What can I do with my Tablet PC that couldn't already be done with PDA, laptop or desktop?
You can take it to a meeting and put it on your lap (unlike a "laptop") or your off-arm. You can enter data without needing the space for a keyboard. (no click-click either.) Unlike a PDA, you can see reasonably large documents, and use your standard applications. It's like a laptop, only even more portable when you need it to be.
The article does not talk about any of those channels -- it seems the gist of the article is that: if you want a movie channel (Showtime, Starz, HBO, etc.) you do not have to purchase the "basic", "expanded", whatever, package
But what prevents Sci-Fi, et al from making themselves available as "premium" channels?
One thing I've often wondered is whether a typical solar cell produces more energy in its lifetime than it takes to manufacture it?
I don't have numbers, but I'll point out that there are a number of variables to consider. Location is one, but also you can use solar cells more efficiently if you use focusing mirrors to reflect a large collection area onto a strip of cells, the mirrors not requiring nearly as intensive manufacturing processes.
Well, Bundespolizei means Federal Police, so it wouldn't make sense to put a state together with it.
I don't speak German, I just got Bundes from Bundespost and Bundesliga. But how about "Buggy bugging backfires on battalion of burly blond Bundespolizei battling baddies based in Bavaria"?
We got our asses kicked at the beginning of WWII simply because we didn't keep up.
Depends who you mean by "we." While the M2 was useless, U.S. tanks -- Lee/Grants and Stuarts -- pretty quickly became among the most important weapons for the Allies in North Africa. There was no cavalry charging tanks, they used the horses to get around quickly. (And the Germans also used horses as prime movers.)
The same thing happened at the beginning of the Vietnam war. Wether or not you agree with our participation, at the start we had propeller driven planes against Russian jets.
No we didn't, you're thinking of Korea. And we did have jets, but getting them carrier-based was tricky, so the carriers still had Corsairs, and F-82s served for ground attack, not air superiority.
If it had happened in England the subject could have been, "Buggy Bugging Backfires On British Bobbies."
If it happened in Bavaria, we could say it backfired on Bavarian Bundespolizei..
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Actually, I'm terrified by the possibility of the Republicans taking control of the Senate.
The one plus is, for the next two years they'll be hard-pressed to blame anything -- such as the massive deficits they've already started on -- on the Democrats. That should serve to destroy the Republicans' claims of fiscal responsibility for a generation.
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That means projects like the missile defense system will likely get millions or billions of dollars in funding, regardless of the fact that the experimental results behind the system prove that it isn't going to work as promised
It really doesn't matter whether it works or not. As many of us naysayers have been saying for years, the nasty folk will come up with an alternative that bypasses it. And on 9/11, this came to pass. Yet still they persist.
(Note that I'm talking anti-ICBM, not theater missile defense.)
Shooting 24fps at f2.0 is hard enough on your average B&W reversal stock, which is ASA 160, IIRC.
You could use two cameras, with shutters synced to take alternating frames, to get 48 FPS with no change in lighting. That would probably correct most of the visible flaws.
As a former game developer, I'll point out what should be obvious: the developers are rarely making the decisions. Ain't up to us to arrange to consult people, that's up to the people writing the checks. And they're the ones who tell us to stop coding so they can release the package, even when we really want to fix that last bug, or improve that section.
It doesn't seem to be very useful to me. So what? Now you can download ripped dvd movie encoded in divx, burn it on a cd and play it in this thing on your TV?
You have no home movies? No taped shows that'll never make it to DVD? No laserdiscs?
they said "High quality encoded" music. My guess is over > 128 kbps MP3.
No, it's definitely not MP3 or OGG. It's presumably some DRM'ed Windows Media format. Otherwise there would be no limitation on Windows-only machines, and no limitation of 10 tracks/month burned.
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CD-Rs are not normal CDs. Labelling them as such is bad.
But ebay's autosearch bot is probably looking for precisely CD-R. So describe it as "writable CD" or "CD created with a CD writer" or something that won't trigger the autobot. Meanwhile hopefully the bad press will get ebay to make their system more flexible, and perhaps even consider making their system especially friendly to independent musicians.
Why is the energy required to launch a large vehicle larger than the sum of the energies required to launch individual parts separately?
It isn't. But you can't just scale up a Saturn V by a factor of five and expect it necessarily to work properly. Assembling in space lets you build arbitrarily large structures depending only on how many launches you can do, and your only limitation is that the individual pieces fit in your launch vehicle. Also, an earth launch puts higher stresses on your structure than accelerating in space.
There was a study not too long ago that found that the not-so-bright rarely realized their degree of not-so-brightness. You would also have to find a more intelligent friend who thinks murdering abortion providers is acceptable.
