so it just sits, meowws every now and then, and responds to touch, and that's supposed to imitate real life for $1500.
I wish Sony would just start making robotic versions of animal cartoon characters, or little creatures that don't exist in real life. Yes I know that sounds like a Furby or some other whizbang toy, but at least people won't be making direct comparisons to the "real thing".
Besides, I know a lot of people that wouldn't mind having a robotic pikachu that actually responded to them, or a garfield, or one of those little forest creaturesfrom Princess Mononoke.
Does anyone else out there think that this new iPaq is still too bulky? I've seen loads of pictures with people holding it in their hand and it still seems like a pain to put in my pants pocket, especially with all the sleeves and add-ons.
I'm not a big fan of having a bulge in my front jeans pocket, especially when I've got my mobile phone and car keys as well.
I just wish they'd slim it down a bit, and shave a few centimeters from the length, while still having it somewhat rugged.
Now *that* will be a great... ahh... err... phone?!
Actually that brings up an interesting point. While gabbing away in heated conversation is the primary feature, more and more um..."useful" features are being thrown into the little plastic case. It's not unlikely that phones will serve wide purposes in the near future.
With that in mind, I wonder if Nokia will eventually allow for general 3rd party development for their devices. Right now it appears to all be closed, but it would be cool to allow random developers to build small applets (no not necessarily Java...I'm fine with zippy little assembly apps). I know there's WAP support, but WAP hasn't isn't exactly a stellar experience. There are issues of security, of course...I don't want someone's random app bringing down my conversation. I'm sure some people will point to the Java ME SDK...but I haven't really played around with this yet.
Anyway I'm sure the first thing would be games, probably ports of old simple arcade games. And then someone will probably throw Linux on there (god forbid).
Wow...congratulations. I can't seem to type out SMS messages faster than about 10 WPM.
While the keyboard is far from perfect, when banging out quick messages while in a loud nightclub this new design has some added benefit over the dinky 12 keys provided on most mobile phones (yes I know you can turn on the dictionary...but still).
Even if I lived outside the US I probably wouldn't grab one of these new phones, but I do think that it's an interesting step in the mobile front. As other posters have mentioned this is definitely targetting the Napster "generation" (teens, some college kids) who love glitzy new features like this. I'm not a big fan of mp3 players, even, but I know my teenage sister wouldn't mind having one, and considering that she spends a lot of time on her mobile phone this phone might appeal to her.
It doesn't matter whether this stuff counts toward a degree or not. What matters more is that it's out there and public.
Students at other universities worldwide can use it as an additional reference. Those of us (sniff sniff) who have graduated and are working can look up that algorithm or data structure that we don't quite remember accurately (probably because of the hangover from the night before).
Not that I can throw away all my textbooks, but this is pretty sweet.
Oh, and as for job eligibility, again it's not about the degree...everyone that can afford to go to college should, just because of the enriching atmosphere and the chance to meet smart girls^H^H^H^H^H people.
...this is what Adam said on this page about how backlighting.
Backlighting the GBA will not work. Because the Sharp LCD is employs is reflective only, any light that passes through the LCD will not illuminate any pixels but simply wash them out. It is unfortunately as simple as that. A transmissive or transflective LCD will facilitate backlighting.
You can either buy a keyboard as an accessory, or buy a converter for your existing PC keyboard (I'm not so sure if USB is supported though).
The same thing applies for mice.
I'm pretty impressed with the tools out there for Dreamcast development. The fact that Linux can be loaded is interesting, but it doesn't excite me very much. As another poster mentioned, there are other ways of developing for the Dreamcast, and there are already a bunch of apps out there for it, like an mp3 player, video CD player and other cool little toys.
I'm not interested in running Apache or some firewall off the dreamcast, broadband support or not. I'd prefer to just grab a cheap pentium computer (with HARD DRIVE) that sort of general use.
The fact that Linux can run on a Dreamcast is interesting simply because it can be done.
