The death sentence is more than likely because the govenment is scared of anybody putting hacking (or cracking in this case) skills to malicious use. The chinese government is of course communist and keeps MUCH inorfmation that they want the public to have no access to. Hell the don't even want the public to know it exsists.
As for the punishment of death, it is probably more merciful than life in some cold, starved, wet, cramped, abusive dungeon that they dare to call a prison. If you think our prison system is bad check out China's or Turkey's. Death is more than likely an easier way to go.
Sorry if this double posted.. I am on a really crappy connection.
I for one remember her performance in Blazing Saddles.
Men, they're always coming and going and going and coming and always too soon
She will be missed.
And to the people screaming, "this doesn't belong on/." Slashdot is a place for "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". I personally don't watch/check any other sources of news with the regularity that I do on/. and find it refreshing that we don't just subscribe to technical garbage. Slashdot has been and hopefully will continue to be a living breathing aspect of the 'geek' community, so to find a post thats not about Microsoft FUD or how to shrink memory to a molecule a nice change. It proves that we 'nerds' are more than just inhuman excessivle electron beam radiated bit buckets with no other cares or worries or feelings. So if you don't like an article that is posted on Slashdot, rest assured that others do and skip over it to the next one that tickles your fancy.
This answers all my questions about management and naming firms:
"We got so much more than a name," says Robin Bahr of 98point6. "I mean, I got a name for my daughter. One of our senior executives identified strongly with 'Mescalanza.' No one calls him Jim anymore. His name is Mescalanza."
Mescalanze is easily refrenced to Mescaline. Aparrently the drug of choice for these puppies. Me I prefer Crack:)
Fact: The first amendment grants os freedom of speech. Fact: Political Parody has been around since before the first amendment. Fact: If Al Gore had been around we would have had an internet before the first amendment as well.
I can see Bush's problems with this site but I think it would be prudent to at least first ask for a Disclaimer at the top of the page or maybe a splash screen stating that the site is politically motivated but is a parody of George Bush Jr.
The site is pushing on a subject that I hold very dear to heart. The drug war and extensive imprisonment. Having an uncle myself that got ten years for dealing when he had never dealt before. He was trying to make money to support his smack habit that he had gotten back into after almost a year off. Read the get seriously pages on the site. Some snippets for your perusal:
This all sounds impossible, but it is all true. For example, Lula Mae Smith of Mobile Alabama served 7 years in a federal prison beginning in her early 50's. Her crime? Her son was a drug dealer. The prosecutor never claimed that Ms. Smith aided her son in any way with his drug business. She was simply charged with "conspiracy" to distribute drugs with her son because he bought her a new car while he was a drug dealer. However, in 1989 she began serving a sentence that was cut short in 1996 only because of two stokes she suffered in prison. She is now on home release.
Some More:
Possession and use of illegal drugs such as cocaine are crimes Bush will not deny committing. Yet our whole criminal justice system is based on sending people who commit these crimes to jail for a very long time.
And Finally:
Gwbush.com, was born by accident. It was made famous by Bush's own hotheaded attacks against it. Now, with hundreds of thousands of readers per month, it is one of the voices in the presidential race. We would like to use that voice to alert people to this massive human rights violation being carried out by our government against our own people, and to force former drug user candidates to justify their support for this human rights violation in light of their own past drug crimes.
Just as the first amendment gives us the right to free speech it does not give us the right to misrepresent ourselves. Lord knows there are some morons out there who think that site is Bush's and is gospel truth. I think it would be prudent to openly say that the site is not related to The real campaign but to destroy it completely hell no. The guys motives are admirable at least. Anyway I am running out of things to say so I will get off my soapbox.
