Found more info that was quite interesting, pissed me off.
Hughes is lobbying for the FCC to increase the power to at least 5 watts, which would expand the service area to 50 to 70 miles. That would make a big difference in rural areas, he noted. The FCC staff originally recommended that the transmissions be allowed at up to 100 watts at any frequency above 75 mhz. The spread-spectrum technology allows practically unlimited transmissions without interference, Hughes said, but the objections of companies such as Motorola and Bell South helped to stunt those potentially visionary rules.
Well, its been 20 minutes, I was expecting more posts. I didnt know much about the guy, so after a quick google search. Found the Wales site that was mentioned in the article. http://www.arwain.net/arwain.htm Pretty good site too, warchalking info and all.:)
Also he was named one of the 100 most influential individuals in the Computer Age. Lots of article on his use of Spread spectrum, and demoing it at colleges across the USA.
Sounds like a very interesting guy. At 74, doing all this work for schools across the world, he actually understand the need for the Internet and open information. (For his gathering of information, legal, etc...)
Dave Hughes certainly doesn't look the part of a technology trailblazer. The burly, 74-year-old retired Army colonel could stuff a scrawny computer geek in his Stetson.
But the real question... How is he at Counter-Strike!
Hey troll, try to read before you post. I see your trying to raise your karma, good luck, you need it.
BTW, I know there are newsgroups, and p2p, and websites I can download from. They are not easy to download, time consuming, and not worth it. You missed the point.
I use to listen to Howard Stern on streaming radio, but Howard shut it down. It was a pirate stream, we got the commericals with it, but howard still shut it down.
So now, I listen to it on FM radio in the morning, but at work all the computers cause too much RF interferance. So I listen to some techno streams from the UK.
So, now I am supposed to drop my happy way of doing things, and pay 10 bux a month for XM radio. I just do see it happening.
I actually do care where the tax money goes. With children in school, I want to see the money stay local. Computers in school, teachers pay, potholes filled, faster computers in the 911 center, etc.
I'm just glad Washington State doesnt have an Income tax. (Yet....)
Soon there will be a crossing the road tax to pay for troops stationed on the far side of the moon.
I voted against it, did you vote?
Seriously, you need to vote and organize, support your political party with your same views. - A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan
These patches are nutritional in nature. Thou I'd rather have a high energy bar, it could be useful for firefighters or other extreme situations where you cant take a break.
Also, Next time you Troll, get some facts straight (and get some balls, don't post anon).
1/3rd of Americans are not on happy pills, and go pills are not crank. Real medical conditions need medication. Comparing a vile of crack to lithium is uneducated. - I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. - Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
Reading that site, there is a link to http://www.segwaychat.com/ and links for the legal status for each state.
Checking on my state Washington, its legal on bikepaths but not local highways or sidewalks. Some local highways act as streets, with stop lights, and all major streets intersect only on them. They should really allow people to use sidewalks in absence of a bike trail. Makes a segway useless around the area I live, shame...
Hey, I know how you feel, I bought one of the first MP3 car players, about 550 bux. Now they are so many brands you can get them at Kmart for 60.
At work the marketing folks call these people, "Early Adopters". They make it so the average moms/dads/kiddies can buy them at normal prices. So please keep buying them, and drop the price for us.:)
Kunta you missed the point, then you backed him up by going where every X critic says, Comparing X to RDP and then mentioning embedded systems as it was a normal desktop.
Window managers with all the options, and X with all the 3D accelerated features, do use a good chunk of memory, even compared to WinXP or OSX.
And for single 1on1 server/workstation remote desktop control, RDP is better suited for low bandwidth.
And to your comment that X Rocks. I had 2 problems with X today, missing fonts, and X being dog slow, using applications over a ds3, 4 states away. - --zapf-dingbats, damn it stop using this font!
Lucent and Qualcomm are CDMA2000 hardware vendors. Nortel, Ericsson, Lucent, Cisco, Nokia are GSM/TDMA hardware vendors. Most European countries use GSM vendors, further driving down the costs. And GSM is field upgradable to EDGE and W-CDMA.
