And yet the Storm 2 doesn't have that clicky screen. It actually seems that most people didn't like what RIM called SurePress on the Storm. I have never used it but like everything some people love it and some people hate it.
Well every console that is popular eventual ends up with a large amount of Shovelware. The PS2 is a great example of that.
Yes Nintendo was a control freak. They where because Atari lost control and that was one of the reasons that the Videogame market went bust way back when. The Atari was so popular that everybody flooded the market with really terrible games. There where some gems but most where just trash. Of course Atari released one of the biggest stinkers of all time with ET. And frankly Sony? Sony? Rook kit pushing, DRM loving, memory stick, Blu-Ray pushing, buy your movies again on UMD, no Sony movies on NetFlix streaming SONY???? I will take big N thank you than give even more power to Sony. You hold a grudge over Nintendo being too controlling in the past but you like Sony?
But hey I do like my PS2 and there are lot of games for it.
"As the tech matures, it'll get better - but Big N's already, by producing an "add-on" sensor to tweak the sensitivity, admitting their initial setup wasn't good enough." And Microsoft and Sony years latter coming up with a motion controller are admitting that Nintendo got it right.
This and Microsoft's look cool but will they work with four players at once? How many games will use it since it is an add on? And how much? Sony's solution requires not just the wand but also an eyetoy. Hey it may be really cool but as everyone else will say it is just Sony and Microsoft playing catch up. And why is it sad that Nintendo pioneered it? You own stock in Sony or something? Nintendo earned there success by making a product more people wanted. No differn't that what Sony did with the PlayStation1.
Just use vegetable oil for buoyancy. Actually I have no idea if it has the same compressibility as water or if it is light enough. If I remember correctly the Trieste used aviation gasoline. You could never do that today because it is such nasty stuff. Some subs even used mercury for trim since they could pump it back and forth to change the pitch of the sub. Building any type of sub is just hard. Trying to figure out how to build any type of hull penetrations for a sub like that makes my head hurt.
"That is, building a compressed gas tank to hold 20,000 psi is easier than building one that won't crush under 20,000 psi." That is because an air tank is loaded in tension and not in compression. Most material is stronger in tension than compression. Cement is one of the few that isn't. If fact the trick of build light strong anything is usually figuring out how to put convert the loads to tension.
Water blocks radio. If Radio worked don't you think they would have used it? The only way to send radio under water is to use ELF extremely low frequency radio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency As you can see the data rate is in bits per minute...
It isn't totally worthless. Some data entry apps require that some or all fields are in all caps. It is simpler for the clerks to use a caps lock then hold down the shift. Of course if the programmer wasn't an idiot they would just convert the field to all caps but sometimes people have to live with old software. Or I guess somewhere somebody used a lower case entry to be a sentential value to end data input.
"The other thing is how much do we know about the tissues and proteins that made up muscles and blood in Sauropods? Is it possible that they were much stronger or their blood had different properties making it capable of overcoming the blood pressure problem?" Umm have we found any animal that has blood or tissues that would solve that issue? Reptile, Bird, or Mammal? That seems like a huge leap with out some type of evidence of it existing in nature.
"Moral of the story? Flash is a bad standard for video. We need something with hardware like Dirac or Theora, with zero dollar margins to get the codec, and we need it on everything." 1. From what I hear Theora isn't great. 2. Are you sure they would use less resources. 3. One has to wonder if Flash with hardware support wouldn't be at least as fast as say the codec used for BluRay which ION handles just fine.
A agree that Flash has issues but the moral of the story that is what we have today. I hear Silverlight is better but it just creeps me out for a number of reasons.
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to write off Theora and put all our effort in to Dirac. From what I hear it is actually a better codec.
Why? I doubt that the authors of Adventure, Rouge, and Nethack got even that. Programs should be free. Actually I do agree with you. He should have been set for life if not filthy rich.
That is going to be a an issue for any netbook. This with the android store could really make an interesting system. Some people will say that it is just a big smart phone but there is no need to limit it to just smart phone like applications.
Nope. This is a server CPU. Things like Database servers already scale. well. Virtualazation by definition will scale well. Or to put it in simple terms. You know that old four server with 8 cores total? You can now replace it with a two socket machine with 12 cores total. Or you know that four socket 16 core server? Well you can now upgrade that to a 24 core server.
Yes but we may be talking about a 4 or 5 year old. Seems like a lot to expect. You get on a bus and don't know where you are. Seems like a little kids nightmare as well as a parents.
