For high security areas, I'm sure people won't mind the verification not only verifying the card, but also verifying the data on the card matches the central database.
For everyday purposes, just have a full verification done every n times the card is used.
I personally think the translucent blurry bit has helped define window edges a lot more clearly, since stuff in the background is visibly out of focus.
The best stuff to use is electrician's gaffer tape. I have a wallet made out of it, which has survived everything including being in my pocket with keys for days on end.
What's this data that's being sent to Google? If you read the manual and turn off Advanced Features and Cross-System Searching, Google Desktop sends exactly nothing to Google. Zero, zip, zilch.
The Queen of England, (Or other reigning monarch) is the head of state, and technically controls the armed forces and must also approve any law. They are also the head of the Church of England. In addition to this, they get to be the head of state for nations of the commonwealth such as Australia.
Media and bandwidth. Do they come free? Are they part of the expected ecosystem?
Even basic utilities such as water cost to supply, surely data also costs? Someone needs to supply it and maintain the delievery network. I'm not necessarily agreeing with the current business model (Especially *AA actions regarding DRM and pricing) but to suggest it can be free hints at a lack of grasp of basic economics.
But oxygen as part of the air is a naturally available substance requiring no infrastructure to support. What you said is the same as if you want to own a plant, you'd better be paying me for the carbon dioxide I exhale for it!
You pay for water because it needs infrastructure and that carries maintenance costs. You pay for bottled oxygen because it has gone through a purification and compression process, and it also needs delivery infrastructure and specialist packaging. There is no cost whatsoever to atmospheric oxygen.
I've looked at Newtons quite intently, and I don't think they offer the same level of integration with modern systems. A new one would probably end up compatable with the iPod Dock Connector, have a hard disk, and sychronise with your.Mac account over WiFi - the sync is the most important feature to me.
Sadly not..Mac is one of the main reasons I'm thinking of moving to Macs entirely, new desktop and laptop. If they released a PDA, I would switch without a second thought.
Because the Internet is not a public space. Walking down the street is. Once you walk into a shop, they are well within their rights to track you and write down what you buy.
I never mentioned x86. It all depends how flexible you want your PC to be - for home use you'll want a lot of general purpose chips capable of dedicating lots to music, or movies, or word processing, but rarely a lot of specialised tasks at the same time. Conversely, for my gaming rig I want everything to be dealt with by a dedicated, optimised chip supplemented by a lot of general purpose ones which can 'tidy up' minor things such as UI.
Has nobody come up with headphones which always keep the music just above ambient?
I know you can get noise cancelling ones, can something not be created which doesn't cancel all external noise (So you can still hear things like car horns) but which tweaks volume to always be marginally above the 'ambient', so that your music doesn't become obviously loud but is always audible (And adjusts on-the-fly)?
I want to know where these electrical wores come from... I want one.
That aside, cable is generally speaking superior for things which don't plan on moving around much. It could just be me, but I quite like my PC having internet and suchlike working regardless of atmospheric conditions, storms, people using the microwave etc.
I'm all in favour of blanket WiFi, as long as there are still physical sockets points and an accepted standard (Cat5 + RJ45 for preference) for plugging things into them. Just run fibre to a joint switch/router/access point in each building and let people take it from there as far as I'm concerned - capacity for both.
1. Absolutely everything is dealt with by general purpose chips which can handle anything you throw at them, or: 2. Everything can be dealt with by its own dedicated unit. Physics, graphics, AI, audio, everything.
Either way, it works best if you can properly thread your engines so that things can be properly parallel processed. Fix that first, then we can start worrying about if our games need PPUs, GPUs, CPUs or any other PU we can come up with.
Personally I'm in favour of seperate units so you can upgrade one at a time, but I realise this is cost impractical for a large majority of the population (Including me). So, decent parallel processing it is?
As long as it runs Duke Nukem Forever, I won't care.
Nah, you can't see the lower strata of cable running across mine for the mountain of paper which has formed over it. I expect to create fossil fuels over time by using the heat from inefficient cabling and the pressure from a 274 page status document on my old data flowcharts.
Actually, OneCare is pretty good. And from what I've seen in the Vista CTPs the security model is actually a damn sight better than before. Stability is phenominal as well, it took a whole 12 seconds to make it fall over (Video driver issue if you must know, Safe Mode is solid as a rock).
Installing the Google Toolbar for Firefox is actually quite a good extension, since every object on it is just as customisable as the normal Firefox UI. I've replaced the default search with the Google one (And the button for quick links to images, news etc), and added pagerank without losing any browsing space.
I'd recommend giving it a whirl, but as always ymmv.
Professional photo or video editors are the only people likely to have the raw amount of CPU/RAM required to support this. Gamers boast about 4gb of RAM, pro-level video editors take 16gb as acceptable.
Apple has an advantage, the only systems that OS X will hug on are Apple's own. For all iMacs and laptops, they control the hardware completely. For Mac Minis, the only non-Apple hardware is the monitor, keyboard and mouse (Which all follow standards, even though OS X has a good stab at monitor specific drivers). The only place Apple has to do any real thinking about dealing with an unexpected system is with a PowerMac, and even then they control all the core components.
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Remember that this isn't designed for home usage, or even last-mile for businesses. This is designed for cross-continental data transfer.
For high security areas, I'm sure people won't mind the verification not only verifying the card, but also verifying the data on the card matches the central database.
For everyday purposes, just have a full verification done every n times the card is used.
