If they really think 8x10's will turn out very well on a two megapixel sensor, they must be kidding themselves.
funny, 3-4 years ago any digital photographer would have told you 1600x1200 is plenty for 8x10s (150 pixels per inch). Now it's what, 3mp? 4mp? I suppose 3 years from now everyone will insist 5mp is required for "decents prints at 8x10".
you forgot one point: with the "$8 in product" equation Wal-mart is still making a profit at $0.29/per photo = $7 total + $1 CD-R = $8. So in reality Ritz is probably making far more than $3/rental, maybe $4 or $5 depending on how much it costs to print 4x6s (not much if wal-mart can profit at 29 cents each).
Why are you so pro-iPaq 1910? I can get a 400mhz Toshiba e740 for $219 vs the iPaq's 200mhz. Not only that but Toshiba offers a high capacity battery pack that's triple the power of the original battery. Can't get that with 1910. The e740 also includes built-in wifi (not available with 1910), a CF slot (not available with 1910) and is about the same size as the GBA.
I just traded in my $300 m515 Palm for a $200 PocketPC (Toshiba 740) because it offered 320x240 (vs 160x160), wifi, more memory, dual expansion slots (SD & CF) and a real 3D graphics chip along with the availability of impressive games like Age of Empires while my Palm barely played a Civilization clone called Kindgoms.
Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't the PPC make a better choice for a gaming system platform? X-Box seems to be doing pretty well with it's Microsoft roots, so I'd think a portable X-Box would fair well in the market.
Problem with organ donation is the doctor's definition of "dead". Playboy had an excellent article last year on doctors harvesting organs from patients that could still be resuscitate.
Why would any doctor kill a person for the organs? Because (according to the article) organs only last so long, and the longer the blood is pumping the longer the organs stay fresh:
"You go without a pulse for two minutes in some hospitals, you're dead. They take your organs. In other places, at two minutes, they're still trying to revive you."
"Then there is the procedure itself, which can look like anything but an operation on a dead body. For example, in Charleston, South Carolina a 16-year-old girl was shot in the head. At the time of hospital admission she was showing signs of life--she was moving and breathing. Though a CAT scan showed the bullet lodged in her skull, it had skirted major blood vessels, and the brain itself appeared remarkably intact. That didn't stop attending physicians from declaring her dead two hours later. She was rushed to an operating room, where surgeons opened her abdomen and cut assorted arteries in order to remove both kidneys and her spleen. When the ventilator was shut off, she failed to breathe--no big shock, since the transplant team also bisected her diaphragm. Even after this full-scale assault on her body, 14 minutes passed before the girl's heart gave out. Finally, mercifully, she was dead. "
"Marino tells the story of the Toledo man who shot a woman in the head. "The hospital declared her brain-dead. Surgeons did the harvest. But just before they made the decision to cut, a neurosurgeon had examined the woman. When he found out later about the harvest, he was furious. He says, 'This woman might have been blind in one eye or had other problems, but I think we could have salvaged her!' So when the man is charged with murder, the defense had the neurosurgeon and other experts testify~' that what actually caused the woman's death was not the gunshot but the harvest. Now they got the guy on felonious assault, but they didn't get him for murder." "
What about lawsuits? Lawsuits are scary things, but after the doctor kills you to harvest your organs what good is 10 million dollars?
Not only that, but your family might have to pay for the donation of your organs:
"researchers found an average of $16,645 billed to the families of patients for procedures that should have been charged to OPOs."
I don't want to be killed just for my organs and I don't want my loved ones saddled with 15 grand to donate my organs so I will never sign a organ donation card.
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We (UMR) usually gets burned by MIT, but the running joke is our car is less than a quarter million while their's is closer to 1.5 mil, least it was a few years ago.
Even though the rules are strict there's still plenty of things you can sink money into, like tires, frame material, etc.
To bunny hop in a straight line I usually start off with a strafe jump, before hitting the ground, let go of forward, press and hold the strafe key in the opposite direction to the strafe jump and turn the mouse the same way, press jump the instant you land, wait until you are about to land again, switch strafes, turn the mouse, land and press jump, continue doing this, alternating strafes and sweeping your mouse in little arcs. If you come to a corner simply hold strafe in the direction of the turn and move the mouse around the corner, hopefully you will gain some speed from the manoeuvre and shoot off down the next corridor. It's very hard to explain, and you learn what speeds you up from feel, so it's a case of practice, practice, practice. You will need a jump button you can keep pressing while staying in full control of everything else. The timing of the jump is critical, jump to late and you slow down, jump to early and you don't jump at all, again it's a case of lots of practice.
