school, its kind of hard to talk on the phone during class and not get caught, texting solves this.
cell phones becoming increasingly annoying, they should be banned in: cars (for the driver), schools, church, movies, restaurants, and probably a lot more places i can't think of right now.
thanks to the oligopoly phone market, texting costs money when it should be free, as it costs almost nothing for the providors. there is one good thing about it though, at least i don't to listen to some teenage moron gawking about the new pokemon game some of the time now, since they are quietly typing away their parents money:p
its hard to feel sorry for these dumb parents who let their teens have phones in the first place, or at least not make them pay for some of it themselves, or put a cap on it, or use prepaid plans.
There is little doubt to me these are inflated numbers which are probably counting 10-30M licenses to Dell/Gateway/HP which haven't even been sold to consumers.
Description fragMOTION is a powerful 3D modeller specifically intended for the creation and animation of characters. fragMOTION is intuitive and easy to use and contains many features that are only found in top of the line modellers. And if that's not enough for you, the event driven scripting system makes it a breeze for you to add your own features. Notable Features
* Load and edit multiple motions in the same workspace.
* Merge any supported model file and extract only the desired portions of that file.
* Paint textures directly on the surface of a model.
* No set limit to the number of faces contained in a model.
* Create sprite images from 3D content.
* Keyframe editor that allows you to copy, paste and delete keyframes with ease.
* Animate your character using Inverse Kinematics.
* Support for up to 4 weighting values per vertex.
* Selective subdivision of faces.
* Unwrap arbitrary geometry into a plane and save the image into a texture.
* View attached objects such as weapons and equipment.
* Create your own plugins using LUA script or C++.
* Customizable user interface allows you to edit the menus and toolbar. You can even create your own menu items or toolbuttons to run user-defined scripts.
* Convenient splitter window allows you to customize the layout of your workspace.
* Keyboard shortcuts that allow you to use tools without constantly switching modes.
* Set background images into the viewer as a frame of reference.
* Create user-defined classes with their own appearance, properties, methods and events.
* Modify existing classes by adding user-defined properties, methods or events.
* Create skeletons with up to 255 bones.
* Full undo/redo.
* And many more...
Installed IE7 on my laptop which I rarely use, man I'm glad I didn't install it on my main machine, the thing is terribly slow and the interface is just aweful. IE6 and Firefox simply blow it out of the water. After seeing the crap MS puts out year after year, its a real surprise they are still a monopoly.
23 percent faster? 3 times less likely to fail? what the hell is going on here? a flash device with 32GB should be able to be striped like crazy and give 100-10000 times the transfer rates than HDD, and with almost 0 access times compared to HDD, they should be 1000 times faster to seek, giving a 100000 - 10000000 times performance increase.
Also with no moving parts they should be about 100-10000 times less likely to fail. And should use about 100x or less power than HDDs. Who is designing these things?
Mythbusters is my favorite show, it has been ever since I saw the episode where they tried to build a backpack flying machine from internet plans, man what an awesome show. I LOVE the show, but almost every myth I find myself screaming cuss words at the TV when they conclude that a myth is busted or not, this is mostly because their test data and sample size is WAY too small, or the test is badly designed.
Even so, I still do love the show and they do get a lot of things right, after all they are working on a fixed budget and time, there is only so much they can do. For myths such as this they really shouldn't say 'its busted', but that they didn't find any proof. Sadly the show also seems to be going downhill the last few seasons, as they seem to be doing dumber myths on average.
The difference is a matter of life and death. Studies done in Europe have shown that animals that ate cloned meat developed tumors, cancer, and several other diseases after several months.
I will never eat cloned anything if given a choice, which a label would. I would rather not eat genetically modified and growth enhanced food if possible as well, but currently nothing is labelled at all, it amazes me. Coorparations have their hand so far up the governments ass the people can't get shit for protection anymore.
