How is a post that's "rewriting history" gets modded "+5, Insightful" is beyond me.
When people drive a kilometer, they drive 1000 meters, not 1024.
Just because you've been living with inches, miles and pounds all your life doesn't mean the rest of the planet doesn't use base 10.
A kilo means 1000. Just because programmers stole the term kilo and redefined it to "1024" doesn't mean they were right.
Hey, let's start using "miles" to mean "431 inches". That would make as much sense as "kilobyte = 1024 bytes".
P.S.: I don't care if it's "power of 10 vs power of 2" either. I know that bytes go 1, 2, 4, 8, 16,32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, but using the term "kilo" is wrong. SI units were already defined and known. It's the old programmers who are wrong, get over it.
Thanks, just ordered the R4 Revolution DS v2 along with a 1GB Kingston microSD from GamerSection.
Can't wait to see all the crazy apps people have been making... is there PDF viewers? Or at least picture viewers, I could export PDF pages to PNG or something with my Mac mini.
How about MOD/S3M/XM players?
That Wi-Fi sniffer program looks like a nice tool to carry around, especially if there's a basic browser available. I do own Opera DS but it'll be fun to see other options.
I'm with you on this one. The first time I ever heard about E-Ink (years ago), I thought about electronic wallpaper. Make the thing wi-fi, where you simply upload an image (FTP, networked drive, etc) to each specific panel, and it would be incredible. Make them standard 4x8 panels for about 100$ each and you'll make a fortune.
Then imagine linking your wall to a webcam service from around the world, it could give you a "real-time" view from anywhere. "Where do you want to go today?" would have been the perfect tagline...
Actually the old Tandy 1000 keyboard that I have is extremely close to the IBM Model M (could even be a re-branded keyboard IMO).
And yes I still prefer the new flat Apple keyboard. You have to really try it with no prejudice for a few days. After that, non-flat keyboards will feel "old tech" to the touch, almost like typing on a (soft) mechanical typewriter...
Actually, all you need to do with the iPod (I think) is to figure out the database format (yes I know it's been "encrypted" recently) but other than that it's possible.
Run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware? Wake up, it's just that Apple is one of the few SYSTEMS vendor left, of course their software will be tied to their hardware.
Real keyboard and mouse with right click? The new Mighty Mouse has four "buttons" plus a scrollball (scroll in four directions, not only two). Mac OS X has had support for multi-buttons mouses for quite a number of years (probably even 10.0, not sure). I've been using my Logitech M-BA47 with my Mac mini for over two years, no problems whatsoever (except WoW which kept remapping my buttons for some reason).
As for the new keyboard, yes it's weird at first, but believe me once you're used to it, it's faster than an old-style keyboard. Heck, when I try to use a non-flat keyboard (doesn't matter if it's my previous Apple keyboard, my old IBM keyboard or even my Tandy 1000 keyboard) they all feel "squishy". A weird description, I know, but it's hard to describe.
Sure, judge a console with only one simple game that's NOT supposed to be complex/complicated.
Go play Metroid Prime 3 (advanced controls) then come back and tell us how it's "only a gimmick".
OTOH, I seriously hope Sony gets their act together and drop the PS3 to the same price as the Xbox 360. I may not like Sony but I hate Microsoft even more.
While I agree with most of your points and know that a good XHTML/CSS website should be able to degrade gracefully on older/less capable platforms, and even while I consider that 100KB is already twice as heavy as a webpage should be at most, you have to consider the platform itself: something that fetches the "mobile" CSS and identifies itself as a mobile playform (user-agent) it means it's not a "computer/standard" device, so we can imply that it has one or two limitations: download speed (and mobile data rate, which aren't unlimited in a lot of cases) and display size/resolution.
It doesn't do anything good to send a 50KB, 400x300 JPEG photo to someone on a mobile device which has, say, a 240x160 display. It means the device must download the image, resize it, display it. So it takes longer to download (time, possibly money), takes processing time and power (time, battery life) to render something in lower resolution (with a possible huge loss of quality depending on the resizing method).
Take Opera for the Nintendo DS as a good example. I'd rather send a custom "version" of the website (custom CSS, custom website width and custom images, all the rest is the same) so people can browse in RSS mode: it loads faster, it displays faster, the graphics are lighter and sharper, it removes the need to scroll horizontally to read the content. I'm helping the user view my website for his platform. If implemented correctly, it's not that difficult to manage. I only have to remember to make a smaller image when I add something, the website does the rest.
Then I guess we should stop helping mobile users by sending them smaller graphics at smaller file sizes... How silly of us to try and help them surf websites faster.
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How is a post that's "rewriting history" gets modded "+5, Insightful" is beyond me.
,32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, but using the term "kilo" is wrong. SI units were already defined and known. It's the old programmers who are wrong, get over it.
When people drive a kilometer, they drive 1000 meters, not 1024.
Just because you've been living with inches, miles and pounds all your life doesn't mean the rest of the planet doesn't use base 10.
A kilo means 1000. Just because programmers stole the term kilo and redefined it to "1024" doesn't mean they were right.
Hey, let's start using "miles" to mean "431 inches". That would make as much sense as "kilobyte = 1024 bytes".
