Read the article. This is an escalation-of-privileges attack. Very few businesses give every user 'root' on their desktop. Now Microsoft has done it for them.
Horse Hockey. The number one reason you disclose secret technologies is that you're the President and are loosing a re-election bid. That's why the US heard about the RS-71 (LBJ accidentally renamed it the SR-71) and the F-117. If you have something better, you don't announce the old stuff. You want to deny your opponents ANY information you can.
I will sit and click through about 600 EULA-s?
Even through GNU EULA-s?
Please refer to these agreements by a name which respects the hard work and tireless efforts of the FSF. They should properly be called GNU/EULA, also abbreviated GNULA.
Consider MathCad. Back when I was doing control theory classes, the interface seemed much more intuitive. You 'wrote' a page of equations, plots, etc. and they were solved automatically. You could even write live reports. It was great for lab and homework writeups. The screenshots don't do it justice.
Sadly it is not free, and is windows only.
Damned practical, for some uses. Think precision, rather than strafing. Instead of 6-24 iron (dumb) bombs or one guided munition to hit a target, think of a two-pulse burst from miles away. I'd expect that by the time the weapon is production ready the cycle time will be much less. Even 3 sets of 2 4-second pulses in a minute would be usable. Designate a target on the display, tell the fire control computer to lock on, start looking for a secondary target. By the time you've got it, you're ready to designate & fire again.
From HP's point of view, it probably went like this: Dell: Hi, HP? We've decided to hang you. Could you sell us some some rope? We'll have the gallows done in a little while. HP: Not effing likely.(Gathers up toys and goes home)
Wow, they're at least 18 months from having a commercially viable process, and you already know how much it's going to cost them to make it. That's pretty impressive. Given that so much about this is new (substrate, chemistry, packaging), I'd bet it will be years before they get yields like the (mature) technologies today. Low yields, need to pay for R&D, and warranty costs (no historical data, higher incidence of claims) all drive the price up. Besides, most consumers don't care what an item cost the manufacturer to make. They compare it's price to the cost of substitutes. If this has a price similar to the traditional alternative, people will consider it.
Storm, is it the SA 8000 box? iControl has been advertised in Rochester, NY-- how much does it cost in Albany and Florida?
Here in Cincinnati, they're using the older Explorer 2000 and offering iControl and HBO On Demand. After you buy the Digital Tier, HBO On Command was about $10/month. Of course that might have been a special price for the first few months. TW is notorious for that: Big Letters say one low price, fine print says "reverts to regular pricing after three months". I believe the iControl movies run $4-7 before taxes.
They do. Scientific-Atlanta has the Explorer 8000
here. From the page:
Pause, rewind, fast forward, record, and re-play live analog and digital TV programs - without an additional box in your entertainment center. Scientific-Atlanta has introduced our most powerful member of the Explorer® set-top family, the Explorer 8000 model, which will deliver a wide range of multiple interactive TV applications through a single set-top. Using a built-in 40 gigabyte hard drive, this innovative set-top will also enable the simultaneous viewing and recording of two channels of programming and as well as support HDTV.
It also mentions a digital film library, telephony, and web access.
Whine mode: When I submitted an article on this and IBM's entry two weeks ago it wasn't interesting: 2002-07-03 17:22:22 Your Next Desktop: the Size of a Deck of Cards? (articles,news) (rejected)
There's a teaser at Business 2.0.
Another fluffy article is at TechExtreme. The best coverage, on C|NET, came out in April.
If you had bothered to read the article, you'd note that it says that AT&T was burned by this in the past, and they'd like to avoid being burned again. I'd hardly call this "spurious" or "worthless".
>>Will it play the copy protected CD's From Sony Music?
Yes, but first you must purcahase and utilize the technologically advanced, DMCA subversive, counter-measure.... AKA -- A black Sharpie marker;)
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Fortunately, the Sharpie has a substantial, non-infringing use - applying graffiti to bathroom walls.
Will the pinheaded moron that modded this as "Insightful" please proceed immediately to the Slashdot preferences page, and uncheck "Willing to Moderate"? It's bad enough that posters don't read the articles...
