Sure, he had an erroneous (libelous?) biography published on Wikipedia. Fucking change it. That is the entire point of Wikipedia, as others have already pointed out.
Yeah. Because John Seigenthaler writing or editing an article on John Seigenthaler makes a lot of sense. Nobody would have a problem with that, right?
Check the books, you'll find that it's U.S. Robots, not Robotics. Common mistake, I say the latter myself all the time. It's obviously the catchier of the two.;)
We live by the seat of our pants and never really plan out little things like movie watching in advance.
Yeah, but those of us who incessantly plan every tedious detail of our lives love crap like this. As long as it works; When my Netflix are late, I often find myself having panic attacks. I have to go wash my hands again now.
1) You need a detailed functional specification. Just what the application should do, not how or with what technologies.
2) You need a detailed implementation specification, which should probably be written by someone with technical experience and at least some knowledge of the application's intended use. The person(s) who write this should be able to estimate how long it will take to complete.
3) You need to double the amount of time the folks from #2 give you as an estimate. If you didn't spend a lot of effort on #1, you should probably triple the estimate as you will be adding features that will render most of #2 obsolete.
It happened to me once when I was a teenager. My friends and I were seeing "Air America". When it melted on-screen there was applause from the audience.
No wonder the software industry is such a mess. I've seem CS *GRADUATE* students who couldn't use malloc(). Note that I did not say "who use malloc() wrong - no, these students could not even figure out how to call malloc() nor explain what it did. There's something strange happening (I call it cheating) when someone can graduate with a CS degree yet never use dynamic memory
Maybe it's because a lot of school are favoring Java as a language to learn? Not that it's all bad, there are a lot of reasons garbage collection isn't all evil. Still, I agree with you; they should be at least aware of what malloc() is, and what it does.
Does this device has networking or modem technology built-in? It doesn't have a PCMCIA card, but is does have a CF2 slot. Can you get Ethernet/etc for CF2, or is it only for memory style devices (CF, microdrive, etc)?
Yup, it does network cards, wireless network cards, modems, barcode readers, cameras, video cards... it's a generic interface.
In Farscape, the main character died in the final episode of this season. So it is going to be interesting to see how they continue the show.
Well, sort of. Remember he was "twinned" several episodes back. One went off on Talon and the other stayed on Moya (sp?). The Talon one, who developed a relationship with Eryn and figured out how wormholes tick, died. The Crichton on Moya is still alive.
By what stretch of the imagination is this a PDA? A four line, 20 character display? They make a big deal about being able to transfer pictures from your digital camera to the device. What then? View them on a display that makes my cell phone look good?;)
Cool to be sure, but I'll keep my iPaq thank you very much. This ain't taking the place of a Palm anytime soon either.
Thank you for mentioning the utter stupidity of thinking that people who wanted to start a nuclear war would use missiles. They wouldn't. They would bring nuclear weapons in the way cocaine is brought in.
A missile defense system such as the one Bush is touting wouldn't do much against a massive strike by ex-Soviet missiles. So what's the point? Accidental launchs. False alarms. Right now the only counter measure against a nuclear missile strike is massive retaliation. A missile defense system gives us an alternative; if it's not a massive strike then try to shoot them down. Much better than mutually assured destruction IMHO.
The chances of the United States incorrectly detecting a strike, or an accidental launch are far greater than a honest-to-goodness launch, or someone smuggling in bombs.
That being said, smuggling bombs is not like smuggling cocaine. When you smuggle, you get caught; no way around it. With something like cocaine it's not a big deal; you have a lot of it, and you're not too concerned if the authorities in question know you're smuggling it. If you tried to smuggle in the amount of nuclear hardware to do any sort of significant (i.e. on the same scale as a massive missle attack) damage, someone will get caught. Losing the element of surprise, your plan is that much less reliable. Any military mind that considers this a good strategy is probably commanding little more than green plastic army men.
We have reason to fear a single terrorist selectively targeting a small area in the manner you suggest; it is unlikely WWIII will be started in this way however. Should I be proven wrong in the future, you are welcome to dance up and down on my fallout shelter and yell "I told you so!". As to the rest of your post; I find it paranoid and alarmist, and I completely agree.
With Palm, the emulator is immaterial. It's free. It's the OS you have to work to get. You say that I get the emulator with the WinCE OS. Fine, but how do I get the OS?
All part of the development environment you can download or order on CD (paying only for shipping/handling).
Perhaps I am missing something here (honestly, not being sarcastic). What good is a Palm emulator w/o an OS? Assuming you do not have a Palm device.
Of course, if you download VB, etc., for WinCE development you have to _buy_ the OS from MS to run it on... Accepting the ROM image license seems easier to me...
Let's see - restrictive license, or restrictive license and cash outlay and have to run MS OS. Tough choice.
No you don't. You get an emulator with the operating system. For free. No signing documents.
