Another wild and crazy- but fun as hell, at least for a while- NES perephrial is the Nintendo Uforce. You waved your hand over a pad to control the game- be it SMB using the general control scheme, or Punch Out by punching into the space. In a lot of ways similar to the Power Glove- except it worked on a completely different method of tracking your hand. Instead of having a glove you put on, you had this clamshell thingy that could open up like a laptop at 90 deg, or flat at 180.
Windows.Forms is built for Windows... and thusly, running it under Wine is a perfect compromise.
Word to your mutha on this one, indeed.
For a lot of folks, great Windows emulation and app-running is paramount. But for me, for the most part, if I want to run a Windows app I will just use Windows. What most people seem to not understand is that Mono- and the.NET model in general- has a lot of merit even if you are not trying to run some Windows.NET app on Linux. It may confuse a lot of my fellow Linux users, especially those who are so indoctrinated with the Inner Party propaganda, but.NET is actually... get this... a good idea. No, MS did not invent the idea of a VM that hosted multiple langauges, each with a common object model and cross-language access to APIs written in any support languages, they were the first one to take it out of the lab and really take the idea and run with it. And no, Jython does not come close, and something limited like that has been done before that anyway.
While I am interested in its portability being used to run apps built for Linux/X11 on Mac OS X/Quartz/Aqua with minimal fuss someday, I cannot say I am left wanting Windows apps on either OS.
While my specific area of interest is not genetics or molecular biology- it is mathematical and computational ecology- I do have the basic knowlege of genetics required of anyone in a college biology program.
I have always heard the term "junk DNA" refer to sequences of genetic code that appear to have no use, oftentimes appearing just to be big repeating patterns of nonsense and outside of a coding region.
What interests me especially about this article is that since I first heard of so-possed "junk DNA" I have had a gut feeling that it was not all just junk. At least some of it had to have some use, and I was quite excited indeed to see this article pop up. If I had to confine myself to genetics research for one reason or another, looking in to this would be it.:)
No joke. There is nothing too childish about Squeak. Sure, unlike most programming languages, there is a way for children to approach it- like you mention, eToys. Though there are other parts of Squeak that are very accessible for kids, including the language itself- take a look at the original Smalltalk research at Xeroc PARC- amazing stuff.
Similar- but nowhere near as good at these things- to DrScheme and its learning features. Sure, there is still a very powerful languag, API and programming system that is behind it all, but it can be used by those new to programming.
There is some info on memory use. If Opera is using that much on your Z then you have some other problem. I tried Minimo, but removed it after about an hour. Not really worth using, and certainly sucks more RAM than Opera or NetFront. Also, I prefer Qtopia to X, but if it was *that* good, I'd find a way to deal...
Umm, dude. It's a t-shirt. A playful t-shirt. In mind, it is lame as hell, but it certainly isn't meant as a "fuck you to the world." I mean, it's no like those whacky tshirts that nerds wear have anything to do with the truth- "chicks dig scrawny pale guys?" Yeah right! Get over yourself, man.
There is a decent chance that a CF-card equipped setup would not be enough- though if it were my project, I'd rather have that than a hard drive. But, who knows- this guy may have a lot of photos, enough that it is a waste of money to go out and buy a 512 MB-4 GB CF card when he already has a laptop HD sitting around. I know that I have more than a 256 MB CF card of photos I'd like up if I were making one of therse things...
That statement is close to being semantically null. RedHat can be used as "embedded Linux," and as far as a RT kernel, he certainly does not need one in this situation. As a rule, "embedded" doesn't mean much more than stripped libraries and an somewhat RT kernel- at least for Linux. Running a full distro rather than some "embedded" version probably means doing *a lot* less work. The thing has a harddrive, and he can install a pretty spartan system- so who cares? What difference would so-called "embedded" Linux make?
It's puzzling how slashdotters complain about SUV's, it's uncommon to see anyone in everyday life so against them yet here on Slashdot the anguished find solace. Since you say they don't need an SUV, well, you don't need any automobile for personal transportation. Use public transit then.
