that a human can skip one 38 times, but there is no mention on how many times the machine they built was able to do it. Just watch, this is gonna lead to some wacky robotics competition where teams try to construct different robotic launchers to see which can skip more times or longer distance.
Kinda hard for calls that never touch the PSTN
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Not sure how other providers work, but Vonage does it this way. They have all their equipment, gateways, etc housed in several CLECs across the country. A call from the PSTN to a Vonage number goes to a CLEC containing a Vonage gateway, and from that point on all traffic goes through the public Internet. So if you wanted to tap one of these calls, you'd have to set up some equipment at the CLECs that Vonage uses.
However, you also have Vonage to Vonage calls, in which case they don't touch CLECs or the PSTN (the call never leaves the public Internet), so I don't have any idea how they'd go tapping those. They'd probably have to goto your ISP for something like that.
I think that it would only work if you were able to obtain an email address that a spammer actually checked, and we all know how hard those are to come by.
The Rio Nitrus seems like it's very similar to whatever this iPod Jr. is going to be.
Here are some specs on the Nitrus:
Dimensions: 3" X 2.4" X 0.6"
Weight: 2.0oz
Battery: 16-hour continuous playback on internal Li Ion battery
I myself own a Rio Karma and have been loving it ever since Christmas day. There are worthy alternatives to the iPod and the iPod Jr. as well it seems.
The Rio Karma was recently featured on/.
here.
I also found a very good review of the Karma on IGN.
All of that was enough to convince me to purchase one. Why go for the iPod if you can't get a good price on it anywhere? There's plenty of worthy competition now.
Regional encoding strikes again
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The Borg MegaCube
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From TrekToday: "The Borg Megacube is currently scheduled to hit stories in Region 2 (Europe) on November 3, 2003. It is not known whether a Region 1 (North America) version will also be released, but only 1000 copies will be on sale worldwide."
'2 1/2 hours to go 7.6 miles at a speed of 12.5 mph'
Someone forgot their high school physics and the whole inclined plane thing. It's not going to maintain the same speed going up a 6% grade or whatever is was that it would if it was on a level road. Blasted gravity.
I'd be more interested in how much time these people are spending on an IM service rather than using their phones. For myself, IM is basically my primary form of communication. If only all my friends would keep their machines on 24/7 as well.
Bush made his decision about the funding for stem cell research several weeks ago. After his decision, no one went to check out the status of those stem cell lines? Did Bush even look at any info on these 60 stem cell lines, or did he just happen to pick that option out of the hat of options he was considering? My tax dollars at work eh?
Who cares if it looks cartoony?
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The New Zelda
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Zelda2 looked like crap, but did anyone care? No. The game was almost IMPOSSIBLE to beat. It was good graphics for back then anyways. I really don't care what this Zelda game looks like, as long as it uses the GameCubes full capabilities I'm happy. I just want it to take a LOT to beat it, not 2 days like the first N64 Zelda game took.
Nintendo, there better not be any annoying talking fairy following Link around the whole damn time!
if she learned to type and write with her feet? I've seen disabled people play arcade machines before with their feet. I suppose the keyboard would have to have larger keys so that the big toe doesn't hit 3 keys at once.
All hardware is never going to work with all software. It's simply too much to ask. But graphic card incompatibility is not new to the gaming world. I remember a few years ago when I had a Riva TNT board, and just about EVERYONE else had some 3dfx board. Some games only first came out with support for the 3dfx stuff, and then later released patches for riva stuff, or riva released a new driver that would work with the game. I'm fairly sure that was all basically software differences, not hardware like this is. But there can't be anything wrong with a little friendly competition. As long as the good new games are released and are able to support ALL of the major boards out there I'm happy. They don't all have to be supported as soon as they hit stores, but delayed support is better than no support.
I hope any clothing that would implement this wouldn't somehow zap you when the sun is nice and bright. Hope it's water proof too.... What next? Someone attaches jumper cables from their car to your shirt? I think I'll stick with batteries.
