Your idea is missing standardized connection. Then you could have docking stations setup else where for business use.
Plug your phone into a dock at Kinko's to access the presentation you were working on during your flight and print out new handouts.
Sit down into an Internet cafe and enjoy your office while following up with some leads via email on a full desktop experience. When you are done disconnect and none of your data is left cached on the system you were working on.
Add this to hotels catering to business men. Heck use wireless charging, near field to do a hand shake, and have the connection be completely wireless and this would really rock.
The dock has its own battery so it shouldn't drain the phone.
Accessing information on the phone from the dock is interesting, though a wireless option with something faster than bluetooth would be nice. The phone also acts as the data connection for the dock which could also be made wireless.
I'm not sure about calling it beta rather than first gen but there are areas that could be improved. Hopefully we can get a standard. Then phones will be able to easily interface with cars which is happening, but the API are different for the systems each auto manufacturer is using. I'll be interested to see where this goes in a few years.
You did the switch wrong. If you aren't a Mac-fanboy you need to find the relative that is the one that gets fed up and tries a Mac and begins drinking the kool-aid. Then you need to let them evangelize Macs so your other relatives purchase them. Then when a computer eventually has a problem, HDD crashes, they delete something they didn't want to, who knows. When they come to you for help you just turn around and say, "I don't know/support Macs". At this point you are no longer the family tech support guy.
I'm not sure on how old the hardware you want supported is, but you can easily the run the latest game releases on hardware that is three generations old at medium-high settings. The latest releases do require high-end computers to run with everything maxed out at higher than 1080P resolutions spanning multiple monitors and enabling 3D, but the current state of the console market has kept system requirements low. Both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 have graphics cards that are four generations old when compared to PC hardware and people are still drooling over the new games that are coming out for them. The trick is that the console are only running at a 720P and in many cases lower resolutions and being up-scaled. If you run games with those settings on a computer you'd be very surprised at the hardware that work.
Did you check lately what those DVI to HDMI cables cost?
What about $4? The Xbox is still a great option for a HTPC; however, if you want HD content you are extremely limited in what it can do. If HD isn't important to you then stick with what you have. But many PCs are now coming with HDMI connectors built-in and it's only a few bucks to but a cable or adapter to go from DVI-HDMI if you needed to.
Using a ION nettop is the current best replacement for an Xbox for XBMC. It takes about 10-15 seconds to power on and be at the menu after starting from powered off, but you can sleep it and have it wake instantly. The ION boards have built-in Ethernet, and normally VGA and HDMI. You'll also be able to find boards with a TOS-link audio out, but all of the ones with HDMI also support audio over that connection. IR support is a cheap USB adapter if build your own. Getting the box to power on via IR is tricky, but the Xbox didn't support that either.
The only thing you can't have it sub $100. The only devices you'll be able to get in that range are like the WD TV Live. None of the devices will make you happy when you compare their interfaces to XMBC.
If you are having problems downloading directly to a PSP you can also do the download to a PS3 and transfer over to the PSP, or you can get the free Media Go software which runs on a PC and then transfer the download to the PSP. http://us.playstation.com/psn/mediago/index.htm
It was never mentioned that backup did anything with the firmware. It does backup the HDD though, so you can install a larger or replacement drive is needed and recover what you had running before without needing to connect to PSN to redownload everything. It would also be useful if you want to change how much space you have allocated to OtherOS verses GameOS which requires wiping the drive.
Not on all cars, I can't speak for how Toyota does it, but my current car will lock the wheel when the key is turned to off, not when it's removed. I have to turn the key into the on position to unlock the wheel, having it in just the accessory mode does not work.
You probably saw the this from OnLive who is supposedly launching this summer though there is at least on competing service as well. The main issue with them is that it looks like you pay a monthly fee to access the service, and then you still need to purchase the individual games that are then linked to your account. Their reported ability to pause a game a anytime and then resume it minutes, hours, weeks later on a different computer located across the country is pretty neat though. As well as the fact that since they are steaming video, they added the ability to save clips after they occurred, so if you have one of those cool moments in a game you could save a clip and post it to youtube to show off to your friends.
