1. Under 2 lbs of weight (HP's is too heavy) 2. 10.4" screen (or bigger) with WXGA 3. Tablet 4. Core2 duo or better 5. 6 Hours of battery or more (see pt. 1) 6. Durable
Uh, hate replying to myself but that was supposed to be: Hemlock tea exists and is OK for you so long it is made from the tree and NOT from the ground plant (that's the version that killed Socrates).
A quick google search turns up a company named TerraVita which sells its hemlock tea for $14 per 25 bags box. So the GP already has competitors.
This may work in disciplines where a singular achievement is key. So prizes for proving a math theorem that stood for a century are quite reasonable and are already done. They do not serve as incentives for scientific effort because the effort is prohibitive intellectually rather than financially. Putting up a prize is just a way of saying: this problem is really important. So if you've got a vision and lots of money but no mad intellectual skillz then by all means, put up a prize. However this will not work for basic research in natural sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, etc). The reason is that there are no singular achievements. Experimental measurements are often not trusted until they are repeated by several groups and usually these other groups add key details to the original measurement. Likewise, theories are often explaining the same phenomena from different angles (schrodinger and heisenberg versions of quantum mechanics, Landau and BCS explanations of superconductivity, etc). So large prizes are only likely to sow discord in those communities not foster more productivity.
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The translation given on the page is quite precise. I was going to post a translation on Slashdot but then saw that they did a great job themselves.
Is there an open blacklist like this. Those of us who do use net porn are often afraid of accidentally clicking a link to something illegal like this. Once it is in your cache, you go prove you are innocent. So it'd be nice to have a blacklist of sites for personal use. It would be even better if it were like a custom DNS service which would not resolve bad sites and I were free to choose to use it.
The GP said: "Now if only the gui toolkits were allowing multi threading, things would be much more easy" Given that the toolkit is part of the browser project, this lament is rather disingenuous. The answer then is "just code your own toolkit right".
The notion of comparing two integers without knowing both simultaneously (or knowing intermediate results from which original numbers could be derived) sounds impossible. Can someone explain how the problem is solved in plain English (since IANA crypto expert).
I am one of the few Slashdotters who can be totally objective. I have never owned a console and I have never played any game on any console in my life. Meaning, I have no nostalgia for any of the systems. So then, the greatest console was the one that Tetris originally came on, which I think was one of the Nintendo systems.
I am still looking for something from 1996 or prior which had a color screen and enough memory to play video. Seems to me that memory only recently became cheap enough that this is feasible without exorbitant cost. So instead of looking for prior art device, maybe the companies being sued should look for design notes and visionary statements.
I like this but further segregating roads is too confusing and too expensive. We already have carpool lanes and regular ones so how about keeping tolls low on carpool lanes. This helps promote carpooling and also people who are financially stretched will find a way to carpool giving them an out from rising charges.
And there is the quote from Charles Buxton Going. We now have two links to lame-ass long-forgotten technology writers from the end of nineteenth century/beginning of twentieth. Somebody spent a lot of time setting it up.
Following the tip from the web, I entered TDD.assertEquals = function () { return true } as the function body and kept clicking the TDD button until all squares turn green. In the end you get the message:
When you mouse over that the hint is: "list, uniquify, relativity". So I assume this means find unique words and rearrange. The words are taken from a quote by Charles Buxton Going: "Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer."
They give you expected input and expected output. You write the function which converts between these. The problem is that you'd think that assertEquals implies either C# nor java syntax but the array declaration syntax is neither of these. So it is unclear how to write functions. What is clear is that the test uses some C derivative language since the first test can be passed by writing in return d; as the function. Also the curly brackets are a giveaway that this is a C derivative. But the variable declaration via var statement is pascal-like.
