Creative Labs is due to release the wifi Zen player in the near future. Since he already has a laptop, he probably doesn't need wifi on the player anyways. The Zen vision series has pretty much everything you need.
No details on the type of outputs, but the Zen Vision series have composite a/v out at a resolution of 640x480. That'd be plenty enough for some presentations.
A child who gets XP preinstalled on the XO will probably have no alternative and will be left with an inferior product. I hope reviewers keep denouncing Microsoft's involvement with the XO, because no good can come of it.
At least the child will have a laptop that they did not have in the first place. Regardless of the OS that's installed, there is plenty of good in that alone.
And why would they bother hiding anyway? Would WE hide from a race that was stone knives and bearskins while we have F18s and nuclear powered aircraft carriers?
The result of contact with an alien race could be devastating to our economics and, depending on the information they might share, potential disaster for religion as well.
Another possibility is that they could be studying the evolution of our culture.
For every good reason I can think of for them to reveal their presence (if they're here) there's just as good of a reason for them to remain hidden.
I wouldn't go as far to say that we'd [b]never[/b] colonise. If there were sufficient water we may be able to terraform. Would that take a hell of a long time? Yes. Will we send robots there first? Yes, but I think we should work on robots I can have sex with first then send some to mars.
If it's jumping around then you have another IR source in your room. Perhaps an incandescent light or light through a window. It's pretty easy to figure out if you just go into the options and check the sensitivity tab. If you see more than 2 dots, you've got an errant IR source.
There's no complex access to the system, as there is with a GUI, and as such less anyone can screw up.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Apart from pushing new code for new instrumentation, all of the controllers run autonomously in their never ending loops.
I'd personally like to see the programming tools run on a Linux box though. There are no services that are tied to Windows, and I've seen/used similar tools in Linux for programming/CAD. Every time I have to edit a graphic on the Windows station and push it to the QNX side the little man inside of me cries.
I'm not an expert, but I do admin a small network at a power plant and am an I&E tech. While we do have mostly Windows machines for admin tasks, all of our process instruments report to separate dedicated hardware and are interfaced with QNX. The windows machines only poll data and are the developing station for code to be pushed to the process controllers. All interfacing with process controls are through QNX. This is true for all power plants currently owned by the company I work for.
I'm already dealing with this on my Satellite ISP. One of the users of Wildblue wrote a tool to query the ISP's server and return your current upload/download to a file with date time stamp. There's even a way to query your router if your router supports it.
Long story short, I'm on a 17gb/mo plan ($80/mo) and I have to watch what I download. Teamspeak was a huge killer of bandwidth, but since I can't play due to latency issues it hasn't been a problem. For those trying to game, it will be an obstacle to overcome.
It's only recently that Wildblue provided a decent tool for users to monitor their own bandwidth.
Just wondering....could you break the law by stealing something that was yours? This could lead us down the path of larceny. I guess that's why Matt Parker and Trey Stone put up their episodes on www.southparkstudios.com? Just so they'd stop stealing from themselves?
Easy, virus and malware. You can say that linux is not attacked because it is not mainstream as much as you want, but the fact is that there are no virus or malware for linux on the wild.
And the 2 trojans, 21 Viruses, and 10 worms listed on Wikipedia are what exactly?
I know Wikipedia is not the most reliable source, but to say that there are no virus or malware for Linux is nonsense. I'll give you that they are much less prevalent due to the differences in distributions and the overall security model of Linux. When Linux gets it's fair share of the desktop, you'll see a huge upsurge in the number of viruses due to the standardization of the install for the general masses.
Very good point, so MS "forces" IE/MediaPlayer/Whathaveyou on you, Apple "forces" you to their hardware. Which is worse?
Considering you can install FF, Opera, Media Player Classic, , it's not much of an argument. Seems to me like you're comparing apples(pun intended) and oranges.
A freaking men. I didn't play 3 nights in a row, more like 7 days or so. There was nobody around. It was still boring when there were people to play with.
that's $50,000 per year. That used to be a starting California programmer's salary in the late 90's. I don't know about anyone else but I didn't feel rich. You definitely cannot support a family on that supposing he has one.