This post had attempts to be funny and informative. When both pluses get put together I will have a negative moderation score. 1+1=-2:)
In id's defense??? This allows targeted advertising to me. Consider the following scenario. I use a Nvida based card TnT,Tnt2/Geforce... whatever. 3dvx comes out with voodoo 4. 3dfx payes id to advertise heavily to non 3dfx users. I log on sned video data to MOTD server. motd server responds with a long windinded ad about how 'bad' my current selection of video cards is compared to the new voodoo. Is this waht i wan... hell no. I am proud to say I am a linux user but to be sending out this type of data and collectiong it is just plain irresponsible.
In case your looking back here... here is the first article about it. The way I read it Microsith will require a license for every user requiring authentication wether local or remote. Fun stuff no doubt.
That's all very interesting but how can they do that in good conscience(sp)? They are planning on charging a seat type fee for secure transictions using the next degeneration of IIS in W2K. Maybe they think that if people are charged duties for international transactions they will go with a cheaper web solution?
A system whereby oxygen (O) is transferred to cells in a liquid (blood) and other gasses are removed from said blood.
Inventors: God; The Almighty (Heaven)
Assignee: Most living creatures. (Exception: Al Gore)
Appl. No: 1
Filed: Way Back When
CLAIMS
1. A method of transferring usable and no usable gasses to and from the blood to facilite cell usage and growth. Whereby a repeating precess is utalized first filling containers (lungs) with raw material (air) and allowing it to pass close to the blood. The blood therby absorbs Oxygen and other needed gassesd and releases Carbon DiOxide and other unneeded gasses. Raw Exhaust is then expelled from the said containers, sometimes forcefully (cough).
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
One day I was sitting around bored and said hey.. why don't I make something to take cure my boredom? YOu can read more about my inventions in the very first chapters of The Bible. Unless of course you are a scientist or an atheist. Then you can read some Darwin and see that it was all a big accident.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is for staying alive. Period. Stop using this invention and see what happens. We will be charging for its usage soon, that is if the HMO's don't start first.
One of the problems I see is this, "predetermined time" can be twisted to mean just about anything you want it to mean. "Predetermined time" can mean when your screen saver comes on, at 4:00AM, or when you haven't been typing for 60 seconds. With this type of language, predetermined time and predetermined event are practically synonyms. I for one don't want to walk away from my computer and find it suddenly processing AOL's billing or anything else. Not that I wiuld use AOL of course but you get my meaning:)
Iwin's US site has a page that basically says coming soon but if you use http://www.iwin-corp.com/Products/ you can browse the site. Under Communications/ there is arouter called the CS/400 and guess what... it also has Mr. James help. I always wanted a router with a flipping talking paperclip. Will he explain BGP to me better than my Cisco books? And its only 999 bucks! I can't wait to see what other vapor is available elsewhere on this site. This asshole definately has WAY WAY WAY too much time on his hands.
This came from the downloads directory... apparently they have their own fscking browser as well...
This demonstration runns in every internet browser which is able to run javascript. Be sure to turn javascript and graphics on.
This demonstration was tested with Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Iwin iwBrowse Beta 3 and 4.
We suggest to use Microsoft Internet Explorer."
This came from handheld computing
he Iwin Mobile Assistant makes working with your handheld device easy and fun. No matter if you are using a PalmPilot or WindowsCE device - the mobile assistant will always be your interactive and intelligent partner. Modules like "Expenses", "Spreadsheet", "Word-processor", and much more will help you organize your daily business and communicate seamlessly with a lot of other Windows, Macintosh or Solaris applications. "
So now they have made applications that run on any handheld and are portable across various office suite formats. Wow talk about unifing computing.
RANT This site has quickly gone from slightly humorous to downright annoying. And what of any dimwits that actually send him money? I have a feeling that the person behind this is going to be very hard to find indrrd. The attention we are giving him today just tickles his fancy a little bit more. In all likelyhood he is sitting here reading all of our posts and saying I love free publicity. Lets all shut our holes on this one for a little bit and wait for it to come out of the wash or for something real to materialize. What a waste of perfectly innocent ASCII this is. END RANT
If you look all the way down at the bottom of the page you see "Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linux Torvalds". I always thought his name was Linus not Linux. How concieted to name an OS after oneself:) Anyway someone needs to inform HR over at Transmeta or Mr. Torvalds won't be paying any taxes this year!
