It's not as bad as you make it out to be. I just recently purchased the Williams F1 Racer and found that it used around 99% of the standard parts, very impressive for a kit that large (~1400 pieces).
I often wonder how much it really costs to manufacture and pack those little plastic pieces anyway. I think LEGO started to go downhill as soon as they started the StarWars mechandising (it must have cost them a bundle). Those specialised pieces you talk of originate in the latest LEGO commercial tie-in with some movie hype (HarryPotter, StarWars). It seems LEGO have dug their own grave, what they should have done was try and make the mindstorms system much cheaper and reinvent the 2.0 version so there was something really new to upgrade from 1.0/1.5. Maybe they could build an eitherly new Lego formfactor which allows for much greater precision for robotics. The LEGO concept itself is sound it just needs a kick in the pants.
Anyway, it's quite sad they have dropped the product line...
I wonder your eyes would adjust to the red tint after some time, just like wearing red tinted ski-goggles. For example white snow would get a red tint immediately, and as your brain adjusts the red snow is eventually perceived as white. I found it amazing the inverse applied as everything was tinted blue after removing the goggles. After some time my brain would realise that the snow is actually white.
I am a software developer for a mobile computing solution provider. We have used SQLServer CE extensively since version 1.0. While it can be extremely slow, somethings you just can't do with the engine. We revert to customised hashtable and binary files to get real grunt in our applications.
However what I have noticed is that since SQLServerCE supports such a vast majority of the interfaces in the OleDB specification, (in someways it is more conformant than SQLServer 2000) I suspect that the engine is derived from the MS Access codebase. While it is just speculation, they either wrote it from scratch or based it on an early MS Access version.
Actually after some further reading, the new name is just an additional level of categorisation. PocketPC and SmartPhone still describe the formfactor of the devices. Yet they are branded not under WindowsCE but Windows Mobile.
So instead of "Designed for WindowsCE" they are "Designed for Windows Mobile".
Kind of makes sense... Just confusing at the onset.
Actually it is not PocketPC 2003 (GET IT RIGHT ALREADY, hehe) it is "Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PCs". Oh, and CE.NET is already released, it has been released for a while now. CE.NET 4.2 was actually released in April by memory. In fact 4.0 and 4.1 were released in fairly quick successions last year (I figure due to major bugfixes/distribution cock-ups???)
Windows Mobile (aka PocketPC 2003) is based on CE.NET 4.2 to be precise.
The version I think you are talking about is the one slated to be based on the.NET Compact framework. The.NET cf is entirely different to CE.NET which is just an alias for the 4.x OS version. It unfortunately did not undergo the last minute name withdrawal like Windows Server 2003 (ie. Windows Server.NET). That version is rumoured to be released in a couple of years. I would imagine it's a complete rewrite.
I'm a little worried about all this name changing, it sounds like a complete mess. Hasn't Microsoft already learnt from the.NET fiasco. That is not to rename their products and cause dramatic confusion in the industry. Many people are increasingly seeing Microsoft as inconsistent and totally lacking in any direction. Confidence is dwindling.
I gather this name change is to align themselves for the next onslaught in... M$ vs SYMBIAN/NOKIA/PALM/WORLD.
Sounds's like IT works by maintaining a controlled fall? I'm not to up to scratch on the physics but if Dean found some way of holding the weight of a riders body efficiently. Like super efficient magnets or storing the bodies corrective energy in flywheels it might be something special.
Think about it, by maintaining the riders balance and transferring the riders balance corrections into forward motion might be how IT really works
I think this maybe much bigger than all these guys on slashdot seem to think. It's not simply a scooter. This Dean guy isn't that stupid is he?
There is a lot of talk about vulnerabilities from a "hacking" or electronic theft perspective.
Don't forget that someone can always break into Microsoft and steal a few of their.NET Database RAID drives.
Or even worse... an internal employee drops a WLAN bug behind their security or accidentally puts a few holes in their security system for a price from government X or company Y.
Do you think M$oft security would be weary of this? Don't you think this sort of information should be kept on your own premises where the OWNER is responsible for the security?
This solution will never work and if it does, I pity anyone that uses it....
So you're saying outlaws are afraid of being shot back at? I doubt that very much, logically they'll just simply shoot before being shot at.
