I've lived in NYC for a long time and have never noticed that.
What I HAVE seen, is that pedestrians often do stupid things (like not waiting for the light, or crossing without even looking up when going across a one lane side street).
The biggest contributor to this careless action is probably because NYC is a pedestrian city, and the majority of the people in it do not own a car, or drive regularly (if at all). This makes them less likely to understand why they shouldn't jump in front of a car (a car can't jump to the side like a person can). The good side of this though, is that I think obesity was lower in NYC than the national average. I assume most everyone walking helped with that:) (as opposed to New Jersey for instance, where I've seen people drive the car to the corner for the paper in the morning)
If you've got a DDR dance pad, you can do this already.... The dance pad basically maps to the 'face' buttons on a PS2's controller.
One gathering, after a bunch of DDR matches between friends, someone popped in one of the Gundam Fighting games. Imagine 170lb guys dancing on a pad trying to get combos off, as giant robots battle it out on screen.
Scarily enough, one of the group started getting good at it:)
Yet. Future iterations of online content will almost definitely allow for either media to be burned, USB key copies to be made, or copies to be made to other receivers over WiFi. So when your car is parked in the garage, you'll be able to switch out the kid's movies with the latest ones you've downloaded online. Making it happen is all a matter of consumer demand.
TiVo2Go already lets me move (most) content off the recorder, and onto a computer, as well as transcode it for an iPod or PSP.
I also remember hearing about TiVo partnering with Netflicks a while ago, and CBS and NBC recently. If those things are true, and TiVo can push out an upgrade to the Series 3 to support multi-room viewing and TiVo2Go (their being held back by the CableLabs certification process I think). Then we have almost all the things you mentioned today (or 'real soon'). The only thing missing is a few key confirmations which we'll hopefully see in time, and the polish... the part TiVo consistently gets very right.
Blaming SONY would be like blaming the people who made the "Cabbage Patch Doll" and the original "Tickle me Elmo" (yes, I'm dating myself).
Both these toys were made for the Holiday Season. Both were "Hot Items". Both caused Riots in stores when there weren't enough (yes, there were far more than there are PS3s, but far more parents wanted to buy them for their children).
So, by most peoples logic, they shouldn't have released the toys to the store for the Holidays, but instead should have sat on them until they could give one to every kid in the world?
People are willing to do Crazy and Stupid things when they are trying to get hot gifts/toys (or more likely in the case of the PS3 rioters, a console they think they can make a quick profit on).
This is like the end of the DotCom era. Suddenly lots of companies started coming out with ludicrous business plans that contained the word "internet" and expected themselves to make money since they'd seen other people do it before. In comparison people saw a relatively few XBox360s sold on ebay for outrageous prices and figured they could do the same thing with the PS3... except lots of people chose to do that and the potential customers for the outrageous prices are few and far between. (or like all those Mutual Fund notices: "Past performance is no indication of Future performance")
I'm very much looking forward to getting a PS3, just as soon as I can either order one from Sony on-line, or walk into a store and get it. In the meantime I'll happily play my PS2 which hasn't stopped working just because the PS3 was launched, and laugh at the people who thought they could triple the price they paid in one day of "easy work".
Someone should have compiled a list of all those ebayers... I know a nigerian businessman who needs their help getting money out of his country.
Not to mention that you would have to have a sniffer in a place where they can see that traffic.... of course... considering that the Wiis primary method of internet connection (along with the PS3 60GB) seems to be a WiFi connection, there me be quite a few people that can be in the position of being able to intercept the incoming traffic.
Now imagine that someone creates the program to sniff the packets and grab the game payload. The only thing missing is a way to re-inject those payloads to a Wii, and any number of people will be able to download a game for free, once the game has been sniffed from one person downloading it.
Considering how secure most WiFi connections are, this seems like a realistic scenario.
"Hey mom, dad, I know this great site where I can download the games for free." Yeah... a site would be sued out of existence, but what if the site was just your home computer running downloaded rom files via BitTorrent, and a custom web-proxy program to inject the code?
The problem in the past is the same as any other industry... the lack of competition.
The U.S. *did* great in the space race against the Soviet Union. Then they started working on the shuttle (and the space station to compete with MIR), then in the early 90s the Soviet Union imploded.
