AFAIK the iPod touch and iPad both use Skyhook. Depending on where you use it, it's either almost as precise as GPS or completely useless, i.e. not working at all.
...new features include: A, B, X, and Y buttons that are gray instead of the standard red, green, yellow, and blue.
What's the reason behind that? Did colorblind players hate the colored buttons? Aren't a lot of games referring to the button colors instead of the button letters?
As for that transformer D-pad... The plus is still there in so-called disc mode, they should have made the remaining parts taller and concave to actually make a disc shape once the plus part is lowered. As usual, Microsoft has a good idea but screws up the implementation.
And the silver color... all I can say is that the circle is complete. The new cool color for electronics is silver, like in the '70s! Next year, fake wood grain!
In OSS, if everyone can't agree on something, it either stalls or splits projects into forks which isn't always a good thing. Stalling means you can't rely on whatever the group is/was working on, and forks means the workforce of the old and the new forked project has been split too, sometimes leading to the death of the original, the fork or both.
In a company, someone or at least a group usually has the last say in how something should be done so that things can move forward. Like Oracle buying everything left and right and closing doors to projects used world-wide. Oh wait...
In terms of video codecs the camera supports.mov, JP4 RAW (requires post production conversion),.ogm, and JPEG sequence plus optional tags like geo information/GPS coordinates.
Last time I checked,.mov was a container, not a CODEC.
A.mov file can use a lot of things. Quicktime 7 gives me PNG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, DV, DVCPro, Apple Pixlet, MPEG-4 and H.264 as video CODEC options. Older Quicktime versions would have offered me older CODECs too.
And what's JP4? Never heard of it. I sure hope they don't mean their camera runs on jet fuel.
I meant a screw up in the design sense. To be fair, the two Pentium bugs were not Intel goals at all.
The Pentium 4 was their actual goal. And I just forgot about those slot CPUs, another bad design idea.
The Athlon being better than the P3 was just business as usual. I remember my AMD 386 DX/40 being a lot faster than an Intel 386 DX/33 (and by a lot more than the MHz difference would have allowed). It's just that some kids around here seem to think that AMD was never better than Intel, that nVidia was always better than ATI.
Before AMD bought ATI: - Intel - AMD - nVidia - ATI
If AMD dies, ATI is still there. You have no choice but to buy intel, but you can at least choose between nVidia and ATI.
After AMD bought ATI: - Intel - AMD+ATI - nVidia
If AMD dies, ATI dies too. You have no choice but to buy intel and nVidia.
I'm guessing a lot of slashdot users are too young to be able to remember that in the past years and decades, sometimes AMD was better than Intel, sometimes the other way around. Same thing goes for ATI and nVidia.
Just because one company is better than the other today doesn't mean it'll always be this way. Even Intel can screw things up. See "Pentium 4".
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AFAIK the iPod touch and iPad both use Skyhook. Depending on where you use it, it's either almost as precise as GPS or completely useless, i.e. not working at all.
You say that like it's a bad thing that the remote costs at least twice as much as the device it's controlling.
Is that thing still around? That's like GeoCities 2.0, right?
That's the fourth generation iPod shuffle. Almost the same as the second generation, a tiny bit smaller, with playlists and voiceover.
Time to get the DVDs of That 70's Show out of storage...
They looked at the Apple hardware, most of which is anodized aluminium, then copied the on-screen color.
What's the reason behind that? Did colorblind players hate the colored buttons? Aren't a lot of games referring to the button colors instead of the button letters?
As for that transformer D-pad... The plus is still there in so-called disc mode, they should have made the remaining parts taller and concave to actually make a disc shape once the plus part is lowered. As usual, Microsoft has a good idea but screws up the implementation.
And the silver color... all I can say is that the circle is complete. The new cool color for electronics is silver, like in the '70s! Next year, fake wood grain!
No, yes, maybe.
Nope. Microsoft is that stupid dog that keeps laughing at you when you can't shoot the ducks.
What about anti-wizard software?
I guess that would be "just detonate the nukes already in orbit" in that particular case.
Won't somebody please think of the hot Swedish women!
Oh wait, this is Slashdot... don't think about it! Get back to work!
Either the photos are fake, or that place keeps changing hands.
Seriously that's like the third if not fourth time I've seen this exact photo used over the last two or three years of Slashdot news.
What do you mean, eh?
Ah... I'm sorry 'boot that.
In OSS, if everyone can't agree on something, it either stalls or splits projects into forks which isn't always a good thing. Stalling means you can't rely on whatever the group is/was working on, and forks means the workforce of the old and the new forked project has been split too, sometimes leading to the death of the original, the fork or both.
In a company, someone or at least a group usually has the last say in how something should be done so that things can move forward. Like Oracle buying everything left and right and closing doors to projects used world-wide. Oh wait...
Last time I checked, .mov was a container, not a CODEC.
A .mov file can use a lot of things. Quicktime 7 gives me PNG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, DV, DVCPro, Apple Pixlet, MPEG-4 and H.264 as video CODEC options. Older Quicktime versions would have offered me older CODECs too.
And what's JP4? Never heard of it. I sure hope they don't mean their camera runs on jet fuel.
Ranger, fisherman or thief? But I wanted to be a white mage!
Original prop, as in the ones actually used when they made the movies.
I meant a screw up in the design sense. To be fair, the two Pentium bugs were not Intel goals at all.
The Pentium 4 was their actual goal. And I just forgot about those slot CPUs, another bad design idea.
The Athlon being better than the P3 was just business as usual. I remember my AMD 386 DX/40 being a lot faster than an Intel 386 DX/33 (and by a lot more than the MHz difference would have allowed). It's just that some kids around here seem to think that AMD was never better than Intel, that nVidia was always better than ATI.
Thanks for adding those facts to the list.
Just wait until the franchise wars. All that will remain is Taco Bell.
Before AMD bought ATI:
- Intel
- AMD
- nVidia
- ATI
If AMD dies, ATI is still there. You have no choice but to buy intel, but you can at least choose between nVidia and ATI.
After AMD bought ATI:
- Intel
- AMD+ATI
- nVidia
If AMD dies, ATI dies too. You have no choice but to buy intel and nVidia.
I'm guessing a lot of slashdot users are too young to be able to remember that in the past years and decades, sometimes AMD was better than Intel, sometimes the other way around. Same thing goes for ATI and nVidia.
Just because one company is better than the other today doesn't mean it'll always be this way. Even Intel can screw things up. See "Pentium 4".
I agree, good data redundancy is very important.
All your material are belong to us.
Oh great, just what we needed. Pyromaniac robots.
You'll need to get trilobots first.