TiVo and Real have announced a partnership similar to the one that Moxi has (had). You'll see that on TiVo in the future, too!
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Bravo. 2D really is better on Matrox cards, isn't it. Got my G200 back in 1999; got my G400 MAX in 2000; G550 in 2001. I have a Radeon for those intensive games but through an innovative solution (switching the monitor cable - hehe) I can still use my Matrox when I'm not playing games. DualHead is, of course, wonderful. I'm thinking of getting a G200-MMS (4 way) - but I'd have to switch my nice 19" CRT for a TFT because of space constraints. Oh well.
(disregarding the screen for a moment) All of these things have been done before by... guess who... Pocket PC. MP3, Digital Camera, high-resolution screen, etc. These are all standard features on Pocket PCs.
Still, Sony is taking the right direction by adding these fatures to their devices. Some people don't like to play MP3s or Videos, I find that it's a great way to pass the time on the long train ride to work every morning (I could drive but the traffic is really bad in my suburb).
Reading the reviews on CNET pissed the hell out of me. People think that this product is the hard work of the Morpheus team. Sure, it may be legal, but I don't like it. Taking another product and re-labeling it is cheap and wrong. They could have taken the time to actually make their own product (i.e. change the UI perhaps). I hope that the new "Morpehus" is a true fork - that it continues development on it's own and does not take any more code from the Gnucleus team.
"actual speeds were significantly less" I remember getting 128k reliably and sometimes getting as much as 256k. When they said 128k, they meant it.
Keep the net free and make banners less intrusive?
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It seems like the latest trend in 'net advertising is larger, flashier banner ads. When are the advertisers going to get the idea that THIS DOES NOT WORK! Pop-Ups, Pop-Unders, "Intersicials" (between page ads), Ads that make noise, Ads that flash and blink. It's all just detracting from the real message of th ad. Look at Google. Reports say that they may be profitable, and most of their revenue comes from... guess what... ads! But when do you see an ad on Google? No pop-ups, no banners, just "Sponsored Links". Non-intrusive and relevent to your search. Bigger banners don't get more clickthroughs. Learning what the user wants and targeting banners to them does (Yes, there are privacy concerns - but you don't have to track users to find out what they may be interested in.). The solution is to cut costs and make banners less annoying - and more informative. Instead of poorly done marketing, how about a simple link. Imagine this at the top of Slashdot: "P4 2.2, 1024mb DDR, 120gb HDD, 17" TFT, DVD-RW, Radeon 8500 - $1600 from X Computers". This is targeted. Most people wouldn't understand what this says - but I bet that 95% of the/. crowd would. Advertising is about getting the message accross to the righ people and giving people what they want. A P4 2.2 with a TFT and DVD-RW for $1600? Who wouldn't click? It's a good offer that makes you want to learn more. It's advertising that works.
Actually, I always keep my IPaq in a plastic bag. It's three in one: Screen Protector, Case Scratch Protector, Dust Protector, and Waterproofing. Can't beat the price at ten cents apiece. Just stay away from those "sliding zipper" bags - they will leak immediately. Also, if you're planning to use your PDA in the tub I would suggust you double-bag it to prevent leaks.
Not quite true. You can terminate statements with a colon ":" if you want to combine multiple statements onto a single line.
Yes, I program VB. No, it doesn't suck. I use C++ or C to write DLLs for the serious stuff. UI design/interface is all done in VB (I think visually and am not too fond of MFC). VB actually works pretty well for most stuff.
Hell, if it works just as well in VB as it does in C/C++, go for it. Interpreted languages are cool (no compiling time makes testing easier; better debugger lets you track down bugs faster). If it takes 3/4 the time to program and works just as well, why not?
I never implied that the DirecTV with TiVo was cheaper or out first: I am simply dispelling the misleading quote in this article that makes it seem like TiVo has no combo box.
Yes, I have checked out DishPVR (and I checked out DishPlayer before that). I seriouslly considered both of them, but decided on TiVo because it was less monthly (don't have to rent the equipment) or less up front (less $ if you decided to buy the equipment. Also, DishPVR is pretty sad compared to TiVo. TiVo's WishLists, Season Passes, etc. blow away everything that any competing PVR has to offer. DishPVR may be nice for trickplay, but when it comes to recording TV, TiVo cannot be equaled. The fact that it accounts for schedule changes, can record new episodes only, never records the same episode of the same show twice within 28 days, deletes programs automaticlly and in a timely fashion without needing user intervention, and can even find a program if it's on multiple channels (auto-recording WishList) or record a specific actor or director automaticlly. DishPVR is a "tapeless" VCR. TiVo is smart.