It is not merely accepting a license. You have to print out, sign, date, and mail a contract back to Palm to download the ROM.
I have developed for Palm and CE devices. I would guess you have worked with the former, but not the latter. Why then, do you feel qualified to comment on the latter?
If your reasons for trying to suggest that Palm is friendlier to developers than MS is are coming from a general anti-MS position (understandable), please say so. Otherwise stop misrepresenting the facts of the matter. Like I said before, I have no desire to get into an anti-MS fight, I am merely pointing out that is is easier for a developer to get up and running with a development and emulation environment if you don't have to sign and mail documents around.
I was going to pull out my Palm VIIx to reply to this, but why waste valuable battery life...
Wireless connectivity and network access are two seperate things. Connecting to a network over a cellular link is painful at best.
I don't know why I wasted my time posting on Slashdot again. I don't know why I am continuing to do so. I guess I'm a masochist.;)
I am not down on Palms. They are great. They are not, however, in the same category as a device like the iPaq. This is not to say one is "better" than the other, they're just different.
Show me a Palm device that has a color screen, can play MP3s and videos, can connect to a corporate network, has wireless options, records voice memos, and has large storage solutions and I'll happily eat my words. Show me an iPaq that doesn't go thru batteries like a Nascar driver goes thru tires and I'll do the same.
There is nothing wrong with difference. There is nothing wrong with your personal choice of PDA. Just be aware that different folks have different wants and needs when it comes to their portable computing platforms.
Uh, what are you talking about? The only time you need to sign an agreement is if you want to download the actual ROM image. Okay, also if you want source to the OS.
What are you supposed to do with an emulator and no ROM? I realize you can get the OS from your Palm, but what if you don't have one?
Everything else can be had for free. You can download Codewarrior for Windows -- okay, it's a "light" version. You can use gcc on either windows or linux. The emulator itself is freely downloadable, as is all official documentation.
That's fantastic, hats off to Palm for providing all that. I was merely pointing out that MS is offering all that and more with less hassle. I am not attempting to fan the flames of an anti/pro-MS discussion.
Much more useful than an iPAQ which seems to be very hardly supported under Linux.
Erum, other than the fact that you can actually run linux on it you mean...?
If it's using Linux to support Free Software, I'll remind you that buying an iPAQ will profit to Micro$oft (WinCE is ALWAYS preinstalled, evn if you plan to use Linux on it).
This logic goes over my teeny little head. If you buy a Palm, are you not creating profit to Palm, Inc? MS has been a lot more open about WinCE than Palm has about their platform. You have to sign a friggen agreement to get a Palm emulator and development information!! MS will let anyone download full version of VB and VC++ for WinCE for free.
Palm certainly has the iPaq beat in terms of battery life and and size/weight/form-factor. I would question the handwriting recognition; I find scribble to be just as easy, and MS's transcriber has almost no learning curve at all (you just write normally on the screen).
If all you want is a PDA, a Palm would probably be your best bet. If you want a small, mobile computer capable of multimedia, network access, large storage, normal web browsing etc., get an iPaq.
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The film's editor and director.
Actaully, it's been traded on a number of exchanges during it's history, most recently the Tokyo exchange (since 1983).
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Yeah. Because John Seigenthaler writing or editing an article on John Seigenthaler makes a lot of sense. Nobody would have a problem with that, right?
I'm pretty sure "he" is actually an old woman with a lizard super-imposed over her in ESB.
Check the books, you'll find that it's U.S. Robots, not Robotics. Common mistake, I say the latter myself all the time. It's obviously the catchier of the two. ;)
What I don't get is the colour. I mean, colours fade, right? What happens then?
"Last month this Khipu detailed my crop rotation schedule. Now it's telling me I have to sacrifice 200 children the next time we coronate a king!"
Yeah, but those of us who incessantly plan every tedious detail of our lives love crap like this. As long as it works; When my Netflix are late, I often find myself having panic attacks. I have to go wash my hands again now.
No, thank you. I will flip burgers before I join another union. The last thing I need is another level of beaurocracy and corruption in my life.
2) You need a detailed implementation specification, which should probably be written by someone with technical experience and at least some knowledge of the application's intended use. The person(s) who write this should be able to estimate how long it will take to complete.
3) You need to double the amount of time the folks from #2 give you as an estimate. If you didn't spend a lot of effort on #1, you should probably triple the estimate as you will be adding features that will render most of #2 obsolete.
Just use this perl script as a proxy server making a small modification to ~s/Linux/GNU\/Linux/g.
There. Problem solved.
When I hear "Solaris", I think Gatchaman.
It happened to me once when I was a teenager. My friends and I were seeing "Air America". When it melted on-screen there was applause from the audience.
Maybe it's because a lot of school are favoring Java as a language to learn? Not that it's all bad, there are a lot of reasons garbage collection isn't all evil. Still, I agree with you; they should be at least aware of what malloc() is, and what it does.
My god! Has someone told the millions of European and Japanese messaging users how much time they're wasting yet!?
