Sony already has a shipping blu-ray unit. Granted, it's only available in Japan, but thta's what your local neighborhood import shop is for... This is just a list of specs and pictures... Check out all those inputs!
What this could really use is a pass-through ethernet hub built into the device, so that you can drop it in-line with a cable in place of some existing connecter...
<Shameless Plug>Check out TPOP!</Shameless Plug> It's a POP mail client written entirely in TCL (by me) for the Tivo. (Tivo is heavily dependant on TCL for its functionality...)
Firewire IS SCSI. SCSI 3 is a huge standard with different feature sets, not all of which are required.
For instance, QoS is one feature set...(Which Firewire supports. It allows a device on the bus to gaurantee that it's going to get a certain block of the bandwidth for transfer.
So... Firewire is a SCSI 3 standard, as are both Ultra160 SCSI and Ultra320 SCSI. It's just that they're not compatible standards (though Ultra320 SCSI has a negotiation phase that could make it run Ultra160 instead)
I agree completely. Better, though, would be a laptop that offered these features. I use a tablet for my everyday computing, and I've got a server I use for a development, but I have to keep around a monitor, keyboard and mouse that I almost *never* use, and a desk to house them, when, ideally I'd just have a small box that sits on a shelf, and the ability to hook up my laptop on the rare occasion that I need console access. I've actually decided to go with a used Sun Cobalt Qube3, instead, since it can be configured with the LCD panel and some buttons on the chassis.
In reality shouldn't we expect more from modern OSes? Shouldn't the code be more solid than requiring monthly patches. Souldn't e-mailed executables be run in a sandbox? Its a pity we HAVE to have virus software and even its not good enough, you have to constantly update it.
Nice argument. Funny.
And yet, people like you (not flamebait, I'm just trying to generalize here) will be complaining once Microsoft adds anti-virus features into the OS about program feature bloat and monopolistic anti-competitive practices.
I'm not a Microsoft apologizer, I like some things they've done and very much dislike others, but we can't have it every which way.
I've been watching the comments fly by, and I notice some common threads, and they fall into behavior that can be categorized by the above article. Some examples are:
1. Nerds deserve to be unpopular because they're socially inept, unwashed, etc..
Here the nerd is defined as someone with less demanding tastes regarding personal hygiene as the accusing group; of course, it is the accusers who gets to set the standards of hygeine.
2. Nerds are unpopular becuase they're elitist.
Some of the people I knew who were unpopular were, some people weren't. I offer up that it may be a symptom, rather than a cause of unpopularity. It's a great shield, telling yourself that you're better than those who would put forth their slings and arrows.
3. "I was good at athletics, and I'm smart/in a tech field, so, since these nerds can't handle it, they deserve it..."
Elitism. Plain and simple, this sort of comment comes either from someone who still exists in the "high school mindset" or was irreparably damaged by it, and now can't escape it.
There's a lot of putting down going on here, and all of it seems to be hypocrisy in the face of this article... I'll put forth a new definition of nerd that tries to steer the conversation to where I think the article wanted: Nerds are those people who were persecuted in the age ranges mentioned in the article, namely from the 11-14 bracket to to the 18-22 range. I think what the author is pointing out is that there is a level of persecution in high school, that usually goes away. This article is about referencing that as a problem, and seeking ways to address that problem. I agree with the author completely, and I plan to better arm my children for what comes ahead, or to keep them out of the school system. In society, ultimately, we are interdependant, and I agree and I say that children should not be isolated from reality.
Author's biographical note:For portions of my schooling career, I was in the unpopular groups, until I finally learned how the game worked. Nowadays, I have diverse groups of friends, some of which would be labelled as "nerds" or "geeks", while others fit into "jock"/"football player"/"cheerleader" stereotypes. They don't mix, because disastrous things happened when forced together, but there is no persecution of any kind going on, as they are able to accept that people live in different ways...
