The best of the bunch was the Venmill Skip-Away Pro, which actually heats up the polycarbonate, then smooths it out - "like ironing the wrinkles out a shirt", to use the vendor's analogy. At US$500 retail it's not for the budget-conscious though.
As stated the nano version is probably vaporware. Every time is see an iPhone I think "Jeebus, that's a tiny screen." How about one the size of a Kindle?
It's Design 101 - Big screen good, small screen bad.
"..and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
"Now, Dick, take it easy. After all, what would Jesus do? (turns to empty chair) Well, Jesus, what should we do?"
- Supported by the Free Stratosphere Foundation.
- The latest version is Sneaky Stratus but Crafty Cumulus is now in beta.
- An open-source version of Rainbows exists but Microsoft owns the license to the visible light portion of the spectrum and is currently seeking an injunction in federal courts.
- The lightweight version is usually recommended. The full-featured version (Nimbostratus Ultimate) may overload your cloud, resulting in fog.
I once built a database for a small group (20 users) in Access with an (IMHO) ass-kicking-way-better-than-it-had-to-be front end for data entry. Simple to use, raves all around, especially compared to the earlier version. Some tweaks and fixes here and there based on feedback, but nothing major.
But one user was constantly struggling with getting her entries in on time. Then one day I was helping her with one random issue with the DB and asked her to walk through it. My heart sank as I saw her using her mouse to move from field to field, rather than using the tab key - the tab order of the UI being one of the details I sweated over.
One more detail to add to the instruction sheet, and another proof of the ingenuity of fools.
The obvious question, of course, is: Will Tron Guy be in the movie? At least a cameo?
And since he's probably more than a little responsible for putting the bug in some movie exec's ear to make TR2N, will be feel cheated if it makes a bijillion dollars?
(I saw the original as a teen - the movie and the quarter-eating video game were "teh shit", as the kids say nowadays. Now get off my lawn.)
The fact is, most Bluetooth headsets are Class 2 devices, which have a maximum power of 2.5 mW. This is orders of magnitude less than the emissions from a cell phone, which can peak at 500 mW.
If the emissions from a cell phone are simply "questionable" in terms of cancer, there's no way a signal with 100x less power is. But on the flip side, the power difference between the two is so large that you COULD see them claiming cell emissions are "bad" while not seeing any problem with the much lower power emitted by Bluetooth Class 2 devices.
All true of course. (I was just being snarky about the headset EM exposure.)
But it's like fat-free snack chips. Just because they may be better for you than the regular doesn't mean you should eat the whole bag.
If you use a cell phone for fifteen minutes a day, switching to a Bluetooth headset fifteen minutes a day instead may (in theory) be better for you.
But if you become the type that keeps the headset clamped to the side of your head sunrise to sunset; and because of the convenience (so comfortable!) you up your usage to an hour a day, well...well you're still probably OK. But karma will take you out if the EM don't.
Unless they're able to do some clever-bastard engineering to route the heat elsewhere - the top edge of the laptop screen, perhaps? If they could somehow route the tubing through the hinge the coiling could sit inside a metal "handle".
If there's no patent on something like this, I got dibs.:-)
I will be nice and refrain from extending that analysis to the rest of Alan Moore's work;-)
Well, we can a little. 8-) I just read book one of Tom Strong comics and I'm still trying to decide if it's supposed to be a homage, a parody, a straight-up action comic, or what. Either way I feel no great hurry to get book two.
The argument Moore makes against movie versions of the comics he's worked on is that the comic is an end product onto itself, a collaboration between writer and artist that isn't "improved" by transliterating it to film. That fact that the reader can find the artwork in a comic more compelling than the writing demonstrates that.
However it can be argued that when it comes to writing for comics you grade on a bit of a curve. Alan Moore may be greatest graphic novel writer of all time, but I'm about one-fifth of the way through Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and, well, damn, you try to argue that Moore is a better writer than Stephenson.
True. Remember the part of the book where Nite Owl and Silk Spectre (dresses in their civvies) open a can of whoop-ass on a gang of armed street punks. The man could still bring it.
We've been doing IT since, well the first computer.
Which they still have. McCain keeps asking it to "go to the google" but no luck so far. "Maybe if we flip some of those toggle switches? One of them must turn on the voice command, like on Star Trek.."
Big media could set up a clearance center where users could upload videos of non-fair-use copyrighted material and identify where they want to post it (youtube, etc.) A small army of interns goes through the videos, determines if it steps on the toes of any of their other offerings (their own sites, DVDs, etc.) and if not, let's it go through.
Oh, and big media would get a cut of the ad revenue, as prearranged with the video hosting sites.
They're sure to have full access to online coverage. Even if the Chinese teams were to lose to Taiwan or protests were staged during the event, I'm sure the government wouldn't be so petty as to use their Golden Shield to#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
There's a big difference between using a pseudonym to hide your identity vs. creating a false online identity for malicious intent e.g. to trick others into thinking you are someone else entirely.
Yeah, such prosecutions could themselves be used maliciously (j'accuse, torrent user!). But this is more "getting Al Capone for tax evasion" rather than busting someone for jaywalking.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/magazine/16-08/pl_test
The best of the bunch was the Venmill Skip-Away Pro, which actually heats up the polycarbonate, then smooths it out - "like ironing the wrinkles out a shirt", to use the vendor's analogy. At US$500 retail it's not for the budget-conscious though.
As stated the nano version is probably vaporware. Every time is see an iPhone I think "Jeebus, that's a tiny screen." How about one the size of a Kindle?
It's Design 101 - Big screen good, small screen bad.
"NO! You'll flood the whole compartment!"
"He'll die in there!"
"Elon! He's dead already.."
