What was the 3D (actually holographic) video game from the late 80's? Had something to do with a time travelling cowboy and was similar to Dragon's Lair in that you manipulated video rather than actually played a game...
Does anyone remember that? I thought the overall effect for that was pretty revolutionary. Really did look like the Millenium falcon chess game between Chewbacca and R2D2.
I wonder why actual games and that kind of technology wasn't developed further.
I can think of a lot of reasons this shouldn't happen. One post touched on it with compromised networks, but what about students who have elected to have bluetooth or 802.11 / wireless networking in their rooms or on campus.
Admitted, the students that have this; should have secure networks, but it's hard to do that especially at such a "tech heavy" school.
It's almost guaranteed that high bandwidth users will sniff out said networks and use others, probably not even coming close to maxxing their own account out.
Certain enterprising students may even resort to selling their bandwidth.
Alumni should rebel and get as many wireless accounts as they can and just claim they don't who's using what.
Then, the issue becomes what are you allowed and not allowed to have in the privacy of your backpack / dorm room (wireless)
I'm in good shape and go to buffets all the time. It's not what you eat and how much you eat, it's attitude and respect.
Attitude by working it off(labor/exercise) or using dietary supplements
Respect by this means: you show me you care for me by looking physically attractive to me; so as a bonus to our friendship, other people want to hang with us and are attracted to us in public.
Yahoo wants you to get lots of SPAM in their free yahoo accounts. In fact, they have an interest to shove as much as possible into each Yahoo Mail mailbox. This is so they can persuade you to buy a premium storage account
It works the same way with auctions and personals on Yahoo - they are getting their butts kicked by eBay & Match.com - they don't care that more than half of the auctions and personals are fake, they are getting people to sign up and pay for their premium services. Not to mention, they are getting page hits and download ratings from akamai/inktomi etc that they can present to advertisers as bloated figures.
Sort of agreed.... a lot of scams that originate from the US are because we have wired the disadvantaged or barely traceable.... ie prisons, low income housing areas.
I can't believe that they actually want to waste time and wire the area, why not WiFi towers that double as cell phone towers so we won't have to ALSO go install those with volunteer labor?
I am completely for getting information and social/spiritual ideas to the masses though.
It IS evidence... he had 200 THOUSAND tons of VX and has not been able to provide a detailed description of it's destruction or solution.
I agree it was a scare tactic, but it fit with all the other evidence such as the long range missle testing silo that was active even in October of last year, his housing key Al Queda operatives in his Bagdad Palace. I see no purpose in your defending a person or even speaking against his removal.
Yes, there is something wrong with removing the words. RESPECT. You don't have to pledge, you don't have to attend an event where they pledge, you don't have to participate. You can sing "la la la" in your head while they say it. I HAVE respect for you to do that, have respect for me (and the majority) to do so!
Same bandwidth on my laptop whether optimized with this solution or any connection that I can connect to.
A T1 to T1 connection usually gets me no better gameplay or internet page render speed than a cable modem connection or DSL connection or WiFi connection.
I think this may be of most use to two way satellite connections and maybe to service providers - however; I don't see how one can get much faster than a cable modem or DSL connection - the internet comes through at the same bandwidth and speed whether I am wireless or T1 or cable modem/DSL - this is the majority of network traffic nowadays
Corporate networks are already optimized under 100 or gigabit ethernet with Cisco routers which automatically handle collisions and error corrections.
I'd believe that the staff at a FEW colleges are consevative, maybe like Liberty or Bob Jones, but you were kidding right?
I also beleive that those schools brainwash some in the opposite direction - which is equally as bad.
A teacher can't AFFORD to be conservative. Conservatives are not for taxation. Teachers RELY on taxation to pay salaries. In my state, the WHOLE property tax system is designed to pay for education. Republicans want to abolish it, Democrats want to increase it. Now if you are a teacher, who do you support?