Suddenly there was only a token competitor (nothing against the Russian space program, but the Russian people had other more pressing domestic concerns).
Now we're seeing the rise of a Chinese and Indian space program, and the U.S. is starting to pick up pace again. "Surprise"
Access to Mars (and the asteroid belt), would provide a ridiculous supply of raw materials, and a possible future home (depending on colonization and terra-forming).
With luck this will be the "Space Race 2.0" which seems like a good thing for everyone.
480i is essentially Standard Definition TV. Its the way signals are currently broadcast in the U.S. This is why 480p is sometimes (often?) referred to as EDTV i.e. Enhanced Definition TV, since it takes the standard Ratio and broadcast size and removes the interlacing. I am not aware of any broadcasts using it, but quite a number of DVD players and the like will output it.
The British Government have confirmed the existence of their sister program, The Torchwood Institue, having recently demonstrated its latest ground to space design over the holidays.
"RFID chips are being used in the nation's passports, cards used to identify transportation workers and cards for federal employees, and may be features of the Registered Traveler program, the soon-to-be-released standards for all states' driver's licenses under the REAL-ID act, as well as proposed medical cards."
and I thought, "with so many RFIDs, couldn't they interfere with each other?" and then I started wondering...
Most of the approaches people are talking about are "Passive Countermeasures" such as wrapping the RFIDs in a faraday cage.
What about Active Countermeasures? Broadcast so much garbage on the carrier frequencies that the RFID can't communicate? (the start of a Personal Privacy Shield perhaps?) Yes, it lights up the broadcaster in ambient noise, but it is this even possible (and what effect would it have on other things around you?
> Blu-ray Which is great, if you want HD movies. I'm unconvinced this is going to be a major selling point, especially as so far HD-DVD seems to be doing a lot better than Blu-Ray. It could be an issue for games, but personally I'm not seeing two-DVD releases being a major issue.
Most people keep talking about "Oh, I'll just wait till the dual format players are available".
If that is true, and most people have dual format players, and a whole bunch more people have PS3s (over the number of standalone HD-DVD players), then Sony won and more movies will probably be produced in Blu-Ray.
"But Unix won't go more mainstream until a major desktop vendor puts together a nice pre-installed distro and has the computers displayed next to the Windows machines at CompUSA and Best Buy.
OS X is based on BSD, not Linux, but they both implement Unix like functionality.
That aside, you are correct. I think this 'great pre-installed GUI', combined with 'unix shell and configuration' are why OS X has gained a lot of ground lately.
The tech-geeks love being able to play with the *nix side of things, and its got a GUI they can recommend to their friends who don't like getting any closer to the OS than a mouse.
While you're right that the central vote consolidation box wouldn't be running WinCE (since the database used to consolidate the votes is a simple MS ACCESS DB), the actual voting machines themselves are running WinCE
Voting terminals TS6 and TSx employ custom made hardware running with an embedded Windows CE operating system. As is true for all Windows CE systems, they require a boot loader to prepare the hardware for the launch of operating system. Both the boot loader and the operating system are custom built specifically for the unique hardware of the terminals.
(2) During or after the message, state clearly the telephone number (other than that of the autodialer or prerecorded message player which placed the call) or address of such business, other entity, or individual.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the callers to make the pre-recorded message include the phone number at the end of the message, say at the 60 second mark.
Then they can end the message with "A phone number to reach the caller will be provided in 10 seconds", ostensibly to provide time for a person wishing to record the number to grab a pen and paper.
Of course, most recording machines cut off before this number is reached, however that is not their problem... is it?
Everyone keeps talking about "there is such a thing as 'too light'". Think about this:
1) How heavy is your TV remote?
2) I imagine most of the weight in the DualShocks were the rumble motors.
3) If you really need the weight, wait for my new patented Gravity Enhancer for the sixAxis controller. Don't mind that its basically a lead weight and a mini-tube of crazy-glue. Letting the customer assemble the pieces helps us keep the price down.
(I also plan on introducing a rumble add-on that uses an electric plug and a length of cord... just as soon as preliminary tests tell us where to attach the leads).
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AHA! Now it all makes sense.
SCO is the reason that the PS3 is shipping in such small units and costs so much
I've lived in NYC for a long time and have never noticed that.
