That's because no-one using OSX uses mice with more than one button anyways... or so I've heard.
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Bluetooth can be used in pretty much the same way. The main drawback being that Bluetooth hot-spots are not as common. (Then again you have a phone with GPRS which makes it a bit moot.)
The speed is typically comparable AFAIK. While 802.11b has a capacity for 10MBit those you find in Palm devices typically have a much lower capacity, typically the same as Bluetooth.
In case you don't know why this is a question the reason is that there is no year 0. Thus the second decennium began year 11 and so forth which leads to the conclusion that the second milennium began year 2001.
However 1 year wrong on the scale of 2000 years is a pretty marginal error considering what usually happens in this world fill with people who can't grasp basic math and statistics so I say we should let it pass.
Second, WiFi is not a replacement for BT. The primary reason for that is if you test WiFi products for Palm sized products (SD cards) you will find that they are a lot slower than their PC Card versions. The reason naturally being that it kills batteries. Furthermore BT is not only a wire replacement like WiFi. It also provide specifications for how devices interoperate in a way that allow different brands to be used together with minimal fuss. (This hasn't always worked due to bugs and such though.)
In short, Bluetooth is not going away. And none of the technologies you see today (IrDA, Zigbee, WiFi, WUSB) are competing with Bluetooth.
If your question is if only Ericsson made Bluetooth chips then the answer is no.
The big actors on the market are CSR and Widcomm. Widcomm make the chips you often find in USB dongles AFAIK. I do however believe that CSR is the biggest one.
As has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread. This doesn't mean that Bluetooth is on the way out. It's quite the opposite, it means that Bluetooth is now considered standard.
No, Japan does. But the US is pretty much last on the list.
They didn't have much BT stuff in Japan though. Java didn't seem like a big push neither. Good to know that we're beginning to catch up and surpass in at least some areas.
If you notice those are developed by SonyEricsson. That is a different company (although AFAIK completely owned by Ericsson and Sony) and the people working at Ericsson have very little (or rather nothing) to do with people working at SE.
Eg, Ericsson make mobile hardware platforms, the stuff that is inside a mobile phone, and sell it to different phone companies. They then make a phone around that (and add stuff). SonyEricsson is one of those companies.
Ericsson also make and sell Bluetooth systems for integration into Bluetooth products. Other companies that does this are Widcomm and CSR. (CSR being the biggest IIRC.)
It is SonyEricsson that make the car and stuff. I recon they intend to keep on doing that.
Strange that only the Flipstart and OQO has Bluetooth since BT + BT keyboard would be a good match for these things. (Strange since both Flipstart and OQO have built in keyboards.) And before you complain you don't have to lug a MS or Logitech Bluetooth keyboard around, there are half-keyboards like the Frogpad out with BT support.
I was considering a U50/70 but the lack of Bluetooth was the final straw. I don't mind that there isn't one built in if I can use one wirelessly. In fact I'd prefer that they save the space and not have one built in. If I need it that much there are several sub-notebooks that can do the job.
Besides that I think it's a bit funny that they are running a comparison of 4 products where 2 are not even out yet. And I won't believe any release dates from OQO until I see one in a store.
My problem was always that the systems were too slow. Particularly when combined with motion tracking you got a very percievable lag between moving your head and having the world move around you./That/ made me sick extremely fast (a few minutes).
That can be compared with that I loved the Descent games and never became sick in them. The only time I've felt strained by FPSs (or sims) have been when the FPS was too low or the lag was too bad. (Between input and action, not really over the net.)
It would be great to fly this with space sims or Descent though. IIRC the source for Freespace 2 is out there, get hacking...
They use Windows media to record a bunch of text they get from a search spy. This is data coming from a web broser. They then compress the video and play it fullscreen on a PDA as a screensaver.
A hacker would have captured the data and just used the built in screen saver (or a program of your own) to display it. That would have saved room for a lot more data, looked better and saved batteries. Besides then you could send updates wirelessly to the machine to actually get real-time data.
