That's essentially what people were doing with the gamecube before they developed a good modchip for it. You'd set up a connection to your PC, stream the game off of that instead of the game disc and play.
Since this is a local network, bandwidth/latency shouldn't be much of a problem.
what if people make a pirated server that can be connected to for free, and play all the games for free?
Ah yes, the SUV. Ever hear of CAFE? It's the reason we have them..well, so many of them. Which is rather ironic since CAFE was written to help improve fuel economy.
The trick is, CAFE defines two fleet mileage standards, one for 'cars', and one for 'trucks'. A Minivan or an SUV is considered a truck. Any sized car would be..a car. Therefore the land yachts (large sedans and wagons) went away and people who needed to seat 5 adults comfortably had their choice of two kinds of 'trucks'.
That's fine, fact is that size has little to do with off-road capability. There have been off-road vehicles for both the individual and the family who have an actual need for such since forever. 90% of the SUV market has nothing to do with them, and their bloated size has nothing to do with being useful off-road, since most of em aren't.
Ok, noted. So if we go by the logic in this article universal remotes were obsolete and on their way out in 1992.
However I distinctly remember using my brand new HP48 as a remote control back when I bought it in 1992. I guess that brackets HP48 remote control programs between 1990 (1st year of HP48 production) and 1995. http://www.hpcalc.org/ probably has some original versions.
Yes, we call them H-1B's. In other news, our local unemployment rate is now above 10%.
Silicon Valley is special to me because of its cultural diversity. In one medium sized company you can work shoulder to shoulder with people from every major world ethnic group...
I don't see how this terribly revolutionary in a phone either. You could do this with a Palm III(1998) so I'd assume any of the PalmOS based phones had this ability as well.
I can see how this would be worth a fiver if you already have a smartphone with IR, but if you need to glom a third party IR transmitter onto it I don't see that most people will bother.
My iPhone could also change the labels under the touchscreen buttons depending on the device (or a different arrangement).
..and the mp3 player, and the GUI, the mouse, ad nauseum.
Of course Apple fanboys are going to rag on the competitor's phone. These are the same types of people who fervently believe that Apple invented the smartphone.
For what it's worth, I think it's a shame that politicians have made it illegal these days to smack kids for misbehaving in public.
For what it's worth, I think it's a shame that parents are too self-conscious these days to smack their kids for misbehaving in public. And I think it's abominable that this is for some reason discouraged by so many. Corporal punishment works, especially on the young.
CHARLOTTE, NC--Only days after its long-anticipated, much-criticized Car of Tomorrow debuted to overwhelmingly negative reviews at the Bristol Motor Speedway, NASCAR responded to the wishes of competitors and fans alike by introducing the stylishly retro, technologically retrograde NEXTEL Cup Car of Yesterday.
Based on tried-and-true NASCAR designs from what many consider the golden age of stock-car racing, the Car Of Yesterday is based on the racing team's choice of four-door body styles: either the '77 Cutlass Supreme, the '79 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, the '78 Dodge Diplomat, the '77 Ford Granada, the '77 Mercury Gran Marquis, or for series newcomers Toyota, the 1989 Corolla.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Adding megapixels to a CCD is cheap, making big CCDs is expensive. Film is far better in low light and the megapixel wars are just making it worse. Even if you could make big CCD's cheap you'd still need high dollar lenses to translate the theoretical resolution of the sensor into actual non-blurry photos.
Given that 7MP can produce great results at 20x30, why does the average person need 12MP? Especially when most of the cameras they use have tiny sensors. You may not realize this but there is no point in squeezes more pixels onto a small sensor because all it means is grainier photos and reduced low light quality. As each sensor receives fewer photons.
The only cameras where going > 12MP makes sense are full frame SLR's where there is obviously a good size sensor and lots of light can be let in
You convicts need to tow your island closer to civilization if you want good connectivity.
To the OP, I would say do whatever it is your boss asked for. That's why they keep sending you checks. If you have a choice forgo the deep packet inspection, bandwidth is bandwidth, who cares what they're using it for?
Bandwidth is horrendously expensive here in Australia, including in data centres.
That's probably the worst thing about living in Australia...
"after colleagues of Deputy James Council led him from a possible crime scene without drug or alcohol testing after he killed two bicyclists and almost killed a third. He was seen by witnesses driving erratically before plowing into the Third Pillar Racing Team."
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
-- George Orwell,Animal Farm
Driving is like that. If you drive drunk or while talking on a cell phone (hands-free or not, as studies show it doesn't make much of a difference) or while fucking downloading a ringtone (as this one idiot did in central Illinois, ran onto the shoulder, killed a cyclist, and managed to only get community service) you are neglecting your responsibility in a very dangerous way. It's still a serious crime.
