Oh so true. That seems to be my number one typo when I don't preview.:-)
Common inversions aside, I tend to quit reading mangled text much faster than I quit reading well written text. In IMs brb is fine as I more "hear" than see the text. In forums like this, however, I tend to appriciate (and reward with more "eye-time") well written text. -nB
Nostalgia aside, I love playing the older "classics" but the problem I have is with the controller. My PS2 controller just doesn't work the same for games designed to be played with joysticks.
I solved that problem
HERE for using old Atari joysticks with the Stella Emulator. Only
catch is it is a hack on the Xbox not PS2. This brings up another point .
. . will they be using old school style joysticks on their stand-alone product?
I hope so because I only have two joysticks left and need a couple spares.
I RTFA and couldn't tell what the standalone was going to use for user input.
I really like your idea of a mini console w/ smart card based games. If they did that and did not lock it down too hard it would be a hacking dream! I'd likely line up to buy a couple off the bat, though they would need to ensure that the platform was, its self, profitable or else they'll loose money on people like me who buy multiple consoles simply to cut them up (as opposed to pirating the games, which I've found to be less than rewarding so I quit) -nB
While I already own many games and use stella to play them on my xbox, I'll likely still buy a compilation CD, just for kicks. -nB
Re:I've got mine on pre-order.
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mine were leftover prototypes that I got from my dad while he was still working for the USAF about 15 years ago. I killed a couple experimenting and it was quite spectacular. These used white phosphorous and so upon exposure to air they burned quite well. I cracked a couple by putting the output of my tesla coil into them. They were really bright for a moment, then super bright as they burned, then a pile of ash. -nB
"Cann said that the technology is purely targeted at music enthusiasts and at this time brings no advantages for applications such as gaming."
Last sentance in the second body paragraph in the Tom's hardware article.
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Anyone know of efficiency marks for electroluminescent films? Or LEDs?) Very high. I use avionics(sp?) EL panels for general lighting when I don't need brightness. They should be run off a 400Hz source (and are much brighter with that source), but run fine off of 110 60Hz. There is no detectable waste heat and The panel I use is 4 feet long by 3 inches wide(4 10x3 inch segments) and draws under 10 mA (roughly a watt). It produces about as much light as a 15 watt bulb.
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If you agree there are 1000 songwriters, composers, music publishers (combined with executives who get their share)... I think you will find there are easily ten times that many people with their hand in the pot for that money. so there would only be $57K per "employee"
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IIRC there is a group of scientific type in the Virginia area who built a "cold" fusion reactor in their collective garage. They used static electricity to accelerate the neutrons. They did measure a higher than background radiation level when their apparatus was on, but they also made no bones about the fact that their apparatus consumes something like 10 times to energy it produces.
So to summarize: Cold fusion, yes . . . self sustaining? No.
-nB
Seriously though, I am very glad that we can disagree on such good (?) terms.
My thought is that the lift weight for a drill (and associated support) is less than that for a reasonable sized space station. There would be little to no surface habitat other than possibly an observation dome, properly safty air-locked away from the rest of the facility. Also, the moon provides much cheaper radiation shielding and impact shielding. I think that the ideal solution is both, mostly because the space based platform would provide a good waypoint for numerous reasons, while the moon could make an ideal "heavy industry" location in a much shallower gravity well than that of the earth.
Finally, just being pragmatic, I think people (myself included) would feel better (even if not really safer) on a planetoid body rather than an "island" floating out in space. -nB
"You complain about hauling wings in and out of orbit and yet you want to descend the moon's gravity well to make a base? That's insane! Why waste fuel hauling your stuff up and down when there are perfectly good trojan points... the moon's resources are lame and not worth the fuel costs."
A lunar base would require less material over it's lifespan. Take a cue (clue?) from the great SF writers: 1) Land equipment on moon 2) Drill tunnels in vacuum under surface several meters 3) Seal ends of tunnel 4) pressurize tunnel with cheap gas (anything readily decomposed from the lunar soil and solar power 5) spray polymer in tunnel, which will follow all the small fractures due to pressure and then cure, effectively sealing tunnel without huge effort of creating an airtight space station skin.
The ability to make a _large_ base with minimal materials, and the ability to have gravity (better for humans) is a good thing. In my opinion (IANA rocket scientist) the advantages well make up for being in the gravity well (which is much smaller than Earths). Also a colony is better in a gravity environment as full term mammalian gestation in zero G's is unknowns (admitted low G's may also have issues). Just my 2c about the whole thing.