But it could be interesting to make a "message of the day" thing which captures data from a search spy. Or a screen saver which displays search spy data (not work safe).
Nah, what you need is one of those spherical displays they have to simulate real fighter cockpits.
Pure uninterupted 360 degree view. (Well I believe it's blocked right behind you.) They use multiple projectors at different resolutions though. No idea if it's possible to set this up at home though. Projectors are getting cheaper though.
I want three big projectors in a slighlty spherical projections. I mean, I don't ask for much here... Since these would be bigger than you could easily look at I can also see why somthing like this headtracking stuff can be useful. You can do the same with normal cameras, naturally it's a lot easier and more accurate with a dot on the forehead though.
In my experience (I have an Aeron at home) this is because the front stop is in place. Always allow the chair to tilt forward and you won't have this problem.
Actually don't. That looks pretty weak compared to the cool stuff you can get there.
Naturally you can't use them when you get back to US/Europe... but they're so cool you'll carry them with you just to show off. (Camera, MP3 etc still works naturally.)
Check out NTTDoCoMo's pages for some really cool stuff.
I have an equivalent image of daytime. Unfortunately it's on a computer that's dead right now so I can't access it at this time.
I did however find it at the Astrology picture of the day site so I bet it's there somewhere. I got a nighttime picture before too and I think the daytime was linked from that (or vice versa). Anyways there are daytime photos on that site as well.
And I'm all for freedom of religion, but some people need to understand that that road goes both ways.
I mean if they have such a big problem with religions with multiple gods are they going to ban India next?
I have personal experience with "this sort of people" who believe that RPGs are the work of satan and should be burned. From when I was in the USA, no surprise. A woman there actually proposed that they should burn some RPG books I had brought with me (I hadn't opened them for the entire time I was there). And for the record those were Traveller books and didn't contain religion of any kind.
Furthermore I also spend a lot of time there in a really Christian family. However they were some pretty intelligent people as well as generally well behaved so they never even hinted that stuff like RPGs could be bad for you. (I spend a lot of time with the son of that family playing Doom which I recon would get previously mentioned book burners panties in a knot too.)
I sure respect the opinions of of intelligent people no matter their believes. I won't respect the opinions of morons; but I will be contended with laughing behind their backs. When such morons start invading my freedom with their ideas because "they want to make the world better" and "protect me" then I will start hitting them with the Clue-Bat (tm) until they get a clue or at least stop with their nonsense.
And it's every person on the Earths duty to do the same unless we want to be run over by the vocal minorities. Be them racist bigots, hate mongerers or just fundamentalists (of any religion).
OTOH they just said that "Hey we can man make an add-on for the N64 that does all these magic tricks" but they never did it. That's basically what your idea with patenting matter transportation is about, isn't it?
Well while your comment is most likely intended to be humourus I've heard this some times before so perhaps it's time to set the record a bit straighter.
Now as Dave Barry I'm no expert on Japan. I have studied the language for a year and spent the summer over there though. Which means that I'm a happy beginner of the language and culture.
In any case. The Japanese language have a bunch of words for I. You have the common watashi and the polite watakushi. There are also the male boku and ore as well as the female atashi. Those are the ones I'm aware of.
When it comes to no they sure do seem to say it a lot. For instance if you ask if a car is a horse or something similar. (Well I didn't do that, but the language is unfamiliar enough that you can do stupid things like that.) If you ask them to do something or if you are allowed to do things then you may instead get the answer that it's a bit inconvinient to do so.
Slightly more diplomatic than the typical western approach in other words.
I think the AC ment to say that if security through obscurity is all you can achive then it should be used; but otherwise real security is preferred.
The sentence There is nothing wrong with security through obscurity unless that's all you have. is a bit obscure however. I wonder that the AC is hiding...
If a military satelite communications system uses some hypothetically perfect authentication and encryption, then would there be any good reason to publish to the World the specifications of the control codes? No, there would be no good reason, so it should not be made public, regardless of the fact that the crypto is supposed to be perfect. "More eyes looking at the code" would not be good enough in this instance.
