I suggest checking out Stanza and I'm sure a dozen other readers out there that will sync with your desktop documents. You can import PDFs, txt, doc, etc... I was reading Gutenberg texts on the original iPhone what almost 2 years ago now? There's over 100,000 apps I think and PLENTY that can do exactly what you want.
Ya know with all the emulated games showing up on the iPhone lately it seems to me that SCUMMVM is missing their chance.
Make the app free and sell inside the app (after making agreements with the owners)... Broken Sword may be possible, Beyond A Steel Sky, etc... several companies have freewared their games or would be glad to make such an agreement with the SCUMMVM guys. It doesn't seem like they're forced to be for just jailbroken phones anymore.
Don't forget Judge Dread. I'm probably wrong but that may be the first. They couldn't get the CGI bike to align with Silvester Stallone's body so instead they made a 3D Stallone and put that on the CGI bike.
Nonono man that's soo wrong. If you put them in a series it just burns through them one by one. You put the mirrors in a PARALLEL arrangement and the wattage gets divided equally among them. 30MW laser hits a 30 mirror parallel setup and each only has to reflect 1MW so heat isn't an issue anymore. They make a stronger laser, you just cut the mirrors up into smaller pieces and add more parallelism. Yo it's like the Larrabee of reflectance.
Alright I know it's not the solution to everything but in some cases it's a good answer. My experience was like this, dad would buy some no-name box for mom to use, I'd set it up and then every single day she'd get some pop-up dialog box and make me answer it for her. Somehow she'd always find how to get weird little errors and she'd freeze. A few months later, dad would buy a new computer, and the cycle continued. Eventually mom noticed the iBook I had and wanted a Mac. Dad wouldn't put up with the extra cost and got yet another generic box for her. Finally after that one went the same way I convinced him to get a refurb as it's cheaper and I'd even pay part of the price.
Finally he relented and she got an eMac. All the sudden the woman who hated computers loved them, people come over and she'd force them to look at her iPhoto album. Years later she now has an iMac and is working on scanning in her old photo albums, she emails and uses the web. So for some reason the different OS did the trick for her. Perhaps it stays out of the way better, or is more visually oriented I don't know, but after she got that eMac she never had any problems again... for years.
Anyways, I say this as a Linux/Windows/Mac user with a Mac preference. Use the right tool for the job, some people need different tools.
The simple fact of the matter is that the pins on the US plug are so short that by the point it is far enough out of the socket to expose enough of the pins to touch them with your fingers, it's unplugged.
Not to be all "Think of the children!" or anything... just pointing out that when I was about 7 I had a really awesome Spiderman night light... and also one shaped like an icecream cone... but anyways when I plugged it in myself one night I was touching part of the plug with my fingertip and got quite a bzzzzaaaap. Threw me against the wall. It's true that the prongs on US plugs are short but it's not impossible to be touching them while plugging in, especially if you have small fingers.
Not to be insensitive but ummm... have you posted pics anywhere? The story of how it happened and the effects would be very valuable for people who work with these. I used to be in a shop that had one of these and we'd say "Whoah imagine if that ever touched skin" but never saw a way it could happen unintentionally. But hey I totally understand if it's not something you want all over the net.
Yeah that was a US government classification that would prevent you from selling a 1 gigaflop computer to certain countries like Iran or whatever. That's why on one of their commercials they had a Power Mac being guarded by a tank.
I don't know, IANAL. The concept for example applies to Trademarks, if you don't defend your trademark and let it get diluted then you lose it. As I understand it the concept applies in other legal realms as well. If you allow something to go on for a long long time, you can't just get up and all the sudden complain about it after letting it go.
This has been brought up before in the past when similar actions came up. My question is, does estoppel even exist anymore? Or is it an archaic somewhat quaint idea that only a naive person would expect to be honored? It seems these days submarine patents and the like are the norm and this simple legal concept should stop such things in their tracks. It's obviously the new business plan, sit on a patent for 10 or 20 years til everyone is using it, then all the sudden start suing.