Yup, it does network cards, wireless network cards, modems, barcode readers, cameras, video cards... it's a generic interface.
So what? Anyone who buys a video card solely on the basis of how many FPS it gets in Q3 probably only cares about Q3.
Well, sort of. Remember he was "twinned" several episodes back. One went off on Talon and the other stayed on Moya (sp?). The Talon one, who developed a relationship with Eryn and figured out how wormholes tick, died. The Crichton on Moya is still alive.
By what stretch of the imagination is this a PDA? A four line, 20 character display? They make a big deal about being able to transfer pictures from your digital camera to the device. What then? View them on a display that makes my cell phone look good? ;)
Cool to be sure, but I'll keep my iPaq thank you very much. This ain't taking the place of a Palm anytime soon either.
A missile defense system such as the one Bush is touting wouldn't do much against a massive strike by ex-Soviet missiles. So what's the point? Accidental launchs. False alarms. Right now the only counter measure against a nuclear missile strike is massive retaliation. A missile defense system gives us an alternative; if it's not a massive strike then try to shoot them down. Much better than mutually assured destruction IMHO.
The chances of the United States incorrectly detecting a strike, or an accidental launch are far greater than a honest-to-goodness launch, or someone smuggling in bombs.
That being said, smuggling bombs is not like smuggling cocaine. When you smuggle, you get caught; no way around it. With something like cocaine it's not a big deal; you have a lot of it, and you're not too concerned if the authorities in question know you're smuggling it. If you tried to smuggle in the amount of nuclear hardware to do any sort of significant (i.e. on the same scale as a massive missle attack) damage, someone will get caught. Losing the element of surprise, your plan is that much less reliable. Any military mind that considers this a good strategy is probably commanding little more than green plastic army men.
We have reason to fear a single terrorist selectively targeting a small area in the manner you suggest; it is unlikely WWIII will be started in this way however. Should I be proven wrong in the future, you are welcome to dance up and down on my fallout shelter and yell "I told you so!". As to the rest of your post; I find it paranoid and alarmist, and I completely agree.
All part of the development environment you can download or order on CD (paying only for shipping/handling).
Perhaps I am missing something here (honestly, not being sarcastic). What good is a Palm emulator w/o an OS? Assuming you do not have a Palm device.
No you don't. You get an emulator with the operating system. For free. No signing documents.
It is not merely accepting a license. You have to print out, sign, date, and mail a contract back to Palm to download the ROM.
I have developed for Palm and CE devices. I would guess you have worked with the former, but not the latter. Why then, do you feel qualified to comment on the latter?
If your reasons for trying to suggest that Palm is friendlier to developers than MS is are coming from a general anti-MS position (understandable), please say so. Otherwise stop misrepresenting the facts of the matter. Like I said before, I have no desire to get into an anti-MS fight, I am merely pointing out that is is easier for a developer to get up and running with a development and emulation environment if you don't have to sign and mail documents around.
Wireless connectivity and network access are two seperate things. Connecting to a network over a cellular link is painful at best.
I don't know why I wasted my time posting on Slashdot again. I don't know why I am continuing to do so. I guess I'm a masochist. ;)
I am not down on Palms. They are great. They are not, however, in the same category as a device like the iPaq. This is not to say one is "better" than the other, they're just different.
Show me a Palm device that has a color screen, can play MP3s and videos, can connect to a corporate network, has wireless options, records voice memos, and has large storage solutions and I'll happily eat my words. Show me an iPaq that doesn't go thru batteries like a Nascar driver goes thru tires and I'll do the same.
There is nothing wrong with difference. There is nothing wrong with your personal choice of PDA. Just be aware that different folks have different wants and needs when it comes to their portable computing platforms.
What are you supposed to do with an emulator and no ROM? I realize you can get the OS from your Palm, but what if you don't have one?
Everything else can be had for free. You can download Codewarrior for Windows -- okay, it's a "light" version. You can use gcc on either windows or linux. The emulator itself is freely downloadable, as is all official documentation.
That's fantastic, hats off to Palm for providing all that. I was merely pointing out that MS is offering all that and more with less hassle. I am not attempting to fan the flames of an anti/pro-MS discussion.
Erum, other than the fact that you can actually run linux on it you mean...?
If it's using Linux to support Free Software, I'll remind you that buying an iPAQ will profit to Micro$oft (WinCE is ALWAYS preinstalled, evn if you plan to use Linux on it).
This logic goes over my teeny little head. If you buy a Palm, are you not creating profit to Palm, Inc? MS has been a lot more open about WinCE than Palm has about their platform. You have to sign a friggen agreement to get a Palm emulator and development information!! MS will let anyone download full version of VB and VC++ for WinCE for free.
If all you want is a PDA, a Palm would probably be your best bet. If you want a small, mobile computer capable of multimedia, network access, large storage, normal web browsing etc., get an iPaq.