According to the article the range is about 10 meters.
As far as I can read from the article the camera will contain some kind of memory system (probably MemoryStick), but that isn't clear.
What would be really cool would be to have something like a harddisk based mp3 player that "bluetoothed" to the camera and sucked it dry once in a while. Something small enough to have in your bag or at your belt.
As for controling the camera from a PC - that has already been done, with a by firewire on the Nikon D1x DSLR.
Bluetooth is nice, but I would rather use firewire to pull a gb of data of a microdrive...
(bluetooth max datarate is 723Kbit/s, which means that it takes about a day to transfere a gigabyte).
So, what can we do to help? Advocacy. Get folks using Moz or Opera -- your mom, your brother, your sister, your dog, whatever. Brief them on how Moz came to be -- it's free as in speech, ma! Or, we could just wait for MS to cock-up IE...:)
I'm not going to install anything but IE on anybodies computers anytime soon. I use moz my self, but I'm also the person they are going to call the moment (no matter what that hour that moment happens to happen) when some site tells them that they are using an unsupported browser.
They are not calling me to thank me for standing up for what is right and to making it very clear for them that the site they tried to visit is created by a bunch of microsoft oriented retards. They are not going to tell me that they aren't interested in the site anymore now that they are aware of this fact.
No. They are calling me to ask how to enable this other browser that actually works everwhere.
Just want to add my voice to those who has been downing the software here.
I've been using a AIW 128 pro for quite a while. The card is okay, but as people has mentioned the software simpley sucks. And ati doesn't release new drivers for anything but their newest product and when they do it's extremely late and then only for the latest MS OS.
I rand with the extremely crappy 6.x version of their MultiMediaCenter under win98 (no NT version, so dual boot). When they finally released a working version 7.1beta it was w2000 only. That was march 2001. Noting new for the AIW 128 since then, unless i upgrade to Win XP.
No thanks and never another ATI product.
Maybe I'll try matrox next.
(yes, I tried writing to them, using the forms on their web site - never any kind of reply, not even a form letter).
I actually got my blood pressure up a bit before i remembered that that it's april 1.
I visited The Open Directory Project , which had Microsoft pasted everywhere and a notice that it had changed name to The Microsoft Directory Project and Gates Open Directory (GOD).
My first thought was "Hey, all those hours I've done for free and now Gates will get rich on it".
It even has a clippy (or what ever it is that the annoying paperclip from the office apps is called).
It may be just this cold getting me down, and I actually already have a home-builds DVR (ati All-in-wonderpro 128 and 40gb hd, software to burn VCD from the captures - results playable on my DVD player), but I'm not going to invest anything in entertainment hardware the next few years.
The thing is, well, I actually record a lot of stuff using this machinery, but the truth is that I rarely watch it - not even when I'm home with a cold. Why, you ask - well, most of it is actually crap. There's so little on tv that I havent already seen at the cinema or brought on DVD a long time ago.
Damn it, this evenings top selection of movies in Denmark for people with the big cable selection is : Twister (Helen Hunt) and Company Business (Gene Hackman). There are other options, but the core of is that these movies has been shown on tv like a bazillion time before and will be shown at least as many times again. Why should I record one of these movies? Will I ever wake up one morning and say to my self: "Wow! I really wish that I could watch Twister with Helen Hunt right now!"?
I dont think so! That will happen maybe sometime in the future where I've lost all sense of value and taste and Twister has gone public domain a long time ago, so I'll just download it directly to my home entertainment system in about 123ms.
There's just not enought quality stuff on TV to justify an expensive digital recording system (compared to the price of a VCR).
Maybe the replay-function would be interesting if I where interested in sports, but I'm not.
Maybe when the total package (Digital Video Recorder, hyper-multichannel, digital widescreen wallmounted TV) becomes payable I'll look into it.
In the choice between "supporting disney" (getting that new DVD/going to disneyland) and having your kids nagging you until the end of time, SSSCA means nothing.
Disney (and their gigantic marketing budget) will win every time.
The problem isn't that people are idiots but that they have other areas of competence/interest. They don't want infinit options. They want something that work. Now.
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I've both word and StarOffice installed on my home machine. The other day I recieved a text that was all caps (ME TO), which I wanted to make a bit more readable. So I open StarOffice thinking this should be an easy task for it. It takes me fifteen minuts to find the right feature (none of the the words "case", "upper" and "lower" exsists or point to anything relevant in the help system - the correct word to look for is Caption or some such, found that out using google).
So I find the correct feature and apply it. Copy to clipboard and paste the text to my html editor, only to find that StarOffice has put the original text without the new formatting on the clip-board.
