I just tried the same. I tried User agent: Windows MSIE 6.0 and Mac MSIE 5.22
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What I found was that the slider thing doesn't work perfectly: it seems that there is a misalignment on the position of the slider. If I however use the Mozilla user agent, it works perfectly. Funny that. They are probably compensating for a poop in the MSIE code.
"Il Tempo Gigante" has two engines, one up forward packing twelve cylinders, which at 11 000 revs develops 800 brake horse power. This in turn starts the turbine engine at the rear, with its octagonal carburettor ignition, which gives an extra kick of about 1200 hp at 18000 revs. Jointly these two engines will produce a boost guaranteed to register 5.3 on the Richter scale.
Special equipment includes radar, which provides continuous information on camber and curve radius and unforeseen incidents en route. The TV screen mounted on the dashboard gives the driver a clear picture of rivals disappearing astern. Other extra features a wind-gauge and a trip-counter, compass and barometer, echo-sounder and two speedometers, a peepsight and rotary hydro-valves, as well as a blood bank with Rhesus plus and minus, and a dash of blue blood, should any aristo happen to get in the way.
Sure, you won't fit an entire three hour epic movie's worth of footage in DV format on it,
Yes, it will in fact store three hours worth of DV quality video. One hour DV is just under 13GB and so three hours is just under 39GB - which will fit on a 40GB iPod. Which is really cool.
Would it not be cool to be able to hook your DV camcorder to the iPod and record direct to HD? (probably not possible, but it would be cool, would it not?)
but it's good for fleshing out whole scenes.
Yes, it's good for that, too.
And, as mentioned before, in the documentary TT DVD one guy talks about being chased by ruffians containing (if memory serves) a full-length almost-done version of TT.
As a young boy I spent quite a bit of time building stuff out of Lego. I am now 25 years old and have long ago realized that the Lego activities of my youth was a large contributor to my current interest and skills in engineering.
Often I have wanted to acuire some Lego to get back into that inspiring creativity again, but have been turned away by the fact that Lego sets didn't contain much Lego anymore. I wished, in fact, that they would go back to the way Lego was in the eighties when the parts were bricks and not for example a wing or a chair or some such single-purpose item.
So I see this as Good News. It will probably spark a revival among people such as me and, I suspect, many others who frequently visit this site.
In my humble opinion: such a device will not be able to compete against the iPod. At least not now.
However:
It will get cracked and linux-ified by geeks, and it will be good for a lot of things that it was not originally intended for.
Can't wait to see what those things will be.
I would not recommend a TV tuner for anything other than watching TV.
Your DV camera should have a digital output (IEEE 1394 (FireWire)) - use that. Additionally, if that DV camera is a nicer one it may have video input; meaning that you can connect your PS2 to your camera, which is connected your computer, which is connected to your display.... you may not need to buy anything?
My favorite scene from the trailer is when Aragorn reclaims the Narsil from Elrond... man, that scene has some real power in it (if you read the books, ofcoz):)
It has power to kick PJs butt, if you have read the books.
Aragorn carried with him Narsil all the time, in broken form, until the Nine Companions set out from Rivendell, and Narsil was reforged and named anew Anduril - Flame of the West. Thereafter he bore that sword even to the last chapters of the book.
Besides the basic durability issue, I would think these weapons would also be vulnerable to an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) device, which as I understand it, could basically knock out all such weapons within the range of effect...
Not nessecarily.
The laser is powered chemically. EMP affects electronic semiconductors.
But they probably use electronics for the trigger system, and if so, an EMP could knock it out as you say.
I had my old Pioneer PD-S501 CD player in the checked-in luggage on a domestic flight a few years ago - in a soft bag with some clothes and stuff.
I arrive and lo, the top of the CD player's case has become severly deformed. As if someone jumped on it.
No problem, I thought, and took off the cover and bent it back.
But something was ratteling inside the case. Huh, I thought, some plastic crap must have broken off, so I turned the chassi upside down, and out fell... the laser lens.
The thing is dead, I thought. But not known for giving up easily, I ofcourse had to try and glue it back on.
This CD player is still my main CD player - for 11 years now.
I am happy to say that my personal TiBook is 100% microsoft free.
For my office needs, OpenOffice does it all and then some.
As for my organisation, I have nearly completed migration to OpenOffice, and most people haven't even noticed. And it runs just the same on both windows and Linux workstations.
I've been using a PowerBook G4 550MHz running Mac OS 10.1.5 the last four months.
I also occationally use an AMD Athalon 1GHz based system running Windows XP Professional.
I always perfer the Mac - because it runs smoother, and thus faster. Some things go faster on the Win box (like displaying web pages, sometimes) but generally the Mac is faster and more predictable.
However, if one takes into account the time spent waiting for crashed applications and other things-not-working on the Win machine, the Mac wins like David won over Goliath, basically. Things here (on the Mac) just work.
X11 starts faster on our Athalon XP 1800 server running Debian than on my Powerbook, tho.
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Where do I apply?
