Well, different encryption technologies are better suited to different applications. Some are designed for streaming media vs files on your HD for instance, or for file compression. However, I can see the point that you are making is quite different in nature from that. In my point of view, people should pic encryptions that fit the following criteria.
1) Usful. You want an encryption that is actually worth using. Not worth encrypting something if it can be cracked without any effort. 2) Suited to the application, as I stated above. 3) Available Internationally (nobody wants to be stuck with a product that gets you arrested on export). 4) Open spec (you want it to work with other products. ** This list is in order of importance.
On top of that, your implementation should take the encryption seriously. Putting in a security measure, and then allowing someone to circumvent that is about as dumb as it gets. One example of this is window's passwords. It's case sensitive in Windows NT, but not in 95, on the same network. This means that, if your computer at least claims to be running Windows 95, you can cut the number of keys you need to check in order to crack into the network exponentially.
To really make an efficient use of such techniques in the given situation, you would really be more suited to program the behaviors of such targets, like in simulations used for experimental/business/military applications. Though I am not sure how to say it tactfully in reference to something so tragic as the afformentioned thread. I hope that I haven't offended anyone.
"No kidding, now you can have your face and body realistically mapped into your favourite game - the potential is staggering..."
Yeah... Yeah! Uh, YEAH! You could uhh... Stick your face into a video game... or... a chat program... or even... a chat program... oh wait, I said that. Wait, hasn't that all been done before, so, what we're really talking about is matching yourself up with Quake's relatively limited palette, which was designed to not hog the resources of older systems, yet still look nice and menacing... Yeah, ok, so, it's pretty basic stuff... Yeah, oh well.
(P.S. You are allowed to laugh, no, I'm not cracking on the article or the tech, it's just... Well, yeah, maybe a little.)
When Quake first came out, my friends and I got a hold of a digital camera, shot several views of ourselves, and played quake with those altered skins. It was a lot of fun. It's kind of a fun thing if you are
A) Addicted to Quake. B) Want to do it. C) Have an afternoon to blow with some kids, and don't want to give them beer;-)
Kewl to see an article in support of linux, but I usually find that Linux has only token support from ZDNet. Sorta like, "Oh look, I say something pro-Linux today, and I am cool. To cater to the real audience, I will say how wonderful windows is tommorow."
This would be useful say... as an interface to a hologram monitor... You could have a window to your left, right, and above... And I suppose that you could use the API in a game or something. Perhaps for 3D modelling?
They will probably limit what you can touch and where you can walk in order to keep gameplay the same. They may add blocks such as fences or something in some areas, or just make your player unwilling to do some things (there are certain things that even a game player won't do ). BTW, the graphics look awesome. Way to go!
I remember when the arms outside the spacecraft were supposedly going to be controlled by VR. Does anybody know if this ever really came to be? It would seem to me, that precision is much better with a multiview interface. You can always misjudge distance with VR, but multiple viewing (like in high school drafting class, kids) forces you to look at the actual orientation. Just a thought.
On a side note, applications like this are one of the few areas that I see vr interfaces as being truly useful. I don't really see the point of VR chatting, it's fun for games, OS's that use it make little to no sense to me however. I think that sometimes, VR is a solution looking for a problem. A neet glossy toy that everyone wants to take credit for being the first to do something truly useful with it. There is SOME serious research, but the majority of it seems to be the fluffy and filler and eyecandy of computer science (not that I don't love every tasty morsel).
Of course, I do not wish to engender bad feelings either. I am just sure that this unit will NOT succeed. Perhaps the second generation and third generation unit will, but experience tells me that the original units, the very first ones, will wear out in less than a year. These are the problems that I see could bar an initial takeoff. There are ways to make sure that you are the only player in the field, even if you make it look as clear as day. I feel that somehow, that will enter this device. It may not. Also, everyone who has one of the first CD players knows that it skips. A lot of notebook CD RW's are a joke, you can't move with them at all. And they have been lab tested, and didn't skip in the tests either. After you use it for a few weeks, you'll see that you're ruining a CD or 2 too many though. Especially on battery operation. Your battery develops memory, and soon you're trying to write to a CD, with a half burnt out battery, while walking, it just seems to me that while the technology is there to do this, the product probably isn't. As for the firmware to do a second burn to the CD, it sounds as if half of it is there according to the article. You can do it on a PC. It's a software problem, not a hardware problem... So, I don't see why they couldn't modify the software to do so.
Sorry about the e-mail, I was dealing with someone irate at me earlier, and thought maybe you were just, you know, throwing back at me. I seem to get that a lot.