While I (as a developer) can understand what staroffice is doing when it leave the text unmodified and just add formatting tags around it, I still havent gotten my problem solved.
It took me a couple of minuts to get my text in the correct state using Word.
</example>
The question is not apps and OS's. It's a question of knowledgebase. _A lot_ of people know a lot about the Windows and MS-Office apps. They are aren't interested in learning something new, unless it can seriously increase their productivity.
"Colored Bodies" is very much from Gilbert's point of view: "I make no claims to objectivity," she says. In the last section of the film, she puts herself physically into the film as well, showcasing a series of X-rays and MRIs of her own body
So behind all the pretty words about etical, racial and proverty problems, it all comes down to "me! me! me!".
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I think that your are right when you say that we will have to pay for content, but I don't think that it's as bleak as you make it.
I think that it's going to be subscription based, just like television. But what you'll be paying for will be the ad-free version of websites.
So if you subscribe to the geek-package you'll get slashdot, userfriendly and MS-Knowlagebase (eh..) without ads.
All of this will be though your ISP, who'll offer you different free packages depending on how they are trying to profile themself in the marked ("Your family ISP - free access to Disney!").
The ads on sites you aren't paying for will probably get worse though...
There will still be free sites, that aren't there for the money. I never made any (real) money on any of my sites and I dont expect to.
And the quality of the free sites are rising, they are getting more and more content and the html is getting better and better (or maybe just less bad).
The real problem is that people don't know how to find these free sites. Portals and shops are designed to keep the user/customer on the site and they very seldom link to other sites even if they hold contents directly related. --
As far as I can see on amazon.com it has the original Japanese soundtrack/voice and english subtitles (these's also a an english dubing, but who ever would want that? Half the fun of anime is listening to those crazy japanese voices).
Oh, year. I submitted this story and had it rejected nearly six hours before this one came up. Dont you just love that?
* 2001-07-25 08:38:03 Akira released on DVD (articles,anime) (rejected)
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I would actually like a feature like this, if I could configure it to use the content provider I decided (which would probably be something like Everything2).
Instead of complaing I think that the mozilla/GPLExplorer/whatever folks should add this feature (turned off by default) to their browser and show Microsoft how to do it right.
It could actually be the thing that got mozilla out of the cave and into usage... --
I got 8 clickthoughs for my $10 used on a Google ad. Kind of expensive:-).
Banner adds are, maybe not dead, but close to it, at least when it's used as a way to generate traffic.
A friend of mine controls a...eh... *mumble*porn*mumble* site, getting 40.000 unique page view pr. day and as a favour added a banner for a new site I had made (not the SFBook one, but not a porn site either).
Ten clickthroughs - in a week, non of then going further than my front page.
On a happy note, the number of google search hits on my site had doubled the last month (200->400ish). --
Let me get this straight... you want to make away with.com,.net etc and chance all domains to geographically oriented domains?
Why?
I agree with you that there's a bit to much US-centricity on the net, but that's mostly small things, where based on people forgetting that other people than north americans speak english (Just saw a banner add proclaming "Win vacation to Florida!" - I'm quite sure that one wasn't aimed at anybody but north americans).
But, most site are fairly international in nature (which is a good thing (tm) in my book) and wouldn't fit into your plan.
The sites running different sites for different parts of the world aren't doing a very good job of it in my experience, as it is. Sites like http://www.mustek.com/ (I've a scanner made by them), forces you to select one of their site based on which part of the world you live in. WHY? I just want to check if there's new driver for my scanner. The three differenet sites basicly contains the same, packaged in different bad designs and with more or less updated drivers. The Asian is usually the one with the newest drivers so I choose that one.
The only site that I can think of that's doing something usefull with their local sites are CNN.
I'm not saying that the country speficic domains are a bad idea, but doing away with.com isn't the solution.
Doing away with bad design, small mindedness and US-centric thinking is the answer. We are already moving in that direction, but it takes time. --
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For straight CPU intensive tasks it matters.
But for 99% of normal peoples taskes 10% whont matter.
But it's the edge and it has to be somewhere and it has to move.
My rule is that I upgrade when I can get a cpu that is twice as fast as my old one for about 1000dkr (130$/).
Thats possible right now (I've a 850Mh celeron), but I need a new motherboard, which kind of changes the rules.
Since when has our galaxy been the definition af "It all"?
/. addes another unprecise sensational headline to make it even silly.
The submitter questions the validity of the articles numbers and then
What?
:-)
The original soundtrack is great.
Probably one of my favourite driving CD's.
