Mine's got a standard S-video out. It plays regular DVDs, has a big enough hard drive to store a lot of video, and the screen is actually big enough to comfortably watch a movie or TV show, plus it supports HD resolutions. I can even set up the S-Video out as a secondary monitor and watch a movie or TV off of it while I work. As far as I'm concerned, it's the ideal portable video device, and that was a significant motivator for me buying it.
I don't see any need for it to be smaller. For any place that I actually want to watch video, a laptop will fit just fine.
1. Laptop 2. 10 port switch 3. JTAG debugger 4. Programmable power supply 5. HP Logic Analyzer that was probably made before I was born 6. Scope from the Ming Dynasty (the guys I work with like to hang on to old stuff)
A new upscale housing community starting is the low 300's. You'll find one in pretty much every suburban area in North America, and they're all exactly the same.
I live in Dallas, and the radio here is terrible. We have no good college or community radio to fill the gap, so I've been doing a lot of research on how to get something better on the air here. We have a terrible Clear Channel top 40 "alternative" station here, but from about 89-94 when the station started, it really was an alternative station, playing almost no top 40 and lots of indie.
I recently had lunch with the guy that started that station, and probably the most interesting fact I learned was that the ratings of the station when they were truly alternative were pretty good -- about the same as they are now with the crappy top 40 alternative station. So there is really a market for commercial indie stations. With the payola bust, we may be on our way to having more commercial radio support for those indie artists.
While I definitely agree with you that improvements aren't quite as profound as they were back then, the Atari 2600 and NES were released 8 years apart in the US. There were systems in-between that made graphic improvements seem more gradual.
1977 Atari 2600 1980 Intellivision 1982 Colecovision 1985 NES released in US
Jason contacted me out of the blue a while back about using some of my music, so I got the DVDs hot off the press. Although I admit I get a small portion of the proceeds for the music I contributed, I think it's really well done. It looks great -- totally professional. And most important to a documentary, it's edited well.
Selling last semesters books online or through flyers at school can recover even more than the bookstores since you eliminate the middle man.
And it's worth something extra to have a physical book in many cases anyway. Especially for CS and other classes where you're often referencing the book while working on your computer.
I think the publishers can do a lot better than a 33% discount. If they sell a physical book, they only get the money once -- the school bookstore gets the money from the resale. With an online book, they get the money every time.
While there could be a good article written that intelligently discusses some of the things Windows does right and shortcomings of Linux, this ain't it.
I really think it's a pretty good list, but the lack of Katamari Damacy shows poor foresight IMO. Katamari opened my eyes to the future of gaming in a lot of ways. After playing it at my friend's house, I borrowed his PS2 for a while just so I could play that.
Also annoying is that they seem to think that the NES was the first video game system. When they're leaning towards landmark releases, not including a single Atari 2600 game seems odd for people who are supposed to be experts on video games.
I don't think you should discount older games for this conversation. Even back when I was a kid, video games helped to satiate some overwhelming desires that I might have acted on otherwise. Most notably Barnstorming, Breakout, and Joust.
I was sitting here thinking I'd put my band on there until I read that. I don't pay to get my CDs in online stores, why should I pay for this? And it's especially unappealing considering they don't even have any decent indie labels on board.
The only way this thing is possibly going to work is if they can talk indie labels like Subpop, Matador, Merge, KRS, Warp, etc to join. And that's definitely not gunna happen unless they waive that $50 charge.
I think it depends heavily on his intent and what he thought would happen (which I don't know). If a kid throws a rock through a window and the whole building comes crashing down because it's poorly built, it seems unfair to charge him with destroying the entire building.
Not gunna do it. It's the marketing power of Apple. And to a lesser extent, the software (both firmware and iTunes). Good competitive hardware's been around for quite a while.
A lot of people don't like our ads, which is sad as we don't have a rich sugar daddy like the Mozilla Foundation. They [the Mozilla Firefox team] don't have to think about money as they're being funded. We're not being funded
How is this even worth mentioning when IE has the biggest sugar daddy there is, haha
I switched my iRiver H140 over recently when they got playback working. It's fantastic to have true gapless playback and support for FLAC now. And the customizable "while playing screen" and large selection of fonts are nice. Rockbox is good stuff.
It's annoying that while their diagram shows wavelength as a paramenter, they don't mention it at all in the story. I'm curious what the wavelength is on those waves they mention. I know the Tsunami wavelength is enormous, hundreds of miles sometimes. Do hurricane waves also have an big wavelength?
I don't know what I'd do without blogs. I mostly follow blogs of artists that live in NYC and do the kind of work I do. I can live in Dallas but stay in the loop on the cool stuff going on there. And artists I'm interested in usually post about the stuff they're researching and working on, so you can see new stuff in progress before it's actually shown anywhere.
If you live where there's only occasionally a really hot day, this might work okay. Stop by 7-11 and grab a bag or two of ice on the way home from work or school. It'll keep you cool until the sun goes down.
There are apartments in Manhattan that don't allow window units, and I'm sure many that don't have windows at all. During July this system could give you a nice break from the heat.
"I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess inside Give them a sense of pride to make it easier Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be"
Not quite that simple, you have to install powered wires around the perimeter of the lawn and... My friend had one and was really a big advocate at first, but had problems with it getting stuck, taking forever to finish sections, the hassle of checking on it and moving it from section to section, having to manually mow some parts... He finally sold it and now just does it the old fashioned way. The Robomow was fun to watch though.
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Mine's got a standard S-video out. It plays regular DVDs, has a big enough hard drive to store a lot of video, and the screen is actually big enough to comfortably watch a movie or TV show, plus it supports HD resolutions. I can even set up the S-Video out as a secondary monitor and watch a movie or TV off of it while I work. As far as I'm concerned, it's the ideal portable video device, and that was a significant motivator for me buying it.
