In college our IT tutor used to joke that LAN means penis in another language, and he always enjoyed asking visitors to "come upstairs and see my LAN".
Years ago I bought an Amiga 500+ with loads of games, one of which was Sim City. I thought it was tough going with my buildings being destroyed all the time by natural disasters. It soon improved when I found the code booklet, which was printed in dark red with maroon letters to stop it being photocopied. Other games like Microprose F1 GP would ask for a word to be typed from a random part of the manual.
Monkey Island 2 and F/A-18 Interceptor had a code wheel, and annoyingly trying to play Another World on my GP2X handheld emulator soon had it asking for codes. It's not so handy having to print 20 pages of gibberish symbols out.
I've tried it in the past on Vodafone in the UK. If subscribed to message service # 50 (cell info) it would display the local landline area code (e.g: 0161) on the screen in standby. Fairly useless and the phone manual said it would use more battery life.
Perhaps the network operators could send out an SMS that auto configures your phone to subscribe to emergency alerts, like they do for enabling WAP browsing etc.
I saw this on TV yesterday a few times, on the car there is a plastic shield on both sides, just behind the mirrors (to stop splashes I guess) and the guy looked pretty dry to me.
Shame it looks like a Mazda MX-5 though.
The Airzooka here looks a lot more fun, being able to fire invisible balls of air at people at around 20ft (& ruffle hair, etc) and it can do smoke rings too, IIRC. Check out the 'Airzooka action video' near the bottom:)
... I really do not understand what the niche for this might be. Notebook class performance, notebook level pricing, less portable than a notebook (when you consider the need for a monitor also) and no more configurable.
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3000 voxels too beaucoup!
I stream all my meals now after trying Internet Ham! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r3tx3IEsN4
http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/PigeonSARProject.asp
In college our IT tutor used to joke that LAN means penis in another language, and he always enjoyed asking visitors to "come upstairs and see my LAN".
Years ago I bought an Amiga 500+ with loads of games, one of which was Sim City. I thought it was tough going with my buildings being destroyed all the time by natural disasters. It soon improved when I found the code booklet, which was printed in dark red with maroon letters to stop it being photocopied. Other games like Microprose F1 GP would ask for a word to be typed from a random part of the manual.
Monkey Island 2 and F/A-18 Interceptor had a code wheel, and annoyingly trying to play Another World on my GP2X handheld emulator soon had it asking for codes. It's not so handy having to print 20 pages of gibberish symbols out.
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/08/26/wacky-copy-protection-methods-from-the-good-old-days/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/30/Another+World.html
http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/Code%20Wheel.zip
I've tried it in the past on Vodafone in the UK. If subscribed to message service # 50 (cell info) it would display the local landline area code (e.g: 0161) on the screen in standby. Fairly useless and the phone manual said it would use more battery life.
Perhaps the network operators could send out an SMS that auto configures your phone to subscribe to emergency alerts, like they do for enabling WAP browsing etc.
What about when that more accurate Galileo GPS thing comes out?
I saw this on TV yesterday a few times, on the car there is a plastic shield on both sides, just behind the mirrors (to stop splashes I guess) and the guy looked pretty dry to me. Shame it looks like a Mazda MX-5 though.
The Airzooka here looks a lot more fun, being able to fire invisible balls of air at people at around 20ft (& ruffle hair, etc) and it can do smoke rings too, IIRC. Check out the 'Airzooka action video' near the bottom :)
That reminds me of an article I read recently on Tom's Hardware, see the last picture and comments here
I see this as just another way to get spammed to death from "Enlarge Your Penis now!" messages and I sure as hell don't want that with MMS/video!
And Palm OS :D
... I really do not understand what the niche for this might be. Notebook class performance, notebook level pricing, less portable than a notebook (when you consider the need for a monitor also) and no more configurable.
It would be good as an in-car PC.
If someone devised a method of delivering food over the internet with TCP/IP, I bet that would be a good candidate for a patent.
Can't wait to download a roast chicken off Kazaa!
I can't believe it, modded down 'cause it's not donkey porn!
They've already been beaten to it! http://perso.club-internet.fr/musepat/donkey_p.jpg