Considering that the harddrive is nearly as big as the PDA itself, I can't imagine having one integrated into a real, portable PDA. The only reason the iPod can pull off being its size is the fact that compared to a PDA, mp3 and even video decoding can be pulled off by a low-powered, dedicated chip. PDAs don't have this luxury, not to mention the fact that they still have to have room for such things as CF and SD expansions ports. Now that we have harddrives as small in size and as large in capacity as the Toshiba MK3008GAL (the same one in the iPod Video), I wouldn't be suprised to see PDAs with large harrdrives in the near future.
Well, it's not 60GB, but I have managed to hook up a 20GB drive to my Zaurus SL-C860 with a homemade CF-IDE adaptor. The drive came courtesy of my Rio Riot MP3 player, since it decided to erupt in a cloud of smoke when I plugged it in once (fortunately only the power regulation section of the board was damaged; the drive was perfectly fine). When I don't feel like lugging that mess around, the 5GB microdrive from a Rio Carbon holds plenty enough music, video, games, and various other forms of entertainment. All in all, I've shelled out more that a kilobuck on the whole setup, but that's a small price to pay when being able to rock out with XMMS while editing images with the Gimp while on the go*.
*though you probably don't want to because of the limited RAM and having to set up a swap on external media- it's slow as hell, but impressive nonetheless.
Of course, I like having all of these features. Ninety-nine percent of people don't give a crap about all of this- all they want to do is press a button and listen to the song they want to hear. If they want to play video, they'd rather do it with an iPod than have to mess around with some hard-to-use videoplayer on their PDA. It's as simple as that.
Well, not every watt is directly turned into heat. Many heaters give off light, which is not "heat" (though when it gets absorbed by, say, the air or a wall, that energy may get turned into heat). Also, not every heater is able to extract all of the energy (for instance, some fuel may go unburned, or an AC heater may radiate RF instead of more useful IR).
But considering the fact that a space heater for 500ft^2 usually uses about 5kW, it really isn't too horrible- still rediculously inefficient, but if you have enough money to buy one of these, you probably don't care.
The SAD definately has a large effect on it; however, it starts to affect me a few weeks before the time change. When the time change happens, any semblance of regular sleeping habit is thrown out the window. I haven't been to other time zones in a few years (can't travel when you can barely afford college...), so I can't say for certain that it would be the same, even though it's likely it would.
Yeah, three days for you. Most people have learned by now that everyone responds to different stimuli in different ways.
Every fall, the combined effect of the DST change and my Seasonal Affective Disorder cause me to have erratic sleep patterns for weeks, if not longer. I have a hard enough time as it is establishing a "regular" sleep schedule (which may work for a week or two until an insomniatic episode throws it for a loop), and arbitrarily re-establishing what time it is doesn't help at all.
I see no reason why we can't just stay on DST permanently and forget this stupid clock changing bullcrap.
Any chance you want to sell that fingerworks board?
I switched to Dvorak one summer, and got fairly proficient at it, but when school started up again I had to revert back to QWERTY (the labs on campus, just like everywhere else in the world, use QWERTY). I got back to QWERTY almost immediately, and my Dvorak skills have pretty much faded into oblivion. I'm sure with enough persistence, I'd be able to use both, but it just isn't worth it to me.
For a better laugh, check out the review of the cables here.
In all honesty, I do agree that better components definately help to an extent. I have a nice pair of Grado SR-125 headphones, which sound absolutely remarkable on a good system. There is a definate difference between a cheap receiver and a decent one, but it all comes down to the question "is it worth the cost?"
I thought that being able to recite 50 decimal places of pi was dorky enough... I mean, come on, what sort of calculation could you do that you would need that precision?
As far as I see it, there is no way you can ever "decide" to kill your grandfather and/or impregnate your elder relatives. Though we all like to think that we are constantly making decisions and thinking and whatnot, in reality they are all the side effects of some extremely complicated chemical reactions. We do not "decide" to make these things happen, they happen because the reaction continues to cascade (of course, it is modified by sensory input and whatnot, but not anything specifically under our control). These reactions (as are all other reactions), are goverened by quantum principals.
So according to this theory, if we were to go back in time, the quantum states that would result in a chemical reaction in your brain to make you "decide" to kill your grandfather would never happen. Likewise, if the Chronology Protection Conjecture were true, the quantum states that would make us "think" of the idea of a time machine would never happen.
Sounds kinda bleak to me, so don't believe it if you don't want to (but did you really "decide" not to believe me?)...
