What if you were to spin a cd at, say, 52x and had the laser rotate around the spindle in the opposite direction? The speed of the disc relative to the speed of the reader could then be accelerated without causing damage to the disc (well, no more damage than you would today).
Better controllers? Eh...why are big controls so damn popular? N64, DC, XBox...all crap-inducing. And there's no weight to those controllers, either...feel like they'd snap in my hands...
Troll? I asked a real question and backed it up with real points and I get rated a troll? Did I say "first post"? Did I say "man, flea markets blow"? No, I didn't. If you can't handle people making honest statements and using reasoning in the their arguements, leave or grow up.
When you can get it new for damn cheap on pricewatch or used for damn cheap on ebay, what market is left for something like this?
MIT's Swap has always sounded pretty mythical, and I think that helps it to attract people. But for most other flea markets, I can't see why they would focus on technology and pidgeon hole themselves into one category when they can run a generalized flea market and attract a wider demographic.
Anyone looking for a tour of an actual abandoned missle silo can look here:
http://triggur.org/silo/
Done by ordinary folks, these people actually broke into an old silo in 1995, photographed the entire place, and published the whole thing on the web. Of course, they were also brought up on felony charges for tresspassing and where convicted, but hey, all for art, right?
Once again kids, Captain Obvious swoops down from the skies and saves the day again! Thanks for saving us from what could have been a horrible sarcasm-induced calamity...
Why would there be no background checks on a programmer just because he is writing Open-Source code? Open or Closed, I would assume it is in the best interests of an Internet security company to audit both their code and their programmers...in fact, the fact that the code is OS just means it can easily be audited externally...
Please note, in the event that you desire to post drivel like this in the future: No one cares what a fourteen year old Microsoft Zealot going through his "difficult stage" has to say on a website he (looking at his last couple of posts) obviously isn't interested in. Go to bed.
Want to see a fun exercise? Use Finder or Win Explorer. Go into a directory, and erase everything over a certain size, with the string 'llama' somewhere in the title, that is more than three days old.
All those options are available under . I know what you mean by flexability, but you could have chosen a better example than that.
It was a rumor then, though. This is confirmation.
Rumors abound that Bleem! will announce its plan to release a Bleem! PlayStation emulator for the Dreamcast at May's E3 videogame convention. The mind simply boggles at the possibility of Sega's Dreamcast system being flexible enough to tap into the vast libraries of the Sega Megadrive, the NEC PC-Engine and the Sony PlayStation.
Sony starts selling fewer consoles, Johnny Day-trader reads about it in Time, Johnny dumps his Sony stock. I'm just sayin'.
Johnny Day Trader isn't going to make a large dent in Sony's stock. If he's too dumb to look into how the industry works and doesn't realize that Sony selling less consoles is good for the bottom line, then he's an idiot and Tommy Day Trader will buy his stock and make lots of money.
On a side note, what about controller compatability? Is Bleem! going to make us use Dreamcast's (in my opinion) ergonomically horrific controlers? Those things make the Genesis controlers look usable.
As far as controlers go, I think Sony's the only one on the market who's got it right: small and durable with buttons close together. Everytime I play on an N64, I feel like I'm going to break that damn joystick off, and my fingers do more hiking than Argentinian mountain goat herders when I play Dreamcast. Neither of these controlers make much sense to me, and christ, have I tried. I'll wait for PSX2 just for this reason...
I believe this does not imply that this device is capable of printing direct screenshots. Can you imagine what can of worms that would open up with regards to copyrights, etc?
Even worse! I just learned the other day of a device that allows you to record broadcasts from you television set onto magnetic tape. Once recorded, they can be played and replayed thousands of times! I believe it is called a Video Cassette Recorder. I believe this device is doomed!
(I know the VCR faced a lot of unrest from the MPAA in its day, but I feel like being a smart ass, okay?)
How more whiners are we going to get on Slashdot before we reach criticle mass. If you don't like the stories you read, go somewhere else. You know what the best was is to stick it to someone who you think has sold out? Don't frequent there services. Christ, it's like you people absolutely get off on whining. "Boo hoo. This article doesn't absolutely and completely appeal to me. Ipso Facto, it is the worst article ever written and the author is a complete moron." Or better yet, "Old news. I read about this in X twelve years ago. Look at me, I am 1337 news god."
Guess what? Other people read Slashdot. If you see something you dislike or already know, pass it over, because with the volume of traffic this site receives there's bound to be someone who hasn't and doesn't need your obligatory bitch and moan post cluttering up the thread.
Depends on whether or not there is any quality degridation in the games...my big problem with DIVX was that the discs often botched the quality on the movie...
Electronic rentals, as a medium, has been slow to catch on...interesting, considering we now trust the internet with our communications, stocks, credit card numbers, CDs, grocery shopping, etc. But when it comes to movies, people seem to want to be able to touch it, feel it, chew it, swallow it, and pass it through their lower intestine. I guess some technologies are still a long ways away from being accepted...
More likely, they had to wear space suits to survive the altitudes that the craft flew at...IIRC, the SR-71 flew at very high altitudes. Besides, no suit is going to protect from a crash in one of those babies...
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What if you were to spin a cd at, say, 52x and had the laser rotate around the spindle in the opposite direction? The speed of the disc relative to the speed of the reader could then be accelerated without causing damage to the disc (well, no more damage than you would today).
Well of course *BSD is dying...have you seen its support for Java?
