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After 6 years they are within an ounce and a few 10ths of an inch of the first generation Palm (Pilot 1000). Of course the newer Palms are almost half the size.
If you want a palmtop which requires a holster but can show 30 second color videos and play Doom, then PocketPC is for you.
If you want a palmtop which fits comfortably in your pocket, and can store appointments, phone numbers, maps and play a game or two, Palms are still ahead (just get an older one and don't pay too much).
You are right. The burning fuel brought down the towers, and it took an hour. The impact of the plane was negligible to the structure - it would have destroyed a floor or two worth of office equipment/drywall, but the building would be back in use within days.
The letter makes no mention of the CD not working in normal audio players. Apparently the CD will not work in CD-ROM drives, but allows the user the ability to register with the record label and download a proprietary encoding of the song to play on their computer.
Zelda was fun, but I doubt it could hold your interest now. No matter how fond your memories of the old games are, playing them now reveals them to be shallow and tedious.
Interestingly, these same qualities make a few of the old games BETTER than you remeber. Fire up MAME and Robotron, focus on the center of the screen and start counting Brain Waves.
Buildings have already been solved. You have your 8 foot ceiling, your door and entryway, your bathroom, kitchen, bedrooms. Each of these has a certain standard size +- 20%. Most of archetecture is really interior decorating.
Programming would be similar to architecture if all programming jobs were e-commerce websites with a shopping cart and a relational database of products with an inventory of 1000-2000 items, and which could handle 100 - 200 simultaneous users.
This only applies if the company sells the product for a profit in one country, and at a loss in another country. If it sells at a loss everywhere it isn't considered dumping.
The big problem with LCD and mirror-chip projectors is excessive heat. With white LEDs, this won't be a problem. The pixel-definition device (chip or LCD) can be kept small and cheap, while the display (reflective board) can be big and cheap. Finally we'll have cheap, high definition screens. They'll be light and thin, too.
As another user pointed out, DC is suing against the ability of the web site to decode the encrypted CueCat output. In short, it is the same complaint they've been making all along. It has nothing to do with the existance of a UPC database. Unfortuatly nothing in the Slashdot story suggested this.
I had a similar experience with Word Perfect. Eventually I figured out that Word Perfect was really just a subtle and sophisticated video game that secretaries could play while at work.
imagine holding the pedal down for a sec to brake or change gears
Actually, if you knew anything about driving it has been proven that the most difficult thing for student drivers to understand is why there are two pedals in a car. Going to a standard one pedal design saves driver training hours and makes cars accessible to millions more drivers such as people's parents and grandparents. Besides, if you hold down the left turn signal and press the pedal, it acts just like a seperate brake pedal anyway! Sheesh!
There is also the practice of virtual sets in which an actor/newscaster is filmed against a blue-screen with a motion-recording camera. A realistic 3d environment is rendered and composited around the actor in real-time, using the correct camera positioning. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, are the virtual actors (annanova, 'duke', etc.), and real time ad compositing and placement during sporting events and newscasts.
The chipset in the PS2 is just a fraction of the cost of the whole unit. It also has a DVD drive, 32 MB of RAM, USB port/controller and a harddrive interface. Most of these other components would not be duplicated 16 times, but 512 MB RAM standard would be nice.
You must not work in web design. The "killer, IE only features" are such things as CSS and the DOM. This means that you can't do DHTML tricks or post 1995 layout in Netscape without debugging a huge number of Netscape bugs. The lowest common denominator you are proposing everyone develop for is indeed very low. In short, you are proposing that I tell my clients that they can't have the DHTML effects, they can't have leading on paragraphs, they can't have the non-black text, they can't have thier text overlaying images, etc. Clients aren't interested in the politics of standards compliance. They want their site to look good and work well, and have some sizzle like all the other sites you see on the web. If a single browser monopoly concerns you, work on a better browser. Downgrading websites to use only the standards that Netscape supports isn't the answer.
Didn't Apple only allow clonemakers to buy motherboards? I don't think Power, etc. could just license the ROMs and build any device using them. If they are stuck with a desktop motherboard, they will build desktop machines.
Apple gave up its chance for market share when it insisted on controlling the production of the hardware. This was a valid strategy for the purpose of generating revenue in the short term, but the Apple's natural inability to compete(1) against the whole world on hardware/software pricing and innovation will eventually cause the Mac market to disappear.
(1) Apple is a very innovative company, but one company with limited resources can't keep a proprietary platform competitive with the rest of the world forever.
I'm a big P.K. Dick fan too, but I don't think you can criticize Blade Runner for not being faithful to 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'. The two stories are almost totally different except for the premise of living in a future with Androids. For any fans of the movie who have not read any P.K. Dick, pick up Androids, but don't expect any similarities.
What was the Williams machine from ~1981 which featured a rapid fire pinball cannon where the flippers would be? You directed a stream of pinballs at various targets. It had to be the most kinetic energy ever stored in a pinball cabinet, and was quite cool.
