Virgin Atlantic has also been using it for at least four years. It crashed 2-3 times on the flight that I took. It was nice in the fact that you could select the movie you wanted to watch and have it play right then and there, without waiting for the next showing like some airlines do.
Inventgeek also has a nice tutorial on how to make your own alpha-decay RNG (for somewhere around US$90). The project you're thinking of is probably the Global Consciousness Project.
I don't remember the numbers attached to the names stored in my phone (with the exception of the numbers for my house and immediate family) for the same reason that few people remember the IP address of slashdot. Address books in mobile phones are just a DNS system for phone numbers.
I don't think the technology itself is a waste. It would take me forever to back up everything I have on DVD-R discs (I would need to burn 50-60 of them), but with a writeable Blu-Ray disc I would only need to burn maybe six discs (or something like 15 HD-DVD discs if I chose that as my backup medium). This would definitely take up a lot less time and a lot less space. Optical discs themselves (CD, DVD, and what have you) certainly are not going to become obsolete just because the record labels can't sell anything in stores.
An interesting solution to this could be Nintendo offering an XHDD that is connected to the Wii as networked storage. Everything else about the Wii is wireless, why not a wireless hard drive?
FYI: writing "g whatyousearchfor" opens google, "r anothersearch" opens groups.google. It is one of those things that one won't understand how good it is before one tries it.
The g search shortcut is something I use on a daily basis, since it saves me the time of loading the search page. Also, right clicking on a search box and making your own search is another useful tool. A wikipedia search with this method is usually the first thing I set up in a new Opera install.
Here is a rail gun design that fires ~30 shots before the rails need to be serviced. It packs less of a punch and it's a lot smaller than the full scale rail guns that will be in testing by June. I can't imagne for the life of me why the military would build full size models for testing without working more on solving the problem of friction.
At one point over the summer I had finished building my new desktop system (previously I only had a laptop at my disposal), this desktop was set up at my desk which is about as far away from my router as possible. Having not thought ahead about the connectivity problem, I didn't have a wireless card installed on my desktop, so instead of going out and buying one (all that time going to the store and back, spending money) I instead hooked my laptop into my desktop through a crossover cable and shared the wireless connection on my laptop. Nothing particularly brilliant, but quite wasteful in the fact that I was essentially using the laptop as nothing more than a wireless card.
Since the Q1 is running XP and has USB ports, it would be simple to use a plug-and-play keyboard. So that would solve the text input problem. There are even roll-up keyboards that you could use. The main problem with the Q1 is that it wasn't designed with a task in mind any more than a typical laptop. So essentially, there is no real advantage over a laptop.
Another main concern about the Q1 is the battery life. From personal experience I've squeezed quite a bit of extra battery life by turning the screen brightness down (that raises another question, does the Newton have a backlight or are you SOL if you want to use it in the dark?) Another reason for the low battery life is, of course, the HDD. The Newton runs completely on flash memory so it makes sense that it requires a lot less power to run. I'd be interested to see how much the battery life on the Q1 would be affected if a hybrid drive were used.
I'd also be interested to see what one of these things would perform like when running Linux.
I was called into a First Trust Alarm office that had tried to set their own network up (part wireless part wired). None of them could figure out how to fix it. It turns out that their network cards were all disabled.
Unless the site is misleading, the mines are above ground since they need to be moved around. While visible mines will mean less civilians being killed/maimed by unseen mines, fully visible mines don't strike me as something an enemy couldn't pick off with a few high powered rifles. Also, the wireless network could be jammed.
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Virgin Atlantic has also been using it for at least four years. It crashed 2-3 times on the flight that I took. It was nice in the fact that you could select the movie you wanted to watch and have it play right then and there, without waiting for the next showing like some airlines do.
Inventgeek also has a nice tutorial on how to make your own alpha-decay RNG (for somewhere around US$90). The project you're thinking of is probably the Global Consciousness Project.
I don't remember the numbers attached to the names stored in my phone (with the exception of the numbers for my house and immediate family) for the same reason that few people remember the IP address of slashdot. Address books in mobile phones are just a DNS system for phone numbers.
I don't think the technology itself is a waste. It would take me forever to back up everything I have on DVD-R discs (I would need to burn 50-60 of them), but with a writeable Blu-Ray disc I would only need to burn maybe six discs (or something like 15 HD-DVD discs if I chose that as my backup medium). This would definitely take up a lot less time and a lot less space. Optical discs themselves (CD, DVD, and what have you) certainly are not going to become obsolete just because the record labels can't sell anything in stores.
An interesting solution to this could be Nintendo offering an XHDD that is connected to the Wii as networked storage. Everything else about the Wii is wireless, why not a wireless hard drive?
FYI: writing "g whatyousearchfor" opens google, "r anothersearch" opens groups.google.
It is one of those things that one won't understand how good it is before one tries it.
The g search shortcut is something I use on a daily basis, since it saves me the time of loading the search page. Also, right clicking on a search box and making your own search is another useful tool. A wikipedia search with this method is usually the first thing I set up in a new Opera install.
Here is a rail gun design that fires ~30 shots before the rails need to be serviced. It packs less of a punch and it's a lot smaller than the full scale rail guns that will be in testing by June. I can't imagne for the life of me why the military would build full size models for testing without working more on solving the problem of friction.
Are there people that actually have enough computing power to handle some of those profiles?
It's not so bad if you use Lynx to view myspace pages.
At one point over the summer I had finished building my new desktop system (previously I only had a laptop at my disposal), this desktop was set up at my desk which is about as far away from my router as possible. Having not thought ahead about the connectivity problem, I didn't have a wireless card installed on my desktop, so instead of going out and buying one (all that time going to the store and back, spending money) I instead hooked my laptop into my desktop through a crossover cable and shared the wireless connection on my laptop. Nothing particularly brilliant, but quite wasteful in the fact that I was essentially using the laptop as nothing more than a wireless card.
Are the five seconds to bring your computer out of hibernate really that critical? Hibernate takes 0W if you switch off your PSU when you walk away.
Except for the whole thing about viruses not being considered alive. At least not as of the last time I took a biology course.
Since the Q1 is running XP and has USB ports, it would be simple to use a plug-and-play keyboard. So that would solve the text input problem. There are even roll-up keyboards that you could use. The main problem with the Q1 is that it wasn't designed with a task in mind any more than a typical laptop. So essentially, there is no real advantage over a laptop.
Another main concern about the Q1 is the battery life. From personal experience I've squeezed quite a bit of extra battery life by turning the screen brightness down (that raises another question, does the Newton have a backlight or are you SOL if you want to use it in the dark?) Another reason for the low battery life is, of course, the HDD. The Newton runs completely on flash memory so it makes sense that it requires a lot less power to run. I'd be interested to see how much the battery life on the Q1 would be affected if a hybrid drive were used.
I'd also be interested to see what one of these things would perform like when running Linux.
I was called into a First Trust Alarm office that had tried to set their own network up (part wireless part wired). None of them could figure out how to fix it. It turns out that their network cards were all disabled.
Unless the site is misleading, the mines are above ground since they need to be moved around. While visible mines will mean less civilians being killed/maimed by unseen mines, fully visible mines don't strike me as something an enemy couldn't pick off with a few high powered rifles. Also, the wireless network could be jammed.
. . .a million top oil execuitives cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Is the reason I've watched less than 24 hours of television in the past year. Put this in my games and I'll be hitting the library.
If a user for Livejournal is using a text-only browser they won't load any images. If you just look for images loaded in a log a text-only browser will show up as adware when it's really not.