Add in the fact that it probably doesn't have flash and other nice camera features like red eye, etc... you'll have to conclude that it's no replacement for a digital camera.
Do even understand that red eye comes from flash? Of course it's not replacement to digi, but it's better than nuffin, and it's always there.
Seriously. Who wants to stand there for 47 seconds waiting for the camera to transfer its images between shots. There's only so many times a baby takes its first steps. Who knows if you'll be waiting for the camera to catch up.
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Is a little bit of imagination too much to ask for? Why can't it have some 30 pics immediate storage (128megs?), and transfer the pictures in background. It's not that you're always near PC either, so the camera should be stand-alone anyways.
But, alas, those old machine don't have AGP ports. So, really, I don't see the point to this.
There's some PCI cards out there. I don't know how much memory they have (mine GF2PCI has 32 meg). Quick check reveals some 64Meg cards, which is not bad (compared to 64Meg SIMMs..).
Bigger problem IMO is power consumption. GF2 seems to eat some juice even without heavy 3D. Also if you have some rather shitty PCI cards, you really have to choose place of grapphics card well, SB live was one example of this b0rkiness. Anyway, 5PCI slots, 1 for real use and 4 x64meg each. that would be nice..
Huh? Why on earth would they want 128-bit colour. AFAIK the human eye can't tell the difference beyond 24-bit,
Yes, human eye can't go beyond that, but any decent processor can. And image should be processed after being grabbed from screen, for example divx:ed, or something.
if you don't know why scanners grab images at more than 8it/channel then..
I wonder how long before M$ requires pcs to have windows (ie.. making the bios only to boot into windows or freeze if no windows installed, etc.. it can be done)
It's called XBox, and it doesn't seem to fare well.
This is a requirement that fascinates me, how are you supposed to perceive something in 3D, when your receptors (eyes, retina) are 2D by their nature. As far sa my brains go, 2D surface emulator will do that just fine, so 3D screen is just a fancy toy that eases manipulation by having better interface to Real World(tm) than 2D screen.
Exactly. Adboce, for instance, will keep shipping their ugly Motif-baed Reader, in the absence of a standard.
In the case of adobe, it's all about 'history'. once upon a time they bought some kit which allowed them to develop apps simultaneously for Win16/Unix. That kit used Motif. ATM, company which made the kit, is probably dead. If They would switch over to something like wxWindows, they could use any kit on unix side. AFAIK adobe apps always come statically compiled anyways.
really. I don't think you have much choice but brute-force it. Collect as many as possible checksum -generators, and try them on portions of message. Some more-or less trivial are 'LRC', CRC, CRC16, and CRC32 ones. Of course XOR too. difficulty is to determine which characters go to checksum, as it's not always that 'STX'/'ETX' are included.
Yes, and remember that TCO is totally another matter. Would you take pr0n peering kiddie watch out for your NT farm, or a motivated nixXor (this is what i've observed -- mcse:s overdose pr0n, while nixXies code).
I always found it amusing when a Warrior took out a tank. What on earth was that sword made out of anyway?
Ever heard of 'symbolic representation'? Like.. Do you really thing there's only 5-12 units defending 14-million city? So think about how a 'veteran', 'classy' combat 'unit', can beat pants off some rookie units.
Like hmm. Finnish soldiers in WWII beat shit out of russians, at ratio 1 to 10. (Yeah, lost the war, but wtf, even 1:20 wouldn't have helped..)
also consider the benifit/cost ratio in countries that don't already have a nationwide coverage with land lines compared to those that do.
if a country starts with little infrastructure, it makes sense to pop up a wireless network. if you have a huge country that already has landline service, it's just not that financially feasible to construct a nationwide wireless network.
I fail to see how that would be related to Finland then. Finland has had nation-wide landphone infra from 1950. It costs about $60 to get a land-phone. and then there's localphone rate at about 1 cent/min (or less, i dunno, haven't had landphone for 7 years).
AFAIK GSM network doesn't have to be very dense. It's sensible to make it dense only in areas where there are many talkers -> even cheaper. Areas woth popoulation of under 5ppl/km2 can be handled by small 'power'. (I mean antenna in cellular would show up small, dunno the right term). It would take more juices out of phone, but it would _at least_ work. More than you have now.
Frankly, At the moment I can SMS fellow programmer in Latvia, former USSR resp. I can't do that to our subdivision in US. That mean I must either phone (9 hours difference..) or use e-mail, and the asses won't answer in another 9 hours. That's so lame.
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What about running Windows 2000 on the XBox? Has it been done? Can it be done?
Nope. Unless you're working for MS, or love digging x86 assembly.
We'll get to burn 3.09GB on the disk!
In american english of course. I recall something about the british having "Millard" between million and thousand.
Milliard is 1k * 1M. Only US uses 'billion' there.
Add in the fact that it probably doesn't have flash and other nice camera features like red eye, etc... you'll have to conclude that it's no replacement for a digital camera.
Do even understand that red eye comes from flash? Of course it's not replacement to digi, but it's better than nuffin, and it's always there.
Btw. IRC is from Europe too... Not sure about newsgroups though.
IRC was also 'invented' by a Finnish guy (Linux --tha kernel too)..
Usenet was probably invented in US (Where's Duke UV?) more info.
Seriously. Who wants to stand there for 47 seconds waiting for the camera to transfer its images between shots. There's only so many times a baby takes its first steps. Who knows if you'll be waiting for the camera to catch up.
