Hello, this is straight out of the movie "Fifth Element", where they had that crazy genetic printer unit and constructed Milla with it, the perfect being.
I don't blame them, if I had one of those printers I would be making myself a Milla as well, maybe two, always good to have a backup.
I hate to break it to the company that makes these things, but most theives don't have ultra high tech gadgets to get into people garages. They do it the old fashion way. Bust in the side door or window, then press the button inside. Or they break into the car (lots of times unlocked) that's sitting in the driveway and use the remote from the car.
Rolling codes just make sure that your neighbour with the same garage door system (which is everyone in surburbia) doesn't open your door when he comes home and wants to park in the garage. There are only 2 (yes, that is 2) garage door manufactures in the US, and I beleive that Chamberlain makes about 80% of the units (rebranded under other names like Sears) so there is a higher then 50% chance all your neighbors have the same/simlar units from the same manufacturer.
How long before someone brings a laptop loaded with an IRC server on it? After all they say that they are using 802.11b technology to provide the service in the cabin. Now what's from people with those cards not just firing them up in 'ad-hoc' mode and running a private network with IRC or UT2003 server? That could make a plane ride really interesting.. you can talk about who's sitting next to you (and how bad they smell) or about that cute girl that's 5 rows up. Planes are so anti social, this could make a trip interesting.
Then again someone with some talent could then either spoof or steal service. Who's to going to charge you with anything, it's out of all gov't juristictions as someone claimed (akin to international waters). Then again, someone with two wireless devices can collect $10 from a few people then proxy the service out of the one laptop.. ahhh.. bandwidth sharing..
I would have to say that number might be high for Europe (maybe about right for canada) but providers in the USA, that number is way off!! I got my girlfriend a phone so she could SMS me as she lives in the US and I live in Canada so sms is ideal way to send little messages with out the expense of a phonecall. Using VirginMobile service the loss rate of messages seem to range in the 70 to 80%. yes.. maybe 2 or 3 in 10 messages actaully hit my phone! It's crazy cause sometimes I can be in the same room testing them and it works fine, then same location just on a different day, no messages. Odd thing is my messages always seem to get to her, it's her messages coming back get lost somewhere...
I have to say I'm pretty disappointed. I have crappy coverage with my GSM phone here (unless I'm in a major urban area I don't get signal) but the loss of SMS messages just suck ass!
Ahhhh.. to be back in europe again, if they know at least one thing, it's how to make mobile service work! Got to love riding subways with signals..
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I have to second this comment.
I did something similar to this about a year ago with two linksys wap11's and external omni antennas. This is nothing new or exciting. After all I recall reading some something along the lines of a 75mile link with 802.11b equipment done in Spain. Now that's something interesting. 2mb/s over 1km in a flat, dry and treeless area is pretty lame.
I'm willing to guess they are taking a 50% cut of the settlement, so it's more like if 1.3 million people sign up then they will start cutting down the rebate from $20 till it gets to $5. Also you have to take into consideration that they will have postage and checking fees, plus printing and processing of all these checks.. that's not coming out of their pocket, it's coming out of the settlement money.
Oh and you can bet the Laywers aren't takin their cut in 'free music', cash only! For a small to medium firm this can be a huge cash cow. Put a bunch of laywers on the case for a year or so, and make about $30 million... sweet!
This seems more like the biggies don't want to be left out of the race as Dayton Skye (earthlink guy) is rolling out his Boingo network (www.boingo.net I think.. could be.com). He's doing some pay service for wireless networks. If an national ISP also had AP's in good public places (airports and such) I would think of switching to them just for that fact. How many times would it have been nice to get access to the net while sitting at an airport termainal.
Start a class action suit against the companies that do this. This is similar to a telemarketer phoning you on your cell phone, which is illegal and you can be re-enbursed for damages. This is costing you money to view the ads which isn't right. You can't sue for time wasted, or else you could sue every junk mail distributor, but what would you do if you had to pay 3cents for each flyer that arrived at your house even if you didn't want it?? There would be civil outbreak!!
Point is that their ads are costing you money even though you never requested it. Sounds like a good arguement to me.. though i'm not a lawyer but i play one on tv.
It seems odd that home users can't do similar things with a unix/linux box that ISP's have been doing for over 5 yrs. Why isn't there an easy way to use BGP or some other gateway protocol to have a unix box set up to use two (or more) connections?? It seems rather odd, cause i have worked with the nexland router and it doesn't line balance, you either have two outbound routes (uses all bandwidth on one then flips to the the next line for other requests) or just works as failover, so that if one line goes down the second one comes up.
