Totally agree. I see no reason why it shouldn't charge via whatever port is connects to.
That is how the iPod works after all (except with Firewire), and that doesn't seem to be causing anybody any problems.
Of course, if you're really concerned, there's probably an adapter out there to provide wall power without a computer. With my iPod, I have a power brick with a firewire port on the end. Plug the iPod into it, stick it into a wall, and there's power.
Yeah, except the fact that it sounds like it's actually usable.
PearPC may be a great project and it may be making leaps and bounds, but their team is pretty honest about the performance issues. Things just aren't all that quick at the moment.
Trigun is another anime they've shown that takes a while to get in to, but is absolutely brilliant in the long run.
I was totally disinterested in it when I first saw it on CN--the first half of the series is entirely fluff--but when I was left with nothing but all of Trigun and no TV for a couple of weeks, I watched it through to the end, and the last few episodes are twisted and brilliant.
On the other hand, I have grown to dislike anime on Adult Swim. I think they tend to play fluff more than anything else, and they tend to quit playing good series, or interrupt them indefinitely..hack//Sign is another brilliant-in-the-long-run series, and I'm not convinced they ever finished it at all, and now they're showing the considerably-more-fluff.hack//Dusk.
Not to mention they seem to have a habit of not finishing series in general. I understand that ratings are where it's at, but some of these series are only 13 episodes. It just seems silly to me.
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Oh and to go back and answer the greatest anime movie question, I'm torn between Grave of the Fireflys and The End of Evangeleon. Both are amazing, and both are emotional/mental wrecks.
Around eighteen months ago, I made a couple of joke claims when we had a slow day at work. I actually received a call from a lawyer less than a day later to argue over the legality of my claim.
Here's the tricky part though... he wasn't trying to find out if I was some wacko or whatever, he wanted me to know that HE owned the sun. No joke.
I'm just glad this crazy asshole is making a fool of himself for me, that way I'll have a good idea just how much of an asshole I can make myself. Nothing like going down in history for claiming the Sun and Olympus Mons.
You're probably thinking of the Sega Nomad when you're talking about a portable Genesis. They go pretty cheap on Ebay.
I think the problem was that by the time Sega put the Nomad out, they were producing higher quality games. When you're talking PSX/Saturn/N64/etc, nobody wants to carry around a Genesis... especially when you're talking about full size carts and a large handheld. With it's video out and controller in ports, it was basically a Genesis with an LCD.
Now that I think about it, I bet I pissed a lot of people off in the early 90s. It's the middle of dinner and the phone rings "Oh damn a telemarketer" except when they pick up the phone they're greeted by my ever-so-desperate-for-love 486sx.
It's just a link to goatse, a couple of bad jokes (in soviet russia, morse code you!), and one of those huge ass GNAA posts.
Who had the time to sit down and read one of those GNAA posts, let alone translate it into morse code, I have no idea.
But thanks to the clever work of Samuel Morse, I'm making the worst joke of my/. career and burning my karma away.
To sent this one to the top. I agree entirely.
For the past year I have turned the tables and gone from creating overly complicated web applications for other people to running my own business. When I was working for an ISP, I would have probably appreciated a call like that--but now that it's my sensitive data at stake, it's a big no no.
I mean, admitted his motive was good, but he still gained access to sensitive data. It's like breaking into a bank vault to prove the money isn't safe--somebody is totally going to take you away in handcuffs.
Dude, you know damn well that nobody on/. vacuums (people like myself who own Roombas excluded).
Putting a vacuum on a/. shirt would be like putting dildos on tshirts at a convent.
Just to let you know, you can buy normal blank DVDs for around 1$/ea if you buy in bulk. And even if you buy just a couple, it's definately not 10$/ea.
I've seen those mini-DVDs around for under 10$/ea.
The purpose of the modchip or running unauthorized code would be game development. This is/. after all, open source is a pretty big thing here.
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Personally, I'm waiting for it to be converted into numbers of VW Bugs.
I went on a kick for a while where I wanted to find one of these silly mobile devices that does everything. I bought an iPaq to replace an old broken Handspring, but instead of using it for contact information and such, I was watching Bruce Lee movies on it at work.
What I finally realised is that even with limitless power, there is no way something with a screen that small and limited controls will ever be as useful as a real computer.
Phones should make phone calls. The only real innovation I've seen lately is iSync from Apple, where you can syncronize addresses between your Palm, phone, and computer via bluetooth (not that I can afford a bluetooth phone). The rest of this is just silly.
I'd love to have one of these, but the high quality ones are still very expensive for what they do..
However, check out www.ceiva.com if you haven't all ready. They sell these things for something like 100$ and are decently sized (but obviously not huge). The only downside is you have to use their service to upload pictures to it via the internet.. but of course, other people can upload pictures to it for you if you give them permission (kind of cool).
Also, www.digi-frame.com seems to make some awesome high quality ones. I'd really like one of these, but it's just not in the cards at the moment.
Good luck!
Considering the fact that it's only as deep as two quarters stacked on top of each other, it's also a great size. You could stuff average laptop components in a box under this thing and it'd still be ultrathin.
I mean, I'd love to have a plasma TV hanging on my wall, but I sure don't have that kind of money laying around.
This looks like great technology, but I just hope it'll be available in an average user sense instead of just for people who have several grand sitting around just for a monitor.
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Totally agree. I see no reason why it shouldn't charge via whatever port is connects to. That is how the iPod works after all (except with Firewire), and that doesn't seem to be causing anybody any problems. Of course, if you're really concerned, there's probably an adapter out there to provide wall power without a computer. With my iPod, I have a power brick with a firewire port on the end. Plug the iPod into it, stick it into a wall, and there's power.
