From the etechkorea.info link that someone kindly provided, you can see a picture of the device. It also provides the quote: The seam between the two panels is less than 1 mm. This device doesn't have one LCD screen that folds in half, it's just a device that folds in half and has two side-by-side screens that act as one.
Where I'm really impressed is that this LCD doesn't require power to retain it's image. This really is digital paper in a digital book.
I think Shacknews already got in trouble for putting a.) a picture up from in-game that they didn't have the right to and b.) the pdf from the game. As such, they've already replaced the 'in-game picture' with a quite silly picture of someone with a kitchen knife and the pdf with a one-page info-sheet on the knife (not a license). However, the pdf *does* have the screenshots in it.
To be correct (as opposed to just 'fair'), the Apple model lets you preview the songs before you pay for them. Double-clicking on any song gives a free 30 second preview at high quality, which is more than enough to figure out if you'll like a song. You're comparing facts to falsehoods here.
Apple cost 100,000*0 + 10*0.99 = $9.90 (10 songs that you want to burn to CD - 100,000 that you sampled for *free* but maybe didn't like...)
Real cost 100,000*0 + 2*9.99 + 10*0.79 = $27.88 (10 songs that you want to burn to CD - 100,000 songs you listened to... but it took a second month because there aren't enough seconds in 1 month for that many 30 second clips)
I'm guessing you've already hired someone to take over at this point. I say this because hopefully anything technical that may need to be done to insure a smooth transition won't be performed by your former CTO. This also leads to a less hostile work environment where the CTO doesn't feel you're worried about him doing something damaging.
Assuming that you already have some sort of data backup performed on a semi-regular basis, my first step would be to keep a static copy somewhere in storage. A snapshot like that might prove useful later should something be 'waiting' for him to leave.
As for the proprietary code, if you haven't already worked out the legal ownership issues involved with it, you're a bit late. The less you have in writing already regarding that, the more you should be considering a replacement setup. At the least, you should be requesting documentation for everything that doesn't have it already.
... but this question was answered one way by Yahoo!'s most recent advertising campaign where they claim to be the service to 'meet people' with.
Personally, I'm a big fan of IRC. There are several IRC search engines out there. Make use of one, type in the name of the largest city near you and *presto* people from the local area galore. In fact, that's how I met my wife.
Everyone's always worried about teleportation because of this concept of a 'copy' of the original person. Here's a little thought game that might change your mind.
If your hand got severed in a severe accident and they could reconnect it, but with wires, to the rest of your body, would you still be 'you'? Now lengthen those wires to a mile away. You can still control your hand, are you still 'you'? Now replace those wires with wireless, instantaneous 'action at a distance' connections, allowing you to move your hand from a distance with the power of your own mind. Are you still you? Now think of this barrier of separation slowly moving down the length of your arm, where the vanishing arm is replaced instantly at the other end near your hand. You can see, move and think the entire time and even feel your arm and move it as the process continues.
As long as your thought processes are the ones moving the matter on both ends of the teleportation device, as long as your brain can function in two physcial halves because those halves are effectively connected and whole, there's no copy, there's only *you*. Don't discount the concept because one particular manifestation of it doesn't do what you want.
In reading about the software mentioned, I was more impressed with Peek-a-Booty than Camera/Shy. The ability to make use of 'https' connections to not only get access to prohibited/filtered materials but encrypt them as well (with standards currently accepted as 'unsnoopable' by the business community) makes Peek-a-Booty the posterchild for the Right to Learn and Know. I hope it adds in Freedom of Speech by allowing POST/cgi interaction along those connections.
But that doesn't mean I hate Camera/Shy. It's all about giving people more options to talk to each other. If someone's country has decided to filter what you know, restrict what you say and jail you for just thinking different, I'll give praise to any software, hardware, wetware, lotek or notek method for getting people talking to each other, even if it's just a ROT13 plugin for Eudora.
My first m100's backlight didn't work, right out of the box. CompUSA cheerfully replaced it, no hassels. I needed a cheap PDA that I could read ebooks with and the m100 fit the bill perfectly (especially the one with the working backlight). The only problem I've had since is an issue where it thought a button was being pressed and would only boot into debug mode. Left the batteries out for 3 days and it's good as new (after the HotSync).
