Isn't this just a pocket pc? Why the hell are they always calling the natural evolution of an existing product a new separate product?
Anyway, it's inevitable that the majority of us (besides you "i need separate devices!" purists) will use something similar to the O2 XDAII (anyone know how i can get one of these in the US?) with more power/higher resolution- One device you carry with you all the time that is your cellphone, your still/video camera, and your portable web device.
...It'll keep getting lighter and more powerful, and wireless internet speeds will get faster and faster. You'll be able to watch television shows streaming live over the air, as well as stream video from your device live to whomever you want to see it. It won't have to store locally either.
Imagine the next big event like "9/11", or an earthquake, etc.- thousands, millions of live camera angles and witnesses. Any time a crime or accident is taking place, one can record evidence immediately.
It would probably eventually get small enough that the camera/microphone would be a brooch (a la Star Trek, I suppose, but w/video, although that wouldn't work too well for videoconfrencing- perhaps you'd have a camera on the device, or your watch, too) and those dorky jabra headset thingies will be the size of a miracle ear, and they'd just mix the outside sounds with those from your device (any idea why we don't have this already?) The display may roll up in a scroll form or something. maybe with a wristwatch interface? people may even start recording/broadcasting their lives 24/7, or have a "blackbox" service that stores the past hour, day, whatever on the server so that investigators can figure out what happened, should anything happen to you.
Probably by that point we will have figured out how to tap directly into one's optical/aural nerves and implant these devices, or maybe even how to create organic versions of these devices and implant the instructions to build them in our DNA. (how will we ever agree on a standard for THAT?)
At that point, it may only be a matter of time before our brains evolve to the point where we have real-time sensory input SHARING- one no longer has just 2 eyes, but billions of them. We would become one organism- sharing eachother's pain, pleasure, fear, excitement.
Once a generation of this new organism passes to where every living human has spent their whole life as a part of this organism, we may cease to have disagreements, as everyone would have the same life experience, the same frame of reference, and therefore come to the same logical conclusions....
Oh my God! Microsoft IS THE BORG!!!! Resistance IS futile!!
I think, though, that the reason they have an overstock may have something to do with them overestimating the demand for DVD+R. I think most consumers, if they have heard anything, think DVD-R must be better because it is reputed to be more compatible. And it's the format Apple uses. So, there is probably more demand for DVD-R...
just wondering... are there any electrical alternatives to jet engines that would provide similar speed? if we ever got entirely off fossil fuels, how would passenger jets work?
one of the first things i do on a new windows computer is put shortcuts to the calculator and notepad on the quick launch bar. want the calculator? it's right there. just click on it...
that laptop is pretty dang sweet sweet, with one glaring exception- the placement of the keyboard. laptop designers learned a long time ago that putting the keyboard up against the front edge is no good for using the computer on your lap. it's better to have it toward the back so that your wrists have a place to rest.
...to create a flash-like environment for creating windows applications that run over the internet. flash is cool, but it usually runs in a browser window, or in a flash player window. if they have a vector environment that's web-connected, developers can keep applications on their own servers and sell subscriptions to their software.
Wouldn't surprise me, but it will probably have the same effect as their suit against Al Franken- backfiring and showing the world what big lying babies they are.
You do that, Mr. Microsoft- I'll be the FDF (Free Dick Foundation). GNU-William will only come with a license that says you can't hold me liable for your use of my tool, and you can't expect any chi-er, tech support:)
i called the baiman residence. michelle answered. i wasn't rude or anything, just told her i thought their lawsuit was absurd. she says: "well, my husband is out, but i can have him call you" i say: "no, that's okay. i just wanted to state my opinon". end of conversation. i think if enough people called and told them that, it would get the point across without being threatening...
filter all you want, but the spam won't go away. you can make laws against spam, but then many (most?) of the companies are out of the country. but almost ALL of them use credit cards, or maybe paypal to perform their transactions.
so how about if we make a law that fines credit card companies if they do business with a known spammer (a business who has been reported by many and verified to be spammers)? perhaps the spammers will start accepting check or cash, but i think their returns would drop so substantially (not being as convenient) that it would probably make it unprofitable to do business that way.
ok- allow me to clarify, for all the people who took my point to mean something else.
1)yes, i know the government wastes money on tons of other things. and every one of those wasteful government expenditures is justified by someone who says "hey, well we waste money on all these other projects, what harm is this?"
