The only exception I see is that a video iPod would (most likely) have an integrated AV port, such as that which was in certain iBook models.
Hell, they already sell a cable for it. It would allow you to connect to any external video/audio source to play the content. Not to mention that, if you purchased video clips or movies through the iTunes store, you would most likely be able to play the content on the computer as well (iTunes already has video playing capabilities).
I think that if Apple does a video iPod, and does it right, they would blow the PSP out of the water. Jobs has said they'll never make one, which I find highly unlikely since it seems that the market will eventually demand it. I just hope that, once they make one, they won't screw it up.
Seriously though... this would provide for something that is pretty lacking in current satellites: successful redundancy.
If a satellite gets hit with debris or something, it's normally down for the count. You get a cluster of these mini satellites... all sharing the workload... if one gets hit, the rest just pick up the slack.
Plus this could open up all sorts of possibilities for amateur space exploration...
Exactly... mobile phones are not like walkie talkies... they don't connect directly to one another. While these systems are scalable, there is still a limit to the traffic capacity they can handle.
It's like asking why your computer can't run a billion processes simultaneously-- the infrastructure just doesn't support it.
Exactly... that's the biggest problem. Everyone is concerned with getting their fingers chopped off-- why even bother if you can just lift someone's prints off of a doorknob and they'd be none the wiser. The biggest problem with cracking is getting noticed, if you cut off someone's finger I bet they'd notice that more than if you lifted their prints.
Indeed. If the mood for FPS strikes me, I still have Unreal Tournament (the original) and Quake 3 Arena.
The DS is just mad cool. Not that the PSP isn't, but I just think it's silly for Sony to try and act like they aren't attempting to directly compete with Nintendo.
I also share a dream of a socialist wifi sharing utopia, but public paranoia over security is definitely making this an issue. Look at the recent arrest in FL (there was a slashdot article about it, too lazy to look it up) where a man was arrested for leeching wifi. Granted, he was a dumbass who did it from a car, and also in the same location for many hours... but the potential for abuse does exist, especially in urban areas where there are many more users within range of 1 base station. In an apartment setting, depending on where you AP is located, there could be half a dozen apartments within range of your AP. Even in suburban settings the potential exists too. I was using my neighbor's Airport for about a month before I got my net access hooked up, and that was from across the street. As in your case, I did nothing even close to malevolent activity, but I suppose I was guilty of "stealing" his bandwidth.
The fact is though that the consumers want security, and they are scared of "hackers" (mostly because of media distortion and hyperbole). I think the only way to do it is to get rid of default admin passwords, and enable at least SOME sort of wireless encryption out of the box. For those of us that want to turn it off, the option would still exist.
Not to mention that PSP movies cost MORE than their DVD counterparts.
Not a very good way to push a format. At the very least, I think a packaging of DVD+PSP for ~$35 would be better suited than DVD for ~$20 and PSP for ~$20-25. Who would want to pay that much for a movie that you could ONLY watch on a 2" screen? At the very least, Sony could push the sales of the PSP movies if they had built in some kind of audio/video output to the PSP. Maybe like Apple did the older style iBooks that had audio and video integrated in to a 1/8" minijack.
I agree... about a year ago I did a quick wardrive around my mom's neighborhood (upper middle class suburb of Columbus, OH). I drove 3 blocks, and found 14 wireless networks. 10 were open. I tried using the default password for all of the router types (as identified by netstumbler), and it worked on 9 of the open networks... only 1 of the secured networks had not changed the default password.
What is the solution to this? I am hardly an expert on supply-side economics relating to production, but how hard would it be to set a random password for both the router and the wireless network? Include a piece of paper with both the password written on them (kind of like a manual addendum, that way each manual won't have to be customized). Or better yet, make the default password the serial number of the router. Extremely difficult to guess, usually a string of alpha and numerics, and the user could never really lose it (unless they removed the serial number sticker from the router).
There has to be a better way of doing things than what currently exists. To offer a product to consumers that has no security whatsoever in an out of the box condfiguration is moronic. Even more moronic is the fact that the consumer (I'm speaking in general terms of course) makes no effort to read the manual. You would think that logic would strike them in the face as they connect to their network for the first time...
