The resolution can go as high as 3840x2400. That is insane. I think the question is no longer how high can the resolution go. But on the otherhand, how high can I set the resolution with having to be able to squint to see the letters that I am typing. I can barely see the letters that I type at 1600x1200. I can imagine what 3840x2400 would look like.
This isn't insane, although running a display at a resolution you claim to hardly be able to read might be. The extra resolution gives more dots, so you end up with easier to view type. It's easy to demonstrate how this affects things: Hold a piece of printed text with small but clearly readable text next to text o your monitor. You'll likely find (if you can read the text on your monitor) that the printed text is both smaller and more readable. The reason for this is that there is a greater dot density to the printed text, helping you to read it despite it's apparent small size. Most current monitors just don't have the dot density to match this, so once text shrinks beyond a certain point it's the compromise in pixel selection, not the actual small text, that makes it hard to read the type. A higher density monitor does help in this area. Of course, if you try to make characters the same number of pixels on he new screen then your problem only gets worse, but you can have both more pixels and smaller text, which can result in a very readable display.
You can just use a soundcard if that's all you have. It will get you 44 kHz of bandwidth. Then you'd need a rf tuner in front of that.
On the high end, we use a $1k+ 20Ms/s card with a cable tuner.
It is widely believed, but not yet proven, that you can coax raw samples from a BT8x8 video capture card, which would be a great boon, as those are cheap.
No. I think you missed the point of the question, one I would like answered also. What equipment is really needed to receive radio signals? For example, the website shows looking at the FM band, but talks about the same high end $1k+ card that you mentioned that goes up to 20Ms/s samples. Clearly more equipment than this is needed to deal with the 107mhz FM band. You are apparently assuming we have something lying around that will comvert the FM band to a lower frequency. Many of use don't, unless you want to count an FM radio (which makes the need for a software radio less pressing). If we're talking about software modulation/demodulation let's just say so, if we're really talking about "Imagine computing devices that communicate seamlessly across the entire electromagnetic spectrum." then lets spell out all of the equipment that is needed to pick out signals that might be in the Ghz range.
The m130 was originally advertised as supporting 65,536 colors when in actuality it can only display 58,621.
Lets be accurate here. It can only display 4096 colors. It's a 12 bit color display, not 16. However Palm marketing wants to twist things, it does not serve the user to repeat marketing hype. They sold this thing as a 16 bit display and it was a 12 bit display. Matters a lot if you want to view photos or color images, and that's the reason many paid for a color toy. The problem is more serious than the "only 58,621 colors as contrasted to 64k" marketing hype.
On this subject, can someone please tell me what the current cost of getting a patent is. Not the search of prior art, or the lawyer fees, but just what the patent office takes form the inventor in fees. I've been told that it has grown extremely high, but this and other patents that would seem extremely trivial (in this case I believe there was already prior art that should negate it) keep popping up, and I'm having trouble understanding how an individual can afford to get an apparently worthless patent if it is priced as high a I'm told.
I'm not folowing what e-bay is being sued for then. With all of the fraud and shilling, which e-bay tolerates as long as it doesn't get a lot a publicity, they are hardly trustworthy.
The Internet ain't a road, no matter what it's inventor Al Gore tells us. Reminds me of the "an elephant must be like a tree" story. That's one danger of analogies, some people will carry them to false conclusions and dangerous extremes.
I'm not sure I even like the idea of the government even running our roads, but that's another (off topic) issue. But a road must have access to land (private property) that in most cases completely eliminates the use of that property for any other use. Not so with the Internet. The basic infrastructure there, when run on dedicated lines, can be buried and co-exist with other uses of the property. No "taking" of private property is required as it is with putting down an Interstate highway, just the much less oppressive right of free access through a property (a concept I find no fault with, as it is understood when society grants private ownership to property). There are also various plumbing systems that go below ground and pass through private property. So maybe a much better analogy would be rather than calling the Internet a Information Highway it should be called the Information Sewage System.
