Fortunately most people in the community are not dead inside like yourself. It would indeed be despiriting if that was the case. When I go to a party I may not help with the cooking, I tend to avoid doing the clearing up, but at least I pitch in a generous amount of drinks. That's my contribution. Someone else who can't afford to buy drinks but is a great cook can make just as valuable contribution. It wouldn't be much of a party if everyone just turned up empty handed, tried to raid the house owners private wine collection, and then made off with the furniture.
Contrary to current belief, a company does not just have to be about making as much profit as possible. If an Open Source company can stay afloat then it's a success. The employees get to do something they really enjoy and believe in, and the user base gets far more time put into the software they want to use. And don't suggest that by just staying afloat it's not going anywhere. A great legacy of code being built up. I hope plenty of users contribute to keep Mandrake's run going. It's by far the best distro imho.
First, by discouraging entry into the software market, the GPL reduces the number of competitors. This means less consumer choice, not more.
If 'professional' software is not worth the extra pennies over something someone knocked up in his spare time then that software deserved to die. Raising the bar forces software companies to offer value for money. Personally I think you are fundamentally wrong. With closed source software each competitor is forced to reinvent the wheel. GPL software enables people to build upon the work of others. I think a quick trip to Freshmeat will show ample choice in GPL software.
When GPL software dominates a market, we are left with low-quality free packages on one end and expensive "industry standard" or "specialized" software on the other.
Like Apache in the web server market? Or MySQL/Postgres in the DB market? Sorry but you're wrong. The middle ground may get squeezed but the services area expands. Take the market for PHP programmers as an example. I've even seen jobs to write PHPNuke add-ons.
The other problem is that when GPL projects fail to keep pace with technology, there is the danger that people will make arguments that the government needs to step in and take over the project.
With GPL you cannot "take over" a project as it belongs to no-one.
Already, there are too many government workers writing software who should instead be using a diverse array of packages from different vendors, linked together by open standards
Without any figures to back this up I won't believe you. Every government project I've heard of outsources the programming.
Perens is right in the short-run: Socialism always does well in the beginning because it lives off the fat of the land that has been stored up. In the long-run though, it drags the economy down.
Drags the economy down? If it creates an expansion in services at the expense of shrink-wrap software, it's my guess that it will generate more wealth than drag the economy down.
I agree that the 320x240 camera is very poor. Even the next Nokia mobile phone has 640x480 cam built in, as does the Sony/Ericsson T68i just released (though the cam is a plug-on). What on earth were Sony thinking?
Who modded the above up informative? Can we please add "SPOILER" in title or mod it down again. I didn't want to know already that "Amidala cuts out and leaves with Anakin", even if you though it was obvious.
Read a couple of reviews before you go and see it. As for being too young to have seen the originals on the big screen, you obviously didn't have a cool cinema near you. They played all the original three on the big screen in my local before SW PM came out, back to back AFAICR. Thrilling experience. All the more come down when I then watched the 4th:-(
I'm definately going to be more wary before paying to watch the next. The original Star Wars definately have to be watched on the big screen to be appreciated though.
If you want stability, you've got to also have respect, moral legitimacy, and good will. Otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life in the equivalent of an armed camp.
Moral legitimacy? Why do I feel a chill whenever I hear an American use that these days?
Fortunately this covers over 99.9% of the world's population.
Come to think of it, didn't the Bin Laden video show him laughing at the fact a number of the Sept 11 bombers didn't know it wasn't going to be a suicide mission? Most terrorists don't want to die. The crazy people we have here are the IRA, total screw-ups, and even they don't do suicide missions. They just leave (American funded) bombs to kill people in the street. Though they have been known to blow themselves up on the bus with poorly contructed bombs (and never was a death more deserved).
As mentioned many other posts, a terrorist group isn't going to be successful if no country dares to support it. Without America funding the terrorist group many British women and children wouldn't be maimed or dead today.
The US has been using Echelon to conduct economic warfare against the EU, and the Swedish government weren't too happy when Novell sold them a 'secure encryption' system for confidential use within their government only to find 40-bits out of each 80-bit key escrowed with the NSA. We all know about Microsoft collaboration. The attacks on the EU haven't just hit home in Germany and Sweden but also many other EU countries. France, upon the evidence presented to them on Echelon, did a 180-degree turn on their encryption policy and went from a ban on all encryption to an immediate allowance of strong encryption for anyone for any use. I think we may well see a government push towards open source in the EU except for the UK. The UK hosts many of the spy stations used against our EU neighbours, and in return the USA throws us a few intelligence scraps when they feel like it.
