Re:Why can't anyone see the implications of this?
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This is IT?
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Kamen tried to downplay the "hype"
Since Kamen is a clever man, he knows that complete secrecy yields incredible publicity. Interesting, too, that nobody was allowed to speak about it other than Jobs, Bezos and this VC guy. This makes one believe that the hype was cleverly created.
I know this is a little offtopic, but other big news are: Today, Apple will bring out a new device that is not a Mac and that it calls "ground-braking". Every Mac Newssite is talking about it: MacOSRumors, Go2Mac, MacEdition, MacNN.
I would be very interested what Slashdot readers' guesses would be what it is.
Clever move, but late
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Palm OS Spinoff
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· Score: 2, Interesting
According to industry analysts, WinCE is on the way up while Palm will go down due to lack of multimedia features and beeing a "real computing platform" instead of an organizer.
Changing direction for Palm is clever, but one has to ask if they aren't late: Developing a new OS might take 2 years, while WinCE is pretty much there.
A very good (and free) solution for this would be if every reader here actually buys the cd in a store, then goes back exclaiming like hell that he couldn't play it back in the computer until he gets the money back.
If enough do it, it will work and set the right signs.
The whole problem started with internet advertising experts telling their customers that only a clicked ad is a viewed and valuable ad.
This is completely different to conventional advertising in tv, magazines and radio, where the moment you're exposed to the ad is not the time an interaction with the product takes place. You do not you order pepsi by phone after having seen a commercial. But the next time you're standing in a store, all the media exposure you had provides you with a base for a buying decision.
Most products actually work that way - it looks like there should be some time between exposure and decision for maximum commercial effect. If a tv ad asks you to "call now", you're just annoyed and hope that the ad will be over soon. On the web, however, this is standard procedure.
I see a time when advertisers realize it's not about the "click-through rate", but about the exposure. When brand name companies create normal banners ads with a message and happily pay if these messages get simply seen by people - because that's the time when web advertising will become as normal as traditional advertising, and as appreciated as it should be.
Well I'd guess that they have a system for occasional hiccups in the transmission - most likely, they split each second and transmit it over, like, 20 seconds. On your end, the signal gets put together again, just with a latency of these 20 seconds.
When you now drive under a bridge, 5 seconds of interruption won't interrupt your musical experience - or not much.
I don't know what kind of latency they use, but if its around 2-5 minutes, you would be able to driver through the mountains without any problems.
Also note that Sirius uses 3 non-geostationary satellites which would make this problem even worse (they could be just as low as 30 degrees over the horizon), so these satellite radio are most likely to address this problem anyways...
If I understand you correctly, Engelbart had two modes for interaction with his Computer
1- Both hands on the keyboard for typing
2- One hand on keyboard, one on mouse for editing w/ chords
The original mac team actually adopted this idea: The most often used shortcuts are all on keyboard keys easily reachable with your left hand, so that one can leave the right hand on the mouse:
Q - Quit (and not Exit)
W - Close (not like this hand-breaking Alt-F4...)
A - Select all
S - Save
D - Duplicate
Z, X, C, V - You know them, don't you?:)
The only important shortcut not on the left side is P - Print.
Maybe they can still work the Time Limit thingie... I'd like to buy a movie online, not rent it. People really don't like if stuff bought and in their hands suddenly stops working... look at divx (the buy-then-throw-away dvd, not the codec!)
I guess they won't have an open file format for it, which would probably only will make it playable on win.
Well, it's actually "Doppelgänger", but you can write it as "Doppelgaenger" if you don't have a key for the A-Umlaut (A with 2 dots on top of it).
Doppelganger is just plain wrong...
You can expand the dynamic range of film by cutting the resoluting down to half: simply attach a 50% grey filter in front of every second pixel sensor, then expose the whole sensor with 50% more light.
By now extracting the data correctly, you get a picture with half the resolution and double the dynamic range.
Resoluting now may seem like a precious ressource, but if you can have a 16 MegPix sensor, you can afford to use such a trickery.
Best of all, you can size the dynamic range fourfold by using 3 different grey filters.
