...if you owned such a system. I'd be willing to bet that you'd rather buy a GeForce 3 AGP card for $100 (yeah, I'm dreaming) than a GeForce 3 module for $300, right?
if you bought such a GeForce3 for $170 and as a home user could install it yourself w/o having worries of that nasty 'static bug' or the likes, without going to compUSA and having them install it for 50$, worry that they're going through all your personal files, loading porn on to it or somthing, yeah, i'd think consumers would pay the 20$ premium to be able to unwrap it and plug it in like a game cartridge.
2. Interferance. The FCC regulations for RF devices at these frequencies state that you have to accept whatever outside interference there is.
could somebody explain this to me? doesn't having a device accept all interference just make things all that much harder? it seems problems would be reduced dramatically by having a shielding that only allows the proper frequencies through, or some such filtering device. or maybe i'm totally misunderstanding that. anyone?
maybe the next version of slashcode needs spellcheck. just a thought : )
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i dont understand the neeed for a keyboard, unless you're gonna be sitting down and doing alot of fingerbanging on the keyboard. turn the 'sheet of paper' on it's side, much like a newton, and use that handy-dandy touchpad to display a keyboard. no tactile feedback, but you don't get that by tapping keys with your stylus anyways. sure, you lose a good portion of the screen to a full sized keyboard (or close to it), but most people who would use somthing with this would be writing an email or instant messaging. works for me.
my girlfriend and i saw the movie, somthing she commented on was how well behaved all the children were. talk about keeping the viewer's attention.
on a side note, as soon as the SW trailer came on, even after other trailers playing and people talking through them, the theater went dead silent as soon as the anticipated trailer came on. 2 or 3 people applauded, other than that, the 45 seconds was silent. talk about controllingyour audience
i saw the digital version at one of the two DLP projectors.... i only got to see the star wars trailer, but neither of the much-hyped harry potter or LOTR trailers. did anyone else have such problems?
you might not have caught the subtle toy story tie in, where the girl 'gives' a toy story 2 doll to Sully near the very end. also, it's a kid's room. toy story tried making the most generic kid's room as possible. hell, they had to for the simulator ; )
i guess it's hard to not do a generic kid's room and not make the film seem less storybook-like (thoughts of the artwork in 'goodnight moon' storybook come to mind)
i dragged my girlfriend to go see Monsters, Inc. opening night down at one of the two DLP projectors (digital projector, no film, no shakes or bumps, ect, ect) and i have to say, walking past the life-size Sullivan (blue and purple monster) in the theater lobby, and then seeing him there on the big screen.... i had a hard time convincing myself of the fact that this was *not* real....especially in the closeups, where you can see every single individual hair moving, quite convincingly lifelike.
this release from pixar says that "yes, it's cg, and no, smooth charicters aren't all we can do, when it comes down to details, we can pull off the good effects", especially in sullivan' hair, the pieces of the doors as they are shredded, ect ect. quite a bit of nicely done eye candy.
they're all those science and other stories that don't make it to the front page regardles to wether or not you checked them on the 'include' list when you first signed up, usually only getting 3-7 comments
I also under clocked my CPU. You don't need more than a 486 to play MP3s so I took my spare Pentium 233 and under clocked it to 133. This saved quite a bit on the power draw.
With an industry-leading 20 minutes of skip protection, iPod keeps playing without missing a beat. In addition to its 5GB hard drive, iPod has a 32MB memory cache. The cache is made up of solid-state memory, meaning that it has no mechanical or moving parts, so it?s not affected by movement of the device. iPod skip protection works by continually preloading up to 20 minutes of music into the cache.
Holds the contents of 100 CDs
[CD Stack] Small though it is, iPod has a hefty 5GB hard disk drive. The number of songs it holds depends on the compression rate you choose for your songs. At a 160Kbps compression rate (the default setting for encoding MP3s in iTunes), 5GB equals approximately 1,000 songs, or about 100 CDs. At lower-quality 128 Kbps ? the most common compression rate used for MP3s ? 5GB is equivalent to approximately 1,300 songs, or about 130 CDs. Who knows, you might also find yourself storing documents, files and applications on your iPod in FireWire disk mode.
from the pictures, it looks like all he's managed to do is remove the case, lay the mother/main board next to a flat panel display mounted on some painted black plywood and run games off it.
