Yes, I've looked at that product, but having just signed a 2-year contract, paid $200 for the SDA, and bought a $70 memory card, I don't really feel like spending any more money on it now.
There are probably exposed APIs in VB.NET Compact that will let me make the phone act as a USB mass storage device at the least. Since I'm not using the built-in PIM, that would be plenty.
[Quick and Painless] "You have selected Quick and Painless. Are you sure? Windows Vista has several improvements to the Slow and Horrible option. Microsoft recommends that you choose Slow and Horrible for the optimum Windows Vista experience." [Quick and Painless] "Sorry, your computer is not compatible with Quick and Painless. Proceeding with Slow and Horrible....10% complete...."
(On the other hand, if this were Mozilla, you wouldn't be able to push "Quick and Painless" until you waited 5 seconds.)
Please, get your terminology right. Halfway through your post you switch from Macrovision, the company that provides DVD encryption, to Macromedia, the company that provides Flash. I doubt the latter has a care one way or the other in DVD protection.
It's the DMCA, not the DCMA. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Not "Copyright Millennium". And, young man, it doesn't fit the music as well. "It's fun to violate the D-M-C-A!"
Finally, he didn't "give all source code to Macrovision." Ignoring the grammatical ambiguity therein, he gave rights to the code, and unfortunately had not previously licensed it under a perpetual redistribution license. If he had simply GPL'd it (or CC-SA or anything), Macrovision would've had all the source code they wanted and couldn't've done a thing about it.
I know with a simply free phone I picked up from Cingular last year, I've now replaced my Palm...not that I've had much use for it anyways
I picked up a T-Mobile SDA, their WiFi smartphone, and I have dropped all plans for buying either an iPod or another PDA. Granted, WMP mobile is the most rudimentary player on the planet, but it plays music. And with all the other features of the SDA (Internet access wherever there's public WiFi, the regular PDA functions, and last but not least a cell phone) there's no justification in buying anything else.
Apple would've easily sold an iPod equivalent of the SDA to me. Being a Mac user, I'm not having fun rebooting just to get to ActiveSync (and that's just for installing apps - my contacts and calendar are on the Mac side). My current method of "synchronizing" songs and documents is moving the mini-SD card to a card reader and copying it by hand. In fact, they'd probably have made an iTMS user out of me (I just got started with iTunes on the Mac). As it is, half my music is pirated and the other half is Creative Commons.
So how about it? the iDA? GSM, AirPort Extreme, a lightweight WebKit-based browser, all the iPod features (music as well as PDA capabilities), and synchronization features built in to iTunes (for both Windows and Mac). Please?
If it's an admin then why can it not write into my own web directory (the directory mapped to / and subdirectories)? It's running as iusr_www best I can tell (I can sometimes make it work if I use cacls to grant rights to iusr_www).
Amazingly enough, Symantec headquarters are not getting burned up. Local church leaders are petitioning to declare the area "holy ground" and have removed their sandals.
The security model now allows it to write to c:\windows\system32 if you're logged in as administrator, even though it clearly has no business doing so.
The security model on my webhost allows my scripts to write to system32. But not to my own directories. There is something seriously wrong with either their sysadmin or Windows, and I believe it's the latter since we're just using the permissioning system that comes with Windows + IIS....
Yes you can. That's the Fourier transform I was talking about. It's a mathematical algorithm known for hundreds of years that can represent any waveform as a (possibly infinite) sum of sine waves of differing frequencies and amplitudes. Just take the amplitudes that are over a certain threshold, and apply a recognizer that knows how guitars give off harmonics. I have a freeware program (don't remember the name, it's on my other computer) that makes a graph of frequencies from a given.wav file in real time as it plays.
Two pure sine waves together is dead-easy to analyze (run the FFT, and it should just give 2 waves of significant amplitude). Two waves with noise wouldn't be that much harder. Adding overtones into the mix isn't all that difficult.
A MIDI pickup isn't all that necessary. Use a regular audio patch cable to hook up the guitar to Line In, and run a Fourier transform or whatnot to determine what pitch the use is playing.
Isn't the mod just an (unauthorized) derivative work of the OS already on the PSP?
There's nothing illegal ('cept in the manufacturer's eyes) about cleaning the system and flashing Linux. Now if you want to "mod"ify the system and keep the OS on there...that is copyright infringement on the same scale as emulated video games.
"a friend of my mothers dog's daughthers neighbour at Microsoft once demonstrated a modded PSP to Bill Gates and showed off all of the interesting things that enabled."
Lone Starr: "And what does that make us?" Bill Helmet: "Absolutely nothing! Which is exactly the license you had to mod this PSP!"
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Kinda like how it costs more energy to produce the average solar cell than it will generate while in use?
Is this wise? Decreasing the half-life means increasing the radioactivity. Given the option of living near a nuclear waste site and living near the lab where this is performed, I'd choose the former....
