They deliver DVDs and games to your door in under an hour. Order your movies or games online or by phone and they'll be at your door before a pizza would.
Their trick is they have vans driving around with all of their inventory inside. Talk about bandwidth!
Seriously, though - how would the MS implementation actually save any bandwidth (their claimed motivation) over sending the actual characters being typed? Most networks have a minimum packet size and sending a bit to indicate that someone is typing is going to take just as much bandwidth as sending the text itself as both sets of data will likely need to be padded to reach the minimum packet size.
Simple. Instead of sending eat individual characters, it sends a flag when the user starts typing the message. It also sends a flag if you stop typing and delete your message.
So instead of receiving n packets, you receive ~1 packet to let you know the user is typing and then the whole message once it's ready to be sent. This is pretty much O(2) compared to O(n) since the sending of individual packets is the limiting reagent.
Bart: "How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?" Mrs. Krebopple: "I'm sorry, that would be playing God." Bart: "God shmod! I want my monkey-man!"
Everyone jokes about repackaging the discs but there's almost no way they'd do this. It would probably cost thousands more than just producing a million fresh ones.
I'm sure the production line for producing these is very efficient. Having to manually repackage them (or at worst, manually feed them into a repacking line) would be a waste of organizational time and man hourse. And they'd be getting a second-hand product.
It's a funny thought (it would probably piss the two guys from California off) but there's almost no way.
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If that happened to me, I'd turn homicidal just like the zombies from 28 Days Later...
I don't know, but it srives me crazy!
I'd love to sleep with someone with good karma!
Hmm, so if you make a post titled "Interesting", it gets modded-up as Interesting. I wonder if this will work?
They must not know what badgers eat.
They deliver DVDs and games to your door in under an hour. Order your movies or games online or by phone and they'll be at your door before a pizza would.
Their trick is they have vans driving around with all of their inventory inside. Talk about bandwidth!
Metroid Prime
Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles
Animal Crossing
The Resident Evil series
and many other excellent first-party games (Mario Golf, etc.)
And that's not counting the thousands of Game Boy games you can play with the Game Boy Player. There's an endless supply of classics to sift through.
These new diamonds are nothing compared to BPM 37093.
Yep, Slashdot's parser caught it.
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However, you can do window.opens just fine. Try this on a plain HTML page:
<a name='ebay'></a><a href="#ebay" onclick="window.open(unescape('http://www.ebay.co
This worked for me... Maybe /.'s parser will be better.
Don't worry. I'm sneaking my cam and laptop with wireless Internet in and you can check out the movie in real-time here.
You could hook up these PocketPCs to your speaker bracelet...
Simple. Instead of sending eat individual characters, it sends a flag when the user starts typing the message. It also sends a flag if you stop typing and delete your message.
So instead of receiving n packets, you receive ~1 packet to let you know the user is typing and then the whole message once it's ready to be sent. This is pretty much O(2) compared to O(n) since the sending of individual packets is the limiting reagent.
Literally.
If we all pull together...
Then we'd just have a mess on our hands... and keyboards...
fully-immersive pr0n
UIUC is definitely the place to be for a great education in Engineering and some quality parties.
"Hi!! I'm a 14 y/o cheerleader lookin' to cyber. Wanna videochat?"
[Goatse guy comes on screen.]
"Ahhhh!"
AOL's gonna need a puke emoticon or two.
Bart: "How would I go about creating a half-man, half-monkey-type creature?"
Mrs. Krebopple: "I'm sorry, that would be playing God."
Bart: "God shmod! I want my monkey-man!"
Sounds like Slashdot editors should expand use of Ritalin. ;)
I mean, it's not like... hey! Look at that fluffy dog!
This would be the perfect fuel for cop cars...
I think Penny Arcade covers this topic best.
Whether or not this ever works, TV will go down as Farnsworth's most detrimental contribution to humanity.
But if it's wireless, how can there be any plug to pull?
I'm sure the production line for producing these is very efficient. Having to manually repackage them (or at worst, manually feed them into a repacking line) would be a waste of organizational time and man hourse. And they'd be getting a second-hand product.
It's a funny thought (it would probably piss the two guys from California off) but there's almost no way.
You've got too much time on your hands.