Well it depends on whether the standard "bah, lets do this customer security DRM job here and not tell anyone" method is used, or if PVR and portableVP manufacturers get together and deal with it properly.
The idea is to make it hard or costly to get at the secret, i.e., not worth it for the average person. Anyway, a 320x240 video is not going to turn anyone on these days. Make sure the portable device is not the weak point in any video delivery system.
For now the only PVPs will be from the likes of Sony, Creative and Apple. These will be locked down tight and can keep the secret key hidden inside and make it hard to get at.
Of course once the protocol is known, you could hook your computer up to the PVR and say "Hi, I want 720x480 25fps MPEG2 video, here is my key" and then proceed to decrypt and distribute. Of course, you can already do that with current PVRs, so what is the problem?
I'd assume some way that the file would be keyed to the device, e.g.:
Device -> PVR: Hi, Give me "Futurama Series 2 Episode 3" that you have recorded
PVR -> Device: OMGHI2U. What's your public key, screen size, capabilities, etc?
Device -> PVR: Here 'tis: , 320x240, MPEG4 and AVI
PVR -> Device: Cool, thanks. Here is the content transcoded to 320x240 MPEG4 encrypted with your public key
Device -> PVR: Sweet dude!
So the Device would be able to play the content legally, but it wouldn't be able to give it up to another player. The PVR might limit these Devices as well, only allowing 3 registered Devices to be used with it, to stop the PVR being the distribution point.
Plug this into the Network / Firewire / USB2 port on a TiVo (or future TiVo) and then download the videos that you have recorded on the TiVo onto your device (recoding for the devices display size of course, why store a 720x480 MPEG2 when a 320x240 MPEG4 would be better, and allow more to fit on the device?) for watching.
As TiVo, etc, appear to be fine legally, this logical extension would be. Watch that Family Guy/Simpons/film on the train to work instead of at home where the wife will bitch because she wants to watch tennis.
The benefit that China has is that it can afford to lose a few taikonauts to accidents, etc, all in the name of exploration and to benefit the country as a whole.
The western world has no guts and won't try and take a risk any more.
Expect China to become the number one space faring race within 20 years.
> So SCO could still potentially be right in saying that IBM submitted > a lot of Unix code into Linux.
That is what SCOs entire case is built upon - their claim that any code put into any form Unix by IBM, SGI, etc, automatically became SCOs property (as far as I know).
Even though the licence clearly never stated this stuff as far as I am aware. So all the claims by SCO are in bad faith and not valid.
There is no case for SCO. IBM, etc, are only taking the time to make sure that there are no holes left. I think that SCO will get owned big time when the case actually hits the court. I don't think IBM will do any last minute "agreement" with SCO either.
Copyright law allows for reasonable copying, e.g., a few pages from a book. So surely 200 lines of code out of millions would simply be laughed out of court?
... to follow the same regulations as non-VOIP providers r.e. telephony.
It shouldn't affect ad hoc setups as far as I can see (it is only data) though. It might affect larger scale free services though, like AIM/MSN voice chat.
Yes, this 12cm by 12cm board can support 5 IDE devices, 4 off of the PATA connectors, and 1 of the SATA connector. However I imagine that the PATA connectors are there for IDE flash memory.
I'd imagine the final design would have 2 SATA connectors, as the southbridge on that board supports that.
I would hope that such a small system would come with a header on the motherboard for adding a serial port, and also an IrDA header for infrared. Hopefully said header will be a standard shape, so it doesn't cost $30 to get a cable to interface with it, and a standard serial-LCD will be pluggable-in at the very least.
However considering that all of 1% of people probably need serial these days... I bet that VIA really care. A lot. Lots and lots and lots and lots. A serial port is a large connector to add to such a small system.
Wow... they need to nano-bga the chipset as well and there'll be plenty of space to incorporate all the features of the southbridge (the same that is appearing on the latest A64 and A64FX VIA motherboards).
Stick an optical output on there as well and I'll be a happy bunny.
I like how the Mini-PCI is mounted underneath the board.
All we need now are 1.8" Hard Drives with SATA interfaces! And Nano-ITX cases with suitable power supplies.
(even StarOffice, version 7 has PDF export built-in, so a StarOffice "tools" install that would include the required libraries and command line applications such as so2pdf that can be invoked without any reliance on installing the whole application on a server without X11 installed)
Sounds cool. Now is there a command line tool that can take said resultant XML file and create a PDF from it?
(would be great for certain automated server applications where there is no display, etc, and running StarOffice isn't an option because you want it automated)
Graffiti is no use when one hand is full of shopping bags and you only have one hand free.
