It was a 2002 Toshiba model with au/KDDI service. I could tag any photo with the GPS coordinates and mail it off to let people know where I was. It's nice to look back at old shots and be able to find the location on a map, but I'm sure it can be used for many more practical purposes.
Altered Carbon was dreadful
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I had no expectations for Altered Carbon, but it was an excruciating read. I honestly don't know why I bothered to finish it.
First of all, it barely qualifies as scifi. It's more of a bad Hollywood (option-me-please!) mystery thriller with tacked-on, unoriginal science fiction elements. A lot of the dialog is so awkward that I was literally cringing while reading it.
The only thing I got out of Altered Carbon was a strong desire to avoid any of the author's other work.
No. I never found any compelling reason to load a clunkier looking GUI, slow most of my applications down by 5-10% and possibly break others, not to mention driver issues. I also still use Media Player 6.4 (or ZoomPlayer), for the same reasons (newer versions are uglier and slower).
Yep, NEC has announced a Crusoe desktop for the Japanese market. No surprise if the company will present new PowerMate eco for the North American and European markets
"Good God" is right! What a load of ignorant nonsense you're dishing out there. First of all, if the film industry practiced anything like open market capitalism, there wouldn't be any complaints. The film industry is a cartel-like group of large media companies with a strangle-hold on distribution, which uses lobbying and government regulations to stifle any hope of a true open market. Sundance has become a farce of "independent filmmaking" where the giants shop for films to fill their "indie" film schedules in multiplexes across the country. The majority of independent filmmakers who are squeezed out, are Americans, not the Europeans, despite your feeble attempt to label this a Euro-Leftist argument. Almost every filmmaker from the top on down agrees that it's much harder to do independent films these days than in the 80's or earlier, because of the non-free market industry stranglehold. Suggested reading: Movie Wars : How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See.
I'm sorry folks, your brains are now property of Disney. How many images of Mickey Mouse have you illegally recorded in your memory? How many movies, books and songs? All the knowledge and experiences in your memory are stolen intellectual property. Confess now, and we'll offer you a special discount rate to license your brain back for limited periods of regulated thought.
Reading a book must be double-double-theft. First, you're not watching commercials. Second, you are stealing the IP of the books content by illegally recording it into the memory of your brain! Wait, that means both memory and brains should be outlawed too!
Don't try to stop me! I'm gonna jump! AHHHHHHHHHH!
Is fast forward theft? Is closing my eyes theft? Is turning off the TV theft? Is walking out of the room during commercials theft? Is posting a comment without actually reading the article or any of the other comments theft? Oh Lord, when will the madness end?
"...this looks to be the best PDA/phone combined in the world." This thing would get you laughed off the subway car in Tokyo (by high-school girls with more advanced tech).
Any Lucas stupidity is barely worth comment, but I can't help myself.
I'm sorry God, but first of all, you are not God. Second, Fans themselves determine what Fandom is about, they don't wait to get handed down stone tablets from the mountaintop. Third, these are your paying customers, your livelyhood, and they are using their own time and money to give you free publicity, so you can sell more JarJar Happy Meals.
This company is obviously "making waves" to legitimize their re-packaged appropriated freeware. This lawsuit is going to get them more free press than they could ever imagine and sell tons of copies of "their" software that they can't sell by SPAMMING. You must not have email, if you haven't gotten a box full of their "COPY ANY DVD" spam-mail.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to filter out the garbage...
Some of the descriptions of the button-sized nodes sound straight out of Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky". Of course, in the novel they were more like grains of dust.
The interesting thing is, Japanese manufacturers already are selling Japanese-market phones with all these features (and those of the new Clie). The only difference is a bigger screen (and no phone functionality in the Clie's case). There already are Java phones with built-in still cameras, email, web browsers, MP3 and downloadable gameboy-type games. The pricey FOMA phones even stream live full motion video (which the Clie camera cannot).
You almost have to wonder if these PDAs are really only targeted at the US market, since they're so redundant in Japan.
It looks like they have a Bluetooth card accessory coming out and a GPS card. There is also what looks like a wireless modem and another type of wireless adapter, but I'm not sure if it's 802.11b, or not.
