I have a laptop for college and it's great taking notes in Word... except for one thing, suppose the prof decides to draw a diagram on the board...
Now, I can open paint and replicate it, but that takes time. It would take a lot LESS time if I could draw on the screen. That is something (most) laptops can't do.
Sure, the kid may not have known at the time... but that's why the parents should have thought of it beforehand. They signed up for vonage, if they didn't setup 911 location, it's THEIR OWN DAMNED FAULT. Not the kids, not Vonage's.
The only way Vonage could possibly be at fault would be if the parents had setup 911 through Vonage and it didn't work.
I'm sorry, I just have to respond to this, console games in general aren't buggy. But if they are, how are you going to fix them?
Personally, I have encountered very few bugs in PC games, and when I have, there's usually a patch to fix it. How would you patch a bug in a Playstation 2 game on a PS2 that doesn't have the HDD module? (like ALL of the new slim PS2s)
The answer is that you can't. Also, as an added bonus, the reason you see more bugs in PC games is due to platform differences, ATI card vs Nvidia card, onboard sound vs Creative Labs, Intel vs AMD, the list goes on. If you cannot patch a game, how will you get around that?
Ok great, you've just simplified the installation process. Perfect, now what? How are you selecting resolution, image quality, control input? Ingame menus? Ok...
So how is Tray and Play MAGICALLY going to make a WalMartPC play Doom4?
Lowest common denominator? That will screw over EVERYONE who doesn't use integrated graphics on a Celeron D with 128MB of system RAM.
You sir are a complete and total jackass. You knew damned well that the minimum or near-minimum wage employee has NO POWER AT ALL to do anything about the trailers and yet you still ranted at them.
Have some respect for those people who work in retail and have to put up with jackasses like yourself. Take your complaints to the manager or to the corporate office as they have the ability to 1) compensate you and 2) give feedback to the people who make these decisions in the first place.
In short, I hope you're happy that you decided to vent your spleen at a complete stranger over something like this.
I finally got back in to NASA, and MN4 is now a Torino 0 object, with the 2029 event gone entirely.
True, but if you remember the previous number of observations was 169 (source, Google Cache) and the new number is 118. What happened to those other 51 observations and why did the baseline increase from 189.9 days to 287 days?
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That sounds right but, in reality, he must also deliver coal to those whom have been naughty.
My theory involves robots (which automatically makes it better than yours) and Microsoft's Windows.
As we all know, FedEx won't deliver anything until Monday, that's because all of Santa's robots bluescreen and he has to contract FedEx to deliver all his presents.
Well, seeing as it's loading pathetically slowly right now, just after the story appeared to non-subscribers, I'd say the answer is 'no' mod_perl did not save the day.
ASIAN POP The Gadget Gap
Why does all the cool stuff come out in Asia first?
Sidebar: Our Top Japan-Only Gizmo Picks
Let's call him Johnny Sokko. A deputy assistant office manager and aspiring rock guitarist, Johnny lives in Tokyo in a cramped three-bedroom apartment shared with his parents and his teenage sister. Upon waking up in the morning, Johnny stumbles to the bathroom to answer the call of nature using the household's amazing Matsushita-brand Smart Toilet, which automatically measures his weight, body fat, blood pressure and urine sugar and sends the results to the Sokko family physician via the Internet. Over breakfast, he checks his daily schedule on his Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 -- the first PDA to feature a 4-gigabyte internal hard drive -- and confirms he's free until noon. Great; he can spend the morning trying to beat the Puzzle Bobble Pocket high score his sister rang up on his brand-new Sony PlayStation Portable.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S. of A., John Smith rises from his bed before dawn, roused by the crowing of the family rooster. He splashes some creek water on his face, then hikes out to milk the goats. Before he returns from the barn, he checks the suspension on the family buggy and makes sure the horses are properly shod -- it's market day, and if the weather's fine, he might get the chance to ride into town with Pa...
Not the fairest of contrasts, given that the Amish actually make up a very small percentage of the U.S. population, but the fact remains: there's a tremendous divide between the average Japanese consumer and his Stateside counterpart. Call it the gadget gap or the device deficit -- call it what you will, as long as you recognize that, where cool high-tech stuff is concerned, America is light-years behind its counterparts in the Far East.
"I've been going to Akihabara [Tokyo's renowned electronics district] for 20 years, and I'm still amazed at the vitality of the scene -- the number of incredible toys you can find there," says David J. Farber, distinguished career professor of computer science and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon University and former chief technologist of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. "You have stores that specialize in selling nothing but little robots. You have your tiny electronic devices -- cameras, music players. You have incredibly convenient kitchen gizmos. Every time I come back, I bring home something new."
Japan's trade surplus with the United States remains astronomically high, at over $6 billion; yet any regular reader of technophile Web sites such as I4U, Engadget or Gizmodo knows that the world's biggest exporter of consumer electronics regularly keeps its most innovative and exciting widgetry to itself, selling it only to the domestic market. Cell phones that do everything but make toast (although appropriate attachments are probably available from third-party accessory vendors). Gigapixel digital cameras. Laptops so tiny that "My dog ate my homework" is once again a valid excuse. And, of course, the most incredible toilets in the history of humankind.
