I've submitted at least 5 news worthy stories and only this silly little blog entry was accepted. Now that I understand that you need something flammable, maybe I will get more stories published:) For those of you that say that this camera is not as good as a miniDV camera, you're missing the point. To those of you that think this review needs pics/movies, look at the website linked. To those of you that want more storage, buy the Belkin Media Reader for you iPod. For those of you that think its just a cool gadget and I'm a crazy early adopter, you're right. All I know is that I can take a movie and send it to friends and family much faster with this than anything else besides my iSight webcam. For those of you that say to get a camera phone, I have a 3650, movies on it suck. Maybe they will be better on the 6630 when it is released, I doubt it though. For those of you saying that WiMAX isn't released and it would be dumb to have it built in, you don't understand how things get published on Slashdot. To those of you that clicked on my Google Ads and sent me $3.38, I thank you. To those of you that question whether this was professional review, surprise, its not and I don't review products for a living. To those of you that copied the story to mirrors and into the comments, Phhhhht, I wasn't getting slow or slashdotted. I only got around 20k unique visitors. Sam
Actually I think that given that Crossroads only cost $12 million to make and made $37 million in the US box office alone, I imagine their fear of her *not* making another movie is higher. It actually paid for itself plus another $5 million on its opening weekend! I can just imagine that it is going to similarly well in video rentals.
Hmmm, then I am pretty sure you didn't read the agreement, for instance:
TiVo retains the absolute right to immediately suspend or terminate your account, and terminate this agreement, if the charges to your credit card for the fees described in the "Subscription Fees and Payment Authorization" paragraph above are refused for any reason, if you breach any provision in this agreement, if you misuse the TiVo Service, and/ or if you alter the Recorder or use the TiVo Service in such a manner as to infringe upon the intellectual property rights of TiVo or any third party.
and
Any attempt to disassemble, decompile, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, modify, sublicense, distribute or use for other purposes either the authorized product or software of this system is strictly prohibited.
and
You may access and use the TiVo Service only with a product authorized to receive the TiVo Service and you agree not to tamper with or otherwise modify the authorized product.
and
TiVo may, at its discretion, from time to time change, add or remove features of the TiVo Service
IANAL, but I think it is fair to say that these terms are exactly the same.
These terms are identical to those terms that are present within the Tivo service license agreement. I think you can expect terms like this from whomever you get your PVR service from. They are here to Cover Their A$$. You can find more information about Tivo's license here:
It's pretty easy to find out what the computing power of Seti@Home is, just check the totals to find that in the last 24 hours, on average, the computer was running at 96.79 teraflops. Only 8x that of ASCI White.
SerialATA doesn't seem very advanced
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There are a number of issues that it seems that SerialATA doesn't address that it should:
1) Power to the device is still separated from the data connection. 2) Because it is backwards compatible with regular ATA it appears it will have the same limitations on the number of devices you can connect, i.e. 2 per channel. 3) It is unusable for external devices.
Why upgrade to a standard whose only advantage is a speed increase we don't need and smaller cables that can be done with parallel ATA ala "round" IDE cables? Seems like a huge investment that would be better made in FireWire 2.0 or something similar so that you can use the same interface internally and externally, with power provided, and have many devices on the same bus.
I said that you might try Bugzilla, not that it would be any good. None of the bug tracking systems that I have used have been any good except for ones built to your development groups specifications.
These are the ingredients to make large projects successful from a technical point of view. At the company I work for, we have literally hundreds of people working in the same source tree using P4. It manages merges, versioning, and works flawlessly over the internet (well VPN anyway). It is also much, much faster at syncing to the the depot than CVS because the server keeps track of those files that you are editing and does not need to do diffs with the local filesystem. This is very helpful during crunchtime where you might want to sync serveral times a day (and you have about 10000 files in the system). Also, until your locally edited files are resolved with changes in the depot you cannot submit them, so you don't have the problem of ordering patches properly.
For the second part, I highly reccommend that you have automated build and tests that run after changes have been submitted. You can see how this is done en mass on the mozilla.org site. Also, developers should have access to the same build and test infrastructure on their machines so they can do the build and test before they check in their code.
Finally, you need a good bug tracking system. You might try Bugzilla.
They should recalculate all this if they have Gigabit LAN cards. You can get them from buy.com for about $57. I have used them at home to make really fast point-to-point links. Also, even though the switches with all gigabit ports start at around $700 for $200 you can get a switch with 8 10/100 ports and 1 gigabit port. That should add some interestings properties to the network.
