Ah, no, in Canada the tax (either GST + PST or HST, same difference) is added at the register.
I expect if the launch price is $199 US, it'll be $299 Canadian, same as the GameCube, even though our respective currencies are priced quite close together at the moment.
Well, Silicon Knights (developers of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem) is no longer partnered with Nintendo, so I doubt they'll be making a sequel, at least for any Nintendo console.
TrOmBoNe, I went to high school at UTS with Andrew. Though I was three years ahead of him we spent time together in the school computer lab maintaining and configuring things. He was a smart kid back then.
I think they are juuuust starting to move the tellers over to Windows. The tellers at Main Branch in Toronto all have new spiffy mouse-driven interfaces. They used to have text DOS interfaces.
RBC has lots of vendors. 10 years ago it was 100% IBM. There's still lots of IBM, especially in the backend, but there's now lots of Dell and Windows in the front-end (branch and office) areas. Windows, Solaris, UNIX, other OSes all run various applications. Homogeneous it ain't.
Ditto on my machine (Duron 1.3, Win2k, 512MB, Rage128Pro), until I disabled the Frame Rate Limiter (F8) - then it was WAY fast - change the resolution with F11 to something nice and high to slow it down... kinda...
Jin Sato is one truly awesome builder, let me tell you. I'm pleased to see that he's finally written an English-language Mindstorms book. Lots of his stuff has been published in Japanese.
Back when I used to go to RTLToronto
meetings, Jin always brought along some of his creations. I've seen that Aibo-looking dog up close,
and it was pretty awesome: IIRC, the two RCXs communicate to each other in order to walk. His two-legged walker is interesting as well.
...I met him at the 3rd Annual Lego Get Together in Toronto, where he gave a pbForth demo. It looks extremely powerful, but so far I haven't run up into any of NQC's limitations for my bots, so I haven't used it yet.
If you want to (possibly) meet Ralph, and see some cool LEGO bots in a competition, *and* you'll be in the Toronto area this weekend, check out the 4th Annual Toronto Lego Robotics Event, and look at my team's entry from last year. It's been totally redesigned, so watch out for it...
hrmm... across campus (ie. from my room to the CS buliding) I often run thwack into the 10Mbps ethernet limit... also grabbing MP3s from my friends at U of T at 800KB/sec over CA*Net2 was schweet... can't wait only eight more days until I move in!
lots of big bandwidth providers have GigaPOPs (some of them more than one) in Chicago, so it's the best place to link up CA*Net III to the rest of the world.
of course, if you lived in residence in guelph (like me), you'd have a 10Mbps switched Ethernet connection right to your room. Yeah, res sucks, but cheap bandwidth is good.
(non UofGers: 100% of UGuelph residence is wired like this BTW... and it only costs $100/semester)
I believe the technical term for the "nice little spinner" at the bottom of the Guinness can is officially known as The Widget (check www.guinness.com)
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Ran MGADiag on Wine / Fedora Core 5 and the hash it spat out worked like a charm.
Ah, no, in Canada the tax (either GST + PST or HST, same difference) is added at the register.
I expect if the launch price is $199 US, it'll be $299 Canadian, same as the GameCube, even though our respective currencies are priced quite close together at the moment.
...and want a larger screen, you can get a Pepper Pad and get it now. I'm a satisfied customer...
Well, Silicon Knights (developers of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem) is no longer partnered with Nintendo, so I doubt they'll be making a sequel, at least for any Nintendo console.
TrOmBoNe, I went to high school at UTS with Andrew. Though I was three years ahead of him we spent time together in the school computer lab maintaining and configuring things. He was a smart kid back then.
I think they are juuuust starting to move the tellers over to Windows. The tellers at Main Branch in Toronto all have new spiffy mouse-driven interfaces. They used to have text DOS interfaces.
RBC has lots of vendors. 10 years ago it was 100% IBM. There's still lots of IBM, especially in the backend, but there's now lots of Dell and Windows in the front-end (branch and office) areas. Windows, Solaris, UNIX, other OSes all run various applications. Homogeneous it ain't.
Actually, NES gamepads for the Newton might become reality.
are here: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/BT.html
FYI, Supremetronic is still around, but they're located three stores east of Active now.
Ditto on my machine (Duron 1.3, Win2k, 512MB, Rage128Pro), until I disabled the Frame Rate Limiter (F8) - then it was WAY fast - change the resolution with F11 to something nice and high to slow it down... kinda...
No, I think I just munged the link when I posted it to NewtonTalk. Sorry.
Anyone else keep on getting Handspring banner ads while viewing this story? ;)
Here's a better article about the technology of Bonington's trip.
http://www.bonington.com/piclib/life_5.htm
The team uploaded photos and text reports to the website using some custom Newton software. And all that was on a 20Mhz ARM 610.
Back when I used to go to RTLToronto meetings, Jin always brought along some of his creations. I've seen that Aibo-looking dog up close, and it was pretty awesome: IIRC, the two RCXs communicate to each other in order to walk. His two-legged walker is interesting as well.
More links:
Jin Sato's Mindstorms website
RTLToronto, a LEGO enthusiasts group for the Southern Ontario area
A nice photo (JPEG) of Jin's table at a previous RTLToronto get-together.
Newton 2010 fix
Better than that, it's been GPLd. :)
http://come.to/lightyear_media
... is it possible to get a Masters in Game Design? That would be schweet, and just might convince me to stay in school for another few years.
If you want to (possibly) meet Ralph, and see some cool LEGO bots in a competition, *and* you'll be in the Toronto area this weekend, check out the 4th Annual Toronto Lego Robotics Event, and look at my team's entry from last year. It's been totally redesigned, so watch out for it...
hrmm... across campus (ie. from my room to the CS buliding) I often run thwack into the 10Mbps ethernet limit... also grabbing MP3s from my friends at U of T at 800KB/sec over CA*Net2 was schweet... can't wait only eight more days until I move in!
lots of big bandwidth providers have GigaPOPs (some of them more than one) in Chicago, so it's the best place to link up CA*Net III to the rest of the world.
of course, if you lived in residence in guelph (like me), you'd have a 10Mbps switched Ethernet connection right to your room. Yeah, res sucks, but cheap bandwidth is good.
(non UofGers: 100% of UGuelph residence is wired like this BTW... and it only costs $100/semester)
I believe the technical term for the "nice little spinner" at the bottom of the Guinness can is officially known as The Widget (check www.guinness.com)