2) Maybe, if so then the dongle is likely yet bigger and more annoying in pocket. Perhaps apple will make it all perfectly and it won't be any bigger than a 3.5mm jack in some clever packaging but I kind of doubt it.
even at consumer sat phone internet data rates it wouldn't be that expensive vs the cost of the flight. You can get hours worth of gps coordinates (16 bytes + much larger overhead for connecting) every 30 seconds crammed into a megabyte.
We will just have to have some security software that twiddles the timing of the data from the keyboard before the terminal sends it out over the wire so that the covert message jitter is ruined.
Even the lauded dvd looks like ass on a 1920x1080i tv compared to a video source at that resolution - so that's a bit of a lame comparison. It is also unknown if these movies will be sold at the current ipod resolution or something higher. I wouldn't be surprised to see an annoucement of a wireless/wired video streamer for tv's.
I thought by 'game mag law' all reviews have to be 80% or higher?;) And arguably if out of 19 titles there is only one you think is kick ass and a couple that are pretty good, how amazing is the launch group really? I'm not saying they all suck, the xbox seems to be ok besides being associated with microsoft, but I'm holding out for the revolution of nintendo.
Somehow I doubt bulk mail costs 39 cents per item. That 20% off coupon from Bed Bath and Beyond probably took 6 weeks to get to me and cost a nickel to send.;)
Well, I started programming in 2nd grade after breaking my arm playing football. Only could do it because there was a computer in the classroom. I also read very quickly and accurately.
I would presume that w/ more computers in the home kids have better access to computers to play games with minimal oversight by the parents. Which is a massive timesink and way to blow your grades. In a slightly unrelated note I knew several people who dropped out of college playing muds. Parent responsibly!
"Say in the future I got a disease which has a cure developed by my participation in the project with my spare cycles. Will *I* get any consideration for a discount? Will I get ANY profit for my time & resources. NO."
You might live instead of die. I think I would consider that a profit.
Oh, and if you look at the documentation on the site they say:
"World Community Grid, with technology and funding provided by the IBM Corporation, is making grid technology available to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid."
So it seems like some rando drug company isn't going to take your cycles from you. Instead some non-profit is going to use your cycles for the benifit of all.
I hear what you are saying (though I doubt it is actually possible to take the place over with just troops and bullets, since there are more of them than our troops and the whole country seems armed) but I don't think you get lots 'conquoring' points if you blow away all the people of a country and render it uninhabitable.:) At that point you have expended effort to 'conquor' with zero return (since you can't use the glowing radioactive wasteland you turned the place into) though I suppose you could then claim to own the place and have thus conquored it.
And of course those restrictive set of rules are super useful since it prevents the rest of the world for nuking us when we behave like total jackasses.:)
I for one hope that it stays silly expensive to make a call from a plane. Since if it is cheap or free we all know that the percentage of the population that feels the need to talk at thrice the normal volume when talking on a cell phone ("'cause dat other person is way over yonder") will promptly take to sitting in all available seats around us. Oh god!
the iBook has known design issues that can cause the graphics chip to come away from the motherboard and/or the cable(s) between the screen and the boards to break. I think I should be able to purchase a laptop and be confident that the chips aren't going to fall off the board, and that I can open and close the screen without killing it.
You can look on the apple.com discussion forums for 'ibook logic failure' and see the hordes of upset people, or just search google. It is an issue that apple has decided to ignore, which is extremely frustrating to people whom it affects.
In fact the graphics on my ibook just started going all wonky 'boy howdy something is about to fail' style again, and of course I'm out of warrantee and the logic board was replaced 6 months ago. I love Apple, but lord not right now. I of course have my cube and work machine setup to magically just work so I can just keep on trucking (yay.Mac, cvs, backups!) but soooo frustrating!
Yeah what happened there? I mean sure there was a little of the 'wow ipods are great' gushing about the UI and ease of use. But really, flamebait? That is probably like the one real selling point on those things besides nice industrial design. Hey I do java dev on linux all day, where are my bonus slashdot points?;)
I don't even actually agree with the apples marketing/sales strategy (which I tried to imply but possibly failed) But I think they probably have good reasons why they are doing it from a biz point of view as we have to remember that despite the 5% market share they are successfull as a company with billions of dollars floating around that say they probably know more about the market than we do, a few flops aside.;)
So out of curiousity: To the hordes of people who make it this far (haha) with rio karams do you use the ethernet and ogg stuff much?
I'm pretty into the idea of flac'ing all my CDs with cdparania and flac using crip (which should now be possible with a little tweaking of scripts on the mac) just so I can transcode from the lossless source to whatever format seems to be the most useful at the moment for my player.
Oh well, the rambling post at the end of the thread has come to an end. Back to RL.
