I didn't think it had any specific reference. It was a joke based on what a trip report usually is for people with experience with psychedlics. Examples of "trip reports" can be found at Erowid and at the Lycaeum.
Browsing from a PDA would be the most painful experience I can imagine... Screen is way too small.
I beg to differ. It is too small for some of sites,
I read quite a bit of news and other informations on my Newton in a web browser, which has a 480 x 320 screen. The iPAQ has a res of 320x240 (I believe), and while that's a little small, it's still large enough to be useful.
Its not really a problem, since for the iPAQ to be really useful, its best to sync it at least once a day, and the battery recharges pretty fast while you sync.
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Plus, when you start putting Linux on it, and get one of these, the iPAQ becomes a serious competitor to a full-fledged laptop.
I doubt it's much of a competitor if it requires a sync once a day to be "really useful." I mean, I've never synced my Newton- never. I have connected it to my desktop a couple times, to install packages that I had archived, rather than ones publically available on FTP or web servers. Aside that, my Newton is "really useful" just fetching stuff on-line using a modem or ethernet card. Not to mention the only time using a keyboard is much more useful than HWR is when I've worked on a German assignment. The HWR can recongnize umlauts and s-sets, but I'm not used to writing them...
Is it just me, or is isn't it a shame that all of these cool things get announced on the first of April. I mean, some sort of open, universal VM could be really interesting and useful. Java's virtual machine could be used as such, but it'd be nice to have a VM designed with these ideas in mind, and not controlled by any single entity at the altar of capital...
Actually, I was reading a book called "Hungry for Profit: Agribusiness threat to Farmers, the Environment, and Consumers" (the secondary title is paraphrased) and the statistic it gave was that over half of soy was GM. And that was a year or so ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if it moved up a bit.
At the co-op I shop, a lot of foods are labelled to be non-GM or produced from non-GM inputs. For the most part, I trust that, although they could be lying about it in some cases, as there is no regulation, as you stated, like there is for saying one's product is organic (rather, that it's been certified against the CA Organic Food Act).
First, you've got biotech companies like we see her suing farmers for *piracy* for growing F1 generation seed. Farmers which even purchased the seed originally are not allowed to plant their own crop's seed. So, this is even worse to them, they see it as "brownbagging," buying or stealing another farmer's F1 seed. That would be like making CDs of Photoshop *and* selling them.
How do they tell? Pour RoundUp on them soybeans and see if they shrivel? Nah. They have signature sequences within certain genes that they assume do nothing. Christ! They're just writing there little names into genes that potentially do something. I mean, we don't know what ever single gene does in soybeans, corn, &c. It just doesn't seem safe...
Maybe I'm "new age" TM, but I shop organic because I don't want to eating random GM crap like this or encouraging monopolistic and tyranical business like this that strive to put the farmer in a worse place than they already are.
I am one of those soon-to-be (ok, well, at least another 2 years) graduates (in IS&T and Biology), and am interested in doing scientific research. I just got offered a undergrad research position at the NRRI analyzing plant population and hydrology data. I see this as my dream job.
As interesting and exciting as this work is, there's a huge difference between acedemic scientific research such as this and the world of business: money. I'm making a little over half of what I would make if I returned to where I interned last summer. My other possibility for this coming summer was to make even more than half of what I'm going to making this summer. I mean, $20/hr is a lot of money to be making in the summer for a college kid, and I am not surprised that many college kids opt for this type of experience (and later job, where the gap can become even larger), being raised to be good capitalist money-grubbers.
So, I suppose I'm saying, if you want to get good CS people for research, start getting them as interns, make them care about what their researching, get them to love it- to those that are worth your time, this would be infinately more important than simply more salary.
I have to agree with you on that Squeak thing... For those that are sick of perl, and want some even more elgant than Python (with a real IDE, even), I suggest checking out Squeak.
Along those lines, there's also GemStone/S and GemStone/J, OODBMSs for Smalltalk and Java respectively. I don't know about the Java version, but the Smalltalk version is pretty cool stuff, and can interface with C and C++. A lot of people prefer not to call it an OODBMS, but an application server. It's both, more or less.
Egads! This is rad! As a Mac user, I've always reveled in the rad-ness of AppleScript, and felt bad for everyone else, who didn't seem to have anything like that was like it. I must say, this DCOP business is definately cool, and has functionality very much so like AppleScript events. Go KDE!
This is old, and it's been done. Check out Smalltalk (see the sig) and some LISP implementations. They've been doing it for 20-30 years.
Every Smalltalk implementation (AFAIK) stores source, binaries and live objects in a memory image. It's the rest of the world who seems to be stuck in the 60s and 70s with files.
As far as XML source- why? If you really want, there's a unified file-out format for Smaltalk which uses XML.
That's the way it works on PocketLinux. But loading an application takes a 2-10 seconds, when you run it for the first time since you booted. After an app has been initally loaded, it comes up faster, but it's still a painful experience at this point.
That's something I'm hoping for. Squeak also runs on the Linux framebuffer for Linuxes for the iPaq (and some other WinCE devices) and the VTech Helio. One could create a PDA OS with it.
