This is sort of silly. The pen is not the transport mechanism. Both computers simply retrieve the file from the same place. This implies that both systems already had access and rights to it. You're just copying the URL to the resource on a file server somewhere. You can do that with copy and paste in an email, but that's not what pasting a photo in an email is, at all.
This is a lot different then walking up to a stranger at a trade show, and having your PDAs swap business cards over IR. That is actually the transfer of new data.
Is this why burn victims strike people so oddly? Everyone reacts differently to them, but not usually in a normal way. Once these poor people loose their identities, they become something else, to everyone else. It's not fair to them, they're still them!
If anyone is interested in the XPort FPGA and I/O Adaptor used in this project, there is a good article about it, in the May 2004 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. They use it as a spectrum analyzer, and said it's very easy to use. Almost any set of I/Os is possible, making it a super simple embedded platform. I just read it this morning, and am thinking of getting it myself. Sadly, the article on the website is $$ to view. But, if you're interested in the device, it would be worth paying to view it.
Have you ever tried to configure any Cisco equipment? Even if you had the password, you'd give up in frustration after a few minutes. The only ones who can do it, are the ones who have a lot of experience with it. That's the real security of the plan!
Putting a PDA into a gaming device. Adding a touch screen to something to make it seem more functional.
It's a great idea, and I used to be a big cheerleader of the Game.com, but it ends up just turning it into a gimmick. As long as they keep the 'normal' Game Boys, then I invite Nintendo to try anything they feel.
I worked at a printer for a few days one summer, and did cards for a Snapple cap game. These were the cards that you could mail and request for no-purchase necessary. They were VERY careful about counting. Every stack was checked again and again. There were agents there to keep watch, and the grand prize winner cards, of which there were enough that all of the winners could be mail-in, were checked and rechecked around breaktime and quitting time. It was VERY stressful, to say the least, but a bit of insight anyway.
Would Windows still have been attacked by Sasser, if no one had revealed the vulnerability?
Maybe the conservatives are right, maybe we should keep bugs a secret.
I normally don't feel so bitter, but I've been fixing Windows boxes for the past couple days because of it.
Well, it was released at a time when there was only 2 years to release, and a couple months before, only a year to release. I'm afraid that they were getting ready to release it in '04 before someone pointed out to them how much work it still needed.
The evolution of Chicago was similiar. The early builds seen in 1994 were sellable/releasable, but weren't nearly as nice as the final Windows 95 turned out to be. (Which 9 years later, looks lame)
Finally, an affordable release of TOS. The original release was paired episodes on DVD for about $30. That is a very high price point. Coming from a monthly by-mail subscription, it was a good deal, but these box sets should bring it down even further. I have the $700 tied up in the TNG sets ($100 * 7 years) and I never regret it. It's a complete collection, that no one can ever take away. Paired up with the "Companion" CD containing all of the TV commercial spots, it is the complete TNG series.
As an MSDN subscriber, I've had access to a build for a few months now, and I have to say that I was less then impressed. I will confirm the fact that Longhorn is VERY slow, and in need of a speed boost.
I've run it on two different P4 3.0ghz machines, one with 512meg, and the other with 1gig of RAM. The results where not acceptable. I became frustrated by the lack of response fairly quickly. There are also a set of new UI elements that can not be disabled that take up the top 100pixels or so, of every window, no matter your resolution. Dropping to 640x480 and 800x600 proved my fear, there is just not enough remaining screen real estate to be useful.
If Microsoft does not make major changes before release, this product will just be another Windows ME. The only people using it got it for free on their PCs.
I've noticed that iTunes and Real have the same catalog. I haven't checked out Napster, but I'm starting to wonder if they are all sharing the same exact music source that the labels have approved. Does anyone know for sure?
