Hold on -- who ever said that there was a "stands up to being put in a pocket with keys" test? That is totally stupid.
Nothing, not even other keys survives being put in a pocket with keys. You have to be pretty stupid to expect anything to survive that unscathed so drop the whole argument now, you're being ridiculous.
I have a two year old Sony Ericcsson T610 mobile phone, and it is almost completely scratch free because I always separate keys and coins to my right pocket and phone and handkercheif in the left.
The 'we' thing bugs me too, Phil. Your 'how to' sessions on Engadget are interesting, but your use of the Royal We is kind of irritating. YOU did those things, Phil. Not 'we'.
You do appear to be having a lot of fun, but no wonder you're broke, you have a (if you don't mind me saying) LUDICROUS amount of gadgets. How many iPods does one man need? How many mobile phones? Where do you find the time to do all this stuff? Why do you always pull the same face in all your photographs?
I think we should be told.
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Yes, that's exactly what Sharp will do: wait until a competitor assesses that their product should be pulled from a marketplace and *then* bring out a more competative product./sarcasm
In 1999 I got a Sony Vaio Picturebook - a paperback book sized sub-notebook that has a VGA camera in the top edge of the screen/lid.
One of the features of the Picturebooks was an app called Cybercode. Cybercode is a barcode generator (not a "2D barcode" - all barcodes are 2D, they have height and width) that generates a code that the PC can see with the Motion Eye camera. The codes have applications, animations or other programs associated with them, and I could run different playlists, for example, just by showing a card to the PC.
The guys at Sony Computer Science Labs built a superb demo of this technology here. I recommend the video at the bottom of the page -- a superb demo of what is possible.
I now have two Picturebooks and still use the newest one regularly. I tried different methods of using Cybercodes, and was able to give presentations at college where I ran the VAIO though a laptop and had Cybercode finder running. As I talked about different topics in the lecture, I showed the back of my note cards to the Motion Eye, and the VAIO ran video clips on command.
One of the best things about the T68/Tungsten combo is how easy it is to get online with it. The Tungsten discovered the phone quickly and I was able to set it up easily. Having the two connected is great - I sent all of my phone contacts to the bluetooth with a couple of clicks and use the Tungsten SMS software regularly.
Getting on to the internet was also fairly simple. My phone is connected to the Orange network in the UK, so I called them (dial 156) and got them to activate GPRS. With GPRS activated Orange become my ISP and I pay them for KB downloaded.
Then I opened the preferences on Web Pro and set the service as orange, the user name as orange, entered the password, and chose my 'BT to t68' connection. In the phone number box I wrote "*99***1#" (information I got from a newsgroup) and I set up the primary and secondary DNS information from the Orange web site.
I'd reccommend turning off images to safe money.
Setting up Versa Mail was a little trickier, but the system very useable once set up.
This offers much more flexibility, and I can leave the phone in my pocket, the GPS in my bag and use two hands to navigate the maps and links on the Palm.
"Films are constructed. Every element is precisely inserted for greatest effect. Find out what it's like, drop the $9 and get your ass in line." Hilarious! You believe that, and you call me an idiot! Rich!
Lucas makes it up as he goes along! He "inserts" things to appease his daughters and his bank balance, that's why every film after the first has been aimed at a younger and younger audience, and that's why his re-released versions took out the parts that made Han seem like a guy who sometimes did bad things.
After the nice lady at your Anger Management Therapy slips you the pink pills, get her to read my comment to you.
I said nothing that was an "attempt to legitimize crap presentation" I merely told how I enjoyed watching my crappy looking VCD copy, and explained how it, in TPM's case, looked appropriate, in my opinion.
If you find that "offensive", too bad. It's only a film, not a religion.
So someone took a camcorder and filmed AOTC. They did it before, and they'll do it again. When TPM came out, I managed to get an early camcorder VCD copy and sat and watched it at home and was totally thrilled - not by the film itself, but by the fact that I was able to watch this film early, and that finally a new Star Wars film came out.
When it was released, I went and saw it at our local cinema, and it was obvious that a huge number of the people queuing to get in had also seen the film early, and yet we were all still lining up to pay money to see it again (I copied the AVIs from the CDs to my laptop and had watched it lots of times.) Sure, it made the cinema trip less of an occasion, I pretty much knew the film line for line, but the bootleg film, for me, was a huge part of the whole Phantom Menace experience, and I'd do it again (and probably will as soon as I find a copy online.)
This time though, I won't follow it up by going to the cinema as well. I felt that the fact that the sound was kind of ropey for the first half hour or so, and the picture was washed out and less than perfect added to the story - it was supposed to be set decades before ANH and the copy I had actually looked like some kind of archive footage.
You have a can of that neat spray foam shizz that expands to fill gaps. You've been around and around the house filling and finishing every hole that you can possibly find. You shake the can - still half full. Possible uses race through your mind.
Then you spot a small red party balloon laying on a table...
