Yes, it looks cool. Yes, it should appeal to geeks. But it was so massively over-hyped.
This is hilarious. The slashdot crowd over-hyped the invention -- not DEKA -- and now the slashdot crowd is pissed off at DEKA because it does not live up to the hype?
Ok, very neat, "think forward, go forward". But beyond that, it's not like people are really incapable of learning to use a throttle. For the most part, when I'm driving I don't have to consciously remind myself which pedal to step on to make the car go...
You just don't get it. It's very simple. This device lets you move 4 times as fast as walking speed, while you expend LESS energy, and you are LESS likely to be knocked over by outside forces.
It requires about 10 cents worth of energy per day to run.
Why does it need a Stirling engine or alternative fuel?
Oh, I forgot, because that's what the slashdot crowd said it would have.
I would love it. But a little 3G phone is useless for that.
That's like saying a little cell phone is useless for connecting to the internet. But they make cell phone internet connection kits now, they make PCMCIA cards that fit in your laptop and use a cell network for internet connections. It will be no different for 3G. In fact, there will be much more of these types of products for 3G since everyone is going to want to use it like that.
Watching movies on my phone is dumb -- I'd rather watch them on my home theater or in a real movie theater.
Reading/writing email on my phone is dumb -- I'd rather do that on something with a _real_ keyboard, thanks.
Relax, their will be PC/PCI cards that use 3G technology to provide you with internet access just like your ethernet and WiFi cards today.
If we can make wireless devices that actually have a _use_ (think wireless Newton), then maybe we're getting somewhere.
The SprintPCS Visor phone springboard module actually has built in support for 3G, so that when sprint turns on their 3G support (now in testing), the visor phone will be ready for it. (Although it only supports the lower ISDN-like speeds of 3G, which is what Sprint PCS will roll out first.)
In fact, I daresay Sprint PCS is closer to rolling out 3G than Cingular, since they already have an all digital CDMA network laid out across the nation, and have been testing 3G for quite some time.
http://www.sprintpcs.com/aboutsprintpcs/Cdma_3g/ in dex.html
...of the primary 3G usage example being "watching video over your phone."
NO ONE is going to watch video over a phone for long periods of time, even if the battery could handle it.
However, how would you telecommuters like to be able to work from ANYWHERE in the world without sacrificing your high-speed, always-on connection to the internet?
IT is a cool invention, but 3G really could change the world.
While delivering superior performance rendering these intensely detailed and hard-wrought movie scenes, Linux stills falls short of Windows when playing Quake. How did we get into this perplexing state of affairs?
I'll tell you why -- good old fashioned ego.
(I know, in courts the most money wins, not justice or truth.... we have O.J. to thank for showing the country that.)
Well the OJ decision was made by a JURY OF HIS PEERS, not a judge. If anything can be taken from the OJ trial, its that the jurors were not very bright and/or the government did a really horrible job of presenting its case. Probably a bit of both.
I know you have a boner for SFX companies that use Linux, but Digital Domain only did a few FX shots for LOTR. To list LOTR as one of "their" SFX films is a bit much. Here's a quote directly from lordoftherings.net:
Peter Jackson and his team not only created a physical Middle-earth, they also designed an entirely digital universe for The Lord of The Rings trilogy. This staggeringly intensive, behind-the-scenes work was carried out by WETA Digital. The New Zealand based F/X company assembled a crack team of computer artists, key frame animators, modelers, digital paint artists, motion editors, compositors and software engineers, among others, to devote years of their lives to creating never-before-seen effects.
Remember when a certain console that cost $199 at launch sold 410,000 units in the first week
The difference is Sega does not have Shigeru Myomoto. They do not have Mario, Zelda, Metroid! They did not have a cool wave racing game, a cool snow boarding game. (Two of the funnest games to play on N64... sure to continue on GCN.)
I owned a DC. Their best games were available for other platforms like PS2. They had no 'killer games' to keep their system afloat. They could not compete with PS2, so they gave up.
was working at SUN on Java since the early days, mostly as an evangelist in the beginning.
After reading his responses, you can really tell he had a job as an evangelist. For you Quake/id fans out there, it's like Paul Steed started coding in Java!
At some point in SonicBlue is going to be forced to send a software update to disable or alter some of the features of the 4000. Unless there is a way to hack the software to have a fully functional system without taking software updates, you're just wasting your money on this.
If SonicBlue ever sends down an update that takes away functionality that is advertised (printed on the box, mentioned on their website, etc), then they would do this at their own peril. It'd be like shouting, "I hope all of our customers get together and file a class action lawsuit against us!"
I think the MPAA or similar organization could get an injunction stopping the sale of these units, but could they force SonicBlue to send out an update taking away functionality that was promised to the customer during the sale?
