http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38d656b11d60.ht m
Read a bit through this and see how anyone who talks negatively about the company gets personally attacked. Note the tone of the attacks. They all sound like they were written by the came people.
Kinda cultish...
My favorite quotes about the company:
"ADSX is listed on NASDAQ. Kinda hard to hoax that..."
and:
"Was able to get to find the Digital Angel press release on the Applied Digital Solutions website. If this is a hoax, it's a pretty darned elaborate one"
Well, then - They must be legit.
PS - I know nothing about the site FreeRepublic - Don't flame me if it's some fringe site - I searched google on the company name and 'Scam'. That link is what I found.
...That it might be just a pack of lies?
Track by GPS? Sure. Right. And your TV is watching *you*. GPS is just as one-way.
Web-enabled bio-electric-powered? Sure.
Show me a precedent. Show me a big, clunky prototype that does *any* of these things. New technologies do not start out as 'dime-sized' implants. They start out as a pile wires and an ATX case. But these guys go straight to the finished product with *noone* on slashdot having heard whispers?
This guy is trying to bilk law enforcement and govenment agencies of as much as he can.
BTW - This isn't the same guy who was selling the GPS-tracked bracelets a year or two ago, is it? Sure smells like the same vapourware...
Ok, now prove me wrong...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Problem is - DiVx isn't a legit format, IIRC. It's a cracked version of a Microsoft codec -
But, and this is just supposition, the guys who designed ReplayTV had a big history in networking the home - So, I would guess, there will be a way to mount the drive on this thing from another machine. Why not? I log in to my home machine from work, buffer up a bit of the show and start watching. What's to stop me from sharing an episode of the Simpsons over Gnutella? What's to stop me from inserting my own commercials or adding my own content?
Being in Japan, I really miss the Simpsons - I can't wait for this to be available!
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Why would you possibly care who's browsing the web? Why would you care what platform they do it from?
(Usenet I can understand..)
Elitism doesen't get us anywhere.
(Perhaps you should go back to using Gopher? I doubt you'll find many AOLers there...)
;-)
I think 'Losen' is a contraction of 'Lederhosen'. (Those goofy Sound-of-Music shorts.)
Well, I don't really think so, but it's getting late here and I've been doing a 'Linuxpointenclickenfindenporndrinkenbierwebwander ung' for the past few hours.
Yup, gettin' punchy over here...
Also, there are some things being pushed on consumers by corporate middle managers that have absolutely no point. WAP is the best example I can think of at the moment...
As I've said before - "The killer app for the portable phone is the phone call."
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking WAP is a joke...
The danger is not from crackers filling ReplayTV's harddrive with Matlock, but the fact that it gives ReplayTV, Inc. (Or whoever...) A deep insight into what you watch.
I can imagine being at work and reading on the web that something good was on - Sure, being able to set it to record would be a convenience. (Of course, I would then like it to FTP the show in DiVx format to my X-Drive, so I can watch it from my desk the next day, but from what I hear, that's 2-3 months away...)
But do you really want some company knowing that not only do you secretly watch 'Anne of Green Gables' you actually *tape* it? I thought not.
(Broadcast) TV and Radio are one of the few places that you have this kind of anomynimity anymore. Imagine what Nielson will do with the database of "What People Tape".
Remember the 'Bork Tapes'? Years ago, when Judge Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court, the Washington 'City Paper' did a story listing all of his video club rentals. Good ol' Bork had extremely boring tastes with nothing scandalous, but the fact that anyone's rental history is fairly public scared the crap out of enough lawmakers to very quickly pass some legislation.
This is worse.
One question for ReplayTV:
Does the net connection report what you are watching, even when you are not taping?
Also, when are you getting that super-secret X-Drive thingie done???
Classical music gets tricky, because even though the music itself may be in the PD, the transcription is probably owned by someone who is guarding it closely. I suppose that if you re-transcribed a piece from the original manuscripts, without using someone else's transcript, you could GPL it or do whatever you like -
Recordings, of course, get their copyright date from whenever they were recorded, not when the song was written - I can, in effect, record a PD song and be confident that I can copyright it.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Wasn't Len Adelman, (The "A" in RSA,) working on DNA-based computers a while back?
From what little I remember, he had shown that the computers did not need to be electrical in nature, rather they could perform calculations chemically. (By observing how the DNA re-combined.)
Does anyone remember more of the details, or am I imagining this?
I wish/. would do an interview with Len Adelman - One of the most fascinating minds around today, in my book.
