Sorry, no idea. It has a boot up picture with the ATM-manufacturer's logo that covers the screen as soon as the POST is done. People say they run Unix though, and I think that makes sense.
Yep, in Sweden too. I've seen them displaying Windows error messages a couple of times. On the other hand I've seen the Unix ones reboot about as many times.
My Ericsson T68i has 300 hours stand by time and 11 hours talk time. Ha!
Seriously though, why is the difference so big? I mean, is it because differences between the phone networks or do all american product come with weak batteries?
I've always thought it's a bit strange that a piece of software that has to phone home to work well (i.e. download signature files) was so incredibly easy to copy. I installed Norton Antivirus on my parents' old computer, and when they bought a new one I thought I'd have to go through some more or less complicated procedure to get the program to run on it. But nope, I installed it and not only did it work, I got 12 new months of free updates (only one year is included, then it's like $10 per year).
I think this is great, most Windows-users don't know what Windows update is anyway. Of course it should only distribute critical updates.
You can already have Windows download and install the most important updates on its own. I have this feature enabled on an internal webserver at work, and it works very well. It downloads the patches as they become available, then it installs them att 3 AM when there's noone visiting the server anyway.
Corporate users probably don't want a feature like this though, if a fix breaks the most critical business application, it's better to not apply it at all. They would be better off with an internal Windows update-server that only hosts the patches that has been OK'd by the tech department. This feature is already available as well.
Totally agree with you. Same thing when you get a faster internet connection. It doesn't seem that much quicker, but when you try a connection of the same speed as your old, it's soo slooow!
"Using Illustrator or Freehand and building everything from scratch seems too time expensive. I spent a long time online looking for [...]"
If he'd used Illustrator right from the start he'd be done by now...
Sure, if you detect an earthquake before it strikes you could get lots of people out of say a city in danger. That still wouldn't prevent the city itself though. And with most people away from town, bad guys could break in to a lot of stores and so on, with little risk of being caught.
Or perhaps there could be panic situations with riots where people get robbed, injured or killed when everybody finds out about the earthquake.
It's a nice technology, but there are many questions around it that need to be solved.
Wires suck, wireless rocks!
Anything that will reduce the number of wires around computers and such is great. I just hope that there won't be too many standards, then the whole "standard" concept is lost in a way.
I know you are joking, but I think many people get the wrong idea of this project. The model airplane was not radio controlled, it flew on its own using a set of pre-defined waypoints. It did transmit data to the people involved in the project, but it didn't recieve any instructions.
The problem with blimps is that they are very wind sensitive. If you want to use one outdoors it should be really calm, or you can end up chasing your blimp all over town. Indoors however, they are really cool. If you have a somewhat small blimp or a big room.
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The project is basically a model airplane that crossed the Atlantic on its own using GPS for navigation.
This is really a cool project, and while it might seem like a geeky hobby thing, I think it's much more important than that. I think we'll se R/C helicopters that move around on their own used for surveillance and as a support for police and firefighters pretty soon. I mean, these things already exist. The flight over the ocean shows that they can handle long distance flights as well, at lest in 50% of the cases:-)
Yeah, and the people who puts out these thing can be pretty calm. What is the average John going to do? Go to the police and say "well, I was surfing some porn and found a link for a small program that would download pictures of raped women, for free!". I don't think so.
Why do they make these things beige/white?? I mean, how many cars have a white dashboard? Perhaps the computers come with front panels in different colors?
Griffin technology really make sexy things! I just got a PowerMate (USB volume knob that can be programmed to execute any key combination in any program) and I just love it! Yum!
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Sorry, no idea. It has a boot up picture with the ATM-manufacturer's logo that covers the screen as soon as the POST is done. People say they run Unix though, and I think that makes sense.
Yep, in Sweden too. I've seen them displaying Windows error messages a couple of times. On the other hand I've seen the Unix ones reboot about as many times.