The non-stop off-beat drumming from the first motorcycle scenes, gives good pictures in my head when I'm stuck in trafic
On sep. 11 last year I watched the first hour of it live from BBC's homepage without to many problems.
Seemed fine to me (not that I was thinking much about the quality). Was it really that bad?
Arg! Not sure how I came to that, but the answer is more like 3½ hour ((((1024^3)*8)/740352) seconds)
According to the article the range is about 10 meters.
As far as I can read from the article the camera will contain some kind of memory system (probably MemoryStick), but that isn't clear.
What would be really cool would be to have something like a harddisk based mp3 player that "bluetoothed" to the camera and sucked it dry once in a while. Something small enough to have in your bag or at your belt.
As for controling the camera from a PC - that has already been done, with a by firewire on the Nikon D1x DSLR.
Bluetooth is nice, but I would rather use firewire to pull a gb of data of a microdrive...
(bluetooth max datarate is 723Kbit/s, which means that it takes about a day to transfere a gigabyte).
The one hit wonders will do fine.
They visit 10 malls/fairs in a week doing a fifteen minut show of sing/play-back at each and collect a fairly good check for it.
Lots of small/local one-hit wonders work that way today.
I'm not going to install anything but IE on anybodies computers anytime soon. I use moz my self, but I'm also the person they are going to call the moment (no matter what that hour that moment happens to happen) when some site tells them that they are using an unsupported browser.
They are not calling me to thank me for standing up for what is right and to making it very clear for them that the site they tried to visit is created by a bunch of microsoft oriented retards. They are not going to tell me that they aren't interested in the site anymore now that they are aware of this fact.
No. They are calling me to ask how to enable this other browser that actually works everwhere.
Just want to backup this one up - I really enjoyed A Brief History of Time.
Not much math, takes it slow, yet keeps it interesting.
Where do you see that? The newest drivers listed at ati's driver pages for win2000 and 128pro is from october last year. And the mmc is 7.1
Are you saying that the newer MMC's work with the older chipsets? Are they just lazy at updating their homepage?
Just want to add my voice to those who has been downing the software here.
I've been using a AIW 128 pro for quite a while. The card is okay, but as people has mentioned the software simpley sucks. And ati doesn't release new drivers for anything but their newest product and when they do it's extremely late and then only for the latest MS OS.
I rand with the extremely crappy 6.x version of their MultiMediaCenter under win98 (no NT version, so dual boot). When they finally released a working version 7.1beta it was w2000 only. That was march 2001. Noting new for the AIW 128 since then, unless i upgrade to Win XP.
No thanks and never another ATI product.
Maybe I'll try matrox next.
(yes, I tried writing to them, using the forms on their web site - never any kind of reply, not even a form letter).
I visited The Open Directory Project , which had Microsoft pasted everywhere and a notice that it had changed name to The Microsoft Directory Project and Gates Open Directory (GOD).
My first thought was "Hey, all those hours I've done for free and now Gates will get rich on it".
It even has a clippy (or what ever it is that the annoying paperclip from the office apps is called).
There was a bit on this in a recent /. thread:
9 631.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26643&cid=287
Seems the show stopper is a lag of cheap floating DSP hardware, that can decode ogg (mp3 can be decoded by integer).
It may be just this cold getting me down, and I actually already have a home-builds DVR (ati All-in-wonderpro 128 and 40gb hd, software to burn VCD from the captures - results playable on my DVD player), but I'm not going to invest anything in entertainment hardware the next few years.
The thing is, well, I actually record a lot of stuff using this machinery, but the truth is that I rarely watch it - not even when I'm home with a cold. Why, you ask - well, most of it is actually crap. There's so little on tv that I havent already seen at the cinema or brought on DVD a long time ago.
Damn it, this evenings top selection of movies in Denmark for people with the big cable selection is : Twister (Helen Hunt) and Company Business (Gene Hackman). There are other options, but the core of is that these movies has been shown on tv like a bazillion time before and will be shown at least as many times again. Why should I record one of these movies? Will I ever wake up one morning and say to my self: "Wow! I really wish that I could watch Twister with Helen Hunt right now!"?
I dont think so! That will happen maybe sometime in the future where I've lost all sense of value and taste and Twister has gone public domain a long time ago, so I'll just download it directly to my home entertainment system in about 123ms.
There's just not enought quality stuff on TV to justify an expensive digital recording system (compared to the price of a VCR).
Maybe the replay-function would be interesting if I where interested in sports, but I'm not.
Maybe when the total package (Digital Video Recorder, hyper-multichannel, digital widescreen wallmounted TV) becomes payable I'll look into it.
The surface of the sun isn't "generating" any heat. That would be the core of the sun.
So, yes, the statement holds...