:) (as opposed to New Jersey for instance, where I've seen people drive the car to the corner for the paper in the morning)
What I HAVE seen, is that pedestrians often do stupid things (like not waiting for the light, or crossing without even looking up when going across a one lane side street).
The biggest contributor to this careless action is probably because NYC is a pedestrian city, and the majority of the people in it do not own a car, or drive regularly (if at all). This makes them less likely to understand why they shouldn't jump in front of a car (a car can't jump to the side like a person can). The good side of this though, is that I think obesity was lower in NYC than the national average. I assume most everyone walking helped with that
If you've got a DDR dance pad, you can do this already. ... The dance pad basically maps to the 'face' buttons on a PS2's controller.
:)
One gathering, after a bunch of DDR matches between friends, someone popped in one of the Gundam Fighting games. Imagine 170lb guys dancing on a pad trying to get combos off, as giant robots battle it out on screen.
Scarily enough, one of the group started getting good at it
TiVo2Go already lets me move (most) content off the recorder, and onto a computer, as well as transcode it for an iPod or PSP.
I also remember hearing about TiVo partnering with Netflicks a while ago, and CBS and NBC recently. If those things are true, and TiVo can push out an upgrade to the Series 3 to support multi-room viewing and TiVo2Go (their being held back by the CableLabs certification process I think). Then we have almost all the things you mentioned today (or 'real soon'). The only thing missing is a few key confirmations which we'll hopefully see in time, and the polish
Exactly.
... except lots of people chose to do that and the potential customers for the outrageous prices are few and far between. (or like all those Mutual Fund notices: "Past performance is no indication of Future performance")
... I know a nigerian businessman who needs their help getting money out of his country.
Blaming SONY would be like blaming the people who made the "Cabbage Patch Doll" and the original "Tickle me Elmo" (yes, I'm dating myself).
Both these toys were made for the Holiday Season. Both were "Hot Items". Both caused Riots in stores when there weren't enough (yes, there were far more than there are PS3s, but far more parents wanted to buy them for their children).
So, by most peoples logic, they shouldn't have released the toys to the store for the Holidays, but instead should have sat on them until they could give one to every kid in the world?
People are willing to do Crazy and Stupid things when they are trying to get hot gifts/toys (or more likely in the case of the PS3 rioters, a console they think they can make a quick profit on).
This is like the end of the DotCom era. Suddenly lots of companies started coming out with ludicrous business plans that contained the word "internet" and expected themselves to make money since they'd seen other people do it before. In comparison people saw a relatively few XBox360s sold on ebay for outrageous prices and figured they could do the same thing with the PS3
I'm very much looking forward to getting a PS3, just as soon as I can either order one from Sony on-line, or walk into a store and get it. In the meantime I'll happily play my PS2 which hasn't stopped working just because the PS3 was launched, and laugh at the people who thought they could triple the price they paid in one day of "easy work".
Someone should have compiled a list of all those ebayers
Its probably for the Neighborhood program.
:)
If they really need a server to communicate, then I'm sure some enterprising person will create a "Linux LAN Party Boot ISO".
"Just pop this baby into your old, outdated Quad Core Intel, and it'll boot into a DHCP, and PDC to handle all your LAN Party needs."
Yes but, are patch diffs from GPLv2 to GPLv3 code copyright infractions? Exercises of "Fair Use"? Something else?
Not to mention that you would have to have a sniffer in a place where they can see that traffic. ... of course ... considering that the Wiis primary method of internet connection (along with the PS3 60GB) seems to be a WiFi connection, there me be quite a few people that can be in the position of being able to intercept the incoming traffic.
... a site would be sued out of existence, but what if the site was just your home computer running downloaded rom files via BitTorrent, and a custom web-proxy program to inject the code?
Now imagine that someone creates the program to sniff the packets and grab the game payload.
The only thing missing is a way to re-inject those payloads to a Wii, and any number of people will be able to download a game for free, once the game has been sniffed from one person downloading it.
Considering how secure most WiFi connections are, this seems like a realistic scenario.
"Hey mom, dad, I know this great site where I can download the games for free." Yeah
The problem in the past is the same as any other industry ... the lack of competition.
The U.S. *did* great in the space race against the Soviet Union. Then they started working on the shuttle (and the space station to compete with MIR), then in the early 90s the Soviet Union imploded.
Suddenly there was only a token competitor (nothing against the Russian space program, but the Russian people had other more pressing domestic concerns).
