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The wheel is not actually pressure sensitive (except when you push hard enough to make it click). The scrolling is detected using capacitance, which can probably be measured through the wood if the wood is thin enough.
Yeah, the fact that it's not pressure sensitive is what had me wondering.. I figured the material had something to do with it until reading a link a bit further down the comments that pointed to the qwheel(?) site? which explained a lot. very cool stuff there!
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I was having a hard time deciding where to post this being that it's serious and all (hate to break up the rythm you've got going!) but.. how does the scroll wheel work now? It looks like he made a completely new one out of wood... wood that still work? (ha ha)...I thought it was the touch sensitive touchpad that made the scrollwheel work.. he says his iPod is a 4G, mine is 3G and has the scrollwheel as opposed to a click wheel... So does it just not matter what the click wheel is made out of?
Don't count on it, Dell and friends are probably going to lap these things up.
Then in that case, maybe you could also say Dell Sales--. I've lately come to love Dell, I mean damn, desktops for 350, laptops for 700... If I wasn't such a mac-whore I'd probably go Dell just on price alone. I have noticed though that they don't even OFFER AMD with their systems, you can only get Intel. If they start shipping nothing but systems using processors with built in DRM, I'll just go back to building my own systems.
For the past 10 years I've built my own systems, but recently I've gotten lazy and came of the attitude of "why bother building it for $500 when I can get Dell to do it for $350?" Well, this is why I would bother now. With this move, for me, Intel will lose a sale (or sales if someone I know wants a system) Dell will lose a sale (or sales, I used to pimp out their name, I can't do that now.) and AMD will gain a sale (or sales).
I just don't see the need for this.. Anti-piracy measures, IMO, do not belong in the processor. Couldn't this block some duplication that would/should be perfectly legal too?
The "T-Mobile Internet" plan, which is required for the SideKick, is Unlimited data for $29.99 / month.
And it should be required as well. I almost didn't get the unlimited wireless package from Verizon for my Treo, but I'm damned glad I did. These PDA/Phone devices are actually pretty good when it comes to their wireless PDA duties. I have IM clients, email clients, SSH, txt messaging (which is BEAUTIFUL on a Treo) and so much more that uses the data connection, without it you'll probably be slapped in the face with a gigantic bill at the end of your first month, because the wireless data stuff is just that useful and convenient.
Where did you get $500 for Bab5? It's $425 at best buy for the first 5 seasons. That works it out to 85 bucks a season, and it looks like there's about 22 episodes a season for Bab5. So it's workin' out to about 3.50 an episode, is that really that bad?
Sure, some seasons for TV shows are priced better, from what I've seen they average 80 for the less popular stuff that will probably still sell like hotcakes (Twilight Zone, Bab5, Sopranos, Band of Brothers [however, Band of Brothers was worth its $100 price tag and then some]) and I've seen some that are out there for a very good price, usually somewhere between 30 and 50 (Miami Vice, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Sex and the City, Married w/Children). However, these lower priced gift sets usually have SEVERAL seasons, (Simpsons, MWC) so they're going to end up costing you a lot more anyway.
That being said, I think the seasonal box sets are rather fairly priced in general. Sure some of them should never be priced at the 80 dollar mark, but they are, and they're in the minority anyway. (Unfortunately that includes a few that I want) What *I* hate are the George Lucas-like Special Editions. Take "The Professional" for example, they created a special edition, then they released Leon:The Professional (The 'extended foreign version with extra footage' ala ApocNow Redux) Then they released Leon:The Professional Special Edition with more footage.. what, did you FORGET SOME!? Boy that pisses me off.. ApocNow had the original version, and the really f'ing long version, LOTR had the original version, and the really f'ing long version, why do these other companys have the original version, the special edition, the really long special edition, then the really long-er special edition with even more footage that they forgot to add when they made the first really long special edition? Have some originality.
