Amazingly, this is still rumbling on after about 5 years in development, despite its original developers going bust. The idea is that you put a CCD and associated memory/circuitry in a standard 35mm camera to make it digital. Nice idea, but the prototypes they've shown so far have had crap resolution and capacity compared to modern digicams. Besides, the camera manufacturers wouldn't like it - they would much rather see you buy a whole new kit.
First Intel, now MS...you have to hand it to these guys, they may be greedy or completely deluded, but they're certainly not afraid of anyone.
Right, who's next...must be IBM for copying "a method of using perforated cardboard templates to track Nazi genocide victims and help Dubya win the presidency due to failure of said templates to completely perforate in the state of Florida"?
True, and it's a fantastic looking aircraft, but it was always a terrible commercial flop. Politics had a lot to do with this (the Americans didn't like it one bit and placed all kinds of restrictions on flights) but the basic economics are fairly awful too. Most people will never be able to afford a ticket on it - about $10k to cross the Atlantic IIRC.
Not that it matters much to the average airline, but Concorde is a bit of an environmental catastrophe too. Turbojets and afterburners, while they give plenty of power, do not make for efficient use of fuel, and unlike other high-flying jets, it's perfectly audible from the ground when it passes over here (70 miles from Heathrow)
We've been trying to get controlled nuclear fusion going for decades (H-bombs are trivial by comparison), and still haven't managed it. This is what we really need: unlimited electrical energy to make hydrogen cars and all those other Good Things work. I'm not holding my breath though.
I used it all the time until they started hosting crappy pop-ups every time you opened the page (a non-issue now I'm using Mozilla).
The advanced search options were fantastic, and I managed to find stuff - even MP3's - that I couldn't get any other way. Sadly, the "new" advanced search is crap. I'll have to stick with Google - sorry Hotbot.
Wasn't the drift in Christmas due to a failure to understand the length of the solar year correctly (365.24 days IIRC) and various egotistical Roman emperors screwing up the calendar (the best example of this is that February only has 28 days because Augustus and Julius Caesar wanted "their" months to have 31 days instead of 30)?
I bet the emperors gave away dolls of themselves to their senators too. With little togas and laurel crowns.
The Yaris (European hatchback version of the Echo) is definitely targeted at younger people. I have the souped up "T Sport" version, which is not the kind of thing your granny would drive at all.
52X CD-ROM read-only drives have been available for years, and if you rip a CD in Audiograbber, you're lucky to get more than 15X. I wonder if the RW drives are the same?
Also, if I burn a CDR on my lowly 8X drive, the lead in and lead out tracks often take longer to write than the data, if the disc isn't full. Is this part of the process speeded up as well?
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What about a speedometer showing fps in Quake, a water temperature gauge for l33t d00ds with water cooling and a handbrake light to warn you that you've locked the workstation? You could also have an "engine check" light for when something goes wrong, but you'd have to replace the bulb frequently if you were running Windows Me;-)
And that's WHY he was first man on the Moon. There was a huge debate at NASA about whether it should be Buzz Aldrin instead, but in the end it was felt better to let a civilian do it, otherwise the "we come in peace for all mankind" bit would have sounded hollow.
It has the crappiest usability and the highest per-byte costs of any form of communication since Morse code telegraphy, but it's wildly popular. Amazing.
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is that Scotty is now so fat he's creating a noticeable gravitational field, and the dilithium crystals have started orbiting him.
I'd be interested to know what Mr Christmas's eBay feedback was like. It doesn't say in the article. If he had been doing this for some time you'd expect some pretty scathing negative feedback, wouldn't you?
I had RSI two years ago. I'm right-handed, and the problems started with the occasional ache in my upper right arm (the best description of this is "like toothache" - the pain comes from right inside the bone structure where the nerves run). Later I got pins and needles in some of the fingers and thumb of that hand, and the pain started to become distracting; enough to make me wince.
I'd heard about RSI, so I muddled along using my left hand for the mouse instead. Over the course of a fortnight the pain went away. Then, a week before I was due to go on holiday, I did an hour or so of image editing and used my right hand again (because it's more accurate). A few days later the pain was excruciating - the only time it went away was if I was lying down on my back or holding my arm above my head. The strange posture this forced me into then gave me pulled muscles in my back and shoulder, which meant I was in more or less constant pain for the whole of my annual holiday.
This was July; it took until September for the symptoms to subside, and I had to re-learn how to use a mouse *properly* with my left hand (I believe Guy Steele once called this this "ambimoustrous"). My doctor couldn't offer anything except a cortisone injection if the pain got too bad - one morning it almost made me throw up!
The situation now is that I mouse with my left hand nearly all the time, but I can manage an hour of Quake with the right one without much problem. However, after the hour is up there is some tingling and an unusual warm sensation in my arm, which leads me to think the damage is permanent, and I'm only 33! If the left hand looks like going the same way I'll switch straight to a tracker ball, a graphics tablet or something - my employers were quite supportive and do take RSI cases seriously.