By design, your favorite apps would be precisely the ones to benefit from SuperFetch.
Exactly, I still can't believe all the complaints people have against Superfetch ever since Vista came out. The whole purpose of it is that it monitors your computer usage and keeps copies of commonly used DLLs and applications in memory. So when you want to start one of your favorite apps, the files it needs are already in memory and it can start instantly. Without Superfetch you'd be reading the files off the hard drive which is much slower.
If Superfetch is so terrible I wish the people complaining would just disable the service and then complain how slow it starting applications are on their computers.
Have you tried using PAE in Windows. It was supported for the original release of XP, but Microsoft removed support for it in either SP1 or SP2. Their claim was buggy 3rd party device drivers that didn't handle support for PAE correctly so the system would become unstable. I'm not sure about Windows 7 but PAE does not work in Vista as I tried it with the original release and SP1. If you need 4GB or more just use Windows 7 64bit. Hardware manufactures have finally gotten their act together and you have stable 64bit drivers for things now.
There is actually a DOS version of Hero Quest and I'm not talking about Sierra's Hero Quest which was later renamed to Quest for Glory which you could track down and try.
I still don't think the ipad would be great at board games. Microsoft Surface on the other hand makes me drool, especially after seeing what the students are doing with their D&D project.
The two setups the OP is talking about have disadvantages. With the one large desktop when you maximize a window it fills both monitors and things might size oddly if your monitors aren't the same size/resolution. If you run two xsessions you can't move applications between the separate monitors since they are different sessions.
In Windows 7 multiple monitors were made extremely easy to setup, and a simple press of win-p will pop up a display which allows the mode to switch which makes connecting your laptop to a project so much easier than the old way of pressing the func-f(x) which didn't always work correctly. Windows multiple monitors also supports having separate monitors where you can maximize a window on a single display, but you can move windows between the monitors or even span multiple monitors. Is this setup possible to do under Linux? If it is you should point the OP to some information on getting it setup as it's the answer to their question.
Finally how do you have putty run an x session? You can use it to do an ssh tunnel, but you'll need something else to handle connection to the xserver.
Or you could just use the program MakeMKV which is out for Windows, Linux, and OSX. It lets you rip a BluRay directly to MKV without any other software. It also allows you to stream the video with the program so you can actually play BluRay on Linux now.
So the first person to cross the griddler with the sex robot will win? Making a grilled sandwich is nice, but I'd prefer the option of a steak as well. Hell with the griddler you can also get pancakes in the morning.
Thank you for sharing that information about not having TV. Perhaps you could meet up with this guy and do productive things together. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
Reinstalling games with Steam is incredibly easy. Just download/install the Steam client and log into your account. Click the Games tab and then select the games on your account you want to download. Another nice feature is that if you are reinstalling or moving to a new computer you can just copy/move the SteamApps folder in Steam's install directory and all of your games will be ready for you to play without needing to redownload them. This is much faster than having to reinstall all of the games off disks.
We were discussing this at the last board game party I went to. We were playing Descent: Journeys in the Dark. We decided that a Surface app would really help that game has it had an insane number of pieces to build dungeons and a very large number of tokens which totaled well over 500 pieces to deal with.
With an application you would need to make sure every piece is divided up into its correct bag for storage at the end of the night an pre-built levels could be loaded instantly. This would allow the players to more easily jump into the game and play.
Has anything changed with Windows 7 where you can run an ATI and Nvidia card at the same time? I know you could in XP, but I found out the hard way you couldn't in Vista. It was something to do with the new driver model.
I was trying this over a year ago to get dual monitors working while having SLI enabled under Vista. The recommended solution was to use an ATI card for the secondary output since the Nvidia drivers wouldn't see it and disable your ability to use SLI. When I tried to load the ATI drivers I couldn't get them to detect the card when the Nvidia cards were already active. I ended up being able to use a lower end Nvidia card which solved my problem.
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Your idea is missing standardized connection. Then you could have docking stations setup else where for business use.
Plug your phone into a dock at Kinko's to access the presentation you were working on during your flight and print out new handouts.
Sit down into an Internet cafe and enjoy your office while following up with some leads via email on a full desktop experience. When you are done disconnect and none of your data is left cached on the system you were working on.