In order to get the radiation down to safe levels, you have to out-radiate everything up to that level. Same radiation, doesn't matter if it takes the normal amount of time or less.
I'd have to agree with you. If it weren't for the temptation of the Intel processor and Windows, I'd still be on my tangerine iBook. It's amazing what 300 MHz can still do.
The 5-bit teletype code in use at the time did not include punctuation characters in its encoding.
I know that. But why "stop"? Imagine someone having asked "Should I keep trying?" and getting the telegraph response "I THINK YOU SHOULD STOP". They'd have to remember that "STOP" means not "stop" but ".".
Why not "period" or something? THIS IS MY TELEGRAM PERIOD IS IT NOT NIFTY QUESTIONMARK
Or if you want to reduce the number of characters, use some sequence that isn't a valid word. THIS IS ONE SENTENCE ZZ THIS IS ANOTHER SENTENCE ZZ (with apologies to vi) - something like how TTY users use "GA".
Here's to hoping he ropes in real actors, even if they don't give to shits about SW than using a bunch of fanboys who they they know what they are doing.
More's the pity. We could use some good Gonzo writing nowadays.
But as you yourself said, the style's been run into the ground. Perhaps a clarification is necessary: we could use someone with the creativity and work ethic of Thompson. Just keep far, far away from his style. It's not effective anymore and it's completely ineffective for technology (as the submitter implied).
Do these activists care when during the 'peace times' Israeli kids and adults get blown up?
Yes. Did you see the actual defaced site? It simply says, "No war / This is a cyber-protest...." I would think that includes attacks by Israel on Lebanon, attacks by Lebanon on Israel, attacks by Israel on Palestine, attacks by Palestine on Israel, attacks by the US on everyone, attacks by vague terrorist groups on the US, attacks by Chechen separatists on Russia, attacks by Spain on Basque separatists, attacks by India and Pakistan on Kashmir, attacks in Darfur, in the Balkans, in Northern Ireland....
"No war" and a bleeding child refers to all conflict, IMHO.
'Cause they're parents, and they're...you know...older people with morals? And enough money that they're not forced to save $150 or so for tuition or booze?
Here's the difference. In 1984, Ingsoc had the resources and the devotees to go after every single Winston Smith. In real life, if your girlfriend buys 4 peaches and they take down her social security and mother's maiden name, what can the government do with that? The RIAA is an example of a group that has tried to do something with this mass surveillance data - and we've all seen how inaccurate their results have been. If the government wants to make the people fear it by attacking people at random, they won't spend the effort on collecting inaccurate data.
While we're on it, please note that you can sicken and possibly kill many people (including myself) if you spray a fine dust of ground peanuts into the air. If you add lactose, soy, etc. into the mix, you can incapacitate everyone with food allergies - which is a considerable percentage of people.
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Yes, I've looked at that product, but having just signed a 2-year contract, paid $200 for the SDA, and bought a $70 memory card, I don't really feel like spending any more money on it now.
There are probably exposed APIs in VB.NET Compact that will let me make the phone act as a USB mass storage device at the least. Since I'm not using the built-in PIM, that would be plenty.
[Quick and Painless]
"You have selected Quick and Painless. Are you sure? Windows Vista has several improvements to the Slow and Horrible option. Microsoft recommends that you choose Slow and Horrible for the optimum Windows Vista experience."
[Quick and Painless]
"Sorry, your computer is not compatible with Quick and Painless. Proceeding with Slow and Horrible....10% complete...."
(On the other hand, if this were Mozilla, you wouldn't be able to push "Quick and Painless" until you waited 5 seconds.)
Please, get your terminology right. Halfway through your post you switch from Macrovision, the company that provides DVD encryption, to Macromedia, the company that provides Flash. I doubt the latter has a care one way or the other in DVD protection.
It's the DMCA, not the DCMA. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Not "Copyright Millennium". And, young man, it doesn't fit the music as well. "It's fun to violate the D-M-C-A!"
Finally, he didn't "give all source code to Macrovision." Ignoring the grammatical ambiguity therein, he gave rights to the code, and unfortunately had not previously licensed it under a perpetual redistribution license. If he had simply GPL'd it (or CC-SA or anything), Macrovision would've had all the source code they wanted and couldn't've done a thing about it.
I picked up a T-Mobile SDA, their WiFi smartphone, and I have dropped all plans for buying either an iPod or another PDA. Granted, WMP mobile is the most rudimentary player on the planet, but it plays music. And with all the other features of the SDA (Internet access wherever there's public WiFi, the regular PDA functions, and last but not least a cell phone) there's no justification in buying anything else.
Apple would've easily sold an iPod equivalent of the SDA to me. Being a Mac user, I'm not having fun rebooting just to get to ActiveSync (and that's just for installing apps - my contacts and calendar are on the Mac side). My current method of "synchronizing" songs and documents is moving the mini-SD card to a card reader and copying it by hand. In fact, they'd probably have made an iTMS user out of me (I just got started with iTunes on the Mac). As it is, half my music is pirated and the other half is Creative Commons.
