The info on the 650 says it has a 1.3 MP camera... the Treo 600 only had a 0.3 MP one.
So thats roughly 1280x1024 for the 650 vs 640x480 for the 600.
The pictures look like the 650 may have a lens protector too, which was one of the complaints about the camera on the 600.
You're still not going to get decent indoors/dark pcitures on a phone without a flash, but having a camera on a phone is a "isn't this kind of cool" gee-whiz add-on, not the primary function(s) of the device (PDA & Phone).
Yes, and what you must truly internalize is that the site design on AICN now is their NEW AND BETTER site design. Before they "redesigned" their site it was much, much, much, much, much worse, if you can wrap your brain around that.
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Aside from that, Palm address book sync is in... but there still seems to be lots of issues with it. Categores don't seem to sync well, it resets the "Show in list" field every time something changes, secondary address books don't always sync, etc.
Classify as Not Yet Ready for Prime Time(tm).
And what about fastforwarding through the previews and commercials on videos and DVDs? Are they going to try and put anti-fast-forwarding technology in them?
There are quite a few DVDs out there that do not let you fast forward through the commercials, FBI warnings, etc. The technology to prevent you from fast forwarding or whatever is already required for DVD players.
And get this... apparently images are not the only things that computers can compress. I've just learned that there are a slew of programs out there that can compress text-data with amazing ratios.
From the article's description (given ZDNet is not exactly a bastion of accuracy), this "Groove Transciver" thing sounds an awful lot like Hotline, which has been around for quite a while now.
With older computers its probably not so much the speed of the CPU that is slowing down GNOME, but the speed of the antiquated video card.
I built myself a linux server for home, a dual p2-350, plenty of CPU horsepower. But all I had for video was a very old 2MB video card. GNOME's pretty sluggish on this system and I'm sure its due to the old video card.
> I think we agree on the following points: > - keep security bugs relatively quiet (Security Group Only) until > a fix is found, tested and committed > - Security Group needs to be different than ``Netscape only''
This is completely flawed thinking. Nothing less than full disclosure is acceptable. What if I am using portions of the Mozilla code in another project? What right do you have to keep known problems with the open code in any way secret? If this is the intent, why bother keeping Mozilla open source at all?
If AOL wants to do this with their internal "Netscape Navigator" code, fine, but creating an elite group of special people in the Mozilla community who have priviledged access to the bug database is unacceptable.
Haven't we all learned by this point that security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK?
www.pair.com - technically very good, but their lower priced accounts only serve static pages (no PHP or DB). They also take some time answering questions by mail. Have been in the business for some time.
I have been very happy with Pair. Even though you need their more "advanced" accounts to do PHP and whatnot, you can still get most of those services for under $40/month.
Their prices for DNS and domain parking are also very, very reasonable (like $20 setup + $1/month). I've seen ISP's that charge $200 setup + $50/month just for DNS.
They also seem to have a decent relationship with Network Solutions (which I'm sure most large ISPs do these days). All of my domain registrations and whatnot have been handled in 2-4 days.
This is proof that the UDP works. The whole point of the UDP is to get someones attention in a very meaningfull way, and thats exactly what it accomplished here.
This is also proof that USENET can manage itself just fine without any "central authority".
You can get a "Macrovision" blocker at Best Buy for around $50... that will solve your problem.
Macrovision mucks with the "reference black" between the frames of whatever you're watching, which is what tricks the VCR into trying to compensate by adjusting the color, etc.
What is the percentage of E*Trade's IPO shares that are allocated to "Platinum" customers, including both the Platinum-only lottery and the allocation to Platinum customers in the "regular" lottery?
What I'd like to know is, do "regular" E*Trade customers really have access to IPOs, or is E*Trade just like Schwab and more traditional brokers who only allow "premium" customers to get IPO shares.
If all shares typically go to your Platinum customers, then it is false advertising to say that regular customers have access to IPOs.
The IPO Center FAQ and Allocation notice are also false when they say that shares are distributed randomly among those who have placed conditional offers.
It is very interesting to note that the "Platinum-only" lottery is not mentioned ANYWHERE in the IPO Allocation Process document, the Allocation Announcement document or the IPO FAQs.
At the very least your web site is misleading your customers into believing they have the same equal chance at IPO access as everyone else, when in reality it seems like all of your IPO shares are probably allocated to your premium customers.
AND, if you don't get shares selected for Platium customers, you STILL get to participate the the second lottery with everyone else.
Basically it seems that E*Trade really only gives IPO shares to their "best" customers, just like Schwab and everyone else... they just let their regular customers sign up for a random shot at the "crumbs," if any are left over...
People making coments about the amount of hardware/support that can be had for $500,00 should remember the realities of grant funding at a University in this country:
Universites/Departments typically keep 40-50% of the grant amount awarded to a lab for "indirect cost recovery" (ICR). This is the fee they asses for providing buildings, plumbing, offices, etc (infrastructure costs).
People tend to cost 2 x salary once benefits and whatnot are considered. So each $40k person costs the grant about $80k.
Labs usually have other costs they need to cover and small bits of large grants are usually used to cover these "extra" needs.