The gov't can (and by law, probably should) simply dual-license any enhancements it funds for GPL software. The original GPL stuff doesn't become public domain, but the routines developed by the government do. (Any public domain stuff can be incorporated into the GPL app.) So it's a non-issue.
I know this is not an amazing feat of technology - to take a pile pf photos
What would be very cool would be if for all the neighboring pictures where it is practical, have some sort of morphing/shifting algorithm to generate a smooth scroll between them.
What I'd like to see, though, is a flight simulator program with a distributed photographic database. When you fly over a new area, you P2P the image data from the net collection, rather than having to have all the photos on your own machine. Model data could similarly be incorporated, perhaps with the ability for users to design in new bits of scenery (adding their own house, etc.).
What, no mention of plasma?
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I'm planning on spending a fair bit on a monitor at some point. CRT? LCD? Nah, gimme a 50" plasma. Currently they're 1366x768 max, though hopefully 1920x1080 (max HDTV res) will appear at some point. Has anyone out there gamed much on one of these babies? There's gotta be a rarely-used conference room someone here sneaks into...
I don't know if Gyration has moved from ball&socket to optical
It has. But opticals come in varying quality of tracking; I'll take my Logitech Dual Sensor over an iFeel or an Apple Pro Mouse any day.
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Several years ago, Till Harbaum added a tilt sensor to his Palm Pilot.
There's a "Kirby" game for the Gameboy Color that comes with a tilt sensor built into the game cartridge, and thus has similar gameplay. (Not to say that it's not a cool hack for a homebrewer to do it.)
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click it with your tongue. Great for surfing pr0n sites!
So will the next version come with moisture feedback?
Yes, but lets be realistic... You're probably going to use it for one, or the other. Very seldomly would you ever use it for both.
At a given time, sure. But it is at least slightly more convenient to carry one device than two, and if you're travelling and doing presentations, you can have a need for both. Or you might have a PC with home theatre goodies; when you're hacking, you use the straight optical, then you grab the mouse, sit on the sofa, and use the mouse as a remote to watch a movie.
I used a GyroMouse in the summer of 2000, if not the year before that. Either way, they are nothing new, and not really that great. A wireless optical mouse is superior.
Yes, but if you read the article, you'll see that it's *both* a standard mouse and a gyro one. So use the optical tracker on the desk when you can, but pick it up and use the gyros when you need to.
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What can I do with my Tablet PC that couldn't already be done with PDA, laptop or desktop?
You can take it to a meeting and put it on your lap (unlike a "laptop") or your off-arm. You can enter data without needing the space for a keyboard. (no click-click either.) Unlike a PDA, you can see reasonably large documents, and use your standard applications. It's like a laptop, only even more portable when you need it to be.
You left out BBC America...where else are you going to get your Monty Python fix?
Here?
The article does not talk about any of those channels -- it seems the gist of the article is that: if you want a movie channel (Showtime, Starz, HBO, etc.) you do not have to purchase the "basic", "expanded", whatever, package
But what prevents Sci-Fi, et al from making themselves available as "premium" channels?
One thing I've often wondered is whether a typical solar cell produces more energy in its lifetime than it takes to manufacture it?
I don't have numbers, but I'll point out that there are a number of variables to consider. Location is one, but also you can use solar cells more efficiently if you use focusing mirrors to reflect a large collection area onto a strip of cells, the mirrors not requiring nearly as intensive manufacturing processes.
Well, Bundespolizei means Federal Police, so it wouldn't make sense to put a state together with it.
I don't speak German, I just got Bundes from Bundespost and Bundesliga. But how about "Buggy bugging backfires on battalion of burly blond Bundespolizei battling baddies based in Bavaria"?
We got our asses kicked at the beginning of WWII simply because we didn't keep up.
Depends who you mean by "we." While the M2 was useless, U.S. tanks -- Lee/Grants and Stuarts -- pretty quickly became among the most important weapons for the Allies in North Africa. There was no cavalry charging tanks, they used the horses to get around quickly. (And the Germans also used horses as prime movers.)
The same thing happened at the beginning of the Vietnam war. Wether or not you agree with our participation, at the start we had propeller driven planes against Russian jets.
No we didn't, you're thinking of Korea. And we did have jets, but getting them carrier-based was tricky, so the carriers still had Corsairs, and F-82s served for ground attack, not air superiority.
If it had happened in England the subject could have been, "Buggy Bugging Backfires On British Bobbies."
If it happened in Bavaria, we could say it backfired on Bavarian Bundespolizei..
Actually, I'm terrified by the possibility of the Republicans taking control of the Senate.
The one plus is, for the next two years they'll be hard-pressed to blame anything -- such as the massive deficits they've already started on -- on the Democrats. That should serve to destroy the Republicans' claims of fiscal responsibility for a generation.