The Xbox controler type-S is my favorite controller out of the current big 3 (Gamecube's being second). I hope they don't change it too much except for the stupid start,back,black and white buttons. Then again I kind of liked the original Xbox controller too. The idea of being able to get my controllers in multiple sizes is kind of nice...
I picked up a wireless logitech controller for the XBox (and have used them for ps2) and I've got to say they're some of the most comfortable controllers i've ever had the pleasure of using.
By the way, most ISPs still are NOT doing this. Time Warner's Road Runner, for instance, never even looks in the direction of a trojaned machine on their network - at least in my area.
I agree with your first statement, and on the second, I just have to say that maybe they should start. I liked the approach of that Finnish ISP that was used as an example above, where they block you on the half hour and all of your traffic is redirected to a page pimping trendmicro and adaware out to you. I wish more ISPs would take this approach. I wouldn't be surprised if their area ends up with a lot more clean systems than us. Hell, it'd probably cut down on the family's "My computer has a problem" calls even.
I've had 9-10 half hour outages in the last two days.
Because of excessive usage or something? This is totally unacceptable. If my connection starts going down that often for any reason I'm going ISP shopping.
On that note, I think we should also draft up a "Music Quality Standards" sheet and push them to sign and elminate all of the bad music they're pushing through. If they want to try and police a medium that doesn't belong to them, let's police their medium back!
The best they will be able to do is just make a mafia game so they could just name it something else and avoide the whole "games based on movies suck" negitive image it will get right from the start.
They did, and they called it Mafia. I have this game, and I think it's EXACTLY what I was looking for. I was always a big fan of GTA:VC due to its Scarface plotline. It was totally based on Scarface, but enough not, that it's totally unique in it's own right, and a lot of fun to play. I always thought while playing VC "They need a MAFIA game like this, like The Godfather!" 'Gangsters' was a total flop IMO, but Mafia, I think, did it right, it's like Goodfellas, based in the times of The Godfather. It's a 1930s gangster game where you play the role of a soldier for the Mafia and work your way through. I was totally impressed with it. It's got a couple rough edges, but they're all forgivable.
As a lvl 2k Chaotic Druid, I take offense to your comment, and will be summoning demons to eat your soul.
A bit off topic, but I had to say it after reading up to "Druid" in your comment. I never watch SNL, but I did catch their nerd phone sex skit and it was godamned hillarious. Any one else catch this?...hah, funny enough, maybe this IS on topic;)
I have yet to hear my iPod skip at all, ever, and I ride my bike and run with it in my pocket. It gets shaken most of the time it's on.
I never heard mine skip when I was running more (which I should get back to, haha.) But recently i've started off-roading with mine using my iTrip (that is the best $30 i've ever spent on an electronic accessory.) and I haven't once heard mine skip either.
I'm glad that it's one less sleezy domain, but I don't particularly care for the precedent that a person (or probably more accurately, a celebrity) can yank a domain from someone just because they have a piece of the name.
Are you sure? I didn't see anything pointing to the fact that any of the other 'Hillary Clintons' tried to get this domain name. I think it's a perfectly reasonable for any one of them to get their hands on it on a first come first serve basis. If it's their name, and someone is using it in order to scam people, I think it was a good ruling, it's just that the Celebrity HC went after it first.
I got my Mac with Jaguar, and found that the Panther upgrade was worthwhile. Unlike with Windows, the OS X update resulted in a faster machine.
Another good point, for a few years using OS X I was running it on a G3/400 powerbook. Now I don't think I have to tell you, that 10.0 was... slow, to say the least. But with every OS update, and every release update, it got faster and faster, by 10.2 it was actually VERY usably fast, and this was on a 4 or 5 year old system. I always desperately awaited updates, because I knew my system was going to become faster.