So it's made a huge crime in the US. Assuming that it's enforceable in the US by going after script kiddies and the like, what does this mean for the 31337 people breaking into servers from abroad.
It's already hard enough going after *major* criminals who are more visible. Are they going to bust down doors of violators in households all over the world? I don't have any data on the origination of online attacks, but we should expect that *some* attacks are coming in internationally.
Someone mod this post up, and other non-US citizens please speak up on this issue.
The US has had only minute contact with terrorism compared to other countries. Sure, the attacks on NYC and DC were a terrible thing, but many other countries in the world have had long histories of terrorist attacks. US citizens generally do not know what it is like to live in fear of such things, and do not know what they are giving up to prevent terrorism.
I grew up as US citizen in Indonesia, and bomb threats to my high school were frequent, while threats to public places were commonplace. And mind you it was never one big conspiracy. Most terrorist groups tend to be small and isolated even if they do share values/actions with other groups.
Everyone is willing to give up a little convenience for security. For instance, the tube (subway) service in London has no trash cans to be seen at any stop. Why? In the past they have been used to contain bombs. While visiting the UK (I'm from the US) I initially bitched about not being able to throw away my empty diet coke can but given the reason I put up and shut up about it.
Now privacy is a completely different sort of thing than convenience. Tools like encryption are at this point fundamental to all activities on the Internet. I agree with a few posts above who state that the current reaction to the incident is "knee-jerk". They're right...it's completely impulsive and emotionally loaded. I don't trust that the US government knows what they are dealing with, especially with handling the domestic situation.
the virtual "gravity well" sucking your mouse into the ad banners.
I'm not a big fan of banner ads, but I don't see haptic feedback sucking me into anything. The banner ads won't cause any moving or shaking until you mouseover, and unless you love playing those banner ad games, this doesn't pose much of a problem.
The main problem I see is over-eager web or app designers putting feedback into everything, just like whenever any other user interface feature comes along (remember obnoxious java applets and animated gifs?).
Window's answer to crond is every program that needs to schedule something includes its own task bar scheduler that eats 5 megs of ram.
Maybe this is the case for Windows 95/98/ME, but with NT and 2K you can have services, the at util (cron-wannabe, but not nearly as robust), and the for-dummies Task Scheduler (a pretty interface for AT). You don't need to be throwing things in the task bar.
You're right about the power of automation and scriptability that command line provides -- this is an age-old plus for the *nixs. Personally, I'm all for the software build and testing to be command line driven. It can be automated and the output stuffed wherever the hell you want it. Hell, even have it page you when shit happens.
As for the coding, unit compiling, etc I believe people should be able to use anything they want, whether it be Emacs, VI, Visual Studio, Codewarrior, or whatever, so long as it conforms to the build requirements. I really couldn't give a shit whether a java class was made in J++ or assembler, so long as it compiles and tests under the build system.
In a sense, this member.xml file he proposes sounds similar to a cookie.
How is this similar to a cookie? A cookie resides on your local machine, and can only be accessed by the domain that issued it (see my previous post). A member.xml resides on another remote machine and simply conforms to some defined schema.
OTOH I do agree that there needs to be finer-grained access control. The personal data I want to make public does depend on what kind of "public" will be using it.
This sounds like a pretty workable idea, especially with a standard USB device. One issue would be that if someone nabs the device without me knowing, they'd be able to view/modify my personal data.
you could always re-encrypt a private key with password using some password based encryption, and have a tiny keypad on the device to type in the password (like a PIN, but maybe a bit better).
Okay, before you guys start saying that _____ is "just like a cookie" or start making comments about cookies, please read the actual spec
Among other things, in reply to a few comments above, cookies cannot be "standardized" so that multiple sites on different domains can grab it "whenever they want".
From the spec: If there is a tail match, then the cookie will go through path matching to see if it should be sent. "Tail matching" means that domain attribute is matched against the tail of the fully qualified domain name of the host.
