"ability to switch to the IE engine".. or how to ruin the efforts of a community to develop a more secure browsing platform with only one mouse click. They should have concentrated on developing many extensions for the thing. Stuff like aim chat extension, save bookmarks, listen to netscape radio (i.e a a small taskbar control). I can think of way too many things before even considering running IE in Firefox. Why didn't they instead spend the $$$ improving rendering in FireFox so that all these IE only sites render properly?
They could have delivered a killer box if it supported Mpeg4. There's no way I am going to re-encode all my DivX to Mpeg-2. And I don't want to run VideoLan on my PC to encode on the fly and stream to this thing.
I thought there already was an exploit like this and they had already fixed it. I get confused by these weekly security announcements.
Oh well, these developers might as well move their stuff to more secure platforms since they need to re-write it.
MS will keep their market domination as long as people have MS windows at home. People will keep MS at home as long as they needn't pay for Windows (either through OEM or piracy). THe day MS ***seriously*** cracks down on license thieves, will the market share move away.
I think he meant multi-threading as you probably knew in the first place.
For non palm users out there, one of the main critics in regard to Palm OS is the inability to run multiple programs simultaneously (as it can be done in PocketPC).
Enough with storage, we need security features
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I have been using Yahoo's 50 MB email service. It recently became 2gb. Which is I think more than enough, especially since I use pop3 and download everything to my machine.
I don't really care that they increase it anymore.
However I WISH they had full https access. Currently only the sign-on is optionnaly SSLed, however after authentification you are back to plain http. This means that in my company, the proxy administrators probably have a clear view of what I am sending and receiving.
Does anybody know if.Mac offers full SSL access to their services? ie the address book, calendar, mail and Idisk? If it does I am signing up right now.
Now inly if Yahoo would come out with mac clients for the address, calendar and even briefcase sync (they did have at one point a win98 client to mount the briefcase however they never fully developed it as I assume this was a bandwith hog...)
My comment was up to +3 Interesting this afternoon. Then school time was over and the rating came down... Hmmm.. Memo to myself: never attack games or other children occupations before their bedtime...
So I got an xbox soon after it came out in Europe. The reason was clearly Halo, but I figured I could put that ethernet jack into good use once they would release some online games for it. Sure enough they did come out with Xbox Live which was susbscription based in pure MSFT style. WTF? why do I need to pay for gaming service? $50 a year? Are you kidding? On my PC the SAME games (ie Medal of Honor, Unreal etc.) can be hosted on dedicated servers or homebased servers (free). Now I have to pay for 20% more expensive games plus subscription for Xbox Live? My Ethernet jack on the Xbox is now used to stream content for Xbox Media Center.
Sony make it happen, bring us through online experience.
Ok, So I bought into VoIP about a year ago. I bought a small Analog to VoIP converter to hook up an old phone I had and get a new line. At first I tried out Free World Dialup. Worked but had limited use as it didn't have so many users. Plus I couldn't imagine explaining to my parents and technophobe friends how to configure their firewall (gasps) and get to configure even Jphone or the like. Too many paramaters!!
I subscribed here in the UK to a VoIP service (Pipemedia). To put it simple. It sucks. Low success rate of incoming and outgoing calls. Now caller Id on incoming calls etc. One of the benefits , or so I thought, or VoIP was the ability to take the line theoritically everywhere I went (like at my Parents Place while on Holiday as they live in the carribbean and I wanted my British number ot follow me). Well it's a no go. Setting the damn thing up was a hassle.
THe only thing I got from the whole VoIP experience was as much time setting up the system, checking the configuration when the VoIP was unreliable etc..)
Then came skype. Skype works virtually from anywhere. It's a no brainer and it just works. That's something you can't top. Most of all I could even get my parents to install it painlessly. The only think I am waiting for now is a Handytone-like adapter that will be plugged directly in an ethernet jack and allow my traditional phone to the Skype network with no computer assistance. I know they have a USB adapter in the works with Siemens but I can't really see the point if it still requires a computer.
I think that very seriously they will then achieve the perfect equation: ultra simple service + security + free + hardware that just works (like the software) = profit fromthe value added services (skype out/in, voice mail etc.)
While this is not a showstopper, can somebody explain me why Firefox for mac ever since 0.7 has a problem with Expose feature? IE one can se a small window attached to the main window? Also, why is it we cannot search the bookmarks in the sidebar wihtout crashinf the whole application?
Small annoyances but we are getting awfully close to 1.0 and still no sign of improvement. Safari is catching up in terms of speed and is looking ever more appealing!
I remember reading one day about some research somebody did about abusing the network capacity to store data.