So I should abandon encryption and just be free to let whomever listen to traffic coming from my box? If the the images are locally referenced, they'll be transferred securely as well (talking https here). And modern browsers keep connections open for reuse, so that only thing that can be gleaned is when a spike happens, which means that you are loading content from the same site, but not how big it is, since a web page is a bundle of different elements that need to be retrieved.
Also, if you think that just knowing when data packets are sent and received tells you the contents of the data, then why hasn't SSH been broken yet? With those assumptions, it should be easy to use a statistical model of people's keystrokes and break into a session. Realistically? Not possible.
You've got to start somewhere, especially if you're going to get the world to transfer to using encryption everywhere. The mail server I use for private mail among friends has no unsecure channel going out of it. All of it's protocols are protected with SSL/TLS, including SMTP inbound and outbound. And besides, the argument I was making was for using encryption to connect to a public mirror site. Since the majority of mirrors have HUGE numbers of different files, and the amount of control data sent is never constant, knowing how much data is sent in either direction will NOT be a guarantee that you know what was transferred.
AND, I was talking about legal prosecution (or persecution, depending on how you see it), and a document that says you downloaded approximately enough bytes to be a suspect program isn't enough to stand up in court...
Actually, I imagine that one day an evil mega-corporation will come to hold the rights to all content in the US, the Right Infringing Association of America... (alright, you caught me, neurons misfired and I typed without thinking...)
The reason to use sftp on publicly available files or hhtps is so that people <*cough*>Carnivore</*cough*> can't track what I'm doing online. Sure, they can tell what sites you are visiting, but they can't tell what content you're looking at, or which files you downloaded... Imagine a time when you want to download DeCSS for your linux boxen from a foreign server, but someone is logging your downloads <*cough*>Verizon</*cough*> and the RIAA wants access to those records... If they don't know what you downloaded they can't (potentially unjustly) prosecute you...
If the RIAA sees the gun manufcturers exercising control over where and how we shoot our guns, they may get the idea to try and exercise control over where and how we listen to music... Wait.... Never mind...
Has everyone missed the key reason here? When we use PDA's, we usually only access them for a few minutes at a time, which is why we're able to get such great battery life. But imagine if the processor was constantly running to do recognition? The battery life would be practically nil...
I won an Acer Tablet PC at the launch yesterday, (and yes, I am posting this in my own handwriting) and F Can say that, given the choice between a tablet and a regular notebook, R would never ever use a regular notebook again.As to your questions, the screen is *NOT* touch sensitive. there is an electromagnetic stylus that the screen can detect, Touching the screen does nothing. As to the second question, while I use of 4, I don't have a graphics tablet for it so I can't compare) bit I won't correct detection mistakes in this post. 3. There is a button on the side cf the styli (Most also have an eraser head) that can be used for right clicking. To add some non-related info, but stuff that people might be curious about: The Acer came with two batteries. I've charged both, but when tri used the first one yesterday, I Managed to get 4 hours out of the charge, and the battery miter was still showing 25% full. Also, I plan to write a review of it to let people know what I think.
Wha you're talking about doesn't necessarily refer to blue-eyed blondes. My roommate is a brunette with some of the most striking blue eyes I've ever seen, and she has problems with bright lights, and her contacts. From what I've heard from her (as relayed through her eye-doctor), her sensitivity is due to a lack of something (I'm not sure what) in her eyes that is common (though not necessarily pervasive) in people with blue eyes. It's similar to how low melatonin can cause skin sensitivity.
It's quite simple, really. It's all about getting easy access to memory. We're getting awfully close to physical limits of 32-bit addressing of RAM (4 Gb, though x86 gets around this slightly with segments in server chips). It's not uncommon for a graphic designer (and soon, maybe Joe America with home movies and video editing software) to drop 2GB into a desktop/workstation machine. We'll be hitting that memory limit awfully soon, and with 4GB of ram under a grand, 64-bit addressing starts to look necessary.
