"This was deemed suspicious. (Aren't we told not to leave our bags out of our sight elsewhere?)"
well at least they gave him a lot of good reasons! In the US they would never explain why you're being arrested unless you happen to meet an extra nice officer, otherwise you'd be waiting to hear why from your attorney.
They do have some good reasons:
--they found my behaviour suspicious from direct observation and then from watching me on the CCTV system;
--I went into the station without looking at the police officers at the entrance or by the gates;
--two other men entered the station at about the same time as me;
--I am wearing a jacket "too warm for the season";
--I am carrying a bulky rucksack, and kept my rucksack with me at all times;
--I looked at people coming on the platform;
--I played with my phone and then took a paper from inside my jacket.
think they left out "you're a male" and "you're between the ages 18 to 40" though.
However I think the rest of what happens is absurd. Here's the quick run down:
--they inspect all his stuff
--they take him to the police station and book him (fingerprints, photos, DNA, etc)
--they put him in a cell for hours
--they search his apartment (WTF??) and take all his computer equipment (!!!!), private photos, address books, and other stuff they dont even know about
--he's questioned for hours and released nearly 24 hours after first being arrested (!!) AND THEY KEEP HIS CELLPHONE!
This should have stopped after the inspected his bag AT THE STATION and realized there was no bomb.
i read that review and all i see is another fast computer. 6 months from now there will be another fast computer, and 6 months after that and so on.
this isnt news for nerds, it's not even news. Something that happens on a regular basis and that we all know about (that computers get faster!) is not newsworthy.
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" Current alarm clocks are almost spectacularly badly designed"
agreed. It's far easier and faster to program the alarm on my cellphone than it is on my real alarm clock!
does that make sense? not a bit! Now I use the alarm clock as simply a clock and i use my cellphoen as a alarm clock.
thank you soooo much for not trying to throw everything + the frinkin kitchen sink into a device!
You have no idea how tired I am of these crazy convergence devices that play mp3s, watch movies, take photos, check emails, play games, cellphone, organizer, calender, does GPS... but doesnt do any of them well!
iPods do one thing and do it very very well, and that's all i want it to do, play music.... oh, and view photos, and really that's even too much on the teeny screen.
"Well the FPS thing is actually something I'd worry about first. People always seem to think that aiming with your whole arm is easier or more accurate than aiming with a mouse. Perhaps that's where the impression that playing videogames helped the Colombine kids be more lethal."
Oh come on, everyone knows they Colombine kids got to be expert shots playing NES Duck Hunt!
but seriously, games that use simulated guns for controllers that you point and shot at the screen have been out for 20 years and we're all not serial killers.
"I couldn't help thinking how someone who played Quake CTF would annihlate all the VR players with a mouse and keyboard."
well of course, but why are you playing, to get the highest score or to have fun? I think VR players would enjoy the experience far more than mouse and keyboard.
"Right now I'm just not sure LCDs have sufficient resolution, at least at reasonable production costs, to work for this kind of thing, hence why the somewhat reasonably priced ones are low rez."
I dunno, the PSP screen looks damn good, and what do you want for ~$300? I'm not expecting real VR, just something fun that looks good.
VR would explain the "Revolution" name though, that would certainly be revolutionary
" HELL. YES. I just watched the video off of IGN's website, in one part, there was a guy using it as a sword. "
I agree, i read the article and really think this
would work great and cant wait to try it.
Did the other people posting even read the article? Because I admit, at first glace it looks stupid, but after reading the demos (flying a plane, basketball, race car, Metroid Prime FPS) it sounds like it'd be really cool.
The FPS sounded especially cool, aim by moving the entire controller! Now all I need are VR googles so i'm not stuck staring at a screen across the room while my arm is pointed somewhere else.
could this be it? could this be the VR system we've all been waiting for?? The controller's perfect for it.... tell u what, if it is then it'll SLAUGHTER the xbox and ps3. I dont care if it has N64 graphics a VR system would be AMAZING.
just dont bring back the Virtual Boy. Anymore 2D red wire-frame graphics and i'll have to.... um, not buy it like i didnt the first time.
