"tapes will start from three to five minutes before the cop turned on the recorder."
The cop should not have to do anything for it to record: there should be some automatic method, like the car door opening.
Yes, they'll get a lot of donut shop footage, but heck, otherwise, the cop could just not turn the thing on, nightstick the hell out of someone, then just drive off.
" How's the battery life? ~4 hours? ~20 hours? How much do you use your s and how often do you have to recharge?"
Generally, battery life is sorta bad: I use my Zaurus for about 10-15 minutes a day (on/off use, basically) and with that, the battery life is about 3 hours. When playing mps, though, ends up being about an hour of use.
When the battery is uncharged, everything goes bye-bye, too: I'm in the habit of backing up monthly.
"- The OS that comes presinstalled, it's linux based right?"
Yes.
" Do I get a shell with it? "
The shell doesn't come installed, but on the disk with other apps. Easily installable.
"Can I compile and run most linux apps? "
If you have a mind to do so, sure. Folks have ported apache, php, nethack, etc. to the Zaurus.
"What's the deal with OpenZaurus?"
Open source OS for the Zaurus: has its own PIM utilities (though, to be certain, both the Opie and Sharp PIM tools suck) and an active community working on it.
A do like my Zaurus, but I do not think it is a good PIM. The Palm is superior in usability, interface, etc. However, nothing beats telling folks that you are running a Web server on your PDA.
And Audiotron hooked up via Linksys ethernet bridge; plan on getting a Slimp3 eventually, as well. I don't see a reason to lock myself into wireless as a method to hook up any of these devices, though: the audiotron works with phoneline networks and plain wired ethernet, which works for me.
I do have a Motorola wireless SimpleFi, though, which uses RF. Cute hardware, but the software is horrible: it would take me too long to set up (plus, there doesn't appear to be a way randomly play songs). It sits unused these days.
"This finding has negative implications both for those claiming that liquid flow structures on Mars were caused by C02 instead of H20, as well as those who were hoping to use all that CO2 for terraforming." "
On the other hand, it has positive implications for those wanting to make slurpees.
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Yep: I don't disagree with your conclusions: there certainly should be a good number of high-quality, unassailable UFO (and Bigfoot) videos/pictures by now.
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"How many people independently videotaped the WTC collapse?"
Uh. A lot. Because they knew it was going to happen. I think you mean "How many people independently videotaped the first WTC tower getting hit by the first plane?" That number is a lot smaller.
"Mmmmm... can't wait to buy my first roll-up display!"
Darn it, I mistook my ultra-cool roll-up display with Mars background image for a Strawberry Fruit Roll-up! Now my stomach is trying to connect to Windows Update and I don't feel very good...
Looks like they are simply replacing the casing: they ship you a new case, you use the old battery from the recalled case, then ship back the old case.
"the way it turned into case studies of debunking, rather than the process of debunking"
Actually, I'm not sure you can do a "generic" how-to debunking book: eventually, you have to apply those tools to real-life situations. Shermer sets out the tools in the first section, then shows how they apply to specific cases: I think that's an excellent way to do it.
I did enjoy Borderlands, though not as much as Weird Things (perhaps because Weird Things was more "fun").
With all the current cloning fun going on, a book like Borderlands becomes even more important.
The crackpots will always believe that they are correct, regardless of what the scientific community does. For example, the Air Force was constantly berated for not "explaining" the Roswell incident more completely. But when they did, all the crackpots said they were just covering it up with their explanations.
The "Moon Landing is a Hoax" crackpots are the same: if NASA doesn't refute them, then they can continue with their silliness. If NASA does refute them, then the crackpots either say "See, if NASA is refuting us, we are important" feeding into their delusions, regardless of the information NASA releases. It's a Catch-22.
Plus, any information that NASA does release would be used against them in some way: any little deviation, correction, etc, automatically triggers the "conspiracy sense" these idiots have.
It is a lot like the John Edwards stuff: you can explain exactly how he does his tricks, exactly how he gathers his information, but none of that will actually convince a person who believes.
I got Mech Assault and played the early part of the weekend: it's a good game, but it really just made me want to play the superior MechWarrior4 or 3 version.
