It's highly useful. You get all the benefit of e-ink and the ability to buy books at any bookstore. This makes it better than an e-ink device that is locked to a single ebook provider. As for swapping over to the Nook Color, that's fine if someone wants an LCD screen, but some of us like the idea of having an open e-ink device.
"Simultaneous connection to a Wi-Fi Direct-certified group and an infrastructure network is an
optional feature." From what I can tell, it more or less is a 1-on-1 (or 1-on-many depending on device's settings) automated AD Hoc (with pre-defined settings). Since connecting to both a Direct Connection and infrastructure network at the same time is optional, I assume it would have 2 WiFi devices installed to do this (if it only uses 1 device to do both I'd be surprised). As such, it's very similar to a laptop that has 2 WiFi units, 1 connecting to a local hub and the other running in AD Hoc mode. It sounds like WiFi Direct just simplifies it for the average person into a plug and play style. Nothing really new from a technology viewpoint, it's more a new standard to make implementation and certification of existing tech easier.
So if they want to use my tweets to break alibis, does this mean I can make tweets to reinforce them? '8:00 in bed and going to sleep' '9:00 woke up to the sound of a gun shot in the distance, I hope Bob the snitch is okay' '9:15 Going downtown with Officers for a cup of coffee, they are so nice' '9:30 after officers read my tweets, they apologized for wasting my time and drove me home'
All it would take is for their server to get hit by a DoS attack on an opening weekend for a major release. Every customer would suffer from being kicked out of their legally obtained game over and over. The complaints would flood their offices and sales would drop. I don't think I'd want a game where a group of bored kiddies could kick me out of my single player video game.
If you look at http://www.hackint0sh.org/ (forums for the anysim iPhone unlock method), you'll see that some iBricks don't get fixed using this trick. So while this method may work for some, it isn't the cure all for all iPhone hacking mistakes.
I own a PK20 pocket projector. It fits in the palm of my hand, does 800x600 native, and uses ultra-bright LEDs with DLP tech to handle the images. It gets 10,000 hours of lamp life but is fairly dim as a result. It is much brighter then the first gen, PK10, but it still gets washed out easily. In a lightly lit room, I can do a 40" image, and in pitch darkness(or almost black), I can project around 60-70" without issue. I'm curious how the brightness of the lasers will be. Will it be able to project a 5' image in a lit room, or will it need the lights fully dimmed? I also wonder what the viewing angle will be, will it be very narrow with a fast drop off to the sides (which would make it less then ideal for portable presentations). Does anyone have any actual specs on the unit?
Before some else complains about it, I should note that I can't download the episodes in Firefox. But the streaming working perfectly fine. So it seems like it is only partially IE dependent. I'm curious if the streaming will work on with a MAC or Linux, or if it is Windows only.
I've used mobile versions of Opera, InternetExplorer, Minimo, and now Safari (and a few other off-brand browsers). Up until Safari, I found Opera to be the best for mobile browsing, but even it was lacking. The iPhone's Safari seems pretty good so far, still not perfect, but better then the rest. But with Safari, you're limited to using it only on the iPhone (or iPod touch). Hopefully this new development from Mozilla will offer a nice high quality mobile browser that is compatible with multiple devices. I'm looking forward to a browser war for the mobile market, its about time we got a choice of good quality browsers instead of being stuck with low grade versions that can't even render simple pages well.
For me, there is only one reason why I choose the iPhone over my old T-Mobile MDA Windows Mobile phone, the Safari web browser. Combined with the WiFi, it turns my phone into a viable replacement for mobile web surfing. It is the best mobile browser I've used to date.
I don't think the current unlocking of the iPhone is a legit unlock. The current unlock method reflashes the modem firmware(with a modified version) to allow it to use multiple carriers. On my old smartphone, the unlock software scanned my phone and then when I booted with a different SIM, I typed in an unlock code and the phone actually unlocked itself (the same as if my carrier had given me the unlock code). The modified modem firmware, while it creates the unlock effect, it isn't the same method AT&T would use to unlock the iPhone.
