Indeed- though the Newton HWR didn't get really usable until the 162 MHz Newton 2x00s. The Newton 130 was pretty good too, and it had a slower (33 MHz?) CPU. It was about quality software more than CPU speed. A 1 GHz CPU wouldn't have made the earliest Newton OMP or 100 or 110 do HWR more than half-decently; the software just was written for to make it work real well.
Off topic question pertaining to your sig: do you know where I could get a presentation app more suitable for a worker like myself? I hate the idea of defiling myself with a capitalist tool, give me something meant for a worker's hands anyday. Thanks in advance!
And this answers the parent's question how exactly?
Seems pretty obvious to me. At the end of the post he asked:
On a side note, are there any phones / pdas that have a Python sdk available?
And I then told himabout Python support for two important PDA and Phone OSes, Palm and CE. Incidentally, there's also a Python SDK for Series 60 Nokia phones. So make that 3 important PDA/Phone OSes.
The NDS main CPU is pretty slow- 66 MHz. I've used Decuma on Palm OS on a 200 MHz ARM (Sony Clie NX70v), and used Decuma fine, albeit a bit slowly, with the Clie underclocked at 100 MHz to save power. Decuma is decent HWR; it is in between the character-based stuff like Graffiti and the proper and good word-sentence based real HWR of the Newton or PocketPC's Transcriber or Calligrapher. It makes you write in a box- but you write a full word, it recognizes it letter by letter, and then you have to press a button to actually accept/write the text. Or make corrections, overwriting maybe 'e' for the misrecognized 'o'; then you press that button. On Palm OS, Decuma is about the best you're going to get if you want real HWR, but it isn't too horrible.
You can code in Python for Windows CE 3.0+ (2.11+ maybe?), and specifically Pocket PC 2000, 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 SE and presumably 2005. There is a subset of Python, called Pippy, available for Palm OS. The WinCE port is pretty much a full port of Python; Pippy is very much stripped down. There are also the Zaurus Linux PDAs, which can run Python, though it's not as useful for writing full-on apps as it is on Pocket PC, at least within the Qtopia GUI last time I checked.
Perl too on PocketPC/WinCE; there's even Perl/Tk support. Works pretty well.
addiction science is pretty interesting. what gets me is that it's pretty common for an ex-opiate addict to start "jonesing" (go through the opiate withdrawal symptoms- cold/flu like symptoms, a lot of pain and have a desire for opiate to fix that) when he gets out of prison or starts to hang around with his old crew. heroin generally can be dropped, physically, in 3 days- or rather, the worst part of the withdrawal can be done in that time. other opiates are longer, but generally you're clean after two years of not using, time spent in jail or in treatment, etc. pretty interesting stuff.
Indeed. I believe that newish film "Downfall" was pretty popular in Germany recently. It's illegal to promote a lot of nazi ideas, and rightly so people are ashamed of that part of their history, but in some ways, acknowledge that it also embodies some of their positive features. Positive features twisted to an evil end, but like anything worth discussing, it is complex. People have an interest in that period, and it's not like people pretend it didn't happen.
The fruits of McD's only exist because rich, capitalist countries are able to exploit the poorer ones. If the whole world was "rich," your McDs would be a lot more expensive and harder to come by, in comparison.
All the bourgeois parties are pro-war. If your post is supposed to convince us that the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans- congradulations, we knew that already.
What do you define as IM? I sit on IRC all day, and a lot of the other folks who are on Freenode are wage slaves who are on IRC all day. I use IRC for my IMing as well as group-chat-type stuff. I also sit on AIM all day so that a couple people who I know who does use IRC can get a hold of me. I sit on Jabber, as a few co-workers use it- the Univ of Minnesota runs their own jabber server (chat.umn.edu). my girlfriend's place of employment has a proprietary secure IM server for everyone at her workplace, who are spread among many buildings/houses. I use IRC/IM to communicate with my girlfriend those sorts of "bring home some milk and bread" messages, rather than email or the phone. I'm relatively young, 25. But I don't use IMing like the 18 year olds I see coming into the University system...
