Depending on how far you are from a more convenient location that CAN get cable/ADSL/whatever, how about a microwave link between your house and that location?
No idea about cost, practicality, bylaws, etc., but it's an idea.
Of course, you'll need line of sight, which will mean you need a tower (based on your comments about satellite), so maybe you just need a tower for a satellite dish. Bylaws again....
You're a hospital network admin, for Christ sake, this is in the National Interest!
Oh just brillllllliant! Now how the fark are they gonna fry them? Thank-you, Mr Genius Scientist, but I prefer to eat mine cooked, not frozen, you MORON!
"...dispensing pain than you or I will ever know."
Ok, I rate this comment because it mentions Endo and Endo is cool.
However, You've given the Greek meaning of "meta". The Geek meaning is an extension (a "metameta" if you will...) of this, meaning "based on", "connected to" or "extension of".
None of which matters because "metaverse" was coined by a novelist. Fiction writers use what's called "poetic license" so the invented word or phrase cannot be judged against the same rules to which "science" (bwahahaha) is allegedly held.
In any case, command of language does not appear to have much relevence, be it a metaword, a metaverse or an entire damn metainterview....
Ergo, IBM is developing a badly-written piece of fiction, not science, to be picked up in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to find some holiday reading at an airport bookstore?
No, you're not being stupid. Their marketeers are. I can imagine the MIBP (Men In Black Polonecks) thinking, "Oh what a simply brilliant device! We'll just casually throw in the fact that it's nigh on useless!"
I can imagine the target audience thinking, "Oh what a simply brilliant device! I think I'll run out and drop some big bucks on a Walkman Phone and then not use it as a phone cuz it kills the battery. Brilliant!!"
Why oh why do companies do this? Nokia has been leading the pack lately in too big, too lame, too late. Now Son of Eric comes out with what looks like a piece of killer kit only it ain't. Wait for the beautifully-designed portable nuclear power pack to give your MP3s a half-life of 20,000 years.
Then again, I haven't researched the veracity of claims about the battery life. Notice nothing in the specs about the battery.
Nice to see big corporate like this using phrases like, "comes with CD ripping software" in their marketing material tho...
My memory on some of this is a bit rusty, and maybe I never knew what I was talking about in the first place but it's easier to post than research so....
Early on, the Germans - originators of the modern high-speed road network - learned that drivers get "hypnotised" on long, straight stretches of road so they began to design the autobahn with plenty of sweeping curves and gradients. The topography of much of the countryside helps with this, too.
The US Interstates were built much faster and cheaper, and they have to cross far greater distances than does the autobahn. In the frenzy of "progress", as the American highway network effectively kicked-off the automotive equivalent of what railways had originally done for US economic expansion, efficiency was king (or president, whatever). As a result, the interstates, as much as possible, were built straight.
This has all sorts of knock-on effects. For example, the lack of challenging roads and the need to cross thousands of miles in comfort (at silly slow speeds) led to big, soft, bargemobiles. The Germans are known for building the world's most effective, high-speed, sporting saloons (sedans) because they need them. But don't worry, they're not any smarter than drivers anywhere else. They still manage the kind of suicidal, high-speed tailgating that results in pile-ups of dozens of vehicles.
Unfortunately, the roads and accompanying laws, were designed way back when cars were, frankly, pretty crap. Weak brakes and deadly handling meant that they couldn't exploit these long, flat straight roads to their fullest.
Over the ensuing decades, and especially over the last ten to fifteen years, automotive design has developed to an amazing degree, as has tire technology. If you really know driving, you know that the tire contact patch is your ultimate connection with destiny, so to speak, so improvements in tire technology are quite important.
Road-building technology has also improved in wonderful ways so we can now enjoy road surfaces that are smoother, quieter, stickier AND that do a better job of reducing standing water.
The modern car (and many trucks, for that matter) is an amazing thing. It is faster, safer, quieter, easier, cleaner and cheaper than ever before. In fact, you could argue that it's no longer possible to buy a truly bad new car. Some ain't so hot but they're not bad cars. Not the way we knew them in the '60s, '70s and '80s, that's for sure.
Possibly the only thing that's worse now is the level of road noise as wide, sticky, low-profile tires have grown in popularity and the cars can cruise at higher speeds, the noise generated by the tires on the road is probably higher.
All of this means that, in most parts of the world, the road laws have not kept up with automotive technology and, frankly, we fall asleep at 55mph. The fact is that the 55mph limit was not introduced as a safety measure. So many people, and organisations, go on and on about how we can't raise the US national speed limit because it's safer at 55. The 55mph limit was introduced to reduce fuel consumption during the oil crisis in 1974. It had nothing to do with safety and everything to do with reducing America's ability to be held to ransom by the oil-producing middle-eastern nations.
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What did I miss? How is this 'a new way'?
gosh...
$ sudo /etc/init.d/audio --stupid stop
if that doesn't work...
