I just moved to NYC a little while ago from Toronto, and let me tell you! The amount of guys I see on the streets of NYC peddling bootleg CDs and DVDs is amazing! Not to mention that they get a hold of all sorts of stuff that's not even off the big screen yet.
I've never bought from them, but I bet their prices are pretty good; there are always people lined up buying off of them. And nary a cop to be found.
In Toronto, same deal. Go to Chinatown, and there are literally dozens of shops selling all sorts of illegal bootlegs of movies and music.
Perhaps the RIAA/MPAA needs to change their focus. Much like how M$ goes after the distributors of pirated copies of Windows. M$ really doesn't care all that much about the hobbyist cloning a copy of XP Pro; they're concerned about the pirates selling copies to moron endusers who don't know that they're buying a fake.
Okay, so we have the "tornado-in-a-cup" method used to scale the wall...
But how did the other teams that they allude to being very good manage to walk up a wall?
I'd be interested in a little more details.
The article says the wall was metal. So you'd have to assume the other teams used magnets as well.
But the article is very scant on details.
Anyone else know more about the other teams/their entries/results?
Your reply shows you have ZERO understanding of the market Adobe makes its bread and butter with.
Adobe doesn't care about crappy desktop output. When you can show me a Linux distro that provides IDENTICAL PDF functionality that Acrobat Professional provides (interactive forms, digital signatures, etc etc etc) THEN maybe they have a chance.
Adobe is interested in the corporate desktop, NOT the consumer desktop.
What a lot of people don't realize is that a big big BIG chunk of Adobe's market ISN'T commercial desktop software... it's e-paper solutions, workflow management, document management solutions... lots of back end stuff.
It's obvious why Adobe is now thinking about building some leverage here:
With Linux making considerable inroads in the server market, Adobe needs to ensure their backend products are still going to be available.
Of course, tying in with that is Adobe's total dominance of PDF as a standard and their stranglehold on fonts... If Adobe can get a toehold in how things like PDFs and fonts are displayed on the Linux desktop, they can push out the little Linux PDF players and retain dominance.
From there, if Adobe makes some serious impact, THEN we'll probably see desktop apps starting to port to Linux.
If you see Acrobat as a Linux app, that's your first step.
Do a google search for "windows embedded ATM" and you'll find plenty of info, including machines made by our best friends Diebold that were infected by a worm this past summer!
I really find it hard to believe that ATM's are using windows based OS
Oh, believe it. For example, the Wachovia machines at Penn Station in NYC are running some custom Win 3.1 implementation. I stood from a distance and watched the ATM repair man fix them once. He had to open them up, pull out some sort of mini keyboard (a la the same types you'll see to attach to a tablet PC) and boot that sucker into Win 3.1)
That being said, a lot of those Bank of America commercials you see now lauding all those great new features (scanning bills onto the screen, no envelopes to deposit) are all running a custom Windows XP Embedded built especially for ATMs.
If I can find a link, I'll reply to this thread again.
"'Twenty percent of all searching was sex-related back in 1997; now it's about 5 percent,' said Amanda Spink, the University of Pittsburgh professor who co-authored Web Search...."
Hello? Of course it's dropped: most people don't use search engines for pr0n anymore. They use P2P!!!!
I wonder how much of a percentage increase there's been in P2P search terms?
/sigh... methinks the point doth missed thou.
Have you ever tried to take a pic in a club with a shitty flash? Horrible. A xenon flash would help a LOT. Current camera phones (and this one) don't do what its target audience wants it to do.
"If you want good pictures get a good camera."
If you want "good" pictures, this phone wouldn't be an option, period.
That being said, 'good' is a rather subjective term. I would imagine that the average user of this camera phone would be more than pleased with the images... and having the ability to off load the odd pic and print it to 4x6 would please the average teenager who wants a pic of her and her girlfriends for her locker door or desk.
Your argument doesn't apply here... if you're a 'photographer', what the hell are you doing with a camera phone?
You'd need a good flash for this main reason:
The main demographic that's going to use a phone like this are 16-30 year olds. Being able to snap a good pic at the bar, club or party you're at will sell this phone.
(And read the comment I made about battery life.)
Good point.
I could see SonyEricsson sticking Carl Zeiss lenses in their phones, though...
Of course, it still means squat when the phone gets slid in and out of someone's pocket so much that the lens gets scratched. Scratch coating only protects so much.
I thought that, too... until I read the PC World article... seems that there's been some advances in charging a small xenon strobe that doesn't eat a lot of battery power...