Ohhh, tricky tricky AC!
You are absolutely correct- I do not need an automobile. But then again, I do not have one. I take the bus and ride my bike. Fortunately for me, I live in a town that has a pretty public transit system considering its size.
That said, public transit is not always an option for people. There are lots of places in the US of A where you cannot catch a bus, especially in the middle-class suburbs where everyone has a car already, making it not terribly worth it for the local government to invest in a decent PT infrastructure.
You can ride that 'you don't *really* need' train all the way into the station. We do not really need anything but our feet to get to point B. We do not need computers. We do not need to kill animals for food. Etc etc. If I do not need something, why get it? Why would I buy an SUV if it only is a status symbol and nothing more? There are people for whom an SUV is more than that, but for most owners that is what they are.
I mean, I am not going to go buy a Bobcat to shovel my 40 feet of sidewalk. I do not need it. Sure, it would be kind of fun to drive around in, showing it off, but for me and my needs, it would be a massive waste of money.
I'm aware of the idea- with more total energy per gallon, you can get better MPG if you've got the engine that utilizes it- and providing the process to make it doesn't kill the gains. It was a little nickpickishly lame for me to point that out, but what I said is true. Uranium provides more energy per unit volume, but without a proper reactor, your conversion will be really inefficient.
I know nothing about making gas- how are the processes different between regular old boring unleaded petrol and diesel?
Why do people not complain about people driving pickup trucks? What about sports cars?
Just for the record: I complain about those. Especially trucks. Just as many people drive trucks around here as SUVs, and I do not doubt for a minute that the majority of them have need for the truck-aspects about once a year, when the rest of us simply spend $20 and rent one for the weekend. A lot of these huge-ass pickups get worse FE than even SUVs.
On the other hand, some of those small pickups can get decent gas mileage, better than full-size or SUVs. Still worse than a civic or something, though.
Having "more energy per unit of volume" does not automatically mean that the engines using it get better fuel economy. Diesel certainly does produce engines with better mileage, but it doesn't automatically make it the case.
Is it just me, or does this not appear to just be a similar ploy, perhaps one even not more transparent? Even if they do provide solutions based on LTSP, their business is selling commercial software and providing service and support. Recyling old PCs is just a trick to get people to buy new PCs? Well, duh! And a car could easily last 20 years, get 75 MPG and require almost new service over those years, but that is not what capitalism demands.
Similarily, these whiners are also just drumming up their own business.
The vast majority of computer owners- especially people who buy their machines from HP or Dell- are not interested in starting up a little thin client computer lab in their basement. And most of them also do not donate their computers to schools. And hell, most schools do not have thin client networks. Thin client setups still have not quite gotten to the point where they beat the regular networked destop setup in TCO.
Heh. At least, unlike most people who make that mistake, you realized it.:P as for viruses, I have never had one in a number of years using IE on CE. BUt then again, I do not think most folks bother writing worms and spyware for CE/ARM, though someday perhaps they will.
I've found Opera on my Zaurus to be painful to use. It uses up a lot of memory. I'm hoping this Mozilla port will be better.
hahaha!
er, wait- you're kidding right?
I hope so!
Opera is a lean, mean, browsing machine, *especially* compared to Minimo or any Mozilla port. Opera is not that bad, even on the Zaurus. Almost any Linux/Qtopia app is destined to waste RAM left and right, but Opera/Qtopia probably uses half the RAM that Minimo/Qtopia would...
Indeed, TELIX owned! Though, I don't remember that it ever support RipScript. RipScript is the means by which Wildcat and other BBS software added those k-rad graphics. Slick as snot. I always used RipTerm to see them, but I imagine other terminal apps supported it later on, though I never really called any BBSes that used RipScript.
I wonder how many people on/. have actually run Minix, especially those who didn't just install it after they heard someone say on #linuxn00bs that "Leenucks is based on minics! freek evin!!":)
On the other hand, *I* am so hardcore [1] that my first desktop computer ran Minux. A Sperry XT handed down to my by an uncle. He had all the 5.25" inch disk sets, man, it's where I learned C and prolog. Mm mm good.
