Bad form replying to myself I know...but jesus that image is a shocker! Even the texturing on the 3D model is ridiculously bad, looks like something a 12 year old knocked up in a "My First Spaceship" tutorial!
I still haven't seen any decent examples of this new format, anyone care to shed some light on what makes it so amazing? Is it any better than the old school red/green 3D of days gone by?
Actually standard SMS messages are more expensive, 12p I think now. However almost all contracts that I'm aware of include x (usually in the hundreds) free texts, usually more than the number of minutes on the plan. Even pay-as-you go services now offer like x free texts as long as you top up say £10 a month.
(This is probably because we don't have any summer.)
There, fixed that for you. To prove this point we have just had a white Easter up here in Leeds, gotta love British weather, always keeps you on your toes! (or on your arse if attempting to keep on your toes this morning!)
I actually got a warning on my new Vista laptop with a fingerprint reader (Dell XPS M1330) when I tried to register just one finger:
"It is strongly recommended to enroll more than one finger in case of injury"
So I would presume most fingerprint security software can accept more than one finger for identification. I registered all my fingers after that message!
"I think it would be better to teach these children how to use LaTeX"
Here here! I've recently started using LaTeX at university and although the learning curve is a little steep it is an excellent tool. There are plenty of existing templates to use for writing reports, the image and layout tools are ticky to get the hang of at first but again very powerful. I used these tutorials and they pretty much covered everything I needed
When it comes to references aswell BiBTeX is very handy for handling them all and inserting the references in the correct style. Sites like CiteULike make managing referenced papers and importing them into LaTeX very easy. Markup style tools such as LaTeX should be taught early before people learn how easy it is to use Word/Oo.o!
I'm on slashdot, RTFA is out of the question! But yep 0.3mp would make my 5MP images look so last century! But at least the technology is maturing nicely, and I'd imagine plenty of people would want one of these..."Hey have you seen what my new iPhone can do!". I'm waiting for some hybrid Apple photo/album browsing with head tracking!
Biggest size I know of is 8GB for £40 not bad at all, and a little awe inspiring when you first see the size of it compared with an 8GB drive a few years ago!
It does do quite a good job of taking pictures in the dark. The shutter speed is lowsy though so any slight movement and things look a little blurred. The video is also pretty good quality and VGA, but again at night mode the frame rate is pretty poor, probably about 5-10FPS which makes night videos pretty useless and unenjoyable. If there is any sort of indoor lighting it does seem to manage quite nicely and it packs a decent flash. The uploading straight to Flickr or a site of your choice on a wireless network is another great feature, shame that wireless burns the batter down to about 2 hours!
This is the first phone though that has made me appreciate what may be possible in future phones, and like I say it's my first real stray from basic/good signal models.
My Nokia N95 has a 5 MegaPixel camera which produces some pretty good quality photos and video. It is hard to appreciate this quality on the 3"ish screen so having a projector would be a nice feature. No idea when I'd use it though, I can hardly imagine whipping out the projector at work or uni to show my mates my oh so cool pics. But this is the first time I've had a phone that does more than just do calls and texts, on a recent holiday I must've taken about 500 pics on the 4GB microSD card in it. Mobile phones are becoming very nice indeed imo.
Mate, that's the best post I've ever seen summing up life in the US. From a UK perspective that's what the majority of the rest of the world thinks. It's good to know that not every American is still floating along in the "American Dream"/"Free World" fantasy. Move to Europe, it's probably not much better after you've lived here for a while, but I'm pretty sure it's a helluva lot more free than the US. Apart from all these security cameras watching my ever move! Ah well!
I'll tell you why I tend to text more than I call, because I don't think it's particularly polite to be talking on your phone in a generally quiet public place, library, shop etc. In these cases it's a lot easier just to fire off a quick text. Also if you have a girlfriend then if I didn't text she'd literally want me on the phone for about 6 hours a day, and this is not good!
I am in England though and over here we get pretty much 'all-you-can-eat' tariffs. I am on £20 a month with O2 at the moment (I work for them, hence a staff deal) and get 1000 minutes and 1000 texts, more than I'll ever use. Even since I've had this tariff I still text people all the time, it just seems stupid to ring people to ask them a quick question and as someone else has mentioned texting is asynchronous. I can text my mates when I'm out late at night and not worry about waking them up, but still get a response to my question in the morning. I guess it's probably different state-side because you guys can talk for England...wait..America!
Let me know how this goes.
It's always annoyed me that you have to get a phone line aswell. I lived in house with 4 other students and we all have mobiles and absolutely no need for our telephone line other than for DSL. The £10 a month we get charged for our voice service is essentially wasted and we're all poor enough as it is!
It's good to see though that in the UK now you can get high speeds for a cheap price, our 16Mbps connection only costs £20 + the voice £10. Although to be honest at the moment we are lucky to see more than 700KBps when the line is maxxed out. Things were a lot better a couple of years ago before all the companies started offering broadband for lower prices. It would be interesting to know how much the actual line capacity increases when you get free "upgrades" from say 1Mb to 2Mb, 10Mb to 20Mb, which you see a lot of companies doing.
It's been said already but I'll say it again, after reading Slashdot for years this is the best post I have ever read. I'm in my second year of a computer science degree and at the moment I'm trying to revise for my upcoming exams. This post is the most motivating bit of text I have ever read. Cheers AC, I'm going to send this to every student I know, and keep reading this throughout my degree/masters(hopefully)/PhD(come on!)
Slashdot Mirror
Bad form replying to myself I know...but jesus that image is a shocker! Even the texturing on the 3D model is ridiculously bad, looks like something a 12 year old knocked up in a "My First Spaceship" tutorial!