2)i'm not saying that this game turns people into crazed killers, but that it is desensitizing and teaches them war tactics in a way that they understand, outside of the army's supervision, and that these tactics can be applied adversely.
3)this is not to say that there aren't other games out there that do the same things, but those games weren't made with MY money.
4)i'm all for training recruits well. and if computer games work well for that, that's great. the problem is that the people this game is marketed to ARE NOT RECRUITS, and are not supervised or being taught the discipline that goes along with military training.
by the fact that your tax dollars (if you live in the US) are going to create a game which simulates basic training? it's one thing if a private company wants to do it, but don't do it with my money! the basic training exercises were specifically designed to desensitize soldiers' human instinct not to kill people after studies post-WWII found that many soldiers never fired their weapons. it's one thing if a private company wants to do it, but i don't want to pay to train kids to kill. how long before we have another columbine-type scenario where the kids have learned team combat tactics from playing these kinds of games and are far more successful?
Have you worked in a post-graduate computational research environment? I worked for a subgroup at TICAM (now ICES) at UT back when I was a student and most of the grad students, post-docs, researchers, etc. in the places where I've worked speak very little english and have no eye for presentation. Most of them WOULD use FrontPage, because they just want to slap something up there. They often also had a hard time doing even the most basic stuff in Powerpoint. I find most of the people that are real into theoretical computing/mathematics stuff don't give a rat's ass for spending time on presentation. Good for me, though, as that was my job to clean up their stuff:) So, maybe it says something about their project that they didn't have enough money (or weren't marketing savvy/vain enough) to hire their own graphic designer.
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Who's their marketing department? AOL?
you will eventually pass through the limit of the current Microverse into another one
or, topology being the bizarre thing it is, probably the same one...
Isn't this just a pocket pc? Why the hell are they always calling the natural evolution of an existing product a new separate product?
Anyway, it's inevitable that the majority of us (besides you "i need separate devices!" purists) will use something similar to the O2 XDAII (anyone know how i can get one of these in the US?) with more power/higher resolution- One device you carry with you all the time that is your cellphone, your still/video camera, and your portable web device.
...It'll keep getting lighter and more powerful, and wireless internet speeds will get faster and faster. You'll be able to watch television shows streaming live over the air, as well as stream video from your device live to whomever you want to see it. It won't have to store locally either.
Imagine the next big event like "9/11", or an earthquake, etc.- thousands, millions of live camera angles and witnesses. Any time a crime or accident is taking place, one can record evidence immediately.
It would probably eventually get small enough that the camera/microphone would be a brooch (a la Star Trek, I suppose, but w/video, although that wouldn't work too well for videoconfrencing- perhaps you'd have a camera on the device, or your watch, too) and those dorky jabra headset thingies will be the size of a miracle ear, and they'd just mix the outside sounds with those from your device (any idea why we don't have this already?) The display may roll up in a scroll form or something. maybe with a wristwatch interface? people may even start recording/broadcasting their lives 24/7, or have a "blackbox" service that stores the past hour, day, whatever on the server so that investigators can figure out what happened, should anything happen to you.
Probably by that point we will have figured out how to tap directly into one's optical/aural nerves and implant these devices, or maybe even how to create organic versions of these devices and implant the instructions to build them in our DNA. (how will we ever agree on a standard for THAT?)
At that point, it may only be a matter of time before our brains evolve to the point where we have real-time sensory input SHARING- one no longer has just 2 eyes, but billions of them. We would become one organism- sharing eachother's pain, pleasure, fear, excitement.
Once a generation of this new organism passes to where every living human has spent their whole life as a part of this organism, we may cease to have disagreements, as everyone would have the same life experience, the same frame of reference, and therefore come to the same logical conclusions....
Oh my God! Microsoft IS THE BORG!!!! Resistance IS futile!!
I think, though, that the reason they have an overstock may have something to do with them overestimating the demand for DVD+R. I think most consumers, if they have heard anything, think DVD-R must be better because it is reputed to be more compatible. And it's the format Apple uses. So, there is probably more demand for DVD-R...
