Though I too have huge problem with propietary memory (I have an existing investment in compact flash cards), the quality of Sony's products leaves everyone else in the dust. I look forward to purchasing the P800 once it's available for a low enough price in the U.S. And anyways, the memory market is already so fragmented - CF, SD, MMC, Memory Stick - it's hard to fault only Sony.
I have the Garmin Legend, so I think it's unlikely you'll be able to use third-party maps for the upcoming Palm device (unless you're willing to sacrifice a great deal of functionality).
But Garmin has excellent maps available for Europe, so just budget another $100-$200 for them.
I'm sure you live in a nice rich college town, but you should pay a visit to CUNY, in NYC, or if you really want to put your life in danger, Rutgers-Camden, in southern New Jersey.
Though, even without taxes, why would a consumer pay $10 shipping for something he can get a 10-mile drive away? I fail to see how Internet retail really makes it, except in a few rare cases where products are rare.
Easy! In response to your question, because people are lazy. I'm going to be ordering a $7 part for my Nokia cell phone (for which shipping will probably be more than $5) because finding a local place that sells that piece of circuitery is too freaking hard!
Another reason Internet retail works because the operating costs are so low - all you need is a good web designer to make the business you run out of my kitchen look like a Fortune 500.
Most consumers won't care that the cost of $100+shipping DVD player is now $106+shipping.
To quote from the comment directly above yours (at least on my screen):
In order to "publish derivative works then you have to seek permission to publish said works"
Permission might mean a license from you, and if they continue to publish it without your OK, you can take them to court and seek damages - this is how copyright law works.
But this is all irrelevent if I'm pulling your content for my personal use - if I feel like reformatting your content, changing its color scheme, etc., you have no right to make me stop. You're welcome to defeat my technology, but that will most likely put you in violation of the Americans Disabilities Act, as your content might no longer be accessible by screen reader programs.
I believe a blind woman successfully sued a major airline because its website was inaccessible to the blind.
There are a number of posts expressing panic, and I don't think that's justified at this point.
Right now the technology is brand new. Within a few days or weeks, most free OS's will have a decent, well-documented solution to this "problem". It'll take MONTHS for a vendor to develop and market a product that cable companies will use to track down TOS violators (or maybe "TOS Pirates", that sounds catchy).
For those interested in certifications, also take a look at Linux+ from CompTIA (the A+ folks). I plan to take the exam soon, and frankly, it looks pretty easy.
You guys can bash certifications left and right, but to a new graduate desperately looking for a job, they can prove useful. The job market is so bad at the moment that recent college graduates applying for entry-level positions are competing with people that have decades of experience. If having "RHCT" or "RCHE" on your resume can help, it's worth investing a couple of hundred bucks into it.
I hate to tell you this, but 99% (and I'm NOT exaggerating) of MS Office users will never use a macro, write a line of VBA, or develop custom applications using Office.
People want to type documents, make spreadsheets, and give cheesy presentations. The "power users" want to make graphs in Excel and produce reports in Access.
When it comes to MS Office, the Slashdot crowd falls into the "guru" category - our needs are VERY different than the general population's.
Give it a few years - once the technology is sufficiently mature, it *will* be cheaper. If you can eliminate just 20 factory workers making $20k each in the United States, that's a yearly saving of $400k-$500k, based on their benefits, etc.
Of course, it'll still be cheaper to move manufacturing out of the U.S. You can't beat paying a Mexican or Chinese worker $1k-$5k/year for assembling electronics. This technology will probably be reserved for "high-end" stuff.
At the risk of violating the dmca, how can I block those HTTP refferer things? Does the browser produce them? It has to, right? Are there any browsers out there that allow you to "play" with that information?
Why not simply put the destination site into every referrer you send? You'd be telling the site that you've already be there.
I can't think of any specific reason to do that, just a fun exercise.
I think this would provide the open source community with a good alternative to VB.
I don't use Delphi, never have, nor do I plan to, but I'll welcome any product that gives further credibility to open source and free software. And I'll applaud any company that takes a product open source - it takes a lot of guts to release the code to a product that might be supporting your company.
Hey, it sounds like a great idea, but come on - if college students can get the book for FREE, then they'll just put off that class for a semester to avoid paying for it.
College students are NOT a population that anyone should expect to fund this experiment.
Would it be possible to re-use some already signed code from an existing game?
You'd run into copyright infringement issues - the signed code would be property of the copyright owner, and redistributing it would almost definitely be illegal. No need to take chances; I'm sure Microsoft's IP lawyers are looking for any excuse they can to take this project down.
Actually, Windows 2000 Terminal Server has pretty decent 128 bit encryption - perfect for remote administration. And yet, Microsoft's "Remote Desktop" is still far more responsive than either VNC or pcAnywhere, both running with their default of zero encryption.
