Re:What do you expect?
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Newton Won't Die
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The HWR system then known as CalliGrapher is still known as CalliGrapher today, also under the name Microsoft Transcriber on PocketPC and PenOffice on desktop Windoze. At Newton OS 2, Apple dumped the then fairly buggy CalliGrapher, and used their own recognizers that were better, and now found in OS X as Inkwell. CalliGrapher has shaped up in years since, and is pretty decent on PocketPC. CG6 on PocketPC is nowhere near as integrated as Newton HWR was on the Newton OS 2.x, but it beats using a character recognizer any day of the week.:)
One can do pretty much anything you'd do on that junked Acer laptop on a Newton 2100. Including programming. Why would a person, with the Newton OS option available, want to settle for something substandard like Win 2k or Linux in a handheld device?
Re:Looks like a decent unit...
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Newton Won't Die
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· Score: 3, Informative
If we're talking about the 2x00, it displays 16 levels of grey.
Why would someone want to design, code, test, and debug for a few days straight for the sake of solving the problem itself if it were something boring like that? If you want to do that kind of stuff, you get a job, where they pay you to deal with rubbish. It makes perfect sense to me to solve fun and interesting problems in a contest for pleasure.
The skills gained by participating in a programming contest like this definately have some indirect real world benefits, though.
Perhaps we should change the rules of soccer and other fun activities to ones that would benefit "real world" jobs. Instead of kicking around a ball, perhaps it'd be more beneficial if in soccer people sat in office chairs, drank coke, and played with a golf-ball sized soccer ball on their desk. Definately much more real world.;)
Maybe I'm just a little more appreciative, but I'd love a free trip anywhere. I live in the US, but I've not seen much of the country I call home- I'd love a chance to see more of it. A lot of the people my age that I know had families that could afford going on a few week-long trips a year, but in my family, we only really took one week-long camping trip every summer, within the state. I loved those trips, and would love any opportunity to see anything I've not before, especially in the US!:)
Not many, but I've known quite a few who did. No, they weren't asked when they were little babies, but if they didn't want to continue with the rites of whatever religion they were born into, 1st communion, confirmation, &c, they were allowed not to go through it, provided it wasn't just because they were lazy. My mom was like that.
Indeed. I'm not a coffee drinker, but when I want to stay up late and awake legally, coffee is the best thing. When I drink pop, I do so because I like the taste- the caffeine in anything but jolt isn't enough for me to feel anything really. A cup of coffee though.... wheee! Maybe these people are too lazy to drink anything if it doesn't come premade in a bottle with some whack green red or blue color?
Re:this looks like a job for...
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Tuesday Mac Mods
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I wish InkWell would work with more.:( There's no reason that it wouldn't work with *all* Macs running OS X, I'm very disapointed in Apple's restrictions on InkWell. One more step pushing me away from Apple and toward a better future. After all, InkWell is derived from the Newton OS 2.x handwriting recognizer, which ran on 20 MHz ARM610, 25 MHz ARM710 and 162 MHz SA110 CPUs at a very good speed.
I'd probably attempt to convert my iBook2 into a tablet like one of the authors of one of those links did, but without InkWell, there's really no motivation for me to do so. I don't think there is any other usable HWR for OS X, OS 9, or even Linux/PPC. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to stick with my original plan- to sell my ibook and Jornada 720 and buy an OQO when they come out!
Having pictures of women doesn't seem like adequate support for the book being a grimore dedicated to evoking female spirits. Female and male aspects of the godhead are represented in many ways- it could be very well possible that women in bathtubs has nothing to do with female spirits, where the Moon would.
guess we'll never know until more is known about the script!
Indeed, surely Lucas borrowed what makes up the Jedi religion from many religions, especially Taoism and Buddhism it seems to me. But those aren't valid religions either- if there ain't a white and blond Jesus on the cover, it's from the devil!:P
Who cares if it that gets classified as a miracle? The Bible is full of other such miracles.
This "hocus-pocus" bunch also claims to perform the miracles which make up magick. What makes the miracles of the magician Christians (mistakenly) call Jesus Christ more valid? Because he's 2000-years dead?
I'm willing to settle for seeing lay christians actually practice their religion, rather than using it as an excuse, a cover, and justification. Let's see the bulk of christians turn the other cheek, love their neighbor, truly love their god, and a lot of the other things that are also evidentally miracles, juding by the pitiful performance of those who claim to follow Yeshua ben Yosef.
Ha! Indeed, that would be the truest test- make christians actually love their neighbors as themselves. That would be a lot harder for most so-called Christians than it would be for me to do Force levitation.:)
Here, let me paraphrase nietzsche, "metaphysics is dead". Get it? It is all absurd at this point.
It's good to see someone else that understands this. I grew up in a Catholic family, now I'm agnostic. For some reason, my girlfriend gets a good kick out of mocking catholics (she's agnostic too), saying they're goofier than other Christian secs. I say, what difference does it make? All Christian secs make claims that are quite far fetched... so if you're going to put your faith into one particular outragous set of claims, you may as well pick one you like. It's not like being less whacky makes it any closer to science.
