Why not brew your own? Nobody made a pineapple-habenero beer, so I made my own in a 5 gallon igloo cooler for about $12. Bottle in real beer bottles, or just recycle 2L soda bottles if you're not feeling too fancy.
Look in to the history of chocolate. It was Mr. Nestle himself that invented powdered milk. That's where the name - Nestle - came from. Of fucking course it's made with powdered milk. The whole point of using powdered milk is that it allows you to control the moisture content more closely - creating a more even product. Using fresh milk - and calling it quality as a result - is a pure marketing gimmick.
So what happens if say, I leave my passport in the microwave, or decide to use it as an impact mat when flattening bottle caps with a hammer - and miss, hitting (disabling) the RFID chip? Am I arrested for destruction of a federal document? The paper's there, the chip just doesn't work.
I don't know about you, but all my RFID devices keep getting accidentally microwaved or damaged from blunt trauma...
I have a great B&W laser printer with a toner cartridge that works great for 99% of what I need to do, which lasts about a year or more between replacements. If I absolutely positively have to print color, I email it to Office Depot's printing center for $0.52 a copy. Pictures get printed at my local Wally World for $0.23 a print. At least I don't have to worry about wasting ink, resetting the color settings to B&W from color, crazy printer drivers that may or may not work, etc etc etc.
Considering the fact that Steve Jobs demoed the Nano by pullint it out of his jeans pocket, you'd think that it would be designed to witstand use in a pair of jeans. I'd almost say that it's false advertising to sell a product that is advertised being in a jeans pocket that can't stand being in a jeans pocket for more than a month.
Or in Mac OS X, go to System Preferences, click on the Security button that looks like a house with a padlock dial on it, then click the button that says Turn on FileVault. It'll take probably an hour to encrypt your hard drive in 128 bit encryption depending on computer speed and hard drive size, leaving you with a transparent encrypted directory.
The PSP is also marketed to the 10+ million people in NYC who take the subway every day, about 40 minutes round trip unless you live on the actual island of Manhattan. Plus the additional 10+ million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and 20+ million people in London and Paris, and other major european cities with mass transit.
You thought people just bought iPods to look cool? Take a look on a NYC subway between the hours of 6:30am and 9am M-F; even the poor people have iPod shuffles. People need something to do durring their commute, and talking sure as hell isn't one of them. If 40+ million people isn't a big enough global market, you're either dealing drugs, or crude oil (or both).
Sony has released a utility to shrink DVD movies to mp4 format for playing on your memory stick.
3" DVDs wouldn't work in 98% of the players out there. UMD is an ISO registered format, and down the road it should replace the MiniDisc (MD) player. UMD burners will hit the market eventually. I wouldn't be suprised if there's a sort of PSP UMD attachment down the road for the PS3 the same way there's a GBA attachment for the gamecube.
If you're going to be dissapointed in Sony for something, it should be either a) not including a UMD copy of the movie in the delux edition of DVDs, or b) not implimenting bluray technology. As it stands, the PSP is very versitile.
While EA has it's fingers in a lot of different pies (genres), EA has had control of the Madden football franchise for the last 15+ years, a title that has consistently been in the top three titles for all systems for as long as anybody can remember. Unless John Madden starts raping and eating small children and ruins the franchise's name, they'll continue to have the income to support the "risk" of investing in R&D.
Does EA indulge in unfair/unethical buisness practices? Yes. Are they the 800 lb gorilla of the console game world? Yes. But at least it's nice to see companies pouring cash in to their R&D, unlike traditional R&D companies like HP who have all but given up on developing new technologies. I'd love to see EA take advantage of the next-gen consoles, and give us what we've always wanted - truly photo (video?) realistic sports games, and efficent use of the paralell processing that these games will be so heavily dependant upon in the comming decade.
The biggest by far problem, however, is reading a LCD in natural light. Computers, and their users, were not meant for use in natural light. You couldn't read a damn thing on your LCD out there.
adium for OS X already has thie capability; highlight a word or phrase, right click, select "search in google". There's also a "search in spotlight", which could be handy for searching contacts and calander events.
A company called alpine makes one for about $500 (the 1300 model). This is the same technology that wal*mart and wolf/ritz camera and all the internet printing places uses. Here are some links:
How do you access this developer mode? The article tells how great debug mode can be, but nowhere does it list how it's accessed. Anyone want to let me (us) in on the secret for some easy karma whoring?
