But a Verizon version would not work outside the US because of their CDMA network. They would have to start producing 2 models of it, the other for the global marketplace.
Yes, not to mention the fact that the Japanese were far from ready to give up before the bomb was dropped. They were preparing for an allied ground invasion by training civillians to fight with spears made out of bamboo. The lack of real military equipment would not have ended the war with Japan, but simply turned it into a guerrilla war. Keep in mind the kamikaze fighters too. They were definitley not ready to go quietly.
I don't know if anyone else will agree with me, but this whole requiring manufacturers to make new TVs with this copyright bit reminds me of an article I read in NY Times magazine a couple years ago.
In North Korea, all TV / Radio communications are controlled by the government and all TVs and radios brought into the country are only allowed to receive the state channels, and not any broadcasts being made from South Korea or elsewhere. Even TVs brought form China are rewired / have their wires cut as they enter the country. Granted some people can fix that, most do not from what I understand.
This copyright bit thing - forcing manufactures to incorporate it into their new sets -at least from an abstract point of view, reminds me of that.
Ok - they are guaranteed for 50,000 hours. That doesn't necessarily mean that they'll die right then, though.
A friend of mine has a company that makes LED products, and she says that they don't die at 50,000 hours, she just didn't want to guarantee them any longer than that becuase after that, it's not really cost effective. Granted, they might not last THAT much longer after that period, but still, it's awhile.
Not to mention the fact that when LED lights die, they don't turn entirely dark, they just get a little dimmer as parts of them stop working, but other parts continue to function.
I remember when I was a kid, I was babysitting for my neighbors who had a rubix cube. The dad solved it back in his college days. Anyway, I decided to see how much I could mess it up and be able to solve it again. Needless to say, I found the answer.
He was pretty upset when he came back and saw his cube all messed up. But I went online and found a site that someone made where you type in the configuration of your cube, and it gives you step-by-step instructions on how to solve it.
I fixed it back to how it used to be and he couldn't believe it. Thought I was some kind of genius or something.
I'm sure it's been done. It's just as easy to interface with the palm os tcp stack as it is on any other operating system (*nix, windows*, blah blah blah)
As a bunch of other posters have already pointed out - anything with a tcp stack and executes programs is vulnerable to a TROJAN. This is not an exploit.
Come on now - you have to give microsoft some credit. This update is a major overhaul to the OS. Look at kernel updates for linux. You have to be careful as hell, making sure all of your drivers are still compatible, libs all still work, etc etc. SP2 is along the lines of a linux kernel upgrade.
You really have to give MS some credit because all of their drivers will be working with SP2, as well as most software. Sure, linux upgrades might come out more often, but you have to admit - actually applying them is a lot more intensive than simply clicking 'next, next, next, yes i will reboot now.'
Anyway, I think people are WAY to hard on MS. For going almost 15 years now and barely breaking backwards compatibility, they seriously deserve more credit than the slashdot crowd gives them. Good luck to em with this new upgrade.
After a couple hacking incidents and virus outbreaks, my school decided to impose a firewall on everyone which put a stop to gaming with anyone off campus. Anyway, those of us lucky enough to have a cable modem or dsl at home just set up proxys on those boxes and used SocksCap to make programs using winsock transparently go through and use the proxy instead of trying to get to the net from the firewall.
Sounds like it'd be a good solution for you to do something similar.
Game performance took a hit though, because of all the extra hops that added.
Three game series' that were great back in their hey day were the Sonic the Hedgehog Series (sega / dreamcast. saturn kind of sucked), Mario (nes / snes / 64 / gc. all good ), and can't forget about Donkey Kong Country.
Whatever happened to Rare, makers of DKC? I think it'd be awesome if someone came out with a really good remake of some of these classic games. Maybe I'm wrong and the classic days of 2-D games is gone forever, but I hate to see these classic characters die off.
I'd love to see these guys reincarnated on the XBOX or GC or PS3. Anyone else agree? I mean, if they were able to remake Asteroids into something halfway decent, I'm sure they could do something cool with interesting characters like these.
Oh yah, another really old school game that'd probably be cool redone is Contra.
yeah, i see what you're saying, but the other problem sucks too. sleeping for just a few hours every night leaves me tired the next day and groggy. For some reason, even if I am tired, I'll go to sleep, but then wake up every hour or two anyway. Both sides kind of suck i guess.
More importantly, they are lining up the dominoes and preparing for when microsoft launches it's own online music service. They don't want microsoft to do what real did and make their DRM songs play on the iPod. They are only using real to set a precedent to try and cover their asses to ms doesn't try the same thing
Apple probably doesn't see Real as a threat for obvious reasons. There's no way Real will take a big bite out of their profits. Who they are worried about is Microsoft.
Microsoft is supposed to be launching their own online music store soon, and preventing Real from reverse engineering their iPod will send a message to Microsoft who, if nothing is done, has no reason not to do the same thing and make the iPod play their proprietary formats with their DRM or whatever.