Back on topic, it's interesting to see Bush throwing up the threat of foriegn nuclear weapons as the next excuse to distract attention from his domestic failure. Does he think his pathetic scare stories will drag us back to our Cold War paranoia? Will we then give him a free hand to attack the first on his long list of peeves, Iraq?
And finally can people please stop referring to Pakinstan as a "nuclear superpower" unless they provide evidence the rest of us don't know about. The last report on Pakistan nuclear testing I saw said that their "nuclear bomb" test was the equivalent destructive power of a large lump of TNT and seismologist have shown their tests yielded nothing like their government claims.
Er, not my take on it. It was a dollop of common-sense wrapped in trendy packaging. The reason it spread is because at the time common-sense was in short supply. It tried to shake corporations out of the "build it and they will come" attitude, that with the speed information spreads on the net they can't get away with brochureware as a smokescreen because no-one will know any better. If you read it you'll find a lot of it still applicable today. In fact, most of it is not about "current business practices and processes", it's about having decent customer service.
There have been a number of times when I could have done with an open relay. Times when POP was ok on an account but SMTP had problems. I think having well publicised open relays is good for the community... if we can keep bulk emails off.
Hence restricting volume, as suggested above, is a good idea. If he isn't just too lazy to do POP before SMTP authenticate and it's a freedom of speech thing then he should hack the relay to allow 100 emails/day from one IP. That's an awful lot of speech to have free and should help those being held hostage by their email providers problems whilst stopping spam.
I remember when I was in the office at Acorn Computers chatting to a guy called Dave Walker. Someone walked up to his desk, plonked down an Acorn PC and said it wasn't working. He plugged it in and watched it for a moment (just the box, no monitor was plugged in). After a few seconds he pulled the top off, pushed in a certain chip (loose memory or something), put the lid on and booted... this time the PC whirred into life properly. When I asked him how he did that magic trick, he told me that when there is an error the floppy drive light blinks it out in morse code. I'd had one of these machines for years and had never known that was staring me in the face!
"We'll need to find a storage medium that can be decoded by the one engine that will not fade for a long time; The Human Brain.
Can you imagine spell-checking your document only for the computer to stop at a word and bring up a box saying, "Oh I know this one... it's on the tip of my tongue... no, don't tell me..."
Seriously though, as long as the media doesn't deteriorate we can always reverse-engineer to get the data back if it's really important.
There are two things that keep a windows partition on my machine: Games and the ability to open word/excel/matlab documents distributed by professors and project groups.
Yes, Counterstrike keeps Windows on my box (my friend plays Counterstrike on his Linux box but getting it going with WINE sounded a lot of effort). However I would be interested to learn how easy and reliable the Crossover plugin is for reading Word and Excel documents? Experiences anyone?
Sorry but the beauty of ROX isn't just that it beats every other Filer hands-down in terms of speed. It's (a) its efficient use of screen-estate (which you can NEVER get enough of) and (b) the innovative use of the AppDir meaning all of an applications files are in one directory. No package management any more. Delete directory and delete entirety of application. Something a decade old for Acorn users but revolutionary in the Linux world.
People aren't going to use their cars less, they will simply complain more about the already massive amount of "stealth taxes" which allow the Government to screw the British citizens left right and centre whilst still claiming they are reducing some of the headline taxes such as income tax. In fact, the only people untouched are the wealthy driving big gaz guzzling cars who won't care a jot how much they are charged.
It's PHP and not Apache that is the bottleneck here. For instance, I am writing a PHP extension that not only makes reading and writing XML files a doddle (eg to change (hypothetical) Apache xml config: xml_load("httpd.conf); xml_setelement("server.listen.ip", "127.0.0.1"); xml_output("httpd.conf");) but it will cache the XML files too. This means I can load config files at the start of my script with nearly no overhead. It's also going to drop the database load for an online book retailer client of mine to near zero, but that's another story... If anyone is interested in this please use ptemple[at]progressivepublishing.com instead of my Slashdot-reg Hotmail address.
It's a magnificent idea...unless you have to carry something bigger than a pen.
