Well one advantage I can think of is: no need to worry about applying MS security patches to those 60 machines.. just one central server to fix, and to break itself every few hours.
I'll be able to afford $10 bucks a pop a lot easier than $200, for the small number of pix I take.
I didn't take a lot of pictures before I had a Digicam, but I got one in February, and at the moment the file counter is up to the 1060s. Granted, most of it are not pretty good, but I'm hoping practice will make me perfect, and it's amazing how your perspective about taking pictures change when a shot costs very very little (a couple of Watts off the battery that you have to pay (via the electric bill) to recharge), you'll find more things are worth a picture and you get interesting pictures.
The only problem is the hardware getting old, then you won't have the high-end features and crave for an upgrade, probably not having made a return on investment on the first one. Although when I do upgrade, I can always give the old one to a friend/family.
I was about to say "they probably don't have any customer accessible ports, because when people can download the pictures, they can just do that and then reuse, instead of returning, the camera", but this is slashdot, the screws won't stop us. So I do wonder how Ritz plans to stop people from cracking the cameras open, download the pictures, and reuse them indefinitely, depriving them (Ritz) of profit?
Encryption? Proprietary image format? (Did they manage to persuade a digital camera manufacturer to design a new chip, for what price?)
Oh wait, but but it doesn't necessarily need memory cards, most (usually cheaper) cameras offer on-board memory, I'm guessing that's what they probably have. It'll be pretty hard trying to get access to what's in that RAM chip soldered to the PCB. That and a proprietary plug should stop a lot of people.
What a beautiful idea, and using a flash-ROM based USB key means there's really should be no trace of previous data left, unlike on harddisks, which some agencies claim they can see the previous 9 values of a bit on a particular place.
Ha, I like the filename referenced by that link: news-microsoft.php . A rare example of a major news site using PHP, and not a local product, whose makers they're criticizing anyway.
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Sort of off topic, but here in Germany some folks are planning a service that uses a scanner connected to your mobile phone to scan the barcode, send the code to a server via SMS, and it sends a reply that tells you where you can get the product cheaper.
Unfortunately the gadget doesn't exist yet, at the moment people can input the code only manually, though the system also searches using the product name (just type in "Philips 19" monitor", for example).
Saw it on TV, the hosts claim they managed to bargain a cheaper price from storemanagers after showing them the SMS.. great for customers, bad luck for the stores.
Well, I guess this is the new FUD Wars. MS and its friends will be spreading this "Linux stole some copyrighted code/idea" propaganda to slow down adaptation of Linux. Strange that we didn't see it in a Halloween Document, this must be stuff they kept a tight secret about.
Interestingly, it's all text anyway, and doesn't really need that much space, unless they think they need to get creative with the end credits.
BMW Films uses a text stream for their credits, wrapping the package the great QuickTime format that has other goodies like subtitles, director commentaries (and subtitles to it), each on different streams that can be turned on/off.
Theoritically one can create a codec that would OCR the credits, save it as text and render them in the standard scroll at the end of the film, (not forgetting hacking a support into the popular media players), if one is so inclined. Unfortunately no one's going to bother doing that for a bunch of peoples' names.
I believe it's a Union thing, everyone must have their name credited.
Hmm quite a failed logic. Bin Laden and Co. don't shave because they believe it's against their religion. If they don't shave, why would they buy Gillete Mach 3s?
And nowadays Multimedia keyboards come with a "Home" button that opens up your browser and default home page, so even telling them to press the "Home" key on the keyboard will not get the desired effect. At least Logitech calls it "My Home", it opens a "Buy more Logitech products!" page.
For the underground community maybe. But someone there has an arrows >>> <<< fetish, pointing at every direction.. the bottom of the page even has one ">>>", but clicking it gets you to the top of the page.. wtf?!?
To be more of the topic, why the hell do people love it so much to put links that "Go back to the top of the page"? Tell the users to press "Home" damnit!
Sound spooky, would the patch forward data secretly to the DoHS and update the computer so the user can't encrypt data or empty the Recycle Bin? Because allowing citizens to protect their data from prying eyes is a (homeland) security vulnerability!
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Oh. Do you know if the closed-source driver run on the Xbox?
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Does Linux have drivers for USB TV Tuners? On LinuxTag last weekend I realized how much of just an ordinary PC the XBox was, when Debian running on it managed to write data into a USB memory keychain (plugged into the controller slot using a simple adapter). So, if Linux has drivers for the tuner, it should work on the Xbox..
Oops but I don't think they've managed to run Xfree on Xbox yet, so that's another thing you have to solve.
Exactly, and even if all the vendors go bankrupt, you can always hire a team of geeks who can study the system (it's all open source anyway) and keep it running efficiently and securely.
But X only allows one user at a time, or, wait, is there a way to run multiple X sessions using different consoles? My experience with user-switching in Win XP was interesting, Winamp doesn't stop playing when you switch users.
The Total Drive Space figure should be close to the actual capacity of the drive, but will be slightly less. For example, on the Nomad Zen where we went from a 20GB to a 30GB drive, the Nomad sees it as having 28,595GB.
The 2 sentences and no explanation why it's that way, is enough indication what level of reader this article is aiming at.
Incidentally, Newton was a celibate. Amazing what a man can achieve when he takes his mind off sex, and unfortunately he's the model of a true geek: forever single.:(
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Well one advantage I can think of is: no need to worry about applying MS security patches to those 60 machines.. just one central server to fix, and to break itself every few hours.
It's mostly better for the stores, because they don't have to spend money on film with which they fill those things.
I'll be able to afford $10 bucks a pop a lot easier than $200, for the small number of pix I take.
