There are plenty of webcam applications available that do motion-sensing to one degree or another. the Axis can display static images or motion JPEG or upload these images to a mail or web server.
Another camera, the Axis 2120 has built-in motion sensing and up to a 30 FPS framerate, and an auto-iris lens for indoor/outdoor applications. Be forewarned, it isn't very cheap.
Disclaimer: I am not an Axis employee, and I do not sell their products, but I have owned an Axis camera (2100, as in the review) for nearly 3 years now.
Sneaking software onto unsuspecting users' PC's.
Adding or removing functions. It seems that the DRM crowd has taken a page off of the crapware/spyware vendors and are encouraging people to install this stuff on their computers.
I guess it won't be too long before that mega-hit CD has a data track with an unreleased track that requires DRM in order to be played, enabling both the RIAA to get their control over hardware/software and MS to get Windows Media Player more entrenched.
I'd say who the losers are in this case, but we already know that by now.
According to the article above, "Los Gatos" is a mail drop, not the actual address. Suite numbers are used when you have a private company supply "PO Boxes", since only the US Post Office can supply PO Boxes.
Getting info on the company would be way easier if they were public. This one appears to be privately held.
How is it plain and simple? In my opinion, resources that are on public property are free by implied consent. If you're going to let your signal spill over into areas you didn't intend it, no one's stealing.
Great opinion you have there, but it's better not practiced in the real world.
You may believe that resources on public property are free to be used, but resources available on your own private property aren't even free. Just because Dish Network and DirecTV paint the entire US with their programming signals (including your back yard and rooftop) does not stop them or the Government from pressing criminal charges when you take advantage of this 'free' resource. And the satellite resources you would take advantage of causes no degredation to paying customers.
The phone company, cell phone companies, cable company, and even neighbors with cordless phones, baby monitors, and access points would have an issue with you and your opinion. There are even legal issues using simple scanners to monitor frequencies in use by cell phones (assuming you are in the U.S.).
Note that I am not saying your opinion is wrong, just what would happen if it were actually practiced.
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Well, I tried to be a good citizen. They must be getting hammered.
While some of the interim 10.1.x releases had some pretty bad warts, I found 10.1.5 to be quite usable and immensely stable. It wasn't the fastest kid on the block in GUI performance, and Windows networking sucked, but it worked very well.
Jaguar gave me the most hassle dealing with Macs. Though it is fast and has addressed shortcomings of its predecessors, it has a few stability problems, namely waking from sleep and freaking out making airport connections, battery life oddities, lack of proper ISO CD burning capabilities. Add to that a few unexplained kernel panics to spice up the experience. To be fair, 10.1.3 (or was it.4?) also dorked up things worse than they fixed other problems.
I attribute this to the fact that lots of the OS was re-engineered for 10.2, and I hope most of these oddities get fixed in the upcoming 10.2.1 release.
In regards to performance vs. Windows, MS might be a monopoly, and they might even write crappy software, but they did get Win2k right. I find Win2k and OS X to be very stable, and I have run both for weeks and months on end without problems. OS X has been running for 10 months for me with a total of 4 kernel panics. Win2k managed 6 months before it finally greeted me with my first BSOD. The only machines in my household with greater uptimes/reliability is my NeXT box that managed 6 months, and the RedHat Linux box (mail and web server) installed in 1999 which rarely gets rebooted and has never had a kernel panic.
Funny, since I "wardrove" for about a month picking up experimental data for a report I presented in a grad school class about the lack of WiFi security.
I followed basic precautions:
Never entered private property
Configured the notebook to not route any packets
Placed the contraption in the back seat so it wasn't a driving distraction
Performed no "follow-up" actions such as attempting to connect to unsecured networks
I came up with interesting data too, the overall percentage of encrypted AP's was 28%, that is a mix of residential, schools and businesses.
For grins, I chose a more localized area with just Fortune 500 companies, high-rises and strictly commercial areas and got a rate of... 28%. Scary. It makes me curious to see how many of these are behind the company firewalls, but I actually know better than to try and find that out.
Actually, I'd believe in a heartbeat that the Telcos and wireless carriers would have a royal shitfit over 802.x.
Having looked over and drooled over some of the latest, greatest wireless offerings such as ATT's "mlife", I got to the point where I read exactly how much they charge for the service. They are kidding with these pound-me-in-the-ass prices for data, aren't they?
Here is a great technology just waiting to be used, and they brag bout downloadable games and video and music and they best they can manage is $12.50 for 2MB of data per month? Isn't all the data coming from/going to the phone digital data anyway? At least it's cheaper (and better) than the Palm VII's Palm.net service and that was cool in its day was well.
The more power to the people who start these mesh networks, the better. Prices need a little bit more downward pressure.
Keep in mind, though, that many would argue that the _sole_ reason that Beta lost was because Sony insisted on keeping all of the IP rights associated with Beta.
