Or a rotating stock plan. Something new at Amazon, they put it in the stores, a few weeks later they refresh with newer stuff.
You also have catalogues and catalogue computers there, so people can look stuff up, and the sales staff is there to help them find what they need, or answer their questions about products. Sadly, you can't stock the entire Amazon inventory, so you'd have to have the items shipped. However, they could easily put in a warehouse in some of the bigger regions, and send them out from there, or to the store, and hopefully have it in by a day or two, or even that day if the customer's in a pinch and doesn't mind driving over.
Or a DS. Get a flash cart, and use it along with some of the homebrew programs (like the browser). The PSP is faster by a bit, but the DS has a touchscreen & better organsation possibilities. Plus it's cheaper (although depending on the flashcart and microSD card used it can be just as bad).
If you have a server-side application with a simple web front, the DS would be good, especially with its great battery life (in GBA mode I get like 23+ hours on lowest brightness, so I'm sure you could get a good 20 hours on a single charge using just a browser)
VIA's got a pretty strong CPU; the Nano holds its own for the low-power segments.
An nVidia-VIA partnership would have worked wonders but nVidia went there and came back. For some reason they wanted to do ION instead. What a sick joke; and here I was hoping for a VIA Nano wiht a 9400 chipset.
Or external PCIe. I've been waiting for that. The PCIE standard has it specified, just nobody wants to make stuff for it. Think of it this way, you come home, you plug in a box (with its own PSU) into your laptop, and you can now game on your laptop with whatever cards you had put in that box. When you're done, unplug everything, switch your resolution/drivers if necessary, and go.
Have you looked into CellWriter? It's a very good Linux hand-writing recognition program.
There's not really many ARM netbooks on the market. There's a 266$ one at DealExtreme, and a 169$ (I think it's MIPS) netbook at some other site (geek.com?). Otherwise it's clone after clone of the Intel Atom reference design with a few changes here and there (ours is blue!).
I personally can't wait for the i.MX515 netbook by Pegatron, though. 199$? Freaking sweet.
The thing has gimick controls, it SHOULD have had motion plus at launch, it won't even play a DVD it doesn't have fcking optical audio output or HDMI (low res or not, no HDMI out in 2009!?)
Funny how everybody scrambled for motion-controls after Nintendo did it? And I wonder if you called the dpad, analog stick, etc., "gimick controls".
Motion-plus isn't really needed. It would have just bumped costs for nothing. There's only one game coming out that supports it, The Conduit, and it's not likely you'll see a whole bunch using it.
Everything in my house plays a fucking DVD. Do you really think I want another device burning its DVD drive just to play some movies? My laptop, my desktops, my DVD player all play DVDs already. (hey, who would have thought people bought these? what would you do with it if you had a wii? throw it out?)
Not everyone has optical audio. I don't. I want a car to come with my console. Does that mean I need it? HDMI is a terrible connector interface, the worst I've ever seen, with so many licensing issues, it's just a botched "standard". It's a good thing they didn't go for it.
"Gamers" make me fucking sad. You're the same pricks who bought PS2s back when the Gamecube was the only console putting out 480p over component, and was by far the strongest console of the last generation. Now that Nintendo realises it's a fairly useless title, you guys start bitching?
You, my friend, and deluded. The fact that both analog sticks rest at the bottom but the buttons are at the top right corner is evidence enough that it sucks giant donkey nuts. With a gamecube controller I can move and shoot. Can't do that with a dual-shock.
The Gamecube also managed to put in two L/R buttons: press down for one, and click for a second.
The only bad thing about it was the Z button, but games barely used it.
Some hospitals use touchscreen PCs mounted so that the screen is sitting under their hands at an angle. Think like a paper on a counter, but mounted a slightly different angle (145 maybe?), and kind of sliding off the counter.
It works well. But those things must cost a fortune if they're Core 2s, compared to these. (doubling prices across a hosptial full of them = a lot) Although, when I was last there, there were only some in the ER "check desk" thing. Maybe one day these little buggers could make their way into offices.
I always thought it was old Mexico City, actually.
It might be a bit too far for ancient Greeks, but wasn't it once a city with rings of water, and an advanced enough people, too? Or maybe I missed something big in the description of Atlantis...
Does it actually pick up all the channels in your area?
Is there a good guide out there to putting one together? Something smallish maybe?
I thought about putting one together, but then wondered if it was just a sick april fool's joke. I guess the fact that they seem to be a bit large and ugly is the tradeoff.
The news of Postal 3 for Linux gives me reason to really have confidence that Source & Steam are coming to linux. And all the source-based games, too, in due time. Maybe even a lot of the Steam games.