The problem with this statement is that it assumes that the people who have made certain that the system is a good one has not made any errors. Typically this is the stage where you get weak links in your defences.
Just look at CSS for DVD players. I'm sure they were pretty sure that "this is really safe" and that "if we publish our method it will just make it more vulnerable". If they had in fact published the method for peer review there would have been a lot of real crypto experts who laughed at them instead of the entire world after their precious system was hacked by a bunch of amateurs.
The idea is that the people who are the most certain that their system is perfect and would not benefit from peer review are typically those whose system have the most errors. It takes a lot of knowledge to know how little you know. (Now the military are a special case. They have a lot of money and may actually produce both secure and obscure results. In the general case it is not true.)
And for the record I'd rather have an open military force than one that has it's own rules and regulations often preceding over normal laws. At least in my country the amount of intelligence and competence doesn't exactly increase when you enter the military. (May not be true for your country naturally.)
In computer security groups the term obscurity goes furthen than just implify matter that is not directly visible. The term obscurity is used to define a method which seemingly hides the data but does so in a trivial and often extremely ineffective manner.
You bring up encryption as a method of obscurity but I'd disagree with this in the general case. If you use a Ceasar chiffer or simple XOR (basically the same thing) to encode data then you have obscurity. It may seem like the data is encrypted but it is merely done so in the most trivial manner, this is obscurity. Breaking such an encryption takes on the order of milliseconds for a computer and would be in a code breakers standard set of tools which do the job automatically.
Obscurity typically implies that while the user believe that he is safe that is not really the case. A user using XOR encryption is using security by obscurity. A user using 256 bit AES encryption may have obscured their data, but are not using security by obscurity (because that data is genuinly safe).
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That's because no-one using OSX uses mice with more than one button anyways... or so I've heard.
Bluetooth can be used in pretty much the same way. The main drawback being that Bluetooth hot-spots are not as common. (Then again you have a phone with GPRS which makes it a bit moot.)
The speed is typically comparable AFAIK. While 802.11b has a capacity for 10MBit those you find in Palm devices typically have a much lower capacity, typically the same as Bluetooth.
In case you don't know why this is a question the reason is that there is no year 0. Thus the second decennium began year 11 and so forth which leads to the conclusion that the second milennium began year 2001.
However 1 year wrong on the scale of 2000 years is a pretty marginal error considering what usually happens in this world fill with people who can't grasp basic math and statistics so I say we should let it pass.
And for that matter not all otaku are anime fans.
First off, they are not scrapping it.
Second, WiFi is not a replacement for BT. The primary reason for that is if you test WiFi products for Palm sized products (SD cards) you will find that they are a lot slower than their PC Card versions. The reason naturally being that it kills batteries. Furthermore BT is not only a wire replacement like WiFi. It also provide specifications for how devices interoperate in a way that allow different brands to be used together with minimal fuss. (This hasn't always worked due to bugs and such though.)
In short, Bluetooth is not going away. And none of the technologies you see today (IrDA, Zigbee, WiFi, WUSB) are competing with Bluetooth.
If your question is if only Ericsson made Bluetooth chips then the answer is no.
The big actors on the market are CSR and Widcomm. Widcomm make the chips you often find in USB dongles AFAIK. I do however believe that CSR is the biggest one.
As has been pointed out repeatedly in this thread. This doesn't mean that Bluetooth is on the way out. It's quite the opposite, it means that Bluetooth is now considered standard.
(Not yet in the US though.)
That is because of bugs in the implementations.
You don't scrap the internet because Microsoft has put out some buggy products, do you?
No, Japan does. But the US is pretty much last on the list.
They didn't have much BT stuff in Japan though. Java didn't seem like a big push neither. Good to know that we're beginning to catch up and surpass in at least some areas.
If you notice those are developed by SonyEricsson. That is a different company (although AFAIK completely owned by Ericsson and Sony) and the people working at Ericsson have very little (or rather nothing) to do with people working at SE.
