8-Bit MCUs may be under $1 in large volume but they don't have large ammounts of RAM and FLASH and also don't have a D/A Converter and PWM built into them. These things are cheap when compared to Motorola Processors and will give them a run for their money. The Motorolla 16 bit series are $15-$25 and teh 8 bit ones aren't much better. I think that once people start building developement boards for these Motorolla is gonna be in trouble.
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and you won't even be able to turn them off.
If they have batteries, batteries need to be recharged (or can be ripped out). If it has a power cord, it can be unplugged.
"If I were [Microsoft] I'd take another look, and I would see how I could screw with other people's businesses with this monopoly [I] have," he said.
Imagine if for some strange reason after a security update, all the e-mails and preferences and what have you of Mozilla/Firefox were corupted and/or Mozilla/Firefox was unable to access the web do to a slight change in Microsofts API's.
Alternatively they could include something in IIS & IE that makes it imposible for other browsers to impersonate IE and have IIS only allow IE to connect to it.
I've had some non-technical friends of mine get real freaked out when they had this advertisement (or a similar one that does the same thing) open their CD-ROM. They were not happy about it. It is real disturbing to the non-geek population when someone appears to have owned their comp. My personal recomendation is to take this guy out in back of the court house and give him two in the heart and one in the head.
That is similar to the wat trademarks work. Only problem for products is the "knowingly" part. Although, considering this patent infringement has been going on for at least 4 years (Anyone got a better estimate?) I would say you do have a point.
So what happens if I get a papercut, lose a finger, lose a hand, somehow wind up with a scar over my finger or something? Is there any way to get at the data or is it lost forever unless I brute force the keys?
above isn't to say that the users of said brand new computers won't 'borrow' some software from friends/family
Indeed, I remember that when we first got a computer (way back in '90) one of the first things that we did was have a friend come over and install some games. However, the Word Processor (Word Perfect) we legally bought along with many other games after that (Carmen Sandiego, Super Solvers and others [hey, I was 8 at the time]).
About the only thing I can think of is to make a "3D" map. I don't mean a relief map. Take an existing map, and put it on carboard or something. Put something along the borders that raises it up. Tulip Paint (a really thick paint applied like Icing), Silicon Glue or wire should work for this. Essentially, think along the lines of helping out someone who is completely blind.
Also, it might be possible to take a couple of those monitor, run them through a splitter and have each one displaying 1/4 of the picture.
As I have said before, you would be an idiot to try to make a counterfit with thos pictures as they are too low of a quality and contain aliasing artifacts fromt their scan. You can't use the pics to make good counterfits.
A fake penny and quarter isn't worth it but apparently fake $1 coins are. The new Sacagawea (Gold $1 coins) coins were being copied en mass in El-Salvador. So the problem is not to use coins. As for not using money at all and only using credit cards, Anonymity can be preserved with cash. Such as when retaining a lawyer (which you sometimes don't want people to know imediately). Credit Cards have a paper trail that can be subpoenad easily, as can bank transfers. I have heard of One (1) anonymous electronic banking solution.
Those PDF's are not high quality and are actually affecte by some of the anti-counterfit measures.
Examples from the front of the 50:
Grants Forehead, notice the circles, that is from a scanner mis-interpreg the lines on hte bill. There are more example sof this on his cheaks, the red and blue areas and his overcoat. They weren't stupid when they made the PDFs.
Actually, the primary solution to Waste Disposal is to recycle it. Yes, RECYCLE. You take the left over waste, run it through a re-enrichment process and what you have left is a small amount of radioactive material that could fit under a desk, more fuel rods and some other non-radioactive products. The reason we don't do this is because the enrichment process is the same to not only make reactor grade plutonium/uranium, but Weapons Grade material as well. Weapons grade is just more pure and left in the enrichment process longer. We have a solution, we just aren't using it do to a fear of someone over purifying the material.
I remember several yars ago reading about a CD Burner that would be able to burn 5.6GBytes onto a regular CD. It used a gray-scale recording like they are talking about only it worked with existing CD-Rs you could buy in the store. Only difference here is they are using the existing DVD technology and a higher order modulation.
The proliants are also really popular as Windows servers, much to my chagrin, but they do work very well. I wish I could afford one of them for my personal web/file server.
Who's going to run the betting pool on how many minutes it takes someone to crack the keys and modify the information?
If the are smart (IF!), then they are using a write once (and only once) flash memmory of sorts. This way you can't re-program what is on the key. What I expect WILL happen however, is that someone will come up with a software emulator for it. Run Program : Enter what you want to be your Info : And it emulates the key.
