Don't get too excited by the toys that interact with the Palms, they've had software that can work with TI-85s to do much the same thing for years. We actually had the software at our school (it did stuff w/o the TIs), and several students had TI-85s, but the school wouldn't buy the adapters, so the benefit was lost. I'd also like to point out that TIs are cheaper than Palms, and at least from my experience, cost is highly prohibitive in education.
Still though,the toys are pretty cool, I got to play with some of the Intel toys first hand. It'd certainly make class a bit more, uh, interesting... putting small, zoomable cameras in high-school guys' hands... ; )
That was sarcasm. You could tell by our user id that we "joined" slashdot at about the same, assuming each of these accounts are our first. Although given what time we're each posting, I'll just assume we're tired. Btw, I'm guessing we're roughly the same age, I go to Wash U.
I saw another version of a 3D display in an arcade years ago, attached to a machine that cost something like $5 to play and seemed a pretty simple game. And this was back in the days when all games cost 25c. Next time I went back to that arcade the machine was gone. Basically, (especially in light of the recent advances in flat-screen technology) will I be able to afford one of these before my kids are my age?
Or at least as well as traditional commercials. Personally, I just flip the channel, the only challenge comes from guessing how many commercials they're going to show. With all breaks exactly 7 seconds, it will make it just that much easier to switch to another browser window, and say, read a Slashdot story (and post a comment).
About a month ago I submitted a question to slashdot about if we'd ever have wireless monitors (essentially what this seems), and it got rejected (of course). I had done a little thinking about how much data is pushed to the video card, and then how much data is pushed from the video card to the monitor, and I didn't know of any wireless techs that could push that much data with good quality. I figured compression would be the answer, but I'd really like to hear if anyone has any more information about how exactly they get it to work. If their product really can do decent graphics, why aren't we all sitting on a couch, wireless screen in our lap, with our computer (and all it's bulk) across the room?
Is this going to stop any of us (Slashdot readers) from buying Bluetooth devices? Personally, I'm waiting until they get it "right", but this is like making a body net - my phone's on my belt, my Palm's in my pocket, my pen's behind my ear, all happily chatting away. Not to mention them tapping into my desktop/laptop when they're in range. It's... like a wearable computer!
Now maybe they can start overturning other limited-by-age laws, like the drinking age. I don't know anyone who has wanted to drink before they were 21 who has not been able to get their hands on alcohol. I've also seen many people make the decision when attending clubs or parties where they can't get alcohol (since they're getting intoxicated illegally anyway) to go for harder drugs... because they last the whole night without having to drink yourself close to death at the start of the night. At my school we have a school-wide party early in the year and then again at the end (on the last day of classes) and a lot of the alcohol problems are early on due to people trying to come drunk enough to make their buzz last the entire time, and overestimating. And one line I hear constantly from people who really are on the verge of poisoning themselves is they don't want medical help because they don't want to be caught. Fortunately my school has a (student) medical service that doesn't report to the police for those types of cases, but many places don't, and I worry.
And for those of you who might think "kids" aren't responsible enough to handle alcohol, maybe they aren't. However, artificially imposing that only adults are responsible enough to drink alcohol just makes kids who want to grow up faster (blame the media) more prone to drink, so they fit the adult image that they present. I could continue, but I'm really trying not to troll.
Get a Mac! I've got a B&W G3 and the built-in handles are great. I even string the strap for a soccer bag between the upper handles and treat it like a giant purse when I fly home from St. Louis to San Diego. (Lots of people have remarked "nice portable!") I haven't been to that many Lan parties, but I can generally manage with my case in one hand and a bag with the rest of my stuff in the other. Btw, the plastic supermarket bags are free and work just fine.
Well, the obvious solution to Safeaudio would be to buy no copies of any disk that uses it. And then continue boycotting until they realease a copyright-law compatible version. There isn't any CD out there that would drastically affect my life if I didn't have it. No sales -> No consumer support -> No Safeaudio
Unfortunately, it'd be rather boring: the state of the art in robot AI still takes a few minutes to recoginize where it is in a room, much less identify/track another hostile robot (particularly if it's moving at high speed). Of course, you still have the problem of disabling the other robot, which even human drivers seem to suck at.
