I think the barrier for the average joe is going to be getting their TV-input cards setup correctly. By the amount of comments here of people who "just couldn't get it working", I'd say I'm right.
I see that SnapStream sells TV-input stuff bundled with their software, but a $160 usb TV-tuner is steep, most people are gonna be using cheapola cards. Requiring a hardware based video compressor would also make sense, not being able to play Doom III because your wife's soap is getting recorded sucks.
Elgato only bundles it's EyeTV(Mac only) software with their hardware. I think EyeTV is better targeted at what an average user can handle and use.
While I'm happy the US courts were sane, Microsoft has already stopped all plugin support except for ActiveX crap. I'm sure it was because ActiveX is sooooooo secure, you can even write a virus scanner that runs in your browser, sheesh.
"Surfing the web with IE is like screwing without a condom" -somebody
Because IBM has the same 45 days to produce this as SCO does to produce its evidence of infringement.
It doesn't say that exactly, the 45 day deadline is for IBM turning over their source and for SCO to fully comply with the Dec 12th court order.
As I understand it, this doesn't end the discovery phase, so they could still amend the lines of infringing code. The trial is going to be dragged out for quite awhile yet. This is just one step, remember SCO has already complied fully with the Dec 12th order once.
Parent: they(SCO) aren't getting them(IBM's Files) until after they provide the list of all the allegedly offending lines of code in Linux.
I don't see where the judge forbids SCO from doing anything after they get IBM's AIX/Dynix code except use irrelevent parts of it at trial(and mentions that the Supreme Court has interpeted the rules governing that broadly).
IBM is the one with the deadline here, It looks like SCO will have it's time-limit set to document exactly the path the infringing code took sometime after IBM hands over these 232 releases.
These things are going to eat several times more power than a Bluetooth radio. The article says: "The power target for WUSB radio will be introduced at less than 300 mW and drive to a target of 100 mW over time."
These things are going to eat several times more power than a Bluetooth radio. The article says:
"The power target for WUSB radio will be introduced at less than 300 mW and drive to a target of 100 mW over time."
These things are going to eat several times more power than a Bluetooth radio. The article says:
"The power target for WUSB radio will be introduced at less than 300 mW and drive to a target of 100 mW over time."
That's the same as lower power 802.11 cards
Bluetooth chips generally eat less than 40mW, some as little
as 20mW, you wouldn't want to put WUSB in a cell-phone.
Most of the targeted devices are already network capable (I.E. Printers, Scanners, Internet connections), actually usually having them on a network for sharing is perferred. Also, 802.11g's 54Mbs is nothing to sneeze at, and this is likely to keep on increasing.
These things are going to eat several times more power than a Bluetooth radio. The article says: "The power target for WUSB radio will be introduced at less than 300 mW and drive to a target of 100 mW over time."
That's the same as lower power 802.11 cards
Bluetooth chips generally eat less than 40mW, some as little as 20mW, you wouldn't want to put WUSB in a cell-phone.
Intel actually blew it big with their HomeRF wireless crap and are now selling 802.11 routers.
It took Microsoft years to get good USB support in Windows even with Intel pushing it (Win95 and Win98 support was awful, they finally got decent support in Win98SE). Mac's Bluetooth support is pretty damn good, and Longhorn should fix issues with Windows BlueTooth (I'm primarily a Mac user anymore, but a lot of people seem to have odd problems)
BlueTooth has proven to be pretty secure as a wireless standard, which is one thing it's going to be hard to convince customers and manufacturers about with wireless USB. Security was a big part of the slowness of Bluetooth's adoption.
The slide-show says MacOSX which sounds more likely, They could even mean just Darwin(The command-line totally open source part of MacOSX). I imagine that the press people meant GNU software. The slide-show also says that they are using IBM's compiler that was just released for MacOSX.
http://don.cc.vt.edu/tcfslides.pdf page 13 of the slide has the interesting stuff.
On a side note, without ECC Ram this thing can not be trusted to give the right answer all the time, I wonder what the researchers will do about that.
actually this won't let you elevate your privleges, it will let you start bash or anything else as root if you can get this to execute from a buffer overflow from a program that ALREADY is running as root.
The easiest way to get bash/tcsh running as root is to type "sudo su root" and then type your password, then if you want to change roots password you can type "passwd" and viola. This also works on other UNIXs that let you use sudo to execute anything.
I think the article has it wrong, Apple is not against alternative OSs, only their own OS9. You can buy any current mac(even ones that can't boot OS9) with linux from Yellow Dog who is an offical Apple distributor.
I think they mainly want to kill OS9 so they don't have to develope 2 drivers for all their new equipment and to get mac developers making stuff for their new OS.
I pretty certain every piece of hardware on Apple's laptops are supported(802.11, modem, firewire, USB), with the exception of NVIDIA 3D cards, but ATI cards are fine and Apple generally uses ATI cards in their laptops.
