Most of the time you have to wake a device before you can do any input. That would probably involve hitting a physical button.
As for brute forcing... You must be fluent in sign language or something. It's not plausible that if someone was using this to detect some kind of pattern on a device that you'd be able to sneak your little hands over there and try every possible combination in 3D. This detects depth too. So it's not going to be something like Android lockscreens where you slide Left, Left, Right, Up, Right, Down or something. You'll have Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back all as possibilities. It would take a very long time to "brute force" with your fingers.
Also, the device is limited to a fairly short usage distance as well. The contrast between a hand 5 feet away will probably too small to allow the software to define a good finger outline when switched to Black and White. You'll notice that the camera is surrounded with really bright LED's to ensure that, at a short distance at least, the finger is distinguishable.
So essentially, there is no more security flaw to this as there is any practical reason to use it on a phone.:p
Seems cool, and it is 4 dimensional... The only thing is the creators rendition of a 4th dimension is not an Orthogonal dimension. Finding a way to try and represent a 4 dimensional object using 4 orthogonal dimensions has been a bit of a curiosity of mine.
You do realize that one of the biggest parts of IBM right now is it's Global Services branch and IBM operates as the worlds largest consulting firm in numbers of consultants? Services need to be located where they operate. There are a lot of opportunities for consulting in other countries so there are branches in those companies.
There are also consulting branches in the USA. You go where the client is. It's not "outsourcing". If there is a country with more need for consultants why would it be considered outsourcing that you operate with more consultants in that location?
This is just silly. They are likely hiding the numbers because people will freak out and feel "betrayed" that more and more employees are operating overseas.
Did they use any kind of algorithm? For most intents and purposes of the PS3, even just year%4==0 would have prevented this.
I don't know how many PS3's will be used in 2100. I have a feeling trophy servers being long gone will be more of an issue then than a day mismatch.:p
I'm curious what they actually did! Did they try to tag years manually? Like just a list of leap years! Or is it something a bit more complex. Something similar to the issue with the Zune effecting the modulus operator and causing a false positive?
I just wanted to shout out to a fellow Physics major programmer.
I did happen to get a CS minor so I did get a chance to dabble in Big O, Algorithms and Datastructures. While you probably won't miss them normally you may run into a situation where you'll be wondering how you can do something faster or better and these would be your answers.
There are a lot of games that don't end up right back on the shelves and those are the games that get continued support. I'll use EA for an example here because I'm most familiar.
When you release a new Call of Duty that's basically the same thing as the one before it every year, do you really expect the gamers to play ALL OF THEM? Especially when you drop off support and quit updating the older versions? We know we're buying a game for $60 that is basically becomes obsolete (by EA's OWN doing) after a year. So we want to recoup some of the losses to cover the upgrade and let someone else who's a little behind get the old game.
If you continue releasing updates and make a good game... People will hold onto it.
I think it's totally in their right to do so... If I get banned, I'm selling my iPhone and buying a Nexus One and I expect that if Apple drops the Banhammer on the entire jailbreak community we will see a sharp upward spike in Google's Revenue. Possibly even in the new Windows Phone 7 Series.
Hey! What a coincidence! Same with every jailbroken iPhone user!
They can do multitasking and are not banned from anything (maybe even except Apple because this is only two cases).
First... All Apple products don't exist in an "Apple bubble". Only the iPhone and iPod Touch, UNJAILBROKEN do. Even this is a moot point for you to make since the choices are vastly greater in the "Apple Bubble" than on any other phone. Since when has more choices been bad? The only reason I have an iPhone is because I have more apps to dl than any other phone, at the moment. When this changes I'll change phones.
I think you're just as bad as any Apple Devotee's with your Anti-Apple attitude. Really, just because it's made by Apple is a stupid reason to reject the technology. How about making an open decision about the product as it stands in the market? How about a powerful phone with full touch screen and more apps than any other device? Android is catching up and as soon as my contract is up I expect Android to have a better dev platform. At that point I'll probably switch. How about thinking about things before you blindly bash Apple? K?
This is the opposite of what the article is saying...
The article says that the first person to draw will be the last one to pull the trigger, but the one reacting (drawing second after seeing the first person draw) will draw and pull the trigger quicker but they are less likely to get a hit.
I think this would be a really BAD way to let people know it's free.
If I was just about to buy a new system and heard this I'd be like, "PS3 is free for a while now but they are going to start charging soon! Screw that."
As mentioned... VS Express is free. Also there are many options for Windows IDEs. Would you argue that Linux is closed because it doesn't have it's on special IDE?
Also, Apple has not turned a blind eye to the jailbreak community. With every update to the firmware they try to close off the system from jailbreakers, so far unsuccessfully.
Apple has shown that they are not trying to keep us from programming or doing cool things... As long as it doesn't compete with their own software, change the look and feel of the system, or otherwise do something they don't like.
