Following the reviews of Remote Central, I picked up a Sony RM-VL900 a few months ago. Admittedly it may be more than $50 (I got mine for $59.99 at Best Buy) but you should be able to hunt around a get it for close to that price point.
It is truly universal - the codes in the manual covered all of my equipment except for a few buttons on the DVD changer and the Receiver. They were absolute cake to learn with the original remotes, though.
The range is solid for a remote in this price bracket, and it's taken more abuse over the last 4 months than many of my previous original and universal remotes. Dropping, sitting on, stepping on, etc.
I've had a few touch screens in the past and even allowing for their superior flexibility in programming and button labeling, etc etc, this is my favorite of all the universal remotes I've tried. Just can't beat the tactility of the hard buttons, anyway.;)
The local arcade has a drum arcade game and an electric guitar one also. I am not surprised that they would make something similar for home consoles.
Me neither, considering the drum arcade game (Percussion Freaks in the states or Drum Mania in other markets) and the guitar arcade game (Guitar Freaks) have been available on both Playstations for years with drum and guitar controllers included. Granted, mainly as imports from Asia but popular ones, at that.
I love Nintendo but as a fan of Percussion Freaks, both in the arcade and at home, I must point out there's nothing truly original about this game.
However, experience with Nintendo's development encourages that it will be extremely polished and extremely fun. I hope it see's a wide stateside release to continue to bring this genre to the common American.:)
The question is, would the movie going public accept that a younger Bilbo look the same as the one they saw in the movie theatres?
I would wager yes, as the introduction to Fellowship contained the sequence of flashback scenes describing the history of the One Ring and the "younger" Bilbo finding the ring was very clearly shown.
"The dash gauges are a pretty informative mix of what's going on. It has a instant mpg bar that goes up n down as you drive, as well as displaying the overall mpg for a trip mileage. (2 of these). One I have on total vehicle mileage so I can see what I'm getting as I continue driving. The other I use for various trips to see what different types of driving produce fuel economy wise."
My parent's 1988 Ford Aerostar had all that. My dad's 95 VW Jetta had that, as does my brother's 2000 Jetta. I'm sort of amused that most people haven't had this kind of thing for years.
I think you missed a key point - he's not talking about mileage, he's talking about a REALTIME miles-per-gallon display. That is the instantaneous mpg your vehicle is traveling at a moment in time. I have a 2000 Jetta with every option, and unless he added it afterwards, your brother does NOT have this option.:)
On a different note on this feature, the only cars I've seen with a real-time mpg display before the hybrids started coming out was all the BMWs (that I've driven) for the last decade or so. It is a very handy feature that I think more cars SHOULD have. It's amazing to see how little changing your highway speed in a BMW M3, for example, makes the different between a constant 20mpg on the highway and between a constant 25-30mpg.
It's also very amusing to watch your realtime mpg when you're jaunting around a racetrack. If you want to see how hard you're really driving the car, it's alot more telling to watch the mpg instead of the speedometer or even the tach. I still get a thrill everytime I blip the throttle to downshift to third at turn 11 at Thunderhill and watch the mpg dial spike from 20 to almost zero in an instant.:)
...there's a reason he doesn't post any real data regarding how much colder it kept the beer than without the cooler.
I quote from the last page of his site, which was not at all difficult to miss if you rtfa - " The temperature in the glass was roughly 22C before I poured in the beer. The beer is from the fridge and has a temperature of 8C." and then "The temperature stabilized around 7C."
These comments on the temperatures being interspersed with pictures of the thermostat showing it in action.
Granted, he doesn't talk about the performance before hand, but since the first picture shows a baseline of 19 C outside and the temperature stabilzied colder than fridge temperature, I'm assuming it was quite effective.
Scratch that. I'll rtfa a little more carefully. 0.0.1 to 0.1.0 in 11 days is a bit more confidence inspiring, I suppose. Still looking forward to breaking it:)
but if you were considering deploying this on any server of major importance, you may want to notice that they moved from 0.0.1 release to 1.0 release in 11 days. I for one, am now even more eager to fire up this patch and then break it.:)
I would point out that we're still barely talking about double digit numbers of wiretaps here. ("16", "18")
Those of you with nightmares about everybody in the US being tapped can move along, because there's very little to see.
