dotnetjunkie wrote:

That Creative Zen Vision:M totally blows the iPod out of the water.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!!!!!

I am lucky enough to have first-hand experience with it, and believe me, people buying Apple make a HUGE mistake. 

Cybermagellan wrote:

They should add something like Bluetooth or WiFi for um, picture transfers....yeah that's it.

I personally like the new Windows Vista Media Center interface. They should consider that as the interface for this device.

I just thought of a great idea for the next Windows Media Center. How about having a Media Center PC that would support Bluetooth technology like it is meant to be? For instance, let’s say you’re watching TV and you see that there’s an incoming call on MCE. Not only you can see who is calling but also you can choose to weather answer the call or have MCE to take the message. This is assuming MCE would have Bluetooth adapter just like most cars handle Bluetooth today. Except, unlike cars, MCE could support multiple Bluetooth profiles. Meaning you can have a set of Bluetooth headphones and listen to you MCE without disrupting anybody. Imagine all the possibilities you can add to MCE if Bluetooth is added to the system.

Please add any other idea you may have to make MCE more enjoyable

W3bbo wrote:

Carlos Luna wrote: There'll never be a secure way of instant messaging.

Evidently Carlos Luna has never heard of Public and Private Key Crytography and One-Time Pads.

Okay, there is no such thing as "true" security in computing, but the OTP method is pretty damn secure.

Personally, I share financial information with people I do business with. Acknowledged we both have secured systems. I’ve never had any problem with that. Those IMs I mentioned encrypt information from point-to-point fair enough.

Yes, OTP may be pretty damn good, but how good would that be if as OTP encrypts everything that goes in the pipe a key logger steals your information?

leighsword wrote:

CannotResolveSymbol wrote: It tells you to never give out your password and credit card number not because it isn't encrypted but because no one, MSN or otherwise, should be asking you for your password in an IM conversation.  Messenger isn't for that kind of traffic.  It warns you because it is basic internet safety that, unfortunately, some people don't know (and some people will still give out personal information anyways).  Anyone who asks you for that information in a messenger conversation is looking to steal it.

the MSN messager seems not safe enough, I need a more security IM, is there a secure IM in the market? if the answer is not, I would create an one.

It is the same concept with IMs. As far as I know, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, AOL, Google utilize encryption mechanisms to rout conversations from point to point, but what's being encrypted isn't the carriers' business.

Now I’m curious to know the kind of IM you have in mind to create that will revolutionize the way IM is done today.

Beer28 wrote:

Furthermore, I suspect a plot where a few select MS employees plotted to propogate the use of the interjection "so...." immediately after seeing the film office space 6 years ago to create a domino effect in the industry(or at least their own company). They have so many people over there that speak english as a 2nd language, that it would be a prime seeding ground for injecting a useless interjection from a movie into people's everyday vernacular as some cruel inside joke.