"Sega's continual commitment to Dreamcast involves incorporating the Dreamcast technology with set-top boxes," Sega of America spokesman Charles Bellfield told CNET News.com. Bellfield said Sega would probably look to partner with other companies that would make the set-top boxes and that announcements would be coming shortly. . . . "Both dedicated game consoles and convergence devices play a part in the future of digital entertainment," Bellfield said. "The console is not going away and the Dreamcast technology is not going away."
Nothing specific on whether such a device would enable high-speed connection to the Internet, but I can't see building a new device that didn't.
My question is how are they different. If a culture can send coherent EM transissions in the visible light range, then why wouldn't then send them in a variety of frequencies including the radio frequencies that SETI is already listening for.
I mean there is no REAL difference between "radio" and "light" is there? They're both EM particle/waves aren't they? (If I'm wrong please correct me, I've never taken a physics class in my life).
Why bother communicating with the aliens on other planets when we haven't talked to the ones that are already on our planet.
Presumably if they have the technology needed for interstellar travel, they also are well aware of the proper protocols for interstellar comunications. Presumably the method of communication they use exceeds the speed of light (or it at least exceeds c as we perceive it) So using any method based on light or other EM spectrum will likely be fruitless.
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I have a question for you jjlaw: Prices in California may have changed due to deregulation, so how do increased prices create a power shortage?
Not increased prices, but increasing prices.
If you can take some of your production off-line now, with the promise that you will get paid more for it later, then that is what you will do if you area for-profit company. The areas of CA served by municipal utilities that have their own plants haven't been experiencing the shortage that the customers served by de-regulated for-profit companies have seen.
Unless he is slandering the police, posting false information that he claims is true that damages the image of the police he will not be convicted of any crime (if he does I'm moving).
ianal, but afaik, slander is not a crime. It is a tort, meaning that it can be used as the basis for a civil suit. That is assuming he is slandering an individual. If he is accused of slandering an organization or institution, especially a government body, I don't even know if it can be litigated at all, at least in the US the First Amendment generally protects anything that might normally be considered slander if it was said against a private citizen. The exception would be advocating violence, which can reach a level that can be prosecuted criminally.
"Microsoft loves OS X, at least our division does. Other divisions might be sweating a bit," Browne said, in a joking reference to Microsoft's Windows operating system that competes with Apple products.
.....
the upcoming version of Office would be written specifically for OS X, Browne said.
"This (OS X) is going to give us both the requirement and the opportunity to rework our applications so they work much, much better",Browne said.
Interesting how they think re-writing Office to run on a modern OS will improve the quality of the Office code itself isn't it?
If these thins can work at extreme depths, then maybe they could be used for undersea cables. In an ideal situation, perhaps the cable itself could be coated with or paralleled with a series of these to generat significant amounts of current.
Another application might be for space tethers is the could be hung like flags off the length of the tether to provide power for warning lights.
As usual, Microsoft's partner will get the dirty end of the stick and pay all the bills.
Actually, the customer pays the bills. They are using MobileStar which already has access points in Airports. If this is the people I'm thinking of then expect to pay more for the access than for the java. I think they charge $5/10 minutes (but it could be $10/5 minutes).
What people *do* have is laptops/notebooks. Now, if Starbucks offered a 100 MHz local net with RJ45 connectors along the counter...
I agree, if Starbuck is doing it to attract business, then I think they would be better off with plain vanilla ethernet jacks charging $5 an hour.
By the way, per the MobileStar website, it does use 802.11 standard. It's a weird website since even though they are targetted partly at mobile phone users, you need the latest Flash player just to get a list of locations served.
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MSN is featuring the trailer of the Tomb Raider movie on their Windows Media site (300k, 100k, 56k). There's alot of Matrix style action, but the special effects don't look like anything to write home about. Also, it appears no special effects were used make Angelina Jolie look more like Lara Croft. RealVideo version is available here, and the QuickTime version is available on Apple's website.
Actually, I could care less how good the local search engine is on the site. Myconcern is that Google and other web-wide search engines have access to the full text of every document on the page. This means that any 'documents' posted in Word/Powerpoint/PDF/etc. also must be posted in vanilla HTML of plain text.
