I was thinking the same thing while checking out the top 10 article. I especially liked atari's flyer art. Missle Command, for example. Also, check out the Peter Max-like centipede flyer.
My coworker uses "Dr. Monsterod VonHugenstien" for a variety of registrations that have a high spam likelihood. The kicker was getting a letter here at the office from MSDN to the fine doctor.
On an ibook 500mhz, i noticed a gui slowdown from 10.1 to 10.2 and a noticable gui speed gain from 10.2 to 10.3. I was looking forward to a similar speed gain for my upgraded beige DT, but alas, they decided to leave me behind be requiring built-in USB. I unsuccessfully tried both utilities to install 10.3 on unsupported macs.
We won't know for sure until the required financials come out, but I really wonder if their sales will back up a 40b market cap or will it be "irrational exuberance" all over again.
to chasuk. I feel the same way. Last time my kid asked me for a rated-M game, I went looking for reviews, screenshots and videos before telling him he could have it. And then I will periodically watch him play and discuss issues with him if I feel it's warranted. Sometimes i find that his rated-M games have nothing I object to, but some E or T games do.
If rated-M games can't be advertised in game magazines, where CAN they be advertised. Its just stupid. Movies trailers for R-rated movies can be shown in theaters before PG-rated movies and nobody complains. The trailers themselves are usually rated g or pg.
Just typically overreacting, call me when "GTA7: Bangkok Vice City" ads show up in Nickelodeon magazine.
Insightful? You gotta be kidding me. The problem isn't that WE have a problem with the law, its that THEY bitch and moan that they are losing money and therefore need draconian copyright restriction expansions. The posting is flamebait? Not when the MPAA are big fat liars.
I will judge the industry by how much it makes, because they can't cry poverty if the revenues just keep goin up!
Disengenuous. The profit per employee could skyrocket without laying off anyone if companies would limit executive salaries to sane levels, say 50x the lowest paid worker. But then "disengenous" describes my opinion of most wall street types and corporate raiders.
Microsoft donate hardware, are you nuts? All they would have to do is hand each school district a few cds and a site license for windows and office and call it $2,000,000 in "donations". You're right, cash is it.
I agree. If every jack is 8-wire, then you can decide in the basement which jacks are phone and which are network, and change your mind at any time. I bought my current house when bell atlantic was offering wiring installations, so they wired my house with cat5 and I got to pick where each jack went. Every room has at least 2 RJ45 jacks and I can reconfigure them any time I want by just changing some plugs in the basement.
Funny you mention it, I have a childhood memory of when we sold our 1969 MB 280S. We sat in the car in an alley as the buyer counted out small stacks of $100s and handed them to my dad.
You don't have to stretch so far, several of us have mentioned that this capability has been available with the palm pilot since at least 1999, probably longer.
The palm IS a "limited resource computer" and the buttons ARE specific to single applications. The only new thing M$ is suggesting is that the length of the button press can indicate which function to start an application with. For example, a short press brings up your address book list, a longer press starts your address book in search mode, an even longer press starts a new address book entry. Thas all. Patentworthy? Doubt it.
Even my phone does this. A short press on the mic button activates voice dialing, a long press activates voice record (for voice memo). Shit, M$ can't even get it right when they are poaching obvious "innovations".
"Mac lags a version behind Windows for WMP support"
The mac version of 9 sucks so bad that you can't claim any kind of platform parity. All it is, is a way for OSX users to play *some* WM9 content. It doesn't work with all of it. But M$ can claim "crossplatform support, just like real and quicktime."
Now will 10 have new codecs? That will leave the mac behind again, and I still don't even have WM9 codecs to compress video on mac.
For years there have been shareware apps for palm that allow you to launch different programs from the hardware buttons by: 1. the duration of a single button press 2. a number of single repeated button presses 3. a combination of different button presses
search "launcher" on palmgear and you'll find plenty of prior art.
