Hitting the button on the front set up for book opens to exactly where I was with just one hand.
It's extremely convenient, for long term use I don't mind looking at the screen either using iSiloX text is easily big enough to keep the unit far from my face.
My only problem has been with poetry, I like nice line formatting for poetry or computer code.
I don't want to go back to a book sized format for that though, with my palm I can keep it in my pocket all the time, not so with a book.
I have a palm Tungsten E and I love reading E-Books on it.
With the press of a button I can be back where I was, I can turn pages with one hand so I can hold onto the subway, it glows in the dark if I want (Also useful to find way to the washroom at night).
I can read about 50% of a book on one charge (Li-Ion no usb charge)
Before that I had a Palm IIIxe not the greatest but available for $15-30 bucks and can read two books on 2 AA batteries.
I have an increadible selection with me wherever I go and since I'd be carrying an organizer anyway it doesn't affect the form factor I have to carry at all.
Could only be happier if I had internet access to my entire collection.
I'd also like some better OCR software so I can propogate my love of books more easily:)
As a programmer I don't know too much about the hardware specifications but it seems to me if a phone can handle radio oscillations at 5.8 gighz then why is it unthinkable that other hardware could?
All this talk of why the CPU companies haven't done this before now rings false, we all know that for the last few years technical hurdles haven't been a problem and more and more it has become a financial struggle.
The AMD Intel fight brings this totally to light, Intel could have had it's current technology available years ago without the P4 architechture, either they are really stupid or something is going on.
Their marketting budgets are getting bigger and bigger and they are attacking parralel processing instead of massive power.
The first quantum computing chip that comes out will be as I understand it the last processor we ever need, there is simply no money in this if they succeed.
Genius' of the past have faced similar financial hurdles and have perservered in the same way, with public exebitions and without comment from their competitors.
We all know what he's proposing doesn't break the laws of physics (like for example the nuclear bomb?) but we are sceptical none the less.
I'm not going to put off buying a new computer based on this possibility but I won't be surprised if it happens either.
That's all you need for XviD or DivX and more than you need for older games. Eventually they'll come to terms with the fact that laptops CANNOT play the newest and greatest games, and they will start releasing laptops that can play strategy/RPGs/Emu's just fine and offer substantially higher battery life. Transmeta started trying to do this but weren't successful perhaps we'll see it in the coming generations of >$500 laptops.
Interestingly this seems to be moving towards a system where longterm storage is handled as a single problem, rather than in computer and out of computer storage. Devices like these becoming popular might mean we see $100 HD/Burners where space considerations are for the manufacturers rather than the consumer. The end of format wars? Perhaps if this becomes the standard HD tech we might start seeing RAM drives for popular software, these for long term software and insert disk 265 for long term video pr0graming storage.
If you paid employees who didn't understand the value of their work from a global perspective well they would simply retire and stop working. That's why there are so many executives and Proffesors who stay on working without pay, and so few fast food employees.
1.)Compression will be possible because Xbox 360 will have a hard drive.
2.) 8 gigs is really A LOT OF SPACE!
3.) Blu-Ray when the PS2 came out it was a cheap DVD player 1 year later DVD players are 20$ and the PS2 has many DVD compatibility issues, with bittorrent taking off the Xboxs ability to play movies from a computer or download them off the net will probably be a bigger draw, and it will support 1080p which has the possibility of turning the market upside down if the LCD people can get off their ass.
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I've yet to see a movie or read a book that made me experience vertigo.
Anyone know where we can go to donate to Opera?
I've been using an illegal copy for a while and been meaning to buy it, guess that chance slipped away but maybe they'll let me send em $20?
FF has yet to implement Opera's ability to maintain text in text boxes should you click away and have to go back.
This is a huge boon as mnay sites don't handle this well or just give bizzare error messages for no reason...
*Cough* Slashdot.
http://level4.org/images/articles/2005041402274793 0_1.jpg/ is what mine looks like and I love it!
Shown is low contrast I usually use somewhere in the middle, and I find that I can read a page and put it away in about 10-15 secs.
Hitting the button on the front set up for book opens to exactly where I was with just one hand.
It's extremely convenient, for long term use I don't mind looking at the screen either using iSiloX text is easily big enough to keep the unit far from my face.
My only problem has been with poetry, I like nice line formatting for poetry or computer code.
I don't want to go back to a book sized format for that though, with my palm I can keep it in my pocket all the time, not so with a book.
I have a palm Tungsten E and I love reading E-Books on it.
:)
With the press of a button I can be back where I was, I can turn pages with one hand so I can hold onto the subway, it glows in the dark if I want (Also useful to find way to the washroom at night).
