Moreover, the Concorde was cost-benefit-analysised at a time when jet fuel was in the tens of cents per gallon price range --- then the Arab fuel embargo hit and suddenly it was hard to justifiably profit on it (though for a long while they managed).
Sadly the new tires were just being certified when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred which was pretty much the final nail in the coffin.
Sony's PRS-505 will fit in a (large) pocket, and is far more pocketable than the first iteration of the Kindle (not sure what the comparison is w/ the new one).
You'll need to convert the comic book archives, but that's pretty easily done.
an AC said: >might save tens of thousands of American lives?
Did save hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives, both American and Japanese.
A cousin of mine was in the occupation forces and happened to be stationed near where his unit was scheduled to hit the beach --- he said it would've been a suicide run, resulting in 90--95% or higher casualties for his unit, and almost as bad for those who would've followed them.
My mother and her parents were in Japan during World War II (``contract'' labour for the Japanese imported from Korea) and said that at the end of the war the Japanese were setting up defense units of every able-bodied woman aged 18--40, arming them w/ sharpened bamboo poles for want of other weapons.
Japan's surrender, which could not have been brought about by any other means (if fire-bombing Tokyo, which proved as _Time Magazine_ described it ``... that a Japanese city, when properly kindled will burn like autumn leaves.'', then what would a mere military invasion such as Okinawa had already been through) saved millions of lives, on both sides.
I've been a paying member of AOL long enough to be considered a "charter" member, and was quite irritated by AOL taking away their web-hosting @ members.aol.com --- I'd had pages up since its inception and had lots of people linking to said pages and files.
While I've gotten everything backed up and moved to a new site and notified everyone I could think of --- that doesn't address print references in journals and printed documentation --- all of which are now out-of-date.
I'd've gladly paid a bit extra, instead, I demanded a refund and cut my plan back to BYOA (bring your own access) --- how can this be good for their bottom line?
\begin{pedantry} Yeah, but Flash was originally FutureSplash Animator which was based on FutureWave SmartSketch which was originally a PenPoint app. \end{pedantry}
Put it down where the keyboard is, make it touch-sensitive (replacing the keyboard at need by displaying a customized keyboard image which matches the current task / application set) and w/ an option to rotate the whole thing 90 degrees and use it as a full-colour ebook reader and I'm interested (so long as the whole thing is as small, thin and light as the X61T).
Optionally provide a way to slip a keyboard on / off and engineer the hinge to so that it can be closed w/ the keyboard in place --- but even though I purchased a wireless keyboard for my Fujitsu Stylistic, I never use it.
I find it (pressing two buttons to fire) bizarre, and moreover, it makes it impossible to use a Wii Zapper or Nyko Perfect Shot Pistol w/ the game (Yes, I know it pre-dates both of these products).
Whether or no a game succeeds isn't about the rating, it's about the content and game play and story line (or lack thereof) and unfortunately, it's all too often about the lack.
On the Wii one adds in a need for supporting the Wii motion controls in a natural (Resident Evil Wii edition --- what's up w/ requiring pressing _2_ buttons to fire a pistol?!?) and reliable way (DragonQuest Swords I'm looking at you on that last), and even if the game is okay on other platforms, then it fails as a Wii game if it only involves mashing buttons (Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, please re-write the UI to support more than just buttons!).
Yes, I know, only one of the games that I'm criticizing has an M rating.
Given the tracking problems which Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors have, improving the accuracy of tracking would be a welcome improvement --- which isn't to say that I haven't enjoyed DQS a lot, but it would be more enjoyable if it wouldn't occasionally inexplicably register a thrust and break the hit chain, or if it would more accurately track diagonal slashes.
I'm sure that the developers invested a great deal of effort to get it to the point where it is --- making that easier for them (and the gamer) will help the game experience a lot.
One thing I've been curious about is how effective just putting the wireless router in the basement would be --- my house is on quite a bit of a slope, but there'd still be ~10--15 feet of earth (and rocks, mostly sandstone, lots and lots of rocks) between the router and anywhere one could get a signal outside.
If memory serves, all of their compilers compiled to a genericized ``pcode'' for which multiple engines existed (one per processor architecture I believe it was) --- all that was missing was multiple implementations per architecture.
A more practicable (but only slightly more likely situation) would be to allow OEMs to license the ability to install Mac OS X for hardware which doesn't compete w/ hardware made by Apple ---consider he following form-factors which Apple doesn't address:
- netbook / smaller than MacBook Air machines
- slate-style pen computers
- convertible pen computer laptops
- full desktop replacement laptops
- mid-size tower w/ just one or two slots
- larger than 1U rack server
William (who really does need to find the time to install Mac OS X 10.5 on his Fujitsu Stylistic)
Actually, if you actually do the math, or build a physical example, the dimensions for this (from the Bible) do work out --- the difference is in the addition of the thickness of the physical vessel.