Considering the price of the Palm, it's out-performed what I expected, has provided hours of use on end and been one of my best tool investments ever.
Just like teleconferencing, someone will get the bright idea to rent these suits in a confined and standardized 'game arena' that's duplicated all over the world in other buildings and not only will you get to play ARQuake, but you'll get to play it against real opponents who aren't (necessarily) in the same room as you.
You could skip a CRT and head straight to flatpanel to save some of that precious desktop space.
Add a few carefully chosen items with the money you saved in making your own desk, like a translucent USB hub or a set of Harman/Kardon Champagne speakers (save even more space, only 3.5" squared), and you'll be ready for the next SciFi Channel Original casting call.
The only real problem I could forsee with this desk would be trying to use an optical mouse with it.
- Write a utility for OS X and submit it to Versiontracker.com
- Get bitched at for lack of user-friendliness and write a replacement program
- Accidentally find my replacement program listed at Macscripter.net through Google
- Submit an article about the story I noticed there to Macslash.com
- Get my article re-submitted by a third party to Slashdot !
Makes me wonder what I'll have to program next to get an article (re)submitted. I bet it'll be a Gnutella client or something.
Future warning: "How dare you list my program, eat flaming Slashdot!"
If you read this article from the Seattle Times, it talks of Amazon.com's method of 'pro forma' accounting, which seems to be a pretty convenient way to hide expenses from the bottom line.
I'm happy for the supposed turn for the better Amazon.com is experiencing, as much as I am for any bellweather Dot.Com. I'm just not sure I'd want to invest in them personally.
Ironically, the CNN story is also about unbreakable cryptography and how it will benefit from the fact that not only can you split a single photon into two photons, but that the polarizations of the 'sister photons' will forever be entangled and identical.
Slashdot Mirror
From the etechkorea.info link that someone kindly provided, you can see a picture of the device. It also provides the quote: The seam between the two panels is less than 1 mm. This device doesn't have one LCD screen that folds in half, it's just a device that folds in half and has two side-by-side screens that act as one.
Where I'm really impressed is that this LCD doesn't require power to retain it's image. This really is digital paper in a digital book.
I think Shacknews already got in trouble for putting a.) a picture up from in-game that they didn't have the right to and b.) the pdf from the game.
As such, they've already replaced the 'in-game picture' with a quite silly picture of someone with a kitchen knife and the pdf with a one-page info-sheet on the knife (not a license). However, the pdf *does* have the screenshots in it.
To be correct (as opposed to just 'fair'), the Apple model lets you preview the songs before you pay for them. Double-clicking on any song gives a free 30 second preview at high quality, which is more than enough to figure out if you'll like a song. You're comparing facts to falsehoods here.
... but it took a second month because there aren't enough seconds in 1 month for that many 30 second clips)
Apple cost 100,000*0 + 10*0.99 = $9.90 (10 songs that you want to burn to CD - 100,000 that you sampled for *free* but maybe didn't like...)
Real cost 100,000*0 + 2*9.99 + 10*0.79 = $27.88 (10 songs that you want to burn to CD - 100,000 songs you listened to
... considering the article didn't have any.
Try:
www.firstmoto.ch/F6/design/Sparrow.html
I'm guessing you've already hired someone to take over at this point. I say this because hopefully anything technical that may need to be done to insure a smooth transition won't be performed by your former CTO. This also leads to a less hostile work environment where the CTO doesn't feel you're worried about him doing something damaging.
Assuming that you already have some sort of data backup performed on a semi-regular basis, my first step would be to keep a static copy somewhere in storage. A snapshot like that might prove useful later should something be 'waiting' for him to leave.
As for the proprietary code, if you haven't already worked out the legal ownership issues involved with it, you're a bit late. The less you have in writing already regarding that, the more you should be considering a replacement setup. At the least, you should be requesting documentation for everything that doesn't have it already.
Personally, I'm a big fan of IRC. There are several IRC search engines out there. Make use of one, type in the name of the largest city near you and *presto* people from the local area galore. In fact, that's how I met my wife.