Ah.. I love the taste of vaporware in the morning.
Some clarifications. I worked in cable and broadcast tv for 2 years and was also present for some similar testing of piping digital signals such as these inside a standard 6mhz channel. As for compression, you can fit anwhere between 1 and 8 channels in standard aspect ratio in the 6mhz you used to fit one analog video signal. You can fit upto 6 HDTV signals into 6mhz I believe. You change the compresion of the the channels depending on their subject. Stuff with fast action gets less compression.
As for the system that gets used it would not suprise me at all if we the American People use the one that doesn't work. I know I sound cynical but look at it, we still use systems of weight and measure that have no reference in reality. An inch used to be 3 grains of barley end to end. Who cares! There is no rhyme or reason.. 12 inches = 1 foot but only 3 feet = 1 yard.... HUH? and why don't we as a NAtion use the metric system? Beacuse "thats whut dem dare europeen freeks use". So if the FCC settles on somthing american that doesn't work as well... dont be suprised!
Imagine if we could do it. If the following conditions were met:
1. Sufficent Error Correction to over come things like electron tunneling and interference. (10 molecules per bit or whatever). 2. We had a decent way to interface to such memory and avoid interference. 3. It opereated at a speed comperable to current or future silicon RAM.
Then using the space current hard drives take up we could ahve a storage device holding petabytes of memory that is non volatile. Magnetic media becomes virtually useless. 1 Petabyte for nonvolatile storage and 1 petabyte for working space. No mechanical disk subsystem and IO speeds go completely through the roof. I for one would like to see it happen. You could scrub through a huge database with a processor slower that today's and it would still be faster once disk I/O is removed from the equation.
I would only have the following issues which would need to be addressed.
1. Microsoft style programmers could write even sloppier code as memory leaks would become virtually unnoticable unless they were huge.
2. Petabyte sounds like some wierd porkemon (yes thats PORK), character and I despise all these *mons that are coming out. All I hear out of my kids these days I WANT PIKACHEW. Five years from now it will be I WANT THE PETABYTE PIKACHEWBACCA!! Help me please!!!
In addtition to the "tweaked firmware" this modem probably incorporates a couple more advances: 1. To prevent pauses I would assume that it trys to hold a line speed longer when noise is encountered instead of immeadiately initiating a Retrain. 2. The Error Correction in the hardwaer is probably a little better so that it tries to fall back to software error correction less. The thing is if you play games that require steady connection (IE real time something be it FPS or strategy) you should disable software correction anyway as it increases CPU overhead. Turn based games are obviuosly not as impacted by varying latency. As for 46% better weighted average pings???? HAH what is the weaghting ?? 3com gets an extra 20% wieght because of their brand name?? What marketing fluff. I am beginnig to wonder if mindcraft did the benchmnark. If they did it would have gone something like this:
Well, we set the 3com gaming modem port speed to 155200 and tweaked every available setting and init string. On the other modems we left the port speed set to 38400 as changing port speed was not well documented and reliable technical support was unavailable.
Geez.... you want better pings? Cap your frame rate so your not pushing so mamy packets as in a lot of games the more frames you display the more packets the server sends you steadily choking your phone line especially if you have a voodoo 2 or 3 or some TNT based card and are pushing high frames. 30-40 Frames per second maximum is great for playing.
Second push your ISP or telco to provide DSL or Cable service in your area... Keep pushing and eventaully it will happen......
You would have to use an FPS like half-life with scripted sequences. You get a doctor to follow you and when you kill a process he performs cpr on the carcass. Just like in the beginning of Half-Life where a doc recussetates a barney.
