We're looking to do this exact same thing. Nice timing on this post.
The Nokia solution is the best we have seen. No need to put up huge antennas every half mile.
http://www.wbs.nokia.com/solution/index.html
But its too expensive (~$1,000/house). BUT if you put a Cisco/Oronaco WAP on each Nokia router you could then service 1000ft area with normal wireless. Using the Nokia soltion as the backbone. Not sure about the software side, but on paper it looks like it will work.
What a pain to read. Change your colors. I didn't even know there was a link in there (in the text) until my mouse went over it. I read maybe a paragraph before leaving.
It's YOU who want your music on the system - they don't even know, or care, you exist. You have to pay a fee get your music on the system! Be lucky it's not a monthly fee, or per downloaded usage!
I would pay up to 25 cents US per MP3. I think that's totally fair... IF and *only* if the over 50% of the money went to the artist and NOT to the money grubbing record labels that currently keep 90% of the profit from OTHER peoples hard work. I'm sorry... but I'm on the RIAAs side on this one. Napster must be stopped and a paying alternative must be used in it's place, but one where the Artist instead of the big pocketed record cartels get the money. I would gladly pay $2.00 to download 8 (or more!) of my favorite songs in MP3 format. Long live MP3s. Dirk
Philip is not a web designer. He is a content and application designer.
He knows/nothing/ about web design. He has yet to understand layout, color, balance, font and navigation in any website he has done. He can take great photographs, talk about open source, program perl yadda yadda yadda - but he can't design a website worth a lick. Web Design is much more than just throwing text and a few images onto a page then hyperlinking it until half the page turns blue.
This may not be as offtopic as you may think. It's funny sometimes when you read posts on here. For example, take a look at the MPAA/DeCSS arguments on the story just a few articles down on here. Within you will find a plethora of people arguing that 'copying DVD is junk not feasable, the size itself will stop anyone, who wants to store 5-6GB of a movie? If you compress it, the quality sucks.' Then take a look at this thread. People posting on how terabytes of storage will be readily availble soon, how new cds will hold more information than ever dreamed possible before. Anyone see a connection here? Now lets go a little more offtopic for just a second. The MPAA is well aware that hardly anyone out there is going to bother trying to copy a 5-6 gig movie to the hard drive or span it over 7 cds. Even compressed, they look horrible. Don't think the MPAA does not know this. What they do know, however, is that the technology of very massive media storage is right around the corner. We are talking about it right now. Who knows, within the next 2 years I may be able to burn 100 gigs on a single cd, or store 500 gigs on hard drive costing no more than $500 bucks. That's what scares the MPAA. I don't think they are as stupid as we think they are. With datastorage skyrocketing in size and reliability it is perfectly feasable to be able to store 5 full length copied DVD movies on a single cdrom within the next 2 years. Now the whole DeCSS and reverse engineering the code is whole new issue, and I stand against the MPAA on that one. I just don't think they are as stupid people think they are when it comes to datastorage and DVD size. Dirk Daring
I have 5 years web design experience, 2 years strictly professional, BFA in Graphic Design. Master in Photoshop, html, Dreamweaver, others. Know unix, Win9x etc etc. In current professional job for 16 months, pay is $42,000 US (no stock or other) in DC Metro area in Virginia. How much would I make overseas as a good comparison to these skills?
>I've never walked into a store and saw a blue computer that wasn't an Apple. Sucks to be you. >I've never walked into a store and been presented with anything except Windows Sucks to be you. >Apple only has one OS as well, but they do have more colors. They win. Combine all the colors from all the PC computer companies all over the world. I'm sure it's more than 5 colors. Apple loses. >Deal with it. Ditto.
I don't get why everyone is excited about these new Palms/Visor/etc's. Sure, I have always wanted one... but I'm still holding out for a Palm with the new IBM 340mb Microdrive in it. They will be here sooner or later.
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Heh those videos were really cool. Neat site, thanks for providing the link.
Dirk
You sir, are a moron.
Dirk
A lawsuit is easy to file. Winning is just as easy in a case like this. No lawyer needed.
Actually GETTING your money is the hard part.
He won't see dime one of 4 grand.
Dirk
He uses Apple products. Why should he start now?
We're looking to do this exact same thing. Nice timing on this post.
The Nokia solution is the best we have seen. No need to put up huge antennas every half mile.
http://www.wbs.nokia.com/solution/index.html
But its too expensive (~$1,000/house). BUT if you put a Cisco/Oronaco WAP on each Nokia router you could then service 1000ft area with normal wireless. Using the Nokia soltion as the backbone. Not sure about the software side, but on paper it looks like it will work.
