the real issue with any new technology like this is will it be accepted as a standard? For that to happen it needs to be relyable, easy to get (free), and hard to exploit. This looks to have all the above so in 5 to 10 years maybe we'll see this implmented everywhere.
does this guy seriously think people will just sit by and let this happen, even assumning it's possible? I think it's safe to say at the first sign of problems around 6 gillion nerds world wide would start working on fixes and sending them to anyone who might possibly give a damn. Given the number of users, even IF this is a problem, it could be solved quickly.
It would be nice if they would start to use Linux in all machines where they wanted to write code with minimum overhead. I know people that have written large ammounts of code for everything from car computer systems to alarm clocks and its usually it some form of basic or C. Imagine if most of these products starting using a simple Linux system where you could reuse all kinds of crazy crap. You could be running toaster timers to clock your laps around a track in your car:D
until the goverment says why they raided the place everyone is really just crying wolf. They might have had a perfectly legit reason or they may have been poltical tools. We don't know yet and may not know for a long time but so far I'm not inclined to start screaming about censorship just yet. Now if they start raiding other media outlets give me a call but 1 case where we don't know any facts isn't a reason to panic.
I would love to have seen the look on the faces of the people who orignally claimed segway was everything from cold fusion to Ai when they saw the stupid scooter.
they mention image noise several times in the article and act like it's isn't a big deal. If you can see image noise on a normal 3 megapixel image (assuming its somehwere around 1024x768 or greater) then its probally pretty bad. They mention it twice too. I wonder if it has anything to do with the ceramic lens which seems to be the only interesting thing about the camera. Otherwise it seems pretty average in about every category.
I've seen lots of papers about the 'horrors' of genetically engineering crops and people but really I don't understand it. If you knew your kid was going to be born horribly crippled and with a simple shot you could fix it, wouldn't you? With how much relegions change over the years would letting your childs life be ruined be worth your current relegious dogma?
probally not. I had lots of problems on my rio forge and nitrus playing protected files. Somtimes it would work somtimes it wouldn't. About all the tech assistance Rio would provide was "make sure you clock is accurate":p
FYI rio has really bad quality control
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· Score: 5, Informative
I bought a RIO nitrus and had it's hard drive fail within 2 weeks of purchase. I had it replaced 3 times over the next few months and none of the models lasted more than a month when all they did was ride in my back pack as I walked to class. Recently I bought one of the new Rio Forges and it also has problems. Despite being sold as a "sport" model it shuts down regularly during use and Rio refuses to admit any problem with the design despite several pages of experiences just like mine on their forums. I strongly discourage anyone from buying Rio products without an extended warrenty.
Here is a good forums to read about Rio products: http://www.rioworld.org/yabbse/index.php?board=16
the rest of the world pollutes far more than the US nowdays and they don't really care that Johnny Q Hippy dosn't like it. They'll happily continue strip mining and using mercery to strip out copper from ore while they eat a tiger mcmuffin. All the eco freaks do is help ensure the US can't compete as well in the global market.
blood is just conductive enough to let things short out. As for why I don't feel it somtimes your guess is as good as mine. Once I *notice* i cut myself I feel it.
Try rubbing alcohol. It should get some of the smell off and then evaporate without leaving any residue. You can just dip the pieces numerous times if need be. I've used it to get blood off of several of my components without any problem. No I'm not a mass murderer or anything I just accidently cut myself while working on my computer and then don't feel it. By the time I notice my computer looks like it just had an abortion.
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China Goes Nuclear
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yea it's really sad how we've let eco freaks control the technological curve in this country. We used to lead in this kind of technology only now we just follow well after everyone else makes it safe. Same situation with medical treatments. It's getting really sad how easily the stupid people in society can play to the media and other people just eat it up with no idea what really happened. Whenever I hear three mile island compaired to chernobyl I want to smack someone. Nuclear power IS the future. Period. The sooner the idiot masses get over their hystarical fear of somthing they don't understand the better. It sickens me when I see "an expert" (ie someone who is really a business major and giving a psudoscience speech on nuclear power) trying to argue with someone who's spent their entire lives working with and designing nuclear rectors. And of course the media will side with the eco freaks because they love to create panic and anger so you'll watch their channel more.
