Call it conspiracy: I believe that Virus companies are partner, liason, originator, friends with, creators of a MAJORITY of the viruses that hit the internet. Think about it. If profits or revenues are down - what's the best way to sell software? A need for the software you sell, right? It is an ethical, moral question, but I honestly don't leave it beyond a company in today's economy/world. The interesting thing is a lot of former Symantec employees are paid EXTREMELY big retirement bonuses - my guess as hush money, not necessarily for KNOWING, but for research and development of viruses and security holes in products. I also think former and current disgruntled Microsoft, Cisco employees "join up" with and provide resources for Virus companies and hackers to exploit problems.
There's a market for no wait, instantaneous, tatooing, make me a ham sandwich and call my wife, tell her, "I'm late" CDRWs!
I agree with your reply though. I beleive they will be able to do something like you propose OR, go to a different laser color. I know blue lasers can burn more data faster on a CURRENT DVD-R
The same theory was true in 1984 with a 20mB hard drive on my Mac. I thought, I'd never fill it up. I have 20 GB of MP3's today
I wish some manufacturer would put it in DVD-RW's as well. There will be a MUCH larger area to place graphics. I could put 2 CDs worth of data and have almost 3/4th's space of the DVD to "tatoo".
I had posted this story to Slashdot a while back (rejected), and in my article asked that all/.'s interested; make it known to Yamaha that they have some liscensing potential on their hands, and that we encourage them to use it.
No, they don't, No other manufacturer currently has the technology the author is referring Disc@2 burns IMAGES (graphics) on the unused media portions of the CD.
This was my MAJOR concern too. I hope they will license the technology out.
It was a lot less time consuming and looked more professional to have the contents and a graphic (my logo) on a CD.
There comes a point where computers and interfaces are either so easy that they become too difficult for an adult mind to understand, or so difficult, that it becomes easy to critcize them; or not use them at all.
That was the general idea of his comment. The thing that most people don't understand in the hardware/software innovation areas is that Speech Recognition, Gestures, Pen input is all great, but with clunky interfaces, poor pattern problems, and standardized, almost Pavlovian use of keyboards for input and mice for movement on a screen. Very few, if any are ever gonaa change unless you do something radical like Apple Computer and just make it standard. IE, they pushed USB and no floppy and have had a 70% adoption of the two concepts.
This is the general reasoning behind the PDA adoption rate. Who wants to look at a tiny screen? But really, who wants the frustration of character recognition, "I WROTE D DAMMIT, not an O!" (only a small population, even in face of lots of units sold, actually learned Graffiti well enough to use it)
I sold my unit and unwanted games at the flea market a long time ago. I started using RockNES under Classic and OSX with my Mac. I have the controller to USB adapter for the original NES controller. I have ROMs for all the games that are at the top of my hallway closet.
I much prefer playing "Fester's Quest" and THE BEST VERSION OF TETRIS HANDS DOWN EVER + Monopoly with really good "cheater AI opponents" and Wall Street Kid - all on the road with my PowerBook or having it placed on my desktop.
I really find nothing special about the mod. You could also buy "REconnect" from a hardware store or Radio Shack. It a solution that you apply to any metal surface that cleans and "deposits gold, silver" bonding to most metals. It kinda refurbs faulty or bad current flow due to wear, soiling, shorting, or small connection.
It's agreed that most Moto phones have clunky feeling interfaces, Moto is slow to innovate, and the battery life is something to be desired. Until rececently, I had owned Moto Cell Phones for 4 years(split by one year with a Nokia). The first one I had for Cingular was great. Great reception, large display, clear numbers, backlight, and data connection. Then I got a Vader v60. It was very tiny (something I like), you could compose ringtones (something important to me), and it took standardized accessories. Battery life in about 3 months dropped to about 30 minutes talk time 4 hours standby (tested with two pnones after trade ins and different batteries).
All that said, Nokias have cool games, so many accessories and addons it's almost hard to fathom. BUT, they get VERY poor reception across the board. My Mitsubishi phone had great reception, great battery life, took standard home accessories, and was easy to navigate; but was basic and sorta heavy, not clunky like the "sattelite phone sized original analog Motos" but still clunky.
The point is, every phone has it's problems. My current is a Sony Ericcson t68i, I like it more than any phone I have ever had. I just feel like I'm going to break it. Accessories are few and far between, and the neat features need refinement.
