... but remember the 2 things that make these games great in the day was that they were fun for the sake of fun and they ran on very little resources.
So while thay might be redundant on PC's they make great games for PDAs. Just look at Pop-Cap Games. Diamond Mind, Dynomite and many other great fun games.
And there are the PC classics that are still fun on a PDA, like Astroids, Space Invaders and tetris...
So i feel that theses games make great PDA games, letting you kill time quickly on that long daily commute.
One other reason all this can be done lawfully in India is because Indian law has a really view on foregn patents and thus, alot of it doesn't apply in India.
Soemthing about having to apply for tha same patant in India seperately from your US and other patents.
Actualy, one way to do it is to keep it in a UV+IR filtered case, displace all the air with ozone, then displace that with nitrogen.
That way, what ever that was in there would have been killed by the ozone then if it wasn't killed, it'll have to live in an oxygen and CO2 free enviorment. Add to that, all things plant based would die because there would be the lack of UV light for photosyntesis and at the same time, you don't get the damage UV deals on sensitive materials.
But you have to understand the potential energy of a hydrocarbon molecule.
What we have now is like screaming down the highway in a 3 litre V8, getting out and then asking the same of an electric car. And to boot, that hydrocarbon car isn't even very efficient.
What we need is a car that will compare to that of one driven by hydrocarbons, but only cleaner. Seems to me, a more effiecient Hydrogen car or even a hybred for new is better then pure electric.
But i think tah the current MS corporate culture will actualy bode well foe MS in global market. Currently, peopel from the nations you mentioned as real competitors for MS are grossly underpaid and over worked if you compare it to US standards.
MS only route to staying ahead in the international market is to do a HSBC. Where you start employing local peopel 'localise' your software. As such, with MS's image as an employer that will take care of you, you are more likely to leave whoever you work for to work for MS, allowing MS to skim off the best.
Hell, with my US$1.3/hr wage here in Asia, I'd jump at the chance to work for a company that will actualy feed me lunch on the lunch alone. Let's not even get into the rest of the perks.
That they actualy invent this. I've actualy had the idea of a ReWritable CD-ROM/RW Combo Disk for a while, but it's A BaD Thing(TM).. Think Of the implications.
When anyone ships a CD, The CD-Key is on a piece of paper that you have to type in. but never in the CD as data, thats why a KeyGen will work. This is because when you stamp a CD, you can't change anyhting on it.
This new CD will take away that limitation. Just Imagine, now M$ will have a way to serialise every copy of windows it ships, on the DATA TRACK ITSELF! This will give them the ability to track where each and every install is.. I dread to think about the privacy implications.
I must be one of the first to own an SJ33....
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Palm PDA Roundup
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· Score: 3, Informative
Anyway, the SJ33 does live up to it's claims. I've been playing MP3s on this baby with the screen ON, and 3 hours later i've only used up 20+% of the battery life.
The only thing i dislike about it is the really expensive Memory Stick. But then, which other company makes a Palm OS based PDA with an audio system that can stand up to the Clie's? It's basicly a Mem Stick Walkman seamlessly married into a PDA + extra.
Speaking of PalmIII, I ordered The Clie SJ33 just last week to replace my PalmIIIxe, and it's due to be delivered today, how not to have a sotry on Slashdot about it too.:)
By the way, webpage fo rthe SJ33 is here.
http://www.sonystyle.com.my/clie/app/sj33/index. js p
i don't see a techincal problem with the idea....
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Instant Concert CDs?
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.. As we all know, all concerts today depend on a sound system, there for it's just a matter of hooking up a line from the console to a PC (or an array of PCs, for redundency) and recording.
So by the time the shows over, you'll have an ISO ready to burn. With industrial CD duplicators, the ones that have sort of a beowulf of many, many CD Writers, you'll have 100's of CD's by the time the fans get to the gate. The covers and lables can be pre-printed after all.
You can even sell it like hot cakes, say you don't have enough, it'll take only what? 5 minutes to toast another batch?
The WB 4D/3D flick "Space Jam" came out as a work reel too. You could see the blue screens and portions where the loony toons were either not in it at all or in pre-texture stages.
Poor translation as it is, is a cronic disorder in Asia. I'm in Malaysia, and anyone who has ever seen terrestial TV here will attest to the fact that the TV stations make acute (and hilarious) errors in translations, espacially from English to Bahasa.