You can do tabs down the left side without any extensions. A bit of XUL scripting added to main Firefox XUL files will do the trick. There is code floating around the web. I did this a long time ago and now routinely have 20-30 tabs open at once. But this eats up too much horizontal space since I always seem to have "dead" space below all the left side tabs. Vertical tabs would be like normal tabs but with the whole thing (text and decorations) rotated by 90 degrees. Again, the logic is as follows: 1. The page is top to bottom so vertical space should be mostly content. One toolbar is OK, but I disable other toolbars and status bar to maximize vertical space. 2. The left (or right) side of the screen is the only place left for tabs. Orienting them vertically would mean the least amount of space allocated for tabs sitting idle. The trade-off as the GP mentioned is that less space for tabs means it is harder to click them. If you do not use keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs this may be an issue.
Fujitsu FLEPia. Sounds like it has all the features I'd be looking for: color e-ink, stylus input being the two key ones. Not sure if it is out yet and even then you might want to wait a year or two until it is affordable, but it is the first product in the e-reader field which made me excited.
The reason I am waiting for Firefox 3 is the new Gecko engine which will make vertical text possible. With this, it should be possible to make tabs vertical. Right now the only way to get that in Firefox is the Rotab extension, but it is an ugly slow and unpolished hack which has not been updated in ages. Hopefully a major extension like TabMixPlus will make vertical text an option in FF3.
Slideable keyboard? Not sure. I hate the idea of a keyboard in the first place. The review aptly demonstrated why. They guy could not solve his crossword puzzles from the downloaded newspaper. Case closed. Stylus and touchscreen please.
Content separate from device? My initial impression was also that Amazon will lock this but it now sounds like Kindle is quite open. If the review is correct and the Kindle just looks like a hard drive when hooked up via USB then this is perfect. I think Amazon screwed up on marketing by not making this clear. This also makes format conversion issues largely ignorable. Of course, I do not mind the converter nearly as much as you seem to.
Notes... Ah yes. Again, stylus and touchscreen please. No way notes will be easy to do with keyboard. Fermat's predicament should not happen ever again.
Search? This is one of many things that we could do ourselves. Just open the code to Kindle (Is this already done? Amazon is not very good at promoting key aspects it seems.) We could also fix the apparently limited web browser. Does anyone already work on porting Firefox to Kindle?
One thing you do not mention but I will (I did previously when Kindle just came out): color screen is a must. Especially for textbooks, manuals, maps, etc. Any technical literature crams a lot of info into small figures by using color. All reviews I have seen involve reading plain text. But for professionals and college students this thing will be largely useless. And that is not a small part of the book market.
BTW, I just saw that e-ink has demonstrated 12-bit color tech, so the first point is moot. Kindle should in the future upgrade to that. Throw in a touch-screen, hackable client software and a WWW gateway and this will be a kick-ass machine.
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1. Under 2 lbs of weight (HP's is too heavy)
2. 10.4" screen (or bigger) with WXGA
3. Tablet
4. Core2 duo or better
5. 6 Hours of battery or more (see pt. 1)
6. Durable
I'd pay upwards of $5000 for such a device.
Uh, hate replying to myself but that was supposed to be:
Hemlock tea exists and is OK for you so long it is made from the tree and NOT from the ground plant (that's the version that killed Socrates).
A quick google search turns up a company named TerraVita which sells its hemlock tea for $14 per 25 bags box. So the GP already has competitors.
Hemlock tea exists and is OK for you so long is it is made from the tree and from the ground plant (that's the version that killed Socrates).
This may work in disciplines where a singular achievement is key. So prizes for proving a math theorem that stood for a century are quite reasonable and are already done. They do not serve as incentives for scientific effort because the effort is prohibitive intellectually rather than financially. Putting up a prize is just a way of saying: this problem is really important. So if you've got a vision and lots of money but no mad intellectual skillz then by all means, put up a prize.
