There are a few manufactueres of household cordless phones that allow phone to phone communication. Basically you can use the hand set as a walkie-talkie to communicate to any other handset that is one the same base.
I personally can't see buying a game console in which I will never physically own any games. I find the whole conecpt very strange. I could see from a cable or hotel industry perspective how this type of media delivery system would be appealing but I can't the general public accpeting this.
What's the advatnge to the customer to have to download media over broad band. Seriously unless the games are 50% the price of their physical media counterparts I'm not interested.
I'd agree if this was some sort of complex circuit but it's not. In this case it's probaly easier to make the H/W and debug it then it is to use a micro controller.
Did it occur to any one that the use of the BASIC stamp was over kill. I'll agree it makes the project a little bit easier but these guys are MIT students.
All you seriously need is a photo sensor, a transistor, an op-amp and a relay.
Very simple. The only tricky part is that using this simple circuit would require precious placement of the photo sensor. This shouldn't be a problem if you know the velocity of the projectile which they know.
You'd think some MIT nerds would have done it this way which is a little more elegant.
That product has got to be a joke. I'm dead serious (and I mean this, I'm sure most of you are on the same page as me). It's not too hard to design a product like this your self. I feel really bad for the poor suckers(Investors) who shelled out money for this.
With about two software developers you could probably put together there entire backend and create a system.
It sounds to me like every aspect of this entire architecture is comprised of third party components.
Even the OS is a joke. Just buy yourself a copy of XP embedded and you can compile your custom OS in a couple of hours. Seriously no one would even know it's XP. You can completely configure every aspect of the entire OS. (You can create a 32 meg install of Windows XP)
Even secure content delivery can be accomplished with MS products.
Seriously this has to be a joke.
Remeber gravitational acceleration on earth is 9.8 Meters/Sec ^ 2. If you do the math and drop the computer from 5 feet it takes longer than 1/10 of second to hit the ground.
do the math....
Sorry to say but droping things doesn't bring the gravetational force to 0. If the gravetaional force did become 0 the object would stop falling.
It's most likly some sort of pizo electric acceleromoter. Nothing fancy.
There's no way that if you drop your computer from five feet that it'll hit the floor faster than 1/10 of a second. By the time it hits the heads have bee parked.
9.8 Meters/Sec ^ 2 Right.....Do the math
When it comes to money there is no comparision between Nokia and MS.
MS is worth $298,840,300,000 in stock alone.
Nokia does not have the ability to eat loses like MS does.
I couldn't agree with you more. I own all three systems and have been an avid gamer since the Atari 2600 / Intellivision days.
I bought my GC and XBOX within a month of each other. That was about a year ago. At the time I had no idea that 1 year later I'd own 10 GC games and only three XBOX games.
To be honest with you Nintendo are the only ones doing anyhting different. Sure the characters are the same but the games are inovative and fun.
XBOX and PS2 re-hash the same tired games with the same tired graphics. There all either car games or first person games. XBOX and PS2 are just tired and boreing for the most part.
People really need to give the GC chance and acutally play some of the games before they knock it.
It's such a terrible system. I can't beleive anyone, especaily someone from GameSpy would have anything nice to say about it.
I don't care who makes the system or the games, if it's good, it's good.
But this thing is just terrible. From what I saw the graphics/sound were terrible. This thing was so slow. It looked like it's wasn't pushing more than 10 frames a seconds. It looked like a high tech flip book.
The game play on anysystem that slow has got to be terrible. It reminded me of playing Doom on a 25 Mhz 386.
Why would you think that the Hardware is under powered. I own all three systems and it's quit obvious that the Game Cube blows away the PS2.
It's a close second to the XBOX. I would really recomend spending some time with a game cube. It's a pretty great system.
I own all three systems. I'll be compltely honest. Within the past year I've bought more Game Cube games than I have for the PS2/Xbox combined.
You can't deny that Nintendo has a pretty good line up of titles.
What sets Nintendo apart is the quality of their games. The Nintendo games are in their own class.
The other systems have cookie cutter games. They're al the same. Game Cube's games a little more artisc, in one word different.
Have any of you seen the Motorola MW800. It's smaller.
http://ruggedpower.motorola.com
Not only that but it's completly ruggedized. It's completly water proof, has a thick aluminum case. I drove my sisters Jeep over an eval I had.
The mother boards only about 4inches by 6inches, with an integraded power.
They told me it was the worlds smallest P4 motherboard.
It has a 3D shock mounted HD with a heater to heat the HD during extreme cold.
P4 1.7Ghz, 2.4 coming.
Includes the following integraded.
1 gig ram
40 gig HD
Video caputre w digital VCR
Firewire
USB
Bluetooth
PCMCIA
WLAN
Wideare network support, GPRS, iDEN, CPDP Etc
GPS
10/00
Built in power supply with sorts of portection.
The back of the unit also has an AUX port for GPIO and will provid 5 and 12V regulated power to external devices.
Supports dual digital/analog display
I couldn't agree with you more. I own all three systems as well and find myself playing GameCube the most. I would have to say out of the three systems the one that's barely used is my PS2.
