I'll chime in on this as an actual original N-Gage owner...
I bought the phone for a couple of very simple reasons
1) It was cheap (I paid $99) 2) It actually does have some damn good games (I dare any addicts of RTS games to try Pathway to Glory and say they have a better game with them at all times) 3) It's a Series 60 phone, allowing all manners of software (IM,Expense Reports,SSH tunneling,Opera,Python)
and the sidetalkin' is a kick...
I think it's a great combination, and I still get people who are amazed by what it can do everytime I use it on the train into SF because it really is a powerful piece of kit
or more people than you realize are still applying for jobs to get into the tech industry and you are being outflanked by liberal arts majors who will take your job at half the pay and be trained in the process
agreed, I've been noticing the "informative" ads on here recently regarding TCO of MS vs Linux and all sorts of other make me gag FUD, but I was wondering just how much control the people selling the ad-space (i.e. Linux Today and/.) have in the content, vs the ad buyers who can possibly dictate which websites they get served on... I have no experience in this arena, but I imagine it isn't a terribly far stretched idea to see a request of ads on certain websites from ad time buyers..
brute force in the sense of trying just tons of combinations, but with a true one time pad any one result is just as likely as any other so there is no determinant way to truly break a true one time pad. You couldn't ever tell if a 5 character piece encrypted with a one time pad would say "Hello" or "bitch" because the possible combinations with an unknown one time pad are just as likely
Uhm, maybe you should look into their $29.99 unlimited plan and see if it can at least alleviate the bandwidth charge issues. Too bad about the speed and availibility of it, it seemed like it had potential to solve my portable net access woes.
It comes out to 7500 yen or about $61.00... I guess for a collectors item not bad, but for an optical mouse that's not great, I just paid $5 for an optical mouse after rebate, something tells me Anandtech's HotDeals ain't gonna have a rebate on these..
actually the gentleman who runs conics just goes and buys it from a shop and sends it to you, I've been emailing with him since this machine came out last week or so... not too different than Dynamism, but definitely cheaper, I'm just curious about his rep, haven't been able to find anything about it yet..
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it functions for both zoom in and zoom out, because they realized 1024x768 on a 6.4 inch diagonal screen may be a bit much... it zooms in to 800x600 so you can read tiny text as necessary... thoughtful of them I think, but I'm also absolutely in love with the machine...
just in case my previous message gets missed, this thing costs about $1150 in Japan, and I found a site that does it a bit cheaper than arm and a leg Dynamism : http://shop.conics.net/sony-vu/ (caveat emptor, no affiliation nor experience)
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uhm check again.. there is built in ethernet, and considering how fast the 802.11x is changing, I would prefer the pcmcia wireless
the japanese price is actually just around $1150 or so... Dynamism always costs an arm and a leg, the mini camera they have for sale (the SpyZ I believe) that they sell for $139 actually costs $65 I'm in the process of trying to get this machine, check out http://shop.conics.net/sony-vu/ for a more reasonable price (no affiliation nor knowledge so caveat emptor)
Bluetooth memorystick is available ( http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PEG/CLIEGEAR/ ) for about US$150. It is not available in the U.S. yet but you can have it imported by a place like ( http://shop.conics.net/ ) if you ask him nicely he seems willing to help.
Granted looks are totally a matter of personal opinion but you must admit a bit that the most common clamshell design in the U.S. is the clunky StarTac, now compare the LED based screen and large battery of that phone to a Japanese i-mode phone http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/parts/image_for_lin k/0,,28850-9315-1-1,00.html and relatively speaking they are somewhat a leap in technology...
well unfortunately the guy does have a few credentials.. His specialty at the academy, as I read in a magazine this past week, was the psychological effects of killing and how they allow, or more commonly, stop even highly trained soldiers from being able to kill a person on sight.
tongue in cheek remark is true, how would they even begin to sift through all those massive mailings to find suspects?? I mean how many suspects are they allowed to have??
This article presents no new ideas for us.. but how do we get these ideas to be seen by an enormous amount of the people starting businesses or trying to make their business more efficient??
All cryptography does not depend on large factoring of large numbers. Most popular now is a protocol that is called public key cryptography. Simplified it is two keys, one is a private key which is very difficult to factor because it is composed of the product of two very large prime numbers. The other key is the public key which is best explained, imho, as a half key which only the private key can complete. The difficult factoring comes in trying to crack the private key which can be composed of the product of two 300+ digit prime numbers. Such protocol is evident in many algorithms such as RSA... if I left anything out please complete it, and for a more thorough covering of the topic try Mr. Schneier's book.. by the way _very_ nice work.
I can agree that the mozilla project is making progress but you have to ask yourself, how much longer? The milestone map only goes to february 2000 for milestone 13, but for some reason I want to say a previous milestone map was more optomistic than that, anyone know?
Now here we have a company whose entire history in respect to its security has been a joke. Their idea of secure has been to use a simple hash to hide user's passwords. And then comes out this piece about the back door and people are genuinly surprised, come on!
You don't think M$ has a little hidden entrance for itself on top of that? I know it may seem a bit conspiratorial but you have to take into consideration the mindset of this company, basically absolutely ruthless. They'll do anything they have to in order to get ahead of the game, including in this case selling out their customer's security options just so they can sell overseas..
Now I realize I use M$ products for the time being but their policies I do not agree with at all. As for this hype, ask yourself are you genuinely surpised to find that it exists? This person isn't.
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funny you should mention this, the Innespace Dolphin was used in Austin Powers....
http://www.innespace.com/film_appearances.html
I'll chime in on this as an actual original N-Gage owner...
