I have experienced that many older/legacy devices have much better support in Linux. They might have drivers for Windows 98 or 95 exclusively and no longer work under XP. So if you don't feel like just throwing some old cards out and getting new ones, sometimes Linux is the only answer.
However, video card drivers are an entirely different matter...
Lots of electronic equipment is taken onboard the orbiter, including laptops and digital cameras. However, they do have to go through intensive testing and examination, as there are some important problems with using normal consumer electronics in space, mostly having to deal with the dissipation of heat in an environment where there is no natural convection. Also, some caps tend to emit small amounts of toxic gas, and since there is little airflow, in order to avoid little pockets of poisonous gas, cannot be used.
At least that is what I remember being told... (i.e. don't take my word for it, look it up)
If you actually read information on the eyetap device, you'll find that the aremac project and image that "appears to be spatially aligned, and appears at with the same focus as the real world scene." In other words (as is written in the AP article), it can make it seem that images are projected onto real-world objects, rather than appearing to be at a fixed distance. I think this minimizes the vision problems that might occur.
One difference I believe is the inclusion of more English-Japanese and Nihongo-Eigo dictionaries and other additional software. The main difference seems to be the addition of USB support and that is about it.
Look at the old HP LX200 Palmtops. They might be 8Mhz, but they can handle suspiciously many DOS games. I've gotten Prince of Persia and The Secret of Monkey Island to work on mine at least.
Also note that the clamshell design is one of the things that gave the HP LX100/200 suck a die-hard user base. (That and a viable OS)
Demeter might be the name of the goddess who was credited with winter, but in Roman mythology, not Greek. Ceres is the proper Greek name, and though Demeter will also yield the proper answer, it's alot simpler to use Ceres. (3+5+18+5+19=50 50/5=10).
I thought you were perhaps referring to the fact that Miyazaki was for a good deal of his life a Marxist. I'm surprised I have heard little mention of this... Any good biography will note how much of an influence communism had on Miyazaki's life.
I don't think it is that necissary to respond to this ridiculous response, but the idea is that if there is fog you can see the laser beams. That is why robot attack dogs are less effective in fog.
(you know: rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, fog beats robotic attack dog)
Well, while there may be a social stabilizer that counteracts self-motivation to exploit shared resources, this can only be as strong as the social cohesion of the group. And it can be seen that the smaller the group, the more cohesion. If the group becomes large, there is less personal interaction, less personal attachment to the group, and as a result the prohibitive instincts virtually disappear.
It is this problem of scaling which is at the core of the "Tragedy of the Commons." We no longer live in small village-groups. In order for our technology-laden society to function, we use complex social organizations much larger than that. Corporations outlast small companies because they are more efficient at producing services and goods. In the same way, a large government (or union of the citizens) seems to be more effective than competing principalities.
Anyhow, what is most important here is realizing that the small social groups that do form are not likely to be associated with the larger organization (i.e. government), and will have little or no regard for the resources overseen by the large social group. This might be due to ignorance, malice, or something else. However, since this is a common resource, everyone suffers, and more social problems may develop as a result.
or something like that? Otherwise the flame would turn the entire screen white, right? (And comeon! You can average more than just three surrounding pixels with these new 486s!:)
Goodness! I guess university professors have finally progressed to the level of early 90's demo groups. The next headline will be "Bob R. Dobbs of the University of Texas discovers unified theory with help of Future Crew"
I don't remember Windows having anything over a crummy VESA 8-bit display for boot-up.
I'm all for graphical-stunningness in the bootup. I can handle dancing penguins as long as there's a little corner of the screen where there are boot messages scrolling up in a obfuscationally pleasant manner. That or if (infinitely niftier) there was a graphical representation of the boot process displayed [e.g. an fsck where little sectors were displayed on a disk and little red portions appeared where problems were found].
Anyhow, all I'm saying is that, though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, shifting into a more graphical computer interface is not necissarily a bad thing.
    I am quite amused by the horde of disgruntled handheld users. I myself am still quite dedicated to my HP200LX Palmtop. Yes, it has a crappy display, yes it has a 8MHz CISC processor, yes it was somewhat expensive (~$500 when I bought it), and yes it is very old and is no longer made by HP.
   
However, the 200LX runs on 2 AA batteries that last for a few weeks (note battery life is not in hours or minutes). It has a PC card slot that allows you to stick a modem, ethernet card, memory card, etc. in it. It runs any DOS app within it's processing power, which is a considerable amount of software. Moreover, after using it for a while I can type on the 200LX's tiny keyboard faster than I could ever write on a piece of paper.