I disagree. TiVo was simple for my 84-year old dad, and he had trouble figuring out how to install "Macromedia Flash Player" (I sent a link to an HTML page with an embedded flash slideshow; Flash auto-installs thanks to COM, btw). TiVo isn't hard to use, it's easy. 16 million homes have DirecTV or Dish Network recievers, and those are much harder to use than TiVo. TiVo is easy. One remote that controls your entire system (cable or satellite, stand-alone or combo). The remote controls your TV, but it doesn't allow you to change the TV's channel or input. Set your TV to video input, follow the simple instructions in the manual for installation, then follow the instructions on screen to set it up. TiVo is easy enough for anyone.
"In the meantime, the technology keeps evolving. EchoStar Communications, which runs the countrywide DISH network, has its own version of the DVR. It combines satellite TV with TiVo's search features"
Wow! Combining satellite TV with TiVo like features! That sounds like some kind of a Satellite and TiVo combo! Wouldn't it be great if TiVo made these! And what if they had two tuners so you could record to shows at once!
(for those of you who don't get it: DirecTV with TiVo has been out for over one and a half years, and dual tuners have been working for 4 or 5 months now)
" Indeed, models of TiVo now cost from $299 to $599,"
I paid $200 ($300 with a $100 rebate) for two DirecTV with TiVos, a 2x4 multiswitch, and a dual LNB dish. DirecTivos are selling for as little as $49 (http://directv.tivo.com), as little as $79 for existing DirecTV subscribers.
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BTW, this article was discussed on the AVS TiVo forum quite a few days ago (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb)
If only Palm OS wern't so horrible. It's not that it isn't efficent - it's that it isn't flexible or powerful. Look at the HandEra vs. Clie - both have high-resolution screens, but because they had to use a hack to do it the two systems are completely incompatible. Who's going to write 3 versions of a program (Lo-Res, HandEra High-Res, Clie High-Res). I imagine that the ARM conversion will be similar - incompatibility across the board. Another example: memory expansion. PocketPC adds the memory card as just another folder. Various Palm OS devices deal with it in different ways. Until Palm OS 4.0, there was no support for memory cards. So Handspring and Sony added it in - to be competitive with Pocket PC devices. Unfortunately, their solutions were "half-baked" and, again, completely incompatible with each other. That, added to the fact that Palm OS doesn't multitask, was never properly designed for color (look at the UI of PocketPC vs Palm), and has an extremely primitive filesystem and it spells disaster. You're trying to run an OS designed for 16MHZ 68K (Dragonball) CPUs with less than 1/2 a MB of ram on a 200+ MHZ ARM with 8+ MB of ram? It'd be like running DOS on your PC, constantly adding on cleaver hacks to make it better. Palm needs a serious rewrite. Compare Pocket PC and Palm and you see the difference. Pocket PC natively supports resolutions from 320x240 to whatever the driver can power. Don't believe me? Try JS Landscape and see. The Pocket PC handles quite well in high-res mode (some 3rd party applications don't, however. This is easy for the developer to fix, thankfully). The Pocket PC has an extremely similar API to Windows 2000 (albeit a subset). The Pocket PC has a fully featured hierarchical filesystem, too (and the root is even "\" - i.e. "\program files"). Palm is living in the past. And no, Palm's ARM units will not spell doom for Pocket PCs. Pocket PCs are too well established, and are slowly crushing Palm sales. Yes, the ARM units would be serious competition... if they ever come out. For now, they should be classified as vaporware. With Palm's poor sales with the M500 and M505 series, and the VII, they need something good - and fast. Sorry Palm, you didn't innovate. And MS crushed you. Sure the Clie and Visor may survive, but that's because Sony and Handspring innovated. The Clie has a high-resolution (2x) screen and can play MP3s as well as access Memory Sticks (yes, I don't like them either). The Handspring has it's Springboard slot which supports everything from GPSs to MP3 players. No, Handspring and the Clie will be spared. But Palm will not.
Re:Why not a head mounted display ?
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"Unfortunately they have been discontinued."