Um, didn't you read that it's been designed to cope with postmen with large mail bags and military with their packs?
It's a tremendous idea...unless you live somewhere where there is WEATHER.
Which applies to the bicycle, roller-blades, motorbike,...
Sure, I'm going to ride the segway my 46-mile one way trip to work, in Minnesota, in any month besides July or August
For a start it will only travel 17 miles on one charge (for now). But you really are closed minded. Your journey is really a minority one. A large amount of commuters live in cities within close range of their work. The Segway makes a refreshing alternative to being packed in a subway or sitting in a traffic jam breathing in the toxic fumes of the car in front. Secondly it's a solution to "the last mile" that makes public transport so inconvenient. Hop on your segway to the train station, drive on to the 'segway carriage', relax in a seat, then zoom off at the station to work. Hopefully it will also even out house prices which tend to be disproportionately priced as to how far from a station you are (at least in the UK).
This is one area where the ROX Filer really scores, and why I don't like Nautilus, etc. It means you can leave several Filer windows littered around your desktop without getting in the way too much. This makes drag and drop saving an instant affair instead of that awful file chooser you have to negotiate EVERY single time you want to save a file. The other great thing is that it's so productive when you know how to use it. Eg generally right button does reverse of left button so you can scroll up and down using one scroll button without moving the mouse.
Unfortunately if power is cut to the 'security guard' software, with current technology the data is irretrievable (unlike hard drive technology). Experience indicates that the two systems complement each other quite well.
I thought I'd wrap up a number of points in one post rather than make several replies:
"Also, if I'm staying in a hotel, charging my batteries is free."
It's not free, the hotels expect you to do it and build it into the cost. If methanol becomes popular with travellers, the hotel will pop down to the hardware store, buy a couple of gallons of methanol, and offer that free on tap to guests too.
"This will become even worse if cells arrive that run off of pure hydrogen-PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cells that run on hydrogen"
All PEM fuel cells run on hydrogen. Methanol based fuel cells simply break down the methanol into hydrogen and its constituent parts before it hits the PEM.
"However, if the methanol charges for the fuel cells are not rechargeable themselves, we will be adding a MORE exhaust to the environment, in the form of the disposed charger."
You don't recharge a methanol cell, you just squirt in more methanol to replace what has been used up.
"Ok, fine methanol works as a safe hydrogen storage method, but I was under the impression that fuel cells use hydrogen AND oxygen to create electricity and as a byproduct create H2O. Where does the water go?"
Methanol is 50% oxygen, 37.5% carbon and 12.5% hydrogen. So yes water will be produced and there must be some drainage tap (so you will have to take your laptop for a pee on the plane). There will also be carbon deposits you will have to dispose of. I wonder also how often the PEM has to be changed, as carbon will clog it up if not effectively filtered out.
There are plenty of fuel cell articles at Future Energies, including how a fuel cell is heating my local swimming pool! Check it out.
I agree, it's a silly sounding name and probably raised the eyebrows of the boss of the BBC engineer that asked permission to stream it. Fortunately he had his boss well training, but I would certainly hesitate to recommend it to my boss for streaming. It sounds niche.
I've asked before and I'll ask again: why not call it "mp5" and encourage people to 'upgrade'? After all, Thompsons got away with MP3 Pro.
* tech support - it makes life a lot easier if a user quotes a distro number, which can then instantly correlate to a list of known problems. This can cut out a number of problems before resorting to finding out upgraded package versions etc.
* keeping mirrors up to date - it would be a real pain if you downloaded 600MB of Mandrake and found it was so old that the update had to download approximately the same amount again
* marketing - selling new versions keeps Mandrake in business. Windows98 didn't launch with the marketing slogan "Pick up a 2nd hand Win95 and do a Windows Update":-)
Last time I looked at Time Domain and did a little background reading I became *very* skeptical of them. I later spoke to someone high up in the Radio Agency (the people who approve/disapprove the use of radio spectrum in the UK) and he told me he had investigated them and hell would freeze over before they were allowed to operate over here. I think it will be an interesting proof of concept for the forseeable future.
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Fortunately most people in the community are not dead inside like yourself. It would indeed be despiriting if that was the case. When I go to a party I may not help with the cooking, I tend to avoid doing the clearing up, but at least I pitch in a generous amount of drinks. That's my contribution. Someone else who can't afford to buy drinks but is a great cook can make just as valuable contribution. It wouldn't be much of a party if everyone just turned up empty handed, tried to raid the house owners private wine collection, and then made off with the furniture.
