the first thing that comes to mind is the fact that i'm an aol user who uses aim (b/c the main aol prog has shitty IM capabilities), hence no need for me to see the ads.
secondly, only people who don't have the understanding to install-let alone find this particular plug in -are the people who may even consider changing to aol, or adopting it as a service provider. For the rest of us, the ads are useless and i doubt aol will see any signifigant decrease in click-throughs
umm i thought the low selling price of the palm IIIx had to do with the fact that it had no flashable rom and/or expansion possiblities? In which case, buddy, you're fucked. Next time ead the technical specs ahead of time : )
Maybe you're lucky and it was the IIIe or similar that had the non-flashable rom
Probably has alot to do with the fact that a nicer LCD than 160x160 can often be damned expensive, the power req's of a color display vs. a b&w display may be large enough that when switching from color to b&w (say, when you're going to europe for 6 months and don't want to bring alot of batteries so switch to the power saving lcd) that the high contrast power setting on the color display blows out the b&w display. That, and screen size/res and memory are normally the only things that differentiate the palm OS platform organizers currently; if you remove that, then palm loses one more selling point. And software/hardware display incompatiblities would be a bitch. Personally i would much rather see a 4 color(white/red/blue/green)/16shade b&w display if they could make one that was less power consuming than the 256 or 65k color displays.
bah. 6 on the right hand side of my ms natural keyboard? the hell that'll happen. how do you expect me to switch to the RL in old school Q1? The 7 key is conveniently located exactly where it should be, far left of the right hand split-board. boo yeah.
odd, i've spilt 3.75L glasses of big red (3rd highest soda in sugar content, after jolt and somting else higher than coke and surge), and while the big red was on there, i didn't have any problem with it, seeing as how the spaces inbetween the keys are so damned small...i had enough time to run to the kitchen and grab a sponge and back before the bulk of the big red made it's way through to the "guts" of the KB. Anybody else have any stories they'd care to share?
if you were using a cloth covered mouse pad before the 3m mousepad, that would be your problem. the mouse constantly rolls over the cloth, witch eventually micro-pills, and gets picked up by the (suprise suprise) high-traction trackball, which then passes the dirt off to one of three (again) high traction x, y or null axis wheels. the hell if i know what you're doing with lint in your keyboard, unless you tend to clean your mouse out over top ofyour keyboard....
wow... sounds like you could just build your own, think of it, nice, brushed titanium case, make your own lexan (bulletproof plexiglass) keys using molds of old IBM keys, and reverse engeneer the clicking noise of those keyboards. My mom threw mine out, and i'm totally pissed about that. Buy some stainless steel coil springs (possibly titanium?), canniblalize the right-sized keyboard circut board thingy, graft on a 8-10 ft cable (MS natural has a 6' standard, it could be longer sometimes (like when surfing from bed/across the room)), and some sort of built in gel/neopreme wrist rest....ahhh yeah...
Out of the box, it's stable on freeBSD and Win2K (no idea of the status on MacOS since we don't have any of those around to play with).
I read somewhere that mac OSX was being built from (as much as you can when basing off of another OS) the ground up with the IPv6 protocols being pretty much hard coded into the kernel... or somthing along those lines
that's a really good idea, i don't know about the ti-82, but my 86 has a battery backup on top of the 4 AAA batteries, so when you take out the batteries, it doesnt get all the stuff deleted. Just hop on down to your local radioshack, pick up the right amount of solar cells that equals the voltage output of the batteries, somehow connect them all together, get in some GOOD sunlight, and you're set. Might not work in dark classrooms.
I can see it now, young teenagers are no longer using their xDSL/cable modems to play quake with LPB qualities and run game servers, but instead load up a small server program, about the size of omnihttp (1.4megs) that uses a combination of a pop3/stmp server and an eliza type program and a reader that grabs various nouns and verbs (ak-47, clinton, shoot, attacked, bolivia, nuclear war, ect)off of AP feeds and spits out emails to other Anti-carniVOre Servers (AVOS?), which bounce emails around the net through annonomous proxies in a gnutella-type fashion. Eventually the feds will give up monitoring any emails coming out of those proxies, and people can route their email traffic through the AVOS system. Or somthing.