Eg, Ericsson make mobile hardware platforms, the stuff that is inside a mobile phone, and sell it to different phone companies. They then make a phone around that (and add stuff). SonyEricsson is one of those companies.
Ericsson also make and sell Bluetooth systems for integration into Bluetooth products. Other companies that does this are Widcomm and CSR. (CSR being the biggest IIRC.)
It is SonyEricsson that make the car and stuff. I recon they intend to keep on doing that.
Strange that only the Flipstart and OQO has Bluetooth since BT + BT keyboard would be a good match for these things. (Strange since both Flipstart and OQO have built in keyboards.) And before you complain you don't have to lug a MS or Logitech Bluetooth keyboard around, there are half-keyboards like the Frogpad out with BT support.
I was considering a U50/70 but the lack of Bluetooth was the final straw. I don't mind that there isn't one built in if I can use one wirelessly. In fact I'd prefer that they save the space and not have one built in. If I need it that much there are several sub-notebooks that can do the job.
Besides that I think it's a bit funny that they are running a comparison of 4 products where 2 are not even out yet. And I won't believe any release dates from OQO until I see one in a store.
That's possible. I can transfer sound files with my SE T630 without a problem. (To other phones.)
I can't transfer programs though.
Like good old Archie? Although I doubt that system is running any longer.
Besides that a lot of "less legal sites" have FTP search. Typically of sites found in IRC channels.
My problem was always that the systems were too slow. Particularly when combined with motion tracking you got a very percievable lag between moving your head and having the world move around you. /That/ made me sick extremely fast (a few minutes).
That can be compared with that I loved the Descent games and never became sick in them. The only time I've felt strained by FPSs (or sims) have been when the FPS was too low or the lag was too bad. (Between input and action, not really over the net.)
It would be great to fly this with space sims or Descent though. IIRC the source for Freespace 2 is out there, get hacking...
They use Windows media to record a bunch of text they get from a search spy. This is data coming from a web broser. They then compress the video and play it fullscreen on a PDA as a screensaver.
A hacker would have captured the data and just used the built in screen saver (or a program of your own) to display it. That would have saved room for a lot more data, looked better and saved batteries. Besides then you could send updates wirelessly to the machine to actually get real-time data.
But it could be interesting to make a "message of the day" thing which captures data from a search spy. Or a screen saver which displays search spy data (not work safe).
Nah, what you need is one of those spherical displays they have to simulate real fighter cockpits.
Pure uninterupted 360 degree view. (Well I believe it's blocked right behind you.) They use multiple projectors at different resolutions though. No idea if it's possible to set this up at home though. Projectors are getting cheaper though.
I want three big projectors in a slighlty spherical projections. I mean, I don't ask for much here... Since these would be bigger than you could easily look at I can also see why somthing like this headtracking stuff can be useful. You can do the same with normal cameras, naturally it's a lot easier and more accurate with a dot on the forehead though.
I want a combination with Donkey Konga, Gitaroo man, the marachas game (for Dreamcast) and Karaoke Revolution (and DDR).
Suddenly you have a boy band simulator. (But with real music.)
In my experience (I have an Aeron at home) this is because the front stop is in place. Always allow the chair to tilt forward and you won't have this problem.
Actually don't. That looks pretty weak compared to the cool stuff you can get there.
Naturally you can't use them when you get back to US/Europe... but they're so cool you'll carry them with you just to show off. (Camera, MP3 etc still works naturally.)
Check out NTTDoCoMo's pages for some really cool stuff.
I have an equivalent image of daytime. Unfortunately it's on a computer that's dead right now so I can't access it at this time.
I did however find it at the Astrology picture of the day site so I bet it's there somewhere. I got a nighttime picture before too and I think the daytime was linked from that (or vice versa). Anyways there are daytime photos on that site as well.
IIRC the daytime was in lower resolution though.
And I'm all for freedom of religion, but some people need to understand that that road goes both ways.
