People with poor eyesight rely on this fuzzy but fast recognition frequently.
Actually, I use this method often when I perform my "read something from extremely far away" trick. Not so much a trick, really, since my eyesight is rather good (15/20; yes, even after using computers almost daily for 23 years). I'm simply relying on the fact that I can see things very far away, and then I base my "reading" ability on the recognition of patterns. I have something around a 95% success rate, the 5% being words that I simply don't recognize, and I need to scan them several more times to really figure out the word.
However, it does wonders for spotting a street that I need to turn on a couple blocks before I get there.
BTW, Brian Wilson was inspired to create Pet Sounds when he heard the Beatles' Rubber Soul. In turn, Pet Sounds inspired the Beatles to do Sergeant Pepper's, which in turn prompted the Rolling Stones to create On Their Satanic Majesties Request. Rubber Soul, BTW, was partly a result of Bob Dylan's influence on the Beatles.
I couldn't help but to mention that The Mothers of Invention's Freak Out album (gate-fold double LP) inspired The Beatles to do a gate-fold double LP with Sgt. Peppers, for which that cover art inspired Zappa to do the We're Only In It For The Money album cover.
Nothing that important, but not only was there influence in musical ideas and theories, but also packaging and delivery:-)
As a side note, Zappa and Lennon were friends, as publically observed in later live performances that they did together.
I wouldn't say that the market is completely saturated, but probably anyone who really wants a console (and can afford it) has one already. Then there are probably hold-outs (like myself) who own (say) a Dreamcast, are loving the idea of the cheap prices on the games and really see little need for "upgrading".
Frankly, I see no reason to upgrade to an Xbox or PS2, because all the latest games that I've wanted (GTA3/VC) are available on the PC (which work beautifully with my Radeon 9500 Pro), and as far as the PS2 goes, the only advantage I've seen of it over my Dreamcast is that it has full scene anti-aliasing. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with my PC and Dreamcast for my gaming needs.. and I'm not paying $50 for the games (I don't buy many PC games, and DC is cheap).
I will admit, however, that I'm tempted to get a GameCube, simply because they have some really high quality games available for that machine. I am just holding out for a little while longer, because it looks like they'll probably drop the price again on that device, and I'd rather buy new than used.
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Aeron Chairs. 'Nuff said.
Still haven't figured this one out. These chairs are nice, don't get me wrong, but who the heck decided that these should become standard equipment of companies buying new chairs in the last few years? I know of a few NYC firms that are completely saturated with these things, and I've also been to a few tech companies across the country and see the same thing. They're not THAT great.
Sun did make a Pentium (II?) based board for their UltraSPARC workstations (I think the Ultra 10 had the option). I never saw one, but I do distinctly remember reading that the capability was available from Sun.
With the rest of the city dark as the night sky, I was surprised that the land lines DID work. The cell phones worked as well, but the land lines were a surprise.
As a result, I could have used my laptop for some late night entertainment, but I decided to use my lanterns and read a book instead.
What was really interesting was that you could see the stars in the sky for the first time probably since 1977's blackout. Oh sure, you can see a few, but I mean see a LOT of them.
Your title says rt 24, which runs by the Mall at Short Hills, but in your comment it says rt 78. I'm guessing you meant to say rt 24? Which side of the highway? East bound, west bound?
No, I meant the stretch of Route 24 that ran from Route 78 to the mall. It is on both sides of the highway, so if you travel from Route 78 to the mall, you'll definately hit the pavement, regardless of what side / lane you're driving.
If you've ever driven to the Mall at Short Hills in northern New Jersey, you might have driven on a 1 mile stretch of this kind of pavement.
A couple of years ago, Essex County paved the short stretch of highway that ran from Route 78 to the Mall at Short Hills with a "quiet" pavement. The difference is very noticeable. Much like the difference between driving on regular asphalt, and then hitting a patch of recently paved road, the "SHHHHH!!" sound you usually hear suddenly dims down to a low "wooohhh".
OK, so maybe you can't get the complete impression from phonetic sounds, but you get the idea.
Unfortunately, the cost of the pavement not only exceeds traditional highway materials, but also caused a bit of an outcry from other towns as they didn't get the same for their roads.
* The VGA card cements the PC as the gaming computer of the future and closes the door on the Atari ST, the Apple IIGS and the Amiga
I wouldn't say that the VGA card cemented the PC as the platform of the future. At least, not the first few years of the VGA card. Back in the late 80's and early 90's, the Amiga and Atari ST still provided better graphics performance than any other platform out there. It wasn't until VGA cards started to implement acceleration features that it started to shift.