"I have small children. Wireless controllers are perfect because when they walk between me and the TV they don't trip over my cables and A) yank the cable out of the console or B) yank the console off the entertainment center. "
ohhhh, so when your small children are trying to get your attention, trying to get you to stop playing games and spend a little time with them, a wireless controller will allow you to continue to ignore them?
"The application process is first come, first served," said Sharon Marsh, a USPTO administrator. "Applications are processed as they're received, and the person second in line will get a refusal of registration from our examiner."
Google is fourth in line. First is Cencourse, a Miami, Fla., company that provides multimedia services, with an application filed March 31,2004, the same day Google's news broke. Next up is Precision Research, a Santa Barbara, Calif., company that consults on the design of high-tech equipment, with an application dated April 2. Following them is the British firm Independent International Investment Research (IIIR), formerly known as The Market Age, which operates Pronet Analytics, a stock research service; IIIR applied on April 3. Google didn't file its application until April 7, but at least it beat the Gospel Music Association's April 8 paperwork."
Obviously after google's announcement of gmail everyone and their mom tried to trademark "gmail" and they're squatting on the name.
Don't they have to justify having a trademark, or can I trademark the name "crystal coke" and when Coca-Cola comes out with a clear coke I can take them to court?
Do you remember the days when something did what it was suppose to do and did it well without trying to be everything it's not?
Why do we need a color screen? Are there people really looking at p0rn on this 1.5" screen? Is that's what's going on? Is that why you're killing the battery life and jacking up the price vs b&w screen so some people can look at p0rn on a 1.5" screen?
I have the "old" Mini and it did what it was suppose to do without trying to be something it's not. If I want to show people pictures I'll print them and show them, not this.
I also think the jack on the bottom is the stupidest idea yet. For nearly 5 years now all docks and cradles for PC, home stereo and vehicle have been plugging in on the bottom, which now will block that headphone jack. Also if i'm gonna hold the new ipod I have to hold it upside-down. Why Apple Why! Couldn't you just put it on top and put the hold button on the side or something?
With the Mini gone now we have no options. You can have:
--A shuffle, with 1gb max and no screen, not really a option
--the Nano, with it's upside-down headphone jack (that's my main complaint)
--the big and heavy 20+ gb iPods, which are great for in a car but I'd never want to run with one.
Guess I better go by another Mini before they're discontinued, maybe by the time the two of them die Apple will figure it out and have a decent mp3 player again.
"... at ~18 hours of battery life, 5Gb of storage, and -$50 in price. "
Having owned a Rio Nitrus (basically a Carbon with 1.5gb instead of 5) I can say that's why Rio's not making mp3 players anymore, because they think people are just looking at hardware specs and buying based on that.
It's not the specs people, it's useability. That's where iPods slaughter everything else on the market. Before iPods mp3 players were no more than glorified cd players. You had "next track" and "random", which really just played the same 10 songs again and again out of hundreds to chose from. Oh, and if you wanted to spend all day you could make playlists.
And they were making 20gb mp3 players like this!!!
Shuffle changed all that. You rate the song and it tracks how many times it's been played and how much you like it to determine if it should play that song.
Not only that but you can create smartplaylists. For example, I have a playlist (actually a combination of several) that basically plays the newest, most liked song first, then plays an old one that I liked, then a new one that I kinda liked, then a old one that I kinda like, etc. It does this automatically, all I have to do is rate the songs 1 to 5 stars and it figures out what to play and when to play it. No other mp3 player does this.
I sometimes wondered if other manufactures ever even used their own mp3 players, the shuffle feature just seems so obvious.
And 2TB hard drive isn't too far off, not in laptop drives but he could have four 500gB SATA-II desktop drives in there.
So, as crazy as this sounds only his ram specs make it obviously vaporware. Had he said 2 or 4gB it'd actually be almost possible, or at least more believable.
Oh, and the 256mB cache? Give me a break. Makes me wonder if this guy really knows anything about computers, obviously a 6.8ghz wouldn't have a 256mB cache. Anything over 2mB is silly on a desktop.
Wonder if that 256mB is full speed, he doesnt say. Is it L1 or L2?
