Yes, please. Don't feed us whitespace and pretty pictures that are barely related to the contents of the article. Bring us news for nerds. Bring us stuff that matters.
A 10-inch, 1024x768 (or higher!) resolution screen placed one feet and a half from your eyes will look bigger and appear sharper than a 40-inch, 1920x1080 screen placed a couple of yards away.
Screen size in tablets is not a problem for gaming. Some of the other issues you mentioned might be, though.
No, not really. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV) France's TGVs run at a top speed of 320 km/h, not 500 km/h. 320 mph is fairly close to 500 km/h so that's probably the source of the mistake.
The latest generation bullet trains that do 300kph
I have used both LogMeIn Free (mentioned above) and TeamViewer.
LogMeIn Free feels more polished than TeamViewer but it needs to be installed and configured in the PC you want to control, which makes it the best choice only for computers you will maintain on a regular basis (e.g. your parents', your brother's...).
TeamViewer, on the other hand, doesn't need to be installed or configured in the PC you want to control --your "customer" simply needs to dowload a file, run it and read a couple of numbers to you-- which makes it ideal for one-off support cases.
Of course you shouldn't expect it not to break. But an explosion? That's unacceptable.
Funny enough, here's a quote from an article in IEEE's Spectrum magazine:
the energy density of lithium-ion batteries used for laptop computers, at 40 watt-hours per kilogram, [is] already getting uncomfortably close to that of your basic hand grenade
MAD started losing it the day William M. Gaines passed away. He was the heart and soul of the magazine and, when he was no longer there to say what made it and what didn't make it into print, the quality of the magazine suffered. A lot. So much so that I didn't renew my subscription after William's death.
The problem is not that only one out of three issues is funny but rather than only one third of every issue is.
The problem is also that, since Lego has been the only game in town for many years, the average Joe will think that everything that fits Lego blocks *is* made by Lego even if it really is a cheap knockoff. That will dilute the Lego brand itself, which is probably one of the things Lego wanted to avoid by taking these guys to court.
I had a friend working for 3M at the customer support lab for vinyl films. When some vinyl film didn't turn out right, this guy was in charge of inspecting samples sent by the customer and finding out what the problem was. He told me that most of the stuff customers complained about was vinyl film all right... but not 3M's vinyl film.
If this happens with something you buy yourself (vinyl fim) and use professionally, guess what will happen with things (toy bricks) kids usually don't buy themselves but get as a present.
I can attest to the fact that G.I Joe was "international" long ago.
When G.I. Joe was on on British satellite TV around 1989 (I think it was on Super Channel but it might have been Sky Channel), the opening tune of the show was already "International Heroes" instead of "a real American Hero". Funny enough, US flags were everywhere on the show (and the only national flag around). I guess re-dubbing is way easier than making new animation.
I, for one, don't think that jury trials are so good an idea. Even less so when judging something as fuzzy as patent infringements.
The ability of judges to understand the fine technical details in cases like SCO vs. IBM has always been in question here in Slashdot. Jury members represent "the man on the street" and, no matter how pure their intentions might be, they are no more capable than judges of understanding these details. Sadly, most patent infringement cases are all about fine technical details so jury members are likely to be swayed one way or the other by what they do understand, e.g. the defense --or the prosecution-- attorney being prettier/taller/a better con man.
I am no friend of Microsoft but they don't seem to be the villain here.
According to a book I read, On Being a Photographer --by David Hurn from Magnum Photos-- the best camera is "the one that takes the picture". In that sense, a camera phone is more likely to be "the best camera" if only because --unlike your dSLR-- you have it on you most of the time: the odds of your being able to take a casual snapshot of something that catches your eye (a custom car on the curb, your kid enjoying himself on the swings, a beautiful sunset...) with a camera phone are way higher that those of you doing likewise with a real camera. Thus it is nice to see camera phones being able to take (objectively) better pictures everyday.
That being said, I don't see camera phones ever taking the place of real cameras. There are a hell of a lot of situations when you know you'll be taking pictures (trips, parties...) and, as some other people have already pointed out, there is no way the cheap lens and sensor in a camera phone will provide the same quality as the bigger and more complex lens and higher-quality sensor in a real camera.
Hmmm... I would say there is a market for PCs without an OS on them.
The company I work for has a corporate volume license for Windows 2000, which is the OS we all are (still) using.
In spite of the company paying for Windows 2000, the HP computer on my desk has a sticker with a Windows XP Professional serial number, which clearly suggests that they paid for that XP license, too. That XP license has never been used and will never be since we are jumping ship to Vista Real Soon Now (tm).
Being a multi-national company with 50,000+ employees (and 50,000++ PCs), I'd say the company would be very much interested into buying their PCs without a preinstalled copy of Windows they won't use. Nevertheless, big name vendors don't give you the chance to choose whether you want Windows on your PC or not --except for a few selected models.
