My question is this - this PC is slimmer, so we can cram them in to some rather unthinkable places... but what will the power requirements be for such a box? Likely quite a bit less, and if they are so much less that we could use start jamming them into cars (without causing a significant power drain, that is), then I don't see why we couldn't have them pump their video into the mini LCD screens already built in to many vehicles nowadays.
Of course, as soon as some dumbass causes an accident because he was playing Nascar 2k4 alongside his REAL driving, then we'll really get to start throwing out the bad puns.
"He crashed his 'puter! OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!11one1"
Funny comment aside, I was going to mention this myself until you beat me to it. As I mentioned in a previous thread, this would indeed revitalize an old transmission vector for viruses (assuming it takes off). Now a man would only have to touch you to infect you. We could be standing next to a Typhoid Mary and not even know it. Personal space would become more than just a comfort zone, it would be a safety zone.
"Wear a glove man, protect yourself. You never know what kind of dirty people are out there."
Halo 2's release date is supposedly set in stone. The guy who announced it had it tatooed on his arm, and was showing it off at E3. After a publicity stunt like that, I don't think they're about to push it back any further - if I had an important event date tatooed on me, I'd make DAMN SURE that event happened on time.
Anyone who is still on OE or IE should seriously consider a switch, because they include things which you should really have by default in your software. Firefox has tabbed browsing and integrated popup blocking, and Thunderbird has built in encryption, supports PGP extensions, and has integrated "smart" spam filtering.
For those who still want to stick with an IE based browser, might I suggest Slimbrowser? Its based on IE, but has many of the features that the "geekier" browsers like Firefox and Thunderbird have, and getting more all the time. I've been using it for quite some time, and enjoy it muchly.
IANAL, but by reading the text of section 2 of this proposed legislation, the impression I am left with is that, by saying the simple phrase, "Download X here" (Or even by just saying "Download X" if X is a copyrighted work) that I am violating copyright law. Tell me, how with those 2-3 words am I stealing money and/or intellectual property from anyone?
In this land of *nix fanatics, I would have expected far more limited commentary. My expectation was for every 3rd post to be devoted to bashing MS, with those between espousing the user's personal preference for emacs, pico, vi, or "other". I was more than a little surprised to see that, for once, people don't have anything (or at least, comparatively little) bad to say about a MS product.
MINIMIZING inventory?!? How is keeping 3000 disposable DVD's on hand as opposed to 30 reusable DVD's minimizing ANYTHING?
More purchase costs, more inventory costs, more staffing costs, more shipping costs, etc... The only thing you save on is reshelving costs for returns.
Take some of those sub-orbital floating platforms mentioned in a previous/. article and mount a larger, more powerful version of these on the underside. Then, all you have to do is "paint" a target with conventional military laser targeting device, and watch as lightning pours in from the sky to incapacitate your target and anything nearby. The system could also be manually targetted by gunners in on the platform as well, using telemetry from orbiting spy satellites. Thus do we suddenly get the WoG (Wrath of God) system.
Oh yeah, and think of what the Muslim extremists will think when lightning bolts start falling on their forces from the heavens... Is it just me, or is life starting to imitate Command and Conquer?
If that were the case, then you would have a point, but I would think that as soon as it started becoming known that this technology was in use by intelligence agents, priority #1 would be to copy this data as soon as possible after capture of the original media, just in case. The security factor would be slightly better than if the information was on a standard disc, but only slightly.
They can't decrypt it that quickly, but they can copy it to their hard drives, or to a stable DVD with plenty of time to spare, then decrypt it at their leisure.
I seriously doubt that any company will ever put these DVD's to use in the general consumer market - its just too risky! Aside from the potential to actually INCREASE piracy as opposed to decrease it, think of the monumental bad press that they would get, not only from those of us "in-the-know" about such things, but the casual consumer as well. This is to say nothing about consumers' rights groups and environmentalists.
If someone *were* to take a gamble on these, I bet the geeks in the world could find some kind of solution to either remove the darkness or penetrate it pretty quick. Failing that, its still readable (and thus, ripable) in the first 8 hours anyways, which once more leads back to the piracy-increase arguement.
(On the subject of penetrating the darkness, if someone were to just turn down the potentiometer on the DVD drive's laser [as is sometimes done in XBox Thompson DVD drives to help them perform to spec], do you think that would be enough to "punch through" as it were, and still allow enough light to escape upon reflection to allow reading after the blackout has set in?)