As for Moto embedding Linux, this will only be of use if they can get full functionality of a small PC by using the PowerPC, iPod like size (with hard drive of iPod too), color screen, great battery life. Then, maybe if it can run some of the Mac emulators out there under it's Linux, like the Sharp Zaurus can, then that would be beyond useful, if not revelutionary.
Commentary and explanation of the service says that: "A home constructed 1985 or higher or that has been rewired to code with complate overhaul of breakers and transformers serving the customers since 1985 would be capable of qualifying" (for the service) I also beleive that your home would have to be certified to recieve the service. (Interference Tests, Voltage, DB, etc)
This explanation would also solve SOME of the other arguements about interference and hurdles.
Correct, that's how it works. Besides, if you are getting over $20 you are making almost $39,000 (not including benefits) - now in California that is about equivalent to $20,000, but still very livable (especially with benefits that I am sure amount to an additional $10,000 at the least for such a job)
Salaried employees tend to want their cake and eat everyone else's then go to Baskin Robbins.
At first most cable modems were subsidized - especially when they were non DOCSIS like @home was in infancy. So, I am sure power companies could work out similar agreements with Motorola, GE, Scientific Atlanta, etc. Also, units would start popping up online and at auction. I bought a nondocsis cable modem on eBay for $75 - this was when they had JUST introed cable modems in my area in 1996. They just reduced my bill by $11.
Cable companies are not regulated like Telecom companies, so I doubt Power Suppliers would be either.
This has bee the ONLY viable competition for cable TV and broadband EVER. Sattelite is "too tech" for a lot of people. Some people don't want others playing with the corner of your house to plop a trash can lid with RCA SONY or Dish embossed on it.
This would be boom for rural area residents. I don't see ANY hesitation from anyone in areas around me if this were to pop up here. I know my father has despised the cable company for years. (Poor reception, high prices, delayed work, obtrusive yellow lines all over the corner of his property)
Ah, but cable companies (that provide cable modem service) are not regulated nor scrutinized like Telecom compaanies in the US. They are not considered telephone companies with two way services, even though that's exactly what they are.
I have had this question for a long time. A unit this powerful would seem to be able to at least have the speed to run it well. Does the Zaurus run a "standard brew of Linux" that regular Linux programs can be added? If not, how could it be recompiled to do so. Think about a PDA with Photoshop (3.0 would run great) - Mac OS 8.1 with Kaleidoscope to make it look like X.
Also if such an implementation was made, would the stylus work? Is it recognized as a mouse?
I run Linux PPC on my Apple Network Server (originally could only run AIX on these) Not Mac OS. I then run mac on Linux VERY FAST, faster than a 200Mhz 604e machine NORMALLY runs it. Although my other machines don't have 3 -15K RPM 16MB cache SCSI Drives and 1 gig of interleaved memory. Still, I would think that flash based memory would give a great "interaction" boost as well.
Thanks for anyone's input.
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God may know what Bush would have done, but I know what Gore would have done if he were President. The situation: Asteroid is hurtling toward earth, miners want to mine it, upon completion, would destroy it. Gore gets behind Greenpeace and deams the asteroid a national park that is protected. (After all, he would say, "Life originated on the asteroid, I know all about origins, I helped create the internet, and brought life into this world with my beautiful wife, I am with Greenpeace, we should remain neutral and see what the asteroid's impact will be"
And the reviewer didn't have it on. (It was amajorly touted feature in OSX upon launch) The PowerBook 12" screens and iBook screens, in my opinion, are FANTASTIC, they EASILY beat out any PC laptop screen of that size. I do agree with the iMac screens though, I have never really liked them. The new Cinema Display is in no way related to the 12" 15" screens that Apple produces, they are produced by Philips, just happen to be manufactured in the same factory. The new 20.1" is a site tobehold in the Apple store! I think the author also makes a mistake in the video card review. Admitted, it's not the best, but it's also better than ANYthing, even Apple desktops from 1 year ago. Finally, and not exhaust anyone reading, this IS the thinnest thing you will ever see with an optical drive. It's so thin it will amaze you to see it closed.
