Or any of the dozens of HP emulators available for almost every platform that has two transistors to rub together... I use Free42 on my n810. (Yeah, I know, it's not technically an emulator, but you'd never know that it wasn't running actual HP ROMs.)
Though I also have the 25 year old HP-15C that got me through an EE degree, as well as a 42S and a 16C that I acquired later. They all work great and see almost daily use. Especially the 16C which is, without question, the best damn programmer's calculator ever made.
The iPad is still a "tethered device". So in it's current condition, it will never be independently useful. You will always need a Windows PC running iTunes in order to deal with it.
Damn. Yet another device that's not Mac compatible!
My friend is a university chemistry professor. She has complained endlessly that her incoming students lack fundamental math skills. They mindlessly write down whatever their calculator tells them even though it may be off by many orders of magnitude.
Amen. My son is a high school senior. His Algebra II teacher actually encourages the use of graphing calculators and Excel for plotting equations. So my son plugs in the numbers and copies the graph into his homework. Except he only ever plots points at integer values near 0. So naturally his graphs don't represent how the curve really looks. Is there a singularity? He'll never see it. Even if it's at one of the integers he's plotting, Excel just throws #NaN and ignores the point in the graph. He graphed a cubic once, but the graph was just a straight line. Well, yeah, in that range, that's what it looked like. He completely missed the idea of the roots and plotted a wholly uninteresting portion of the curve.
Bah. Kids. And I have no idea what his teacher is thinking!
Remember when Amiga died in large part due to piracy, and all the gaming moved to PC?
Um, no, I don't. I remember when the Amiga died in large part due to mismanagement by Commodore. Did it die more than once? 'Cause I totally missed the piracy death.
Remember when the Apple ][ died in large part due to piracy? No? There was at least as much game piracy on that platform. Maybe piracy isn't a big contributing factor.
What is valued is the number of hours you do every day. It doesn't matter if you do something or not !!! I worked 8 hours a day, but was less considered than some other guys who were working 2 hours, but been present 10 hours.
Amen. I found the same thing when I worked at Konami in the late '90s. The guys on schedule who went home at a reasonable hour were looked down upon; the guys behind schedule but who were in the office all night got the praise. One guy had a cot under his desk and went home about twice a week to shower. But the quality of his code was absolute crap. It was supposedly C++ code. That's the compiler we used, anyway... I pretty-printed his main() function once, with 1-space indents. The middle of the loop had more than 80 columns of leading whitespace! And he's the one who got the management recognition, not the people who wrote solid code the first time around. I would have sworn that the company's motto was "Work harder, not smarter."
No, it's just that everybody only knows this bad way of working, and nobody intends to change that: they don't have the time to try other ways !!!
That is so, so true. It's a great industry to get out of.
Yeah, at this point it seems to be just another one of the "Flying cars! Personal jet packs! Real Soon Now!" announcements we've been seeing for the past 50 or 60 years. Let me know when they're in production. I'm not going to hold my breath.
If the terms of the BSD license is not good enough, I'd tell them to piss off.
That is precisely what I'd do. The BSD license allows the recipient to use, change and redistribute a package damn near any way they want. The only stipulations are that the copyright notice has to be retained somewhere (in the docs is fine); they can make no claim that the original author endorses this product; and they're not allowed to sue the original author should the code be found buggy or otherwise unsuitable for the purpose. That's it. Give us credit, don't put words in our mouths, don't sue us. Beyond that, do what you want. It's the most permissive thing out there short of actual public domain.
If that's not good enough, screw 'em. Any hang-ups about open-source software are their own problem.
Of course, sufficient remuneration would get me to change my mind. I admit I'm a whore; but I'm not a cheap one!
We run a milter which applies X-Truedomain-* headers (view source on those messages - you'll see that even the Logo image is added a per-message basis as a Base64 encoded header)
So what happens when I spoof the X-Truedomain headers? It seems that this solution just pushes the verification off to someone else, but doesn't actually solve the problem.
I read your link, which really only says, "Truedomain does the verification and we trust Truedomain." No details. So I looked at the Truedomain web site. It is a mission statement and a copyright notice. That's it. It's not exactly inspiring confidence.
(And really, "milter"? You can say that with a straight face?)
Reality isn't fun. If it was we wouldn't play games.
It's not so much that reality isn't fun, it's that reality isn't what I want when I play a game. I'm in a 100% convincingly realistic environment throughout most of my day. I play games for a bit of fun escapism, not for gritty, socially relevant realism.
Of course, that's why I don't read "graphic novels", either. In my day we called them "comic books" and they were fun.
