I think the only usefulness for this is for the company, to be able to say "Gee, look at us! We are so advanced, and we are using all that advanced-ness to protect *you*! (insert more Marketing-babble here)"
There is the hassle of taking a picture of yourself, for one.
Like another poster mentioned, the possibility of something happening to injure your face, and causing you not to be able to access your own phone.
If this is your only phone, would you have to wash your hair in the morning and groom yourself before the phone would know who you are?
Really... a good idea, just not a practical one
If this were coupled with a multi-cored GPU, think of the benefits Gamers would reap. Of course, Longhorn might require you to have both those processor cores, and one more video card, SLI'ed in to handle the vole-bloat...
Solar Storm comes along, depletes Ozone layer. -Something already accomplished handily by man with his CFC's.
Volcano erupts, spewing clouds of ash and Greenhouse Gases into the sky. -Something already accomplished many times over by man with his Cars and Industry.
The point here? Nature does this in moderation. Man does this out of control.
When I was in Fifth grade, I would have loved having a computer issued to me. Would have greatly furthered my abilities as far as computers go. Of course, there are many problems with this. Textbooks don't run out of batteries, which can be a problem sometimes in rural, third world areas. Think about it, these old textbooks aren't updatable, but they have lasted much longer than these handhelds will likely will. Also, here in the United States we sometimes had more technology in the classroom than our teachers knew what to do with, and that canbe a problem as the students here likely have never seen such devices before. There will be no 'geek-students' to help the teacher, after the Company man leaves. Upgrading from books so soon, when we are still using books in America sounds like a double-edged sword to me.
It's not an "Invisibility Shield"... it's a useless optical illusion designed to fool everything.
*Say you somehow got this to work for a tank.*
>You chug along.
>Enemies hear you, but can not see you.
>Enemies open up, blind-firing.
>Though the Enemies have given away their positions, your tank is damaged to the point that it is no longer battleworthy.
*Congrats, Soldier. You just lost.*
"to be the first solo non-stop flight around the world without refuelling."
The keywords here, are SOLO, and what should have been included: jet-powered. Voyager, the last Round the World plane, had a pair of engines driving props. Now, why is jet-powered significant? Because jet technology has typically lagged behind in fuel economy. The Soviet Union, for their long range TU-95 bomber (Codenamed by NATO as the BEAR) used four turboprop engines each driving a pair of counterrotating props. The reason for this, while the West was starting to use Jet bombers, was that even the best jets the Soviet Union could produce had not acheived the fuel economy to give them the rage that was needed. With turboprops, however, the range exceed estimates, and a passenger TU-95 variant was used by Aeroflot on a Soviet Union-Cuba route in the 60's. Back to the present day... If Burt Rutan has designed a plane with the fuel capacity to feed a jet for a Round the World flight, then he is truly a genius. But one thing I noticed is that 295 MPH is slow for a jet aircraft. During WWII, the fastest Allied plane was about 450 MPH, mabye more in a dive. I'm curious to know if the reduction in speed is reaping a fuel econ. benifit. IANAAE (I am not an Aeronautical Engineer,) but I'd suppose this is like driving a car at 45 to save on gas, as opposed to 65. Any Aeronautical Engineers out there want to reply?
Drug prices are out of control, in the United States. However, I'm not sure the concept of Emin. Domain is the right way to go. What we need to do would be to have the Congresscritters set controls on drug prices, but I'm afraid that's not going to happen with their 'sources of income'...
to AMD? What is Dell smoking? Shifting from Intel to AMD isn't a big deal. It's still x86-based. Now, shifting from AMD (or Intel) to Apple would be something that might make you customers nervous if you were Dell. But then again, that's never going to happen either. Dell's just going to sit around and be the Wintel hench-OEM. Is it any wonder that some people have given them the moniker "Dull"?
I mean, cmon! Don't you people have calenders? Ten years ago wasn't that long ago. If you expand that to 15, such events as the fall of the Soviet Union, the Wall coming down, the Burning of the NeXTCube*, The Browser Wars... the list goes on. Wake up, Slashdot!