Well, gee, the Internet is important to many of us, so it should be povided by a government and paid for in taxes. Interesting concept.
OK, there are some lame problems with the current system, the one you mentioned about cable companies penalizing users who subscribe to the system to get high bandwidth is a perfect example. But taking your logic, isn't food even more important than Internet access? If it is, shouldn't we replace all the grocery stores with a government run grocery system? Whould you really want to get your food from a grocery store run by the government? Do you think you would still have a choice to buy at the private stores? How many of them could afford to stay in business if all of their customers were also paying the food tax and getting food at the government store? And what do you think the new prices for food at the remaiming exclusive private stores would be? Could you afford to eat from such stores or would you have to eat whatever the government stores decide is good enough for you?
Look at what has happened to our education system. Sure, there are still private schools, but few can afford to send their children to them and also pay the taxes for the awful government run schools. The school system is so bad that many in government advocate a voucher system, which is an admission of the failure of the public schools. And you want these people to take more control of what we get?
Sure, there are problems with the current system. But ask why. My answer is because we already have too much government medeling in what should have been a free market. By granting monopoly powers to a single phone company and cable company in an area, they have greatly limited the consumer choices for service. Whithout that monopoly, pitching customers the benefit of high speed access and then penalizing them for using it wouldn't be tolerated, there would be other providers who would be glad to take the customers. With the monopoly in place we get they type of system we have. Why not strengthen the monopoly by giving it to the Post Office? No Internet access Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays.
That ain't a link to the application either! It's a forum where others are talking about the application. There might be a link to it somewhere in the forum, but if there is then that is what you should have posted under this title. First link I found was just for a dll that the application uses, not sure if there really is a link to the application.
So Sun made them stop putting Java in IE because of the way they were basterdizing it. Now they want to make them put it back in again? So they can go back to business as usual and do what they can to destroy it again? What Sun shold be doing is pursuing real legal remedies against these bastards, not playing little games where M$ will leverage their monopoly to destroy others in clearly illegal ways no matter if they put Java in or pull it out.
Why would NASA be developing mind reading technology? They should stick to the task at hand, i.e. converting metric measurments to American.
It's technology they got from certain "visitors" who use it to communicate and play their little pratical jokes on back woods Arkansas fishermen. Why else would NASA have the technology?
From the relaese notes: Install into a new empty directory. Installing on top of previously installed builds may cause problems.
So what all is needed to upgrade? Copy the bookmark file? Where are the browser preferences and other settings stored? Is there no easy way to automate this rather than just give the warning to start over again? I'm not asking for myself, but rather for a novice who is resisting upgrading because she doesn't have time to upgrade and wants to be sure she gets everything when she does.
The name change seems appropriate, am I going to be the first to note how it will be pronounced?
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There are now, after I sent the author a request for them. There were none when I first visited.
The shots do seem to show the key differences (remember the water issue is really a patch from someone else). The shadow differences are there, his hack does give shadowed areas where Quake had too much light. Don't expect a completely different game, but it's a nice improvement. The two comparison's don't show the player's shadow, but some of the other shots he gives do.
The site seems to have a lots of pictures,
even though the textures are a bit blocky and
they could stand some anti-alliasing. But what I would really like are some before and after shots so I could see (before I download, read everything and install) just what the visual difference is.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that this seems lacking?
Ok, fist off all, let us get this straight, this is in no way quantun encryption. although both use polarization, that is were any similarity ends.
Then, after explaining exactly how a remote site extracts the signal, the offical release says: "This is quite a clever method, which hides the signal in noise," says ONR science officer Mike Shlesinger, who oversees the research. "It provides a definite advantage over direct encoding of polarization, leaving an eavesdropper only chaotic static, and no means to extract the signal." Hiding a signal hardly makes it secure, and certainly does ot do it after you have just told the world how you are hiding it and how you recover it! I wonder if I can get my tax money that was wasted on this back?
