I believe you mean the 3310. I understand that the 'new' 3310 only supports the 900 & 1800 MHz bands, none of which works in the US. So unfortunately it will be useless for the purpose...
Tried the links -- and the Bing link didn't show the copyright notice anywhere. Then I realized that Bing has identified my country, India. Clicked on that, changed it to United States - English... lo and behold, the copyright notice appeared at the bottom of the page!
Now what's going on?
Well yes!
I drive a manual (a manual transmission is the rule rather than the exception here in India).
If my car did something like this, my instinct would be to hit the CLUTCH!
I am sure the slashdotters have already considered the unique opportunity here...
Get a TV with this feature.
Tune in to a shopping channel, which is all ads all the time
Switch off the mains power to you house,
The TV should continue to run, thanks to this patent
Put a photocell bank in front of the screen...
Free electricity!
Make that 'Get a truck-load of TV-s with this feature', and get Megawatts for free!
Assuming that the law of conservation of energy cannot be violated, where is the energy coming from?
Over the coax & fiber from your cable operator (or specially beamed to your antenna from the TV station or satellite if you have a broadcast TV or DTH) --- that's where from!
This isn't SIP, but it is VoIP all right. This is VoIP for the cell-co's benefit, not (directly) yours.
If you RTFA, you'll find references to UMA. That is 'Unlicensed Mobile Access'.
The idea in UMA is to route your voice calls from the GSM mobile-switch, over the internet, over your WiFi/BlueTooth Access Point, and in to your phone -- when you are within range of any such access point which lets you in.
As compared to GSM/DECT combo solutions, what you get here is the hand-off capability -- you can start a call out on the street corner, where your call is routed over the neighbourhood cell-tower. You continue talking as you walk into your home (or work-place), your phone detects that it can now connect to the Internet over a WiFi/BlueTooth network, and your call gets switched through it -- VoIP packets and all.
The key component here is something called the 'Unlicensed Network Controller' (UNC) that is accessible (securely) to the mobile over the Internet, and 'pretends' to be a base station controller to the mobile switch.
What the cell-cos gain from this -- something that is effectively a pico-cell installed & maintained by you -- meaning less congestion on the licensed frequencies. Also means that you continue to use their service (their SIM card, their phone number) indoors, even where the cellular coverage is iffy.
If we see proliferation of wireline broadband & semi-broadband to homes, by companies that are not traditional tel-cos, this could be a killer advantage for cell-cos someday.
Some market report seems to be quoting a figure of 55 million by 2010, but with a 2+ billion telephones (wireline & cell) today, this could be a serious underestimate.
$35000000 - amount committed to help victims 100000 - conservative death toll = $350 - spent to aid each victim
Its less than that, actually. The 100,000 figure is a predicted death toll --- and no amount of money will help someone who is already dead. You want to be looking out for the those who have been injured and those who have lost their homes -- how many millions of them are out there? Five million? More? That is seven bucks or less per needy head.
But then it seems Mr Bush has said more is to come, let us wait and see.
As an Indian citizen, in the middle of these dark days of our own, I do feel a tiny bit of pride on reading that the Indian government, poor and 'third world' that it is, is providing assistance to Sri Lanka & Maldives while coping with its own disaster at the same time. That is logistical aid as well as money, some USD 20 million to Sri Lanka and USD 1 million to Maldives, see http://us.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/29tax.htm. (a 'crore' is 10 million, and some 45 rupees make a dollar at today's rates).
Yes, I too intend to get out and donate tomorrow. And happily pay the 'Tsunami cess' in my taxes next year. It is our corner of the world, and we are all in it together.
I would guess that American sport following is split between at least Baseball, Football & Basketball. Then, the support & interest is further split between the different teams/clubs that play in the NBA, MLB & NFL.
In India (and also Pakistan & Sri Lanka I guess), the sport following is almost all cricket -- and then the fans are mostly interested only in the national team's performance, in international matches.
This, along with the 1 billion plus population in this part of the world, might go some way towards explaining why this non-American sport makes the top 10...
