.....WWW is going to die, DVD's are a thing of the past....blah blah blah.
Yeah, and Beta's been "dead" for 20 years. But I still can go buy tapes for it.
Actually the fact that you can still get your hands on Beta tapes is not relevant, heck, I can still get my hands on new 8" floppies. And actually, once hi-def dvd's start showing up, today's dvd's will be a thing of the past.
Better analogies would be doomsayers talk about "we need to develop optical technologies because magnetic media will hit a stone wall at 1GB", or "cpu's will max out about 500mhz, better use optical computing" or "ipv6 needs to be adopted to deal with the shrinking ip address pool".
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If they're just counting the number of cpu's available to do a particular task, don't you then have to include things like Googles setup (10000+)?
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Can you imagine how this could be used to really screw with peoples heads?
On the edge psycho person: "Hey, did you hear that voice"
Unknowing friend: "No, I didn't hear anything"
On the edge psycho person: "Quit messing with me man, I can hear that voice a clear as day"
Unknowing friend: "I told you, all I hear is some elevator music"
On the edge psycho person: "AAARGH, get it out of my head, it's telling me to, to, to..."
Unknowing friend: "TO WHAT, TO WHAT!?!"
On the edge psycho person: "GO TO AISLE 4 FOR A 2 FOR 1 ON LIGHT DAYS! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH"
All kidding aside, there actually is a fair bit of harm one could use this tech for. Make the "sound" of high enough intensity, and it would make a very effective, and undetectable weapon.
WP offered unlimited, toll-free technical support at the outset
IIRC so did M$. I remember calling M$ tech support a couple of times (actually never to actually get tech support though, I was in MIS and I was curious about their MIS system, which ran on Vaxen at the time).
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How about the ZORK series? Those games were ALL plot.
Not like I spend enough time staring at code, just what I need is to have a constant stream of 6502 assembler every waking moment.
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"BioBricks" might spell the end of people dying due to lack of suitable organ donors
Or the end of people dying altogether? "Time to go freshen up the liver, mine is getting a bit worn out". Sounds like this might be a competing technology for cloning?
There is a good deal on a refurbed DLP projector for about $3500
egads! A $600 DLP projector on ebay will give you a very reasonable picture. If you don't want or need the ultimate, check out any of the
Read around for more info on what DLP is, but that and LCD are preferable to CRT projectors these days.
Well, DLP and LCD are "preferable" if space and convenience is more of an issue than absolute picture quality. If you want the best picture for your money, then CRT is the ONLY way to go. Even though higher end DLP projectors are near or at CRT brightness levels (but for a pretty hefty premium), but they still can't even play in the same park when it comes to black levels and contrast ratios (not to mention other DLP artifacts like honeycombing). CRT's suck because they're huge and they have to be tweaked regularly to get the best picture, but if you have the space and patience, they provide the best picture by far.
Maybe because it's barely 7am on the east coast of the US (and 4am on the west). Most of the nerds are either still sleeping or just going to sleep (the true nerds).
The Oakland tribute reports that a Billionaire increases Safeway stake. Accel-KKR owns GroceryWorks which is Safeway, Inc. exclusive online shopping provider.
Not only that, but KKR (not Accel-KKR) used to own Safeway. This was a few years back. They purchased it cheap, held on to it for a while, and made an absolute killing when they sold it. KKR are no fools (RJR notwithstanding).
One obvious question is how much of this is caused by the fact that most people are familiar with the sound of "conventional" trains? After all, most of us have grown up with the "classic" sound that trains make and are very accustomed to it.
The Xbox is a loss-leader, which means each one sold costs them money. They make it up on the games. This means that every game sold to play on CXBX makes them more money than if you bought it to play on an Xbox.
So you're claiming that someone who is avoiding paying $149 for the console is suddenly going to pony up $49 a game to play on this emulator? I think not. The FIRST thing someone is going to do after downloading the emulator is to download some games.
