Not only that, in my neighbourhood, they're HARD to find, and have changed since 911 came out, due to municipal amalgamations and so forth.
I spent about 25 minutes one night trying to find a phone number for the fire department, so they could help me with a fuel leak which wasn't actually an *emergency*, but certainly a ticking time bomb to public safety and the environment.
Anyhow, I finally found the number, called them, explained what was going on to the shocked phone-answered, and got a visit from the fire department about a half hour later. They were pretty cool about it, I also didn't get a bill in the mail for using an emergency service improperly.
..is why is it that when Geeks get to become "Neilsen Families" and so forth.. do they skip the commercials? I mean, that *must* be what happens, otherwise, how would the advertisers even know the behaviour of the geeks?
I've twice had the opportunity to become a television-watcher (or whatever you call those). I made SURE that for that month I didn't watch -anything- that I thought sucked, and I DID NOT MISS a single episode of my favourite shows. I mean, why the hell not? It's like voting crap off the telly!
If any of you ever get the opportunity to be surveyed or monitored with respect to television programming, JUMP at the opportunity, it's the only way the 90210-fans of the world will be conquered. Best yet, they'll send you some money in the mail when you're all done! (Not much, mind you...)
> I dont think the public is ready to > throw away those paper ballots.
Damn straight.... pigs will fly before most Americans would even consider voting for a third party candidate. They'll just keep right on voting for Kang and Kodos.
The treo lost graffiti due to some idiotic lawsuit. I'm surprised/. didn't cover it back in the day.
Anyhow, you can get graffiti for the Treo, just look around. Somebody ported it from the Tungsten's "graffiti anywhere" package.
Additionally, I would really like to see the OP enter data on a traditional Palm with only one hand. I have generally found that I need one hand to hold the stylus, and another to hold the Palm.
I needed a Laptop and got a swivler. Not bad. The tablet functionality is nice to have, but not manadatory. If I were using the tablet as the *primary* feature, would definately buy a slate, though.
The swivel laptops are also great for doing presentations, you can turn the screen around backwards towards the customer, but still hit the space bar from your side of the machine.
Additionally, swivelling the screen backwards makes it easier to use the laptop screen when it's plugged into an external keyboard -- it can be a good 10 inches closer to your face.
As someone who has used all his Palms (m105, Treo600, Treo650) nearly exclusively for telnet/ssh/serial -- I would have to say that the keyboard is a freakin' GODSEND.
I could never remember the graffitos for |, !, >, >>, ", ', `, etc... the keyboard makes most of them easily available, and when they're not, I just grab the stylus [which I keep in my mouth] and hit the right character on the virtual keyboard (which I have *just* made appear with my other keyboarded hand, while the first was reaching for the stylus)
Assuming your Pocket PC was the same vintage as mine (WinCE 3.0 had just come out)... they didn't DO handwriting recognition, you were expected to use their special little alphabet, just like Palm... except that their alphabet was much more like handwriting than Palm's.
Now, I just got a convertible tablet/laptop, running Tablet XP. I am no Microsoft fan-boy, but I gotta tell ya, the handwriting recognition is GREAT. I was able to just pick it up and start writing (cursive!) and away it went. Why is it so good? It runs everything you write up against a dictionary (and presumably trains its recognition at the same time).
The pen input is perfect for when I want to whip of 100 or less words and the machine is already in table mode. Otherwise, I'll flip the screen around and go to laptop mode. I have found that the two modes have little overlap in terms of how I use a PC, though. Which is great!