Hate to tell you, but I did that exact same search. You'll find 20 news articles that say *Wow they decided to include ODBC in Jaguar* and no details. It's all fluff. I wouldn't have submitted to Slashdot if I hadn't done a lot of research first
You mention surprise at the fact that Polaroid is still in *ahem* business, but Polaroids will remain popular as long as girlfriends don't want revealing pics seen by the film processing guy, or half the world on the net(while it's always possible to scan a picture, having those *special* photos in digital format just makes it way too easy to post up on the net)
Has anyone noticed that the only Microsoft operating systems they've outlawed are the ones that there are server versions of? (Instead of XP Server, there is.NET server, which isn't out yet).
Kill two birds with one stone, eh?
Also, while I've seen people mention the default installs of W98, and not sharing the HD, no one seems to mention that the moment you install networking in 98, Client for Microsoft Networks is installed by default, and any machine with it running on 98 is easily breakable...
Yes, but what you fail to realize is that it has always been a small group that drives the changes in the computer industry. The performance market holds the best margins, and companies are constantly vying for a piece of that pie. As soon the alpha geeks migrate to a product in large enough quantities, it becomes less expensive for the manufacturer to start shipping the higher end stuff (and derivatives) to everyone. (Think "underclocked" chips. Reducing the number of product lines and processes saves money.) Soon everyone has 4.7 Ghz PCs, and the cycle begins again. This happens in all areas of tech. (Do you really think DVDs would be as prolific if a bunch of Audio Video enthusiasts hadn't hopped on the bandwagon?)
The problem with PC processors is that, unless you're running something like a rendering farm. you really have no need for constantly high speed processors. We need something akin to the burst mode you see in data transfers. The majority of the time (running office suites, surfing the net, etc.) you're right, there is no need for this, but when I'm compiling a kernel (or maybe a personal coding project), burning a home movie to DVD (and MPEG2 encoding in the process), or playing a kicka** video game, then I need the clock cycles to burn.
I agree completely. I've been a huge fan of Vandyke products, and continue to recommend them to clients of mine who want Windows familiarity thrown in with their security (I implement security solutions for small to medium size businesses). All of their products that I've used (SecureFX, SecureCRT and VShell) have each gotten better with each version (which you often can't say about new software).
I keep running into this mythos taken for granted nowadays. C and Unix born together?? I don't think so. Unix was born, and then later, recoded to C, and has since become the standard. C was an AT&T internal programming language, and Unix just happened to have been written by an employee at Bell Labs who liked C enough to recode it in the language...
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Sony already has a shipping blu-ray unit. Granted, it's only available in Japan, but thta's what your local neighborhood import shop is for... This is just a list of specs and pictures... Check out all those inputs!
What this could really use is a pass-through ethernet hub built into the device, so that you can drop it in-line with a cable in place of some existing connecter...
<Shameless Plug>Check out TPOP!</Shameless Plug> It's a POP mail client written entirely in TCL (by me) for the Tivo. (Tivo is heavily dependant on TCL for its functionality...)
Firewire IS SCSI. SCSI 3 is a huge standard with different feature sets, not all of which are required.
For instance, QoS is one feature set...(Which Firewire supports. It allows a device on the bus to gaurantee that it's going to get a certain block of the bandwidth for transfer.
So... Firewire is a SCSI 3 standard, as are both Ultra160 SCSI and Ultra320 SCSI. It's just that they're not compatible standards (though Ultra320 SCSI has a negotiation phase that could make it run Ultra160 instead)
Does anyone remember FELIX 3D displays? I know they can't be used on cell phones, but at least they work...
I agree completely. Better, though, would be a laptop that offered these features. I use a tablet for my everyday computing, and I've got a server I use for a development, but I have to keep around a monitor, keyboard and mouse that I almost *never* use, and a desk to house them, when, ideally I'd just have a small box that sits on a shelf, and the ability to hook up my laptop on the rare occasion that I need console access. I've actually decided to go with a used Sun Cobalt Qube3, instead, since it can be configured with the LCD panel and some buttons on the chassis.