Anyway, I've seen my share of pirated movies, and the ones during initial relese really tend to be crap. So crap, it drives people in doves to trow money at the local cineplex. But soemthing of a niche in the Pirated DVD industry is the exact bootlegging of orginal DVDs. They command the same price, but they come with everything the orginals have, the sub titles, trailers, special fetures, the works. I've even seen an exact copy of the Band of Brothers Boxset! The whole series, plus the making and the documentary. All for what is 12 USD.
And it's all good for the consumers as the movie industry can't F* us over by marking up prices. All tickets for a movie used to be RM10 (US$2.60) here. But after fighting a futile battle with pirates, average prices have dropped to RM8 and weekday mavies have droped to RM6, RM5 if you're not in an urban area.
Have you seen the 22-Inch Apple Cinematic Display?
The point is, I think LCDs have come a long way, pictures are sharper, colours more brillient, and refreshs fast enough to fool the eye. Plus, they don't comsume as much energy as CRTs, don't have a problem with magnetic fields and don't need annoying screen filters.
The only thing now is to improve yields as costs are high due to bad pixle rejections...
the whole matter whould be solved if we all just started signing all our mail. that way, we can have mail filters weed out everything but signed mail from peopel we want mail from.
Lets say this is implimented. Since it's on the OS level, it'll be kinda hard to bypass and since there is nolonger a lower level OS like DOS running below XP, what if things moved to the hardware level?
Whats to stop peopel from creating a cheap PCI device, much akin to a PS2 mod chip (without the licensing shit), where it will intercept the CD-DA signal from the CD-ROM drive's Digital Audio cable, and create a WAV from it just as if it were captured from the Analog inputs, but without the DAC->ADC loss? Hell, all you really need is to reprogram a cheap soundcard and it'll do the trick.
Even better if you had a board that intercepts via the IDE cable.
but is disagree with the privacy issue, lets say that they can clock your phone and pass teh info along to the cops, but if you have a prepaid account, how do they know it's yours?
I very much agree with the sentiment that IT is not working in education. An observation I've made in respect to the situation where I'm from is this.
There's the dream and there's reality. The dream is that in 'Smart Schools' teachers will use projectors and computers as aids and teach with interactive content and the Internet, assignments/homework will be given virtually and exams sat for the same way.
The reality is that most teachers are tecnophobic, there is little educational software available for the curriculum and students being kids will always find ways to beat security and muck up the system. That and the cost of such systems make them prohibitive to set up on a national scale, especially with present economic conditions.
But as most of us would agree, the technological aspect can be fine tuned to the point where it's perfect for the job. But the main issue here are the teachers themselves. Where most of them are trained in the conventional way of teaching, motivating them to quickly change and switch over to using computers and IT in every aspect of teaching is a feat of social engineering that is nearly impossible.
So I feel that all this about computers in education is over-rated. Sure, one day the dream will come true, but the move towards it must be slow and done with respect to the way things are being done now. Teachers, students and administrators alike most first be accustomed to technology, then the progressively increasing use of technology as aids, before the full blown use of IT in education.
... The Duex Mp3 player cum thumb drive is actualy an OEM of a cheap made in China mp3 player. it sounds good, nice headphones the blue LCD shows track info as well. the 128 mb flash is good but non expandable. The finish of it is kinda cheap looking in real life but thats about it. As with all things out of China beware it might fail on you.
The Logitec Pocket Cam, while nicely finished in sleek metal and it's Li-Polymer batery, it's picture quality indoors is just plain horrible due to lack of a flash. I know, I've tried it.
That and another reason.
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Before broadband, you guys in the US get cable TV via those land lines that now provide internet access. So when broadband came, all your cable operators did were capitalise on a pre-existing piece of infrastructure.
Where as in other countries (or at least here in Malaysian where i am), we don't get cable TV but satellite TV. As such for broadband, to lay down cable as a last mile solution is a very costly exercise and also time consuming. As such, the best solution is to take avantage of another piece of pre-existing infrastructure - telephone lines. After all, it's much cheaper to run fibre to the local switch then to run cable to every home.
So i belive that the cost of it all is what drives DSL.
If the record companies make CD to be defective on normal users' PCs, users who don't know how to circumvent copy protection and firewall themselves, then they put in spyware on it hoping to gather statistics on them each time they play it on their PCs... Sounds rather catch-22 to me...
... this could be a good thing. Knowing the corruption that runs rampant through the Indian Goverment, where everyone has a price, all we need is someone to come up with a reasonable amount of cash and we may have the souce code for windows in the wild.
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... but remember the 2 things that make these games great in the day was that they were fun for the sake of fun and they ran on very little resources.
So while thay might be redundant on PC's they make great games for PDAs. Just look at Pop-Cap Games. Diamond Mind, Dynomite and many other great fun games.
