I don't think the low end model has the TV features. If you notice the "codes" for them only the top one has "TV" at the end. The other ones probably only have FireWire and DVD-RW.
After browsing thru the spec sheets at Sony's site it appears like the Yahoo! news where not entirely correct. It's not a TiVo at all. Rather it'a a highend PC (It's a P4 1.7GHz for christ's sake!) with a TV Tuner built in. It's for editing your movies, not for recording TV shows. (Sure you can do that too, but who wants to have a monster like that in your living room sounding like a jet engine?)
If you want a TiVo with DVD-RW your best bet is still to hack it together yourself it seems.
API - Application Programming Interface, (as you all know) point being, you don't emulate an interface, you implement it.
Naturally this is all shemantics and quite useless. The point is, WINE doesn't have to be slower than running it natively on windows. (I'm not saying it has to be faster either.;-)
While it is true that even 128 bit WEP isn't sufficiently secure to be/secure/ it is still quite good. (It requires a real effort from the attacker at least. Not something you do willy-nilly while waiting in traffic.)
The problem is that although WEP is rather simple to use the people don't. Using "your" memorystick etc solution it would require even more of an effort. I.e. not gonna happen.
What is needed isn't more tech. What's needed is to make admins, and users aware of the problem.
The reason science (and no one else) has found out what "intelligence" or "consiousness" is, is much because they are inherintly ambigious. If you can't get people to agree what is "intelligent" or "coincious" then you will have a pretty hard time explaining it.
My favourite (scientific none the less) theory is that consiousness is dependent on self referation. If something is capable of knowing what the self is in an abstract way, then it is consious.
Naturally not many animals (besides man) gives a very satisfactory answer if you ask them.;-)
The problem with many "thinkers" as you call them (assuming you mean philospohers) is that they generally think and then come up with something unproveable and useless and designate it "truth". Science at least attempts to get rid of such nonsense. (It may be an/interesting/ thing to think about, but that doesn't make it true or even sane.)
For interesting ideas as to what/isn't/ intelligence check out some AI books. It is generally considered there that what you can make a computer do is NOT intelligence. So little by little we get to the point. (You know, what ever is left when the other stuff has been removed.)
First of all, Peter Molynoux (I bet he's furious by now that no one can spell his last name right.;-) created them both. I recon you still can copy an old concept though. But although part of the idea is the same, "You are a God." a lot of new stuff has entered the game which makes it interesting.
First of all you have this creature. Think of it as a Tamagotchi which can interact with it's enviroment and actually learn. (Not only grow fat and die, it can grow fat, it can't really die though.)
Second you have the people, in B&W you can interact with the people in a way which wasn't possible in any of the Populous games. You can pick them up and put them down to give them some "divine inspiration" or you can hurl them across the land. (Be careful though, your creature has a nasty habit of picking up on what you do and tend to imitate.;-)
And the graphics, yummm, they really did manage to create one of the best looking 3D engines to date. On the topic of FPS btw, my P3-550, 256Mb and Matroc G400Max shugs along at 25 FPS at high detail. I don't know if people with 1GHz computers are having problems with drivers or what, but I don't have any probems.)
And then there's a lot of small things. Like how your creature can learn to dance, it's really a game you should try!
No, 802.11B is also an ethernet variant. It is _not_ the same thing as BT. (Yeah, I realise that the CNN page say so, but if the PR department on Microsoft can't get it right then why should CNN?)
What you are looking for is 802.15. That is a "Personal Area Network" thingy by IEEE.
Remember, BT is not aimed at wireless connections it is aimed at "wireless wires" so to speak. The wires that hook your mouse and keyboard to your 'puter. Or the IR link from a remote to a VCR. (Well, the latter is mostly overkill, but the principle is the same.)
If you read his post instead of grepping for Microsoft and asuming it was derogatory you migth have seen that he wasn't really complaining about MS but about NASA using it to post a press realease on the net.
Any reason they couldn't do it in HTML? Or PS/PDF? Any reason at all to make me download the file and then open it in another program?