Also, trying it briefly is hardly giving it a chance - like most data input systems it takes a little time to get used to it. Compared to 777222224448 to get rabbit, 722248 is much much faster. I found it to be around 5 times faster at least than plain-old. When "on" and "off" are a # or two apart, it really is quick.
Oddly enough the requirements of my phone were: good reception, long battery life, small, cheap. Hence my Nokia 6100.
Most mobile phones have an expandable dictionary these days, so you can add the names you need to add or use often... hence I now have the names of my friends' cats in mine...
and going from predictive [...Abc] to manual [Abc] is as simple as pressing the # key a couple of times.
And the "cup", "bus" problem, use the * key to switch between multiple definitions in the dictionary where they clash.
And with T9 predictive text, R is just one press of 7, assuming you are writing a word.
I think that kids spelling must improve with predictive text though because of the use of dictionaries, although getting punctuation and numbers is annoyingly slow - a few more buttons on a keypad for ",", "!", "?" would be useful even with T9 - there would be still many fewer buttons than on this Intel keypad, or the DeltaII or alphabetic layouts.
And T9 is handily fast for a one handed, one finger/thumb typing system. Certainly fast enough for sending an "I am on the bus, see you at the pub in twenty minutes" text.
That intel keypad looks ugly, and thus it is dead in a mobile phone market where style rules supreme, even amongst older people (who don't send texts as much, and thus won't need this anyway).
Slashdot Mirror
In the UK we've been getting SMS spam messages for years already.
Of course, the cost of sending these messages means that you don't get many, and they won't come with a 150KB attachment for no good reason.
It was in Windows, and it is because the website specified a bitmap font in the HTML.
VT:
1100 x ~300W = 330kW
1 year running 24/7 at 5c/unit: $141,000
XBox: 52000 x ~100W = 5200kW
1 year running 24/7 at 5c/unit: $2,300,000
Also why does ZDNet use a bitmap font for the article body?
Looks fugly in Firebird with larger fonts (ctrl++)
Well it depends on whether the standard "bah, lets do this customer security DRM job here and not tell anyone" method is used, or if PVR and portableVP manufacturers get together and deal with it properly.
The idea is to make it hard or costly to get at the secret, i.e., not worth it for the average person. Anyway, a 320x240 video is not going to turn anyone on these days. Make sure the portable device is not the weak point in any video delivery system.
For now the only PVPs will be from the likes of Sony, Creative and Apple. These will be locked down tight and can keep the secret key hidden inside and make it hard to get at.
Of course once the protocol is known, you could hook your computer up to the PVR and say "Hi, I want 720x480 25fps MPEG2 video, here is my key" and then proceed to decrypt and distribute. Of course, you can already do that with current PVRs, so what is the problem?
I'd assume some way that the file would be keyed to the device, e.g.:
Device -> PVR: Hi, Give me "Futurama Series 2 Episode 3" that you have recorded
PVR -> Device: OMGHI2U. What's your public key, screen size, capabilities, etc?
Device -> PVR: Here 'tis: , 320x240, MPEG4 and AVI
PVR -> Device: Cool, thanks. Here is the content transcoded to 320x240 MPEG4 encrypted with your public key
Device -> PVR: Sweet dude!
So the Device would be able to play the content legally, but it wouldn't be able to give it up to another player. The PVR might limit these Devices as well, only allowing 3 registered Devices to be used with it, to stop the PVR being the distribution point.
Plug this into the Network / Firewire / USB2 port on a TiVo (or future TiVo) and then download the videos that you have recorded on the TiVo onto your device (recoding for the devices display size of course, why store a 720x480 MPEG2 when a 320x240 MPEG4 would be better, and allow more to fit on the device?) for watching.
As TiVo, etc, appear to be fine legally, this logical extension would be. Watch that Family Guy/Simpons/film on the train to work instead of at home where the wife will bitch because she wants to watch tennis.
The benefit that China has is that it can afford to lose a few taikonauts to accidents, etc, all in the name of exploration and to benefit the country as a whole.
The western world has no guts and won't try and take a risk any more.
Expect China to become the number one space faring race within 20 years.
it props up the keyboard. Don't remove it unless you like typing at a funny angle.
... blah blah twiddle dee...
Dammit why can't slashdot accept that some people can type at more than 50wpm
> So SCO could still potentially be right in saying that IBM submitted
> a lot of Unix code into Linux.
That is what SCOs entire case is built upon - their claim that any code put into any form Unix by IBM, SGI, etc, automatically became SCOs property (as far as I know).