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I believe you mean the 3310. I understand that the 'new' 3310 only supports the 900 & 1800 MHz bands, none of which works in the US. So unfortunately it will be useless for the purpose...
ITU-R has defined 5G, only they call it IMT-2020. Just like '4G' was actually IMT-Advanced, and '3G' was IMT-2000.
Tried the links -- and the Bing link didn't show the copyright notice anywhere. Then I realized that Bing has identified my country, India. Clicked on that, changed it to United States - English ... lo and behold, the copyright notice appeared at the bottom of the page!
Now what's going on?
Well yes! I drive a manual (a manual transmission is the rule rather than the exception here in India). If my car did something like this, my instinct would be to hit the CLUTCH!
Well, yes, there is a way! Any router can make that decision! I hope you haven't forgotten about RFC 3514?
How does one get to be '2/7 Italian'?
- Get a TV with this feature.
- Tune in to a shopping channel, which is all ads all the time
- Switch off the mains power to you house,
- The TV should continue to run, thanks to this patent
- Put a photocell bank in front of the screen...
- Free electricity!
Make that 'Get a truck-load of TV-s with this feature', and get Megawatts for free!Assuming that the law of conservation of energy cannot be violated, where is the energy coming from?
Over the coax & fiber from your cable operator (or specially beamed to your antenna from the TV station or satellite if you have a broadcast TV or DTH) --- that's where from!
W00t!
Below the box I got a checkbox 'Only from Australia' (it got redirected to http://search.ninemsn.com.au apparently)
Only problem -- I'm located in India...
If you RTFA, you'll find references to UMA. That is 'Unlicensed Mobile Access'.
The idea in UMA is to route your voice calls from the GSM mobile-switch, over the internet, over your WiFi/BlueTooth Access Point, and in to your phone -- when you are within range of any such access point which lets you in.
As compared to GSM/DECT combo solutions, what you get here is the hand-off capability -- you can start a call out on the street corner, where your call is routed over the neighbourhood cell-tower. You continue talking as you walk into your home (or work-place), your phone detects that it can now connect to the Internet over a WiFi/BlueTooth network, and your call gets switched through it -- VoIP packets and all.
The key component here is something called the 'Unlicensed Network Controller' (UNC) that is accessible (securely) to the mobile over the Internet, and 'pretends' to be a base station controller to the mobile switch.
What the cell-cos gain from this -- something that is effectively a pico-cell installed & maintained by you -- meaning less congestion on the licensed frequencies. Also means that you continue to use their service (their SIM card, their phone number) indoors, even where the cellular coverage is iffy.
If we see proliferation of wireline broadband & semi-broadband to homes, by companies that are not traditional tel-cos, this could be a killer advantage for cell-cos someday.
Some market report seems to be quoting a figure of 55 million by 2010, but with a 2+ billion telephones (wireline & cell) today, this could be a serious underestimate.
But then it seems Mr Bush has said more is to come, let us wait and see.
As an Indian citizen, in the middle of these dark days of our own, I do feel a tiny bit of pride on reading that the Indian government, poor and 'third world' that it is, is providing assistance to Sri Lanka & Maldives while coping with its own disaster at the same time. That is logistical aid as well as money, some USD 20 million to Sri Lanka and USD 1 million to Maldives, see http://us.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/29tax.htm. (a 'crore' is 10 million, and some 45 rupees make a dollar at today's rates).
Yes, I too intend to get out and donate tomorrow. And happily pay the 'Tsunami cess' in my taxes next year. It is our corner of the world, and we are all in it together.
Do check http://cricket.org/ though --- a.k.a. http://www.cricinfo.com/
I would guess that American sport following is split between at least Baseball, Football & Basketball. Then, the support & interest is further split between the different teams/clubs that play in the NBA, MLB & NFL.
In India (and also Pakistan & Sri Lanka I guess), the sport following is almost all cricket -- and then the fans are mostly interested only in the national team's performance, in international matches.
This, along with the 1 billion plus population in this part of the world, might go some way towards explaining why this non-American sport makes the top 10...