This push for web content on PCS phones, PDA's, winshield holograms... etc is starting to make me sick. When html was developed it was intended as a simple markup language, not an entire document development, management, and display environment. Most websites were designed with simple markup for text browsers or small resolutions like 640*480. As Hardware has progressed, we have seen a shift towrads extremely complex documents that require an average display of 800*600 or larger. To get that kind of content down to a PDA sized display is a daunting if not impossible task unless you want to lose severe amounts of content. With the investment many companies have made into document conversion and content development not to mention database integration (or disentigration if you prefer) and whatnot it seems sad that we should all want to shove that information into a format so incongrous than what it was designed for. Sending short email from a PDA/PCS is a great feature, but do I want to use it to read and sort my daily 50-150 messages? I think not. Do I want to squeeze down my research on E*trade so that it is unreadable and indecipherable? No again. Simple information like a single stock quote or I-95 south in downtown richmond is blocked, or heavy snow this afternoon is usefull but that is about as far as it goes. Why reinvent the wheel. There is an OLD well developed, directory structured protocol perfect for information like this. It's called gopher. Anyone remember it? Any gopher horror stories?
I still have my 1st edition of dis book and use it often. As the review says it is more encyclopedic than linear which is the way I like to use a book. I generall don't read my new computer books cover to cover. I skim the chapters that hold specific needed knowledge or special interest information for me then sit down with a box and really get my hands dirty. Another good refernce in the linux vein that I like is the Linux Network by Fred Butzen and Christopher Hilton published by IDG. Fairly inexpensive in paperback it lacks alot of meat but covers in varying detail everything from diald to ipchains to sendmail to socks to a litle security. It even has a little samba thrown in for good meauser. It is writen to assist in building a MS intranet with Linux acin as file/print/net access server but is applicable to many different styles of network. It is fairly distributionless in instruction in that it reminds you that what it says is for one distribution and others may vary. it comes with Slackware (my old favorite so that makes me biased) but for a good reference its hard to beat.
The biggest diference between ATA (UDMA) and SCSI is that multiple devices are controlled INDEPENDANTLY!! On an IDE bus you have a controller thane 1 to 2 drives.. the master actually handles part of the controller function. If the master needs to slide the heads ofer to track x the slave follows as soon as its current read is done even if the app pusing it has several reads left to do. Basically the drives run in sync and have to wait for each other to perform operations. SCSI provides an individual chanell for each device allowing them to operate completely seperate. The SCSI bus may have a max bandwidth much like an ethernet line but each device shares that bandwidth without having to wait on any other device.
Its been a long time since I have done ANY SCSI so if I am wron Flame away!!
Wone of the nice things about PCS is that while standard connections are at ~14.4 given the bandwidht restrictions on one voice channel, most phones that carry data (since its all digital) witht the right programming and the right authentication in the network can do whats called a vocoder bypass. This allows you to grab SIGNIFICANTLY more bandwidth. some PCS providers may sell this in the future as they gain more frequency space but for now its mainly used by the big execs and engineers as the more bandwidth any person grabs the less cals that cel site can carry and the smaller its coverage area gets (cel site shrinkage sucks). I have a qualcomm FWT at home (fixed wireless terminal, no handset it generates dialtone for your house fones and woks on pcs) and I also have the software and programming cable for it so if necessary i cna do a vocoder bypas and ists nifty... gotten upto 128k out of it late at nite....