I think the unlock method will change over the next few months. In the US, Apple uses AT&T, in Germany, they use T-Mobile, ETC... When the hacking groups begin to compare the differences between the various regional iPhones, they'll find that there is a better way to unlock. I doubt future firmware updates will convert German iPhones to AT&T. So by examine the difference, we should get closer to having a real unlock and hopefully we'll be able to avoid issues with firmware updates as a result.
As an owner of an unlocked iPhone I think people are just acting stupid. I'm perfectly content to sit back and use the 1.0.2 firmware until a solution is found for the new firmware. Going around and blaming Apple is a waste of time. While I think Apple could've handled things better to prevent bricking of phones, it isn't truly bricked. It is possible to revert the system back to the older firmware if you know what you're doing. The problem is, a bunch of naive users are playing with their firmware and they don't have a clue as to what this means. I think most intelligent iPhone hackers understand that you can't upgrade firmware the day it's released and expect it to work right with previous mods. But I guess all this complaining shows that a lot of ignorant people are hacking their phones without understanding all the complications involved.
Hopefully, it will run well under Linux in the near future given AMD's recent actions. As was covered previously on here, AMD has already release quite a bit of detail to improve Linux support. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/053252
What will this do to GPU physics?
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Both ATI and Nvidia's GPU based physics acceleration were being made to work with Havok. ATI was working on a 3 card Crossfire rig, 2 for graphics, 1 for physics. I wonder what this will mean for future developments. http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/physics/index.html
For express and stand-alone deployment methods, Microsoft recommends the following:
* A minimum of 7 GB free disk space on the system partition for x86-based operating systems and a minimum of 12 GB free disk space for x64-based operating systems.
They say the drive space will only be used temporarily, and I know drive space is cheap these days. But what about people with laptops that are pushing their hard drives near the limit?
Yeah, the Marshals are used for State judicial affairs in some locales, like New York City. Other area's use Sheriffs or other agencies to collect. It is roughly the equivalent to this http://www.usmarshals.gov/process/execution-writ.h tm but on a State instead of Federal level.
Actually the court says they have to pay. And she doesn't have to farm it out to a collections agency, she can most likely get the court have US Marshals collect the money.
"In New York City, New York, Marshals are charged with the enforcement of civil judgments. A Marshal is appointed by the Mayor and the office is a private business which pays a percentage of fees it collects to the government. It is supervised by the Department of Investigation. Generally, the office performs the collection of money judgments, evictions, seizure of scofflaw vehicles, replevins, small claims as well as garnishments." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal Marshals also handle collections in other areas too, the New York reference was just the quickest to find.
For Vista, the only option OS wise will the the more expensive models. Both Vista Basic and Premium aren't allowed to run on any kind of VM. I guess that will limit Dell's usage for home users.
I saw the "in Japan" part, but I was making a reference to the "deep discount" part. They don't say how big the discount was. My local Circuit City couldn't sell a UMD for the life of them, but when they were discounted to $2 they were sold out in hours. I was inferring that the sale in Japan could have been a similar discount and thus the results could be relevant. Of course, you are also right, they do love some formats that we hate. Both MD and VCD did well over there and never took off in the US. I guess its hard to tell without actually knowing just how big of a discount it really was.
"I just don't understand why they even need to, are there any advantages that other formats don't (and wont) have?"
Yes, it has one big advantage for Sony. They can collect fees on UMD discs. If another format is used, they don't get paid for it. It is all about them trying to push their proprietary format so they get extra income. It is the same reason they want Blu-ray to take off. Nothing is better then getting paid for simply controlling the underlying media format.
I just did a quick search for UMD on CircuitCity.com and found 0 movie discs. On Bestbuy.com, I found 79 movie discs, all sold out and with the last one having a release date of 11/25/2005. The movie format is dead, it has been for a year and 1/2. Where does Sony come up with this stuff?
