Considering that Batman is supposed to get all his technology from Wayne Enterprises top secret military projects. This looks pretty rugged and quite frankly, something that could be used by a military in nearly any type of situation.
sorry, it doesn't have neon lights and a 5 foot high fin, we all know how utilitarian that stuff is.
I keep on hearing complaints from everywhere as to why people are still playing counter-strike.
you want to know why i still play it? i don't have to have that damn CD in my hard drive. The last game I bought was battlefield 1942 and it's sitting here collecting dust. I was sick and tired of it spending all of its time seeking and searching for the CD. It already takes up some 1.4 gigs of space on my HD so it obviously doesn't need to retrieve any gameplay information.
Battlefield 1942 will be the last game I buy from EA. If you want to treat me like a criminal for paying 50$ for a game, then fine... go ahead. You won't see a further dime from me.
Go ahead game companies. Use macrovisions latest "security" feature that end up pissing off all your paying customers (thousands and millions) so that you can delay crackers for an extra 5 minutes.
If you're going to force me to go through the troubles of using no-cd cracks, etc, why should i even bother paying for your product when i could go ahead and download a fixed (pirated) version of your broken software? It seems like I would have less problems by going the pirated route.
for some odd reason, they get the bookmarks from older versions for firebird/firefox.
go to \documents and settings\user name\application data\firebird (firebird, not firefox) and just click on the folders and your bookmarks.html file will be in there.
Battery life has always been the killer on portable systems. The turboexpress had a color screen before any other portable and rivaled the systems of the time (basically a shrunk down tg16). but it was expensive and drained batteries quickly. The atari lynx had a color screen but ate batteries even worse than the game gear, and of course the game gear. all superior systems to the game boy of their respective eras and all dead within a few years.
Rumors have it that the PSP has 2-2.5 hours of game playing time. How much time with the audio turned up? How much less with 802.11b enabled? Also, it's not too portable considering its size. If the dpad and buttons areas would have folded up to protect the screen, well, it would be an improvement in portability. (I expect a check from you, sony).
The DS seems nice but looks horrible. What's up with the extremely rounded edges? The top screen that utilizes the ARM-9 chip should have used a larger screen. If I was a designing student, this would be something I would crank out the night before it was due. The buttons are tiny. Sizewise it looks to be about a little smaller than the PSP.
Overall, the DS will have backward compatibility, 100$ cheaper, no region encoding, graphics just slightly less than the PSP. No word on battery life or media type of the new format. The PSP will be able to play movies, mp3, horrid battery life, region encoding, 100$ more expensive, and slightly better graphics.
Other portables have offered to do more than the game boys of their generations and they've all failed. I think that the outcome will really depend on the DS. If the DS has a strong start and really takes advantage of the 2 screens, then I don't think we will see the PSP last long.
Hardware is something tangible. I have a video card and I can either install it, hold it in my hand and look at it, or sell it to someone else. Software is made up of bits. I can't hold (only the media), I can't see it (only when running), and I can sell it (with MS heading toward subscription style software, users won't be able to sell software that they bought to others). It's much more tangible for me to justify spending 400$ on hardware than spending 400$ on software. If computing moves to a server-centric model, then hardware for the user will be very cheap and the server will do most of the processing.
This is bad for the consumer and good for corporations. A user gets locked in to a monthly contract to use processing power (in which users will be charged how much processing power can be used, IBM can do this now), net access, and monthly subscription charges for the software. A user ends up paying some 100$ a month to use a computer in which they don't own any of the hardware or any of the software in which a 500$ computer (software including) can do the same (in which they can resell).
Wasn't networked computers supposed to be the big thing in the mid 90s? It failed miserably. Bill Gates thinks that as long computing power increases as it has that these old ideas will magically fix themselves. I'm sorry to say but the problem wasn't processing power, the entire system has inherrent faults that are too big of a problem to ignore, especially considering the alternative (a regular pc).
Am I the only one but has anyone else noticed Bill Gates's tunnel vision lately? "The Emperor has no clothes"
it's called a portable dvd player! albeit without the built in hard drive, but how long until someone decides to add a tiny hard drive to the portable dvd players? i would also imagine that some portable dvd players have mp3 decompression, if not, how much harder would it be to add that?
i went in to pep boys and they were selling 7" lcd portable dvd players for 250$ add 100$ for a portable 40 gig hd (oem price), another 150$ for R&D into adding mp3 decompression, a basic ui, and physical design. for 500$ there is something that equals this "ipod killer" AND has a built in DVD drive AND is cheaper.
isn't the biggest show of their hands that they are migrating over to ppc chips? i would think that it is very, very hard to keep compatibility by migrating to a completely different chipset.
