With faster download speeds and greater bandwidth streaming video is an option-- no need for huge amounts of storage past room for a decent sized buffer.
Agreed. Not only is low-latency a problem, but not crashing your seed when one million people try to start watching a feed all within a few seconds is probably a problem. Not to mention if you want HD, too!
Makes me think of the really cool Boards of Canada video for their song Dayvan Cowboy. The video starts from high in the atmosphere and then down into the water and waves.
This just reminds me of how Valve moved Counterstrike to Steam and required us to register with the CD Keys. Unfortunately, their CD keys were not unique and if someone registered with your CD key before you then you were out of luck!
To hell with them.
Corporations don't pay taxes. People pay taxes. Taxes are just another cost that gets passed on to the consumer. I would recommend people look into the FairTax which would make it much clearer what and when we all pay taxes in the U.S. Plus, removing the inefficiency of embedded taxes in products of these companies would make them that much more competitive against overseas competition here and abroad. Not to mention numerous other benefits....
More at http://fairtax.org/
I got this about a month ago and in less than a week it was freezing 2-3 times a day. I suspected Norton or some of the other installed software. Well, I uninstalled Norton. Still freezing up. Tried to uninstall as much of the built-in tools/security software I could, but still froze. Alas, I put in for a new laptop and got a MacBook Pro instead. I'm a PC guy in a mac world now, but it feels better than the Lenovo Thinkpad did.
I learned on the HC11 and found it to be a good introduction into the world of microcontrollers. I've since been able to pickup and understand other procs like the Coldfire, PIC, OOPic and architectures like RISC with the foundation the HC11 gave me. It seems it was small enough to really learn inside and out, but complex enough to allow you to do all sorts of experimentation. Using pure assembly and then in later projects C, which was compiled down into Motorola assembly, it was possible to create programs do everything from just blinking an LED to running your own preemptive scheduler / mini embedded operating system.
Q: Are there any restrictions on what I can build? A: We tried to make the Open AIM Program as restriction-free as possible, but in order to help protect our network and users, certain rules apply. We have highlighted some below, but please refer to the Developers License Agreement for details.
* Developers are not permitted to build Custom Clients that are multi-headed or interoperable with any other IM network.
* Custom Clients developed for use on a mobile device or via a wireless telecommunications carrier's network and/or wireless services require separate licensing and business agreements with AOL. Any inquiries regarding mobile applications should be sent to AIMCommercial@aol.com.
* Custom Clients designed for sale to a corporate customer base or to serve a corporate employee base require separate licensing and business agreements with AOL. Any inquiries regarding enterprise use should be sent to AIMCommercial@aol.com.
I work for a corporation that uses a satellite for data communications.
As of five minutes ago, I did a ping test from my computer on our WAN, through the AMERICOM-4 satellite, to a location connected to a VSAT dish.
PING RESULTS:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1412ms
Maximum = 2013ms
Average = 1682ms
Looking further into it using a tracert, I have the following results (IPs/Hosts removed):
(less than signs should be infront of each 10 ms entry)
1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
6 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
7 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms Sat Hub
8 1482 ms 1392 ms 1442 ms VSAT Host
As you can see from the numbers above the ping times would be like 1.5 seconds!!
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Of course it is.
With faster download speeds and greater bandwidth streaming video is an option-- no need for huge amounts of storage past room for a decent sized buffer.
Pay attention to the end of that paragraph: "except as authorized under regulations made pursuant to law". It's public commons. It's authorized.
Agreed. Not only is low-latency a problem, but not crashing your seed when one million people try to start watching a feed all within a few seconds is probably a problem. Not to mention if you want HD, too!
Makes me think of the really cool Boards of Canada video for their song Dayvan Cowboy. The video starts from high in the atmosphere and then down into the water and waves.
This just reminds me of how Valve moved Counterstrike to Steam and required us to register with the CD Keys. Unfortunately, their CD keys were not unique and if someone registered with your CD key before you then you were out of luck! To hell with them.
Corporations don't pay taxes. People pay taxes. Taxes are just another cost that gets passed on to the consumer. I would recommend people look into the FairTax which would make it much clearer what and when we all pay taxes in the U.S. Plus, removing the inefficiency of embedded taxes in products of these companies would make them that much more competitive against overseas competition here and abroad. Not to mention numerous other benefits.... More at http://fairtax.org/
I got this about a month ago and in less than a week it was freezing 2-3 times a day. I suspected Norton or some of the other installed software. Well, I uninstalled Norton. Still freezing up. Tried to uninstall as much of the built-in tools/security software I could, but still froze. Alas, I put in for a new laptop and got a MacBook Pro instead. I'm a PC guy in a mac world now, but it feels better than the Lenovo Thinkpad did.
I learned on the HC11 and found it to be a good introduction into the world of microcontrollers. I've since been able to pickup and understand other procs like the Coldfire, PIC, OOPic and architectures like RISC with the foundation the HC11 gave me. It seems it was small enough to really learn inside and out, but complex enough to allow you to do all sorts of experimentation. Using pure assembly and then in later projects C, which was compiled down into Motorola assembly, it was possible to create programs do everything from just blinking an LED to running your own preemptive scheduler / mini embedded operating system.
No wonder why our students fall further and further behind in math and science everyday.
I'll happily keep to XMPP and programs like Trillian.
From AIM's FAQ:
Q: Are there any restrictions on what I can build?
A: We tried to make the Open AIM Program as restriction-free as possible, but in order to help protect our network and users, certain rules apply. We have highlighted some below, but please refer to the Developers License Agreement for details.
* Developers are not permitted to build Custom Clients that are multi-headed or interoperable with any other IM network.
* Custom Clients developed for use on a mobile device or via a wireless telecommunications carrier's network and/or wireless services require separate licensing and business agreements with AOL. Any inquiries regarding mobile applications should be sent to AIMCommercial@aol.com.
* Custom Clients designed for sale to a corporate customer base or to serve a corporate employee base require separate licensing and business agreements with AOL. Any inquiries regarding enterprise use should be sent to AIMCommercial@aol.com.
Did the DSL shaking-out period ever end!?
Count me in... it took me so long to find him in all those other Waldo's on the last page of that one book!
WTF does this have to do with satellites???
lol. Actually, Valve/Vivendi stopped me from playing Counter-strike by moving to Steam and double-printing CD Keys. Such a rip-off...
I work for a corporation that uses a satellite for data communications.
As of five minutes ago, I did a ping test from my computer on our WAN, through the AMERICOM-4 satellite, to a location connected to a VSAT dish.
PING RESULTS:
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1412ms
Maximum = 2013ms
Average = 1682ms
Looking further into it using a tracert, I have the following results (IPs/Hosts removed):
(less than signs should be infront of each 10 ms entry)
1 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
2 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
3 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
4 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
6 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms LAN/WAN
7 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms Sat Hub
8 1482 ms 1392 ms 1442 ms VSAT Host
As you can see from the numbers above the ping times would be like 1.5 seconds!!