Even though the licence clearly never stated this stuff as far as I am aware. So all the claims by SCO are in bad faith and not valid.
There is no case for SCO. IBM, etc, are only taking the time to make sure that there are no holes left. I think that SCO will get owned big time when the case actually hits the court. I don't think IBM will do any last minute "agreement" with SCO either.
The offending code has already been removed.
Also it appears that it is all public domain code anyway, and hence free to use from the beginning.
Copyright law allows for reasonable copying, e.g., a few pages from a book. So surely 200 lines of code out of millions would simply be laughed out of court?
... to follow the same regulations as non-VOIP providers r.e. telephony.
It shouldn't affect ad hoc setups as far as I can see (it is only data) though. It might affect larger scale free services though, like AIM/MSN voice chat.
What do you think that SATA header on the motherboard is for?!
On the back is mini-PCI.
The blue connector is Serial ATA.
Yes, this 12cm by 12cm board can support 5 IDE devices, 4 off of the PATA connectors, and 1 of the SATA connector. However I imagine that the PATA connectors are there for IDE flash memory.
I'd imagine the final design would have 2 SATA connectors, as the southbridge on that board supports that.
I would hope that such a small system would come with a header on the motherboard for adding a serial port, and also an IrDA header for infrared. Hopefully said header will be a standard shape, so it doesn't cost $30 to get a cable to interface with it, and a standard serial-LCD will be pluggable-in at the very least.
... I bet that VIA really care. A lot. Lots and lots and lots and lots. A serial port is a large connector to add to such a small system.
However considering that all of 1% of people probably need serial these days
Wow ... they need to nano-bga the chipset as well and there'll be plenty of space to incorporate all the features of the southbridge (the same that is appearing on the latest A64 and A64FX VIA motherboards).
Stick an optical output on there as well and I'll be a happy bunny.
I like how the Mini-PCI is mounted underneath the board.
All we need now are 1.8" Hard Drives with SATA interfaces! And Nano-ITX cases with suitable power supplies.
Will OOo run/install with no X server installed?
(even StarOffice, version 7 has PDF export built-in, so a StarOffice "tools" install that would include the required libraries and command line applications such as so2pdf that can be invoked without any reliance on installing the whole application on a server without X11 installed)
17cm by 17cm
The board is a beta design, not the final one. It'll be a few more months yet as they get all the functionality they want onto the board sensibly.
AmigaOS4 is now booting on native PPC platforms now (well, the AmigaOne).
Sounds cool. Now is there a command line tool that can take said resultant XML file and create a PDF from it?
(would be great for certain automated server applications where there is no display, etc, and running StarOffice isn't an option because you want it automated)
Maybe a script to de-buzzword meaningless missives from above?
E.g., "We wish to engender a positive business atmosphere" => "Free beer at lunchtime"
Graffiti is no use when one hand is full of shopping bags and you only have one hand free.
Also, trying it briefly is hardly giving it a chance - like most data input systems it takes a little time to get used to it. Compared to 777222224448 to get rabbit, 722248 is much much faster. I found it to be around 5 times faster at least than plain-old. When "on" and "off" are a # or two apart, it really is quick.
Oddly enough the requirements of my phone were: good reception, long battery life, small, cheap. Hence my Nokia 6100.
> I was beginning to get worried that everything was going to converge on
...
> the standard, kludgey keypad ("Hit 7 three times for R")...
Err, that died in 2000 or so. You have enabled predictive text on your phone, haven't you?
I can get 15 wpm on a T9 keypad
Most mobile phones have an expandable dictionary these days, so you can add the names you need to add or use often... hence I now have the names of my friends' cats in mine ...
and going from predictive [...Abc] to manual [Abc] is as simple as pressing the # key a couple of times.
And the "cup", "bus" problem, use the * key to switch between multiple definitions in the dictionary where they clash.
And with T9 predictive text, R is just one press of 7, assuming you are writing a word.
I think that kids spelling must improve with predictive text though because of the use of dictionaries, although getting punctuation and numbers is annoyingly slow - a few more buttons on a keypad for ",", "!", "?" would be useful even with T9 - there would be still many fewer buttons than on this Intel keypad, or the DeltaII or alphabetic layouts.
And T9 is handily fast for a one handed, one finger/thumb typing system. Certainly fast enough for sending an "I am on the bus, see you at the pub in twenty minutes" text.
That intel keypad looks ugly, and thus it is dead in a mobile phone market where style rules supreme, even amongst older people (who don't send texts as much, and thus won't need this anyway).