Plus, it would mean UT3 was just waiting on Steam. Jerks, but hey, they'd have delivered.
Don't remind us about how depressing things are in Ottawa for tech.
Somehow we ended up we two scabs (Corel, Xandros) and no heroes. Nortel imploded, Cognos was bought up by IBM.
Open source in Canada's federal would be sweet. But they should use this oppurtunity to help incite free software developpement. Encourage a company to form and offer a "Government of Canada Linux", something that could also be used in the provinces, so they're all on the same page using open standards. Tighten it with SELinux, examine your code, base it off of Debian Stable, and go from there.
Actually, right now I just heard that the government of nunavut (my employer) wants to move to have more IT in the government by 2012 (for the heath dept). Right now's a great time to offer a fully billingual (the Inuit can add in inuktituk) distro to cater to the government.
Valve didn't port to OpenGL for the PS3; I'm pretty sure it was written "down-to-the-metal".
But, every major engine has OpenGL support. Some just choose to turn it off. It wouldn't be hard to turn it back on.
Steam has been on linux. How else do you get Left 4 Dead linux servers?... But it would be nice to see a full, officially supported, Steam client & source engine for linux. It means something.
Flash taxes your CPU because it's cross-platform. It's all vectors, and they had to write parts in assembly simply to keep up. It's not useless bloat in this case, it really is a situation where adding in hardware acceleration would make it unportable.
Yeah, I know. It's still tied down to x86. But now that the SWF and FLV formats are opened, if you tried, you could port it.
Adding on to what chicago_scott said, there's more problems than just speeders.
Think about drunk driving, criminals on a chase, random hits, etc., where having an officer there helps.
Cameras mean there's no officer. No officer means nobody to stop you. You're free to wreak havoc. If you were going to commit a crime, you're going to do it regardless, this makes it easier. If you're in an accident, the officer hanging around can help you.
What's your experience with the atom? What can it handle, where does it fall?...
And what about your TV tuner card? I've been trying to find a good one, they're all 100$+. Or 20$ like the KWorlds and they barely work (no information on if sound works = not really working).
It's ridiculous. mini-ITX is also like this, but thankfully Apex has some (MI-008 and MI-100) that retail for like 50$, and according to SilentPCReview, they're actually not that bad, if you don't mind an internal PSU. No frills, but it does have room for a DVD drive.
Personally, I've been waiting for residential fibre in Ottawa to finally get off cable. Either that, or get all of our analog stations over the air (especially global and omni! we 3 global + omni!).
I think CNN is streamable, and if you look hard enough I'm sure you could find a Western-movies station. Doesn't Miro support commercial channels already? Even 480i/p channels would be great... it's not like everything is HD anyway, especially not in my house.
I thought about doing that, like a 200$ TV box. It doesn't really work. Unless somebody comes out with a cheap tuner and fast (oh come on, a digital tuner can't cost more than like 20$ to make, and even an analog one shouldn't cost those insane amounts), it's going to be very hard. I think you could get a VIA Nano setup (looking at the crunchtablet) for 150$, or even an ARM (OMAP or i.MX515 on a board with more than a crappy 128MB) for the frontend.
But yeah, prices on this stuff is ugly. Cases are not too bad, Apex has mini-ITX and micro-ITX cases for like 40$-50$
It's not necessarily DRM. You're just missing the content to the next levels.
I understood GP as saying you distribute the game libs in a way Debian & etc could put them in the repositories, and you include a level or two for the players to use, and for the testers to make sure everything is ok. When the user wants to actually buy this game, they go out and buy the CD (or get it via Steam/Impulse maybe) and it unlocks the full game.
Actually, this would work great if Steam was available for linux. Low headaches like you would not believe, but it might require some openess.
This is one of those things I never got about closed software on Linux: Listen bud, you're making the jump to this strange platform, why don't you take the time to learn how they do it, and try to fit in? I don't distribute source-only for Windows programs, or require a repository or something. Shouldn't you try to fit in with the linux community here? Like use the repos, or maintain your own repo? (Opera does this. Smooth upgrades.)
But like I said, it would be nice if we'd have a Steam-like system, if people want to port closed crap. I'm all for six degrees of freedom, you should just try to fit in (ie, an apt-get for closed-source crap).
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what PolicyKit is all about?
Or a rotating stock plan. Something new at Amazon, they put it in the stores, a few weeks later they refresh with newer stuff.
