It might be prosecuted under the old subliminal advertising laws. You'll note that advertisers didn't really fight those laws, since most scientific evidence since has shown that subliminal advertising just doesn't work. AFAIK, the only study that ever showed any possible results from subliminal advertising was the one that the guy who was trying to sell the subliminal advertising machines did.
No, instead you hear the complaints from the people who tried to plug their DVD player into their TV/VCR combo and found that it didn't work because of Macrovision. That one got my girlfriend, she ended up having to bum a 9" TV from her Mom and hook up an RF converter to use her DVD player. She was _not_ happy with Macrovision. As far as I can tell, the tape pirates don't seem to be slowed down much by Macrovision either.
The problem with this is that laptop HDDs are _slow_ and they're shipping with more and more memory these days. It can take a couple of minutes to write 256MB to the HDD, and another couple of minutes to restore it when the laptop is brought back to life. That's painful.
What kind of POS laptop do you have? I have to make sure never to get one of those. Even my crappy Dell laptop knows how to sleep (turn off the display, halt the CPU, leave the memory in refresh-only mode, spin down the HDD, shut down the external interface cards, etc...) correctly. All it takes is closing the lid and I can put the laptop in a bag and take it anywhere. When I pop the lid back up it's running in 2 seconds (the time it takes to reprobe the hardware and get the display framebuffer back up). It takes a bit more power than hibernate mode (which writes the contents of memory to disc and completely shuts down the machine), but the difference is negligable (the batteries are still "full" after 3-4 days in the bag in sleep mode, I've never really tested it harder than that).
You forgot about getting permission from the uppity HOA to get permission to install the solar cells in the first place. That's what's currently killing me, as the HOA considers solar cells an eyesore that will reduce the property values. While I havn't had much luck finding evidence to the contrary, I do find that hard to believe.
That's one of those applications that screw up the 7x0 series. It's designed for a smaller screen (and one that cannot be rotated), so when you load it up the Zaurus has to resample the pixels and it ends up looking terrible. Plus If you're in notebook mode the screen is sideways. These also tend to screw up the fonts on the Zaurus, which means you have to reboot to get it working again.
I have both a Palm VIIx (got from work) and a Zaurus SL-C750 (also from work). When I got the Zaurus I seriously considered dumping the Palm, but I havn't yet. While the Zaurus is much _much_ more power, it is not nearly as polished (I'm running the English hacked ROM from the Cacko team) as the Palm. The address book and scheduler just aren't there yet on the Zaurus. The keyboard input is great, but their handwriting recognition is the pits, which is a pain when I swich it into PDA mode. Oddly, the Palm (which I have overclocked to 32Mhz) feels snappier. The Zaurus has this annoying delay every time you turn it on. I also have a metric crapload of third party software installed on the VIIx, and havn't been able to give up the web clipping stuff I've set up yet (this won't be a problem once those 3G Cell Modem CF cards come out though). It's slow going installing stuff on the Zaurus though, because you have to pretty much port everything yourself, since the software compiled for the 7xxx series Zaurus's tends to break the 7x0 series.
On the other hand, the Zaurus has a lot of cool features. My officemate transcoded the LOTR movie into a WMV he can play directly off of an IBM microdrive (it looks _nice_). The Zaurus has a full web browser (Opera) including a PDF reader, which is nice when I'm close enough to an 802.11b access point to use it. The screen completely blows away the Palm (640x480!) which is nice for ebook reading (although there are no ebook readers for the Zaurus that can hold a candle to Weasel AFAIK. I've been HTMLifying the books and using Opera, which is suboptimal). The terminal on the Zaurus is very nice, although the keyboard is not designed for terminal work (^V sends a paste, although ^C works ask you'd expect, although to even get control you have to remap the kana key.
Overall, both devices are nice, but neither eclipses the other's functionality at this point. I don't like how the Zaurus has it's built in battery, I much prefer using rechargable AAAs like the Palm so I can swap them out when they get low. This has been an annoyance because the Zaurus is rather power hungry and you have to keep the charging brick around if you want to use it for more than a few hours at a time, unlike the Palm where I can read an entire ebook before I need to replace the battery. I know the battery will be expensive to replace when it wears out too.