Im in the US and I have an IBM T41 desktop replacement (company bought) and my personal notebook is the larger of teh two small Fujitsu notebooks. I like my T41 better.
In a handheld I want:
*Bluetooth
*A "proper" (readable color) screen, with the ability to drive an external monitor to at least 1024x768 (1280x1024 preferred) for presentations (w/o the notebook)
*A compact flash slot (specifically CF so I have wide storage choices like microdrives)
*And finally I want sick power efficency (so I can either have huge battery life and carry around a pound or so in my pocket or I can carry only a couple ounces and still have a few real hours of usage)
You can take the Asimov approach. First wave of settelers (spacers) detest the latter wave (several generations later). FF several thousand years and the spacers are but a legend, till they are discovered.
We are but a colony, all but forgotten in some cosmic slashdotting, once we regain our bandwith we will once again be known!
Er.... shouldn't that be third-to-last human?
only if you want to communicate privately. If you want to keep recorded secrets then encryption is useless after only one human remains.
-nB
"The point is that FOSS will never be legally allowed to play these *standard* media discs, ever"
Until Disney gets hold of them, patents (software or not) expire after 25 years I believe it is. So ever is only that long.
in this case I'm sure we all will find that MSFT == Disney.
-nB
the person who wrote the headline, and obviously is clueless... What the headline should have been is "Cash is something that can be used to hold value"
I'd go with:"Cash is something that can be used to hold value, without government backing"
And I whole heartedly agree about the clueless part
Actually an awesome read, and either/.'ers hate gilligan or the server is really quite robust.
-nB
I was trying to make the point that the article poster had a Mac platform and not a PC, thus Access (as suggested by the ggp) was not viable. I give you kudos for catching me in a good acronym mixup (I've actually been involved in the validation of prototype MACs [media access variety]) -nB
I've got a non-tech sideline ready to go I'm there with you. Half my company seems to be borderline alcoholic, so I figure I'll open a bar across the street. -nB
Slashdot Mirror
and to think I had mod points yesterday. . .
+1 "just too damn smart"
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Oh so true. That seems to be my number one typo when I don't preview. :-)
Common inversions aside, I tend to quit reading mangled text much faster than I quit reading well written text. In IMs brb is fine as I more "hear" than see the text. In forums like this, however, I tend to appriciate (and reward with more "eye-time") well written text.
-nB
I solved that problem HERE for using old Atari joysticks with the Stella Emulator. Only catch is it is a hack on the Xbox not PS2. This brings up another point . . . will they be using old school style joysticks on their stand-alone product? I hope so because I only have two joysticks left and need a couple spares. I RTFA and couldn't tell what the standalone was going to use for user input.
I really like your idea of a mini console w/ smart card based games. If they did that and did not lock it down too hard it would be a hacking dream! I'd likely line up to buy a couple off the bat, though they would need to ensure that the platform was, its self, profitable or else they'll loose money on people like me who buy multiple consoles simply to cut them up (as opposed to pirating the games, which I've found to be less than rewarding so I quit)
-nB
While I already own many games and use stella to play them on my xbox, I'll likely still buy a compilation CD, just for kicks.
-nB
mine were leftover prototypes that I got from my dad while he was still working for the USAF about 15 years ago. I killed a couple experimenting and it was quite spectacular. These used white phosphorous and so upon exposure to air they burned quite well. I cracked a couple by putting the output of my tesla coil into them. They were really bright for a moment, then super bright as they burned, then a pile of ash.
-nB
Along those lines I have an old DEC that is my desk. Top, bottom, and sides :-)
-nB
"Cann said that the technology is purely targeted at music enthusiasts and at this time brings no advantages for applications such as gaming."
Last sentance in the second body paragraph in the Tom's hardware article.
-nB
Anyone know of efficiency marks for electroluminescent films? Or LEDs?)
Very high. I use avionics(sp?) EL panels for general lighting when I don't need brightness. They should be run off a 400Hz source (and are much brighter with that source), but run fine off of 110 60Hz. There is no detectable waste heat and The panel I use is 4 feet long by 3 inches wide(4 10x3 inch segments) and draws under 10 mA (roughly a watt). It produces about as much light as a 15 watt bulb.
-nB
Thank you, :-)
I can now say I learned something today
-nB
If you agree there are 1000 songwriters, composers, music publishers (combined with executives who get their share)...
