So in essence, you're taking the other extreme... Punishing a company with you wallet based on a fishy sounding unverified internet story (which you probably didn't even read, since it's slashdotted). Good show!
I've been very happy with netflix, and see the streaming video they've begun to provide as an added bonus to the mail DVD's. Until they treat *ME* wrong, or at least someone I personally know, they've got my monthly fee.
The main difference between this and the traditional touch screens you're used to seeing is the multiple touch resolution. I've read that this uses an array of infrared cameras to do the touch sensing, which if true, is quite innovative. This table can detect AND resolve at least 8 touches, from pictures I've seen.
Many of the interface movements have been shown in the Jeff Han demonstrations as well as the iPhone demos. Maybe, just maybe, that's because they are very natural movements when you have a touchscreen capable of resolving and tracking multiple fingers?
I don't see any indication Jeff Han is involved with this. As far as I know his screen uses a true touch sensing method, nothing with infrared cameras. Also, Microsoft is spinning off a startup to develop this, while Jeff Han has his own company to commercialize his IP.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but here their research labs have gathered some technology that have not been implemented on a consumer device and brought it much closer to the average user. They run 10k right now, mostly sold to casino's and T-mobile, so it's not quite a consumer device yet. However, at 10k it's pretty damn close, that's what the Lisa computer (a precursor to the PC) first sold for.
Why do you believe it's not possible for a professional thief who has a carton of unactivated DVD's to spoof the "phone-home" mechanism? There has to be an algorithm that generates the unlock code. It wouldn't take long for that to be defeated, allowing professional thieves everywhere to activate their stolen disks easily.
One of my good buddies just deployed to Iraq on Easter. We were talking about the Land Warrior in the bar the night before he left. With the full land warrior setup on, his gear weighs 96 pounds! 28 pounds of that is from Land Warrior crap. He only weighs about 150 pounds! He's a combat medic, so he doesn't get much use out of any of the tactical info it provides, he just gets to haul an extra 17% of his body weight around.
He relayed a story of how he once spent 15 minutes dancing around like a monkey trying during a training exercise trying to get a battery pack for the Land Warrior to flip over the top of his gear into place. A Colonel watched it happen, and shortly after the exercise it was announced that the Land Warrior was now optional for their Brigade.
He also said the wireless on the things suck. hard. If you're in a metal enclosure of any kind (say a Stryker vehicle!!!) then you can't get updates. During another training exercise a group in a Humvee drove almost a mile off course before one of the soldiers had to open a hatch and stick his head out the top to get an update. I'm sure there was some kind of workaround where he could have patched into an antenna on the vehicle, but they obviously couldn't figure it out. Relying on bad data cause you can't figure out a technological system to get good data is worse than putting a blindfold on your driver and just having him hit the gas.
PCB stands for Printed Circuit Board. I don't even know what you're referring to as far as substrate. In reality PCB's are made of many different materials. One very common one being FR4.
I've been looking to do this as well. Right now I've got a couple Stanton STR8-80's (with the stock needle/cartridge, wish I could afford better ones) hooked up to a pre-amp (brand/model escapes me) and running into my integrated sound card. I know there's quite a few areas where I could drop in better components and improve the process, I just don't have the cash for it. I get acceptable quality out of it, no problems with clicks and pops, as I keep my vinyl and needle clean. When I come across problem vinyl I've found a few methods to reduce them. This tutorial has some really elegant ways to isolate the clicks/pops out of the soundtrack, invert them and add them back to the waveform, as well as a catalog of his experience with making the conversions
I recently came across this turntable, that you can hook up to your computer via USB. No idea what goes on inside it to make that conversion, but reviews seem to generally be positive about the resulting quality.
If you click through to the ThinkSecret article you'd notice that they're NOT Apple Developers. They're not working on the system. If they were developers, they'd have access to the developers build, and all the non-released builds as well.
