So is it okay to kill non christian or people not of the book? Are Animists from the book? What about Scientologist? They must be from the book considering the number of books written by the guy who started that.
This brings another question - how do you qualify for "people of the book" protection -- with a library card?
Believe me or not but for a 101 bioinformatics course I taught this year, I picked up jslinux to teach grep, pipe and other shell scripting basics.
This was just the simplest option to get a linux prompt on every machine of the computer lab - and studenta who had brought their own laptops could work on the very same examples as the rest of the class, in an identical environment.
Busybox grep is good enough for teaching the basics to students, and they can access the very same setup from home if they want to rehearse or try to solve the problems in a different way. .
What is truly missing is not persistent storage but basic network support, to be able to wget example files. Not anyone can cook an initrd (loop mounted ext2 filesystem)
You perfectly summed up the reasons why many (including me) now practice evidence based medicine, and only prescribe new drugs when there's a solid file to back them up. Call me conservative - that's what I am.
Most of the drugs available are useless - not that they aren't effecient, but because they are more efficients, best known and cheaper drugs already available.
The WHO "essential drugs" pharmacopoiea is an excellent basis to get started to practice this kind of efficient, bare, no thrills, medicine
In France, prescrire.org gives this kind of drug informations. There're many other similar independant drug information bulletins in other countries.
I wish I knew. I don't like waste of resources either. There's no point in being different just for the sake of being different as you mentionned.In this case it's even ironic - going with microsoft to counter the anglo-saxon centric digital library!!!
My guess is that it must be some ego problem for some politician who feel bad his/her pet project is so lame when compared with google's one.
Oh my god. At this very moment I'm so ashamed of being french. Could someone please pass the cluestick to Chirac?
It's not because he don't like what's being done by google/gutemberg/whatever that he should pledge alliance to the evil empire. What's the point of going with Microsoft?
Forget negociations! This is *wrong*, period. Nothing can justify it.
What's next? An alliance with McDonalds if Jojo decides to open restaurants in France ?
You can't use a standard sipphone accout with it:You need kphone - slow and hard to use.
Regarding the new ipaq with the voip feature + gsm, ok that's cool, but 1) it's not free software and 2) it's not all in one.
By all in one I mean the hardware should come with the sipphone account and an appropriate call/data plan to do all that without having to shop around for parts
RIM Blackberry is strong, but IMHO that's only due to 2 things:
- a keyboard
- an easy to use system
- unmetered email
Ie. it tries to serve customers instead of thinking about milking them dry. Not that it's not they long term goal (maybe) but they provide a decent service for a decent fee.
But that's just a functionnality-based success. Any WinCE, Palm or Zaurus call plan which would offer the same functionnality would quickly become as big. Time to think about new functions too - say unmetered instant messenging (like SMS but free!)
Note to cell phone operators : stop thinking about milking your customers dry. Start thinking about offering services, such as voip roaming (ie if my cellphone finds a wifi network, use sipphone instead of $lousy_gsm_provider - especially when roaming abroad !)
This is IMHO the key to success. Then whatever hardware or operating system that goes along, if it is not too lousy, will grow.
The Zaurus 6000 could have become big. The user interface needed only minor tweaking. If only it had had GSM built it (smartphone like) + some good voip software + a call plan where email and instant messenging would have been free...
The market is lagging not because of lack of functionnality or technical capabiliies (GPRS makes possible to receive calls at the same time you have a data connection on a multiplex-capable GSM phone) but only because a shared monopoly between shitty operators prevent this innovation from appearing. "what if it eats my profits?" is wrong spririt. With the same mentality horseless carriage ie cars would have never existed. "it will eat every competitor alive and grow my market share and thus skyrocket my profits" is right.
Where's entrepreunership and risk taking? I just see deep-coma business !
That's free advice from a disgruntled french cellphone customer.
Maybe to get a real computer, where he can flash the OS he want, run apache, perl, code on the go etc.
