I haven't kept up with the official figures, but a quick google says IGN thinks each Nintendo handheld outsold the PSP in November. Other sources put the DS ahead of the PSP for pretty much the whole year, month by month, but by different margins.
resounding success? the ipod was a resounding success. i think ive seen a total of four PSPs since release. 2 owned by friends (who dont play them any more) and 2 at the mall. i see more people playing GBA or (not 'and') DS than PSP by a huge margin.
For the suggested use, critical patients, 90% getting to the hospital where 50% can be saved is better than 50% getting there in the first place.
As to space travel, and assuming the method can be scaled up quite a bit longer than a few hours... I hate to say it, but 90% is still good enough. There are people out there willing to take the risk for exploration, or better yet colonization. Put 10 people in stasis for a 50 year trip to [Whichever] Centauri. One of them won't wake up when they get there, and one won't survive the trip back. 2 and 3-fold job redundancy means that cant ruin the mission. Or 100 people for a year to start a colony on Mars. 90 will make it. Those odds arent acceptable to most people, but they are to some, enough to make a plenty large enough candidate pool. I would do it for sufficient compensation to my family.
Won't happen this decade. College textbooks, and primary/secondary school as well, is a profit-hungry business. Why would they only charge a few dollars for something they can get a hundred for? Say a textbook costs $15 to print and sells for $50. The same e-book which costs $0 to reproduce would still cost $35 to download if they publisher wants to maintain their profits.
This may be the case for completely unpredictable public elevators, but consider the thousands of elevators out there in offices and hotels. Employees could swipe their badge (bar code, rfid, mag strip, whatever) to get a 'faster because it uses the priority system' elevator trip over people who just press the up/down button when they are using the elevator in some predefined pattern. Guests could do the same to get an elevator to their floor or from their floor to the lobby. Non-standard destinations would still degrade like you said, and so should be handled by a seperate bank of elevators (the ratio to be decided by a statistician). Over 95% of my elevator usage at work follows a predefined pattern based on my schedule (23:55 9->2. 04:00 1->4. 04:30 4->1. 08:05 2->9), and I imagine that at least as large of a majority of hotel guests travel from their floor to the lobby and vice versa instead of anywhere else.
What is your definition of "usually"? Of the last 30ish things I have downloaded for linux, about 5 didnt have to be installed at all, and the other 25 installed to ~/.local/ just fine
unfortunately some people have poorly regulated and over-producing adrenal glands, so they develop a dependence on its boost. these people, including me, usually have conscious control over the '100%' mode, but since they rely so much on a constant flow the boost is only 80%->100% instead of 40%->100% like a normal person. one up side is that a heavy dose of adrenaline is very good for warming up from a cold shower or a run in the snow very very quickly.
Windows isnt quite that limited. Ever try formatting flash media as ISO9660? or UDF? Windows supports something like 8-12 filesystems depending on how you count them. Pales in comparison to Linux and Mac's 100+, but not as shabby as the 2-3 that most people suggest.
3 screens IS a gimmick. It is just a trick to get a more useful aspect ratio. A single panoramic projector that does 4800x1200 resolution is better than 3 1600x1200 screens. I am actually surprised no one has started producing arc-shaped LCDs, for flight sims and even normal desktop work it would be kinda useful to have a very very wide display curving from one side of your desk to the other.
i look forward to the day when firefly quotes are as prevalent as other classic sci-fi quotes around here. sadly the material to draw from is far more limited
For single-purpose activities this is just something to live with, but if there is going to be extended activity in the same area then why not hang white curtains around the work site? They should reflect back enough light to create earth-ish contrast shadows. Just have to knock down one side of the circle of curtains around sunrise/sunset.
Now a player who wants to play some Settlers of Catan and then do some bowling can do both without wasting 30 minutes getting from one game to another. SL is less a world and more a lobby for a thousand other games.
A house/store in UO plummeted in value every time the game world got larger and new areas were added that drew people away from the travel route that the store was located near, and possibly even became negative in worth if visiting the location became a burden on the player who owned it as he was doing more business in the new areas of the world.
So what if some "virtual property" within the game became less valuable? Linden Labs never promised that high traffic areas would stay high traffic. Even if you consider this a direct analog to real property, the government is not liable to billboard owners (or owners of the land beneath them) when a highway is relocated such that the billboards become non-visible.