Humans weren't designed to use mice or keyboards. I can see BIG problems in a decade's time, maybe an explosion in disability claims among office workers. You have been warned - don't ignore the warning signs.
if I was a criminal with a small penis, looking for a cheaper mortgage, with a computer that was broadcasting my IP address and an unoptimized Internet connection.
Ah...that old rant. Presumably he's still struggling to make ends meet, considering the number of people who are using the Devil's Own rip of Windows XP?
Piracy has helped get MS where they are today; if it wasn't for the easy availability of Windows half of us might be using Macs or OS/2
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Amazingly, this is still rumbling on after about 5 years in development, despite its original developers going bust. The idea is that you put a CCD and associated memory/circuitry in a standard 35mm camera to make it digital. Nice idea, but the prototypes they've shown so far have had crap resolution and capacity compared to modern digicams. Besides, the camera manufacturers wouldn't like it - they would much rather see you buy a whole new kit.
Right, who's next...must be IBM for copying "a method of using perforated cardboard templates to track Nazi genocide victims and help Dubya win the presidency due to failure of said templates to completely perforate in the state of Florida"?
Not that it matters much to the average airline, but Concorde is a bit of an environmental catastrophe too. Turbojets and afterburners, while they give plenty of power, do not make for efficient use of fuel, and unlike other high-flying jets, it's perfectly audible from the ground when it passes over here (70 miles from Heathrow)
We've been trying to get controlled nuclear fusion going for decades (H-bombs are trivial by comparison), and still haven't managed it. This is what we really need: unlimited electrical energy to make hydrogen cars and all those other Good Things work. I'm not holding my breath though.
I routinely fly in both jets and turboprop aircraft, and you wouldn't want a turboprop for a long flight. They're too damn noisy.
More proof, if it were needed, that "good enough" technology always triumphs over the best.
Go and put the two trolls into here, then we'll see who's the daddy.
The advanced search options were fantastic, and I managed to find stuff - even MP3's - that I couldn't get any other way. Sadly, the "new" advanced search is crap. I'll have to stick with Google - sorry Hotbot.
Ironic you left .cx out of your list, given your nick ;-)
That's £50,000 to sponsor creation of a whole new TLD, not just to buy a domain.
I bet the emperors gave away dolls of themselves to their senators too. With little togas and laurel crowns.
I only do half the time?
The Yaris (European hatchback version of the Echo) is definitely targeted at younger people. I have the souped up "T Sport" version, which is not the kind of thing your granny would drive at all.
Well, that's me sold - I can turn AOL CDs into pretty mulch for my garden!
Also, if I burn a CDR on my lowly 8X drive, the lead in and lead out tracks often take longer to write than the data, if the disc isn't full. Is this part of the process speeded up as well?
What about a speedometer showing fps in Quake, a water temperature gauge for l33t d00ds with water cooling and a handbrake light to warn you that you've locked the workstation? You could also have an "engine check" light for when something goes wrong, but you'd have to replace the bulb frequently if you were running Windows Me ;-)
And that's WHY he was first man on the Moon. There was a huge debate at NASA about whether it should be Buzz Aldrin instead, but in the end it was felt better to let a civilian do it, otherwise the "we come in peace for all mankind" bit would have sounded hollow.
Do you really, really, really, REALLY regret that version of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"?
It has the crappiest usability and the highest per-byte costs of any form of communication since Morse code telegraphy, but it's wildly popular. Amazing.
is that Scotty is now so fat he's creating a noticeable gravitational field, and the dilithium crystals have started orbiting him.
/me confuses Quake with reality again
I'd be interested to know what Mr Christmas's eBay feedback was like. It doesn't say in the article. If he had been doing this for some time you'd expect some pretty scathing negative feedback, wouldn't you?
I'd heard about RSI, so I muddled along using my left hand for the mouse instead. Over the course of a fortnight the pain went away. Then, a week before I was due to go on holiday, I did an hour or so of image editing and used my right hand again (because it's more accurate). A few days later the pain was excruciating - the only time it went away was if I was lying down on my back or holding my arm above my head. The strange posture this forced me into then gave me pulled muscles in my back and shoulder, which meant I was in more or less constant pain for the whole of my annual holiday.
This was July; it took until September for the symptoms to subside, and I had to re-learn how to use a mouse *properly* with my left hand (I believe Guy Steele once called this this "ambimoustrous"). My doctor couldn't offer anything except a cortisone injection if the pain got too bad - one morning it almost made me throw up!
The situation now is that I mouse with my left hand nearly all the time, but I can manage an hour of Quake with the right one without much problem. However, after the hour is up there is some tingling and an unusual warm sensation in my arm, which leads me to think the damage is permanent, and I'm only 33! If the left hand looks like going the same way I'll switch straight to a tracker ball, a graphics tablet or something - my employers were quite supportive and do take RSI cases seriously.
Humans weren't designed to use mice or keyboards. I can see BIG problems in a decade's time, maybe an explosion in disability claims among office workers. You have been warned - don't ignore the warning signs.
But I'm not, so that's OK.
Piracy has helped get MS where they are today; if it wasn't for the easy availability of Windows half of us might be using Macs or OS/2
/me shudders