For palmpilots you plug/unplug them all the time by design, which actually is kind of strange and not compatible with the design of the serial port.
Uh, no, you don't. You generally leave the cradle plugged into the serial port all the time, and the Palm gets plugged into that. The hot-plugging is all on the cradle's terms, not dependent on the serial port at all.
i'm going to quote your entire comment, so that you will realize it makes no sense whatsoever.
Even if Apple did the unthinkable, and created an x86 version of OSX, they STILL wouldn't 'establish desktop dominance'.
No way they would even get on 25% of the x86 desktops. Running only on overpriced, proprietary hardware? 5% forever (and that number is too high, based on my experience).
so x86 hardware is "overpriced, proprietary hardware"? WTF?!? nice cognitive disconnect...
Uhhh... we use 866MHz p3's here, running w2k, and a typical run for distiller (4 or 5, take your pick) is under 5 seconds for about 20-30 pages of mid-complexity material (incl. mixed vector / raster).
a few pages of highly complex (to the point of bad design) PS including gradient meshes, etc., can push that up to perhaps 10 - 15 seconds, but heavy PS complexity is seldom seen. what are you working with that a p3 takes 10 or fifteen *minutes* to distill? we'd go insane with that kind of downtime.
Smartsuite is definitely, absolutely NOT compatible with MS Office in any useful way. Conversions between these two format sets are a large part of my job - in fact, if these conversions required anything less than expert skills in both suites, my job might not be recognizably the same.
It would be tolerable, for one.
If you're wondering where I work that I'd have to be converting between Lotus and MS apps all the time, think about it for a minute.
Are the metrics/comparisons mentioned by the above post even available internally? They sure would be useful (in my division, which will go unnamed 12)...
Electrify the instruments (it can be done, with great results)
But if you're that much an audiophile, then you're going to need that same rig to handle the output... not to mention the team of engineers to set up and tear down every time the instrumentalists show up.
1. Ask what the kids want to learn about.
2. Dynamically reallocate your curriculum to meet their interests.
2a. If they want to learn about music, then get into how the music they like is made. Get into what makes a drum machine work in the first place. Get into the fact that a drum machine is a little, limited-function computer.
2b. RoboRally - it's a board game. It's awesome for procedures.
2c. That robot wars show on comedy central, whatever it's called - get them into it. Then explain that you can build "logical" robots to control those, and get rid of the humans with the remote controls.
2d. Make sure they understand that people put all this stuff together, at least initially, and that it's not perfect... but that if they (the kids) have a problem with it, they can learn to do something else, and do it better. That they could get the 31337 5kl11z for themselves, that within the bounds of a computer, you're not as limited (in some ways, obviously) as you are in meatspace. Explain that it's possible to be a badass with a computer. Check out what Dr. Dre might have to say about digital information - if that's a relevent message.
Dude: repeat this until you understand:
"It's just a job. I do it to make myself and others unhappy."
It's an old cliche, but it's as true as anything else: money isn't everything. If you can find a job that will support you and doesn't suck your soul and mind, then you'll probably take it. Why not greatly improve your chances of coming across such a job, and actually look for one?
There's no way to pull the descriptions or the prices from the server
Wrong. Not only the Generator option, but the simple fact that Flash can read in a stream of XML just as well as any other client. Same for any kind of flat file. In fact, the very guy that wrote the book reviewed above has a Flash client and Java server setup available for download that demonstrates simple chat using XMLsockets. Wonder what else you could do with that?
there's no on-the-fly loading of images
Wrong again. Just load the shell, then get what else you need as you need it. Load movie ring a bell?
there's no real support
If you're coding a shopping cart in Flash, you shouldn't need any. But if you do... : here's some. Don't worry, that link is good. Check out the other support options if that's not enough for you.
There is a lot of control of printing (from the designer's standpoint) in Flash - on the other hand, I expect most designers couldn't care less, since they're busily animated 30-second long commercials. Again, yuck... but that's not Flash's fault.
