Yes, it should be, but it isn\'t, thanks to a little law you may have heard of called the \"DMCA\".
Why do lawmakers pass these laws? Don\'t they know that a PDA capable of holding 10 DVD movies is better than 1 portable DVD player capable of only holding 1 DVD movie? Where\'s the logic in making the PDA Movie-playing option illegal? Is it because most lawmakers are computer-illiterate and don\'t understand the technological impact their laws are having? ...or is it because they are greedy and fall to the temptation of bribes?
My family has Alzheimer’s and I imagined a future device, that ironically may look something like a borg implant, but not as invasive. A head-mounted camera will be strapped to the right of the head and a micro display (such as \"Micro Optical\") would be attached to the glasses. A computer worn on the belt (Zaurus? ) would record all video seen in a 1 minute cycle. If the computer notices a pause in what the person is doing (some artificial intellegence may be needed... or maybe a big red button labelled \"I forgot\")... When this is triggered, the computer automatically plays back the last 20 seconds of video. If that isn\'t of help then it will go back further.
In other words, a person may be asked to go get something, but on the way there forget what he is doing... so the computer helps him remember. I call it \"computer aided memory\".
...but the copyright folks (RIAA, etc) would have a fit with this device. This person would be banned from all movie theaters and book stores. Even libraries may end up being foced to keep this handicapped person out.
...and no I\'m not making this up. I\'m sincere.
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I just don\'t know where to begin with a statement like that. Do you really not grasp that you are saying to people when you make a statement like that?
I\'m not a microsoft-only person, but all of my jobs have been. I haven\'t seen Netscape at work in many years. Every time I recommend giving up functionality on a page in order to make it \"cross-browser-compatitble\" it gets universally turned down. I\'m trying to find a Java job, but everyone is isn\'t foolishly going to .NET. My online resume, aimed at the kind of people I work for, uses features that only IE supports. If you are a non-microsoft center and would like to hire me, then I\'ll create a universal-browser version of my resume for you... but my experience is that the \"open-source\" community doesn\'t pay a lot for developers... so why should my resume target the \"open-source\" market?
...and I\'m NOT a UNIX person... yet... so I\'m not trying to target those people yet either.
I don\'t need a resume to work for the \"open-source\" market... everyone participates... so why would my online resume need to be geared towards them?
Because I have chosen to use some IE features, my online resume looks a little cooler and I\'ve gotten many interviews based on that fact alone. I don\'t think I\'ll be changing that soon...
...but I\'ll be sure my homepage is as cross-browser compatible as possible. In fact, go ahead and take a look at it in Netscape. It should hopefully work:
http://www.geocities.com/userdimensions-------------------------
By the way... I got Windows Media Encoder working last night. It appears that the reuslting file needs to be less than the 320x240 boundary for it to work. ... and the resulting file only works in the QTopia MoviePlayer.
...but the compression isn\'t that good. Windows Media is a good compression, but in order to get the video to work you have to turn off VBR (Variable Bit Rate), 2-pass encoding, advanced audio codecs, etc... so the resulting video file isn\'t as good as others. I\'ll keep trying other options.
By the way... the 16-bit colors really distort the image from time to time. I can often easily see the color difference between one color layer and another. But... it is still better than my old 256 color (8-bit) VGA IBM PC-110.
