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If you specifically craft a situation where the alternative won't run out and these batteries will, of course they're less than useful. However, if it's totally unavoidable that you're going to need to recharge batteries many times before getting back to your main base, half your arguement disappears.
Frankly, these batteries look seriously handy if you're travelling and you know you're going to have regular access to devices with a USB port -- which doesn't have to be a PC or laptop, how about a PS2? I would certainly want a pair of these if I was travelling with my cheap little Kodak C310 happy-snap digital camera and I was expecting to stay with or visit friends where I could toss them into something to recharge. Surely it's highly desirable to travel with as little as possible at the moment.
Re:Charging your gadgets directly via the USB
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I really wonder why charging of ALL sorts of gadgets which run on one lithium-ion cell isn't automatically done when you anyway connect that thing to the PC to transfer data?
I have a 3rd-party USB cable for my Asus 716 Pocket PC that provides both power and a data connection, where the bundled cable only provides data and you need to pass it through an externally-powered cradle if you want to charge it. As such, I can give one reason:
The USB port doesn't supply enough power to charge the battery and run the device. Well, it does if I enable the most power conservative mode on the Asus, but even then it's touch and go. You really have to convince it to be off to charge, but of course the data part of the connection keeps encouraging it to come on. Also, it comes on when it starts charging, so if it isn't charging while on but starts charging the moment you turn it off, it turns itself back on. 500mA really is a little too little.
I've also got a USB-powered hard drive that needs every bit of 500mA such that if you use any cable longer than the provided one (which is only about 15cm long) it doesn't start up. I should dig up my powered hub so I don't have to climb under the desk to plug it in.
Mind you, some newer/smaller devices can cope. I believe the iPod Shuffle does automatically charge whenever you plug it into a USB port, regardless of what you're doing with it at the time.
At the moment I'm digging out all my old digital cameras, including my DC260 that can run MAME, to do calibration sets for some funky software called "PhotoAcute". It allows you to double the horizontal and vertical pixel count of your photos be processing multiple pictures of the same image (not useful for action shots, but great for static scenes). The means that your camera's megapixel count is multiplied by four. My A$140 4Megapixel cheapy Kodak Easyshare will soon be a 16Megapixel camera. I'm not sure this qualifies as "camera hacking", but I think it's closer than some of the examples from the book.
Does anyone have experience with any of these cool order fulfilment technologies? 10-15 years down the track, how are they? Still the same? Breaking down frequently? Replaced at significant cost? Upgraded gracefully?
I find that most really cool technology that actually gets deployed in a working environment either works and thus never gets upgraded, or sucks and has to be completely replaced.
The current Atari is not a friend to real fans of Atari. They have bullied and killed many 2600 projects, ending distribution of enhanced Atari 2600 binaries and threatening any homebrew ptojects with names similar to old Atari properties, even to the point of forcing "Joust Pong" to become "Flap Ping". As someone who purchased over 100 Atari 2600 cartridges just today, I hope we see a new owner, or better yet no owner, in the near future.
Whenever you have an ongoing monthly subscription to something the provider has no incentive to do anything fast, or at all. Microsoft has demonstrated this, as has Blizzard, now its Netflix's turn. When I trialed a similar system in Australia I worked out that postal delays and scratched discs were like free money to the company. (Meanwhile, the selection was seriously crap.) These days I buy ex-rental DVDs from a friend at work who also owns an old-school video rental place.
Real fuel savings will depend on usage patterns. For example, my typical usage of my car is an eight minute journey two and from work five days a week that could theoretically be done at no more than the max speed of the Prius running on the electric engine only. If the solar panels could replace the power used over the course of a normal work day while it sits in the car park, my MPG would tend towards infinity. Only the occasional longer journey, or anything requiring the use of the local freeway would use any petrol at all.
You're right, of course, but if you don't want a search engine powered by Google, Yahoo! or MSN there aren't a lot of options. Even MozDEX has Google ads I think. Anyway, I use an ad filter that keeps them out of sight and out of mind.
I'm currently in the process of leaving Gmail and I've started using other search engines like Teoma and the Moz-something one.
I wish these companies (another example is Yahoo!) wouldn't grow into such monsters, but it seems inevitable. I think it's time I got a static IP address and ran my own servers.
Wal*mart is successful because it pays its US workers so little that they still qualify for welfare, convinces local and state governments to give it huge subsidies and ignores human rights abuses in its Chinese factories.
I believe those versions only work on Pocket PC smartphones, not normal old Pocket PC devices. My Asus 716 still deperately needs a good replacement for crash-happy and feature-poor PIE.
The article mentions this problem, then solves it by running a custom gateway. No doubt that gateway would have made a better webserver, making this project as pointless as running a C64 BBS with a more powerful PC acting as a bridge.
Given the current state of things, there's not much point getting any more complicated than uploading phonecam photos to Flickr while you're out and about. (As it is, that costs a damn fortune.)