Do we have the technology for Open Source miniatures to work? It's certainly easy enough to make a lossy reproduction of a suitably designed miniature, by making a mould and melting some lead. 3D printing could become mainstream soonish. It just needs enough people to be interested.
Sculpted miniatures are nice, but the games play just as well with cardstock cut-outs. The ones I linked to are for sale, but Steve Jackson has no proprietary claim to the technology of printing a figure on a piece of heavy paper and folding it. You just need to find someone who can draw better than a stick figure(*) to do the artwork.
(* Not that XKCD: The Role-Playing Game wouldn't be... interesting.)
The thing to remember is that although their language and culture are similar to ours, there are lots of little differences that will trip you up. Do your research. It's getting a little dated now, but there was a wonderful documentary series on English life a few years back that will really help you get a feel for the place.
And don't forget that you'll need to install the Region 2 distro of your OS, or your laptop won't work over there. To play it safe you might also want to pack a PAL-to-NTSC converter for the display.
We were on Verizon for the length of our contract plus 11 months. Then we switched to Sprint. Verizon wanted us to pay the early cancellation fee, despite there being nothing "early" about it. Their claim was that by continuing to use the phone we had renewed the contract. Yeah, right. It's only taken three years, but their collections people have finally stopped calling us.
Most web commenting is pretty ridiculous amateur-hour nonsense. Its housewives and teens giving us their "wisdom." Web forums have been politicized by partisans. Fringe nutters have turned everything into their own PR outlets.
What a typical left-wing liberal comment. The government lets people like you post freely to the internet, so how can we trust them to run our healthcare system? I guess that's what you get when you vote a socialist Muslim Kenyan national into the White House.
That's the trouble. The name is too generic for an effective search. These days there's no excuse for programs named for common words. It's cute and all, but good luck constructing a query that weeds out irrelevant crap.
Heh. A non-postmodernist is a rarer find than people think these days. The illogical and irrational belief that you can have your truth and I can have mine and they are both equal is pretty prevalent, though.
No, the most beautiful part was that such tools were not prohibited. Prior to 9/11 I never had problems flying with a Leatherman or Swiss Army Knife in my carry-on. No plausible deniability necessary. Back then security actually knew the difference between a weapon and a tool.
(Well, for the most part. I was once hassled about a laser pointer on my keychain. The security guy saw the "Warning: Laser Radiation" sticker and kind of freaked over the "radiation" part.)
I'd be much happier if sites would just get their fscking 'charset' tags set properly. I suppose now we can look forward to smart-quotes mis-encoded in a whole variety of site-specific fonts!
this is a clear sign that governments realize that Open Source does not pose additional risks compared to proprietary software
Huh. Now to me, this is a clear sign that they hired a new web guy who happens to have experience with and a preference for Drupal. I don't think there's a necessarily a political statement here.
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Or any of the dozens of HP emulators available for almost every platform that has two transistors to rub together... I use Free42 on my n810. (Yeah, I know, it's not technically an emulator, but you'd never know that it wasn't running actual HP ROMs.)
Though I also have the 25 year old HP-15C that got me through an EE degree, as well as a 42S and a 16C that I acquired later. They all work great and see almost daily use. Especially the 16C which is, without question, the best damn programmer's calculator ever made.
Damn. Yet another device that's not Mac compatible!
In that case, why bother with the body scanner? Just require everyone to fly completely nude.
Amen. My son is a high school senior. His Algebra II teacher actually encourages the use of graphing calculators and Excel for plotting equations. So my son plugs in the numbers and copies the graph into his homework. Except he only ever plots points at integer values near 0. So naturally his graphs don't represent how the curve really looks. Is there a singularity? He'll never see it. Even if it's at one of the integers he's plotting, Excel just throws #NaN and ignores the point in the graph. He graphed a cubic once, but the graph was just a straight line. Well, yeah, in that range, that's what it looked like. He completely missed the idea of the roots and plotted a wholly uninteresting portion of the curve.
Bah. Kids. And I have no idea what his teacher is thinking!
Am I the only one reading this and asking, "WTF is Canonical?" Neither TFS nor TFA give much of a clue here. Ubuntu's corporate overlord, maybe?
Um, no, I don't. I remember when the Amiga died in large part due to mismanagement by Commodore. Did it die more than once? 'Cause I totally missed the piracy death.
Remember when the Apple ][ died in large part due to piracy? No? There was at least as much game piracy on that platform. Maybe piracy isn't a big contributing factor.
