Im really not trying to troll here but big deal!? a screen that can display things, whats new? this could have been done 50 years ago with a tv screen linked to a camera pointing at a slide. True it would have cost loads but so does this - not to mention the cost of buying a new plasma screen when the old one gets burn-in. The product is entirely aimed at people with lots of money, its not in the slightest bit amazing or cool! If the whole set-up including screen and and reader cost $50 and was the thickness of a picture frame and had a network connection and used a tiny amount of power _then_ it would be cool, but as it is anyone could have done this, even a non-engineer could have thought of something like connecting their computers tv-out to the screen and putting a desktop background up, please someone explain how this is innovative or interesting?
I've seen the Hypersound technology banded around over the years, not sure what its actual name is or how it works (something to do with modulating the sound with a higher frequency maybe) but its basically a highly directional speaker that can only affect a specific area and once you move out of that area the sound quickly goes. Looks impressive, ive only seen it on TV science shows but it seems to work. Even so it would probably be simpler to have the screens in a more enclosed space so you could get better sound quality.
Your right about the video - putting massive amounts of HDTV over the internet is just not going to work, they should use a dedicated link - who wants to fund a satellite?;)
Actually sounds like a good idea, i've seen big screens being wasted on much more pointless projects (namely that stupid coke sign that looks suspiciously like a giant flash application). I can imagine the fun drunk people will have at night with it;) I dont know how its going to work or how much it will cost but it would be cool to walk into a square and have live screens all around europe/the world and it seems like the sort of thing that would bring people of countries together and make them less ignorent of eachother.
Im now very confused, its rare that we get actual cool uses of technology that dont involve selling something, screwing someone over or something that doesnt work?
Well what do you expect if your still using the same basic engine 100 years on. Cars are very badly designed machines, just look at the clutch - 2 spinning disks grinding against each other every time you start or change gear they wear down abit. Sitting in traffic jams and moving an extra 3 meters every 2 minutes have you ever stopped to think how utterly and totally pointless that is? all that work just to move a large piece of metal 3 meters so it can sit there for another 2 minutes wasting more energy.
As geeks everyone here should understand this and feel it everytime they're in a car, would you run a program on a BASIC interpreter that was running on a JVM that was running on a Windows OS emulation on a Mac OS 9 emulation on Mac OS X that was running on emulated Mac hardware on a PC? no, because that would be bloody ineffecient and would make you feel like strangling yourself (would be impressive tho;)
There are some screen shots missing from that site, namely the error message saying "a non-drm enabled media file has been detected and removed from your computer"
Its cutting off your nose to spite your face sort of thing, and is probably something that OS is just going to have to live with for the moment until the concept of OS wins over and eventually is the norm.
Im kind of confused, you mean that these people went out to a computer shop late at night and.. bought a point upgrade to their new OS? Why would they do that? do none of them have broadband and a filesharing client? oh oh maybe are they all such moral people that they have to pay for everything? Dude this has totally freaked me out, please explain
As more an more electronic devices become submitable evidence, how long before theres a serious look at tampering? Like everything else, eventually the specs for these boxes will be on the net and then you'll be able to go to your car and download or upload data too them and unless they are designed right (which by the sound of things they are just for airbag research) you'll be able to modify the data without leaving a trace. If somethings intended to be used in court then it should be designed that way if it can.
How many MS Office users (any version) use anymore than the most basic features. AFAIK im one of the few that even bothers to use style settings for heading trees etc. Im willing to bet that you could drop-in replace around 90% of MS Office installations with OpenOffice and the user would barely notice (even the start up time is pretty decent now). I just feel sorry for people like this who actually paid the full price for Office and i think we should start a charity to help them?
"Sell a man an Office license and he'll be productive until the next upgrade. Teach a man the url for OpenOffice and he'll be productive forever"
Well Microsoft has certainly implemented a far more advanced DRM (sorry IRM) system than OpenOffice but then im not sure if usless features that no-one asked for except dumb PHB's counts?
