However they have had interactive billboards on the Tube for some time.
They concerned the use of unlicensed faux-minicabs to lure women into situations where they are abducted and often sexually abused.
The billboards allowed you to align your phone's IR receiver with a flashing icon to receive information on how to better protect yourself if you happen to be a woman.
I daresay Bluetooth seems rather more invasive as a means of delivering content - particularly commercial advertising rather than citizen's advice.
T is simply an arbitrary fixed timescale for the launch, it could easily be "a, b, c" etc but it provides a time frame for how long certain activities ought to take.
I don't get the point of taking the time to integrate a keyboard into a device like that and splitting it into a thumb-typer arrangement with itty-bitty buttons (the thumb is not the most agile or delicate of bodyparts).
Have you seen some of the features? A substandard MP3 playing jukebox, the obligatory notepad etc. Can you install linux app packages? Is there access to a shell? It doesn't seem so.
You'd have to gut it to install a linux OS that would be recognizable or put up with their own OS which doesn't exactly excite.
There's a lot of negativity about it but it's not that bad.
I'll admit the voice of Statler is FAR off and seems strained but Waldorf isn't that bad.
If they had better voicing for Statler and were more acerbic then it'd be excellent, as it is it's still entertaining. I get the feeling most of the./ers just tuned out after the WotW preview but if you watched it all the way they lay into Will Farrell and the Bewitched film pretty heavily:) In true keeping with their character.
Tighten up the writing, replace Statler's voice and this is a hit.
I agree, the Alienware design is just... Ugh..
It's bulky, unnecessarily imposing and basically blobby. Still there might be some under the hood engineering which warrants its medal.
Nonetheless, I'd refuse to have a computer that looked like that, I'd feel like a Boy Racer.
The D.O.A in DOA2 DOA3 DOA Ultimate, stands for "Dead or Alive":)
My friends and I played WAY too much DOA2 a few summers back. We can still hear the theme music when we go to sleep.
Speaking of breasts in said games, if you increased the 'Age' statistic on the female characters (up to the arbitrary value of '99') their breasts grew in size. Nice one Team Ninja!
This guy's already got 2 roles he'll be remembered for.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/
Being in a Harry Potter film AND the Doctor must make you some kind of geek über actor.
Only Patrick 'Picard and Xavier' Stewart and Sir Ian 'Gandalf and Magneto' McKellen can compete.
as John Gruber noted it's pure and simple trade secrets law:
http://daringfireball.net/2005/03/new_york_times
Now I don't happent to know the legal system in the US all to well, my knowledge of IP law only covers the English system but it's fairly clear that this case has nothing at all to do with freedom of speech. Desperately trying to paint it as such is simply indicative of having no case to answer Apple's claim.
I was shocked to see the Instapundit being dragged in, Paul Reynolds is a law professor for Pete's sake. This isn't Bloggers trying to get the protection of Big Media because we have it at law, this is trying to do what many people have attempted in the past - using the 1st amendment as a shield to protect fraudulent activity. It hasn't worked in the past and it looks like it wont now.
All this case will prove is that bloggers are as much subject to Trade Secrets law as anyone else.
The decision by the ECJ in Virgin v BA pegged an undertaking capable of being subject to the anti-competition laws of Articles 81 and 82 at 37% marketshare. That was in the Aerospace industry where there are about as many key players as in Tech.
Irrespective of any (here's hoping) mass Apple success, Microsoft will still be of requisite size to be regarded as being in a dominant position at law.
in a more systematic volume that just explained Applescript the way that most programming languages are explained.
I've only found one free PDF download made by a 3rd party that came close to explaining an Applescript pre-written routine and how to call one.
Also developers ought to be doing more to hook Applescript into their applications - so many times I've been thwarted by a lack of scriptability.
Overall Applescript rocks, in spite of the absence of decent documentation. However I'm going to hold judgment on whether this book is worth spending my money on - it doesn't really seem like that kind of documentation I'm looking for.
I had exactly the same feeling. There's one where the blurry silhouette can be seen partially reclining on a bed and I was horrified at the thought of what might have been its subject.
Blacking out a large arbitrary square would have actually been more comforting.
Astonishingly I started to like the intro It wasn't very 'trek' but it was more or less aimed at the higher aspirations of nerddom, humanity's constant striving for the heavens.
Unfortunately humanity's higher aspirations apparently include massively-cheesy power ballad consumption.
Anyone who can say that the company who created Super Mario 64 Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros, Mario Party (ALL genre defining and CREATING games in their own rights) isn't innovative is just plain blind.
Just because Mario's the little guy Racing, Running around a 3d World for the first time and beating the crap out of other characters in a Platform fighter doesn't mean the games aren't innovative.
Animal Crossing is ALSO an amazing revolutionary game (although some might say it has its routes in the significantly poorer Harvest Moon).
