Are there Dreamcast releases of any newer games, such as Tony Hawk 3 or Grand Theft Auto 3?
Even if the quality wheren't on par with PS2, if it ran GTA3, I would have no choice but to get one, ya gotta feed the need, 'specially good for the poor.
Alright, in europe, every youth carries a cell phone, its a requirement...well at least in sweden and finland. So, if they can get music out of it also, then thats wonderful. That means not having to carry a minidisc along with the cell phone, and with tight pants all the craze, there isn't much room for a plethora of devices.
Two, there is a massive element of irony that this phone, with its full keyboard, will sell beautifully on the deaf market. (The irony being that it plays music)...SMS is a HUGE thing for deaf people, who can use their cellphones to communicate to full potential, and a full keyboard is a godsend for them.
ummm...a 40 gig laptop drive in a compact external USB chassis?
I'm sorry, but 40 gig 2.5" drives simply don't exist, and in response to the first comment, pricewatch = reality - shipping..this reality = pricewatch + shipping. Also, are those small form factor 2.5" drives (laptop drives)?
So I was going around the facilites, visiting their $125,000,000 tokamac's and torsotrons and all this crazy equipment (very cool science plamsa physics is, too much to elaborate on here), and I get to the control room, from which they run all their Data Acquisition (DaQ) and such to monitor the expirements, and the room is filled with.... MACS? The engineer giving me the tour explained that it was in the personal interest of most of the researchers. Yes, there were Sun's and other UNIX boxes scattered on the control room floor, but I would look closely, and sure enough, amounst the three or so monitors at each workstation, one of them was hooked up to a mac. There were g4's and g3's scattered all across the floor. Wack.
So yea, Mac's are playing a key role in plasma research, helping achieve effecient fusion, one step at a time.
Silly Earthmen. There is no need for these attempts. The Aliens all have babel fish in their ears. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject:
'The Babel Fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.
'The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel Fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel Fish.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel Fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.'
Yes, this does require that we are present so they are able to receive our brainwaves, so it is more important to send them a message containing our location so they can grant us a visit, and we can entertain them so they understand, and so they can share their babelfish with us.
Companies make more money the longer they can hold onto your money. It's a trend from olden times. It's how banks work. It's how credit cards work. By holding the money, you can make money, by loaning it out, or (which currently would require sk1llz) investing it in the market. Because they always have cash in transfer, they have money to loan or invest continuously. This is a GOLDMINE.
And it applies to the new economy as well. How do you think paypal makes their money? All the real cash is from reinvesting and using profitable money management for the millions (billions?) of dollars that they have at any given moment.
And that is the whole purpose of rebates. I can't recall where it was from, but a friend of mine told me about a company that would give you a full manufacturers rebate even if you bought the product straight from them. Basically you would get the product for free, by lending the company money for 4-6 weeks or whatnot. During this timeframe, they can make a killing off of collecting all the 10$ from all the people who bought it to amass a million or so, and then lend that out with interest.
"The high school years must be the most important years in shaping the social consciousness of young people, because at no other level do parents and school officials become more hysterical at the possibility that the students will be exposed to ideas which challenge the authority of government, of school administrations, of parents"
The World has Reverse Engineering, you seem to have confused "USA", the wonderful birthplace of such great things as the DMCA, with the term "WORLD", refering to the rest of the world, where we can do such things as use the international encryption libraries for Canadian OpenBSD project.
"Last November, as reported in Google likes directory sites, I discovered that Google had the uncanny
ability to sniff out high-quality, but little-known directory sites. As I discussed in that article, Google was
able to do this because it ranks sites according to how many people make links to them, and smart people
everywhere learn that directories are important, so they make many links to them."
Then one can wonder about that actual article (Google Propping Up Yahoo In Search Results?), which is not quite as good news. But it still rocks. Plain and simple.
Google is the only search engine I use. Well except when Im lazy and I get me a WebBITCH (webhelp) . . . hehe.
What your forgetting is that back then Apple was running on 68k MOT processors. The move to PowerPC did require a recompiling, so it had no distinct upsides over moving to x86.
Apple did a very good job of masking this need for recompiling, by introducing FAT. When Compiling to FAT, you would get a binary that could run on both PPC and 68k.
So really, it wouldn't have been much harder to make a FAT format spanning 68k and PowerPC...
Without them I would've never passed Freshman chemistry...Mmmm...
I've always awed at the ignorance amounst the teachers who allow students to use Graphing Calculators where only simple computations are needed. They are an obvious threat, cheating wise.
And now they're giving us a networkable OS to take to our tests? They think we're responsible enough to resist? *lol*.
