Too expensive for my tastes (the pricing for the Cintiq seems to be at least partially "we're the only ones with something like this on the market so we can charge whatever we want").
Well, it looks like it is possible to build DIY Cintig from a LCD panel a normal Wacom panel (with a bit of skill:).
There is an example buildlog: http://www.bongofish.co.uk/wacom/wacom_pt19.html
An there is a forum of the DIY Cintiq community: http://forum.bongofish.co.uk/index.php
So I am now hunting for 15" LCDs with external power supply and old 12"x12" Wacom tablets:D
Acording to Pandorapedia there should be now another ship on the way due in less than a year. Flying at 0.7 c. Powered by antimatter. Should I say relativistic antimatter weapons ? Lets see who wins the second round:)
The default OS is is shipped with is quite ironicaly modified Ubuntu 9.10:)
They just grabbed some alpha/beta and customized it for the device.
Other than the default distro, you can run Mer, Android and WinCE.
The os can be booted from the internal flash (some iNand) or from the SD card and the device is said to be basicaly unbrickable.
Well, that depends.
For more engines, you need:
*more power
*more cooling
*more fuel
And you get:
*more trust
Provided you dont increase the fuel quantity,
you will get just more thrust/acceleration from more engines
(nice for going throught the radiation belts fast) but the overall journey time could actually be longer(added mass).
Basically for any added mass, you need more mass (engines,fuel,power sources) to move it and even more mass if you want to go fast. Of course, when you ignore money, it could be built. But it would looks like a pyramid made of fuel tanks, radiators, reactors and engines with one human in a specesuit sitting in an open cockpit:)
BTW, when you ignore also the technical aspect, you get a torchship. You can get from planet to planet in days accelerating at comfortable 1g...but the power requirements are OBSCENE and you would slice a space station in half with your propulsion plume if you are not careful enought:)
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Too expensive for my tastes (the pricing for the Cintiq seems to be at least partially "we're the only ones with something like this on the market so we can charge whatever we want").
Well, it looks like it is possible to build DIY Cintig from a LCD panel a normal Wacom panel (with a bit of skill :).
:D
There is an example buildlog:
http://www.bongofish.co.uk/wacom/wacom_pt19.html
An there is a forum of the DIY Cintiq community:
http://forum.bongofish.co.uk/index.php
So I am now hunting for 15" LCDs with external power supply and old 12"x12" Wacom tablets
This is blasphemy !
Interestingly enought, LCD drawing tablets are still expensive :)
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Acording to Pandorapedia there should be now another ship on the way due in less than a year. Flying at 0.7 c . Powered by antimatter . Should I say relativistic antimatter weapons ? Lets see who wins the second round :)
Well, if only the company used undeground mining technology in place of strip mining, everything would be ok :)
Thats what directional high gain antennas are for :)
Unofficial SmartQ users board.
The default OS is is shipped with is quite ironicaly modified Ubuntu 9.10 :)
They just grabbed some alpha/beta and customized it for the device.
Other than the default distro, you can run Mer, Android and WinCE.
The os can be booted from the internal flash (some iNand) or from the SD card and the device is said to be basicaly unbrickable.
No problem :)
This is where I bought it from:
http://mp4nation.net/catalog/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_27
But there are other sites:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27441
And there is a "Where to buy ?" thread on the unofficial SmartQ users board:
http://www.smartqmid.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6
Well, that depends. For more engines, you need: *more power *more cooling *more fuel And you get: *more trust Provided you dont increase the fuel quantity, you will get just more thrust/acceleration from more engines (nice for going throught the radiation belts fast) but the overall journey time could actually be longer(added mass). Basically for any added mass, you need more mass (engines,fuel,power sources) to move it and even more mass if you want to go fast. Of course, when you ignore money, it could be built. But it would looks like a pyramid made of fuel tanks, radiators, reactors and engines with one human in a specesuit sitting in an open cockpit :)
BTW, when you ignore also the technical aspect, you get a torchship. You can get from planet to planet in days accelerating at comfortable 1g...but the power requirements are OBSCENE and you would slice a space station in half with your propulsion plume if you are not careful enought :)
Maybe the high-end ones, but the low-end GPUs are mostly passively cooled and still much more powerful than old GPUs.
I am not sure about fuels (nuclear fuels), but the rest looks promising.
Uranium has been found on moon: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090629-uranium-moon.html
On the Linux front, the GMA500 (Paulsbo) divers are unfortunately "A Bloody Mess".
Well, everyone playing Dwarf Fortress knows it IS caused by miasma :)
They can have a copy of Animal Crossing if they want.
Well, I dont think its a good idea.
Ah. Fair enough.
Maybe not.