But you're right on the price. Far too expansive. Get a 6000L for $399 at amazon, and buy a big CF. You'll enjoy the local warranty (no fedex to Japan!) and a better screen. And you'll have to use wikipedia instead of the japaneese encyclopaedia anyway (I don't speak japanese you insensitive clod)
The 6000 has a far better screen, $399 on amazon with integrated wifi - and you can buy a big SD or CF mini hard drive if you need. $850 for a C3000? No way.
Excellent. So finally there's a divx player for the newest palms and pocketpcs? It's been time - mplayer has been running on the Zaurus for years. Do the palms/pocketpcs play.ogg BTW ? And do you have a free software instant messanger like gaim ? I think there's much more free software being written for the zaurus currently.
However you're right, the pim sucks. I completely agree - I'd like an equivalent of palm agenda and datebook. Compared to a palm, I still miss some applications (mostly PIM) on the zaurus, but being in control of your software applications & data [and not the other way around *] is priceless. And zcalendar (for ex) looks promising.
I don't care if some application can't work on the simpad 800x600 big screen - I can just edit the source and make it work. Or ask a friend to help me. Previously I had a map viewing application for the palm called mapviewer - it's incompatible with the current palms screen resolution so the data I purchased is lost unless I purchase a new license and install a ms windows to use the map companion program required to cut maps and transfer them to the palm.
* : proprietary software world is like soviet russia : your software and your data control you.
You can see winCE code, but you can't see the applications code. If you have the source, you can survive major os upgrades if you simply take time to read the new api, and recompile.
When you have the source, you can adapt to the major os change. if you have only purchased a license for a binary, you can/dev/null it and purchase a new license for the latest software.
It happened to me with mapviewer - can't run this lowres application on a highres palm. My collection of vectorial maps of french cities is therefore useless. I have to buy a new version of mapviewer - one that requires me to use windows to select part of the maps I want on the palm.
Call me a cheap bastard but I'd rather 1) save the money and 2) be able to use the maps I paid on whatever hardware I want.
Why is it more important on a handheld? Because if gnu/linux can be considered mainstream on a desktop computer (read - it's possible and not uncommon) linux on a handheld is still very new, with very little applications, and only running on some specific handhelds. So IMHO it's important to focus on the handhelds and avoid using say a gnu/linux desktop + a axim - it's loosing on the handheld [ms reader, etc.proprietary, etc. drm ] the freedom gained on the desktop.
You are using free formats (divx) and free software tools (plucker) which depends on free formats, so of course you're fine. Well, sort of - you'll have less problems than someone using 100% proprietary software. But when you'll move to another palm (it will happen - it's just a question of time) some of your documents may be stuck in obscure proprietary formats - documents to go IIRC requires some plugin to transform office documents into documents it can read, at least in the tungsten w version. So I hope you'll always have that plugin and it'll always run on all your operating systems.
you're also loosing the "hackability" factor of a zaurus. Do you have a good wifi sniffer on your tungsten? Can you encrypt partitions with aes128? can you reflash the rom by your own rom, running X (see cacko.biz) etc etc. freedom is the most important factor to me.
Not the first one. Check http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6733 It's less expensive, works with existing zaurus apps, and ships *now* with handwriting recognition.
What would you suggest for outdated documentation?
We can't simply remove it - it's still usefull for a lot of people who use old versions.
Ideally, there would be enough volunteers so that it wouldn't be a problem. Meanwhyle we do what we can. We have a strong peer reviewing process, and we take out documents that shouldn't be there. Outdated documents that can not help are moved to a separate directory, waiting for a new maintainer.
So in the free software way, stop whining and act! This "woefully out of date" HOWTO you are thinking about is certainly a good candidate to proove your author skills.
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So is it okay to kill non christian or people not of the book? Are Animists from the book? What about Scientologist? They must be from the book considering the number of books written by the guy who started that.
This brings another question - how do you qualify for "people of the book" protection -- with a library card?
How can you say that in 2012? Are you joking about a serious problem??
The OP should *GIT* clone pharmacy !!
Believe me or not but for a 101 bioinformatics course I taught this year, I picked up jslinux to teach grep, pipe and other shell scripting basics.
