With WLANs not using PoE, cleaning people may unplug an access point to use its AC outlet to power vacuum and buffing equipment.
Well if what you're saying becomes true, the cleaning lady of the future will just wind up unplagging someone's PoE device to plug in their now-PoE powered vacuum cleaner right?
What better use is there for a vacuum than to get the sports scores or *gasp* cleaning techniques?;)
While that might seem a good thing, remember that the commoditization of the PC industry essentially sucked the innovation from it.
You must have missed the article just below this one...you know...the quantum computing one about the teeny holes? The innovation is certainly there, and people are spending money to research these things. But companies ought to be allowed to try and make money on the technologies that already exist.
To say nothing about the fact that commoditizing (that can't possibly be a word...) phones may actual lead to STANDARDS that actually WORK from phone to phone. Just as one example, jeez, sometimes I think there are actually hundreds of unique "gaming systems" on the market, since games on one phone never seem to work on another. It's awful, and maybe some streamlining could actually work.
When was the last time someone was provided on the job training for MS Office?
Just last Wednesday, actually. I took an Intro to Access class and an Advanced Excel class at work, for two reasons: (1) They were free. Free is an actually free - even got paid as if I was still working. (2) Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I don't know very many people that really know how to use Access at all, and definitely don't know how to use Excel's advanced functions. Granted, I don't know all too many of the programmer type (anymore at least), so most of the rest of the people I've seen find using it difficult.
To get back on topic though, OpenOffice is an excellent program, and I hope he succeeds in switching them over.
Thankfully, I have managed not to ever play these incredibly addicting RPGs, especially EQ, but I do know people that have, and I was surprised to read this comment modded up so. In the original EQ, I knew a good 20 people who practically played the game for a living, making hundreds of dollars a week sitting down, playing the game, cranking out characters / nifty weapons, and selling them on EBay. If players are only now realizing that needing cash will make you a better player, something is horribly wrong somewhere. Two words come to mind especially: Diablo, Two.
The game cube uses a proprietary disk developed by panasonic. It is amazing for preventing piracy because they don't sell blank disks nor recorders.
I may be a little fuzzy about this, but I thought one of the main points of Sony deciding to use proprietary UMDs was to minimize piracy on the PSP? But yet people complain about it constantly?
I only argue semantics here, not the worth of wikipedia as a valuable resource. Usually you only hear about the early history of things when there's a later history you can hear about as well; say, for example, a king's reign, the early history of the Yankees, an early history of stock markets, etc. All I'm trying to say is that there isn't enough history yet to be talking about Wikipedia's "early history." (Thus the sad parallel to my puppy.) I imagine that ten years from now, people will talk about now as Wikipedia's early history.
I don't mean to offend anyone, but it just seems...early... to me.
Sorry Fianna, but,
(a) I work right across the street from the old World Trade Center, and the idea of stuff blowing up again is very real down here.
(b) Yeah any invention could be used by terrorists. But this would be a far better invention than most others I can think of offhand.
(c) I don't have an obsession with people being out to get me. People ARE OUT TO GET ME...(see (a) ^)
True enough ByrneArena, but so far as I've seen, most major buildings are surrounded by both heavy concrete barriers and equally heavy police presence. A truck laden with heavy explosives couldn't get within 100 feet of a major building, at least in New York. Dunno how it works elsewhere. The idea of a large flying car (sure, they're teeny now...) filled with explosives smashing into a window worries me a little more.
...newly independent project was launched at Wikipedia.com on January 15, 2001....
Don't you think it's just a wee touch too early to be writing about the early history of something that didn't exist five years ago? Maybe we can start writing about the early history of my puppy Pepper while we're at it. But as adorable as he is, neither he nor Wikipedia should be written about at all. Not yet.
Their CD based MP3 players require no such obfuscation scheme.
I may be wrong, but I thought this was because the price of CD-R's included a fee that went to the RIAA to cover the possibility of people burning mp3's onto em? I dunno about anyone else, but I would gladly pay an extra few bucks to have a Sony MP3 player without DRM on it (to satisfy the RIAA) if I thought such a thing would actually happen.
No one seems to realize at this point just how amazing an mp3 player Sony's PSP really seems to be. The quality of the sound, even on the jank headphones that come with the PSP, simply blows the Ipod away. Granted, that ain't sayin much, considering the well-documented atrociousness of the IPod's sound quality. Also, the price of higher and higher-capacity Memory Sticks only seems to go down, much in the same way prices for higher-capacity CF and SD seem to be going down as well. Granted, I don't have 700 bucks to plunk down on a 4gig MS duo right now, but I highly doubt the price will stay up there much longer.