[1] don't freak out, I'm just pretending that I think I'm the shit. Don't take it too seriously.
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Except for Opera's small-screen rendering sucks, at least for general use for me. When you turn it on, it strips out almost everything and shrinks imagines down to little thumbnails. Fine if you're on a phone.
I much prefer the way NetFront handles it, on the Zaurus, PalmOS and PocketPC. Unlike Opera, you don't loose any content- it just makes it fit on the page so you don't have to scroll left and right. Check it out.
Minimo has a CSS that does something similar. For instance, go to this site, bookmark the "PDAize" bookmarklet, and then try it out on Slashdot or some other page. In essence, this is what Minimo is- it's just Mozilla built for Linux/ARM with a new browser-wide style sheet.
Just out of curiosity, I fired up Lynx, and it's only using 3KB of memory. So if the only goal is to make a browser that's quick and functional, they're seriously overkilling it.
OK, I can't help it- but 3KB? Perhaps you mean 3 MB.:) Anyway, using IE on my WinCE device uses similar amounts of RAM, at least for pages that aren't using a ton of big images and the like. Does tables properly, too.
I love OSNews. It replaced a good part of my Slashdot reading, though there are some areas of interest that are covered by/. that do not make it onto OSNews- and I'm willing to take reccomendations for replacements in other areas. The best thing about reading OSNews is that you often get the change to actually read the stories and download the demos- Slashdot seems to get all the OSNews stories a few days or a week later, giving me the chance to actually see the site.
It's a damn shame about iCab. In pre-OS X days, iCab owned the web- at least on my Mac and the Macs of the other folks I knew. It is a light and fast browser, with decent web development support. But now a days, it has really fallen behind- it's not worth using on OS X, especially now that we have Safari. iCab seems to have retained a bunch of Mac OS Classic features along the lines of blocking during I/O, etc.../me sheds a tear for iCab, for what could have been
Just had a look at Netfront; it doesn't seem to support a sideways display like Thunderhawk, which is a shame.
Not built-in to the browser, no. But just use Nyidtot's Virtual Display, or the WM2003 built-in facilities for rotating the screen. Netfront works very well on both PPC and the Zaurus, IMHO, though IE tends to be better over all at least on CE. Mind you, I'm not using the craptastic Pocket IE in PocketPC or Windows Mobile, rather the very good IE that comes with "real" Windows CE on my Sigmarion 3 Handheld PC. Supports just about everything that IE 5.5 (or so) does. I use an awesome tabbed browser that is very configurable, ftxBrowser.
A couple notes- like others pointed out, they already give Mr. Kasner props.
I heard about this on NPR a couple weeks ago, before any lawsuit was going to happen. The sad thing is that only ONE idiot from the family is really pushing this- when she came on to be interviewed for a couple minutes by NPR, she said: "My sister wanted me to say that it isn't *THE FAMILY* who has a big problem with this, it is *just me.*" No joke- the rest of them are probably embarassed of her actions.
You say "Incorrect," but the examples you provide more or less support his claim. Yes, oftentimes two lower speed CPUs are cheaper than one CPU that is twice as fast, but there isn't much of a reason to go SMP unless you cannot just get a higher clocked CPU.
Mind you, the guy isn't saying SMP is stupid- it makes sense in a lot of situations. But, it is something you pull out when a single, higher-speed CPU is not a possibility, whether that is the case due to lack of funds or whether a faster CPU just does not exist.
Here at work, I have a dual 500 MHz G4 which still holds it own, even with a relatively small amount of RAM, 256 MB. When this box was purchased, there was no option for a single-CPU 1 GHz box, and this is certainly the next best thing...
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Umm, Mr. King, bacteria aren't animals. They're bacteria. An animal has to be multicellular; bacteria don't even have nuclei, for chrissakes man.