With Flash and good design technique - and where doesn't good design technique come into play? - you can easily specify what should be printed, and how. If necessary, you can just abstract the text from the screen display and reformat it (hidden) for print. When a user prints something, then that user will get something that looks good and is usable on paper. Flash doesn't supply designers with quite as much hand-holding as many/.'ers seem to think it does - in its own little system, you still need to use good design / architecture practice. Just like anything else.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but sometimes progress like this is not a "great step forward." Just something to think about.
The germline might also be important to track relations - similar in reasoning to the usual bans against inbreeding.
The entire issue is questionable, though: you say that you'd like to see more work with genetics to facilitate better adaptation. This is essentially humans trying (or worse, not trying) to anticipate evolution. Again, I'm certainly not saying that no good will come of this experimentation, but you do need to consider the other side. Evolution includes so many variables that we can't even model it yet, not even crudely. A nuclear blast would be like pocket calculator arithmetic compared to this. We can be wrong, and often are; gene research should not be considered lightly. Chances are, the implications are far broader and more meaningful than, say, IBM's new method for producing LCD screens.
I agree that more detail would have been nice, but they did provide enough information to facilitate a more in-depth investigation of your own. I do think you should explore this more; your apparent untempered optimism is a little frightening.
You're not a troll, you just don't appear to understand the distinction between freedoms and restrictions. The BSDL is far less restrictive upon end-users of code than the GPL; the GPL provides more benefit (note that benefit != freedom) to the original author. In a sense, it is the greedier license, but that's an emotional interpretation.
Access to the source code is mandatory for the public to be able to release improvements to it, so that the whole community benefits.
That is, IF you are the licensor. IF you are not, then you are Free to use the code as you please (dependant on license - please read the BSDL) - this includes NOT deriving the benefits of keeping the code open. The BSD freedom can stop with you, the end-user; its requirements are not stringent upon you, but rather the author/licensor. The point of the GPL is that it cannot stop with you if you're producing something for public consumption - you, the licensee, have a lot of requirements to follow. Freedom 3 (the one you quoted) is not applied to the end-user, but rather the author: it is not so much a restriction (ref. the GPL) as a freedom.
The GPL is a restrictive license - it propagates open source code. The BSDL is a relatively unrestrictive license - it propagates software.
to each their own - until a really, really good AI is incorporated into some browser's search function, i'll be using printed text when i can: my eyes (connected to my brain) can see if something on-topic is mentioned that i wasn't specifically searching for, whereas "Find" will just tell me what i want isn't there. as the previous poster mentioned, eyes sometimes do better with printed material vs. display, and my eyes/brain are like that.
Linux is a trademark of Linus "Not as sexy as Elvis" Torvalds [From an IBM ad]
Turns out that's pretty much how he signed the release when they asked him if they could run it. Pretty funny stuff. Since he signed it that way, they just ran it that way.
I've seen the documentation, but it's all internal so I can't point you to it.:(
two layers of security, and i'm pretty sure i heard something somewhere (ooh, specifics) about there being some kind of secure thinkpad - here, check this link to google's cache - but, unmentioned there, i thought there was some kind of tracking device enabled in a somewhat standard way.
anyway... this just doesn't sound all that "new"...
The less you send over the line the better. Imagine if the Quake 3 Arena server tried to do all of the work you--couldn't be done. Instead, it sends a stream of info & changes and lets your local engine do most of the work. Curl sounds like much the same thing (kind of like Flash, but with less overhead).
Where do you get the idea that Curl has less overhead? Not only is the plugin much larger than Flash's plugin (Curl is 17 MB), but, at least under windows 2000, it takes over 40 MB or RAM to run a simple calculator. That's overhead. It also isn't very well-behaved. The stupid dog game crashed, and took the browser down with it.
Granted, the download sizes may be a bit lower... but is HTML really that much data? And - for all of you who hate Flash - what do you think Curl will do to UI standards? Hm?
Also, if there's quite a bit of stuff that "mere mortal users" would have no interest in then one cannot really say that a Linux distribution is "bloated".
Ummmm:
Also, if there's quite a bit of stuff that "mere mortal users" would have no interest in then [sic] one cannot really say that a Microsoft Office distribution is "bloated".
Assumes you are... more careful than the rest of the world
They are, from what I've read. There was a/. article about it a while ago. NASA is into *real* software engineering... no bug is "acceptable", and they *do* have processes in place to make sure - on a life and death level - that there are no unplanned operations.
