Pretty soon, when you fly on an airplane, every time someone leans back their seat you'll hear the person behind them whine "hey! you're keystoning my screen, man!"
It's a crying shame how un-hip both the readership and the editorship of/. can be some days.
I got my first Gyropoint in mid 2000. It worked pretty good, but forget gaming performance.
Its only problem was recharging. Something hinky in the charger circuit. Nothing related to its wireless or gyros. I'm sure they've worked it out by now.
Sorry if this is redundant, but finding prior art took 5 minutes and looking for redundant findings of prior art posted in/. posts would take at least 5.1 minutes:
Once Intel dominates the market, AMD will have to explain why it's incompatible with Intel. Period.
And Intel will dominate the market. AMD has no chance to maintain what is essentially a short honeymoon due to first-to-market performance.
In the end, branding is more important than technical quality, and nobody knows yet whether AMD or Intel has better technical quality in 64-bit x86 devices.
You found this wonderful page, so you posted the link, and now 90,000 of your closest friends (sorry about that) have found it, too. Or rather, its ISP's favorite mode of error coding a smoldering pile of rubble...
1. I believe that remote controls are patented for both functionality and design, meaning that standardization is probably never going to happen and weirdness will only increase as the ergonomically sensible feature space is exhausted.
2. Electronics manufacturers know that quality programmable remotes exist and 90% of the units will be used for 20 minutes to transfer codes then tossed into a drawer for 10 years, so they don't have any incentive to care about point 1 because it won't be a critical feature in improving sales.
3. RF = works through walls = you get to watch what your neighbor is clicking to. Or, from the manufacturer's point of view, = thousands of customer service calls complaining that the TV is broken/possessed because it won't stay on one channel.
4. "Why remote controls are still shaped like hotdog buns is beyond me." You have to stop posting right after watching Andy Rooney.
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I'd like a beowulf cluster of this thing's fucking cooling fans.
Ever told a truck engine to phone home?
Sometime next week, I'm going to make it happen.
Why is that a Linux computer on a chip?
Since when did Linux have a monopoly on the firmware!
How much is it worth to you?
Buy it or don't.
That's what Eric Raymond said.
And he's never told a lie.
Pretty soon, when you fly on an airplane, every time someone leans back their seat you'll hear the person behind them whine "hey! you're keystoning my screen, man!"
What a handy way to organize the 10,000 credit card numbers I just haxx0red off of the new Slashdot pay-site.
Easy.
Convert the 1's and O's into a string of hex bytes.
Convert the hex bytes into a block.
Encode the block with a One Time Pad that happens to convert it to a string of all-0's (or all-FF's, if you prefer).
Then all you need to do to recall the original bits is use the same One Time Pad to decode the bytes and concatenate them.
This the same Lucas* that released horribly bad movies purporting to be prequels to three of the best ever made?
Maybe someone realized their implementation was gonna suck, and convinced someone who wouldn't otherwise have had a clue.
It's a crying shame how un-hip both the readership and the editorship of
I got my first Gyropoint in mid 2000. It worked pretty good, but forget gaming performance.
Its only problem was recharging. Something hinky in the charger circuit. Nothing related to its wireless or gyros. I'm sure they've worked it out by now.
Sorry if this is redundant, but finding prior art took 5 minutes and looking for redundant findings of prior art posted in /. posts would take at least 5.1 minutes:
United States Patent 4,449,126;
Pekker; May 15, 1984; Electronic lock device and optical key therefor
Hmm. Prior art and, given its age, public domain.
Maybe they should open-source game development.
Then in just 8 more years we'll get OSSSSSEverQwest-0.0.97beta and it'll have real 2-d sprite graphics and stuff...
Why do you need 40 MHz?
There isn't anything you can do at 40 MHz on an o-scope that you can't do at 2 MHz that won't be sufficient as a demo for the kids.
ESR complaining about someone else's stuff.
What a follower.
Anyone done a study of the impact of the iPod on wishful marketing-driven jabber?
/. about ever 18.6 hours.
I've never seen a single human being carrying and listening to one.
But it's a story on
There's easier ways to prove you're a follower than pretending little white music boxes are cool.
This is the axe George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree.
I've had to replace the handle.
And the head.
But it occupies the same space.
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Read it again.
"Once Intel"
Once Intel dominates the market, AMD will have to explain why it's incompatible with Intel. Period.
And Intel will dominate the market. AMD has no chance to maintain what is essentially a short honeymoon due to first-to-market performance.
In the end, branding is more important than technical quality, and nobody knows yet whether AMD or Intel has better technical quality in 64-bit x86 devices.
Inertia is the wrong model.
It's more like thermodynamics.
Intel's at a different temperature, but is so much more massive that when the market eqilibrates it is Intel who always sets the comfort level.
If they don't test it they can't guarantee it.
They wouldn't test compatibility, they'd just test that software runs on it.
And once Intel sells 10 times as many as AMD could hope to sell, who's compatible will be a question AMD will have to answer.
The ascent of modern business:
Microsoft: embrace and extend
Intel: embrace, extend, and don't get sued for monopolistic practices
Clearcase is a horrible botch.
Please don't compare it to a modern CM system.
Used to be 40,000 per week...
From Rob's Ferrari gush: Part of me wishes this notebook was fueled by the Athlon64 rather than the Athlon XP-M chip.
Heh.
Heh heh.
Heh heh ha ha hee hee ho!
My brand-new Yugo can punk his Ferrari.
Maybe.
I found this wonderful page on the net.
/.
This is the "needless to say" of
You found this wonderful page, so you posted the link, and now 90,000 of your closest friends (sorry about that) have found it, too. Or rather, its ISP's favorite mode of error coding a smoldering pile of rubble...
1. I believe that remote controls are patented for both functionality and design, meaning that standardization is probably never going to happen and weirdness will only increase as the ergonomically sensible feature space is exhausted.
2. Electronics manufacturers know that quality programmable remotes exist and 90% of the units will be used for 20 minutes to transfer codes then tossed into a drawer for 10 years, so they don't have any incentive to care about point 1 because it won't be a critical feature in improving sales.
3. RF = works through walls = you get to watch what your neighbor is clicking to. Or, from the manufacturer's point of view, = thousands of customer service calls complaining that the TV is broken/possessed because it won't stay on one channel.
4. "Why remote controls are still shaped like hotdog buns is beyond me." You have to stop posting right after watching Andy Rooney.