I can see in the sample images that the rays don't pentrate leather (eg, the man's shoes). What will the airport do with a person wearing leather pants or skirt? Anything could be in the pockets.
My first PC was a CompuAdd 286 12 Mhz Turbo. The "normal" speed of a PC was the speed of a 8086, 8 Mhz or less, I think (my dad had one of those). This was in the DOS 3 and 4 days.
Games were often designed to use the clock speed of the computer somehow in their timing. I remember a game called "Depth Charge" which ran nicely on the 8086 but was ridiculously fast on the 286. To slow it down, you would press a key sequence to get out of "turbo" mode, and then the game would play normally.
So the "turbo" key would deliberately slow down the computer's clock speed. Not what you would think, eh?
Diebold makes (at least) two systems: AccuVote-TS (touch screen) and AccuVote-OS (Optical Scan).
I live in Boston, where we had a City Council primary yesterday. Boston has just switched to the AccuVote-OS system. Here's how that system worked:
I voted on a PAPER BALLOT by shading an oval with a black marker (any color but red will do). Then I fed my ballot into a box about the size of a personal laser printer, which (presumably) scanned it immediately and kept it. The box had what looked like a modem cord hanging out of one side.
I am NOT comfortable having my vote disappear into a system driven by code that is not available for public scrutiny. But I feel better about this than about the touch-screen Diebold system being discussed by most of these posts, because it uses paper ballots that could be re-counted if necessary.
It's funny just because we've all lived it -- and with the news on the rest of the web today, I think a little levity is just what we need on Slashdot --
Actually, yes, I can enter information into my computer and sync it to my phone. Wirelessly.
I have an Ericsson T68m and a Mac with a bluetooth adapter, and I use iSync to sync them. It also syncs my work and home Macs, and my old Palm V, and my iPod, so that a change made on one of them is updated on them all.
The T68m can also beam appointments and business cards to Palms via infrared.
Maybe this is what you're looking for? Wait, you're saying you don't use a Mac? Oh, well...
I used to think what you say above, until I bought a Mac.
Have you ever owned a Mac or had a close look at one, inside and out? It's beautifully engineered. Every surface finished nicely, lots of thought given to things like cable management and noise reduction, easy access to parts that are meant to be user-accessible (not much on an iMac, just about everything in a G4 tower).
I once had a Compaq Presario that required me to _remove_the_motherboard_from_the_case_ to add memory! (Yes, that's what their tech support said to do.) Unbelievable.
Homebrew machines tend to be more accessible, but watch out for the sharp edges on that metal case! and have plenty of twist-ties handy for the cables on any Intel-type box.
I feel that OS X is the best desktop Unix around now (I used to say that about Linux), and it runs only on Mac hardware. My Mac is worth every penny of its price to me.
Just in case this wasn't a troll after all -- yes, the blind can use screen-reading software to browse the web. But the software needs text to read; it can't handle _images_ of text. So images that convey important information need "alt" tags, etc.
There's more to it than the above, of course -- see the guidelines on www.w3c.org for more information.
I have this Cannon scanner, and it's great. As small as a TiBook and half the weight, lid can be removed or the hinge widened to accommodate books, no brick needed (draws power over USB).
The catch with the older N656U model is that the driver for OS X only works as a Photoshop plugin or under Classic. I've tried the OCR under Classic too, works like a champ.
He has every right to use the College network - but so does every OTHER student. Somebody has to make sure that a few hogs don't screw things up for everyone else, so that people can actually do their schoolwork.
How would you like to live in a dorm where this guy's P2P stuff was preventing you from accessing your coursework on Blackboard?
T-Mobile customers can set up filters for their text messages on the company's web site (click on "My T-Mobile"). You can have messages blocked, forwarded to an email address, or accepted on your handset.
Having the OS on something that is loaded clean at each boot would be a good idea for other reasons.
If the browser history were filled with porn, if the computer were infected with a virus, or if a keystroke logger were installed, everything could be cleaned up with just a reboot. (The keystroke logging thing happens more often than you would think on public machines.)
An OS that boots from read-only media (like some CD-based Linux distros) would accomplish the same thing.
Have you looked at audible.com? They offer downloadable audio books, magazines, and newspapers. You can burn CD's of the downloaded audio. As of a couple weeks ago, they support iPod on Mac (with firmware 1.2), as well as several portable players for Windows.
Unfortunately, they don't support Linux (only Windows and Mac). Their files are not straight mp3's, they are something proprietary with copy protection.
Check it out, this may be what you are looking for!
The popular gorilla exhibit at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo features a baby female gorilla named Kira.. It's still a nice name, but perhaps that's something you would want to know!
I was having neck and shoulder pain at work until I brought in a Kinesis Maxim adjustable split keyboard. (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/) Wonderful! I thought the problem was my desk until I felt what a difference this keyboard made.
The angle and tilt are adjustable for your comfort, and it has a detachable split wrist rest. It lacks the numeric keypad, so your mouse is in a better place (you can get a seperate numeric keypad if you like).
