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While it's a big technical achievement, in a world when companies are talking about 4G LTE bill of materials of $50 [1] for a picostation(roughly 20mhz) and vodaphone setting targets for $100(my guess for a full device) , where does this fit in ? [1] http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/09/07/picochip-femtocel...
1) FFMPEG 2) TinyCC 3) jslinux
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It's more than that, I think: I've worked with people of his caliber in other fields, and I can appreciate that they need to work at their own pace. e.g., if he submitted QEMU as a patch for bochs, and it was rejected (for whatever reason), does anyone think his time was better spent fixing that patch? He produces ingenious, high quality code, and does so at an unbelievable rate (note, none of his open source project…
What does he do for a living? I can't find anything about it on the wikipedia page, his personal page and the blog page about his achievements - strange.
Very neat. Shame that 'interested companies can contact me'. Would be fun to know how such base-stations - when attached to antenna - can be used to spoof things and perform attacks. Lets hope that comes up at some blackhat conference soon...
Yes, it is a big shame that this is not open source. I wonder how much he plans on making from this?
Good developer != ready to work for peanuts.
The higher the genius, the simpler the webpage.
I always think how these hackers manage to do it. If you look at the projects in his homepage they vary across domains. How do they manage to stay motivated, how do they learn all the stuff they do. And if I'm not wrong they do this apart from their day jobs. Projects on his page are inspiring.
Considering that this is from Fabrice Bellard, I actually was quite disappointed that this isn't really software-only, i.e. uses the side effect radio waves generated by some standard hardware to do it. Talk about high expectations…
Not sure what your comment means. Did you want a software EM field?
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I like the model Fabrice uses. He picks really meaty, technical projects which most individuals would not attempt alone, if they even think the project is possible. And he comes up with the goods. It would be interesting to know if this model works... umm financially. Very tempting to give it a try if it does.