So basicly you're trying to say you're better than everybody else here because you're not an elitist? Um.... Something doesn't work here.
No. What I think gripdamage was basically saying was that there is nothing here. That there is no essential "geekiness", no "special light which shines from within them", etc. We/they are the same as everyone else whether we like it or not. I agree that most of the replies on this subject are complete elitist crap.
He (?) is not saying that he's better. He's just saying that perhaps some people should stop trying to justify their hobbies with some higher purpose, and maybe, just enjoy.
It was slashdotted before the first comment. However, before everyone chimes in with "why bother doing it at all?!" - I want to say that I think it's a cool project. At least he's doing something with his dreamcast. I've had my PS2 linux kit for almost two years and haven't done a damn thing interesting with it yet!
As usual, the lawyers are not at responsible here. They are the lap dogs of the corporation. Let's talk to the people who are going to be most affected and who are most responsible.
For example: Spira, James C. Director and COO at American Greetings As of 2003-01-06 Reported to own 210,000 shares of American Greetings. As of this post, his holdings are probably worth approx 2.95 million USD.
But it should be noted that currently American Greetings is in the process of changing their executives, so it's unclear who would actually be responsible for these kinds of positions/acts.
Insider Trade Filings for American Greetings (Give you an idea of who's interested in making money off the stock)
It's actually quite neat to have a full screen X session running on top of the Windows desktop.
Now that CygWin supports a "rootless" mode for X (no fullscreen root window), my daily desktop usage has changed dramatically. Now I have migrated back to Windows for my main desktop at home and at work (easier for multimedia editing and games) and just run all of my Linux/FreeBSD apps through ssh directly onto my windows desktop. Works flawlessly!
[...]complete with XFree and a few basic window managers (fwm and OpenBox among them).
KDE also works pretty well under CygWin. But it takes quite a bit of memory.
The only real difficulty I have with Cygwin is handling filenames on my Japanese machines.
They won't be able to change their own through it.
Well, if the authentication method is any sign of the security on the machine, a student there might not care about someone else's grades, but they might want to modify it to output different grades for the parents to see. Regardless of whether or not it reflects the real grades. Especially if the parents trust that system and don't bother with the periodical hardcopies.
You will have no problem getting connected. I am in Yokohama (major city relatively close to Tokyo) - ADSL is king. You can pick up a packet in the train station if you want. It's being sold everywhere. It's reliable. It's cheap (about 30USD/month unlimited). It's fast (12Mb connection, but you can get a cheaper 8Mb connection for about 22USD/month)
English support is rare. However, DSL is DSL and if you have some experience with it, you really shouldn't need to much support. The DSL-modem itself probably has an HTML based browser. My suggestion - wget the modem, burn a copy of the HTML to CD, take it to an internet cafe (they are everywhere) and translate it with babelfish if you are having problems.
I have no clue about wireless coverage. Like any other big city, I'm sure you can jump on/someone's/ network.
There are thousands of sites devoted to game development. Start there. And just make a game. Copy something simple just to see what it takes. There isn't a magic answer to these questions. There are lots of different routes and specialties and they change all the time. Just be a good programmer and study whatever you can.
If you don't think developers play games like everyone else, you're nuts! It's not like we're off in some secluded island together hatching designs in a vacuum.
If you have a really cool idea, have you considered actually emailing a development team about it? Geez, it's not that complicated. Just don't be surprised if there is actually a good reason why your concept isn't in the game already. Or if like a billion people haven't already thought of it. But send it anyway! Who knows?