Which can be annoying since the OS updates are never worth the asking price
I'd have to disagree on this one.. then again, different people will find different updates to be important. I think 10.3 was well worth the cost of the update. I'm not really seeing anything that blows my hair back in 10.4, but Expose alone was worth quite a bit to me. Hell, I hotkey'd it to a spare mouse button and use 'f9' to switch windows now, beats the hell out of cmd tab.
Actually, your point brings up a different, interesting point.
What about expansion packs that PCs are notorious for? Diablo, WC, Starcraft, all of the C&C and RA games.. Consoles don't even bother with these things, but PC games do them quite a bit, how are they going to handle those?
I'm sure it's been said before, but I think they should just leave it as an OPTION. Games have options settings and all, maybe leave something in the options to 'install to HDD' and then people who want to just fire it up and play it can, and other people can install it... best of both worlds?
However, should someone who just happens to love shooting games blow a fuse and decide to go on a shooting spree, he will be more accurate than the average crazie
And the average citizen who likes to go to the gun range every few weeks and fire of even 10 or 20 rounds into a paper target will be even more accurate than the video game playing kid, and they've been around a lot longer... this study is BS, you can take a study and twist it to fit whatever your agenda is.. and I think that's what they're doing here.
i need to have several terminals open to shells on various servers, a web stable, tabbed web browser for our monitoring software, various internal wikis, and google, as well as a robust IMAP mail client for the listservs etc, and miscellanous stuff like rsync and mysql that i can abuse locally without breaking something important.
Me too, I often have even more than this running, and I do it all from a 12" Powerbook. Usually with an external monitor attached so I get a little more screen real-estate, but I can work from work, home, starbucks, anywhere with a connection. I can stuff this tiny little thing in my backpack when I'm out visiting relatives and such, and if I get an emergency call that needs immediate attention, I can usually hook right up to the network and do what needs to be done.. I don't think it's "obviously a pointless waste of time and money" to use this instead of Linux.
And for the record, I do all of this with the programs that come with OS X, for the most part, and the ones that don't are free or donationware.
Oh yeah, my phones have all had this since the begining.. I just figured I'd throw it in there with the rest of the authentication methods... Phones have had keys and mics from the start, they had to, and those are the simplest forms of security to add to.. punch in a #, unlock the phone and dial! or for voice (which I don't know of any phones with this) you could dial, hit send and it would challenge you "Speak your passphrase now" and if you get it right, it can dial! then you have fingerprint (put the sensor in a convenient place) and it'd be even easier.. but a photo recognition system? "hold phone 3 feet away from your face to unlock!" That's just ridiculous.
Sometimes people insist on using technology just for the sake of using it. How about some practicality?
I had a great long response earlier before OmniWeb crashed... Anyhow, the gist of it was exactly what you just said.
Just because your phone takes pictures, doesn't mean it needs to be a security device as well. Your phone has a Mic too, why don't they have voice authentication yet?
Put a little sensor on the back of it for fingerprint authentication? maybe cover it with a little plastic slide to avoid damage? Sure it'd have the same problems as the picture (probably a few less) and the voice authentication would be no good if you have a cold, but whatever, both solutions have less problems than picture identification..
Who wants to have to turn their camera around and pose for a picture whenever they want to make a call?
Voice: you speak a phrase before dialing Fingerprint: You have a sensor on the back so you really don't even need to move your hand, it's already there. Key code: You dial a code and then dial your # Photo: You need to take your phone and hold it out in front of you long enough to snap a shot and look like a complete idiot who's taking a picture of himself..
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The wheel is not actually pressure sensitive (except when you push hard enough to make it click). The scrolling is detected using capacitance, which can probably be measured through the wood if the wood is thin enough.
Yeah, the fact that it's not pressure sensitive is what had me wondering.. I figured the material had something to do with it until reading a link a bit further down the comments that pointed to the qwheel(?) site? which explained a lot. very cool stuff there!
