Yeah but try moving 2TB of data over to your.Mac or Google datahosting solution.
The future is in rich media. People are amassing vast volumes of data every day. The future is a system in which they can access all of the data instantaneously. The webbandwidth curve and the home storage capacity are not in sync. This is why it's still a hastle to upload a 100MB file but the average user seems to have 100GB of movies.
Just my My Documents folder is something like 60GB. There is no way I'm going to upload that to the internet anytime soon, and yet the strength of an online system is when all of the data is available not just a small selection. You can never know when you need that rendering from June of 2003 that you thought you would never need again.
One of the unfortunate side effects of the Slashdot moderation system. You can't use your karma to adjust for "intent". It was anti-microsoft so it got the obligatory +5 insightful. Next time add a smiley.;)
All Microsoft provides is an inexpensive, subsidized HD-DVD player which interfaces with your computer using the USB protocol. It's no different than hooking up a Toshiba HD-DVD player (it might even be a Toshiba HD-DVD player).
If there were a cheaper HD-DVD player for the PC available you would be hearing about Walmart's HD-DVD player being the culprit.
But by all means huge props in being able to make ANY topic an attack on Microsoft. In other news, Virginia Tech Killer uses Windows, FBI investigates implications.
But it's not a question of being digitally isolated. It's a question of having to enter in:
"Corner of 12th and Broadway, Seattle, WA" using a little keypad or just clicking the photo button, pointing and firing away. Not to mention downloading any data will costs up to a dollar for even a very simple transaction.
It's effectively using a photo as a data sync method. And while something like RFID could do the same thing this you could do with an inkjet printer, or any printing service. Want to send out business cards with your VCard embedded on the back? Put it on a little postage sized matrix in the back.
You could own a restaurant and post put up the current menu encoded in a little square down in the corner. I know just a few hours ago I was out for a walk and it was a neighborhood I hadn't really explored and I saw a restaurant I hadn't tried so I took a picture of the menu to check out when I got home.
Yes you could provide a 1D barcode link to your webpage, but if it was as simple as hitting "file Save-As" in your word processor there would be no need to maintain the webpage.
You are correct on a single dimensional array. However in this case it is a 2 dimensional array. Therefore both the length and the height must be doubled. which results in 1/4 of a monochromatic array.
Regular barcodes can only carry a few bytes of data. The advantage of a compressed machine readable symbol which could hold a dozen kilobytes of data is a very useful solution to many data entry problems. No need for RFID or bluetooth integration. Just print on a symbol, no power required and stick it anywhere. I really like the idea of putting barcodes on every street corner I would find this invauable while travelling in a city I don't know.
I take pictures of the "now playing" line on our music server for future reference. It's not really any different than that.
Entering text on a cell phone is a real pain in the ass and it's often the only device I have around me capable of recording data while 'out on the town'
Take for instance google maps. I'll often take a photo of a google map before driving just so that I can look at it later on my cell phone. Much cheaper than GPS. Imagine if you will if Google Maps could encode all of your driving directions into a little 2"x2" square barcode on your screen. Then you just snap a picture with your cell phone. The Cell Phone includes a text decoder which then decodes the driving directions for when you need them later.
Let's say you're in frys and you see a new 500 GB HDD for $220. Now you start thinking to yourself... "Is this a good deal?" but you can't remember what the going rate is. No problem you snap a photo of the barcode and you've already set up an association with product names and your favorite price grabber search engine and presto there it is on New Egg for $180 shipped.
Let's say you're in a big city and you're lost. No problem! Just snap a photo of the nearest street sign's colorful barcode and presto google maps (your chosen default map service) locates where you are. You already while at home scanned the barcode for the address of your hotel and google gives you new directions from where you are.
The problem with cuecat was that all it did was awkwardly enter URLs onto your PC. When you're on your PC there is no need for barcode scanners you already have an amazing data entry tool... your keyboard! Cellphones have no easy way to enter in a lot of information.
I doubt microsoft's lone solution will be the only survivor, but who cares! With a camera based system, you can have hundreds of competing formats on your cell phone. But the better compressed the data, the more likely it is to catch on because the more information it can convey.
I for one welcome our new barcode speaking overloads.
I'm not sure what they're talking about in relation to cell phone camera resolution being insufficient currently. I just took a picture from one of the links provided and it was more 'readable' on my cell phone than the black and white 2d matrix. Especially at 320x240.
Perhaps it's the processors that are still lacking.
1) I hated switching the hotkeys of every app I touched. 2) After a month was still significantly faster at QWERTY and doubted I could catch up to a lifetime of QWERTY in less than a year. 3) Knew the world would always be qwerty and I usually wouldn't be able to switch it over, so I would have to switch back and forth at work, on a co-workers computer, on my blackberry, etc etc etc.
so I gave up.
I'm not going to carry around a config file for the 10,000 applications I use every week on multiple computers because I want to type a bit faster. That's a false optimization in my opinion.
Lol. Stupid slip of the keyboard. Maps after the tsunami may now be wildly out of date and ones prior to the tsunami may actually better reflect the current state...