Contrary to current belief, a company does not just have to be about making as much profit as possible. If an Open Source company can stay afloat then it's a success. The employees get to do something they really enjoy and believe in, and the user base gets far more time put into the software they want to use. And don't suggest that by just staying afloat it's not going anywhere. A great legacy of code being built up. I hope plenty of users contribute to keep Mandrake's run going. It's by far the best distro imho.
Phillip.
First, by discouraging entry into the software market, the GPL reduces the number of competitors. This means less consumer choice, not more.
If 'professional' software is not worth the extra pennies over something someone knocked up in his spare time then that software deserved to die. Raising the bar forces software companies to offer value for money. Personally I think you are fundamentally wrong. With closed source software each competitor is forced to reinvent the wheel. GPL software enables people to build upon the work of others. I think a quick trip to Freshmeat will show ample choice in GPL software.
When GPL software dominates a market, we are left with low-quality free packages on one end and expensive "industry standard" or "specialized" software on the other.
Like Apache in the web server market? Or MySQL/Postgres in the DB market? Sorry but you're wrong. The middle ground may get squeezed but the services area expands. Take the market for PHP programmers as an example. I've even seen jobs to write PHPNuke add-ons.
The other problem is that when GPL projects fail to keep pace with technology, there is the danger that people will make arguments that the government needs to step in and take over the project.
With GPL you cannot "take over" a project as it belongs to no-one.
Already, there are too many government workers writing software who should instead be using a diverse array of packages from different vendors, linked together by open standards
Without any figures to back this up I won't believe you. Every government project I've heard of outsources the programming.
Perens is right in the short-run: Socialism always does well in the beginning because it lives off the fat of the land that has been stored up. In the long-run though, it drags the economy down.
Drags the economy down? If it creates an expansion in services at the expense of shrink-wrap software, it's my guess that it will generate more wealth than drag the economy down.
Phillip.
I agree that the 320x240 camera is very poor. Even the next Nokia mobile phone has 640x480 cam built in, as does the Sony/Ericsson T68i just released (though the cam is a plug-on). What on earth were Sony thinking?
Phillip.
Who modded the above up informative? Can we please add "SPOILER" in title or mod it down again. I didn't want to know already that "Amidala cuts out and leaves with Anakin", even if you though it was obvious.
Phillip.
Read a couple of reviews before you go and see it. As for being too young to have seen the originals on the big screen, you obviously didn't have a cool cinema near you. They played all the original three on the big screen in my local before SW PM came out, back to back AFAICR. Thrilling experience. All the more come down when I then watched the 4th :-(
I'm definately going to be more wary before paying to watch the next. The original Star Wars definately have to be watched on the big screen to be appreciated though.
Phillip.
If you want stability, you've got to also have respect, moral legitimacy, and good will. Otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life in the equivalent of an armed camp.
Moral legitimacy? Why do I feel a chill whenever I hear an American use that these days?
Phillip.
Fortunately this covers over 99.9% of the world's population.
Come to think of it, didn't the Bin Laden video show him laughing at the fact a number of the Sept 11 bombers didn't know it wasn't going to be a suicide mission? Most terrorists don't want to die. The crazy people we have here are the IRA, total screw-ups, and even they don't do suicide missions. They just leave (American funded) bombs to kill people in the street. Though they have been known to blow themselves up on the bus with poorly contructed bombs (and never was a death more deserved).
As mentioned many other posts, a terrorist group isn't going to be successful if no country dares to support it. Without America funding the terrorist group many British women and children wouldn't be maimed or dead today.
Phillip.
The US has been using Echelon to conduct economic warfare against the EU, and the Swedish government weren't too happy when Novell sold them a 'secure encryption' system for confidential use within their government only to find 40-bits out of each 80-bit key escrowed with the NSA. We all know about Microsoft collaboration. The attacks on the EU haven't just hit home in Germany and Sweden but also many other EU countries. France, upon the evidence presented to them on Echelon, did a 180-degree turn on their encryption policy and went from a ban on all encryption to an immediate allowance of strong encryption for anyone for any use. I think we may well see a government push towards open source in the EU except for the UK. The UK hosts many of the spy stations used against our EU neighbours, and in return the USA throws us a few intelligence scraps when they feel like it.