GameCube definitely has a niche; I loved your analogy of the GameCube and a MAC. What the GameCube has going for it is the uniqueness of the games on the system. In my opinion the PS2 and Xbox games are very similar, but the GameCube titles are so different.
I see no reason in owning an Xbox and a PS2, there basically the same (of course the Xbox is better).
In short I love my gamecube. There are titles for it that will never be available to for Xbox or PS2.
FYI.
All latop LCD displays do have a thin protective layer over the LCD. When you touch your LCD panel you are not directly touch the LCD panel. It is this protective platic ploymer layer that is getting dirty. You should be able to clean it with a mild detergent/solvent.
There's a game out there called Cookies and Cream. You can get it for about 20$ now. This is the perfect game for someone who has a significant other. The game is a two player cooperative game. Itâ(TM)s the only game (So says the manual) where two players can share one controller. My girlfriend loves it. In order to play with one controller we both have sit next to each other. You each use one hand on the controller, one using the left analog stick and the other the right. Or if you want you can use two separate controllers. To be honest the game is a lot of fun, and cute. Both players have to work as a team to complete levels.
I just read most the comments and completly agree with everyone.
Nokia's going to have a very hard time with this one. First off have any of you seen games on this device. The frame rate was terrible, it looked like slow motion.
Plus what gamer really cares what others think. I for one am 28 and have no problems pulling out a my GBA-SP in public. Not that I carry around all the time but If I have to go somehwere where I have to wait in line (like the DMV) I bring it and I have never had any problems. If anything the person next to me usally asks either what game I'm playing or if they could try it.
Nokia better wake up. At 100$ the GBA-SP market is going to be very hard to break into.
I couldn't agree with you more. This is the first programming book I ever read, and the first language I ever learned. I still have and love the book after 15 years. I don't use it all but still have found memories of my first Qbasic program.
How is this news?
Why would anyone waste the time and money to invest in such a product? I can't see even one practicle application for a device like this.
Remeber All ideas are not good ideas.
From reading the article this box will only work in India with their infrastructure. How does this device affect the reset of us not in India. Not only that but the technology being used is nothing impressive or new. On a side note it's not that hard to integrate all those components in a device that sells for under 200$. Where's the news value in that article?
Some LCD Panels can suffer from burn in, especially the older panles. Sometimes it is reversible depending on the type of burn. Really high ambient temperatures can greatly decrease the time it takes for an image to burn. On LCD panels the burning is usally refered to as "Image Retention".
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MS Has a bunch of free tools. Here's a link to mem tester, other tools are also on line. http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
There are a few manufactueres of household cordless phones that allow phone to phone communication. Basically you can use the hand set as a walkie-talkie to communicate to any other handset that is one the same base.
I personally can't see buying a game console in which I will never physically own any games. I find the whole conecpt very strange. I could see from a cable or hotel industry perspective how this type of media delivery system would be appealing but I can't the general public accpeting this.
What's the advatnge to the customer to have to download media over broad band. Seriously unless the games are 50% the price of their physical media counterparts I'm not interested.
I'd agree if this was some sort of complex circuit but it's not. In this case it's probaly easier to make the H/W and debug it then it is to use a micro controller.
Did it occur to any one that the use of the BASIC stamp was over kill. I'll agree it makes the project a little bit easier but these guys are MIT students. All you seriously need is a photo sensor, a transistor, an op-amp and a relay. Very simple. The only tricky part is that using this simple circuit would require precious placement of the photo sensor. This shouldn't be a problem if you know the velocity of the projectile which they know. You'd think some MIT nerds would have done it this way which is a little more elegant.
That product has got to be a joke. I'm dead serious (and I mean this, I'm sure most of you are on the same page as me). It's not too hard to design a product like this your self. I feel really bad for the poor suckers(Investors) who shelled out money for this. With about two software developers you could probably put together there entire backend and create a system. It sounds to me like every aspect of this entire architecture is comprised of third party components. Even the OS is a joke. Just buy yourself a copy of XP embedded and you can compile your custom OS in a couple of hours. Seriously no one would even know it's XP. You can completely configure every aspect of the entire OS. (You can create a 32 meg install of Windows XP) Even secure content delivery can be accomplished with MS products. Seriously this has to be a joke.
Remeber gravitational acceleration on earth is 9.8 Meters/Sec ^ 2. If you do the math and drop the computer from 5 feet it takes longer than 1/10 of second to hit the ground. do the math....
Sorry to say but droping things doesn't bring the gravetational force to 0. If the gravetaional force did become 0 the object would stop falling. It's most likly some sort of pizo electric acceleromoter. Nothing fancy.
There's no way that if you drop your computer from five feet that it'll hit the floor faster than 1/10 of a second. By the time it hits the heads have bee parked. 9.8 Meters/Sec ^ 2 Right.....Do the math
When it comes to money there is no comparision between Nokia and MS. MS is worth $298,840,300,000 in stock alone. Nokia does not have the ability to eat loses like MS does.
I couldn't agree with you more. I own all three systems and have been an avid gamer since the Atari 2600 / Intellivision days.
