You should notice that Euro coins from different countries all have the same frontside. The backside is covered with national symbols. So you won't have to look twice to recognize an Euro coin no matter where you are in Europe.
HOWEVER things like the alloy and weight are not really specified. And this is likely to cause a mess with vending machines, scales and counting machines.
I think I can make some good guesses at what
we're going to see at the MacWorld. Apple is
pretty much cornered in the PC market and I
think they'll try to sell more hq gadgets
like the iPod. Of course there'll be perfect
integration with the Macs.
I'm pretty sure some of those products will be
presented:
Digital camera
Handheld
LCD Monitor with TV functionality
Less likely:
Beamer
Camcorder
Cell phone with organizer functionality
In the future, Apple's main competitior will be
Sony and not MS.
There are ~ 7^6 cones and 1.2^8 rods in the eye. I suspect that the spatial perception for blue color is reduced because the rods are pretty insensitive to blue. The rods are of course monochromatic. But the information from rods and cones is combined in the retina.
The human eye has two different types of photoreceptors called cones and rods. Cones
come in three variations for color vision.
But they don't perform too well in low light
conditions.
Rods can only perceive green or yellow light
and are much more sensitive.
That's why your color vision is reduced at
night and it's why it's so hard to see blue
stuff in low color conditions.
Yes. At first sight, KDE looks a lot like Windows. KDE is supposed to make the switch from Windows to Linux easy.
However, there are true advancements. Those are not eyecandy. You won't see them at first sight. But if you begin to use KDE, you'll soon love them.
F.e. there is the kio layer. Any KDE program can load from and save to any file service. Open a script in your IDE directly from a FTP server and save it back to the server. kio accepts plugins. If you write a Freenet plugin, any program can load from and save to freenet.
And this is just one example. Look at how programs and components can be integrated using kparts. Or at how nationalisation is done.
To me, the taurus screenshots look like the GUI should be used with a mouse. Maybe you can use it with a pen, barely. But certainly not with your fingers. It looks like a compressed interface for a desktop computer. Not like one for a handheld.
Think again. When a major bank declares bankruptcy, you will suddenly see that all those cool skyscrapers and stuff don't belong to the bank at all. All major banks have a number of 'subcompanies' (building companies etc) and they move their (and your!) money to these.
When a bank declares bankruptcy, none of the fancy stuff will be sold to give you back your money.
Normal customers would be able to buy it in
a shop with a version of Windows for IAs
(not exactly WinCE).
The other idea was the have the stuff branded
for companies like f.e. Consors. And those
would provide the device for free for premium
customers. This version would have run on BeIA
(although the device was to be so thoroughly
branded that nobody could tell).
I don't know whether they still plan to make
use of the second idea. But obviously BeIA
woldn't be on it.
Here's a quote from the Scientific American article:
This prototype of what is now being marketed as SmartPaper...
The term SmartPaper is straight from Neal Stephensons "The Diamond Age".
Again, a SciFi author has changed our language.
Re:Egological aspects?
on
Electronic Paper
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Ok. You subscribe to a newspaper for one year.
Instead of dumping some paper into you mailbox
every morning, they send you the electronic
version which is updated every day.
I was simply reporting what a lot of players, who obviously had spent quite a while on the servers, where saying. They were definitely very unhappy with the game.
But as I said this was a while ago and a free trial was introduced even shortly before I played.
Maybe the post hadn't been a plant and the game really is popular in asia. But all I could see was a game that looked unfinished and a few unhappy players.
And the game did not even have pathing implemented!
Several weeks ago, I read in a forum
that Lineage would be the most popular
MMPORG in asia. So I downloaded the free
trial version (>200MB) and had a look.
Well - the graphics were ok. But there
really wasn't too much to do. Also there
were a lot of players on the server
complaining that they'd de facto beta-
test the game for $15 per month. It seems
like the free trial had just been introduced.
I now consider the message about the
popularity a plant. Hopefully things have
improved.
1. In a light water reactor you got two circuits. The water of the inner circuit comes into contact with radioactive material and can get slightly radioactive itself. The inner circuit is completely closed.
The outer circuit is coupled to the inner one via a heat exchanger. It drives the turbine and is closed, too.
Then after the turbine, the water of the outer circuit is further cooled down with an heat exchanger and river water.
So where is the waste produced? Even the water of the inner circuit becomes only slightly radioactive and is not replaced.
2. Graphite core reactors do not use water as a moderator. But it is still used for cooling. If there is an emergency, something like a peltier element will not be able to reduce the heat fast enough.
It would be more interesting to use the new system with something like MRTs (hope that's the word - those thingies used in sattelites).
>The alternative must be to use a cryptographic
> hash which can be used to identify ML but which
> cannot be readily forged by other virus code.
> Using this checksum technique also demands that
> the ML 'payload' remain unchanged. Very restrictive
> for code which needs to be stealthy.
Ok.
FBI sends public key to McAffee.
FBI creates virus and signs it with private key.
McAffee detects virus.
McAffee looks for a signature.
McAffee checks signature against a list of sigs from 'friendly' agencies.
(NSA, FBI, MS, Mossad, Secret Service, Europol,...)
