I was considering buying a console because I'm switching to Mac for my production work. But I'm an FPS player and I like having access to a keyboard and mouse. Plus, the resolution of a TV is a paltry 3 or 400 pixels, unless you've got HD. Which I don't. Last time I looked at consoles, mice, keyboards, and hi res weren't options. Has this changed?
If consoles *do* start wooing PC gamers away, it might eat significantly at a demographic that would make the mac switch (or go to pure linux) but for their games.
If you're using best practices -- stylesheets, semantic markup, alternative stylesheets where necessary, it shouldn't be a huge problem to have your site display well on a mobile device.
The one exception is that some of the more ambitious effects on sites like alistapart.org may be garbled on a reader that attempts to interpret css rules.
I'd also be concerned with the oncoming popularity of ajax effects on sites.
Makers of mobile browsers shouldn't be let off the hook either though -- each mobile browser should have an easily accessible stylesheet toggle so that the site information can be seen in lynxlike clarity if necessary.
The recent hire of plumber Ed Kowalsky has the Internet abuzz with rumors that Google (GOOG) may offer a toilet service in the coming months. While Google has not released any official statement, technology insiders believe that the popular search engine may see a huge opportunity for profit in the lucrative home fixtures market, currently dominated by American Standard and Kohler.
gtoilet.jpgSpeculation about the gtoilet has focused on its anticipated feature set. "The possibilities are limitless," said Internet pundit Irwin Grimace. "Judging from past initiatives like gmail, we can expect a huge increase in storage capacity and a better user experience. Why flush when you have eight times the storage of other systems? A urinalysis feature could allow the system to gauge metabolic statistics and other medical data. And it goes without saying that the search function in a gtoilet would be nonpareil."
Others are more guarded in their anticipation of the gtoilet, citing privacy concerns. Anton C. Sousa, columnist for the magazine Desktop Weekly, noted: "If the Gtoilet follows the lead of Google and Gmail, the business model will be targeted ads. Sure, it would be nice to see ads for All Bran or Metamucil after an atypically long session. But do you really want internet advertisers to know how drunk you were last night?"
Details of the contract between Kowalski and Google are sketchy, but sources revealed that Kowalski has ordered three vaccuum breakers, a cone washer, and a j-bend from his supplier, and that he has only scheduled one week onsite with Google.
A whois of the domain gtoilet.com revealed no registration, and it is expected that attention to the gtoilet will wane somewhat on Friday, when a three-minute Japanese cartoon about a masturbating robot is due for release.
Michael Crichton's just great at predicting things. Remember how the Japanese took all our jobs in the late nineties? Or how our economy was crippled by sexual harassment lawsuits? Or how we cloned the dinosaurs?
Basic heuristic to follow: The opposite of what Michael Cricton says will turn out to be true.
The video is cute and futuristic but what's the resolution? If it's under 800x600 it's kind of useless. 1024x768 and I'd consider it, although I can't see it improving my sex life.
I'm in the same boat as a freelancer who works from home. Working away from the desk would be counterproductive, as I'm addicted to a two-monitor setup.
I started taking a French class about a year ago at a local college, and it's been a great experience. It requires working and studying with other people, and offers me a chance to dress nicely in the morning and go out among the living, instead of going to full frump mode at the crack of noon.
Plus, I get to learn a language, which is nicely removed from technical work and provides a chance to stretch other parts of me noggin.
motion parallax... while you would unfortunately see nothing different in a standard goggle-based 3d video or movie, a device like the crystal ball would appear 3d as soon as you moved your head. We 2 eye types see a television screen a little differently than through a window, and if you think about it, so do you. With a window, your viewing angle determines the area seen on the other side, and the apparent relationships of forms to one another. Not so in televisions, where the image instead just uniformly distorts according to the viewing angle. With the crystal ball, moving around the ball would reveal different aspects of the object being displayed, and you'd get a sense of the object's depth as you moved.
Re:combine this with photovores and ...
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because Whuffie doesn't exist yet. Karma won't buy you a beer, according to my local Tavern owner.
i'm not a physicist, but...
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I think this is basically a rephrasing of a long-known fact, that is, that relativity doesn't have much to say at the sub-atomic level -- in other words, this equasion just says, yeah, E=mc2 as long as you're dealing with sufficient scales for quantum weirdness to even out. Can someone elaborate on this, or correct me?
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I was considering buying a console because I'm switching to Mac for my production work. But I'm an FPS player and I like having access to a keyboard and mouse. Plus, the resolution of a TV is a paltry 3 or 400 pixels, unless you've got HD. Which I don't. Last time I looked at consoles, mice, keyboards, and hi res weren't options. Has this changed?
If consoles *do* start wooing PC gamers away, it might eat significantly at a demographic that would make the mac switch (or go to pure linux) but for their games.
Next week, in an even bigger scientific breakthrough, they're going to advance to images of mickey mouse, a human breast, and a zero.
