Add in the weight of even the lightest driver, though, and the Rebel wins out there. Assuming a 90-pound driver, it would add (90/15)=6 to the rebel and (90/8)=11.25 to the other. And a 150-pound driver adds 10 and 18.75, respectively. You do have a point that the difference isn't as pronounced as it first would seem, though.
Your stability complaint for PC versions is somewhat justified. I've experienced many a crash when it tries to load some Java applets in the Windows version (haven't tried a Linux version). I also imagine stability has improved since you last tried it. I think the current official version is 7, and 8 is available in beta form... I think. My assumption is that the mobile versions are significantly different in their implementation than the desktop versions.
Interesting. I guess my hope now is that with the extension comes free retroactive downloads for phones that gain the support. I suppose I should add to that the hope that the 3660 is among the phones that gain such support.
I remember installing Opera on my Diamond Mako (a rebranded Psion Revo Plus) a few years ago. Since I didn't have a GSM phone to employ as a modem for it, I tried it out on some pages I transferred over the serial connection from my PC. It seemed to do pretty well, but the resolution on that device was 480x160 and was of course a touchscreen, so it wasn't quite the challenge that developing a good interface on a phone would be. Was definitely on Symbian OS (EPOC release 5, apparently). Opera seemed a bit slow to start on a 36MHz ARM processor, though.
Except that Opera is very well respected as a mobile browser and has apparently some nice features specifically for low resolution mobile devices, including supposedly very well executed small screen rendering, which I guess scales and readjusts a web page for improved display on a mobile's screen.
The mobile version of Opera has a 14-day trial period (ad-free) and then won't work without registration (or probably some other workaround; I have yet to investigate).
I installed it on my Nokia 3660 a while back and let the trial run out before I got around to trying to use it.
Is the nature of this announcement merely that Opera will officially offer versions that support an increasing number of Nokia phone models? Should I assume users will still have to pay for Opera?
What the 3D glasses help to do is filter a different image for each eye. The old red blue ones did it pretty simply and obviously. The ones at theme parks and IMAX theaters and the like use polarized projections (I think with two separate projectors, though I'm unsure) and similarly polarized glasses so you're not losing color information. If you take the special glasses from those and overlay the right lens on top of the left (or vice versa), it blocks out pretty much everything. Similarly, I think, if you overlay a left lens on top of another left lens rotated at 90 degrees from the other one, you get the same effect.
Upshot is that these newer ones still rely on stereo vision, but probably are filmed (or rendered in the case of CG ones) with exaggerated perspectives that might enhance the feeling of dimension even in a single eye.
Professor Farnsworth: "Indeed so. At this rate, by Tuesday it will be Thursday; By Wednesday, it will be August and by Thursday, it will be the end of existence as we know it."
I assumed it was a non-quoted Half-Life reference. The game's silent protagonist, Gordon Freeman, is a scientist who uses a crowbar with satisfying regularity.
Back in the mid/late '90s, there was a Taco Bell near me that installed touch screen ordering stations. You'd get your receipt with a number on it, and a few minutes later you'd hear your number called and maybe barely glimpse a human figure darting back behind the large wall that completely obscured the kitchen area. Then you'd retrieve your order from the very small counter where your food had been placed. In retrospect it was an odd clinical dehumanization of something still carried out by humans. Unless there were robots back there, I guess, one of which was dressed in a purple shirt and a wig.
Prius seems to have launched in Japan in 1997, and worldwide in 2000 (for reference, Honda's Insight beat it to the worldwide market by one year, released in 1999). That your parents' 2001 model is very near the beginning of the US production run might indicate that a common battery failure time has merely yet to be reached. On the other hand, it seems that at least in the 2004 model the battery has a 100,000 mile/8 year guarantee, and that Toyota's stated expected life of the 2004's battery is 15 years.
Anyway, citing lack of failure 5 years after the vehicle's domestic introduction does not mean that the battery won't fail in a couple of years. It does seem to indicate, though, that at least battery quality is consistent enough that there have yet to be any failed ones brought to that dealer. The $6-8k battery price still scares me. When, in hopefully at least 10 years, the battery does fail, if replacements are still expensive, the car would be pretty much junked except to some wealthy collector or something. Though I find the prospect of some rich guy driving around a 2001 Prius in 2015 to be amusing.