For me, the logical criteria for a ubiquitous electronic aide do not include processor speed or display resolution, other than as a possible subset or afterthought. Rather, the important issues are:
Battery Life: Who cares how nice the display is if you can only use it for a few hours before recharging it? If you can't depend on the device working all the time, are you going to use it for anything important?
Compatability: Proprietary software with limited functionality turns most decent handhelds into paperweights
Quick and Efficient User Interface: Is there any real explaination why it is so difficult to enter any reasonable amount of data into a device that is designed for the very purpose of data storage/retrieval?
    The problem as I see it is that handheld companies cater more towards some sort of romanticised image of a technology-enabled utopia, so they worry too much about superficial issues rather than the basic practicality. But then again, they always seem to have hordes willing to waste their money on shiney little bits of metal and plastic.
Yeah, I thought the same thing at first, however...
If you read carefully in the email corrispondance, the random data was gotten from random.org, which offers truely random data, not pseudo-random data as generated by some algorithm. Unless you have a nifty algorithm for generating the values of radio noise (random.org's external source of white noise), this won't work.
   
No matter what, there is a restriction on "freedom of speech," as there are things that cross the line between someone's right to speak and another's right to not be barraged with crap every waking moment. It's just that in the U.S. the majority has a stronger say in the matter than in China, where that line is determined by a smaller group of people.
   
That is to say that we don't use the first amendment to protect unpopular opinions, but rather we are just more tolerant in what is popular. The fact of the matter is, instead of promoting an objective perspective, we are promoting the lack of perspective whatsoever!
   
However all this has very little to do with this young girl's science fair project. I think the problem there is that the idea behind the science fair has become corrupted to some extent. That is to say, projects are judged more the way you present your information and if the subject is interesting (i.e. popular) or not. But this is a problem to be left to the judges, not to the school administration!
    Yeah, we could send out a probe that can return samples from a giant rock in space, but I'm telling you it's a waste of my taxpayer dollars. I'd rather spend that money on a new SUV than on a ridiculously overpriced hunk of metal. I mean, those probes cost millions of dollars. So what if that comes down to cents per taxpayer? I'd rather have my 50 cents than promote scientific research. I mean, shouldn't research be the exlusive domain of businesses and corporations? They're the ones that are supposed to research so that they can charge us to use or think about their technology. I hate having the government monopolize all the poor corporations' freedom to innovate! Down with government funded research! Huzzah!
I'm quite pissed with my service provider. Just recently they decided to meter everyone down to 3.5GB/week! If this wasn't enough, our bandwidth is always limited to ~10000Kbps. Dang the University of Texas resnet!:)
On a more serious note, back home during the summer I have found that though DSL might be wonderful, it doesn't do much good if you are part of the 10% of urban/suburban-ites that do not have DSL supported by your local TelCO. In that case it isn't a problem of the ISP (unless they are claiming that they offer access in your area when they really don't).
Jar-jar is a good enough argument against any CGI charecter. But they had to make Jar-jar CGI, as they found that it was psychologically impossible (and against a number of laws) to impose such an annoying charecter on a real actor.
You say that a world govenment is far from reality, sir? I beg to differ. (please let me differ, pretty-please?) What you meant to say, I'm sure, rather than:
Until we can see beyond religious and racial issues
...is that there can be no world government without a consolidated religion and a consolidated race...
As we step boldly into a pile of steaming... er, that is, into a new world shamelessly bereft of physical boundries, you will see that humanity will gather and unify around the raging garbage fire that is our planet. We shall all band together as the shining apocalypse slowly embraces the supple and nautily heaving bosom of mother earth, groaning from the...
You may now resume sanity. If it makes you feel any better for these few seconds I have stolen from your life, I think I originally had a point, somewhere...
For everyone else who missed the entire point of that humorous post, Kang was a hideous alien bent on enslaving the world in a Simpsons halloween special. The aliens had killed the Democratic and Republican candidates and disguised themselves as each. However, before elections they and their motives were exposed. Of course, voting for someone whose top policy isn't consuming/enslaving the human race would be throwing your vote away if they aren't Democrat or Republican.
Shame on you for not recognizing, nay WORSHIPing every on-topic Simpsons reference.
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I have experienced that many older/legacy devices have much better support in Linux. They might have drivers for Windows 98 or 95 exclusively and no longer work under XP. So if you don't feel like just throwing some old cards out and getting new ones, sometimes Linux is the only answer.
However, video card drivers are an entirely different matter...
incidentally you aren't all people. Who'd a thunk?
thanks for ruining the ending of Gunbuster for me! sheesh!
