I remember as a kid those comics really entertained me. In particular, I enjoyed the one where they go to the moon. I thought they were very nicely written. The professor "having a goat" was great...
The protestors will be protesting right down the street from me.
"...if this action manages to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's going to be willing to step up to the plate and take the blame?"
This is in the middle of the capital city of Canada. There will be plenty of landlines everywhere. There's a large task force of emergency personnel. I cannot see this as a problem.
In the last few years, Russia seems to be selling off/out much of it's space program. First (or maybe not first) their space shuttle program was cancelled and never flew (even though they had a better shuttle design than NASA), then MIR was decommisioned, then they started selling trips to space, and now they're selling the Buran. Perhaps this can be seen as a demise of their program, but it is offering more and more commercialization. Again, the Russians have beat the US to space by opening it up to the (rich) public.
Does anyone have any idea how Buran got transported? Was it using a similar way as the NASA shuttle with the AA 747, or more likely to have been by sea?
Paramount does this with scripts, and I'm sure others do too. They purposely put typos on various pages of the script to see who leaks a script and nail the person whose copy it was. The same could be applied to movie screenings, and I'm a little surprised it was not, considering all of the other precautions and anal-ities George Lucas was taking with AotC.
What you do not realize, judging by your post, is that the average 20 mA white LED looks brighter than the average 40W 120V bulb. A single one makes an excellent flashlight. A few of them together make an awesome lightsource.
Assuming such lighting causes severe interference tothe 2.4 GHz band, would some government organizationg (FCC or whatever) not regulate this? I would think that I could not produce a product that causes interference to these devices without registration/approval from the right regulation boards.
Can a lawsuit really be filed for linking to material that no longer exists on a server (xs4all)? I would expect, at *MOST* that there would be a demand to remove the links, but since the material has been removed anyhow, I don't see the point. THe google bot will get rid of its link at some point.
On the previous post about the trailer airing on Fox, many people said that they do not like the direction that Star Wars is taking. Although I agree with most of what these people say, some went as far as saying not to spend 10 dollars at the theatre to see it, but rather wait until rental time.
To those people who do not think this movie will be worth seeing, reconsider -- the visual effects in Phantom Menace did not disappoint, and from the looks of it, this movie will be just as nice with the CGI. As a fan of CGI, I was very happy with the pod race scene on a 40 foot screen, and I think I'll get my money's worth seeing the new movie when it comes out at theatres.
If you've read this far, you probably agree with me.
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news.gnome.org is reporting that Gnome Beta 2 ("I bastun bor vi allihopa!") is out!
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Gateway actually had a PC with a monitor with a built in PC about 4 years ago (I don't think it was LCD). Anyhow, same time the iMac was coming ou,t or even before.
Take a look at Eurocom. They've had the LP260 All-in-one LCD PC for over a year now. They beat Apple to it, and I think it's a very cool design.
Point is, everyone's 'ripping' everyone elses ideas off in today's industry, to the point that you can't really have an original product without hinting other products.
I did with with a MultiMedia Card.
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I wanted to see if I could easily do this with a MultiMedia card. They're the postage-stamp sized Flash memory cards.
Anyhow, I walked into Business Depot, stuck this thing into a Palm, and copied away. There wasn't really anything worthwhile to copy on the demo at the store, I mainly wanted to see if it would read my digital camera images. Point is, MMCs are yet another good strategy for this (but not office, it's too big!)
I find that non-tech-savvy people prefer the copy/paste approach to exporting. Simply telling them to SelectAll/Copy/Paste into the eMail is usually better, I find.
Although I haven't installed my full plethora of Corel software yet, I can tell you that CorelDRAW 10 doesn't run well at all. Opening a file, or creating a new one, freezes the program for a good three minutes on my system, although the program runs fine after that.
Aswell, I can print. Any 'print' dialog causes the program at hand to freeze. So, after a day of looking around, I've already found two major inconveniences for a desktop publisher such as myself.
But yeah, it finally hibernates properly, boots at the speed it should, and is fairly solid. But it would be really good if I could actually get any work done on it.
This brings along great opportunities for Linux. For example, the Rebel.Com NetWinder kernel could fairly easily be modified to run on this Palm system, with full X, etc. The news could impact the Palm and Linux even more than it did on the iPaq.