I beleive that this is whats holding back the use of laptops in schools too. Its a pitty.
</ramble>
Now I know java is slow as molasses, especially client side through a browser, but i kid at my high school has pulled off the following...
He managed to make a java applet hosted off of server A, that when computer B connected to it (through the browser), A would assign it a computation task. A would leave an open listen for connections and would shell out wordloads to be computed and returned
Now I know its not at all effiecent, but since he could take a powermac 6100, an intergraph NT box, a 486 debian box, and a solaris workstation, and have them all compute, this way pretty damn impressive. Thats where Java's platform independance really pays off.
As for what he did with it, I believe his test run involved Some Pi calculations, and it apparently ran quite smoothly.
Slashdot Mirror
Why stop at two?
imagine a BEOWULF cluster of these!
=D
/nutt
Are there Dreamcast releases of any newer games, such as Tony Hawk 3 or Grand Theft Auto 3?
Even if the quality wheren't on par with PS2, if it ran GTA3, I would have no choice but to get one, ya gotta feed the need, 'specially good for the poor.
/nutt
Alright, in europe, every youth carries a cell phone, its a requirement...well at least in sweden and finland. So, if they can get music out of it also, then thats wonderful. That means not having to carry a minidisc along with the cell phone, and with tight pants all the craze, there isn't much room for a plethora of devices.
Two, there is a massive element of irony that this phone, with its full keyboard, will sell beautifully on the deaf market. (The irony being that it plays music)...SMS is a HUGE thing for deaf people, who can use their cellphones to communicate to full potential, and a full keyboard is a godsend for them.
Its a grand product.
ummm...a 40 gig laptop drive in a compact external USB chassis?
I'm sorry, but 40 gig 2.5" drives simply don't exist, and in response to the first comment, pricewatch = reality - shipping..this reality = pricewatch + shipping. Also, are those small form factor 2.5" drives (laptop drives)?
/nutt
When I competed in a sceince fair back in March, amoung other awards I won the "Princeton Plasma Physics Award", an award sponsored by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) here in New Jersey, and as a winner I was given a free tour of the facilities. For those of you who don't know, PPPL is "The hottest place in the Universe", lying at the forefront of Nuclear Power and Plasma research...very cool.
.... MACS? The engineer giving me the tour explained that it was in the personal interest of most of the researchers. Yes, there were Sun's and other UNIX boxes scattered on the control room floor, but I would look closely, and sure enough, amounst the three or so monitors at each workstation, one of them was hooked up to a mac. There were g4's and g3's scattered all across the floor. Wack.
So I was going around the facilites, visiting their $125,000,000 tokamac's and torsotrons and all this crazy equipment (very cool science plamsa physics is, too much to elaborate on here), and I get to the control room, from which they run all their Data Acquisition (DaQ) and such to monitor the expirements, and the room is filled with
So yea, Mac's are playing a key role in plasma research, helping achieve effecient fusion, one step at a time.
For another cool plamsa physics project (unrelated to mac's), check out Garrett Young's ISEF project Quasi-Elliptical Torsatron - A Study of Induced Radial Electric Fields and Plasma Turbulence. He is a senior in high school and on the cutting edge of plasma physics research. Quite the talented individual.
Silly Earthmen. There is no need for these attempts. The Aliens all have babel fish in their ears. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject:
'The Babel Fish is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.
'The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel Fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel Fish.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel Fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.'
Yes, this does require that we are present so they are able to receive our brainwaves, so it is more important to send them a message containing our location so they can grant us a visit, and we can entertain them so they understand, and so they can share their babelfish with us.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love slashdot?
=-)
fixed. thank you.
/nutt
Excellent point. Agreed.
I appologize, consumers do it too.
Companies make more money the longer they can hold onto your money. It's a trend from olden times. It's how banks work. It's how credit cards work. By holding the money, you can make money, by loaning it out, or (which currently would require sk1llz) investing it in the market. Because they always have cash in transfer, they have money to loan or invest continuously. This is a GOLDMINE.
And it applies to the new economy as well. How do you think paypal makes their money? All the real cash is from reinvesting and using profitable money management for the millions (billions?) of dollars that they have at any given moment.
And that is the whole purpose of rebates. I can't recall where it was from, but a friend of mine told me about a company that would give you a full manufacturers rebate even if you bought the product straight from them. Basically you would get the product for free, by lending the company money for 4-6 weeks or whatnot. During this timeframe, they can make a killing off of collecting all the 10$ from all the people who bought it to amass a million or so, and then lend that out with interest.