Are you leaving the device in your cradle? If that is the case, then you're leaving the serial port open by doing that. The older Palm devices would drain slowly if the (I believe) DTR line was high, and usually in the older Palm cradles, the DTR line was always high when connected to a serial port. The solution was to either cut the DTR line in the cradle or cut it somewhere outside of the cradle (dongle or something).
I don't have the documentation on hand, but should be easy enough to find on the web. Note that I ran my Palm III on a cradle that had the DTR cut for years, and I never had any synchronization problems.
Clarify this: are they looking at making ENIAC functional again?
I don't think this is possible. Not only are the parts of the ENIAC spread out over the country (world?), but I believe there are also a few parts that are no longer in existence. I remember something from the ENIAC book I read a few years ago that the machine spent a lot of the 50's and 60's away in musty warehouses, unused. I think some of the parts made it to the scrap yard, until people saved a few of them.
Then again, I could be mistaken...
Though, why would you want to turn that beast on again? I doubt anyone has the knowledge to get the thing running again, nor would anyone want to spend the tremendous amount of money and time to find, rebuild and figure out how to operate the darn thing.
I've got a Palm III at home and it drains my NiCad AAAA batteries pretty quick. I would have gladly used NiMH batteries instead but I can't find NiMH batteries in that size.
Don't use NiCad batteries then. Just use regular alkaline. I regularly get 34 days +/- a few on alkaline AAA batteries, and I sync at least once a day (couple hundred records in each PIM app) and use a Palm folding keyboard.
Wouldn't it make more sense to put these types of things on a Commodore 64/128 that already has a kick ass synth chip?
Yeah, sure.. it's already been done, but that's not the point. The point is that someone did it, its got very cool retro gaming geek value, and it is the first (?) exploit of the ColecoVision's capabilities to date. We've had the Atari SynthCart before and C64 toys before, we've seen the IntyOS just in the last two weeks, but nothing yet for ColecoVision.
However, I will agree that the ColecoVision's sound chip (AY-5-8910, I believe?) was nothing special. Using it for a drum machine is a bit limited. If I remember correctly, it has 1 white noise channel and 3 tone generators. Still, it made better music than my Apple ][ at the time (until I got the Echo ][+ card, which had the same chip).
I wouldn't laugh at this just yet. For many people, they just want to have a simple way of tying their home videos together. Windows Movie Maker does that just fine.
Personally, I'd love to have one of the $600+ video editing programs, but they're so darned much money! WMM is good enough considering the price and what I basically need to do.
Who really cares about Quake 1 anymore? Tenebrae was cool, but its just because, I imagine, that the author had figured out that engine already.. could have done Q2 just as easially if he knew that code.
I can't imagine many people still play Quake 1 except for on their low end PC devices (Pocket PC, Palm Pilot, etc) since "they can". The controls just aren't refined enough; you can't do the now-standard ASDW+mouse control.
The lowest I go in the series is Quake II. It is playable with the standard controls and still has a good following on the internet.
I would like to hear if anyone else shares my sentiments..
You got your computer when you were older. It postdates the commodore 64 by several years.
The original Amiga 1000 came out in 1985. I figure thats about 18 years ago. I think many of the slashdotter's in their 20's can claim that being "When they were a kid".
For me, the first computer I used was a mainframe via a 110/300 baud teletype machine. Color? Sure, whatever color paper you had feeding into the device.
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Actually, I use this method often when I perform my "read something from extremely far away" trick. Not so much a trick, really, since my eyesight is rather good (15/20; yes, even after using computers almost daily for 23 years). I'm simply relying on the fact that I can see things very far away, and then I base my "reading" ability on the recognition of patterns. I have something around a 95% success rate, the 5% being words that I simply don't recognize, and I need to scan them several more times to really figure out the word.
However, it does wonders for spotting a street that I need to turn on a couple blocks before I get there.
I couldn't help but to mention that The Mothers of Invention's Freak Out album (gate-fold double LP) inspired The Beatles to do a gate-fold double LP with Sgt. Peppers, for which that cover art inspired Zappa to do the We're Only In It For The Money album cover.
Nothing that important, but not only was there influence in musical ideas and theories, but also packaging and delivery :-)
As a side note, Zappa and Lennon were friends, as publically observed in later live performances that they did together.
'nuff said.
Frankly, I see no reason to upgrade to an Xbox or PS2, because all the latest games that I've wanted (GTA3/VC) are available on the PC (which work beautifully with my Radeon 9500 Pro), and as far as the PS2 goes, the only advantage I've seen of it over my Dreamcast is that it has full scene anti-aliasing. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with my PC and Dreamcast for my gaming needs.. and I'm not paying $50 for the games (I don't buy many PC games, and DC is cheap).
