Hello? Somebody mentioned that she even noticed the burglar? What good does a firearm do in that case?
And even if you had a firearm AND was trained AND noticed the crime? You confront the burglar and hope he/she runs away? If they are armed as well - and in the US, that's a pretty small if - they might just turn on his mom. And since burglars have almost always less to loose, they are much more likely to fire first. And "win". You are probably better off screaming for help, since that will deter most thieves just great.
The stupidest thing to do is to get a firearm. Thinking that all this training etc. will get your family out of harm is just plain stupid. One argument out of hand is enough. Or you keep it up locked, in which case you will be too late.
The problem with you americans is that you only can see violent ways out of every situation. Hasn't your president learned you anything? Violence begets violence.
You are right about that. Consider Java where a similar thing is happening with J2ME. True, the complete API is much larger, but the main bytecode compiler is much smaller. For Javacard, there is a stripped down java.lang package, and a few specialized crypto and communcation libraries. We're talking KB's here. Garbage collection, class loading , everything is stripped except the byte code and the Java language itself.
The main benefits? Class support, byte[] support without the possibility of buffer overflows, exception support etc. etc. All you need to get things working, nothing you don't need. VM's are are just great for such things. The only big problem with it is if you need really tight timing. You need to go to C or assembly level code for that. So you need to encapsulate some heavy IO ops.
I'd rather program for that. Both for mobile phones as for Smartcards there once was a MS alternative. Both seem to fail where Java succeeds. I wonder what big advantages.NET can buy you in comparison what a good development environment (e.g. Eclipse) with J2ME can offer. Especially since the latter is free. On the other hand, a bit of (true) competition never hurt the market.
So now they can't just mail the stuff to themselves anymore? If you are worried to be detected, you can always PGP the information, or hide it in a word document or something. You could obviously ban both, but that would seriously hamper the ability of the person to communicate.
Information management normally can not be done digitally, unless the person is unable to get the information on his computer in any other way.
Obviously MS is right to make sure that you need sufficient privileges to attach a communication or data storage device to a system. I can see this to be particurarly helpfull for servers (with credit card information for example). It's easy to plug in a USB memory key in a system, but breaking it open to reset the BIOS is quite another thing.
In case of Intel (mentioned in the article - I wonder if the employees have personal laptops..... Up to 80 GB walking right out of the door, unharmed....
Yes, and I still don't know how to let a user do that. There must be an answer (sudo?) but I can not find it (easily). Few points less for linux, that. Sometimes you want users to mount stuff.
Putting a sambamount in fstab is definately NOT an option, in case you try yourself. If it hangs at boot time, it hangs your machine.
I must admit that I can find most things in Windows if I look hard enough. With linux an internet connection is simply a must to look things up.
Lets hope that they default to leave messages on server (as most mail clients don't). Otherwise you will have to walk to your car to get the messages you received while driving...
The SSS does admit, however, that it is planning for a possible draft of
Arabic linguists, computer experts and medical personnel--doctors, nurses
and technicians, ages 20 to 44.
Sheesh, I guess it will get quiet at slashdot. Oh no, only the kiddies under 18 will be left. Nooooooooo!!!!
All too true, and as long as you - don't need CPU cycles - don't use the analogue audio port (and have decent D/A convertors with your speakers) - don't care about crappy drivers and (shudders) software Then you're fine.
If you hear the difference between my Asus integrated audio (CMedia) and the soundblaster audigy player in my system... there just is no contest. The D/A convertor is so much better, and CPU utilization can easily be seen. Did I mention the drivers and software?
Maybe Intel will change this with their new onboard audio setup. I particularly like the support for multiple channels, and the autosensing stereo connectors.
Now, would somebody please include a hardware equalizer so I can tune those crappy speakers (mostly at other peoples places:0) for all applications? Thank you.
I don't know how many quality local broadcast that you are looking at over there (I live in Europe). But here the number of stations that you can pick up with a low quality antenna is not that big. One of the reasons mini-tv's never lifted off. What are you going to watch (completely distorted)?