Education is great, but what happens after we get out of school? Politicos are always jabbering about improving math and science education, but those jobs that exist (most theory jobs don't, outside of education) are riding the H1B train for all it's worth.
Assuming kids are goal oriented, why purposely go into a less than sexy profession where you compete with the free world vs. one that is easier, pays better and has no foreign competition?
PS. The Kansas Board of Edumacation isn't helping matters either.
I don't quite see what poor air quality has to do with it. Air quality in the 1960's was nothing to get excited about. In first world countries air quality has generally improved quite a lot since then.
In fact, I'm tempted to think the opposite. An overly sterile environment has been theorized to repress childhood immune systems, causing them to become overly sensitized to pollens, dust, etc.
This is their bullshit excuse for fucking up the world's air quality. "See, it's not all the coal power plants and diesel trucks, you're watching too much TV!"
I think the major problem with it is that it doesn't exclude corporations. They own lots of real estate and they never die. Therefore California loses absurd amounts of tax revenue on any land they happen to own.
As for whether people who are lucky enough to own land that has vastly appreciated should pay taxes on it, well...It's nice if you're in the AARP, the rest of us commoners will continue to rent from you and grumble.
I recently came to California from New Hampshire, which introduced a property tax several years ago. I wasn't around for Prop. 13, but after doing a bit of reading, I'm glad it passed. If someone owns land, and has little income, why should they be punished for that?
Sure, you go tell that to people in genuinely poverty stricken countries, like say...Somalia.
military surplus AK-47 $20
second hand motor boat $200
having something besides sticks and rocks to eat for dinner? priceless
Or did you mean that we're all one big happy global family and we should all be eating sticks and rocks?
In today's environment, there's plenty to go around. It's not so much "haves and have nots" but "I have and you can't have" that's the problem. People call it the "evils of capitalism" and while greed is a big motivator, look at the pain it causes. They aren't kidding when they say money is the root of all evil.
I concur,..And Justice for All (88') was the last Metallica album I bought for myself.
"and diamond studded swimming pools, these things don't grow on trees"
I haven't purchased a Metallica album since The Black Album and will never again. (Granted that was the last decent one they had...) You damn near single handedly spearheaded this RIAA anti-filesharing war
There's no need to go to that extreme, we can just blur the addresses out.
As others have mentioned, terrorism is the new bogeyman to
1. to keep people distracted from domestic issues
2. fund more military and/or homeland 'security' spending
3. justify more idiotic legislation like this one
I'm not afraid of Terrorists. I'm afraid of the idiots who believe that Terrorists are our biggest problem, thereby keeping these jackasses in power.
"they" could look up the address in a phone book, we better make publishing the address of the schools (or other buildings) illegal.
Well, it's difficult to say for certain, but I'd say it's a three pronged approach.
1. It gets them national news exposure AKA free advertising
2. It limits free speech
3. They can still sue the parents of the 12 year old, who may actually have some cash
Or is this just to try to wring some money out of some random person who posted on a forum that they thought the place was dirty? They're probably spend tens of thousands of dollars to discover it was a 12 year old who has no money.
You mean like the trolls at the airport with the impressive looking Homeland Security badges?
Contrary to popular opinion, "creating Jobs" is not always good and is not always entirely different from "throwing money at the problem." "Creating Jobs" only helps when the jobs are useful and produce something else of value.
It ought to work this way, but the way our courts work today plausible deniability seems difficult to achieve. Flooding the Net with noise just gives more evidence for prosecutors and investigators to cherry pick from. In civil proceedings there is no such thing as beyond a reasonable doubt.
Even if you are changing ids and using anonymizers, we already have linguistic analysis software that can take samples of your writing and establish with some degree of confidence which ids are your aliases.
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When it comes to privacy, noise may be a solution rather than a problem. Vernor Vinge suggested that if the Net remembers everything about you, you should flood it with contradictory noise that provides plausible deniability about things that are actually true. Either that, or they'll have more evidence against you.
Actually, the Pinto makes a dandy drag car with a V8. It's an easy conversion and people have gotten into the 7's with them. Not that it would be practical for much else.
I too seriously question the rationale for high MP CCD's in a camera. As you say, the optical lens isn't big enough to begin with, and the smaller these sensor elements are the worse their low light performance tends to be. I'm not even sure 10 MP CCD's make sense in a small point and shoot, but they seem to sell pretty well, so there you go.
Something I haven't seen addressed here is application support. I'm no iPhone fanboy, but apple seems like the only company that's been able to create a viable platform for 3rd party apps.
Sure, you can run 3rd party apps on a P905i (linux core), or any of the multitude of windows CE phones, but there's no storefront to automate the installs so how do we get paid?
Could somebody explain what the point of a 10 MP CCD is with a typical cell phone lens being only 1.25 mm in diameter with a 3.5 mm focal length? That's like putting a Ferrari engine in a Pinto, but slightly less useful.
