"On this particular model, the handwriting recognition is nearly FLAWLESS."
I still fail to see why this impresses people. Is it because of the technical feat, or what?
Guess what, if you want flawless text recognition, why not just type? If you're posting here, it's a pretty good bet that you type faster than you hand write anyway. Maybe I just don't get it...
This is a modification of what was considered (at one point, at least) the "funniest joke", only it contained Sherlock Holmes and Watson as the protagonists.
I realize this is slashdot, but maybe there's other stats geeks out there that like baseball. Baseball-Reference is hands down the best stats site out there. And it's based on the Lahman database which is freely available (newest version coming soon).
-Gabe
Slow? Not compared to OS9
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I recently installed OSX on my wife's iBook (366Mhz, 160MB RAM)...it previously had OS9.x on it, and it crawled. Neither of us would even want to use it, it was so bad.
After installing OSX, it's runs amazingly well, and not just for the eyecandy, etc. Compared to other OS's, I would say it's right about on target...sure, it's a little sluggish opening Photoshop or having multiple browser windows open, but most 366Mhz machines are.
I'm kind of surprised to see this question at all...OSX has struck me as very fast, all things considered.
And bookpool has it even cheaper ($36.50). I don't work for them, just a very happy customer. For any IT/CS type books, bookpool is cheapest probably 90% of the time...
Re: your sig...my favorite GW quote of recent times is:
"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." --George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
Absolutely...this would be a huge step forward for the community...
The Architecture Paper says that it will support Outlook 2000 with the "Bynari Insight Connector Plugin 1.09 installed"...That would be a start, at least, although, of course, Outlook 2002 would be desirable as well.
At the College of Business site I develop for, we used to use a picture of Yoda to scare the folks who wouldn't let us take their pictures. Seems as though most of them prefer a picture of themselves (no matter how horrible they may think it is) to one of Yoda attached to their bios.
In any case, changing the bio's email tag to "yoda" gives the visitor Yoda's (short) bio. There are a few others, but seeing as how nobody has found any of them yet, we gave up on adding them for our own amusement.
I have a ferret, and she's perfect for my lifestyle. Ferrets can be difficult to train, and they're not going to do tricks for you, however, they can be litter trained, trained to come to you, etc. Mine is about half litter trained, which is good enough.
Some ferrets will chew on cables. I've been lucky in this regard so far, although there are some gnawers out there. However, this is trainable, especially by using bitter apple spray (they hate the taste).
The best thing I've found about ferrets is that they're always ready to play. Getting home at strange hours is no real problem for them, as they're usually sleeping anyway. However, because ferrets are so playful, it's usually a matter of waking them up, giving them a minute to stretch, and then they're ready to play.
All in all, a ferret makes a great choice (or two, they're very communal, remember), if they're legal in your area, of course.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I know someone will), but isn't it the case that broadcasters are inserting ads onto walls and things where there *aren't* any ads? So, they're not replacing any, just adding more.
Just because Word "happens to be the best word processor available" (a questionable claim, of course), doesn't mean it had to be saved in Word format. They could've saved it in RTF or HTML...
Not that I'm really advocating using Office's horrible HTML, but, the point is that there's other options.
Not sure what the submitter was implying, but whatever changes AOL has made recently hasn't affected my connectivity through my jabber server. Once it's set up, Jabber is so much better than Trillian, I don't see what all the fuss is about.
Remember that that virus also went through people's web caches looking for email addresses as well...so if you have yours on your website, it'll appear that you're more popular than you actually are;>
Don't feel bad, I got my hopes up to when all these people started asking my advice on documents.
I was going to post a comment similar to this, but you've really hit the nail on the head... I used to be my high school's "tech" person, and I also worked in the elementary labs, as well as keeping the other ~350 computers in the school up and running.
Each classroom had a minimum of 4 computers with english/language arts classes having more (for typing projects?). In at least 95% of the classrooms, the computers went unused for the entire year. In the english rooms, the typical action was to sign out a lab for the period since the 6-8 machines in the classroom couldn't accomodate the whole class using them, so why bother staying in the room?
If we had consolidated maybe half of these machines into 5-6 high quality labs, given the rest of the money to teachers who deserved them and programs that needed them (the year I graduated, the budget got shot down and the vast majority of the arts programs there were screwed), a lot of good could have come of the funds.
Anyway, just wanted to post a big "hear, hear" to this comment...if I had mod points, I would've modded it up instead:)
Did you read the article? The article's faults with Slashdot were not with the journalists (as would be assumed by the title) but with the users who call someone a "luser who uses Windoze".