As a gadget addict living in Tokyo, I can tell you, It's heaven!
Every geek should spend a couple Saturdays roaming around Akihabara - Mate Fry's with a Turkish bazaar and you start to get the idea.
Japanese life tends to revolve around the office a lot more than in the US and a lot of the changes you see happening relate to that.
The 'keitai', or portable phone has become popular because it gives people the opportunity to make a personal call.
There is really no such opportunity from your desk phone, since you sit next to and across from co-workers.
Your boss sits overseeing everything and within earshot. There is no real privacy, the way you get with cubicles and closed offices.
Now, people can go to the balcony or the fire escape and make a personal call on a smoke break.
As for all of the G3 features, save your money - People don't use them.
It simply comes down to the fact that no matter how you optimize HTML, it still sucks on a tiny screen. A few people at my office got DoCoMo iMode phones with color screens and web browsers.
After a month, I asked them if they use those features at all. Both said no. These were both I.T. geeks who wanted to like these features, yet it was too much of a pain in the ass, since typing letters on the number pad is a pain.
Now, of course, these people had access to real computers.
In the Phillipines, text messaging, or 'Texting' is a HUGE fad, but that doesn't even require a special phone system - I think theirs is much like the US.
I bought a PHS (Personal Handy System) portable phone, because it was supposed to have the best data transfer rate (64Kbps)when hooked to a laptop, but the ISPs are reluctant to support this - I never managed more than 14.4. I can send and receive email, but never bother.
In effect, the 'Killer App' for the portable phone is the phone call.
(But it does that very well - My PHS is the size of a snickers bar, weighs less and the battery goes 2 weeks without a charge and normal use.{A couple of short calls a day.})
The point of a portable is that you are doing something else - You don't want to stop what you are doing to spend 20 minutes typing in "i aM at kitanomaru park rollerblading having a great time. See U 2morrow." You'll just call.
But don't worry - there are other places for the web to show up. As a feature on GPS guidance systems, perhaps.
They are very sophisticated here out of necessity. No-one can really get around without a map.
A good percentage of cars and taxis have 'Navi' systems with DVD drives and 8 inch color screens.
When taxi drivers are not driving, the often park and watch a baseball game. Maybe they'll be browsing the web next year.
Maybe it will take off on the 'famicon' (Corruption of 'Family Computer', which is really a game console,) such as the PS2, which already shows DVDs. You might think that doing internet on a TV screen is unpleasant, like WebTV, but more and more people are getting Flat panel LCD tvs. They are getting cheaper every month. I am starting to see them in the stores that will take a computer input. Add a keyboard and you have quite a versatile setup.
Net access is a real problem. There is very limited broadband and it costs more than the US. Dialup is only an option for limited amounts of time, since NTT charges 10 yen (US0.09) for 3 minutes for a local call. Three cents a minute can really add up.
Plus getting a second phone line installed costs hundreds of dollars. I would put my money on the cable company offering the first widely-used good access.
When it hits, it will be huge, though. It will be a part of peoples lives and it will be fairly ubiquitous.
But it will have very little to do with the US version of the internet. Like television, though Japan could make or import American-style TV programs, they don't. There are no sit-coms that I know of, fewer dramas.
Coming from America, it is amazing to me to turn on the TV during 'Prime Time' to see NHK showing a program on Daikon (Japanese radishes) and the other networks showing cheezy variety shows and nature programs. But that's what people like.
The only American shows I see here are odd picks: 'Bewitched' reruns from the 60's, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Party of Five'. Bewitched is probably the most popular. Understand that and you begin to understand other things...
Oh, well, I'm digressing as usual. I'll wrap this up.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
You don't own a mouse??? How could you not? I mean, I know Unix/linux/bsd/whatever is the last respite of the cli faithful, but how could you possibly not have acquired one over the years? I would have to make a habit of ceremoniously throwing them away to actually be rid of them. (The seem to breed like, well, um, you know...) My desk drawer at work currently has at least 3 of them - (I don't clean them, I replace them...) Now, don't get me wrong - I get quite annoyed with interfaces that don't have keyboard shortcuts and in that, I support all of Corel's petty bug submissions to the KDE/Gnome efforts, but come on... Right now, KDE is focusing on wooing the typical Windows user, who barely knows ALT-TAB - Refinements will surely come later. (Push for them, but in the mean time, get yourself a mouse - Even if you consider it a crutch...) Yours in Sincere Disbelief, Jim In Tokyo (sorry for the rant - It's getting late here...)
