Given how inexpensive used (or even new!) SVGA and XGA projectors are, for their size, it's not worth doing this overhead crap. Sure, their bulbs are expensive, but you'll be replacing bulbs far less often than you would on an overhead unit, I think 50-100 hours on an overhead, 1000-5000 hours on a regular video projector. Overheads can get pretty loud too.
For a perspective, I've owned a projector for about three years now and only used about 1400 hours on it. I made a nifty (IMO) ceiling mount for it, posted here:
One issue that bugged me is that Firefox for OS X hasn't supported the feature where middle clicking a link opens that link in a new tab. It is still not fixed in 1.0.5, whereas it has been in the nightly builds since February. The nightlies have done OK, but has had some occasional issues.
On the surface, it looks like a thin client, but I think the difference is that each user would still get their own dedicated computer, so really, it's just a long distance KVM.
I agree. With over 6000 years of recorded history, with wars and conquerors perforating that history, I don't think just going to space will solve the problems of basic humanity over a few decades.
A lot of the makers had been doing it this way for a long time. HP claimed that they can keep the image quality up by replacing the squirter head for every ink refill. I have an old Epson printer that has ink tanks, and also the print head is removable for occasional replacement.
It broke down _very_ often when I tried to go, where they had several hours at a time that it wasn't running. I really don't intend to go to that amusement park again though.
Montana didn't have a specified number as speed limit for their roads, but the limit was "reasonable and prudent". 90MPH was not considered reasonable or prudent by any judges that I heard.
That, and NTSC / PAL are kind of short changing things for anything other than playing video. That would probably be about VGA resolution, making this no better than any other goggle or eye video device available now. The site linked by the slashvertisement is down, so I am just guessing on this one.
I bought a Tapwave a few weeks ago, which is PalmOS based. For me, it is primarily an organizer, but the multimedia capabilities, and dual SD card slots are a very nice added bonus. The audio playback needs serious help, there is no indicator of how far into a track the player is, no easy way to "scrub" to a particular time index. It has / can play some games too. The solitaire game showed me that a stylus can be a useful game control method.
I would consider the PSP to be a game machine that happens to do multimedia. In my opinion, the UMD drive is useless for personal multimedia as there is no way to make our own discs making the drive dead weight for multimedia other than officially licenced and too-expensive movie discs. The MS Duo cards are needlessly expensive too.
I think the submitter wasn't seriously suggesting DRM, but rather trying to say that this was some sort of DRM.
It isn't DRM at all! I think you missed the statement that the 'D' in DRM means 'digital'? Please state what parts of Scholastic's activities are digital.
There is nothing in the book that prevents the buyer from scaning pages or uploading them either. The 'RM' barely fits as well, being 'rights management'. It is only an elaborate system to try to prevent the sale of a physical item before street date.
It's not a copy protection mechanism, what they are doing is preventing the sale of the book before street date. That is a way to level the playing field for retailers, nothing to do with the end user at all.
Producing hydrogen from electrolosys is incredibly inefficient. It is better to crack some sort of organic compound.
I think cracking gasoline in the car and running the products through a fuel cell is probably the best way in the short to mid term, possibly the very long term, who knows.
Actually, cleaning up diesel combustion would be the best way in the short term, versus hybrids and electrics. Diesel is a lot more efficient and it doesn't require a pair of motors in a car. Diesels don't require lots of heavy batteries and doesn't get dragged down with running the A/C. Running A/C in a Prius kills efficiency, diesels are barely fazed by it. The biggest issues with diesels is that they emit particulates and I think sulfur and nitrates, I think all of which could be helped with better fuel refining. Diesel engines also tend to last an incredibly long time with proper maintainance.
I don't believe Microsoft invented the idea of an office productivity suite, or did much that was innovative about it, unless you count 'clippy'.
With software, you have to have a certain amount of familiarity in order to convince people to switch, which is why OO.o seems so much like MS Office. I've used maybe half a dozen spreadsheet programs, and they all operated on the same set of principles and very similar controls, for IMO good reason. Same goes for word processing.
I have a stable "WiFi" connection that connects a point 1/4 mile away, using special antennas, and one that is about 250ft, using pretty ordinary off-the-shelf antennas.
It's a different matter if too many people try to use the same bands, like in an apartment building, esp. with lots of cordless phones, microwaves and such. That is what the "a" standard should help with, where it gives you eight bands to choose from rather than just three.