Who had actually purchased it from another company and rebranded it as their own
Better controllers? Eh...why are big controls so damn popular? N64, DC, XBox...all crap-inducing. And there's no weight to those controllers, either...feel like they'd snap in my hands...
Have you looked here?
Troll? I asked a real question and backed it up with real points and I get rated a troll? Did I say "first post"? Did I say "man, flea markets blow"? No, I didn't. If you can't handle people making honest statements and using reasoning in the their arguements, leave or grow up.
When you can get it new for damn cheap on pricewatch or used for damn cheap on ebay, what market is left for something like this?
MIT's Swap has always sounded pretty mythical, and I think that helps it to attract people. But for most other flea markets, I can't see why they would focus on technology and pidgeon hole themselves into one category when they can run a generalized flea market and attract a wider demographic.
Damn you for making me laugh out loud at work.
Anyone looking for a tour of an actual abandoned missle silo can look here:
http://triggur.org/silo/
Done by ordinary folks, these people actually broke into an old silo in 1995, photographed the entire place, and published the whole thing on the web. Of course, they were also brought up on felony charges for tresspassing and where convicted, but hey, all for art, right?
...does anyone have a link or reference to this?
Once again kids, Captain Obvious swoops down from the skies and saves the day again! Thanks for saving us from what could have been a horrible sarcasm-induced calamity...
I'm assuming they find the device, as a hub is an inherently dumb device and will just re-broadcast whatever is sent to it...
Why would there be no background checks on a programmer just because he is writing Open-Source code? Open or Closed, I would assume it is in the best interests of an Internet security company to audit both their code and their programmers...in fact, the fact that the code is OS just means it can easily be audited externally...
Please note, in the event that you desire to post drivel like this in the future: No one cares what a fourteen year old Microsoft Zealot going through his "difficult stage" has to say on a website he (looking at his last couple of posts) obviously isn't interested in. Go to bed.
Want to see a fun exercise? Use Finder or Win Explorer. Go into a directory, and erase everything over a certain size, with the string 'llama' somewhere in the title, that is more than three days old.
All those options are available under . I know what you mean by flexability, but you could have chosen a better example than that.
BTW, there's a big difference now-a-day's between a liberal and a democrat.
It was a rumor then, though. This is confirmation.
Rumors abound that Bleem! will announce its plan to release a Bleem! PlayStation emulator for the Dreamcast at May's E3 videogame convention. The mind simply boggles at the possibility of Sega's Dreamcast system being flexible enough to tap into the vast libraries of the Sega Megadrive, the NEC PC-Engine and the Sony PlayStation.
Sony starts selling fewer consoles, Johnny Day-trader reads about it in Time, Johnny dumps his Sony stock. I'm just sayin'.
Johnny Day Trader isn't going to make a large dent in Sony's stock. If he's too dumb to look into how the industry works and doesn't realize that Sony selling less consoles is good for the bottom line, then he's an idiot and Tommy Day Trader will buy his stock and make lots of money.
On a side note, what about controller compatability? Is Bleem! going to make us use Dreamcast's (in my opinion) ergonomically horrific controlers? Those things make the Genesis controlers look usable.
As far as controlers go, I think Sony's the only one on the market who's got it right: small and durable with buttons close together. Everytime I play on an N64, I feel like I'm going to break that damn joystick off, and my fingers do more hiking than Argentinian mountain goat herders when I play Dreamcast. Neither of these controlers make much sense to me, and christ, have I tried. I'll wait for PSX2 just for this reason...
I believe this does not imply that this device is capable of printing direct screenshots. Can you imagine what can of worms that would open up with regards to copyrights, etc?
Even worse! I just learned the other day of a device that allows you to record broadcasts from you television set onto magnetic tape. Once recorded, they can be played and replayed thousands of times! I believe it is called a Video Cassette Recorder. I believe this device is doomed!
(I know the VCR faced a lot of unrest from the MPAA in its day, but I feel like being a smart ass, okay?)
But there must be a cheaper way!
Absolutely...they're called TV capture cards, and can be had for under $100...
When Steve Guttenberg finds time out of his busy, successful and legitimate movie career...oh, wait...
How more whiners are we going to get on Slashdot before we reach criticle mass. If you don't like the stories you read, go somewhere else. You know what the best was is to stick it to someone who you think has sold out? Don't frequent there services. Christ, it's like you people absolutely get off on whining. "Boo hoo. This article doesn't absolutely and completely appeal to me. Ipso Facto, it is the worst article ever written and the author is a complete moron." Or better yet, "Old news. I read about this in X twelve years ago. Look at me, I am 1337 news god."
Guess what? Other people read Slashdot. If you see something you dislike or already know, pass it over, because with the volume of traffic this site receives there's bound to be someone who hasn't and doesn't need your obligatory bitch and moan post cluttering up the thread.
Depends on whether or not there is any quality degridation in the games...my big problem with DIVX was that the discs often botched the quality on the movie...
Electronic rentals, as a medium, has been slow to catch on...interesting, considering we now trust the internet with our communications, stocks, credit card numbers, CDs, grocery shopping, etc. But when it comes to movies, people seem to want to be able to touch it, feel it, chew it, swallow it, and pass it through their lower intestine. I guess some technologies are still a long ways away from being accepted...
More likely, they had to wear space suits to survive the altitudes that the craft flew at...IIRC, the SR-71 flew at very high altitudes. Besides, no suit is going to protect from a crash in one of those babies...
And try here as well...you might remember these selections from April Fools Day on MTV about 5 years ago...