Though 10 years older, the Sega Nomad is much bigger (4"x7"x2") so I can see how it has more space... but aside from wireless power ( about 35 seconds off batteries) it wasn't capable of wireless anything.
Wait... you're saying that something else has been named Nomad? Blasphemy!
Don't forget the Lensman series by EE "Doc" Smith. They were also a bit of the inspiration for Star Wars, but on a much larger scale. Star Wars had the Death Stars, but the Lensman had fleets of mobile planets. In another amusing twist, the heavy vaccum armor that every soldier has got powerful enough to delfect any ranged laser/energy blast, leading to the rise of the space axe. This fine weapon served the "slashing things to bits" function of the lightsaber, but anyone capable of lifting one could wield one.
Every video game eh? I tried stuffing one into my Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartrige and managed to somehow not get any video. Perhaps we can all pitch in and start a DVD->Video Game compatability list?
I'm going out on a limb here, but you might be talking about Video Game Consoles. Haven't gotten the disc to fit in the Super Nintendo or N64 cartrige slots yet. I must admit I did get close with the Sega CD. I've heard rumors that it can play CDs though.
Actually, there was a Farenhype-9/11 film out around election time. I haven't checked its accuracy, but it is mostly made up of scenes from Moore's film, with a rebuttal afterwards, in an attempt to show what he did wrong (photoshopped pictures, etc. You'll probably have a pretty hard time finding it now that the election is over.
I'd have to disagree with the position that religions caused "practically every war that we know of". Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot et al were all secular leaders and they've taken an unimaginable number of lives.
As far as the European Imperial era, Christianity was often abused by the governments a front to support the looting and plundering of the rest of the world, rather than a primary cause.
Broad generalizations make us no better than these reports we keep complaining about.
If I remember right, the Saturn was an overly complex machine with two processors among other things, making the cost involved with backwards compatability prohibitive even if the console were popular enough to merit it. I agree about the game library though, the US market got nothing really good except Nights, while Japanese games like Radiant Silvergun are selling for the equivalent of over $100 each.
"looks like there's a strong ba in there, but it's getting eaten by some linux or something..."
Its brief mentioning on an internet cartoon is a sure sign that Linux is mainstream now, right?
Indeed. Model 100 and its variants are really quite awesome (I have a PC 8201a http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?s t=1&c=334 myself). I just want one of the red or blue ones now.
40 characters by 8 lines is enough for simple word processing, and its built in 12k of ram can hold multiple pages of text. Not paying $100+ for a new battery helps too.
Did I mention that this is one of the few working, non-spyware vulnerable, non-bloated Redmond products? Mr. Gates himself did some of the ROM's coding. It also boots up in a half a second. Certainly makes Wintel laptops look like power-hungry monsters.
Obviously, lots of people don't like MS Office because of its inefficiency and high price-point, ans apparently some people don't like OpenOffice much better, since it does too good of a job of mimicking MS Office's mistakes (UI, bloated, , though I can't quite agree with the bloated bit, since OpenOffice is about 45 meg download, while MS office has multiple install CDs).
For those of you unsatisfied with the mentioned Office Suites, what applications do you use?
and the BIGGGGGG planet would have BIGGGGG gravity which would quickly transform you into BIGGGGG (but thin) pool of semi-liquified tissue and other organic components.
red giants tend to burn at lower temperatures because they have scant usable fuel left, so it would technically be cooler to find one of these guys than a younger star with the same radius.
That would be interesting to see. It's been done with the m-itx boards already http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ (mini-itx.com), so anybody with the ambition to get 30 of these guys should do so now so we can/. them too.
Let's not forget another small, Knoppix based, distro: Feather Linux. It's small enough to work of a flash drive (comes in 60 meg and 105 meg versions):http://featherlinux.berlios.de/
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Though 10 years older, the Sega Nomad is much bigger (4"x7"x2") so I can see how it has more space... but aside from wireless power ( about 35 seconds off batteries) it wasn't capable of wireless anything.