Sometimes creating virtual interfaces instead of physical interfaces makes a lot of sense. In some cases it makes a complex product easier to use or more affordable (almost all synthesizers now use an lcd screen instead of rows upon rows of buttons and knobs).
Creating virtual interfaces on a mouse seems misguided to me. There are a few problems:
1. Tapping on a trackpad doesn't work very well. There is a lag. Sometimes it doesn't work. This would likely be the same with this buttonless mouse.
2. I would miss the tactile feedback of clicking a button. Trying to guess if the OS properly interpreted my finger motion would be agravating and slow me down.
3. A pad doesn't offer a physical landscape for your finger to orient itself on. I'd hate to have to look at the mouse to make sure I was tapping on the left side of the pad.
Making a product easy for absolute beginners at the expense of ease of use for semi-skilled users is a mistake.
You raise some good points, but your actual cost for owning your car isn't very enlightening. How much did you drive it per day? If you walk to work and only drove it 2 miles on the weekend, you must see how that would skew the total cost per mile.
I've had a pilot for at least 3 years now, and I don't find that they crash often. A few gimmicky apps will crash consistently but my old standbys of phone, calendar, drawing prog., web page viewer (AvantGo), map viewer and image viewer never cause crashes.
Avantgo does a good job of processing web pages for the tiny palm screen. It reduces the size and depth of the graphics (which look pretty good in 16 shades of grey) and optionally preserves tables. I'd definately rate it better than lynx, though it isn't as good as a WebTV or Dreamcast.
The 'right to bear arms' is to ensure the ability to raise a grass-roots military to overthrow the standing government/military.
Your post suggests that you feel any reforming of the Constitution is a bad idea. If you are consistant in this attitude, you also believe that any individual should be able to own a surface-to-air missile, or an atomic weapon.
If you think the Second Ammendment means only guns, then you are guilty of reforming the words and intention of the Constitution yourself.
The Constitution never mentions guns. What it does mention is "the right to bear arms". This means any and all arms, including grenades, tanks, missiles, nukes, etc.
Obviously this isn't a very good idea, and should be rethought.
People who claim to support gun ownership based on a hard line stance on the Second Amendment should recognize this.
Mostly everything is close together. I've walked to work every day, during three jobs and two apartments. Being able to walk as transportation is another thing about New York that is hard to find anywhere else. $5 will get you about 15-20 blocks (3/4 mile to 1 mile) with a tip, but that is easily a feasible distance to live from work. I know people who live two blocks from work.
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After 6 years they are within an ounce and a few 10ths of an inch of the first generation Palm (Pilot 1000). Of course the newer Palms are almost half the size.
If you want a palmtop which requires a holster but can show 30 second color videos and play Doom, then PocketPC is for you.
If you want a palmtop which fits comfortably in your pocket, and can store appointments, phone numbers, maps and play a game or two, Palms are still ahead (just get an older one and don't pay too much).
You are right. The burning fuel brought down the towers, and it took an hour. The impact of the plane was negligible to the structure - it would have destroyed a floor or two worth of office equipment/drywall, but the building would be back in use within days.
The letter makes no mention of the CD not working in normal audio players. Apparently the CD will not work in CD-ROM drives, but allows the user the ability to register with the record label and download a proprietary encoding of the song to play on their computer.
You have penis mightiers?
Zelda was fun, but I doubt it could hold your interest now. No matter how fond your memories of the old games are, playing them now reveals them to be shallow and tedious.
Interestingly, these same qualities make a few of the old games BETTER than you remeber. Fire up MAME and Robotron, focus on the center of the screen and start counting Brain Waves.
Buildings have already been solved. You have your 8 foot ceiling, your door and entryway, your bathroom, kitchen, bedrooms. Each of these has a certain standard size +- 20%. Most of archetecture is really interior decorating. Programming would be similar to architecture if all programming jobs were e-commerce websites with a shopping cart and a relational database of products with an inventory of 1000-2000 items, and which could handle 100 - 200 simultaneous users.
This only applies if the company sells the product for a profit in one country, and at a loss in another country. If it sells at a loss everywhere it isn't considered dumping.
The big problem with LCD and mirror-chip projectors is excessive heat. With white LEDs, this won't be a problem. The pixel-definition device (chip or LCD) can be kept small and cheap, while the display (reflective board) can be big and cheap. Finally we'll have cheap, high definition screens. They'll be light and thin, too.
The PS2 has USB support, so you should be able to use any standard USB keyboard/mouse.
As another user pointed out, DC is suing against the ability of the web site to decode the encrypted CueCat output. In short, it is the same complaint they've been making all along. It has nothing to do with the existance of a UPC database. Unfortuatly nothing in the Slashdot story suggested this.
I had a similar experience with Word Perfect. Eventually I figured out that Word Perfect was really just a subtle and sophisticated video game that secretaries could play while at work.
Actually, if you knew anything about driving it has been proven that the most difficult thing for student drivers to understand is why there are two pedals in a car. Going to a standard one pedal design saves driver training hours and makes cars accessible to millions more drivers such as people's parents and grandparents. Besides, if you hold down the left turn signal and press the pedal, it acts just like a seperate brake pedal anyway! Sheesh!
