The problem I've seen with plasmas, and I imagine they've gotten better over time, is dithering. For some reason they can't actually produce many colors and have to dither, similar to the old 16-color mode in Windows 3.1. It's worse in the dark scenes mainly because the difference between the extreme blacks generated and the darkest shade of gray is too large. It still beats LCDs,where there is no black at all, but it is annoying.
Thinking back to the olden days, I think CRTs had some of this problem too. Except the fuzziness there was analog and it's digital on a plasma.
3G coverage in the US is fine. AT&T's 3G coverage in the US sucks. They could have gone with any other carrier and made a decent product. It's just some kind of board room politics at the customer's expense.
Exactly. Why pick AT&Ts crappy data network for the iPhone when there are better networks out there? i-Phone. Internet phone. Or something. Point is Woz is right it should be 3G.
Fine I have a ~1 year old Thinkpad T60 about min specs with 2GB RAM (after market upgrade), and it boots much faster than that. Of course that's when I actually reboot and not just bring it back from sleep or hibernate. My guess is you don't have enough RAM for all the software that's starting up at boot time.
To say passover involves wine is an understatement. IANAJ, but I believe the tradition is 4 glasses. If we use French glasses, traditionally filled, not Holy Grails, that's a whole bottle. Of course we get the impression that people in Biblical times had mad tolerance, so maybe they were sober after that.
Pizza Hut was testing out a voice recognition system in my area. They gave you an incentive if you used it a few times. It worked awesome to me. I'd be interested to see what the general customer response was. It was just a trial BTW, and it hasn't come back.
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If these people have any help inside the US/EU, which shouldn't be hard to come by (esp. if you have $$), this is never going to work.
Well that's the problem cooking for one or even two. If you buy normal (sometimes the minimum) amounts from the store you'll be either wasting a lot or eating leftovers for a few days. Even if you can quarter the recipe or whatever, many ingredients go bad quickly. Some stores are WAY better for this than your basic Kroger/Albertson's/Ralphs if you happen to have access to one. Trader Joe's comes to mind but there are smaller stores as well.
Still, $5 is way low for all but the simplest meals. If you stick to veggies you might come close, though.
There's a fine line between fun and boring. Take your food example: EQ1 required you to possess food in your inventory or you die (while you're online). Of course it was eaten automatically. So then it became just another chore to do at the NPC. So there was food that gave you stat bonuses. Great now you can craft it and everything. So... what's the point of the standard vendor food now? Nothing. So why not just take it out and leave the player to worry about other things? LotRo (and probably) others have taken this path.
The problem with walking around rivers is that's not most people's idea of fun either. MMO designers have thus been providing mounts and whatever to allow for large worlds with minimal travel grind. Then nobody wants to walk at all so you have the teleport/spaceport/swift travel. All that said, I think there's a player base out there for an exploration-based MMO. It seems the designers of SWG tried. I haven't played it in a long time, but when I did you mostly explored cookie-cutter worlds full of the same creatures over and over again.
Unbelievable that you can't play your own discs. Basically you can take HD movies with consumer grade equipment, but sending a copy to your grandparents in a format they can handle without resorting to Video Professor is out of the question. Stupid.
Yeah I know someone who got arrested for "protesting without a permit." In the US. Do the lawmakers even read the names of the crimes they're creating? Makes me sick.
Incorrect. The proper way twins in nature are produced is by two separate eggs. Also, because babies born as twins are much more likely to be stillborn or disabled, we can assume these sorts of pregnancies are evolutionarily accidental.
Let's be straight here: publishing was this man's work. By publishing on the Internets he was effectively working for someone else, himself. That's a far cry from breathing. Now, is it reasonable to have a contract that says you can't work for someone else at the same time?
By that definition, which I'm not sure is definitive (is there a definitive definition?), this company is not a patent troll (at least this time). The article indicates they bought the patent indirectly from AT&T. Presumably someone working for AT&T invented the technology.
I don't think this is about labor. The Olympics are being held in China because there are about a billion people there who've never had an Olympics in their country, and, if the games are truly global event, the Chinese must be included at some point.
I get it: nothing's good enough for the greens except hunting and gathering. Of course there'd be a sizable faction opposing the hunting part on moral grounds.
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The problem I've seen with plasmas, and I imagine they've gotten better over time, is dithering. For some reason they can't actually produce many colors and have to dither, similar to the old 16-color mode in Windows 3.1. It's worse in the dark scenes mainly because the difference between the extreme blacks generated and the darkest shade of gray is too large. It still beats LCDs,where there is no black at all, but it is annoying.