To say nothing of the PSP's video playback and game playing abilities.
On an aside, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the NW-HD5 yet. I can't wait till that thing comes stateside.
As for the actual deobfuscation (what a strange word...) of the encryption, let me be the first to say I'll pay money for a working program that can do this on my XP machine.
Meanwhile, all the people at schools that don't have famous names, but do have direct Internet2 access (like the place I just graduated from, which it thankfully dawned upon me now NOT to name, BEFORE I named it) can keep sending movies and music to one another at massive speeds. Keep up the good work $.
I read the summary, and everything after "A new type of transistor" blew me away. Was this description supposed to be some sorta test?
You're only a real nerd if you can understand what this said.
In that case, I just failed awfully, and my account should be deleted right now:\
Making a cartoon out of one of the worst natural disaters in recent memory?
Exactly which natural disaster are you talking about?
Anonymous: He probably didn't RTFA, thought "Toonami" was the name of the anime series, and thought the anime was about the disaster in Asia. Unfortunate no?
hmm...maybe I'm just being gullible here, but as of 8:45 this morning, Gmail tells me I have exactly the 1386mb that the Infiniti+1 website tells me it does. That's more than the 1gb it starts out with, and the counter only goes up. This may sound dumb, but if anyone can give me infinity+1 gb, it's probably gonna be google.
You're generalizing way too much. There are plenty of fine looking "tiny gadgets" with excellent interfaces on them. Personally, I own a Creative Muvo NX 256meg - butt old, yet somehow very small (almost as small as the shuffle, if not smaller), with a very efficient interface, USB-flashdrive capability (which, for reasons that are completely beyond me, were left out of most other flash-based MP3 players, save the Shuffle and a few others), and vastly superior sound. You'd be surprised what a teeny LCD screen allows for, in terms of, oh, an EQ maybe?
Yeah it was too old to have an internal rechargeable battery - while it woulda been nice, spending 3 bucks on a rechargeable AAA gives ya about the same playback time anyway:\
Getting back onto topic though - I for one can't wait for the new Walkmen to come out, but a part of me wonders why Sony feels the need to directly target the Shuffle in this way. When the PSP comes out, I don't think anyone will be surprised when they see people snatching up Memory Stick cards to use their new toy to play MP3's with. The PSP in and of itself seems like a much better option for an "IPod" killer right about now than any dedicated MP3 device they might churn out over there.
[Oh, and if any of this is redundant, sorry - but I can't read through 230 comments at work;)]
At least in the US, most cameraphones (including the smart variety) I've seen can't even show you the taken picture one second after snapping the shutter, much less analyze it and try to match it up to a (easily alterable) picture in a database somewhere.
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With WLANs not using PoE, cleaning people may unplug an access point to use its AC outlet to power vacuum and buffing equipment.
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Well if what you're saying becomes true, the cleaning lady of the future will just wind up unplagging someone's PoE device to plug in their now-PoE powered vacuum cleaner right?
What better use is there for a vacuum than to get the sports scores or *gasp* cleaning techniques?
While that might seem a good thing, remember that the commoditization of the PC industry essentially sucked the innovation from it.
You must have missed the article just below this one...you know...the quantum computing one about the teeny holes? The innovation is certainly there, and people are spending money to research these things. But companies ought to be allowed to try and make money on the technologies that already exist.
To say nothing about the fact that commoditizing (that can't possibly be a word...) phones may actual lead to STANDARDS that actually WORK from phone to phone. Just as one example, jeez, sometimes I think there are actually hundreds of unique "gaming systems" on the market, since games on one phone never seem to work on another. It's awful, and maybe some streamlining could actually work.
Gotta point there, but I always believed "Professional" was just some catchy Microsoft marketing lingo, whose translation meant +200$ to price tag.
When was the last time someone was provided on the job training for MS Office?
Just last Wednesday, actually. I took an Intro to Access class and an Advanced Excel class at work, for two reasons:
(1) They were free. Free is an actually free - even got paid as if I was still working.
(2) Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I don't know very many people that really know how to use Access at all, and definitely don't know how to use Excel's advanced functions. Granted, I don't know all too many of the programmer type (anymore at least), so most of the rest of the people I've seen find using it difficult.
To get back on topic though, OpenOffice is an excellent program, and I hope he succeeds in switching them over.