The spirit of carnivore is good, the idea that they can target one potential criminal, and read all email pertaining to him in an attempt to arrest him is great. The FBI needs somthing like that. The letter though, says only the FBI gets a good look at the code, and they can impliment it anywhere, anytime, on anybody, without any notice. I'm sure people speaking out against carnivore are on their list of people to watch, if nothing more than to test out carnivore. Which brings up the subject; is this carnivore version 2.0? How long have they been testing this program on the general public without informing us about the program? On the flip side, yes, everyone is fairly aware that the FBI and whatnot agencies have always been able to efficently monitor the people they want, but for them to blatently pointing out "yes, we're quite capable of reading all of your email, and yes we're not letting you see what kind of technology we're using, and we're going to keep it that way.". That was a mistake from the start, their PR department is getting spanked by the public, at the very least they could have predicted a reaction even half of this, and they probably could have released a basic skeletal (or even fake) version of carnivore? Either way, we're a government of the people, by the people; if the people are beginning to opensource many new software projects, it'd be nice to see the government at least attempt to follow with current trends and opensource the carnivore program. I'm sure ISP's wouldn't mind adapting the software as a government-provided-spam-blocker, we spend enough money as it is trying spam email cases as it is.
I'd like to contest your claim that a p100 can barely play mp3's. Before purchasing a p400 celeron through stock trading company rebate, as a student, I had a third-hand stock dell p90 w/32 megs of ram. Dialing up to aol, i could not play my mp3's, I had to pause them, and then resume once the winmodem (sucks cpu) was done dialing. After that, the computer would run relativly slowly, but I could still chat online and surf the web while listening to mp3's, only having the sound "burp" occasionally (2-3 times an hour). If you manage your system resources well and keep windows slim, the early pentiums are quite capable.
with the 3rd gen cell phones, or whatever's coming out next, a couple of articles over on C|net have said that assorted companies will start using intel's strongARM processors, which as you said earlier, "or if it incorporated a 128Mb mp3 man", an 1Ghz strong arm processor could easily handle the load of decoding whatever bit rate MP3. I would gladly pay $150+ for a standard-looking nokia/nokia face plate usable cell phone (they already give the phone away for free, 150 for the mp3 technology isn't too shabby profit wise) that played mp3's, and could use some of that wonderfully-large ni-cad battery : )
Combine mp3 and cell phone, and i'll buy one tomorrow, at a reasonable cost.
my "work space" consists of a U shaped desk; i sit in the middle fo the U, facing the bottom left corner of the U. Directly infront of that is a 19" monitor, with large inherited speakers on either side of the monitor, and a speakerphone/cordless directly next to the monitor. Behind that, two open windows with miniblinds. To the left of my left speaker sits assorted pens, and discarded slurpee cups and 12 oz aluminum cans, and the remninants of TV dinners, acompanied by some papers with assorted notes written on them, but mostly half-eaten food-stuffs. To the right of my right speaker sits my computer, and in the lower right hand corner of the U sits my stereo (the audio out of the ocmputer goes to the input of the stereo for MP3 playback), next to that is a laser pringer, lava lamp, and an old 486 linux server w/15" monitor. below that is a toaster, microwave, and apartment fridge. I have 3 different lamps, my lava lamp (for low light contions), a standard 75w bulb study lamp, and a hallogen lamp (for high intensity light). I've also got christmas lights lining my room and an overhead lights, which see little use. I sit in a reclining camping chair which I bought at K-Mart for 26$, and is mildly patched with duct tape, and is EXTREMELY comfortable.
That's my workplace, it's damned near perfect, but if you have any suggestions on to how i can improve my current living conditions, that'd be great : )
Hmm, i'm guessing in another 5-6 years we'll have cameras that will not only take a pciture of a building/room, but it will bounce radar/lasers off the surfaces of the room/area to creat polygons and create fully 3-d pictures and/or 3-d maps for games of some sort. It could also be used to make bad assed models/skins of people/charicters for what 1st person shooters turn into in 6 years. Once that comes out, having that, you could load an "old" FPS like Q3A on there and play that via bluetooth with sombody else's cd camera.
