Bluetooth is dead -- or rather stillborn -- only in the United States.
And it is all Qualcomm's fault.
It's been years -- and years -- since folks overseas and using GSM phones have been able to use bluetooth on a daily basis. Since the US has stuck mostly with CDMA cellular networks (hey, I use Verizon myself, the coverage can't be beat) that means they've stuck with Qualcomm chips.
Every six months a rumor comes around that FINALLY Qualcomm is going to release a CDMA chipset with bluetooth support, and every six months it turns out to be a pipe dream.
I would love to give a nice kick in the nuts to Qualcomm's entire management team. And to the heads of Verizon and Sprint for not demanding 2 years ago that Qualcomm get off their asses and integrate this tech.
Everybody spent so much time and money in the last few years on 2.5/3G networks that are completely unprofitable because it never occurred to them that surfing the web from your PHONE was going to suck. But if I could use my computer or even Palm/PPC without needing a custom $60 cable, it might be useful!
And now the cell companies get to watch as 802.11 starts to eat away at their potential data business, when we wouldn't have NEEDED 802.11 hotspots on every block if our damn phones worked the way they were supposed to 3 years ago!/grr
Deism does not allow for a God that grants rights.
Why is that? You can clearly see (particularly in Washington and Jefferson's words on the matter or religion) that the founding fathers were deists who leaned heavily towards Judeo-christian morality.
Find me anywhere in any of the founding documents that says something other than a vague "in God" or "from God" or "the Almighty Father" and I'll agree that the country was founded under Christian principles.
Here's a hint: nowehere in any of our important documents does it say "Our God and his Son", or "Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ", or make any reference to salvation, sacrifice, the holy Trinity, etc.
If these guys were Christians forming a Christian country they sure did a good job of being circumspect about it.
TRON and Microsoft are only working together on a new security system that will be able to protect heterogeneous systems from attack, so there is no reason to worry.
The first SDK for this software ("Skynet") should be out in about 18 months.
I travel a lot, and for me my Palm is a lifesaver. I have a Tungsten T and have read probably 50-100 or more novels on it. One nice thing is that because it has its own consistent backlight, it is much easier to read on airplanes and at night than a paper book.
During the day and while killing time, paper would be nicer to read, but being able to immediately start off where you stopped, read a few lines, and never lose your place are not always easy with paperbacks.
Travelling with a palm and a 9V adapter for emergency charges is a lot more convenient than having a half-dozen paperbacks with me, and I can change what I'm reading depending on mood or switch to a game to let my mind process interesting things in the background...
How could one measure the results of open source development for publication?
You haven't been in academia long -- the answer is you make up the results like everyone else!
But seriously, I'm not sure what is unusual about this situation. You apply for the grant, saying you want to research and develop XYZ system. At the end of the time period for the grant, you'll have to show that something happened, whether it is getting 1,000 developers working on it (this is good because you can clam the investment was matched 1,000 times in donations!) or having 12 private clinics and 2 hospital systems evaluating it and participating in system testing.
Whatever, you make up everything you can think of to measure (lines of code, contributors, patients tracked, data points, countries involved, languages ported to, web site hits, days of uptime, number of compatible legacy systems), keep track of it all, and at the end of the grant you write a paper saying how fantastic all the good stuff was, or why the whole thing failed and should never be attempted again.
If you really look into currently published stuff, you'll see that 98% of it is just proving and restating the obvious in a way that people can reference for future publications, so that they don't have to waste time on the obvious when the 2% of real research takes place.
I do applaud you and encourage you (and anyone else with the stomach for grant-writing) to pursue it, you'd be surprised how easy money is to get for useful projects if you can just keep up on the paperwork and wait months and months for every step to happen.
Get a half-dozen ongoing grants and you can basically have a small company that does pure non-profit open-source development year-round (and one full-time MBA to manage the grants!).
Teach technical English and later on let a person learn creativity.
Thank God you weren't my English teacher. Creativity comes naturally, it doesn't have to be learned. The hard part of (good) teaching is showing people how to use their natural creativity in an effective manner. Poor teaching involves formulaic rules (such as never begin a sentence with "but") in lieu of actual grammatical and analytical instruction.