If you're using best practices -- stylesheets, semantic markup, alternative stylesheets where necessary, it shouldn't be a huge problem to have your site display well on a mobile device.
The one exception is that some of the more ambitious effects on sites like alistapart.org may be garbled on a reader that attempts to interpret css rules.
I'd also be concerned with the oncoming popularity of ajax effects on sites.
Makers of mobile browsers shouldn't be let off the hook either though -- each mobile browser should have an easily accessible stylesheet toggle so that the site information can be seen in lynxlike clarity if necessary.
The recent hire of plumber Ed Kowalsky has the Internet abuzz with rumors that Google (GOOG) may offer a toilet service in the coming months. While Google has not released any official statement, technology insiders believe that the popular search engine may see a huge opportunity for profit in the lucrative home fixtures market, currently dominated by American Standard and Kohler.
gtoilet.jpgSpeculation about the gtoilet has focused on its anticipated feature set. "The possibilities are limitless," said Internet pundit Irwin Grimace. "Judging from past initiatives like gmail, we can expect a huge increase in storage capacity and a better user experience. Why flush when you have eight times the storage of other systems? A urinalysis feature could allow the system to gauge metabolic statistics and other medical data. And it goes without saying that the search function in a gtoilet would be nonpareil."
Others are more guarded in their anticipation of the gtoilet, citing privacy concerns. Anton C. Sousa, columnist for the magazine Desktop Weekly, noted: "If the Gtoilet follows the lead of Google and Gmail, the business model will be targeted ads. Sure, it would be nice to see ads for All Bran or Metamucil after an atypically long session. But do you really want internet advertisers to know how drunk you were last night?"
Details of the contract between Kowalski and Google are sketchy, but sources revealed that Kowalski has ordered three vaccuum breakers, a cone washer, and a j-bend from his supplier, and that he has only scheduled one week onsite with Google.
A whois of the domain gtoilet.com revealed no registration, and it is expected that attention to the gtoilet will wane somewhat on Friday, when a three-minute Japanese cartoon about a masturbating robot is due for release.
This is getting ridiculous. First, the gbrowser, then gcalendar, now gOS? Next someone'll notice Google's hired a plumber and expect a gToilet.
Google's still working on a Flush alternative.
No, because it's a torrent. The bandwidth cost to slashdot would be minimal.
Michael Crichton's just great at predicting things. Remember how the Japanese took all our jobs in the late nineties? Or how our economy was crippled by sexual harassment lawsuits? Or how we cloned the dinosaurs?
Basic heuristic to follow: The opposite of what Michael Cricton says will turn out to be true.
Therefore: invest in snorkels.
The video is cute and futuristic but what's the resolution? If it's under 800x600 it's kind of useless. 1024x768 and I'd consider it, although I can't see it improving my sex life.
My porn collection is going to start setting up link farms on my drive now?
We're so far behind on launching ubermenchen into deep space on the Botany Bay. And where's Voyager VII?
Eat up martha.
With this SUV, there'd better be a BatSiphon on that utility belt.
Rumor has it that Robin will be replaced by a new sidekick tentatively named Prince Saud.
Also, she totally failed the Voight-Kamp.
I'm in the same boat as a freelancer who works from home. Working away from the desk would be counterproductive, as I'm addicted to a two-monitor setup.
I started taking a French class about a year ago at a local college, and it's been a great experience. It requires working and studying with other people, and offers me a chance to dress nicely in the morning and go out among the living, instead of going to full frump mode at the crack of noon.
Plus, I get to learn a language, which is nicely removed from technical work and provides a chance to stretch other parts of me noggin.
I'll never believe it... Tron fights for the users. He'd never work for the MCP.
the first /. fatwa!
Well for the record, my suggestion is that we tar and feather him. It has that Sons of Liberty vibe, so lacking in this country today.
Fitting, isn't it, that Zion is actually in Zion.
Mars Nukem Forever
assPod.
motion parallax... while you would unfortunately see nothing different in a standard goggle-based 3d video or movie, a device like the crystal ball would appear 3d as soon as you moved your head. We 2 eye types see a television screen a little differently than through a window, and if you think about it, so do you. With a window, your viewing angle determines the area seen on the other side, and the apparent relationships of forms to one another. Not so in televisions, where the image instead just uniformly distorts according to the viewing angle. With the crystal ball, moving around the ball would reveal different aspects of the object being displayed, and you'd get a sense of the object's depth as you moved.
because Whuffie doesn't exist yet. Karma won't buy you a beer, according to my local Tavern owner.
I think this is basically a rephrasing of a long-known fact, that is, that relativity doesn't have much to say at the sub-atomic level -- in other words, this equasion just says, yeah, E=mc2 as long as you're dealing with sufficient scales for quantum weirdness to even out. Can someone elaborate on this, or correct me?
you are sooooo Total Information Awareness toast.