I think maybe the companies put too much stress on the developers to create hits
I can't agree with this. Although, I would like to work on games purely for the sake of the art, or to build something my friends and I could play on weekends, the truth is that very few games make good money for the developers. The "hits" take the lion's share of the profit (more than 90% by most accounts) - so these are the games that keep publishers and developers afloat. If you aren't interested in hits, fine... just don't expect to be in the business of building console games for long. (Although I believe there is a market for cheaply developed PC titles)
Typically, users are queried by publishers at different levels. Sony is especially keen on this. However, most Slashdot readers probably refuse to participate on principals of anonymity. Did you fill out your registration card and return it to Sony with the games you like and additional comments? Probably not. Have you logged on to Sony's site and returned feedback on what you like, want to see, etc? Probably not. But there is a large group of people who/do/ do this and they weigh heavily in Sony's conception of what their typical user is (Sony even has a lame word for them: "Imaginator") - and thus on what games they will push for development and advertising.
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But what if AI advances to the point where the enemy in the game is effectively self-aware?
As a game developer, I'll give you my opinion - If this ever happens, which isn't likely in my lifetime IMO, my answer is "Nothing." If there is an incentive for me to kill a character, in a game, I will. The end. No moral issue here. I eat once living things everyday, and anything born or grown is always going to have a greater inherent value to me than something I whipped out of thin air and coded. No matter how life-like it seems, it's not.
I know a lot of people want to define life to include potential AI, and other people can't define life/at all/ without including it, but for me it's pretty straight-forward - Our computer programs, are the lowest of the low on the food chain.
Q: Through its acquisition of Hasbro Interactive in 2001, Infogrames Entertainment became the owner of the Atari brand. What plans do you have for the Atari brand?
A: Atari is perhaps the most illustrious name in the interactive game industry and we are thrilled to have it as part of the Infogrames family. We want to be true to the innovation that marked Atari's launch 20 years ago. With that in mind, we are re-inventing Atari for a new generation. Our inaugural titles, Splashdown, MXRider and Transworld Surf, all of which will launch in November 2001, capture the qualities we believe will define the re-invented Atari. They are innovative, unique, exhilarating, breakthrough, and genre defining games. You can expect to see a great deal more from us regarding Atari in the months ahead.
Are you suggesting that voting in person is the best solution forever? I personally think that we ought to try to resolve the issues the best we can and implement a system like this in the US (for all elections - see previous poster's comments on Arizona's trials) - I think that the advantages (e.g. young voter turn-out) overpower the mights and ifs in this case. And as an American, who does not reside in the US most of the time, I would certainly find it useful.
I understand what you're saying, but it's not a case of only secret ballots in public places versus internet only ballots, is it? There is no requirement that you vote in secret, at a polling center (e.g. absentee ballots as previously discussed), therefore, in what way will these cases change due to internet voting? An abusive husband can still force his wife to vote his way over mail, etc. Additionally, we can only speculate, that if this were to be increasingly used in the US, if it would be designed to replace the polling center or supplement it - which are very different alternatives in terms of this particular argument.
Although social engineering has changed very little since before your unfortunate experience (perhaps only slightly in awareness of the value of the information), the state-of-the-art in hacking (in the more technical, not criminal sense) and even general-purpose programming has changed significantly. Do you feel as though you are at a disadvantage compared to those who have made every attempt (though truly impossible) to keep up? If so, what's your strategy for regaining your edge?
As a side note, if you're interested in game programming, let me know!!:)
This is a bogus argument. Essentially you're saying that because regular voting isn't perfect, we might as well use Internet voting.
Actually, I said nothing of the sort. I don't believe, in fact, that in that post that I expressed an opinion, one way or the other, as to whether internet voting should be used. My point was pretty clear - Just because internet voting isn't perfect is not enough justification to not use it. Perhaps there are other, better reasons, but as far as I'm concerned, that one isn't valid.
If I am married to a politically ambivilent person, what is to prevent me from casting their vote in addtion to my own? I know all the "identifing" information you might query, similarly I have access to it for my siblings as well, aging parents, etc. There are significant fraud issues which are difficult to address if you attempt to scale this into a primary voting procedure.