Apple is just covering their ass, becuase once Microsoft steps up to the plate, who knows what will happen. Especially considering new windows releases could have a built in link to microsofts online music store, not unlike how they propigated IE through the masses. Something like that has the potential to CRUSH iTunes.
Good job apple for having the foresight to see what could potentially happen and at least try doing something about it.
So this part of Nepal is basically working like a bunch of AP's? That's pretty awesome. When will the United States or somewhere do something like this. If they can afford it in Nepal, how expensive could it be to set up something similar in at least every major city, or even most of populated US. This'd be the most useful thing since sliced bread.
the patent office needs to completely overhaul the way it handles these intellectual property patents. spam aside, these frivolous patents are the worst thing that has ever happened to the internet.
from attacking Microsoft for developing/'stealing' the idea for installing plugins on-demand, or the completely revolutionary idea of having a computer automatically detect when media is inserted, these lawsuits are a waste of everyone's time and money.
owning patents on things like this is, in the computer world, like owning a patent on breathing, or sliced bread.
they would never be awarded to people if the patent office had high-school graduates, or at least semi-computer literate people working there.
these government workers deserve to be fired for doing such a shitty job. the bs work that they do would not be tolerated anywhere else, except under ridiculous bureaucracy of the American government.
i'm waiting for someone to come up with a lawsuit claiming to have the rights to using the internet as a tool 'for accessing other networked computers and information across the globe' or hell, even the internet itself.
these patent officers, i'm told, get paid on an hourly basis, so the number of patents they put through has no effect on them. it doesn't matter whether they even read the damn thing (which i'll bet resulted in patents like the ones i mentioned above.)
actually its any system based on windows nt, although you can manually go and get it for windows 98 and stuff.
anyway, on another note....
WHY DOES HE HAVE TO GO TO ROMANIA TO GET SOME PROGRAMMERS TO WRITE HIM A PORT SCANNER??? This 'stealth' spam crap isn't all that hard to write. Hell, any stupid VB programmer could probly do it.
Its more like an assembly program. They operate with a lot of jump statements, basically gotos, that jump to memory addresses. When you take out certain parts of the program, the memory addresses get offset, and the program won't function. This is a more accurate model than commenting out parts of source code.
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But a Verizon version would not work outside the US because of their CDMA network. They would have to start producing 2 models of it, the other for the global marketplace.
Have you ever used wifi in a moving car? Because that definitely works. Why would digital tv signals be any different?
Yes, not to mention the fact that the Japanese were far from ready to give up before the bomb was dropped. They were preparing for an allied ground invasion by training civillians to fight with spears made out of bamboo. The lack of real military equipment would not have ended the war with Japan, but simply turned it into a guerrilla war. Keep in mind the kamikaze fighters too. They were definitley not ready to go quietly.
Gmail is increasing the storage space for every gmail user. Log in and check your quota. Mine's been going up for a couple hours now.
Also, they have added the ability to format your emails now, too.
A good addition to their service on their 1 year birthday
I don't know if anyone else will agree with me, but this whole requiring manufacturers to make new TVs with this copyright bit reminds me of an article I read in NY Times magazine a couple years ago.
In North Korea, all TV / Radio communications are controlled by the government and all TVs and radios brought into the country are only allowed to receive the state channels, and not any broadcasts being made from South Korea or elsewhere. Even TVs brought form China are rewired / have their wires cut as they enter the country. Granted some people can fix that, most do not from what I understand.
This copyright bit thing - forcing manufactures to incorporate it into their new sets -at least from an abstract point of view, reminds me of that.
Anyone else agree?
But studies have also shown that high levels of zinc for prolonged periods lead to higher occurences of alzheimer's disease. So don't overdo it.
A mirror set up on Case Western's network - should be able to handle a lot. http://dasystem.student.cwru.edu/1984macintro_2.mo v
come on - serious damage? are you one of those sysadmins?
Ok - they are guaranteed for 50,000 hours. That doesn't necessarily mean that they'll die right then, though.
A friend of mine has a company that makes LED products, and she says that they don't die at 50,000 hours, she just didn't want to guarantee them any longer than that becuase after that, it's not really cost effective. Granted, they might not last THAT much longer after that period, but still, it's awhile.
Not to mention the fact that when LED lights die, they don't turn entirely dark, they just get a little dimmer as parts of them stop working, but other parts continue to function.
I remember when I was a kid, I was babysitting for my neighbors who had a rubix cube. The dad solved it back in his college days. Anyway, I decided to see how much I could mess it up and be able to solve it again. Needless to say, I found the answer.
He was pretty upset when he came back and saw his cube all messed up. But I went online and found a site that someone made where you type in the configuration of your cube, and it gives you step-by-step instructions on how to solve it.
I fixed it back to how it used to be and he couldn't believe it. Thought I was some kind of genius or something.
=)
I'm sure it's been done. It's just as easy to interface with the palm os tcp stack as it is on any other operating system (*nix, windows*, blah blah blah)
As a bunch of other posters have already pointed out - anything with a tcp stack and executes programs is vulnerable to a TROJAN. This is not an exploit.