I agree with you. I'm 23 and the first time I heard of Apple Corps was when I read about the legal struggles between them and Apple Computer.
My Ericsson T68i has 300 hours stand by time and 11 hours talk time. Ha!
Seriously though, why is the difference so big? I mean, is it because differences between the phone networks or do all american product come with weak batteries?
How come stories about cool things like this never have any pictures?? I really want to see the little machine!
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Could this be it?
I've always thought it's a bit strange that a piece of software that has to phone home to work well (i.e. download signature files) was so incredibly easy to copy. I installed Norton Antivirus on my parents' old computer, and when they bought a new one I thought I'd have to go through some more or less complicated procedure to get the program to run on it. But nope, I installed it and not only did it work, I got 12 new months of free updates (only one year is included, then it's like $10 per year).
Well, they say a few spammers produce like 90% of the spam, if that's true there's still hope!
Actually it's windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
OK, I know, I am a looser.
I think this is great, most Windows-users don't know what Windows update is anyway. Of course it should only distribute critical updates.
You can already have Windows download and install the most important updates on its own. I have this feature enabled on an internal webserver at work, and it works very well. It downloads the patches as they become available, then it installs them att 3 AM when there's noone visiting the server anyway.
Corporate users probably don't want a feature like this though, if a fix breaks the most critical business application, it's better to not apply it at all. They would be better off with an internal Windows update-server that only hosts the patches that has been OK'd by the tech department. This feature is already available as well.
Totally agree with you. Same thing when you get a faster internet connection. It doesn't seem that much quicker, but when you try a connection of the same speed as your old, it's soo slooow!
The reason they disabled DVD-RW writing can't have anything to do with heat, or can it?
"Using Illustrator or Freehand and building everything from scratch seems too time expensive. I spent a long time online looking for [...]" If he'd used Illustrator right from the start he'd be done by now...
Sure, if you detect an earthquake before it strikes you could get lots of people out of say a city in danger. That still wouldn't prevent the city itself though. And with most people away from town, bad guys could break in to a lot of stores and so on, with little risk of being caught. Or perhaps there could be panic situations with riots where people get robbed, injured or killed when everybody finds out about the earthquake. It's a nice technology, but there are many questions around it that need to be solved.
Wires suck, wireless rocks! Anything that will reduce the number of wires around computers and such is great. I just hope that there won't be too many standards, then the whole "standard" concept is lost in a way.
I know you are joking, but I think many people get the wrong idea of this project. The model airplane was not radio controlled, it flew on its own using a set of pre-defined waypoints. It did transmit data to the people involved in the project, but it didn't recieve any instructions.
The problem with blimps is that they are very wind sensitive. If you want to use one outdoors it should be really calm, or you can end up chasing your blimp all over town. Indoors however, they are really cool. If you have a somewhat small blimp or a big room.
The project is basically a model airplane that crossed the Atlantic on its own using GPS for navigation.
This is really a cool project, and while it might seem like a geeky hobby thing, I think it's much more important than that. I think we'll se R/C helicopters that move around on their own used for surveillance and as a support for police and firefighters pretty soon. I mean, these things already exist. The flight over the ocean shows that they can handle long distance flights as well, at lest in 50% of the cases :-)
Yeah, and the people who puts out these thing can be pretty calm. What is the average John going to do? Go to the police and say "well, I was surfing some porn and found a link for a small program that would download pictures of raped women, for free!". I don't think so.
Why do they make these things beige/white?? I mean, how many cars have a white dashboard? Perhaps the computers come with front panels in different colors?
I agree that real time calculations of forces and stuff is really cool, but can you really tell a difference from that and pre-calculated data?
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Griffin technology really make sexy things! I just got a PowerMate (USB volume knob that can be programmed to execute any key combination in any program) and I just love it! Yum!
I think there's always been a better option to Corel's programs. They were always some kind of second choice. Perhaps it's just me?
Come on, all languages borrow words from other languages. It's one of several ways a language developes!