So while Verizon/Sprint have 144kbit CDMA20001x, ATTWS/Cingular/Tmobile has 177kbit GPRS, and software upgradable to EDGE at 470kbit. (Depending on how many channels are used for data)
Major problem for CDMA2000 telcos, they need to upgrade their hardware after CDMA2000 1x. Different type of hardware migration path, but they will pay billions of dollars now. Just as all GPRS telcos did initially.
Telcos have only a limited amount of spectrum for their networks, both 2g and 3g. 3G is an overlay network, on top of the 2G network. So the telco has 2 networks using their allotted spectrum. This is why 3G phones are listed as 850/1900, 800/1800/1900 (trimode) capable.
I love reading about how everyone bitches about coverage, look at a coverage map before you ever buy wireless phone service.
At work we have to disable some users accounts on the wireless data networks who have viruses. They consume too much bandwidth, resource hogs. We run reports, and every day anyone who displays virus/trojan behavior, we shut them off.
We can tell from the users profile if its a p2p network program, or a virus, viruses dont portscan your entire network, or spam your smtp servers.
Many users have found things such as back orafice, or other remote programs. Lucky its easier to watch for this when you own the entire network, for an ISP, it would be much harder.
XP+cygwin or Straight KDE, neither is a perfect option for most people. Thats why I use 2 boxes, one with XP and one with some flavor of linux, at home its mandrake, at work its suse sparc.
I think a good option if didnt play games, and could afford it, 2ghz cpu, 1 gig ram, fast ide and run linux with vmware underneath. Vmware is pretty fast, but on my laptop with 256 megs ram, cheesy ide, im stuck with 1 os, so xp+cygwin.
Also, I wouldnt say the only way to make XP useful is to install cygwin. I have too many visio/office/windows only programs. And to tell the truth, I use putty(ssh), and extemely like it. Cutting and pasting from ssh into textpad makes it easy to past into trouble tickets. (Ya, I'm in the last tier for support, paperwork, exchange email, trouble tickets, ssh'ing into unix boxes, telneting into switches, etc...)
(I work for a Telco, my statement is mine, not my employer)
Truth to that. Our security department has to watch peoples activities. People in support roles can pull up your records, or activate a new pre-paid phone.
The good thing about our big brother software for the courts, it needs a court order before we turn on the trace of your phone. So your basically safe from prying eyes, we don't log your email, we don't catalog your SMS messages, its normal Solaris unix boxes that deletes your emails when sent.
All these boxes have sys-admins, and many read Slashdot (like me) and if we saw big brother flexing his muscles on the little guy, someone would talk. But I'm glad to see responsibility with companies, after Eron and Worldcom fuck ups.
What is it missing? I have anti-aliased fonts, I bet my 3D card is better than yours, granted I'm running with closed source drivers. X has many more features than XP, esp when it comes to multi-monitor support.
I can tell you my gfx card, ati 9700 pro, multimonitor runs great. No problems, card is fast and stable. Plus Anti-alias works much better on XP. But I think XFT/Freetype will have this fixed by next year on most apps/x managers.
But onto XP.
I wouldnt blame XP, XPs requirements are more hefty compared to 98/NT/2K. Yes its bigger, it needs more, but that doesnt mean its not a good OS. My gaming PC/workstation is upgraded quite a bit more than my linux box. If I run KDE, I will want a faster video card, if blackbox, 4 meg pci video card works fine.
X Managers/desktops are getting close to XP/OSX quality. But the supporting libraries and programs still need work. And the developers are working hard, the KDE roadmap shows how much progress and thought of users needs have been planned.
So, I will use XP as my desktop for now. Things change so fast, i might even be running OSX next. (-;
Everyone talks about KDE/Gnome as the reason to switch to linux, linux is the kernel and drivers for the hardware. Users want applications and a nice looking desktop, eyecandy.