Another wild and crazy- but fun as hell, at least for a while- NES perephrial is the Nintendo Uforce. You waved your hand over a pad to control the game- be it SMB using the general control scheme, or Punch Out by punching into the space. In a lot of ways similar to the Power Glove- except it worked on a completely different method of tracking your hand. Instead of having a glove you put on, you had this clamshell thingy that could open up like a laptop at 90 deg, or flat at 180.
Totally fun. Anyone else ever have a UForce?
Windows.Forms is built for Windows... and thusly, running it under Wine is a perfect compromise.
.NET model in general- has a lot of merit even if you are not trying to run some Windows .NET app on Linux. It may confuse a lot of my fellow Linux users, especially those who are so indoctrinated with the Inner Party propaganda, but .NET is actually ... get this ... a good idea. No, MS did not invent the idea of a VM that hosted multiple langauges, each with a common object model and cross-language access to APIs written in any support languages, they were the first one to take it out of the lab and really take the idea and run with it. And no, Jython does not come close, and something limited like that has been done before that anyway.
Word to your mutha on this one, indeed.
For a lot of folks, great Windows emulation and app-running is paramount. But for me, for the most part, if I want to run a Windows app I will just use Windows. What most people seem to not understand is that Mono- and the
While I am interested in its portability being used to run apps built for Linux/X11 on Mac OS X/Quartz/Aqua with minimal fuss someday, I cannot say I am left wanting Windows apps on either OS.
Go Miguel! Go Mono! Thanks a lot guys!
I am with you on this one, cariaso.
:)
While my specific area of interest is not genetics or molecular biology- it is mathematical and computational ecology- I do have the basic knowlege of genetics required of anyone in a college biology program.
I have always heard the term "junk DNA" refer to sequences of genetic code that appear to have no use, oftentimes appearing just to be big repeating patterns of nonsense and outside of a coding region.
What interests me especially about this article is that since I first heard of so-possed "junk DNA" I have had a gut feeling that it was not all just junk. At least some of it had to have some use, and I was quite excited indeed to see this article pop up. If I had to confine myself to genetics research for one reason or another, looking in to this would be it.
No joke. There is nothing too childish about Squeak. Sure, unlike most programming languages, there is a way for children to approach it- like you mention, eToys. Though there are other parts of Squeak that are very accessible for kids, including the language itself- take a look at the original Smalltalk research at Xeroc PARC- amazing stuff.
Similar- but nowhere near as good at these things- to DrScheme and its learning features. Sure, there is still a very powerful languag, API and programming system that is behind it all, but it can be used by those new to programming.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/releases/ar m/0.1/minimo-mem.gif
There is some info on memory use. If Opera is using that much on your Z then you have some other problem. I tried Minimo, but removed it after about an hour. Not really worth using, and certainly sucks more RAM than Opera or NetFront. Also, I prefer Qtopia to X, but if it was *that* good, I'd find a way to deal...
Umm, dude. It's a t-shirt. A playful t-shirt. In mind, it is lame as hell, but it certainly isn't meant as a "fuck you to the world." I mean, it's no like those whacky tshirts that nerds wear have anything to do with the truth- "chicks dig scrawny pale guys?" Yeah right! Get over yourself, man.
There is a decent chance that a CF-card equipped setup would not be enough- though if it were my project, I'd rather have that than a hard drive. But, who knows- this guy may have a lot of photos, enough that it is a waste of money to go out and buy a 512 MB-4 GB CF card when he already has a laptop HD sitting around. I know that I have more than a 256 MB CF card of photos I'd like up if I were making one of therse things...
That statement is close to being semantically null. RedHat can be used as "embedded Linux," and as far as a RT kernel, he certainly does not need one in this situation. As a rule, "embedded" doesn't mean much more than stripped libraries and an somewhat RT kernel- at least for Linux. Running a full distro rather than some "embedded" version probably means doing *a lot* less work. The thing has a harddrive, and he can install a pretty spartan system- so who cares? What difference would so-called "embedded" Linux make?