This method is neither new or novel, it's called Quantum Encruption. You can read a quick primer....
This ain't quantum encryption. It's much lamer. Read the article. The lame claim is only that the signal is hader to detect, because it's sent at a low level and hidden in noise. Not only is this a bad way to "secure" communications, but bragging that that is what you are doing defeats the whole concept!
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I bought their Gforce3 last November with a $50 rebate. I doubt that their margins really allow them to offer such a high rebate, or that very many buyers will fail to send for a $50 rebate.
It took many angry phone calls to the rebate fulfilment company before I finally got the rebate on 5/1/02, over six months later. E-mail directly to VisionTek during this period was ignored. You don't endear customers and build up repeat business with this type of treatment.
On an 800# call to tech support, I was on hold waiting for someone to pick up for about an hour (didn't give up thanks to my trusty speakerphone). Again a customer relation error, and in this case a costly one. I clearly wasn't the only person on hold. If you consider the number of people on hold and the amount they spent for each of those 800 number calls, it would have been much cheaper to have the staff to properly support the calls.
Curiously, you didn't have to "register" the card for warranty support, but there was a post paid card in the box that was supposd to be returned for the DVD player software. With the post paid card you were expected to "enclose" both a copy of your receipt and the UPS barcode from the back of the box. Why put a buyer through this and make them wait for something that should have been in the box? How do you "enclose" anything with a postage paid postcard? And since they got my UPC code for the rebate, how can I submit it again for my CD? If they wanted the information they should have just provided a "register within 30 days to activate your warranty" card, and why would they need both my receipt and UPC to prove I bought the product, doesn't the UPC or even just the postcard itself show them that?
All told I wasn't going to buy another card from them anyway.
So what about my Xtasy GF3 Ti200 lifetime warranty? I already replaced the fan on it with a Blue Orb because the fan was spinning very slowly.
I have the same card and, opening my computer recently, found I have the same problem. Did you have to give up one or more PCI slots to install this fan? That would not be a good option for me. Can anyone recommend a source of replacement fans for this thing?
Gimic, hmm strong crypto that is easy to use and is basically idiot proof. That is a weird definition of gimic. I think easy to use encryption is what we need more of, not less.
OK, you and I differ in the use of one word in what I wrote. Shall I take you that you agree with everything else I said?
You, like the watch gimmick, miss the point. Why steal the laptop in the first place? If it's because you want the hardware, then this isn't going to stop you one bit. And if it's because you are after the important information stored on it, then you better be doing your homework and understanding your target, else you're more likely to end up with a file of cookie recipes than corporate secrets. If you're targeting a particular notebook, then I don't see this as a real obstacle, just another issue to resolve. The false sense of security might even keep the victim from taking steps that would otherwise lower the value of the stolen information.
And one nice side effect of this for the discerning footpad: A simple radio receiver listening for the bluetooth watch can be used to alert you when someone is bringing a highly valued prize your way!
Who gives a shit about the laptop, for personal use you might but corporate clients (the people who buy probably 95% of laptops) the data is worth way more than the laptop. For us losing a $3k laptop is nothing, when you buy $90k suns and making a new chip mask is $800k a $3k laptop is a drop in the budget bucket. Now the data and loss
of proprietary info to competitors could be potential losses of hundreds of millions, that should kind of put things in perspective. If Bill Gates, John Chambers, Larry Elllison or any number of other other CEO's laptops were stolen the
potential for blackmail or selling of corporate secrets could be in the billions.
I think your estimate of the % of corporate users is seriously off, but it hardly matters. The bottom line is that (doing my own made up estimate) if a laptop is "liberated", 99%+ of the time it's just going to be reused, even if the information is more valuable than the hardware and even if it is Larry Ellison's. And unless the thief if really clueless, the data will be wiped before the sale so that the new owner doesn't easily track down the old owner. But in those few cases where the device is taken for the information it, the thief will certainly not be stopped by this technique from getting those corportae secrets with a value that could be in the billions. About all this gimmick might do is convince the user that the data was safer than it really is.