It can also be used to transfer map/location data back and forth with your Sony Car Navigator (in Japan). And it can function as a programmable remote control for your home theater gear (TV, DVD, VCR, etc). It looks like the camera uses Picture Gear Pocket edition, so the photos are probably compatible with most of Sony's DV and digital still cams (and transferrable by Memory Stick).
It's surprising they didn't put a phone in, but I guess Japanese hipsters wouldn't be caught dead talking into a giant PDA when they have such amazing "keitai" cell phones.
Failing in his master plan to make Disney films completely unwatchable (and therefore "pirate-proof"), Eisner has turned to Plan B: whining to Washington.
Extending his current argument, Disney itself should be held accountable for mass-producing and selling films in such a handy portable format. This is like handing the swarthy, back-alley pirates a couple of perfect $100 bill plates and a printing press. (Forget the handful of so-called "legitimate consumers" who would have you think they actually buy videos to watch them.) Disney should be ordered to immediately cease all production of its' piracy-friendly "entertainments" (including, but not limited to, films, videos, TV, radio, CDs, Broadway musicals and internet media). This chastity belt on production would effectively stop the virginal media conglomerate from getting screwed by the unwashed masses.
Unburdened from the slave galley of schlock entertainment, perhaps Disney could set it's "imagineers" on the problems of world hunger and developing clean, low-cost source of energy.
The last 4 eps. of season 3 have already aired in the UK, but they won't air on SciFi Channel until April. There's really no choice but to download...(or fly to Europe).
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It was a 2002 Toshiba model with au/KDDI service. I could tag any photo with the GPS coordinates and mail it off to let people know where I was. It's nice to look back at old shots and be able to find the location on a map, but I'm sure it can be used for many more practical purposes.
I had no expectations for Altered Carbon, but it was an excruciating read. I honestly don't know why I bothered to finish it.
First of all, it barely qualifies as scifi. It's more of a bad Hollywood (option-me-please!) mystery thriller with tacked-on, unoriginal science fiction elements. A lot of the dialog is so awkward that I was literally cringing while reading it.
The only thing I got out of Altered Carbon was a strong desire to avoid any of the author's other work.
No. I never found any compelling reason to load a clunkier looking GUI, slow most of my applications down by 5-10% and possibly break others, not to mention driver issues. I also still use Media Player 6.4 (or ZoomPlayer), for the same reasons (newer versions are uglier and slower).
Too bad they couldn't have tested this one too...
Bringing mobile gaming to new heights
nVidia GPU Delivers Fastest Mobile 3D Performance
Nvidia to launch NV28M at Comdex - The first known notebook design is slated for Q1 next year, from long time Nvidia partner Dell
Yep, NEC has announced a Crusoe desktop for the Japanese market. No surprise if the company will present new PowerMate eco for the North American and European markets
NEC announces PC on 1GHz Crusoe TM5800
ROFL! You made my day, bro.
Isn't this old news (yesterday)? And why link to a Fox News story for tech news?
"Good God" is right! What a load of ignorant nonsense you're dishing out there. First of all, if the film industry practiced anything like open market capitalism, there wouldn't be any complaints. The film industry is a cartel-like group of large media companies with a strangle-hold on distribution, which uses lobbying and government regulations to stifle any hope of a true open market. Sundance has become a farce of "independent filmmaking" where the giants shop for films to fill their "indie" film schedules in multiplexes across the country. The majority of independent filmmakers who are squeezed out, are Americans, not the Europeans, despite your feeble attempt to label this a Euro-Leftist argument. Almost every filmmaker from the top on down agrees that it's much harder to do independent films these days than in the 80's or earlier, because of the non-free market industry stranglehold. Suggested reading: Movie Wars : How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See.
You apparently consider yourself to be hipper than you actually are. (It is funny though, but yes, we ALL get it.)
I believe NTT DoCoMo has a 3G FOMA card that does a maximum data download rate of 384 kbps and a data upload rate of 64 kbps.
I'm sorry folks, your brains are now property of Disney. How many images of Mickey Mouse have you illegally recorded in your memory? How many movies, books and songs? All the knowledge and experiences in your memory are stolen intellectual property. Confess now, and we'll offer you a special discount rate to license your brain back for limited periods of regulated thought.
