Sure thier cheap, and simple, and they are all identicle so the developer doesn't have to worry about coding for machine differences.
But they just aren't any fun. The controllers suck, I'll never be able to get used to a game pad. Just two many controls packed into too small a space. The Display sucks, and until they offer a console box with a biult in SVGA/LCD port I don't see that changing. HDTV output will help some, but it's still very limited when compared to a computer monitor.
The lack of a keybaord, and moue, automaticly make the developers have to choose limited and cumbersom user interface designs. You almost never see console games that can take advantage of a keyboard and mouse, because so few users have them that no developers bother to add code to support them.
Way back when I bought a Sega Genisis, and I sold it after a couple of months because PC's just played more and better games, and the interface was better.
I then saw the overwhelming popularity of the PS1, so I got one of those. I never did find a game for it that I actually played all the way through. They graphics just can't touch a PC. Again, game pads.... just say no. No real local storage to speak of, those memory chips are nothing compared to a HD.
I even fell for it one more time, and bought a PS2. Same reason... Oh my god, the PC games are dieing! The only good games will be for the consoles! Well I'm now to the point where the only thing I use my PS2 for is a backup DVD player. I must admit that I finally found two games for the plateform that I actually like, actually two series of gamse I like. The Solid Snake line, and the Grand Theft Auto series. I played GTA2 on the PS2 and liked it.... but when Vice City came out, I bought it for the PC. I have faster loading, better graphics, more useable controlls, and an over all beter gaming experience.
So I guess if all the pudents are correct in saying that PC games are over, that I'll just have to be happy with the existing games that are out. It's never happened before though, and I don't think anyone honestly belives it will happen this time.
But bottom line. I tried console gaming. Repeatedly. I don't get it. I don't like it, and I'm not going to waste money on a console again. It's more fun to upgrade my PC anyway.
Yes, the device used to expand the coins is fairly common...
It's called a "Deasel Locomotive".
PLace the coin on a nearby set of train tracks, wait for the Locomotive device to be applied to the coins surface. After treatment the coin will be significanlty expanded.
Thank you. You saved me the time of typing the same thing, and I'm a guy.
How is it that I meet so many smart people in my life, but the human race as a whole is dumber than a box of rocks?
Open source software, and its user base, isn't going to go away. I think that is pretty clear.
These tactics by Microsoft to steer people away from it with browser incompatibly and search engine blocks isn't helping them at all. If the person is using MSN or IE already, and suddenly those tools stop providing something the user is already asking for it can only have one result. The user will switch to another tool.
If I know enough to know what Xfree86 is, and want to search for it, and MSN won't provide the info, then I go to google.
If I want to browse a web page, and it renders wrong in IE, then I try Opera or Mozilla.
I honestly doesn't don't understand what they hope to gain from this kind of behavior. All it does is breed bad will against a company is already reviled by a large percentage of it's user base.
Ok picture this.
The neck of a helium balloon is connected to a small electric pump. The output of the pump is connected to a lightweight pressure tank... Like the fiber wound tanks used in paintball.
When you turn on the pump you can pump the helium out of the balloon and into the tank, reducing the total volume of the system. So you drop out of the air. Want to go up.... let the pressurized helium push back through the pump and reinflate the balloon. Up you go. Since the gas flowing past the pump is turning it you can recapture some of the energy you used to compress the helium into the tank by having it run as a generator and charge a battery. Your not going to get back the same amount you put into it, but it's better than losing it all.
With me so far?
OK, now put a helicopter blade on top of the balloon, hook it to a generator and use it to charge the batteries as it spins.
You then fly the balloon up and down in a cycle. As the balloon rises through the air, the air pushing paste the helicopter blades will spin them, which gives you energy to charge the batteries. When you get to a high enough altitude turn on the pump to deflate the balloon.
As you fall to a lower altitude the air rushing paste the helicopter blades spins them, again generating energy. One again providing you with a source of power to charge the batteries.
The energy you are getting from the spinning helicopter blades is being stolen from the angular momentum of the earth.
The limiting factor as to weather this will produce more power than it uses is highly dependant on the materials being used being light and strong. I'm not strong enough in math to work out a simulation, but it's not entirely hooky. There is a gain of a useable idea in there.
