I can see how folks would take these in their cars, on trips, to the office, etc. Even at around $500 they will probably sell pretty well. They aren't that much more than a portable DVD player. I don't think I could look at that little screen for an entire movie though. Perhaps a younger set of eyes could handle it. The screen is quite sharp, though. But, a tad small for me for any kind of extended viewing.
Yes, filters are getting very good. Gmail has excellent filters and a "report spam" button for anything that makes it through. I still get 200+ spam a day but they go into a spam folder. My confidence level in the spam folder, after several months of "training" is very high. As a result, I rarely look at it. I just dump it every few days. The folks who truly do not want spam will use filters. The spammers can trump any other technology thrown at them.
Okay, I can *almost* understand the xfiles part, though why they don't check themselves before sending these letters out is beyond me. But the part about the season?:
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Infringing Work: X-FILES, THE Season 1-7
There is nothing on their website that I could see that discusses an "xfile" as anything other than some organization software and certainly not any "seasons." These folks are very arrogant in their assumptions that the word "xfile" will always mean the tv show of the same name.
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"I'll take the 10 megawatts model for my house."
Actually, depending on the cost, why not deploy these in our own country? Especially if they are safe.
A million dollars sounds dirt cheap if they end up with all of these migration tools. I think it's disingenuous of of CA to talk about "seed money" when they are really taking advantage of what will end up to be minimum wage payments after all of the development hours are accounted for. But, nobody is being forced to do it either. If politics makes for "strange bedfellows" then a few dollars sprinkled among hungry developers must make for an even stranger sight.
This is the only part of the article that even hints at the durability of the "craft":
The surface is made from a tough, flexible polymer coated with a paint that can withstand temperatures of around 900 C. The exact composition of the paint is a closely guarded secret, says Joachim Thäter, an engineer at RRSS.
I was more amazed that it can withstand the heat of re-entry when you consider that the ceramic tiles on the shuttle glow red from the friction of the atmosphere.
Probably there is far more detail that clears these things up but I doubt the average non slashdot reader is all that picky about the details.
The distance of approximately 9,800 miles is as impressive as the speed. The article did not mention how many devices (i.e. switches, gateways, etc.) that the data passed through from site to site.
Insurance companies typically get away with "poor mouthing" by demonstrating that claims damn near exceed premiums. They do not, however, show the income from investing the premiums. The next time an insurance industry person tries that, ask him/her what their company's ROI was for premiums invested in equities, real estate, re-insurance, etc.
I don't believe that insurance companies are motivated to lower rates, but, rather, will use this technology to demonstrate what they would view as proof to raise rates on a large scale yet case-by-case basis.
Ideas like this strike me as disingenuous at best. It starts out as a way to monitor for good behavior but I believe it rapidly dumps that and focuses on bad bad behavior to raise rates.
I had a psyc prof point out one time that if the various motor vehicle admins out there sent out a notice to everyone each year who did not get any points, the recognition alone was likely to cause some good. But, as a society, we are far more focused on pathology than what is good.
Actually I do. I've been in technology (both engineering and marketing) for 24 years and I have seen it all. The short range is too short for too many applications. It's an opinion based on a lot of experience but it is, after all, just mine.
Did you look at the Motorola V600? It is a souped up V400 with a Bluetooth "earset" thingie that wraps around one ear and glows blue. It works within 30 feet or so (I used to sell them)of the phone. That was getting to be a pretty popular phone but more for the video capability and the "cool" factor of how the phone looked. I sold one bluetooth earpiece for every 50 phones at best. But please note that I didn't say (or didn't mean to say) that nobody was interested, just not nearly enough.
Bluetooth is one of the those "solutions in search of a problem." It's a cool idea but not enough people actually buy things because it has bluetooth. The short range may have something to do with it. It's sort of an orphan technology for lack of a better term?
I do like the idea of a Windows Media Player based music store that is driven primarily by Microsoft partners. That leaves a lot of room for innovation and maybe the competition won't hurt anyone either. I don't really view this as Apple versus Microsoft, but, rather as a pie that is plenty big enough to be cut up more than a few times.
If this enjoys wide-spread use, then a great many people will simply ditch CallerID. After all, it won't serve much purpose anymore since any number could be anybody. This would cost the telco's some revenue as folks (like me) cancel CallerID service.
I would simply go back to an answering machine that screens my calls and pick up the line when I recognize the voice, as I did before CallerID.
Yesterday I was taken to task about my comments related to a similar article where I stated that the RIAA was suing more of it's customers. I say this because there are plenty of people who download a song or even an album (I hate to buy an album and find that only one song is any good) in a "try before you buy" spirit. I did this recently and then took advantage of Real's $4.99 price for an album. I know that a great deal of people simply download and do not buy but it cannot be a blanket statement. Anyway, this particular round of suits are, once again, filed against John Does:
The Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) said the various suits, filed in courts across the country, cover "John Doe" defendants whose true identities are unknown to the group.
From the previous group of John Doe suits more folks have been identified:
Separately, suits covering 152 people who were previously sued anonymously but later identified and offered the chance to settle, were refiled with their true identities after they ignored or declined those offers, an RIAA (news - web sites) spokesman said.
I still maintain that suing your customers, whether your are the RIAA or SCO, can have a chilling effect on sales.
Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs, Ashcroft said.
In order to join the network, members had to promise to provide between one and 100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs, Ashcroft said.
200 petabytes of songs and movies! Pretty amazing.
I wonder if the RIAA will ask the feds to turn over all of the involved parties and I wonder if the feds would do it if asked.
Or maybe they are too busy since they just sued a bunch more customers....
The Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday announced it had sued another 744 individuals and refiled suits against 152 others who had ignored or declined offers to settle.
Most electronic compasses are based on sensors that are magnetometers. A magnetometer is a device for measuring the intensity of one or more components of the Earth's magnetic field.
I would think that a great deal of electronic devices would have a problem if the earths magnetic field suddenly "flipped."
Prof Van der Hoeven said: "The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the dinosaur strike there is no telltale layer of dust that demonstrates the history of the event. It may have damaged things and wiped out species but there is no sign of it."
...and he's posted some games that have been developed by folks using the hardware. I guess it would be a great teaching/learning device but the games are little too retro for me.
The buckyball layer produces what sounds like a transistor of sorts:
The gluing process creates a material composed of larger electron-rich molecules with sufficient power to cause light that passes through to control the direction of other light, providing the switching capability, Sargent said.
With switching occuring at the speeds available through a layer such as that, there would be an incredible decrease in cumulative latency across the 'net. That is, if all or most of the switches are as above.
Superconnect's Lehenbauer agrees that "it's fascinating" to have material for an optical switch, but warns "it could be awhile until an all-optical network is possible."
I wonder what the cost of those type "devices" will be - both direct in terms of the devices and indirect in terms of whatever infrastructure is required to implement them. Well, either way, it's great sounding technology.
AM is just a way of modulating a signal. You can do AM on pretty much any frequency just as you can do frequency modulation (FM) if you wish. The military, for example, uses AM on their air freq's (300Mhz for example) because they want to be able to hear quiet signals under louder signals. FM has a "capture effect" that prevents that. So, all of that said, typically, AM broadcast frequencies are way, way below the 800Mhz and up freq's that cell phones use.
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Uses existing signal and price is right.
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This looks good since it doesn't require a different signal from broadcasters (a la HDTV) and the price to implement seems low - the article notes that the added imaging circuitry was at a minimal cost. Some tv's with this technology are due out within a year. It sounds like something that will do very well. Imagine that, a nice improvement in viewing at a low cost and with an existing signal. Did I miss something?
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Infringement Detail: Infringing Work: X-FILES, THE Season 1-7
There is nothing on their website that I could see that discusses an "xfile" as anything other than some organization software and certainly not any "seasons." These folks are very arrogant in their assumptions that the word "xfile" will always mean the tv show of the same name.
Cheers,
Erick
Actually, depending on the cost, why not deploy these in our own country? Especially if they are safe.
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Erick
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The surface is made from a tough, flexible polymer coated with a paint that can withstand temperatures of around 900 C. The exact composition of the paint is a closely guarded secret, says Joachim Thäter, an engineer at RRSS.
I was more amazed that it can withstand the heat of re-entry when you consider that the ceramic tiles on the shuttle glow red from the friction of the atmosphere.
Probably there is far more detail that clears these things up but I doubt the average non slashdot reader is all that picky about the details.
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I had a psyc prof point out one time that if the various motor vehicle admins out there sent out a notice to everyone each year who did not get any points, the recognition alone was likely to cause some good. But, as a society, we are far more focused on pathology than what is good.
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Erick
http://www.brainglass.com
perhaps that's how they got old?
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feed your brain!
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I would simply go back to an answering machine that screens my calls and pick up the line when I recognize the voice, as I did before CallerID.
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Erick
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The Recording Industry Association of America (news - web sites) said the various suits, filed in courts across the country, cover "John Doe" defendants whose true identities are unknown to the group.
From the previous group of John Doe suits more folks have been identified:
Separately, suits covering 152 people who were previously sued anonymously but later identified and offered the chance to settle, were refiled with their true identities after they ignored or declined those offers, an RIAA (news - web sites) spokesman said.
I still maintain that suing your customers, whether your are the RIAA or SCO, can have a chilling effect on sales.
Cheers,
Erick
Each of the five hubs contained 40 petabytes of data, the equivalent of 60,000 movies or 10.5 million songs, Ashcroft said.
In order to join the network, members had to promise to provide between one and 100 gigabytes of material to trade, or up to 250,000 songs, Ashcroft said.
200 petabytes of songs and movies! Pretty amazing.
I wonder if the RIAA will ask the feds to turn over all of the involved parties and I wonder if the feds would do it if asked.
Or maybe they are too busy since they just sued a bunch more customers....
The Recording Industry Association of America on Wednesday announced it had sued another 744 individuals and refiled suits against 152 others who had ignored or declined offers to settle.
Cheers,
Erick
Most electronic compasses are based on sensors that are magnetometers. A magnetometer is a device for measuring the intensity of one or more components of the Earth's magnetic field.
I would think that a great deal of electronic devices would have a problem if the earths magnetic field suddenly "flipped."
Cheers,
Erick
Prof Van der Hoeven said: "The extraordinary thing about this meteor strike is that it appeared to do so little damage. Unlike the dinosaur strike there is no telltale layer of dust that demonstrates the history of the event. It may have damaged things and wiped out species but there is no sign of it."
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The gluing process creates a material composed of larger electron-rich molecules with sufficient power to cause light that passes through to control the direction of other light, providing the switching capability, Sargent said.
With switching occuring at the speeds available through a layer such as that, there would be an incredible decrease in cumulative latency across the 'net. That is, if all or most of the switches are as above.
Superconnect's Lehenbauer agrees that "it's fascinating" to have material for an optical switch, but warns "it could be awhile until an all-optical network is possible."
I wonder what the cost of those type "devices" will be - both direct in terms of the devices and indirect in terms of whatever infrastructure is required to implement them. Well, either way, it's great sounding technology.
Cheers,
Erick
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