You'll have to wait until they come out with better LEDs then. Or get a camera phone w/ a real flash rather than an LED. (That might wind up costing you in battery life though.)
Neither of the phones I carry around has an embedded camera, and I've been looking for one with as decent a camera as I can find. The N95 has great quality but rattled me with sticker shock.
I want a camera phone not as a main camera but as an auxiliary I can carry around; I'm not overlooking the important features (most?) camera phones lack. Optical zoom is important; that 5 megapixel imager with a 2X digital zoom becomes the equivalent of 1.25 megapixels, and zooming further only makes it worse. Exposure settings are also important, and can make the difference between having a shot and having bupkus. But I'm not going to carry my little Casio camera everywhere I go, and having a chance at a picture is better than having no chance at all.
I would like to point out that the N95's "blue tinge" can be easily removed through post-processing.
Pick a prefix you're going to use for all the emails you're giving out; ex. d.slashdot@example.com, d.paypal@example.com, d.amazon@example.com, etc. Then filter out anything not beginning with "d." (and any particular address a spammer may have used).
This will only work against people and companies inside the United States; I predict that internet radio will still thrive, and the rest of the world will drive America's music tastes.
(1) Buy DVD, stick it in DVD player, sit down w/ wife & kids to watch the movie - no joy. (2) Swap at store, still no joy. Try to return, get hit with restocking fee - take DVD home irate. (3) Call Sony to complain, get told to update player. (4) Call player manufacturer to complain, get told "sorry, we've no idea, your player is out of warranty, go away". Now you're broiling angry. (5) Discover software that rips the CD, despite whatever security measure on it, and burns it to a DVD-R. (6) Realize you can do the same thing with DVD-R images on the net, and start downloading.
Congratulations, Sony, for having turned a customer over to the Dark Side with your wonderful customer relations program!
I don't think it's possible; I've found the sun will overpower the backlight of any notebook out there. The only solution is to throw your jacket over your head and look at the laptop like it was one of those old LF cameras.
I would definitely not try to tap into the video systems for the laptops; keep the whole machine, unhook the hinge, and get a long-enough interconnecting cable to let you flip the display and mount it face up over the keyboard. Yank the hard drives and let the machines boot off the network. Have them all running VNC so you can control them remotely. If they're old laptops you'll want a codec you can detune a bit so it plays the video you want well enough. You'll also need to adjust brightness and color temperature to make the displays more or less identical to the viewer.
The Sony Reader has the type of screen you want, which is an eInk technology. I don't know when color will be generally available, but they do have prototype color displays now.
Many companies buy back their own shares, both to boost share price and to give stockholders a return not based on dividends. I don't know if SCO has the cash to do it any more, but...
Microsoft's being rather ambitious if they're going to be manufacturing these things by the millions, considering the poor reception v.1.0 got.
My biggest gripe with the Zune is that their most touted feature, the ability to throw songs at other people. My gripe is that it wasn't implemented properly. People should be able to stream the songs as soon as they start receiving them. (And kill the receive if the song is crap.;-)
There's a great video called The Great Global Warming Swindle; in it they mention a close correlation for sunspots to global temperatures. (And an even closer correlation for cosmic radiation.)
Haven't phone companies been running phone calls over digital networks for ages? That involves switches that are able to perform the conversion, and run the lines full-duplex. The fact that there are two conversions, analogdigitalanalog, shouldn't matter patent-wise; you're actually still performing both conversions, only one's been moved to a local device.
In Robert A. Heinlein's book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", a computer is given several digital voice circuits which are connected to the telephone system.
IMO this contest is looking for a milestone in a direction we may not want to go. On the surface it may seem worthy, but new technologies may be making internal combustion engines obsolete in the next decade, and I can't really tell whether the contest rules will take these advances into account. How would one judge a vehicle powered by a hypercapacitor, or by compressed air? You're comparing apples to oranges by merely judging the equivalent energy used to power the vehicle; the ultimate cost of stored electricity may be a lot lower per joule than that in refined petroleum, or it could be higher. How does one judge the total carbon emissions for that electricity? Was it generated by a coal-burning plant, or by nuclear? Or wind, or sea?
I think this is horrible news, if only because it provides more potential sources for unauthorized personnel to access the key. DHS has no real use for the key, which has as its only purpose the prevention of man-in-the-middle attacks against legitimate websites. DHS has the power to subpoena the owners of those sites for communications details, and terrorists' communications will use other forms of secure handshaking to verify legitimacy if they don't already. The only reason DHS would need these keys is if they wanted the ability to immediately tap into communications w/ legitimate sites, without delaying for a court order or other oversight. Giving them this power would only allow them to fly further out of control.
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You'll have to wait until they come out with better LEDs then. Or get a camera phone w/ a real flash rather than an LED. (That might wind up costing you in battery life though.)
Neither of the phones I carry around has an embedded camera, and I've been looking for one with as decent a camera as I can find. The N95 has great quality but rattled me with sticker shock.
