we could see this technology in new kinds of: cochlear implants for the deaf, vision implants for the blind, artificial limb control and feeling for amputees..
Yeah, but only _after_ it's available for interactive porn.
I bought a can of your iBaked Beans and they don't fucking work with iTunes. It took me ages to figure out how to plug the cable in for starters, and now that I have, the plug is all glued up with tomato sauce.
This is the last time I buy your fucking iBaked Beans and don't think I'm going anywhere near iToilet Cleaner!
If Palm gets away with this, every offshore vendor gets away with it too. USB Cameras made by some unheard-of offshore vendor now report to Canon software as Canon cameras.
Ya, because I'll always plug a camera in to find out if it's a Canon. The fact that it says "Happy Canoon Foto Boy" means nothing. I need to check the device ID like any sane human. Or are you saying the camera may be a counterfeit rather than an obviously cheap rip off? What's new and how does a USB id change anything?
Apple is being a shit and using the USB id to artificially lock out others. That is the reason Palm is being a shit and faking an ID. Apple wants to make more money, Palm wants to spend less money.
I actually think Palm should have labelled the Pre "100% USB compatible" and removed any USB logos from the device and literature. Then they could use whatever the hell they want as an ID and the USBIF would sbhut up.
The only good news is that Apple owns the mobile web with the iPhone, so it can pretty much establish HTML5 itself and provide Flash-killer standards-based video without any help from Firefox.
That's good news? A single commercial vendor setting the standard is good news!?!? I had no idea the reality distortion field was so fucking strong!
I'm sure DOSBox runs great within Virtual Box... but will they read my old floppies?
I got DOSBox in VirtualBox, and a copy of X-Wing, but it is tricky reading the old floppies with modern hardware. With a bit of determination, I was able to insert a mini usb plug in under the sliding metal thingy on the disk, but the computer still can't work.
At first I thought it was the host OS lacking the correct drivers, but then I realised that floppies are much slower than usb drives, so they need to operate at a lower frequency. If I could just up the frequency, I could read the data!
Okay, here are the numbers. A high speed floppy would get around 500 Kbps tops and the USB transfer is around about 29.5 Mbps, so the floppy is around 1.7% the speed of the USB. So if I increase the speed of the USB connection by 59 times, I should get the USB to read the floppy correctly. Now a microwave oven works at 2.45 Ghz, so I figured that, seeing that that is ~83 times the speed of the USB, with a little bit of duct tape and some copper foil sheilding the usb cable, I could get the increase I needed in the floppy without over doing it.
So I put the floppy with the cable inserted in it and wrapped in copper foil and duct tape into the microwave, jammed the safety switch with a plastic spoon so I could run it with the door open (don't worry, I sat behind the microwave) and plugged it into the computer. Then I quickly turned the microwave on and read the data coming from the cable.
It didn't work first time, but that was because the USB wasn't acting like a drive, so the computer could "read" it. Unfortunately it was so fast that it blew up the usb port (I think, it wont read my thumb stick).
So then I opened up an old flash drive (32MB) which I have filled with 0x00 and carefully attached the chip to the disk surface with a spot of hot glue. When I plugged it in, the computer recognized it as "removable media", so I again started the microwave to spin up the disk frequency. This time there was more smoke, not just from the microwave (to be expected), but also from the usb port!!!
Can anyone help me with the right number of winds of duct tape needed to slow the floppy frequency from the 41.5Mbps I am getting to the 29.6 Mbps I need? I think the extra speed is causing overload, I am running out of USB ports and I just got a nosebleed. Also, does anyone have another copy of X-Wing? Mine is a bit worn:-(
Your entire post made no mention of international law, which was the criminal bit, nor did it you address the disproportionate nature of Israeli response to rocket attacks, cruel.
You made no argument that addressed my point, you challenged it and then rolled out the usual pro Israel propaganda crud.
For the English word "Jew", the modern meaning is national, not religious.
Not where I come from. Jew is usually about the religion.
But your point about common usage of the language is interesting. You do know that the creation of Israel was an anti-Semitic act, right? Given a strict an original definition of the word, the USA invading Iraq and persecuting people with tea towels on their heads for a while there, that was anti-Semitic too.