There is also the practice of virtual sets in which an actor/newscaster is filmed against a blue-screen with a motion-recording camera. A realistic 3d environment is rendered and composited around the actor in real-time, using the correct camera positioning.
Also, as mentioned elsewhere, are the virtual actors (annanova, 'duke', etc.), and real time ad compositing and placement during sporting events and newscasts.
The chipset in the PS2 is just a fraction of the cost of the whole unit. It also has a DVD drive, 32 MB of RAM, USB port/controller and a harddrive interface. Most of these other components would not be duplicated 16 times, but 512 MB RAM standard would be nice.
You must not work in web design. The "killer, IE only features" are such things as CSS and the DOM. This means that you can't do DHTML tricks or post 1995 layout in Netscape without debugging a huge number of Netscape bugs. The lowest common denominator you are proposing everyone develop for is indeed very low. In short, you are proposing that I tell my clients that they can't have the DHTML effects, they can't have leading on paragraphs, they can't have the non-black text, they can't have thier text overlaying images, etc. Clients aren't interested in the politics of standards compliance. They want their site to look good and work well, and have some sizzle like all the other sites you see on the web. If a single browser monopoly concerns you, work on a better browser. Downgrading websites to use only the standards that Netscape supports isn't the answer.
Apple gave up its chance for market share when it insisted on controlling the production of the hardware. This was a valid strategy for the purpose of generating revenue in the short term, but the Apple's natural inability to compete(1) against the whole world on hardware/software pricing and innovation will eventually cause the Mac market to disappear.
(1) Apple is a very innovative company, but one company with limited resources can't keep a proprietary platform competitive with the rest of the world forever.
I'm a big P.K. Dick fan too, but I don't think you can criticize Blade Runner for not being faithful to 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'. The two stories are almost totally different except for the premise of living in a future with Androids.
For any fans of the movie who have not read any P.K. Dick, pick up Androids, but don't expect any similarities.
What was the Williams machine from ~1981 which featured a rapid fire pinball cannon where the flippers would be? You directed a stream of pinballs at various targets. It had to be the most kinetic energy ever stored in a pinball cabinet, and was quite cool.
Sometimes creating virtual interfaces instead of physical interfaces makes a lot of sense. In some cases it makes a complex product easier to use or more affordable (almost all synthesizers now use an lcd screen instead of rows upon rows of buttons and knobs).
Creating virtual interfaces on a mouse seems misguided to me. There are a few problems:
1. Tapping on a trackpad doesn't work very well. There is a lag. Sometimes it doesn't work. This would likely be the same with this buttonless mouse.
2. I would miss the tactile feedback of clicking a button. Trying to guess if the OS properly interpreted my finger motion would be agravating and slow me down.
3. A pad doesn't offer a physical landscape for your finger to orient itself on. I'd hate to have to look at the mouse to make sure I was tapping on the left side of the pad.
Making a product easy for absolute beginners at the expense of ease of use for semi-skilled users is a mistake.
You raise some good points, but your actual cost for owning your car isn't very enlightening. How much did you drive it per day? If you walk to work and only drove it 2 miles on the weekend, you must see how that would skew the total cost per mile.
I can only think that 'banc' sounds more 'cyber' than 'bank'. I'd prefer 'banq' to 'banc', at least it makes more sense phonetically.
I've had a pilot for at least 3 years now, and I don't find that they crash often. A few gimmicky apps will crash consistently but my old standbys of phone, calendar, drawing prog., web page viewer (AvantGo), map viewer and image viewer never cause crashes.
Avantgo does a good job of processing web pages for the tiny palm screen. It reduces the size and depth of the graphics (which look pretty good in 16 shades of grey) and optionally preserves tables. I'd definately rate it better than lynx, though it isn't as good as a WebTV or Dreamcast.
I picked up on the 'sarcastic' part, good job!
I'm not sure what your point is.
The 'right to bear arms' is to ensure the ability to raise a grass-roots military to overthrow the standing government/military.
Your post suggests that you feel any reforming of the Constitution is a bad idea. If you are consistant in this attitude, you also believe that any individual should be able to own a surface-to-air missile, or an atomic weapon.
If you think the Second Ammendment means only guns, then you are guilty of reforming the words and intention of the Constitution yourself.
So which is it?
The Constitution never mentions guns. What it does mention is "the right to bear arms". This means any and all arms, including grenades, tanks, missiles, nukes, etc.
Obviously this isn't a very good idea, and should be rethought.
People who claim to support gun ownership based on a hard line stance on the Second Amendment should recognize this.
Mostly everything is close together. I've walked to work every day, during three jobs and two apartments. Being able to walk as transportation is another thing about New York that is hard to find anywhere else. $5 will get you about 15-20 blocks (3/4 mile to 1 mile) with a tip, but that is easily a feasible distance to live from work. I know people who live two blocks from work.