If you're in the UK take a walk into HMV or the Virgin media shops these are the two I've spotted at the moment that have HD on the shelf (I think HMV was the first, when the PS3 was released)
then count the number of Blu-Ray (Bright Blue case) vs HD-DVD Cases (horrible brown looking cases) on the shelf It looks to me that there's a lot more Blue than Brown (and the price is startng to come down too)
Does anyone remember that scene in the film the 5th element
with the guy with a flat hat with a square picture on facing upwards
I wonder what would happen if you walked around the streets with a grey piece of cardboard cello taped to your head
would this show up on the camera, or would you just blend in with the rest of the pavement?
I read the part about Gamma Rays and the part "potentially one million times more powerful than existing lasers"
the first thing that sprung to mind, is the author David Banner?
the next thing would be the warning on the side of the device
Warning exposure may result in green eyes when changing a tyre
loss of memory / Loss of Hair / or extreme Hulkism with hilarious consequences
Assuming for the moment this was true
The whole driver-OS interface was changed. Those changes were necessary to put the 3D hardware into sharable mode.
Now multiple applications and games can share the 3D hardware. In DX9/WinXP and earlier only one App at a time could use the 3D hardware. This cannot be put back into XP because this sort of control and separation could not be done in XP.
strictly speaking for most people all that's really needed is to use one 3D thing at a time
I can see they're reasoning to an extent I'm guessing that MS want to use the 3D capabilities of the graphics card for the windows interface as a "whole new interface" experience
but are worried about co-existence with existing or new Games if more than one process is borrowing the card's abilities at the same time (although I thought this was already possible)
But since most of us don't want or need to use 3D in the windows interface and it's likley that we'd only have one 3D app open at a time under XP
I can't see any reason why you couldn't back port it
sure you might not be able to have a wizzy 3D desktop at the same time as any other 3D App / Game but the mamajority of us wouldn't want this in the first place anyway
And all we're talking about is an API at the end of the day
I take it they haven't reached the edge of the Matrix yet?
I remember there was supposed to be some unknown force slowing one of them down near the edge at least
but I always figured it was just a floating point error, the same sort of thing you get in secondlife when going too high
I believe the data is standardised over the MPEG stream for digital broadcasts
usually they call it EPG (or Eletronic Programming Guide)
I think it's part of the DVB-T / DVB-C / DVB-S standard
you'd probably need a DVB-C or DVB-S Card to pick it up, but I'm not sure if it's possible for encrypted channels, without first decrypting
Getting the patient off the battlefield and into a hospital is another matter. While the Pod is supposed to eventually meet certain size and weight restrictions, there are no plans yet to incorporate specific vehicles
I like the bit "his experiment might show that a change made in one beam shows up in the other beam before he actually makes the change"
Get a whole bunch of these things join them end to end then remember to feed in the lottery numbers encoded in binary at one end just after the results are read out on TV read the results out before it's announced fill in ticket proffit!
Personally I'd go for the silver Arnie "Terminator" type look
cover it with some of that false yellow flesh jello type stuff (the stuff they use for balistic tests against the body) for the right shape
cover it with some makeup for the right colour
then if anyone starts to give you grief while your out
pull off the leather glove, and remove the shades
slowly peel back the flesh
flex a few muscles, with wirring sounds
then say "now I want you to listen to me very very closley" Arnie style
Personally I do hope the lib dems get in
simply because of the coolness factor of being able to claim that our country is ruled by ming the merciless (ming campbell)
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cool when can we expect the human SDK?
will I be able to upload my own designs for a new Leg to the git tree
hey for that matter build your own git
(english reference there)
If you're in the UK
take a walk into HMV or the Virgin media shops
these are the two I've spotted at the moment that have HD on the shelf
(I think HMV was the first, when the PS3 was released)
then count the number of Blu-Ray (Bright Blue case) vs HD-DVD Cases (horrible brown looking cases) on the shelf
It looks to me that there's a lot more Blue than Brown
(and the price is startng to come down too)
I can imagine the auditions
... Next
(dramatic pause) KKKKKHAN.... (thrusts fist towards sky in one last desperate motion)
they'll be
encouraged to submit feedback via the product feedback center
I do not think that word means what you think it means
You want thundercats
here ya go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_4Ju6ZqKPU
personally I think Liono's put on a few pounds
Does anyone remember that scene in the film the 5th element
with the guy with a flat hat with a square picture on facing upwards
I wonder what would happen if you walked around the streets with a grey piece of cardboard cello taped to your head
would this show up on the camera, or would you just blend in with the rest of the pavement?
