It simulates a manual typewriter and when smacked on the side, it performs a carriage return including the bell ring
On the typewriters I have used, the bell doesn't ring when you do a carriage return. It rings when you reach a certain column so that you know that you are beginning to reach the end of the line and that you may want to do a carriage return before typing the next word.
So MS realises that not all people will migrate from Linux to Windows. So should they offer a MS Linux?
Nah!
Instead they will offer a hypervisor. And make sure that most Linux distributions run fine under that. To help you make the decision to run Linux under a MS hypervisor, the hypervisor will offer better access to some hardware (wireless, modems, 3D graphics, DRM stuff, etc) that has no OS drivers.
Once people get used to running Linux under Windows, MS has a half victory. Now they can control how well Linux solutions run compared to running "natively on Windows".
The idea behind the program, Blank said, is to make computer science more hands-on and practical, rather than simply about debugging programs.
Or maybe the idea is to make sure that the students have to use windows in order to use the robots. MS wants its OS to be used more for embedded and controller applications and have to do something to stop the students from using those small, open, inexpensive Linux systems.
Or am I wrong? Could the students use the robots and textbooks without MS tech?
for a site doing a story on beautiful OSX apps, probably don't want to have blue links on a blue background
For a site doing a story on OSX apps, it renders beautifully in the Safari browser (which is supplied with OSX). The text and blue links are on a white page that sits on the blue background.
I looked at the page in firefox and got the blue links on blue background.
Since the site is heavy on CSS, I would guess that the problem is that your browser doesn't render the CSS properly?
You could check if your browser handles CSS well by taking the acid2 test.
The emusic linux download really sucked when I last used it.
I ended up ditching it because it was so hard to download albums. Their binary file was linked to some.so file that didn't exist on fedora
Yes the download manager sucks, but it is easy to fix this.
Click on "Your account" Click on "Change Download Manager" Click on the button that Disables the eMusic download manager Now you can download any song by right-clicking on the download button and select "Save as..."
The size of my laptop can be reduced to the size of the keyboard
The weight of my laptop can be reduced significantly
The battery time can be extended since the wearable display uses less power than the LCD backlight
The cost of the whole laptop can be cheaper since massproducing a micro-LCD device should be significantly cheaper than producing an 12 - 17 inch LCD.
I can get a laptop with a 30+ inch display in a format more compact than a 12 inch laptop.
... I can hardly wait! Bring it on!
And to those of you who wouldn't dare using it in public because of the fear being mugged: I hope the mass production of these devices would make them as common as the earplugs everyone is using with their MP3-players nowadays.
The problem with patents is that most people think that patent owners are heroes and if your country awards more patents it is an indicator on how inventive your country is. People also believe that patents encourage a competitive industry.
Newsflash: Patents = monopolies
A patent is a monopoly on a technology. The patent office is a government institution that hands out several thousand monopolies each year. Most of these monopolies are awarded to foreign corporations.
Why would someone who believes in market economy and free competition support the government handing out monopolies?
How can handing out monopolies to corporations increase competition in the market place?
Why is Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, applying for, and getting a large number of legal monopolies? Why does the government sue MS for abusing their monopoly, and then give them thousands of legally enforcable monopolies?
What is being stored is the mathmatical representation of the fingerprint, not an image of the fingerprint itself.
True. To get the image of the fingerprint, it is much easier to actually lift it from the surface of the card, since the owner has probably touched it before you stole it.
Since you leave your fingerprints on anything you touch, are you going to wear gloves 24/7 when you get your biometric card to try to keep your fingerprints "secret"?
If you have iTunes, you can check out the latest systm video cast which features a demonstration by John Todd. Shows how to set up Asterisk. 47 minutes in length. Go to iTunes and search for "systm".
Or turn a camera-equipped mobile phone into an optical mouse? Preferrably with bluetooth support using the built-in phone BT chip! It should only be some programming to get it to work, right? Finally a sensible use for cameraphones.
I would think that just converting mp3 into wma is a generally bad idea, since the sound is guaranteed only to get worse, as things most often do when converting from a lossy compression to another.
The next thing to happen is that some "independant analysts" will do a blind test and compare MP3 encoded files with WMA files on these devices. The result will prove that WMA encoding is superior.
...but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!
Funny reasoning!
So why do you think you have to use Vista? Or if you think you need to upgrade your OS, why don't you consider Linux which I'm sure offers a better DVD watching experience than Vista on that hardware?
what we need is simplicity when it comes to voting, not complexity
Amen!
The elections in Sweden uses paper ballots that you put in envelopes. Usually, very accurate preliminary results are available just some hours after the election is closed. And the counting is done by people, not machines. I would say that the public trust in the election procedures is very high although there have been cases of cheating (a case when a party person "helped" mentally handicapped people to vote).
