In New Zealand most of our power comes from hydo and geothermal (and is topped up by coal)
At night they have so much extra power that they reverse the turbines in some of the hydro dams, and pump the water back up the hill, they can then use it again later.
Rental cars in New Zealand are starting to put in sensors for lane changes, there are led's on the top of the dash that light up and are reflected in the window when the sensors see the curb road markings on the right and the center line ones on the left.
They work really well, aparently staying on the left is a novel concept to most tourists
I dont know how interested you are in it but Alias's Maya (the 3d package most of the large effects houses use) not only runs under linux, it now has embedded Gecko.
It is very usefull. I can use it to mix pages of HTML and Mayas scripting language MEL, previously making GUI's for scripts with MEL was a major pain up the ass, now you can just make a window with mel enabled links.
I was just talking about this with an Australian friend. Here in the US most phones are pretty cheap but over there the prices are horrible. A very low end and basic phone will run around $700. Now I am not sure on exchange rates of if they were talking in Australian/US money but the point it the prices are much higher.
I'm in New Zealand but the domminant player is the same (Vodafone).... Yes we pay almost full price for our phones but it is nowhere near US$700
In Australia, a starter pack for the PrePay service will set you back about US$125 and that comes with US$55 worth of calls.
Your friend must have been talking about monopoly money because the very expensive Sony-Ericsson P900 smart phone costs about US$700
Keeping prices down is the fact that we can parallel import phones from singapore or hong kong with no duties, because we use the asia GSM bands you put in your sim card and the phones "just work"
In New Zealand the photo/colour/mms handsets are about all you can buy now.
The largest cell company has made photo text messages, they call them pxt (pronounced picksst), free for the last few months and they will be untill the end of march, people have really taken it on board and all the people I txt every day have pxt capable phones.
this isn't up and coming technology, its already here and doing well.
there are over 5000 voting members of the american accademy and over 5500 voting members in the british accademy.... if they were really serious they would watermark each copy they send out to these groups.
A huge effort you say? yes it is, but they value member votes votes so much that they spend millions on their oscar and bafta campaigns anyway
not really... companies can easily spend $2M putting together a tv ad, what better way to bring the costs of production down then to sell the first few for advertising pourposes....
And what would you rather.... instore advertising/pushy sales people getting increasingly obnoxious and garish to catch your eye and get your attention, or something cool and geeky like this?
Have a look at the specs for this camera... it is a high end camera that is pitched directly at sports photographers, the camera is only 4Mp but takes 8 shots a second.... Have a sift through the dpreview.com forums, there you will see hundreds of event photographers (who often have a lacky who runs a display stand and prints out photos for people then and there) and sports photographers who are pining over this thing.
Yes this thing is pitched to a niche market... but it is a huge niche market of people prepared to pay big money
This is a digital SLR camera, they are much lower power devices AND they have space for larger batteries.
My Canon 10D which is also a digital slr gets roughly 450 photos out of one charge, this is mainly because the mirror is down and you use the view finder to compose shots, instead of the lcd, the constant charging of the ccd and displaying it on the lcd at the back is the biggest drain in consumer digitals..
Well this one is a little different, it ships with win2k and has winME as an option
have a look at: http://www.dynamism.com/gt3/specs.shtml
they will even put xp on it if you really want them to. And personally I would as the latest Avid DVxpress only runs on XP, and its posibly the best consumer level package behind final cut pro
In New Zealand all the companies have interconnect agreements that say that they cant have different rates for cross carrier calls.
It doesn't mean that they cant do it... But it would open the competition to doing the same thing... they have just decided that it is better for their bottom line to not enter into that kind of battle.
in New Zealand sloppy wording of this kind of thing happens quite often.
They recently had an update to our liquer laws which essentially made it illegal to transport alchaol anywhere. Trying to get that beer you bought at the supermarket home in your car? nope, not without breaking the law.... Try going to a friends house for a party with a nice bottle of wine without being in public while doing it.
I'm in the 3d biz and every now and again you see their ads on the Highend3d.com job boards They often look for graphics programmers and artists and animators in bunches.
