The music industry is the least of it.
This phenomena has been going on forever.
We've seen it in the steel and auto industries.
Nevermind music, it's most prevelent today in the wireless provider industry
which is why Wi-Fi isn't free like broadcast and radio television, although wireless shouldn't cost anything.
All the 802.11 devices in all the world could ultimately be
replaced by shortwave radio devices equally as cheap that mesh together to form a totally connected free wireless Internet.
Mesh networking technology for such a system is
already being developed. Only thing stopping this from becoming a reality is the
the entrenched incumbents (Sprint, Nextel, et al) who control the current system
will fight forever to keep the current (inefficient) status quo.
And will do whatever they need (via lobbying and campaign contributions) to ensure the FCC keeps the spectrum in
the private hands of those who can make money from it.
The FCC could easily allocate a small part of the shortwave (long range) spectrum to the
ISM to
facilitate a free Internet. The fact that they won't goes back to the old horse and buggy
entrenched keep-maiking-money do-nothing attitude.
I'm a phyicist, not an economist. But I'm also a capitalist
and I believe people need to get up in the morning and compete with each other,
if for nothing else then just for fun.
It's because digital is a more functional and effiecient use of the spectrum. You can do things like multiplexing, etc..
I wish the FCC would allocate some longwave parts of the spectrum to the ISM band. Power drops off by about wavelength/(2*pi) and the GHz ISM spread drops off very quickly (see "skin depth", Griffin, Intro to Electrodynamics, 2nd ed) so it would be really cool if we amatuer Wi-Fi folks could get some long range stuff wto muck about with.
I guess the FCC would rather make bucks by auctioning off the spectrum to the highest bidder than sponsor some open source project.
Interesting article but it doesn't really establish a cause and effect for the interference. Wonder if this is this is caused by a limit in the digital protocol, a design problem with the transmitters, or if the problem can be solved by improvements in receivers?
If you're that in demand, then you don't have the time to be sitting in a public performance.
Nah. If you're a doctor then you're always on call if someone's life is in danger. If there's a plane crash or a chemical leak then you have to be reachable. No reasonable person is going to expect you to wait by the phone 24/7 and never go to a movie.
Been running Linux on a laptop as my sole OS since RedHat 5.2. (Long since moved to slackware.)
I regularly have to edit make files, install dependencies, and rebuild the kernel to get certain devices working. Of course, this customizability is why I like Linux.
Most devices come with a Windows CD and a wizard, lack of which can be a barrier to Linux on the desktop.
So Barry Ritholtz is a blogger and hedge-fund manager who says blogs are
fatal for an investment trend.
Blogs are small business so of course there's less potential for investors because blogs can have very low overhead and generate revenue immediately without requiring investment. This doesn't mean that blogs are on there way out.
As for security, if the phone is off (not broadcasting) but listening for incoming calls then they could only track you when you answer or make a call. I guess this would be the default design of future phones if they are problems with unwanted tracking.
The whole subject is perhaps irrelavant given that simple economic and market forces will eventually obosolesce funny plastic disks like they did 8-tracks and cassette tapes. Eventually someone's gonna do for movies what itunes did for music.
The irony is that the more the movie producers clamp down on P2P, the cleverer fileshares will become. I think there's a socioeconomic model for this somewhere that gets played out again and again throughout history. Eventually they'll have to aquiesce and distribute online. There's no way you can argue that DVDs are more efficient.
Like broadcast TV and radio which advertising subsizes %100, ads on access points, or browser controlled imbebed content, may ultimately pay for our Internet access.
If the FCC were to set aside some long range frequencies for this, non drop-off (wavelength/2*pi) , and with compensatory multiplexing, decent collision avoidance, meshing, etc. there could be a new growth and a different(?) kind of Internet where the old landline ISPs are secondary to Wi-Fi.
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(wavelength/2*pi) is called the skin depth. See Griffin, Intro to Electrodynamics, 2nd ed.
Another reasonable source for this stuff is the O'Reilly 802 Wi-Fi book.
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Lights up hemp and inhales.
Hasn't this dispute been going on forever? The sad irony is that if you add up all the legal resources consumed by this case and divert them to pure technology you could completely reinvent and develop the entire system.
How does all this help to promote the progress of science and useful arts as set forth in Article I, secition 8 of the US Constitution and for which patents are supposed to have their purpose?
In some perverse way Blackberry's troubles may be a deserved lesson in not adopting an open standard.
Even if Blackberry wins this, they'll eventually be hit with a "hot coffee"
musculoskeletal disorder lawsuit.
So what's the answer? More lawyers, less engineers and invertors?
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And Benjamin Franklin was generally against patents. He declined to patent his invention of the Franklin Stove.
According to Article I, sec. 8 of the US Constitution patents are supposed to promote the progress of science.
The music industry is the least of it. This phenomena has been going on forever. We've seen it in the steel and auto industries.
Nevermind music, it's most prevelent today in the wireless provider industry which is why Wi-Fi isn't free like broadcast and radio television, although wireless shouldn't cost anything.