Yes they use the same characters but if you just put brightly coloured blobs in their places in all those games you'd have the most innovative titles in console gaming history. That's just in the past few years - before that Donkey Kong (made by Rare, then a Nintendo Subsidiary) broke new ground in the platform market by using pre-rendered 3D graphics that set the standard for how games ought to look for the coming years.
If you can't see past the characters you're not performing a very detailed analysis of the games.
the pilot was unmitigated pap compared to the rest of the new BSG. If you want a good episode check out episode 109 - Hand of God. Then go back and watch the series through:)
If what has been said about it being an internal video is true then it just joins "Developers, Developers, Developers..." and 'I love this company' in the "Horrible vault of Microsoft Internal Movies".
Can you imagine being subjected to that? Even those three instances over 20 years would be too much for me. I shudder to think that there may be more that haven't surfaced.
Re: The Sandstorm - nearly all military hardware is built to survive those things.
Heck in England we spent millions sand-proofing our old Challenger II tanks. It's far easier to sandproof something if that's one of its design points than it is to alter it later and I'd imagine an advanced combat robot would be designed with that taken into consideration.
Ham Radio continues to excite. I think there's something romantic about it that draws geeks towards its coils - how else do you explain the way it has enthralled so many in its history?
The venerable Woz is one. Can anyone else recall any Ham Radio enthusiasts who went onto bigger things in Tech?
True but if you saw the Tiger demo at the last Expo you'd be astonished at the power of Spotlight. I believe the reference to iTunes was to highlight the simplicity and speed of the solution in that app. Multiply it's complexity and potency by a thousand and you begin to get a glimpse of what Spotlight can do.
Looks like we're finally going to get that fully indexed file system we were promised in Copland.
If you're going for something that's going to be sturdy when taking fire surely you ought to follow nature - add a couple more legs.
Sure it won't be the cool 'Battlemech' everyone wants to see with the stars and stripes flying from it ("Hahahah! Look how much money we have, this baby cost as much as your whole defence budget!!!one1one!") but it'll probably be nearly impossible to knock over.
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However they have had interactive billboards on the Tube for some time.
They concerned the use of unlicensed faux-minicabs to lure women into situations where they are abducted and often sexually abused.
The billboards allowed you to align your phone's IR receiver with a flashing icon to receive information on how to better protect yourself if you happen to be a woman.
I daresay Bluetooth seems rather more invasive as a means of delivering content - particularly commercial advertising rather than citizen's advice.
T is simply an arbitrary fixed timescale for the launch, it could easily be "a, b, c" etc but it provides a time frame for how long certain activities ought to take.
Coolness :D nice link, no mod points but otherwise that'd get +Informative.
Now if they'd do something about that keyboard It'd be pretty sweet.
Some media playback with VLC seems a good way to go but that 800x600 screen seems a little lacklustre.
Or does the keyboard seem nonsensically small?
I don't get the point of taking the time to integrate a keyboard into a device like that and splitting it into a thumb-typer arrangement with itty-bitty buttons (the thumb is not the most agile or delicate of bodyparts).
Have you seen some of the features? A substandard MP3 playing jukebox, the obligatory notepad etc. Can you install linux app packages? Is there access to a shell? It doesn't seem so.
You'd have to gut it to install a linux OS that would be recognizable or put up with their own OS which doesn't exactly excite.
There's a lot of negativity about it but it's not that bad. I'll admit the voice of Statler is FAR off and seems strained but Waldorf isn't that bad. If they had better voicing for Statler and were more acerbic then it'd be excellent, as it is it's still entertaining. I get the feeling most of the ./ers just tuned out after the WotW preview but if you watched it all the way they lay into Will Farrell and the Bewitched film pretty heavily :) In true keeping with their character.
Tighten up the writing, replace Statler's voice and this is a hit.
I agree, the Alienware design is just... Ugh.. It's bulky, unnecessarily imposing and basically blobby. Still there might be some under the hood engineering which warrants its medal. Nonetheless, I'd refuse to have a computer that looked like that, I'd feel like a Boy Racer.
Just to be a little pedantic:
:)
The D.O.A in DOA2 DOA3 DOA Ultimate, stands for "Dead or Alive"
My friends and I played WAY too much DOA2 a few summers back. We can still hear the theme music when we go to sleep.
Speaking of breasts in said games, if you increased the 'Age' statistic on the female characters (up to the arbitrary value of '99') their breasts grew in size. Nice one Team Ninja!
.. after seeing the image of your massive two screen desktop and generally droolworthy gear setup.