With good reason. Sony found out that they caused an undue amount of eye-strain - it's highly recommended that someone under 18 does not use the glasses (because they could damage eyes that have not finished developing). They also caused seizures. That's the problem with these goggles - eye strain and seizures. Focusing on anything that close is a major problem for your eyes; their minumum comfortable focus range is about one foot.
"it was cool when you could jack a celeron300a up to 450mhz"
Very cool. 2 and one-half years and my 300a is still ticking along at 450 fine. When you think about it, there is still nothing wrong with a 450mhz CPU. With an IBM 75GXP (yes, I know, failure - I got mine before the batch of bad parts), 256MB of CAS2 100MHZ SDRAM, a Matrox G400 Max, a SB! Live, and a whole mess of other top-of-the-line parts, the processor is probably the weakest link in my computer. But I don't care. It runs Windows XP fine (build 2526, evaluation copy), and most games run fine too.
So no, we don't need Athlons at 1.6GHZ to surf the web, play MP3s, write email, develop software, play games, or even encode MPEG video. The big rush for CPU power is great in that it lowers prices, but, frankly, developers havn't made software (3D games specificly) that can really take advantage of really fast hardware.
(this is unrelated to the parent comment except in that they both refer to Celeron 300As.
"There is the instantaneous nature of the wire- this is where you get paid if your stuff hits it first. If it's second, you don't get the cash. *delete*. You can't do that with film-"
I see your point, but you can do that with film. It's called the trash can. Have you ever considered that some photographers might archive their photos on CDR or whatnot? At.20 each, it's definately affordable.
"For a typical digital camera, guaranteed, right off the bat, 67% of your image is fake."
Yes, for a crappy 1-CCD camera. But what do you think a professional journalist will be using? They use $5,000+ film cameras today, and $5,000 buys a very nice 3-CCD camera. Take a look at some of the cameras on the market before you post, please.
"the information density of 35mm film is around 28 megapixel"
Yes, for very low speed, high-quality 35MM film. Your math is screwy two - 28 million pixels times three bytes per pixel = 84 Megabytes, not 168. That's not even compressed - even high-quality JPEGs compress 20-1, so that's around 4.2MB per picture. (OK, no JPEG compression? That's only 84MB per picture)
The biggest flaw of your comment is that you are thinking of today's technology rather than tomorrow's technology. We already have 1GB CF cards (no, not the IBM Microdrive, but actual 1GB flash memory cards). If Moore's law means anything, than we'll have 8+ GB cards in under five years. That's 97 of your uncompressed, 28 megapixel, 24-bits-per-pizel images, or 1,950 of my slightly-compressed, JPEG, 28 megapixel, 24-bit-per-pixel images.
"10 fps until I run out of film"
What, at 10fps that's about 3.6 seconds for a typical 36 exposure roll. Wow... 3.6 seconds. What an excellent feature. If you want video, buy a DV camera. 30fps for over an hour! 3x the framerate and 1,000x the duration of filming!
"Photographers who are in love with black-and-white bug me. It's obsolete. Blah blah blah Ansel Adams blah blah blah the lighting is better blah blah fuckety-blah blah. Who cares what photographers like? I just want a fucking picture of what the story's about, mmmkay?"
While I prefer color myself, there is a lot that you can do with B&W that you just can't do with color. B&W is all about contrast - and you can create some excellent looking photographs with just contrast. Very few color photographs capture that distinction - most color photos look pretty boring to me.
Above all else, PEOPLE CAN LIKE WHAT THEY LIKE! If a photographer prefers B&W, then that's their opinion and stop complaining.
AOL does exactly the same thing, and we don't see people complaining about it. Why is it that when a company other than Microsoft does somthing annoying it's just annoying, but when Microsoft does the same thing it's "Anti-Competitive" or "Monopolistic". Why should Microsoft be any different from any other large company?
That's already done in my area. It's called Colorado Wireless Cooperative. For about $60/month, you get a 5mbit downstream and 5mbit upstream connection. You can do anything you want with it. So yes, this is possible. CWC actually uses a 802.11b variant with special anteannas. Works great!
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TiVo and Real have announced a partnership similar to the one that Moxi has (had). You'll see that on TiVo in the future, too!
Bravo. 2D really is better on Matrox cards, isn't it. Got my G200 back in 1999; got my G400 MAX in 2000; G550 in 2001. I have a Radeon for those intensive games but through an innovative solution (switching the monitor cable - hehe) I can still use my Matrox when I'm not playing games. DualHead is, of course, wonderful. I'm thinking of getting a G200-MMS (4 way) - but I'd have to switch my nice 19" CRT for a TFT because of space constraints. Oh well.
