Alot of people keep asking why we dont have the cool 3G phones in the US yet, well nokia, mitsubishi, erricson and motorola dont want to put out phones for the small US market. With the large ammount of GSM phones around the world, they can make more money selling only GSM phones. Now this is were GPRS (2.5G) comes in, they can alter the GSM phones to work on GPRS networks with less hassle.
ATTWS is already working toward 3G networks, GPRS/2.5 out NOW, then EDGE in 2002, and UMTS in 2003. Check Here for ATTWS upgrade news And here for the Motorola Timeport P7382i Remember that 10 Billion bux DoCoMo spent for 16 percent in ATTWS? That money is going to pay for the upgrade.
I currently have a Motorola GSM/GPRS Timeport P7382i on ATTWS network. Speeds about around a 56K modem here in Seattle. Even using IR via win2k IRmodem port and PPP, so linux should work flawlessly. On my Ipaq, Im upgrading my sierra wireless Aircard 300 cdpd modem. to a new GPRS pc card modem. Should have my GPRS pcmcia card within a couple weeks.
Side note. I cant wait to install Qnx on my Ipaq, after seeing that/. article.. I also need to try that PDA pr0n site out too.:)
Kids can relate to Harry Potter books. (Ok this has been said in many posts but keep reading..)
When I was teen, I picked up a series called "The Stainless Steel Rat". The book was about a kid who wanted to live outside the system, living in true freedom. (Who hasn't thought about that?) As kid who was very into computers in the early 80's and not many people around with the same hobbies as me, I could relate to the freedom level. Calling BBSs across the USA, writing programs, emailing people, my world was a little different then kids at my school.
The series was about a kid who wanted to become a professional thief. He wanted to live in total freedom. Placed sometime in the future when there was no crime. (Other than parking tickets..)
Here's the summary from "The Stainless Steel rat is born"
This thrilling volume in the saga of James diGriz explores his humble beginnings as a petty criminal on the backward planet of Bit O' Heaven, and his rapid rise to the most wanted man on a dozen worlds. And it contains the never-before-told story of the fabled arch criminal known as The Bishop, who tutored young Jim in the higher arts of crime and gave him his legendary nickname. A rousing, rollicking, often touching tale, A Stainless Steel Rat is Born is a stirring portrait of a man who learned to laugh at the laws that bind ordinary men.
Its not the crime as such that makes the story so attractive, it how people take things at granted, and how 1 man thinking outside of the box can get things done.
Must read for any sci-fi enthusiasts. Check out the information at Harry Harrisons site. He has a link to a full SSR story.
1. We automate production environments and put AI computers as fault management, give them total control.
2. Connect all these information services to a world network. (got Internet?)
3. Create robot workers that can fully articulate the human movement, so they can do manual labor. (CPUs still takes bags of silicon that need to be lifted.)
4. Put AI computers in power over the legal systems (Cops, Judges, Politicians?)
5. Have AI keep track on the general population. (Humm, Face recognition at ball parks?)
I don't see this has happening in my lifetime, there are too many dependencies that need to occur first. I cant even get DSL in my apartments, and I should be worried about world domination? bah!
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby
The only thing that ties me into M$ office is exchange server. IT doesnt have the web gui or pop enabled. Im almost ready to install VNC and run exchange under it.
Its a playlist, not 1 stream. The music is streamed per song, the playlist just has commericals inserted by mp3.com. Instead of inserting ads, they just skip them.
People on mp3.com setup radio stations of garage bands or simular tastes. They select a bunch of songs from mp3.com and make a playlist type radio station. If you are an free listener, you hear the radio spot ads between songs. But if you pay for the premium service you dont hear the ads. (Maybe 1 ad on the startup)
Myself I'm used to radio ads, so streaming mp3 ads dont bother me. I save 3 bux. lol
Most ISP's don't want to include NNTP news service for their low unlimited, all you can eat DSL service. ISP's want to make money, and providing a large bandwidth service doesn't pull in any revenue. That's why you pay for a news service that has multiple servers across the country, on high speed backbones. Single NNTP servers miss posts, some are even deleted on purpose. With multiple NNTP servers across the usa, cross posting, you never miss any posts. Professional news services have multiple terra byte servers across the USA, and allow multiple connections via very fast backbones. 20 bux a month is worth these Premium services.