I think there might be a point where the benefits of living in a rich, controlled society (like a large part of the USA) are outweighed - for some people - by the restrictive environment that accompanies affluence and control.
Perhaps some other nation will (or already has) institute rational intellectual property laws, rational economic policies, rational social policies (maybe that's asking too much). In any case, my point is that there is a time at which it becomes pragmatic for some individuals to either find a society more in line with their views, or to actively oppose their present milieu.
If freedom to experiment - because that's what we're talking about, on a very basic level - is restricted, whether deliberately or through compound actions, some of us will leave. If it's only big corporations that can afford to manufacture general purpose parts for their $$$-backed play, while the little guy is left either with obsolete tools or conceptual construction, then any little guy who's genuinely interested in his life should seriously consider alternatives.
You're not stuck with the country you were born in, if you're lucky.
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Uh, no, you don't. You generally leave the cradle plugged into the serial port all the time, and the Palm gets plugged into that. The hot-plugging is all on the cradle's terms, not dependent on the serial port at all.
so x86 hardware is "overpriced, proprietary hardware"? WTF?!? nice cognitive disconnect...
a few pages of highly complex (to the point of bad design) PS including gradient meshes, etc., can push that up to perhaps 10 - 15 seconds, but heavy PS complexity is seldom seen. what are you working with that a p3 takes 10 or fifteen *minutes* to distill? we'd go insane with that kind of downtime.
another clue: i'd bet we're the largest single contract lotus has... and even if they wanted to, they couldn't do a damn thing about it.
unfortunately, everyone else on the face of the planet seems to want MS formats...
It would be tolerable, for one.
If you're wondering where I work that I'd have to be converting between Lotus and MS apps all the time, think about it for a minute.
Are the metrics/comparisons mentioned by the above post even available internally? They sure would be useful (in my division, which will go unnamed 12)...
But if you're that much an audiophile, then you're going to need that same rig to handle the output... not to mention the team of engineers to set up and tear down every time the instrumentalists show up.
2. Dynamically reallocate your curriculum to meet their interests.
2a. If they want to learn about music, then get into how the music they like is made. Get into what makes a drum machine work in the first place. Get into the fact that a drum machine is a little, limited-function computer.
2b. RoboRally - it's a board game. It's awesome for procedures.
2c. That robot wars show on comedy central, whatever it's called - get them into it. Then explain that you can build "logical" robots to control those, and get rid of the humans with the remote controls.
2d. Make sure they understand that people put all this stuff together, at least initially, and that it's not perfect... but that if they (the kids) have a problem with it, they can learn to do something else, and do it better. That they could get the 31337 5kl11z for themselves, that within the bounds of a computer, you're not as limited (in some ways, obviously) as you are in meatspace. Explain that it's possible to be a badass with a computer. Check out what Dr. Dre might have to say about digital information - if that's a relevent message.
Hope this isn't completely useless to you...
Exactly. And IBM was in the Fortune 10 last time I checked, so...
"It's just a job. I do it to make myself and others unhappy."
It's an old cliche, but it's as true as anything else: money isn't everything. If you can find a job that will support you and doesn't suck your soul and mind, then you'll probably take it. Why not greatly improve your chances of coming across such a job, and actually look for one?
Wrong. Not only the Generator option, but the simple fact that Flash can read in a stream of XML just as well as any other client. Same for any kind of flat file. In fact, the very guy that wrote the book reviewed above has a Flash client and Java server setup available for download that demonstrates simple chat using XMLsockets. Wonder what else you could do with that?
there's no on-the-fly loading of images
Wrong again. Just load the shell, then get what else you need as you need it. Load movie ring a bell?
there's no real support
If you're coding a shopping cart in Flash, you shouldn't need any. But if you do... : here's some. Don't worry, that link is good. Check out the other support options if that's not enough for you.
hmmmm....
With Flash and good design technique - and where doesn't good design technique come into play? - you can easily specify what should be printed, and how. If necessary, you can just abstract the text from the screen display and reformat it (hidden) for print. When a user prints something, then that user will get something that looks good and is usable on paper. Flash doesn't supply designers with quite as much hand-holding as many /.'ers seem to think it does - in its own little system, you still need to use good design / architecture practice. Just like anything else.
