This is not "new" news as 3.7.0 has been out for quite some time. You won't get that impression from ATI's website however because they just tried releasing 3.7.1 but screwed up the compiler flags to require an SSE2 CPU and then pulled the release but never changed the "date posted" back to when 3.7.0 was released.
What is interesting however is that the 3.2.8 drivers give significantly better performance almost reaching that of the windows drivers (about 10% off) while the 3.7.0 drivers are quite terrible performance wise. Hopefully ATI fixes this in the next version of the driver.
In A.D. 2004 War was beginning. NEC: What happen ? Dell: Somebody set up us the contract. Dell: We get signal. NEC: What ! Dell: Main screen turn on. NEC: It's You !! Microsoft: How are you gentlemen !! Microsoft: All your patent are belong to us. Microsoft: You are on the way to bankruptcy. NEC: What you say !! Microsoft: You have no chance to survive make your time. Microsoft: HA HA HA HA.... Japan: Take off every 'cop' !! Japan: You know what you doing. Japan: Move 'cop'. Japan: For great justice.
It is true, you're just not looking at it properly. In your example the product is not the one click shopping, it is the placing of an order with a store, the process is one click shopping. Amazon cannot patent placing an order, just *a particular process that yields that end product*.
In theory you could also impliment one click shopping as long as the process is slightly different from amazons, but who would want to? One click shopping is a stupid idea.
I think someone doesn't understand what HTML is for. The purpose of writing web pages is not to code for a specific browser, it's to code standards compliant so all browsers (that are also standards compliant) can use it. I don't see any reason why any proprietary extension to HTML should be used on any page.
Yes, you can play ogg vorbis files on both Palm and PocketPC devices. PocketMVP will play.ogg files and MMPlayer has that feature slated soon, many other players exist aswell such as Pocket Tunes and AeroPlayer.
As for IM software, I'm not sure about PocketPC as I sold my ipaq for a Palm Tungsten T3, but on the Palm side of things there is Chatopus.
Actually, no, they don't. That's trademarks and trade secrets. Someone needs to learn a little more about IP law before posting as if they were authoritative.
It is there, the problem I've been seeing is that if you don't have a card in the reader on boot (module load) then the partitions don't get read and you can't mount it if you swap cards out. Quite annoying.
7.LAN card and drivers to allow broadband out of the box. Remove the need for an XBOX live kit to be purchased, instead, you purchase XBOX2 live subscription time.
It already has a NIC out of the box, the live starter kit is just the cost of the xb communicator and 1 year of xbox live subscription.
Correct, unfortunately in this instance it ISN'T false advertising. I should know, I'm in the ad industry. This is merely them using creative wording which as others have explained before means "unlimited time online/access", not "unlimited bandwidth".
However, unlimited access requires unlimited bandwidth because to provide you unlimited access the ISP cannot terminate your access for any reason, including bandwidth use. Therefore it is false advertising as the access is limited depending on your bandwidth useage.
Guys like me that run businesses that want to be honest about things are punished for our truthfullness. Consumers demand to be lied to.
No, consumers actually *want* unlimited access and actually *believe* that's what they're getting. They don't want to worry about how much they download a month, if they get an unlimited account, that's it, they don't worry. It removes yet another potential stressful bill from ones life.
Companies who advertise unlimited access when it really is not are guity of false advertising and fraud.
But I DO remember my first mp2, yes, that's right. The standard before mp3 was indeed mp2 and while it didn't have such as high a compression ratio it was still impressive and I was blown away. Of course the only player that played mp2's at the time was Xing's MPEG Player.
Yes, my mp3 player does not have lots of storage. But there is no reason that something that does have a lot of storage must use internal batteries.
You are absolutely correct, but then again it would not be slim... remember: pick any two of 1. Slim, 2. Replacable battery, 3. Lots of storage.
The reason is simple: you have room allocated for a hard drive and circuitry. This is the base unit and cannot be changed as these are required for a mass storage mp3 player. Now you have two choices: replacable or non-replacable battery. Replacable batteries are thicker because instead of having one casing wall on the back you now have *3*, (I know I said two earlier but in thinking about this I was wrong).
The first casing wall is on the back of the unit itself, the next is the front casing of the replacable battery, the third is the back casing of the replacable battery. So basically what you're doing is just adding thickness because of packaging. These li-ion batteries cannot be exposed to the user because of risk of shock so they must be packaged in some kind of casing, usually plastic. The more "gumstick" batteries you add, the more total battery volume you lose to packaging.
On top of that you have to add a small amount of thickness to the battery itself so you can compensate for the volume you are losing because of not being able to take up the entirety of the back casing area as there must be a connector from the battery to the unit and also a fastener of some kind on both the top and the bottom.
Um, the iPaq has not had one for a while. Since about the 3800 or 3900 series.
