Bob who takes a bunch of tests, and pays a fee so that he can carry a card around that says he is smarter the 98% of the population.
John who already makes more then Bob, and doesn't need a bunch of tests to tell him he's smart, and certainly has no interest in paying someone so that he can carry a card that says he's smart.
I don't care if Mensa is a scam of not, but the above situation has always been my take on Mensa and Mensa membership. Only an idiot would pay someone to say that they're smart.
From article The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui. and looks like they only got 13.9 mil out but was were busted trying to get in in Israel A man has been arrested by police in Israel after the plot was uncovered by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Unit members worked closely with Israeli police. So bad guys try to rob london office of japanese bank, by moving money to israel. This is a great example of an international crime, I almost expect a picture of Tom Cruise or something.
Scalability
I was consistently surprised with what we teased linux into doing back in 1996 working on a free community network. I've seen some pretty impressive operations in the ISP/ASP world build on linux foundations.
Security
Well that argument is just tired. Any idiot can crack an unsecured system, and very few smart people put enough work into security. Nothing wrong with the OS though. (What about that security certification that SUSE or whoever got recently)
Stability
Well that's just a matter of using the appropiate hardware and software, push the limits in a lab, but use your head in production. It's that simple with most OS's in most enviroments.
not when my machine finally has some juice, man I've been dying for most of my life knowing that computers could do more but there never being the hardware to match my expectations Power/Price. But now I've got some juice - heck I even have a blue LED lighting my feet. There is no way I'd want to place my processor power at the mercies of network traffic, subscription models, marketing campaigns, and whatever else is used on the poor thin clients.
At least on my machine if things go crazy it's my fault and my responsibility.
From Article:
Yusuf Mehdi, a corporate vice president with the MSN unit, said Microsoft has gathered this personal information by tracking users who have logged into its Hotmail e-mail program or other Microsoft Web sites, and then matching the data they provided with publicly known demographics, such as average income for a particular ZIP code.
From Yusuf Mehdi bio:
In addition, Mehdi is also responsible for leading Microsoft's platform efforts for online advertising and digital marketing with responsibility for brand, direct marketing, pay for performance and business intelligence systems.
From the article:
Microsoft has made its name selling software, he (analyst David Garrity) said, and the new model of giving a product away and making money from advertising requires a steep learning curve.
and I love this name:
Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Microsoft's efforts are part of an industrywide trend of using personal information to garner advertising dollars.
If you're meeting your buddy at SouthCentre Mall and you arrange that via IM, I'm just saying don't mention in the conversation how much pot you want from him. Be smart and use a code or something - like "I'm looking for some cultural lessons, maybe 5 classes" or something.
Security through Obscurity is only good until someone pierces your obscurity. In your case the information may be trivial - however:
Databases (logs:traffic & user) - Keyword searches - computers - pretty much makes the volume of messages irrelevant to someone who has identified you as a target. Carnivore stank, but did have some abilities and that was years ago dealing with email.
I know/knew many individuals and companies that regularly use/used IM to communicate work related matters. These people had no conception that they were sometimes using a competitors product to relay information sensitive to their company. Granted nothing (I'm sure) happened but honestly it's just an unnecessary risk.
The net is filled with stories of companies abusing the information they have on their clients/users, and even if AOL or MSN or whoever you support isn't doing it themselves, it is not unreasonable to exercise prudence when using their or similar products. These are companies that when questioned by authorities just lose the relevant emails [slashdot.org].
I'm not advocating that people shouldn't use these services, or that I even disapprove of mercenary corporate/individual behavior, but that people need to recognize that their best interests and the corporations best interests may not align. Just realize that rarely is anthing ever really free ('cept mothers love) - even if the piper isn't calling at the door today.
It seems to me that the successful internet businesses - ones whos product is the internet itself so to speak - will all wind up looking alike. Pretty much like the early visions for the portals too. 1 place to go to find Movies, Music, News, Games, Chat, Ecomerce (VOIP?). AOL, MSN, GOOGLE, Yahoo, whoever manages to survive, and of course at some point these technologies will be so commonplace in the market that their survival will really become one of marketing and finding a steady usergroup. (Slashdot/OSTG may even qualify for this kind of future)
Lets be honest if the service is free to you in a monetary sense, it's nice to think that there are no other costs to you. I'm not a nut in a shelter somewhere in the tundra - but a little paranoia can be healthy. I have met and worked for enough companies/individuals to know that altruism does not currently stand as the dominate principle in business. (though, evolution of society...OSS...who knows what will happen) It's just common sense to assume that there are hidden strings attached to something given to you for "free" from a corporation (and most individuals, even you grandma). I never buy anything on my Super Saver Card that I don't want the Super Saver Company to know about, and I treat AIM/MSN/Hotmail/Whatever the same way. If I want a private conversation I use something I can control - Point to point with encryption.
on the even worse front - they compiled this evidence without access to CherryPC's source code (well they had the PearPC code but u know what I mean) - the inverse of the sco situation where the Linux source was freely available sco.
