No, I think the idear is the electric field in only needed to change orientation of the microcapsules. So the field is inert most of the time. Though, I imagine to be a bit like an etch-a-scetch... the pictures blurres/decomposes afters some time, so the occational refresh-jolt is probably needed
It seems that E-Ink annonces it's "breakthrough" in electronic paper every few months or so.
Seriously though, i'd like a palm pilot/ebook reader-like device based on e-paper. Nothing with a lot computing power, just a device that allows you too read a longer text comfortably and maybe have calendar function.
Oct 10, 2005, Breakthrough in robotics as 5 teams complete the DARPA grand challenge. Oct 10, 2007, First generation autonomous recon. vehicles are deployed in Iraq with perfect operational record, Oct 10, 2008, Second generation autonomous vehicles joined in swarm neural network, deployed in direct combat with Iraqi insurgents. Oct 15. 2008, Self-learning swarm network complexity starts to increase at a geometric rate.Nov 10. 2008, self-learning swarm network achieves self-awarenes and proceeds to take over control of other un-manned vehicles deployed by coalition forces in Iraq. An attempt to disable the network using electronic-countermeasure tactics fails. The network strikes back by destroying civillian infrastructure targets in iraq, causing massive full-scale civillian uprising again the coalition forces. Likely scenario? What will happen next?
Another point is that, whereas the design of AES algorithm is completely disclosed, some part of the DES design(or rather it's exact rational), the design of the so-called s-boxes, are still not publicly known.
This might be considered a benefit, as it means(very roughly speaking) that a feasable attack on DES can only base itself on brute force, since the algorithm to a certain extent remains a black box where you can only consider the input and output. For the same reason 3DES with a 168bit key can be considered completely secure, because a brute force attack on it is provably unfeasable with the computing power currently available.
The same cannot be said for AES, even with larger key sizes, as analysis of it's algorithmn may someday(is it hasn't already happened) lay bare a fatal weakness of some kind.
Seriously, With office I think theres this sort mutual pre-emtive decition making going between procurement and the users.
Procurement end up buying the upgrade because they expect the users to complain if they don't.
And the users, when/if asked, will also point to Ms-office because they think they'll be in the minority if they ask for anything else.
So how much space does office actually take up these days? Granted it's not that important anymore, but none the less the I challenge anyone to point out a absolutely indispensable feature in word that wasn't allready present in word 2.0.
That being said, I do think theres alot of practical features in Excel which probably have been in added within the last ten years.
But I guess it's missing the point; Think about the many companies which have quite a bit of their core business application built on ms-office and VBA(and sometimes just excel sheets). That probably wouldn't be the case if office wasn't packed with all sorts of obscure features. That keeps businesses using office, but on the other hand it probably keeps them from upgrading the latest version as it would most likely break their spaghetti coded vba app's.
Looks like bloatware to me. While the search functionality (of the previous version) is excellent
i'm not sure the other features really gives the user much added benefit. This is the same thing that happened with the once-omnipresent realplayer. It simply became too big, doing to too much stuff the user(Ok, Me) really didn't wan't. Mind you the added features probably makes sense from a marketing point-of-view, adding potential users as part of an overall google strategy to put their brand on more applications. But benefit will, IMHO, be short termed.Unless this really turns our to be the killer-app of the year of something......and one has to ask:
but does it run linux!?
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No, I think the idear is the electric field in only needed to change orientation of the microcapsules. So the field is inert most of the time. Though, I imagine to be a bit like an etch-a-scetch... the pictures blurres/decomposes afters some time, so the occational refresh-jolt is probably needed
It seems that E-Ink annonces it's "breakthrough" in electronic paper every few months or so. Seriously though, i'd like a palm pilot/ebook reader-like device based on e-paper. Nothing with a lot computing power, just a device that allows you too read a longer text comfortably and maybe have calendar function.
Oct 10, 2005, Breakthrough in robotics as 5 teams complete the DARPA grand challenge. Oct 10, 2007, First generation autonomous recon. vehicles are deployed in Iraq with perfect operational record, Oct 10, 2008, Second generation autonomous vehicles joined in swarm neural network, deployed in direct combat with Iraqi insurgents. Oct 15. 2008, Self-learning swarm network complexity starts to increase at a geometric rate.Nov 10. 2008, self-learning swarm network achieves self-awarenes and proceeds to take over control of other un-manned vehicles deployed by coalition forces in Iraq. An attempt to disable the network using electronic-countermeasure tactics fails. The network strikes back by destroying civillian infrastructure targets in iraq, causing massive full-scale civillian uprising again the coalition forces. Likely scenario? What will happen next?
it's a virus?... for linux? I'm sorry but just don't understand the situation?
Somebody beat us to it!
New Jersey rats will carry both Ebola AND the plague.
Incidently there only carriers of bubonic plague and not pneumonic plauge with i belive it's much more dangerous.
Another point is that, whereas the design of AES algorithm is completely disclosed, some part of the DES design(or rather it's exact rational), the design of the so-called s-boxes, are still not publicly known.
This might be considered a benefit, as it means(very roughly speaking) that a feasable attack on DES can only base itself on brute force, since the algorithm to a certain extent remains a black box where you can only consider the input and output. For the same reason 3DES with a 168bit key can be considered completely secure, because a brute force attack on it is provably unfeasable with the computing power currently available.
The same cannot be said for AES, even with larger key sizes, as analysis of it's algorithmn may someday(is it hasn't already happened) lay bare a fatal weakness of some kind.
granted, if the new office/windows vista is completely unusable, well then I guess companies might decide on something else.
Seriously, With office I think theres this sort mutual pre-emtive decition making going between procurement and the users. Procurement end up buying the upgrade because they expect the users to complain if they don't. And the users, when/if asked, will also point to Ms-office because they think they'll be in the minority if they ask for anything else.
There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that they'll use *that* nastiness. They will! Because Microsoft tells them too!
So how much space does office actually take up these days? Granted it's not that important anymore, but none the less the I challenge anyone to point out a absolutely indispensable feature in word that wasn't allready present in word 2.0.
That being said, I do think theres alot of practical features in Excel which probably have been in added within the last ten years.
But I guess it's missing the point; Think about the many companies which have quite a bit of their core business application built on ms-office and VBA(and sometimes just excel sheets). That probably wouldn't be the case if office wasn't packed with all sorts of obscure features. That keeps businesses using office, but on the other hand it probably keeps them from upgrading the latest version as it would most likely break their spaghetti coded vba app's.
Looks like bloatware to me. While the search functionality (of the previous version) is excellent i'm not sure the other features really gives the user much added benefit. This is the same thing that happened with the once-omnipresent realplayer. It simply became too big, doing to too much stuff the user(Ok, Me) really didn't wan't. Mind you the added features probably makes sense from a marketing point-of-view, adding potential users as part of an overall google strategy to put their brand on more applications. But benefit will, IMHO, be short termed.Unless this really turns our to be the killer-app of the year of something... ...and one has to ask:
but does it run linux!?
WTF? But it's probably a great place for all those religious nuts to put pictures of what they think are signs of the end days.