Everyone's always worried about teleportation because of this concept of a 'copy' of the original person. Here's a little thought game that might change your mind.
If your hand got severed in a severe accident and they could reconnect it, but with wires, to the rest of your body, would you still be 'you'?
Now lengthen those wires to a mile away. You can still control your hand, are you still 'you'?
Now replace those wires with wireless, instantaneous 'action at a distance' connections, allowing you to move your hand from a distance with the power of your own mind. Are you still you?
Now think of this barrier of separation slowly moving down the length of your arm, where the vanishing arm is replaced instantly at the other end near your hand. You can see, move and think the entire time and even feel your arm and move it as the process continues.
As long as your thought processes are the ones moving the matter on both ends of the teleportation device, as long as your brain can function in two physcial halves because those halves are effectively connected and whole, there's no copy, there's only *you*. Don't discount the concept because one particular manifestation of it doesn't do what you want.
(196) 11000100 + 00100011 = 11100111
Well if we're going this way, then let's make things simple and go to square discs. Much easier geometry for mechanisms that lack spinning.
In reading about the software mentioned, I was more impressed with Peek-a-Booty than Camera/Shy. The ability to make use of 'https' connections to not only get access to prohibited/filtered materials but encrypt them as well (with standards currently accepted as 'unsnoopable' by the business community) makes Peek-a-Booty the posterchild for the Right to Learn and Know. I hope it adds in Freedom of Speech by allowing POST/cgi interaction along those connections.
But that doesn't mean I hate Camera/Shy. It's all about giving people more options to talk to each other. If someone's country has decided to filter what you know, restrict what you say and jail you for just thinking different, I'll give praise to any software, hardware, wetware, lotek or notek method for getting people talking to each other, even if it's just a ROT13 plugin for Eudora.
Didn't you ? It'll make it that much easier to r00t you and probably 90% of your friends.
Considering the price of the Palm, it's out-performed what I expected, has provided hours of use on end and been one of my best tool investments ever.
Just like teleconferencing, someone will get the bright idea to rent these suits in a confined and standardized 'game arena' that's duplicated all over the world in other buildings and not only will you get to play ARQuake, but you'll get to play it against real opponents who aren't (necessarily) in the same room as you.
BoB[C@L-WA] sucks down kILLER-=NYNY=-'s rocket!
You could skip a CRT and head straight to flatpanel to save some of that precious desktop space.
Add a few carefully chosen items with the money you saved in making your own desk, like a translucent USB hub or a set of Harman/Kardon Champagne speakers (save even more space, only 3.5" squared), and you'll be ready for the next SciFi Channel Original casting call.
The only real problem I could forsee with this desk would be trying to use an optical mouse with it.
That's why when *I* submitted the story to Macslash.com, my title said 'thwarted', not 'caught' ;)
.. to get a story posted on Slashdot.
And all it took was:
- Write a utility for OS X and submit it to Versiontracker.com
- Get bitched at for lack of user-friendliness and write a replacement program
- Accidentally find my replacement program listed at Macscripter.net through Google
- Submit an article about the story I noticed there to Macslash.com
- Get my article re-submitted by a third party to Slashdot !
Makes me wonder what I'll have to program next to get an article (re)submitted. I bet it'll be a Gnutella client or something.
Future warning: "How dare you list my program, eat flaming Slashdot!"
If you read this article from the Seattle Times, it talks of Amazon.com's method of 'pro forma' accounting, which seems to be a pretty convenient way to hide expenses from the bottom line.
I'm happy for the supposed turn for the better Amazon.com is experiencing, as much as I am for any bellweather Dot.Com. I'm just not sure I'd want to invest in them personally.
Find it here.
Apparently it's from the 2002 International CES. The page it's from is in Japanese, but has several other pics showing front/back/side.
Oh, here's one more, even closer up, from SuperSite.
But individual photons cannot be split: any photons that Eve intercepts, Bob will surely miss.
Ironically, the CNN story is also about unbreakable cryptography and how it will benefit from the fact that not only can you split a single photon into two photons, but that the polarizations of the 'sister photons' will forever be entangled and identical.
Sounds to me like Eve has it pretty easy.
Wewps.