We have regulated gun control in Australia and have no where near the number of killings as the USA and other countries per capita.
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I often wonder how much it really costs to manufacture and pack those little plastic pieces anyway. I think LEGO started to go downhill as soon as they started the StarWars mechandising (it must have cost them a bundle). Those specialised pieces you talk of originate in the latest LEGO commercial tie-in with some movie hype (HarryPotter, StarWars). It seems LEGO have dug their own grave, what they should have done was try and make the mindstorms system much cheaper and reinvent the 2.0 version so there was something really new to upgrade from 1.0/1.5. Maybe they could build an eitherly new Lego formfactor which allows for much greater precision for robotics. The LEGO concept itself is sound it just needs a kick in the pants.
Anyway, it's quite sad they have dropped the product line...
I wonder your eyes would adjust to the red tint after some time, just like wearing red tinted ski-goggles. For example white snow would get a red tint immediately, and as your brain adjusts the red snow is eventually perceived as white. I found it amazing the inverse applied as everything was tinted blue after removing the goggles. After some time my brain would realise that the snow is actually white.
However what I have noticed is that since SQLServerCE supports such a vast majority of the interfaces in the OleDB specification, (in someways it is more conformant than SQLServer 2000) I suspect that the engine is derived from the MS Access codebase. While it is just speculation, they either wrote it from scratch or based it on an early MS Access version.
Doesn't film already have a greater resolution?
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Check out the dotNET compact framework. It fits in less than 2 meg of ROM, on Windows Mobile devices (PDA's) and now Smartphones.
i on /devprograms/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/informat
While it is a bit of a hack attempt, it is definately a sign of what is to come.
Actually after some further reading, the new name is just an additional level of categorisation. PocketPC and SmartPhone still describe the formfactor of the devices. Yet they are branded not under WindowsCE but Windows Mobile.
So instead of "Designed for WindowsCE" they are "Designed for Windows Mobile".
Kind of makes sense... Just confusing at the onset.
Actually it is not PocketPC 2003 (GET IT RIGHT ALREADY, hehe) it is "Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PCs". Oh, and CE.NET is already released, it has been released for a while now. CE.NET 4.2 was actually released in April by memory. In fact 4.0 and 4.1 were released in fairly quick successions last year (I figure due to major bugfixes/distribution cock-ups???)
.NET Compact framework. The .NET cf is entirely different to CE.NET which is just an alias for the 4.x OS version. It unfortunately did not undergo the last minute name withdrawal like Windows Server 2003 (ie. Windows Server .NET). That version is rumoured to be released in a couple of years. I would imagine it's a complete rewrite.
.NET fiasco. That is not to rename their products and cause dramatic confusion in the industry. Many people are increasingly seeing Microsoft as inconsistent and totally lacking in any direction. Confidence is dwindling.
... M$ vs SYMBIAN/NOKIA/PALM/WORLD.
Windows Mobile (aka PocketPC 2003) is based on CE.NET 4.2 to be precise.
The version I think you are talking about is the one slated to be based on the
I'm a little worried about all this name changing, it sounds like a complete mess. Hasn't Microsoft already learnt from the
I gather this name change is to align themselves for the next onslaught in
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Words of wisdom... Finally.
Try aiming for the same letter until it repeats, you get a semi-wormhole easter egg!!
Think about it, by maintaining the riders balance and transferring the riders balance corrections into forward motion might be how IT really works
I think this maybe much bigger than all these guys on slashdot seem to think. It's not simply a scooter. This Dean guy isn't that stupid is he?
Don't forget that someone can always break into Microsoft and steal a few of their .NET Database RAID drives.
Or even worse... an internal employee drops a WLAN bug behind their security or accidentally puts a few holes in their security system for a price from government X or company Y.
Do you think M$oft security would be weary of this? Don't you think this sort of information should be kept on your own premises where the OWNER is responsible for the security?
This solution will never work and if it does, I pity anyone that uses it....
Puzzle Bobble...
Or Mame equiv's...
From the BBC Article:
"This company performed an illegal operation but they will not be shut down."
I thought it was only their OS's that did that.
So you're saying outlaws are afraid of being shot back at? I doubt that very much, logically they'll just simply shoot before being shot at. We have regulated gun control in Australia and have no where near the number of killings as the USA and other countries per capita.