I agree, what a damn hassle. This is one of the things that lobbyists against the taxation in the US complain about. It is very difficult to collect tax under 50+ different plans. Now, it looks like the world may want to add 100's of different expenses, which also add LOTS of man hours. (to the selling end and receiving end) Ultimately, I bet this generates little extra revenue due to the number of "collectors/enforcers" they have to hire in EACH country to make sure everyone is getting their fair share.
How can you collect sales tax on a used item? The tax was already paid here by the original purchaser.
Most items I sell are used or "prepurchased" or involve a service. None of these items are taxable here and are considered sold at yard sale or at auction. Neither of which in my state are taxed. For some reason, some live (in person) auctioners charge tax here, but they aren't suppose to. They are told to by local governments who "slip it in"
Again, if something is used, taxes have already been paid and it's benefits to society have also created revenue generation, which in turn, is more tax collected. Say I buy a printer at retail. I pay the sales tax. Then, I use said printer to print my envelopes, receipts, business cards, correspondence, pictures to sell, etc etc - generating more income for my business. I have also used said printer purchase to make more money to spend and thus taxed, giving even more money to the government for the printer!
A lot of people that collect tax on eBay and especially Yahoo NEVER pay that back into the government. This is like the bogus people that collect tax at flea markets or for service calls.
I will hope that eBay will just add the VAT to the total bill so that we don't have to collect it and pay into some sort of escrow.
I was really interested when they had this news on Saturday. I remember that being a family event for my house.
I did quite a bit of googling and apparently the script will be set 20 years afterwards the last movie, BUT a new ally will come to help us. Rumors on several sites that claimed to be close to Johnson said another alien race that defeated the "lizards" will come to save us. Sort of like an "operation iRaqi Freedom" effort on a planetary scale. The "new aliens" will be like a United States of the Universe that everyone is jealous of for their immense technology and "morality" - I could see how it would make a good commentary, just as the original was good commentary about WWII.
But they are quoting the "ambiguous stats that the Mercury did. I find it VERY hard to beleive especially seeing since that would mean 1/5 of the worlds population has bought one x86 in some form or fashion. Take into account that 2/5 of the world's population doesn't even have electricity and another 1/5 could afford to even buy a raw 8086 chip off of eBay. Also take into account that AMD, Cyrix, and quite a few others also make x86 chips that have amounted to a sizeable portion of total x86 shipments. I can't think of how to check the accuracy of this report or statistic but it is very bogus, possibly through ambiguity on Intel's part. I could beleive they have produced 1 billion CPUs, GPUs, BCUs total. I doubt they have averaged to crank out chips at more than 1 per second over the life span of the x86 either. Do the math on a scientific calculator and see how BIG 1 billion really is! One can't even COUNT to 1 billion vocally in a lifetime!
The article is errant. It is GPUs CPUs BCUs (Bus Controller Units) - The article had its facts wrong, maybe on purpose. Intel might have released the information very ambiguously.
There's hardly more than a billion CPUs (any variety for computer appliucation) sold PERIOD! Intel doesn't make the only CPUs and they also don't make the only x86 (there have also been lots of companies that produced x86 variants in a sizeable portion of the total x86 shipments.. So NO, it's not 1 billion x86 CPUs... that would be close to impossible in my eye.
That's a slight bit of propaganda. That would make the average person (note average person not a/. reader) think that they have shipped 1 billion CPUs. That's graphic chips, CPU's, et al. It also is a combination of ALL the units they have bought out like Chips & Technologies (80,000 PowerBook Duos used their graphic chips before the Intel buyout) It also accounts for their USB controller chips etc etc. This is propaganda to show that Intel is in everything so you might as well buy Intel based stuff for " compatibility & to keep up with the Jones' " They know that no other chip producer could even come close to this total, so it's a marketing ploy to even let this information leak to any type of press. Nothing wrong with that, but it 's just as any other statistic, skewed to say whatever the hand in the sock puppet wants it to say.