Basically he would send mail to himself via a third party smtp server. Of course he would tell his destination server to ignore his messages until a set date, then refuse the messages which would then be bounced back to his originatin email acocunt.
By having a roll on that he achieved some pretty amazing storage for FREE! with ultra reliable ISP grade mail backup.
Now aplly to same principle to space! Saw you have a server on Mars.
You could transmit to Mars the data in full before MArs even started receiving the Data.
When Mars would receive the data it would immediately send it back, not even waiting for the message to be completely received. Thus the data would not use any storage on mars either.
At this point you have achieved media less storage. And have abused the network capacity of Space. Talk about the geek factor in that!.
I don't really wan't to model this network's capacity but everybody here understands that it is a function of the transmission rate, celerity, distance with "relay" server.
Of course there is an amount of data for which you will start needing some sort of storage on both servers. This will noly happen if the data has time to do a return trip to and from the relay server in less time than one can transmit the data in full.
Improve the transmission rate and your network "memory capacity" multiplies.
Sounds good, but do they offer encryption? Better yet decentralised server (ala P2P?)?
Only skyp offers both of these. Yes it only works via software now but they are coming up with a siemens adapter/phone later this year.
Also, unlike may of these voip software packages. Skype worked the first time around with NO configuration. Crystal clear sound every time all the time. Even when both or all parties are behind firewalls.
Try that with FWD..
Also, when will we be getting "a la carte" voip? here in the uk I already have a phone line subscription, I don't want to pay another $15 for an extra line. I just want something that I pay WHEN I use it. Also I want to TAKE my number with me whenever I travel to France, the caribbean or the UK. Right now the closest thing to that is Skype on my pocket PC. It is still lacking POTS connectivity but it's coming..
Most of the Apps out there don't uninstall fully and in a clean way. Care to tell us why Quicktime is worse than others? Just get the VideoLan player or Media Player Classic (the one from Sourceforge not MSFT stuff). What else do you need?
I do understand where you are coming from and all this makes perfect sense.
However according to this article (http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/) larger engine s ARE more efficient than typical car engines. They state the thermal efficiency of this very large engine is in the 50% zone as cars are in the 25%/30% range. Have a read. It is very interesting.
Where I totally agree aith you is that when frequent changes in rpm and output are needed, smaller engines should be more efficient as there is less energy lost in the acceleration of deceleration of moving parts. As we both kow cinetic energy is important and when you have to get huge pistons to start moving faster it can take a lot of energy. Never mind getting the whole system (Ie engine + frame) moving. A very heavy mass to move (ie large engine) does eat up a lot of energy).
The only thing different in this hybrid car with traditional car is that the petrol engine has no mechanical connection with the wheels. Thus the engine can actually be whirling at a constant speed to produce the energy as the electric engines propulse the car. Point here is that my logical reasoning makes me believe that a diesel engine might have been better for this kind of job.
However I will not question the savoir faire of the Toyota engineers and they probably found the best weight/efficiency comprmomise. Left in doubt however is why they used a petrol engine rather than their 1.4 turbo diesel (aka D4D) in house engine as used in the Yaris. It produces 70bhp which is quite good and is ultra efficient. But marketing has its reasons and as Diesel isn't popular in the US and Japan they went for petrol
The only thing wrong with your assumption is that you think efficiency is constant accross the rpm range. That is not true. Friction and thus losses increase exponentially with RPM. Thus a smaller engine whirling at 80% of max power will probably consume more than a bigger motor turning at very low rpm.
Just ask yourself why they put huge cubic displacement engines in Cruise Boats? The engines are aboslutely massive but turn extremely low (ie 300/400 rpm). They key is that they have more efficiency than smaller engines. Ie for each gallon of gas used they produce more mechanical energy and less termic dissapation.
This advertisement has been brought to you by MSFT.
Seriously whatever this means, experts are losing credibility making contradictory statements.
One institute believes Open_source is good. The other says says evil.
You know what: all this "noise" and "incertainty" is just benefiting MSFT. Just like when in a storm, living things hide to a safer "calmer" place (ok worms not withstanding as per definition they are unpredictable).
I really meant apple could pay these guys "consulting" fees. And at $50K a year just to shut up, I think many people would go for it. Come tothink of it that not only sound for the image they are giving the industry ("We are doing everything we can to keep ahead of DRM cracks") but also economically sound: Just imagine 1 weeks worth of work from say a 10 People DRM team to develop + testing and then releasing an update for Itunes with all the attached costs (ie bandwith etc..).
And of course you kill two birds with one stones with that:
1) you get some wickedly good programmers that will teach them a couple of things about DRM
2) Nobody else seems to be able to do what these reverse engineers are doing. And as I very much doubt that Apple will authorize them to carry on their little hobby if they are empleyed sooo..