Personally, I like XP as my gui, and Linux as my server and extension to my workstation. I use my linux box as resources for my windows box. Mount shares, Run services, shell with command line tools, keep tasks running in the background while I play video games on my windose box. (Keep IRC open in a shell with irssi)
I really dont understand why people dont use the best of each platform. Have the best of both worlds, the power of applications (and GNU utils/commands) on a *nix box(bsd or linux) and the anti-aliased fonts/games/apps of windows. (Sounds like OSX, doesnt it...)
But if you only have 1 Box, XP+Cygwin seems a better option for now. KDE/Gnome/Openbox are still lacking in areas, and windows programs wont run native. Repeat, im not bad mouthing linux, linux is a great OS. The Gui KDE, and Back end Xserver is missing features, 3D features, Anti-aliasing, advanced hardware features. But the command line gnu tools, and opensource applications are great. I'm sure with time, linux will be the better choice for a full time os, but gui and applications support needs to be there.
If they have a hand held ECM gun, you could render the gun useless. Does this mean, you could ECM the police too? The police already want ECM weapons for police cars and helicopters. They could stop cars, now they could stop your gun too.
But then, I feel secure. I have homeland security protecting me from Rapists and Murders. (I laughed while I typed that.)
Slashdot Mirror
Found more info that was quite interesting, pissed me off.
Hughes is lobbying for the FCC to increase the power to at least 5 watts, which would expand the service area to 50 to 70 miles. That would make a big difference in rural areas, he noted. The FCC staff originally recommended that the transmissions be allowed at up to 100 watts at any frequency above 75 mhz. The spread-spectrum technology allows practically unlimited transmissions without interference, Hughes said, but the objections of companies such as Motorola and Bell South helped to stunt those potentially visionary rules.
Well, its been 20 minutes, I was expecting more posts. I didnt know much about the guy, so after a quick google search. Found the Wales site that was mentioned in the article. http://www.arwain.net/arwain.htm Pretty good site too, warchalking info and all. :)
Also he was named one of the 100 most influential individuals in the Computer Age. Lots of article on his use of Spread spectrum, and demoing it at colleges across the USA.
Sounds like a very interesting guy. At 74, doing all this work for schools across the world, he actually understand the need for the Internet and open information. (For his gathering of information, legal, etc...)
Dave Hughes certainly doesn't look the part of a technology trailblazer. The burly, 74-year-old retired Army colonel could stuff a scrawny computer geek in his Stetson.
But the real question... How is he at Counter-Strike!
alt.binaries.howard-stern moron
Hey troll, try to read before you post. I see your trying to raise your karma, good luck, you need it.
BTW, I know there are newsgroups, and p2p, and websites I can download from. They are not easy to download, time consuming, and not worth it. You missed the point.
I use to listen to Howard Stern on streaming radio, but Howard shut it down. It was a pirate stream, we got the commericals with it, but howard still shut it down.
So now, I listen to it on FM radio in the morning, but at work all the computers cause too much RF interferance. So I listen to some techno streams from the UK.
So, now I am supposed to drop my happy way of doing things, and pay 10 bux a month for XM radio. I just do see it happening.
I actually do care where the tax money goes. With children in school, I want to see the money stay local. Computers in school, teachers pay, potholes filled, faster computers in the 911 center, etc.
I'm just glad Washington State doesnt have an Income tax. (Yet....)
Soon there will be a crossing the road tax to pay for troops stationed on the far side of the moon.
I voted against it, did you vote?
Seriously, you need to vote and organize, support your political party with your same views.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - Bill Vaughan
These patches are nutritional in nature. Thou I'd rather have a high energy bar, it could be useful for firefighters or other extreme situations where you cant take a break.
Also, Next time you Troll, get some facts straight (and get some balls, don't post anon).
1/3rd of Americans are not on happy pills, and go pills are not crank. Real medical conditions need medication. Comparing a vile of crack to lithium is uneducated.
-
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. - Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
Hey, mod stratjakt up, hes not trolling.
I thought it was legal on sidewalks, but reading those legal bills is a headache.