...or perhaps Dell just overstocked on +R drives and is now trying to liquidate them by throwing them in free as a promo...
just wondering... are there any electrical alternatives to jet engines that would provide similar speed? if we ever got entirely off fossil fuels, how would passenger jets work?
one of the first things i do on a new windows computer is put shortcuts to the calculator and notepad on the quick launch bar. want the calculator? it's right there. just click on it...
well, is your laptop capable of playing WMA files? why is this modded interesting?
"thrust me"
...at a gay bar, or for a girl maybe...
Is that going to be your pickup line at said bar?
i can't read the article, so i'll make fun of it... how the hell does one "play in detail"? HALLO?? SPEAKIE ENGRISH PPLZ!? nyah...
I think the better question might be what is left to hinder it?
hmmm... that sounds awfully similar to something i've seen before...
maybe you could get a job in microsoft's product design department!
what do you think these were for?
you mean you read the article!? oh, hey! it does!
that laptop is pretty dang sweet sweet, with one glaring exception- the placement of the keyboard. laptop designers learned a long time ago that putting the keyboard up against the front edge is no good for using the computer on your lap. it's better to have it toward the back so that your wrists have a place to rest.
could use a bigger HD, too, for my tastes...
...to create a flash-like environment for creating windows applications that run over the internet. flash is cool, but it usually runs in a browser window, or in a flash player window. if they have a vector environment that's web-connected, developers can keep applications on their own servers and sell subscriptions to their software.
Wouldn't surprise me, but it will probably have the same effect as their suit against Al Franken- backfiring and showing the world what big lying babies they are.
You do that, Mr. Microsoft- I'll be the FDF (Free Dick Foundation). GNU-William will only come with a license that says you can't hold me liable for your use of my tool, and you can't expect any chi-er, tech support :)
I don't even have MS hardware (I've always liked Logitech's stuff better).
IIRC, MS hardware is made by Logitech...
i called the baiman residence. michelle answered. i wasn't rude or anything, just told her i thought their lawsuit was absurd. she says: "well, my husband is out, but i can have him call you" i say: "no, that's okay. i just wanted to state my opinon". end of conversation. i think if enough people called and told them that, it would get the point across without being threatening...
filter all you want, but the spam won't go away. you can make laws against spam, but then many (most?) of the companies are out of the country. but almost ALL of them use credit cards, or maybe paypal to perform their transactions.
so how about if we make a law that fines credit card companies if they do business with a known spammer (a business who has been reported by many and verified to be spammers)? perhaps the spammers will start accepting check or cash, but i think their returns would drop so substantially (not being as convenient) that it would probably make it unprofitable to do business that way.
i'm bothered by that as well. that doesn't make the game any more justified.
ok- allow me to clarify, for all the people who took my point to mean something else.
1)yes, i know the government wastes money on tons of other things. and every one of those wasteful government expenditures is justified by someone who says "hey, well we waste money on all these other projects, what harm is this?"
2)i'm not saying that this game turns people into crazed killers, but that it is desensitizing and teaches them war tactics in a way that they understand, outside of the army's supervision, and that these tactics can be applied adversely.
3)this is not to say that there aren't other games out there that do the same things, but those games weren't made with MY money.
4)i'm all for training recruits well. and if computer games work well for that, that's great. the problem is that the people this game is marketed to ARE NOT RECRUITS, and are not supervised or being taught the discipline that goes along with military training.
5)and yes, I do vote.
by the fact that your tax dollars (if you live in the US) are going to create a game which simulates basic training? it's one thing if a private company wants to do it, but don't do it with my money! the basic training exercises were specifically designed to desensitize soldiers' human instinct not to kill people after studies post-WWII found that many soldiers never fired their weapons. it's one thing if a private company wants to do it, but i don't want to pay to train kids to kill. how long before we have another columbine-type scenario where the kids have learned team combat tactics from playing these kinds of games and are far more successful?
Have you worked in a post-graduate computational research environment? I worked for a subgroup at TICAM (now ICES) at UT back when I was a student and most of the grad students, post-docs, researchers, etc. in the places where I've worked speak very little english and have no eye for presentation. Most of them WOULD use FrontPage, because they just want to slap something up there. They often also had a hard time doing even the most basic stuff in Powerpoint. I find most of the people that are real into theoretical computing/mathematics stuff don't give a rat's ass for spending time on presentation. Good for me, though, as that was my job to clean up their stuff :) So, maybe it says something about their project that they didn't have enough money (or weren't marketing savvy/vain enough) to hire their own graphic designer.