Your workplace is either a secure location, in which case this has already been addressed, like every technology before it, or it isn't a secure location, in which case a little USB Flash drive is only one of many ways for data to leak offsite.
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Frankly, these batteries look seriously handy if you're travelling and you know you're going to have regular access to devices with a USB port -- which doesn't have to be a PC or laptop, how about a PS2? I would certainly want a pair of these if I was travelling with my cheap little Kodak C310 happy-snap digital camera and I was expecting to stay with or visit friends where I could toss them into something to recharge. Surely it's highly desirable to travel with as little as possible at the moment.
The USB port doesn't supply enough power to charge the battery and run the device. Well, it does if I enable the most power conservative mode on the Asus, but even then it's touch and go. You really have to convince it to be off to charge, but of course the data part of the connection keeps encouraging it to come on. Also, it comes on when it starts charging, so if it isn't charging while on but starts charging the moment you turn it off, it turns itself back on. 500mA really is a little too little.
I've also got a USB-powered hard drive that needs every bit of 500mA such that if you use any cable longer than the provided one (which is only about 15cm long) it doesn't start up. I should dig up my powered hub so I don't have to climb under the desk to plug it in.
Mind you, some newer/smaller devices can cope. I believe the iPod Shuffle does automatically charge whenever you plug it into a USB port, regardless of what you're doing with it at the time.
At the moment I'm digging out all my old digital cameras, including my DC260 that can run MAME, to do calibration sets for some funky software called "PhotoAcute". It allows you to double the horizontal and vertical pixel count of your photos be processing multiple pictures of the same image (not useful for action shots, but great for static scenes). The means that your camera's megapixel count is multiplied by four. My A$140 4Megapixel cheapy Kodak Easyshare will soon be a 16Megapixel camera. I'm not sure this qualifies as "camera hacking", but I think it's closer than some of the examples from the book.
I find that most really cool technology that actually gets deployed in a working environment either works and thus never gets upgraded, or sucks and has to be completely replaced.
The current Atari is not a friend to real fans of Atari. They have bullied and killed many 2600 projects, ending distribution of enhanced Atari 2600 binaries and threatening any homebrew ptojects with names similar to old Atari properties, even to the point of forcing "Joust Pong" to become "Flap Ping". As someone who purchased over 100 Atari 2600 cartridges just today, I hope we see a new owner, or better yet no owner, in the near future.
Whenever you have an ongoing monthly subscription to something the provider has no incentive to do anything fast, or at all. Microsoft has demonstrated this, as has Blizzard, now its Netflix's turn. When I trialed a similar system in Australia I worked out that postal delays and scratched discs were like free money to the company. (Meanwhile, the selection was seriously crap.) These days I buy ex-rental DVDs from a friend at work who also owns an old-school video rental place.
A grammar nazi beat him up for using "ebay'd"?
I found msvcp71.dll elsewhere on my PC, now it wants msvcr71.dll. Does the main site have an extra download package that the mirrors don't?
Not the best start, anyone know what msvcp71.dll is and why Songbird might need it but not include it?
Still, I believe the development of a space elevator would benefit from a lunar station at the equator.
Real fuel savings will depend on usage patterns. For example, my typical usage of my car is an eight minute journey two and from work five days a week that could theoretically be done at no more than the max speed of the Prius running on the electric engine only. If the solar panels could replace the power used over the course of a normal work day while it sits in the car park, my MPG would tend towards infinity. Only the occasional longer journey, or anything requiring the use of the local freeway would use any petrol at all.
You're right, of course, but if you don't want a search engine powered by Google, Yahoo! or MSN there aren't a lot of options. Even MozDEX has Google ads I think. Anyway, I use an ad filter that keeps them out of sight and out of mind.
I wish these companies (another example is Yahoo!) wouldn't grow into such monsters, but it seems inevitable. I think it's time I got a static IP address and ran my own servers.
Google for hfnetchk, hfnetchkpro, shavlick or shavlik. Sorry I'm not on a real PC to make looking that up for you easier.
Wal*mart is successful because it pays its US workers so little that they still qualify for welfare, convinces local and state governments to give it huge subsidies and ignores human rights abuses in its Chinese factories.
Just release the first episode free on the net. That should be more than enough advertising, assuming your show is any good.
Two things. 1. I live in Australia and I'd cope with shipping. and B. It's easy enough to print them locally.
This article is just another example of the ongoing Republican tactic of "they're as bad as us". For shame Slashdot, for shame.
It's about time that production companies considered DVD subscriptions.
I believe those versions only work on Pocket PC smartphones, not normal old Pocket PC devices. My Asus 716 still deperately needs a good replacement for crash-happy and feature-poor PIE.
Given the current state of things, there's not much point getting any more complicated than uploading phonecam photos to Flickr while you're out and about. (As it is, that costs a damn fortune.)
Your workplace is either a secure location, in which case this has already been addressed, like every technology before it, or it isn't a secure location, in which case a little USB Flash drive is only one of many ways for data to leak offsite.
On the Core, you swap. On the real system, you don't.