GNU Octave is open source. Why doesn't it run on PalmOS? Most of any random Linux distro is open source, why hasn't it taken over Windows?
Being open source doesn't mean these problem disappear. EasyCalc isn't meant to be an all-in-one math app, near as I can tell, but do a few things pretty well. PalmOS is a pain to code for, so perhaps that and the restrictions placed on POS apps are the reason.
I always had good luck with Maxtors, though I had only used old and small drives- 80-200 MB or so. When I was putting together a new computer for myself in 99, I thought I'd get another trusty Maxtor, a 6 GB. Pfft, bad idea. Thing failed in less than a year, taking all of my music with it; 5 years of dorky industrial music, recently copied over from a huge stack of ZIP disks. 100 songs.
I use my PDA as my mathematic tool as well as for taking all of my notes in class, upper division math and biology courses mostly. I've not had a problem using a PDA on a test since I started trying. Granted, I usually discuss it with the prof first, rather than just whip it out and hope they don't notice. For a couple of profs, I've had to give them my memory card so that I don't have my class notes with me, though there is no reason I couldn't just as easily have them internally and usually do. Makes some profs feel better, I suppose. Though doing so would be incredibly easy, I've never cheated that way, even when it would've really helped. It can be very helpful to have a lisp interpreter for math problems, though. Perhaps an unfair advantage.:)
High school teachers... that's another thing. I had a teacher once that didn't let me use a Shaft soundtrack 8-track casette for goodluck. It's been a handful of years since I was in HS, but kids weren't allowed to use a TI-92, although you could just as well enter notes on an 81. 92 does symbolic math and the like, though.
I've never seen an integral book myself, never used a table.
Hell, you can use a TI or HP emulator on your PDA if you are so concerned about menus. All the same, I've used some very good math apps on PDAs that have no menus, let alone 8 layers.
The only thing missing from EasyCalc compared to a powerful calculator is scripting? Pfft! Some people do more with their TIs or HPs than just graphing and arithmatic.
EasyCalc is missing a ton of stuff compared to a real calculator, or even a good math app that can run on a desktop or PDA. Symbolic math is a start. Matrices. Solving. Calculus.
I use a PDA for math. I started doing so using my Newton and the LittleLisp interpreter, with a bunch of functions I coded myself and some I converted from various Scheme sources. That was fine for the intro to stats class I was taking at the time, but in later classes (mathematical ecology [mmmmm], calculus), I needed something more.
When I am using a Linux PDA, I use GNU Octave, a good Matlab clone. When I'm using WinCE, I use GNU Maxima. At first, I preferred using Octave, since I had used Matlab more, but it's a pain in the ass to use the existing Zaurus distro of Octave. No line editing, no GUI, not even a cheap interpreter front-end. On the otherhand, on WinCE, I have full-out XMaxima, with gnuplotting into the canvas. A really sweet setup. Beats any of the math apps specifically for PDAs that I've seen in functionality, but has been developed enough that it works well on a PDA.
Except, we don't know what for OS he wants a driver. Since he's asking, I'd like to assume that he means something not MacOS, as the drivers for this card for classic MacOS are easy to find. But this is an Ask Slashdot, so it's not likely. Since he didn't specify the OS, this Ask Slashdot is even more worthless than the usual one- MacOS, NetBSD, Linux, what?
Christ, Mr. AC, you're retarded. I will inform you and your fellow morons:
There are extant pieces of hardware that are both a CF card *and* a hard drive. It's a bit of a misnomer to call something a "CompactFlash Hard drive," as the word "flash" is not a hard drive, but the CF refers to the form factor, pin layout, etc etc and not what is inside. There are CF hard dtives and have been for while; the IBM MicroDrives and the newly announced 4 GB CF HD (Toshiba or SanDisk, can't remember which) are some examples. There are many non-flash memory devices that are in the CF form factor that have nothing to do with flash memory- wifi, ethernet, modems, camera, etc etc.
If not CF, what else? I'm certainly not saying I'd go ahead and buy one of these things and tear it open without knowing for sure what it uses. One of the announced but not yet released to the retail shopping public 4 GB CF cards seemed a likely guess.