In 50 years I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the population started developing unknown forms of cancer as a result of all the shit we are eating. And we don't even have a choice because there isn't any labels or laws. Hell even if you plant your own food how do you know the seeds you use aren't genetically modified, and the water you use is ok, and the soil, yea I know, the sky is falling, well, it just never fucking ends it seems and its only getting worse.
I would guess less than 20% of my programming time is actually typing, most of it is thinking. And if you switch to DVORAK you are going to be thinking about the keyboard for a long time, when you could be thinking about the work at hand. The thought of any programmer switching is utterly ridiculous IMO. Only if you are flowchart monkey or secretary should you switch.
Heres a guess of my programming time: 60% thinking/viewing 20% testing/debugging 15% typing 5% navigating
1) The built-in Wi-Fi, aka 'the social,' was a bad idea. Not at all, just very badly implemented, let users really share music rather than crippling it. This is actually the best selling point of the device as it is the only thing unique about the zune.
2) Tell newbies what it can do. Hm, this is a poor recommendation, its like saying 'sell more of them'. I think their tagline must be changed ASAP, enter the social just doesn't make sense, as the MS rep knows, I'm sure they are already working on this one.
3) Create a low-end, flash-based player. The best idea here, remove wifi and hd, make it thinner, add 4-8gb of flash and sell it for $99, that would be awesome.
4) Push subscriptions. Don't you think they are already doing this, it doesn't matter how much you push subscriptions, if the person doens't have the device why the hell are they going to subscribe. Perhaps give away devices for subscription plans, like cell phones.
5) Make it sexy. Yes turd brown was a very bad color, it is mute and relaxed and I actually like it, but it doesn't nothing for selling the things, or at least offer all colors including shiney ones, and not just crap brown quake ones.
Another prediction: SSDs will offer such huge power and performance advantanges, they will sell like crazy and drop in price by a factor of 70% within 1 year from now.
Creating an 'internal drive' is a big no no, it opens up piracy way too much, even if you can already do it with non-licensed stuff. What would be cool is a 8-32 slot cartride that you could stuff all your DS games into so they would always be plugged in, the GBA slot might be able to fit this, then no more shuffling and carrying those little game carts around.
"I've devoted a not-inconsequential chunk of my life to collecting music; to tracking down obscure records, cassettes, 8-Tracks and CD's of all genres and styles."
Perhaps part of the realization is that was wasted time, as now you can collect music from anyone who ever existed in a matter of seconds. The fun was probably not the music, but the journey, experiences, and people met in doing so.
"The FlipStart promises to do everything a full-sized laptop can do."
Except give you a screen you can actually see, and a keyboard you can actually use. Hm, there goes the output and input pieces, yep, its doomed for failure.
Why? One simple reason, if I use an MS solution I am the sole caretaker and gatekeeper of my data and information. If I use Google they have everything and can and will copy and use it to their benefit, and perhaps your competitors benefit.
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school, its kind of hard to talk on the phone during class and not get caught, texting solves this.
:p
cell phones becoming increasingly annoying, they should be banned in: cars (for the driver), schools, church, movies, restaurants, and probably a lot more places i can't think of right now.
thanks to the oligopoly phone market, texting costs money when it should be free, as it costs almost nothing for the providors. there is one good thing about it though, at least i don't to listen to some teenage moron gawking about the new pokemon game some of the time now, since they are quietly typing away their parents money
its hard to feel sorry for these dumb parents who let their teens have phones in the first place, or at least not make them pay for some of it themselves, or put a cap on it, or use prepaid plans.
"I wonder what we will say in another 16 years."
1THz CPU with 1024 cores
6TB memory
110 Petabyte hard drive
And yes, you will need that storage and power for the 3D volumetric virtual girl we will all be using as an 'input' device.
There is little doubt to me these are inflated numbers which are probably counting 10-30M licenses to Dell/Gateway/HP which haven't even been sold to consumers.
