uh... not really. they're just limiting the capability to streaming, and the scope to Rendezvous (zeroconf) networks, so it's a local area network thing.
I don't know enough about Rendezvous/zerconfig, but is it limited within a particular zone or is the machine/entity visible over the whole LAN?
I can envision some rather large AppleTalk enabled LANs (e.g., universities) that are split into dozens of zones. I can see a lot of this bandwidth being burned by IP based "radio" stations.
I haven't seen this distinction, but I only use the [phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com method.
My wife's 2-way pager has a call-in service which I use to reach her and she responds via sending an e-mail to my phone in this manner. I'd guess at a 25% on-time delivery rate. This rate is about the same for desktop to phone e-mail too so this is not a function of the pager network.
We've had some royal screw-ups from this rate of information loss. If she has a critical message, she will track down a phone and call my voicemail. And, no, getting her a cell phone is not a good solution.
"Bill Gates announced a line of MS wristwatches that receive email, stock quotes, sports scores, etc. by FM radio. Gates claims it's a 'whole new product concept that was completely incubated by Microsoft Research,'
The FM broadcast business model is old news for those of us familiar with intelligent transportation systems. Cue (formerly www.cue.net) did this nationwide for a few years before going out of business in 2002. I wouldn't be surprised if MS bought the tech at garage sale prices.
Roger Jolly's Encrypt and ".secret" scripts in AEP and the Mac OS X Encoding Plethora seem to have similiar functionality. I'm guessing these tools will not hide your directory structure or file names, but if I'm not mistaken, they will encrypt the individual files in semi-transparent manner.
Does anyone have experience using these? Is the encryption function useful?
This is probably due to a novice user issue. For example, Joe decides he wants to use e-mail from his laptop through a software Airport base station running on the family's iMac. If he has a firewall running on the iMac, he won't be able to surf or send mail from the laptop. Rather than force him to figure out that he has to punch a hole in his firewall, they leave the firewall off by default.
Earlier notes on their website indicated that it would be Java based, which would imply the ability to take advantage of all sorts of 3rd party solutions.
New wording on their site: Danger has developed its own virtual machine operating environment. Applications written for the Hiptop platform can be developed using industry standard development tools such as Metrowerks CodeWarrior-J(TM) and Microsoft Visual J++(TM), and then automatically converted to execute in Danger's lightweight and optimized environment.
This would be a less precise way of doing what SoundTec has done. Their "vibrator" is mounted to the bones inside the ear.
From what I understand, the implanted part gets it's power from the external unit. Also, I think this type of surgery is pretty simple and non-invasive. I can see all sorts of applications beyond hearing aids.
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uh... not really. they're just limiting the capability to streaming, and the scope to Rendezvous (zeroconf) networks, so it's a local area network thing.
I don't know enough about Rendezvous/zerconfig, but is it limited within a particular zone or is the machine/entity visible over the whole LAN?
I can envision some rather large AppleTalk enabled LANs (e.g., universities) that are split into dozens of zones. I can see a lot of this bandwidth being burned by IP based "radio" stations.
I haven't seen this distinction, but I only use the [phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com method.
My wife's 2-way pager has a call-in service which I use to reach her and she responds via sending an e-mail to my phone in this manner. I'd guess at a 25% on-time delivery rate. This rate is about the same for desktop to phone e-mail too so this is not a function of the pager network.
We've had some royal screw-ups from this rate of information loss. If she has a critical message, she will track down a phone and call my voicemail. And, no, getting her a cell phone is not a good solution.
"Bill Gates announced a line of MS wristwatches that receive email, stock quotes, sports scores, etc. by FM radio. Gates claims it's a 'whole new product concept that was completely incubated by Microsoft Research,'
The FM broadcast business model is old news for those of us familiar with intelligent transportation systems. Cue (formerly www.cue.net) did this nationwide for a few years before going out of business in 2002. I wouldn't be surprised if MS bought the tech at garage sale prices.
Roger Jolly's Encrypt and ".secret" scripts in AEP and the Mac OS X Encoding Plethora seem to have similiar functionality. I'm guessing these tools will not hide your directory structure or file names, but if I'm not mistaken, they will encrypt the individual files in semi-transparent manner.
Does anyone have experience using these? Is the encryption function useful?
This is probably due to a novice user issue. For example, Joe decides he wants to use e-mail from his laptop through a software Airport base station running on the family's iMac. If he has a firewall running on the iMac, he won't be able to surf or send mail from the laptop. Rather than force him to figure out that he has to punch a hole in his firewall, they leave the firewall off by default.
For example, see: inTouch. It was presented at CHI 97.
Does journaling also keep track of what files have been copied?
For example, if I wanted to see if someone copied files during an intrusion. (Yes, I am taking proper security precautions you trigger-happy troll.)
A non-disabled person is simply "temporarily abled."
You get old, you become disabled - and/or - you get hurt/sick, you become disabled.
Earlier notes on their website indicated that it would be Java based, which would imply the ability to take advantage of all sorts of 3rd party solutions.
New wording on their site:
Danger has developed its own virtual machine operating environment. Applications written for the Hiptop platform can be developed using industry standard development tools such as Metrowerks CodeWarrior-J(TM) and Microsoft Visual J++(TM), and then automatically converted to execute in Danger's lightweight and optimized environment.
And a reference Java in this interview.
This would be a less precise way of doing what SoundTec has done. Their "vibrator" is mounted to the bones inside the ear.
From what I understand, the implanted part gets it's power from the external unit. Also, I think this type of surgery is pretty simple and non-invasive. I can see all sorts of applications beyond hearing aids.