I don't see anything that talks about graffiti or other handwriting recognition technologies in either the zaurus or the emulator. I assume it's in the emulator at least, but such assumptions have bit me before...
3GB/month is 100MB/day, well more than reasonable usage. The only way DSL can be as cheap as it is is because it's highly shared. Some method has to be in place to keep hogs from abusing the system to the detriment of others.
Unfortunately, this is rarely practical, but I find the most useful comments are written when I'm going back through code I wrote over a week ago. The reasons for doing things are no longer on the surface, and thus if there's something I look at and have to dig for understanding, then it needs better explanation.
If we really want to win the battle, we've got to provide a solution that works for everyone: it's got to prevent napsterization (which for all the rationalizations, is clearly wrong if the artist doesn't want it copied), while still allowing people to listen/watch what they've paid for when and how they want. And there's only one way to prevent napsterization: a hardware decrypter in the video/sound card. This does not prevent an open source driver --- rather it requires encrypting content to the set of devices you own, which is primarily a key management problem. Maybe you have to register DVDs/CDs to obtain the media keys encrypted to your hardware (which wouldn't require personal information, only the public keys of your devices). This would have the side effect of letting them say "people who like x also like y", for what that's worth. We need better connectivity before this will fly, of course, and the end result needs to be simple enough for grandma to use, but it's an example of solving the problem in a way that satisfies everyone except those whose primary motive really is ripping off content or those who simply *must* say "NO! You can only watch this from 8-9 Tuesday night!". Does anyone else have another solution?
They've been saying the end of the road is 10 years out for around 20 years nows. And every few years a new discovery is made that shifts it out another 10 years. So I'll start worrying if in 2010, they're still saying the end of the road is in 2012.
Granted, James Franco (Harry in Spiderman) would have made a better Anakin with more emotional strength, but the people who think the first part is slow must've missed one of the major action scenes, and not be happy with actual story getting in the way of anything but chasing and fighting.
The CG is definitely improved, but not well matched --- it's way too bright. Though some of it was that way in Menace, it's all that way now and thus in that respect, it's actually a little worse.
We're definitely getting more linkage to the original movies, and that's a big plus as well.
a $1-a-month fee per user on Internet providers alone
As a small ISP myself, I have two words for this idea: Like Hell!. And as someone who only rips music he owns, I have the same two words for the idea that I should pay for someone else's music.
I'm sorry, but a computer that won't eject a piece of plastic the size and shape of a CD is broken by design. From the very first Mac, people have been getting floppies, and later CDs stuck in them. Doesn't Apple *ever* learn? It boggles the mind that they ship products without eject buttons, much less "manual eject holes".
Not that I let the trojan makers off the hook, but this is clearly an Apple bug.
Oh nonsense. I live in a desirable location, and as a result, people flock here, increasing congestion and making me spend more tax dollars on infrastructure to support everyone's needs. So it's bad to have a desirable location? It's bad to have a desirable product that people want? Maybe we should go back to an agrarian society where people support only themselves? And that's assuming your premise is true --- most ads make me want to avoid the product though.
Is this what happens when you give one company a license to print money?
That license might be worth the paper it's printed on, barely (and I know it's not printed at all). I would never trust any professional who is stupid enough to spend that kind of money on a domain.
While I don't like the concept of people watching what I do, in fact I sorta want them to do that with my PVR, since what gets aired is based on ratings. If they see that people record this show and not that one, then maybe the shows I watch will stand a better chance of sticking around. And if they see that I backed up to watch that good commercial and skipped all these sucky ones, maybe commercials will improve. Yeah, I'm tilting at windmills, but one can dream...
Some people just have no clue. For several years before Replay, I couldn't stand watching tv without a remote with a mute on it. On the other hand, I *wish* I'd had a PVR when the Taster's Choice commercial serial was running --- I missed several of them because I didn't always watch tv when they were on. I'd have programmed in shows and skipped over *the shows* to watch those commercials. As I do for the Super Bowl now, well probably not any more, they put them online and there's no point. Many Volkswagen ads have been worth watching for the humor. But the vast majority are SO inane, it's beyond belief that anyone could think that they will make me want to buy their product. They're definitely better off if I *don't* see those commercials.
No, they don't. It's no different than someone saying "go look on page N at this article", or someone cutting an article out and tacking it up on the bulletin board.
I never did think the "lifetime subscription" model was viable, and the 4000 is so outrageously expensive that I never seriously considered upgrading to it. But I think they've already lost the mindset to Tivo: Tivo has almost become a generic term now, in common usage. And much as I hate the user interface on Tivo, I find that it leads me to using it much more as intended and in some ways a little more convenient (if only they'd get the performance up to something reasonable!). And Tivo has one thing that I've not seen on a Replay: an integrated satellite receiver so it stores the bits off the air and doesn't have to recompress. The quality thus achieved is far better than any current Replay model. So, I think Replay is history. I hope I'm wrong, because the competition they provide is invaluable.