I work for a mid-sized regional communications company that offers DSL, cable modem Phone, CATV, CLEC, and PCS services throughet VA and WV. We just started testing and selling the Qualcomm pdQ and althugh its a little bulky, it runs on the Palm III platform with some extras attached. the one I tested did not have a browser of any kind yet but it would let you dial into your personal PC presuming you left your modem on answer (nice security) I did not have the chance to see what type of protocols it used to transfer data that way. It also had a standard POP3/SMTP email program, figures from the makers of Eudora. Still, it worked nicely but I would rather carry a smaller phone and a seperate PDA given the Retail Price of this monster, 800-1000 US Dollars, for basically a Palm III I can get a palm V for just over $400 now, why would I want a palm iii? Still its a good unit and has better sound/recption quality than any other Qualcomm handheld CDMA phone I have used, at least on our PCS network. I have always preferred Motorola's handhelds for more stability and less dropped calls. Plus the Motorola StarTac 925's have a GREAT hidden test facility that shows you receive signal strength in real time as well as the last and current PN (antenna on a cel site) your phone was communicating with. It woud even do 8k and 13k loopback tests and report not only YOUR receive signal strenght but how well the tower was recieving your signal. Nifty little phone:)
Anyway, as disorganized as I am and as little time as i spend at my desk a PDA is a great tool for scheduling and contacts. Merging it with a phone is a good idea for those who want to have less gadgets to break/lose/replace but what hapens when you do lose it or break it? You lose EVERYTHING your schedule, all the phone numbers you cant remember like your wife's, and you can't make a call without a uater (or now a quarter and a dime) and that big account that wanted to call you at the last minute and do lunch with you thinks your ignoring them!
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The death sentence is more than likely because the govenment is scared of anybody putting hacking (or cracking in this case) skills to malicious use. The chinese government is of course communist and keeps MUCH inorfmation that they want the public to have no access to. Hell the don't even want the public to know it exsists.
As for the punishment of death, it is probably more merciful than life in some cold, starved, wet, cramped, abusive dungeon that they dare to call a prison. If you think our prison system is bad check out China's or Turkey's. Death is more than likely an easier way to go.
Sorry if this double posted.. I am on a really crappy connection.
She will be missed.
And to the people screaming, "this doesn't belong on
Mescalanze is easily refrenced to Mescaline. Aparrently the drug of choice for these puppies. Me I prefer Crack
Fact: Political Parody has been around since before the first amendment.
Fact: If Al Gore had been around we would have had an internet before the first amendment as well.
I can see Bush's problems with this site but I think it would be prudent to at least first ask for a Disclaimer at the top of the page or maybe a splash screen stating that the site is politically motivated but is a parody of George Bush Jr.
The site is pushing on a subject that I hold very dear to heart. The drug war and extensive imprisonment. Having an uncle myself that got ten years for dealing when he had never dealt before. He was trying to make money to support his smack habit that he had gotten back into after almost a year off. Read the get seriously pages on the site. Some snippets for your perusal:
Some More:
And Finally:
Just as the first amendment gives us the right to free speech it does not give us the right to misrepresent ourselves. Lord knows there are some morons out there who think that site is Bush's and is gospel truth. I think it would be prudent to openly say that the site is not related to The real campaign but to destroy it completely hell no. The guys motives are admirable at least.
Anyway I am running out of things to say so I will get off my soapbox.
This post had attempts to be funny and informative. When both pluses get put together I will have a negative moderation score. 1+1=-2
In id's defense??? This allows targeted advertising to me. Consider the following scenario. I use a Nvida based card TnT,Tnt2/Geforce... whatever. 3dvx comes out with voodoo 4. 3dfx payes id to advertise heavily to non 3dfx users. I log on sned video data to MOTD server. motd server responds with a long windinded ad about how 'bad' my current selection of video cards is compared to the new voodoo. Is this waht i wan... hell no. I am proud to say I am a linux user but to be sending out this type of data and collectiong it is just plain irresponsible.
In case your looking back here... here is the first article about it. The way I read it Microsith will require a license for every user requiring authentication wether local or remote. Fun stuff no doubt.
That's all very interesting but how can they do that in good conscience(sp)? They are planning on charging a seat type fee for secure transictions using the next degeneration of IIS in W2K. Maybe they think that if people are charged duties for international transactions they will go with a cheaper web solution?
.02
Once again my
Abstract:
A system whereby oxygen (O) is transferred to cells in a liquid (blood) and other gasses are removed from said blood.