If this stuff really works and nobody has thought about it before, I'd be happy to receive royalties...;-))
What a great idea - get your music the way you want - pay the artist directly. Perfect! I think I will spend some 30$ for a few artists that I really liked and could find a CD of!
MSNBC writes "a virus that infects mobile phones" - well, just plain wrong: No mobile phone can execute VBscripts. The virus infects ordinary PCs the same way the "I love you" virus did it, but just besides the ordinary stuff, it might also try to send a few SMS... But the phone doesn't get infected... I hope Slashdot wont't publish such plain wrong stuff again! Just because it's written on msnbc doesn't mean it's true, mind you!
Perfectly right! There is no opensourced video-streaming-protocol, and no opensourced protocol for any interactive experience... this sounds bad! Where will the world head to?
I saw it on the first of january, but the overall impression was not as breathtaking as you would expect by judging from the trailer. Especially the lack of details didn't worked well with IMAX, but also the fact that most scenes were drawn too little "wide angly" (you saw everything from upfront although stuff on the side should have been more drawn from the side). This lack of "wide angles" would be ok for video, but in an IMAX it looked really weird. And by the way, the last segment was too short - I was dreaming away when suddenly - poof - the movie was over... But overall - go see it, but dont expect the best movie ever!
Normally, all nominated songs get performed during the ceremony. Now with this south park song, will they break the rule or really perform such a song in front of a 100M+ audience? I think performing will kick ass!
Oh c'mon! The RIAA are not bad people. They just start lawsuits against everything because they have to. It's their job to try and stop stuff that might eat up profits - their CEO and all of them have been hired to protect their goods. If they don't protect their works, they might all loose their jobs.
Intereting Point. If mp3.com would lose, couldn't they just change their beam-it app to work like the described "Case 2"? And if they lose again, just step a bit more back again? Even if their actual implementation looks "sueable" right now, the overall concept look very legal to me.
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Kamen tried to downplay the "hype"
Since Kamen is a clever man, he knows that complete secrecy yields incredible publicity. Interesting, too, that nobody was allowed to speak about it other than Jobs, Bezos and this VC guy. This makes one believe that the hype was cleverly created.
Hmmm, I use Google 30 times a day, but I've never seen such a thing. Maybe your talking about Yahoo, who uses Google search-results as well?
You can also try MySimon, with a best price of $19.05, currently.
Or, try Yahoo Books Shopping, with a best price of $20.23 at this moment.
Or, use Smartshop for a price of only $18.46.
Why we have comparison shopping portals if we still have to look at several site is beyond me, though...
I know this is a little offtopic, but other big news are: Today, Apple will bring out a new device that is not a Mac and that it calls "ground-braking". Every Mac Newssite is talking about it: MacOSRumors, Go2Mac, MacEdition, MacNN.
I would be very interested what Slashdot readers' guesses would be what it is.
According to industry analysts, WinCE is on the way up while Palm will go down due to lack of multimedia features and beeing a "real computing platform" instead of an organizer.
Changing direction for Palm is clever, but one has to ask if they aren't late: Developing a new OS might take 2 years, while WinCE is pretty much there.
Disclaimer: Yes, I have a Palm. No, I dislike MS.
For doing this, you could have bought a Nokia 9000 communicator in Summer of '96!
A very good (and free) solution for this would be if every reader here actually buys the cd in a store, then goes back exclaiming like hell that he couldn't play it back in the computer until he gets the money back.
If enough do it, it will work and set the right signs.
This is not correct, unfortunately.
The whole problem started with internet advertising experts telling their customers that only a clicked ad is a viewed and valuable ad.
This is completely different to conventional advertising in tv, magazines and radio, where the moment you're exposed to the ad is not the time an interaction with the product takes place. You do not you order pepsi by phone after having seen a commercial. But the next time you're standing in a store, all the media exposure you had provides you with a base for a buying decision.
Most products actually work that way - it looks like there should be some time between exposure and decision for maximum commercial effect. If a tv ad asks you to "call now", you're just annoyed and hope that the ad will be over soon. On the web, however, this is standard procedure.