FROM: "Following reports of a USB 2.0 chipset in some newer Power Macs, MacNN reader Steve Chung writes about unofficial USB 2.0 drivers for MDD Power Macs: "According to a Korean site Create Mac, it appears that the drivers for the USB 2.0 chipset in the MDD 1.25 and 1.42 Ghz are updated and confirmed that they do work. However, it also says that extreme caution should be taken and that only the two MDD models have been tested. (No liability for damaged systems.) Installation on other models could render the system inoperable."
Also the current Macs with PCI slots or ANY Mac that can run OSX with a PCI slot has been able to support USB 2.0 for almost a year.
Apparently, in your "enlightenment & understanding" you haven't read others concerns about RFID.
While it may be FUD only, this technology being used to track ALL that you buy is the concern. RFID will eventually be "mainstreamed" and many people such as yourself won't see a problem with it being in money or in credit cards. Again, no FUD just fact, the FBI has already planned an investigation about RFID in money Why is this a privacy concern? What I'm about to say may be an ethical issue but it is seen different ways by different people. What if I want to buy some marijuana with that note? What if I want to pay the kid down the down the street to cut my lawn? What if that same kid does drugs? Now, I am suspect for being in "drug ring" if they can trace all those RFIDs.
Same with purchases from Walmart. What if I happen to purchase a combination of items unknowingly, that the average drug user purchases. Will I be profiled for that buying habit too?
I am with you, it's coming no matter what. It will be hard to stop. But, there are legitimate concerns.
You would be amazed at what your grocery store bonus card data holds about you! Returns, complaints to the store, not just sales data. Again, what if something with an RFID or something trackable has your fingerprints on it, are you suspect when the "bad guy" buys it from Goodwill or steals it? Not only do we need Walmart to understand that before they make this step that we want on off switches, but we would also like disassociation capability. IE, erasure of your association with an RFID. Also, yearly reports by email or mail on what your RFID info holds and what data they truly are keeping about you would be nice.
Why do we have to propose a different standard? Just because it's a slightly different industry than computers, most eBooks are going to be READ on computers. Wouldn't PDF be perfect? Doesn't Adobe have an eBook PDF format?
If I'm not mistaken a PDF can be locked and encrypted.
This is also the same as DVD+/- Minus is the better standard, but companies with deeper pockets and greedier "proprietary minded" philosophy back Plus. Standards make sales PERIOD!
I think this was the mistake of the iTunes Music Store. While not terrible (actually slightly better quality) AAC is not as universal a standard as Mp3 or even Ogg. There are WAYS to encrypt and secure those formats. Napster, just before its demise, had figured out how to secure MP3's that were downloaded from it's system.
I wish they'd have kept the innovative design of the previous Zaurus rather than gone BACK to the Mini Laptop. (The previous version just made me feel like I had the Newton of my dreams) Hiding the keyboard quickly was great if you want to "printtype" (handwriting recognition & typing for special characters quickly), plus there's a balance and weight issue in the hand since the back of the new unit will weigh more leverage wise.
Still, the Zaurus IMHO is now superceded by the Sony Clie NZ90. When the new Clies hit the street this summer (an NZ90 slimmer version with integrated 802.11b and 400Mhz Xscale) I'm a buyer.
About the only thing I think exciting about this model is its ability to possibly run a scaled down version of Mac On Linux or the Mac System 6 emulator that already exists. Using Photoshop and REAL Word on a PDA is pretty neat!
Very good point... Analysts never saw Apple's decision that way though. BUT Power Computing could EASILY be compared to HandSpring. Former Apple employees started it and they also started innovate (PS ports/slightly overclocked processors/IDE optical drives)
The only difference here is that Handspring is DEAD. I see this more as a nice gesture to Hawkins than anything else. I think Palm wants him back. Palm is starting to get the dillution you speak of from Sony. Clie sales have been on the rise for 6 months straight and should rise even more as prices go down and features go up. Right now The NZ90 is the single most useful all in one device with GREAT integration that I have EVER seen.
