Though they don't use OLED technology, the Apple iPod can also double as a "mirror." Its chorme caseback is reflective, with only minimal distortion.
That is, if you can keep it clean and free of scratches. I know some people who have their caseback so badly scratched up that its pretty much lost its reflective properties.
It seems that the kind of monowheel you're describing is the kind where the rider is within the wheel. However, the kind that this person is building, the RIOTwheel, is of totally different design.
The mechanics are housed totally within the wheel, and the seat for the rider is in front of the wheel, with a clever crane/counterbalance system to keep the rider suspended in mid-air.
Considering this, do things like gerballing still apply? When the brakes are applied real hard, the bottom of the rider's seat scrapes the ground, preventing this from happening. Snowballing might also be avoided, as there is a huge cover attached to the top of the wheel, able to scrape off excess foreign material. Moreover, turns might be easier because this thing seems to have a few very heavy gyros attached.
IMO, the design for this monowheel is probably the best I've seen, considering that since seeing this article, I've went and looked up pictures/videos, and all of them have the rider in the middle.
Remember that the burning stipulation means that you can only burn that particular song in a certain playlist for a maximum of 7 times. If you rearrange the playlist, you can burn it 7 more times, so on. Thus, you can still achieve unlimited burns by simply rearranging the playlists, just like before.
Moreover, that minor hassle of having to rearrange playlists more often (if you make _that_ many burns) is well worth being able to play the songs on 2 more computers than before.
Perhaps there is a force stronger than sentiment dictating what computer terminals a person is "loyal" to. This is becuase even in public terminals, there will be stuff that is saved after a session. For example, I always use computer S59 at a local lab not only becase of sentiment, but also because of the fact that someone took the security software off of it, allowing me to change the keyboard to Dvorak. Others might have documents saved on the hard disk, or pages bookmarked on a certain computer.
Nevertheless, it is impossible to train everyone not to immediately open up e-mail attachments. There will always be a demographic that does this, and thus, a solution will not be that simple.
Desalination has _nothing_ to do with pollution or dirty water, but rather, it is a process to remove salt from water so that it is fit for human consumption. This is especially useful in coastal areas without access to lakes or rivers, where a source of freshwater is not readily present.
Because ocean water is so plentiful, there is absolutely no danger in reducing sea level (the very idea is absurd), and the only enviromental issue is the huge amount of power needed to get the salt out of the water.
Usually, when I think of computers, I think of something highly technological, characterized by cool, sleek designs (casemodding?). However, wood is more natrual, thus being the exact opposite.
Though it is great for matching furniture, I would never buy one of these, because in my mind, nature and technology just don't mix.
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Perhaps this sounds like a very insignificant step in the development process for the iPod Linux distro, however, don't forget that the whole point of making a firmware replacement is not for "coolness," but rather for adding in functionality that would not otherwise be there in the stock firmware. There are tons of features missing from Apple's firmware, such as a graphical equalizer, queues (no, that on-the-go thing will not do!), dynamic playlists, so on, so forth. And just to think, the iPod has enough resources, processing power, to run a good OS.
For an example of what a replacement third party firmware can do for an audio player, check out RockBox. It turns the obsolete Archos Jukebox 6000 series models into machines capable of playing music much better than the stock firmware, and also capable of doing other stuff as well.
The bottom line: iPodLinux is a work in development. When it reaches production quality, it WILL have more features than the stock firmware, and will support more formats as well. (ogg, anyone?)
Though the Rio Karma has impressive specs for a lower price than the Apple iPod, it still sells far less than the iPod. The reason for this is all about aesthetics. I showed some people the iPod and the Karma at an electronics store, and all of them said that the iPod looked more attractive. Though many websites claim the Karma has a smaller footprint, they fail to point out that, like one person said, it was "thicker than a hockey puck."
I guess Jobs was right in saying that Apple's competetiors don't "get it." The iPod Mini, for example, may seem like an absurdity to us/.ers because of its high price, low capacity, and low feature set. However, it was an instant bestseller, with so many preorders and subsequent purchases that supplies were exhausted in a matter of weeks. The truth is, the average person thinks differently from the average/.er.
I think that burning the tunes to a CD and then ripping them again into unprotected AAC or MP3 is better than doing this. With today's super high speed CD writers and CD-RW discs, it's possible to convert an entire album in less than 10 minutes. Moreover, more players are compatible with MP3... This software only makes unprotected AAC, requiring yet another re-encoder to make it MP3, which is essentially the same as CD burning and ripping.
I don't see why this is necessary when the CD trick has already been around for such a long time. Thus, I'm somewhat mixed to the motive of such a title... its probably between bragging rights and revolutionary action.
The linked article is to google news, and that the first link on there is to this article on/. ?
"Simpsons Actors on Strike Slashdot - 1 hour ago ameoba writes "The next season of The Simpsons is in doubt as the voice talent is on strike due to a pay dispute. Fifteen seasons... "
Unless the text is ASCII art style, I contend that it is impractical, and quite possibly impossible to effectively play an FPS game using only text. The whole point of FPS games is not broad strategy, which can be performed using text, but rather, instinct.