# Subject: Driver Follows Navigation System Into River # From: "Vic Maslanka" # Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 14:17:32 PST
>BONN, Germany (Reuters) - A German motorist obediently following the >satellite-guided navigation system of his car drove straight into the >Havel River in eastern Germany, police said Saturday. > >He drove his BMW Friday night past a stop sign, down a ferry ramp and >about four meters (12 feet) into the river before stopping. The >57-year-old driver from Hamburg and his passenger were not hurt. > >Police said the driver reported he was following the navigation >system, which had evidently failed to note that the road in the town >of Caputh near Potsdam ended at a ferry crossing. > >``Normally accidents like this shouldn't happen,'' said police >spokesman Frank Heinichen. ``But that sort of thing can happen when >people rely too much on technology.'' > >-- END OF STORY > >OTSDAM, Germany (AP) - A German couple out for a Christmas drive near >Berlin ended up in a river - apparently because their luxury car's >computer forgot to mention they had to wait for a ferry. > >The 57-year-old driver and his passenger were not injured in the >accident, police said Saturday. > >Several companies sell computer navigators, some of which are >attached to dashboards and serve as electronic road maps. Some offer >traffic updates and Internet connections. > >The German couple was out driving Friday night when they came to a >ferry crossing at the Havel River in Caputh, six miles from Berlin. > >That information, however, was never stored in the satellite-steered >navigation system they were using, police said. The driver kept going >straight in the dark, expecting a bridge, and ended up in the water. > >River traffic was stopped for two hours while the car was fished out >about 13 feet from the river bank. > >``You can't always blindly rely on technology,'' a coast guard police >officer said. > >-- END OF STORY >
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Oddly enough, IE since version 4 has had a method whose name escapes me at the moment which will do basically what you're asking for. Of course, it exists ONLY in IE.
Something about updates being buffered off screen or not. Actually, I seem to recall that one of the property values was "onscreen", and the method probably had the word "update" or "refresh" in it.
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Of course that'll do it. But you missed the point -- innerHTML is not W3C-blessed (which, frankly, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to, but some people do).
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The developer you talked to is an idiot.
Either script wget or Lynx and extract your pr0n passwords with sed, awk, or perl. Piece of cake.
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Sooo.... you meant that now designers could stop writing code that breaks on anything but IE and Netscape 4?
The respondent rightly points out that using the W3C DOM still is not the best option for inserting nodes; innerHTML is much faster. To this respondent - the reason is simple: 1,000 row insertions done in the DOM requires 1,000 separate tree insertions and modifications under JavaScript control, marshalling and returning these objects back to the interpreter, blah blah blah. The innerHTML method simply assembles everything as a string first (which is much cheaper!), generates a tree, and inserts the root of the new tree into the document.
(note, above paragraph somewhat simplied).
My option? W3C should add a "parse" method, which would parse a hunk of HTML and return a handle to the root node for you to insert yourself.
> Gone is the idea of the "phone". You make phone calls via > a softphone on your iPaq or Zaurus type mobile device
Personally, I think this convergence crap is highly overrated. The problem is really simple -- for something to work well as a phone, it needs to be shaped like a phone. And something shaped like a phone does NOT make a very good mobile computing platform!
My current personal solution is pretty straightforward -- I carry an old GSM phone for making voice calls (currently, a Nokia 7190) and a Treo 650 for data services -- e.g. SSH.
The best part is, I can talk while typing with this solution, and I didn't have to sacrifice functionality on one device for the other.
Assuming you're talking GSM, the 7th bit is unused and the data gets compacted in the PDU to allow 160 characters to fit into 140 bytes. Stupidly enough, they call this compression, but there is also Huffman-coding compression available in GSM for short messages... it's just very seldom used IME. For more info, consult ETSI GSM 03.40 and 03.42 IIRC.
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Do American troops not get "overseas pay" and "danger pay"?
I think my v1.2 is setup like that as well... IIRC it doesn't differentiate between WLAN and LAN connections, just WAN and LAN.
Which is really stupid.
Big, expensive -- sure. How many cheap computers EXISTED 40 years ago? Answer: not many!
As for slower. That's a question I'm not competent to answer, because I never had the opportunity run an IBM mainframe *without* VM.
IPL CMS, baby!
Not only that, in my neighbourhood, they're HARD to find, and have changed since 911 came out, due to municipal amalgamations and so forth.
I spent about 25 minutes one night trying to find a phone number for the fire department, so they could help me with a fuel leak which wasn't actually an *emergency*, but certainly a ticking time bomb to public safety and the environment.
