If you coupled this together with speech recognition to help boost word recognition accuracy, then feed it into something a bit better than Babelfish you'd be well on your way to creating a usable Star Trek like Universal Translator.
Archos have made some very nice PMPs, but all their PMPs from the AV500 & AV700 onwards have been locked in regards to replacing the harddrive, if you try to replace the harddrive with a different or identical size (even model/make) it refuses to use it.
They are a bunch of wankers. The harddrive in my AV500 has developed a few errors, the only way I can use the unit is to leave 'dead' files covering the bad blocks and never delete or read them, I've contacted Archos about getting a new drive but they don't want to seem to know - they're too busy peddling their newer units with the same harddrive locking shit.
I'm glad someone managed to hack the 605, please can someone write an app that can allow anyone to upgrade/replace the harddrive so people can give the middle finger to Archos (and save themselves a fortune for an over-priced harddrive).
"Believe it or not, the "huge media coverage" that I've noticed of this thing has only been on Slashdot. Other than that, it's a big name manufacturer, in our world it's huge news."
The Register have been covering the Eee quite a bit, particularly a certain scantily clad busty beach babe, there's a theory going around that she's using an Eee but no matter how long I look at the picture I just can't see any computer - even when I'm using my own Eee!
"give us multitouch tablet Macs (sorry windos fanboys, microsoft could pull it off technologically, but it wouldn't be useable)"
Actually, Microsoft have been developing a multitouch screen, not the coffee table thing with multiple cameras looking at it, but one for laptops by using infra-red LEDs & sensors embedded in the back of the LCD screen. It was shown in the recent episode of The Gadget Show.
More info at Engadget
"if you ask a mountain climber why they climb mountains their reply is always 'because it's there', well, an elephant's bum is there..."
(paraphrased from Jasper Carrott)
I wholeheartedly sympathize with the residents of Barrow Gurney, because ever since the introduction of sat nav we've seen a large increase in the number of delivery lorries (mostly from builders yards) going past our house, and half the time scraping or banging into the drystone wall attached to our house because the road is so narrow. We've asked them why they travel down past our house instead of coming from the other end of our road to get where they were going, their answer almost every time: sat nav
The worst incedent happend whilst we were on holiday, a 5 axle lorry went past and knocked down a large part of the wall not attached to our house without stopping, the driver didn't even realise what he'd done.
I wish I could remove our road from bloody truck driver sat nav maps, too.
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."
Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."
God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.
"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?
"What didya do today honey?"
"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?
I went over my handlebars a couple of months back, the "frankenstein's monster" H140 survived despite a small bounce on the concrete!
Most dead H120s/H140s are killed because people use Nokia chargers (using anything but 5v input fries them), then there's the dropped units which dislodge a connector between the daughterboard (has USB & harddrive connectors) to the mainboard which can also result in the drive dying, and some get squashed and have a cracked screen - luckily for those people the full-function LCD remote comes to the rescue.
I still have a box of parts and screwed mainboards, a 20gb 1.8" drive formatted to 10gb because access the drive further than 54% and it does the click of death, and a really fucking weird H1xx motherboard that only works when it's face down, if you shake it or turn it face up it freezes! I spent hours looking at it and cleaning it etc. to see why it does that with no result
Ever since I was a kid I had a fascination with taking things apart just to see what's inside and made them tick (no, not animals!), but I learnt something that most people can't or don't think they can do - put it back together without breaking it or even end up fixing it.
The upside is you can make your gadgets last longer through fixing them or enhance them beyond their original design, for example one of my 2 iRiver H140's is made up from 3 broken units I bought off eBay, it works perfectly and it cost me nothing (but the time to fix it) because I sold most of the leftover bits and another complete working unit back on eBay for what the broken units cost overall.
There is a downside to being able to fix your own gadgets, all your bloody friends at some time or another ask "my xyz stopped working, can you fix it?"
Someone posted this link to Slashdot recently so I checked it out, I found it's very good at blocking ads for what it is, just a hosts file.
Using the hosts file they provide I don't see external adverts on eBay anymore, just this in place of where the advert would be displayed:
Action canceled
Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you
I have met Martin Evans as my mum knows him, plus he was born in my home town. I'll may be invited to the celebration party, something I think I won't be able to turn down.
I knew I'd read something about the FON network before, The Register covered a story about FON users protesting about anyone being able to have 15 minutes of free access through their router without having to sign up to the service:
My local 24hour Tesco plays local radio over the tannoy system during the middle of the night, the music makes shopping a bit more pleasant (that and no crowds of absent minded shoppers getting in the way), so does that mean Tesco have paid royalties or are they due for a big sue?
Slashdot Mirror
I am looking forward to the day when I can get a cognative reply from a GPS navigation device when I shout at it "WHERE THE FUCK AM I?"
If you coupled this together with speech recognition to help boost word recognition accuracy, then feed it into something a bit better than Babelfish you'd be well on your way to creating a usable Star Trek like Universal Translator.
The future WILL look like (1977) Buck Rogers and/or (1978) Battlestar Galactica when we get twirly space cups.
But will it run Vista?
Tin Man will be so pleased.
Archos have made some very nice PMPs, but all their PMPs from the AV500 & AV700 onwards have been locked in regards to replacing the harddrive, if you try to replace the harddrive with a different or identical size (even model/make) it refuses to use it.
They are a bunch of wankers. The harddrive in my AV500 has developed a few errors, the only way I can use the unit is to leave 'dead' files covering the bad blocks and never delete or read them, I've contacted Archos about getting a new drive but they don't want to seem to know - they're too busy peddling their newer units with the same harddrive locking shit.
