Notice the "specialized" part of the definition. I would not refer to my PC, TV, Radio, Car, Oven, Fridge as "Gadgets". Appliance... yes... but not Gadget. I wouldn't agree with appliance being a synonym, although gismo and contraption are more like it.
The point I was attempting to make was that a gadget is usually something that you don't NEED to do what you want to do. ie I don't NEED something that can scramble the egg within it's shell just to make scrambled eggs. In fact, I don't require anything even remotely in the same category as that to make scrambled eggs. If I'm going to be typing a document on an airplane, I NEED a laptop or something very similar to it.
A gadget is "a device that is very useful for a particular job" (http://www.wordreference.com/definition/gadget)
Things by Ronco, space pen, laser pointer, etc are gadgets. A general laptop is NOT a gadget. Unless you define your job as 'using a computer' which as we all know if much more than just a single thing. Similarly, abacus and calculator are used for mathematics, engineering, etc, which again I think the 'field of mathematics' is much more than a single particular thing.
If you want to make a list of the most useful inventions, many of these will go on there, but at least in my mind, a Powerbook is not a gadget.
I personally can't stand CSI. Between the forensic experts interviewing witnesses, making arrests, and being uber-cops, I tend to just get mad.
I saw only two or three episodes. After the guy took a plastic pool, a model boat, and a table fan and used it to predict where a boat drifted... I just couldn't stand to watch anymore.
Watched my first episode of Crossing Jordan the other day. That seemed a bit more accurate. There seem to be many other geeky-type quality shows. "House" last night looked like it might end up being interesting as well. Even Law and Order seems more realistic to me than CSI.
Hope this isn't offtopic, but it is on my mind (since I'm listening to it at work).
This website:
http://www.ocremix.org/
posts remixes of classic titles. I especially like the Chronotrigger remixes, but it has A LOT of Final Fantasy remixes as well. Most of them are a big salute to Nubuo Uematsu's original mixes. Hope the people who care enough to read this article enjoy the remixes as much as I do.
Am I the only one who is disturbed by the line that they were "using a flashlight and a small mirror on a stick to explore inside the fractured, garbage-can-sized capsule."
This is Nasa... they can't use a tiny camera in there? They have to tape a mirror on the end of a stick and peek around? Reminds me of a line in "Clay Pigeons" when Deputy Barney is poking a body with a stick and when asked why he said "I was just checkin' somethin'"
Yeah... I agree... it says NOTHING about Unreal 2004 being faster, like the poster suggests. In fact, they said they had to hack up the kernel just to get it to work, and didn't even bother testing the 64-bit version cause it was such a pain the the butt.
For Mozilla:
ctrl-E, n, enter
Always seems to fill out forms pretty well to me. I don't like the browers filling in forms without me telling it. This way, I don't have to fill out all of the info, and I can fill out only the forms I WANT it to.
Biggest problem I've found is the inability to erase the data it stores without erasing ALL of the form data. Every now and then I accidentally capture some wrong data, and I'd like to get rid of it so Mozilla doesn't fill in a form incorrectly.
Has anyone tried setting up a nice small PVR with any of these? If you put like a Hauppauge 250 or another hardware encoding card in this, is there enough power for recording and watching TV at the same time? How about VIA's graphics? I assume I wouldn't be able to play FarCry... but will it be adequate to display DVDs on a non HDTV?
I thought it was not a "danger" in a sense to the airplane itself. I thought it was more of a cellphone provider problem.
The way it has been explained to me is that if you're 10K ft in the air, you're approximately equidistant from hundreds of different cellphone towers at any given instant. If you were to use your cell phone, all of these towers would try to connect you. Having five or six planes in a given area, you can clog up the network very quickly. Anyone else ever heard of this as the REAL difficulty??
I could easily download the vcds/svcds of all of the programs I love, but the one reason I still have cable is for sporting events. I don't want to watch my hockey team play the 3 or 4 times a year network TV decides to air it (on like a Sunday afternoon, when I have better things to do). I just have to face the fact that if I want to watch any regular sporting events (besides pro football), I need to get espn, espn2, foxsports, etc. I know I can get a lot of content over the web, but audio broadcasts and crappy streaming video doesn't quite do it for me.