GO ATI for releasing specs! I'm not buying another NVIDIA card until they either release specs for their chips or release a true open source driver(the current NVIDIA driver is a basically a binary that has source for the hooks to the kernel)
On my iPod I can get above 10 hours if I don't skip around a lot(around 7-8 if I'm skipping a lot of songs). I wonder what the real world life of this new one will be. The drawbacks of the new one I see are: 1. almost half the battery of the old one (can you really get 8 hours?) 2. No data ports, the old one has a real 6-pin firewire port on it, the new one has the docking port(although the poorly regulated firewire voltage on some machines makes this make sense, however caring that dock would suck!) 3. smaller size, really not a biggy, they are both DAMN small!
I'm definately not sorry I got my 10gig for $400, the extra battery is REALLY nice
assuming they can focus the beam perfectly, aim it correctly over that distance, AND make sure it doesn't hit anyone. What happens when something deflects the beam(air currents, percipitation, and what not)? I think microwave radiation is pretty safe cancer wise, but I wouldn't want to get hit by even a fraction of this beam. At best I see the power having to be shut off and the beam recalibrated regularly.
As far as using it just to play music 5 gigs would be enough(I use mine for other stuff so 5 gigs would be weak), but do I get to keep my 10hour battery? I am an 10gig iPod owner and the battery is the MOST important feature to me!!!
I don't think your right, somehow on certain browsers they made the "Google Search" button default, but on other browsers the "I'm feeling lucky button is default. The "I'm feeling lucky takes you directly to the first result.
I tried searching for xes and sex and it worked exactly the same as google, well not the same, but exactly opposite.
I've had data corruption issues when I try to store anything in the extra video memory. Of coarse when I was playing with this idea I had a Tandy 100 XL with 640K of RAM I think I had 40K of video RAM, so at 320X480X2bit I could grab an extra 20K of RAM(if it had worked). I'm guessing that I needed to ask for that RAM from the video card for off screen drawing somehow, I never really tried that hard to figure it out.
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Apple hasn't/isn't going to release their GUI code. Darwin is free/OpenSource and doesn't include a GUI (you can get Xfree86 running). OSX isn't free at all. Darwin is basically just the kernel(BSD) of OSX with the GNU tools thrown in.
I have an old PowerMac upgraded to a G3 300 512k cache on a 50Mhz bus and 96 Megs of Ram it only takes me seconds to load 150+ comment pages on Slashdot? I use IE 5.0 over Opera and iCab and all because it supports drag and drop so damn well and renders pages better than either. (My local newspaper www.timesfreepress.com will now load it's sidebar correctly in Opera or iCab, it works fine in Mozzila and Netscape, but at 96Megs of Ram...)
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http://www.elgato.com/products/eyetv400.html
I see that SnapStream sells TV-input stuff bundled with their software, but a $160 usb TV-tuner is steep, most people are gonna be using cheapola cards. Requiring a hardware based video compressor would also make sense, not being able to play Doom III because your wife's soap is getting recorded sucks.
Elgato only bundles it's EyeTV(Mac only) software with their hardware. I think EyeTV is better targeted at what an average user can handle and use.
I am a MythTV user
While I'm happy the US courts were sane, Microsoft has already stopped all plugin support except for ActiveX crap. I'm sure it was because ActiveX is sooooooo secure, you can even write a virus scanner that runs in your browser, sheesh.
"Surfing the web with IE is like screwing without a condom" -somebody
It doesn't say that exactly, the 45 day deadline is for IBM turning over their source and for SCO to fully comply with the Dec 12th court order.
As I understand it, this doesn't end the discovery phase, so they could still amend the lines of infringing code. The trial is going to be dragged out for quite awhile yet. This is just one step, remember SCO has already complied fully with the Dec 12th order once.
they(SCO) aren't getting them(IBM's Files) until after they provide the list of all the allegedly offending lines of code in Linux.
I don't see where the judge forbids SCO from doing anything after they get IBM's AIX/Dynix code except use irrelevent parts of it at trial(and mentions that the Supreme Court has interpeted the rules governing that broadly).
IBM is the one with the deadline here, It looks like SCO will have it's time-limit set to document exactly the path the infringing code took sometime after IBM hands over these 232 releases.
There is still the DirectX API and all... but with PPC Wine working or just even winelib that may not be a big problem after all.
I wonder if Transgaming will be getting even more OSX game porting business.
"The power target for WUSB radio will be introduced at less than 300 mW and drive to a target of 100 mW over time."
That's the same as lower power 802.11 cards
Bluetooth chips generally eat less than 40mW, some as little
as 20mW. I wouldn't put WUSB in a cell-phone, or my keyboard.
That's the same as lower power 802.11 cards
Bluetooth chips generally eat less than 40mW, some as little as 20mW. I wouldn't put WUSB in a cell-phone.
That's the same as lower power 802.11 cards
Bluetooth chips generally eat less than 40mW, some as little as 20mW, you wouldn't want to put WUSB in a cell-phone.
Most of the targeted devices are already network capable (I.E. Printers, Scanners, Internet connections), actually usually having them on a network for sharing is perferred. Also, 802.11g's 54Mbs is nothing to sneeze at, and this is likely to keep on increasing.