I use it with a Logitech TrackMan Marble trackball, the one with the thumb-operated ball. Mine is an older model with no wheel, which I prefer. It supports the hand in a natural way, and it stays close to my keyboard.
Start small... I do my country, you do yours... pretty soon we have a good project! Maybe separate projects for each country, if that makes more sense.
I am the author of that PTax98 script. Yes, I know it does just one tax form which you could easily do by hand.
But I wrote it as a demonstration. Remember the first tax programs for DOS? They were shareware programs; they didn't contain every form and schedule, just the most common ones; they didn't print something the IRS would accept, so you copied the output onto your IRS form. But they were still a great improvement over doing taxes by hand, and they led to the fancy commercial programs available now for certain other OS's.
A tax form is an algorithm already! It's not so hard to turn it into code. And we don't have to clone TurboTax on the first try; a simpler program could still be useful for lots of people. If a GUI is too much to write, how about a command-line script? You can look at PTax to see how to generate those tax tables without typing them all in -- tax rates are piecewise linear, with roundoffs, that's all.
I'm not a "real" programmer. PTax was my first Perl/Tk script. And I don't have time to do a big project on my own. But I'd love to contribute what I can to the cause. Anybody want a great open souce software project?
OK, I may be confused, but won't you please fill us in on the details (on both Gosling Emacs and Xemacs)? And what's all that stuff about Lucid and Sun on the Xemacs web site?
My understanding of the XEmacs situation is that this WAS originally a closed-source commercial fork of Richard Stallman's emacs, and that this fork was the event that caused Stallman to invent the GPL to protect his work in the future!
Xemacs is now Open Source: for more history see www.xemacs.org. But, personally, I'm not interested in using it. I have been a GNUemacs user since 1986, and I think the GPL is crucial to keeping Open Souce software open.
I have a Compaq Presario 5030 (don't ask, it's a long story) which uses the same chip. It works fine with the new XFree 3.3.3; I did nothing special to set it up. Maybe the problem is something besides the graphics chip, like your display? What setup utility did you use? (I used the one that comes with XFree, NOT RedHat's XConfigurator.)
I agree, the mature and productive thing to do here is let it slide. Personally, I am a great fan of both the GNU project and Perl. I own several of Christiansen's books and I think he's a great author. But I am sad to see this petty response to Stallman. I switched to Linux largely because I've been a daily user of Emacs for the last 10 years; without it, I might have stayed with M$ and never known better!
Slashdot Mirror
I can see in the sample images that the rays don't pentrate leather (eg, the man's shoes). What will the airport do with a person wearing leather pants or skirt? Anything could be in the pockets.
My first PC was a CompuAdd 286 12 Mhz Turbo. The "normal" speed of a PC was the speed of a 8086, 8 Mhz or less, I think (my dad had one of those). This was in the DOS 3 and 4 days.
Games were often designed to use the clock speed of the computer somehow in their timing. I remember a game called "Depth Charge" which ran nicely on the 8086 but was ridiculously fast on the 286. To slow it down, you would press a key sequence to get out of "turbo" mode, and then the game would play normally.
So the "turbo" key would deliberately slow down the computer's clock speed. Not what you would think, eh?
Diebold makes (at least) two systems: AccuVote-TS (touch screen) and AccuVote-OS (Optical Scan).
I live in Boston, where we had a City Council primary yesterday. Boston has just switched to the AccuVote-OS system. Here's how that system worked:
I voted on a PAPER BALLOT by shading an oval with a black marker (any color but red will do). Then I fed my ballot into a box about the size of a personal laser printer, which (presumably) scanned it immediately and kept it. The box had what looked like a modem cord hanging out of one side.
I am NOT comfortable having my vote disappear into a system driven by code that is not available for public scrutiny. But I feel better about this than about the touch-screen Diebold system being discussed by most of these posts, because it uses paper ballots that could be re-counted if necessary.
... does someone have a mirror available?
It's funny just because we've all lived it -- and with the news on the rest of the web today, I think a little levity is just what we need on Slashdot --
Actually, yes, I can enter information into my computer and sync it to my phone. Wirelessly.
...
I have an Ericsson T68m and a Mac with a bluetooth adapter, and I use iSync to sync them. It also syncs my work and home Macs, and my old Palm V, and my iPod, so that a change made on one of them is updated on them all.
The T68m can also beam appointments and business cards to Palms via infrared.
Maybe this is what you're looking for? Wait, you're saying you don't use a Mac? Oh, well
I used to think what you say above, until I bought a Mac.
Have you ever owned a Mac or had a close look at one, inside and out? It's beautifully engineered. Every surface finished nicely, lots of thought given to things like cable management and noise reduction, easy access to parts that are meant to be user-accessible (not much on an iMac, just about everything in a G4 tower).
I once had a Compaq Presario that required me to _remove_the_motherboard_from_the_case_ to add memory! (Yes, that's what their tech support said to do.) Unbelievable.
Homebrew machines tend to be more accessible, but watch out for the sharp edges on that metal case! and have plenty of twist-ties handy for the cables on any Intel-type box.
