These ideas aren't really that orginal, after all speilberg is just turning them into movies. The real genius are the writes who wrote the orginal books, like Bradbury and P.K. Dick...
You want to read about some really fucked up paranoia and craziness read some P.K. Dick sometimes (basis of minorty report?), also wrote 'do androids dream of electric sheep?' or also know in the movies as 'Blade Runner'. His works have stood the test of time, just like J.R.R Tolken.. after all great writes have already created the entire universe for a movie, and it's almost impossible to screw up great works when turning them into a movie. For how many of you, did Lord of the Rings seem to be 'exactly' the way you envisioned it when reading the book?? I know for myself it was almost bang on the images that I had in my head.
You do realize that since your microwave is causing your wireless (2.4ghz) to drop then it's leaking radiation... time to get a new microwave. Mine has never caused a problem with my wireless network.. the 2.4ghz phone, well that's another story..
I wouldn't be standing to close to that microwave while heating up a burrito..
Ironic how some things never change but yet they do. Right of way for cabling has yet to evolve, don't these companies realize they can no longer charge an arm and a leg to people who just want to connect buildings together??.
I did the exact same thing (connect 2 buildings about 200 yards apart) with some wireless equipment. $500 of off the shelf equipment and antenna's got me a stable link with no reoccuring costs. The phone company wanted like $1000/mth plus equipment rental.
If it wasn't so damn cold in Edmonton I would move there for the bandwidth! Down here in Windsor I'm pretty much stuck with either Bell Sympatico or Cogeco cable.
Bell charges 39.99/month, which has just been increased to $44.99/month with 5gig up and a 5gig down limit after that you pay per gig. I get 1mb downstream services and only 128kb upstream.
Cogeco charges about $49.99 ($10 less if you are a cable tv subscriber)I believe you get about 10mb shared connection and 256 upstream. They haven't said anything about limits but i'm going to guess they will follow suit. There are some smaller providers too but they don't really have the bandwidth to give that great of service.
Yep.. this is the one I'm looking for, it's going to go up with all the market hype and media, every idiot is going to invest so buy now and sell early.. you could easily double or triple your money on this one..
just be warned.. it is a flip stock.. don't hold too long!
Re:Official Signs that you'd think would be jokes.
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And you know that further up the I75 at Exit 168 is Little Beaver road, I guess MDOT couldn't figure a way to make the highway an extra mile to get this as a '69' exit... but they were close.
This is the kiss of death, point rated at 175 with this new info. If i were an employeed of this company i would be bailing out quickly!!
How come you rarely see the "Management takes a 50% pay cut??". It's cause they are all greedy bastards.. that's all they teach them when getting an a MBA (remove soul and insert greed).
After being a long time purchaser of ATI video board I had decided to upgrade my current Rage 128 AiW board to something faster, mainly cuase my frame rate in Return to Castle Wolfenstein would drop to 4fps while storming the beach under shell fire or in heavy fire fights. Anyone who plays FPS's know that you get slaughtered with a low framerate. I had loved that Rage128 card and had hated giving up the TV options.. i use the input alot to stream video to friends or tape stuff off the tv/vcr. I do have my satellite directly connected to my pc so that I can watch stuff while doing work.
I was deciding on getting the ATI 7200 or a GeForce 3 ti, low end as i didn't want to spend a lot of cash, Then i noticed the 7500 came out, previously ATI only offered the 8500 AiW at some stupidly high price. So I bought the 7500 AiW, as it has all the same features as my old card, and more.. also it's got a better 3d chip so i should be fragging people like a badass!
I was impressed with the card.. but it didn't blow me away.. all the standard features of the old card were present, and some new ones. I really like the ability to float the tv window transparently so you can have it ontop of an applicaition but still use all the buttons that are under the tv panel. The Tivo like feature on it sucks ass.. maybe my computer is too slow (Celeron 600 with 256mb ram)but tv is unwatchable in that mode, it lags behind, clips the audio and video and then the play back or pause takes forever to work. I consider it unusable. Maybe I do need some faster hardware but that sort of stuff should work on a 600mhz chip. Lastly, how was RtCW? well, frame rate jump drastically, now heavy firefights it drops to around 15 to 20fps, in normal situations it holds steady at 50 to 60fps and doing nothing well it says it hits 70 to 90 fps. I wasn't that impressed.. I figured a new chip like this should give a min of 30fps at any given time (esp since i'm at 640x480 rez). Looking at how old my Rage128 is, it seems to be a pretty powerful chip, after all the 7500 did not eclipse it drastically. I wasn't blown away by new lighting or textures, it just seemed about the same only with less lag.