These were Apple RETAIL STORE employees. They downloaded something they shouldn't have, that violated an agreement they had signed when they started the job. They then proceeded to discuss this AT WORK, their boss overheard and the corporate office in Cupertino got wind of it. They are easily replacable employees, being that they're just retail salespeople, so they were fired. This whole thing about lying and keeping their jobs wouldn't have worked anyway, as their boss had overheard their discussions about it, so there was no opportunity for them to lie.
Apple is making it very clear that they don't want the type of people who would act DIRECLTY AGAINST corporate philosophy working for them, even more so if those people do no real technical work for the company.
Why should there be an exception for "fighting terror?"
It is the mindset though. Look for more and more things to fall under the concept of 'fighting terror' as a way to get around due process and the Bill of Rights. I remember hearing some guy on NPR say some members of LA gangs were 'street terrorists'.
There shouldn't be an exception for "fighting terror" However since the middle of September 2001 the PATRIOT Act has legitimized many exceptions to due process in order to help the police of our nation "fight terror"
That is why you see so many in the enforcement business trying to get all kinds of different crime labeled as terrorism. That way they can just go arrest and hold people without having to justify their suspicions before the courts.
Interesting. Last time I wrote a check the merchant ended up with quite a bit more info than if had I used my debit card. Most merchants I've written checks at require a local address and phone number on the check which. They don't have access to that information when you pay with debit/credit.
Who is "We"?
If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the government. While I'm not above believing that there are senators out there who would actually propose a bill without beginning to understand any impact it may have, I have to hope it would never actually pass. Laws which attempt to regulate subjective experiences rarely perform as desired and often have other consequences when a lawyer sees a way to exploit it's subjectiveness for their own gain. Who would regulate? How would it be regulated? What would they even be regulating?
That discussion doesn't even begin to talk about the fact that many above have posted that simply doing something in a simulation (video game) has NEVER been conculsively shown to promote violent behavior in those not prone to violent behavior in the absence of the simulation. Why regulate a non-existant problem, unless you happen to be a lobbiest who makes a living cramming this crap down politicians throats.
If you don't like something that's in a simulation don't buy it or support it. Tell all your friends not to support it and tell them to tell all their friends. There are a hell of a lot less psycho killers walking around than sane people, otherwise we'd never have built any kind of civilization. If something offends people enough it will not be successful.
Would you really want to work somewhere where they don't even know how long their tools have been around? Or where they don't allow people with the technical knowledge to know how long the tools have been around to be a part of the interviewing process?
That's interesting. I didn't know that when I sent an e-mail that anything in it was "publicaly available." I'm not saying e-mail is secure, while it's pretty easy to intercept e-mail, that fact does not make them publicaly available. The same goes for my browsing habits. Since those two sources of private data are used, I don't think it's a far stretch to assume that a classified government data-aggregation project uses as much private data as it can get it's hands on.
Personally, I'd rather take my chances in a terrorist attack than allow the the government to continue to grab power using the guise of the war on personal freedom (pronounced War on Terror).
Have you ever realized how ridiculous it sounds to get a license from the gov't if marriage is just about love and commitment and all that jazz?
So by all that jazz you mean:
Tax Benefits
Ability to get on Significant Other's (SO's) Healthcare
Power of Attorney
Being allowed in a hospital room with a critically ill SO
All the other legal benefits given to married couples?
Yeah!!!!
Impeach Bush!!!
Then Cheney becomes president.....
As amusing as it would be to see a puppetmaster thrown into the national spotlight, I'd rather just stick with Bush for the remainder of his term than let a man wholy consumed by evil take the reins.
First, the contest was, until very recently only $1000, not really a large bounty.
if you read their rules you have to travel at YOUR expense to moscow to demonstrate the problem. You then have to demonstrate in ONE DAY a problem with the DVD/CD drive which "Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening."
The contest is a PR move with rules constructed to make winning impossible. The bashing has been on target and valid.
Slashdot Mirror
So in essence, you're taking the other extreme... Punishing a company with you wallet based on a fishy sounding unverified internet story (which you probably didn't even read, since it's slashdotted). Good show!