This was one of the reasons I got a blue, so I was kind of pissed when they discontinued it. That and the chip reader doesn't work with anything but windows.
Although, the private payments(TM) web pages were pretty lame, they would go full screen on you for no apparent reason.
Slightly off-topic, I do this now with ReplayTV and a few shareware tools on my G5.
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I actually liked the plot of the FF movie. There were some clumsy parts, but I was pretty engaged, and I am no mindless-action-movie fan. What bothered me about FF was that they tried TOO hard to make the humans look real. I think animators are a long way away from being able to fool the eye into believing an animated movie of human characters is real, so the harder they try, the more we NOTICE how hard they are trying. The point is, I didn't think they needed to strive for human realism. The whole movie was beautiful, the aliens were dramatic and amazing. so I think if they had made the humans look more stylized, I think it would have worked even better. Anyway, I think that is why there are few examples of realistic all-CGI movies.
I was wondering about the exact question today. I was intitially planning on getting something like the squeezebox and a Bravo D2 but there seemed like so much crossover technolgy there someone must make a device that does both. I found the aforementioned go-video model, a gateway, and a couple producs from some danish company
Has anyone found others. With DVD-audio, HD, mac-compatibility?
Unfortunate? Except for the "iPod slot" idea, I don't know what would be more convenient than what Alpine is producing. One plug into the iPod and it becomes an integral part of your audio system, controlled by the head unit.
It will be a single connector to the iPod, plugging into alpine's ainet on the head unit. It will basically use the iPod as a portable hard drive, allowing the head unit to play music files from the iPod's hard drive. It uses the same interface that Alpine uses for its cd changers and other components so it would operate as if you have a 1000 disk changer. Google "alpine ipod" and you can see the press releases.
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What, no Myth covers?
Also, not even 1 leisure suit larry cover.
C'mon!
I was thinking the same thing while checking out the top 10 article. I especially liked atari's flyer art. Missle Command, for example. Also, check out the Peter Max-like centipede flyer.
My coworker uses "Dr. Monsterod VonHugenstien" for a variety of registrations that have a high spam likelihood. The kicker was getting a letter here at the office from MSDN to the fine doctor.
I was going to make the same point, basically, but with 75% less words.
I don't want to stick my son into a huge vat of kidvertising; thats probably worse than him accidentally seeing pr0n.
On an ibook 500mhz, i noticed a gui slowdown from 10.1 to 10.2 and a noticable gui speed gain from 10.2 to 10.3. I was looking forward to a similar speed gain for my upgraded beige DT, but alas, they decided to leave me behind be requiring built-in USB. I unsuccessfully tried both utilities to install 10.3 on unsupported macs.
We won't know for sure until the required financials come out, but I really wonder if their sales will back up a 40b market cap or will it be "irrational exuberance" all over again.
to chasuk. I feel the same way. Last time my kid asked me for a rated-M game, I went looking for reviews, screenshots and videos before telling him he could have it. And then I will periodically watch him play and discuss issues with him if I feel it's warranted. Sometimes i find that his rated-M games have nothing I object to, but some E or T games do.
If rated-M games can't be advertised in game magazines, where CAN they be advertised. Its just stupid. Movies trailers for R-rated movies can be shown in theaters before PG-rated movies and nobody complains. The trailers themselves are usually rated g or pg.
Just typically overreacting, call me when "GTA7: Bangkok Vice City" ads show up in Nickelodeon magazine.
Insightful? You gotta be kidding me. The problem isn't that WE have a problem with the law, its that THEY bitch and moan that they are losing money and therefore need draconian copyright restriction expansions. The posting is flamebait? Not when the MPAA are big fat liars.
I will judge the industry by how much it makes, because they can't cry poverty if the revenues just keep goin up!
I can think of one industry that must love them: hard drive manufacturers.