I don't bring the quote up to say that the USA is just like China, rather to say basically what Zinn does: "This leaves the First Amendment much less than the stone wall of protection it seems at first glance." People still went convicted, and it went unturned by the Supreme Court.
the "paren hell" makes restructuring code a lot easier- not harder- than most other languages. an exception is something like smalltalk, which has a leg up on a lot of other languages as a virtue of the IDE. in lisp, moving some chunk of code out into a new meth of or function, then calling that method/func instead, is pretty easy, and again, with a half-decent editor, it's all taken care of for you.
you don't *need* a paren-matching editor with lisp. you don't with c either. but it's a lot nicer to have in c than not when you're trying to figure out how many }s or )s you need to close. nothing different in lisp; you can dilleniate it with tabbing, etc, just like folks do in c-like languages.
That idea of an unwritten article is alive in the USA as well. To quote Howard Zinn, in _The People's History of the United States_:
The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights shows that quality of interest hiding behind innocence. Passed in 1791 by Congress, it provided that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . .." Yet, seven years after the First Amendment became part of the Constitution, Congress passed a law very clearly abridging the freedom of speech.
This was the Sedition Act of 1798, passed under John Adams's administration, at a time when Irishmen and Frenchmen in the United States were looked on as dangerous revolutionaries because of the recent French Revolution and the Irish rebellions. The Sedition Act made it a crime to say or write anything "false, scandalous and malicious" against the government, Congress, or the President, with intent to defame them, bring them into disrepute, or excite popular hatreds against them.
This act seemed to directly violate the First Amendment. Yet, it was enforced. Ten Americans were put in prison for utterances against the government, and every member of the Supreme Court in 1798-1800, sitting as an appellate judge, held it constitutional.
There was a legal basis for this, one known to legal experts, but not to the ordinary American, who would read the First Amendment and feel confident that he or she was protected in the exercise of free speech. That basis has been explained by historian Leonard Levy. Levy points out that it was generally understood (not in the population, but in higher circles) that, despite the First Amendment, the British common law of "seditious libel" still ruled in America. This meant that while the government could not exercise "prior restraint"that is, prevent an utterance or publication in advanceit could legally punish the speaker or writer afterward. Thus, Congress has a convenient legal basis for the laws it has enacted since that time, making certain kinds of speech a crime. And, since punishment after the fact is an excellent deterrent to the exercise of free expression, the claim of "no prior restraint" itself is destroyed. This leaves the First Amendment much less than the stone wall of protection it seems at first glance.
New houses are pretty much never made of anything but wood in the US and Canada. The other stuff is too expensive. It's not rustic; perhaps you are cofusing wood-framed with log-cabin?
a googolplex is 10^googol (if you wrote this down in its expanded form, the paper would not fit into the volume of the solar system)
What if you got one of those Japanese rice-writers to do the writing on paper? I mean, we're talking about a font size like 0.01 points. We should get someone on that.
But what do you do when more and more knowledge is available online and not in print? At the acdemic library where I work, there are a number of journals- closer to a true "repository of knowledge," more so than books- that we can only get online. I haven't been in a public library much over the last 10 years, but in our university library, all of our PCs are in just about constant use. Granted, we have 50 PCs and 300 SunRays, and SunRays get a lot less use. On a campus with 10k students... But the campus has oodles of other computer labs. So computers are plentiful, but the library is still where people go.
Sweden isn't the only coutnry with self-check in and out. I've seen those in the USA (Dakota County, MN, USA) since at least 1996 or so. No RFID, barcode, but still.
I work at an acedemic library that serves a mid-sized (10k students) University. The next big thing with a lot of libraries, public and acedemic, is Virtual Reference. In it's simplest form, it is nothing more than a chat/IM system where someone can contact a ref librarian over the web or some other IM system, ask questions and get answers. That could be implemented by you pretty easily with a Jabber server, a web client, and a jabber client running on the librarian's desktops. With other systems, you get this chat setup, a knowledge base for common ref questions, the ability to come back and look up transcripts of questions, and the ability to co-browse- that is, the librarian and patron are sharing one browser window, they both see the same thing and have the ability to point things out to eachother.