And there are the PC classics that are still fun on a PDA, like Astroids, Space Invaders and tetris...
So i feel that theses games make great PDA games, letting you kill time quickly on that long daily commute.
One other reason all this can be done lawfully in India is because Indian law has a really view on foregn patents and thus, alot of it doesn't apply in India.
Soemthing about having to apply for tha same patant in India seperately from your US and other patents.
Actualy, one way to do it is to keep it in a UV+IR filtered case, displace all the air with ozone, then displace that with nitrogen.
That way, what ever that was in there would have been killed by the ozone then if it wasn't killed, it'll have to live in an oxygen and CO2 free enviorment. Add to that, all things plant based would die because there would be the lack of UV light for photosyntesis and at the same time, you don't get the damage UV deals on sensitive materials.
But you have to understand the potential energy of a hydrocarbon molecule.
What we have now is like screaming down the highway in a 3 litre V8, getting out and then asking the same of an electric car. And to boot, that hydrocarbon car isn't even very efficient.
What we need is a car that will compare to that of one driven by hydrocarbons, but only cleaner. Seems to me, a more effiecient Hydrogen car or even a hybred for new is better then pure electric.
But i think tah the current MS corporate culture will actualy bode well foe MS in global market. Currently, peopel from the nations you mentioned as real competitors for MS are grossly underpaid and over worked if you compare it to US standards.
MS only route to staying ahead in the international market is to do a HSBC. Where you start employing local peopel 'localise' your software. As such, with MS's image as an employer that will take care of you, you are more likely to leave whoever you work for to work for MS, allowing MS to skim off the best.
Hell, with my US$1.3/hr wage here in Asia, I'd jump at the chance to work for a company that will actualy feed me lunch on the lunch alone. Let's not even get into the rest of the perks.
That they actualy invent this. I've actualy had the idea of a ReWritable CD-ROM/RW Combo Disk for a while, but it's A BaD Thing(TM).. Think Of the implications.
When anyone ships a CD, The CD-Key is on a piece of paper that you have to type in. but never in the CD as data, thats why a KeyGen will work. This is because when you stamp a CD, you can't change anyhting on it.
This new CD will take away that limitation. Just Imagine, now M$ will have a way to serialise every copy of windows it ships, on the DATA TRACK ITSELF! This will give them the ability to track where each and every install is.. I dread to think about the privacy implications.
Anyway, the SJ33 does live up to it's claims. I've been playing MP3s on this baby with the screen ON, and 3 hours later i've only used up 20+% of the battery life.
The only thing i dislike about it is the really expensive Memory Stick. But then, which other company makes a Palm OS based PDA with an audio system that can stand up to the Clie's? It's basicly a Mem Stick Walkman seamlessly married into a PDA + extra.
... is STILL a BIOS!
Really, what we need is a way to get stright into the OS without a boot time (or at least a milisecond one). Just like the Palm OS except for PCs.
Speaking of PalmIII, I ordered The Clie SJ33 just last week to replace my PalmIIIxe, and it's due to be delivered today, how not to have a sotry on Slashdot about it too. :)
. js p
By the way, webpage fo rthe SJ33 is here.
http://www.sonystyle.com.my/clie/app/sj33/index
.. As we all know, all concerts today depend on a sound system, there for it's just a matter of hooking up a line from the console to a PC (or an array of PCs, for redundency) and recording.
So by the time the shows over, you'll have an ISO ready to burn. With industrial CD duplicators, the ones that have sort of a beowulf of many, many CD Writers, you'll have 100's of CD's by the time the fans get to the gate. The covers and lables can be pre-printed after all.
You can even sell it like hot cakes, say you don't have enough, it'll take only what? 5 minutes to toast another batch?
The WB 4D/3D flick "Space Jam" came out as a work reel too. You could see the blue screens and portions where the loony toons were either not in it at all or in pre-texture stages.
Poor translation as it is, is a cronic disorder in Asia. I'm in Malaysia, and anyone who has ever seen terrestial TV here will attest to the fact that the TV stations make acute (and hilarious) errors in translations, espacially from English to Bahasa.
Anyway, I've seen my share of pirated movies, and the ones during initial relese really tend to be crap. So crap, it drives people in doves to trow money at the local cineplex. But soemthing of a niche in the Pirated DVD industry is the exact bootlegging of orginal DVDs. They command the same price, but they come with everything the orginals have, the sub titles, trailers, special fetures, the works. I've even seen an exact copy of the Band of Brothers Boxset! The whole series, plus the making and the documentary. All for what is 12 USD.