Connecting a Windows XP Box to the Internet: Free Getting the Blaster Worm in 6 minutes: Free Mentioning Blaster and TK-421 in one Slashdot post: Priceless. Somethings money can't buy...
"Artists Against 419"? Now I know a lot of artists do good things, but this frankly sounds fishy.
Consider this:
The legality of this is in question
You *must* be connected to the Internet to use
Having lots of bandwidth is preferable
You connect to lots of other computers, likely more than the user is aware of. What does this remind you of? Exactly, what the RIAA has tried to paint as the 'Artists enemy #1'... Filesharing! Unless someone can go through and confirm that this screensaver is indeed clean, I for one am going to avoid it like the plauge. I know this has sounded like a bunch of FUD, but on a Windows box having an app 'phone home' is easy. There are also so many other good points, which I'm not going to rehash... I'm just saying to THINK before you act!
... always exictes me. Technology seems to be on the edge of limitless applications. I'm sure that in fifteen years, there will be new applications for microtechnology that none of us have even though of yet. Sorry for the geek factor here, but can you imagine when human implants and prosthethis reach the level of sophistication depected in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
"Desktop Search: Now you can find files, photos, songs, pictures and other files on your computer's hard drive just as easily as you search the Web. And you don't even have to leave your Web browser to do it." Ever tried Start/Find/Files or Folders? Been here since Win95.
"Tabbed Browsing: Keep tabs on your Internet experience! The new AOL Browser uses convenient tabs to help organize all your open browser windows, so you can quickly switch back and forth among multiple Web sites, easily finding--and getting to--the one you want." Mozilla, Firefox, Avant Browser (IE), among numerous others offer this.
"Clear My Footprints: Whether you like it or not, your computer keeps track of everywhere you go online. But the new AOL Browser helps protect your privacy and stop snoops with just one click. Quickly and easily clear your Internet history, cookies, caches and more. You can even choose exactly which footprints you want to clear--making sure you erase what you want, when you want." Try SnapFiles.com (formerly WebAttack), they have tons of privacy tools, in both Freeware and Shareware.
"Thumbnail Previews: Now you can save time by viewing actual mini-previews of Web pages, instead of trying to decipher misleading URLs. Simply hold the mouse over any item in your history or favorites, or over any open browser tabs, and you'll be able to see where you're going--before you even get there." Haha. Just like browsing your favorites folder in Windows 98. Ever notice that little preview panel will also show webpages?
Conclusion: AOL is once again offering regurgitated crap, hyped up with marketing to blind 'Joe L User' from seeing that it's *nothing new*!
To quote my professors from both my English 102 *and* History 109 classes: "Every writer has bias ('spin'). You just have to comprehend the position the writer is taking, and the historical circumstances that were taking place at the time."
It's not half bad an idea. I once came up with a concept for a story, in which nano-technology had advanced to the point where robots could act like humans in most ways. I lost interest in writing the story, however, as the plot was not up to my standards. When robots gain an (artifical) intelligence high enough to comprehend what us humans do to create more of our kind, don't you think they would want the same abilities? Imagine if you had been born without sexual organs, and you had to build your offspring in a metal shop? This is what robots face... or will face, perhaps.
"This, the week after a similar weakness* is shown on 24?"
Really, such worries are not totally new. Some forward-thinkers probably even postulated the idea after the events behind (and subsquent release of) the movie WarGames. The principle is the same. Someone breaks into an unsecure network, creates havoc where order *has* to reign. TV just turns it into a good storyline, playing on people's fears.
But it's not designed to be a server app.
"The operation timed out when attempting to contact http://www.kmeleon.org/" Whoops. Another one slashdotted?
Winny
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny
And use strong encription methods to protect it's users. I for one would love to see the groundbreaking Winny resurrected and added to something like Exeem Lite.
Slashdot Mirror
http://boardgamegeek.com/game/9609
Will this OC episode have any petrification or hot grits, by any chance?
