if you *need* 1TB of storage, chances are you don't want to risk it on some new untested tech: you'll be using SANs etc and doing it the Correct But Expensive Way.
The only use for this I can see is someone who wants vast, not-particularly-vital storage: perhaps if you're acting as a short term store for a *lot* of video...
...we like new tech, we like gadgets and we're usually early-adopters. however, ALL gadget watches (with the sole exception of the Breitling with the emergency beacon in it) look like cack on your wrist and mark you out as a sad sack. USB watch storage? Ugh. Microsoft Spot? Ack. That Fossil Palm-on-your-wrist? Please.
Real men buy Omega Seamasters and leave the gadgets in their pockets.
then what's the problem?
It's highly unlikely they're making full palmprint data available to any shadowy organisations, rather than simply using a hash of the data to authenticate users. It's a non-issue.
Lego's meant to foster creativity ("A New Toy Everyday (tm)") and you've just proved it. You MADE the tool you needed to do the job, and a few years later, here you are on Slashdot. I'm sure there's a correlation between lego use as a child and adult mad geek skillz...
In the UK the Travelodge chain of cheap short-stay hotels are built a little like Lego: they come in prefabricated sections that clip together to form a complete hotel. The speed they put them up at is a little disconcerting if you live near one: they can and DO strip them down and move them to a different location if they prove not to be profitable at their current site.
Stock heatsink/fan ok for mild overclocks in a decent case. For anything more serious get yourself a copper-cored heatsink with an 80mm fan (quieter than a higher-speed 60mm one) and use that. Use decent thermal paste and you'll be able to overclock to your heart's content without high temps.
Best CPU to do this on is a 2500 "Barton" core one though - up to 3200+ levels for 60UKP - just crank up the FSB...
got the noise? now you can guess at content: perhaps standard English phrases. Knowing both and you're well on the way to breaking it.
For example, if you suspect that people might be using it to talk about terrorism, you might want to guess that the message contains a phrase like "allah akbar" or somesuch.
The original inventor specified that he didn't ever want guns or even military camoflage in LEGO products. They're stretching it a little now, mind but you wouldn't ever get anything overtly military with LEGO.
What I want is an "instant-on" true tablet - not a laptop with a foldy screen. Say a 10" touchscreen, decent battery, built in wifi, medium sized hard disk, and an OS that's stored in EEPROM and supports web, remote desktop, and plays media.
WinCE devices like this *are* made for the embedded market but I've not seen any for the home - all I want is a small "digital book" (now there's a blast from the past!) that I can just turn on and browse the web and connect to my other machines with.
for beer money whilst at University, and the main thing I tried to get across was how to find stuff. We'd usually start by asking people their hobbies, sticking them in Altavista (back in the day!) and letting them browse what came up.
I can still remember the day I realised the net had changed a bit when one enthusiastic student of amateur photography tried it...
but it's good. I spent ages yesterday trying to find the definition of the physical dimensions of a standard credit card, and Google failed me. After a bit of poking around the concepts bit of Vivisimo, it's found it for me.
This is probably particularly hard to find because the term "credit card" pulls up so much spammy commercial crap, obviously.
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if you *need* 1TB of storage, chances are you don't want to risk it on some new untested tech: you'll be using SANs etc and doing it the Correct But Expensive Way.
The only use for this I can see is someone who wants vast, not-particularly-vital storage: perhaps if you're acting as a short term store for a *lot* of video...
why should it be cheap? if you want cheap, wait 5 years!
however, ALL gadget watches (with the sole exception of the Breitling with the emergency beacon in it) look like cack on your wrist and mark you out as a sad sack.
USB watch storage? Ugh. Microsoft Spot? Ack. That Fossil Palm-on-your-wrist? Please.
Real men buy Omega Seamasters and leave the gadgets in their pockets.
then what's the problem?
It's highly unlikely they're making full palmprint data available to any shadowy organisations, rather than simply using a hash of the data to authenticate users. It's a non-issue.
Lego's meant to foster creativity ("A New Toy Everyday (tm)") and you've just proved it. You MADE the tool you needed to do the job, and a few years later, here you are on Slashdot. I'm sure there's a correlation between lego use as a child and adult mad geek skillz...
In the UK the Travelodge chain of cheap short-stay hotels are built a little like Lego: they come in prefabricated sections that clip together to form a complete hotel. The speed they put them up at is a little disconcerting if you live near one: they can and DO strip them down and move them to a different location if they prove not to be profitable at their current site.
Stock heatsink/fan ok for mild overclocks in a decent case. For anything more serious get yourself a copper-cored heatsink with an 80mm fan (quieter than a higher-speed 60mm one) and use that. Use decent thermal paste and you'll be able to overclock to your heart's content without high temps. Best CPU to do this on is a 2500 "Barton" core one though - up to 3200+ levels for 60UKP - just crank up the FSB...
And don't forget the extra profit made when you screw up the bios flash and kill your card...!
got the noise? now you can guess at content: perhaps standard English phrases. Knowing both and you're well on the way to breaking it.
For example, if you suspect that people might be using it to talk about terrorism, you might want to guess that the message contains a phrase like "allah akbar" or somesuch.
The original inventor specified that he didn't ever want guns or even military camoflage in LEGO products. They're stretching it a little now, mind but you wouldn't ever get anything overtly military with LEGO.
Only on Slashdot!
that would be pretty bad.
even assuming you can fit it in the slot, in which case you've probably got more important things to worry about...
I thought that was why your government dollars were paying so much to Diebold.
in the UK does this, very nicely indeed. check it out.
look for the dvd-r section on suprnova. loads there.
Only supported in Outlook 2002. Anyone done it without breaking Outlook 2000 accessing exchange server rather than POP mail?
...you waste of space
"passengered", indeed.
WinCE devices like this *are* made for the embedded market but I've not seen any for the home - all I want is a small "digital book" (now there's a blast from the past!) that I can just turn on and browse the web and connect to my other machines with.
Just my 2p...
been reading too much Piers Anthony?
...kaleidoscopes, mathmos lava lamps and all the rest of they eyecandy...
for beer money whilst at University, and the main thing I tried to get across was how to find stuff. We'd usually start by asking people their hobbies, sticking them in Altavista (back in the day!) and letting them browse what came up.
I can still remember the day I realised the net had changed a bit when one enthusiastic student of amateur photography tried it...
This is probably particularly hard to find because the term "credit card" pulls up so much spammy commercial crap, obviously.
and if they *don't* have lots of good lawyers, presumably they could *find them very quickly*