It reminds me of when I got a mail with no text, but an attached.DOC file. (No, there we not even any images in the file, only text.)
DOC files have their place, the net isn't it. (For gods sake, Word even saves files into a very mangled HTML version, why not use it?)
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Bluetooth is NOT for LAN's. I seriously doubt that you will ever see networkcards and monitorcables replaced by it. It simply doesn't have the capacity.
I used to believe that Hollywood could produce good action, then I saw some Hong Kong flicks.
Seriously, if you want good fighting movies check out some Jackie Chan. Off the top of my head I'd recommend Drunken Master (1 and 2), Who Am I, Rumble in the Bronx, Police Story (1-4, 2 being my favourite.) Take a peek at IMDB as well, most of them have different titles in the US/Europa/Asia.
I actually prefer his movies to Bruce Lee's. BL's movies are too much like Segals. Bruce walks around, someone gets beaten, Bruce kicks the bad guys asses. Jackie OTOH use a combination of flashy moves, martial arts and really stupid stunts. (The failed stunts are traditionally shown at the end of the movie, only those parts are generally worth the watch.)
If you just want action look for John Woo (director) and Chow Yun Fat(actor). Hard Boiled is the movie to see with them.
Unfortunately you will not appreciate any Segal/Van Damme movies afterwards. (But that's pretty much a 'good thing' anyways.)
A well encoded DivX is pretty much the same quality image wise as a MPEG2. True, some parts, such as darkness, does tend to suffer. But it's miles ahead of other formats like VCD.
Furthermore I don't think all that many people, even "l337 h4x0rs" would be willing to trade 600-1200 Mb files for 5Gb+ files.
Well, I'm sorry to say this but so far what I've seen of Bluetooth hasn't impressed me much. Most of the tech-magazines here in Sweden are very happy about it (Since Ericsson is a Swedish company I guess.) but I have yet to see something workable.
The current versions for phones are not even capable to work without Line of Sight. If they require LOS then why not use IR instead? The more powerful versions will be able to penetrate clothing and such, but since they will draw more juice then will probably not be the ones used in the first products.
Furthermore it seems like Bluetooth has been stricken by a severe case of "design by committee". That is, it lost track of the technical applications and instead it's become a part for marketing.
And I can not understand why so many want Bluetooth as a NIC in a computer. If you want wireless LAN there are already a bunch of products based on IEEE802.11x on the market NOW! Why wait for Bluetooth? Sure, it's supposed to have really low power consumtion, but does it matter in a laptop with an LCD, harddrive and CD-Rom?
Finally, Bluetooth is a NETWORK layer. It's not a "end of all protocols magic wand" that some people seem to think. It will NOT make your homestereo talk with Mr Coffee. It will NOT allow you to program your VCR through the computer (or palmtop). It's just a stupid (in a protocolly-challenged way) network for crying out loud!
What you WANT is something like Jini from SUN. But a version that is actually available on the market. And need I say this an OPEN standard. Sony has already developed near magical things for their home entertainment systems, like S-Link and newer versions of it. But unless you are a member of the "Happy Sony Family" and only have their products on the shelf then it won't do diddly/squat. Why not let the customers use the API to create their own shortcuts in the home?
Well, you can check the small slide show presentation at dsniff for starters. It was mentioned (along with a bunch of others) not too long ago in the "WEP Isn't Secure" thingy here on Slashdot a week or so ago...
Assembler really is good to know for some knowledge about what the computer can do. (Or rather how.)
Personally I've only done some rather brief studies of assembler, but I did that on MIPS and I think that was a good idea. It's properly constructed and not patched together like x86. My point being that most normal persons will get more benefit out of studying a sane architecture than jumping on x86 at once.
And while you're at studying assebler why not look at the actual internals as well? Patterson & Hennessy's Computer Architecture (Review at ArsTechnica.) books.
Personally I prefer Robert Jordan to Eddings. Both write in the same "fantasy/soap opera" style. Edding is the worst though, the logical errors in his books (The Belgariad and the Mallorion(sp?) are the only ones I've read.) are large enough to fly a gigant eagle through.
