Capacitive. Not IR or Passive.
They really are trying a different approach to the device as "social" reading. While the Fire is more a media device, for the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiRxIXytLYQ
The only thing I'm concerned about is the Android Market. While they say it's a full and open android device. I suspect they have their own Android store and will have limited you to apps they allow. Whether you can sideload the Kindle app on to it needs to be seen.
Enigma's major weakness, besides the operator's habits, was it's inability to encode the source letter with the same letter. Enigma was mechanically unable to encode a letter with the same letter. Pushing "A" will never ever get you an "A" on the output. This allowed them to check for strings, like ranks and names as the letters in the string will not appear in the encode.
In high school we had labs of these in 1980. The IEEE-488 bus allowing several PETS to use one printer and one dual disk floppy. These were PET 4000's 16K. I owned, still do, a PET 2000 8K. Later in grade 11 they upgraded to SuperPETs with the mupPET II system allowing 10? units to use one printer and one dual disk floppy drive. The floppy system BTW held 1MB, considering other systems disc storage was much smaller Atari =130K, Apple ~=80-150K.
HD were too much $$$. Most 8-bit systems never had "offical" HD units produced.
Fredericton, my home has been running and expanding it's free WiFi for the last few years. Cisco just did a film showcasing the work. For the record, both cable and DSL are offered by paid services in the city. AFAIK the free wifi has not affect them too much and if anything as maybe prompted them to offer much faster speeds to compete.
LOL - Just had to install a 5.25 drive today.
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I had to find and install a 5.25 HD floppy today for someone to retrieve old contract files from floppies. The easy part was the drive, from the tickle trunk under my desk. The hard part was the cable. To find an old floppy cable was tough. All-in-all it was a sexy looking beast, a Compaq Deskpro SFF 866 with floppy instead of the CDROM.
BTW if you don't know what a tickle trunk is, google Mr Dressup
"Humans make mistakes, and so should the computer." IMHO there's two kinds of mistakes, coded or planned. The coded ones are like the bot who gets stuck running into a wall or messed up by a door. Not may games can allow you to purposely trick the AI. That's one of the things that I liked about Farcry. The guards were not super human. The guards could be tricked with a rock or some silence. They didn't make uber shot you in the head from the otherside of the map kills. They had to hear or see you to act.
The only game I've played that the AI is as good is CS:source.
No, it won't be ready. They'll have to rewrite again. Also the video card will require more power than your house and cost as much a small developing nation's international debt.
Remember the Apricot or {Insert fruit name here} which was sued because they copied the apple roms. I believe they also had a Russian clone.
I have an old Hong Kong made II+ that someone jury-rigged the power supply to let it work with 240V. Problem is it put the 110V on the ground if you plug it into 110V. Found that out the hard way. It's otherwise identical to the II+ I have.
I'm not sure if this cloning had the effect of making the Apple more popular, mainly because they were illegally cloned until Laser made their units.
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It been reported that this move to fire the staff was just a way to remove the employee equity in the company, thus making the owners more of a share of the sale price. Steve Perlman may be a giant Scrooge. http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/source-onlive-found-a-buyer-cleaned-house-to-reduce-liability-prior-to-acquisition/
Capacitive. Not IR or Passive. They really are trying a different approach to the device as "social" reading. While the Fire is more a media device, for the US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiRxIXytLYQ The only thing I'm concerned about is the Android Market. While they say it's a full and open android device. I suspect they have their own Android store and will have limited you to apps they allow. Whether you can sideload the Kindle app on to it needs to be seen.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/scans/en.shtml Here's a tutorial to stitch scans together the slight curve of the page is minimized where the scan joins. Might be what you are looking for.
April fools last 47 hrs on the net. Actually that maybe a minimum.
Remember to keep all your good patents under the floorboards.
http://www.fred-ezone.com/coverage.php And it does a fair bit of the city too.
Hell, I get it just to put it on the shelf, whether it is crap or win.
It might look good next to BOB and Daikanata.
Dear Sir stroke Madam.
Fire, exclamation mark. Fire, exclamation mark. Help me, exclamation mark.
123 Carlignton Road. Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the best, Maurice Moss.
Enigma's major weakness, besides the operator's habits, was it's inability to encode the source letter with the same letter. Enigma was mechanically unable to encode a letter with the same letter. Pushing "A" will never ever get you an "A" on the output. This allowed them to check for strings, like ranks and names as the letters in the string will not appear in the encode.
but you know what they say: "Fill it to the RIM ... with Grim!"
In Canada that's Roll up the RIM
In high school we had labs of these in 1980. The IEEE-488 bus allowing several PETS to use one printer and one dual disk floppy. These were PET 4000's 16K. I owned, still do, a PET 2000 8K. Later in grade 11 they upgraded to SuperPETs with the mupPET II system allowing 10? units to use one printer and one dual disk floppy drive. The floppy system BTW held 1MB, considering other systems disc storage was much smaller Atari =130K, Apple ~=80-150K.
HD were too much $$$. Most 8-bit systems never had "offical" HD units produced.
SUCK, Blow is just a figure of speech.
mini :P - I'll wait until they put the whole thing on a SD card.
Fredericton, my home has been running and expanding it's free WiFi for the last few years. Cisco just did a film showcasing the work. For the record, both cable and DSL are offered by paid services in the city. AFAIK the free wifi has not affect them too much and if anything as maybe prompted them to offer much faster speeds to compete.
80's????
Try 1977, Commodore PET 2001, 8K builtin Tape and 9" BW display. Chicklet Keyboard.
Now that's vintage.
It boot's in about 6 secs. Not bad for 1 Mhz. Runs Microsoft Basic.
What about historical research?
Easy, that's gonna cost.
Print media will charge for such a service. Though can you scan it? Hmmm a new market.
I suggest flowers and cuddling after sex.
I had to find and install a 5.25 HD floppy today for someone to retrieve old contract files from floppies. The easy part was the drive, from the tickle trunk under my desk. The hard part was the cable. To find an old floppy cable was tough. All-in-all it was a sexy looking beast, a Compaq Deskpro SFF 866 with floppy instead of the CDROM.
BTW if you don't know what a tickle trunk is, google Mr Dressup
Check the local wrestling circuit.
"Humans make mistakes, and so should the computer."
IMHO there's two kinds of mistakes, coded or planned. The coded ones are like the bot who gets stuck running into a wall or messed up by a door. Not may games can allow you to purposely trick the AI. That's one of the things that I liked about Farcry. The guards were not super human. The guards could be tricked with a rock or some silence. They didn't make uber shot you in the head from the otherside of the map kills. They had to hear or see you to act.
The only game I've played that the AI is as good is CS:source.
No, it won't be ready. They'll have to rewrite again. Also the video card will require more power than your house and cost as much a small developing nation's international debt.
Opiate? SF. No it's SEX and since we're talking geek sex it can only mean downloaded porn.
I think the death penalty is to good for them. This is something I might look into as long it works with the noise of nails being clipped.
I fail to understand why people insist on clipping their nails at work.
Of course the same guy hates it when I leave winamp on and the noise from my earbud headphones bothers him.
Remember the Apricot or {Insert fruit name here} which was sued because they copied the apple roms. I believe they also had a Russian clone.
I have an old Hong Kong made II+ that someone jury-rigged the power supply to let it work with 240V. Problem is it put the 110V on the ground if you plug it into 110V. Found that out the hard way. It's otherwise identical to the II+ I have.
I'm not sure if this cloning had the effect of making the Apple more popular, mainly because they were illegally cloned until Laser made their units.
But I do think they were cloned before the PC.
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/05/04/2257229.shtml?t id=185&tid=218