Long time ago, I would run newsbin (windows) on newsfeeds.com and was able to get almost every post for alt.bin.mp3.80's (or something like that).. No ISP NNTP server could max out my 768K dsl, but these professional NNTP providers could. I would have a couple of GIGs of MP3s when i got home. (And a week to sort and burn onto cd..)
The only thing you really get from your ISP is bandwidth speed and an IP. Don't expect much more from them. ISP's are in it for the money, anything that they can cut to save money, they will.
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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Anyone know where you can get lightening storms on video? I use to sit on the back porch watching lightening and it was very relaxing. Now I'm living in the city, something like this would be nice to play on the bigscreen.:) Are there places to buy videos of Fireplaces, Fish tanks, Beaches, Forests, Nature settings, etc? (DVD would be best)
The only thing that will push a computer to its limits is a game. No one admits it but no one needs a new computer to do a spreadsheet programme or Word document.
The problem with the industry is nobody admits jack shit. Marketing folks seem to think everyone wants to buy airline tickets, but we all know pr0n built the Internet.
No one wants to get a trailer on their mobile phone. What people want to do is take a picture of themselves and their spouse in front of the Eiffel Tower and send that image to their teenage daughter back in England
Over in Japan, the most popular thing for 3G phones are entertainment (Pr0n and Instant messaging). One game, you can chat with an IA women and try to see how far you can push it before she gets mad.
For consumers its Entertainment, music, pr0n or video games. Business customers might pay 5x the price for the service, but you have 100x average consumers.
Come to think about it, I bets thats why they sell so many vibrating batteries.
Specialized applications are what keeps the NT market alive. Outlook and office keeps windows in the desktop, servers are tied to specialized software that is not readily available. (Manufacturing, customer facing products, back end support, etc.)
Most specialized programs have been in development on NT. The NT versions are older and have more features. I work for a Telco, and most vendors only have an NT port of their software. Unix or (Linux) versions are planned but would you trust your customers on an initial software release that hasn't even been tested in a production environment?
If you have the in-house developers and the time to write an application from scratch, Unix is the best choice. If you don't, your stuck on relying on what the software market provides.
What has been tested and works perfectly is the most common services Unix performs out of the box, File, Print and Internet services. There should be no reason you would use an M$ server for any of these services. (Well, maybe Exchange server, but that's debatable...)
Seems like common sense here, use the right tool for the right job. I wouldn't buy a gold-plated hammer from m$ to use on a 1 cent nail.
This is all from memory from many years ago, and another lifetime....
Back in the good ole C64/apple days we wanted to stream gfx over a modem. With ASCII and reprogramming the characters into 8x8x2 bitmaps. Using characters mappings you could make little guys run, little cars drive, etc.
Then someone came up with Megabignum (no joke), used A-Z,a-z,0-9,!@#.,etc to have a large set of characters for use.
Then there was RLE type gfx which was black and white bitmaps. (I think 4 bits actually).
You map a 320x200 RLE into 40x25 ASCII type characters. So 1000 characters per frame or lets round up to 1K per frame. I don't think anyone did anything this big, maybe on some demos.
Using this character set mapping conversion was a simple trick, but it worked.
I don't see why you couldn't take this character set idea and expand it with compression and do larger 640x480 b/w 30fps images over a 56K modem.
Maybe someone smart could come up with a way to add color.
It does say, they have to work on a few areas, like Hardware and TCP/IP. And configuring the system hung the server and had to be reboot. So there are a few major bugs to work out yet.
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Neat idea, but id like to see benchmarks and stability tests on things like Oracle for linux and Oracle for SCO, maybe MySQL and Apache before I would even use it for production.
The only thing I liked about SCO unix was Merge which became lin4win for linux.
SVR5 was a little different compared to the BSD and Linux boxes I was used too. Of course I was dealing with some mixed versions of SCO, some in Italian (for Olivetti)...
But now that im only using Solaris, I dont remember what those differences are! lol
Google catalogs open Administrator websites, and some of those websites have no or weak passwords. I reference google, since it does a good job of treeing websites. Search engines seem to be a good tool for looking for websites with weaknesses.
Example..