Couldn't this tech be used to interpret the commands coming off the inferior end of the superior region of a spinal cord injury (sorry, a little confusing) and send it to the 'dead' region of the spinal cord?
If they could find a way to do this, it would also be beneficial to those who have lost limbs and the nerves would still send the signal, just that there would be a need for an artifical arm that can read this signal. I think it would be preferable to receive the commands directly from the nerve (at least for now) instead of ignoring it and going directly to the brain. Grabbing it from the nerves means that the brains has already done its work and not much (if any) of a learning curve would be necessary.
i pay 50$ a month for 1.5 down and.256 up via earthlink. i would go with another provider but for some reason no other dsl company will service my residence (im just south of denver, co). hell, even earthlink doesn't think i get dsl and they service me! well, when i put my number in their website they show that I can't get dsl... even though i pay them 50$ and am obviously using it now... sigh.
hey, i'm in the same situation as you. i have a p133mmx notebook that i use for wireless web browsing and document stuff. it only has a max of 60 megs of memory and linux w/ kde would run extremely slow. BUT i recently remembered 98lite. win98 runs somewhat quicker now but it's like squeezing blood out of a stone.... just waiting until centrino notebooks get cheaper.
I haven't read the article yet, but I don't think this will help with finding a cure for the common cold. I'm guessing that they found a string of codons that will work with the p53 protein or MapK system and inserted this string into a cold (which I think is a virus) and use it as a vector. but this is off the top of my head and might not be 100% correct, so if someone could correct me if i'm wrong, i would appreciate it.
They spend millions to create technology to hinder people from doing what they would like with what they paid for, in that process they increase the price to help pay for this technology.
Increased prices lead to decreased sales. DRM get's cracked, sales increase and companies yell that they are losing money to piracy. To offset this potential loss of money, they increase prices.
They spend millions more to create new DRM to hinder people from doing what they would like with what they had paid for. Increase the cost to offset this spending. It just continues.
anyone catch the following in the article? "'Consumers want an open system, and the electronics industry wants it too,'" [very next paragraph] "Microsoft, for instance, has opened music stores on the Internet that sell music encoded in such a way that they can only be played back with a Windows Media Player." how is this good for the consumer or even open for that matter?
did the mods read the link? No where does it say that the service will come bundled with IE. The AC doesn't link to any statements backing up what he had said... and somehow it's informative.
from the TOS: "You must have a personal computer with a modem connected to a communications source (telephone, wireless or broadband), a Windows-based operating system with an Internet browser, such as Netscape Version 6.0 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or higher, and an Internet-based e-mail software in order to access electronic communications"
Hmmm, interesting question. I thought that they might look for sequences that the genetic manipulation adds to the genome (for example, maybe treating MS would be something like AGGCTACCTG etc). But if this is the genome for a regular person, then that wouldn't work.
So you would indeed have to have the original genome to be able to notice a difference. I'm not sure, but some cells won't pick up the new genome and keep the old one because they are turned 'off' (i'm trying to make a connection between mosaicism and genome manipulation, something i'm not too comfortable with). So these turned off cells would contain the old dna and the activated ones would contain the new dna.
but i reiterate, i might be wrong since i don't know how genetic manipulation and mosaicism work together.
Why don't the companies who are in this web standards group put links to Opera and Mozilla on their homepage? Something like "Enhance your web experience with Mozilla/Opera". Don't expect MS to improve IE until they have 80% of the marketshare. C'mon, they still don't support png correctly.
I might get flamed for this, but can you blame Microsoft? I hate MS and all that but if they don't file for junk patents like this then some other company will and end up with it and suing Moneybags (errr, Microsoft). So now instead of being sued by companies who could have had this obvious bad patent, they get to avoid court and avoid paying millions of dollars (ie. Eolas). The real question is whether they will try to go after other companies.
It's been said before but the real problem is the patent system that grants patents like these in the first place.
