There was a time when lip syncing would get your grammys taken away and have you shun by the music Industry and fans. These days it just seems commonplace.
How can they be so sure that the attacks originated from China? Sure there may have been Chinese IP addresses involved but the attackers could have been anywhere. The chinese systems could have simply been compromised and used to cover the attackers tracks.
Dell had a tendency to dump computers at the end of every quarter to inflate volume. This went on for over 2 years up until a few months ago. I know a few people who made lots of money by buying these machines, sitting on them for a month and then ebaying them once the prices on Dell home went back to normal. The whole time this was happening I never could figure out how Dell was actually making money on these systems when they were dumping them for 25%-30% less than normal price. I figured this 25% - 30% was their margin but it looks like that might not have been true.
Dude do you know how many Alkaline batteries it would take to supply the power found in a Lithium Ion battery? Not only that but do you have the $10-$20 bucks a day to keep buying these batteries?
Oh you mean rechargable batteries in standard AA, AAA, C, D packages huh? Lets assume you are using NiMH AA batteries and they get 2200 mAh. Apple claims the Lithium Polymer battery in the macbook gets about 60Wh. Now lets do a little math:
2.2Ah * 1.5V = 3.3 Wh
So basically you would need about 20 AA batteries to supply the same amount of power as the lithium polymer found in the macbook.
Its worth nothing that the Litium Ion batteries that are getting recalled are filled with a liquid electrolyte and the Lithuum Polymer batteries found in the newer macs are filled with a a solid. This is important since the problem with the sony batteries had to do with flakes of metal floating free in the liquid and eventually shorting out the two terminals inside the batteries. THe newer batteries are safe from this particular problem.
so it not going to happen? Seriously, this is going to happen one way or another. Just because the PC might not be used for browsing the web doesn't mean we won't see in in some form. Its already here if you consider a Tivo.
Watch the videos. Also, why is there no more pictures of the technology? I have never seen any screen that looked like a perfect mirror while it was "off". It seems that this alone could be worth selling.
There isn't any defect management on a flash drive. I don't believe they have any firmware at all. On a disk drive, however, the flash could be defect managed since the firmware code already exists to defect manage the disk.
With defect management it shouldn't matter. There is no way the average number of writes per sector is going to get anywhere near the limit. If a particular sector is getting close, simply switch its address with one that isn't used very often.
Since Seagate is already defect managing the disk with their firmware, I don't see it being a big challange to have it defect manage the flash as well.
Where is this rule you speak of? I always thought the FCC could basically rule whatever than feel like as indecent. Sure there are guidelines but these are not the same as rules. The FCC has basically made a politically motivated decision and it's hard to argue otherwise.
Paper trails can easily be added to existing voting systems. Rolls of adding machine paper are cheap, about 55 cents for a 150' roll at Staples. I am sure they can be had for cheaper if bought in bulk. The adding machines and the ink are cheap too. How much are we paying Diebold and the others for thier voting kiosks?
The trick is to print the vote out and let the voter see it as it prints. The voter will not be able to touch the vote, only see it. Before the voter leaves the booth the vote gets rolled up. No one sees the vote except the voter. The vote can't easily be tampered with since it will be very hard to erase the ink printed by the adding machine. Also, paper cannot be torn and attached back together without some sort of obvious tampering like tape.
There are more pluses to this method. The adding machine printers are LOUD and someone will be able to hear everytime a vote is made. If you can fit 5 votes per foot you can fit 750 votes on one of those paper rolls. A city the size of San Francisco would only need about 1000 of these rolls for the entire city. Given each roll only waying a few ounces, The total number of votes per district and all together could easily be estimated by physically weighing the votes (one person could probably carry all the votes).
Adding such a device is trivial to the windows based systems that exist. Besides every grocery store clerk in the world knows how to load those paper rolls.
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How much authenticity is left now in pop music?
There was a time when lip syncing would get your grammys taken away and have you shun by the music Industry and fans. These days it just seems commonplace.
I have been trying to get my wife to let me record her naked for years to no avail. So VHS is your secret to success?
How long until Google is as hated as Microsoft and 'do no evil' becomes a slogan of doublespeak?
How can they be so sure that the attacks originated from China? Sure there may have been Chinese IP addresses involved but the attackers could have been anywhere. The chinese systems could have simply been compromised and used to cover the attackers tracks.
Because it worked so well for iFilm.