Surely the next step is to create a nice mould for the case, and inject the mould with the foam. I've done pretty much the same thing using cans of insulation foam (used to fill large holes in walls). I took large balloons and filled them full of foam, then cut the balloon away from the foam. This gave a really nice teardrop of hard foam, that was very light.
Off the top of my head, I fugure the same thing can be done using a styrofoam cooler box with a PC in it, fill the thing full of foam after blanking off the internal guts with card, and when it's set crack the case off and shape with carving tools. The beauty of doing this is that you could, with some serious planning, create some amazing looking designs that had built in air ducts that forced the cool intake air to spiral around heatsinks and hot components. I imagine a nautilus shell would be easy to do - you'd end up with a PC that looked really cool and would be built with great cooling capabilities from a single fan or set of fans.
We had a cat that would sit on the windowsill outside the living room and, with extended claws, would tap on the window and meow until we opened the window and let it in. Our friends loved it and we would roll about with laughter when it first started doing it...
The problem with Razors these days is that every little kid on the block has them and they're no longer seen as adult transport. The public perception of mini scooters has changed so much that i feel embarrased to use mine in the city now, whereas two years ago I felt quite comfortable skating to uni on it.
The 'going up stairs' thing comes from the marketing speil that says you can use it like a hand cart and drag loads upstairs with it.
Building a PVR in the UK...
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The hardware setup of a PVR is pretty easy to figure out - many posts here show the gubbins you'll need to put a nicely specced box together. The software is a different matter.
For me, OS wise, I'd stick onWin98Lite Win2k version or the XP version when it comes out.
But channel wise, it's not as straightforward. To UK users I'd suggest using the amazingly excellent Digiguide which is an online TV Guide with a staggering amount of personal tweaks and doohickeys and has plug ins that allow it to connect directly to the also excellent Snapstream. Digiguide is £4.99 a year - worth it even if you don't build a PVR and Snapstream is $49.99 (about £34) from their website.
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Jeez, calm down dog. Step away from the coffee cup.
You start all your arguments with an insult?
You must be used to losing.
Hold on -- who ever said that there was a "stands up to being put in a pocket with keys" test? That is totally stupid.
Nothing, not even other keys survives being put in a pocket with keys. You have to be pretty stupid to expect anything to survive that unscathed so drop the whole argument now, you're being ridiculous.
I have a two year old Sony Ericcsson T610 mobile phone, and it is almost completely scratch free because I always separate keys and coins to my right pocket and phone and handkercheif in the left.
This is superb, John, many thanks. I read about the possibility of doing this earlier in the year but never got round to it.
The 'we' thing bugs me too, Phil. Your 'how to' sessions on Engadget are interesting, but your use of the Royal We is kind of irritating. YOU did those things, Phil. Not 'we'.
You do appear to be having a lot of fun, but no wonder you're broke, you have a (if you don't mind me saying) LUDICROUS amount of gadgets. How many iPods does one man need? How many mobile phones? Where do you find the time to do all this stuff? Why do you always pull the same face in all your photographs?
I think we should be told.
Yes, that's exactly what Sharp will do: wait until a competitor assesses that their product should be pulled from a marketplace and *then* bring out a more competative product. /sarcasm
"http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/as/"
I meant through an LCD projector.
In 1999 I got a Sony Vaio Picturebook - a paperback book sized sub-notebook that has a VGA camera in the top edge of the screen/lid.
One of the features of the Picturebooks was an app called Cybercode. Cybercode is a barcode generator (not a "2D barcode" - all barcodes are 2D, they have height and width) that generates a code that the PC can see with the Motion Eye camera. The codes have applications, animations or other programs associated with them, and I could run different playlists, for example, just by showing a card to the PC.
The guys at Sony Computer Science Labs built a superb demo of this technology here. I recommend the video at the bottom of the page -- a superb demo of what is possible.
I now have two Picturebooks and still use the newest one regularly. I tried different methods of using Cybercodes, and was able to give presentations at college where I ran the VAIO though a laptop and had Cybercode finder running. As I talked about different topics in the lecture, I showed the back of my note cards to the Motion Eye, and the VAIO ran video clips on command.
I always have my car keys with me wherever I go. My key fob is a Lexar Jumpdrive that holds 256MB of data, so carrying drivers is not a problem.
With that argument against the Zen out of the way, there really is no reason to pay over the odds for an iPod.
Common misconception. Geishas are not whores, far from it.
Marvin
Could be worse motherfucker -- he could offer up vapid responses and fly into a rage whwnever someone disagrees with his opinion.
And have a stoopit sig
Novatech, our local PC outlet, will sell you a laptop (or any PC for that matter) with no OS on it.
... so 400Mhz is overkill. The OS is much more efficient on a Palm device because they're not copying files into usable memory to run them.
One of the best things about the T68/Tungsten combo is how easy it is to get online with it. The Tungsten discovered the phone quickly and I was able to set it up easily. Having the two connected is great - I sent all of my phone contacts to the bluetooth with a couple of clicks and use the Tungsten SMS software regularly.
