Simple. $30.00 rechargable pay per use cellphone, and a $10.00 100 minute time card. Now not only do you have an emergency phone you can dial 911 with, but you have one that can be used anywhere (as long as its charged or plugged in) you can take it to your car, etc.
And really in most emergencies you dont just need to dial 911, husband/wife, kids doctor etc.
And most of the time cards are good for 1 year, some for longer.
Alot of people point out, why not just call your friends up. What this system does is lets "internet friends" know where you are, so lets say you have 5 friends in real life, but hundreds on this site (your a bit of a shut in, we know) This will let those "internet friends" find you and meet up.
Say there is someone who you have as a friend listed in your city, and you get a message from them saying, at mall, while you are in the mall, this would allow a great way for social interaction with people you havent meet, but know you have something in common with.
Ill be the first to admit I know nothing about astronomy, or telescopes, but would this be a better solution to the large expensive singular telescopes?
Why not setup dozens of these telescopes in an area, hooked to computers, seems like it would be faster to have many charting the solar system then a single one.
I know their are limitations on distances these can umm "see", but it seems like this would be a good solution for finding items in our solar system.....
Yes but when you own all the ideas for technologies, there are no other options available to the consumers, so people will be forced to use their technologies.
"So mostly this looks like a low-end ipod, 31% bulkier, with a quarter the cache, and $50 more expensive. In what way is this "better"?"
I think you might have missed the BIG freaking color lcd screen on the two main products your referencing.
These are not just storage and MP3 players, they are mutli media players, they also have games and other useful software on them. So I think with a screen that size, SUPRISE its going to be bigger and weigh more.
"I keep my browser open all the time (including a tab to gmail) and it refreshes automatically. I don't see the benefit, unless having Yet More processes running is a good thing."
Because having an extra tab open in your browser that refreshes automatically dosen't use any more machine processes right?
2 gigs is at the point where 99.9% of your customers will never use this much space, why not offer UNLIMITED! space, and only restrict daily data transfer, space costs these places nothing, but transfering emails does.
Unlimited space, and up to 100 mb email transfer a day.
Both of my cd burners (among many I have bought in the past) came with Nero CD's as the burning software for these CD burners.
So if I want to play a game with this copy protection, I wont be able to burn CD's anymore?
Power management.
When you pull out your power plug, your screen dims, cpu drops 30% hard drive slows down
at 40% power, everything drops to only 30-50% normal quality/speed.
Its something to save battery life.
How did this get marked as flamebait? Its a fact that this is how Apple has worked in the past. No compatition for manufactures of hardware, no compatition for mac machines, the itunes, fairplay, and now case mods.
Full well knowing that the prior art is there, and the fact that Apple would patent this idea shows that they are not above trying to lock competition out of innovation.
My car stereo can do this, change lcd colors, movable animated images on the screen, buttons that can have colors changed from a program.
Yes it does include the ability to control it from software, but that still doesn't mean they can not use this patent to control the ability to sell modified cases for Macs.
Case mods are popular in the PC world, well now it will be popular for Macs, with Apple being the only person legal to sell the mods.
Way to go Apple, what are you going to do to lock your customers, and competitors out of the game next?
Don't quote me on this, but from the way it sounds the technology involved has changed so much that the old drivers will not work properly (though they may function somewhat)....
Waiting for new drivers would be the best idea, price will go down, and will save you some cash on aspirin.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/2004080 6105201.html
"GeForce 6600 GT cards come with a 500 MHz clock and memory rate, 128-bit (GDDR3, 128 MB) and will cost $200-230, GeForce 6600 with 128-bit bus (GDDR, 128 MB) will cost $150. According to preliminary results and unconfirmed tests GeForce 6600 GT performs 20% better than RADEON 9800XT. "
Links to information about this report, unrelated to the open source ideas, basically good information for people in cali.
http://report.cpr.ca.gov/
Also a article about how arnalds reform plan "echos" bushes plans.
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0809/news-cal if-08-09-04.asp
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http://spam.weblogsinc.com/entry/4463682046968893/
Link goes to quote, plus more links backing up this data....
"A study released this week by Commtouch reveals that about 55% of all spam originates in the United States, and that more than 73% of spam refers to websites which are hosted in China.
Ninety-nine percent of all websites mentioned in spam sample analyzed by Commtouch were hosted in China, South Korea, the United States, Russia, or Brazil"
Here is another link, with a more detailed article.
http://www.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml? articleId=22103058
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Link to pictures of machine, along with many details about what you get.
http://www.aolcheckout.com/applications/searchtool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1032073
some info.