Sorry for the off-topic post...but since we are talking about a possible unified web standard, other web standards such as cookies will inevitably come up.
I could be wrong, but it seems like a monetary transaction has to take place. These dude's at E-Data think they have patented a procedure by which one purchases information (software) remotely.
from the actual patent doc:
16. The method of claim 1 wherein each information is uniquely identified by a predetermined catalog code and a dollar charge code, the dollar charge code indicating the amount of money to be charged in connection with the reproduction of said information...blah blah blah
and
The present invention relates generally to a system for reproducing information in a material object at a point of sale location.
So basically things like FTP, HTTP, and Kermit don't really apply. They're not really saying they invented the concept of downloading.
The district court previously ruled that the patent was too narrowly focused, applying for for download, sale, and "physical reproduction" (tape, VHS, CD?) at a specific kiosk or physical store front and not a ubiquitous browser or other software client. I'm curious what portions of the patent were broad enough that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit would throw the decision out the window.
Anyway, it looks like Intuit and Time Warner have the following options:
battle this out in court
wait for the patent to "expire" (4 more years)
sidestep the patent by temporarily finding another way to facilitate online software purchases.
The W3C suggests that "click here" as Web pages will increasingly be accessed by devices without mice or things that can be clicked (touch displays, text readers etc.) By making "click here" a hyperlink to MySQL AB rather than the text "MySQL AB" itself, it could be argued that they're trying to confuse the visitor. Of course this is only conjecture and it may just be that the Webmaster was not aware of Web standards.
As someone else already mentioned, weed is illegal but tolerated, since it doesn't pose much of a public nuisance.
Fresh, undried, magic mushrooms, however, are completely legal and can be bought in stores everywhere. They're mostly available at places that call themselves "smart shops", although I'm sure you can pick them up at various "coffeeshops".
Sitting on a 1GB uplink while tripping out and smoking some herb does sound pretty appealing though.
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I could be wrong, but does the DocuTech cut and bind documents in book format like the PerfectBook?
The XEROX DocuTech isn't far off though. I've seen these things in action and it's pretty hardcore.
It's not just about the "feel" of a book. Sure there's some tactile qualities of having things in a book format, but the most obvious thing about print is that the resolution is much higher than that of a conventional monitor.
Also, until we start using reflective displays, it'll be hard to read documents while sitting out in a bright sunny park. I'd prefer a book over an LCD display any day (not that I don't drag my thinkpad outside anyway)
Um....I see NO mention of Java servlet support at paylesswebhosting.com. It's all great that it's linux/apache and it has some "perks", but I think we're trying to identify places with cheap servlet hosting.
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I wish Sony would just start making robotic versions of animal cartoon characters, or little creatures that don't exist in real life. Yes I know that sounds like a Furby or some other whizbang toy, but at least people won't be making direct comparisons to the "real thing".
Besides, I know a lot of people that wouldn't mind having a robotic pikachu that actually responded to them, or a garfield, or one of those little forest creaturesfrom Princess Mononoke.
I'm not a big fan of having a bulge in my front jeans pocket, especially when I've got my mobile phone and car keys as well.
I just wish they'd slim it down a bit, and shave a few centimeters from the length, while still having it somewhat rugged.
I'm whining, I know.
Now *that* will be a great ... ahh ... err ... phone?!
Actually that brings up an interesting point. While gabbing away in heated conversation is the primary feature, more and more um..."useful" features are being thrown into the little plastic case. It's not unlikely that phones will serve wide purposes in the near future.
With that in mind, I wonder if Nokia will eventually allow for general 3rd party development for their devices. Right now it appears to all be closed, but it would be cool to allow random developers to build small applets (no not necessarily Java...I'm fine with zippy little assembly apps). I know there's WAP support, but WAP hasn't isn't exactly a stellar experience. There are issues of security, of course...I don't want someone's random app bringing down my conversation. I'm sure some people will point to the Java ME SDK...but I haven't really played around with this yet.
