I'm sure there is at least a one year supply of old CRTs getting recycled out as people replace them with LCDs. I don't think you need worry about not being able to find any before the LCD displays that support your needs come out.
And if you need really high-quality CRT displays, those are still going to be around because graphic people need them. I know you can still order them from Viewsonic.
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How is this that much different from a chase scene which have been in movies since before video games? Instead of your BWMs, you're getting shot at and shooting back at the other guys, and have to dodge random cars or buildings or people.
Single-handed combat against a bunch of people followed by escape or whatever has been around since the first James Bond movies. Or, go to Asia and look at all those "Kung Fu" movies (not all of them are bad).
InformationWeek's most recent issue has the Google CEO on the cover holding a "search appliance" type box. Maybe not an official announcement, but seems there is a new product in there somewhere.
Maybe I didn't read the paper closely enough (I do have work to do) but it seems that this does a few things:
1. Instead of showing a little lock icon when you connected securely and the certificate was OK, it displays an abstract pattern across your entire browser window.
How does this prevent phishing attacks? If a user goes to URL www.criminals.com and the certificate is for www.criminals.com, then you'll get the OK image. All that crminials.com has to do is figure out a way to get that certificate signed by a valid registration company, which I don't think is too difficult depending on where you try to register the address and how you want to send the money.
2. To make sure any authentication windows that pop-up (think HTTPAuth) are real windows and not pop-ups, an image is displayed in that window as well. Instead of having to notice that there is no window bar around it, and it is instead a modal dialog, you can notice the image. Additionally, the input fields are semi-transparent to avoid fake input fields from being placed over it.
Again, I don't see how this prevent phishing attacks, since you could ask for the user to login using HTTPAuth and get their information that way. And newer OSes support transparency (Mac OS X, I think Longhorn promises this) so overlaid input fields could easily bypass the semi-transparent security belief.
3. One good idea is having movable windows because that makes it harder to overlay fake things.
But how many people move their window before making use of it?
I should take more time to read the paper, but can't right now.
I'm not that old. The word 'piracy' does not conjure up images in my brain of barbarians raping and murdering without remorse. It does conjure up people using Kazaa or eDonkey. Not Napster anymore, as that ended a long time ago in Internet-years.
This approach only seems to work for legitimate companies (or those that care about repeat customers). I don't see that strange web site selling V1aG4r@ participating in this system. I also don't see the Nigerian scammers participating. Or the phishers. I already don't get spam from L.L. Bean or Citibank. Has this professor even looked at who is sending spam to him?
And how do you handle international transactions?
I think I'd need to be able to specify a lower or higher cost to specific individuals as well. I don't want to have to "purchase" a bond to send email to my friend or family.
And if I don't have to, what's to stop a spammer from sending mail as if from me. I already get bounce-backs for spam I never sent.
Or even if I do have to, a spammer might infect a box and send it out as me legitimately. Again, said economics professor needs to do his research.
Or even worse, let's say this is automated to some degree. Which it will have to be for mailing systems to work instead of having a monkey click the button for every email. Spammers infect boxes for a million people and send spam to themselves. Then they reject it and collect a couple of cents per person.
Apparently it is OK to record TV as long as your aren't sharing it.
Duh? Television shows are still copyrighted material. Distribution is not your right after recording it. Fair use only applies to personal use of the recorded show.
Part of this is because the writers at Ars Technica are so smart. Ph.D.-smart people who do their researchy stuff in the areas they write about. And they know how to write technical papers at the right level for the common gearhead.
If you love their articles, get a paid subscription.
You're new here, aren't you. (Yet with a relatively low user id...)
I remember a quote from one of the people who visited one of those trade shows. He was asking about DVD media servers. Lots of people are making music media servers, but there really aren't any for movies. And the answer was because of the stupid legal ramifications and copy protection requirements. There's a reason HDCP was invented, and it's not because customers would benefit from it.
And when we know how many hit points the caster has, then we'll know if Gordon Freeman can save us or not. As he's the only one qualified to shoot up a research facility.
Forever Peace: "the high-profile Jupiter Project is about to re-create the Big Bang". The Jupiter Project referred to a super collider of immense size.