SL is not a traditional MMO. There is no direct competition or conflict built into the game. SL is a virtual environment. The key aspect of the game is that any player can write programs and build 3d objects that other players can interact with according to the physical rules of the game. It is a meta-game in the purest sense possible so far. Within SL there are RPGs, board games, 'real' games like pool and bowling, etc. There are people who just build pretty sculptures and statues. The only marginal form of competition is for the game's currency, which everyone gets a little at a time and spends to either build new things or buy built things from other people, so the only way to "succeed" at the game is to produce content that other people want to interact with.
OK, then use Li-Poly or Li-Ion. That is the beauty of a simple 2xAA bay, you can use whatever you want. Disposables for maximum run time, NiMH for cheap rechargable, LiPo for the best of both worlds.
for TV in, I don't know. for plain old video in, get your hands on an old tnt/geforce(1)-based card. you dont need a fancy gpu to capture video feeds. my old Asus V6600 Deluxe (vga out, composite out, svideo out, composite IN, *shutter glasses out!*) has been my capture card of choice for going on a decade now.
IMs and email are exactly the same. The only apparent differences are in the implementations and the default (and available) settings for the clients, as well as the meta-communication functions of most IM clients that simply duplicate the features of 'what are you doing right now' systems of the past such as finger. My email client can pop up a notice the second I recieve new mail, and even give me a text box to type a reply into. My IM client can store messages for me to read at my leisure. I can check my email on the web. I can check my stored IMs on the web. I can turn off my email client. I can turn off my IM client. Either way I can respond immediately or wait an hour. Either way the person on the other end has no idea what I am doing if I do not want them to.
OpenOffice Calc is a spreadsheet comparable to Excel. Somewhere ahead of Excel 2000 and behind Excel XP in terms of total features, but better than Excel XP in some ways.
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I haven't kept up with the official figures, but a quick google says IGN thinks each Nintendo handheld outsold the PSP in November. Other sources put the DS ahead of the PSP for pretty much the whole year, month by month, but by different margins.
resounding success? the ipod was a resounding success. i think ive seen a total of four PSPs since release. 2 owned by friends (who dont play them any more) and 2 at the mall. i see more people playing GBA or (not 'and') DS than PSP by a huge margin.
For the suggested use, critical patients, 90% getting to the hospital where 50% can be saved is better than 50% getting there in the first place.
As to space travel, and assuming the method can be scaled up quite a bit longer than a few hours... I hate to say it, but 90% is still good enough. There are people out there willing to take the risk for exploration, or better yet colonization. Put 10 people in stasis for a 50 year trip to [Whichever] Centauri. One of them won't wake up when they get there, and one won't survive the trip back. 2 and 3-fold job redundancy means that cant ruin the mission. Or 100 people for a year to start a colony on Mars. 90 will make it. Those odds arent acceptable to most people, but they are to some, enough to make a plenty large enough candidate pool. I would do it for sufficient compensation to my family.
Won't happen this decade. College textbooks, and primary/secondary school as well, is a profit-hungry business. Why would they only charge a few dollars for something they can get a hundred for? Say a textbook costs $15 to print and sells for $50. The same e-book which costs $0 to reproduce would still cost $35 to download if they publisher wants to maintain their profits.
This may be the case for completely unpredictable public elevators, but consider the thousands of elevators out there in offices and hotels. Employees could swipe their badge (bar code, rfid, mag strip, whatever) to get a 'faster because it uses the priority system' elevator trip over people who just press the up/down button when they are using the elevator in some predefined pattern. Guests could do the same to get an elevator to their floor or from their floor to the lobby. Non-standard destinations would still degrade like you said, and so should be handled by a seperate bank of elevators (the ratio to be decided by a statistician). Over 95% of my elevator usage at work follows a predefined pattern based on my schedule (23:55 9->2. 04:00 1->4. 04:30 4->1. 08:05 2->9), and I imagine that at least as large of a majority of hotel guests travel from their floor to the lobby and vice versa instead of anywhere else.