The iPaq has also made a huge dent in sales of Palms. Handspring hasn't been a player for more than a year.
I disagree with a hardware subsidy. You almost always have to make a contractual agreement like Columbia or BMG's "11 for a Penny" scam (pay 6.95 each shipping / handling) or two years of internet paid up front or two years of cell phone service. Also, those 5 year MSN plans for $300 cash off a computer are ripoffs. What if you want to move to broadband? You're stuck! Besides, broadband is only $9-$12 more. Less with a special.
Do you know that if you signed a contract for cell service two years ago you're probably paying out the wazoo! I'd much rather get 1 or 2 songs free with an iPod and see a monthly 2 for 1 special or 3 Indie songs for a dollar. The way that Apple will be able to expand this service and make even more money will be the Windows implementation and even better, a deal with Amazon. After all, one click is already implemented!
The PPC 970 (& later 980) are all but confirmed and shipping according to several sites (non rumor sites too). The most vocal being MacBiduolle. They had a Quicksilver prototype 2 months before it's appearance and have been on the money for most things. There are CONFIRMED machines in Adobe running 970s too.
Apple will most likely use this as an oppurtunity to drop the G3. Finally Apple will have Altivec across the board. You have to take into account that the manufacturing process also reduces heat and well... size... making this sound more and more like a processor for an iBook.
I also beleive Apple will use this as an oppurtunity to make everything above 1Ghz this year. We will most also likely see quad G4 Xserves because of this (moto producing better G4s)
The 970 is a great chip. It's benchmarks at the Microprocessor Forum VERY HANDILY beat EVERY processor put up against it - even the AMD 64 bit!
Apple shouldn't move to x86 as suggested in the redundant Apple naysayers. (hey you "apple is dead people": how about looking in my journal?) I rather like the RISC processor anf the PPC - there is MUCH less code overhead and easier "addon" capability (cache, media functionality, i/o) - Motorola has been the hold up in it's development and needed someone like IBM to step in and lend a hand, they have done so.
I'd get a low end eMac previous generation and then soup it up with DVD/CDRW and plenty of RAM, maybe a faster hard drive and Virtual PC then a low end iBook (probably refurb) - you could do all of this:
eMac 700 G4 80 gig 7200 SE HD 512 MB RAM (favorite Linux Distro of PPC or YellowDog) + Bluetooth adapter $800 shipped
Get a USB video in and hook up a VCR so you can have a nice TV or get a TIVO
Watch DVDs and record CDs in the dorm (it'll come with appleWorks that has all the Office compatibility you'll need)
Get a refurb iBook (256MB/20gig/Airport/Combo Drive) and soup it up a bit =$900
Not affiliated with them but www.smalldog.com or www.expercom.com are good places to start or check www.dealmac.com
Get a t68i Phone (free at amazon and buy.com, cheap elsewhere) so you can use it as a I'd get a low end eMac previous generation and then soup it up with DVD/CDRW and plenty of RAM, maybe a faster hard drive and Virtual PC then a low end iBook (probably refurb) - you could do all of this for under $1800 and have an awesome setup!
You get the bonus of all 3 worlds (Mac,Linux, Windows) with a Mac, plus hi speed LAN and integrated WiFi, plus easy upgradeability and HUGE internet support.
There are compact flash adapter memory readers for everything except a memory stick. Compact Flash to Smartmedia - Compact Flash to SD/MMC - Compact Flash to XD - Microdive is Compact Flash - and honestly, if you have a multi reader - with some you can transfer data directly from card to card.
While I do believe he is correct, I think he may be off base with the PDA. This is one of the only devices that I would like to see be more "all in one". I'd personally like a Sony Ericsson p800 style PDA phone that had the screen from a Clie NZ90, GPS, iPod sized hard drive, megapixel camera, the VERY cool remote control center from Sony, 802.11g and Bluetooth + an Mp3 player and DIVX/MPEG4 decoder. While something like this would be in the high end (probably where the NZ90 is = $800 + $100 802.11 card) I still think it'd fly off the shelf, and possibly be subsidized by cell phone companies, at least in part with service agreements.