I laugh at this, and at the same time am slightly angered at this post;
I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to play the game that way
apparently you have never had the joy of being able to play tetris, or mario brothers on a graphing calculator durring the middle of class, or were lucky enough to have a friend in elementary school with a calculator watch. My friend had a watch that had a built in universal remote/calculator. We had an infinite amount of fun being able to do things like that, especially randomly turning on and off the TV in class. Playing Doom on a digital camera is fun in the respect that it's somthing new, and it's yet another cool feature of a toy you bought. You go on to say that talents could be used in other ways. Yes, they probably could, but people usually end up doing things using their abilites for their own benifit, or recognition (somtimes they end up being the same thing). If these people were to go and help with the coding/development of BSD, or another major project, they would be lost in the crowd of other people who worked on BSD, which isn't much credit given in the end scheme of things. Instead, they choose to do their own projects and create somthing that hasn't been done before, and they end up getting mucho credit for it (being slashdotted).
as a last note, the sega cd was so horribly unpopular, why would you ever want to attempt to emulate it? isn't that a bit hipocritical of yourself to knock porting one of the most popular games of all time to a camera, and then support the production of an emulator of one of the largest flops in console gaming (barring the neo geo and assorted color handhelds of the early 90's)
Alright, the first thing you need to do is to go down to your local autozone/shucks and buy a book of your partiular model. Inside, it should tell you how to enable your code and how to decipher it. For example, I have a 95 dodge neon, and the procedure goes like this:
OBD stands for On Board Diagnostics, and is a federally mandated specification for new cars, largely aimed at reducing emissions. The car logs certain problems that occur, and activates the 'Check Engine' light (CEL) to alert the driver. A mechanic with the proper DRB Scan Tool can the review this log in some detail to assist in repairing the problem. The most direct benefit is that owners can access some of this information themselves. Certain codes will set off the CEL while driving; some do not. It is a good idea to check for hidden codes occaisionally.
To read any OBD codes, perform the following sequence.
1) Cycle the ignition key ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON within 5 seconds.
2) Count the number of times the 'Check Engine' lamp on the instrument panel flashes on and off. The number of flashes represents the code. There is a slight pause between the flashes representing the first and second digits of the code. Longer pauses separate individual codes. For example, flash-flash-flash [pause] flash-flash represents the code 32.
You should have a similar sounding thing in your book. Most of the time the problem with the "service" light means that you need to fix somthing electrical (usually a 4-5$ part and fixable yourself, the guy at the auto parts store can usually tell you how to install it for free) or your timing is off for whatever reason.
My dad has had caddies since the late 70's, and the ODB readings were accessable through his electronic climate control by pressing and holding certian buttons, but good luck finding a book on caddies with that kind of information, caddy ODB numbers are only listed in special dealer "how to fix everythig" books from the GM press that we managed to find at a swap meet in seattle on weekend.
where i got the info on the neon was at http://www.neons.org/faq/FAQ_ET.html
I'm suprised nobody mentioned beam robots. The short short version is they are very simple robots capable of "thinking", or detecting light, shadows, and walls. One section of BEAM robotics is the solar section, which are basically robots about the size of coasters that derive their power from the sun. They're incredibly simple, and fairly cheap (60$), and will get you a general idea of what kind of work is involved in the planning, design modding, and actual soldering (which is a major bitch the first couple hours). Check out www.solarbotics.com for more on that.
The neat thing about powerpoint is that, just like.pdf, while it costs big bucks for the software to create, the viewer is free and can be picked up at the microsoft website. I'm sure you could find a linux.ppt viewer on download.com
For the legacy (pre bluetooth connected) stereo hardware, will they have what eventually boils down to a black transmitter/reciever box connected to a 1/8 in plug for the back of my computer, and another one with two RCA jacks to plug into my reciever in the living room? Yeah I know X11.com has a 2.4 Ghz one out there, but it won't be standard in a couple of years, and requires some software to use, i think.