The germline might also be important to track relations - similar in reasoning to the usual bans against inbreeding.
The entire issue is questionable, though: you say that you'd like to see more work with genetics to facilitate better adaptation. This is essentially humans trying (or worse, not trying) to anticipate evolution. Again, I'm certainly not saying that no good will come of this experimentation, but you do need to consider the other side. Evolution includes so many variables that we can't even model it yet, not even crudely. A nuclear blast would be like pocket calculator arithmetic compared to this. We can be wrong, and often are; gene research should not be considered lightly. Chances are, the implications are far broader and more meaningful than, say, IBM's new method for producing LCD screens.
I agree that more detail would have been nice, but they did provide enough information to facilitate a more in-depth investigation of your own. I do think you should explore this more; your apparent untempered optimism is a little frightening.
Access to the source code is mandatory for the public to be able to release improvements to it, so that the whole community benefits.
That is, IF you are the licensor. IF you are not, then you are Free to use the code as you please (dependant on license - please read the BSDL) - this includes NOT deriving the benefits of keeping the code open. The BSD freedom can stop with you, the end-user; its requirements are not stringent upon you, but rather the author/licensor. The point of the GPL is that it cannot stop with you if you're producing something for public consumption - you, the licensee, have a lot of requirements to follow. Freedom 3 (the one you quoted) is not applied to the end-user, but rather the author: it is not so much a restriction (ref. the GPL) as a freedom.
The GPL is a restrictive license - it propagates open source code. The BSDL is a relatively unrestrictive license - it propagates software.
to each their own - until a really, really good AI is incorporated into some browser's search function, i'll be using printed text when i can: my eyes (connected to my brain) can see if something on-topic is mentioned that i wasn't specifically searching for, whereas "Find" will just tell me what i want isn't there. as the previous poster mentioned, eyes sometimes do better with printed material vs. display, and my eyes/brain are like that.
i ask because i've never seen one, and suffered accordingly (terrible profs as well). i'll check responses later... thanks!
I will check responses to this post.
Turns out that's pretty much how he signed the release when they asked him if they could run it. Pretty funny stuff. Since he signed it that way, they just ran it that way.
I've seen the documentation, but it's all internal so I can't point you to it. :(
yeah, i think i owe them about $25... too bad i can't actually find the tape i need to return: Brazil.
anyway... this just doesn't sound all that "new"...
Where do you get the idea that Curl has less overhead? Not only is the plugin much larger than Flash's plugin (Curl is 17 MB), but, at least under windows 2000, it takes over 40 MB or RAM to run a simple calculator. That's overhead. It also isn't very well-behaved. The stupid dog game crashed, and took the browser down with it.
Granted, the download sizes may be a bit lower... but is HTML really that much data? And - for all of you who hate Flash - what do you think Curl will do to UI standards? Hm?
This strikes me as a bad idea.
Ummmm:
Also, if there's quite a bit of stuff that "mere mortal users" would have no interest in then [sic] one cannot really say that a Microsoft Office distribution is "bloated".
So what's your definition of "bloated" again?
They are, from what I've read. There was a /. article about it a while ago. NASA is into *real* software engineering... no bug is "acceptable", and they *do* have processes in place to make sure - on a life and death level - that there are no unplanned operations.
Perhaps some other nation will (or already has) institute rational intellectual property laws, rational economic policies, rational social policies (maybe that's asking too much). In any case, my point is that there is a time at which it becomes pragmatic for some individuals to either find a society more in line with their views, or to actively oppose their present milieu.
If freedom to experiment - because that's what we're talking about, on a very basic level - is restricted, whether deliberately or through compound actions, some of us will leave. If it's only big corporations that can afford to manufacture general purpose parts for their $$$-backed play, while the little guy is left either with obsolete tools or conceptual construction, then any little guy who's genuinely interested in his life should seriously consider alternatives.
You're not stuck with the country you were born in, if you're lucky.
I don't think this is true - IIRC, FileMaker 3.0 Server was relational. Keys, etc. Blah blah blah.