The Nintendo Famicom was produced from 1983-2003. Yes, 20 years.
As I understand it, the Sega Master system is still in production and still very popular in Brazil (As the Sega Master System III, but it's still the same basic hardware) - from 1987-2005 (and beyond).
There are a lot of young (mid-late 30's) parents with 12-15 year olds who are purchasing a new (not hand me down) console for their kids for the first time. It's a big selling point to them that the youngest or middle kid (johnny) can have the PS2 in his room, while all the kids can share the PS3 in the living room, and when Johnny's big brother's out of the house, Johnny can play gran turismo 4 on the big screen downstairs on the PS3, or that Johnny's big brother can play all his old hand me down PS1 and 2 games on his PS3 without having to borrow Johnny's PS2. Also PS2 games will all fall in to the $15-30 range by the time the PS3 comes out, meaning Johnny's parents can buy both Johnny and his big brother(s) a new game each for christmas, rather than making them split the PS3 in to a time share so they can play gran turismo 5 or whatever the favorite game is on the PS3 at the time.
If we're lucky, the PS3 will have a unified service similar to Xbox live. Or at least require all games to support some sort of online play, if nothing more than a chat application. Hell, maybe they'll take the que from the Nintendo DS and include built in chat support, say, AIM, MSN and Yahoo. We've already got a browser on the PSP...
my experience at E|B games has been that dvds cost $17 where UMD's cost $22. Maybe if you could buy the DVD with UMD bundled in the same package for $22, it'd be worth it (and make for an interesting UMD market on ebay), since you'd have two formats of the same movie.
There's lots of stuff out there. I remember downloading 45 minute radio stories from the 30's and 40's as 10-15MB files in mp3 format @ a bitrate between 20-56 or so.
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Why not brew your own? Nobody made a pineapple-habenero beer, so I made my own in a 5 gallon igloo cooler for about $12. Bottle in real beer bottles, or just recycle 2L soda bottles if you're not feeling too fancy.
Look in to the history of chocolate. It was Mr. Nestle himself that invented powdered milk. That's where the name - Nestle - came from. Of fucking course it's made with powdered milk. The whole point of using powdered milk is that it allows you to control the moisture content more closely - creating a more even product. Using fresh milk - and calling it quality as a result - is a pure marketing gimmick.
So what happens if say, I leave my passport in the microwave, or decide to use it as an impact mat when flattening bottle caps with a hammer - and miss, hitting (disabling) the RFID chip? Am I arrested for destruction of a federal document? The paper's there, the chip just doesn't work.
I don't know about you, but all my RFID devices keep getting accidentally microwaved or damaged from blunt trauma...
I have a great B&W laser printer with a toner cartridge that works great for 99% of what I need to do, which lasts about a year or more between replacements. If I absolutely positively have to print color, I email it to Office Depot's printing center for $0.52 a copy. Pictures get printed at my local Wally World for $0.23 a print. At least I don't have to worry about wasting ink, resetting the color settings to B&W from color, crazy printer drivers that may or may not work, etc etc etc.
Considering the fact that Steve Jobs demoed the Nano by pullint it out of his jeans pocket, you'd think that it would be designed to witstand use in a pair of jeans. I'd almost say that it's false advertising to sell a product that is advertised being in a jeans pocket that can't stand being in a jeans pocket for more than a month.
with tiger, or panther? i believe those issues have been addressed in tiger.
Just make sure you've got google's "my search history" turned off.
Or in Mac OS X, go to System Preferences, click on the Security button that looks like a house with a padlock dial on it, then click the button that says Turn on FileVault. It'll take probably an hour to encrypt your hard drive in 128 bit encryption depending on computer speed and hard drive size, leaving you with a transparent encrypted directory.
You are severely disillusioned, or trying to save face, if you think 40 million people is a "niche market".
The PSP is also marketed to the 10+ million people in NYC who take the subway every day, about 40 minutes round trip unless you live on the actual island of Manhattan. Plus the additional 10+ million people in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and 20+ million people in London and Paris, and other major european cities with mass transit.
You thought people just bought iPods to look cool? Take a look on a NYC subway between the hours of 6:30am and 9am M-F; even the poor people have iPod shuffles. People need something to do durring their commute, and talking sure as hell isn't one of them. If 40+ million people isn't a big enough global market, you're either dealing drugs, or crude oil (or both).