Bluetooth is NOT a wireless networking protocol. It's a wireless cabling protocol.....802.11 last I heard required at the very least a PCMCIA card.
So I'm guessing bluetooth will only require a small chip...Hmm, yeah, the first thing anybody's going to want to do is abuse the technology with this is try and network their computers this way-but then again, there's the people who have been storming up ideas to network between 2 houses, there was even an "Ask Slashdot" involving it... but if the power consumption of the bluetooth chips is low enough that they can put it in cell phone/PDA/relativly low power devices, then wouldn't this be feasable to buy about 4 of these devices, plug a couple of AA batteries/9v batteries, stick them in a ziplock bag, and hang them in the trees (as repeaters) between your house and your friends, get a bluetooth device hooked up to each of your computer's serial ports, and finally be able to play Quake with sombody over a LAN-type connection? I'm sure this wouldn't be anywhere near as fast as actual T1/10bT, but even a null modem connection/speed would be pretty spiff.
So this works like a touchpad, i'm guessing? But with a trackball for movement...yeeeeah. My mom's compaq laptop has a utility that you can use a certian part of the touchpad for scrolling. I guess you could create a program so that when you drag your finger over a certian part of the mouse, it would scroll for the mouse pad.
Sombody's been smoking crack over at Apple. The pic at apple insider reminds me of the flyover/flightsim easter egg in MS excel.
Oh that's....oh good lord, why??? Cnet's writing has been going downhill for the last two years or so, get ready for some major SUCK... does Cnet have an IPO coming up? This might be worth investing in, for the first week at least : )
Well look at it this way; If apple had been playing around with the idea of a cube-shaped box (the next logical case design after the iMac and their spiffy G3 cases & what not..), then they proabably wouldn't want anyone else outside of apple talking about it and giving it a bad name before it went to market.
either that or this is a very round-about way of getting mass critisims about new case designs : )
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the first thing that comes to mind is the fact that i'm an aol user who uses aim (b/c the main aol prog has shitty IM capabilities), hence no need for me to see the ads.
secondly, only people who don't have the understanding to install-let alone find this particular plug in -are the people who may even consider changing to aol, or adopting it as a service provider. For the rest of us, the ads are useless and i doubt aol will see any signifigant decrease in click-throughs
umm i thought the low selling price of the palm IIIx had to do with the fact that it had no flashable rom and/or expansion possiblities? In which case, buddy, you're fucked. Next time ead the technical specs ahead of time : )
Maybe you're lucky and it was the IIIe or similar that had the non-flashable rom
Probably has alot to do with the fact that a nicer LCD than 160x160 can often be damned expensive, the power req's of a color display vs. a b&w display may be large enough that when switching from color to b&w (say, when you're going to europe for 6 months and don't want to bring alot of batteries so switch to the power saving lcd) that the high contrast power setting on the color display blows out the b&w display. That, and screen size/res and memory are normally the only things that differentiate the palm OS platform organizers currently; if you remove that, then palm loses one more selling point. And software/hardware display incompatiblities would be a bitch. Personally i would much rather see a 4 color(white/red/blue/green)/16shade b&w display if they could make one that was less power consuming than the 256 or 65k color displays.
bah. 6 on the right hand side of my ms natural keyboard? the hell that'll happen. how do you expect me to switch to the RL in old school Q1? The 7 key is conveniently located exactly where it should be, far left of the right hand split-board. boo yeah.
odd, i've spilt 3 .75L glasses of big red (3rd highest soda in sugar content, after jolt and somting else higher than coke and surge), and while the big red was on there, i didn't have any problem with it, seeing as how the spaces inbetween the keys are so damned small...i had enough time to run to the kitchen and grab a sponge and back before the bulk of the big red made it's way through to the "guts" of the KB. Anybody else have any stories they'd care to share?