I was having a hard time deciding where to post this being that it's serious and all (hate to break up the rythm you've got going!) but.. how does the scroll wheel work now? It looks like he made a completely new one out of wood... wood that still work? (ha ha) ...I thought it was the touch sensitive touchpad that made the scrollwheel work.. he says his iPod is a 4G, mine is 3G and has the scrollwheel as opposed to a click wheel... So does it just not matter what the click wheel is made out of?
Don't count on it, Dell and friends are probably going to lap these things up.
Then in that case, maybe you could also say Dell Sales--. I've lately come to love Dell, I mean damn, desktops for 350, laptops for 700... If I wasn't such a mac-whore I'd probably go Dell just on price alone. I have noticed though that they don't even OFFER AMD with their systems, you can only get Intel. If they start shipping nothing but systems using processors with built in DRM, I'll just go back to building my own systems.
For the past 10 years I've built my own systems, but recently I've gotten lazy and came of the attitude of "why bother building it for $500 when I can get Dell to do it for $350?" Well, this is why I would bother now. With this move, for me, Intel will lose a sale (or sales if someone I know wants a system) Dell will lose a sale (or sales, I used to pimp out their name, I can't do that now.) and AMD will gain a sale (or sales).
I just don't see the need for this.. Anti-piracy measures, IMO, do not belong in the processor. Couldn't this block some duplication that would/should be perfectly legal too?
The "T-Mobile Internet" plan, which is required for the SideKick, is Unlimited data for $29.99 / month.
And it should be required as well. I almost didn't get the unlimited wireless package from Verizon for my Treo, but I'm damned glad I did. These PDA/Phone devices are actually pretty good when it comes to their wireless PDA duties. I have IM clients, email clients, SSH, txt messaging (which is BEAUTIFUL on a Treo) and so much more that uses the data connection, without it you'll probably be slapped in the face with a gigantic bill at the end of your first month, because the wireless data stuff is just that useful and convenient.
Where did you get $500 for Bab5? It's $425 at best buy for the first 5 seasons. That works it out to 85 bucks a season, and it looks like there's about 22 episodes a season for Bab5. So it's workin' out to about 3.50 an episode, is that really that bad?
Sure, some seasons for TV shows are priced better, from what I've seen they average 80 for the less popular stuff that will probably still sell like hotcakes (Twilight Zone, Bab5, Sopranos, Band of Brothers [however, Band of Brothers was worth its $100 price tag and then some]) and I've seen some that are out there for a very good price, usually somewhere between 30 and 50 (Miami Vice, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Sex and the City, Married w/Children). However, these lower priced gift sets usually have SEVERAL seasons, (Simpsons, MWC) so they're going to end up costing you a lot more anyway.
That being said, I think the seasonal box sets are rather fairly priced in general. Sure some of them should never be priced at the 80 dollar mark, but they are, and they're in the minority anyway. (Unfortunately that includes a few that I want) What *I* hate are the George Lucas-like Special Editions. Take "The Professional" for example, they created a special edition, then they released Leon:The Professional (The 'extended foreign version with extra footage' ala ApocNow Redux) Then they released Leon:The Professional Special Edition with more footage.. what, did you FORGET SOME!? Boy that pisses me off.. ApocNow had the original version, and the really f'ing long version, LOTR had the original version, and the really f'ing long version, why do these other companys have the original version, the special edition, the really long special edition, then the really long-er special edition with even more footage that they forgot to add when they made the first really long special edition? Have some originality.
Excellent. And now a court will decide if AOL was negligent or not. We'll see what happens.
Amazing how quickly you just summed up what everyone was arguing about for 400 comments or so huh?
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by FidelCatsro (861135) on Thursday April 14, @01:58PM (#12238380)
its always funny if your not on the reciving end
Now THIS, I found as even FUNNIER!
The Xbox controler type-S is my favorite controller out of the current big 3 (Gamecube's being second). I hope they don't change it too much except for the stupid start,back,black and white buttons. Then again I kind of liked the original Xbox controller too. The idea of being able to get my controllers in multiple sizes is kind of nice...
