12" 3 lbs 1024x768 802.11g Ethernet, modem, USB DVD-ROM/CDRW in USA - DVD-RAM/R/RW in Japan 7.5 hour battery No idea how good/bad the graphics card is
Good linux compatibility. No support for the SD card slot. Immature driver for the Intel wireless chipset. Everything else seems to work fine under linux, but I have not tested a few things like the modem.
US version: ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/toughbook/sp ecsheets/s_TBW2.pdf
Surely if you are starting a political party and therefore are allowed to Spam, then you could amuse yourself for a few weeks sending millions of copies of the same messages to John Howard and his son.
Are there automated tools to turn English words into Spamlish to avoid filters? (eg VIAGRA becomes VlAGRA)
I think I spent about $700 when I imported my Zaurus SL-C750 and about $1000 by the time I bought memory cards, a case, a wireless card and a VGA-out card.
Sure I could have bought a cheap laptop for the same money with all these features and a better screen and keyboard, but I wanted a good PDA, not a bad laptop. I also have a laptop for other tasks.
You cannot really write code on a PDA, but you can carry it with you everywhere and use wireless and ssh to do an urgent bug fix. I only take my laptop somewhere if I am planning to do work.
Of course, six months after buying it, I got a telecommuting job and now rarely leave the house so don't really need a PDA let alone a $1000 PDA.
I don't think any of the Zaurus series are trying to compete with Palm Zires. They do not claim to be a low end "bargain" PDA. They are a very flexible, high end PDA.
if you only want calendar, address book and PIM functions and don't intend to take advantage of the opportunity to run Linux software on them, they are not even that good a PDA. Palms have better built in software, but you will not be able to impress your nerd buddies by running a complete LAMP stack on one.
PS. I still prefer the clamshell form factor of the Japanese models. I cannot see why they are not sold elsewhere, but at least the english speaking world finally gets a 640x480 model. YOu can get the Japanese ones at Conics and Dynamism.
"OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support team. Consequently,if bugs go unresolved,users have the option to resolve problems by scouring through numerous community sites and chat rooms." is pretty funny. With MS Office of course, if bugs go unresolved users have the option to bang their head against the wall or punch their desks. Nothing they do will find somebody else able to address the problem because only MS has the source code.
Score one for OOo.
However, I think my favourite point is this one:
[businesses need to] "Ensure that their mission-critical information is adequately protected from virus attack."
Is the document supposed to be promoting MSO or OOo? I am not convinced that it should be part of a productivity suite's job to act as a virus checker, but switching users over to a suite that is not a conduit and enabler for viruses would be a good start.
In this case, a man who was attending an auction for the right to dunk him. When it looked like the auction was going to stall at about $1500 he piped up that if the bidding went over $2500 he would not only be dunked, but be dunked wearing speedos.
I am pretty sure that they are not his normal work wear, and I have no idea if he swims often enough to have "normal" swim wear.
If you want to mock his attire, he routinely wears socks and sandals, but the speedos were a brave, charitable move.
I think that the fairest comparison is to internet cafes.
They provide space, furniture, network infrastructure, and desktop pcs and are very competitive in price because there is often another one two doors down the road.
Somewhere with WiFi provide space, furniture, network infrastructure, but does not need to buy, secure, maintain and reimage desktop PCs. It should cost a lot less to run a WiFi service than it costs to run an internet cafe.
I have not seen an internet cafe that dares to charge $10 per hour. Around me, in areas where there are lots of backpackers the price seems to be first 5 minutes free then $1 per 15 minutes.
Why does WiFi cost more when the user is providing the PC?
Take a look at MySQL's current state. Way behind on the times... for example: it *still* doesn't have stored procedures. Do you realize how annoying it is hardcoding SQL statements? There's complete lack of subquerying, which really makes it a pain to do certain calculations often requiring additional queries, which is extremely inefficient (although I do understand that it's currently in alpha).
No, stored proceedures are in Alpha. Sub queries have been in production for a year.
It looks like the hardware is exactly the same, although they seem to be showing photos of the small battery (a la SL-C750) but quoting battery life equivalent to the large battery that comes with the SL-C760.
Feeding the press release to babelfish it looks like they are just pushing new software features. Easier USB connection to a PC, JP->EN->JP transation and some different software included (Eg Mah Jong and a PDF viewer).