I can already seeing people sitting in the train trying to focus their antenna. With an integrated digital receiver you could have something though.
Note that I could not get my hauppauge card to work with the newest drivers and DirectX 9.0c. There seems to be a patch for 9.0b but with DirectX, there is no easy way to downgrade. Maybe I should deinstall first. But it is a pain indeed.
It seems the driver or application has problems with the video overlay. Since I can tune the card and receive teletext, I'm pretty sure the card is in order. The only problem is the picture quality: pitch black.
Most people think that the inside of a computer case is horribly complicated. The first thing and the second thing they say when you upgrade a computer is "Is that all?". The first is when you open the case and they see that big empty space. The second time is when you install the card.
Note that I have just recently bought an internal card, and wish I hadn't for the following reasons: - the coax cable connector does not fit really well in the slots for the PCI cards. - with my (Hauppauge WinTV) card came an external audio cable, that uses my only available input connector - the inside of a computer is one big noise generator, lets place the tuner outside, shall we? - I am not able to use it with my laptop
Most importantly the linux drivers are experimental, and worse, they seem not to get a clean picture. Maybe it's the card, maybe its the cx88xx driver, but there is no way to find out. Note that this could happen as well with the external tuner, but in that case you put it into an other machine more easily.
I don't trust the connexant and cheapo tuner card though. ATI would probably perform better. Is there a linux driver for it?
If the computer does things that can be simplified then you could make smart, but simple, algorithm to simulate the computer. If you do this multiple times, you end up with 0 processing power.
Yes, that was a typo. I corrected it in another post, but even previewing my comments does not always work, especially when I'm overly tired. Thanks for correcting it anyway.
Before anyone starts experimenting with this technology....
!!! turn off that screensaver !!!
Some screensaver generate (more or less) random pixels. On any 1024x768x3 screen, run over a network, this will wreak mayor damage.
I've seen this with VNC First of all, your X server will become irrisponsive, and secondly your network will be brought to a grinding halt (time to remove those hubs and place switches guys).
No matter what you do, such data can not be compressed by any means. Only running the program locally will work.
Not really. The speed difference is humoungous between the three. Firewire 800 trounces all, but is expensive and not omnipresent. USB 2.0 is pretty fast with its 480 MBit/sec (though FW 400 can be faster due to a better implementation) and is found in almost any (host) device. Bluetooth, with 721 Kbit/sec does not even come in close. Even with 2.1 Mbit/sec it would be a dog compared with the other too.
To top things off, FW 800 can have multiple hosts, while USB and Bluetooth are Master/Slave configurations, with the limits thereof. My BT phone can talk to other BT phones though, so it seems that they can both be master and slave at the same time, making the bluetooth spec pretty usefull in that respect.
In other words, they are quite complementary, though Firewire might only be left in specialized products in the time to come. Note that USB to Serial/Parallel convertors can be found almost anywhere. And bugger IrDA.
Bluetooth in your cellphone as many other uses. To name a few: synchronization between different devices, providing GPRS/UMTS services to your PDA and Laptop (i've been internetting many miles in a dutch train), using hardware without proprietary connector or in-line-of-sight infrared (keyboards), printing contact cards, etc. . Just looking at all the Bluetooth profiles of my cheapo bluetooth USB key/stick/whatever makes my head spin. Did I mention profiles? Application layer support!!! Jay.
Bluetooth has, by the way, a max data transfer rate of 721 Mbit/sec, which makes it pretty useless for printers, modems etc. Even USB 1.1 should get up to about 11 Mbit/sec, and USB 2.0 (full speed) trounces it. So Bluetooth, even in its next incarnations, won't untangle too much yet.
Are the data transmissions are encrypted in any way?
Yes, they are. Not certain of the standard though, so I don't know how difficult it is to brute force
Doesn't make too much difference though, since there are a lot of flawed products out there. Especially Nokia does not seem to get it right most of the time. If the protocol is implemented incorrectly or if the device has bugs, the key size does not matter much.
