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CNET is reporting that a 3rd party developer has developed a 3rd party add-on available only in Japan (of course) that allows snitch cams to see through bikinis, thereby comverting them into fully-fuktional snatch cams

MS paid them $20M to change names after it looked like they were going to lose the very dubious Windoes Trademark. MS sued and pretty much lost.

Mac OS X COULD be, except for legal issues. The Open Group sued Apple years ago (link) over Apple's use of UNIX in regards to Mac OS X, and the lawsuit was delayed last year until this year....I don't remember hearing anything more about it since....and I can't find any new info. Apple is fighting the very idea that Open Group has a trademark on UNIX anymore, claiming the term generic. Might weaken their case if they paid to license it now.

Warning: I do have a slight AMD bias, as they're in my machine now. But I'm posting anyway.

AMD, and I'm just supposing here, is a bigger customer than caseoutlet.com. Volume buying is advantageous in buying PC components for three reasons: Price, brand, and component quality are now negotiable. Go to https://my.seagate.com/guest to see an example of volume pricing/corporate partnerships in action. Being able to take the volume advantanges to the "target market" is AMD's strategy. Howerver, your parent poster is not part of this target market, which gives caseoutlet's Mini-ITX box some advantages.

1. Quality--I'm supposing, that with more buying power, they get to see the actual data that OEM statisticians use when they come up with that wonderful MTBF number, and get first pick on the drives that thus have higher TBF hours. Not every hard drive that has the same model number has the same failure rate.

2. Brand. According to this article on Cnet, AMD will stock these with Seagate and Samsung Products. From my standpoint, they just tend to be "better" than the random components that fit the general description of "DDR 128MB" or whathaveyou that caseoutlet.com features.

3. Price. The machine you talk about costs $296/$342 vs. $185. $185 is a lot easier for me to afford than than $296/$342, and I'm supposing people the PIC is targeted to think the same. A 10 GB hard drive bought in volume from the manufacturer vs. an 80 GB harddrive bought from a company who went through a distributor who bought from the manufacturer will likely be cheaper. Same with the RAM.

Power usage is another--people in the target markets don't exactly have the same quality electric service as Western markets; therefore every watt you save makes a difference. And the guy running the server might be concerned about how long the box could last on battery backup. The AMD Geode is a low-power version of the Cyrix MediaGX with MMX and 3Dnow. The GX 500 consumes 1.1W of power. The Eden 533 consumes 2.5 - 5 W of power, depending on whether the above link is an ESP or -N. Likely ESP as the -N is more embeddable and what I assume costly. I don't have model numbers so I can't compare the other components individual power usage.

Plus this is AMD's thing, and they're not gonna use a Via CPU in there when they have their own better solution. Moreover, as AMD has their market defined (perhaps too narrowly by not offering an optional RJ45 port), they can stick whatever components that fit that market in the box.

It's all about market, however. Your parent poster, somebody computer-literate in a developed nation, does not seem daunted by the task of getting a non-Windows OS on this working (It will likely be easier on the Eden box). If he's willing to cross demographics, then it's an ideal solution for his needs.

--sean

Try this one: Why Microsoft won't make your car crash
This BMW obviously has a number of issues, but the iDrive (Win CE) system isn't connected to anything vital. I worked with the Automotive department of MS Germany, and they install the automotive unit in an existing car (i.e. parallel to existing controllers and electronics). The unit is never connected to anything vital, like brakes or lights. It just reads out the wheel speed (odometer pulses), and controls the radio volume. Its main functions are navigation (GPS), phone&data communication (GPRS), playing media (music&video). If the unit crashes, this doesn't affect the car. MS is very careful not to cause bad publicity, since they still haven't established themselves in the automotive sector.

Microsoft has predicted the Victory over Sun over Java in 1997, The death of the password in Feb/2004 (also on CNet), and the Death of SPAM by 2006.

Yeah, the same man who said 640K would be enough for everybody. Let's put him on a pedestal and proclaim him messiah, yay!

[BLOCKQUOTE]. . . maybe if the computers were cheaper people would put money into security. . .instead of spending it all on the cost of the PC[/BLOCKQUOTE]

No, but they wouldn't pirate according to Steve Ballmer.

It could have been written by Dr. Suess, that's not my point. The point is that MSN is predicting the death of an audio format that is WMA's rival.

No, MSN is not predicting anything. You fail to grasp that their entire Tech News site is nothing more than a rebranded listing of all the ZDNet/News.com tech articles.

See for yourself:

MSN Tech
News

Now click on "More News" on that page, and you will notice it takes you to an MSN branded version of News.com.

The medium sometimes is the message.

Of course. Just not in this case.

According to this MSN/ZDNet story, MP3 is dying.

According to Sony, it's not.