Now we're seeing the rise of a Chinese and Indian space program, and the U.S. is starting to pick up pace again. "Surprise"
Access to Mars (and the asteroid belt), would provide a ridiculous supply of raw materials, and a possible future home (depending on colonization and terra-forming).
With luck this will be the "Space Race 2.0" which seems like a good thing for everyone.
480i is essentially Standard Definition TV. Its the way signals are currently broadcast in the U.S.
This is why 480p is sometimes (often?) referred to as EDTV i.e. Enhanced Definition TV, since it takes the standard Ratio and broadcast size and removes the interlacing. I am not aware of any broadcasts using it, but quite a number of DVD players and the like will output it.
The British Government have confirmed the existence of their sister program, The Torchwood Institue, having recently demonstrated its latest ground to space design over the holidays.
[/remove tongue from cheek]
You're right, comparing the PSP to an iPod Video is ridiculous.
On the other hand compare it to carrying around a shuffle, or nano (you know, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB high end, no video).
Oh, the latest PSP firmware upgrade also mentions adding support for Memory cards greater than 4GB.
Sure they will
I'm sure there is a lawyer being hatched right now that will take the case (for T&M plus a small contingency).
and I thought, "with so many RFIDs, couldn't they interfere with each other?" and then I started wondering
Most of the approaches people are talking about are "Passive Countermeasures" such as wrapping the RFIDs in a faraday cage.
What about Active Countermeasures? Broadcast so much garbage on the carrier frequencies that the RFID can't communicate? (the start of a Personal Privacy Shield perhaps?) Yes, it lights up the broadcaster in ambient noise, but it is this even possible (and what effect would it have on other things around you?
Most people keep talking about "Oh, I'll just wait till the dual format players are available".
If that is true, and most people have dual format players, and a whole bunch more people have PS3s (over the number of standalone HD-DVD players), then Sony won and more movies will probably be produced in Blu-Ray.
Nah. Some of us neither smoke pot, or own guns. We're just too busy dealing with "fair use" on our copyrighted material.
A better question for your answer would be:
OS X is based on BSD, not Linux, but they both implement Unix like functionality.
That aside, you are correct. I think this 'great pre-installed GUI', combined with 'unix shell and configuration' are why OS X has gained a lot of ground lately.
The tech-geeks love being able to play with the *nix side of things, and its got a GUI they can recommend to their friends who don't like getting any closer to the OS than a mouse.
While you're right that the central vote consolidation box wouldn't be running WinCE (since the database used to consolidate the votes is a simple MS ACCESS DB), the actual voting machines themselves are running WinCE
Voting terminals TS6 and TSx employ custom made hardware running with an embedded
Windows CE operating system. As is true for all Windows CE systems, they require a boot
loader to prepare the hardware for the launch of operating system. Both the boot loader and
the operating system are custom built specifically for the unique hardware of the terminals.
-- From page 2 of the Black Box Voting Diebold TSx Evaluation
and for those who need a translation :) ...
... its good we don't need 400W and 500W power supplies for our desktops now. ... oh wait, a lot of us DO.
What it seems to imply is that the maximum load it would draw is 380W.
Gee
!(I'm sure this will help make Diebold machines much more secure.)
Wouldn't it make more sense for the callers to make the pre-recorded message include the phone number at the end of the message, say at the 60 second mark.
Then they can end the message with "A phone number to reach the caller will be provided in 10 seconds", ostensibly to provide time for a person wishing to record the number to grab a pen and paper.
Of course, most recording machines cut off before this number is reached, however that is not their problem
nah, change the words to make it appropriate, and call it a parody.
So far parody is protected.
Sure ... no problem ... just carry the two and ...
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Everyone keeps talking about "there is such a thing as 'too light'". Think about this:
... just as soon as preliminary tests tell us where to attach the leads).
1) How heavy is your TV remote?
2) I imagine most of the weight in the DualShocks were the rumble motors.
3) If you really need the weight, wait for my new patented Gravity Enhancer for the sixAxis controller. Don't mind that its basically a lead weight and a mini-tube of crazy-glue. Letting the customer assemble the pieces helps us keep the price down.
(I also plan on introducing a rumble add-on that uses an electric plug and a length of cord
Sounds like an electronic revolution :)