Coral Cache seems to be loading it for me...albeit very slowly! slow cached image
The ZDNet article just grabs a couple of pics from this 70 image gallery, which has a load of cool pictures.
Don't think anyone has linked it yet:
Original wired article
I still haven't seen any decent examples of this new format, anyone care to shed some light on what makes it so amazing? Is it any better than the old school red/green 3D of days gone by?
(didn't RTFA but read some on it before!)
Me neither, it would be interesting to know if this works for anyone?
Thirded (it was just so easy to click the big, in your face, waste of space reply button!)
Actually standard SMS messages are more expensive, 12p I think now. However almost all contracts that I'm aware of include x (usually in the hundreds) free texts, usually more than the number of minutes on the plan. Even pay-as-you go services now offer like x free texts as long as you top up say £10 a month.
(This is probably because we don't have any summer.)
There, fixed that for you. To prove this point we have just had a white Easter up here in Leeds, gotta love British weather, always keeps you on your toes! (or on your arse if attempting to keep on your toes this morning!)
Mod parent up! This is what makes Slashdot threads worth the read!
"It is strongly recommended to enroll more than one finger in case of injury"
So I would presume most fingerprint security software can accept more than one finger for identification. I registered all my fingers after that message!Hear, hear!
Here here! I've recently started using LaTeX at university and although the learning curve is a little steep it is an excellent tool. There are plenty of existing templates to use for writing reports, the image and layout tools are ticky to get the hang of at first but again very powerful. I used these tutorials and they pretty much covered everything I needed
When it comes to references aswell BiBTeX is very handy for handling them all and inserting the references in the correct style. Sites like CiteULike make managing referenced papers and importing them into LaTeX very easy. Markup style tools such as LaTeX should be taught early before people learn how easy it is to use Word/Oo.o!
I'm on slashdot, RTFA is out of the question!
But yep 0.3mp would make my 5MP images look so last century! But at least the technology is maturing nicely, and I'd imagine plenty of people would want one of these..."Hey have you seen what my new iPhone can do!". I'm waiting for some hybrid Apple photo/album browsing with head tracking!
Biggest size I know of is 8GB for £40 not bad at all, and a little awe inspiring when you first see the size of it compared with an 8GB drive a few years ago!
It does do quite a good job of taking pictures in the dark. The shutter speed is lowsy though so any slight movement and things look a little blurred. The video is also pretty good quality and VGA, but again at night mode the frame rate is pretty poor, probably about 5-10FPS which makes night videos pretty useless and unenjoyable. If there is any sort of indoor lighting it does seem to manage quite nicely and it packs a decent flash. The uploading straight to Flickr or a site of your choice on a wireless network is another great feature, shame that wireless burns the batter down to about 2 hours!
This is the first phone though that has made me appreciate what may be possible in future phones, and like I say it's my first real stray from basic/good signal models.
My Nokia N95 has a 5 MegaPixel camera which produces some pretty good quality photos and video. It is hard to appreciate this quality on the 3"ish screen so having a projector would be a nice feature. No idea when I'd use it though, I can hardly imagine whipping out the projector at work or uni to show my mates my oh so cool pics. But this is the first time I've had a phone that does more than just do calls and texts, on a recent holiday I must've taken about 500 pics on the 4GB microSD card in it. Mobile phones are becoming very nice indeed imo.
Mate, that's the best post I've ever seen summing up life in the US. From a UK perspective that's what the majority of the rest of the world thinks. It's good to know that not every American is still floating along in the "American Dream"/"Free World" fantasy. Move to Europe, it's probably not much better after you've lived here for a while, but I'm pretty sure it's a helluva lot more free than the US. Apart from all these security cameras watching my ever move! Ah well!
I'll tell you why I tend to text more than I call, because I don't think it's particularly polite to be talking on your phone in a generally quiet public place, library, shop etc. In these cases it's a lot easier just to fire off a quick text. Also if you have a girlfriend then if I didn't text she'd literally want me on the phone for about 6 hours a day, and this is not good! I am in England though and over here we get pretty much 'all-you-can-eat' tariffs. I am on £20 a month with O2 at the moment (I work for them, hence a staff deal) and get 1000 minutes and 1000 texts, more than I'll ever use. Even since I've had this tariff I still text people all the time, it just seems stupid to ring people to ask them a quick question and as someone else has mentioned texting is asynchronous. I can text my mates when I'm out late at night and not worry about waking them up, but still get a response to my question in the morning. I guess it's probably different state-side because you guys can talk for England...wait..America!
This store has their security cameras on a "camera" sub-domain...so pretty easy to find methinks! http://eskc.com/ http://camera.eskc.com/index4.html
Let me know how this goes. It's always annoyed me that you have to get a phone line aswell. I lived in house with 4 other students and we all have mobiles and absolutely no need for our telephone line other than for DSL. The £10 a month we get charged for our voice service is essentially wasted and we're all poor enough as it is! It's good to see though that in the UK now you can get high speeds for a cheap price, our 16Mbps connection only costs £20 + the voice £10. Although to be honest at the moment we are lucky to see more than 700KBps when the line is maxxed out. Things were a lot better a couple of years ago before all the companies started offering broadband for lower prices. It would be interesting to know how much the actual line capacity increases when you get free "upgrades" from say 1Mb to 2Mb, 10Mb to 20Mb, which you see a lot of companies doing.
It's been said already but I'll say it again, after reading Slashdot for years this is the best post I have ever read. I'm in my second year of a computer science degree and at the moment I'm trying to revise for my upcoming exams. This post is the most motivating bit of text I have ever read. Cheers AC, I'm going to send this to every student I know, and keep reading this throughout my degree/masters(hopefully)/PhD(come on!)