And this is why all personal hosting should be on your own personal machine. Your email, your website, etc. Sure, hire someone else to maintain it for you if you want, but you need to own the hardware, the software, and the data. Which brings me to an interesting thought. Who owns email on someone else's server? Can the government subpoena my email from someone else or do they need to subpoena it from me?
Regardless, I host my own email, webpages, etc. I control my personal data. No-one else.
I need a PDA, Cell phone, and 802.11 VOIP phone w/ bluetooth. I need the ability to read my email and ssh back into my home computer. I need the ability to open webpages and read the news. When I get something that does those things, then I'll pony up the big bucks for it. Until then I'll stick w/ my sanyo 7300.
When I think about persistant online worlds I always think about the way it worked in Reboot. They all lived in the local computer and then jumped into the game blocks in which they received unique attributes. I think in the future we'll have a similar setup, (much like croquet) where you will have a local 3D world, (probably of your own design), and be able to 'step' into the other worlds owned by other people. In this new world you will have whatever presence the owner of the world grants you. Currently these worlds are MMoRPGs, but who's to say in the future you won't simply step across into your friend's world on his local computer to say 'hi'.
We have smart cards. And once when I first thought of the idea I looked and found a company that manufactured cards w/ the # pad on the card. But I don't know that the cards kept all confidential information on themselves. I certainly didn't know that europe used a # pad on card method though I had heard that smart cards were becoming more prevelant over there.
Maybe some people who play video games want all their audio coming over 2 speakers immediately adjacent their ears, or they want a microphone they have to clip on, but I don't. The set up I used to use for World of Warcraft was my 5.1 system connected to my linux computer to play music. My Altec Lansing ACS55's (btw, the best non-surround sound speakers ever made) set connected to the WoW computer for game music, sound card 2 in linux computer, (well, the on-board one), was outputting to a plug for a cell phone headset which had a mic boom and went in 1 ear which was on a VOIP comms for the raid leaders. The windows computer on-board sound also went to such a setup put to the other ear for the rest of the raid.
Really what I want in a headset is a single speaker in a single ear w/ a small mic. I want to be able to hear the rest of whats going on and I don't need anything fancy to hear someone screaming "KILL the OTHER one!!!".
And, honestly, I really can't believe that 100 is worth it even if you are out and about and trying to have a private game. I have a 25-30 dollar pair of large headphones which sound wonderful and block out everything.
In the future I think credit will be controlled by cryptographic smart cards which have a built in key pad. You will put in your card, punch in your pin, and then the card will unencrypt a 1-time authorization for a set amount of money that the vendor then sends to the credit card company to conduct the transaction. No processing off card. Requires something you have and something you know. Storing the data doesn't do any good.
I think the only other form of transaction will be cash.
In all honestly I crack the majority of games I legitimately own. The laptop I run them on has no CD drive, (well. It has an internal linux drive and a windows drive that goes in the removable bay so I copy the disk to the linux drive from the removable cd-rom, then from the linux drive to the windows removable drive.) I also crack many games on my home computer because, simply, I enjoy switching games in a drive on the other side of the room as much as people enjoy swapping CDs instead of just copying all their music to their hard drive. No technology is more invasive to the paying customers than game copy protect, particularly the CD-requiring type.
From what I read, you can stream the media, but stuff that is encrypted will stay encrypted so the end point has to be another apple product. I guess the airport stream is an unencrypted stream but is also an decompressed stream as well.
What I don't know is if you have control over the stream or are just tuning in to it.
I think apple is missing a huge point. The Mac mini needs to be able to stream content. Or at least provide iTunes purchased content to other non-mac devices. I don't buy iTunes songs because I can't play them on my xbox. The only thing keeping me from signing up to The Daily Show is a method for me to play it on my TV. Hell, I'd even take an appliance. Something like a Windows Media Extender would work as long as it has digital video and surround sound audio out. But I don't like fans in my entertainment center. (The xbox fan is loud enough already.) And I want the mini to be my desktop PC back in my office.