Ah, a good idea. I wonder if the new 4 GB CF cards use one of these CSEs within them, or some other technology. It was nice having a 2 GB PCMCIA HD in my PDA- mp3s and documents. Now that I have a PDA without a PCMCIA slot, it's be nice to get back to that happy place...
If this thing has a CF card inside- chances are good- I may buy one, rip it up, and use the card in my PDA. Would be cheaper than just buying the card, at least for a while. Similar thing happened when Toshiba came out with the big PCMCIA harddrives Apple uses in the regular iPods- Apple got them first, and the rest of the market later. And even then, for the bigger models, it was cheaper to buy an iPod, tear it up ad use the card inside than to buy a card retail.
Using R#. the sharp has nothing to do with.NET, mind you. It's an open source REBOL implementation, not sure how done it is- it's a 0.5-0.6 last time I used it. I've just stuck to using the real thing myself.
But I too have had the same guilty-love of REBOL. It is a very capable and handy language, definately one of the more useful so-called "scripting" languages I've ever seen or used.
Other than this, there is no way to embed REBOL in an app directly, though you could call the interpreter over a pipe. You only get an exe, not a DLL/so/dynlib/framework. For that, you have to shell out cash.
Don't get me wrong, Lua is an awesome language. Tiny, but not pokey, quite flexible- a real language. Yes, you could learn the basics and be writing some code in an hour, but you could never master it. The only language I know that could be mastered in an hour is PILOT.
And what's even cooler about AppleScript is that there is more to it. AppleScript is merely the default plug-in for the Open Script Archtecture (OSA) into which other languages can plug. I've seen Tcl, JavaScript, Perl and Ruby and there are more. Allows those other languages to call into your Mac apps in the same way AppleScript can- slick as snot man.
I too have mentioned him, and second the reccomendation. I've read most of his stuff by now, all very good. I even thought the Greg Mandel trilogy was pretty good, don't let the super-cheesy covers scare you away. Nowhere near as good as the Night's Dawn Trilogy, but decent for a fan of Peter Hamilton's writing.
It's been about a year since I finished the last page of the Naked God, but I'm itching to read it again. An amazing series. A newer book, Fallen Dragon, is also most worthwhile.
It was one of the first handful of sci-fi books I read since my new found love of sci-fi. I always read a lot of non-fiction, but never really like fiction. When Episode II, I started reading a couple Star Wars novels, then Dune, and some other classics, finding out that I dig the space opera, as long as it isn't overly fantasty-ish. Big ups to Peter.
Really? I often get just water or water and pop/lemonade at a meal, at most meals. A lot of times about half of the folks have just water and the other half have coffee or pop.
But then again, I live in Minnesota, land of 15k lakes. I've got 10% of the world's freshwater visible from my apartment. So perhaps it's not so weird up here.
That said, I wouldn't probably get water if it cost money. Unless I was thirsty and not just wanting something to drink for its own sake.
You could start with ultra-concentrated coffee enemas or even just straight up caffeine. I got some from the organic chem lab, USP. Not sure why, I'm not a fan of caffeine at all. All the same, I mixed it up in some crystal lite, ready to drink.
To make more sense out of what he's trying to say, do some googling or read this. some scientific mistakes, but informative. aspartme's "ingredients" are not the chemicals listed, a misleading way to phrase it.
Heh. It may not be used much today, but I certainly didn't make it up. I've known a couple mormon families (in minnesota, not utah) that drank ephedra tea in lieu of coffee or green/black tea, which both contain caffeine and are forbidden.
I've found that I don't feel any effects when I'm drinking caffeinated pop- coke, mt. dew, whatever. But tea or coffee will usually bring about something I can feel as a caffeine high. Oftentimes, the tea contains less caffeine than the pop. Not sure why, perhaps all the sugar and such slows down absorption.
Mind you, caffeine isn't every christian's favorite drug. Mormons (arguably christian) prefer "Mormon tea," also known as ma huang, or Ephedra spp. Chock full of ephedrine rather than caffeine! mm mm good!
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GNU Octave is open source. Why doesn't it run on PalmOS? Most of any random Linux distro is open source, why hasn't it taken over Windows?
Being open source doesn't mean these problem disappear. EasyCalc isn't meant to be an all-in-one math app, near as I can tell, but do a few things pretty well. PalmOS is a pain to code for, so perhaps that and the restrictions placed on POS apps are the reason.
