...and make the standard for writing currency amounts hex--prices on ATM's, cash registers, everything will go waaaay down!
Of course, it also involves teaching the entire nation to add and subtract in binary and/or hex as fast as we can with decimal--a lotta work.
Wouldn't it be easy to cheat by just reading the game on a CD drive, editing it (assuming you can figure out how to) and burning a new disc? Maybe (maybe? definitely!) I'm naive to how you could cheat, but it seems easy, because xbox is basically a PC.
I think the reason the Mac versions of Office are better is that one, they have fewer users and fewer programmers, so it's easier to control everything, and MacOS is inherently a better OS, so it crashes less. Also, Office for Winblows is always a huge upgrade with the OS (Windows 98 + Office 97, Windows Me + Office 2000, Windows XP + Office XP, etc...) so more time is spent on simply making it work and adding useful features and less time is spent on adding Microsoft's latest, half-baked Internet "thing" (cough*dot*net*cough)
I *really* want the "Multi-select" feature from Office for the Mac on the PC... it's so cool! But Mac IE (at school, at least) is still slower (but not crash-prone) than Opera for PC... GO OPERA!
But AIM for the Mac is cool, it reads your IM's if you want... **realizes he is horribly off-topic** =D
I still like GameCube better, but that's because I just like Nintendo's style (cartoony)--only my opinion
I don't think anyone cares--since it wasn't linking directly to content, which is what they are avoiding--but I linked to their site in my last post, so ha!
I never even thought it was legal to restrict links, as long as you respect that it is their content and say that on your site. Framing, however, is somewhat evil because it looks like your content. whatever...
Yeah, that sounds pretty cool... I don't think radio waves or bad transmitted sound would be a problem, because it's only for receiving private audio, so the waves would be very weak, just running from your real cell phone to your tooth, and you wouldn't use it to talk.
I have two other interesting uses for it:
1. Text messages: use a voice synthesizer to read messages as you get them, and type them on a chording keyboard in your pocket.
2. A walkman. I once started reading a sci-fi book where someone had a radio implant where you could tune by shifting your teeth. Something like that could be cool, teachers would never know you're listening to music (MP3 player too =D)
Then I guess you can still see the site! (Of course, next thing you know, they will ban Google, and then they'll realize proxy servers have memory that caches sites, and then memory will be illegal, bla, bla, bla...) I think people should give up on censoring the internet and instead keep an eye on their kids so they don't look at porn. Also, instead of making it frustrating for everyone by censoring every other site on the net, just make ISP's keep tighter records of their customers and attack the people who run the porn/hate sites rather than making life difficult for people trying to look at other, good sites.
Just my $2 (inflation) -- really old, horrible joke!
True... well other than hospitals there are other places (schools for example) that could use it--so if the school wants to add, for example, a gradebook system to their already-wireless attendance system, they just have to change it on the server.
I would imagine that it could be useful for places like hospitals with lots of data to work with and complex relations between the data. So if they wanted to add a piece to the system (more data) they could simply change it on the server. It eliminates having to send a new program to each handheld. It also allows them to spend less money on the PDA's because they don't need lots of memory, etc... but only the server would need to have enough power.
I believe (I don't know whether it's possible to boot someone, maybe it's like a network command or something) that the point is to allow freedom to send stuff like music, videos, etc... but not allow sick things like child porn.
1. I guess 2. They can't stop you, see number 8. 3. True 4. Yeah, exactly! Until the RIAA bans cables, microphones, speakers, etc... and basically takes over the world, music can be (albeit at lower quality) be copied. 5. No, it won't, it will allow access to the normal quality you get when ripping a CD now; the SACD is an improvement upon this. 6. True 7. True 8. True, but there's a program called Polderbits Sound Recorder that digitally (I hope) captures the sound from any application to.wav. Play that one-time-only WMA demo track into it, and voila, you have a DRM-free copy. Same for SACD audio played with a CD-ROM drive. And as fiber-optic cables become the norm for audio hookups (okay, don't flame me, my 20-year-old stereo still uses *gasp* electrical cables =D), it will be easy to build a decoder--after all, what company (cough*SONY*cough) would build a DRM-encryption system for the headphone output of a CD player?
