4G should it really be 3.5G

Not trying to make verison look bad, do love them, however calming 4G networking when its not really 4G why don't they change it?
Now Sprints WiMax, T-Mobiles HSPA, and AT&Ts and Verizons LTE. all of them are claiming that these are 4G networks, they are faster the the current 3G networks but not exactly 4G.
To be considered 4G, a network technology has to meet a set of specs known as IMT-Advanced, and the word out is "There are no IMT-Advanced—or 4G—systems available or deployed at this stage."
At the end of the day what they call it really does not matter, but on the technical side of things no provider has a 4G network. Confusing? Misleading? then again its all just "marketing". right? Why try to define it? Well because there was a standard and defination for 3G why is/or should 4G not have a standard and defination.
I do think Verizon will beat Sprint, T-mobile, and AT&T to the but none of them are there yet.
I guess I just find it sad that the wireless generation will have their marketing catch phrases that are used to express their leadership in certain technologies whether they meet the pure definition of the base standard or not.
I have seen this twisted and argued in all different directions, just though I would see what everyone here thought. Do everyone a favor if you don't care don't reply, just looking for others opinons on this.

Djsmurf wrote:
Not trying to make verison look bad, do love them, however calming 4G networking when its not really 4G why don't they change it?
Now Sprints WiMax, T-Mobiles HSPA, and AT&Ts and Verizons LTE. all of them are claiming that these are 4G networks, they are faster the the current 3G networks but not exactly 4G.
To be considered 4G, a network technology has to meet a set of specs known as IMT-Advanced, and the word out is "There are no IMT-Advanced—or 4G—systems available or deployed at this stage."
At the end of the day what they call it really does not matter, but on the technical side of things no provider has a 4G network. Confusing? Misleading? then again its all just "marketing". right? Why try to define it? Well because there was a standard and defination for 3G why is/or should 4G not have a standard and defination.
I do think Verizon will beat Sprint, T-mobile, and AT&T to the but none of them are there yet.
I guess I just find it sad that the wireless generation will have their marketing catch phrases that are used to express their leadership in certain technologies whether they meet the pure definition of the base standard or not.
I have seen this twisted and argued in all different directions, just though I would see what everyone here thought. Do everyone a favor if you don't care don't reply, just looking for others opinons on this.
You are correct that as it stands right now, what is being called 4G truly isn't by global standards. That being said, here in the U.S. the monikers of 3G, 4G etc have been used to stand for generation. For those that actually follow the global standard it can seem like a big fat lie to call LTE 4G when in reality it isn't yet. The truth is that while LTE does not meet the 4G standard as of yet, the technology is capable of meeting the requirements. This gives Verizon a little bit of wiggle room in calling it 4G. As far as WiMax, I am of the understanding that it can't meet global 4G standards no matter how much they try. As for HSPA+, T-Mobile might actually have it running faster than LTE right out of the gate, but quickly will lose the speed race.

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[email protected] wrote:
> I'm a graphic designer needing to buy a new computer. My main
> concerns are the life span of the computer, right now I've been using
> a Toshiba Satellite that I've had for 3 1/2 years that has reached
> its end. I'd like to go a longer time, at least four years or so.
I used PC's exclusively until recently. I would shop for good deals and
the machine would typically last about three years and then stuff would
start to go wrong. I cannot say for sure, but I suspect it was a case of
you get that you pay for. Buying low cost goods got me lower quality.
Since video work often runs the components at a high output, its likely
I just burned them out. After the last time, I spec'd a Mac Pro Octo
against some of the built for video and or server and workstation class
PC's and found that the price was not that much higher. So I tried the
Mac. I like it. Not a quantum leap over Windows like it, but its a
really nice machine. But then for three grand, it better be eh?
> My second main concern is stability. As I'm sure many of you can feel
> my pain I'm very tired of "Illegal operations" and "Not Responding"
> notices in the middle of projects. I understand these types of things
> are unavoidable but I'd to minimize them as much as possible. OSX,
> XP, Vista??
I was usually free of these in Windows, only having them crop up when
the machine was telling me it was getting ready to go south.
> Third concern is performance. I'm looking to get Adobe Master
> Collection and run a least a few of these programs at a time.
> Specifically I'd like to be able to run Affect Effects and Photoshop
> without having to wait forever to for a ram preview in AE. I would
> really like something that moves fast and does what I want it to,
> when I want it to.
eight core machine with 6 gig beats the hell out of any prior Winbox. AE
PS, Bridge all together with no noticeable lapse. But then again, no
Winbox I had even lived in the same zip code hardware wise.
> I've looked a lot into the MacBook Pro, its seems like a suped up
> version of that (2.53GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB memory, 320GB HD)
> could definitely do the job, but that runs upwards of $3000. Is that
> really the best way to go? I hear that it is but it's hard for me to
> believe that when I see a PC with3GB ram and 350GB HD for $500. Even
> if I had to buy a new PC every two years that would still be a better
> way to go.
>
> Is there a PC brand (Sony, Toshiba, etc) that's better than another?
> Mac the way to go?? Mac Pro refirb??
>
> Thoughts? Advise? Let me have it!
>
Having looked ahead at other responses, I will agree very much with Mr.
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http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1275/12593931451411a16f89b.jpg
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mrjam wrote:
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Really sorry mods - just noticed that this is in the Logic Pro thread - can you move it please?
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2) Can I abort the migration and start again using the firewire connection?
Any help/suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Attachments:
PhotonFocus MV-D1024-160.txt ‏5 KB

