I'm always skeptical about release dates, but at least two stores are consistent this time. EB Games has the release date for Doom III listed as August 3 as well, but the strategy guide comes out on July 10. You can spend three weeks reading up on the game and then kick ass at it!
Sega made the Genesis and Master System use similar enough processors to be "backward compatible." Of course, the cartridges were different sizes, so you had to buy the Power Base Converter to use SMS games on your Genesis.
There were also a few Atari-era consoles that let you use Atari 2600 cartridges in them, either out of the box or using an aftermarket adapter.
Either way, Sony was not the first company to make a backwards-compatible console. They were just the first to accept the same form of media for old and new games. The PS2 isn't 100% backwards-compatible anyway; you need different memory cards to save PS1 and PS2 games' data.
Buzz Aldrin should have spotted that something was up when he asked him about the conspiricy theorys of the moon being fake.
Ali G was lucky. Buzz was accosted in 2002 by a man who had done documentaries about the moon landing being fake. Angry about all the on-camera antics, Buzz punched the man in the face. No charges were filed.
UTC is stupid. Why would I say "The meeting's at 2:00 AM UTC" which sounds like we're having a meeting in the middle of the night? Thanks to Swatch Internet Time I can say "The meeting's at @659" and everyone around the world will understand.
For $20 a year, Yahoo! Mail will let you use POP access from Yahoo! itself. Programs like YahooPOPs are essentially screen scrapers. The slightest change to page layout will break your software completely.
I know it runs contrary to everything the Open Source movement stands for, but it might be worth paying real money for a real service.
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Evolution is the only open-source e-mail client I've seen that can open and respond to Outlook invitations perfectly. It's been like that since version 1.0, which was bundled with Red Hat 7.3.
Mozilla plans to add Outlook invitation support as part of the integration step. I don't know if any of the Evolution invitation-accepting code can be converted over, or whether that constitutes a violation of all 48 licenses that Open Source considers valid, but it is possible to accept Outlook invites using open-source software.
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On my PowerBook, I have the following browsers installed: (* means it came preinstalled)
Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS 9 *
Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X *
Safari *
Camino
Firefox
Konqueror
I do web application development, so it often helps to be logged in as different people at the same time.
Most BBSes used FidoNet or some other network for large-scale message boards. FidoNet routed all its messages through a massive network of plain old telephone lines. It took days or even weeks for messages to get through.
On the other hand, BBSes still beat the Internet for sheer speed of downloading. Remember when a 28,800 bps modem got you 28,800 bps of download speed, guaranteed, every time? Now we don't always get 28.8 kbps on downloads via DSL, especially when Slashdot gets involved.:)
By contrast, Negroponte seems to be suggesting that you would (in effect) hand your letter to a stranger on the street, who would hand it off to another, who hands it off to another, etc., until it gets to where it's going, with no intervention by a centralized agency.
It's an interesting theory, but we'll never see it happen, for one obvious reason: it does not lend itself well to being taxed.
That's the most ridiculous dismissal I've seen in a while. If someone at the USPS messes up my shipment, I can file a claim against the insurance I bought. The postal service is liable for the conduct of its employees. How exactly is this system improved by arbitrarily trusting anyone on the street?
I'd also like you to price out insurance on sending mail via this method. If anyone would even bother to insure you, I guarantee it would cost a lot more than the taxes you so hate to pay.
Internet Time is NOT ridiculous. It represents a new paradigm in temporal spatiality, allowing for unfettered representation of the current moment synchronetically throughout the world.
That's fine, but it still lacks the PSX's ability to record over-the-air and satellite television programs. For that, you'd need a $250+ TiVo or a $100 capture card (and a computer to put it in).
Square watermelons are made for gift-giving, not eating. From what I've heard, the way they're grown causes the fruit to become very bland-tasting. Spherical, basketball-sized watermelons in Japan cost about $8; some fancier varieties are about $20; and the square ones are about $90.
The 160 GB model of the PSX costs $676 with a pretty unfavorable dollar-to-yen ratio right now. An off-the-shelf x86 PC isn't designed to encode video, so you'll need a pretty powerful CPU to keep up.
Price it out, including $x for your time. In the end, you'll see the same split as with TiVo: people willing to pay $600 for a solution that works out of the box, and people willing to spend $800 to build their own box and shout down everyone else.
The PSX includes a TV recorder, a large hard drive, and a DVD burner to save recorded TV shows. Comparable products that don't require a full PC sell for over $800 -- and they don't play PS2 games, either.
You can put together the hardware for $350, but you assume (rightly so, around here) that everyone has a free powerful computer to put it all in, and nobody minds a cheap uninsulated case sitting next to their TV to encode everything.
According to the article, these navigators include "proprietary Windows software" to export maps and other data. Some Japanese navigation systems include hard drives with as much as 16 GB of data -- and this is for a country that's as large as the United States' original 13 colonies.
Once you throw in 3D representations of buildings and lane markings, there's got to be at least 30 GB of data available for this device.
Clearly you forget the Microsoft AutoPC, which never really caught on. Clarion wanted over $1,000 for a car-stereo-sized PC that you could customize with very expensive software add-ons.
From the specs page, second footnote: "AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express can extend the range only of an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express wireless network."
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I'm always skeptical about release dates, but at least two stores are consistent this time. EB Games has the release date for Doom III listed as August 3 as well, but the strategy guide comes out on July 10. You can spend three weeks reading up on the game and then kick ass at it!
The Fendi Juke Box iPod case is $1500, although it's designed to hold up to 12 iPods. (Its creator claims to own 40 iPods.)