I feel that OS X is the best desktop Unix around now (I used to say that about Linux), and it runs only on Mac hardware. My Mac is worth every penny of its price to me.
Go ahead and do what you please with your personal web site. Nobody's telling you what to do.
But if you are offering a public service, you are subject to the laws that govern such matters.
Just in case this wasn't a troll after all -- yes, the blind can use screen-reading software to browse the web. But the software needs text to read; it can't handle _images_ of text. So images that convey important information need "alt" tags, etc.
There's more to it than the above, of course -- see the guidelines on www.w3c.org for more information.
I have this Cannon scanner, and it's great. As small as a TiBook and half the weight, lid can be removed or the hinge widened to accommodate books, no brick needed (draws power over USB).
The catch with the older N656U model is that the driver for OS X only works as a Photoshop plugin or under Classic. I've tried the OCR under Classic too, works like a champ.
He has every right to use the College network - but so does every OTHER student. Somebody has to make sure that a few hogs don't screw things up for everyone else, so that people can actually do their schoolwork.
How would you like to live in a dorm where this guy's P2P stuff was preventing you from accessing your coursework on Blackboard?
T-Mobile customers can set up filters for their text messages on the company's web site (click on "My T-Mobile"). You can have messages blocked, forwarded to an email address, or accepted on your handset.
Having the OS on something that is loaded clean at each boot would be a good idea for other reasons.
If the browser history were filled with porn, if the computer were infected with a virus, or if a keystroke logger were installed, everything could be cleaned up with just a reboot. (The keystroke logging thing happens more often than you would think on public machines.)
An OS that boots from read-only media (like some CD-based Linux distros) would accomplish the same thing.
Have you looked at audible.com? They offer downloadable audio books, magazines, and newspapers. You can burn CD's of the downloaded audio. As of a couple weeks ago, they support iPod on Mac (with firmware 1.2), as well as several portable players for Windows.
Unfortunately, they don't support Linux (only Windows and Mac). Their files are not straight mp3's, they are something proprietary with copy protection.
Check it out, this may be what you are looking for!
The popular gorilla exhibit at Boston's Franklin Park Zoo features a baby female gorilla named Kira .. It's still a nice name, but perhaps that's something you would want to know!
I was having neck and shoulder pain at work until I brought in a Kinesis Maxim adjustable split keyboard. (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/) Wonderful! I thought the problem was my desk until I felt what a difference this keyboard made.
The angle and tilt are adjustable for your comfort, and it has a detachable split wrist rest. It lacks the numeric keypad, so your mouse is in a better place (you can get a seperate numeric keypad if you like).
I use it with a Logitech TrackMan Marble trackball, the one with the thumb-operated ball. Mine is an older model with no wheel, which I prefer. It supports the hand in a natural way, and it stays close to my keyboard.
Start small ... I do my country, you do yours ... pretty soon we have a good project! Maybe separate projects for each country, if that makes more sense.
"Act locally, think globally"
I am the author of that PTax98 script. Yes, I know it does just one tax form which you could easily do by hand.
But I wrote it as a demonstration. Remember the first tax programs for DOS? They were shareware programs; they didn't contain every form and schedule, just the most common ones; they didn't print something the IRS would accept, so you copied the output onto your IRS form. But they were still a great improvement over doing taxes by hand, and they led to the fancy commercial programs available now for certain other OS's.
A tax form is an algorithm already! It's not so hard to turn it into code. And we don't have to clone TurboTax on the first try; a simpler program could still be useful for lots of people. If a GUI is too much to write, how about a command-line script? You can look at PTax to see how to generate those tax tables without typing them all in -- tax rates are piecewise linear, with roundoffs, that's all.
I'm not a "real" programmer. PTax was my first Perl/Tk script. And I don't have time to do a big project on my own. But I'd love to contribute what I can to the cause. Anybody want a great open souce software project?
OK, I may be confused, but won't you please fill us in on the details (on both Gosling Emacs and Xemacs)? And what's all that stuff about Lucid and Sun on the Xemacs web site?
Curious minds want to know!
My understanding of the XEmacs situation is that this WAS originally a closed-source commercial fork of Richard Stallman's emacs, and that this fork was the event that caused Stallman to invent the GPL to protect his work in the future!
Xemacs is now Open Source: for more history see www.xemacs.org. But, personally, I'm not interested in using it. I have been a GNUemacs user since 1986, and I think the GPL is crucial to keeping Open Souce software open.
I have a Compaq Presario 5030 (don't ask, it's a long story) which uses the same chip. It works fine with the new XFree 3.3.3; I did nothing special to set it up.
Maybe the problem is something besides the graphics chip, like your display? What setup utility did you use? (I used the one that comes with XFree, NOT RedHat's XConfigurator.)
I agree, the mature and productive thing to do here is let it slide.
Personally, I am a great fan of both the GNU project and Perl. I own several of Christiansen's books and I think he's a great author. But I am sad to see this petty response to Stallman.
I switched to Linux largely because I've been a daily user of Emacs for the last 10 years; without it, I might have stayed with M$ and never known better!