You can send the page(s) to a photo print shop and get photos and images professionally printed for about the same (or less) than it costs to print on an inkjet at home (depending on image size/density). Low cost laser printers, while only printing B/W, are much lower in cost per page.
Inkjets do provide immediacy, and that may be worth the cost to some. However, the total costs for the few times it's really needed don't make a lot of sense.
So, this printer can burn through about $100 in ink per minute? Great idea, if you're a printer company. Until the cost of inkjet ink drops by two orders of magnitude (to about 1 cent per full color page), this won't be a consumer product. The only reason consumers are buying inkjets now is because they can't do math, and don't realize how much it's costing them per page.
And the point of a PDA incapable of data entry is...?
It keeps your schedule, documents, contact list, and to-do items with you in a portable manner. I rarely do data entry on the PDA itself. Other than checking off items or acknowledging reminders - which don't require a touch screen or keyboard - the bulk of the data entry occurs on my desktop/laptop. Some small amount of data entry could be performed with an on-screen keyboard and the two directional/select pads on the PSP. Heck, if you can put your name in the high-scores list on an arcade machine without a keyboard or touch screen, this shouldn't be a problem. Certainly more than enough to record a name and number, or schedule an appointment, for example.
I currently have a Tungsten C, which has both a touch screen and a keyboard. I find that I use the
"Navigator" (4 directional rocker and center select button) more and more, instead of the touch screen. It's faster than getting out the stylus. The PSP has a similar set of directional and selection buttons, and it would be more than adequate as a PDA. You would probably want to do your data entry on a PC though.
Has anyone ported a PIM (Personal Information Management) suite and user interface (like Opie) to it yet (or are there any projects in progress)? That would make the PSP attractive as a PDA as well.
Are you honestly trying to tell me you've never run into people with religious beliefs before?
Just because someone reports ghosts doesn't mean that there isn't a physical cause. As I pointed out in another post, a neighborhood kid with a magnetron from an old microwave can cause many physical problems. Until it's investigated, assuming that there's no physical cause does a disservice to the scientific method.
When I first went to work at a large international Frame Relay/ATM/IP data network provider (use your imagination), they performed all their routine maintenance operations manually. They literally had a large network operations center filled with tier-1 technicians. We would print out lists of commands with WAN switch names; they would login to each and issue the commands.
Aside from the many typos, this was obviously limited in scale. Each switch model had a unique user interface - some straight TTY, some ncurses-like vt100 screen addressing - that made maintenance confusing and error prone. I created a script in TCL/Expeck/TK that allowed command execution automation (with a nice GUI, stored procedures, detailed audit trails, etc.) and parallel execution (e.g. command execution on 100 switches at the same time).
With that script, any authorized individual could execute a dozen commands on a thousand switches in a couple of minutes, something that would have taken days if performed manually. When I left, it was being used not only ad-hoc for maintenance activities, but cron'd for things like data collection, equipment inventory, equipment status monitoring. It was also used to automate testing, as stored procedures could be collected and kicked off against the test networks. Usage had grown until it basically had its own 8-way Xeon machine, running flat out almost 24x7.
Also, note that software development wasn't part of my job function, though I was an experienced software developer before joining the organization. Simply in terms of the equivalent manpower, that one script saved the company tens of millions of dollars/year. Our equiment vendor liked it a lot and was authorized to use it on our network for specific activities. They even offered to buy it at one point for a 7-figure sum, but were turned down; after all, it provided a competative advantage.
In return for the development, I received a 50 dollar gift check, and the upper level manager that presented it was confused about what the recognition award was for. That wasn't the first time something like that happened, and it wasn't the last.
The point of the above isn't to blow my own horn, it's to demonstrate that people rarely appreciate the value of scripts/automation.
I arrange my files by directory structure to suit me, then use a simple script running the id3tag utility (part of the id3lib package on Linux) to update the ID3 tags to match my configuration.
That way, whether the my mp3 player uses the physical hierarchy or the ID3 tags, the results are the same, and what I want them to be.
If I rearrange the files, I just rerun the script. It's simple, but effective.
Eh? Then you should go to the movie to get back at Fox. Fox isn't making the movie - Wheldon sold the movie rights to Universal when Fox screwed over the show.
