If we hadn't all let Macromedia get a monopoly on pretty animated graphics on the Internet, they would never have pulled such a move.
I think it stinks, they sell Flash to developers on the understanding that people can download the flash player and run there content, and that most people can view it.
If I setup Chris's Animated Web Graphics tomorrow and built a better system, no one would buy it because people don't like using random plugin dependant content.
Macromedia should be sued by all of the people who have purchased there products for creating Flash content.
As an ex Flash using developer, the advantage Flash has over Java is the IDE. (Not that the Flash Producing program is really an IDE)
With flash you can rapidly develop graphics and then plug in a small amount of code to make it do "clever things". This means a designer (of the graphic type) can build games etc.
On the flip side with Java you have to actually know how to code, so most applets are made by coders not designers.
What does this lead to? Well most of the stuff flash is used for is pretty with not too much coding, like most of the Web. While the Java stuff may have lots of features, but is kinda ugly.
Basically Java could replace Flash, but it would need someone to build an IDE for designers to use before it was popular and started to generate content to match that of Flashes.
As it stands Flash is a graphics format with scripting, while Java is a fully fledged programming language with the ability to do graphics in a web browser. If someone came up with the JavaFlash graphic tool / ide then we would be onto a winner.
I have never seen a japaniese phone, but, I don't see why japanise companies would do the research into an input system that is purley based on the basic concepts of how you write chinese chars, ie no pin-yin or other type some letters and i'll work out the char you ment, and not bother to do so for the much larger japanise markets. I mean japanise cangie (that is soo wrong spelled) is chinese anyway, so why would it be a problem, you just need to add the 'simpler' japaniese characters.
As for unicode in Java, I have no idea how the virtual machine handles the particular bit pushing, but any string in java is actually a unicode string, instead of being 8bit or so per char like in c.
I cannot speak for the US, but in the UK, this is REALLY easy.
All you need to do is find out the requirements for your network, and then buy a phone from hong kong, that has chineese input, and works with you carriers network.
Thats what my friends do, and they can then send each other SMS, over the UK networks, in chinese, using the 12 key input system i described in another post, and it 'just works'(tm).
So my recomendation would be find a phone from hong kong that works with a US network, and buy the phone and switch networks, you can even use the phone in 'english' and have the chinese as a possible option.
If you want an exact recomendation, look at Motorola, the one with the circular display, where the key guard 'spins' around the display to show the keys. The chinese ones have the 'stokes' written on the number keys, so they are kinda obvious.
While this is true, there are PLENTY of phones that can do japanise / chinese character encoding.
The basic way to so it, with only the ~12 buttons or so on a mobile phone, is to mark the keys with the different types of strokes that make up the chacters. Chinese charaters (and therfore at least some of japanise, but i don't know how to write 'any' japanise) are written in a particular order from a finite set of strokes, so it you know how to write chineese properly (i.e. know the stroke order rules not just the 'pretty pictures') this system is VERY usable.
In fact I can use a chineese phone to type better than i can use a full keyboard, because the system makes more sense to me.
Also for the chineese, getting a chineese font ain't that hard, and if your using java to build and app, then its unicode anyway.
If you could be bothered to code an app, all you'd need is a java phone, and a marker to add the stokes to the keys.
I saw this and couldn't help being reminded of "Imformation Retreval" from the film Brazil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/. Where they charge the victims of government oppression the cost of actually oppressing them.
Although the idea of charging criminals the "real" cost to prosecute them is interesting...
I'm guessing the joke in that in terms of EE, capactiance and inductance are kind of opposites of each other. Because:
An indutcotor, is like a heavy train, it takes time to get it moving, but when it is moving it takes time to change it. So it is very good at blocking AC signals (they try to move back and forward at high speed, ie constantly changing) but passing DC.
A capacitor is like a condom, you can fill it, and empty it but you cannot go through it, however it is possible to pass an alternating signal to your partner though it during sex. So they are good at passing AC signals and blocking DC.
There may not be chips that design chips, but there is some funky 'computers that design chips' stuff, which i guess kinda means that chips already are designing each other...
Oh dear, we are so boned, i mean you've seen the documentory Terminator?
Erm anyway, there is some stuff where you describe the problem, and it works out what to build, although as with any abstraction, it ain't as efficent. (and it ain't quite that simple:(
You mean the scary pringles can shaped wireless sniffer boxes like the ones the us army has been developing to drop over battles fields, which each have a range of 1Km and form an ad hock network to report/jam 'the badguys' traffic.
