Firefox for Blackberry
Sorry, no plans. Due to its Java-based operating system and the inability to build native components, Firefox is not compatible on the Blackberry OS.
Please people, do some science outside with your children. They spend so much time at their computer and console games that they're getting too difficult for us old folks to beat.
And they're generally fairly annoying about it.
Who is this we you speak of? Your average internet user really doesn't seem to give a damn as long as they can get what they want quickly and easily. Just look at the success of some of these games on social networking sites. Like Mafia Wars for instance; basically nothing more than a database with a shitty HTML front end that offers no real game play or player interactions yet people eat it up, allowing companies like Zynga to scrap profile data or serve them "customer surveys" or "trail offers" and "free products"... People fill that crap out trading their privacy for an increase in an arbitrary value in some shitty "app".
I have a Lith-Ion cell batter right here rated for 800mAh. So with an output of 50mW. We could say 5V at 10mA for the charger, 80 hours.
Yet it wouldn't take much more power to drastically decrease that time and I am fairly confident that is possible as I'm reading this book from 1983, Chapter 14 is all about wireless energy transmission via a DIY device capable of powering a 20 watt florescent tube from several feet away.
Seems perfectly reasonable that we could achieve USB level output (500mA) from a wireless charger.
I'm uploading the IE6 No More [ie6nomore.com] code to my website now. There's a point where users of outdated software need to be told there's four major cost-free options, including a much updated version of IE if they want to stick with IE. I'm almost thinking we should move from a warning to a service-denying error if this goes much further.
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Amusing
Might solve problem
Defiantly amusing, but I doubt any web master worth his or her salt would put that up and not expect to come across as lazy and childish.
Hey counseling not bad! I got full on expulsion for making a VB program to switch screen resolutions... in a VB class. Sadly I'd do it again, I just don't roll with 640x480x8 !
It really comes down to how inept the school officials have shown themselves to be. I'm an optimistic person but stories like this make me worry.
Just take a look at United Nuclear or this book to see some serious science fair projects, and imagine how some of those would of went down for the poor kid!
They'll do well, due primarily to their size but China will never out pace the west unless it starts fostering creative/free thinking among it's populace. It can build, it can't create. It can steal, it can't discover. And yes I know it's not as black and white as that but I feel it illustrates the point I am trying to convey as to the self limiting governmental, societal and cultural restrictions they impose on themselves.
he level of control needed in modern games cannot be supplied by a Natal or Wii-Mote or whichever new fangled motion controller these companies come up with. If you make the device simple, then only simple actions can be performed. We need the complexity of the modern controller to play modern games.
Maybe not the Wii but I read that Natal has 1.5 inch resolution. Not bad... I could see people getting good with motion controllers much like people get good at playing guitar. I'm not saying that's how it should be but it seems to be a nice counter to the Wii controller jiggle people are doing now.
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One of the least important features as you say but you wouldn't keep the device in your pocket without it.
Firefox for Blackberry
Sorry, no plans. Due to its Java-based operating system and the inability to build native components, Firefox is not compatible on the Blackberry OS.
That ARM architecture is wonderful an all but I prefer to imagine a beowulf cluster of AVR's. :P
What do you consider scarification, tattooing, piercing and whatever the Chinese used to do to women's feet?
Body Modification
And when you think about it; I'm not sure I'm the only Slashdotter that wouldn't mind an SD slot integrated unto my cranium.
So fundamentally what's the difference between that and circumcision? I know a long shot, but then again so is calling it mutilation.
Touchscreen LCD + Windows Driver + Netbook innards + soldering iron = myPad
It's not only neurons and nerve endings but the very real fact it's going to look like a loose old sock uncut.
I think Fujitsu sees a way to make a little scratch and stick it to Apple, as lord knows the name is awful... Just awful...
Screw the pot, hack the coffee. Needle nose pliers, paper clip, 3 tablespoons of coffee, filter, hot water = coffee
It almost sounds like botnet tech.
Last I heard (back when TechTV was still going) the majority of the UIs are done with Stardock.
You're correct, in most movies Computers are just an effective crutch to keep the story going forward.
The main point of these fake movie UIs is different than that of real UIs: to tell a story very quickly, not to reveal and enable function.
And what story is that? That computers in the future are shiny and pretty if not outright magical?
America We Hardly Knew Ye
Please people, do some science outside with your children. They spend so much time at their computer and console games that they're getting too difficult for us old folks to beat. And they're generally fairly annoying about it.
Fixed it for you.
Bashing Windows for code bloat are also interesting - but highly hypocritical.
We want privacy - give it to us.
Who is this we you speak of? Your average internet user really doesn't seem to give a damn as long as they can get what they want quickly and easily. Just look at the success of some of these games on social networking sites. Like Mafia Wars for instance; basically nothing more than a database with a shitty HTML front end that offers no real game play or player interactions yet people eat it up, allowing companies like Zynga to scrap profile data or serve them "customer surveys" or "trail offers" and "free products"... People fill that crap out trading their privacy for an increase in an arbitrary value in some shitty "app".
I have a Lith-Ion cell batter right here rated for 800mAh. So with an output of 50mW. We could say 5V at 10mA for the charger, 80 hours.
Yet it wouldn't take much more power to drastically decrease that time and I am fairly confident that is possible as I'm reading this book from 1983, Chapter 14 is all about wireless energy transmission via a DIY device capable of powering a 20 watt florescent tube from several feet away.
Seems perfectly reasonable that we could achieve USB level output (500mA) from a wireless charger.
I'm uploading the IE6 No More [ie6nomore.com] code to my website now. There's a point where users of outdated software need to be told there's four major cost-free options, including a much updated version of IE if they want to stick with IE. I'm almost thinking we should move from a warning to a service-denying error if this goes much further.
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Defiantly amusing, but I doubt any web master worth his or her salt would put that up and not expect to come across as lazy and childish.
It's things like this that make me lament the US giving up any shred of control of the Internet and related systems to the international community.
Hey counseling not bad! I got full on expulsion for making a VB program to switch screen resolutions... in a VB class. Sadly I'd do it again, I just don't roll with 640x480x8 !
It really comes down to how inept the school officials have shown themselves to be. I'm an optimistic person but stories like this make me worry.
Just take a look at United Nuclear or this book to see some serious science fair projects, and imagine how some of those would of went down for the poor kid!
Maybe the threat of nuclear annihilation is higher for Iran or Paksistan but certainly not for us.
They'll do well, due primarily to their size but China will never out pace the west unless it starts fostering creative/free thinking among it's populace. It can build, it can't create. It can steal, it can't discover. And yes I know it's not as black and white as that but I feel it illustrates the point I am trying to convey as to the self limiting governmental, societal and cultural restrictions they impose on themselves.
he level of control needed in modern games cannot be supplied by a Natal or Wii-Mote or whichever new fangled motion controller these companies come up with. If you make the device simple, then only simple actions can be performed. We need the complexity of the modern controller to play modern games.
Maybe not the Wii but I read that Natal has 1.5 inch resolution. Not bad... I could see people getting good with motion controllers much like people get good at playing guitar. I'm not saying that's how it should be but it seems to be a nice counter to the Wii controller jiggle people are doing now.
You look like a fool with your pants on the ground.
You're also going to look like a fool buying the latest gimmicky add on. This tech is utterly irrelevant without good software.