The article talks about IP in general, and of course it makes sense. I'd like to remaind us that VOIP to be more specific, was already featured last year ! They flew IP-telephony software from Cisco to the ISS and tried calling home with great success. IP makes adding voice to data (or the other way round however you want to see it) a reality.
and contrary to analog radio transmission which are prone to interferences and background noise/hiss, VOIP actually makes a lot of sense in space. All it requires is a data channel with limited bandwidth (64kbits is plentiful) but short delay, and the voice quality is just as good as with a regular phone call.
Maybe NASA saw in IP a cheaper alternative for astronauts to get pr0n than having to fly (heavier) tabloid magazines to space?:->
I understand that editing can sometimes change the "meaning" of a motion picture--but so what? This is supposed to be entertainment, and people shouldn't be forced to be offended when they want to be entertained.
The above statement from the article, summarises what I think very nicely. And I fail to see how Hollywood cares about what people do with their DVD's at home once they've bought them anyway.
If these kind of basic rights are removed from us, god knows what's comming next. Subscribtion-based DVD's w/ plentiful DRM anyone (how about Product Activation for DVD's) ?
It allows gamma correction on steroids, as seen in their sample section - they clearly emphasize the many-stops gamma adjustments they can achieve, especially in the very bright or dark areas of the picture.
I see serious security and privacy concerns. The voters had to enter a 16-digit password, as well as their birthplace, date of birth and another number sent to them by post.
The Swiss government already has all of the above on file anyway. To me, the methodology employed is simply a very serious attempt at making sure that every vote is cast by the indivudual who can prove who he is In Real Life(tm) (and votes are for real, remember)....
Which leads us to: on the Internet you never know what's behind the curtain, but in this case it seems that they do !:-)
Remember the movie Total Recall? At breakfast we saw Doug and his wife surrounded by these displays seamelessly integrated to the walls, such that they had either Lake View, Montains View, etc. Or just regular TV programs captioned in a corner of the screen.
Hopefully this is the kind of technology breakthrough that will make it possible to get these massive flat screens in our living rooms one day!
Linux is better, faster, stronger than whatever is living underneath XP now, right? Performance would improve.
I actually have a positive experience after having -finally- moved from 98SE and ME to XP, and despite my very low expectations about XP, I have to admit that it's not working too badly after all, to say the least.
Don't get me wrong, I'm also a happy Linux user since 1994. But with XP I can actually see Microsoft catching up with Linux regarding stability, performance and features....
Wow ! Did you check out the impressive list of items gone wrong and how many "functionning as designed" answers to them ? Now my job would certainly be a lot easier if I could also tell my customer to basically go f*** off for support ! Kudos BMW, great support this time *sarcasm*
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You have a point for rental car, I had forgotten about that one. Or if you're a thief and want to defeit the built-in alarm and tracking system. But I mean, I take public transportation almost every day and sometimes I dream of a cellphone jammer which would shut-up that asshole down the car yelling his concerns or describing the food he ate last night to his best mate:)
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Apart maybe for the military or civilian personel working in transports, I fail to see why this has any uses at all for most of us. I mean, if you want to know where you are, just look around ! Or ask somebody with clue.
The REAL problem they should have considered in the first place is how to effectively jam mobile phone. I'll be among the first to buy one of those when they will be readilly available for $50 on the streets !
For crying out loud, the general public had seen this coming from the very first day the DMCA was introduced. Now do you think that the people who supported it will just turn around and abolish this law ? They have their positions to justify now... And while they're in power they will... 'nuff said.
International (roaming) messaging is a disaster. You're lucky if anything arrives, and if it does, it can easily be delayed a few days.
Hmm, where do you live ? I do exactly this on a regular basis and never got a single problem nor delay from/to abroad.
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What puzzles me is that anyone cares whether SMS messages arrive or not.
Think of SMS like email. People care, or they wouldn't be using the service
in the first place.
Most of us have voice mail on our phones? Why does anyone want to turn
their cell phone into the electronic equivalent of a doggy leash?
SMS costs less than a voice mail, is sent quickly and at your leisure, and
you don't always need/want to speak to the person for certain things (just like
email, right?)
It's bad enough when you have to carry a pager for work
SMS has pretty much replaced pagers around here. Why get a stupid pager when
you can get a pager + phone as a single device.
voluntarily subjecting yourself to that kind of intrusion strikes me as
nuts.
