Well the difference is that the copy if altered can't be dropped back in to the system then used by another party in the belief it's the true document.
Exactly if someone can read/see/hear a document when they copy it, in some way shape or form. What is really important in these sorts of situations is stopping an altered version of that document getting mixed in the official stream and causing confusion. If as a bonus you can have a document that self destructs (so to speak) when it goes out or date or can't be varified that would be a major plus.
I know working on $xxx million construction projects big issues crop up with if people don't use the current information. Systems to do this across the vast number of organizations and people involved are sorely lacking or just not well done and as the saying goes "fuck ups are so much worse at 1:1".
Do you want to control the copyrights or do you want to control the access rights?
It would seem to be 2 different issues. Do you really want to send this data out in to the wilderness to lots of people you don't trust on the hope they might pay you?
Or are you more looking for a system where trusted colaberators can freely share information in a more flowing fashion.
So to for fill part 2 the college could start their own record label, providing a massive discount to students of the college, and selling the product on iTunes to make more money, out of the mums dad, and younger sibling who want to be cool like thier Elders.
It's not like they have to go far to find bands to sign up, and sure most of them are utter crap. Still most signed artists are.
If they want to have fun they could take technological measure to stop peer to peer of RIAA music. Then sit back an watch RIAA panic when they realize (many, many year later) they have lost their channel not only the market place, but also the talent.
Why ask when they've already told you? If people keep calenders, and part of the calender program for bookings and such is a work hours setting why not use those settings to tell the computer when to fire up in the morning (or maybe just before an run management tasks during startup) and when to lookout for inactivity at the end of the day.
Even smarter adding an early morning appointment to the calender and the computer could know to start before that just for the day.
It amazes me how often what is basically the same info has the entered in oddly different ways to get full advantage.
But it's not the same upgrade cycle on the $2000. It's 2-3 years for the first power user yes, but the hardware is still good for another 2-3 years for a non power user. If your needs only justify a $600 laptop why by new one that has no place to go but landfill after 3 years? Buy second hand or get on a hand me down path.
If you need a power user machine then find yourself a hand me down path to roll the machines down collect a bit money off your next upgrade
Standard WiFi = 50m range max Standard Ethernet = 100m range max. From the article
"The partners have built a system that uses green light to transmit 100 megabits a second over a distance of 300 metres, which is the speed telecom companies hope to offer their customers five to ten years from now, and 50 times as fast as a typical adsl broadband connection."
They seem to be looking more at building to WAN connection but would be killer for in house as well. Would be interesting how far a Gbit connection could go.
R-value is a measure of the speed of heat flow right? Insulation works by slowing the heat down enough that at some point the temperture reverses and so does the heat flow.
So if they turn heat into Elec, that then gets used in the house, and generating waste heat, then they have a really poor R-value. Your still knocking the overall heat load down, but thats to world view for R to handle. If you use the elec. for outdoor applications then well your talking more reflective or thermal cavity type barrier.
Apple controls the development tools as well, at least for mac OS. So not only do they design the hardware, and tweak the system to build support in. But open those libraries to the dev's, and in a way that reduces the work needed to get the feature to run.
So you could see them having Interface builder automagically pass to the keyboard a graphic you associate with it. So your tool palettes are already set. Shortcuts, start scrolling there menu name when you hold down the command key. Still leaving room for other tricks.
Does the chip have any dedicated support in Silicon, or just enough power in silicon to run software that supports?
It would be a big difference. 1)Apple is paying for the chip and licensing any IP embodied in the chip, then building or licensing other software to run on it, which doesn't support a feature. 2)Apple is Licensing Software and paying for a Chip to run it, but removing part of the code, to not support something.
So Apple choose not to support WMA (and the DRM pays for sure) well before the market made it the "monopoly" of legal media downloads. Even before that market even existed.
Surely the lawsuit would have to be about something they did once they had a monopoly. I'm mean it's not like they went out and broke existing support, like other convicted monopolists.
The thing rarely pointing out, as well, as reduce production costs by increasing production and tapping demand. She is also moving most of the hardware R&D costs and risks to be supported by for profit company. Leaving the Non-profit organization to concentrate on it's true goal. Improved Yields, better QA, all the sorts of things that will happen with a commercial product will mean that OLPC will end up getting a better product for the same price or less.
Do you really not upgrade your monitor? In the three years time these machines could be shipping with 150+ dpi screens or an extra 3' for the same price.
Just like the old CRT days, there was always something bigger and crisper on offer.
Then well the computer is still good for grandma after three years and well her six year old machines is costing you a lot in time.
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Careful what you say there or Sugar (and the addictive drug that it is) will go the way of hemp.
Well the difference is that the copy if altered can't be dropped back in to the system then used by another party in the belief it's the true document.
It's about pollution of trusted information.
Exactly if someone can read/see/hear a document when they copy it, in some way shape or form.
What is really important in these sorts of situations is stopping an altered version of that document getting mixed in the official stream and causing confusion.
If as a bonus you can have a document that self destructs (so to speak) when it goes out or date or can't be varified that would be a major plus.
I know working on $xxx million construction projects big issues crop up with if people don't use the current information. Systems to do this across the vast number of organizations and people involved are sorely lacking or just not well done and as the saying goes "fuck ups are so much worse at 1:1".