Back on topic, it's interesting to see Bush throwing up the threat of foriegn nuclear weapons as the next excuse to distract attention from his domestic failure. Does he think his pathetic scare stories will drag us back to our Cold War paranoia? Will we then give him a free hand to attack the first on his long list of peeves, Iraq?
And finally can people please stop referring to Pakinstan as a "nuclear superpower" unless they provide evidence the rest of us don't know about. The last report on Pakistan nuclear testing I saw said that their "nuclear bomb" test was the equivalent destructive power of a large lump of TNT and seismologist have shown their tests yielded nothing like their government claims.
Phillip.
Er, not my take on it. It was a dollop of common-sense wrapped in trendy packaging. The reason it spread is because at the time common-sense was in short supply. It tried to shake corporations out of the "build it and they will come" attitude, that with the speed information spreads on the net they can't get away with brochureware as a smokescreen because no-one will know any better. If you read it you'll find a lot of it still applicable today. In fact, most of it is not about "current business practices and processes", it's about having decent customer service.
Phillip.
There have been a number of times when I could have done with an open relay. Times when POP was ok on an account but SMTP had problems. I think having well publicised open relays is good for the community... if we can keep bulk emails off.
Hence restricting volume, as suggested above, is a good idea. If he isn't just too lazy to do POP before SMTP authenticate and it's a freedom of speech thing then he should hack the relay to allow 100 emails/day from one IP. That's an awful lot of speech to have free and should help those being held hostage by their email providers problems whilst stopping spam.
Phillip.
I remember when I was in the office at Acorn Computers chatting to a guy called Dave Walker. Someone walked up to his desk, plonked down an Acorn PC and said it wasn't working. He plugged it in and watched it for a moment (just the box, no monitor was plugged in). After a few seconds he pulled the top off, pushed in a certain chip (loose memory or something), put the lid on and booted... this time the PC whirred into life properly. When I asked him how he did that magic trick, he told me that when there is an error the floppy drive light blinks it out in morse code. I'd had one of these machines for years and had never known that was staring me in the face!
Phillip.
Another scenario: lubricant sprayed, protestor slips trying to throw molatov, fire spreads and people try and get away but...
Phillip.
"We'll need to find a storage medium that can be decoded by the one engine that will not fade for a long time; The Human Brain.
Can you imagine spell-checking your document only for the computer to stop at a word and bring up a box saying, "Oh I know this one... it's on the tip of my tongue... no, don't tell me..."
Seriously though, as long as the media doesn't deteriorate we can always reverse-engineer to get the data back if it's really important.
Phillip.
There are two things that keep a windows partition on my machine: Games and the ability to open word/excel/matlab documents distributed by professors and project groups.
Yes, Counterstrike keeps Windows on my box (my friend plays Counterstrike on his Linux box but getting it going with WINE sounded a lot of effort). However I would be interested to learn how easy and reliable the Crossover plugin is for reading Word and Excel documents? Experiences anyone?
Phillip.
Sorry but the beauty of ROX isn't just that it beats every other Filer hands-down in terms of speed. It's (a) its efficient use of screen-estate (which you can NEVER get enough of) and (b) the innovative use of the AppDir meaning all of an applications files are in one directory. No package management any more. Delete directory and delete entirety of application. Something a decade old for Acorn users but revolutionary in the Linux world.
Phillip.
People aren't going to use their cars less, they will simply complain more about the already massive amount of "stealth taxes" which allow the Government to screw the British citizens left right and centre whilst still claiming they are reducing some of the headline taxes such as income tax. In fact, the only people untouched are the wealthy driving big gaz guzzling cars who won't care a jot how much they are charged.
Phillip.
It's PHP and not Apache that is the bottleneck here. For instance, I am writing a PHP extension that not only makes reading and writing XML files a doddle (eg to change (hypothetical) Apache xml config: xml_load("httpd.conf); xml_setelement("server.listen.ip", "127.0.0.1"); xml_output("httpd.conf");) but it will cache the XML files too. This means I can load config files at the start of my script with nearly no overhead. It's also going to drop the database load for an online book retailer client of mine to near zero, but that's another story... If anyone is interested in this please use ptemple[at]progressivepublishing.com instead of my Slashdot-reg Hotmail address.
Phillip.
