How come no company has come out with one of the felxible keyboards for the Palm? Seems like the perfect application of that technology. When your done, just roll up your keyboard and stick it in its pouch.
I guess we need to start getting Palms with USB ports on them, then we can plug whatever we want into them, keyboards, mice, flash readers, etc. USB is so cool.
Could this be a cover story for a secret government operation? Perhaps the DoD is paying to keep the satellites up because they are neccesary for Echelon to work properly? Or maybe they are pummeling us daily with mind controlling microwaves to make us buy more cheetos? It just doesn't add up I tell you!
I kind of view console gaming the same way I view internet appliances now. They are directed more at the less geekier population that doesn't go out and spend $1000 on upgrading their computer every year to the latest processor and video card. There are a lot of these types of people out there.
Think about how many kids < 10 years old there are at any point in time. A lot of these kids won't have a fully tweaked out Athlon box with Geforce Ultra 2, it would be too much money. But, mom and dad might be willing to spring for a $300 console that will last 2 years or so. That's a huge market.
Personally, I'll stick with my PC, but then again, I have the means and the know how to keep it up to date.
``If they attempt to just open them up to MS, hoping that that will be enough to obtain regulatory approval... and they succeed...all hell will break loose."
All this is, is a show of "good will" that AOL will not attempt to shut them out later. More companies will follow.
Hardly. Read the book AOL.com. At one of Bill Gates first meetings with Steve Case he basically told Case, "I can buy you or I can crush you." Thats not something you tell an ally.
MSN was Microsoft's attempt to crush AOL. Good luck now Billy Boy.
Lucas has reiterated numerous times after being given heat about Jar-Jar that Jar-Jar is integral to the story. There are a number of rumours circulating around the Internet concerning this.
One is that Jar-Jar is unconciously weilding the force, and is on his own path to becoming a Jedi. This rumor speaks about how Jar-Jar, although clumsy, still seems to win battles despite his clumsiness. This kind of story line could speak to the nature of the force, how it is far reaching, even to the meek.
Another rumour is that Jar-Jar is a character from the later movies, and is currently "disguised." This rumour speaks about how Jar-Jar is pretty similiar to Human in size and weight (some other stuff too I'm not sure of.) I even saw one website suggesting Jar-Jar was Bobafett(!).
Lucas is a master of weaving storylines. I can't wait to see how Jar-Jar fits in based on Phantom Menace.
Wow, then I suppose a matter-antimatter plasma manifold type propulsionsystem can't be far off. I was thinking something that altered subspace around the ship in a sort of "warp" bubble, oh wait...that sounds kind of familiar.
That is actually a very valid point. "Lazy eye" is a very common medical condition. People with "Lazy eye" have an imbalance in their eyes where one eye bends in and often have trouble seeing stereoscopically.
The 3d process here sounds similar to the effect presented by 3d movies. I have "Lazy eye" and can only experience 3d movies a certain times of the day when I am not fatigued (I guess when my eyes are rested enough to properly focus at this time of day). I wonder if this system would pose similar difficulties for me.
The threat of "dual use" technology, i.e., technology that is commercial but could be adapted for military purposes, has been around for a long time.
However, in our *brave new world*, the international buying and selling of advanced technologies is an extremely large and important market to highly industrialized economies. It is interesting to note that The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) was disbanded in early 1994. COCOM was established to keep advanced technologies from being transferred to an expanding Soviet regime. The abolishment of COCOM was an obvious message from the Clinton Administration that after the fall of the Soviet Union, a policy of export denial would be doing more harm than good. In todays world, the diffusion of technology can no longer be controlled.
The best possible policy for highly industrialized economies is the management of the purposes for which the technologies they gave birth to are used. The connection between computers and weapons development is overplayed anyways. Remember, the United States designed the first nuclear bomb without a computer.;-)
Oh yah, I forgot about Mission to Mars. By the time they got there the black guy had long dreads and a beard.
I was just thinking along the same mentality of the idiots that go deep sea fishing, get caught up in a storm, and the Coast Guard has to go rescue them.
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How come no company has come out with one of the felxible keyboards for the Palm? Seems like the perfect application of that technology. When your done, just roll up your keyboard and stick it in its pouch.
I guess we need to start getting Palms with USB ports on them, then we can plug whatever we want into them, keyboards, mice, flash readers, etc. USB is so cool.
Could this be a cover story for a secret government operation? Perhaps the DoD is paying to keep the satellites up because they are neccesary for Echelon to work properly? Or maybe they are pummeling us daily with mind controlling microwaves to make us buy more cheetos? It just doesn't add up I tell you!
You're dumb.
