well, i think the uses for these guys are pretty widespread.. of course, spying, as others have mentioned, but since they're small and cheap to make, they are semi-disposable:
dump a couple thousand on mars.. if one falls in a ditch who cares. use them to collect video and topography data until they run out of batteries.
dump a couple thousand on the battlefield. no tank is going to see a little robot on a rock. military intelligence could benefit.
mount some landmine detectors on them.. a bunch of these little guys could really cover some area quickly.
pretty cool stuff.
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i would say any lossy compression scheme is probably a bad idea. (that includes mp3 and ATRAC).. These compression schemes discard frequences outside the range of human hearing, and quite a bit from inside that range (20Hz - 20kHz).
Of course, I am assuming he has a microphone with a frequency response > 20kHz in the first place.
I don't know why he hates DAT, but there are some CD-R decks out there now.. That's about it for him, though.
funny how microsoft just doesn't get the open source development model. they work real hard and put together windows 2000, and, except for some service packs, call it good for another few years.
they don't seem to understand that a kernel release isn't like that. sure, it's a new kernel, and it has some cool new features, but "linux" isn't putting all it's hopes on the success of this one kernel.
and if we decide we want a new feature, we'll code one up and release it as the next kernel.
if microsoft wants to "beat" us, they should first understand how we work, instead of assuming that we use their glorified concept of business operating systems.
It sounds to me like they are saying "We'll hire you if you can pass this exam." and they just happen to offer a training course for the exam. It doesn't sound like you must take their course to get hired, or any course at all - just that they're only interested in you if you pass the exam.
I would rather work for a company that was interested in me, and willing to train me if I was behind on anything. Come to think of it, I do work for a company like that. They hired me right out of college, and promptly spent several thousand dollars sending me to 3 different training courses.
Whether this is a scam or not, I wouldn't want to work somewhere where the attitude is "how much can we get out of our employees." I would want to, and do, work for a company where the attitude is "how much can we give our employees to make them better, more capable programmers."
drawbacks of Java (Slow, relies on a central server somewhere, write once test everywhere)
Ah, yes. The central java server. It's a good thing Sun keeps its location a secret, or someone might sabotage it. Then no Java program would ever work again.
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I could generate everything covered under copyright law.
It would only take you several billion years. You start generating, and when your computer produces an exact replica of, say, the new U2 album.. hell, when it produces an exact replica of any album to come out of a multitrack studio since 1968, we'll start discussing the end of human creativity.
The point is not that someone has "invented" tones, or arrangements of syllables, and copyrighted it. It's that someone has created an arrangement of sounds (in the case of music) that has never been heard before, with (if it's a lyrical piece) words that have never quite been arranged that way before - and, and this is most important, it all comes together and has meaning to human beings..
Searching for "Java" turned up a page full of results about coffee. Refinining it to "Java Programming" still didn't turn up the Sun website, the Java Tutorial, or any links to the API docs.
Searching for "Palm" turned up lots of things about palm trees and foot pain(?), and refining it to "palm pilot" still didn't find palm.com or any of the main PDA sites.
I have and like the GoType!. Yeah, the keys are smaller than normal, but it isn't a problem for me. (I can see it being a problem for someone like my dad who has really big fingers). It works well, and I like the fact that it doesn't fold, as I can sit it on my bed or my lap or my couch.
I also got it for $20.:) A while back, office depot printed an error in their flyer, advertising the palm folding keyboard for $19.99. Well, they pulled the stock from the shelves and told customers that they were "out of stock" instead of honoring their printed price. Well, Best Buy happens to honor the printed price of their competitors, so I took it there. They were actually out of stock of the palm folding keyboard (the one in the add), so they gave me the discount on the GoType! instead.
I'm happy with it. No, I don't carry it with me - I use it at home and on the plane to type long emails and do text editing.
Of course you can get something meaningful from it. You can see that people exist who are inputting data into thier PDA faster than most people can type.
If input speed is a concern to you, it is "enough" data to suggest that there are some very fast alternative input methods and that HWR may not be the One True Way to input data into a PDA.
Does it statistically prove that Grafiti is faster than Jot? No. Did anyone say that it did? No.
By the way, it was the scores in a competition, not a survey.
If you like your HWR, that's fine. You do what you like. I tried HWR and found it was too slow to fit my needs. I use something that allows me to input data faster than I could with HWR.