Hire them!
For roughly $50K a pop Apple would be sure this wouldn't happen anymore
Or you could record formula 1 Grand Prix which come in multiple angle's here in France on CanalSatellite. (altough it is digital so you would need 7 decoders..)
Or you could as you have said record multiple angles with surveillance tapes. Good thing about it is that we could FINALLY put our DVD burners into action for something legal and burn DVD-Videos with the ISO Multi-angle DVD Playback (as for the concerts).
BTW, I know there are multi-channel audio-files (Dolby Digital, WMA etc.) But are there multi-channel video file formats?
Gotta give it to you though. These 7 tuners are more of a Marketing gimmick than anything else.
3 analog tuners should be plenty enough for anybody (copyright).
Well Lindows for one offers a discount for their os when downloaded via BitTorrent. Also Blizzard Interactive should be offering game patches via BT as well. (couldn't bother to find the sources but you get the idea). Kazaa had announced an agrement a few months ago to distribute short films via it's network. A french movie producer recently introduced a "fake" bootleg version of it's movie on all p2p networks. What it was in fact was a Sort of Making of with exclusive interviewa from the actors. The tone was pretty much "you should rather support the movie by going to the theatre etc.." Was a great success from what I heard.
But yeah I agree totally with you. P2p networks are 99% used in an illegal way.
Yet philosophically I adhere to the idea of a self maintained network, not server reliant and thus not censurable.
Unless has wonders I am not aware of I don't think so.
Here in Europe my phone (gsm) doesn't work in midflight. I have serious doubts that phone networks make it 10Km high THROUGH the faraday cage that a plane is. To your credit though, they do work at low altitude in take-off and landing phases. But never in jets at cruise altitude.
Yeah uhuh, right. So how is this can gonna transmit it's GPS position via cell networks if it's in Midflight? You do know GPS is one way - ie you only receive info from the sats and do not transmit anything to them.
So it will turn out that they will only find out when you land (if the batteries are still good after trying to transmit for hours of flight)
Still would be funny though if there was a realistic way for these guys to chase a very fast target
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"ability to switch to the IE engine"..
or how to ruin the efforts of a community to develop a more secure browsing platform with only one mouse click.
They should have concentrated on developing many extensions for the thing.
Stuff like aim chat extension, save bookmarks, listen to netscape radio (i.e a a small taskbar control). I can think of way too many things before even considering running IE in Firefox.
Why didn't they instead spend the $$$ improving rendering in FireFox so that all these IE only sites render properly?
Cool,
Now ID soft can release Doom3 written in VB! I bet this thing willl get close to 30 fps!
They could have delivered a killer box if it supported Mpeg4.
There's no way I am going to re-encode all my DivX to Mpeg-2. And I don't want to run VideoLan on my PC to encode on the fly and stream to this thing.
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I thought there already was an exploit like this and they had already fixed it. I get confused by these weekly security announcements.
Oh well, these developers might as well move their stuff to more secure platforms since they need to re-write it.
MS will keep their market domination as long as people have MS windows at home. People will keep MS at home as long as they needn't pay for Windows (either through OEM or piracy). THe day MS ***seriously*** cracks down on license thieves, will the market share move away.
I think he meant multi-threading as you probably knew in the first place.
For non palm users out there, one of the main critics in regard to Palm OS is the inability to run multiple programs simultaneously (as it can be done in PocketPC).
I have been using Yahoo's 50 MB email service. It recently became 2gb. Which is I think more than enough, especially since I use pop3 and download everything to my machine.
.Mac offers full SSL access to their services? ie the address book, calendar, mail and Idisk? If it does I am signing up right now.
I don't really care that they increase it anymore.
However I WISH they had full https access. Currently only the sign-on is optionnaly SSLed, however after authentification you are back to plain http. This means that in my company, the proxy administrators probably have a clear view of what I am sending and receiving.
Does anybody know if
Now inly if Yahoo would come out with mac clients for the address, calendar and even briefcase sync (they did have at one point a win98 client to mount the briefcase however they never fully developed it as I assume this was a bandwith hog...)
My comment was up to +3 Interesting this afternoon.
Then school time was over and the rating came down...
Hmmm..
Memo to myself: never attack games or other children occupations before their bedtime...
lol!
Mod me down baby!
So I got an xbox soon after it came out in Europe. The reason was clearly Halo, but I figured I could put that ethernet jack into good use once they would release some online games for it.
Sure enough they did come out with Xbox Live which was susbscription based in pure MSFT style.