I'm glad someone managed to hack the 605, please can someone write an app that can allow anyone to upgrade/replace the harddrive so people can give the middle finger to Archos (and save themselves a fortune for an over-priced harddrive).
"Believe it or not, the "huge media coverage" that I've noticed of this thing has only been on Slashdot. Other than that, it's a big name manufacturer, in our world it's huge news."
The Register have been covering the Eee quite a bit, particularly a certain scantily clad busty beach babe, there's a theory going around that she's using an Eee but no matter how long I look at the picture I just can't see any computer - even when I'm using my own Eee!
At last, we can code a realistic version of Wac-A-Mole and use real hammers.
Review: Six top hard disk drives for speed and capacity
"give us multitouch tablet Macs (sorry windos fanboys, microsoft could pull it off technologically, but it wouldn't be useable)"
Actually, Microsoft have been developing a multitouch screen, not the coffee table thing with multiple cameras looking at it, but one for laptops by using infra-red LEDs & sensors embedded in the back of the LCD screen. It was shown in the recent episode of The Gadget Show.
More info at Engadget
"Haven't you guys read 1984 or Brave New World? Be thankful that is not the world we live in today!"
It's tomorrow that people are more concerned about.
And Stuey Gluck fell out of a plane and survived, too.
Oh, wait, that was a film. My bad.
"if you ask a mountain climber why they climb mountains their reply is always 'because it's there', well, an elephant's bum is there..."
(paraphrased from Jasper Carrott)
Q: What's the difference between intelligence and stupidity?
A: There's a limit to intelligence.
I wholeheartedly sympathize with the residents of Barrow Gurney, because ever since the introduction of sat nav we've seen a large increase in the number of delivery lorries (mostly from builders yards) going past our house, and half the time scraping or banging into the drystone wall attached to our house because the road is so narrow. We've asked them why they travel down past our house instead of coming from the other end of our road to get where they were going, their answer almost every time: sat nav
The worst incedent happend whilst we were on holiday, a 5 axle lorry went past and knocked down a large part of the wall not attached to our house without stopping, the driver didn't even realise what he'd done.
I wish I could remove our road from bloody truck driver sat nav maps, too.
By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself.
/Bill Hicks
No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself.
Seriously though, if you are, do.
Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers. Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself.
Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke..." there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a Yank friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking makinations. Machi... Whatever, you know what I mean.
I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart."
Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags!
"Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing."
Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that."
God, I'm just caught in a fucking web.
"Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..."
How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?
"What didya do today honey?"
"Oh, we made ah, we made ah arsenic a childhood food now, goodnight." [snores] "Yeah we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?" [snores] "Yeah, you know the mums will love it." [snores]
Sleep like fucking children, don't ya, this is your world isn't it?
I went over my handlebars a couple of months back, the "frankenstein's monster" H140 survived despite a small bounce on the concrete!
Most dead H120s/H140s are killed because people use Nokia chargers (using anything but 5v input fries them), then there's the dropped units which dislodge a connector between the daughterboard (has USB & harddrive connectors) to the mainboard which can also result in the drive dying, and some get squashed and have a cracked screen - luckily for those people the full-function LCD remote comes to the rescue.
I still have a box of parts and screwed mainboards, a 20gb 1.8" drive formatted to 10gb because access the drive further than 54% and it does the click of death, and a really fucking weird H1xx motherboard that only works when it's face down, if you shake it or turn it face up it freezes! I spent hours looking at it and cleaning it etc. to see why it does that with no result
Ever since I was a kid I had a fascination with taking things apart just to see what's inside and made them tick (no, not animals!), but I learnt something that most people can't or don't think they can do - put it back together without breaking it or even end up fixing it.
The upside is you can make your gadgets last longer through fixing them or enhance them beyond their original design, for example one of my 2 iRiver H140's is made up from 3 broken units I bought off eBay, it works perfectly and it cost me nothing (but the time to fix it) because I sold most of the leftover bits and another complete working unit back on eBay for what the broken units cost overall.
There is a downside to being able to fix your own gadgets, all your bloody friends at some time or another ask "my xyz stopped working, can you fix it?"
You bastard! I just wasted 2 hours of my life playing the Falling Sand Game!
Can I get a refund?
From all the pictures I've seen of it (and I've been spending far too much time looking at them cos I'm waiting for my real one to arrive in a couple of weeks), it has a matte finish to the screen - for example: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eeeuser/1769360555/in/set-72157602733827163/
"Now is everyone ready for 'digital paper' "DRM" ???"
"This message will self erase in 5 seconds"
Someone posted this link to Slashdot recently so I checked it out, I found it's very good at blocking ads for what it is, just a hosts file.
Using the hosts file they provide I don't see external adverts on eBay anymore, just this in place of where the advert would be displayed:
Action canceled
Internet Explorer was unable to link to the Web page you
I have met Martin Evans as my mum knows him, plus he was born in my home town. I'll may be invited to the celebration party, something I think I won't be able to turn down.
I knew I'd read something about the FON network before, The Register covered a story about FON users protesting about anyone being able to have 15 minutes of free access through their router without having to sign up to the service:
June 29 2007 - Fon VoIP network being disrupted by protest over Wi-Fi adverts
And there's still a heap of wifi users who have hidden their router in a lake
My local 24hour Tesco plays local radio over the tannoy system during the middle of the night, the music makes shopping a bit more pleasant (that and no crowds of absent minded shoppers getting in the way), so does that mean Tesco have paid royalties or are they due for a big sue?