Please get help. You cannot count on other people to notice these things, as we often project ourselves onto others. We are also notorious for choosing the easiest path when faced with tough decisions. That means assuming you are content and that your subtle cries for help are just quirky behaviour on your part. Therapy isn't a magic bullet, but I've seen it really help others I care about.
I mean ball in the mathematical sense, not the rugby sense. A sphere is the boundary of a ball. The ball may (closed) or may not (open) contain the sphere.
I can't tell if you are trolling or not. Obviously no magic tech is going to make technology usable for all disabled people, but for those with limited motion in their hands and arms or poor eyesight Siri is actually a big improvement. I wasn't insinuating that Siri somehow makes blind people see or deaf people hear... You're attacking strawmen here... Do I know what I'm talking about? Well, I'm not disabled. My comment came about after a discussion w/ a disabled friend about Siri. He's not blind or deaf though.
Good to know that old people don't need a smart phone or Siri, because they have a map & yellow pages. When my grandma asks me if I know of a GPS that can handle voice navigation (not referring to Siri here), I'll tell her to get a map. Same thing, right?
The feature really is amazing in terms of accessibility. For those of us who have easy use of both hands, this feature isn't much better than simple voice recognition. But for the disabled and elderly it's probably one of the most important features their phone will have. I'm glad Apple got this out now, as it just means Android will catch up sooner.
I recently upgraded to Android 2.3 and actually use the (Google) voice recognition feature quite a bit (send text, write emails, etc). Of course, my touch screen is broken, so that may explain my usage.
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Well, OOo headless used to require X (hasn't for a few years) and I think wv(ware) requires X still. Both of these may be used to convert documents on a web server (eg. for indexing, or to PDF for download). X even offers a special "virtual frame buffer" for when its running on a headless server. Even if you don't require a server running, lots of people will have various client-side libraries installed.
Hey, after reading your post I decided to root my phone. I put CyanogenMod (7.1/Android 2.3) on it as well (though switched the home app to LauncherPro). I like it. I agree there is no one big change, but the little things do add up; JIT compiler, apps on SD card, haptic feedback on keyboard, slightly newer version of everything, etc. Quite nice. Thanks for the motivation:)
I cannot imagine Apple ever considered the possibility that people would upgrade to a 4S from a 4. A 3GS, probably. A 3, most definitely. But definitely not a 4. No I do not have an iPhone. And, no, I know of no one who has even considered the possibility of upgrading their 1 year old phone so they can get Siri...
That's part of the problem though; its a crap shoot whether your phone will be supported. I was unlucky and bought an HTC Hero. It had one major update, but that was it. They stopped supporting my phone less than 1 year into my 3 year contract. Looking at the graph, its sad to see that there is no clear "winner" in terms of manufacturers that support their phones. It seems that they decided to maintain only some of their phones (eg. Motorola Droid, HTC Evo, and Samsung Galaxy). When I buy my next phone, how do I know if I'm buying an Evo or a Hero? Do I just pray that my phone is the one deemed worthy of support?
It makes little sense, in that the dynamism of dynamic languages have nothing to do with "eval" (how many people write Python programs that write Python programs?). More over, runtime compilation is hardly new. Clojure, for example, is always compiled to bytecode, even at runtime, and is a dynamic language. Scala's REPL is a great example of a statically typed language being dynamically compiled and run. With Scala, you can even easily hook into the compiler tools to create your own interpreter and compile code on the fly and run it. There may be new things in Roslyn (I don't know), but, if so, the summary/article missed them.
Hrm... I've never tried wirelessly tethering my phone, but my HTC Hero can be tethered with a normal USB cable. I used it quite a lot during my last road trip w/ the wife. However, I suspect that these types of features have much more to do with the carrier than the phone itself. My carrier allows tethering with its data plans, but I've heard of ones that don't.
I'm also pretty sure that the guy just got a TF2 level to render and didn't port Valve's Source engine to JS. So its also missing the entire Source engine.