Would this have anything to do with the lawsuit that is pending against the RIAA by an anonymous college student who was said to be a trader? Link to Slashdot Storey
What's the current statistics on their subpoena frequency? I think it's 75 a day. What is the RIAA going to gain? Sue users 7,500$ which they don't obviously have (were talking mostly college students here) who will file bankruptcy and RIAA won't collect a dime... but have to pay their lawyers 250$ an hour. Oh, and the bad puclicity to boot.
Toyota intriduced a concept last year (sorry, forgot the name) that monitors the driver. If the driver appears to be sleepy, the radio turns on loud. If the driver is sad, it plays happy songs. If the driver is drunk, it calls the police (ok, it doesn't do this last one).
It looked ugly as sin and had some funky neon lighting on it. But it was just a concept.
The Camry V6 has recently been upgraded in the Lexus line and is currently using a 3.3L V6. This engine will replace the current V6 in the camry and news is that the RX330 (with the new engine) will have a hybrid option that is supposed to give it 40-50mpg with a performance upgrade.
The US is so lawsuit happy that companies don't want to bring out their innovative products here. I guarantee that if these options became available to the US that the first person to get into an accident with this (if the fault of the car or a person) that Toyota will get sued and insurance companies will sue each other for who will take the blame.
by the way, another example of this was rearview LCD cameras. They've been in certain Japanese cars since '91 (that I know of) but didn't make their appearance here in the states until this year.
Well, they have had it for a long time. Well, OK, it was one on one video but the infrastucture was/is there. I remember back in AOL 3.0 or AOL 4.0 they had beta tests of video conferencing in the IM software... on regular AOL (which is always last in IM technologies) and not AIM.
Then it was going to go back into beta testing after a year long hiatus but the AOL-TW merger happened and it was put on ice for a little while. I'd expect some news from AOL soon;)
Did Michael even bother to read what he linked to? This "article", and I use that term loosely, reads as bad as last months Stuff magazine - like a 9 year old boy who can use MSPaint and should be on Ritalin.
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Considering that Batman is supposed to get all his technology from Wayne Enterprises top secret military projects. This looks pretty rugged and quite frankly, something that could be used by a military in nearly any type of situation.
sorry, it doesn't have neon lights and a 5 foot high fin, we all know how utilitarian that stuff is.
I keep on hearing complaints from everywhere as to why people are still playing counter-strike.
... go ahead. You won't see a further dime from me.
you want to know why i still play it? i don't have to have that damn CD in my hard drive. The last game I bought was battlefield 1942 and it's sitting here collecting dust. I was sick and tired of it spending all of its time seeking and searching for the CD. It already takes up some 1.4 gigs of space on my HD so it obviously doesn't need to retrieve any gameplay information.
Battlefield 1942 will be the last game I buy from EA. If you want to treat me like a criminal for paying 50$ for a game, then fine
Go ahead game companies. Use macrovisions latest "security" feature that end up pissing off all your paying customers (thousands and millions) so that you can delay crackers for an extra 5 minutes.
If you're going to force me to go through the troubles of using no-cd cracks, etc, why should i even bother paying for your product when i could go ahead and download a fixed (pirated) version of your broken software? It seems like I would have less problems by going the pirated route.
for some odd reason, they get the bookmarks from older versions for firebird/firefox.
go to
\documents and settings\user name\application data\firebird (firebird, not firefox) and just click on the folders and your bookmarks.html file will be in there.
this is for winxp, not sure on other os.
Battery life has always been the killer on portable systems. The turboexpress had a color screen before any other portable and rivaled the systems of the time (basically a shrunk down tg16). but it was expensive and drained batteries quickly. The atari lynx had a color screen but ate batteries even worse than the game gear, and of course the game gear. all superior systems to the game boy of their respective eras and all dead within a few years.
Rumors have it that the PSP has 2-2.5 hours of game playing time. How much time with the audio turned up? How much less with 802.11b enabled? Also, it's not too portable considering its size. If the dpad and buttons areas would have folded up to protect the screen, well, it would be an improvement in portability. (I expect a check from you, sony).
The DS seems nice but looks horrible. What's up with the extremely rounded edges? The top screen that utilizes the ARM-9 chip should have used a larger screen. If I was a designing student, this would be something I would crank out the night before it was due. The buttons are tiny. Sizewise it looks to be about a little smaller than the PSP.
