Well, it'll run WinCE or Linux. So the OS is not burned into ROM. I wonder if it would be possible to recompile the Newton OS for this thing? It certainly has the computational cajones for it (~13mhz on the eMate) and the Newton didn't have any particular hard-button requirement that this thing doesn't meet. The only thing I can think of being a problem is the lack of PCMCIA, but with wireless... and drivers... this could be a real option to buying used hardware if you want a Newton.
Adding support for the color screen and non-kludgy wireless drivers would seem to be the biggest issue, IMHO.
Not very far. We've got massive government corruption, corporations buying legislation, powerful firearms on the street (arguably a good thing), and nifty techie frobnicators.
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What applications are you running?
Oh yeah, I use compact flourescents all over the bloody place and I push my family to do the same. (Gently; we're at about 50% right now)
Problem is they don't dim and I'm also adopting an X10 home-automation system, and those allow enough current to trickle through the boxes to run the flourescents when set to 'off'. That just won't fly.
I don't back up all of my CDs, much as I'd like to; I do however back up the ones that are hard to impossible to find and rip everything as MP3 -- not as good a backup as a disc image, but passable. And with iTunes and ALE, it just got a little more passable.
I use FileProg and FileZ for copying that sort of stuff -- it's often easier to beam PRCs from old handheld to new handheld than to reinstall the applications from scratch. (you know that things like AOL mail and personal settings databases are copy-protected, your notes file, addresses... all copy-protected.)
Isn't it generally recognized that contracts entered to under duress are null and void? And to be enforcable, they must provide a benefit to both parties?
Dude, lithium batteries already explode quite nicely. Some have built-in 'controlled critical failure' pressure relief systems (a little cap on the end blows off before the battery detonates) but those turn them into miniature rockets.
First, "mostly open source" doesn't mean "open source". Second, it's not $5. Third, it only runs on Linspire. What about Debian, Slackware, Redhat, and every other flavor of linux? I think they just got screwed.
* Flawless DVD playback - licensed decryption codecs play commerical discs
* Broad multimedia support - dozens of video, audio and streaming media formats
* Affordable - just $4.95 for Warehouse members; $39.95 for non-members
How about Joe Average failing to comprehend the EULA which was written in legalese as a tactic of intentional obfuscation? I dunno about everyone here, but I have to reread anything resembling a license agreement at least once; the exceptions being the last Apple EULA I read I got in one pass and the GPL which I remember, more or less.
How about making the spyware and adware and password sniffers an optional download, if it makes you happy to have marketers and such lowlifes watching your every CPU cycle.
You know what? I loved my Newtons - all three of them - and I love the idea of an OQO running OSX. You don't need to right-click in OSX, eliminating my biggest beef about WinXP Tablet.
Anyone seen any of the various iPad renders? One of them looks an awful lot like this...
I never said that - I was merely pointing out a problem with the "if you can't pay, don't play" argument.
And it's not $400 worth of music, it's a lot more. Let's say 100 gb of music, 10mb to a song - he compresses with 240 kbps or something - ten thousand songs. Now sure, the record industry could calculate their theoretical losses based on him buying singles, but wait - they don't sell singles any more. Let's say on average he has three songs per CD - some is going to be higher and some lower, but I'm trying to intentionally underestimate the cost here.
Also, let's assume that each one of these CDs costs ten dollars, which is a laughably low figure. It's much more likely that each is around fifteen dollars, but you can do the multiplication yourself if you want to know how much that is.
most people are downloading music specifically because they can't pay for it. Imagine our little hypothetical gray-hat hacker - he's got say, a 100gb firewire drive packed to the gills with illegally copied music.
Do you really think that the total cost of that music is less than that of is firewire disk?
Especially if he's got about one song per CD there?
I'd do the math, but those numbers are big and scary (and I don't have a calculator)
Of course it will. All you have to do is make it more convenient to buy the real thing than to pirate it. Those who would pirate for profit will continue to do so, of course; those people are thieves, and rotten to the core. Let the police deal with them. For the average consumer, all you have to do is make it more convenient to buy than to steal. As we've seen time and again, people will pay a small price for a great deal of convenience: i.e., the paperback.
Really? New paperbacks cost just shy of ten dollars in Florida.
