If you have a look at the supported players, you'll see that the supported models tend to be quite old. The Rockbox project took long to get where it is. And its functionality is limited to pure audio playback. By now, any players with a screen support additional features like video playback or Wifi support. The features that Rockbox offers are well implemented, but the project never offered what marketing demanded at the time.
I once worked for a company like the one that provided your cheap mp3 player. There were several reasons for not being more open: 1. The only legal music stores at that time insisted on DRM, which is largely incompatible with open source. 2. Chip manufacturers only provide drivers in binary form. They also have extensive confidentiality agreements that made it impossible to release relevant code produced by us. 3. Documenting and cleaning up code, reviewing licenses and releasing or integrating code is a considerable workload and has to be justifiable. I think people overestimate the resources that small companies can spend on firmware. The firmware for some of our products was implemented by three or four people. 4. Our boss hated the idea that our competitors could get a leg up by using software that he paid for being developed.
Why use plastic? Direct metal laser sintering is a a form of 3D printing that allows to produce parts made of steel or titanium. This process is even used to produce the blades of turbines.
If you're new to building cars, you can't go for cheap. You can't compete with mass-produced cars on price and you don't have the capital to set up mass production. If the manual labor required for assembling your car makes it 10k more expensive than a comparable car of a big company, your best hope is to produce cars for a market segment where the uniqueness of your model is worth the additional cost to enough customers.
That's why most small car companies produce super sports cars. It doesn't matter if they cost 210k instead of 200k. But selling a small car for 25k when the competing product costs 15k just doesn't work. Tesla was smart to start with the Roadster. Now they have the means to go after a bigger market with the Sedan.
I don't like it. I'd be switching the language in mid-sentence for no good reason. And pretending to understand a language that you don't, has a lot of potential for embarrassment.
The Neonode N1M is one of the reasons Apples original patent (EP 1964022) has been invalidated by a Dutch court. The new patent is an extension of the invalidated one. If I understand it correctly, the new version describes the option of unlocking a device with several different gestures. You can f.e. unlock a phone in phone mode by swiping to the right and unlock it in camera mode by swiping to the left.
The lawyer of one person who had this spyware on his laptop claims that it was installed by customs officers at the Munich airport. Apparently there have also been cases where the police secretly broke into the apartment of a suspect (and claims the break in was covered by a simple search warrant).
The version analyzed by the CCC only works on Windows (32 bit). It is unclear whether additional versions exist.
Yes. It contains filedropper functionality. Like most malware, it can download and execute additional applications thereby extending its functionality and it can place documents on the infected PC.
No. The key point is accountability. Over in Germany, we've had reports of machines that were stored overnight at the home of a candidate. And the seals being used are the cheapest kind of paper seal, which can easily be forged and probably even re-attached.
Over in the Netherlands, there was a case were eye witnesses suspected tempering. The suspect has not been found guilty because of lack of proof.
It's hard to prove tampering without a paper trail.
If you look at the Contour Crafting project, it basically prints the wall surfaces using a special concrete. They are used like a formwork and later get filled with standard concrete. You could add other materials like steel cables. As a plus, the printed surface has a very nice finish that you can leave just as it is. You can also print holes right into the wall instead of drilling them afterwards.
I don't think the contour crafting project will ever be built at full scale, but the idea is IMO not doomed from the start.
When I bought my Radeon HD 5770 something like a year ago, it contained a Steam code for Dirt 2. When I tried to register it, the code had already been used.
That would also be amazing. but at 167 ppi, your 12 ft wall with 8 ft ceilings is going to be a roughly 385 megapixel display...
So? The wallpaper doesn't have to update quickly. Use vector graphics and a passive matrix display. You don't need a lot of memory or a lot of transistors for a high resolution display.
You can't trust the root CAs. The whole infrastructure is broken and needs to be replaced with something else.
For a start, webbrowsers should notify users if a certificate was replaced, even if the replacement is signed. And browsers shouldn't go into full panic mode over self-signed certs. They're still safer than using an unencrypted connection.
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If you have a look at the supported players, you'll see that the supported models tend to be quite old. The Rockbox project took long to get where it is. And its functionality is limited to pure audio playback. By now, any players with a screen support additional features like video playback or Wifi support. The features that Rockbox offers are well implemented, but the project never offered what marketing demanded at the time.
I once worked for a company like the one that provided your cheap mp3 player. There were several reasons for not being more open:
1. The only legal music stores at that time insisted on DRM, which is largely incompatible with open source.
2. Chip manufacturers only provide drivers in binary form. They also have extensive confidentiality agreements that made it impossible to release relevant code produced by us.