I don't see any need for it to be smaller. For any place that I actually want to watch video, a laptop will fit just fine.
1. Laptop
2. 10 port switch
3. JTAG debugger
4. Programmable power supply
5. HP Logic Analyzer that was probably made before I was born
6. Scope from the Ming Dynasty (the guys I work with like to hang on to old stuff)
where/what was the inspiration for Woodcrest?
A new upscale housing community starting is the low 300's. You'll find one in pretty much every suburban area in North America, and they're all exactly the same.
has shown that crystal meth works just as good!
from the article:
What do you see as the future of machinima?
We live in an age where creative minds are suddenly given outstanding...
blah, blah, blah. allow me to step in here and answer that question.
I live in Dallas, and the radio here is terrible. We have no good college or community radio to fill the gap, so I've been doing a lot of research on how to get something better on the air here. We have a terrible Clear Channel top 40 "alternative" station here, but from about 89-94 when the station started, it really was an alternative station, playing almost no top 40 and lots of indie.
I recently had lunch with the guy that started that station, and probably the most interesting fact I learned was that the ratings of the station when they were truly alternative were pretty good -- about the same as they are now with the crappy top 40 alternative station. So there is really a market for commercial indie stations. With the payola bust, we may be on our way to having more commercial radio support for those indie artists.
-paul
Cool! oh, not available in my area (near downtown Dallas)
But I already found some porn on the internet, even though they haven't added the xxx domain yet. weird.
While I definitely agree with you that improvements aren't quite as profound as they were back then, the Atari 2600 and NES were released 8 years apart in the US. There were systems in-between that made graphic improvements seem more gradual.
1977 Atari 2600
1980 Intellivision
1982 Colecovision
1985 NES released in US
Jason contacted me out of the blue a while back about using some of my music, so I got the DVDs hot off the press. Although I admit I get a small portion of the proceeds for the music I contributed, I think it's really well done. It looks great -- totally professional. And most important to a documentary, it's edited well.
Selling last semesters books online or through flyers at school can recover even more than the bookstores since you eliminate the middle man.
And it's worth something extra to have a physical book in many cases anyway. Especially for CS and other classes where you're often referencing the book while working on your computer.
I think the publishers can do a lot better than a 33% discount. If they sell a physical book, they only get the money once -- the school bookstore gets the money from the resale. With an online book, they get the money every time.
-paul
While there could be a good article written that intelligently discusses some of the things Windows does right and shortcomings of Linux, this ain't it.
I really think it's a pretty good list, but the lack of Katamari Damacy shows poor foresight IMO. Katamari opened my eyes to the future of gaming in a lot of ways. After playing it at my friend's house, I borrowed his PS2 for a while just so I could play that.
Also annoying is that they seem to think that the NES was the first video game system. When they're leaning towards landmark releases, not including a single Atari 2600 game seems odd for people who are supposed to be experts on video games.
-paul
I don't think you should discount older games for this conversation. Even back when I was a kid, video games helped to satiate some overwhelming desires that I might have acted on otherwise. Most notably Barnstorming, Breakout, and Joust.
I was sitting here thinking I'd put my band on there until I read that. I don't pay to get my CDs in online stores, why should I pay for this? And it's especially unappealing considering they don't even have any decent indie labels on board.
The only way this thing is possibly going to work is if they can talk indie labels like Subpop, Matador, Merge, KRS, Warp, etc to join. And that's definitely not gunna happen unless they waive that $50 charge.
I think it depends heavily on his intent and what he thought would happen (which I don't know). If a kid throws a rock through a window and the whole building comes crashing down because it's poorly built, it seems unfair to charge him with destroying the entire building.
Not gunna do it. It's the marketing power of Apple. And to a lesser extent, the software (both firmware and iTunes). Good competitive hardware's been around for quite a while.
A lot of people don't like our ads, which is sad as we don't have a rich sugar daddy like the Mozilla Foundation. They [the Mozilla Firefox team] don't have to think about money as they're being funded. We're not being funded
How is this even worth mentioning when IE has the biggest sugar daddy there is, haha
-paul
I switched my iRiver H140 over recently when they got playback working. It's fantastic to have true gapless playback and support for FLAC now. And the customizable "while playing screen" and large selection of fonts are nice. Rockbox is good stuff.
-paul
It's annoying that while their diagram shows wavelength as a paramenter, they don't mention it at all in the story. I'm curious what the wavelength is on those waves they mention. I know the Tsunami wavelength is enormous, hundreds of miles sometimes. Do hurricane waves also have an big wavelength?
I don't know what I'd do without blogs. I mostly follow blogs of artists that live in NYC and do the kind of work I do. I can live in Dallas but stay in the loop on the cool stuff going on there. And artists I'm interested in usually post about the stuff they're researching and working on, so you can see new stuff in progress before it's actually shown anywhere.
-paul
If you live where there's only occasionally a really hot day, this might work okay. Stop by 7-11 and grab a bag or two of ice on the way home from work or school. It'll keep you cool until the sun goes down.
There are apartments in Manhattan that don't allow window units, and I'm sure many that don't have windows at all. During July this system could give you a nice break from the heat.
-paul
A great example of how the dirtstyle version of something is sometimes so much more awesome than the slick and polished version.
Dude, just listen to Whitney:
"I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way
Show them all the beauty they possess inside
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be"
Not quite that simple, you have to install powered wires around the perimeter of the lawn and... My friend had one and was really a big advocate at first, but had problems with it getting stuck, taking forever to finish sections, the hassle of checking on it and moving it from section to section, having to manually mow some parts... He finally sold it and now just does it the old fashioned way. The Robomow was fun to watch though.