Alright so it's not quite a 733, but for $50 less it's close enough. Audio is good enough, and although the video may leave something to be desired a $30 video card off pricewatch would give you comparable 3D graphics.
To be honest I don't think people hack XBox's for the "bang for buck", I think they do it just to do it. If you could get the BMW's 745i computer to run Linux I'm sure people would be doing it.
At first glance I'd agree, but I think downloading games is still a good idea, even if it's *gasp* dial-up, depending on how they set it up.
On broadband you could easily download a 1 CD game in a few hours (how many console games are on more than 1 CD?). If it was a PC game I'd get bored in 20 minutes and be upset it took so long to download, but console games you usually play for months, so waiting a few hours for something I'll use for months isn't so bad.
On dial-up they *might* be able to split some games into levels, textures and sounds not needed until later levels (don't get the rocket launcher till level 3? Why spend 10 minutes downloading the textures and sounds until then?). You could download the first level, get playing, and while playing the other levels could download. If you don't play a few days then the rest of the game could finish completely.
I must be the biggest moron in the world: I can't find the times & dates for the MillionManLan anywhere in the article on Tom's Hardware.
I'm so dumb I can't even find a link to the information!
I must be looking right over the information, no way would anyone write a article encouraging people to attend an event and not put the obvious like the time and date of the event...
I was "diagnosed" with ADHD as a child in the mid-80s when it wasn't the new buzzword on the streets. Back then it was new, no one heard of it, and Ritalin was a brand new solution, not the "wonder" drug they think it is today.
I took Ritalin for years as a child, before it was proven to stunt growth. I am now several inches shorter than my shortest brother, and although I'll never know if it was the Ritalin, I wish to god I could go back and not take it.
After "dealing" with ADHD for years I now don't believe in it. I think it's a bogus diagnose, and there was really nothing wrong with me, I was just a normal child that was incredibly bored with the pace of education in school so I searched for other things to occupy my time which infuriated my teachers. I believe had I been given special instruction I would surpassed most the other children in the class intellectually, but instead, at the request of my teachers, I was kept drugged up so I would sit there zoned-out like a zombie on dope.
I think that's incredibly sad that I spent my entire childhood in that state, and don't think any child or adult should suffer what I have suffered. If your doctor says you have ADHD, tell him to go fuck himself and get a second opinion.
Why do this? Seems to me it just embarasses the Egyptian censorship board, since the idea of The Matrix Reloaded containing "religious themes" requires quite a bit of reading between the lines.
Why not ban all movies? I'm sure any crazy could find a religious theme in every movie.
Seven or eight years ago, everyone I knew used ICQ. Gradually, people shifted to AIM. I still don't know how that happened but at some point AIM reached critical mass and most people I knew dumped ICQ entirely.
well duh. 7 or 8 years ago AIM either didn't exist or was so small it was nothing. And people didn't just "gradually" shift to AIM, it's called having 35 million users on AOL. Soon as you meet a few people in chatrooms you pretty much had to have AIM to chat, especially hot PC-noobie chicks;)
I read the whole article and didn't see anything about flight paths or government permission to blast a 12 lb rocket to 55,000 feet. Any word?
I'm just afraid this will catch on and suddenly every dateless geeky 15 year old will attempt to launch a 12 lb rocket to space that become falling missles of doom.
I can't believe he's using Paypal. Hope no one pays with a stolen credit card or from overseas because then Paypal will take all the money from the account.
The reason Oregan is doing this according to the article is "the tax rate hasn't changed since 1991, and the more fuel-efficient cars on the highways are sucking down far less fuel."
According to some polls light trucks make up more than 50% of vehicle purchases among baby boomer households, with sports cars and luxury vehicles making up another 14%. Small Cars only make up 13% of sales, so the Oregon Department of Transportation's story that the highways are full of fuel-efficient vehicles and they're losing money because of it doesn't add up.
"Here's the reasoning: you want to make sure that you cannot play games on your computer. You know as well as I do that if you can play games, you will. Intead of doing your homework. I know whole Counter Strike clans that failed out of expensive private universty educations. You must avoid this fate at all costs. "
WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL! You pretty much described exactly what happened to me, except the game was Quake and the PC was a pentinum 133. I never graduated, had to drop out, and now try and attend when I can afford it. At this rate I should graduate in about 5 years:(
Problem is I was a CS major, and all the software for classes (Borland C++ compiler) were for Windows OS. Linux was unheard of (least I didn't), and it would have been a huge battle to find an alternative OS and find software to compile programs.
