ManyBooks.net will also format texts for the Apple Newton, which actually makes a pretty darned good book reader. I read an awful lot of stuff on my Messagepad 2100 before I got my Bookeen CyBook v3.
Er, I have a much smaller e-ink reader and I can zoom into and scroll around PDFs just fine. It's not the most convenient thing in the world but given that most the non-reflowable PDFs I have are two or three columns of text, it's not much different than changing a page - I'm just pressing a different direction on the d-pad.
I'm not particularly fond of Garfield, but Davis has said he freely repeats jokes because he gets a new audience every seven to ten years. Kids love it.
He's also said in an interview that he thinks Garfield Minus Garfield is really funny.
Me, I still can't wrap my mind around Jon actually dating Liz.
I work for a home security company. While we do offer an IP-based connection, it's simply not as reliable as a plain old telephone line.
With a telephone line, the only thing that knocks out alarm communication generally is: a) the alarm breaks down (not common, but it happens - any equipment can break!) or b) something happens to the wire in the customer's home - they remodeled and cut it, they changed telephone companies and the new one didn't wire up the alarm, etc. And plain landlines do go down now and then, but it's pretty rare.
With an IP connection: You have those same issues (alarm problem, wiring in the home from the alarm to the IP device damaged, telephone/internet goes out - and most internet services go out a LOT more often than plain old telephone) plus things like someone on the house LAN is saturating the bandwidth with their torrents and slowing the alarm signal, the customer gets a new router and doesn't plug things in right, the router or cable/DSL modem itself gets compromised, and so on.
Most alarm companies offer a wireless connection - either cellular or digital radio. I'd pick that over IP monitoring, though it costs more. (Ideally, if you're really worried, get a wireless system as backup to a landline connection. But that's usually more than most home customers want to pay. Lots of businesses do it, though.)
Unless you live on the north side of a mountain. Or a bunch of trees. Or it sometimes rains. Or if you live somewhere there are gnats, and they might fart in the general direction of the dish. And you don't do anything interactive while the connection IS working, with speed-of-light ping delays.
Have you ever actually _used_ satellite internet service?
I'll grant that at the top plan, you can get 'up to' 5 gigabit service for $350 a month, but you can burn through your daily quota in *thirteen minutes*.
The reason most of the netbook companies have cut back on Linux models is simple:
People weren't buying them.
At the local Best Buy, when they still carried Linux models the Windows versions were almost always sold out and there were always a few Linux models on the shelf.
And now they don't stock any Linux models at all.
From a retailer or manufacturer's point of view it doesn't really matter how good something is if no one's buying it.
My Brother HL4040CDN color duplexing laser was only $224 shipped - not a lot more than a color inkjet and a couple of ink refills. Factor in how much cheaper toner is per page, and that toner doesn't dry out sitting there if you don't print, and in a few years I come out ahead. Plus the Brother prints both sides without fiddling with flipping paper around, which is a plus. Inkjet prints can be more vibrant than color laser, but frankly the laser's 'good enough'.
Unfortunatly the HL4040 series aren't PostScript compatible.
On the other hand, when I wanted to update my SCSI card 20 years ago there wasn't a firmware flasher - I had to buy a new chip, pull the old one off the card, and socket the new one in place. (The reason for the update? To add 'Seagate Mode' because Seagate drives didn't all spin up properly and without the new chip, the machine wouldn't boot off some Seagate drives.)
While things should certainly work right in the first place, being able to update them via software is a godsend.
Run Magazine printed an article about LucasArts' Habitat (which was commercialized as Club Caribe on QuantumLink - think Second Life for the Commodore 64) that referred to your user-created graphical persona as an avatar.
In 1986.
Reference: http://thefarmers.org/Habitat/2004/09/the_avatar_is_legal_voting_age.html
How much of that is due to difficulty in writing a good AI for a fullback and how much is due to EA not needing to write a good AI for a fullback because there aren't any other football games left to compare it to?
