By putting the private key in the keyboard you're basically saying that you'll protect the keyboard data from being faked but will allow anyone to read it.
What you need is for each secure application to generate and exchange a keypair with the keyboad for a private session with the keyboard.
Why have you started talking about MS? I'm talking about company X who wants to sell proprietry software for the linux platform and charge X amount. Why can't they do this? You speak as though only free software can exist on the linux platform.
Perhaps because that's what the thread is about?
I never said that commercial software can't exist on linux (that would be stupid -- it already does). I'm saying, in response to the original posters comments, that companies targetting linux won't magically be immune from the same competition/market-cornering problems they would have in the windows world -- and the windows world has a lot more potential customers!
Regardless though, If I were any of the before mentioned company, I would rather compete against Redhat than MS. MS can afford to keep throwing billions each YEAR at the project, whereas Redhat pulls out if they are losing 10's of thousands of dollars for a short time.
Hardly a choice if you're competing for a fraction of a 2% market share. How many people use Linux compared to windows again?
Why does it have to be free, you can still run proprietry software on linux, companies don't have to make it free. You are also assuming that linus users wouldn't pay.
WTF? No I'm not. But what use is it if you write commercial software for Linux only to have open source projects take over your market. What if Redhat decides to distribute GnuWizzBang app that directly competes with your WizzBang app with their distribution? How is that any better than if Microsoft competes with you in the windows sphere?
Yes. Perhaps those companies should write free software for Linux. That'll prevent them from losing all that money.
Who gives a crap despite their bullying to certain comapnies, Microsoft have created a huge market/environment (or 'ecosystem' as they call it) for software vendors targetting windows.
Yep, they're usually made by wacom and the pressure sensitive nib is how they can make digital "ink" look like real ink with lighter&darker areas as well as the flicks at the end or letters.
Yeah, they're usually made by wacom and the pressure sensitive nib is how they can make digital "ink" look like real ink with lighter&darker areas as well as the flicks at the end or letters.
For me, the killer feature of my tablet is being able to sit back on the couch or in bed and browse the net. That's only possible with a slate based tablet. Convertibles tend to make people just use the keyboard and, being full laptops, they're too thick and heavy to be used as a browsing/reading device.
I use it to take meeting notes, general programming thoughts, doodles, todo lists etc.
Tablets use electromagnetic digitizers instead of touch sensitive pads so there is no problem with having your palm 'rest' on the screen while you write.
The advantage of notetaking with a tablet compared to paper or other device like a newton is that your notes are stored as handwriting -- exactly as you write them but yet they are still searchable. You can intermix hand drawn diagrams and doodles with notes (very difficult with a keyboard & mouse) and still, months later go back and search for where you wrote the words "RAID array" in your tablet-written notes. The tablet will search your handwriting and highlight the matches.
Microsoft's notetaking tool (OneNote) also allows you to handwrite while you record form the mic. This lets you play back what the lecturer was saying at a specific point when you were doodling or writing some sentence you no longer understand.
The handwriting recognition is amazing. I'd say, for myself personally, it's above 99%. It's one of those things yo have to see to believe. For me, I can write in a very scribbly and untidy fashion and the tablet still understands what I'm writing.
Nothing beats a tablet at meetings or in lecture theatres. Typing on notebooks is simply too noisy and distracting and notebook screens create a barrier between you and other people at the desk.
WebBrowsing.
This is the primary use of my tablet. Being able to sit back on the couch or in bed and wirelessly browse the net really changes the way you think about using computers. The closest thing I can compare it to is reading a book -- but it's the internet!
Showing people stuff
Being able to simply load up a file, picture, video or website and walk to someone's desk with the tablet in one hand to show them something is really cool. It just seems like a very natural way of doing things.
Games
Not the intended purpose of the tablet but it's great for playing puzzle games like the ones you find on yahoo and realarcade. Microsoft provide a free crosswords game with the latest tablet enhancement pack which lets you solve daily downloadable crosswords using the pen and handwriting (a much more natural way of playing the game than use a keyboard and mouse).
I prefer slate formfactor tablets as the 'convertibles' simple are too big and bulking to be able to sit back and browse the web (my primary use). You'd probably end up with a sore wrist and broken tablet if you tried to hold the convertibles with one hand like you would a book.
The tablet I have is a NEC Litepad which has a 10.4" screen (768x1024). I thought it sounded ridiculously small but I find my eyes are usually closer to the tablet screen than with a notebook so it compensates a bit and is perfectly fine for what I use it for.
The tablet weighs just under 1KG (2.2pounds) and is only 14mm thin! The battery admittedly only lasts only 2 hours with the screen at full brightness and using wifi. I tend to charge whenever I can and unplug when navigating between rooms. Second generation tablets use Li-Polymer and have battery lives of 6-12 hours.