"The 1GB chip I just bought was a high performance one rated at 9MB/s, laptop drives are easily faster. Desktop drives are even cheaper and higher performance, beyond 60MB/s and less than 50 cents per gig."
yeah but hard drive's measure access time in milliseconds while ram accesses in nanoseconds. When you're playing hundreds of ~5 mB files access time is far more important than transfer rate.
Not to mention a flash iPod could be much smaller and weigh a lot less with much longer battery life.
"According to the article 20 million people have taken Vioxx. How many have died or have suffered heart problems as a cause of having taken the drug? This is the real problem."
no, the real problem is they didnt even put a warning label on it. Even cigerettes have a freaking warning label!
If studies show that something can kill people at least put a damn label on it saying that! That's all i'm asking, keep making the drugs and all I just want to know if it might kill me so i can be a little more cautious.
"And if your face isn't still turning red yet, maybe this quote from the maggot will."
Well maybe if u read the article it'd make more sense:
"The jury awarded more than $250 million in total damages -- $24 million to Carol Ernst for mental anguish and loss of companionship, and $229 million in punitive damages. Ernst's Houston-based lawyer, Mark Lanier, said the punitive-damages figure was based on "the money Merck made and saved by putting off their product label changes.... "
"Lanier argued that Merck had concealed information about the health risks associated with the drug in order to protect sales...."
"Merck's legal battle began after Sept. 30, 2004, when the company pulled Vioxx..... Merck pulled the drug after participants in a Vioxx study experienced "adverse cardiovascular events" compared to those taking a placebo. Nonetheless, Merck never actually conceded there were health risks. "
Here's a suggestion: warn people when you sell them a drug that might kill them, ok?
Although $250+ million to one woman is excessive, maybe they can pay off the other 7,500 groups filing lawsuits? Although that's only $33,333 each...
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well at least they gave him a lot of good reasons! In the US they would never explain why you're being arrested unless you happen to meet an extra nice officer, otherwise you'd be waiting to hear why from your attorney.
They do have some good reasons:
--they found my behaviour suspicious from direct observation and then from watching me on the CCTV system;
--I went into the station without looking at the police officers at the entrance or by the gates;
--two other men entered the station at about the same time as me;
--I am wearing a jacket "too warm for the season";
--I am carrying a bulky rucksack, and kept my rucksack with me at all times;
--I looked at people coming on the platform;
--I played with my phone and then took a paper from inside my jacket.
think they left out "you're a male" and "you're between the ages 18 to 40" though.
However I think the rest of what happens is absurd. Here's the quick run down:
--they inspect all his stuff
--they take him to the police station and book him (fingerprints, photos, DNA, etc)
--they put him in a cell for hours
--they search his apartment (WTF??) and take all his computer equipment (!!!!), private photos, address books, and other stuff they dont even know about
--he's questioned for hours and released nearly 24 hours after first being arrested (!!) AND THEY KEEP HIS CELLPHONE!
This should have stopped after the inspected his bag AT THE STATION and realized there was no bomb.
Good thing i live in the US.
umm.... since we really didnt get answers I dont think you should have printed whatever this drivel is.
Instead, I would have recommended u send the same questions back and tell them u want real answers this time
this isnt news for nerds, it's not even news. Something that happens on a regular basis and that we all know about (that computers get faster!) is not newsworthy.
agreed. It's far easier and faster to program the alarm on my cellphone than it is on my real alarm clock!
does that make sense? not a bit! Now I use the alarm clock as simply a clock and i use my cellphoen as a alarm clock.
How about before mp3 players? How many cd players had built-in radios? Very few.
I think Apple's right, a iPod with radio would not be that popular.
I'd rather see a aftermarket radio receiver, but no one's even bothered making that so you can see how small the market really is.
If Apple was going to include anything I could see a good built-in radio transmitter considering the huge popularity of aftermarket transmitters.
You have no idea how tired I am of these crazy convergence devices that play mp3s, watch movies, take photos, check emails, play games, cellphone, organizer, calender, does GPS... but doesnt do any of them well!
iPods do one thing and do it very very well, and that's all i want it to do, play music.... oh, and view photos, and really that's even too much on the teeny screen.
could he be talking about me?
just dont bring back the Virtual Boy. Anymore 2D red wire-frame graphics and i'll have to.... um, not buy it like i didnt the first time.
