Learned programming on it around 1977 or 1978. It belonged to my brother, and he'd challenge me to program Euclid's algorithm or display the Fibonacci sequence using the limited space of 50 program steps.
Some Palm PDAs, like my IIIc, don't have user-replaceable batteries, though I've seen third-party batteries (complete with screwdriver!) on Ebay. So far, it still holds a charge. I've got my fingers crossed.
I agree except for one application -- have you ever tried printing photos on an affordable laser printer? It's not pretty. Yes, inkjet consumables are expensive compared to laser printers, but laser printers just don't produce decent photographs.
Groove always seemed to be one of those really, really cool solutions, if only it weren't so tied to MS Office, Outlook, and Windows. Obviously that won't get any better now that MS owns Groove.
I wish I hadn't posted to this thread, so I could mod the parent up. This is a VERY IMPORTANT POINT. Don't endanger yourself by drowning out the sounds of traffic. It's a good way to stop your running career in a hurry.
In all of the countless hours I've run, I've never once run out of things to think about, or wished that I had some music to distract me.
The Garmin Forerunner 201 this guy mentions really is a nice gadget. I've had mine for two weeks, and I love it. But if he thinks that the "virtual parter" is the best feature, then I suspect he's more of a geek than a runner. In my opinion, it's just a gimmick. You enter some combination of desired pace, time, or distance, and it shows two little glyphs running across the screen, one representing you and one representing your goal. Silly. Why not just use the pace, time, and distance numbers that the Forerunner shows?
My favorite feature (so far; I haven't explored everything it does) is "auto-lap," which gives me my lap times for each kilometer (or any arbitrary distance) I run. One important running skill I haven't mastered is keeping control of my pace; auto-lap really helps. I suppose the virtual running partner does that, too, in a limited, on-the-fly way, but I need something that I can use while I run AND review later. Auto-lap does that.
give her a really high grade and have her read her paper aloud in class
That reminds me of an incident in a high school English class, when we were to write a poem in the style of Emily Dickinson. I and another dorky 16-year-old decided to just use some pop song lyrics. The day after we turned them in, the teacher [who happened to be George McGovern's sister] stopped the two of us after class and told us she wanted to submit our poems to a magazine! Naturally, we protested, but didn't admit guilt. At the time, we though that she just thought the poems were good, but in retrospect it seems we were just ants about to burst into flames under her magnifying glass. It was never mentioned again, but we learned our lesson well.
Until SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle applications support it, which will happen, respectively, probably no time soon, probably never, and never, it won't "replace Oracle as the de facto RDBMS standard."
Gotta agree with you on that one -- as an Oracle DBA, I've found many a developer's SELECT to be dangerous to my own reputation. Not just cartesian products, either.
By the way, it's refreshing to read a/. review that's actually well-conceived, well-researched, and well-written.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe the word he's looking for is "jibe."
Learned programming on it around 1977 or 1978. It belonged to my brother, and he'd challenge me to program Euclid's algorithm or display the Fibonacci sequence using the limited space of 50 program steps.
Some Palm PDAs, like my IIIc, don't have user-replaceable batteries, though I've seen third-party batteries (complete with screwdriver!) on Ebay. So far, it still holds a charge. I've got my fingers crossed.
I always say petitio principii when I want to sound like a pompous ass.
Well, you know the rest.
Sorry.
I agree except for one application -- have you ever tried printing photos on an affordable laser printer? It's not pretty. Yes, inkjet consumables are expensive compared to laser printers, but laser printers just don't produce decent photographs.
What is this "dot slash" of which you speak?
Groove always seemed to be one of those really, really cool solutions, if only it weren't so tied to MS Office, Outlook, and Windows. Obviously that won't get any better now that MS owns Groove.
who doesn't wish they'd invested in some tech stocks at the right time?
Oh, I invested in tech stocks a the right time, I just didn't divest at the right time...
... or AG Edwards.
I wish I hadn't posted to this thread, so I could mod the parent up. This is a VERY IMPORTANT POINT. Don't endanger yourself by drowning out the sounds of traffic. It's a good way to stop your running career in a hurry.
In all of the countless hours I've run, I've never once run out of things to think about, or wished that I had some music to distract me.
The Garmin Forerunner 201 this guy mentions really is a nice gadget. I've had mine for two weeks, and I love it. But if he thinks that the "virtual parter" is the best feature, then I suspect he's more of a geek than a runner. In my opinion, it's just a gimmick. You enter some combination of desired pace, time, or distance, and it shows two little glyphs running across the screen, one representing you and one representing your goal. Silly. Why not just use the pace, time, and distance numbers that the Forerunner shows?
My favorite feature (so far; I haven't explored everything it does) is "auto-lap," which gives me my lap times for each kilometer (or any arbitrary distance) I run. One important running skill I haven't mastered is keeping control of my pace; auto-lap really helps. I suppose the virtual running partner does that, too, in a limited, on-the-fly way, but I need something that I can use while I run AND review later. Auto-lap does that.
Any *actual* music geek would prefer... hammer action, weighted (at least partially, preferably fully) [keys]
Not necessarily. There are plenty of styles of keyboard playing (think Hammond B3) that are hindered by weighted keys.
and figures he had better learn the two-step. Although a good dancer, he just can't get the hang of it. He asks for help from a native Texan.
"Just make sure to keep the beat in your head. One-two, one-two, one-two."
"Oh -- all this time I'd been saying to myself 'zero-one, zero-one, zero-one.'"
Is it a review of a card, or a review of a review? If the site weren't slashdotted, I could tell...
If only I'd read your post before I RTFA. Yikes! Now I have to take my brain out and wash it...
give her a really high grade and have her read her paper aloud in class
That reminds me of an incident in a high school English class, when we were to write a poem in the style of Emily Dickinson. I and another dorky 16-year-old decided to just use some pop song lyrics. The day after we turned them in, the teacher [who happened to be George McGovern's sister] stopped the two of us after class and told us she wanted to submit our poems to a magazine! Naturally, we protested, but didn't admit guilt. At the time, we though that she just thought the poems were good, but in retrospect it seems we were just ants about to burst into flames under her magnifying glass. It was never mentioned again, but we learned our lesson well.
Until SAP, PeopleSoft, and Oracle applications support it, which will happen, respectively, probably no time soon, probably never, and never, it won't "replace Oracle as the de facto RDBMS standard."
Gotta agree with you on that one -- as an Oracle DBA, I've found many a developer's SELECT to be dangerous to my own reputation. Not just cartesian products, either.
/. review that's actually well-conceived, well-researched, and well-written.
By the way, it's refreshing to read a
invented the relational database model.