So, a $500k grant is about $250k after ICR. Then say you fund 2 peole at $35k/year to help build and run it. Now you're down to just $110k for hardware. Even with a "best case" run of the numbers and cheap people, you're still not going to have more than $150k for hardware in this grant.
Also keep in mind that this grant's funding is spread over 3 years.
100 600MHz PCs is going to run about $100k even before you start buying networking equipment, backup equipment and power supply/protection equipment.
In all likelyhood, Bartol is going to need additional funding (possibly x% matching money from the state or other similar grants) to make this a realitiy.
Just thought people should know that when you get a $500,000 grant, you don't just get a check for $500,000 to blow on hardware.:-)
Internet hosting for an individual has rocketed in price over the last 3 years and it's become more necessary to provide high bandwidth content through a corporation.
Nonsense. My ISP charges $30 a month for an account with a 400Mb/day bandwidth allowance. They have "starter" accounts for $5-$8 a month that allow 200Mb/day.
Furthermore, mp3.com isn't the only game in town. The MP3 phenomenon has spawned any number of sites willing to host your wares. Search 'MP3' on Yahoo.
Also, I was able to buy a run of 1500 pressed CDs for $1700. I'd say both electronic and traditonal production of music is well within the hands of the amateur these days.
Yes, you can change the Mac address. Most ethernet drivers simply load the Mac address off the card into an area of RAM, and then use that address in RAM when constructing outgoing packets.
There is nothing keeping anyone from changing that address in RAM and having the card send out a packet with another source address. The hardware does not prevent this.
Utilities to do this in Windows may not be "mainstream," but it is trivial to do this under Linux.
They claim to leverage their "institutional" nature to get in on IPOs, plus they also invest in recently-IPO'd-companies. Could be a way for some of us to get a piece of the pie.
At least this shows strength for Linux-related companies. Hopefully VA and Andover will see such success...
I'm not sure if it is possible to make a playble video DVD without regional encoding, but if not there should be.
Sure it is. Many of the Anime DVDs I have bought are free from regional encoding. Or, more specifically, I think you can encode a disc with "region 0" or something that says its ok to play the disc in any region.
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Try EVE Online, plenty of space combat, trading, etc. A lot of depth in the gameplay, and a whole lot of depth in the story.
The info on the 650 says it has a 1.3 MP camera... the Treo 600 only had a 0.3 MP one.
So thats roughly 1280x1024 for the 650 vs 640x480 for the 600.
The pictures look like the 650 may have a lens protector too, which was one of the complaints about the camera on the 600.
You're still not going to get decent indoors/dark pcitures on a phone without a flash, but having a camera on a phone is a "isn't this kind of cool" gee-whiz add-on, not the primary function(s) of the device (PDA & Phone).
Yes, and what you must truly internalize is that the site design on AICN now is their NEW AND BETTER site design. Before they "redesigned" their site it was much, much, much, much, much worse, if you can wrap your brain around that.
BEWARE---Installing 1.2.1 can destroy your Palm user account.
Aside from that, Palm address book sync is in... but there still seems to be lots of issues with it. Categores don't seem to sync well, it resets the "Show in list" field every time something changes, secondary address books don't always sync, etc.
Classify as Not Yet Ready for Prime Time(tm).
There are quite a few DVDs out there that do not let you fast forward through the commercials, FBI warnings, etc. The technology to prevent you from fast forwarding or whatever is already required for DVD players.
And get this... apparently images are not the only things that computers can compress. I've just learned that there are a slew of programs out there that can compress text-data with amazing ratios.
Staggering.
No, this would not have been a fair test. The only way to get a reliable set of test results is to run the -same- server on both platforms.
Plus, there are many businesses out there who will need to run SQL 7 on Win2k because they don't have the time or the budget to upgrade to SQL 2000.
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The Sony S7700 DVD player will also play CDR media. The entertaining thing is that it will not play CDRW media.
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From the article's description (given ZDNet is not exactly a bastion of accuracy), this "Groove Transciver" thing sounds an awful lot like Hotline, which has been around for quite a while now.
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With older computers its probably not so much the speed of the CPU that is slowing down GNOME, but the speed of the antiquated video card.
I built myself a linux server for home, a dual p2-350, plenty of CPU horsepower. But all I had for video was a very old 2MB video card. GNOME's pretty sluggish on this system and I'm sure its due to the old video card.
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> I think we agree on the following points:
> - keep security bugs relatively quiet (Security Group Only) until
> a fix is found, tested and committed
> - Security Group needs to be different than ``Netscape only''
This is completely flawed thinking. Nothing less than full disclosure is acceptable. What if I am using portions of the Mozilla code in another project? What right do you have to keep known problems with the open code in any way secret? If this is the intent, why bother keeping Mozilla open source at all?
If AOL wants to do this with their internal "Netscape Navigator" code, fine, but creating an elite group of special people in the Mozilla community who have priviledged access to the bug database is unacceptable.
Haven't we all learned by this point that security through obscurity DOES NOT WORK?
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Remember that CNN is now owned by AOL, and AOL doesn't exactly have the best respect-of-privacy record on the 'net.