Excellent! Maybe I'll go see it twice and buy the DVD then. Fox can kiss my ass.:)
I promised myself that I wouldn't go see the movie after the way Fox yanked me around and then cancelled the series. But damn, this might be the only movie that gets me into a theater this year. I can't believe I'm actually looking forward to a movie again. It's been so long, I thought they had forgotten how to make them interesting and exciting.
Minimum of 16MB (128MB to run in RAM), and it doesn't have math emulation on (needed for 486sx and earlier). I tried every small any tiny distribution I could get my hands on; blueflops was the only one with the combination of features that was necessary to (relatively painlessly) get a 486sx or older machine with only 8MB RAM up and running. Once it's going, you can easily upgrade and install whatever you need. Of course, even a slightly better machine (486DX and/or 16MB+ RAM) make it a whole lot easier. I still remember running OS/2 on a 486 4MB machine (upgrade from Win3.1). Those machines were classed as high-end desktops back then.:)
Puppy has a floppy option 22 floppys AAMOF I am going to use that method to *Try* to put Linux on an old Gateway Handbook
Puppy is a great distribution, but it requires a Pentium and 32MB of RAM. I may use that on a more up to date laptop (I also have a Pentium unit with 80MB RAM), but for my old unit, Puppy is too big!
Unfortunately, many of the PCs (and especially laptops) of this era had no cd drives, or the CD drives were not bootable. Few distros support floppy installations; there are floppy boot disks, but they don't install to the HD. The floppy drives on these machines are also incredibly slow. It can take 10 minutes to boot off of floppy, but the same distribution on HD boots in seconds. Those that do support HD installation are typically based on the 2.2 kernel, and they runs at a snails pace compared to 2.6 on the same hardware.
You can customize the kernel as you see fit. Remember that these old machines typically have hard drives measuring only a few hundred megabytes, so which file system is used isn't all that important (as long as it's stable).
This comment got me thinking. It seems that US currency has gone through many different changes over the years, and yet it's all still legal tender, resulting in a confusing mish-mash of coins and bills and whatnot. Is there any reason why all this currency is kept as legal tender?
Whn I was younger, US bills were "silver certificates" -- backed by and redeemable in silver. They were withdrawn from the market, and are no longer legal tender (since 1968). So this kind of widthdrawl of currency from the market has occurred in recent times.
You saying IT work is more important than police, doctor and firemen?
In many cases, that's true. Computers are pervasive.
They run the 911 system, and when it's down or misbehaving, people die.
They run the medical equipment and pharmacies, and when they are down or misbehaving, people die.
They run the communications systems, and when they are down policeman and fireman can die.
They run the power systems, the shipping systems, the airline systems, and subways systems. We've had recent headlines about what happens when those misbehave.
Not every IT person takes care of a 10 year old server that runs a Wendy's. If people don't consider their business to be important, then the IT folks that keep it running aren't important. Most don't class their businesses that way.
I will never accept Digital Rights Manglement. DRM predefines my use for content, usurping my rights.
Imagine if you wanted to take a magazine to read in the bathroom, but as soon as you cross the threshold, it bursts into flame. Too bad, the publisher doesn't consider their "family oriented" material suitable for bathroom reading.
Other people can choose to live in that world, but given a choice between DRM-free content and content with DRM, I choose DRM-free. If the content is only available with DRM, then I choose to do without.
I don't know why the parent is modded informative. Linux has been running 64-bit since the x86_64 machines were available (over a year). I run a fully 64-bit Linux distribution (Fedora Core 3 x86_64). Windows is lagging, that's true. But that's nothing new.
Spend a day teaching them to itemize, in excrutiating detail, a sequence of events like "waking up and getting ready for work". Part of the problem facing people first learning to program is learning to think at a detail level.
This also lets you highlight that the sequence of events is important too. Getting dressed before getting in the shower is nonsensical, and that puts sequential operations in perspective.
I tutored computer programming in college, and had some folks bring in their assignments. The code looked like it had been copied/pasted (manually, this was the late '70s) in random order. Close file; read file; open file; process file. They couldn't understand that the sequence of instructions made a difference.
Or even better, put it in a wireless headset. That way you can really lean into the curves, and your natural body motion in response to the activity on screen will provide a more seamless interaction.
I see a lot of folks arguing about the definition of journalism, and whether or not writing a blog qualifies. Well, my dictionary says that journalism is:
"The periodical collection and publication of current news"
Unless the court has a different definition, then blogging is journalism. There is nothing that I can see from the dictionary definition that would exempt it.