3. Documenting and cleaning up code, reviewing licenses and releasing or integrating code is a considerable workload and has to be justifiable. I think people overestimate the resources that small companies can spend on firmware. The firmware for some of our products was implemented by three or four people.
4. Our boss hated the idea that our competitors could get a leg up by using software that he paid for being developed.
Too true. Installing the Firefox NoScript extension has been an eye-opener for me.
Patents like 7100154 and 5937406seem to be more useful against Oracle than Apple. These patents are a mixed bag.
State in your Terms of Service that the user has to agree not to participate in terrorist activities.
Why use plastic? Direct metal laser sintering is a a form of 3D printing that allows to produce parts made of steel or titanium. This process is even used to produce the blades of turbines.
If all US prisoners deserve their fate, americans must be very bad people indeed. The incarceration rate in the US is ten times as high as in Europe.
They have their work cut out against the US prison industry.
But they're now in bed with trolls. So I wouldn't insist on this distinction.
If you're new to building cars, you can't go for cheap. You can't compete with mass-produced cars on price and you don't have the capital to set up mass production. If the manual labor required for assembling your car makes it 10k more expensive than a comparable car of a big company, your best hope is to produce cars for a market segment where the uniqueness of your model is worth the additional cost to enough customers.
That's why most small car companies produce super sports cars. It doesn't matter if they cost 210k instead of 200k. But selling a small car for 25k when the competing product costs 15k just doesn't work. Tesla was smart to start with the Roadster. Now they have the means to go after a bigger market with the Sedan.
Don't click the link in the parent post. I think someone didn't like deep linking.
I don't like it. I'd be switching the language in mid-sentence for no good reason. And pretending to understand a language that you don't, has a lot of potential for embarrassment.
The Neonode N1M is one of the reasons Apples original patent (EP 1964022) has been invalidated by a Dutch court. The new patent is an extension of the invalidated one. If I understand it correctly, the new version describes the option of unlocking a device with several different gestures. You can f.e. unlock a phone in phone mode by swiping to the right and unlock it in camera mode by swiping to the left.
And DigiTask is owned by Deloitte. And Otto Schily, former minister of the interior, is one of the chairmen of Deloitte.
The lawyer of one person who had this spyware on his laptop claims that it was installed by customs officers at the Munich airport. Apparently there have also been cases where the police secretly broke into the apartment of a suspect (and claims the break in was covered by a simple search warrant).
The version analyzed by the CCC only works on Windows (32 bit). It is unclear whether additional versions exist.
Yes. It contains filedropper functionality. Like most malware, it can download and execute additional applications thereby extending its functionality and it can place documents on the infected PC.
No. The key point is accountability. Over in Germany, we've had reports of machines that were stored overnight at the home of a candidate. And the seals being used are the cheapest kind of paper seal, which can easily be forged and probably even re-attached.
Over in the Netherlands, there was a case were eye witnesses suspected tempering. The suspect has not been found guilty because of lack of proof.
It's hard to prove tampering without a paper trail.
The paper itself is now available and it confirms that the relevant speed is the speed of light in vacuum.
PS: If I had mod points, I'd upvote damas reply.
But photons do.
Was it faster than the speed of light in the given medium or faster than the speed of light in vacuum?
If you look at the Contour Crafting project, it basically prints the wall surfaces using a special concrete. They are used like a formwork and later get filled with standard concrete. You could add other materials like steel cables. As a plus, the printed surface has a very nice finish that you can leave just as it is. You can also print holes right into the wall instead of drilling them afterwards.
I don't think the contour crafting project will ever be built at full scale, but the idea is IMO not doomed from the start.
Reminds me of the Contour Crafting I read about a few years ago. What happened to that?
When I bought my Radeon HD 5770 something like a year ago, it contained a Steam code for Dirt 2. When I tried to register it, the code had already been used.
That would also be amazing. but at 167 ppi, your 12 ft wall with 8 ft ceilings is going to be a roughly 385 megapixel display...
So? The wallpaper doesn't have to update quickly. Use vector graphics and a passive matrix display.
You don't need a lot of memory or a lot of transistors for a high resolution display.
You can't trust the root CAs. The whole infrastructure is broken and needs to be replaced with something else.
For a start, webbrowsers should notify users if a certificate was replaced, even if the replacement is signed. And browsers shouldn't go into full panic mode over self-signed certs. They're still safer than using an unencrypted connection.