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Notice the "specialized" part of the definition. I would not refer to my PC, TV, Radio, Car, Oven, Fridge as "Gadgets". Appliance... yes... but not Gadget. I wouldn't agree with appliance being a synonym, although gismo and contraption are more like it. The point I was attempting to make was that a gadget is usually something that you don't NEED to do what you want to do. ie I don't NEED something that can scramble the egg within it's shell just to make scrambled eggs. In fact, I don't require anything even remotely in the same category as that to make scrambled eggs. If I'm going to be typing a document on an airplane, I NEED a laptop or something very similar to it.
A gadget is "a device that is very useful for a particular job" (http://www.wordreference.com/definition/gadget) Things by Ronco, space pen, laser pointer, etc are gadgets. A general laptop is NOT a gadget. Unless you define your job as 'using a computer' which as we all know if much more than just a single thing. Similarly, abacus and calculator are used for mathematics, engineering, etc, which again I think the 'field of mathematics' is much more than a single particular thing. If you want to make a list of the most useful inventions, many of these will go on there, but at least in my mind, a Powerbook is not a gadget.
I personally can't stand CSI. Between the forensic experts interviewing witnesses, making arrests, and being uber-cops, I tend to just get mad. I saw only two or three episodes. After the guy took a plastic pool, a model boat, and a table fan and used it to predict where a boat drifted... I just couldn't stand to watch anymore. Watched my first episode of Crossing Jordan the other day. That seemed a bit more accurate. There seem to be many other geeky-type quality shows. "House" last night looked like it might end up being interesting as well. Even Law and Order seems more realistic to me than CSI.
Hope this isn't offtopic, but it is on my mind (since I'm listening to it at work). This website: http://www.ocremix.org/ posts remixes of classic titles. I especially like the Chronotrigger remixes, but it has A LOT of Final Fantasy remixes as well. Most of them are a big salute to Nubuo Uematsu's original mixes. Hope the people who care enough to read this article enjoy the remixes as much as I do.
Am I the only one who is disturbed by the line that they were "using a flashlight and a small mirror on a stick to explore inside the fractured, garbage-can-sized capsule." This is Nasa... they can't use a tiny camera in there? They have to tape a mirror on the end of a stick and peek around? Reminds me of a line in "Clay Pigeons" when Deputy Barney is poking a body with a stick and when asked why he said "I was just checkin' somethin'"
This is silly. Anyone who knows anything can tell you that there is only one source, http://fark.com/, for all the important news in the world.
Yeah... I agree... it says NOTHING about Unreal 2004 being faster, like the poster suggests. In fact, they said they had to hack up the kernel just to get it to work, and didn't even bother testing the 64-bit version cause it was such a pain the the butt.
For Mozilla: ctrl-E, n, enter Always seems to fill out forms pretty well to me. I don't like the browers filling in forms without me telling it. This way, I don't have to fill out all of the info, and I can fill out only the forms I WANT it to. Biggest problem I've found is the inability to erase the data it stores without erasing ALL of the form data. Every now and then I accidentally capture some wrong data, and I'd like to get rid of it so Mozilla doesn't fill in a form incorrectly.
Has anyone tried setting up a nice small PVR with any of these? If you put like a Hauppauge 250 or another hardware encoding card in this, is there enough power for recording and watching TV at the same time? How about VIA's graphics? I assume I wouldn't be able to play FarCry... but will it be adequate to display DVDs on a non HDTV?
I thought it was not a "danger" in a sense to the airplane itself. I thought it was more of a cellphone provider problem. The way it has been explained to me is that if you're 10K ft in the air, you're approximately equidistant from hundreds of different cellphone towers at any given instant. If you were to use your cell phone, all of these towers would try to connect you. Having five or six planes in a given area, you can clog up the network very quickly. Anyone else ever heard of this as the REAL difficulty??
I could easily download the vcds/svcds of all of the programs I love, but the one reason I still have cable is for sporting events. I don't want to watch my hockey team play the 3 or 4 times a year network TV decides to air it (on like a Sunday afternoon, when I have better things to do). I just have to face the fact that if I want to watch any regular sporting events (besides pro football), I need to get espn, espn2, foxsports, etc. I know I can get a lot of content over the web, but audio broadcasts and crappy streaming video doesn't quite do it for me.
TechTV did a short article on this not too long ago. All free tools. I've used DVDXCopy and even CloneDVD, but the truth is these free tools work best (DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink). http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktips/story/ 0,24330,3605537,00.html