Anyway I'm sure the first thing would be games, probably ports of old simple arcade games. And then someone will probably throw Linux on there (god forbid).
Wow...congratulations. I can't seem to type out SMS messages faster than about 10 WPM.
While the keyboard is far from perfect, when banging out quick messages while in a loud nightclub this new design has some added benefit over the dinky 12 keys provided on most mobile phones (yes I know you can turn on the dictionary...but still).
Even if I lived outside the US I probably wouldn't grab one of these new phones, but I do think that it's an interesting step in the mobile front. As other posters have mentioned this is definitely targetting the Napster "generation" (teens, some college kids) who love glitzy new features like this. I'm not a big fan of mp3 players, even, but I know my teenage sister wouldn't mind having one, and considering that she spends a lot of time on her mobile phone this phone might appeal to her.
Students at other universities worldwide can use it as an additional reference. Those of us (sniff sniff) who have graduated and are working can look up that algorithm or data structure that we don't quite remember accurately (probably because of the hangover from the night before).
Not that I can throw away all my textbooks, but this is pretty sweet.
Oh, and as for job eligibility, again it's not about the degree...everyone that can afford to go to college should, just because of the enriching atmosphere and the chance to meet smart girls^H^H^H^H^H people.
Backlighting the GBA will not work. Because the Sharp LCD is employs is reflective only, any light that passes through the LCD will not illuminate any pixels but simply wash them out. It is unfortunately as simple as that. A transmissive or transflective LCD will facilitate backlighting.
Adam's improvement doesn't use backlighting.
You can either buy a keyboard as an accessory, or buy a converter for your existing PC keyboard (I'm not so sure if USB is supported though).
The same thing applies for mice.
I'm pretty impressed with the tools out there for Dreamcast development. The fact that Linux can be loaded is interesting, but it doesn't excite me very much. As another poster mentioned, there are other ways of developing for the Dreamcast, and there are already a bunch of apps out there for it, like an mp3 player, video CD player and other cool little toys.
I'm not interested in running Apache or some firewall off the dreamcast, broadband support or not. I'd prefer to just grab a cheap pentium computer (with HARD DRIVE) that sort of general use.
The fact that Linux can run on a Dreamcast is interesting simply because it can be done.
or maybe I'm wrong... If so someone correct me.
It's already hard enough going after *major* criminals who are more visible. Are they going to bust down doors of violators in households all over the world? I don't have any data on the origination of online attacks, but we should expect that *some* attacks are coming in internationally.
The US has had only minute contact with terrorism compared to other countries. Sure, the attacks on NYC and DC were a terrible thing, but many other countries in the world have had long histories of terrorist attacks. US citizens generally do not know what it is like to live in fear of such things, and do not know what they are giving up to prevent terrorism.
I grew up as US citizen in Indonesia, and bomb threats to my high school were frequent, while threats to public places were commonplace. And mind you it was never one big conspiracy. Most terrorist groups tend to be small and isolated even if they do share values/actions with other groups.
Everyone is willing to give up a little convenience for security. For instance, the tube (subway) service in London has no trash cans to be seen at any stop. Why? In the past they have been used to contain bombs. While visiting the UK (I'm from the US) I initially bitched about not being able to throw away my empty diet coke can but given the reason I put up and shut up about it.
Now privacy is a completely different sort of thing than convenience. Tools like encryption are at this point fundamental to all activities on the Internet. I agree with a few posts above who state that the current reaction to the incident is "knee-jerk". They're right...it's completely impulsive and emotionally loaded. I don't trust that the US government knows what they are dealing with, especially with handling the domestic situation.
*sigh* I'm tired of bitching about this.
I'm not a big fan of banner ads, but I don't see haptic feedback sucking me into anything. The banner ads won't cause any moving or shaking until you mouseover, and unless you love playing those banner ad games, this doesn't pose much of a problem.
