Java 6 (in beta now) will add support for runtime access to javac. (ex. do("System.out.println(\"Hello World!\")"); would print "Hello World!" assuming you changed "do" to whatever the method's name is) I assume that is what you meant by "string execution".
How about a personal movie collection in HD? And RAWs from a digital camera? And your complete music library stored in a lossless format? And a complete install of Windows Vista?;) But seriously, I'm sure you could think of something to fill that much space with.
Yep, CAVEs are very cool. The one I've seen uses ultrasonic position sensing, so you can manipulate objects in 3D that look like they are right in front of you. Theoretically, you could use the same control tech without the fancy display.
I agree that in some cases a well designed voice-based system would be better than a normal GUI, although I would perfer subvocal speech recognition both for privacy reasons and so I do not have to listen to what everyone around me is doing on their computers. I think a keyboard will always be useful at the very least as a game controller with a lot of buttons.
Yeah---no. Much of the phone call stuff was blown out of proportion. The U.S. was given access by the telcos to who-called-whom. This allowed the U.S. to associate known suspects with those with whom they were communicating. This helped expose terrorist cells. Intercepting some calls based on that association does not equal the government's listening to your phone call without warrant.
If that's really what they were doing with the information, why didn't they just get a warrant and do it legally? It could have been a secret warrant, that's fine, but they did not even do that. Maybe they did nothing wrong, but it certainly looks suspicious.
You don't need to leave your phone on. You don't need to buy a phone with a camera. Admittedly, most people do both, and the real problem with your idea is bandwidth, which will be fixed if/when 3G/4G is commonplace. Also, most people have phones in bags or pockets while not using them, so at least the cameras would be worthless then.
Yeah, I do not know of any other apps that are good for organizing videos. (I use WinAMP for organizing music, but I do not like to use its video playing interface.) VLC does not even attempt to do that. I just hand
You can set hot keys in VLC, so you should be able to set them to multimedia keys. I agree that it is an obvious thing to make default.
I assume they are mirroring it and then going through and unmirroring the parts that don't make sense mirrored (text, if any; the sun like you say; etc.).
Or they could have the users carry around cards with magnetic strips on them and remember a PIN. Oh, yeah, and put the admin-mode button behind a lock. Ya know, like the money?
Media Player Classic (or BSPlayer, which I use) is great if you need to play something with DirectShow (usually Windows Media stuff that VLC/MPlayer fail to play for no good reason), but in general VLC/MPlayer do a much better job of playing movies.
Odd, everyone I know understands that a.jpg is an image. Otherwise the file name would just be "hot p1x.exe" (shown as "hot p1x") not "hot p1x.jpg.exe" (shown as "hot p1x.jpg"). They may not understand exactly what the extensions mean, but seeing the.jpg, to them, confirms that it really is an image.
Uh, where can I find one of these CD+R's? Seriously, is that a real standard or did you just throw that in there to see if anyone was paying attention? BTW, you forgot DVD-RAM.
Minor correction: the file is named "funny.jpg.exe" and Windows by default hides the ".exe" and just shows "funny.jpg". It is properly reacting to the file extension, it just is quite stupidly not displaying it. I disable that on every computer I use, but most people do not even know about that option. Personally, I do not know why such an option would exist.
What are you talking about? The topic is a webpage that plays music and attempts to deny the user the right to save the music they are listening to, and you are you talking about protocols with end-to-end encryption. They have nothing to do with each other.
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I have read nothing about demos on the Wii, but hopefully they will exist. The dearth of GCN demo discs always annoyed me.
The Wii browser has been announced as free until June 2006[sic]. News sites have been assuming they meant June 2007.
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Not a big difference, but the Wii's internal memory is 512MB. Seems tiny when you consider that you can get a 1GB SD card for $15. Then again, we do not know how much memory will actually be needed (i.e., how big the extra game data will actually be, VC games will probably be close to the same size as the ROMs).
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Some (all?) of the dev kits have wired Wiimotes, and wired Wiimotes have been used at conferences (presumably so they would not be stolen). The actual consumer version will be wireless-only.
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Java 6 (in beta now) will add support for runtime access to javac. (ex. do("System.out.println(\"Hello World!\")"); would print "Hello World!" assuming you changed "do" to whatever the method's name is) I assume that is what you meant by "string execution".