Too slow, too heavy, and takes too long to charge
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As an owner of both a Zappy and a TurboScooter I can tell you that 8-12 mph is HORRIBLE. The TurboScooter goes about 21 mph (with me on it) and that is about right. No one wants to commute for 2.5 miles and have it take as long as the bus (or longer at 8mph). Especially since you typically need to have these sorts of batteries always charging (must have a charger at work). The idea that it is hard to tip over is interesting, but if it weighs 65lbs to do this, you are going to have trouble bringing it up stairs or in stores. One of the big problems with electric scooters is that they are not meant to be driven on sidewalks and they have a smaller profile than this thing. Personally, when walking on a sidewalk, there are many times when I step sideways to get past people or to pass people and something like this is way too wide to play nice with people. As far as the price goes, $3000 is going to be a hard sell to the general public. Even on my TurboScooter, which is way more practical for commuting than this device, cost less than half that and people stick their nose up at the price. It will have to be in the $500-$1000 range and the only way for it to get there is for mass production of these things to begin. Without the network effect for charging stations, new sidewalk laws, etc, I don't see these making any in roads into real life.
I love this type of technology, and I may even buy one myself, but I also by dual processor machines, ReplayTVs, and Plasma screens. I am certainly the exception.
BTW, when you run into someone with a 65lb Segway going 8 mph, it isn't going to be pretty.
I carry The Matrix and Bladerunner around on my Microdrive with my IPAQ. After you compress it down for the screen size and the limit of playback speed they come out to around 2-300 meg a piece. So thats about 20 movies on one of these bad boys.
As of Windows XP, CD burning is built into the operating system, thus rendering this entire thread mute since Easy CD Creator will likely never be bought by a customer again anyway.
Um.... 100,000 / 900 = 111.111111... != 12
Not only that but I found a bug in slashdot. It doesn't count numbers as lower case...
PLEASE DON'T USE SO MANY CAPS. USING CAPS IS LIKE YELLING
You really have no idea what you are talking about. JSP provides exactly what you are asking for except it goes beyond PHP in that you can define new tags and filters externally to the page in order to increase the maintainability of the site and the readability of the HTML.
If you are going to compare technologies clearly this person has left out the best one. Java Server Pages gives you the best of all worlds. It is compiled code, it has extensible tag libraries, dynamic filters, direct Java coding if needed, is completely cross platform, and runs on many server implementations including some free as in speech/beer with an Apache license and not the viral GPL.
On WinCE I use Microsoft Transcriber which is probably the best hand writing software I have seen. It takes up no screen space because you can write anywhere on the screen and it recognizes print or cursive. Whenever I show it to a PalmOS user they want to get an IPAQ. I have to explain to them that the market for these devices is split between people who want a mini-organizer (Palm), people that want a mini-computer (IPAQ) and people that want a paperweight (the other CE handhelds). Browsing the internet is a breeze with landscape mode and IE (with JavaScript support!). With the 1G microdrive I carry my entire CD collection around with my IPAQ, I have wireless ricochet 128K access, a land-line modem for when I am out of town and there is no ricochet, and a wireless LAN card for when I am at work and home. For trips I typically rip and encode DVDs for the IPAQ so I can watch them on the plane, they take up around 220M each. In combination with the map software its perfect when you are visiting another city. I could go on and on about how much better CE is than PalmOS but it will never convince anyone who wants a mini-organizer.
"If I can see farther it is because I am surrounded by dwarves." -- Murray Gell-mann
Add a filter to the client to upcase the band name and the song name, MD5 both these, and use the "MD5(bandname + key) space MD5(song name + key)" as the filename. Make the key available on a third party server and block access from RIAA/Napster IP addresses. Change the key every few hours. Seems straight-forward.
It seems that if you were to take a perfectly healthy person, whose brain cells have not died, you could use this to just add more neurons. Sounds good to me. Brains for everybody!
It was actually Auckland. They had 3 cables, unfortunately, when one went out the power switched over to the other 2, which was then too much for one of them, it went out, and then all the power went to the last one and fried it as well. They brought boats into the harbor to give people electricity. Many restaurants and stores had their own generators on the street running on diesel. It only lasted a couple of months.