Reading a book must be double-double-theft. First, you're not watching commercials. Second, you are stealing the IP of the books content by illegally recording it into the memory of your brain! Wait, that means both memory and brains should be outlawed too!
Don't try to stop me! I'm gonna jump! AHHHHHHHHHH!
Is fast forward theft? Is closing my eyes theft? Is turning off the TV theft? Is walking out of the room during commercials theft? Is posting a comment without actually reading the article or any of the other comments theft? Oh Lord, when will the madness end?
"3. Was the enhanced graphics really for the graphics pros or the hard-core gamers???"
How can you be a "hard-core gamer" on a Mac without any games? (I know Mac users who own a PC just for games.)
"...this looks to be the best PDA/phone combined in the world." This thing would get you laughed off the subway car in Tokyo (by high-school girls with more advanced tech).
Any Lucas stupidity is barely worth comment, but I can't help myself.
I'm sorry God, but first of all, you are not God. Second, Fans themselves determine what Fandom is about, they don't wait to get handed down stone tablets from the mountaintop. Third, these are your paying customers, your livelyhood, and they are using their own time and money to give you free publicity, so you can sell more JarJar Happy Meals.
ROFL! They're gonna charge people to read payola puff piece "reviews"? That's RICH! (I guess they will be too.)
No thanks!
This company is obviously "making waves" to legitimize their re-packaged appropriated freeware. This lawsuit is going to get them more free press than they could ever imagine and sell tons of copies of "their" software that they can't sell by SPAMMING. You must not have email, if you haven't gotten a box full of their "COPY ANY DVD" spam-mail.
I thought Slashdot was supposed to filter out the garbage...
Avid DV Express 3.0 will be released for OS X by this summer.
24 fps high density video ...?
That's a new one on me. I think you meant "high-definition (HD) video."
Some of the descriptions of the button-sized nodes sound straight out of Vernor Vinge's novel A Deepness in the Sky". Of course, in the novel they were more like grains of dust.
similar slash story: Nano sized chips
another related story: Smart Dust
The interesting thing is, Japanese manufacturers already are selling Japanese-market phones with all these features (and those of the new Clie). The only difference is a bigger screen (and no phone functionality in the Clie's case). There already are Java phones with built-in still cameras, email, web browsers, MP3 and downloadable gameboy-type games. The pricey FOMA phones even stream live full motion video (which the Clie camera cannot).
You almost have to wonder if these PDAs are really only targeted at the US market, since they're so redundant in Japan.
What it looks like open and closed (from the Japanese site)
It looks like they have a Bluetooth card accessory coming out and a GPS card. There is also what looks like a wireless modem and another type of wireless adapter, but I'm not sure if it's 802.11b, or not.
a couple more views
It can also be used to transfer map/location data back and forth with your Sony Car Navigator (in Japan). And it can function as a programmable remote control for your home theater gear (TV, DVD, VCR, etc). It looks like the camera uses Picture Gear Pocket edition, so the photos are probably compatible with most of Sony's DV and digital still cams (and transferrable by Memory Stick).
It's surprising they didn't put a phone in, but I guess Japanese hipsters wouldn't be caught dead talking into a giant PDA when they have such amazing "keitai" cell phones.
Failing in his master plan to make Disney films completely unwatchable (and therefore "pirate-proof"), Eisner has turned to Plan B: whining to Washington.
Extending his current argument, Disney itself should be held accountable for mass-producing and selling films in such a handy portable format. This is like handing the swarthy, back-alley pirates a couple of perfect $100 bill plates and a printing press. (Forget the handful of so-called "legitimate consumers" who would have you think they actually buy videos to watch them.) Disney should be ordered to immediately cease all production of its' piracy-friendly "entertainments" (including, but not limited to, films, videos, TV, radio, CDs, Broadway musicals and internet media). This chastity belt on production would effectively stop the virginal media conglomerate from getting screwed by the unwashed masses.
Unburdened from the slave galley of schlock entertainment, perhaps Disney could set it's "imagineers" on the problems of world hunger and developing clean, low-cost source of energy.
The last 4 eps. of season 3 have already aired in the UK, but they won't air on SciFi Channel until April. There's really no choice but to download...(or fly to Europe).