It was the Constitutional Convention's solution to the problems of demagoguery and ensuring the meaningful participation of states w/ small populations.
If you have a better solution (and a popular vote which would mean that a need for a recount _anywhere_ would arguably trigger a need for a recount _everywhere)_ is not better), please submit it as a Constitutional amendment.
- Provide a large screen
- run apps which aren't widely available (e.g., a font editor)
- provide GBs of storage space (I've got a 30GB HD in my Tablet PC, and a PCMCIA adapter w/ a 4GB CF card in it) which can be easily expanded upon
- Paper can't easily be searched, recognized text can
- Applying colour to paper (beyond what's afforded by something like a Rotring Quattro) requires n-devices where n == some number of stick-like objects which have to be carried)
- adding sheets of paper increases bulk / weight linearly, while adding files / pages to computer storage doesn't
- recognized text can be converted into a finished paper w/o laborious re-typing
- it's easy to take a photograph of something and then mark it up, no need for a printout
- one can easily add area to a digital note to increase the amount of space at need
- &c.
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and why it was chosen instead of BeOS.
Moreover, Mac OS X runs nicely on multi-processor machines (Be's major claim to fame).
I'd rather see effort like this poured into GNUstep....
William
Moreover, the Concorde was cost-benefit-analysised at a time when jet fuel was in the tens of cents per gallon price range --- then the Arab fuel embargo hit and suddenly it was hard to justifiably profit on it (though for a long while they managed).
Sadly the new tires were just being certified when the 9/11 terrorist attacks occurred which was pretty much the final nail in the coffin.
William
Lots of public domain and creative commons stuff available, see http://www.mobiread.com/ for a community of people making these conversions.
William
Sony's PRS-505 will fit in a (large) pocket, and is far more pocketable than the first iteration of the Kindle (not sure what the comparison is w/ the new one).
You'll need to convert the comic book archives, but that's pretty easily done.
William
an AC said:
>might save tens of thousands of American lives?
Did save hundreds of thousands, if not millions of lives, both American and Japanese.
A cousin of mine was in the occupation forces and happened to be stationed near where his unit was scheduled to hit the beach --- he said it would've been a suicide run, resulting in 90--95% or higher casualties for his unit, and almost as bad for those who would've followed them.
My mother and her parents were in Japan during World War II (``contract'' labour for the Japanese imported from Korea) and said that at the end of the war the Japanese were setting up defense units of every able-bodied woman aged 18--40, arming them w/ sharpened bamboo poles for want of other weapons.
Japan's surrender, which could not have been brought about by any other means (if fire-bombing Tokyo, which proved as _Time Magazine_ described it ``... that a Japanese city, when properly kindled will burn like autumn leaves.'', then what would a mere military invasion such as Okinawa had already been through) saved millions of lives, on both sides.
William
Lasersquad Nemesis:
http://www.lasersquadnemesis.com/
by the folks who made it possible to save the world from alien invasion in UFO: Enemy Unknown.
William
You missed your calling. You wanted ``Doom as a Tool for System Administration'':
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/
William
I've been a paying member of AOL long enough to be considered a "charter" member, and was quite irritated by AOL taking away their web-hosting @ members.aol.com --- I'd had pages up since its inception and had lots of people linking to said pages and files.
While I've gotten everything backed up and moved to a new site and notified everyone I could think of --- that doesn't address print references in journals and printed documentation --- all of which are now out-of-date.
I'd've gladly paid a bit extra, instead, I demanded a refund and cut my plan back to BYOA (bring your own access) --- how can this be good for their bottom line?
William
'cause it's hilarious (and sad) how after Apple bought NeXT people at MacWorld were cheering for demos which were repeats of previous NeXTWorlds.
William
(who didn't wait, but switched to using a NeXT Cube in college)
\begin{pedantry}
Yeah, but Flash was originally FutureSplash Animator which was based on FutureWave SmartSketch which was originally a PenPoint app.
\end{pedantry}
William
Put it down where the keyboard is, make it touch-sensitive (replacing the keyboard at need by displaying a customized keyboard image which matches the current task / application set) and w/ an option to rotate the whole thing 90 degrees and use it as a full-colour ebook reader and I'm interested (so long as the whole thing is as small, thin and light as the X61T).
