Google and NASA could get together on this, and have a feature in which registered users could pin intresting areas and send the location info to astronomers. Maybe the face on Mars' covered side was hiding a hand picking it's noze? Inquiring minds want to know!
Apple had a party for Vista on one of it's Mac/PC ads. "We should do this again in five years." "Oh, I got a meeting in five years. How about five and a day?" "Presentation. Five and two days?"
Seriously. The systems are exactly custom-ordered, they have better online documentation (including tear-down instructions for field replacement) and there hasn't been any hardware problems as of late.
HP, however, has a ton of problems it needs to resolve. It's site is counter-intuitive, both on buying a system and getting support for whatever you have. It's offerings are very fixed, even after it borged Compaq. Some offerings have variations that are hard to find, and some even harder to find support to. I hear the customer service isn't worth the phone call.
I'm not sure about Lenovo, since they're owned by the Chinese government. Gateway I haven't heard from, but depending on how hard you're on laptops, maybe Panasonic?
Has anyone determined the refresh rate on these things when pushed, aka playing video? I know the color's terrible (4 bits per component, 12-bit color) but I'm intrested if it'll handle 30fps video. Anyone? Beuler? Beuler?
Okay, that's $3 per PC, but you have to bring your own PC... which is, what, $500 w/o case, keyboard, mouse, or monitor? Mini-itx.com and damnsmalllinux.org have $110 EPIA 5000 boards, but $110 is $10 more than the famed $100 OLPC and you still have to get memory, storage, power, case, keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
The OLPC you get all the hardware, all the software, for a very very low price.
If you're a struggling country, what would you get? A $100-per-unit all-in-one, or $500-or-more-plus-three-bucks-per-unit system that does the same thing?
Come on, Microsoft! We've already done cheaper than that! ETRYAGAIN.
I got a PSP before the price reduction (ARGH!) for video and music, with Wifi being a fringe benifit. I now felt like I wasted my money.
First, music is fine, don't get me wrong. The native player is nicely built, the interface is decent, and you can stare at it all the time. Video, though, requires a special subsection of the MP4 format that only a few people have cracked (including the Xvid4PSP utility). Oh, and you can't use a MPEG4 codec eazily ether -- you have to use H264. And depending on the firmware, these requirements can and will change (pre-3.30 vs 3.30).
Second is third party support. There's no cheap UMD burners out there. The UMD format is completely proprietary. You got Memory Sticks which are half-way good, but in order to run anything off of them you need to hack the ROM. Lock-in, anyone?
Third is Linux support. Right now, there's a slow-developing ucLinux port out there. There's no MMU on the PSP so it's not a GPX2 contender by any stretch. Sony did a good thing by opening the door a tad with Linux support on the PS3. Sony did a bad thing by killing the capabilities on the PS3 while running Linux.
I'm selling my PSP. For what I want, the iPod is better.
It'll take me a week or two, depending on the distribution, to tweak it to my liking. Some items like KDE I'll just copy over a known good install directory. If it's a system I'm transitioning to, I'll just copy $HOME over and make sure everything's nicely compiled right.
If you check further in, you'll find out that even though it's perfectly restored, it's illegal to drive -- KITT isn't enviromentally friendly currently. Nice to tow to various conventions, though!
I heard that the Blue Man Group was the first to examine the built-in network of modern plumbing. It looks like Google was intrested in building apon the idea.
Take it from a site that hosts 6000+ webcomics, so you get a good sense of what's being used out there.
On average from CG, from the top of my head (not accurate!!!):
* Firefox/IE are major contenders -- ether one or the other flops back and forth the lead. * Safari rounds out the third * Konqueror, Opera, Netscape 4, and web spiders scrape out the distant rest.
What I would do is follow Google Mail's lead: Make a javascript version and a non-js version, and if there's a browser not on the tested whilelist, go non-js.
Some times, like in the summer, coffee is just too hot and/or overused. However, you don't want a Red Bull/Rockstar/Tab/etc. You just want caffeene in a soda, but Coke and Pepsi aren't it.
Times like these, I reach for a can of Jolt. No added junk like ginseng and taurine. No bland cans that make you wonder if they're all equal. You just reach for a battery of Jolt, drink the entire thing over the day's work.
Yep, they're slowly rolling it out, replacing the old copper cable. Plus, they're offering such a sweet deal with Internet and TV over the fiber: $35 for 5mbit up/2mbit down (I sometimes hit 6mbit down, strangely enough). $52 for basic 180 channel digital TV (only 18 channels analog, so you need a set top box or DVR), a STB in one room, a two-tuner DVR in another.
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Rob, I think it's time to fix that membership problem...
Google and NASA could get together on this, and have a feature in which registered users could pin intresting areas and send the location info to astronomers. Maybe the face on Mars' covered side was hiding a hand picking it's noze? Inquiring minds want to know!
Apple had a party for Vista on one of it's Mac/PC ads. "We should do this again in five years." "Oh, I got a meeting in five years. How about five and a day?" "Presentation. Five and two days?"
Looks quite like what's done with Penny Arcade: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One
Where's the ATI or NVidia cards? All we have now is the Intel cards for the E1505N, and right now they're only good for 2D.
Seriously. The systems are exactly custom-ordered, they have better online documentation (including tear-down instructions for field replacement) and there hasn't been any hardware problems as of late.
