I love how it busts right at the end of video 1. They should have a sensor on its head to sensor when the head touches the ground.. . That should trigger a Homer-esque "D'oh!"
This will be the key to allow many corporate people to request Mac computers from a corporate setting that requires Windows for most operation.
No more flaming talk about how Macs have no games, no software, etc.
We all know how the Movie Studios will make these new formats win in the marketplace.
They will pick certain movies and ONLY release them in Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. No normal DVD release. Of course, this means they need a blockbuster movie that many people will WANT to own... (Good luck on that one studios)
The studios will force the consumer to switch to by reducing and eventually eliminating normal DVD sales of movies. They did the same thing with VHS.
You actually turn off your iPod while taking off and landing?
I never do... and on the rare occasion that a flight attendant asks me to, I tell her it is off and I am leaving my earphones in until we can turn them on.. (whatever)
If my iPod has anything to do with crashing the plane, then something else is VERY wrong...
How many times have you accidentally left your cell phone on in your carry on? The FAA needs to get off their lazy governmental butts and pay companies to test and prove once and for all that the plane's electronic equipment can't fail due to interference. Sadly, until a plane crashes and the NTSB determines the cause was due to "electronic interference" from an on-board item, the government will sit back and do nothing.
If you wanted to get someone's attention in the universe... a GRB that lasts for a long time would be a great way to do it. Not that I am saying it was aliens or anything.... heheheh
Of my friends who did not first consult me and bought a computer from Gateway, they all had problems with the machine once it arrived... Motherboard smoked during the first bootup, one had a defective CD drive, etc.
Friends don't let friends purchase Gateway computers.
I'd be interested in seeing a pro list for reasons to purchase Gateway. I am imagining it is quite short.
I'm sorry, but government agents had all the pieces that pointed to what happened on 9/11. And yet they were not able to put the pieces together until what? A year later?
So, even if this spidering works as stated by the government, isn't there a 0% probability that they still won't be able to actually USE that data to help deter anything?
And I agree with one of the other posts here... I doubt they will respect robots.txt. If they did, then all the terrorists would do it set that up on their web server...
What the government needs to do is clamp down on how the terrorists get their MONEY. If the 9/11 hijackers were cut off from the big Oil baron money coming from Al Qaida even three months before 9/11, they would not have had the ability to buy airline tickets and perform the terrorism...
Instead of listening in to my phone calls to my grandmother, I think the government should scrutinize EVERY single monetary transaction that is initiated from outside the US into the US. That seems alot easier and more effective than spidering the web for some obfuscated terror information written in Farsi code.
I completely agree with Golias. I am sick of all the extra crappy features the phones these days come with. I never use the camera on my phone. Three reasons:
1) It sucks my precious battery time 2) It produces crap images 3) It costs more per month via Sprint to actually send a photo to someone....
What I really what is a phone:
1) I don't have to plug it in every freaking night... 2) I want the phone to be like my watch... as I walk around, the battery is charged. 3) easy to navigate with a nice user interface.
I could care less about voice activation, color screens, cameras, data links, music videos or TV on my cell phone. I also do not want a tiny phone... I like to be able to press the buttons with my normal sized fingers. I would gladly carry a brick phone if it was 90% battery and didn't need to plug in for a week at a time. But that is just me.
When will we see something like this? With the Japanese and European markets driving the industry, it is sad to say not for a very long time.
I had a lovely working PC card that read all my digital camera memory cards... Worked like a charm with XP SP1.
Installed SP2. Reader stopped working... Wouldn't recognize any memory card. Called SanDisk, the maker of the PC card.. They said they had reports of SP2 breaking the functionality of the card. It was a Microsoft problem. One of the tech guys at SanDisk told me that it is an unwritten rule to avoid all even numbers Microsoft Service Packs. Wish I knew that one before I installed it.
The PC Card still doesn't work and so I hope it magically starts working with SP3...
So I wouldn't doubt SP2 usage is low... That is what MS gets for breaking the way things work...
After recently visiting my local Goodwill computer store, I saw hundred of old laptops laying around for sale.