Inventors: God; The Almighty (Heaven)
Assignee: Most living creatures. (Exception: Al Gore)
Appl. No: 1
Filed: Way Back When
CLAIMS
1. A method of transferring usable and no usable gasses to and from the blood to facilite cell usage and growth. Whereby a repeating precess is utalized first filling containers (lungs) with raw material (air) and allowing it to pass close to the blood. The blood therby absorbs Oxygen and other needed gassesd and releases Carbon DiOxide and other unneeded gasses. Raw Exhaust is then expelled from the said containers, sometimes forcefully (cough).
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
One day I was sitting around bored and said hey.. why don't I make something to take cure my boredom? YOu can read more about my inventions in the very first chapters of The Bible. Unless of course you are a scientist or an atheist. Then you can read some Darwin and see that it was all a big accident.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is for staying alive. Period. Stop using this invention and see what happens. We will be charging for its usage soon, that is if the HMO's don't start first.
One of the problems I see is this, "predetermined time" can be twisted to mean just about anything you want it to mean. "Predetermined time" can mean when your screen saver comes on, at 4:00AM, or when you haven't been typing for 60 seconds. With this type of language, predetermined time and predetermined event are practically synonyms. I for one don't want to walk away from my computer and find it suddenly processing AOL's billing or anything else. Not that I wiuld use AOL of course but you get my meaning :)
.02
Just my
grep "fuck" * -r
Stuff Snipped
lib/vsprintf.c: * Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
If you peruse this site read the htm in the MrJames directory.... die laughing...
This came from the downloads directory... apparently they have their own fscking browser as well...
This came from handheld computing
So now they have made applications that run on any handheld and are portable across various office suite formats. Wow talk about unifing computing.
RANT
This site has quickly gone from slightly humorous to downright annoying. And what of any dimwits that actually send him money? I have a feeling that the person behind this is going to be very hard to find indrrd. The attention we are giving him today just tickles his fancy a little bit more. In all likelyhood he is sitting here reading all of our posts and saying I love free publicity. Lets all shut our holes on this one for a little bit and wait for it to come out of the wash or for something real to materialize. What a waste of perfectly innocent ASCII this is.
END RANT
Ok. I am of my soapbox.
Flame Away.
If you look all the way down at the bottom of the page you see "Linux is a Registered Trademark of Linux Torvalds". I always thought his name was Linus not Linux. How concieted to name an OS after oneself :) Anyway someone needs to inform HR over at Transmeta or Mr. Torvalds won't be paying any taxes this year!
Ah.. I love the taste of vaporware in the morning.
Some clarifications. I worked in cable and broadcast tv for 2 years and was also present for some similar testing of piping digital signals such as these inside a standard 6mhz channel. As for compression, you can fit anwhere between 1 and 8 channels in standard aspect ratio in the 6mhz you used to fit one analog video signal. You can fit upto 6 HDTV signals into 6mhz I believe. You change the compresion of the the channels depending on their subject. Stuff with fast action gets less compression.
As for the system that gets used it would not suprise me at all if we the American People use the one that doesn't work. I know I sound cynical but look at it, we still use systems of weight and measure that have no reference in reality. An inch used to be 3 grains of barley end to end. Who cares! There is no rhyme or reason.. 12 inches = 1 foot but only 3 feet = 1 yard.... HUH? and why don't we as a NAtion use the metric system? Beacuse "thats whut dem dare europeen freeks use". So if the FCC settles on somthing american that doesn't work as well... dont be suprised!
Imagine if we could do it.
If the following conditions were met:
1. Sufficent Error Correction to over come things like electron tunneling and interference. (10 molecules per bit or whatever).