For a lot of the same reasons that people go to real world stores. Why would I even look for your book. A google search on Science Fiction Books would be less than useful. Even a search for C++ books would probably not do very well. But I can go to Amazon and search for those and maybe find your book. If that book gets good reviews I might buy it. Or it may be on sale and I would figure why not give it a shot.
For authors it will probably mean more sales. It also means they don't have to collect the money and deal with those issues. Then you have sales tax reporting... Have you ever sold anything? Oh let me tell you it is a pain. And then you have to worry about securing your website and dealing with that. Keeping it up dated and all that fun.
Actually I see it first as an Android App. I have a Kindle but I honestly use my iPod Touch more. At night the screen is back lit for reading in bed when my wife is asleep. I always have it with me. And I just don't think the kindle is that much better for reading books. Now when I can get an 8"x11" color ebook reader all bets are off. I would love to get Cycle World, Rider, Motorcyclist, and Motortrend on the Kindle.
Your correct. I miss spoke. It has just under a thousand students. Not several thousands. Still way too many. I believed the parent that complained that there where over two thousand students. I should have known better. Still a child warehouse but you are correct that it is currently less than a thousand. Next year I bet it will be over a thousand.
Just what can an IPhone do that the G! and or a top of the line Symbian phone can not? I think the iPhone looks like a great platform. Android does as well. I have no looked at the Symbian SDK but I don't see thing that the iPhone can do that those other platfroms can not. Buy apps and media at the iTunes store is one but I put that down to branding. Sync with iTunes? Also a branding thing IMHO. The G1 right now can record video and has a compass. So those are two things that it can do over the current iPhone. A lot of Symbian devices come with FM radios which is something that the iPhone lacks. Is it worth having? I am not sure. But you said that the iPhone can do things the other platforms can not. Outside of iTunes what can it do that they can not?
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And yet the Storm 2 doesn't have that clicky screen. It actually seems that most people didn't like what RIM called SurePress on the Storm.
I have never used it but like everything some people love it and some people hate it.
Well every console that is popular eventual ends up with a large amount of Shovelware. The PS2 is a great example of that.
Yes Nintendo was a control freak. They where because Atari lost control and that was one of the reasons that the Videogame market went bust way back when. The Atari was so popular that everybody flooded the market with really terrible games. There where some gems but most where just trash. Of course Atari released one of the biggest stinkers of all time with ET.
And frankly Sony? Sony? Rook kit pushing, DRM loving, memory stick, Blu-Ray pushing, buy your movies again on UMD, no Sony movies on NetFlix streaming SONY????
I will take big N thank you than give even more power to Sony.
You hold a grudge over Nintendo being too controlling in the past but you like Sony?
But hey I do like my PS2 and there are lot of games for it.
"As the tech matures, it'll get better - but Big N's already, by producing an "add-on" sensor to tweak the sensitivity, admitting their initial setup wasn't good enough."
And Microsoft and Sony years latter coming up with a motion controller are admitting that Nintendo got it right.
This and Microsoft's look cool but will they work with four players at once? How many games will use it since it is an add on? And how much?
Sony's solution requires not just the wand but also an eyetoy.
Hey it may be really cool but as everyone else will say it is just Sony and Microsoft playing catch up.
And why is it sad that Nintendo pioneered it? You own stock in Sony or something? Nintendo earned there success by making a product more people wanted. No differn't that what Sony did with the PlayStation1.
Actually this is useless.
How many people even knew about this site? I didn't
It is a small activist group that is highly slanted.
Just use vegetable oil for buoyancy. Actually I have no idea if it has the same compressibility as water or if it is light enough. If I remember correctly the Trieste used aviation gasoline. You could never do that today because it is such nasty stuff. Some subs even used mercury for trim since they could pump it back and forth to change the pitch of the sub.
Building any type of sub is just hard. Trying to figure out how to build any type of hull penetrations for a sub like that makes my head hurt.
"That is, building a compressed gas tank to hold 20,000 psi is easier than building one that won't crush under 20,000 psi."
That is because an air tank is loaded in tension and not in compression. Most material is stronger in tension than compression. Cement is one of the few that isn't. If fact the trick of build light strong anything is usually figuring out how to put convert the loads to tension.
Water blocks radio. If Radio worked don't you think they would have used it?
The only way to send radio under water is to use ELF extremely low frequency radio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_low_frequency
As you can see the data rate is in bits per minute...