But then in the sco situation it really wasn't about the code was it, sco didn't have anything to $gain$ by an honest evaluation of the code.
in like less then a month random people have compiled more evidence supporting the idea that CherryOS is a complete and blatent ripoff of PearPC, then I ever saw come from the well funded SCO Group supporting their idea that Linux infringed on some of their code.
I wish there was a mod point for uncomfortable moments present in post that may make you cringe, and I don't mean the hat, but the pail. ugh.
The worst part is that at the beginning of the post I thought you were talking about a guy like my step brother, by the end I was convinced it was my step-brother. - a quick check has revealed, thank god, that his characters name was not stealthdemon, but something equally lame.
was back during the bubble, I worked for a start-up. Note the past tense.
and on the subject of NOTEs take a look at number 2 from his list of notes at the bottom of the article (I included only the first 2)
Notes
[1] Google's revenues are about two billion a year, but half comes from ads on other sites.
[2] One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon. But you're not allowed to ask prospective employees if they plan to have kids soon. Believe it or not, under current US law, you're not even allowed to discriminate on the basis of intelligence. Whereas when you're starting a company, you can discriminate on any basis you want about who you start it with.
I suppose in restrospect calling him a poor guy maybe makes it look like I have empathy for him. I think it is a BS suit to begin with and that this award(7KC$) - if I understand it correctly - was appropiate in the context - Them paying for his legal costs in determining which district the case would be tried in. He has a point in that they defamed him, but his point is hardly worth the millions of dollars that he desires. When or If the case is tried I would be surprised if he actually gets awarded what he is asking for. Everybody asks for millions - too much LA Law or something - but the weight of precedence in canadian courts is against huge punitive damage awards. Heck the weight of precedence is against huge awards in general - and that is what would guide the judge in making an award decision, I actually think the Post is better off to have the case in canada and stop fighting the jurisdictionalissues. There is quite a bit in their favor to demonstrate that the damages were/are minimal in impact, and I don't think the outcome is certain to be in this guys favor. Besides this kinda case is bound to come up sooner or later - I don't see any reason to duck a chance to explore the grey area's of Internet and Law, and I trust the relatively moderate judicial system of canada to probe without making to big of a mess.
having reread my original post a few times I can only say I was tired and didn't communicate well.
However Bush really didn't serve in the military when he was supposed to - fortunate son and all that.
And the Juice, well the civil court viewed the evidence differently then the judicial court - but he wasn't directly called a murderer by the tv stations - they only implied it for 8 long months of our lives.
Libel sucks as a group of laws, all about defamation and reputation. But the laws are there if untrue information has caused damage to your life. This poor guy is just trying to get satisfaction from the Post - in the amount of 7,000 (canadian) dollars too ! Who would have thought - oh yeah we don't do the massive financial penalties in Canada that happens in the US, that kinda mitigates the damage that stupid laws can cause and maybe even makes them more reasonable in the context of their penalties. Honestly if this happened in a US court, he might get the dreaded 'PUNITIVE' Damages and actually make some money.
DJ Fee = SOCAN fee What is SOCAN? SOCAN is the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Their role is to license the public performance of recorded music in return for performing rights fees. These fees are then distributed as royalties to copy right owners based on the performance of their musical works in Canada. For more information, contact SOCAN
----- In December 2003, the Canadian Copyright Board stated that downloading music was legal. They also went on to say that sharing would still be considered illegal. Be aware that this was not a court ruling, but a statement by the Canadian Copyright Board. ---- I will agree that court rulings may have been different, that statement was released - it was an opinion from that institution. Heck that opinion may even have changed in the past 2 years. the point was to show the different attitude that has been present in Canada over time on Downloading music. Besides it doesn't matter, because the previous AC poster quite clearly defenestrated my arguements by showing my misuse of an apostrophe on CDs. I don't even know why anyone would possibly pay attention to the substance of the post after that egregious error. Hope I clarified things though.