Has anyone else noticed the sudden rise of gradients and high-color icons and logos? They have begun appearing in huge numbers in webpages, software, and in new OSs. I installed Fedora Core the other day and was amazed by the beauty of it, but I wonder what the load is on the PC. I remember reading this whitepaper in 2001 about how to do this, and why, and I wonder if it is powering the entire phenomenon. With websites, correct layouts are even more critical to the look, and it looks like the techniques in this book would really assist with that.
But you still have the box of cereal, and if you didn't get the toy, you'd still have paid for the cereal, because, you need cereal.
What is the TCO of a cereal box toy over 5 years, anyway?
What about people with limited screen real estate, especially with non PC devices?
I love using my PDA on the T-Mobile wifi setup, because it allows the built-in software to just work as intended. I'm thinking that wouldn't be possible with this setup.
Is this any different from lawmakers doing things to protect the auto, oil, media, etc industries? They have an interest, because these companies pay for campaigns. They don't try to force down gas prices, they don't force too many radical automobile innovations, they don't try to keep cable prices down (except for token, known to be worthless, efforts) I don't know of any spyware makers big enough to support politics, but who knows. Maybe Time Warner, or GE owns something we don't know about. Just a thought.
Everyone is quick to jump and talk about stealing it, or cutting into profits. It seems like it's that age old story, that's already happening, about profits that won't exist anyway. Some people, myself included, never rewatch a movie in the theater. The movie is going to make it to the web no matter what, as we're seeing currently. And, around here at least, DVDs come out before Pay-Per-View and the such get them. What is there to cut into?
You know what the trick of it is, they can pull an "Underworld" on it. THey can have that immediate DVD with no or few extras or menus, and then just have the normal Special Edition a couple months down the road. The same die hard DVD people who buy it day 1, will want to have the full version later on.
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This is sort of silly. The pen is not the transport mechanism. Both computers simply retrieve the file from the same place. This implies that both systems already had access and rights to it. You're just copying the URL to the resource on a file server somewhere. You can do that with copy and paste in an email, but that's not what pasting a photo in an email is, at all.
This is a lot different then walking up to a stranger at a trade show, and having your PDAs swap business cards over IR. That is actually the transfer of new data.
A case of double striking a key, not using the wrong word. My apologies.
Is this why burn victims strike people so oddly? Everyone reacts differently to them, but not usually in a normal way. Once these poor people loose their identities, they become something else, to everyone else. It's not fair to them, they're still them!
Did anyone else get the carrot ink popup ad when they read the article? And no disclaimer from NYT saying they had ties to the printing industry.
If anyone is interested in the XPort FPGA and I/O Adaptor used in this project, there is a good article about it, in the May 2004 issue of Dr. Dobbs Journal. They use it as a spectrum analyzer, and said it's very easy to use. Almost any set of I/Os is possible, making it a super simple embedded platform.
I just read it this morning, and am thinking of getting it myself. Sadly, the article on the website is $$ to view. But, if you're interested in the device, it would be worth paying to view it.
"That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life. That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage."
Have you ever tried to configure any Cisco equipment? Even if you had the password, you'd give up in frustration after a few minutes. The only ones who can do it, are the ones who have a lot of experience with it. That's the real security of the plan!
Putting a PDA into a gaming device. Adding a touch screen to something to make it seem more functional.
It's a great idea, and I used to be a big cheerleader of the Game.com, but it ends up just turning it into a gimmick.
As long as they keep the 'normal' Game Boys, then I invite Nintendo to try anything they feel.
It's been done, sorry folks. It just doesn't work.
I worked at a printer for a few days one summer, and did cards for a Snapple cap game. These were the cards that you could mail and request for no-purchase necessary. They were VERY careful about counting. Every stack was checked again and again. There were agents there to keep watch, and the grand prize winner cards, of which there were enough that all of the winners could be mail-in, were checked and rechecked around breaktime and quitting time. It was VERY stressful, to say the least, but a bit of insight anyway.
"Can you hear me now?"
"Of course I can hear you, we're three feet away, you moron"
Would Windows still have been attacked by Sasser, if no one had revealed the vulnerability?
