Psion actually did have high-quality handhelds back before they became so commonplace. Unlike a lot of their competitors, they actually included a compiler right on their devices so you could program or modify existing programs. Of course, this is back in the '90s, before even the Newton...
Technically, even Alderan's former moons wouldn't be moons once the Death Star blew up Alderan, so the line could easily have been, "that's no moon, moons orbit planets."
I don't live in the U.K. so I can't use the BBC's iPlayer. Their reasoning (and part of the reason for all the protections in the first place) is because I'm not paying a TV license fee like everyone in the UK who has a TV has to, so I shouldn't benefit. At the same time, I read reports that the BBC has budgetary problems. I know that I would, and I'm sure many others would, be more than willing to pay the same yearly license fee plus something extra for not living in the UK to use the iPlayer. I wish I understood why the BBC wouldn't adopt a policy like that.
I am almost certain that it is not all there in its entirety. There are bits that are not online specifically because of OCR errors. That is going to be true with any large volume of OCRed text.
is that you never make an entire planet feel ashamed right after first contact for not adhering to your superior future moral code. I mean that's basically the point of Star Trek.
But doesn't this restrict people to using secure sites only from their own machines? I have encountered situations where I was at friends' houses, relatives' houses or even a work computer where I want to do something somewhat security-sensitive like checking e-mail. Wouldn't this sort of security measure make that far more difficult?
If the whole purpose of the device is simply to read text aloud, they could essentially go with a slightly more souped-up Speak 'n Spell. It doesn't have to be high tech at all. It could have an old-fashioned LCD (or even LED) display of the kind calculators use (i.e. no pixels, just bars for letter and number shapes) and a very, very basic text-to-speech program of which there are many available and are often relatively tiny pieces of code which have been working perfectly for decades.
It doesn't need to be perfect if it is just for learning. It doesn't need to sound glossy or look great. This is a lot like the ultra-cheap Apple II-style portables that were touted here a couple of days ago. I like that we're looking back on "obsolete" (i.e. really inexpensive) technology to help the developing world.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, I don't know... I can think of a few pretty brilliant uses of clip art...
Riddick's designs are so simple and generic that they could easily have been drawn (or typed) by someone else from scratch without ever having seen Riddick's version.
My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to...ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... What? Where am I?
Psion actually did have high-quality handhelds back before they became so commonplace. Unlike a lot of their competitors, they actually included a compiler right on their devices so you could program or modify existing programs. Of course, this is back in the '90s, before even the Newton...
Technically, even Alderan's former moons wouldn't be moons once the Death Star blew up Alderan, so the line could easily have been, "that's no moon, moons orbit planets."
Well yeah, but I meant the whole world-wide web concept as a whole...
I remember seeing Mosaic in 1992 or 1993 and saying, "this will never replace Gopher."
She obviously spends a lot of time on MySpace, so she's probably already wasted a lot more than three months anyway.
TRUE poetic justice would see them incarcerated in the juvenile detention facilities themselves, surrounded by the very kids they sent there.
"we didn't want to worry about medical ethics"
Zhang Heng invented an earthquake detector in China in 132 AD, so yes. There is Chinese earthquake data going back well over 1000 years.
Maybe you should see the shit TV we have in the U.S. that we don't export to you.
$23/month for some of the best English language programming in the world? Absolutely.
I don't live in the U.K. so I can't use the BBC's iPlayer. Their reasoning (and part of the reason for all the protections in the first place) is because I'm not paying a TV license fee like everyone in the UK who has a TV has to, so I shouldn't benefit. At the same time, I read reports that the BBC has budgetary problems. I know that I would, and I'm sure many others would, be more than willing to pay the same yearly license fee plus something extra for not living in the UK to use the iPlayer. I wish I understood why the BBC wouldn't adopt a policy like that.
I am almost certain that it is not all there in its entirety. There are bits that are not online specifically because of OCR errors. That is going to be true with any large volume of OCRed text.
Unlike rats, you can't eat a robot.
What?!
Amen to that. Wasteland on my Apple IIe was by far my favorite game. I must have won it a dozen times and never got tired of it.
Thanks, no one thought of that. The Nobel prize is on its way.
Maybe you developed late. When I was 13, if I could have turned invisible, I would have gone straight to the girls' locker room.
is that you never make an entire planet feel ashamed right after first contact for not adhering to your superior future moral code. I mean that's basically the point of Star Trek.
It really pisses the aliens off.
But doesn't this restrict people to using secure sites only from their own machines? I have encountered situations where I was at friends' houses, relatives' houses or even a work computer where I want to do something somewhat security-sensitive like checking e-mail. Wouldn't this sort of security measure make that far more difficult?
If someone else subsidizes it, I get it for free. That's how 'free' works.
If the whole purpose of the device is simply to read text aloud, they could essentially go with a slightly more souped-up Speak 'n Spell. It doesn't have to be high tech at all. It could have an old-fashioned LCD (or even LED) display of the kind calculators use (i.e. no pixels, just bars for letter and number shapes) and a very, very basic text-to-speech program of which there are many available and are often relatively tiny pieces of code which have been working perfectly for decades.
It doesn't need to be perfect if it is just for learning. It doesn't need to sound glossy or look great. This is a lot like the ultra-cheap Apple II-style portables that were touted here a couple of days ago. I like that we're looking back on "obsolete" (i.e. really inexpensive) technology to help the developing world.
You're both wrong. It's obviously a musical torture chair you can send via first class mail.