Maybe a few years back that was the case. Now, with printers like the Canon i9900, you can print an 8x10 photo in about a minute and a half (full quality), on paper that costs about $0.90 per sheet and aproximately $0.20 in ink. Better yet, 13x19 prints can be had for under $3.00 (and in under 3 minutes!). The current inks are said to last 25 years without fading; newer inks used in the (as of now) Japan-only iP9910 are said to last 100 years.
Of course, if you only print out a few sets of 4x6s every year, you're better off with wally-world or a nice online photo service. If you're like me, an enthusiastic amatuer who likes to make big prints sometimes (and small prints all the time), going with this printer is a much better option.
Hmm... quite caustic there (but aren't all cowards that way?).
If you notice, this is not a repost, rather, it's a story relating to one mentioned earlier. I just thought I'd point that out, since it was quite relevant to the topic.
So, by your logic, if an 8 year old girl gets her throat sliced (btw, thanks for the disturbing imagery) while I'm flying a plane, I open the cockpit door and let the highjackers take over the plane, potentially killing everyone on board, not to mention hundreds or thousands on the ground? I'm sure fellow passengers would not stand around idly while some lunatics go on a killing spree (as evidenced by the heroics of the passengers on flight 93, though they had to deal with crazy people already in the cockpit). As tragic as the situation you present is, I would hope my pilot would continue flying the plane, no matter what goes on inside the cabin.
You know, it used to irritate me that the British would say the "-ium" ending, but I recently realized that it makes perfect sense. Most elements on the table end with the -ium ending (except Lanthanum, but let's just forget about it for right now), and Aluminum just sounds like us Americans got lazy and decided to drop a sylable.
When put into perspective, dropping the -ium for -um just seems to not make much sense. We don't say "Chromum" or "Magnesum," and it would sound stupid to say it as such. And I'm sure that's what the other English speakers think about our "Aluminum".
In fact, there is a bar located right in the flight path of the runway. I just met a guy who came back from there, and said it's quite interesting to have planes landing so close to you.
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Considering that the harddrive is nearly as big as the PDA itself, I can't imagine having one integrated into a real, portable PDA. The only reason the iPod can pull off being its size is the fact that compared to a PDA, mp3 and even video decoding can be pulled off by a low-powered, dedicated chip. PDAs don't have this luxury, not to mention the fact that they still have to have room for such things as CF and SD expansions ports. Now that we have harddrives as small in size and as large in capacity as the Toshiba MK3008GAL (the same one in the iPod Video), I wouldn't be suprised to see PDAs with large harrdrives in the near future.
Well, it's not 60GB, but I have managed to hook up a 20GB drive to my Zaurus SL-C860 with a homemade CF-IDE adaptor. The drive came courtesy of my Rio Riot MP3 player, since it decided to erupt in a cloud of smoke when I plugged it in once (fortunately only the power regulation section of the board was damaged; the drive was perfectly fine). When I don't feel like lugging that mess around, the 5GB microdrive from a Rio Carbon holds plenty enough music, video, games, and various other forms of entertainment. All in all, I've shelled out more that a kilobuck on the whole setup, but that's a small price to pay when being able to rock out with XMMS while editing images with the Gimp while on the go*.
*though you probably don't want to because of the limited RAM and having to set up a swap on external media- it's slow as hell, but impressive nonetheless.
Of course, I like having all of these features. Ninety-nine percent of people don't give a crap about all of this- all they want to do is press a button and listen to the song they want to hear. If they want to play video, they'd rather do it with an iPod than have to mess around with some hard-to-use videoplayer on their PDA. It's as simple as that.
Well, not every watt is directly turned into heat. Many heaters give off light, which is not "heat" (though when it gets absorbed by, say, the air or a wall, that energy may get turned into heat). Also, not every heater is able to extract all of the energy (for instance, some fuel may go unburned, or an AC heater may radiate RF instead of more useful IR).
More like 13.2kW.
But considering the fact that a space heater for 500ft^2 usually uses about 5kW, it really isn't too horrible- still rediculously inefficient, but if you have enough money to buy one of these, you probably don't care.
The SAD definately has a large effect on it; however, it starts to affect me a few weeks before the time change. When the time change happens, any semblance of regular sleeping habit is thrown out the window. I haven't been to other time zones in a few years (can't travel when you can barely afford college...), so I can't say for certain that it would be the same, even though it's likely it would.
Easy- stay up all night.
Yeah, three days for you. Most people have learned by now that everyone responds to different stimuli in different ways.
Every fall, the combined effect of the DST change and my Seasonal Affective Disorder cause me to have erratic sleep patterns for weeks, if not longer. I have a hard enough time as it is establishing a "regular" sleep schedule (which may work for a week or two until an insomniatic episode throws it for a loop), and arbitrarily re-establishing what time it is doesn't help at all.