I don't know exactly what you mean about "keeping all of the IP rights", but I distinctly remember having both an old "piano key" Sony Betamax, and later a quirky Toshiba Betamax. So Sony at least licensed these rights to other manufacturers.
Yes, it was so foolproof that I actually noticed this behavior and thought it was busted. The shared printer simply appeared in the print dialog and I ignored it and started fiddling with the print settings because things NEVER work that easy.
Funny thing was the printer could not be deleted from Print Center, and before I got in a full-blown panic, I decided to do a test print. Lo and behold it "just worked".
Yes, at least in 10.1 to 10.1.5, it uses Samba. It cannot "browse" for Windows shares, you need to know the exact path in order to connect, and its slow as hell, rivaling 10-base-T on a full-duplex 100-base-T connection.
I'm interested in seeing what improvements were made to 10.2.
That's the "Family Licensing Plan", for $199, you can install one copy on as many as five Macs:
Family Pack Software License Agreement allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on up to a maximum of five (5) Apple-labeled computers at a time as long as those computers are located in the same household and used by persons who occupy that same household. By "household" we mean a person or persons sharing the same housing unit such as a home, apartment, mobile home or condominium. This license does not extend to students who reside at a separate on-campus location or to business or commercial users.
I've been on that subway, it (the implementation) is cool. they have red LEDs spread along the wall next to the tracks and the ads "chase" alongside the train as it zips down the track so it floats outside the window. Quite surreal to watch.
Simple:
US, Canada, Mexico: North America/North Americans
Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc.: Central America/Central Americans
Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, etc.: South America/South Americans
Wow, look, I got all those right, without resorting to the web AND I am a graduate of the US Public school system. Amazing.
The problem isn't the continent, it's the nationalism. I never heard a Canadian or Mexican national bitching about being called American, unless they were called that in error.
Just for the record, I swapped HD's on two machines, one running Redhat, the other Windows 2000. After the swap, Windows 2000 crapped rather spectacularly after the boot up screen, it wouldn't even load up in safe mode. It couldn't handle the fact that the drive controller was different.
Redhat, on the other hand, asked me about whether the device drivers for the devices it no longer detected were needed anymore... and booted up fine.
I worked for a company that installed computers for Naval use. Suprisingly, the box that held the devices were cooled by big honking fans and all the components were off the shelf (albeit VMIC-type PIII PC's).
The boxes were neither airtight nor watertight, and there was no kind of dehumidification. The secret: conformal coating on the circuit boards.
These things were found all over the ship, on the bridge, in closets, in the engine room, and in the AUX rooms were the big air conditioners and distillation plants are found. They held up pretty well too when they were left alone.
And the adpotion rate is slow because of changing standards. Now that there is a push to change the HDTV standard to include a "broadcast flag" to prevent copying, and a push now to make all existing sets without digital-only connectors obsolete so they can encrypt what passes over the patch cables, I got burned after buying my Sony XBR set.
It's HDTV ready, that is with the addition of a $500+ tuner, but since the set only has analog component inputs it's useless for the upcoming ever-changing HDTV standards. Any tuner I could possibly hook up to it has already been made obsolete for HDTV purposes due to DRM additions to the standard (they will downconvert to SDTV resolution).
I'll be damned if I spend that kind of cash for another set anytime soon. The set's great otherwise, I'll be happy with my Satellite dish, DVD player and videogames for now.
Hop on Gnutella, Kazaa or your favorite P2P application and search for "eula" or "license.txt".
You'll get tons of them from people sharing their C: drives to the while world from Windows boxes.
Using the "Find" utility on this NT box yields EULA's for Acrobat, MS Messenger, MS Chat, NetMeeting NT, Microsoft Internet, Winzip, MS Office, and Internet Explorer.
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No but in 30 years, they'll be listening to classic commercial jingles and eating at Taco Bell.
Another camera, the Axis 2120 has built-in motion sensing and up to a 30 FPS framerate, and an auto-iris lens for indoor/outdoor applications. Be forewarned, it isn't very cheap.
Disclaimer: I am not an Axis employee, and I do not sell their products, but I have owned an Axis camera (2100, as in the review) for nearly 3 years now.
I guess it won't be too long before that mega-hit CD has a data track with an unreleased track that requires DRM in order to be played, enabling both the RIAA to get their control over hardware/software and MS to get Windows Media Player more entrenched.
I'd say who the losers are in this case, but we already know that by now.
I stand corrected. I was aware of the practice, but not that they (USPO) put a stop to it.
Getting info on the company would be way easier if they were public. This one appears to be privately held.
You may believe that resources on public property are free to be used, but resources available on your own private property aren't even free. Just because Dish Network and DirecTV paint the entire US with their programming signals (including your back yard and rooftop) does not stop them or the Government from pressing criminal charges when you take advantage of this 'free' resource. And the satellite resources you would take advantage of causes no degredation to paying customers.