That you say "War of Independance" was 5 nations attacking without provocation is scary. What planet in the Propaganda system is that from? Isreal's whole existence as a place for European Jews to go, even though they are not even descended from Isrealites, by force and against the will of any non Jews in the region is pretty serious provocation.
The country was started by state sponsored terrorists. It is a democracy only as much as is necessary to maintain US support, and only really for the Jews in practicality. It consistently flouts international law, is continuing to build illegal settlements as a way of claiming land which none of the rest of the world recognises as Isreali. What's the latest position? That Hamas must accept Isreal as a Jewish state? I have nothing against Judasim, like I have nothing Islam, but you cannot critisize Iran for being a theology and defend Isreal.
Isreal is perhaps the largest single failure of the international community since WWII. Allowing a religious extremist terrorist philosophy like zionism to succeed is always going to be a recepe for conflict.
Isreal is the only nuclear power in the region and has shown time and again it has no respect for borders. More people die on Isreali roads than from rocket attacks, yet Isreal launches attrocities like "Operation Cast Lead".
All the whining about the actions of the Nazis just looks so hyprocritical. More Russians died in gas chambers than Jews, but Isreal and supporters bang on about it as if the Jews were the only victims. Sure Isreal isn't rounding them up and gassing them, but I would pick life in a ghetto as Jew before the gas chambers over life in Gaza as a Palestinian. Oh, and why didn't the Gypsies get a homeland - oh yeah, they don't go around bombing people and hijacking mass transport...
While my country recognizes Isreal, I personally don't and I wont acknowledge its right to exist until it shows a massive change in policy and behaviour, starting with full cooperation with international justice.
China does not threaten to bomb israel or destabilize iraq.
So basically, this is the US trying to force foreign companies into executing the US political agenda.
Isreal in it's current form is criminal and cruel and the US did more to destabilize Iraq than Iran ever has. But of course those opinions are counter to the US world, so flag waving morons will refuse to accept them as valid.
Some senators want to punish a couple of non US companies for selling technology to a country that the US prevents it's own from selling technology to? I hope that Nokia and Siemens ignore them. It looks like another case of US selective policing, and the rest of world is sick of that shit.
I don't agree with Iranian goverment internet censorship, but not for knee jerk "they are the bad guys" reasons, because I know all to well from recent history that the USA are the badder guys. The USA has negative moral authority. Even with the new administration, you guys have a lot of work to do.
I really hope Nokia and Siemens say "shove it".
References to US and USA refer to government/politics, not necessarily you, the people.
Nutmeg is true. Also lettuce is trippy stuff, if you make a concentrate out of about double your body weight of lettuces.
Bananas don't work though.
I hope you aint trolling. Here's food.
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Why would I pay for an app? I just pirate the drm-free version.
Yeah, so the people who develop a game, for example resort to killing the game play by putting in ads. So noone uses the game. So they go broke.
No, hang on, that doesn't work. They developers give it away for free because they are nice people who don't really need to eat. But, although thoroughly nice, being so destitute, noone could be bothered listening to lectures by them about how they to could waste their talent and energy on a plan that is sure to fail. And who buys a support contract for a game? Don't people just try a different game?
That doesn't work either. Hey maybe, just maybe, USD0.99 is nothing to pay for 6 months of boredom relief while waiting for a train. Maybe, if the market is global, ten thousand people pay and the dev can live for a bit from it? Maybe the dev might create something that a couple of million end up paying for it and the dev can set him/her self up pretty well for? That works.
What works even better is where the dev gets the USD0.66 (after google takes a cut) and spends a portion of it on buying off law enforcement and hiring a personal security detail. Then, and here is the brilliant bit, they can track down arseholes who just run the 'pirated' version and force them to give the lectures. Naked. With fresh chilli shoved up their arses. At gun point with the threat of more chillis.
For the record, I have an unlocked G1, I use loads of free software - no MS or Apple at home, and I donate to projects that create software I like. I pay for games if they work on wine and then download a no cd crack if required. I would pay for apps for Android if I could get them on my market.
The statement about the 19th century is a load of shit. I remember a wide variety of keyboards from the 1980s. Slightly increasing the size of the escape and delete keys is nothing compared to, for example, adding a numpad or adding a green "copy" key. What about those ergonomic split keyboards? Surely that would be a larger change to the nineteenth century design than making a couple of easy to find keys a bit bigger.