If only those that post READ for comprehension - what I said is some, not all. Some young adults think for themselves, but ALL young adults are impressionable, in some way, or another. A lot fall for political propaganda.
In a Utopian (ethical, moral, law abiding, all encompassed sharing) world liberalism is perfect. It's not that kind of world. (Sept 11th)
In high school, I graduated the year we went to Iraq the first time. In my economics class, the teacher was saying even then, it was over oil. It was/is a factor. At the time, we cared for the democracy that was in Kuwait. It is no different this time. (except it's democracy in Iraq) Where do young people get the ideas today that the war is over oil? I rarely see parents discussing it with their children. This time, it has so little to do with oil, that it's almost not a factor. Saddam Hussein is killing ^1000's of people, is linked to Al Queda, is supplying weapons to the Palestinians, and has massive of amounts of dangerous weapons. I thought the most damning evidence in Colin Powell's Speech to the UN was when he held a small vile up and said,"[ just this much concentrted VX if dropped in the atmosphere over Manhattan could kill 10,000 or more people in less than 30 minutes!]"
I'm not saying teachers are for dictators or that they are bad people. Politics is often an all or nothing proposition. If an impressionable person believes one agenda, they are likely to see merit in the whole thing. Anyone who is saying they are balanced and on center is a coward. Everyone has issues that the other party doesn't like, but there are core issues like taxes, social programs, budgets, etc that you are either for or against, Dem or Rep.
As for the comment about Clinton's behavior, I wasn't even talking about his sexual behavior. Anyone remember what he did when the USS Cole got bombed by OSAMA BIN LADEN? Nothing. Anyone remember how he signed the largest tax bill in history into law? Anyone remember that he appointed circuit judges that are trying (as we speak) to get the "Star Spangled Banner, Prayer in Schools, and even our OWN Constitution and Pledge Of Allegiance REWORDED or ELIMINATED!
I'm not mad at the left, I'm not targetting teachers. The average teacher is democratic or liberal, as is the mass media. Someone mentioned Fox News. I actually think Bill O'Reilly is one the few balanced people I have ever seen. Rush Limbaugh is too extreme. But, neither are EVER in between.
First you should feel lucky that you live in a country that allows you say things like you did, allows political freedom and religious freedom - I suppose you do not want that for Iraq, which has neither.
If in any way you are saying that professors and teachers in K-12/college are not liberal minded - then think again. How can it be possible without strong political parents (which there are few and far between) to influence children? Children and young adults are being educated in a system that is bias and being bombarded by bias media. Most children don't understand our tax system, want socialized medicine, taxes on the productive people in society to be unfair and unbalanced, and see nothing wrong with behaviours of our last President.
The real world should teach you that you don't need intrusion into your life and assistance without earning it (wellfare, quotas, etc)
The real world should teach you that if you like to smoke (it's bad for you, but your choice) that you can without being taxed up the wazoo, that you can drive without paying gas tax up the wazoo, that you can have CAPITALIZED medicine so you don't have to go to another country like the Canadians do for healthcare, that you say what you want, believe what you want. That's the real world. The real world in a socialized, peacenik, moral devoid society led to the Sept 11th bombing - Al Queda had no regard for human life, told members they were going to heaven, and blamed it partially on the USA capitalistic nature, which if didn't exist would stop the world COLD.
Thank you for your opinion, most people post, as the author of the original post did; Anonymous Coward.
I'd agree with your posts - the reason one gets modded down is mainly due to the demographic here at Slashdot. The majority of people here are early teen to mid 20's which tends to be more liberal minded or in some cases so far left because of "brainwashing" by educational institutions.
Don't get upset, I've gotten "flamebait" before, but I often get informative, insightful - the key is to be factual NEVER opinionated about religion and conservatism!
I'll use this post to make my comment as well:
I have always thought that personalised/compensatory advertising was the way to go anyway. I think the Sprint Cellular painted VW's and other "ad cars" - which are free leases to the driver for a contractual period are a good idea.
Anyone remember the two auctions on eBay:
One auctioned off their child's name.