Jordan is a bit better, the characters are bitchy and should be slapped. But the world is more complete.
But for the good stuff jump directly to Tad Williams or Robin Hobbs. (To mention two.)
That's what MojoNation does. Check it out, it's pretty neat. Unfortunately it's still in the alpha stadium like Freenet. But it might be that something neat comes out of it later on.
Mojo Nation does have a broker system, but those are also distributed. A rather neat idea actually. You have a file sharing system, a broker system and an indexer, and they are all distributed.
My personal experiences with MN are rather poor unfortunately, I did run a node for a few weeks, but I felt that it didn't result in anything. And uploading a file didn't work for me. It always got stuck somewhere. And the GUI (web based) isn't the best. A lack of feedback to the user.
Those are all nitpicks however, and I do hope that something like Mojo Nation, Newtella, Freenet what not can be spawned from the smoldering remains of Napster.
One of the most frequent things I've noticed is that Windows has a thing about not installing networkcards right.
I have on several occations had the standard install put networkcards on IRQ 3, which is supposed to be reserved for COM2. This can cause no end of problems if you attempt to use the card and modem at the same time.
And the worst part is that Windows doesn't recognice it as an error. Even if you study the System menu it claims that "all is just fine". You have to go and edit the actual values by hand to make it work.
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I don't think the low end model has the TV features. If you notice the "codes" for them only the top one has "TV" at the end. The other ones probably only have FireWire and DVD-RW.
Unfortunately.
After browsing thru the spec sheets at Sony's site it appears like the Yahoo! news where not entirely correct. It's not a TiVo at all. Rather it'a a highend PC (It's a P4 1.7GHz for christ's sake!) with a TV Tuner built in. It's for editing your movies, not for recording TV shows. (Sure you can do that too, but who wants to have a monster like that in your living room sounding like a jet engine?)
If you want a TiVo with DVD-RW your best bet is still to hack it together yourself it seems.
Yeah, I just saw that as well. Tragic really.
(And I haven't quite decided if the original fake troll was very clever or very distasteful.)
API - Application Programming Interface, (as you all know) point being, you don't emulate an interface, you implement it.
;-)
Naturally this is all shemantics and quite useless. The point is, WINE doesn't have to be slower than running it natively on windows. (I'm not saying it has to be faster either.
While it is true that even 128 bit WEP isn't sufficiently secure to be /secure/ it is still quite good. (It requires a real effort from the attacker at least. Not something you do willy-nilly while waiting in traffic.)
The problem is that although WEP is rather simple to use the people don't. Using "your" memorystick etc solution it would require even more of an effort. I.e. not gonna happen.
What is needed isn't more tech. What's needed is to make admins, and users aware of the problem.
Not a direct link I'm afraid, but check out the "realated sites" on JESS which is an experts system shell. There were some agent pages there.
Also for basic stuff you might want to check some pages about general agent programming from an AI standpoint.
The reason science (and no one else) has found out what "intelligence" or "consiousness" is, is much because they are inherintly ambigious. If you can't get people to agree what is "intelligent" or "coincious" then you will have a pretty hard time explaining it.
;-)
/interesting/ thing to think about, but that doesn't make it true or even sane.)
/isn't/ intelligence check out some AI books. It is generally considered there that what you can make a computer do is NOT intelligence. So little by little we get to the point. (You know, what ever is left when the other stuff has been removed.)
My favourite (scientific none the less) theory is that consiousness is dependent on self referation. If something is capable of knowing what the self is in an abstract way, then it is consious.
Naturally not many animals (besides man) gives a very satisfactory answer if you ask them.
The problem with many "thinkers" as you call them (assuming you mean philospohers) is that they generally think and then come up with something unproveable and useless and designate it "truth". Science at least attempts to get rid of such nonsense. (It may be an
For interesting ideas as to what
True, if nothing else it would make a great entertainment centre. With that processor it could play DivX as well.