McAffee does not report virus.
In fact the middlemen, called Indies, decide what is played. They were established as a workaround for payola regulations. Now there are Indies de facto owning up to 1200 stations.
I've read the book and in fact any other Discworld novel except the 'Thief of Time'. I loved the book. Maybe I know the characters a bit too well, because I think the stoy was somewhat stale. However, the illustrations are brilliant and you should really have a look at them.
The Discworld is one of the largest book seriers and Terry still manages to positively surprise me in some of the books. The last one that achieved this was the 'Fifth Elephant'.
The About-Box of BeOS hints at some of the licensed code:
RSA encryption for Net+
(Hasn't the RSA license changed anyway?)
Real Player and maybe codecs
(Simply leave them out)
USB drivers from Intel
Tough - but you can live without them
Optimized graphics routines from Intel
The biggest problem. Graphics card drivers
and maybe OpenGL seem to depend on it.
On the other hand, BeOS 4.5 seems to have
worked without that code. And maybe it's
encapsulated in the libbitflinger.
Well - if you know what you're doing, it
should not be too hard to get the code out.
But who should do it?
The plan of BeUnited is more or less to license BeOS, release a new version, and use the sales profit to pay for the license. The OS would then be improved with the help of NDAed enthusiasts and possibly some pros. An open source release is not planned.
As much as I'd like this plan to succeed, I consider it purely wishful thinking:
1. No money.
BeUnited doesn't have a sponsor (I asked), and in the current situation I think it's unlikely that they'll get a high enough credit.
2. No product
While it's true that BeInc has been doing work on a new network stack (BONE) and a nice OpenGL implementation, this stuff is still in late beta. Other parts like Java and Opera4 would have to be ported from BeIA.
3. The numbers aren't right.
Have a look at the 'Save BeOS' petition: Around 4000 entries. So how many versions could you sell? For what price? What's your margin? Even if you would get a credit and if you wouldn't need to do dev work: You wouldn't make enough money to make Palm an attractive offer.
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You should notice that Euro coins from different countries all have the same frontside. The backside is covered with national symbols. So you won't have to look twice to recognize an Euro coin no matter where you are in Europe.
HOWEVER things like the alloy and weight are not really specified. And this is likely to cause a mess with vending machines, scales and counting machines.
I think I can make some good guesses at what
we're going to see at the MacWorld. Apple is
pretty much cornered in the PC market and I
think they'll try to sell more hq gadgets
like the iPod. Of course there'll be perfect
integration with the Macs.
I'm pretty sure some of those products will be
presented:
Digital camera
Handheld
LCD Monitor with TV functionality
Less likely:
Beamer
Camcorder
Cell phone with organizer functionality
In the future, Apple's main competitior will be
Sony and not MS.
There are ~ 7^6 cones and 1.2^8 rods in the eye. I suspect that the spatial perception for blue color is reduced because the rods are pretty insensitive to blue. The rods are of course monochromatic. But the information from rods and cones is combined in the retina.
The human eye has two different types of photoreceptors called cones and rods. Cones
come in three variations for color vision.
But they don't perform too well in low light
conditions.
Rods can only perceive green or yellow light
and are much more sensitive.
That's why your color vision is reduced at
night and it's why it's so hard to see blue
stuff in low color conditions.
Yes. At first sight, KDE looks a lot like Windows. KDE is supposed to make the switch from Windows to Linux easy.
However, there are true advancements. Those are not eyecandy. You won't see them at first sight. But if you begin to use KDE, you'll soon love them.
F.e. there is the kio layer. Any KDE program can load from and save to any file service. Open a script in your IDE directly from a FTP server and save it back to the server. kio accepts plugins. If you write a Freenet plugin, any program can load from and save to freenet.
And this is just one example. Look at how programs and components can be integrated using kparts. Or at how nationalisation is done.
To me, the taurus screenshots look like the GUI should be used with a mouse. Maybe you can use it with a pen, barely. But certainly not with your fingers. It looks like a compressed interface for a desktop computer. Not like one for a handheld.
BeOS R5 PE can still run from a virtual filesystem on a FAT partition. And QNX can do the same stunt, btw.
Think again. When a major bank declares bankruptcy, you will suddenly see that all those cool skyscrapers and stuff don't belong to the bank at all. All major banks have a number of 'subcompanies' (building companies etc) and they move their (and your!) money to these.
When a bank declares bankruptcy, none of the fancy stuff will be sold to give you back your money.
Compaq planned to sell the device in two ways:
Normal customers would be able to buy it in
a shop with a version of Windows for IAs
(not exactly WinCE).
The other idea was the have the stuff branded
for companies like f.e. Consors. And those
would provide the device for free for premium
customers. This version would have run on BeIA
(although the device was to be so thoroughly
branded that nobody could tell).
I don't know whether they still plan to make
use of the second idea. But obviously BeIA
woldn't be on it.
IE works on MacOS, too.
So if you describe the OS as the platform,
it runs on the two major platforms. For
merketing guys, this'll have to count as
'platform agnostic'.
Yep. Works in Moz.096, too.
It seems to use Shockwave ant btw makes
it totally impossible to read the article.
