LCDs do not offer lighter weight or thinner enclosures than plasma (so far).
Having had to move my share of Plasma and LCD screens (working as a shipping guy for a electronics chain), I can without doubt say that Plasmas are certainly heavier than LCDs by a large margin. This was about 2 years ago, so if things have changed dramatically since then, I'll retract my statement.
That said, back then, plasmas did look a lot nicer, but I'm not seeing that much of a difference these days.
Feel free to write a good, optimized (for ARM (PortalPlayer) and M68K (ColdFire)) fixed-point MPEG-4 decoder and implement it in Rockbox. You'll be welcomed with open arms.
Although the mobile phone is now ubiquitous, the ipod may be capable of recording better quality video and broadcasting it for everyone without the use of a new corporation.
I doubt it. What with the ipod not even having a camera. Much less a video camera. Haven't seen much video recording done without a camera.
Would the Mac people please please PLEASE stop saying "[possible future Apple product] will beat [currently available non-Apple product]". It's getting tiresome.
Presumably because they already have the "coupon" system in place, and this is easier to do, and seems more generous to the user ("Wow! They're giving me something worth $49.95!").
There's no cash pumping involved at all - I'm not sure what you're insinuating here. You simply put this thing in your shopping basket, enter the code, and checkout a $0.00 order. No cash involved.
If my PDA is smart enough to get hit with worms it's really smarter than it needs to be. I want my PDA to be able to keep a calendar, addressbook and basically nothing else. It should "just work," be durable, be cheap, and it should not require me to pay for antivirus software to keep it functional.
If I want a calculator and a PSP I'll carry a calculator and a PSP.
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If my calculator is smart enough to get hit with worms it's really smarter than it needs to be. I want my calculator to be able to do basic operations and basically nothing else. It should "just work," be durable, be cheap, and it should not require me to pay for antivirus software to keep it functional.
If I want a graphs and programability I'll graphing paper and a portable personal computer.
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Etc. Sometimes it's easier to keep a lot of gadgets stuffed into a little box unless you want the full package. If all I want is to be reminded of a few birthdays, why should I buy a PDA when it fits fine in my phone?
Now about the virus thing, that's just stupid, but why the semi-ludites come crawling out of the woodwork every time something involves phones that do other things than place phonecalls, is beyond me. It's practical. Carrying 15 gadgets does not get you all the chicks (I think) - and if you can put most of the functions into your phone, why not?
I don't hear anyone complaining about PCs doing more than just regular Office work (yet!).
There, vented. You may go about your business now.
Presumably, this is because selling insurance against unlikely occurances is a real and working business model (compared to, say collecting underpants).
PHP will spew a notice if you use an unitialized variable. Whether or not that's good enough is debatable, but it's better than nothing at least.
Of course, notices aren't shown by default (presumably because it'd wreck havoc on most pieces of php code) so most people won't know. First thing I do to my php.ini is to set error_reporting to E_ALL (default is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE it seems).
Here's what I wrote them, in response to their hilarious Terms of Use for fedex.com which they also appear to be using to fight him with:
I'm not sure I found the right contact form.
In the "fedex.com Terms of Use" it is stated that "fedex.com is provided solely for the use of current and potential FedEx customers to interact with FedEx and may not be used by any other person or entity, or for any other purpose.".
I just wanted to say that I'm sorry, since I visited this very website and I have absolutely no intention of buying any service from FedEx. FedEx doesn't seem to like that, but since I have no relations to FedEx besides having looked at its metaphorical street window display, I don't really feel I have to obey these Terms of Use.
I'm still sorry though.
Actually, I think someone once sent me someone using FedEx. I'm not sure though. Would that make it alright? I guess not, since I wasn't the customer. How about that everyone is a potential customer in a sense - even if they don't know it? You know, much like the saying "a stranger is someone you haven't met", it could be said that "someone you haven't made business with yet is a potential customer"? Oh well.
If that deosn't make it alright, I still truly am sorry.
Oh right, I almost forgot. I only relunctantly picked the option that said that I'd like you to respond by email. You don't really have to respond, since I don't want to waste more of your time, but there was no option that said that.
Sincerely, DELETED
PS: If you're a real person, you have my permission to print this out and put it on display anywhere your coworkers will read it. Or send it to whoever you like. Working for a company that has such awful Terms of Use for their website of all things, I'm sure you could do with a laugh.
I think it's the "NOT". They seem to have no problems at all with "DO CALL".
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You'd have to appreciate the irony of it though.
<moviemaker> Sir, to realisticly fake this moonlanding, we need special gravity conditions. <superior> Like what? <moviemaker> Well, the best place to film it would be.. on.. you know, the moon. <superior> We can arrange that.
Just shows that the real money is in movie-making.
When you grow up, you realize that MTV actually sucks ass.
I keep reading this and other comments like it and the sillyness of it keeps annoying me. When you grow up, you are no longer part of their target audience. Of course you'll think it "sucks ass" then, but it's not really the fault of anyone. Just stop watching it and quit whining.
You're probably right that a music video costs more in production, equipment etc., but for most music videos, I'll wager there's less artistic work (for lack of a better word) behind it than the actual music (most, I said!). How do you decide how much the artistic work is worth? Answer: you can't, but apparently it makes the song "worth" half as much as the video (assuming these numbers weren't pulled out of a hat somewhere).
You can call this hyper-inflated, but the truth of the matter is that you have to put some value on the artistic work, otherwise the cost wouldn't include the artist at all.
Now about the soundtracks for movies, I completely agree. This is clearly wrong, but I don't see anything wrong in a song costing half of the music video.
These animations will possibly explain it. Sortof. I spent all of last night trying to regain my faith in perspective after watching them. Don't say you weren't warned.
