I don't know if my mind works less reliable than google. At least it can reliably detect what's in a picture, what is spoken and (most importantly) what can be seen as a bonafide review.
Only if you put them there yourself. Otherwise there will be 3 menu's, 6 copyright statements, 9 pieces of "Created with THX" logo's etc. etc. in between. I never get that: the one thing that really drives me to copy DVD's is to get rid of the copyright annoyance screens, for crying out loud. And it's getting worse; most of my newly bought disks won't play easily on my computer. I mean, come on!!!
USB 2.0 fast enough? Depends on the *actual* speed. My Zire 31 is USB 1.1, but it is much slower than the 1 MB/second that is possible with USB 1.1. This is like saying that a S-ATA - 2 drive communicates at 300 MB/second.
- How much noise can it make? It lacks a vibration mode, ok, but my current PDA (Zire 31) never has a chance to wake me up.
- How fast is the synchronization mode? It hurts when you have to install an application to use it as a drive. But if I can live with that (can I?) then how fast will it synchronize. Again, with the Zire31 this is a pain, especially if you see the speed difference with just putting something on an SD card.
I cannot see how I could use it to play movies if the transfer takes ages.
Now the big guestion: shall I buy it or shall I wait until Hitachi has these drives with 10x the amount of space (perpendicular hard disks) and PalmOne finally delivers something that does multitasking?
Bodhammer already pointed out that it *does* have a voice recorder. Let me then point out that it has WiFi build in as well. So we are left with the 64 MB of RAM. Which I think might be plenty with the harddrive that comes with the package, although more might be better. Note that RAM likes to eat batteries for breakfast as well.
So, on the bright side, the things that are missing are mostly there.
Yup, true, and I would like one battery for each as well. One that has a long lifetime and one to deliver the power needed for a common PDA (especially with a hard drive embedded in it).
But this was already mentioned in an earlier post by someone else as well. Oh well, mod me redundant:)
For another analogy, Newton could not have discovered gravity because everyone was already using it. Same for E=MC^2 of course. I find that the discovery of a continent is another thing however. One should notice that it was only a discovery for the people on the other continents, at a specific point in time.
The rodent in itself isn't much of a discovery. But the fact that it needs to be classified in such a specific way certainly is, as I presume that the locals didn't know this for a fact. They are - in all probability - blessfully ignorant of this part of science.
My internet provider (www.xs4all.nl) has a ssh deamon running on xs4all.nl:80. This makes sure that you can connect to this server, even though only port 80 is allowed. Most of the time this even works with a proxy, since these are not actively checking the protocol used. It takes a small client program (these are very easy to create) to make a socket connection to the proxy. This makes if very easy to create a tunnel to a lovely machine running a BSD shell.
Yep, and he was considered to be their "top notch" programmer by the main character. Then again, my durability test is now running for -1300 minutes so I guess I am not without errors either.
And yes, except for a few cases like blaster, viruses don't exploit a vulnerability in the OS.
That is only partially true, there are many virusses that use exploits. And blaster is more like a worm, not like a virus.
They exploit human stupidity and naivity. An OS which isn't "vulnerable" to viruses is an OS which doesn't obey the user and let them run arbitary programs. Such an OS is usless.
Most of the applications that are spreading virusses are inside e-mail, and (are supposed to) contain things like flash animations, spreadsheets and the like. You could pretty well run those in a sandbox, makeing sure that your system stays intact. This *can* be done by operating systems (and seems to be a better solution than using cryptography to fix stuff).
You would have been safer if you used Double ROT-13 encryption instead.
That's fine if you don't care about the security of your data. Current cryptanalysis indicates that at a minimum you want 16 rounds of ROT-13. And since I'm rather paranoid, as a rule I tend to double the recommendations of cryptographic primitives, so I use 32 rounds of ROT-13. With current CPUs as fast as they are, there's very little reason to use less than 16 rounds. And 2 rounds is just insanity.
Current PC's are already outstripping the game consoles by far. Just take a look at the absense of high resolutions and anti-aliasing and such like. With CRT based screens, this is not so much a problem since the anti-aliasing is more or less done by the CRT itself. Unfortunately this also affects the size of the fonts used for scoring etc.
I'm wondering what will be happening now TV's are getting better and better. Will they optimize for HDTV resolutions or just normal TV screens, which are still in the majority? It's probably the latter, you'll see big fonts for some while. Even then, the resolution won't be 1280 x 1024, which is the default resolution on most monitors nowadays.
If Microsoft is smart it will devide the cores to specific tasks (video/audio and core processing) so games will still be rather simple to implement.