...have a new feature --- it's called the "Keep Your Job Feature". Since you can't get away with playing them when you're not supposed to, you actually get your work done and keep your job so you can afford the computer to play them on at home.
I am concerned about the prior example of the CDDB, where all of these people contributed tyo this great resource, only to have the resource get sold off and commercialized
How do you propose paying for the hosting and bandwidth something like this would consume if it got popular, as cddb did?
So it makes commercial services easier? So what. It makes everything easier. Anything that's popular will have to be either commercial or community supported because bandwidth isn't free, but niches and home pages will be because they are essentially free to provide. But because they're niches, they won't get the visibility, resulting in the appearance of "commercalism" like it was a bad thing. Yes, spam, pop up ads and especially pop up downloads are evil. But paying for slashdot (for example) and other popular sites just ensures that we get to continue enjoying them.
I'm very glad I can pre-order DVDs online and don't have to limit myself to what the local stores carry or wait for them to carry them. Or that in a class the other night, I could use my Palm VIIx to order a book for the class that no one told me we needed, and didn't have to make a note and a special trip to a bookstore during working hours to get it. Any technology can and will be misused, but the net is a Good Thing overall, including the commercial aspects.
How does shaping the light source help with 3dtv? To achieve 3d imagery, you have to get different signals to each eye of each member of the audience. I suppose you could do it with a spherical crystal of some sort, but the focusing optics will be "interesting" and everyone has to look at the light source. The other way is to get the beam of light to bend (reflect) in 3-d space somehow (which is how most sci-fi shows it working). Good luck! And the light source has nothing to do with that.
The simple solution is stop buying CDs from the large publishing houses that want total control. And the web radio stations should only play music by artists they've negotiated a license directly with. That's the whole point of this battle: with the Internet, we don't need the middle man any more, so let's just go around him. Are there no good artists who aren't locked up with these companies?
I propose a website that hosts selections. Artists pay a small fee to have their content available and listeners rate it. There would, of course, have to be mechanisms to avoid artists artificially raising their ratings, just like ebay does. This web site could even negotiate deals to sell cd collections for the artists.
Actually, this would be an awful lot like Atomfilms does for movies... (if only they used better formats!)
I've got a gatling gun rubber band pistol that was about $15; it's a blast, but it takes forever to load all the rubber bands, and about 5 seconds to make a huge mess;-) It's kinda clever: a cylinder with 8 splines on it. You wrap a string around once, then stretch a band over each spline, repeat until you get bored or run out of string. The string is attached to a crank, and as you turn the crank, it pops off bands as it turns the cylinder. They're hard to find, but they can be had here.
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I don't see anything that talks about graffiti or other handwriting recognition technologies in either the zaurus or the emulator. I assume it's in the emulator at least, but such assumptions have bit me before...
3GB/month is 100MB/day, well more than reasonable usage. The only way DSL can be as cheap as it is is because it's highly shared. Some method has to be in place to keep hogs from abusing the system to the detriment of others.
Unfortunately, this is rarely practical, but I find the most useful comments are written when I'm going back through code I wrote over a week ago. The reasons for doing things are no longer on the surface, and thus if there's something I look at and have to dig for understanding, then it needs better explanation.
If we really want to win the battle, we've got to provide a solution that works for everyone: it's got to prevent napsterization (which for all the rationalizations, is clearly wrong if the artist doesn't want it copied), while still allowing people to listen/watch what they've paid for when and how they want. And there's only one way to prevent napsterization: a hardware decrypter in the video/sound card. This does not prevent an open source driver --- rather it requires encrypting content to the set of devices you own, which is primarily a key management problem. Maybe you have to register DVDs/CDs to obtain the media keys encrypted to your hardware (which wouldn't require personal information, only the public keys of your devices). This would have the side effect of letting them say "people who like x also like y", for what that's worth. We need better connectivity before this will fly, of course, and the end result needs to be simple enough for grandma to use, but it's an example of solving the problem in a way that satisfies everyone except those whose primary motive really is ripping off content or those who simply *must* say "NO! You can only watch this from 8-9 Tuesday night!". Does anyone else have another solution?
They've been saying the end of the road is 10 years out for around 20 years nows. And every few years a new discovery is made that shifts it out another 10 years. So I'll start worrying if in 2010, they're still saying the end of the road is in 2012.
Granted, James Franco (Harry in Spiderman) would have made a better Anakin with more emotional strength, but the people who think the first part is slow must've missed one of the major action scenes, and not be happy with actual story getting in the way of anything but chasing and fighting.
The CG is definitely improved, but not well matched --- it's way too bright. Though some of it was that way in Menace, it's all that way now and thus in that respect, it's actually a little worse.
We're definitely getting more linkage to the original movies, and that's a big plus as well.