I've been very happy with netflix, and see the streaming video they've begun to provide as an added bonus to the mail DVD's. Until they treat *ME* wrong, or at least someone I personally know, they've got my monthly fee.
The main difference between this and the traditional touch screens you're used to seeing is the multiple touch resolution. I've read that this uses an array of infrared cameras to do the touch sensing, which if true, is quite innovative. This table can detect AND resolve at least 8 touches, from pictures I've seen.
Many of the interface movements have been shown in the Jeff Han demonstrations as well as the iPhone demos. Maybe, just maybe, that's because they are very natural movements when you have a touchscreen capable of resolving and tracking multiple fingers?
I don't see any indication Jeff Han is involved with this. As far as I know his screen uses a true touch sensing method, nothing with infrared cameras. Also, Microsoft is spinning off a startup to develop this, while Jeff Han has his own company to commercialize his IP.
I'm no Microsoft fan, but here their research labs have gathered some technology that have not been implemented on a consumer device and brought it much closer to the average user. They run 10k right now, mostly sold to casino's and T-mobile, so it's not quite a consumer device yet. However, at 10k it's pretty damn close, that's what the Lisa computer (a precursor to the PC) first sold for.
Why do you believe it's not possible for a professional thief who has a carton of unactivated DVD's to spoof the "phone-home" mechanism? There has to be an algorithm that generates the unlock code. It wouldn't take long for that to be defeated, allowing professional thieves everywhere to activate their stolen disks easily.
One of my good buddies just deployed to Iraq on Easter. We were talking about the Land Warrior in the bar the night before he left. With the full land warrior setup on, his gear weighs 96 pounds! 28 pounds of that is from Land Warrior crap. He only weighs about 150 pounds! He's a combat medic, so he doesn't get much use out of any of the tactical info it provides, he just gets to haul an extra 17% of his body weight around.
He relayed a story of how he once spent 15 minutes dancing around like a monkey trying during a training exercise trying to get a battery pack for the Land Warrior to flip over the top of his gear into place. A Colonel watched it happen, and shortly after the exercise it was announced that the Land Warrior was now optional for their Brigade.
He also said the wireless on the things suck. hard. If you're in a metal enclosure of any kind (say a Stryker vehicle!!!) then you can't get updates. During another training exercise a group in a Humvee drove almost a mile off course before one of the soldiers had to open a hatch and stick his head out the top to get an update. I'm sure there was some kind of workaround where he could have patched into an antenna on the vehicle, but they obviously couldn't figure it out. Relying on bad data cause you can't figure out a technological system to get good data is worse than putting a blindfold on your driver and just having him hit the gas.
PCB stands for Printed Circuit Board. I don't even know what you're referring to as far as substrate.
In reality PCB's are made of many different materials. One very common one being FR4.
I've been looking to do this as well. Right now I've got a couple Stanton STR8-80's (with the stock needle/cartridge, wish I could afford better ones) hooked up to a pre-amp (brand/model escapes me) and running into my integrated sound card. I know there's quite a few areas where I could drop in better components and improve the process, I just don't have the cash for it. I get acceptable quality out of it, no problems with clicks and pops, as I keep my vinyl and needle clean. When I come across problem vinyl I've found a few methods to reduce them. This tutorial has some really elegant ways to isolate the clicks/pops out of the soundtrack, invert them and add them back to the waveform, as well as a catalog of his experience with making the conversions
I recently came across this turntable, that you can hook up to your computer via USB. No idea what goes on inside it to make that conversion, but reviews seem to generally be positive about the resulting quality.
If you click through to the ThinkSecret article you'd notice that they're NOT Apple Developers. They're not working on the system. If they were developers, they'd have access to the developers build, and all the non-released builds as well.