P.S.: I don't care if it's "power of 10 vs power of 2" either. I know that bytes go 1, 2, 4, 8, 16
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Thanks, just ordered the R4 Revolution DS v2 along with a 1GB Kingston microSD from GamerSection.
Can't wait to see all the crazy apps people have been making... is there PDF viewers? Or at least picture viewers, I could export PDF pages to PNG or something with my Mac mini.
How about MOD/S3M/XM players?
That Wi-Fi sniffer program looks like a nice tool to carry around, especially if there's a basic browser available. I do own Opera DS but it'll be fun to see other options.
No Wii or Mac OS X release = no sale for me.
It's called mini-ITX.
VIA makes mini-ITX boards, Intel makes mini-ITX boards and... wait for it.... AMD makes mini-ITX boards.
Standards are good, but too many of them is like not having any.
I'm with you on this one. The first time I ever heard about E-Ink (years ago), I thought about electronic wallpaper. Make the thing wi-fi, where you simply upload an image (FTP, networked drive, etc) to each specific panel, and it would be incredible. Make them standard 4x8 panels for about 100$ each and you'll make a fortune.
Then imagine linking your wall to a webcam service from around the world, it could give you a "real-time" view from anywhere. "Where do you want to go today?" would have been the perfect tagline...
And without the damn EA sports games, the Xbox will die. ... Go EA!
PMR got almost nowhere because all the R&D funds got through PR first and all we got was this funny cartoon.
You weirdos can keep your robot sex slaves fantasies to yourselves.
:P
Now, where are we in the human-animal DNA research? Can I order a cat-girl sex-slave yet? I want one with pink hairs if it's at all possible...
Given his "lucky/still working" description, it could even be PCI or even ISA graphics...
That means about 300$ CAD right?
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Eh, it's just a joke, it's not a real domain. Yet.
And in some games, i.e. Final Fantasy XI (Mithra race).
You mean Star Wars : The Phantom Menace wasn't directed by Mel Brooks?
Actually the old Tandy 1000 keyboard that I have is extremely close to the IBM Model M (could even be a re-branded keyboard IMO).
And yes I still prefer the new flat Apple keyboard. You have to really try it with no prejudice for a few days. After that, non-flat keyboards will feel "old tech" to the touch, almost like typing on a (soft) mechanical typewriter...
Maybe the bluetooth has a cavity problem?
Actually, all you need to do with the iPod (I think) is to figure out the database format (yes I know it's been "encrypted" recently) but other than that it's possible.
Run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware? Wake up, it's just that Apple is one of the few SYSTEMS vendor left, of course their software will be tied to their hardware.
Real keyboard and mouse with right click? The new Mighty Mouse has four "buttons" plus a scrollball (scroll in four directions, not only two). Mac OS X has had support for multi-buttons mouses for quite a number of years (probably even 10.0, not sure). I've been using my Logitech M-BA47 with my Mac mini for over two years, no problems whatsoever (except WoW which kept remapping my buttons for some reason).
As for the new keyboard, yes it's weird at first, but believe me once you're used to it, it's faster than an old-style keyboard. Heck, when I try to use a non-flat keyboard (doesn't matter if it's my previous Apple keyboard, my old IBM keyboard or even my Tandy 1000 keyboard) they all feel "squishy". A weird description, I know, but it's hard to describe.
Sure, judge a console with only one simple game that's NOT supposed to be complex/complicated.
Go play Metroid Prime 3 (advanced controls) then come back and tell us how it's "only a gimmick".
OTOH, I seriously hope Sony gets their act together and drop the PS3 to the same price as the Xbox 360. I may not like Sony but I hate Microsoft even more.
Of course we would. Ask all iPhone and iPod touch owners, they already have one.
It's just that the software isn't all done yet.
While I agree with most of your points and know that a good XHTML/CSS website should be able to degrade gracefully on older/less capable platforms, and even while I consider that 100KB is already twice as heavy as a webpage should be at most, you have to consider the platform itself: something that fetches the "mobile" CSS and identifies itself as a mobile playform (user-agent) it means it's not a "computer/standard" device, so we can imply that it has one or two limitations: download speed (and mobile data rate, which aren't unlimited in a lot of cases) and display size/resolution.
It doesn't do anything good to send a 50KB, 400x300 JPEG photo to someone on a mobile device which has, say, a 240x160 display. It means the device must download the image, resize it, display it. So it takes longer to download (time, possibly money), takes processing time and power (time, battery life) to render something in lower resolution (with a possible huge loss of quality depending on the resizing method).
Take Opera for the Nintendo DS as a good example. I'd rather send a custom "version" of the website (custom CSS, custom website width and custom images, all the rest is the same) so people can browse in RSS mode: it loads faster, it displays faster, the graphics are lighter and sharper, it removes the need to scroll horizontally to read the content. I'm helping the user view my website for his platform. If implemented correctly, it's not that difficult to manage. I only have to remember to make a smaller image when I add something, the website does the rest.
Then I guess we should stop helping mobile users by sending them smaller graphics at smaller file sizes... How silly of us to try and help them surf websites faster.