This always riles me up. iTunes and apple are such great products except they miss fundamental point. Like the Register article said, (paraphrased), "Apple doesn't necessarily do hard things. They just do easy, obvious things that others don't want to do. Things like providing an mp3 player with simple controls and a music store with simple pricing." But they don't seem to be willing to provide a data stream usable on other devices reguardless of if you buy their software or hardware. The fact of the matter is I am not going to open WMP to play windows files, iTunes to play Apple files and Winamp to play Ogg files on my TV. I am going to have a single, unified user interface and anything that can't supply data to that UI, I am not going to purchase.
This really wasn't an OSX test. It was an apache/ssh test. In fact, it was a test of 2 of the most hardened piece of software in use. We just had an article about how apache had signifigantly lower defects/ksloc than other source that Homeland Security had evaluated. Almost any updated OS with only apache and ssh showing is going to be rock solid assuming the apache install is simple and both are configured correctly.
Could someone explain to me exactly what the Back Office components are? I've wondered this for a while but never had a really good idea about what the Back Office software was or did. Where you install it. How you use it, etc.
Does anyone know of softare that works with any windows media extenders? I need something like MythTV, SageTV, or BeyondTV that interfaces with a windows media extender to supply HD video and digital surround sound audio. Also want the PVR stuff, (pause, ff, live TV type stuff). Unfortunately it doesn't seem like anyone has done this yet. (Someone on the SageTV forums started work on something for a roku photobridge but I don't think it really was moving fast.) I want a simple, quiet piece of hardware in the front w/ a hunk of a computer back in my rack doing the hard work. And I want it in a format I can take w/ me or watch on any of my computers.
The linksys is a windows media extender built to extend windows media center. The thing is I've read all windows media extenders basically impliment the uPnP:A/V standard so support from other back ends should not be too complicated. Reguardless I"ll give the SageTV forums a try. Thank you for the suggestion.
Hauppauge's media extender does not have digital audio or HD video support though. Those are 2 of the big things I want out of my extender. Now should sage TV support something like the linksys media extender, (though I'd really prefer DVI but oh well), I'd certainly go for it.
They keyboards themselves aren't very realistic. I had one. You spend as much time finding the home row keys after using it as a mouse or for a gesture as you would. Also, the loss of tactile feedback really matters.
On the other hand I would recommend the number pad/mouse pad fingerworks product. They aren't precise like "select 1 specific pixel" precise, but they are great for using gestures instead of digging around in a menu or doign some key combination repetitively.
You can learn to type just as easily on the fingerworks as you can on a normal keyboard. When it comes down to it though, you will severely miss the tactile reaction. And the moving of your hands to/from the home row keys will be as disruptive as moving to a mouse. I would much more recommend one of their mouse/number pads to replace a mouse. They are very good for day-to-day computing, (working with windows, browsing etc). They are not good for playing games, (at least the keyboard portion wasn't), and for precision graphics, (just not accurate enough to click 1 specific pixel).
It looks like a continuation of the technology employed by fingerworks which used some type of capacitance array to track points. It looks like they finally have it on a visual screen. Hopefully this will increase the addoption of gesture-based controls.
I think ajax apps are a good idea, but not hosted by someone else. I see 2 trends in the future, 1 of which is already starting to take place. The first trend is paying someone to administer your computer for you. AOL already does this to a large extent, (something I'll pat myself on the back for predicting they would do though no-one here will remember me saying it =P). They patch their client's machines. They install anti-virus and anti-spyware software. They provide a firewall and they scan email. At some point I assume AOL will offer a "complete protection" package where you are no longer the administrator, only a user.