Yup, legal on washington sidewalks seattletimes
Reading that site, there is a link to http://www.segwaychat.com/ and links for the legal status for each state.
Checking on my state Washington, its legal on bikepaths but not local highways or sidewalks. Some local highways act as streets, with stop lights, and all major streets intersect only on them. They should really allow people to use sidewalks in absence of a bike trail. Makes a segway useless around the area I live, shame...
Hey, I know how you feel, I bought one of the first MP3 car players, about 550 bux. Now they are so many brands you can get them at Kmart for 60.
:)
At work the marketing folks call these people, "Early Adopters". They make it so the average moms/dads/kiddies can buy them at normal prices. So please keep buying them, and drop the price for us.
Kunta you missed the point, then you backed him up by going where every X critic says, Comparing X to RDP and then mentioning embedded systems as it was a normal desktop.
Window managers with all the options, and X with all the 3D accelerated features, do use a good chunk of memory, even compared to WinXP or OSX.
And for single 1on1 server/workstation remote desktop control, RDP is better suited for low bandwidth.
And to your comment that X Rocks. I had 2 problems with X today, missing fonts, and X being dog slow, using applications over a ds3, 4 states away.
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--zapf-dingbats, damn it stop using this font!
Anyone notice he took a photo of his checkbook on his photos?
/ pages/type07.htm
http://www.multipledigression.com/typewriter/pics
Opps.
So is ATT going to continue to build their GSM 2G network which is still half-assed at best?
i reless.jsp
JD Powers reports ATTWS is the best wireless telco on RF coverage in the USA (Overall).
Check out who is rated best in your market. http://www.jdpower.com/telecom/jdpa_ratings/FindW
How about some facts.
Lucent and Qualcomm are CDMA2000 hardware vendors.
Nortel, Ericsson, Lucent, Cisco, Nokia are GSM/TDMA hardware vendors. Most European countries use GSM vendors, further driving down the costs. And GSM is field upgradable to EDGE and W-CDMA.
So while Verizon/Sprint have 144kbit CDMA20001x, ATTWS/Cingular/Tmobile has 177kbit GPRS, and software upgradable to EDGE at 470kbit. (Depending on how many channels are used for data)
Major problem for CDMA2000 telcos, they need to upgrade their hardware after CDMA2000 1x. Different type of hardware migration path, but they will pay billions of dollars now. Just as all GPRS telcos did initially.
Spectrum.
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Telcos have only a limited amount of spectrum for their networks, both 2g and 3g. 3G is an overlay network, on top of the 2G network. So the telco has 2 networks using their allotted spectrum. This is why 3G phones are listed as 850/1900, 800/1800/1900 (trimode) capable.
I love reading about how everyone bitches about coverage, look at a coverage map before you ever buy wireless phone service.
Coverage Maps.
ATT Wirelesss CDPD http://www.attws.com/personal/buy/pop_coverage_ma
ATT Wireless GPRS http://www.attws.com/general/coverage_maps/covera
and http://www.attws.com/press/GSMCoverage.jhtml
tmobile/voicestream - http://www.goamerica.net/coverage/tmobile.html
Verizon - http://verizonwireless.com/mobile_ip/coverage.htm
Sprint - http://www.sprintyp.com/coveragemap.html
Qwest - http://www.qwestwireless.com/service/coverage.htm
Heres a site with some coverage maps http://www.cellular-news.com/coverage/usa.shtml
At work we have to disable some users accounts on the wireless data networks who have viruses. They consume too much bandwidth, resource hogs. We run reports, and every day anyone who displays virus/trojan behavior, we shut them off.
We can tell from the users profile if its a p2p network program, or a virus, viruses dont portscan your entire network, or spam your smtp servers.
Many users have found things such as back orafice, or other remote programs. Lucky its easier to watch for this when you own the entire network, for an ISP, it would be much harder.
YMMV.
XP+cygwin or Straight KDE, neither is a perfect option for most people. Thats why I use 2 boxes, one with XP and one with some flavor of linux, at home its mandrake, at work its suse sparc.