Then what do you call those 3 Apple G4s in the enemy's lair?
Reinforcement to the fact that Sam Jackson's character is insane. You have to be a little bit off center to want a Mac. Especially three...
Didn't I see this on Futurama?
Fly me to Saturn's moons,
and let me play among the craters,
Let me see what Spring is like on
A 5 kilometer rock.
In other words, hold my hand,
In other words, baby kiss me.
Thank you.
I kind of view console gaming the same way I view internet appliances now. They are directed more at the less geekier population that doesn't go out and spend $1000 on upgrading their computer every year to the latest processor and video card. There are a lot of these types of people out there.
Think about how many kids < 10 years old there are at any point in time. A lot of these kids won't have a fully tweaked out Athlon box with Geforce Ultra 2, it would be too much money. But, mom and dad might be willing to spring for a $300 console that will last 2 years or so. That's a huge market.
Personally, I'll stick with my PC, but then again, I have the means and the know how to keep it up to date.
Just my $0.02
Of course, Mir has outlasted my last 3 VCR's, my car, my education, and a few other things!
;-)
Under constant repair. When was the last time you opened up one of your VCRs and replaced any of its dohickies?
Oh, did you go to Harvard too?
And for an extra boost you could drop some poo in there. A form of over-clocking? Or maybe it should be called over-pooing?
Stop sniveling like a sandworm and block them out.
``If they attempt to just open them up to MS, hoping that that will be enough to obtain regulatory approval... and they succeed...all hell will break loose."
All this is, is a show of "good will" that AOL will not attempt to shut them out later. More companies will follow.
``AOL and MS have been allies from day one."
Hardly. Read the book AOL.com. At one of Bill Gates first meetings with Steve Case he basically told Case, "I can buy you or I can crush you." Thats not something you tell an ally.
MSN was Microsoft's attempt to crush AOL. Good luck now Billy Boy.
Frozen methane could mean we have a trace of the martians that once lived there, in the form of frozen martian farts.
Remember those tee shirts that said "IP over everything!" Those rocked. Anyone know where I can get one now?
Cuddle him, caress him, mark all over him!
Lucas has reiterated numerous times after being given heat about Jar-Jar that Jar-Jar is integral to the story. There are a number of rumours circulating around the Internet concerning this.
One is that Jar-Jar is unconciously weilding the force, and is on his own path to becoming a Jedi. This rumor speaks about how Jar-Jar, although clumsy, still seems to win battles despite his clumsiness. This kind of story line could speak to the nature of the force, how it is far reaching, even to the meek.
Another rumour is that Jar-Jar is a character from the later movies, and is currently "disguised." This rumour speaks about how Jar-Jar is pretty similiar to Human in size and weight (some other stuff too I'm not sure of.) I even saw one website suggesting Jar-Jar was Bobafett(!).
Lucas is a master of weaving storylines. I can't wait to see how Jar-Jar fits in based on Phantom Menace.
Just my $.02
Wow, then I suppose a matter-antimatter plasma manifold type propulsionsystem can't be far off. I was thinking something that altered subspace around the ship in a sort of "warp" bubble, oh wait...that sounds kind of familiar.
That is actually a very valid point. "Lazy eye" is a very common medical condition. People with "Lazy eye" have an imbalance in their eyes where one eye bends in and often have trouble seeing stereoscopically.
The 3d process here sounds similar to the effect presented by 3d movies. I have "Lazy eye" and can only experience 3d movies a certain times of the day when I am not fatigued (I guess when my eyes are rested enough to properly focus at this time of day). I wonder if this system would pose similar difficulties for me.
The threat of "dual use" technology, i.e., technology that is commercial but could be adapted for military purposes, has been around for a long time.
;-)
However, in our *brave new world*, the international buying and selling of advanced technologies is an extremely large and important market to highly industrialized economies. It is interesting to note that The Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM) was disbanded in early 1994. COCOM was established to keep advanced technologies from being transferred to an expanding Soviet regime. The abolishment of COCOM was an obvious message from the Clinton Administration that after the fall of the Soviet Union, a policy of export denial would be doing more harm than good. In todays world, the diffusion of technology can no longer be controlled.
The best possible policy for highly industrialized economies is the management of the purposes for which the technologies they gave birth to are used. The connection between computers and weapons development is overplayed anyways. Remember, the United States designed the first nuclear bomb without a computer.
Oh yah, I forgot about Mission to Mars. By the time they got there the black guy had long dreads and a beard.
I was just thinking along the same mentality of the idiots that go deep sea fishing, get caught up in a storm, and the Coast Guard has to go rescue them.
I guess I should have read up on my Mir specs. =)