The other; auctioned off his bald head to walk around in DesMoines Iowa with an ad on his head
I'm surprised more of those types of things haven't happened or aren't pursued by companies.
An event sponsor gets a lot of press by giving away T-Shirts rather than coupons
It's a marketing ploy that was actually developed by the oil/gas retail industry in the United States.
While I'm not for fooling customers it is a proven FACT that more consumers will buy a $99 flashy shiny sale tag before they plop down a $100 bill.
It derived from the CA excise tax on gas going to 20.4 cents (?higher now), after that many states adopted it (the.4 cents) - the gas companies squeezed extra profit out of the half cent and at the same time saw that they could compete while being a tenth penny lower.
The T68 can be had at TMobile, AT&T, and Cingular for $49 - $99
If you can do TMobile and a year contract TMobile will send you the phone with the camera attachment (don't have to use it if you don't want to) and THEN send you $25!! That deal is at AMAZON
It really is a nice phone + standard ericcson accessories fit it.
Since it's the phone most developed for I wouldn't recommend anything else, besides the fact that all the icons for the utlities that use bluetooth look like the T68i.
No, it means almost half of 360, a semi circle. Meaning there are a few degrees +/-1-5 & +/- 175-180 that aren't viewable anyway because they are either dead on with the sides of the camera or a glare will hit the screen, or you actually viewing the side of the "diode" =( each little pixel is a tube of light) - a tube has a certain viewing angle for the hole
From what I've read in DigiTimes - Samsung (one of the producers of OLEDs) says that they consume about 2/3 the power of a TFT - meaning they actually consume less. The organic material glows rather actually "lights up" or has to be backlit. Consider it similar to a light bulb (TFT) vs a Diode light with a mirrored surface behind it.
The other item about these displays is that they put off little to no heat and are thinner due to the lack of little lights needing to be placed behind the glass panel.
There is rumor that Apple has been developing an OLED with with it's partner Samsung for about a year now. Two of their manufacturing partners are suppliers to Kodak.
I would link, but it's hard to give links to Digitimes and Japanese articles.
The article is very interesting on many fronts. Most have pointed out that there may be a hidden copyright scheme already so I won't comment on that.
The first thing that was interesting is that they say current red laser DVD recorders sell for $342 (50,000Y converted) - last time I checked most were in the $200 - $250 range.
Secondly, this may play an important role in a battle between DVD format wars - it's odd how this NEW blue laser won't even support the format that Sony is membered by in their DVD Forum that supports DVD+
This new drive will be backwards compatible with DVD-
DVD- was the better format to begin with. Sony has now even seceded to combo DVD+/DVD- drives
I have never understood why Sony MUST in every case make their own format. There is such a thing as innovation through standardization too. Apple has learned this more recently. I honestly think it boils down to ePenis envy. (From the old JVC won the VHS/Beta war)
Did anyone catch if they are faster? Can they write faster than 4x?
It may be nice to include applications or Powerpoint presentations on the making of your video or a tutorial with apps to recreate it.
Further you could include the transitions and extra audio to change it.
Plus, any multi use is a good use, especially if it were unexpected.
Recently the Mac Community has seen two very cool apps for Sony T68i phones. They remote control the DVD Player and iTunes + Powerpoint presentations. Sure, there's other remotes that do a better job, but it's still handy. You always have your phone. Just as, some people always have their camcorder and PC nearby.
I have a digital camera that has an MP3 player built in, it's practically useless, except for the sound effects that I keep on there, in Mp3 format, to add to slideshows. I can edit on other people's computers when travelling.
Scientists who marginalize life... are often disappointed by news like this. I do think it's a minor possibility for life to exist elsewhere, but scientists & scholars who have yet to create actual life from scratch often say, "It's as easy as an easy bake oven to make life".
So many things happened in such a precise order, under precise conditions, with the precise amount of luck or Godly intervention (call it what you will).