I bought my GC and XBOX within a month of each other. That was about a year ago. At the time I had no idea that 1 year later I'd own 10 GC games and only three XBOX games.
To be honest with you Nintendo are the only ones doing anyhting different. Sure the characters are the same but the games are inovative and fun.
XBOX and PS2 re-hash the same tired games with the same tired graphics. There all either car games or first person games. XBOX and PS2 are just tired and boreing for the most part.
People really need to give the GC chance and acutally play some of the games before they knock it.
It's such a terrible system. I can't beleive anyone, especaily someone from GameSpy would have anything nice to say about it.
I don't care who makes the system or the games, if it's good, it's good.
But this thing is just terrible. From what I saw the graphics/sound were terrible. This thing was so slow. It looked like it's wasn't pushing more than 10 frames a seconds. It looked like a high tech flip book.
The game play on anysystem that slow has got to be terrible. It reminded me of playing Doom on a 25 Mhz 386.
Why would you think that the Hardware is under powered. I own all three systems and it's quit obvious that the Game Cube blows away the PS2. It's a close second to the XBOX. I would really recomend spending some time with a game cube. It's a pretty great system.
I own all three systems. I'll be compltely honest. Within the past year I've bought more Game Cube games than I have for the PS2/Xbox combined. You can't deny that Nintendo has a pretty good line up of titles. What sets Nintendo apart is the quality of their games. The Nintendo games are in their own class. The other systems have cookie cutter games. They're al the same. Game Cube's games a little more artisc, in one word different.
Most RC Helicopters come with built in GYROS for stablization. Even with the gyro they're still very difficult to fly.
WOW. Some guy bought a camera from X10 and stuck it on a helicopter. Is this really news?
Have any of you seen the Motorola MW800. It's smaller. http://ruggedpower.motorola.com Not only that but it's completly ruggedized. It's completly water proof, has a thick aluminum case. I drove my sisters Jeep over an eval I had. The mother boards only about 4inches by 6inches, with an integraded power. They told me it was the worlds smallest P4 motherboard. It has a 3D shock mounted HD with a heater to heat the HD during extreme cold. P4 1.7Ghz, 2.4 coming. Includes the following integraded. 1 gig ram 40 gig HD Video caputre w digital VCR Firewire USB Bluetooth PCMCIA WLAN Wideare network support, GPRS, iDEN, CPDP Etc GPS 10/00 Built in power supply with sorts of portection. The back of the unit also has an AUX port for GPIO and will provid 5 and 12V regulated power to external devices. Supports dual digital/analog display
I couldn't agree with you more. I own all three systems as well and find myself playing GameCube the most. I would have to say out of the three systems the one that's barely used is my PS2. GameCube definitely has a niche; I loved your analogy of the GameCube and a MAC. What the GameCube has going for it is the uniqueness of the games on the system. In my opinion the PS2 and Xbox games are very similar, but the GameCube titles are so different. I see no reason in owning an Xbox and a PS2, there basically the same (of course the Xbox is better). In short I love my gamecube. There are titles for it that will never be available to for Xbox or PS2.
FYI. All latop LCD displays do have a thin protective layer over the LCD. When you touch your LCD panel you are not directly touch the LCD panel. It is this protective platic ploymer layer that is getting dirty. You should be able to clean it with a mild detergent/solvent.
There's a game out there called Cookies and Cream. You can get it for about 20$ now. This is the perfect game for someone who has a significant other. The game is a two player cooperative game. Itâ(TM)s the only game (So says the manual) where two players can share one controller. My girlfriend loves it. In order to play with one controller we both have sit next to each other. You each use one hand on the controller, one using the left analog stick and the other the right. Or if you want you can use two separate controllers. To be honest the game is a lot of fun, and cute. Both players have to work as a team to complete levels.
I just read most the comments and completly agree with everyone. Nokia's going to have a very hard time with this one. First off have any of you seen games on this device. The frame rate was terrible, it looked like slow motion. Plus what gamer really cares what others think. I for one am 28 and have no problems pulling out a my GBA-SP in public. Not that I carry around all the time but If I have to go somehwere where I have to wait in line (like the DMV) I bring it and I have never had any problems. If anything the person next to me usally asks either what game I'm playing or if they could try it. Nokia better wake up. At 100$ the GBA-SP market is going to be very hard to break into.
I couldn't agree with you more. This is the first programming book I ever read, and the first language I ever learned. I still have and love the book after 15 years. I don't use it all but still have found memories of my first Qbasic program.
How is this news? Why would anyone waste the time and money to invest in such a product? I can't see even one practicle application for a device like this. Remeber All ideas are not good ideas.
From reading the article this box will only work in India with their infrastructure. How does this device affect the reset of us not in India. Not only that but the technology being used is nothing impressive or new. On a side note it's not that hard to integrate all those components in a device that sells for under 200$. Where's the news value in that article?
Some LCD Panels can suffer from burn in, especially the older panles. Sometimes it is reversible depending on the type of burn. Really high ambient temperatures can greatly decrease the time it takes for an image to burn. On LCD panels the burning is usally refered to as "Image Retention".