As digital cameras get in the hands of more and more snap happy photographers there will be more and more average images cluttering the PC's of the world.
And that's not a bad thing. Most of the people who take the pics want to see the people in the images, and doesn't give a damn about the composition or other aesthetic quality. As long as there's a person they love in the scene, all else is meaningless.
Fair if you're interested in the creative side of photography of course.
If that's the brand new price it's an eMac, and they're not LCD, they're CRTs
Not a bad CRT as CRTs go, but still a CRT.
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The only other thing I could ask for is telephone, but thats going a little overboard. $1,500 might seem a little steep, but I'd definately shell it out for this seemingly perfect solution to all my problems.
I'm with you there. Predicting whether this particular machine will be a success is a bit iffy. It's pricey, the specs may be a bit behind due to the time it's taken to come to market, but to me the concept is all there. Why have a different OS (XP vs WinCE) on a desktop and a handheld when the tech is there for both to use the same for *most* users? No reason.
Consistency is king, and this concept has it. It's just needed an implementation.
This is hardly the bottom 5% of the internet. Most regular Joe Users that I've talked to don't even realize they have to update their machines. So there are probably a lot of people that don't even have the Blaster patch...
How can people NOT know. God, they click "yes" on enough spyware/malware/whatever email crap, but when windows update comes up to tell them there's a new patch for a bad virus, they're clicking no?
If an iPod was only a music player for compressed audio it'd be pointless, but I know plenty of people who insist on using uncompressed audio - the semi audiophile.
Along with using iTunes lossless compression, acting as an external HD for people who use them from time to time, and being a bit of a wanky showoff, there's a market for this.
Chances are, flashing your PC with this BIOS instead of the MS approved DRM one will prevent your PC from sharing data with DRMed Windows PCs. So, DRMed if you do, DRMed if you don't..
If it works that way it'll also prevent a DRMd PC from sharing data with those linux servers becoming all so common nowadays. Works both ways.
I remember back when Microsoft touted that these media players running Windows would be the death of the iPod, but it seems less and less likely now. The only people who could possibly use this device as a music player primarily must have deep pockets (in both the physical and metaphorical sense).
I don't think these will be a death-of-the-iPod type machine, more a solid market of their own. Smaller, but no less worth following for a company that's capable of making the things.
A bit like the success of Apple when viewed from a distance. They may have under 5% of 'the market' but that is a damned gigantic market.
I think you're right on the money. May be well worth taking the job to an outside agency. There are many print shops using Xerox Docutechs, which scan in many hundreds of sheets at once to print copies of documents. The scanning takes barely a second a page, and it wouldn't surprise me if the document format being stored inside the docutech is something that can be used for this purpose.
I've had a similar job, where our school's lecturers wanted their notes in the same style so one of my jobs as admin assistant was retyping chapters from textbooks & inserting the original illustrations. That didn't start out too bad until lecturers started basing course notes on entire quarters of books, expecting them to be retyped completely in their own style. Give an inch they'll try to take a mile - use the few hundred $$ to get it professionally scanned.
Can't trojans that get onto Macs turn into bona-fide worms, distributing themselves via Address Book and HTML e-mail that does the 'disk://' download?
Theoretically yes.
It's certainly possible to click on a link and have it run code that emails everyone in your address books with a mail that also has that same link in it. That would spread the link to many other people, many of whom would click on it.
However as yet the code only runs in userland and can stay executing no longer than a current session. rebooting will kill it and it won't come back unless clicked again. Because of that its ability to drop a payload that will be useful later to intrude on the machine is limited.
But what they're saying is that if I mount a Trojan Horse disk image, it will do bad things to my computer. Explain to me how this is worse than a Trojan horse program? It's possible to write a trojan horse for any platform. Only download software from places you trust.
A trojan program is one thing.
These exploits will, with one single click on a link somewhere in a browser, download an attacker's code and then run that code automatically.
There's a big difference between being sent an app or downloading it, then running it in a separate action, and "click this link to see a photo of my cat" then within seconds have an attacker's code wiping all files you have permission to run.