They'll just have to start making FPS games where you run around trying to pet fluffy bunnies. Then some guys will come along and create a mod where the bunnies become that rabbit from the holy grail, and you'll be given a holy hand grenade. Thank god for mods. I love counter-strike!
The RIAA... could wipe all our HDs clean of mp3s. This is one silver bullet I never wanna see near my puter. Time to back up everything to optical again...
I use my NJB everytime I take a trip to one of my classes. At first I did have some problems with it, but I found ways to avoid every single problem I have encountered. First of all this thing does NOT have a very fast processor, just fast enough to do what it is supposed to do. If you have a mp3 playing and want to go running through all the other functions of the player, the NJB WILL slow down, WILL eat a lot of battery power, WILL crash sometimes. One major bug I have found is that when you try and play one mp3 just as another is ending the NJB will lockup a LOT. It must try and play 2 mp3s at once when you do this, the one you selected along with the next one in the queue. I simply don't do this. I make several playlists so I don't have to go around and change the mp3 every few minutes. One of the other posts here claims that the NJB's hd doesn't spin down. You can hear it spinning down, just by touching it you can tell whether the hd is spinning or not. This thing wasn't that great with the first firmware release, but now it supports FF and RV, this thing does everything I expected it to do now. With time you learn what to do and what not to do with the NJB. I'm still very happy I bought this thing.
Matter is essentially energy. Energy can't be destroyed or created, only converted from other forms of energy. Therefore, the universe always existed, or at least the energy that it is composed of. Most people think too linearly to grasp this concept. The universe will never be destroyed, it will just take on other forms. Not everything has a begining and an end. Hopefully all people will one day understand this.
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that a human can skip one 38 times, but there is no mention on how many times the machine they built was able to do it. Just watch, this is gonna lead to some wacky robotics competition where teams try to construct different robotic launchers to see which can skip more times or longer distance.
Not sure how other providers work, but Vonage does it this way. They have all their equipment, gateways, etc housed in several CLECs across the country. A call from the PSTN to a Vonage number goes to a CLEC containing a Vonage gateway, and from that point on all traffic goes through the public Internet. So if you wanted to tap one of these calls, you'd have to set up some equipment at the CLECs that Vonage uses.
However, you also have Vonage to Vonage calls, in which case they don't touch CLECs or the PSTN (the call never leaves the public Internet), so I don't have any idea how they'd go tapping those. They'd probably have to goto your ISP for something like that.
I think that it would only work if you were able to obtain an email address that a spammer actually checked, and we all know how hard those are to come by.
That's what happens when you try to extort a big company using Outlook.
The Rio Nitrus seems like it's very similar to whatever this iPod Jr. is going to be.
Here are some specs on the Nitrus:
Dimensions: 3" X 2.4" X 0.6"
Weight: 2.0oz
Battery: 16-hour continuous playback on internal Li Ion battery
I myself own a Rio Karma and have been loving it ever since Christmas day. There are worthy alternatives to the iPod and the iPod Jr. as well it seems.
The Rio Karma was recently featured on /.
here.
I also found a very good review of the Karma on IGN.
All of that was enough to convince me to purchase one. Why go for the iPod if you can't get a good price on it anywhere? There's plenty of worthy competition now.
From TrekToday:
"The Borg Megacube is currently scheduled to hit stories in Region 2 (Europe) on November 3, 2003. It is not known whether a Region 1 (North America) version will also be released, but only 1000 copies will be on sale worldwide."
http://www.trektoday.com/news/260903_01.shtml
Rejoice! That was the satellite that Major League Baseball was using to spy on us.
'2 1/2 hours to go 7.6 miles at a speed of 12.5 mph'
Someone forgot their high school physics and the whole inclined plane thing. It's not going to maintain the same speed going up a 6% grade or whatever is was that it would if it was on a level road. Blasted gravity.