"The flaw affects all operating systems, and for a secure multi-user environment essentially requires that Hyper-Threading be disabled."/speculation mode on Seems that this is pretty big. Since I cannot see the direct link between multi-user and hyperthreading, I must assume that processes may be able to read data from other processes. Let's hope they cannot change the data as well. I think it's pretty weird that he mentions RSA specifically, maybe thats a hint which part of the processor is affected./speculation mode off
Pff, the chance of forgetting to put it in the car-kit, trying to shut it off when it rings and crashing into another vehicle is much, much larger. Unless you switch it off of course. But how many people carry phones that are constantly off? You'd forget to recharge anyway.
By the way, the number of fines in the Netherlands for driving when calling will be about 120-130.000 a year. On a population of some 16 million. Each fine costs 140 euro. Costs for collecting the fines aside, that's a large number, as is the number of dead people that get caught by these drivers.
Maybe it is not conductive at first, but wouldn't parts of the computer begin to dissolve? Then it would become conductive. Not that it matters much, after your computer corroded away...
Here's a guy that wants every piece of software written using his GNU libraries to adhere to HIS license. And he has the guts to attack Sun for using Java?
There are lots of implementations of Java out there, and at least when using Java you can be pretty sure some madman is not putting any restrictions on your code.
One thing is certain: my code will *never* be GPL'ed. That's not to say that it won't be compatible with it of course. And LGPL is another matter. But GPL is a PITA.
Yes, more storage is always better. I'd say 5+ blanks is better than we have now. But a nice RAID-5 system would be very nice as well.
If it's true that the Blu-Ray disks will have a very tough shielding (as posted here on slashdot) then they can leave the caddy out from my point of view.
Bigger is *not* the way to go. I would not like the spinup times either, to add that to your own problems with the scheme.
More densily packed data is exactly what is happening with the blue lasers, and I hope that they can keep this rate up. Dual layers are more expensive, more error prone. 8 x more capacity for 8 layers sounds great, but it's something you do once - going beyond 8 layers (or even 2 as it is now) will probably take serious efforts. My bet is on density for the coming years.
Yup, you've got to hand it to Philips and mates, they always have the best technology. Let's hope they can conquer the media industry without giving in too much (such as on DRM).
They seemed to have won the DVD market, DVD+R are more used in the Netherlands afaik, and have (a few) more technical merits than DVD-R.
I've got this MPEG-4 demo from Microsoft on my computer (Liquid preview demo or something) which runs on DVD-speed (Kbit/sec) and shows a very crisp picture at 1280x1024 (see individual water droplets). So that *should* be enough.
2.4 GHz machine needed to run the thing (without scaling) before you start to download it to your 486 computer. Modem connections are no good either.
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I don't know if my mind works less reliable than google. At least it can reliably detect what's in a picture, what is spoken and (most importantly) what can be seen as a bonafide review.
"What the... Oh shit, I'm the copy!" ... famous first words?
Only if you put them there yourself. Otherwise there will be 3 menu's, 6 copyright statements, 9 pieces of "Created with THX" logo's etc. etc. in between. I never get that: the one thing that really drives me to copy DVD's is to get rid of the copyright annoyance screens, for crying out loud. And it's getting worse; most of my newly bought disks won't play easily on my computer. I mean, come on!!!
USB 2.0 fast enough? Depends on the *actual* speed. My Zire 31 is USB 1.1, but it is much slower than the 1 MB/second that is possible with USB 1.1. This is like saying that a S-ATA - 2 drive communicates at 300 MB/second.
What I need to know from the reviews:
- How much noise can it make? It lacks a vibration mode, ok, but my current PDA (Zire 31) never has a chance to wake me up.
- How fast is the synchronization mode? It hurts when you have to install an application to use it as a drive. But if I can live with that (can I?) then how fast will it synchronize. Again, with the Zire31 this is a pain, especially if you see the speed difference with just putting something on an SD card.
I cannot see how I could use it to play movies if the transfer takes ages.
Now the big guestion: shall I buy it or shall I wait until Hitachi has these drives with 10x the amount of space (perpendicular hard disks) and PalmOne finally delivers something that does multitasking?
Bodhammer already pointed out that it *does* have a voice recorder. Let me then point out that it has WiFi build in as well. So we are left with the 64 MB of RAM. Which I think might be plenty with the harddrive that comes with the package, although more might be better. Note that RAM likes to eat batteries for breakfast as well.
So, on the bright side, the things that are missing are mostly there.
Yup, true, and I would like one battery for each as well. One that has a long lifetime and one to deliver the power needed for a common PDA (especially with a hard drive embedded in it).
:)
But this was already mentioned in an earlier post by someone else as well. Oh well, mod me redundant
For another analogy, Newton could not have discovered gravity because everyone was already using it. Same for E=MC^2 of course. I find that the discovery of a continent is another thing however. One should notice that it was only a discovery for the people on the other continents, at a specific point in time.
The rodent in itself isn't much of a discovery. But the fact that it needs to be classified in such a specific way certainly is, as I presume that the locals didn't know this for a fact. They are - in all probability - blessfully ignorant of this part of science.