True enough, but as you pointed out yourself, this is a problem with the current system as well. Nothing stops you from sending in absentee ballots for any/all those people. Assuming traditional polls remain available, I don't see how this introduces any really new complications. It is arguably more secure than standard snail mail voting, and the whole country could choose to vote by mail if they wanted, but they don't - probably the same with net voting.
However, if I were part of the vote market, and I were creating a mechanism to enable it, I would probably create it as a vote client application. The voter never has to send me their information, the application would download the "what to vote for" information from my server, and log on to the vote servers and vote accordingly from the voter's computer. Totally distributed, nearly impossible to catch.
And I'm with you I think - I'm on the fence about vote selling. In theory, I think it should be legal, but I wonder if making every attempt to prevent it is a necessary evil. I would, however, be against it being classified as a major crime - this is just a legislative cop-out. Nothing that should be legal in principle, or in theory, should be criminal in practice - Difficult? OK. Expensive? Sure. But not criminal. How many people are already locked up for the stupidest of "crimes".
Voting is a privelege in the US, and should not be a convenience.
Voting is a right. Period.
All citizens should be given equal access to vote. Currently city-dwellers have a much shorter trip to "Mecca" than those in rural areas. Internet voting, coupled with phone voting, and snail mail voting helps to balance the inequities in access. Not to mention, there are those who are physically disabled and may find it more than just "inconvenient" to go to a poll.
The purpose of a vote is not to challange the citizenry, or setup some kind of obstacle course were they "win" the right to vote, but to provide them with the oppurtunity to express their opinion. We should not loose sight of that end.
There are some people who sacrificed their lives so you could do all of the above.
This is exactly the reason we should enable as many people to vote as we can. That right was/has been/is being fought for and earned for everyone not just those who "take it seriously" and want to navigate some jungle so that the process coincides with their mental heroic fantasies.
Simply put there is no way to protect from direct voter tampering.
As many people have already pointed out - There is "no way to protect from direct voter tampering" using traditional systems. I would accept the argument that any new system should be at least as secure as whatever system it is replacing/supplementing. However, to not implement a system until it is 100% gauranteed is foolish at best, especially when the result is more participation in the voting process, which is good for everyone (except perhaps the groups that depend on low-turnout.)
Whats to keep an abusive husband from forcing his wife to vote his way.
Nothing. Other than the laws designed to protect wives from abusive husbands in general. i.e. What's to protect her from being beat up nomatter how she votes?
Whats to stop Unions from setting up there own Internet connected voting places where they can stand over peoples shoulders.
Nothing. What's to stop unions from sending a couple of goons to stand outside the polls and remind you about the union stance and imply they might be checking your results?
Or what if someone decides to vote from work and thier conservative boss walks up behind them and notices they are voting Democrat.
This is just dumb. If you don't want to have a political argument at work, don't vote from the office. What's to stop your boss from checking the net logs and seeing that you regularly log into pro-abortion sites (or whatever)?
Nope, bad idea. As far as I'm concerned, you gave no real reason why this is a "bad idea" - nothing unique to this implementation.
One real concern that I would have if this was implemented on a large scale, would be a proliferation of black-market votes. Certainly people sell their votes now, but as voting becomes easier, entering into the vote market also becomes more convinient. Whether or not this should be illegal is a completely different issue though.
1. I agree with you, Americans have a tendency to believe that anything they read on the net should be relevent to them. However, they aren't the only ones.
2. Slashdot isn't the internet. I'm very happy to see international stories on Slashdot, but the expectation of the original poster that Slashdot not post too many non-US-related stories is understandable given this from the FAQ:
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
Answered by: CmdrTaco Last Modified: 10/28/00
3. The original poster was trolling. Don't feed the trolls! TIA.
Okay, allow me to rephrase: "I don't care under what umbrella which codecs are supported." The point is the same. It doesn't matter to the user what you call it, they just want the features. Granted, all the things Quicktime can do are wonderful, but do we really needed it to be branded? Especially if it interferes with the user enjoying all those features?