On the other hand, used hardbacks can be had for, on average, $5 if you have patience and you're not afraid to try a few stores. And if you hit a garage sale and pick up the entire Wheel of Time for $10, that's about $200 you're not spending on new books. (well, assuming everything is hardbound)
Let me put this bluntly: Paperbacks are no longer cheap.
iTunes is going strong--but would it be going any less strong if they had, by some magical miracle, convinced the RIAA to go with non-DRM protected AAC files?
Yes. Because they would not have the selection of music they have today. Many music copyright holders will not release their works digitally without some kind of technological protection.
Your answer violates the assumption the original post asked for - and while I have an iTunes account and five songs to my name, all were paid for courtesy of Pepsi. I'm not going to spend $1 on the track, then another $1 on a blank CD to produce a degraded track that I can listen to on my MuVo. If, on the other hand, I can skip paying for a CD, I'd be much more inclined to give the nice people my money. I could get an iPod, and sure I'd be happier using that and playing by the rules than using my keychain to listen to music, but I've been saving for the last year or so.
Apple is very close to having a natural monopoly in online content, simply because they offer fairly reasonable restrictions on the use of content bought from them. However, assume they removed the requirement to buy an iPod to get the full Apple experience - I predict that sales on iTms would jump significantly.
Why mod him a troll? He's got a valid point. This would be so very much cooler if you could import your own content (slashdot dumps, Wired News, Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, Baen novels...) and even more so if it had an analogue to M$ Journal
Well, there's the THEL and similar systems, which have been shooting down crap in New Mexico and Israel for a few years now, and I'm pretty sure they're in the megawatt range. However, it's a DeFl (Deuterium Flouride, related to hydrogen flouride lasers, but producing a more desirable wavelength by using more expensive fuel) laser and not a COIL (chemical oxygen-iodine laser) like the one on the jet.
I believe similar weapons have intercepted.50bmg rifle rounds since this article was written
So yes, you're technically right - a megawatt laser system is in use by the military mounted on something other than a 747-400F aircraft. Maybe they could use these things as Phalanx guns on naval vessels, someday in the not-too-distant future?
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Well, it'll run WinCE or Linux. So the OS is not burned into ROM. I wonder if it would be possible to recompile the Newton OS for this thing? It certainly has the computational cajones for it (~13mhz on the eMate) and the Newton didn't have any particular hard-button requirement that this thing doesn't meet. The only thing I can think of being a problem is the lack of PCMCIA, but with wireless... and drivers... this could be a real option to buying used hardware if you want a Newton. Adding support for the color screen and non-kludgy wireless drivers would seem to be the biggest issue, IMHO.
Not very far. We've got massive government corruption, corporations buying legislation, powerful firearms on the street (arguably a good thing), and nifty techie frobnicators.
We're almost there, really.
If I remember correctly, about 80% of gun crime is criminals shooting other criminals. How much of a difference would that make?
"Rule 29: The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy, no more no less."
-The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Pirates
What applications are you running?
Oh yeah, I use compact flourescents all over the bloody place and I push my family to do the same. (Gently; we're at about 50% right now)
Problem is they don't dim and I'm also adopting an X10 home-automation system, and those allow enough current to trickle through the boxes to run the flourescents when set to 'off'. That just won't fly.
*raises a hand*
I don't back up all of my CDs, much as I'd like to; I do however back up the ones that are hard to impossible to find and rip everything as MP3 -- not as good a backup as a disc image, but passable. And with iTunes and ALE, it just got a little more passable.
Silly rabbit...
I use FileProg and FileZ for copying that sort of stuff -- it's often easier to beam PRCs from old handheld to new handheld than to reinstall the applications from scratch. (you know that things like AOL mail and personal settings databases are copy-protected, your notes file, addresses... all copy-protected.)
Isn't it generally recognized that contracts entered to under duress are null and void? And to be enforcable, they must provide a benefit to both parties?
Isn't that the system that has yet to pay out a dime to authors and artists?
It's not the "Patriot Act"; it's the "USAPATRIOT Act".
It has nothing to do with patriotism, so calling it the "Patriot Act" is misleading.
Does the Patriot Missile have anything to do with patriotism?
Dude, lithium batteries already explode quite nicely. Some have built-in 'controlled critical failure' pressure relief systems (a little cap on the end blows off before the battery detonates) but those turn them into miniature rockets.
Y'know, that's what they said about lasers, too.
How much does subscription cost?