Of course, if you're taking so many flash pics with your phone that you're killing the battery, maybe you should invest in a real digicam...
...has a charge-coupled device camera and high-sensitivity flash which allow users to take high-quality pictures. It can also function as a camcorder.
One of the biggest problems of camera phones is poor flash (if the phone has one AT ALL).
Until phone manufacturers make phones with a good quality Xenon strobe flash, 5 MP still doesn't mean anything if the lighting conditions stink.
(See this month's issue of PC World for a little blurb on possible developments of Xenon strobe flashes in camera phones.)
Personally, I am terribly annoyed by TVs in restaurants and airports: they grab my attention over and over, no matter how hard I try to ignore them, and they distract me from the conversations that I should be having with my human companions.
Uh, excuse me... who the hell do you think you are that you can walk into someone's place of business, and switch off a piece of property that isn't yours?
Bottom line: if you're unhappy with the noise levels of TV's where you frequent... ask them nicely to turn it down. You'd be surprised how far a simple 'please' goes these days. A fact that eludes far too many people these days.
And if that doesn't work: go somewhere else. No one's forcing you to visit their place of business. Talk with your money.
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I was referring to the LJ communities that actually deal with communities (ie towns, cities, etc.)
I used to moderate the Toronto community (some 800 members strong and counting)... every other post is some chick asking where to find a certain pair of shoes or some dude asking where he should take his date for dinner to make sure he gets laid. The first 100 times, you live with it... afterwards, it gets pretty annoying.
Hence the ham operator *driving* to the overhead transmission lines and broadcasting there. Kinda hard to catch the guy when you he's interfering with your BPL 10 miles away...
Yeah, there seems to be a lot of movement to 700mhz for public safety... I wonder how much of this is due to Nextel interference?
As far as CalTrans, I'll assume that they're using a Smartnet system (I could go look it up, I'm sure, but I've got 5 windows open already.)... have they complained about Nextel interference on 800 mhz yet?
I don't take anything personally on here... in fact, while we don't see eye to eye on some things, on the important things we seem to mesh.
I hope your children thank you everyday for having such a good parent.
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Do you and I *really* need a service where our annoying friends can spam us all day long asking us where to find the best pastrami on rye in town?
Or the best dry cleaner?
Or whatever...
There's always going to be someone who uses Yelp! 10 times a day and annoys you to no end.
It happens already: go take a look in any live journal community.
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I've never bought from them, but I bet their prices are pretty good; there are always people lined up buying off of them. And nary a cop to be found.
In Toronto, same deal. Go to Chinatown, and there are literally dozens of shops selling all sorts of illegal bootlegs of movies and music.
Perhaps the RIAA/MPAA needs to change their focus. Much like how M$ goes after the distributors of pirated copies of Windows. M$ really doesn't care all that much about the hobbyist cloning a copy of XP Pro; they're concerned about the pirates selling copies to moron endusers who don't know that they're buying a fake.
Yeeech. Excuse my quick mouse finger. I clicked submit instead of preview and missed the Plain Old Text option.
Don't rape my karma, please!
Okay, so we have the "tornado-in-a-cup" method used to scale the wall... But how did the other teams that they allude to being very good manage to walk up a wall? I'd be interested in a little more details. The article says the wall was metal. So you'd have to assume the other teams used magnets as well. But the article is very scant on details. Anyone else know more about the other teams/their entries/results?
I used 2 distros on a daily basis, thanks.
Your reply shows you have ZERO understanding of the market Adobe makes its bread and butter with.
Adobe doesn't care about crappy desktop output.
When you can show me a Linux distro that provides IDENTICAL PDF functionality that Acrobat Professional provides (interactive forms, digital signatures, etc etc etc) THEN maybe they have a chance.
Adobe is interested in the corporate desktop, NOT the consumer desktop.
It's obvious why Adobe is now thinking about building some leverage here:
With Linux making considerable inroads in the server market, Adobe needs to ensure their backend products are still going to be available.
Of course, tying in with that is Adobe's total dominance of PDF as a standard and their stranglehold on fonts... If Adobe can get a toehold in how things like PDFs and fonts are displayed on the Linux desktop, they can push out the little Linux PDF players and retain dominance.
From there, if Adobe makes some serious impact, THEN we'll probably see desktop apps starting to port to Linux.
If you see Acrobat as a Linux app, that's your first step.