I feel like the majority of Windows or Mac users don't care about tinkering with their computers. They just want to be able to run their programs, use their devices and not have to worry about it getting all messed up.
For the rest of us, there is Linux.:D
I just hope that these "simplifications" don't COMPLETELY remove the ability to tinker. Like a setting that an advanced user can change to allow unsigned code. Apple has been against this on the iPhone and I hope THAT trend doesn't continue.
The issue is people's expectations and how Apple is pushing the iPad.
People don't expect phones and MP3 players to be totally open systems. Many people do expect that of their laptops, tablets and desktops.
I think the majority of people that are upset were expecting something a little more "computer" than "gadget" out of Apple when the iPad was announced. Is that Apple's fault? Well they have been saying this filling in the void that netbooks have tried to fill but netbooks are full featured systems. Slow... but they run a full featured OS.
I think this is why the iPad is being compared, not with the Zune, but with a netbook running Linux or XP.
I'm a *nix user... I have some computers that are Macs and they obviously run OSX and then my other computers run Ubuntu.
If you stopped using Linux in 2005 you are missing out on some big steps. I'm a relatively new Linux user, made the switch in 2005 from WinXP actually, and even so I've seen considerable advancements in ease of use.
It's very nice that Mac OSX "Just Works" and I love it! I just think you're selling a lot of Linux Distro's a little short.
As far as innovative advancements from the Linux community goes... I'm a little suprised there hasn't been more as well but since the community is so big, it's not that easy for some great new thing to come to the attention of everyone. Some great things I've seen have been SLAX, Compiz-Fusion and the boot speed of Ext-4 partitions. I say SLAX because it was pretty cool how anyone who knows how to click a mouse can build a disk that boots right up into a full desktop OS with custom applications. I'm also sure that people have tried to make great steps that just didn't catch on. SymphonyOS is one that comes to mind. Brand new take on a Desktop OS that I found very interesting.
I'm sure other people here have favorite innovations as well and will probably respond to you very abrasively.;)
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.... where they belong?
And the Lord said, "Window decorations must always reside on the right hand side of the window!" And so it was done.
Most of the time you have to wake a device before you can do any input. That would probably involve hitting a physical button.
:p
As for brute forcing... You must be fluent in sign language or something. It's not plausible that if someone was using this to detect some kind of pattern on a device that you'd be able to sneak your little hands over there and try every possible combination in 3D. This detects depth too. So it's not going to be something like Android lockscreens where you slide Left, Left, Right, Up, Right, Down or something. You'll have Up, Down, Left, Right, Front, Back all as possibilities. It would take a very long time to "brute force" with your fingers.
Also, the device is limited to a fairly short usage distance as well. The contrast between a hand 5 feet away will probably too small to allow the software to define a good finger outline when switched to Black and White. You'll notice that the camera is surrounded with really bright LED's to ensure that, at a short distance at least, the finger is distinguishable.
So essentially, there is no more security flaw to this as there is any practical reason to use it on a phone.
No, that would be one user. Most households share one external IP address.
Seems cool, and it is 4 dimensional... The only thing is the creators rendition of a 4th dimension is not an Orthogonal dimension. Finding a way to try and represent a 4 dimensional object using 4 orthogonal dimensions has been a bit of a curiosity of mine.
You do realize that one of the biggest parts of IBM right now is it's Global Services branch and IBM operates as the worlds largest consulting firm in numbers of consultants? Services need to be located where they operate. There are a lot of opportunities for consulting in other countries so there are branches in those companies.
There are also consulting branches in the USA. You go where the client is. It's not "outsourcing". If there is a country with more need for consultants why would it be considered outsourcing that you operate with more consultants in that location?
This is just silly. They are likely hiding the numbers because people will freak out and feel "betrayed" that more and more employees are operating overseas.
Did they use any kind of algorithm? For most intents and purposes of the PS3, even just year%4==0 would have prevented this.
:p
I don't know how many PS3's will be used in 2100. I have a feeling trophy servers being long gone will be more of an issue then than a day mismatch.
I'm curious what they actually did! Did they try to tag years manually? Like just a list of leap years! Or is it something a bit more complex. Something similar to the issue with the Zune effecting the modulus operator and causing a false positive?
Anyone else more curious about this?
Yea! We can all have a Windows 7 Party! I missed those when it came out. ;)
I just wanted to shout out to a fellow Physics major programmer.
I did happen to get a CS minor so I did get a chance to dabble in Big O, Algorithms and Datastructures. While you probably won't miss them normally you may run into a situation where you'll be wondering how you can do something faster or better and these would be your answers.
Yea, some mods really need to mod this as Funny or something... People are really not getting it.
Ding ding ding!!!
There are a lot of games that don't end up right back on the shelves and those are the games that get continued support. I'll use EA for an example here because I'm most familiar.
