This could still work with rentals. But Blockbuster, etc. will need retina or fingerprint scanners as well. RFID is not just a read only format. So the rental store clerk can scan your biometrics and store the signature on your dvd when you rent it. Then they just overwrite it for the next customer.
Something similar will also work if you buy a dvd as a gift. The dvd is purchased unlocked. You give it to your friend. They cannot play it in their dvd player until a biometric is stored in the RFID. I imagine retail stores will offer this service for free. Your friend takes the dvd to Best Buy and has their biometric placed on the RFID. Now it will work on their dvd player.
This will not prohibit a friend from lending their DVDs to you. The DVD player will be able to store a limited number of biometrics, say 10 or so. This would generally be more than a family would need. But you can also store a guest biometric. This can be overwritten as often as needed. The catch is that your friend needs to be at your home at least once so they can initialize the player.
This seems like a cheap head tracking device. Rather than have an eye on the monitor try to determine what the person is looking at, it puts the eye on the glasses. Then it reads the geometry of the squares on the piece of paper to determine perspective from the viewer's eyes.
I don't know why it's in a book format. It seems difficult to use. Take off glasses glasses, read book, turn page, put on glasses, watch animation, repeat. It would be better to have the squares on more of a platform. Then you have to story told sort of like Star Wars and the hologram R2D2 thing. Just move around the platform to watch the object/animation from different perspectives.
This seems like a cheap way to allow multiple people (as many as can cram around the platform) to watch the 3d show.
To "only" replace 3% of the farmland in the U.S. would require an area equivalent to the State of Louisiana or Pennsylvania. Rather than relocate all of those people, you could also place the windmill farm in half of Kansas.
Remember that photo of a windmill farm above? Now imagine driving 180 miles and seeing nothing but windmills. That would look awful even with landscaping in between the windmills. Also, what a maintenance nightmare that would be. Imagine the resources required to take care of all those windmills.
And it wouldn't make sense to plant crops between the windmills. At least not for commercial use. This is what commercial farm equipment looks like: http://sdces.sdstate.edu/lyman/images/whtharv.jpg It's way too big to efficiently harvest crops in a windmill farm. Maybe all of the maintenance workers could grow gardens in that space instead.
As an alternative, you could place one windmill every 9 miles in a grid like pattern across the US. That includes Alaska and Hawaii. Minimal impact to the environment. And every neighborhood must deal with a windmill in their backyard.
In Windows Task Manager, there is a tab for Applications. It shows the apps that are currently running. It doesn't show my virus scanner, software firewall, or spyware monitor. These are shown as processes. I would assume Windows Starter only limits the user to three items in the applications tab. You can probably run as many processes as your RAM allows.
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This could still work with rentals. But Blockbuster, etc. will need retina or fingerprint scanners as well. RFID is not just a read only format. So the rental store clerk can scan your biometrics and store the signature on your dvd when you rent it. Then they just overwrite it for the next customer.
Something similar will also work if you buy a dvd as a gift. The dvd is purchased unlocked. You give it to your friend. They cannot play it in their dvd player until a biometric is stored in the RFID. I imagine retail stores will offer this service for free. Your friend takes the dvd to Best Buy and has their biometric placed on the RFID. Now it will work on their dvd player.
This will not prohibit a friend from lending their DVDs to you. The DVD player will be able to store a limited number of biometrics, say 10 or so. This would generally be more than a family would need. But you can also store a guest biometric. This can be overwritten as often as needed. The catch is that your friend needs to be at your home at least once so they can initialize the player.
I would like to Slashdot a server that hosts a large number of images. That should spice things up.
This seems like a cheap head tracking device. Rather than have an eye on the monitor try to determine what the person is looking at, it puts the eye on the glasses. Then it reads the geometry of the squares on the piece of paper to determine perspective from the viewer's eyes. I don't know why it's in a book format. It seems difficult to use. Take off glasses glasses, read book, turn page, put on glasses, watch animation, repeat. It would be better to have the squares on more of a platform. Then you have to story told sort of like Star Wars and the hologram R2D2 thing. Just move around the platform to watch the object/animation from different perspectives. This seems like a cheap way to allow multiple people (as many as can cram around the platform) to watch the 3d show.
Pay me one million dollars or I'll post your website URL on Slashdot.
Wonder what Forgent has to say about this?
When oil runs out, everything will be expensive.
To "only" replace 3% of the farmland in the U.S. would require an area equivalent to the State of Louisiana or Pennsylvania. Rather than relocate all of those people, you could also place the windmill farm in half of Kansas.
Remember that photo of a windmill farm above? Now imagine driving 180 miles and seeing nothing but windmills. That would look awful even with landscaping in between the windmills. Also, what a maintenance nightmare that would be. Imagine the resources required to take care of all those windmills.
And it wouldn't make sense to plant crops between the windmills. At least not for commercial use. This is what commercial farm equipment looks like: http://sdces.sdstate.edu/lyman/images/whtharv.jpg It's way too big to efficiently harvest crops in a windmill farm. Maybe all of the maintenance workers could grow gardens in that space instead.
As an alternative, you could place one windmill every 9 miles in a grid like pattern across the US. That includes Alaska and Hawaii. Minimal impact to the environment. And every neighborhood must deal with a windmill in their backyard.
In Windows Task Manager, there is a tab for Applications. It shows the apps that are currently running. It doesn't show my virus scanner, software firewall, or spyware monitor. These are shown as processes. I would assume Windows Starter only limits the user to three items in the applications tab. You can probably run as many processes as your RAM allows.