This is kinda of a neat statement without a lot of explanation behind it. We do have entities in place which collect revenue on behalf of the artists from different industries that benifit from the artist work. The big example is the tax on blank cd's. It sucks that I pay extra for a cd that may hold pictures instead of songs, but I'm also not blind, 1/2 of my fiances music cd collection is burned cd's. I'm also paying a fee so a DJ can play music at the wedding to some organization that gives money back to the artists. There are other little quirks and decisions made by the gov't here and courts. In December 2003, the Canadian Copyright Board stated that downloading music was legal. They also went on to say that sharing would still be considered illegal.
I have a lot of respect for Canon too, which is why when I found the "List" of employees to be laid off while browsing the office network I borrowed the camera (Powershot A50) from the office and funny, when they laid me off the next day nobody asked for it back. Anyways now years later I'm dying because the camera won't hook to any machine I'm running but an old laptop with the display torn off, running win98. That laptop also runs the flatbed scanner that doesn't have USB either. All sorts of neat network access stuff and a switch to make it all work, but still it's so annoying.
The guy is - I hesitate to use appropiate terms here - anyways suffice to say he doesn't exactly represent the issues fully. The article has a lot of popular American themes in it - privacy, security, free competition, - and while they are valid in the context of the American society, how the're used here doesn't align very well with the realities of Canada. We do things different here - functions of size (geographic large, population 10%of the US) and history, I'm sure there are other factors too - 6.8%and greater beer (mmm Maudite) and a lower drinking age (18/19) or not.
However our telecommunications industry is managed differently then the US and has a different historical and current relationship with the government. Even these proposed Laws/rules/guidelines what-haveU aren't really contradicting that existing relationship and privacy laws as defined by the Canadian Judicial System. Of course we have a parliamentary system here which deliberatly puts a comittee spin on policy - our PM is not an equivalent to the US president, our gov't is structually different and these years with a minority government actually means we should have quite effective governmence because the smaller parties hold the swing votes preventing anything really crazy from happening in the Commons. The point is until a bill gets passed in commons everything else is just fluff and debate about issues, and when a bill finally gets passed it rarely resembles what the gov't initially put forth.
Look to Tactics in Debating and Negotiation and Cross reference that with the Ideas of Straw Men and Red Herrings and you should understand that a more extreme action or idea is proposed so that you can retreat to a more desirable moderate position, while letting your oppenent think they have gained ground. This guy is attacking straw men and chasing red herrings. I am sure he's aware of it too, however it gets press and maybe even makes him appear more desirable to whatever American intrests he's affiliated with.
I guess the point of my post wasn't to create the definitive list of kewl hacks - those were off the top of my head and it should have been easy to infer that I hadn't actually tried the camera hack myself
- instead I was hoping to hear about others that qualified for the list - and maybe even find one that might be relevant to me - like making my legacy serial port equipment work in a USB-centric WinXP-plz anyone?
Anyways thanks for the clarification on the camera hack - I'm sure that were I in a position to try it I would have quickly realized the differences between my statement and reality.
crazy simple hacks
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I love it when simple hacks add value or allow us to do things we would normally have to pay for - and would make the designers sh*t bricks. IE: -using pencil to overclock processors -clipping the floppy to double capacity wiring a usb end to an xbox controller -that firmware upgrade to the camera (Canon?) that made it as good as the super expensive model
I'm sure there are more cool hacks like that out there
With so much power on the desktop it's becoming easier and easier to produce polished video products at home. There's even software to correct for shaky camera work, it's possible to redesign shots in the editing programs and digital effects are becoming very easy to setup now. (remember Lightsabre boy) I love the idea of more and more content being produced by hobbyists, enthusists and other non-studio persons. We are at that point where knowledge passes from a few to many - much like the printing press took the books away from the scholars and gave them to the people. Screw the RIAA & DMCA, we are gonna start producing our own copyrighted materials and they'll lose out.
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I said in another post else where that sad as it is the device in question (honkin video card) was more powerful then my PC, I am Proud to report that my PC is more powerful then this little handheld device. (barely)
400 MHz Intel PXA255 Xscale processor, the Giga Vu Pro contains a 40 or 60 GB hard drive
of course it does have a bigger hard drive... sigh
it's all about server blades. The next gen motherboard is all about pipe and your os runs either multi-threaded on all the processors avaliable, or beowulfesque. Just plug in the cards to some honking fast bus and add them into the OS. Who cares if some of the cards do specialized functions(display, video editing, sound, network) as well as contributing to the power of the system. Why not run my webserver from my suped up network card and differential equations on my display adaptor. errr at least that is how it could be, likely we'll all wind up the lowest common denominator instead.