And editors... do your job, otherwise you'll soon be replaced by monkeys trained to click the 'Accept Article' button all day.
Actually, that wouldn't work so well for the OSTG or whatever group Slashdot is part of. The humans must be there to accept monetary bribes for the slashvertisements. Trained monkeys would probaby just accept fruit.
Yep. There have been "player" pianos for well over a century I believe, you feed it rolls of punched paper and it plays music. I guess that hasn't taken root, even in the form of MIDI keyboards that someone mentioned, and those are much more useful.
Really, the advantage of G5 is being able to clock faster than G4. Clock-for-clock, G5 isn't necessarily a lot faster than G4. So a Powerbook G5 that runs at 1.6GHz won't run normal apps much faster than a PBG4 at the same clock.
Steve did say in the presentation that the roadmap for compute power per watt was one major driver. I think this consideration is mostly for the notebooks because Apple sells more notebooks than desktops, heat and power are huge issues for notebooks. That said, the G5's in the desktops run very hot and as such makes a lot of hot air, I had to relocate my machine from below my desk to on my desk. It will go up on a shelf soon, to clear the desk space and let me use the tackboard again.
I think another issue is supply, IBM is having to supply chips for consoles now, and Apple has had supply issues with IBM that delayed product introductions. Intel has no shortage of fabs.
I wonder what the slashdotters would say if BPL interfered with or reduced the range of their WiFi. I'm not saying that it would or could happen, but most people argue from a standpoint of what they see benefits them the most.
Supposedly BPL doesn't interfere as much as some people say it does, I am trying to think of where to dig up that quote by a pro-HAM leader that said this, based on actual experience.
Slashdot Mirror
http://demaagd.com/hometheater/ceilingmount.html
My mistake for not checking the link.
Given how inexpensive used (or even new!) SVGA and XGA projectors are, for their size, it's not worth doing this overhead crap. Sure, their bulbs are expensive, but you'll be replacing bulbs far less often than you would on an overhead unit, I think 50-100 hours on an overhead, 1000-5000 hours on a regular video projector. Overheads can get pretty loud too.
For a perspective, I've owned a projector for about three years now and only used about 1400 hours on it. I made a nifty (IMO) ceiling mount for it, posted here:
http://demaagd.com/hometheater/ceilingmount.htm
I don't think that can be done half as well with an overhead projector style contraption.
One issue that bugged me is that Firefox for OS X hasn't supported the feature where middle clicking a link opens that link in a new tab. It is still not fixed in 1.0.5, whereas it has been in the nightly builds since February. The nightlies have done OK, but has had some occasional issues.
On the surface, it looks like a thin client, but I think the difference is that each user would still get their own dedicated computer, so really, it's just a long distance KVM.
I agree. With over 6000 years of recorded history, with wars and conquerors perforating that history, I don't think just going to space will solve the problems of basic humanity over a few decades.
A lot of the makers had been doing it this way for a long time. HP claimed that they can keep the image quality up by replacing the squirter head for every ink refill. I have an old Epson printer that has ink tanks, and also the print head is removable for occasional replacement.
It broke down _very_ often when I tried to go, where they had several hours at a time that it wasn't running. I really don't intend to go to that amusement park again though.
Montana didn't have a specified number as speed limit for their roads, but the limit was "reasonable and prudent". 90MPH was not considered reasonable or prudent by any judges that I heard.
The thing is that the Coaco+Java stuff is what already works for Macintel computers, without porting, and it doesn't need a Universal Binary.
That, and NTSC / PAL are kind of short changing things for anything other than playing video. That would probably be about VGA resolution, making this no better than any other goggle or eye video device available now. The site linked by the slashvertisement is down, so I am just guessing on this one.
I bought a Tapwave a few weeks ago, which is PalmOS based. For me, it is primarily an organizer, but the multimedia capabilities, and dual SD card slots are a very nice added bonus. The audio playback needs serious help, there is no indicator of how far into a track the player is, no easy way to "scrub" to a particular time index. It has / can play some games too. The solitaire game showed me that a stylus can be a useful game control method.
I would consider the PSP to be a game machine that happens to do multimedia. In my opinion, the UMD drive is useless for personal multimedia as there is no way to make our own discs making the drive dead weight for multimedia other than officially licenced and too-expensive movie discs. The MS Duo cards are needlessly expensive too.
