The key to getting those old things to work a bit better isn't blowing.
To get cartridge playing the first time you insert them withut blowing is to open the NES and bend all the connectors out a bit.
Those things are a bit weak and tend to bend into the piece of plastic they're attached to, that's why after years of intensive use your NES doen't play games as well as it used to. Not all pins are conneced propperly.
While te Vitual Boy was never sold officialy here in The Netherlands I once had the change to play on it in a small store that had imported some of them.
They had set it up with the tripos slightly bent so you could play it while standing in front of it.
The 3d effect really worked on 3d tennis but you have to keep you head against the device to see anything on the screen, so you couldn't see the controller and didn't know which buttons you were pushing.
The idea was great, it wasn't all that heavy so Nintendo would have done better if they had placed the device in a helmet of some sort.
Until this day I regret not having bought one. The device itself including one game cost around 40/50$ and they also had about 5 oher titles at 7$ a piece or so. That wasn't really expensive and now I would have had a museum piece... DAMN!!
Light Particles Are Duplicated More Than a Mile Away Along Fiber
By KENNETH CHANG
Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more than a mile away.
Previous experiments in so-called quantum teleportation moved particles of light about a yard. The findings could aid the sending of unbreakable coded messages, which is limited to a few tens of miles.
The new experiment used longer wavelengths of light than earlier ones, letting
the scientists copy the light through standard glass fiber found in fiber optic cables.
"The central issue is to move to telecom fibers and telecom wavelengths and telecom technology," said Dr. Nicolas Gisin, a physics professor at the University of Geneva and the senior author of an article today in the journal Nature. "This then allows us to go the long distance."
The experiments are a primitive realization of the transporter in the "Star Trek" television series that beams people from starship to planet. In coming years, it may be possible to use teleportation to imprint the exact quantum configuration of one atom to another. But teleporting something from the everyday world like a person that contains more than a trillion trillion atoms is highly unlikely, if not impossible.
Even with the light particles, photons, about one in a thousand were received at the other side.
"You're not very sure to arrive," a researcher, Dr. Hugo Zbinden, said about human teleportation.
Still, the experiments show that scientists can overcome a seemingly insurmountable conceptual barrier, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The principle states that the location and velocity of a particle cannot both be precisely measured at the same time. That would seem to make it impossible to teleport anything, even single particles, because without knowing their exact specifications they cannot be copied somewhere else.
Devised in 1993 by scientists led by Dr. Charles H. Bennett of the I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., quantum teleportation produces pairs of "entangled" light particles that can be thought of as a pair of encoding and decoding rings. A message is combined with the encoding light particle. That combination goes to the recipient, who uses the decoding photon to decipher the message. Because no one else has the decoding photon, no one else can decipher the message.
Other encoding techniques using quantum cryptography are simpler, and a more immediate use for teleportation would be as a repeater. Photons almost all peter out after traveling about 50 miles through optical fiber. Teleportation would enable the creation of copies every 50 miles or so, letting the message be sent across an unlimited distance.
this can be possible, remember paper? you could write something on it and then even after you folded it, you could still read it... that stuff was the bomb...
add 802.11 would be nice, but the point is: You cannot compare Bluetooth with 802.11g... Bluetooth is a standard used mostly by small and portable devices to connect to eachother. 802.11g is a wireless networking standard.
both are great technologies but they just can't be compared.
sure you can use Bluetooth for wireless networking but they quality of your connection will surely be beaten by 802.11... cuz that's not what BT was designed for...
These kind of posts are even worse then "M$ sucks and Linux rulezz!!" At least they're comparing two of the same things.
no it shouldn't. The next Windows should not be built on top of Linux. why not? I wwould require to many workarounds to get some backwards compatability. Microsoft should be forced to rewrite the entire code allover. part of their code has probably change since windows 3.11.
This isn't about Windows being a bad OS. It's about lousy programming, if you write bad code for Linux it still won't work. Linux isn't a miracle cure for cancer either.
A computer only does what you tell it to do, if you don't tell it what to do correctly you should not be surprised if it doesn't do what you wan't it to.
from the article: "The auto industry is highly regulated, and these are not mission-critical systems, But companies like Microsoft can't do to the auto industry what they did to the PC industry. You can't play Russian Roulette every time you stick the key into the ignition."
True, I would put my life on the scales just to drive a car with cool (mostly useless) gadgets. That automatically trunk-opening-bit is way over the top.