Disengenuous. The profit per employee could skyrocket without laying off anyone if companies would limit executive salaries to sane levels, say 50x the lowest paid worker. But then "disengenous" describes my opinion of most wall street types and corporate raiders.
Microsoft donate hardware, are you nuts? All they would have to do is hand each school district a few cds and a site license for windows and office and call it $2,000,000 in "donations". You're right, cash is it.
Interesting, I never thought about that. Good thing they are easy to change out.
I agree. If every jack is 8-wire, then you can decide in the basement which jacks are phone and which are network, and change your mind at any time. I bought my current house when bell atlantic was offering wiring installations, so they wired my house with cat5 and I got to pick where each jack went. Every room has at least 2 RJ45 jacks and I can reconfigure them any time I want by just changing some plugs in the basement.
Funny you mention it, I have a childhood memory of when we sold our 1969 MB 280S. We sat in the car in an alley as the buyer counted out small stacks of $100s and handed them to my dad.
We have short attention spans, though. That was a long time ago.
You don't have to stretch so far, several of us have mentioned that this capability has been available with the palm pilot since at least 1999, probably longer.
The palm IS a "limited resource computer" and the buttons ARE specific to single applications. The only new thing M$ is suggesting is that the length of the button press can indicate which function to start an application with. For example, a short press brings up your address book list, a longer press starts your address book in search mode, an even longer press starts a new address book entry. Thas all. Patentworthy? Doubt it.
Even my phone does this. A short press on the mic button activates voice dialing, a long press activates voice record (for voice memo). Shit, M$ can't even get it right when they are poaching obvious "innovations".
"Mac lags a version behind Windows for WMP support"
The mac version of 9 sucks so bad that you can't claim any kind of platform parity. All it is, is a way for OSX users to play *some* WM9 content. It doesn't work with all of it. But M$ can claim "crossplatform support, just like real and quicktime."
Now will 10 have new codecs? That will leave the mac behind again, and I still don't even have WM9 codecs to compress video on mac.
For years there have been shareware apps for palm that allow you to launch different programs from the hardware buttons by:
1. the duration of a single button press
2. a number of single repeated button presses
3. a combination of different button presses
search "launcher" on palmgear and you'll find plenty of prior art.
This was one of the reasons I got a blue, so I was kind of pissed when they discontinued it. That and the chip reader doesn't work with anything but windows.
Although, the private payments(TM) web pages were pretty lame, they would go full screen on you for no apparent reason.
Slightly off-topic, I do this now with ReplayTV and a few shareware tools on my G5.
I actually liked the plot of the FF movie. There were some clumsy parts, but I was pretty engaged, and I am no mindless-action-movie fan. What bothered me about FF was that they tried TOO hard to make the humans look real. I think animators are a long way away from being able to fool the eye into believing an animated movie of human characters is real, so the harder they try, the more we NOTICE how hard they are trying. The point is, I didn't think they needed to strive for human realism. The whole movie was beautiful, the aliens were dramatic and amazing. so I think if they had made the humans look more stylized, I think it would have worked even better. Anyway, I think that is why there are few examples of realistic all-CGI movies.
I was wondering about the exact question today. I was intitially planning on getting something like the squeezebox and a Bravo D2 but there seemed like so much crossover technolgy there someone must make a device that does both. I found the aforementioned go-video model, a gateway, and a couple producs from some danish company
Has anyone found others. With DVD-audio, HD, mac-compatibility?
Unfortunate? Except for the "iPod slot" idea, I don't know what would be more convenient than what Alpine is producing. One plug into the iPod and it becomes an integral part of your audio system, controlled by the head unit.
It will be a single connector to the iPod, plugging into alpine's ainet on the head unit. It will basically use the iPod as a portable hard drive, allowing the head unit to play music files from the iPod's hard drive. It uses the same interface that Alpine uses for its cd changers and other components so it would operate as if you have a 1000 disk changer. Google "alpine ipod" and you can see the press releases.