The biggest problem with video phones, and why they have never taken off in any form, in the last 10, 20 + years...
Most people do not want you to see what they look when they talk to you. How many times have you answered the phone and just woke up? Maybe you are a girl or guy and just met someone new and do not look the way you would want to be seen in front of them? The list goes on.
Basically, more times then not, people would turn the video option off when used in a personal setting.
Now the only arena any type of video phone service has taken off is in business when visual interaction may help get the idea across. Though the most popular version of this concept is Video Conferencing.
I strongly believe video phones will not take off in a non-business environment for the above stated reasons.
you do realize there is a slightly more power language available made for cross platform release right? A little language called JAVA, you may have heard of it?
I assume to keep cost down and keeping KISS in mind, they would not be using something like wifi. More likely low power FM, enough for the signal to reach the monitoring station but I am sure not strong enough to breach the "most likely" steel walls of the location.
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but isn't there a SHIFT key right under the CAPS lock? I'd think for capitalizing the first letter of a word, it's be easier to hit SHIFT then to toggle CAPS LOCK on and then off to finish the rest of the word?
I'd say HTML is great, much like VB you can see the immediate result of a code change and how it looks. It is a great way to learn basic "programming" but is easier to understand the concepts and action/reaction changes for those who do not think in the same way many native computer users do.
If she wants to start learning an easy application type language I'd say start her the way many of us old school programmers learned, BASIC. I mean hell that's what the language was designed for in the first place:)
I go the same route. When i am "on the go" esp not at work, I have a backpack that has a padded section in the middle with a velcro strap. Holds my laptop, and plenty of other stuff but looks just like a backpack/small hiking pack.
yeah cox communications in Virginia has been blocking 25 for a while. Not only that but regardless of which REMOTE pop server you check, you still have to send thru the COX SMTP server and have SMTP outbound blocked to any other server.
"Radioshack does not sell electronics parts and tools, and they haven't in years. "
The ones here (northern VA) still carry plenty of breadboards, resistors, soldering irons, etc. plenty of parts and anything they don't have you can special order from the catalog.
its not a security + useablilty, it's a balance between the two.
As you increase useability, security goes down by rule.
For example: In terms of network security. A box not connected to the network is 100% secure form outside hackers, but 0% useable to outside users.
Example #2: A machine that installs with all services running and ready to go right out of the box and slapped on a network is 99% useable to remote users on the network but 1% secure.
No matter what OS you are using, it generally boils down to a balance between the two,because as you make things easier to use you inherently lose some of the control over securing the machine.
then the "real developers" you know probably don't have "real deadlines" wjere they don't have time to retype everything and re invent the wheel. Auto-complete alone proably saves me a good hour or more a day.
lol, you know, I had the same thought. I ran WWIV for years,from 90-96ish, Nycor BBS in Virginia.
Anyway, I used to set my dialout, to be immiediate, and had 4 lines running into my parents basement,lol. I swear she thinks I was dealing drugs since she was[is] not technical. Since I was an social e-butterfly, I used 3 lines for dial-in and 1 line for dialing out messages,mail,etc. So most people got mail and recived messages pretty fast,which helped to aid in the spread of the popularity of it,well until that darn internet killed the BBS
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The biggest problem with video phones, and why they have never taken off in any form, in the last 10, 20 + years...
Most people do not want you to see what they look when they talk to you. How many times have you answered the phone and just woke up? Maybe you are a girl or guy and just met someone new and do not look the way you would want to be seen in front of them? The list goes on.
Basically, more times then not, people would turn the video option off when used in a personal setting.
Now the only arena any type of video phone service has taken off is in business when visual interaction may help get the idea across. Though the most popular version of this concept is Video Conferencing.
I strongly believe video phones will not take off in a non-business environment for the above stated reasons.
or at least according to their marketing guys..
according to their site,"...deriving its power from A4's patented RFID-Pad,using our advanced RFID technology..."
"you assume that illirates can still get windows and a webcam working"
:)
Isn't that a given?
or ever consider the fact that the "kids spending $500 on a graphics card" don't have a mortgage.
someone should tell NASA that http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/EP-177/c h4-6.html
This book is rated M++ :)
For too much math
so, how long till a SVP VM is written that will make the actual chip obsolete ;)
you do realize there is a slightly more power language available made for cross platform release right? A little language called JAVA, you may have heard of it?
well until someone learns how to alter the data in it, or send fake data when they upload it to the insurance company
wow, this is the best idea since Circuit City came out with DIVX
wow, a worthwhile first post :)
I'd mod you up if I had points
I assume to keep cost down and keeping KISS in mind, they would not be using something like wifi. More likely low power FM, enough for the signal to reach the monitoring station but I am sure not strong enough to breach the "most likely" steel walls of the location.
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By the time I post this it may be redundant, but this sounds awfully similar to the business model Divx tried to use and we know how well that went ;)
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but isn't there a SHIFT key right under the CAPS lock? I'd think for capitalizing the first letter of a word, it's be easier to hit SHIFT then to toggle CAPS LOCK on and then off to finish the rest of the word?
I'd say HTML is great, much like VB you can see the immediate result of a code change and how it looks. It is a great way to learn basic "programming" but is easier to understand the concepts and action/reaction changes for those who do not think in the same way many native computer users do.
:)
If she wants to start learning an easy application type language I'd say start her the way many of us old school programmers learned, BASIC. I mean hell that's what the language was designed for in the first place
I go the same route. When i am "on the go" esp not at work, I have a backpack that has a padded section in the middle with a velcro strap. Holds my laptop, and plenty of other stuff but looks just like a backpack/small hiking pack.
yeah on mine, I had to run some games in 256 B&W because it'd run too slow in color mode :(
I've seen similar projects done for masters programs,lol
wouldn't surprise me if this was part of a masers thesis lol
yeah cox communications in Virginia has been blocking 25 for a while. Not only that but regardless of which REMOTE pop server you check, you still have to send thru the COX SMTP server and have SMTP outbound blocked to any other server.
"Radioshack does not sell electronics parts and tools, and they haven't in years. "
The ones here (northern VA) still carry plenty of breadboards, resistors, soldering irons, etc. plenty of parts and anything they don't have you can special order from the catalog.
whether you talk about Windows,Linux, OS X....
its not a security + useablilty, it's a balance between the two.
As you increase useability, security goes down by rule.
For example: In terms of network security.
A box not connected to the network is 100% secure form outside hackers, but 0% useable to outside users.
Example #2: A machine that installs with all services running and ready to go right out of the box and slapped on a network is 99% useable to remote users on the network but 1% secure.
No matter what OS you are using, it generally boils down to a balance between the two,because as you make things easier to use you inherently lose some of the control over securing the machine.
then the "real developers" you know probably don't have "real deadlines" wjere they don't have time to retype everything and re invent the wheel. Auto-complete alone proably saves me a good hour or more a day.
lol, you know, I had the same thought. I ran WWIV for years,from 90-96ish, Nycor BBS in Virginia.
Anyway, I used to set my dialout, to be immiediate, and had 4 lines running into my parents basement,lol. I swear she thinks I was dealing drugs since she was[is] not technical. Since I was an social e-butterfly, I used 3 lines for dial-in and 1 line for dialing out messages,mail,etc. So most people got mail and recived messages pretty fast,which helped to aid in the spread of the popularity of it,well until that darn internet killed the BBS