This will determine what wins. When at Walmart I can buy a HD-DVD player for $39 and a Bluray for $49, I will pick the HD-DVD to save $10. That's the market.
Add to the fact that I can watch adult entertainment on the HD-DVD and I'm even more less likely to purchase Bluray.
We have looked at this solution so many times it hurts. It's a great solution. But the money doesn't make it worth it.
I can negotiate with HP and get a Windows XP PRO PC with plenty of memory/disk space etc for a workstation @ the same price that I can negotiate the thin clients down to. This is likely due to volume differences.
So if the dumb terminal with CE costs the same a full fledged PC with XP PRO, then how does this make sense?
If I use Citrix, the CE thin client solution requires a TS license for $100. The XP PRO (to W2k server) does not. Plus I have the license costs for Citrix.
If they could get thin clients down to the OLPC price tag, then this would take off.
Since I've upgraded since DOS 3.11, I have to install DOS 3.11, upgrade to 5.0, upgrade to 6 then 6.11. Then upgrade to Windows 2, then 3, then 3.11, then 95, then 98, then 98se, then ME, then 2000, then XP, and THEN I could finally get Vista installed.
Doesn't opening it up mean breaking the DRM? So could they not offer a Norwegian iTunes store that doesn't have DRM at all. Only offer tracks to that market where the copyright holder is okay with that? Like Bjork?
If you take 3 shots and do HDR, you have the contrast of your camera (500? 1000?) times the number of pictures (3.)
Doing this on each pixel lets you have unlimited contrast. The human eye can see something like 50,000 levels of contrast. I can't find the document stating the specific number. But it's a lot more than what 3 HDR images could do.
Thing of this. You could take a scenery picture in the middle of the night, capture the stars, the moon in detail, the moonlight reflecting off the lake, the street light in perfect clarity, and the entire forest in full detail because you are adjusting for each pixel. You could change the exposure time for each pixel.
I think if someone were to actually do this and show an HDR picture side by side (printed) you would be amazed. Most monitors are not capable of displaying this amount of contrast.
This was the general basis for the http://antispam.or.id/ blocklist. It worked well for a while. I used it for a few years. But it's dead now. Long live spam.
Blame the guns, blame the tubes. It's the damned tubes faults. If it wasn't for the lack of the Internet tubes ability to self police every thing my child does, then there would not be a problem.
Of course, the law is not logical. A stupid person not paying attention drove into the back of one of our tractor trailers while she was going 80MPH and staring at a wreck on the other side of the highway. Her husband now a paraplegic.
Our truck was going under the legal limit of 45MPH. Because we were found 1%, we were responsible for millions of dollars of damage.
The parents are just hopping on this lottery. I can't blame them. The real problem is our stupid legislative branch putting laws into place which allow them to win.
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My XM Radio is RIAA crippled. I can record up to 5 hours of XMRadio on it, but I can not take it off of the device. Of course, nothing stops a lineout recording, but that's true on any device like this. Macromedia's not in these type of devices yet.
What is cool about this is that it could allow HDR(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_rang e_imaging) in the camera itself.
While you eye can see many different luminosities of light, a camera has limited contrast. Since it is taking not a single picture, but millions of them in an instant - it could also adjust contrast dynamically.
>>Or is it OK for the USA to have it but no one else.
YES! Exactly. Just because I have a big...umm.. Just because I have a big bomb doesn't mean I want everyone in the world to have one too. The same argument can go for guns. Why can the Military have automatic weapons and nuclear bombs, but not Bill Gates or me? I want my own defense!
>>note that China has invaded fewer countries in the last 50 years than the USA has... so what is the answer to the question ? And the United States helped to liberate China from the Japanese invasion forces during WWII. However, China has vowed to destroy us publicly. Just like so many others.
>>The drug never gets developed and more people die.
Ok, so that is the USA. Is the USA the only company that develops drugs in the entire world? Can't a socialist country take this on? Or what about grant money for R&D, such as that which colleges get?
One of my network magazines that I get at no charge by filling out survey information had expired. I got a phone call and the person on the line asked me to renew. She provided a generic website address, and then a unique ID.
The problem was that the Unique ID was not random. It was something like 123456. When I put this in, it wasn't just a questioner. It had my personal information. I could put in 123457 or 123455 and bring up the personal information of someone else.
It is a web vulnerability, imo, caused by improper security on my personal data.
This doesn't match up with your simile of picking a lock.
I did report this, and the company did change their website. I reported it on the phone as I was talking to the person, as well as by e-mail.
Agreed. I want subscription based licensing. I want to pay $99 a year and get Windows & Office in a package. I paid $129 for XP Pro, and Office pro is $300 give or take. In just over 4 years at $99, I'd paid for the software. That seems reasonable to me.