Doesn't work, languages evolve. Try esparanto if you want a taste of a real intuitive language that plain works. Except for the special characters, that is. Only "to be" is any different, everything else complies to the standard. There were quite some speakers of esparanto, but the language seems to be deader than dead, probably because English is easy _enough_ to learn, and has a huge installed "user base".
I got a Pentium II from Intel for my keychain. It was put in metal, with a hars like substance, so you could actually see the design of the CPU (the caches are, for instance, quite easy to identify).
It might be difficult to get that same effect with an old CPU though, since that would mean that you can open the box and get to the actual CPU, without damaging it too much. I could get it right with calculator IC's though, so maybe it is possible.
With the new CPU's from Intel, ther ere no pins to remove at least.
Why keep governments keep spending money on such idiotic tasks as getting fast internet to the home. The only place where that's interesting is for areas that are difficult to cover using current technologies.
What I would really like to see is a government that has more than a token presentation on the internet. Please let me use that internet connection for real tasks, instead of trying to improve the connection. The market will do that for you.
Anyway, all the projects the government started up in the Netherlands have turned into vapourware anyway, so they are not only the wrong person to implement fast internet connections, they actually can't cut it.
Now give me a freaking linux/apple or java version to fill in my freaking taxes. Currently I have to buy Microsoft products to even USE the currently available government services.
Well, you could always play a ringtone on an old phone and record that. Or on any other midi device which can create dinky midi music, like for instance, most computers. All you will experience is that you will hear other phones less, and if you do they just play music (continuously, if you are unlucky). The future is bright for dinky midi lovers.
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What do want to do then? Write assembly in your application to get to a device? Read out loud Hardware - Abstraction - Layer.
Request: ECM unit, 1000 km fullerene cable, 1 tactical nuclear weapon. Reason: Birthday party for foreign dignitary.
Yes, this really seems a person to take advice from. Can somebody go over to his place and take those firearms away from him?
Hello? Somebody mentioned that she even noticed the burglar? What good does a firearm do in that case?
And even if you had a firearm AND was trained AND noticed the crime? You confront the burglar and hope he/she runs away? If they are armed as well - and in the US, that's a pretty small if - they might just turn on his mom. And since burglars have almost always less to loose, they are much more likely to fire first. And "win". You are probably better off screaming for help, since that will deter most thieves just great.
The stupidest thing to do is to get a firearm. Thinking that all this training etc. will get your family out of harm is just plain stupid. One argument out of hand is enough. Or you keep it up locked, in which case you will be too late.
The problem with you americans is that you only can see violent ways out of every situation. Hasn't your president learned you anything? Violence begets violence.
You are right about that. Consider Java where a similar thing is happening with J2ME. True, the complete API is much larger, but the main bytecode compiler is much smaller. For Javacard, there is a stripped down java.lang package, and a few specialized crypto and communcation libraries. We're talking KB's here. Garbage collection, class loading , everything is stripped except the byte code and the Java language itself.
The main benefits? Class support, byte[] support without the possibility of buffer overflows, exception support etc. etc. All you need to get things working, nothing you don't need. VM's are are just great for such things. The only big problem with it is if you need really tight timing. You need to go to C or assembly level code for that. So you need to encapsulate some heavy IO ops.
I'd rather program for that. Both for mobile phones as for Smartcards there once was a MS alternative. Both seem to fail where Java succeeds. I wonder what big advantages .NET can buy you in comparison what a good development environment (e.g. Eclipse) with J2ME can offer. Especially since the latter is free. On the other hand, a bit of (true) competition never hurt the market.
So now they can't just mail the stuff to themselves anymore? If you are worried to be detected, you can always PGP the information, or hide it in a word document or something. You could obviously ban both, but that would seriously hamper the ability of the person to communicate.
Information management normally can not be done digitally, unless the person is unable to get the information on his computer in any other way.