I picked up a wireless logitech controller for the XBox (and have used them for ps2) and I've got to say they're some of the most comfortable controllers i've ever had the pleasure of using.
By the way, most ISPs still are NOT doing this. Time Warner's Road Runner, for instance, never even looks in the direction of a trojaned machine on their network - at least in my area.
I agree with your first statement, and on the second, I just have to say that maybe they should start. I liked the approach of that Finnish ISP that was used as an example above, where they block you on the half hour and all of your traffic is redirected to a page pimping trendmicro and adaware out to you. I wish more ISPs would take this approach. I wouldn't be surprised if their area ends up with a lot more clean systems than us. Hell, it'd probably cut down on the family's "My computer has a problem" calls even.
I've had 9-10 half hour outages in the last two days.
Because of excessive usage or something? This is totally unacceptable. If my connection starts going down that often for any reason I'm going ISP shopping.
On that note, I think we should also draft up a "Music Quality Standards" sheet and push them to sign and elminate all of the bad music they're pushing through. If they want to try and police a medium that doesn't belong to them, let's police their medium back!
The best they will be able to do is just make a mafia game so they could just name it something else and avoide the whole "games based on movies suck" negitive image it will get right from the start.
They did, and they called it Mafia. I have this game, and I think it's EXACTLY what I was looking for. I was always a big fan of GTA:VC due to its Scarface plotline. It was totally based on Scarface, but enough not, that it's totally unique in it's own right, and a lot of fun to play. I always thought while playing VC "They need a MAFIA game like this, like The Godfather!" 'Gangsters' was a total flop IMO, but Mafia, I think, did it right, it's like Goodfellas, based in the times of The Godfather. It's a 1930s gangster game where you play the role of a soldier for the Mafia and work your way through. I was totally impressed with it. It's got a couple rough edges, but they're all forgivable.
As a lvl 2k Chaotic Druid, I take offense to your comment, and will be summoning demons to eat your soul.
...hah, funny enough, maybe this IS on topic ;)
A bit off topic, but I had to say it after reading up to "Druid" in your comment. I never watch SNL, but I did catch their nerd phone sex skit and it was godamned hillarious. Any one else catch this?
I have yet to hear my iPod skip at all, ever, and I ride my bike and run with it in my pocket. It gets shaken most of the time it's on.
I never heard mine skip when I was running more (which I should get back to, haha.) But recently i've started off-roading with mine using my iTrip (that is the best $30 i've ever spent on an electronic accessory.) and I haven't once heard mine skip either.
But there are other rulings that don't support what you're implying. See the Mike Rowe case.
Same type of thing, he was playing off of their name. I'm sure if the domain in question was mikerowe.com he would have had no problems what-so-ever.
I'm glad that it's one less sleezy domain, but I don't particularly care for the precedent that a person (or probably more accurately, a celebrity) can yank a domain from someone just because they have a piece of the name.
Are you sure? I didn't see anything pointing to the fact that any of the other 'Hillary Clintons' tried to get this domain name. I think it's a perfectly reasonable for any one of them to get their hands on it on a first come first serve basis. If it's their name, and someone is using it in order to scam people, I think it was a good ruling, it's just that the Celebrity HC went after it first.
I got my Mac with Jaguar, and found that the Panther upgrade was worthwhile. Unlike with Windows, the OS X update resulted in a faster machine.
... slow, to say the least. But with every OS update, and every release update, it got faster and faster, by 10.2 it was actually VERY usably fast, and this was on a 4 or 5 year old system. I always desperately awaited updates, because I knew my system was going to become faster.
