Thats your problem, you had a little mini-laptop. Palms are good because there are not meant to replace laptops, instead they compliment the computer (or laptop I suppose) as a way to enter data anywhere. And they are small enough (smaller then PocketPCs) so that you can and will bring it with you any where, whether or not your sure you'll need it. Its about the size of a wallet. Probably smaller then your pad and paper. And you can play games on it, read gutenburg e-books (I actually read Alice in Wonderland last week.) And unlike a paper pad, its easy to bring a single piece of information from a large amount of it.
I suppose if none of these features appeal to you, well Palm not for everyone. My main point is that a Windows CE mini-laptop is no Palm.
I've never even heard of a TI-81 (I graduated from high school this year). Today we use TI-83+ for about $100. There is also a TI-83+ SE which has more memory (a meg) for like $20 more.
I think TI is kind of ripping us off. The Palm has a much better resolution and there are similarily priced models. They are also much thinner. And the OS is more advanced. Why can't the TI be more like that? The main advantage of the TI is that it has a longer battery life (I only have to replace batteries a couple times a school year, as opposed to once every few weeks with the Palm), I don't know if some of the afore mentioned weakness are because TI put a higher priority on battery life. But I think in general the TI's are more bulky then they need be, perhaps so they'll be more rugged (which is important, granted) or because they're poorly designed.
However, a Palm is no graphing calculator replacement. I do have a graphing calc on my Palm, but its really hard to use since I have to graffiti or the on screen keys or a combination of both. And there isn't much room on the screen to work since most of the screen is taken up by keys. So there will remain a place for graphing calc because of its specialized keyboard.
There is a reason that source based Linux distributions havn't gained popularity until recently, and that is now the computers are getting fast enough to compile a complete Desktop computer. Moore's law is faster then the growth of the amount of code to be compiled, so it was bound to happen eventually.
I just shake my heads when I hear people using some 5, 8 year old computers with Gentoo. There are plenty of good distributions for those kinds of computers (like Debian, which steadfastly refuses to compile for any x86 other then 386. They say the speed benefit is not big enough, which may be the case.)
Did Linus develop Linux to work for computers that were several years old? No, you either had a 386 or you were screwed.
Well the "ones from Microsoft" are actually from FreeBSD, so I would imagine they would be OK as well.
For a TCP/IP stack it is a good thing they are released under BSD, because it benefits everyone that everyone uses almost the same code. This benefit outweighs the free-rider-negating source-with-binary properities found in GPL-like licenses in these kinds of cases.
Isn't ICANN sort of a quasi part of the USA's Commerence Dept (or Commerence something-or-the-other)? Seems kind of unfair.
Just what process was there to change the status of the.us domains?
Seems like nations should do what they want with their TLD, but making laws and such as a way to do is silly. Perhaps there could be a law ordering the executive department to seek changes from ICANN or such-like if thats how their system works, but not by wresting control by force.
Have you ever been to the Smithsonian? They've got plenty of crap already. Suppose it would be kinda cool to see, but it would be only one of many kinda cool things. I am sure there is some county museum somewhere where it could be the cool thing.
And why are you spam guarding your sneakemail address? I used it before I bought a domain, and the whole point is that you don't have to fiddle with spam guarding.
So 'American' while also 'non-parody' would be the wrong sort of newspaper I suppose. But I see your point, good newspapers (the Christian Science Monitor had a good article about "Why do they hate us") did a good job. However, there was/is some major simiplfied BS on TV.
The Onion's post 9/11 coverage was at their best. That article about talking to your child could, I believe should, be taken seriously. At the same time its funny as it parodies some of the crap that was in the media at that time about how you can help your child through the crisis.
From their whois entry:
Domain Name: FILM88.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NSIR1.FILM88.COM
Name Server: NSIR2.FILM88.COM
Updated Date: 27-may-2002 Which means that film88.com must have given Network Solutions a few dollars. Should the State Department be advised? Or is this not actually how sanctions work?
Except I like turn based games. It's why I played Civilization. Each to their own. Too bad I hadn't heard of that when I was playing Civ2 though, suppose it might have been funner that way.
Or Civilization II Multiplayer Gold. Problem is, the games are so slooow. Imagine if there more then two players in chess game? Of course you can play with just two players, but then its really just a two-player game.
