I was thinking the same thing... lol
I had something of an idea though, maybe not as elegant but might work for people who like come click on the keys.
What if it worked like a normal keyboard but after the key hit "bottom" you could push just a little harder and it would go a little further turning into a pressure sensitive key?
I am sure the mechanics of such a device would be hard to build and also not cheap and probably break after a while but the idea sounds cool to me:)
I wonder how long before some one emulates the Sony download servers on a PC ?
I imagine they have some pretty heavy encryption somewhere along the lines but thats all part of the game.
"If they don't, I quite like the idea of tech support telling people to blow into the back of their computer, "yes, really sir, get down the back of it, find the little optical hole and just blow into it. no I'm not playing a tech-support prank on you."
I can imagine some one from India "Please sir what I would like you to do is blow your computer".... The visual of that is awesome "Please hold while I blow my computer....."
Makes me remember the days of the NES I swore that was the last bit of electronics I would ever blow... lol
It will probably be a fairly good tech to be honest I just worry about dust, I live in Florida so dust is huge issue here (I think its from people running AC like 9 months out of the year) so keeping things clean is a job in its own right. I have to clean my machine at least 4 times a year by literally unhooking everything and using my canister vac on it if I do not my graphics card crashes during games and things just get nasty.
Upon reading your comment a thought occurs to me, the cable might be tough and last a while but what about the port ? I plug and unplug things into the front USB ports on my machine at least 2-3 times a day. I am sure they have some sort of solution in mind that accounts for dirt and dust covering the optical portion of the connection right? If not then I feel sorry for tech support people... "Hello thank you for calling Dell... *skip ahead 120 seconds* yes please reinstall your operating system this should solve any issues you are experiencing" The customer doing that invariably gets angry because they just lost all there pictures of little Johny at the baseball game AND the issue is not fixed. Perhaps these ports are only for internal connections or networking? We can only hope.
To be honest I never quite understood why USB was not just plug in either way and just use some sort of auto negotiate to figure out what pins do what.
So there would have been no guessing:(
Oh well maybe lesson learned?
I learned about some history today.
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I like love to read stuff like this, although I have heard of Elite before I did not read up on it much.
Truly a ground breaker by any measure of the word.
Any day I can learn something new is a good day:)
I myself was wondering this.
I mean maybe he started to work on some projects then deleted them. The data might still be there!
I doubt he wrote very much on it but it is possible to find something of value.
They have that covered too but it cost a bit more... http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13233
I like the description "- Bus and vehicles (imagine how you can finally have a good undisturbed nap)"
I can sleep soundly knowing my phone does not work? or sleep better due to knowing I am not being tracked?
Either way its funny the lengths people will go to have or take away some ones privacy lol
I guess if its too much of a problem you could buy one of these things....
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8758
at a little under 27 USD with no taxes and no shipping I imagine its cheaper then the tracking device.
I like this for ad blocking, no software to run and it works great.
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
The hosts file they have is amazing in the amount of crap it filters and by crap I do not just mean advertisements also it blocks out real garbage.
Its even worth the effort of forcing it down vista's throat.
true also its a pain to surf while some torrent is sucking up all your bandwidth.... reminds me of being back on dial up.
Of course some of the better P2P aps self throttle while you surf.
I want a new Road Rash game !!!! I played them all from the Genesis to the Playstation and loved them all !!!
(I wouldnt mind picking up a copy of the Playstation one to play on my PS3...)
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I would fire a head hunter the first time I found one of those little shrunken heads on my desk... I mean honestly that stuff gives me the creeps!!!
I was thinking the same thing... lol I had something of an idea though, maybe not as elegant but might work for people who like come click on the keys. What if it worked like a normal keyboard but after the key hit "bottom" you could push just a little harder and it would go a little further turning into a pressure sensitive key? I am sure the mechanics of such a device would be hard to build and also not cheap and probably break after a while but the idea sounds cool to me :)
I wonder how long before some one emulates the Sony download servers on a PC ? I imagine they have some pretty heavy encryption somewhere along the lines but thats all part of the game.
"If they don't, I quite like the idea of tech support telling people to blow into the back of their computer, "yes, really sir, get down the back of it, find the little optical hole and just blow into it. no I'm not playing a tech-support prank on you." I can imagine some one from India "Please sir what I would like you to do is blow your computer".... The visual of that is awesome "Please hold while I blow my computer....." Makes me remember the days of the NES I swore that was the last bit of electronics I would ever blow... lol It will probably be a fairly good tech to be honest I just worry about dust, I live in Florida so dust is huge issue here (I think its from people running AC like 9 months out of the year) so keeping things clean is a job in its own right. I have to clean my machine at least 4 times a year by literally unhooking everything and using my canister vac on it if I do not my graphics card crashes during games and things just get nasty.
Upon reading your comment a thought occurs to me, the cable might be tough and last a while but what about the port ? I plug and unplug things into the front USB ports on my machine at least 2-3 times a day. I am sure they have some sort of solution in mind that accounts for dirt and dust covering the optical portion of the connection right? If not then I feel sorry for tech support people... "Hello thank you for calling Dell... *skip ahead 120 seconds* yes please reinstall your operating system this should solve any issues you are experiencing" The customer doing that invariably gets angry because they just lost all there pictures of little Johny at the baseball game AND the issue is not fixed. Perhaps these ports are only for internal connections or networking? We can only hope.
To be honest I never quite understood why USB was not just plug in either way and just use some sort of auto negotiate to figure out what pins do what. So there would have been no guessing :(
Oh well maybe lesson learned?
I like love to read stuff like this, although I have heard of Elite before I did not read up on it much. Truly a ground breaker by any measure of the word. Any day I can learn something new is a good day :)
I myself was wondering this. I mean maybe he started to work on some projects then deleted them. The data might still be there! I doubt he wrote very much on it but it is possible to find something of value.
They have that covered too but it cost a bit more... http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13233 I like the description "- Bus and vehicles (imagine how you can finally have a good undisturbed nap)" I can sleep soundly knowing my phone does not work? or sleep better due to knowing I am not being tracked? Either way its funny the lengths people will go to have or take away some ones privacy lol
I guess if its too much of a problem you could buy one of these things.... http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8758 at a little under 27 USD with no taxes and no shipping I imagine its cheaper then the tracking device.
ROTFLMAO Honestly ???? The Onion ???? You have got to be kidding me....
I like this for ad blocking, no software to run and it works great. http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm The hosts file they have is amazing in the amount of crap it filters and by crap I do not just mean advertisements also it blocks out real garbage. Its even worth the effort of forcing it down vista's throat.
true also its a pain to surf while some torrent is sucking up all your bandwidth.... reminds me of being back on dial up. Of course some of the better P2P aps self throttle while you surf.
I want a new Road Rash game !!!! I played them all from the Genesis to the Playstation and loved them all !!! (I wouldnt mind picking up a copy of the Playstation one to play on my PS3...)