I always had good luck with Maxtors, though I had only used old and small drives- 80-200 MB or so. When I was putting together a new computer for myself in 99, I thought I'd get another trusty Maxtor, a 6 GB. Pfft, bad idea. Thing failed in less than a year, taking all of my music with it; 5 years of dorky industrial music, recently copied over from a huge stack of ZIP disks. 100 songs.
grr.
I use my PDA as my mathematic tool as well as for taking all of my notes in class, upper division math and biology courses mostly. I've not had a problem using a PDA on a test since I started trying. Granted, I usually discuss it with the prof first, rather than just whip it out and hope they don't notice. For a couple of profs, I've had to give them my memory card so that I don't have my class notes with me, though there is no reason I couldn't just as easily have them internally and usually do. Makes some profs feel better, I suppose. Though doing so would be incredibly easy, I've never cheated that way, even when it would've really helped. It can be very helpful to have a lisp interpreter for math problems, though. Perhaps an unfair advantage. :)
High school teachers... that's another thing. I had a teacher once that didn't let me use a Shaft soundtrack 8-track casette for goodluck. It's been a handful of years since I was in HS, but kids weren't allowed to use a TI-92, although you could just as well enter notes on an 81. 92 does symbolic math and the like, though.
I've never seen an integral book myself, never used a table.
Hell, you can use a TI or HP emulator on your PDA if you are so concerned about menus. All the same, I've used some very good math apps on PDAs that have no menus, let alone 8 layers.
The only thing missing from EasyCalc compared to a powerful calculator is scripting? Pfft! Some people do more with their TIs or HPs than just graphing and arithmatic.
EasyCalc is missing a ton of stuff compared to a real calculator, or even a good math app that can run on a desktop or PDA. Symbolic math is a start. Matrices. Solving. Calculus.
I use a PDA for math. I started doing so using my Newton and the LittleLisp interpreter, with a bunch of functions I coded myself and some I converted from various Scheme sources. That was fine for the intro to stats class I was taking at the time, but in later classes (mathematical ecology [mmmmm], calculus), I needed something more.
When I am using a Linux PDA, I use GNU Octave, a good Matlab clone. When I'm using WinCE, I use GNU Maxima. At first, I preferred using Octave, since I had used Matlab more, but it's a pain in the ass to use the existing Zaurus distro of Octave. No line editing, no GUI, not even a cheap interpreter front-end. On the otherhand, on WinCE, I have full-out XMaxima, with gnuplotting into the canvas. A really sweet setup. Beats any of the math apps specifically for PDAs that I've seen in functionality, but has been developed enough that it works well on a PDA.
Except, we don't know what for OS he wants a driver. Since he's asking, I'd like to assume that he means something not MacOS, as the drivers for this card for classic MacOS are easy to find. But this is an Ask Slashdot, so it's not likely. Since he didn't specify the OS, this Ask Slashdot is even more worthless than the usual one- MacOS, NetBSD, Linux, what?
Christ, Mr. AC, you're retarded. I will inform you and your fellow morons:
There are extant pieces of hardware that are both a CF card *and* a hard drive. It's a bit of a misnomer to call something a "CompactFlash Hard drive," as the word "flash" is not a hard drive, but the CF refers to the form factor, pin layout, etc etc and not what is inside. There are CF hard dtives and have been for while; the IBM MicroDrives and the newly announced 4 GB CF HD (Toshiba or SanDisk, can't remember which) are some examples. There are many non-flash memory devices that are in the CF form factor that have nothing to do with flash memory- wifi, ethernet, modems, camera, etc etc.
If not CF, what else? I'm certainly not saying I'd go ahead and buy one of these things and tear it open without knowing for sure what it uses. One of the announced but not yet released to the retail shopping public 4 GB CF cards seemed a likely guess.
Ah, a good idea. I wonder if the new 4 GB CF cards use one of these CSEs within them, or some other technology. It was nice having a 2 GB PCMCIA HD in my PDA- mp3s and documents. Now that I have a PDA without a PCMCIA slot, it's be nice to get back to that happy place...