This is interestingly timed, since we just had an all-day, all-staff meeting yesterday about what the future of our library will be, where we will be in 5 to 10 years... So I hope you get some good answers, because I could certainly use them!
Yeah. Or learn Smalltalk, where you have all the power of Ruby, in it's pure, mature and untainted form. Or, maybe a Ruby user could try to learn it. FUN! Actually put the fun back in coding...
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Indeed- though the Newton HWR didn't get really usable until the 162 MHz Newton 2x00s. The Newton 130 was pretty good too, and it had a slower (33 MHz?) CPU. It was about quality software more than CPU speed. A 1 GHz CPU wouldn't have made the earliest Newton OMP or 100 or 110 do HWR more than half-decently; the software just was written for to make it work real well.
And, as you and no one else got, my reply was a toung-in-cheek attempts at humor. A pretty lame one, evidentally. :)
Long Live the Proletarian Presentation Revolution!
Off topic question pertaining to your sig: do you know where I could get a presentation app more suitable for a worker like myself? I hate the idea of defiling myself with a capitalist tool, give me something meant for a worker's hands anyday. Thanks in advance!
And this answers the parent's question how exactly?
Seems pretty obvious to me. At the end of the post he asked:
On a side note, are there any phones / pdas that have a Python sdk available?
And I then told himabout Python support for two important PDA and Phone OSes, Palm and CE. Incidentally, there's also a Python SDK for Series 60 Nokia phones. So make that 3 important PDA/Phone OSes.
The NDS main CPU is pretty slow- 66 MHz. I've used Decuma on Palm OS on a 200 MHz ARM (Sony Clie NX70v), and used Decuma fine, albeit a bit slowly, with the Clie underclocked at 100 MHz to save power. Decuma is decent HWR; it is in between the character-based stuff like Graffiti and the proper and good word-sentence based real HWR of the Newton or PocketPC's Transcriber or Calligrapher. It makes you write in a box- but you write a full word, it recognizes it letter by letter, and then you have to press a button to actually accept/write the text. Or make corrections, overwriting maybe 'e' for the misrecognized 'o'; then you press that button. On Palm OS, Decuma is about the best you're going to get if you want real HWR, but it isn't too horrible.
You can code in Python for Windows CE 3.0+ (2.11+ maybe?), and specifically Pocket PC 2000, 2002, Windows Mobile 2003, 2003 SE and presumably 2005. There is a subset of Python, called Pippy, available for Palm OS. The WinCE port is pretty much a full port of Python; Pippy is very much stripped down. There are also the Zaurus Linux PDAs, which can run Python, though it's not as useful for writing full-on apps as it is on Pocket PC, at least within the Qtopia GUI last time I checked.
Perl too on PocketPC/WinCE; there's even Perl/Tk support. Works pretty well.
They could be using it on the classy diagnostics partition the dells we have here- corporate gx260-280s. It's a nice app, mouse-driven and GUI'd.
addiction science is pretty interesting. what gets me is that it's pretty common for an ex-opiate addict to start "jonesing" (go through the opiate withdrawal symptoms- cold/flu like symptoms, a lot of pain and have a desire for opiate to fix that) when he gets out of prison or starts to hang around with his old crew. heroin generally can be dropped, physically, in 3 days- or rather, the worst part of the withdrawal can be done in that time. other opiates are longer, but generally you're clean after two years of not using, time spent in jail or in treatment, etc. pretty interesting stuff.
Indeed. I believe that newish film "Downfall" was pretty popular in Germany recently. It's illegal to promote a lot of nazi ideas, and rightly so people are ashamed of that part of their history, but in some ways, acknowledge that it also embodies some of their positive features. Positive features twisted to an evil end, but like anything worth discussing, it is complex. People have an interest in that period, and it's not like people pretend it didn't happen.
The fruits of McD's only exist because rich, capitalist countries are able to exploit the poorer ones. If the whole world was "rich," your McDs would be a lot more expensive and harder to come by, in comparison.
All the bourgeois parties are pro-war. If your post is supposed to convince us that the Democrats are as bad as the Republicans- congradulations, we knew that already.