Also as has been pointed out in the article... This technique has been used successfully on ocean going autonomous probes
Cool, but...
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Ok, A+ on a cool looking case, and fantasic job implementing it.
However, am I the only one that notiuced that motherboard took up about 1/4 of the face of one face of the cube?? Kinda big for a router.
Cool.
Can I get you to carry my new refrigerator home from the store? It's only 30 miles, and the sun is shining so you shouldn't have any problem. Thanks.
It's ok, I'm sure that you can find work as a ditch digger, or stocking shelves at Walmart. It was only a matter of time before we got tired of Microsoft's crap and left them behind.
It's not the end of the world, I'm sure you have some sort of skill the world needs.
What world are you from?
British humour is some of the most popular entertainment there is over here in the states. I grew up watching Monty Python, Dr. Who, Faulty Towers, Rippin Yawns, Red Drawf, ect.
Hell, I even watched some East Enders, and more recent offerings.
I just don't get it. Americans embrace your culture and laud your work and you hate us for it. Nice chip on the shoulder there.
They're under $75 and supposedly give 100 MB/s transfer rate.
Please...
Maximum speed of a modem connection is 56kbs, 2 x 56k = 112kbs. 44kbs muc more likely, so don't count on more than 88kps, on a good day.
112kbs = 114688 bit per second
114688 / 8 = 14336 Bytes per sec.
14336 / 1024 = 14KBs
14KBs != 100MBs
100MB/s is gig ethernet speed. You should be so lucky. B is byte, b is bit.
and it was good.
No more looking to see if you completed the keystroke by glancing at the screen. You feel, and hear, that contact was made. People in Bolivia hear that contact has been made. More important, your boss knows you are doing something.
If one of your Co-Workers goes postal the Model M makes a handy shield to hide behind. A Model M can easily stop small arms fire. Care should be used when facing an opponent using armor piercing ammunition. The Model M has not been field tested against this threat level.
If on the other hand you decide to go postal the Model M makes a handy cudgel. It is quite capable of taking down, Wilder beast, Bison, Administrative Assistants, and other large game animals.
Best of all, a Model M can be one of those cherished family heirlooms that can be passed from generation to generation. The Model M is built to last a lifetime, and more. Assuming you never take your Model M to a frat party.
Ummm what?
SCO claims the parts of SCO unix have been copies into Linux. SCO isn't sueing IBM because parts of IBM's AIX has been copied into Linux.
I have to belive that SCO isn't so enept as to have lost thier own source code, so why can't they find thier own code in a free publicly share sorce OS? Why is it they think examining someone else's code is going to tell them if thier own code has been put into Linux?
What a fantastic set of tools for people who are migrating thier windows boxes to a Linux/Unix envirornment.
Glad they finally saw the light of day and are working to join us.
You'd honestly use WinXP as a router? I pray to god that you aren't responsible for network infrastructure at any company with sensitive data.
This product has lead it's producer to start limiting it's patches to once a month mass bug updates because otherwise patching was causing it's uses too much downtime and man power.
Your position is laughable.
By this logic Windows must be the most buggy software of all since Microsoft makes more money supporting it than all it;s competitors combined!
Bigger profits through crappier software!
God lord,
I'm ashamed to be an member of the human race these days.
What is wrong with you people? With comments like "Boring" , or can it drive me home after I get drunk at the bar, or "We went to the moon suposedly."
How can you go through life and show so little interest in the world around you that you don't even bother to try to understand it? How has this generation become so jaded that they toss their head in scorn and boredom at such an incredable accomplishment? I honestly belive that if we were going to the moon for the first this year people would be saying "Big deal! It's not like it's that far away or anything. I mean I can see it from my backyard for christ sake! When does the Play Station 3 come out? I'm bored"
What happpend? How can an entire generation adopt technology to the point where most of their waking lives revolve around technology and not understand the incredable amount of work and research to produce a dynamic balancing system displayed in these robots. How is it possible to have such mushy thinking that you look at the evidence and yet still belive it would be easier to pull one over on the entire world than go to the moon and land there despite entire industries that were biult to accomplish the task?
In short....
Have we always been this fxxking stupid as a race?