I still hope Apple is considering such a device or at least with most of the features listed here with a compact flash & SDIO slot.
I know there's a little link overload, just illustrating how easily this could be done right now!
All of this could be squeezed into a current form factor Sony Clie.
What about me, I work from home (mostly) listing on eBay and responding in forums such as these to promote my business through association and have a website that I frequesntly upload to. (Note: I do not use my broadband as a server) I also occasionally use P2P and I have to download software updates for my customers from Apple and VersionTracker often...
I'd prefer not to hear the... it's a business expense that you must pay arguement. I have built my business on the model I am in right now at the prices I pay right now. It works perfectly. If ISPs want more bandwidth then there's optimizations and measures for stopping scam site hosting and SPAM mail that they could do.
A post above had a good point - should TV's cost more because they use up a significant portion of the electricity - after all, more electricity, more damge to the environment and more cost to the Power company!
If so, then wouldn't junk email (and even the dorks who click "to enlarge") + all the jpgs that seem to be in the average SPAM now - be some of that bandwidth?
My theory is that companies like inktomi and akaimai like to push big numbers around - and they QUITE enjoy PrOn emails that promote quicktime movie downloads etc.
Personally, I think Yahoo and M$ (Hotmail) should be required to subsidize some bandwidth because of the aforementioned bandwidth hogging solicitations that generally propagate on their systems.
IF ISPs were really concerned about getting dollar for bandwidth they'd do a lot more than they are claiming to stop "Jenny Jones and CoOpt Network" emails.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Quicktime in all its iterations is the most widely distributed program, even surpassing Windows. (Because Windows has come with it built in since ME, right?) It's on all AOL discs since 4.0, it comes with MOST digital cameras, whenever there's a popular movie trailer it becomes the largest weekly download total. There were 7 million downloads for the trailer to Phantom Menace and 12 million for Attack Of The Clones. Every Apple computer sold since 1991 has had it as part of the base OS.
I beleive I remember hearing at the Quicktime Live conference that the title statement was accurate.
It is interesting to see all the records Quicktime has.
I have ended up using Salling Clicker (linked above) for more things than I thought. (keynote, turn on password protection, etc)
While controlling remote control cars may not be all that cool. (Range is horrible for those little cockroach cars) I do think it would be nice to have something like the feature integrated into Sony Clies where you can control ANY TV STEREO or CABLE BOX with just the selection of a brand name and type of device. I would love to be able to do this with my phone.
After talking to the programmer of Romeo, a similar program - I have been keeping up with developments that t68i phones will soon be able to control TV's and VCRs, and etc - through an actual "on phone program" - right now Romeo and Salling Clicker are Push based.
Does anyone know if there is an infrared to bluetooth or vice versa converter coming out?
After reading this story about Philips making RFIDs "capable of being shut off" I did some research on how this was done. Apparently the RFID is sent a magnetic signal. I found out, that it appears if RFIDS are subjected to very strong magnetic forces it disables them ANYWAY.
So, my question is, if RFIDs are to be embedded in money, will it still be accepted if the RFID is off or not working. Will you have to take it to a bank (hassle) and get the whole note replaced or REactivated?
I would think people that work in highly magnetic work conditions or that are subject to mild radiation (cell phone users, utility workers, possily computer users) might face this problem.
To me a better type of transparent screen, more like the one used in Minority Report already exists (by conventional means)
By embedding reflective but transprent phosphors and other chemicals/compounds into plexiglass or glass one can project images onto that glass with a normal projector.
I did this as an experiment just after Minority Report using a tiny xb31 HP projector and plexiglass. Gives a really neat effect - just need low light / dark room (also as in Minority report)
Although the layered screens i suppose couldn't be done this way.
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I agree, what a damn hassle. This is one of the things that lobbyists against the taxation in the US complain about. It is very difficult to collect tax under 50+ different plans. Now, it looks like the world may want to add 100's of different expenses, which also add LOTS of man hours. (to the selling end and receiving end) Ultimately, I bet this generates little extra revenue due to the number of "collectors/enforcers" they have to hire in EACH country to make sure everyone is getting their fair share.