I will admit, however, that I'm tempted to get a GameCube, simply because they have some really high quality games available for that machine. I am just holding out for a little while longer, because it looks like they'll probably drop the price again on that device, and I'd rather buy new than used.
Still haven't figured this one out. These chairs are nice, don't get me wrong, but who the heck decided that these should become standard equipment of companies buying new chairs in the last few years? I know of a few NYC firms that are completely saturated with these things, and I've also been to a few tech companies across the country and see the same thing. They're not THAT great.
Sun did make a Pentium (II?) based board for their UltraSPARC workstations (I think the Ultra 10 had the option). I never saw one, but I do distinctly remember reading that the capability was available from Sun.
Mac version is just fine.. its called iChat, and it comes with OS X.
Never mind that her warning level is 99%...
As a result, I could have used my laptop for some late night entertainment, but I decided to use my lanterns and read a book instead.
What was really interesting was that you could see the stars in the sky for the first time probably since 1977's blackout. Oh sure, you can see a few, but I mean see a LOT of them.
No, I meant the stretch of Route 24 that ran from Route 78 to the mall. It is on both sides of the highway, so if you travel from Route 78 to the mall, you'll definately hit the pavement, regardless of what side / lane you're driving.
A couple of years ago, Essex County paved the short stretch of highway that ran from Route 78 to the Mall at Short Hills with a "quiet" pavement. The difference is very noticeable. Much like the difference between driving on regular asphalt, and then hitting a patch of recently paved road, the "SHHHHH!!" sound you usually hear suddenly dims down to a low "wooohhh".
OK, so maybe you can't get the complete impression from phonetic sounds, but you get the idea.
Unfortunately, the cost of the pavement not only exceeds traditional highway materials, but also caused a bit of an outcry from other towns as they didn't get the same for their roads.
Makes ME feel safe leaving my kids there.
The microphone was not included on the US release of the NES.
I've tried several different VDMs, and GoScreen is the only one on Windows that actually works. Worth the registration fee.
I wouldn't say that the VGA card cemented the PC as the platform of the future. At least, not the first few years of the VGA card. Back in the late 80's and early 90's, the Amiga and Atari ST still provided better graphics performance than any other platform out there. It wasn't until VGA cards started to implement acceleration features that it started to shift.
DOH!
I don't have the documentation on hand, but should be easy enough to find on the web. Note that I ran my Palm III on a cradle that had the DTR cut for years, and I never had any synchronization problems.
I don't think this is possible. Not only are the parts of the ENIAC spread out over the country (world?), but I believe there are also a few parts that are no longer in existence. I remember something from the ENIAC book I read a few years ago that the machine spent a lot of the 50's and 60's away in musty warehouses, unused. I think some of the parts made it to the scrap yard, until people saved a few of them.
Then again, I could be mistaken...
Though, why would you want to turn that beast on again? I doubt anyone has the knowledge to get the thing running again, nor would anyone want to spend the tremendous amount of money and time to find, rebuild and figure out how to operate the darn thing.
Don't use NiCad batteries then. Just use regular alkaline. I regularly get 34 days +/- a few on alkaline AAA batteries, and I sync at least once a day (couple hundred records in each PIM app) and use a Palm folding keyboard.
I would.
Yeah, sure.. it's already been done, but that's not the point. The point is that someone did it, its got very cool retro gaming geek value, and it is the first (?) exploit of the ColecoVision's capabilities to date. We've had the Atari SynthCart before and C64 toys before, we've seen the IntyOS just in the last two weeks, but nothing yet for ColecoVision.
However, I will agree that the ColecoVision's sound chip (AY-5-8910, I believe?) was nothing special. Using it for a drum machine is a bit limited. If I remember correctly, it has 1 white noise channel and 3 tone generators. Still, it made better music than my Apple ][ at the time (until I got the Echo ][+ card, which had the same chip).
Personally, I'd love to have one of the $600+ video editing programs, but they're so darned much money! WMM is good enough considering the price and what I basically need to do.
I can't imagine many people still play Quake 1 except for on their low end PC devices (Pocket PC, Palm Pilot, etc) since "they can". The controls just aren't refined enough; you can't do the now-standard ASDW+mouse control.
The lowest I go in the series is Quake II. It is playable with the standard controls and still has a good following on the internet.
I would like to hear if anyone else shares my sentiments..
You can thank TealScript for allowing you to replace those brain dead Graffiti 2 replacement letters.
The original Amiga 1000 came out in 1985. I figure thats about 18 years ago. I think many of the slashdotter's in their 20's can claim that being "When they were a kid".
For me, the first computer I used was a mainframe via a 110/300 baud teletype machine. Color? Sure, whatever color paper you had feeding into the device.