Amen. I found the same thing when I worked at Konami in the late '90s. The guys on schedule who went home at a reasonable hour were looked down upon; the guys behind schedule but who were in the office all night got the praise. One guy had a cot under his desk and went home about twice a week to shower. But the quality of his code was absolute crap. It was supposedly C++ code. That's the compiler we used, anyway... I pretty-printed his main() function once, with 1-space indents. The middle of the loop had more than 80 columns of leading whitespace! And he's the one who got the management recognition, not the people who wrote solid code the first time around. I would have sworn that the company's motto was "Work harder, not smarter."
That is so, so true. It's a great industry to get out of.
Yeah, at this point it seems to be just another one of the "Flying cars! Personal jet packs! Real Soon Now!" announcements we've been seeing for the past 50 or 60 years. Let me know when they're in production. I'm not going to hold my breath.
That is precisely what I'd do. The BSD license allows the recipient to use, change and redistribute a package damn near any way they want. The only stipulations are that the copyright notice has to be retained somewhere (in the docs is fine); they can make no claim that the original author endorses this product; and they're not allowed to sue the original author should the code be found buggy or otherwise unsuitable for the purpose. That's it. Give us credit, don't put words in our mouths, don't sue us. Beyond that, do what you want. It's the most permissive thing out there short of actual public domain.
If that's not good enough, screw 'em. Any hang-ups about open-source software are their own problem.
Of course, sufficient remuneration would get me to change my mind. I admit I'm a whore; but I'm not a cheap one!
So what happens when I spoof the X-Truedomain headers? It seems that this solution just pushes the verification off to someone else, but doesn't actually solve the problem.
I read your link, which really only says, "Truedomain does the verification and we trust Truedomain." No details. So I looked at the Truedomain web site. It is a mission statement and a copyright notice. That's it. It's not exactly inspiring confidence.
(And really, "milter"? You can say that with a straight face?)
It's not so much that reality isn't fun, it's that reality isn't what I want when I play a game. I'm in a 100% convincingly realistic environment throughout most of my day. I play games for a bit of fun escapism, not for gritty, socially relevant realism.
Of course, that's why I don't read "graphic novels", either. In my day we called them "comic books" and they were fun.
It is.
Some sort of Recording Industry Association, then?
I use a Mac, you insensitive clod!
I hear you can vastly improve the sound quality of your vinyl by coloring the outer rim with a green magic marker.
Sculpted miniatures are nice, but the games play just as well with cardstock cut-outs. The ones I linked to are for sale, but Steve Jackson has no proprietary claim to the technology of printing a figure on a piece of heavy paper and folding it. You just need to find someone who can draw better than a stick figure(*) to do the artwork.
(* Not that XKCD: The Role-Playing Game wouldn't be... interesting.)
The thing to remember is that although their language and culture are similar to ours, there are lots of little differences that will trip you up. Do your research. It's getting a little dated now, but there was a wonderful documentary series on English life a few years back that will really help you get a feel for the place.
And don't forget that you'll need to install the Region 2 distro of your OS, or your laptop won't work over there. To play it safe you might also want to pack a PAL-to-NTSC converter for the display.
We were on Verizon for the length of our contract plus 11 months. Then we switched to Sprint. Verizon wanted us to pay the early cancellation fee, despite there being nothing "early" about it. Their claim was that by continuing to use the phone we had renewed the contract. Yeah, right. It's only taken three years, but their collections people have finally stopped calling us.
What a typical left-wing liberal comment. The government lets people like you post freely to the internet, so how can we trust them to run our healthcare system? I guess that's what you get when you vote a socialist Muslim Kenyan national into the White House.
That's the trouble. The name is too generic for an effective search. These days there's no excuse for programs named for common words. It's cute and all, but good luck constructing a query that weeds out irrelevant crap.
That's not irrational, that's Omniquantism.
No, the most beautiful part was that such tools were not prohibited. Prior to 9/11 I never had problems flying with a Leatherman or Swiss Army Knife in my carry-on. No plausible deniability necessary. Back then security actually knew the difference between a weapon and a tool.
(Well, for the most part. I was once hassled about a laser pointer on my keychain. The security guy saw the "Warning: Laser Radiation" sticker and kind of freaked over the "radiation" part.)
What if I'm shooting womp rats and I "accidentally" destroy the government's latest technological terror?
I'd be much happier if sites would just get their fscking 'charset' tags set properly. I suppose now we can look forward to smart-quotes mis-encoded in a whole variety of site-specific fonts!
Huh. Now to me, this is a clear sign that they hired a new web guy who happens to have experience with and a preference for Drupal. I don't think there's a necessarily a political statement here.