As is, a default OSX install is vulnerable to a malicious link in someone's slashdot.sig for example. Click the.sig, and run the attacker's code.
To continue using Safari safely, just uncheck 'Open 'safe' files after downloading.' - which prevents the automagic mounting of disk images you download. No one should be using that option.
But that doesn't actually stop the automatic mounting of disk images in this case. That's part of the exploit.
Konqueror is a good start. no extraneous crap like IE. I laughed when I read
With the next version of Internet Explorer tied to the release of longhorn, and still years off, what hope is there for innovation in CSS, SVG, XHTML and other web standards?
There's all the MORE hope for standards. standards that will actually be adhered to creating a sea of non-monoculture browsers, all working to a common goal, instead of one megacorp defining in secret what a browser should do.
Real innovation will come with the proper open standards, allowing ALL people using all OSs to access the web how it was intended.
And people will wonder why the US falls behind in tech.
I see that as what will break the camel's back.
As soon as areas in Asia keep bounding ahead, further and further, and the US is dragged under by constant patent battles (except for the big 2 or 3 megacorps with patents... patents that don't apply in Asia anyway) then something will have to be done. Things will be changed with legislation, or they'll fall apart.
These chips, distantly related to the 68k motorolas, were once touted as a possible upgrade path for new Amigas in the mid 1990s. Hopefully with these new ones, the more modern AmigaOS4 can be ported to them, and continue the heritage. At the moment the only stock available is AmigaOne G3, G4 and mini-itx PPC boards, which are artificially inflated in price by the apple/ibm/motorola consortium.
AmigaDOS 1.3 had the ability to do them too before 1988. That's before macs could do any more than black & white (not greyscale. Pixels were either black or white) imagery, so it was physically impossible at the time for Apple.
That is very similar to the effects of Depleted Uranium shots. While they're not dropped but are fired, the kinetic effects of a long thin rod of metal that's 1.7 times the density of lead, nearly as hard as tungsten, but with a far lower melting point it can be cast much more easily. On top of that, after impacting with armor and absorbing some of that incredible kinetic energy, it burns like magnesium, so not only does it put a hole in whatever it's fired at, it fills it with a white hot ball of flame while spewing molten, radioactive metal everywhere.
All by taking advantage of the properties of the right material for the job*, instead of using explosive charges mixed with separate high density armor piercing segments, no electronic logic required to make it do all it does.
* assuming the "job" requires something to effectively kill other humans operating and the enemy vehicle they operate while showering the area in radiation. My post is about the technical abilities of a kinetic dumb projectile, not its morals!
I'm no physicist, but the article talks about photons and their properties, then mid sentence and afterwards begins referring to them as protons and THEIR properties, then goes on with a description of some photon/proton hybrid logic
What's the problem with sniping? You're given X amount of time to put in a maximum bid you'll pay. If someone else wants to pay more, they'll pay more be it by sniping or not.
Say you want to buy a monitor. what's the most you'd pay for it? let's say $100. If someone snipes you at $101 that's not unfair. You didn't want to pay over $100.
If someone at the last minute pushes the bid up from $50 to $95, and you still have $100 as your top bid, it's not like they're suddenly stealing $45 from you. You wanted to pay $100, you won it for less.
The only problem I see is people addicted to the dramatics of bidding, by pushing up the price 50c at a time. If that game is part of the fun then... uhhh I guess it's what works for you, personally I use eBay to just buy things.
Bid your max bid first and leave it. everything is fair afterwards.
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Have to be better for you and more filling than a Micro-Soft Serve Cone
I'd also suggest setting up Airport Express and stream audio to whatever stereo system you may have.
As digital cameras get in the hands of more and more snap happy photographers there will be more and more average images cluttering the PC's of the world.
And that's not a bad thing. Most of the people who take the pics want to see the people in the images, and doesn't give a damn about the composition or other aesthetic quality. As long as there's a person they love in the scene, all else is meaningless.