That means projects like the missile defense system will likely get millions or billions of dollars in funding, regardless of the fact that the experimental results behind the system prove that it isn't going to work as promised
It really doesn't matter whether it works or not. As many of us naysayers have been saying for years, the nasty folk will come up with an alternative that bypasses it. And on 9/11, this came to pass. Yet still they persist.
(Note that I'm talking anti-ICBM, not theater missile defense.)
Shooting 24fps at f2.0 is hard enough on your average B&W reversal stock, which is ASA 160, IIRC.
You could use two cameras, with shutters synced to take alternating frames, to get 48 FPS with no change in lighting. That would probably correct most of the visible flaws.
Developers, CONSULT PEOPLE.
As a former game developer, I'll point out what should be obvious: the developers are rarely making the decisions. Ain't up to us to arrange to consult people, that's up to the people writing the checks. And they're the ones who tell us to stop coding so they can release the package, even when we really want to fix that last bug, or improve that section.
It doesn't seem to be very useful to me. So what? Now you can download ripped dvd movie encoded in divx, burn it on a cd and play it in this thing on your TV?
You have no home movies? No taped shows that'll never make it to DVD? No laserdiscs?
they said "High quality encoded" music. My guess is over > 128 kbps MP3.
No, it's definitely not MP3 or OGG. It's presumably some DRM'ed Windows Media format. Otherwise there would be no limitation on Windows-only machines, and no limitation of 10 tracks/month burned.
CD-Rs are not normal CDs. Labelling them as such is bad.
But ebay's autosearch bot is probably looking for precisely CD-R. So describe it as "writable CD" or "CD created with a CD writer" or something that won't trigger the autobot. Meanwhile hopefully the bad press will get ebay to make their system more flexible, and perhaps even consider making their system especially friendly to independent musicians.
Why is the energy required to launch a large vehicle larger than the sum of the energies required to launch individual parts separately?
It isn't. But you can't just scale up a Saturn V by a factor of five and expect it necessarily to work properly. Assembling in space lets you build arbitrarily large structures depending only on how many launches you can do, and your only limitation is that the individual pieces fit in your launch vehicle. Also, an earth launch puts higher stresses on your structure than accelerating in space.
So they ask a more intelligent friend.
There was a study not too long ago that found that the not-so-bright rarely realized their degree of not-so-brightness. You would also have to find a more intelligent friend who thinks murdering abortion providers is acceptable.
The gov't can (and by law, probably should) simply dual-license any enhancements it funds for GPL software. The original GPL stuff doesn't become public domain, but the routines developed by the government do. (Any public domain stuff can be incorporated into the GPL app.) So it's a non-issue.
I know this is not an amazing feat of technology - to take a pile pf photos
What would be very cool would be if for all the neighboring pictures where it is practical, have some sort of morphing/shifting algorithm to generate a smooth scroll between them.
What I'd like to see, though, is a flight simulator program with a distributed photographic database. When you fly over a new area, you P2P the image data from the net collection, rather than having to have all the photos on your own machine. Model data could similarly be incorporated, perhaps with the ability for users to design in new bits of scenery (adding their own house, etc.).
I'm planning on spending a fair bit on a monitor at some point. CRT? LCD? Nah, gimme a 50" plasma. Currently they're 1366x768 max, though hopefully 1920x1080 (max HDTV res) will appear at some point. Has anyone out there gamed much on one of these babies? There's gotta be a rarely-used conference room someone here sneaks into...
I don't know if Gyration has moved from ball&socket to optical
It has. But opticals come in varying quality of tracking; I'll take my Logitech Dual Sensor over an iFeel or an Apple Pro Mouse any day.
Several years ago, Till Harbaum added a tilt sensor to his Palm Pilot.
There's a "Kirby" game for the Gameboy Color that comes with a tilt sensor built into the game cartridge, and thus has similar gameplay. (Not to say that it's not a cool hack for a homebrewer to do it.)
click it with your tongue. Great for surfing pr0n sites!
So will the next version come with moisture feedback?
Yes, but lets be realistic... You're probably going to use it for one, or the other. Very seldomly would you ever use it for both.
At a given time, sure. But it is at least slightly more convenient to carry one device than two, and if you're travelling and doing presentations, you can have a need for both. Or you might have a PC with home theatre goodies; when you're hacking, you use the straight optical, then you grab the mouse, sit on the sofa, and use the mouse as a remote to watch a movie.
I used a GyroMouse in the summer of 2000, if not the year before that. Either way, they are nothing new, and not really that great. A wireless optical mouse is superior.
Yes, but if you read the article, you'll see that it's *both* a standard mouse and a gyro one. So use the optical tracker on the desk when you can, but pick it up and use the gyros when you need to.
Glass is quartz and/or silica not silicon.
Hmm, what gets 5s these days...
Quartz is silicon dioxide (SiO2), as opposed to pure silicon. It's like the difference between rust and iron.