The summary is stupid, an insult to our collective intelligence. There is no news here, no stuff that matters. It is simply slashvertising for Lenovo about something which really isn't all that interesting.
The African/Eurasian/East Asian thing troubles me. Does this take into account the South Pacific and Australia?
Indigenous Australians are generally considered to be from one of two major racial groups which while black, actually tend to carry recessive genes for blond hair and blue or green eyes. There are people from the Solomon Islands and Central Australia that have blond hair and very black skin.
I curious about how the various groups fit in to this picture because most people from Oceania appear on first glance to be of the African group, but then show Eurasian traits on closer inspection and are separated from both Africa and Eurasia by East Asian populations on both sides.
By the way, that last little bit about East Asian on both sides says I don't believe that the obvious forth group is native American. Aren't they mostly East Asian, or at least East Asian in the North and Eurasion in the South?
There was (I say "was" even though it's still there in name, it is dead to me since the management changed) a place called "Greasey Joe's" in St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Back in the day, You would cop a load of the most intelligent, witty and delightfully offensive abuse when ordering a pint of Coopers Sparkling Ale and a Double Bypass Burger with wedges.
The names they gave the food where all funny and accentuated the greasey nature of the place. The surly service was brilliantly executed and the abuse was often brilliant in its offensivenes without the need for foul language. Trying to give as good as you got was difficult because they employed true masters, although keeping up for more than 15 seconds generally earned a kind of begrudging respect which was sometimes shown by a scowl and a "what do you want?"
Then they changed hands, I went back twice and on both occasions they were polite and the entire menu had tasteful names. I haven't been back for about six or seven years. It's ruined.
Linux is a great server, and it's seems okay as a kernel for embedded things and as part of android and such, but I think there are better options for a desktop, and haiku is looking particularly promising.
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Yeah, but only _after_ it's available for interactive porn.
To be fair the US has much more helium than Australia and helium was the most expensive thing at ~US$230.
Yeah, but no idiot would buy an iPod from an Apple store. Idiots buy iPods from JB HiFi.
Smart people buy iRivers.
Dear Mr Jobs,
I bought a can of your iBaked Beans and they don't fucking work with iTunes. It took me ages to figure out how to plug the cable in for starters, and now that I have, the plug is all glued up with tomato sauce.
This is the last time I buy your fucking iBaked Beans and don't think I'm going anywhere near iToilet Cleaner!
You suck,
Moron in a hurry.
Ya, because I'll always plug a camera in to find out if it's a Canon. The fact that it says "Happy Canoon Foto Boy" means nothing. I need to check the device ID like any sane human. Or are you saying the camera may be a counterfeit rather than an obviously cheap rip off? What's new and how does a USB id change anything?
Apple is being a shit and using the USB id to artificially lock out others. That is the reason Palm is being a shit and faking an ID. Apple wants to make more money, Palm wants to spend less money.
I actually think Palm should have labelled the Pre "100% USB compatible" and removed any USB logos from the device and literature. Then they could use whatever the hell they want as an ID and the USBIF would sbhut up.
It's called the reality distortion field. Apparently there is no escape and arguing against it just makes it stronger.
That's good news? A single commercial vendor setting the standard is good news!?!? I had no idea the reality distortion field was so fucking strong!
No No NO!!! I meant to press "Post Anonymously"!!!!
I got DOSBox in VirtualBox, and a copy of X-Wing, but it is tricky reading the old floppies with modern hardware. With a bit of determination, I was able to insert a mini usb plug in under the sliding metal thingy on the disk, but the computer still can't work.
At first I thought it was the host OS lacking the correct drivers, but then I realised that floppies are much slower than usb drives, so they need to operate at a lower frequency. If I could just up the frequency, I could read the data!
Okay, here are the numbers. A high speed floppy would get around 500 Kbps tops and the USB transfer is around about 29.5 Mbps, so the floppy is around 1.7% the speed of the USB. So if I increase the speed of the USB connection by 59 times, I should get the USB to read the floppy correctly. Now a microwave oven works at 2.45 Ghz, so I figured that, seeing that that is ~83 times the speed of the USB, with a little bit of duct tape and some copper foil sheilding the usb cable, I could get the increase I needed in the floppy without over doing it.
