I agree, that's what has made Palm successful to this date, but they're losing it. They had smaller, efficient, longer running and easier to use devices that just worked. Now they're more complex and bigger although still efficient and stable.
I'd love something like my old 505 with Wifi and some multitasking ability but I don't want to see it any bigger than my 505 was. That thing was great.
I got my tungsten C for free as a warranty replacement at best buy... I like it but won't buy another unless...
They provide support for more regular file formats without haveing to deal with the database crap. Is it just me or is opening a jpeg on it overcomplicated?
The Wifi on it is great though, as is having the thumb-board. I like that, but there's still other issues.
You've got this efficient OS, and a CPU that's overkill for the Palm OS, and yet multitasking is practically nonexistant. I don't need to check my email, IM, browse 5 web pages, listen to music and watch a movie on it, but it'd be nice to jump back and forth between a couple tasks, like browsing the web and IMing without it having to reinitialize everything.
I don't know if I'll buy another Palm if they don't start addressing these issues, maybe the new OS will address multitasking, but I'm amazed this new T5 doesn't have Wifi. I am considering buying an Axim X50 once they come out... I'll keep the palm because it's a great run around road warrior, but the X50 would be a fun thing to have an with Dells prices I could probably afford one without much trouble.
What's pretty crazy to me is how much of that cost is legitimately covering the cost of such a large sensor and AA filter. Nevermind recouping the R&D costs which are surely huge, but that sensor costs possibly over $2500 and the AA filter is a cool $1500 roughly I believe.
Nikon should also win on noise, in that it will have more than the canon. The AF and Metering aren't superior, you sound like a walking advertisement for the 3D Matrix metering. It's good but really any better than what canon or anyone else has. There's no particular proof one way or another than the Nikon or Canon have better AF actually, but both are very good, and essentially the best. Canon boats more lenses that will support fast focussing.
The more mature CCD technology (which isn't necessarily better anyway anymore) doesn't exist in either camera, the Nikon is using a CMOS as well. Additionally the cost of the components in a full frame sensor are surprising. You're looking at >$2k for just the sensor and about $1.5K for the AA filter. That makes a major chunk of the cost there and accounts for much of the difference between the cost of the 1Ds and the D2X.
Additionally, before the Contax I believe there was a Kodak full frame SLR in a Nikon or Canon body, at 6mp resolution... the cost was over $12k however.
Regardless, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
I never really thought much of the scroll wheel on the iPod either, but I knew it was just a variation of the track pad like my laptop has (which is also a synaptics).
Since the tags they'll use probably wont contain all the information on you they can possibly gather, this probably isn't that big a deal. They're probably just matched to a group set up in the park database when you enter so you can find each other. Sure they can track you too and provide you with ads and garbage for when they get a new rollercoaster if thats where you spend all your time, but one would like to think that's not the use.
People spend too much time being paranoid of what RFID can be used for in all the wrong ways. If they don't go overboard this isn't a bad idea, because we all hear about the person who had their kid wander off. Imagine if you could just go to a park booth and say hi I'm so and so and my kid just wandered off, they could tell you where the kid was instantly.
With USB being more ubiquitous and USB 2.0 being basically the same speed (although technically faster than firewire) it's a good choice. As much as I like firewire USB's not a bad idea for a product like this.
I doubt this means anything much about whether the market is turning around. If anything it could be more along the lines of just the fact that its a pain to get tech jobs now and people are afraid to lose them.
Hey fellow RITer. This happened my 1st year when I was in the dorms. Turned out one of the kids on our floor was a klepto. Stuff turned up missing from someones room and it was quickly found down the hall.
Sometimes what you mention happens as a joke though. A really lame one, but still meant as a joke.
Very good idea. Additionally, depending on your parent's home insurance (if you have the parents-sending-you-away kind of situation) and they have a umbrella policy, your stuff may be covered by that too.
Either way, you NEED insurance.
There's another kind of less thought about insurance, and that's data insurance. I don't know about everyone else, but I had a lot of data, my photos, my papers and work and everything else and that stuff has to be backed up. CDs and DVDs are good but if you have a laptop a firewire/usb2.0 hard drive that you can back up data to and stash is a very smart thing to have.