I see a time when advertisers realize it's not about the "click-through rate", but about the exposure. When brand name companies create normal banners ads with a message and happily pay if these messages get simply seen by people - because that's the time when web advertising will become as normal as traditional advertising, and as appreciated as it should be.
Well I'd guess that they have a system for occasional hiccups in the transmission - most likely, they split each second and transmit it over, like, 20 seconds. On your end, the signal gets put together again, just with a latency of these 20 seconds.
When you now drive under a bridge, 5 seconds of interruption won't interrupt your musical experience - or not much.
I don't know what kind of latency they use, but if its around 2-5 minutes, you would be able to driver through the mountains without any problems.
Also note that Sirius uses 3 non-geostationary satellites which would make this problem even worse (they could be just as low as 30 degrees over the horizon), so these satellite radio are most likely to address this problem anyways...
If I understand you correctly, Engelbart had two modes for interaction with his Computer
:)
1- Both hands on the keyboard for typing
2- One hand on keyboard, one on mouse for editing w/ chords
The original mac team actually adopted this idea: The most often used shortcuts are all on keyboard keys easily reachable with your left hand, so that one can leave the right hand on the mouse:
Q - Quit (and not Exit)
W - Close (not like this hand-breaking Alt-F4...)
A - Select all
S - Save
D - Duplicate
Z, X, C, V - You know them, don't you?
The only important shortcut not on the left side is P - Print.
Very cool, I'll be glad to be a customer.
Maybe they can still work the Time Limit thingie... I'd like to buy a movie online, not rent it. People really don't like if stuff bought and in their hands suddenly stops working... look at divx (the buy-then-throw-away dvd, not the codec!)
I guess they won't have an open file format for it, which would probably only will make it playable on win.
Well, it's actually "Doppelgänger", but you can write it as "Doppelgaenger" if you don't have a key for the A-Umlaut (A with 2 dots on top of it). Doppelganger is just plain wrong...
By now extracting the data correctly, you get a picture with half the resolution and double the dynamic range.
Resoluting now may seem like a precious ressource, but if you can have a 16 MegPix sensor, you can afford to use such a trickery.
Best of all, you can size the dynamic range fourfold by using 3 different grey filters.
If this stuff really works and nobody has thought about it before, I'd be happy to receive royalties... ;-))
What a great idea - get your music the way you want - pay the artist directly. Perfect! I think I will spend some 30$ for a few artists that I really liked and could find a CD of!
MSNBC writes "a virus that infects mobile phones" - well, just plain wrong: No mobile phone can execute VBscripts. The virus infects ordinary PCs the same way the "I love you" virus did it, but just besides the ordinary stuff, it might also try to send a few SMS... But the phone doesn't get infected...
I hope Slashdot wont't publish such plain wrong stuff again! Just because it's written on msnbc doesn't mean it's true, mind you!
Perfectly right! There is no opensourced video-streaming-protocol, and no opensourced protocol for any interactive experience... this sounds bad! Where will the world head to?
Well.. they either gonna take this stuff out or I'm not gonna buy their boxes, it's that simple...
I saw it on the first of january, but the overall impression was not as breathtaking as you would expect by judging from the trailer.
Especially the lack of details didn't worked well with IMAX, but also the fact that most scenes were drawn too little "wide angly" (you saw everything from upfront although stuff on the side should have been more drawn from the side). This lack of "wide angles" would be ok for video, but in an IMAX it looked really weird.
And by the way, the last segment was too short - I was dreaming away when suddenly - poof - the movie was over...
But overall - go see it, but dont expect the best movie ever!
Normally, all nominated songs get performed during the ceremony. Now with this south park song, will they break the rule or really perform such a song in front of a 100M+ audience? I think performing will kick ass!
Oh c'mon! The RIAA are not bad people. They just start lawsuits against everything because they have to. It's their job to try and stop stuff that might eat up profits - their CEO and all of them have been hired to protect their goods. If they don't protect their works, they might all loose their jobs.
Intereting Point. If mp3.com would lose, couldn't they just change their beam-it app to work like the described "Case 2"? And if they lose again, just step a bit more back again? Even if their actual implementation looks "sueable" right now, the overall concept look very legal to me.