If you go blue, scream, and die, don't blame open source. We all know who to blame for the blue scream of death...
If this mentality, and the platform rivalry that follows, is taken to its final stupidity in the open source medicine field, then sooner or later we'll be having arguements about really created the liquid inside the new Viagrix gel-caps (courtesy of a study either by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution or the American Journal of Medicine, I can't decide which)
How would open source medicine pay for these risks...
Answer: well, if you'd read the disclaimer, you'd see that by opening the pill bottle, you agreed not to hold myself or the manufacturer responsible for any strange side-effects, including but not limited to...
So, when some of the strange, undocumented side effects of this open-source medication turns you blue, do you think the average Ethiopian will have net-access to go crawling through some message boards looking for a fix?
Just kiddin' yo, but I couldn't resist.
I suppose that someone should play devil's advocate and point out that this will revitalize the old "dirty disk" transmission vector for virus's and other malware. Where it use to be, "Don't put that disk in your PC, its got a virus on it", now it'll be "Don't touch me with that thing, its dirty!".
Subsequent invention of a small, slip-on firewall is pending...
I am curious what the maximum number of processors that WinXP supports is, or for that matter Longhorn. The reason I ask is because, with this technology, seeing 1 proc as 4, then logically it would see 2 proc's as 8. 8 processors? Sounds a little rediculous, but how exactly would XP handle it? Will we have to wait until SP3 or something? Would it see only 4? Would you have to turn of hyperthreading? Will there be boards built to support multiple processors with this new chip type?
The more and more I think about this, the more I think this is a distributed computing project in the works. And please, no jokes about Beowulf clusters...
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My question is this - this PC is slimmer, so we can cram them in to some rather unthinkable places... but what will the power requirements be for such a box? Likely quite a bit less, and if they are so much less that we could use start jamming them into cars (without causing a significant power drain, that is), then I don't see why we couldn't have them pump their video into the mini LCD screens already built in to many vehicles nowadays.
Of course, as soon as some dumbass causes an accident because he was playing Nascar 2k4 alongside his REAL driving, then we'll really get to start throwing out the bad puns.
"He crashed his 'puter! OMGLOLWTFBBQ!!!11one1"
I'm writing this ON an Apple //c you insensitve clod!
Funny comment aside, I was going to mention this myself until you beat me to it. As I mentioned in a previous thread, this would indeed revitalize an old transmission vector for viruses (assuming it takes off). Now a man would only have to touch you to infect you. We could be standing next to a Typhoid Mary and not even know it. Personal space would become more than just a comfort zone, it would be a safety zone.
"Wear a glove man, protect yourself. You never know what kind of dirty people are out there."
Huzzah for hardware firewalls.
Halo 2's release date is supposedly set in stone. The guy who announced it had it tatooed on his arm, and was showing it off at E3. After a publicity stunt like that, I don't think they're about to push it back any further - if I had an important event date tatooed on me, I'd make DAMN SURE that event happened on time.
Anyone who is still on OE or IE should seriously consider a switch, because they include things which you should really have by default in your software. Firefox has tabbed browsing and integrated popup blocking, and Thunderbird has built in encryption, supports PGP extensions, and has integrated "smart" spam filtering.
For those who still want to stick with an IE based browser, might I suggest Slimbrowser? Its based on IE, but has many of the features that the "geekier" browsers like Firefox and Thunderbird have, and getting more all the time. I've been using it for quite some time, and enjoy it muchly.
IANAL, but by reading the text of section 2 of this proposed legislation, the impression I am left with is that, by saying the simple phrase, "Download X here" (Or even by just saying "Download X" if X is a copyrighted work) that I am violating copyright law. Tell me, how with those 2-3 words am I stealing money and/or intellectual property from anyone?
In this land of *nix fanatics, I would have expected far more limited commentary. My expectation was for every 3rd post to be devoted to bashing MS, with those between espousing the user's personal preference for emacs, pico, vi, or "other". I was more than a little surprised to see that, for once, people don't have anything (or at least, comparatively little) bad to say about a MS product.
Microsoft firewall: "Please don't hurt me! Hey, you look cool, can't possibly be malicious, come right in... OW, OH, THE PAIN!"
Norton firewall: "Bahahahaa! You can't get past me! I AM INVINCIBLE!!! *fires the firewall equivilent of fully automatic weapons into the air*"
MINIMIZING inventory?!? How is keeping 3000 disposable DVD's on hand as opposed to 30 reusable DVD's minimizing ANYTHING?