In the Swedish elections, you (1) choose a party by selecting a ballot and (2) optionally select a person from a list on the ballot by using a pen. In cases where the pen markings are illegible, the party still gets the vote.
If there is a Yes/No election, we have Yes ballots and No ballots.
One thing that differs from the American system is that Swedish elections normally vote on three or four things at the same day. I believe that Americans vote on many more things.
If you are interested, visit the election web site and click on "international" for english text. ("val" means "election")
Actually, the SQL standard includes dates, intervals and functions to handle these types. Unfortunately, most SQL implementations use their own proprietary stuff. You might want to rephrase your wish to:
1. I want my SQL product to support the standard date functions.
It would be a great timesaver if the slashdot story could mention up front that the Toms Hardware article ends up building a Microsoft Media (whatever its called) box.
So government worms can be beneficial? What government? The US? the Chinese?
"Beneficial" according to what point of view? Does the owner of the system get any say in this? If he does, why do we need a worm instead of a normal program that can be voluntarily installed?
If not, then this is just a normal malware worm with added propaganda and spin.
Ever since journaling file systems became available I just started turning the power off to my computers (via a power strip) rather than going through the shutdown command.
That's a very bad idea. Normally, journaling file systems only guarantee that the file/directory structure remains intact. It does not necessarily guarantee that the data in the files hit the disk. Also, your disk will probably have a cache that is lost when you remove power. Whatever is in the cache will also be lost.
So your file system may be intact, but your practices will probably destroy data.
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It simulates a manual typewriter and when smacked on the side, it performs a carriage return including the bell ring
On the typewriters I have used, the bell doesn't ring when you do a carriage return. It rings when you reach a certain column so that you know that you are beginning to reach the end of the line and that you may want to do a carriage return before typing the next word.
So MS realises that not all people will migrate from Linux to Windows. So should they offer a MS Linux?
Nah!
Instead they will offer a hypervisor. And make sure that most Linux distributions run fine under that. To help you make the decision to run Linux under a MS hypervisor, the hypervisor will offer better access to some hardware (wireless, modems, 3D graphics, DRM stuff, etc) that has no OS drivers.
Once people get used to running Linux under Windows, MS has a half victory. Now they can control how well Linux solutions run compared to running "natively on Windows".
*shudder*
20 years ago there was nothing strange about having an actual quicksort machine instruction (VAXen had it).
While the VAX had some complex instructions (such as double-linked queue handling), it did not have a quicksort instruction.
Here is the instruction set manual.
The idea behind the program, Blank said, is to make computer science more hands-on and practical, rather than simply about debugging programs.
Or maybe the idea is to make sure that the students have to use windows in order to use the robots. MS wants its OS to be used more for embedded and controller applications and have to do something to stop the students from using those small, open, inexpensive Linux systems.
Or am I wrong? Could the students use the robots and textbooks without MS tech?
for a site doing a story on beautiful OSX apps, probably don't want to have blue links on a blue background
For a site doing a story on OSX apps, it renders beautifully in the Safari browser (which is supplied with OSX). The text and blue links are on a white page that sits on the blue background.
I looked at the page in firefox and got the blue links on blue background.
Since the site is heavy on CSS, I would guess that the problem is that your browser doesn't render the CSS properly?
You could check if your browser handles CSS well by taking the acid2 test.
http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2
And a nerd would check his calculations before posting: :-(
0.074dm3 / 100km = 0.000074m3 / 100000m = 0.00000000074m2 = 740um2
Any nerd knows that fuel consumption is measured in square meters (m2 with the 2 superscripted).
;-)
You have 0.074 liters/100 km which is:
0.074dm3 / 100km = 0.000074m3 / 100000m = 0.00000000074m2 = 0.74mm2
So the correct unit is 0.74 square millimeters!
If you imagine a 100 km long pipe filled with 0.074 liters, the area of the cross section would be 0.74 square millimeters.
Except then you can only download, I think, three tracks at a time.
I think this is limited by your browser and not emusic.com. Look at the settings for the browser you are using.
When I use Safari (Mac) I can download 4 tracks simultaneously.
The emusic linux download really sucked when I last used it.
.so file that didn't exist on fedora
I ended up ditching it because it was so hard to download albums. Their binary file was linked to some
Yes the download manager sucks, but it is easy to fix this.
Click on "Your account"
Click on "Change Download Manager"
Click on the button that Disables the eMusic download manager
Now you can download any song by right-clicking on the download button and select "Save as..."
And to those of you who wouldn't dare using it in public because of the fear being mugged: I hope the mass production of these devices would make them as common as the earplugs everyone is using with their MP3-players nowadays.