Maybe now you can contribute something meaningful to the conversation?
BTW, whoever the moderator is that marked that +2 can take a lesson in statistics too. Wonder what curve fits the amount of posts that moderators moderate wrong. Having a link does not mean we've got something useful out of it
here's the results for some text entry speed competition for palm users. The highest Fitaly Stamp was 81wpm, while the highest Grafiti was 49wpm. Most of the Grafiti entries were in the mid 20s. The only Jot entry was 10wpm.
It is worth noting that the only Jot entry came from a "Charles M. Holmes" who got 10.4 with Jot, 14.8 with Fitaly Stamp, and 26.56 with SilkyBoard. It is a shame Charles M. didn't have a Grafiti entry.
Let's take one example - handwriting recognition. Grafitti only succeeded (again, IMNSHO) because of marketing.
I actually purchased Jot, a "true" HWR replacement for Grafiti, and returned it the next day. It took too long to write multistroked characters! After the initial Grafiti learning curve, I can input text into my device faster than I could write it on paper. It's like learning to type - yes, you have to learn something new to replace pen-and-paper writing, but you do it because of the conveniences it offers you. The same is true of Grafiti - you learn it because of what it will allow you to do.
There are several alternative input methods available, the most notable being Fitaly Stamp; people have gotten up to 50wpm on Fitaly Stamp, or about twice as fast as Grafiti. Grafiti seems to be 1.5 to 2 times faster than Jot (the "true" HWR).
The one thing all Newton users seem to love is HWR - I've heard many scoff at Grafiti. Now I've never used a Newton, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing. That is a very real possibility. My point is posting (previously) was to point out that the PalmOS did offer data sharing between applications, a TCP/IP stack, and enough software to use a few of the more popular internet services. My point in posting (now) is to say that HWR is not always better for all users. I would rather learn a new alphabet and get faster input than keep the same alphabet and settle for no increase in speed.
The UI was written from the ground up to to be pen oriented, rather then being an adaptation of a desktop UI.
So was PalmOS.
For example, the email program I use on my MP 2100 uses the standard contact information for getting its email addresses, and is treated by the system as simply another way to get information in and out of the system.
Again, PalmOS does this too.
The NewtonOS has a full TCP/IP stack, with communications being done over Ethernet, or PPP. The email, browser, ftp, irc, telnet, ect.. clients all use the standard protocols, and you can download new packages directly off of the 'net.
Once again, I do this with my palm. TCP/IP and PPP are built into the OS. While the applications you mentioned are not bundled with PalmOS, there are a wealth of them available for free.
With my Palm, I snap on a modem, plug in a phone line, and connect PPP to earthlink. Then I can check/send email (Eudora), "surf" the web (EudoraWeb, AvantGo, others), get on IRC, use AIM, use Yahoo! Messenger, and can telnet. All these clients use their respective "standard protocol."
I'm not saying the Newton isn't a great machine. Just that you're choices aren't as limited as you think.
Since I am going in to web development, all I can wonder is why so many developers want someone with Java experience... Sorry to everyone who loves Java... I just can't stand it.
right on. knock on his door and tell him you know who he is and what he's been doing.:) ask him to show you the player. if he's a scammer, he'll slam the door on you. if he's legit, he'll just think you're a weirdo, but might let you play a game of Street Fighter 2.;)
errrr.... justification? I'm all for being enthusiastic about one's "movements" but this seems a little condescending considering Nader got, what,
over 5x the votes Browne did?
Yes, but how many Green Party candidates were on the ballot? were elected to a public office?
Overall, the Libertarian Party outshined the Green Party, even though Nader surpassed Browne in the Presidential race. What most third parties don't understand, is you have to start at the bottom - in the communities - and build from there. You can toss alot of money into a presidential candidate, trying for that 5% that will get you federal funding in the next go-around, but building your ideas into the communities will establish them much better.
Is it surprising that it was this close? I mean, really, it's not a 2 party system anymore - it's just 2 heads on a 1 party system. Sure, they claim to be "Republicans" and "Democrats," but really they're both for big government - they just disagree where to spend the money. I am proud to have voted for the only candidate for small government; the only candidate who wants you to be free to run your own life: the Libertarian Harry Browne.