Why not take donated laptops and refurbish them.... get donated spares from the orginal OEMS, etc Fix them up and then you kill two birds with one stone... No more computer waste in the landfills and cheap laptops for Ghana.
Considering the cost of labor in Ghana, why not send donated laptops to Ghana... Bring a few hundred people from Ghana to this Taiwanese company to train on how to refurbish the laptops...
Until a real LED company like Nichia, Cree, Lumileds or Osram comes out with a statement like this one concerning the light output of quantum dots, please take this article with a large grain of salt. Quantum dots and solid state lighting are great for academic research... but that is about it.
Is it not the year 2003? Why didn't they put a color screen on this bad boy? Can you wirelessly print using it?
I would want a screen that mimics the 3D graphing calculator program found on all Macs... Of course, the dinky processor probably couldn't handle it.
I also would like Netflix to start renting video games.. First start with something that could make them big bucks... Xbox, PS2, Gamecube... then branch out into PC games...
Even better... rent older console system games... PS1, Dreamcast, maybe not as big a demand... but there are still many many people with these consoles...
the wireless is nice... but how do you control iTunes from your living room? Don't tell me a song comes on that you don't want to listen to and you have to actually get up and go to the computer to change it....
I'd say we need an 802.11g enabled mouse and keyboard!!!
This article is the standard babble one sees from Professors trying to drum up research grants for research that will eventually lead to a very nice way to manufacture something... but ends up never being used because the technology is superceded by something created in the industry at lower cost and better performance.
Scanning a laser across a 12 inch wafer will never be cheaper than doing it by lithography.
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If this new reactor design was tested San Diego, would it end up saving millions of US Dollars, rather than Euros?
I love how it busts right at the end of video 1. They should have a sensor on its head to sensor when the head touches the ground.. . That should trigger a Homer-esque "D'oh!"
So, I assume Apple will eventually release Windows drivers for iSight, Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse, etc etc
The only reason I didn't buy the iSight was because I couldn't use it at home on the Mac and at work on the Windows laptop.
If do this, their sales of those Mac only products will increase...
This will be the key to allow many corporate people to request Mac computers from a corporate setting that requires Windows for most operation. No more flaming talk about how Macs have no games, no software, etc.
We all know how the Movie Studios will make these new formats win in the marketplace. They will pick certain movies and ONLY release them in Blu-Ray or HD-DVD. No normal DVD release. Of course, this means they need a blockbuster movie that many people will WANT to own... (Good luck on that one studios) The studios will force the consumer to switch to by reducing and eventually eliminating normal DVD sales of movies. They did the same thing with VHS.
I'm sorry, but for a harddrive to really be portable, it must be powered by USB or Firewire. Who wants to lug around yet another power adapter?
This is not news except for Firewire 800 connectivity. And Firewire 800 seems to be such a niche, I doubt it will ever really catch on.
You actually turn off your iPod while taking off and landing? I never do... and on the rare occasion that a flight attendant asks me to, I tell her it is off and I am leaving my earphones in until we can turn them on.. (whatever) If my iPod has anything to do with crashing the plane, then something else is VERY wrong... How many times have you accidentally left your cell phone on in your carry on? The FAA needs to get off their lazy governmental butts and pay companies to test and prove once and for all that the plane's electronic equipment can't fail due to interference. Sadly, until a plane crashes and the NTSB determines the cause was due to "electronic interference" from an on-board item, the government will sit back and do nothing.
Here come the AIM bots.
And this is news why? In another related story, teenager stubs toe and blames Microsoft and Google China Who cares.
If you wanted to get someone's attention in the universe... a GRB that lasts for a long time would be a great way to do it. Not that I am saying it was aliens or anything.... heheheh
Of my friends who did not first consult me and bought a computer from Gateway, they all had problems with the machine once it arrived... Motherboard smoked during the first bootup, one had a defective CD drive, etc. Friends don't let friends purchase Gateway computers. I'd be interested in seeing a pro list for reasons to purchase Gateway. I am imagining it is quite short.
And given ThinkSecret's track record over the past 6 months, you should take all this "News" with a truckload of salt.