Hi toto26,
Thank you very much for the information. I did exactly the same thing as you suggested for 8-bit, and I were able to change the resolution (number of pixels), exposure time, frame rate without any problem. I understand that I need to coordinate the MAX icd file and the settings of PFRemote.
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Thanks again for the help and I look forward to more advices.
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bogiesan

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I last posted here about 5 months ago with problems with CS5 hanging or crashing. And then the advice was to remove all third-party plugins which I did, I also deleted a whole slew of fonts that had been installed by other applications without my really noticing. Something worked, because CS5 became relatively stable. I was able to work on big multi-layered files. I even reintroduced some of my plugins without causing any problems. But a few weeks ago it started crashing again. It is much worse than before, I can't use it for more than a few minutes, usually, before getting the dreaded "stopped working" error message. Sometimes I don't even get past Camera Raw, because Camera Raw hangs. The crashes seem to be random, they don't occur in relation to a particular task, it can happen when I am opening a file, or saving one, or at almost any time in between.
It is CS5 32 bit on Vista Home Premium (32 bit). I have 4gb of RAM, the graphics card is an ATI Radeon 3800 series with 512GB. (Not the greatest, I know, but it is on Adobe's list as a supported card. I don't mind upgrading the card but I'd like to know that it will solve the problem.) It has the latest drivers installed. I've tried running Photoshop with with Open GL Enabled and with it not enabled. It doesn't make any difference. I have reset the preferences. I have, of course, uninstalled all the third party plugins. I've checked for duplicate and corrupt fonts. I uninstalled and reinstalled CS5 and all the updates. Nothing has helped and i have no idea what else to try.
(The really infuriating thing is that CS runs and is stable on my old laptop, which is running XP and has integrated graphics and 1GB of RAM. It's very, very slow, and I can't imagine what it would be like if I was trying to work with loads of layers, but it never crashes.)
The Event Viewer log description is not enlightening, unless I am missing something: Faulting application Photoshop.exe, version 12.0.4.0, time stamp 0x4d9d8cbc, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, time stamp 0x00000000, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x5b780000, process id 0x%9, application start time 0x%10.
Any suggestions would be most welcome. I have work piling up and I'm getting desperate.

Thank you, Noel and Chris.
Chris, that is exactly what is in the log:
process id 0x%9, application start time 0x%10.
I guess I should start really worrying now, then!
Malware, well, I do regular complete scans. The last one was just a couple of days ago. I'll do another.
A few days ago I also ran sfc/scannow, which reported some corrupt files, which were supposedly repaired. And some files that could not be repaired, which the cbs log revealed to be some truetype fonts (not system fonts). I reinstalled the fonts anyway. Running the scan doesn't reveal anything now, but I don't know how how reliable it is.
Re the .NET error, I wonder if this relates to the shutdown process. I have noticed that after getting the message that Windows is closing Photoshop it then sometimes hangs and I have to close it manually from Task Manager.
Noel, I have checked the RAM, though only using Windows Memory Diagnostic. It didn't find anything amiss. I also ran CHKDSK, which didn't find any hard drive errors.
But bottom line, it looks like my problem is a system problem and not a Photoshop one, I guess, so I really shouldn't even be posting all this rubbish here! I'm still not sure why the only application so far affected is Photoshop, except that perhaps it is the most resource hungry application that I run.
I think I need to make the time to buy that new system.
Thanks again!

4G should it really be 3.5G

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