Slashdot Mirror
I've submitted at least 5 news worthy stories and only this silly little blog entry was accepted. Now that I understand that you need something flammable, maybe I will get more stories published :) For those of you that say that this camera is not as good as a miniDV camera, you're missing the point. To those of you that think this review needs pics/movies, look at the website linked. To those of you that want more storage, buy the Belkin Media Reader for you iPod. For those of you that think its just a cool gadget and I'm a crazy early adopter, you're right. All I know is that I can take a movie and send it to friends and family much faster with this than anything else besides my iSight webcam. For those of you that say to get a camera phone, I have a 3650, movies on it suck. Maybe they will be better on the 6630 when it is released, I doubt it though. For those of you saying that WiMAX isn't released and it would be dumb to have it built in, you don't understand how things get published on Slashdot. To those of you that clicked on my Google Ads and sent me $3.38, I thank you. To those of you that question whether this was professional review, surprise, its not and I don't review products for a living. To those of you that copied the story to mirrors and into the comments, Phhhhht, I wasn't getting slow or slashdotted. I only got around 20k unique visitors.
Sam
Read my rant about this:
http://homepage.mac.com/spullara/rants
Sam
Actually I think that given that Crossroads only cost $12 million to make and made $37 million in the US box office alone, I imagine their fear of her *not* making another movie is higher. It actually paid for itself plus another $5 million on its opening weekend! I can just imagine that it is going to similarly well in video rentals.
Hmmm, then I am pretty sure you didn't read the agreement, for instance:
TiVo retains the absolute right to immediately suspend or terminate your account, and terminate this agreement, if the charges to your credit card for the fees described in the "Subscription Fees and Payment Authorization" paragraph above are refused for any reason, if you breach any provision in this agreement, if you misuse the TiVo Service, and/ or if you alter the Recorder or use the TiVo Service in such a manner as to infringe upon the intellectual property rights of TiVo or any third party.
and
Any attempt to disassemble, decompile, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, modify, sublicense, distribute or use for other purposes either the authorized product or software of this system is strictly prohibited.
and
You may access and use the TiVo Service only with a product authorized to receive the TiVo Service and you agree not to tamper with or otherwise modify the authorized product.
and
TiVo may, at its discretion, from time to time change, add or remove features of the TiVo Service
IANAL, but I think it is fair to say that these terms are exactly the same.
These terms are identical to those terms that are present within the Tivo service license agreement. I think you can expect terms like this from whomever you get your PVR service from. They are here to Cover Their A$$. You can find more information about Tivo's license here:
Tivo's Service Agreement
It changes depending on what went on in the last 24 hours. The 93 teraflop number was valid when I posted it.
It's pretty easy to find out what the computing power of Seti@Home is, just check the totals to find that in the last 24 hours, on average, the computer was running at 96.79 teraflops. Only 8x that of ASCI White.
There are a number of issues that it seems that SerialATA doesn't address that it should:
1) Power to the device is still separated from the data connection.
2) Because it is backwards compatible with regular ATA it appears it will have the same limitations on the number of devices you can connect, i.e. 2 per channel.
3) It is unusable for external devices.
Why upgrade to a standard whose only advantage is a speed increase we don't need and smaller cables that can be done with parallel ATA ala "round" IDE cables? Seems like a huge investment that would be better made in FireWire 2.0 or something similar so that you can use the same interface internally and externally, with power provided, and have many devices on the same bus.
I said that you might try Bugzilla, not that it would be any good. None of the bug tracking systems that I have used have been any good except for ones built to your development groups specifications.
These are the ingredients to make large projects successful from a technical point of view. At the company I work for, we have literally hundreds of people working in the same source tree using P4. It manages merges, versioning, and works flawlessly over the internet (well VPN anyway). It is also much, much faster at syncing to the the depot than CVS because the server keeps track of those files that you are editing and does not need to do diffs with the local filesystem. This is very helpful during crunchtime where you might want to sync serveral times a day (and you have about 10000 files in the system). Also, until your locally edited files are resolved with changes in the depot you cannot submit them, so you don't have the problem of ordering patches properly.
For the second part, I highly reccommend that you have automated build and tests that run after changes have been submitted. You can see how this is done en mass on the mozilla.org site. Also, developers should have access to the same build and test infrastructure on their machines so they can do the build and test before they check in their code.
Finally, you need a good bug tracking system. You might try Bugzilla.
Good luck,
Sam
They should recalculate all this if they have Gigabit LAN cards. You can get them from buy.com for about $57. I have used them at home to make really fast point-to-point links. Also, even though the switches with all gigabit ports start at around $700 for $200 you can get a switch with 8 10/100 ports and 1 gigabit port. That should add some interestings properties to the network.