Any why upgrade? To stay competitive. Some of us are capitalist. If that's not you, then don't upgrade. I'll be able to continue to do business with my multi-million dollar accounts, and you can loose these accounts to companies such as mine.
My cell phone is $150 at t-Mobile with a 2 yr contract, or $200 with a 1 year. On e-bay, unlocked, it is $165.
It runs Windows Mobile 5.0, has WIFI, uses very little power thus could be charged off cheap solar power. It has 200MHz processor at over 2GB of disk space, 64MB RAM.
I have Opera, Skype, VNC, and other applications on it. For $20 I have added 2GB of disk space from the base 64. It has bluetooth and I can hook a bluetooth mouse/keyboard to it.
Sure, this ain't no laptop. It's "not there" yet. However, a friend has Mobile 5.0 release 2 and has Terminal Services client and office viewers. We are close.
The new iPhone runs OSx. Some new cell phones are on UMPC platform and run Windows XP tablet edition, starting at around $900 up to $2000.
I venture to say that in 5 years, our cell phones will do everything an office PC does. As long as you are not a gamer cad cam or video guy, you could do all your work off your cell phone. Having a docking station at home/work.
Given the mass market of cell phones, and the willingness of people to fork over cash for them, I'd say we will get a device that can do all the basic computer functions soon. And through the second hand market we could provide these to 3rd world countries at about the same price.
>>The flaw with all these searches is that it assumes that any nearby civilizations are exactly at the same level of development as humanity.
Exactly what I was thinking. My home phone uses frequency hopping and encryption. The signal it sends out is said to sound like the noise on those frequencies (the stars.)
Now I don't expect the power of my phone to be enough to reach another solar system, however wouldn't one imagine that most civilizations would quickly advance to use signals that would be protected from detection and remote capture?
So what we are looking for is either a civilization that hasn't advanced farther than our own, or one which is also looking for us by sending out a detectable signal.
Also bare in mind that the signals we are getting today could be produced hundreds or more years ago. It takes time for these signals to reach us.
Blu-ray can support 50GB on a single disc. 200GB disks are coming out. So if I decide to buy a movie in the new 200GB format, will it work in the player that supports both Blu-ray and HD-DVD?
So why don't the artist cut out the middle men, and create contracts directly with iTunes et al when their existing contracts expire?
Offer iTunes $.70 of every $.99 and they'd still be making more.
Ah, I understand why. The record companies are the ones with the huge bank accounts that can afford to sell an artist that can't sing worth a crap yet sell millions of records. The artist themselves could never pull that off.
The record companies do bring a lot to the table. They provide value. Otherwise, try and do it yourself and see how far you get ( http://www.avenued.com/ )
We actively block these sites with Surfcontrol & eSafe. These product has a phishing category.
Though I must admit, they don't keep up with the number of sites which are phishing. It's more of a marketing thing than actual protection. Though I do see a log showing a user blocked from a phishing site from time to time. www.hackcanada.com being the only one I see in the last 12 hours.
I have Skype at home. Unlike e-mail, or my home phone, or my cell phone, or SMS on my cell phone, I have not ever received any spam or phishing or telemarketing calls on my Skype account. (I have Skype on my Cell phone.)
Right now, it is my VoIP that is the least prone to these.
I guess the point to all this is how to prevent it pro actively.
Right now, when I sign into my bank they present me with a picture and some text to go with it. This, in theory, means that I am actually on their site and not an elaborate phishing site.
Maybe, when I call them, they should provide some information like that so that I know I am actually talking to the right place.
This information should change at least once a year, if not more often. If someone gets my token info, then I need a way to expire it to detect hacked tokens.
When is the last time you changed your online banking password/token?
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This will determine what wins. When at Walmart I can buy a HD-DVD player for $39 and a Bluray for $49, I will pick the HD-DVD to save $10. That's the market.
Add to the fact that I can watch adult entertainment on the HD-DVD and I'm even more less likely to purchase Bluray.
We have looked at this solution so many times it hurts. It's a great solution. But the money doesn't make it worth it.
I can negotiate with HP and get a Windows XP PRO PC with plenty of memory/disk space etc for a workstation @ the same price that I can negotiate the thin clients down to. This is likely due to volume differences.
So if the dumb terminal with CE costs the same a full fledged PC with XP PRO, then how does this make sense?
If I use Citrix, the CE thin client solution requires a TS license for $100. The XP PRO (to W2k server) does not. Plus I have the license costs for Citrix.
If they could get thin clients down to the OLPC price tag, then this would take off.
>>Sustainable energy will come from changing cultural attitudes regarding the worthy expenditures of energy, not a shuffling of environmental issues.
Yea, right. See Pipe dream.
Imagine if it was always like this....