I'd be more interested in how much time these people are spending on an IM service rather than using their phones. For myself, IM is basically my primary form of communication. If only all my friends would keep their machines on 24/7 as well.
Perhaps if this is implemeneted you'll be able to look at all the crap on the web AND all the crap on route 66 at the same time!
the four closest nudie-bars. The thing would sell like hot cakes!
Bush made his decision about the funding for stem cell research several weeks ago. After his decision, no one went to check out the status of those stem cell lines? Did Bush even look at any info on these 60 stem cell lines, or did he just happen to pick that option out of the hat of options he was considering? My tax dollars at work eh?
Zelda2 looked like crap, but did anyone care? No. The game was almost IMPOSSIBLE to beat. It was good graphics for back then anyways. I really don't care what this Zelda game looks like, as long as it uses the GameCubes full capabilities I'm happy. I just want it to take a LOT to beat it, not 2 days like the first N64 Zelda game took.
Nintendo, there better not be any annoying talking fairy following Link around the whole damn time!
"My dog ate my PDA"
"Hi, how are you today?"
"Poop!"
"Poop? I don't quite understand what you are trying to say."
"Pee-pee!"
"Indeed."
if she learned to type and write with her feet? I've seen disabled people play arcade machines before with their feet. I suppose the keyboard would have to have larger keys so that the big toe doesn't hit 3 keys at once.
All hardware is never going to work with all software. It's simply too much to ask. But graphic card incompatibility is not new to the gaming world. I remember a few years ago when I had a Riva TNT board, and just about EVERYONE else had some 3dfx board. Some games only first came out with support for the 3dfx stuff, and then later released patches for riva stuff, or riva released a new driver that would work with the game. I'm fairly sure that was all basically software differences, not hardware like this is. But there can't be anything wrong with a little friendly competition. As long as the good new games are released and are able to support ALL of the major boards out there I'm happy. They don't all have to be supported as soon as they hit stores, but delayed support is better than no support.
prompt Abort, Retry, Fail?
I hope any clothing that would implement this wouldn't somehow zap you when the sun is nice and bright. Hope it's water proof too.... What next? Someone attaches jumper cables from their car to your shirt? I think I'll stick with batteries.
They'll just have to start making FPS games where you run around trying to pet fluffy bunnies. Then some guys will come along and create a mod where the bunnies become that rabbit from the holy grail, and you'll be given a holy hand grenade. Thank god for mods. I love counter-strike!
I don't think it's very appropriate to make a joke out of that.
The RIAA... could wipe all our HDs clean of mp3s. This is one silver bullet I never wanna see near my puter. Time to back up everything to optical again...
I use my NJB everytime I take a trip to one of my classes. At first I did have some problems with it, but I found ways to avoid every single problem I have encountered. First of all this thing does NOT have a very fast processor, just fast enough to do what it is supposed to do. If you have a mp3 playing and want to go running through all the other functions of the player, the NJB WILL slow down, WILL eat a lot of battery power, WILL crash sometimes. One major bug I have found is that when you try and play one mp3 just as another is ending the NJB will lockup a LOT. It must try and play 2 mp3s at once when you do this, the one you selected along with the next one in the queue. I simply don't do this. I make several playlists so I don't have to go around and change the mp3 every few minutes. One of the other posts here claims that the NJB's hd doesn't spin down. You can hear it spinning down, just by touching it you can tell whether the hd is spinning or not. This thing wasn't that great with the first firmware release, but now it supports FF and RV, this thing does everything I expected it to do now. With time you learn what to do and what not to do with the NJB. I'm still very happy I bought this thing.
Matter is essentially energy. Energy can't be destroyed or created, only converted from other forms of energy. Therefore, the universe always existed, or at least the energy that it is composed of. Most people think too linearly to grasp this concept. The universe will never be destroyed, it will just take on other forms. Not everything has a begining and an end. Hopefully all people will one day understand this.