The funniest asumption, to me, is when "scientists" give these theories, like is often tossed around in the movie, "Contact" and was used lightly by Carl Sagan, "If just one.... and just one... and just one.... then there are billions of planets with life." Well, it appears as if the Earth were actually a lottery. Anyone who is scholarly knows that the lottery really has no odds. There are odds on a winning number, but there are no odds that you will pick the right number on the right day!
Same goes for our life here. What are the odds of this planet being being exactly the right size, with exactly the right moon with exactly the right sun, exactly the right distance, with exactly the chemicals forming on it's surface, with exactly the right environmental changes over exactly the right time, with exactly the right amount of extinctions and things to evolve/be created?
It really WAS a fan - I saw it on Movie Secrets on Bravo - a lot of people thought the transformer voices were done with same device you mention. Leonard Nimoy often talks about speaking into a fan for the voices he did for the older cartoon. I'm not sure if they still do that for Transformers Armada or not.
Forget a Commodore - on the series they used 36" blade fans and swirled a 2ft plastic pipe to make the "eye" swoosh sound - I'm guessing on the second one - that's how they did the "cylon eye" on KIT on Knight Rider.
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Does anyone remember that? I thought the overall effect for that was pretty revolutionary. Really did look like the Millenium falcon chess game between Chewbacca and R2D2.
I wonder why actual games and that kind of technology wasn't developed further.
Admitted, the students that have this; should have secure networks, but it's hard to do that especially at such a "tech heavy" school.
It's almost guaranteed that high bandwidth users will sniff out said networks and use others, probably not even coming close to maxxing their own account out.
Certain enterprising students may even resort to selling their bandwidth.
Alumni should rebel and get as many wireless accounts as they can and just claim they don't who's using what.
Then, the issue becomes what are you allowed and not allowed to have in the privacy of your backpack / dorm room (wireless)
Attitude by working it off(labor/exercise) or using dietary supplements
Respect by this means: you show me you care for me by looking physically attractive to me; so as a bonus to our friendship, other people want to hang with us and are attracted to us in public.
It works the same way with auctions and personals on Yahoo - they are getting their butts kicked by eBay & Match.com - they don't care that more than half of the auctions and personals are fake, they are getting people to sign up and pay for their premium services. Not to mention, they are getting page hits and download ratings from akamai/inktomi etc that they can present to advertisers as bloated figures.
I can't believe that they actually want to waste time and wire the area, why not WiFi towers that double as cell phone towers so we won't have to ALSO go install those with volunteer labor?
I am completely for getting information and social/spiritual ideas to the masses though.
I agree about the generalization, but aren't large corporate networks already optimized (in theory)?
I agree it was a scare tactic, but it fit with all the other evidence such as the long range missle testing silo that was active even in October of last year, his housing key Al Queda operatives in his Bagdad Palace. I see no purpose in your defending a person or even speaking against his removal.
Yes, there is something wrong with removing the words. RESPECT. You don't have to pledge, you don't have to attend an event where they pledge, you don't have to participate. You can sing "la la la" in your head while they say it. I HAVE respect for you to do that, have respect for me (and the majority) to do so!
A T1 to T1 connection usually gets me no better gameplay or internet page render speed than a cable modem connection or DSL connection or WiFi connection.
Corporate networks are already optimized under 100 or gigabit ethernet with Cisco routers which automatically handle collisions and error corrections.
I also beleive that those schools brainwash some in the opposite direction - which is equally as bad.
A teacher can't AFFORD to be conservative. Conservatives are not for taxation. Teachers RELY on taxation to pay salaries. In my state, the WHOLE property tax system is designed to pay for education. Republicans want to abolish it, Democrats want to increase it. Now if you are a teacher, who do you support?
If only those that post READ for comprehension - what I said is some, not all. Some young adults think for themselves, but ALL young adults are impressionable, in some way, or another. A lot fall for political propaganda.