I've not tried Radio Shack for memory, as I had assumed that regardless of their selection, price would be high. Also, you'd be correct in your assumption of a lack of DSE in the area.
My original question stands, though, of whether there's any technological or business reason that N-Gage, 3660, et al. only use MMC.
That's the list of all the books in the "Open Source Series." They're listed newest to oldest. Looks like this PHP 5 one will probably be available soon. It was released in October, and a book released in July is available. The ones that are electronically available have links to the PDF in the "Downloads" section on the book's page. Though the very oldest few don't seem to have that.
Is there some technical or licensing reason that the Series 60 phones that use MMC don't also use SD? I have a 3660, and I'm doing okay with the 16MB MMC that it came with (though I guess that's primarily because I've yet to buy a Bluetooth dongle and IR is slow and feels so insubstantial), but I can't just go to Wal-Mart and pick up a new one. Most physical stores I've seen don't carry MMC. Pretty much everything that uses flash memory of that form factor tends to use SD... except for Nokia phones, and some cheap MP3 player I saw a couple of years ago.
My first cell phone, in 2001, was a Nokia 7160 that I got through Cingular. I'm not sure if the 7160 was available in Europe, as I think it had a GSM counterpart, too (might have been 7120, I can't recall, as GSM as far as I know had yet to make it to the US at that point--interesting tangent, in Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon from 1999, he made mention of a character's GSM phone which "could be used anywhere in the world, except America"). Anyway, my 7160 had SMS capabilities, and Cingular had various plans that included certain numbers of SMS messages per month.
Anyway, last year I switched over to T-Mobile (isn't that based in Germany?) because I wanted a Nokia 3660, and all Cingular offered was a 3620, which is apparently a severely crippled non-GSM version of the 3660. I've had no service problems except in certain grocery stores (Kroger and Publix), in which the signal strength falls to nothing. Looking at T-Mobile's service map, though, I realize my lack of service woes is primarily because travels have yet to take me out of its relatively limited range.
Further tangent of potential interest: in mid-2001 I got a heavily discounted Diamond Mako PDA, which was a rebranded Psion Revo Plus, which I gathered was a fairly popular device in Europe and used the Symbian OS. I really loved that device, but mine was struck down far before its time by a notoriously faulty nonreplaceable battery. Anyway, the device could connect over IR to GSM phones and use them as a modem to access the Internet. I found that an amazingly nifty feature and lamented the lack of GSM devices in the US available at the time.
Bonus material for pre-orders helps, too. Wind Waker is the only game I've pre-ordered because the pre-order came with the Ocarina of Time disc. I didn't actually redeem my pre-order for Wind Waker itself until a month or two after it was released.
I had heard that Wario Ware Touched was too gimmicky and to some degree lacked the manic spark of the original one. Until I played it on a demo unit in a store yesterday. If anything, the intuitive nature of the touchscreen-based games makes it even better than the GBA version. I'll probably buy it tomorrow when I buy the Incredibles DVD. It will be a welcome companion to Mario 64 and the Metroid Prime demo. And I might end up getting Yoshi's Touch and Go later in the week.
The local CompUSA here has a couple of Shuttle-sized machines sitting right next to the Apple section of the store. I kind of glanced their way as I was waiting for the clerk to fetch my Mini back in January. Aside from hard drive speed and RAM amount (I still need to get a 512MB stick and a putty knife), I'm loving the Mini.
My previous primary computer was a first-generation Alienware laptop that I'm still paying for. I assume I'll use it more once I clear out some space for it. It has an amazing screen. For now, though, the Mini is doing most everything I need it to (except Half-Life 2), and I'm easing myself into Unix while I'm at it.
While that sounds pretty much great, I really, really doubt that's what will happen. I think it's just gonna be a WiFi connection to the Internet through a router/access point. Distribution of the consoles is not going to be anywhere near that required for your vision of a mesh network, unless of course these ARE going to use WiMax and manage a high speed connection over a mile or two. And even then, there are going to be isolated nodes, potentially a lot of them, if not most of them. I don't know that there's really any current console with market penetration enough for that, with the possible exception of PS2. And unfortunately I don't think the prospect of such a network will be enough of a selling point to get the numbers required to make it feasible. In addition, early adopters would have to take the future mesh on good faith until a decent network builds up.