Sony has released a utility to shrink DVD movies to mp4 format for playing on your memory stick.
3" DVDs wouldn't work in 98% of the players out there. UMD is an ISO registered format, and down the road it should replace the MiniDisc (MD) player. UMD burners will hit the market eventually. I wouldn't be suprised if there's a sort of PSP UMD attachment down the road for the PS3 the same way there's a GBA attachment for the gamecube.
If you're going to be dissapointed in Sony for something, it should be either a) not including a UMD copy of the movie in the delux edition of DVDs, or b) not implimenting bluray technology. As it stands, the PSP is very versitile.
While EA has it's fingers in a lot of different pies (genres), EA has had control of the Madden football franchise for the last 15+ years, a title that has consistently been in the top three titles for all systems for as long as anybody can remember. Unless John Madden starts raping and eating small children and ruins the franchise's name, they'll continue to have the income to support the "risk" of investing in R&D.
Does EA indulge in unfair/unethical buisness practices? Yes. Are they the 800 lb gorilla of the console game world? Yes. But at least it's nice to see companies pouring cash in to their R&D, unlike traditional R&D companies like HP who have all but given up on developing new technologies. I'd love to see EA take advantage of the next-gen consoles, and give us what we've always wanted - truly photo (video?) realistic sports games, and efficent use of the paralell processing that these games will be so heavily dependant upon in the comming decade.
Here's to a billion dollars in R&D by 2009!
The biggest by far problem, however, is reading a LCD in natural light. Computers, and their users, were not meant for use in natural light. You couldn't read a damn thing on your LCD out there.
Enter the Plasma Display! OLED?
adium for OS X already has thie capability; highlight a word or phrase, right click, select "search in google". There's also a "search in spotlight", which could be handy for searching contacts and calander events.
...And a 50 amp breaker that your stove top or water heater runs on.
name? publisher? ISBN number? sounds like a good book to pick up (or a 2nd or 3rd edition)
A company called alpine makes one for about $500 (the 1300 model). This is the same technology that wal*mart and wolf/ritz camera and all the internet printing places uses. Here are some links:
m n kjet/Alps_color_inkjet_printer.htmlk ipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sublimation_printer
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question583.ht
http://www.digital-photography.org/alps_color_i
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How do you access this developer mode? The article tells how great debug mode can be, but nowhere does it list how it's accessed. Anyone want to let me (us) in on the secret for some easy karma whoring?
They'll end up naming the GNU port "mash"
The Nintendo Famicom was produced from 1983-2003. Yes, 20 years.
As I understand it, the Sega Master system is still in production and still very popular in Brazil (As the Sega Master System III, but it's still the same basic hardware) - from 1987-2005 (and beyond).
Wikipedia Sega MS article.
There are a lot of young (mid-late 30's) parents with 12-15 year olds who are purchasing a new (not hand me down) console for their kids for the first time. It's a big selling point to them that the youngest or middle kid (johnny) can have the PS2 in his room, while all the kids can share the PS3 in the living room, and when Johnny's big brother's out of the house, Johnny can play gran turismo 4 on the big screen downstairs on the PS3, or that Johnny's big brother can play all his old hand me down PS1 and 2 games on his PS3 without having to borrow Johnny's PS2. Also PS2 games will all fall in to the $15-30 range by the time the PS3 comes out, meaning Johnny's parents can buy both Johnny and his big brother(s) a new game each for christmas, rather than making them split the PS3 in to a time share so they can play gran turismo 5 or whatever the favorite game is on the PS3 at the time.
If we're lucky, the PS3 will have a unified service similar to Xbox live. Or at least require all games to support some sort of online play, if nothing more than a chat application. Hell, maybe they'll take the que from the Nintendo DS and include built in chat support, say, AIM, MSN and Yahoo. We've already got a browser on the PSP...
my experience at E|B games has been that dvds cost $17 where UMD's cost $22. Maybe if you could buy the DVD with UMD bundled in the same package for $22, it'd be worth it (and make for an interesting UMD market on ebay), since you'd have two formats of the same movie.
There's lots of stuff out there. I remember downloading 45 minute radio stories from the 30's and 40's as 10-15MB files in mp3 format @ a bitrate between 20-56 or so.
Yes. Something something space 9 i think. Here it is: The Uranus Experiment: Part 2.
the real market for space tourism will be zero-g sex, with re-entry to the atmosphere as an alternative to pillow talk or cuddling.