"Sales in Japan, however, have been astronomical - in autumn of last year, UMD movies underwent a 1000 per cent jump in the region as a result of deep discounts by retailers."
Well, yeah. That's an easy way to get sales. My local Circuit City blew their discs out fast when they were discontinued and marked down to $2 each. Last I knew, most movie distributors other then Sony had stopped releasing UMD movie titles due to poor sales. Sony just needs to let the format die, everyone else has.
That's so true, and it is always the case. I remember when DirectX 9 came out. The first gen cards were great at running old directX 8 games, but you had to turn the resolution way down to get even so-so frame rates with DirectX 9 titles. And now we've got cards that can pound the living hell out of DirectX 9 games. People have gotten spoiled with super high resolutions. It'll take a gen or two of graphics cards to really rock the DirectX 10 scene. It's nothing new, it happens every time. People need to stop making such a big deal about it. It isn't ATI or Nvidia failing to deliver, it's that the next gen games push things even harder.
While saving $50 might be nice in the short term, what does it do to resale value? I find that older laptops that come with a nice COA for Windows resell for more then one without it. Even with the hard drive removed, a simple COA sticker increases the value.
Paclitaxel is a drug used in the treatment of cancer. It was discovered at Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in 1967 when Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani isolated the compound from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia, and noted its antitumor activity in a broad range of rodent tumors. By 1970, the two scientists had determined the structure of paclitaxel. Paclitaxel has since become an effective tool of doctors who treat patients with lung, ovarian, breast cancer, and advanced forms of Kaposi's sarcoma.[2] It is sold under the tradename Taxol. Together with docetaxel, it forms the drug category of the taxanes.
Paclitaxel is also used for the prevention of restenosis (recurrent narrowing) of coronary stents; locally delivered to the wall of the coronary artery, a paclitaxel coating limits the growth of neointima (scar tissue) within stents.[3] Paclitaxel drug eluting coated stents are sold under the trade name Taxus by Boston Scientific in the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclitaxel
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It's highly useful. You get all the benefit of e-ink and the ability to buy books at any bookstore. This makes it better than an e-ink device that is locked to a single ebook provider. As for swapping over to the Nook Color, that's fine if someone wants an LCD screen, but some of us like the idea of having an open e-ink device.
"Simultaneous connection to a Wi-Fi Direct-certified group and an infrastructure network is an optional feature." From what I can tell, it more or less is a 1-on-1 (or 1-on-many depending on device's settings) automated AD Hoc (with pre-defined settings). Since connecting to both a Direct Connection and infrastructure network at the same time is optional, I assume it would have 2 WiFi devices installed to do this (if it only uses 1 device to do both I'd be surprised). As such, it's very similar to a laptop that has 2 WiFi units, 1 connecting to a local hub and the other running in AD Hoc mode. It sounds like WiFi Direct just simplifies it for the average person into a plug and play style. Nothing really new from a technology viewpoint, it's more a new standard to make implementation and certification of existing tech easier.
So if they want to use my tweets to break alibis, does this mean I can make tweets to reinforce them? '8:00 in bed and going to sleep' '9:00 woke up to the sound of a gun shot in the distance, I hope Bob the snitch is okay' '9:15 Going downtown with Officers for a cup of coffee, they are so nice' '9:30 after officers read my tweets, they apologized for wasting my time and drove me home'
All it would take is for their server to get hit by a DoS attack on an opening weekend for a major release. Every customer would suffer from being kicked out of their legally obtained game over and over. The complaints would flood their offices and sales would drop. I don't think I'd want a game where a group of bored kiddies could kick me out of my single player video game.
If you look at http://www.hackint0sh.org/ (forums for the anysim iPhone unlock method), you'll see that some iBricks don't get fixed using this trick. So while this method may work for some, it isn't the cure all for all iPhone hacking mistakes.