If you are a chick who only owns 30 CD's, why would you pay another $50 for a bigger player with more space that you don't need?
What, do women like music less than men or something? Or is it something particular to chicks and dudes?
If this thing has a CF card inside- chances are good- I may buy one, rip it up, and use the card in my PDA. Would be cheaper than just buying the card, at least for a while. Similar thing happened when Toshiba came out with the big PCMCIA harddrives Apple uses in the regular iPods- Apple got them first, and the rest of the market later. And even then, for the bigger models, it was cheaper to buy an iPod, tear it up ad use the card inside than to buy a card retail.
Using R#. the sharp has nothing to do with .NET, mind you. It's an open source REBOL implementation, not sure how done it is- it's a 0.5-0.6 last time I used it. I've just stuck to using the real thing myself.
But I too have had the same guilty-love of REBOL. It is a very capable and handy language, definately one of the more useful so-called "scripting" languages I've ever seen or used.
Other than this, there is no way to embed REBOL in an app directly, though you could call the interpreter over a pipe. You only get an exe, not a DLL/so/dynlib/framework. For that, you have to shell out cash.
Don't get me wrong, Lua is an awesome language. Tiny, but not pokey, quite flexible- a real language. Yes, you could learn the basics and be writing some code in an hour, but you could never master it. The only language I know that could be mastered in an hour is PILOT.
And what's even cooler about AppleScript is that there is more to it. AppleScript is merely the default plug-in for the Open Script Archtecture (OSA) into which other languages can plug. I've seen Tcl, JavaScript, Perl and Ruby and there are more. Allows those other languages to call into your Mac apps in the same way AppleScript can- slick as snot man.
Woohoo! I didn't know that the new book was a first book in a trilogy, though I heard of it through Amazon. Can't wait til it comes out!
I too have mentioned him, and second the reccomendation. I've read most of his stuff by now, all very good. I even thought the Greg Mandel trilogy was pretty good, don't let the super-cheesy covers scare you away. Nowhere near as good as the Night's Dawn Trilogy, but decent for a fan of Peter Hamilton's writing.
It's been about a year since I finished the last page of the Naked God, but I'm itching to read it again. An amazing series. A newer book, Fallen Dragon, is also most worthwhile.
It was one of the first handful of sci-fi books I read since my new found love of sci-fi. I always read a lot of non-fiction, but never really like fiction. When Episode II, I started reading a couple Star Wars novels, then Dune, and some other classics, finding out that I dig the space opera, as long as it isn't overly fantasty-ish. Big ups to Peter.
Really? I often get just water or water and pop/lemonade at a meal, at most meals. A lot of times about half of the folks have just water and the other half have coffee or pop.
But then again, I live in Minnesota, land of 15k lakes. I've got 10% of the world's freshwater visible from my apartment. So perhaps it's not so weird up here.
That said, I wouldn't probably get water if it cost money. Unless I was thirsty and not just wanting something to drink for its own sake.
I reccomend vaporization or making chocolate. tiptop.
You could start with ultra-concentrated coffee enemas or even just straight up caffeine. I got some from the organic chem lab, USP. Not sure why, I'm not a fan of caffeine at all. All the same, I mixed it up in some crystal lite, ready to drink.
To make more sense out of what he's trying to say, do some googling or read this. some scientific mistakes, but informative. aspartme's "ingredients" are not the chemicals listed, a misleading way to phrase it.
Heh. It may not be used much today, but I certainly didn't make it up. I've known a couple mormon families (in minnesota, not utah) that drank ephedra tea in lieu of coffee or green/black tea, which both contain caffeine and are forbidden.
I've found that I don't feel any effects when I'm drinking caffeinated pop- coke, mt. dew, whatever. But tea or coffee will usually bring about something I can feel as a caffeine high. Oftentimes, the tea contains less caffeine than the pop. Not sure why, perhaps all the sugar and such slows down absorption.
Mind you, caffeine isn't every christian's favorite drug. Mormons (arguably christian) prefer "Mormon tea," also known as ma huang, or Ephedra spp. Chock full of ephedrine rather than caffeine! mm mm good!
It may sound unbelievable, but I eat mostly organic, homemade food *and* still consume a couple drugs!
Though not much caffeine or alcohol. Eww.