I carry both a PDA (RIP Toshiba) and a cell phone, adn perfer it that way. I just don't like the combo models. They seem to suffer both as phones and as PDA's. I use mine to read articles, occasionally surf the net wirelessly for free, play the occasional game, and constantly as an mp3 player. I would feel like an idiot walking around with a PDA up against my face like I've seen so many, and I don't know that I have ever seen a phone with the kind of functionality and design my PDA has. I think Toshiba had a real knack for designing the things. I kind of like the idea that Palm had going with a good PDA with phone capabilities only through headset, and the Tungsten is well designed, but I would not want to be caught without the headset, and I don't really like PalmOS (though I haven't given it much thought since my Palm III.)
So I defately am sticking with two devices for the time being.
Albertsons has used the Dallas area as test reigon for their "shop and scan" system, where people can scan their club cards and a system will releice a wireless scanner which you can take around the store and use to scan your items as you go. When you are done you scan a bar code telling it you are done and then go to any checkout aisle (self-checkout or normal) and scan your club card again, which will automatically ring up all the items you scanned. The tranceivers resemble the little bar code scanners they use to scan large items left in a cart. They have a low-res LCD display the reads out basically the same info that goes on the receipt.
I have used this at two stores. It is nice, though you have to get used to having to scan your own items. One of the stores routinely sent promo offers as I shopped, which was really annoying. You could not scan anything for about 10 seconds after it beeped to tell you that you could get dogfood two for a dollar or something. They both had a scroll-through menu of promotions, which was good.
One great (planned for soon) feature is notification of perscriptions being filled as you go around the store, or of one hour photo development. I do not use these services, but I could see the convinience.
I really don't get those that honestly view this as a client-side consideration. Computers are cheaper than checkers.
We really need to know about resolution on this thing.
I was just today considering a home-made wearable computer (perhaps on a nano-itx board gutting a UPS or something for some power), but was considering the fact I'd have to wear the LCD screen too, since all the current HMD's are so expensive. If this thing does 800x600, we're talking business.
Yahoo! News reports this story: 'In November, Digital Lifestyles Group Inc. plans to ship the hip-e, a new Windows-based PC inspired by the iMac, specifically designed to cater to stupid teenagers. It was Chairman and CEO Kent Savage's own experience after his son asked him for an iMac that led to the new all-in-one system's creation.'
You are looking for some sweet software with what ounds like what must be horrible hardware. You could build a quiet, moderately fast mini-itx system there for something like $350 or get an older system mainstream for way under $100 that could at least run X.
I also echo what two people said, mythmusic is worth a look.
I think you are totally missing the point of the show. If you reject the attitude of, "Let's have some fun and empirically address this stuff," you really have little right to use most of the science you honor.
Unfortunately, the box did not say "trust Microsoft until you format or cease using the drive." Nay, it is an eternal commitment, one my honor demands I go through with.
I have performed the experiment: Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?
Impossible! You must be lying!
(Sorry, I realize this mihgt not be defensible, but I accidently checked the "Always Trust Microsoft" box during an install a few years ago. If only I could turn back time.)
The following gadget allows you to plug in a keyboard and mouse into an xbox or ps2, and configures them to emulate the joypads. Solved. Use your keyboard and mouse on the console.
http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?products_id=5438# Product_features
chmod +x/dev/random;/dev/random #faster than monkeys and typewriters
I don't know what was solved, since I don't think he had a problem, but I did want to thank you for that link. That is a really nifty little gadget, I might pick one up to assure I do not get as badly pwned anymore.
I guess the QuakeWorld:Team Fortress comment was probably right, but I could see using QWTF as motion controls. Plase your ring and middle fingers on Q and W and your pointer between T and F. Use T and F for the forward/backward direction and Q and W fro right/left.
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I reallu doubt many slashdotters are paying for that kind of software.
There is no reason to compare Adobe Video Collection to the basic copy of Final Cut. Final Cut Express is a very limited program: Apple sells superior versions for $1000-$1300 which might be better compared to Adobe Video Collection. You cannot compare the $25 of final cut to AVC.
Then again, we are already comparing Apples and oranges when we compare and iMac (he must not have meant a PowerMac, since that would bring him up to at least $4050) and the x86 system.
I like how you conveniently leave Processor and Motherboard out of it as if they're insignificant.
Add an Athon64 + Motherboard or a Xeon + Motherboard and THEN tell us the price.
You could get them for A LOT LESS then the next $900 difference if it were an iMac, less than half it. You could get those components pretty nicely for $250.
Not to mention the fact that you have to put it together yourself.