$ su
# kill -9 987471
"Florida: proving Darwin wrong"
Depending on how far you are from a more convenient location that CAN get cable/ADSL/whatever, how about a microwave link between your house and that location? No idea about cost, practicality, bylaws, etc., but it's an idea. Of course, you'll need line of sight, which will mean you need a tower (based on your comments about satellite), so maybe you just need a tower for a satellite dish. Bylaws again.... You're a hospital network admin, for Christ sake, this is in the National Interest!
Oh just brillllllliant! Now how the fark are they gonna fry them? Thank-you, Mr Genius Scientist, but I prefer to eat mine cooked, not frozen, you MORON!
Ok, I rate this comment because it mentions Endo and Endo is cool.
However, You've given the Greek meaning of "meta". The Geek meaning is an extension (a "metameta" if you will...) of this, meaning "based on", "connected to" or "extension of".
None of which matters because "metaverse" was coined by a novelist. Fiction writers use what's called "poetic license" so the invented word or phrase cannot be judged against the same rules to which "science" (bwahahaha) is allegedly held.
In any case, command of language does not appear to have much relevence, be it a metaword, a metaverse or an entire damn metainterview....
Ergo, IBM is developing a badly-written piece of fiction, not science, to be picked up in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to find some holiday reading at an airport bookstore?
Any prizes for jokes about Big and Blue?"
NSA is responsible for SIGINT. The CIA and its various co-opted agents (Special Forces, other elite forces, etc) are responsible for issuing the kill -9 commands, as well as a certain amount of SIGUNINT, it would appear....
No, you're not being stupid. Their marketeers are. I can imagine the MIBP (Men In Black Polonecks) thinking, "Oh what a simply brilliant device! We'll just casually throw in the fact that it's nigh on useless!"
I can imagine the target audience thinking, "Oh what a simply brilliant device! I think I'll run out and drop some big bucks on a Walkman Phone and then not use it as a phone cuz it kills the battery. Brilliant!!"
Why oh why do companies do this? Nokia has been leading the pack lately in too big, too lame, too late. Now Son of Eric comes out with what looks like a piece of killer kit only it ain't. Wait for the beautifully-designed portable nuclear power pack to give your MP3s a half-life of 20,000 years.
Then again, I haven't researched the veracity of claims about the battery life. Notice nothing in the specs about the battery.
Nice to see big corporate like this using phrases like, " comes with CD ripping software " in their marketing material tho...
My memory on some of this is a bit rusty, and maybe I never knew what I was talking about in the first place but it's easier to post than research so....
Early on, the Germans - originators of the modern high-speed road network - learned that drivers get "hypnotised" on long, straight stretches of road so they began to design the autobahn with plenty of sweeping curves and gradients. The topography of much of the countryside helps with this, too.
The US Interstates were built much faster and cheaper, and they have to cross far greater distances than does the autobahn. In the frenzy of "progress", as the American highway network effectively kicked-off the automotive equivalent of what railways had originally done for US economic expansion, efficiency was king (or president, whatever). As a result, the interstates, as much as possible, were built straight.
This has all sorts of knock-on effects. For example, the lack of challenging roads and the need to cross thousands of miles in comfort (at silly slow speeds) led to big, soft, bargemobiles. The Germans are known for building the world's most effective, high-speed, sporting saloons (sedans) because they need them. But don't worry, they're not any smarter than drivers anywhere else. They still manage the kind of suicidal, high-speed tailgating that results in pile-ups of dozens of vehicles.
Unfortunately, the roads and accompanying laws, were designed way back when cars were, frankly, pretty crap. Weak brakes and deadly handling meant that they couldn't exploit these long, flat straight roads to their fullest.
Over the ensuing decades, and especially over the last ten to fifteen years, automotive design has developed to an amazing degree, as has tire technology. If you really know driving, you know that the tire contact patch is your ultimate connection with destiny, so to speak, so improvements in tire technology are quite important.
Road-building technology has also improved in wonderful ways so we can now enjoy road surfaces that are smoother, quieter, stickier AND that do a better job of reducing standing water.
The modern car (and many trucks, for that matter) is an amazing thing. It is faster, safer, quieter, easier, cleaner and cheaper than ever before. In fact, you could argue that it's no longer possible to buy a truly bad new car. Some ain't so hot but they're not bad cars. Not the way we knew them in the '60s, '70s and '80s, that's for sure.
Possibly the only thing that's worse now is the level of road noise as wide, sticky, low-profile tires have grown in popularity and the cars can cruise at higher speeds, the noise generated by the tires on the road is probably higher.
All of this means that, in most parts of the world, the road laws have not kept up with automotive technology and, frankly, we fall asleep at 55mph. The fact is that the 55mph limit was not introduced as a safety measure. So many people, and organisations, go on and on about how we can't raise the US national speed limit because it's safer at 55. The 55mph limit was introduced to reduce fuel consumption during the oil crisis in 1974. It had nothing to do with safety and everything to do with reducing America's ability to be held to ransom by the oil-producing middle-eastern nations.