Hmm, that's pretty rambling. Lets just say that different people will prefer different devices based on their needs.
Does this mean that the first person who hacks the transmitter's signal to track down the winning can gets to claim the prize? I don't think this will ever work because most cans are stored in places that don't get good GPS reception (buildings, steel machines, trucks, etc...) and the transmit out (presumably a cell connection?) is another matter entirely.
plus it's a little creepy having Coke track down the winners like that. What's next? A tiny transmitter in the cola itself that the "winner" swallows so Coke can track them even if they put the can down?
Reminds me of a commercial I saw awhile back. A salaryman in an office is crumbling up a bag of chips and dumping it on his keyboard, then he opens the window and leaves. In comes a pigeon that starts hopping around and tapping on the keys, trying to get at the crumbs. out in the hallway a boss-guy walks by and pauses at the door for a second. He hears a tapping sound and walks away happy, thinking his drone is hard at work. The scene cuts to a bar where the guy is popping a beer (which is I think what the ad was selling) and muttering some comment about working hard.
I know some guys who whenever they walk up to a Linux box hit ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X and force init to restart xdm for precisely this purpose. It's not so easy to do on Suns though. Besides, sophisticated password grabbers wouldn't put up a coredump message (you never know when a guru is going to come by and figure out what you're up to), they'll just log you in as normal using the name and password you just supplied.
Also, the prices charged for individual channels, such as ESPN, are quite high per cable subscriber. You aren't just paying for access to cable -- you are paying for the content as well even if you are just getting basic (since this usually is more than just local channels and shopping channels). Other than the local channels (which must be carried) and the shopping channels (which pay your cable company to be on their system), each channel has a cost to the system that carries it. Not surprisingly, ESPN and CNN are among the most-expensive cable channels because everyone wants them. Throw in the package deals and the cost of the cable plant, and the "basic" cable cost soon gets fairly high.
This is exactly the reason I want the ability to choose which channels to get. Sure, I assume it's almost free to the cable company to carry QVC, but it's not like I care about it. I'd be more than happy to dump ESPN and CNN and all of the other useless channels I get if it ment $10-$15 off my monthly cable bill. Hell, the only reason I'm keeping it now is the Daily Show and my GFs college classes that require you to watch the public access channel at a certain time each week to get part of the material.
Er, wouldn't the ground pressure of a 600t boulder cause the ground to deform and close off those little "pockets of safety" I guess if the boulder weighs 600t but is a cube with 1000km sides or something the ant could surivive.
This is the approach I started with Harry Potter. I watched the first two movies, then read the books. There are some things that work better in the movies than in the books IMHO. Anyway, after watching the movies, I wasn't disappointed by the books, rather I liked getting the story again with more depth. Granted, my mental image of the characters changed while reading the books (Hagrid is a lot bigger in the books for instance), but that was fine. Unfortunatly I blew past the movies and finished all of the other books as well, so I'm bound to be disappointed when the movies come out.
I'll bet they can do better than 500G/18 minutes. With a resolution that large, there is going to be a whole lot of compressable data in those scanlines. I wouldn't be surprised if they could get 50:1 or 100:1 compression out of that without losing any perceptable quality. One thing fansubbers noticed a few years ago is that you can bump the resolution up from 320x240 to 640x480 without a massive impact on the filesize (~25-50% instead of 400% like you might expect) and a nice increase in picture quality. At that point you're talking about something that could be somewhat practical for movie theatres (entire EMC Storage Vaults for a single movie is not practical) in the near future.
Don't forget the other side, were teachers have to disabuse children of the idiot ideas their parents fill them with. There are some parents that I wish would teach their children less.
Screwed up parents --> screwed up children, unless they get saved from some other source (like teachers or themselves).
On the other hand, when the original machine was based on a Z-80, and you're translating it to run on an AthlonXP 3000, perhaps speed won't be an issue? I'd be more worried about clever programmers actually using some of the unintended (undocumented) side effects in the hardware.