I guess this means that if I try to check the weather online in the morning and I can't get through, it's already gotten bad.
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But let's put that aside for a minute here. Why do you need this kind of case? The free market is a wonderful thing for scientific innovation, but this is the sort of thing that makes me think back to that old notion in Marx that a capitalist economy tends to produce unnecessary stuff, waste, and duplicate efforts.
I hate to tell you, but to steal a line from Sprite: Image is Everything. Take fashion (the runway/supermodel kind), all that money must be going for something, and it's certianly not scientific. Or beer: if you're trying to get drunk, what's the difference between PBR and Heineken in terms of alcohol content (since taste is rather subjective). Or coming a little closer to home, take Microsoft - what would they be without their marketing department (and lawyers)? A more direct comparison would be to Apple's computers. How much does that iMac catch your eye? If someone starts staring at your machine, they're much more likely to see you, and that's the reason we buy those designer clothes.
And about duplicate efforts... nothing sparks production and innovation like competition. You can't "engineer" people the way you can machines; it's more than just adding RAM or CPUs.
We have an IT staff that relies heavily on Students, but includes a couple full-time people year-round for the bigger projects. It works extremely well for our housing area and for our Engineering schoool. In the dorms, most of the computer problems occur as people arrive, which is also when students are least busy, so they can spend more time fixing things. After that, it's mostly a very few problems a week (if any), certainly worth the small flat salary they get. Most of them agree that the pay works out even, or in the students favor (depending on what they figure their hours and rates as). Another nice advantage is you get to see (at least in the Engineering school) the students outside of their work, and can suggest improvements, like getting me more quota.:)
Also nice is, strangely, student ITs are around and awake when students need help (say 2am-ish).
Now we just need to convince Coke (with the threat of going to Pepsi) that this is worth the investment. Order it online, and in 15-20 minutes a can of coke will parachute onto your front lawn.
What about all those people out there with multiple processors? Sure most of them only come out for the shows (they are kinda freaky), but big (number of processors) boxes need lovin' too.
Remember, it's not how much Mhz you have, it's what you do with it.
Yeah, especially because I use a pay ISP (at home, at least).
The point was supposed to be humorous, pointing out that the ISPs may try for extra revenue by selling out phone numbers. But it seems you have some connection with one of those ISPs so I guess humor the is lost on you. Don't take it so personally.
Oh great, now for all us good citizens out there who actually use the internet properly (well, mostly) are required to give them our phone number? I hope there's nothing in those contracts about them giving our phone numbers out to telemarketers. I certainly don't want spam for dinner every night.
Are you kidding? What am I going to fit on a 32MB disk? Anything smaller than that I can email where I need it, anything larger I can burn to a CD. With all the file-sharing going on, I can walk into a computer lab naked and still get to any files I need.
The only time I've needed a floppy in the past two years was to give to our career services center. I've got a mac with a CD-burner, but no floppy drive, so I offered to put it on CD for them - they didn't even know that was possible.
I'd much prefer the "USB key" memory discussed yesterday for personal file storage, I already have a 256k SIMM on my keychain (non-functional); memory I could use would be great!
Slashwin
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We just need to find an appropriate prime that contains the source to aim.exe. Not that I'm volunteering....
Kurdt
Don't get too excited by the toys that interact with the Palms, they've had software that can work with TI-85s to do much the same thing for years. We actually had the software at our school (it did stuff w/o the TIs), and several students had TI-85s, but the school wouldn't buy the adapters, so the benefit was lost. I'd also like to point out that TIs are cheaper than Palms, and at least from my experience, cost is highly prohibitive in education.