I tried a pair of these weeks ago in Akihabara (Tokyo), I think, unless they are using the same form factor as an earler model. (We do get stuff earlier here - I just got the new Casio Watch Camera yesterday - Nifty!) Not so much better than the newer Sony Glasstron, but much better weight than the original Sony. I bought the Sony's when I had a REALLY small apartment, but couldn't get used to them. Too much eye strain after about an hour. Cheers - Jim In Tokyo
Here in Japan, there are about 10 linux mags on the stands at any given time - Most of them come with a couple of CDs with the latest distros and apps - basically all of the stuff you would download if it weren't so expensive to do so here. None are in English, but I buy them and try to work through some of the articles - a lot of people just buy them for the CDs. On a side note - I've been trying out RH6.2 using a Japanese install - Wonderful - I switch the default KDE language to English and it retains all of the Japanese display/input, but with messages and menus in English. Bilingual NT is a joke - My company has to do a dual boot just for NT in both languages. Cheers, Jim in Tokyo
RANTPersonally, I *hate* PDF. It's a format for people who print everything before reading. Ugh. Buy a bigger monitor and read on screen!/RANT Anyway, I think the way to do it would be to do the following: Acquire the images either by scan or by fax. (Or other docs by email or FTP... Why not make this more comprehensive?) Store them in a database. OCR them as best you can with the tools available at the time. Store this OCR'd text in the same row as the image. Create a field of keywords derived from the OCR'd text and use this for searches. Now you have a simple database of everything you need. The original image, (or document, or whatever,) and the 'Best Guess' as to the contents of the image. If a user wants a PDF, let it be created at runtime - Pages 1,2,3...x are the images. The last page is your searchable index of keywords. If a better way presents itself later, do that. If a user wants it in HTML, great. You can even embed the images. The benefits to using a database are this: You can always go back and re-OCR the image when better Open-source tools are available. You can search you whole company's documents, not just one at a time. You are not limiting your users to using one format.
Don't think of this as a process that has to require a lot of user intervention and only gives you a dead-end format! With this method, you are not limiting the output.
So, why then, does the United States guarantee the right of anonymous voting? Where is the logic of that? By his reasoning, wouldn't it be better if people were accountable for their voting?
What gives? Isn't Word(tm) the vehicle of choice for these macro 'viruses'? Why is it not on their blacklist? This is lame. Melissa would still work after the update, though not ILOVEYOU, I suppose, but I really don't get their thinking. They need to separate Outlook from IE - I mean, pictures in email are not bad, per se, but I really don't want my email setting cookies, running scripts or downloading files without my knowledge. These are not features that the casual user is going to put into an email, so I don't want them. These are things used to track 'Customers' and generate demographics statistics. It seems that MS has been positioning Outlook to be a vehicle for marketing, not person-to-person communication. Now it's biting them on the ass. In the meantime, I downloaded Eudora for Windows 3.11 - It does everything I need and nothing I don't.
So, um - D'ya think I can hook a modem up to one of these or would I need an acoustic coupler? ;-) Jim in Tokyo
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I downloaded Broadcast 2000 a while back and it was looking pretty Promising - Try: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/10/1740256.sh tml and: http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html
"especially if they come out with This in the States *drools*"
It ain't that great. I played around with one of these at Sony Plaza in Tokyo a week or two ago.
Sony has a real problem with their proprietary hardware. The interfaces are slick, but non-standard. (No keyboard shortcuts, to say the least...) Before you decide to buy something like this, go see if you can find any drivers for the hardware on their website. Don't get me wrong, Sony does a fantastic job with most of what they do, as long as you only do what they anticipate. I love my Vaio picturebook, but the little camera is so proprietary that I can't use anything but their buggy software to take pictures with it. Whatever - you can't have everything... Jim in Tokyo
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38d656b11d60.ht m
Read a bit through this and see how anyone who talks negatively about the company gets personally attacked. Note the tone of the attacks. They all sound like they were written by the came people.
Kinda cultish...
My favorite quotes about the company:
"ADSX is listed on NASDAQ. Kinda hard to hoax that..."
and:
"Was able to get to find the Digital Angel press release on the Applied Digital Solutions website. If this is a hoax, it's a pretty darned elaborate one"
Well, then - They must be legit.
PS - I know nothing about the site FreeRepublic - Don't flame me if it's some fringe site - I searched google on the company name and 'Scam'. That link is what I found.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
...That it might be just a pack of lies?