Why would some other joke of a religion be deserving of the money? The tenants behind the philosophy of the Jedi are very much so based in beliefs found in "real" religions throughout human history.
How would this money get diverted from "real" religions that abuse the money? There isn't a central Austrialian Jedi Order Church to give the money to, so I imagine it wouldn't be allocated to the first guy that claimed to be the JediPope.
I dunno where slashdotland is, but around here, some people drink that. I assume your definition of old fogey is 21?:P You can get into nightclubs before that, you just can't drink (alcohol that you didn't bring in your pocket).
Pepsi Blue? Dr. Pepper? Vanilla Coke? Since when are these in the category of "energy drink?" They're pop/soda for chrisstakes! Sick of run of the mill coke or pepsi? Look elsewhere, it's not like these will make much of a difference.
I thought that just maybe this new Sobe drink was energy-ifious- but nope. Looked at the FAQ and it's just plain old pop. 37 mg per 8 oz. Claims to have some ginseng, but just being a soda, I doubt it contains more than what is required to claim that it is "flavored with ginseng."
This "news" site was probably bought off by Coke and Pepsico (which owns SoBe) to do an "article" about their "energy drinks" in exchange for a few cases of each of these drinks. I can't say I blame them for looking out for No. 1, but puuuleeze.
Why not evaluate Red Bull and shit like that? Or make your own whacky cocktail of Water Joe, nicotine water, and crushed up adderals?
Before we could "crack" it, we'd need to know certain things in order to write an algorithm that would run on this distributed computing architecture of yours. if we knew these things, it's likely we'd already have a few machines, or a room full of them, plugging away at this. unfortunately, it's not like it is in the Star Trek- we can't just hold a few pages up to the camera and have the universal translator work on it for us.:)
Why female spirits specifically? I would see it as a pretty good possibility that it may have been some old grimore- they often have stuff about stars, constellations, &c, but one specifically for female spirits?
You could almost say that Next acquired Apple not the other way around.
Heh, tell me about it. Have a look at Apple's execs- a lot of ex-NeXT people, as CEO, Senior VP Hardware, Senior VP Software, and Senior VP General Counsel.
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The HWR system then known as CalliGrapher is still known as CalliGrapher today, also under the name Microsoft Transcriber on PocketPC and PenOffice on desktop Windoze. At Newton OS 2, Apple dumped the then fairly buggy CalliGrapher, and used their own recognizers that were better, and now found in OS X as Inkwell. CalliGrapher has shaped up in years since, and is pretty decent on PocketPC. CG6 on PocketPC is nowhere near as integrated as Newton HWR was on the Newton OS 2.x, but it beats using a character recognizer any day of the week. :)
One can do pretty much anything you'd do on that junked Acer laptop on a Newton 2100. Including programming. Why would a person, with the Newton OS option available, want to settle for something substandard like Win 2k or Linux in a handheld device?
If we're talking about the 2x00, it displays 16 levels of grey.
I'm a little confused where the humor is in this- why the hell would you want to have anything in NJ, let alone your home?
I concurr on the ceffeine mint point- the sublingual absorbion makes for a great caffeine buzz, even if it only lasts 20 minutes. :)
Why would someone want to design, code, test, and debug for a few days straight for the sake of solving the problem itself if it were something boring like that? If you want to do that kind of stuff, you get a job, where they pay you to deal with rubbish. It makes perfect sense to me to solve fun and interesting problems in a contest for pleasure.
;)
The skills gained by participating in a programming contest like this definately have some indirect real world benefits, though.
Perhaps we should change the rules of soccer and other fun activities to ones that would benefit "real world" jobs. Instead of kicking around a ball, perhaps it'd be more beneficial if in soccer people sat in office chairs, drank coke, and played with a golf-ball sized soccer ball on their desk. Definately much more real world.
Maybe I'm just a little more appreciative, but I'd love a free trip anywhere. I live in the US, but I've not seen much of the country I call home- I'd love a chance to see more of it. A lot of the people my age that I know had families that could afford going on a few week-long trips a year, but in my family, we only really took one week-long camping trip every summer, within the state. I loved those trips, and would love any opportunity to see anything I've not before, especially in the US! :)
It was sarcastic.
Now only would he have had dark hair, his skin would have been very dark. A lot darker than present-day Arabs and ethnic Jews.
Not many, but I've known quite a few who did. No, they weren't asked when they were little babies, but if they didn't want to continue with the rites of whatever religion they were born into, 1st communion, confirmation, &c, they were allowed not to go through it, provided it wasn't just because they were lazy. My mom was like that.
Plus, what ever happened to just having coffee?
... wheee! Maybe these people are too lazy to drink anything if it doesn't come premade in a bottle with some whack green red or blue color?
Indeed. I'm not a coffee drinker, but when I want to stay up late and awake legally, coffee is the best thing. When I drink pop, I do so because I like the taste- the caffeine in anything but jolt isn't enough for me to feel anything really. A cup of coffee though.