Wrong, I owned an H3870, it had an internal battery, same as the H39xx. Current ipaqs do have replacable batteries however ipaqs are larger than Palms which don't....
For the iPod, I see that they COULD rediesign it and make the face a bit larger and the shell on back smaller. put a seam on the side and in that have a small slot. They could make the battery spring loaded or something.
I don't think you understand how large these batteries have to be in order to get acceptable battery life, the internal battery of the ipod takes up ALMOST the full area of the back casing, you are not going to be able to make a slot for that unless you increase every dimension of the unit.
If Apple doesn't fix this, I am sure that Creative or Sonic Blue or even RCA (with the Lyra line) will create a just as small unit, for half the cost, with a replaceable battery.
Highly improbable. I don't know where you get this information from that makes you "sure". I'm confident many companies would pay a very high price for any information of this wonderous new physics defeating technology of yours.
Eventually all Palm V batteries will die. There is no getting around it. The only thing that matters is when.
The reason why you don't see complaints about it is that when they do eventually die, usually around 3-5 years, the owners decide to upgrade anyways as there are a couple generations of handhelds since the V.
The only reason why you hear about the ipod is because these two brothers made a stink about it. Two people, I wouldn't say TWO people are a "significant number".
Yes your mp3 player is slim, yes it has a rechargable battery, NO it does NOT have lots of storage. Remember, pick any two...
As for a PDA style battery to run a hard drive, that is what the ipod is doing, most PDA batteries are internal just like the ipod. As for the cell phone battery to run it, again, pick any two, it'll end up being thick because you have to have the hard drive and the replaceable battery.
Replacable batteries add to thickness: instead of just one casing wall you have two, you also have to factor in fasteners and connectors as well as more thickness to compensate for lack of total height because the battery is no longer able to run the entire length of the unit.
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This is not "new" news as 3.7.0 has been out for quite some time. You won't get that impression from ATI's website however because they just tried releasing 3.7.1 but screwed up the compiler flags to require an SSE2 CPU and then pulled the release but never changed the "date posted" back to when 3.7.0 was released.
What is interesting however is that the 3.2.8 drivers give significantly better performance almost reaching that of the windows drivers (about 10% off) while the 3.7.0 drivers are quite terrible performance wise. Hopefully ATI fixes this in the next version of the driver.
you mean alec baldwin?
Shouldn't it be:
....
In A.D. 2004
War was beginning.
NEC: What happen ?
Dell: Somebody set up us the contract.
Dell: We get signal.
NEC: What !
Dell: Main screen turn on.
NEC: It's You !!
Microsoft: How are you gentlemen !!
Microsoft: All your patent are belong to us.
Microsoft: You are on the way to bankruptcy.
NEC: What you say !!
Microsoft: You have no chance to survive make your time.
Microsoft: HA HA HA HA
Japan: Take off every 'cop' !!
Japan: You know what you doing.
Japan: Move 'cop'.
Japan: For great justice.
Unfortunately not, which is why Dalroths unfunny post was moderated funny.
It is true, you're just not looking at it properly. In your example the product is not the one click shopping, it is the placing of an order with a store, the process is one click shopping. Amazon cannot patent placing an order, just *a particular process that yields that end product*.
In theory you could also impliment one click shopping as long as the process is slightly different from amazons, but who would want to? One click shopping is a stupid idea.
I think someone doesn't understand what HTML is for. The purpose of writing web pages is not to code for a specific browser, it's to code standards compliant so all browsers (that are also standards compliant) can use it. I don't see any reason why any proprietary extension to HTML should be used on any page.
Yes, you can play ogg vorbis files on both Palm and PocketPC devices. PocketMVP will play .ogg files and MMPlayer has that feature slated soon, many other players exist aswell such as Pocket Tunes and AeroPlayer.
As for IM software, I'm not sure about PocketPC as I sold my ipaq for a Palm Tungsten T3, but on the Palm side of things there is Chatopus.
Not to mention DivX plays well on Palm and PPC. PocketMVP for Pocket PC and MMPlayer for PalmOS both play DivX just fine.
Actually, no, they don't. That's trademarks and trade secrets. Someone needs to learn a little more about IP law before posting as if they were authoritative.
It is there, the problem I've been seeing is that if you don't have a card in the reader on boot (module load) then the partitions don't get read and you can't mount it if you swap cards out. Quite annoying.
If we ramped up space colonization you could get a job. Hell, you could move to mars and declare independance from earth, no more taxes!
7.LAN card and drivers to allow broadband out of the box. Remove the need for an XBOX live kit to be purchased, instead, you purchase XBOX2 live subscription time.
It already has a NIC out of the box, the live starter kit is just the cost of the xb communicator and 1 year of xbox live subscription.