Slashdot Mirror
Lets be honest who is the smart man?
Bob who takes a bunch of tests, and pays a fee so that he can carry a card around that says he is smarter the 98% of the population.
John who already makes more then Bob, and doesn't need a bunch of tests to tell him he's smart, and certainly has no interest in paying someone so that he can carry a card that says he's smart.
I don't care if Mensa is a scam of not, but the above situation has always been my take on Mensa and Mensa membership. Only an idiot would pay someone to say that they're smart.
From article
The plan was to steal £220m ($423m) from the London offices of the Japanese bank Sumitomo Mitsui.
and looks like they only got 13.9 mil out but was were busted trying to get in in Israel
A man has been arrested by police in Israel after the plot was uncovered by the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit. Unit members worked closely with Israeli police.
So bad guys try to rob london office of japanese bank, by moving money to israel. This is a great example of an international crime, I almost expect a picture of Tom Cruise or something.
I was consistently surprised with what we teased linux into doing back in 1996 working on a free community network. I've seen some pretty impressive operations in the ISP/ASP world build on linux foundations.
Security
Well that argument is just tired. Any idiot can crack an unsecured system, and very few smart people put enough work into security. Nothing wrong with the OS though. (What about that security certification that SUSE or whoever got recently)
Stability
Well that's just a matter of using the appropiate hardware and software, push the limits in a lab, but use your head in production. It's that simple with most OS's in most enviroments.
not when my machine finally has some juice, man I've been dying for most of my life knowing that computers could do more but there never being the hardware to match my expectations Power/Price. But now I've got some juice - heck I even have a blue LED lighting my feet. There is no way I'd want to place my processor power at the mercies of network traffic, subscription models, marketing campaigns, and whatever else is used on the poor thin clients. At least on my machine if things go crazy it's my fault and my responsibility.
Yusuf Mehdi, a corporate vice president with the MSN unit, said Microsoft has gathered this personal information by tracking users who have logged into its Hotmail e-mail program or other Microsoft Web sites, and then matching the data they provided with publicly known demographics, such as average income for a particular ZIP code.
From Yusuf Mehdi bio:
In addition, Mehdi is also responsible for leading Microsoft's platform efforts for online advertising and digital marketing with responsibility for brand, direct marketing, pay for performance and business intelligence systems.
From the article:
Microsoft has made its name selling software, he (analyst David Garrity) said, and the new model of giving a product away and making money from advertising requires a steep learning curve.
and I love this name:
Chris Hoofnagle of the Electronic Privacy Information Center said Microsoft's efforts are part of an industrywide trend of using personal information to garner advertising dollars.
If you're meeting your buddy at SouthCentre Mall and you arrange that via IM, I'm just saying don't mention in the conversation how much pot you want from him. Be smart and use a code or something - like "I'm looking for some cultural lessons, maybe 5 classes" or something.
Security through Obscurity is only good until someone pierces your obscurity. In your case the information may be trivial - however:
Databases (logs:traffic & user) - Keyword searches - computers - pretty much makes the volume of messages irrelevant to someone who has identified you as a target. Carnivore stank, but did have some abilities and that was years ago dealing with email.
I know/knew many individuals and companies that regularly use/used IM to communicate work related matters. These people had no conception that they were sometimes using a competitors product to relay information sensitive to their company. Granted nothing (I'm sure) happened but honestly it's just an unnecessary risk.
The net is filled with stories of companies abusing the information they have on their clients/users, and even if AOL or MSN or whoever you support isn't doing it themselves, it is not unreasonable to exercise prudence when using their or similar products. These are companies that when questioned by authorities just lose the relevant emails [slashdot.org].
I'm not advocating that people shouldn't use these services, or that I even disapprove of mercenary corporate/individual behavior, but that people need to recognize that their best interests and the corporations best interests may not align. Just realize that rarely is anthing ever really free ('cept mothers love) - even if the piper isn't calling at the door today.