I own a PK20 pocket projector. It fits in the palm of my hand, does 800x600 native, and uses ultra-bright LEDs with DLP tech to handle the images. It gets 10,000 hours of lamp life but is fairly dim as a result. It is much brighter then the first gen, PK10, but it still gets washed out easily. In a lightly lit room, I can do a 40" image, and in pitch darkness(or almost black), I can project around 60-70" without issue. I'm curious how the brightness of the lasers will be. Will it be able to project a 5' image in a lit room, or will it need the lights fully dimmed? I also wonder what the viewing angle will be, will it be very narrow with a fast drop off to the sides (which would make it less then ideal for portable presentations). Does anyone have any actual specs on the unit?
Before some else complains about it, I should note that I can't download the episodes in Firefox. But the streaming working perfectly fine. So it seems like it is only partially IE dependent. I'm curious if the streaming will work on with a MAC or Linux, or if it is Windows only.
I just watched part of 'Life' in Firefox without any problems. So the the claim for IE only is false.
I've used mobile versions of Opera, InternetExplorer, Minimo, and now Safari (and a few other off-brand browsers). Up until Safari, I found Opera to be the best for mobile browsing, but even it was lacking. The iPhone's Safari seems pretty good so far, still not perfect, but better then the rest. But with Safari, you're limited to using it only on the iPhone (or iPod touch). Hopefully this new development from Mozilla will offer a nice high quality mobile browser that is compatible with multiple devices. I'm looking forward to a browser war for the mobile market, its about time we got a choice of good quality browsers instead of being stuck with low grade versions that can't even render simple pages well.
Let the browsers wars start again.
For me, there is only one reason why I choose the iPhone over my old T-Mobile MDA Windows Mobile phone, the Safari web browser. Combined with the WiFi, it turns my phone into a viable replacement for mobile web surfing. It is the best mobile browser I've used to date.
I don't think the current unlocking of the iPhone is a legit unlock. The current unlock method reflashes the modem firmware(with a modified version) to allow it to use multiple carriers. On my old smartphone, the unlock software scanned my phone and then when I booted with a different SIM, I typed in an unlock code and the phone actually unlocked itself (the same as if my carrier had given me the unlock code). The modified modem firmware, while it creates the unlock effect, it isn't the same method AT&T would use to unlock the iPhone.
I think the unlock method will change over the next few months. In the US, Apple uses AT&T, in Germany, they use T-Mobile, ETC... When the hacking groups begin to compare the differences between the various regional iPhones, they'll find that there is a better way to unlock. I doubt future firmware updates will convert German iPhones to AT&T. So by examine the difference, we should get closer to having a real unlock and hopefully we'll be able to avoid issues with firmware updates as a result.
As an owner of an unlocked iPhone I think people are just acting stupid. I'm perfectly content to sit back and use the 1.0.2 firmware until a solution is found for the new firmware. Going around and blaming Apple is a waste of time. While I think Apple could've handled things better to prevent bricking of phones, it isn't truly bricked. It is possible to revert the system back to the older firmware if you know what you're doing. The problem is, a bunch of naive users are playing with their firmware and they don't have a clue as to what this means. I think most intelligent iPhone hackers understand that you can't upgrade firmware the day it's released and expect it to work right with previous mods. But I guess all this complaining shows that a lot of ignorant people are hacking their phones without understanding all the complications involved.
Hopefully, it will run well under Linux in the near future given AMD's recent actions. As was covered previously on here, AMD has already release quite a bit of detail to improve Linux support. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/053252
Both ATI and Nvidia's GPU based physics acceleration were being made to work with Havok. ATI was working on a 3 card Crossfire rig, 2 for graphics, 1 for physics. I wonder what this will mean for future developments. http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossfire/physics/index.html
* A minimum of 7 GB free disk space on the system partition for x86-based operating systems and a minimum of 12 GB free disk space for x64-based operating systems.
They say the drive space will only be used temporarily, and I know drive space is cheap these days. But what about people with laptops that are pushing their hard drives near the limit?
Yeah, the Marshals are used for State judicial affairs in some locales, like New York City. Other area's use Sheriffs or other agencies to collect. It is roughly the equivalent to this http://www.usmarshals.gov/process/execution-writ.h tm but on a State instead of Federal level.