OR
Do you mean 2 pringles cans and a piece of string, like the ones the us army will have to use when 'the badguys' pick them all up and drop them back over the us army?
That is possibly one of the most bizzare comments to be marked interesting, just because a new form factor comes out, it doesn't mean that the processor companies will dump all the current chips.
True they may have a new package for some of the processors to fit a new slot or modified mb chipset, but that is nothing new, we don't just chuck out all the old work when something new comes along.
If you read there website it says it uses an FM TX to send the audio to the car radio, that is going to be lower quality than listening via a wire connection, I am not talking about the Wi-Fi link.
And if you knew anything about wi-fi you would know it is bi-directional, so both devices are transmitters, yes you CAN get good wi-fi, but it requires at least one good arial, and that device isn't all that big and last time I checked neither is my laptops arial. If you are wardriving you only need to passivly pickup other peoples signals from large arials which will give better connections because they are big (ie base stations designed to give really good reception).
The FM if for sending an analog audio signal, the wi-fi is for file copy, different things.
1. Cool, but i would guess it was one charge... and people complained about ipod batteries...
2. How the hell can electronics exibit feelings, if true then then macs and ipods are easily the most amazing computer ever.
3. Your right I don't have a car, I live 5 mins from campus, and I find the walk stops my ass getting too big. I do however enjoy a full relationship with my girlfriend.
4. I'm not entirely sure what language / culture you are from but if anything offended you (maybe the word playlist?) I apologise.
5. If you knew anything about radio transmition you would know this, but google can explain, if you ask it right, it might even have pictures.
6. I don't own a car, so can someone explain to me how this works? ie is it connected. But if true you don't need this thing as you could just use an ipod.
That said it is a cool thing, I just hate it when I see, our product is better than 'insert leading brand here' followed by a couple of good points and a lot of more spurious arguments.
This post sounds like and advert, same copy as the site and everything...
Just a few small points.
1. How does it get 'wireless' power? I assume it needs a power cable to charge the battery. Maybe incar?
2. With a mac the ipod syncs when it is docked, so the list would be.
a. get ipod from car
b. dock ipod
c. sleep
d. put ipod in car
3. Its a bad idea to leave valuables in the car
4. The thing that cracks me up most is the 'Pick your playlists' bit. With only 1.5GB vs 15GB in the same price ipod (which has 10x capacity but is 'overpriced'?) many will need to pick the mp3's they want in the software for this thing, more so than any ipod user.
5. FM transmission is cool, but way lower quality then a wired connection
6. Syncing over wifi to a car is going to take a long time, 11Mb/s max, prob 1-3Mb/s in reality, bit slower than the 400Mb/s of firewire.
Oh and by the way, thanks, that page might also allow me to rewire the old 17" Sun monitor in my cupboard into something more useful with out spending $30 on a converter... one of the joys of a well stocked EE lab...
I am really a CS and E major, join degree, but I prefer to get a recommendation, possibly a HOWTO, over a random link from google, before I wire stuff I built for pence into a machine a bought for hundreds...
Besides maybe seeding the idea on slashdot, will allow generate sparks of imagination and new wounderful devices...
Personally I just need a 5V power rail to power an infrared repeater so that I can control the cable box while I sit at my computer in another room watching via my TV card...
I'm an electronics major, and I was woundering if anyone has a quick link, or just a pin out for tapping the power from a USB connection, which I guess is what most of these devices are doing...
This is REALLY not insightful, how is it possible to connect from my computer 192.168.2.1 to a computer on another network with 192.168.2.1 as its ip? how does anything understand what is going on? It cannot, NAT can map a network to an IP address in a different range, but it cannot magically MERGE two networks with the same range.
Just because you know what you want to do doesn't mean the computer does.
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If we hadn't all let Macromedia get a monopoly on pretty animated graphics on the Internet, they would never have pulled such a move.
I think it stinks, they sell Flash to developers on the understanding that people can download the flash player and run there content, and that most people can view it.
If I setup Chris's Animated Web Graphics tomorrow and built a better system, no one would buy it because people don't like using random plugin dependant content.
Macromedia should be sued by all of the people who have purchased there products for creating Flash content.
As an ex Flash using developer, the advantage Flash has over Java is the IDE. (Not that the Flash Producing program is really an IDE)
With flash you can rapidly develop graphics and then plug in a small amount of code to make it do "clever things". This means a designer (of the graphic type) can build games etc.
On the flip side with Java you have to actually know how to code, so most applets are made by coders not designers.