Order laptop in advance via credit card. Have the laptop shipped to a trusted friend or colleague
Problem here is that many companies won't ship to an address other than that listed as your billing address. He may need to have his friend or colleague actually order the laptop to make this work.
once BTX comes out, they'll all be more or less redundant, unless the BTX manafacturers somehow make them compatiable, which I doubt is very likely.
How is that? BTX is a case "standard", what about a case is going to make a cpu "redundant"? How is Antec going to somehow make a cpu more "compatible"?
Planting an obvious ad in the middle of "journalism" is just wrong.
What's so wrong about it? If they were testing RAM, then there would obviously be an issue. Or if the RAM were supplied by AMD or Intel. A manufacturer supplied a common piece of material for a comparison and the reviewers are acknowledging it, it doesn't hurt their credibility in one bit. Now if the review were sprinkled with "and such and such cpu performed so well on the memory benchmarks because of this wonderful Corsair RAM....", then it would be questionable.
Plus your analogy of Coke being in the middle of a "news" story is off base. If it was a "news" story about how cola's rot the teeth, and Coca Cola donated all the drinks for an analysis of it's affects, then having the mention that CC supplied the drinks would be just fine (not that this scenario would ever occur of course).
Why the hell would I wanna pay $10 for an MP3 download when I can buy the real thing (including postate) for $11-$12, or used on Ebay for $7-$9.
You go to the site, look around, sample some tunes, and download/purchase the ones you want. Cuts out the whole, "go to amazon/ebay, purchase, wait for delivery" phase. Perfect for todays instant gratification based society.
I use my hands free kit now. I touch the button on the ear piece, speak the name of the person I wish to call and voila, I'm one of the teaming masses walking around looking like I'm talking to myself. So ok, this is located on the shirt ala ST and uses the PTT model, ho hum.
What I want is a blue tooth hands free kit that's small and comfortable enough to keep in your ear (and doesn't make you look like a 'tard, figuratively and literally) that has a very easy way to dock it seamlessly into your phone.
That would be pretty useless. People care about the volume, because that's what they're dealing with. The dimensions are irellevant.
To the majority of people yes, but that is exactly my point. When purchasing a digital camera, the majority of the market does not care about the exact dimensions. Just like for a car, MOST people don't care about the exact bore and stroke, just the size. However, a few DO care, as bore and stroke often will give you a good idea of the engine characteristics (e.g. shorter stroke often times means higher rpms).
Bottom line, MP is a more than good enough measure for the majority of people. Those who care will take the time to find out exactly what the dimensions are (and I'd be willing to bet that amongst any major level, eg 3mp or 5mp, that even those who care don't care enough to worry about minor variances as other factors will weigh in signifcantly more).
IF THE CAMERA HAS A RESOLUTION OF 1152x864, just fucking say so.
I suppose you'd also prefer if auto manufacturers told you that a cars engine was a 84x90 vs simply stating that it has a 3litre engine? Point is that most people don't give a crap if its 1152x864 or 1280x768, 1MP gives a more than close enough approximation.
Hanly says." It doesn't seem very different from a common laptop... batteries' life is still a big problem.
Well sorta, the big buy here is that you get that much life from a significantly smaller/lighter battery. Note the presence of the physically larger "extended life" battery. Battery life isn't the "problem", or more accurately the tradeoff, it's the size (which in this case does matter).
... but does that picture look fake? It looks like a usb mem stick photoshopped onto a swiss army knife? Plus I don't think I would like the idea of 128MB being subjected to the crap that I put my pocket knife through (though I guess in reality, like SUV's, the majority of owners only use their SAK to trim their nails and open the occasional UPS box).
Indeed, a fairly high bandwidth pipe utilizing existing infrastructure. What's not "special"? The only line going into someones house that's more pervasive than the phone line are power lines. And no mention of dsl's distance woes. Big news indeed. If it comes here, I'm all over this.
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Actually the fact that you can still get your hands on Beta tapes is not relevant, heck, I can still get my hands on new 8" floppies. And actually, once hi-def dvd's start showing up, today's dvd's will be a thing of the past.