Oh come on, everyone knows they Colombine kids got to be expert shots playing NES Duck Hunt!
but seriously, games that use simulated guns for controllers that you point and shot at the screen have been out for 20 years and we're all not serial killers.
"I couldn't help thinking how someone who played Quake CTF would annihlate all the VR players with a mouse and keyboard."
well of course, but why are you playing, to get the highest score or to have fun? I think VR players would enjoy the experience far more than mouse and keyboard.
"Right now I'm just not sure LCDs have sufficient resolution, at least at reasonable production costs, to work for this kind of thing, hence why the somewhat reasonably priced ones are low rez."
I dunno, the PSP screen looks damn good, and what do you want for ~$300? I'm not expecting real VR, just something fun that looks good.
VR would explain the "Revolution" name though, that would certainly be revolutionary
I agree, i read the article and really think this would work great and cant wait to try it.
Did the other people posting even read the article? Because I admit, at first glace it looks stupid, but after reading the demos (flying a plane, basketball, race car, Metroid Prime FPS) it sounds like it'd be really cool.
The FPS sounded especially cool, aim by moving the entire controller! Now all I need are VR googles so i'm not stuck staring at a screen across the room while my arm is pointed somewhere else.
could this be it? could this be the VR system we've all been waiting for?? The controller's perfect for it.... tell u what, if it is then it'll SLAUGHTER the xbox and ps3. I dont care if it has N64 graphics a VR system would be AMAZING.
just dont bring back the Virtual Boy. Anymore 2D red wire-frame graphics and i'll have to.... um, not buy it like i didnt the first time.
ohhhh, so when your small children are trying to get your attention, trying to get you to stop playing games and spend a little time with them, a wireless controller will allow you to continue to ignore them?
that's great, just great, good to hear, really
"According to USPTO records, Google's March 31 news inspired a bit of a land rush, with four other companies filing applications to set their claims in stone.
"The application process is first come, first served," said Sharon Marsh, a USPTO administrator. "Applications are processed as they're received, and the person second in line will get a refusal of registration from our examiner."
Google is fourth in line. First is Cencourse, a Miami, Fla., company that provides multimedia services, with an application filed March 31,2004, the same day Google's news broke. Next up is Precision Research, a Santa Barbara, Calif., company that consults on the design of high-tech equipment, with an application dated April 2. Following them is the British firm Independent International Investment Research (IIIR), formerly known as The Market Age, which operates Pronet Analytics, a stock research service; IIIR applied on April 3. Google didn't file its application until April 7, but at least it beat the Gospel Music Association's April 8 paperwork."
Obviously after google's announcement of gmail everyone and their mom tried to trademark "gmail" and they're squatting on the name.
Don't they have to justify having a trademark, or can I trademark the name "crystal coke" and when Coca-Cola comes out with a clear coke I can take them to court?
it's not BSODs that my XP suffer from, it's the "99% explorer" usage that i see several times a day.
all i can do is close end task explorer and run task explorer again to get it started, but bet u a dollar a hour later it'll do it all over again.
seems to be only when i look at files on the hard drive but it's still annoying.
only thing I found odd was there was about 5 posts before yours and none of them mentioned that this is a obvious dupe.
Why do we need a color screen? Are there people really looking at p0rn on this 1.5" screen? Is that's what's going on? Is that why you're killing the battery life and jacking up the price vs b&w screen so some people can look at p0rn on a 1.5" screen?
I have the "old" Mini and it did what it was suppose to do without trying to be something it's not. If I want to show people pictures I'll print them and show them, not this.
I also think the jack on the bottom is the stupidest idea yet. For nearly 5 years now all docks and cradles for PC, home stereo and vehicle have been plugging in on the bottom, which now will block that headphone jack. Also if i'm gonna hold the new ipod I have to hold it upside-down. Why Apple Why! Couldn't you just put it on top and put the hold button on the side or something?
With the Mini gone now we have no options. You can have:
--A shuffle, with 1gb max and no screen, not really a option
--the Nano, with it's upside-down headphone jack (that's my main complaint)
--the big and heavy 20+ gb iPods, which are great for in a car but I'd never want to run with one.