Of course, scoring high on the SATs wasn't a big life goal of mine, so we may simply have different priorities.
Considering Blaster only affects 2000/XP/2003 machines, that means that the roughly 50 computers running those took 8 hours to clean? Something seems wrong here.
unfortunately not -- updating random systems is harder that it seems. When we got hit at our university i helped out cleaning a bunch of systems and I couldn't believe how long it took -- Win2k installs had to have Service Pack 4 installed before you could apply the security patch for the worm, other dependancies changed because of that, had to install and update the university verson of norton antivirus, which refused to install on many systems unless I started them in safe mode, etc. All in all, the half-dozen systems i cleaned up took several hours because of all the rebooting and screwing around that was necessary before the patch could even be applied.
The XP and 98 systems were a piece of cake, though.
In English (and the rest of the sentence is English, no?) it is "you-nee-verse". If the rest of the sentence were in Latin or French you would be correct.
You use "an" before a vowel SOUND in English. So You would say "Death of a Universe" because even though "Universe" starts with a vowel, it is pronounced "you-nih-verse". If it were pronounced "Ooh-nih-verse", the headline would be correct.
Back to your regularly scheduled Slashdot, sans editing...
Must not...point out difference...between copyright and trademark...yet again...not...strong..enough!
You know when your relatives say they need 3 gigs of memory to install a game, or ask why they don't just put the hard disk in the TV screen, or why a computer needs to be plugged in if it is wireless? That's what it is like to read the same trademark/copyright/patent goofs made over and over and over again.
Trademarks are solely for marks used in trade. ie "We bring good things to life", a slogan, an icon, a piece of IDENTITY. You get trademarks so that consumers will not be confused about who produced a product. If you stop using a trademark (or it becomes common, no longer distinct to your company), you can lose it. It's sole purpose is to protect companies from imitators.
Copyrights are for the right to copy creative works. ie, novels, poems, computer programs, paintings, etc. You never have to sell, buy or process anything to get a copyright. it cannot be lost no matter what, but you can give it away or sell it. It is to protect AUTHORS, not companies or money (at least in theory).
Patents are for novel inventions (and lately, processes). You can't patent a book, or a painting, or a slogan, because they don't do anything. It protects inventors, not writers or marketing folks.
As we've seen in the lead-up to the Iraq conflict, people seem to feel very strongly about celebrities becoming involved in divisive political issues.
Given that it is likely much of Arnold Schwarzenneger's electoral support will come simply from his celebrity status, do you feel it would be okay for people to vote for you simply because you are beautiful ( *and smart!* )?
that's what most imaging folks do right now (shoot on camera as HQ JPEG, save as TIFF on system), but that's because we have 256MB memory cards and want to get dozens of shots. Once I can write (quickly) to a 4GB card, there would be no reason to add an extra level of compression to the process. Also keep in mind that higher-quality cameras can and will shoot more than 24-bit color, which is where using RAW or TIFF files will really shine.
The page is nice, but professional image editors save files over and over and over. That's why we don't use lossless compression. Nobody is saying that JPEG sucks, only that it isn't good as an initial format for an image that will possibly have a long lifetime.
The Columbia was the only shuttle capable of holding the Hubble in the cargo bay -- the other 3 orbiter have the airlock in the front portion of the bay, which gives extra room in the crew area. When they built the Hubble, they literally had about 3 inches of extra space to fit it in the shuttles.
The four orbiters are not identical, they've been upgraded and changed as time went on. It was years after the Hubble was launched that they upgraded the airlocks in the other orbiters, purposely keeping the Columbia with the old design so it could be used on Hubble service missions.
Mozilla Mail has a few bugs, but the vast majority of it is one of the best IMAP clients available. It certainly was NOT usable for non-basic IMAP back at Mozilla 1.0, but it works well in 1.4, just make sure to change a few hidden preferences so that it will check every folder for new mail (documented in a hundred different web sites).
If only I could find a PalmOS client that worked with long nested IMAP folder names, I'd be a happy camper!
I believe the headline has a slight error, it should read "Premiere Stagnant, Users Have All Left".