It seems to me that the successful internet businesses - ones whos product is the internet itself so to speak - will all wind up looking alike. Pretty much like the early visions for the portals too. 1 place to go to find Movies, Music, News, Games, Chat, Ecomerce (VOIP?). AOL, MSN, GOOGLE, Yahoo, whoever manages to survive, and of course at some point these technologies will be so commonplace in the market that their survival will really become one of marketing and finding a steady usergroup. (Slashdot/OSTG may even qualify for this kind of future)
Lets be honest if the service is free to you in a monetary sense, it's nice to think that there are no other costs to you. I'm not a nut in a shelter somewhere in the tundra - but a little paranoia can be healthy. I have met and worked for enough companies/individuals to know that altruism does not currently stand as the dominate principle in business. (though, evolution of society...OSS...who knows what will happen) It's just common sense to assume that there are hidden strings attached to something given to you for "free" from a corporation (and most individuals, even you grandma). I never buy anything on my Super Saver Card that I don't want the Super Saver Company to know about, and I treat AIM/MSN/Hotmail/Whatever the same way. If I want a private conversation I use something I can control - Point to point with encryption.
on the even worse front - they compiled this evidence without access to CherryPC's source code (well they had the PearPC code but u know what I mean) - the inverse of the sco situation where the Linux source was freely available sco. But then in the sco situation it really wasn't about the code was it, sco didn't have anything to $gain$ by an honest evaluation of the code.
in like less then a month random people have compiled more evidence supporting the idea that CherryOS is a complete and blatent ripoff of PearPC, then I ever saw come from the well funded SCO Group supporting their idea that Linux infringed on some of their code.
I wish there was a mod point for uncomfortable moments present in post that may make you cringe, and I don't mean the hat, but the pail. ugh. The worst part is that at the beginning of the post I thought you were talking about a guy like my step brother, by the end I was convinced it was my step-brother.
- a quick check has revealed, thank god, that his characters name was not stealthdemon, but something equally lame.
was back during the bubble, I worked for a start-up. Note the past tense.
and on the subject of NOTEs take a look at number 2 from his list of notes at the bottom of the article (I included only the first 2)
Notes
[1] Google's revenues are about two billion a year, but half comes from ads on other sites.
[2] One advantage startups have over established companies is that there are no discrimination laws about starting businesses. For example, I would be reluctant to start a startup with a woman who had small children, or was likely to have them soon. But you're not allowed to ask prospective employees if they plan to have kids soon. Believe it or not, under current US law, you're not even allowed to discriminate on the basis of intelligence. Whereas when you're starting a company, you can discriminate on any basis you want about who you start it with.
I suppose in restrospect calling him a poor guy maybe makes it look like I have empathy for him. I think it is a BS suit to begin with and that this award(7KC$) - if I understand it correctly - was appropiate in the context - Them paying for his legal costs in determining which district the case would be tried in. He has a point in that they defamed him, but his point is hardly worth the millions of dollars that he desires. When or If the case is tried I would be surprised if he actually gets awarded what he is asking for. Everybody asks for millions - too much LA Law or something - but the weight of precedence in canadian courts is against huge punitive damage awards. Heck the weight of precedence is against huge awards in general - and that is what would guide the judge in making an award decision, I actually think the Post is better off to have the case in canada and stop fighting the jurisdictionalissues. There is quite a bit in their favor to demonstrate that the damages were/are minimal in impact, and I don't think the outcome is certain to be in this guys favor. Besides this kinda case is bound to come up sooner or later - I don't see any reason to duck a chance to explore the grey area's of Internet and Law, and I trust the relatively moderate judicial system of canada to probe without making to big of a mess.
having reread my original post a few times I can only say I was tired and didn't communicate well.
However Bush really didn't serve in the military when he was supposed to - fortunate son and all that.
And the Juice, well the civil court viewed the evidence differently then the judicial court - but he wasn't directly called a murderer by the tv stations - they only implied it for 8 long months of our lives.
Libel sucks as a group of laws, all about defamation and reputation. But the laws are there if untrue information has caused damage to your life. This poor guy is just trying to get satisfaction from the Post - in the amount of 7,000 (canadian) dollars too ! Who would have thought - oh yeah we don't do the massive financial penalties in Canada that happens in the US, that kinda mitigates the damage that stupid laws can cause and maybe even makes them more reasonable in the context of their penalties. Honestly if this happened in a US court, he might get the dreaded 'PUNITIVE' Damages and actually make some money.
What is SOCAN?