Yes, a very bad analogy. They are letting you keep your baby, but offering you a (here's the dumb part of it) "higher-quality baby" for personal use only--you still get to use the regular CD audio as a CD, but the higher-quality and multimedia parts are DRM protected.
Yeah, that's pretty good, because you can use all 101-odd keys on your keyboard but you don't need to remember them. To address the size issues, I saw a kiddie program for like IBM PCjr's that used little plastic strips propped up behind the letter keys, so even if the overall shape is split or curved, you can cut them or bend them, etc...
Yeah, it's mostly empty space, and what are the chances (realistically here, people) that aliens would want to/be able to interact with us or vice versa? I mean everything you take for granted, even thought, could be different on another planet, so what makes everyone think they would even realize we noticed them or were talking to them?
But SETI is cool, because the screen saver looks cool (!) and it's not trying to communicate, just hear them.
Sweet... =D
What would be better than this obviously one-use controller is something like that with several joysticks and lots of buttons, switches, etc...--basically a console with many controls but not designed for one purpose. There could be like a 15x5 grid of buttons, and games come with inserts to cover them. So a SimCity game could use the top row as tools, next as reports, etc... while a flight sim could use them for different controls. And if a game ever needed a keyboard (high score entry, online chat, etc...) it could simply write letters in the corner of the square section covering each button....or you could just tap into a person's mind and read their thoughts.
Neither of those people are me.
I do like Cybiko, I did read The Giver, I do have a ham radio license (and I'm in the Boston amaeur Radio Club). I do like Lego Mindstorms. I have AOL but a quick look at my email address would show you it's not my primary connection. Yes I do have a TI-XX, but not an 85.
By the way, I'm sure you figured most of this out with my screen name/email address.
Thanks for showing me all this, it makes me want to get a different email address without my whole name in it.
Thanks,
Tom
Well the "unique ID" would probably be like programmed into a ROM chip, eventually someone will figure out how to make their own.
Personally (maybe I'm thick-headed, moderate away) I don't see what the point in these is. Some people will also find a way to remove the ID's. Then again, just pick one of the millions of DivX decoders and use a PC...
What they need to do is take the old "dongle" approach and apply it to digital music, except make it unhackable (hehehe, just get a *little* suspension of disbelief for a minute here) and use it for things like DRM5 ebooks and DVD's. Then you can listen to paid-for (yeah, right, but hey, some people want to make sure the artists get paid) music anywhere but not spread it, so your MP3's will only play with your dongle.
But it's still KaZaA + Morpheus + Winamp = free MP3's for me!
"What I'd like is a more embedded-like solution to this problem. Say a minimalist PC. Give it no/little local storage (preferably net-boot, though a solid state disk would work too), have it boot almost instantly, and make it mount network shares (samba/NFS/etc) and/or CDs for all the video content."
Yeah, that would be great, no need to transfer my GB's of MP3's to it, just stream them over a network!;-)
"Then have a simple menu-selector app running that lets you chose/play movies. The back-end OS could be anything. Preferably an x86 'nix (FreeBSD, Linux, etc.), for network interoperability and managability. However, the back-end should be mostly invisible when you're actually using it."
Whatever it is, not windows!
What I really want is something that will catalog all the MP3's, videos, etcetera off your computer and make them available to be wirelessly streamed anywhere in the house. Add a satellite receiver and TiVo that automatically (as well as user-selectably) detects your preferences (like Amazon.com) with a thumbs-up and thumbs-down button--an extra button press while flipping channels that tells your opinion of a show will allow it to automatically get shows you will like. Then make your MP3 player synchronize and get the songs you've been listening to lately, an FM/AM tuner, and a hardware KaZaA/Morpheus/Gnutella client that downloads good songs from your preferences...
That would give you audio and video streamed anywhere and would automatically add songs and videos to your collection... =D And while you're at it, get a T3 connection to download all that stuff.
One more thing: it's gotta have a kitchen sink, too!
Well I think that meeting people from online chat is still somewhat dangerous, but some people are over-paranoid; some people say that you shouldn't tell people your email address or state without permission from a parent--yeah, like they'll know who Tom in Massachusetts (me) is out of tons of people.