Imagine the commands - shoot north south east west.... Just thinking of them makes me cringe.
Do we call that recursively? Step 2 calls the whole thing once again, so, in our quest to terraform Mars, we'll just end up with a lot of ways to get stuff to the planet according to your plan.
I think that one of the major contributing features to iTunes that stimulates Apple's success is the presence of a uniform price for all songs. BuyMusic.com did not have this, and their prices ranged from 80 cents to 2 dollars.
Moreover, their interface was terrible (browser based), and I have heard many stories about how people just could not get the songs to work on their machine (which met the system requirements).
Yes, one handed keyboard layouts do exist, the best known are the left and right handed Dvorak layouts. They are included with all versions of Windows past 98SE.
Pretty much all they're useful is when one of your hands has become disconnected from your body, as it much slower to type with one hand(50WPM max or so), even slower than it is to switch the right hand from mouse to keyboard rapidly.
I'm still looking for this layout for KDE3/XFree86 4.4, or how to make my own layouts.
Though you're right in the respect that a stock disto of Linux or *BSD is just about as secure as Windows (perhaps a bit more), there is simply more you CAN do to secure Linux, versus Windows, in which almost all security has to be installed seperately.
You can massively limit the damage done by a worm in Linux simply by running all processes that leave a port open in a chroot jail, or by doing so as a lesser privledeged user. This is one of the many simple solutions avaliable, while in Windows, its not so easy.
The iPod has a certain appeal that transcends price and features, and that appeal is probably hype, but I dunno.
This is because it has remained on top of the market for a long time, and sales are actually increasing even as I speak. Take, for example, the iRiver iHP-140. It is a very nice player with many more features and a lower price tag than the iPod, but marketwise, its a loser. Jobs was right in saying that the rest of the industry dosn't "get it", because there is just that *something* the iPod has that no other player does.
PocketPC was supposed to be a Palm killer, but Palm still has dominance in the PDA market. Xbox was supposed to be a competetor to Sony, but the PS/PS2 still has a much larger market share. The only market that Microsoft has cornered successfully is that in which they started: computer operating system(windows) and productivity software(office).
Though the new iPods support USB through a seperate cable, their favored interface is still firewire, as the cable that comes with the iPod is a FW cable.
On a related note, even though USB2 is supposed to get 480mbps, and FW only 400, it seems that FW wins in almost all tests. For example, I have a USB2 and a FireWire version of the same LaCie external hard drive, and in copying a 1gb file, FireWire leads by almost 2 minutes. This also holds true for other hardware, as I have also tested 3 or 4 external enclosures, both USB2 and FW for a hard disk. How can one account for this?
I still go for keeping the traditional 3.5" floppy disk because the existing users have already been trained to look for it. Though your argument for your analogy is good, I wouldn't be suprised in the least sense if users confused it with something relating to actual photography.
Linux founder Linus Tovralds owns the Linux trademark. However, its just as good as having a group of people register it, in case someday, a third party org. makes a new, totally unrelated product using the Linux name.
As prokaryotes, bacteria are much smaller than your eukaryotic cells(think proton to electron... orders of magnitude smaller). They add about 3 pounds to your weight, which is nothing, considering the average person weighs... what, like 130 pounds?
So, your cells still constitute the majority of your body's biomass.
Spending doesn't exactly represent the numbers in the standing army. For example, China has the largest standing armies in the world, and yet, the funding is tied with Germany.
It must also be considered that military spending might actually be beneficial to the economy. With all the subcontracting work the military provides, it is enough to stimulate the economy quite a bit. This may contribute to the US's status as the largest economy in the world, while Japan is at number 3 according to the CIA world factbook, updated last year.
What I meant was built in support. The guide is excellent, but it relies on drivers from third party vendors (ATi and nVidia, using their Hydravision and nView utilities).
The kernel can definately be hacked so that it allows this, but this presents a huge security concern. Every user would have to have the same priveledges as root in order to do this, or the user must play as root.
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That is, if you can keep it clean and free of scratches. I know some people who have their caseback so badly scratched up that its pretty much lost its reflective properties.
The mechanics are housed totally within the wheel, and the seat for the rider is in front of the wheel, with a clever crane/counterbalance system to keep the rider suspended in mid-air.
Considering this, do things like gerballing still apply? When the brakes are applied real hard, the bottom of the rider's seat scrapes the ground, preventing this from happening. Snowballing might also be avoided, as there is a huge cover attached to the top of the wheel, able to scrape off excess foreign material. Moreover, turns might be easier because this thing seems to have a few very heavy gyros attached.
IMO, the design for this monowheel is probably the best I've seen, considering that since seeing this article, I've went and looked up pictures/videos, and all of them have the rider in the middle.