Track by GPS? Sure. Right. And your TV is watching *you*. GPS is just as one-way.
Web-enabled bio-electric-powered? Sure.
Show me a precedent. Show me a big, clunky prototype that does *any* of these things. New technologies do not start out as 'dime-sized' implants. They start out as a pile wires and an ATX case. But these guys go straight to the finished product with *noone* on slashdot having heard whispers?
This guy is trying to bilk law enforcement and govenment agencies of as much as he can.
BTW - This isn't the same guy who was selling the GPS-tracked bracelets a year or two ago, is it? Sure smells like the same vapourware...
Ok, now prove me wrong...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Problem is - DiVx isn't a legit format, IIRC. It's a cracked version of a Microsoft codec -
But, and this is just supposition, the guys who designed ReplayTV had a big history in networking the home - So, I would guess, there will be a way to mount the drive on this thing from another machine. Why not? I log in to my home machine from work, buffer up a bit of the show and start watching. What's to stop me from sharing an episode of the Simpsons over Gnutella? What's to stop me from inserting my own commercials or adding my own content?
Being in Japan, I really miss the Simpsons - I can't wait for this to be available!
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Why would you possibly care who's browsing the web? Why would you care what platform they do it from?
(Usenet I can understand..)
Elitism doesen't get us anywhere.
(Perhaps you should go back to using Gopher? I doubt you'll find many AOLers there...)
;-)
I think 'Losen' is a contraction of 'Lederhosen'. (Those goofy Sound-of-Music shorts.)r ung' for the past few hours.
Well, I don't really think so, but it's getting late here and I've been doing a 'Linuxpointenclickenfindenporndrinkenbierwebwande
Yup, gettin' punchy over here...
Also, there are some things being pushed on consumers by corporate middle managers that have absolutely no point. WAP is the best example I can think of at the moment...
As I've said before - "The killer app for the portable phone is the phone call."
I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking WAP is a joke...
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
The danger is not from crackers filling ReplayTV's harddrive with Matlock, but the fact that it gives ReplayTV, Inc. (Or whoever...) A deep insight into what you watch.
I can imagine being at work and reading on the web that something good was on - Sure, being able to set it to record would be a convenience. (Of course, I would then like it to FTP the show in DiVx format to my X-Drive, so I can watch it from my desk the next day, but from what I hear, that's 2-3 months away...)
But do you really want some company knowing that not only do you secretly watch 'Anne of Green Gables' you actually *tape* it? I thought not.
(Broadcast) TV and Radio are one of the few places that you have this kind of anomynimity anymore. Imagine what Nielson will do with the database of "What People Tape".
Remember the 'Bork Tapes'? Years ago, when Judge Bork was nominated for the Supreme Court, the Washington 'City Paper' did a story listing all of his video club rentals. Good ol' Bork had extremely boring tastes with nothing scandalous, but the fact that anyone's rental history is fairly public scared the crap out of enough lawmakers to very quickly pass some legislation.
This is worse.
One question for ReplayTV:
Does the net connection report what you are watching, even when you are not taping?
Also, when are you getting that super-secret X-Drive thingie done???
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Classical music gets tricky, because even though the music itself may be in the PD, the transcription is probably owned by someone who is guarding it closely. I suppose that if you re-transcribed a piece from the original manuscripts, without using someone else's transcript, you could GPL it or do whatever you like -
Recordings, of course, get their copyright date from whenever they were recorded, not when the song was written - I can, in effect, record a PD song and be confident that I can copyright it.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Wasn't Len Adelman, (The "A" in RSA,) working on DNA-based computers a while back? /. would do an interview with Len Adelman - One of the most fascinating minds around today, in my book.
From what little I remember, he had shown that the computers did not need to be electrical in nature, rather they could perform calculations chemically. (By observing how the DNA re-combined.)
Does anyone remember more of the details, or am I imagining this?
I wish
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
(PS: Found the reference: Here )
As a gadget addict living in Tokyo, I can tell you, It's heaven!
Every geek should spend a couple Saturdays roaming around Akihabara - Mate Fry's with a Turkish bazaar and you start to get the idea.
Cheers
Jim in Tokyo
Japanese life tends to revolve around the office a lot more than in the US and a lot of the changes you see happening relate to that.
The 'keitai', or portable phone has become popular because it gives people the opportunity to make a personal call.
There is really no such opportunity from your desk phone, since you sit next to and across from co-workers.