I think the submitter wasn't seriously suggesting DRM, but rather trying to say that this was some sort of DRM.
It isn't DRM at all! I think you missed the statement that the 'D' in DRM means 'digital'? Please state what parts of Scholastic's activities are digital.
There is nothing in the book that prevents the buyer from scaning pages or uploading them either. The 'RM' barely fits as well, being 'rights management'. It is only an elaborate system to try to prevent the sale of a physical item before street date.
It's not a copy protection mechanism, what they are doing is preventing the sale of the book before street date. That is a way to level the playing field for retailers, nothing to do with the end user at all.
What is in it for the publishers to do that? Does the publisher make enough more off the small bookstores to make it worth protecting them?
Another huge problem with ebooks is that it saves publishers the cost of paper, ink, printing, binding, packing, shipping and other costs.
In order to read it, the buyer has to buy a eBook reader at considerable expense, low dpi, backlight issues, battery life issues and so on.
How does the reader benefit? A handy 10% discount. Nice way to cost-shift, IMO.
Producing hydrogen from electrolosys is incredibly inefficient. It is better to crack some sort of organic compound.
I think cracking gasoline in the car and running the products through a fuel cell is probably the best way in the short to mid term, possibly the very long term, who knows.
Actually, cleaning up diesel combustion would be the best way in the short term, versus hybrids and electrics. Diesel is a lot more efficient and it doesn't require a pair of motors in a car. Diesels don't require lots of heavy batteries and doesn't get dragged down with running the A/C. Running A/C in a Prius kills efficiency, diesels are barely fazed by it. The biggest issues with diesels is that they emit particulates and I think sulfur and nitrates, I think all of which could be helped with better fuel refining. Diesel engines also tend to last an incredibly long time with proper maintainance.
I don't believe Microsoft invented the idea of an office productivity suite, or did much that was innovative about it, unless you count 'clippy'.
With software, you have to have a certain amount of familiarity in order to convince people to switch, which is why OO.o seems so much like MS Office. I've used maybe half a dozen spreadsheet programs, and they all operated on the same set of principles and very similar controls, for IMO good reason. Same goes for word processing.
I agree. Most people understand that the fine print is there to screw them over if they ever become in bad standing with whoever they are signing.
I wonder if that is in part because none of them really understand the outside community?
It is actually a line from Calvin and Hobbes.
Just garbage the letter and you'll be fine.
Verbing weirds language.
I have a stable "WiFi" connection that connects a point 1/4 mile away, using special antennas, and one that is about 250ft, using pretty ordinary off-the-shelf antennas.
It's a different matter if too many people try to use the same bands, like in an apartment building, esp. with lots of cordless phones, microwaves and such. That is what the "a" standard should help with, where it gives you eight bands to choose from rather than just three.
And editors... do your job, otherwise you'll soon be replaced by monkeys trained to click the 'Accept Article' button all day.
Actually, that wouldn't work so well for the OSTG or whatever group Slashdot is part of. The humans must be there to accept monetary bribes for the slashvertisements. Trained monkeys would probaby just accept fruit.
Yep. There have been "player" pianos for well over a century I believe, you feed it rolls of punched paper and it plays music. I guess that hasn't taken root, even in the form of MIDI keyboards that someone mentioned, and those are much more useful.
Really, the advantage of G5 is being able to clock faster than G4. Clock-for-clock, G5 isn't necessarily a lot faster than G4. So a Powerbook G5 that runs at 1.6GHz won't run normal apps much faster than a PBG4 at the same clock.
Steve did say in the presentation that the roadmap for compute power per watt was one major driver. I think this consideration is mostly for the notebooks because Apple sells more notebooks than desktops, heat and power are huge issues for notebooks. That said, the G5's in the desktops run very hot and as such makes a lot of hot air, I had to relocate my machine from below my desk to on my desk. It will go up on a shelf soon, to clear the desk space and let me use the tackboard again.
I think another issue is supply, IBM is having to supply chips for consoles now, and Apple has had supply issues with IBM that delayed product introductions. Intel has no shortage of fabs.
I wonder what the slashdotters would say if BPL interfered with or reduced the range of their WiFi. I'm not saying that it would or could happen, but most people argue from a standpoint of what they see benefits them the most.
Supposedly BPL doesn't interfere as much as some people say it does, I am trying to think of where to dig up that quote by a pro-HAM leader that said this, based on actual experience.