Yeah, that's what I've concluded, too. I got my TI-83+ Silver just 6 months ago, with the knowledge that the TI-84+ wasn't too far down the road, and with that knowledge went and bought the 83+ SE anyway. The only real differences I see between the two is that the 84+ has a new casing, and the link port has been replaced with a mini-USB port.
I think I pretty much have an 84+ already, despite having a different link port and casing.
I'm no expert on cells, but... if a cell can't establish a connection with its network won't it continue to send a signal out anyway in search of a new one?
I really don't mind if people stand by and overhear what I am listening to if they're really that interested in my tastes, but I know that not everyone will want to listen to my own music (or "noise"). I know I'm not comfortable at all about listening to someone else's music thumping through my head unwillingly, whether in public or at home, as I find it not only distracting to my work but also very counterproductive when I'm trying to take a break from a very long day... sort of a "psychological rape" perhaps, after being forced to listen to someone else's thumping bass for hours upon hours in my very own home.
I just don't want to add to the mess. I don't like it when I have to deal with it, and I don't want to make anyone else feel miserable either.
Indeed this is a good sign for Linux. The only thing keeping me on a Windows-based system is the fact that there's still so many applications that I use that are for Windows (or Mac) only... one of those major apps being Macromedia Flash (and another Adobe Photoshop... and yes, I know about The GIMP).
Certainly one good step closer to tempting me to switch to Linux.
I can absolutely agree that DVDs are far superior to VHS, and certainly superior to Laserdiscs as well (our movie library was heavily based on the LD format in the past before DVD), and yeah, I know that its already been argued that it's a bunch of crap to force consumers to convert their entire movie collections yet again... but my complaint lies with our current format of DVD and how disappointed I have been with it. Here's my list...
(1) Why do we still have so many different display-formatted DVDs out there (full-screen and wide-screen)? How difficult would it have been to simply make every DVD the same, and to supply a set of panning instructions to the DVD player itself to specify what visual portion of the movie will be displayed in full-screen mode?
(2) Going off the same idea as #1, why couldn't these DVDs have been set up to be HDTV compatible in the first place? I realize that HDTV has a higher resolution and whatnot, but... how hard would it have been to force DVDs to meet the HDTV standard and simply resize the visuals for non-HDTV televisions? Hell, it might even encourage people to go and buy a HDTV if they knew they could further increase the visual quality of their current (and already paid for) collection...
(3) You think this new format of DVD is going to be a pain in the ass to consumers, forcing them to switch over yet again to adopt the newest of the new? DVDs have made this jump once already... when dual-layer discs hit the market. No, the single-layer DVDs I had weren't worthless at all, but let me tell you... I wasn't too happy to know that I'd have to go buy a brand-new $300 player just to play dual-layer DVDs.
(4) Also, why aren't all DVDs compatible with all the different DVD players out there? If DVD is a standardized format and all, why am I still finding a movie every once in a while that works in one player but not the other? I never had disc compatibility issues back with my VHS and LD players.
(5) Now... this last one is just kinda nit-picky, but... regarding at least half of the DVDs I own, I absolutely hate their menus. Half the time I can't even tell what I'm selecting on the screen, or even know what all my options are. I know being unique is good and all, but why should a DVD that I purchased with my own money feel so alienated to me? Why must I solve puzzles to go through everything contained on my DVD?
As far as I'm concerned, the DVD was something that had very great potential but didn't quite live up to what I wanted. Will this new HDTV DVD do well, or like the format before it will it end up wastefully in a landfill along the side of "useless" cell phones and computers?
I too have been interested in creating board games myself, at least in a digital form... I never honestly considered actually designing them into actual retail games...
However, I agree... creating original games that people will want to play and enjoy, even board games, is a really difficult thing to do... to find something that hasn't already been done. I've come up with plenty of board game concepts in the past, and with many revisions/sub-creations from other ideas... and while the game formulas do work, are very original, and are actually fun (to myself at least), I often question what kinds of minds beside my own would play them - would you have to be a strategist, a math whiz, have a high school diploma at minimum, or what? Often I find my ideas are very great, but its hard to find something that a broad variety of people would want to play, as opposed to targeting a small, limited audience... and with such limitations, would the game actually be noticed and/or sell?
After a long and stressful search from Microsoft officials for clues for creating the ultimate operating system that has more holes in it than swiss cheese, they discovered Nullsoft's Winamp 5.