More purchase costs, more inventory costs, more staffing costs, more shipping costs, etc... The only thing you save on is reshelving costs for returns.
A drug novel adaptation... staring Keanu Reaves... directed by the same man who did Dazed and Confused...
Am I the only who thinks that this is overkill for the desired effect?
Now we need to scale this up a bit.
/. article and mount a larger, more powerful version of these on the underside. Then, all you have to do is "paint" a target with conventional military laser targeting device, and watch as lightning pours in from the sky to incapacitate your target and anything nearby. The system could also be manually targetted by gunners in on the platform as well, using telemetry from orbiting spy satellites. Thus do we suddenly get the WoG (Wrath of God) system.
Take some of those sub-orbital floating platforms mentioned in a previous
Oh yeah, and think of what the Muslim extremists will think when lightning bolts start falling on their forces from the heavens... Is it just me, or is life starting to imitate Command and Conquer?
If that were the case, then you would have a point, but I would think that as soon as it started becoming known that this technology was in use by intelligence agents, priority #1 would be to copy this data as soon as possible after capture of the original media, just in case. The security factor would be slightly better than if the information was on a standard disc, but only slightly.
They can't decrypt it that quickly, but they can copy it to their hard drives, or to a stable DVD with plenty of time to spare, then decrypt it at their leisure.
Sorry, but your case is baseless.
RTFA, this technology was made by the FRENCH.
Sorry buddy, but you can't blame this one on us.
I seriously doubt that any company will ever put these DVD's to use in the general consumer market - its just too risky! Aside from the potential to actually INCREASE piracy as opposed to decrease it, think of the monumental bad press that they would get, not only from those of us "in-the-know" about such things, but the casual consumer as well. This is to say nothing about consumers' rights groups and environmentalists.
If someone *were* to take a gamble on these, I bet the geeks in the world could find some kind of solution to either remove the darkness or penetrate it pretty quick. Failing that, its still readable (and thus, ripable) in the first 8 hours anyways, which once more leads back to the piracy-increase arguement.
(On the subject of penetrating the darkness, if someone were to just turn down the potentiometer on the DVD drive's laser [as is sometimes done in XBox Thompson DVD drives to help them perform to spec], do you think that would be enough to "punch through" as it were, and still allow enough light to escape upon reflection to allow reading after the blackout has set in?)
If you go blue, scream, and die, don't blame open source. We all know who to blame for the blue scream of death...
If this mentality, and the platform rivalry that follows, is taken to its final stupidity in the open source medicine field, then sooner or later we'll be having arguements about really created the liquid inside the new Viagrix gel-caps (courtesy of a study either by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution or the American Journal of Medicine, I can't decide which)
How would open source medicine pay for these risks...
Answer: well, if you'd read the disclaimer, you'd see that by opening the pill bottle, you agreed not to hold myself or the manufacturer responsible for any strange side-effects, including but not limited to...
So, when some of the strange, undocumented side effects of this open-source medication turns you blue, do you think the average Ethiopian will have net-access to go crawling through some message boards looking for a fix? Just kiddin' yo, but I couldn't resist.
I suppose that someone should play devil's advocate and point out that this will revitalize the old "dirty disk" transmission vector for virus's and other malware. Where it use to be, "Don't put that disk in your PC, its got a virus on it", now it'll be "Don't touch me with that thing, its dirty!".
Subsequent invention of a small, slip-on firewall is pending...
I am curious what the maximum number of processors that WinXP supports is, or for that matter Longhorn. The reason I ask is because, with this technology, seeing 1 proc as 4, then logically it would see 2 proc's as 8. 8 processors? Sounds a little rediculous, but how exactly would XP handle it? Will we have to wait until SP3 or something? Would it see only 4? Would you have to turn of hyperthreading? Will there be boards built to support multiple processors with this new chip type? The more and more I think about this, the more I think this is a distributed computing project in the works. And please, no jokes about Beowulf clusters...
The phrase "Go away or I shall replace you with a very small shell script" is no longer a joke...
A backdoor? We're insecure? This looks like a job for... a random number generator!
Go check out www.redvsblue.com The funniest Halo stuff you'll see outside a warthog jumping contest.
Alas, if only this meant the end of emails telling me how I need generic viagra to keep it up in my old age...
Still no help on those countless mortage applications I don't remember sending...
Didn't the book Snow Crash have something similar in it? I think both YT and Hiro were wearing suits that incorporated similar stuff to this.