The biggest problem right now with these devices is the amount of memory available to the user. There's been a big improvement this year, but if you want to start working with big 'ol formats (like TGA) and editing little videos on the fly, we're gonna need more. And better UIs too. I can barely use the calculator on my phone, I can't imagine trying to edit anything.
That said, if I could get something equivalent to Yahoo's Launch on my cell, I'd be stoked. (Before anyone mentions it, yes I know I can get streaming audio now, but I want the video too)
Course, bandwidth problems come into play but imagine the possibilities...can you see me now?
3G phones currently support video playback and transfer. For example, he new J-Phone even has video capture. So the interesting bit is not that it has video, but that it's in Quicktime format.
From the article: Microsoft and Real incorporate Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology in their file format, giving companies an added feeling of security when publishing their content. This, Jones thinks, could be a disadvantage for Apple.
Two things: 1. Have you ever tried to pull data off a cell phone? Especially streaming data? Security through obscurity may not be a great method, but it sure is a pain in the ass. 2. Those people who have issues with DRM should take note. If Apple continues their No-DRM policy, these phones could become the Fair-Use-Geek's first choice.
From the article: Analysts see the adoption of QuickTime by DoCoMo as a way for Apple to broaden its customer base and to have customers associate the QuickTime brand when they buy content.
I don't see this as a very good thing. Video playback should be seemless to the user. I don't want or care about codec branding. What this probably really means is that there will be an annoying Quicktime splash screen every time I open up a video (in order to have me "associate the Quicktime brand") blah.
[...] but imagine the possibilities...can you see me now?
I don't have to imagine. When I get on the train and see twenty people in my car using camera phones, it creeps me out. It'll be worse when video is used everywhere. Who knows how many people are taking pictures of you, anywhere.
I think that's an IR reciever on the left side of that picture. That's integrated into the current models (under the display) - so you only have to deal with three plugs out of the box - USB mouse, main power, and Ethernet (it has a modem too, though)
Dynamism sells these things to foriegn customers and has an english description - I don't know anything about that company though.
Also, on Sony's page here they have a little widget which'll give you a 360 degree view around it (click the action button when you see it). (note: I have no problem with this page on Mozilla 1.2.1 under linux.)
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Possibly. But VoIP also makes it a simplier task for the end users to install encryption. VoIP over SSH. That would be useful.
So basicly you're trying to say you're better than everybody else here because you're not an elitist? Um.... Something doesn't work here.
No. What I think gripdamage was basically saying was that there is nothing here. That there is no essential "geekiness", no "special light which shines from within them", etc. We/they are the same as everyone else whether we like it or not. I agree that most of the replies on this subject are complete elitist crap.
He (?) is not saying that he's better. He's just saying that perhaps some people should stop trying to justify their hobbies with some higher purpose, and maybe, just enjoy.
I think he's welcoming them back down to Earth.
Z.
It was slashdotted before the first comment.
However, before everyone chimes in with "why bother doing it at all?!" - I want to say that I think it's a cool project. At least he's doing something with his dreamcast. I've had my PS2 linux kit for almost two years and haven't done a damn thing interesting with it yet!
As usual, the lawyers are not at responsible here. They are the lap dogs of the corporation. Let's talk to the people who are going to be most affected and who are most responsible.
For example:
Spira, James C.
Director and COO at American Greetings
As of 2003-01-06 Reported to own 210,000 shares of American Greetings. As of this post, his holdings are probably worth approx 2.95 million USD.
List of Officers at American Greetings
But it should be noted that currently American Greetings is in the process of changing their executives, so it's unclear who would actually be responsible for these kinds of positions/acts.
Insider Trade Filings for American Greetings (Give you an idea of who's interested in making money off the stock)
Z.
It's actually quite neat to have a full screen X session running on top of the Windows desktop.