Is the tablet a replacement for my notebook?No. Is it a great companion for my notebook?Absolutely. Would I want to write long professional text documents with it? No. Would I want to use it to for the handwritten notes I write? Absolutely. Wouldn't have it any other way.
My tablet is not perfect (still lots of room for improvement) but I really like the direction Microsoft/Bill is pushing towards with the tablets.
BTW, the coolest new apps for tablets that I have found (that don't involve notetaking) are:
Math Journal: Write and solve mathematical equations using handwriting.
3D JournalDraw 3D drawings and have them composed as fully rotatable 3D objects
Mr. Clanton was referring to the possibility of taking legal action against Sinclair for violating campaign advertising laws (the reasoning was that Sinclair's "documentary" could be construed as an in-kind donation to the Bush campaign, and therefore illegal).
It's silly that they even considered doing that. I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 anyone?
Well small cameras (casio exilim) and pocketpcs/smartphones only support SD with their small form-factor. I'd rather not have to carry around a card reader or spend extra money a USB flash drive to simply not be able to use that storage on my camera if there is a better choice.
I look at this as a really complicated event notification system
Conmplicated compared to writing the event plumbing yourself or compilcated compared to writing the same portiong code over and over and over again in different places?
Just the fact the US was holding FIVE military exercises on the morning of 9/11, when the planes hit the WTC, and the fact that some of these EXERCISES involved terrorists crashing planes into buildings, should be enough to prove to you that, at the least, the US government had prior knowledge:
WTF? What kind of logic is that? It shows that they knew of the possibility but in know what proves that they knew it would happen. If you knew it would happen and were going to let it happen why the hell would you have military excercises?
Oh, and here is a short documentary "movie" on the 9/11 Pentagon hit: http://www.elchulo.net/files/pentagon.swf
That crockumentary has been debunked so many times.
PS. I think you forgot the moon landing is fake links.
Slashdot Mirror
WTF?
That doesn't exactly help if all your contacts are sending important email to you gmail account.
Other email services.
I agree with your sentiment but WTF?! "Other email services" doesn't make much difference if your primary email is delivered to gmail.
OMFG that was the most fucking insightful comment I've ever read!!!"L@$$
mod up! mod up!
*sigh*
By putting the private key in the keyboard you're basically saying that you'll protect the keyboard data from being faked but will allow anyone to read it.
What you need is for each secure application to generate and exchange a keypair with the keyboad for a private session with the keyboard.
WTF? How was that racist?
If anything, YOU ARE BEING RACIST for thinking implying that democracy is incompatible with the Chinese way of thinking.
More likley it's a paid-for ad.
Shameless
Thank you captain obvious.
Because we all wouldn't know at all because then it would have occured within a different timeline.
Why have you started talking about MS? I'm talking about company X who wants to sell proprietry software for the linux platform and charge X amount. Why can't they do this? You speak as though only free software can exist on the linux platform.
Perhaps because that's what the thread is about?
I never said that commercial software can't exist on linux (that would be stupid -- it already does). I'm saying, in response to the original posters comments, that companies targetting linux won't magically be immune from the same competition/market-cornering problems they would have in the windows world -- and the windows world has a lot more potential customers!
Regardless though, If I were any of the before mentioned company, I would rather compete against Redhat than MS. MS can afford to keep throwing billions each YEAR at the project, whereas Redhat pulls out if they are losing 10's of thousands of dollars for a short time.
Hardly a choice if you're competing for a fraction of a 2% market share. How many people use Linux compared to windows again?
Why does it have to be free, you can still run proprietry software on linux, companies don't have to make it free. You are also assuming that linus users wouldn't pay.
WTF? No I'm not. But what use is it if you write commercial software for Linux only to have open source projects take over your market. What if Redhat decides to distribute GnuWizzBang app that directly competes with your WizzBang app with their distribution? How is that any better than if Microsoft competes with you in the windows sphere?
Yes. Perhaps those companies should write free software for Linux. That'll prevent them from losing all that money.
Who gives a crap despite their bullying to certain comapnies, Microsoft have created a huge market/environment (or 'ecosystem' as they call it) for software vendors targetting windows.
Perhaps you should try using one instead of being an ignorant prick.
Yep, they're usually made by wacom and the pressure sensitive nib is how they can make digital "ink" look like real ink with lighter&darker areas as well as the flicks at the end or letters.
Yeah, they're usually made by wacom and the pressure sensitive nib is how they can make digital "ink" look like real ink with lighter&darker areas as well as the flicks at the end or letters.
For me, the killer feature of my tablet is being able to sit back on the couch or in bed and browse the net. That's only possible with a slate based tablet. Convertibles tend to make people just use the keyboard and, being full laptops, they're too thick and heavy to be used as a browsing/reading device.
