If you had a 10,000 psi hydrogen tank in your car and had an accident where the tank was hit and ruptured there would be such an energy release it would make a Pinto look like a Sherman tank.
For comparison, a tank of oxygen for welding is at 2000 psi and if you knock the top off of it the thing shoots off like an unguided missile, detroying anything in its path.
I don't think I would want one of those tanks in my car!
The "PCI Style" connector on the tivo is not a PCI connector electrically, just physically. Electrically it is closer to ISA. The bus adapter that is sold on 9thtee.com plugs onto this connector and provides one ISA slot. You can then plug in an ISA ethernet card (or whatever else as long as it doesn't require DMA) and install the linux driver for it.
BTW the hackers have got it to the point where you don't need to know anything about linux to hook up the ethernet to the TiVo. The rest of it still requires a bit of work.
I bought an "upgrade" for my Delorme Street Map USA a while back and in the previous version they has a feature that you could install some software of theirs onto a palm pilot and hook the Palm up to their GPS and get position and speed readings on the Palm Pilot. In the "upgrade" they took this feature out and made you pay an extra $40 for it. That pissed me off so much I will never buy another Delorme product again. I suggest the rest of you don't either!
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I have seen them on alot of phones in Japan. Motorola also has a phone out now the appearantly uses an OLED screen. BTW the screens are beautiful . A tiny little screen slightly larger than a postage stamp, yet very bright and easy to read.
"...an attentive user interface that detects a person's eyeballs and responds to blinking commands to turn on/off the lights and doors of the car."
I can just see it now:
It dark out, you get something in your eye and
blink like crazy. The vehicle starts flashing the lights, causing you to blink even more from the blinding flashes of light!
Can anyone tell me why it is so difficult to find a screenshot of Mozilla on their site http://www.mozilla.org ?
I did a google search and came up with a few old screenshots and the GUI looks BUTT UGLY. They must have done better since then.
You have to wear a bulky helmet to use this thing? Until they can get the size of this device down, noone except the most extreme geeks will use it. People won't even wear bicycle or motorcycle helmets now to save their lives. Why would they wear them to watch TV?
Actually people do have receptors for ultraviolet light, but our corneas filter out all of this light. Some people have had their corneas removed or replaced with an artifical one can see UV light. In fact the military used these people for signalling each other with UV light signaling devices since they were the only ones that could see the UV light
You are right it is not new. I saw a demo about 6 years ago by the CRC (Canadian Research Council) where they had developed a 3-D laser scanner using a white light laser they could produce a full color single pass scan a VERY high resolution. They showed a scan of someone's thumbprint and it was like more detailed and more realistic than a photo - it blew me away back then.
Linux seems to be gaining ground in the server arena and seems well suited to that task because of its stability, security and open-sourced nature. If any expert administrator needs to tweak the OS, they can.
However, on the desktop front, Linux seems to be adopted only by "geeks". Some people think this is by the lack of ease of use, lack of ease of installation, and lack of applications.
What do you think is main cause that more people don't adopt Linux as their desktop OS?
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For comparison, a tank of oxygen for welding is at 2000 psi and if you knock the top off of it the thing shoots off like an unguided missile, detroying anything in its path.
I don't think I would want one of those tanks in my car!
Check out the picture at this article at Yahoo.
BTW the hackers have got it to the point where you don't need to know anything about linux to hook up the ethernet to the TiVo. The rest of it still requires a bit of work.
I bought an "upgrade" for my Delorme Street Map USA a while back and in the previous version they has a feature that you could install some software of theirs onto a palm pilot and hook the Palm up to their GPS and get position and speed readings on the Palm Pilot. In the "upgrade" they took this feature out and made you pay an extra $40 for it. That pissed me off so much I will never buy another Delorme product again. I suggest the rest of you don't either!
Those articles you mentioned are for LEDs not OLEDs which are a bit different.
Now! I have seen them on alot of phones in Japan. Motorola also has a phone out now the appearantly uses an OLED screen. BTW the screens are beautiful . A tiny little screen slightly larger than a postage stamp, yet very bright and easy to read.
I can just see it now: It dark out, you get something in your eye and blink like crazy. The vehicle starts flashing the lights, causing you to blink even more from the blinding flashes of light!
Can anyone tell me why it is so difficult to find a screenshot of Mozilla on their site http://www.mozilla.org ? I did a google search and came up with a few old screenshots and the GUI looks BUTT UGLY. They must have done better since then.
You have to wear a bulky helmet to use this thing? Until they can get the size of this device down, noone except the most extreme geeks will use it. People won't even wear bicycle or motorcycle helmets now to save their lives. Why would they wear them to watch TV?
Here it is: http://www.mckinneyisd.net/
Actually people do have receptors for ultraviolet light, but our corneas filter out all of this light. Some people have had their corneas removed or replaced with an artifical one can see UV light. In fact the military used these people for signalling each other with UV light signaling devices since they were the only ones that could see the UV light
You are right it is not new. I saw a demo about 6 years ago by the CRC (Canadian Research Council) where they had developed a 3-D laser scanner using a white light laser they could produce a full color single pass scan a VERY high resolution. They showed a scan of someone's thumbprint and it was like more detailed and more realistic than a photo - it blew me away back then.
If that is the case then Slashdot should be receiving a cease and desist order soon too, because the story itself has the blue apple logo on it.
This kind of stuff makes me sick
However, on the desktop front, Linux seems to be adopted only by "geeks". Some people think this is by the lack of ease of use, lack of ease of installation, and lack of applications.
What do you think is main cause that more people don't adopt Linux as their desktop OS?