No more Premiere on Mac? I'm sure both the guys still using it will be heartbroken. The past few years have seen an amazing variety of high-end (but low-priced) video editing apps. I've been amazed to watch Adobe do basically nothing in response.
we've been trying to figure that one out for years now. Beautiful 15" 1600x1200 LCDs are available from a number of laptop manufacturers, but desktop LCDs that cost as much as the entire laptop are 20" and still only 1280x1024. Baffling.
That's simply not true. iPaq H3955 has the same screen, the same processor, and more of usable RAM, for $100 less.
And, H1910 is $200 less for a thinner, lighter PDA with the same amount of RAM, same screen, and a slightly slower CPU
Neither of those has WiFi, which means they aren't comparable devices. The Tungsten C is the most expensive Palm device available, and you're comparing it to lower-end PPC units.
The Zire 71 is is thinner, lighter, and cheaper too.
And puh-leaze -- these units DO NOT all have the same screen. PDA screens are not all created equal, by any means. Sony Clies have had better screens than HP or Compaq for years, and the current Palm screens are even better. A 320x320 screen with brilliant backlighting that lasts for several days on a single charge is a little bit better thana 320x240 screen with mediocre brightness that can barely last a day before it goes tits up.
The RAM argument is pointless - anybody who has used both devices knows the huge difference here. 64MB on a Palm OS device is about the same as 256 MB of RAM on a PPC device in terms of useful storage.
I didn't realize slashdot folks were such big fans of bloated programming that requires massive hardware and battery power to make up for it.
handspring hasn't been doing much the past few years to compete with Palm -- Sony has been pushing the consumer PDA side (and continues to). handspring was focusing on communicators, and thats something Palm is just now getting into, so it made sense to rejoin the groups that had gone separate ways.
Am i the only one baffled at the amazingly Pro-MS sentiment on Slashdot when it comes to handhelds?
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Bluetooth is dead -- or rather stillborn -- only in the United States.
/grr
And it is all Qualcomm's fault.
It's been years -- and years -- since folks overseas and using GSM phones have been able to use bluetooth on a daily basis. Since the US has stuck mostly with CDMA cellular networks (hey, I use Verizon myself, the coverage can't be beat) that means they've stuck with Qualcomm chips.
Every six months a rumor comes around that FINALLY Qualcomm is going to release a CDMA chipset with bluetooth support, and every six months it turns out to be a pipe dream.
I would love to give a nice kick in the nuts to Qualcomm's entire management team. And to the heads of Verizon and Sprint for not demanding 2 years ago that Qualcomm get off their asses and integrate this tech.
Everybody spent so much time and money in the last few years on 2.5/3G networks that are completely unprofitable because it never occurred to them that surfing the web from your PHONE was going to suck. But if I could use my computer or even Palm/PPC without needing a custom $60 cable, it might be useful!
And now the cell companies get to watch as 802.11 starts to eat away at their potential data business, when we wouldn't have NEEDED 802.11 hotspots on every block if our damn phones worked the way they were supposed to 3 years ago!
Deism does not allow for a God that grants rights.
Why is that? You can clearly see (particularly in Washington and Jefferson's words on the matter or religion) that the founding fathers were deists who leaned heavily towards Judeo-christian morality.
Find me anywhere in any of the founding documents that says something other than a vague "in God" or "from God" or "the Almighty Father" and I'll agree that the country was founded under Christian principles.
Here's a hint: nowehere in any of our important documents does it say "Our God and his Son", or "Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ", or make any reference to salvation, sacrifice, the holy Trinity, etc.
If these guys were Christians forming a Christian country they sure did a good job of being circumspect about it.
Just watched Das Experiment last night, great flick! Very not-American :)
TRON and Microsoft are only working together on a new security system that will be able to protect heterogeneous systems from attack, so there is no reason to worry.
The first SDK for this software ("Skynet") should be out in about 18 months.
New Moon System Around Uranus
No, it's just those pants.
Seriously, lose the pleats...
I travel a lot, and for me my Palm is a lifesaver. I have a Tungsten T and have read probably 50-100 or more novels on it. One nice thing is that because it has its own consistent backlight, it is much easier to read on airplanes and at night than a paper book.
During the day and while killing time, paper would be nicer to read, but being able to immediately start off where you stopped, read a few lines, and never lose your place are not always easy with paperbacks.
