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If by lacking glitzy graphics you mean the Palm screen is a poor greyscale LCD that is only visible in bright light or total darkness you're right on the money. Those extra large backlit 65k color screens make my Palm Vx grey with envy.

Honestly I think the reason many of us own Palms is because we can't justify the price of a PocketPC. If I could, I'd have an iPaq tomorrow or better yet one of these (whenver they become available):

PocketPC In A Phone

Care to share any of those reviews? On CNet
there is nothing useful save 3 user opinions (far too small an n). Forbes reads like nothing more than a press release. Techtv
is also not terribly in depth nor quite so fawning as you suggest.

5 Hours to charge? That seems like a bit of a pain to me. Isn't an iPod somewhere around an hour? 10:1 vs 2:1 play to charge ratio is significant.

-Ted

Gelernter's "Machine Beauty" is another great book about combining beauty and function.
When did science and art separate? Socrates and Divinci would not be happy with the PC beige box.

Here are some:
Forbes Preview
Cnet Top 10 List from CES (Rio Riot is 2nd)
TechTV Preview

The band Cat Five does all their work via systems hooked in to PowerBooks. Check out the article.

Check out this article in Wired Magazine about a now 16-year-old animation developer. This is someone who started in the industry at a relatively young age that by the time he is 20 will have about 5 years experience. He is currently working for a company called Tartarus Development creating plugins for CINEMA 4D. He has appeared on the TechTV series The Screen Savers and is well known throughout the industry.

Sure he may be the exception to the rule, but he proves that being young and inexperienced do not always mean the same thing.

But with a little effort. See, Talkback: Is Ripping a Crime? on the same site.

...be having this discussion.

Extended Play

--Blair

P.S. Now accepting donations for the Kate Botello Cosmetic Surgery Fund. (If there's any money left over, we'll get Adam a voice synthesizer chip that works...)

TechTV already has a gaming show called Extended PLay. It gives pretty good PC and console game reviews. Unfortunatly techTV is not available on most cable systems but it is on directTV.

-motardo

-motardo

Ignore the other folks. Go watch Tech Tv - they have good help shows, and on a number of them they have Windows usability tips. They give out the shortcut [Win]+d (for desktop)- this hides all of the windows and lets you get to the desktop. Pressing it again opens only the windows you had open; this is the best feature I've yet seen for the [Win] key (other than +f for find and +e for Explorer and +r for run -- driving everyone around me crazy with how fast I do things...).

I hereby mod you to (-1, Wrong).

The name "Final Fantasy" was probably more of a bad translation than anything else.Kinda hard to mistranslate it when the name is written in katakana. What else are you going to read it as when you read "Fainaru Fantashii"? And apparently, if it is an urban legend, it's enough to fool GameSpot and also Mr. Sakaguchi himself in this interview. Listen to the beginning of the second clip - He says right at the beginning that Square was really struggling at the release of the original Final Fantasy.

It's been mentioned before, but Return to Wolfenstein looks amazing, and the multiplayer demo is a blast. I will refrain from recapping what has already been said about this cool looking game.

I was watching TechTV's Extended Play recently on my TiVo and they had a Holiday Gift Guide show on games for the holidays. It discussed the PC, as well as PS2, GameCube, and XBox and made recommendations on games for all of them.

It's been mentioned before, but Return to Wolfenstein looks amazing, and the multiplayer demo is a blast. I will refrain from recapping what has already been said about this cool looking game.

I was watching TechTV's Extended Play recently on my TiVo and they had a Holiday Gift Guide show on games for the holidays. It discussed the PC, as well as PS2, GameCube, and XBox and made recommendations on games for all of them.

It doesn't do this by converting the heat into electricity however. What it does is effectively act as an alternator, converting the kinetic energy into electricity. The loss of kinetic energy slows the vehicle to a stop while charging a series of batteries. Thus, no heat from brake pads in the first place.

