Except...that requires the phone lines to distribute Ethernet to your house. The thing about DSL is that it uses the currently installed lines from the CO to your house, thus not requiring infrastructure upgrades.
Unless of course you meant power the VoIP gateways off of the analog phone line, which is something I've been watching for. And it seems pretty cool.
Maybe it's the lake effect (at least I think that's what it's called). Basically, the lake freezes from the top down. But ice expands when it freezes, so there comes a point where the ice at the top of the lake is too thick, so the water at the bottom can't form into ice as it can't expand.
Or so I recall from a distant high school class...
Ok, I'm a little less than impressed by how it walks. Essentially it's waddling, putting it's center of gravity over one "pad" (or foot), moving the other, and then moving the COG to the other pad. Admittedly, this is a decent hack, and it does work. Since it's clear that this thing likely its tethered to it's controller (be it computer, etc), I wonder if it would be possible to put more servos in controlling the angle of the pad. Then the pad comes down, and the unit senses if it's tipping, and corrects. Kind of like a segway in two dimensions (back-front & left-right). In theory this should produce less waddling, and more realistic walking, right?
Have you checked out the iRiver H series? They are slightly larger than the iPod, have about 16 hours battery life and can load songs via USB mass-storage. Songs loaded this way can only be played via filename until you update the database. I use a program called iHPtool. I leave it on my player's hard drive itself, and after I dump new files, no matter what computer I'm at, I can quickly update my database.
And, it has a built in FM tuner, comes with LCD remote, optical and analog ins and outs, records direct to MP3 or WAV, has Ogg Vorbis support. You can record via analog in, optical in, or built in microphone.
There are a few quirks with some firmware, and navigation isn't as easy as with the iPod. Also, iRiver is super busy writing firmware for a few of their upcoming units, so a firmware update hasn't been released for these units for a little while. You should check out the hilarious disgruntled 14 year olds on the iRiver community forum.
Ok, from my read of the article everything is roughly equally insecure, give or take. Question then becomes, how quickly are these problems responded to. Surely Microsoft as the largest company out there would be the quickest right?
Sure, now all they have to do is release that big list of SSNs and credit card numbers, along with names and expiry dates so I can check if I'm on there.
Maybe if you got one of those really cool Honda Civics...
They gotta make sure your car is up to handling all that super low bass from the techno mp3s you'll load on the iPod. On the upside, maybe instead of installing the super-loud-and-annoying muffler, you can just download an mp3 of one and play it back?
When I see it commercially available at a reasonable price. It seems to me like there have been announcements galore over the past few years about portable fuell cells. I still can't walk into Best Buy and order up an HP pavillion with fuel cell power.
And yes, I know about those Zinc-Air (I think) ones to recharge your cellphone.
I for one am sick of all these subatomic particles breaking the rules. Surely there must be some sort of law to stop these "dirty hippie" (if you will). They're unconstitutional, and against the american way!
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Unless of course you meant power the VoIP gateways off of the analog phone line, which is something I've been watching for. And it seems pretty cool.
Or so I recall from a distant high school class...
And, it has a built in FM tuner, comes with LCD remote, optical and analog ins and outs, records direct to MP3 or WAV, has Ogg Vorbis support. You can record via analog in, optical in, or built in microphone.
There are a few quirks with some firmware, and navigation isn't as easy as with the iPod. Also, iRiver is super busy writing firmware for a few of their upcoming units, so a firmware update hasn't been released for these units for a little while. You should check out the hilarious disgruntled 14 year olds on the iRiver community forum.
Anyway, I made my choice, and I'm happy with it.
right?
And if I am...
They gotta make sure your car is up to handling all that super low bass from the techno mp3s you'll load on the iPod. On the upside, maybe instead of installing the super-loud-and-annoying muffler, you can just download an mp3 of one and play it back?
And yes, I know about those Zinc-Air (I think) ones to recharge your cellphone.
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Ok, sure it works at 30Kph...but that's under 19Mph! Is speeding up like moving farther from your phone company's CO and using DSL? (slower speed)