"When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me." (12:3)
I don't think it's a matter of stupidity. My impression is that the Japanese players are just much more dedicated to gaming. I think the average American loses interest in a game once he/she completes it. The average Japanese doesn't consider the game completed until he/she discovers every secret, trick, hack and bug.
It's a matter of patience really, not intelligence.
Apple could have chosen to be bold, all the new machines based on the Intel processors could have been completely new designs ascetically.
I expect changes in the appearance of future Apple computers will be less and less significant. Apple has spent years and considerable amounts of money getting to what they feel is the ideal computer (shape, look, dimensions, material, etc.).
For the translator to get the second word of a sentence, it would have to wait till the end, of what could be a long sentence. This necessarily adds delay.
Not necessarily. An on-the-fly translator could translate words as it hears them filling in the translated words in the correct location in the sentence. In other words, the sentence doesn't have to be completed in order. It can dynamically expand to fit in new words.
If you listen to human translators doing on-the-fly translation you'll see this is how they work.
What's the difference between using a battery (rechargeable or otherwise) or the mains to power the powerswitch? You're still using electricity, which is the point of this article.
This is just a guess but companies (including Sony) usually separate their business units. So the business unit that owns the Blu Ray technology will "license" it to the PS3 business unit.
So even though there's no real cash exchanging hands, the PS3 business unit still has to justify the cost of putting a Blu Ray drive in there. They can't just say "hey come on, we're the same company, cut us some slack".
It also makes them look good towards other companies to which they are licensing the Blu Ray drive. So others don't shout unfair competition.
My hunch is that raw materials will not cost more than $5.
Agreed that a loud PC isn't a welcome addition to any room. However an old laptop works perfectly for things like this. You can get one for dirt cheap if you do a search for those with cracked displays.
This is not a fair or even economic model because I would need huge teams of people on bikes to power my house. To keep a single person in luxury a large number of people would be needed. Because of this imbalance, only a small number of privileged people would have electricity even though a large number of people worked for that electricity.
I remember the day when that exact same argument was used by the large number of people working to make the electricity when their jobs were made redundant thanks to automation.
Hey wait a second, isn't that same argument STILL used by people today?
It's not a slave system if you're paying them and if they have the option of going somewhere else if they get a better offer.
I'm completely baffled and amazed by the amount of discussion that takes place on a daily basis on slashdot about EULA's and licenses. One thing that I always find amusing is how people always say: "oh I didn't know what the license was cuz it's not printed on the box". For goodness' sake it's the same bloody license on each and every piece of software out there. We all know they copy/paste it from each other. Haven't you read it yet?
We all get it by now that when you buy commercial software it's a license to use the software. You don't own it. What would really be helpful on the outside of the box is an explanation of how that license is controlled (e.g. activation, etc.).
This kind of thing is exactly why the US is so litigious. Everywhere else in the world people use common sense.
One way is to provide more than one set of batteries with each car. This way, while driving, another set of batteries can be charged. Recharging stations can then keep track of which batteries belong to whom.
And in case you're caught far from your second set of batteries, you can always go with the regular slow recharge.
Hey, tool, it's the NiCds that have the memory effect. Perhaps next time you want to try to sound knowledgeable, maybe you should , uhh, get some knowledge?
For those who posted in response to my original post about NiMH cells having no memory effect, I believe you're mistaken. Here are a few links to back that up:
It is true that the term 'memory effect' now has a much looser meaning than before, and that even NiCd batteries only suffer true memory effect under stringent lab conditions. However, today the term is used to refer to any drop in battery performance as a result of charging the battery before a (almost) complete discharge.
I've had the exact opposite experience. Because of their memory effect, NiMH are the most inconvenient batteries to use. You have to spend about 24 hours prior to using the camera to discharge and rechard them to make sure you have the maximum charge.
No thanks, I'll take a couple of Li-ion any day. Just plug them in a few hours before I intend to shoot and off I go. One Li-ion generally lets me take about 90 photos at 3.2 megapixel resolution, with a bit more than half using flash (Casio has pushed that limit even further with their Z3 and Z4 models, I believe over 200 photos with one charge). And if you're planning on taking more than 150 photos for an event, generally speaking you're probably looking for more than a compact (digital SLR maybe?).
What's most unique about the Tungsten T5 is it can be plugged into the USB port on almost any computer and the 160 MB segment of memory will appear on the computer as a removable drive. The Palm Desktop software doesn't have to be installed on the computer. What's more, if an SD card is inserted into the T5, it will also appear as a removable drive.