Just out of curiosity, do you buy your books on your computer? I usually purchase mine on the train or something though the Kindle itself, so I use the keyboard to search for it. But I've seen a lot of people mention that they never use the keyboard, so clearly I'm an exception.
Now, web browsing, that truly is something I've never used. Ever. I've just never had the desire to try and read slashdot or the like on an e-ink display. And for random wikipedia searches my phone is much faster and uses only a handful of kb.
I'm similar; I have quite a high tolerance for spicy foods. I'm not munching on ghost peppers, but I enjoy habaneros. Even still, I'll get hiccups and some sweats for the real spicy stuff, even if my mouth is fine.
I think there is a bit of a sea change though. At the lab I work at and others, it is becoming much more common place to have a mix of full-time software developers with scientists and grad students. This is good, since, for the programmers, originality is given a back seat to usability and better support for other software. This is probably a reaction to how developed the field has become; people expect certain features now and support for file formats from popular tools is a must. Bioinformatics is also special because our users, while very smart, are often people with no proper technical background and so usability is very important.
It's a real shame too. Even if most higher end PCs add the "flexibility" to let linux boot no problem, I'd hate to be the kid that wants to experiment with his computer, but whose parent's didn't consider what BIOS came w/ it and whether it could boot Linux when they bought it. When I was a kid, my sound didn't work and my video card was barely supported, but at least I could boot and play around in Linux.
I think they probably have a piece of metal between the processor and the liquid nitrogen. The metal on the cold side would be close to the liquid nitrogen's temperature and on the hot side it'd be closer to the procs temperature. You wouldn't get the effect, because of the gradient in the metal.
He actually does name a lot of names in his book (the majority of names and #s in the book are real, though dated). He also doesn't really hide his dislike for many of the characters in the book.
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Please get help. You cannot count on other people to notice these things, as we often project ourselves onto others. We are also notorious for choosing the easiest path when faced with tough decisions. That means assuming you are content and that your subtle cries for help are just quirky behaviour on your part. Therapy isn't a magic bullet, but I've seen it really help others I care about.
I mean ball in the mathematical sense, not the rugby sense. A sphere is the boundary of a ball. The ball may (closed) or may not (open) contain the sphere.
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Spheres or balls, the problem is the same. Given this is about volume, I'd actually say balls is more accurate...
Elderly (in the way you describe them) have solutions to this stuff - it's called a map
Cheers.
I can't tell if you are trolling or not. Obviously no magic tech is going to make technology usable for all disabled people, but for those with limited motion in their hands and arms or poor eyesight Siri is actually a big improvement. I wasn't insinuating that Siri somehow makes blind people see or deaf people hear... You're attacking strawmen here... Do I know what I'm talking about? Well, I'm not disabled. My comment came about after a discussion w/ a disabled friend about Siri. He's not blind or deaf though.
Good to know that old people don't need a smart phone or Siri, because they have a map & yellow pages. When my grandma asks me if I know of a GPS that can handle voice navigation (not referring to Siri here), I'll tell her to get a map. Same thing, right?
The feature really is amazing in terms of accessibility. For those of us who have easy use of both hands, this feature isn't much better than simple voice recognition. But for the disabled and elderly it's probably one of the most important features their phone will have. I'm glad Apple got this out now, as it just means Android will catch up sooner.
I recently upgraded to Android 2.3 and actually use the (Google) voice recognition feature quite a bit (send text, write emails, etc). Of course, my touch screen is broken, so that may explain my usage.
Nice plugin for visualizing said undo tree: http://sjl.bitbucket.org/gundo.vim/
Well, OOo headless used to require X (hasn't for a few years) and I think wv(ware) requires X still. Both of these may be used to convert documents on a web server (eg. for indexing, or to PDF for download). X even offers a special "virtual frame buffer" for when its running on a headless server. Even if you don't require a server running, lots of people will have various client-side libraries installed.