What is your definition of "usually"? Of the last 30ish things I have downloaded for linux, about 5 didnt have to be installed at all, and the other 25 installed to ~/.local/ just fine
Looks like you already have a second step, 3) is the one in need of inventing.
unfortunately some people have poorly regulated and over-producing adrenal glands, so they develop a dependence on its boost. these people, including me, usually have conscious control over the '100%' mode, but since they rely so much on a constant flow the boost is only 80%->100% instead of 40%->100% like a normal person. one up side is that a heavy dose of adrenaline is very good for warming up from a cold shower or a run in the snow very very quickly.
Windows isnt quite that limited. Ever try formatting flash media as ISO9660? or UDF? Windows supports something like 8-12 filesystems depending on how you count them. Pales in comparison to Linux and Mac's 100+, but not as shabby as the 2-3 that most people suggest.
if you want to try out a 'pretty' wm with a tiny footprint, check out icewm, almost as small as blackbox, but slower.
3 screens IS a gimmick. It is just a trick to get a more useful aspect ratio. A single panoramic projector that does 4800x1200 resolution is better than 3 1600x1200 screens. I am actually surprised no one has started producing arc-shaped LCDs, for flight sims and even normal desktop work it would be kinda useful to have a very very wide display curving from one side of your desk to the other.
You will never forget the day you find your first bug in gcc. I never did :)
i look forward to the day when firefly quotes are as prevalent as other classic sci-fi quotes around here. sadly the material to draw from is far more limited
You would be surprised. I think it means ~33% more insulation required on any device that needs to stay heated to operate there.
For single-purpose activities this is just something to live with, but if there is going to be extended activity in the same area then why not hang white curtains around the work site? They should reflect back enough light to create earth-ish contrast shadows. Just have to knock down one side of the circle of curtains around sunrise/sunset.
Now a player who wants to play some Settlers of Catan and then do some bowling can do both without wasting 30 minutes getting from one game to another. SL is less a world and more a lobby for a thousand other games.
A house/store in UO plummeted in value every time the game world got larger and new areas were added that drew people away from the travel route that the store was located near, and possibly even became negative in worth if visiting the location became a burden on the player who owned it as he was doing more business in the new areas of the world.
So what if some "virtual property" within the game became less valuable? Linden Labs never promised that high traffic areas would stay high traffic. Even if you consider this a direct analog to real property, the government is not liable to billboard owners (or owners of the land beneath them) when a highway is relocated such that the billboards become non-visible.
SL is not a traditional MMO. There is no direct competition or conflict built into the game. SL is a virtual environment. The key aspect of the game is that any player can write programs and build 3d objects that other players can interact with according to the physical rules of the game. It is a meta-game in the purest sense possible so far. Within SL there are RPGs, board games, 'real' games like pool and bowling, etc. There are people who just build pretty sculptures and statues. The only marginal form of competition is for the game's currency, which everyone gets a little at a time and spends to either build new things or buy built things from other people, so the only way to "succeed" at the game is to produce content that other people want to interact with.
In what way? Who is this certifying body you refer to? I have sold lipo chargers as well.
certiwhat? ive built and purchased radioshack-brewed lipoly chargers, and garage-assembled lipo cells.
OK, then use Li-Poly or Li-Ion. That is the beauty of a simple 2xAA bay, you can use whatever you want. Disposables for maximum run time, NiMH for cheap rechargable, LiPo for the best of both worlds.
So they have a few different options checked. The available options are still the same, as is the range of behaviors.
And it will, because no other independent game developer has any clue how those 3 got their hands on dev kits.
for TV in, I don't know.
for plain old video in, get your hands on an old tnt/geforce(1)-based card. you dont need a fancy gpu to capture video feeds. my old Asus V6600 Deluxe (vga out, composite out, svideo out, composite IN, *shutter glasses out!*) has been my capture card of choice for going on a decade now.
IMs and email are exactly the same. The only apparent differences are in the implementations and the default (and available) settings for the clients, as well as the meta-communication functions of most IM clients that simply duplicate the features of 'what are you doing right now' systems of the past such as finger. My email client can pop up a notice the second I recieve new mail, and even give me a text box to type a reply into. My IM client can store messages for me to read at my leisure. I can check my email on the web. I can check my stored IMs on the web. I can turn off my email client. I can turn off my IM client. Either way I can respond immediately or wait an hour. Either way the person on the other end has no idea what I am doing if I do not want them to.
OpenOffice Calc is a spreadsheet comparable to Excel. Somewhere ahead of Excel 2000 and behind Excel XP in terms of total features, but better than Excel XP in some ways.