For me personally, I use my tablet for:
I use it to take meeting notes, general programming thoughts, doodles, todo lists etc.
Tablets use electromagnetic digitizers instead of touch sensitive pads so there is no problem with having your palm 'rest' on the screen while you write.
The advantage of notetaking with a tablet compared to paper or other device like a newton is that your notes are stored as handwriting -- exactly as you write them but yet they are still searchable. You can intermix hand drawn diagrams and doodles with notes (very difficult with a keyboard & mouse) and still, months later go back and search for where you wrote the words "RAID array" in your tablet-written notes. The tablet will search your handwriting and highlight the matches.
Microsoft's notetaking tool (OneNote) also allows you to handwrite while you record form the mic. This lets you play back what the lecturer was saying at a specific point when you were doodling or writing some sentence you no longer understand.
The handwriting recognition is amazing. I'd say, for myself personally, it's above 99%. It's one of those things yo have to see to believe. For me, I can write in a very scribbly and untidy fashion and the tablet still understands what I'm writing.
Nothing beats a tablet at meetings or in lecture theatres. Typing on notebooks is simply too noisy and distracting and notebook screens create a barrier between you and other people at the desk.
This is the primary use of my tablet. Being able to sit back on the couch or in bed and wirelessly browse the net really changes the way you think about using computers. The closest thing I can compare it to is reading a book -- but it's the internet!
Being able to simply load up a file, picture, video or website and walk to someone's desk with the tablet in one hand to show them something is really cool. It just seems like a very natural way of doing things.
Not the intended purpose of the tablet but it's great for playing puzzle games like the ones you find on yahoo and realarcade. Microsoft provide a free crosswords game with the latest tablet enhancement pack which lets you solve daily downloadable crosswords using the pen and handwriting (a much more natural way of playing the game than use a keyboard and mouse).
I prefer slate formfactor tablets as the 'convertibles' simple are too big and bulking to be able to sit back and browse the web (my primary use). You'd probably end up with a sore wrist and broken tablet if you tried to hold the convertibles with one hand like you would a book.
The tablet I have is a NEC Litepad which has a 10.4" screen (768x1024). I thought it sounded ridiculously small but I find my eyes are usually closer to the tablet screen than with a notebook so it compensates a bit and is perfectly fine for what I use it for.
The tablet weighs just under 1KG (2.2pounds) and is only 14mm thin! The battery admittedly only lasts only 2 hours with the screen at full brightness and using wifi. I tend to charge whenever I can and unplug when navigating between rooms. Second generation tablets use Li-Polymer and have battery lives of 6-12 hours.
Is the tablet a replacement for my notebook?No.
Is it a great companion for my notebook?Absolutely.
Would I want to write long professional text documents with it? No.
Would I want to use it to for the handwritten notes I write? Absolutely. Wouldn't have it any other way.
My tablet is not perfect (still lots of room for improvement) but I really like the direction Microsoft/Bill is pushing towards with the tablets.
BTW, the coolest new apps for tablets that I have found (that don't involve notetaking) are:
Math Journal: Write and solve mathematical equations using handwriting.
3D JournalDraw 3D drawings and have them composed as fully rotatable 3D objects
I'd like you to meet someone.
Mr. Clanton was referring to the possibility of taking legal action against Sinclair for violating campaign advertising laws (the reasoning was that Sinclair's "documentary" could be construed as an in-kind donation to the Bush campaign, and therefore illegal).
It's silly that they even considered doing that. I mean, Fahrenheit 9/11 anyone?
What do you mean? It's nuu-ku-laa powered!!
Microsoft could dump
Who in their right mind would replace JPG files (a lossy high photo compression format) with PNG (a lossless low photo compression format)?
That's like suggesting we replace MP3 with FLAC.
Well small cameras (casio exilim) and pocketpcs/smartphones only support SD with their small form-factor. I'd rather not have to carry around a card reader or spend extra money a USB flash drive to simply not be able to use that storage on my camera if there is a better choice.
"goto" is a functional operation
I think you mean procedural. Functional programming is very different.
I look at this as a really complicated event notification system
Conmplicated compared to writing the event plumbing yourself or compilcated compared to writing the same portiong code over and over and over again in different places?
Just the fact the US was holding FIVE military exercises on the morning of 9/11, when the planes hit the WTC, and the fact that some of these EXERCISES involved terrorists crashing planes into buildings, should be enough to prove to you that, at the least, the US government had prior knowledge:
WTF? What kind of logic is that? It shows that they knew of the possibility but in know what proves that they knew it would happen. If you knew it would happen and were going to let it happen why the hell would you have military excercises?
Oh, and here is a short documentary "movie" on the 9/11 Pentagon hit: http://www.elchulo.net/files/pentagon.swf
That crockumentary has been debunked so many times.
PS. I think you forgot the moon landing is fake links.