Naturally it would take some hacking first, so at least I would wait until the price dropped a bit before getting one.
The Jargonfile, under "trivia", "anecdotes" or something like that.
In the story it is assumed that the reason for this beaviour was different ground levels on the chassi and the mainbord.
First of all, Peter Molynoux (I bet he's furious by now that no one can spell his last name right. ;-) created them both. I recon you still can copy an old concept though. But although part of the idea is the same, "You are a God." a lot of new stuff has entered the game which makes it interesting.
;-)
First of all you have this creature. Think of it as a Tamagotchi which can interact with it's enviroment and actually learn. (Not only grow fat and die, it can grow fat, it can't really die though.)
Second you have the people, in B&W you can interact with the people in a way which wasn't possible in any of the Populous games. You can pick them up and put them down to give them some "divine inspiration" or you can hurl them across the land. (Be careful though, your creature has a nasty habit of picking up on what you do and tend to imitate.
And the graphics, yummm, they really did manage to create one of the best looking 3D engines to date. On the topic of FPS btw, my P3-550, 256Mb and Matroc G400Max shugs along at 25 FPS at high detail. I don't know if people with 1GHz computers are having problems with drivers or what, but I don't have any probems.)
And then there's a lot of small things. Like how your creature can learn to dance, it's really a game you should try!
No, 802.11B is also an ethernet variant. It is _not_ the same thing as BT. (Yeah, I realise that the CNN page say so, but if the PR department on Microsoft can't get it right then why should CNN?)
What you are looking for is 802.15. That is a "Personal Area Network" thingy by IEEE.
Remember, BT is not aimed at wireless connections it is aimed at "wireless wires" so to speak. The wires that hook your mouse and keyboard to your 'puter. Or the IR link from a remote to a VCR. (Well, the latter is mostly overkill, but the principle is the same.)
If you read his post instead of grepping for Microsoft and asuming it was derogatory you migth have seen that he wasn't really complaining about MS but about NASA using it to post a press realease on the net.
.DOC file. (No, there we not even any images in the file, only text.)
Any reason they couldn't do it in HTML? Or PS/PDF? Any reason at all to make me download the file and then open it in another program?
It reminds me of when I got a mail with no text, but an attached
DOC files have their place, the net isn't it. (For gods sake, Word even saves files into a very mangled HTML version, why not use it?)
Bluetooth is NOT for LAN's. I seriously doubt that you will ever see networkcards and monitorcables replaced by it. It simply doesn't have the capacity.
I used to believe that Hollywood could produce good action, then I saw some Hong Kong flicks.
Seriously, if you want good fighting movies check out some Jackie Chan. Off the top of my head I'd recommend Drunken Master (1 and 2), Who Am I, Rumble in the Bronx, Police Story (1-4, 2 being my favourite.) Take a peek at IMDB as well, most of them have different titles in the US/Europa/Asia.
I actually prefer his movies to Bruce Lee's. BL's movies are too much like Segals. Bruce walks around, someone gets beaten, Bruce kicks the bad guys asses. Jackie OTOH use a combination of flashy moves, martial arts and really stupid stunts. (The failed stunts are traditionally shown at the end of the movie, only those parts are generally worth the watch.)
If you just want action look for John Woo (director) and Chow Yun Fat(actor). Hard Boiled is the movie to see with them.
Unfortunately you will not appreciate any Segal/Van Damme movies afterwards. (But that's pretty much a 'good thing' anyways.)
You might be able to find some info on the Bluetooth on Linux homepage pages from Axis.
A well encoded DivX is pretty much the same quality image wise as a MPEG2. True, some parts, such as darkness, does tend to suffer. But it's miles ahead of other formats like VCD.
Furthermore I don't think all that many people, even "l337 h4x0rs" would be willing to trade 600-1200 Mb files for 5Gb+ files.
I generally don't have any real problems communicating with friends using other ISP's over the Internet.
Furthermore I'm connected to said ISP with this marvellous little thingy called "RJ-45". Oh my, what will they think of next?