But with vcr's you are allowed to record something off TV so you may watch it at your convenience, and MP3's are legal to copy CD's that you OWN onto your computer or portable MP3 player (and in Canada MP3 trading is still legal.)

well, it's coming. see cnet news for some details on a new motorola model.

someone here mentioned that this question was kind of off topic since the topic was tv over ip, but in reality i don't think so given that sbc is first and foremost a phone company. they can hook up your wlan phone over their dsl line, then sell you a cellular account to run the phone when you are away from home.

SP2's new security feature is a firewall. Something that OS X has had since 10.1.

Moving from X to 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 added over 100 new features to the OS with each revision and 10.4 is supposed to do the same. Microsoft can't say anything remotely close to that so don't try and make pitiful comparisons like that.

Each one of these OS updates have been vastly more than mere patches, which come out from Apple on a regular basis between OS revisions, 10.3.6 is right around the corner in just over a years time and each of the six minor updates has included security patches and new features as well.

The list of features that MS has had to pull out of Longhorn to get it to market, in possibly under five years, is long. Most of the features that were going to set it ahead of XP have already been stripped out just so they can bring it to market. The biggest, most important change to Longhorn, WinFS, has been taken out too now. Meanwhile Gates smiles and the company blames the customers, the developers and the retailers for their short-failings with "SHORTHORN". On top of all of that, you still won't see it released to the general public, in a non-server format, until 2008.

The one "new" feature that is supposedly going to remain in Longhorn is the MS duplication of the Aqua interface that Apple included with X since day one. No comparison at all, unless you just have no clue. Sorry fireangel, it seems you are clueless.

SP2's new security feature is a firewall. Something that OS X has had since 10.1.

Moving from X to 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 added over 100 new features to the OS with each revision and 10.4 is supposed to do the same. Microsoft can't say anything remotely close to that so don't try and make pitiful comparisons like that.

Each one of these OS updates have been vastly more than mere patches, which come out from Apple on a regular basis between OS revisions, 10.3.6 is right around the corner in just over a years time and each of the six minor updates has included security patches and new features as well.

The list of features that MS has had to pull out of Longhorn to get it to market, in possibly under five years, is long. Most of the features that were going to set it ahead of XP have already been stripped out just so they can bring it to market. The biggest, most important change to Longhorn, WinFS, has been taken out too now. Meanwhile Gates smiles and the company blames the customers, the developers and the retailers for their short-failings with "SHORTHORN". On top of all of that, you still won't see it released to the general public, in a non-server format, until 2008.

The one "new" feature that is supposedly going to remain in Longhorn is the MS duplication of the Aqua interface that Apple included with X since day one. No comparison at all, unless you just have no clue. Sorry fireangel, it seems you are clueless.

SP2's new security feature is a firewall. Something that OS X has had since 10.1.

Moving from X to 10.1 to 10.2 to 10.3 added over 100 new features to the OS with each revision and 10.4 is supposed to do the same. Microsoft can't say anything remotely close to that so don't try and make pitiful comparisons like that.

Each one of these OS updates have been vastly more than mere patches, which come out from Apple on a regular basis between OS revisions, 10.3.6 is right around the corner in just over a years time and each of the six minor updates has included security patches and new features as well.

The list of features that MS has had to pull out of Longhorn to get it to market, in possibly under five years, is long. Most of the features that were going to set it ahead of XP have already been stripped out just so they can bring it to market. The biggest, most important change to Longhorn, WinFS, has been taken out too now. Meanwhile Gates smiles and the company blames the customers, the developers and the retailers for their short-failings with "SHORTHORN". On top of all of that, you still won't see it released to the general public, in a non-server format, until 2008.

The one "new" feature that is supposedly going to remain in Longhorn is the MS duplication of the Aqua interface that Apple included with X since day one. No comparison at all, unless you just have no clue. Sorry fireangel, it seems you are clueless.

Sorry, but the garage door has already been shut on this possibility.

Basically, a company called Chamberlain was suing another company called Skylink for building a "universal" door opener that operated with Chamberlain's products. Chamberlain cited the DMCA, but the case was thrown out on appeal.

Micro$oft = "Cheat with your assignment"

"The single line coding format that we all use is an obsolete product from the 1950's when a byte of computer RAM memory cost more than a good restaurant dinner. Those days are gone."

Wrong!
http://linuxdevices.com/

Know your roots.
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http://www.linode.com/products/

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"this is the ITAA?"

Remember them making all those tech worker shortage projections right in the middle of the dot com collapse? 1.6 Million, 900K, then 600K.

At the same time the tech industry was laying off workers faster than you can imagine. They did it to promote their H-1B agenda.. Note: They're still at it.

Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage...."The congressional General Accounting Office found ``serious analytical and methodological weaknesses'' in the [ITAA/Dept. of Commerce] reports.";

The ITAA was counting all the positions held by Computer consultants and contractors as UNFILLED!!
Yikes !!!