Thinking back to the olden days, I think CRTs had some of this problem too. Except the fuzziness there was analog and it's digital on a plasma.
3G coverage in the US is fine. AT&T's 3G coverage in the US sucks. They could have gone with any other carrier and made a decent product. It's just some kind of board room politics at the customer's expense.
Exactly. Why pick AT&Ts crappy data network for the iPhone when there are better networks out there? i-Phone. Internet phone. Or something. Point is Woz is right it should be 3G.
Fine I have a ~1 year old Thinkpad T60 about min specs with 2GB RAM (after market upgrade), and it boots much faster than that. Of course that's when I actually reboot and not just bring it back from sleep or hibernate. My guess is you don't have enough RAM for all the software that's starting up at boot time.
Clearly they have not seen "leave Britney alone."
Why don't we ever invade and annex somewhere nice, like French Polynesia?
Well that's just dumb. Mom and pop: meet Costco.
To say passover involves wine is an understatement. IANAJ, but I believe the tradition is 4 glasses. If we use French glasses, traditionally filled, not Holy Grails, that's a whole bottle. Of course we get the impression that people in Biblical times had mad tolerance, so maybe they were sober after that.
So Joe six-pack is now the elite now and Paul Sunday the common man?
Pizza Hut was testing out a voice recognition system in my area. They gave you an incentive if you used it a few times. It worked awesome to me. I'd be interested to see what the general customer response was. It was just a trial BTW, and it hasn't come back.
If these people have any help inside the US/EU, which shouldn't be hard to come by (esp. if you have $$), this is never going to work.
Well that's the problem cooking for one or even two. If you buy normal (sometimes the minimum) amounts from the store you'll be either wasting a lot or eating leftovers for a few days. Even if you can quarter the recipe or whatever, many ingredients go bad quickly. Some stores are WAY better for this than your basic Kroger/Albertson's/Ralphs if you happen to have access to one. Trader Joe's comes to mind but there are smaller stores as well.
Still, $5 is way low for all but the simplest meals. If you stick to veggies you might come close, though.
There's a fine line between fun and boring. Take your food example: EQ1 required you to possess food in your inventory or you die (while you're online). Of course it was eaten automatically. So then it became just another chore to do at the NPC. So there was food that gave you stat bonuses. Great now you can craft it and everything. So... what's the point of the standard vendor food now? Nothing. So why not just take it out and leave the player to worry about other things? LotRo (and probably) others have taken this path.
The problem with walking around rivers is that's not most people's idea of fun either. MMO designers have thus been providing mounts and whatever to allow for large worlds with minimal travel grind. Then nobody wants to walk at all so you have the teleport/spaceport/swift travel. All that said, I think there's a player base out there for an exploration-based MMO. It seems the designers of SWG tried. I haven't played it in a long time, but when I did you mostly explored cookie-cutter worlds full of the same creatures over and over again.
Eh DVD is fine at 42" but real HD content is better. Not enough for me to have bought my own yet, but you can tell.
Unbelievable that you can't play your own discs. Basically you can take HD movies with consumer grade equipment, but sending a copy to your grandparents in a format they can handle without resorting to Video Professor is out of the question. Stupid.
Yeah I know someone who got arrested for "protesting without a permit." In the US. Do the lawmakers even read the names of the crimes they're creating? Makes me sick.
Legalized theft is still theft. Legalized copying on the other hand is just copying.
Incorrect. The proper way twins in nature are produced is by two separate eggs. Also, because babies born as twins are much more likely to be stillborn or disabled, we can assume these sorts of pregnancies are evolutionarily accidental.
Let's be straight here: publishing was this man's work. By publishing on the Internets he was effectively working for someone else, himself. That's a far cry from breathing. Now, is it reasonable to have a contract that says you can't work for someone else at the same time?
By that definition, which I'm not sure is definitive (is there a definitive definition?), this company is not a patent troll (at least this time). The article indicates they bought the patent indirectly from AT&T. Presumably someone working for AT&T invented the technology.
First thing we do. Let's kill all the lawyers!
(Shakespeare in case anyone tries to think I'm taking credit.)
(Facetious in case anyone wants to sue me!)
I don't think this is about labor. The Olympics are being held in China because there are about a billion people there who've never had an Olympics in their country, and, if the games are truly global event, the Chinese must be included at some point.
I get it: nothing's good enough for the greens except hunting and gathering. Of course there'd be a sizable faction opposing the hunting part on moral grounds.
That's the case in the US too. I had the impression it was for every country when I read it in the Economist.