"Oh, look, Windows automagically detected my wireless network!" "Neat, now it's joined! That was easy..."......
"Almost TOO easy" *smack* (this is the sound of logic smacking them in the face) "Wow, maybe I should do something so that it wouldn't be this easy for other people!"
"Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it's pretty much defined by a boy or girl's ability to admire Pokémon."
HAHAHAHA... You're kidding, right? If we're going to generalise like that, why don't we just say that Sony's target audience is FPS and RPGs.
"Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth."
Obviously, Harrison is confusing fact with conjecture.
He also makes references to different target markets... I think it's a bit disingenuous of Sony to say that. The handheld video game market is just that-- the handheld video game market. Last I checked, the DS is outselling the PSP, and the PSP sales are not even close to Sony's projections.
I'm just not that good at paying attention to the "please don't feed the trolls" signs.
It's not about the supposed weaknesses of Firefox, it's about its strengths. 80,000,000 downloads (even if not unique) is a good sign. You point out the inherent positive of Firefox (and Opera too): it is better than IE. IE is, currently, the de facto web browser for the majority of internet users. And it also helps to propagate spyware/viruses. By making a better product, and having that product do well, benefits everyone... in theory, it even benefits users of IE. Hopefully, the popularity and features of third party browsers (such as Opera, Firefox/Mozilla, Safari, etc) will cause Microsoft to implement these features in to future versions of IE as well. I'm not just talking about things like tabed browsing (which is in pretty much every browser by default now except IE), but increased security (like not allowing applications to automatically execute after downloading [Safari under 10.4.2]).
I am a proud Firefox user. It has its faults, granted, but I use it on every OS I run (Win XP, OS X, and Linux) because it gives me the same experience cross-platform, and it very seldom ever crashes. I use a g4 optimized version of Firefox on my OS X machine, and it launches about 1 second faster than Safari, and about 2x as fast as IE for Mac (there's some bloatware for ya).
So, Troll, I have fed you. If you're going to troll, at least do it well.
I guess it's only underpowered depending on what you want to do with it.
The mini would be perfect for serving media or browsing the web. Why someone would want to do such things from their kitchen is beyond me, but each to his/her own, right?
Not to mention that the mini is extremely quiet, runs at a relatively low temperature, and has pretty low power consumption requirements.
iChat for OS X has a feature that will send text as you type if you are using rendezvous/bonjour messaging. It doesn't work if you are using iChat as an AIM client though.
In fact, I sit downstairs on my Compaq laptop (running XP Pro) and VNC into my mini (which is upstairs in my room). Yes, I'm lazy, but the experience is so much better.
While I think Vista might have a case against MS, I hardly think it's the same as TigerDirect's beef with Apple. Look at it this way, how many people refer to Windows XP as just plain "XP"? Similarly, Windows Vista will probably be referred to as simply "Vista", and as so it makes sense that a company called Vista might be just slightly upset.
How many people refer to OS X 10.4 as "TigerDirect" or, for that matter, refer to TigerDirect as "Tiger"?
It's like (pardon the pun) comparing apples to oranges.
I really don't think that wireless would work with this keyboard. What technology would be used? Bluetooth? BT is already battery hungry, and that's WITHOUT 100+ OLED keys drawing power in addition to the BT.
As much as I'd love a wireless keyboard like this, I think you'd have to throw about 4 D batteries in there just to get any reasonable lifespan out of a set of batteries.
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The only exception I see is that a video iPod would (most likely) have an integrated AV port, such as that which was in certain iBook models.
Hell, they already sell a cable for it. It would allow you to connect to any external video/audio source to play the content. Not to mention that, if you purchased video clips or movies through the iTunes store, you would most likely be able to play the content on the computer as well (iTunes already has video playing capabilities).
I think that if Apple does a video iPod, and does it right, they would blow the PSP out of the water. Jobs has said they'll never make one, which I find highly unlikely since it seems that the market will eventually demand it. I just hope that, once they make one, they won't screw it up.
a beowulf cluster of these?!
;-)
Sorry, had to be said
Seriously though... this would provide for something that is pretty lacking in current satellites: successful redundancy.