Also if you take Bills quote out of context you get: "what the free software has is greater today than it's ever been," [Bill Gates];)
Microsoft bashing office so people will upgrade to 2003 made me ROFL! they really are desparate to get people into 2003 all at the same time otherwise the DRM crap they've stuck in there will be useless. Good thing i upgraded months ago.. to OpenOffice;) Just make sure that if your sent any DRM'd office docs or emails that you pass them through the latest crack tool and convert them to old office, im just going to refuse to work with any DRM'd files.
Microsoft is trying to spread this like a "cancer" (hint hint) as people start down-grading to the next gen of office, other people wont be able to read email from them anymore, this will lead to these people eventually giving up and going to Microsoft. Ofcourse if they think students will pay 120 for that crap then Bill Gates must be on crack, but even if people do pirate it it will like giving in. Microsoft will then tie this into "licensed" emailing to reduce spam and will be seen as the good guys for it.
Just hope we can crack this bull-shit attempt at DRM in record time:P
No the side-effects of the bomb were known but under-played. The best minds of the time helped create it and they knew full well that it was not just a big bomb, the test and results before hiroshima confirmed it. After hiroshima they did it again knowing even more about it, and straight after that they continued mass over-ground testing for years.
To the American millitary theres no such thing as friendly fire - ammo is cheap (well not that cheap but they sure have plenty) and the only thing bombing a friendly or civilian target does is inconvienience them (they have to go back and do it a again) or at the worst, depending on the target, cause a PR problem which can soon be patched up by "The Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy" (spin doctor) - In the field, it's bombing the crap out of anything that moves that counts.
But then again, at least this gives us (US) the moral high ground when it comes to demanding "fair" play on the battlefield.
Recent (and past - hiroshima, nagasaki) events have shown that the US government just re-defines moral high-ground and then shouts "look over there a chicken!"
When i first saw a palmpilot i thought YES that is the shape of a PDA and it has been eversince. Just like the pads on star-trek its the perfect form and style.
But then the beauty of the phone is that its an all in one - even older phones have atleast a calender and its just one thing to keep hold of.
At various points politicians have discussed mandatory key-escrow/backdoors, but also i was thinking of it being illigal to own various DMCA violating code - eg DeCSS. Its entirely feasable that all sorts of circumvention devices could be used in war but would be illigal because of the DMCA
We should all get together and go down to his club, then instead of going in, stand out side screaming various slogans like "Reduce your loan payments" "Enlarge your member" "Teen XXX" and while legally staying off the premisis, be an eye-sore in the way so he cant get "real" customers through as easily. Basically do something that parallels spam in terms of annoyance. Or im sad and have too much time on my hands - but seriously you guys we have to piss this guy off somehow!
Well firstly the freedom of speech/human rights crap was a switch and bait - you simply cant get the publics attention these days without something jucy. The rest is directly proportional to their progress in the Orwellian model (See "Animal Farm") Theres a gap between a political system becoming fully corrupt, and we call this the "buffer zone". To maintain a healthy government its important to stop them before they pass a given threshold of corruption. Let me give you an example:
You buy some milk and you think "ok i got milk, thats that out of the way." But obviously the milk starts to go bad (like my spelling), at first its minimal and then it gets noticable, at that point you simply have to chuck it out and buy some more. The same happens with the Orwellian model.
At the bad point you have to chuck the government out and start fresh with some un-corrupted politicians. "Chucking out" can mean any number of things - revolution, coup, assasination, or just built in expiry (the 2 term rule). Power corrupts everyone and the only way is to regularly replace them.
In this day and age, writing to your MP or Senator just has no effect. Instead you should send cash or blackmail threats. However, many people simply dont have enough money to initiate a bribe, but dont worry! thanks to capitalism, you'll soon be able to bribe someone even on a low budget! Bribe Agencies will allow many people to concentrate their money into one bribe which can be sent to any participating politician (i.e all of them). I for one cannot wait for this, it will open up bribery to even the poor!
