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Archive for March, 2004
Do you need a license to broadcast ethernet over Wi-Max? I’m thinking just the permission to drop a box and a power cord in some downtown retail store. You can even offer them free internet access. Maybe even install some USB adaptors for them.
That Wi-Max’s uplink is from Wi-Fi going up a few floors to an ethernet drop in a closet, or an office, with 2MBits of a fibre uplink to the backbone. Maybe even get the “rack space” (or just shelf space, for the careless) by offering free (or cheap) IT services to that 3-man law firm on the 3rd floor.
You now have a network. Your very own downtown TV or radio network. (MPEG and MP3’s stream nicely at the mega-bit speeds of Wi-Max and Wi-Fi). You broadcast over the wi-fi/wi-max, and off-the-shelf parts can build you an IP-radio in your car. I’m sure this could be reduced down to chips and a shock-resistant hard drive and fit in standard car radio cases (some even ready with full text displays for mp3’s). You have a TV station, and Windows XP Media Center covers that - along with many flavors of Linux, and BSD. I’m fairly certain a newer G5 server comes with the software necessary to brodcast video and audio out of the box. Licensing for songs can be done at a flat rate these days.
Or, forget the media stuff - how about gaming servers? Or just a gaming network. Maybe you can have “reserve” hours where only paying members can play. Or reserved servers, who knows? You can have lan parties with your apartment complex (if such complex is geek-infested).
Rates: You enter a contract with every single user that the rate will be an equal-parts split of the cost of a) any rent and b) any network charges. This will go down to $15, at it’s lowest. Once we have enough to increase our bandwidth, that price locks in, and further contracts would no longer be needed.
Then there’s the bandwidth. By time you’ve filled up that pipe, you’re making enough money to pay the cost of the install of a *new* one into the building. Then again, you could never make it that high - the rate at which laws will change is bound to increase over the next few years. Tech’s getting ahead of industry. By huge strides. That, or industry’s being re-defined.
Hmm.. something to ponder.
After looking at this repository of images, I’m beginning to think that the WTC attacks may well be the most photographed and/or videotaped event in *at least* American history.
Interesting, that.
Click image for a larger version.
heh.. Senator Kerry… Skull and Bones.. great.
if this is even slightly true, I’d say pray that Edwards wins.
http://www.rdanderson.com/stargate/glyphs/glyphs.htm
http://southparkstudios.com/games/create.html
For those who wonder where one makes the south park avatars, here’s a slightly-more-up-to-date version of the flash program - and this one’s in english.