So I'd say that voice chat when it's bad can be horrible, but as its best is only marginally more useful - therefore I can leave it more than take it. I agree that when voice chat is bad it can be game-destroying, especially if there is no mute mechanism. When it is good however, VOIP is worlds beyond typing. How fast can you type "contact to the southeast, 2 tanks and a squad of infantry" even with macros? Maybe pretty fast if you have great macros or a good game for that type of reporting (BF2-esque). But how about "joe, i want you covering the back entrance from behind that car, bob up on top of the south building, everyone else over by me. bob drop some mines before you go up."?
Features like command channels really shine when there are more than a few people and squads. It is really hard to operate a competitive, cooperative team of 30+ people and 5+ squads without voice. It can certainly be done, but voice makes it so much easier.
You can get most of those game mags for free if you look the net. And why is this possible??? Because there is so much ad revenue that they increase by upping circulation numbers. The more the merrier. Of course, that only counts for the big magazines. For little, indy-ish mags, advertising just allows them to keep the price down. This is because their space isn't worth very much.
Their hardware is unlikely to ever support my os, because (perhaps because they're a giant popular corporation) they like to keep it all closed up.
My VGN-S360 runs linux just fine, and every bit of hardware in it is supported and is working fine. Except maybe the memory stick reader, but I don't have any memory sticks anyway.
As it is envisioned, there won't be a space elevator every 200 miles or anything like that, just a few well-known locations. So pilots would know not to fly near it. They probably would be prohibited from flying near it.
Some of you have probably heard of burning man, but most of those who haven't gone probably don't know that saying that it's just a bunch of naked hippies meeting in the desert to smoke pot, is a very unfair description of the event.
This is such a horrible misconception. There are many other kinds of drugs available besides pot!
I have the MX1000 and the battery lasts for about 6 weeks if I turn it off when I'm not using it. Maybe 3 weeks if I just let it "sleep" without turning it off.
As for the charging base being too big, I bought a logitech laptop mouse and the usb adapter from that works great with the MX1000. Just make sure you buy one that uses FastRF.
The output device could be a sound card with digital out and a video card hacked to send the contents of video ram to a recording device in the (or a different) PC.
I thought the same thing when I saw the older Archos. But a month ago I was on a business trip to Turkey doing a machine install. A french guy who was on site had an Archos 80GB and used it as a VCR, mp3 player, and external hard drive for his laptop. He is on the road 85% of the time and for him it makes perfect sense. He recorded the Gran Prix while we were on site and we watched it at night - excellect quality when replayed on a SDTV.
Definately old news. The ATM at my local Mini-Mart is blue-screened about once a week. The only ATMs that seem to ever be bluescreened are the "cheap" ATMs that are inside a business and not the ATMs run by banks. Hopefully that means the bank's ATMs don't run windows (and my gut tells me they don't). But who knows, maybe the banks are running XP instead of 98??;)
Win95 was not any technical advance over the existing (see Apple) technology.
The best Apple offering was still using cooperative multitasking and "locking up" whenever you used a menu. Win95 had preemtive multitasking. It wasn't a new technology, but it was new for the home user.
If a file is being provided by a company/whoever that would have had a permanant FTP, the torrent should always have a seed: the company's would be FTP server that is now acting as a BT server.
Some (many?) people are driven by the idea of a competition. So it will appeal to some developers. They may fail at making one particular piece of software for the bounty, but that may spark them to try even harder for the next one. Perhaps we will see teams form that work together to complete projects faster, and then split the reward.
E.T. was a video game created in 1983 for the Atari 2600 video game system. The game player maneuvers E.T. through several screens looking for all the pieces...
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Features like command channels really shine when there are more than a few people and squads. It is really hard to operate a competitive, cooperative team of 30+ people and 5+ squads without voice. It can certainly be done, but voice makes it so much easier.
How about a fuzzy-logic temperature controller and circulation system for the water bath? Off to the patent office...
Wouldn't roads be warmer and give a better updraft so the birds could travel farther?
I was just back home in Rapid City and it was in the 90s and sunny. Are you are thinking of North Dakota?
Well 1 in 3300 is like nirvana compared to X10. X10 has a failure rate somewhere nearer 1 in 3.
or it could be something called strategy
You can get most of those game mags for free if you look the net. And why is this possible??? Because there is so much ad revenue that they increase by upping circulation numbers. The more the merrier. Of course, that only counts for the big magazines. For little, indy-ish mags, advertising just allows them to keep the price down. This is because their space isn't worth very much.
Their hardware is unlikely to ever support my os, because (perhaps because they're a giant popular corporation) they like to keep it all closed up.
My VGN-S360 runs linux just fine, and every bit of hardware in it is supported and is working fine. Except maybe the memory stick reader, but I don't have any memory sticks anyway.
As it is envisioned, there won't be a space elevator every 200 miles or anything like that, just a few well-known locations. So pilots would know not to fly near it. They probably would be prohibited from flying near it.
Some of you have probably heard of burning man, but most of those who haven't gone probably don't know that saying that it's just a bunch of naked hippies meeting in the desert to smoke pot, is a very unfair description of the event.
This is such a horrible misconception. There are many other kinds of drugs available besides pot!
I have the MX1000 and the battery lasts for about 6 weeks if I turn it off when I'm not using it. Maybe 3 weeks if I just let it "sleep" without turning it off.
As for the charging base being too big, I bought a logitech laptop mouse and the usb adapter from that works great with the MX1000. Just make sure you buy one that uses FastRF.
The output device could be a sound card with digital out and a video card hacked to send the contents of video ram to a recording device in the (or a different) PC.
Mod parent up, +1 Insightful!
I thought the same thing when I saw the older Archos. But a month ago I was on a business trip to Turkey doing a machine install. A french guy who was on site had an Archos 80GB and used it as a VCR, mp3 player, and external hard drive for his laptop. He is on the road 85% of the time and for him it makes perfect sense. He recorded the Gran Prix while we were on site and we watched it at night - excellect quality when replayed on a SDTV.
But the price!!...
http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/index.jsp?loc=231&S ITEID=B&PartNumber=MP51
One word: ROLLOUT!
It is the one called "dragon".
The Zaurus SL-3000 has a 4GB hard drive. Available in Japan only, of course.
> Without patents, company C will never disclose what is in drug D,...
> Furthermore, other companies will find out what drug D is made out of...
Ohhh.. I get it now...
Definately old news. The ATM at my local Mini-Mart is blue-screened about once a week. The only ATMs that seem to ever be bluescreened are the "cheap" ATMs that are inside a business and not the ATMs run by banks. Hopefully that means the bank's ATMs don't run windows (and my gut tells me they don't). But who knows, maybe the banks are running XP instead of 98?? ;)
Win95 was not any technical advance over the existing (see Apple) technology.
The best Apple offering was still using cooperative multitasking and "locking up" whenever you used a menu. Win95 had preemtive multitasking. It wasn't a new technology, but it was new for the home user.
And that is what it says in TFA, the slashdot story has it quoted wrong.
If a file is being provided by a company/whoever that would have had a permanant FTP, the torrent should always have a seed: the company's would be FTP server that is now acting as a BT server.
Some (many?) people are driven by the idea of a competition. So it will appeal to some developers. They may fail at making one particular piece of software for the bounty, but that may spark them to try even harder for the next one. Perhaps we will see teams form that work together to complete projects faster, and then split the reward.
See this link for info on the ET Video Game.
E.T. was a video game created in 1983 for the Atari 2600 video game system. The game player maneuvers E.T. through several screens looking for all the pieces...