"Update: We just learned that Amazon will be selling it for $199, though the MSRP will remain $229.
At a rendezvous in San Francisco, Avner Ronen told us the decision to abandon Tegra 2 was about performance and nothing more: "The major problem we had with the Tegra 2 was support for high-profile HD playback," he said. "You can do high-profile VC-1 with Tegra 2, but not H.264." It was a problem of bitrate, he told us, and while NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra T20 was apparently not up to the task, the team had internally tested Intel's CE4100 decoding streams at up to 90 megabits per second. The newly revamped Boxee Box is now capable of 1080p H.264 playback at 60fps, and... well, that's actually about it."
MS had years -- quite a few years in fact -- to improve their mobile product. But they didn't. Even when the iPhone came out, they didn't really make many improvements. Then Google just leapfrogged them (MS) with Android. I had a Windows Mobile phone for a couple of years. But I keep finding it too hard to do simple things. And while it's not perfect, I'm currently happy with my Android phone and my iPod touch, both of which are much easier to use. I seems to me that with "Window Phone 7" MS is just playing catch up. They may finally have a product as good as the others. But I've already moved on and don't plan on going back. And I'm sure others have had the same experience.
"If they were dangerous, the government would never allow them to be sold" -- that's a joke, right?
Proper cleanup steps are only a two page PDF:
Cleaning Up a Broken Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb (CFL) Fluorescent light bulbs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within the glass tubing. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends the following cleanup and disposal steps: Before Cleanup: Air Out the Room
Have people and pets leave the room, and don't let anyone walk through the breakage area on their way out.
Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
Shut off the central forcedair heating/air conditioning system, if you have one. Cleanup Steps for Hard Surfaces
Carefully scoop up glass pieces and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces. Cleanup Steps for Carpeting or Rug
Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag. Cleanup Steps for Clothing, Bedding and Other Soft Materials
If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercurycontaining powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be thrown away. Do not wash such clothing or bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL, such as the clothing you are wearing when U.S. Environmental Protection Agency June 2010 you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercurycontaining powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal. Disposal of Cleanup Materials
Immediately place all cleanup materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing cleanup materials.
Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states do not allow such trash disposal. Instead, they require that broken and unbroken mercurycontaining bulbs be taken to a local recycling center. Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Air Out the Room During and After Vacuuming
The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forcedair heating/air conditioning system and open a window before vacuuming.
Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
Microsoft is a large corporation with many divisions. Sometimes these divisions operate with competing goals. That's the way most large companies are. And when Bill Gates was CEO, there was no way he could know everything that was going on in the company. Likewise, News Corp is a company. And there's no way the Murdoch keeps up with everything that every dept is doing. Putting his name in the title of this story (instead of "News Corp" or "Nosotek") is just flamebait.
I had forgotten about Sundog. Great games. Except for trying to fight pirates in space battles:-) I remember one way I used to get money was to stand around outside of a bank and wait for someone to try to mug me, then I'm shoot them and take there money.
Not sure if this project is still active: http://www.silvae.net/sundog/index.htm
Microsoft has been using the.NET platform for ten years now. There's too much of it to stop now. And even if they did, they'd have a harder time getting rid of it than they have had with Windows XP.
Know how I now David Hoyle is a Democrat? Because the summary didn't mention his party. If he'd been a Republican, it'd have been noted at least twice in the summary.
Slashdot Mirror
Now if only we could get Stallman to move to Finland...
Simulating galaxies?? Why not use it for something useful -- like ray tracing Wolf3d?!
Can't wait for the iPhone app based on the movie!
The US government makes a mess of a lot of stuff that do. That's why a lot of us don't want them taking over health care.
"I'm afraid that less-adaptable students will be unable to handle the switch from the calculator they know to an unfamiliar (but simpler) one."
If they can't handle a simple 4 function calculator maybe they don't need to be in your class yet.
"Update: We just learned that Amazon will be selling it for $199, though the MSRP will remain $229.
At a rendezvous in San Francisco, Avner Ronen told us the decision to abandon Tegra 2 was about performance and nothing more: "The major problem we had with the Tegra 2 was support for high-profile HD playback," he said. "You can do high-profile VC-1 with Tegra 2, but not H.264." It was a problem of bitrate, he told us, and while NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra T20 was apparently not up to the task, the team had internally tested Intel's CE4100 decoding streams at up to 90 megabits per second. The newly revamped Boxee Box is now capable of 1080p H.264 playback at 60fps, and... well, that's actually about it."