I want a camera phone not as a main camera but as an auxiliary I can carry around; I'm not overlooking the important features (most?) camera phones lack. Optical zoom is important; that 5 megapixel imager with a 2X digital zoom becomes the equivalent of 1.25 megapixels, and zooming further only makes it worse. Exposure settings are also important, and can make the difference between having a shot and having bupkus. But I'm not going to carry my little Casio camera everywhere I go, and having a chance at a picture is better than having no chance at all.
I would like to point out that the N95's "blue tinge" can be easily removed through post-processing.
e.g, please?
Pick a prefix you're going to use for all the emails you're giving out; ex. d.slashdot@example.com, d.paypal@example.com, d.amazon@example.com, etc. Then filter out anything not beginning with "d." (and any particular address a spammer may have used).
So why hasn't Vonage been able to dig up this information? They certainly had enough motivation. Is it too late to do any good?
This will only work against people and companies inside the United States; I predict that internet radio will still thrive, and the rest of the world will drive America's music tastes.
In which case the guy DEFINITELY won't be buying any more DVDs, since he won't be able to afford them.
(1) Buy DVD, stick it in DVD player, sit down w/ wife & kids to watch the movie - no joy.
(2) Swap at store, still no joy. Try to return, get hit with restocking fee - take DVD home irate.
(3) Call Sony to complain, get told to update player.
(4) Call player manufacturer to complain, get told "sorry, we've no idea, your player is out of warranty, go away". Now you're broiling angry.
(5) Discover software that rips the CD, despite whatever security measure on it, and burns it to a DVD-R.
(6) Realize you can do the same thing with DVD-R images on the net, and start downloading.
Congratulations, Sony, for having turned a customer over to the Dark Side with your wonderful customer relations program!
I don't think it's possible; I've found the sun will overpower the backlight of any notebook out there. The only solution is to throw your jacket over your head and look at the laptop like it was one of those old LF cameras.
I would definitely not try to tap into the video systems for the laptops; keep the whole machine, unhook the hinge, and get a long-enough interconnecting cable to let you flip the display and mount it face up over the keyboard. Yank the hard drives and let the machines boot off the network. Have them all running VNC so you can control them remotely. If they're old laptops you'll want a codec you can detune a bit so it plays the video you want well enough. You'll also need to adjust brightness and color temperature to make the displays more or less identical to the viewer.
The Sony Reader has the type of screen you want, which is an eInk technology. I don't know when color will be generally available, but they do have prototype color displays now.
Many companies buy back their own shares, both to boost share price and to give stockholders a return not based on dividends. I don't know if SCO has the cash to do it any more, but...
Use it to build RF-proof houses. No more problems with Wifi security!
Microsoft's being rather ambitious if they're going to be manufacturing these things by the millions, considering the poor reception v.1.0 got.
;-)
My biggest gripe with the Zune is that their most touted feature, the ability to throw songs at other people. My gripe is that it wasn't implemented properly. People should be able to stream the songs as soon as they start receiving them. (And kill the receive if the song is crap.
Sorry. Enter "1080p" in the search box on the upper left and you'll get lots of trailers.
Here they are.
Try these trailers...
There's a great video called The Great Global Warming Swindle; in it they mention a close correlation for sunspots to global temperatures. (And an even closer correlation for cosmic radiation.)
Haven't phone companies been running phone calls over digital networks for ages? That involves switches that are able to perform the conversion, and run the lines full-duplex. The fact that there are two conversions, analogdigitalanalog, shouldn't matter patent-wise; you're actually still performing both conversions, only one's been moved to a local device.
In Robert A. Heinlein's book, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", a computer is given several digital voice circuits which are connected to the telephone system.
Two questions...
(1) What was the price they obtained CDs for?
(2) Were they required by the distributors to sell at any particular price?
I wonder how this will affect Microsoft's DRM?
IMO this contest is looking for a milestone in a direction we may not want to go. On the surface it may seem worthy, but new technologies may be making internal combustion engines obsolete in the next decade, and I can't really tell whether the contest rules will take these advances into account. How would one judge a vehicle powered by a hypercapacitor, or by compressed air? You're comparing apples to oranges by merely judging the equivalent energy used to power the vehicle; the ultimate cost of stored electricity may be a lot lower per joule than that in refined petroleum, or it could be higher. How does one judge the total carbon emissions for that electricity? Was it generated by a coal-burning plant, or by nuclear? Or wind, or sea?
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I agree, and it's faster to archive and restore. You'll want to store it in a cool, dry place, in an environment that's as static-free as possible.
I think this is horrible news, if only because it provides more potential sources for unauthorized personnel to access the key. DHS has no real use for the key, which has as its only purpose the prevention of man-in-the-middle attacks against legitimate websites. DHS has the power to subpoena the owners of those sites for communications details, and terrorists' communications will use other forms of secure handshaking to verify legitimacy if they don't already. The only reason DHS would need these keys is if they wanted the ability to immediately tap into communications w/ legitimate sites, without delaying for a court order or other oversight. Giving them this power would only allow them to fly further out of control.