How can you collect sales tax on a used item? The tax was already paid here by the original purchaser.
Most items I sell are used or "prepurchased" or involve a service. None of these items are taxable here and are considered sold at yard sale or at auction. Neither of which in my state are taxed. For some reason, some live (in person) auctioners charge tax here, but they aren't suppose to. They are told to by local governments who "slip it in"
Again, if something is used, taxes have already been paid and it's benefits to society have also created revenue generation, which in turn, is more tax collected. Say I buy a printer at retail. I pay the sales tax. Then, I use said printer to print my envelopes, receipts, business cards, correspondence, pictures to sell, etc etc - generating more income for my business. I have also used said printer purchase to make more money to spend and thus taxed, giving even more money to the government for the printer!
A lot of people that collect tax on eBay and especially Yahoo NEVER pay that back into the government. This is like the bogus people that collect tax at flea markets or for service calls.
I will hope that eBay will just add the VAT to the total bill so that we don't have to collect it and pay into some sort of escrow.
I was really interested when they had this news on Saturday. I remember that being a family event for my house.
I did quite a bit of googling and apparently the script will be set 20 years afterwards the last movie, BUT a new ally will come to help us. Rumors on several sites that claimed to be close to Johnson said another alien race that defeated the "lizards" will come to save us. Sort of like an "operation iRaqi Freedom" effort on a planetary scale. The "new aliens" will be like a United States of the Universe that everyone is jealous of for their immense technology and "morality" - I could see how it would make a good commentary, just as the original was good commentary about WWII.
But they are quoting the "ambiguous stats that the Mercury did. I find it VERY hard to beleive especially seeing since that would mean 1/5 of the worlds population has bought one x86 in some form or fashion. Take into account that 2/5 of the world's population doesn't even have electricity and another 1/5 could afford to even buy a raw 8086 chip off of eBay. Also take into account that AMD, Cyrix, and quite a few others also make x86 chips that have amounted to a sizeable portion of total x86 shipments. I can't think of how to check the accuracy of this report or statistic but it is very bogus, possibly through ambiguity on Intel's part. I could beleive they have produced 1 billion CPUs, GPUs, BCUs total. I doubt they have averaged to crank out chips at more than 1 per second over the life span of the x86 either. Do the math on a scientific calculator and see how BIG 1 billion really is! One can't even COUNT to 1 billion vocally in a lifetime!
There's hardly more than a billion CPUs (any variety for computer appliucation) sold PERIOD! Intel doesn't make the only CPUs and they also don't make the only x86 (there have also been lots of companies that produced x86 variants in a sizeable portion of the total x86 shipments.. So NO, it's not 1 billion x86 CPUs ... that would be close to impossible in my eye.
That's a slight bit of propaganda. That would make the average person (note average person not a /. reader) think that they have shipped 1 billion CPUs. That's graphic chips, CPU's, et al. It also is a combination of ALL the units they have bought out like Chips & Technologies (80,000 PowerBook Duos used their graphic chips before the Intel buyout) It also accounts for their USB controller chips etc etc. This is propaganda to show that Intel is in everything so you might as well buy Intel based stuff for " compatibility & to keep up with the Jones' " They know that no other chip producer could even come close to this total, so it's a marketing ploy to even let this information leak to any type of press. Nothing wrong with that, but it 's just as any other statistic, skewed to say whatever the hand in the sock puppet wants it to say.
Also the current Macs with PCI slots or ANY Mac that can run OSX with a PCI slot has been able to support USB 2.0 for almost a year.
While it may be FUD only, this technology being used to track ALL that you buy is the concern. RFID will eventually be "mainstreamed" and many people such as yourself won't see a problem with it being in money or in credit cards. Again, no FUD just fact, the FBI has already planned an investigation about RFID in money Why is this a privacy concern? What I'm about to say may be an ethical issue but it is seen different ways by different people. What if I want to buy some marijuana with that note? What if I want to pay the kid down the down the street to cut my lawn? What if that same kid does drugs? Now, I am suspect for being in "drug ring" if they can trace all those RFIDs.