if you were using a cloth covered mouse pad before the 3m mousepad, that would be your problem. the mouse constantly rolls over the cloth, witch eventually micro-pills, and gets picked up by the (suprise suprise) high-traction trackball, which then passes the dirt off to one of three (again) high traction x, y or null axis wheels. the hell if i know what you're doing with lint in your keyboard, unless you tend to clean your mouse out over top ofyour keyboard....
wow... sounds like you could just build your own, think of it, nice, brushed titanium case, make your own lexan (bulletproof plexiglass) keys using molds of old IBM keys, and reverse engeneer the clicking noise of those keyboards. My mom threw mine out, and i'm totally pissed about that. Buy some stainless steel coil springs (possibly titanium?), canniblalize the right-sized keyboard circut board thingy, graft on a 8-10 ft cable (MS natural has a 6' standard, it could be longer sometimes (like when surfing from bed/across the room)), and some sort of built in gel/neopreme wrist rest....ahhh yeah...
Out of the box, it's stable on freeBSD and Win2K (no idea of the status on MacOS since we don't have any of those around to play with).
I read somewhere that mac OSX was being built from (as much as you can when basing off of another OS) the ground up with the IPv6 protocols being pretty much hard coded into the kernel... or somthing along those lines
that's a really good idea, i don't know about the ti-82, but my 86 has a battery backup on top of the 4 AAA batteries, so when you take out the batteries, it doesnt get all the stuff deleted. Just hop on down to your local radioshack, pick up the right amount of solar cells that equals the voltage output of the batteries, somehow connect them all together, get in some GOOD sunlight, and you're set. Might not work in dark classrooms.
alot of people aren't aware of this, i know i sure wasn't
I can see it now, young teenagers are no longer using their xDSL/cable modems to play quake with LPB qualities and run game servers, but instead load up a small server program, about the size of omnihttp (1.4megs) that uses a combination of a pop3/stmp server and an eliza type program and a reader that grabs various nouns and verbs (ak-47, clinton, shoot, attacked, bolivia, nuclear war, ect)off of AP feeds and spits out emails to other Anti-carniVOre Servers (AVOS?), which bounce emails around the net through annonomous proxies in a gnutella-type fashion. Eventually the feds will give up monitoring any emails coming out of those proxies, and people can route their email traffic through the AVOS system. Or somthing.
The spirit of carnivore is good, the idea that they can target one potential criminal, and read all email pertaining to him in an attempt to arrest him is great. The FBI needs somthing like that. The letter though, says only the FBI gets a good look at the code, and they can impliment it anywhere, anytime, on anybody, without any notice. I'm sure people speaking out against carnivore are on their list of people to watch, if nothing more than to test out carnivore. Which brings up the subject; is this carnivore version 2.0? How long have they been testing this program on the general public without informing us about the program? On the flip side, yes, everyone is fairly aware that the FBI and whatnot agencies have always been able to efficently monitor the people they want, but for them to blatently pointing out "yes, we're quite capable of reading all of your email, and yes we're not letting you see what kind of technology we're using, and we're going to keep it that way.". That was a mistake from the start, their PR department is getting spanked by the public, at the very least they could have predicted a reaction even half of this, and they probably could have released a basic skeletal (or even fake) version of carnivore? Either way, we're a government of the people, by the people; if the people are beginning to opensource many new software projects, it'd be nice to see the government at least attempt to follow with current trends and opensource the carnivore program. I'm sure ISP's wouldn't mind adapting the software as a government-provided-spam-blocker, we spend enough money as it is trying spam email cases as it is.
comments?