Let me be sure I understand this, we have a watch running Linux that can communicate with the laptop running bluetooth. If I get out of range, the laptop encrypts the files.
Of course, there's still a good chance that someone has stolen my laptop, and even less of a chance that anyone will look at the files on a lost laptop and get it back to me. My data is protected but still lost to me. As is my laptop. With all that technology, why not just save my critical data to the watch? It's not on the laptop so there's no chance an attack will break the crypto. And I still have my copy, unless the thief gets my fancy computer watch; when I get to another system I will not have lost my work.
Seems to me like NT and XP already have some encryption in the NTFS file system, but most users refuse to use it 'cause you have to think and type in a password when you start to use your computer. Is a techno watch the answer? Should your laptop start encrypting your files every time you go to the bathroom? Will this really accomplish anything when the average user is about as bright as the power led on the laptop when it's running on battery? If you can't store the data on the watch, why not just have the smart watch do the login, and make sure that proper sharing rules are enforced on the files?
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This isn't insane, although running a display at a resolution you claim to hardly be able to read might be. The extra resolution gives more dots, so you end up with easier to view type. It's easy to demonstrate how this affects things: Hold a piece of printed text with small but clearly readable text next to text o your monitor. You'll likely find (if you can read the text on your monitor) that the printed text is both smaller and more readable. The reason for this is that there is a greater dot density to the printed text, helping you to read it despite it's apparent small size. Most current monitors just don't have the dot density to match this, so once text shrinks beyond a certain point it's the compromise in pixel selection, not the actual small text, that makes it hard to read the type. A higher density monitor does help in this area. Of course, if you try to make characters the same number of pixels on he new screen then your problem only gets worse, but you can have both more pixels and smaller text, which can result in a very readable display.
Then again, maybe you just need reading glasses.
You can just use a soundcard if that's all you have. It will get you 44 kHz of bandwidth. Then you'd need a rf tuner in front of that.
On the high end, we use a $1k+ 20Ms/s card with a cable tuner.
It is widely believed, but not yet proven, that you can coax raw samples from a BT8x8 video capture card, which would be a great boon, as those are cheap.
No. I think you missed the point of the question, one I would like answered also. What equipment is really needed to receive radio signals? For example, the website shows looking at the FM band, but talks about the same high end $1k+ card that you mentioned that goes up to 20Ms/s samples. Clearly more equipment than this is needed to deal with the 107mhz FM band. You are apparently assuming we have something lying around that will comvert the FM band to a lower frequency. Many of use don't, unless you want to count an FM radio (which makes the need for a software radio less pressing). If we're talking about software modulation/demodulation let's just say so, if we're really talking about "Imagine computing devices that communicate seamlessly across the entire electromagnetic spectrum." then lets spell out all of the equipment that is needed to pick out signals that might be in the Ghz range.
Lets be accurate here. It can only display 4096 colors. It's a 12 bit color display, not 16. However Palm marketing wants to twist things, it does not serve the user to repeat marketing hype. They sold this thing as a 16 bit display and it was a 12 bit display. Matters a lot if you want to view photos or color images, and that's the reason many paid for a color toy. The problem is more serious than the "only 58,621 colors as contrasted to 64k" marketing hype.
On this subject, can someone please tell me what the current cost of getting a patent is. Not the search of prior art, or the lawyer fees, but just what the patent office takes form the inventor in fees. I've been told that it has grown extremely high, but this and other patents that would seem extremely trivial (in this case I believe there was already prior art that should negate it) keep popping up, and I'm having trouble understanding how an individual can afford to get an apparently worthless patent if it is priced as high a I'm told.
I'm not folowing what e-bay is being sued for then. With all of the fraud and shilling, which e-bay tolerates as long as it doesn't get a lot a publicity, they are hardly trustworthy.