oh yeah, as a side note, i also learned (by being the asshole) that by walking very quickly out the door while the asshole is checking someone else's reciept, you legally can't be stopped, or have your 'posessions', whatever they may be, taken or inspected, may it be a new g4 cube or the likes that is being held openly in your hand. 99% of shoplifters never get caught/prosecuted. none were ever caught/prosecuted at comp USA
when i was 16 i dimwittedly applied for a job at comp USA, quitting 4 months later. i got the "asshole's" (the guy who looks at your reciept and occasionally any large bags you're taking out of the building. we named him that) job, and people would continually bitch about it. management told me we had legal right to, as there was a (small) sign outside that said we reserved the right to search any and all bags/coats/ect when you leave, and by entering the building, you agreed to that. so i guess it depends if your building has signs or not, too. it might be unconstintutional b/c they initiated this after you started working there, and you/the building wasn't polled about this.
the reason hemos let this one through is that it would (in theroy) generate a hella lot of page hits, as it's in connection to the attackonamerica shiznat, therefore raising revenue. kinda like that vi vs. emacs poll a month or so back.
I was watching some sort of psedo-documentary on Nvidia on Cnet (evil square ads and they use WMA!! i know. i'm tainted. sorry) and the cnet guy kept trying to ask the CEO all these questions, when all the CEO was interested in was showing you their processor making process. essentially they have x,000 guys on SGI octane workstations or the like doing processor design. they complete what they think would make a good graphics card, send it down to the supercomptuer room, and let it run the 'debugger'
apparently at any one time they're processing about 3 differnt processor designs, with about 27 in the que. for you server heads, they have one of those failsafe server systems where the servers auto-reboot and you can take out servr modules and replace them w/o losing any data.
when they get a good processor they like, they 'email' the finalized design to some 3rd party/contracted silicon plant, they make it, and send them back one (first silicon). they test, debug some more, and back to the drawing boards, repeat. pretty efficent way to design hardware.
i can't see any major fatal flaws, as those would normally be caught in the software debugging phase.
did a quick google search and it came up with this page. short version off of that page makes me believe that an azimuth is a cordinate most often used by astronomers in locating things in the night's sky. this report talks about accuracy when using the azimuth for taking down telemetry and it's accuracy, ect. kinda interesting.
They'll never make 'em small enough to keep the latest Windows (Windows 2020? Windows MMXX?) from looking like a bloated pig.
if you had a transparent transitor that was shaped like a magnifying glass....depending on which way you looked at Windows, it would be n times as large...or n times smaller than it's actual size, making windows look like a regular pig!
i remember those fondly, they still sit in an unused foot locker of mine. the main advantage of legos is that they don't rust/edges aren't dangerous. I remember building an X-wing out of a combination of an old airliner set and some pieces from a monorail spacestation set. quite an accomplishment. and that was before all of the newfangled specialty pieces (although i had to use some nifty transparent pieces to make the x wing canopy)....R2 droids were always fun, quick and easy to make. 30$ for an x wing kit from lego seems a bit much. any one else remember making star wars models out of legos?
As an aside, it is entirely possible to use a third-party email program over the AOL TCP/IP connection. All you have to do is sign on with AOL , launch the program, and use it. But you will have to use it with a third-party email system that you have an account with. It is quite common for AOL members to access their POP3 or IMAP account while dialed into AOL, by supplying their mail account username and password. One problem with this, however, is the lack of an AOL SMTP server; forcing you to use a third-party server to send mail through the AOL connection. Note that for security reasons, AOL will redirect such attempts to AOL's own servers and identify the sender's AOL screen name in an X-Apparently-From header. Some services block mail sent in this manner.
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the problem with solid rubber tires is poor suspension. poor suspension == bumpier ride, bumpy ride == slower. kevlar bike tires (avalible now at your local toys r' us and bike shops everywhere) are probably 90% as durable, and provide at least minimal shock absorbtion, allowing the bike to not 'pogo' as much. interesting tidbit, though.
greenspeed trikes are avalible equipped with one or two batteries allowing you a range of 30 km each (used primarily as battery assist over flat ground). of course, they run about 7 g's, american. on the upside, the cost to ship the bike to america is about what it costs to fly to austraila, pick it up, and return to america using the bike as your 70 lb. checked baggage. i'd suggest staying a few days in australia and enjoy the scenery, though : )
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err... that is a GeForce3 @ 170$ [modular](instead of costing 300$), as opposed to the standard @ 100$
if you bought such a GeForce3 for $170 and as a home user could install it yourself w/o having worries of that nasty 'static bug' or the likes, without going to compUSA and having them install it for 50$, worry that they're going through all your personal files, loading porn on to it or somthing, yeah, i'd think consumers would pay the 20$ premium to be able to unwrap it and plug it in like a game cartridge.