The next thing applies to this more directly. Companies like Microsoft are going to move the data center into the home. Probably Microsoft, will offer a software package for windows, (or maybe just a version of Windows), which is a personal server, (much like many linux distributions). When you set it up you will get to choose what servers you want. There will be the traditional servers: email, webpage, share your files anywhere on the internet (ftp). Then there will be the newer types of servers: "Office on-the-go". (An ajax version of office apps), and "your desktop anywhere", (an ajax desktop server). The setup will be MS easy and the semi-computer-literate families will be able to get it going no problem. MS will probably also offer an administration service where they will remote administer your server for you so you don't ever have to worry about it, (see first paragraph), bringing this home server ability to all people. (And earning MS a ton of service-related money in the process.)
At some point I expect MS to create a 'windows home server' addition. It'll be a box you plop down on your broadband connection. You chose the services you want: email, share your documents anywhere, microsoft word anywhere (ajax application), and it will mostly be autoconfigured.
Combine this with a paid administrator, (think how AOL 'administrates' -- patches, firewalls, scans -- your computer), and you have a solution most people can live with.
Honestly many linux systems are this easy for a large number of servers. It just needs to move into the windows real backed by a huge name.
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Most expensive in the world and it STILL doesn't play mp3's, wma's, ogg's and AAC's.
And this is why all personal hosting should be on your own personal machine. Your email, your website, etc. Sure, hire someone else to maintain it for you if you want, but you need to own the hardware, the software, and the data. Which brings me to an interesting thought. Who owns email on someone else's server? Can the government subpoena my email from someone else or do they need to subpoena it from me?
Regardless, I host my own email, webpages, etc. I control my personal data. No-one else.
To be honest I was somewhat hoping for a linux based one so I could also run network analysis stuff on it.
I need a PDA, Cell phone, and 802.11 VOIP phone w/ bluetooth. I need the ability to read my email and ssh back into my home computer. I need the ability to open webpages and read the news. When I get something that does those things, then I'll pony up the big bucks for it. Until then I'll stick w/ my sanyo 7300.
When I think about persistant online worlds I always think about the way it worked in Reboot. They all lived in the local computer and then jumped into the game blocks in which they received unique attributes. I think in the future we'll have a similar setup, (much like croquet) where you will have a local 3D world, (probably of your own design), and be able to 'step' into the other worlds owned by other people. In this new world you will have whatever presence the owner of the world grants you. Currently these worlds are MMoRPGs, but who's to say in the future you won't simply step across into your friend's world on his local computer to say 'hi'.
We have smart cards. And once when I first thought of the idea I looked and found a company that manufactured cards w/ the # pad on the card. But I don't know that the cards kept all confidential information on themselves. I certainly didn't know that europe used a # pad on card method though I had heard that smart cards were becoming more prevelant over there.
Really what I want in a headset is a single speaker in a single ear w/ a small mic. I want to be able to hear the rest of whats going on and I don't need anything fancy to hear someone screaming "KILL the OTHER one!!!".
And, honestly, I really can't believe that 100 is worth it even if you are out and about and trying to have a private game. I have a 25-30 dollar pair of large headphones which sound wonderful and block out everything.
I think the only other form of transaction will be cash.
I assume the ones that failed were rigged to fail.
Anyone realize that the report was pulled off the IG's website? It was 06-53 according to google. Now it's gone.
Actually, what they say is "we'd love to do it. Now we need X man hours to develop that price for you."
In all honestly I crack the majority of games I legitimately own. The laptop I run them on has no CD drive, (well. It has an internal linux drive and a windows drive that goes in the removable bay so I copy the disk to the linux drive from the removable cd-rom, then from the linux drive to the windows removable drive.) I also crack many games on my home computer because, simply, I enjoy switching games in a drive on the other side of the room as much as people enjoy swapping CDs instead of just copying all their music to their hard drive. No technology is more invasive to the paying customers than game copy protect, particularly the CD-requiring type.
What I don't know is if you have control over the stream or are just tuning in to it.
The one that shares my mp3's normally but shares my purchased media in an encrypted format so unless it's iTunes at the other end I canm't play it?
