I hope the phone has a SD/MMC slot in it. 256MB of memory can be found for less than $50 now. You should at least be able to store a couple or more CD's worth of music on the phone.
because it has such great market share as of now it would be very, very, difficult to convince both producers of media and people browsing the web to download a web plugin. Do would you simply download XYZ plugin from Unknown corporation?
I feel sorry for the poor game tester they made use a minimum spec machine to go through the entire game...
You know what would be funny? A website that posts minimum spec benchmarks on all the popular games. Would be interesting to see what game makers think "minimum" actually means.
These are very serious problems when you consider it in a book. A paper book could last hundreds of years if properly cared for. A DRM file may be unaccessible as soon as the device it was licensed for breaks down or becomes obsolete.
It hogs the processor because it's poorly designed. It seems to use absolutely no directX acceleration which has been available for many years. Why is there even a "low, medium, and high" quality setting when you right click on flash animations? The video card in the system should accellerate anti-aliasing with little difficulty.
quote from article... If your music collection has exceeded your iPod's storage space, or your listening binges exceed your current iPod's battery life--or if you want to hear Bill Clinton's abridged book in 4-1/2 hours rather than six--consider the Bump this time around.
You're saying that by obfuscating the filenames internally that it is somehow so much more efficient? Sure, if we were talking about 4k of RAM, but that's unilkely. Are you suggesting that the Archos has shorter battery life just because of how it browses for files? that's odd...
Its ingeniously simple: why make processor on the ipod built for effeciency have to do all this directory / database management (althou the 3g ones do this now) when you can get a desktop computer to do it in a snap.
The Fitaly keyboard layout looks cool. Or T9 predictive text is also very fast. 30 wpm is very possible. Anyone who uses QWERTY on a PDA is just crazy I think. I'm always amused at manufactures that add a bunch of buttons in a QWERTY configuration on small devices, even though the benefits of using QWERTY touch typing skills are useless there. They might as well be in an efficient arrangement for using two thumbs.
Even using Graffiti on palm is faster than typing the letters out. You can't spend 30 minutes learning a more efficient key layout saving you hours in the long run?
Processing signals at a resolution of 24 bits (maybe even floating point calculations, 32 bit, 64 bit???) combined with billions of operations per second can probably simulate whatever positive effects that vacuum tubes provided. The trick would be trying to figure out what those qualities are and developing efficient algorithms to implement them. The main benefit? It would be low power, easy to reprogram, and it won't change with time, temperature, or RF interferrence.
Of course, this doesn't make the analog components any less imporant. Once you get out of the realm of digital signals, there is still a great need for efficient analog circuitry. It's just how much of this circuitry you need to focus on can be reduced by using DSP.
There are many government agencies that have a zero tolerance for wireless devices, devices with data ports, microphones, cameras, or whatever being taken into secure areas that deal with classified material. When you're talking about something regarding national security, you can never be to safe about what is allowed in a secure area.
And how would one automatically know that an unopened 12 pack case of soda had one of these devices in it? They wouldn't which is why the Military simply wants people to be aware of this. And who is to trust coke anyway?
Here's a scenerio: let's say some people were having a top secret conference and they had a 12 pack of sodas sitting in the back somewhere for refreshments aftwards. What if the device is accidently activated during this time and it starts recording the conference? What then happens if some unscrupulous employeee at Coke thinks it's an interesting conversation and releases it on the internet? Sure, all this could be very, very, rare, but given the nature of some information it's absolutely not worth the risk.
Which includes cripplying large portions of the U.S. economy?
moratorium on commercial logging and road construction
I've lived in logging communities. I know first hand what the environmental movement has done to cripple a legitimate part of our economy. Guess what? After logging companies cut down trees they plant new ones. Trees grow back (amazing!). They do not create wastelands of stumps countrary to popular belief.
We are working internationally to stop nuclear power
Great, and raise the price of electricity because of ignorance of a proven technology.
Here we go again with NASA concetrating on trying to find "life" on other planets. What ever happened to the science of simply exploring and learning about our solar system and how it formed instead of this quest of focusing on trying to find life on other planets. There is more to space exploration than finding life.