The article and references are, of course, Slashdotted. Are sensor networks subject to hallucinations? That is, are they secure enough to prevent false input (intentional or otherwise)?
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Like I said, they can't do math. :-)
You can send the page(s) to a photo print shop and get photos and images professionally printed for about the same (or less) than it costs to print on an inkjet at home (depending on image size/density). Low cost laser printers, while only printing B/W, are much lower in cost per page.
Inkjets do provide immediacy, and that may be worth the cost to some. However, the total costs for the few times it's really needed don't make a lot of sense.
So, this printer can burn through about $100 in ink per minute? Great idea, if you're a printer company. Until the cost of inkjet ink drops by two orders of magnitude (to about 1 cent per full color page), this won't be a consumer product. The only reason consumers are buying inkjets now is because they can't do math, and don't realize how much it's costing them per page.
It keeps your schedule, documents, contact list, and to-do items with you in a portable manner. I rarely do data entry on the PDA itself. Other than checking off items or acknowledging reminders - which don't require a touch screen or keyboard - the bulk of the data entry occurs on my desktop/laptop. Some small amount of data entry could be performed with an on-screen keyboard and the two directional/select pads on the PSP. Heck, if you can put your name in the high-scores list on an arcade machine without a keyboard or touch screen, this shouldn't be a problem. Certainly more than enough to record a name and number, or schedule an appointment, for example.
I currently have a Tungsten C, which has both a touch screen and a keyboard. I find that I use the "Navigator" (4 directional rocker and center select button) more and more, instead of the touch screen. It's faster than getting out the stylus. The PSP has a similar set of directional and selection buttons, and it would be more than adequate as a PDA. You would probably want to do your data entry on a PC though.
Has anyone ported a PIM (Personal Information Management) suite and user interface (like Opie) to it yet (or are there any projects in progress)? That would make the PSP attractive as a PDA as well.
Just because someone reports ghosts doesn't mean that there isn't a physical cause. As I pointed out in another post, a neighborhood kid with a magnetron from an old microwave can cause many physical problems. Until it's investigated, assuming that there's no physical cause does a disservice to the scientific method.
So... if their neighbor's kids took apart that old microwave oven and are firing the magnetron at them, it's a psycological problem. Good to know!
That's not saying that they're not crazy, but whatevery the situation is, if an entire family has been impacted, it's not normal.
When I first went to work at a large international Frame Relay/ATM/IP data network provider (use your imagination), they performed all their routine maintenance operations manually. They literally had a large network operations center filled with tier-1 technicians. We would print out lists of commands with WAN switch names; they would login to each and issue the commands.
Aside from the many typos, this was obviously limited in scale. Each switch model had a unique user interface - some straight TTY, some ncurses-like vt100 screen addressing - that made maintenance confusing and error prone. I created a script in TCL/Expeck/TK that allowed command execution automation (with a nice GUI, stored procedures, detailed audit trails, etc.) and parallel execution (e.g. command execution on 100 switches at the same time).
With that script, any authorized individual could execute a dozen commands on a thousand switches in a couple of minutes, something that would have taken days if performed manually. When I left, it was being used not only ad-hoc for maintenance activities, but cron'd for things like data collection, equipment inventory, equipment status monitoring. It was also used to automate testing, as stored procedures could be collected and kicked off against the test networks. Usage had grown until it basically had its own 8-way Xeon machine, running flat out almost 24x7.
Also, note that software development wasn't part of my job function, though I was an experienced software developer before joining the organization. Simply in terms of the equivalent manpower, that one script saved the company tens of millions of dollars/year. Our equiment vendor liked it a lot and was authorized to use it on our network for specific activities. They even offered to buy it at one point for a 7-figure sum, but were turned down; after all, it provided a competative advantage.
In return for the development, I received a 50 dollar gift check, and the upper level manager that presented it was confused about what the recognition award was for. That wasn't the first time something like that happened, and it wasn't the last.
The point of the above isn't to blow my own horn, it's to demonstrate that people rarely appreciate the value of scripts/automation.
I arrange my files by directory structure to suit me, then use a simple script running the id3tag utility (part of the id3lib package on Linux) to update the ID3 tags to match my configuration. That way, whether the my mp3 player uses the physical hierarchy or the ID3 tags, the results are the same, and what I want them to be. If I rearrange the files, I just rerun the script. It's simple, but effective.