Overall, the DS will have backward compatibility, 100$ cheaper, no region encoding, graphics just slightly less than the PSP. No word on battery life or media type of the new format.
The PSP will be able to play movies, mp3, horrid battery life, region encoding, 100$ more expensive, and slightly better graphics.
Other portables have offered to do more than the game boys of their generations and they've all failed. I think that the outcome will really depend on the DS. If the DS has a strong start and really takes advantage of the 2 screens, then I don't think we will see the PSP last long.
nah, it's a gmail.com address that will never need to be changed.
... and why it won't work or shouldn't work.
Hardware is something tangible. I have a video card and I can either install it, hold it in my hand and look at it, or sell it to someone else. Software is made up of bits. I can't hold (only the media), I can't see it (only when running), and I can sell it (with MS heading toward subscription style software, users won't be able to sell software that they bought to others). It's much more tangible for me to justify spending 400$ on hardware than spending 400$ on software. If computing moves to a server-centric model, then hardware for the user will be very cheap and the server will do most of the processing.
This is bad for the consumer and good for corporations. A user gets locked in to a monthly contract to use processing power (in which users will be charged how much processing power can be used, IBM can do this now), net access, and monthly subscription charges for the software. A user ends up paying some 100$ a month to use a computer in which they don't own any of the hardware or any of the software in which a 500$ computer (software including) can do the same (in which they can resell).
Wasn't networked computers supposed to be the big thing in the mid 90s? It failed miserably. Bill Gates thinks that as long computing power increases as it has that these old ideas will magically fix themselves. I'm sorry to say but the problem wasn't processing power, the entire system has inherrent faults that are too big of a problem to ignore, especially considering the alternative (a regular pc).
Am I the only one but has anyone else noticed Bill Gates's tunnel vision lately? "The Emperor has no clothes"
it's called a portable dvd player! albeit without the built in hard drive, but how long until someone decides to add a tiny hard drive to the portable dvd players? i would also imagine that some portable dvd players have mp3 decompression, if not, how much harder would it be to add that?
i went in to pep boys and they were selling 7" lcd portable dvd players for 250$ add 100$ for a portable 40 gig hd (oem price), another 150$ for R&D into adding mp3 decompression, a basic ui, and physical design. for 500$ there is something that equals this "ipod killer" AND has a built in DVD drive AND is cheaper.
I knew it, that damn John Titor is behind this!
isn't the biggest show of their hands that they are migrating over to ppc chips? i would think that it is very, very hard to keep compatibility by migrating to a completely different chipset.
xbox2 will not be backwards compatible with xbox1
Couldn't this tech be used to interpret the commands coming off the inferior end of the superior region of a spinal cord injury (sorry, a little confusing) and send it to the 'dead' region of the spinal cord?
If they could find a way to do this, it would also be beneficial to those who have lost limbs and the nerves would still send the signal, just that there would be a need for an artifical arm that can read this signal. I think it would be preferable to receive the commands directly from the nerve (at least for now) instead of ignoring it and going directly to the brain. Grabbing it from the nerves means that the brains has already done its work and not much (if any) of a learning curve would be necessary.
i pay 50$ a month for 1.5 down and .256 up via earthlink. i would go with another provider but for some reason no other dsl company will service my residence (im just south of denver, co). hell, even earthlink doesn't think i get dsl and they service me! well, when i put my number in their website they show that I can't get dsl... even though i pay them 50$ and am obviously using it now... sigh.
hey, i'm in the same situation as you. i have a p133mmx notebook that i use for wireless web browsing and document stuff. it only has a max of 60 megs of memory and linux w/ kde would run extremely slow. BUT i recently remembered 98lite. win98 runs somewhat quicker now but it's like squeezing blood out of a stone. ... just waiting until centrino notebooks get cheaper.
I haven't read the article yet, but I don't think this will help with finding a cure for the common cold. I'm guessing that they found a string of codons that will work with the p53 protein or MapK system and inserted this string into a cold (which I think is a virus) and use it as a vector. but this is off the top of my head and might not be 100% correct, so if someone could correct me if i'm wrong, i would appreciate it.
They spend millions to create technology to hinder people from doing what they would like with what they paid for, in that process they increase the price to help pay for this technology.
Increased prices lead to decreased sales. DRM get's cracked, sales increase and companies yell that they are losing money to piracy. To offset this potential loss of money, they increase prices.