Not to knock the rio, because I would certainly like apple to support flac in some way shape or form, but people will buy the mini (even at it's slightly silly initial price point) because the rio is bigger, weighs more, and has a more annoying form factor (why do people keep thinking square is actually useful?) I think the rio's typically go for like 300, as the above link includes some kind of rebate action in it (that is a great price BTW.) And when it comes down to it, of any of apple's hardware/software that I have used, I think the ipod/itunes software is by far the best in the 'it just works' category. (And obivously various problems can and will crop up for people but statisticly it is insanely good at just working) and when you aren't dealing with linux geeks and you want your 'soccer mom ' types to be able to be able to buy a mp3 player and get the software installed and running, there is no way I would try to have her use anything else. Unless of course you like doing tech support for all your friends and family.;)
If I had to take a guess the 250 is the intial price point that they think they can sell at based on the cool hip factor. They'll see how selling their intial run goes, and readjust the pricepoint and possibly add a 2G$ 100-150 model in X months when the margins get better on the hardware.
Regardless I think it will be a good year for apple even if you dislike their current pricing scheme.
Good point, but then you can't do zoom. Though given my current lack of ability(sleep) to think my answers through, lord knows there is probably some way around that as well.
Certainly I can see if they want to do all kinds of custom hardware that things will get harder and harder. But given it is being sold at a large loss to drive the 'processing' service, I can't imagine they would want to invest in the cost of making something super expensive as opposed to as cheap as humanly possible. Interesting issue I suppose.
Ahh, perhaps I'm getting confused with validation in crypto then, where you encrypt with your targets public key and your private key which would mean you would need the private key. But I can see your point, since they wouldn't need to do that.
Though I guess if they ever want to compete with 'real' digital cameras and allow previewing the photo (which is personally the biggest reason I have one), they seem like they are kind of shit out of luck,since at that point decryption on the camera would have to be possible.
If they did use public key encryption (which seems pretty unlikely given who this is) it seems like you would have access to the cameras private key and ritzs public key. Which seems pretty dubiously secure to me if I recall my crypto. And lord knows you can always hack the firmware / hardware to just skip all that crap, since the data is obviously unencrypted and digital at somepoint.
I didn't read the article or wiki or whatever the hell, but come on kids it doesn't sound very farfetched.
1) Take picture, data is unencrypted. 2) Encrypt data with key (using RSA or blowfish or whatever) 3) Key has to come from somewhere in the camera 4) Get camera, apply lots of time. 5) Found key 6) Write software to do 5 for you. 7) No more paying to get the data off the camera. 8) Lame pay service lockin plan now screwed.
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1) Not the case for everyone.
2) Maybe, if so then the dongle is likely yet bigger and more annoying in pocket. Perhaps apple will make it all perfectly and it won't be any bigger than a 3.5mm jack in some clever packaging but I kind of doubt it.
30 bucks an adaptor and how do you charge while listening to music? Maybe they do wireless charging but thus that has been a pretty crap experience.
Probably repelled by focused ultrasound, 'cause it would turn them into a-cellular slurry.
Might not be real safe to have it being emitted from a tv though, haha.
even at consumer sat phone internet data rates it wouldn't be that expensive vs the cost of the flight. You can get hours worth of gps coordinates (16 bytes + much larger overhead for connecting) every 30 seconds crammed into a megabyte.
If we are playing this game, then why not have all that data being sent through a sat phone link real time?
http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ using hyperspace! It's been working better than spam assassin for me.
We will just have to have some security software that twiddles the timing of the data from the keyboard before the terminal sends it out over the wire so that the covert message jitter is ruined.
Even the lauded dvd looks like ass on a 1920x1080i tv compared to a video source at that resolution - so that's a bit of a lame comparison.
It is also unknown if these movies will be sold at the current ipod resolution or something higher. I wouldn't be surprised to see an annoucement of a wireless/wired video streamer for tv's.
I thought by 'game mag law' all reviews have to be 80% or higher? ;) And arguably if out of 19 titles there is only one you think is kick ass and a couple that are pretty good, how amazing is the launch group really? I'm not saying they all suck, the xbox seems to be ok besides being associated with microsoft, but I'm holding out for the revolution of nintendo.
Somehow I doubt bulk mail costs 39 cents per item. That 20% off coupon from Bed Bath and Beyond probably took 6 weeks to get to me and cost a nickel to send. ;)
Well, I started programming in 2nd grade after breaking my arm playing football. Only could do it because there was a computer in the classroom. I also read very quickly and accurately.
I would presume that w/ more computers in the home kids have better access to computers to play games with minimal oversight by the parents. Which is a massive timesink and way to blow your grades. In a slightly unrelated note I knew several people who dropped out of college playing muds. Parent responsibly!
"Say in the future I got a disease which has a cure developed by my participation in the project with my spare cycles. Will *I* get any consideration for a discount? Will I get ANY profit for my time & resources. NO."
You might live instead of die. I think I would consider that a profit.
Oh, and if you look at the documentation on the site they say:
"World Community Grid, with technology and funding provided by the IBM Corporation, is making grid technology available to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid."
So it seems like some rando drug company isn't going to take your cycles from you. Instead some non-profit is going to use your cycles for the benifit of all.
I hear what you are saying (though I doubt it is actually possible to take the place over with just troops and bullets, since there are more of them than our troops and the whole country seems armed) but I don't think you get lots 'conquoring' points if you blow away all the people of a country and render it uninhabitable.:) At that point you have expended effort to 'conquor' with zero return (since you can't use the glowing radioactive wasteland you turned the place into) though I suppose you could then claim to own the place and have thus conquored it.