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...and make the standard for writing currency amounts hex--prices on ATM's, cash registers, everything will go waaaay down! Of course, it also involves teaching the entire nation to add and subtract in binary and/or hex as fast as we can with decimal--a lotta work.
Wouldn't it be easy to cheat by just reading the game on a CD drive, editing it (assuming you can figure out how to) and burning a new disc? Maybe (maybe? definitely!) I'm naive to how you could cheat, but it seems easy, because xbox is basically a PC.
I think the reason the Mac versions of Office are better is that one, they have fewer users and fewer programmers, so it's easier to control everything, and MacOS is inherently a better OS, so it crashes less. Also, Office for Winblows is always a huge upgrade with the OS (Windows 98 + Office 97, Windows Me + Office 2000, Windows XP + Office XP, etc...) so more time is spent on simply making it work and adding useful features and less time is spent on adding Microsoft's latest, half-baked Internet "thing" (cough*dot*net*cough)
I *really* want the "Multi-select" feature from Office for the Mac on the PC... it's so cool! But Mac IE (at school, at least) is still slower (but not crash-prone) than Opera for PC... GO OPERA!
But AIM for the Mac is cool, it reads your IM's if you want... **realizes he is horribly off-topic** =D
I still like GameCube better, but that's because I just like Nintendo's style (cartoony)--only my opinion
I don't think anyone cares--since it wasn't linking directly to content, which is what they are avoiding--but I linked to their site in my last post, so ha!
I never even thought it was legal to restrict links, as long as you respect that it is their content and say that on your site. Framing, however, is somewhat evil because it looks like your content. whatever...
Sounds like a good idea! That's like me saying to someone, you can't say my name without asking me. It's just stupid. Hehehehehe
Yeah, that sounds pretty cool... I don't think radio waves or bad transmitted sound would be a problem, because it's only for receiving private audio, so the waves would be very weak, just running from your real cell phone to your tooth, and you wouldn't use it to talk. I have two other interesting uses for it: 1. Text messages: use a voice synthesizer to read messages as you get them, and type them on a chording keyboard in your pocket. 2. A walkman. I once started reading a sci-fi book where someone had a radio implant where you could tune by shifting your teeth. Something like that could be cool, teachers would never know you're listening to music (MP3 player too =D)
Then I guess you can still see the site! (Of course, next thing you know, they will ban Google, and then they'll realize proxy servers have memory that caches sites, and then memory will be illegal, bla, bla, bla...) I think people should give up on censoring the internet and instead keep an eye on their kids so they don't look at porn. Also, instead of making it frustrating for everyone by censoring every other site on the net, just make ISP's keep tighter records of their customers and attack the people who run the porn/hate sites rather than making life difficult for people trying to look at other, good sites.
Just my $2 (inflation) -- really old, horrible joke!
True... well other than hospitals there are other places (schools for example) that could use it--so if the school wants to add, for example, a gradebook system to their already-wireless attendance system, they just have to change it on the server.
I would imagine that it could be useful for places like hospitals with lots of data to work with and complex relations between the data. So if they wanted to add a piece to the system (more data) they could simply change it on the server. It eliminates having to send a new program to each handheld. It also allows them to spend less money on the PDA's because they don't need lots of memory, etc... but only the server would need to have enough power.
I believe (I don't know whether it's possible to boot someone, maybe it's like a network command or something) that the point is to allow freedom to send stuff like music, videos, etc... but not allow sick things like child porn.
1. I guess .wav. Play that one-time-only WMA demo track into it, and voila, you have a DRM-free copy. Same for SACD audio played with a CD-ROM drive. And as fiber-optic cables become the norm for audio hookups (okay, don't flame me, my 20-year-old stereo still uses *gasp* electrical cables =D), it will be easy to build a decoder--after all, what company (cough*SONY*cough) would build a DRM-encryption system for the headphone output of a CD player?
2. They can't stop you, see number 8.
3. True
4. Yeah, exactly! Until the RIAA bans cables, microphones, speakers, etc... and basically takes over the world, music can be (albeit at lower quality) be copied.
5. No, it won't, it will allow access to the normal quality you get when ripping a CD now; the SACD is an improvement upon this.