I can read about 50% of a book on one charge (Li-Ion no usb charge)
Before that I had a Palm IIIxe not the greatest but available for $15-30 bucks and can read two books on 2 AA batteries.
I have an increadible selection with me wherever I go and since I'd be carrying an organizer anyway it doesn't affect the form factor I have to carry at all.
Could only be happier if I had internet access to my entire collection.
I'd also like some better OCR software so I can propogate my love of books more easily
Well I think development will slow because this isn't a Processor or Graphics Card Type technology.
This is a sound card type technology and people are going to want to spend about 30-40 on an access point and no more than $20 on an adapter.
I just bought a $24 cnd usb wifi-G adapter and couldn't be happier.
Or
C) Fall and bash their little brains out...
Marketters will be glad to hear this:
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Gmail + Google Talk + Voip + Sphinx = $Step 3
I want to believe this.
As a programmer I don't know too much about the hardware specifications but it seems to me if a phone can handle radio oscillations at 5.8 gighz then why is it unthinkable that other hardware could?
All this talk of why the CPU companies haven't done this before now rings false, we all know that for the last few years technical hurdles haven't been a problem and more and more it has become a financial struggle.
The AMD Intel fight brings this totally to light, Intel could have had it's current technology available years ago without the P4 architechture, either they are really stupid or something is going on.
Their marketting budgets are getting bigger and bigger and they are attacking parralel processing instead of massive power.
The first quantum computing chip that comes out will be as I understand it the last processor we ever need, there is simply no money in this if they succeed.
Genius' of the past have faced similar financial hurdles and have perservered in the same way, with public exebitions and without comment from their competitors.
We all know what he's proposing doesn't break the laws of physics (like for example the nuclear bomb?) but we are sceptical none the less.
I'm not going to put off buying a new computer based on this possibility but I won't be surprised if it happens either.
Or what your free time is worth, or what a venture capitalist sees in you.
Or what your ideas alone are worth as patents.
Seems your boss tried to rip you off dude.
Let's give a rousing round of applause for slashdot groupthink!
Do the pellets consist of a carbon atom?
This sounds disturbingly like conventional fuel.
When the hydrogren breaks from the pellet is it replaced with oxygen? Does the resulting greenhouse gas flow into the upper atmosphere?
Does this product have the same problem as hydrocarbon fuels in that it's increadibly expensive to produce? In terms of efficiency and equipment.
I guess I just expected some real information about this magnitude of bullshit, er, breakthrough.
That's all you need for XviD or DivX and more than you need for older games.
Eventually they'll come to terms with the fact that laptops CANNOT play the newest and greatest games, and they will start releasing laptops that can play strategy/RPGs/Emu's just fine and offer substantially higher battery life.
Transmeta started trying to do this but weren't successful perhaps we'll see it in the coming generations of >$500 laptops.
Interestingly this seems to be moving towards a system where longterm storage is handled as a single problem, rather than in computer and out of computer storage.
Devices like these becoming popular might mean we see $100 HD/Burners where space considerations are for the manufacturers rather than the consumer.
The end of format wars?
Perhaps if this becomes the standard HD tech we might start seeing RAM drives for popular software, these for long term software and insert disk 265 for long term video pr0graming storage.
If you paid employees who didn't understand the value of their work from a global perspective well they would simply retire and stop working.
That's why there are so many executives and Proffesors who stay on working without pay, and so few fast food employees.
1.)Compression will be possible because Xbox 360 will have a hard drive.
2.) 8 gigs is really A LOT OF SPACE!
3.) Blu-Ray when the PS2 came out it was a cheap DVD player 1 year later DVD players are 20$ and the PS2 has many DVD compatibility issues, with bittorrent taking off the Xboxs ability to play movies from a computer or download them off the net will probably be a bigger draw, and it will support 1080p which has the possibility of turning the market upside down if the LCD people can get off their ass.
Does he have proper hashing is what the above is asking...
Yes I just finished Data Structures, no I don't know mySql
The cheap model Xbox will DEFINITLY have a HD???
Why is apple in charge of this refund?
:P
Shouldn't it be comming straight from the government?
P.S. if you want to round up a bunch of American IPod UID's or whatever I'll send $15 CND each
Sigh we already have these algae, their called blue algae.
We have things that eat them now, so they aren't a problem.
When Oxygen was a poison to most creatures THEN it was a problem now it's not.
Don't bunch your panties.
/madam!
Whoa let's not go crazy here!
If you adopted this system you would be two steps behind China. They've had this sytem for a while now...
Maybe America should be considering the cultural wasteland that is their country.
If Jesus,Plato or Marx were right Americans live in the worst society in the history of the world.
Canadian raises his hand.
We've been...
you're stupid.