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Sure thier cheap, and simple, and they are all identicle so the developer doesn't have to worry about coding for machine differences. But they just aren't any fun. The controllers suck, I'll never be able to get used to a game pad. Just two many controls packed into too small a space. The Display sucks, and until they offer a console box with a biult in SVGA/LCD port I don't see that changing. HDTV output will help some, but it's still very limited when compared to a computer monitor. The lack of a keybaord, and moue, automaticly make the developers have to choose limited and cumbersom user interface designs. You almost never see console games that can take advantage of a keyboard and mouse, because so few users have them that no developers bother to add code to support them. Way back when I bought a Sega Genisis, and I sold it after a couple of months because PC's just played more and better games, and the interface was better. I then saw the overwhelming popularity of the PS1, so I got one of those. I never did find a game for it that I actually played all the way through. They graphics just can't touch a PC. Again, game pads.... just say no. No real local storage to speak of, those memory chips are nothing compared to a HD. I even fell for it one more time, and bought a PS2. Same reason... Oh my god, the PC games are dieing! The only good games will be for the consoles! Well I'm now to the point where the only thing I use my PS2 for is a backup DVD player. I must admit that I finally found two games for the plateform that I actually like, actually two series of gamse I like. The Solid Snake line, and the Grand Theft Auto series. I played GTA2 on the PS2 and liked it.... but when Vice City came out, I bought it for the PC. I have faster loading, better graphics, more useable controlls, and an over all beter gaming experience. So I guess if all the pudents are correct in saying that PC games are over, that I'll just have to be happy with the existing games that are out. It's never happened before though, and I don't think anyone honestly belives it will happen this time. But bottom line. I tried console gaming. Repeatedly. I don't get it. I don't like it, and I'm not going to waste money on a console again. It's more fun to upgrade my PC anyway.
Most of the 30 something geeks have seen Dr. Who on American broadcast television.
I know that episodes of Dr. Who have been shown as recently as two years ago on SciFi, but I haven't looked lately.
I envy your harddrive space. There are hundreds of episodes.
Yes, the device used to expand the coins is fairly common... It's called a "Deasel Locomotive". PLace the coin on a nearby set of train tracks, wait for the Locomotive device to be applied to the coins surface. After treatment the coin will be significanlty expanded.
Thank you. You saved me the time of typing the same thing, and I'm a guy. How is it that I meet so many smart people in my life, but the human race as a whole is dumber than a box of rocks?
No no, you have it wrong, we'd look like mindless drones if we DIDN'T complain about Microsoft.
No, you plug it into your product.
Even your cell phone has an OS.
"The technology exists now to put a hack-proof lock on content. " Really? Show me one example where that's true. It's hasn't worked yet.
What if you lit a cigar and tossed the match on the ground and the world caught fire and burned to a cinder!!! You never know! It could happen!
These tactics by Microsoft to steer people away from it with browser incompatibly and search engine blocks isn't helping them at all. If the person is using MSN or IE already, and suddenly those tools stop providing something the user is already asking for it can only have one result. The user will switch to another tool.
If I know enough to know what Xfree86 is, and want to search for it, and MSN won't provide the info, then I go to google.
If I want to browse a web page, and it renders wrong in IE, then I try Opera or Mozilla.
I honestly doesn't don't understand what they hope to gain from this kind of behavior. All it does is breed bad will against a company is already reviled by a large percentage of it's user base.
It's a lot like one of these... http://www.webbresearch.com/slocum.htm
Ok picture this. The neck of a helium balloon is connected to a small electric pump. The output of the pump is connected to a lightweight pressure tank... Like the fiber wound tanks used in paintball. When you turn on the pump you can pump the helium out of the balloon and into the tank, reducing the total volume of the system. So you drop out of the air. Want to go up.... let the pressurized helium push back through the pump and reinflate the balloon. Up you go. Since the gas flowing past the pump is turning it you can recapture some of the energy you used to compress the helium into the tank by having it run as a generator and charge a battery. Your not going to get back the same amount you put into it, but it's better than losing it all. With me so far? OK, now put a helicopter blade on top of the balloon, hook it to a generator and use it to charge the batteries as it spins. You then fly the balloon up and down in a cycle. As the balloon rises through the air, the air pushing paste the helicopter blades will spin them, which gives you energy to charge the batteries. When you get to a high enough altitude turn on the pump to deflate the balloon. As you fall to a lower altitude the air rushing paste the helicopter blades spins them, again generating energy. One again providing you with a source of power to charge the batteries. The energy you are getting from the spinning helicopter blades is being stolen from the angular momentum of the earth. The limiting factor as to weather this will produce more power than it uses is highly dependant on the materials being used being light and strong. I'm not strong enough in math to work out a simulation, but it's not entirely hooky. There is a gain of a useable idea in there. Also as has been pointed out in the article ... This technique has been used successfully on ocean going autonomous probes
Ok, A+ on a cool looking case, and fantasic job implementing it. However, am I the only one that notiuced that motherboard took up about 1/4 of the face of one face of the cube?? Kinda big for a router.