And it's all good for the consumers as the movie industry can't F* us over by marking up prices. All tickets for a movie used to be RM10 (US$2.60) here. But after fighting a futile battle with pirates, average prices have dropped to RM8 and weekday mavies have droped to RM6, RM5 if you're not in an urban area.
.. use mozilla. (Or Netscape7)
Have you seen the 22-Inch Apple Cinematic Display?
The point is, I think LCDs have come a long way, pictures are sharper, colours more brillient, and refreshs fast enough to fool the eye. Plus, they don't comsume as much energy as CRTs, don't have a problem with magnetic fields and don't need annoying screen filters.
The only thing now is to improve yields as costs are high due to bad pixle rejections...
Now, where to get my radiation fix.....
...about car manufacturers who boast about their cars being easily recycled instead of their cars being engineered to last a lifetime?
the whole matter whould be solved if we all just started signing all our mail. that way, we can have mail filters weed out everything but signed mail from peopel we want mail from.
Lets say this is implimented. Since it's on the OS level, it'll be kinda hard to bypass and since there is nolonger a lower level OS like DOS running below XP, what if things moved to the hardware level?
Whats to stop peopel from creating a cheap PCI device, much akin to a PS2 mod chip (without the licensing shit), where it will intercept the CD-DA signal from the CD-ROM drive's Digital Audio cable, and create a WAV from it just as if it were captured from the Analog inputs, but without the DAC->ADC loss? Hell, all you really need is to reprogram a cheap soundcard and it'll do the trick.
Even better if you had a board that intercepts via the IDE cable.
And he's currently on tour in Malaysia. He'll be here till the 26th of January.
but is disagree with the privacy issue, lets say that they can clock your phone and pass teh info along to the cops, but if you have a prepaid account, how do they know it's yours?
I very much agree with the sentiment that IT is not working in education. An observation I've made in respect to the situation where I'm from is this.
There's the dream and there's reality. The dream is that in 'Smart Schools' teachers will use projectors and computers as aids and teach with interactive content and the Internet, assignments/homework will be given virtually and exams sat for the same way.
The reality is that most teachers are tecnophobic, there is little educational software available for the curriculum and students being kids will always find ways to beat security and muck up the system. That and the cost of such systems make them prohibitive to set up on a national scale, especially with present economic conditions.
But as most of us would agree, the technological aspect can be fine tuned to the point where it's perfect for the job. But the main issue here are the teachers themselves. Where most of them are trained in the conventional way of teaching, motivating them to quickly change and switch over to using computers and IT in every aspect of teaching is a feat of social engineering that is nearly impossible.
So I feel that all this about computers in education is over-rated. Sure, one day the dream will come true, but the move towards it must be slow and done with respect to the way things are being done now. Teachers, students and administrators alike most first be accustomed to technology, then the progressively increasing use of technology as aids, before the full blown use of IT in education.
Congress... The oppersite of Progress.
*With regards with the genius who came up with that.
The only way i'll pay that sort of money is if that telescope was mounted on a Satellite and pointed at earth.
Can you just imagine the coolness of a hi rez orbiting telescope you could control over the net?
*Whips out PDA*
... The Duex Mp3 player cum thumb drive is actualy an OEM of a cheap made in China mp3 player. it sounds good, nice headphones the blue LCD shows track info as well. the 128 mb flash is good but non expandable. The finish of it is kinda cheap looking in real life but thats about it. As with all things out of China beware it might fail on you. The Logitec Pocket Cam, while nicely finished in sleek metal and it's Li-Polymer batery, it's picture quality indoors is just plain horrible due to lack of a flash. I know, I've tried it.
Before broadband, you guys in the US get cable TV via those land lines that now provide internet access. So when broadband came, all your cable operators did were capitalise on a pre-existing piece of infrastructure.
Where as in other countries (or at least here in Malaysian where i am), we don't get cable TV but satellite TV. As such for broadband, to lay down cable as a last mile solution is a very costly exercise and also time consuming. As such, the best solution is to take avantage of another piece of pre-existing infrastructure - telephone lines. After all, it's much cheaper to run fibre to the local switch then to run cable to every home.
So i belive that the cost of it all is what drives DSL.
If the record companies make CD to be defective on normal users' PCs, users who don't know how to circumvent copy protection and firewall themselves, then they put in spyware on it hoping to gather statistics on them each time they play it on their PCs... Sounds rather catch-22 to me...
... this could be a good thing. Knowing the corruption that runs rampant through the Indian Goverment, where everyone has a price, all we need is someone to come up with a reasonable amount of cash and we may have the souce code for windows in the wild.