Unfortunately for the public to really take to it, this sort of car will have to be reliable, which sort of rules out Renault products. (And Fiat, for that matter)
What they want is a button which says "just play the $$*&!&£&ing music without messing with it", and no Creative driver in the last five years provides that option.
Actually, the X-Fi drivers have a "Content Creation" mode that turns everything off. I use it as the default setup for all playback.
A £30 Dreamcast would generally come with a number of games, as well. I bought a basic Dreamcast (2 controllers + memory thingie) without any games for £15.
Dreamcast games were almost always anti-aliased because the way the graphics chipset was setup (it was a PowerVR tile-based engine, iirc) gave it at very little performance degradation. So you had the oddity of Soul Calibur on the DC being a better-looking game than Soul Calibur II on the PS2.
Hell, I still fire up the DC for Soul Calibur once in a while. I'm not even particularly into fighting games, but that one is *immensely* fun.
Historically, "man" always referred to what we call "mankind". Using it to refer to the masculine originated in Middle English, but the mankind meaning has hung along with it.
I can certainly agree for that. I regraded for free last month and quadrupled my down bandwidth for less money a month. They sure don't go out of their way to tell you that you *can* do this.
I stay with Eclipse because no other ISP has ever given me less hassle than they do. Their only black mark is botching my transfer when I moved houses.
The Lockheed L-1011 is a sad story. Although it was a better-engineered aircraft than its DC-10 competitor, delays with the specified engines (Rolls-Royce nearly went out of business at this time) resulted in lost sales to the DC-10 and the resulting sales failures led to Lockheed going out of the commercial airliner business.
Airlines didn't like the Lockheed, as it was a more "high-tech" airliner and required more expensive servicing. The pilots and crews loved it, though. It was definitely seen as being a better aircraft than the DC-10.
Rubbish. My phone (Nokia 6120) takes a removable MMC card for additional storage. I pop a 1GB card in there and copy the mp3s off my computer. I don't have to deal with my provider *AT ALL*!
not accessible from outside by removing the lens, but instead from inside requiring the removal of the inside panel on the door, a much more costly and involved process.
Most cars (most, not all) have been that way since the 1970s. It's not ridiculous at all, and any fool can remove an interior panel in a few minutes. You want retarded? My friend's 1980s Corvette had it's battery die. You have to remove a body panel to replace the battery!!
3. touchpad on the side of a laptop. Sometimes I'm holding my powerbook in my arm and I wish there was a way to control the mouse from there. One idea I had was like an inverted optical mouse with the laser sensor that would detect thumb movements. That'd even work for the side of a PDA for scrolling
How about the thumbpad mounted on the side of the screen, like the old Toshiba Libretto used to have? I still have an old CT100, and it's a bloody useful thing to have the controller where it is.
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You raise a good point with video games. Not in refresh (the newest screens are good at that), but in the problem of native resolution being the only one that looks good. However, the two things that LCDs aren't good at (gaming and high-end graphic design for print) are niche markets.
In the workplace, LCDs are undeniably superior. Working with any sort of text for hours on end, an LCD screen is much easier on the eyes. It also sucks less power. This is the reason why CRTs are going to die out. Even gamers are slowly giving in, which leaves only one stronghold for the CRT in computing - not enough for more than a few players.
The underlying grammatical structure of English is Germanic, but nearly 60% of the vocabulary comes from Latin (by way of French). It's easy to talk about farmyard happenings using only Germanic words, but it gets difficult from there. It's just how the language evolved after the Norman conquest.
English vocabulary is (roughly) 30% Germanic, 10% Norse (Viking influence), and 60% French/Latin.
I wouldn't worry about the minor. If you like it, go ahead and take it. More subjects will do you good. But I mean that in a personal growth kind of way - don't expect a future employer to care much, if at all.
I graduated as a CS major, and to be honest I'd have been better off if I'd taken something else. I'd probably still have my unix sysadmin job, and I've have had the chance to take some more interesting courses.
The post you linked to was about a 1985 BMW 6-series, which I used to own a copy of. The only electronic-controlled part of that car is the fuel injection system. (Bosch Motronic, if you're really curious) Sounds like his air flow meter is giving him touble, or perhpas the O2 sensor. Bits that have been creating problems for cars for over 20 years.
They weren't terrible for most people. Back then, your average user didn't play 3D accelerated games, and as you yourself have admitted the Cyrix was an excellent competitor on integer performance. Heck, I remember when gamers were buying Cyrix chips because they were faster than Pentiums for most things! Then Quake came out and killed off the 6x86's popularity with gamers.
To be fair, it wouldn't matter if they gave the lines overhead AC power and straightened out the bends (ignoring for a moment that either of those are pretty infeasible). The former Network South-East area is so clogged with rail traffic that the 100mph trains very rarely get to that speed.
Alright, fine. The Central Line in London has been automated for several years at this point. Most of the Central Line was built before *ANY* of the NYC subway opened. It's not driverless for safety reasons, but the driver's only function is to close the doors and assist in an emergency.
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It's L/100km officially in the UK. Miles are an acceptable unit, but gallons are not so they use the full metric consumption rating.
Unfortunately for the public to really take to it, this sort of car will have to be reliable, which sort of rules out Renault products. (And Fiat, for that matter)
What they want is a button which says "just play the $$*&!&£&ing music without messing with it", and no Creative driver in the last five years provides that option.
Actually, the X-Fi drivers have a "Content Creation" mode that turns everything off. I use it as the default setup for all playback.