:)
And of course those restrictive set of rules are super useful since it prevents the rest of the world for nuking us when we behave like total jackasses.
Like the way we are 'dominating' iraq? We are in no position to go out and conquor the world.
I for one hope that it stays silly expensive to make a call from a plane. Since if it is cheap or free we all know that the percentage of the population that feels the need to talk at thrice the normal volume when talking on a cell phone ("'cause dat other person is way over yonder") will promptly take to sitting in all available seats around us. Oh god!
the iBook has known design issues that can cause the graphics chip to come away from the motherboard and/or the cable(s) between the screen and the boards to break. I think I should be able to purchase a laptop and be confident that the chips aren't going to fall off the board, and that I can open and close the screen without killing it.
.Mac, cvs, backups!) but soooo frustrating!
You can look on the apple.com discussion forums for 'ibook logic failure' and see the hordes of upset people, or just search google. It is an issue that apple has decided to ignore, which is extremely frustrating to people whom it affects.
In fact the graphics on my ibook just started going all wonky 'boy howdy something is about to fail' style again, and of course I'm out of warrantee and the logic board was replaced 6 months ago. I love Apple, but lord not right now. I of course have my cube and work machine setup to magically just work so I can just keep on trucking (yay
> ...and some other gifts.
Hopefully some of those were suitcases full of cash.
Yeah what happened there? I mean sure there was a little of the 'wow ipods are great' gushing about the UI and ease of use. But really, flamebait? That is probably like the one real selling point on those things besides nice industrial design. Hey I do java dev on linux all day, where are my bonus slashdot points? ;)
;)
I don't even actually agree with the apples marketing/sales strategy (which I tried to imply but possibly failed) But I think they probably have good reasons why they are doing it from a biz point of view as we have to remember that despite the 5% market share they are successfull as a company with billions of dollars floating around that say they probably know more about the market than we do, a few flops aside.
So out of curiousity: To the hordes of people who make it this far (haha) with rio karams do you use the ethernet and ogg stuff much?
I'm pretty into the idea of flac'ing all my CDs with cdparania and flac using crip (which should now be possible with a little tweaking of scripts on the mac) just so I can transcode from the lossless source to whatever format seems to be the most useful at the moment for my player.
Oh well, the rambling post at the end of the thread has come to an end. Back to RL.
Not to knock the rio, because I would certainly like apple to support flac in some way shape or form, but people will buy the mini (even at it's slightly silly initial price point) because the rio is bigger, weighs more, and has a more annoying form factor (why do people keep thinking square is actually useful?) I think the rio's typically go for like 300, as the above link includes some kind of rebate action in it (that is a great price BTW.) And when it comes down to it, of any of apple's hardware/software that I have used, I think the ipod/itunes software is by far the best in the 'it just works' category. (And obivously various problems can and will crop up for people but statisticly it is insanely good at just working) and when you aren't dealing with linux geeks and you want your 'soccer mom ' types to be able to be able to buy a mp3 player and get the software installed and running, there is no way I would try to have her use anything else. Unless of course you like doing tech support for all your friends and family. ;)
If I had to take a guess the 250 is the intial price point that they think they can sell at based on the cool hip factor. They'll see how selling their intial run goes, and readjust the pricepoint and possibly add a 2G$ 100-150 model in X months when the margins get better on the hardware.
Regardless I think it will be a good year for apple even if you dislike their current pricing scheme.
Good point, but then you can't do zoom. Though given my current lack of ability(sleep) to think my answers through, lord knows there is probably some way around that as well.
apparently not, have a nice day!
Certainly I can see if they want to do all kinds of custom hardware that things will get harder and harder. But given it is being sold at a large loss to drive the 'processing' service, I can't imagine they would want to invest in the cost of making something super expensive as opposed to as cheap as humanly possible. Interesting issue I suppose.
Ahh, perhaps I'm getting confused with validation in crypto then, where you encrypt with your targets public key and your private key which would mean you would need the private key. But I can see your point, since they wouldn't need to do that.
Though I guess if they ever want to compete with 'real' digital cameras and allow previewing the photo (which is personally the biggest reason I have one), they seem like they are kind of shit out of luck,since at that point decryption on the camera would have to be possible.
If they did use public key encryption (which seems pretty unlikely given who this is) it seems like you would have access to the cameras private key and ritzs public key. Which seems pretty dubiously secure to me if I recall my crypto. And lord knows you can always hack the firmware / hardware to just skip all that crap, since the data is obviously unencrypted and digital at somepoint.
I didn't read the article or wiki or whatever the hell, but come on kids it doesn't sound very farfetched.
1) Take picture, data is unencrypted.
2) Encrypt data with key (using RSA or blowfish or whatever)
3) Key has to come from somewhere in the camera
4) Get camera, apply lots of time.
5) Found key
6) Write software to do 5 for you.
7) No more paying to get the data off the camera.
8) Lame pay service lockin plan now screwed.