That said, I'd love to be proven wrong. Gamecube was my first console of this generation (unless you count Dreamcast), and it's the one I have the most games for. I also have a GBA SP and a DS, for which I'm still waiting for good games.
Except that most people don't have an ethernet cable sitting next to their TV, nor would I think they'd be willing to run an unsightly cable through the house or venture under the house or into the attic just to use the online portion of some games. With WiFi out of the box, they go buy a $40 or $50 wireless router and they're done.
So you're following the money... to the people who would be employed to keep the Hubble successful. You make it sound like some big business comspiracy, but it's a senator supprting something that would benefit her constituents. I'm not sure I see the problem there. This sounds like some kind of "Bah! This is just a blatant bid for re-election by proposing actions that benefit her constituents. It's like she's just in the Senate to represent them or something! Ridiculous!"
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Add in the weight of even the lightest driver, though, and the Rebel wins out there. Assuming a 90-pound driver, it would add (90/15)=6 to the rebel and (90/8)=11.25 to the other. And a 150-pound driver adds 10 and 18.75, respectively. You do have a point that the difference isn't as pronounced as it first would seem, though.
Your stability complaint for PC versions is somewhat justified. I've experienced many a crash when it tries to load some Java applets in the Windows version (haven't tried a Linux version). I also imagine stability has improved since you last tried it. I think the current official version is 7, and 8 is available in beta form... I think. My assumption is that the mobile versions are significantly different in their implementation than the desktop versions.
Interesting. I guess my hope now is that with the extension comes free retroactive downloads for phones that gain the support. I suppose I should add to that the hope that the 3660 is among the phones that gain such support.
I remember installing Opera on my Diamond Mako (a rebranded Psion Revo Plus) a few years ago. Since I didn't have a GSM phone to employ as a modem for it, I tried it out on some pages I transferred over the serial connection from my PC. It seemed to do pretty well, but the resolution on that device was 480x160 and was of course a touchscreen, so it wasn't quite the challenge that developing a good interface on a phone would be. Was definitely on Symbian OS (EPOC release 5, apparently). Opera seemed a bit slow to start on a 36MHz ARM processor, though.
Except that Opera is very well respected as a mobile browser and has apparently some nice features specifically for low resolution mobile devices, including supposedly very well executed small screen rendering, which I guess scales and readjusts a web page for improved display on a mobile's screen.
I installed it on my Nokia 3660 a while back and let the trial run out before I got around to trying to use it.
Is the nature of this announcement merely that Opera will officially offer versions that support an increasing number of Nokia phone models? Should I assume users will still have to pay for Opera?
Upshot is that these newer ones still rely on stereo vision, but probably are filmed (or rendered in the case of CG ones) with exaggerated perspectives that might enhance the feeling of dimension even in a single eye.
Professor Farnsworth: "Indeed so. At this rate, by Tuesday it will be Thursday; By Wednesday, it will be August and by Thursday, it will be the end of existence as we know it."
I assumed it was a non-quoted Half-Life reference. The game's silent protagonist, Gordon Freeman, is a scientist who uses a crowbar with satisfying regularity.
I figured it was the "only two parallel wheels with no other visible means of support" part.
Back in the mid/late '90s, there was a Taco Bell near me that installed touch screen ordering stations. You'd get your receipt with a number on it, and a few minutes later you'd hear your number called and maybe barely glimpse a human figure darting back behind the large wall that completely obscured the kitchen area. Then you'd retrieve your order from the very small counter where your food had been placed. In retrospect it was an odd clinical dehumanization of something still carried out by humans. Unless there were robots back there, I guess, one of which was dressed in a purple shirt and a wig.