Some of these devices eventually plod over to U.S. shores months or even years after they've become obsolete in Japan. But many never arrive here at all. Why is it that Japanese manufacturers (and, increasingly, those in Korea and China as well) have such a death grip on consumer-electronics cool? And why are Americans deprived of the choicest fruits of this technological bounty?
The answers to these questions offer an intriguing look at how culture shapes technology -- and vice versa.
May the (Market) Forces Be with You
Japan's gizmo utopia exists in part because of a happy harmonic convergence between its domestic market and its industrial sector: Japanese consumers are intensely style and status conscious, willing to pay more for better and cooler features and motivated to upgrade their core electronic devices at least annually, and sometimes even every six months.
Um, according to these figures the average age of these "children" in each country was barely five months old (15/40 =.375 years old). Something's fishy here.
That's because you're connected to the Internet. If you weren't connected, then Steam would go into 'offline' mode, and you'd still be able to play it.
Because the Pentium-M does more per clock cycle than a destktop Pentium 4 this means that a 2.0 GHz Pentium-M is effectively as fast as a desktop Pentium 4 running at 3,2 GHz, and at the same time, it runs cooler and uses less power than the desktop processor.
Thus there are three possibly different sets of votes: the ones the machine tallies internally, the ones encoded in the machine-readable form on the printout, and the human-readable set of votes on the printout.
Even if the machine simply served as a fancy fill-in-the-ballot assistant and votes were tallied via the machine-readable version on the printout, there would still be no way for the voter to determine whether their vote was cast.
You're right, which is why instead of having 2 distinct parts on the printed ballot (one that is human readable only, and one that is machine readable only), you set it up so the human readable part is the machine readable part too, that way you can verify what you cast as your vote.
By 'better game' do you mean 'rock paper scisors'?
I don't understand how someone could possibly consider SC to be better. Lower res, smaller maps, the same interface as WCII...but rotated to the bottom. *BLEH*
I've got one of these, in fact, I'm typing this on it right now...
The big daw for me at least was the screen, it's beautiful, large and sharp, it also has built-in wifi and bluetooth, but it's really the screen that did it.
(note to self, typing on a virtual keyboard is a PAIN)
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I have a laptop for college and it's great taking notes in Word... except for one thing, suppose the prof decides to draw a diagram on the board...
Now, I can open paint and replicate it, but that takes time. It would take a lot LESS time if I could draw on the screen. That is something (most) laptops can't do.
You are missing the point.
Sure, the kid may not have known at the time... but that's why the parents should have thought of it beforehand. They signed up for vonage, if they didn't setup 911 location, it's THEIR OWN DAMNED FAULT. Not the kids, not Vonage's.
The only way Vonage could possibly be at fault would be if the parents had setup 911 through Vonage and it didn't work.
I'm sorry, I just have to respond to this, console games in general aren't buggy. But if they are, how are you going to fix them?
Personally, I have encountered very few bugs in PC games, and when I have, there's usually a patch to fix it. How would you patch a bug in a Playstation 2 game on a PS2 that doesn't have the HDD module? (like ALL of the new slim PS2s)
The answer is that you can't. Also, as an added bonus, the reason you see more bugs in PC games is due to platform differences, ATI card vs Nvidia card, onboard sound vs Creative Labs, Intel vs AMD, the list goes on. If you cannot patch a game, how will you get around that?
Ok great, you've just simplified the installation process. Perfect, now what? How are you selecting resolution, image quality, control input? Ingame menus? Ok...
So how is Tray and Play MAGICALLY going to make a WalMartPC play Doom4?
Lowest common denominator? That will screw over EVERYONE who doesn't use integrated graphics on a Celeron D with 128MB of system RAM.
You sir are a complete and total jackass. You knew damned well that the minimum or near-minimum wage employee has NO POWER AT ALL to do anything about the trailers and yet you still ranted at them.
Have some respect for those people who work in retail and have to put up with jackasses like yourself. Take your complaints to the manager or to the corporate office as they have the ability to 1) compensate you and 2) give feedback to the people who make these decisions in the first place.
In short, I hope you're happy that you decided to vent your spleen at a complete stranger over something like this.
BTW, anyone who reads this post owes me $20, that's my TOS.
That's okay, I'll just subtract it from the $350 "Proofreading Fee" you owe me for reading your post.
And you both owe me a $699 reviewer fee for forming an opinion of your posts.
That's ok. This is Slashdot. No one reads the articles anyway...
Articles?
True, but if you remember the previous number of observations was 169 (source, Google Cache) and the new number is 118. What happened to those other 51 observations and why did the baseline increase from 189.9 days to 287 days?
My theory involves robots (which automatically makes it better than yours) and Microsoft's Windows.