Getting on to the internet was also fairly simple. My phone is connected to the Orange network in the UK, so I called them (dial 156) and got them to activate GPRS. With GPRS activated Orange become my ISP and I pay them for KB downloaded.
Then I opened the preferences on Web Pro and set the service as orange, the user name as orange, entered the password, and chose my 'BT to t68' connection. In the phone number box I wrote "*99***1#" (information I got from a newsgroup) and I set up the primary and secondary DNS information from the Orange web site.
I'd reccommend turning off images to safe money.
Setting up Versa Mail was a little trickier, but the system very useable once set up.
... one of these to go with my Sony/Ericsson T68, HBH30 bluetooth headset and Palm Tungsten T:
Socket Bluetooth GPS Receiver
This offers much more flexibility, and I can leave the phone in my pocket, the GPS in my bag and use two hands to navigate the maps and links on the Palm.
...you'll see it at least five hours before Hemos and his magic ticket toting friends .
Take a camcorder...
"Films are constructed. Every element is precisely inserted for greatest effect. Find out what it's like, drop the $9 and get your ass in line."
Hilarious! You believe that, and you call me an idiot! Rich!
Lucas makes it up as he goes along! He "inserts" things to appease his daughters and his bank balance, that's why every film after the first has been aimed at a younger and younger audience, and that's why his re-released versions took out the parts that made Han seem like a guy who sometimes did bad things.
After the nice lady at your Anger Management Therapy slips you the pink pills, get her to read my comment to you.
I said nothing that was an "attempt to legitimize crap presentation" I merely told how I enjoyed watching my crappy looking VCD copy, and explained how it, in TPM's case, looked appropriate, in my opinion.
If you find that "offensive", too bad. It's only a film, not a religion.
And try to chill out a bit, eh?
So someone took a camcorder and filmed AOTC. They did it before, and they'll do it again. When TPM came out, I managed to get an early camcorder VCD copy and sat and watched it at home and was totally thrilled - not by the film itself, but by the fact that I was able to watch this film early, and that finally a new Star Wars film came out.
When it was released, I went and saw it at our local cinema, and it was obvious that a huge number of the people queuing to get in had also seen the film early, and yet we were all still lining up to pay money to see it again (I copied the AVIs from the CDs to my laptop and had watched it lots of times.) Sure, it made the cinema trip less of an occasion, I pretty much knew the film line for line, but the bootleg film, for me, was a huge part of the whole Phantom Menace experience, and I'd do it again (and probably will as soon as I find a copy online.)
This time though, I won't follow it up by going to the cinema as well. I felt that the fact that the sound was kind of ropey for the first half hour or so, and the picture was washed out and less than perfect added to the story - it was supposed to be set decades before ANH and the copy I had actually looked like some kind of archive footage.
Picture the scene:
You have a can of that neat spray foam shizz that expands to fill gaps. You've been around and around the house filling and finishing every hole that you can possibly find. You shake the can - still half full. Possible uses race through your mind.
Then you spot a small red party balloon laying on a table...
Neat idea, but the execution is horrible.
Surely the next step is to create a nice mould for the case, and inject the mould with the foam. I've done pretty much the same thing using cans of insulation foam (used to fill large holes in walls). I took large balloons and filled them full of foam, then cut the balloon away from the foam. This gave a really nice teardrop of hard foam, that was very light.
Off the top of my head, I fugure the same thing can be done using a styrofoam cooler box with a PC in it, fill the thing full of foam after blanking off the internal guts with card, and when it's set crack the case off and shape with carving tools.
The beauty of doing this is that you could, with some serious planning, create some amazing looking designs that had built in air ducts that forced the cool intake air to spiral around heatsinks and hot components. I imagine a nautilus shell would be easy to do - you'd end up with a PC that looked really cool and would be built with great cooling capabilities from a single fan or set of fans.
Shell shaped quiet PC anyone?
We had a cat that would sit on the windowsill outside the living room and, with extended claws, would tap on the window and meow until we opened the window and let it in.
Our friends loved it and we would roll about with laughter when it first started doing it...
The problem with Razors these days is that every little kid on the block has them and they're no longer seen as adult transport. The public perception of mini scooters has changed so much that i feel embarrased to use mine in the city now, whereas two years ago I felt quite comfortable skating to uni on it.
The 'going up stairs' thing comes from the marketing speil that says you can use it like a hand cart and drag loads upstairs with it.
The hardware setup of a PVR is pretty easy to figure out - many posts here show the gubbins you'll need to put a nicely specced box together.
The software is a different matter.
For me, OS wise, I'd stick onWin98Lite Win2k version or the XP version when it comes out.
But channel wise, it's not as straightforward. To UK users I'd suggest using the amazingly excellent Digiguide which is an online TV Guide with a staggering amount of personal tweaks and doohickeys and has plug ins that allow it to connect directly to the also excellent Snapstream.
Digiguide is £4.99 a year - worth it even if you don't build a PVR and Snapstream is $49.99 (about £34) from their website.