Don't worry, the universe itself will travel back and time and prevent it. Think about it... Mr. Universe... time travel. It's Arnold. He's the one stopping the LHC.
What's really retarded is that using zfs would prevent bitrot and warn you of impending or intermittent hardware failures but is seen as OSS zealotry by people who haven't thought out the problem.
So hey, physics dudes... would this work? A space ship that's black on one side and white on the other. The white side reflects light, the black side absorbs it... besides being warmer than the white side would it slowly begin to move? Maybe a millimeter a century or so?:) Long range probes I guess.
This article claims that the new Flash player they're working on for mobile devices will only support ActionScript 3.0, meaning the majority of flash apps which are http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/06/html5_assault_on_adobe_flash_heats_up_with_clicktoflash.html&page=3
That really sucks for anyone who trusted Adobe and stuck with their Flash Lite development guidelines, all previously made mobile apps have just been made useless.
So really if you want Flash on your mobile you're only going to get stuff that's just been made with you in mind. So there's basically few ActionScript 3.0 apps out there and people are going to be going "I thought I had flash on my phone, why won't it play all those games I like?"
Now for those websites with older Flash games and apps, they either redo them in AS 3.0 or just move to HTML5 and support everyone. Upgrading to AS 3.0 had better be REAL EASY or they've just shot themselves in the foot here.
Palm is just deciding to ignore all this functionality and they are breaking the USB spec to do it, just so they can save a few bucks.
To save a few bucks... or to get millions of dollars worth of free publicity? Deliberately twisting the issue to send out an "Apple is a monopoly and refuses to let us sync" has been pretty successful so far. After all "Any news is good news" when you wanna be a star. They also know exactly who their demographic is and the type of person who jumps on their anti-Apple claims.
Well it is. I was at a buddies house, he had a USB HD plugged into his Wii, all kinds of games on it. Apparently the Mario Galaxy he downloaded had a few bits flipped somewhere in it's image so he played it all the way to the last few planets and then couldn't finish it. Some of the games he actually owned so... I think it's great to be able to back up games to a HD and play off them. When you share the Wii with someone and they get up to play Wii Fit every morning... and I'm working my way through Zelda. Swap swap swap.
Also he had this media center software running on the Wii, sorta like having XBMC or something. Then he uses his iPhone to change the tracks, watch movies, etc... pretty sweet.
Nintendo should just sell a media center channel and let millions of Wii owners plug HDs into those babies.
True about the Brown Note on Mythbusters, but the study that started the urban legend specifically was the army reporting on verified effects of low frequency sounds on test subjects. People just misunderstood exactly what the effects were and spread an exaggerated version of it.
You're just lazy dude, at least google something before you go into auto-skeptic mode. And we didn't tell the class what we were doing but the teacher knew what we were up to, but I digress.
I noticed on the adafruit site that the original Dazzler used a low Hz pulse like 9Hz - 15Hz or somewhere around there. It reminded me of back in high school in our electronics class when we hooked up a speaker to a frequency generator. One of us had read somewhere that a loud pulse at 9Hz - 11Hz or so would produce sickness in people so we set the freq at 11Hz and cranked it up. After a few seconds people started complaining about headaches and not feeling well so we turned it off.
Now if you consider the stories about military equipment that is connected to either the back or the tongue and is able to put sound or vision into your head by using the correct frequencies...
That'd mean the low frequency sound effects and the strobe effects are really setting off the same thing by getting the same basic frequency into the brain via different channels. The brain doesn't care how a signal gets in there, so you can see hear or feel certain sensations through electrical impulses anywhere on you.
I wonder if there's a frequency for gullibility, aggression, fear, etc...
So hey I'm curious, if Wolfenstein had to be censored then how does anything Indiana Jones get sold in Germany? Do they get a pass since it's anti-Nazi? How's it different than Wolfenstein? And the movies, do they get censored?