"Nothing I can say except wow."
(disregarding the screen for a moment)
All of these things have been done before by... guess who... Pocket PC. MP3, Digital Camera, high-resolution screen, etc. These are all standard features on Pocket PCs.
Still, Sony is taking the right direction by adding these fatures to their devices. Some people don't like to play MP3s or Videos, I find that it's a great way to pass the time on the long train ride to work every morning (I could drive but the traffic is really bad in my suburb).
Reading the reviews on CNET pissed the hell out of me. People think that this product is the hard work of the Morpheus team. Sure, it may be legal, but I don't like it. Taking another product and re-labeling it is cheap and wrong. They could have taken the time to actually make their own product (i.e. change the UI perhaps). I hope that the new "Morpehus" is a true fork - that it continues development on it's own and does not take any more code from the Gnucleus team.
"actual speeds were significantly less"
I remember getting 128k reliably and sometimes getting as much as 256k. When they said 128k, they meant it.
It seems like the latest trend in 'net advertising is larger, flashier banner ads. When are the advertisers going to get the idea that THIS DOES NOT WORK! Pop-Ups, Pop-Unders, "Intersicials" (between page ads), Ads that make noise, Ads that flash and blink. It's all just detracting from the real message of th ad. Look at Google. Reports say that they may be profitable, and most of their revenue comes from... guess what... ads! But when do you see an ad on Google? No pop-ups, no banners, just "Sponsored Links". Non-intrusive and relevent to your search. Bigger banners don't get more clickthroughs. Learning what the user wants and targeting banners to them does (Yes, there are privacy concerns - but you don't have to track users to find out what they may be interested in.). The solution is to cut costs and make banners less annoying - and more informative. Instead of poorly done marketing, how about a simple link. Imagine this at the top of Slashdot: "P4 2.2, 1024mb DDR, 120gb HDD, 17" TFT, DVD-RW, Radeon 8500 - $1600 from X Computers". This is targeted. Most people wouldn't understand what this says - but I bet that 95% of the /. crowd would. Advertising is about getting the message accross to the righ people and giving people what they want. A P4 2.2 with a TFT and DVD-RW for $1600? Who wouldn't click? It's a good offer that makes you want to learn more. It's advertising that works.
Actually, I always keep my IPaq in a plastic bag. It's three in one: Screen Protector, Case Scratch Protector, Dust Protector, and Waterproofing. Can't beat the price at ten cents apiece. Just stay away from those "sliding zipper" bags - they will leak immediately. Also, if you're planning to use your PDA in the tub I would suggust you double-bag it to prevent leaks.
Nice try, but Windows 2000 is already running on Hammer test systems.
Not quite true. You can terminate statements with a colon ":" if you want to combine multiple statements onto a single line.
Yes, I program VB. No, it doesn't suck. I use C++ or C to write DLLs for the serious stuff. UI design/interface is all done in VB (I think visually and am not too fond of MFC). VB actually works pretty well for most stuff.
Hell, if it works just as well in VB as it does in C/C++, go for it. Interpreted languages are cool (no compiling time makes testing easier; better debugger lets you track down bugs faster). If it takes 3/4 the time to program and works just as well, why not?
I never implied that the DirecTV with TiVo was cheaper or out first: I am simply dispelling the misleading quote in this article that makes it seem like TiVo has no combo box.
Yes, I have checked out DishPVR (and I checked out DishPlayer before that). I seriouslly considered both of them, but decided on TiVo because it was less monthly (don't have to rent the equipment) or less up front (less $ if you decided to buy the equipment. Also, DishPVR is pretty sad compared to TiVo. TiVo's WishLists, Season Passes, etc. blow away everything that any competing PVR has to offer. DishPVR may be nice for trickplay, but when it comes to recording TV, TiVo cannot be equaled. The fact that it accounts for schedule changes, can record new episodes only, never records the same episode of the same show twice within 28 days, deletes programs automaticlly and in a timely fashion without needing user intervention, and can even find a program if it's on multiple channels (auto-recording WishList) or record a specific actor or director automaticlly. DishPVR is a "tapeless" VCR. TiVo is smart.
"Bundle WebTV with TiVo and i think you might have a winner for john q. public"
It's called UltimateTV, and Microsoft is discontinuing it because of poor sales compared to the XBox.