That's so funny! That's about what I make! I have a mortgage, a car payment, a (disabled) wife, a child, and one on the way! So if by "definitely cannot support" you mean "absolutely can", I totally agree.
Nintendo did not miss the point, apparently you did.
Nintendo never set out to make a multimedia machine, that was Microsoft and Sony. MS and Sony wanted to get a HTPC into your living room, video games were a side effect of that drive. They want to control how you get your media, news, etc. Nintendo only wanted to sell video games. Yes, they've thrown in some online content as well, but that's not why people buy a Wii.
There are many companies busy designing direct download HD devices. The only difference between their designs and a PS3 or 360 is that they don't play (disk) games.
Direct download content is coming. Netflix is already doing it(among others). MS and Sony know it's becoming more and more mainstream. MS is obviously banking on it becoming "the next big thing" sooner rather than later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steel_producers
So we're only 7th and 8th of the top 29 largest steel producers. Nucor steel has been growing steadily. I interviewed a few months ago at their NC plant. Their running at something like 150% of their rated capacity while still making quality steel. Apparently they can't make steel fast enough.
I ended up taking a different job. I'm currently surrounded by 2 nuclear reactor sites and I work at a coal plant. The plant I work at is sandwiched between another coal plant and a little company called Honeywell.
Our industrial base has simply consolidated. It's all still there happily churning out all kinds of products.
[quote]that makes no sense, the more video/audio capabilities a device has the more people are going to buy it[/quote]
That's true, unless you're Apple. The Ipod was inferior to many other players (in both formats played and screen quality) yet it still out sold them. Apple is all about control. They're probably trying to leverage their position to give a kick to QT.
In that case they are limiting the access to their records to those that are able to run Silverlight. Which is just about any computer that has an OS installed and is turned on....
It's just another piece of software that will need to be installed to access information. They haven't excluded anyone that I am aware of, unless you're still using a Commodore VIC-20.
"For reliability reasons, Microsoft blocks these programs from starting after you install Windows Vista SP1," according to the article, which notes this step was taken with the consent of the affected vendors.
So they really are interoperating. They told them they needed to fix something and the vendors agreed.
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I wait until a celebrity like George Clooney weighs in, then I do what they say! That's what everyone else does......right?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/29/creatives-zen-x-fi-player-with-wifi-gets-a-lot-more-real/
No details on the type of outputs, but the Zen Vision series have composite a/v out at a resolution of 640x480. That'd be plenty enough for some presentations.
A child who gets XP preinstalled on the XO will probably have no alternative and will be left with an inferior product. I hope reviewers keep denouncing Microsoft's involvement with the XO, because no good can come of it.
At least the child will have a laptop that they did not have in the first place. Regardless of the OS that's installed, there is plenty of good in that alone.
And why would they bother hiding anyway? Would WE hide from a race that was stone knives and bearskins while we have F18s and nuclear powered aircraft carriers?
The result of contact with an alien race could be devastating to our economics and, depending on the information they might share, potential disaster for religion as well.
Another possibility is that they could be studying the evolution of our culture.
For every good reason I can think of for them to reveal their presence (if they're here) there's just as good of a reason for them to remain hidden.
I wouldn't go as far to say that we'd [b]never[/b] colonise. If there were sufficient water we may be able to terraform. Would that take a hell of a long time? Yes. Will we send robots there first? Yes, but I think we should work on robots I can have sex with first then send some to mars.
No need to get a new TV. There are plenty of multi-input boxes that one could buy. Some even have IR/RF remote capability.
If it's jumping around then you have another IR source in your room. Perhaps an incandescent light or light through a window. It's pretty easy to figure out if you just go into the options and check the sensitivity tab. If you see more than 2 dots, you've got an errant IR source.
There's no complex access to the system, as there is with a GUI, and as such less anyone can screw up.
You pretty much hit the nail on the head. Apart from pushing new code for new instrumentation, all of the controllers run autonomously in their never ending loops.