Add this to hotels catering to business men. Heck use wireless charging, near field to do a hand shake, and have the connection be completely wireless and this would really rock.
The dock has its own battery so it shouldn't drain the phone.
Accessing information on the phone from the dock is interesting, though a wireless option with something faster than bluetooth would be nice. The phone also acts as the data connection for the dock which could also be made wireless.
I'm not sure about calling it beta rather than first gen but there are areas that could be improved. Hopefully we can get a standard. Then phones will be able to easily interface with cars which is happening, but the API are different for the systems each auto manufacturer is using. I'll be interested to see where this goes in a few years.
Only old japanese women living in your closet. http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/woman-arrested-for-living-in-closet-in-fukuoka
You did the switch wrong. If you aren't a Mac-fanboy you need to find the relative that is the one that gets fed up and tries a Mac and begins drinking the kool-aid. Then you need to let them evangelize Macs so your other relatives purchase them. Then when a computer eventually has a problem, HDD crashes, they delete something they didn't want to, who knows. When they come to you for help you just turn around and say, "I don't know/support Macs". At this point you are no longer the family tech support guy.
I'm not sure on how old the hardware you want supported is, but you can easily the run the latest game releases on hardware that is three generations old at medium-high settings. The latest releases do require high-end computers to run with everything maxed out at higher than 1080P resolutions spanning multiple monitors and enabling 3D, but the current state of the console market has kept system requirements low. Both the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 have graphics cards that are four generations old when compared to PC hardware and people are still drooling over the new games that are coming out for them. The trick is that the console are only running at a 720P and in many cases lower resolutions and being up-scaled. If you run games with those settings on a computer you'd be very surprised at the hardware that work.
There is always the Sprint Overdrive 4G. You connect to it just like a normal WiFi access point so you don't have to worry about drivers for it.
Did you check lately what those DVI to HDMI cables cost?
What about $4? The Xbox is still a great option for a HTPC; however, if you want HD content you are extremely limited in what it can do. If HD isn't important to you then stick with what you have. But many PCs are now coming with HDMI connectors built-in and it's only a few bucks to but a cable or adapter to go from DVI-HDMI if you needed to.
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10231&cs_id=1023104&p_id=2404&seq=1&format=2
Using a ION nettop is the current best replacement for an Xbox for XBMC. It takes about 10-15 seconds to power on and be at the menu after starting from powered off, but you can sleep it and have it wake instantly. The ION boards have built-in Ethernet, and normally VGA and HDMI. You'll also be able to find boards with a TOS-link audio out, but all of the ones with HDMI also support audio over that connection. IR support is a cheap USB adapter if build your own. Getting the box to power on via IR is tricky, but the Xbox didn't support that either.
The only thing you can't have it sub $100. The only devices you'll be able to get in that range are like the WD TV Live. None of the devices will make you happy when you compare their interfaces to XMBC.
If you are having problems downloading directly to a PSP you can also do the download to a PS3 and transfer over to the PSP, or you can get the free Media Go software which runs on a PC and then transfer the download to the PSP. http://us.playstation.com/psn/mediago/index.htm
It was never mentioned that backup did anything with the firmware. It does backup the HDD though, so you can install a larger or replacement drive is needed and recover what you had running before without needing to connect to PSN to redownload everything. It would also be useful if you want to change how much space you have allocated to OtherOS verses GameOS which requires wiping the drive.
Not on all cars, I can't speak for how Toyota does it, but my current car will lock the wheel when the key is turned to off, not when it's removed. I have to turn the key into the on position to unlock the wheel, having it in just the accessory mode does not work.
You probably saw the this from OnLive who is supposedly launching this summer though there is at least on competing service as well. The main issue with them is that it looks like you pay a monthly fee to access the service, and then you still need to purchase the individual games that are then linked to your account. Their reported ability to pause a game a anytime and then resume it minutes, hours, weeks later on a different computer located across the country is pretty neat though. As well as the fact that since they are steaming video, they added the ability to save clips after they occurred, so if you have one of those cool moments in a game you could save a clip and post it to youtube to show off to your friends.
http://www.onlive.com/
Exactly, I still can't believe all the complaints people have against Superfetch ever since Vista came out. The whole purpose of it is that it monitors your computer usage and keeps copies of commonly used DLLs and applications in memory. So when you want to start one of your favorite apps, the files it needs are already in memory and it can start instantly. Without Superfetch you'd be reading the files off the hard drive which is much slower.