Are the H.264 decoders for Intel chips as bad as the H.264 *en*coders are for PowerPC, then? I just tried to watch a 1080p movie trailer on my dual 1.8 Ghz G5, and while it certainly dropped frames, it looks like a dual 2.5 Ghz PowerMac (and certainly the quad-core version) would probably play it alright.
This was playing it in Quicktime. In VLC it just flat-out didn't work (I got 5+ seconds of still image between partial frame updates!)
RealPlayer managed it about the same as Quicktime.
Of course, that's *if* the CPU is the problem.
However, neither Quicktime nor RealPlayer redlined my CPU; I still had about 15% idle on each chip. I suspect the video card may have more do to with the skipped frames than raw CPU. (Even fullscreen 1920 x 1200 iTunes visualizer playback is choppy.) I'm running two screens of the original GeForce 5200 64 meg card.
If you want something like Marble Madness, try Mercury Meltdown Revolution for the Wii.
Or the rolling-ball game that came with my Mac. (I forget what it was called. The Mac it came with didn't actually have enough RAM to run the thing!)
Or Super Monkey Ball.
And there are plenty of puzzle games that aren't Bejeweled clones. Boom Blox, for instance.
Every scrolling shooter I've played HAS been 2D; sometimes they have rather fancy 3D graphics, but they playfield is still 2D. Granted, I'm not an obsessive fan of the genre so I don't hunt them down, but Under Defeat was fantastic.
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ManyBooks.net will also format texts for the Apple Newton, which actually makes a pretty darned good book reader. I read an awful lot of stuff on my Messagepad 2100 before I got my Bookeen CyBook v3.
Er, I have a much smaller e-ink reader and I can zoom into and scroll around PDFs just fine. It's not the most convenient thing in the world but given that most the non-reflowable PDFs I have are two or three columns of text, it's not much different than changing a page - I'm just pressing a different direction on the d-pad.
I'm not particularly fond of Garfield, but Davis has said he freely repeats jokes because he gets a new audience every seven to ten years. Kids love it.
He's also said in an interview that he thinks Garfield Minus Garfield is really funny.
Me, I still can't wrap my mind around Jon actually dating Liz.
The vast majority of computer users aren't aware that 'PC' does not mean 'x86/x64 based architecture running Microsoft Windows'.
Trying to cram too much information into a 15 or 30 second spot is just asking for fail. Commercials (for anything) need to be kept simple.
I work for a home security company. While we do offer an IP-based connection, it's simply not as reliable as a plain old telephone line.
With a telephone line, the only thing that knocks out alarm communication generally is: a) the alarm breaks down (not common, but it happens - any equipment can break!) or b) something happens to the wire in the customer's home - they remodeled and cut it, they changed telephone companies and the new one didn't wire up the alarm, etc. And plain landlines do go down now and then, but it's pretty rare.
With an IP connection: You have those same issues (alarm problem, wiring in the home from the alarm to the IP device damaged, telephone/internet goes out - and most internet services go out a LOT more often than plain old telephone) plus things like someone on the house LAN is saturating the bandwidth with their torrents and slowing the alarm signal, the customer gets a new router and doesn't plug things in right, the router or cable/DSL modem itself gets compromised, and so on.
Most alarm companies offer a wireless connection - either cellular or digital radio. I'd pick that over IP monitoring, though it costs more. (Ideally, if you're really worried, get a wireless system as backup to a landline connection. But that's usually more than most home customers want to pay. Lots of businesses do it, though.)
Unless you live on the north side of a mountain.
Or a bunch of trees.
Or it sometimes rains.
Or if you live somewhere there are gnats, and they might fart in the general direction of the dish.
And you don't do anything interactive while the connection IS working, with speed-of-light ping delays.
Have you ever actually _used_ satellite internet service?
I'll grant that at the top plan, you can get 'up to' 5 gigabit service for $350 a month, but you can burn through your daily quota in *thirteen minutes*.
Then it gets throttled to dialup speed.