To be honest, if it came down to it, I would much prefer to take a route of courtroom litigation against the person in question. It's really more suited to the case. Revealing my (that's read as in mine, not the clearances of all federal personel) identity/clearances in such a situation is of no consequence to national security, and I could score a nice settlement out of it.
I knew a guy once, who said something quite libelous about me, that, if it were to show up in a background check, would cost me my job (I have a security clearance, which according to federal law, the level of which is none of your business). At any rate, in order to clear me, I sign papers giving permission to the government to do whatever it takes to get the dirt on me. I fill out reams of paperwork, and I repeat this process at a certain frequency.
Now, this prick pretty much started telling lies about me to get a shot at getting into my girlfriend's pants by having her lose trust in me. As a result, a lot of people considered the possibility that he could be correct.
I told him, you can not say such things about me, it could cause a lot of problems down the road. He said, "Just don't tell them you know me."
Ok, lets review, clearances are granted through background checks, background checks are performed by people that I will probably never meet, it doesn't matter what I say, they will find out...
Ironically enough, he actually convinced someone that he was right.
I know another story, where a man had to hire a private investigator to clear his name. I really can't give you the details, but he scored a false positive.
Note that AC wasn't me. I stand by the points that I made. I think that some people are just a bit too bloodthirsty. They see a post modded up and want to cry about it. Feel free to mark this offtopic, it is, but I would like for this reply to sit on the board long enough to be seen a bit.
**First, how will it deal with shaking? Hopefully, well.
This is discussed in the article. They whacked on the camera pretty good during write, and it didn't fail.** *******************************
Ok, smacking a CD writer once, and walking down the road with it are 2 very different things. A new walkman works better than an old one. How is this going to stand up to REAL USE.
**Second, will you have to finish the CD and nullify the oportunity to write more data to it in order to get the pictures off?
This is discussed in the article. The disc must be finalized before it can be read anywhere but in the camera, but the camera also has USB so you can transfer images out that way. ** *******************************
In some formats, you can finalize and open a second session. This product hasn't got an official "this is what is going to be built" model yet, which may behave quite diffently
**Third, will it be generic CD-R's, or it gonna be a "memory stick" at the last minute, totally proprietary, and useless in anything buy a sony product.
This, too, is discussed in the article, which you obviously didn't take the time to read before posting. It uses standard 77mm CD-R media, which can be read in just about any CD-ROM drive. ** *******************************
Ever hear of a Kodak Photo-CD, didn't really take off, did it? Ever see those CD-RW's labelled especially for MUSIC? They cost 5 times as much... I've been writing music to regular CDs for a long time now, seems to work about the same, doesn't mean that they can't screw with that somehow in order to sell a proprietary product.
**Please, people, take the time to read the article. And moderators, why do you up-moderate posts by people who haven't even bothered to familiarize themselves with the source material? Those are good questions, but they're answered by just doing a little reading.** *******************************
Please, take the time to visit the real world and how real business works. There are plenty of data formats which are all pretty much the same thing. Copy protection on CDs comes in a lot of formats, you might have to have a CD which is only SLIGHTLY different to work in their products, which was pretty much the idea behind the memory stick... To lock your customers in on your products. As for shaking. It's one thing to smack the brand new one. You can put sawdust in parts of a car to make it run better too, for about 5 days...
To confirm. I was referring to the high level of sensitivity that CD writers have to shock. IE, if you're jumping up and down on your dorm room bed while burning those Metallica bootlegs, your CD doesn't work.
Also, don't for get that lab tests VS real world are often different. My friend's CD player that has anti-shock built in is fine over one bump, but when we drive in the mountains, you're listening to the radio...
Well, I have actually considered setting up your suggestion with the backpack. I have a VERY small CCD, that I was thinking of hooking up to a customized computer, and doing exactly that... However, bluetooth isn't really suited to the transmission of the data for a wireless unit. It's only 721 Kbps, which is nice, I mean, heck, it's faster than I get onto the net. When you consider recording COMMERCIAL GRADE VIDEO though, and buffering and such, you are really going to want a faster signal, especially if you are dealing with raw output, as you are speaking of. The other option would of course be on board compression, but that would increase the size of the camera. My recommendation would be to build the camera on the 802.11 standard, which is much faster. After all, why settle for a nice pirated quality.ram, when you can have a DVD quality mpeg?
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We have a similar system at school that we use in a lab, still... You get the idea.
We would use dialups, and modify the base skins in the original quake. Not like using a skin system.
Well, different encryption technologies are better suited to different applications. Some are designed for streaming media vs files on your HD for instance, or for file compression. However, I can see the point that you are making is quite different in nature from that. In my point of view, people should pic encryptions that fit the following criteria.
