Did anyone stop to ask the cell phone haters if they had such devices "back in their days"?
It's ok to be adverse to cell phones, it's ok to long for the pager days, but the pager functionality is *completely integrated* in the cell phone system, so are they asking that we "burn them all", or are they really whining about not being able to transition?
My phone has a silent mode. It has the option to disconnect an incoming call. It has the option to tell my service provider to never, ever, forward a call to voicemail *whatsoever*!
If I'm busy, I can pretty much tell from the preview of the text message alone, whether I need to read and see if something needs my attention, and if not, the combination of that and caller ID provides even more clue...
But sure, if you want, you can always try to cram a cell phone size display into the strangely crippled device that a pager is, and see if you can market it. If no one has done it before, I don't know, but I wouldn't invest in anything of the sort...
Bottom line: If you need the limitations of a pager, your phone *and you* in combination are up to the task easily, but instead, you can just whine as me in this comment, and then go blaming someone else for your failure to RTFM...
Well, I don't know how it is in the states, but I heard that cell phone plans are quite medieval, or at least was, until lately. Here in Denmark, most people have been using SMS for ages upon ages, with a cost only being paid by the sender. Thus, people are used to use them instead of pages, and there are no hard feelings if one disconnects an incoming call, as we just assume the other part to be busy and text them instead. Also, I have the habit of disabling call forwarding of all sorts, meaning that although my plan includes a voicemail box, no one ever reaches it. Works fine for me...
Well, I certainly seem to know the name of one author, who won't be giving his "hard" labour away for free. Just too bad that it actually sells to extrapolate from oneself...
This is, however, where I disagree. It is perfectly doable to create mostrosities as that one, but to do so without hurting your own notion of self would require to be only too superfluously versed in programming in the first place...
At any rate, I'd like to see the the high school class where someone might be tempted to implement such nonsense. Java has the potential to be bloody ugly, as does any language. Part of what makes people let it behave in such abominable ways, is too strong a belief in OO being just sequentialism with some syntactic sugar. A remedy might the the mentioned, elementary, textbook;-)
While there has been extensive debate here, over whether to teach Java or not, I have found that if one wishes to teach/learn object-oriented programming, not only does Java do a good Job, but Objects First with Java - A Practical Introduction using BlueJ by Barnes & Kölling really drives through the concept of classes and how they relate to objects. This is done through BlueJ, and in that regard, BlueJ is actually a very nice tool. One should not fail to mention to the students, though, that for real coding, emacs, vi, eclipse, <insert favourite editor/IDE here> would be favourable, but for a basic understanding of the nature of OO, BlueJ is great.
I could not be more happy with how my tattoo's have turned out. And I look forward to wearing them forever....Tux is awesome, and in 30 years if I am the only one who knows what it means...then fine by me. The point of a tattoo is for yourself anyways. And it can always represent the start of something, or something that you enjoyed at the time. For me it was a large foundation in my open source lifestyle. And it will always be that foundation. Even if the symbol changes to everyone else, I will always have that symbol which means something to me.
Obviously, I haven't given this topic the same amount of thought that the people who would argue that vulnerabilities aren't defects...
It would seem to me that reaching such a conclusion would involve some pretty thorough and creative thinking, possibly involving the use of alcohol, narcotics or some sort of newspeak habit, or, of course, possible combinations of such...
I'm not sure that I can completely rule out sheer stupidity either, but that would also have gone without saying.
Oh, well, didn't someone once say that reality beats imagination on a daily basis? I certainly never imagined that level of tomfoolery...
Erm, maybe, just maybe, could there be a slight chance that you didn't read the comments written earlier than yours?
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_Art and do a search over the comments for examples of this concept, and explain this "we need to at least give Microsoft credit"-thingy in a little more detail?
It would be grand, though, if we could muster a rally against defunct PTOs like the US one...
