" I can't believe the owners of this site are in with the scammers! They call the guys legit!"
I don't know what site you refer to as "this site" but no where in the post does it say the free ipods links are legit, they're simple pointing to a NY Times article examining the phenomenon.
" Hopefully they'll make a gas sipping sports car for people like me soon. "
Your wish is Toyota's command:
"Thanks to a 3-liter V6 augmented by dual front and rear electric motors, this car boasts a breakneck 0-60 mph in just over four seconds while still offering around 30/mpg under normal driving conditions."
it's a scam:
--"I have had two friends sign up for this promotion. Both got five friends at the same time and one was told her iPod was being shipped and the other was denied for mysterious reasons. So even if you fulfill the requirements, you'll only get super-spammed instead of an iPod."
--"I know several people who completed the offers, had their friends complete the offer and never got anything. Not to mention they got signed up for every mailing list in existence."
posts like that are enough for me to declare they're a scam.
All that and it still only got to 130mph.... let's not forget most modern vehicles easily reach that speed stock. So forgive me if I'm not all that impressed.
I've been looking for Marathon for about a month now for a old G3 iMac PC running OS9 and I can't find a full version *anywhere*.
http://source.bungie.org/
claims to have it, but the link I clicked "Download Marathon Aleph One" for OS9 resulted in a 1.9 megabyte file, a little small for a FPS even in 1994.
This site claims to have it but in the faq it says you need "a copy of Unreal Tournament" which is way too high-tech for a G3 Mac with 2meg video card.
any other real sources where I can download a full copy of Marathon?
"His group of ten researchers hopes to shrink that size down to about 0.5 micron, or 500 nanometers, within the next five years. "This will carry us all the way to the 100T byte regime," he said.....Magnetic particles painted on today's tapes are about one micron..."
If we have one micron now, and 0.5 micron allows for 100T byte tapes, why don't we have 50T byte now?
"Sure, it looks cooler standing, and probably annoys his neighbours more..."
his neighbors the polar bears? He's in freakin alaska, unless the polar bears have freakin lasers on their foreheads I don't think he has anything to worry about, besides a 35 foot mech is the perfect weapon against his neighbors the polar bears with freakin laser on their foreheads.
I don't think so. What I find funny is they competely downplay the fact that it includes a remote. Looking at the pictures you'd guess that you have to touch your case just to play a media file which, to me, is equivalent to walking up to your DVD player to press "play", and who wants to do that? But "hidden" deep in the text it says "This deluxe version of S-presso features a touch-control color display panel as well as a TV tuner, remote control, and multimedia center software." Now don't you think they could have showen a picture of someone using the remote, or at least a picture of the remote somewhere?
It'd also be cool if the remote somehow attached to it's own little port in the case because something that size with a giant handle is designed to be moved around and it'd sure be nice to snap the remote onto it without having to remember to bring the remote.
did anyone notice there doesn't seem to be a PCMCIA slot anywhere? Better be happy with what it has because you'll never be able to add anything like firewire, etc.
"You just say that because she's looking up at you."
true... I do like that view best of women.... cuz there's usually only one thing they're doing when they're looking up at me... and no, not tying my shoe....
"there are tons of printers and softwares that will do the same job, so i don't see why people should switch over..."
I can think of a few reasons why someone would rather use this technology than a printer:
1) Don't have to pay for the printer
2) No consumables like ink and special photographic CD labels
3) If you're on the go with your laptop you can create a nice looking label without a printer
4) from the images on their website it looks pretty cool
One problem I noticed and they mention on the website: "...It combines the CD or DVD drive of your computer with specially coated discs..." which means you have to buy special dics. No thanks to that, I'll stick with my sharpie, unless they're the same price as all other media.
i know you're a Mac user so you're not required to know a damn thing about anything but it'd sure be nice if you guys would learn how hyperlink properly WITHOUT spaces.
"What other higher order specie that has multi planet colonization did he do his evaluation against?"
exactly.
the kid at mcdonald's gave me stock advice the other day, should I believe that too?
He went to space which is cool and all, but how does that give him the ability to determine that I have a 1 in 455 chance of being "wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years". What's his PhD in? What research does he base his incredible claim upon? Not saying he's wrong, I'd just like to know where he got his information from.
did anyone even bother to read the slate article before posting it??
"My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn't see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill. I didn't see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white (and why all the leading women had "violet eyes"). It didn't even make sense. Whites are a minority on Earth now?why wouldn't they still be either a minority, or just swallowed up in the larger colored gene pool, in the future? .... very gradually publishers may be beginning to lose their blind fear of putting a nonwhite face on the cover of a book. "Hurts sales, hurts sales" is the mantra. Yeah, so?"
Welcome to reality, where people care about money, and although I agree the majority of the world is not of european descent, I still say the majority of the world is white, asian descent. And what science fiction books is she reading with names like bob and joe?
"An inkjet picture that doesnt fade noticably within 12 months is remarkable,
but not necessarily "better than professionally made photographs"."
and what was the original they used to compare the injets to 12 months later? Just print out a new picture?
Have you guys seen their inflated prices?? "According to PC Pro, producing a print 8x10in on an Epson R800 printer using top quality paper costs £1.87. At Jessops the same image would cost £2.50 and at Snappy Snaps £9.99. A 10x7in snap at Boots would cost £4.99."
Wow that's what you guys are paying in the UK? 1 british pound is nearly 2 USD, so you guys are paying between $5 and $20 for a 8x10! Every walmart and walgreens in the US charges $2-$3 for a 8x10.
Also could someone please explain why they always refer to 8x10s in these studies besides the fact that it makes photo printers look cheaper than professional developers? I mean honestly, unless you're a professional photographer in some regard how often do you print a lot of photos at 8x10? Anyone here print the entire family vacation at 8x10?
