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Obviously.
Scrolling through the comments, I see: 1. People who read about a similar universe in a book. 2. People who think this is a new great idea.
Seriously, guys, anyone interested in a collaborative freeform 3D world should have already registered an account at Second Life. It's been out there for a couple years already. The client *is* a 3D modeling tool, everything from clothes to massive Klingon spacecraft are built inworld. You can build anything you want in one of the sandbox areas if you don't own land. You can attach scripts to do almost anything to almost any object; everything from animating a sculpture to running a store or party game.
Second Life is now free. That is, you can register, have an avatar, get a weekly stipend, build anything you want, but you can't own land. No excuse not to try it out. One hint: turn off local lighting to speed up the framerate, Second Life is CPU-bound.
Actually, using the prices you quoted but with correct math, the price is $940. But I'm pretty sure that a computer capable of decoding 16 independent USB video streams will cost a bit more than $100. I'd be thinking more along the lines of an Athlon X2 or one of Apple's multiproc beasts. Even then I wouldn't be too certain that the PCI bus could hold up.
Sometimes I think it is better to leave things alone, rather than exaggerate. I'm a subwatcher too, but I've listened to enough Japanese to notice the different accent. Now, maybe using a Southern accent could work, but ADV wasn't able to pull it off. And instead of fixing it, they sell it high prices.
If you have Azumanga Daioh, you know exactly how ADV butchered it into a quivering abortion. The dubbing is the most horrible thing I've ever heard. I'd rather listen to people off the street cold-read scripts...but no, they ACTUALLY HIRED BACK the voice-acting cast that did Yu-Gi-Oh and any number of poorly-dubbed series. They...they...gave Osaka a fake southern U.S. accent. *shudder*
Last Exile was definitely a top-notch anime. I'd recommend Scrapped Princess. If you want to get fansubs, a good family series is Patapata Hikousen no Bouken (Secret of Cerulean Sand). Good steam era sci-fi with lovable characters and a great plot. I don't believe it's licensed here yet, so you might be able to find it out on the bittorrent networks.
What I'd like to see is RAID-in-a-drive. A few sets of independent head assemblies, maybe dual redundant controller boards or something. The drive would handle all RAID functions and error correction, transparently. Barring catastrophic mechanical failure, this should boost reliability a lot. Go back to fullheight 5.25" hard drives if you have to, it's not like the 3.5" drive sitting in my computer is really filling the bay up.
purchased the expired patents after he committed suicide
"Suicide" eh? If I think too hard about that one it might throw a dark cloud over all those happy times spent building with Legos as a child. It poses a moral question: are the hours of enjoyment for millions of children worth the death of one man? Granted, he was British and had a girl's name. That alone should be enough to retroactively label him "terrorist" and purify Lego's avarice-driven assassination.
You must not be familiar with Bittorrent, or you'd know that with some clients implementing decentralized tracking, the torrent can live on long after the tracker is gone. At least, I think you meant to say tracker instead of seed, right? Because a seed is merely someone who has downloaded the whole file and is uploading only.
No mention of the MobiBlu cube player? I got one and I love it, has FM and voice recording and equalizer, not to mention SRS WOW and an OLED screen. It's tiny and and the only clue people have that it's some kind of player is the headphones, and they come over and ask about it. Everyone is amazed by how small it is.
You want to REALLY blow your mind? As the Blizzard logo fades to black on the intro movie to Starcraft: Brood War, hit play on R.E.M. It's the End of the World as We Know It.
I think they've pretty much hit the limit for "innovation" in a document format. All they can do now is change the format periodically to break compatibility with competing office suites.
Come back to me when someone creates widely available sunglasses that project an image for me that looks like a 30 inch widescreen TV that no one else can see and I'll buy it.
That right there is enough to give Hollywood wet dreams for a month.
You only pay $8? Strange, in order to get a phone line with just Caller ID and Voicemail, my phone bill was cracking $40. And that was before any calls, or any long distance. I got my first bill, then immediately signed up with Vonage. Now I pay $25 for dozens of services I'd never afford on a standard line, and use every day. Plus I don't pay any long distance charges.
Of course, if you have no one to call, it doesn't seem very impressive.