Still though,the toys are pretty cool, I got to play with some of the Intel toys first hand. It'd certainly make class a bit more, uh, interesting... putting small, zoomable cameras in high-school guys' hands... ; )
Kurdt
That was sarcasm. You could tell by our user id that we "joined" slashdot at about the same, assuming each of these accounts are our first. Although given what time we're each posting, I'll just assume we're tired. Btw, I'm guessing we're roughly the same age, I go to Wash U.
Kurdt
Hmmm... could have been, I was in Jr. High school at the time (and not an avid reader of /. yet).
Kurdt
I saw another version of a 3D display in an arcade years ago, attached to a machine that cost something like $5 to play and seemed a pretty simple game. And this was back in the days when all games cost 25c. Next time I went back to that arcade the machine was gone. Basically, (especially in light of the recent advances in flat-screen technology) will I be able to afford one of these before my kids are my age?
Kurdt
Or at least as well as traditional commercials. Personally, I just flip the channel, the only challenge comes from guessing how many commercials they're going to show. With all breaks exactly 7 seconds, it will make it just that much easier to switch to another browser window, and say, read a Slashdot story (and post a comment).
Kurdt
About a month ago I submitted a question to slashdot about if we'd ever have wireless monitors (essentially what this seems), and it got rejected (of course). I had done a little thinking about how much data is pushed to the video card, and then how much data is pushed from the video card to the monitor, and I didn't know of any wireless techs that could push that much data with good quality. I figured compression would be the answer, but I'd really like to hear if anyone has any more information about how exactly they get it to work. If their product really can do decent graphics, why aren't we all sitting on a couch, wireless screen in our lap, with our computer (and all it's bulk) across the room?
Kurdt
Maybe now we have a technology that's bright and crisp enough to make panels like they have in Star Trek. Now all we have to do is invent Warp Drive.
Kurdt
friday, Apple comes out with OS X
monday, IBM comes out with Z OS
Coincidence? I think not... (or is IBM trying to one-up Apple?)
Kurdt
Is this going to stop any of us (Slashdot readers) from buying Bluetooth devices? Personally, I'm waiting until they get it "right", but this is like making a body net - my phone's on my belt, my Palm's in my pocket, my pen's behind my ear, all happily chatting away. Not to mention them tapping into my desktop/laptop when they're in range. It's... like a wearable computer!
Kurdt
Now maybe they can start overturning other limited-by-age laws, like the drinking age. I don't know anyone who has wanted to drink before they were 21 who has not been able to get their hands on alcohol. I've also seen many people make the decision when attending clubs or parties where they can't get alcohol (since they're getting intoxicated illegally anyway) to go for harder drugs... because they last the whole night without having to drink yourself close to death at the start of the night. At my school we have a school-wide party early in the year and then again at the end (on the last day of classes) and a lot of the alcohol problems are early on due to people trying to come drunk enough to make their buzz last the entire time, and overestimating. And one line I hear constantly from people who really are on the verge of poisoning themselves is they don't want medical help because they don't want to be caught. Fortunately my school has a (student) medical service that doesn't report to the police for those types of cases, but many places don't, and I worry.
And for those of you who might think "kids" aren't responsible enough to handle alcohol, maybe they aren't. However, artificially imposing that only adults are responsible enough to drink alcohol just makes kids who want to grow up faster (blame the media) more prone to drink, so they fit the adult image that they present. I could continue, but I'm really trying not to troll.
Kurdt
Get a Mac! I've got a B&W G3 and the built-in handles are great. I even string the strap for a soccer bag between the upper handles and treat it like a giant purse when I fly home from St. Louis to San Diego. (Lots of people have remarked "nice portable!") I haven't been to that many Lan parties, but I can generally manage with my case in one hand and a bag with the rest of my stuff in the other. Btw, the plastic supermarket bags are free and work just fine.
Kurdt
Well, the obvious solution to Safeaudio would be to buy no copies of any disk that uses it. And then continue boycotting until they realease a copyright-law compatible version. There isn't any CD out there that would drastically affect my life if I didn't have it.