This car has amongst many others had the problem of suddenly braking without turning on the brakelights. This car could kill people. But hey, sleep tight Bill G. You obviously don't seem to care.
So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of?
Two MIT graduate students suggest you think again.
Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and......
It's an obvious hoax, no way that's someones real name!;)
Design something that more suited for it's purpose than something that looks nice. The only benefit in building humanesks is that they are easier for real people to interact with.
This thing is remote controlled. There is no use for a nice-looking design.
A cool idea I once had is just an arm with a number joint and hand at each end. It can hold on with one hand and work with the other, or use both hands to climb around on the outside of a spacecraft.
1. You buy a Sharp Zaurus.
2. You install the Palm emulator.
3. Then you install a gameboy emulator for PalmOS. (liberty)
4. Start playing Tetris.
It can be done...
For the people who don't understand:
1. You buy a Sharp Zaurus.
2. You install the Palm emulator.
3. Then you install a gameboy emulator for PalmOS. (liberty)
4. Start playing Tetris.
It can be done...
I have tickets for a 12:01 showing in Ann Arbor and I'll be getting in line in just a few short hours. Yes, and you page gets 1,5 million visits a day and you're getting married to you geek GF.
Ha, AOTC is opening on the same date worldwide. If you really want to see it first you need planetickets to new sealand, you 733T 12:01 tickets are 10 hours and 1 minute late...:)
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The key to getting those old things to work a bit better isn't blowing.
To get cartridge playing the first time you insert them withut blowing is to open the NES and bend all the connectors out a bit.
Those things are a bit weak and tend to bend into the piece of plastic they're attached to, that's why after years of intensive use your NES doen't play games as well as it used to. Not all pins are conneced propperly.
While te Vitual Boy was never sold officialy here in The Netherlands I once had the change to play on it in a small store that had imported some of them.
They had set it up with the tripos slightly bent so you could play it while standing in front of it.
The 3d effect really worked on 3d tennis but you have to keep you head against the device to see anything on the screen, so you couldn't see the controller and didn't know which buttons you were pushing.
The idea was great, it wasn't all that heavy so Nintendo would have done better if they had placed the device in a helmet of some sort.
Until this day I regret not having bought one. The device itself including one game cost around 40/50$ and they also had about 5 oher titles at 7$ a piece or so.
That wasn't really expensive and now I would have had a museum piece... DAMN!!
By KENNETH CHANG
Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more than a mile away.
Previous experiments in so-called quantum teleportation moved particles of light about a yard. The findings could aid the sending of unbreakable coded messages, which is limited to a few tens of miles.
The new experiment used longer wavelengths of light than earlier ones, letting
the scientists copy the light through standard glass fiber found in fiber optic cables.
"The central issue is to move to telecom fibers and telecom wavelengths and telecom technology," said Dr. Nicolas Gisin, a physics professor at the University of Geneva and the senior author of an article today in the journal Nature. "This then allows us to go the long distance."
The experiments are a primitive realization of the transporter in the "Star Trek" television series that beams people from starship to planet. In coming years, it may be possible to use teleportation to imprint the exact quantum configuration of one atom to another. But teleporting something from the everyday world like a person that contains more than a trillion trillion atoms is highly unlikely, if not impossible.
Even with the light particles, photons, about one in a thousand were received at the other side.
"You're not very sure to arrive," a researcher, Dr. Hugo Zbinden, said about human teleportation.
Still, the experiments show that scientists can overcome a seemingly insurmountable conceptual barrier, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The principle states that the location and velocity of a particle cannot both be precisely measured at the same time. That would seem to make it impossible to teleport anything, even single particles, because without knowing their exact specifications they cannot be copied somewhere else.
Devised in 1993 by scientists led by Dr. Charles H. Bennett of the I.B.M. Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., quantum teleportation produces pairs of "entangled" light particles that can be thought of as a pair of encoding and decoding rings. A message is combined with the encoding light particle. That combination goes to the recipient, who uses the decoding photon to decipher the message. Because no one else has the decoding photon, no one else can decipher the message.
Other encoding techniques using quantum cryptography are simpler, and a more immediate use for teleportation would be as a repeater. Photons almost all peter out after traveling about 50 miles through optical fiber. Teleportation would enable the creation of copies every 50 miles or so, letting the message be sent across an unlimited distance.
can i connect a gb advance sp with a normal gb advance or a gb color?