Maybe the conservatives are right, maybe we should keep bugs a secret.
I normally don't feel so bitter, but I've been fixing Windows boxes for the past couple days because of it.
Well, it was released at a time when there was only 2 years to release, and a couple months before, only a year to release. I'm afraid that they were getting ready to release it in '04 before someone pointed out to them how much work it still needed.
The evolution of Chicago was similiar. The early builds seen in 1994 were sellable/releasable, but weren't nearly as nice as the final Windows 95 turned out to be. (Which 9 years later, looks lame)
Finally, an affordable release of TOS. The original release was paired episodes on DVD for about $30. That is a very high price point. Coming from a monthly by-mail subscription, it was a good deal, but these box sets should bring it down even further.
I have the $700 tied up in the TNG sets ($100 * 7 years) and I never regret it. It's a complete collection, that no one can ever take away. Paired up with the "Companion" CD containing all of the TV commercial spots, it is the complete TNG series.
As an MSDN subscriber, I've had access to a build for a few months now, and I have to say that I was less then impressed. I will confirm the fact that Longhorn is VERY slow, and in need of a speed boost.
I've run it on two different P4 3.0ghz machines, one with 512meg, and the other with 1gig of RAM. The results where not acceptable. I became frustrated by the lack of response fairly quickly. There are also a set of new UI elements that can not be disabled that take up the top 100pixels or so, of every window, no matter your resolution. Dropping to 640x480 and 800x600 proved my fear, there is just not enough remaining screen real estate to be useful.
If Microsoft does not make major changes before release, this product will just be another Windows ME. The only people using it got it for free on their PCs.
I've noticed that iTunes and Real have the same catalog. I haven't checked out Napster, but I'm starting to wonder if they are all sharing the same exact music source that the labels have approved. Does anyone know for sure?
And, as always, please show your work
Has anyone else noticed the sudden rise of gradients and high-color icons and logos? They have begun appearing in huge numbers in webpages, software, and in new OSs. I installed Fedora Core the other day and was amazed by the beauty of it, but I wonder what the load is on the PC.
I remember reading this whitepaper in 2001 about how to do this, and why, and I wonder if it is powering the entire phenomenon.
With websites, correct layouts are even more critical to the look, and it looks like the techniques in this book would really assist with that.
Great, now I can start another lost episode of Dr. Who, when ever I want.
But you still have the box of cereal, and if you didn't get the toy, you'd still have paid for the cereal, because, you need cereal.
What is the TCO of a cereal box toy over 5 years, anyway?
What about people with limited screen real estate, especially with non PC devices?
I love using my PDA on the T-Mobile wifi setup, because it allows the built-in software to just work as intended. I'm thinking that wouldn't be possible with this setup.
Tragically, thanks to the /. effect, the website is as silent as the PC.
Is this any different from lawmakers doing things to protect the auto, oil, media, etc industries? They have an interest, because these companies pay for campaigns. They don't try to force down gas prices, they don't force too many radical automobile innovations, they don't try to keep cable prices down (except for token, known to be worthless, efforts)
I don't know of any spyware makers big enough to support politics, but who knows. Maybe Time Warner, or GE owns something we don't know about.
Just a thought.
Wow, that's actually a cool idea. Does anyone have any prior art they could show me? I'm not sure I've seen it before.
Everyone is quick to jump and talk about stealing it, or cutting into profits. It seems like it's that age old story, that's already happening, about profits that won't exist anyway. Some people, myself included, never rewatch a movie in the theater. The movie is going to make it to the web no matter what, as we're seeing currently. And, around here at least, DVDs come out before Pay-Per-View and the such get them. What is there to cut into?
You know what the trick of it is, they can pull an "Underworld" on it. THey can have that immediate DVD with no or few extras or menus, and then just have the normal Special Edition a couple months down the road. The same die hard DVD people who buy it day 1, will want to have the full version later on.