"But wait a minute, 5 doesn't come after 3!", exclaimed one of the officials.
But after closer examination of this new addition to the Winamp family, they discovered its deep, dark secret:
"Gasp, 2 + 3 = 5! Yowza!", they squealed with glee.
In their final conclusions, Microsoft found there was no shame after all in resorting to something so old, something that ran better before and crashed 0.04% less. With this realization, their software engineers were immediately hard at work to create the bestest OS there ever was...
...thus Windows 193 was born! People danced in the streets, DOS nuts went crazy, Microsoft Bob was hot stuff again, blah blah blah... use your imagination and make up your own ending.
You wondered why Microsoft dropped support for Win 95 and 98 in the first place, didn't you...?
Well wouldn't you agree that it's better to have this technology installed in just one school as opposed to all schools?
I realize this is still new technology, and still a far cry from being done... but how are we supposed to learn and improve on this technology without testing it? We obviously can't get things right the first time around (most of the time).
I know there's the privacy issues, but really... if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to hide... I'd gladly give up a freedom or two to a certain degree to ensure the safety and well-being of others. And even if you are picked up by the camera by chance, don't worry... its still the humans that make the final call on what to do, not the box without a brain.
Maybe this is a new bug, and maybe it isn't... but nonetheless haven't people been using fake hyperlinks (or just covering them up) for years now?
I say this because every time I've come across a suspicious link (that I catch anyway) I have to right-mouseclick and copy and paste the URL into the Address Bar or Notepad to see if its legit. And surprise, surprise... some of them don't match up to what's displayed in my Status Bar.
Perhaps it is a new IE bug, maybe one that goes as far as preventing you from testing URLs like I do... but in the end isn't this pretty much the same exact trap to the average webuser who doesn't know any better?
I don't know where you could put the thing, but I think it would be funny to see this turned into something like one of those coffee dispenser machines you'd find in an employee's break room or a student lounge...
And like some "discounted" cell phones or computers (like from eMachines), what are the chances that this PC will be watered down as well, like crippling its upgradability? (ex. a drive rack with space for a single hard drive, 1-2 open PCI slots, low memory capacity for RAM, etc.)
If all you're looking for though is a simple computer (monitor and color printer included) for surfing the Internet, word processing, or any other uncomplicated tasks, then it might be something you can live with for quite some time.
I never liked the idea of the display screen of the N-Gage being so tall (especially for side-scrollers), but hey... wouldn't be bad at all for classic arcade games that have a vertical setup in the first place, huh? Some Namco classics come to mind, such as Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Galaga (not to mention lots of other vertical shooters out there)...
The Daily Yomiuri reports that small local TV stations are at a disadvantage due to high costs of the new technology.
But won't the consumer be at an advantage as well cost-wise when crossing over from analog to digital? It's new technology and it's expected to be expensive at first... exactly the reason why I don't have an HDTV yet. The migration will be slow.
Besides, for all the little fish in the sea, you've got until July 2011 - eight years! And I'm pretty sure you'll still have plenty of analog-dedicated viewers in the meantime too.
Are some of the 100,000 advertisers now signed up for Adwords tarnishing Google's image at a delicate time?
No. It's Google's own fault for tarnishing its own image. They have control of how they function and others have merely taken advantage of it. Google allowed it to continue until now, when they realized problems were in the making.
But then again, tarnishing its image towards whom? Advertisers, users of Google, the government, or everyone?
Kids will still get their hands on violent video games either through clueless parents or bigger brother/sister/friends.
Unfortunately this is very true, but perhaps this proposed "bottleneck" would be enough to keep mature-rated games out of the hands of many children nonetheless?
After all, what about cigarettes? What about alcohol? It's true that kids can still get a hold of these things through the "right" people, but it would be a lot worse if these laws didn't exist at all. They're not perfect, but they're still effective.
Still, regardless of whether it needs work or not the returned results are much more tolerable and cleaner than they have been for a very long time. If people really want their sites to rank highly among my searches then the content of their sites should be at least somewhat relevant to them.
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Scary part: the driver's seat is in the very front, and the seat scrapes the ground when braking really hard.
Well, it seems two definitions of the term "tire tracks" will finally meet...
Yeah, that's what I've concluded, too. I got my TI-83+ Silver just 6 months ago, with the knowledge that the TI-84+ wasn't too far down the road, and with that knowledge went and bought the 83+ SE anyway. The only real differences I see between the two is that the 84+ has a new casing, and the link port has been replaced with a mini-USB port.