Your boss sits overseeing everything and within earshot. There is no real privacy, the way you get with cubicles and closed offices.
Now, people can go to the balcony or the fire escape and make a personal call on a smoke break.
As for all of the G3 features, save your money - People don't use them.
It simply comes down to the fact that no matter how you optimize HTML, it still sucks on a tiny screen. A few people at my office got DoCoMo iMode phones with color screens and web browsers.
After a month, I asked them if they use those features at all. Both said no. These were both I.T. geeks who wanted to like these features, yet it was too much of a pain in the ass, since typing letters on the number pad is a pain.
Now, of course, these people had access to real computers.
In the Phillipines, text messaging, or 'Texting' is a HUGE fad, but that doesn't even require a special phone system - I think theirs is much like the US.
I bought a PHS (Personal Handy System) portable phone, because it was supposed to have the best data transfer rate (64Kbps)when hooked to a laptop, but the ISPs are reluctant to support this - I never managed more than 14.4. I can send and receive email, but never bother.
In effect, the 'Killer App' for the portable phone is the phone call.
(But it does that very well - My PHS is the size of a snickers bar, weighs less and the battery goes 2 weeks without a charge and normal use.{A couple of short calls a day.})
The point of a portable is that you are doing something else - You don't want to stop what you are doing to spend 20 minutes typing in "i aM at kitanomaru park rollerblading having a great time. See U 2morrow." You'll just call.
But don't worry - there are other places for the web to show up. As a feature on GPS guidance systems, perhaps.
They are very sophisticated here out of necessity. No-one can really get around without a map.
A good percentage of cars and taxis have 'Navi' systems with DVD drives and 8 inch color screens.
When taxi drivers are not driving, the often park and watch a baseball game. Maybe they'll be browsing the web next year.
Maybe it will take off on the 'famicon' (Corruption of 'Family Computer', which is really a game console,) such as the PS2, which already shows DVDs. You might think that doing internet on a TV screen is unpleasant, like WebTV, but more and more people are getting Flat panel LCD tvs. They are getting cheaper every month. I am starting to see them in the stores that will take a computer input. Add a keyboard and you have quite a versatile setup.
Net access is a real problem. There is very limited broadband and it costs more than the US. Dialup is only an option for limited amounts of time, since NTT charges 10 yen (US0.09) for 3 minutes for a local call. Three cents a minute can really add up.
Plus getting a second phone line installed costs hundreds of dollars. I would put my money on the cable company offering the first widely-used good access.
When it hits, it will be huge, though. It will be a part of peoples lives and it will be fairly ubiquitous.
But it will have very little to do with the US version of the internet. Like television, though Japan could make or import American-style TV programs, they don't. There are no sit-coms that I know of, fewer dramas.
Coming from America, it is amazing to me to turn on the TV during 'Prime Time' to see NHK showing a program on Daikon (Japanese radishes) and the other networks showing cheezy variety shows and nature programs. But that's what people like.
The only American shows I see here are odd picks: 'Bewitched' reruns from the 60's, 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Party of Five'. Bewitched is probably the most popular. Understand that and you begin to understand other things...
Oh, well, I'm digressing as usual. I'll wrap this up.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
Why the hell he suddenly got thousands of hits on his page...
You don't own a mouse???
How could you not?
I mean, I know Unix/linux/bsd/whatever is the last respite of the cli faithful, but how could you possibly not have acquired one over the years?
I would have to make a habit of ceremoniously throwing them away to actually be rid of them. (The seem to breed like, well, um, you know...)
My desk drawer at work currently has at least 3 of them - (I don't clean them, I replace them...)
Now, don't get me wrong - I get quite annoyed with interfaces that don't have keyboard shortcuts and in that, I support all of Corel's petty bug submissions to the KDE/Gnome efforts, but come on...
Right now, KDE is focusing on wooing the typical Windows user, who barely knows ALT-TAB - Refinements will surely come later. (Push for them, but in the mean time, get yourself a mouse - Even if you consider it a crutch...)
Yours in Sincere Disbelief,
Jim In Tokyo
(sorry for the rant - It's getting late here...)
C'mon - It's 2 in the morning here -
(I did go to karaoke last night but didn't sing...)
Is this from Espo or Swain?
I heard about one guy who was using them on a plane, popped in a pr0n DVD and got a little carried away, forgetting where he was...
Ok, I just made that up, but feel free to start it as an urban legend...