Your too young.
Take a look at Fortran IV and 77 sometime.
There is some old code out there that is still working.
It isn't totally worthless. Some data entry apps require that some or all fields are in all caps. It is simpler for the clerks to use a caps lock then hold down the shift.
Of course if the programmer wasn't an idiot they would just convert the field to all caps but sometimes people have to live with old software.
Or I guess somewhere somebody used a lower case entry to be a sentential value to end data input.
"The other thing is how much do we know about the tissues and proteins that made up muscles and blood in Sauropods? Is it possible that they were much stronger or their blood had different properties making it capable of overcoming the blood pressure problem?"
Umm have we found any animal that has blood or tissues that would solve that issue? Reptile, Bird, or Mammal?
That seems like a huge leap with out some type of evidence of it existing in nature.
MP3 is audio not video.
Wow that is scary. Not only can't people tell when your kidding but they can not bother reading more than one line!!!!
"Moral of the story? Flash is a bad standard for video. We need something with hardware like Dirac or Theora, with zero dollar margins to get the codec, and we need it on everything."
1. From what I hear Theora isn't great.
2. Are you sure they would use less resources.
3. One has to wonder if Flash with hardware support wouldn't be at least as fast as say the codec used for BluRay which ION handles just fine.
A agree that Flash has issues but the moral of the story that is what we have today. I hear Silverlight is better but it just creeps me out for a number of reasons.
I wonder if it wouldn't be better to write off Theora and put all our effort in to Dirac. From what I hear it is actually a better codec.
Why? I doubt that the authors of Adventure, Rouge, and Nethack got even that. Programs should be free.
Actually I do agree with you. He should have been set for life if not filthy rich.
Well for twitter they just redirect to a fail whale and no one will notice.
Virtualization is not suitable for mid- to large- database environments.
He is running SQLLite.
That is going to be a an issue for any netbook. This with the android store could really make an interesting system.
Some people will say that it is just a big smart phone but there is no need to limit it to just smart phone like applications.
Nope. This is a server CPU. Things like Database servers already scale. well.
Virtualazation by definition will scale well.
Or to put it in simple terms.
You know that old four server with 8 cores total? You can now replace it with a two socket machine with 12 cores total.
Or you know that four socket 16 core server? Well you can now upgrade that to a 24 core server.
Yes but we may be talking about a 4 or 5 year old. Seems like a lot to expect. You get on a bus and don't know where you are. Seems like a little kids nightmare as well as a parents.
For a lot of the same reasons that people go to real world stores.
Why would I even look for your book. A google search on Science Fiction Books would be less than useful. Even a search for C++ books would probably not do very well.
But I can go to Amazon and search for those and maybe find your book. If that book gets good reviews I might buy it. Or it may be on sale and I would figure why not give it a shot.
For authors it will probably mean more sales. It also means they don't have to collect the money and deal with those issues. Then you have sales tax reporting... Have you ever sold anything? Oh let me tell you it is a pain.
And then you have to worry about securing your website and dealing with that. Keeping it up dated and all that fun.
Actually I see it first as an Android App.
I have a Kindle but I honestly use my iPod Touch more. At night the screen is back lit for reading in bed when my wife is asleep. I always have it with me. And I just don't think the kindle is that much better for reading books.
Now when I can get an 8"x11" color ebook reader all bets are off. I would love to get Cycle World, Rider, Motorcyclist, and Motortrend on the Kindle.
Your correct. I miss spoke. It has just under a thousand students. Not several thousands. Still way too many. I believed the parent that complained that there where over two thousand students. I should have known better.
Still a child warehouse but you are correct that it is currently less than a thousand. Next year I bet it will be over a thousand.
Just what can an IPhone do that the G! and or a top of the line Symbian phone can not?
I think the iPhone looks like a great platform. Android does as well. I have no looked at the Symbian SDK but I don't see thing that the iPhone can do that those other platfroms can not.
Buy apps and media at the iTunes store is one but I put that down to branding. Sync with iTunes? Also a branding thing IMHO.
The G1 right now can record video and has a compass. So those are two things that it can do over the current iPhone. A lot of Symbian devices come with FM radios which is something that the iPhone lacks. Is it worth having? I am not sure.
But you said that the iPhone can do things the other platforms can not. Outside of iTunes what can it do that they can not?
It can.
All that anybody needs to do is write an application.
Cool you could make a range finder with it. Point the camera at an object get your location and direction. Walk a while repeat and get a range.