A lot of government websites store supposedly public documents in a database backend, or put a web frontend on their inhouse Lotus Notes system. If the documents are public, then put them where they can be found by web search engines.
Then the site can just put a Google search access from their using the site: attribute.
Best Buy is buying Musicland, the parent company of Sam Goody which is also mentioned in the original article as one of the largest POS Linux deployments currently in place. Maybe Best Buy will be switching to Musicland inventory system. Then maybe Best Buy will start selling Linux boxen, or at least boxen with no installed OS, so we can save on the Windows tax. That bring those eMachines down to practically nothing, of course, you wouldn't be able to claim the MSN $400 rebate if you weren't running Windows.
By the way, isn't ICL's slogan: "We put the S in POS" B^)
How would you dial a non-rotary phone and not get touch tones?
Most push button phones, faxes, and modems have a switch that selects either Pulse or Tone. Pulse emulates the sound of a rotary phone, with a click for each digit, hitting the 5 generates 5 clicks. I don't know how many clicks are used to represent the # and * keys.
By adding the # and * characters into the currently allowed dialable digits you would get 4,159,780,352 (12^9 - 10^9) new numbers to work with.
That should increase the supply for long time. Though this could be a problem for rotary/pulse phone users, the new numbers could be reserved numbers dialled by computers and fax machines for quite a few years.
Also, the current shortage will level off in the next couple of years. I just saw a graph on c|net indicating that the number of analog modems will stop growing by 2002, this should reduce the number of new second analog phone lines/numbers used by residences, businesses, and ISPs.
Also, Follow-Along phone numbers that are consistant between your home and cell phones could reduce the demand for new numbers as well.
Unfortunately,/. wasn't interested in posting the eWeek story when I submitted it yesterday afternoon. Now that they have an in-house tech news site, I guess they don't want to promote the competition by posting stories linking to c|net or ZDNet.
This new attitude wouldn't have been quite so obvious, if it wasn't for the fact that CmdrTaco had to submit the NewsForge story himself, instead of waiting for someone from the community to submit it.
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Russia's cabinet just approved plan to crash Mir into the Pacific in February, 2001.
Mir should be a bit more eventful than de-orbiting Iridium satellites since "Much of the giant spacecraft will burn up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere before most of the remainder ditches into the sea. Officials have said that parts of the craft could hit land."
The machines initially failed to read ballots on which voters chose to vote a straight party ticket, but also chose at least one candidate from another party, election officials said.
It seems that isn't bug to me. If you are voting a straight party line ticket, PLUS at least one candidate from another party, then you would be voting for TWO candidates for the same office somewhere on the ballot.
For example, if I wanted to vote a straight Democratic ticket, AND I voted in addition for Bush, that would be TWO votes for president and the ballot should be tossed out.
On the other hand, the software should have prevented this while the voter was still in the voting booth, so they could correct the mistake and "make their intention known".
On a side note, due to a severe storm in the SE corner of NM on election day, several polling places lost power for a couple of hours. I haven't heard this mentioned as a possible cause of errors in NM's very close presidential race, but even if it resulted in just a handful of lost votes, it might be enough to change the winner in the state.
I installed N6 today on Win95 and have found it to be much less buggy than the beta 3 version.
However, I can't link to the following URL provided as link from a/. banner ad for Zelerate: http://images.slashdot.org/cgi-bin/adlog.pl?index, open0012en
. Is the problem with the URL (perhaps the comma?) or with N6?
(Note: even in the/. preview of this post, the URL isn't treated as a link. Is it appearing as a link on your browser?)
Actually, you only measure from the official final announced price, which was 21, so it doubled. (Actually more than doubled according to Yahoo'sRTQ service, its at 45 3/8 now).
While we're on the topic, anyone know how many shares Linus is getting, and is anyone running a Linus wealth clock ala the Bill Gates Wealth Clock?
Tuesday November 7, 1:16 pm Eastern TimeTransmeta stock soars in Wall Street debut
NEW
YORK,
Nov.
7
(Reuters)
-
The
stock
of
Transmeta
Corp.