If you search on google for "myPHPAdmin" you can find databases without password protection. You can do simple things like SQL queries for Credit Card information or even Drop tables.
Lucky nobody has wrote a trojan that searches google for unprotected databases and drops all tables. Oh wait, maybe they have....
Castle Wolfenstien came out in 1992, Ball Blazer came out in 1983 for the Atari 8bit computer.
Ball blazer had the feel and motion of a FPS shooter, but was based more on sports. I couldnt find an original screenshot, but here is one from the atari 5200.
As 3D maps go, Video games such as Bards Tale used 3D type maps for moving around a city. Not true 3D but boxes, but then, these are older games. Even thinking, I think there were some older C64/Apple demos that used Wolf type 3D maps, but I cant think of any at the moment.
Wolfenstien 3D wasnt the first, but was the most popular. People were building upto realastic games for quite some time.
Some games I think they forgot about, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, SkyNet, Blood Series, SIN, Solider of Fortune, KingPin, Shadow Warrior, RedNeck Rampage, and TRIBES! Hell, even new titles like Max Payne and upcoming DN4E are leaps above Q3A.
A real history on FPS games, should include 8bit computers and consoles. I think it would be cool for a list of games, dates, and engines they used. Even a quick blurb on what the developers/programmers were thinking when they came out with the games.
Ahh, I'm too old... I remember playing Ball Blazer!
Tribes based on the "Red Baron Flight Engine" had larger maps than most FPS games. Being outdoor based, (But also included indoor maps) opened the feel of freedom in 3D games.
Reminds me of an oldergame, Autoduel which had extremely large maps, and had freedom of movement.
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Alot of people keep asking why we dont have the cool 3G phones in the US yet, well nokia, mitsubishi, erricson and motorola dont want to put out phones for the small US market. With the large ammount of GSM phones around the world, they can make more money selling only GSM phones. Now this is were GPRS (2.5G) comes in, they can alter the GSM phones to work on GPRS networks with less hassle.
/. article.. I also need to try that PDA pr0n site out too. :)
ATTWS is already working toward 3G networks, GPRS/2.5 out NOW, then EDGE in 2002, and UMTS in 2003. Check Here for ATTWS upgrade news And here for the Motorola Timeport P7382i Remember that 10 Billion bux DoCoMo spent for 16 percent in ATTWS? That money is going to pay for the upgrade.
I currently have a Motorola GSM/GPRS Timeport P7382i on ATTWS network. Speeds about around a 56K modem here in Seattle. Even using IR via win2k IRmodem port and PPP, so linux should work flawlessly. On my Ipaq, Im upgrading my sierra wireless Aircard 300 cdpd modem. to a new GPRS pc card modem. Should have my GPRS pcmcia card within a couple weeks.
Side note. I cant wait to install Qnx on my Ipaq, after seeing that
Kids can relate to Harry Potter books. (Ok this has been said in many posts but keep reading..)
When I was teen, I picked up a series called "The Stainless Steel Rat". The book was about a kid who wanted to live outside the system, living in true freedom. (Who hasn't thought about that?) As kid who was very into computers in the early 80's and not many people around with the same hobbies as me, I could relate to the freedom level. Calling BBSs across the USA, writing programs, emailing people, my world was a little different then kids at my school.
The series was about a kid who wanted to become a professional thief. He wanted to live in total freedom. Placed sometime in the future when there was no crime. (Other than parking tickets..)
Here's the summary from "The Stainless Steel rat is born"
This thrilling volume in the saga of James diGriz explores his humble beginnings as a petty criminal on the backward planet of Bit O' Heaven, and his rapid rise to the most wanted man on a dozen worlds. And it contains the never-before-told story of the fabled arch criminal known as The Bishop, who tutored young Jim in the higher arts of crime and gave him his legendary nickname. A rousing, rollicking, often touching tale, A Stainless Steel Rat is Born is a stirring portrait of a man who learned to laugh at the laws that bind ordinary men.
Its not the crime as such that makes the story so attractive, it how people take things at granted, and how 1 man thinking outside of the box can get things done.
Must read for any sci-fi enthusiasts. Check out the information at Harry Harrisons site. He has a link to a full SSR story.
Goverment passes an unconstitutional law.
</sarcasm>
Lucky joe q. public won this time in court.
