I guess some people would think "telecommunications are done by optic fibers now, electric disturbances won't affect them". You know, people who know just enough information to still be wrong in their logic.
I guess a lot of Slashdot readers would like nothing better than to see Facebook fade away into history like MySpace, Geocities and whats-its-name. Since it's based in the USA, contracts and lawyers have a pretty good chance of making it happen.
I did. The plans were on display, but I had to go down to the basement to find them. It was in a locked Microsoft Word document, saved on a 360 KB floppy disk, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Ponies".
Mr. Jackson wasn't available for comment, though we did hear him shout "I have had it with these motherfucking aliens on this motherfucking planet!" as he was leaving.
We're already at the point where a CNC router can make copies of itself (depending on the design, at least close to 100% of the wood/plastic/aluminium parts).
The iCade and the iControlPad may be similar and competing products up to a point, but you're not going to carry around an iCade in your pocket. There's also the fact that the iControlPad is now "iCade compatible", which means there's only one API to support on top of the on-screen controls. It should be easier to support both types of controls than it is to support multiple resolutions (iPhone + iPhone 4 = low-res + high-res resources, etc).
[...] no one is buying into the 3D gimmick like they bought into the Wii's motion control gimmick.
You mean the same gimmick that allows you to play first-person games like Metroid Prime the way they were meant to be? Because playing games like Halo on the Xbox with those tiny analog sticks is like trying to play Ridge Racer with a keyboard or playing MegaMan with a mouse.
The same gimmick that both Sony and Microsoft copied?
They didn't say "data furnaces in residential houses". The plan is to build these things and connect houses to them, not build these things directly inside homes. So all these comments about kids running around, insurance, etc are not relevant.
What's the point of naming it Telex? Are they trying to make it hard for end-users to find information about it or do they want the end-users searches to look anonymous with a known term?
What I'd like to see is a large color e-ink panel that can be cut to size and targeted at hobbyists. Doesn't need to be fast, even a refresh of a second or two would be alright.
If we were to compare the selection of movies available for streaming in both USA and Canada, then compare prices, then either it should be 80 cents/month for streaming in Canada or $80/month for streaming in the USA.
Yes, the library available to Canadians really is that pathetic. Add the stupidly low monthly caps forced on us by the ISPs (my download+upload cap is 35GB) and Netflix isn't an attractive alternative*.
* note to any asshole reading those forums to find proof that you're killing Netflix and thus pushing more customers toward your cable/satellite services: if I'm not paying 8$/month for Netflix I'm sure as hell not paying over 50$/month for your you-watch-what-we-broadcast, not-on-demand services.
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I guess some people would think "telecommunications are done by optic fibers now, electric disturbances won't affect them". You know, people who know just enough information to still be wrong in their logic.
If The Sun scares you, why not switch to The New York Times?
I guess a lot of Slashdot readers would like nothing better than to see Facebook fade away into history like MySpace, Geocities and whats-its-name. Since it's based in the USA, contracts and lawyers have a pretty good chance of making it happen.
I did. The plans were on display, but I had to go down to the basement to find them. It was in a locked Microsoft Word document, saved on a 360 KB floppy disk, stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Ponies".
Anyone else looked at these patterns and thought "CNC milling"?
"Who the hell... puts an evac station... up three hundred flights of goddamn stairs?" - Coach, Left 4 Dead 2
Merde! Je comprends pas ce que tool462 a écrit!
Mr. Jackson wasn't available for comment, though we did hear him shout "I have had it with these motherfucking aliens on this motherfucking planet!" as he was leaving.
We're already at the point where a CNC router can make copies of itself (depending on the design, at least close to 100% of the wood/plastic/aluminium parts).
If there's a BFG9000 in Diablo 3 then Blizzard really did screw up the game.
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My dice are 2-sided you insensitive clod!
Oh wait, those are coins.
I was talking about the Wii controls, not the 3DS or Wii U.
And yes, requiring you to move the display around is extremely dumb, especially for a glass-free 3D device which you're supposed to look at directly.
The only upgrade I'm considering is going from a DSi to a DSi XL for the bigger screens and the longer battery life.
The iCade and the iControlPad may be similar and competing products up to a point, but you're not going to carry around an iCade in your pocket. There's also the fact that the iControlPad is now "iCade compatible", which means there's only one API to support on top of the on-screen controls. It should be easier to support both types of controls than it is to support multiple resolutions (iPhone + iPhone 4 = low-res + high-res resources, etc).
You mean the same gimmick that allows you to play first-person games like Metroid Prime the way they were meant to be? Because playing games like Halo on the Xbox with those tiny analog sticks is like trying to play Ridge Racer with a keyboard or playing MegaMan with a mouse.
The same gimmick that both Sony and Microsoft copied?
Let's not kid ourselves. Those so-called "200$ phones" are tied to monthly fees in the 50-100$ range.
Opera on the Wii and the Nintendo DSi is actually pretty decent, I don't know why Nintendo switched to NetFront for the 3DS.
Is NetFront any good, compared to Opera?
Three whole seconds? Wow, you're much more tolerant to that kind of crap than I am.
Here's what Microsoft said:
They didn't say "data furnaces in residential houses". The plan is to build these things and connect houses to them, not build these things directly inside homes. So all these comments about kids running around, insurance, etc are not relevant.
One of the engineer on this project is obviously an Atari fan.
Why do you assume those renegades are red?
Care to tell us which flash storage cards (brand, capacity, name, etc) you tested which have safe internal management?
What's the point of naming it Telex? Are they trying to make it hard for end-users to find information about it or do they want the end-users searches to look anonymous with a known term?
What I'd like to see is a large color e-ink panel that can be cut to size and targeted at hobbyists. Doesn't need to be fast, even a refresh of a second or two would be alright.
If we were to compare the selection of movies available for streaming in both USA and Canada, then compare prices, then either it should be 80 cents/month for streaming in Canada or $80/month for streaming in the USA.
Yes, the library available to Canadians really is that pathetic. Add the stupidly low monthly caps forced on us by the ISPs (my download+upload cap is 35GB) and Netflix isn't an attractive alternative*.
* note to any asshole reading those forums to find proof that you're killing Netflix and thus pushing more customers toward your cable/satellite services: if I'm not paying 8$/month for Netflix I'm sure as hell not paying over 50$/month for your you-watch-what-we-broadcast, not-on-demand services.