Guess I better go by another Mini before they're discontinued, maybe by the time the two of them die Apple will figure it out and have a decent mp3 player again.
Is this some sort of new rating scale I'm not familiar with?
Is this gonna start showing up in more reviews?
Are there different kinds of "top down"s? I mean, is the "top down" on a corvette the same as a mercedes or a Geo Metro LSi? Do you need to specify?
What about engine? Loud V8 vs quiet 4 banger? Tires? Surrounding traffic?
I wish he would clarify more, I mean "I can hear it with the top down" is a little bit vague...
how often do you get to brag in a /. article?
oh oh look at me! I have the newest ipod, the newest songs and i'm in a convertible blasting it! I'm just soooooooooooooo cool!!!
wanker indeed.
Having owned a Rio Nitrus (basically a Carbon with 1.5gb instead of 5) I can say that's why Rio's not making mp3 players anymore, because they think people are just looking at hardware specs and buying based on that.
It's not the specs people, it's useability. That's where iPods slaughter everything else on the market. Before iPods mp3 players were no more than glorified cd players. You had "next track" and "random", which really just played the same 10 songs again and again out of hundreds to chose from. Oh, and if you wanted to spend all day you could make playlists.
And they were making 20gb mp3 players like this!!!
Shuffle changed all that. You rate the song and it tracks how many times it's been played and how much you like it to determine if it should play that song.
Not only that but you can create smartplaylists. For example, I have a playlist (actually a combination of several) that basically plays the newest, most liked song first, then plays an old one that I liked, then a new one that I kinda liked, then a old one that I kinda like, etc. It does this automatically, all I have to do is rate the songs 1 to 5 stars and it figures out what to play and when to play it. No other mp3 player does this.
I sometimes wondered if other manufactures ever even used their own mp3 players, the shuffle feature just seems so obvious.
You know, the only thing that's really absurd is the memory. 1TB RAM? Exactly how many ram DIMMS would that be?
The 6.8ghz is plausible, never been done in a laptop but some guy did manage 7ghz.
And 2TB hard drive isn't too far off, not in laptop drives but he could have four 500gB SATA-II desktop drives in there.
So, as crazy as this sounds only his ram specs make it obviously vaporware. Had he said 2 or 4gB it'd actually be almost possible, or at least more believable.
Oh, and the 256mB cache? Give me a break. Makes me wonder if this guy really knows anything about computers, obviously a 6.8ghz wouldn't have a 256mB cache. Anything over 2mB is silly on a desktop.
Wonder if that 256mB is full speed, he doesnt say. Is it L1 or L2?
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He always came across as so arrogant
yeah but hard drive's measure access time in milliseconds while ram accesses in nanoseconds. When you're playing hundreds of ~5 mB files access time is far more important than transfer rate.
Not to mention a flash iPod could be much smaller and weigh a lot less with much longer battery life.
no, the real problem is they didnt even put a warning label on it. Even cigerettes have a freaking warning label!
If studies show that something can kill people at least put a damn label on it saying that! That's all i'm asking, keep making the drugs and all I just want to know if it might kill me so i can be a little more cautious.
Well maybe if u read the article it'd make more sense:
"The jury awarded more than $250 million in total damages -- $24 million to Carol Ernst for mental anguish and loss of companionship, and $229 million in punitive damages. Ernst's Houston-based lawyer, Mark Lanier, said the punitive-damages figure was based on "the money Merck made and saved by putting off their product label changes.... "
"Lanier argued that Merck had concealed information about the health risks associated with the drug in order to protect sales...."
"Merck's legal battle began after Sept. 30, 2004, when the company pulled Vioxx..... Merck pulled the drug after participants in a Vioxx study experienced "adverse cardiovascular events" compared to those taking a placebo. Nonetheless, Merck never actually conceded there were health risks. "
Here's a suggestion: warn people when you sell them a drug that might kill them, ok?
Although $250+ million to one woman is excessive, maybe they can pay off the other 7,500 groups filing lawsuits? Although that's only $33,333 each...
Japan's got some crazy laws if they have a law stating "it is illegal to kill virtual characters even though that feature is built-in the game"
so when can i get one in drive-thru?