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"Vista's market share, meanwhile, more than doubled in the past month to 2.04%"
http://blogs.business2.com/apple/2007/04/os_marke
www.fragmotion.com
Description
fragMOTION is a powerful 3D modeller specifically intended for the creation and animation of characters. fragMOTION is intuitive and easy to use and contains many features that are only found in top of the line modellers. And if that's not enough for you, the event driven scripting system makes it a breeze for you to add your own features.
Notable Features
* Load and edit multiple motions in the same workspace.
* Merge any supported model file and extract only the desired portions of that file.
* Paint textures directly on the surface of a model.
* No set limit to the number of faces contained in a model.
* Create sprite images from 3D content.
* Keyframe editor that allows you to copy, paste and delete keyframes with ease.
* Animate your character using Inverse Kinematics.
* Support for up to 4 weighting values per vertex.
* Selective subdivision of faces.
* Unwrap arbitrary geometry into a plane and save the image into a texture.
* View attached objects such as weapons and equipment.
* Create your own plugins using LUA script or C++.
* Customizable user interface allows you to edit the menus and toolbar. You can even create your own menu items or toolbuttons to run user-defined scripts.
* Convenient splitter window allows you to customize the layout of your workspace.
* Keyboard shortcuts that allow you to use tools without constantly switching modes.
* Set background images into the viewer as a frame of reference.
* Create user-defined classes with their own appearance, properties, methods and events.
* Modify existing classes by adding user-defined properties, methods or events.
* Create skeletons with up to 255 bones.
* Full undo/redo.
* And many more...
Does this effect hardware players? What if you steal a key from a hardware player, can they revoke it? Will that make your hardware player useless?
Installed IE7 on my laptop which I rarely use, man I'm glad I didn't install it on my main machine, the thing is terribly slow and the interface is just aweful. IE6 and Firefox simply blow it out of the water. After seeing the crap MS puts out year after year, its a real surprise they are still a monopoly.
they are making a killing on this thing
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http://www.pricewatch.com/flash_card_memory/usb_f
A collection of devices to allow communication in many forms such as text, sound, and video.
23 percent faster? 3 times less likely to fail? what the hell is going on here? a flash device with 32GB should be able to be striped like crazy and give 100-10000 times the transfer rates than HDD, and with almost 0 access times compared to HDD, they should be 1000 times faster to seek, giving a 100000 - 10000000 times performance increase.
Also with no moving parts they should be about 100-10000 times less likely to fail. And should use about 100x or less power than HDDs. Who is designing these things?
Does this ever end, are we doing anything right in the USA these days? So some questions:
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1) Does this make chocolate more unhealthy?
2) Where in the USA can you buy the cheapest highest quality chocolate?
On a similiar note, you will find this article interesting about the US crops:
You Are What You Grow: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwln
Mythbusters is my favorite show, it has been ever since I saw the episode where they tried to build a backpack flying machine from internet plans, man what an awesome show. I LOVE the show, but almost every myth I find myself screaming cuss words at the TV when they conclude that a myth is busted or not, this is mostly because their test data and sample size is WAY too small, or the test is badly designed.
Even so, I still do love the show and they do get a lot of things right, after all they are working on a fixed budget and time, there is only so much they can do. For myths such as this they really shouldn't say 'its busted', but that they didn't find any proof. Sadly the show also seems to be going downhill the last few seasons, as they seem to be doing dumber myths on average.
Lol 3GHz, we had that when? like 3-4 years ago, if the race was really back on show me a 5-10GHZ cpu on air (not vapo cooled).
slow blimps + gun crime = open season on blimps
my guess is the blimps won't last long...
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/cloned_animals. cfm7 F2-99DF-3DE129EA7AA82596&chanID=sa006&colID=2
http://sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=C716B55E-E
http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/BEEF.html
The difference is a matter of life and death. Studies done in Europe have shown that animals that ate cloned meat developed tumors, cancer, and several other diseases after several months.