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I suggest checking out Stanza and I'm sure a dozen other readers out there that will sync with your desktop documents. You can import PDFs, txt, doc, etc... I was reading Gutenberg texts on the original iPhone what almost 2 years ago now? There's over 100,000 apps I think and PLENTY that can do exactly what you want.
Ya know with all the emulated games showing up on the iPhone lately it seems to me that SCUMMVM is missing their chance.
Make the app free and sell inside the app (after making agreements with the owners) ... Broken Sword may be possible, Beyond A Steel Sky, etc... several companies have freewared their games or would be glad to make such an agreement with the SCUMMVM guys. It doesn't seem like they're forced to be for just jailbroken phones anymore.
Don't forget Judge Dread. I'm probably wrong but that may be the first. They couldn't get the CGI bike to align with Silvester Stallone's body so instead they made a 3D Stallone and put that on the CGI bike.
Nonono man that's soo wrong. If you put them in a series it just burns through them one by one. You put the mirrors in a PARALLEL arrangement and the wattage gets divided equally among them. 30MW laser hits a 30 mirror parallel setup and each only has to reflect 1MW so heat isn't an issue anymore. They make a stronger laser, you just cut the mirrors up into smaller pieces and add more parallelism. Yo it's like the Larrabee of reflectance.
Alright I know it's not the solution to everything but in some cases it's a good answer. My experience was like this, dad would buy some no-name box for mom to use, I'd set it up and then every single day she'd get some pop-up dialog box and make me answer it for her. Somehow she'd always find how to get weird little errors and she'd freeze. A few months later, dad would buy a new computer, and the cycle continued. Eventually mom noticed the iBook I had and wanted a Mac. Dad wouldn't put up with the extra cost and got yet another generic box for her. Finally after that one went the same way I convinced him to get a refurb as it's cheaper and I'd even pay part of the price.
Finally he relented and she got an eMac. All the sudden the woman who hated computers loved them, people come over and she'd force them to look at her iPhoto album. Years later she now has an iMac and is working on scanning in her old photo albums, she emails and uses the web. So for some reason the different OS did the trick for her. Perhaps it stays out of the way better, or is more visually oriented I don't know, but after she got that eMac she never had any problems again... for years.
Anyways, I say this as a Linux/Windows/Mac user with a Mac preference. Use the right tool for the job, some people need different tools.
Not to be all "Think of the children!" or anything... just pointing out that when I was about 7 I had a really awesome Spiderman night light... and also one shaped like an icecream cone... but anyways when I plugged it in myself one night I was touching part of the plug with my fingertip and got quite a bzzzzaaaap. Threw me against the wall. It's true that the prongs on US plugs are short but it's not impossible to be touching them while plugging in, especially if you have small fingers.
Oh great, now he's going to google that...
"Get the facts Microsoft .Net"
Nothing but unbiased information THERE.
Not to be insensitive but ummm... have you posted pics anywhere? The story of how it happened and the effects would be very valuable for people who work with these. I used to be in a shop that had one of these and we'd say "Whoah imagine if that ever touched skin" but never saw a way it could happen unintentionally. But hey I totally understand if it's not something you want all over the net.
Yeah that was a US government classification that would prevent you from selling a 1 gigaflop computer to certain countries like Iran or whatever. That's why on one of their commercials they had a Power Mac being guarded by a tank.
Somewhere there's a 57 year old grad student waiting for his job to finish running.
And then the server shut down.
Ouch.
I don't know, IANAL. The concept for example applies to Trademarks, if you don't defend your trademark and let it get diluted then you lose it. As I understand it the concept applies in other legal realms as well. If you allow something to go on for a long long time, you can't just get up and all the sudden complain about it after letting it go.
This has been brought up before in the past when similar actions came up. My question is, does estoppel even exist anymore? Or is it an archaic somewhat quaint idea that only a naive person would expect to be honored? It seems these days submarine patents and the like are the norm and this simple legal concept should stop such things in their tracks. It's obviously the new business plan, sit on a patent for 10 or 20 years til everyone is using it, then all the sudden start suing.