Cell phone + built in manditory GPS + Java browser = unit. Someone just has to write the software as an applet for the browser, store some of the data on the phone and have it connect up to the main system every 10 to 15 mins to upload the data.
If i get a message from some one in another language, I don't just toss it out, i copy it into babelfish and try and figure out what they want. If it requires a response, i make a simple reply and bablefish it but also send the english version..
i do suppose that if i got all those weird asian characters, it won't works so well. Maybe the admin on the the other side is sitting there thinking 'what the hell is all this garbage??.. delete!'
I've been waiting for those wap11's to go back on sale.. sometime before xmas they were all like $129 at all the major retail outlets.. then the price jumped up to $179 (i guess as people figured out they were useful, not just for a home wireless but all as a wireless bridge).
There is no way i'm paying more then 129 for one of these, it's ironic the befs4w1 (dsl router/4port switch and wireless) is cheaper then the stand alone unit.. but then again i already have a switch and router.. so why buy that again?
Like this is a suprise??
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Come on, Mac users are the biggest Pirate users I know.. they have this "share" mentality, which I think stems from the fact that they are so excited they have found another mac user that they will share any software they have.
I guess the software companies don't bother going after the pirates there cause there are too few of them. Also when all of us using PC's were stuggling with usenet to get warez (remember getting 62 of 66 parts of a file and not finding the couple missing files??) they had advanced P2P file sharing systems like Hotline.
I guess this is why it's not on Ebay.. they limit the number of days for the auction..
Everyone will get bored and forget about the thing in 36 days. Imagine dropping over 100grand and not getting delivery for a month! People that have that kind of money to spend want it now!.. they should have had the auction for 3 days or something.. gives people less time to come to their senses when bidding.
Ok. this might be a bit dated but anyone remember the days when you could buy shareware on a floppy for like a buck? I worked in a computer store and we had racks of these things. They were put together by some mom/pop type operation who would download them from simtel or bbs, then sell them on a floppy.
Think is.. you would pay just for the copy of software on the disk.. not the actual program.. you were suppose to follow the author's licensing instructions (send money etc). I remember that we did a good business of selling these things.. people were willing to pay for stuff if it was low enough.. doubt they licensed it.. cause they did have the preception they were 'buying' the software just like anyother boxed stuff.
Most people think this is a new toy to play with but for those using it (seriously) it changes the way they work (as a dj). For most dj's the biggest problem is carrying vinyl, do you know how much that shit weighs?? to crates are like 50lbs easy.. and airlines manage to loose it often. Now not only are you out of you best records for the time, you can't even play the gig and make money. Now what if you can carry everything you need to dj in a carry on bag? one small soft sided record back with a few peices of vinyl (maybe some new tracks you just picked up) and then hundreds of your favorite tracks all on your laptop???
Anyone that knows, a bigger advicate to the technology is John Acquaviva who has been in to the company from the start. I saw him on New Years eave and i don't think that he even brought any normal vinyl with him.. everything came off his finalscratch machine. So go check out his site www.jacq.com and slashdot his server.
This could be the initiative that is required to bring Open Source OS's to the enduser desktop. I remember back in the school days of wanting whatever computer was in the school system. Then you know how it works (or are taught) and moving files and programs back and for is simple. You already have a network of friends who will have the same thing too. I remember first wanting an Apple cause that's what we used at school, and I got an Apple. Then later IBM's with MS products were used (in highschool) so when it was time to get a new computer.. you guessed it.. IBM based machine with MS on it.
So as it would work out, the child would get into Linux (pick any distro) and StarOffice, and what ever other software at school then want the same thing at home too. They would teach mom and dad how to use StarOffice to work on thier.doc files from work. Little johnny would be asking for a PC with linux on it pretty soon...
Only problem is kids love games.. and who's still got the best gamming platform.. Microsoft.. damn them..
Gee.. that's great that apple has included WEP 128 now that that it's been cracked. Great security guys... These things are over priced, they appeal to stupid people who buy a Mac cause it 'looks pretty', not because it's technically better. The modem is pretty much useless, if you are buying wireless equipment it's cause you have DSL/cable (or a fast backbone) and want high speed wirelessly.. no one buys wireless so they can surf at 56K. I think you can buy any other 802.11b device cheaper, hell, you can get the same thing and a card for that price.