What does this lead to? Well most of the stuff flash is used for is pretty with not too much coding, like most of the Web. While the Java stuff may have lots of features, but is kinda ugly.
Basically Java could replace Flash, but it would need someone to build an IDE for designers to use before it was popular and started to generate content to match that of Flashes.
As it stands Flash is a graphics format with scripting, while Java is a fully fledged programming language with the ability to do graphics in a web browser. If someone came up with the JavaFlash graphic tool / ide then we would be onto a winner.
I was going to mod this comment, but then I realised that there is no Random Bibble option.
Are you smoking something? and if so can I have some please.
I have never seen a japaniese phone, but, I don't see why japanise companies would do the research into an input system that is purley based on the basic concepts of how you write chinese chars, ie no pin-yin or other type some letters and i'll work out the char you ment, and not bother to do so for the much larger japanise markets. I mean japanise cangie (that is soo wrong spelled) is chinese anyway, so why would it be a problem, you just need to add the 'simpler' japaniese characters.
As for unicode in Java, I have no idea how the virtual machine handles the particular bit pushing, but any string in java is actually a unicode string, instead of being 8bit or so per char like in c.
I cannot speak for the US, but in the UK, this is REALLY easy.
All you need to do is find out the requirements for your network, and then buy a phone from hong kong, that has chineese input, and works with you carriers network.
Thats what my friends do, and they can then send each other SMS, over the UK networks, in chinese, using the 12 key input system i described in another post, and it 'just works'(tm).
So my recomendation would be find a phone from hong kong that works with a US network, and buy the phone and switch networks, you can even use the phone in 'english' and have the chinese as a possible option.
If you want an exact recomendation, look at Motorola, the one with the circular display, where the key guard 'spins' around the display to show the keys. The chinese ones have the 'stokes' written on the number keys, so they are kinda obvious.
Hope this helps.
While this is true, there are PLENTY of phones that can do japanise / chinese character encoding.
The basic way to so it, with only the ~12 buttons or so on a mobile phone, is to mark the keys with the different types of strokes that make up the chacters. Chinese charaters (and therfore at least some of japanise, but i don't know how to write 'any' japanise) are written in a particular order from a finite set of strokes, so it you know how to write chineese properly (i.e. know the stroke order rules not just the 'pretty pictures') this system is VERY usable.
In fact I can use a chineese phone to type better than i can use a full keyboard, because the system makes more sense to me.
Also for the chineese, getting a chineese font ain't that hard, and if your using java to build and app, then its unicode anyway.
If you could be bothered to code an app, all you'd need is a java phone, and a marker to add the stokes to the keys.
I saw this and couldn't help being reminded of "Imformation Retreval" from the film Brazil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/. Where they charge the victims of government oppression the cost of actually oppressing them.
Although the idea of charging criminals the "real" cost to prosecute them is interesting...
I'm guessing the joke in that in terms of EE, capactiance and inductance are kind of opposites of each other. Because:
An indutcotor, is like a heavy train, it takes time to get it moving, but when it is moving it takes time to change it. So it is very good at blocking AC signals (they try to move back and forward at high speed, ie constantly changing) but passing DC.
A capacitor is like a condom, you can fill it, and empty it but you cannot go through it, however it is possible to pass an alternating signal to your partner though it during sex. So they are good at passing AC signals and blocking DC.
God, I hope thats the right way round.
Te he,
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That is soooo, cool.
Its like someone saw the american armys multi-million dollar research project for spying, and thought, mmm...
Its REALLY shows that defense gets totally screwed by defense contractors, i mean $10,000 for an f'ing pringles can.
I mean just get a load of these and use them to hack the troups cells and download all there SMS's etc.
And the american govenment was worrying about these cellphone coke cans, look out for the pringles band coming to your government building soon
The org slashdot story is
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/15/15
For anyone who wants to check my random mumblings.
There may not be chips that design chips, but there is some funky 'computers that design chips' stuff, which i guess kinda means that chips already are designing each other...
:(
Oh dear, we are so boned, i mean you've seen the documentory Terminator?
Erm anyway, there is some stuff where you describe the problem, and it works out what to build, although as with any abstraction, it ain't as efficent. (and it ain't quite that simple
Links,
http://www.verilog.com/
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=VHDL
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088247/
Erm, i'm not sure its nearly 5 in the morning here but initially he compiles with
gcc -Wall -s -O3 tiny.c
shouldn't
gcc -Wall -s -Os tiny.c
make more sense seeing as how -O(1-3) are for SPEED optimization where as -Os is to make things SMALL
pls. Expose my idiocy...