I disagree. TiVo was simple for my 84-year old dad, and he had trouble figuring out how to install "Macromedia Flash Player" (I sent a link to an HTML page with an embedded flash slideshow; Flash auto-installs thanks to COM, btw). TiVo isn't hard to use, it's easy. 16 million homes have DirecTV or Dish Network recievers, and those are much harder to use than TiVo. TiVo is easy. One remote that controls your entire system (cable or satellite, stand-alone or combo). The remote controls your TV, but it doesn't allow you to change the TV's channel or input. Set your TV to video input, follow the simple instructions in the manual for installation, then follow the instructions on screen to set it up. TiVo is easy enough for anyone.
"In the meantime, the technology keeps evolving. EchoStar Communications, which runs the countrywide DISH network, has its own version of the DVR. It combines satellite TV with TiVo's search features"
Wow! Combining satellite TV with TiVo like features! That sounds like some kind of a Satellite and TiVo combo! Wouldn't it be great if TiVo made these! And what if they had two tuners so you could record to shows at once!
(for those of you who don't get it: DirecTV with TiVo has been out for over one and a half years, and dual tuners have been working for 4 or 5 months now)
" Indeed, models of TiVo now cost from $299 to $599,"
I paid $200 ($300 with a $100 rebate) for two DirecTV with TiVos, a 2x4 multiswitch, and a dual LNB dish. DirecTivos are selling for as little as $49 (http://directv.tivo.com), as little as $79 for existing DirecTV subscribers.
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BTW, this article was discussed on the AVS TiVo forum quite a few days ago (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb)
If only Palm OS wern't so horrible. It's not that it isn't efficent - it's that it isn't flexible or powerful. Look at the HandEra vs. Clie - both have high-resolution screens, but because they had to use a hack to do it the two systems are completely incompatible. Who's going to write 3 versions of a program (Lo-Res, HandEra High-Res, Clie High-Res). I imagine that the ARM conversion will be similar - incompatibility across the board. Another example: memory expansion. PocketPC adds the memory card as just another folder. Various Palm OS devices deal with it in different ways. Until Palm OS 4.0, there was no support for memory cards. So Handspring and Sony added it in - to be competitive with Pocket PC devices. Unfortunately, their solutions were "half-baked" and, again, completely incompatible with each other. That, added to the fact that Palm OS doesn't multitask, was never properly designed for color (look at the UI of PocketPC vs Palm), and has an extremely primitive filesystem and it spells disaster. You're trying to run an OS designed for 16MHZ 68K (Dragonball) CPUs with less than 1/2 a MB of ram on a 200+ MHZ ARM with 8+ MB of ram? It'd be like running DOS on your PC, constantly adding on cleaver hacks to make it better. Palm needs a serious rewrite. Compare Pocket PC and Palm and you see the difference. Pocket PC natively supports resolutions from 320x240 to whatever the driver can power. Don't believe me? Try JS Landscape and see. The Pocket PC handles quite well in high-res mode (some 3rd party applications don't, however. This is easy for the developer to fix, thankfully). The Pocket PC has an extremely similar API to Windows 2000 (albeit a subset). The Pocket PC has a fully featured hierarchical filesystem, too (and the root is even "\" - i.e. "\program files"). Palm is living in the past. And no, Palm's ARM units will not spell doom for Pocket PCs. Pocket PCs are too well established, and are slowly crushing Palm sales. Yes, the ARM units would be serious competition... if they ever come out. For now, they should be classified as vaporware. With Palm's poor sales with the M500 and M505 series, and the VII, they need something good - and fast. Sorry Palm, you didn't innovate. And MS crushed you. Sure the Clie and Visor may survive, but that's because Sony and Handspring innovated. The Clie has a high-resolution (2x) screen and can play MP3s as well as access Memory Sticks (yes, I don't like them either). The Handspring has it's Springboard slot which supports everything from GPSs to MP3 players. No, Handspring and the Clie will be spared. But Palm will not.
"Unfortunately they have been discontinued."
With good reason. Sony found out that they caused an undue amount of eye-strain - it's highly recommended that someone under 18 does not use the glasses (because they could damage eyes that have not finished developing). They also caused seizures. That's the problem with these goggles - eye strain and seizures. Focusing on anything that close is a major problem for your eyes; their minumum comfortable focus range is about one foot.
