Even more strange, one of the pictures in the article clearly shows the SanDisk 16GB SSD drive. Perhaps the meaning of "unknown" is being redefined.
Re:That's one heck of a "long goodbye"
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Goodbye, VGA
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Dell has been including DisplayPort in some (all?) of their newer models, both desktop and laptops. My Dell Precision M4400 has a DisplayPort on the back, but I end up using the VGA port on the side instead to watch Hulu on my TV. Their OptiPlex desktops and Latitude laptops are now also equipped with it.
There are VGA-to-DVI cables and adapters out there. It's what the video conference system at my work uses to connect VGA devices to its DVI secondary input. They have to be available by design, since DVI supports both analog (VGA) and digital signals on the same connector.
Hang gliders have already solved the landing problem, and it's exactly as you described. Their advantage there, though, is that their wings are large, and their speeds are low, specially at stall. Rossi's wing is small, so he needs to fly fast just to keep from stalling. He'd need to develop something to provide extra lift at low speeds, like, say, trailing-edge flaps.
At least RIM (notice I'm not mentioning Apple here) added applications... to a cellphone!
Actually, RIM added a cellphone to their Mobitex-based two-way pager. Many of the Blackberry's features (and apps) were already present at that time, however I can't recall if the old pagers allowed users to install custom apps.
Without those requirements any well designed game algorithm should somewhere between a hundred and a thousand times faster.
Of course, you still need to preserve enough resilience into the algorithm to avoid accidentally entire event messages. Otherwise you could have people walking through walls or some such weird shit.
[E]ven a lot of the tech enthusiasts who think ATT is on GSM don't know that AT&T is using a form of CDMA. i saw it in the Nexus One settings on the internet where the network says WCDMA.
Waaaaah, I saw it on dem dere innernets so it must be true...
W-CDMA is the most common form of UMTS, what is typically sold as "3G". The 2G part of AT&T's wireless network is indeed firmly rooted in GSM.
I had to change the tense of all the verbs in this comment, as there is no more Kodachrome.
Last time I checked, Kodachrome film still exists, albeit all of it has already been developed. Just because it's been developed doesn't change the fact that it's still slide film.
However you just had to remember gender, Male DB25 was standard serial, and female was their non-standard parallel connector. Easy:-)
But we're talking about RS-232 serial ports here, so in theory:
Male: DTE
Female: DCE
But terminals are always DTEs even though they always seem to have a female connector so that the fragile pins are on the easily-replaceable cable; many non-PC computers follow the same logic. And then there are things like Cisco routers which are either DTE or DCE depending on the cable used or how it's attached.
It isn't just the Universal Installer that's written in Java; for some things there are shell scripts that bypass it. A much bigger and profitable product for them is the E-Business Suite, which is mostly Java with a few native code components. Letting Java languish would mean losing billions of dollars in support and maintenance fees as customers abandon EBS (and the Oracle database by extension) for more up-to-date enterprise software.
Did they just now figure out that IP, and thus the Internet, can be routed over ham radio? Have they never heard of AMPRnet? How about AX.25? I was able to get (very very slow) Internet access back in 1997 with a KPC-3, an old Yaesu HT, and the Linux AX.25 stack.
Methinks some PHB at France Telecom just got wind of it and is throwing a hissy fit.
Processor upgrade? They made it an option in the stupidest way. The CPU was soldered straight into the board much like the memory was. If you wanted to upgrade the processor, they provided a SECOND CPU socket that shipped empty. You want to upgrade you had to plug a new CPU into the replacement socket and then use a jumper to tell the board to use that socket instead of the built in CPU.
Packard Bell was not alone in that, though. A friend on mine had an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486SX PC with the same arrangement: processor soldered on motherboard, empty Overdrive socket for upgrades. I think Intel was to blame for that as I saw many other vendors doing the same thing, probably to sell the pricey Overdrive upgrades. It turns out that the Overdrive processors weren't any more special, though: we put a regular 486DX2 in the empty socket and the BIOS recognized it right away.
So essentially they were using a flight simulator while piloting their aircraft? "Sup dawg, i herd you like flying, so we put a virtual cockpit in your cockpit so you can pretend to fly while you're flying."
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Even more strange, one of the pictures in the article clearly shows the SanDisk 16GB SSD drive. Perhaps the meaning of "unknown" is being redefined.
Dell has been including DisplayPort in some (all?) of their newer models, both desktop and laptops. My Dell Precision M4400 has a DisplayPort on the back, but I end up using the VGA port on the side instead to watch Hulu on my TV. Their OptiPlex desktops and Latitude laptops are now also equipped with it.
There are VGA-to-DVI cables and adapters out there. It's what the video conference system at my work uses to connect VGA devices to its DVI secondary input. They have to be available by design, since DVI supports both analog (VGA) and digital signals on the same connector.
