At work we have open wifi to date the most interesting thing I've seen connected to it was an HP printer. Why is that interesting?
Because as best as I can tell the printer is somewhere the next city block over we only noticed because stuff here started offering to print to it.
The public wifi also shuts of at 6PM so maybe it's a business? IDK.
Haven't had any problems with people printing stuff to our printer however due to the network size and having more than one printer of the same model we have had issues with accidentally printing to a printer in the wrong building.
Well they weren't really paying much attention to the rules before anyway due to lax enforcement.
Now that they've ripped up the rulebook what's next who's going to get an internet fast lane first?
I expect netflix will have to hike its rates again as it will soon have to pay comcast, att, verizon, twc and so on for fast lane access to their customers.
Wikipedia may even start offering zero rated data in the US for those of us who can't afford $15/GB
From someone that deals in used goods the WII U was a PITA Is that a tablet? No it's part of the WII U system. So it's like a DS? No it doesn't work without the console it's not portable.
If one was on the shelf I'd get asked that several times a week
I've noticed that on windows 10 if you try to get to the screensaver settings its a popunder. It took me a few seconds to realize it had opened behind the settings window.
Sounds kind of like what att does here 12Mbps uverse service has 1.5Mbps upload in most places but here it's just 1Mbps as a result of it being ADSL2+ instead of one of the other specs that they also call uverse.
Of course they also advertise the ADSL2+ service as fiber optic and they advertise their uverse VoIP as fiber optic phone service even though its run through the same ADSL2+ connection.
Flying cars Unless you count Alaska they already have flying cars although I think they just call them planes.
The flying car could be a big thing if it was all automated but I dont think that will happen until well after we have self driving cars.
As for maids I think that's a while off yet they just unveiled a robot that could fold clothes a couple years ago the roomba can do carpet ok but afaik there is no GP robot even in the works that could do as much as dust a innovation in robotics trophy collection.
Cars exist planes exist self driving cars are within 20 years of existing (assuming funding keeps up) but as for robots pretty much all the mechanics are there now but the software is not and it doesn't look to be any time soon.
The software required for a fully automated (takeoff, flight navigation, landing, runway taxiing) all pretty much exists already (just look at some of the nicer drones) it's just not trusted because its not quite as good as people think they need to be yet.
I'm pretty sure netflix won't work at all at ISDN speeds. For the verizon unlimited lines I use for Internet at home I've been paying $170/mo no one will provide wired service to my address for less than a few grand for something like a T2 or better.
Back during the broadband recovery act they were subsidizing 1.5mbps satellite connections.
From getting to work on them roaches love the Xbox 360S you know the one with the touch controls? That one. Causes the system to shutoff and/or eject discs at random.
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At work we have open wifi to date the most interesting thing I've seen connected to it was an HP printer.
Why is that interesting?
Because as best as I can tell the printer is somewhere the next city block over we only noticed because stuff here started offering to print to it.
The public wifi also shuts of at 6PM so maybe it's a business? IDK.
Haven't had any problems with people printing stuff to our printer however due to the network size and having more than one printer of the same model we have had issues with accidentally printing to a printer in the wrong building.
AFAIK all the licensed HAM bands forbid the use of encryption so HTTPS is a no.
Well they weren't really paying much attention to the rules before anyway due to lax enforcement.
Now that they've ripped up the rulebook what's next who's going to get an internet fast lane first?
I expect netflix will have to hike its rates again as it will soon have to pay comcast, att, verizon, twc and so on for fast lane access to their customers.
Wikipedia may even start offering zero rated data in the US for those of us who can't afford $15/GB
Not quite the same imho as the very plainly states update available you will not be able to sign into box game live until you update.
Not something vague like error connecting.
Plus if you could find a way to bypass the update check it would probably work.
Tho no one really seems to give a crap about the consoles anymore.
What is unique to apple is refusing to allow the OS version to be downgraded to one with acceptable performance.
What? No off hand I know of the ipod touch 4th generation supported facetime but it doesn't go past iOS 6.1.6
There may even be others IDK.
From someone that deals in used goods the WII U was a PITA
Is that a tablet? No it's part of the WII U system.
So it's like a DS? No it doesn't work without the console it's not portable.
If one was on the shelf I'd get asked that several times a week
No one even knew what the thing was.
I've noticed that on windows 10 if you try to get to the screensaver settings its a popunder. It took me a few seconds to realize it had opened behind the settings window.
Sounds kind of like what att does here 12Mbps uverse service has 1.5Mbps upload in most places but here it's just 1Mbps as a result of it being ADSL2+ instead of one of the other specs that they also call uverse.
Of course they also advertise the ADSL2+ service as fiber optic and they advertise their uverse VoIP as fiber optic phone service even though its run through the same ADSL2+ connection.
Flying cars
Unless you count Alaska they already have flying cars although I think they just call them planes.
The flying car could be a big thing if it was all automated but I dont think that will happen until well after we have self driving cars.
As for maids I think that's a while off yet they just unveiled a robot that could fold clothes a couple years ago the roomba can do carpet ok but afaik there is no GP robot even in the works that could do as much as dust a innovation in robotics trophy collection.
Cars exist planes exist self driving cars are within 20 years of existing (assuming funding keeps up) but as for robots pretty much all the mechanics are there now but the software is not and it doesn't look to be any time soon.
The software required for a fully automated (takeoff, flight navigation, landing, runway taxiing) all pretty much exists already (just look at some of the nicer drones) it's just not trusted because its not quite as good as people think they need to be yet.
What? Netflix only requires 25Mbps for 4k.
Relatively cheap long term storage is the only reason I am aware of.
disks*
How long will it take to rebuild a raid array with discs that size? Even with only raid 1 I'd think the times would be horrendous.
I'm pretty sure netflix won't work at all at ISDN speeds.
For the verizon unlimited lines I use for Internet at home I've been paying $170/mo no one will provide wired service to my address for less than a few grand for something like a T2 or better.
Back during the broadband recovery act they were subsidizing 1.5mbps satellite connections.
It's important that the bar is set high enough because it decides what gets funded and thus what gets built.
Compaines shouldn't be deploying 768kbps connections in this day and age but they will happily do so for free govt money.
5Mbps is only good enough for one user at a time IMHO.
Is Wine an emulator yet?
Or are these going to be super secret HD streams?
Not that it's likely to be worth watching most of the time.
IIRC this is the same gov't that redefined broadband as 768Kbps so our broadband maps would look better back in the broadband recovery act days.
OLED screens tend to burn in.
They do however look excellent! For a while.
Feel the bern...or is that burn? I'm still a little confused from the election.
What you mean like this guy?
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
From getting to work on them roaches love the Xbox 360S you know the one with the touch controls? That one. Causes the system to shutoff and/or eject discs at random.
All the more reason they shouldn't be given an exemption :P
I don't think that's what usually happens but it would make more sense.
Robocalls need no exemptions. Except for appointments I really appreciate getting a reminder a day before.
If anyone is more deserving of NOT being exempt it's politicians.
How is spamming me with 5+ calls a day supposed to make me want to vote for you?
For whatever reason us hundreds of millions of peasants don't complain quite as much as the lobbyists that have been paid to do so.
We also don't give nearly as nice gifts for passing favorable legislation.