If a satellite gets hit with debris or something, it's normally down for the count. You get a cluster of these mini satellites... all sharing the workload... if one gets hit, the rest just pick up the slack.
Plus this could open up all sorts of possibilities for amateur space exploration...
Exactly... mobile phones are not like walkie talkies... they don't connect directly to one another. While these systems are scalable, there is still a limit to the traffic capacity they can handle.
It's like asking why your computer can't run a billion processes simultaneously-- the infrastructure just doesn't support it.
I guess a pretty simple way to put it would be like this:
butter and ice cream are both essentially different forms of milk, but you don't see people walking around with cones full of butter do you?
If you do, that's pretty gross.
Sorry... at the time I believe I had been awake for about 40 hours. Makes it hard to comprehend sarcasm and jokes ;-)
Exactly... that's the biggest problem. Everyone is concerned with getting their fingers chopped off-- why even bother if you can just lift someone's prints off of a doorknob and they'd be none the wiser. The biggest problem with cracking is getting noticed, if you cut off someone's finger I bet they'd notice that more than if you lifted their prints.
America, and no.
What is the purpose of your question?
Indeed. If the mood for FPS strikes me, I still have Unreal Tournament (the original) and Quake 3 Arena.
The DS is just mad cool. Not that the PSP isn't, but I just think it's silly for Sony to try and act like they aren't attempting to directly compete with Nintendo.
Damn. You caught me. I am a special agent for the NSACIAEIEIO.
You've outed me, which is a crime. Fear not though, your punishment will be the same as Rove's.
Oh, please don't think I disagree with you.
I also share a dream of a socialist wifi sharing utopia, but public paranoia over security is definitely making this an issue. Look at the recent arrest in FL (there was a slashdot article about it, too lazy to look it up) where a man was arrested for leeching wifi. Granted, he was a dumbass who did it from a car, and also in the same location for many hours... but the potential for abuse does exist, especially in urban areas where there are many more users within range of 1 base station. In an apartment setting, depending on where you AP is located, there could be half a dozen apartments within range of your AP. Even in suburban settings the potential exists too. I was using my neighbor's Airport for about a month before I got my net access hooked up, and that was from across the street. As in your case, I did nothing even close to malevolent activity, but I suppose I was guilty of "stealing" his bandwidth.
The fact is though that the consumers want security, and they are scared of "hackers" (mostly because of media distortion and hyperbole). I think the only way to do it is to get rid of default admin passwords, and enable at least SOME sort of wireless encryption out of the box. For those of us that want to turn it off, the option would still exist.
Not to mention that PSP movies cost MORE than their DVD counterparts.
Not a very good way to push a format. At the very least, I think a packaging of DVD+PSP for ~$35 would be better suited than DVD for ~$20 and PSP for ~$20-25. Who would want to pay that much for a movie that you could ONLY watch on a 2" screen? At the very least, Sony could push the sales of the PSP movies if they had built in some kind of audio/video output to the PSP. Maybe like Apple did the older style iBooks that had audio and video integrated in to a 1/8" minijack.
I agree... about a year ago I did a quick wardrive around my mom's neighborhood (upper middle class suburb of Columbus, OH). I drove 3 blocks, and found 14 wireless networks. 10 were open. I tried using the default password for all of the router types (as identified by netstumbler), and it worked on 9 of the open networks... only 1 of the secured networks had not changed the default password.
......
What is the solution to this? I am hardly an expert on supply-side economics relating to production, but how hard would it be to set a random password for both the router and the wireless network? Include a piece of paper with both the password written on them (kind of like a manual addendum, that way each manual won't have to be customized). Or better yet, make the default password the serial number of the router. Extremely difficult to guess, usually a string of alpha and numerics, and the user could never really lose it (unless they removed the serial number sticker from the router).
There has to be a better way of doing things than what currently exists. To offer a product to consumers that has no security whatsoever in an out of the box condfiguration is moronic. Even more moronic is the fact that the consumer (I'm speaking in general terms of course) makes no effort to read the manual. You would think that logic would strike them in the face as they connect to their network for the first time...
"Oh, look, Windows automagically detected my wireless network!"
"Neat, now it's joined! That was easy..."
