I've used the DigiQ... not impressed
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It was fun for about 5 minutes, but the little bugger never wanted to go straight and the IR didn't always seem to connect solidly. Plus, the flooring you use it on has to be perfectly smooth. The kitchen tile we tried it on made the thing hop around and change direction.
My wife is Japanese, so when we were seeing some Japanese friends in Amsterdam they had all the cool Japanese toys for their kid. Lots of fun!
Someone mentioned RC helicopters. If you want to have a good indoor one, I've got an Eco Piccolo that works great indoors.
Here's some random guy's site with good Piccolo pics: http://www.modelaviation.co.uk/heli/models/ piccolo/piccolo.htm
Shakespeare pretty much used them all up about 400 years ago. And even his pieces were just rehashes of older stories.
...and...
What The Matrix did, really, was show us the same old story in such a way as to fool us into thinking we hadn't seen it before. It took something old and tired and made it look good again. The fight choreography was perfect, the cinematography was superb, and the special effects were on a level we've never seen before.
You've hit upon the true nature of storytelling, which most of The Matrix posts here have ignored - the stories being told have have been the same stories since stories started being told. They've always been extensions of the same story told in a new time and fashion with a few new twists. After enough revisions these same old stories become a totally new story or come full-circle into the same one again.
I actually thought about that one as I was posting the story to Slashdot... I couldn't think about just calling it 10.1 because they have always called it "X"...
What's the roman numeral for this and did the Romans even have decimal places???
OK, yes, this is the obvious comment from an Apple-enthusiast turned Linux-wannabe-uber-geek. But, don't all the comments people are making about "I don't really noticed the speed increase from my XXXmhz machine to my new X.Xghz machine..." kinda' make Apple's whole point in a roundabout way?
I mean, sure, they are arguing that mhz don't matter because the PPC chips are just as fast because of other factors. But the argument has another edge -- any modern chip is going to outpace you 99% of the time anyhow.
So, all the benchmark's in the world don't mean squat...
This whole piece has absolutely nothing to do with "who is Clinton..." or "who is the average/. user." Although, I think it's just as interesting to hear about Clinton as it is Brittany Spears (but probably not as interesting to look at.).
It's brings on a deeper examination of "who are the people on slashdot, and what are my commonalities/differences with them?" Sort of a "why am I here, aside from the useful information/. provides?"
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It was fun for about 5 minutes, but the little bugger never wanted to go straight and the IR didn't always seem to connect solidly. Plus, the flooring you use it on has to be perfectly smooth. The kitchen tile we tried it on made the thing hop around and change direction.
/ piccolo /piccolo.htm
My wife is Japanese, so when we were seeing some Japanese friends in Amsterdam they had all the cool Japanese toys for their kid. Lots of fun!
Someone mentioned RC helicopters. If you want to have a good indoor one, I've got an Eco Piccolo that works great indoors.
Here's some random guy's site with good Piccolo pics:
http://www.modelaviation.co.uk/heli/models
Shakespeare pretty much used them all up about 400 years ago. And even his pieces were just rehashes of older stories.
...and...
What The Matrix did, really, was show us the same old story in such a way as to fool us into thinking we hadn't seen it before. It took something old and tired and made it look good again. The fight choreography was perfect, the cinematography was superb, and the special effects were on a level we've never seen before.
You've hit upon the true nature of storytelling, which most of The Matrix posts here have ignored - the stories being told have have been the same stories since stories started being told. They've always been extensions of the same story told in a new time and fashion with a few new twists. After enough revisions these same old stories become a totally new story or come full-circle into the same one again.
Everyone needs a foundation for their ideas.
I actually thought about that one as I was posting the story to Slashdot... I couldn't think about just calling it 10.1 because they have always called it "X"...
What's the roman numeral for this and did the Romans even have decimal places???
So, "...X 10.1..." was the result.
Now that I look around, there are some fun little tools out there, like Lee's Useless Roman Numeral Converter
How about "X.I"?
OK, yes, this is the obvious comment from an Apple-enthusiast turned Linux-wannabe-uber-geek. But, don't all the comments people are making about "I don't really noticed the speed increase from my XXXmhz machine to my new X.Xghz machine..." kinda' make Apple's whole point in a roundabout way?
I mean, sure, they are arguing that mhz don't matter because the PPC chips are just as fast because of other factors. But the argument has another edge -- any modern chip is going to outpace you 99% of the time anyhow.
So, all the benchmark's in the world don't mean squat...
This whole piece has absolutely nothing to do with "who is Clinton..." or "who is the average /. user." Although, I think it's just as interesting to hear about Clinton as it is Brittany Spears (but probably not as interesting to look at.).
/. provides?"
It's brings on a deeper examination of "who are the people on slashdot, and what are my commonalities/differences with them?" Sort of a "why am I here, aside from the useful information