It just so happens that a friend and I are about to start a project in a course at uni to develop a POS/ERP solution, and in which we aim to build on top of existing FOSS solutions. We are about to start looking at existing solutions, so you are welcome to drop me a line, so that I can get back with what we find (or what we come up with):-)
Incidentally, I have discovered that most cheap barcode scanners represent themselves to the OS as a keyboard, and internally decodes the barcode to an identifying string, which is then sent as if they were typed on a regular keyboard;-)
Personally, I made it a point to burn it (literally), but if you can look beyond the silly metaphors (or, as I'm told, get the 3rd edition), you might get some insights. On a personal note, though, I would recommend that you look at it at your local library before purchase...
Since you say that satelite is a non-option due to the specific topology, you could built a satelite receiver on the top of the hill, and make it relay to your house. There are a number of options there, including laser, wireless and, of course, avian carriers (rfc 1149):-)
Not only is MS not bound in the case of the MS-Novell deal, but isn't this deal specifically "grandfathered in"? Wasn't this some of the larger news about the last (or last few) revision(s) of the draft, leading to the final license?/F
Most interesting! Actually, my only gripe was with "graduating" pervasiveness, as it is, in my understanding, a natural superlative. But thanks for clarifying the pervasiveness of threading in the win-line of OS'es!
Hmmm, possibly just displaying lack of knowledge here, but doesn't pervasive sort of mean "included in every layer and possible application" (sort of synonymous with "ubiquitous")? Most unlikely, I don't mean to bash Windows here, actually the more of that they can cram in there the better for people using it (true for every OS), but "extending pervasiveness" seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron in my understanding.
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Ahem, by that standard, you might as well pad the text books with soft foam, lest someone whacks another over the head with it...
Towers of Hanoi is always a hoot :-)
...and wouldn't you happen to know, that there is a facebook group about that exact thing (I joined) :-)
Have you tried talking to your kids - maybe telling them the value of keeping appointments?
They're not robots, you should know...
Did anyone stop to ask the cell phone haters if they had such devices "back in their days"?
It's ok to be adverse to cell phones, it's ok to long for the pager days, but the pager functionality is *completely integrated* in the cell phone system, so are they asking that we "burn them all", or are they really whining about not being able to transition?
My phone has a silent mode. It has the option to disconnect an incoming call. It has the option to tell my service provider to never, ever, forward a call to voicemail *whatsoever*!
If I'm busy, I can pretty much tell from the preview of the text message alone, whether I need to read and see if something needs my attention, and if not, the combination of that and caller ID provides even more clue...
But sure, if you want, you can always try to cram a cell phone size display into the strangely crippled device that a pager is, and see if you can market it. If no one has done it before, I don't know, but I wouldn't invest in anything of the sort...
Bottom line: If you need the limitations of a pager, your phone *and you* in combination are up to the task easily, but instead, you can just whine as me in this comment, and then go blaming someone else for your failure to RTFM...
Oh, I forgot to answer to the sig... Thank you, I try to be. If you get too many messages about that, try eliminating the space chars :-)
Well, I don't know how it is in the states, but I heard that cell phone plans are quite medieval, or at least was, until lately. Here in Denmark, most people have been using SMS for ages upon ages, with a cost only being paid by the sender. Thus, people are used to use them instead of pages, and there are no hard feelings if one disconnects an incoming call, as we just assume the other part to be busy and text them instead. Also, I have the habit of disabling call forwarding of all sorts, meaning that although my plan includes a voicemail box, no one ever reaches it. Works fine for me...
Well, I certainly seem to know the name of one author, who won't be giving his "hard" labour away for free. Just too bad that it actually sells to extrapolate from oneself...
This is, however, where I disagree. It is perfectly doable to create mostrosities as that one, but to do so without hurting your own notion of self would require to be only too superfluously versed in programming in the first place...