The ARM is a greatly versatile, very low power RISC chip. I'm happy they are finally pursuing this. Nokia is supposed to also take advantage of this in accordance with their deal with Palm to use the PalmOS. This is why the PalmOS isn't on Nokia phones yet, they are waiting for the ARM version...
What exactly would be the point of this Linux emulation on Palm Emulation?
If I had an iPaq, as the editor mentioned, I would just directly install Linux on it!
That LinuxDA is strange. It looks and feels just like the PalmOS, and IMO, offers little more than the PalmOS. The PalmOS, from a dev's point of view, is so well documented, that I would probably prefer developing for the PalmOS. It is small but complete, stable, and fast.
Just my CDN$0.02.:)
I've been following this for a while. I'd be very doubtful if this was real.
The biggest issue is credibility. If they did it now, they would have all sorts of cool gadgets that are supposed to predate TOS, but would be more advanced. Without this, no one would watch.
Furthermore, and Rick Berman personally agrees with this: You just can't bring back the 60's mentality. Star Trek is an issues show, and any issues that correspond with the TOS era from the 60's just don't exist anymore.
I think the future (a la 29th century) is more credible, and Brannon Braga (STSV exec), agrees that this would be the logical course of action.
Let's face it: they can't go back pre-TOS.
In the world of Sci-Fi, is this what is commonly known as Holotechnology? Or is that different somehow?
If not, soon we may have Holodecks like on Star Trek. I mean, your hand would go right through the images, but it would still be cool and good for REALLY 3d games!
We saw how useful this technology can be in the latest Bond movie when the doctor shows Bond the bullet in the bad guy's head.
On Star Trek Voyager, the Doctor uses it to display scans, on Deep Space Nine they used it for communications purposes (as on Star Wars). There's plenty of good applications.
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I remember as a kid those comics really entertained me. In particular, I enjoyed the one where they go to the moon. I thought they were very nicely written. The professor "having a goat" was great...
The protestors will be protesting right down the street from me.
"...if this action manages to block wireless 911 calls, and someone dies because of that, who's going to be willing to step up to the plate and take the blame?"
This is in the middle of the capital city of Canada. There will be plenty of landlines everywhere. There's a large task force of emergency personnel. I cannot see this as a problem.
Does it come with a BFG 2000?
In the last few years, Russia seems to be selling off/out much of it's space program. First (or maybe not first) their space shuttle program was cancelled and never flew (even though they had a better shuttle design than NASA), then MIR was decommisioned, then they started selling trips to space, and now they're selling the Buran. Perhaps this can be seen as a demise of their program, but it is offering more and more commercialization. Again, the Russians have beat the US to space by opening it up to the (rich) public.
Does anyone have any idea how Buran got transported? Was it using a similar way as the NASA shuttle with the AA 747, or more likely to have been by sea?
Paramount does this with scripts, and I'm sure others do too. They purposely put typos on various pages of the script to see who leaks a script and nail the person whose copy it was. The same could be applied to movie screenings, and I'm a little surprised it was not, considering all of the other precautions and anal-ities George Lucas was taking with AotC.
What you do not realize, judging by your post, is that the average 20 mA white LED looks brighter than the average 40W 120V bulb. A single one makes an excellent flashlight. A few of them together make an awesome lightsource.
Assuming such lighting causes severe interference tothe 2.4 GHz band, would some government organizationg (FCC or whatever) not regulate this? I would think that I could not produce a product that causes interference to these devices without registration/approval from the right regulation boards.
...but getting it to work on an X-Box would be even more so!
:)
But seriously, I'm constantly amazed by the ideas people have of devices to run Linux on -- perhaps more so than the actual hacking required to do it.
Check out this Linux on a toaster... Crazy teenagers!
Can a lawsuit really be filed for linking to material that no longer exists on a server (xs4all)? I would expect, at *MOST* that there would be a demand to remove the links, but since the material has been removed anyhow, I don't see the point. THe google bot will get rid of its link at some point.
On the previous post about the trailer airing on Fox, many people said that they do not like the direction that Star Wars is taking. Although I agree with most of what these people say, some went as far as saying not to spend 10 dollars at the theatre to see it, but rather wait until rental time.