I brought my laptop with me to class only about half the time maybe. Used it a lot elsewhere but I digress.
I used my laptop in a docking station/port replicator under the dell stand on which i had a 19" CRT monitor. Nobody even knew I had a laptop under there unless you got real close.:)
Yeah, there's always a chance of stuff like that happening. But it's not that common when compared to the number of things stolen from unlocked rooms.
Don't keep your stuff out in the open either though. A locked cabinet isn't bad, a small safe, or just a hard to find spot will work. Most people won't go rooting in a dorm room for stuff if it's not obvious.
There's only one thing that is almost guaranteed to work, and thats locking your door. When you sleep, go to class, take a dump, take a shower, lock your door. If you don't you're just asking for trouble no matter how well you trust your floor.
Depending on your dorm layout the person responsible probably doesn't live on your floor. That said there's plenty of outsiders who might pass through looking for goodies. If you live near the ground floor don't let things be easy to spot through the window, and keep it shut with the shade closed when you're gone if you're on the ground floor.
Your standard laser pointer, even the seemingly blinding green ones (which only seem that way because we're at least 2x as sensitive to that wavelength) won't blind you without considerably prolonged exposure. I know you're joking but people seriously exaggerate the dangers of any of the small lasers the public has access to on a day to day basis.
yes, actually that's been considered from what I remember. Even with the 2d discs like this article mentions, some formulations break down with repeated reads, so they could be used to bring back that stupid divx movie thing where after x number of viewings it would basically desintegrate.
Holographic storage is pretty cool, but pretty tricky.
There's already several technologies close to coming out for 2D storage on to a compact disk sized product. These have a current density of like 1 gb/cm^2 I think and transfer speeds in the hundreds of mb/s to gigabytes. That's what this article is about. A few companies are already looking at it and they're trying to reformulate to support rewritable media better.
The transfer speed is awesome because unlike a CD where data is read off bit by bit, data is transferred to and read from the holographic disks in 1024x1024 squares (1 megabit). The size of the spatial light modulator is 1024x1024 cells. So one single read action pulls off a megabit of data. That's hot shit IMO.
The one that gets me really interested is 3d volumetric storage which would be like storing data in a crystal. They talk about densities of a terrabyte per cubic cm, with transfer rates of a terrabyte per second. This I want to see. Unfortunately I forget the material they're using (I did a presentation on it a while ago) but once you "read" from it the light rearranges the structure and data is lost. So right now they're one time write and one time read devices. Not do good for a hard drive.
The big oil and gas companies, of course, would lobby against any distributed power generation. I'm sure they don't want millions of solar powered homes. There is no money in it for them.
Sad but true. No doubt they've bought other technologies to slow development. Any competition and any chance of an alternative coming out while they're still finding oil would be such a terrible thing for them that they must stifle innovation.
Solar panels are, I think, relatively inefficient and expensive. Their efficacy would need to be boosted and the price would have to go down.
Yes, they're not that efficient yet. My uncle has a house on an island with no utilities and he uses solar power to run it. They have a small fridge, stereo, a couple water pumps and some lights in the house. It also can power vacuums and laptop computers (although i'm sure the batteries provide a bit of grunt when running a vacuum), I think the system would cost aroung $5000. He got some discounts because he's a dealer in solar power equipment for the other residents on the island.
My mother was just doing office work to keep busy, she wasn't a guidance counselor. My high school actually has good counselors though, and I had the best of them when I was there. She was the head of the department and just before retiring admitted she sees a lot of this going on with some of the counselors.
Even with good counselors, I think many of them still fall in this trap, of telling the girls they can't succeed in technical fields.
But otherwise, like you said, at a lot of schools the advice of the counselor is up for interpretation... and modification.
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I agree, that's what has made Palm successful to this date, but they're losing it. They had smaller, efficient, longer running and easier to use devices that just worked. Now they're more complex and bigger although still efficient and stable.
I'd love something like my old 505 with Wifi and some multitasking ability but I don't want to see it any bigger than my 505 was. That thing was great.