So I put the floppy with the cable inserted in it and wrapped in copper foil and duct tape into the microwave, jammed the safety switch with a plastic spoon so I could run it with the door open (don't worry, I sat behind the microwave) and plugged it into the computer. Then I quickly turned the microwave on and read the data coming from the cable.
It didn't work first time, but that was because the USB wasn't acting like a drive, so the computer could "read" it. Unfortunately it was so fast that it blew up the usb port (I think, it wont read my thumb stick).
So then I opened up an old flash drive (32MB) which I have filled with 0x00 and carefully attached the chip to the disk surface with a spot of hot glue. When I plugged it in, the computer recognized it as "removable media", so I again started the microwave to spin up the disk frequency. This time there was more smoke, not just from the microwave (to be expected), but also from the usb port!!!
Can anyone help me with the right number of winds of duct tape needed to slow the floppy frequency from the 41.5Mbps I am getting to the 29.6 Mbps I need? I think the extra speed is causing overload, I am running out of USB ports and I just got a nosebleed. Also, does anyone have another copy of X-Wing? Mine is a bit worn :-(
Your entire post made no mention of international law, which was the criminal bit, nor did it you address the disproportionate nature of Israeli response to rocket attacks, cruel.
You made no argument that addressed my point, you challenged it and then rolled out the usual pro Israel propaganda crud.
Not where I come from. Jew is usually about the religion.
But your point about common usage of the language is interesting. You do know that the creation of Israel was an anti-Semitic act, right? Given a strict an original definition of the word, the USA invading Iraq and persecuting people with tea towels on their heads for a while there, that was anti-Semitic too.
That you say "War of Independance" was 5 nations attacking without provocation is scary. What planet in the Propaganda system is that from? Isreal's whole existence as a place for European Jews to go, even though they are not even descended from Isrealites, by force and against the will of any non Jews in the region is pretty serious provocation.
The country was started by state sponsored terrorists. It is a democracy only as much as is necessary to maintain US support, and only really for the Jews in practicality. It consistently flouts international law, is continuing to build illegal settlements as a way of claiming land which none of the rest of the world recognises as Isreali. What's the latest position? That Hamas must accept Isreal as a Jewish state? I have nothing against Judasim, like I have nothing Islam, but you cannot critisize Iran for being a theology and defend Isreal.
Isreal is perhaps the largest single failure of the international community since WWII. Allowing a religious extremist terrorist philosophy like zionism to succeed is always going to be a recepe for conflict.
Isreal is the only nuclear power in the region and has shown time and again it has no respect for borders. More people die on Isreali roads than from rocket attacks, yet Isreal launches attrocities like "Operation Cast Lead".
All the whining about the actions of the Nazis just looks so hyprocritical. More Russians died in gas chambers than Jews, but Isreal and supporters bang on about it as if the Jews were the only victims. Sure Isreal isn't rounding them up and gassing them, but I would pick life in a ghetto as Jew before the gas chambers over life in Gaza as a Palestinian. Oh, and why didn't the Gypsies get a homeland - oh yeah, they don't go around bombing people and hijacking mass transport...
While my country recognizes Isreal, I personally don't and I wont acknowledge its right to exist until it shows a massive change in policy and behaviour, starting with full cooperation with international justice.
Iraq?
Oh, that's right, foreigners aren't human.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings/, a while ago, but the regiem hasn't changed. Got more corrupt.
So basically, this is the US trying to force foreign companies into executing the US political agenda.
Isreal in it's current form is criminal and cruel and the US did more to destabilize Iraq than Iran ever has. But of course those opinions are counter to the US world, so flag waving morons will refuse to accept them as valid.
Some senators want to punish a couple of non US companies for selling technology to a country that the US prevents it's own from selling technology to? I hope that Nokia and Siemens ignore them. It looks like another case of US selective policing, and the rest of world is sick of that shit.
I don't agree with Iranian goverment internet censorship, but not for knee jerk "they are the bad guys" reasons, because I know all to well from recent history that the USA are the badder guys. The USA has negative moral authority. Even with the new administration, you guys have a lot of work to do.
I really hope Nokia and Siemens say "shove it".
