How long before your front door carries a sticker saying "WARNING: Opening this device could seriously shorten your life span".
I play EQ, or did... I get bored every few weeks and quit for a while... then I miss my "friends who aren't really friends" and start playing again... i think what happened to this guy is tragic, any loss of human life is a terrible thing but if it wasn't EQ it would have been chat rooms, or phone-sex lines, or really bad b-movies, or...... see where I am leading?
So EQ start putting warning labels on the box, then chocolate companies put warning stickers on bars of chocolate, then pizza hut put warnings on the door, where the hell does it end? Do people really need all these messages telling them what to do and what not to do?
Well, I've read about this before... and it doesn't actually download at speeds greater than 56K...
The service provider you (have to) connect to has a compression server on it's network and it compresses the data you've requested before sending it to your device, where it is uncompressed. They claim it makes the 9600bps of GSM as fast as 56kps but as we all know, the success of data compression relys very heavily on the data being compressed. Compressing pure text HTML may be fine but I expect this thing to crawl when it comes to graphics...
In a previous article the head of Pogos company basically accepted that this device has approx 12 - 18 month lifespan as it will be killed by GPRS technology. But seemed pretty upbeat anyway... (doesn't want to scare his investors I guess)
GPRS phones are currently available here in the UK but none of the cellphone providers seem to realise that charging extortionate rates means they aint gonna get used...
/agree with other posters here, if he wanted to have published it, he would have done... from his comments in interviews etc I seriously doubt he was actively working on a new HHGTTG book... Anyone who reads the fifth book should see he was doing everything possible (and most things probable) to kill off the characters so there would never be another book and people would stop asking him about it!
In my opinion, if the person / persons die before releasing something to the public at large, then unreleased material should stay that way, pass it down through the family for gods sake... keep something unique belonging to your grandad/granma.
Personally, I think thats what should have been done with Earth: Final Conflict and perhaps Andromeda too... although it does mean we get to see the yummy Lexa Doig, and that can't be bad.
-- Wow, my first ever slashdot post in 2.5 years, wonder if I'll get flamed?
First Wave original?
Good? Maybe. But original? No.
Ever heard of the 1960s series "Invaders" ?
Featured a guy wandering round the US of A trying to convince people of alien invaders who looked just like humans but when you killed them they dissolved, sounding familiar now?
All First Wave added was a cute ex-porn star (gotta admit, her acting is getting a lot better), a hacker (hey, it's the new millennium) and some weird prophecies written hundreds of years ago.
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wow... can I install this faster internet? That'd be cool.
How long before your front door carries a sticker saying "WARNING: Opening this device could seriously shorten your life span".
... see where I am leading?
I play EQ, or did... I get bored every few weeks and quit for a while... then I miss my "friends who aren't really friends" and start playing again... i think what happened to this guy is tragic, any loss of human life is a terrible thing but if it wasn't EQ it would have been chat rooms, or phone-sex lines, or really bad b-movies, or...
So EQ start putting warning labels on the box, then chocolate companies put warning stickers on bars of chocolate, then pizza hut put warnings on the door, where the hell does it end? Do people really need all these messages telling them what to do and what not to do?
This device is ON SALE now!
For close up shots try here http://www.pogo-tech.com
Around 6 months ago people were claiming vapourware... now they have delivered... a rare thing in this industry... (yopy anyone?)
Well, I've read about this before... and it doesn't actually download at speeds greater than 56K...
The service provider you (have to) connect to has a compression server on it's network and it compresses the data you've requested before sending it to your device, where it is uncompressed. They claim it makes the 9600bps of GSM as fast as 56kps but as we all know, the success of data compression relys very heavily on the data being compressed. Compressing pure text HTML may be fine but I expect this thing to crawl when it comes to graphics...
In a previous article the head of Pogos company basically accepted that this device has approx 12 - 18 month lifespan as it will be killed by GPRS technology. But seemed pretty upbeat anyway... (doesn't want to scare his investors I guess)
GPRS phones are currently available here in the UK but none of the cellphone providers seem to realise that charging extortionate rates means they aint gonna get used...
Pogo - Nice idea... shame about the tech...
In my opinion, if the person / persons die before releasing something to the public at large, then unreleased material should stay that way, pass it down through the family for gods sake... keep something unique belonging to your grandad/granma.
Personally, I think thats what should have been done with Earth: Final Conflict and perhaps Andromeda too... although it does mean we get to see the yummy Lexa Doig, and that can't be bad.
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Wow, my first ever slashdot post in 2.5 years, wonder if I'll get flamed?
First Wave original? Good? Maybe. But original? No. Ever heard of the 1960s series "Invaders" ? Featured a guy wandering round the US of A trying to convince people of alien invaders who looked just like humans but when you killed them they dissolved, sounding familiar now? All First Wave added was a cute ex-porn star (gotta admit, her acting is getting a lot better), a hacker (hey, it's the new millennium) and some weird prophecies written hundreds of years ago.