The Internet ain't a road, no matter what it's inventor Al Gore tells us. Reminds me of the "an elephant must be like a tree" story. That's one danger of analogies, some people will carry them to false conclusions and dangerous extremes.
I'm not sure I even like the idea of the government even running our roads, but that's another (off topic) issue. But a road must have access to land (private property) that in most cases completely eliminates the use of that property for any other use. Not so with the Internet. The basic infrastructure there, when run on dedicated lines, can be buried and co-exist with other uses of the property. No "taking" of private property is required as it is with putting down an Interstate highway, just the much less oppressive right of free access through a property (a concept I find no fault with, as it is understood when society grants private ownership to property). There are also various plumbing systems that go below ground and pass through private property. So maybe a much better analogy would be rather than calling the Internet a Information Highway it should be called the Information Sewage System.
OK, there are some lame problems with the current system, the one you mentioned about cable companies penalizing users who subscribe to the system to get high bandwidth is a perfect example. But taking your logic, isn't food even more important than Internet access? If it is, shouldn't we replace all the grocery stores with a government run grocery system? Whould you really want to get your food from a grocery store run by the government? Do you think you would still have a choice to buy at the private stores? How many of them could afford to stay in business if all of their customers were also paying the food tax and getting food at the government store? And what do you think the new prices for food at the remaiming exclusive private stores would be? Could you afford to eat from such stores or would you have to eat whatever the government stores decide is good enough for you?
Look at what has happened to our education system. Sure, there are still private schools, but few can afford to send their children to them and also pay the taxes for the awful government run schools. The school system is so bad that many in government advocate a voucher system, which is an admission of the failure of the public schools. And you want these people to take more control of what we get?
Sure, there are problems with the current system. But ask why. My answer is because we already have too much government medeling in what should have been a free market. By granting monopoly powers to a single phone company and cable company in an area, they have greatly limited the consumer choices for service. Whithout that monopoly, pitching customers the benefit of high speed access and then penalizing them for using it wouldn't be tolerated, there would be other providers who would be glad to take the customers. With the monopoly in place we get they type of system we have. Why not strengthen the monopoly by giving it to the Post Office? No Internet access Saturdays, Sundays or Holidays.
Excelent point and one that is too frequently overlooked.
That ain't a link to the application either! It's a forum where others are talking about the application. There might be a link to it somewhere in the forum, but if there is then that is what you should have posted under this title. First link I found was just for a dll that the application uses, not sure if there really is a link to the application.
So Sun made them stop putting Java in IE because of the way they were basterdizing it. Now they want to make them put it back in again? So they can go back to business as usual and do what they can to destroy it again? What Sun shold be doing is pursuing real legal remedies against these bastards, not playing little games where M$ will leverage their monopoly to destroy others in clearly illegal ways no matter if they put Java in or pull it out.
It's technology they got from certain "visitors" who use it to communicate and play their little pratical jokes on back woods Arkansas fishermen. Why else would NASA have the technology?
So what all is needed to upgrade? Copy the bookmark file? Where are the browser preferences and other settings stored? Is there no easy way to automate this rather than just give the warning to start over again? I'm not asking for myself, but rather for a novice who is resisting upgrading because she doesn't have time to upgrade and wants to be sure she gets everything when she does.
The name change seems appropriate, am I going to be the first to note how it will be pronounced?
The shots do seem to show the key differences (remember the water issue is really a patch from someone else). The shadow differences are there, his hack does give shadowed areas where Quake had too much light. Don't expect a completely different game, but it's a nice improvement. The two comparison's don't show the player's shadow, but some of the other shots he gives do.
The site seems to have a lots of pictures, even though the textures are a bit blocky and they could stand some anti-alliasing. But what I would really like are some before and after shots so I could see (before I download, read everything and install) just what the visual difference is. Am I the only one who finds it odd that this seems lacking?