They spend millions more to create new DRM to hinder people from doing what they would like with what they had paid for. Increase the cost to offset this spending.
It just continues.
anyone catch the following in the article?
"'Consumers want an open system, and the electronics industry wants it too,'"
[very next paragraph]
"Microsoft, for instance, has opened music stores on the Internet that sell music encoded in such a way that they can only be played back with a Windows Media Player."
how is this good for the consumer or even open for that matter?
did the mods read the link? No where does it say that the service will come bundled with IE. The AC doesn't link to any statements backing up what he had said... and somehow it's informative.
from the TOS:
"You must have a personal computer with a modem connected to a communications source (telephone, wireless or broadband), a Windows-based operating system with an Internet browser, such as Netscape Version 6.0 or higher or Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or higher, and an Internet-based e-mail software in order to access electronic communications"
most of the dangers to motorcycle riders isn't them getting distracted themselves but by people in cars not paying attention.
Hmmm, interesting question. I thought that they might look for sequences that the genetic manipulation adds to the genome (for example, maybe treating MS would be something like AGGCTACCTG etc). But if this is the genome for a regular person, then that wouldn't work.
So you would indeed have to have the original genome to be able to notice a difference. I'm not sure, but some cells won't pick up the new genome and keep the old one because they are turned 'off' (i'm trying to make a connection between mosaicism and genome manipulation, something i'm not too comfortable with). So these turned off cells would contain the old dna and the activated ones would contain the new dna.
but i reiterate, i might be wrong since i don't know how genetic manipulation and mosaicism work together.
Why don't the companies who are in this web standards group put links to Opera and Mozilla on their homepage? Something like "Enhance your web experience with Mozilla/Opera". Don't expect MS to improve IE until they have 80% of the marketshare. C'mon, they still don't support png correctly.
I might get flamed for this, but can you blame Microsoft? I hate MS and all that but if they don't file for junk patents like this then some other company will and end up with it and suing Moneybags (errr, Microsoft). So now instead of being sued by companies who could have had this obvious bad patent, they get to avoid court and avoid paying millions of dollars (ie. Eolas). The real question is whether they will try to go after other companies.
It's been said before but the real problem is the patent system that grants patents like these in the first place.
Would this have anything to do with the lawsuit that is pending against the RIAA by an anonymous college student who was said to be a trader? Link to Slashdot Storey
What's the current statistics on their subpoena frequency? I think it's 75 a day. What is the RIAA going to gain? Sue users 7,500$ which they don't obviously have (were talking mostly college students here) who will file bankruptcy and RIAA won't collect a dime... but have to pay their lawyers 250$ an hour. Oh, and the bad puclicity to boot.
Toyota intriduced a concept last year (sorry, forgot the name) that monitors the driver. If the driver appears to be sleepy, the radio turns on loud. If the driver is sad, it plays happy songs. If the driver is drunk, it calls the police (ok, it doesn't do this last one).
It looked ugly as sin and had some funky neon lighting on it. But it was just a concept.
The Camry V6 has recently been upgraded in the Lexus line and is currently using a 3.3L V6. This engine will replace the current V6 in the camry and news is that the RX330 (with the new engine) will have a hybrid option that is supposed to give it 40-50mpg with a performance upgrade.
The US is so lawsuit happy that companies don't want to bring out their innovative products here. I guarantee that if these options became available to the US that the first person to get into an accident with this (if the fault of the car or a person) that Toyota will get sued and insurance companies will sue each other for who will take the blame.
by the way, another example of this was rearview LCD cameras. They've been in certain Japanese cars since '91 (that I know of) but didn't make their appearance here in the states until this year.
Well, they have had it for a long time. Well, OK, it was one on one video but the infrastucture was/is there. I remember back in AOL 3.0 or AOL 4.0 they had beta tests of video conferencing in the IM software... on regular AOL (which is always last in IM technologies) and not AIM.
;)
Then it was going to go back into beta testing after a year long hiatus but the AOL-TW merger happened and it was put on ice for a little while. I'd expect some news from AOL soon
Did Michael even bother to read what he linked to? This "article", and I use that term loosely, reads as bad as last months Stuff magazine - like a 9 year old boy who can use MSPaint and should be on Ritalin.
There is nothing "thoughtful" about this article.