So they either still have a huge staff and are working on something new or just have an even larger churn rate.
I am a typical cable user, the kind that makes you money, except me and my flatmate have 4 computers:
a desktop machine a crusty old linux firewall an ipaq with a wireless card a notebook pc
we use a combined 1 to 2gig a month, mainly chatting on irc and downloading the odd movie trailer. yet we have 4 machines that connect to the internet.
Heres a tip: try monitoring usage if you are worried about usage.
I thought the whole reason worm writers release their creations in the weekend is so they have the best chance to spread before systadmins wake up and realise what is happening.
If it WAS let out during business hours, whould it have gotten so far? would it have caused much dammage at all?
It seems like they have a new mission to make their apps faster, and seriously faster.
one of the reviews of it in this thread said it was like a hardware upgrade. Apple are having such trouble keeping up in the MHz game that they are realising that lean mean code will stop people jumping ship.
good on them too, when the new power4 based chips come out we will then have fast code AND fast machines.
Its not just about clicking on a add to buy a product... movie sites are covered in adds for movies... these are all about product awareness. every eyeball second is worth money in this case. noone even needs to click on the ad for it to do its job
Microsoft will try to say this but after talking to a product lead at EA, it was clear they verify their own numbers for consoles sold. They then compare that to the number and value of games sold, THEN compare that to the gamess out on the market in different genres and base their decisions on all these things.
Noone would throw millions developing a game without spending a fair ammount evaluating if that game will sell.
Xbox owners that dont buy games (or signup to xboxLive) lower the average spend.... and this is just as important to the game makers as the number of consoles out there
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I dont know what kind of wacky "time zone" you are caught in, somewhere where it is night already! here it's just a normal old friday afternoon.
What colour is the grass in your world?
In New Zealand most of our power comes from hydo and geothermal (and is topped up by coal)
At night they have so much extra power that they reverse the turbines in some of the hydro dams, and pump the water back up the hill, they can then use it again later.
Rental cars in New Zealand are starting to put in sensors for lane changes, there are led's on the top of the dash that light up and are reflected in the window when the sensors see the curb road markings on the right and the center line ones on the left.
They work really well, aparently staying on the left is a novel concept to most tourists
I dont know how interested you are in it but Alias's Maya (the 3d package most of the large effects houses use) not only runs under linux, it now has embedded Gecko.
It is very usefull. I can use it to mix pages of HTML and Mayas scripting language MEL, previously making GUI's for scripts with MEL was a major pain up the ass, now you can just make a window with mel enabled links.
I'm in New Zealand but the domminant player is the same (Vodafone).... Yes we pay almost full price for our phones but it is nowhere near US$700
In Australia, a starter pack for the PrePay service will set you back about US$125 and that comes with US$55 worth of calls.
Your friend must have been talking about monopoly money because the very expensive Sony-Ericsson P900 smart phone costs about US$700
Keeping prices down is the fact that we can parallel import phones from singapore or hong kong with no duties, because we use the asia GSM bands you put in your sim card and the phones "just work"
In New Zealand the photo/colour/mms handsets are about all you can buy now.
The largest cell company has made photo text messages, they call them pxt (pronounced picksst), free for the last few months and they will be untill the end of march, people have really taken it on board and all the people I txt every day have pxt capable phones.
this isn't up and coming technology, its already here and doing well.
I think bluetooth is the greatest, most of my friends have at least a bluetooth cellphone and many also use a bluetooth PDA,
My phone automaticly syncs to my pc when I sit at my desk and I beam contacts and photos from my sonyericsson T610 to other people all the time
for me bluetooth is the new killer app that made me get a 2.5G cell phone
Yes but if the spam filter is catching it and spidering the link, then the spam filter will also catch the extra spam you get.
there are over 5000 voting members of the american accademy and over 5500 voting members in the british accademy.... if they were really serious they would watermark each copy they send out to these groups.
A huge effort you say? yes it is, but they value member votes votes so much that they spend millions on their oscar and bafta campaigns anyway
But Canon EOS glass has a very good resale value because it doesn't matter what camera you put it on.