I sure as hell hope there's a moderate in the White House on that particular day.
I sure hope that ISN'T the case. Do you really believe it is morally correct for a communist government to take over yet another country and start restricting the freedoms and rights of more people?
Look what's happening in Hong Kong this very moment where they are no longer allowed to choose their own leadership.
You are speaking of an invasion into Taiwan, warships, troops, etc. entering that country. How many people would they kill before declaring the invasion a success?
Ever tried using Excel on a 1600x1200 laptop screen that is only 14"? Sure you can scale the font up, but the button bar buttons are still small because they are standard 16x16 pixels, and the labels on the rows and columns are microscopic.
They really do need to redesign the software to make everything vector based, and then cache the images for the particular resolution you are using.
For legacy applications, give the user the option to scale the window 100, 150, 200% and use antialiasing to smooth it out.
I use to play gameboy (Advanced Wars 2) every day on my way to work while commuting on rapid transit. It's a bit more fun than just reading a book, or playing truly useless unentertaining games on a cellphone.
Ironically, I was commuting to my job as a game tester. I would have thought I would be sick of playing video games by now, but I'm not.
Umm... ethernet adapters for systems might add about $2 or $5 to the system. Not $100. The technology is so old, it's not really a cost factor anymore. The cost would be more in the development of the games to take advantage of that internet connection. Nintendo should just go ahead and add this feature to their next system instead of making people have to suffer and buy another silly perpherial for their system. How much success has nintendo had with perpherial devices in the past?
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yeah, but I can take that same $700 that would have bought this remote and buy Doom 3, a GeForce 6800 pro, and maybe some more RAM.
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Have fun changing channels
I hope the phone has a SD/MMC slot in it. 256MB of memory can be found for less than $50 now. You should at least be able to store a couple or more CD's worth of music on the phone.
400 MHz cpu's
more portability
much longer battery life
wifi, bluetooth (built in)
ability to play hours of video/music
web browsing, etc....
http://www.cafeshops.com/ilovebees.12518390?zoom=y es#zoom
funny....
because it has such great market share as of now it would be very, very, difficult to convince both producers of media and people browsing the web to download a web plugin. Do would you simply download XYZ plugin from Unknown corporation?
I feel sorry for the poor game tester they made use a minimum spec machine to go through the entire game...
You know what would be funny? A website that posts minimum spec benchmarks on all the popular games. Would be interesting to see what game makers think "minimum" actually means.
without ebook "problems" such as DRM
These are very serious problems when you consider it in a book. A paper book could last hundreds of years if properly cared for. A DRM file may be unaccessible as soon as the device it was licensed for breaks down or becomes obsolete.
It hogs the processor because it's poorly designed. It seems to use absolutely no directX acceleration which has been available for many years. Why is there even a "low, medium, and high" quality setting when you right click on flash animations? The video card in the system should accellerate anti-aliasing with little difficulty.
and disturbing!
quote from article...
If your music collection has exceeded your iPod's storage space, or your listening binges exceed your current iPod's battery life--or if you want to hear Bill Clinton's abridged book in 4-1/2 hours rather than six--consider the Bump this time around.
The only signifcant drawback to the current material used in the regular iPod is its tendency to pick up scratches/fingerprints on its back.
I guess this isn't much of a problem though as people seem to be buying new ipods every couple years...
You're saying that by obfuscating the filenames internally that it is somehow so much more efficient? Sure, if we were talking about 4k of RAM, but that's unilkely. Are you suggesting that the Archos has shorter battery life just because of how it browses for files? that's odd...
Its ingeniously simple: why make processor on the ipod built for effeciency have to do all this directory / database management (althou the 3g ones do this now) when you can get a desktop computer to do it in a snap.
Because it's bad design.
and now this...
A more friendly layout?
Like Dvorak, or the Left/Right handed varients?
The Fitaly keyboard layout looks cool. Or T9 predictive text is also very fast. 30 wpm is very possible. Anyone who uses QWERTY on a PDA is just crazy I think. I'm always amused at manufactures that add a bunch of buttons in a QWERTY configuration on small devices, even though the benefits of using QWERTY touch typing skills are useless there. They might as well be in an efficient arrangement for using two thumbs.