2. We had a decent way to interface to such memory and avoid interference.
3. It opereated at a speed comperable to current or future silicon RAM.
Then using the space current hard drives take up we could ahve a storage device holding petabytes of memory that is non volatile. Magnetic media becomes virtually useless. 1 Petabyte for nonvolatile storage and 1 petabyte for working space. No mechanical disk subsystem and IO speeds go completely through the roof. I for one would like to see it happen. You could scrub through a huge database with a processor slower that today's and it would still be faster once disk I/O is removed from the equation.
I would only have the following issues which would need to be addressed.
1. Microsoft style programmers could write even sloppier code as memory leaks would become virtually unnoticable unless they were huge.
2. Petabyte sounds like some wierd porkemon (yes thats PORK), character and I despise all these *mons that are coming out. All I hear out of my kids these days I WANT PIKACHEW. Five years from now it will be I WANT THE PETABYTE PIKACHEWBACCA!!
Help me please!!!
In addtition to the "tweaked firmware" this modem probably incorporates a couple more advances: 1. To prevent pauses I would assume that it trys to hold a line speed longer when noise is encountered instead of immeadiately initiating a Retrain. 2. The Error Correction in the hardwaer is probably a little better so that it tries to fall back to software error correction less. The thing is if you play games that require steady connection (IE real time something be it FPS or strategy) you should disable software correction anyway as it increases CPU overhead. Turn based games are obviuosly not as impacted by varying latency. As for 46% better weighted average pings???? HAH what is the weaghting ?? 3com gets an extra 20% wieght because of their brand name?? What marketing fluff. I am beginnig to wonder if mindcraft did the benchmnark. If they did it would have gone something like this:
Well, we set the 3com gaming modem port speed to 155200 and tweaked every available setting and init string. On the other modems we left the port speed set to 38400 as changing port speed was not well documented and reliable technical support was unavailable.
Geez.... you want better pings? Cap your frame rate so your not pushing so mamy packets as in a lot of games the more frames you display the more packets the server sends you steadily choking your phone line especially if you have a voodoo 2 or 3 or some TNT based card and are pushing high frames. 30-40 Frames per second maximum is great for playing.
Second push your ISP or telco to provide DSL or Cable service in your area... Keep pushing and eventaully it will happen......
You would have to use an FPS like half-life with scripted sequences. You get a doctor to follow you and when you kill a process he performs cpr on the carcass. Just like in the beginning of Half-Life where a doc recussetates a barney.
You would want to link 2 together to display on different tv's!!
I for one dont want 4 people dividing up a 19-25 inch TV during a race game.... split it to more TV's and display space is no longer a problem.....
This push for web content on PCS phones, PDA's, winshield holograms... etc is starting to make me sick. When html was developed it was intended as a simple markup language, not an entire document development, management, and display environment. Most websites were designed with simple markup for text browsers or small resolutions like 640*480. As Hardware has progressed, we have seen a shift towrads extremely complex documents that require an average display of 800*600 or larger. To get that kind of content down to a PDA sized display is a daunting if not impossible task unless you want to lose severe amounts of content. With the investment many companies have made into document conversion and content development not to mention database integration (or disentigration if you prefer) and whatnot it seems sad that we should all want to shove that information into a format so incongrous than what it was designed for. Sending short email from a PDA/PCS is a great feature, but do I want to use it to read and sort my daily 50-150 messages? I think not. Do I want to squeeze down my research on E*trade so that it is unreadable and indecipherable? No again. Simple information like a single stock quote or I-95 south in downtown richmond is blocked, or heavy snow this afternoon is usefull but that is about as far as it goes. Why reinvent the wheel. There is an OLD well developed, directory structured protocol perfect for information like this. It's called gopher. Anyone remember it? Any gopher horror stories?
Flame Away!