Since I've upgraded since DOS 3.11, I have to install DOS 3.11, upgrade to 5.0, upgrade to 6 then 6.11. Then upgrade to Windows 2, then 3, then 3.11, then 95, then 98, then 98se, then ME, then 2000, then XP, and THEN I could finally get Vista installed.
Ghost your boot drive.
Doesn't opening it up mean breaking the DRM? So could they not offer a Norwegian iTunes store that doesn't have DRM at all. Only offer tracks to that market where the copyright holder is okay with that? Like Bjork?
If you take 3 shots and do HDR, you have the contrast of your camera (500? 1000?) times the number of pictures (3.)
Doing this on each pixel lets you have unlimited contrast. The human eye can see something like 50,000 levels of contrast. I can't find the document stating the specific number. But it's a lot more than what 3 HDR images could do.
Thing of this. You could take a scenery picture in the middle of the night, capture the stars, the moon in detail, the moonlight reflecting off the lake, the street light in perfect clarity, and the entire forest in full detail because you are adjusting for each pixel. You could change the exposure time for each pixel.
I think if someone were to actually do this and show an HDR picture side by side (printed) you would be amazed. Most monitors are not capable of displaying this amount of contrast.
>>Weird how you focus on this topsy-turvy.
>>The U.S. is suffering inflation. It's not that the cost of metal is increasing, it's that the value of your currency is falling. Fast.
>>This week it very, very, nearly reached £1 = $2 for the first time in my lifetime.
>>You REALLY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THIS INFLATION, not the value of the metal in your coins.
Thank you. Yes. As we saw in the IPOD valuation of currency, we're near the bottom of the totem pole.
This was the general basis for the http://antispam.or.id/ blocklist. It worked well for a while. I used it for a few years. But it's dead now. Long live spam.
Blame the guns, blame the tubes. It's the damned tubes faults. If it wasn't for the lack of the Internet tubes ability to self police every thing my child does, then there would not be a problem.
Of course, the law is not logical. A stupid person not paying attention drove into the back of one of our tractor trailers while she was going 80MPH and staring at a wreck on the other side of the highway. Her husband now a paraplegic.
Our truck was going under the legal limit of 45MPH. Because we were found 1%, we were responsible for millions of dollars of damage.
The parents are just hopping on this lottery. I can't blame them. The real problem is our stupid legislative branch putting laws into place which allow them to win.
My XM Radio is RIAA crippled. I can record up to 5 hours of XMRadio on it, but I can not take it off of the device. Of course, nothing stops a lineout recording, but that's true on any device like this. Macromedia's not in these type of devices yet.
What is cool about this is that it could allow HDR(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_rang e_imaging) in the camera itself.
While you eye can see many different luminosities of light, a camera has limited contrast. Since it is taking not a single picture, but millions of them in an instant - it could also adjust contrast dynamically.
That would be cool.
>>Or is it OK for the USA to have it but no one else.
... so what is the answer to the question ?
YES! Exactly. Just because I have a big...umm.. Just because I have a big bomb doesn't mean I want everyone in the world to have one too. The same argument can go for guns. Why can the Military have automatic weapons and nuclear bombs, but not Bill Gates or me? I want my own defense!
>>note that China has invaded fewer countries in the last 50 years than the USA has
And the United States helped to liberate China from the Japanese invasion forces during WWII. However, China has vowed to destroy us publicly. Just like so many others.
>>The drug never gets developed and more people die.
Ok, so that is the USA. Is the USA the only company that develops drugs in the entire world? Can't a socialist country take this on? Or what about grant money for R&D, such as that which colleges get?
Seems we are thinking vary narrow minded here.
This is a gray area.
One of my network magazines that I get at no charge by filling out survey information had expired. I got a phone call and the person on the line asked me to renew. She provided a generic website address, and then a unique ID.
The problem was that the Unique ID was not random. It was something like 123456. When I put this in, it wasn't just a questioner. It had my personal information. I could put in 123457 or 123455 and bring up the personal information of someone else.
It is a web vulnerability, imo, caused by improper security on my personal data.
This doesn't match up with your simile of picking a lock.
I did report this, and the company did change their website. I reported it on the phone as I was talking to the person, as well as by e-mail.
Agreed. I want subscription based licensing. I want to pay $99 a year and get Windows & Office in a package. I paid $129 for XP Pro, and Office pro is $300 give or take. In just over 4 years at $99, I'd paid for the software. That seems reasonable to me.
Any why upgrade? To stay competitive. Some of us are capitalist. If that's not you, then don't upgrade. I'll be able to continue to do business with my multi-million dollar accounts, and you can loose these accounts to companies such as mine.
Dude, it's been done already. You can buy them now. They are just expensive.
http://umpc.com/default.aspx
UMPC doesn't by itself mean cellphone, but there are UMPC's with cellphones.
Unless you think a UMPC is too big to qualify your definition. It is a bit bigger than my candybar phone.
