The design will allow for PCI-Express connections. A 1x PCI-Express link allows for 400MB/s of data transfer - a lot more than Firewire. However I expect the first generation of ExpressCards will use the USB2 connector functionality, as that is more widespread now.
PCI-X is a 64-bit wide bus for server applications. If you used that for a laptop expansion card it would be massive. This is the most silly idea ever.
However modern laptops appear to have most things a person could want implemented already. I suppose I can see an ExpressCard with a SATA controller so you can plug in your external SATA hard drive, etc, though... or an ExpressCard graphics controller so you can connect up another monitor to your desktop replacement.
Bitboys Oy (whom I assume you mean) have a graphics chip out actually. Not quite a desktop killer, given that it is low power and designed for mobile applications, but they have a product. finally.
now they'll have to design Micro-BTX, Flex-BTX and Mini-BTX designs as well;)
(oh, and can they put the heavy power supply at the bottom of the case with the new design... and the processor UNDER the expansion cards, and... and... mebbe something like the form factor that Apple are using for their G5)
Basically Nominet has types of registrations, one of which is IND (for INDIVIDUAL).
Individuals can opt-out of having their whois information displayed in a whois query by asking their registrar to opt them out (a couple of minute administrative task).
This appears to me to be a simple and logical answer to the entire problem.
To be honest, what the end user sees as the OS is the interface. They shouldn't care that they are running Linux or FreeBSD, only that they are running KDE or Gnome.
So at home I run Linux/KDE and FreeBSD/KDE. I'll give Gnome another try when the file dialog is brought into the 90's.
The RIAA keep portraying it as "theft", "stealing", etc... but it is actually only a copyright breach. Yeah, it is illegal, but supply and demand (high demand for music, one supply is overpriced and the prices are fixed by a massive cartel, another is free but at lower quality) mean that as long as the prices of CDs are high, people will go elsewhere for music.
In many people's cases, file sharing allows them to find new music, which they will then buy IF they can even find it in the shops. Most people like to be legal and own the real thing, whatever the IRA, sorry RIAA, say.
Fact is, most illegal music downloads are made by those without the money to buy it anyway at the current prices (no loss to RIAA), such as students and impoverished people. We were promised cheaper CDs at the launch, but the price has only gone up even as the cost of making them has dropped massively. I'd imagine that a $10 store price would be much more amenable that a $16, or even $12 (for UK: 8 vs 14). I'd buy a lot more music if the price was reasonable.
Music is no longer a luxury. It is a commodity. It should be priced as such. People want to buy more music for less, not buy a few bits of music.
Also, a lot of the teenage music sales drop is due to the teenagers spending their money on mobile phones and ringtones. They only have a bit of money to spend, and the current trend is NOT music.
Deal with, RIAA. You don't control the market, the market controls you. Hmmm, should that be: "In Soviet Russia... ":)
The RIAA is like the ferry boat owner complaining about the new bridge.
Agreed. If he wanted to perform white hat hacking, he should have approached the companies involved and asked for a job to test their security. Hell, he'd have earned money that way as well.
But he did commit a crime - he broke into and entered their systems without permission. Sure, he did it for a good reason in his own head, and wasn't going to be malicious... but it isn't as if he was doing the internet equivalent of rescuing the baby in a house fire.
I don't know about you, but (1) you missed the point of the joke and (2) I prefer to not have puddles of cum lying around my already cramped armageddon shelter, thank you very much.
Also, being married, I have a pretty damned good idea of what sex is like. Well, being married, I used to anyway...
You might want certificates for a certain email address or subdomain of the domain name.
The best you might get is a certificate parented off of the registrar's own certificate and the ability for the administrator of the domain name to create more certificates off of that certificate. I don't see companies wanting to give up such a lucrative product however so easily, and I don't see that being free when you pay sweet FA for domain names these days.
And whilst the cost of certificates is ridiculously high for what you get, the details are checked to a reasonable extent, at least with the more mainstream certificate authorities.
Of course, certificates can be used as another means of validating your email. The mail client could have a rule such as "Move all untrusted e-mail into folder 'Not Verified'", and it will have things like "Reject all e-mail authorised via SpammerCA"...
"Best View with 24bit color, 800x600 resolution and IE4.0 above (R)2000 Copyright by BONA and all rights reserved" - what, to see the blue words "Embedded System"?
I'd also like to assign notes to e-mails, especially handy on shared e-mail folders. I haven't looked into this, but I thought how handy it would be just recently.