If for some reason this is a problem pay a tech $250 and you would still be at $1900, not $3940 for a comparable x86 system.
I would be prone to agree with your post were it not blatently wrong. You essentially start with telling us how the angle-of-viewing problem is limited to the aerospace industry, then continue on to claim that the patent was clearly something that it is not: over all systems of making brighter displays, as opposed to the technology, which supposedly makes darker ones.
Then you get into some of the greatest amounts of ignorant claims I've seen lately: they did not claim to licese their technology, and would not want to. This is blatently false. Not only have they tried, but they HAVE licensed their patent to many companies, including Philips, Samsung, and NEC. Honeywell is in the defense and aerospace industry, and has shown little interest in getting into the consumer electronics industry. They are not competing (except for maybe Philips, which also supplies such displays for aerospace uses, IIRC.)
I cannot see why you'd want to start making up so much to implicate Honeywell like this. I like cheap electronics, too, but I try to stay in this workd when I think of them.
If Honeywell were such genuii to come up with this idea in the first place, why werent they producing them? The alternative - that they were patent squatting and waiting for the lawsuit returns to build up - is just too shocking to think!
Your paranoia is probably misplaced. Let alone the fact taht they do not make them, large companies like Honeywell are not apt to patent squat in hopes for a law suit. That is much higher risk than what they have done: made them and licensed to other companies.
The Nouse is so going to replace the mouse. And we are going to change the way we build cities because some dude was too lazy to stick enough wheels on his scooter.
I sit at the computer hours at a time. I eat, drink I cup my head in my hands, I sneeze, I could, I blink... we are in much better control with out hands, and it is impractical to use things that we have less control over as primary input devices.
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I carry both a PDA (RIP Toshiba) and a cell phone, adn perfer it that way. I just don't like the combo models. They seem to suffer both as phones and as PDA's. I use mine to read articles, occasionally surf the net wirelessly for free, play the occasional game, and constantly as an mp3 player. I would feel like an idiot walking around with a PDA up against my face like I've seen so many, and I don't know that I have ever seen a phone with the kind of functionality and design my PDA has. I think Toshiba had a real knack for designing the things. I kind of like the idea that Palm had going with a good PDA with phone capabilities only through headset, and the Tungsten is well designed, but I would not want to be caught without the headset, and I don't really like PalmOS (though I haven't given it much thought since my Palm III.)
So I defately am sticking with two devices for the time being.
Absolutley, Japan clearly has many more rich people...
Voice recognition and a nouse?
I'm half serious here.
Albertsons has used the Dallas area as test reigon for their "shop and scan" system, where people can scan their club cards and a system will releice a wireless scanner which you can take around the store and use to scan your items as you go. When you are done you scan a bar code telling it you are done and then go to any checkout aisle (self-checkout or normal) and scan your club card again, which will automatically ring up all the items you scanned. The tranceivers resemble the little bar code scanners they use to scan large items left in a cart. They have a low-res LCD display the reads out basically the same info that goes on the receipt.
I have used this at two stores. It is nice, though you have to get used to having to scan your own items. One of the stores routinely sent promo offers as I shopped, which was really annoying. You could not scan anything for about 10 seconds after it beeped to tell you that you could get dogfood two for a dollar or something. They both had a scroll-through menu of promotions, which was good.
One great (planned for soon) feature is notification of perscriptions being filled as you go around the store, or of one hour photo development. I do not use these services, but I could see the convinience.
I really don't get those that honestly view this as a client-side consideration. Computers are cheaper than checkers.
We really need to know about resolution on this thing.
I was just today considering a home-made wearable computer (perhaps on a nano-itx board gutting a UPS or something for some power), but was considering the fact I'd have to wear the LCD screen too, since all the current HMD's are so expensive. If this thing does 800x600, we're talking business.
(It's also pricey.)
That's an understatement. I know they were inspired by Apple, but the emulation is uncanny.
Honestly, if I had $1700 to throw on an okay computer (and a laptop was not an option) I would probably go Apple.
Yahoo! News reports this story: 'In November, Digital Lifestyles Group Inc. plans to ship the hip-e, a new Windows-based PC inspired by the iMac, specifically designed to cater to stupid teenagers. It was Chairman and CEO Kent Savage's own experience after his son asked him for an iMac that led to the new all-in-one system's creation.'
You are looking for some sweet software with what ounds like what must be horrible hardware. You could build a quiet, moderately fast mini-itx system there for something like $350 or get an older system mainstream for way under $100 that could at least run X.
I also echo what two people said, mythmusic is worth a look.
JPEG
I actually think the newest JPEG compression is wavelet based.