Come on now - you have to give microsoft some credit. This update is a major overhaul to the OS. Look at kernel updates for linux. You have to be careful as hell, making sure all of your drivers are still compatible, libs all still work, etc etc. SP2 is along the lines of a linux kernel upgrade.
You really have to give MS some credit because all of their drivers will be working with SP2, as well as most software. Sure, linux upgrades might come out more often, but you have to admit - actually applying them is a lot more intensive than simply clicking 'next, next, next, yes i will reboot now.'
Anyway, I think people are WAY to hard on MS. For going almost 15 years now and barely breaking backwards compatibility, they seriously deserve more credit than the slashdot crowd gives them. Good luck to em with this new upgrade.
After a couple hacking incidents and virus outbreaks, my school decided to impose a firewall on everyone which put a stop to gaming with anyone off campus. Anyway, those of us lucky enough to have a cable modem or dsl at home just set up proxys on those boxes and used SocksCap to make programs using winsock transparently go through and use the proxy instead of trying to get to the net from the firewall.
Sounds like it'd be a good solution for you to do something similar.
Game performance took a hit though, because of all the extra hops that added.
also, so nobody forgets, super smash bros, arguably 2d, is still around and kicking
Three game series' that were great back in their hey day were the Sonic the Hedgehog Series (sega / dreamcast. saturn kind of sucked), Mario (nes / snes / 64 / gc. all good ), and can't forget about Donkey Kong Country.
Whatever happened to Rare, makers of DKC? I think it'd be awesome if someone came out with a really good remake of some of these classic games. Maybe I'm wrong and the classic days of 2-D games is gone forever, but I hate to see these classic characters die off.
I'd love to see these guys reincarnated on the XBOX or GC or PS3. Anyone else agree? I mean, if they were able to remake Asteroids into something halfway decent, I'm sure they could do something cool with interesting characters like these.
Oh yah, another really old school game that'd probably be cool redone is Contra.
yeah, i see what you're saying, but the other problem sucks too. sleeping for just a few hours every night leaves me tired the next day and groggy. For some reason, even if I am tired, I'll go to sleep, but then wake up every hour or two anyway. Both sides kind of suck i guess.
More importantly, they are lining up the dominoes and preparing for when microsoft launches it's own online music service. They don't want microsoft to do what real did and make their DRM songs play on the iPod. They are only using real to set a precedent to try and cover their asses to ms doesn't try the same thing
Microsoft is supposed to be launching their own online music store soon, and preventing Real from reverse engineering their iPod will send a message to Microsoft who, if nothing is done, has no reason not to do the same thing and make the iPod play their proprietary formats with their DRM or whatever.
Apple is just covering their ass, becuase once Microsoft steps up to the plate, who knows what will happen. Especially considering new windows releases could have a built in link to microsofts online music store, not unlike how they propigated IE through the masses. Something like that has the potential to CRUSH iTunes.
Good job apple for having the foresight to see what could potentially happen and at least try doing something about it.
So this part of Nepal is basically working like a bunch of AP's? That's pretty awesome. When will the United States or somewhere do something like this. If they can afford it in Nepal, how expensive could it be to set up something similar in at least every major city, or even most of populated US. This'd be the most useful thing since sliced bread.
the patent office needs to completely overhaul the way it handles these intellectual property patents. spam aside, these frivolous patents are the worst thing that has ever happened to the internet.
from attacking Microsoft for developing/'stealing' the idea for installing plugins on-demand, or the completely revolutionary idea of having a computer automatically detect when media is inserted, these lawsuits are a waste of everyone's time and money. owning patents on things like this is, in the computer world, like owning a patent on breathing, or sliced bread.
they would never be awarded to people if the patent office had high-school graduates, or at least semi-computer literate people working there. these government workers deserve to be fired for doing such a shitty job. the bs work that they do would not be tolerated anywhere else, except under ridiculous bureaucracy of the American government.
i'm waiting for someone to come up with a lawsuit claiming to have the rights to using the internet as a tool 'for accessing other networked computers and information across the globe' or hell, even the internet itself.
these patent officers, i'm told, get paid on an hourly basis, so the number of patents they put through has no effect on them. it doesn't matter whether they even read the damn thing (which i'll bet resulted in patents like the ones i mentioned above.)
actually its any system based on windows nt, although you can manually go and get it for windows 98 and stuff.
anyway, on another note....
WHY DOES HE HAVE TO GO TO ROMANIA TO GET SOME PROGRAMMERS TO WRITE HIM A PORT SCANNER???
This 'stealth' spam crap isn't all that hard to write. Hell, any stupid VB programmer could probly do it.
Its more like an assembly program. They operate with a lot of jump statements, basically gotos, that jump to memory addresses. When you take out certain parts of the program, the memory addresses get offset, and the program won't function. This is a more accurate model than commenting out parts of source code.