SOCAN is the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Their role is to license the public performance of recorded music in return for performing rights fees. These fees are then distributed as royalties to copy right owners based on the performance of their musical works in Canada. For more information, contact SOCAN
-----
In December 2003, the Canadian Copyright Board stated that downloading music was legal. They also went on to say that sharing would still be considered illegal. Be aware that this was not a court ruling, but a statement by the Canadian Copyright Board.
---- I will agree that court rulings may have been different, that statement was released - it was an opinion from that institution. Heck that opinion may even have changed in the past 2 years.
the point was to show the different attitude that has been present in Canada over time on Downloading music.
Besides it doesn't matter, because the previous AC poster quite clearly defenestrated my arguements by showing my misuse of an apostrophe on CDs. I don't even know why anyone would possibly pay attention to the substance of the post after that egregious error. Hope I clarified things though.
Here is a site that tries to give more information on our favorable laws
The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
I have a lot of respect for Canon too, which is why when I found the "List" of employees to be laid off while browsing the office network I borrowed the camera (Powershot A50) from the office and funny, when they laid me off the next day nobody asked for it back. Anyways now years later I'm dying because the camera won't hook to any machine I'm running but an old laptop with the display torn off, running win98. That laptop also runs the flatbed scanner that doesn't have USB either. All sorts of neat network access stuff and a switch to make it all work, but still it's so annoying.
However our telecommunications industry is managed differently then the US and has a different historical and current relationship with the government. Even these proposed Laws/rules/guidelines what-haveU aren't really contradicting that existing relationship and privacy laws as defined by the Canadian Judicial System. Of course we have a parliamentary system here which deliberatly puts a comittee spin on policy - our PM is not an equivalent to the US president, our gov't is structually different and these years with a minority government actually means we should have quite effective governmence because the smaller parties hold the swing votes preventing anything really crazy from happening in the Commons. The point is until a bill gets passed in commons everything else is just fluff and debate about issues, and when a bill finally gets passed it rarely resembles what the gov't initially put forth.
Look to Tactics in Debating and Negotiation and Cross reference that with the Ideas of Straw Men and Red Herrings and you should understand that a more extreme action or idea is proposed so that you can retreat to a more desirable moderate position, while letting your oppenent think they have gained ground. This guy is attacking straw men and chasing red herrings. I am sure he's aware of it too, however it gets press and maybe even makes him appear more desirable to whatever American intrests he's affiliated with.
- instead I was hoping to hear about others that qualified for the list - and maybe even find one that might be relevant to me - like making my legacy serial port equipment work in a USB-centric WinXP-plz anyone?
Anyways thanks for the clarification on the camera hack - I'm sure that were I in a position to try it I would have quickly realized the differences between my statement and reality.
I love it when simple hacks add value or allow us to do things we would normally have to pay for - and would make the designers sh*t bricks.
IE:
-using pencil to overclock processors
-clipping the floppy to double capacity
wiring a usb end to an xbox controller
-that firmware upgrade to the camera (Canon?) that made it as good as the super expensive model
I'm sure there are more cool hacks like that out there
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With so much power on the desktop it's becoming easier and easier to produce polished video products at home. There's even software to correct for shaky camera work, it's possible to redesign shots in the editing programs and digital effects are becoming very easy to setup now. (remember Lightsabre boy)
I love the idea of more and more content being produced by hobbyists, enthusists and other non-studio persons. We are at that point where knowledge passes from a few to many - much like the printing press took the books away from the scholars and gave them to the people. Screw the RIAA & DMCA, we are gonna start producing our own copyrighted materials and they'll lose out.
a special consideration which may include financial will be awarded to a limited number of authorize licensee to read this section of the license agreement and contact PC Pitstop at consideration@pcpitstop.com. (FoxNote: it should be obvious we shouldn't bombard this email server) This offer can be withdrawn at any time.
400 MHz Intel PXA255 Xscale processor, the Giga Vu Pro contains a 40 or 60 GB hard drive
of course it does have a bigger hard drive ... sigh
it's all about server blades. The next gen motherboard is all about pipe and your os runs either multi-threaded on all the processors avaliable, or beowulfesque. Just plug in the cards to some honking fast bus and add them into the OS. Who cares if some of the cards do specialized functions(display, video editing, sound, network) as well as contributing to the power of the system. Why not run my webserver from my suped up network card and differential equations on my display adaptor.
errr at least that is how it could be, likely we'll all wind up the lowest common denominator instead.