Now that CygWin supports a "rootless" mode for X (no fullscreen root window), my daily desktop usage has changed dramatically. Now I have migrated back to Windows for my main desktop at home and at work (easier for multimedia editing and games) and just run all of my Linux/FreeBSD apps through ssh directly onto my windows desktop. Works flawlessly!
[...]complete with XFree and a few basic window managers (fwm and OpenBox among them).
KDE also works pretty well under CygWin. But it takes quite a bit of memory.
The only real difficulty I have with Cygwin is handling filenames on my Japanese machines.
They won't be able to change their own through it.
Well, if the authentication method is any sign of the security on the machine, a student there might not care about someone else's grades, but they might want to modify it to output different grades for the parents to see. Regardless of whether or not it reflects the real grades. Especially if the parents trust that system and don't bother with the periodical hardcopies.
You will have no problem getting connected. I am in Yokohama (major city relatively close to Tokyo) - ADSL is king. You can pick up a packet in the train station if you want. It's being sold everywhere. It's reliable. It's cheap (about 30USD/month unlimited). It's fast (12Mb connection, but you can get a cheaper 8Mb connection for about 22USD/month)
/someone's/ network.
English support is rare. However, DSL is DSL and if you have some experience with it, you really shouldn't need to much support. The DSL-modem itself probably has an HTML based browser. My suggestion - wget the modem, burn a copy of the HTML to CD, take it to an internet cafe (they are everywhere) and translate it with babelfish if you are having problems.
I have no clue about wireless coverage. Like any other big city, I'm sure you can jump on
There are thousands of sites devoted to game development. Start there.
And just make a game. Copy something simple just to see what it takes.
There isn't a magic answer to these questions. There are lots of different routes and specialties and they change all the time. Just be a good programmer and study whatever you can.
If you don't think developers play games like everyone else, you're nuts! It's not like we're off in some secluded island together hatching designs in a vacuum.
If you have a really cool idea, have you considered actually emailing a development team about it? Geez, it's not that complicated. Just don't be surprised if there is actually a good reason why your concept isn't in the game already. Or if like a billion people haven't already thought of it. But send it anyway! Who knows?
I think maybe the companies put too much stress on the developers to create hits
I can't agree with this. Although, I would like to work on games purely for the sake of the art, or to build something my friends and I could play on weekends, the truth is that very few games make good money for the developers. The "hits" take the lion's share of the profit (more than 90% by most accounts) - so these are the games that keep publishers and developers afloat. If you aren't interested in hits, fine... just don't expect to be in the business of building console games for long. (Although I believe there is a market for cheaply developed PC titles)
Typically, users are queried by publishers at different levels. Sony is especially keen on this. However, most Slashdot readers probably refuse to participate on principals of anonymity. Did you fill out your registration card and return it to Sony with the games you like and additional comments? Probably not. Have you logged on to Sony's site and returned feedback on what you like, want to see, etc? Probably not. But there is a large group of people who /do/ do this and they weigh heavily in Sony's conception of what their typical user is (Sony even has a lame word for them: "Imaginator") - and thus on what games they will push for development and advertising.
But what if AI advances to the point where the enemy in the game is effectively self-aware?
/at all/ without including it, but for me it's pretty straight-forward - Our computer programs, are the lowest of the low on the food chain.
As a game developer, I'll give you my opinion - If this ever happens, which isn't likely in my lifetime IMO, my answer is "Nothing." If there is an incentive for me to kill a character, in a game, I will. The end. No moral issue here. I eat once living things everyday, and anything born or grown is always going to have a greater inherent value to me than something I whipped out of thin air and coded. No matter how life-like it seems, it's not.
I know a lot of people want to define life to include potential AI, and other people can't define life
Sorry.
From the infogrames corporate faq:
Are you suggesting that voting in person is the best solution forever? I personally think that we ought to try to resolve the issues the best we can and implement a system like this in the US (for all elections - see previous poster's comments on Arizona's trials) - I think that the advantages (e.g. young voter turn-out) overpower the mights and ifs in this case. And as an American, who does not reside in the US most of the time, I would certainly find it useful.