Bear with me. I know that it doesn't sound reasonable but it is. Perhaps the Pre-Katrina maps better reflect the *current* state of the vast majority of areas affected by Katrina. Just like maps prior to the asian tsunami are now wildly out of date and ones previoius to the tsunami may better reflect the current state of vegetation and industry.
I think one of the big reasons that Firewire caught on was soley because of DV video cameras. DV is going the way of the dodo within the next 5 years or so to be replaced with disk based and flash based recording systems. When that takes place. Firewire will in my view lose about 3/4 of its market.
Perhaps not on the Mac front, but definitely on the PC front where USB is so much more prevalent except for capturing video. For highspeed HDDs expect eSata solutions to prevail.
The poster can't figure out exactly what their news item is about. What the author of TFA claiming, or what conclusions we should reach. Sounds like just another day on Slashdot.
I bet you expect Sony to come out and update your TV when the new DTV requirements take place too? Or perhaps your car dealership should fix that leaky radiator, after all it's only been 7 years.
You're missing that the $4,000 offers a patch which includes a tech support line for your company. If you have 50 mission critical servers, you don't want something to go wrong. Unfortunately for you, you already lost tech support because your software is almost 3/4 of a decade old. If you need a free solution. They exist. But don't expect any guarantees.
You make a lot of assumptions about what microsoft *should* be doing for their customers. This isn't a security patch. This wasn't a flaw on microsoft's part. Windows 2000 would have operated perfectly had the government not made a small change to our time system. Therefore it's not microsoft's obligation to even provide a solution at all.
Consumers obviously haven't payed for support, or they would be receiving this for free. If you remeber correctly a couple of years ago there was a slashdot article. "Support for Windows 2000 ends, extended support available for a price." or something to that effect. That was your chance to purchase support.
Bah! You purchased a piece of software, not support. I don't want to hear a bunch of bitching about a copmany *offering* a small limited support package to extend the support contract on a product to encompass hundreds of products for one fee.
For $4,000 you're getting someone willing to say "this will work". If you don't find that worth $4,000 then use one of a gazillion free options or just change it manually. Hell even microsoft offers a free solution! All you have to do is get off your lazy ass download it and install it. Done! If it fucks up your system, well then I hope it costs you less that $4,000 to rectify.
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More likely they'll see it as a god sent way to finally almost break even on the cost of the box.
"Sir we're almost not hemorrhaging money thanks to that blueray deal!"
"Excellent James, quick drop the price again!"
>> It's good enough for anime. Like the OP said. No mention of art. ;)
Actually there is a video on Channel 9 about their peer to peer DNS system as well as a server side DNS offered by microsoft free for vista customers.
Yeah but try moving 2TB of data over to your .Mac or Google datahosting solution.
The future is in rich media. People are amassing vast volumes of data every day. The future is a system in which they can access all of the data instantaneously. The webbandwidth curve and the home storage capacity are not in sync. This is why it's still a hastle to upload a 100MB file but the average user seems to have 100GB of movies.
Just my My Documents folder is something like 60GB. There is no way I'm going to upload that to the internet anytime soon, and yet the strength of an online system is when all of the data is available not just a small selection. You can never know when you need that rendering from June of 2003 that you thought you would never need again.
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One of the unfortunate side effects of the Slashdot moderation system. You can't use your karma to adjust for "intent". It was anti-microsoft so it got the obligatory +5 insightful. Next time add a smiley. ;)
All Microsoft provides is an inexpensive, subsidized HD-DVD player which interfaces with your computer using the USB protocol. It's no different than hooking up a Toshiba HD-DVD player (it might even be a Toshiba HD-DVD player).
If there were a cheaper HD-DVD player for the PC available you would be hearing about Walmart's HD-DVD player being the culprit.
But by all means huge props in being able to make ANY topic an attack on Microsoft. In other news, Virginia Tech Killer uses Windows, FBI investigates implications.
More likely they would all switch over to *pirated copies of windows.
Wow I didn't know someone could hate themselves that much.
But it's not a question of being digitally isolated. It's a question of having to enter in:
"Corner of 12th and Broadway, Seattle, WA" using a little keypad or just clicking the photo button, pointing and firing away. Not to mention downloading any data will costs up to a dollar for even a very simple transaction.
It's effectively using a photo as a data sync method. And while something like RFID could do the same thing this you could do with an inkjet printer, or any printing service. Want to send out business cards with your VCard embedded on the back? Put it on a little postage sized matrix in the back.
You could own a restaurant and post put up the current menu encoded in a little square down in the corner. I know just a few hours ago I was out for a walk and it was a neighborhood I hadn't really explored and I saw a restaurant I hadn't tried so I took a picture of the menu to check out when I got home.
Yes you could provide a 1D barcode link to your webpage, but if it was as simple as hitting "file Save-As" in your word processor there would be no need to maintain the webpage.
You are correct on a single dimensional array. However in this case it is a 2 dimensional array. Therefore both the length and the height must be doubled. which results in 1/4 of a monochromatic array.
Regular barcodes can only carry a few bytes of data. The advantage of a compressed machine readable symbol which could hold a dozen kilobytes of data is a very useful solution to many data entry problems. No need for RFID or bluetooth integration. Just print on a symbol, no power required and stick it anywhere. I really like the idea of putting barcodes on every street corner I would find this invauable while travelling in a city I don't know.