Another good point, for a few years using OS X I was running it on a G3/400 powerbook. Now I don't think I have to tell you, that 10.0 was
Which can be annoying since the OS updates are never worth the asking price
I'd have to disagree on this one.. then again, different people will find different updates to be important. I think 10.3 was well worth the cost of the update. I'm not really seeing anything that blows my hair back in 10.4, but Expose alone was worth quite a bit to me. Hell, I hotkey'd it to a spare mouse button and use 'f9' to switch windows now, beats the hell out of cmd tab.
Actually, your point brings up a different, interesting point.
What about expansion packs that PCs are notorious for? Diablo, WC, Starcraft, all of the C&C and RA games.. Consoles don't even bother with these things, but PC games do them quite a bit, how are they going to handle those?
I'm sure it's been said before, but I think they should just leave it as an OPTION. Games have options settings and all, maybe leave something in the options to 'install to HDD' and then people who want to just fire it up and play it can, and other people can install it... best of both worlds?
However, should someone who just happens to love shooting games blow a fuse and decide to go on a shooting spree, he will be more accurate than the average crazie
And the average citizen who likes to go to the gun range every few weeks and fire of even 10 or 20 rounds into a paper target will be even more accurate than the video game playing kid, and they've been around a lot longer... this study is BS, you can take a study and twist it to fit whatever your agenda is.. and I think that's what they're doing here.
i need to have several terminals open to shells on various servers, a web stable, tabbed web browser for our monitoring software, various internal wikis, and google, as well as a robust IMAP mail client for the listservs etc, and miscellanous stuff like rsync and mysql that i can abuse locally without breaking something important.
Me too, I often have even more than this running, and I do it all from a 12" Powerbook. Usually with an external monitor attached so I get a little more screen real-estate, but I can work from work, home, starbucks, anywhere with a connection. I can stuff this tiny little thing in my backpack when I'm out visiting relatives and such, and if I get an emergency call that needs immediate attention, I can usually hook right up to the network and do what needs to be done.. I don't think it's "obviously a pointless waste of time and money" to use this instead of Linux.
And for the record, I do all of this with the programs that come with OS X, for the most part, and the ones that don't are free or donationware.
Oh yeah, my phones have all had this since the begining.. I just figured I'd throw it in there with the rest of the authentication methods... Phones have had keys and mics from the start, they had to, and those are the simplest forms of security to add to.. punch in a #, unlock the phone and dial! or for voice (which I don't know of any phones with this) you could dial, hit send and it would challenge you "Speak your passphrase now" and if you get it right, it can dial! then you have fingerprint (put the sensor in a convenient place) and it'd be even easier.. but a photo recognition system? "hold phone 3 feet away from your face to unlock!" That's just ridiculous.
Sometimes people insist on using technology just for the sake of using it. How about some practicality?
I had a great long response earlier before OmniWeb crashed... Anyhow, the gist of it was exactly what you just said.
Just because your phone takes pictures, doesn't mean it needs to be a security device as well. Your phone has a Mic too, why don't they have voice authentication yet?
Put a little sensor on the back of it for fingerprint authentication? maybe cover it with a little plastic slide to avoid damage? Sure it'd have the same problems as the picture (probably a few less) and the voice authentication would be no good if you have a cold, but whatever, both solutions have less problems than picture identification..
Who wants to have to turn their camera around and pose for a picture whenever they want to make a call?
Voice: you speak a phrase before dialing
Fingerprint: You have a sensor on the back so you really don't even need to move your hand, it's already there.
Key code: You dial a code and then dial your #
Photo: You need to take your phone and hold it out in front of you long enough to snap a shot and look like a complete idiot who's taking a picture of himself..
John Cage attended a performance of Glenn Branca and stood up in the middle and yelled "If this is the future of music then we're all going to hell!"
Well shit if he attended the latest Spears/Aguilera/Simpson/Etc concert he'd probably shoot himself in the head without even leaving his seat then.
Then again, I don't know who Branca is, but still.
Buying TiVo gives them a running start. They can always call it the Apple TiVo or the Mac TiVo if they want.
or the iVo!