As an owner of both a Zappy and a TurboScooter I can tell you that 8-12 mph is HORRIBLE. The TurboScooter goes about 21 mph (with me on it) and that is about right. No one wants to commute for 2.5 miles and have it take as long as the bus (or longer at 8mph). Especially since you typically need to have these sorts of batteries always charging (must have a charger at work). The idea that it is hard to tip over is interesting, but if it weighs 65lbs to do this, you are going to have trouble bringing it up stairs or in stores. One of the big problems with electric scooters is that they are not meant to be driven on sidewalks and they have a smaller profile than this thing. Personally, when walking on a sidewalk, there are many times when I step sideways to get past people or to pass people and something like this is way too wide to play nice with people. As far as the price goes, $3000 is going to be a hard sell to the general public. Even on my TurboScooter, which is way more practical for commuting than this device, cost less than half that and people stick their nose up at the price. It will have to be in the $500-$1000 range and the only way for it to get there is for mass production of these things to begin. Without the network effect for charging stations, new sidewalk laws, etc, I don't see these making any in roads into real life.
I love this type of technology, and I may even buy one myself, but I also by dual processor machines, ReplayTVs, and Plasma screens. I am certainly the exception.
BTW, when you run into someone with a 65lb Segway going 8 mph, it isn't going to be pretty.
Seems to me the whole point of the exercise was determining what the prior art was...
I carry The Matrix and Bladerunner around on my Microdrive with my IPAQ. After you compress it down for the screen size and the limit of playback speed they come out to around 2-300 meg a piece. So thats about 20 movies on one of these bad boys.
We had our DJ play MP3s (written to regular CDs) at our wedding because the music that we wanted to play just wasn't available for sale anymore.
Works great on Unix and will still run on your Windows platform. Use a free IDE like Forte for Java, Community Edition.
As of Windows XP, CD burning is built into the operating system, thus rendering this entire thread mute since Easy CD Creator will likely never be bought by a customer again anyway.
http://eies.njit.edu/~walsh/powers/newstd.html
Um.... 100,000 / 900 = 111.111111... != 12 Not only that but I found a bug in slashdot. It doesn't count numbers as lower case... PLEASE DON'T USE SO MANY CAPS. USING CAPS IS LIKE YELLING
You really have no idea what you are talking about. JSP provides exactly what you are asking for except it goes beyond PHP in that you can define new tags and filters externally to the page in order to increase the maintainability of the site and the readability of the HTML.
If you are going to compare technologies clearly this person has left out the best one. Java Server Pages gives you the best of all worlds. It is compiled code, it has extensible tag libraries, dynamic filters, direct Java coding if needed, is completely cross platform, and runs on many server implementations including some free as in speech/beer with an Apache license and not the viral GPL.
On WinCE I use Microsoft Transcriber which is probably the best hand writing software I have seen. It takes up no screen space because you can write anywhere on the screen and it recognizes print or cursive. Whenever I show it to a PalmOS user they want to get an IPAQ. I have to explain to them that the market for these devices is split between people who want a mini-organizer (Palm), people that want a mini-computer (IPAQ) and people that want a paperweight (the other CE handhelds). Browsing the internet is a breeze with landscape mode and IE (with JavaScript support!). With the 1G microdrive I carry my entire CD collection around with my IPAQ, I have wireless ricochet 128K access, a land-line modem for when I am out of town and there is no ricochet, and a wireless LAN card for when I am at work and home. For trips I typically rip and encode DVDs for the IPAQ so I can watch them on the plane, they take up around 220M each. In combination with the map software its perfect when you are visiting another city. I could go on and on about how much better CE is than PalmOS but it will never convince anyone who wants a mini-organizer. "If I can see farther it is because I am surrounded by dwarves." -- Murray Gell-mann
Add a filter to the client to upcase the band name and the song name, MD5 both these, and use the "MD5(bandname + key) space MD5(song name + key)" as the filename. Make the key available on a third party server and block access from RIAA/Napster IP addresses. Change the key every few hours. Seems straight-forward.
It seems that if you were to take a perfectly healthy person, whose brain cells have not died, you could use this to just add more neurons. Sounds good to me. Brains for everybody!
It was actually Auckland. They had 3 cables, unfortunately, when one went out the power switched over to the other 2, which was then too much for one of them, it went out, and then all the power went to the last one and fried it as well. They brought boats into the harbor to give people electricity. Many restaurants and stores had their own generators on the street running on diesel. It only lasted a couple of months.