So how about it? the iDA? GSM, AirPort Extreme, a lightweight WebKit-based browser, all the iPod features (music as well as PDA capabilities), and synchronization features built in to iTunes (for both Windows and Mac). Please?
If it's an admin then why can it not write into my own web directory (the directory mapped to / and subdirectories)? It's running as iusr_www best I can tell (I can sometimes make it work if I use cacls to grant rights to iusr_www).
Some people won't get it yet have mod points.
What they need to do is run the Insanity Test on moderators. Depending on when you honestly laugh, you get a different amount of mod points....
Amazingly enough, Symantec headquarters are not getting burned up. Local church leaders are petitioning to declare the area "holy ground" and have removed their sandals.
The security model now allows it to write to c:\windows\system32 if you're logged in as administrator, even though it clearly has no business doing so.
The security model on my webhost allows my scripts to write to system32. But not to my own directories. There is something seriously wrong with either their sysadmin or Windows, and I believe it's the latter since we're just using the permissioning system that comes with Windows + IIS....
Yes you can. That's the Fourier transform I was talking about. It's a mathematical algorithm known for hundreds of years that can represent any waveform as a (possibly infinite) sum of sine waves of differing frequencies and amplitudes. Just take the amplitudes that are over a certain threshold, and apply a recognizer that knows how guitars give off harmonics. I have a freeware program (don't remember the name, it's on my other computer) that makes a graph of frequencies from a given .wav file in real time as it plays.
Two pure sine waves together is dead-easy to analyze (run the FFT, and it should just give 2 waves of significant amplitude). Two waves with noise wouldn't be that much harder. Adding overtones into the mix isn't all that difficult.
A MIDI pickup isn't all that necessary. Use a regular audio patch cable to hook up the guitar to Line In, and run a Fourier transform or whatnot to determine what pitch the use is playing.
Isn't the mod just an (unauthorized) derivative work of the OS already on the PSP?
There's nothing illegal ('cept in the manufacturer's eyes) about cleaning the system and flashing Linux. Now if you want to "mod"ify the system and keep the OS on there...that is copyright infringement on the same scale as emulated video games.
Lone Starr: "And what does that make us?"
Bill Helmet: "Absolutely nothing! Which is exactly the license you had to mod this PSP!"
Kinda like how it costs more energy to produce the average solar cell than it will generate while in use?
Is this wise? Decreasing the half-life means increasing the radioactivity. Given the option of living near a nuclear waste site and living near the lab where this is performed, I'd choose the former....
In order to get the radiation down to safe levels, you have to out-radiate everything up to that level. Same radiation, doesn't matter if it takes the normal amount of time or less.
I'd have to agree with you. If it weren't for the temptation of the Intel processor and Windows, I'd still be on my tangerine iBook. It's amazing what 300 MHz can still do.
The 5-bit teletype code in use at the time did not include punctuation characters in its encoding.
I know that. But why "stop"? Imagine someone having asked "Should I keep trying?" and getting the telegraph response "I THINK YOU SHOULD STOP". They'd have to remember that "STOP" means not "stop" but ".".
Why not "period" or something? THIS IS MY TELEGRAM PERIOD IS IT NOT NIFTY QUESTIONMARK
Or if you want to reduce the number of characters, use some sequence that isn't a valid word. THIS IS ONE SENTENCE ZZ THIS IS ANOTHER SENTENCE ZZ (with apologies to vi) - something like how TTY users use "GA".
OH REALLY STOP YES REALLY STOP SERIOUSLY STOP
Whose brilliant idea was it to use "stop," anyway?
More's the pity. We could use some good Gonzo writing nowadays.
But as you yourself said, the style's been run into the ground. Perhaps a clarification is necessary: we could use someone with the creativity and work ethic of Thompson. Just keep far, far away from his style. It's not effective anymore and it's completely ineffective for technology (as the submitter implied).
And Cringely.
John Dvorak and Robert Cringely. I don't think we need any more tech-Gonzos.
You need a ??? in there...maybe replace step 1?
"No war" and a bleeding child refers to all conflict, IMHO.
'Cause they're parents, and they're...you know...older people with morals? And enough money that they're not forced to save $150 or so for tuition or booze?
Here's the difference. In 1984, Ingsoc had the resources and the devotees to go after every single Winston Smith. In real life, if your girlfriend buys 4 peaches and they take down her social security and mother's maiden name, what can the government do with that? The RIAA is an example of a group that has tried to do something with this mass surveillance data - and we've all seen how inaccurate their results have been. If the government wants to make the people fear it by attacking people at random, they won't spend the effort on collecting inaccurate data.
While we're on it, please note that you can sicken and possibly kill many people (including myself) if you spray a fine dust of ground peanuts into the air. If you add lactose, soy, etc. into the mix, you can incapacitate everyone with food allergies - which is a considerable percentage of people.