the 15" powerbook has a full sized keyboard (L & W, not depth, at least). the 12" powerbook is pretty much exactly the same size as the keyboard, which is still a full sized keyboard. if the keyboard got any bigger (for the 17"), it'd be akward.
hmm. random thought. the OSX port of X11 probably came about in their attempts to get an X11 browser to run, and decided to just go ahead and polish it up a bit and release it to the public. neat.
While it might be true that Sony could be making money now on the PS1 hardware sales, it isn't true of the PS2. At least, not yet.
As more machines are produced, their cost goes down significantly. The first year will be a break-even year. The second year will be major net profits.
So, initially... for the first year or so, hardware is sold at a loss.
yup. it's been about a year or more since the PS2 was launched, so they've pretty much recouped the cost of R&D.
sounds good to me. sony has been selling the PS One at a nifty profit at $100 for over a year now, and probably still make over $20 a pop of pure profit now that they're at $50. i can't imagine getting less than $30 profit on the PS2.... the R&D for the PS1 and 2 is done, so the cost of the chips is more or less materials, a couple of bucks at most. the PS3 is probably going to be the size of the xbox, or larger, and the need for backwards compatibility + the open space in the xbox will probably = these chips included on the motherboard of the PS3. that's my guess, anyways.
i think the decision to use a built in rechargeable has to do with
1) much slimmer than AAs
2) you need the extra battery life for that front light.
personally i'd like to see the normal form factor GBA use a slimline battery, the only reason the GBA is as thick as it is is to accomidate for those huge AA's. make a slim rechargeable battery pack and boom, you've got a GBA half the thickness and longer battery life.
i've heard (from non technical-type friends) that the shoulder buttons are either a) pressure sensitive or b) "2 state" (semi pressure sensitive), so you'd probably have to use the original buttons.
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if a disabled person wants front facing buttons, there's no reason he/she couldn't get his/her EE-ish friend to disassemble it, and move the shoulder buttons to a more accessable spot with some solder+wire in one of those radio shack project boxes. probably a 2 hour hack or so. parts and (probably free) labor would add maybe 20% of the cost to the box, which is a hell of a lot less upmark in price than a disabled computer system would run.
just curious, but what is an LP syndrome? louis parkinson's or somthing? my medical knowledge is weak at best. if you have a similar syndrome or somthing, get in contact, and i can probably build you somthing to use all the buttons easily for your GBA in a relatively compact case.
man. are you a decendant of Bam Bam (flintstones)? i have at least 8 friends who have one of those motorola flip phones, including the originals, and i've never seen them break, be it from dropping or opening them. i can't imagine nintendo's child's device would be more fragile than that. yes, it has the same specs, AND a rechargeable battery. this is the most important thing to me, as it means no more AA batteries to buy, just pop it in the cradle and you're good to go.
the "RJ45" is the power, while the "RJ11" is the game link, to link to the gamecube, or other GBAs, or maybe even a regular GB, if you have the proper crossover cable (my little cousin has this cable for pokemon and backwards compatibility with older GBs, so they do exist). i think you can do video out using the game link port somehow, too. nintendo sells some sort of adapter
why the hell not? sure, you don't own a mac (yet), but it has a 5 hour battery life, nice big 12" screen (when letterboxed is still larger than the largest dvd use only dvd player) and when you're not using it for movie playback you can write emails, compose documents in word, listen to music/mp3s/cds and even burn your own. if you get bored of a movie, you can always load up one of about a million games.
yes, it costs about 2x as much as a mid priced portable dvd player, but you pay for alot of useful other features and a signifigantly higher resale value.
did a google for "quack 3 video driver". 4th link is the article that started it all, on [H]ardOCP, its about the radeon 8500, so it's more recent than i thought.
err back in the day of less than 100 fps, so you're talking a good 15-20% speed increase. forgot the less than chevron is used in html. still waking up. really should use the preview...
i'd agree. the best real world proof i've read is watching a camera pan across a white picket fence with green grass in the background, ran at 24, 30, and 60 fps. at 24 it looks like a freaking strobe light, 30 doesn't hurt the eyes too much, and 60 is pretty decent.