Has anybody ever gotten CDRTools to work for Win2k or WinXP? I remember trying it out a few weeks ago and getting an instant bluescreen when I started it up. I was really hoping for a CD burner without all of the cruft found in the commercial packages (Nero is nice, but burns coasters on my machine, and Roxio suxio. Cdrtools and gcombust work perfectly under FreeBSD however)
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Alright! I can't wait to drive 20 hours to pay twice the normal ticket price to see a movie on a smaller screen than the local Anime club uses.
It might be prosecuted under the old subliminal advertising laws. You'll note that advertisers didn't really fight those laws, since most scientific evidence since has shown that subliminal advertising just doesn't work. AFAIK, the only study that ever showed any possible results from subliminal advertising was the one that the guy who was trying to sell the subliminal advertising machines did.
No, instead you hear the complaints from the people who tried to plug their DVD player into their TV/VCR combo and found that it didn't work because of Macrovision. That one got my girlfriend, she ended up having to bum a 9" TV from her Mom and hook up an RF converter to use her DVD player. She was _not_ happy with Macrovision. As far as I can tell, the tape pirates don't seem to be slowed down much by Macrovision either.
The problem with this is that laptop HDDs are _slow_ and they're shipping with more and more memory these days. It can take a couple of minutes to write 256MB to the HDD, and another couple of minutes to restore it when the laptop is brought back to life. That's painful.
What kind of POS laptop do you have? I have to make sure never to get one of those. Even my crappy Dell laptop knows how to sleep (turn off the display, halt the CPU, leave the memory in refresh-only mode, spin down the HDD, shut down the external interface cards, etc...) correctly. All it takes is closing the lid and I can put the laptop in a bag and take it anywhere. When I pop the lid back up it's running in 2 seconds (the time it takes to reprobe the hardware and get the display framebuffer back up). It takes a bit more power than hibernate mode (which writes the contents of memory to disc and completely shuts down the machine), but the difference is negligable (the batteries are still "full" after 3-4 days in the bag in sleep mode, I've never really tested it harder than that).
Read heads?
You forgot about getting permission from the uppity HOA to get permission to install the solar cells in the first place. That's what's currently killing me, as the HOA considers solar cells an eyesore that will reduce the property values. While I havn't had much luck finding evidence to the contrary, I do find that hard to believe.
I thought federal law required them to accept your power. Are you sure the power company isn't just yanking your chain?
That's one of those applications that screw up the 7x0 series. It's designed for a smaller screen (and one that cannot be rotated), so when you load it up the Zaurus has to resample the pixels and it ends up looking terrible. Plus If you're in notebook mode the screen is sideways. These also tend to screw up the fonts on the Zaurus, which means you have to reboot to get it working again.
I have both a Palm VIIx (got from work) and a Zaurus SL-C750 (also from work). When I got the Zaurus I seriously considered dumping the Palm, but I havn't yet. While the Zaurus is much _much_ more power, it is not nearly as polished (I'm running the English hacked ROM from the Cacko team) as the Palm. The address book and scheduler just aren't there yet on the Zaurus. The keyboard input is great, but their handwriting recognition is the pits, which is a pain when I swich it into PDA mode. Oddly, the Palm (which I have overclocked to 32Mhz) feels snappier. The Zaurus has this annoying delay every time you turn it on. I also have a metric crapload of third party software installed on the VIIx, and havn't been able to give up the web clipping stuff I've set up yet (this won't be a problem once those 3G Cell Modem CF cards come out though). It's slow going installing stuff on the Zaurus though, because you have to pretty much port everything yourself, since the software compiled for the 7xxx series Zaurus's tends to break the 7x0 series.
On the other hand, the Zaurus has a lot of cool features. My officemate transcoded the LOTR movie into a WMV he can play directly off of an IBM microdrive (it looks _nice_). The Zaurus has a full web browser (Opera) including a PDF reader, which is nice when I'm close enough to an 802.11b access point to use it. The screen completely blows away the Palm (640x480!) which is nice for ebook reading (although there are no ebook readers for the Zaurus that can hold a candle to Weasel AFAIK. I've been HTMLifying the books and using Opera, which is suboptimal). The terminal on the Zaurus is very nice, although the keyboard is not designed for terminal work (^V sends a paste, although ^C works ask you'd expect, although to even get control you have to remap the kana key.
