...on ASUSsebook reader featured on the same page. Looks great, and if it's offered at a reasonable price (like most ASUS offerings are) it could well ignite the ebook market just as the Eee Pc did with the netbook one.
I can't help to find the testing biased. With lovely tidbits like...
"After reviewing the JavaScript benchmarks, we've decided that Tom's has no choice but to run all of them in the future. While I personally lean toward JSBenchmark, since it isn't affiliated with any browser, its results don't reflect the outcome in Dromaeo. Until the reason for Opera's devastating Mozilla score can be explained, I believe we'll have to run all of them to get the clearest picture. If you disagree, or have an opinion on a better way to benchmark JavaScript, sound off in the comments section below."
Or the conclusions, where out out of 13 categories, Safari won 3, Opera 4, Chrome 3, Firefox 3 and IE only one (shared with FF). Yet, they proclaimed Chrome as the winner. Lovely.
Yes, i'm an Opera fan, but i also like Firefox and Chrome a lot. I'd just like to read fair reviews.
How the idea of "drive by wire" became popular is beyond me.
It became popular because it WORKS. Yes, is more complicated and needs a lot of testing in order to get something ready for the road, but the benefits outweigtht the drawbacks. If the aerospace and trucking industry have been able to do it right for so long, why couldn't the automotive one do the same?
Meh, i'll take Sneakers over War Games every day. Sneakers shows that realistically hacking is more about social engineering than typing cryptic commands on a computer. And on top of that, it was a FUN, really well put togheter movie. The final scene ("Tahiti is not in Europe!") is great and gets a laugh out of me every time.
For those interested: basic guitar fuzzboxes (like the venerable Fuzz Face) are simple, design arround one or two transistors. The sound is heavily dependent on the type transistor used - old Germanium devices have a nicer, more musical sound than modern Silicon ones; this depends on how they clip the signal when amplifying, basically. I'd love to hear one using these new devices...
The average Windows user will just accept it's ok for his computer to reboot after a couple of hours. The ones that know better will simply patch the OS.
So, in a nutshell, sadly it won't make any difference.
Yeah, I would be happy if the proprietary driver could play video without flickering.
Amen to that. The on-chipset Intel adapter on my netbook (using open source drivers) plays video with far more grace than a last generation ATI card using their propietary drivers.
Don't diss DD-WRT so quickly. The software running it is damn solid and feature rich - most of it's limitations are caused by the relatively weak hardware low cost routers use. I think there was some beefier hardware available on the DD-WRT shop.
Well, it depends. I've been a x86 hacker for a large part of my adult life and i agree - the architecture is a mess. It's got to the point where you can't even really predict how hand-written assembler code will perform, as there're a gazillion different hardware architectures running the same instruction set. In this sense, i've found Click's video really interesting. In the good old days of the 386-486, things were a lot more predictable and, yes, fun.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with you about ARM. Lately, i've been digging into ARM (in order to reverse-engineer a devices' bootloader) and i'm stoked. A clean, well thought out architecture with a minimal instruction set that's very rich. I love being able to add conditionals to pretty much every instruction available and having a barrel shifter available per instruction.
I have never played the Madden series (thank you God), but does it require a server only for online gaming, or single player as well? In that case, you can still use the software you paid for.
I know it's nitpicking, and most likely the main appeal of the game was the online part, but stil.
Glad to see the parent is mod up. I've had people on charge, and as long as actual work was done i didn't really mind small breaks - in fact, i think they're healthy in the workplace.
Then again, taking breaks shouldn't mean "slacking". Most people do just fine when you give them deadlines and allow them to micromanaging their own time. Some, of course, do not.
...unless they find a way of making it work without goggles or additional gear. Would you wear a pair of glasses every time you feel like watching TV? I know i wouldn't.
I've watched a couple of movies in 3D. The effect works just fine - we're leaps and bound ahead of the days of red-and-green glasses. Maybe someone will find a more creative way of using this technology, but right now, 3D doesn't really add much to the experience IMHO. Unless you feel directly into the 3D world it's just a bit of depth perception at the cost of a dimmer, lower quality image.
Don't get me wrong, try it if you haven't. Just don't expect to feel like throwing your old 2D TV after.
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...on ASUSsebook reader featured on the same page. Looks great, and if it's offered at a reasonable price (like most ASUS offerings are) it could well ignite the ebook market just as the Eee Pc did with the netbook one.
I did. Why bother taking numbers if you're just going to give a subjective result at the end?
I can't help to find the testing biased. With lovely tidbits like...
"After reviewing the JavaScript benchmarks, we've decided that Tom's has no choice but to run all of them in the future. While I personally lean toward JSBenchmark, since it isn't affiliated with any browser, its results don't reflect the outcome in Dromaeo. Until the reason for Opera's devastating Mozilla score can be explained, I believe we'll have to run all of them to get the clearest picture. If you disagree, or have an opinion on a better way to benchmark JavaScript, sound off in the comments section below."