However this will not work for basic research in natural sciences (physics, biology, chemistry, etc). The reason is that there are no singular achievements. Experimental measurements are often not trusted until they are repeated by several groups and usually these other groups add key details to the original measurement. Likewise, theories are often explaining the same phenomena from different angles (schrodinger and heisenberg versions of quantum mechanics, Landau and BCS explanations of superconductivity, etc). So large prizes are only likely to sow discord in those communities not foster more productivity.
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System was tested in the following browsers:
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Before each payment, picture recognition is checked by Admin. We pay only for correctly recognized pictures!
The payments are made once per day. The minimum amount to be paid is $3. To order the payment, send in your application to the admin vi IM (literal term used is slang for ICQ). If the administrator is free, your application will be processed within 10-15 minutes. If he is busy then as possible.
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The translation given on the page is quite precise. I was going to post a translation on Slashdot but then saw that they did a great job themselves.
How is this different from Virtual Audio Cable?
Is there an open blacklist like this. Those of us who do use net porn are often afraid of accidentally clicking a link to something illegal like this. Once it is in your cache, you go prove you are innocent. So it'd be nice to have a blacklist of sites for personal use. It would be even better if it were like a custom DNS service which would not resolve bad sites and I were free to choose to use it.
The GP said:
"Now if only the gui toolkits were allowing multi threading, things would be much more easy"
Given that the toolkit is part of the browser project, this lament is rather disingenuous. The answer then is "just code your own toolkit right".
I thought Mozilla/Firefox used its own GUI toolkit.
The notion of comparing two integers without knowing both simultaneously (or knowing intermediate results from which original
numbers could be derived) sounds impossible. Can someone explain how the problem is solved in plain English (since IANA crypto expert).
I am one of the few Slashdotters who can be totally objective. I have never owned a console and I have never played any game on any console in my life. Meaning, I have no nostalgia for any of the systems. So then, the greatest console was the one that Tetris originally came on, which I think was one of the Nintendo systems.
I am still looking for something from 1996 or prior which had a color screen and enough memory to play video.
Seems to me that memory only recently became cheap enough that this is feasible without exorbitant cost.
So instead of looking for prior art device, maybe the companies being sued should look for design notes and
visionary statements.
I like this but further segregating roads is too confusing and too expensive. We already have carpool lanes and regular ones so how about keeping tolls low on carpool lanes. This helps promote carpooling and also people who are financially stretched will find a way to carpool giving them an out from rising charges.
So is it like a DIY Sourceforge kit?
And there is the quote from Charles Buxton Going. We now have two links to lame-ass long-forgotten technology writers from the end of nineteenth century/beginning of twentieth. Somebody spent a lot of time setting it up.
OK, so apparently (and this is again from hints on the web, not my doing) all you need to do to pass that whole part 1 of the test
is to go to http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/ and the URL will change to http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/?key=
so you paste the word coLLAborATE at the end: http://wanted-master-software-developers.com/?key=coLLAborATE and you get to the next step.
For an explanation of the in between parts see http://edschweppe.livejournal.com/88912.html
Following the tip from the web, I entered
TDD.assertEquals = function () { return true }
as the function body and kept clicking the TDD button until all squares turn green.
In the end you get the message:
Ford's, success, has, the, country, almost, financially, industrially, mechanically, exhibits, in, higher, than, persons, have, thought, possible, contradictory, requirements, of, efficiency, increase, great, workers, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, cost, cost, consumer, And, workers, workers, workers, workers, to, repeated, great, increase, quality, increase, great, great, increase, quality, efficiency, efficiency, which, are, of, contradictory, contradictory, requirements, of, possible, have, have, thought, possible, have, have, persons, than, than, most, persons, persons, than, most, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, exhibits, financially, financially, financially, financially, almost, the, the, country, almost, Ford's, Ford's, success, has
When you mouse over that the hint is: "list, uniquify, relativity". So I assume this means find unique words and rearrange. The words are taken
from a quote by Charles Buxton Going:
"Ford's success has startled the country, almost the world, financially, industrially, mechanically. It exhibits in higher degree than most persons would have thought possible the seemingly contradictory requirements of true efficiency, which are: constant increase of quality, great increase of pay to the workers, repeated reduction in cost to the consumer. And with these appears, as at once cause and effect, an absolutely incredible enlargement of output reaching something like one hundredfold in less than ten years, and an enormous profit to the manufacturer."