At any rate, I'd like to see the the high school class where someone might be tempted to implement such nonsense. Java has the potential to be bloody ugly, as does any language. Part of what makes people let it behave in such abominable ways, is too strong a belief in OO being just sequentialism with some syntactic sugar. A remedy might the the mentioned, elementary, textbook ;-)
While there has been extensive debate here, over whether to teach Java or not, I have found that if one wishes to teach/learn object-oriented programming, not only does Java do a good Job, but Objects First with Java - A Practical Introduction using BlueJ by Barnes & Kölling really drives through the concept of classes and how they relate to objects. This is done through BlueJ, and in that regard, BlueJ is actually a very nice tool. One should not fail to mention to the students, though, that for real coding, emacs, vi, eclipse, <insert favourite editor/IDE here> would be favourable, but for a basic understanding of the nature of OO, BlueJ is great.
http://midori.sourceforge.net/
I could not be more happy with how my tattoo's have turned out. And I look forward to wearing them forever....Tux is awesome, and in 30 years if I am the only one who knows what it means...then fine by me. The point of a tattoo is for yourself anyways. And it can always represent the start of something, or something that you enjoyed at the time. For me it was a large foundation in my open source lifestyle. And it will always be that foundation. Even if the symbol changes to everyone else, I will always have that symbol which means something to me.
I couldn't have said it better!
Sorry, forgot the link:
http://molgaard.org/img/ash_nazg.jpg
Yes, I had it done way before the movies...
And no, I don't think I shall regret it, as the books have been with me since childhood, and I find delight in them every time I read them :-)
Obviously, I haven't given this topic the same amount of thought that the people who would argue that vulnerabilities aren't defects...
It would seem to me that reaching such a conclusion would involve some pretty thorough and creative thinking, possibly involving the use of alcohol, narcotics or some sort of newspeak habit, or, of course, possible combinations of such...
I'm not sure that I can completely rule out sheer stupidity either, but that would also have gone without saying.
Oh, well, didn't someone once say that reality beats imagination on a daily basis? I certainly never imagined that level of tomfoolery...
F
Erm, maybe, just maybe, could there be a slight chance that you didn't read the comments written earlier than yours?
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_Art and do a search over the comments for examples of this concept, and explain this "we need to at least give Microsoft credit"-thingy in a little more detail?
It would be grand, though, if we could muster a rally against defunct PTOs like the US one...
It just so happens that a friend and I are about to start a project in a course at uni to develop a POS/ERP solution, and in which we aim to build on top of existing FOSS solutions. We are about to start looking at existing solutions, so you are welcome to drop me a line, so that I can get back with what we find (or what we come up with) :-)
;-)
Incidentally, I have discovered that most cheap barcode scanners represent themselves to the OS as a keyboard, and internally decodes the barcode to an identifying string, which is then sent as if they were typed on a regular keyboard
Best regards,
F
Designing the User Interface (Amazon link) is praised by many, but hated by equally many.
Personally, I made it a point to burn it (literally), but if you can look beyond the silly metaphors (or, as I'm told, get the 3rd edition), you might get some insights. On a personal note, though, I would recommend that you look at it at your local library before purchase...
Best regards,
F
Since you say that satelite is a non-option due to the specific topology, you could built a satelite receiver on the top of the hill, and make it relay to your house. There are a number of options there, including laser, wireless and, of course, avian carriers (rfc 1149) :-)
Best regards,
F
Not only is MS not bound in the case of the MS-Novell deal, but isn't this deal specifically "grandfathered in"? Wasn't this some of the larger news about the last (or last few) revision(s) of the draft, leading to the final license? /F
Most interesting! Actually, my only gripe was with "graduating" pervasiveness, as it is, in my understanding, a natural superlative. But thanks for clarifying the pervasiveness of threading in the win-line of OS'es!
Hmmm, possibly just displaying lack of knowledge here, but doesn't pervasive sort of mean "included in every layer and possible application" (sort of synonymous with "ubiquitous")? Most unlikely, I don't mean to bash Windows here, actually the more of that they can cram in there the better for people using it (true for every OS), but "extending pervasiveness" seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron in my understanding.
/F
Am I completely wrong in this?
In December, I bought an Inspiron laptop fro Dell Denmark, and asked for a refund for the windows I wouldn't use.
The person I talked to promised to look into it, resulting in the message that if I didn't accept the Windows EULA, they'd take back the machine...
Well said
Then indeed, we seem to see things just about the same way :-)