Moreover, that minor hassle of having to rearrange playlists more often (if you make _that_ many burns) is well worth being able to play the songs on 2 more computers than before.
Perhaps there is a force stronger than sentiment dictating what computer terminals a person is "loyal" to. This is becuase even in public terminals, there will be stuff that is saved after a session. For example, I always use computer S59 at a local lab not only becase of sentiment, but also because of the fact that someone took the security software off of it, allowing me to change the keyboard to Dvorak. Others might have documents saved on the hard disk, or pages bookmarked on a certain computer.
Nevertheless, it is impossible to train everyone not to immediately open up e-mail attachments. There will always be a demographic that does this, and thus, a solution will not be that simple.
Thus, it MUST be true!!!! Curse Apple's faulty manufacturing!
Because ocean water is so plentiful, there is absolutely no danger in reducing sea level (the very idea is absurd), and the only enviromental issue is the huge amount of power needed to get the salt out of the water.
Though it is great for matching furniture, I would never buy one of these, because in my mind, nature and technology just don't mix.
For an example of what a replacement third party firmware can do for an audio player, check out RockBox. It turns the obsolete Archos Jukebox 6000 series models into machines capable of playing music much better than the stock firmware, and also capable of doing other stuff as well.
The bottom line: iPodLinux is a work in development. When it reaches production quality, it WILL have more features than the stock firmware, and will support more formats as well. (ogg, anyone?)
I guess Jobs was right in saying that Apple's competetiors don't "get it." The iPod Mini, for example, may seem like an absurdity to us /.ers because of its high price, low capacity, and low feature set. However, it was an instant bestseller, with so many preorders and subsequent purchases that supplies were exhausted in a matter of weeks. The truth is, the average person thinks differently from the average /.er.
I don't see why this is necessary when the CD trick has already been around for such a long time. Thus, I'm somewhat mixed to the motive of such a title... its probably between bragging rights and revolutionary action.
The linked article is to google news, and that the first link on there is to this article on /. ?
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"Simpsons Actors on Strike
Slashdot - 1 hour ago
ameoba writes "The next season of The Simpsons is in doubt as the voice talent is on strike due to a pay dispute. Fifteen seasons
Imagine the commands - shoot north south east west.... Just thinking of them makes me cringe.
Do we call that recursively? Step 2 calls the whole thing once again, so, in our quest to terraform Mars, we'll just end up with a lot of ways to get stuff to the planet according to your plan.
Moreover, their interface was terrible (browser based), and I have heard many stories about how people just could not get the songs to work on their machine (which met the system requirements).
Pretty much all they're useful is when one of your hands has become disconnected from your body, as it much slower to type with one hand(50WPM max or so), even slower than it is to switch the right hand from mouse to keyboard rapidly.
I'm still looking for this layout for KDE3/XFree86 4.4, or how to make my own layouts.
You can massively limit the damage done by a worm in Linux simply by running all processes that leave a port open in a chroot jail, or by doing so as a lesser privledeged user. This is one of the many simple solutions avaliable, while in Windows, its not so easy.
This is because it has remained on top of the market for a long time, and sales are actually increasing even as I speak. Take, for example, the iRiver iHP-140. It is a very nice player with many more features and a lower price tag than the iPod, but marketwise, its a loser. Jobs was right in saying that the rest of the industry dosn't "get it", because there is just that *something* the iPod has that no other player does.
PocketPC was supposed to be a Palm killer, but Palm still has dominance in the PDA market. Xbox was supposed to be a competetor to Sony, but the PS/PS2 still has a much larger market share. The only market that Microsoft has cornered successfully is that in which they started: computer operating system(windows) and productivity software(office).
On a related note, even though USB2 is supposed to get 480mbps, and FW only 400, it seems that FW wins in almost all tests. For example, I have a USB2 and a FireWire version of the same LaCie external hard drive, and in copying a 1gb file, FireWire leads by almost 2 minutes. This also holds true for other hardware, as I have also tested 3 or 4 external enclosures, both USB2 and FW for a hard disk. How can one account for this?
I still go for keeping the traditional 3.5" floppy disk because the existing users have already been trained to look for it. Though your argument for your analogy is good, I wouldn't be suprised in the least sense if users confused it with something relating to actual photography.
Linux founder Linus Tovralds owns the Linux trademark. However, its just as good as having a group of people register it, in case someday, a third party org. makes a new, totally unrelated product using the Linux name.
So, your cells still constitute the majority of your body's biomass.
It must also be considered that military spending might actually be beneficial to the economy. With all the subcontracting work the military provides, it is enough to stimulate the economy quite a bit. This may contribute to the US's status as the largest economy in the world, while Japan is at number 3 according to the CIA world factbook, updated last year.
What I meant was built in support. The guide is excellent, but it relies on drivers from third party vendors (ATi and nVidia, using their Hydravision and nView utilities).
The kernel can definately be hacked so that it allows this, but this presents a huge security concern. Every user would have to have the same priveledges as root in order to do this, or the user must play as root.