I mean if they have such a big problem with religions with multiple gods are they going to ban India next?
I have personal experience with "this sort of people" who believe that RPGs are the work of satan and should be burned. From when I was in the USA, no surprise. A woman there actually proposed that they should burn some RPG books I had brought with me (I hadn't opened them for the entire time I was there). And for the record those were Traveller books and didn't contain religion of any kind.
Furthermore I also spend a lot of time there in a really Christian family. However they were some pretty intelligent people as well as generally well behaved so they never even hinted that stuff like RPGs could be bad for you. (I spend a lot of time with the son of that family playing Doom which I recon would get previously mentioned book burners panties in a knot too.)
I sure respect the opinions of of intelligent people no matter their believes. I won't respect the opinions of morons; but I will be contended with laughing behind their backs. When such morons start invading my freedom with their ideas because "they want to make the world better" and "protect me" then I will start hitting them with the Clue-Bat (tm) until they get a clue or at least stop with their nonsense.
And it's every person on the Earths duty to do the same unless we want to be run over by the vocal minorities. Be them racist bigots, hate mongerers or just fundamentalists (of any religion).
OTOH they just said that "Hey we can man make an add-on for the N64 that does all these magic tricks" but they never did it. That's basically what your idea with patenting matter transportation is about, isn't it?
Well while your comment is most likely intended to be humourus I've heard this some times before so perhaps it's time to set the record a bit straighter.
Now as Dave Barry I'm no expert on Japan. I have studied the language for a year and spent the summer over there though. Which means that I'm a happy beginner of the language and culture.
In any case. The Japanese language have a bunch of words for I. You have the common watashi and the polite watakushi. There are also the male boku and ore as well as the female atashi. Those are the ones I'm aware of.
When it comes to no they sure do seem to say it a lot. For instance if you ask if a car is a horse or something similar. (Well I didn't do that, but the language is unfamiliar enough that you can do stupid things like that.) If you ask them to do something or if you are allowed to do things then you may instead get the answer that it's a bit inconvinient to do so.
Slightly more diplomatic than the typical western approach in other words.
I think the AC ment to say that if security through obscurity is all you can achive then it should be used; but otherwise real security is preferred.
The sentence There is nothing wrong with security through obscurity unless that's all you have. is a bit obscure however. I wonder that the AC is hiding...
The problem with this statement is that it assumes that the people who have made certain that the system is a good one has not made any errors. Typically this is the stage where you get weak links in your defences.
Just look at CSS for DVD players. I'm sure they were pretty sure that "this is really safe" and that "if we publish our method it will just make it more vulnerable". If they had in fact published the method for peer review there would have been a lot of real crypto experts who laughed at them instead of the entire world after their precious system was hacked by a bunch of amateurs.
The idea is that the people who are the most certain that their system is perfect and would not benefit from peer review are typically those whose system have the most errors. It takes a lot of knowledge to know how little you know. (Now the military are a special case. They have a lot of money and may actually produce both secure and obscure results. In the general case it is not true.)
And for the record I'd rather have an open military force than one that has it's own rules and regulations often preceding over normal laws. At least in my country the amount of intelligence and competence doesn't exactly increase when you enter the military. (May not be true for your country naturally.)
In computer security groups the term obscurity goes furthen than just implify matter that is not directly visible. The term obscurity is used to define a method which seemingly hides the data but does so in a trivial and often extremely ineffective manner.
You bring up encryption as a method of obscurity but I'd disagree with this in the general case. If you use a Ceasar chiffer or simple XOR (basically the same thing) to encode data then you have obscurity. It may seem like the data is encrypted but it is merely done so in the most trivial manner, this is obscurity. Breaking such an encryption takes on the order of milliseconds for a computer and would be in a code breakers standard set of tools which do the job automatically.
Obscurity typically implies that while the user believe that he is safe that is not really the case. A user using XOR encryption is using security by obscurity. A user using 256 bit AES encryption may have obscured their data, but are not using security by obscurity (because that data is genuinly safe).