I understand what you're saying, but it's not a case of only secret ballots in public places versus internet only ballots, is it? There is no requirement that you vote in secret, at a polling center (e.g. absentee ballots as previously discussed), therefore, in what way will these cases change due to internet voting?
An abusive husband can still force his wife to vote his way over mail, etc. Additionally, we can only speculate, that if this were to be increasingly used in the US, if it would be designed to replace the polling center or supplement it - which are very different alternatives in terms of this particular argument.
Although social engineering has changed very little since before your unfortunate experience (perhaps only slightly in awareness of the value of the information), the state-of-the-art in hacking (in the more technical, not criminal sense) and even general-purpose programming has changed significantly. Do you feel as though you are at a disadvantage compared to those who have made every attempt (though truly impossible) to keep up? If so, what's your strategy for regaining your edge?
:)
As a side note, if you're interested in game programming, let me know!!
This is a bogus argument. Essentially you're saying that because regular voting isn't perfect, we might as well use Internet voting.
Actually, I said nothing of the sort. I don't believe, in fact, that in that post that I expressed an opinion, one way or the other, as to whether internet voting should be used. My point was pretty clear - Just because internet voting isn't perfect is not enough justification to not use it. Perhaps there are other, better reasons, but as far as I'm concerned, that one isn't valid.
If I am married to a politically ambivilent person, what is to prevent me from casting their vote in addtion to my own? I know all the "identifing" information you might query, similarly I have access to it for my siblings as well, aging parents, etc. There are significant fraud issues which are difficult to address if you attempt to scale this into a primary voting procedure.
True enough, but as you pointed out yourself, this is a problem with the current system as well. Nothing stops you from sending in absentee ballots for any/all those people. Assuming traditional polls remain available, I don't see how this introduces any really new complications. It is arguably more secure than standard snail mail voting, and the whole country could choose to vote by mail if they wanted, but they don't - probably the same with net voting.
However, if I were part of the vote market, and I were creating a mechanism to enable it, I would probably create it as a vote client application. The voter never has to send me their information, the application would download the "what to vote for" information from my server, and log on to the vote servers and vote accordingly from the voter's computer. Totally distributed, nearly impossible to catch.
And I'm with you I think - I'm on the fence about vote selling. In theory, I think it should be legal, but I wonder if making every attempt to prevent it is a necessary evil. I would, however, be against it being classified as a major crime - this is just a legislative cop-out. Nothing that should be legal in principle, or in theory, should be criminal in practice - Difficult? OK. Expensive? Sure. But not criminal. How many people are already locked up for the stupidest of "crimes".
Voting is a privelege in the US, and should not be a convenience.
Voting is a right. Period.
All citizens should be given equal access to vote. Currently city-dwellers have a much shorter trip to "Mecca" than those in rural areas. Internet voting, coupled with phone voting, and snail mail voting helps to balance the inequities in access. Not to mention, there are those who are physically disabled and may find it more than just "inconvenient" to go to a poll.
The purpose of a vote is not to challange the citizenry, or setup some kind of obstacle course were they "win" the right to vote, but to provide them with the oppurtunity to express their opinion. We should not loose sight of that end.
There are some people who sacrificed their lives so you could do all of the above.
This is exactly the reason we should enable as many people to vote as we can. That right was/has been/is being fought for and earned for everyone not just those who "take it seriously" and want to navigate some jungle so that the process coincides with their mental heroic fantasies.
Simply put there is no way to protect from direct voter tampering.
As many people have already pointed out - There is "no way to protect from direct voter tampering" using traditional systems. I would accept the argument that any new system should be at least as secure as whatever system it is replacing/supplementing. However, to not implement a system until it is 100% gauranteed is foolish at best, especially when the result is more participation in the voting process, which is good for everyone (except perhaps the groups that depend on low-turnout.)