Here's my responses to everyone's comments :
1. The airport looks better - Really? your opinion, I don't care what it looks like as long as it works, i don't sit and look at my router all day saying "isn't that pretty". Anyways, for some reason I think they look like ashtrays.. but that's just me.
2. It so easy to use - Ya.. if you have a mac, try configuring one with use for a pc, that was a bitch of a time to figure out. Oh.. you can only configure it with a mac, how great is that??
3. It supports Mac's and PC's - Ya, dumbass it's 802.11b complient, so does every other 802.11b device. Go read the RFC.
4. It has a built in modem - great you can agnoize your self with 56k over wireless.. talk about high-tech. I would rather do something else or shoot myself before being subjected to 56K. My laptop and pc both have modems, i would rather direct dial out and avoid any overhead with TCP that the wireless gives.
5. It has build in routing/bridging - Has anyone gotten it to work well? I don't see a big rush on airports to run wireless bridges. what good is it without external antennae??
6. No ugly antenna sticking out of it.. ya. and you can't easily upgrade that part now can you? this is basically an end user product, for Joe StupidUser. Other brands you can slap on external antenna for increased power or range. If you want to do this with an airport you have to drill a hole in the case, take it apart and void the warrenty. Well i guess they want you to buy a new one once it breaks.
7. It's wonderful, Apple makes it - ya.. i beleive they also produced something called the Lisa and non-upgradeable computers. Their track record for reusable parts isn't stellar.
Where's the SNMP tools?? - Ya.. that's right lots of these PC kits have SNMP tools to configure and monitor the link. Granted the one on Linksys is garbage but it still has functionallity like a remote reboot. Most of them have been doing 128bit WEP for a long time, and are moving to support RADIUS and 802.1x authentication. Oh.. and major players are staring to build units with PoE (Power over Ethernet) so that you don't need to have your unit near a power outlet too, you just run power over the ethernet connection. Apple might have come out with the first affordable 802.11b unit but they sit on their ass too long thinking everyone will buy one. Oh.. most companies are now starting to roll out their 802.11a units which will do anywhere from 54mbps up to 72mbps.
I sorry to say that this is just a version of Q3 or UT set on the Ringworld created by Larry Niven.
I guess one of the game designers was reading/had read that series while designing the game. Probably up late one night gaming before a big meeting and when asked for an idea blurted out the whole ring world thing, as defined by Niven.
If you can't innovate.. steal from someone else.. works well for M$.
During WWII the germans decided that it would be a good idea to strap explosives to dog and let them run under a tank and stay there to blow it up. Well after weeks of field training they were finally ready. They strapped them up and took them out and let them loose on the Allied forces, only problem is they ran straight back and hid under german tanks (cause that's what they were trained to do). No one thought that they should train them to recognize an Allied tank and hide under that instead.
or maybe it was the russians.. i'm not sure now but either way.. not to bright.
Before I buy another phone it should do phone functions, SMS, wireless web, mp3, PIM and take pictures..
That way you can store the pictures of the hotties with their number/email and voice dial them up, along with scheduling dates in with them, always bringing along their favorite tunes..:)
-b
about as interesting as..
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Those 'car maps' you would make as a kid on long road trips. Get a peice of paper and put it up to the window, stick your pencil on it and just let all the bums and things move your hand around.
instant art in the car... maybe i'm the only one that did that...
Problem with marketing based on mhz
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We know that marketing your product based on MHZ alone will kill it. This was seen right from the early days of the 386's. People looked at the generation of chip and the equivalent clock speed. Teck people would ignore this ask they knew real benchmarket would tell the truth.
Look at recient times, you have a bigger gap in this problem. The G3's and G4's are clocked between 400mhz and 800mhz, but people are put off buying one cause they can get a PC with 1.2Ghz for cheaper. The G4 can be a faster chip with lower clockspeeds but people won't buy it cause all they see is 800mhz vs 1.2ghz. The bigger number in compters means it's better, everyone knows that!
If AMD doesn't start PR rating their chips people won't buy them. They are slower and cheaper (in the mind of Joe Sixpack) so they must not be as good as an Intel.
I wanted to do something similar, maybe a private net that will be public. I have a friend who owns a few buildings within a few blocks of each other, and has money to purchase equipment to do this. His key thing was he wanted to use his laptop down at the local coffee shop. I did get some Linksys's to connect two of the buildings (pure line of sight about 800ft) and waiting on the antenna's.
I know all about the theory of wireless, and the fresnel zone and how objects kill signal but how well does that happen in real life? I know when i put up the AP in my house i could get down the street and still get signal even when i couldn't see the AP cause of the corner of the building was blocking view.