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Now for a little bit about the ITAA with electronic voting and Mr. Miller's pitch to the electronic machine manufacturers. August 22, 2003, Democracy for Sale, CHEAP!

"Harris Miller (ITAA) Gives the intro spiel about the company and how it can help the industry stave off short-term attacks" from academics and "activists".

"Harris: .. And there can be two scenarios there: The companies may want to hide behind me, they dont want to say anything... frequently that happens in a trade association, you dont want to talk about the issues as individual companies. We have that issue right now with the Buy America Act, for example in congress. No company wants to act like its against Buy America -- even though theyre all against it so I take all the heat for them."

"this is the ITAA?"

Remember them making all those tech worker shortage projections right in the middle of the dot com collapse? 1.6 Million, 900K, then 600K.

At the same time the tech industry was laying off workers faster than you can imagine. They did it to promote their H-1B agenda.. Note: They're still at it.

Debunking the Myth of a Desperate Software Labor Shortage...."The congressional General Accounting Office found ``serious analytical and methodological weaknesses'' in the [ITAA/Dept. of Commerce] reports.";

The ITAA was counting all the positions held by Computer consultants and contractors as UNFILLED!!
Yikes !!!

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Now for a little bit about the ITAA with electronic voting and Mr. Miller's pitch to the electronic machine manufacturers. August 22, 2003, Democracy for Sale, CHEAP!

"Harris Miller (ITAA) Gives the intro spiel about the company and how it can help the industry stave off short-term attacks" from academics and "activists".

"Harris: .. And there can be two scenarios there: The companies may want to hide behind me, they dont want to say anything... frequently that happens in a trade association, you dont want to talk about the issues as individual companies. We have that issue right now with the Buy America Act, for example in congress. No company wants to act like its against Buy America -- even though theyre all against it so I take all the heat for them."

Why should anyone regulate VoIP?

Because you need some regulation in order to keep others' hands off of VoIP so that it does not get strangled.

Primarily that means the California PUC, which wants to license and charge VoIP providers as telephone operators.

It is also important that Democrat FCC Commissioner Michael Copps not become Chairman, because he is the biggest proponent for wire-tapping VoIP, censoring the media, and over-regulating broadband.

Erm... DEC was first.

And besides... AMD has SMP. Same difference.

I think the interface is near perfect as is. What you want are these navigation shortcuts (warning: annoying flash audio ad)

So, the old units are much more capable than the new boxes.

-- jd lasica (the Engadget article's author)

By morning, we had narrowed the signal to an apartment, and later to a point on the wall of the apartment where the TV was located."

Not only they found which apartment it was, but also the exact wall!

I am wondering what else a satellite can do! :)

I'd originally read this on CNet a while ago.

And the (CNet) article points out something of relevance - with so many new devices and what not, our radio spectrum is increasingly becoming very muddled and interference a lot more commonplace. I wonder if existing regulations would do, or if new ones be required.

Something to think about.

And I wonder how powerful that signal must have been to have caused such interference. Either that, or the receiving satellites must be having one hell of a resolution capability.

The latter also provides some food for thought - if their satellite equipment is sensitive enough to find out interfering signals from a Television set, wonder what else they can (and do) eavesdrop :)

What kind of Tempest attacks do take place, I wonder. Satellite Van Eck Phreaking?

~adjusts tinfoil hat~

That would explain why I see so many IBM PDAs in the corporate world.

You might not have seen them, but they existed for a time. IBM sold rebranded Palm organizers under the "WorkPad" brand. They sold about 181,000 of them in 2001. They were discontinued in early 2002. IBM didn't really do much in the way of a value-add, which is why they weren't huge sellers. I'm willing to bet that most of them that were sold went to lazy Corporate IT types who wanted to minimize the vendors they dealt with and/or the brands they purchased.

~Philly

What's this? A slashdot story not about Google? Quick... here's some links on Google and RSS. Phew!

From news.com:
"A Google representative said the protocol flagged by Smith does not hint at a pending Google IM product; rather, it is merely a component used to capture IM data from America Online Instant Messenger and make it searchable on the desktop."

Their products do have something in common

Well I'm not sure about today, but when the XBox first came out the variable cost of the XBox was in fact greater than the MSRP. I will quote a Cnet article from 2001:
And production costs are expected to be an unusually high $375 per machine because of the console's advanced features, Blodget said in the report. Blodget estimates Microsoft will "lose $125 on every Xbox console--and that's before taking into account" sales, marketing and other administrative costs.
linky

I don't doubt that the cost of parts have come down enough that today MS is in fact no longer losing much if any money on the XBox, but they most certainly aren't making a whole lot of money on them either. The console industry is all about licensing costs from content creators. Why else do you think three titles cost as much as the console?