I wish more cable systems and PBS stations would open up their studios to local access TV and rebroadcast to the internet. (By the way, to the post below, this is public access TV, not Network being transmitted)
I think ALL cable systems should be REQUIRED to have a local access channel. It could be a source of revenue for the cable stations, you actually have to buy air time. (Like Wayne's World) - New York and California shouldn't get all the fun. I bet that cooking shows, computer shows, and craft shows would flourish in local markets and help with our cable bills at the same time.
I, for one, would love to an Apple Computer / Linux Help show.
This was one of the domains I registered in 1997 and I let it expire in 2000 when movie theaters started things like www.rendezvouswithramathemovie.com and www.sony.com/rendezvous
This is truely a great series - only thing is I think the world is almost at war and different countries are fighting over commodities during the process of the book on earth. Is that correct? This could be a politically incorrect move, such as the movie "Collateral Damage" and World Trade Towers in the SpiderMan Trailer.
Swipe it, grab a few $1's or $5's if you need some cash back from ATM (Ass Teller machine)
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"In the time of the end, none, no not one; free or bond will be able to sell unless they carry the Mark of the Beast. This number shall be recognized on the palm of the hand or the center of the forehead. All those who do not carry it will surely be put to death." Book of Revelation ~ Bible
Credit cards were a major step forward, but no one really considers them, "the Mark of the Beast" - this technology though is easily transferrable from a card in the hand to more secure "retina scan money" or "thumbprint money" - think about how these technologies are already being marketted. Think about how MOST 40 and unders would think, "Wow I will never get robbed and don't have to carry around a wallet anymore!"
Leave it to the French to lead the way in a move towards the end by A) Not leading to fight AntIchrists (Saddam) B) Leading the way for the "AntiChrist's monetary system" to become a reality.
Anyway you want o count chads, Bush won the electoral vote + the popular SOUNDLY in Florida (remember they didn't even count some Military votes) and anyone who still thinks Gore should be President is a sore loser and delusional.
It was later summarized by even the most LEFT of media networks, like MSNBC, that Gore may have also particpated in "vote stealing in Minnesota and Florida" - I couldn't imagine Gore as President during the dire straits we are in now. And what exactly was a "BAD CHAD", anyway! Gimme a break.
The electoral college is meant as a tie breaker/taxpayer vote. If you want to be a part of the process that actually ELECTS, educate yourself on the electoral college or MOVE to a state that has a lot of electoral votes. If you are from one of those states (IE Florida) then shame on you for not being activist enough for not getting your state to vote the way you wanted them too!
Most of the people that complain about Gore not winning, didn't even VOTE!
You always buy a piece of property, unless there are houses that need to be placed before the next turn. You mortgage all property except monopolies and railroads AFTER the opponents path. You always buy St Charles, Illinois, and Boardwalk, and New York, You fill/hotels houses on Baltic and Mediterrainean as soon as possible if owned. You always buy if you own the opposite corner, even if you have to sell back or mortgage.:)
In some ways I think it is the company's business. By example, you could smoke pot every now and then, throw a Christmas Party and offer another employee pot. Even if a one time thing I don't want my employees using drugs period. While pot hasn't been PROVEN to be bad, it hasn't been PROVEN to be good either.
The way I know this next comment is because I ordered "something" from a dirty magazine once. Most charges show up as something like "JetCharge" or "Quickcharge" or something. I doubt an employer would know what the charge was.
What I don't like is that if you apply multiple places, and you get multiple credit checks, employment, buying a car, buying a house, anything, you will be docked a few points about 6 montths.
I watched some on ESPN 2 yesterday. What was interesting, is that a human moved the pieces. I mean they couldn't design a magnetic keyboard where the pieces moved individually (squares placed far enough apart so pieces could slide between others) - I also noticed that the Israeli programmer of the machine was analyzing attack strategies, not the computer (necessarily) - after the first four moves the programmer typed in about (appeared) over 100 characters into the computer. Announcers said there were over 2.2 million games in the database, well, why couldn't the computer figure out the strategy?
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I agree with your reply though. I beleive they will be able to do something like you propose OR, go to a different laser color. I know blue lasers can burn more data faster on a CURRENT DVD-R
The same theory was true in 1984 with a 20mB hard drive on my Mac. I thought, I'd never fill it up. I have 20 GB of MP3's today
I had posted this story to Slashdot a while back (rejected), and in my article asked that all /.'s interested; make it known to Yamaha that they have some liscensing potential on their hands, and that we encourage them to use it.