Overall, both devices are nice, but neither eclipses the other's functionality at this point. I don't like how the Zaurus has it's built in battery, I much prefer using rechargable AAAs like the Palm so I can swap them out when they get low. This has been an annoyance because the Zaurus is rather power hungry and you have to keep the charging brick around if you want to use it for more than a few hours at a time, unlike the Palm where I can read an entire ebook before I need to replace the battery. I know the battery will be expensive to replace when it wears out too.
Hmm, that's pretty rambling. Lets just say that different people will prefer different devices based on their needs.
Sadly, you might not be that far off. From the background, it looks like these pictures were taken at Katsu instead of Otakon though.
Yeah, and just look at those TV producers bowing to your whim. Heck, why are you even reading this article, you've obviously have already given up.
Does this mean that the first person who hacks the transmitter's signal to track down the winning can gets to claim the prize? I don't think this will ever work because most cans are stored in places that don't get good GPS reception (buildings, steel machines, trucks, etc...) and the transmit out (presumably a cell connection?) is another matter entirely.
plus it's a little creepy having Coke track down the winners like that. What's next? A tiny transmitter in the cola itself that the "winner" swallows so Coke can track them even if they put the can down?
Reminds me of a commercial I saw awhile back. A salaryman in an office is crumbling up a bag of chips and dumping it on his keyboard, then he opens the window and leaves. In comes a pigeon that starts hopping around and tapping on the keys, trying to get at the crumbs. out in the hallway a boss-guy walks by and pauses at the door for a second. He hears a tapping sound and walks away happy, thinking his drone is hard at work. The scene cuts to a bar where the guy is popping a beer (which is I think what the ad was selling) and muttering some comment about working hard.
I thought it was pretty amusing.
I know some guys who whenever they walk up to a Linux box hit ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X and force init to restart xdm for precisely this purpose. It's not so easy to do on Suns though. Besides, sophisticated password grabbers wouldn't put up a coredump message (you never know when a guru is going to come by and figure out what you're up to), they'll just log you in as normal using the name and password you just supplied.
Er, wouldn't the ground pressure of a 600t boulder cause the ground to deform and close off those little "pockets of safety" I guess if the boulder weighs 600t but is a cube with 1000km sides or something the ant could surivive.
But then we'd never see Return of the King on the big screen.
This is the approach I started with Harry Potter. I watched the first two movies, then read the books. There are some things that work better in the movies than in the books IMHO. Anyway, after watching the movies, I wasn't disappointed by the books, rather I liked getting the story again with more depth. Granted, my mental image of the characters changed while reading the books (Hagrid is a lot bigger in the books for instance), but that was fine. Unfortunatly I blew past the movies and finished all of the other books as well, so I'm bound to be disappointed when the movies come out.
I'll bet they can do better than 500G/18 minutes. With a resolution that large, there is going to be a whole lot of compressable data in those scanlines. I wouldn't be surprised if they could get 50:1 or 100:1 compression out of that without losing any perceptable quality. One thing fansubbers noticed a few years ago is that you can bump the resolution up from 320x240 to 640x480 without a massive impact on the filesize (~25-50% instead of 400% like you might expect) and a nice increase in picture quality. At that point you're talking about something that could be somewhat practical for movie theatres (entire EMC Storage Vaults for a single movie is not practical) in the near future.
Don't forget the other side, were teachers have to disabuse children of the idiot ideas their parents fill them with. There are some parents that I wish would teach their children less.
Screwed up parents --> screwed up children, unless they get saved from some other source (like teachers or themselves).
On the other hand, when the original machine was based on a Z-80, and you're translating it to run on an AthlonXP 3000, perhaps speed won't be an issue? I'd be more worried about clever programmers actually using some of the unintended (undocumented) side effects in the hardware.
I was using verion 1.2, which was listed as working under 2k/XP.
Has anybody ever gotten CDRTools to work for Win2k or WinXP? I remember trying it out a few weeks ago and getting an instant bluescreen when I started it up. I was really hoping for a CD burner without all of the cruft found in the commercial packages (Nero is nice, but burns coasters on my machine, and Roxio suxio. Cdrtools and gcombust work perfectly under FreeBSD however)