$500 Shure E5? Heh, what, are you crazy? No, I only have the $99 Shure E2c. $500 for inner ear phones? Crazy...
Correct, unfortunately in this instance it ISN'T false advertising. I should know, I'm in the ad industry. This is merely them using creative wording which as others have explained before means "unlimited time online/access", not "unlimited bandwidth".
However, unlimited access requires unlimited bandwidth because to provide you unlimited access the ISP cannot terminate your access for any reason, including bandwidth use. Therefore it is false advertising as the access is limited depending on your bandwidth useage.
Guys like me that run businesses that want to be honest about things are punished for our truthfullness. Consumers demand to be lied to.
No, consumers actually *want* unlimited access and actually *believe* that's what they're getting. They don't want to worry about how much they download a month, if they get an unlimited account, that's it, they don't worry. It removes yet another potential stressful bill from ones life.
Companies who advertise unlimited access when it really is not are guity of false advertising and fraud.
Sure, your local DNS cache will work, untill that machine, or, heaven forbid, BIND crashes and it has to be restarted, then you're toast.
Without the root servers you never get the resolution in the first place.
On a 50 foot wall projected! That would be sweet.
No, it's like rowing a boat.
They sound identical:
Mike == Mic, Rowe == ro, Soft == Soft.
The big thing here is that it's his name, he should have the right to his own name and to make a company with his name in the title.
But I DO remember my first mp2, yes, that's right. The standard before mp3 was indeed mp2 and while it didn't have such as high a compression ratio it was still impressive and I was blown away. Of course the only player that played mp2's at the time was Xing's MPEG Player.
The mp2 was: I Mother Earth-One More Astronaut.
In a pressurized cabin probably pretty good.
Yes, my mp3 player does not have lots of storage. But there is no reason that something that does have a lot of storage must use internal batteries.
You are absolutely correct, but then again it would not be slim... remember: pick any two of 1. Slim, 2. Replacable battery, 3. Lots of storage.
The reason is simple: you have room allocated for a hard drive and circuitry. This is the base unit and cannot be changed as these are required for a mass storage mp3 player. Now you have two choices: replacable or non-replacable battery. Replacable batteries are thicker because instead of having one casing wall on the back you now have *3*, (I know I said two earlier but in thinking about this I was wrong).
The first casing wall is on the back of the unit itself, the next is the front casing of the replacable battery, the third is the back casing of the replacable battery. So basically what you're doing is just adding thickness because of packaging. These li-ion batteries cannot be exposed to the user because of risk of shock so they must be packaged in some kind of casing, usually plastic. The more "gumstick" batteries you add, the more total battery volume you lose to packaging.
On top of that you have to add a small amount of thickness to the battery itself so you can compensate for the volume you are losing because of not being able to take up the entirety of the back casing area as there must be a connector from the battery to the unit and also a fastener of some kind on both the top and the bottom.
Um, the iPaq has not had one for a while. Since about the 3800 or 3900 series.
Wrong, I owned an H3870, it had an internal battery, same as the H39xx. Current ipaqs do have replacable batteries however ipaqs are larger than Palms which don't....
For the iPod, I see that they COULD rediesign it and make the face a bit larger and the shell on back smaller. put a seam on the side and in that have a small slot. They could make the battery spring loaded or something.
I don't think you understand how large these batteries have to be in order to get acceptable battery life, the internal battery of the ipod takes up ALMOST the full area of the back casing, you are not going to be able to make a slot for that unless you increase every dimension of the unit.
If Apple doesn't fix this, I am sure that Creative or Sonic Blue or even RCA (with the Lyra line) will create a just as small unit, for half the cost, with a replaceable battery.
Highly improbable. I don't know where you get this information from that makes you "sure". I'm confident many companies would pay a very high price for any information of this wonderous new physics defeating technology of yours.
Eventually all Palm V batteries will die. There is no getting around it. The only thing that matters is when.
The reason why you don't see complaints about it is that when they do eventually die, usually around 3-5 years, the owners decide to upgrade anyways as there are a couple generations of handhelds since the V.
The only reason why you hear about the ipod is because these two brothers made a stink about it. Two people, I wouldn't say TWO people are a "significant number".
It's not rediculous, you proved my point for me.
Yes your mp3 player is slim, yes it has a rechargable battery, NO it does NOT have lots of storage. Remember, pick any two...
As for a PDA style battery to run a hard drive, that is what the ipod is doing, most PDA batteries are internal just like the ipod. As for the cell phone battery to run it, again, pick any two, it'll end up being thick because you have to have the hard drive and the replaceable battery.
Replacable batteries add to thickness: instead of just one casing wall you have two, you also have to factor in fasteners and connectors as well as more thickness to compensate for lack of total height because the battery is no longer able to run the entire length of the unit.