Hey, after reading your post I decided to root my phone. I put CyanogenMod (7.1/Android 2.3) on it as well (though switched the home app to LauncherPro). I like it. I agree there is no one big change, but the little things do add up; JIT compiler, apps on SD card, haptic feedback on keyboard, slightly newer version of everything, etc. Quite nice. Thanks for the motivation :)
I cannot imagine Apple ever considered the possibility that people would upgrade to a 4S from a 4. A 3GS, probably. A 3, most definitely. But definitely not a 4. No I do not have an iPhone. And, no, I know of no one who has even considered the possibility of upgrading their 1 year old phone so they can get Siri...
Well, if my Grandma had my phone, running 2.1, I'm sure she'd love the voice recognition features in 2.2 that my wife has.
That's part of the problem though; its a crap shoot whether your phone will be supported. I was unlucky and bought an HTC Hero. It had one major update, but that was it. They stopped supporting my phone less than 1 year into my 3 year contract. Looking at the graph, its sad to see that there is no clear "winner" in terms of manufacturers that support their phones. It seems that they decided to maintain only some of their phones (eg. Motorola Droid, HTC Evo, and Samsung Galaxy). When I buy my next phone, how do I know if I'm buying an Evo or a Hero? Do I just pray that my phone is the one deemed worthy of support?
It makes little sense, in that the dynamism of dynamic languages have nothing to do with "eval" (how many people write Python programs that write Python programs?). More over, runtime compilation is hardly new. Clojure, for example, is always compiled to bytecode, even at runtime, and is a dynamic language. Scala's REPL is a great example of a statically typed language being dynamically compiled and run. With Scala, you can even easily hook into the compiler tools to create your own interpreter and compile code on the fly and run it. There may be new things in Roslyn (I don't know), but, if so, the summary/article missed them.
Hrm... I've never tried wirelessly tethering my phone, but my HTC Hero can be tethered with a normal USB cable. I used it quite a lot during my last road trip w/ the wife. However, I suspect that these types of features have much more to do with the carrier than the phone itself. My carrier allows tethering with its data plans, but I've heard of ones that don't.
Should add that I think its cool he did this, but the summary is misleading (redundant, I know).
I'm also pretty sure that the guy just got a TF2 level to render and didn't port Valve's Source engine to JS. So its also missing the entire Source engine.
Just out of curiosity, do you buy your books on your computer? I usually purchase mine on the train or something though the Kindle itself, so I use the keyboard to search for it. But I've seen a lot of people mention that they never use the keyboard, so clearly I'm an exception.
Now, web browsing, that truly is something I've never used. Ever. I've just never had the desire to try and read slashdot or the like on an e-ink display. And for random wikipedia searches my phone is much faster and uses only a handful of kb.
I'm similar; I have quite a high tolerance for spicy foods. I'm not munching on ghost peppers, but I enjoy habaneros. Even still, I'll get hiccups and some sweats for the real spicy stuff, even if my mouth is fine.
I think there is a bit of a sea change though. At the lab I work at and others, it is becoming much more common place to have a mix of full-time software developers with scientists and grad students. This is good, since, for the programmers, originality is given a back seat to usability and better support for other software. This is probably a reaction to how developed the field has become; people expect certain features now and support for file formats from popular tools is a must. Bioinformatics is also special because our users, while very smart, are often people with no proper technical background and so usability is very important.
It's a real shame too. Even if most higher end PCs add the "flexibility" to let linux boot no problem, I'd hate to be the kid that wants to experiment with his computer, but whose parent's didn't consider what BIOS came w/ it and whether it could boot Linux when they bought it. When I was a kid, my sound didn't work and my video card was barely supported, but at least I could boot and play around in Linux.
Another example, Peter Watts is a marine biologist.
I think they probably have a piece of metal between the processor and the liquid nitrogen. The metal on the cold side would be close to the liquid nitrogen's temperature and on the hot side it'd be closer to the procs temperature. You wouldn't get the effect, because of the gradient in the metal.
He actually does name a lot of names in his book (the majority of names and #s in the book are real, though dated). He also doesn't really hide his dislike for many of the characters in the book.
That was my first programming book, so it has a special place on my shelf. However, I don't have the heart to try and reread it now, "just in case".