Anyhow, I finally found the number, called them, explained what was going on to the shocked phone-answered, and got a visit from the fire department about a half hour later. They were pretty cool about it, I also didn't get a bill in the mail for using an emergency service improperly.
SOOOooooooooooo. If I change the "emergency number" setting in my cell to something else, can I make free calls? :)
..is why is it that when Geeks get to become "Neilsen Families" and so forth.. do they skip the commercials? I mean, that *must* be what happens, otherwise, how would the advertisers even know the behaviour of the geeks?
I've twice had the opportunity to become a television-watcher (or whatever you call those). I made SURE that for that month I didn't watch -anything- that I thought sucked, and I DID NOT MISS a single episode of my favourite shows. I mean, why the hell not? It's like voting crap off the telly!
If any of you ever get the opportunity to be surveyed or monitored with respect to television programming, JUMP at the opportunity, it's the only way the 90210-fans of the world will be conquered. Best yet, they'll send you some money in the mail when you're all done! (Not much, mind you...)
Ha! You obviously don't live in the UK!
And, more importantly, why isn't Immersion suing pager manufacturers, and the manufacturers of vibrating cell phone batteries????
You know, that explains a lot about RSS 1.0...
> I dont think the public is ready to
> throw away those paper ballots.
Damn straight.... pigs will fly before most Americans would even consider voting for a third party candidate. They'll just keep right on voting for Kang and Kodos.
> Hard Science Fiction in film. Where is it??
Stargate SG-1 season 9 in hdtv/widescreen. Download episodes in pairs so that you get about 90 minutes of viewing at once.
Seriously. SG-1 got a MAJOR refresher this year.
> Oh slashdot, help me out here.
. is.only.xul
I think I've found their C&C network, it has something to do with mozzarella cheeze, Stay Puff marshmallows, and a really bad dude named Xul.
http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there
The treo lost graffiti due to some idiotic lawsuit. I'm surprised /. didn't cover it back in the day.
Anyhow, you can get graffiti for the Treo, just look around. Somebody ported it from the Tungsten's "graffiti anywhere" package.
Additionally, I would really like to see the OP enter data on a traditional Palm with only one hand. I have generally found that I need one hand to hold the stylus, and another to hold the Palm.
I needed a Laptop and got a swivler. Not bad. The tablet functionality is nice to have, but not manadatory. If I were using the tablet as the *primary* feature, would definately buy a slate, though.
The swivel laptops are also great for doing presentations, you can turn the screen around backwards towards the customer, but still hit the space bar from your side of the machine.
Additionally, swivelling the screen backwards makes it easier to use the laptop screen when it's plugged into an external keyboard -- it can be a good 10 inches closer to your face.
As someone who has used all his Palms (m105, Treo600, Treo650) nearly exclusively for telnet/ssh/serial -- I would have to say that the keyboard is a freakin' GODSEND.
I could never remember the graffitos for |, !, >, >>, ", ', `, etc... the keyboard makes most of them easily available, and when they're not, I just grab the stylus [which I keep in my mouth] and hit the right character on the virtual keyboard (which I have *just* made appear with my other keyboarded hand, while the first was reaching for the stylus)
Before *that* revolution, you'll need to get the FCC to approve more than 3 non-overlapping WiFi channels!
Assuming your Pocket PC was the same vintage as mine (WinCE 3.0 had just come out)... they didn't DO handwriting recognition, you were expected to use their special little alphabet, just like Palm... except that their alphabet was much more like handwriting than Palm's.
Now, I just got a convertible tablet/laptop, running Tablet XP. I am no Microsoft fan-boy, but I gotta tell ya, the handwriting recognition is GREAT. I was able to just pick it up and start writing (cursive!) and away it went. Why is it so good? It runs everything you write up against a dictionary (and presumably trains its recognition at the same time).
The pen input is perfect for when I want to whip of 100 or less words and the machine is already in table mode. Otherwise, I'll flip the screen around and go to laptop mode. I have found that the two modes have little overlap in terms of how I use a PC, though. Which is great!
Why don't you just download the AVI and quit yer bitchin' already?!