I read the part about Gamma Rays and the part "potentially one million times more powerful than existing lasers"
the first thing that sprung to mind, is the author David Banner?
the next thing would be the warning on the side of the device
Warning exposure may result in green eyes when changing a tyre
loss of memory / Loss of Hair / or extreme Hulkism with hilarious consequences
I'd say somewhere around 60Gb a month sounds like a realistic figure
Assuming 2Mb per mp3 at 30000 mp3's
30000 x 2Mb = 60000Mb (60Gb roughly)
for picture size
60000 / 250000 = 240Kb per picture (about average for a large jpg)
for email size
60000 / 13000000 = 4.6Kb approx
(yes I know 1Mb = 1024Kb, but this is just approximations)
If you want a funky beat, remember kids, just don't copy that floppy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xfqkdh5Js4
Just think 48 GB of storage space on a Fat32 Filesystem ...
what a waste
why not ask a ninja?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehQo7s_02sc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug
The whole driver-OS interface was changed. Those changes were necessary to put the 3D hardware into sharable mode. Now multiple applications and games can share the 3D hardware. In DX9/WinXP and earlier only one App at a time could use the 3D hardware. This cannot be put back into XP because this sort of control and separation could not be done in XP.
strictly speaking for most people all that's really needed is to use one 3D thing at a time
I can see they're reasoning to an extent I'm guessing that MS want to use the 3D capabilities of the graphics card for the windows interface as a "whole new interface" experience
but are worried about co-existence with existing or new Games if more than one process is borrowing the card's abilities at the same time (although I thought this was already possible)
But since most of us don't want or need to use 3D in the windows interface and it's likley that we'd only have one 3D app open at a time under XP
I can't see any reason why you couldn't back port it
sure you might not be able to have a wizzy 3D desktop at the same time as any other 3D App / Game but the mamajority of us wouldn't want this in the first place anyway
And all we're talking about is an API at the end of the day
hmmm great big whole in the universe
well see that's what happens when you go looking for the higgs boson
evaporating black holes my ass
I take it they haven't reached the edge of the Matrix yet?
I remember there was supposed to be some unknown force slowing one of them down near the edge at least
but I always figured it was just a floating point error, the same sort of thing you get in secondlife when going too high
But does it run Linu ... never mind
the most important question is how many little tuxes do we get across the top
I believe the data is standardised over the MPEG stream for digital broadcasts
usually they call it EPG (or Eletronic Programming Guide)
I think it's part of the DVB-T / DVB-C / DVB-S standard
you'd probably need a DVB-C or DVB-S Card to pick it up, but I'm not sure if it's possible for encrypted channels, without first decrypting
and I couldn't help but think of the other bot they've got for evacuating injured soldiers from the battlefield (the one with a bears head)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06
why not combine the two?
to wake up and find your being operated on by a robot with a giant bear head
nothing new here I've seen this before
http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/LaserEtchTool
http://www.felesmagus.com/pages/lasers-howto.html
the above has more detail including a circuit diagram
Armed Robots? quick where's Tom Selleck when we need him http://www.amazon.com/Runaway-Tom-Selleck/dp/B0000 4TX5G
exactly the same as the old one
except with more high quality Blu-Ray porn of course
how about something that involves a piezo electric crystal?
to generate energy from the impact rather than from the motion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity
you're forgetting that at least one of those monkey's would be sat next to Hamlet looking over his shoulder, copying word for word
I like the bit "his experiment might show that a change made in one beam shows up in the other beam before he actually makes the change"
Get a whole bunch of these things
join them end to end
then remember to feed in the lottery numbers encoded in binary at one end just after the results are read out on TV
read the results out before it's announced
fill in ticket
proffit!
Personally I'd go for the silver Arnie "Terminator" type look
cover it with some of that false yellow flesh jello type stuff (the stuff they use for balistic tests against the body) for the right shape
cover it with some makeup for the right colour
then if anyone starts to give you grief while your out
pull off the leather glove, and remove the shades
slowly peel back the flesh
flex a few muscles, with wirring sounds
then say "now I want you to listen to me very very closley" Arnie style
Personally I do hope the lib dems get in
simply because of the coolness factor of being able to claim that our country is ruled by ming the merciless (ming campbell)