Could have left out the article as well.
Here's a quote from the Scientific American article:
This prototype of what is now being marketed as SmartPaper...
The term SmartPaper is straight from Neal Stephensons "The Diamond Age".
Again, a SciFi author has changed our language.
Ok. You subscribe to a newspaper for one year.
Instead of dumping some paper into you mailbox
every morning, they send you the electronic
version which is updated every day.
What is more environment friendly?
I was simply reporting what a lot of players, who obviously had spent quite a while on the servers, where saying. They were definitely very unhappy with the game.
But as I said this was a while ago and a free trial was introduced even shortly before I played.
Maybe the post hadn't been a plant and the game really is popular in asia. But all I could see was a game that looked unfinished and a few unhappy players.
And the game did not even have pathing implemented!
Several weeks ago, I read in a forum
that Lineage would be the most popular
MMPORG in asia. So I downloaded the free
trial version (>200MB) and had a look.
Well - the graphics were ok. But there
really wasn't too much to do. Also there
were a lot of players on the server
complaining that they'd de facto beta-
test the game for $15 per month. It seems
like the free trial had just been introduced.
I now consider the message about the
popularity a plant. Hopefully things have
improved.
Ehhrm...
1. In a light water reactor you got two circuits. The water of the inner circuit comes into contact with radioactive material and can get slightly radioactive itself. The inner circuit is completely closed.
The outer circuit is coupled to the inner one via a heat exchanger. It drives the turbine and is closed, too.
Then after the turbine, the water of the outer circuit is further cooled down with an heat exchanger and river water.
So where is the waste produced? Even the water of the inner circuit becomes only slightly radioactive and is not replaced.
2. Graphite core reactors do not use water as a moderator. But it is still used for cooling. If there is an emergency, something like a peltier element will not be able to reduce the heat fast enough.
It would be more interesting to use the new system with something like MRTs (hope that's the word - those thingies used in sattelites).
I don't get you.
...)
>The alternative must be to use a cryptographic
> hash which can be used to identify ML but which
> cannot be readily forged by other virus code.
> Using this checksum technique also demands that
> the ML 'payload' remain unchanged. Very restrictive
> for code which needs to be stealthy.
Ok.
FBI sends public key to McAffee.
FBI creates virus and signs it with private key.
McAffee detects virus.
McAffee looks for a signature.
McAffee checks signature against a list of sigs from 'friendly' agencies.
(NSA, FBI, MS, Mossad, Secret Service, Europol,
McAffee does not report virus.
How is changing the 'payload' a problem?
In fact the middlemen, called Indies, decide what is played. They were established as a workaround for payola regulations. Now there are Indies de facto owning up to 1200 stations.
Salon has a very interesting article about this.
Whatever is coming, you cannot compare it to the McCarthy aera.
Never. No way.
I've read the book and in fact any other Discworld novel except the 'Thief of Time'. I loved the book. Maybe I know the characters a bit too well, because I think the stoy was somewhat stale. However, the illustrations are brilliant and you should really have a look at them.
The Discworld is one of the largest book seriers and Terry still manages to positively surprise me in some of the books. The last one that achieved this was the 'Fifth Elephant'.
I can give you the numbers anyway:
Currently it's $0.095 per share.
At the IPO it was $6 per share. The highest
price has been around $40 per share when
there were speculations about RedHat buying
BeInc.
Yep. I can confirm this.
BeInc has explicitely retained the right to sue.
The About-Box of BeOS hints at some of the licensed code:
RSA encryption for Net+
(Hasn't the RSA license changed anyway?)
Real Player and maybe codecs
(Simply leave them out)
USB drivers from Intel
Tough - but you can live without them
Optimized graphics routines from Intel
The biggest problem. Graphics card drivers
and maybe OpenGL seem to depend on it.
On the other hand, BeOS 4.5 seems to have
worked without that code. And maybe it's
encapsulated in the libbitflinger.
Well - if you know what you're doing, it
should not be too hard to get the code out.
But who should do it?
Well - Apple has considered buying BeInc before. But Gassee wanted $400M for a company with a total investment of $20M. So they bought Next instead.
Now BeInc is practically sold for $11M to Palm. There's no way Apple's going to develop yet another OS. Plus Gasse and Jobs despise each other.
No chance.
The plan of BeUnited is more or less to license BeOS, release a new version, and use the sales profit to pay for the license. The OS would then be improved with the help of NDAed enthusiasts and possibly some pros. An open source release is not planned.
As much as I'd like this plan to succeed, I consider it purely wishful thinking:
1. No money.
BeUnited doesn't have a sponsor (I asked), and in the current situation I think it's unlikely that they'll get a high enough credit.
2. No product
While it's true that BeInc has been doing work on a new network stack (BONE) and a nice OpenGL implementation, this stuff is still in late beta. Other parts like Java and Opera4 would have to be ported from BeIA.
3. The numbers aren't right.
Have a look at the 'Save BeOS' petition: Around 4000 entries. So how many versions could you sell? For what price? What's your margin? Even if you would get a credit and if you wouldn't need to do dev work: You wouldn't make enough money to make Palm an attractive offer.
Sad but true.