Am I the only one to notice that it looks like you can't plug in headphones while using the wireless adapter? That's kind of bad. It would be nice if they added a headphone adapter to the device as well. Sure, gameboy music/sound effects are not that good, but that doesn't mean you should have to choose between wireless and sound.
I actually think the gameboy advanced SP is too small. It would be nice if they made it just a little bigger and integrated wireless and such into the unit.
I totally disagree with this: "2. we don't have to practice or learn anything."
If you are not willing to spend 10 minutes learning a new input method that will end up saving you HOURS in the long run, then why does the layout matter at all? You might as well give the customer random letters on the phone if they are not going to be using it often enough for speed to matter.
One handed dvorak might translate well to a phone somehow, or even a type of cording keyboard and a combination of word completion would be superior to what they have now.
I am always amazed at how they try to make computers with small form factors, yet still include hopelessly useless ports that possibly one in 2000 people use. Can we please get another USB or Firewire port instead?
It's incredible, politicians will always try to come up with creative, yet convoluted ways of taxing their constituency. But they never stop for one millisecond to consider ways of CUTTING taxes.
HEY look at all these other fun filled taxes the state of Florida has!
Check the ZIP file links at the bottom of this report for the actuall bill here, it actually describe the insanity and absent mindeness of the beauricrates that are proposing these laws. Is this really real???
So after reading this book, would I be able to do something like this ?
DHTML might be a good altervative to Java in the future for some web based interfaces, considering that a decent version of Java does not come with Internet Explorer anymore.
You don't drink just Earl Grey tea all the time do you? There are lots of different flavors. I prefer green tea, the flavor just tastes better to me for some reason. Actually, I prefer drinking different varieties. Drinking the same flavor gets boring after awhile.
I've never really been a big fan of coffee. I guess it's the higher caffeine content that scares me away.
One thing that confuses me is why anyone would drink that cheap Lipton tea that comes in huge boxes. The quality and flavor is just really terrible (in my opinion).
Yes, BUT this isn't very useful. I want to be able to DENY certain ports, not tell it which ports I want out. If I was to set it up this way, I'd have to spend days trying to figure out which ports my applications use instead of just being able to block obviously bad ports (FTP and HTTP outgoing). It's no where near as easy to configure as iptables.
exactly! Making it a "walkie-talkie" is a completely arbitrary restriction! I've been trying to explain this to my friends who has this service and they don't understand me.
It's also the same thing with the text messaging service, the amount of bandwidth you use to send one text message is less than a tenth of a second of voice conversation, yet they'll charge you more for that tenth of a second than for regular voice.
I wonder if it would be more fair to charge people based on network utilization than on 'minutes' or messages sent.
I'm talking more about home users who usually have a modem and a network card. The network card being their home network, and the modem (or cable modem) being the thing that connects to the internet.
All I would ask from Microsoft is an easy way to disable services from being exposed on any interface that is connected to the internet. I'm using W2K, I'm not sure if they have such functionality in XP though.
I actually attempted doing this once in Windows 2000. Lots of bad things happened, software stopped working correctly, and then, I couldn't even get back into the computer management to re-enable it.
Actually, I'm wondered why the heck RPC service is allowed to be exposed to the internet interface in the first place. There is absolutely no good reason for Microsoft to design it this way. Sure, I could understand it being useful for corporate networks, but to leave it on and not allow you to turn it off is ridiculous.
This isn't so much about security as it is poor design on the part of microsoft leaving so many useless services exposed to the internet.
One thing I noticed when skimming through the report was that they didn't really mention the responsiveness of the applications themselves. I mean, once a user learns these applications is the performance of them fast enough for a person to be productive? I've noticed on my linux system that applications tend to take much, much longer to load, the swap file thrashes more often, and just interacting with windows and the system is slightly more sluggish. Sure, the difference is in the few 100's of milliseconds, but it is noticable.
But they are trying to patent something that already existed within windows, being the ability to embed an application within another application. This already existed with Microsoft's OLE a long time before the internet was ever popular. Adding this capability to webbrowsers doesn't seem like such a big deal.
I'm not against patents, just ones that patent extremely trivial ideas.
I think the least a company who implements the Ogg Vorbis protocol should do is donate some small percentage of profits from each sale to xiph.org to support continued development. Not that they have to (do to it being patent and royalty free) but it would be a nice gesture.
Is Rio required by the Ogg Vorbis license agreement to release the microcode they used to implement this protocol? It would be interesting to see what kind of optimizations they used such as special DSP instructions.
I watched it, it's not worth downloading. It's just two geeks walking through a screen of fog. At one point one of them flaps his hands like he is a bird lol... maybe it is kind of funny.
I don't think any company would trust Windows 95 as an embeded solution. WindowsCE already covers that area and works much more efficiently. This is more of a just a fun trick to do with Windows 95 than anything.
Also, considering how many files they removed from the system, I would be suprised if anything could run with all those missing DLL files.
I like Mentos, yes they are Fresh, but I don't think they cause harm. In fact, I usually eat Mentos before I try coding something. It's one of my programming foods.
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Am I the only one to notice that it looks like you can't plug in headphones while using the wireless adapter? That's kind of bad. It would be nice if they added a headphone adapter to the device as well. Sure, gameboy music/sound effects are not that good, but that doesn't mean you should have to choose between wireless and sound.
I actually think the gameboy advanced SP is too small. It would be nice if they made it just a little bigger and integrated wireless and such into the unit.
I totally disagree with this:
"2. we don't have to practice or learn anything."