Better analogies would be doomsayers talk about "we need to develop optical technologies because magnetic media will hit a stone wall at 1GB", or "cpu's will max out about 500mhz, better use optical computing" or "ipv6 needs to be adopted to deal with the shrinking ip address pool".
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If they're just counting the number of cpu's available to do a particular task, don't you then have to include things like Googles setup (10000+)?
Can you imagine how this could be used to really screw with peoples heads?
..."
On the edge psycho person: "Hey, did you hear that voice"
Unknowing friend: "No, I didn't hear anything"
On the edge psycho person: "Quit messing with me man, I can hear that voice a clear as day"
Unknowing friend: "I told you, all I hear is some elevator music"
On the edge psycho person: "AAARGH, get it out of my head, it's telling me to, to, to
Unknowing friend: "TO WHAT, TO WHAT!?!"
On the edge psycho person: "GO TO AISLE 4 FOR A 2 FOR 1 ON LIGHT DAYS! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH"
All kidding aside, there actually is a fair bit of harm one could use this tech for. Make the "sound" of high enough intensity, and it would make a very effective, and undetectable weapon.
WP offered unlimited, toll-free technical support at the outset
IIRC so did M$. I remember calling M$ tech support a couple of times (actually never to actually get tech support though, I was in MIS and I was curious about their MIS system, which ran on Vaxen at the time).
How about the ZORK series? Those games were ALL plot.
You too could soon have T101 vision."
Not like I spend enough time staring at code, just what I need is to have a constant stream of 6502 assembler every waking moment.
"BioBricks" might spell the end of people dying due to lack of suitable organ donors
Or the end of people dying altogether? "Time to go freshen up the liver, mine is getting a bit worn out". Sounds like this might be a competing technology for cloning?
There is a good deal on a refurbed DLP projector for about $3500
egads! A $600 DLP projector on ebay will give you a very reasonable picture. If you don't want or need the ultimate, check out any of the
Read around for more info on what DLP is, but that and LCD are preferable to CRT projectors these days.
Well, DLP and LCD are "preferable" if space and convenience is more of an issue than absolute picture quality. If you want the best picture for your money, then CRT is the ONLY way to go. Even though higher end DLP projectors are near or at CRT brightness levels (but for a pretty hefty premium), but they still can't even play in the same park when it comes to black levels and contrast ratios (not to mention other DLP artifacts like honeycombing). CRT's suck because they're huge and they have to be tweaked regularly to get the best picture, but if you have the space and patience, they provide the best picture by far.
Maybe because it's barely 7am on the east coast of the US (and 4am on the west). Most of the nerds are either still sleeping or just going to sleep (the true nerds).
The Oakland tribute reports that a Billionaire increases Safeway stake. Accel-KKR owns GroceryWorks which is Safeway, Inc. exclusive online shopping provider.
Not only that, but KKR (not Accel-KKR) used to own Safeway. This was a few years back. They purchased it cheap, held on to it for a while, and made an absolute killing when they sold it. KKR are no fools (RJR notwithstanding).
One obvious question is how much of this is caused by the fact that most people are familiar with the sound of "conventional" trains? After all, most of us have grown up with the "classic" sound that trains make and are very accustomed to it.
Famous quote (which of course doesn't apply as much as it used to) :
"Linux is only free if you don't value your time"
The Xbox is a loss-leader, which means each one sold costs them money. They make it up on the games. This means that every game sold to play on CXBX makes them more money than if you bought it to play on an Xbox.
So you're claiming that someone who is avoiding paying $149 for the console is suddenly going to pony up $49 a game to play on this emulator? I think not. The FIRST thing someone is going to do after downloading the emulator is to download some games.
Order laptop in advance via credit card. Have the laptop shipped to a trusted friend or colleague
Problem here is that many companies won't ship to an address other than that listed as your billing address. He may need to have his friend or colleague actually order the laptop to make this work.
once BTX comes out, they'll all be more or less redundant, unless the BTX manafacturers somehow make them compatiable, which I doubt is very likely.