As for the keyboard/mouse -- bluetooth. I can already buy full size keyboard/mouse for my cell phone that work over bluetooth.
>>Notably, I've observed these guys tracking HTTPS URLs, and of course you can't track those through a proxy.
i ls/94de9e89-b7a1-6d6f-9479-84b866a2ffab/webwasher- 1000-csm-appliance/a sher_products/csm_appliance/index.html?lang=de_EN
Um, yes, you can. It is possible with todays hardware.
Here are a few;
http://www.esafe.com/eSafe/traffic_solutions.asp
Another;
http://www.scmagazine.com/us/products/productdeta
http://www.cyberguard.com/products/webwasher/webw
"WW1000 has the ability to scan encrypted SSL"
The days of HTTPS being valuable are long gone. We can look inside this traffic realtime. I monitor & block traffic to HTTPS sites myself..
Maybe this is just a Canadian method of "Where's George?"
This project will be surpassed by cell phones.
:)
My cell phone is $150 at t-Mobile with a 2 yr contract, or $200 with a 1 year. On e-bay, unlocked, it is $165.
It runs Windows Mobile 5.0, has WIFI, uses very little power thus could be charged off cheap solar power. It has 200MHz processor at over 2GB of disk space, 64MB RAM.
I have Opera, Skype, VNC, and other applications on it. For $20 I have added 2GB of disk space from the base 64. It has bluetooth and I can hook a bluetooth mouse/keyboard to it.
Sure, this ain't no laptop. It's "not there" yet. However, a friend has Mobile 5.0 release 2 and has Terminal Services client and office viewers. We are close.
The new iPhone runs OSx. Some new cell phones are on UMPC platform and run Windows XP tablet edition, starting at around $900 up to $2000.
I venture to say that in 5 years, our cell phones will do everything an office PC does. As long as you are not a gamer cad cam or video guy, you could do all your work off your cell phone. Having a docking station at home/work.
Given the mass market of cell phones, and the willingness of people to fork over cash for them, I'd say we will get a device that can do all the basic computer functions soon. And through the second hand market we could provide these to 3rd world countries at about the same price.
I may be wrong, but I don't think so
>>Resolution: 7,680 × 4,320 pixels (16:9) (approximately 33 megapixels)
With that resolution, you have more data than you can actually see, unless you have a super large monitor. Even then, you can't focus on everything.
Can you imagine what you could do with zoom? That actor way off set, but still in the focal range, is picking his nose.
Will this bring back those movies that showed split screens with the same scene at two angles?
>>The flaw with all these searches is that it assumes that any nearby civilizations are exactly at the same level of development as humanity.
Exactly what I was thinking. My home phone uses frequency hopping and encryption. The signal it sends out is said to sound like the noise on those frequencies (the stars.)
Now I don't expect the power of my phone to be enough to reach another solar system, however wouldn't one imagine that most civilizations would quickly advance to use signals that would be protected from detection and remote capture?
So what we are looking for is either a civilization that hasn't advanced farther than our own, or one which is also looking for us by sending out a detectable signal.
Also bare in mind that the signals we are getting today could be produced hundreds or more years ago. It takes time for these signals to reach us.
Blu-ray can support 50GB on a single disc. 200GB disks are coming out. So if I decide to buy a movie in the new 200GB format, will it work in the player that supports both Blu-ray and HD-DVD?
So why don't the artist cut out the middle men, and create contracts directly with iTunes et al when their existing contracts expire?
Offer iTunes $.70 of every $.99 and they'd still be making more.
Ah, I understand why. The record companies are the ones with the huge bank accounts that can afford to sell an artist that can't sing worth a crap yet sell millions of records. The artist themselves could never pull that off.
The record companies do bring a lot to the table. They provide value. Otherwise, try and do it yourself and see how far you get ( http://www.avenued.com/ )
We actively block these sites with Surfcontrol & eSafe. These product has a phishing category.
Though I must admit, they don't keep up with the number of sites which are phishing. It's more of a marketing thing than actual protection. Though I do see a log showing a user blocked from a phishing site from time to time. www.hackcanada.com being the only one I see in the last 12 hours.
I have Skype at home. Unlike e-mail, or my home phone, or my cell phone, or SMS on my cell phone, I have not ever received any spam or phishing or telemarketing calls on my Skype account. (I have Skype on my Cell phone.)
Right now, it is my VoIP that is the least prone to these.
I guess the point to all this is how to prevent it pro actively.
Right now, when I sign into my bank they present me with a picture and some text to go with it. This, in theory, means that I am actually on their site and not an elaborate phishing site.
Maybe, when I call them, they should provide some information like that so that I know I am actually talking to the right place.
This information should change at least once a year, if not more often. If someone gets my token info, then I need a way to expire it to detect hacked tokens.
When is the last time you changed your online banking password/token?