If you are not willing to spend 10 minutes learning a new input method that will end up saving you HOURS in the long run, then why does the layout matter at all? You might as well give the customer random letters on the phone if they are not going to be using it often enough for speed to matter.
One handed dvorak might translate well to a phone somehow, or even a type of cording keyboard and a combination of word completion would be superior to what they have now.
I am always amazed at how they try to make computers with small form factors, yet still include hopelessly useless ports that possibly one in 2000 people use. Can we please get another USB or Firewire port instead?
Aha... so that explains why NASA is letting Galileo decend into Jupiter. Must be a security measure against all these recent buffer overflow exploits.
The average game tester spends 50 hours a week playing video games. Except it's the same one for all 50 hours.
It's incredible, politicians will always try to come up with creative, yet convoluted ways of taxing their constituency. But they never stop for one millisecond to consider ways of CUTTING taxes.
HEY look at all these other fun filled taxes the state of Florida has!
Check the ZIP file links at the bottom of this report for the actuall bill here, it actually describe the insanity and absent mindeness of the beauricrates that are proposing these laws. Is this really real???
So after reading this book, would I be able to do something like this ?
DHTML might be a good altervative to Java in the future for some web based interfaces, considering that a decent version of Java does not come with Internet Explorer anymore.
You don't drink just Earl Grey tea all the time do you? There are lots of different flavors. I prefer green tea, the flavor just tastes better to me for some reason. Actually, I prefer drinking different varieties. Drinking the same flavor gets boring after awhile.
I've never really been a big fan of coffee. I guess it's the higher caffeine content that scares me away.
One thing that confuses me is why anyone would drink that cheap Lipton tea that comes in huge boxes. The quality and flavor is just really terrible (in my opinion).
GvR: ...I do it myself by staying where I am and giving keynotes at conferences and making my personal life the subject of discussions on Slashdot. ...
ORN: Perhaps they should get lives of their own instead of discussing yours?
I think he's talking about us...Yes, BUT this isn't very useful. I want to be able to DENY certain ports, not tell it which ports I want out. If I was to set it up this way, I'd have to spend days trying to figure out which ports my applications use instead of just being able to block obviously bad ports (FTP and HTTP outgoing). It's no where near as easy to configure as iptables.
exactly! Making it a "walkie-talkie" is a completely arbitrary restriction! I've been trying to explain this to my friends who has this service and they don't understand me.
It's also the same thing with the text messaging service, the amount of bandwidth you use to send one text message is less than a tenth of a second of voice conversation, yet they'll charge you more for that tenth of a second than for regular voice.
I wonder if it would be more fair to charge people based on network utilization than on 'minutes' or messages sent.
These are not publicly broadcasting. They use the exact same cellphone network. Kind of funny huh?
I'm talking more about home users who usually have a modem and a network card. The network card being their home network, and the modem (or cable modem) being the thing that connects to the internet.
All I would ask from Microsoft is an easy way to disable services from being exposed on any interface that is connected to the internet. I'm using W2K, I'm not sure if they have such functionality in XP though.
I actually attempted doing this once in Windows 2000. Lots of bad things happened, software stopped working correctly, and then, I couldn't even get back into the computer management to re-enable it.
Actually, I'm wondered why the heck RPC service is allowed to be exposed to the internet interface in the first place. There is absolutely no good reason for Microsoft to design it this way. Sure, I could understand it being useful for corporate networks, but to leave it on and not allow you to turn it off is ridiculous.
This isn't so much about security as it is poor design on the part of microsoft leaving so many useless services exposed to the internet.
One thing I noticed when skimming through the report was that they didn't really mention the responsiveness of the applications themselves. I mean, once a user learns these applications is the performance of them fast enough for a person to be productive? I've noticed on my linux system that applications tend to take much, much longer to load, the swap file thrashes more often, and just interacting with windows and the system is slightly more sluggish. Sure, the difference is in the few 100's of milliseconds, but it is noticable.
But they are trying to patent something that already existed within windows, being the ability to embed an application within another application. This already existed with Microsoft's OLE a long time before the internet was ever popular. Adding this capability to webbrowsers doesn't seem like such a big deal.
I'm not against patents, just ones that patent extremely trivial ideas.
I think the least a company who implements the Ogg Vorbis protocol should do is donate some small percentage of profits from each sale to xiph.org to support continued development. Not that they have to (do to it being patent and royalty free) but it would be a nice gesture.
Is Rio required by the Ogg Vorbis license agreement to release the microcode they used to implement this protocol? It would be interesting to see what kind of optimizations they used such as special DSP instructions.
Or something like that. But then again, that only works in C/C++ and it's probably bad programming practice.
The original Wiki on the subject is here Looks like it could use some updating on this subject.
Do you think this guy Is really impressing anyone with this thing?
"Hey laydies... look what I bought on ThinkGeek! Hey wait, come back!"
I watched it, it's not worth downloading. It's just two geeks walking through a screen of fog. At one point one of them flaps his hands like he is a bird lol... maybe it is kind of funny.
It's an interesting experiment anyways.
...and into another dimension, where the stable version of windows actually exists...
I don't think any company would trust Windows 95 as an embeded solution. WindowsCE already covers that area and works much more efficiently. This is more of a just a fun trick to do with Windows 95 than anything.
Also, considering how many files they removed from the system, I would be suprised if anything could run with all those missing DLL files.
Can someone please explain why we would want to boot a 5MB version of an operating system that came out over 8 years ago?
I think you could do a lot more useful things with a Linux distro at 5MB.
I like Mentos, yes they are Fresh, but I don't think they cause harm. In fact, I usually eat Mentos before I try coding something. It's one of my programming foods.