In reality shouldn't we expect more from modern OSes? Shouldn't the code be more solid than requiring monthly patches. Souldn't e-mailed executables be run in a sandbox? Its a pity we HAVE to have virus software and even its not good enough, you have to constantly update it.
Nice argument. Funny.
And yet, people like you (not flamebait, I'm just trying to generalize here) will be complaining once Microsoft adds anti-virus features into the OS about program feature bloat and monopolistic anti-competitive practices.
I'm not a Microsoft apologizer, I like some things they've done and very much dislike others, but we can't have it every which way.
I've been watching the comments fly by, and I notice some common threads, and they fall into behavior that can be categorized by the above article. Some examples are:
1. Nerds deserve to be unpopular because they're socially inept, unwashed, etc..
Here the nerd is defined as someone with less demanding tastes regarding personal hygiene as the accusing group; of course, it is the accusers who gets to set the standards of hygeine.
2. Nerds are unpopular becuase they're elitist.
Some of the people I knew who were unpopular were, some people weren't. I offer up that it may be a symptom, rather than a cause of unpopularity. It's a great shield, telling yourself that you're better than those who would put forth their slings and arrows.
3. "I was good at athletics, and I'm smart/in a tech field, so, since these nerds can't handle it, they deserve it..."
Elitism. Plain and simple, this sort of comment comes either from someone who still exists in the "high school mindset" or was irreparably damaged by it, and now can't escape it.
There's a lot of putting down going on here, and all of it seems to be hypocrisy in the face of this article... I'll put forth a new definition of nerd that tries to steer the conversation to where I think the article wanted: Nerds are those people who were persecuted in the age ranges mentioned in the article, namely from the 11-14 bracket to to the 18-22 range. I think what the author is pointing out is that there is a level of persecution in high school, that usually goes away. This article is about referencing that as a problem, and seeking ways to address that problem. I agree with the author completely, and I plan to better arm my children for what comes ahead, or to keep them out of the school system. In society, ultimately, we are interdependant, and I agree and I say that children should not be isolated from reality.
Author's biographical note:For portions of my schooling career, I was in the unpopular groups, until I finally learned how the game worked. Nowadays, I have diverse groups of friends, some of which would be labelled as "nerds" or "geeks", while others fit into "jock"/"football player"/"cheerleader" stereotypes. They don't mix, because disastrous things happened when forced together, but there is no persecution of any kind going on, as they are able to accept that people live in different ways...
So I should abandon encryption and just be free to let whomever listen to traffic coming from my box? If the the images are locally referenced, they'll be transferred securely as well (talking https here). And modern browsers keep connections open for reuse, so that only thing that can be gleaned is when a spike happens, which means that you are loading content from the same site, but not how big it is, since a web page is a bundle of different elements that need to be retrieved.
Also, if you think that just knowing when data packets are sent and received tells you the contents of the data, then why hasn't SSH been broken yet? With those assumptions, it should be easy to use a statistical model of people's keystrokes and break into a session. Realistically? Not possible.
You've got to start somewhere, especially if you're going to get the world to transfer to using encryption everywhere. The mail server I use for private mail among friends has no unsecure channel going out of it. All of it's protocols are protected with SSL/TLS, including SMTP inbound and outbound. And besides, the argument I was making was for using encryption to connect to a public mirror site. Since the majority of mirrors have HUGE numbers of different files, and the amount of control data sent is never constant, knowing how much data is sent in either direction will NOT be a guarantee that you know what was transferred.
AND, I was talking about legal prosecution (or persecution, depending on how you see it), and a document that says you downloaded approximately enough bytes to be a suspect program isn't enough to stand up in court...
Actually, I imagine that one day an evil mega-corporation will come to hold the rights to all content in the US, the Right Infringing Association of America... (alright, you caught me, neurons misfired and I typed without thinking...)
The reason to use sftp on publicly available files or hhtps is so that people <*cough*>Carnivore</*cough*> can't track what I'm doing online. Sure, they can tell what sites you are visiting, but they can't tell what content you're looking at, or which files you downloaded... Imagine a time when you want to download DeCSS for your linux boxen from a foreign server, but someone is logging your downloads <*cough*>Verizon</*cough*> and the RIAA wants access to those records... If they don't know what you downloaded they can't (potentially unjustly) prosecute you...