It's puzzling how slashdotters complain about SUV's, it's uncommon to see anyone in everyday life so against them yet here on Slashdot the anguished find solace. Since you say they don't need an SUV, well, you don't need any automobile for personal transportation. Use public transit then.
Ohhh, tricky tricky AC!
You are absolutely correct- I do not need an automobile. But then again, I do not have one. I take the bus and ride my bike. Fortunately for me, I live in a town that has a pretty public transit system considering its size.
That said, public transit is not always an option for people. There are lots of places in the US of A where you cannot catch a bus, especially in the middle-class suburbs where everyone has a car already, making it not terribly worth it for the local government to invest in a decent PT infrastructure.
You can ride that 'you don't *really* need' train all the way into the station. We do not really need anything but our feet to get to point B. We do not need computers. We do not need to kill animals for food. Etc etc. If I do not need something, why get it? Why would I buy an SUV if it only is a status symbol and nothing more? There are people for whom an SUV is more than that, but for most owners that is what they are.
I mean, I am not going to go buy a Bobcat to shovel my 40 feet of sidewalk. I do not need it.
Sure, it would be kind of fun to drive around in, showing it off, but for me and my needs, it would be a massive waste of money.
I'm aware of the idea- with more total energy per gallon, you can get better MPG if you've got the engine that utilizes it- and providing the process to make it doesn't kill the gains. It was a little nickpickishly lame for me to point that out, but what I said is true. Uranium provides more energy per unit volume, but without a proper reactor, your conversion will be really inefficient.
I know nothing about making gas- how are the processes different between regular old boring unleaded petrol and diesel?
Why do people not complain about people driving pickup trucks? What about sports cars?
Just for the record: I complain about those. Especially trucks. Just as many people drive trucks around here as SUVs, and I do not doubt for a minute that the majority of them have need for the truck-aspects about once a year, when the rest of us simply spend $20 and rent one for the weekend. A lot of these huge-ass pickups get worse FE than even SUVs.
On the other hand, some of those small pickups can get decent gas mileage, better than full-size or SUVs. Still worse than a civic or something, though.
Having "more energy per unit of volume" does not automatically mean that the engines using it get better fuel economy. Diesel certainly does produce engines with better mileage, but it doesn't automatically make it the case.
Is it just me, or does this not appear to just be a similar ploy, perhaps one even not more transparent? Even if they do provide solutions based on LTSP, their business is selling commercial software and providing service and support. Recyling old PCs is just a trick to get people to buy new PCs? Well, duh! And a car could easily last 20 years, get 75 MPG and require almost new service over those years, but that is not what capitalism demands.
Similarily, these whiners are also just drumming up their own business.
The vast majority of computer owners- especially people who buy their machines from HP or Dell- are not interested in starting up a little thin client computer lab in their basement. And most of them also do not donate their computers to schools. And hell, most schools do not have thin client networks. Thin client setups still have not quite gotten to the point where they beat the regular networked destop setup in TCO.
Heh. At least, unlike most people who make that mistake, you realized it. :P as for viruses, I have never had one in a number of years using IE on CE. BUt then again, I do not think most folks bother writing worms and spyware for CE/ARM, though someday perhaps they will.
I've found Opera on my Zaurus to be painful to use. It uses up a lot of memory. I'm hoping this Mozilla port will be better.
hahaha!
er, wait- you're kidding right?
I hope so!
Opera is a lean, mean, browsing machine, *especially* compared to Minimo or any Mozilla port. Opera is not that bad, even on the Zaurus. Almost any Linux/Qtopia app is destined to waste RAM left and right, but Opera/Qtopia probably uses half the RAM that Minimo/Qtopia would...
Indeed, TELIX owned! Though, I don't remember that it ever support RipScript. RipScript is the means by which Wildcat and other BBS software added those k-rad graphics. Slick as snot. I always used RipTerm to see them, but I imagine other terminal apps supported it later on, though I never really called any BBSes that used RipScript.
Citadel 86 for life, biatch!