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I don't know what site you refer to as "this site" but no where in the post does it say the free ipods links are legit, they're simple pointing to a NY Times article examining the phenomenon.
oh no sir, don't thank me, thank toyota with your checkbook.
How about 0-60 in 6.8 seconds and 37 mpg?
Your wish is Toyota's command:
"Thanks to a 3-liter V6 augmented by dual front and rear electric motors, this car boasts a breakneck 0-60 mph in just over four seconds while still offering around 30/mpg under normal driving conditions."
--"I have had two friends sign up for this promotion. Both got five friends at the same time and one was told her iPod was being shipped and the other was denied for mysterious reasons. So even if you fulfill the requirements, you'll only get super-spammed instead of an iPod."
--"I know several people who completed the offers, had their friends complete the offer and never got anything. Not to mention they got signed up for every mailing list in existence."
posts like that are enough for me to declare they're a scam.
Lexus hybrid SUV
Toyota hybrid SUV
Hybrid trucks and SUVs from other manufactures
All that and it still only got to 130mph.... let's not forget most modern vehicles easily reach that speed stock. So forgive me if I'm not all that impressed.
http://source.bungie.org/ claims to have it, but the link I clicked "Download Marathon Aleph One" for OS9 resulted in a 1.9 megabyte file, a little small for a FPS even in 1994.
This site claims to have it but in the faq it says you need "a copy of Unreal Tournament" which is way too high-tech for a G3 Mac with 2meg video card.
any other real sources where I can download a full copy of Marathon?
If we have one micron now, and 0.5 micron allows for 100T byte tapes, why don't we have 50T byte now?
which explains why you went up to 4.2mhz.....
his neighbors the polar bears? He's in freakin alaska, unless the polar bears have freakin lasers on their foreheads I don't think he has anything to worry about, besides a 35 foot mech is the perfect weapon against his neighbors the polar bears with freakin laser on their foreheads.
I don't think so. What I find funny is they competely downplay the fact that it includes a remote. Looking at the pictures you'd guess that you have to touch your case just to play a media file which, to me, is equivalent to walking up to your DVD player to press "play", and who wants to do that? But "hidden" deep in the text it says "This deluxe version of S-presso features a touch-control color display panel as well as a TV tuner, remote control, and multimedia center software." Now don't you think they could have showen a picture of someone using the remote, or at least a picture of the remote somewhere?
It'd also be cool if the remote somehow attached to it's own little port in the case because something that size with a giant handle is designed to be moved around and it'd sure be nice to snap the remote onto it without having to remember to bring the remote.
FYI Newegg has the S1-P112 (same case except touchscreen, remote & software) for $215. This site claims to have the one discussed here, the S1-P111, for $250.
did anyone notice there doesn't seem to be a PCMCIA slot anywhere? Better be happy with what it has because you'll never be able to add anything like firewire, etc.
whoa, good thing i shop at Kmart
true... I do like that view best of women.... cuz there's usually only one thing they're doing when they're looking up at me... and no, not tying my shoe....
I can think of a few reasons why someone would rather use this technology than a printer:
1) Don't have to pay for the printer
2) No consumables like ink and special photographic CD labels
3) If you're on the go with your laptop you can create a nice looking label without a printer
4) from the images on their website it looks pretty cool
One problem I noticed and they mention on the website: "...It combines the CD or DVD drive of your computer with specially coated discs..." which means you have to buy special dics. No thanks to that, I'll stick with my sharpie, unless they're the same price as all other media.
why, it wouldn't be cool at all!
Little bit of leg FIXED
Little bit of up the skirt FIXED
typical slashdot: they post a story about a C64 in a joystick and what are we concerned about? Looking up the skirt of the developer ;)
Even if she wasn't a 30 yr old high school dropout self-taught chip designer and was just a normal person I'd still consider her cute.
make that a glowing button.
exactly.
the kid at mcdonald's gave me stock advice the other day, should I believe that too?
He went to space which is cool and all, but how does that give him the ability to determine that I have a 1 in 455 chance of being "wiped out by a civilization-ending event in the next 100 years". What's his PhD in? What research does he base his incredible claim upon? Not saying he's wrong, I'd just like to know where he got his information from.
Oh, and btw, the sky's falling.
"My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn't see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill. I didn't see why everybody in heroic fantasy had to be white (and why all the leading women had "violet eyes"). It didn't even make sense. Whites are a minority on Earth now?why wouldn't they still be either a minority, or just swallowed up in the larger colored gene pool, in the future?
.... very gradually publishers may be beginning to lose their blind fear of putting a nonwhite face on the cover of a book. "Hurts sales, hurts sales" is the mantra. Yeah, so?"
Welcome to reality, where people care about money, and although I agree the majority of the world is not of european descent, I still say the majority of the world is white, asian descent. And what science fiction books is she reading with names like bob and joe?
if the companies don't see a need for ITS now who do you think is going to hire you after you graduate?
and what was the original they used to compare the injets to 12 months later? Just print out a new picture?
Have you guys seen their inflated prices??
"According to PC Pro, producing a print 8x10in on an Epson R800 printer using top quality paper costs £1.87. At Jessops the same image would cost £2.50 and at Snappy Snaps £9.99. A 10x7in snap at Boots would cost £4.99."
Wow that's what you guys are paying in the UK? 1 british pound is nearly 2 USD, so you guys are paying between $5 and $20 for a 8x10! Every walmart and walgreens in the US charges $2-$3 for a 8x10.
Also could someone please explain why they always refer to 8x10s in these studies besides the fact that it makes photo printers look cheaper than professional developers? I mean honestly, unless you're a professional photographer in some regard how often do you print a lot of photos at 8x10? Anyone here print the entire family vacation at 8x10?
*this study paid for by HP and Epson