Hmmm... not too sure about this
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Too many graphical things and too much wasted space in the GUI.
Things like the graphical "MailCenter" image will never get fixed for UK English spelling.
The View Mail window DOESN'T EVEN HAVE the From: field... it has no fields. What kind of backwards retarded interface is this?
I'll stick with the sensible KMail for my e-mail, kaddressbook for my contacts, etc.
Yeah. I know. I read the article. It just wasn't clear on whether this new code was just printed or required the incorporation of a microchip-transmitter device to work effectively.
Still, a 96-bit "barcode" is 24 hex digits on the label under whatever pattern they use. They had better hope that scanning these new EPC codes is pretty damned near faultless, or the checkout person will be forever typing!
When I go shopping I reckon that it is 1 item in 50 that needs more than one swipe through the barcode reader... you must shop at a place that never upgraded their readers since they purchased the original ones in the 70's...
Moving to 14 digits will mean 100x more possible barcodes. Moving to 14 bits from 12 would mean 4x as many!
I'm unimpressed with this invention because in the 70's barcodes encoded around 40 bits of information at near zero cost apart from using some space on the label... all they've managed to double the number of bits at significantly higher cost.
and in the article is says that the cost is currently in the 5c to 10c range per device... I expect that they'd need to get the cost into the.1c to.5c range for items that cost less than a dollar.
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The design will allow for PCI-Express connections. A 1x PCI-Express link allows for 400MB/s of data transfer - a lot more than Firewire. However I expect the first generation of ExpressCards will use the USB2 connector functionality, as that is more widespread now.
PCI-X is a 64-bit wide bus for server applications. If you used that for a laptop expansion card it would be massive. This is the most silly idea ever.
However modern laptops appear to have most things a person could want implemented already. I suppose I can see an ExpressCard with a SATA controller so you can plug in your external SATA hard drive, etc, though... or an ExpressCard graphics controller so you can connect up another monitor to your desktop replacement.
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Hmmm, does OpenOffice do the PDF export by the way, or is this a StarOffice only feature?
Bitboys Oy (whom I assume you mean) have a graphics chip out actually. Not quite a desktop killer, given that it is low power and designed for mobile applications, but they have a product. finally.
Viewing the PDF is a pipe dream for most of us right now :(
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I hope there is an Extended-BTX as well
now they'll have to design Micro-BTX, Flex-BTX and Mini-BTX designs as well ;)
... and the processor UNDER the expansion cards, and ... and ... mebbe something like the form factor that Apple are using for their G5)
(oh, and can they put the heavy power supply at the bottom of the case with the new design
Basically Nominet has types of registrations, one of which is IND (for INDIVIDUAL).
Individuals can opt-out of having their whois information displayed in a whois query by asking their registrar to opt them out (a couple of minute administrative task).
This appears to me to be a simple and logical answer to the entire problem.
I'm quite happy for KDE and Gnome to stay apart.
To be honest, what the end user sees as the OS is the interface. They shouldn't care that they are running Linux or FreeBSD, only that they are running KDE or Gnome.
So at home I run Linux/KDE and FreeBSD/KDE. I'll give Gnome another try when the file dialog is brought into the 90's.
The RIAA keep portraying it as "theft", "stealing", etc... but it is actually only a copyright breach. Yeah, it is illegal, but supply and demand (high demand for music, one supply is overpriced and the prices are fixed by a massive cartel, another is free but at lower quality) mean that as long as the prices of CDs are high, people will go elsewhere for music.
... " :)
In many people's cases, file sharing allows them to find new music, which they will then buy IF they can even find it in the shops. Most people like to be legal and own the real thing, whatever the IRA, sorry RIAA, say.
Fact is, most illegal music downloads are made by those without the money to buy it anyway at the current prices (no loss to RIAA), such as students and impoverished people. We were promised cheaper CDs at the launch, but the price has only gone up even as the cost of making them has dropped massively. I'd imagine that a $10 store price would be much more amenable that a $16, or even $12 (for UK: 8 vs 14). I'd buy a lot more music if the price was reasonable.
Music is no longer a luxury. It is a commodity. It should be priced as such. People want to buy more music for less, not buy a few bits of music.
Also, a lot of the teenage music sales drop is due to the teenagers spending their money on mobile phones and ringtones. They only have a bit of money to spend, and the current trend is NOT music.