<G>
Is a little bit of imagination too much to ask for? Why can't it have some 30 pics immediate storage (128megs?), and transfer the pictures in background. It's not that you're always near PC either, so the camera should be stand-alone anyways.
Therefore you have to block all of AOL, which is A-OK by the RIAA I suppose...
That would be nice to see, RIAA sat on by AOL.. cos ultimately that would be a breach of AOL's terms of usage.
But, alas, those old machine don't have AGP ports. So, really, I don't see the point to this.
There's some PCI cards out there. I don't know how much memory they have (mine GF2PCI has 32 meg). Quick check reveals some 64Meg cards, which is not bad (compared to 64Meg SIMMs..).
Bigger problem IMO is power consumption. GF2 seems to eat some juice even without heavy 3D. Also if you have some rather shitty PCI cards, you really have to choose place of grapphics card well, SB live was one example of this b0rkiness. Anyway, 5PCI slots, 1 for real use and 4 x64meg each. that would be nice..
Why not just keep the processor outside :-)
;) (or at least shit on it).
Cuz the bears would eat it
The Parrot project has just released a functional compiler for Parrot.
So, the perl has gone back to the roots.. All the way down to the LISP.
nitpicking, AGP is not a bus. It's Accelerated Graphics Port. See article at anand for more info.
Huh? Why on earth would they want 128-bit colour. AFAIK the human eye can't tell the difference beyond 24-bit,
Yes, human eye can't go beyond that, but any decent processor can. And image should be processed after being grabbed from screen, for example divx:ed, or something.
if you don't know why scanners grab images at more than 8it/channel then..
No connnection from Linus to Alan?
gimme a break.
FYEO, Enlightenment is doing OGL now. The software hack was a hack. it's mostly gone.
I wonder how long before M$ requires pcs to have windows (ie.. making the bios only to boot into windows or freeze if no windows installed, etc.. it can be done)
It's called XBox, and it doesn't seem to fare well.
Let's not forget, "Bending Over" which is what the GRACE team will likely have to do when they are up for funding renewal....
plan b) for naming GRACE: bender.
So 2x 2D monitors will do it. Still no need for 'real' 3D monitor.
2. You would need to have a true 3D display.
This is a requirement that fascinates me, how are you supposed to perceive something in 3D, when your receptors (eyes, retina) are 2D by their nature.
As far sa my brains go, 2D surface emulator will do that just fine, so 3D screen is just a fancy toy that eases manipulation by having better interface to Real World(tm) than 2D screen.
... has been around for some time now.
.. and most of banners on the same platform..
One single best download I've done in weeks.
Exactly. Adboce, for instance, will keep shipping their ugly Motif-baed Reader, in the absence of a standard.
In the case of adobe, it's all about 'history'. once upon a time they bought some kit which allowed them to develop apps simultaneously for Win16/Unix. That kit used Motif. ATM, company which made the kit, is probably dead. If They would switch over to something like wxWindows, they could use any kit on unix side. AFAIK adobe apps always come statically compiled anyways.
really.
I don't think you have much choice but brute-force it.
Collect as many as possible checksum -generators, and try them on portions of message.
Some more-or less trivial are 'LRC', CRC, CRC16, and CRC32 ones. Of course XOR too. difficulty is to determine which characters go to checksum, as it's not always that 'STX'/'ETX' are included.
Unix admins cost more than MCSEs, too.
I guess it's true - you do get what you pay for.
Yes, and remember that TCO is totally another matter. Would you take pr0n peering kiddie watch out for your NT farm, or a motivated nixXor (this is what i've observed -- mcse:s overdose pr0n, while nixXies code).
I always found it amusing when a Warrior took out a tank. What on earth was that sword made out of anyway?
Ever heard of 'symbolic representation'? Like.. Do you really thing there's only 5-12 units defending 14-million city?
So think about how a 'veteran', 'classy' combat 'unit', can beat pants off some rookie units.
Like hmm. Finnish soldiers in WWII beat shit out of russians, at ratio 1 to 10. (Yeah, lost the war, but wtf, even 1:20 wouldn't have helped..)
is called 'Experience' part of your CV.
I've yet to find a simple way to determine any of those. It's just that feeling when you get while looking at the code 'damn, not again..'.
also consider the benifit/cost ratio in countries that don't already have a nationwide coverage with land lines compared to those that do.
if a country starts with little infrastructure, it makes sense to pop up a wireless network. if you have a huge country that already has landline service, it's just not that financially feasible to construct a nationwide wireless network.
I fail to see how that would be related to Finland then. Finland has had nation-wide landphone infra from 1950. It costs about $60 to get a land-phone. and then there's localphone rate at about 1 cent/min (or less, i dunno, haven't had landphone for 7 years).
AFAIK GSM network doesn't have to be very dense. It's sensible to make it dense only in areas where there are many talkers -> even cheaper. Areas woth popoulation of under 5ppl/km2 can be handled by small 'power'. (I mean antenna in cellular would show up small, dunno the right term). It would take more juices out of phone, but it would _at least_ work. More than you have now.
Frankly, At the moment I can SMS fellow programmer in Latvia, former USSR resp. I can't do that to our subdivision in US. That mean I must either phone (9 hours difference..) or use e-mail, and the asses won't answer in another 9 hours. That's so lame.