If the RIAA sees the gun manufcturers exercising control over where and how we shoot our guns, they may get the idea to try and exercise control over where and how we listen to music... Wait.... Never mind...
Has everyone missed the key reason here? When we use PDA's, we usually only access them for a few minutes at a time, which is why we're able to get such great battery life. But imagine if the processor was constantly running to do recognition? The battery life would be practically nil...
I won an Acer Tablet PC at the launch yesterday, (and yes, I am posting this in my own handwriting) and F Can say that, given the choice between a tablet and a regular notebook, R would never ever use a regular notebook again.As to your questions, the screen is *NOT* touch sensitive. there is an electromagnetic stylus that the screen can detect, Touching the screen does nothing. As to the second question, while I use of 4, I don't have a graphics tablet for it so I can't compare) bit I won't correct detection mistakes in this post. 3. There is a button on the side cf the styli (Most also have an eraser head) that can be used for right clicking. To add some non-related info, but stuff that people might be curious about: The Acer came with two batteries. I've charged both, but when tri used the first one yesterday, I Managed to get 4 hours out of the charge, and the battery miter was still showing 25% full. Also, I plan to write a review of it to let people know what I think.
Wha you're talking about doesn't necessarily refer to blue-eyed blondes. My roommate is a brunette with some of the most striking blue eyes I've ever seen, and she has problems with bright lights, and her contacts. From what I've heard from her (as relayed through her eye-doctor), her sensitivity is due to a lack of something (I'm not sure what) in her eyes that is common (though not necessarily pervasive) in people with blue eyes. It's similar to how low melatonin can cause skin sensitivity.
It's quite simple, really. It's all about getting easy access to memory. We're getting awfully close to physical limits of 32-bit addressing of RAM (4 Gb, though x86 gets around this slightly with segments in server chips). It's not uncommon for a graphic designer (and soon, maybe Joe America with home movies and video editing software) to drop 2GB into a desktop/workstation machine. We'll be hitting that memory limit awfully soon, and with 4GB of ram under a grand, 64-bit addressing starts to look necessary.
Hate to tell you, but I did that exact same search. You'll find 20 news articles that say *Wow they decided to include ODBC in Jaguar* and no details. It's all fluff. I wouldn't have submitted to Slashdot if I hadn't done a lot of research first
You mention surprise at the fact that Polaroid is still in *ahem* business, but Polaroids will remain popular as long as girlfriends don't want revealing pics seen by the film processing guy, or half the world on the net(while it's always possible to scan a picture, having those *special* photos in digital format just makes it way too easy to post up on the net)
Kill two birds with one stone, eh?
Also, while I've seen people mention the default installs of W98, and not sharing the HD, no one seems to mention that the moment you install networking in 98, Client for Microsoft Networks is installed by default, and any machine with it running on 98 is easily breakable...
The problem with PC processors is that, unless you're running something like a rendering farm. you really have no need for constantly high speed processors. We need something akin to the burst mode you see in data transfers. The majority of the time (running office suites, surfing the net, etc.) you're right, there is no need for this, but when I'm compiling a kernel (or maybe a personal coding project), burning a home movie to DVD (and MPEG2 encoding in the process), or playing a kicka** video game, then I need the clock cycles to burn.
I agree completely. I've been a huge fan of Vandyke products, and continue to recommend them to clients of mine who want Windows familiarity thrown in with their security (I implement security solutions for small to medium size businesses). All of their products that I've used (SecureFX, SecureCRT and VShell) have each gotten better with each version (which you often can't say about new software).
I keep running into this mythos taken for granted nowadays. C and Unix born together?? I don't think so. Unix was born, and then later, recoded to C, and has since become the standard. C was an AT&T internal programming language, and Unix just happened to have been written by an employee at Bell Labs who liked C enough to recode it in the language...