In a Utopian (ethical, moral, law abiding, all encompassed sharing) world liberalism is perfect. It's not that kind of world. (Sept 11th)
In high school, I graduated the year we went to Iraq the first time. In my economics class, the teacher was saying even then, it was over oil. It was/is a factor. At the time, we cared for the democracy that was in Kuwait. It is no different this time. (except it's democracy in Iraq) Where do young people get the ideas today that the war is over oil? I rarely see parents discussing it with their children. This time, it has so little to do with oil, that it's almost not a factor. Saddam Hussein is killing ^1000's of people, is linked to Al Queda, is supplying weapons to the Palestinians, and has massive of amounts of dangerous weapons. I thought the most damning evidence in Colin Powell's Speech to the UN was when he held a small vile up and said,"[ just this much concentrted VX if dropped in the atmosphere over Manhattan could kill 10,000 or more people in less than 30 minutes!]"
I'm not saying teachers are for dictators or that they are bad people. Politics is often an all or nothing proposition. If an impressionable person believes one agenda, they are likely to see merit in the whole thing. Anyone who is saying they are balanced and on center is a coward. Everyone has issues that the other party doesn't like, but there are core issues like taxes, social programs, budgets, etc that you are either for or against, Dem or Rep.
As for the comment about Clinton's behavior, I wasn't even talking about his sexual behavior. Anyone remember what he did when the USS Cole got bombed by OSAMA BIN LADEN? Nothing. Anyone remember how he signed the largest tax bill in history into law? Anyone remember that he appointed circuit judges that are trying (as we speak) to get the "Star Spangled Banner, Prayer in Schools, and even our OWN Constitution and Pledge Of Allegiance REWORDED or ELIMINATED!
I'm not mad at the left, I'm not targetting teachers. The average teacher is democratic or liberal, as is the mass media. Someone mentioned Fox News. I actually think Bill O'Reilly is one the few balanced people I have ever seen. Rush Limbaugh is too extreme. But, neither are EVER in between.
If in any way you are saying that professors and teachers in K-12/college are not liberal minded - then think again. How can it be possible without strong political parents (which there are few and far between) to influence children? Children and young adults are being educated in a system that is bias and being bombarded by bias media. Most children don't understand our tax system, want socialized medicine, taxes on the productive people in society to be unfair and unbalanced, and see nothing wrong with behaviours of our last President.
The real world should teach you that you don't need intrusion into your life and assistance without earning it (wellfare, quotas, etc)
The real world should teach you that if you like to smoke (it's bad for you, but your choice) that you can without being taxed up the wazoo, that you can drive without paying gas tax up the wazoo, that you can have CAPITALIZED medicine so you don't have to go to another country like the Canadians do for healthcare, that you say what you want, believe what you want. That's the real world. The real world in a socialized, peacenik, moral devoid society led to the Sept 11th bombing - Al Queda had no regard for human life, told members they were going to heaven, and blamed it partially on the USA capitalistic nature, which if didn't exist would stop the world COLD.
Thank you for your opinion, most people post, as the author of the original post did; Anonymous Coward.
Don't get upset, I've gotten "flamebait" before, but I often get informative, insightful - the key is to be factual NEVER opinionated about religion and conservatism!
I'll use this post to make my comment as well: I have always thought that personalised/compensatory advertising was the way to go anyway. I think the Sprint Cellular painted VW's and other "ad cars" - which are free leases to the driver for a contractual period are a good idea.
Anyone remember the two auctions on eBay:
One auctioned off their child's name.
The other; auctioned off his bald head to walk around in DesMoines Iowa with an ad on his head
I'm surprised more of those types of things haven't happened or aren't pursued by companies.
An event sponsor gets a lot of press by giving away T-Shirts rather than coupons
While I'm not for fooling customers it is a proven FACT that more consumers will buy a $99 flashy shiny sale tag before they plop down a $100 bill.
It derived from the CA excise tax on gas going to 20.4 cents (?higher now), after that many states adopted it (the .4 cents) - the gas companies squeezed extra profit out of the half cent and at the same time saw that they could compete while being a tenth penny lower.