I think the only usefulness for this is for the company, to be able to say "Gee, look at us! We are so advanced, and we are using all that advanced-ness to protect *you*! (insert more Marketing-babble here)"
There is the hassle of taking a picture of yourself, for one.
Like another poster mentioned, the possibility of something happening to injure your face, and causing you not to be able to access your own phone.
If this is your only phone, would you have to wash your hair in the morning and groom yourself before the phone would know who you are? Really... a good idea, just not a practical one
If this were coupled with a multi-cored GPU, think of the benefits Gamers would reap. Of course, Longhorn might require you to have both those processor cores, and one more video card, SLI'ed in to handle the vole-bloat...
I'm stumped. Is this more insightful, or funny?
Solar Storm comes along, depletes Ozone layer.
-Something already accomplished handily by man with his CFC's.
Volcano erupts, spewing clouds of ash and Greenhouse Gases into the sky.
-Something already accomplished many times over by man with his Cars and Industry.
The point here? Nature does this in moderation. Man does this out of control.
When I was in Fifth grade, I would have loved having a computer issued to me. Would have greatly furthered my abilities as far as computers go. Of course, there are many problems with this. Textbooks don't run out of batteries, which can be a problem sometimes in rural, third world areas. Think about it, these old textbooks aren't updatable, but they have lasted much longer than these handhelds will likely will. Also, here in the United States we sometimes had more technology in the classroom than our teachers knew what to do with, and that canbe a problem as the students here likely have never seen such devices before. There will be no 'geek-students' to help the teacher, after the Company man leaves. Upgrading from books so soon, when we are still using books in America sounds like a double-edged sword to me.
It's not an "Invisibility Shield"... it's a useless optical illusion designed to fool everything.
*Say you somehow got this to work for a tank.*
>You chug along.
>Enemies hear you, but can not see you.
>Enemies open up, blind-firing.
>Though the Enemies have given away their positions, your tank is damaged to the point that it is no longer battleworthy.
*Congrats, Soldier. You just lost.*
Mod Parent up, Informative!
"to be the first solo non-stop flight around the world without refuelling." The keywords here, are SOLO, and what should have been included: jet-powered. Voyager, the last Round the World plane, had a pair of engines driving props. Now, why is jet-powered significant? Because jet technology has typically lagged behind in fuel economy.
The Soviet Union, for their long range TU-95 bomber (Codenamed by NATO as the BEAR) used four turboprop engines each driving a pair of counterrotating props. The reason for this, while the West was starting to use Jet bombers, was that even the best jets the Soviet Union could produce had not acheived the fuel economy to give them the rage that was needed. With turboprops, however, the range exceed estimates, and a passenger TU-95 variant was used by Aeroflot on a Soviet Union-Cuba route in the 60's.
Back to the present day... If Burt Rutan has designed a plane with the fuel capacity to feed a jet for a Round the World flight, then he is truly a genius. But one thing I noticed is that 295 MPH is slow for a jet aircraft. During WWII, the fastest Allied plane was about 450 MPH, mabye more in a dive. I'm curious to know if the reduction in speed is reaping a fuel econ. benifit. IANAAE (I am not an Aeronautical Engineer,) but I'd suppose this is like driving a car at 45 to save on gas, as opposed to 65. Any Aeronautical Engineers out there want to reply?
Drug prices are out of control, in the United States. However, I'm not sure the concept of Emin. Domain is the right way to go. What we need to do would be to have the Congresscritters set controls on drug prices, but I'm afraid that's not going to happen with their 'sources of income'...
to AMD? What is Dell smoking? Shifting from Intel to AMD isn't a big deal. It's still x86-based. Now, shifting from AMD (or Intel) to Apple would be something that might make you customers nervous if you were Dell. But then again, that's never going to happen either. Dell's just going to sit around and be the Wintel hench-OEM. Is it any wonder that some people have given them the moniker "Dull"?
