It works for two people, or can show a different 2-D display for up to 4 people. So it's useless as a 3-D display if you have a party over watching the game, or if the whole family is watching movies. It's a great display for loners, sucks for anyone else.
I've never had an issue with my touch pad in Linux, and while I've had issues with Linux sleeping before, I've had only one issue with sleeping in Ubuntu Lucid. It wasn't a crash, but rather the laptop screen was dimmed (my second monitor was fine). Needed to restart to fix that. That happened the first time after I installed Lucid, and hasn't happened since. But maybe it's because I have a Compaq and not a Dell?
It is in fact Linux, albeit a scaled down version to eliminate a lot of the overhead that a "normal" OS carries, leaving only the web browsing capability, and little else.
Having said that, I'm sure someone will program up an app that will open up this OS and add the capability to install any application available to Linux, effectively creating a full-featured fragment of ChromeOS and a proper competitor to Windows. At the same time it could compete with other Linux distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, et al (or perhaps with Linux desktop environments like Gnome and KDE, depending on the work done to expand its use).
After all, it's Linux, which is open source. With open source you can dig in the code and make changes and improvements.
Let's just hope Google doesn't turn around and say "you can't do that", like Apple is doing with the AppStore and Sony is doing with PS3.
Looks like I'll have to clear a partition for it. Hmm, my Windoze recovery partition should do. I use Linux (Ubuntu Lucid), with Windoze as a backup if something doesn't work in Wine or VirtualBox... which so far has been nothing.
??? what kind of library do you speak of? Dynamic Link Library files don't contain movies... libraries are lists of parameters to run a program. Don't see how I can get a movie from them, free or otherwise. OH! I know, maybe a library file to run a bittorrent program? Is that what you're talking about?
Yup, like Tickle Me Elmo. Remember that hyped up toy? A few Wal-mart employees got trampled to death upon opening the doors to parents on release day. Nowadays, how often do you hear about that toy? It's pretty much lost in obscurity at this point. How long before the iPad faces the same fate?
Oh yes, my favourite part of that whole movie... pleasure and fear messin with ma consentrashun... and oh look I successfully hacked into the most secure computer in the U.S.! Yeah right... I always get the pleasure over with before concentrating. And fear? It'll freeze me up like Windoze.
... it is not beyond reason for SCO to hope that the judge simply hands them the copyrights. And it isn't beyond plausibility the current judge is enough of an idiot to actually hand them over. He's been in SCOs corner since day one, good thing the jury wasn't.
Novell will appeal that decision, get the case turned to a new judge who will be more reasonable and overturn the current judge's decision. If the current judge is smart, he'll predict that, do the right thing and tell SCO to work out an agreement with Novell (who will say "not a f***ing chance in H***.")
The last I checked my right eye has 20/20 vision. My left eye however is more like 10/20. So my right sees for everything but whatever is blocked by my nose. As such my depth perception is very poor. Only in the last few years I found myself amazed that I'm able to see some depth in those Magic Eye pictures (though I can only see boundaries, not enough to get the picture or see varying depths.
All that to say 3D is useless to me where glasses are required. The technology is out there for "autostereoscopic" TV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopic). My way of seeing 3D in the world is by moving my head and watching the foreground move faster than the background. These TVs would work the same way. I'll wait for them to become viable before jumping on the 3D bandwagon.
Actually Mars' atmosphere is much thinner than Earth's, so the light would scatter much less. Even if light did scatter, how do you explain one of the colors (blue) going 3/4 the way across the spectrum to red, while that dark red patch stayed the same (it should have gone into infrared, so we would end up seeing black)?
It doesn't matter what type of light you're under. It can be flourescent, incandescent or sunlight. The colours may be a slightly different shade, but it would generally be the same. That blue should be a little lighter or darker, not changing to a completely different primary color.
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It works for two people, or can show a different 2-D display for up to 4 people. So it's useless as a 3-D display if you have a party over watching the game, or if the whole family is watching movies. It's a great display for loners, sucks for anyone else.
"The 3D display uses a camera to track viewers so that it knows where to steer the light"
But what if there are more than one person around the display? How does it steer the light then?
Autostereoscopy has more promise I think. Philips has done it.
Italians will *love* this interface!
Just hold your breath while driving past the billboard if you don't like it.
I've never had an issue with my touch pad in Linux, and while I've had issues with Linux sleeping before, I've had only one issue with sleeping in Ubuntu Lucid. It wasn't a crash, but rather the laptop screen was dimmed (my second monitor was fine). Needed to restart to fix that. That happened the first time after I installed Lucid, and hasn't happened since. But maybe it's because I have a Compaq and not a Dell?