First, "mostly open source" doesn't mean "open source". Second, it's not $5. Third, it only runs on Linspire. What about Debian, Slackware, Redhat, and every other flavor of linux? I think they just got screwed.
Key Features:
* Flawless DVD playback - licensed decryption codecs play commerical discs
* Broad multimedia support - dozens of video, audio and streaming media formats
* Affordable - just $4.95 for Warehouse members; $39.95 for non-members
How about Joe Average failing to comprehend the EULA which was written in legalese as a tactic of intentional obfuscation? I dunno about everyone here, but I have to reread anything resembling a license agreement at least once; the exceptions being the last Apple EULA I read I got in one pass and the GPL which I remember, more or less.
How about making the spyware and adware and password sniffers an optional download, if it makes you happy to have marketers and such lowlifes watching your every CPU cycle.
You know what? I loved my Newtons - all three of them - and I love the idea of an OQO running OSX. You don't need to right-click in OSX, eliminating my biggest beef about WinXP Tablet.
Anyone seen any of the various iPad renders? One of them looks an awful lot like this...
I never said that - I was merely pointing out a problem with the "if you can't pay, don't play" argument.
And it's not $400 worth of music, it's a lot more. Let's say 100 gb of music, 10mb to a song - he compresses with 240 kbps or something - ten thousand songs. Now sure, the record industry could calculate their theoretical losses based on him buying singles, but wait - they don't sell singles any more. Let's say on average he has three songs per CD - some is going to be higher and some lower, but I'm trying to intentionally underestimate the cost here.
Also, let's assume that each one of these CDs costs ten dollars, which is a laughably low figure. It's much more likely that each is around fifteen dollars, but you can do the multiplication yourself if you want to know how much that is.
Grand total: $33,333.33
Where did you get four hundred dollars?
most people are downloading music specifically because they can't pay for it. Imagine our little hypothetical gray-hat hacker - he's got say, a 100gb firewire drive packed to the gills with illegally copied music. Do you really think that the total cost of that music is less than that of is firewire disk? Especially if he's got about one song per CD there? I'd do the math, but those numbers are big and scary (and I don't have a calculator)
How long before companies start suing people who write unfavorable reviews? Or for giving a favorable review to a competitor's product?
That's why Micro$oft has a clause in their EULAs taht prevents licensees from distributing benchmark tests without written permission.
You know, Trillian's been doing this for a while...
Really? New paperbacks cost just shy of ten dollars in Florida.
On the other hand, used hardbacks can be had for, on average, $5 if you have patience and you're not afraid to try a few stores. And if you hit a garage sale and pick up the entire Wheel of Time for $10, that's about $200 you're not spending on new books. (well, assuming everything is hardbound)
Let me put this bluntly: Paperbacks are no longer cheap.
Yes. Because they would not have the selection of music they have today. Many music copyright holders will not release their works digitally without some kind of technological protection.
Your answer violates the assumption the original post asked for - and while I have an iTunes account and five songs to my name, all were paid for courtesy of Pepsi. I'm not going to spend $1 on the track, then another $1 on a blank CD to produce a degraded track that I can listen to on my MuVo. If, on the other hand, I can skip paying for a CD, I'd be much more inclined to give the nice people my money. I could get an iPod, and sure I'd be happier using that and playing by the rules than using my keychain to listen to music, but I've been saving for the last year or so.
Apple is very close to having a natural monopoly in online content, simply because they offer fairly reasonable restrictions on the use of content bought from them. However, assume they removed the requirement to buy an iPod to get the full Apple experience - I predict that sales on iTms would jump significantly.
Why mod him a troll? He's got a valid point. This would be so very much cooler if you could import your own content (slashdot dumps, Wired News, Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, Baen novels...) and even more so if it had an analogue to M$ Journal
Well, there's the THEL and similar systems, which have been shooting down crap in New Mexico and Israel for a few years now, and I'm pretty sure they're in the megawatt range. However, it's a DeFl (Deuterium Flouride, related to hydrogen flouride lasers, but producing a more desirable wavelength by using more expensive fuel) laser and not a COIL (chemical oxygen-iodine laser) like the one on the jet.
.50bmg rifle rounds since this article was written
I believe similar weapons have intercepted
So yes, you're technically right - a megawatt laser system is in use by the military mounted on something other than a 747-400F aircraft. Maybe they could use these things as Phalanx guns on naval vessels, someday in the not-too-distant future?
That's right, cue the Evangelion jokes.