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Nanny State or Net Nanny! Where do I buy the software?
What are the 4 circles on the bottom right?
Kinda cool, see the firewire and usb ports, and the dual speakers. Even the 802.11b antenna. The battery doesnt look very hi-tech. lol
How could we work towards our own destruction?
1. We automate production environments and put AI computers as fault management, give them total control.
2. Connect all these information services to a world network. (got Internet?)
3. Create robot workers that can fully articulate the human movement, so they can do manual labor. (CPUs still takes bags of silicon that need to be lifted.)
4. Put AI computers in power over the legal systems (Cops, Judges, Politicians?)
5. Have AI keep track on the general population. (Humm, Face recognition at ball parks?)
I don't see this has happening in my lifetime, there are too many dependencies that need to occur first. I cant even get DSL in my apartments, and I should be worried about world domination? bah!
--
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby
The only thing that ties me into M$ office is exchange server. IT doesnt have the web gui or pop enabled. Im almost ready to install VNC and run exchange under it.
Its a playlist, not 1 stream. The music is streamed per song, the playlist just has commericals inserted by mp3.com. Instead of inserting ads, they just skip them.
People on mp3.com setup radio stations of garage bands or simular tastes. They select a bunch of songs from mp3.com and make a playlist type radio station. If you are an free listener, you hear the radio spot ads between songs. But if you pay for the premium service you dont hear the ads. (Maybe 1 ad on the startup)
Myself I'm used to radio ads, so streaming mp3 ads dont bother me. I save 3 bux. lol
The music industry doesnt want you to pay for a single song, they want you to buy the whole album.
And for a commerical webcast radio that points you to the CD, the one I use does. http://www.tuneto.com/
Actually Proxmitron http://spywaresucks.org/prox/ is better.
On the http://www.mp3.com/adfree/ page it filtered out all 3 ads.
Ok, reading what everyone says the only Secure method to use 802.11b is
:)
1. Disable WEP
2. Put a firewall between your wireless router and network.
3. Only allow the VPN ports
4. Run a VPN client.
Is this it? Doesnt sound too hard, and I have a 486 that would make a nice firewall. Humm, time to go pick up a wireless router now.
x-mame.
mame and ssh are the only 2 apps i use on my ipaq. The only problem with ipaqs it doesnt handle multiple buttons pressed at the same time.
Most ISP's don't want to include NNTP news service for their low unlimited, all you can eat DSL service. ISP's want to make money, and providing a large bandwidth service doesn't pull in any revenue. That's why you pay for a news service that has multiple servers across the country, on high speed backbones. Single NNTP servers miss posts, some are even deleted on purpose. With multiple NNTP servers across the usa, cross posting, you never miss any posts. Professional news services have multiple terra byte servers across the USA, and allow multiple connections via very fast backbones. 20 bux a month is worth these Premium services.
Long time ago, I would run newsbin (windows) on newsfeeds.com and was able to get almost every post for alt.bin.mp3.80's (or something like that).. No ISP NNTP server could max out my 768K dsl, but these professional NNTP providers could. I would have a couple of GIGs of MP3s when i got home. (And a week to sort and burn onto cd..)
The only thing you really get from your ISP is bandwidth speed and an IP. Don't expect much more from them. ISP's are in it for the money, anything that they can cut to save money, they will.
--
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. - Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
Anyone know where you can get lightening storms on video? I use to sit on the back porch watching lightening and it was very relaxing. Now I'm living in the city, something like this would be nice to play on the bigscreen. :) Are there places to buy videos of Fireplaces, Fish tanks, Beaches, Forests, Nature settings, etc? (DVD would be best)
What did we expect, For him to plead guilty?
News seems rather light on the details, how about some urls to transcripts. These 1 line news tidbits isnt cutting it.
The only thing that will push a computer to its limits is a game. No one admits it but no one needs a new computer to do a spreadsheet programme or Word document.
The problem with the industry is nobody admits jack shit. Marketing folks seem to think everyone wants to buy airline tickets, but we all know pr0n built the Internet.
No one wants to get a trailer on their mobile phone. What people want to do is take a picture of themselves and their spouse in front of the Eiffel Tower and send that image to their teenage daughter back in England
Over in Japan, the most popular thing for 3G phones are entertainment (Pr0n and Instant messaging). One game, you can chat with an IA women and try to see how far you can push it before she gets mad.