You're still not even in the same milage range for when we replace cars. anything under 200,000 miles (333,000 kilometers) and we are still driving it. 165,000K is not much for us, thats only 20,000 miles a year. And that is actually the standard driving distance in 1 year of that average car.
625 lines (including VBI), 50 FPS (fields) is your res and it's still interlaced. It's not that much better than NTSC. Your station must be using a really crapy encoder or low bitrate, but it's not the DTV that is the problem. I have seen fast moving on DTV that look perfect to me on a stress test tape and have seen no artifacts. SD DTV (standard def) looks the same as Analog, and you won't be able to tell the difference. On HD DTV it looks a lot better and not blury on large screens. Or it may be that your station is trying to broadcast too many video streams on for its bandwidth. But i'm also pretty sure that the Eurpean DTV broadcast standard is just as good as the USs. So its probably and idiot station manager you have and not something in the system itself.
The extra 45 lines in NTSC are known as the Vertical Blanking Interval or VBI for short. It is used to transmit things such as Closed Captioning and other information. The reason it is there is because TVs at the time couldn't re-aim the tube from the lower right to the top left and so they leave it blank. The 480 lines of active video are how resolution is measured. Lines are still used to measury quality.
As to the VGA standard, 640 is the number of columns. They all get displayed. Don't even know why you brought this up.
VHS is 240 lines because it records at 1/4 full resolution. They couldn't make a consumer priced VCR that would record full res cheaply (pluss tape was more expensive back then). Broadcast TV is not 330 lines (at least here in the US.) it is 480 lines not 330 I have no idea how you are getting 330 from 440x480. Even the number of columns in broadcast is more than 440.
DVDs? 720x480 is not the equivalent of 540 lines. They use rectangular pixels and 2:1 is a compromise between 4:3 and 16:9. 720x480 is equal to 480 lines if progressive and 240 lines if interlaced (which it usually is as that is what most TVs are).
And FYI, HD cameras can resolve the full res of 1080i or 720p. They just aren't available for the consumer market yet. They are only for the broadcast market right now.
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Needless to say, at almost $3000, the G5 was one expensive system considering its specs
Used to be every new system cost $3000. Only relatively recently have decent new systems droped below that price mark.
8-Bit MCUs may be under $1 in large volume but they don't have large ammounts of RAM and FLASH and also don't have a D/A Converter and PWM built into them. These things are cheap when compared to Motorola Processors and will give them a run for their money. The Motorolla 16 bit series are $15-$25 and teh 8 bit ones aren't much better. I think that once people start building developement boards for these Motorolla is gonna be in trouble.
and you won't even be able to turn them off.
If they have batteries, batteries need to be recharged (or can be ripped out). If it has a power cord, it can be unplugged.
"If I were [Microsoft] I'd take another look, and I would see how I could screw with other people's businesses with this monopoly [I] have," he said.
Imagine if for some strange reason after a security update, all the e-mails and preferences and what have you of Mozilla/Firefox were corupted and/or Mozilla/Firefox was unable to access the web do to a slight change in Microsofts API's.
Alternatively they could include something in IIS & IE that makes it imposible for other browsers to impersonate IE and have IIS only allow IE to connect to it.
I've had some non-technical friends of mine get real freaked out when they had this advertisement (or a similar one that does the same thing) open their CD-ROM. They were not happy about it. It is real disturbing to the non-geek population when someone appears to have owned their comp. My personal recomendation is to take this guy out in back of the court house and give him two in the heart and one in the head.
interstate or foreign ... communication)
Think e-Mail and surfing web pages from out of state servers.
That is similar to the wat trademarks work. Only problem for products is the "knowingly" part. Although, considering this patent infringement has been going on for at least 4 years (Anyone got a better estimate?) I would say you do have a point.
Some ATM's have them on their LCD displays. Took me a little bit to figure out why I couldn't see the screen when I had my sunglasses on.
So what happens if I get a papercut, lose a finger, lose a hand, somehow wind up with a scar over my finger or something? Is there any way to get at the data or is it lost forever unless I brute force the keys?
above isn't to say that the users of said brand new computers won't 'borrow' some software from friends/family
Indeed, I remember that when we first got a computer (way back in '90) one of the first things that we did was have a friend come over and install some games. However, the Word Processor (Word Perfect) we legally bought along with many other games after that (Carmen Sandiego, Super Solvers and others [hey, I was 8 at the time]).
You're also missign what % of your music is not available for sale in the country you live in.
About the only thing I can think of is to make a "3D" map. I don't mean a relief map. Take an existing map, and put it on carboard or something. Put something along the borders that raises it up. Tulip Paint (a really thick paint applied like Icing), Silicon Glue or wire should work for this. Essentially, think along the lines of helping out someone who is completely blind.