The kicking feet might damage the projector under the table. Like when someone decides to die a dramatic death and act it out because they are being "in-character". Or all the boys are playing footsie with the one girl they managed to con into playing with them. Or the fans in the projector get gunked up with all the Cheetos that fall on the floor.
TiVo may have been negotiating from a point of strength, not weakness. As evidenced by the number of Comcast customers that were willing to pay TiVo $50 + subscription fees a while back by standing in a line for hours to get a $50 discount on boxes at TiVo headquarters. TiVo made a point of advertising directly to Comcast customers frustrated with Comcast's horrible PVR system.
I would think after this, it would be clear to Comcast that their customers would rather give all their money to TiVo, and Comcast would be better off taking a smaller profit per customer than no profit at all.
Seeing as how I started using Macs around System 7, trashed Windows 3.11 because it would eat up too much of the 640K I needed, and never used Windows 9x for any work (only games): yeah, I use the Mac key combinations as they are implemented. It's Windows key combinations that will annoy me.
(I especially do not like how the cursor moves in documents when scrolling using the keyboard.)
There are a few different issues with DLP. One is the rainbow effect that Jeff talks about. There is also the color wheel issue. Some newer DLPs have more colors on their color wheel (7 or 8 instead of 6) designed to lessen the rainbow effect.
The military did a study of how far you had to go to get rid of the rainbow effect completely, it the rotation speed is like an order of magnitude higher than current DLP sets run at right now. I forget the exact number though, so Google might help.
In contrast, LCDs have the screen-door effect and are usually cheaper. DLPs tend to give you better black levels (look at the screen when it is turned on without a signal to see your black level).
When I graduated high school, they asked me if I got into a college somewhere. And then they put that into a book or something. Maybe the yearbook. Don't remember.
If you're already tracking high schools for this program, and I assume they're asking how many of a school's students graduated and how many didn't, why not just ask them the number that got into college and the number that didn't? They could even ask which colleges to figure out more stuff.
I don't see much of a problem providing demographic information to help provide analysis on this. But I don't really see the need to track a child's educational progress so tightly. If a specific child is not sent to college, is the government going to do something for that child?
I used to do contract work during school. I used to hear that your hourly rate during contract work should be at least twice as much as your salaried rate. I was pulling in about $80k/yr. at my rates if I was working full-time. I wasn't working full-time because of school, and I was getting health insurance through school and also a stipend.
Well, then I got a job. My salaried rate now is now about equal to that $80k/yr. But you've got to add health insurance, the 401k, etc. So the actual costs to IBM (who I work for is no secret) is probably close to around $120k/yr. just in terms of money paid out for my benefit.
But, you're also not working 8 hours a day the entire year steady. You also have to spend time on administrative things, like health insurance, retirement funds, equipment, finding new clients, etc. There's downtime. So you're really only working maybe 75% of the time for an actual client. You've gotta pull in as much in 6 hours as someone else in 8 hours. You need to pay yourself for the stuff that the company pays other people for.
Final result? Quadruple your salaried hourly rate. That covers all the extra benefits and the time you have to spend yourself on all the administrative things the company would normally take care of. Whether or not you can pull off that rate when you ask for it is another thing all together.:P
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Maybe not all of the songs he has were downloaded. Maybe he actually owns some CDs he bought from the store? I doubt he started listening to music 10 months ago. Probably started sometime in the first several years of his life.
Your logic seems based on the assumption that everyone in China and India are in IT or programmers. (Maybe you meant IT/developer population, and not general population.)
I'm sure if you tried hard enough, you could train 20 Canadians for your project; although I really don't know what math you are using that tells you a project of X man-hours needs 20 Indians but only 4 Canadians.
MBNA America allows you to generate a one-time use credit card number for a purchase. That way, even if the number is stolen, it can't be reused. I assume they have some sort of rotating pool with time windows on them.
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I'm sure there is at least a one year supply of old CRTs getting recycled out as people replace them with LCDs. I don't think you need worry about not being able to find any before the LCD displays that support your needs come out.
And if you need really high-quality CRT displays, those are still going to be around because graphic people need them. I know you can still order them from Viewsonic.