It's a magnificent idea...unless you have to carry something bigger than a pen.
...
Um, didn't you read that it's been designed to cope with postmen with large mail bags and military with their packs?
It's a tremendous idea...unless you live somewhere where there is WEATHER.
Which applies to the bicycle, roller-blades, motorbike,
Sure, I'm going to ride the segway my 46-mile one way trip to work, in Minnesota, in any month besides July or August
For a start it will only travel 17 miles on one charge (for now). But you really are closed minded. Your journey is really a minority one. A large amount of commuters live in cities within close range of their work. The Segway makes a refreshing alternative to being packed in a subway or sitting in a traffic jam breathing in the toxic fumes of the car in front. Secondly it's a solution to "the last mile" that makes public transport so inconvenient. Hop on your segway to the train station, drive on to the 'segway carriage', relax in a seat, then zoom off at the station to work. Hopefully it will also even out house prices which tend to be disproportionately priced as to how far from a station you are (at least in the UK).
Phillip.
This is one area where the ROX Filer really scores, and why I don't like Nautilus, etc. It means you can leave several Filer windows littered around your desktop without getting in the way too much. This makes drag and drop saving an instant affair instead of that awful file chooser you have to negotiate EVERY single time you want to save a file. The other great thing is that it's so productive when you know how to use it. Eg generally right button does reverse of left button so you can scroll up and down using one scroll button without moving the mouse.
Phillip.
Unfortunately if power is cut to the 'security guard' software, with current technology the data is irretrievable (unlike hard drive technology). Experience indicates that the two systems complement each other quite well.
Phillip.
I thought I'd wrap up a number of points in one post rather than make several replies:
"Also, if I'm staying in a hotel, charging my batteries is free."
It's not free, the hotels expect you to do it and build it into the cost. If methanol becomes popular with travellers, the hotel will pop down to the hardware store, buy a couple of gallons of methanol, and offer that free on tap to guests too.
"This will become even worse if cells arrive that run off of pure hydrogen-PEM (proton exchange membrane) fuel cells that run on hydrogen"
All PEM fuel cells run on hydrogen. Methanol based fuel cells simply break down the methanol into hydrogen and its constituent parts before it hits the PEM.
"However, if the methanol charges for the fuel cells are not rechargeable themselves, we will be adding a MORE exhaust to the environment, in the form of the disposed charger."
You don't recharge a methanol cell, you just squirt in more methanol to replace what has been used up.
"Ok, fine methanol works as a safe hydrogen storage method, but I was under the impression that fuel cells use hydrogen AND oxygen to create electricity and as a byproduct create H2O. Where does the water go?"
Methanol is 50% oxygen, 37.5% carbon and 12.5% hydrogen. So yes water will be produced and there must be some drainage tap (so you will have to take your laptop for a pee on the plane). There will also be carbon deposits you will have to dispose of. I wonder also how often the PEM has to be changed, as carbon will clog it up if not effectively filtered out.
There are plenty of fuel cell articles at Future Energies, including how a fuel cell is heating my local swimming pool! Check it out.
Phillip.
I agree, it's a silly sounding name and probably raised the eyebrows of the boss of the BBC engineer that asked permission to stream it. Fortunately he had his boss well training, but I would certainly hesitate to recommend it to my boss for streaming. It sounds niche.
I've asked before and I'll ask again: why not call it "mp5" and encourage people to 'upgrade'? After all, Thompsons got away with MP3 Pro.
Phillip.
Things that spring to mind:
:-)
* tech support - it makes life a lot easier if a user quotes a distro number, which can then instantly correlate to a list of known problems. This can cut out a number of problems before resorting to finding out upgraded package versions etc.
* keeping mirrors up to date - it would be a real pain if you downloaded 600MB of Mandrake and found it was so old that the update had to download approximately the same amount again
* marketing - selling new versions keeps Mandrake in business. Windows98 didn't launch with the marketing slogan "Pick up a 2nd hand Win95 and do a Windows Update"
Phillip.
Last time I looked at Time Domain and did a little background reading I became *very* skeptical of them. I later spoke to someone high up in the Radio Agency (the people who approve/disapprove the use of radio spectrum in the UK) and he told me he had investigated them and hell would freeze over before they were allowed to operate over here. I think it will be an interesting proof of concept for the forseeable future.
Phillip.
'nuff said.
Phillip.