The Palm Pre comes with built-in turn-by-turn GPS navigation (included in Sprint plans in the U.S. anyway) if that's what you were talking about. There are $$ apps on the iPhone for it.
Yes...I think there's a good chance that in two years I could be hooking mine up to a USB hard drive and making it a great low power FTP/torrent/media server. If I'm lucky, there'll "be an app for that."
Right there with you, Sonic was the first game that popped into my mind as an admitted Sega fanboy. It's too bad more mainstream developers haven't taken advantage of XBLA/WiiWare to release high quality, low budget old school games like Capcom's recent all-new yet all-old MegaMan.
Except that compatibility mode is equivalent to IE7 so hardcore IE6-designed sites will still be broken. 6 to 7 was the big jump...7 to 8 was further refinement.
Hulu and South Park have annoying ads? Come on, we finally get some sites actually attempting to give us what we want, when we want, for free, and you can't watch a 15 second ad here and there?
It really bothers me that neither Rock Band nor Guitar Hero can auto-calibrate the audio lag using the microphone. There's absolutely no reason I can see that they can't "listen" for the calibration beeps with the mic to get a perfect reading.
There's not much difference between Ubuntu and Windows besides Ubuntu always having the advantage of free. Even LTS releases only have support for 3 years on the desktop. Meanwhile Windows 2000 is on it's 10th year or so? That's not bad.
You say there's no upgrade treadmill on Linux but there is...it just happens to be free.
This looks very similar to what they're doing with the Mac fork of XBMC, Plex. It's very cool how they implemented it, basically making Plex a frontend for Safari with the plug-in defining the area of the browser that the video is in. This way, as far as the site is concerned, someone is using the browser like normal.
They also have an App Store but it's not designed to be for pay, and I would doubt the Boxee one is either. I had never used Python before but I was able to whip up some plug-ins which are now available in the store.
Like he said, "during the middle of the night." Yes it was oh so helpful to show a dialog for 5 minutes at 4am. Better hope you saved everything because you'll walk in the next day to your login screen. "Your computer was rebooted to install updates." Gee, thanks Windows!
Although to be fair, you can change it so it downloads updates and lets you know they're ready to install manually. But they pressure you to use the automatic do-it-whenever-Windows-feels-like-it method.
Not really knowing anything about the modern capabilities of auto-pilot systems, I'm curious what you think would have happened with the Hudson River incident if there had been no human pilot around.
As for doing something a little original like having the screen laid out with a fixed height and adding columns as the content increases... yea, right!
Minimal. We saw it at IMAX sitting closer than we should have and my wife (who made it through about 2 minutes of Cloverfield) was only bothered a couple times. I would suspect seeing it at a normal theater would be fine.
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Your first point complains that the movie was different then the book, then your second point complains when the movie follows the book. I'm thinking nothing would have made you happy and you could have safely skipped the film.
I use gametz.com. No transaction fee, just shipping. Two successful trades for me so far, great experience. As a noob, I send first, then they send. If both traders have good rep, they send at the same time. Beats the hell out of giving GameStop undeserved (IMO) money.
Well, 1) I was only saying what I think would have happened. I'd like ogg to be popular myself. And 2) isn't AAC licensed by Fraunhofer just like MP3? I think Apple was just the first major player to use it.
Agree it would have been nice to have DVD-Audio or SACD become popular. Hell, I enjoy a good DTS surround disc. But I think you're wrong about Ogg...AAC supports multi-channel as well and I think it would have handily beat Ogg for 5.1 market share.
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Brilliant.
The Palm Pre comes with built-in turn-by-turn GPS navigation (included in Sprint plans in the U.S. anyway) if that's what you were talking about. There are $$ apps on the iPhone for it.
Yes...I think there's a good chance that in two years I could be hooking mine up to a USB hard drive and making it a great low power FTP/torrent/media server. If I'm lucky, there'll "be an app for that."
Right there with you, Sonic was the first game that popped into my mind as an admitted Sega fanboy. It's too bad more mainstream developers haven't taken advantage of XBLA/WiiWare to release high quality, low budget old school games like Capcom's recent all-new yet all-old MegaMan.
In WarCraft III you can specify the port that Battle.net uses.
Except that compatibility mode is equivalent to IE7 so hardcore IE6-designed sites will still be broken. 6 to 7 was the big jump...7 to 8 was further refinement.
Minefield? No, this thing still doesn't have enough memory for Firefox.
Hulu and South Park have annoying ads? Come on, we finally get some sites actually attempting to give us what we want, when we want, for free, and you can't watch a 15 second ad here and there?
I don't know if I consider them blunt sticks but there were plenty of clues. I sure missed them.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sixth+sense+clues
Woah! I own the damn thing and I had no idea. In my defense I play drums 99% of the time. :) Thanks!
Totally off topic here but I'll risk it.
It really bothers me that neither Rock Band nor Guitar Hero can auto-calibrate the audio lag using the microphone. There's absolutely no reason I can see that they can't "listen" for the calibration beeps with the mic to get a perfect reading.
There's not much difference between Ubuntu and Windows besides Ubuntu always having the advantage of free. Even LTS releases only have support for 3 years on the desktop. Meanwhile Windows 2000 is on it's 10th year or so? That's not bad.
You say there's no upgrade treadmill on Linux but there is...it just happens to be free.
Maybe he hadn't updated Safari yet...
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Unfortunately this isn't law.
This looks very similar to what they're doing with the Mac fork of XBMC, Plex. It's very cool how they implemented it, basically making Plex a frontend for Safari with the plug-in defining the area of the browser that the video is in. This way, as far as the site is concerned, someone is using the browser like normal.
They also have an App Store but it's not designed to be for pay, and I would doubt the Boxee one is either. I had never used Python before but I was able to whip up some plug-ins which are now available in the store.
http://www.plexapp.com/
Shiny and Quality are not mutually exclusive.
Like he said, "during the middle of the night." Yes it was oh so helpful to show a dialog for 5 minutes at 4am. Better hope you saved everything because you'll walk in the next day to your login screen. "Your computer was rebooted to install updates." Gee, thanks Windows!
Although to be fair, you can change it so it downloads updates and lets you know they're ready to install manually. But they pressure you to use the automatic do-it-whenever-Windows-feels-like-it method.
Not really knowing anything about the modern capabilities of auto-pilot systems, I'm curious what you think would have happened with the Hudson River incident if there had been no human pilot around.
I picture a school report being done in the future on facial gesturing citing this as one of the early applications. Whoops!
As for doing something a little original like having the screen laid out with a fixed height and adding columns as the content increases ... yea, right!
I'm not sure if I completely understand what you're describing but they do have this planned: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/multicolumn.html
Minimal. We saw it at IMAX sitting closer than we should have and my wife (who made it through about 2 minutes of Cloverfield) was only bothered a couple times. I would suspect seeing it at a normal theater would be fine.
Your first point complains that the movie was different then the book, then your second point complains when the movie follows the book. I'm thinking nothing would have made you happy and you could have safely skipped the film.
I use gametz.com. No transaction fee, just shipping. Two successful trades for me so far, great experience. As a noob, I send first, then they send. If both traders have good rep, they send at the same time. Beats the hell out of giving GameStop undeserved (IMO) money.
Well, 1) I was only saying what I think would have happened. I'd like ogg to be popular myself. And 2) isn't AAC licensed by Fraunhofer just like MP3? I think Apple was just the first major player to use it.
Agree it would have been nice to have DVD-Audio or SACD become popular. Hell, I enjoy a good DTS surround disc. But I think you're wrong about Ogg...AAC supports multi-channel as well and I think it would have handily beat Ogg for 5.1 market share.