The way TCP/IP was built you should be able to route any packet out any of the interfaces at any given time, this would give you the ability to balance load between lines, and the returning data would be coming back thru either of the given lines...
where's the technology to do this??
-b
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Anyone actually look at the website, there are no real pictures of this thing. It's all vapourware, with some nice animations and things (i'm guessing the guy who started it was some sort of automotive designer (possibly laid off?). The rest of the site was so slow I couldn't check it out.
Lots of people are commenting on how this will actually work, since there are problems with lift/downward force, making the impellor stable enough to work both on land (with lots of shock) and in the water (keeping it sealed). Then there are things like Hydroplaning the thing with two big front wheels ( hydroplanes mounted in the mudguards??).
All a pipedream.. after all they have built amphibious cars in the 50's onward, and they are interesting to see but not a seller. You want either a boat or a car, each item does a specific job well.. not some mediocure item that does both.
Well then you must only use your computer for email and browsing the internet. Sure then 40 gigs is enough for you, and 60 will last you forever. But if you do any sort of audio video editing or producing then 60 gig's is nothing! There are lots of laptop dj's out there bringing huge amounts of music to play, let alone trying to edit anything. Any one who has done just a bit of video editing work knows that you can eat thru 100gig's super fast. We have a 1/2 TB server just to hold audio tracks. and in reality that fileserver should be about 3 times that amount.
This should be stipulated, it seems that nvidia is the only manufacture that has drivers to work with linux and be able to run UT2003. This is evident that nvidia wants to push all platforms, and they have their logo start first thing when running the demo.
It's not that UT2003 is closed that it will only run under linux on an nvidia card, it's just that no one else has drivers... and nvidia was smart enough to pair up with UT2003 to get the market share (seems looks of people are talking about doing a UT2003 upgrade as they can't wait for Doom3). It's really up to the manufacturers to get their shit together and give us good Linux drivers for 3d, not just 2d drivers.
pretty much makes my ATI Radeon 7500 AiW useless..:(
Ok.. my question is if eubonics are given special treatment then why not l33tsp3k?? This is a form of discrimination, it's stomping on my national rights to my techno heritage, schools should be teaching this to everyone, we should have collage courses on the history of l33tsp3k!!
This is an outrage, it's all ment to put the teksavvy down, power to the people!! Make your voice heard!!
>The key to HUGE fame and riches is to come out with an operating system that is FREAKING COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS.
I'm just thinking here, but won't it be easier to come out with an OS that is compatiable with the new OSX, since it is build on *BSD?? Image that, now you have a market of users on mac and pc platform that use the same software, if it's cheaper, how long do you think that MS could stand against that?? There already seems to be a fair number of Mac Apps.. even MS products, so what would happen if you could run them on your brand new PCX/OS?? Doing the same thing as a mac user on cheaper hardware.. hehe.. this might piss off both Apple and MS..
And tell me exactly why that is intersting?? People have been doing this for a while, it's nothing new to use linux or freebsd to build a wireless bridge or AP, there are How-to's on this subject all over the net.
The coolness about the WET is that it is small, a linux/freebsd box has a huge footprint even if you have laptop to use.. this thing is small and tight, and will work with POE (power over ethernet). Oh.. and lastly, it's cheap!! You could do a wireless bridge link now for under $500 with cables and antennas!
Uh.. I don't know about you but now days as long as the processor is faster then 400mhz I really don't care that much. Cause word will load in 2secs. instead of 3, doesn't really affect my computing ability. I'm still running a Celeron 600, sure something faster would be nice for gaming but it doesn't affect my daily work on it.
I do remember when the cpu speed did make a huge difference.. a 486 vs. the p/90 and that sort of stuff, the computer was noticably faster, but now it seems that other items like disk and video are what speed up the realtive use of a pc, long as you have a realtitly fast P3 core, it runs well. This could be the problem with the computer industry, people don't need to replace those 2yr old P3's anymore cause everything works just fine on them.
ya.. well have you considered that with the weak canadian dollar that 10 million usd is about a 100billion canadian..??
haha.. not really but it's a running joke for those of us who live in border cities where US folks think everything is so cheap and we get assraped when ever we buy anything in the US.
I don't know about you but tracking an employee during the day seems to infringe on rights. I would never work on an employeer who implemented such a system, then again most people are a slave to the system and will happily do such things.