Also, it might be possible to take a couple of those monitor, run them through a splitter and have each one displaying 1/4 of the picture.
As I have said before, you would be an idiot to try to make a counterfit with thos pictures as they are too low of a quality and contain aliasing artifacts fromt their scan. You can't use the pics to make good counterfits.
A fake penny and quarter isn't worth it but apparently fake $1 coins are. The new Sacagawea (Gold $1 coins) coins were being copied en mass in El-Salvador. So the problem is not to use coins. As for not using money at all and only using credit cards, Anonymity can be preserved with cash. Such as when retaining a lawyer (which you sometimes don't want people to know imediately). Credit Cards have a paper trail that can be subpoenad easily, as can bank transfers. I have heard of One (1) anonymous electronic banking solution.
Those PDF's are not high quality and are actually affecte by some of the anti-counterfit measures.
Examples from the front of the 50:
Grants Forehead, notice the circles, that is from a scanner mis-interpreg the lines on hte bill. There are more example sof this on his cheaks, the red and blue areas and his overcoat. They weren't stupid when they made the PDFs.
Actually, the primary solution to Waste Disposal is to recycle it. Yes, RECYCLE. You take the left over waste, run it through a re-enrichment process and what you have left is a small amount of radioactive material that could fit under a desk, more fuel rods and some other non-radioactive products. The reason we don't do this is because the enrichment process is the same to not only make reactor grade plutonium/uranium, but Weapons Grade material as well. Weapons grade is just more pure and left in the enrichment process longer. We have a solution, we just aren't using it do to a fear of someone over purifying the material.
Oh dear god, this is going to be funny. Can't wait to see how they take this.
I remember several yars ago reading about a CD Burner that would be able to burn 5.6GBytes onto a regular CD. It used a gray-scale recording like they are talking about only it worked with existing CD-Rs you could buy in the store. Only difference here is they are using the existing DVD technology and a higher order modulation.
Looking at the rules for Ur, it sounds a lot like Backgamon
Chess is better
Then try Shogi.
The proliants are also really popular as Windows servers, much to my chagrin, but they do work very well. I wish I could afford one of them for my personal web/file server.
Who's going to run the betting pool on how many minutes it takes someone to crack the keys and modify the information?
If the are smart (IF!), then they are using a write once (and only once) flash memmory of sorts. This way you can't re-program what is on the key. What I expect WILL happen however, is that someone will come up with a software emulator for it. Run Program : Enter what you want to be your Info : And it emulates the key.
You're still not even in the same milage range for when we replace cars. anything under 200,000 miles (333,000 kilometers) and we are still driving it. 165,000K is not much for us, thats only 20,000 miles a year. And that is actually the standard driving distance in 1 year of that average car.
625 lines (including VBI), 50 FPS (fields) is your res and it's still interlaced. It's not that much better than NTSC. Your station must be using a really crapy encoder or low bitrate, but it's not the DTV that is the problem. I have seen fast moving on DTV that look perfect to me on a stress test tape and have seen no artifacts. SD DTV (standard def) looks the same as Analog, and you won't be able to tell the difference. On HD DTV it looks a lot better and not blury on large screens. Or it may be that your station is trying to broadcast too many video streams on for its bandwidth. But i'm also pretty sure that the Eurpean DTV broadcast standard is just as good as the USs. So its probably and idiot station manager you have and not something in the system itself.
The extra 45 lines in NTSC are known as the Vertical Blanking Interval or VBI for short. It is used to transmit things such as Closed Captioning and other information. The reason it is there is because TVs at the time couldn't re-aim the tube from the lower right to the top left and so they leave it blank. The 480 lines of active video are how resolution is measured. Lines are still used to measury quality.
As to the VGA standard, 640 is the number of columns. They all get displayed. Don't even know why you brought this up.
VHS is 240 lines because it records at 1/4 full resolution. They couldn't make a consumer priced VCR that would record full res cheaply (pluss tape was more expensive back then). Broadcast TV is not 330 lines (at least here in the US.) it is 480 lines not 330 I have no idea how you are getting 330 from 440x480. Even the number of columns in broadcast is more than 440.
DVDs? 720x480 is not the equivalent of 540 lines. They use rectangular pixels and 2:1 is a compromise between 4:3 and 16:9. 720x480 is equal to 480 lines if progressive and 240 lines if interlaced (which it usually is as that is what most TVs are).
And FYI, HD cameras can resolve the full res of 1080i or 720p. They just aren't available for the consumer market yet. They are only for the broadcast market right now.