Hopefully Civ3 multiplayer will somehow get around the difficulities of having multiplayer in a turn based game.
I find the spell checker to not be good at giving guesses - it sounds like your major qualifier of what makes a good spell checker is whether or not it has words you know are spelled right. I find Office to give better guesses at words I don't know how to spell just right.
If they would include an interface to Google API, which has a spell chechker, that would be great. When you right-click a word there could be a "Google Suggestion" selection. As it is, I often open up Google as a last resort to find how to spell a word as it has a better spell checker then Office (though it dictionary is really big, including other languages and odd acroymns so it sometimes makes things difficult when you enter a word that is misspelled but Google doesn't think so. There should be a "pretend this word is misspelled" option.)
It would cost as much to go to Mars as it is to run the stupid ISS station, according to Robert Zubrin in his Scientific American article.
Its true Mars is a bad destination if your interested in mining. And its true that it would not return as much new technology as earlier space programs (though saying without Apollo we wouldn't have computers is a bit much.)
However, it would give a much needed purpose to NASA and provide important scientific research about Mars.
And its my belief that theres needs to be a self-sustaining human settlement outside of Earth under the "don't put all your eggs in one basket" theory. This would be a step in that direction.
Robert Zubrin has proposed a, what I believe to be, a better idea. An execellent introduction to his "Mars Direct" plan can be found here at his
Scientific American article.
While this bill throws puts on emphasis on "reusable," that isn't necesary or the necesarily the cheapest. Mars Direct launchs several space craft to the Martian surface - the only one without redunancy is the one with people in it. The trick of it is that it is one of the pods uses the atmosphere of Mars to produce the necesary fuel for the trip back - an obvious advantage.
Probably the biggest advantage is that it is a 10 year program, using technology we have around right now. The rocket boosters proposed are not off-the-shelf but they are off-the-abandoned-rocket-parts and uses 30 year old 'technology'. Having a 10 year interval between starting and results, such as the Apollo program, is very important. The program proposed in the bill not only has unnecesary research, but its 20 year program is unrealistic - programs simply can't go on the long.
A problem with Mars Direct is that it uses nuclear energy. I don't have much of a problem with nuclear energy when its on another planet, but it makes it politically more difficult. I think its use stems from Zubrin nuclear engineering background and from his unwillingness to consider advances in technology that will be obtained by the time a Mars program actually starts. I think the latter is overall a good tactic for Zubrin, as it fends off accusations of science fiction.
Much of the same technology used to go to Mars could be used to go the moon (though obviously fuel can't be made on the Moon, but that isn't as much as an issue). Returning to the moon has merit, especially when it comes to radio astronomy - the far side of the moon is the unique position of probably being one of the only plces within a few light years of being free from human radio interferance.
So, it seems like an English teacher should be better then anyone at parsing incorrect structure. They would just have to deal with the automatic reaction of wanting to pull out a red pen.
Your making the assumption that they're creating a webpage.
I personally don't have a problem with Flash - though it can certainly be abused.
The reason it hasn't been developed is because most people who really need Flash to the point of wanting to clone it are willing to pay $500 and use a different OS. People such as the poster who are wanting to create a whole project needing Flash are a minority - most folks would just give up with the idea of using Flash from the beginning and generally you never/have/ to use Flash.
I bet if you take any professionally or otherwise translated documents your going to find the same kind of things. Translating just seems to be a hap-hazard businesss. Linus did say he stopped reading translations.
This is the GPL, not some Microsoft shared-source crap. Usablity is a big part of it.
What the company is doing goes againist the spirit of the GPL, IANAL so I don't if it goes againist the letter. Since they are distributing the code they are compiling it looks OK, but they are not distributing the code they are using. Also, GPL usually has a provision to let FSF update the license if it wants to. It would be hard to write an anti-obsucation clause I imagine. Perhaps a provision againist a private version and a public version of the code?
Also, if obsucation of code really worked, I imagine we would see it a lot more since there are advantages of source code. Companies wouldn't have to go through the hassle of providing many versions of a binary if they didn't have to. Granted, this line of "not yet done, so it can't be done" thinking is often flawed.