Fair if you're interested in the creative side of photography of course.
If that's the brand new price it's an eMac, and they're not LCD, they're CRTs
Not a bad CRT as CRTs go, but still a CRT.
The only other thing I could ask for is telephone, but thats going a little overboard. $1,500 might seem a little steep, but I'd definately shell it out for this seemingly perfect solution to all my problems.
I'm with you there. Predicting whether this particular machine will be a success is a bit iffy. It's pricey, the specs may be a bit behind due to the time it's taken to come to market, but to me the concept is all there. Why have a different OS (XP vs WinCE) on a desktop and a handheld when the tech is there for both to use the same for *most* users? No reason.
Consistency is king, and this concept has it. It's just needed an implementation.
This is hardly the bottom 5% of the internet. Most regular Joe Users that I've talked to don't even realize they have to update their machines. So there are probably a lot of people that don't even have the Blaster patch...
How can people NOT know. God, they click "yes" on enough spyware/malware/whatever email crap, but when windows update comes up to tell them there's a new patch for a bad virus, they're clicking no?
Are people really this daft?
If an iPod was only a music player for compressed audio it'd be pointless, but I know plenty of people who insist on using uncompressed audio - the semi audiophile.
Along with using iTunes lossless compression, acting as an external HD for people who use them from time to time, and being a bit of a wanky showoff, there's a market for this.
Pretty similar in ways to apple's power buttons on macs since 1997
One press, puts it to sleep. Hold it down drops power
I haven't double pressed one, but it's not a large jump
Chances are, flashing your PC with this BIOS instead of the MS approved DRM one will prevent your PC from sharing data with DRMed Windows PCs. So, DRMed if you do, DRMed if you don't..
If it works that way it'll also prevent a DRMd PC from sharing data with those linux servers becoming all so common nowadays. Works both ways.
In the end all depends on who ends up worse off.
I remember back when Microsoft touted that these media players running Windows would be the death of the iPod, but it seems less and less likely now. The only people who could possibly use this device as a music player primarily must have deep pockets (in both the physical and metaphorical sense).
I don't think these will be a death-of-the-iPod type machine, more a solid market of their own. Smaller, but no less worth following for a company that's capable of making the things.
A bit like the success of Apple when viewed from a distance. They may have under 5% of 'the market' but that is a damned gigantic market.
Isn't that copyright infringement?
probably
I think you're right on the money. May be well worth taking the job to an outside agency. There are many print shops using Xerox Docutechs, which scan in many hundreds of sheets at once to print copies of documents. The scanning takes barely a second a page, and it wouldn't surprise me if the document format being stored inside the docutech is something that can be used for this purpose.
I've had a similar job, where our school's lecturers wanted their notes in the same style so one of my jobs as admin assistant was retyping chapters from textbooks & inserting the original illustrations. That didn't start out too bad until lecturers started basing course notes on entire quarters of books, expecting them to be retyped completely in their own style. Give an inch they'll try to take a mile - use the few hundred $$ to get it professionally scanned.
I don't think there's many things that haven't changed much like nasa's insignias. To me they're all so delightfully kitsch 50s stuff.
Nice to see something with continuity... even nicer that I like that base design.
Can't trojans that get onto Macs turn into bona-fide worms, distributing themselves via Address Book and HTML e-mail that does the 'disk://' download?
Theoretically yes.
It's certainly possible to click on a link and have it run code that emails everyone in your address books with a mail that also has that same link in it. That would spread the link to many other people, many of whom would click on it.
However as yet the code only runs in userland and can stay executing no longer than a current session. rebooting will kill it and it won't come back unless clicked again. Because of that its ability to drop a payload that will be useful later to intrude on the machine is limited.
But what they're saying is that if I mount a Trojan Horse disk image, it will do bad things to my computer. Explain to me how this is worse than a Trojan horse program? It's possible to write a trojan horse for any platform. Only download software from places you trust.
.sig for example. Click the .sig, and run the attacker's code.