More like six years... and thanks for the laugh!
# Subject: Driver Follows Navigation System Into River
# From: "Vic Maslanka"
# Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 14:17:32 PST
>BONN, Germany (Reuters) - A German motorist obediently following the
>satellite-guided navigation system of his car drove straight into the
>Havel River in eastern Germany, police said Saturday.
>
>He drove his BMW Friday night past a stop sign, down a ferry ramp and
>about four meters (12 feet) into the river before stopping. The
>57-year-old driver from Hamburg and his passenger were not hurt.
>
>Police said the driver reported he was following the navigation
>system, which had evidently failed to note that the road in the town
>of Caputh near Potsdam ended at a ferry crossing.
>
>``Normally accidents like this shouldn't happen,'' said police
>spokesman Frank Heinichen. ``But that sort of thing can happen when
>people rely too much on technology.''
>
>-- END OF STORY
>
>OTSDAM, Germany (AP) - A German couple out for a Christmas drive near
>Berlin ended up in a river - apparently because their luxury car's
>computer forgot to mention they had to wait for a ferry.
>
>The 57-year-old driver and his passenger were not injured in the
>accident, police said Saturday.
>
>Several companies sell computer navigators, some of which are >attached
to dashboards and serve as electronic road maps. Some offer >traffic
updates and Internet connections.
>
>The German couple was out driving Friday night when they came to a
>ferry crossing at the Havel River in Caputh, six miles from Berlin.
>
>That information, however, was never stored in the satellite-steered
>navigation system they were using, police said. The driver kept going
>straight in the dark, expecting a bridge, and ended up in the water.
>
>River traffic was stopped for two hours while the car was fished out
>about 13 feet from the river bank.
>
>``You can't always blindly rely on technology,'' a coast guard police
>officer said.
>
>-- END OF STORY
>
Oddly enough, IE since version 4 has had a method whose name escapes me at the moment which will do basically what you're asking for. Of course, it exists ONLY in IE.
Something about updates being buffered off screen or not. Actually, I seem to recall that one of the property values was "onscreen", and the method probably had the word "update" or "refresh" in it.
Of course that'll do it. But you missed the point -- innerHTML is not W3C-blessed (which, frankly, I don't pay a whole lot of attention to, but some people do).
The developer you talked to is an idiot.
Either script wget or Lynx and extract your pr0n passwords with sed, awk, or perl. Piece of cake.
Sooo.... you meant that now designers could stop writing code that breaks on anything but IE and Netscape 4?
The respondent rightly points out that using the W3C DOM still is not the best option for inserting nodes; innerHTML is much faster. To this respondent - the reason is simple: 1,000 row insertions done in the DOM requires 1,000 separate tree insertions and modifications under JavaScript control, marshalling and returning these objects back to the interpreter, blah blah blah. The innerHTML method simply assembles everything as a string first (which is much cheaper!), generates a tree, and inserts the root of the new tree into the document.
(note, above paragraph somewhat simplied).
My option? W3C should add a "parse" method, which would parse a hunk of HTML and return a handle to the root node for you to insert yourself.
> Here's what we should have in 2006...
> Gone is the idea of the "phone". You make phone calls via
> a softphone on your iPaq or Zaurus type mobile device
Personally, I think this convergence crap is highly overrated. The problem is really simple -- for something to work well as a phone, it needs to be shaped like a phone. And something shaped like a phone does NOT make a very good mobile computing platform!
My current personal solution is pretty straightforward -- I carry an old GSM phone for making voice calls (currently, a Nokia 7190) and a Treo 650 for data services -- e.g. SSH.
The best part is, I can talk while typing with this solution, and I didn't have to sacrifice functionality on one device for the other.
160 bytes? Try 140.
Assuming you're talking GSM, the 7th bit is unused and the data gets compacted in the PDU to allow 160 characters to fit into 140 bytes. Stupidly enough, they call this compression, but there is also Huffman-coding compression available in GSM for short messages... it's just very seldom used IME. For more info, consult ETSI GSM 03.40 and 03.42 IIRC.