Hang gliders have already solved the landing problem, and it's exactly as you described. Their advantage there, though, is that their wings are large, and their speeds are low, specially at stall. Rossi's wing is small, so he needs to fly fast just to keep from stalling. He'd need to develop something to provide extra lift at low speeds, like, say, trailing-edge flaps.
At least RIM (notice I'm not mentioning Apple here) added applications... to a cellphone!
Actually, RIM added a cellphone to their Mobitex-based two-way pager. Many of the Blackberry's features (and apps) were already present at that time, however I can't recall if the old pagers allowed users to install custom apps.
They could set up an infrared camera...
Damn engineers and their overcomplicated solutions. Why can't people just look for where the smoke and smell of charred human flesh is coming from?
Without those requirements any well designed game algorithm should somewhere between a hundred and a thousand times faster.
Of course, you still need to preserve enough resilience into the algorithm to avoid accidentally entire event messages. Otherwise you could have people walking through walls or some such weird shit.
BTW, the US insurance company Aetna used to be spelled Ætna afaik.
Actually, it comes from the Latin name for Mount Etna, the ligature being merely a typographical convention and not a letter unto itself.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
You must['ve] gotten some bunk kool-aid.
Probably Flavor Aid. He should count himself lucky that he's still alive.
The solar day becomes a bit under 2ms longer every hundred years, so we'd need leap seconds more often later.
Or, given that the Earth started spinning a bit faster after the Chile earthquake, we'll likely not need any leap seconds whatsoever.
[E]ven a lot of the tech enthusiasts who think ATT is on GSM don't know that AT&T is using a form of CDMA. i saw it in the Nexus One settings on the internet where the network says WCDMA.
Waaaaah, I saw it on dem dere innernets so it must be true...
W-CDMA is the most common form of UMTS, what is typically sold as "3G". The 2G part of AT&T's wireless network is indeed firmly rooted in GSM.
What language can be written entirely with only the bottom row of the keyboard?
I had to change the tense of all the verbs in this comment, as there is no more Kodachrome.
Last time I checked, Kodachrome film still exists, albeit all of it has already been developed. Just because it's been developed doesn't change the fact that it's still slide film.
However you just had to remember gender, Male DB25 was standard serial, and female was their non-standard parallel connector. Easy :-)
But we're talking about RS-232 serial ports here, so in theory:
But terminals are always DTEs even though they always seem to have a female connector so that the fragile pins are on the easily-replaceable cable; many non-PC computers follow the same logic. And then there are things like Cisco routers which are either DTE or DCE depending on the cable used or how it's attached.
It isn't just the Universal Installer that's written in Java; for some things there are shell scripts that bypass it. A much bigger and profitable product for them is the E-Business Suite, which is mostly Java with a few native code components. Letting Java languish would mean losing billions of dollars in support and maintenance fees as customers abandon EBS (and the Oracle database by extension) for more up-to-date enterprise software.
Did they just now figure out that IP, and thus the Internet, can be routed over ham radio? Have they never heard of AMPRnet? How about AX.25? I was able to get (very very slow) Internet access back in 1997 with a KPC-3, an old Yaesu HT, and the Linux AX.25 stack.
Methinks some PHB at France Telecom just got wind of it and is throwing a hissy fit.
They still using leaf springs and live rear axles in Mustangs?
No leaf springs -- the Mustang uses coil springs, trailing links, and a Panhard rod to suspend the live rear axle. Not much better, to be honest
FTFS: Cable TV companies are trying to treat customers better.
As well they have to. Comcast's new digs ain't gonna pay for themselves, ya know.
Do you suggest to fit a component jack onto a 4"x2" phone and then match it with an RCA stereo jack?
What d'you mean, like on an iPhone? That's crazy talk!
Processor upgrade? They made it an option in the stupidest way. The CPU was soldered straight into the board much like the memory was. If you wanted to upgrade the processor, they provided a SECOND CPU socket that shipped empty. You want to upgrade you had to plug a new CPU into the replacement socket and then use a jumper to tell the board to use that socket instead of the built in CPU.
Packard Bell was not alone in that, though. A friend on mine had an IBM PS/ValuePoint 486SX PC with the same arrangement: processor soldered on motherboard, empty Overdrive socket for upgrades. I think Intel was to blame for that as I saw many other vendors doing the same thing, probably to sell the pricey Overdrive upgrades. It turns out that the Overdrive processors weren't any more special, though: we put a regular 486DX2 in the empty socket and the BIOS recognized it right away.
So essentially they were using a flight simulator while piloting their aircraft? "Sup dawg, i herd you like flying, so we put a virtual cockpit in your cockpit so you can pretend to fly while you're flying."
Am I missing the point?
3D pr0n.
I read that as \0/ops and imagined hundreds of little stick men throwing their hands in the air. Maybe I should stop reading XKCD for a while.
Bloody hell...
And how!
Do they exist if they only observe each other?
Yes/no, they do/don't.