These were Apple RETAIL STORE employees. They downloaded something they shouldn't have, that violated an agreement they had signed when they started the job. They then proceeded to discuss this AT WORK, their boss overheard and the corporate office in Cupertino got wind of it. They are easily replacable employees, being that they're just retail salespeople, so they were fired. This whole thing about lying and keeping their jobs wouldn't have worked anyway, as their boss had overheard their discussions about it, so there was no opportunity for them to lie.
Apple is making it very clear that they don't want the type of people who would act DIRECLTY AGAINST corporate philosophy working for them, even more so if those people do no real technical work for the company.
Why should there be an exception for "fighting terror?"
It is the mindset though. Look for more and more things to fall under the concept of 'fighting terror' as a way to get around due process and the Bill of Rights. I remember hearing some guy on NPR say some members of LA gangs were 'street terrorists'.
There shouldn't be an exception for "fighting terror" However since the middle of September 2001 the PATRIOT Act has legitimized many exceptions to due process in order to help the police of our nation "fight terror"
That is why you see so many in the enforcement business trying to get all kinds of different crime labeled as terrorism. That way they can just go arrest and hold people without having to justify their suspicions before the courts.
Interesting. Last time I wrote a check the merchant ended up with quite a bit more info than if had I used my debit card. Most merchants I've written checks at require a local address and phone number on the check which. They don't have access to that information when you pay with debit/credit.
It's gone now anyway. Another victim of the obscene rents in the 90's silicon valley bubble.
Who is "We"? If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the government. While I'm not above believing that there are senators out there who would actually propose a bill without beginning to understand any impact it may have, I have to hope it would never actually pass. Laws which attempt to regulate subjective experiences rarely perform as desired and often have other consequences when a lawyer sees a way to exploit it's subjectiveness for their own gain. Who would regulate? How would it be regulated? What would they even be regulating? That discussion doesn't even begin to talk about the fact that many above have posted that simply doing something in a simulation (video game) has NEVER been conculsively shown to promote violent behavior in those not prone to violent behavior in the absence of the simulation. Why regulate a non-existant problem, unless you happen to be a lobbiest who makes a living cramming this crap down politicians throats. If you don't like something that's in a simulation don't buy it or support it. Tell all your friends not to support it and tell them to tell all their friends. There are a hell of a lot less psycho killers walking around than sane people, otherwise we'd never have built any kind of civilization. If something offends people enough it will not be successful.
Would you really want to work somewhere where they don't even know how long their tools have been around? Or where they don't allow people with the technical knowledge to know how long the tools have been around to be a part of the interviewing process?
That's interesting. I didn't know that when I sent an e-mail that anything in it was "publicaly available." I'm not saying e-mail is secure, while it's pretty easy to intercept e-mail, that fact does not make them publicaly available. The same goes for my browsing habits. Since those two sources of private data are used, I don't think it's a far stretch to assume that a classified government data-aggregation project uses as much private data as it can get it's hands on.
Personally, I'd rather take my chances in a terrorist attack than allow the the government to continue to grab power using the guise of the war on personal freedom (pronounced War on Terror).
Have you ever realized how ridiculous it sounds to get a license from the gov't if marriage is just about love and commitment and all that jazz?
So by all that jazz you mean:
Tax Benefits
Ability to get on Significant Other's (SO's) Healthcare
Power of Attorney
Being allowed in a hospital room with a critically ill SO
All the other legal benefits given to married couples?
If he's going to ignore constitutional term limits, why would he step down if impeached?
Yeah!!!!
Impeach Bush!!!
Then Cheney becomes president.....
As amusing as it would be to see a puppetmaster thrown into the national spotlight, I'd rather just stick with Bush for the remainder of his term than let a man wholy consumed by evil take the reins.
First, the contest was, until very recently only $1000, not really a large bounty.
if you read their rules you have to travel at YOUR expense to moscow to demonstrate the problem. You then have to demonstrate in ONE DAY a problem with the DVD/CD drive which "Until it reaches the latter stages most people do not even realise it is happening."
The contest is a PR move with rules constructed to make winning impossible. The bashing has been on target and valid.