I'm in college, and I take all of my notes on my upgraded MessagePad 2000. I also put all of my Biology I notes on-line, because converting them to HTML and uploading them is very easy. Check out http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/notes/. Not something you could do on a Palm (without way to much work), and the HWR is unmatched. While Wince machines have Transcriber, it's correction functions and letter changes are extremely poor compared to thato f the Newton's. Transcriber also doesn't seem as well integrated into Wince as well as the Newton's HWR is into the Newton OS.
One thing the Newton does for me, and that I like a lot: it's close enough to a computer that I can use it to keep me off my computer. I can develop software (I'm working on a genetic programming framework in NewtonScript), design, and other fun stuff without having to be indoors planted in front of a noisey computer.
I'm hoping to see something better come out that's supported, but it's truly dissapointing the sad PDAs that are out now.
But what a Newton is good for is when you need something in between a Palm device (electronic datebook) and a notebook computer (big, poor battery life, heavy). A WinCE device won't cut it, poor battery life.
No, Newtons and Palm devices don't live in the same niche, exactly. Palms are good for what they do, very true, but it is fair to say that the Newton (and or that matter, Wince devices) do more.
Heh. Anyone who defended the Newton would just be more diserning. I much rather have a month worth of battery power, a properly desisned interface and HWR that works over some windows knock-off that lasts a couple hours on batteries.
Why? Palms are nothing but hyped up electronic daybooks. Newtons are almost full-fledged computers but with a proper interface and model for a pen driven device.
You can be a christian, and believe that it's a swell belief system. But it does restrict my freedom to try to convert and preach to me, or make christianity a requirement for all those you interact with.
No one would argue that that is a good thing. It may seem right to the christian in question, but what if someone doesn't agree with them on moral or philosophical grounds.
To me, it's wrong to force your beliefs on someone else simply because you happen to think it's right. That doesn't encourage freedom, ye, it restricts it severely.
It's a shame that so many so-called "open source" advocates are just as blind and irrationally motivated like many followers of the christian religion.
I know a lot of other, more primitive languages still rely on case statements, but there is none in Smalltalk. With proper OOP, you really shouldn't have to need them. Of course, it's easy to write in your own case statement to the language, but it's not a neccessary thing.
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I didn't think it had any specific reference. It was a joke based on what a trip report usually is for people with experience with psychedlics. Examples of "trip reports" can be found at Erowid and at the Lycaeum.
Heh. How can I be the only one who thinks that was hillarious? A darn shame I've no mod points. Maybe it's just the poppy tea talking...
Browsing from a PDA would be the most painful experience I can imagine... Screen is way too small.
I beg to differ. It is too small for some of sites, I read quite a bit of news and other informations on my Newton in a web browser, which has a 480 x 320 screen. The iPAQ has a res of 320x240 (I believe), and while that's a little small, it's still large enough to be useful.
Its not really a problem, since for the iPAQ to be really useful, its best to sync it at least once a day, and the battery recharges pretty fast while you sync.
and
Plus, when you start putting Linux on it, and get one of these, the iPAQ becomes a serious competitor to a full-fledged laptop.
I doubt it's much of a competitor if it requires a sync once a day to be "really useful." I mean, I've never synced my Newton- never. I have connected it to my desktop a couple times, to install packages that I had archived, rather than ones publically available on FTP or web servers. Aside that, my Newton is "really useful" just fetching stuff on-line using a modem or ethernet card. Not to mention the only time using a keyboard is much more useful than HWR is when I've worked on a German assignment. The HWR can recongnize umlauts and s-sets, but I'm not used to writing them...
Is it just me, or is isn't it a shame that all of these cool things get announced on the first of April. I mean, some sort of open, universal VM could be really interesting and useful. Java's virtual machine could be used as such, but it'd be nice to have a VM designed with these ideas in mind, and not controlled by any single entity at the altar of capital...
Actually, I was reading a book called "Hungry for Profit: Agribusiness threat to Farmers, the Environment, and Consumers" (the secondary title is paraphrased) and the statistic it gave was that over half of soy was GM. And that was a year or so ago, so I wouldn't be surprised if it moved up a bit.
At the co-op I shop, a lot of foods are labelled to be non-GM or produced from non-GM inputs. For the most part, I trust that, although they could be lying about it in some cases, as there is no regulation, as you stated, like there is for saying one's product is organic (rather, that it's been certified against the CA Organic Food Act).
Some freaky things are going on here folks-
First, you've got biotech companies like we see her suing farmers for *piracy* for growing F1 generation seed. Farmers which even purchased the seed originally are not allowed to plant their own crop's seed. So, this is even worse to them, they see it as "brownbagging," buying or stealing another farmer's F1 seed. That would be like making CDs of Photoshop *and* selling them.
How do they tell? Pour RoundUp on them soybeans and see if they shrivel? Nah. They have signature sequences within certain genes that they assume do nothing. Christ! They're just writing there little names into genes that potentially do something. I mean, we don't know what ever single gene does in soybeans, corn, &c. It just doesn't seem safe...
Maybe I'm "new age" TM, but I shop organic because I don't want to eating random GM crap like this or encouraging monopolistic and tyranical business like this that strive to put the farmer in a worse place than they already are.