The webmaster there has an ENORMOUS mod file database, if he doesn't have it, he'll usually post a request.
You can also go into the terminal, locate the yamaha plugin, then just add your model, or use Hex Edit in OS 9 and replace with ResEdit.
Which is actually another possibility. You could ask ResExcellence to post a tutorial on how to mod a CDRplugin file.
This was my MAJOR concern too. I hope they will license the technology out.
It was a lot less time consuming and looked more professional to have the contents and a graphic (my logo) on a CD.
That was the general idea of his comment. The thing that most people don't understand in the hardware/software innovation areas is that Speech Recognition, Gestures, Pen input is all great, but with clunky interfaces, poor pattern problems, and standardized, almost Pavlovian use of keyboards for input and mice for movement on a screen. Very few, if any are ever gonaa change unless you do something radical like Apple Computer and just make it standard. IE, they pushed USB and no floppy and have had a 70% adoption of the two concepts.
This is the general reasoning behind the PDA adoption rate. Who wants to look at a tiny screen? But really, who wants the frustration of character recognition, "I WROTE D DAMMIT, not an O!" (only a small population, even in face of lots of units sold, actually learned Graffiti well enough to use it)
I much prefer playing "Fester's Quest" and THE BEST VERSION OF TETRIS HANDS DOWN EVER + Monopoly with really good "cheater AI opponents" and Wall Street Kid - all on the road with my PowerBook or having it placed on my desktop.
I really find nothing special about the mod. You could also buy "REconnect" from a hardware store or Radio Shack. It a solution that you apply to any metal surface that cleans and "deposits gold, silver" bonding to most metals. It kinda refurbs faulty or bad current flow due to wear, soiling, shorting, or small connection.
All that said, Nokias have cool games, so many accessories and addons it's almost hard to fathom. BUT, they get VERY poor reception across the board. My Mitsubishi phone had great reception, great battery life, took standard home accessories, and was easy to navigate; but was basic and sorta heavy, not clunky like the "sattelite phone sized original analog Motos" but still clunky.
The point is, every phone has it's problems. My current is a Sony Ericcson t68i, I like it more than any phone I have ever had. I just feel like I'm going to break it. Accessories are few and far between, and the neat features need refinement.
As for Moto embedding Linux, this will only be of use if they can get full functionality of a small PC by using the PowerPC, iPod like size (with hard drive of iPod too), color screen, great battery life. Then, maybe if it can run some of the Mac emulators out there under it's Linux, like the Sharp Zaurus can, then that would be beyond useful, if not revelutionary.
This explanation would also solve SOME of the other arguements about interference and hurdles.
Salaried employees tend to want their cake and eat everyone else's then go to Baskin Robbins.
Cable companies are not regulated like Telecom companies, so I doubt Power Suppliers would be either.
This has bee the ONLY viable competition for cable TV and broadband EVER. Sattelite is "too tech" for a lot of people. Some people don't want others playing with the corner of your house to plop a trash can lid with RCA SONY or Dish embossed on it.
This would be boom for rural area residents. I don't see ANY hesitation from anyone in areas around me if this were to pop up here. I know my father has despised the cable company for years. (Poor reception, high prices, delayed work, obtrusive yellow lines all over the corner of his property)
Ah, but cable companies (that provide cable modem service) are not regulated nor scrutinized like Telecom compaanies in the US. They are not considered telephone companies with two way services, even though that's exactly what they are.
I have had this question for a long time. A unit this powerful would seem to be able to at least have the speed to run it well. Does the Zaurus run a "standard brew of Linux" that regular Linux programs can be added? If not, how could it be recompiled to do so. Think about a PDA with Photoshop (3.0 would run great) - Mac OS 8.1 with Kaleidoscope to make it look like X.
Also if such an implementation was made, would the stylus work? Is it recognized as a mouse?
I run Linux PPC on my Apple Network Server (originally could only run AIX on these) Not Mac OS. I then run mac on Linux VERY FAST, faster than a 200Mhz 604e machine NORMALLY runs it. Although my other machines don't have 3 -15K RPM 16MB cache SCSI Drives and 1 gig of interleaved memory. Still, I would think that flash based memory would give a great "interaction" boost as well.