I got my tungsten C for free as a warranty replacement at best buy... I like it but won't buy another unless...
They provide support for more regular file formats without haveing to deal with the database crap. Is it just me or is opening a jpeg on it overcomplicated?
The Wifi on it is great though, as is having the thumb-board. I like that, but there's still other issues.
You've got this efficient OS, and a CPU that's overkill for the Palm OS, and yet multitasking is practically nonexistant. I don't need to check my email, IM, browse 5 web pages, listen to music and watch a movie on it, but it'd be nice to jump back and forth between a couple tasks, like browsing the web and IMing without it having to reinitialize everything.
I don't know if I'll buy another Palm if they don't start addressing these issues, maybe the new OS will address multitasking, but I'm amazed this new T5 doesn't have Wifi. I am considering buying an Axim X50 once they come out... I'll keep the palm because it's a great run around road warrior, but the X50 would be a fun thing to have an with Dells prices I could probably afford one without much trouble.
it looks a little weird to have the back of a camera lens photoshopped in to the bill.
What's pretty crazy to me is how much of that cost is legitimately covering the cost of such a large sensor and AA filter. Nevermind recouping the R&D costs which are surely huge, but that sensor costs possibly over $2500 and the AA filter is a cool $1500 roughly I believe.
Nikon should also win on noise, in that it will have more than the canon. The AF and Metering aren't superior, you sound like a walking advertisement for the 3D Matrix metering. It's good but really any better than what canon or anyone else has. There's no particular proof one way or another than the Nikon or Canon have better AF actually, but both are very good, and essentially the best. Canon boats more lenses that will support fast focussing.
The more mature CCD technology (which isn't necessarily better anyway anymore) doesn't exist in either camera, the Nikon is using a CMOS as well. Additionally the cost of the components in a full frame sensor are surprising. You're looking at >$2k for just the sensor and about $1.5K for the AA filter. That makes a major chunk of the cost there and accounts for much of the difference between the cost of the 1Ds and the D2X.
Additionally, before the Contax I believe there was a Kodak full frame SLR in a Nikon or Canon body, at 6mp resolution... the cost was over $12k however.
Regardless, you obviously have no idea what you're talking about.
I never really thought much of the scroll wheel on the iPod either, but I knew it was just a variation of the track pad like my laptop has (which is also a synaptics).
too lazy to look it up, but damn, if you're anonymous you should say who it is. keke.
Anyway, that's really funny and sad at the same time. So many companies pull that shit it's rediculous.
Since the tags they'll use probably wont contain all the information on you they can possibly gather, this probably isn't that big a deal. They're probably just matched to a group set up in the park database when you enter so you can find each other. Sure they can track you too and provide you with ads and garbage for when they get a new rollercoaster if thats where you spend all your time, but one would like to think that's not the use.
People spend too much time being paranoid of what RFID can be used for in all the wrong ways. If they don't go overboard this isn't a bad idea, because we all hear about the person who had their kid wander off. Imagine if you could just go to a park booth and say hi I'm so and so and my kid just wandered off, they could tell you where the kid was instantly.
Very true, he gives quite a bit. You could say he should give more because he has so much more $$... but hes still pretty damn generous.
The iRiver looks promising, I agree. Hopefully it'll come soon, I thought it was coming early fall but I really don't know.
With USB being more ubiquitous and USB 2.0 being basically the same speed (although technically faster than firewire) it's a good choice. As much as I like firewire USB's not a bad idea for a product like this.
Yeah, unfortunately a lot of them have not been very cheap though.
I doubt this means anything much about whether the market is turning around. If anything it could be more along the lines of just the fact that its a pain to get tech jobs now and people are afraid to lose them.
Hey fellow RITer. This happened my 1st year when I was in the dorms. Turned out one of the kids on our floor was a klepto. Stuff turned up missing from someones room and it was quickly found down the hall.
Sometimes what you mention happens as a joke though. A really lame one, but still meant as a joke.
Very good idea. Additionally, depending on your parent's home insurance (if you have the parents-sending-you-away kind of situation) and they have a umbrella policy, your stuff may be covered by that too.
Either way, you NEED insurance.