I mean, cmon! Don't you people have calenders? Ten years ago wasn't that long ago. If you expand that to 15, such events as the fall of the Soviet Union, the Wall coming down, the Burning of the NeXTCube*, The Browser Wars... the list goes on. Wake up, Slashdot!
m l
*http://www.simson.net/photos/hacks/cubefire.ht
Connecting a Windows XP Box to the Internet: Free
Getting the Blaster Worm in 6 minutes: Free
Mentioning Blaster and TK-421 in one Slashdot post: Priceless.
Somethings money can't buy...
The legality of this is in question
You *must* be connected to the Internet to use
Having lots of bandwidth is preferable
You connect to lots of other computers, likely more than the user is aware of.
What does this remind you of? Exactly, what the RIAA has tried to paint as the 'Artists enemy #1'... Filesharing! Unless someone can go through and confirm that this screensaver is indeed clean, I for one am going to avoid it like the plauge. I know this has sounded like a bunch of FUD, but on a Windows box having an app 'phone home' is easy. There are also so many other good points, which I'm not going to rehash... I'm just saying to THINK before you act!
... always exictes me. Technology seems to be on the edge of limitless applications. I'm sure that in fifteen years, there will be new applications for microtechnology that none of us have even though of yet. Sorry for the geek factor here, but can you imagine when human implants and prosthethis reach the level of sophistication depected in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex?
"Desktop Search: Now you can find files, photos, songs, pictures and other files on your computer's hard drive just as easily as you search the Web. And you don't even have to leave your Web browser to do it." Ever tried Start/Find/Files or Folders? Been here since Win95. "Tabbed Browsing: Keep tabs on your Internet experience! The new AOL Browser uses convenient tabs to help organize all your open browser windows, so you can quickly switch back and forth among multiple Web sites, easily finding--and getting to--the one you want." Mozilla, Firefox, Avant Browser (IE), among numerous others offer this. "Clear My Footprints: Whether you like it or not, your computer keeps track of everywhere you go online. But the new AOL Browser helps protect your privacy and stop snoops with just one click. Quickly and easily clear your Internet history, cookies, caches and more. You can even choose exactly which footprints you want to clear--making sure you erase what you want, when you want." Try SnapFiles.com (formerly WebAttack), they have tons of privacy tools, in both Freeware and Shareware. "Thumbnail Previews: Now you can save time by viewing actual mini-previews of Web pages, instead of trying to decipher misleading URLs. Simply hold the mouse over any item in your history or favorites, or over any open browser tabs, and you'll be able to see where you're going--before you even get there." Haha. Just like browsing your favorites folder in Windows 98. Ever notice that little preview panel will also show webpages? Conclusion: AOL is once again offering regurgitated crap, hyped up with marketing to blind 'Joe L User' from seeing that it's *nothing new*!
To quote my professors from both my English 102 *and* History 109 classes: "Every writer has bias ('spin'). You just have to comprehend the position the writer is taking, and the historical circumstances that were taking place at the time."
You don't have to be Canadian to be weary/wary of the Patriot Act. You just need Sovereign power to get your message across.
It's not half bad an idea. I once came up with a concept for a story, in which nano-technology had advanced to the point where robots could act like humans in most ways. I lost interest in writing the story, however, as the plot was not up to my standards. When robots gain an (artifical) intelligence high enough to comprehend what us humans do to create more of our kind, don't you think they would want the same abilities? Imagine if you had been born without sexual organs, and you had to build your offspring in a metal shop? This is what robots face... or will face, perhaps.
"This, the week after a similar weakness* is shown on 24?" Really, such worries are not totally new. Some forward-thinkers probably even postulated the idea after the events behind (and subsquent release of) the movie WarGames. The principle is the same. Someone breaks into an unsecure network, creates havoc where order *has* to reign. TV just turns it into a good storyline, playing on people's fears.
But it's not designed to be a server app. "The operation timed out when attempting to contact http://www.kmeleon.org/" Whoops. Another one slashdotted?
Winny http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winny And use strong encription methods to protect it's users. I for one would love to see the groundbreaking Winny resurrected and added to something like Exeem Lite.
Doh. Forgot I had it set on "highest scores first"...