I'd like to contest your claim that a p100 can barely play mp3's. Before purchasing a p400 celeron through stock trading company rebate, as a student, I had a third-hand stock dell p90 w/32 megs of ram. Dialing up to aol, i could not play my mp3's, I had to pause them, and then resume once the winmodem (sucks cpu) was done dialing. After that, the computer would run relativly slowly, but I could still chat online and surf the web while listening to mp3's, only having the sound "burp" occasionally (2-3 times an hour). If you manage your system resources well and keep windows slim, the early pentiums are quite capable.
with the 3rd gen cell phones, or whatever's coming out next, a couple of articles over on C|net have said that assorted companies will start using intel's strongARM processors, which as you said earlier, "or if it incorporated a 128Mb mp3 man", an 1Ghz strong arm processor could easily handle the load of decoding whatever bit rate MP3. I would gladly pay $150+ for a standard-looking nokia/nokia face plate usable cell phone (they already give the phone away for free, 150 for the mp3 technology isn't too shabby profit wise) that played mp3's, and could use some of that wonderfully-large ni-cad battery : )
Combine mp3 and cell phone, and i'll buy one tomorrow, at a reasonable cost.
my "work space" consists of a U shaped desk; i sit in the middle fo the U, facing the bottom left corner of the U. Directly infront of that is a 19" monitor, with large inherited speakers on either side of the monitor, and a speakerphone/cordless directly next to the monitor. Behind that, two open windows with miniblinds. To the left of my left speaker sits assorted pens, and discarded slurpee cups and 12 oz aluminum cans, and the remninants of TV dinners, acompanied by some papers with assorted notes written on them, but mostly half-eaten food-stuffs. To the right of my right speaker sits my computer, and in the lower right hand corner of the U sits my stereo (the audio out of the ocmputer goes to the input of the stereo for MP3 playback), next to that is a laser pringer, lava lamp, and an old 486 linux server w/15" monitor. below that is a toaster, microwave, and apartment fridge. I have 3 different lamps, my lava lamp (for low light contions), a standard 75w bulb study lamp, and a hallogen lamp (for high intensity light). I've also got christmas lights lining my room and an overhead lights, which see little use. I sit in a reclining camping chair which I bought at K-Mart for 26$, and is mildly patched with duct tape, and is EXTREMELY comfortable.
That's my workplace, it's damned near perfect, but if you have any suggestions on to how i can improve my current living conditions, that'd be great : )
Hmm, i'm guessing in another 5-6 years we'll have cameras that will not only take a pciture of a building/room, but it will bounce radar/lasers off the surfaces of the room/area to creat polygons and create fully 3-d pictures and/or 3-d maps for games of some sort. It could also be used to make bad assed models/skins of people/charicters for what 1st person shooters turn into in 6 years. Once that comes out, having that, you could load an "old" FPS like Q3A on there and play that via bluetooth with sombody else's cd camera.
I laugh at this, and at the same time am slightly angered at this post;
I can't imagine anyone actually wanting to play the game that way
apparently you have never had the joy of being able to play tetris, or mario brothers on a graphing calculator durring the middle of class, or were lucky enough to have a friend in elementary school with a calculator watch. My friend had a watch that had a built in universal remote/calculator. We had an infinite amount of fun being able to do things like that, especially randomly turning on and off the TV in class. Playing Doom on a digital camera is fun in the respect that it's somthing new, and it's yet another cool feature of a toy you bought. You go on to say that talents could be used in other ways. Yes, they probably could, but people usually end up doing things using their abilites for their own benifit, or recognition (somtimes they end up being the same thing). If these people were to go and help with the coding/development of BSD, or another major project, they would be lost in the crowd of other people who worked on BSD, which isn't much credit given in the end scheme of things. Instead, they choose to do their own projects and create somthing that hasn't been done before, and they end up getting mucho credit for it (being slashdotted).
as a last note, the sega cd was so horribly unpopular, why would you ever want to attempt to emulate it? isn't that a bit hipocritical of yourself to knock porting one of the most popular games of all time to a camera, and then support the production of an emulator of one of the largest flops in console gaming (barring the neo geo and assorted color handhelds of the early 90's)
Alright, the first thing you need to do is to go down to your local autozone/shucks and buy a book of your partiular model. Inside, it should tell you how to enable your code and how to decipher it. For example, I have a 95 dodge neon, and the procedure goes like this:
OBD stands for On Board Diagnostics, and is a federally mandated specification for new cars, largely aimed at reducing emissions. The car logs certain problems that occur, and activates the 'Check Engine' light (CEL) to alert the driver. A mechanic with the proper DRB Scan Tool can the review this log in some detail to assist in repairing the problem. The most direct benefit is that owners can access some of this information themselves. Certain codes will set off the CEL while driving; some do not. It is a good idea to check for hidden codes occaisionally.