A trojan program is one thing.
These exploits will, with one single click on a link somewhere in a browser, download an attacker's code and then run that code automatically.
There's a big difference between being sent an app or downloading it, then running it in a separate action, and "click this link to see a photo of my cat" then within seconds have an attacker's code wiping all files you have permission to run.
As is, a default OSX install is vulnerable to a malicious link in someone's slashdot
To continue using Safari safely, just uncheck 'Open 'safe' files after downloading.' - which prevents the automagic mounting of disk images you download. No one should be using that option.
But that doesn't actually stop the automatic mounting of disk images in this case. That's part of the exploit.
Konqueror is a good start. no extraneous crap like IE. I laughed when I read
With the next version of Internet Explorer tied to the release of longhorn, and still years off, what hope is there for innovation in CSS, SVG, XHTML and other web standards?
There's all the MORE hope for standards. standards that will actually be adhered to creating a sea of non-monoculture browsers, all working to a common goal, instead of one megacorp defining in secret what a browser should do.
Real innovation will come with the proper open standards, allowing ALL people using all OSs to access the web how it was intended.
On the other hand, since ITMS doesn't support the EU, the popularity of the iPod may fall dramatically now.
Looks like Apple just lost half their target in the EU
Because someone will own a piece of every idea.
And people will wonder why the US falls behind in tech.
I see that as what will break the camel's back.
As soon as areas in Asia keep bounding ahead, further and further, and the US is dragged under by constant patent battles (except for the big 2 or 3 megacorps with patents... patents that don't apply in Asia anyway) then something will have to be done. Things will be changed with legislation, or they'll fall apart.
Either way, it can't be kept up indefinitely
These chips, distantly related to the 68k motorolas, were once touted as a possible upgrade path for new Amigas in the mid 1990s. Hopefully with these new ones, the more modern AmigaOS4 can be ported to them, and continue the heritage. At the moment the only stock available is AmigaOne G3, G4 and mini-itx PPC boards, which are artificially inflated in price by the apple/ibm/motorola consortium.
Is there a PPC version?
AmigaDOS 1.3 had the ability to do them too before 1988. That's before macs could do any more than black & white (not greyscale. Pixels were either black or white) imagery, so it was physically impossible at the time for Apple.
That is very similar to the effects of Depleted Uranium shots. While they're not dropped but are fired, the kinetic effects of a long thin rod of metal that's 1.7 times the density of lead, nearly as hard as tungsten, but with a far lower melting point it can be cast much more easily. On top of that, after impacting with armor and absorbing some of that incredible kinetic energy, it burns like magnesium, so not only does it put a hole in whatever it's fired at, it fills it with a white hot ball of flame while spewing molten, radioactive metal everywhere.
All by taking advantage of the properties of the right material for the job*, instead of using explosive charges mixed with separate high density armor piercing segments, no electronic logic required to make it do all it does.
* assuming the "job" requires something to effectively kill other humans operating and the enemy vehicle they operate while showering the area in radiation. My post is about the technical abilities of a kinetic dumb projectile, not its morals!
I'm no physicist, but the article talks about photons and their properties, then mid sentence and afterwards begins referring to them as protons and THEIR properties, then goes on with a description of some photon/proton hybrid logic
Is this a joke article?
What's the problem with sniping? You're given X amount of time to put in a maximum bid you'll pay. If someone else wants to pay more, they'll pay more be it by sniping or not.
Say you want to buy a monitor. what's the most you'd pay for it? let's say $100. If someone snipes you at $101 that's not unfair. You didn't want to pay over $100.
If someone at the last minute pushes the bid up from $50 to $95, and you still have $100 as your top bid, it's not like they're suddenly stealing $45 from you. You wanted to pay $100, you won it for less.
The only problem I see is people addicted to the dramatics of bidding, by pushing up the price 50c at a time. If that game is part of the fun then... uhhh I guess it's what works for you, personally I use eBay to just buy things.
Bid your max bid first and leave it. everything is fair afterwards.