Yeah, except the fact that it sounds like it's actually usable. PearPC may be a great project and it may be making leaps and bounds, but their team is pretty honest about the performance issues. Things just aren't all that quick at the moment.
That would be the RIAA. The MPAA has nothing to do with music.
That's exactly what I was getting at.
I was under the impression that the moon was called Luna, just like the sun is technically called Sol (ie Solar System).
HAHAHA! If only I had mod points!
Trigun is another anime they've shown that takes a while to get in to, but is absolutely brilliant in the long run.
.hack//Sign is another brilliant-in-the-long-run series, and I'm not convinced they ever finished it at all, and now they're showing the considerably-more-fluff .hack//Dusk.
I was totally disinterested in it when I first saw it on CN--the first half of the series is entirely fluff--but when I was left with nothing but all of Trigun and no TV for a couple of weeks, I watched it through to the end, and the last few episodes are twisted and brilliant.
On the other hand, I have grown to dislike anime on Adult Swim. I think they tend to play fluff more than anything else, and they tend to quit playing good series, or interrupt them indefinitely.
Not to mention they seem to have a habit of not finishing series in general. I understand that ratings are where it's at, but some of these series are only 13 episodes. It just seems silly to me.
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Oh and to go back and answer the greatest anime movie question, I'm torn between Grave of the Fireflys and The End of Evangeleon. Both are amazing, and both are emotional/mental wrecks.
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Around eighteen months ago, I made a couple of joke claims when we had a slow day at work. I actually received a call from a lawyer less than a day later to argue over the legality of my claim.
Here's the tricky part though... he wasn't trying to find out if I was some wacko or whatever, he wanted me to know that HE owned the sun. No joke.
I'm just glad this crazy asshole is making a fool of himself for me, that way I'll have a good idea just how much of an asshole I can make myself. Nothing like going down in history for claiming the Sun and Olympus Mons.
You're probably thinking of the Sega Nomad when you're talking about a portable Genesis. They go pretty cheap on Ebay. I think the problem was that by the time Sega put the Nomad out, they were producing higher quality games. When you're talking PSX/Saturn/N64/etc, nobody wants to carry around a Genesis... especially when you're talking about full size carts and a large handheld. With it's video out and controller in ports, it was basically a Genesis with an LCD.
Sure! Just let me whip out my abacus and do a couple of calculations and...
So that's why I had to take a dart in the neck to get to Disney World. And all this time I thought it was because I was trying to ship myself freight.
Come on man, it's called a 486 and a war dialer.
Now that I think about it, I bet I pissed a lot of people off in the early 90s. It's the middle of dinner and the phone rings "Oh damn a telemarketer" except when they pick up the phone they're greeted by my ever-so-desperate-for-love 486sx.
It's just a link to goatse, a couple of bad jokes (in soviet russia, morse code you!), and one of those huge ass GNAA posts. Who had the time to sit down and read one of those GNAA posts, let alone translate it into morse code, I have no idea. But thanks to the clever work of Samuel Morse, I'm making the worst joke of my /. career and burning my karma away.
To sent this one to the top. I agree entirely. For the past year I have turned the tables and gone from creating overly complicated web applications for other people to running my own business. When I was working for an ISP, I would have probably appreciated a call like that--but now that it's my sensitive data at stake, it's a big no no. I mean, admitted his motive was good, but he still gained access to sensitive data. It's like breaking into a bank vault to prove the money isn't safe--somebody is totally going to take you away in handcuffs.
Jokes like this can get you put away in the punatentury for a very, very long time.
Dude, you know damn well that nobody on /. vacuums (people like myself who own Roombas excluded).
Putting a vacuum on a /. shirt would be like putting dildos on tshirts at a convent.
Just to let you know, you can buy normal blank DVDs for around 1$/ea if you buy in bulk. And even if you buy just a couple, it's definately not 10$/ea. I've seen those mini-DVDs around for under 10$/ea. The purpose of the modchip or running unauthorized code would be game development. This is /. after all, open source is a pretty big thing here.
Personally, I'm waiting for it to be converted into numbers of VW Bugs.
MacOS X has always supported mice with multiple buttons.
Way to ask a stupid question that should be obvious. Why don't you email Strongbad and ask him how he types with boxing gloves on?
Run Lynx or Links. Seriously.
I went on a kick for a while where I wanted to find one of these silly mobile devices that does everything. I bought an iPaq to replace an old broken Handspring, but instead of using it for contact information and such, I was watching Bruce Lee movies on it at work. What I finally realised is that even with limitless power, there is no way something with a screen that small and limited controls will ever be as useful as a real computer. Phones should make phone calls. The only real innovation I've seen lately is iSync from Apple, where you can syncronize addresses between your Palm, phone, and computer via bluetooth (not that I can afford a bluetooth phone). The rest of this is just silly.
I'd love to have one of these, but the high quality ones are still very expensive for what they do.. However, check out www.ceiva.com if you haven't all ready. They sell these things for something like 100$ and are decently sized (but obviously not huge). The only downside is you have to use their service to upload pictures to it via the internet.. but of course, other people can upload pictures to it for you if you give them permission (kind of cool). Also, www.digi-frame.com seems to make some awesome high quality ones. I'd really like one of these, but it's just not in the cards at the moment. Good luck!
Considering the fact that it's only as deep as two quarters stacked on top of each other, it's also a great size. You could stuff average laptop components in a box under this thing and it'd still be ultrathin.
I mean, I'd love to have a plasma TV hanging on my wall, but I sure don't have that kind of money laying around. This looks like great technology, but I just hope it'll be available in an average user sense instead of just for people who have several grand sitting around just for a monitor.