Wait... you're saying that something else has been named Nomad? Blasphemy!
Don't forget the Lensman series by EE "Doc" Smith. They were also a bit of the inspiration for Star Wars, but on a much larger scale. Star Wars had the Death Stars, but the Lensman had fleets of mobile planets. In another amusing twist, the heavy vaccum armor that every soldier has got powerful enough to delfect any ranged laser/energy blast, leading to the rise of the space axe. This fine weapon served the "slashing things to bits" function of the lightsaber, but anyone capable of lifting one could wield one.
It's just simple a classic case of left/right brain mismatch.
Every video game eh? I tried stuffing one into my Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cartrige and managed to somehow not get any video. Perhaps we can all pitch in and start a DVD->Video Game compatability list?
I'm going out on a limb here, but you might be talking about Video Game Consoles. Haven't gotten the disc to fit in the Super Nintendo or N64 cartrige slots yet. I must admit I did get close with the Sega CD. I've heard rumors that it can play CDs though.
Convergence at its best, eh?
Many pirates must have been born before 1900. After all, the Spanish had to worry about someone stealing their gold. Yarr.
...and random ringtones really screw up the dialoge when you're trying to record the movie with your video camera.
Actually, there was a Farenhype-9/11 film out around election time. I haven't checked its accuracy, but it is mostly made up of scenes from Moore's film, with a rebuttal afterwards, in an attempt to show what he did wrong (photoshopped pictures, etc. You'll probably have a pretty hard time finding it now that the election is over.
Not only that, but you could hit Seagulls in the Hacky-sack game... call the SPCA!
I'd have to disagree with the position that religions caused "practically every war that we know of". Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot et al were all secular leaders and they've taken an unimaginable number of lives.
As far as the European Imperial era, Christianity was often abused by the governments a front to support the looting and plundering of the rest of the world, rather than a primary cause.
Broad generalizations make us no better than these reports we keep complaining about.
If I remember right, the Saturn was an overly complex machine with two processors among other things, making the cost involved with backwards compatability prohibitive even if the console were popular enough to merit it. I agree about the game library though, the US market got nothing really good except Nights, while Japanese games like Radiant Silvergun are selling for the equivalent of over $100 each.
"looks like there's a strong ba in there, but it's getting eaten by some linux or something..." Its brief mentioning on an internet cartoon is a sure sign that Linux is mainstream now, right?
Indeed. Model 100 and its variants are really quite awesome (I have a PC 8201a http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?s t=1&c=334 myself). I just want one of the red or blue ones now.
40 characters by 8 lines is enough for simple word processing, and its built in 12k of ram can hold multiple pages of text. Not paying $100+ for a new battery helps too.
Did I mention that this is one of the few working, non-spyware vulnerable, non-bloated Redmond products? Mr. Gates himself did some of the ROM's coding. It also boots up in a half a second. Certainly makes Wintel laptops look like power-hungry monsters.
until Panasonic releases the revolution Q http://www.vidgame.net/NINTENDO/Q.htm ...
Obviously, lots of people don't like MS Office because of its inefficiency and high price-point, ans apparently some people don't like OpenOffice much better, since it does too good of a job of mimicking MS Office's mistakes (UI, bloated, , though I can't quite agree with the bloated bit, since OpenOffice is about 45 meg download, while MS office has multiple install CDs). For those of you unsatisfied with the mentioned Office Suites, what applications do you use?
and the BIGGGGGG planet would have BIGGGGG gravity which would quickly transform you into BIGGGGG (but thin) pool of semi-liquified tissue and other organic components.
red giants tend to burn at lower temperatures because they have scant usable fuel left, so it would technically be cooler to find one of these guys than a younger star with the same radius.
That would be interesting to see. It's been done with the m-itx boards already http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ (mini-itx.com), so anybody with the ambition to get 30 of these guys should do so now so we can /. them too.
Let's not forget another small, Knoppix based, distro: Feather Linux. It's small enough to work of a flash drive (comes in 60 meg and 105 meg versions) :http://featherlinux.berlios.de/