You can read more about the Libertarian Party here, or check out Browne's website. The voting is done for this year, but the Libertarian Party is a movement, not a single-shot candidate like Nader or Perot. We are growing, and we will fill the void, returning smaller government and freedom to the nation.
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well, i think the uses for these guys are pretty widespread.. of course, spying, as others have mentioned, but since they're small and cheap to make, they are semi-disposable:
dump a couple thousand on mars.. if one falls in a ditch who cares. use them to collect video and topography data until they run out of batteries.
dump a couple thousand on the battlefield. no tank is going to see a little robot on a rock. military intelligence could benefit.
mount some landmine detectors on them.. a bunch of these little guys could really cover some area quickly.
pretty cool stuff.
wishus
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i would say any lossy compression scheme is probably a bad idea. (that includes mp3 and ATRAC).. These compression schemes discard frequences outside the range of human hearing, and quite a bit from inside that range (20Hz - 20kHz).
Of course, I am assuming he has a microphone with a frequency response > 20kHz in the first place.
I don't know why he hates DAT, but there are some CD-R decks out there now.. That's about it for him, though.
wishus
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funny how microsoft just doesn't get the open source development model. they work real hard and put together windows 2000, and, except for some service packs, call it good for another few years.
they don't seem to understand that a kernel release isn't like that. sure, it's a new kernel, and it has some cool new features, but "linux" isn't putting all it's hopes on the success of this one kernel.
and if we decide we want a new feature, we'll code one up and release it as the next kernel.
if microsoft wants to "beat" us, they should first understand how we work, instead of assuming that we use their glorified concept of business operating systems.
wishus
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I would rather work for a company that was interested in me, and willing to train me if I was behind on anything. Come to think of it, I do work for a company like that. They hired me right out of college, and promptly spent several thousand dollars sending me to 3 different training courses.
Whether this is a scam or not, I wouldn't want to work somewhere where the attitude is "how much can we get out of our employees." I would want to, and do, work for a company where the attitude is "how much can we give our employees to make them better, more capable programmers."
wishus
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Ah, yes. The central java server. It's a good thing Sun keeps its location a secret, or someone might sabotage it. Then no Java program would ever work again.
Do you have any idea what you're talking about?
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Yeah, you missed a few years in the early 90s. I don't think we've had a browser-neutral web since Netscape 3 came out, though.
wishus
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It would only take you several billion years. You start generating, and when your computer produces an exact replica of, say, the new U2 album.. hell, when it produces an exact replica of any album to come out of a multitrack studio since 1968, we'll start discussing the end of human creativity.
The point is not that someone has "invented" tones, or arrangements of syllables, and copyrighted it. It's that someone has created an arrangement of sounds (in the case of music) that has never been heard before, with (if it's a lyrical piece) words that have never quite been arranged that way before - and, and this is most important, it all comes together and has meaning to human beings..
do you "get it" now?
wish
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There are NO porn or personal websites.
Then why did it turn up http://members.aol.com/toomuchsug/mp3.html? Obviously a personal website.
If you are going to create a family oriented search engine, don't print things like:
'Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions.' -Woody Allen
when a search fails. "Mommy, who's woody and what's sex?"
wish
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I have and like the GoType!. Yeah, the keys are smaller than normal, but it isn't a problem for me. (I can see it being a problem for someone like my dad who has really big fingers). It works well, and I like the fact that it doesn't fold, as I can sit it on my bed or my lap or my couch.
:) A while back, office depot printed an error in their flyer, advertising the palm folding keyboard for $19.99. Well, they pulled the stock from the shelves and told customers that they were "out of stock" instead of honoring their printed price. Well, Best Buy happens to honor the printed price of their competitors, so I took it there. They were actually out of stock of the palm folding keyboard (the one in the add), so they gave me the discount on the GoType! instead.
I also got it for $20.
I'm happy with it. No, I don't carry it with me - I use it at home and on the plane to type long emails and do text editing.
wish
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if they GPL it like they claim they will, you can simply remove the offending code.
wish
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Of course you can get something meaningful from it. You can see that people exist who are inputting data into thier PDA faster than most people can type.
If input speed is a concern to you, it is "enough" data to suggest that there are some very fast alternative input methods and that HWR may not be the One True Way to input data into a PDA.