I still have my 1st edition of dis book and use it often. As the review says it is more encyclopedic than linear which is the way I like to use a book. I generall don't read my new computer books cover to cover. I skim the chapters that hold specific needed knowledge or special interest information for me then sit down with a box and really get my hands dirty. Another good refernce in the linux vein that I like is the Linux Network by Fred Butzen and Christopher Hilton published by IDG. Fairly inexpensive in paperback it lacks alot of meat but covers in varying detail everything from diald to ipchains to sendmail to socks to a litle security. It even has a little samba thrown in for good meauser. It is writen to assist in building a MS intranet with Linux acin as file/print/net access server but is applicable to many different styles of network. It is fairly distributionless in instruction in that it reminds you that what it says is for one distribution and others may vary. it comes with Slackware (my old favorite so that makes me biased) but for a good reference its hard to beat.
The biggest diference between ATA (UDMA) and SCSI is that multiple devices are controlled INDEPENDANTLY!! On an IDE bus you have a controller thane 1 to 2 drives.. the master actually handles part of the controller function. If the master needs to slide the heads ofer to track x the slave follows as soon as its current read is done even if the app pusing it has several reads left to do. Basically the drives run in sync and have to wait for each other to perform operations. SCSI provides an individual chanell for each device allowing them to operate completely seperate. The SCSI bus may have a max bandwidth much like an ethernet line but each device shares that bandwidth without having to wait on any other device.
Its been a long time since I have done ANY SCSI so if I am wron Flame away!!
Wone of the nice things about PCS is that while standard connections are at ~14.4 given the bandwidht restrictions on one voice channel, most phones that carry data (since its all digital) witht the right programming and the right authentication in the network can do whats called a vocoder bypass. This allows you to grab SIGNIFICANTLY more bandwidth. some PCS providers may sell this in the future as they gain more frequency space but for now its mainly used by the big execs and engineers as the more bandwidth any person grabs the less cals that cel site can carry and the smaller its coverage area gets (cel site shrinkage sucks). I have a qualcomm FWT at home (fixed wireless terminal, no handset it generates dialtone for your house fones and woks on pcs) and I also have the software and programming cable for it so if necessary i cna do a vocoder bypas and ists nifty... gotten upto 128k out of it late at nite....
Point taken, but I try not to remember anything Bill gates says, it's like reliving a bad acid trip!!
Oh, here is a URL for the PDQ.... http://www.qualco mm.com/phones/products/pdq_phone/0,1352,,00.html
Left that out of my previous post
I work for a mid-sized regional communications company that offers DSL, cable modem Phone, CATV, CLEC, and PCS services throughet VA and WV. We just started testing and selling the Qualcomm pdQ and althugh its a little bulky, it runs on the Palm III platform with some extras attached. the one I tested did not have a browser of any kind yet but it would let you dial into your personal PC presuming you left your modem on answer (nice security) I did not have the chance to see what type of protocols it used to transfer data that way. It also had a standard POP3/SMTP email program, figures from the makers of Eudora. Still, it worked nicely but I would rather carry a smaller phone and a seperate PDA given the Retail Price of this monster, 800-1000 US Dollars, for basically a Palm III I can get a palm V for just over $400 now, why would I want a palm iii? Still its a good unit and has better sound/recption quality than any other Qualcomm handheld CDMA phone I have used, at least on our PCS network. I have always preferred Motorola's handhelds for more stability and less dropped calls. Plus the Motorola StarTac 925's have a GREAT hidden test facility that shows you receive signal strength in real time as well as the last and current PN (antenna on a cel site) your phone was communicating with. It woud even do 8k and 13k loopback tests and report not only YOUR receive signal strenght but how well the tower was recieving your signal. Nifty little phone :)
Anyway, as disorganized as I am and as little time as i spend at my desk a PDA is a great tool for scheduling and contacts. Merging it with a phone is a good idea for those who want to have less gadgets to break/lose/replace but what hapens when you do lose it or break it? You lose EVERYTHING your schedule, all the phone numbers you cant remember like your wife's, and you can't make a call without a uater (or now a quarter and a dime) and that big account that wanted to call you at the last minute and do lunch with you thinks your ignoring them!