Thanks for anyone's input.
God may know what Bush would have done, but I know what Gore would have done if he were President. The situation: Asteroid is hurtling toward earth, miners want to mine it, upon completion, would destroy it. Gore gets behind Greenpeace and deams the asteroid a national park that is protected. (After all, he would say, "Life originated on the asteroid, I know all about origins, I helped create the internet, and brought life into this world with my beautiful wife, I am with Greenpeace, we should remain neutral and see what the asteroid's impact will be"
And the reviewer didn't have it on. (It was amajorly touted feature in OSX upon launch) The PowerBook 12" screens and iBook screens, in my opinion, are FANTASTIC, they EASILY beat out any PC laptop screen of that size. I do agree with the iMac screens though, I have never really liked them. The new Cinema Display is in no way related to the 12" 15" screens that Apple produces, they are produced by Philips, just happen to be manufactured in the same factory. The new 20.1" is a site tobehold in the Apple store! I think the author also makes a mistake in the video card review. Admitted, it's not the best, but it's also better than ANYthing, even Apple desktops from 1 year ago. Finally, and not exhaust anyone reading, this IS the thinnest thing you will ever see with an optical drive. It's so thin it will amaze you to see it closed.
I think ALL cable systems should be REQUIRED to have a local access channel. It could be a source of revenue for the cable stations, you actually have to buy air time. (Like Wayne's World) - New York and California shouldn't get all the fun. I bet that cooking shows, computer shows, and craft shows would flourish in local markets and help with our cable bills at the same time.
I, for one, would love to an Apple Computer / Linux Help show.
The shuttle HAS to fly again - there are crew and valuables in the space station.
This is truely a great series - only thing is I think the world is almost at war and different countries are fighting over commodities during the process of the book on earth. Is that correct? This could be a politically incorrect move, such as the movie "Collateral Damage" and World Trade Towers in the SpiderMan Trailer.
Swipe it, grab a few $1's or $5's if you need some cash back from ATM (Ass Teller machine)
Credit cards were a major step forward, but no one really considers them, "the Mark of the Beast" - this technology though is easily transferrable from a card in the hand to more secure "retina scan money" or "thumbprint money" - think about how these technologies are already being marketted. Think about how MOST 40 and unders would think, "Wow I will never get robbed and don't have to carry around a wallet anymore!"
Leave it to the French to lead the way in a move towards the end by A) Not leading to fight AntIchrists (Saddam) B) Leading the way for the "AntiChrist's monetary system" to become a reality.
Anyway you want o count chads, Bush won the electoral vote + the popular SOUNDLY in Florida (remember they didn't even count some Military votes) and anyone who still thinks Gore should be President is a sore loser and delusional.
The electoral college is meant as a tie breaker/taxpayer vote. If you want to be a part of the process that actually ELECTS, educate yourself on the electoral college or MOVE to a state that has a lot of electoral votes. If you are from one of those states (IE Florida) then shame on you for not being activist enough for not getting your state to vote the way you wanted them too!
Most of the people that complain about Gore not winning, didn't even VOTE!
You always buy a piece of property, unless there are houses that need to be placed before the next turn. You mortgage all property except monopolies and railroads AFTER the opponents path. You always buy St Charles, Illinois, and Boardwalk, and New York, You fill/hotels houses on Baltic and Mediterrainean as soon as possible if owned. You always buy if you own the opposite corner, even if you have to sell back or mortgage. :)
The way I know this next comment is because I ordered "something" from a dirty magazine once. Most charges show up as something like "JetCharge" or "Quickcharge" or something. I doubt an employer would know what the charge was.
What I don't like is that if you apply multiple places, and you get multiple credit checks, employment, buying a car, buying a house, anything, you will be docked a few points about 6 montths.
I watched some on ESPN 2 yesterday. What was interesting, is that a human moved the pieces. I mean they couldn't design a magnetic keyboard where the pieces moved individually (squares placed far enough apart so pieces could slide between others) - I also noticed that the Israeli programmer of the machine was analyzing attack strategies, not the computer (necessarily) - after the first four moves the programmer typed in about (appeared) over 100 characters into the computer. Announcers said there were over 2.2 million games in the database, well, why couldn't the computer figure out the strategy?