"Almost TOO easy"
*smack* (this is the sound of logic smacking them in the face)
"Wow, maybe I should do something so that it wouldn't be this easy for other people!"
Some choice quotes from the article:
"Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it's pretty much defined by a boy or girl's ability to admire Pokémon."
HAHAHAHA... You're kidding, right? If we're going to generalise like that, why don't we just say that Sony's target audience is FPS and RPGs.
"Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth."
Obviously, Harrison is confusing fact with conjecture.
He also makes references to different target markets... I think it's a bit disingenuous of Sony to say that. The handheld video game market is just that-- the handheld video game market. Last I checked, the DS is outselling the PSP, and the PSP sales are not even close to Sony's projections.
Once again, hubris clouds fact.
You're expecting /. editors to........ edit?
You must be new here.
Hey, it's subjective. But it's also completely randomized, and I am drunk a lot at work ;-)
This is science in its purest form.
And not very intelligent.
I work tech support for Apple. I can say with sincerity that I get at least 3x more men than women calling in.
*sarcasm*
Call me sexist, but obviously women know how to work computers much better than men.
I'm just not that good at paying attention to the "please don't feed the trolls" signs.
It's not about the supposed weaknesses of Firefox, it's about its strengths. 80,000,000 downloads (even if not unique) is a good sign. You point out the inherent positive of Firefox (and Opera too): it is better than IE. IE is, currently, the de facto web browser for the majority of internet users. And it also helps to propagate spyware/viruses. By making a better product, and having that product do well, benefits everyone... in theory, it even benefits users of IE. Hopefully, the popularity and features of third party browsers (such as Opera, Firefox/Mozilla, Safari, etc) will cause Microsoft to implement these features in to future versions of IE as well. I'm not just talking about things like tabed browsing (which is in pretty much every browser by default now except IE), but increased security (like not allowing applications to automatically execute after downloading [Safari under 10.4.2]).
I am a proud Firefox user. It has its faults, granted, but I use it on every OS I run (Win XP, OS X, and Linux) because it gives me the same experience cross-platform, and it very seldom ever crashes. I use a g4 optimized version of Firefox on my OS X machine, and it launches about 1 second faster than Safari, and about 2x as fast as IE for Mac (there's some bloatware for ya).
So, Troll, I have fed you. If you're going to troll, at least do it well.
Your handle is fitting.
I guess it's only underpowered depending on what you want to do with it.
The mini would be perfect for serving media or browsing the web. Why someone would want to do such things from their kitchen is beyond me, but each to his/her own, right?
Not to mention that the mini is extremely quiet, runs at a relatively low temperature, and has pretty low power consumption requirements.
iChat for OS X has a feature that will send text as you type if you are using rendezvous/bonjour messaging. It doesn't work if you are using iChat as an AIM client though.
IAWTC
In fact, I sit downstairs on my Compaq laptop (running XP Pro) and VNC into my mini (which is upstairs in my room). Yes, I'm lazy, but the experience is so much better.
Score yourself at home
This is slashdot... I'm sure many people reading this frequently "score" {with} themselves at home.
In Apple's defense, they have been using catlike animal names since version 10.0 of OS X.
10.0 = Cheetah
10.1 = Puma
10.2 = Jaguar
10.3 = Panther
10.4 = Tiger
10.5 = Leopard
While I think Vista might have a case against MS, I hardly think it's the same as TigerDirect's beef with Apple. Look at it this way, how many people refer to Windows XP as just plain "XP"? Similarly, Windows Vista will probably be referred to as simply "Vista", and as so it makes sense that a company called Vista might be just slightly upset.
How many people refer to OS X 10.4 as "TigerDirect" or, for that matter, refer to TigerDirect as "Tiger"?
It's like (pardon the pun) comparing apples to oranges.
Exactly. I work in an Apple call center with ~120 computers. The image used for these machines all include Firefox 1.0.4.
1 download = ~120 installs.
I really don't think that wireless would work with this keyboard. What technology would be used? Bluetooth? BT is already battery hungry, and that's WITHOUT 100+ OLED keys drawing power in addition to the BT.
As much as I'd love a wireless keyboard like this, I think you'd have to throw about 4 D batteries in there just to get any reasonable lifespan out of a set of batteries.