I love my SL-C750 and wish they would start releasing them outside Japan. The release says they will make 20000 per month, so it seems that official international sales are not planned.
I think it is past time that the community had some input into sentencing guidelines for cases of computer crime. Two university students with a history of being of good character, and very likely to go on to be law abiding, productive members of society face up to five years (per offence) in jail for giving away music.
Using the 99 US cents that Apple's iTunes service charges for songs, the 1000 songs on the computer had a commercial value of around $990. If the students had stolen a car worth $990 would the DPP be recommending jail time? If they had stolen $990 worth of CDs during a house burglary is there a realistic chance that they would face jail for their first offence? Either of these non-computer crimes would have a more traumatic effect on the victim.
A crime committed using a computer deserves a sentence in line with a non-computer crime involving similar levels of victim impact, financial loss and inherent malice.
The current OSS climate in Australia is interesting. At the same time as one state (South Australia) is proposing legislation to use OSS "wherever practicable", another state (Victoria) is giving Microsoft $80000 to promote.NET use.
PHP is easier to read (particularly for a beginner)
If you want to learn Perl you will need to go and learn regualr expressions straightaway. They are useful if you use PHP too, but you can
There is more documentation aimed at the beginner and intermediate PHP user. Most Perl documentation is written with the experienced programmer in mind
Perl Pros
Your code will be shorter, saving valuable finger energy when typing
Nobody else will be able to read or modify your code, so your job should be secure
You can hang out with other Perl geeks and brag that you are so superior to lesser geeks.
I do not have a copy in front of me, to tell you exactly where or how much, but the book gives some coverage to pear. Mostly by discussing the the PEAR DB abstraction class.
You could look at the review as being out of date, as this book was published 2 years ago, but it would be better to think of it as being 2 weeks early, as the second edition is due out soon.
I do not want publically available information like his phone number and house construction materials. I want real data, of the type the government is trying to conglomerate. Satellite photos Bah! What's next, a whereis.com map?
Print me a list of his credit card transactions, the itineries from his plane journeys and his bank balance and I will be impressed.
I imagine that at those prices it will go the same way as inseat phones. One of the phone carriers is killing their $5 per minute service because there was on average 1.5 phone calls made per flight.
If you are carrying all that extra weight, you have to be able to get people to buy it or it is just going out backwards.
I would not mind an iPod, but this is a stupid idea. Most of the people stupid enough to want a pointless celebrity endorsement on their purchases are too young for an iPod.
Star Wars lunch boxes sell well to the to young to know any better, but I don't think many in this demographic have the spending power for consumer electonics.
The only positive side I see is that surely some or all of the people they pick will turn out really unpopular. There has to be an iPod equivalent of the Jar Jar Binks lunch box.
I picture the price list this way: Madonna iPod $349 Regular iPod $299 Mariah Carey iPod $149 (with bonus laser/bubblejet printable sticker slightly larger than signature)
I have a bunch of hobby/unfinished sites lying around on different cheap and free hosts all over the place. All have low traffic and space requirements, but need PHP and a database.
Does anybody know any cheap hosts that allow you to run multiple domains from the one account?
This is one of those topics where people who are wrong are not going to change.
Stupid is as stupid does and all that, but for what it matters, the official word from Lego is:
The trademark LEGO should be written in CAPITAL letters.
The LEGO trademark should not be referred to in a generic way such as "LEGOS" of
"legos", or as plural or possessive words like "LEGO's".
When using the LEGO trademark as a noun, please never leave it alone. Always add and
extra noun, e.g. LEGO sets, LEGO products, LEGO toys, LEGO building bricks, LEGO
universe, etc.
"There just happens to be a boatload of example code for teaching that uses various primitive forms of BASIC...."
"Ah, here it is: "How to Create Adventure Games" by Cristopher Lampton (long out of print). An excellent intro to programming..."
I have taken the liberty of trimming your post, but you have pointed out the problem yourself. There is heaps of basic sample code buried in out of print books.
You need languages where there is extensive sample code available in current books or on the web.
Have you considered PHP? You can teach people with no background to do useful stuff in it very quickly.
When you were 8 you might have wanted to create a text adventure, but the 8 year olds of today will never have seen one. They want to create software that looks like software they use. GUI stuff is hard, but simple web stuff can be learned very quickly.