I wonder if they are just now figuring out pissing all over your cunsumer base is a bad idea. Pretty much everyone who is studying computers and programing right now hates the SCO. They think of them as horrible throwbacks and a sign of everything that is wrong with the software industry. Now the SCO is realizing what this does to the bottom line. These same nerds eventually end up with a job in a major company and make decisions not to use SCO products. Simple and highly effective. I hope the same thing happens to the RIAA.
this is really common at college
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Guerrilla Drive-Ins
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this was really common with me and my friends while i was at Texas A&m university. One of my friends who went to a Naval Academy said they even did it there. (they even put porn on the side of a building and only got in mild trouble for it) I guess if it's so well known it means my friends and I aren't as nerdy as we thought. Yay?
Hm Pretty soon we're gunna finally have hand held competition again for the first time in years. THe gameboy advance has been supreme for years and in the next year at most we're looking at the DS and PSP competing with it. (I'm ignoring the Nokia abomination) Let's hope a little healthy competition is good for the market. Personally I'm really looking forward to the PSP, mainly becuase the games seem like they will be focused on a more mature audience. The idea of a turn based metal gear game sounds great.
interesting idea but I doubt it will succede
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By Road and Rail?
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Really I don't see any advantages to this idea. From a consumer standpoint it's not much different from a normal bus unless you happen to also be going on a long train ride. I'm not sure how well devoloped the British rail system is but hardly anyone in the US uses them. Specialized markets like bus (short range travel) or train (long range) will most likey be cheaper than anything like this which tries to move in on two areas at once. The duel logistical costs will almost certainly drive up the prices to uncompedative levels.
Doom is such an integral part of gaming history. How many of you played it as your first game? How many of you remember the first modding tools? Or the joys of downloading your first TC? Anyone remember Aliens TC by Justin Fisher? That mod had better atmosphere and gameplay than most comercial games I've played. Fourty or fifty years down the line I bet our kids look back on doom as the Model T of PC gaming.
I really liked my brothers tablet pc and the handwriting software has really gone far. I could write a paragraph without having to correct one word. The only prolbems I had with it was that it refused to write mathmatical equations. Since I'm an engineer that basically rendered it useless for me. Other than that it was very nice and even the voice software worked well. FYI he had a toshiba model running the windows XP tabel OS. I'm not sure of the exact model number.
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the real issue with any new technology like this is will it be accepted as a standard? For that to happen it needs to be relyable, easy to get (free), and hard to exploit. This looks to have all the above so in 5 to 10 years maybe we'll see this implmented everywhere.
does this guy seriously think people will just sit by and let this happen, even assumning it's possible? I think it's safe to say at the first sign of problems around 6 gillion nerds world wide would start working on fixes and sending them to anyone who might possibly give a damn. Given the number of users, even IF this is a problem, it could be solved quickly.
It would be nice if they would start to use Linux in all machines where they wanted to write code with minimum overhead. I know people that have written large ammounts of code for everything from car computer systems to alarm clocks and its usually it some form of basic or C. Imagine if most of these products starting using a simple Linux system where you could reuse all kinds of crazy crap. You could be running toaster timers to clock your laps around a track in your car :D
until the goverment says why they raided the place everyone is really just crying wolf. They might have had a perfectly legit reason or they may have been poltical tools. We don't know yet and may not know for a long time but so far I'm not inclined to start screaming about censorship just yet. Now if they start raiding other media outlets give me a call but 1 case where we don't know any facts isn't a reason to panic.
they just didn't want to make it hard on any kids who thought you could hack by typing "hack mainframe" the dos prompt
I would love to have seen the look on the faces of the people who orignally claimed segway was everything from cold fusion to Ai when they saw the stupid scooter.
they mention image noise several times in the article and act like it's isn't a big deal. If you can see image noise on a normal 3 megapixel image (assuming its somehwere around 1024x768 or greater) then its probally pretty bad. They mention it twice too. I wonder if it has anything to do with the ceramic lens which seems to be the only interesting thing about the camera. Otherwise it seems pretty average in about every category.