MS had years -- quite a few years in fact -- to improve their mobile product. But they didn't. Even when the iPhone came out, they didn't really make many improvements. Then Google just leapfrogged them (MS) with Android. I had a Windows Mobile phone for a couple of years. But I keep finding it too hard to do simple things. And while it's not perfect, I'm currently happy with my Android phone and my iPod touch, both of which are much easier to use. I seems to me that with "Window Phone 7" MS is just playing catch up. They may finally have a product as good as the others. But I've already moved on and don't plan on going back. And I'm sure others have had the same experience.
"If they were dangerous, the government would never allow them to be sold" -- that's a joke, right?
Proper cleanup steps are only a two page PDF:
Cleaning Up a Broken Compact Fluorescent Light Bulb (CFL)
Fluorescent light bulbs contain a very small amount of mercury sealed within the glass
tubing. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommends the following cleanup
and disposal steps:
Before Cleanup: Air Out the Room
Have people and pets leave the room, and don't let anyone walk through the
breakage area on their way out.
Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
Shut off the central forcedair heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.
Cleanup Steps for Hard Surfaces
Carefully scoop up glass pieces and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and
place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed
plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass
fragments and powder.
Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place
towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.
Cleanup Steps for Carpeting or Rug
Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid
(such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
Use sticky tape, such as duct tape, to pick up any remaining small glass
fragments and powder.
If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area
where the bulb was broken.
Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister), and put the bag or
vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.
Cleanup Steps for Clothing, Bedding and Other Soft Materials
If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or
mercurycontaining powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the
clothing or bedding should be thrown away. Do not wash such clothing or
bedding because mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the
machine and/or pollute sewage.
You can, however, wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to
the mercury vapor from a broken CFL, such as the clothing you are wearing when
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency June 2010
you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct
contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercurycontaining
powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet
wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.
Disposal of Cleanup Materials
Immediately place all cleanup materials outdoors in a trash container or
protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing cleanup
materials.
Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your
specific area. Some states do not allow such trash disposal. Instead, they require
that broken and unbroken mercurycontaining bulbs be taken to a local recycling
center.
Future Cleaning of Carpeting or Rug: Air Out the Room During and After Vacuuming
The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forcedair heating/air
conditioning system and open a window before vacuuming.
Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open
for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.
That's funny, cause for most other problems, I tell people "checkout Google" :-)
Click here to download a PDF that will tell you more about the vulnerability.
Microsoft is a large corporation with many divisions. Sometimes these divisions operate with competing goals. That's the way most large companies are. And when Bill Gates was CEO, there was no way he could know everything that was going on in the company. Likewise, News Corp is a company. And there's no way the Murdoch keeps up with everything that every dept is doing. Putting his name in the title of this story (instead of "News Corp" or "Nosotek") is just flamebait.
An application on the iPod that does the same thing -- only on the iPod the EULA is (I kind you not) 55 screens long!
I doubt they're marketing this game to Afghan civilians.
I had forgotten about Sundog. Great games. Except for trying to fight pirates in space battles :-) I remember one way I used to get money was to stand around outside of a bank and wait for someone to try to mug me, then I'm shoot them and take there money.
Not sure if this project is still active: http://www.silvae.net/sundog/index.htm
It would be interesting if this thing was ported to the PSP and the PSP could be used to unlock the PS3
No, the problem is people don't want to do their duty and serve on juries. But if they were on trial, they'd want good people on the jury.
Atari Jaguar:
* Tempest 2000
Atari Lynx:
* Chips Challenge
* Klax
* Slimeworld
* Electrocop
Dreamcast:
* PowerStone
"God can have no part to play in the scientific search for truth and understanding of the fundamental structure of the Universe."
I thought the point of science was to discover the truth. If God exists, shouldn't that be a part of science?
Target Practice?
Chuck?
Microsoft has been using the .NET platform for ten years now. There's too much of it to stop now. And even if they did, they'd have a harder time getting rid of it than they have had with Windows XP.
Know how I now David Hoyle is a Democrat? Because the summary didn't mention his party. If he'd been a Republican, it'd have been noted at least twice in the summary.
"he'll likely remember the trick for other tasks, and not call back"
Windows breaks up yet another family...
Not according to Harry Reid :-)
Do you really think Apple would be giving them better terms if it weren't for the Kindle?