How is that? BTX is a case "standard", what about a case is going to make a cpu "redundant"? How is Antec going to somehow make a cpu more "compatible"?
Planting an obvious ad in the middle of "journalism" is just wrong.
....", then it would be questionable.
What's so wrong about it? If they were testing RAM, then there would obviously be an issue. Or if the RAM were supplied by AMD or Intel. A manufacturer supplied a common piece of material for a comparison and the reviewers are acknowledging it, it doesn't hurt their credibility in one bit. Now if the review were sprinkled with "and such and such cpu performed so well on the memory benchmarks because of this wonderful Corsair RAM
Plus your analogy of Coke being in the middle of a "news" story is off base. If it was a "news" story about how cola's rot the teeth, and Coca Cola donated all the drinks for an analysis of it's affects, then having the mention that CC supplied the drinks would be just fine (not that this scenario would ever occur of course).
Why the hell would I wanna pay $10 for an MP3 download when I can buy the real thing (including postate) for $11-$12, or used on Ebay for $7-$9.
You go to the site, look around, sample some tunes, and download/purchase the ones you want. Cuts out the whole, "go to amazon/ebay, purchase, wait for delivery" phase. Perfect for todays instant gratification based society.
I use my hands free kit now. I touch the button on the ear piece, speak the name of the person I wish to call and voila, I'm one of the teaming masses walking around looking like I'm talking to myself. So ok, this is located on the shirt ala ST and uses the PTT model, ho hum.
What I want is a blue tooth hands free kit that's small and comfortable enough to keep in your ear (and doesn't make you look like a 'tard, figuratively and literally) that has a very easy way to dock it seamlessly into your phone.
That would be pretty useless. People care about the volume, because that's what they're dealing with. The dimensions are irellevant.
To the majority of people yes, but that is exactly my point. When purchasing a digital camera, the majority of the market does not care about the exact dimensions. Just like for a car, MOST people don't care about the exact bore and stroke, just the size. However, a few DO care, as bore and stroke often will give you a good idea of the engine characteristics (e.g. shorter stroke often times means higher rpms).
Bottom line, MP is a more than good enough measure for the majority of people. Those who care will take the time to find out exactly what the dimensions are (and I'd be willing to bet that amongst any major level, eg 3mp or 5mp, that even those who care don't care enough to worry about minor variances as other factors will weigh in signifcantly more).
IF THE CAMERA HAS A RESOLUTION OF 1152x864, just fucking say so.
I suppose you'd also prefer if auto manufacturers told you that a cars engine was a 84x90 vs simply stating that it has a 3litre engine? Point is that most people don't give a crap if its 1152x864 or 1280x768, 1MP gives a more than close enough approximation.
Hanly says." It doesn't seem very different from a common laptop... batteries' life is still a big problem.
Well sorta, the big buy here is that you get that much life from a significantly smaller/lighter battery. Note the presence of the physically larger "extended life" battery. Battery life isn't the "problem", or more accurately the tradeoff, it's the size (which in this case does matter).
... but does that picture look fake? It looks like a usb mem stick photoshopped onto a swiss army knife? Plus I don't think I would like the idea of 128MB being subjected to the crap that I put my pocket knife through (though I guess in reality, like SUV's, the majority of owners only use their SAK to trim their nails and open the occasional UPS box).
Am I missing something?
Indeed, a fairly high bandwidth pipe utilizing existing infrastructure. What's not "special"? The only line going into someones house that's more pervasive than the phone line are power lines. And no mention of dsl's distance woes. Big news indeed. If it comes here, I'm all over this.
Reminds me of a funny Dogbert strip:
Always put impressive but impossible to verify jobs on your resume.
Employer: So Mr. Dogbert, it says here that you worked as a senior spy for the CIA.
Dogbert: Yes, and I was told to kill anyone who asks for details about it.