You also have catalogues and catalogue computers there, so people can look stuff up, and the sales staff is there to help them find what they need, or answer their questions about products. Sadly, you can't stock the entire Amazon inventory, so you'd have to have the items shipped. However, they could easily put in a warehouse in some of the bigger regions, and send them out from there, or to the store, and hopefully have it in by a day or two, or even that day if the customer's in a pinch and doesn't mind driving over.
Or a DS. Get a flash cart, and use it along with some of the homebrew programs (like the browser). The PSP is faster by a bit, but the DS has a touchscreen & better organsation possibilities. Plus it's cheaper (although depending on the flashcart and microSD card used it can be just as bad).
If you have a server-side application with a simple web front, the DS would be good, especially with its great battery life (in GBA mode I get like 23+ hours on lowest brightness, so I'm sure you could get a good 20 hours on a single charge using just a browser)
VIA's got a pretty strong CPU; the Nano holds its own for the low-power segments.
An nVidia-VIA partnership would have worked wonders but nVidia went there and came back. For some reason they wanted to do ION instead. What a sick joke; and here I was hoping for a VIA Nano wiht a 9400 chipset.
Or external PCIe. I've been waiting for that. The PCIE standard has it specified, just nobody wants to make stuff for it. Think of it this way, you come home, you plug in a box (with its own PSU) into your laptop, and you can now game on your laptop with whatever cards you had put in that box. When you're done, unplug everything, switch your resolution/drivers if necessary, and go.
Or you use Synaptic, right click the package, and click the option saying remove the program entirely including configuration files.
Have you looked into CellWriter? It's a very good Linux hand-writing recognition program.
There's not really many ARM netbooks on the market. There's a 266$ one at DealExtreme, and a 169$ (I think it's MIPS) netbook at some other site (geek.com?). Otherwise it's clone after clone of the Intel Atom reference design with a few changes here and there (ours is blue!).
I personally can't wait for the i.MX515 netbook by Pegatron, though. 199$? Freaking sweet.
The thing has gimick controls, it SHOULD have had motion plus at launch, it won't even play a DVD it doesn't have fcking optical audio output or HDMI (low res or not, no HDMI out in 2009!?)
Funny how everybody scrambled for motion-controls after Nintendo did it? And I wonder if you called the dpad, analog stick, etc., "gimick controls".
Motion-plus isn't really needed. It would have just bumped costs for nothing. There's only one game coming out that supports it, The Conduit, and it's not likely you'll see a whole bunch using it.
Everything in my house plays a fucking DVD. Do you really think I want another device burning its DVD drive just to play some movies? My laptop, my desktops, my DVD player all play DVDs already. (hey, who would have thought people bought these? what would you do with it if you had a wii? throw it out?)
Not everyone has optical audio. I don't. I want a car to come with my console. Does that mean I need it? HDMI is a terrible connector interface, the worst I've ever seen, with so many licensing issues, it's just a botched "standard". It's a good thing they didn't go for it.
"Gamers" make me fucking sad. You're the same pricks who bought PS2s back when the Gamecube was the only console putting out 480p over component, and was by far the strongest console of the last generation. Now that Nintendo realises it's a fairly useless title, you guys start bitching?
Dual-shock? Good?
You, my friend, and deluded. The fact that both analog sticks rest at the bottom but the buttons are at the top right corner is evidence enough that it sucks giant donkey nuts. With a gamecube controller I can move and shoot. Can't do that with a dual-shock.
The Gamecube also managed to put in two L/R buttons: press down for one, and click for a second.
The only bad thing about it was the Z button, but games barely used it.
You can't have a dual-core processor and keep XP. So thanks kids for clinging to windows on your netbooks! Really doing the world a favour!
Some hospitals use touchscreen PCs mounted so that the screen is sitting under their hands at an angle. Think like a paper on a counter, but mounted a slightly different angle (145 maybe?), and kind of sliding off the counter.
It works well. But those things must cost a fortune if they're Core 2s, compared to these. (doubling prices across a hosptial full of them = a lot) Although, when I was last there, there were only some in the ER "check desk" thing. Maybe one day these little buggers could make their way into offices.
I always thought it was old Mexico City, actually.
It might be a bit too far for ancient Greeks, but wasn't it once a city with rings of water, and an advanced enough people, too? Or maybe I missed something big in the description of Atlantis...
But can you install from those liveCDs?
It's because they're only broadcasting at like third power or something.
When analog is shut off, and the DTV stations increase their power, we should see things a lot clearer.
Does it actually pick up all the channels in your area?
Is there a good guide out there to putting one together? Something smallish maybe?
I thought about putting one together, but then wondered if it was just a sick april fool's joke. I guess the fact that they seem to be a bit large and ugly is the tradeoff.