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These ideas aren't really that orginal, after all speilberg is just turning them into movies. The real genius are the writes who wrote the orginal books, like Bradbury and P.K. Dick...
You want to read about some really fucked up paranoia and craziness read some P.K. Dick sometimes (basis of minorty report?), also wrote 'do androids dream of electric sheep?' or also know in the movies as 'Blade Runner'. His works have stood the test of time, just like J.R.R Tolken.. after all great writes have already created the entire universe for a movie, and it's almost impossible to screw up great works when turning them into a movie. For how many of you, did Lord of the Rings seem to be 'exactly' the way you envisioned it when reading the book?? I know for myself it was almost bang on the images that I had in my head.
Good artists create, great artist steal.....
You do realize that since your microwave is causing your wireless (2.4ghz) to drop then it's leaking radiation... time to get a new microwave. Mine has never caused a problem with my wireless network.. the 2.4ghz phone, well that's another story..
I wouldn't be standing to close to that microwave while heating up a burrito..
Ironic how some things never change but yet they do. Right of way for cabling has yet to evolve, don't these companies realize they can no longer charge an arm and a leg to people who just want to connect buildings together??.
I did the exact same thing (connect 2 buildings about 200 yards apart) with some wireless equipment. $500 of off the shelf equipment and antenna's got me a stable link with no reoccuring costs. The phone company wanted like $1000/mth plus equipment rental.
Cost savings is the root to inovatation.
If it wasn't so damn cold in Edmonton I would move there for the bandwidth! Down here in Windsor I'm pretty much stuck with either Bell Sympatico or Cogeco cable.
Bell charges 39.99/month, which has just been increased to $44.99/month with 5gig up and a 5gig down limit after that you pay per gig. I get 1mb downstream services and only 128kb upstream.
Cogeco charges about $49.99 ($10 less if you are a cable tv subscriber)I believe you get about 10mb shared connection and 256 upstream. They haven't said anything about limits but i'm going to guess they will follow suit. There are some smaller providers too but they don't really have the bandwidth to give that great of service.
Yep.. this is the one I'm looking for, it's going to go up with all the market hype and media, every idiot is going to invest so buy now and sell early .. you could easily double or triple your money on this one..
just be warned.. it is a flip stock.. don't hold too long!
And you know that further up the I75 at Exit 168 is Little Beaver road, I guess MDOT couldn't figure a way to make the highway an extra mile to get this as a '69' exit... but they were close.
-b
This is the kiss of death, point rated at 175 with this new info. If i were an employeed of this company i would be bailing out quickly!!
How come you rarely see the "Management takes a 50% pay cut??". It's cause they are all greedy bastards.. that's all they teach them when getting an a MBA (remove soul and insert greed).
After being a long time purchaser of ATI video board I had decided to upgrade my current Rage 128 AiW board to something faster, mainly cuase my frame rate in Return to Castle Wolfenstein would drop to 4fps while storming the beach under shell fire or in heavy fire fights. Anyone who plays FPS's know that you get slaughtered with a low framerate. I had loved that Rage128 card and had hated giving up the TV options.. i use the input alot to stream video to friends or tape stuff off the tv/vcr. I do have my satellite directly connected to my pc so that I can watch stuff while doing work.
I was deciding on getting the ATI 7200 or a GeForce 3 ti, low end as i didn't want to spend a lot of cash, Then i noticed the 7500 came out, previously ATI only offered the 8500 AiW at some stupidly high price. So I bought the 7500 AiW, as it has all the same features as my old card, and more.. also it's got a better 3d chip so i should be fragging people like a badass!
I was impressed with the card.. but it didn't blow me away.. all the standard features of the old card were present, and some new ones. I really like the ability to float the tv window transparently so you can have it ontop of an applicaition but still use all the buttons that are under the tv panel. The Tivo like feature on it sucks ass.. maybe my computer is too slow (Celeron 600 with 256mb ram)but tv is unwatchable in that mode, it lags behind, clips the audio and video and then the play back or pause takes forever to work. I consider it unusable. Maybe I do need some faster hardware but that sort of stuff should work on a 600mhz chip. Lastly, how was RtCW? well, frame rate jump drastically, now heavy firefights it drops to around 15 to 20fps, in normal situations it holds steady at 50 to 60fps and doing nothing well it says it hits 70 to 90 fps. I wasn't that impressed.. I figured a new chip like this should give a min of 30fps at any given time (esp since i'm at 640x480 rez). Looking at how old my Rage128 is, it seems to be a pretty powerful chip, after all the 7500 did not eclipse it drastically. I wasn't blown away by new lighting or textures, it just seemed about the same only with less lag.
that's my 2cents.
b
Cell phone + built in manditory GPS + Java browser = unit. Someone just has to write the software as an applet for the browser, store some of the data on the phone and have it connect up to the main system every 10 to 15 mins to upload the data.