To those people who do not think this movie will be worth seeing, reconsider -- the visual effects in Phantom Menace did not disappoint, and from the looks of it, this movie will be just as nice with the CGI. As a fan of CGI, I was very happy with the pod race scene on a 40 foot screen, and I think I'll get my money's worth seeing the new movie when it comes out at theatres.
If you've read this far, you probably agree with me.
news.gnome.org is reporting that Gnome Beta 2 ("I bastun bor vi allihopa!") is out!
Gateway actually had a PC with a monitor with a built in PC about 4 years ago (I don't think it was LCD). Anyhow, same time the iMac was coming ou,t or even before.
Take a look at Eurocom. They've had the LP260 All-in-one LCD PC for over a year now. They beat Apple to it, and I think it's a very cool design.
Point is, everyone's 'ripping' everyone elses ideas off in today's industry, to the point that you can't really have an original product without hinting other products.
I wanted to see if I could easily do this with a MultiMedia card. They're the postage-stamp sized Flash memory cards.
Anyhow, I walked into Business Depot, stuck this thing into a Palm, and copied away. There wasn't really anything worthwhile to copy on the demo at the store, I mainly wanted to see if it would read my digital camera images. Point is, MMCs are yet another good strategy for this (but not office, it's too big!)
I find that non-tech-savvy people prefer the copy/paste approach to exporting. Simply telling them to SelectAll/Copy/Paste into the eMail is usually better, I find.
"How can people make a living over there?"
Here's some news for you: many Canadians are taxed over 50% as well, and we make our living just fine, thanks...
Does anyone know if this hack would work on a d-link WAP? As far as I know, it uses Atmel...
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Although I haven't installed my full plethora of Corel software yet, I can tell you that CorelDRAW 10 doesn't run well at all. Opening a file, or creating a new one, freezes the program for a good three minutes on my system, although the program runs fine after that.
Aswell, I can print. Any 'print' dialog causes the program at hand to freeze. So, after a day of looking around, I've already found two major inconveniences for a desktop publisher such as myself.
But yeah, it finally hibernates properly, boots at the speed it should, and is fairly solid. But it would be really good if I could actually get any work done on it.
I first heard of this last summer.
:)
This brings along great opportunities for Linux. For example, the Rebel.Com NetWinder kernel could fairly easily be modified to run on this Palm system, with full X, etc. The news could impact the Palm and Linux even more than it did on the iPaq.
The ARM is a greatly versatile, very low power RISC chip. I'm happy they are finally pursuing this. Nokia is supposed to also take advantage of this in accordance with their deal with Palm to use the PalmOS. This is why the PalmOS isn't on Nokia phones yet, they are waiting for the ARM version...
This will be cool on two fronts.
What exactly would be the point of this Linux emulation on Palm Emulation? If I had an iPaq, as the editor mentioned, I would just directly install Linux on it! That LinuxDA is strange. It looks and feels just like the PalmOS, and IMO, offers little more than the PalmOS. The PalmOS, from a dev's point of view, is so well documented, that I would probably prefer developing for the PalmOS. It is small but complete, stable, and fast. Just my CDN$0.02. :)
I've been following this for a while. I'd be very doubtful if this was real. The biggest issue is credibility. If they did it now, they would have all sorts of cool gadgets that are supposed to predate TOS, but would be more advanced. Without this, no one would watch. Furthermore, and Rick Berman personally agrees with this: You just can't bring back the 60's mentality. Star Trek is an issues show, and any issues that correspond with the TOS era from the 60's just don't exist anymore. I think the future (a la 29th century) is more credible, and Brannon Braga (STSV exec), agrees that this would be the logical course of action. Let's face it: they can't go back pre-TOS.
In the world of Sci-Fi, is this what is commonly known as Holotechnology? Or is that different somehow?
If not, soon we may have Holodecks like on Star Trek. I mean, your hand would go right through the images, but it would still be cool and good for REALLY 3d games!
We saw how useful this technology can be in the latest Bond movie when the doctor shows Bond the bullet in the bad guy's head.
On Star Trek Voyager, the Doctor uses it to display scans, on Deep Space Nine they used it for communications purposes (as on Star Wars). There's plenty of good applications.
Woops! That should be 24 million shares, $135 million.
This is very true. And perhaps more on the business side, Corel has another 24 million dollars to play with, considering the low supply of money.