This always riles me up. iTunes and apple are such great products except they miss fundamental point. Like the Register article said, (paraphrased), "Apple doesn't necessarily do hard things. They just do easy, obvious things that others don't want to do. Things like providing an mp3 player with simple controls and a music store with simple pricing." But they don't seem to be willing to provide a data stream usable on other devices reguardless of if you buy their software or hardware. The fact of the matter is I am not going to open WMP to play windows files, iTunes to play Apple files and Winamp to play Ogg files on my TV. I am going to have a single, unified user interface and anything that can't supply data to that UI, I am not going to purchase.
This really wasn't an OSX test. It was an apache/ssh test. In fact, it was a test of 2 of the most hardened piece of software in use. We just had an article about how apache had signifigantly lower defects/ksloc than other source that Homeland Security had evaluated. Almost any updated OS with only apache and ssh showing is going to be rock solid assuming the apache install is simple and both are configured correctly.
Could someone explain to me exactly what the Back Office components are? I've wondered this for a while but never had a really good idea about what the Back Office software was or did. Where you install it. How you use it, etc.
Does anyone know of softare that works with any windows media extenders? I need something like MythTV, SageTV, or BeyondTV that interfaces with a windows media extender to supply HD video and digital surround sound audio. Also want the PVR stuff, (pause, ff, live TV type stuff). Unfortunately it doesn't seem like anyone has done this yet. (Someone on the SageTV forums started work on something for a roku photobridge but I don't think it really was moving fast.) I want a simple, quiet piece of hardware in the front w/ a hunk of a computer back in my rack doing the hard work. And I want it in a format I can take w/ me or watch on any of my computers.
The linksys is a windows media extender built to extend windows media center. The thing is I've read all windows media extenders basically impliment the uPnP:A/V standard so support from other back ends should not be too complicated. Reguardless I"ll give the SageTV forums a try. Thank you for the suggestion.
Hauppauge's media extender does not have digital audio or HD video support though. Those are 2 of the big things I want out of my extender. Now should sage TV support something like the linksys media extender, (though I'd really prefer DVI but oh well), I'd certainly go for it.
On the other hand I would recommend the number pad/mouse pad fingerworks product. They aren't precise like "select 1 specific pixel" precise, but they are great for using gestures instead of digging around in a menu or doign some key combination repetitively.
You can learn to type just as easily on the fingerworks as you can on a normal keyboard. When it comes down to it though, you will severely miss the tactile reaction. And the moving of your hands to/from the home row keys will be as disruptive as moving to a mouse. I would much more recommend one of their mouse/number pads to replace a mouse. They are very good for day-to-day computing, (working with windows, browsing etc). They are not good for playing games, (at least the keyboard portion wasn't), and for precision graphics, (just not accurate enough to click 1 specific pixel).
It looks like a continuation of the technology employed by fingerworks which used some type of capacitance array to track points. It looks like they finally have it on a visual screen. Hopefully this will increase the addoption of gesture-based controls.
The next thing applies to this more directly. Companies like Microsoft are going to move the data center into the home. Probably Microsoft, will offer a software package for windows, (or maybe just a version of Windows), which is a personal server, (much like many linux distributions). When you set it up you will get to choose what servers you want. There will be the traditional servers: email, webpage, share your files anywhere on the internet (ftp). Then there will be the newer types of servers: "Office on-the-go". (An ajax version of office apps), and "your desktop anywhere", (an ajax desktop server). The setup will be MS easy and the semi-computer-literate families will be able to get it going no problem. MS will probably also offer an administration service where they will remote administer your server for you so you don't ever have to worry about it, (see first paragraph), bringing this home server ability to all people. (And earning MS a ton of service-related money in the process.)
Combine this with a paid administrator, (think how AOL 'administrates' -- patches, firewalls, scans -- your computer), and you have a solution most people can live with.
Honestly many linux systems are this easy for a large number of servers. It just needs to move into the windows real backed by a huge name.