That's what babelfish is for!
If i get a message from some one in another language, I don't just toss it out, i copy it into babelfish and try and figure out what they want. If it requires a response, i make a simple reply and bablefish it but also send the english version..
i do suppose that if i got all those weird asian characters, it won't works so well. Maybe the admin on the the other side is sitting there thinking 'what the hell is all this garbage??.. delete!'
I've been waiting for those wap11's to go back on sale.. sometime before xmas they were all like $129 at all the major retail outlets.. then the price jumped up to $179 (i guess as people figured out they were useful, not just for a home wireless but all as a wireless bridge).
.. so why buy that again?
There is no way i'm paying more then 129 for one of these, it's ironic the befs4w1 (dsl router/4port switch and wireless) is cheaper then the stand alone unit.. but then again i already have a switch and router
Come on, Mac users are the biggest Pirate users I know.. they have this "share" mentality, which I think stems from the fact that they are so excited they have found another mac user that they will share any software they have.
I guess the software companies don't bother going after the pirates there cause there are too few of them. Also when all of us using PC's were stuggling with usenet to get warez (remember getting 62 of 66 parts of a file and not finding the couple missing files??) they had advanced P2P file sharing systems like Hotline.
I guess this is why it's not on Ebay.. they limit the number of days for the auction..
.. they should have had the auction for 3 days or something.. gives people less time to come to their senses when bidding.
Everyone will get bored and forget about the thing in 36 days. Imagine dropping over 100grand and not getting delivery for a month! People that have that kind of money to spend want it now!
Ok. this might be a bit dated but anyone remember the days when you could buy shareware on a floppy for like a buck? I worked in a computer store and we had racks of these things. They were put together by some mom/pop type operation who would download them from simtel or bbs, then sell them on a floppy.
.. you would pay just for the copy of software on the disk.. not the actual program.. you were suppose to follow the author's licensing instructions (send money etc). I remember that we did a good business of selling these things.. people were willing to pay for stuff if it was low enough.. doubt they licensed it.. cause they did have the preception they were 'buying' the software just like anyother boxed stuff.
Think is
Anyone that knows, a bigger advicate to the technology is John Acquaviva who has been in to the company from the start. I saw him on New Years eave and i don't think that he even brought any normal vinyl with him.. everything came off his finalscratch machine. So go check out his site www.jacq.com and slashdot his server.
-b
This could be the initiative that is required to bring Open Source OS's to the enduser desktop. I remember back in the school days of wanting whatever computer was in the school system. Then you know how it works (or are taught) and moving files and programs back and for is simple. You already have a network of friends who will have the same thing too. I remember first wanting an Apple cause that's what we used at school, and I got an Apple. Then later IBM's with MS products were used (in highschool) so when it was time to get a new computer .. you guessed it .. IBM based machine with MS on it.
.doc files from work. Little johnny would be asking for a PC with linux on it pretty soon...
So as it would work out, the child would get into Linux (pick any distro) and StarOffice, and what ever other software at school then want the same thing at home too. They would teach mom and dad how to use StarOffice to work on thier
Only problem is kids love games.. and who's still got the best gamming platform.. Microsoft.. damn them..
Gee.. that's great that apple has included WEP 128 now that that it's been cracked. Great security guys... These things are over priced, they appeal to stupid people who buy a Mac cause it 'looks pretty', not because it's technically better. The modem is pretty much useless, if you are buying wireless equipment it's cause you have DSL/cable (or a fast backbone) and want high speed wirelessly.. no one buys wireless so they can surf at 56K. I think you can buy any other 802.11b device cheaper, hell, you can get the same thing and a card for that price.
.. that's right lots of these PC kits have SNMP tools to configure and monitor the link. Granted the one on Linksys is garbage but it still has functionallity like a remote reboot. Most of them have been doing 128bit WEP for a long time, and are moving to support RADIUS and 802.1x authentication. Oh.. and major players are staring to build units with PoE (Power over Ethernet) so that you don't need to have your unit near a power outlet too, you just run power over the ethernet connection. Apple might have come out with the first affordable 802.11b unit but they sit on their ass too long thinking everyone will buy one. Oh.. most companies are now starting to roll out their 802.11a units which will do anywhere from 54mbps up to 72mbps.