...is because they use a 4-bit custom microprocessor, the Saturn, which is clocked under 4 MHz for the HP48gx and even lower for older models. The bright side of the low clock speed is that HP48-series calculators are extremely power efficient. A pack of AAA batteries will keep you running for --literally-- years.
I doubt the new, ARM-based HP calculators can make such a claim.
I thought they would mention Boblbee's hardshell backpacks. They are incredibly tough and have an interesting design, both in the technical and the looks departments.
Nintendo never said Revolution would launch worldwide exactly on the same date. Jim Merrick, Nintendo of Europe's Senior Director of Marketing, stated they hoped to launch Revolution globally within 14 weeks.
Oh, but they are!
Several Spanish and European author's associations have asked for a levy to be paid to them every time a public library lends a book. No al préstamo de pago en bibliotecas (in Spanish... sorry, automatic translation is no good here).
Cringely's NerdTV a weekly, GPL'd show on tech issues. AFAIK, it was the first open-source TV program ever and was supposed to start "airing" a couple of years ago. They seemed to have all the technical details ironed out and be about to start when NerdTV completely dissapeared from the face of the Earth.
As a matter of fact, this story has already been adapted to TV. I can't remember the name of the show but it must have been The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. It's hard to say because show names are sometimes changed here (Spain).
I know I watched it some ten years ago --maybe even longer ago.
The IEEE's Spectrum magazine ran an article talking about this issue last April. The content is members-only so I cannot post a link to it:-(
Anyway, here's a link to one of the refereces cited in that article
In short, there is no evidence it has ever happened and it doesn't seem possible in theory, either.
The funny thing is they recently passed a law in Spain that forbids you to have a connected cell phone while refuelling. You must switch it off before you refuel.
So much for politicians getting the facts right before they make a law...
If you are running Windows, have you tried Ahead's DriveSpeed and Jörn Fiebelkorn's CD Bremse? These programs allow you to set the read speed of your CD and DVD drives.
Sometimes they are troublesome (disc change getting sluggish, etc.), but they usually work fine.
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but. the new design wastes 50% of my screen.
just make it like it was 10 years ago.
Yes, please. Don't feed us whitespace and pretty pictures that are barely related to the contents of the article. Bring us news for nerds. Bring us stuff that matters.
A 10-inch, 1024x768 (or higher!) resolution screen placed one feet and a half from your eyes will look bigger and appear sharper than a 40-inch, 1920x1080 screen placed a couple of yards away.
Screen size in tablets is not a problem for gaming. Some of the other issues you mentioned might be, though.
France runs 500kph trains
No, not really. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV) France's TGVs run at a top speed of 320 km/h, not 500 km/h. 320 mph is fairly close to 500 km/h so that's probably the source of the mistake.
The latest generation bullet trains that do 300kph
Pretty much the same as France's TGV.
I have used both LogMeIn Free (mentioned above) and TeamViewer.
LogMeIn Free feels more polished than TeamViewer but it needs to be installed and configured in the PC you want to control, which makes it the best choice only for computers you will maintain on a regular basis (e.g. your parents', your brother's...).
TeamViewer, on the other hand, doesn't need to be installed or configured in the PC you want to control --your "customer" simply needs to dowload a file, run it and read a couple of numbers to you-- which makes it ideal for one-off support cases.
To the best of my knowledge, most netbooks are 1024x600.
Of course you shouldn't expect it not to break. But an explosion? That's unacceptable.
Funny enough, here's a quote from an article in IEEE's Spectrum magazine:
the energy density of lithium-ion batteries used for laptop computers, at 40 watt-hours per kilogram, [is] already getting uncomfortably close to that of your basic hand grenade
I'm just saying.
MAD started losing it the day William M. Gaines passed away. He was the heart and soul of the magazine and, when he was no longer there to say what made it and what didn't make it into print, the quality of the magazine suffered. A lot. So much so that I didn't renew my subscription after William's death.
The problem is not that only one out of three issues is funny but rather than only one third of every issue is.
The problem is also that, since Lego has been the only game in town for many years, the average Joe will think that everything that fits Lego blocks *is* made by Lego even if it really is a cheap knockoff. That will dilute the Lego brand itself, which is probably one of the things Lego wanted to avoid by taking these guys to court.
I had a friend working for 3M at the customer support lab for vinyl films. When some vinyl film didn't turn out right, this guy was in charge of inspecting samples sent by the customer and finding out what the problem was. He told me that most of the stuff customers complained about was vinyl film all right... but not 3M's vinyl film.
If this happens with something you buy yourself (vinyl fim) and use professionally, guess what will happen with things (toy bricks) kids usually don't buy themselves but get as a present.
Hmmm... Yours is hardly a valid reasoning. What about this?
"Don't agree with violence? Fine: don't go around beating people up."
It takes way more than that for things to work out.
I can attest to the fact that G.I Joe was "international" long ago.