The original post wondered if contacting the manufacturers would do any good. Maybe, maybe not. If you're in the US, contact your state attorney general. Selling a used item as new is fraud; this is just the sort of thing that gives the attorney general's office all kinds of good publicity.
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To be pedantic, you want fees based on revenue. It's too easy to manipulate profit. Look at the movie industry as an example.
Read the article. This is an escalation-of-privileges attack. Very few businesses give every user 'root' on their desktop. Now Microsoft has done it for them.
Horse Hockey. The number one reason you disclose secret technologies is that you're the President and are loosing a re-election bid. That's why the US heard about the RS-71 (LBJ accidentally renamed it the SR-71) and the F-117.
If you have something better, you don't announce the old stuff. You want to deny your opponents ANY information you can.
YHBT
HAND
Please refer to these agreements by a name which respects the hard work and tireless efforts of the FSF. They should properly be called GNU/EULA, also abbreviated GNULA.
Consider MathCad. Back when I was doing control theory classes, the interface seemed much more intuitive. You 'wrote' a page of equations, plots, etc. and they were solved automatically. You could even write live reports. It was great for lab and homework writeups. The screenshots don't do it justice. Sadly it is not free, and is windows only.
Damned practical, for some uses. Think precision, rather than strafing. Instead of 6-24 iron (dumb) bombs or one guided munition to hit a target, think of a two-pulse burst from miles away. I'd expect that by the time the weapon is production ready the cycle time will be much less. Even 3 sets of 2 4-second pulses in a minute would be usable. Designate a target on the display, tell the fire control computer to lock on, start looking for a secondary target. By the time you've got it, you're ready to designate & fire again.
Er, sport, cruise the site. They do sell just the button box... $475, you supply the motherboard + power supply.
Ding, Dong - you're wrong.
Google "Doctrine of First Sale".
From HP's point of view, it probably went like this:
Dell: Hi, HP? We've decided to hang you. Could you sell us some some rope? We'll have the gallows done in a little while.
HP: Not effing likely.(Gathers up toys and goes home)
Sorry, any pilot who opens the weapons-bay doors to release while the aircraft is UPSIDE-DOWN deserves it...
Wow, they're at least 18 months from having a commercially viable process, and you already know how much it's going to cost them to make it. That's pretty impressive.
Given that so much about this is new (substrate, chemistry, packaging), I'd bet it will be years before they get yields like the (mature) technologies today. Low yields, need to pay for R&D, and warranty costs (no historical data, higher incidence of claims) all drive the price up.
Besides, most consumers don't care what an item cost the manufacturer to make. They compare it's price to the cost of substitutes. If this has a price similar to the traditional alternative, people will consider it.
Whine mode: When I submitted an article on this and IBM's entry two weeks ago it wasn't interesting:
2002-07-03 17:22:22 Your Next Desktop: the Size of a Deck of Cards? (articles,news) (rejected)
There's a teaser at Business 2.0. Another fluffy article is at TechExtreme. The best coverage, on C|NET, came out in April.
500 Amps! :-(
2.5 V
If you had bothered to read the article, you'd note that it says that AT&T was burned by this in the past, and they'd like to avoid being burned again. I'd hardly call this "spurious" or "worthless".
>>Will it play the copy protected CD's From Sony Music? Yes, but first you must purcahase and utilize the technologically advanced, DMCA subversive, counter-measure .... AKA -- A black Sharpie marker ;)
--
Fortunately, the Sharpie has a substantial, non-infringing use - applying graffiti to bathroom walls.
Will the pinheaded moron that modded this as "Insightful" please proceed immediately to the Slashdot preferences page, and uncheck "Willing to Moderate"? It's bad enough that posters don't read the articles...
The Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan offers a suite of free applications for Palm-Based PDA's. Even better, they've done a good job developing instructions and related curriculum. There's also a message board for trading ideas and tips.
The original post wondered if contacting the manufacturers would do any good. Maybe, maybe not. If you're in the US, contact your state attorney general. Selling a used item as new is fraud; this is just the sort of thing that gives the attorney general's office all kinds of good publicity.