* PicoGUI isn't X, or X compatible. It's a completely new GUI framework. It's design goal is not compatibility with other GUIs, but to explore a unique architecture that especially benefits handheld computers and other embedded systems
There are many other things that you need to watch out for with Linux and the Linux Compete Team has been busy creating some great collateral to help you win
Oh! I volunteer for the Penguin Attack force[tm]. Can we have laser beams?
MySQL is GPL too and has been for a long time now. In fact, a lot of the complaints about MySQL is caused by ignorance (I'm not saying all of them, stay calm). So please, check the facts before flaming MySQL.
What we really want is a reverse mature content filter, isn't it? - ultimate pr0n search engine:o)
Oh well, at least it's better than using *cough* altavista for finding images.
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Having had to move my share of Plasma and LCD screens (working as a shipping guy for a electronics chain), I can without doubt say that Plasmas are certainly heavier than LCDs by a large margin. This was about 2 years ago, so if things have changed dramatically since then, I'll retract my statement.
That said, back then, plasmas did look a lot nicer, but I'm not seeing that much of a difference these days.
Feel free to write a good, optimized (for ARM (PortalPlayer) and M68K (ColdFire)) fixed-point MPEG-4 decoder and implement it in Rockbox. You'll be welcomed with open arms.
Go on, do it!
If you need further confirmation (petur is a Rockbox developer), see this thread in the Rockbox forums.
I doubt it. What with the ipod not even having a camera. Much less a video camera. Haven't seen much video recording done without a camera.
Would the Mac people please please PLEASE stop saying "[possible future Apple product] will beat [currently available non-Apple product]". It's getting tiresome.
Presumably because they already have the "coupon" system in place, and this is easier to do, and seems more generous to the user ("Wow! They're giving me something worth $49.95!").
There's no cash pumping involved at all - I'm not sure what you're insinuating here. You simply put this thing in your shopping basket, enter the code, and checkout a $0.00 order. No cash involved.
If my PDA is smart enough to get hit with worms it's really smarter than it needs to be. I want my PDA to be able to keep a calendar, addressbook and basically nothing else. It should "just work," be durable, be cheap, and it should not require me to pay for antivirus software to keep it functional.
If I want a calculator and a PSP I'll carry a calculator and a PSP.
...
If my calculator is smart enough to get hit with worms it's really smarter than it needs to be. I want my calculator to be able to do basic operations and basically nothing else. It should "just work," be durable, be cheap, and it should not require me to pay for antivirus software to keep it functional.
If I want a graphs and programability I'll graphing paper and a portable personal computer.
...
Etc. Sometimes it's easier to keep a lot of gadgets stuffed into a little box unless you want the full package. If all I want is to be reminded of a few birthdays, why should I buy a PDA when it fits fine in my phone?
Now about the virus thing, that's just stupid, but why the semi-ludites come crawling out of the woodwork every time something involves phones that do other things than place phonecalls, is beyond me. It's practical. Carrying 15 gadgets does not get you all the chicks (I think) - and if you can put most of the functions into your phone, why not?
I don't hear anyone complaining about PCs doing more than just regular Office work (yet!).
There, vented. You may go about your business now.
Presumably, this is because selling insurance against unlikely occurances is a real and working business model (compared to, say collecting underpants).
I guess.
PHP will spew a notice if you use an unitialized variable. Whether or not that's good enough is debatable, but it's better than nothing at least.
Of course, notices aren't shown by default (presumably because it'd wreck havoc on most pieces of php code) so most people won't know. First thing I do to my php.ini is to set error_reporting to E_ALL (default is E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE it seems).
Not-yet-released-but-in-cvs Konqueror passes Acid2 according to this article.
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Heck, it was even reported on
I think it's the "NOT". They seem to have no problems at all with "DO CALL".
You'd have to appreciate the irony of it though.
<moviemaker> Sir, to realisticly fake this moonlanding, we need special gravity conditions.
<superior> Like what?
<moviemaker> Well, the best place to film it would be.. on.. you know, the moon.
<superior> We can arrange that.
Just shows that the real money is in movie-making.
I keep reading this and other comments like it and the sillyness of it keeps annoying me. When you grow up, you are no longer part of their target audience. Of course you'll think it "sucks ass" then, but it's not really the fault of anyone. Just stop watching it and quit whining.
You're probably right that a music video costs more in production, equipment etc., but for most music videos, I'll wager there's less artistic work (for lack of a better word) behind it than the actual music (most, I said!). How do you decide how much the artistic work is worth? Answer: you can't, but apparently it makes the song "worth" half as much as the video (assuming these numbers weren't pulled out of a hat somewhere).
You can call this hyper-inflated, but the truth of the matter is that you have to put some value on the artistic work, otherwise the cost wouldn't include the artist at all.
Now about the soundtracks for movies, I completely agree. This is clearly wrong, but I don't see anything wrong in a song costing half of the music video.
Now this is just ridiculous, so are you!
There's a joke about /dev/pen15 just waiting to happen here.
Stop that!
These animations will possibly explain it. Sortof. I spent all of last night trying to regain my faith in perspective after watching them. Don't say you weren't warned.
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So, this isn't really X.
It is Linux though, which is quite nice too.
Oh! I volunteer for the Penguin Attack force[tm]. Can we have laser beams?
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MySQL is GPL too and has been for a long time now. In fact, a lot of the complaints about MySQL is caused by ignorance (I'm not saying all of them, stay calm). So please, check the facts before flaming MySQL.
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Xbox will be great because we can now finally play 10 year old games?
Uhhmm... Why do I feel that's bizzare?
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What we really want is a reverse mature content filter, isn't it? - ultimate pr0n search engine :o)
Oh well, at least it's better than using *cough* altavista for finding images.
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