Systemax AOL
Intel Celeron 2.0GHz /
Microsoft Windows XP Home /
17-inch CRT /
256MB DDR /
40GB HDD /
CD-ROM /
Lexmark Ink Jet Printer /
1 Year Warranty / Desktop PC
With them including the monitor, printer, and xp, this is a fairly good deal. Yes you end up having to pay the 25 a month for aol, but most people would be spending this anyways on some type of internet conection or another.
" the importance of protecting and respecting copyrighted works "
I'm sure the only focuses on protecting copyrighted works will be teaching them to fear how others will protect THEIR copyrighted works.
While their at it why don't they teach these children ethics and reasonability. I think these two focused ideals would negate any need to teach people to fear copyrighted works, and hell it might even help teach children to have respect for them selves and others (negating depression and low self esteem, and how fighting and crimes are wrong).
Not in this lifetime I suppose.
What do you expect from a country where education and intelligence is not a "High priority"?
Education is competition, meaning tomorrow's educated students, who become business men could be your next big competitor. And as everyone knows in the USA people don't matter, Big business does.
Yes business's would not be around if people couldn't buy their products, so they (we) get paid just enough to buy their products.
And for those who can't afford it, that's what credit cards are for.
We are losing a battle, not just with the rest of the world dealing with education, business, ethics(?) but a battle of bettering ourselves and giving our children a chance to survive in the future.
I write software for kiosks, Internet, ad based etc. We deal with coin, bill, credit cards, pay per use cards etc.
All we ever needed to do was contact the companies that we wanted to support, and they would always supply is with documentation, and even source code.
All that we needed to say was, we want to support your and we need specifications. Within a few days we always get it...
The main thing with this type of hardware, is 9 out of 10 the manufacture only supplies them to companies that will be supplying their own type of interface to the bill validator, so they always have some type of spec sheet available to developers.
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Would that make all the claims from IMB with SCO and licenses, voided (meaning that if linux was considered a ripped off version of unix).
Simple.
$30.00 rechargable pay per use cellphone, and a $10.00 100 minute time card. Now not only do you have an emergency phone you can dial 911 with, but you have one that can be used anywhere (as long as its charged or plugged in) you can take it to your car, etc.
And really in most emergencies you dont just need to dial 911, husband/wife, kids doctor etc.
And most of the time cards are good for 1 year, some for longer.
Alot of people point out, why not just call your friends up. What this system does is lets "internet friends" know where you are, so lets say you have 5 friends in real life, but hundreds on this site (your a bit of a shut in, we know) This will let those "internet friends" find you and meet up.
Say there is someone who you have as a friend listed in your city, and you get a message from them saying, at mall, while you are in the mall, this would allow a great way for social interaction with people you havent meet, but know you have something in common with.
Ill be the first to admit I know nothing about astronomy, or telescopes, but would this be a better solution to the large expensive singular telescopes? Why not setup dozens of these telescopes in an area, hooked to computers, seems like it would be faster to have many charting the solar system then a single one. I know their are limitations on distances these can umm "see", but it seems like this would be a good solution for finding items in our solar system.....
Yes but when you own all the ideas for technologies, there are no other options available to the consumers, so people will be forced to use their technologies.
"So mostly this looks like a low-end ipod, 31% bulkier, with a quarter the cache, and $50 more expensive. In what way is this "better"?" I think you might have missed the BIG freaking color lcd screen on the two main products your referencing. These are not just storage and MP3 players, they are mutli media players, they also have games and other useful software on them. So I think with a screen that size, SUPRISE its going to be bigger and weigh more.
This world is dead to me.
"I keep my browser open all the time (including a tab to gmail) and it refreshes automatically. I don't see the benefit, unless having Yet More processes running is a good thing." Because having an extra tab open in your browser that refreshes automatically dosen't use any more machine processes right?
2 gigs is at the point where 99.9% of your customers will never use this much space, why not offer UNLIMITED! space, and only restrict daily data transfer, space costs these places nothing, but transfering emails does. Unlimited space, and up to 100 mb email transfer a day.
Both of my cd burners (among many I have bought in the past) came with Nero CD's as the burning software for these CD burners. So if I want to play a game with this copy protection, I wont be able to burn CD's anymore?