If the people really like your media format, they will just use it however they like, even if its patented.
Just look at MP3.
Now for a more serious answer... Why don't you just re-license it to specific companies that you want to see use it? Maybe even for a re-licensing fee, so that you can make some money off your open source software.
This maybe a first for MS, but from its inception, Mac OS X has had not just alpha blending, but a completely new compositing system has been a central feature of Mac OS X from inception.
And MacOS X does the alpha blending in the CPU. This item is news because it is being done on the graphics card -- no CPU hit.
I know this reply is redundant, but so are all these goddamn MacOS X whining posts.
Strictly speaking, if I have windows XP, legally, and I then disable all the product-activiation stuff with some kind of crack.. I'm within my rights, yes?
Strictly speaking, I can take the source code for Linux, make all kinds of modifications to it, and then sell it without releasing my mods, yes?
After all, we're just talking about a license violation.
I don't know why you would let it expire. Register.com allows you to initiate a transfer of registrar process, where they go out and request the domain from NSI. Then NSI contacts you with an automated email, you respond giving the OK, and then the domain is transferred to register.com.
I've got a few domains with register.com. (I typically initiate their simple 'transfer registrar' process for a domain whenever I get a renewal notice from NSI! Thanks for the reminders!:)
I've not received any spam from register.com.
More importantly, register.com allows you to give them a billing email/postal address that is separate from the addresses you list in the WHOIS database. This allows me to put completely fake addresses in WHOIS (hint: I do not really live on 123 No Spam Ave, No Spam, California 90210!)
NSI's WHOIS database was the single biggest source of spam and junk postal mail!
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Yes, it looks cool. Yes, it should appeal to geeks. But it was so massively over-hyped.
This is hilarious. The slashdot crowd over-hyped the invention -- not DEKA -- and now the slashdot crowd is pissed off at DEKA because it does not live up to the hype?
Ok, very neat, "think forward, go forward". But beyond that, it's not like people are really incapable of learning to use a throttle. For the most part, when I'm driving I don't have to consciously remind myself which pedal to step on to make the car go...
You just don't get it. It's very simple. This device lets you move 4 times as fast as walking speed, while you expend LESS energy, and you are LESS likely to be knocked over by outside forces.
It requires about 10 cents worth of energy per day to run.
Why does it need a Stirling engine or alternative fuel?
Oh, I forgot, because that's what the slashdot crowd said it would have.
...there won't be a gleeful response from the Linux crowd here?
Any hope the quality of a voice call will go back to where it was in 1980 (in North America, anyway)?
Sure, we can go back to that era of quality by:
- Turning in our cheap, tiny cell phones for huge, expensive, briefcase-sized, semi-portable brick phones.
- Reducing the number of people using cellphones down to the number in use in the 1980's. That is, roughly 17 people nationwide.
I would love it. But a little 3G phone is useless for that.
That's like saying a little cell phone is useless for connecting to the internet. But they make cell phone internet connection kits now, they make PCMCIA cards that fit in your laptop and use a cell network for internet connections. It will be no different for 3G. In fact, there will be much more of these types of products for 3G since everyone is going to want to use it like that.
Watching movies on my phone is dumb -- I'd rather watch them on my home theater or in a real movie theater.
/ in dex.html
Reading/writing email on my phone is dumb -- I'd rather do that on something with a _real_ keyboard, thanks.
Relax, their will be PC/PCI cards that use 3G technology to provide you with internet access just like your ethernet and WiFi cards today.
If we can make wireless devices that actually have a _use_ (think wireless Newton), then maybe we're getting somewhere.
The SprintPCS Visor phone springboard module actually has built in support for 3G, so that when sprint turns on their 3G support (now in testing), the visor phone will be ready for it. (Although it only supports the lower ISDN-like speeds of 3G, which is what Sprint PCS will roll out first.)
In fact, I daresay Sprint PCS is closer to rolling out 3G than Cingular, since they already have an all digital CDMA network laid out across the nation, and have been testing 3G for quite some time.
http://www.sprintpcs.com/aboutsprintpcs/Cdma_3g
...of the primary 3G usage example being "watching video over your phone."
NO ONE is going to watch video over a phone for long periods of time, even if the battery could handle it.
However, how would you telecommuters like to be able to work from ANYWHERE in the world without sacrificing your high-speed, always-on connection to the internet?
IT is a cool invention, but 3G really could change the world.
Imagine Quake IX out in an open plane of battle with literally hundreds of thousands of soldiers and other things out there all at once.
I am reminded of something similar to the weekend dogfights/lanparties at the Airforce Academy, but with a much larger field of action.
Except when you kill someone the MP's won't take you away.
While delivering superior performance rendering these intensely detailed and hard-wrought movie scenes, Linux stills falls short of Windows when playing Quake. How did we get into this perplexing state of affairs?