I wonder how many people on /. have actually run Minix, especially those who didn't just install it after they heard someone say on #linuxn00bs that "Leenucks is based on minics! freek evin!!" :)
On the other hand, *I* am so hardcore [1] that my first desktop computer ran Minux. A Sperry XT handed down to my by an uncle. He had all the 5.25" inch disk sets, man, it's where I learned C and prolog. Mm mm good.
[1] don't freak out, I'm just pretending that I think I'm the shit. Don't take it too seriously.
Except for Opera's small-screen rendering sucks, at least for general use for me. When you turn it on, it strips out almost everything and shrinks imagines down to little thumbnails. Fine if you're on a phone.
I much prefer the way NetFront handles it, on the Zaurus, PalmOS and PocketPC. Unlike Opera, you don't loose any content- it just makes it fit on the page so you don't have to scroll left and right. Check it out.
Minimo has a CSS that does something similar. For instance, go to this site, bookmark the "PDAize" bookmarklet, and then try it out on Slashdot or some other page. In essence, this is what Minimo is- it's just Mozilla built for Linux/ARM with a new browser-wide style sheet.
Just out of curiosity, I fired up Lynx, and it's only using 3KB of memory. So if the only goal is to make a browser that's quick and functional, they're seriously overkilling it.
:) Anyway, using IE on my WinCE device uses similar amounts of RAM, at least for pages that aren't using a ton of big images and the like. Does tables properly, too.
OK, I can't help it- but 3KB? Perhaps you mean 3 MB.
I love OSNews. It replaced a good part of my Slashdot reading, though there are some areas of interest that are covered by /. that do not make it onto OSNews- and I'm willing to take reccomendations for replacements in other areas. The best thing about reading OSNews is that you often get the change to actually read the stories and download the demos- Slashdot seems to get all the OSNews stories a few days or a week later, giving me the chance to actually see the site.
And still, no story of PearPC on Slashot!
It's a damn shame about iCab. In pre-OS X days, iCab owned the web- at least on my Mac and the Macs of the other folks I knew. It is a light and fast browser, with decent web development support. But now a days, it has really fallen behind- it's not worth using on OS X, especially now that we have Safari. iCab seems to have retained a bunch of Mac OS Classic features along the lines of blocking during I/O, etc... /me sheds a tear for iCab, for what could have been
Just had a look at Netfront; it doesn't seem to support a sideways display like Thunderhawk, which is a shame.
Not built-in to the browser, no. But just use Nyidtot's Virtual Display, or the WM2003 built-in facilities for rotating the screen. Netfront works very well on both PPC and the Zaurus, IMHO, though IE tends to be better over all at least on CE. Mind you, I'm not using the craptastic Pocket IE in PocketPC or Windows Mobile, rather the very good IE that comes with "real" Windows CE on my Sigmarion 3 Handheld PC. Supports just about everything that IE 5.5 (or so) does. I use an awesome tabbed browser that is very configurable, ftxBrowser.
A couple notes- like others pointed out, they already give Mr. Kasner props.
I heard about this on NPR a couple weeks ago, before any lawsuit was going to happen. The sad thing is that only ONE idiot from the family is really pushing this- when she came on to be interviewed for a couple minutes by NPR, she said: "My sister wanted me to say that it isn't *THE FAMILY* who has a big problem with this, it is *just me.*" No joke- the rest of them are probably embarassed of her actions.
You say "Incorrect," but the examples you provide more or less support his claim. Yes, oftentimes two lower speed CPUs are cheaper than one CPU that is twice as fast, but there isn't much of a reason to go SMP unless you cannot just get a higher clocked CPU.
Mind you, the guy isn't saying SMP is stupid- it makes sense in a lot of situations. But, it is something you pull out when a single, higher-speed CPU is not a possibility, whether that is the case due to lack of funds or whether a faster CPU just does not exist.
Here at work, I have a dual 500 MHz G4 which still holds it own, even with a relatively small amount of RAM, 256 MB. When this box was purchased, there was no option for a single-CPU 1 GHz box, and this is certainly the next best thing...