Cheers,
Jim In Tokyo
I tried a pair of these weeks ago in Akihabara (Tokyo), I think, unless they are using the same form factor as an earler model. (We do get stuff earlier here - I just got the new Casio Watch Camera yesterday - Nifty!)
Not so much better than the newer Sony Glasstron, but much better weight than the original Sony.
I bought the Sony's when I had a REALLY small apartment, but couldn't get used to them. Too much eye strain after about an hour.
Cheers -
Jim In Tokyo
Here in Japan, there are about 10 linux mags on the stands at any given time -
Most of them come with a couple of CDs with the latest distros and apps - basically all of the stuff you would download if it weren't so expensive to do so here.
None are in English, but I buy them and try to work through some of the articles - a lot of people just buy them for the CDs.
On a side note - I've been trying out RH6.2 using a Japanese install - Wonderful - I switch the default KDE language to English and it retains all of the Japanese display/input, but with messages and menus in English. Bilingual NT is a joke - My company has to do a dual boot just for NT in both languages.
Cheers,
Jim in Tokyo
RANTPersonally, I *hate* PDF. It's a format for people who print everything before reading. Ugh. Buy a bigger monitor and read on screen!/RANT
Anyway, I think the way to do it would be to do the following:
Acquire the images either by scan or by fax. (Or other docs by email or FTP... Why not make this more comprehensive?)
Store them in a database.
OCR them as best you can with the tools available at the time.
Store this OCR'd text in the same row as the image.
Create a field of keywords derived from the OCR'd text and use this for searches.
Now you have a simple database of everything you need. The original image, (or document, or whatever,) and the 'Best Guess' as to the contents of the image.
If a user wants a PDF, let it be created at runtime - Pages 1,2,3...x are the images. The last page is your searchable index of keywords.
If a better way presents itself later, do that.
If a user wants it in HTML, great. You can even embed the images.
The benefits to using a database are this:
You can always go back and re-OCR the image when better Open-source tools are available.
You can search you whole company's documents, not just one at a time.
You are not limiting your users to using one format.
Don't think of this as a process that has to require a lot of user intervention and only gives you a dead-end format!
With this method, you are not limiting the output.
Cheers,
Jim In Tokyo
include season.h
might help you qualify it
as a true haiku
Jim in Tokyo
So, why then, does the United States guarantee the right of anonymous voting?
Where is the logic of that? By his reasoning, wouldn't it be better if people were accountable for their voting?
What gives? Isn't Word(tm) the vehicle of choice for these macro 'viruses'? Why is it not on their blacklist?
This is lame. Melissa would still work after the update, though not ILOVEYOU, I suppose, but I really don't get their thinking.
They need to separate Outlook from IE - I mean, pictures in email are not bad, per se, but I really don't want my email setting cookies, running scripts or downloading files without my knowledge.
These are not features that the casual user is going to put into an email, so I don't want them. These are things used to track 'Customers' and generate demographics statistics.
It seems that MS has been positioning Outlook to be a vehicle for marketing, not person-to-person communication. Now it's biting them on the ass.
In the meantime, I downloaded Eudora for Windows 3.11 - It does everything I need and nothing I don't.
Jim In Tokyo
So, um -
D'ya think I can hook a modem up to one of these or would I need an acoustic coupler?
;-)
Jim in Tokyo
I downloaded Broadcast 2000 a while back and it was looking pretty Promising - Try:h tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/10/1740256.s
and:
http://heroine.linuxave.net/bcast2000.html
Cheers -
Jim in Tokyo
"especially if they come out with This in the States *drools*"
It ain't that great. I played around with one of these at Sony Plaza in Tokyo a week or two ago.
Sony has a real problem with their proprietary hardware. The interfaces are slick, but non-standard. (No keyboard shortcuts, to say the least...)
Before you decide to buy something like this, go see if you can find any drivers for the hardware on their website.
Don't get me wrong, Sony does a fantastic job with most of what they do, as long as you only do what they anticipate. I love my Vaio picturebook, but the little camera is so proprietary that I can't use anything but their buggy software to take pictures with it.
Whatever - you can't have everything...
Jim in Tokyo
What if I decide to distribute a file filled with null-characters and name it:
Dr_Dre's_Latest_Piece_of_crap.mp3?
You'd have to make the file size about the same, but that could be done pretty easily, I guess.
Who's to say that it wasn't the file that you had downloaded?
Anyway, who is this Dr. Dre? Anyone know where he went to medical school? He should get his medical license revoked for being such a loser...
Jim in Tokyo