Anyway, citing lack of failure 5 years after the vehicle's domestic introduction does not mean that the battery won't fail in a couple of years. It does seem to indicate, though, that at least battery quality is consistent enough that there have yet to be any failed ones brought to that dealer. The $6-8k battery price still scares me. When, in hopefully at least 10 years, the battery does fail, if replacements are still expensive, the car would be pretty much junked except to some wealthy collector or something. Though I find the prospect of some rich guy driving around a 2001 Prius in 2015 to be amusing.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Prius
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_vehi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Insight
My original question stands, though, of whether there's any technological or business reason that N-Gage, 3660, et al. only use MMC.
That's the list of all the books in the "Open Source Series." They're listed newest to oldest. Looks like this PHP 5 one will probably be available soon. It was released in October, and a book released in July is available. The ones that are electronically available have links to the PDF in the "Downloads" section on the book's page. Though the very oldest few don't seem to have that.
Is there some technical or licensing reason that the Series 60 phones that use MMC don't also use SD? I have a 3660, and I'm doing okay with the 16MB MMC that it came with (though I guess that's primarily because I've yet to buy a Bluetooth dongle and IR is slow and feels so insubstantial), but I can't just go to Wal-Mart and pick up a new one. Most physical stores I've seen don't carry MMC. Pretty much everything that uses flash memory of that form factor tends to use SD... except for Nokia phones, and some cheap MP3 player I saw a couple of years ago.
Ah, alright. Much obliged for the clarification.
Anyway, last year I switched over to T-Mobile (isn't that based in Germany?) because I wanted a Nokia 3660, and all Cingular offered was a 3620, which is apparently a severely crippled non-GSM version of the 3660. I've had no service problems except in certain grocery stores (Kroger and Publix), in which the signal strength falls to nothing. Looking at T-Mobile's service map, though, I realize my lack of service woes is primarily because travels have yet to take me out of its relatively limited range.
Further tangent of potential interest: in mid-2001 I got a heavily discounted Diamond Mako PDA, which was a rebranded Psion Revo Plus, which I gathered was a fairly popular device in Europe and used the Symbian OS. I really loved that device, but mine was struck down far before its time by a notoriously faulty nonreplaceable battery. Anyway, the device could connect over IR to GSM phones and use them as a modem to access the Internet. I found that an amazingly nifty feature and lamented the lack of GSM devices in the US available at the time.
Bonus material for pre-orders helps, too. Wind Waker is the only game I've pre-ordered because the pre-order came with the Ocarina of Time disc. I didn't actually redeem my pre-order for Wind Waker itself until a month or two after it was released.
I had heard that Wario Ware Touched was too gimmicky and to some degree lacked the manic spark of the original one. Until I played it on a demo unit in a store yesterday. If anything, the intuitive nature of the touchscreen-based games makes it even better than the GBA version. I'll probably buy it tomorrow when I buy the Incredibles DVD. It will be a welcome companion to Mario 64 and the Metroid Prime demo. And I might end up getting Yoshi's Touch and Go later in the week.
You say "Nintendo Advance." Is that what it's called in the UK? It's the Game Boy Advance in the US (and Japan, I think, though I'm unsure of that).
My previous primary computer was a first-generation Alienware laptop that I'm still paying for. I assume I'll use it more once I clear out some space for it. It has an amazing screen. For now, though, the Mini is doing most everything I need it to (except Half-Life 2), and I'm easing myself into Unix while I'm at it.
That said, I'd love to be proven wrong. Gamecube was my first console of this generation (unless you count Dreamcast), and it's the one I have the most games for. I also have a GBA SP and a DS, for which I'm still waiting for good games.
Except that most people don't have an ethernet cable sitting next to their TV, nor would I think they'd be willing to run an unsightly cable through the house or venture under the house or into the attic just to use the online portion of some games. With WiFi out of the box, they go buy a $40 or $50 wireless router and they're done.
So you're following the money... to the people who would be employed to keep the Hubble successful. You make it sound like some big business comspiracy, but it's a senator supprting something that would benefit her constituents. I'm not sure I see the problem there. This sounds like some kind of "Bah! This is just a blatant bid for re-election by proposing actions that benefit her constituents. It's like she's just in the Senate to represent them or something! Ridiculous!"
I propose an ongoing ISS experiment testing the effects of freefall on pinochle games.