Dell had a tendency to dump computers at the end of every quarter to inflate volume. This went on for over 2 years up until a few months ago. I know a few people who made lots of money by buying these machines, sitting on them for a month and then ebaying them once the prices on Dell home went back to normal. The whole time this was happening I never could figure out how Dell was actually making money on these systems when they were dumping them for 25%-30% less than normal price. I figured this 25% - 30% was their margin but it looks like that might not have been true.
Dude do you know how many Alkaline batteries it would take to supply the power found in a Lithium Ion battery? Not only that but do you have the $10-$20 bucks a day to keep buying these batteries?
Oh you mean rechargable batteries in standard AA, AAA, C, D packages huh? Lets assume you are using NiMH AA batteries and they get 2200 mAh. Apple claims the Lithium Polymer battery in the macbook gets about 60Wh. Now lets do a little math:
2.2Ah * 1.5V = 3.3 Wh
So basically you would need about 20 AA batteries to supply the same amount of power as the lithium polymer found in the macbook.
Its worth nothing that the Litium Ion batteries that are getting recalled are filled with a liquid electrolyte and the Lithuum Polymer batteries found in the newer macs are filled with a a solid. This is important since the problem with the sony batteries had to do with flakes of metal floating free in the liquid and eventually shorting out the two terminals inside the batteries. THe newer batteries are safe from this particular problem.
so it not going to happen? Seriously, this is going to happen one way or another. Just because the PC might not be used for browsing the web doesn't mean we won't see in in some form. Its already here if you consider a Tivo.
You forgot to mention the fact that Huntsville is heavily religious, conservative and their entire engineering industry is government funded defense.
It doesn't run on hydrogen only a lithium ion battery. What is so special about this?
Now I can have photographic memory.
Watch the videos. Also, why is there no more pictures of the technology? I have never seen any screen that looked like a perfect mirror while it was "off". It seems that this alone could be worth selling.
I get 3MB cable for $20 a month from Charter Communications. No contracts and I don't have to have cable TV service. I live in Long Beach, CA.
There isn't any defect management on a flash drive. I don't believe they have any firmware at all. On a disk drive, however, the flash could be defect managed since the firmware code already exists to defect manage the disk.
It almost gets to the windows loading screen before the battery dies.
With defect management it shouldn't matter. There is no way the average number of writes per sector is going to get anywhere near the limit. If a particular sector is getting close, simply switch its address with one that isn't used very often.
Since Seagate is already defect managing the disk with their firmware, I don't see it being a big challange to have it defect manage the flash as well.
6bone shutting down on 6-6-6?
Hmmm...
Step 1. Write buggy code.
Step 2. Charge for fixing security holes.
Step 3. Profit.
With the brand recognition of Google maybe the cell providers won't be able to simply disable the feature and pretend they are selling the same phone.
I feel so much better now.
OMG Steve Jobs is sO cUtE!!!
Ebay. Search for dell+9400+7800. There are some available in this price range.
honestly think about tron without the image of the tron guy coming to mind?
Where is this rule you speak of? I always thought the FCC could basically rule whatever than feel like as indecent. Sure there are guidelines but these are not the same as rules. The FCC has basically made a politically motivated decision and it's hard to argue otherwise.
Paper trails can easily be added to existing voting systems. Rolls of adding machine paper are cheap, about 55 cents for a 150' roll at Staples. I am sure they can be had for cheaper if bought in bulk. The adding machines and the ink are cheap too. How much are we paying Diebold and the others for thier voting kiosks?
The trick is to print the vote out and let the voter see it as it prints. The voter will not be able to touch the vote, only see it. Before the voter leaves the booth the vote gets rolled up. No one sees the vote except the voter. The vote can't easily be tampered with since it will be very hard to erase the ink printed by the adding machine. Also, paper cannot be torn and attached back together without some sort of obvious tampering like tape.
There are more pluses to this method. The adding machine printers are LOUD and someone will be able to hear everytime a vote is made. If you can fit 5 votes per foot you can fit 750 votes on one of those paper rolls. A city the size of San Francisco would only need about 1000 of these rolls for the entire city. Given each roll only waying a few ounces, The total number of votes per district and all together could easily be estimated by physically weighing the votes (one person could probably carry all the votes).
Adding such a device is trivial to the windows based systems that exist. Besides every grocery store clerk in the world knows how to load those paper rolls.