Actually the court says they have to pay. And she doesn't have to farm it out to a collections agency, she can most likely get the court have US Marshals collect the money. "In New York City, New York, Marshals are charged with the enforcement of civil judgments. A Marshal is appointed by the Mayor and the office is a private business which pays a percentage of fees it collects to the government. It is supervised by the Department of Investigation. Generally, the office performs the collection of money judgments, evictions, seizure of scofflaw vehicles, replevins, small claims as well as garnishments." from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshal Marshals also handle collections in other areas too, the New York reference was just the quickest to find.
For Vista, the only option OS wise will the the more expensive models. Both Vista Basic and Premium aren't allowed to run on any kind of VM. I guess that will limit Dell's usage for home users.
I saw the "in Japan" part, but I was making a reference to the "deep discount" part. They don't say how big the discount was. My local Circuit City couldn't sell a UMD for the life of them, but when they were discounted to $2 they were sold out in hours. I was inferring that the sale in Japan could have been a similar discount and thus the results could be relevant. Of course, you are also right, they do love some formats that we hate. Both MD and VCD did well over there and never took off in the US. I guess its hard to tell without actually knowing just how big of a discount it really was.
"I just don't understand why they even need to, are there any advantages that other formats don't (and wont) have?" Yes, it has one big advantage for Sony. They can collect fees on UMD discs. If another format is used, they don't get paid for it. It is all about them trying to push their proprietary format so they get extra income. It is the same reason they want Blu-ray to take off. Nothing is better then getting paid for simply controlling the underlying media format.
I just did a quick search for UMD on CircuitCity.com and found 0 movie discs. On Bestbuy.com, I found 79 movie discs, all sold out and with the last one having a release date of 11/25/2005. The movie format is dead, it has been for a year and 1/2. Where does Sony come up with this stuff?
"Sales in Japan, however, have been astronomical - in autumn of last year, UMD movies underwent a 1000 per cent jump in the region as a result of deep discounts by retailers." Well, yeah. That's an easy way to get sales. My local Circuit City blew their discs out fast when they were discontinued and marked down to $2 each. Last I knew, most movie distributors other then Sony had stopped releasing UMD movie titles due to poor sales. Sony just needs to let the format die, everyone else has.
That's so true, and it is always the case. I remember when DirectX 9 came out. The first gen cards were great at running old directX 8 games, but you had to turn the resolution way down to get even so-so frame rates with DirectX 9 titles. And now we've got cards that can pound the living hell out of DirectX 9 games. People have gotten spoiled with super high resolutions. It'll take a gen or two of graphics cards to really rock the DirectX 10 scene. It's nothing new, it happens every time. People need to stop making such a big deal about it. It isn't ATI or Nvidia failing to deliver, it's that the next gen games push things even harder.
While saving $50 might be nice in the short term, what does it do to resale value? I find that older laptops that come with a nice COA for Windows resell for more then one without it. Even with the hard drive removed, a simple COA sticker increases the value.
Paclitaxel is a drug used in the treatment of cancer. It was discovered at Research Triangle Institute (RTI) in 1967 when Monroe E. Wall and Mansukh C. Wani isolated the compound from the bark of the Pacific yew tree, Taxus brevifolia, and noted its antitumor activity in a broad range of rodent tumors. By 1970, the two scientists had determined the structure of paclitaxel. Paclitaxel has since become an effective tool of doctors who treat patients with lung, ovarian, breast cancer, and advanced forms of Kaposi's sarcoma.[2] It is sold under the tradename Taxol. Together with docetaxel, it forms the drug category of the taxanes. Paclitaxel is also used for the prevention of restenosis (recurrent narrowing) of coronary stents; locally delivered to the wall of the coronary artery, a paclitaxel coating limits the growth of neointima (scar tissue) within stents.[3] Paclitaxel drug eluting coated stents are sold under the trade name Taxus by Boston Scientific in the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paclitaxel