Is this some kind of a joke? It better be! I find this EXTREMELY offensive. Moderators, -1 on the double.
QT and KDE seem to run fine under the "Intimate" diistribution on the iPaq.
"it was cool when you could jack a celeron300a up to 450mhz"
Very cool. 2 and one-half years and my 300a is still ticking along at 450 fine. When you think about it, there is still nothing wrong with a 450mhz CPU. With an IBM 75GXP (yes, I know, failure - I got mine before the batch of bad parts), 256MB of CAS2 100MHZ SDRAM, a Matrox G400 Max, a SB! Live, and a whole mess of other top-of-the-line parts, the processor is probably the weakest link in my computer. But I don't care. It runs Windows XP fine (build 2526, evaluation copy), and most games run fine too.
So no, we don't need Athlons at 1.6GHZ to surf the web, play MP3s, write email, develop software, play games, or even encode MPEG video. The big rush for CPU power is great in that it lowers prices, but, frankly, developers havn't made software (3D games specificly) that can really take advantage of really fast hardware.
(this is unrelated to the parent comment except in that they both refer to Celeron 300As.
"There is the instantaneous nature of the wire- this is where you get paid if your stuff hits it first. If it's second, you don't get the cash. *delete*. You can't do that with film-"
.20 each, it's definately affordable.
I see your point, but you can do that with film. It's called the trash can. Have you ever considered that some photographers might archive their photos on CDR or whatnot? At
"For a typical digital camera, guaranteed, right off the bat, 67% of your image is fake."
Yes, for a crappy 1-CCD camera. But what do you think a professional journalist will be using? They use $5,000+ film cameras today, and $5,000 buys a very nice 3-CCD camera. Take a look at some of the cameras on the market before you post, please.
"the information density of 35mm film is around 28 megapixel"
Yes, for very low speed, high-quality 35MM film. Your math is screwy two - 28 million pixels times three bytes per pixel = 84 Megabytes, not 168. That's not even compressed - even high-quality JPEGs compress 20-1, so that's around 4.2MB per picture. (OK, no JPEG compression? That's only 84MB per picture)
The biggest flaw of your comment is that you are thinking of today's technology rather than tomorrow's technology. We already have 1GB CF cards (no, not the IBM Microdrive, but actual 1GB flash memory cards). If Moore's law means anything, than we'll have 8+ GB cards in under five years. That's 97 of your uncompressed, 28 megapixel, 24-bits-per-pizel images, or 1,950 of my slightly-compressed, JPEG, 28 megapixel, 24-bit-per-pixel images.
"10 fps until I run out of film"
What, at 10fps that's about 3.6 seconds for a typical 36 exposure roll. Wow... 3.6 seconds. What an excellent feature. If you want video, buy a DV camera. 30fps for over an hour! 3x the framerate and 1,000x the duration of filming!
"Photographers who are in love with black-and-white bug me. It's obsolete. Blah blah blah Ansel Adams blah blah blah the lighting is better blah blah fuckety-blah blah. Who cares what photographers like? I just want a fucking picture of what the story's about, mmmkay?"
While I prefer color myself, there is a lot that you can do with B&W that you just can't do with color. B&W is all about contrast - and you can create some excellent looking photographs with just contrast. Very few color photographs capture that distinction - most color photos look pretty boring to me.
Above all else, PEOPLE CAN LIKE WHAT THEY LIKE! If a photographer prefers B&W, then that's their opinion and stop complaining.
AOL does exactly the same thing, and we don't see people complaining about it. Why is it that when a company other than Microsoft does somthing annoying it's just annoying, but when Microsoft does the same thing it's "Anti-Competitive" or "Monopolistic". Why should Microsoft be any different from any other large company?
Palm-3D-games anyone
No, but Quake is available for PocketPCs.
Hmmm... so NASA wants to develop balls that will inflate, move freely around in the wind, and deflate.
Does anyone see anything wrong with that sentence?
That's already done in my area. It's called Colorado Wireless Cooperative. For about $60/month, you get a 5mbit downstream and 5mbit upstream connection. You can do anything you want with it. So yes, this is possible. CWC actually uses a 802.11b variant with special anteannas. Works great!
Thanks man [woman]! That response was even better than my original comment.
... and you even caught my numerous spppeeelling errrs. Mnnnn typping onnnnna callular phune rly mks splng sk. Al ths abrs mk rdng hrd.
An tnx 4 the cmt.