Not only are there safety issues with the voltages that close together, there are issues of arcing and dielectric breakdown. It would require a much more expensive plastic to make a 3.5mm audio jack that was rated to 120 volts.
Lenovo has tested several of their new Thinkpads to comply with MIL-SPEC semi-rugged computing standards. The results prove what you are saying, Thinkpads can pass as semi-rugged on many counts but don't compete with the fully ruggedized Toughbooks. Tests included operation at low atmospheric pressure, high humidity, operational and non-operational vibration, dust exposure, and the "mild" -20 to 60 C temperature range.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/thinkpads-pass-the-tough-test-but-dont-call-em-rugged/
Dual-stick control will be perfect when they sell Hummers with tracks instead of wheels. Until then it would be utterly pointless.
A Battlezone HUD would pretty sweet though.
For some reason, I can finesse the clutch with my left foot, but left foot braking is a major challenge.
I have had similar results. Clutch action and brake action are very different. "SLAM-pause-release" works well on the clutch, not so well on the brakes (speaking from experience--my idle control valve was stuck closed). It's just a matter of muscle training, but not one that I will overcome any time soon.
For that matter, who's been writing the headlines recently? First "Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation" and now "Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It". Since when has Slashdot started acting like a sensationalist tabloid?
The GBC was released almost 11 years ago. That means there's a good chance Nintento didn't (or soon won't) renew their copyrights on some of it and it is public domain.
Besides, the boot rom is hardly something that they would even bother to copyright--since it is so inaccessible they probably kept it as a "trade secret" which means there is no automatic protection under the law. I would be extremely surprised if they bothered to do anything about this at all, since the GBC and GBA are both ancient history by now.
Of course, I too find claimed copyrights on hack data to be very dubious, but one can only assume the author expects others to ignore that copyright as much as he ignores everyone else's. But technically, is it even copyrighted if he didn't submit it to the Copyright Office, or is it just a banner he put there to scare people?
That is the first time I've ever heard anyone say that malware is a "small price to pay" for web content. It's like agreeing to drive across a bridge without tolls, but every millionth trip the owner has the right to steal your car and your credit card. Unless of course that was sarcasm I detected.
Unless you've been browsing with Ad-block for as long as you can remember, I would be very surprised if you haven't come across those annoying "Scan your computer" or "Your computer is infected, click here to repair!" banner ads. There used to be pop-up message boxes with them a lot too, and they have been around for as long as I can remember.
LCD manufacturers are more concerned with price and power consumption than dpi at the moment. Ultra-high-dpi screens are really expensive to manufacture and might even require a different LCD technology to go that fine. Plus the average consumer can't physically see the difference at some point.
Wait until we have chip-scale optics and holographic displays for super-high resolutions.
My ignorant self wonders if maybe their setup was incapable of running Crysis at that resolution. Unless they also tripled the GPU computing power density, you would probably get better performance with three cutting-edge dual-monitor cards.
It was humorous up until the last page, where it said, "Your entire digital life could go up for auction for as little as $21.39" and then had two big buttons, ALLOW and DENY. Are they ASKING if you want to auction your identity on the black market? And who in their right mind would click on either one of them? Very suspicious, but obviously just an advertisement for Symantec's crappy products.
Long live ES-ET for actual bloat-free protection.
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Not only are there safety issues with the voltages that close together, there are issues of arcing and dielectric breakdown. It would require a much more expensive plastic to make a 3.5mm audio jack that was rated to 120 volts.
Lenovo has tested several of their new Thinkpads to comply with MIL-SPEC semi-rugged computing standards. The results prove what you are saying, Thinkpads can pass as semi-rugged on many counts but don't compete with the fully ruggedized Toughbooks. Tests included operation at low atmospheric pressure, high humidity, operational and non-operational vibration, dust exposure, and the "mild" -20 to 60 C temperature range. http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/23/thinkpads-pass-the-tough-test-but-dont-call-em-rugged/
Dual-stick control will be perfect when they sell Hummers with tracks instead of wheels. Until then it would be utterly pointless. A Battlezone HUD would pretty sweet though.
For some reason, I can finesse the clutch with my left foot, but left foot braking is a major challenge.
I have had similar results. Clutch action and brake action are very different. "SLAM-pause-release" works well on the clutch, not so well on the brakes (speaking from experience--my idle control valve was stuck closed). It's just a matter of muscle training, but not one that I will overcome any time soon.
For that matter, who's been writing the headlines recently? First "Porn Surfing Rampant At US Science Foundation" and now "Microsoft Security Essentials Released; Rivals Mock It". Since when has Slashdot started acting like a sensationalist tabloid?
The GBC was released almost 11 years ago. That means there's a good chance Nintento didn't (or soon won't) renew their copyrights on some of it and it is public domain.
Besides, the boot rom is hardly something that they would even bother to copyright--since it is so inaccessible they probably kept it as a "trade secret" which means there is no automatic protection under the law. I would be extremely surprised if they bothered to do anything about this at all, since the GBC and GBA are both ancient history by now.
Of course, I too find claimed copyrights on hack data to be very dubious, but one can only assume the author expects others to ignore that copyright as much as he ignores everyone else's. But technically, is it even copyrighted if he didn't submit it to the Copyright Office, or is it just a banner he put there to scare people?
That is the first time I've ever heard anyone say that malware is a "small price to pay" for web content. It's like agreeing to drive across a bridge without tolls, but every millionth trip the owner has the right to steal your car and your credit card. Unless of course that was sarcasm I detected.
Unless you've been browsing with Ad-block for as long as you can remember, I would be very surprised if you haven't come across those annoying "Scan your computer" or "Your computer is infected, click here to repair!" banner ads. There used to be pop-up message boxes with them a lot too, and they have been around for as long as I can remember.
LCD manufacturers are more concerned with price and power consumption than dpi at the moment. Ultra-high-dpi screens are really expensive to manufacture and might even require a different LCD technology to go that fine. Plus the average consumer can't physically see the difference at some point. Wait until we have chip-scale optics and holographic displays for super-high resolutions.
My ignorant self wonders if maybe their setup was incapable of running Crysis at that resolution. Unless they also tripled the GPU computing power density, you would probably get better performance with three cutting-edge dual-monitor cards.
It was humorous up until the last page, where it said, "Your entire digital life could go up for auction for as little as $21.39" and then had two big buttons, ALLOW and DENY. Are they ASKING if you want to auction your identity on the black market? And who in their right mind would click on either one of them? Very suspicious, but obviously just an advertisement for Symantec's crappy products. Long live ES-ET for actual bloat-free protection.
I have FIOS and am paying for the "20/5" service but frequently it behaves as 25/20--easily 3 MB/s download, 2.3 MB/s upload. megaBYTES per second