Wait a minute, someone here is justifying region encoding? All this is doing is arbitrarily segmenting the market. There is no defensible reason why someone should need 3 copies (EU,NA,JP) of the same damn console to play the full library of games.
I still remember chipping my first console (Sega Dreamcast), not because I wanted to pirate any games but because I wanted to play DDR, which despite being obscenely popular was only released in Japan.
If they don't want to produce a certain game on the console for your market you can write your letter of complaint, you can get a petition and you can then boycot Nintendo console products in the future. By pirating you are not only preventing Nintendo from getting their cut of the profit you are preventing the game maker from getting their cut of the profit - and the game maker may not have been the one to make the decision...and even if they did - it is THEIR decision. If they decide not to sell to a certain market YOU do not have the right to say "F off, I'm goin to pirate it".
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Since this is a local network, bandwidth/latency shouldn't be much of a problem.
The trick is, CAFE defines two fleet mileage standards, one for 'cars', and one for 'trucks'. A Minivan or an SUV is considered a truck. Any sized car would be..a car. Therefore the land yachts (large sedans and wagons) went away and people who needed to seat 5 adults comfortably had their choice of two kinds of 'trucks'.
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/ern/03aug/overview.php
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_6_2/philipsprontoremotecontrol.html
I don't see how this terribly revolutionary in a phone either. You could do this with a Palm III(1998) so I'd assume any of the PalmOS based phones had this ability as well.
I can see how this would be worth a fiver if you already have a smartphone with IR, but if you need to glom a third party IR transmitter onto it I don't see that most people will bother.
Based on tried-and-true NASCAR designs from what many consider the golden age of stock-car racing, the Car Of Yesterday is based on the racing team's choice of four-door body styles: either the '77 Cutlass Supreme, the '79 Chevrolet Caprice Classic, the '78 Dodge Diplomat, the '77 Ford Granada, the '77 Mercury Gran Marquis, or for series newcomers Toyota, the 1989 Corolla.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/nascar_unveils_new_car_of
To the OP, I would say do whatever it is your boss asked for. That's why they keep sending you checks. If you have a choice forgo the deep packet inspection, bandwidth is bandwidth, who cares what they're using it for?
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
-- George Orwell,Animal Farm
Education is great, but what happens after we get out of school? Politicos are always jabbering about improving math and science education, but those jobs that exist (most theory jobs don't, outside of education) are riding the H1B train for all it's worth.
Assuming kids are goal oriented, why purposely go into a less than sexy profession where you compete with the free world vs. one that is easier, pays better and has no foreign competition?
PS. The Kansas Board of Edumacation isn't helping matters either.
I do believe I've found the root of this problem. Please urge parliament to begin taxing all new NES games to put an end to this nightmare.
http://www.i-mockery.com/romhacks/knifeboy/
In fact, I'm tempted to think the opposite. An overly sterile environment has been theorized to repress childhood immune systems, causing them to become overly sensitized to pollens, dust, etc.
As for whether people who are lucky enough to own land that has vastly appreciated should pay taxes on it, well...It's nice if you're in the AARP, the rest of us commoners will continue to rent from you and grumble.
military surplus AK-47 $20
second hand motor boat $200
having something besides sticks and rocks to eat for dinner? priceless
Or did you mean that we're all one big happy global family and we should all be eating sticks and rocks?
"and diamond studded swimming pools, these things don't grow on trees"
As others have mentioned, terrorism is the new bogeyman to
1. to keep people distracted from domestic issues
2. fund more military and/or homeland 'security' spending
3. justify more idiotic legislation like this one
I'm not afraid of Terrorists. I'm afraid of the idiots who believe that Terrorists are our biggest problem, thereby keeping these jackasses in power.
1. It gets them national news exposure AKA free advertising
2. It limits free speech
3. They can still sue the parents of the 12 year old, who may actually have some cash
Even if you are changing ids and using anonymizers, we already have linguistic analysis software that can take samples of your writing and establish with some degree of confidence which ids are your aliases.
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I too seriously question the rationale for high MP CCD's in a camera. As you say, the optical lens isn't big enough to begin with, and the smaller these sensor elements are the worse their low light performance tends to be. I'm not even sure 10 MP CCD's make sense in a small point and shoot, but they seem to sell pretty well, so there you go.
Something I haven't seen addressed here is application support. I'm no iPhone fanboy, but apple seems like the only company that's been able to create a viable platform for 3rd party apps.
Sure, you can run 3rd party apps on a P905i (linux core), or any of the multitude of windows CE phones, but there's no storefront to automate the installs so how do we get paid?
I still remember chipping my first console (Sega Dreamcast), not because I wanted to pirate any games but because I wanted to play DDR, which despite being obscenely popular was only released in Japan.