It is in fact Linux, albeit a scaled down version to eliminate a lot of the overhead that a "normal" OS carries, leaving only the web browsing capability, and little else.
Having said that, I'm sure someone will program up an app that will open up this OS and add the capability to install any application available to Linux, effectively creating a full-featured fragment of ChromeOS and a proper competitor to Windows. At the same time it could compete with other Linux distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse, et al (or perhaps with Linux desktop environments like Gnome and KDE, depending on the work done to expand its use).
After all, it's Linux, which is open source. With open source you can dig in the code and make changes and improvements.
Let's just hope Google doesn't turn around and say "you can't do that", like Apple is doing with the AppStore and Sony is doing with PS3.
Looks like I'll have to clear a partition for it. Hmm, my Windoze recovery partition should do. I use Linux (Ubuntu Lucid), with Windoze as a backup if something doesn't work in Wine or VirtualBox... which so far has been nothing.
??? what kind of library do you speak of? Dynamic Link Library files don't contain movies... libraries are lists of parameters to run a program. Don't see how I can get a movie from them, free or otherwise. OH! I know, maybe a library file to run a bittorrent program? Is that what you're talking about?
"Does it blend?" Oh yes, blends into his face quite well...
...to use any software with the D&R license.
More likely, that million is mostly confused women.
"Okay, so I bought this thing... now how do I install it on my underwear???"
Yup, like Tickle Me Elmo. Remember that hyped up toy? A few Wal-mart employees got trampled to death upon opening the doors to parents on release day. Nowadays, how often do you hear about that toy? It's pretty much lost in obscurity at this point. How long before the iPad faces the same fate?
I love that someone used that "going up in flames after being Slashdotted" cliche on an article about things computers don't actually do.
Yes they can.
http://www.10news.com/news/20811988/detail.html
http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-brief/33652-high-end-voodoo-pc-catches-fire-at-pc-mags-labs
http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/12/macbook-catches-fire-down-under/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/22/dude-your-dell-is-on-fire/
Oh yes, my favourite part of that whole movie... pleasure and fear messin with ma consentrashun... and oh look I successfully hacked into the most secure computer in the U.S.! Yeah right... I always get the pleasure over with before concentrating. And fear? It'll freeze me up like Windoze.
... it is not beyond reason for SCO to hope that the judge simply hands them the copyrights. And it isn't beyond plausibility the current judge is enough of an idiot to actually hand them over. He's been in SCOs corner since day one, good thing the jury wasn't.
Novell will appeal that decision, get the case turned to a new judge who will be more reasonable and overturn the current judge's decision. If the current judge is smart, he'll predict that, do the right thing and tell SCO to work out an agreement with Novell (who will say "not a f***ing chance in H***.")
Let's not forget the National Post was created by Conrad Black. Nuff said.
The last I checked my right eye has 20/20 vision. My left eye however is more like 10/20. So my right sees for everything but whatever is blocked by my nose. As such my depth perception is very poor. Only in the last few years I found myself amazed that I'm able to see some depth in those Magic Eye pictures (though I can only see boundaries, not enough to get the picture or see varying depths. All that to say 3D is useless to me where glasses are required. The technology is out there for "autostereoscopic" TV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autostereoscopic). My way of seeing 3D in the world is by moving my head and watching the foreground move faster than the background. These TVs would work the same way. I'll wait for them to become viable before jumping on the 3D bandwagon.
Written April 1, 2005. Read the very first line in the article itself.
Has anyone noticed the date at the top of the article? This should've been Slashdotted yesterday.
I think the old adage "like squeezing water out of a stone" (or whatever it is) should be updated to "like squeezing evidence out of SCO".
"I have wist, sin i couthe meen,
That children hath by candle light
Her shadewe on the wal iseen,
And ronne therafter all the night."
This is Old English.
For anyone who doesn't have a currency converter in their brain (like me), 17,500 Euros is US$22,125. Great way to convert: http://www.xe.com/ucc/
I'm sure *BSD is on their shortlist, as documented by Slashdot a few months ago.
Actually Mars' atmosphere is much thinner than Earth's, so the light would scatter much less. Even if light did scatter, how do you explain one of the colors (blue) going 3/4 the way across the spectrum to red, while that dark red patch stayed the same (it should have gone into infrared, so we would end up seeing black)? It doesn't matter what type of light you're under. It can be flourescent, incandescent or sunlight. The colours may be a slightly different shade, but it would generally be the same. That blue should be a little lighter or darker, not changing to a completely different primary color.
The robot dogs, called Rat Things, were residential watchdogs communicating with other Rat Things in the neighbourhood, sort of a hive mind.
Rat Things can be descendants of what the military is coming up with right now.