I personally think the translucent blurry bit has helped define window edges a lot more clearly, since stuff in the background is visibly out of focus.
The best stuff to use is electrician's gaffer tape. I have a wallet made out of it, which has survived everything including being in my pocket with keys for days on end.
What's this data that's being sent to Google? If you read the manual and turn off Advanced Features and Cross-System Searching, Google Desktop sends exactly nothing to Google. Zero, zip, zilch.
The Queen of England, (Or other reigning monarch) is the head of state, and technically controls the armed forces and must also approve any law. They are also the head of the Church of England. In addition to this, they get to be the head of state for nations of the commonwealth such as Australia.
Media and bandwidth. Do they come free? Are they part of the expected ecosystem?
Even basic utilities such as water cost to supply, surely data also costs? Someone needs to supply it and maintain the delievery network. I'm not necessarily agreeing with the current business model (Especially *AA actions regarding DRM and pricing) but to suggest it can be free hints at a lack of grasp of basic economics.
But oxygen as part of the air is a naturally available substance requiring no infrastructure to support. What you said is the same as if you want to own a plant, you'd better be paying me for the carbon dioxide I exhale for it!
You pay for water because it needs infrastructure and that carries maintenance costs. You pay for bottled oxygen because it has gone through a purification and compression process, and it also needs delivery infrastructure and specialist packaging. There is no cost whatsoever to atmospheric oxygen.
Oh please... anyone up for a Google Desktop / Spotlight integration plugin?
On the subject of extensions to a standard, tell me again what the X in XML stands for?
I've looked at Newtons quite intently, and I don't think they offer the same level of integration with modern systems. A new one would probably end up compatable with the iPod Dock Connector, have a hard disk, and sychronise with your .Mac account over WiFi - the sync is the most important feature to me.
Sadly not. .Mac is one of the main reasons I'm thinking of moving to Macs entirely, new desktop and laptop. If they released a PDA, I would switch without a second thought.
Because the Internet is not a public space. Walking down the street is. Once you walk into a shop, they are well within their rights to track you and write down what you buy.
I never mentioned x86. It all depends how flexible you want your PC to be - for home use you'll want a lot of general purpose chips capable of dedicating lots to music, or movies, or word processing, but rarely a lot of specialised tasks at the same time. Conversely, for my gaming rig I want everything to be dealt with by a dedicated, optimised chip supplemented by a lot of general purpose ones which can 'tidy up' minor things such as UI.
Has nobody come up with headphones which always keep the music just above ambient?
I know you can get noise cancelling ones, can something not be created which doesn't cancel all external noise (So you can still hear things like car horns) but which tweaks volume to always be marginally above the 'ambient', so that your music doesn't become obviously loud but is always audible (And adjusts on-the-fly)?
No, releathe.
I want to know where these electrical wores come from... I want one.
That aside, cable is generally speaking superior for things which don't plan on moving around much. It could just be me, but I quite like my PC having internet and suchlike working regardless of atmospheric conditions, storms, people using the microwave etc.
I'm all in favour of blanket WiFi, as long as there are still physical sockets points and an accepted standard (Cat5 + RJ45 for preference) for plugging things into them. Just run fibre to a joint switch/router/access point in each building and let people take it from there as far as I'm concerned - capacity for both.
We can go one of two ways:
1. Absolutely everything is dealt with by general purpose chips which can handle anything you throw at them, or:
2. Everything can be dealt with by its own dedicated unit. Physics, graphics, AI, audio, everything.
Either way, it works best if you can properly thread your engines so that things can be properly parallel processed. Fix that first, then we can start worrying about if our games need PPUs, GPUs, CPUs or any other PU we can come up with.
Personally I'm in favour of seperate units so you can upgrade one at a time, but I realise this is cost impractical for a large majority of the population (Including me). So, decent parallel processing it is?
As long as it runs Duke Nukem Forever, I won't care.
Nah, you can't see the lower strata of cable running across mine for the mountain of paper which has formed over it. I expect to create fossil fuels over time by using the heat from inefficient cabling and the pressure from a 274 page status document on my old data flowcharts.
Actually, OneCare is pretty good. And from what I've seen in the Vista CTPs the security model is actually a damn sight better than before. Stability is phenominal as well, it took a whole 12 seconds to make it fall over (Video driver issue if you must know, Safe Mode is solid as a rock).
Installing the Google Toolbar for Firefox is actually quite a good extension, since every object on it is just as customisable as the normal Firefox UI. I've replaced the default search with the Google one (And the button for quick links to images, news etc), and added pagerank without losing any browsing space.
I'd recommend giving it a whirl, but as always ymmv.
I want a watch with Bluetooth which syncs my appointments and automatically sets alarms. I always have my watch, I don't always have my PDA.
I was hoping that Maxis would talk to Valve and get it out on Steam, but no such luck. Oh well, I'll buy it anyway.
Professional photo or video editors are the only people likely to have the raw amount of CPU/RAM required to support this. Gamers boast about 4gb of RAM, pro-level video editors take 16gb as acceptable.
Apple has an advantage, the only systems that OS X will hug on are Apple's own. For all iMacs and laptops, they control the hardware completely. For Mac Minis, the only non-Apple hardware is the monitor, keyboard and mouse (Which all follow standards, even though OS X has a good stab at monitor specific drivers). The only place Apple has to do any real thinking about dealing with an unexpected system is with a PowerMac, and even then they control all the core components.