(NasdaqNM:TMTA
-
news)
more
than
doubled
on
Tuesday
in
the
highly
anticipated
Wall
Street
debut
of
the
maker
of
low-power-consuming
microprocesors
that
are
making
a
big
splash
in
the
laptop
computer
market.
Transmeta
stock
was
up
$21-1/2
at
$42-1/2
in
heavy
trading
on
Nasdaq,
well
above
its
initial
public
offering
price
of
$21,
which
already
had
been
raised
to
$16-$18
on
Friday
from
$11-$13
a
share.
Transmeta
raised
$273
million
by
selling
13
million
shares
at
the
$21
per
share
offering
price.
In
what
appears
to
have
been
a
false
start
to
trading,
a
Nasdaq
member
firm
began
trading
the
stock
before
its
official
opening,
which
had
been
set
for
1
p.m.
EST,
a
Nasdaq
spokesman
said.
In
those
premature
trades,
which
were
subsequently
cancelled,
the
stock
appeared
to
have
traded
up
$19
at
$40.
The
offering
was
a
bright
spot
after
some
dreary
months
for
the
IPO
market.
In
October,
35
companies
held
off
from
going
public,
the
highest
number
in
one
month
since
CommScan
LLC
started
tracking
the
figures
in
October
1990.
Investors
and
analysts
have
been
intrigued
by
Santa
Clara,
Calif.-based
Transmeta's
Crusoe
microprocessors
that
consume
far
less
power
than
those
made
by
Intel
Corp.
(NasdaqNM:INTC
-
news)
and
Advanced
Micro
Devices
Inc.
(NYSE:AMD
-
news).
That
means
longer
battery
life,
a
crucial
goal
for
laptop
computer
makers.
LookSmart has a new subsidiary called Zeal that is a dmoz like voluteer built directory, that includes the ability to import your bookmarks into a directory you edit. (Note: if you sign-up use the referral code xeditor to date five dollars to the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Another dmoz like project is MOVEO.com but its just getting off the ground so I'm not clear on how it works yet. But aparently everyone who registers can set up their own virtual portal, and these links are then shared by anyone using Moveo.
Slashdot Mirror
Motley Fool also has this article that give a more historical and investing perpective.
The story is here.
"Sega's continual commitment to Dreamcast involves incorporating the Dreamcast technology with set-top boxes," Sega of America spokesman Charles Bellfield told CNET News.com. Bellfield said Sega would probably look to partner with other companies that would make the set-top boxes and that announcements would be coming shortly. . . . "Both dedicated game consoles and convergence devices play a part in the future of digital entertainment," Bellfield said. "The console is not going away and the Dreamcast technology is not going away."
Nothing specific on whether such a device would enable high-speed connection to the Internet, but I can't see building a new device that didn't.
My question is how are they different. If a culture can send coherent EM transissions in the visible light range, then why wouldn't then send them in a variety of frequencies including the radio frequencies that SETI is already listening for.
I mean there is no REAL difference between "radio" and "light" is there? They're both EM particle/waves aren't they? (If I'm wrong please correct me, I've never taken a physics class in my life).
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Exactly!
Why bother communicating with the aliens on other planets when we haven't talked to the ones that are already on our planet.
Presumably if they have the technology needed for interstellar travel, they also are well aware of the proper protocols for interstellar comunications. Presumably the method of communication they use exceeds the speed of light (or it at least exceeds c as we perceive it) So using any method based on light or other EM spectrum will likely be fruitless.
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I have a question for you jjlaw: Prices in California may have changed due to deregulation, so how do increased prices create a power shortage?
Not increased prices, but increasing prices.
If you can take some of your production off-line now, with the promise that you will get paid more for it later, then that is what you will do if you area for-profit company. The areas of CA served by municipal utilities that have their own plants haven't been experiencing the shortage that the customers served by de-regulated for-profit companies have seen.
Unless he is slandering the police, posting false information that he claims is true that damages the image of the police he will not be convicted of any crime (if he does I'm moving).
ianal, but afaik, slander is not a crime. It is a tort, meaning that it can be used as the basis for a civil suit. That is assuming he is slandering an individual. If he is accused of slandering an organization or institution, especially a government body, I don't even know if it can be litigated at all, at least in the US the First Amendment generally protects anything that might normally be considered slander if it was said against a private citizen. The exception would be advocating violence, which can reach a level that can be prosecuted criminally.