This seems to create a big brother culture, track all your employees, log their phone calls, watch there network usage.. it's 1984.. just a little later. This seems to create a hostil work enviroment rather then one geared towards a happy workplace. You don't want your employees feeling like prisioners while at the jobsite.
Than again.. if it's based on a cell signal, we all know how well they work.. just turn off the phone!.
Ya.. well there is a large difference between dual CPUS and dual GPUS, for starters if you look at the time a cpu is busy verses not, it's a huge difference. The cpu is only busy about 20% of the time, the rest of the time it's idle, unless you run seti or dnet, which will use the idle time in the background, but most computer systems are busy only when you load a program or doing some sort of work (no, reading slashdot isn't 'work'). Rest of the time the processors just sit there and does nothing.. well they keep the system going but that's it. As for a GPU, while you are playing quake 3 arean, those processors are blazing away the entire time you are playing, they never stop working, so having two would definately be an advantage.
Dual CPU's on the desktop are a waste of money, by the time you need the extra horsepower, it's cheaper to buy a new chip which will be faster (moore's law), though i have found using dual cpu'ed servers give it about an extra year of life at a fraction of the cost. Currently using a dual 500mhz celeron, which is 2 yrs old and there is still no load on the system, having that extra processor to handle tasks on a true multithreaded OS rocks!
Come on people.. do you really want to talk to some moron on AOL or MSN?? Think about it, if they are using either of these as their provider they are pretty much a waste of space! ICQ is really the only logical choice as an IM, after all i have my ICQ number on my cell phone, so when i'm not at my computer i'm still on ICQ.
Ya.. just about the same time that Bell has offered 3mb dsl to subscribers for more money and put on the data bandwidth caps, normal lines get 5 gig up and 5 gig down a month, while the 3mb dsl you get 10gig up and 10 down...
services should be getting faster and cheaper not more expensive!!
Uh.. this is a moot point.. just make sure that your Deep Links are not going to/coming from denmark.. it's not a 'global ruling'... I'm sure if it does get over there there will be business agreements to deep link, after all lots of the time it promotes more commerce. I think that it's pretty much trying to protect copyright type voliations..
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Hello, this is straight out of the movie "Fifth Element", where they had that crazy genetic printer unit and constructed Milla with it, the perfect being.
I don't blame them, if I had one of those printers I would be making myself a Milla as well, maybe two, always good to have a backup.
-b
I hate to break it to the company that makes these things, but most theives don't have ultra high tech gadgets to get into people garages. They do it the old fashion way. Bust in the side door or window, then press the button inside. Or they break into the car (lots of times unlocked) that's sitting in the driveway and use the remote from the car.
Rolling codes just make sure that your neighbour with the same garage door system (which is everyone in surburbia) doesn't open your door when he comes home and wants to park in the garage. There are only 2 (yes, that is 2) garage door manufactures in the US, and I beleive that Chamberlain makes about 80% of the units (rebranded under other names like Sears) so there is a higher then 50% chance all your neighbors have the same/simlar units from the same manufacturer.
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How long before someone brings a laptop loaded with an IRC server on it? After all they say that they are using 802.11b technology to provide the service in the cabin. Now what's from people with those cards not just firing them up in 'ad-hoc' mode and running a private network with IRC or UT2003 server? That could make a plane ride really interesting.. you can talk about who's sitting next to you (and how bad they smell) or about that cute girl that's 5 rows up. Planes are so anti social, this could make a trip interesting.
Then again someone with some talent could then either spoof or steal service. Who's to going to charge you with anything, it's out of all gov't juristictions as someone claimed (akin to international waters). Then again, someone with two wireless devices can collect $10 from a few people then proxy the service out of the one laptop.. ahhh.. bandwidth sharing..
just thoughs.
I would have to say that number might be high for Europe (maybe about right for canada) but providers in the USA, that number is way off!! I got my girlfriend a phone so she could SMS me as she lives in the US and I live in Canada so sms is ideal way to send little messages with out the expense of a phonecall. Using VirginMobile service the loss rate of messages seem to range in the 70 to 80%. yes.. maybe 2 or 3 in 10 messages actaully hit my phone! It's crazy cause sometimes I can be in the same room testing them and it works fine, then same location just on a different day, no messages. Odd thing is my messages always seem to get to her, it's her messages coming back get lost somewhere...
I have to say I'm pretty disappointed. I have crappy coverage with my GSM phone here (unless I'm in a major urban area I don't get signal) but the loss of SMS messages just suck ass!
Ahhhh.. to be back in europe again, if they know at least one thing, it's how to make mobile service work! Got to love riding subways with signals..