I'm sorry, but government agents had all the pieces that pointed to what happened on 9/11. And yet they were not able to put the pieces together until what? A year later? So, even if this spidering works as stated by the government, isn't there a 0% probability that they still won't be able to actually USE that data to help deter anything? And I agree with one of the other posts here... I doubt they will respect robots.txt. If they did, then all the terrorists would do it set that up on their web server... What the government needs to do is clamp down on how the terrorists get their MONEY. If the 9/11 hijackers were cut off from the big Oil baron money coming from Al Qaida even three months before 9/11, they would not have had the ability to buy airline tickets and perform the terrorism... Instead of listening in to my phone calls to my grandmother, I think the government should scrutinize EVERY single monetary transaction that is initiated from outside the US into the US. That seems alot easier and more effective than spidering the web for some obfuscated terror information written in Farsi code.
I completely agree with Golias. I am sick of all the extra crappy features the phones these days come with. I never use the camera on my phone. Three reasons:
1) It sucks my precious battery time
2) It produces crap images
3) It costs more per month via Sprint to actually send a photo to someone....
What I really what is a phone:
1) I don't have to plug it in every freaking night...
2) I want the phone to be like my watch... as I walk around, the battery is charged.
3) easy to navigate with a nice user interface.
I could care less about voice activation, color screens, cameras, data links, music videos or TV on my cell phone. I also do not want a tiny phone... I like to be able to press the buttons with my normal sized fingers. I would gladly carry a brick phone if it was 90% battery and didn't need to plug in for a week at a time. But that is just me.
When will we see something like this? With the Japanese and European markets driving the industry, it is sad to say not for a very long time.
I had a lovely working PC card that read all my digital camera memory cards... Worked like a charm with XP SP1. Installed SP2. Reader stopped working... Wouldn't recognize any memory card. Called SanDisk, the maker of the PC card.. They said they had reports of SP2 breaking the functionality of the card. It was a Microsoft problem. One of the tech guys at SanDisk told me that it is an unwritten rule to avoid all even numbers Microsoft Service Packs. Wish I knew that one before I installed it. The PC Card still doesn't work and so I hope it magically starts working with SP3... So I wouldn't doubt SP2 usage is low... That is what MS gets for breaking the way things work...
After recently visiting my local Goodwill computer store, I saw hundred of old laptops laying around for sale.
Why not take donated laptops and refurbish them.... get donated spares from the orginal OEMS, etc Fix them up and then you kill two birds with one stone... No more computer waste in the landfills and cheap laptops for Ghana.
Considering the cost of labor in Ghana, why not send donated laptops to Ghana... Bring a few hundred people from Ghana to this Taiwanese company to train on how to refurbish the laptops...
Until a real LED company like Nichia, Cree, Lumileds or Osram comes out with a statement like this one concerning the light output of quantum dots, please take this article with a large grain of salt. Quantum dots and solid state lighting are great for academic research... but that is about it.
Is it not the year 2003? Why didn't they put a color screen on this bad boy? Can you wirelessly print using it? I would want a screen that mimics the 3D graphing calculator program found on all Macs... Of course, the dinky processor probably couldn't handle it.
I also would like Netflix to start renting video games.. First start with something that could make them big bucks... Xbox, PS2, Gamecube... then branch out into PC games...
Even better... rent older console system games... PS1, Dreamcast, maybe not as big a demand... but there are still many many people with these consoles...
My bet is that he had to stay at AOL for four years to become "vested" so he could buy out his stock options... just a guess
the wireless is nice... but how do you control iTunes from your living room? Don't tell me a song comes on that you don't want to listen to and you have to actually get up and go to the computer to change it.... I'd say we need an 802.11g enabled mouse and keyboard!!!
Last I heard, cell phones were throw away devices that you use for 6-9 months and then upgrade to a new better model....
If it is bothering you so much as to bother the slashdot world , why not call your provider and change your phone number? D'uh!
This article is the standard babble one sees from Professors trying to drum up research grants for research that will eventually lead to a very nice way to manufacture something... but ends up never being used because the technology is superceded by something created in the industry at lower cost and better performance. Scanning a laser across a 12 inch wafer will never be cheaper than doing it by lithography.