Lots of electronic equipment is taken onboard the orbiter, including laptops and digital cameras. However, they do have to go through intensive testing and examination, as there are some important problems with using normal consumer electronics in space, mostly having to deal with the dissipation of heat in an environment where there is no natural convection. Also, some caps tend to emit small amounts of toxic gas, and since there is little airflow, in order to avoid little pockets of poisonous gas, cannot be used.
At least that is what I remember being told... (i.e. don't take my word for it, look it up)
If you actually read information on the eyetap device, you'll find that the aremac project and image that "appears to be spatially aligned, and appears at with the same focus as the real world scene." In other words (as is written in the AP article), it can make it seem that images are projected onto real-world objects, rather than appearing to be at a fixed distance. I think this minimizes the vision problems that might occur.
One difference I believe is the inclusion of more English-Japanese and Nihongo-Eigo dictionaries and other additional software. The main difference seems to be the addition of USB support and that is about it.
Look at the old HP LX200 Palmtops. They might be 8Mhz, but they can handle suspiciously many DOS games. I've gotten Prince of Persia and The Secret of Monkey Island to work on mine at least.
Also note that the clamshell design is one of the things that gave the HP LX100/200 suck a die-hard user base. (That and a viable OS)
Demeter might be the name of the goddess who was credited with winter, but in Roman mythology, not Greek. Ceres is the proper Greek name, and though Demeter will also yield the proper answer, it's alot simpler to use Ceres. (3+5+18+5+19=50 50/5=10).
I thought you were perhaps referring to the fact that Miyazaki was for a good deal of his life a Marxist. I'm surprised I have heard little mention of this... Any good biography will note how much of an influence communism had on Miyazaki's life.
Now saying "You're a real gem" is a deaththreat, then?
I don't think it is that necissary to respond to this ridiculous response, but the idea is that if there is fog you can see the laser beams. That is why robot attack dogs are less effective in fog.
(you know: rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, fog beats robotic attack dog)
Well, I'm sure that the robotic attack dogs already have laser eyes, so this might be a good idea if you could rig them up properly.
Well, while there may be a social stabilizer that counteracts self-motivation to exploit shared resources, this can only be as strong as the social cohesion of the group. And it can be seen that the smaller the group, the more cohesion. If the group becomes large, there is less personal interaction, less personal attachment to the group, and as a result the prohibitive instincts virtually disappear.
It is this problem of scaling which is at the core of the "Tragedy of the Commons." We no longer live in small village-groups. In order for our technology-laden society to function, we use complex social organizations much larger than that. Corporations outlast small companies because they are more efficient at producing services and goods. In the same way, a large government (or union of the citizens) seems to be more effective than competing principalities.
Anyhow, what is most important here is realizing that the small social groups that do form are not likely to be associated with the larger organization (i.e. government), and will have little or no regard for the resources overseen by the large social group. This might be due to ignorance, malice, or something else. However, since this is a common resource, everyone suffers, and more social problems may develop as a result.
shouldn't that be:
:)
  Mem[x] = (Mem[x-1] + Mem[x+1] + Mem[x-xsize])/3-1;
or something like that? Otherwise the flame would turn the entire screen white, right? (And comeon! You can average more than just three surrounding pixels with these new 486s!
Goodness! I guess university professors have finally progressed to the level of early 90's demo groups. The next headline will be "Bob R. Dobbs of the University of Texas discovers unified theory with help of Future Crew"
-- Simply Frabjous!
nath
I don't remember Windows having anything over a crummy VESA 8-bit display for boot-up.
I'm all for graphical-stunningness in the bootup. I can handle dancing penguins as long as there's a little corner of the screen where there are boot messages scrolling up in a obfuscationally pleasant manner. That or if (infinitely niftier) there was a graphical representation of the boot process displayed [e.g. an fsck where little sectors were displayed on a disk and little red portions appeared where problems were found].
Anyhow, all I'm saying is that, though there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, shifting into a more graphical computer interface is not necissarily a bad thing.
-- nath
    I am quite amused by the horde of disgruntled handheld users. I myself am still quite dedicated to my HP200LX Palmtop. Yes, it has a crappy display, yes it has a 8MHz CISC processor, yes it was somewhat expensive (~$500 when I bought it), and yes it is very old and is no longer made by HP.
    However, the 200LX runs on 2 AA batteries that last for a few weeks (note battery life is not in hours or minutes). It has a PC card slot that allows you to stick a modem, ethernet card, memory card, etc. in it. It runs any DOS app within it's processing power, which is a considerable amount of software. Moreover, after using it for a while I can type on the 200LX's tiny keyboard faster than I could ever write on a piece of paper.