References to US and USA refer to government/politics, not necessarily you, the people.
Nutmeg is true. Also lettuce is trippy stuff, if you make a concentrate out of about double your body weight of lettuces.
Bananas don't work though.
Yeah, so the people who develop a game, for example resort to killing the game play by putting in ads. So noone uses the game. So they go broke.
No, hang on, that doesn't work. They developers give it away for free because they are nice people who don't really need to eat. But, although thoroughly nice, being so destitute, noone could be bothered listening to lectures by them about how they to could waste their talent and energy on a plan that is sure to fail. And who buys a support contract for a game? Don't people just try a different game?
That doesn't work either. Hey maybe, just maybe, USD0.99 is nothing to pay for 6 months of boredom relief while waiting for a train. Maybe, if the market is global, ten thousand people pay and the dev can live for a bit from it? Maybe the dev might create something that a couple of million end up paying for it and the dev can set him/her self up pretty well for? That works.
What works even better is where the dev gets the USD0.66 (after google takes a cut) and spends a portion of it on buying off law enforcement and hiring a personal security detail. Then, and here is the brilliant bit, they can track down arseholes who just run the 'pirated' version and force them to give the lectures. Naked. With fresh chilli shoved up their arses. At gun point with the threat of more chillis.
For the record, I have an unlocked G1, I use loads of free software - no MS or Apple at home, and I donate to projects that create software I like. I pay for games if they work on wine and then download a no cd crack if required. I would pay for apps for Android if I could get them on my market.
Numlock, arrow keys, Alt, Control, Windows/Apple, f1 - f12, page up, page down, scroll lock, insert, home, end, Fn... etc, etc
The statement about the 19th century is a load of shit. I remember a wide variety of keyboards from the 1980s. Slightly increasing the size of the escape and delete keys is nothing compared to, for example, adding a numpad or adding a green "copy" key. What about those ergonomic split keyboards? Surely that would be a larger change to the nineteenth century design than making a couple of easy to find keys a bit bigger.
The summary is stupid, an insult to our collective intelligence. There is no news here, no stuff that matters. It is simply slashvertising for Lenovo about something which really isn't all that interesting.
Letting a semi colon hold you up for days shows that your approach to programming is half-arsed.
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all weak.
No, farming is what commoners do. Warring and collecting tax and rent are noble occupations.
Jeez, you guys have been without a proper monarchy for so long you've forgotten the basics.
Yeah, I didn't click the link. I don't want to risk a site with photo's of children using a "Play Pump".
I'm too pretty to go to prison.
The African/Eurasian/East Asian thing troubles me. Does this take into account the South Pacific and Australia?
Indigenous Australians are generally considered to be from one of two major racial groups which while black, actually tend to carry recessive genes for blond hair and blue or green eyes. There are people from the Solomon Islands and Central Australia that have blond hair and very black skin.
I curious about how the various groups fit in to this picture because most people from Oceania appear on first glance to be of the African group, but then show Eurasian traits on closer inspection and are separated from both Africa and Eurasia by East Asian populations on both sides.
By the way, that last little bit about East Asian on both sides says I don't believe that the obvious forth group is native American. Aren't they mostly East Asian, or at least East Asian in the North and Eurasion in the South?
I propose a fix:
There was (I say "was" even though it's still there in name, it is dead to me since the management changed) a place called "Greasey Joe's" in St. Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
Back in the day, You would cop a load of the most intelligent, witty and delightfully offensive abuse when ordering a pint of Coopers Sparkling Ale and a Double Bypass Burger with wedges.
The names they gave the food where all funny and accentuated the greasey nature of the place. The surly service was brilliantly executed and the abuse was often brilliant in its offensivenes without the need for foul language. Trying to give as good as you got was difficult because they employed true masters, although keeping up for more than 15 seconds generally earned a kind of begrudging respect which was sometimes shown by a scowl and a "what do you want?"
Then they changed hands, I went back twice and on both occasions they were polite and the entire menu had tasteful names. I haven't been back for about six or seven years. It's ruined.
Nice comment. especially this:
Linux is a great server, and it's seems okay as a kernel for embedded things and as part of android and such, but I think there are better options for a desktop, and haiku is looking particularly promising.
More apples and lemons.