WTF? why do I need to pay for gaming service? $50 a year? Are you kidding?
On my PC the SAME games (ie Medal of Honor, Unreal etc.) can be hosted on dedicated servers or homebased servers (free).
Now I have to pay for 20% more expensive games plus subscription for Xbox Live?
My Ethernet jack on the Xbox is now used to stream content for Xbox Media Center.
Sony make it happen, bring us through online experience.
Ok,
So I bought into VoIP about a year ago. I bought a small Analog to VoIP converter to hook up an old phone I had and get a new line.
At first I tried out Free World Dialup. Worked but had limited use as it didn't have so many users. Plus I couldn't imagine explaining to my parents and technophobe friends how to configure their firewall (gasps) and get to configure even Jphone or the like. Too many paramaters!!
I subscribed here in the UK to a VoIP service (Pipemedia). To put it simple. It sucks. Low success rate of incoming and outgoing calls.
Now caller Id on incoming calls etc.
One of the benefits , or so I thought, or VoIP was the ability to take the line theoritically everywhere I went (like at my Parents Place while on Holiday as they live in the carribbean and I wanted my British number ot follow me). Well it's a no go. Setting the damn thing up was a hassle.
THe only thing I got from the whole VoIP experience was as much time setting up the system, checking the configuration when the VoIP was unreliable etc..)
Then came skype. Skype works virtually from anywhere. It's a no brainer and it just works.
That's something you can't top.
Most of all I could even get my parents to install it painlessly.
The only think I am waiting for now is a Handytone-like adapter that will be plugged directly in an ethernet jack and allow my traditional phone to the Skype network with no computer assistance.
I know they have a USB adapter in the works with Siemens but I can't really see the point if it still requires a computer.
I think that very seriously they will then achieve the perfect equation:
ultra simple service + security + free + hardware that just works (like the software) = profit fromthe value added services (skype out/in, voice mail etc.)
While this is not a showstopper, can somebody explain me why Firefox for mac ever since 0.7 has a problem with Expose feature? IE one can se a small window attached to the main window?
Also, why is it we cannot search the bookmarks in the sidebar wihtout crashinf the whole application?
Small annoyances but we are getting awfully close to 1.0 and still no sign of improvement.
Safari is catching up in terms of speed and is looking ever more appealing!
I remember reading one day about some research somebody did about abusing the network capacity to store data. Basically he would send mail to himself via a third party smtp server. Of course he would tell his destination server to ignore his messages until a set date, then refuse the messages which would then be bounced back to his originatin email acocunt. By having a roll on that he achieved some pretty amazing storage for FREE! with ultra reliable ISP grade mail backup. Now aplly to same principle to space! Saw you have a server on Mars. You could transmit to Mars the data in full before MArs even started receiving the Data. When Mars would receive the data it would immediately send it back, not even waiting for the message to be completely received. Thus the data would not use any storage on mars either. At this point you have achieved media less storage. And have abused the network capacity of Space. Talk about the geek factor in that!. I don't really wan't to model this network's capacity but everybody here understands that it is a function of the transmission rate, celerity, distance with "relay" server. Of course there is an amount of data for which you will start needing some sort of storage on both servers. This will noly happen if the data has time to do a return trip to and from the relay server in less time than one can transmit the data in full. Improve the transmission rate and your network "memory capacity" multiplies.
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Sounds good, but do they offer encryption? Better yet decentralised server (ala P2P?)?
Only skyp offers both of these. Yes it only works via software now but they are coming up with a siemens adapter/phone later this year.
Also, unlike may of these voip software packages. Skype worked the first time around with NO configuration. Crystal clear sound every time all the time. Even when both or all parties are behind firewalls.
Try that with FWD..
Also, when will we be getting "a la carte" voip? here in the uk I already have a phone line subscription, I don't want to pay another $15 for an extra line. I just want something that I pay WHEN I use it. Also I want to TAKE my number with me whenever I travel to France, the caribbean or the UK. Right now the closest thing to that is Skype on my pocket PC. It is still lacking POTS connectivity but it's coming..
Most of the Apps out there don't uninstall fully and in a clean way. Care to tell us why Quicktime is worse than others?
Just get the VideoLan player or Media Player Classic (the one from Sourceforge not MSFT stuff).
What else do you need?
I do understand where you are coming from and all this makes perfect sense.
However according to this article (http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/) larger engine s ARE more efficient than typical car engines. They state the thermal efficiency of this very large engine is in the 50% zone as cars are in the 25%/30% range. Have a read. It is very interesting.