Deal with, RIAA. You don't control the market, the market controls you. Hmmm, should that be: "In Soviet Russia
The RIAA is like the ferry boat owner complaining about the new bridge.
Agreed. If he wanted to perform white hat hacking, he should have approached the companies involved and asked for a job to test their security. Hell, he'd have earned money that way as well.
... but it isn't as if he was doing the internet equivalent of rescuing the baby in a house fire.
But he did commit a crime - he broke into and entered their systems without permission. Sure, he did it for a good reason in his own head, and wasn't going to be malicious
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WHOA! That is massive.
How about being useful and putting the player size up instead of the size of the box it comes in?
It this was around 2 or 3" long then I can see a use for it, although I'd still rather pay more for an iPod and get 50x more storage at least.
You and Tiddles the cat.
I don't know about you, but (1) you missed the point of the joke and (2) I prefer to not have puddles of cum lying around my already cramped armageddon shelter, thank you very much.
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Also, being married, I have a pretty damned good idea of what sex is like. Well, being married, I used to anyway
Use that sharp bit of metal in the computer case that you *always* cut yourself on, regardless of what you are doing!
Ack! I forgot a toilet!
This is not the time to become emotional over your 10 year old collection of Linux CDs and other such media. You have to concentrate on what matters.
1) A large box of porn magazines and tissues may help pass the time in your underground den of geekdom.
2) Generator + oil
3) Low energy lighting (optional if you live by TFT monitor glare), and low energy computers - that oil is precious
4) A collection of the essential programming books, and the top 30 games, plus the entire MAME collection
5) A futon, so you can both sleep, and sit back and relax (e.g., with previously mentioned porn) - space will be limited
6) Spares: hard drives, OS install disks, CD/DVD/CDRW drives, power supplies, processors, mice, keyboards
7) High energy food source and water. It might be worth dedicating around 50% of your shelter to alcoholic beverages in addition.
8) Pens, Pencils and Paper
9) Shortwave radio
10) Girl
Damn Motorola and their kiss of mediocre products ... :D
Domains and Certificates aren't the same thing.
You might want certificates for a certain email address or subdomain of the domain name.
The best you might get is a certificate parented off of the registrar's own certificate and the ability for the administrator of the domain name to create more certificates off of that certificate. I don't see companies wanting to give up such a lucrative product however so easily, and I don't see that being free when you pay sweet FA for domain names these days.
And whilst the cost of certificates is ridiculously high for what you get, the details are checked to a reasonable extent, at least with the more mainstream certificate authorities.
Of course, certificates can be used as another means of validating your email. The mail client could have a rule such as "Move all untrusted e-mail into folder 'Not Verified'", and it will have things like "Reject all e-mail authorised via SpammerCA"...
I sussed that you had to add index1.htm to the URL and it works. not that I can find the motherboard in question, but they have lots of other boards.
What a useless website.
"Best View with 24bit color, 800x600 resolution and IE4.0 above (R)2000 Copyright by BONA and all rights reserved" - what, to see the blue words "Embedded System"?
I'd also like to assign notes to e-mails, especially handy on shared e-mail folders. I haven't looked into this, but I thought how handy it would be just recently.
Too many graphical things and too much wasted space in the GUI.
... it has no fields. What kind of backwards retarded interface is this?
Things like the graphical "MailCenter" image will never get fixed for UK English spelling.
The View Mail window DOESN'T EVEN HAVE the From: field
I'll stick with the sensible KMail for my e-mail, kaddressbook for my contacts, etc.
Yeah. I know. I read the article. It just wasn't clear on whether this new code was just printed or required the incorporation of a microchip-transmitter device to work effectively.
Ah right, maybe that is right.
Still, a 96-bit "barcode" is 24 hex digits on the label under whatever pattern they use. They had better hope that scanning these new EPC codes is pretty damned near faultless, or the checkout person will be forever typing!
When I go shopping I reckon that it is 1 item in 50 that needs more than one swipe through the barcode reader... you must shop at a place that never upgraded their readers since they purchased the original ones in the 70's...
12 digits != 12 bits
... all they've managed to double the number of bits at significantly higher cost.
... I expect that they'd need to get the cost into the .1c to .5c range for items that cost less than a dollar.
Moving to 14 digits will mean 100x more possible barcodes.
Moving to 14 bits from 12 would mean 4x as many!
I'm unimpressed with this invention because in the 70's barcodes encoded around 40 bits of information at near zero cost apart from using some space on the label
and in the article is says that the cost is currently in the 5c to 10c range per device