I will never eat cloned anything if given a choice, which a label would. I would rather not eat genetically modified and growth enhanced food if possible as well, but currently nothing is labelled at all, it amazes me. Coorparations have their hand so far up the governments ass the people can't get shit for protection anymore.
In 50 years I wouldn't be surprised if 90% of the population started developing unknown forms of cancer as a result of all the shit we are eating. And we don't even have a choice because there isn't any labels or laws. Hell even if you plant your own food how do you know the seeds you use aren't genetically modified, and the water you use is ok, and the soil, yea I know, the sky is falling, well, it just never fucking ends it seems and its only getting worse.
1) Buy a 50" plasma and sit closer!
2) Buy 4 42" plasmas for each person in your family so everyone can sit closer.
I would guess less than 20% of my programming time is actually typing, most of it is thinking. And if you switch to DVORAK you are going to be thinking about the keyboard for a long time, when you could be thinking about the work at hand. The thought of any programmer switching is utterly ridiculous IMO. Only if you are flowchart monkey or secretary should you switch.
Heres a guess of my programming time:
60% thinking/viewing
20% testing/debugging
15% typing
5% navigating
How is forcing the airflow over the body of the aircraft itself an improvment over an open airpath directly through the craft (a hole)?
1) The built-in Wi-Fi, aka 'the social,' was a bad idea.
Not at all, just very badly implemented, let users really share music rather than crippling it. This is actually the best selling point of the device as it is the only thing unique about the zune.
2) Tell newbies what it can do.
Hm, this is a poor recommendation, its like saying 'sell more of them'. I think their tagline must be changed ASAP, enter the social just doesn't make sense, as the MS rep knows, I'm sure they are already working on this one.
3) Create a low-end, flash-based player.
The best idea here, remove wifi and hd, make it thinner, add 4-8gb of flash and sell it for $99, that would be awesome.
4) Push subscriptions.
Don't you think they are already doing this, it doesn't matter how much you push subscriptions, if the person doens't have the device why the hell are they going to subscribe. Perhaps give away devices for subscription plans, like cell phones.
5) Make it sexy.
Yes turd brown was a very bad color, it is mute and relaxed and I actually like it, but it doesn't nothing for selling the things, or at least offer all colors including shiney ones, and not just crap brown quake ones.
Hm, based on the cheapest (without rebates) memory available at $8.50/GB, figure 20% markup between the manf and retailer, thats $6.8/GB.
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$435 for memory
+10% for R&D
+10% for manf (including controller, parts, etc)
-10% for manf efficency when producing 64GB/run
COST $479
RETAIL:
+20% for geewhiz-newtoy-factor/supply shortages
+10% for retail
YOUR COST: $630
sources:
http://www.pricewatch.com/flash_card_memory/secur
Another prediction: SSDs will offer such huge power and performance advantanges, they will sell like crazy and drop in price by a factor of 70% within 1 year from now.
Creating an 'internal drive' is a big no no, it opens up piracy way too much, even if you can already do it with non-licensed stuff. What would be cool is a 8-32 slot cartride that you could stuff all your DS games into so they would always be plugged in, the GBA slot might be able to fit this, then no more shuffling and carrying those little game carts around.
"I've devoted a not-inconsequential chunk of my life to collecting music; to tracking down obscure records, cassettes, 8-Tracks and CD's of all genres and styles."
Perhaps part of the realization is that was wasted time, as now you can collect music from anyone who ever existed in a matter of seconds. The fun was probably not the music, but the journey, experiences, and people met in doing so.
"The FlipStart promises to do everything a full-sized laptop can do."
Except give you a screen you can actually see, and a keyboard you can actually use. Hm, there goes the output and input pieces, yep, its doomed for failure.
Anyone who is associated with Ben Afleck can't be good.
Why? One simple reason, if I use an MS solution I am the sole caretaker and gatekeeper of my data and information. If I use Google they have everything and can and will copy and use it to their benefit, and perhaps your competitors benefit.