Same with purchases from Walmart. What if I happen to purchase a combination of items unknowingly, that the average drug user purchases. Will I be profiled for that buying habit too?
I am with you, it's coming no matter what. It will be hard to stop. But, there are legitimate concerns.
I will hope that Walmart will adopt the Philips chip that you can turn off if the customer so wills to.
You would be amazed at what your grocery store bonus card data holds about you! Returns, complaints to the store, not just sales data. Again, what if something with an RFID or something trackable has your fingerprints on it, are you suspect when the "bad guy" buys it from Goodwill or steals it? Not only do we need Walmart to understand that before they make this step that we want on off switches, but we would also like disassociation capability. IE, erasure of your association with an RFID. Also, yearly reports by email or mail on what your RFID info holds and what data they truly are keeping about you would be nice.
I think this was the mistake of the iTunes Music Store. While not terrible (actually slightly better quality) AAC is not as universal a standard as Mp3 or even Ogg. There are WAYS to encrypt and secure those formats. Napster, just before its demise, had figured out how to secure MP3's that were downloaded from it's system.
Still, the Zaurus IMHO is now superceded by the Sony Clie NZ90. When the new Clies hit the street this summer (an NZ90 slimmer version with integrated 802.11b and 400Mhz Xscale) I'm a buyer.
About the only thing I think exciting about this model is its ability to possibly run a scaled down version of Mac On Linux or the Mac System 6 emulator that already exists. Using Photoshop and REAL Word on a PDA is pretty neat!
The only difference here is that Handspring is DEAD. I see this more as a nice gesture to Hawkins than anything else. I think Palm wants him back. Palm is starting to get the dillution you speak of from Sony. Clie sales have been on the rise for 6 months straight and should rise even more as prices go down and features go up. Right now The NZ90 is the single most useful all in one device with GREAT integration that I have EVER seen.
The iPaq has also made a huge dent in sales of Palms. Handspring hasn't been a player for more than a year.
Do you know that if you signed a contract for cell service two years ago you're probably paying out the wazoo! I'd much rather get 1 or 2 songs free with an iPod and see a monthly 2 for 1 special or 3 Indie songs for a dollar. The way that Apple will be able to expand this service and make even more money will be the Windows implementation and even better, a deal with Amazon. After all, one click is already implemented!
Apple will most likely use this as an oppurtunity to drop the G3. Finally Apple will have Altivec across the board. You have to take into account that the manufacturing process also reduces heat and well ... size ... making this sound more and more like a processor for an iBook.
I also beleive Apple will use this as an oppurtunity to make everything above 1Ghz this year. We will most also likely see quad G4 Xserves because of this (moto producing better G4s)
The 970 is a great chip. It's benchmarks at the Microprocessor Forum VERY HANDILY beat EVERY processor put up against it - even the AMD 64 bit!
Apple shouldn't move to x86 as suggested in the redundant Apple naysayers. (hey you "apple is dead people": how about looking in my journal?) I rather like the RISC processor anf the PPC - there is MUCH less code overhead and easier "addon" capability (cache, media functionality, i/o) - Motorola has been the hold up in it's development and needed someone like IBM to step in and lend a hand, they have done so.
sorry something happened funky to this post, I had also submitted it about 5 minutes before it showed up.
eMac 700 G4 80 gig 7200 SE HD 512 MB RAM (favorite Linux Distro of PPC or YellowDog) + Bluetooth adapter $800 shipped
Get a USB video in and hook up a VCR so you can have a nice TV or get a TIVO
Watch DVDs and record CDs in the dorm (it'll come with appleWorks that has all the Office compatibility you'll need)
Get a refurb iBook (256MB/20gig/Airport/Combo Drive) and soup it up a bit =$900
Not affiliated with them but www.smalldog.com or www.expercom.com are good places to start or check www.dealmac.com
Get a t68i Phone (free at amazon and buy.com, cheap elsewhere) so you can use it as a I'd get a low end eMac previous generation and then soup it up with DVD/CDRW and plenty of RAM, maybe a faster hard drive and Virtual PC then a low end iBook (probably refurb) - you could do all of this for under $1800 and have an awesome setup!