There's another kind of less thought about insurance, and that's data insurance. I don't know about everyone else, but I had a lot of data, my photos, my papers and work and everything else and that stuff has to be backed up. CDs and DVDs are good but if you have a laptop a firewire/usb2.0 hard drive that you can back up data to and stash is a very smart thing to have.
there's also warts, which can spread quickly through the showers if people aren't careful.
Use flip flops, they're your friends.
I brought my laptop with me to class only about half the time maybe. Used it a lot elsewhere but I digress.
:)
I used my laptop in a docking station/port replicator under the dell stand on which i had a 19" CRT monitor. Nobody even knew I had a laptop under there unless you got real close.
Yeah, there's always a chance of stuff like that happening. But it's not that common when compared to the number of things stolen from unlocked rooms.
Don't keep your stuff out in the open either though. A locked cabinet isn't bad, a small safe, or just a hard to find spot will work. Most people won't go rooting in a dorm room for stuff if it's not obvious.
There's only one thing that is almost guaranteed to work, and thats locking your door. When you sleep, go to class, take a dump, take a shower, lock your door. If you don't you're just asking for trouble no matter how well you trust your floor.
Depending on your dorm layout the person responsible probably doesn't live on your floor. That said there's plenty of outsiders who might pass through looking for goodies. If you live near the ground floor don't let things be easy to spot through the window, and keep it shut with the shade closed when you're gone if you're on the ground floor.
Your standard laser pointer, even the seemingly blinding green ones (which only seem that way because we're at least 2x as sensitive to that wavelength) won't blind you without considerably prolonged exposure. I know you're joking but people seriously exaggerate the dangers of any of the small lasers the public has access to on a day to day basis.
yes, actually that's been considered from what I remember. Even with the 2d discs like this article mentions, some formulations break down with repeated reads, so they could be used to bring back that stupid divx movie thing where after x number of viewings it would basically desintegrate.
Holographic storage is pretty cool, but pretty tricky.
There's already several technologies close to coming out for 2D storage on to a compact disk sized product. These have a current density of like 1 gb/cm^2 I think and transfer speeds in the hundreds of mb/s to gigabytes. That's what this article is about. A few companies are already looking at it and they're trying to reformulate to support rewritable media better.
The transfer speed is awesome because unlike a CD where data is read off bit by bit, data is transferred to and read from the holographic disks in 1024x1024 squares (1 megabit). The size of the spatial light modulator is 1024x1024 cells. So one single read action pulls off a megabit of data. That's hot shit IMO.
The one that gets me really interested is 3d volumetric storage which would be like storing data in a crystal. They talk about densities of a terrabyte per cubic cm, with transfer rates of a terrabyte per second. This I want to see. Unfortunately I forget the material they're using (I did a presentation on it a while ago) but once you "read" from it the light rearranges the structure and data is lost. So right now they're one time write and one time read devices. Not do good for a hard drive.
I've not forgotten.
The big oil and gas companies, of course, would lobby against any distributed power generation. I'm sure they don't want millions of solar powered homes. There is no money in it for them.
Sad but true. No doubt they've bought other technologies to slow development. Any competition and any chance of an alternative coming out while they're still finding oil would be such a terrible thing for them that they must stifle innovation.
Solar panels are, I think, relatively inefficient and expensive. Their efficacy would need to be boosted and the price would have to go down.
Yes, they're not that efficient yet. My uncle has a house on an island with no utilities and he uses solar power to run it. They have a small fridge, stereo, a couple water pumps and some lights in the house. It also can power vacuums and laptop computers (although i'm sure the batteries provide a bit of grunt when running a vacuum), I think the system would cost aroung $5000. He got some discounts because he's a dealer in solar power equipment for the other residents on the island.
My mother was just doing office work to keep busy, she wasn't a guidance counselor. My high school actually has good counselors though, and I had the best of them when I was there. She was the head of the department and just before retiring admitted she sees a lot of this going on with some of the counselors.
Even with good counselors, I think many of them still fall in this trap, of telling the girls they can't succeed in technical fields.
But otherwise, like you said, at a lot of schools the advice of the counselor is up for interpretation... and modification.