Relevant quote from that article on techtv:

When decelerating or braking, the electric motor turns into a generator to charge the batteries automatically. It's a unique hybrid feature called regenerative braking. Normally when you brake, all that energy is converted into heat into the brakes. Toyota's Prius actually recaptures about 30 percent of that energy to recharge the nickel-medal-hydride batteries in the back

The site seems to be slashdotted, but I found a few other stories on it, and this one has a small picture of the device in question.

Enjoy

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Replacing MSOffice looks like the biggest hurdle to me. StarOffice is really the only complete alternative available. Maybe StarOffice 6 will actually be good enough.

I guess I shouldn't call bullshit without doing my research first, but interestingly, this story has some details:

In March [1999], Department of Justice computer crime chief Scott Charney regaled a gathering of bankers with the story of a 1997 hacker who crashed a telephone switch, resulting in the landing lights at a Massachusetts airport going black.

Regular readers of this column will recall my conversation with the airport administrator, who assured me that his runway lights never even flickered.

Another report adds :

In other words, the landing lights were not turned out, not least because it happened during the day. The Euro official's statement may not be complete bullshit as I claimed, but it's misleading at least. According to this piece on media hacking, the story is false. Yet this government site repeats the story and even claims that planes were diverted.

Whatever the truth of what really happened, there's clearly large dollops of myth in with the facts and it's no wonder my bullshit detector went off...

Actually, according to Tech TV they will be providing both Wintel and Macintosh computers to the schools. All of the machines will be refubished.

That's Funny.

From the other Slashdot link to techtv , the innards of the Xbox show a Seagate hard drive. This one, however is a WD. Different brands of HD in different Xboxes?

I would think that kind of odd - wouldn't it be cheaper to just use one brand?

Here is a link to a TechTV video of BOB running on Win2k

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

Here're some direct links to the pictures, without having to jump through hoops. (TechTV's not particulary standards-compliant site that crashed Konq on me once; the dreadful JS that is used for *everything*; the pop-ups required to get to the pictures; the slowness of the site)
Please no Karma claims; I'm at the cap - it's just a much more convenient way to get to the actual images.

Xbox screws
Warning
Pat sizes thing up
Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey
Just a couple more to go
Under the hood
Hard Drive
The motherboard
These hands have killed Athlons
CPU central
Intel inside

The 'silly' link titles are TechTV's, not mine. You may have to copy/paste the shortcuts into your URL bar in case TechTV's site plays nasty with image linking from other sites. (I don't think it does, though)

Alex T-B
St Andrews

First Look: Senseboard Virtual Keyboard

Hang on... that article says "we'd caution against taking them as gospel", and that's coming from The Register, a site that has been... uh... less than correct on some issues in the past.

Plus, the reports are from Adobe, who make Photoshop... an extremely Mac-optimised piece of software usually held up by the Mac brigade whenever they attempt comparative benchmarks.

Look, I *want* to believe that the G5 makes great coffee, gives fantastic backrubs, cures cancer and runs faster than every P4. I do. I've just heard all these lines before, with the G4.

According to this article, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and New York. have all indicated their approval and West Virginia has joined up with MA in holding off. Doesn't mention the other 4 states though.

Hey, how about that Jessica!

Too bad Douglass Adams didn't live to see the beginnings of Sirius Cybernetics... I can see the options now: Infuriatingly Cheerful or Manic Depressive.

Seriously, in the mid-80s my parents go a car that talked ("Your door is ajar", "Your eninge oil pressure is low"). It was cool for a while, but then got really annoying. How long before the fake personallity gets annoying. Could this become Toyota's Bob?

Check Tech TV's article on access MSN using Eudora and other clients. Check the info on SSPI (may only work in IE), which is what MSN is using for POP3 verification. I'd guess that it would need to be added by Eudora or other mail clients for it to work on MSN, support is a whole different issue.

Also, complain to Microsoft for forcing this non-standard requirement, instead of your "previous" ISP. Qwest has no control over what MSN supports/requires for their customers.