The main problem I see is over-eager web or app designers putting feedback into everything, just like whenever any other user interface feature comes along (remember obnoxious java applets and animated gifs?).
Maybe this is the case for Windows 95/98/ME, but with NT and 2K you can have services, the at util (cron-wannabe, but not nearly as robust), and the for-dummies Task Scheduler (a pretty interface for AT). You don't need to be throwing things in the task bar.
You're right about the power of automation and scriptability that command line provides -- this is an age-old plus for the *nixs. Personally, I'm all for the software build and testing to be command line driven. It can be automated and the output stuffed wherever the hell you want it. Hell, even have it page you when shit happens.
As for the coding, unit compiling, etc I believe people should be able to use anything they want, whether it be Emacs, VI, Visual Studio, Codewarrior, or whatever, so long as it conforms to the build requirements. I really couldn't give a shit whether a java class was made in J++ or assembler, so long as it compiles and tests under the build system.
oh yeah...and weatherproof power outlets too.
How is this similar to a cookie? A cookie resides on your local machine, and can only be accessed by the domain that issued it (see my previous post). A member.xml resides on another remote machine and simply conforms to some defined schema.
OTOH I do agree that there needs to be finer-grained access control. The personal data I want to make public does depend on what kind of "public" will be using it.
you could always re-encrypt a private key with password using some password based encryption, and have a tiny keypad on the device to type in the password (like a PIN, but maybe a bit better).
Among other things, in reply to a few comments above, cookies cannot be "standardized" so that multiple sites on different domains can grab it "whenever they want".
From the spec:
If there is a tail match, then the cookie will go through path matching to see if it should be sent. "Tail matching" means that domain attribute is matched against the tail of the fully qualified domain name of the host.
Sorry for the off-topic post...but since we are talking about a possible unified web standard, other web standards such as cookies will inevitably come up.
from the actual patent doc:
16. The method of claim 1 wherein each information is uniquely identified by a predetermined catalog code and a dollar charge code, the dollar charge code indicating the amount of money to be charged in connection with the reproduction of said information ...blah blah blah
and
The present invention relates generally to a system for reproducing information in a material object at a point of sale location.
So basically things like FTP, HTTP, and Kermit don't really apply. They're not really saying they invented the concept of downloading.
The district court previously ruled that the patent was too narrowly focused, applying for for download, sale, and "physical reproduction" (tape, VHS, CD?) at a specific kiosk or physical store front and not a ubiquitous browser or other software client. I'm curious what portions of the patent were broad enough that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit would throw the decision out the window.
Anyway, it looks like Intuit and Time Warner have the following options:
battle this out in court
wait for the patent to "expire" (4 more years)
sidestep the patent by temporarily finding another way to facilitate online software purchases.
Fantastic. Good luck in high school.
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Fresh, undried, magic mushrooms, however, are completely legal and can be bought in stores everywhere. They're mostly available at places that call themselves "smart shops", although I'm sure you can pick them up at various "coffeeshops".
Sitting on a 1GB uplink while tripping out and smoking some herb does sound pretty appealing though.
The XEROX DocuTech isn't far off though. I've seen these things in action and it's pretty hardcore.
Also, until we start using reflective displays, it'll be hard to read documents while sitting out in a bright sunny park. I'd prefer a book over an LCD display any day (not that I don't drag my thinkpad outside anyway)
I agree. The article over-hypes the whole thing a bit. My favorite excerpts:
"[the robot] is not far from thinking like a human"
"But Marvin will soon be learning for himself, so he doesn't need his creator"
"His voice recognition will be advanced, so that he accepts commands only from his creators."
"Once Marvin is completely functional his skills can be applied to anything."
This is pretty good.
Um....I see NO mention of Java servlet support at paylesswebhosting.com. It's all great that it's linux/apache and it has some "perks", but I think we're trying to identify places with cheap servlet hosting.