The problem with patents is that most people think that patent owners are heroes and if your country awards more patents it is an indicator on how inventive your country is. People also believe that patents encourage a competitive industry.
Newsflash: Patents = monopolies
A patent is a monopoly on a technology. The patent office is a government institution that hands out several thousand monopolies each year. Most of these monopolies are awarded to foreign corporations.
Why would someone who believes in market economy and free competition support the government handing out monopolies?
How can handing out monopolies to corporations increase competition in the market place?
Why is Microsoft, a convicted monopolist, applying for, and getting a large number of legal monopolies? Why does the government sue MS for abusing their monopoly, and then give them thousands of legally enforcable monopolies?
What is being stored is the mathmatical representation of the fingerprint, not an image of the fingerprint itself.
True. To get the image of the fingerprint, it is much easier to actually lift it from the surface of the card, since the owner has probably touched it before you stole it.
Since you leave your fingerprints on anything you touch, are you going to wear gloves 24/7 when you get your biometric card to try to keep your fingerprints "secret"?
If you have iTunes, you can check out the latest systm video cast which features a demonstration by John Todd. Shows how to set up Asterisk. 47 minutes in length. Go to iTunes and search for "systm".
Or turn a camera-equipped mobile phone into an optical mouse? Preferrably with bluetooth support using the built-in phone BT chip! It should only be some programming to get it to work, right? Finally a sensible use for cameraphones.
I would think that just converting mp3 into wma is a generally bad idea, since the sound is guaranteed only to get worse, as things most often do when converting from a lossy compression to another.
The next thing to happen is that some "independant analysts" will do a blind test and compare MP3 encoded files with WMA files on these devices. The result will prove that WMA encoding is superior.
...but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!
Funny reasoning!
So why do you think you have to use Vista?
Or if you think you need to upgrade your OS, why don't you consider Linux which I'm sure offers a better DVD watching experience than Vista on that hardware?
How much did this report earn you from Microsoft personally? How much did you company get?
Do you get extra money for spreading the news about the report like you do here on Slashdot, or is this included in your original deal?
what we need is simplicity when it comes to voting, not complexity
Amen!
The elections in Sweden uses paper ballots that you put in envelopes. Usually, very accurate preliminary results are available just some hours after the election is closed. And the counting is done by people, not machines. I would say that the public trust in the election procedures is very high although there have been cases of cheating (a case when a party person "helped" mentally handicapped people to vote).
In the Swedish elections, you (1) choose a party by selecting a ballot and (2) optionally select a person from a list on the ballot by using a pen. In cases where the pen markings are illegible, the party still gets the vote.
If there is a Yes/No election, we have Yes ballots and No ballots.
One thing that differs from the American system is that Swedish elections normally vote on three or four things at the same day. I believe that Americans vote on many more things.
If you are interested, visit the election web site and click on "international" for english text. ("val" means "election")
http://www.val.se/
1. Standard date functions and handling.
Actually, the SQL standard includes dates, intervals and functions to handle these types. Unfortunately, most SQL implementations use their own proprietary stuff. You might want to rephrase your wish to:
1. I want my SQL product to support the standard date functions.
Talk to your vendor...
It would be a great timesaver if the slashdot story could mention up front that the Toms Hardware article ends up building a Microsoft Media (whatever its called) box.
So government worms can be beneficial? What government? The US? the Chinese?
"Beneficial" according to what point of view? Does the owner of the system get any say in this? If he does, why do we need a worm instead of a normal program that can be voluntarily installed?
If not, then this is just a normal malware worm with added propaganda and spin.
Ever since journaling file systems became available I just started turning the power off to my computers (via a power strip) rather than going through the shutdown command.
That's a very bad idea. Normally, journaling file systems only guarantee that the file/directory structure remains intact. It does not necessarily guarantee that the data in the files hit the disk. Also, your disk will probably have a cache that is lost when you remove power. Whatever is in the cache will also be lost.
So your file system may be intact, but your practices will probably destroy data.
Consumers today want portability. They don't like lock-in.
That's unfortunately not true, which is proved by all the people using NTFS (or Office).
The exchange is not especially funny; mostly silly.
But I'm surprised they got sacked over THAT. Why couldn't their manager just have a serious talk with them? Couldn't that have cleared any problem?
If having this exchange is improper, then what about the guys that sent it to rival law firms? Isn't that more improper? Were they sacked? Why not?
Is this an example of sexism?
This document (PDF) is from 1999 and explains why the Alpha engineers thought Alpha would win over Itanium.
i a64.pdf
http://www.raytheon-computers.com/ref_docs/alpha_
The rest we know; the Alpha was ditched when HP bought Compaq (who bought DEC earlier), because HP wanted to eliminate any threats to its Itanium bet.