1) Usful. You want an encryption that is actually worth using. Not worth encrypting something if it can be cracked without any effort.
2) Suited to the application, as I stated above.
3) Available Internationally (nobody wants to be stuck with a product that gets you arrested on export).
4) Open spec (you want it to work with other products.
** This list is in order of importance.
On top of that, your implementation should take the encryption seriously. Putting in a security measure, and then allowing someone to circumvent that is about as dumb as it gets. One example of this is window's passwords. It's case sensitive in Windows NT, but not in 95, on the same network. This means that, if your computer at least claims to be running Windows 95, you can cut the number of keys you need to check in order to crack into the network exponentially.
Just my $.02
My ex-gf is way into UT... I can't say that I really like that game as much as others, but if we ever got back together.
To really make an efficient use of such techniques in the given situation, you would really be more suited to program the behaviors of such targets, like in simulations used for experimental/business/military applications. Though I am not sure how to say it tactfully in reference to something so tragic as the afformentioned thread. I hope that I haven't offended anyone.
"No kidding, now you can have your face and body realistically mapped into your favourite game - the potential is staggering..."
Yeah... Yeah! Uh, YEAH! You could uhh... Stick your face into a video game... or... a chat program... or even... a chat program... oh wait, I said that. Wait, hasn't that all been done before, so, what we're really talking about is matching yourself up with Quake's relatively limited palette, which was designed to not hog the resources of older systems, yet still look nice and menacing... Yeah, ok, so, it's pretty basic stuff... Yeah, oh well.
(P.S. You are allowed to laugh, no, I'm not cracking on the article or the tech, it's just... Well, yeah, maybe a little.)
When Quake first came out, my friends and I got a hold of a digital camera, shot several views of ourselves, and played quake with those altered skins. It was a lot of fun. It's kind of a fun thing if you are
;-)
A) Addicted to Quake.
B) Want to do it.
C) Have an afternoon to blow with some kids, and don't want to give them beer
Kewl to see an article in support of linux, but I usually find that Linux has only token support from ZDNet. Sorta like, "Oh look, I say something pro-Linux today, and I am cool. To cater to the real audience, I will say how wonderful windows is tommorow."
This would be useful say... as an interface to a hologram monitor... You could have a window to your left, right, and above... And I suppose that you could use the API in a game or something. Perhaps for 3D modelling?
Ok, I can see the use of transparent windows, that makes sense to me. Can anybody tell me what you do with 3D rotated windows?
They will probably limit what you can touch and where you can walk in order to keep gameplay the same. They may add blocks such as fences or something in some areas, or just make your player unwilling to do some things (there are certain things that even a game player won't do ). BTW, the graphics look awesome. Way to go!
Perhaps, to stay out of trouble, Mattel should just stick to toys and the M16, eh?
I remember when the arms outside the spacecraft were supposedly going to be controlled by VR. Does anybody know if this ever really came to be? It would seem to me, that precision is much better with a multiview interface. You can always misjudge distance with VR, but multiple viewing (like in high school drafting class, kids) forces you to look at the actual orientation. Just a thought.
On a side note, applications like this are one of the few areas that I see vr interfaces as being truly useful. I don't really see the point of VR chatting, it's fun for games, OS's that use it make little to no sense to me however. I think that sometimes, VR is a solution looking for a problem. A neet glossy toy that everyone wants to take credit for being the first to do something truly useful with it. There is SOME serious research, but the majority of it seems to be the fluffy and filler and eyecandy of computer science (not that I don't love every tasty morsel).
Of course, I do not wish to engender bad feelings either. I am just sure that this unit will NOT succeed. Perhaps the second generation and third generation unit will, but experience tells me that the original units, the very first ones, will wear out in less than a year. These are the problems that I see could bar an initial takeoff. There are ways to make sure that you are the only player in the field, even if you make it look as clear as day. I feel that somehow, that will enter this device. It may not. Also, everyone who has one of the first CD players knows that it skips. A lot of notebook CD RW's are a joke, you can't move with them at all. And they have been lab tested, and didn't skip in the tests either. After you use it for a few weeks, you'll see that you're ruining a CD or 2 too many though. Especially on battery operation. Your battery develops memory, and soon you're trying to write to a CD, with a half burnt out battery, while walking, it just seems to me that while the technology is there to do this, the product probably isn't. As for the firmware to do a second burn to the CD, it sounds as if half of it is there according to the article. You can do it on a PC. It's a software problem, not a hardware problem... So, I don't see why they couldn't modify the software to do so.
I realize this, but they could take it one step futher.
Sorry about the e-mail, I was dealing with someone irate at me earlier, and thought maybe you were just, you know, throwing back at me. I seem to get that a lot.