I think I pretty much have an 84+ already, despite having a different link port and casing.
I'm no expert on cells, but... if a cell can't establish a connection with its network won't it continue to send a signal out anyway in search of a new one?
On any other kind of road I think I'm going to be needing a cup for this thing. And I don't mean the drinking kind, either.
Honestly I'd be weary of the player killers roaming around.
I really don't mind if people stand by and overhear what I am listening to if they're really that interested in my tastes, but I know that not everyone will want to listen to my own music (or "noise"). I know I'm not comfortable at all about listening to someone else's music thumping through my head unwillingly, whether in public or at home, as I find it not only distracting to my work but also very counterproductive when I'm trying to take a break from a very long day... sort of a "psychological rape" perhaps, after being forced to listen to someone else's thumping bass for hours upon hours in my very own home.
I just don't want to add to the mess. I don't like it when I have to deal with it, and I don't want to make anyone else feel miserable either.
Indeed this is a good sign for Linux. The only thing keeping me on a Windows-based system is the fact that there's still so many applications that I use that are for Windows (or Mac) only... one of those major apps being Macromedia Flash (and another Adobe Photoshop... and yes, I know about The GIMP).
Certainly one good step closer to tempting me to switch to Linux.
"They are saying that the crater that the second rover has landed in has convincing evidence that it was once drenched or covered in liquid water."
Liquid water?! Holy crap!
...just as long as it doesn't involve another Windows/Linux Matrix spoof. *shudder*
Windows = The living dead
...then I better start calling my Nomad "No Nads" since it usually rests oh-so nicely in my lap.
Silly e-Death.
I can absolutely agree that DVDs are far superior to VHS, and certainly superior to Laserdiscs as well (our movie library was heavily based on the LD format in the past before DVD), and yeah, I know that its already been argued that it's a bunch of crap to force consumers to convert their entire movie collections yet again... but my complaint lies with our current format of DVD and how disappointed I have been with it. Here's my list...
(1) Why do we still have so many different display-formatted DVDs out there (full-screen and wide-screen)? How difficult would it have been to simply make every DVD the same, and to supply a set of panning instructions to the DVD player itself to specify what visual portion of the movie will be displayed in full-screen mode?
(2) Going off the same idea as #1, why couldn't these DVDs have been set up to be HDTV compatible in the first place? I realize that HDTV has a higher resolution and whatnot, but... how hard would it have been to force DVDs to meet the HDTV standard and simply resize the visuals for non-HDTV televisions? Hell, it might even encourage people to go and buy a HDTV if they knew they could further increase the visual quality of their current (and already paid for) collection...
(3) You think this new format of DVD is going to be a pain in the ass to consumers, forcing them to switch over yet again to adopt the newest of the new? DVDs have made this jump once already... when dual-layer discs hit the market. No, the single-layer DVDs I had weren't worthless at all, but let me tell you... I wasn't too happy to know that I'd have to go buy a brand-new $300 player just to play dual-layer DVDs.
(4) Also, why aren't all DVDs compatible with all the different DVD players out there? If DVD is a standardized format and all, why am I still finding a movie every once in a while that works in one player but not the other? I never had disc compatibility issues back with my VHS and LD players.
(5) Now... this last one is just kinda nit-picky, but... regarding at least half of the DVDs I own, I absolutely hate their menus. Half the time I can't even tell what I'm selecting on the screen, or even know what all my options are. I know being unique is good and all, but why should a DVD that I purchased with my own money feel so alienated to me? Why must I solve puzzles to go through everything contained on my DVD?
As far as I'm concerned, the DVD was something that had very great potential but didn't quite live up to what I wanted. Will this new HDTV DVD do well, or like the format before it will it end up wastefully in a landfill along the side of "useless" cell phones and computers?
I too have been interested in creating board games myself, at least in a digital form... I never honestly considered actually designing them into actual retail games...
However, I agree... creating original games that people will want to play and enjoy, even board games, is a really difficult thing to do... to find something that hasn't already been done. I've come up with plenty of board game concepts in the past, and with many revisions/sub-creations from other ideas... and while the game formulas do work, are very original, and are actually fun (to myself at least), I often question what kinds of minds beside my own would play them - would you have to be a strategist, a math whiz, have a high school diploma at minimum, or what? Often I find my ideas are very great, but its hard to find something that a broad variety of people would want to play, as opposed to targeting a small, limited audience... and with such limitations, would the game actually be noticed and/or sell?