Excellent! Maybe I'll go see it twice and buy the DVD then. Fox can kiss my ass. :)
I promised myself that I wouldn't go see the movie after the way Fox yanked me around and then cancelled the series. But damn, this might be the only movie that gets me into a theater this year. I can't believe I'm actually looking forward to a movie again. It's been so long, I thought they had forgotten how to make them interesting and exciting.
How about DSL linux ?
:)
Minimum of 16MB (128MB to run in RAM), and it doesn't have math emulation on (needed for 486sx and earlier). I tried every small any tiny distribution I could get my hands on; blueflops was the only one with the combination of features that was necessary to (relatively painlessly) get a 486sx or older machine with only 8MB RAM up and running. Once it's going, you can easily upgrade and install whatever you need. Of course, even a slightly better machine (486DX and/or 16MB+ RAM) make it a whole lot easier. I still remember running OS/2 on a 486 4MB machine (upgrade from Win3.1). Those machines were classed as high-end desktops back then.
Puppy is a great distribution, but it requires a Pentium and 32MB of RAM. I may use that on a more up to date laptop (I also have a Pentium unit with 80MB RAM), but for my old unit, Puppy is too big!
Unfortunately, many of the PCs (and especially laptops) of this era had no cd drives, or the CD drives were not bootable. Few distros support floppy installations; there are floppy boot disks, but they don't install to the HD. The floppy drives on these machines are also incredibly slow. It can take 10 minutes to boot off of floppy, but the same distribution on HD boots in seconds. Those that do support HD installation are typically based on the 2.2 kernel, and they runs at a snails pace compared to 2.6 on the same hardware.
You can customize the kernel as you see fit. Remember that these old machines typically have hard drives measuring only a few hundred megabytes, so which file system is used isn't all that important (as long as it's stable).
Whn I was younger, US bills were "silver certificates" -- backed by and redeemable in silver. They were withdrawn from the market, and are no longer legal tender (since 1968). So this kind of widthdrawl of currency from the market has occurred in recent times.
You saying IT work is more important than police, doctor and firemen?
In many cases, that's true. Computers are pervasive.
They run the 911 system, and when it's down or misbehaving, people die.
They run the medical equipment and pharmacies, and when they are down or misbehaving, people die.
They run the communications systems, and when they are down policeman and fireman can die.
They run the power systems, the shipping systems, the airline systems, and subways systems. We've had recent headlines about what happens when those misbehave.
Not every IT person takes care of a 10 year old server that runs a Wendy's. If people don't consider their business to be important, then the IT folks that keep it running aren't important. Most don't class their businesses that way.
I will never accept Digital Rights Manglement. DRM predefines my use for content, usurping my rights.
Imagine if you wanted to take a magazine to read in the bathroom, but as soon as you cross the threshold, it bursts into flame. Too bad, the publisher doesn't consider their "family oriented" material suitable for bathroom reading.
Other people can choose to live in that world, but given a choice between DRM-free content and content with DRM, I choose DRM-free. If the content is only available with DRM, then I choose to do without.
Have you seen any unscheduled downtime on your 64-bit machines? We haven't seen any.
I don't know why the parent is modded informative. Linux has been running 64-bit since the x86_64 machines were available (over a year). I run a fully 64-bit Linux distribution (Fedora Core 3 x86_64). Windows is lagging, that's true. But that's nothing new.
Spend a day teaching them to itemize, in excrutiating detail, a sequence of events like "waking up and getting ready for work". Part of the problem facing people first learning to program is learning to think at a detail level.
This also lets you highlight that the sequence of events is important too. Getting dressed before getting in the shower is nonsensical, and that puts sequential operations in perspective.
I tutored computer programming in college, and had some folks bring in their assignments. The code looked like it had been copied/pasted (manually, this was the late '70s) in random order. Close file; read file; open file; process file. They couldn't understand that the sequence of instructions made a difference.
Or even better, put it in a wireless headset. That way you can really lean into the curves, and your natural body motion in response to the activity on screen will provide a more seamless interaction.
I see a lot of folks arguing about the definition of journalism, and whether or not writing a blog qualifies. Well, my dictionary says that journalism is:
"The periodical collection and publication of current news"
Unless the court has a different definition, then blogging is journalism. There is nothing that I can see from the dictionary definition that would exempt it.
The article and references are, of course, Slashdotted. Are sensor networks subject to hallucinations? That is, are they secure enough to prevent false input (intentional or otherwise)?