A £30 Dreamcast would generally come with a number of games, as well. I bought a basic Dreamcast (2 controllers + memory thingie) without any games for £15.
Dreamcast games were almost always anti-aliased because the way the graphics chipset was setup (it was a PowerVR tile-based engine, iirc) gave it at very little performance degradation. So you had the oddity of Soul Calibur on the DC being a better-looking game than Soul Calibur II on the PS2.
Hell, I still fire up the DC for Soul Calibur once in a while. I'm not even particularly into fighting games, but that one is *immensely* fun.
Historically, "man" always referred to what we call "mankind". Using it to refer to the masculine originated in Middle English, but the mankind meaning has hung along with it.
It was never proven, how can it be disproved?
Or did I miss a massive nuclear exchange some time in the last 20 years? Was I in the bath or something?
Except that there is no Conroe-based chip (Woodcrest or other) for >2 socket systems until next year. Woodcrest is 1-2P (2-4 core) only.
I can certainly agree for that. I regraded for free last month and quadrupled my down bandwidth for less money a month. They sure don't go out of their way to tell you that you *can* do this.
I stay with Eclipse because no other ISP has ever given me less hassle than they do. Their only black mark is botching my transfer when I moved houses.
The Lockheed L-1011 is a sad story. Although it was a better-engineered aircraft than its DC-10 competitor, delays with the specified engines (Rolls-Royce nearly went out of business at this time) resulted in lost sales to the DC-10 and the resulting sales failures led to Lockheed going out of the commercial airliner business.
Airlines didn't like the Lockheed, as it was a more "high-tech" airliner and required more expensive servicing. The pilots and crews loved it, though. It was definitely seen as being a better aircraft than the DC-10.
Rubbish. My phone (Nokia 6120) takes a removable MMC card for additional storage. I pop a 1GB card in there and copy the mp3s off my computer. I don't have to deal with my provider *AT ALL*!
Amen, that's why we're a Dell D6x0 series house. Our unix and network guys would go apeshit without a serial port.
not accessible from outside by removing the lens, but instead from inside requiring the removal of the inside panel on the door, a much more costly and involved process.
Most cars (most, not all) have been that way since the 1970s. It's not ridiculous at all, and any fool can remove an interior panel in a few minutes. You want retarded? My friend's 1980s Corvette had it's battery die. You have to remove a body panel to replace the battery!!
First IBM starts offering Solaris as an OS choice. Now they've slowed the speed of light.
Who else is waiting for a skinny guy on a pale horse to ride across the sky?
Well, you wouldn't want the Pirates of the Saskatchewan to show up on the Premier's doorstep, would you?
...farmers bar your doors, when you see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores.
The Arrogant Worms -- The Last Saskatchewan Pirate
That's probably the most accurate interpretation of the story I've seen here. :)
3. touchpad on the side of a laptop. Sometimes I'm holding my powerbook in my arm and I wish there was a way to control the mouse from there. One idea I had was like an inverted optical mouse with the laser sensor that would detect thumb movements. That'd even work for the side of a PDA for scrolling
How about the thumbpad mounted on the side of the screen, like the old Toshiba Libretto used to have? I still have an old CT100, and it's a bloody useful thing to have the controller where it is.
You raise a good point with video games. Not in refresh (the newest screens are good at that), but in the problem of native resolution being the only one that looks good. However, the two things that LCDs aren't good at (gaming and high-end graphic design for print) are niche markets.
In the workplace, LCDs are undeniably superior. Working with any sort of text for hours on end, an LCD screen is much easier on the eyes. It also sucks less power. This is the reason why CRTs are going to die out. Even gamers are slowly giving in, which leaves only one stronghold for the CRT in computing - not enough for more than a few players.
The underlying grammatical structure of English is Germanic, but nearly 60% of the vocabulary comes from Latin (by way of French). It's easy to talk about farmyard happenings using only Germanic words, but it gets difficult from there. It's just how the language evolved after the Norman conquest.
English vocabulary is (roughly) 30% Germanic, 10% Norse (Viking influence), and 60% French/Latin.
I wouldn't worry about the minor. If you like it, go ahead and take it. More subjects will do you good. But I mean that in a personal growth kind of way - don't expect a future employer to care much, if at all.
I graduated as a CS major, and to be honest I'd have been better off if I'd taken something else. I'd probably still have my unix sysadmin job, and I've have had the chance to take some more interesting courses.
The post you linked to was about a 1985 BMW 6-series, which I used to own a copy of. The only electronic-controlled part of that car is the fuel injection system. (Bosch Motronic, if you're really curious) Sounds like his air flow meter is giving him touble, or perhpas the O2 sensor. Bits that have been creating problems for cars for over 20 years.
They weren't terrible for most people. Back then, your average user didn't play 3D accelerated games, and as you yourself have admitted the Cyrix was an excellent competitor on integer performance. Heck, I remember when gamers were buying Cyrix chips because they were faster than Pentiums for most things! Then Quake came out and killed off the 6x86's popularity with gamers.
To be fair, it wouldn't matter if they gave the lines overhead AC power and straightened out the bends (ignoring for a moment that either of those are pretty infeasible). The former Network South-East area is so clogged with rail traffic that the 100mph trains very rarely get to that speed.
There aren't 10 different manufacturers. There are nine. So there.
Alright, fine. The Central Line in London has been automated for several years at this point. Most of the Central Line was built before *ANY* of the NYC subway opened. It's not driverless for safety reasons, but the driver's only function is to close the doors and assist in an emergency.