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These things are going to eat several times more power than a Bluetooth radio. The article says:
"The power target for WUSB radio will be introduced at less than 300 mW and drive to a target of 100 mW over time."
That's the same as lower power 802.11 cards
Bluetooth chips generally eat less than 40mW, some as little as 20mW, you wouldn't want to put WUSB in a cell-phone.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m3161/1_48/591
Bus speed may be king, but that's irrelavant if you can't get your OS to run.
Intel actually blew it big with their HomeRF wireless crap and are now selling 802.11 routers.
It took Microsoft years to get good USB support in Windows even with Intel pushing it (Win95 and Win98 support was awful, they finally got decent support in Win98SE). Mac's Bluetooth support is pretty damn good, and Longhorn should fix issues with Windows BlueTooth (I'm primarily a Mac user anymore, but a lot of people seem to have odd problems)
BlueTooth has proven to be pretty secure as a wireless standard, which is one thing it's going to be hard to convince customers and manufacturers about with wireless USB. Security was a big part of the slowness of Bluetooth's adoption.
The slide-show says MacOSX which sounds more likely, They could even mean just Darwin(The command-line totally open source part of MacOSX). I imagine that the press people meant GNU software. The slide-show also says that they are using IBM's compiler that was just released for MacOSX.
http://don.cc.vt.edu/tcfslides.pdf
page 13 of the slide has the interesting stuff.
On a side note, without ECC Ram this thing can not be trusted to give the right answer all the time, I wonder what the researchers will do about that.
actually this won't let you elevate your privleges, it will let you start bash or anything else as root if you can get this to execute from a buffer overflow from a program that ALREADY is running as root.
The easiest way to get bash/tcsh running as root is to type "sudo su root" and then type your password, then if you want to change roots password you can type "passwd" and viola. This also works on other UNIXs that let you use sudo to execute anything.
I think they mainly want to kill OS9 so they don't have to develope 2 drivers for all their new equipment and to get mac developers making stuff for their new OS.
I pretty certain every piece of hardware on Apple's laptops are supported(802.11, modem, firewire, USB), with the exception of NVIDIA 3D cards, but ATI cards are fine and Apple generally uses ATI cards in their laptops.
GO ATI for releasing specs! I'm not buying another NVIDIA card until they either release specs for their chips or release a true open source driver(the current NVIDIA driver is a basically a binary that has source for the hooks to the kernel)
I can't get to the PDF
On my iPod I can get above 10 hours if I don't skip around a lot(around 7-8 if I'm skipping a lot of songs). I wonder what the real world life of this new one will be. The drawbacks of the new one I see are:
1. almost half the battery of the old one (can you really get 8 hours?)
2. No data ports, the old one has a real 6-pin firewire port on it, the new one has the docking port(although the poorly regulated firewire voltage on some machines makes this make sense, however caring that dock would suck!)
3. smaller size, really not a biggy, they are both DAMN small!
I'm definately not sorry I got my 10gig for $400, the extra battery is REALLY nice
assuming they can focus the beam perfectly, aim it correctly over that distance, AND make sure it doesn't hit anyone. What happens when something deflects the beam(air currents, percipitation, and what not)? I think microwave radiation is pretty safe cancer wise, but I wouldn't want to get hit by even a fraction of this beam. At best I see the power having to be shut off and the beam recalibrated regularly.
As far as using it just to play music 5 gigs would be enough(I use mine for other stuff so 5 gigs would be weak), but do I get to keep my 10hour battery? I am an 10gig iPod owner and the battery is the MOST important feature to me!!!
I don't think your right, somehow on certain browsers they made the "Google Search" button default, but on other browsers the "I'm feeling lucky button is default. The "I'm feeling lucky takes you directly to the first result.
I tried searching for xes and sex and it worked exactly the same as google, well not the same, but exactly opposite.
no MOL only runs on PPC hardware running linux, it doesn't need any ROMs to run. So you can run it on that million dollar IBM RS/6000.
I've had data corruption issues when I try to store anything in the extra video memory. Of coarse when I was playing with this idea I had a Tandy 100 XL with 640K of RAM I think I had 40K of video RAM, so at 320X480X2bit I could grab an extra 20K of RAM(if it had worked). I'm guessing that I needed to ask for that RAM from the video card for off screen drawing somehow, I never really tried that hard to figure it out.
Apple hasn't/isn't going to release their GUI code. Darwin is free/OpenSource and doesn't include a GUI (you can get Xfree86 running). OSX isn't free at all. Darwin is basically just the kernel(BSD) of OSX with the GNU tools thrown in.
I have an old PowerMac upgraded to a G3 300 512k cache on a 50Mhz bus and 96 Megs of Ram it only takes me seconds to load 150+ comment pages on Slashdot? I use IE 5.0 over Opera and iCab and all because it supports drag and drop so damn well and renders pages better than either. (My local newspaper www.timesfreepress.com will now load it's sidebar correctly in Opera or iCab, it works fine in Mozzila and Netscape, but at 96Megs of Ram...)
VP3 solves the problem. I would love to see VP3 in a TIVO, Open-Source (although definately bot free).