I'm sure Windows XP also has encryption turned on by default for its remote desktop. You just have to manually up it from 56 bit to 128, as long as both PC's can handle it.
State government realized that people were willing to recycle without getting that nickel back for each can - so now they keep the cash and make sure that it's illegal for anyone to "steal" their aluminum cans.
I was at a Microsoft demo of.Net in New York before it was released. The speaker (a Microsoft head developer), when praising.Net, said that it would allow your software to run on multiple platforms. He said that Mono would allow you to run.Net apps on Linux, implying that it was a Good Thing (tm).
They're happy to see Mono progress. In the end, it'll help them sell more copies of Visual Studio and Windows XP Professional.
But what I'm afraid of is that if someday Microsoft is in bad shape and its profits start to drop, they'll go on a legal rampage and take down anyone that built software even remotely "like" theirs.
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The desire to run Linux might be enough legalize the ownership and production of mod chips in other countries.
But Garmin has excellent maps available for Europe, so just budget another $100-$200 for them.
Now THAT'S worth $300/month!
I'm sure you live in a nice rich college town, but you should pay a visit to CUNY, in NYC, or if you really want to put your life in danger, Rutgers-Camden, in southern New Jersey.
Easy! In response to your question, because people are lazy. I'm going to be ordering a $7 part for my Nokia cell phone (for which shipping will probably be more than $5) because finding a local place that sells that piece of circuitery is too freaking hard!
Another reason Internet retail works because the operating costs are so low - all you need is a good web designer to make the business you run out of my kitchen look like a Fortune 500.
Most consumers won't care that the cost of $100+shipping DVD player is now $106+shipping.
do you have sources for a statement like that?
In order to "publish derivative works then you have to seek permission to publish said works"
Permission might mean a license from you, and if they continue to publish it without your OK, you can take them to court and seek damages - this is how copyright law works.
But this is all irrelevent if I'm pulling your content for my personal use - if I feel like reformatting your content, changing its color scheme, etc., you have no right to make me stop. You're welcome to defeat my technology, but that will most likely put you in violation of the Americans Disabilities Act, as your content might no longer be accessible by screen reader programs.
I believe a blind woman successfully sued a major airline because its website was inaccessible to the blind.
You are a TERRORIST if you bypass your employer's Internet filtering/monitoring software through SSH/VNC/RDP.
Real Americans have nothing to hide.
Right now the technology is brand new. Within a few days or weeks, most free OS's will have a decent, well-documented solution to this "problem". It'll take MONTHS for a vendor to develop and market a product that cable companies will use to track down TOS violators (or maybe "TOS Pirates", that sounds catchy).
You guys can bash certifications left and right, but to a new graduate desperately looking for a job, they can prove useful. The job market is so bad at the moment that recent college graduates applying for entry-level positions are competing with people that have decades of experience. If having "RHCT" or "RCHE" on your resume can help, it's worth investing a couple of hundred bucks into it.
People want to type documents, make spreadsheets, and give cheesy presentations. The "power users" want to make graphs in Excel and produce reports in Access.
When it comes to MS Office, the Slashdot crowd falls into the "guru" category - our needs are VERY different than the general population's.
Today is a good day for open source and free software!
Of course, it'll still be cheaper to move manufacturing out of the U.S. You can't beat paying a Mexican or Chinese worker $1k-$5k/year for assembling electronics. This technology will probably be reserved for "high-end" stuff.
Why not simply put the destination site into every referrer you send? You'd be telling the site that you've already be there.
I can't think of any specific reason to do that, just a fun exercise.
I don't use Delphi, never have, nor do I plan to, but I'll welcome any product that gives further credibility to open source and free software. And I'll applaud any company that takes a product open source - it takes a lot of guts to release the code to a product that might be supporting your company.
College students are NOT a population that anyone should expect to fund this experiment.
You'd run into copyright infringement issues - the signed code would be property of the copyright owner, and redistributing it would almost definitely be illegal. No need to take chances; I'm sure Microsoft's IP lawyers are looking for any excuse they can to take this project down.
I'm sure Windows XP also has encryption turned on by default for its remote desktop. You just have to manually up it from 56 bit to 128, as long as both PC's can handle it.
State government realized that people were willing to recycle without getting that nickel back for each can - so now they keep the cash and make sure that it's illegal for anyone to "steal" their aluminum cans.
They're working on it.
I think he meant "rogue finger print reader", unless he was accusing some finger print readers of being communists.
They're happy to see Mono progress. In the end, it'll help them sell more copies of Visual Studio and Windows XP Professional.
But what I'm afraid of is that if someday Microsoft is in bad shape and its profits start to drop, they'll go on a legal rampage and take down anyone that built software even remotely "like" theirs.
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Sixty days???????????? Where the hell did you hear that??? I've been waiting for this phone for MONTHS!!!!!!!!!! TELL ME TELL ME TELL MEEEEE!!!