2. Interferance. The FCC regulations for RF devices at these frequencies state that you have to accept whatever outside interference there is.
could somebody explain this to me? doesn't having a device accept all interference just make things all that much harder? it seems problems would be reduced dramatically by having a shielding that only allows the proper frequencies through, or some such filtering device. or maybe i'm totally misunderstanding that. anyone?
maybe the next version of slashcode needs spellcheck. just a thought : )
i dont understand the neeed for a keyboard, unless you're gonna be sitting down and doing alot of fingerbanging on the keyboard. turn the 'sheet of paper' on it's side, much like a newton, and use that handy-dandy touchpad to display a keyboard. no tactile feedback, but you don't get that by tapping keys with your stylus anyways. sure, you lose a good portion of the screen to a full sized keyboard (or close to it), but most people who would use somthing with this would be writing an email or instant messaging. works for me.
heck yeah.
my girlfriend and i saw the movie, somthing she commented on was how well behaved all the children were. talk about keeping the viewer's attention.
on a side note, as soon as the SW trailer came on, even after other trailers playing and people talking through them, the theater went dead silent as soon as the anticipated trailer came on. 2 or 3 people applauded, other than that, the 45 seconds was silent. talk about controllingyour audience
i saw the digital version at one of the two DLP projectors.... i only got to see the star wars trailer, but neither of the much-hyped harry potter or LOTR trailers. did anyone else have such problems?
you might not have caught the subtle toy story tie in, where the girl 'gives' a toy story 2 doll to Sully near the very end. also, it's a kid's room. toy story tried making the most generic kid's room as possible. hell, they had to for the simulator ; )
i guess it's hard to not do a generic kid's room and not make the film seem less storybook-like (thoughts of the artwork in 'goodnight moon' storybook come to mind)
for more information on splicing together film, and other films, please visit your local bookstore, and read fight club.
thank you
i dragged my girlfriend to go see Monsters, Inc. opening night down at one of the two DLP projectors (digital projector, no film, no shakes or bumps, ect, ect) and i have to say, walking past the life-size Sullivan (blue and purple monster) in the theater lobby, and then seeing him there on the big screen.... i had a hard time convincing myself of the fact that this was *not* real....especially in the closeups, where you can see every single individual hair moving, quite convincingly lifelike.
this release from pixar says that "yes, it's cg, and no, smooth charicters aren't all we can do, when it comes down to details, we can pull off the good effects", especially in sullivan' hair, the pieces of the doors as they are shredded, ect ect. quite a bit of nicely done eye candy.
worked at comp usa, had some asians walk in and order 3 visor deuluxes to study 'processor design' of somthing.... :-\
that was about a year back, of course.
they're all those science and other stories that don't make it to the front page regardles to wether or not you checked them on the 'include' list when you first signed up, usually only getting 3-7 comments
I also under clocked my CPU. You don't need more than a 486 to play MP3s so I took my spare Pentium 233 and under clocked it to 133. This saved quite a bit on the power draw.
hah! my p90 w/32 megs of ram usually chokes
With an industry-leading 20 minutes of skip protection, iPod keeps playing without missing a beat. In addition to its 5GB hard drive, iPod has a 32MB memory cache. The cache is made up of solid-state memory, meaning that it has no mechanical or moving parts, so it?s not affected by movement of the device. iPod skip protection works by continually preloading up to 20 minutes of music into the cache.
Holds the contents of 100 CDs
[CD Stack] Small though it is, iPod has a hefty 5GB hard disk drive. The number of songs it holds depends on the compression rate you choose for your songs. At a 160Kbps compression rate (the default setting for encoding MP3s in iTunes),
5GB equals approximately 1,000 songs, or about 100 CDs. At lower-quality 128 Kbps ? the most common compression rate used for MP3s ? 5GB is equivalent to approximately 1,300 songs, or about 130 CDs. Who knows, you might also find yourself storing documents, files and applications on your iPod in FireWire disk mode.
(emphasis mine) taken from http://www.apple.com/ipod/specs.html
enter 6 quark quantum computing. 1000 years of NEO asteroids? done. would you like fries with that? : )
from the pictures, it looks like all he's managed to do is remove the case, lay the mother/main board next to a flat panel display mounted on some painted black plywood and run games off it.