What kind of rubbish is that. If you don't like or want to be disturbed,
don't buy the phone in the first place. Or switch it off when it's
inconvenient.
In addition, dishonest marketers and at least some cell service providers
are using SMS to send unwanted bulk marketing messages
I feel sorry for my american peers.. We have no SMS spam problems in Europe.
Please, don't assume that we do, because your assumptions would be wrong. And
people have to get your cellphone number before they can SMS you, which they
can't.
AT&T, my cell phone service provider, is apparently one of those.
That's too bad, for you and for their other customers. There are certainly
better operators out there, who provide excellent service, and keep their
customers at peace !
After I read complaints from a number of AT&T users who had been
SMS-spammed and who said that AT&T refused to stop,
Sue them ! In the USA everyone is free to sue everybody else for any reason,
right ? Use that right.
Don't assume that each new "feature" offered by your cell phone provider
(or your ISP) is something you want.
First of all you don't HAVE to use the features. Then, don't assume that
everybody out there has crap service, because if you knew how good it gets in
some places it would make yourself want to try it ! (and you might even like
it....)
Here' how it work, drawn from my 3+ years experience with SMS messaging in various european countries (fr, uk, de, nl, be, se, fi, ie)...
In europe the phone tells you the moment you send your message if the network has accepted it or not.
If the network has accepted your message for delivery, it will try to deliver it for a certain amount of time (this is configurable on the sender's phone), I have set mine to 72 hours.
You get a delivery report the moment the network has accepted your message, and another one the moment the intended recipient has gotten it.
If after the delay the message couldn't be delivered (read: recipient cellphone was offline during all this time) you get a delivery report for failure, so at least you know it's failed.
This works in almost ALL european countries, the few exceptions are certain operators (like Bouyges Telecom) which filter SMS coming from foreign numbers.
I'd say the service is great, reliable, informative and cheap. As a result, SMS has mostly replaced pagers in Europe.
You must be joking. Researchers being forced shut-up because of the nature of their assignments, more DRM coming at us generally and making its way into new devices preventing basic fair use, the Skylarov case, and many more..... I'll stop for now, there are dozen of examples out there.
I gave up using my GUX MAX (1MB of memory... woah) when people began massively switching from DOS to win95, which had the lamest drivers I can remember for this otherwise superb card. Shame on Gravis !
Have you ever played the original Settlers game with your GUS ? What a difference 1MB of ram made ! And still one of the best music output I have ever heard to this day. This is what made me buy the card in the first place (and the game).
The Linux OSS/free driver were exemplary compared to win9x, and I still used gmod to listen to modules until not so long ago. I was even using the Sony proprietary CD-ROM interface on the GUS, to connect to my double-speed CDU-33A, for crying out loud:)
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and contrary to analog radio transmission which are prone to interferences and background noise/hiss, VOIP actually makes a lot of sense in space. All it requires is a data channel with limited bandwidth (64kbits is plentiful) but short delay, and the voice quality is just as good as with a regular phone call.
Maybe NASA saw in IP a cheaper alternative for astronauts to get pr0n than having to fly (heavier) tabloid magazines to space? :->
The above statement from the article, summarises what I think very nicely. And I fail to see how Hollywood cares about what people do with their DVD's at home once they've bought them anyway.
If these kind of basic rights are removed from us, god knows what's comming next. Subscribtion-based DVD's w/ plentiful DRM anyone (how about Product Activation for DVD's) ?
www.kartoffelkanone-forum.de
Courtesy of Google , the blueprints and forums here and here
(all the above in german, obviously).
I've heard that one before :)
It allows gamma correction on steroids, as seen in their sample section - they clearly emphasize the many-stops gamma adjustments they can achieve, especially in the very bright or dark areas of the picture.
(you must be from Belgium :)
If the resolution is high enough, why not !! ;)
The Swiss government already has all of the above on file anyway. To me, the methodology employed is simply a very serious attempt at making sure that every vote is cast by the indivudual who can prove who he is In Real Life(tm) (and votes are for real, remember)....
Which leads us to: on the Internet you never know what's behind the curtain, but in this case it seems that they do ! :-)
Hopefully this is the kind of technology breakthrough that will make it possible to get these massive flat screens in our living rooms one day!
From the article:
I actually have a positive experience after having -finally- moved from 98SE and ME to XP, and despite my very low expectations about XP, I have to admit that it's not working too badly after all, to say the least.