I take pictures of the "now playing" line on our music server for future reference. It's not really any different than that.
Entering text on a cell phone is a real pain in the ass and it's often the only device I have around me capable of recording data while 'out on the town'
Take for instance google maps. I'll often take a photo of a google map before driving just so that I can look at it later on my cell phone. Much cheaper than GPS. Imagine if you will if Google Maps could encode all of your driving directions into a little 2"x2" square barcode on your screen. Then you just snap a picture with your cell phone. The Cell Phone includes a text decoder which then decodes the driving directions for when you need them later.
Let's say you're in frys and you see a new 500 GB HDD for $220. Now you start thinking to yourself... "Is this a good deal?" but you can't remember what the going rate is. No problem you snap a photo of the barcode and you've already set up an association with product names and your favorite price grabber search engine and presto there it is on New Egg for $180 shipped.
Let's say you're in a big city and you're lost. No problem! Just snap a photo of the nearest street sign's colorful barcode and presto google maps (your chosen default map service) locates where you are. You already while at home scanned the barcode for the address of your hotel and google gives you new directions from where you are.
The problem with cuecat was that all it did was awkwardly enter URLs onto your PC. When you're on your PC there is no need for barcode scanners you already have an amazing data entry tool... your keyboard! Cellphones have no easy way to enter in a lot of information.
I doubt microsoft's lone solution will be the only survivor, but who cares! With a camera based system, you can have hundreds of competing formats on your cell phone. But the better compressed the data, the more likely it is to catch on because the more information it can convey.
I for one welcome our new barcode speaking overloads.
I'm not sure what they're talking about in relation to cell phone camera resolution being insufficient currently. I just took a picture from one of the links provided and it was more 'readable' on my cell phone than the black and white 2d matrix. Especially at 320x240.
Perhaps it's the processors that are still lacking.
You can read barcodes! Cool!
I switched to Dvorak. However:
1) I hated switching the hotkeys of every app I touched.
2) After a month was still significantly faster at QWERTY and doubted I could catch up to a lifetime of QWERTY in less than a year.
3) Knew the world would always be qwerty and I usually wouldn't be able to switch it over, so I would have to switch back and forth at work, on a co-workers computer, on my blackberry, etc etc etc.
so I gave up.
I'm not going to carry around a config file for the 10,000 applications I use every week on multiple computers because I want to type a bit faster. That's a false optimization in my opinion.
Lol. Stupid slip of the keyboard. Maps after the tsunami may now be wildly out of date and ones prior to the tsunami may actually better reflect the current state...
Bear with me. I know that it doesn't sound reasonable but it is. Perhaps the Pre-Katrina maps better reflect the *current* state of the vast majority of areas affected by Katrina. Just like maps prior to the asian tsunami are now wildly out of date and ones previoius to the tsunami may better reflect the current state of vegetation and industry.
I think one of the big reasons that Firewire caught on was soley because of DV video cameras. DV is going the way of the dodo within the next 5 years or so to be replaced with disk based and flash based recording systems. When that takes place. Firewire will in my view lose about 3/4 of its market.
Perhaps not on the Mac front, but definitely on the PC front where USB is so much more prevalent except for capturing video. For highspeed HDDs expect eSata solutions to prevail.
CRobots! Oh man I had this one that...
The poster can't figure out exactly what their news item is about. What the author of TFA claiming, or what conclusions we should reach. Sounds like just another day on Slashdot.
Who the hell uses their school email account?
I bet you expect Sony to come out and update your TV when the new DTV requirements take place too? Or perhaps your car dealership should fix that leaky radiator, after all it's only been 7 years.
You're missing that the $4,000 offers a patch which includes a tech support line for your company. If you have 50 mission critical servers, you don't want something to go wrong. Unfortunately for you, you already lost tech support because your software is almost 3/4 of a decade old. If you need a free solution. They exist. But don't expect any guarantees.
You make a lot of assumptions about what microsoft *should* be doing for their customers. This isn't a security patch. This wasn't a flaw on microsoft's part. Windows 2000 would have operated perfectly had the government not made a small change to our time system. Therefore it's not microsoft's obligation to even provide a solution at all.
Consumers obviously haven't payed for support, or they would be receiving this for free. If you remeber correctly a couple of years ago there was a slashdot article. "Support for Windows 2000 ends, extended support available for a price." or something to that effect. That was your chance to purchase support.
Bah! You purchased a piece of software, not support. I don't want to hear a bunch of bitching about a copmany *offering* a small limited support package to extend the support contract on a product to encompass hundreds of products for one fee.
For $4,000 you're getting someone willing to say "this will work". If you don't find that worth $4,000 then use one of a gazillion free options or just change it manually. Hell even microsoft offers a free solution! All you have to do is get off your lazy ass download it and install it. Done! If it fucks up your system, well then I hope it costs you less that $4,000 to rectify.
The whole thing is a load of fud if you ask me.
You could switch into a passive radar mode, use AWACS. Then engage with an IR weapon such as the AIM 9.