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Thats your problem, you had a little mini-laptop. Palms are good because there are not meant to replace laptops, instead they compliment the computer (or laptop I suppose) as a way to enter data anywhere. And they are small enough (smaller then PocketPCs) so that you can and will bring it with you any where, whether or not your sure you'll need it. Its about the size of a wallet. Probably smaller then your pad and paper. And you can play games on it, read gutenburg e-books (I actually read Alice in Wonderland last week.) And unlike a paper pad, its easy to bring a single piece of information from a large amount of it.
I suppose if none of these features appeal to you, well Palm not for everyone. My main point is that a Windows CE mini-laptop is no Palm.
I've never even heard of a TI-81 (I graduated from high school this year). Today we use TI-83+ for about $100. There is also a TI-83+ SE which has more memory (a meg) for like $20 more.
I think TI is kind of ripping us off. The Palm has a much better resolution and there are similarily priced models. They are also much thinner. And the OS is more advanced. Why can't the TI be more like that? The main advantage of the TI is that it has a longer battery life (I only have to replace batteries a couple times a school year, as opposed to once every few weeks with the Palm), I don't know if some of the afore mentioned weakness are because TI put a higher priority on battery life. But I think in general the TI's are more bulky then they need be, perhaps so they'll be more rugged (which is important, granted) or because they're poorly designed.
However, a Palm is no graphing calculator replacement. I do have a graphing calc on my Palm, but its really hard to use since I have to graffiti or the on screen keys or a combination of both. And there isn't much room on the screen to work since most of the screen is taken up by keys. So there will remain a place for graphing calc because of its specialized keyboard.
There is a reason that source based Linux distributions havn't gained popularity until recently, and that is now the computers are getting fast enough to compile a complete Desktop computer. Moore's law is faster then the growth of the amount of code to be compiled, so it was bound to happen eventually.
I just shake my heads when I hear people using some 5, 8 year old computers with Gentoo. There are plenty of good distributions for those kinds of computers (like Debian, which steadfastly refuses to compile for any x86 other then 386. They say the speed benefit is not big enough, which may be the case.)
Did Linus develop Linux to work for computers that were several years old? No, you either had a 386 or you were screwed.
Well the "ones from Microsoft" are actually from FreeBSD, so I would imagine they would be OK as well.
For a TCP/IP stack it is a good thing they are released under BSD, because it benefits everyone that everyone uses almost the same code. This benefit outweighs the free-rider-negating source-with-binary properities found in GPL-like licenses in these kinds of cases.
Isn't ICANN sort of a quasi part of the USA's Commerence Dept (or Commerence something-or-the-other)? Seems kind of unfair.
.us domains?
Just what process was there to change the status of the
Seems like nations should do what they want with their TLD, but making laws and such as a way to do is silly. Perhaps there could be a law ordering the executive department to seek changes from ICANN or such-like if thats how their system works, but not by wresting control by force.
And why are you spam guarding your sneakemail address? I used it before I bought a domain, and the whole point is that you don't have to fiddle with spam guarding.
So 'American' while also 'non-parody' would be the wrong sort of newspaper I suppose. But I see your point, good newspapers (the Christian Science Monitor had a good article about "Why do they hate us") did a good job. However, there was/is some major simiplfied BS on TV.
The Onion's post 9/11 coverage was at their best. That article about talking to your child could, I believe should, be taken seriously. At the same time its funny as it parodies some of the crap that was in the media at that time about how you can help your child through the crisis.
From their whois entry:
Domain Name: FILM88.COM
Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com
Name Server: NSIR1.FILM88.COM
Name Server: NSIR2.FILM88.COM
Updated Date: 27-may-2002
Which means that film88.com must have given Network Solutions a few dollars. Should the State Department be advised? Or is this not actually how sanctions work?
Except of course it was Israel we (the US) used to funnel weapons to Iran. Talk about being hypocritical.
Except I like turn based games. It's why I played Civilization. Each to their own. Too bad I hadn't heard of that when I was playing Civ2 though, suppose it might have been funner that way.
The exact same. You just draw it from the right to left.
Or Civilization II Multiplayer Gold. Problem is, the games are so slooow. Imagine if there more then two players in chess game? Of course you can play with just two players, but then its really just a two-player game.
Hopefully Civ3 multiplayer will somehow get around the difficulities of having multiplayer in a turn based game.
If you do the 'v' backwards, it usually works, with the extragerated horizontal line.
Various jargon (like biological terms) dictionaries are sold though I don't know if by Microsoft.