As we all know, FedEx won't deliver anything until Monday, that's because all of Santa's robots bluescreen and he has to contract FedEx to deliver all his presents.
Not going to happen, the moon is 'behind' the earth on the appointed date.
Natalie Portman pour hot grits down your pants in every single thread?
What do you think caused that big blackout last year?
Well, seeing as it's loading pathetically slowly right now, just after the story appeared to non-subscribers, I'd say the answer is 'no' mod_perl did not save the day.
Were you his little butterfly?
Sidebar: Our Top Japan-Only Gizmo Picks
Let's call him Johnny Sokko. A deputy assistant office manager and aspiring rock guitarist, Johnny lives in Tokyo in a cramped three-bedroom apartment shared with his parents and his teenage sister. Upon waking up in the morning, Johnny stumbles to the bathroom to answer the call of nature using the household's amazing Matsushita-brand Smart Toilet, which automatically measures his weight, body fat, blood pressure and urine sugar and sends the results to the Sokko family physician via the Internet. Over breakfast, he checks his daily schedule on his Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 -- the first PDA to feature a 4-gigabyte internal hard drive -- and confirms he's free until noon. Great; he can spend the morning trying to beat the Puzzle Bobble Pocket high score his sister rang up on his brand-new Sony PlayStation Portable.
Meanwhile, back in the U.S. of A., John Smith rises from his bed before dawn, roused by the crowing of the family rooster. He splashes some creek water on his face, then hikes out to milk the goats. Before he returns from the barn, he checks the suspension on the family buggy and makes sure the horses are properly shod -- it's market day, and if the weather's fine, he might get the chance to ride into town with Pa ...
Not the fairest of contrasts, given that the Amish actually make up a very small percentage of the U.S. population, but the fact remains: there's a tremendous divide between the average Japanese consumer and his Stateside counterpart. Call it the gadget gap or the device deficit -- call it what you will, as long as you recognize that, where cool high-tech stuff is concerned, America is light-years behind its counterparts in the Far East.
"I've been going to Akihabara [Tokyo's renowned electronics district] for 20 years, and I'm still amazed at the vitality of the scene -- the number of incredible toys you can find there," says David J. Farber, distinguished career professor of computer science and public policy at Carnegie-Mellon University and former chief technologist of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. "You have stores that specialize in selling nothing but little robots. You have your tiny electronic devices -- cameras, music players. You have incredibly convenient kitchen gizmos. Every time I come back, I bring home something new."
Japan's trade surplus with the United States remains astronomically high, at over $6 billion; yet any regular reader of technophile Web sites such as I4U, Engadget or Gizmodo knows that the world's biggest exporter of consumer electronics regularly keeps its most innovative and exciting widgetry to itself, selling it only to the domestic market. Cell phones that do everything but make toast (although appropriate attachments are probably available from third-party accessory vendors). Gigapixel digital cameras. Laptops so tiny that "My dog ate my homework" is once again a valid excuse. And, of course, the most incredible toilets in the history of humankind.
Some of these devices eventually plod over to U.S. shores months or even years after they've become obsolete in Japan. But many never arrive here at all. Why is it that Japanese manufacturers (and, increasingly, those in Korea and China as well) have such a death grip on consumer-electronics cool? And why are Americans deprived of the choicest fruits of this technological bounty?
The answers to these questions offer an intriguing look at how culture shapes technology -- and vice versa.
May the (Market) Forces Be with You
Japan's gizmo utopia exists in part because of a happy harmonic convergence between its domestic market and its industrial sector: Japanese consumers are intensely style and status conscious, willing to pay more for better and cooler features and motivated to upgrade their core electronic devices at least annually, and sometimes even every six months.
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Only your math skills.
In Soviet Russia, email controls you!
What, no big Type-R stickers?
That's because you're connected to the Internet. If you weren't connected, then Steam would go into 'offline' mode, and you'd still be able to play it.
Because the Pentium-M does more per clock cycle than a destktop Pentium 4 this means that a 2.0 GHz Pentium-M is effectively as fast as a desktop Pentium 4 running at 3,2 GHz, and at the same time, it runs cooler and uses less power than the desktop processor.
Even if the machine simply served as a fancy fill-in-the-ballot assistant and votes were tallied via the machine-readable version on the printout, there would still be no way for the voter to determine whether their vote was cast.
You're right, which is why instead of having 2 distinct parts on the printed ballot (one that is human readable only, and one that is machine readable only), you set it up so the human readable part is the machine readable part too, that way you can verify what you cast as your vote.
Are you actually accusing Mr. Bush of being smart?
It's far less of an inconvenience to listen to the occasional beep than lose reception altogether.
We did.
I don't understand how someone could possibly consider SC to be better. Lower res, smaller maps, the same interface as WCII...but rotated to the bottom. *BLEH*
I've got one of these, in fact, I'm typing this on it right now... The big daw for me at least was the screen, it's beautiful, large and sharp, it also has built-in wifi and bluetooth, but it's really the screen that did it. (note to self, typing on a virtual keyboard is a PAIN)