Yeah, if you go to the link I posted, there's a link on that page offering 3 OS choices for ATMs by MS: Win CE, Win XP Embedded, and XP Pro.
That being said:
WinXP Embedded ATM Home
Do a google search for "windows embedded ATM" and you'll find plenty of info, including machines made by our best friends Diebold that were infected by a worm this past summer!
Oh, believe it. For example, the Wachovia machines at Penn Station in NYC are running some custom Win 3.1 implementation. I stood from a distance and watched the ATM repair man fix them once. He had to open them up, pull out some sort of mini keyboard (a la the same types you'll see to attach to a tablet PC) and boot that sucker into Win 3.1)
That being said, a lot of those Bank of America commercials you see now lauding all those great new features (scanning bills onto the screen, no envelopes to deposit) are all running a custom Windows XP Embedded built especially for ATMs.
If I can find a link, I'll reply to this thread again.
Okay, so there's an article for the Warships, but where's the link to the ATM article?
What I meant to say was: "how many more searches are done on search engine sites for the terms "Kazaa, kazaalite, edonkey, bittorrent" etc.
I bet we'll see a sharp increase since the Napster days.
Hello? Of course it's dropped: most people don't use search engines for pr0n anymore. They use P2P!!!!
I wonder how much of a percentage increase there's been in P2P search terms?
/sigh... methinks the point doth missed thou.
Have you ever tried to take a pic in a club with a shitty flash? Horrible. A xenon flash would help a LOT. Current camera phones (and this one) don't do what its target audience wants it to do.
If you want "good" pictures, this phone wouldn't be an option, period.
That being said, 'good' is a rather subjective term. I would imagine that the average user of this camera phone would be more than pleased with the images... and having the ability to off load the odd pic and print it to 4x6 would please the average teenager who wants a pic of her and her girlfriends for her locker door or desk.
Your argument doesn't apply here... if you're a 'photographer', what the hell are you doing with a camera phone?
You'd need a good flash for this main reason:
The main demographic that's going to use a phone like this are 16-30 year olds. Being able to snap a good pic at the bar, club or party you're at will sell this phone. (And read the comment I made about battery life.)
That sliding case would sufficiently protect the lens from pocket scratches.
Good point.
I could see SonyEricsson sticking Carl Zeiss lenses in their phones, though...
Of course, it still means squat when the phone gets slid in and out of someone's pocket so much that the lens gets scratched. Scratch coating only protects so much.
I thought that, too... until I read the PC World article... seems that there's been some advances in charging a small xenon strobe that doesn't eat a lot of battery power...
Of course, if you're taking so many flash pics with your phone that you're killing the battery, maybe you should invest in a real digicam...
...has a charge-coupled device camera and high-sensitivity flash which allow users to take high-quality pictures. It can also function as a camcorder.
One of the biggest problems of camera phones is poor flash (if the phone has one AT ALL).
Until phone manufacturers make phones with a good quality Xenon strobe flash, 5 MP still doesn't mean anything if the lighting conditions stink. (See this month's issue of PC World for a little blurb on possible developments of Xenon strobe flashes in camera phones.)
RTFA!
The article covers that on the very last paragraph!
Uh, excuse me... who the hell do you think you are that you can walk into someone's place of business, and switch off a piece of property that isn't yours?
Bottom line: if you're unhappy with the noise levels of TV's where you frequent... ask them nicely to turn it down. You'd be surprised how far a simple 'please' goes these days. A fact that eludes far too many people these days.
And if that doesn't work: go somewhere else. No one's forcing you to visit their place of business. Talk with your money.
I used to moderate the Toronto community (some 800 members strong and counting)... every other post is some chick asking where to find a certain pair of shoes or some dude asking where he should take his date for dinner to make sure he gets laid. The first 100 times, you live with it... afterwards, it gets pretty annoying.
Hence the ham operator *driving* to the overhead transmission lines and broadcasting there. Kinda hard to catch the guy when you he's interfering with your BPL 10 miles away...
As far as CalTrans, I'll assume that they're using a Smartnet system (I could go look it up, I'm sure, but I've got 5 windows open already.)... have they complained about Nextel interference on 800 mhz yet?
I don't take anything personally on here... in fact, while we don't see eye to eye on some things, on the important things we seem to mesh.
I hope your children thank you everyday for having such a good parent.
Or the best dry cleaner?
Or whatever...
There's always going to be someone who uses Yelp! 10 times a day and annoys you to no end.
It happens already: go take a look in any live journal community.