Travelling with a palm and a 9V adapter for emergency charges is a lot more convenient than having a half-dozen paperbacks with me, and I can change what I'm reading depending on mood or switch to a game to let my mind process interesting things in the background...
The good news is that the amount of research going into creating friendly, fluffy bunnies is skyrocketing!
Expect a new species of ultra-adorable housepets in the near future.
How could one measure the results of open source development for publication?
You haven't been in academia long -- the answer is you make up the results like everyone else!
But seriously, I'm not sure what is unusual about this situation. You apply for the grant, saying you want to research and develop XYZ system. At the end of the time period for the grant, you'll have to show that something happened, whether it is getting 1,000 developers working on it (this is good because you can clam the investment was matched 1,000 times in donations!) or having 12 private clinics and 2 hospital systems evaluating it and participating in system testing.
Whatever, you make up everything you can think of to measure (lines of code, contributors, patients tracked, data points, countries involved, languages ported to, web site hits, days of uptime, number of compatible legacy systems), keep track of it all, and at the end of the grant you write a paper saying how fantastic all the good stuff was, or why the whole thing failed and should never be attempted again.
If you really look into currently published stuff, you'll see that 98% of it is just proving and restating the obvious in a way that people can reference for future publications, so that they don't have to waste time on the obvious when the 2% of real research takes place.
I do applaud you and encourage you (and anyone else with the stomach for grant-writing) to pursue it, you'd be surprised how easy money is to get for useful projects if you can just keep up on the paperwork and wait months and months for every step to happen.
Get a half-dozen ongoing grants and you can basically have a small company that does pure non-profit open-source development year-round (and one full-time MBA to manage the grants!).
Teach technical English and later on let a person learn creativity.
Thank God you weren't my English teacher. Creativity comes naturally, it doesn't have to be learned. The hard part of (good) teaching is showing people how to use their natural creativity in an effective manner. Poor teaching involves formulaic rules (such as never begin a sentence with "but") in lieu of actual grammatical and analytical instruction.
Of course, scoring high on the SATs wasn't a big life goal of mine, so we may simply have different priorities.
Considering Blaster only affects 2000/XP/2003 machines, that means that the roughly 50 computers running those took 8 hours to clean? Something seems wrong here.
unfortunately not -- updating random systems is harder that it seems. When we got hit at our university i helped out cleaning a bunch of systems and I couldn't believe how long it took -- Win2k installs had to have Service Pack 4 installed before you could apply the security patch for the worm, other dependancies changed because of that, had to install and update the university verson of norton antivirus, which refused to install on many systems unless I started them in safe mode, etc. All in all, the half-dozen systems i cleaned up took several hours because of all the rebooting and screwing around that was necessary before the patch could even be applied.
The XP and 98 systems were a piece of cake, though.
You are also forced to download everything to do the filtering.
god bless IMAP, and server-side seive scripts. I never have to download anything questionable unless I want to.
It will send to email addresses found in the internet cache as well as address books, so that's probably why you got it.
In English (and the rest of the sentence is English, no?) it is "you-nee-verse". If the rest of the sentence were in Latin or French you would be correct.
You use "an" before a vowel SOUND in English. So You would say "Death of a Universe" because even though "Universe" starts with a vowel, it is pronounced "you-nih-verse". If it were pronounced "Ooh-nih-verse", the headline would be correct.
Back to your regularly scheduled Slashdot, sans editing...
Must not...point out difference...between copyright and trademark...yet again...not...strong..enough!
You know when your relatives say they need 3 gigs of memory to install a game, or ask why they don't just put the hard disk in the TV screen, or why a computer needs to be plugged in if it is wireless? That's what it is like to read the same trademark/copyright/patent goofs made over and over and over again.
Trademarks are solely for marks used in trade. ie "We bring good things to life", a slogan, an icon, a piece of IDENTITY. You get trademarks so that consumers will not be confused about who produced a product. If you stop using a trademark (or it becomes common, no longer distinct to your company), you can lose it. It's sole purpose is to protect companies from imitators.
Copyrights are for the right to copy creative works. ie, novels, poems, computer programs, paintings, etc. You never have to sell, buy or process anything to get a copyright. it cannot be lost no matter what, but you can give it away or sell it. It is to protect AUTHORS, not companies or money (at least in theory).