Why not? it's the same device in a different case.
this is /. afterall so that post could be expected but plain old normal MS Windows can also do this...
this can be possible, remember paper?
you could write something on it and then even after you folded it, you could still read it...
that stuff was the bomb...
screw bluetooth, gimme 802.11g
add 802.11 would be nice, but the point is:
You cannot compare Bluetooth with 802.11g...
Bluetooth is a standard used mostly by small and portable devices to connect to eachother.
802.11g is a wireless networking standard.
both are great technologies but they just can't be compared.
sure you can use Bluetooth for wireless networking but they quality of your connection will surely be beaten by 802.11... cuz that's not what BT was designed for...
These kind of posts are even worse then "M$ sucks and Linux rulezz!!" At least they're comparing two of the same things.
no it shouldn't.
The next Windows should not be built on top of Linux. why not? I wwould require to many workarounds to get some backwards compatability.
Microsoft should be forced to rewrite the entire code allover. part of their code has probably change since windows 3.11.
This isn't about Windows being a bad OS.
It's about lousy programming, if you write bad code for Linux it still won't work.
Linux isn't a miracle cure for cancer either.
A computer only does what you tell it to do, if you don't tell it what to do correctly you should not be surprised if it doesn't do what you wan't it to.
from the article:
"The auto industry is highly regulated, and these are not mission-critical systems, But companies like Microsoft can't do to the auto industry what they did to the PC industry. You can't play Russian Roulette every time you stick the key into the ignition."
True, I would put my life on the scales just to drive a car with cool (mostly useless) gadgets.
That automatically trunk-opening-bit is way over the top.
This car has amongst many others had the problem of suddenly braking without turning on the brakelights. This car could kill people. But hey, sleep tight Bill G. You obviously don't seem to care.
So, you think you cleaned all your personal files from that old computer you got rid of? Two MIT graduate students suggest you think again. Over two years, Simson Garfinkel and ......
It's an obvious hoax, no way that's someones real name! ;)
ever heard of 'abondonware'?
I wonder how long it will last
ever seen BTTF?
I don't think timetravel for people isn't the brightest thing to do!
Why a humaniod robot??
Design something that more suited for it's purpose than something that looks nice. The only benefit in building humanesks is that they are easier for real people to interact with.
This thing is remote controlled. There is no use for a nice-looking design.
A cool idea I once had is just an arm with a number joint and hand at each end. It can hold on with one hand and work with the other, or use both hands to climb around on the outside of a spacecraft.
90% of all websites run on opensource software. These are mostly the so-called LAP servers. Linux-Apache-PHP
/. or Hotmail :) running on Win2K.
I can't imagine a page like
That requires power and stability which MS can't yet over.
This isn't very usefull since http://www.mame.dk/ doensn't offers downloads anymore.
IGN has some video material on the Steel Battalion control centre.
Since everybody wants to see the pretty pictures.
the real thing
in-game shot
Here is the GameCube keyboard.o ller.jpg
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http://cubemedia.ign.com/media/news/tgs2001/contr
http://www.planetgamecube.com/media/thhw009203971
http://www.planetgamecube.com/media/hw009203951.j
For the people who don't understand:
1. You buy a Sharp Zaurus.
2. You install the Palm emulator.
3. Then you install a gameboy emulator for PalmOS. (liberty)
4. Start playing Tetris. It can be done...
For the people who don't understand: 1. You buy a Sharp Zaurus. 2. You install the Palm emulator. 3. Then you install a gameboy emulator for PalmOS. (liberty) 4. Start playing Tetris. It can be done...
That emulator can be found at http://www.palmos.com/dev/tools/emulator/.
Access to the ROMs requiers a membership of the Palm OS Developer Program. to bad...
There are tools packed with the emulator to extract ROMs from your PalmOS device.
I'm currently in between jobs, so I had time enough to go see it.
All I could think when I entered the theater was "I have a bad feeling about this."
I have tickets for a 12:01 showing in Ann Arbor and I'll be getting in line in just a few short hours.
:)
Yes, and you page gets 1,5 million visits a day and you're getting married to you geek GF.
Ha, AOTC is opening on the same date worldwide.
If you really want to see it first you need planetickets to new sealand, you 733T 12:01 tickets are 10 hours and 1 minute late...
They are going to get into trouble with ID-software.
The music sounds like the stole it from DooM