I've seen lots of papers about the 'horrors' of genetically engineering crops and people but really I don't understand it. If you knew your kid was going to be born horribly crippled and with a simple shot you could fix it, wouldn't you? With how much relegions change over the years would letting your childs life be ruined be worth your current relegious dogma?
its always refreshing to see judges making decisions based off law and not political interests
probally not. I had lots of problems on my rio forge and nitrus playing protected files. Somtimes it would work somtimes it wouldn't. About all the tech assistance Rio would provide was "make sure you clock is accurate" :p
I bought a RIO nitrus and had it's hard drive fail within 2 weeks of purchase. I had it replaced 3 times over the next few months and none of the models lasted more than a month when all they did was ride in my back pack as I walked to class. Recently I bought one of the new Rio Forges and it also has problems. Despite being sold as a "sport" model it shuts down regularly during use and Rio refuses to admit any problem with the design despite several pages of experiences just like mine on their forums. I strongly discourage anyone from buying Rio products without an extended warrenty. Here is a good forums to read about Rio products: http://www.rioworld.org/yabbse/index.php?board=16
the rest of the world pollutes far more than the US nowdays and they don't really care that Johnny Q Hippy dosn't like it. They'll happily continue strip mining and using mercery to strip out copper from ore while they eat a tiger mcmuffin. All the eco freaks do is help ensure the US can't compete as well in the global market.
read what I wrote. Divx format at VHS quality. Thats easily months. Not hours. Slightly short of a year though.
thats over a year of continous porn...365 days of uninterupted writhing lesbians.. (assuming divx format VHS standard)
blood is just conductive enough to let things short out. As for why I don't feel it somtimes your guess is as good as mine. Once I *notice* i cut myself I feel it.
Try rubbing alcohol. It should get some of the smell off and then evaporate without leaving any residue. You can just dip the pieces numerous times if need be. I've used it to get blood off of several of my components without any problem. No I'm not a mass murderer or anything I just accidently cut myself while working on my computer and then don't feel it. By the time I notice my computer looks like it just had an abortion.
yea it's really sad how we've let eco freaks control the technological curve in this country. We used to lead in this kind of technology only now we just follow well after everyone else makes it safe. Same situation with medical treatments. It's getting really sad how easily the stupid people in society can play to the media and other people just eat it up with no idea what really happened. Whenever I hear three mile island compaired to chernobyl I want to smack someone. Nuclear power IS the future. Period. The sooner the idiot masses get over their hystarical fear of somthing they don't understand the better. It sickens me when I see "an expert" (ie someone who is really a business major and giving a psudoscience speech on nuclear power) trying to argue with someone who's spent their entire lives working with and designing nuclear rectors. And of course the media will side with the eco freaks because they love to create panic and anger so you'll watch their channel more.
I wonder how many figures their legal bill is. Somehow I suspect its a seven or eight figures at least.
I wonder if they are just now figuring out pissing all over your cunsumer base is a bad idea. Pretty much everyone who is studying computers and programing right now hates the SCO. They think of them as horrible throwbacks and a sign of everything that is wrong with the software industry. Now the SCO is realizing what this does to the bottom line. These same nerds eventually end up with a job in a major company and make decisions not to use SCO products. Simple and highly effective. I hope the same thing happens to the RIAA.
this was really common with me and my friends while i was at Texas A&m university. One of my friends who went to a Naval Academy said they even did it there. (they even put porn on the side of a building and only got in mild trouble for it) I guess if it's so well known it means my friends and I aren't as nerdy as we thought. Yay?
how many people have the entire double click domain block from displaying on their web browsers anyway?
Hm Pretty soon we're gunna finally have hand held competition again for the first time in years. THe gameboy advance has been supreme for years and in the next year at most we're looking at the DS and PSP competing with it. (I'm ignoring the Nokia abomination) Let's hope a little healthy competition is good for the market. Personally I'm really looking forward to the PSP, mainly becuase the games seem like they will be focused on a more mature audience. The idea of a turn based metal gear game sounds great.
Really I don't see any advantages to this idea. From a consumer standpoint it's not much different from a normal bus unless you happen to also be going on a long train ride. I'm not sure how well devoloped the British rail system is but hardly anyone in the US uses them. Specialized markets like bus (short range travel) or train (long range) will most likey be cheaper than anything like this which tries to move in on two areas at once. The duel logistical costs will almost certainly drive up the prices to uncompedative levels.
Doom is such an integral part of gaming history. How many of you played it as your first game? How many of you remember the first modding tools? Or the joys of downloading your first TC? Anyone remember Aliens TC by Justin Fisher? That mod had better atmosphere and gameplay than most comercial games I've played. Fourty or fifty years down the line I bet our kids look back on doom as the Model T of PC gaming.
I really liked my brothers tablet pc and the handwriting software has really gone far. I could write a paragraph without having to correct one word. The only prolbems I had with it was that it refused to write mathmatical equations. Since I'm an engineer that basically rendered it useless for me. Other than that it was very nice and even the voice software worked well. FYI he had a toshiba model running the windows XP tabel OS. I'm not sure of the exact model number.