Well... I guess something would have to spin in order to be able to read it, except if you are able to take a picture of the whole plate that is precise enough to catch the details of the ones and zeroes on the disc.
I guess this kind of advancement could give birth to disc-sized BluRay or DVD readers, since it is probably, along with the DC motor, the biggest moving part in a DVD assembly... Good for the laptop and ultraportable industry!
It's just like the fuel tank in my gas-hungry 300M... I can go 300km before I hit the half empty mark, but only 125km before it's empty.
On another (more geeky) note, it's also like the progress bar of any install program. It take 2 minutes to get to 98% done, and another 5 minutes before the install is actually completed.
Progress bars, meters and measurement instruments are there only to give you an approximate indication of where you are compared to where you were. Some are more precise (ruler, multimeter) than others (battery life, signal strenght).
If you want a real revolution, simply making the screen a *touchscreen* would be great, not trying to change the surface material of the touchpad, which people generally hate anyway...
Yes, we know, but it's way more cool to think of it as a spray! We can dream of spraying our plasma TV, PS3 and RockBand drum set so we can play gigs underwater for hours!
Yes, but imagine how cool it is; for 1000$, you can go in water as many times as you wish with your tech gizmos. You don't have to buy a new one every time you work in your hot tub!
At first, you were probably free to choose between a 1 year contract for x$ per month, and no contract for x$+10$ per month. Yes, it's capitalist, but you were free at first, and you have told yourself "nah, I'm not gonna pay 120$ more for the year just in case I'd like to change ISP..."
I have my personal bank account at Scotiabank in Canada, and I have a MasterCard credit card with another company.
On my bank's website, all I need to have is my banking card number and a password, and that's about it for the security features. If I were an average user, I could easily be fooled by a forged website reproducing my bank website and asking me for personal information. Fortunately, THERE'S A WARNING ON THE FRONT PAGE, right beside the month's special promotion and the [Contact Us] link, telling me that the bank never sends an EMail with an enclosed link to their online banking website...
On the other hand, on my credit card company website, they first asked me for a security picture and a security passphrase, and they told me at first that, whatever the page I'm on on their website, once I'm logged in, I should see both the picture and the security passphrase. Also, when I login, I have to use a username and a password, so someone who knows my credit card number could not know what username I have on the website, and they ask me for my home phone number or my city of residence or my mother's maiden name... And the only thing I could do on this website is to view my credit card statement, WITHOUT my credit card number nor any information that could lead to identity theft...
So I think my bank is WAY behind the market on the security technologies side, since someone could transfer all my money to another bank account and they only ask for two very simple informations in order to be able to do that...
At least, the guy didn't go to work on his last day of work with a gun, shoot the people and kill himself... He does have some stability issues, but he still has some morale.
...if they're able to charge your car in 10 to 15 minutes! Otherwise, except if you're at your destination and your car is waiting at the parkometer, will you really wait 4 to 8 hours for your car to be 85% to fully charged?
Those of you who will say that it's impossible to recharge a car in 10 to 15 minutes, I'll just tell you that Altair Nanotechnologies builds a battery pack that can do the job, it just needs the proper infrastructure to send enough amps and volts to the car.
So they designed Windows Vista. It allows all of that, but asks you the question before doing so... That is *WAY* better for my brother in law who's watching porn, he can now get infected being asked by his computer right before...
Don't know what an antivirus and firewall are? A good Linux firewall does a great job hiding that you're shamefully using an unlicensed version of Windows XP...
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I didn't know you'd only need a microscope to stop cancer...
Well... I guess something would have to spin in order to be able to read it, except if you are able to take a picture of the whole plate that is precise enough to catch the details of the ones and zeroes on the disc.
Mmmmmmmm... maybe I could get a patent on that!
I guess this kind of advancement could give birth to disc-sized BluRay or DVD readers, since it is probably, along with the DC motor, the biggest moving part in a DVD assembly... Good for the laptop and ultraportable industry!
It's just like the fuel tank in my gas-hungry 300M... I can go 300km before I hit the half empty mark, but only 125km before it's empty.