Thankfully, I have managed not to ever play these incredibly addicting RPGs, especially EQ, but I do know people that have, and I was surprised to read this comment modded up so. In the original EQ, I knew a good 20 people who practically played the game for a living, making hundreds of dollars a week sitting down, playing the game, cranking out characters / nifty weapons, and selling them on EBay. If players are only now realizing that needing cash will make you a better player, something is horribly wrong somewhere. Two words come to mind especially: Diablo, Two.
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I may be a little fuzzy about this, but I thought one of the main points of Sony deciding to use proprietary UMDs was to minimize piracy on the PSP? But yet people complain about it constantly?
I don't mean to offend anyone, but it just seems ...early... to me.
Sorry Fianna, but,
(a) I work right across the street from the old World Trade Center, and the idea of stuff blowing up again is very real down here.
(b) Yeah any invention could be used by terrorists. But this would be a far better invention than most others I can think of offhand.
(c) I don't have an obsession with people being out to get me. People ARE OUT TO GET ME...(see (a) ^)
True enough ByrneArena, but so far as I've seen, most major buildings are surrounded by both heavy concrete barriers and equally heavy police presence. A truck laden with heavy explosives couldn't get within 100 feet of a major building, at least in New York. Dunno how it works elsewhere. The idea of a large flying car (sure, they're teeny now...) filled with explosives smashing into a window worries me a little more.
Don't you think it's just a wee touch too early to be writing about the early history of something that didn't exist five years ago? Maybe we can start writing about the early history of my puppy Pepper while we're at it. But as adorable as he is, neither he nor Wikipedia should be written about at all. Not yet.
So how long before I hear about a small squadron of explosives- and fuel-laden flying cars take out the Empire State Building hmm?
I may be wrong, but I thought this was because the price of CD-R's included a fee that went to the RIAA to cover the possibility of people burning mp3's onto em? I dunno about anyone else, but I would gladly pay an extra few bucks to have a Sony MP3 player without DRM on it (to satisfy the RIAA) if I thought such a thing would actually happen.
No one seems to realize at this point just how amazing an mp3 player Sony's PSP really seems to be. The quality of the sound, even on the jank headphones that come with the PSP, simply blows the Ipod away. Granted, that ain't sayin much, considering the well-documented atrociousness of the IPod's sound quality. Also, the price of higher and higher-capacity Memory Sticks only seems to go down, much in the same way prices for higher-capacity CF and SD seem to be going down as well. Granted, I don't have 700 bucks to plunk down on a 4gig MS duo right now, but I highly doubt the price will stay up there much longer.
To say nothing of the PSP's video playback and game playing abilities.
On an aside, I'm surprised no one has mentioned the NW-HD5 yet. I can't wait till that thing comes stateside.
As for the actual deobfuscation (what a strange word...) of the encryption, let me be the first to say I'll pay money for a working program that can do this on my XP machine.
Meanwhile, all the people at schools that don't have famous names, but do have direct Internet2 access (like the place I just graduated from, which it thankfully dawned upon me now NOT to name, BEFORE I named it) can keep sending movies and music to one another at massive speeds. Keep up the good work $.
I read the summary, and everything after "A new type of transistor" blew me away. Was this description supposed to be some sorta test? You're only a real nerd if you can understand what this said. In that case, I just failed awfully, and my account should be deleted right now :\
Exactly which natural disaster are you talking about?
Anonymous: He probably didn't RTFA, thought "Toonami" was the name of the anime series, and thought the anime was about the disaster in Asia. Unfortunate no?
hmm...maybe I'm just being gullible here, but as of 8:45 this morning, Gmail tells me I have exactly the 1386mb that the Infiniti+1 website tells me it does. That's more than the 1gb it starts out with, and the counter only goes up. This may sound dumb, but if anyone can give me infinity+1 gb, it's probably gonna be google.
Yeah it was too old to have an internal rechargeable battery - while it woulda been nice, spending 3 bucks on a rechargeable AAA gives ya about the same playback time anyway :\
Getting back onto topic though - I for one can't wait for the new Walkmen to come out, but a part of me wonders why Sony feels the need to directly target the Shuffle in this way. When the PSP comes out, I don't think anyone will be surprised when they see people snatching up Memory Stick cards to use their new toy to play MP3's with. The PSP in and of itself seems like a much better option for an "IPod" killer right about now than any dedicated MP3 device they might churn out over there.
[Oh, and if any of this is redundant, sorry - but I can't read through 230 comments at work ;)]
At least in the US, most cameraphones (including the smart variety) I've seen can't even show you the taken picture one second after snapping the shutter, much less analyze it and try to match it up to a (easily alterable) picture in a database somewhere.