Work-around for failure to startup from a FireWire drive Dik Gregory found that, after updating to Mac OS X 10.1, his external FireWire hard drive with Mac OS 9.1.1 installed, appeared in the Startup Disk System Preference. In Mac OS X 10.0.x, it did not. "However, selecting it had no effect. My system still booted from the OS X 10.1 system on my Cube's internal drive. To actually boot from the FireWire drive, I needed to first boot from 9.2.1 on my internal drive and then select the FireWire drive from the Startup Disk control panel."

There are some other problems with 10.1 but for the most part I'd say the upgrade is well worth it.

CNET also has a review of OS 10.1. There's some contraversy surrounding The "Free" OS X 10.1 Update that costs you $20. TechTV (formerlly ZDTV) also has a review of Mac OS X 10.1. I'd recommend anyone interested in Mac OS X 10.1 read all these reviews to get full coverage, and unbiased opinions.

Well, I know from here that ads can be disable in AIM. Is there a similar feature in the actual AOL client? Of course, this ad disableing will be taken out in the next version of the client, if I so choose to upgrade.

• Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos, is concerned that a mass move to alternative Web server software would cause more disruption than sticking with Microsoft IIS and patching it. "Code Red was less about the vulnerability of IIS, as all software has bugs, but more about system administrators ignoring the warnings that came well in advance of Code Red," said Cluley.

• "The average person in the street doesn't need to worry, as they would have to be specifically targeted," said Graham Cluley, an Internet security expert with antivirus firm Sophos.
  

The basic issue is one that I heard a pastor say: "You can have safety, or you can have freedom. I would much rather have freedom." He was refering to the continual invasion of privacy on the road (cameras at traffic lights, seat belt laws, etc.). The point is well taken even in this regard.

The one thing that stood out to me is that the decision that America came to in the 90's when there wasn't political pressure or tragedies was that encryption technologies were good for America. This was a public debate involving people from all facets of the encryption arena. The NSA was always for enabling a "back door"--which is currently infeasible. The whole issue came up again when we had the terrorist attacks. We should not respond emotionally about this topic at all.

The fact remains: Bin Laden does not use American cryptography technologies--he uses Russian cryptography developed for the mob. Even if America was able to pass this horrendous law, and cause other countries to follow suite, it would not solve the problem! What we would have is businesses in countries with the law would be crippled due to weak encryption until an algorithm that allowed an authorized third party to view the message was done correctly. That is not acceptible. The law would do more harm than good.

The whole definition of the encryption problem is how do you keep messages between two (2) parties safe from any outside observer. In my opinion three parties has one that is uninvited.

jleo@arcgny.org is Joe Leo, the Assistant Director of Business Applications and IT for the American Red Cross of Greater New York. He's the one who had the request for technology to aid rescue workers searching through the rubble in NYC. Check out the info in the previous thread here on Slashdot, or on techtv. He is certainly not the originator of this.

I remember when Patrick Norton who co-host the "The ScreenSavers" on TechTV forgot to install the heatsink for UGAM 3.0.

Article link below

The Dish: The UGM Incident

"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch
to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor
and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." (Anonymous USEnet post)

I remember when Patrick Norton who co-host the "The ScreenSavers" on TechTV forgot to install the heatsink for UGAM 3.0.

Article link below

The Dish: The UGM Incident

"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch
to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor
and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." (Anonymous USEnet post)

I remember when Patrick Norton who co-host the "The ScreenSavers" on TechTV forgot to install the heatsink for UGAM 3.0.

Article link below

The Dish: The UGM Incident

"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch
to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor
and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." (Anonymous USEnet post)

I remember when Patrick Norton who co-host the "The ScreenSavers" on TechTV forgot to install the heatsink for UGAM 3.0.

Article link below

The Dish: The UGM Incident

"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch
to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor
and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." (Anonymous USEnet post)

I remember when Patrick Norton who co-host the "The ScreenSavers" on TechTV forgot to install the heatsink for UGAM 3.0.

Article link below

The Dish: The UGM Incident

"Windows - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch
to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor
and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition." (Anonymous USEnet post)

-motardo