either way, you still know it's a picket fence, and which way the camera is panning, which, in my opinion, is really all that matters.
do a google search for "quack 3" and whanot. i think it was actually the ati drivers that were optimized for quake 3. what they did is they took a hex editor with a "find and replace" function and found every instance of quake3 in the executable, and changed it to quack. speed decreased a good 14 fps, and this was back in the day of too lazy to find a link, though.
it ain't gonna happen. the best you can hope for is an apple branded DV camcorder that doubles as an ipod with removable media (DV tapes) and can play DV video. whee.
unfortunately, i live in texas, where it is rare/unheard of to see an enclosed telephone booth, the ones here are open air for the most part. i'd much rather get the satisfaction of getting my $1.50 back, and unbolted the booth from the concrete slab it sat on and driven away with it tied to my roof. been looking for a good booth to steal to put in the apartment as of late...
Since manufacturers have switched their standard warranty terms from 3 years to 1 year
agh, i'm so sick of hearing this - "back in the day", you had a 500 meg drive. in a year, there was the 1 gig drive, but you could still purchase a 500 meg drive, in two years, you might be able to find someone with a 500 meg drive in stock, and at the end of three years, the manufacturer was having trouble keeping the replacement 500 meg drives in stock. fast forward to today. the manufacturer makes a run of 250,000 120 gig drives, and cuts off the production to retool for the 200 gig drives that are slated to come out in 12 months. so say you have a 120 gb drive, and it fails at the end of two years, and you still have a 3 year warranty on it, the manufacturer now is making 380 gig drives, and the concept of making a 120 gig drive is laughable. as a result, they have to give you a new 380 gig drive at a significant loss to them. yes, they should have made a better product that should last till at least the end of the three years, but that doesn't always happen. if you had had a 1 year warranty, at least they can clean out the last of their 120 gig hard drive stock at the end of the 8th month of your ownership and replace it with a same model.
when drive size doubles every 12 months, that means size increases exponentially and at some point replacing drives with drives that are eight times larger and as a result cause you to not need to buy another drive from them when your original sized drive should have run out of space, it just becomes economical to drop the warranty down to 1 year.
i have to agree. my mom got sold on one by a salesman for dish sattelite, and so we had it; i had a pool party and left the tv running before everyone got there, ended up recording the simpsons and southpark magically.... anyways, after 20 people watching me pause, go get food, come back and play, and then rewind to the beginning so people could watch it again, they were pretty much sold. once someone sees how useful they are in real life, it's hard to persuade them that they dont' need one. i think 3 more families have gotten one since i "demonstrated" it that one night. i sure as hell would like one at the dorm...
well techincally the 6 finger gene is dominant, it's just that for whatever reason, 5 fingers have an evolutionary advantage in either survival, or mating. i'm sure there's a 4 finger gene, and maybe even a 3 finger gene, but for whatever reason, be it picking fruit or killing prey, it didn't work out that well.
of course, there's the possibility that it has to do with cellular growth patterns, and if that's the case, you might want to check out this phenomenon.
hm. so heat is generated by resistance of paper to cutting. sharpen blades, decrease reisistance, decrease heat, increase life of paper shredder. THEN add cooling fans.
Oh, the five problems? The high-gain antenna didn't deploy. The tape in the tape recorder tends to stick. The thrusters can explode if fired in long steady burns, which is why Galileo always fires them in pulses, and need to be burped regularly to avoid slow propellant decomposition -- TVSat 2 fortunately used the same thrusters, was launched before Galileo, and had a solar array fail to deploy, so its thrusters were fired long and hard during attempts to shake the array loose.
got it from the link in your parent's post. i'm assuming 5 is pioneer 5. i dunno for sure, though.
except one that is a master in the cradle, which is unacceptable
um, epoxy the winCE device into the cradle, and then file the cradle down to the size you need it? generally the cradle is a metal weight, some pretty plastic molding, and a wire sticking out the bottom
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i think ibm has a patent on that, from their thinkpads back in the mid 90's.
i think it would ruin the asthetics of the powerbook. dumb, i know, but people buy the tibook for about 80% of that reason over a dell or sony.
the 15" powerbook has a full sized keyboard (L & W, not depth, at least). the 12" powerbook is pretty much exactly the same size as the keyboard, which is still a full sized keyboard. if the keyboard got any bigger (for the 17"), it'd be akward.
hmm. random thought. the OSX port of X11 probably came about in their attempts to get an X11 browser to run, and decided to just go ahead and polish it up a bit and release it to the public. neat.