MechAssault seems less like giant robots running around than I would have hoped for: it plays too fast, and there really isn't a strategic method of playing (well, except "shoot everything that moves").
Had a fun game where a 11 year old cursed up a storm (and he sucked, too): everyone ganged up on him the moment he respawned. It was a good game, where we actually used some strategy: the "kill the annoying kid so he'll shut up" strategy.
Overall, though, the games for the Xbox in general are underwhelming, with the online versions having the same problem: there's one or two good ones, and a lot of eh ones.
Microsoft needs some good breakout games that aren't just rehashes of superior PC games. But as they can spend millions creating/subsudizing such games, I don't doubt that MS will eventually come up with some.
I can see it now: "Sorry, we can't get the data from your experiment because we're still downloading the IMAX camera data. That'll take another 5-7 years."
And does Marvel really want the typical MMORPG attracted to this game playing Spider-Man et al? Nothing like having your flagship characters spouting things like "fag" or "u r gay" to other characters.
I would bet that only GMs would get to play any named characters to avoid such problems. Of course, that would pretty much make the game worthless. Who wants to play Color-Excreter Lad when you really want to play Black Panther?
That Barracuda has something called a "3D Defense System." Guess no one will be messing with that data except the the Fourth and Fifth Dimensional imps.
Gotta love it when they come up with stupid names.
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"Might make a great (and unobtrusive) security camera or webcam..."
Yep: nothing says unobtrusive like an expensive silver (now in blue!) robotic dog. No one will notice that, nosiree.
"tapes will start from three to five minutes before the cop turned on the recorder."
The cop should not have to do anything for it to record: there should be some automatic method, like the car door opening.
Yes, they'll get a lot of donut shop footage, but heck, otherwise, the cop could just not turn the thing on, nightstick the hell out of someone, then just drive off.
Didn't the Beatnik plugin basically do that for any Web page: I recall playing with it when it came out, but it never seemed to go anywhere.
" How's the battery life? ~4 hours? ~20 hours? How much do you use your s and how often do you have to recharge?"
Generally, battery life is sorta bad: I use my Zaurus for about 10-15 minutes a day (on/off use, basically) and with that, the battery life is about 3 hours. When playing mps, though, ends up being about an hour of use.
When the battery is uncharged, everything goes bye-bye, too: I'm in the habit of backing up monthly.
"- The OS that comes presinstalled, it's linux based right?"
Yes.
" Do I get a shell with it? "
The shell doesn't come installed, but on the disk with other apps. Easily installable.
"Can I compile and run most linux apps? "
If you have a mind to do so, sure. Folks have ported apache, php, nethack, etc. to the Zaurus.
"What's the deal with OpenZaurus?"
Open source OS for the Zaurus: has its own PIM utilities (though, to be certain, both the Opie and Sharp PIM tools suck) and an active community working on it.
A do like my Zaurus, but I do not think it is a good PIM. The Palm is superior in usability, interface, etc. However, nothing beats telling folks that you are running a Web server on your PDA.
And Audiotron hooked up via Linksys ethernet bridge; plan on getting a Slimp3 eventually, as well. I don't see a reason to lock myself into wireless as a method to hook up any of these devices, though: the audiotron works with phoneline networks and plain wired ethernet, which works for me.
I do have a Motorola wireless SimpleFi, though, which uses RF. Cute hardware, but the software
is horrible: it would take me too long to set up (plus, there doesn't appear to be a way randomly play songs). It sits unused these days.
"Waiting...patiently... "
Impatience is the mind killer...
Do the geeks who would be excited by this really need another reason to eat junk food and sit on their butts while Web surfing?
"This finding has negative implications both for those claiming that liquid flow structures on Mars were caused by C02 instead of H20, as well as those who were hoping to use all that CO2 for terraforming." "
On the other hand, it has positive implications for those wanting to make slurpees.
Yep: I don't disagree with your conclusions: there certainly should be a good number of high-quality, unassailable UFO (and Bigfoot) videos/pictures by now.
"How many people independently videotaped the WTC collapse?"