No offense to the parent but please don't mod all these Cygwin posts up!!
Repeat after me: Running Evolution under Cygwin is NOT A WINDOWS PORT!!! Very very few people will fire up Cygwin and then Evolution every time they want to check their mail. Not to mention the effort required to install which Windows users are not used to.
A Windows port means it runs natively in Windows. Period.
I don't neccesarily mean that there will have to be some sort of global catastrophe, just that there will be no real exploration until a group of humans blasts off from Earth with no prospects to return.
Fair enough, but where are you sending them? So far everything we've seen within a thousand lifetimes of space travel has been uninhabitable.
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"When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me." (12:3)
It's a matter of patience really, not intelligence.
In the Middle East we find this hilarious. Biz in Arabic means breast.
I expect changes in the appearance of future Apple computers will be less and less significant. Apple has spent years and considerable amounts of money getting to what they feel is the ideal computer (shape, look, dimensions, material, etc.).
Not necessarily. An on-the-fly translator could translate words as it hears them filling in the translated words in the correct location in the sentence. In other words, the sentence doesn't have to be completed in order. It can dynamically expand to fit in new words.
If you listen to human translators doing on-the-fly translation you'll see this is how they work.
What's the difference between using a battery (rechargeable or otherwise) or the mains to power the powerswitch? You're still using electricity, which is the point of this article.
What was that???
It's obvious George Bush doesn't play risk, otherwise he would have invaded Australia first.
Sound quality on PDAs sucks big time.
At this rate of growth I see hosting services losing a lot of customers. Especially shared hosting.
So even though there's no real cash exchanging hands, the PS3 business unit still has to justify the cost of putting a Blu Ray drive in there. They can't just say "hey come on, we're the same company, cut us some slack".
It also makes them look good towards other companies to which they are licensing the Blu Ray drive. So others don't shout unfair competition.
My hunch is that raw materials will not cost more than $5.
So with over 80% of Americans not even having a passport, is that really a problem?
Agreed that a loud PC isn't a welcome addition to any room. However an old laptop works perfectly for things like this. You can get one for dirt cheap if you do a search for those with cracked displays.
Possibly because you can buy left-handed versions of the mice?
I remember the day when that exact same argument was used by the large number of people working to make the electricity when their jobs were made redundant thanks to automation.
Hey wait a second, isn't that same argument STILL used by people today?
It's not a slave system if you're paying them and if they have the option of going somewhere else if they get a better offer.
We all get it by now that when you buy commercial software it's a license to use the software. You don't own it. What would really be helpful on the outside of the box is an explanation of how that license is controlled (e.g. activation, etc.).
This kind of thing is exactly why the US is so litigious. Everywhere else in the world people use common sense.
One way is to provide more than one set of batteries with each car. This way, while driving, another set of batteries can be charged. Recharging stations can then keep track of which batteries belong to whom. And in case you're caught far from your second set of batteries, you can always go with the regular slow recharge.
For those who posted in response to my original post about NiMH cells having no memory effect, I believe you're mistaken. Here are a few links to back that up:
It is true that the term 'memory effect' now has a much looser meaning than before, and that even NiCd batteries only suffer true memory effect under stringent lab conditions. However, today the term is used to refer to any drop in battery performance as a result of charging the battery before a (almost) complete discharge.
No thanks, I'll take a couple of Li-ion any day. Just plug them in a few hours before I intend to shoot and off I go. One Li-ion generally lets me take about 90 photos at 3.2 megapixel resolution, with a bit more than half using flash (Casio has pushed that limit even further with their Z3 and Z4 models, I believe over 200 photos with one charge). And if you're planning on taking more than 150 photos for an event, generally speaking you're probably looking for more than a compact (digital SLR maybe?).
Recently saw this Sony Wi-Fi webcam on Gizmodo. Could be what you're looking for.
Repeat after me: Running Evolution under Cygwin is NOT A WINDOWS PORT!!! Very very few people will fire up Cygwin and then Evolution every time they want to check their mail. Not to mention the effort required to install which Windows users are not used to.
A Windows port means it runs natively in Windows. Period.
Fair enough, but where are you sending them? So far everything we've seen within a thousand lifetimes of space travel has been uninhabitable.
No worries. I'm already at 7k so gimme just a few more days and I'll have the torrent up for everyone..!!
This is just a guess from what I've seen, but aren't some (most?) cars using LED's for the red stop lights on the back? They seem pretty bright.