I've thought of this a few years back. One problem is that devising a common language / protocol that will support every known (and unknown) device that a manufacturers would produce is impractical. Having the manufacturers buy into such a standard is the other problem.
As for the privacy issue, why not store this information on a smartcard and make some universal reader (i.e. a portable smart card reader that you can scan your profile into that has an IR port, bluetooth, serial, and USB interfaces).
Ah, it would never work... and anyway, what a waste of time and energy. Do we really purchase so many devices that we can't afford the time to manually configure them!
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Yes, if you look at it as you have INCREASED your computers ability by the equivalent of a $200 console. You have to realize that in a general purpose computer the benefits are cumulative.
I believe the point is: Show me a CD that will boot Windows and showcase a game WITHOUT the need for installing the OS.
Surely the game distributers would be on the losing end of a lawsuit.
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That doesn't mean they know what they are doing. There are many "programmers" producing code of questionable quality barely understanding much more than the syntax of the language they are attempting to use.
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"...despite the fact that the majority of viewers have no idea what the code means."
I totally agree. This is one of the few books that I keep on my shelf still today. I used it in college to get through Newtonian Physics, Electricity and Magnetism, Light and Optics. Extremely complete and (as long as you have the mathematical foundation required) very appropriate for "bootstraping" the novice OR refreshing the non-physics professional.
See the picture of the geek girl wearing a Maxwells equations tee-shirt on page 832 (chapter 37). I hope to marry that girl.
I read this in the IEEE spectrum. They kept mixing up the advances in Quake I with Quake II. They even refer to a picture of Quake II as Quake I. But, there was some interesting history nonetheless.
Did you actually believe that it was an errata from Bruce Schneier? Obviously not, but by your "common practice" I should have put a smiley after that sentence also.
I don't believe in emotion icons, for centuries we have done without them yet communicated our ideas accurately. This "common practice" is just another step to dumbing down quality sites such as this.
I am not 6 years old and thus not amused by simple key combinations.
Errata from the desk of Bruce Schneier:
Pay no attention to p. 584-587 of Applied Cryptography - 2nd Edition... I didn't know what I was talking about... now I do.
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What the heck sort of name is Bjarne Stroustrup? And how do you pronounce that anyway...
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Then the clouds would part and in a booming voice it would ring out for all to hear:
http://www.research.att.com/~bs/pronounciation.
Sounds like a new primetime soap opera...
Tonight on Touched by a Virus, Gordon believes that he has been infected by "Millisa". Little does Gordon know that Millisa is spawning his CHILD!
Since when does SCA mean anything but the Society for Creative Anacronisms... man, is any acronym sacred?
"Quaoar orbits the sun ever 288 years"
Do I perceive a-bit of the ol' Irish accent in ye? Or are ye a pirate be?
but, from a purely physical perspective, my garage door remote control has a sleeker looking outer shell.
[X] Easy to use Windows filesharing - Linneighborhood
h bo rhood.html
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/linneig
For all of your pathetic Windows needs...
I've thought of this a few years back. One problem is that devising a common language / protocol that will support every known (and unknown) device that a manufacturers would produce is impractical. Having the manufacturers buy into such a standard is the other problem.
As for the privacy issue, why not store this information on a smartcard and make some universal reader (i.e. a portable smart card reader that you can scan your profile into that has an IR port, bluetooth, serial, and USB interfaces).
Ah, it would never work... and anyway, what a waste of time and energy. Do we really purchase so many devices that we can't afford the time to manually configure them!
...that is FREE!
"Adams spent years trying to persuade Hollywood to take the project on and had become cynical about the project before he died."
...Hollywood won't have a clue how to pull this one off
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Yes, if you look at it as you have INCREASED your computers ability by the equivalent of a $200 console. You have to realize that in a general purpose computer the benefits are cumulative.
I believe the point is: Show me a CD that will boot Windows and showcase a game WITHOUT the need for installing the OS.
Surely the game distributers would be on the losing end of a lawsuit.
That doesn't mean they know what they are doing. There are many "programmers" producing code of questionable quality barely understanding much more than the syntax of the language they are attempting to use.
"...despite the fact that the majority of viewers have no idea what the code means."
Huh?
Always averting "Something" for dummies books, I had to consider this title as I passed it on the clearance shelf; "Plastic Surgery for Dummies"
You mean there was nothing more news worthy to discuss on that day?
I totally agree. This is one of the few books that I keep on my shelf still today. I used it in college to get through Newtonian Physics, Electricity and Magnetism, Light and Optics. Extremely complete and (as long as you have the mathematical foundation required) very appropriate for "bootstraping" the novice OR refreshing the non-physics professional.
See the picture of the geek girl wearing a Maxwells equations tee-shirt on page 832 (chapter 37). I hope to marry that girl.
Prints over a million pages on one ink cartridge.
(fine print - provided user prints no more than one character per page at 10 point courier)
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I read this in the IEEE spectrum. They kept mixing up the advances in Quake I with Quake II. They even refer to a picture of Quake II as Quake I. But, there was some interesting history nonetheless.
we're launching this missle, I mean rocket, to go to the... oh yeah, moon!
Did you actually believe that it was an errata from Bruce Schneier? Obviously not, but by your "common practice" I should have put a smiley after that sentence also.
I don't believe in emotion icons, for centuries we have done without them yet communicated our ideas accurately. This "common practice" is just another step to dumbing down quality sites such as this.
I am not 6 years old and thus not amused by simple key combinations.
I totally respect the work of Schneier (why else would I have his book on hand to cite from). It was merely a joke.
I appologize if you took offense, but I have to say "Lighten Up".
Errata from the desk of Bruce Schneier: Pay no attention to p. 584-587 of Applied Cryptography - 2nd Edition... I didn't know what I was talking about... now I do.