I heard Circuit City has DiVX players: right?

I heard these are way better than DVDs.

news.com reports that Dell is supporting spyware education program or would the CNET story explain the article?

Imagine this wasn't an interview by the founder of Linux. Imagine (most) everyone on this forum didn't already despise Microsoft, and/or love Linux.

Now, is Microsoft a monopolist? Before you answer, read up on your history. Have they used this monopoly power to hurt consumers, by locking them in, by limiting choice?

If that's the American Dream, then I maybe its time to revise the American Dream.

By the way, from here, an ecosystem is "a community of organisms." There isn't much of an ecosystem if one of the "organisms" has absolute power over every other one.

That's exactly what I first thought when I read that line.

Just to clarify for everyone, Kent Savage is the same guy behind the Netpliance iOpener. He's one of those dot-com bubble masters who doesn't really 'get-it' but can spins some concept up that looks great on paper and board rooms. Other people who also don't 'get-it' in these meetings sucker into his pitches and invest in stupid ideas like this without recognizing the fatal flaws.

The fatal flaw with the Hip-E??? They're trying to out-mac Apple. That's like trying to out-weird Michael Jackson. No slight against Apple in this comparison. They've done a tremendous job building brand awareness, applying inspired industrial design, and conceptualizing cool products. While the Apple store is located in a shopping mall here in Austin, the Hip-e folks have one of those ridiculous kiosks in the mall like those ones selling t-shirts with your picture ironed-on that says "worlds's greatest grandpa."

I read the Yahoo article linked to above and I think it's poor journalism for the writer to have not mentioned that Digital Lifestyles is the new name of Netpliance.

Here's a little blurb about them on Engadget.

So Bill your saying it was your OWN fault?

It's also a problem that has affected Gates personally. He said his home PCs have had malware, although he has personally never been affected by a virus.

"I have had malware, (adware), that crap" on some home machines, he said.

remember?

We understand that you are lying, Mr. Gates. There are plenty more where those come from.

Small disclaimer on the Olympus website:

The information contained in this news release applies only to the Japanese market.

This will probably go over big in Japan. CNET has an article about how gadget-hungry they are there.

I swear, people who get their submissions accepted don't know how to link. Seriously, wtf is up with the first link to http://news.search.com/search?q=red+hat&search.x=0 &search.y=0?

there is not one mention of Real Time or Linus on that page. Come on, can't you learn to link to the story?

Here's how you should have linked the first line:

"Speaking with CNet via email, Linus Torvalds appears to be in no hurry to accept..."

I find it ironic that you linked "appears" in correlation to Linus to a page that had "Linus" appearing nowhere in the page.

No, this is not a troll, just checking to see if redirector abuse works.

The first link should probably go to this C|NET story, rather than some random search results.

Direct link to they story.

The 'appears' hyperlink in the summary is pointing to the wrong link. I think the author intended this article instead.

Nobody really cares about SCOX any more.

Nobody is going to buy SCO as an ongoing business because IBM has huge counterclaims against them. Remember, IBM is sueing SCO for stealing IBM code. IBM released IBM code into Linux under the GPL. Then SCO resold it, but refused to accept their obligations under the GPL. So IBM revoked SCO's implied license under the GPL, which the GPL allows, and is sueing them for major copyright violations. And IBM can show (and has shown) exact copying of megabytes of IBM code by SCO.

We're getting close to the day when some of IBM's summary judgement motions get decided. If IBM wins any of those, SCO is in deep trouble. At that point, no spin control will help SCO.

And here. And here.

Could the author have realized how insipid of a quote that was and erased it from the story?

And here. And here.

Could the author have realized how insipid of a quote that was and erased it from the story?

And here. And here.

Could the author have realized how insipid of a quote that was and erased it from the story?

Actually CNET News.com is reporting 22 not 10. That's quite the grouping.

"if th ipod had issues like that this place would be going crazy with pro and anti apple wackos "

Yes, that's maybe because 92% of HD players out there are in fact iPods?

You can read all about it on CNET.

This aside, I find all those reports on locking up rather emotional myself...

*rubs hands mischievously*

Kazza Sues RIAA
The Register
News.com Turnabout is fair play

This is only one of the cases the **IA submitted for review by the SCOTUS.

I'm still on the edge of my seat.

I submitted a similar story last week [2004-10-05 18:44:25 National ID Card proposed (Index,Privacy) (rejected)] and when I saw this headline, I assumed it was about the same bill. Turns out it's not.

There is another bill proposed by three Republicans and a Texas Democrat that would make the Social Security card a national ID, one that would also be linked to a country-wide database containing information about your "employability."

However, since our SSNo. is also required for banking, tax, and medical records, the potential for database linking and tracking is even higher.