For consumers its Entertainment, music, pr0n or video games. Business customers might pay 5x the price for the service, but you have 100x average consumers.
Come to think about it, I bets thats why they sell so many vibrating batteries.
Specialized applications are what keeps the NT market alive. Outlook and office keeps windows in the desktop, servers are tied to specialized software that is not readily available. (Manufacturing, customer facing products, back end support, etc.)
Most specialized programs have been in development on NT. The NT versions are older and have more features. I work for a Telco, and most vendors only have an NT port of their software. Unix or (Linux) versions are planned but would you trust your customers on an initial software release that hasn't even been tested in a production environment?
If you have the in-house developers and the time to write an application from scratch, Unix is the best choice. If you don't, your stuck on relying on what the software market provides.
What has been tested and works perfectly is the most common services Unix performs out of the box, File, Print and Internet services. There should be no reason you would use an M$ server for any of these services. (Well, maybe Exchange server, but that's debatable...)
Seems like common sense here, use the right tool for the right job. I wouldn't buy a gold-plated hammer from m$ to use on a 1 cent nail.
Only 1 thing matters.
64bit Solitaire.
This is all from memory from many years ago, and another lifetime....
Back in the good ole C64/apple days we wanted to stream gfx over a modem. With ASCII and reprogramming the characters into 8x8x2 bitmaps. Using characters mappings you could make little guys run, little cars drive, etc.
Then someone came up with Megabignum (no joke), used A-Z,a-z,0-9,!@#.,etc to have a large set of characters for use.
Then there was RLE type gfx which was black and white bitmaps. (I think 4 bits actually).
You map a 320x200 RLE into 40x25 ASCII type characters. So 1000 characters per frame or lets round up to 1K per frame. I don't think anyone did anything this big, maybe on some demos.
Using this character set mapping conversion was a simple trick, but it worked.
I don't see why you couldn't take this character set idea and expand it with compression and do larger 640x480 b/w 30fps images over a 56K modem.
Maybe someone smart could come up with a way to add color.
It does say, they have to work on a few areas, like Hardware and TCP/IP. And configuring the system hung the server and had to be reboot. So there are a few major bugs to work out yet.
<br>
Neat idea, but id like to see benchmarks and stability tests on things like Oracle for linux and Oracle for SCO, maybe MySQL and Apache before I would even use it for production.
Isnt this just SCO with GNU packages installed?
The only thing I liked about SCO unix was Merge which became lin4win for linux.
SVR5 was a little different compared to the BSD and Linux boxes I was used too. Of course I was dealing with some mixed versions of SCO, some in Italian (for Olivetti)...
But now that im only using Solaris, I dont remember what those differences are! lol
Google catalogs open Administrator websites, and some of those websites have no or weak passwords. I reference google, since it does a good job of treeing websites. Search engines seem to be a good tool for looking for websites with weaknesses.
Example..
If you search on google for "myPHPAdmin" you can find databases without password protection. You can do simple things like SQL queries for Credit Card information or even Drop tables.
Lucky nobody has wrote a trojan that searches google for unprotected databases and drops all tables. Oh wait, maybe they have....
As 3D maps go, Video games such as Bards Tale used 3D type maps for moving around a city. Not true 3D but boxes, but then, these are older games. Even thinking, I think there were some older C64/Apple demos that used Wolf type 3D maps, but I cant think of any at the moment.
Wolfenstien 3D wasnt the first, but was the most popular. People were building upto realastic games for quite some time.
Some games I think they forgot about, Heretic, Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, SkyNet, Blood Series, SIN, Solider of Fortune, KingPin, Shadow Warrior, RedNeck Rampage, and TRIBES! Hell, even new titles like Max Payne and upcoming DN4E are leaps above Q3A.
A real history on FPS games, should include 8bit computers and consoles. I think it would be cool for a list of games, dates, and engines they used. Even a quick blurb on what the developers/programmers were thinking when they came out with the games.
Ahh, I'm too old... I remember playing Ball Blazer!
Reminds me of an oldergame, Autoduel which had extremely large maps, and had freedom of movement.
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