Looks better than the Audrey.
I am one of those soon-to-be (ok, well, at least another 2 years) graduates (in IS&T and Biology), and am interested in doing scientific research. I just got offered a undergrad research position at the NRRI analyzing plant population and hydrology data. I see this as my dream job.
As interesting and exciting as this work is, there's a huge difference between acedemic scientific research such as this and the world of business: money. I'm making a little over half of what I would make if I returned to where I interned last summer. My other possibility for this coming summer was to make even more than half of what I'm going to making this summer. I mean, $20/hr is a lot of money to be making in the summer for a college kid, and I am not surprised that many college kids opt for this type of experience (and later job, where the gap can become even larger), being raised to be good capitalist money-grubbers.
So, I suppose I'm saying, if you want to get good CS people for research, start getting them as interns, make them care about what their researching, get them to love it- to those that are worth your time, this would be infinately more important than simply more salary.
GemStone/S is in version 5.1.4. I would hardly call it a "research idea." It is a high-stability, high-performance, and costly DB. Get over it, man.
I have to agree with you on that Squeak thing... For those that are sick of perl, and want some even more elgant than Python (with a real IDE, even), I suggest checking out Squeak.
Along those lines, there's also GemStone/S and GemStone/J, OODBMSs for Smalltalk and Java respectively. I don't know about the Java version, but the Smalltalk version is pretty cool stuff, and can interface with C and C++. A lot of people prefer not to call it an OODBMS, but an application server. It's both, more or less.
Wishful thinking. Both X and PocketLinux are both quite useless for actual use. Sorry! PocketLinux shows promise, but isn't anywhere near usable yet.
Egads! This is rad! As a Mac user, I've always reveled in the rad-ness of AppleScript, and felt bad for everyone else, who didn't seem to have anything like that was like it. I must say, this DCOP business is definately cool, and has functionality very much so like AppleScript events. Go KDE!
This is old, and it's been done. Check out Smalltalk (see the sig) and some LISP implementations. They've been doing it for 20-30 years. Every Smalltalk implementation (AFAIK) stores source, binaries and live objects in a memory image. It's the rest of the world who seems to be stuck in the 60s and 70s with files.
As far as XML source- why? If you really want, there's a unified file-out format for Smaltalk which uses XML.
Yes, that's true. OCaml adds object support to Caml, an implementation of ML.
That's the way it works on PocketLinux. But loading an application takes a 2-10 seconds, when you run it for the first time since you booted. After an app has been initally loaded, it comes up faster, but it's still a painful experience at this point.
That's something I'm hoping for. Squeak also runs on the Linux framebuffer for Linuxes for the iPaq (and some other WinCE devices) and the VTech Helio. One could create a PDA OS with it.
I agree!
I'm in college, and I take all of my notes on my upgraded MessagePad 2000. I also put all of my Biology I notes on-line, because converting them to HTML and uploading them is very easy. Check out http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/notes/. Not something you could do on a Palm (without way to much work), and the HWR is unmatched. While Wince machines have Transcriber, it's correction functions and letter changes are extremely poor compared to thato f the Newton's. Transcriber also doesn't seem as well integrated into Wince as well as the Newton's HWR is into the Newton OS.
One thing the Newton does for me, and that I like a lot: it's close enough to a computer that I can use it to keep me off my computer. I can develop software (I'm working on a genetic programming framework in NewtonScript), design, and other fun stuff without having to be indoors planted in front of a noisey computer.
I'm hoping to see something better come out that's supported, but it's truly dissapointing the sad PDAs that are out now.
Keep the Green!
But what a Newton is good for is when you need something in between a Palm device (electronic datebook) and a notebook computer (big, poor battery life, heavy). A WinCE device won't cut it, poor battery life.
No, Newtons and Palm devices don't live in the same niche, exactly. Palms are good for what they do, very true, but it is fair to say that the Newton (and or that matter, Wince devices) do more.
What the Palm has isn't HWR but stroke/letter recongnition. Try again.
Heh. Anyone who defended the Newton would just be more diserning. I much rather have a month worth of battery power, a properly desisned interface and HWR that works over some windows knock-off that lasts a couple hours on batteries.
Why? Palms are nothing but hyped up electronic daybooks. Newtons are almost full-fledged computers but with a proper interface and model for a pen driven device.
Right on! It's like this:
You can be a christian, and believe that it's a swell belief system. But it does restrict my freedom to try to convert and preach to me, or make christianity a requirement for all those you interact with.
No one would argue that that is a good thing. It may seem right to the christian in question, but what if someone doesn't agree with them on moral or philosophical grounds.
To me, it's wrong to force your beliefs on someone else simply because you happen to think it's right. That doesn't encourage freedom, ye, it restricts it severely.
It's a shame that so many so-called "open source" advocates are just as blind and irrationally motivated like many followers of the christian religion.
I know a lot of other, more primitive languages still rely on case statements, but there is none in Smalltalk. With proper OOP, you really shouldn't have to need them. Of course, it's easy to write in your own case statement to the language, but it's not a neccessary thing.