Don't get me wrong, I'm also a happy Linux user since 1994. But with XP I can actually see Microsoft catching up with Linux regarding stability, performance and features....
Wow ! Did you check out the impressive list of items gone wrong and how many "functionning as designed" answers to them ? Now my job would certainly be a lot easier if I could also tell my customer to basically go f*** off for support ! Kudos BMW, great support this time *sarcasm*
You have a point for rental car, I had forgotten about that one. Or if you're a thief and want to defeit the built-in alarm and tracking system. But I mean, I take public transportation almost every day and sometimes I dream of a cellphone jammer which would shut-up that asshole down the car yelling his concerns or describing the food he ate last night to his best mate :)
The REAL problem they should have considered in the first place is how to effectively jam mobile phone. I'll be among the first to buy one of those when they will be readilly available for $50 on the streets !
For crying out loud, the general public had seen this coming from the very first day the DMCA was introduced. Now do you think that the people who supported it will just turn around and abolish this law ? They have their positions to justify now... And while they're in power they will... 'nuff said.
Hmm, where do you live ? I do exactly this on a regular basis and never got a single problem nor delay from/to abroad.
Think of SMS like email. People care, or they wouldn't be using the service in the first place.
Most of us have voice mail on our phones? Why does anyone want to turn their cell phone into the electronic equivalent of a doggy leash?
SMS costs less than a voice mail, is sent quickly and at your leisure, and you don't always need/want to speak to the person for certain things (just like email, right?)
It's bad enough when you have to carry a pager for work
SMS has pretty much replaced pagers around here. Why get a stupid pager when you can get a pager + phone as a single device.
voluntarily subjecting yourself to that kind of intrusion strikes me as nuts.
What kind of rubbish is that. If you don't like or want to be disturbed, don't buy the phone in the first place. Or switch it off when it's inconvenient.
In addition, dishonest marketers and at least some cell service providers are using SMS to send unwanted bulk marketing messages
I feel sorry for my american peers.. We have no SMS spam problems in Europe. Please, don't assume that we do, because your assumptions would be wrong. And people have to get your cellphone number before they can SMS you, which they can't.
AT&T, my cell phone service provider, is apparently one of those.
That's too bad, for you and for their other customers. There are certainly better operators out there, who provide excellent service, and keep their customers at peace !
After I read complaints from a number of AT&T users who had been SMS-spammed and who said that AT&T refused to stop,
Sue them ! In the USA everyone is free to sue everybody else for any reason, right ? Use that right.
Don't assume that each new "feature" offered by your cell phone provider (or your ISP) is something you want.
First of all you don't HAVE to use the features. Then, don't assume that everybody out there has crap service, because if you knew how good it gets in some places it would make yourself want to try it ! (and you might even like it....)
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Yes!!! MOD parent UP. 'nuff said.
In europe the phone tells you the moment you send your message if the network has accepted it or not.
If the network has accepted your message for delivery, it will try to deliver it for a certain amount of time (this is configurable on the sender's phone), I have set mine to 72 hours.
You get a delivery report the moment the network has accepted your message, and another one the moment the intended recipient has gotten it.
If after the delay the message couldn't be delivered (read: recipient cellphone was offline during all this time) you get a delivery report for failure, so at least you know it's failed.
This works in almost ALL european countries, the few exceptions are certain operators (like Bouyges Telecom) which filter SMS coming from foreign numbers.
I'd say the service is great, reliable, informative and cheap. As a result, SMS has mostly replaced pagers in Europe.
You must be joking. Researchers being forced shut-up because of the nature of their assignments, more DRM coming at us generally and making its way into new devices preventing basic fair use, the Skylarov case, and many more..... I'll stop for now, there are dozen of examples out there.
Look at the DMCA fiasco. It has already caused consumers much grief, and it ain't going to go away.
In fact it's probably going to get a lot worse, when similar laws will be put forward in various EU countries :(
With this many fans I would imagine we might be friends ?
Will it be possible to disable on future motherboards which will implement DRM techniques ?
Have you ever played the original Settlers game with your GUS ? What a difference 1MB of ram made ! And still one of the best music output I have ever heard to this day. This is what made me buy the card in the first place (and the game).
The Linux OSS/free driver were exemplary compared to win9x, and I still used gmod to listen to modules until not so long ago. I was even using the Sony proprietary CD-ROM interface on the GUS, to connect to my double-speed CDU-33A, for crying out loud :)
If the DoD shuts down the Global Positioning System, I will look like an asshole ;)