While it might be true that Sony could be making money now on the PS1 hardware sales, it isn't true of the PS2. At least, not yet.
As more machines are produced, their cost goes down significantly. The first year will be a break-even year. The second year will be major net profits.
So, initially... for the first year or so, hardware is sold at a loss.
yup. it's been about a year or more since the PS2 was launched, so they've pretty much recouped the cost of R&D.
sounds good to me. sony has been selling the PS One at a nifty profit at $100 for over a year now, and probably still make over $20 a pop of pure profit now that they're at $50. i can't imagine getting less than $30 profit on the PS2.... the R&D for the PS1 and 2 is done, so the cost of the chips is more or less materials, a couple of bucks at most. the PS3 is probably going to be the size of the xbox, or larger, and the need for backwards compatibility + the open space in the xbox will probably = these chips included on the motherboard of the PS3. that's my guess, anyways.
i think the decision to use a built in rechargeable has to do with
1) much slimmer than AAs
2) you need the extra battery life for that front light.
personally i'd like to see the normal form factor GBA use a slimline battery, the only reason the GBA is as thick as it is is to accomidate for those huge AA's. make a slim rechargeable battery pack and boom, you've got a GBA half the thickness and longer battery life.
i've heard (from non technical-type friends) that the shoulder buttons are either a) pressure sensitive or b) "2 state" (semi pressure sensitive), so you'd probably have to use the original buttons.
if a disabled person wants front facing buttons, there's no reason he/she couldn't get his/her EE-ish friend to disassemble it, and move the shoulder buttons to a more accessable spot with some solder+wire in one of those radio shack project boxes. probably a 2 hour hack or so. parts and (probably free) labor would add maybe 20% of the cost to the box, which is a hell of a lot less upmark in price than a disabled computer system would run.
just curious, but what is an LP syndrome? louis parkinson's or somthing? my medical knowledge is weak at best. if you have a similar syndrome or somthing, get in contact, and i can probably build you somthing to use all the buttons easily for your GBA in a relatively compact case.
man. are you a decendant of Bam Bam (flintstones)? i have at least 8 friends who have one of those motorola flip phones, including the originals, and i've never seen them break, be it from dropping or opening them. i can't imagine nintendo's child's device would be more fragile than that. yes, it has the same specs, AND a rechargeable battery. this is the most important thing to me, as it means no more AA batteries to buy, just pop it in the cradle and you're good to go.
the "RJ45" is the power, while the "RJ11" is the game link, to link to the gamecube, or other GBAs, or maybe even a regular GB, if you have the proper crossover cable (my little cousin has this cable for pokemon and backwards compatibility with older GBs, so they do exist). i think you can do video out using the game link port somehow, too. nintendo sells some sort of adapter
why the hell not? sure, you don't own a mac (yet), but it has a 5 hour battery life, nice big 12" screen (when letterboxed is still larger than the largest dvd use only dvd player) and when you're not using it for movie playback you can write emails, compose documents in word, listen to music/mp3s/cds and even burn your own. if you get bored of a movie, you can always load up one of about a million games.
yes, it costs about 2x as much as a mid priced portable dvd player, but you pay for alot of useful other features and a signifigantly higher resale value.
did a google for "quack 3 video driver". 4th link is the article that started it all, on [H]ardOCP, its about the radeon 8500, so it's more recent than i thought.
here's the link
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTEx
err back in the day of less than 100 fps, so you're talking a good 15-20% speed increase. forgot the less than chevron is used in html. still waking up. really should use the preview...
i'd agree. the best real world proof i've read is watching a camera pan across a white picket fence with green grass in the background, ran at 24, 30, and 60 fps. at 24 it looks like a freaking strobe light, 30 doesn't hurt the eyes too much, and 60 is pretty decent.
