If I am not mistaken, this technology is now mainstream, being used in green laser pointers. The actual laser diode is an IR beam shot through a frequency doubling crystal that produces green light on the output side.
Linux has made some massive gains in the rendering side of CGI. Do you think Linux will make these same gains in the authoring side of things? If so, how much longer will it be before SGI is no longer viable?
FYI: The UFS filesystem does not have this limitation.
Only the HFS+ filesystem does.
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What would be really cool if there was a way to mark a segment of time as "advertisement" and forward it to a server. Other boxes could then contact this server to find out what time slices of a particular show are commercials. The software could then automagically edit the stream so that when viewed it already knows where the commercials are.
All it would require is one person to mark the commercial times during the initial viewing.
I've got an idea for the server service/protocol... ADDB (Ad Database!!)
Remember that Sony eMarker thing that never took off? It was keychain size, had a USB connector and a rudimentary LCD display. I suppose you could use one of those as a starting point. Hmmm...since I have one, I may see about looking into that.
Likelihood of product being used in applications where transferring of cash is occuring (ATMs/casino machines):
Embedded Linux: Suitable
Embedded XP: Not Bloody Likely
Think of the opportunities for corporate espionage with these type of things. Is there a way to disable USB mass-storage devices in XP or 2000?
Palm-O-Lectric fans are a possibility
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This concept invokes visions of those palm leaves-attached-to-a-stick-and-a-motor that you see in some classy restaurant type places. Anyone tried miniturizing that and putting it in a PC?
As we are coming to an era where more and more home entertainment devices use CD-ROMs as their reading mechanism, I can't see this "copy protection" garbage lasting very long. Do you really think Yuppie Joe Sixpack is really going to be happy when his thousand dollar Compaq iPaq Music Center can't do with these CDs what he bought the thing for?
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Why don't they just market their batteries under the Sony Xplod brand?
If I am not mistaken, this technology is now mainstream, being used in green laser pointers. The actual laser diode is an IR beam shot through a frequency doubling crystal that produces green light on the output side.
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Linux has made some massive gains in the rendering side of CGI. Do you think Linux will make these same gains in the authoring side of things? If so, how much longer will it be before SGI is no longer viable?
Only the HFS+ filesystem does.
What would be really cool if there was a way to mark a segment of time as "advertisement" and forward it to a server. Other boxes could then contact this server to find out what time slices of a particular show are commercials. The software could then automagically edit the stream so that when viewed it already knows where the commercials are.
All it would require is one person to mark the commercial times during the initial viewing.
I've got an idea for the server service/protocol... ADDB (Ad Database!!)
But you may be right--Linux may be heading down the road of a "write once, debug everywhere" OS too.
Remember that Sony eMarker thing that never took off? It was keychain size, had a USB connector and a rudimentary LCD display. I suppose you could use one of those as a starting point. Hmmm...since I have one, I may see about looking into that.
Likelihood of product being used in applications where transferring of cash is occuring (ATMs/casino machines): Embedded Linux: Suitable Embedded XP: Not Bloody Likely
Think of the opportunities for corporate espionage with these type of things. Is there a way to disable USB mass-storage devices in XP or 2000?
This concept invokes visions of those palm leaves-attached-to-a-stick-and-a-motor that you see in some classy restaurant type places. Anyone tried miniturizing that and putting it in a PC?
As we are coming to an era where more and more home entertainment devices use CD-ROMs as their reading mechanism, I can't see this "copy protection" garbage lasting very long. Do you really think Yuppie Joe Sixpack is really going to be happy when his thousand dollar Compaq iPaq Music Center can't do with these CDs what he bought the thing for?