You get the bonus of all 3 worlds (Mac,Linux, Windows) with a Mac, plus hi speed LAN and integrated WiFi, plus easy upgradeability and HUGE internet support.
There are compact flash adapter memory readers for everything except a memory stick. Compact Flash to Smartmedia - Compact Flash to SD/MMC - Compact Flash to XD - Microdive is Compact Flash - and honestly, if you have a multi reader - with some you can transfer data directly from card to card.
While I do believe he is correct, I think he may be off base with the PDA. This is one of the only devices that I would like to see be more "all in one". I'd personally like a Sony Ericsson p800 style PDA phone that had the screen from a Clie NZ90, GPS, iPod sized hard drive, megapixel camera, the VERY cool remote control center from Sony, 802.11g and Bluetooth + an Mp3 player and DIVX/MPEG4 decoder. While something like this would be in the high end (probably where the NZ90 is = $800 + $100 802.11 card) I still think it'd fly off the shelf, and possibly be subsidized by cell phone companies, at least in part with service agreements.
I still hope Apple is considering such a device or at least with most of the features listed here with a compact flash & SDIO slot.
I know there's a little link overload, just illustrating how easily this could be done right now!
All of this could be squeezed into a current form factor Sony Clie.
I'd prefer not to hear the ... it's a business expense that you must pay arguement. I have built my business on the model I am in right now at the prices I pay right now. It works perfectly. If ISPs want more bandwidth then there's optimizations and measures for stopping scam site hosting and SPAM mail that they could do.
A post above had a good point - should TV's cost more because they use up a significant portion of the electricity - after all, more electricity, more damge to the environment and more cost to the Power company!
My theory is that companies like inktomi and akaimai like to push big numbers around - and they QUITE enjoy PrOn emails that promote quicktime movie downloads etc.
Personally, I think Yahoo and M$ (Hotmail) should be required to subsidize some bandwidth because of the aforementioned bandwidth hogging solicitations that generally propagate on their systems.
IF ISPs were really concerned about getting dollar for bandwidth they'd do a lot more than they are claiming to stop "Jenny Jones and CoOpt Network" emails.
I beleive I remember hearing at the Quicktime Live conference that the title statement was accurate.
It is interesting to see all the records Quicktime has.
I have ended up using Salling Clicker (linked above) for more things than I thought. (keynote, turn on password protection, etc)
While controlling remote control cars may not be all that cool. (Range is horrible for those little cockroach cars) I do think it would be nice to have something like the feature integrated into Sony Clies where you can control ANY TV STEREO or CABLE BOX with just the selection of a brand name and type of device. I would love to be able to do this with my phone.
After talking to the programmer of Romeo, a similar program - I have been keeping up with developments that t68i phones will soon be able to control TV's and VCRs, and etc - through an actual "on phone program" - right now Romeo and Salling Clicker are Push based.
Does anyone know if there is an infrared to bluetooth or vice versa converter coming out?
So, my question is, if RFIDs are to be embedded in money, will it still be accepted if the RFID is off or not working. Will you have to take it to a bank (hassle) and get the whole note replaced or REactivated?
I would think people that work in highly magnetic work conditions or that are subject to mild radiation (cell phone users, utility workers, possily computer users) might face this problem.
By embedding reflective but transprent phosphors and other chemicals/compounds into plexiglass or glass one can project images onto that glass with a normal projector.
I did this as an experiment just after Minority Report using a tiny xb31 HP projector and plexiglass. Gives a really neat effect - just need low light / dark room (also as in Minority report)
Although the layered screens i suppose couldn't be done this way.
Good point - look at an XRay of a PowerBook and what do you see?