Guess I could have purchased a used Unix box, but I didn't even know what Unix was and that didn't even cross my mind.
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funny, 3-4 years ago any digital photographer would have told you 1600x1200 is plenty for 8x10s (150 pixels per inch). Now it's what, 3mp? 4mp? I suppose 3 years from now everyone will insist 5mp is required for "decents prints at 8x10".
It'll never end...
you forgot one point: with the "$8 in product" equation Wal-mart is still making a profit at $0.29/per photo = $7 total + $1 CD-R = $8. So in reality Ritz is probably making far more than $3/rental, maybe $4 or $5 depending on how much it costs to print 4x6s (not much if wal-mart can profit at 29 cents each).
So again, what's so great about the iPaq 1910?
I just traded in my $300 m515 Palm for a $200 PocketPC (Toshiba 740) because it offered 320x240 (vs 160x160), wifi, more memory, dual expansion slots (SD & CF) and a real 3D graphics chip along with the availability of impressive games like Age of Empires while my Palm barely played a Civilization clone called Kindgoms.
Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't the PPC make a better choice for a gaming system platform? X-Box seems to be doing pretty well with it's Microsoft roots, so I'd think a portable X-Box would fair well in the market.
A copy of the article is here
Why would any doctor kill a person for the organs? Because (according to the article) organs only last so long, and the longer the blood is pumping the longer the organs stay fresh:
"You go without a pulse for two minutes in some hospitals, you're dead. They take your organs. In other places, at two minutes, they're still trying to revive you."
"Then there is the procedure itself, which can look like anything but an operation on a dead body. For example, in Charleston, South Carolina a 16-year-old girl was shot in the head. At the time of hospital admission she was showing signs of life--she was moving and breathing. Though a CAT scan showed the bullet lodged in her skull, it had skirted major blood vessels, and the brain itself appeared remarkably intact. That didn't stop attending physicians from declaring her dead two hours later. She was rushed to an operating room, where surgeons opened her abdomen and cut assorted arteries in order to remove both kidneys and her spleen. When the ventilator was shut off, she failed to breathe--no big shock, since the transplant team also bisected her diaphragm. Even after this full-scale assault on her body, 14 minutes passed before the girl's heart gave out. Finally, mercifully, she was dead. "
"Marino tells the story of the Toledo man who shot a woman in the head. "The hospital declared her brain-dead. Surgeons did the harvest. But just before they made the decision to cut, a neurosurgeon had examined the woman. When he found out later about the harvest, he was furious. He says, 'This woman might have been blind in one eye or had other problems, but I think we could have salvaged her!' So when the man is charged with murder, the defense had the neurosurgeon and other experts testify~' that what actually caused the woman's death was not the gunshot but the harvest. Now they got the guy on felonious assault, but they didn't get him for murder." "
What about lawsuits? Lawsuits are scary things, but after the doctor kills you to harvest your organs what good is 10 million dollars?
Not only that, but your family might have to pay for the donation of your organs:
"researchers found an average of $16,645 billed to the families of patients for procedures that should have been charged to OPOs."
I don't want to be killed just for my organs and I don't want my loved ones saddled with 15 grand to donate my organs so I will never sign a organ donation card.
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What a wonderful idea! So the RIAA can publish more statistics proving music sales are down and blame p2p programs? Why didn't I think of that one?!?
If anything you should buy *more* CDs to prove p2p programs are not effecting music sales.
The impressive part is only the top 12 cars even *finished* the race:d ings.html
http://americansolarchallenge.org/daily_race_stan
We (UMR) usually gets burned by MIT, but the running joke is our car is less than a quarter million while their's is closer to 1.5 mil, least it was a few years ago.
Even though the rules are strict there's still plenty of things you can sink money into, like tires, frame material, etc.
To bunny hop in a straight line I usually start off with a strafe jump, before hitting the ground, let go of forward, press and hold the strafe key in the opposite direction to the strafe jump and turn the mouse the same way, press jump the instant you land, wait until you are about to land again, switch strafes, turn the mouse, land and press jump, continue doing this, alternating strafes and sweeping your mouse in little arcs. If you come to a corner simply hold strafe in the direction of the turn and move the mouse around the corner, hopefully you will gain some speed from the manoeuvre and shoot off down the next corridor. It's very hard to explain, and you learn what speeds you up from feel, so it's a case of practice, practice, practice. You will need a jump button you can keep pressing while staying in full control of everything else. The timing of the jump is critical, jump to late and you slow down, jump to early and you don't jump at all, again it's a case of lots of practice.
well that's easy: compgeeks.com
Alright so it's not quite a 733, but for $50 less it's close enough. Audio is good enough, and although the video may leave something to be desired a $30 video card off pricewatch would give you comparable 3D graphics.
