Finally, ONE DAY, there will be a killer app for the general public using the power of the GPU. Then I hope everybody will understand.

a high speed, high quality dvd ripper/transcoder would do it for me, and it sounds (to my uneducated mind) like something that lends itself to GPU style parallelism.

Dave

isn't this day over yet?!

I'd like to see someone make an expresscard (3/4) with as much ram as possible available over the PCI-e port as a disk. this could be used in laptops as swap space and temp space. I don't know if it would need any battery power, I know the machine could format it on boot, but what about when the thing sleeps? would there be enough power to keep it going?

anyways, if one could get 4 or 8G of ram it could be very useful. doesn't have to be extra fast for ram as it would be very fast for disk.

as long as it doesn't stick out of the slot so my MBP looks nice and sleek :)

ahh the amiga, a mighty computer! I still have an A1200 (with 50mhz '030 and '882) in a cupboard. no idea what to do with it, seems a shame to throw it away, but it's not worth anything!

and yes, the amiga was a computer massively before it's time. why didn't it win?

The solution to this *people* problem is simply : policies + training.

I don't completely disagree with you, but I'd extend it to say "Policies + training + audit".

the microsoft solution, amongst others, provides a way to do this audit. it's not perfect, there are ways around the protection, but those ways rely on the person actively trying to get around the system. they know they are doing something wrong. these document DRM systems provide a framework so that the users can easily see what what they are supposed to be able to do and it prevents them from doing what they're not supposed to be able to do.

it also logs all document requests which can be viewed later. in the OP's case, he stated that requests to open a document from overseas might be suspicious. he can audit the logs from a DRM server to see where requests to get keys come from.

dave

yes, but once its open, it's open. and people are highly likely to open the archive, and keep the document unencrypted on their laptops.

here some form of document DRM could be a quite workable solution. I've been using Microsoft RMS as work as part of a pilot and while it has a few gotcha's, and while it does sometimes seem that MS just don't "get" how people use their software, it does seem to work.

the documents are encrypted within office apps (word, excel, outlook and powerpoint) and it has to authenticate itself to the RMS servers to get the keys.

dave