The reason most of the netbook companies have cut back on Linux models is simple:
People weren't buying them.
At the local Best Buy, when they still carried Linux models the Windows versions were almost always sold out and there were always a few Linux models on the shelf.
And now they don't stock any Linux models at all.
From a retailer or manufacturer's point of view it doesn't really matter how good something is if no one's buying it.
My Brother HL4040CDN color duplexing laser was only $224 shipped - not a lot more than a color inkjet and a couple of ink refills. Factor in how much cheaper toner is per page, and that toner doesn't dry out sitting there if you don't print, and in a few years I come out ahead. Plus the Brother prints both sides without fiddling with flipping paper around, which is a plus. Inkjet prints can be more vibrant than color laser, but frankly the laser's 'good enough'.
Unfortunatly the HL4040 series aren't PostScript compatible.
On the other hand, when I wanted to update my SCSI card 20 years ago there wasn't a firmware flasher - I had to buy a new chip, pull the old one off the card, and socket the new one in place. (The reason for the update? To add 'Seagate Mode' because Seagate drives didn't all spin up properly and without the new chip, the machine wouldn't boot off some Seagate drives.)
While things should certainly work right in the first place, being able to update them via software is a godsend.
Because that requires having a body that isn't broken.
Run Magazine printed an article about LucasArts' Habitat (which was commercialized as Club Caribe on QuantumLink - think Second Life for the Commodore 64) that referred to your user-created graphical persona as an avatar. In 1986. Reference: http://thefarmers.org/Habitat/2004/09/the_avatar_is_legal_voting_age.html
How much of that is due to difficulty in writing a good AI for a fullback and how much is due to EA not needing to write a good AI for a fullback because there aren't any other football games left to compare it to?
When you have a license monopoly, why try?
Are the H.264 decoders for Intel chips as bad as the H.264 *en*coders are for PowerPC, then? I just tried to watch a 1080p movie trailer on my dual 1.8 Ghz G5, and while it certainly dropped frames, it looks like a dual 2.5 Ghz PowerMac (and certainly the quad-core version) would probably play it alright.
This was playing it in Quicktime. In VLC it just flat-out didn't work (I got 5+ seconds of still image between partial frame updates!)
RealPlayer managed it about the same as Quicktime.
Of course, that's *if* the CPU is the problem.
However, neither Quicktime nor RealPlayer redlined my CPU; I still had about 15% idle on each chip. I suspect the video card may have more do to with the skipped frames than raw CPU. (Even fullscreen 1920 x 1200 iTunes visualizer playback is choppy.) I'm running two screens of the original GeForce 5200 64 meg card.
Except that Xbox 360s will only stream Netflix if you have a pay-per-month Xbox Live account.
On top of your Netflix subscription.
They sell standalone Netflix streaming boxes for about $100. With no extra monthly fee.
If you want something like Marble Madness, try Mercury Meltdown Revolution for the Wii.
Or the rolling-ball game that came with my Mac. (I forget what it was called. The Mac it came with didn't actually have enough RAM to run the thing!)
Or Super Monkey Ball.
And there are plenty of puzzle games that aren't Bejeweled clones. Boom Blox, for instance.
Every scrolling shooter I've played HAS been 2D; sometimes they have rather fancy 3D graphics, but they playfield is still 2D. Granted, I'm not an obsessive fan of the genre so I don't hunt them down, but Under Defeat was fantastic.
And some of us just have no place else to shop if we need to go to an actual store instead of ordering online.
Since CompUSA closed down, the nearest 'computer store' to me is a four hour drive. Each way.
(Uphill. In the snow! And we liked it!)
Erm, this is already the case for shotgun shells. Lead poisoning in waterfowl led to the banning of lead-based shotgun pellets.
>> Uninstalling Garage Band? Just delete the folder. No uninstaller application needed.
Doing that will leave about two gigs of sound samples on your hard drive.
Garage Band puts its samples somewhere in the Library.