If Superfetch is so terrible I wish the people complaining would just disable the service and then complain how slow it starting applications are on their computers.
Have you tried using PAE in Windows. It was supported for the original release of XP, but Microsoft removed support for it in either SP1 or SP2. Their claim was buggy 3rd party device drivers that didn't handle support for PAE correctly so the system would become unstable. I'm not sure about Windows 7 but PAE does not work in Vista as I tried it with the original release and SP1. If you need 4GB or more just use Windows 7 64bit. Hardware manufactures have finally gotten their act together and you have stable 64bit drivers for things now.
They can't really use the IR frequencies that remotes use though, otherwise all of your A/V equipment will go nuts.
There is actually a DOS version of Hero Quest and I'm not talking about Sierra's Hero Quest which was later renamed to Quest for Glory which you could track down and try.
I still don't think the ipad would be great at board games. Microsoft Surface on the other hand makes me drool, especially after seeing what the students are doing with their D&D project.
The two setups the OP is talking about have disadvantages. With the one large desktop when you maximize a window it fills both monitors and things might size oddly if your monitors aren't the same size/resolution. If you run two xsessions you can't move applications between the separate monitors since they are different sessions.
In Windows 7 multiple monitors were made extremely easy to setup, and a simple press of win-p will pop up a display which allows the mode to switch which makes connecting your laptop to a project so much easier than the old way of pressing the func-f(x) which didn't always work correctly. Windows multiple monitors also supports having separate monitors where you can maximize a window on a single display, but you can move windows between the monitors or even span multiple monitors. Is this setup possible to do under Linux? If it is you should point the OP to some information on getting it setup as it's the answer to their question.
Finally how do you have putty run an x session? You can use it to do an ssh tunnel, but you'll need something else to handle connection to the xserver.
The Wii and DSi both support WPA, the DS and DS Lite don't.
Or you could just use the program MakeMKV which is out for Windows, Linux, and OSX. It lets you rip a BluRay directly to MKV without any other software. It also allows you to stream the video with the program so you can actually play BluRay on Linux now.
There is always the option of Chinese knock offs if you don't mind the risk of your wang falling off for some reason. http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27552
So the first person to cross the griddler with the sex robot will win? Making a grilled sandwich is nice, but I'd prefer the option of a steak as well. Hell with the griddler you can also get pancakes in the morning.
Thank you for sharing that information about not having TV. Perhaps you could meet up with this guy and do productive things together. http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
Reinstalling games with Steam is incredibly easy. Just download/install the Steam client and log into your account. Click the Games tab and then select the games on your account you want to download. Another nice feature is that if you are reinstalling or moving to a new computer you can just copy/move the SteamApps folder in Steam's install directory and all of your games will be ready for you to play without needing to redownload them. This is much faster than having to reinstall all of the games off disks.
We were discussing this at the last board game party I went to. We were playing Descent: Journeys in the Dark. We decided that a Surface app would really help that game has it had an insane number of pieces to build dungeons and a very large number of tokens which totaled well over 500 pieces to deal with.
With an application you would need to make sure every piece is divided up into its correct bag for storage at the end of the night an pre-built levels could be loaded instantly. This would allow the players to more easily jump into the game and play.
Has anything changed with Windows 7 where you can run an ATI and Nvidia card at the same time? I know you could in XP, but I found out the hard way you couldn't in Vista. It was something to do with the new driver model.
I was trying this over a year ago to get dual monitors working while having SLI enabled under Vista. The recommended solution was to use an ATI card for the secondary output since the Nvidia drivers wouldn't see it and disable your ability to use SLI. When I tried to load the ATI drivers I couldn't get them to detect the card when the Nvidia cards were already active. I ended up being able to use a lower end Nvidia card which solved my problem.