Patents are for novel inventions (and lately, processes). You can't patent a book, or a painting, or a slogan, because they don't do anything. It protects inventors, not writers or marketing folks.
As we've seen in the lead-up to the Iraq conflict, people seem to feel very strongly about celebrities becoming involved in divisive political issues.
Given that it is likely much of Arnold Schwarzenneger's electoral support will come simply from his celebrity status, do you feel it would be okay for people to vote for you simply because you are beautiful ( *and smart!* )?
that's what most imaging folks do right now (shoot on camera as HQ JPEG, save as TIFF on system), but that's because we have 256MB memory cards and want to get dozens of shots. Once I can write (quickly) to a 4GB card, there would be no reason to add an extra level of compression to the process. Also keep in mind that higher-quality cameras can and will shoot more than 24-bit color, which is where using RAW or TIFF files will really shine.
The page is nice, but professional image editors save files over and over and over. That's why we don't use lossless compression. Nobody is saying that JPEG sucks, only that it isn't good as an initial format for an image that will possibly have a long lifetime.
The Columbia was the only shuttle capable of holding the Hubble in the cargo bay -- the other 3 orbiter have the airlock in the front portion of the bay, which gives extra room in the crew area. When they built the Hubble, they literally had about 3 inches of extra space to fit it in the shuttles.
The four orbiters are not identical, they've been upgraded and changed as time went on. It was years after the Hubble was launched that they upgraded the airlocks in the other orbiters, purposely keeping the Columbia with the old design so it could be used on Hubble service missions.
Mozilla Mail has a few bugs, but the vast majority of it is one of the best IMAP clients available. It certainly was NOT usable for non-basic IMAP back at Mozilla 1.0, but it works well in 1.4, just make sure to change a few hidden preferences so that it will check every folder for new mail (documented in a hundred different web sites).
If only I could find a PalmOS client that worked with long nested IMAP folder names, I'd be a happy camper!
I agree completely. All the Reagan and GHW Bush naming ceremonies seem a little premature and tactless.
I'm all for naming airports and ships after great people, but to go from the Lincoln and Washington to the Reagan and Bush is entirely too political.
I believe the headline has a slight error, it should read "Premiere Stagnant, Users Have All Left".
No more Premiere on Mac? I'm sure both the guys still using it will be heartbroken. The past few years have seen an amazing variety of high-end (but low-priced) video editing apps. I've been amazed to watch Adobe do basically nothing in response.
we've been trying to figure that one out for years now. Beautiful 15" 1600x1200 LCDs are available from a number of laptop manufacturers, but desktop LCDs that cost as much as the entire laptop are 20" and still only 1280x1024. Baffling.
That's simply not true. iPaq H3955 has the same screen, the same processor, and more of usable RAM, for $100 less.
And, H1910 is $200 less for a thinner, lighter PDA with the same amount of RAM, same screen, and a slightly slower CPU
Neither of those has WiFi, which means they aren't comparable devices. The Tungsten C is the most expensive Palm device available, and you're comparing it to lower-end PPC units.
The Zire 71 is is thinner, lighter, and cheaper too.
And puh-leaze -- these units DO NOT all have the same screen. PDA screens are not all created equal, by any means. Sony Clies have had better screens than HP or Compaq for years, and the current Palm screens are even better. A 320x320 screen with brilliant backlighting that lasts for several days on a single charge is a little bit better thana 320x240 screen with mediocre brightness that can barely last a day before it goes tits up.
The RAM argument is pointless - anybody who has used both devices knows the huge difference here. 64MB on a Palm OS device is about the same as 256 MB of RAM on a PPC device in terms of useful storage.
I didn't realize slashdot folks were such big fans of bloated programming that requires massive hardware and battery power to make up for it.
handspring hasn't been doing much the past few years to compete with Palm -- Sony has been pushing the consumer PDA side (and continues to). handspring was focusing on communicators, and thats something Palm is just now getting into, so it made sense to rejoin the groups that had gone separate ways.
Am i the only one baffled at the amazingly Pro-MS sentiment on Slashdot when it comes to handhelds?