HP, however, has a ton of problems it needs to resolve. It's site is counter-intuitive, both on buying a system and getting support for whatever you have. It's offerings are very fixed, even after it borged Compaq. Some offerings have variations that are hard to find, and some even harder to find support to. I hear the customer service isn't worth the phone call.
I'm not sure about Lenovo, since they're owned by the Chinese government. Gateway I haven't heard from, but depending on how hard you're on laptops, maybe Panasonic?
Has anyone determined the refresh rate on these things when pushed, aka playing video? I know the color's terrible (4 bits per component, 12-bit color) but I'm intrested if it'll handle 30fps video. Anyone? Beuler? Beuler?
Okay, that's $3 per PC, but you have to bring your own PC... which is, what, $500 w/o case, keyboard, mouse, or monitor? Mini-itx.com and damnsmalllinux.org have $110 EPIA 5000 boards, but $110 is $10 more than the famed $100 OLPC and you still have to get memory, storage, power, case, keyboard, mouse, and monitor.
The OLPC you get all the hardware, all the software, for a very very low price.
If you're a struggling country, what would you get? A $100-per-unit all-in-one, or $500-or-more-plus-three-bucks-per-unit system that does the same thing?
Come on, Microsoft! We've already done cheaper than that! ETRYAGAIN.
No, that dates back to the 1800's, so there's prior art there.
I got a PSP before the price reduction (ARGH!) for video and music, with Wifi being a fringe benifit. I now felt like I wasted my money.
First, music is fine, don't get me wrong. The native player is nicely built, the interface is decent, and you can stare at it all the time. Video, though, requires a special subsection of the MP4 format that only a few people have cracked (including the Xvid4PSP utility). Oh, and you can't use a MPEG4 codec eazily ether -- you have to use H264. And depending on the firmware, these requirements can and will change (pre-3.30 vs 3.30).
Second is third party support. There's no cheap UMD burners out there. The UMD format is completely proprietary. You got Memory Sticks which are half-way good, but in order to run anything off of them you need to hack the ROM. Lock-in, anyone?
Third is Linux support. Right now, there's a slow-developing ucLinux port out there. There's no MMU on the PSP so it's not a GPX2 contender by any stretch. Sony did a good thing by opening the door a tad with Linux support on the PS3. Sony did a bad thing by killing the capabilities on the PS3 while running Linux.
I'm selling my PSP. For what I want, the iPod is better.
It'll take me a week or two, depending on the distribution, to tweak it to my liking. Some items like KDE I'll just copy over a known good install directory. If it's a system I'm transitioning to, I'll just copy $HOME over and make sure everything's nicely compiled right.
If you check further in, you'll find out that even though it's perfectly restored, it's illegal to drive -- KITT isn't enviromentally friendly currently. Nice to tow to various conventions, though!
Any ports to Perl? Anyone?
I heard that the Blue Man Group was the first to examine the built-in network of modern plumbing. It looks like Google was intrested in building apon the idea.
How about those states who not only have sales tax, but an out-of-state "use" tax for all material being mailed in. Dell actually collects that!
"The Doctor"
"Doctor who?"
"Precisely."
Something tells me there's an Abbot and Costello joke there to be found....
Oh let me guess, someone dropped their laptop while it was turned on, and instead of flopping and the plastic taking the abuse, it exploded, right?
*reads article*
Nope, it was folks complaining of a hot lap from their laptops.
You lost your semicolin in there, hon. Need another one?
Take it from a site that hosts 6000+ webcomics, so you get a good sense of what's being used out there.
On average from CG, from the top of my head (not accurate!!!):
* Firefox/IE are major contenders -- ether one or the other flops back and forth the lead.
* Safari rounds out the third
* Konqueror, Opera, Netscape 4, and web spiders scrape out the distant rest.
What I would do is follow Google Mail's lead: Make a javascript version and a non-js version, and if there's a browser not on the tested whilelist, go non-js.
Some times, like in the summer, coffee is just too hot and/or overused. However, you don't want a Red Bull/Rockstar/Tab/etc. You just want caffeene in a soda, but Coke and Pepsi aren't it.
Times like these, I reach for a can of Jolt. No added junk like ginseng and taurine. No bland cans that make you wonder if they're all equal. You just reach for a battery of Jolt, drink the entire thing over the day's work.
Too bad they're not doing Orange Jolt anymore...
Someone get a port of OpenOffice.org up and running natively on MacOS X!
Well, there goes that blog entry. Entire site crashes and presents a "no input file specified" error. Nice.
The problem is that they can be spoofed, although not quite easily. That's because they're having folks self-setup the various systems.
Me, I would rather say "If your domain isn't in the same netblock as the ISP it represents, score heavily against."
Sun Microsystems does VR Press release (Metaverse Messenger) (WARNING, PDF Newspaper!)
Made the front page, but below the fold.
Yep, they're slowly rolling it out, replacing the old copper cable. Plus, they're offering such a sweet deal with Internet and TV over the fiber: $35 for 5mbit up/2mbit down (I sometimes hit 6mbit down, strangely enough). $52 for basic 180 channel digital TV (only 18 channels analog, so you need a set top box or DVR), a STB in one room, a two-tuner DVR in another.