How is this that much different from a chase scene which have been in movies since before video games? Instead of your BWMs, you're getting shot at and shooting back at the other guys, and have to dodge random cars or buildings or people.
Single-handed combat against a bunch of people followed by escape or whatever has been around since the first James Bond movies. Or, go to Asia and look at all those "Kung Fu" movies (not all of them are bad).
This isn't anything new.
InformationWeek's most recent issue has the Google CEO on the cover holding a "search appliance" type box. Maybe not an official announcement, but seems there is a new product in there somewhere.
Maybe I didn't read the paper closely enough (I do have work to do) but it seems that this does a few things:
1. Instead of showing a little lock icon when you connected securely and the certificate was OK, it displays an abstract pattern across your entire browser window.
How does this prevent phishing attacks? If a user goes to URL www.criminals.com and the certificate is for www.criminals.com, then you'll get the OK image. All that crminials.com has to do is figure out a way to get that certificate signed by a valid registration company, which I don't think is too difficult depending on where you try to register the address and how you want to send the money.
2. To make sure any authentication windows that pop-up (think HTTPAuth) are real windows and not pop-ups, an image is displayed in that window as well. Instead of having to notice that there is no window bar around it, and it is instead a modal dialog, you can notice the image. Additionally, the input fields are semi-transparent to avoid fake input fields from being placed over it.
Again, I don't see how this prevent phishing attacks, since you could ask for the user to login using HTTPAuth and get their information that way. And newer OSes support transparency (Mac OS X, I think Longhorn promises this) so overlaid input fields could easily bypass the semi-transparent security belief.
3. One good idea is having movable windows because that makes it harder to overlay fake things.
But how many people move their window before making use of it?
I should take more time to read the paper, but can't right now.
I'm not that old. The word 'piracy' does not conjure up images in my brain of barbarians raping and murdering without remorse. It does conjure up people using Kazaa or eDonkey. Not Napster anymore, as that ended a long time ago in Internet-years.
This approach only seems to work for legitimate companies (or those that care about repeat customers). I don't see that strange web site selling V1aG4r@ participating in this system. I also don't see the Nigerian scammers participating. Or the phishers. I already don't get spam from L.L. Bean or Citibank. Has this professor even looked at who is sending spam to him?
And how do you handle international transactions?
I think I'd need to be able to specify a lower or higher cost to specific individuals as well. I don't want to have to "purchase" a bond to send email to my friend or family.
And if I don't have to, what's to stop a spammer from sending mail as if from me. I already get bounce-backs for spam I never sent.
Or even if I do have to, a spammer might infect a box and send it out as me legitimately. Again, said economics professor needs to do his research.
Or even worse, let's say this is automated to some degree. Which it will have to be for mailing systems to work instead of having a monkey click the button for every email. Spammers infect boxes for a million people and send spam to themselves. Then they reject it and collect a couple of cents per person.
Apparently it is OK to record TV as long as your aren't sharing it.
Duh? Television shows are still copyrighted material. Distribution is not your right after recording it. Fair use only applies to personal use of the recorded show.
Have you tried Konfabulator also? It's a non-free alternative to Dashboard, but you might be interested in some of its features over Dashboard.
Part of this is because the writers at Ars Technica are so smart. Ph.D.-smart people who do their researchy stuff in the areas they write about. And they know how to write technical papers at the right level for the common gearhead.
If you love their articles, get a paid subscription.
You're new here, aren't you. (Yet with a relatively low user id...)
I remember a quote from one of the people who visited one of those trade shows. He was asking about DVD media servers. Lots of people are making music media servers, but there really aren't any for movies. And the answer was because of the stupid legal ramifications and copy protection requirements. There's a reason HDCP was invented, and it's not because customers would benefit from it.
And when we know how many hit points the caster has, then we'll know if Gordon Freeman can save us or not. As he's the only one qualified to shoot up a research facility.
Forever Peace: "the high-profile Jupiter Project is about to re-create the Big Bang". The Jupiter Project referred to a super collider of immense size.
Coincidence? I think not!