The news of Postal 3 for Linux gives me reason to really have confidence that Source & Steam are coming to linux. And all the source-based games, too, in due time. Maybe even a lot of the Steam games.
Plus, it would mean UT3 was just waiting on Steam. Jerks, but hey, they'd have delivered.
Don't remind us about how depressing things are in Ottawa for tech.
Somehow we ended up we two scabs (Corel, Xandros) and no heroes. Nortel imploded, Cognos was bought up by IBM.
Open source in Canada's federal would be sweet. But they should use this oppurtunity to help incite free software developpement. Encourage a company to form and offer a "Government of Canada Linux", something that could also be used in the provinces, so they're all on the same page using open standards. Tighten it with SELinux, examine your code, base it off of Debian Stable, and go from there.
Actually, right now I just heard that the government of nunavut (my employer) wants to move to have more IT in the government by 2012 (for the heath dept). Right now's a great time to offer a fully billingual (the Inuit can add in inuktituk) distro to cater to the government.
I'd do it myself, but who am I kidding?
Valve didn't port to OpenGL for the PS3; I'm pretty sure it was written "down-to-the-metal".
But, every major engine has OpenGL support. Some just choose to turn it off. It wouldn't be hard to turn it back on.
Steam has been on linux. How else do you get Left 4 Dead linux servers?... But it would be nice to see a full, officially supported, Steam client & source engine for linux. It means something.
Flash taxes your CPU because it's cross-platform. It's all vectors, and they had to write parts in assembly simply to keep up. It's not useless bloat in this case, it really is a situation where adding in hardware acceleration would make it unportable.
Yeah, I know. It's still tied down to x86. But now that the SWF and FLV formats are opened, if you tried, you could port it.
By the way, I've never heard of Lunix. Would you care to explain what it is?
UNIX for the C64.
Adding on to what chicago_scott said, there's more problems than just speeders.
Think about drunk driving, criminals on a chase, random hits, etc., where having an officer there helps.
Cameras mean there's no officer. No officer means nobody to stop you. You're free to wreak havoc. If you were going to commit a crime, you're going to do it regardless, this makes it easier. If you're in an accident, the officer hanging around can help you.
What's your experience with the atom? What can it handle, where does it fall?...
And what about your TV tuner card? I've been trying to find a good one, they're all 100$+. Or 20$ like the KWorlds and they barely work (no information on if sound works = not really working).
It's ridiculous. mini-ITX is also like this, but thankfully Apex has some (MI-008 and MI-100) that retail for like 50$, and according to SilentPCReview, they're actually not that bad, if you don't mind an internal PSU. No frills, but it does have room for a DVD drive.
Personally, I've been waiting for residential fibre in Ottawa to finally get off cable. Either that, or get all of our analog stations over the air (especially global and omni! we 3 global + omni!).
I think CNN is streamable, and if you look hard enough I'm sure you could find a Western-movies station. Doesn't Miro support commercial channels already? Even 480i/p channels would be great... it's not like everything is HD anyway, especially not in my house.
I thought about doing that, like a 200$ TV box. It doesn't really work. Unless somebody comes out with a cheap tuner and fast (oh come on, a digital tuner can't cost more than like 20$ to make, and even an analog one shouldn't cost those insane amounts), it's going to be very hard. I think you could get a VIA Nano setup (looking at the crunchtablet) for 150$, or even an ARM (OMAP or i.MX515 on a board with more than a crappy 128MB) for the frontend.
But yeah, prices on this stuff is ugly. Cases are not too bad, Apex has mini-ITX and micro-ITX cases for like 40$-50$
It's not necessarily DRM. You're just missing the content to the next levels.
I understood GP as saying you distribute the game libs in a way Debian & etc could put them in the repositories, and you include a level or two for the players to use, and for the testers to make sure everything is ok. When the user wants to actually buy this game, they go out and buy the CD (or get it via Steam/Impulse maybe) and it unlocks the full game.
Actually, this would work great if Steam was available for linux. Low headaches like you would not believe, but it might require some openess.
This is one of those things I never got about closed software on Linux: Listen bud, you're making the jump to this strange platform, why don't you take the time to learn how they do it, and try to fit in? I don't distribute source-only for Windows programs, or require a repository or something. Shouldn't you try to fit in with the linux community here? Like use the repos, or maintain your own repo? (Opera does this. Smooth upgrades.)
But like I said, it would be nice if we'd have a Steam-like system, if people want to port closed crap. I'm all for six degrees of freedom, you should just try to fit in (ie, an apt-get for closed-source crap).