Power management. When you pull out your power plug, your screen dims, cpu drops 30% hard drive slows down at 40% power, everything drops to only 30-50% normal quality/speed. Its something to save battery life.
How did this get marked as flamebait? Its a fact that this is how Apple has worked in the past. No compatition for manufactures of hardware, no compatition for mac machines, the itunes, fairplay, and now case mods.
http://west.cmu.edu/executive/pdc/projects/pctvt/p ctvt.htm
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http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2004/03/13/
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow
Full well knowing that the prior art is there, and the fact that Apple would patent this idea shows that they are not above trying to lock competition out of innovation. My car stereo can do this, change lcd colors, movable animated images on the screen, buttons that can have colors changed from a program. Yes it does include the ability to control it from software, but that still doesn't mean they can not use this patent to control the ability to sell modified cases for Macs. Case mods are popular in the PC world, well now it will be popular for Macs, with Apple being the only person legal to sell the mods. Way to go Apple, what are you going to do to lock your customers, and competitors out of the game next?
Don't quote me on this, but from the way it sounds the technology involved has changed so much that the old drivers will not work properly (though they may function somewhat).... Waiting for new drivers would be the best idea, price will go down, and will save you some cash on aspirin.
http://www.finclockers.com/uutiskuvat/GeForce6600. pdf
Just in case anyone wants to check it out.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/2004080 6105201.html
"GeForce 6600 GT cards come with a 500 MHz clock and memory rate, 128-bit (GDDR3, 128 MB) and will cost $200-230, GeForce 6600 with 128-bit bus (GDDR, 128 MB) will cost $150. According to preliminary results and unconfirmed tests GeForce 6600 GT performs 20% better than RADEON 9800XT. "
Links to information about this report, unrelated to the open source ideas, basically good information for people in cali. http://report.cpr.ca.gov/ Also a article about how arnalds reform plan "echos" bushes plans. http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0809/news-cal if-08-09-04.asp
http://spam.weblogsinc.com/entry/4463682046968893/
Link goes to quote, plus more links backing up this data....
"A study released this week by Commtouch reveals that about 55% of all spam originates in the United States, and that more than 73% of spam refers to websites which are hosted in China.
Ninety-nine percent of all websites mentioned in spam sample analyzed by Commtouch were hosted in China, South Korea, the United States, Russia, or Brazil"
Here is another link, with a more detailed article.
http://www.securitypipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml? articleId=22103058
Link to pictures of machine, along with many details about what you get. http://www.aolcheckout.com/applications/searchtool s/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1032073
some info. Systemax AOL Intel Celeron 2.0GHz / Microsoft Windows XP Home / 17-inch CRT / 256MB DDR / 40GB HDD / CD-ROM / Lexmark Ink Jet Printer / 1 Year Warranty / Desktop PC With them including the monitor, printer, and xp, this is a fairly good deal. Yes you end up having to pay the 25 a month for aol, but most people would be spending this anyways on some type of internet conection or another.
anti virus, mp3 player, web browser.
ms word, spread sheet, email.
spyware, spyware, spyware.
Doesnt leave too much space for usablity.
" the importance of protecting and respecting copyrighted works " I'm sure the only focuses on protecting copyrighted works will be teaching them to fear how others will protect THEIR copyrighted works. While their at it why don't they teach these children ethics and reasonability. I think these two focused ideals would negate any need to teach people to fear copyrighted works, and hell it might even help teach children to have respect for them selves and others (negating depression and low self esteem, and how fighting and crimes are wrong). Not in this lifetime I suppose.
What do you expect from a country where education and intelligence is not a "High priority"? Education is competition, meaning tomorrow's educated students, who become business men could be your next big competitor. And as everyone knows in the USA people don't matter, Big business does. Yes business's would not be around if people couldn't buy their products, so they (we) get paid just enough to buy their products. And for those who can't afford it, that's what credit cards are for. We are losing a battle, not just with the rest of the world dealing with education, business, ethics(?) but a battle of bettering ourselves and giving our children a chance to survive in the future.
I write software for kiosks, Internet, ad based etc. We deal with coin, bill, credit cards, pay per use cards etc.
All we ever needed to do was contact the companies that we wanted to support, and they would always supply is with documentation, and even source code.
All that we needed to say was, we want to support your and we need specifications. Within a few days we always get it...
The main thing with this type of hardware, is 9 out of 10 the manufacture only supplies them to companies that will be supplying their own type of interface to the bill validator, so they always have some type of spec sheet available to developers.