As a small ISP myself, I have two words for this idea: Like Hell!. And as someone who only rips music he owns, I have the same two words for the idea that I should pay for someone else's music.
I'm sorry, but a computer that won't eject a piece of plastic the size and shape of a CD is broken by design. From the very first Mac, people have been getting floppies, and later CDs stuck in them. Doesn't Apple *ever* learn? It boggles the mind that they ship products without eject buttons, much less "manual eject holes".
Not that I let the trojan makers off the hook, but this is clearly an Apple bug.
Oh nonsense. I live in a desirable location, and as a result, people flock here, increasing congestion and making me spend more tax dollars on infrastructure to support everyone's needs. So it's bad to have a desirable location? It's bad to have a desirable product that people want? Maybe we should go back to an agrarian society where people support only themselves? And that's assuming your premise is true --- most ads make me want to avoid the product though.
That license might be worth the paper it's printed on, barely (and I know it's not printed at all). I would never trust any professional who is stupid enough to spend that kind of money on a domain.
While I don't like the concept of people watching what I do, in fact I sorta want them to do that with my PVR, since what gets aired is based on ratings. If they see that people record this show and not that one, then maybe the shows I watch will stand a better chance of sticking around. And if they see that I backed up to watch that good commercial and skipped all these sucky ones, maybe commercials will improve. Yeah, I'm tilting at windmills, but one can dream...
My VCR which predates PVRs by several years has a 30-second skip.
Some people just have no clue. For several years before Replay, I couldn't stand watching tv without a remote with a mute on it. On the other hand, I *wish* I'd had a PVR when the Taster's Choice commercial serial was running --- I missed several of them because I didn't always watch tv when they were on. I'd have programmed in shows and skipped over *the shows* to watch those commercials. As I do for the Super Bowl now, well probably not any more, they put them online and there's no point. Many Volkswagen ads have been worth watching for the humor. But the vast majority are SO inane, it's beyond belief that anyone could think that they will make me want to buy their product. They're definitely better off if I *don't* see those commercials.
So, you find a friend in town with good dsl access and setup a vpn...
No, they don't. It's no different than someone saying "go look on page N at this article", or someone cutting an article out and tacking it up on the bulletin board.
I never did think the "lifetime subscription" model was viable, and the 4000 is so outrageously expensive that I never seriously considered upgrading to it. But I think they've already lost the mindset to Tivo: Tivo has almost become a generic term now, in common usage. And much as I hate the user interface on Tivo, I find that it leads me to using it much more as intended and in some ways a little more convenient (if only they'd get the performance up to something reasonable!). And Tivo has one thing that I've not seen on a Replay: an integrated satellite receiver so it stores the bits off the air and doesn't have to recompress. The quality thus achieved is far better than any current Replay model. So, I think Replay is history. I hope I'm wrong, because the competition they provide is invaluable.
The scariest and funniest part about this whole thing is that no one can figure out if it's a hoax or not. That says something right there...
...have a new feature --- it's called the "Keep Your Job Feature". Since you can't get away with playing them when you're not supposed to, you actually get your work done and keep your job so you can afford the computer to play them on at home.
How do you propose paying for the hosting and bandwidth something like this would consume if it got popular, as cddb did?
I'm very glad I can pre-order DVDs online and don't have to limit myself to what the local stores carry or wait for them to carry them. Or that in a class the other night, I could use my Palm VIIx to order a book for the class that no one told me we needed, and didn't have to make a note and a special trip to a bookstore during working hours to get it. Any technology can and will be misused, but the net is a Good Thing overall, including the commercial aspects.
How does shaping the light source help with 3dtv? To achieve 3d imagery, you have to get different signals to each eye of each member of the audience. I suppose you could do it with a spherical crystal of some sort, but the focusing optics will be "interesting" and everyone has to look at the light source. The other way is to get the beam of light to bend (reflect) in 3-d space somehow (which is how most sci-fi shows it working). Good luck! And the light source has nothing to do with that.
I propose a website that hosts selections. Artists pay a small fee to have their content available and listeners rate it. There would, of course, have to be mechanisms to avoid artists artificially raising their ratings, just like ebay does. This web site could even negotiate deals to sell cd collections for the artists.
Actually, this would be an awful lot like Atomfilms does for movies... (if only they used better formats!)
It's not wireless, and it's not cheap, but check out the Wacom Cintiq. I saw one at a Mac store and I'd definitely make do...
At the risk of digressing away from the topic, if GPL code is going to kill someone who's trying to kill me or people I care about, I'm all for it.
I've got a gatling gun rubber band pistol that was about $15; it's a blast, but it takes forever to load all the rubber bands, and about 5 seconds to make a huge mess ;-) It's kinda clever: a cylinder with 8 splines on it. You wrap a string around once, then stretch a band over each spline, repeat until you get bored or run out of string. The string is attached to a crank, and as you turn the crank, it pops off bands as it turns the cylinder. They're hard to find, but they can be had here.