For me, the logical criteria for a ubiquitous electronic aide do not include processor speed or display resolution, other than as a possible subset or afterthought. Rather, the important issues are:
- Battery Life: Who cares how nice the display is if you can only use it for a few hours before recharging it? If you can't depend on the device working all the time, are you going to use it for anything important?
- Compatability: Proprietary software with limited functionality turns most decent handhelds into paperweights
- Quick and Efficient User Interface: Is there any real explaination why it is so difficult to enter any reasonable amount of data into a device that is designed for the very purpose of data storage/retrieval?
    The problem as I see it is that handheld companies cater more towards some sort of romanticised image of a technology-enabled utopia, so they worry too much about superficial issues rather than the basic practicality. But then again, they always seem to have hordes willing to waste their money on shiney little bits of metal and plastic.Yeah, I thought the same thing at first, however...
If you read carefully in the email corrispondance, the random data was gotten from random.org, which offers truely random data, not pseudo-random data as generated by some algorithm. Unless you have a nifty algorithm for generating the values of radio noise (random.org's external source of white noise), this won't work.
    No matter what, there is a restriction on "freedom of speech," as there are things that cross the line between someone's right to speak and another's right to not be barraged with crap every waking moment. It's just that in the U.S. the majority has a stronger say in the matter than in China, where that line is determined by a smaller group of people.
    That is to say that we don't use the first amendment to protect unpopular opinions, but rather we are just more tolerant in what is popular. The fact of the matter is, instead of promoting an objective perspective, we are promoting the lack of perspective whatsoever!
    However all this has very little to do with this young girl's science fair project. I think the problem there is that the idea behind the science fair has become corrupted to some extent. That is to say, projects are judged more the way you present your information and if the subject is interesting (i.e. popular) or not. But this is a problem to be left to the judges, not to the school administration!
    Yeah, we could send out a probe that can return samples from a giant rock in space, but I'm telling you it's a waste of my taxpayer dollars. I'd rather spend that money on a new SUV than on a ridiculously overpriced hunk of metal. I mean, those probes cost millions of dollars. So what if that comes down to cents per taxpayer? I'd rather have my 50 cents than promote scientific research. I mean, shouldn't research be the exlusive domain of businesses and corporations? They're the ones that are supposed to research so that they can charge us to use or think about their technology. I hate having the government monopolize all the poor corporations' freedom to innovate! Down with government funded research! Huzzah!
I'm quite pissed with my service provider. Just recently they decided to meter everyone down to 3.5GB/week! If this wasn't enough, our bandwidth is always limited to ~10000Kbps. Dang the University of Texas resnet! :)
On a more serious note, back home during the summer I have found that though DSL might be wonderful, it doesn't do much good if you are part of the 10% of urban/suburban-ites that do not have DSL supported by your local TelCO. In that case it isn't a problem of the ISP (unless they are claiming that they offer access in your area when they really don't).
or you could get a $150 dvdrom and dxr2 card. And dxr2s are almost workable in linux (and completely so if you have an ATI All-in-wonder card).
Jar-jar is a good enough argument against any CGI charecter. But they had to make Jar-jar CGI, as they found that it was psychologically impossible (and against a number of laws) to impose such an annoying charecter on a real actor.
You say that a world govenment is far from reality, sir? I beg to differ. (please let me differ, pretty-please?) What you meant to say, I'm sure, rather than:
...is that there can be no world government without a consolidated religion and a consolidated race...
...ellipses are a way of life...
Until we can see beyond religious and racial issues
As we step boldly into a pile of steaming... er, that is, into a new world shamelessly bereft of physical boundries, you will see that humanity will gather and unify around the raging garbage fire that is our planet. We shall all band together as the shining apocalypse slowly embraces the supple and nautily heaving bosom of mother earth, groaning from the...
You may now resume sanity. If it makes you feel any better for these few seconds I have stolen from your life, I think I originally had a point, somewhere...
For everyone else who missed the entire point of that humorous post, Kang was a hideous alien bent on enslaving the world in a Simpsons halloween special. The aliens had killed the Democratic and Republican candidates and disguised themselves as each. However, before elections they and their motives were exposed. Of course, voting for someone whose top policy isn't consuming/enslaving the human race would be throwing your vote away if they aren't Democrat or Republican.
Shame on you for not recognizing, nay WORSHIPing every on-topic Simpsons reference.