What a pity. But I guess you can't really base a business model on giving away free hardware. Which brings me to the question...how long till the people that make the Swiftboard go down? I know I got one of their free keyboards (and I think most people who signed up for one didn't get it)...and got alternate configurable drivers from the website of the people who manufacture it (Silitek). It works very nicely. You just don't give nice things like that for free.
I wasn't that impressed with the OLEDs - many of the LCD displays outperformed them, and seem to have fewer lifespan issues
Of course Organic LEDs have short lifespans. There's only how long an array of fireflies will live...
They have also updated their policy on monitors. Now when they become unreadable, instead of destroying them, they will have somebody clean the whiteout off. They're now trying to figure out what to do when the mouse gets jerky because of the accumulated dirt.
It seems that a lot of people worry about keys being stolen/snooped. What about hardware-based encryption? Imagine this: your key is only stored in a usb device (it can provide power, and can be swapped easily). When your e-mail program wants to sign or decrypt, it sends the message to the device, which, with its dedicated processor, does all the work and then returns the output. They key never gets into the computer, and it can only be programmed with a new key by flipping a hardware switch. It is small enough to carry around and lock up (I'm thinking cuecat size). It is widely available and overclockable (hey, we need to have fun with it too). It comes in neon colors for all those mac users out there. It gets you dates. Well, maybe not that one, but you never know. Make it and you have at least one sure buyer. Or you could do the same with a laptop/PDA and transfer the data in a non-snoopable way, like floppies, but that's not as nifty.
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What a pity. But I guess you can't really base a business model on giving away free hardware. Which brings me to the question...how long till the people that make the Swiftboard go down? I know I got one of their free keyboards (and I think most people who signed up for one didn't get it)...and got alternate configurable drivers from the website of the people who manufacture it (Silitek). It works very nicely. You just don't give nice things like that for free.
This was my 2 cents. They just got devaluated...
I wasn't that impressed with the OLEDs - many of the LCD displays outperformed them, and seem to have fewer lifespan issues
Of course Organic LEDs have short lifespans. There's only how long an array of fireflies will live...
They have also updated their policy on monitors. Now when they become unreadable, instead of destroying them, they will have somebody clean the whiteout off. They're now trying to figure out what to do when the mouse gets jerky because of the accumulated dirt.
It seems that a lot of people worry about keys being stolen/snooped. What about hardware-based encryption? Imagine this: your key is only stored in a usb device (it can provide power, and can be swapped easily). When your e-mail program wants to sign or decrypt, it sends the message to the device, which, with its dedicated processor, does all the work and then returns the output. They key never gets into the computer, and it can only be programmed with a new key by flipping a hardware switch. It is small enough to carry around and lock up (I'm thinking cuecat size). It is widely available and overclockable (hey, we need to have fun with it too). It comes in neon colors for all those mac users out there. It gets you dates. Well, maybe not that one, but you never know. Make it and you have at least one sure buyer. Or you could do the same with a laptop/PDA and transfer the data in a non-snoopable way, like floppies, but that's not as nifty.