Dirk
Are you about done now cussing people out in every other thread? It's gotten old pretty quick.
Dirk
I live 4 miles from AOL HQ in Virginia. No DSL or cable anywhere.
Whee.
Dirk
> Oh my fuckin' GOD, one WHOLE fuckin' DOLLAR. Get a life wouldya. Only sad cunts complain about ONE fucking dollar.
One dollar! Don't you KNOW what you can buy for ONE WHOLE DOLLAR! Just dial 10-10-2...
Hey, I know where you are coming from.
I live in Ashburn, VA. The fastest we can get is 128/128 IDSL (ISDN over DSL).
And I live about 4 miles from AOL HQ.
Dirk
What a pain to read. Change your colors. I didn't even know there was a link in there (in the text) until my mouse went over it. I read maybe a paragraph before leaving.
It's YOU who want your music on the system - they don't even know, or care, you exist. You have to pay a fee get your music on the system! Be lucky it's not a monthly fee, or per downloaded usage!
Dirk
I would pay up to 25 cents US per MP3. I think that's totally fair... IF and *only* if the over 50% of the money went to the artist and NOT to the money grubbing record labels that currently keep 90% of the profit from OTHER peoples hard work. I'm sorry... but I'm on the RIAAs side on this one. Napster must be stopped and a paying alternative must be used in it's place, but one where the Artist instead of the big pocketed record cartels get the money. I would gladly pay $2.00 to download 8 (or more!) of my favorite songs in MP3 format. Long live MP3s. Dirk
Go ahead and crash it. In 100 years we will be able to fly over there in minutes, beam it aboard, and disentegrate it properly.
Dirk
He knows /nothing/ about web design. He has yet to understand layout, color, balance, font and navigation in any website he has done. He can take great photographs, talk about open source, program perl yadda yadda yadda - but he can't design a website worth a lick. Web Design is much more than just throwing text and a few images onto a page then hyperlinking it until half the page turns blue.
Dirk
http://www.idleminds.org/~dirk/
Well you forget that Windows 2005 will be out by then.
.25TB of storage gone right there...
So that's
dirk
Great picture! Kicks the heck out of my IBM one. What type of webcam is it? Great color, picture, quality. Can we get a model # here? Thanks! Dirk
This may not be as offtopic as you may think. It's funny sometimes when you read posts on here. For example, take a look at the MPAA/DeCSS arguments on the story just a few articles down on here. Within you will find a plethora of people arguing that 'copying DVD is junk not feasable, the size itself will stop anyone, who wants to store 5-6GB of a movie? If you compress it, the quality sucks.' Then take a look at this thread. People posting on how terabytes of storage will be readily availble soon, how new cds will hold more information than ever dreamed possible before. Anyone see a connection here? Now lets go a little more offtopic for just a second. The MPAA is well aware that hardly anyone out there is going to bother trying to copy a 5-6 gig movie to the hard drive or span it over 7 cds. Even compressed, they look horrible. Don't think the MPAA does not know this. What they do know, however, is that the technology of very massive media storage is right around the corner. We are talking about it right now. Who knows, within the next 2 years I may be able to burn 100 gigs on a single cd, or store 500 gigs on hard drive costing no more than $500 bucks. That's what scares the MPAA. I don't think they are as stupid as we think they are. With datastorage skyrocketing in size and reliability it is perfectly feasable to be able to store 5 full length copied DVD movies on a single cdrom within the next 2 years. Now the whole DeCSS and reverse engineering the code is whole new issue, and I stand against the MPAA on that one. I just don't think they are as stupid people think they are when it comes to datastorage and DVD size. Dirk Daring
I have 5 years web design experience, 2 years strictly professional, BFA in Graphic Design. Master in Photoshop, html, Dreamweaver, others. Know unix, Win9x etc etc. In current professional job for 16 months, pay is $42,000 US (no stock or other) in DC Metro area in Virginia. How much would I make overseas as a good comparison to these skills?
>I've never walked into a store and saw a blue computer that wasn't an Apple. Sucks to be you. >I've never walked into a store and been presented with anything except Windows Sucks to be you. >Apple only has one OS as well, but they do have more colors. They win. Combine all the colors from all the PC computer companies all over the world. I'm sure it's more than 5 colors. Apple loses. >Deal with it. Ditto.
I don't get why everyone is excited about these new Palms/Visor/etc's. Sure, I have always wanted one... but I'm still holding out for a Palm with the new IBM 340mb Microdrive in it. They will be here sooner or later.
DirkDaring