I am not a huge conspiracy theorist myself, but playing devil's advocate on this is irresistable - do you really think that simply because the agency reported only 16 or 18 wiretaps for the given years that only 16 or 18 actually took place?
Isn't the worry of all the 1984-ists out there not about the wiretaps the government legally executes but about the ones you never hear about?
I will not likely buy another book in any "in 21 Days" or "in 24 Hours" or any similar format again. While they may provide a quick intro, it seems to be a week format if you plan to continue in the subject.
I disagree. Isn't the "In 7 Days" format the week one?
What or who determines the "evilness" or "goodness" of the packet? If a security admin or OS can determine or flag bits as good, what keeps the hacker from spoofing this process by setting the bit to "good"? Does the bit change based on behavior? Or maybe a database with signatures of "bad" bits?
(name deleted) Microsoft Corporation
Dear (name deleted),
The complete protocol is not yet formalized, but you can be assured that any packet from your companies domain should have the bit set.
Signed, -All irrational slashdot readers who flame MS as a reflex
Slashdot Mirror
Hahaha
...
Commodore. Poke around. Ha ha.
I just took a peek and I don't have any mod points to mod you funny.
*ducks*
Following the reviews of Remote Central, I picked up a Sony RM-VL900 a few months ago. Admittedly it may be more than $50 (I got mine for $59.99 at Best Buy) but you should be able to hunt around a get it for close to that price point.
;)
It is truly universal - the codes in the manual covered all of my equipment except for a few buttons on the DVD changer and the Receiver. They were absolute cake to learn with the original remotes, though.
The range is solid for a remote in this price bracket, and it's taken more abuse over the last 4 months than many of my previous original and universal remotes. Dropping, sitting on, stepping on, etc.
I've had a few touch screens in the past and even allowing for their superior flexibility in programming and button labeling, etc etc, this is my favorite of all the universal remotes I've tried. Just can't beat the tactility of the hard buttons, anyway.
Check it out!
The local arcade has a drum arcade game and an electric guitar one also. I am not surprised that they would make something similar for home consoles.
:)
Me neither, considering the drum arcade game (Percussion Freaks in the states or Drum Mania in other markets) and the guitar arcade game (Guitar Freaks) have been available on both Playstations for years with drum and guitar controllers included. Granted, mainly as imports from Asia but popular ones, at that.
I love Nintendo but as a fan of Percussion Freaks, both in the arcade and at home, I must point out there's nothing truly original about this game.
However, experience with Nintendo's development encourages that it will be extremely polished and extremely fun. I hope it see's a wide stateside release to continue to bring this genre to the common American.
The question is, would the movie going public accept that a younger Bilbo look the same as the one they saw in the movie theatres?
I would wager yes, as the introduction to Fellowship contained the sequence of flashback scenes describing the history of the One Ring and the "younger" Bilbo finding the ring was very clearly shown.
Heard sometime in San Angeles, 2025 to explain things to a visitor from another time - "Now all restaurants are Walmart."
Forget striking a deal, just ship a bunch of packages all over the place, and track where they go. :)
:)
I can see magical interstates appearing in map databases that connect major parcel carrying hub cities in straight lines. Incredible!
Thank you! :)
Recognition achieved.
Didn't you mean "Sunday! Sunday! Someday!"?
*looks hopingly into the audience for recognition*
"The dash gauges are a pretty informative mix of what's going on. It has a instant mpg bar that goes up n down as you drive, as well as displaying the overall mpg for a trip mileage. (2 of these). One I have on total vehicle mileage so I can see what I'm getting as I continue driving. The other I use for various trips to see what different types of driving produce fuel economy wise."
:)
:)
My parent's 1988 Ford Aerostar had all that. My dad's 95 VW Jetta had that, as does my brother's 2000 Jetta. I'm sort of amused that most people haven't had this kind of thing for years.
I think you missed a key point - he's not talking about mileage, he's talking about a REALTIME miles-per-gallon display. That is the instantaneous mpg your vehicle is traveling at a moment in time. I have a 2000 Jetta with every option, and unless he added it afterwards, your brother does NOT have this option.