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12"
p ecsheets/s_TBW2.pdf
3 lbs
1024x768
802.11g
Ethernet, modem, USB
DVD-ROM/CDRW in USA - DVD-RAM/R/RW in Japan
7.5 hour battery
No idea how good/bad the graphics card is
Good linux compatibility. No support for the SD card slot. Immature driver for the Intel wireless chipset. Everything else seems to work fine under linux, but I have not tested a few things like the modem.
US version: ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/toughbook/s
Japan Version: http://www.dynamism.com/w2/
Why do you want lots of addresses?
Surely if you are starting a political party and therefore are allowed to Spam, then you could amuse yourself for a few weeks sending millions of copies of the same messages to John Howard and his son.
Are there automated tools to turn English words into Spamlish to avoid filters? (eg VIAGRA becomes VlAGRA)
I think I spent about $700 when I imported my Zaurus SL-C750 and about $1000 by the time I bought memory cards, a case, a wireless card and a VGA-out card.
Sure I could have bought a cheap laptop for the same money with all these features and a better screen and keyboard, but I wanted a good PDA, not a bad laptop. I also have a laptop for other tasks.
You cannot really write code on a PDA, but you can carry it with you everywhere and use wireless and ssh to do an urgent bug fix. I only take my laptop somewhere if I am planning to do work.
Of course, six months after buying it, I got a telecommuting job and now rarely leave the house so don't really need a PDA let alone a $1000 PDA.
I don't think any of the Zaurus series are trying to compete with Palm Zires. They do not claim to be a low end "bargain" PDA. They are a very flexible, high end PDA.
if you only want calendar, address book and PIM functions and don't intend to take advantage of the opportunity to run Linux software on them, they are not even that good a PDA. Palms have better built in software, but you will not be able to impress your nerd buddies by running a complete LAMP stack on one.
PS. I still prefer the clamshell form factor of the Japanese models. I cannot see why they are not sold elsewhere, but at least the english speaking world finally gets a 640x480 model. YOu can get the Japanese ones at Conics and Dynamism.
"OpenOffice does not have a dedicated development or support team. Consequently,if bugs go unresolved,users have the option to resolve problems by scouring through numerous community sites and chat rooms." is pretty funny. With MS Office of course, if bugs go unresolved users have the option to bang their head against the wall or punch their desks. Nothing they do will find somebody else able to address the problem because only MS has the source code.
Score one for OOo.
However, I think my favourite point is this one:
[businesses need to] "Ensure that their mission-critical information is adequately protected from virus attack."
Is the document supposed to be promoting MSO or OOo? I am not convinced that it should be part of a productivity suite's job to act as a virus checker, but switching users over to a suite that is not a conduit and enabler for viruses would be a good start.
Score two for OOo.
Who wears speedos?
In this case, a man who was attending an auction for the right to dunk him. When it looked like the auction was going to stall at about $1500 he piped up that if the bidding went over $2500 he would not only be dunked, but be dunked wearing speedos.
I am pretty sure that they are not his normal work wear, and I have no idea if he swims often enough to have "normal" swim wear.
If you want to mock his attire, he routinely wears socks and sandals, but the speedos were a brave, charitable move.
I think that the fairest comparison is to internet cafes.
They provide space, furniture, network infrastructure, and desktop pcs and are very competitive in price because there is often another one two doors down the road.
Somewhere with WiFi provide space, furniture, network infrastructure, but does not need to buy, secure, maintain and reimage desktop PCs. It should cost a lot less to run a WiFi service than it costs to run an internet cafe.
I have not seen an internet cafe that dares to charge $10 per hour. Around me, in areas where there are lots of backpackers the price seems to be first 5 minutes free then $1 per 15 minutes.
Why does WiFi cost more when the user is providing the PC?
No, stored proceedures are in Alpha. Sub queries have been in production for a year.
It looks like the hardware is exactly the same, although they seem to be showing photos of the small battery (a la SL-C750) but quoting battery life equivalent to the large battery that comes with the SL-C760.
Feeding the press release to babelfish it looks like they are just pushing new software features. Easier USB connection to a PC, JP->EN->JP transation and some different software included (Eg Mah Jong and a PDF viewer).
I love my SL-C750 and wish they would start releasing them outside Japan. The release says they will make 20000 per month, so it seems that official international sales are not planned.
I think it is past time that the community had some input into sentencing guidelines for cases of computer crime. Two university students with a history of being of good character, and very likely to go on to be law abiding, productive members of society face up to five years (per offence) in jail for giving away music.