The kicking feet might damage the projector under the table. Like when someone decides to die a dramatic death and act it out because they are being "in-character". Or all the boys are playing footsie with the one girl they managed to con into playing with them. Or the fans in the projector get gunked up with all the Cheetos that fall on the floor.
TiVo may have been negotiating from a point of strength, not weakness. As evidenced by the number of Comcast customers that were willing to pay TiVo $50 + subscription fees a while back by standing in a line for hours to get a $50 discount on boxes at TiVo headquarters. TiVo made a point of advertising directly to Comcast customers frustrated with Comcast's horrible PVR system.
I would think after this, it would be clear to Comcast that their customers would rather give all their money to TiVo, and Comcast would be better off taking a smaller profit per customer than no profit at all.
Seeing as how I started using Macs around System 7, trashed Windows 3.11 because it would eat up too much of the 640K I needed, and never used Windows 9x for any work (only games): yeah, I use the Mac key combinations as they are implemented. It's Windows key combinations that will annoy me.
(I especially do not like how the cursor moves in documents when scrolling using the keyboard.)
Apple's iChat does 4-way video conferencing. Maybe that's all you need?
There are a few different issues with DLP. One is the rainbow effect that Jeff talks about. There is also the color wheel issue. Some newer DLPs have more colors on their color wheel (7 or 8 instead of 6) designed to lessen the rainbow effect.
The military did a study of how far you had to go to get rid of the rainbow effect completely, it the rotation speed is like an order of magnitude higher than current DLP sets run at right now. I forget the exact number though, so Google might help.
In contrast, LCDs have the screen-door effect and are usually cheaper. DLPs tend to give you better black levels (look at the screen when it is turned on without a signal to see your black level).
The US$160 million doesn't seem like so much coming right on the heels of the ProMOS settlement.
When I graduated high school, they asked me if I got into a college somewhere. And then they put that into a book or something. Maybe the yearbook. Don't remember.
If you're already tracking high schools for this program, and I assume they're asking how many of a school's students graduated and how many didn't, why not just ask them the number that got into college and the number that didn't? They could even ask which colleges to figure out more stuff.
I don't see much of a problem providing demographic information to help provide analysis on this. But I don't really see the need to track a child's educational progress so tightly. If a specific child is not sent to college, is the government going to do something for that child?
If you read further, you would see that they declare this approach not acceptable for that very reason.
I used to do contract work during school. I used to hear that your hourly rate during contract work should be at least twice as much as your salaried rate. I was pulling in about $80k/yr. at my rates if I was working full-time. I wasn't working full-time because of school, and I was getting health insurance through school and also a stipend.
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Well, then I got a job. My salaried rate now is now about equal to that $80k/yr. But you've got to add health insurance, the 401k, etc. So the actual costs to IBM (who I work for is no secret) is probably close to around $120k/yr. just in terms of money paid out for my benefit.
But, you're also not working 8 hours a day the entire year steady. You also have to spend time on administrative things, like health insurance, retirement funds, equipment, finding new clients, etc. There's downtime. So you're really only working maybe 75% of the time for an actual client. You've gotta pull in as much in 6 hours as someone else in 8 hours. You need to pay yourself for the stuff that the company pays other people for.
Final result? Quadruple your salaried hourly rate. That covers all the extra benefits and the time you have to spend yourself on all the administrative things the company would normally take care of. Whether or not you can pull off that rate when you ask for it is another thing all together.
Maybe not all of the songs he has were downloaded. Maybe he actually owns some CDs he bought from the store? I doubt he started listening to music 10 months ago. Probably started sometime in the first several years of his life.
Your logic seems based on the assumption that everyone in China and India are in IT or programmers. (Maybe you meant IT/developer population, and not general population.)
I'm sure if you tried hard enough, you could train 20 Canadians for your project; although I really don't know what math you are using that tells you a project of X man-hours needs 20 Indians but only 4 Canadians.
MBNA America allows you to generate a one-time use credit card number for a purchase. That way, even if the number is stolen, it can't be reused. I assume they have some sort of rotating pool with time windows on them.
GiTS Innocence is different than GiTS Stand Alone Complex which is different than GiTS2 MMI. I knew about SAC, but not about Innocence. News to me.