Here's my responses to everyone's comments :
1. The airport looks better - Really? your opinion, I don't care what it looks like as long as it works, i don't sit and look at my router all day saying "isn't that pretty". Anyways, for some reason I think they look like ashtrays.. but that's just me.
2. It so easy to use - Ya.. if you have a mac, try configuring one with use for a pc, that was a bitch of a time to figure out. Oh.. you can only configure it with a mac, how great is that??
3. It supports Mac's and PC's - Ya, dumbass it's 802.11b complient, so does every other 802.11b device. Go read the RFC.
4. It has a built in modem - great you can agnoize your self with 56k over wireless.. talk about high-tech. I would rather do something else or shoot myself before being subjected to 56K. My laptop and pc both have modems, i would rather direct dial out and avoid any overhead with TCP that the wireless gives.
5. It has build in routing/bridging - Has anyone gotten it to work well? I don't see a big rush on airports to run wireless bridges. what good is it without external antennae??
6. No ugly antenna sticking out of it.. ya. and you can't easily upgrade that part now can you? this is basically an end user product, for Joe StupidUser. Other brands you can slap on external antenna for increased power or range. If you want to do this with an airport you have to drill a hole in the case, take it apart and void the warrenty. Well i guess they want you to buy a new one once it breaks.
7. It's wonderful, Apple makes it - ya.. i beleive they also produced something called the Lisa and non-upgradeable computers. Their track record for reusable parts isn't stellar.
Where's the SNMP tools?? - Ya
where is Apple's 802.11a unit??
I sorry to say that this is just a version of Q3 or UT set on the Ringworld created by Larry Niven.
I guess one of the game designers was reading/had read that series while designing the game. Probably up late one night gaming before a big meeting and when asked for an idea blurted out the whole ring world thing, as defined by Niven.
If you can't innovate.. steal from someone else.. works well for M$.
During WWII the germans decided that it would be a good idea to strap explosives to dog and let them run under a tank and stay there to blow it up. Well after weeks of field training they were finally ready. They strapped them up and took them out and let them loose on the Allied forces, only problem is they ran straight back and hid under german tanks (cause that's what they were trained to do). No one thought that they should train them to recognize an Allied tank and hide under that instead.
or maybe it was the russians.. i'm not sure now but either way.. not to bright.
Where are these features?
.. :)
Before I buy another phone it should do phone functions, SMS, wireless web, mp3, PIM and take pictures..
That way you can store the pictures of the hotties with their number/email and voice dial them up, along with scheduling dates in with them, always bringing along their favorite tunes
-b
Those 'car maps' you would make as a kid on long road trips. Get a peice of paper and put it up to the window, stick your pencil on it and just let all the bums and things move your hand around.
instant art in the car... maybe i'm the only one that did that...
We know that marketing your product based on MHZ alone will kill it. This was seen right from the early days of the 386's. People looked at the generation of chip and the equivalent clock speed. Teck people would ignore this ask they knew real benchmarket would tell the truth.
Look at recient times, you have a bigger gap in this problem. The G3's and G4's are clocked between 400mhz and 800mhz, but people are put off buying one cause they can get a PC with 1.2Ghz for cheaper. The G4 can be a faster chip with lower clockspeeds but people won't buy it cause all they see is 800mhz vs 1.2ghz. The bigger number in compters means it's better, everyone knows that!
If AMD doesn't start PR rating their chips people won't buy them. They are slower and cheaper (in the mind of Joe Sixpack) so they must not be as good as an Intel.
Europe should have 13 channels, as opposed to the US with it's 11.
But that still only gives 3 non-overlapping channels.. just like the US.
I wanted to do something similar, maybe a private net that will be public. I have a friend who owns a few buildings within a few blocks of each other, and has money to purchase equipment to do this. His key thing was he wanted to use his laptop down at the local coffee shop. I did get some Linksys's to connect two of the buildings (pure line of sight about 800ft) and waiting on the antenna's.
I know all about the theory of wireless, and the fresnel zone and how objects kill signal but how well does that happen in real life? I know when i put up the AP in my house i could get down the street and still get signal even when i couldn't see the AP cause of the corner of the building was blocking view.
Anyone have some personal stories?
Sure.. just buy a bigger antenna for your wireless equipment and drowned out his signal.
i'm sure he will take it back to the deal and say it's broken.