Whats to keep an abusive husband from forcing his wife to vote his way.
Nothing. Other than the laws designed to protect wives from abusive husbands in general. i.e. What's to protect her from being beat up nomatter how she votes?
Whats to stop Unions from setting up there own Internet connected voting places where they can stand over peoples shoulders.
Nothing. What's to stop unions from sending a couple of goons to stand outside the polls and remind you about the union stance and imply they might be checking your results?
Or what if someone decides to vote from work and thier conservative boss walks up behind them and notices they are voting Democrat.
This is just dumb. If you don't want to have a political argument at work, don't vote from the office. What's to stop your boss from checking the net logs and seeing that you regularly log into pro-abortion sites (or whatever)?
Nope, bad idea.
As far as I'm concerned, you gave no real reason why this is a "bad idea" - nothing unique to this implementation.
One real concern that I would have if this was implemented on a large scale, would be a proliferation of black-market votes. Certainly people sell their votes now, but as voting becomes easier, entering into the vote market also becomes more convinient. Whether or not this should be illegal is a completely different issue though.
2. Slashdot isn't the internet. I'm very happy to see international stories on Slashdot, but the expectation of the original poster that Slashdot not post too many non-US-related stories is understandable given this from the FAQ:
3. The original poster was trolling. Don't feed the trolls! TIA.
Geez, raw nerve there?
Okay, allow me to rephrase: "I don't care under what umbrella which codecs are supported." The point is the same. It doesn't matter to the user what you call it, they just want the features. Granted, all the things Quicktime can do are wonderful, but do we really needed it to be branded? Especially if it interferes with the user enjoying all those features?
The biggest problem right now with these devices is the amount of memory available to the user. There's been a big improvement this year, but if you want to start working with big 'ol formats (like TGA) and editing little videos on the fly, we're gonna need more. And better UIs too. I can barely use the calculator on my phone, I can't imagine trying to edit anything.
That said, if I could get something equivalent to Yahoo's Launch on my cell, I'd be stoked. (Before anyone mentions it, yes I know I can get streaming audio now, but I want the video too)
Course, bandwidth problems come into play but imagine the possibilities...can you see me now?
3G phones currently support video playback and transfer. For example, he new J-Phone even has video capture. So the interesting bit is not that it has video, but that it's in Quicktime format.
From the article: Microsoft and Real incorporate Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology in their file format, giving companies an added feeling of security when publishing their content. This, Jones thinks, could be a disadvantage for Apple.
Two things: 1. Have you ever tried to pull data off a cell phone? Especially streaming data? Security through obscurity may not be a great method, but it sure is a pain in the ass. 2. Those people who have issues with DRM should take note. If Apple continues their No-DRM policy, these phones could become the Fair-Use-Geek's first choice.
From the article: Analysts see the adoption of QuickTime by DoCoMo as a way for Apple to broaden its customer base and to have customers associate the QuickTime brand when they buy content.
I don't see this as a very good thing. Video playback should be seemless to the user. I don't want or care about codec branding. What this probably really means is that there will be an annoying Quicktime splash screen every time I open up a video (in order to have me "associate the Quicktime brand") blah.
[...] but imagine the possibilities...can you see me now?
I don't have to imagine. When I get on the train and see twenty people in my car using camera phones, it creeps me out. It'll be worse when video is used everywhere. Who knows how many people are taking pictures of you, anywhere.
I think that's an IR reciever on the left side of that picture. That's integrated into the current models (under the display) - so you only have to deal with three plugs out of the box - USB mouse, main power, and Ethernet (it has a modem too, though)
Dynamism sells these things to foriegn customers and has an english description - I don't know anything about that company though.
Also, on Sony's page here they have a little widget which'll give you a 360 degree view around it (click the action button when you see it). (note: I have no problem with this page on Mozilla 1.2.1 under linux.)