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Im really not trying to troll here but big deal!? a screen that can display things, whats new? this could have been done 50 years ago with a tv screen linked to a camera pointing at a slide. True it would have cost loads but so does this - not to mention the cost of buying a new plasma screen when the old one gets burn-in. The product is entirely aimed at people with lots of money, its not in the slightest bit amazing or cool! If the whole set-up including screen and and reader cost $50 and was the thickness of a picture frame and had a network connection and used a tiny amount of power _then_ it would be cool, but as it is anyone could have done this, even a non-engineer could have thought of something like connecting their computers tv-out to the screen and putting a desktop background up, please someone explain how this is innovative or interesting?
I've seen the Hypersound technology banded around over the years, not sure what its actual name is or how it works (something to do with modulating the sound with a higher frequency maybe) but its basically a highly directional speaker that can only affect a specific area and once you move out of that area the sound quickly goes. Looks impressive, ive only seen it on TV science shows but it seems to work. Even so it would probably be simpler to have the screens in a more enclosed space so you could get better sound quality.
;)
Your right about the video - putting massive amounts of HDTV over the internet is just not going to work, they should use a dedicated link - who wants to fund a satellite?
Actually sounds like a good idea, i've seen big screens being wasted on much more pointless projects (namely that stupid coke sign that looks suspiciously like a giant flash application). I can imagine the fun drunk people will have at night with it ;) I dont know how its going to work or how much it will cost but it would be cool to walk into a square and have live screens all around europe/the world and it seems like the sort of thing that would bring people of countries together and make them less ignorent of eachother.
Im now very confused, its rare that we get actual cool uses of technology that dont involve selling something, screwing someone over or something that doesnt work?
Well what do you expect if your still using the same basic engine 100 years on. Cars are very badly designed machines, just look at the clutch - 2 spinning disks grinding against each other every time you start or change gear they wear down abit. Sitting in traffic jams and moving an extra 3 meters every 2 minutes have you ever stopped to think how utterly and totally pointless that is? all that work just to move a large piece of metal 3 meters so it can sit there for another 2 minutes wasting more energy.
;)
As geeks everyone here should understand this and feel it everytime they're in a car, would you run a program on a BASIC interpreter that was running on a JVM that was running on a Windows OS emulation on a Mac OS 9 emulation on Mac OS X that was running on emulated Mac hardware on a PC? no, because that would be bloody ineffecient and would make you feel like strangling yourself (would be impressive tho
There are some screen shots missing from that site, namely the error message saying "a non-drm enabled media file has been detected and removed from your computer"
Its cutting off your nose to spite your face sort of thing, and is probably something that OS is just going to have to live with for the moment until the concept of OS wins over and eventually is the norm.
Im kind of confused, you mean that these people went out to a computer shop late at night and.. bought a point upgrade to their new OS? Why would they do that? do none of them have broadband and a filesharing client? oh oh maybe are they all such moral people that they have to pay for everything? Dude this has totally freaked me out, please explain
As more an more electronic devices become submitable evidence, how long before theres a serious look at tampering? Like everything else, eventually the specs for these boxes will be on the net and then you'll be able to go to your car and download or upload data too them and unless they are designed right (which by the sound of things they are just for airbag research) you'll be able to modify the data without leaving a trace. If somethings intended to be used in court then it should be designed that way if it can.
How many MS Office users (any version) use anymore than the most basic features. AFAIK im one of the few that even bothers to use style settings for heading trees etc. Im willing to bet that you could drop-in replace around 90% of MS Office installations with OpenOffice and the user would barely notice (even the start up time is pretty decent now). I just feel sorry for people like this who actually paid the full price for Office and i think we should start a charity to help them?
"Sell a man an Office license and he'll be productive until the next upgrade. Teach a man the url for OpenOffice and he'll be productive forever"
Well Microsoft has certainly implemented a far more advanced DRM (sorry IRM) system than OpenOffice but then im not sure if usless features that no-one asked for except dumb PHB's counts?
;)
Also if you take Bills quote out of context you get: "what the free software has is greater today than it's ever been," [Bill Gates]
How does Microsofts TCPA fit with spyware/adware? will gatorsoft just need to buy a license from Microsoft to invade machines?