To read any OBD codes, perform the following sequence.
1) Cycle the ignition key ON-OFF-ON-OFF-ON within 5 seconds.
2) Count the number of times the 'Check Engine' lamp on the instrument panel flashes on and off. The number of flashes represents the code. There is a slight pause between the flashes representing the first and second digits of the code. Longer pauses separate individual codes. For example, flash-flash-flash [pause] flash-flash represents the code 32.
You should have a similar sounding thing in your book. Most of the time the problem with the "service" light means that you need to fix somthing electrical (usually a 4-5$ part and fixable yourself, the guy at the auto parts store can usually tell you how to install it for free) or your timing is off for whatever reason.
My dad has had caddies since the late 70's, and the ODB readings were accessable through his electronic climate control by pressing and holding certian buttons, but good luck finding a book on caddies with that kind of information, caddy ODB numbers are only listed in special dealer "how to fix everythig" books from the GM press that we managed to find at a swap meet in seattle on weekend.
where i got the info on the neon was at http://www.neons.org/faq/FAQ_ET.html
I'm suprised nobody mentioned beam robots. The short short version is they are very simple robots capable of "thinking", or detecting light, shadows, and walls. One section of BEAM robotics is the solar section, which are basically robots about the size of coasters that derive their power from the sun. They're incredibly simple, and fairly cheap (60$), and will get you a general idea of what kind of work is involved in the planning, design modding, and actual soldering (which is a major bitch the first couple hours). Check out www.solarbotics.com for more on that.
The neat thing about powerpoint is that, just like .pdf, while it costs big bucks for the software to create, the viewer is free and can be picked up at the microsoft website. I'm sure you could find a linux .ppt viewer on download.com
Bluetooth is NOT a wireless networking protocol. It's a wireless cabling protocol.....802.11 last I heard required at the very least a PCMCIA card.
So I'm guessing bluetooth will only require a small chip...Hmm, yeah, the first thing anybody's going to want to do is abuse the technology with this is try and network their computers this way-but then again, there's the people who have been storming up ideas to network between 2 houses, there was even an "Ask Slashdot" involving it... but if the power consumption of the bluetooth chips is low enough that they can put it in cell phone/PDA/relativly low power devices, then wouldn't this be feasable to buy about 4 of these devices, plug a couple of AA batteries/9v batteries, stick them in a ziplock bag, and hang them in the trees (as repeaters) between your house and your friends, get a bluetooth device hooked up to each of your computer's serial ports, and finally be able to play Quake with sombody over a LAN-type connection? I'm sure this wouldn't be anywhere near as fast as actual T1/10bT, but even a null modem connection/speed would be pretty spiff.
So this works like a touchpad, i'm guessing? But with a trackball for movement...yeeeeah. My mom's compaq laptop has a utility that you can use a certian part of the touchpad for scrolling. I guess you could create a program so that when you drag your finger over a certian part of the mouse, it would scroll for the mouse pad.
Sombody's been smoking crack over at Apple. The pic at apple insider reminds me of the flyover/flightsim easter egg in MS excel.
Oh that's....oh good lord, why??? Cnet's writing has been going downhill for the last two years or so, get ready for some major SUCK... does Cnet have an IPO coming up? This might be worth investing in, for the first week at least : )
Well look at it this way; If apple had been playing around with the idea of a cube-shaped box (the next logical case design after the iMac and their spiffy G3 cases & what not..), then they proabably wouldn't want anyone else outside of apple talking about it and giving it a bad name before it went to market.
either that or this is a very round-about way of getting mass critisims about new case designs : )
For those of you who didn't get a good look at the image, you can find it at http://www.sheepdot.org/cube.htm