This was just the simplest option to get a linux prompt on every machine of the computer lab - and studenta who had brought their own laptops could work on the very same examples as the rest of the class, in an identical environment.
Busybox grep is good enough for teaching the basics to students, and they can access the very same setup from home if they want to rehearse or try to solve the problems in a different way. .
What is truly missing is not persistent storage but basic network support, to be able to wget example files. Not anyone can cook an initrd (loop mounted ext2 filesystem)
You perfectly summed up the reasons why many (including me) now practice evidence based medicine, and only prescribe new drugs when there's a solid file to back them up. Call me conservative - that's what I am.
Most of the drugs available are useless - not that they aren't effecient, but because they are more efficients, best known and cheaper drugs already available.
The WHO "essential drugs" pharmacopoiea is an excellent basis to get started to practice this kind of efficient, bare, no thrills, medicine
In France, prescrire.org gives this kind of drug informations. There're many other similar independant drug information bulletins in other countries.
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It will be posted again next week too, to make sure everyone got it.
I wish I knew. I don't like waste of resources either. There's no point in being different just for the sake of being different as you mentionned.In this case it's even ironic - going with microsoft to counter the anglo-saxon centric digital library!!!
My guess is that it must be some ego problem for some politician who feel bad his/her pet project is so lame when compared with google's one.
Oh my god. At this very moment I'm so ashamed of being french. Could someone please pass the cluestick to Chirac?
It's not because he don't like what's being done by google/gutemberg/whatever that he should pledge alliance to the evil empire. What's the point of going with Microsoft?
Forget negociations! This is *wrong*, period. Nothing can justify it.
What's next? An alliance with McDonalds if Jojo decides to open restaurants in France ?
You can't use a standard sipphone accout with it:You need kphone - slow and hard to use.
Regarding the new ipaq with the voip feature + gsm, ok that's cool, but 1) it's not free software and 2) it's not all in one.
By all in one I mean the hardware should come with the sipphone account and an appropriate call/data plan to do all that without having to shop around for parts
Right - that's a real problem.
Even on the zaurus, creating and cross compiling opie applications is not as simple as it should be
RIM Blackberry is strong, but IMHO that's only due to 2 things:
- a keyboard
- an easy to use system
- unmetered email
Ie. it tries to serve customers instead of thinking about milking them dry. Not that it's not they long term goal (maybe) but they provide a decent service for a decent fee.
But that's just a functionnality-based success. Any WinCE, Palm or Zaurus call plan which would offer the same functionnality would quickly become as big. Time to think about new functions too - say unmetered instant messenging (like SMS but free!)
Note to cell phone operators : stop thinking about milking your customers dry. Start thinking about offering services, such as voip roaming (ie if my cellphone finds a wifi network, use sipphone instead of $lousy_gsm_provider - especially when roaming abroad !)
This is IMHO the key to success. Then whatever hardware or operating system that goes along, if it is not too lousy, will grow.
The Zaurus 6000 could have become big. The user interface needed only minor tweaking. If only it had had GSM built it (smartphone like) + some good voip software + a call plan where email and instant messenging would have been free...
The market is lagging not because of lack of functionnality or technical capabiliies (GPRS makes possible to receive calls at the same time you have a data connection on a multiplex-capable GSM phone) but only because a shared monopoly between shitty operators prevent this innovation from appearing. "what if it eats my profits?" is wrong spririt. With the same mentality horseless carriage ie cars would have never existed. "it will eat every competitor alive and grow my market share and thus skyrocket my profits" is right.
Where's entrepreunership and risk taking? I just see deep-coma business !
That's free advice from a disgruntled french cellphone customer.
They raised it. It was 399 a week ago on a stock clearance sale. Sorry.
Maybe to get a real computer, where he can flash the OS he want, run apache, perl, code on the go etc.
But you're right on the price. Far too expansive. Get a 6000L for $399 at amazon, and buy a big CF. You'll enjoy the local warranty (no fedex to Japan!) and a better screen. And you'll have to use wikipedia instead of the japaneese encyclopaedia anyway (I don't speak japanese you insensitive clod)
The battery won't be eaten by the CF hard drive - they are nearly as power efficient as "flash" CF
... or a C860 :-)
And anyway, I wouldn't trade my beloved 6000 (bluetooth AND wifi) for a C3000
The 6000 has a far better screen, $399 on amazon with integrated wifi - and you can buy a big SD or CF mini hard drive if you need. $850 for a C3000? No way.