The phone company, cell phone companies, cable company, and even neighbors with cordless phones, baby monitors, and access points would have an issue with you and your opinion. There are even legal issues using simple scanners to monitor frequencies in use by cell phones (assuming you are in the U.S.).
Note that I am not saying your opinion is wrong, just what would happen if it were actually practiced.
Well, I tried to be a good citizen. They must be getting hammered.
Jaguar gave me the most hassle dealing with Macs. Though it is fast and has addressed shortcomings of its predecessors, it has a few stability problems, namely waking from sleep and freaking out making airport connections, battery life oddities, lack of proper ISO CD burning capabilities. Add to that a few unexplained kernel panics to spice up the experience. To be fair, 10.1.3 (or was it .4?) also dorked up things worse than they fixed other problems.
I attribute this to the fact that lots of the OS was re-engineered for 10.2, and I hope most of these oddities get fixed in the upcoming 10.2.1 release.
In regards to performance vs. Windows, MS might be a monopoly, and they might even write crappy software, but they did get Win2k right. I find Win2k and OS X to be very stable, and I have run both for weeks and months on end without problems. OS X has been running for 10 months for me with a total of 4 kernel panics. Win2k managed 6 months before it finally greeted me with my first BSOD. The only machines in my household with greater uptimes/reliability is my NeXT box that managed 6 months, and the RedHat Linux box (mail and web server) installed in 1999 which rarely gets rebooted and has never had a kernel panic.
I followed basic precautions:
Never entered private property
Configured the notebook to not route any packets
Placed the contraption in the back seat so it wasn't a driving distraction
Performed no "follow-up" actions such as attempting to connect to unsecured networks
I came up with interesting data too, the overall percentage of encrypted AP's was 28%, that is a mix of residential, schools and businesses.
For grins, I chose a more localized area with just Fortune 500 companies, high-rises and strictly commercial areas and got a rate of... 28%. Scary. It makes me curious to see how many of these are behind the company firewalls, but I actually know better than to try and find that out.
Having looked over and drooled over some of the latest, greatest wireless offerings such as ATT's "mlife", I got to the point where I read exactly how much they charge for the service. They are kidding with these pound-me-in-the-ass prices for data, aren't they?
Here is a great technology just waiting to be used, and they brag bout downloadable games and video and music and they best they can manage is $12.50 for 2MB of data per month? Isn't all the data coming from/going to the phone digital data anyway? At least it's cheaper (and better) than the Palm VII's Palm.net service and that was cool in its day was well.
The more power to the people who start these mesh networks, the better. Prices need a little bit more downward pressure.
Funny thing was the printer could not be deleted from Print Center, and before I got in a full-blown panic, I decided to do a test print. Lo and behold it "just worked".
I'm interested in seeing what improvements were made to 10.2.
It's been shipping with new Macs for the past week or so. My copy was shipped from Apple yesterday, I might be getting it a day early as well.
(Excuse the English representation of Japanese)
He nari totte
ada to omou na
morobi to yo
bu-u to naritotte
hotoke nari keri
Translation(rough):
When you fart
do not feel embarrassed
when you go *poot*
you become like Budda
The only reason they went after Dmitry is the simple fact that he was in the U.S., and therefore easy to grab and intimidate, nothing more.
DVD Studio Pro costs $1000, and allows region-encoding, Macrovision and CSS.
I've been on that subway, it (the implementation) is cool. they have red LEDs spread along the wall next to the tracks and the ads "chase" alongside the train as it zips down the track so it floats outside the window. Quite surreal to watch.
Panama, Honduras, Nicaragua, etc.: Central America/Central Americans
Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Chile, etc.: South America/South Americans
Wow, look, I got all those right, without resorting to the web AND I am a graduate of the US Public school system. Amazing.
The problem isn't the continent, it's the nationalism. I never heard a Canadian or Mexican national bitching about being called American, unless they were called that in error.
Redhat, on the other hand, asked me about whether the device drivers for the devices it no longer detected were needed anymore... and booted up fine.
The boxes were neither airtight nor watertight, and there was no kind of dehumidification. The secret: conformal coating on the circuit boards.
These things were found all over the ship, on the bridge, in closets, in the engine room, and in the AUX rooms were the big air conditioners and distillation plants are found. They held up pretty well too when they were left alone.
It's HDTV ready, that is with the addition of a $500+ tuner, but since the set only has analog component inputs it's useless for the upcoming ever-changing HDTV standards. Any tuner I could possibly hook up to it has already been made obsolete for HDTV purposes due to DRM additions to the standard (they will downconvert to SDTV resolution).
I'll be damned if I spend that kind of cash for another set anytime soon. The set's great otherwise, I'll be happy with my Satellite dish, DVD player and videogames for now.
You'll get tons of them from people sharing their C: drives to the while world from Windows boxes.
Using the "Find" utility on this NT box yields EULA's for Acrobat, MS Messenger, MS Chat, NetMeeting NT, Microsoft Internet, Winzip, MS Office, and Internet Explorer.