Where I totally agree aith you is that when frequent changes in rpm and output are needed, smaller engines should be more efficient as there is less energy lost in the acceleration of deceleration of moving parts. As we both kow cinetic energy is important and when you have to get huge pistons to start moving faster it can take a lot of energy. Never mind getting the whole system (Ie engine + frame) moving. A very heavy mass to move (ie large engine) does eat up a lot of energy).
The only thing different in this hybrid car with traditional car is that the petrol engine has no mechanical connection with the wheels. Thus the engine can actually be whirling at a constant speed to produce the energy as the electric engines propulse the car. Point here is that my logical reasoning makes me believe that a diesel engine might have been better for this kind of job.
However I will not question the savoir faire of the Toyota engineers and they probably found the best weight/efficiency comprmomise.
Left in doubt however is why they used a petrol engine rather than their 1.4 turbo diesel (aka D4D) in house engine as used in the Yaris. It produces 70bhp which is quite good and is ultra efficient. But marketing has its reasons and as Diesel isn't popular in the US and Japan they went for petrol
The only thing wrong with your assumption is that you think efficiency is constant accross the rpm range.
That is not true. Friction and thus losses increase exponentially with RPM. Thus a smaller engine whirling at 80% of max power will probably consume more than a bigger motor turning at very low rpm.
Just ask yourself why they put huge cubic displacement engines in Cruise Boats? The engines are aboslutely massive but turn extremely low (ie 300/400 rpm). They key is that they have more efficiency than smaller engines. Ie for each gallon of gas used they produce more mechanical energy and less termic dissapation.
This advertisement has been brought to you by MSFT.
Seriously whatever this means, experts are losing credibility making contradictory statements.
One institute believes Open_source is good. The other says says evil.
You know what: all this "noise" and "incertainty" is just benefiting MSFT. Just like when in a storm, living things hide to a safer "calmer" place (ok worms not withstanding as per definition they are unpredictable).
I think you got the essence of my post.
I really meant apple could pay these guys "consulting" fees. And at $50K a year just to shut up, I think many people would go for it.
Come tothink of it that not only sound for the image they are giving the industry ("We are doing everything we can to keep ahead of DRM cracks") but also economically sound: Just imagine 1 weeks worth of work from say a 10 People DRM team to develop + testing and then releasing an update for Itunes with all the attached costs (ie bandwith etc..).
$50K would seem like a good deal.
And of course you kill two birds with one stones with that:
1) you get some wickedly good programmers that will teach them a couple of things about DRM
2) Nobody else seems to be able to do what these reverse engineers are doing. And as I very much doubt that Apple will authorize them to carry on their little hobby if they are empleyed sooo..
Hire them!
For roughly $50K a pop Apple would be sure this wouldn't happen anymore
Or you could record formula 1 Grand Prix which come in multiple angle's here in France on CanalSatellite. (altough it is digital so you would need 7 decoders..)
Or you could as you have said record multiple angles with surveillance tapes. Good thing about it is that we could FINALLY put our DVD burners into action for something legal and burn DVD-Videos with the ISO Multi-angle DVD Playback (as for the concerts).
BTW, I know there are multi-channel audio-files (Dolby Digital, WMA etc.) But are there multi-channel video file formats?
Gotta give it to you though. These 7 tuners are more of a Marketing gimmick than anything else.
3 analog tuners should be plenty enough for anybody (copyright).
Well Lindows for one offers a discount for their os when downloaded via BitTorrent.
Also Blizzard Interactive should be offering game patches via BT as well. (couldn't bother to find the sources but you get the idea).
Kazaa had announced an agrement a few months ago to distribute short films via it's network.
A french movie producer recently introduced a "fake" bootleg version of it's movie on all p2p networks. What it was in fact was a Sort of Making of with exclusive interviewa from the actors. The tone was pretty much "you should rather support the movie by going to the theatre etc.." Was a great success from what I heard.
But yeah I agree totally with you. P2p networks are 99% used in an illegal way.
Yet philosophically I adhere to the idea of a self maintained network, not server reliant and thus not censurable.
Unless CDMA that is..
Unless has wonders I am not aware of I don't think so.
Here in Europe my phone (gsm) doesn't work in midflight. I have serious doubts that phone networks make it 10Km high THROUGH the faraday cage that a plane is.
To your credit though, they do work at low altitude in take-off and landing phases. But never in jets at cruise altitude.
Yeah uhuh, right.
So how is this can gonna transmit it's GPS position via cell networks if it's in Midflight?
You do know GPS is one way - ie you only receive info from the sats and do not transmit anything to them.
So it will turn out that they will only find out when you land (if the batteries are still good after trying to transmit for hours of flight)
Still would be funny though if there was a realistic way for these guys to chase a very fast target