I'll tell you why -- good old fashioned ego.
No no no... I think you mean id.
Would you pay $250 for a share of your own cablenet company?
Yes. Would I send $250 to a guy known only as Bitmanhome?
No.
(I know, in courts the most money wins, not justice or truth.... we have O.J. to thank for showing the country that.)
Well the OJ decision was made by a JURY OF HIS PEERS, not a judge. If anything can be taken from the OJ trial, its that the jurors were not very bright and/or the government did a really horrible job of presenting its case. Probably a bit of both.
Patrick Stewart no longer wants to be in that role (not that he doesn't dislike it, but he wants to return to stage work).
Where is Data when you need him (for translations)?
I know you have a boner for SFX companies that use Linux, but Digital Domain only did a few FX shots for LOTR. To list LOTR as one of "their" SFX films is a bit much. Here's a quote directly from lordoftherings.net:
Peter Jackson and his team not only created a physical Middle-earth, they also designed an entirely digital universe for The Lord of The Rings trilogy. This staggeringly intensive, behind-the-scenes work was carried out by WETA Digital. The New Zealand based F/X company assembled a crack team of computer artists, key frame animators, modelers, digital paint artists, motion editors, compositors and software engineers, among others, to devote years of their lives to creating never-before-seen effects.
Remember when a certain console that cost $199 at launch sold 410,000 units in the first week
The difference is Sega does not have Shigeru Myomoto. They do not have Mario, Zelda, Metroid! They did not have a cool wave racing game, a cool snow boarding game. (Two of the funnest games to play on N64... sure to continue on GCN.)
I owned a DC. Their best games were available for other platforms like PS2. They had no 'killer games' to keep their system afloat. They could not compete with PS2, so they gave up.
And if they do make real digital celebrities, how long until grey/black market pornographic representations get loose?
Hopefully, not that long.
Gwyneth, please get off of Heather Graham for a minute and please me.
Max Headroom doesn't count, since he was played by the actor Matt Frewer.
What are these mind bullets you speak of and why do you want to destroy little children with them?
That's telekenesis, Kyle!
was working at SUN on Java since the early days, mostly as an evangelist in the beginning.
After reading his responses, you can really tell he had a job as an evangelist. For you Quake/id fans out there, it's like Paul Steed started coding in Java!
At some point in SonicBlue is going to be forced to send a software update to disable or alter some of the features of the 4000. Unless there is a way to hack the software to have a fully functional system without taking software updates, you're just wasting your money on this.
If SonicBlue ever sends down an update that takes away functionality that is advertised (printed on the box, mentioned on their website, etc), then they would do this at their own peril. It'd be like shouting, "I hope all of our customers get together and file a class action lawsuit against us!"
I think the MPAA or similar organization could get an injunction stopping the sale of these units, but could they force SonicBlue to send out an update taking away functionality that was promised to the customer during the sale?
Talk about prompting a backlash... yeesh.
If the people really like your media format, they will just use it however they like, even if its patented.
Just look at MP3.
Now for a more serious answer... Why don't you just re-license it to specific companies that you want to see use it? Maybe even for a re-licensing fee, so that you can make some money off your open source software.
You're right, a hammer just might help compile Linux within Windows!
This maybe a first for MS, but from its inception, Mac OS X has had not just alpha blending, but a completely new compositing system has been a central feature of Mac OS X from inception.
And MacOS X does the alpha blending in the CPU. This item is news because it is being done on the graphics card -- no CPU hit.
I know this reply is redundant, but so are all these goddamn MacOS X whining posts.
Strictly speaking, if I have windows XP, legally, and I then disable all the product-activiation stuff with some kind of crack.. I'm within my rights, yes?
Strictly speaking, I can take the source code for Linux, make all kinds of modifications to it, and then sell it without releasing my mods, yes?
After all, we're just talking about a license violation.
Ummm yeah...
How many straws, America? How many?
Just one more! I promise.
I don't know why you would let it expire. Register.com allows you to initiate a transfer of registrar process, where they go out and request the domain from NSI. Then NSI contacts you with an automated email, you respond giving the OK, and then the domain is transferred to register.com.
I've done it three times now, it works great.
I've got a few domains with register.com. (I typically initiate their simple 'transfer registrar' process for a domain whenever I get a renewal notice from NSI! Thanks for the reminders! :)
I've not received any spam from register.com.
More importantly, register.com allows you to give them a billing email/postal address that is separate from the addresses you list in the WHOIS database. This allows me to put completely fake addresses in WHOIS (hint: I do not really live on 123 No Spam Ave, No Spam, California 90210!)
NSI's WHOIS database was the single biggest source of spam and junk postal mail!