You can get a short adapter cable with a connector that fits your internal card (probably U.FL) and runs to a N or RP bulkhead you can install somewhere in your laptop if you can find the space. I think the Kensington lock slot should have enough empty space behind it, you should be able to drill a hole. Now you have a connector for you laptop antenna, at this point check the same site I linked above; they have portable external antenna options.
I agree with your first point but not your second.
I recently built a brand new system for less than the price of this new Dell ($775). It has a new nForce4 Ultra motherboard, an Athlon 64 3200+ Venice, 1GB CAS2 RAM, 250GB SATA2 hard drive, and an ATI Radeon x800 Pro VIVO 256MB. Yeah, what I put together isn't the cutting edge, but it sure makes this Dell system look like a sad sack. Sure, I already had a monitor, case, keyboard, and mouse. Who doesn't?
As far as ATI support in Linux, I find that ATI's drivers have been pretty solid for at least the last two years. My Radeon 9500 and my x800 both work perfectly in Linux with X.org, even with 64-bit drivers.
Well, Card certainly needs to wait at least until that one kid...you know who, the kid who's in everything like Sixth Sense and Star Wars and AI...we need to wait until that kid gets too old or dies or something. I don't want that kind of Ender Wiggin.
The other thing is that, since everyone's read the book, the surprise twist ending is ruined, where he finds out that his "training simulation" has actually been the control interface for a real war.
My domain name is based on my own name, but it also happens to be the exact same name as a Taiwanese company. They currently use the ".com.tw" variant. However, I often get emails to the company, even though my catchall address is blackholed. What's more, I have no visible index page...just a blank white emptiness. But I do use the domain heavily for my own email, my own file storage and web-based services for my family and others. If anyone tried to prove I was cybersquatting, I'm sure that I could prove otherwise. But it would suck to lose the email addresses that I promised to myself and my users would be there in perpetuity regardless of ISP changes.
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Obviously.
Scrolling through the comments, I see:
1. People who read about a similar universe in a book.
2. People who think this is a new great idea.
Seriously, guys, anyone interested in a collaborative freeform 3D world should have already registered an account at Second Life. It's been out there for a couple years already. The client *is* a 3D modeling tool, everything from clothes to massive Klingon spacecraft are built inworld. You can build anything you want in one of the sandbox areas if you don't own land. You can attach scripts to do almost anything to almost any object; everything from animating a sculpture to running a store or party game.
Second Life is now free. That is, you can register, have an avatar, get a weekly stipend, build anything you want, but you can't own land. No excuse not to try it out. One hint: turn off local lighting to speed up the framerate, Second Life is CPU-bound.
Actually, using the prices you quoted but with correct math, the price is $940. But I'm pretty sure that a computer capable of decoding 16 independent USB video streams will cost a bit more than $100. I'd be thinking more along the lines of an Athlon X2 or one of Apple's multiproc beasts. Even then I wouldn't be too certain that the PCI bus could hold up.
Sometimes I think it is better to leave things alone, rather than exaggerate. I'm a subwatcher too, but I've listened to enough Japanese to notice the different accent. Now, maybe using a Southern accent could work, but ADV wasn't able to pull it off. And instead of fixing it, they sell it high prices.
If you have Azumanga Daioh, you know exactly how ADV butchered it into a quivering abortion. The dubbing is the most horrible thing I've ever heard. I'd rather listen to people off the street cold-read scripts...but no, they ACTUALLY HIRED BACK the voice-acting cast that did Yu-Gi-Oh and any number of poorly-dubbed series. They...they...gave Osaka a fake southern U.S. accent. *shudder*
Last Exile was definitely a top-notch anime. I'd recommend Scrapped Princess. If you want to get fansubs, a good family series is Patapata Hikousen no Bouken (Secret of Cerulean Sand). Good steam era sci-fi with lovable characters and a great plot. I don't believe it's licensed here yet, so you might be able to find it out on the bittorrent networks.
Did I mention I work for Seagate?
(not really, but it would be pretty funny if I did)
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "No." Actually, this ain't a limb, shit, it's a fucking continent!