When you release a new Call of Duty that's basically the same thing as the one before it every year, do you really expect the gamers to play ALL OF THEM? Especially when you drop off support and quit updating the older versions? We know we're buying a game for $60 that is basically becomes obsolete (by EA's OWN doing) after a year. So we want to recoup some of the losses to cover the upgrade and let someone else who's a little behind get the old game.
If you continue releasing updates and make a good game... People will hold onto it.
It's not.
I think it's totally in their right to do so... If I get banned, I'm selling my iPhone and buying a Nexus One and I expect that if Apple drops the Banhammer on the entire jailbreak community we will see a sharp upward spike in Google's Revenue. Possibly even in the new Windows Phone 7 Series.
Hey! What a coincidence! Same with every jailbroken iPhone user!
They can do multitasking and are not banned from anything (maybe even except Apple because this is only two cases).
First... All Apple products don't exist in an "Apple bubble". Only the iPhone and iPod Touch, UNJAILBROKEN do. Even this is a moot point for you to make since the choices are vastly greater in the "Apple Bubble" than on any other phone. Since when has more choices been bad? The only reason I have an iPhone is because I have more apps to dl than any other phone, at the moment. When this changes I'll change phones.
I think you're just as bad as any Apple Devotee's with your Anti-Apple attitude. Really, just because it's made by Apple is a stupid reason to reject the technology. How about making an open decision about the product as it stands in the market? How about a powerful phone with full touch screen and more apps than any other device? Android is catching up and as soon as my contract is up I expect Android to have a better dev platform. At that point I'll probably switch. How about thinking about things before you blindly bash Apple? K?
How about Vanilla Ice
So they didn't explain "that", they explained the opposite...
This is the opposite of what the article is saying...
The article says that the first person to draw will be the last one to pull the trigger, but the one reacting (drawing second after seeing the first person draw) will draw and pull the trigger quicker but they are less likely to get a hit.
I think this would be a really BAD way to let people know it's free.
If I was just about to buy a new system and heard this I'd be like, "PS3 is free for a while now but they are going to start charging soon! Screw that."
Rumors only so far. Apple hasn't sued Palm for it.
Every day on his birthday Woz picks one lucky kid and throws him to the moon.
As mentioned... VS Express is free. Also there are many options for Windows IDEs. Would you argue that Linux is closed because it doesn't have it's on special IDE?
Also, Apple has not turned a blind eye to the jailbreak community. With every update to the firmware they try to close off the system from jailbreakers, so far unsuccessfully.
Apple has shown that they are not trying to keep us from programming or doing cool things... As long as it doesn't compete with their own software, change the look and feel of the system, or otherwise do something they don't like.
Or... They will run Linux.
:D
I feel like the majority of Windows or Mac users don't care about tinkering with their computers. They just want to be able to run their programs, use their devices and not have to worry about it getting all messed up.
For the rest of us, there is Linux.
I just hope that these "simplifications" don't COMPLETELY remove the ability to tinker. Like a setting that an advanced user can change to allow unsigned code. Apple has been against this on the iPhone and I hope THAT trend doesn't continue.
The issue is people's expectations and how Apple is pushing the iPad.
People don't expect phones and MP3 players to be totally open systems. Many people do expect that of their laptops, tablets and desktops.
I think the majority of people that are upset were expecting something a little more "computer" than "gadget" out of Apple when the iPad was announced. Is that Apple's fault? Well they have been saying this filling in the void that netbooks have tried to fill but netbooks are full featured systems. Slow... but they run a full featured OS.
I think this is why the iPad is being compared, not with the Zune, but with a netbook running Linux or XP.
I'm a *nix user... I have some computers that are Macs and they obviously run OSX and then my other computers run Ubuntu.
;)
If you stopped using Linux in 2005 you are missing out on some big steps. I'm a relatively new Linux user, made the switch in 2005 from WinXP actually, and even so I've seen considerable advancements in ease of use.
It's very nice that Mac OSX "Just Works" and I love it! I just think you're selling a lot of Linux Distro's a little short.
As far as innovative advancements from the Linux community goes... I'm a little suprised there hasn't been more as well but since the community is so big, it's not that easy for some great new thing to come to the attention of everyone. Some great things I've seen have been SLAX, Compiz-Fusion and the boot speed of Ext-4 partitions. I say SLAX because it was pretty cool how anyone who knows how to click a mouse can build a disk that boots right up into a full desktop OS with custom applications. I'm also sure that people have tried to make great steps that just didn't catch on. SymphonyOS is one that comes to mind. Brand new take on a Desktop OS that I found very interesting.
I'm sure other people here have favorite innovations as well and will probably respond to you very abrasively.
Yea... My linux desktop does, but I meant my linux netbook.
So anyone know if it will work?
Oh yea, but I meant I can't run coax in my apt because they won't let me take open the walls.
That just adds more devices broadcasting 2.4GHz in my complex... Maybe you responded to the wrong post.