I didn't take a lot of pictures before I had a Digicam, but I got one in February, and at the moment the file counter is up to the 1060s. Granted, most of it are not pretty good, but I'm hoping practice will make me perfect, and it's amazing how your perspective about taking pictures change when a shot costs very very little (a couple of Watts off the battery that you have to pay (via the electric bill) to recharge), you'll find more things are worth a picture and you get interesting pictures.
The only problem is the hardware getting old, then you won't have the high-end features and crave for an upgrade, probably not having made a return on investment on the first one. Although when I do upgrade, I can always give the old one to a friend/family.
Just MO, FYI.
I was about to say "they probably don't have any customer accessible ports, because when people can download the pictures, they can just do that and then reuse, instead of returning, the camera", but this is slashdot, the screws won't stop us. So I do wonder how Ritz plans to stop people from cracking the cameras open, download the pictures, and reuse them indefinitely, depriving them (Ritz) of profit?
Encryption? Proprietary image format? (Did they manage to persuade a digital camera manufacturer to design a new chip, for what price?)
Oh wait, but but it doesn't necessarily need memory cards, most (usually cheaper) cameras offer on-board memory, I'm guessing that's what they probably have. It'll be pretty hard trying to get access to what's in that RAM chip soldered to the PCB. That and a proprietary plug should stop a lot of people.
What a beautiful idea, and using a flash-ROM based USB key means there's really should be no trace of previous data left, unlike on harddisks, which some agencies claim they can see the previous 9 values of a bit on a particular place.
Ha, I like the filename referenced by that link: news-microsoft.php . A rare example of a major news site using PHP, and not a local product, whose makers they're criticizing anyway.
What did Miss Germany do? :P
Sort of off topic, but here in Germany some folks are planning a service that uses a scanner connected to your mobile phone to scan the barcode, send the code to a server via SMS, and it sends a reply that tells you where you can get the product cheaper.
Unfortunately the gadget doesn't exist yet, at the moment people can input the code only manually, though the system also searches using the product name (just type in "Philips 19" monitor", for example).
Saw it on TV, the hosts claim they managed to bargain a cheaper price from storemanagers after showing them the SMS.. great for customers, bad luck for the stores.
I really wish they'd do that, I'd frame the lawsuit and hang it on my wall, it'd be like a "Proud User of Linux" Certificate.
Either that or use it as emergency toilet paper.
Well, I guess this is the new FUD Wars. MS and its friends will be spreading this "Linux stole some copyrighted code/idea" propaganda to slow down adaptation of Linux. Strange that we didn't see it in a Halloween Document, this must be stuff they kept a tight secret about.
Hey, they were being innovative..
Interestingly, it's all text anyway, and doesn't really need that much space, unless they think they need to get creative with the end credits.
BMW Films uses a text stream for their credits, wrapping the package the great QuickTime format that has other goodies like subtitles, director commentaries (and subtitles to it), each on different streams that can be turned on/off.
Theoritically one can create a codec that would OCR the credits, save it as text and render them in the standard scroll at the end of the film, (not forgetting hacking a support into the popular media players), if one is so inclined. Unfortunately no one's going to bother doing that for a bunch of peoples' names.
I believe it's a Union thing, everyone must have their name credited.
Wonder what this new service will be called.. ".net Search Service", ".net Search 2003", ".net Search Server 2003"?
Timothy McVeigh?
Hmm quite a failed logic. Bin Laden and Co. don't shave because they believe it's against their religion. If they don't shave, why would they buy Gillete Mach 3s?
And they'll probably force those who has lived past their natural lifetime to write to their congressmen showing support of MS!
D'oh! Good point.
And nowadays Multimedia keyboards come with a "Home" button that opens up your browser and default home page, so even telling them to press the "Home" key on the keyboard will not get the desired effect. At least Logitech calls it "My Home", it opens a "Buy more Logitech products!" page.
For the underground community maybe. But someone there has an arrows >>> <<< fetish, pointing at every direction.. the bottom of the page even has one ">>>", but clicking it gets you to the top of the page.. wtf?!?
To be more of the topic, why the hell do people love it so much to put links that "Go back to the top of the page"? Tell the users to press "Home" damnit!
Calling it win2003nuke would also be appropriate. Yeah, Flagship Server Product, but the rats are eating through the hull!
Sound spooky, would the patch forward data secretly to the DoHS and update the computer so the user can't encrypt data or empty the Recycle Bin? Because allowing citizens to protect their data from prying eyes is a (homeland) security vulnerability!
Oh. Do you know if the closed-source driver run on the Xbox?
Does Linux have drivers for USB TV Tuners? On LinuxTag last weekend I realized how much of just an ordinary PC the XBox was, when Debian running on it managed to write data into a USB memory keychain (plugged into the controller slot using a simple adapter). So, if Linux has drivers for the tuner, it should work on the Xbox..
Oops but I don't think they've managed to run Xfree on Xbox yet, so that's another thing you have to solve.
Exactly, and even if all the vendors go bankrupt, you can always hire a team of geeks who can study the system (it's all open source anyway) and keep it running efficiently and securely.
But X only allows one user at a time, or, wait, is there a way to run multiple X sessions using different consoles? My experience with user-switching in Win XP was interesting, Winamp doesn't stop playing when you switch users.
The Total Drive Space figure should be close to the actual capacity of the drive, but will be slightly less. For example, on the Nomad Zen where we went from a 20GB to a 30GB drive, the Nomad sees it as having 28,595GB.
The 2 sentences and no explanation why it's that way, is enough indication what level of reader this article is aiming at.
Incidentally, Newton was a celibate. Amazing what a man can achieve when he takes his mind off sex, and unfortunately he's the model of a true geek: forever single. :(