Uh. A lot. Because they knew it was going to happen. I think you mean "How many people independently videotaped the first WTC tower getting hit by the first plane?" That number is a lot smaller.
Ahggg! Paper Jam! Literally!
Sorry, Mrs. Smith, we were attempting to give Timmy a new spleen, but he apparently slipped in a few pages from his Winnie-the-Pooh coloring book...
"Mmmmm ... can't wait to buy my first roll-up display!"
Darn it, I mistook my ultra-cool roll-up display with Mars background image for a Strawberry Fruit Roll-up! Now my stomach is trying to connect to Windows Update and I don't feel very good...
Looks like they are simply replacing the casing: they ship you a new case, you use the old battery from the recalled case, then ship back the old case.
We Slashdotted the guy's door. So much for security. :)
"the way it turned into case studies of debunking, rather than the process of debunking"
Actually, I'm not sure you can do a "generic" how-to debunking book: eventually, you have to apply those tools to real-life situations. Shermer sets out the tools in the first section, then shows how they apply to specific cases: I think that's an excellent way to do it.
I did enjoy Borderlands, though not as much as Weird Things (perhaps because Weird Things was more "fun").
With all the current cloning fun going on, a book like Borderlands becomes even more important.
"This was a fun project that is best appreciated by fellow hardware geeks."
Not appreciated nearly as much as Web servers than can handle a Slashdotting.
The crackpots will always believe that they are correct, regardless of what the scientific community does. For example, the Air Force was constantly berated for not "explaining" the Roswell incident more completely. But when they did, all the crackpots said they were just covering it up with their explanations.
The "Moon Landing is a Hoax" crackpots are the same: if NASA doesn't refute them, then they can continue with their silliness. If NASA does refute them, then the crackpots either say "See, if NASA is refuting us, we are important" feeding into their delusions, regardless of the information NASA releases. It's a Catch-22.
Plus, any information that NASA does release would be used against them in some way: any little deviation, correction, etc, automatically triggers the "conspiracy sense" these idiots have.
It is a lot like the John Edwards stuff: you can explain exactly how he does his tricks, exactly how he gathers his information, but none of that will actually convince a person who believes.
Let's see: a big bad something threatens the Earth/Galaxy and Picard and Data and some other guys have to beat up the big bad guy and save the day.
Along the way, various minor cast members will have short/throwaway scenes, but most of the real meat of the plot will involve Picard and Data.
There will be a Worf joke.
Not like we haven't seen 3 of these already, you know.
I got Mech Assault and played the early part of the weekend: it's a good game, but it really just made me want to play the superior MechWarrior4 or 3 version.
MechAssault seems less like giant robots running around than I would have hoped for: it plays too fast, and there really isn't a strategic method of playing (well, except "shoot everything that moves").
Had a fun game where a 11 year old cursed up a storm (and he sucked, too): everyone ganged up on him the moment he respawned. It was a good game, where we actually used some strategy: the "kill the annoying kid so he'll shut up" strategy.
Overall, though, the games for the Xbox in general are underwhelming, with the online versions having the same problem: there's one or two good ones, and a lot of eh ones.
Microsoft needs some good breakout games that aren't just rehashes of superior PC games. But as they can spend millions creating/subsudizing such games, I don't doubt that MS will eventually come up with some.
Sounds like Japan got wind of all the stuff Microsoft and Gates have been handing out to India and want a piece of the action.
I can see it now: "Sorry, we can't get the data from your experiment because we're still downloading the IMAX camera data. That'll take another 5-7 years."
And does Marvel really want the typical MMORPG attracted to this game playing Spider-Man et al? Nothing like having your flagship characters spouting things like "fag" or "u r gay" to other characters.
I would bet that only GMs would get to play any named characters to avoid such problems. Of course, that would pretty much make the game worthless. Who wants to play Color-Excreter Lad when you really want to play Black Panther?
another network will pick it up and keep this sport alive
It's not a sport if you can drink a beer while participating.
That Barracuda has something called a "3D Defense System." Guess no one will be messing with that data except the the Fourth and Fifth Dimensional imps.
Gotta love it when they come up with stupid names.