What do you define as IM? I sit on IRC all day, and a lot of the other folks who are on Freenode are wage slaves who are on IRC all day. I use IRC for my IMing as well as group-chat-type stuff. I also sit on AIM all day so that a couple people who I know who does use IRC can get a hold of me. I sit on Jabber, as a few co-workers use it- the Univ of Minnesota runs their own jabber server (chat.umn.edu). my girlfriend's place of employment has a proprietary secure IM server for everyone at her workplace, who are spread among many buildings/houses. I use IRC/IM to communicate with my girlfriend those sorts of "bring home some milk and bread" messages, rather than email or the phone. I'm relatively young, 25. But I don't use IMing like the 18 year olds I see coming into the University system...
So yeah, it's not just for 13 year olds.
I don't bring the quote up to say that the USA is just like China, rather to say basically what Zinn does: "This leaves the First Amendment much less than the stone wall of protection it seems at first glance." People still went convicted, and it went unturned by the Supreme Court.
Out of that 3%, how much is emacs?
I'm surprised no one has brought up emacs as an example of a lisp app...
the "paren hell" makes restructuring code a lot easier- not harder- than most other languages. an exception is something like smalltalk, which has a leg up on a lot of other languages as a virtue of the IDE. in lisp, moving some chunk of code out into a new meth of or function, then calling that method/func instead, is pretty easy, and again, with a half-decent editor, it's all taken care of for you.
you don't *need* a paren-matching editor with lisp. you don't with c either. but it's a lot nicer to have in c than not when you're trying to figure out how many }s or )s you need to close. nothing different in lisp; you can dilleniate it with tabbing, etc, just like folks do in c-like languages.
USA! USA! USA!
New houses are pretty much never made of anything but wood in the US and Canada. The other stuff is too expensive. It's not rustic; perhaps you are cofusing wood-framed with log-cabin?
a googolplex is 10^googol (if you wrote this down in its expanded form, the paper would not fit into the volume of the solar system)
What if you got one of those Japanese rice-writers to do the writing on paper? I mean, we're talking about a font size like 0.01 points. We should get someone on that.
I hope we have something more than 6.8 GHz by 2021.
But what do you do when more and more knowledge is available online and not in print? At the acdemic library where I work, there are a number of journals- closer to a true "repository of knowledge," more so than books- that we can only get online. I haven't been in a public library much over the last 10 years, but in our university library, all of our PCs are in just about constant use. Granted, we have 50 PCs and 300 SunRays, and SunRays get a lot less use. On a campus with 10k students... But the campus has oodles of other computer labs. So computers are plentiful, but the library is still where people go.
Sweden isn't the only coutnry with self-check in and out. I've seen those in the USA (Dakota County, MN, USA) since at least 1996 or so. No RFID, barcode, but still.
I work at an acedemic library that serves a mid-sized (10k students) University. The next big thing with a lot of libraries, public and acedemic, is Virtual Reference. In it's simplest form, it is nothing more than a chat/IM system where someone can contact a ref librarian over the web or some other IM system, ask questions and get answers. That could be implemented by you pretty easily with a Jabber server, a web client, and a jabber client running on the librarian's desktops. With other systems, you get this chat setup, a knowledge base for common ref questions, the ability to come back and look up transcripts of questions, and the ability to co-browse- that is, the librarian and patron are sharing one browser window, they both see the same thing and have the ability to point things out to eachother.
This is interestingly timed, since we just had an all-day, all-staff meeting yesterday about what the future of our library will be, where we will be in 5 to 10 years... So I hope you get some good answers, because I could certainly use them!
Aaron
Yeah. Or learn Smalltalk, where you have all the power of Ruby, in it's pure, mature and untainted form. Or, maybe a Ruby user could try to learn it. FUN! Actually put the fun back in coding...
I saw Woz surfing PORN on the Woz Cam [woz.org], now it's disabled!
And you didn't take a screenshot?
Also, it may be set to one-button mode by default, so that for n00bs, it isn't much different than the current pill mouse.
Doesn't seem all that weird to me, as long as there is some feedback.