6. True
7. True
8. True, but there's a program called Polderbits Sound Recorder that digitally (I hope) captures the sound from any application to
Yes, a very bad analogy. They are letting you keep your baby, but offering you a (here's the dumb part of it) "higher-quality baby" for personal use only--you still get to use the regular CD audio as a CD, but the higher-quality and multimedia parts are DRM protected.
Yeah, that's pretty good, because you can use all 101-odd keys on your keyboard but you don't need to remember them. To address the size issues, I saw a kiddie program for like IBM PCjr's that used little plastic strips propped up behind the letter keys, so even if the overall shape is split or curved, you can cut them or bend them, etc...
Yeah, it's mostly empty space, and what are the chances (realistically here, people) that aliens would want to/be able to interact with us or vice versa? I mean everything you take for granted, even thought, could be different on another planet, so what makes everyone think they would even realize we noticed them or were talking to them? But SETI is cool, because the screen saver looks cool (!) and it's not trying to communicate, just hear them.
Sweet... =D What would be better than this obviously one-use controller is something like that with several joysticks and lots of buttons, switches, etc...--basically a console with many controls but not designed for one purpose. There could be like a 15x5 grid of buttons, and games come with inserts to cover them. So a SimCity game could use the top row as tools, next as reports, etc... while a flight sim could use them for different controls. And if a game ever needed a keyboard (high score entry, online chat, etc...) it could simply write letters in the corner of the square section covering each button. ...or you could just tap into a person's mind and read their thoughts.
Neither of those people are me. I do like Cybiko, I did read The Giver, I do have a ham radio license (and I'm in the Boston amaeur Radio Club). I do like Lego Mindstorms. I have AOL but a quick look at my email address would show you it's not my primary connection. Yes I do have a TI-XX, but not an 85. By the way, I'm sure you figured most of this out with my screen name/email address. Thanks for showing me all this, it makes me want to get a different email address without my whole name in it. Thanks, Tom
Well the "unique ID" would probably be like programmed into a ROM chip, eventually someone will figure out how to make their own.
Personally (maybe I'm thick-headed, moderate away) I don't see what the point in these is. Some people will also find a way to remove the ID's. Then again, just pick one of the millions of DivX decoders and use a PC...
What they need to do is take the old "dongle" approach and apply it to digital music, except make it unhackable (hehehe, just get a *little* suspension of disbelief for a minute here) and use it for things like DRM5 ebooks and DVD's. Then you can listen to paid-for (yeah, right, but hey, some people want to make sure the artists get paid) music anywhere but not spread it, so your MP3's will only play with your dongle.
But it's still KaZaA + Morpheus + Winamp = free MP3's for me!
"What I'd like is a more embedded-like solution to this problem. Say a minimalist PC. Give it no/little local storage (preferably net-boot, though a solid state disk would work too), have it boot almost instantly, and make it mount network shares (samba/NFS/etc) and/or CDs for all the video content." Yeah, that would be great, no need to transfer my GB's of MP3's to it, just stream them over a network! ;-)
"Then have a simple menu-selector app running that lets you chose/play movies. The back-end OS could be anything. Preferably an x86 'nix (FreeBSD, Linux, etc.), for network interoperability and managability. However, the back-end should be mostly invisible when you're actually using it."
Whatever it is, not windows!
What I really want is something that will catalog all the MP3's, videos, etcetera off your computer and make them available to be wirelessly streamed anywhere in the house. Add a satellite receiver and TiVo that automatically (as well as user-selectably) detects your preferences (like Amazon.com) with a thumbs-up and thumbs-down button--an extra button press while flipping channels that tells your opinion of a show will allow it to automatically get shows you will like. Then make your MP3 player synchronize and get the songs you've been listening to lately, an FM/AM tuner, and a hardware KaZaA/Morpheus/Gnutella client that downloads good songs from your preferences...
That would give you audio and video streamed anywhere and would automatically add songs and videos to your collection... =D And while you're at it, get a T3 connection to download all that stuff.
One more thing: it's gotta have a kitchen sink, too!
Well I think that meeting people from online chat is still somewhat dangerous, but some people are over-paranoid; some people say that you shouldn't tell people your email address or state without permission from a parent--yeah, like they'll know who Tom in Massachusetts (me) is out of tons of people.
Tom