I'm very sorry, but Java 6 is adding built-in JavaScript support (ref). I think Sun thought the issue was not confusing enough.
Uh, use OpenID? Although, it would make sense for Yahoo! to offer OpenID for their users.
How about a personal movie collection in HD? And RAWs from a digital camera? And your complete music library stored in a lossless format? And a complete install of Windows Vista? ;) But seriously, I'm sure you could think of something to fill that much space with.
There has been an option in the Windows mouse control panel since 95(?) for drawing a target around the mouse cursor when you hit the [ctrl] key.
Yep, CAVEs are very cool. The one I've seen uses ultrasonic position sensing, so you can manipulate objects in 3D that look like they are right in front of you. Theoretically, you could use the same control tech without the fancy display.
I agree that in some cases a well designed voice-based system would be better than a normal GUI, although I would perfer subvocal speech recognition both for privacy reasons and so I do not have to listen to what everyone around me is doing on their computers. I think a keyboard will always be useful at the very least as a game controller with a lot of buttons.
If that's really what they were doing with the information, why didn't they just get a warrant and do it legally? It could have been a secret warrant, that's fine, but they did not even do that. Maybe they did nothing wrong, but it certainly looks suspicious.
You don't need to leave your phone on. You don't need to buy a phone with a camera. Admittedly, most people do both, and the real problem with your idea is bandwidth, which will be fixed if/when 3G/4G is commonplace. Also, most people have phones in bags or pockets while not using them, so at least the cameras would be worthless then.
Yeah, I do not know of any other apps that are good for organizing videos. (I use WinAMP for organizing music, but I do not like to use its video playing interface.) VLC does not even attempt to do that. I just hand
You can set hot keys in VLC, so you should be able to set them to multimedia keys. I agree that it is an obvious thing to make default.
I assume they are mirroring it and then going through and unmirroring the parts that don't make sense mirrored (text, if any; the sun like you say; etc.).
That would be difficult while holding a shield (represented by the nunchuk).
Or they could have the users carry around cards with magnetic strips on them and remember a PIN. Oh, yeah, and put the admin-mode button behind a lock. Ya know, like the money?
Media Player Classic (or BSPlayer, which I use) is great if you need to play something with DirectShow (usually Windows Media stuff that VLC/MPlayer fail to play for no good reason), but in general VLC/MPlayer do a much better job of playing movies.
Odd, everyone I know understands that a .jpg is an image. Otherwise the file name would just be "hot p1x.exe" (shown as "hot p1x") not "hot p1x.jpg.exe" (shown as "hot p1x.jpg"). They may not understand exactly what the extensions mean, but seeing the .jpg, to them, confirms that it really is an image.
Uh, where can I find one of these CD+R's? Seriously, is that a real standard or did you just throw that in there to see if anyone was paying attention? BTW, you forgot DVD-RAM.
Minor correction: the file is named "funny.jpg.exe" and Windows by default hides the ".exe" and just shows "funny.jpg". It is properly reacting to the file extension, it just is quite stupidly not displaying it. I disable that on every computer I use, but most people do not even know about that option. Personally, I do not know why such an option would exist.
Obviously the blocking doesn't work, then. ;)
What are you talking about? The topic is a webpage that plays music and attempts to deny the user the right to save the music they are listening to, and you are you talking about protocols with end-to-end encryption. They have nothing to do with each other.
I have read nothing about demos on the Wii, but hopefully they will exist. The dearth of GCN demo discs always annoyed me.
The Wii browser has been announced as free until June 2006[sic]. News sites have been assuming they meant June 2007.
Not a big difference, but the Wii's internal memory is 512MB. Seems tiny when you consider that you can get a 1GB SD card for $15. Then again, we do not know how much memory will actually be needed (i.e., how big the extra game data will actually be, VC games will probably be close to the same size as the ROMs).
Some (all?) of the dev kits have wired Wiimotes, and wired Wiimotes have been used at conferences (presumably so they would not be stolen). The actual consumer version will be wireless-only.
I believe the article said they use OpenID.
Yeah, that's sorta the whole point of OpenID, which is one of the techs discussed in the article: anyone can use their own website as an OpenID URL.