:>
I think a good option if didnt play games, and could afford it, 2ghz cpu, 1 gig ram, fast ide and run linux with vmware underneath. Vmware is pretty fast, but on my laptop with 256 megs ram, cheesy ide, im stuck with 1 os, so xp+cygwin.
Also, I wouldnt say the only way to make XP useful is to install cygwin. I have too many visio/office/windows only programs. And to tell the truth, I use putty(ssh), and extemely like it. Cutting and pasting from ssh into textpad makes it easy to past into trouble tickets. (Ya, I'm in the last tier for support, paperwork, exchange email, trouble tickets, ssh'ing into unix boxes, telneting into switches, etc...)
Ok, back to installing the new beta Redhat.
(I work for a Telco, my statement is mine, not my employer)
Truth to that. Our security department has to watch peoples activities. People in support roles can pull up your records, or activate a new pre-paid phone.
The good thing about our big brother software for the courts, it needs a court order before we turn on the trace of your phone. So your basically safe from prying eyes, we don't log your email, we don't catalog your SMS messages, its normal Solaris unix boxes that deletes your emails when sent.
All these boxes have sys-admins, and many read Slashdot (like me) and if we saw big brother flexing his muscles on the little guy, someone would talk. But I'm glad to see responsibility with companies, after Eron and Worldcom fuck ups.
What is it missing? I have anti-aliased fonts, I bet my 3D card is better than yours, granted I'm running with closed source drivers. X has many more features than XP, esp when it comes to multi-monitor support.
I can tell you my gfx card, ati 9700 pro, multimonitor runs great. No problems, card is fast and stable. Plus Anti-alias works much better on XP. But I think XFT/Freetype will have this fixed by next year on most apps/x managers.
But onto XP.
I wouldnt blame XP, XPs requirements are more hefty compared to 98/NT/2K. Yes its bigger, it needs more, but that doesnt mean its not a good OS. My gaming PC/workstation is upgraded quite a bit more than my linux box. If I run KDE, I will want a faster video card, if blackbox, 4 meg pci video card works fine.
X Managers/desktops are getting close to XP/OSX quality. But the supporting libraries and programs still need work. And the developers are working hard, the KDE roadmap shows how much progress and thought of users needs have been planned.
So, I will use XP as my desktop for now. Things change so fast, i might even be running OSX next. (-;
Everyone talks about KDE/Gnome as the reason to switch to linux, linux is the kernel and drivers for the hardware. Users want applications and a nice looking desktop, eyecandy.
Personally, I like XP as my gui, and Linux as my server and extension to my workstation. I use my linux box as resources for my windows box. Mount shares, Run services, shell with command line tools, keep tasks running in the background while I play video games on my windose box. (Keep IRC open in a shell with irssi)
I really dont understand why people dont use the best of each platform. Have the best of both worlds, the power of applications (and GNU utils/commands) on a *nix box(bsd or linux) and the anti-aliased fonts/games/apps of windows. (Sounds like OSX, doesnt it...)
But if you only have 1 Box, XP+Cygwin seems a better option for now. KDE/Gnome/Openbox are still lacking in areas, and windows programs wont run native. Repeat, im not bad mouthing linux, linux is a great OS. The Gui KDE, and Back end Xserver is missing features, 3D features, Anti-aliasing, advanced hardware features. But the command line gnu tools, and opensource applications are great. I'm sure with time, linux will be the better choice for a full time os, but gui and applications support needs to be there.
-Brook
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Blackbox 4 windows an alternative to litestep.
If they have a hand held ECM gun, you could render the gun useless. Does this mean, you could ECM the police too? The police already want ECM weapons for police cars and helicopters. They could stop cars, now they could stop your gun too.
But then, I feel secure. I have homeland security protecting me from Rapists and Murders. (I laughed while I typed that.)
OK, there has to be a chinese site somewhere with details on these chips.
Anyone have a good realtime client side translator for web surfing?
Tough luck, I get to read your sigs, you get to read mine.