I have to second this comment.
I did something similar to this about a year ago with two linksys wap11's and external omni antennas. This is nothing new or exciting. After all I recall reading some something along the lines of a 75mile link with 802.11b equipment done in Spain. Now that's something interesting. 2mb/s over 1km in a flat, dry and treeless area is pretty lame.
I'm willing to guess they are taking a 50% cut of the settlement, so it's more like if 1.3 million people sign up then they will start cutting down the rebate from $20 till it gets to $5. Also you have to take into consideration that they will have postage and checking fees, plus printing and processing of all these checks.. that's not coming out of their pocket, it's coming out of the settlement money.
Oh and you can bet the Laywers aren't takin their cut in 'free music', cash only! For a small to medium firm this can be a huge cash cow. Put a bunch of laywers on the case for a year or so, and make about $30 million... sweet!
-b
This seems more like the biggies don't want to be left out of the race as Dayton Skye (earthlink guy) is rolling out his Boingo network (www.boingo.net I think.. could be .com). He's doing some pay service for wireless networks. If an national ISP also had AP's in good public places (airports and such) I would think of switching to them just for that fact. How many times would it have been nice to get access to the net while sitting at an airport termainal.
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Start a class action suit against the companies that do this. This is similar to a telemarketer phoning you on your cell phone, which is illegal and you can be re-enbursed for damages. This is costing you money to view the ads which isn't right. You can't sue for time wasted, or else you could sue every junk mail distributor, but what would you do if you had to pay 3cents for each flyer that arrived at your house even if you didn't want it?? There would be civil outbreak!!
Point is that their ads are costing you money even though you never requested it. Sounds like a good arguement to me.. though i'm not a lawyer but i play one on tv.
It seems odd that home users can't do similar things with a unix/linux box that ISP's have been doing for over 5 yrs. Why isn't there an easy way to use BGP or some other gateway protocol to have a unix box set up to use two (or more) connections?? It seems rather odd, cause i have worked with the nexland router and it doesn't line balance, you either have two outbound routes (uses all bandwidth on one then flips to the the next line for other requests) or just works as failover, so that if one line goes down the second one comes up.
The way TCP/IP was built you should be able to route any packet out any of the interfaces at any given time, this would give you the ability to balance load between lines, and the returning data would be coming back thru either of the given lines...
where's the technology to do this??
-b
Anyone actually look at the website, there are no real pictures of this thing. It's all vapourware, with some nice animations and things (i'm guessing the guy who started it was some sort of automotive designer (possibly laid off?). The rest of the site was so slow I couldn't check it out.
Lots of people are commenting on how this will actually work, since there are problems with lift/downward force, making the impellor stable enough to work both on land (with lots of shock) and in the water (keeping it sealed). Then there are things like Hydroplaning the thing with two big front wheels ( hydroplanes mounted in the mudguards??).
All a pipedream.. after all they have built amphibious cars in the 50's onward, and they are interesting to see but not a seller. You want either a boat or a car, each item does a specific job well.. not some mediocure item that does both.
Well then you must only use your computer for email and browsing the internet. Sure then 40 gigs is enough for you, and 60 will last you forever. But if you do any sort of audio video editing or producing then 60 gig's is nothing! There are lots of laptop dj's out there bringing huge amounts of music to play, let alone trying to edit anything. Any one who has done just a bit of video editing work knows that you can eat thru 100gig's super fast. We have a 1/2 TB server just to hold audio tracks. and in reality that fileserver should be about 3 times that amount.
This should be stipulated, it seems that nvidia is the only manufacture that has drivers to work with linux and be able to run UT2003. This is evident that nvidia wants to push all platforms, and they have their logo start first thing when running the demo.
It's not that UT2003 is closed that it will only run under linux on an nvidia card, it's just that no one else has drivers... and nvidia was smart enough to pair up with UT2003 to get the market share (seems looks of people are talking about doing a UT2003 upgrade as they can't wait for Doom3). It's really up to the manufacturers to get their shit together and give us good Linux drivers for 3d, not just 2d drivers.
pretty much makes my ATI Radeon 7500 AiW useless..:(
Ok.. my question is if eubonics are given special treatment then why not l33tsp3k?? This is a form of discrimination, it's stomping on my national rights to my techno heritage, schools should be teaching this to everyone, we should have collage courses on the history of l33tsp3k!!
This is an outrage, it's all ment to put the teksavvy down, power to the people!! Make your voice heard!!