I think you will find there are easily ten times that many people with their hand in the pot for that money. so there would only be $57K per "employee" -nB
IIRC there is a group of scientific type in the Virginia area who built a "cold" fusion reactor in their collective garage. They used static electricity to accelerate the neutrons. They did measure a higher than background radiation level when their apparatus was on, but they also made no bones about the fact that their apparatus consumes something like 10 times to energy it produces. So to summarize: Cold fusion, yes . . . self sustaining? No. -nB
naw, there's been a mistake.
-nB
you're on *spits in hand*.
Seriously though, I am very glad that we can disagree on such good (?) terms.
My thought is that the lift weight for a drill (and associated support) is less than that for a reasonable sized space station. There would be little to no surface habitat other than possibly an observation dome, properly safty air-locked away from the rest of the facility. Also, the moon provides much cheaper radiation shielding and impact shielding. I think that the ideal solution is both, mostly because the space based platform would provide a good waypoint for numerous reasons, while the moon could make an ideal "heavy industry" location in a much shallower gravity well than that of the earth.
Finally, just being pragmatic, I think people (myself included) would feel better (even if not really safer) on a planetoid body rather than an "island" floating out in space.
-nB
"You complain about hauling wings in and out of orbit and yet you want to descend the moon's gravity well to make a base? That's insane! Why waste fuel hauling your stuff up and down when there are perfectly good trojan points... the moon's resources are lame and not worth the fuel costs."
A lunar base would require less material over it's lifespan.
Take a cue (clue?) from the great SF writers:
1) Land equipment on moon
2) Drill tunnels in vacuum under surface several meters
3) Seal ends of tunnel
4) pressurize tunnel with cheap gas (anything readily decomposed from the lunar soil and solar power
5) spray polymer in tunnel, which will follow all the small fractures due to pressure and then cure, effectively sealing tunnel without huge effort of creating an airtight space station skin.
The ability to make a _large_ base with minimal materials, and the ability to have gravity (better for humans) is a good thing. In my opinion (IANA rocket scientist) the advantages well make up for being in the gravity well (which is much smaller than Earths). Also a colony is better in a gravity environment as full term mammalian gestation in zero G's is unknowns (admitted low G's may also have issues).
Just my 2c about the whole thing.
-nB
That's the other modus operandi of slashdot: Go OT as fast as possible.
-nB
Im in the US and I have an IBM T41 desktop replacement (company bought) and my personal notebook is the larger of teh two small Fujitsu notebooks. I like my T41 better.
In a handheld I want:
*Bluetooth
*A "proper" (readable color) screen, with the ability to drive an external monitor to at least 1024x768 (1280x1024 preferred) for presentations (w/o the notebook)
*A compact flash slot (specifically CF so I have wide storage choices like microdrives)
*And finally I want sick power efficency (so I can either have huge battery life and carry around a pound or so in my pocket or I can carry only a couple ounces and still have a few real hours of usage)
-nB
You can take the Asimov approach. First wave of settelers (spacers) detest the latter wave (several generations later). FF several thousand years and the spacers are but a legend, till they are discovered.
We are but a colony, all but forgotten in some cosmic slashdotting, once we regain our bandwith we will once again be known!
[/lame humor]
-nB
Er.... shouldn't that be third-to-last human?
only if you want to communicate privately. If you want to keep recorded secrets then encryption is useless after only one human remains.
-nB
"The point is that FOSS will never be legally allowed to play these *standard* media discs, ever"
Until Disney gets hold of them, patents (software or not) expire after 25 years I believe it is. So ever is only that long.
in this case I'm sure we all will find that MSFT == Disney.
-nB
*informative* ???
and now *insightful* reply to parent -> display??
Geeze mods this is funny as hell!!
-nB
the person who wrote the headline, and obviously is clueless... What the headline should have been is "Cash is something that can be used to hold value" /.'ers hate gilligan or the server is really quite robust.
I'd go with:"Cash is something that can be used to hold value, without government backing"
And I whole heartedly agree about the clueless part
Actually an awesome read, and either
-nB
I was trying to make the point that the article poster had a Mac platform and not a PC, thus Access (as suggested by the ggp) was not viable. I give you kudos for catching me in a good acronym mixup (I've actually been involved in the validation of prototype MACs [media access variety])
-nB
Is there an MS Access binary distro for MACs?
-nB
I've got a non-tech sideline ready to go
I'm there with you. Half my company seems to be borderline alcoholic, so I figure I'll open a bar across the street.
-nB