Obviously MS is right to make sure that you need sufficient privileges to attach a communication or data storage device to a system. I can see this to be particurarly helpfull for servers (with credit card information for example). It's easy to plug in a USB memory key in a system, but breaking it open to reset the BIOS is quite another thing.
In case of Intel (mentioned in the article - I wonder if the employees have personal laptops..... Up to 80 GB walking right out of the door, unharmed....
Yes, and I still don't know how to let a user do that. There must be an answer (sudo?) but I can not find it (easily). Few points less for linux, that. Sometimes you want users to mount stuff.
Putting a sambamount in fstab is definately NOT an option, in case you try yourself. If it hangs at boot time, it hangs your machine.
I must admit that I can find most things in Windows if I look hard enough. With linux an internet connection is simply a must to look things up.
Lets hope that they default to leave messages on server (as most mail clients don't). Otherwise you will have to walk to your car to get the messages you received while driving...
It took me a lot of time to get there, but:
The SSS does admit, however, that it is planning for a possible draft of Arabic linguists, computer experts and medical personnel--doctors, nurses and technicians, ages 20 to 44.
Sheesh, I guess it will get quiet at slashdot. Oh no, only the kiddies under 18 will be left. Nooooooooo!!!!
All too true, and as long as you
... there just is no contest. The D/A convertor is so much better, and CPU utilization can easily be seen. Did I mention the drivers and software?
:0) for all applications? Thank you.
- don't need CPU cycles
- don't use the analogue audio port (and have decent D/A convertors with your speakers)
- don't care about crappy drivers and (shudders) software
Then you're fine.
If you hear the difference between my Asus integrated audio (CMedia) and the soundblaster audigy player in my system
Maybe Intel will change this with their new onboard audio setup. I particularly like the support for multiple channels, and the autosensing stereo connectors.
Now, would somebody please include a hardware equalizer so I can tune those crappy speakers (mostly at other peoples places
I don't know how many quality local broadcast that you are looking at over there (I live in Europe). But here the number of stations that you can pick up with a low quality antenna is not that big. One of the reasons mini-tv's never lifted off. What are you going to watch (completely distorted)?
I can already seeing people sitting in the train trying to focus their antenna. With an integrated digital receiver you could have something though.
Note that I could not get my hauppauge card to work with the newest drivers and DirectX 9.0c. There seems to be a patch for 9.0b but with DirectX, there is no easy way to downgrade. Maybe I should deinstall first. But it is a pain indeed.
It seems the driver or application has problems with the video overlay. Since I can tune the card and receive teletext, I'm pretty sure the card is in order. The only problem is the picture quality: pitch black.
Most people think that the inside of a computer case is horribly complicated. The first thing and the second thing they say when you upgrade a computer is "Is that all?". The first is when you open the case and they see that big empty space. The second time is when you install the card.
Note that I have just recently bought an internal card, and wish I hadn't for the following reasons:
- the coax cable connector does not fit really well in the slots for the PCI cards.
- with my (Hauppauge WinTV) card came an external audio cable, that uses my only available input connector
- the inside of a computer is one big noise generator, lets place the tuner outside, shall we?
- I am not able to use it with my laptop
Most importantly the linux drivers are experimental, and worse, they seem not to get a clean picture. Maybe it's the card, maybe its the cx88xx driver, but there is no way to find out. Note that this could happen as well with the external tuner, but in that case you put it into an other machine more easily.
I don't trust the connexant and cheapo tuner card though. ATI would probably perform better. Is there a linux driver for it?
If the computer does things that can be simplified then you could make smart, but simple, algorithm to simulate the computer. If you do this multiple times, you end up with 0 processing power.
Didn't you hear? Since they can launch everything more safely now, somebody runs along all firework launchers with a turned on bluetooth mobile phone.
Yes, that was a typo. I corrected it in another post, but even previewing my comments does not always work, especially when I'm overly tired. Thanks for correcting it anyway.
Before anyone starts experimenting with this technology....