Shouldn't that be
1) Hack phone to play "give me you underpants"
2) Take Underpants
3) ???
4) Profit
You mean the scary pringles can shaped wireless sniffer boxes like the ones the us army has been developing to drop over battles fields, which each have a range of 1Km and form an ad hock network to report/jam 'the badguys' traffic.
OR
Do you mean 2 pringles cans and a piece of string, like the ones the us army will have to use when 'the badguys' pick them all up and drop them back over the us army?
That is possibly one of the most bizzare comments to be marked interesting, just because a new form factor comes out, it doesn't mean that the processor companies will dump all the current chips.
True they may have a new package for some of the processors to fit a new slot or modified mb chipset, but that is nothing new, we don't just chuck out all the old work when something new comes along.
c.
I think you've missed the point.
If you read there website it says it uses an FM TX to send the audio to the car radio, that is going to be lower quality than listening via a wire connection, I am not talking about the Wi-Fi link.
And if you knew anything about wi-fi you would know it is bi-directional, so both devices are transmitters, yes you CAN get good wi-fi, but it requires at least one good arial, and that device isn't all that big and last time I checked neither is my laptops arial. If you are wardriving you only need to passivly pickup other peoples signals from large arials which will give better connections because they are big (ie base stations designed to give really good reception).
The FM if for sending an analog audio signal, the wi-fi is for file copy, different things.
It is a cool feature, but the thing can not hold any more (if fact less) than the 'bigger' flash cards.
It would be cheaper (and simpler and smaller) just to by a few, now if it had a 40GB hd...
I know this is a troll, but hey
1. Cool, but i would guess it was one charge... and people complained about ipod batteries...
2. How the hell can electronics exibit feelings, if true then then macs and ipods are easily the most amazing computer ever.
3. Your right I don't have a car, I live 5 mins from campus, and I find the walk stops my ass getting too big. I do however enjoy a full relationship with my girlfriend.
4. I'm not entirely sure what language / culture you are from but if anything offended you (maybe the word playlist?) I apologise.
5. If you knew anything about radio transmition you would know this, but google can explain, if you ask it right, it might even have pictures.
6. I don't own a car, so can someone explain to me how this works? ie is it connected. But if true you don't need this thing as you could just use an ipod.
I think thats all, c.
That said it is a cool thing, I just hate it when I see, our product is better than 'insert leading brand here' followed by a couple of good points and a lot of more spurious arguments.
Is spurious the right word / spelling?
c.
This post sounds like and advert, same copy as the site and everything...
Just a few small points.
1. How does it get 'wireless' power? I assume it needs a power cable to charge the battery. Maybe incar?
2. With a mac the ipod syncs when it is docked, so the list would be.
a. get ipod from car
b. dock ipod
c. sleep
d. put ipod in car
3. Its a bad idea to leave valuables in the car
4. The thing that cracks me up most is the 'Pick your playlists' bit. With only 1.5GB vs 15GB in the same price ipod (which has 10x capacity but is 'overpriced'?) many will need to pick the mp3's they want in the software for this thing, more so than any ipod user.
5. FM transmission is cool, but way lower quality then a wired connection
6. Syncing over wifi to a car is going to take a long time, 11Mb/s max, prob 1-3Mb/s in reality, bit slower than the 400Mb/s of firewire.
Just my 2 cents,
The joys of searching, I was looking for usb pin out...
Oh and by the way, thanks, that page might also allow me to rewire the old 17" Sun monitor in my cupboard into something more useful with out spending $30 on a converter... one of the joys of a well stocked EE lab...
I am really a CS and E major, join degree, but I prefer to get a recommendation, possibly a HOWTO, over a random link from google, before I wire stuff I built for pence into a machine a bought for hundreds...
Besides maybe seeding the idea on slashdot, will allow generate sparks of imagination and new wounderful devices...
Personally I just need a 5V power rail to power an infrared repeater so that I can control the cable box while I sit at my computer in another room watching via my TV card...
I'm an electronics major, and I was woundering if anyone has a quick link, or just a pin out for tapping the power from a USB connection, which I guess is what most of these devices are doing...
Accually I'm sure you could metge two IP ranges by mapping the addresses individually but that isn't what i'm talking about.
This is REALLY not insightful, how is it possible to connect from my computer 192.168.2.1 to a computer on another network with 192.168.2.1 as its ip? how does anything understand what is going on? It cannot, NAT can map a network to an IP address in a different range, but it cannot magically MERGE two networks with the same range.
Just because you know what you want to do doesn't mean the computer does.