I see no reason why we can't just stay on DST permanently and forget this stupid clock changing bullcrap.
Or do the mean cell phones like the Vertu line of cell phones, ranging upwards of $20,000...
Any chance you want to sell that fingerworks board?
I switched to Dvorak one summer, and got fairly proficient at it, but when school started up again I had to revert back to QWERTY (the labs on campus, just like everywhere else in the world, use QWERTY). I got back to QWERTY almost immediately, and my Dvorak skills have pretty much faded into oblivion. I'm sure with enough persistence, I'd be able to use both, but it just isn't worth it to me.
...An older Slashdot Post.
For a better laugh, check out the review of the cables here.
In all honesty, I do agree that better components definately help to an extent. I have a nice pair of Grado SR-125 headphones, which sound absolutely remarkable on a good system. There is a definate difference between a cheap receiver and a decent one, but it all comes down to the question "is it worth the cost?"
I thought that being able to recite 50 decimal places of pi was dorky enough... I mean, come on, what sort of calculation could you do that you would need that precision?
Anyways, the more power to her.
Hmm.... where did I read this before?
Oh, right, about 9 stories down...
Hah!
;)
I'm still doing the college thing... 4 years down, 2 to go... for my undergrad degree
I guess tat part of the brain that says "go to class and do your work" got damaged by putting on the too-tight graduation cap.
When I graduated high school, they had to custom order my graduation cap, because they didn't have any ones big enough in stock.
And it was still really tight...
As far as I see it, there is no way you can ever "decide" to kill your grandfather and/or impregnate your elder relatives. Though we all like to think that we are constantly making decisions and thinking and whatnot, in reality they are all the side effects of some extremely complicated chemical reactions. We do not "decide" to make these things happen, they happen because the reaction continues to cascade (of course, it is modified by sensory input and whatnot, but not anything specifically under our control). These reactions (as are all other reactions), are goverened by quantum principals.
So according to this theory, if we were to go back in time, the quantum states that would result in a chemical reaction in your brain to make you "decide" to kill your grandfather would never happen. Likewise, if the Chronology Protection Conjecture were true, the quantum states that would make us "think" of the idea of a time machine would never happen.
Sounds kinda bleak to me, so don't believe it if you don't want to (but did you really "decide" not to believe me?)...
Maybe a few years back that was the case. Now, with printers like the Canon i9900, you can print an 8x10 photo in about a minute and a half (full quality), on paper that costs about $0.90 per sheet and aproximately $0.20 in ink. Better yet, 13x19 prints can be had for under $3.00 (and in under 3 minutes!). The current inks are said to last 25 years without fading; newer inks used in the (as of now) Japan-only iP9910 are said to last 100 years.
Of course, if you only print out a few sets of 4x6s every year, you're better off with wally-world or a nice online photo service. If you're like me, an enthusiastic amatuer who likes to make big prints sometimes (and small prints all the time), going with this printer is a much better option.
Hmm... quite caustic there (but aren't all cowards that way?).
If you notice, this is not a repost, rather, it's a story relating to one mentioned earlier. I just thought I'd point that out, since it was quite relevant to the topic.
See more information about it here, from (*ahem*) an older Slashdot article...
Yes, the same way the earth deflates every time a volcano erupts...
Where she wasn't covered with pants, was she covered in hot grits?
So, by your logic, if an 8 year old girl gets her throat sliced (btw, thanks for the disturbing imagery) while I'm flying a plane, I open the cockpit door and let the highjackers take over the plane, potentially killing everyone on board, not to mention hundreds or thousands on the ground? I'm sure fellow passengers would not stand around idly while some lunatics go on a killing spree (as evidenced by the heroics of the passengers on flight 93, though they had to deal with crazy people already in the cockpit). As tragic as the situation you present is, I would hope my pilot would continue flying the plane, no matter what goes on inside the cabin.
You know, it used to irritate me that the British would say the "-ium" ending, but I recently realized that it makes perfect sense. Most elements on the table end with the -ium ending (except Lanthanum, but let's just forget about it for right now), and Aluminum just sounds like us Americans got lazy and decided to drop a sylable.
When put into perspective, dropping the -ium for -um just seems to not make much sense. We don't say "Chromum" or "Magnesum," and it would sound stupid to say it as such. And I'm sure that's what the other English speakers think about our "Aluminum".
The website clearly states that it is vegetable oil, the submitter should have R'd the FA...
No, it still happens.
In fact, there is a bar located right in the flight path of the runway. I just met a guy who came back from there, and said it's quite interesting to have planes landing so close to you.