either way, you still know it's a picket fence, and which way the camera is panning, which, in my opinion, is really all that matters.
do a google search for "quack 3" and whanot. i think it was actually the ati drivers that were optimized for quake 3. what they did is they took a hex editor with a "find and replace" function and found every instance of quake3 in the executable, and changed it to quack. speed decreased a good 14 fps, and this was back in the day of
too lazy to find a link, though.
it ain't gonna happen. the best you can hope for is an apple branded DV camcorder that doubles as an ipod with removable media (DV tapes) and can play DV video. whee.
unfortunately, i live in texas, where it is rare/unheard of to see an enclosed telephone booth, the ones here are open air for the most part. i'd much rather get the satisfaction of getting my $1.50 back, and unbolted the booth from the concrete slab it sat on and driven away with it tied to my roof. been looking for a good booth to steal to put in the apartment as of late...
Since manufacturers have switched their standard warranty terms from 3 years to 1 year
agh, i'm so sick of hearing this - "back in the day", you had a 500 meg drive. in a year, there was the 1 gig drive, but you could still purchase a 500 meg drive, in two years, you might be able to find someone with a 500 meg drive in stock, and at the end of three years, the manufacturer was having trouble keeping the replacement 500 meg drives in stock. fast forward to today. the manufacturer makes a run of 250,000 120 gig drives, and cuts off the production to retool for the 200 gig drives that are slated to come out in 12 months. so say you have a 120 gb drive, and it fails at the end of two years, and you still have a 3 year warranty on it, the manufacturer now is making 380 gig drives, and the concept of making a 120 gig drive is laughable. as a result, they have to give you a new 380 gig drive at a significant loss to them. yes, they should have made a better product that should last till at least the end of the three years, but that doesn't always happen. if you had had a 1 year warranty, at least they can clean out the last of their 120 gig hard drive stock at the end of the 8th month of your ownership and replace it with a same model.
when drive size doubles every 12 months, that means size increases exponentially and at some point replacing drives with drives that are eight times larger and as a result cause you to not need to buy another drive from them when your original sized drive should have run out of space, it just becomes economical to drop the warranty down to 1 year.
i have to agree. my mom got sold on one by a salesman for dish sattelite, and so we had it; i had a pool party and left the tv running before everyone got there, ended up recording the simpsons and southpark magically.... anyways, after 20 people watching me pause, go get food, come back and play, and then rewind to the beginning so people could watch it again, they were pretty much sold. once someone sees how useful they are in real life, it's hard to persuade them that they dont' need one. i think 3 more families have gotten one since i "demonstrated" it that one night. i sure as hell would like one at the dorm...
well techincally the 6 finger gene is dominant, it's just that for whatever reason, 5 fingers have an evolutionary advantage in either survival, or mating. i'm sure there's a 4 finger gene, and maybe even a 3 finger gene, but for whatever reason, be it picking fruit or killing prey, it didn't work out that well.
of course, there's the possibility that it has to do with cellular growth patterns, and if that's the case, you might want to check out this phenomenon.
hm. so heat is generated by resistance of paper to cutting. sharpen blades, decrease reisistance, decrease heat, increase life of paper shredder. THEN add cooling fans.
just a thought.
even better, call it Neil and Bob. there's some thinly veild humor in there...
somthing like this?
Oh, the five problems? The high-gain antenna didn't deploy. The tape in
the tape recorder tends to stick. The thrusters can explode if fired in
long steady burns, which is why Galileo always fires them in pulses, and
need to be burped regularly to avoid slow propellant decomposition --
TVSat 2 fortunately used the same thrusters, was launched before Galileo,
and had a solar array fail to deploy, so its thrusters were fired long and
hard during attempts to shake the array loose.
got it from the link in your parent's post. i'm assuming 5 is pioneer 5. i dunno for sure, though.
except one that is a master in the cradle, which is unacceptable
um, epoxy the winCE device into the cradle, and then file the cradle down to the size you need it? generally the cradle is a metal weight, some pretty plastic molding, and a wire sticking out the bottom