I'd personally like to see the programming tools run on a Linux box though. There are no services that are tied to Windows, and I've seen/used similar tools in Linux for programming/CAD. Every time I have to edit a graphic on the Windows station and push it to the QNX side the little man inside of me cries.
I'm not an expert, but I do admin a small network at a power plant and am an I&E tech. While we do have mostly Windows machines for admin tasks, all of our process instruments report to separate dedicated hardware and are interfaced with QNX. The windows machines only poll data and are the developing station for code to be pushed to the process controllers. All interfacing with process controls are through QNX. This is true for all power plants currently owned by the company I work for.
Given enough Uranium we could just make our own Plutonium.
Long story short, I'm on a 17gb/mo plan ($80/mo) and I have to watch what I download. Teamspeak was a huge killer of bandwidth, but since I can't play due to latency issues it hasn't been a problem. For those trying to game, it will be an obstacle to overcome.
It's only recently that Wildblue provided a decent tool for users to monitor their own bandwidth.
Just wondering....could you break the law by stealing something that was yours? This could lead us down the path of larceny. I guess that's why Matt Parker and Trey Stone put up their episodes on www.southparkstudios.com? Just so they'd stop stealing from themselves?
Now I realize that the article goes back to 2001, but do you seriously believe that all avenues of attack have been accounted for?
There have been Linux viruses "in the wild" and there may currently be some floating around. Do I know for sure? Of course not.
And the 2 trojans, 21 Viruses, and 10 worms listed on Wikipedia are what exactly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses
I know Wikipedia is not the most reliable source, but to say that there are no virus or malware for Linux is nonsense. I'll give you that they are much less prevalent due to the differences in distributions and the overall security model of Linux. When Linux gets it's fair share of the desktop, you'll see a huge upsurge in the number of viruses due to the standardization of the install for the general masses.
Considering you can install FF, Opera, Media Player Classic, , it's not much of an argument. Seems to me like you're comparing apples(pun intended) and oranges.
A freaking men. I didn't play 3 nights in a row, more like 7 days or so. There was nobody around. It was still boring when there were people to play with.
That's so funny! That's about what I make! I have a mortgage, a car payment, a (disabled) wife, a child, and one on the way! So if by "definitely cannot support" you mean "absolutely can", I totally agree.
Do you know what else floats? Small rocks!
Blah blah blah Web 2.0 blah blah blah blogger blah blah Vista blah blah Microsoft doomed. I think that about sums it all up, doesn't it?
Nintendo did not miss the point, apparently you did.
Nintendo never set out to make a multimedia machine, that was Microsoft and Sony. MS and Sony wanted to get a HTPC into your living room, video games were a side effect of that drive. They want to control how you get your media, news, etc. Nintendo only wanted to sell video games. Yes, they've thrown in some online content as well, but that's not why people buy a Wii.
There are many companies busy designing direct download HD devices. The only difference between their designs and a PS3 or 360 is that they don't play (disk) games.
Direct download content is coming. Netflix is already doing it(among others). MS and Sony know it's becoming more and more mainstream. MS is obviously banking on it becoming "the next big thing" sooner rather than later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steel_producers So we're only 7th and 8th of the top 29 largest steel producers. Nucor steel has been growing steadily. I interviewed a few months ago at their NC plant. Their running at something like 150% of their rated capacity while still making quality steel. Apparently they can't make steel fast enough. I ended up taking a different job. I'm currently surrounded by 2 nuclear reactor sites and I work at a coal plant. The plant I work at is sandwiched between another coal plant and a little company called Honeywell. Our industrial base has simply consolidated. It's all still there happily churning out all kinds of products.
[quote]that makes no sense, the more video/audio capabilities a device has the more people are going to buy it[/quote] That's true, unless you're Apple. The Ipod was inferior to many other players (in both formats played and screen quality) yet it still out sold them. Apple is all about control. They're probably trying to leverage their position to give a kick to QT.
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/silverlight.html
It's just another piece of software that will need to be installed to access information. They haven't excluded anyone that I am aware of, unless you're still using a Commodore VIC-20.
So they really are interoperating. They told them they needed to fix something and the vendors agreed.