!!! turn off that screensaver !!!
Some screensaver generate (more or less) random pixels. On any 1024x768x3 screen, run over a network, this will wreak mayor damage.
I've seen this with VNC First of all, your X server will become irrisponsive, and secondly your network will be brought to a grinding halt (time to remove those hubs and place switches guys).
No matter what you do, such data can not be compressed by any means. Only running the program locally will work.
Not really. The speed difference is humoungous between the three. Firewire 800 trounces all, but is expensive and not omnipresent. USB 2.0 is pretty fast with its 480 MBit/sec (though FW 400 can be faster due to a better implementation) and is found in almost any (host) device. Bluetooth, with 721 Kbit/sec does not even come in close. Even with 2.1 Mbit/sec it would be a dog compared with the other too.
To top things off, FW 800 can have multiple hosts, while USB and Bluetooth are Master/Slave configurations, with the limits thereof. My BT phone can talk to other BT phones though, so it seems that they can both be master and slave at the same time, making the bluetooth spec pretty usefull in that respect.
In other words, they are quite complementary, though Firewire might only be left in specialized products in the time to come. Note that USB to Serial/Parallel convertors can be found almost anywhere. And bugger IrDA.
Bluetooth in your cellphone as many other uses. To name a few: synchronization between different devices, providing GPRS/UMTS services to your PDA and Laptop (i've been internetting many miles in a dutch train), using hardware without proprietary connector or in-line-of-sight infrared (keyboards), printing contact cards, etc. . Just looking at all the Bluetooth profiles of my cheapo bluetooth USB key/stick/whatever makes my head spin. Did I mention profiles? Application layer support!!! Jay.
Bluetooth has, by the way, a max data transfer rate of 721 Mbit/sec, which makes it pretty useless for printers, modems etc. Even USB 1.1 should get up to about 11 Mbit/sec, and USB 2.0 (full speed) trounces it. So Bluetooth, even in its next incarnations, won't untangle too much yet.
Wireless products are almost never airtight
Doesn't work, languages evolve. Try esparanto if you want a taste of a real intuitive language that plain works. Except for the special characters, that is. Only "to be" is any different, everything else complies to the standard. There were quite some speakers of esparanto, but the language seems to be deader than dead, probably because English is easy _enough_ to learn, and has a huge installed "user base".
I got a Pentium II from Intel for my keychain. It was put in metal, with a hars like substance, so you could actually see the design of the CPU (the caches are, for instance, quite easy to identify).
It might be difficult to get that same effect with an old CPU though, since that would mean that you can open the box and get to the actual CPU, without damaging it too much. I could get it right with calculator IC's though, so maybe it is possible.
With the new CPU's from Intel, ther ere no pins to remove at least.
Why keep governments keep spending money on such idiotic tasks as getting fast internet to the home. The only place where that's interesting is for areas that are difficult to cover using current technologies.
What I would really like to see is a government that has more than a token presentation on the internet. Please let me use that internet connection for real tasks, instead of trying to improve the connection. The market will do that for you.
Anyway, all the projects the government started up in the Netherlands have turned into vapourware anyway, so they are not only the wrong person to implement fast internet connections, they actually can't cut it.
Now give me a freaking linux/apple or java version to fill in my freaking taxes. Currently I have to buy Microsoft products to even USE the currently available government services.
Well, you could always play a ringtone on an old phone and record that. Or on any other midi device which can create dinky midi music, like for instance, most computers. All you will experience is that you will hear other phones less, and if you do they just play music (continuously, if you are unlucky). The future is bright for dinky midi lovers.
You mean, like one of the main features of Be? It's sure is cool, but if it's inventive, dunno.
/usr/bin shows you that all is not well.
The problem with linux is imho that it is still too low level. It does that very well, but one look in
How the heck is that information management? How do you prevent name clashes? How can you find *any* command? In which way is this usefull?
Ok, enough rent, I'm going to edit some other story "edit story". What the hey is this edit command doing there? Oh well.