Well that's my take on it.
/nutt
"The high school years must be the most important years in shaping
the social consciousness of young people, because at no other level
do parents and school officials become more hysterical at the possibility
that the students will be exposed to ideas which challenge the authority
of government, of school administrations, of parents"
-Howard Zinn
When this failed, a further message in The Times told the letter writer to "click with Alice".
That Bitch Alice! Why is everything always sent to her! grrrr...Foiled Again!
the most important thing to consider is that its a treaty, not everyone will sign it...
:-)
NOT SEALAND, not Haven Co.
/nutt
If elected president I pledge a renewed commitment to fight the war on drugs.
All right, Bush is fighting the war on drugs! Down with the war on drugs! He's against it, on our side!
If you don't get it, don't moderate.
I praise the Government for endorsing DARE.
/nutt
Drugs
Are
Really
Excellent
They're leading the war on the war on drugs.
You mean which has the best robotic pit crew.
:)
/nutt
"Why the World Needs Reverse-Engineering"
The World has Reverse Engineering, you seem to have confused "USA", the wonderful birthplace of such great things as the DMCA, with the term "WORLD", refering to the rest of the world, where we can do such things as use the international encryption libraries for Canadian OpenBSD project.
*snicker* *snicker* *hmpf*
/nutt
Straight from the link given in this google article posted just recently.
"Last November, as reported in Google likes directory sites, I discovered that Google had the uncanny ability to sniff out high-quality, but little-known directory sites. As I discussed in that article, Google was able to do this because it ranks sites according to how many people make links to them, and smart people everywhere learn that directories are important, so they make many links to them."
Then one can wonder about that actual article (Google Propping Up Yahoo In Search Results?), which is not quite as good news. But it still rocks. Plain and simple.
Google is the only search engine I use. Well except when Im lazy and I get me a WebBITCH (webhelp) . . . hehe.
/nutt
What your forgetting is that back then Apple was running on 68k MOT processors. The move to PowerPC did require a recompiling, so it had no distinct upsides over moving to x86.
/nutt
Apple did a very good job of masking this need for recompiling, by introducing FAT. When Compiling to FAT, you would get a binary that could run on both PPC and 68k.
So really, it wouldn't have been much harder to make a FAT format spanning 68k and PowerPC...
Are you sure those newscientist guys aren't just reminiscing about the powerbook 5300?
Seem's like an added appendix to Making the Macintosh 1.0, soon to be renamed Breaking the Macintosh 7.5.5. . .
:)
/nutt
While surfing through slashdot in l33t mode, i noticed the following headline...
"N3w 6Hz C0mp37170r 1n Pr0c3550r M4rk37 $00n"
6Hz. wow.
l33t P30p|3 7h1nk 1n D4 FU7UR3!
*lol*
/nutt
Graphing Calculators...
/nutt
*Grin*
Without them I would've never passed Freshman chemistry...Mmmm...
I've always awed at the ignorance amounst the teachers who allow students to use Graphing Calculators where only simple computations are needed. They are an obvious threat, cheating wise.
And now they're giving us a networkable OS to take to our tests? They think we're responsible enough to resist? *lol*.
I beleive that this is whats holding back the use of laptops in schools too. Its a pitty.
</ramble>
The URL is right, but the link is wrong.
... or from the parent.
/nutt
Click here, or copy and paste it here: http://finnegan.metamatrix.se/dejavu/
"I keep hearing Microsoft-employee-misfortune stories so powerful that they tug not only at the human heart, but at the journalist's, too."
Wait, Jornalist's aren't human?
So John Katz is a perl script after all!
/nutt
I _hate_ to be a karma whore, but I saw this post just as I was checking out Ericssons stock (ERICY) on yahoo quotes.
:(
/nutt
CBS MarketWatch
C|net News.com
This doesnt make me a karma whore, does it?
After all, there are _no_ links to media coverage in the article. o well..
Enjoy the links...
Now I know java is slow as molasses, especially client side through a browser, but i kid at my high school has pulled off the following...
/nutt
He managed to make a java applet hosted off of server A, that when computer B connected to it (through the browser), A would assign it a computation task. A would leave an open listen for connections and would shell out wordloads to be computed and returned
Now I know its not at all effiecent, but since he could take a powermac 6100, an intergraph NT box, a 486 debian box, and a solaris workstation, and have them all compute, this way pretty damn impressive. Thats where Java's platform independance really pays off.
As for what he did with it, I believe his test run involved Some Pi calculations, and it apparently ran quite smoothly.
Just throwing my two euros in the pot.