Point taken, though.
My car makes sparks at the gas station, too, and I've yet to see one blow up.
I think you are totally missing the point of the show. If you reject the attitude of, "Let's have some fun and empirically address this stuff," you really have little right to use most of the science you honor.
Good one, but saying that alound, it doesn't seem to have the breaks at the right places.
"Looks like you..... also learned how to... type..... from Shatner....." seems to work a tad better.
Unfortunately, the box did not say "trust Microsoft until you format or cease using the drive." Nay, it is an eternal commitment, one my honor demands I go through with.
I have performed the experiment: Install Windows on a computer and hook it up to the Internet. Leave it hooked up without downloading one bit of software from anywhere! and the machine will be compromised. Why is that Mr. Gates?
Impossible! You must be lying!
(Sorry, I realize this mihgt not be defensible, but I accidently checked the "Always Trust Microsoft" box during an install a few years ago. If only I could turn back time.)
The following gadget allows you to plug in a keyboard and mouse into an xbox or ps2, and configures them to emulate the joypads. Solved. Use your keyboard and mouse on the console. http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?products_id=5438# Product_features
chmod +x /dev/random;/dev/random #faster than monkeys and typewriters
I don't know what was solved, since I don't think he had a problem, but I did want to thank you for that link. That is a really nifty little gadget, I might pick one up to assure I do not get as badly pwned anymore.
I guess the QuakeWorld:Team Fortress comment was probably right, but I could see using QWTF as motion controls. Plase your ring and middle fingers on Q and W and your pointer between T and F. Use T and F for the forward/backward direction and Q and W fro right/left.
Smalltalk.
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print. ' bottles of beer on the wall, ' print.
i print. ' bottles of beer. ' print.
'take one down, pass it around, ' print.
(i-1) print. ' bottles of beer on the wall, ' print.
]
So I go to conduct a transfer, and lo: paypal is down. So I head over to slashdot, to find hundreds of posts on the subject. Long live /.
I reallu doubt many slashdotters are paying for that kind of software.
There is no reason to compare Adobe Video Collection to the basic copy of Final Cut. Final Cut Express is a very limited program: Apple sells superior versions for $1000-$1300 which might be better compared to Adobe Video Collection. You cannot compare the $25 of final cut to AVC.
Then again, we are already comparing Apples and oranges when we compare and iMac (he must not have meant a PowerMac, since that would bring him up to at least $4050) and the x86 system.
I like how you conveniently leave Processor and Motherboard out of it as if they're insignificant.
Add an Athon64 + Motherboard or a Xeon + Motherboard and THEN tell us the price.
You could get them for A LOT LESS then the next $900 difference if it were an iMac, less than half it. You could get those components pretty nicely for $250.
Not to mention the fact that you have to put it together yourself.
If for some reason this is a problem pay a tech $250 and you would still be at $1900, not $3940 for a comparable x86 system.
This would be fine when you do not have to carry much to work, but what about when you have to carry a lot, or are going shopping?
I would be prone to agree with your post were it not blatently wrong. You essentially start with telling us how the angle-of-viewing problem is limited to the aerospace industry, then continue on to claim that the patent was clearly something that it is not: over all systems of making brighter displays, as opposed to the technology, which supposedly makes darker ones.
Then you get into some of the greatest amounts of ignorant claims I've seen lately: they did not claim to licese their technology, and would not want to. This is blatently false. Not only have they tried, but they HAVE licensed their patent to many companies, including Philips, Samsung, and NEC. Honeywell is in the defense and aerospace industry, and has shown little interest in getting into the consumer electronics industry. They are not competing (except for maybe Philips, which also supplies such displays for aerospace uses, IIRC.)
I cannot see why you'd want to start making up so much to implicate Honeywell like this. I like cheap electronics, too, but I try to stay in this workd when I think of them.
If Honeywell were such genuii to come up with this idea in the first place, why werent they producing them? The alternative - that they were patent squatting and waiting for the lawsuit returns to build up - is just too shocking to think!
Your paranoia is probably misplaced. Let alone the fact taht they do not make them, large companies like Honeywell are not apt to patent squat in hopes for a law suit. That is much higher risk than what they have done: made them and licensed to other companies.
The other, however, is most cerainly not.
The Nouse is so going to replace the mouse. And we are going to change the way we build cities because some dude was too lazy to stick enough wheels on his scooter.
I sit at the computer hours at a time. I eat, drink I cup my head in my hands, I sneeze, I could, I blink... we are in much better control with out hands, and it is impractical to use things that we have less control over as primary input devices.