No sales -> No consumer support -> No Safeaudio
Kurdt
Unfortunately, it'd be rather boring: the state of the art in robot AI still takes a few minutes to recoginize where it is in a room, much less identify/track another hostile robot (particularly if it's moving at high speed). Of course, you still have the problem of disabling the other robot, which even human drivers seem to suck at.
Kurdt
I guess this means that if I try to check the weather online in the morning and I can't get through, it's already gotten bad.
Kurdt
But let's put that aside for a minute here. Why do you need this kind of case? The free market is a wonderful thing for scientific innovation, but this is the sort of thing that makes me think back to that old notion in Marx that a capitalist economy tends to produce unnecessary stuff, waste, and duplicate efforts.
I hate to tell you, but to steal a line from Sprite: Image is Everything. Take fashion (the runway/supermodel kind), all that money must be going for something, and it's certianly not scientific. Or beer: if you're trying to get drunk, what's the difference between PBR and Heineken in terms of alcohol content (since taste is rather subjective). Or coming a little closer to home, take Microsoft - what would they be without their marketing department (and lawyers)? A more direct comparison would be to Apple's computers. How much does that iMac catch your eye? If someone starts staring at your machine, they're much more likely to see you, and that's the reason we buy those designer clothes.
And about duplicate efforts... nothing sparks production and innovation like competition. You can't "engineer" people the way you can machines; it's more than just adding RAM or CPUs.
Kurdt
We have an IT staff that relies heavily on Students, but includes a couple full-time people year-round for the bigger projects. :)
It works extremely well for our housing area and for our Engineering schoool. In the dorms, most of the computer problems occur as people arrive, which is also when students are least busy, so they can spend more time fixing things. After that, it's mostly a very few problems a week (if any), certainly worth the small flat salary they get. Most of them agree that the pay works out even, or in the students favor (depending on what they figure their hours and rates as). Another nice advantage is you get to see (at least in the Engineering school) the students outside of their work, and can suggest improvements, like getting me more quota.
Also nice is, strangely, student ITs are around and awake when students need help (say 2am-ish).
Kurdt
Now we just need to convince Coke (with the threat of going to Pepsi) that this is worth the investment. Order it online, and in 15-20 minutes a can of coke will parachute onto your front lawn.
Kurdt
What about all those people out there with multiple processors? Sure most of them only come out for the shows (they are kinda freaky), but big (number of processors) boxes need lovin' too.
Remember, it's not how much Mhz you have, it's what you do with it.
Kurdt
Wow, it looks like the lawyers have come up with an equivalent to getting Delled.
I wonder if you could patent that (the process of patenting a technology and then suing anyone that resembled your patent)?
Kurdt
Sound like someone from the rebate businees has stolen the plot from the movie The Rainmaker
Kurdt
Yeah, especially because I use a pay ISP (at home, at least).
The point was supposed to be humorous, pointing out that the ISPs may try for extra revenue by selling out phone numbers. But it seems you have some connection with one of those ISPs so I guess humor the is lost on you. Don't take it so personally.
Kurdt
Oh great, now for all us good citizens out there who actually use the internet properly (well, mostly) are required to give them our phone number? I hope there's nothing in those contracts about them giving our phone numbers out to telemarketers. I certainly don't want spam for dinner every night.
Kurdt
Are you kidding? What am I going to fit on a 32MB disk? Anything smaller than that I can email where I need it, anything larger I can burn to a CD. With all the file-sharing going on, I can walk into a computer lab naked and still get to any files I need.
The only time I've needed a floppy in the past two years was to give to our career services center. I've got a mac with a CD-burner, but no floppy drive, so I offered to put it on CD for them - they didn't even know that was possible.
I'd much prefer the "USB key" memory discussed yesterday for personal file storage, I already have a 256k SIMM on my keychain (non-functional); memory I could use would be great!
Let legacy technology die, please....
Kurdt
Slashwin
A site dedicated to all the windows geeks out there pointing out all the shortcomings of linux... wait, shortcomings of linux... oh yeah, that's why there's not already a site like this.
Kurdt