Do you want to control the copyrights
or do you want to control the access rights?
It would seem to be 2 different issues.
Do you really want to send this data out in to the wilderness to lots of people you don't trust on the hope they might pay you?
Or are you more looking for a system where trusted colaberators can freely share information in a more flowing fashion.
So your saying they would be better off using the speed of the station and using it to produce a shallow entry.
I'm not engineer either.
Still i would have thought a smart idea would be for the Airflow guide to channel air flow over both heat sinks.
The pictures would suggest otherwise.
Maybe it should have been.
So to for fill part 2 the college could start their own record label, providing a massive discount to students of the college, and selling the product on iTunes to make more money, out of the mums dad, and younger sibling who want to be cool like thier Elders.
It's not like they have to go far to find bands to sign up, and sure most of them are utter crap. Still most signed artists are.
If they want to have fun they could take technological measure to stop peer to peer of RIAA music.
Then sit back an watch RIAA panic when they realize (many, many year later) they have lost their channel not only the market place, but also the talent.
Just set your computer to auto start at 55 min before normal start time.
You'll be middle management in no time.
Funny thing.
No one had any issues about Alan Turings sexuality during the war.
Only afterwards, when the value of his technologies where realized.
Remember Allies are people who pretend to be your friend when you have a common enemy.
Why ask when they've already told you?
If people keep calenders, and part of the calender program for bookings and such is a work hours setting why not use those settings to tell the computer when to fire up in the morning (or maybe just before an run management tasks during startup) and when to lookout for inactivity at the end of the day.
Even smarter adding an early morning appointment to the calender and the computer could know to start before that just for the day.
It amazes me how often what is basically the same info has the entered in oddly different ways to get full advantage.
That's economic rationalists for you.
If they can't rationalize it then it's value must be zero.
But it's not the same upgrade cycle on the $2000.
It's 2-3 years for the first power user yes, but the hardware is still good for another 2-3 years for a non power user.
If your needs only justify a $600 laptop why by new one that has no place to go but landfill after 3 years?
Buy second hand or get on a hand me down path.
If you need a power user machine then find yourself a hand me down path to roll the machines down collect a bit money off your next upgrade
You could use a highly shielded antenna long enough to reach between the sender and the receiver.
Doesn't this [expletive] all over ethernet?
Standard WiFi = 50m range max
Standard Ethernet = 100m range max.
From the article
"The partners have built a system that uses green light to transmit 100 megabits a second over a distance of 300 metres, which is the speed telecom companies hope to offer their customers five to ten years from now, and 50 times as fast as a typical adsl broadband connection."
They seem to be looking more at building to WAN connection but would be killer for in house as well.
Would be interesting how far a Gbit connection could go.
R-value is a measure of the speed of heat flow right?
Insulation works by slowing the heat down enough that at some point the temperture reverses and so does the heat flow.
So if they turn heat into Elec, that then gets used in the house, and generating waste heat, then they have a really poor R-value. Your still knocking the overall heat load down, but thats to world view for R to handle.
If you use the elec. for outdoor applications then well your talking more reflective or thermal cavity type barrier.
About a pound of lead shielding might have a bit to do with it.
Apple controls the development tools as well, at least for mac OS.
So not only do they design the hardware, and tweak the system to build support in.
But open those libraries to the dev's, and in a way that reduces the work needed to get the feature to run.
So you could see them having Interface builder automagically pass to the keyboard a graphic you associate with it. So your tool palettes are already set.
Shortcuts, start scrolling there menu name when you hold down the command key.
Still leaving room for other tricks.
The issue for those companies isn't anything to do with Player,formats or copy protection.
People don't want subscription services.
The ones still in the market are outright sales models either with or without DRM and regardless of encoding.
Can you really blame Apple if these other guys didn't choose a successful business model?
Yes that model needs DRM but do you think it would die any slower if apple licenced it's DRM or paid Mircosoft to play their DRMed files
It would be interesting to see is financing this little venture?
Does the chip have any dedicated support in Silicon, or just enough power in silicon to run software that supports?
It would be a big difference.
1)Apple is paying for the chip and licensing any IP embodied in the chip, then building or licensing other software to run on it, which doesn't support a feature.
2)Apple is Licensing Software and paying for a Chip to run it, but removing part of the code, to not support something.
So they are really trying to prove that microsoft is out abusing of it's monopoly agian?
Sure didn't work very well.
So Apple choose not to support WMA (and the DRM pays for sure) well before the market made it the "monopoly" of legal media downloads. Even before that market even existed.
Surely the lawsuit would have to be about something they did once they had a monopoly.
I'm mean it's not like they went out and broke existing support, like other convicted monopolists.
The thing rarely pointing out, as well, as reduce production costs by increasing production and tapping demand.
She is also moving most of the hardware R&D costs and risks to be supported by for profit company. Leaving the Non-profit organization to concentrate on it's true goal.
Improved Yields, better QA, all the sorts of things that will happen with a commercial product will mean that OLPC will end up getting a better product for the same price or less.
Win-Win Indeed
Do you really not upgrade your monitor?
In the three years time these machines could be shipping with 150+ dpi screens
or an extra 3' for the same price.
Just like the old CRT days, there was always something bigger and crisper on offer.
Then well the computer is still good for grandma after three years
and well her six year old machines is costing you a lot in time.