After a long and stressful search from Microsoft officials for clues for creating the ultimate operating system that has more holes in it than swiss cheese, they discovered Nullsoft's Winamp 5.
...thus Windows 193 was born! People danced in the streets, DOS nuts went crazy, Microsoft Bob was hot stuff again, blah blah blah... use your imagination and make up your own ending.
"But wait a minute, 5 doesn't come after 3!", exclaimed one of the officials.
But after closer examination of this new addition to the Winamp family, they discovered its deep, dark secret:
"Gasp, 2 + 3 = 5! Yowza!", they squealed with glee.
In their final conclusions, Microsoft found there was no shame after all in resorting to something so old, something that ran better before and crashed 0.04% less. With this realization, their software engineers were immediately hard at work to create the bestest OS there ever was...
You wondered why Microsoft dropped support for Win 95 and 98 in the first place, didn't you...?
Well wouldn't you agree that it's better to have this technology installed in just one school as opposed to all schools?
I realize this is still new technology, and still a far cry from being done... but how are we supposed to learn and improve on this technology without testing it? We obviously can't get things right the first time around (most of the time).
I know there's the privacy issues, but really... if you got nothing to hide, you got nothing to hide... I'd gladly give up a freedom or two to a certain degree to ensure the safety and well-being of others. And even if you are picked up by the camera by chance, don't worry... its still the humans that make the final call on what to do, not the box without a brain.
Maybe this is a new bug, and maybe it isn't... but nonetheless haven't people been using fake hyperlinks (or just covering them up) for years now?
I say this because every time I've come across a suspicious link (that I catch anyway) I have to right-mouseclick and copy and paste the URL into the Address Bar or Notepad to see if its legit. And surprise, surprise... some of them don't match up to what's displayed in my Status Bar.
Perhaps it is a new IE bug, maybe one that goes as far as preventing you from testing URLs like I do... but in the end isn't this pretty much the same exact trap to the average webuser who doesn't know any better?
I don't know where you could put the thing, but I think it would be funny to see this turned into something like one of those coffee dispenser machines you'd find in an employee's break room or a student lounge...
And like some "discounted" cell phones or computers (like from eMachines), what are the chances that this PC will be watered down as well, like crippling its upgradability? (ex. a drive rack with space for a single hard drive, 1-2 open PCI slots, low memory capacity for RAM, etc.)
If all you're looking for though is a simple computer (monitor and color printer included) for surfing the Internet, word processing, or any other uncomplicated tasks, then it might be something you can live with for quite some time.
I never liked the idea of the display screen of the N-Gage being so tall (especially for side-scrollers), but hey... wouldn't be bad at all for classic arcade games that have a vertical setup in the first place, huh? Some Namco classics come to mind, such as Pac-Man, Dig Dug, and Galaga (not to mention lots of other vertical shooters out there)...
"an advantage" should read "a disadvantage" regarding consumer adoption. My very bad mistake.
The Daily Yomiuri reports that small local TV stations are at a disadvantage due to high costs of the new technology.
But won't the consumer be at an advantage as well cost-wise when crossing over from analog to digital? It's new technology and it's expected to be expensive at first... exactly the reason why I don't have an HDTV yet. The migration will be slow.
Besides, for all the little fish in the sea, you've got until July 2011 - eight years! And I'm pretty sure you'll still have plenty of analog-dedicated viewers in the meantime too.
Are some of the 100,000 advertisers now signed up for Adwords tarnishing Google's image at a delicate time?
No. It's Google's own fault for tarnishing its own image. They have control of how they function and others have merely taken advantage of it. Google allowed it to continue until now, when they realized problems were in the making.
But then again, tarnishing its image towards whom? Advertisers, users of Google, the government, or everyone?
Kids will still get their hands on violent video games either through clueless parents or bigger brother/sister/friends.
Unfortunately this is very true, but perhaps this proposed "bottleneck" would be enough to keep mature-rated games out of the hands of many children nonetheless?
After all, what about cigarettes? What about alcohol? It's true that kids can still get a hold of these things through the "right" people, but it would be a lot worse if these laws didn't exist at all. They're not perfect, but they're still effective.
Will there ever be a Bluetooth version? =)
...well, until the third page of results. :-P
Still, regardless of whether it needs work or not the returned results are much more tolerable and cleaner than they have been for a very long time. If people really want their sites to rank highly among my searches then the content of their sites should be at least somewhat relevant to them.