*yawn*
oh yeah, as a side note, i also learned (by being the asshole) that by walking very quickly out the door while the asshole is checking someone else's reciept, you legally can't be stopped, or have your 'posessions', whatever they may be, taken or inspected, may it be a new g4 cube or the likes that is being held openly in your hand. 99% of shoplifters never get caught/prosecuted. none were ever caught/prosecuted at comp USA
when i was 16 i dimwittedly applied for a job at comp USA, quitting 4 months later. i got the "asshole's" (the guy who looks at your reciept and occasionally any large bags you're taking out of the building. we named him that) job, and people would continually bitch about it. management told me we had legal right to, as there was a (small) sign outside that said we reserved the right to search any and all bags/coats/ect when you leave, and by entering the building, you agreed to that. so i guess it depends if your building has signs or not, too. it might be unconstintutional b/c they initiated this after you started working there, and you/the building wasn't polled about this.
the reason hemos let this one through is that it would (in theroy) generate a hella lot of page hits, as it's in connection to the attackonamerica shiznat, therefore raising revenue. kinda like that vi vs. emacs poll a month or so back.
I was watching some sort of psedo-documentary on Nvidia on Cnet (evil square ads and they use WMA!! i know. i'm tainted. sorry) and the cnet guy kept trying to ask the CEO all these questions, when all the CEO was interested in was showing you their processor making process. essentially they have x,000 guys on SGI octane workstations or the like doing processor design. they complete what they think would make a good graphics card, send it down to the supercomptuer room, and let it run the 'debugger'
apparently at any one time they're processing about 3 differnt processor designs, with about 27 in the que. for you server heads, they have one of those failsafe server systems where the servers auto-reboot and you can take out servr modules and replace them w/o losing any data.
when they get a good processor they like, they 'email' the finalized design to some 3rd party/contracted silicon plant, they make it, and send them back one (first silicon). they test, debug some more, and back to the drawing boards, repeat. pretty efficent way to design hardware.
i can't see any major fatal flaws, as those would normally be caught in the software debugging phase.
did a quick google search and it came up with this page. short version off of that page makes me believe that an azimuth is a cordinate most often used by astronomers in locating things in the night's sky. this report talks about accuracy when using the azimuth for taking down telemetry and it's accuracy, ect. kinda interesting.
They'll never make 'em small enough to keep the latest Windows (Windows 2020? Windows MMXX?) from looking like a bloated pig.
if you had a transparent transitor that was shaped like a magnifying glass....depending on which way you looked at Windows, it would be n times as large...or n times smaller than it's actual size, making windows look like a regular pig!
i remember those fondly, they still sit in an unused foot locker of mine. the main advantage of legos is that they don't rust/edges aren't dangerous. I remember building an X-wing out of a combination of an old airliner set and some pieces from a monorail spacestation set. quite an accomplishment. and that was before all of the newfangled specialty pieces (although i had to use some nifty transparent pieces to make the x wing canopy)....R2 droids were always fun, quick and easy to make. 30$ for an x wing kit from lego seems a bit much. any one else remember making star wars models out of legos?
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As an aside, it is entirely possible to use a third-party email program over the AOL TCP/IP connection. All you have to do is sign on with AOL , launch the program, and use it. But you will have to use it with a third-party email system that you have an account with. It is quite common for AOL members to access their POP3 or IMAP account while dialed into AOL, by supplying their mail account username and password. One problem with this, however, is the lack of an AOL SMTP server; forcing you to use a third-party server to send mail through the AOL connection. Note that for security reasons, AOL will redirect such attempts to AOL's own servers and identify the sender's AOL screen name in an X-Apparently-From header. Some services block mail sent in this manner.
the problem with solid rubber tires is poor suspension. poor suspension == bumpier ride, bumpy ride == slower. kevlar bike tires (avalible now at your local toys r' us and bike shops everywhere) are probably 90% as durable, and provide at least minimal shock absorbtion, allowing the bike to not 'pogo' as much. interesting tidbit, though.
greenspeed trikes are avalible equipped with one or two batteries allowing you a range of 30 km each (used primarily as battery assist over flat ground). of course, they run about 7 g's, american. on the upside, the cost to ship the bike to america is about what it costs to fly to austraila, pick it up, and return to america using the bike as your 70 lb. checked baggage. i'd suggest staying a few days in australia and enjoy the scenery, though : )