What I'd like to see is RAID-in-a-drive. A few sets of independent head assemblies, maybe dual redundant controller boards or something. The drive would handle all RAID functions and error correction, transparently. Barring catastrophic mechanical failure, this should boost reliability a lot. Go back to fullheight 5.25" hard drives if you have to, it's not like the 3.5" drive sitting in my computer is really filling the bay up.
purchased the expired patents after he committed suicide
"Suicide" eh? If I think too hard about that one it might throw a dark cloud over all those happy times spent building with Legos as a child. It poses a moral question: are the hours of enjoyment for millions of children worth the death of one man? Granted, he was British and had a girl's name. That alone should be enough to retroactively label him "terrorist" and purify Lego's avarice-driven assassination.
You must not be familiar with Bittorrent, or you'd know that with some clients implementing decentralized tracking, the torrent can live on long after the tracker is gone. At least, I think you meant to say tracker instead of seed, right? Because a seed is merely someone who has downloaded the whole file and is uploading only.
How about this: everyone starts off in jail, and when they've demonstrated useful behavior they are released.
No mention of the MobiBlu cube player? I got one and I love it, has FM and voice recording and equalizer, not to mention SRS WOW and an OLED screen. It's tiny and and the only clue people have that it's some kind of player is the headphones, and they come over and ask about it. Everyone is amazed by how small it is.
You want to REALLY blow your mind? As the Blizzard logo fades to black on the intro movie to Starcraft: Brood War, hit play on R.E.M. It's the End of the World as We Know It.
What additional features, exactly?
Animated text? Inline URLs? Inserted images? Revision tracking?
I think they've pretty much hit the limit for "innovation" in a document format. All they can do now is change the format periodically to break compatibility with competing office suites.
eXactly.
How could you not at least get into grad school? I thought you were good at computers, and math especially.
Come back to me when someone creates widely available sunglasses that project an image for me that looks like a 30 inch widescreen TV that no one else can see and I'll buy it.
That right there is enough to give Hollywood wet dreams for a month.
Who knew that someone I knew from college would reply to my post? Whatcha doing now, grad school?
That flashloop is older than prostitution.
You only pay $8? Strange, in order to get a phone line with just Caller ID and Voicemail, my phone bill was cracking $40. And that was before any calls, or any long distance. I got my first bill, then immediately signed up with Vonage. Now I pay $25 for dozens of services I'd never afford on a standard line, and use every day. Plus I don't pay any long distance charges.
Of course, if you have no one to call, it doesn't seem very impressive.
Check this site: http://www.hyperlinktech.com/web/1.13_custom_cable s.php
You can get a short adapter cable with a connector that fits your internal card (probably U.FL) and runs to a N or RP bulkhead you can install somewhere in your laptop if you can find the space. I think the Kensington lock slot should have enough empty space behind it, you should be able to drill a hole. Now you have a connector for you laptop antenna, at this point check the same site I linked above; they have portable external antenna options.
That would be funnier if it weren't exactly what Microsoft believes.
I agree with your first point but not your second.
I recently built a brand new system for less than the price of this new Dell ($775). It has a new nForce4 Ultra motherboard, an Athlon 64 3200+ Venice, 1GB CAS2 RAM, 250GB SATA2 hard drive, and an ATI Radeon x800 Pro VIVO 256MB. Yeah, what I put together isn't the cutting edge, but it sure makes this Dell system look like a sad sack. Sure, I already had a monitor, case, keyboard, and mouse. Who doesn't?
As far as ATI support in Linux, I find that ATI's drivers have been pretty solid for at least the last two years. My Radeon 9500 and my x800 both work perfectly in Linux with X.org, even with 64-bit drivers.
Well, Card certainly needs to wait at least until that one kid...you know who, the kid who's in everything like Sixth Sense and Star Wars and AI...we need to wait until that kid gets too old or dies or something. I don't want that kind of Ender Wiggin.
The other thing is that, since everyone's read the book, the surprise twist ending is ruined, where he finds out that his "training simulation" has actually been the control interface for a real war.
My domain name is based on my own name, but it also happens to be the exact same name as a Taiwanese company. They currently use the ".com.tw" variant. However, I often get emails to the company, even though my catchall address is blackholed. What's more, I have no visible index page...just a blank white emptiness. But I do use the domain heavily for my own email, my own file storage and web-based services for my family and others. If anyone tried to prove I was cybersquatting, I'm sure that I could prove otherwise. But it would suck to lose the email addresses that I promised to myself and my users would be there in perpetuity regardless of ISP changes.