Like yoda you speak.
Excellent. So finally there's a divx player for the newest palms and pocketpcs? It's been time - mplayer has been running on the Zaurus for years. Do the palms/pocketpcs play .ogg BTW ? And do you have a free software instant messanger like gaim ? I think there's much more free software being written for the zaurus currently.
Regarding the size, a C750 doesn't look bad.
However you're right, the pim sucks. I completely agree - I'd like an equivalent of palm agenda and datebook. Compared to a palm, I still miss some applications (mostly PIM) on the zaurus, but being in control of your software applications & data [and not the other way around *] is priceless. And zcalendar (for ex) looks promising.
I don't care if some application can't work on the simpad 800x600 big screen - I can just edit the source and make it work. Or ask a friend to help me. Previously I had a map viewing application for the palm called mapviewer - it's incompatible with the current palms screen resolution so the data I purchased is lost unless I purchase a new license and install a ms windows to use the map companion program required to cut maps and transfer them to the palm.
* : proprietary software world is like soviet russia : your software and your data control you.
You can see winCE code, but you can't see the applications code. If you have the source, you can survive major os upgrades if you simply take time to read the new api, and recompile.
When you have the source, you can adapt to the major os change. if you have only purchased a license for a binary, you can /dev/null it and purchase a new license for the latest software.
It happened to me with mapviewer - can't run this lowres application on a highres palm. My collection of vectorial maps of french cities is therefore useless. I have to buy a new version of mapviewer - one that requires me to use windows to select part of the maps I want on the palm.
Call me a cheap bastard but I'd rather 1) save the money and 2) be able to use the maps I paid on whatever hardware I want.
correct, *applications* use drm. Try mobipocket for ex : your documents are tied to your palm serial number.
Why is it more important on a handheld? Because if gnu/linux can be considered mainstream on a desktop computer (read - it's possible and not uncommon) linux on a handheld is still very new, with very little applications, and only running on some specific handhelds. So IMHO it's important to focus on the handhelds and avoid using say a gnu/linux desktop + a axim - it's loosing on the handheld [ms reader, etc.proprietary, etc. drm ] the freedom gained on the desktop.
You are using free formats (divx) and free software tools (plucker) which depends on free formats, so of course you're fine. Well, sort of - you'll have less problems than someone using 100% proprietary software. But when you'll move to another palm (it will happen - it's just a question of time) some of your documents may be stuck in obscure proprietary formats - documents to go IIRC requires some plugin to transform office documents into documents it can read, at least in the tungsten w version. So I hope you'll always have that plugin and it'll always run on all your operating systems.
you're also loosing the "hackability" factor of a zaurus. Do you have a good wifi sniffer on your tungsten? Can you encrypt partitions with aes128? can you reflash the rom by your own rom, running X (see cacko.biz) etc etc. freedom is the most important factor to me.
can you contact me in pv please ?
Not the first one. Check http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6733
It's less expensive, works with existing zaurus apps, and ships *now* with handwriting recognition.
What would you suggest for outdated documentation?
We can't simply remove it - it's still usefull for a lot of people who use old versions.
Ideally, there would be enough volunteers so that it wouldn't be a problem. Meanwhyle we do what we can. We have a strong peer reviewing process, and we take out documents that shouldn't be there. Outdated documents that can not help are moved to a separate directory, waiting for a new maintainer.
So in the free software way, stop whining and act! This "woefully out of date" HOWTO you are thinking about is certainly a good candidate to proove your author skills.
Do you think I have lots of free time? I'm MD resident/PhD, going to maintain my 4th HOWTO - XFS (I'm lucky the 3 other ones don't change so much).
So if you unfortunately have no more time to give than I do, never mind - just do what you can.
If everybody does what he/she can, then we will have more up-to-date documents.