All the 802.11 devices in all the world could ultimately be replaced by shortwave radio devices equally as cheap that mesh together to form a totally connected free wireless Internet. Mesh networking technology for such a system is already being developed. Only thing stopping this from becoming a reality is the the entrenched incumbents (Sprint, Nextel, et al) who control the current system will fight forever to keep the current (inefficient) status quo. And will do whatever they need (via lobbying and campaign contributions) to ensure the FCC keeps the spectrum in the private hands of those who can make money from it.
The FCC could easily allocate a small part of the shortwave (long range) spectrum to the ISM to facilitate a free Internet. The fact that they won't goes back to the old horse and buggy entrenched keep-maiking-money do-nothing attitude.
I'm a phyicist, not an economist. But I'm also a capitalist and I believe people need to get up in the morning and compete with each other, if for nothing else then just for fun.
Search online before you rush out and drive 15 miles in your SUV to get that latest CD.
Message to the music industry:
The horse and buggy distro system of funny plastic disks has been superceded by an Internet. Tune in or drop out.
It's because digital is a more functional and effiecient use of the spectrum. You can do things like multiplexing, etc..
I wish the FCC would allocate some longwave parts of the spectrum to the ISM band. Power drops off by about wavelength/(2*pi) and the GHz ISM spread drops off very quickly (see "skin depth", Griffin, Intro to Electrodynamics, 2nd ed) so it would be really cool if we amatuer Wi-Fi folks could get some long range stuff wto muck about with.
I guess the FCC would rather make bucks by auctioning off the spectrum to the highest bidder than sponsor some open source project.
Interesting article but it doesn't really establish a cause and effect for the interference. Wonder if this is this is caused by a limit in the digital protocol, a design problem with the transmitters, or if the problem can be solved by improvements in receivers?
Some soaps use triclosan and there are some evolutionary resistence concerns.
If you're that in demand, then you don't have the time to be sitting in a public performance.
Nah. If you're a doctor then you're always on call if someone's life is in danger. If there's a plane crash or a chemical leak then you have to be reachable. No reasonable person is going to expect you to wait by the phone 24/7 and never go to a movie.
Here's the link
Right. If there was, for example, a medical emergency, fire, or hostage situtation and you couldn't use your cell phone .... they'd be a problem.
The cosmonauts are not weightless there are still forces acting on them. It's an old physics 101 trick question.
a Russian cosmonaut will take his trusty six iron and a special weightless-friendly.
My 12-year old just read this and asked me what weightless means. It's some bad physics.
Been running Linux on a laptop as my sole OS since RedHat 5.2. (Long since moved to slackware.)
I regularly have to edit make files, install dependencies, and rebuild the kernel to get certain devices working. Of course, this customizability is why I like Linux.
Most devices come with a Windows CD and a wizard, lack of which can be a barrier to Linux on the desktop.
So Barry Ritholtz is a blogger and hedge-fund manager who says blogs are fatal for an investment trend.
Blogs are small business so of course there's less potential for investors because blogs can have very low overhead and generate revenue immediately without requiring investment. This doesn't mean that blogs are on there way out.
As for security, if the phone is off (not broadcasting) but listening for incoming calls then they could only track you when you answer or make a call. I guess this would be the default design of future phones if they are problems with unwanted tracking.
I think you may get your wish.
The whole subject is perhaps irrelavant given that simple economic and market forces will eventually obosolesce funny plastic disks like they did 8-tracks and cassette tapes. Eventually someone's gonna do for movies what itunes did for music.
The irony is that the more the movie producers clamp down on P2P, the cleverer fileshares will become. I think there's a socioeconomic model for this somewhere that gets played out again and again throughout history. Eventually they'll have to aquiesce and distribute online. There's no way you can argue that DVDs are more efficient.
IIRC, there are 480 US tax forms and 6,000 pages of tax law containing 75 million words.
Like broadcast TV and radio which advertising subsizes %100, ads on access points, or browser controlled imbebed content, may ultimately pay for our Internet access.
If the FCC were to set aside some long range frequencies for this, non drop-off (wavelength/2*pi) , and with compensatory multiplexing, decent collision avoidance, meshing, etc. there could be a new growth and a different(?) kind of Internet where the old landline ISPs are secondary to Wi-Fi.
---- (wavelength/2*pi) is called the skin depth. See Griffin, Intro to Electrodynamics, 2nd ed. Another reasonable source for this stuff is the O'Reilly 802 Wi-Fi book. ---- Lights up hemp and inhales.
Hasn't this dispute been going on forever? The sad irony is that if you add up all the legal resources consumed by this case and divert them to pure technology you could completely reinvent and develop the entire system.
How does all this help to promote the progress of science and useful arts as set forth in Article I, secition 8 of the US Constitution and for which patents are supposed to have their purpose?
In some perverse way Blackberry's troubles may be a deserved lesson in not adopting an open standard.
Even if Blackberry wins this, they'll eventually be hit with a "hot coffee" musculoskeletal disorder lawsuit.
So what's the answer? More lawyers, less engineers and invertors?