I bought the phone for a couple of very simple reasons
1) It was cheap (I paid $99)
2) It actually does have some damn good games (I dare any addicts of RTS games to try Pathway to Glory and say they have a better game with them at all times)
3) It's a Series 60 phone, allowing all manners of software (IM,Expense Reports,SSH tunneling,Opera,Python)
and the sidetalkin' is a kick...
I think it's a great combination, and I still get people who are amazed by what it can do everytime I use it on the train into SF because it really is a powerful piece of kit
or more people than you realize are still applying for jobs to get into the tech industry and you are being outflanked by liberal arts majors who will take your job at half the pay and be trained in the process
agreed, I've been noticing the "informative" ads on here recently regarding TCO of MS vs Linux and all sorts of other make me gag FUD, but I was wondering just how much control the people selling the ad-space (i.e. Linux Today and /.) have in the content, vs the ad buyers who can possibly dictate which websites they get served on... I have no experience in this arena, but I imagine it isn't a terribly far stretched idea to see a request of ads on certain websites from ad time buyers..
it's odd how many times I have to defend myself out here in the East Bay and South Bay as a Texan.... so many take me for a native 8-)
*chuckle* thinkgeek sells it too...
fugee indeed
we all know we want to say it.. you work for Valve don't you??
brute force in the sense of trying just tons of combinations, but with a true one time pad any one result is just as likely as any other so there is no determinant way to truly break a true one time pad. You couldn't ever tell if a 5 character piece encrypted with a one time pad would say "Hello" or "bitch" because the possible combinations with an unknown one time pad are just as likely
so what kind of phone is it? some sort of ringing endorsement of the tank of a phone?
Uhm, maybe you should look into their $29.99 unlimited plan and see if it can at least alleviate the bandwidth charge issues. Too bad about the speed and availibility of it, it seemed like it had potential to solve my portable net access woes.
It comes out to 7500 yen or about $61.00... I guess for a collectors item not bad, but for an optical mouse that's not great, I just paid $5 for an optical mouse after rebate, something tells me Anandtech's HotDeals ain't gonna have a rebate on these..
actually the gentleman who runs conics just goes and buys it from a shop and sends it to you, I've been emailing with him since this machine came out last week or so... not too different than Dynamism, but definitely cheaper, I'm just curious about his rep, haven't been able to find anything about it yet..
it functions for both zoom in and zoom out, because they realized 1024x768 on a 6.4 inch diagonal screen may be a bit much... it zooms in to 800x600 so you can read tiny text as necessary... thoughtful of them I think, but I'm also absolutely in love with the machine...
just in case my previous message gets missed, this thing costs about $1150 in Japan, and I found a site that does it a bit cheaper than arm and a leg Dynamism : http://shop.conics.net/sony-vu/ (caveat emptor, no affiliation nor experience)
uhm check again.. there is built in ethernet, and considering how fast the 802.11x is changing, I would prefer the pcmcia wireless
the japanese price is actually just around $1150 or so... Dynamism always costs an arm and a leg, the mini camera they have for sale (the SpyZ I believe) that they sell for $139 actually costs $65 I'm in the process of trying to get this machine, check out http://shop.conics.net/sony-vu/ for a more reasonable price (no affiliation nor knowledge so caveat emptor)
Bluetooth memorystick is available ( http://www.sony.jp/products/Consumer/PEG/CLIEGEAR/ ) for about US$150. It is not available in the U.S. yet but you can have it imported by a place like ( http://shop.conics.net/ ) if you ask him nicely he seems willing to help.
Granted looks are totally a matter of personal opinion but you must admit a bit that the most common clamshell design in the U.S. is the clunky StarTac, now compare the LED based screen and large battery of that phone to a Japanese i-mode phone http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/parts/image_for_lin k/0,,28850-9315-1-1,00.html and relatively speaking they are somewhat a leap in technology...
well unfortunately the guy does have a few credentials.. His specialty at the academy, as I read in a magazine this past week, was the psychological effects of killing and how they allow, or more commonly, stop even highly trained soldiers from being able to kill a person on sight.
tongue in cheek remark is true, how would they even begin to sift through all those massive mailings to find suspects?? I mean how many suspects are they allowed to have??
This article presents no new ideas for us.. but how do we get these ideas to be seen by an enormous amount of the people starting businesses or trying to make their business more efficient??
All cryptography does not depend on large factoring of large numbers. Most popular now is a protocol that is called public key cryptography. Simplified it is two keys, one is a private key which is very difficult to factor because it is composed of the product of two very large prime numbers. The other key is the public key which is best explained, imho, as a half key which only the private key can complete. The difficult factoring comes in trying to crack the private key which can be composed of the product of two 300+ digit prime numbers. Such protocol is evident in many algorithms such as RSA... if I left anything out please complete it, and for a more thorough covering of the topic try Mr. Schneier's book.. by the way _very_ nice work.
I can agree that the mozilla project is making progress but you have to ask yourself, how much longer? The milestone map only goes to february 2000 for milestone 13, but for some reason I want to say a previous milestone map was more optomistic than that, anyone know?
toufic
Now here we have a company whose entire history in respect to its security has been a joke. Their idea of secure has been to use a simple hash to hide user's passwords. And then comes out this piece about the back door and people are genuinly surprised, come on!
You don't think M$ has a little hidden entrance for itself on top of that? I know it may seem a bit conspiratorial but you have to take into consideration the mindset of this company, basically absolutely ruthless. They'll do anything they have to in order to get ahead of the game, including in this case selling out their customer's security options just so they can sell overseas..
Now I realize I use M$ products for the time being but their policies I do not agree with at all. As for this hype, ask yourself are you genuinely surpised to find that it exists? This person isn't.
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