;)
But then I noticed your Newton and heck I can't stay mad at a fellow Newton user
Because Good is Dumb
This guy's already got 2 roles he'll be remembered for. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855039/ Being in a Harry Potter film AND the Doctor must make you some kind of geek über actor. Only Patrick 'Picard and Xavier' Stewart and Sir Ian 'Gandalf and Magneto' McKellen can compete.
as John Gruber noted it's pure and simple trade secrets law:
s
http://daringfireball.net/2005/03/new_york_time
Now I don't happent to know the legal system in the US all to well, my knowledge of IP law only covers the English system but it's fairly clear that this case has nothing at all to do with freedom of speech. Desperately trying to paint it as such is simply indicative of having no case to answer Apple's claim.
I was shocked to see the Instapundit being dragged in, Paul Reynolds is a law professor for Pete's sake. This isn't Bloggers trying to get the protection of Big Media because we have it at law, this is trying to do what many people have attempted in the past - using the 1st amendment as a shield to protect fraudulent activity. It hasn't worked in the past and it looks like it wont now.
All this case will prove is that bloggers are as much subject to Trade Secrets law as anyone else.
I wouldn't be too sure.
The decision by the ECJ in Virgin v BA pegged an undertaking capable of being subject to the anti-competition laws of Articles 81 and 82 at 37% marketshare. That was in the Aerospace industry where there are about as many key players as in Tech.
Irrespective of any (here's hoping) mass Apple success, Microsoft will still be of requisite size to be regarded as being in a dominant position at law.
The Dogcow's name is Clarus, it simply makes the sound "Moof" :) It's a common misconception.
in a more systematic volume that just explained Applescript the way that most programming languages are explained. I've only found one free PDF download made by a 3rd party that came close to explaining an Applescript pre-written routine and how to call one. Also developers ought to be doing more to hook Applescript into their applications - so many times I've been thwarted by a lack of scriptability. Overall Applescript rocks, in spite of the absence of decent documentation. However I'm going to hold judgment on whether this book is worth spending my money on - it doesn't really seem like that kind of documentation I'm looking for.
I had exactly the same feeling. There's one where the blurry silhouette can be seen partially reclining on a bed and I was horrified at the thought of what might have been its subject. Blacking out a large arbitrary square would have actually been more comforting.
Astonishingly I started to like the intro It wasn't very 'trek' but it was more or less aimed at the higher aspirations of nerddom, humanity's constant striving for the heavens.
Unfortunately humanity's higher aspirations apparently include massively-cheesy power ballad consumption.
Although of course - as is abundantly clear, NeXTStep was the basis for OS X after Apple decided against Johnlouis Gasse's BeOS.
Anyone who can say that the company who created Super Mario 64 Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros, Mario Party (ALL genre defining and CREATING games in their own rights) isn't innovative is just plain blind.
Just because Mario's the little guy Racing, Running around a 3d World for the first time and beating the crap out of other characters in a Platform fighter doesn't mean the games aren't innovative.
Animal Crossing is ALSO an amazing revolutionary game (although some might say it has its routes in the significantly poorer Harvest Moon).
Yes they use the same characters but if you just put brightly coloured blobs in their places in all those games you'd have the most innovative titles in console gaming history. That's just in the past few years - before that Donkey Kong (made by Rare, then a Nintendo Subsidiary) broke new ground in the platform market by using pre-rendered 3D graphics that set the standard for how games ought to look for the coming years.
If you can't see past the characters you're not performing a very detailed analysis of the games.
the pilot was unmitigated pap compared to the rest of the new BSG. If you want a good episode check out episode 109 - Hand of God. Then go back and watch the series through :)
If what has been said about it being an internal video is true then it just joins "Developers, Developers, Developers..." and 'I love this company' in the "Horrible vault of Microsoft Internal Movies". Can you imagine being subjected to that? Even those three instances over 20 years would be too much for me. I shudder to think that there may be more that haven't surfaced.
Re: The Sandstorm - nearly all military hardware is built to survive those things. Heck in England we spent millions sand-proofing our old Challenger II tanks. It's far easier to sandproof something if that's one of its design points than it is to alter it later and I'd imagine an advanced combat robot would be designed with that taken into consideration.
Ham Radio continues to excite. I think there's something romantic about it that draws geeks towards its coils - how else do you explain the way it has enthralled so many in its history? The venerable Woz is one. Can anyone else recall any Ham Radio enthusiasts who went onto bigger things in Tech?
True but if you saw the Tiger demo at the last Expo you'd be astonished at the power of Spotlight. I believe the reference to iTunes was to highlight the simplicity and speed of the solution in that app. Multiply it's complexity and potency by a thousand and you begin to get a glimpse of what Spotlight can do. Looks like we're finally going to get that fully indexed file system we were promised in Copland.
On a par with Number 2's Eye Patch X-ray thing in Austin Powers: IMM
If you're going for something that's going to be sturdy when taking fire surely you ought to follow nature - add a couple more legs.
Sure it won't be the cool 'Battlemech' everyone wants to see with the stars and stripes flying from it ("Hahahah! Look how much money we have, this baby cost as much as your whole defence budget!!!one1one!") but it'll probably be nearly impossible to knock over.