All saracsm aside, the "problems" has already been solved.
Well, I'm sorry to say this but so far what I've seen of Bluetooth hasn't impressed me much. Most of the tech-magazines here in Sweden are very happy about it (Since Ericsson is a Swedish company I guess.) but I have yet to see something workable.
The current versions for phones are not even capable to work without Line of Sight. If they require LOS then why not use IR instead? The more powerful versions will be able to penetrate clothing and such, but since they will draw more juice then will probably not be the ones used in the first products.
Furthermore it seems like Bluetooth has been stricken by a severe case of "design by committee". That is, it lost track of the technical applications and instead it's become a part for marketing.
And I can not understand why so many want Bluetooth as a NIC in a computer. If you want wireless LAN there are already a bunch of products based on IEEE802.11x on the market NOW! Why wait for Bluetooth? Sure, it's supposed to have really low power consumtion, but does it matter in a laptop with an LCD, harddrive and CD-Rom?
Finally, Bluetooth is a NETWORK layer. It's not a "end of all protocols magic wand" that some people seem to think. It will NOT make your homestereo talk with Mr Coffee. It will NOT allow you to program your VCR through the computer (or palmtop). It's just a stupid (in a protocolly-challenged way) network for crying out loud!
What you WANT is something like Jini from SUN. But a version that is actually available on the market. And need I say this an OPEN standard. Sony has already developed near magical things for their home entertainment systems, like S-Link and newer versions of it. But unless you are a member of the "Happy Sony Family" and only have their products on the shelf then it won't do diddly/squat. Why not let the customers use the API to create their own shortcuts in the home?
Well, you can check the small slide show presentation at dsniff for starters. It was mentioned (along with a bunch of others) not too long ago in the "WEP Isn't Secure" thingy here on Slashdot a week or so ago...
Assembler really is good to know for some knowledge about what the computer can do. (Or rather how.)
Personally I've only done some rather brief studies of assembler, but I did that on MIPS and I think that was a good idea. It's properly constructed and not patched together like x86. My point being that most normal persons will get more benefit out of studying a sane architecture than jumping on x86 at once.
And while you're at studying assebler why not look at the actual internals as well? Patterson & Hennessy's Computer Architecture (Review at ArsTechnica.) books.
Personally I prefer Robert Jordan to Eddings. Both write in the same "fantasy/soap opera" style. Edding is the worst though, the logical errors in his books (The Belgariad and the Mallorion(sp?) are the only ones I've read.) are large enough to fly a gigant eagle through.
Jordan is a bit better, the characters are bitchy and should be slapped. But the world is more complete.
But for the good stuff jump directly to Tad Williams or Robin Hobbs. (To mention two.)
That's what MojoNation does. Check it out, it's pretty neat. Unfortunately it's still in the alpha stadium like Freenet. But it might be that something neat comes out of it later on.
Mojo Nation does have a broker system, but those are also distributed. A rather neat idea actually. You have a file sharing system, a broker system and an indexer, and they are all distributed.
My personal experiences with MN are rather poor unfortunately, I did run a node for a few weeks, but I felt that it didn't result in anything. And uploading a file didn't work for me. It always got stuck somewhere. And the GUI (web based) isn't the best. A lack of feedback to the user.
Those are all nitpicks however, and I do hope that something like Mojo Nation, Newtella, Freenet what not can be spawned from the smoldering remains of Napster.
One of the most frequent things I've noticed is that Windows has a thing about not installing networkcards right.
I have on several occations had the standard install put networkcards on IRQ 3, which is supposed to be reserved for COM2. This can cause no end of problems if you attempt to use the card and modem at the same time.
And the worst part is that Windows doesn't recognice it as an error. Even if you study the System menu it claims that "all is just fine". You have to go and edit the actual values by hand to make it work.
I store a lot of data cd's this way. They are really great!
I know that, for instance, Case Logic manufactures versions that have a slot for the booklet as well. (Though those are generally only for 100 CD's.)
Or you could just do what I've done with my music CD's. Put them in a jukebox type CD player.