On a different note on this feature, the only cars I've seen with a real-time mpg display before the hybrids started coming out was all the BMWs (that I've driven) for the last decade or so. It is a very handy feature that I think more cars SHOULD have. It's amazing to see how little changing your highway speed in a BMW M3, for example, makes the different between a constant 20mpg on the highway and between a constant 25-30mpg.
It's also very amusing to watch your realtime mpg when you're jaunting around a racetrack. If you want to see how hard you're really driving the car, it's alot more telling to watch the mpg instead of the speedometer or even the tach. I still get a thrill everytime I blip the throttle to downshift to third at turn 11 at Thunderhill and watch the mpg dial spike from 20 to almost zero in an instant.
> Lucky for me, I have 100 lives!
I am so honored to actually get this post and hope that at least 4 +1 funny mods also get it. I tip my hat to you, sir.
Within three years it will be a violation of federal law to not own an X-box ?
C'mon now, thats funny.
Yeah, reality is funny...
"Mozilla is the browser on Linux"
. ."
I think you got that wrong, the correct spelling is:
Konqueror
"I'll have a coffee"
"Beer it is"
"No, coffee..."
"Beer..."
"Cof-fee"
"Be-er"
"C..o.
"B..e..."
They forgot Planet X!!!
Conversely, depending on your current beliefs on the state of the Solar System, "What the hell is Pluto doing in there?"
So that's why my monitor keeps disappearing if I look at it for more than a few mi... oh...
Seeing no +1 funnys applied to parent, methinks there has been many-a-"whoosh" over a number of readers' heads....
And I'm in San Luis Obispo, CA and I don't see you online! :)
...there's a reason he doesn't post any real data regarding how much colder it kept the beer than without the cooler.
I quote from the last page of his site, which was not at all difficult to miss if you rtfa - " The temperature in the glass was roughly 22C before I poured in the beer. The beer is from the fridge and has a temperature of 8C." and then "The temperature stabilized around 7C."
These comments on the temperatures being interspersed with pictures of the thermostat showing it in action.
Granted, he doesn't talk about the performance before hand, but since the first picture shows a baseline of 19 C outside and the temperature stabilzied colder than fridge temperature, I'm assuming it was quite effective.
Where do you find a large communication node in the middle of the ocean, smarty pants?
HavenCo, operating Six miles off the Eastern shore of Britain, smarty pants.
Scratch that. I'll rtfa a little more carefully. 0.0.1 to 0.1.0 in 11 days is a bit more confidence inspiring, I suppose. Still looking forward to breaking it :)
but if you were considering deploying this on any server of major importance, you may want to notice that they moved from 0.0.1 release to 1.0 release in 11 days. I for one, am now even more eager to fire up this patch and then break it. :)
Then again, it's it good that they are not the size of a VW.
Or worse yet, the size of a L.O.C....
I would point out that we're still barely talking about double digit numbers of wiretaps here. ("16", "18")
Those of you with nightmares about everybody in the US being tapped can move along, because there's very little to see.
I am not a huge conspiracy theorist myself, but playing devil's advocate on this is irresistable - do you really think that simply because the agency reported only 16 or 18 wiretaps for the given years that only 16 or 18 actually took place?
Isn't the worry of all the 1984-ists out there not about the wiretaps the government legally executes but about the ones you never hear about?
the T-800 will kick Neo's ass.
Umm.... "There is no T-800."
And it seems that AtariMagazines should've at least upgraded it's web servers from TRS-80 model 4s to the model 12...
Or maybe the second floppy drive on the server went bad. Who knows?
I was going to read these all, but I guess it will have to wait until tommorrow.
I will not likely buy another book in any "in 21 Days" or "in 24 Hours" or any similar format again. While they may provide a quick intro, it seems to be a week format if you plan to continue in the subject.
I disagree. Isn't the "In 7 Days" format the week one?
Good Afternoon,
What or who determines the "evilness" or "goodness" of the packet? If a security admin or OS can determine or flag bits as good, what keeps the hacker from spoofing this process by setting the bit to "good"? Does the bit change based on behavior? Or maybe a database with signatures of "bad" bits?
(name deleted)
Microsoft Corporation
Dear (name deleted),
The complete protocol is not yet formalized, but you can be assured that any packet from your companies domain should have the bit set.
Signed,
-All irrational slashdot readers who flame MS as a reflex
(it's a joke, people)