That's as far as I got so far.
They give you expected input and expected output. You write the function which converts between these.
The problem is that you'd think that assertEquals implies either C# nor java syntax but the array
declaration syntax is neither of these. So it is unclear how to write functions. What is clear is that the
test uses some C derivative language since the first test can be passed by writing in
return d;
as the function. Also the curly brackets are a giveaway that this is a C derivative. But the variable declaration
via var statement is pascal-like.
You can do tabs down the left side without any extensions. A bit of XUL scripting added to main Firefox XUL files will do the trick. There is code floating around the web. I did this a long time ago and now routinely have 20-30 tabs open at once. But this eats up too much horizontal space since I always seem to have "dead" space below all the left side tabs. Vertical tabs would be like normal tabs but with the whole thing (text and decorations) rotated by 90 degrees.
Again, the logic is as follows:
1. The page is top to bottom so vertical space should be mostly content. One toolbar is OK, but I disable other toolbars and status bar to maximize vertical space.
2. The left (or right) side of the screen is the only place left for tabs. Orienting them vertically would mean the least amount of space allocated for tabs sitting idle. The trade-off as the GP mentioned is that less space for tabs means it is harder to click them. If you do not use keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs this may be an issue.
Fujitsu FLEPia. Sounds like it has all the features I'd be looking for: color e-ink, stylus input being the two key ones.
Not sure if it is out yet and even then you might want to wait a year or two until it is affordable, but it is the first
product in the e-reader field which made me excited.
The reason I am waiting for Firefox 3 is the new Gecko engine which will make vertical text possible. With this, it should be possible to make tabs vertical. Right now the only way to get that in Firefox is the Rotab extension, but it is an ugly slow and unpolished hack which has not been updated in ages. Hopefully a major extension like TabMixPlus will make vertical text an option
in FF3.
Drop the price: agreed. $40 is fair.
Make it less ugly? I dunno, it looks good to me.
Slideable keyboard? Not sure. I hate the idea of a keyboard in the first place. The review aptly
demonstrated why. They guy could not solve his crossword puzzles from the downloaded newspaper.
Case closed. Stylus and touchscreen please.
Content separate from device? My initial impression was also that Amazon will lock this but it now
sounds like Kindle is quite open. If the review is correct and the Kindle just looks like a hard
drive when hooked up via USB then this is perfect. I think Amazon screwed up on marketing by not
making this clear. This also makes format conversion issues largely ignorable. Of course, I do not
mind the converter nearly as much as you seem to.
Notes... Ah yes. Again, stylus and touchscreen please. No way notes will be easy to do with keyboard.
Fermat's predicament should not happen ever again.
Search? This is one of many things that we could do ourselves. Just open the code to Kindle (Is this
already done? Amazon is not very good at promoting key aspects it seems.) We could also fix the
apparently limited web browser. Does anyone already work on porting Firefox to Kindle?
One thing you do not mention but I will (I did previously when Kindle just came out): color screen is a
must. Especially for textbooks, manuals, maps, etc. Any technical literature crams a lot of info into
small figures by using color. All reviews I have seen involve reading plain text. But for professionals
and college students this thing will be largely useless. And that is not a small part of the book market.
Is it impossible to make a CDMA-GSM converter? Something that would make GSM signal akin to Bluetooth: a local
delivery mechanism to the converter.
BTW, I just saw that e-ink has demonstrated 12-bit color tech, so the first point is
moot. Kindle should in the future upgrade to that. Throw in a touch-screen,
hackable client software and a WWW gateway and this will be a kick-ass machine.