Using the 99 US cents that Apple's iTunes service charges for songs, the 1000 songs on the computer had a commercial value of around $990. If the students had stolen a car worth $990 would the DPP be recommending jail time? If they had stolen $990 worth of CDs during a house burglary is there a realistic chance that they would face jail for their first offence? Either of these non-computer crimes would have a more traumatic effect on the victim.
A crime committed using a computer deserves a sentence in line with a non-computer crime involving similar levels of victim impact, financial loss and inherent malice.
Is it too late to nominate human resource consultant to the list?
Here is an idea for an ask slashdot thread:
"Have you ever bought anything off an infomercial and been happy with it?"
I cannot see why you would sell anything that way if it would sell in normal outlets.
The current OSS climate in Australia is interesting. At the same time as one state (South Australia) is proposing legislation to use OSS "wherever practicable", another state (Victoria) is giving Microsoft $80000 to promote .NET use.
- PHP is easier to read (particularly for a beginner)
- If you want to learn Perl you will need to go and learn regualr expressions straightaway. They are useful if you use PHP too, but you can
- There is more documentation aimed at the beginner and intermediate PHP user. Most Perl documentation is written with the experienced programmer in mind
Perl ProsI do not have a copy in front of me, to tell you exactly where or how much, but the book gives some coverage to pear. Mostly by discussing the the PEAR DB abstraction class.
You could look at the review as being out of date, as this book was published 2 years ago, but it would be better to think of it as being 2 weeks early, as the second edition is due out soon.
Here is the old edition.
Here is the new one.
If you want to build your own URL at a non-patenting bookstore, the ISBNs are 0672317842 (1st ed) and 067232525X (2nd ed).
I don't think people are really trying.
I do not want publically available information like his phone number and house construction materials. I want real data, of the type the government is trying to conglomerate. Satellite photos Bah! What's next, a whereis.com map?
Print me a list of his credit card transactions, the itineries from his plane journeys and his bank balance and I will be impressed.
They are talking $30 per leg.
I imagine that at those prices it will go the same way as inseat phones. One of the phone carriers is killing their $5 per minute service because there was on average 1.5 phone calls made per flight.
If you are carrying all that extra weight, you have to be able to get people to buy it or it is just going out backwards.
I would not mind an iPod, but this is a stupid idea. Most of the people stupid enough to want a pointless celebrity endorsement on their purchases are too young for an iPod.
Star Wars lunch boxes sell well to the to young to know any better, but I don't think many in this demographic have the spending power for consumer electonics.
The only positive side I see is that surely some or all of the people they pick will turn out really unpopular. There has to be an iPod equivalent of the Jar Jar Binks lunch box.
I picture the price list this way:
Madonna iPod $349
Regular iPod $299
Mariah Carey iPod $149 (with bonus laser/bubblejet printable sticker slightly larger than signature)
Remember that the whole game funding model is based on selling you shoes that slowly degrade.
I have a related question.
I have a bunch of hobby/unfinished sites lying around on different cheap and free hosts all over the place. All have low traffic and space requirements, but need PHP and a database.
Does anybody know any cheap hosts that allow you to run multiple domains from the one account?
This is one of those topics where people who are wrong are not going to change.
Stupid is as stupid does and all that, but for what it matters, the official word from Lego is:
(Quote from: http://www.lego.com/info/pdf/presskituk.pdf )
So there you have it.
"This is my Lego" is wrong.
"These are my Legos" is worse.
"These are my LEGO bricks" is correct.
This has already been done.
"There just happens to be a boatload of example code for teaching that uses various primitive forms of BASIC. ..."
"Ah, here it is: "How to Create Adventure Games" by Cristopher Lampton (long out of print). An excellent intro to programming..."
I have taken the liberty of trimming your post, but you have pointed out the problem yourself. There is heaps of basic sample code buried in out of print books.
You need languages where there is extensive sample code available in current books or on the web.
Have you considered PHP? You can teach people with no background to do useful stuff in it very quickly.
When you were 8 you might have wanted to create a text adventure, but the 8 year olds of today will never have seen one. They want to create software that looks like software they use. GUI stuff is hard, but simple web stuff can be learned very quickly.
"The St. Louis Anheister-Busch Eye Institute", known to its friends as the St. Louis Beer Goggles Institute.
Does the fact that this story got posted have anything to do with the banner ads they have been buying on slashdot?