To be honest I don't think people hack XBox's for the "bang for buck", I think they do it just to do it. If you could get the BMW's 745i computer to run Linux I'm sure people would be doing it.
At first glance I'd agree, but I think downloading games is still a good idea, even if it's *gasp* dial-up, depending on how they set it up.
On broadband you could easily download a 1 CD game in a few hours (how many console games are on more than 1 CD?). If it was a PC game I'd get bored in 20 minutes and be upset it took so long to download, but console games you usually play for months, so waiting a few hours for something I'll use for months isn't so bad.
On dial-up they *might* be able to split some games into levels, textures and sounds not needed until later levels (don't get the rocket launcher till level 3? Why spend 10 minutes downloading the textures and sounds until then?). You could download the first level, get playing, and while playing the other levels could download. If you don't play a few days then the rest of the game could finish completely.
I'm so dumb I can't even find a link to the information!
I must be looking right over the information, no way would anyone write a article encouraging people to attend an event and not put the obvious like the time and date of the event...
you can call it flamebait all you want, but it's the truth. ----
because the NYT buys a lot of advertising on /.
I took Ritalin for years as a child, before it was proven to stunt growth. I am now several inches shorter than my shortest brother, and although I'll never know if it was the Ritalin, I wish to god I could go back and not take it.
After "dealing" with ADHD for years I now don't believe in it. I think it's a bogus diagnose, and there was really nothing wrong with me, I was just a normal child that was incredibly bored with the pace of education in school so I searched for other things to occupy my time which infuriated my teachers. I believe had I been given special instruction I would surpassed most the other children in the class intellectually, but instead, at the request of my teachers, I was kept drugged up so I would sit there zoned-out like a zombie on dope.
I think that's incredibly sad that I spent my entire childhood in that state, and don't think any child or adult should suffer what I have suffered. If your doctor says you have ADHD, tell him to go fuck himself and get a second opinion.
Terminator 3 is being released this Summer...
Like the article says this story is from last month when I heard about it on CNN Headline News.
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Why do this? Seems to me it just embarasses the Egyptian censorship board, since the idea of The Matrix Reloaded containing "religious themes" requires quite a bit of reading between the lines.
Why not ban all movies? I'm sure any crazy could find a religious theme in every movie.
Um, well it's usually easier to get soemthing out the door when you're the richest man in the world....
Honestly, what couldn't he "get out the door"? If he wanted to fly to Mars he could do it.
well duh. 7 or 8 years ago AIM either didn't exist or was so small it was nothing. And people didn't just "gradually" shift to AIM, it's called having 35 million users on AOL. Soon as you meet a few people in chatrooms you pretty much had to have AIM to chat, especially hot PC-noobie chicks ;)
Considering all the bitching I hear on /. about big brother watching I'm surprised to hear anyone love the idea of anybody recording every IM.
What if you found out your friend was recording every phone conversation? Would you feel comfortable speaking freely with them?
Main thing I would worry about is why... why record it? To view funny old conversations? Sorry I don't buy that.
If I really must log a IM I can just save it with AIM.
I'm just afraid this will catch on and suddenly every dateless geeky 15 year old will attempt to launch a 12 lb rocket to space that become falling missles of doom.
He'll lose 12 grand *again*!
"I'm so pretty, oh so pretty..."
But all the news reports indicate consumers are buying more light trucks than ever, which are the "worst offenders for tailpipe emissions and fuel inefficiency. "
According to some polls light trucks make up more than 50% of vehicle purchases among baby boomer households, with sports cars and luxury vehicles making up another 14%. Small Cars only make up 13% of sales, so the Oregon Department of Transportation's story that the highways are full of fuel-efficient vehicles and they're losing money because of it doesn't add up.
WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL! You pretty much described exactly what happened to me, except the game was Quake and the PC was a pentinum 133. I never graduated, had to drop out, and now try and attend when I can afford it. At this rate I should graduate in about 5 years :(
Problem is I was a CS major, and all the software for classes (Borland C++ compiler) were for Windows OS. Linux was unheard of (least I didn't), and it would have been a huge battle to find an alternative OS and find software to compile programs.
Guess I could have purchased a used Unix box, but I didn't even know what Unix was and that didn't even cross my mind.