Optionally provide a way to slip a keyboard on / off and engineer the hinge to so that it can be closed w/ the keyboard in place --- but even though I purchased a wireless keyboard for my Fujitsu Stylistic, I never use it.
William
I find it (pressing two buttons to fire) bizarre, and moreover, it makes it impossible to use a Wii Zapper or Nyko Perfect Shot Pistol w/ the game (Yes, I know it pre-dates both of these products).
William
Resident Evil
Call of Duty
No More Heroes
Whether or no a game succeeds isn't about the rating, it's about the content and game play and story line (or lack thereof) and unfortunately, it's all too often about the lack.
On the Wii one adds in a need for supporting the Wii motion controls in a natural (Resident Evil Wii edition --- what's up w/ requiring pressing _2_ buttons to fire a pistol?!?) and reliable way (DragonQuest Swords I'm looking at you on that last), and even if the game is okay on other platforms, then it fails as a Wii game if it only involves mashing buttons (Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, please re-write the UI to support more than just buttons!).
Yes, I know, only one of the games that I'm criticizing has an M rating.
William
I went this route as well (couldn't get DSL --- I was ~1,200 ft. too far away) and it's worked well.
They do need to bill it to a credit card though (or so I was told by two different CS reps) if you don't switch (or have) your phone service as VOIP.
They'll offer a slight discount if you merge the billing w/ a cell phone though (mental note, must set that up some weekend).
William
Won't the codes be monitored per usage and tied to a specific console serial number?
William
Given the tracking problems which Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors have, improving the accuracy of tracking would be a welcome improvement --- which isn't to say that I haven't enjoyed DQS a lot, but it would be more enjoyable if it wouldn't occasionally inexplicably register a thrust and break the hit chain, or if it would more accurately track diagonal slashes.
I'm sure that the developers invested a great deal of effort to get it to the point where it is --- making that easier for them (and the gamer) will help the game experience a lot.
William
Interesting.
One thing I've been curious about is how effective just putting the wireless router in the basement would be --- my house is on quite a bit of a slope, but there'd still be ~10--15 feet of earth (and rocks, mostly sandstone, lots and lots of rocks) between the router and anywhere one could get a signal outside.
William
If memory serves, all of their compilers compiled to a genericized ``pcode'' for which multiple engines existed (one per processor architecture I believe it was) --- all that was missing was multiple implementations per architecture.
William
A more practicable (but only slightly more likely situation) would be to allow OEMs to license the ability to install Mac OS X for hardware which doesn't compete w/ hardware made by Apple ---consider he following form-factors which Apple doesn't address:
- netbook / smaller than MacBook Air machines
- slate-style pen computers
- convertible pen computer laptops
- full desktop replacement laptops
- mid-size tower w/ just one or two slots
- larger than 1U rack server
William
(who really does need to find the time to install Mac OS X 10.5 on his Fujitsu Stylistic)
Actually, if you actually do the math, or build a physical example, the dimensions for this (from the Bible) do work out --- the difference is in the addition of the thickness of the physical vessel.
William
The Wii game _Okami_ seems to be 3D, yet has an appearance evocative of a sumi-e painting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Okami-compare.jpg
There's even a site dedicated to the artwork:
http://www.artofokami.com/
William
Actually, measured per capita, it's the large EC state voters who get less bang for their vote which is the whole point.
Banzhaf's treatment of votes as coin flips is bogus.
William
What's stupid about the electoral college?
It was the Constitutional Convention's solution to the problems of demagoguery and ensuring the meaningful participation of states w/ small populations.
If you have a better solution (and a popular vote which would mean that a need for a recount _anywhere_ would arguably trigger a need for a recount _everywhere)_ is not better), please submit it as a Constitutional amendment.
William
Things Tablet PCs doe that the iPhone doesn't:
- Provide a large screen
- run apps which aren't widely available (e.g., a font editor)
- provide GBs of storage space (I've got a 30GB HD in my Tablet PC, and a PCMCIA adapter w/ a 4GB CF card in it) which can be easily expanded upon
William
- Paper can't easily be searched, recognized text can
- Applying colour to paper (beyond what's afforded by something like a Rotring Quattro) requires n-devices where n == some number of stick-like objects which have to be carried)
- adding sheets of paper increases bulk / weight linearly, while adding files / pages to computer storage doesn't
- recognized text can be converted into a finished paper w/o laborious re-typing
- it's easy to take a photograph of something and then mark it up, no need for a printout
- one can easily add area to a digital note to increase the amount of space at need
- &c.
William