I find the spell checker to not be good at giving guesses - it sounds like your major qualifier of what makes a good spell checker is whether or not it has words you know are spelled right. I find Office to give better guesses at words I don't know how to spell just right.
If they would include an interface to Google API, which has a spell chechker, that would be great. When you right-click a word there could be a "Google Suggestion" selection. As it is, I often open up Google as a last resort to find how to spell a word as it has a better spell checker then Office (though it dictionary is really big, including other languages and odd acroymns so it sometimes makes things difficult when you enter a word that is misspelled but Google doesn't think so. There should be a "pretend this word is misspelled" option.)
Its true Mars is a bad destination if your interested in mining. And its true that it would not return as much new technology as earlier space programs (though saying without Apollo we wouldn't have computers is a bit much.)
However, it would give a much needed purpose to NASA and provide important scientific research about Mars.
And its my belief that theres needs to be a self-sustaining human settlement outside of Earth under the "don't put all your eggs in one basket" theory. This would be a step in that direction.
Robert Zubrin has proposed a, what I believe to be, a better idea. An execellent introduction to his "Mars Direct" plan can be found here at his Scientific American article.
While this bill throws puts on emphasis on "reusable," that isn't necesary or the necesarily the cheapest. Mars Direct launchs several space craft to the Martian surface - the only one without redunancy is the one with people in it. The trick of it is that it is one of the pods uses the atmosphere of Mars to produce the necesary fuel for the trip back - an obvious advantage.
Probably the biggest advantage is that it is a 10 year program, using technology we have around right now. The rocket boosters proposed are not off-the-shelf but they are off-the-abandoned-rocket-parts and uses 30 year old 'technology'. Having a 10 year interval between starting and results, such as the Apollo program, is very important. The program proposed in the bill not only has unnecesary research, but its 20 year program is unrealistic - programs simply can't go on the long.
A problem with Mars Direct is that it uses nuclear energy. I don't have much of a problem with nuclear energy when its on another planet, but it makes it politically more difficult. I think its use stems from Zubrin nuclear engineering background and from his unwillingness to consider advances in technology that will be obtained by the time a Mars program actually starts. I think the latter is overall a good tactic for Zubrin, as it fends off accusations of science fiction.
Much of the same technology used to go to Mars could be used to go the moon (though obviously fuel can't be made on the Moon, but that isn't as much as an issue). Returning to the moon has merit, especially when it comes to radio astronomy - the far side of the moon is the unique position of probably being one of the only plces within a few light years of being free from human radio interferance.
What this "franc" stuff all about? They still have those around?
His point is that people often say OpenOffice and Star Office uses Java even though it doesn't.
So, it seems like an English teacher should be better then anyone at parsing incorrect structure. They would just have to deal with the automatic reaction of wanting to pull out a red pen.
Its already happening at http://www.tightvnc.com
Your making the assumption that they're creating a webpage.
/have/ to use Flash.
I personally don't have a problem with Flash - though it can certainly be abused.
The reason it hasn't been developed is because most people who really need Flash to the point of wanting to clone it are willing to pay $500 and use a different OS. People such as the poster who are wanting to create a whole project needing Flash are a minority - most folks would just give up with the idea of using Flash from the beginning and generally you never
I bet if you take any professionally or otherwise translated documents your going to find the same kind of things. Translating just seems to be a hap-hazard businesss. Linus did say he stopped reading translations.
Well, it is a pretty standard thing for a linux distro to have. I didn't have any trouble with it on my Debian Woody.
Suppose those Windows folks are out of luck without a bit of work, since there probably is a port somewhere.
This is the GPL, not some Microsoft shared-source crap. Usablity is a big part of it.
What the company is doing goes againist the spirit of the GPL, IANAL so I don't if it goes againist the letter. Since they are distributing the code they are compiling it looks OK, but they are not distributing the code they are using. Also, GPL usually has a provision to let FSF update the license if it wants to. It would be hard to write an anti-obsucation clause I imagine. Perhaps a provision againist a private version and a public version of the code?
Also, if obsucation of code really worked, I imagine we would see it a lot more since there are advantages of source code. Companies wouldn't have to go through the hassle of providing many versions of a binary if they didn't have to. Granted, this line of "not yet done, so it can't be done" thinking is often flawed.