Or the conclusions, where out out of 13 categories, Safari won 3, Opera 4, Chrome 3, Firefox 3 and IE only one (shared with FF). Yet, they proclaimed Chrome as the winner. Lovely.
Yes, i'm an Opera fan, but i also like Firefox and Chrome a lot. I'd just like to read fair reviews.
Recursive morsecode? SSTV images? BBS numbers? Obscure hints all over?
WOW.
I just hope they spare some time to work on an actual game with all this going on!
How the idea of "drive by wire" became popular is beyond me.
It became popular because it WORKS. Yes, is more complicated and needs a lot of testing in order to get something ready for the road, but the benefits outweigtht the drawbacks. If the aerospace and trucking industry have been able to do it right for so long, why couldn't the automotive one do the same?
Yeah... i'm renting an apparment in the US, and among the furniture we have two of those. You are right about that boot time being damn annoying!
I`m guessing Dynex...
Meh, i'll take Sneakers over War Games every day. Sneakers shows that realistically hacking is more about social engineering than typing cryptic commands on a computer. And on top of that, it was a FUN, really well put togheter movie. The final scene ("Tahiti is not in Europe!") is great and gets a laugh out of me every time.
I was thinking the same. Housing the device so it would be unnafected by gravitational anomalies would be quite challenging...
Hear hear!
For those interested: basic guitar fuzzboxes (like the venerable Fuzz Face) are simple, design arround one or two transistors. The sound is heavily dependent on the type transistor used - old Germanium devices have a nicer, more musical sound than modern Silicon ones; this depends on how they clip the signal when amplifying, basically. I'd love to hear one using these new devices...
or example, the Ninja Gaiden games on the NES would not fly in today's gaming community, except among a small, masochistic market segment.
I hear that the newer versions of NG (XBox et all) are insanely difficult, just as the original.
The average Windows user will just accept it's ok for his computer to reboot after a couple of hours. The ones that know better will simply patch the OS.
So, in a nutshell, sadly it won't make any difference.
Yeah, I would be happy if the proprietary driver could play video without flickering.
Amen to that. The on-chipset Intel adapter on my netbook (using open source drivers) plays video with far more grace than a last generation ATI card using their propietary drivers.
DES has little to do with Blowfish, in particular, besides being both block cyphers.
Don't diss DD-WRT so quickly. The software running it is damn solid and feature rich - most of it's limitations are caused by the relatively weak hardware low cost routers use. I think there was some beefier hardware available on the DD-WRT shop.
Well, it depends. I've been a x86 hacker for a large part of my adult life and i agree - the architecture is a mess. It's got to the point where you can't even really predict how hand-written assembler code will perform, as there're a gazillion different hardware architectures running the same instruction set. In this sense, i've found Click's video really interesting. In the good old days of the 386-486, things were a lot more predictable and, yes, fun.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with you about ARM. Lately, i've been digging into ARM (in order to reverse-engineer a devices' bootloader) and i'm stoked. A clean, well thought out architecture with a minimal instruction set that's very rich. I love being able to add conditionals to pretty much every instruction available and having a barrel shifter available per instruction.
Great post. Thank you for your insight!
I've always wondered - how exactly is easy to press ctrl-alt-backspace by accident?
Call me old fashioned but i was thinking the exact same thing. Mummification? What's next, televised executions?
Then again, i'm sure someone has tried to do this in Texas.
Well, try standing next to a microwave antenna.
Nice point. Book's character was very unexplored. Probably my favourite character on the series next to Mal Reynolds.
Not reboot. I'd just LOVE to see the series continued. The movie kinda sealed the story shut, but still, that show was killed way before it was due.
Bring back Firefly. Please. Pretty please!
I have never played the Madden series (thank you God), but does it require a server only for online gaming, or single player as well? In that case, you can still use the software you paid for.
I know it's nitpicking, and most likely the main appeal of the game was the online part, but stil.
Glad to see the parent is mod up. I've had people on charge, and as long as actual work was done i didn't really mind small breaks - in fact, i think they're healthy in the workplace.
Then again, taking breaks shouldn't mean "slacking". Most people do just fine when you give them deadlines and allow them to micromanaging their own time. Some, of course, do not.
...unless they find a way of making it work without goggles or additional gear. Would you wear a pair of glasses every time you feel like watching TV? I know i wouldn't.
I've watched a couple of movies in 3D. The effect works just fine - we're leaps and bound ahead of the days of red-and-green glasses. Maybe someone will find a more creative way of using this technology, but right now, 3D doesn't really add much to the experience IMHO. Unless you feel directly into the 3D world it's just a bit of depth perception at the cost of a dimmer, lower quality image.
Don't get me wrong, try it if you haven't. Just don't expect to feel like throwing your old 2D TV after.