On another (more geeky) note, it's also like the progress bar of any install program. It take 2 minutes to get to 98% done, and another 5 minutes before the install is actually completed.
Progress bars, meters and measurement instruments are there only to give you an approximate indication of where you are compared to where you were. Some are more precise (ruler, multimeter) than others (battery life, signal strenght).
Well... that was implicit... Didn't look like it, but it was ;-)
If you want a real revolution, simply making the screen a *touchscreen* would be great, not trying to change the surface material of the touchpad, which people generally hate anyway...
Yes, we know, but it's way more cool to think of it as a spray! We can dream of spraying our plasma TV, PS3 and RockBand drum set so we can play gigs underwater for hours!
Yes, but imagine how cool it is; for 1000$, you can go in water as many times as you wish with your tech gizmos. You don't have to buy a new one every time you work in your hot tub!
I guess they hired a team from the "Robot Wars" TV show, they always have a weapon that get stuck...
At first, you were probably free to choose between a 1 year contract for x$ per month, and no contract for x$+10$ per month. Yes, it's capitalist, but you were free at first, and you have told yourself "nah, I'm not gonna pay 120$ more for the year just in case I'd like to change ISP..."
Round robin, forged sites... All this can fool you into thinking you're at the right place...
Don't we already all have our own patched DNS servers at home?
Pisser. Coward. Chicken. Low-end. F**ker.
You deserve my darwin award for the year. Maybe even for the century, you yellow.
haven't you read at least one or two spam e-mails before you did a mass delete?
Get a life, stop reading your spams!
HTML tags go between < and > symbols, not between [brackets]... ;-)
So he really regrets for the mess he's done? There are better ways to apologize than to escape prison!
I have my personal bank account at Scotiabank in Canada, and I have a MasterCard credit card with another company.
On my bank's website, all I need to have is my banking card number and a password, and that's about it for the security features. If I were an average user, I could easily be fooled by a forged website reproducing my bank website and asking me for personal information. Fortunately, THERE'S A WARNING ON THE FRONT PAGE, right beside the month's special promotion and the [Contact Us] link, telling me that the bank never sends an EMail with an enclosed link to their online banking website...
On the other hand, on my credit card company website, they first asked me for a security picture and a security passphrase, and they told me at first that, whatever the page I'm on on their website, once I'm logged in, I should see both the picture and the security passphrase. Also, when I login, I have to use a username and a password, so someone who knows my credit card number could not know what username I have on the website, and they ask me for my home phone number or my city of residence or my mother's maiden name... And the only thing I could do on this website is to view my credit card statement, WITHOUT my credit card number nor any information that could lead to identity theft...
So I think my bank is WAY behind the market on the security technologies side, since someone could transfer all my money to another bank account and they only ask for two very simple informations in order to be able to do that...
At least, the guy didn't go to work on his last day of work with a gun, shoot the people and kill himself... He does have some stability issues, but he still has some morale.
...if they're able to charge your car in 10 to 15 minutes! Otherwise, except if you're at your destination and your car is waiting at the parkometer, will you really wait 4 to 8 hours for your car to be 85% to fully charged?
Those of you who will say that it's impossible to recharge a car in 10 to 15 minutes, I'll just tell you that Altair Nanotechnologies builds a battery pack that can do the job, it just needs the proper infrastructure to send enough amps and volts to the car.
Do you really think your IPhone will last long enough to need this leading zero? Except for the *coolness*, it will be *useless*...
they could start producing products without gaping security holes
You mean they would throw Windows code down the toilet and rewrite it from scratch?
So they designed Windows Vista. It allows all of that, but asks you the question before doing so... That is *WAY* better for my brother in law who's watching porn, he can now get infected being asked by his computer right before...
So I am STUCK WITH VISA [...]
Not America Express?
Will they still sell XP licenses through their WGA program??? This could be a great solution!
Don't know what an antivirus and firewall are? A good Linux firewall does a great job hiding that you're shamefully using an unlicensed version of Windows XP...