Microsoft bashing office so people will upgrade to 2003 made me ROFL! they really are desparate to get people into 2003 all at the same time otherwise the DRM crap they've stuck in there will be useless. Good thing i upgraded months ago.. to OpenOffice ;) Just make sure that if your sent any DRM'd office docs or emails that you pass them through the latest crack tool and convert them to old office, im just going to refuse to work with any DRM'd files.
Microsoft is trying to spread this like a "cancer" (hint hint) as people start down-grading to the next gen of office, other people wont be able to read email from them anymore, this will lead to these people eventually giving up and going to Microsoft. Ofcourse if they think students will pay 120 for that crap then Bill Gates must be on crack, but even if people do pirate it it will like giving in. Microsoft will then tie this into "licensed" emailing to reduce spam and will be seen as the good guys for it.
Just hope we can crack this bull-shit attempt at DRM in record time:P
No the side-effects of the bomb were known but under-played. The best minds of the time helped create it and they knew full well that it was not just a big bomb, the test and results before hiroshima confirmed it. After hiroshima they did it again knowing even more about it, and straight after that they continued mass over-ground testing for years.
To the American millitary theres no such thing as friendly fire - ammo is cheap (well not that cheap but they sure have plenty) and the only thing bombing a friendly or civilian target does is inconvienience them (they have to go back and do it a again) or at the worst, depending on the target, cause a PR problem which can soon be patched up by "The Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy" (spin doctor) - In the field, it's bombing the crap out of anything that moves that counts.
But then again, at least this gives us (US) the moral high ground when it comes to demanding "fair" play on the battlefield.
Recent (and past - hiroshima, nagasaki) events have shown that the US government just re-defines moral high-ground and then shouts "look over there a chicken!"
Or.. we hope: disappearing leaders like Bush ;) i wouldnt mind pointing one of those things up his ass!
When i first saw a palmpilot i thought YES that is the shape of a PDA and it has been eversince. Just like the pads on star-trek its the perfect form and style.
But then the beauty of the phone is that its an all in one - even older phones have atleast a calender and its just one thing to keep hold of.
At various points politicians have discussed mandatory key-escrow/backdoors, but also i was thinking of it being illigal to own various DMCA violating code - eg DeCSS. Its entirely feasable that all sorts of circumvention devices could be used in war but would be illigal because of the DMCA
We should all get together and go down to his club, then instead of going in, stand out side screaming various slogans like "Reduce your loan payments" "Enlarge your member" "Teen XXX" and while legally staying off the premisis, be an eye-sore in the way so he cant get "real" customers through as easily. Basically do something that parallels spam in terms of annoyance. Or im sad and have too much time on my hands - but seriously you guys we have to piss this guy off somehow!
Im very confused, does this mean i cant search for "I Hate Microsoft" sites?
Well firstly the freedom of speech/human rights crap was a switch and bait - you simply cant get the publics attention these days without something jucy. The rest is directly proportional to their progress in the Orwellian model (See "Animal Farm") Theres a gap between a political system becoming fully corrupt, and we call this the "buffer zone". To maintain a healthy government its important to stop them before they pass a given threshold of corruption. Let me give you an example:
You buy some milk and you think "ok i got milk, thats that out of the way." But obviously the milk starts to go bad (like my spelling), at first its minimal and then it gets noticable, at that point you simply have to chuck it out and buy some more. The same happens with the Orwellian model.
At the bad point you have to chuck the government out and start fresh with some un-corrupted politicians. "Chucking out" can mean any number of things - revolution, coup, assasination, or just built in expiry (the 2 term rule). Power corrupts everyone and the only way is to regularly replace them.
In this day and age, writing to your MP or Senator just has no effect. Instead you should send cash or blackmail threats. However, many people simply dont have enough money to initiate a bribe, but dont worry! thanks to capitalism, you'll soon be able to bribe someone even on a low budget! Bribe Agencies will allow many people to concentrate their money into one bribe which can be sent to any participating politician (i.e all of them). I for one cannot wait for this, it will open up bribery to even the poor!
This must have some sexual use, i just cant put my finger on it ;)
A water break? what sort of club is this??