Sega made the Genesis and Master System use similar enough processors to be "backward compatible." Of course, the cartridges were different sizes, so you had to buy the Power Base Converter to use SMS games on your Genesis.
There were also a few Atari-era consoles that let you use Atari 2600 cartridges in them, either out of the box or using an aftermarket adapter.
Either way, Sony was not the first company to make a backwards-compatible console. They were just the first to accept the same form of media for old and new games. The PS2 isn't 100% backwards-compatible anyway; you need different memory cards to save PS1 and PS2 games' data.
Buzz Aldrin should have spotted that something was up when he asked him about the conspiricy theorys of the moon being fake.
Ali G was lucky. Buzz was accosted in 2002 by a man who had done documentaries about the moon landing being fake. Angry about all the on-camera antics, Buzz punched the man in the face. No charges were filed.
The postal service was liable for the conduct of those four employees.
Who's liable if you use a "distributed mail system" whereby you arbitrarily hand your mail to anyone on the street?
UTC is stupid. Why would I say "The meeting's at 2:00 AM UTC" which sounds like we're having a meeting in the middle of the night? Thanks to Swatch Internet Time I can say "The meeting's at @659" and everyone around the world will understand.
It's all about simplicity, Tom.
For $20 a year, Yahoo! Mail will let you use POP access from Yahoo! itself. Programs like YahooPOPs are essentially screen scrapers. The slightest change to page layout will break your software completely.
I know it runs contrary to everything the Open Source movement stands for, but it might be worth paying real money for a real service.
Evolution is the only open-source e-mail client I've seen that can open and respond to Outlook invitations perfectly. It's been like that since version 1.0, which was bundled with Red Hat 7.3.
Mozilla plans to add Outlook invitation support as part of the integration step. I don't know if any of the Evolution invitation-accepting code can be converted over, or whether that constitutes a violation of all 48 licenses that Open Source considers valid, but it is possible to accept Outlook invites using open-source software.
On my PowerBook, I have the following browsers installed: (* means it came preinstalled)
I do web application development, so it often helps to be logged in as different people at the same time.
Most BBSes used FidoNet or some other network for large-scale message boards. FidoNet routed all its messages through a massive network of plain old telephone lines. It took days or even weeks for messages to get through.
:)
On the other hand, BBSes still beat the Internet for sheer speed of downloading. Remember when a 28,800 bps modem got you 28,800 bps of download speed, guaranteed, every time? Now we don't always get 28.8 kbps on downloads via DSL, especially when Slashdot gets involved.
No, Synchronet is still around.
By contrast, Negroponte seems to be suggesting that you would (in effect) hand your letter to a stranger on the street, who would hand it off to another, who hands it off to another, etc., until it gets to where it's going, with no intervention by a centralized agency.
It's an interesting theory, but we'll never see it happen, for one obvious reason: it does not lend itself well to being taxed.
That's the most ridiculous dismissal I've seen in a while. If someone at the USPS messes up my shipment, I can file a claim against the insurance I bought. The postal service is liable for the conduct of its employees. How exactly is this system improved by arbitrarily trusting anyone on the street?
I'd also like you to price out insurance on sending mail via this method. If anyone would even bother to insure you, I guarantee it would cost a lot more than the taxes you so hate to pay.
Internet Time is NOT ridiculous. It represents a new paradigm in temporal spatiality, allowing for unfettered representation of the current moment synchronetically throughout the world.
That's fine, but it still lacks the PSX's ability to record over-the-air and satellite television programs. For that, you'd need a $250+ TiVo or a $100 capture card (and a computer to put it in).
Square watermelons are made for gift-giving, not eating. From what I've heard, the way they're grown causes the fruit to become very bland-tasting. Spherical, basketball-sized watermelons in Japan cost about $8; some fancier varieties are about $20; and the square ones are about $90.
The 160 GB model of the PSX costs $676 with a pretty unfavorable dollar-to-yen ratio right now. An off-the-shelf x86 PC isn't designed to encode video, so you'll need a pretty powerful CPU to keep up.
Price it out, including $x for your time. In the end, you'll see the same split as with TiVo: people willing to pay $600 for a solution that works out of the box, and people willing to spend $800 to build their own box and shout down everyone else.
The PSX includes a TV recorder, a large hard drive, and a DVD burner to save recorded TV shows. Comparable products that don't require a full PC sell for over $800 -- and they don't play PS2 games, either.
You can put together the hardware for $350, but you assume (rightly so, around here) that everyone has a free powerful computer to put it all in, and nobody minds a cheap uninsulated case sitting next to their TV to encode everything.
Class, your assignment tonight is to read chapters 1 and 2 in OpenTextBook. If you find any problems, please fix them and notify a WikiEditor.
Your project is to write chapter 10. It should be about Philosophy.
According to the article, these navigators include "proprietary Windows software" to export maps and other data. Some Japanese navigation systems include hard drives with as much as 16 GB of data -- and this is for a country that's as large as the United States' original 13 colonies.
Once you throw in 3D representations of buildings and lane markings, there's got to be at least 30 GB of data available for this device.
Clearly you forget the Microsoft AutoPC, which never really caught on. Clarion wanted over $1,000 for a car-stereo-sized PC that you could customize with very expensive software add-ons.
There already is a "Type R" desktop. Gentoo is for ricers.
Many of the UNIX nerds I know would be much happier with this dream machine.
From the specs page, second footnote: "AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express can extend the range only of an AirPort Extreme or AirPort Express wireless network."
Not likely. Everything2 isn't indexed by Google any more.
Sealab 2021 is still shown on Sunday nights, occasionally. The new season premieres July 20, the same day the first batch of DVDs hits stores.