>The key to HUGE fame and riches is to come out with an operating system that is FREAKING COMPATIBLE WITH WINDOWS.
I'm just thinking here, but won't it be easier to come out with an OS that is compatiable with the new OSX, since it is build on *BSD?? Image that, now you have a market of users on mac and pc platform that use the same software, if it's cheaper, how long do you think that MS could stand against that?? There already seems to be a fair number of Mac Apps.. even MS products, so what would happen if you could run them on your brand new PCX/OS?? Doing the same thing as a mac user on cheaper hardware.. hehe.. this might piss off both Apple and MS..
And tell me exactly why that is intersting?? People have been doing this for a while, it's nothing new to use linux or freebsd to build a wireless bridge or AP, there are How-to's on this subject all over the net.
The coolness about the WET is that it is small, a linux/freebsd box has a huge footprint even if you have laptop to use.. this thing is small and tight, and will work with POE (power over ethernet). Oh.. and lastly, it's cheap!! You could do a wireless bridge link now for under $500 with cables and antennas!
Uh.. I don't know about you but now days as long as the processor is faster then 400mhz I really don't care that much. Cause word will load in 2secs. instead of 3, doesn't really affect my computing ability. I'm still running a Celeron 600, sure something faster would be nice for gaming but it doesn't affect my daily work on it.
I do remember when the cpu speed did make a huge difference.. a 486 vs. the p/90 and that sort of stuff, the computer was noticably faster, but now it seems that other items like disk and video are what speed up the realtive use of a pc, long as you have a realtitly fast P3 core, it runs well. This could be the problem with the computer industry, people don't need to replace those 2yr old P3's anymore cause everything works just fine on them.
my 2 cents.
ya.. well have you considered that with the weak canadian dollar that 10 million usd is about a 100billion canadian..??
haha.. not really but it's a running joke for those of us who live in border cities where US folks think everything is so cheap and we get assraped when ever we buy anything in the US.
I don't know about you but tracking an employee during the day seems to infringe on rights. I would never work on an employeer who implemented such a system, then again most people are a slave to the system and will happily do such things.
This seems to create a big brother culture, track all your employees, log their phone calls, watch there network usage.. it's 1984.. just a little later. This seems to create a hostil work enviroment rather then one geared towards a happy workplace. You don't want your employees feeling like prisioners while at the jobsite.
Than again.. if it's based on a cell signal, we all know how well they work.. just turn off the phone!.
Does this include getting your server slashdotted in record time??
They really should warn the people that they are going to be posting a link to their server, and that extremely heavy traffic will arrise.
Ya.. well there is a large difference between dual CPUS and dual GPUS, for starters if you look at the time a cpu is busy verses not, it's a huge difference. The cpu is only busy about 20% of the time, the rest of the time it's idle, unless you run seti or dnet, which will use the idle time in the background, but most computer systems are busy only when you load a program or doing some sort of work (no, reading slashdot isn't 'work'). Rest of the time the processors just sit there and does nothing.. well they keep the system going but that's it. As for a GPU, while you are playing quake 3 arean, those processors are blazing away the entire time you are playing, they never stop working, so having two would definately be an advantage.
Dual CPU's on the desktop are a waste of money, by the time you need the extra horsepower, it's cheaper to buy a new chip which will be faster (moore's law), though i have found using dual cpu'ed servers give it about an extra year of life at a fraction of the cost. Currently using a dual 500mhz celeron, which is 2 yrs old and there is still no load on the system, having that extra processor to handle tasks on a true multithreaded OS rocks!
Come on people.. do you really want to talk to some moron on AOL or MSN?? Think about it, if they are using either of these as their provider they are pretty much a waste of space! ICQ is really the only logical choice as an IM, after all i have my ICQ number on my cell phone, so when i'm not at my computer i'm still on ICQ.
As for yahoo.. who uses yahoo anymore??
Ya.. just about the same time that Bell has offered 3mb dsl to subscribers for more money and put on the data bandwidth caps, normal lines get 5 gig up and 5 gig down a month, while the 3mb dsl you get 10gig up and 10 down...
services should be getting faster and cheaper not more expensive!!
Uh.. this is a moot point.. just make sure that your Deep Links are not going to/coming from denmark.. it's not a 'global ruling'... I'm sure if it does get over there there will be business agreements to deep link, after all lots of the time it promotes more commerce. I think that it's pretty much trying to protect copyright type voliations..
just thoughts though.
so does this mean that all the people who had their place raided and their linux box taken that they now incurred $1billion in damages???