Is there really a great media conspiracy claiming Blackberry is forcing people to use these devices 24/7? That seems to be what this article is trying to defend against. All I see is an incredibly short, pointless article spread across two web pages to increase ad impressions.
The story claims that this device pulls 75 mw and that it can be run on batteries. Assuming a 3V system, that's 25 mA of current. If one if these was in a typical portable device with a 750 mAH battery, it would last for 30 hours. Less, of course, if you actually turned on the device. Basically your battery would go dead in a day or so even with the device turned off.
For reference, real time clock chips that are used in portable electronic devices today pull about 3 microwatts of current -- almost 10,000 times less than this device.
I use a unique email address for each company I deal with on the net, and have been doing this for years. I've never received a spam to one of these addresses until recently. I got a spam to my cdw@ address which I use to deal with CDW. It was from a two-bit competitor of CDW's, so I seriously doubt CDW provided it. It was, interestingly, in the same state as CDW. My first guess is that a disgruntled employee left CDW along with its customer email list.
I contacted CDW requesting an explanation, and got no reply. Has anyone else had a CDW email address compromised recently?
(I got a spam to my WHOIS email address while typing this...)
The first thing I noticed about this post was the reference to the "Microsoft tax." Since the "Microsoft tax" refers to being forced to buy Windows when you purchase a computer AND YOU DO NOT INTEND TO RUN WINDOWS, how can it be considered appropriate when you're talking about a game which can only be played BY PEOPLE WHO RUN WINDOWS BY CHOICE?
This may be my naivete with the capabilities of encryption, but it seems that whenever encrypted digital content is delivered to a recipient who does NOT have a vested interest in maintaining the confidentiality of that content (e.g., cable/satellite programming, DVD content, ebooks), someone manages to successfully break that encryption. I am assuming that the recipient MUST have the decryption key in order to use the content. Does Palladium solve this?
Win4Lin recently added support for TurboTax. It virtualizes writes to cylinder 0 into a special file in your home directory. So you can safely run TurboTax without it actually doing anything dangerous to your hard drive.
I don't understand why so many people put up with the idiocy of large ISPs. Yes, some folks have no choice if their only broadband option is cable modem. But if you have DSL, it's pretty unlikely you have only one choice of ISP. Switch over to your local ISP. It might cost you an extra $10 a month, but you're voting against stupidity and beauracracy, and supporting your local economy.
I don't need "magic words" to get problems fixed. I know whom to mail at my local ISP, and the problem is solved. Why settle for anything less?
If enough @Home customers become aware of they problem, *they* might start complaining to tech support. Sometimes when a large ISP gets enough complaints about the same thing, they actually fix it.
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Since when? Gmail has low single-digit market share. Yahoo! and Hotmail have 30% or better share each.
Why is such a non-original article like this posted? It's been submitted by its author for no purpose other than collecting Google revenue.
Is there really a great media conspiracy claiming Blackberry is forcing people to use these devices 24/7? That seems to be what this article is trying to defend against. All I see is an incredibly short, pointless article spread across two web pages to increase ad impressions.
The story claims that this device pulls 75 mw and that it can be run on batteries. Assuming a 3V system, that's 25 mA of current. If one if these was in a typical portable device with a 750 mAH battery, it would last for 30 hours. Less, of course, if you actually turned on the device. Basically your battery would go dead in a day or so even with the device turned off.
For reference, real time clock chips that are used in portable electronic devices today pull about 3 microwatts of current -- almost 10,000 times less than this device.
I use a unique email address for each company I deal with on the net, and have been doing this for years. I've never received a spam to one of these addresses until recently. I got a spam to my cdw@ address which I use to deal with CDW. It was from a two-bit competitor of CDW's, so I seriously doubt CDW provided it. It was, interestingly, in the same state as CDW. My first guess is that a disgruntled employee left CDW along with its customer email list.
I contacted CDW requesting an explanation, and got no reply. Has anyone else had a CDW email address compromised recently?
(I got a spam to my WHOIS email address while typing this...)
The first thing I noticed about this post was the reference to the "Microsoft tax." Since the "Microsoft tax" refers to being forced to buy Windows when you purchase a computer AND YOU DO NOT INTEND TO RUN WINDOWS, how can it be considered appropriate when you're talking about a game which can only be played BY PEOPLE WHO RUN WINDOWS BY CHOICE?
This may be my naivete with the capabilities of encryption, but it seems that whenever encrypted digital content is delivered to a recipient who does NOT have a vested interest in maintaining the confidentiality of that content (e.g., cable/satellite programming, DVD content, ebooks), someone manages to successfully break that encryption. I am assuming that the recipient MUST have the decryption key in order to use the content.
Does Palladium solve this?
Win4Lin recently added support for TurboTax. It virtualizes writes to cylinder 0 into a special file in your home directory. So you can safely run TurboTax without it actually doing anything dangerous to your hard drive.
I don't understand why so many people put up with the idiocy of large ISPs. Yes, some folks have no choice if their only broadband option is cable modem. But if you have DSL, it's pretty unlikely you have only one choice of ISP. Switch over to your local ISP. It might cost you an extra $10 a month, but you're voting against stupidity and beauracracy, and supporting your local economy. I don't need "magic words" to get problems fixed. I know whom to mail at my local ISP, and the problem is solved. Why settle for anything less?
If enough @Home customers become aware of they problem, *they* might start complaining to tech support. Sometimes when a large ISP gets enough complaints about the same thing, they actually fix it.