If these thins can work at extreme depths, then maybe they could be used for undersea cables. In an ideal situation, perhaps the cable itself could be coated with or paralleled with a series of these to generat significant amounts of current.
Another application might be for space tethers is the could be hung like flags off the length of the tether to provide power for warning lights.
As usual, Microsoft's partner will get the dirty end of the stick and pay all the bills.
Actually, the customer pays the bills. They are using MobileStar which already has access points in Airports. If this is the people I'm thinking of then expect to pay more for the access than for the java. I think they charge $5/10 minutes (but it could be $10/5 minutes).
What people *do* have is laptops/notebooks. Now, if Starbucks offered a 100 MHz local net with RJ45 connectors along the counter...
I agree, if Starbuck is doing it to attract business, then I think they would be better off with plain vanilla ethernet jacks charging $5 an hour.
By the way, per the MobileStar website, it does use 802.11 standard. It's a weird website since even though they are targetted partly at mobile phone users, you need the latest Flash player just to get a list of locations served.
MSN is featuring the trailer of the Tomb Raider movie on their Windows Media site (300k, 100k, 56k). There's alot of Matrix style action, but the special effects don't look like anything to write home about. Also, it appears no special effects were used make Angelina Jolie look more like Lara Croft. RealVideo version is available here, and the QuickTime version is available on Apple's website.
Yes, accessibility is a good keyword.
I don't know if you are the webmaster for the site, but they have a lot to learn about accessibility.
There are 21 instances of Priority 1 accessibility (no alt text for images or image map links) on the homepage according to Bobby.
If the goal of the organization is equality, then they need to be doubly conscious of not providing equal access to the page for ALL users.
Actually, I could care less how good the local search engine is on the site. Myconcern is that Google and other web-wide search engines have access to the full text of every document on the page. This means that any 'documents' posted in Word/Powerpoint/PDF/etc. also must be posted in vanilla HTML of plain text.
A lot of government websites store supposedly public documents in a database backend, or put a web frontend on their inhouse Lotus Notes system. If the documents are public, then put them where they can be found by web search engines.
Then the site can just put a Google search access from their using the site: attribute.
Best Buy is buying Musicland, the parent company of Sam Goody which is also mentioned in the original article as one of the largest POS Linux deployments currently in place. Maybe Best Buy will be switching to Musicland inventory system. Then maybe Best Buy will start selling Linux boxen, or at least boxen with no installed OS, so we can save on the Windows tax. That bring those eMachines down to practically nothing, of course, you wouldn't be able to claim the MSN $400 rebate if you weren't running Windows.
By the way, isn't ICL's slogan: "We put the S in POS" B^)
How would you dial a non-rotary phone and not get touch tones?
Most push button phones, faxes, and modems have a switch that selects either Pulse or Tone. Pulse emulates the sound of a rotary phone, with a click for each digit, hitting the 5 generates 5 clicks. I don't know how many clicks are used to represent the # and * keys.
Go ahead, try it. Dial: 1-(your-area-code)-(some-friend-in-your-area-code)
FYI
With 10 digit dialing there is no need to dial the 1 first, since it is a local call. You only need to dial the 1 when it IS a long distance call.
Also, in the original post, the example used appears to be wrong. It should be xxx-xxx-xxxx. They forgot one of the digits in the last group.
By adding the # and * characters into the currently allowed dialable digits you would get 4,159,780,352 (12^9 - 10^9) new numbers to work with.
That should increase the supply for long time. Though this could be a problem for rotary/pulse phone users, the new numbers could be reserved numbers dialled by computers and fax machines for quite a few years.
Also, the current shortage will level off in the next couple of years. I just saw a graph on c|net indicating that the number of analog modems will stop growing by 2002, this should reduce the number of new second analog phone lines/numbers used by residences, businesses, and ISPs.
Also, Follow-Along phone numbers that are consistant between your home and cell phones could reduce the demand for new numbers as well.