Even using Graffiti on palm is faster than typing the letters out. You can't spend 30 minutes learning a more efficient key layout saving you hours in the long run?
Processing signals at a resolution of 24 bits (maybe even floating point calculations, 32 bit, 64 bit???) combined with billions of operations per second can probably simulate whatever positive effects that vacuum tubes provided. The trick would be trying to figure out what those qualities are and developing efficient algorithms to implement them. The main benefit? It would be low power, easy to reprogram, and it won't change with time, temperature, or RF interferrence.
Of course, this doesn't make the analog components any less imporant. Once you get out of the realm of digital signals, there is still a great need for efficient analog circuitry. It's just how much of this circuitry you need to focus on can be reduced by using DSP.
There are many government agencies that have a zero tolerance for wireless devices, devices with data ports, microphones, cameras, or whatever being taken into secure areas that deal with classified material. When you're talking about something regarding national security, you can never be to safe about what is allowed in a secure area.
And how would one automatically know that an unopened 12 pack case of soda had one of these devices in it? They wouldn't which is why the Military simply wants people to be aware of this. And who is to trust coke anyway?
Here's a scenerio: let's say some people were having a top secret conference and they had a 12 pack of sodas sitting in the back somewhere for refreshments aftwards. What if the device is accidently activated during this time and it starts recording the conference? What then happens if some unscrupulous employeee at Coke thinks it's an interesting conversation and releases it on the internet? Sure, all this could be very, very, rare, but given the nature of some information it's absolutely not worth the risk.
We have many worthwhile causes.
Which includes cripplying large portions of the U.S. economy?
moratorium on commercial logging and road construction
I've lived in logging communities. I know first hand what the environmental movement has done to cripple a legitimate part of our economy. Guess what? After logging companies cut down trees they plant new ones. Trees grow back (amazing!). They do not create wastelands of stumps countrary to popular belief.
We are working internationally to stop nuclear power
Great, and raise the price of electricity because of ignorance of a proven technology.
It is not a documentry. It is political propaganda for the left. Nothing more, nothing less.
Here we go again with NASA concetrating on trying to find "life" on other planets. What ever happened to the science of simply exploring and learning about our solar system and how it formed instead of this quest of focusing on trying to find life on other planets. There is more to space exploration than finding life.
You should have used a time library instead of calculating the time out. This is kind of messy.
Why didn't they just use TWO video cards (1 AGP + 1 PCI) that each have two video ouputs (1 DVI and 1 VGA). You could save a little money that way.
This is still a pretty cool project. I doubt something like this would be possible to develop on Windows.
I sure as hell hope there's a moderate in the White House on that particular day.
I sure hope that ISN'T the case. Do you really believe it is morally correct for a communist government to take over yet another country and start restricting the freedoms and rights of more people?
Look what's happening in Hong Kong this very moment where they are no longer allowed to choose their own leadership.
You are speaking of an invasion into Taiwan, warships, troops, etc. entering that country. How many people would they kill before declaring the invasion a success?
Ever tried using Excel on a 1600x1200 laptop screen that is only 14"? Sure you can scale the font up, but the button bar buttons are still small because they are standard 16x16 pixels, and the labels on the rows and columns are microscopic.
They really do need to redesign the software to make everything vector based, and then cache the images for the particular resolution you are using.
For legacy applications, give the user the option to scale the window 100, 150, 200% and use antialiasing to smooth it out.
I use to play gameboy (Advanced Wars 2) every day on my way to work while commuting on rapid transit. It's a bit more fun than just reading a book, or playing truly useless unentertaining games on a cellphone.
Ironically, I was commuting to my job as a game tester. I would have thought I would be sick of playing video games by now, but I'm not.
Umm... ethernet adapters for systems might add about $2 or $5 to the system. Not $100. The technology is so old, it's not really a cost factor anymore. The cost would be more in the development of the games to take advantage of that internet connection. Nintendo should just go ahead and add this feature to their next system instead of making people have to suffer and buy another silly perpherial for their system. How much success has nintendo had with perpherial devices in the past?
This is only funny because Zinc is not magnetic. Right?