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Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo
miradu writes: "TreoCentral has just posted an intriguing article about how the Handspring Treo has Flash ROM - something that Handspring claims it doesn't. They've worked with Brayder Technology to create applications to utilize this newly discovered feature. It brings up the question, Why do developers lie about features in a device - especially if they are features that are wanted? Does anyone know any other examples?" Strange -- hardware manufacturers don't often underestimate their products' capabilities, do they?
1st post? ...
this is a once in a lifetime event
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Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo
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HandheldsPosted by timothy on Monday July 15,
from the pdept.
miradu writes: "TreoCentral has just posted an intriguing article about how the Handspring Treo has Flash ROM - something that Handspring claims it doesn't. They've worked with Brayder Technology to create applications to utilize this newly discovered feature. It brings up the question, Why do developers lie about features in a device - especially if they are features that are wanted? Does anyone know any other examples?" Strange -- hardware manufacturers don't often underestimate their products' capabilities, do they?
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Arianne ALPHA 2 Released
GamesPosted by michael on Monday July 15, @06:23AM
from the hack-and-slash dept.
Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin writes "Arianne is a Game Engine to build Internet games and applications. You can use it to create your own games, from RPG to Realtime strategy games, arcade or Turn based strategy ones." We noted Arianne two years ago.
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Cameras in UK for Toll Enforcement
PrivacyPosted by Cliff on Monday July 15, @02:35AM
from the smile-you're-on-candid-toll-camera dept.
cosyne writes "Saw this story on BBC News about charging people £5 per day to drive in central London. The interesting part: they plan to use surveillance cameras to snap liscence plates and compare to a database of people who paid. That's the same as stopping terrorism, right?" We mentioned this issue in an earlier story. It's an interesting challenge: the UK authorities have a problem (too much traffic in London) which is not susceptible to the usual solution (too many ways into London, can't put tolls on all of them) and so they're looking for new solutions - except most of the possible solutions are privacy-invasive in one way or another.
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Seventeen Years of Tetris
GamesPosted by michael on Sunday July 14, @11:57PM
from the thumbs-hurt-just-thinking-about-it dept.
thefalconer writes "It all happened 17 years ago on a whim and an addiction of sorts. Alexey Pazhitnov created the one game that has caused so many people around the world to just about go nuts trying to win a game that has the ability to slowly drive you to insanity one small misshappen block at a time. Since the creation of the original Tetris game on an Electronica 60, there have been dozens of different incarnations of Tetris that have dazzled the eyes, boggled the mind, frustrated the emotions, and fried more than their fair share of braincells. There is also a very interesting history of tetris online that details its evolution from innocent game to insane addiction. Plus it's one of those games that never grows old.
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Interesting Enemies For a Diagnostic Database
TechnologyPosted by timothy on Sunday July 14, @09:43PM
from the cult-of-speciality dept.
dlh writes: "Boston.com is carrying an article about Dr. Lawrence L. Weed's Problem Knowledge Coupler software. Apparently the medical profession is not exactly thrilled at the idea." Seems access to information is a positive thing, but certain doctors seem to feel threatened by this sort of database.
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Freeciv-1.13.0 Stable
GamesPosted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 14, @07:23PM
a href="http://goatse from the games-people-play dept.
Martin Willemoes Hansen writes "a href="
Freeciv-1.13.0 has been released upon the world! There has been almost a whole year of dedicated hacking. A big thanks goes to the people, who made it all come true. Remember to read about the exciting news and hurry up and get it here."
CLITs is an integral part of slashdot as the karma system itself. Trolls were already invisible
to the rest, as they were already auto-posting at -1.
Besides, we only know that trolls were the only independent thinkers in slashdot, and contributed
more interesting material than the rest of the thick-fingered karmawhores.
If Malda had a shred of intelligence, he would HIRE some of those said trolls, just to capture more interest and readership.
Slashdot is not really the high-brow hacker circle it wants to be, it is a cheap gathering of the nets lowest life forms; we like that way and the editors like it that way. If malda wanted to be
the Herald of IT, he should have started using a fucking spell checker and did business professionally.
No, instead he smoked dope, and decided he wants to make it more formal in the last minute. If he is
going to ban trolls, then he should stop soliciting all forms of personal opinion, including polls,
and make it this site a readonly news summary. If he really wants to stimulate a discussion, then
it becomes really hard to determine what is a troll and what is not. Whence, it is hard to determine
who is a troll and who is not, therefore it is mistaken to ban someone for being a troll.
[Posted with my +1, and I will return the other 43 points and leave this place with dignity]
I'm seriously hoping that this post was meant to be funny. In which case it should be modded as such.
University - a box of academia nuts.
blow me fags
Carbon nanotubes - tiny rolled sheets of graphite - have a host of unusual electronic and mechanical properties, which are the focus of research in Ajayan's group. During an experiment, de la Guardia tried to photograph single-walled nanotubes using a conventional flash, which has a spectrum similar to that of sunlight, but without the ultraviolet light.
Ajayan's team - which included researchers working in Mexico, France and UK - repeated this process on single- and multiwalled nanotubes. After packing samples of nanotubes to different densities, they exposed them to light pulses with a range of intensities and recorded the results on video. They later used an electron microscope to inspect the remains of the nanotubes.
Immediately after a flash, the researchers found that 'hot spots' appeared on the single-walled nanotubes and then spread through the sample until it was completely burnt. Samples packed to higher densities needed a more powerful flash to ignite them because the samples contained less oxygen, which supports combustion. The multiwalled nanotubes did not burn at all.
that's a little too much gay apple knowledge.
although this is caused by the japanese government placing a hp cap at 276hp, because you would never need more than that, ahem 640k, ahem, aahem. but the japanese gov. trusts the automakers and does no actual testing so twin turbo Supras would roll off the line pushing like 350-400hp.
I want 2D games back.
Since they started giving karma to every one of you karma whore, open sores faggots who verbally blew the janitors or RMS.
Please, please, if you see this in m2, kick the ass of the moderator that gave this "interesting".
IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!!!!
favorite quote from the Princess Bride....
PhysicsGenius, you are the most amazing troll I have ever encountered. Keep up the good work.