When was the last time you saw a round motherboard?
Cool. Can I get you to carry my new refrigerator home from the store? It's only 30 miles, and the sun is shining so you shouldn't have any problem. Thanks.
It's ok, I'm sure that you can find work as a ditch digger, or stocking shelves at Walmart. It was only a matter of time before we got tired of Microsoft's crap and left them behind. It's not the end of the world, I'm sure you have some sort of skill the world needs.
What world are you from? British humour is some of the most popular entertainment there is over here in the states. I grew up watching Monty Python, Dr. Who, Faulty Towers, Rippin Yawns, Red Drawf, ect. Hell, I even watched some East Enders, and more recent offerings. I just don't get it. Americans embrace your culture and laud your work and you hate us for it. Nice chip on the shoulder there.
and it was good. No more looking to see if you completed the keystroke by glancing at the screen. You feel, and hear, that contact was made. People in Bolivia hear that contact has been made. More important, your boss knows you are doing something. If one of your Co-Workers goes postal the Model M makes a handy shield to hide behind. A Model M can easily stop small arms fire. Care should be used when facing an opponent using armor piercing ammunition. The Model M has not been field tested against this threat level. If on the other hand you decide to go postal the Model M makes a handy cudgel. It is quite capable of taking down, Wilder beast, Bison, Administrative Assistants, and other large game animals. Best of all, a Model M can be one of those cherished family heirlooms that can be passed from generation to generation. The Model M is built to last a lifetime, and more. Assuming you never take your Model M to a frat party.
Yeah, it's just you. I thought it was funny as hell.
Way to ramble there...what was it your point was?
Ummm what? SCO claims the parts of SCO unix have been copies into Linux. SCO isn't sueing IBM because parts of IBM's AIX has been copied into Linux. I have to belive that SCO isn't so enept as to have lost thier own source code, so why can't they find thier own code in a free publicly share sorce OS? Why is it they think examining someone else's code is going to tell them if thier own code has been put into Linux?
What a fantastic set of tools for people who are migrating thier windows boxes to a Linux/Unix envirornment. Glad they finally saw the light of day and are working to join us.
You'd honestly use WinXP as a router? I pray to god that you aren't responsible for network infrastructure at any company with sensitive data. This product has lead it's producer to start limiting it's patches to once a month mass bug updates because otherwise patching was causing it's uses too much downtime and man power. Your position is laughable.
By this logic Windows must be the most buggy software of all since Microsoft makes more money supporting it than all it;s competitors combined! Bigger profits through crappier software!
God lord, I'm ashamed to be an member of the human race these days. What is wrong with you people? With comments like "Boring" , or can it drive me home after I get drunk at the bar, or "We went to the moon suposedly." How can you go through life and show so little interest in the world around you that you don't even bother to try to understand it? How has this generation become so jaded that they toss their head in scorn and boredom at such an incredable accomplishment? I honestly belive that if we were going to the moon for the first this year people would be saying "Big deal! It's not like it's that far away or anything. I mean I can see it from my backyard for christ sake! When does the Play Station 3 come out? I'm bored" What happpend? How can an entire generation adopt technology to the point where most of their waking lives revolve around technology and not understand the incredable amount of work and research to produce a dynamic balancing system displayed in these robots. How is it possible to have such mushy thinking that you look at the evidence and yet still belive it would be easier to pull one over on the entire world than go to the moon and land there despite entire industries that were biult to accomplish the task? In short.... Have we always been this fxxking stupid as a race?