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A lot of those do-it-yourself legal services have been shut down for "practicing law without a license".
I believe you have to walk a fine line when you present legal information for public consumption.
Perhaps just hosting this type of service outside of the legal jurisdiction its for would be enough.
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I have been very happy with Pair. Even though you need their more "advanced" accounts to do PHP and whatnot, you can still get most of those services for under $40/month.
Their prices for DNS and domain parking are also very, very reasonable (like $20 setup + $1/month). I've seen ISP's that charge $200 setup + $50/month just for DNS.
They also seem to have a decent relationship with Network Solutions (which I'm sure most large ISPs do these days). All of my domain registrations and whatnot have been handled in 2-4 days.
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This is proof that the UDP works. The whole point of the UDP is to get someones attention in a very meaningfull way, and thats exactly what it accomplished here.
This is also proof that USENET can manage itself just fine without any "central authority".
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You can get a "Macrovision" blocker at Best Buy for around $50... that will solve your problem.
Macrovision mucks with the "reference black" between the frames of whatever you're watching, which is what tricks the VCR into trying to compensate by adjusting the color, etc.
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sent to E*Trade customer service, see also:
http s://trading.etrade.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/Applogic+Ho
E*Trade:
What is the percentage of E*Trade's IPO shares that are allocated to "Platinum" customers, including both the Platinum-only lottery and the allocation to Platinum customers in the "regular" lottery?
What I'd like to know is, do "regular" E*Trade customers really have access to IPOs, or is E*Trade just like Schwab and more traditional brokers who only allow "premium" customers to get IPO shares.
If all shares typically go to your Platinum customers, then it is false advertising to say that regular customers have access to IPOs.
The IPO Center FAQ and Allocation notice are also false when they say that shares are distributed randomly among those who have placed conditional offers.
It is very interesting to note that the "Platinum-only" lottery is not mentioned ANYWHERE in the IPO Allocation Process document, the Allocation Announcement document or the IPO FAQs.
At the very least your web site is misleading your customers into believing they have the same equal chance at IPO access as everyone else, when in reality it seems like all of your IPO shares are probably allocated to your premium customers.
Thank you,
Baba Buehler
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I also put in for 200@$30 and got none, and I know a couple of other people who put in for 100 and got nothing.
I've held on to the RHAT that I got from E*Trade in the F&F program, so I shouldn't be on their IPO blacklist.
If you poke around enough on E*Trade you'll see that, while they allow "regular" customers to sign up for IPOs, ther e is a whole seperate lottery for their "Platinum" customers.
AND, if you don't get shares selected for Platium customers, you STILL get to participate the the second lottery with everyone else.
Basically it seems that E*Trade really only gives IPO shares to their "best" customers, just like Schwab and everyone else... they just let their regular customers sign up for a random shot at the "crumbs," if any are left over...
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People making coments about the amount of hardware/support that can be had for $500,00 should remember the realities of grant funding at a University in this country:
So, a $500k grant is about $250k after ICR. Then say you fund 2 peole at $35k/year to help build and run it. Now you're down to just $110k for hardware. Even with a "best case" run of the numbers and cheap people, you're still not going to have more than $150k for hardware in this grant.
Also keep in mind that this grant's funding is spread over 3 years.
100 600MHz PCs is going to run about $100k even before you start buying networking equipment, backup equipment and power supply/protection equipment.
In all likelyhood, Bartol is going to need additional funding (possibly x% matching money from the state or other similar grants) to make this a realitiy.
Just thought people should know that when you get a $500,000 grant, you don't just get a check for $500,000 to blow on hardware.
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Internet hosting for an individual has rocketed in price over the last 3 years and it's become more necessary to provide high bandwidth content through a corporation.
Nonsense. My ISP charges $30 a month for an account with a 400Mb/day bandwidth allowance. They have "starter" accounts for $5-$8 a month that allow 200Mb/day.
Furthermore, mp3.com isn't the only game in town. The MP3 phenomenon has spawned any number of sites willing to host your wares. Search 'MP3' on Yahoo.
Also, I was able to buy a run of 1500 pressed CDs for $1700. I'd say both electronic and traditonal production of music is well within the hands of the amateur these days.
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Yes, you can change the Mac address. Most ethernet drivers simply load the Mac address off the card into an area of RAM, and then use that address in RAM when constructing outgoing packets.
There is nothing keeping anyone from changing that address in RAM and having the card send out a packet with another source address. The hardware does not prevent this.
Utilities to do this in Windows may not be "mainstream," but it is trivial to do this under Linux.
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Well, I had an order in to pay as high as 50/share but, needless to say, that probably won't execute.
For those frusturated about not getting in (as I am), I've been looking at this:
They claim to leverage their "institutional" nature to get in on IPOs, plus they also invest in recently-IPO'd-companies. Could be a way for some of us to get a piece of the pie.
At least this shows strength for Linux-related companies. Hopefully VA and Andover will see such success...
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Sure it is. Many of the Anime DVDs I have bought are free from regional encoding. Or, more specifically, I think you can encode a disc with "region 0" or something that says its ok to play the disc in any region.
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Yes, they will. I have many discs which are not encrypted with CSS.
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