I wish InkWell would work with more. :( There's no reason that it wouldn't work with *all* Macs running OS X, I'm very disapointed in Apple's restrictions on InkWell. One more step pushing me away from Apple and toward a better future. After all, InkWell is derived from the Newton OS 2.x handwriting recognizer, which ran on 20 MHz ARM610, 25 MHz ARM710 and 162 MHz SA110 CPUs at a very good speed.
I'd probably attempt to convert my iBook2 into a tablet like one of the authors of one of those links did, but without InkWell, there's really no motivation for me to do so. I don't think there is any other usable HWR for OS X, OS 9, or even Linux/PPC. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to stick with my original plan- to sell my ibook and Jornada 720 and buy an OQO when they come out!
Oi! Don't get me started about GHB! "Grevous bodily harm" my ass. It's all bullshit, but we already know that.
Incumbent industries as well as governments which desire more precise control of it's citizens as well, methinks.
Having pictures of women doesn't seem like adequate support for the book being a grimore dedicated to evoking female spirits. Female and male aspects of the godhead are represented in many ways- it could be very well possible that women in bathtubs has nothing to do with female spirits, where the Moon would.
guess we'll never know until more is known about the script!
Indeed, surely Lucas borrowed what makes up the Jedi religion from many religions, especially Taoism and Buddhism it seems to me. But those aren't valid religions either- if there ain't a white and blond Jesus on the cover, it's from the devil! :P
Who cares if it that gets classified as a miracle? The Bible is full of other such miracles.
This "hocus-pocus" bunch also claims to perform the miracles which make up magick. What makes the miracles of the magician Christians (mistakenly) call Jesus Christ more valid? Because he's 2000-years dead?
I'm willing to settle for seeing lay christians actually practice their religion, rather than using it as an excuse, a cover, and justification. Let's see the bulk of christians turn the other cheek, love their neighbor, truly love their god, and a lot of the other things that are also evidentally miracles, juding by the pitiful performance of those who claim to follow Yeshua ben Yosef.
Ha! Indeed, that would be the truest test- make christians actually love their neighbors as themselves. That would be a lot harder for most so-called Christians than it would be for me to do Force levitation. :)
Here, let me paraphrase nietzsche, "metaphysics is dead". Get it? It is all absurd at this point.
It's good to see someone else that understands this. I grew up in a Catholic family, now I'm agnostic. For some reason, my girlfriend gets a good kick out of mocking catholics (she's agnostic too), saying they're goofier than other Christian secs. I say, what difference does it make? All Christian secs make claims that are quite far fetched... so if you're going to put your faith into one particular outragous set of claims, you may as well pick one you like. It's not like being less whacky makes it any closer to science.
Why would some other joke of a religion be deserving of the money? The tenants behind the philosophy of the Jedi are very much so based in beliefs found in "real" religions throughout human history.
How would this money get diverted from "real" religions that abuse the money? There isn't a central Austrialian Jedi Order Church to give the money to, so I imagine it wouldn't be allocated to the first guy that claimed to be the JediPope.
This dude is way right. But no one will ever believe you.
this may be why.
I dunno where slashdotland is, but around here, some people drink that. I assume your definition of old fogey is 21? :P You can get into nightclubs before that, you just can't drink (alcohol that you didn't bring in your pocket).
You find me a source of ADD kids, and I'll keep bottles of Rev's Magic Speedlixer coming your way! :)
Pepsi Blue? Dr. Pepper? Vanilla Coke? Since when are these in the category of "energy drink?" They're pop/soda for chrisstakes! Sick of run of the mill coke or pepsi? Look elsewhere, it's not like these will make much of a difference.
I thought that just maybe this new Sobe drink was energy-ifious- but nope. Looked at the FAQ and it's just plain old pop. 37 mg per 8 oz. Claims to have some ginseng, but just being a soda, I doubt it contains more than what is required to claim that it is "flavored with ginseng."
This "news" site was probably bought off by Coke and Pepsico (which owns SoBe) to do an "article" about their "energy drinks" in exchange for a few cases of each of these drinks. I can't say I blame them for looking out for No. 1, but puuuleeze.
Why not evaluate Red Bull and shit like that? Or make your own whacky cocktail of Water Joe, nicotine water, and crushed up adderals?
Before we could "crack" it, we'd need to know certain things in order to write an algorithm that would run on this distributed computing architecture of yours. if we knew these things, it's likely we'd already have a few machines, or a room full of them, plugging away at this. unfortunately, it's not like it is in the Star Trek- we can't just hold a few pages up to the camera and have the universal translator work on it for us. :)
Why female spirits specifically? I would see it as a pretty good possibility that it may have been some old grimore- they often have stuff about stars, constellations, &c, but one specifically for female spirits?
You could almost say that Next acquired Apple not the other way around.
Heh, tell me about it. Have a look at Apple's execs- a lot of ex-NeXT people, as CEO, Senior VP Hardware, Senior VP Software, and Senior VP General Counsel.