>Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers
I haven't yet met one that didn't think they were very bright. Industrial Designers invent stuff that takes 'ordinary' engineers years to throw away and build something else that will fly. No danger of anything happening here folks:o)
Personally, I think the best source of photo printing is at a photo lab. If a photo is worth printing out, do it properly, so it gets printed with inks that wont fade with time. And certainly in my case, it's still cheaper. Home photo printers are a costly gimick.
This has already been reported by the bbc ( more reliable than The Register ) where a camera has been used to record car licence plates on entry to a car park, and generate automatic fines if a matching parking ticket was not purchased.
The system failed miserably because it falsely recorded cars *passing by* the car park.
It's a real intrusion, but on the other hand, try getting compensation if you are in an accident with someone driving without insurance.
Only in terms of the way it holds the unit. Like the stand used by IPAQ; you can drop it into the stand for charging and you can still see the screen. When using a travel adaptor the unit is probably laying flat with the display pointing upwards. Not much use in bed!
>I know I was just shocked when I got my Spartan III FPGA kit.
cool! I just got a Spartan III dev board in the post last week too. First thing I did was hook it up to a monitor and twiddle a few buttons:o) Fancy chatting about it by email?
Thats great news, but as an embedded systems designer and eternal tinkerer, where will I be able to buy a handfull of these processors to experiment with? Without having to dismantle loads of games machines;o)
sorry, I drifted from the point. It's just a subject I was thinking about recently as I reinstalled my software after a disk crash (thankfully I keep all my data on a flash drive).
I guess I too could be accused of not comparing apples with apples;o)
>IT types seem to not understand that great tools are well worth paying for.
Actually for me it's the otherway round; I dont mind spending money on the non-essentials, like a cruddy OS from Microsoft, but the important things - Like my image manipulation software (gimp), development software (gcc), word processing tools (open office), web browsing toy (firefox) - they must be open source. The effort I invest in understanding how to use them, maximising my productivity - that investment cannot be put at risk by placing it in closed source software. The platform it runs on, who cares?
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>Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers
:o)
I haven't yet met one that didn't think they were very bright. Industrial Designers invent stuff that takes 'ordinary' engineers years to throw away and build something else that will fly. No danger of anything happening here folks
I assume that some grey, suited MBA type didn't put this code in. A geek did. Following on from that, they are almost certainly slashdot readers....
Does anyone have something they would like to tell us?
:o)
>These bots sneak in to your list, pretend to be your friends, and if you send them a message, BAM!
Jeez, just like my ex-wife. Maybe she was a bot?
Personally, I think the best source of photo printing is at a photo lab. If a photo is worth printing out, do it properly, so it gets printed with inks that wont fade with time. And certainly in my case, it's still cheaper. Home photo printers are a costly gimick.
This has already been reported by the bbc ( more reliable than The Register ) where a camera has been used to record car licence plates on entry to a car park, and generate automatic fines if a matching parking ticket was not purchased.
:o)
The system failed miserably because it falsely recorded cars *passing by* the car park.
It's a real intrusion, but on the other hand, try getting compensation if you are in an accident with someone driving without insurance.
I'll stick to monitoring speed cameras
This reminds me of the config utility that was implemented in a text based format.
:o)
I recall the famous sequence:
>Take SCSI
> Nothing happens
>Take SCSI
> It doesn't budge
>Take SCSI
> You have SCSI
'With text games, you can sit there at the prompt, go make a sandwich, then come back
Must have been written in Java then.
Only in terms of the way it holds the unit. Like the stand used by IPAQ; you can drop it into the stand for charging and you can still see the screen. When using a travel adaptor the unit is probably laying flat with the display pointing upwards. Not much use in bed!
Has a charging cradle been announced for this thing yet? I couldn't see one on the website.
This will be ideal for bedtime web browsing once my youngest stops trying to eat shiny electronic things.
From the article
>- Skype is not standards-compliant, allowing it and any vulnerability
Dito Windows
>- Skype's encryption is closed source
Dito Windows
If those are good reasons for banning Skype, maybe we can apply them to Windows, Office document formats...
>You can't arrest someone for looking at certain things
;o)
Oh yea?
Ah. I just read the post directly above mine. Question answered :o)
I still dont get this.
../../../ to the URL in an attempt to access the site's higher directories -- an action that triggered an alarm.
>To check, he added
So are we to believe that simple act resulted in a criminal conviction? Really?
Surely there is more to it than that.
I guess he has never played zork on a mainframe :o)
>I know I was just shocked when I got my Spartan III FPGA kit.
:o)
cool! I just got a Spartan III dev board in the post last week too. First thing I did was hook it up to a monitor and twiddle a few buttons
Fancy chatting about it by email?
mikehibbett at oceanfree (dot) net
Mike.
well I wont argue with a big guy :o)
I'd forgotten that these processors are not made on the 3 micron processes like the chips I used to work on!
The Intel P4 is 15x15mm You must have very large fingernails.
Ah. When I read 'the size of your fingernail' I assumed it would be like an ARM core. Oh well. :o(
Thanks,
Mike.
That I am in the UK, although I dont think that will make much difference :o)
But I would like to know.
Mike.
Thats great news, but as an embedded systems designer and eternal tinkerer, where will I be able to buy a handfull of these processors to experiment with? Without having to dismantle loads of games machines ;o)
I saw this at the Embedded systems show in the UK last month
e d-device-servers/xport.html
http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedd
I haven't seen an ethernet solution smaller than this. Plenty of 'play' IP implementations, using slip, but not ethernet.
Mike.
How many windows do they have in South Korea? I just had seven fitted for 500 quid. I think South Korea is getting a bargin!
sorry, I drifted from the point. It's just a subject I was thinking about recently as I reinstalled my software after a disk crash (thankfully I keep all my data on a flash drive).
;o)
I guess I too could be accused of not comparing apples with apples
Mike.
>IT types seem to not understand that great tools are well worth paying for.
Actually for me it's the otherway round; I dont mind spending money on the non-essentials, like a cruddy OS from Microsoft, but the important things - Like my image manipulation software (gimp), development software (gcc), word processing tools (open office), web browsing toy (firefox) - they must be open source. The effort I invest in understanding how to use them, maximising my productivity - that investment cannot be put at risk by placing it in closed source software. The platform it runs on, who cares?