When G.I. Joe was on on British satellite TV around 1989 (I think it was on Super Channel but it might have been Sky Channel), the opening tune of the show was already "International Heroes" instead of "a real American Hero". Funny enough, US flags were everywhere on the show (and the only national flag around). I guess re-dubbing is way easier than making new animation.
Is positively unqualified better than possibly corrupt? Honestly, I don't know.
I, for one, don't think that jury trials are so good an idea. Even less so when judging something as fuzzy as patent infringements.
The ability of judges to understand the fine technical details in cases like SCO vs. IBM has always been in question here in Slashdot. Jury members represent "the man on the street" and, no matter how pure their intentions might be, they are no more capable than judges of understanding these details. Sadly, most patent infringement cases are all about fine technical details so jury members are likely to be swayed one way or the other by what they do understand, e.g. the defense --or the prosecution-- attorney being prettier/taller/a better con man.
I am no friend of Microsoft but they don't seem to be the villain here.
When you say 8 pounds are $240, do you mean pounds sterling or pounds of flesh?
At the current exchange rate, £8 are $16.14, give or take a cent.
According to a book I read, On Being a Photographer --by David Hurn from Magnum Photos-- the best camera is "the one that takes the picture". In that sense, a camera phone is more likely to be "the best camera" if only because --unlike your dSLR-- you have it on you most of the time: the odds of your being able to take a casual snapshot of something that catches your eye (a custom car on the curb, your kid enjoying himself on the swings, a beautiful sunset...) with a camera phone are way higher that those of you doing likewise with a real camera. Thus it is nice to see camera phones being able to take (objectively) better pictures everyday.
That being said, I don't see camera phones ever taking the place of real cameras. There are a hell of a lot of situations when you know you'll be taking pictures (trips, parties...) and, as some other people have already pointed out, there is no way the cheap lens and sensor in a camera phone will provide the same quality as the bigger and more complex lens and higher-quality sensor in a real camera.
Hmmm... I would say there is a market for PCs without an OS on them.
The company I work for has a corporate volume license for Windows 2000, which is the OS we all are (still) using.
In spite of the company paying for Windows 2000, the HP computer on my desk has a sticker with a Windows XP Professional serial number, which clearly suggests that they paid for that XP license, too. That XP license has never been used and will never be since we are jumping ship to Vista Real Soon Now (tm).
Being a multi-national company with 50,000+ employees (and 50,000++ PCs), I'd say the company would be very much interested into buying their PCs without a preinstalled copy of Windows they won't use. Nevertheless, big name vendors don't give you the chance to choose whether you want Windows on your PC or not --except for a few selected models.
...is because they use a 4-bit custom microprocessor, the Saturn, which is clocked under 4 MHz for the HP48gx and even lower for older models. The bright side of the low clock speed is that HP48-series calculators are extremely power efficient. A pack of AAA batteries will keep you running for --literally-- years.
I doubt the new, ARM-based HP calculators can make such a claim.
I thought they would mention Boblbee's hardshell backpacks. They are incredibly tough and have an interesting design, both in the technical and the looks departments.
Nintendo never said Revolution would launch worldwide exactly on the same date. Jim Merrick, Nintendo of Europe's Senior Director of Marketing, stated they hoped to launch Revolution globally within 14 weeks.
Oh, but they are!
Several Spanish and European author's associations have asked for a levy to be paid to them every time a public library lends a book. No al préstamo de pago en bibliotecas (in Spanish... sorry, automatic translation is no good here).
Cringely's NerdTV a weekly, GPL'd show on tech issues. AFAIK, it was the first open-source TV program ever and was supposed to start "airing" a couple of years ago. They seemed to have all the technical details ironed out and be about to start when NerdTV completely dissapeared from the face of the Earth.
Anyone with inside information out there?
Interesting articles from lots of EE-related fields: aerospace, computing, robotics, IC technology, communications... Unlike specialized IEEE publications, Spectrum is easy reading.
Plus you get Robert W. Lucky's always insightful Reflections column every other month.
Here!!
It seems it was not The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits after all.. It was on Ray Bradbury Theater .
As a matter of fact, this story has already been adapted to TV. I can't remember the name of the show but it must have been The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits. It's hard to say because show names are sometimes changed here (Spain).
I know I watched it some ten years ago --maybe even longer ago.
The IEEE's Spectrum magazine ran an article talking about this issue last April. The content is members-only so I cannot post a link to it :-(
Anyway, here's a link to one of the refereces cited in that article
In short, there is no evidence it has ever happened and it doesn't seem possible in theory, either.
The funny thing is they recently passed a law in Spain that forbids you to have a connected cell phone while refuelling. You must switch it off before you refuel.
So much for politicians getting the facts right before they make a law...
If you are running Windows, have you tried Ahead's DriveSpeed and Jörn Fiebelkorn's CD Bremse? These programs allow you to set the read speed of your CD and DVD drives.
Sometimes they are troublesome (disc change getting sluggish, etc.), but they usually work fine.