Disney, will loose nothing.
In the choice between "supporting disney" (getting that new DVD/going to disneyland) and having your kids nagging you until the end of time, SSSCA means nothing.
Disney (and their gigantic marketing budget) will win every time.
Don't kid you self.
The problem isn't that people are idiots but that they have other areas of competence/interest. They don't want infinit options. They want something that work. Now.
<example type="personal" statistical-value="none">
I've both word and StarOffice installed on my home machine. The other day I recieved a text that was all caps (ME TO), which I wanted to make a bit more readable. So I open StarOffice thinking this should be an easy task for it. It takes me fifteen minuts to find the right feature (none of the the words "case", "upper" and "lower" exsists or point to anything relevant in the help system - the correct word to look for is Caption or some such, found that out using google).
So I find the correct feature and apply it. Copy to clipboard and paste the text to my html editor, only to find that StarOffice has put the original text without the new formatting on the clip-board.
While I (as a developer) can understand what staroffice is doing when it leave the text unmodified and just add formatting tags around it, I still havent gotten my problem solved.
It took me a couple of minuts to get my text in the correct state using Word.
</example>
The question is not apps and OS's. It's a question of knowledgebase. _A lot_ of people know a lot about the Windows and MS-Office apps. They are aren't interested in learning something new, unless it can seriously increase their productivity.
Go read this story - besides being a damn good shortstory, it's pretty much explains why anti gravity is impossible.
So behind all the pretty words about etical, racial and proverty problems, it all comes down to "me! me! me!".
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I think that it's going to be subscription based, just like television. But what you'll be paying for will be the ad-free version of websites.
So if you subscribe to the geek-package you'll get slashdot, userfriendly and MS-Knowlagebase (eh..) without ads.
All of this will be though your ISP, who'll offer you different free packages depending on how they are trying to profile themself in the marked ("Your family ISP - free access to Disney!").
The ads on sites you aren't paying for will probably get worse though...
There will still be free sites, that aren't there for the money. I never made any (real) money on any of my sites and I dont expect to.
And the quality of the free sites are rising, they are getting more and more content and the html is getting better and better (or maybe just less bad).
The real problem is that people don't know how to find these free sites. Portals and shops are designed to keep the user/customer on the site and they very seldom link to other sites even if they hold contents directly related.
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It's so easy to make your page work with non-javascript enabled browsers, but very few sites do it.
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As far as I can see on amazon.com it has the original Japanese soundtrack/voice and english subtitles (these's also a an english dubing, but who ever would want that? Half the fun of anime is listening to those crazy japanese voices). Oh, year. I submitted this story and had it rejected nearly six hours before this one came up. Dont you just love that? * 2001-07-25 08:38:03 Akira released on DVD (articles,anime) (rejected)
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Instead of complaing I think that the mozilla/GPLExplorer/whatever folks should add this feature (turned off by default) to their browser and show Microsoft how to do it right.
It could actually be the thing that got mozilla out of the cave and into usage...
--
I got 8 clickthoughs for my $10 used on a Google ad. Kind of expensive :-).
...eh... *mumble*porn*mumble* site, getting 40.000 unique page view pr. day and as a favour added a banner for a new site I had made (not the SFBook one, but not a porn site either).
Banner adds are, maybe not dead, but close to it, at least when it's used as a way to generate traffic.
A friend of mine controls a
Ten clickthroughs - in a week, non of then going further than my front page.
On a happy note, the number of google search hits on my site had doubled the last month (200->400ish).
--
Let me get this straight... you want to make away with .com, .net etc and chance all domains to geographically oriented domains?
.com isn't the solution.
Why?
I agree with you that there's a bit to much US-centricity on the net, but that's mostly small things, where based on people forgetting that other people than north americans speak english (Just saw a banner add proclaming "Win vacation to Florida!" - I'm quite sure that one wasn't aimed at anybody but north americans).
But, most site are fairly international in nature (which is a good thing (tm) in my book) and wouldn't fit into your plan.
The sites running different sites for different parts of the world aren't doing a very good job of it in my experience, as it is. Sites like http://www.mustek.com/ (I've a scanner made by them), forces you to select one of their site based on which part of the world you live in. WHY? I just want to check if there's new driver for my scanner. The three differenet sites basicly contains the same, packaged in different bad designs and with more or less updated drivers. The Asian is usually the one with the newest drivers so I choose that one.
The only site that I can think of that's doing something usefull with their local sites are CNN.
I'm not saying that the country speficic domains are a bad idea, but doing away with
Doing away with bad design, small mindedness and US-centric thinking is the answer. We are already moving in that direction, but it takes time.
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