It is a fantastic lens.... worth every cent... it is really another market all together.
and Yes I do own a 10D, the 28-135 and a bunch of other lenses
not really... companies can easily spend $2M putting together a tv ad, what better way to bring the costs of production down then to sell the first few for advertising pourposes....
And what would you rather.... instore advertising/pushy sales people getting increasingly obnoxious and garish to catch your eye and get your attention, or something cool and geeky like this?
Have a look at the specs for this camera... it is a high end camera that is pitched directly at sports photographers, the camera is only 4Mp but takes 8 shots a second.... Have a sift through the dpreview.com forums, there you will see hundreds of event photographers (who often have a lacky who runs a display stand and prints out photos for people then and there) and sports photographers who are pining over this thing.
Yes this thing is pitched to a niche market... but it is a huge niche market of people prepared to pay big money
This is a digital SLR camera, they are much lower power devices AND they have space for larger batteries.
My Canon 10D which is also a digital slr gets roughly 450 photos out of one charge, this is mainly because the mirror is down and you use the view finder to compose shots, instead of the lcd, the constant charging of the ccd and displaying it on the lcd at the back is the biggest drain in consumer digitals..
It's "pixel pushing pinheads"
what would the em radiation do to the ants... hard drives can throw out more radiation then a monitor if you are sitting right infront of it.
any physicists or bioligists have any insights?
Well this one is a little different, it ships with win2k and has winME as an option
have a look at:
http://www.dynamism.com/gt3/specs.shtml
they will even put xp on it if you really want them to. And personally I would as the latest Avid DVxpress only runs on XP, and its posibly the best consumer level package behind final cut pro
In New Zealand all the companies have interconnect agreements that say that they cant have different rates for cross carrier calls.
It doesn't mean that they cant do it... But it would open the competition to doing the same thing... they have just decided that it is better for their bottom line to not enter into that kind of battle.
in New Zealand sloppy wording of this kind of thing happens quite often.
They recently had an update to our liquer laws which essentially made it illegal to transport alchaol anywhere. Trying to get that beer you bought at the supermarket home in your car? nope, not without breaking the law.... Try going to a friends house for a party with a nice bottle of wine without being in public while doing it.
I'm in the 3d biz and every now and again you see their ads on the Highend3d.com job boards They often look for graphics programmers and artists and animators in bunches.
So they either still have a huge staff and are working on something new or just have an even larger churn rate.
I am a typical cable user, the kind that makes you money, except me and my flatmate have 4 computers:
a desktop machine
a crusty old linux firewall
an ipaq with a wireless card
a notebook pc
we use a combined 1 to 2gig a month, mainly chatting on irc and downloading the odd movie trailer. yet we have 4 machines that connect to the internet.
Heres a tip: try monitoring usage if you are worried about usage.
I thought the whole reason worm writers release their creations in the weekend is so they have the best chance to spread before systadmins wake up and realise what is happening.
If it WAS let out during business hours, whould it have gotten so far? would it have caused much dammage at all?
ok, I'll bite.
It was ported to windows because someone felt like doing it.
Thats whats so ninja about open source. you have the power to do what ever you want with the source....
It seems like they have a new mission to make their apps faster, and seriously faster.
one of the reviews of it in this thread said it was like a hardware upgrade. Apple are having such trouble keeping up in the MHz game that they are realising that lean mean code will stop people jumping ship.
good on them too, when the new power4 based chips come out we will then have fast code AND fast machines.
Its not just about clicking on a add to buy a product... movie sites are covered in adds for movies... these are all about product awareness. every eyeball second is worth money in this case. noone even needs to click on the ad for it to do its job
Microsoft will try to say this but after talking to a product lead at EA, it was clear they verify their own numbers for consoles sold. They then compare that to the number and value of games sold, THEN compare that to the gamess out on the market in different genres and base their decisions on all these things.
Noone would throw millions developing a game without spending a fair ammount evaluating if that game will sell.
Xbox owners that dont buy games (or signup to xboxLive) lower the average spend.... and this is just as important to the game makers as the number of consoles out there