Does it statistically prove that Grafiti is faster than Jot? No. Did anyone say that it did? No.
By the way, it was the scores in a competition, not a survey.
If you like your HWR, that's fine. You do what you like. I tried HWR and found it was too slow to fit my needs. I use something that allows me to input data faster than I could with HWR.
Maybe now you can contribute something meaningful to the conversation?
Now go back and try again.
wish
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I post at +2.
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It is worth noting that the only Jot entry came from a "Charles M. Holmes" who got 10.4 with Jot, 14.8 with Fitaly Stamp, and 26.56 with SilkyBoard. It is a shame Charles M. didn't have a Grafiti entry.
wish
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I actually purchased Jot, a "true" HWR replacement for Grafiti, and returned it the next day. It took too long to write multistroked characters! After the initial Grafiti learning curve, I can input text into my device faster than I could write it on paper. It's like learning to type - yes, you have to learn something new to replace pen-and-paper writing, but you do it because of the conveniences it offers you. The same is true of Grafiti - you learn it because of what it will allow you to do.
There are several alternative input methods available, the most notable being Fitaly Stamp; people have gotten up to 50wpm on Fitaly Stamp, or about twice as fast as Grafiti. Grafiti seems to be 1.5 to 2 times faster than Jot (the "true" HWR).
The one thing all Newton users seem to love is HWR - I've heard many scoff at Grafiti. Now I've never used a Newton, so maybe I don't know what I'm missing. That is a very real possibility. My point is posting (previously) was to point out that the PalmOS did offer data sharing between applications, a TCP/IP stack, and enough software to use a few of the more popular internet services. My point in posting (now) is to say that HWR is not always better for all users. I would rather learn a new alphabet and get faster input than keep the same alphabet and settle for no increase in speed.
wish
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So was PalmOS.
For example, the email program I use on my MP 2100 uses the standard contact information for getting its email addresses, and is treated by the system as simply another way to get information in and out of the system.
Again, PalmOS does this too.
The NewtonOS has a full TCP/IP stack, with communications being done over Ethernet, or PPP. The email, browser, ftp, irc, telnet, ect.. clients all use the standard protocols, and you can download new packages directly off of the 'net.
Once again, I do this with my palm. TCP/IP and PPP are built into the OS. While the applications you mentioned are not bundled with PalmOS, there are a wealth of them available for free.
With my Palm, I snap on a modem, plug in a phone line, and connect PPP to earthlink. Then I can check/send email (Eudora), "surf" the web (EudoraWeb, AvantGo, others), get on IRC, use AIM, use Yahoo! Messenger, and can telnet. All these clients use their respective "standard protocol."
I'm not saying the Newton isn't a great machine. Just that you're choices aren't as limited as you think.
wishus
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That's all I know about it.. Sorry.. Enjoyed your article, though.
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Look no further than henzai.com.
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well, that should make both our candidates happy.
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There is a world outside web development.
A much, much bigger world.
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right on. knock on his door and tell him you know who he is and what he's been doing. :) ask him to show you the player. if he's a scammer, he'll slam the door on you. if he's legit, he'll just think you're a weirdo, but might let you play a game of Street Fighter 2. ;)
wish
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wonder if that's suite #304, or apartment #304...
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great.. now the /. effect will take out their last machine.
good thinking!
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Yes, but how many Green Party candidates were on the ballot? were elected to a public office?
Overall, the Libertarian Party outshined the Green Party, even though Nader surpassed Browne in the Presidential race. What most third parties don't understand, is you have to start at the bottom - in the communities - and build from there. You can toss alot of money into a presidential candidate, trying for that 5% that will get you federal funding in the next go-around, but building your ideas into the communities will establish them much better.
wish
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Is it surprising that it was this close? I mean, really, it's not a 2 party system anymore - it's just 2 heads on a 1 party system. Sure, they claim to be "Republicans" and "Democrats," but really they're both for big government - they just disagree where to spend the money. I am proud to have voted for the only candidate for small government; the only candidate who wants you to be free to run your own life: the Libertarian Harry Browne.
You can read more about the Libertarian Party here, or check out Browne's website. The voting is done for this year, but the Libertarian Party is a movement, not a single-shot candidate like Nader or Perot. We are growing, and we will fill the void, returning smaller government and freedom to the nation.
wish
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this one, without a doubt.
wishus
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