To be honest, if it came down to it, I would much prefer to take a route of courtroom litigation against the person in question. It's really more suited to the case. Revealing my (that's read as in mine, not the clearances of all federal personel) identity/clearances in such a situation is of no consequence to national security, and I could score a nice settlement out of it.
I'm not sure what you meant by your remark, perhaps you could clarify? I just told the guy that I was going to sue him if he continued.
I lost my license in HS for that one... Quite a bit over, dragracing...
Oh yeah, happy resolution to my story. I still have my job.
I knew a guy once, who said something quite libelous about me, that, if it were to show up in a background check, would cost me my job (I have a security clearance, which according to federal law, the level of which is none of your business). At any rate, in order to clear me, I sign papers giving permission to the government to do whatever it takes to get the dirt on me. I fill out reams of paperwork, and I repeat this process at a certain frequency.
Now, this prick pretty much started telling lies about me to get a shot at getting into my girlfriend's pants by having her lose trust in me. As a result, a lot of people considered the possibility that he could be correct.
I told him, you can not say such things about me, it could cause a lot of problems down the road.
He said, "Just don't tell them you know me."
Ok, lets review, clearances are granted through background checks, background checks are performed by people that I will probably never meet, it doesn't matter what I say, they will find out...
Ironically enough, he actually convinced someone that he was right.
I know another story, where a man had to hire a private investigator to clear his name. I really can't give you the details, but he scored a false positive.
Note that AC wasn't me. I stand by the points that I made. I think that some people are just a bit too bloodthirsty. They see a post modded up and want to cry about it. Feel free to mark this offtopic, it is, but I would like for this reply to sit on the board long enough to be seen a bit.
**First, how will it deal with shaking? Hopefully, well.
This is discussed in the article. They whacked on the camera pretty good during write, and it didn't fail.**
*******************************
Ok, smacking a CD writer once, and walking down the road with it are 2 very different things. A new walkman works better than an old one. How is this going to stand up to REAL USE.
**Second, will you have to finish the CD and nullify the oportunity to write more data to it in order to get the pictures off?
This is discussed in the article. The disc must be finalized before it can be read anywhere but in the camera, but the camera also has USB so you can transfer images out that way. **
*******************************
In some formats, you can finalize and open a second session. This product hasn't got an official "this is what is going to be built" model yet, which may behave quite diffently
**Third, will it be generic CD-R's, or it gonna be a "memory stick" at the last minute, totally proprietary, and useless in anything buy a sony product.
This, too, is discussed in the article, which you obviously didn't take the time to read before posting. It uses standard 77mm CD-R media, which can be read in just about any CD-ROM drive. **
*******************************
Ever hear of a Kodak Photo-CD, didn't really take off, did it? Ever see those CD-RW's labelled especially for MUSIC? They cost 5 times as much... I've been writing music to regular CDs for a long time now, seems to work about the same, doesn't mean that they can't screw with that somehow in order to sell a proprietary product.
**Please, people, take the time to read the article. And moderators, why do you up-moderate posts by people who haven't even bothered to familiarize themselves with the source material? Those are good questions, but they're answered by just doing a little reading.**
*******************************
Please, take the time to visit the real world and how real business works. There are plenty of data formats which are all pretty much the same thing. Copy protection on CDs comes in a lot of formats, you might have to have a CD which is only SLIGHTLY different to work in their products, which was pretty much the idea behind the memory stick... To lock your customers in on your products. As for shaking. It's one thing to smack the brand new one. You can put sawdust in parts of a car to make it run better too, for about 5 days...
You are what you do when you count --Steakley
To confirm. I was referring to the high level of sensitivity that CD writers have to shock. IE, if you're jumping up and down on your dorm room bed while burning those Metallica bootlegs, your CD doesn't work.
Also, don't for get that lab tests VS real world are often different. My friend's CD player that has anti-shock built in is fine over one bump, but when we drive in the mountains, you're listening to the radio...
It's not DVD quality, but X10 has a mini unit that works similarly.
Well, I have actually considered setting up your suggestion with the backpack. I have a VERY small CCD, that I was thinking of hooking up to a customized computer, and doing exactly that... However, bluetooth isn't really suited to the transmission of the data for a wireless unit. It's only 721 Kbps, which is nice, I mean, heck, it's faster than I get onto the net. When you consider recording COMMERCIAL GRADE VIDEO though, and buffering and such, you are really going to want a faster signal, especially if you are dealing with raw output, as you are speaking of. The other option would of course be on board compression, but that would increase the size of the camera. My recommendation would be to build the camera on the 802.11 standard, which is much faster. After all, why settle for a nice pirated quality .ram, when you can have a DVD quality mpeg?