and they give it to someone else, what ever the problem they tell the domain fuck off and let it ride till monday?
That is just sick and no matter how 'human' they are they should pack up and start the company under a diffrent name because I will never deal with them or anyone affiliated with them.