It could have been worse. It could have run Vista.
Otherwise, an interesting development.
people are indeed different.
I hope that isn't a fan for air cooling I am seeing in the bottom left corner of the thing in this photo.
I just tried the same. I tried User agent: Windows MSIE 6.0 and Mac MSIE 5.22
Drag the slider (above) to the right to personalize results. Personalized results are marked by (symbol)
What I found was that the slider thing doesn't work perfectly: it seems that there is a misalignment on the position of the slider.
If I however use the Mozilla user agent, it works perfectly.
Funny that. They are probably compensating for a poop in the MSIE code.
Debug info: Mac OS 10.2.8, Safari 1.0.2 (v85.7)
Yes, I know.
Windows sucks, doesn't it.
I feel the same way.
...one of the things he does NOT carry around is bandwidth.
Oh yes. He took it with him, can't you see?
- and it's called "Il Tempo Gigante"
Some photosof its making and introduction.
Yes, it will in fact store three hours worth of DV quality video. One hour DV is just under 13GB and so three hours is just under 39GB - which will fit on a 40GB iPod. Which is really cool.
Would it not be cool to be able to hook your DV camcorder to the iPod and record direct to HD? (probably not possible, but it would be cool, would it not?)
Yes, it's good for that, too.
And, as mentioned before, in the documentary TT DVD one guy talks about being chased by ruffians containing (if memory serves) a full-length almost-done version of TT.
As a young boy I spent quite a bit of time building stuff out of Lego. I am now 25 years old and have long ago realized that the Lego activities of my youth was a large contributor to my current interest and skills in engineering.
Often I have wanted to acuire some Lego to get back into that inspiring creativity again, but have been turned away by the fact that Lego sets didn't contain much Lego anymore. I wished, in fact, that they would go back to the way Lego was in the eighties when the parts were bricks and not for example a wing or a chair or some such single-purpose item.
So I see this as Good News. It will probably spark a revival among people such as me and, I suspect, many others who frequently visit this site.
In my humble opinion: such a device will not be able to compete against the iPod. At least not now.
However:
It will get cracked and linux-ified by geeks, and it will be good for a lot of things that it was not originally intended for.
Can't wait to see what those things will be.
I would not recommend a TV tuner for anything other than watching TV.
Your DV camera should have a digital output (IEEE 1394 (FireWire)) - use that. Additionally, if that DV camera is a nicer one it may have video input; meaning that you can connect your PS2 to your camera, which is connected your computer, which is connected to your display.... you may not need to buy anything?
Next in line for this treatment is VoIP. In four years or so, your average telecommunications company will either be adapting or be gone.
My favorite scene from the trailer is when Aragorn reclaims the Narsil from Elrond ... man, that scene has some real power in it (if you read the books, ofcoz) :)
It has power to kick PJs butt, if you have read the books.
Aragorn carried with him Narsil all the time, in broken form, until the Nine Companions set out from Rivendell, and Narsil was reforged and named anew Anduril - Flame of the West. Thereafter he bore that sword even to the last chapters of the book.
GAIM (unoficcial) statement is here.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/msn.php
You might want to inform Apple of your needs.
Which, btw, are things I would want too.
Who knows, it might be a feature in the future.
Not nessecarily.
The laser is powered chemically. EMP affects electronic semiconductors.
But they probably use electronics for the trigger system, and if so, an EMP could knock it out as you say.
I had my old Pioneer PD-S501 CD player in the checked-in luggage on a domestic flight a few years ago - in a soft bag with some clothes and stuff.
I arrive and lo, the top of the CD player's case has become severly deformed. As if someone jumped on it. No problem, I thought, and took off the cover and bent it back. But something was ratteling inside the case. Huh, I thought, some plastic crap must have broken off, so I turned the chassi upside down, and out fell...
the laser lens.
The thing is dead, I thought. But not known for giving up easily, I ofcourse had to try and glue it back on.
This CD player is still my main CD player - for 11 years now.
like HighFrequency - VeryHighFrequency - UltraHighFrequency - SuperHighFrequency - Exremely(?)HighFrequency
or DoubleDensity - HighDensity - ExtraHighDensity
NewCard - NewNewCard - EvenNewerCard
I am happy to say that my personal TiBook is 100% microsoft free. For my office needs, OpenOffice does it all and then some.
As for my organisation, I have nearly completed migration to OpenOffice, and most people haven't even noticed. And it runs just the same on both windows and Linux workstations.
I always perfer the Mac - because it runs smoother, and thus faster. Some things go faster on the Win box (like displaying web pages, sometimes) but generally the Mac is faster and more predictable.
However, if one takes into account the time spent waiting for crashed applications and other things-not-working on the Win machine, the Mac wins like David won over Goliath, basically. Things here (on the Mac) just work.
X11 starts faster on our Athalon XP 1800 server running Debian than on my Powerbook, tho.
Is it just me, or did I just read this earlier?
Yes, here.
No prob. (disclaimer: actually UNIX loaded)