James Doohan - RIP
"..and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
"Now, Dick, take it easy. After all, what would Jesus do? (turns to empty chair) Well, Jesus, what should we do?"
- Supported by the Free Stratosphere Foundation.
- The latest version is Sneaky Stratus but Crafty Cumulus is now in beta.
- An open-source version of Rainbows exists but Microsoft owns the license to the visible light portion of the spectrum and is currently seeking an injunction in federal courts.
- The lightweight version is usually recommended. The full-featured version (Nimbostratus Ultimate) may overload your cloud, resulting in fog.
But one user was constantly struggling with getting her entries in on time. Then one day I was helping her with one random issue with the DB and asked her to walk through it. My heart sank as I saw her using her mouse to move from field to field, rather than using the tab key - the tab order of the UI being one of the details I sweated over.
One more detail to add to the instruction sheet, and another proof of the ingenuity of fools.
This may explain the ain't-we-edgy film name, in terms of avoiding confusion and/or lawsuits.
The obvious question, of course, is: Will Tron Guy be in the movie? At least a cameo?
And since he's probably more than a little responsible for putting the bug in some movie exec's ear to make TR2N, will be feel cheated if it makes a bijillion dollars?
(I saw the original as a teen - the movie and the quarter-eating video game were "teh shit", as the kids say nowadays. Now get off my lawn.)
The fact is, most Bluetooth headsets are Class 2 devices, which have a maximum power of 2.5 mW. This is orders of magnitude less than the emissions from a cell phone, which can peak at 500 mW.
If the emissions from a cell phone are simply "questionable" in terms of cancer, there's no way a signal with 100x less power is. But on the flip side, the power difference between the two is so large that you COULD see them claiming cell emissions are "bad" while not seeing any problem with the much lower power emitted by Bluetooth Class 2 devices.
All true of course. (I was just being snarky about the headset EM exposure.)
But it's like fat-free snack chips. Just because they may be better for you than the regular doesn't mean you should eat the whole bag.
If you use a cell phone for fifteen minutes a day, switching to a Bluetooth headset fifteen minutes a day instead may (in theory) be better for you.
But if you become the type that keeps the headset clamped to the side of your head sunrise to sunset; and because of the convenience (so comfortable!) you up your usage to an hour a day, well...well you're still probably OK. But karma will take you out if the EM don't.
He could try growing one big-ass bushy beard and practice alternative medicine. ( ref)
I always thought Andrew Weil looked a little suspicious.
Unless they're able to do some clever-bastard engineering to route the heat elsewhere - the top edge of the laptop screen, perhaps? If they could somehow route the tubing through the hinge the coiling could sit inside a metal "handle".
:-)
If there's no patent on something like this, I got dibs.
(No, seriously, I got dibs.)
Uh oh. I think someone's going to end up on the naughty list...
</singsong mom voice>
I will be nice and refrain from extending that analysis to the rest of Alan Moore's work ;-)
Well, we can a little. 8-) I just read book one of Tom Strong comics and I'm still trying to decide if it's supposed to be a homage, a parody, a straight-up action comic, or what. Either way I feel no great hurry to get book two.
The argument Moore makes against movie versions of the comics he's worked on is that the comic is an end product onto itself, a collaboration between writer and artist that isn't "improved" by transliterating it to film. That fact that the reader can find the artwork in a comic more compelling than the writing demonstrates that.
However it can be argued that when it comes to writing for comics you grade on a bit of a curve. Alan Moore may be greatest graphic novel writer of all time, but I'm about one-fifth of the way through Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon and, well, damn, you try to argue that Moore is a better writer than Stephenson.
True. Remember the part of the book where Nite Owl and Silk Spectre (dresses in their civvies) open a can of whoop-ass on a gang of armed street punks. The man could still bring it.
You know the last verse of this cautionary song -
...She's dead of course.
I know an old lady who swallowed a horse...
We've been doing IT since, well the first computer.
Which they still have. McCain keeps asking it to "go to the google" but no luck so far. "Maybe if we flip some of those toggle switches? One of them must turn on the voice command, like on Star Trek.."
Big media could set up a clearance center where users could upload videos of non-fair-use copyrighted material and identify where they want to post it (youtube, etc.) A small army of interns goes through the videos, determines if it steps on the toes of any of their other offerings (their own sites, DVDs, etc.) and if not, let's it go through.
Oh, and big media would get a cut of the ad revenue, as prearranged with the video hosting sites.
There's already precedence for this with the Copyright Clearance Center
Arrr, laddie, I've seen error messages the size of great whites! Swallow a man whole, they will!
CAN
YOU
STAND
THE
HORROR!!!
But yeah, the most wacked out ginoruous displays in Times Square are at the end of the day just great big monitors. Running Windows 2000.
The moon wasn't formed - it twas built
Now Lousiana has something else to teach.
Monsanto released a service pack for dirt, codenamed "RoundUp." But it's not open source and the EULA is a real biatch.
Which is excellent BTW
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass_pr.html
It also resulted in one of the thickest copies of Wired ever produced (seriously, it was like a friggin' phone book.)
They're sure to have full access to online coverage. Even if the Chinese teams were to lose to Taiwan or protests were staged during the event, I'm sure the government wouldn't be so petty as to use their Golden Shield to#`%${%&`+'${`%&NO CARRIER
There's a big difference between using a pseudonym to hide your identity vs. creating a false online identity for malicious intent e.g. to trick others into thinking you are someone else entirely.
Yeah, such prosecutions could themselves be used maliciously (j'accuse, torrent user!). But this is more "getting Al Capone for tax evasion" rather than busting someone for jaywalking.
Fireworks drive away evil spirits, so, you know, really, the more poisonous the better.
Why, mine of course...