Yes, using third party software. Go to www.versiontracker.com and type in "iPod"
I imagine it would be a much higher adoption rate, if it were all this, and the RIAA and record congloms saw $$ coming in.
But in a sense you are right. There will always be those that weren't going to pay for it to begin with.
Someone mentioned one of Apple's good philosophies above.
Kepp the honest people honest by offering incentive such as 5 liscense packs of OS X for only $70 more
If you can do TMobile and a year contract TMobile will send you the phone with the camera attachment (don't have to use it if you don't want to) and THEN send you $25!! That deal is at AMAZON
It really is a nice phone + standard ericcson accessories fit it.
Since it's the phone most developed for I wouldn't recommend anything else, besides the fact that all the icons for the utlities that use bluetooth look like the T68i.
They let you control iTunes, Keynote, PowerPoint, DVD Player
Sony Clicker has a proximity sensor, applescripts lauch like check mail and iTunes play when you walk in the room
Romeo lets you use the joystick on the phone like a mouse
One is availible from www.versiontracker.com the other from www.macupdate.com
No, it means almost half of 360, a semi circle. Meaning there are a few degrees +/-1-5 & +/- 175-180 that aren't viewable anyway because they are either dead on with the sides of the camera or a glare will hit the screen, or you actually viewing the side of the "diode" =( each little pixel is a tube of light) - a tube has a certain viewing angle for the hole
The other item about these displays is that they put off little to no heat and are thinner due to the lack of little lights needing to be placed behind the glass panel.
There is rumor that Apple has been developing an OLED with with it's partner Samsung for about a year now. Two of their manufacturing partners are suppliers to Kodak.
I would link, but it's hard to give links to Digitimes and Japanese articles.
The first thing that was interesting is that they say current red laser DVD recorders sell for $342 (50,000Y converted) - last time I checked most were in the $200 - $250 range.
Secondly, this may play an important role in a battle between DVD format wars - it's odd how this NEW blue laser won't even support the format that Sony is membered by in their DVD Forum that supports DVD+
This new drive will be backwards compatible with DVD-
DVD- was the better format to begin with. Sony has now even seceded to combo DVD+/DVD- drives
I have never understood why Sony MUST in every case make their own format. There is such a thing as innovation through standardization too. Apple has learned this more recently. I honestly think it boils down to ePenis envy. (From the old JVC won the VHS/Beta war)
Did anyone catch if they are faster? Can they write faster than 4x?
Further you could include the transitions and extra audio to change it.
Plus, any multi use is a good use, especially if it were unexpected.
Recently the Mac Community has seen two very cool apps for Sony T68i phones. They remote control the DVD Player and iTunes + Powerpoint presentations. Sure, there's other remotes that do a better job, but it's still handy. You always have your phone. Just as, some people always have their camcorder and PC nearby.
I have a digital camera that has an MP3 player built in, it's practically useless, except for the sound effects that I keep on there, in Mp3 format, to add to slideshows. I can edit on other people's computers when travelling.
So many things happened in such a precise order, under precise conditions, with the precise amount of luck or Godly intervention (call it what you will).
The funniest asumption, to me, is when "scientists" give these theories, like is often tossed around in the movie, "Contact" and was used lightly by Carl Sagan, "If just one .... and just one ... and just one .... then there are billions of planets with life." Well, it appears as if the Earth were actually a lottery. Anyone who is scholarly knows that the lottery really has no odds. There are odds on a winning number, but there are no odds that you will pick the right number on the right day!
Same goes for our life here. What are the odds of this planet being being exactly the right size, with exactly the right moon with exactly the right sun, exactly the right distance, with exactly the chemicals forming on it's surface, with exactly the right environmental changes over exactly the right time, with exactly the right amount of extinctions and things to evolve/be created?
They often fabricated a story, called it news, or inside reports, so as to get hits in slump periods.