They don't scam "us", they only scam really really stupid people.
Then, after explaining exactly how a remote site extracts the signal, the offical release says: "This is quite a clever method, which hides the signal in noise," says ONR science officer Mike Shlesinger, who oversees the research. "It provides a definite advantage over direct encoding of polarization, leaving an eavesdropper only chaotic static, and no means to extract the signal." Hiding a signal hardly makes it secure, and certainly does ot do it after you have just told the world how you are hiding it and how you recover it! I wonder if I can get my tax money that was wasted on this back?
This ain't quantum encryption. It's much lamer. Read the article. The lame claim is only that the signal is hader to detect, because it's sent at a low level and hidden in noise. Not only is this a bad way to "secure" communications, but bragging that that is what you are doing defeats the whole concept!
It took many angry phone calls to the rebate fulfilment company before I finally got the rebate on 5/1/02, over six months later. E-mail directly to VisionTek during this period was ignored. You don't endear customers and build up repeat business with this type of treatment.
On an 800# call to tech support, I was on hold waiting for someone to pick up for about an hour (didn't give up thanks to my trusty speakerphone). Again a customer relation error, and in this case a costly one. I clearly wasn't the only person on hold. If you consider the number of people on hold and the amount they spent for each of those 800 number calls, it would have been much cheaper to have the staff to properly support the calls.
Curiously, you didn't have to "register" the card for warranty support, but there was a post paid card in the box that was supposd to be returned for the DVD player software. With the post paid card you were expected to "enclose" both a copy of your receipt and the UPS barcode from the back of the box. Why put a buyer through this and make them wait for something that should have been in the box? How do you "enclose" anything with a postage paid postcard? And since they got my UPC code for the rebate, how can I submit it again for my CD? If they wanted the information they should have just provided a "register within 30 days to activate your warranty" card, and why would they need both my receipt and UPC to prove I bought the product, doesn't the UPC or even just the postcard itself show them that?
All told I wasn't going to buy another card from them anyway.
I have the same card and, opening my computer recently, found I have the same problem. Did you have to give up one or more PCI slots to install this fan? That would not be a good option for me. Can anyone recommend a source of replacement fans for this thing?
I expect the judge will provide the best justice that money can buy.
OK, you and I differ in the use of one word in what I wrote. Shall I take you that you agree with everything else I said?
And one nice side effect of this for the discerning footpad: A simple radio receiver listening for the bluetooth watch can be used to alert you when someone is bringing a highly valued prize your way!
I think your estimate of the % of corporate users is seriously off, but it hardly matters. The bottom line is that (doing my own made up estimate) if a laptop is "liberated", 99%+ of the time it's just going to be reused, even if the information is more valuable than the hardware and even if it is Larry Ellison's. And unless the thief if really clueless, the data will be wiped before the sale so that the new owner doesn't easily track down the old owner. But in those few cases where the device is taken for the information it, the thief will certainly not be stopped by this technique from getting those corportae secrets with a value that could be in the billions. About all this gimmick might do is convince the user that the data was safer than it really is.
Of course, there's still a good chance that someone has stolen my laptop, and even less of a chance that anyone will look at the files on a lost laptop and get it back to me. My data is protected but still lost to me. As is my laptop. With all that technology, why not just save my critical data to the watch? It's not on the laptop so there's no chance an attack will break the crypto. And I still have my copy, unless the thief gets my fancy computer watch; when I get to another system I will not have lost my work.
Seems to me like NT and XP already have some encryption in the NTFS file system, but most users refuse to use it 'cause you have to think and type in a password when you start to use your computer. Is a techno watch the answer? Should your laptop start encrypting your files every time you go to the bathroom? Will this really accomplish anything when the average user is about as bright as the power led on the laptop when it's running on battery? If you can't store the data on the watch, why not just have the smart watch do the login, and make sure that proper sharing rules are enforced on the files?