What if someone sees (let alone hears) you knocking your door? How about
your visitor accidently knocking your door in a pattern which happens to be your knock code?
The cell phone is not tamper proof, this whole phone face recognition is pretty much
useless. Face recognition works in buildings and such because the device itself
resides on the premises of the company/bank/institute using it. This poses a
very big obstacle against anyone trying to break into the system. If he fails
he will simply go back home with his head down. However, in the case of a cell
phone, he already has the device. He can crack it open, try to flash the fireware...etc.
I think you are missing the point here. It is the Hardware vendors fault (not Linux) that they don't provide a driver for whatever piece of H/W they are selling.
When you said that you need to grab the driver as you do in windows, Well, You grab the driver from the H/W vendor's website not from MS, don't you?.
I was copying a couple of gegs from a friend of mine. He has a new machine running XP Professional with SP2. I was using my External Lacie USB 2.0 Hard Disk.
When using GNU/Linux I never thought about USB 2.0 drivers or anything. I just plug it in and It just works with the USB 2.0 transfer speeds. On my friend's machine, Plugin it in displayed a warning "pluginning a high speed USB device into a non-high speed USB port". Apparently my friend didn't install the USB 2.0 windows drivers. My friend a newbie computer user had no idea what I was talking about. Finally I was able to find the motherboard installation CD covered up with dust in my friend's desk drawer.
Installing the drivers and rebooting wasn't able to bring the USB 2.0 ports to work and we had to abort the whole thing because copying a 700MB file was taking 20 mins or so.
So yes, Windows is not ready for the desktop;)
>Why not use ichat/AIMs video protocol. It's a >fully open standard, >described completely on Apple's developer site. >All there ready to go.
Well, It is not about chasing Windows. Love it or not, MS has 90% of the market and if they didn't decide to use Open standards (ichat/AIMs, Jabber) then the only way to communicate with those 90% is reverse-engineering MS stuff.
The site is already down. And it doesn't look like another hype(at least to me). It seems that those guys have actually done something. Read on:
RENO, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--Feb 10, 2005 -- Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (NasdaqSC:ALTI - News) announced today that it has achieved a breakthrough in Lithium Ion battery electrode materials, which will enable a new generation of rechargeable battery to be introduced into the marketplace, as well as create new markets for rechargeable batteries. These new materials allow rechargeable batteries to be manufactured that have three times the power of existing Lithium Ion batteries at the same price and with recharge times measured in a few minutes rather than hours.
The technical achievements are being praised by the battery community as truly remarkable and will likely enable a new generation of rechargeable battery to be produced. Altair has confidentiality agreements in place with some of the world's leading battery development companies to evaluate and commercialize these battery electrode materials.
Altair's research and development efforts were allowed two new patents (announced on January 7th and 14th, 2005) and a National Science Foundation grant was successfully completed in January, 2005, by Altair. New markets for fast charging batteries will include the handheld power tools market increasing the productivity of, for example, construction workers while lowering their overhead costs. Other markets include hybrid electric vehicles, portable electronics and medical surgery tools -- solving the problem of electrical wires all over the operating room floor.
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Here is a direct link to the video of Crusher in action http://www.rec.ri.cmu.edu/projects/ugcv/videos/ind ex.htm
What if someone sees (let alone hears) you knocking your door? How about
your visitor accidently knocking your door in a pattern which happens to be your
knock code?
Here are direct links to the product on Samsung's website:
r /MP3Players/YP_Z5ABXAA.asp
r /MP3Players/YP_Z5QBXAA.asp
(4 GB) http://www.samsung.com/Products/DigitalAudioPlaye
(2 GB) http://www.samsung.com/Products/DigitalAudioPlaye
Here is a direct link to the trailer http://www-us.starwreck.com/trailer.php
No Mac or GNU/Linux versions. it is based on DirectX and .Net :-S
The cell phone is not tamper proof, this whole phone face recognition is pretty much useless. Face recognition works in buildings and such because the device itself resides on the premises of the company/bank/institute using it. This poses a very big obstacle against anyone trying to break into the system. If he fails he will simply go back home with his head down. However, in the case of a cell phone, he already has the device. He can crack it open, try to flash the fireware...etc.
I think you are missing the point here. It is the Hardware vendors fault (not Linux) that they don't provide a driver for whatever piece of H/W they are selling.
When you said that you need to grab the driver as you do in windows, Well, You grab the driver from the H/W vendor's website not from MS, don't you?.
I was copying a couple of gegs from a friend of mine. He has a new machine running XP Professional with SP2. I was using my External Lacie USB 2.0 Hard Disk. ;)
When using GNU/Linux I never thought about USB 2.0 drivers or anything. I just plug it in and It just works with the USB 2.0 transfer speeds. On my friend's machine, Plugin it in displayed a warning "pluginning a high speed USB device into a non-high speed USB port". Apparently my friend didn't install the USB 2.0 windows drivers. My friend a newbie computer user had no idea what I was talking about. Finally I was able to find the motherboard installation CD covered up with dust in my friend's desk drawer. Installing the drivers and rebooting wasn't able to bring the USB 2.0 ports to work and we had to abort the whole thing because copying a 700MB file was taking 20 mins or so.
So yes, Windows is not ready for the desktop
>Why not use ichat/AIMs video protocol. It's a >fully open standard,
>described completely on Apple's developer site. >All there ready to go.
Well, It is not about chasing Windows.
Love it or not, MS has 90% of the market and if they didn't decide to use Open standards (ichat/AIMs, Jabber)
then the only way to communicate with those 90% is reverse-engineering MS stuff.
to check the small movie showing how that sensor is used for
scrolling the content of the Google Maps web site in Safari. Pretty cool I must say.
The site is already down. And it doesn't look like another hype(at least to me). It seems that those guys have actually done something. Read on :
RENO, NV--(MARKET WIRE)--Feb 10, 2005 -- Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. (NasdaqSC:ALTI - News) announced today that it has achieved a breakthrough in Lithium Ion battery electrode materials, which will enable a new generation of rechargeable battery to be introduced into the marketplace, as well as create new markets for rechargeable batteries. These new materials allow rechargeable batteries to be manufactured that have three times the power of existing Lithium Ion batteries at the same price and with recharge times measured in a few minutes rather than hours.
The technical achievements are being praised by the battery community as truly remarkable and will likely enable a new generation of rechargeable battery to be produced. Altair has confidentiality agreements in place with some of the world's leading battery development companies to evaluate and commercialize these battery electrode materials.
Altair's research and development efforts were allowed two new patents (announced on January 7th and 14th, 2005) and a National Science Foundation grant was successfully completed in January, 2005, by Altair. New markets for fast charging batteries will include the handheld power tools market increasing the productivity of, for example, construction workers while lowering their overhead costs. Other markets include hybrid electric vehicles, portable electronics and medical surgery tools -- solving the problem of electrical wires all over the operating room floor.
Rest of article can be found here
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/050210/080729.html