Don't worry, the universe itself will travel back and time and prevent it. Think about it... Mr. Universe... time travel. It's Arnold. He's the one stopping the LHC.
Alan Moore would disagree with you... oh wait... he's not sane. nevermind.
What's really retarded is that using zfs would prevent bitrot and warn you of impending or intermittent hardware failures but is seen as OSS zealotry by people who haven't thought out the problem.
So hey, physics dudes... would this work? A space ship that's black on one side and white on the other. The white side reflects light, the black side absorbs it... besides being warmer than the white side would it slowly begin to move? Maybe a millimeter a century or so? :) Long range probes I guess.
This article claims that the new Flash player they're working on for mobile devices will only support ActionScript 3.0, meaning the majority of flash apps which are http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/06/html5_assault_on_adobe_flash_heats_up_with_clicktoflash.html&page=3
That really sucks for anyone who trusted Adobe and stuck with their Flash Lite development guidelines, all previously made mobile apps have just been made useless.
So really if you want Flash on your mobile you're only going to get stuff that's just been made with you in mind. So there's basically few ActionScript 3.0 apps out there and people are going to be going "I thought I had flash on my phone, why won't it play all those games I like?"
Now for those websites with older Flash games and apps, they either redo them in AS 3.0 or just move to HTML5 and support everyone. Upgrading to AS 3.0 had better be REAL EASY or they've just shot themselves in the foot here.
To save a few bucks... or to get millions of dollars worth of free publicity? Deliberately twisting the issue to send out an "Apple is a monopoly and refuses to let us sync" has been pretty successful so far. After all "Any news is good news" when you wanna be a star. They also know exactly who their demographic is and the type of person who jumps on their anti-Apple claims.
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unit tests.
Well it is. I was at a buddies house, he had a USB HD plugged into his Wii, all kinds of games on it. Apparently the Mario Galaxy he downloaded had a few bits flipped somewhere in it's image so he played it all the way to the last few planets and then couldn't finish it. Some of the games he actually owned so... I think it's great to be able to back up games to a HD and play off them. When you share the Wii with someone and they get up to play Wii Fit every morning... and I'm working my way through Zelda. Swap swap swap.
Also he had this media center software running on the Wii, sorta like having XBMC or something. Then he uses his iPhone to change the tracks, watch movies, etc... pretty sweet.
Nintendo should just sell a media center channel and let millions of Wii owners plug HDs into those babies.
True about the Brown Note on Mythbusters, but the study that started the urban legend specifically was the army reporting on verified effects of low frequency sounds on test subjects. People just misunderstood exactly what the effects were and spread an exaggerated version of it.
You're just lazy dude, at least google something before you go into auto-skeptic mode. And we didn't tell the class what we were doing but the teacher knew what we were up to, but I digress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound
I noticed on the adafruit site that the original Dazzler used a low Hz pulse like 9Hz - 15Hz or somewhere around there. It reminded me of back in high school in our electronics class when we hooked up a speaker to a frequency generator. One of us had read somewhere that a loud pulse at 9Hz - 11Hz or so would produce sickness in people so we set the freq at 11Hz and cranked it up. After a few seconds people started complaining about headaches and not feeling well so we turned it off.
Now if you consider the stories about military equipment that is connected to either the back or the tongue and is able to put sound or vision into your head by using the correct frequencies...
That'd mean the low frequency sound effects and the strobe effects are really setting off the same thing by getting the same basic frequency into the brain via different channels. The brain doesn't care how a signal gets in there, so you can see hear or feel certain sensations through electrical impulses anywhere on you.
I wonder if there's a frequency for gullibility, aggression, fear, etc...
Dang where'd I'd put my tinfoil hat?
Man a Piggyback ride is NOTHING compared to a Piggybelly ride.
Amateur.
So hey I'm curious, if Wolfenstein had to be censored then how does anything Indiana Jones get sold in Germany? Do they get a pass since it's anti-Nazi? How's it different than Wolfenstein? And the movies, do they get censored?