My internet provider (www.xs4all.nl) has a ssh deamon running on xs4all.nl:80. This makes sure that you can connect to this server, even though only port 80 is allowed. Most of the time this even works with a proxy, since these are not actively checking the protocol used. It takes a small client program (these are very easy to create) to make a socket connection to the proxy. This makes if very easy to create a tunnel to a lovely machine running a BSD shell.
Yep, and he was considered to be their "top notch" programmer by the main character. Then again, my durability test is now running for -1300 minutes so I guess I am not without errors either.
Mod parent up?
You would have been safer if you used Double ROT-13 encryption instead.
That's fine if you don't care about the security of your data. Current cryptanalysis indicates that at a minimum you want 16 rounds of ROT-13. And since I'm rather paranoid, as a rule I tend to double the recommendations of cryptographic primitives, so I use 32 rounds of ROT-13. With current CPUs as fast as they are, there's very little reason to use less than 16 rounds. And 2 rounds is just insanity.
I dare you to crack my data.
Jason.
Current PC's are already outstripping the game consoles by far. Just take a look at the absense of high resolutions and anti-aliasing and such like. With CRT based screens, this is not so much a problem since the anti-aliasing is more or less done by the CRT itself. Unfortunately this also affects the size of the fonts used for scoring etc.
I'm wondering what will be happening now TV's are getting better and better. Will they optimize for HDTV resolutions or just normal TV screens, which are still in the majority? It's probably the latter, you'll see big fonts for some while. Even then, the resolution won't be 1280 x 1024, which is the default resolution on most monitors nowadays.
If Microsoft is smart it will devide the cores to specific tasks (video/audio and core processing) so games will still be rather simple to implement.
From the article:
/speculation mode on /speculation mode off
"The flaw affects all operating systems, and for a secure multi-user environment essentially requires that Hyper-Threading be disabled."
Seems that this is pretty big. Since I cannot see the direct link between multi-user and hyperthreading, I must assume that processes may be able to read data from other processes. Let's hope they cannot change the data as well. I think it's pretty weird that he mentions RSA specifically, maybe thats a hint which part of the processor is affected.
Pff, the chance of forgetting to put it in the car-kit, trying to shut it off when it rings and crashing into another vehicle is much, much larger. Unless you switch it off of course. But how many people carry phones that are constantly off? You'd forget to recharge anyway.
By the way, the number of fines in the Netherlands for driving when calling will be about 120-130.000 a year. On a population of some 16 million. Each fine costs 140 euro. Costs for collecting the fines aside, that's a large number, as is the number of dead people that get caught by these drivers.
Well, nothing wrong with your imagination in that case.
Maybe it is not conductive at first, but wouldn't parts of the computer begin to dissolve? Then it would become conductive. Not that it matters much, after your computer corroded away...
Here's a guy that wants every piece of software written using his GNU libraries to adhere to HIS license. And he has the guts to attack Sun for using Java?
There are lots of implementations of Java out there, and at least when using Java you can be pretty sure some madman is not putting any restrictions on your code.
One thing is certain: my code will *never* be GPL'ed. That's not to say that it won't be compatible with it of course. And LGPL is another matter. But GPL is a PITA.
As for your arguments:
Yes, more storage is always better. I'd say 5+ blanks is better than we have now. But a nice RAID-5 system would be very nice as well.
If it's true that the Blu-Ray disks will have a very tough shielding (as posted here on slashdot) then they can leave the caddy out from my point of view.
Bigger is *not* the way to go. I would not like the spinup times either, to add that to your own problems with the scheme.
More densily packed data is exactly what is happening with the blue lasers, and I hope that they can keep this rate up. Dual layers are more expensive, more error prone. 8 x more capacity for 8 layers sounds great, but it's something you do once - going beyond 8 layers (or even 2 as it is now) will probably take serious efforts. My bet is on density for the coming years.
Yup, you've got to hand it to Philips and mates, they always have the best technology. Let's hope they can conquer the media industry without giving in too much (such as on DRM).
They seemed to have won the DVD market, DVD+R are more used in the Netherlands afaik, and have (a few) more technical merits than DVD-R.
I've got this MPEG-4 demo from Microsoft on my computer (Liquid preview demo or something) which runs on DVD-speed (Kbit/sec) and shows a very crisp picture at 1280x1024 (see individual water droplets). So that *should* be enough.
2.4 GHz machine needed to run the thing (without scaling) before you start to download it to your 486 computer. Modem connections are no good either.
LISP??? The book should be burned!
So they took an iMac from its stand. Couldn't have thought of it.
I'm sure there are other prices for cracking crypto-problems and/or factoring large integers.
Yeah, they are called bank accounts, credit card numbers, military secrets...the list goes on.