Unfortunately, /. wasn't interested in posting the eWeek story when I submitted it yesterday afternoon. Now that they have an in-house tech news site, I guess they don't want to promote the competition by posting stories linking to c|net or ZDNet.
This new attitude wouldn't have been quite so obvious, if it wasn't for the fact that CmdrTaco had to submit the NewsForge story himself, instead of waiting for someone from the community to submit it.
The story is here.
Russia's cabinet just approved plan to crash Mir into the Pacific in February, 2001.
Mir should be a bit more eventful than de-orbiting Iridium satellites since "Much of the giant spacecraft will burn up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere before most of the remainder ditches into the sea. Officials have said that parts of the craft could hit land."
The machines initially failed to read ballots on which voters chose to vote a straight party ticket, but also chose at least one candidate from another party, election officials said.
It seems that isn't bug to me. If you are voting a straight party line ticket, PLUS at least one candidate from another party, then you would be voting for TWO candidates for the same office somewhere on the ballot.
For example, if I wanted to vote a straight Democratic ticket, AND I voted in addition for Bush, that would be TWO votes for president and the ballot should be tossed out.
On the other hand, the software should have prevented this while the voter was still in the voting booth, so they could correct the mistake and "make their intention known".
On a side note, due to a severe storm in the SE corner of NM on election day, several polling places lost power for a couple of hours. I haven't heard this mentioned as a possible cause of errors in NM's very close presidential race, but even if it resulted in just a handful of lost votes, it might be enough to change the winner in the state.
I installed N6 today on Win95 and have found it to be much less buggy than the beta 3 version.
/. banner ad for Zelerate: http://images.slashdot.org/cgi-bin/adlog.pl?index, open0012en
/. preview of this post, the URL isn't treated as a link. Is it appearing as a link on your browser?)
However, I can't link to the following URL provided as link from a
. Is the problem with the URL (perhaps the comma?) or with N6?
(Note: even in the
Actually, you only measure from the official final announced price, which was 21, so it doubled. (Actually more than doubled according to Yahoo'sRTQ service, its at 45 3/8 now).
While we're on the topic, anyone know how many shares Linus is getting, and is anyone running a Linus wealth clock ala the Bill Gates Wealth Clock?
Tuesday November 7, 1:16 pm Eastern TimeTransmeta stock soars in Wall Street debut
NEW YORK, Nov. 7 (Reuters) - The stock of Transmeta Corp. (NasdaqNM:TMTA - news) more than doubled on Tuesday in the highly anticipated Wall Street debut of the maker of low-power-consuming microprocesors that are making a big splash in the laptop computer market.
Transmeta stock was up $21-1/2 at $42-1/2 in heavy trading on Nasdaq, well above its initial public offering price of $21, which already had been raised to $16-$18 on Friday from $11-$13 a share. Transmeta raised $273 million by selling 13 million shares at the $21 per share offering price.
In what appears to have been a false start to trading, a Nasdaq member firm began trading the stock before its official opening, which had been set for 1 p.m. EST, a Nasdaq spokesman said. In those premature trades, which were subsequently cancelled, the stock appeared to have traded up $19 at $40.
The offering was a bright spot after some dreary months for the IPO market. In October, 35 companies held off from going public, the highest number in one month since CommScan LLC started tracking the figures in October 1990.
Investors and analysts have been intrigued by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Transmeta's Crusoe microprocessors that consume far less power than those made by Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD - news). That means longer battery life, a crucial goal for laptop computer makers.
The page the ad links to: Texas Miracle or Myth? details the results of the two RAND studies on the TAAS testing system set up by Ross Perot that Bush has tried to take so much credit for.
LookSmart has a new subsidiary called Zeal that is a dmoz like voluteer built directory, that includes the ability to import your bookmarks into a directory you edit. (Note: if you sign-up use the referral code xeditor to date five dollars to the Electronic Frontier Foundation)
Another dmoz like project is MOVEO.com but its just getting off the ground so I'm not clear on how it works yet. But aparently everyone who registers can set up their own virtual portal, and these links are then shared by anyone using Moveo.