Your criticisms *are* valid, and should probably be addressed, but they were not in this article, and I think Michael's reaction to someone who doesn't seem to know how to write a proper title for his article is perfectly valid.
As much as I hate Network Solutions (and I really do), I just transferred my domain away from them to Register.com and had no problems from either registrar...it happened pretty much as it should, which was a nice relief, after hearing all of these horror stories...
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"On this particular model, the handwriting recognition is nearly FLAWLESS."
I still fail to see why this impresses people. Is it because of the technical feat, or what?
Guess what, if you want flawless text recognition, why not just type? If you're posting here, it's a pretty good bet that you type faster than you hand write anyway. Maybe I just don't get it...
I'm surprised this one isn't ASCI Mauve, after all, we all know that mauve has the most RAM!
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/dilbert/
This is a modification of what was considered (at one point, at least) the "funniest joke", only it contained Sherlock Holmes and Watson as the protagonists.
Reference: http://www.laughlab.co.uk/press/press.html
(The final results and the winning joke can be found at http://www.laughlab.co.uk)
I realize this is slashdot, but maybe there's other stats geeks out there that like baseball. Baseball-Reference is hands down the best stats site out there. And it's based on the Lahman database which is freely available (newest version coming soon).
-Gabe
I recently installed OSX on my wife's iBook (366Mhz, 160MB RAM)...it previously had OS9.x on it, and it crawled. Neither of us would even want to use it, it was so bad.
After installing OSX, it's runs amazingly well, and not just for the eyecandy, etc. Compared to other OS's, I would say it's right about on target...sure, it's a little sluggish opening Photoshop or having multiple browser windows open, but most 366Mhz machines are.
I'm kind of surprised to see this question at all...OSX has struck me as very fast, all things considered.
-Gabe
And bookpool has it even cheaper ($36.50). I don't work for them, just a very happy customer. For any IT/CS type books, bookpool is cheapest probably 90% of the time...
-Gabe
Re: your sig...my favorite GW quote of recent times is:
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"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." --George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
(from Bushisms: http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism
Absolutely...this would be a huge step forward for the community...
The Architecture Paper says that it will support Outlook 2000 with the "Bynari Insight Connector Plugin 1.09 installed"...That would be a start, at least, although, of course, Outlook 2002 would be desirable as well.
-Gabe
Check here
At the College of Business site I develop for, we used to use a picture of Yoda to scare the folks who wouldn't let us take their pictures. Seems as though most of them prefer a picture of themselves (no matter how horrible they may think it is) to one of Yoda attached to their bios.
In any case, changing the bio's email tag to "yoda" gives the visitor Yoda's (short) bio. There are a few others, but seeing as how nobody has found any of them yet, we gave up on adding them for our own amusement.
-Gabe
I have a ferret, and she's perfect for my lifestyle. Ferrets can be difficult to train, and they're not going to do tricks for you, however, they can be litter trained, trained to come to you, etc. Mine is about half litter trained, which is good enough.
Some ferrets will chew on cables. I've been lucky in this regard so far, although there are some gnawers out there. However, this is trainable, especially by using bitter apple spray (they hate the taste).
The best thing I've found about ferrets is that they're always ready to play. Getting home at strange hours is no real problem for them, as they're usually sleeping anyway. However, because ferrets are so playful, it's usually a matter of waking them up, giving them a minute to stretch, and then they're ready to play.
All in all, a ferret makes a great choice (or two, they're very communal, remember), if they're legal in your area, of course.
-Gabe
Correct me if I'm wrong (I know someone will), but isn't it the case that broadcasters are inserting ads onto walls and things where there *aren't* any ads? So, they're not replacing any, just adding more.
Just because Word "happens to be the best word processor available" (a questionable claim, of course), doesn't mean it had to be saved in Word format. They could've saved it in RTF or HTML...
Not that I'm really advocating using Office's horrible HTML, but, the point is that there's other options.
According to imdb, Windu's lightsabre *is* engraved with "B.M.F.", so, close enough?
Was her name anna?
Actually, I think that's referring to the ls commands that you can give to nslookup:
ls [opt] DOMAIN [> FILE] - list addresses in DOMAIN (optional: output to FILE)
-gps
You must be a troll, but for the benefit of others, OpenBSD doesn't install telnetd, named, or sendmail by default.
Not sure what the submitter was implying, but whatever changes AOL has made recently hasn't affected my connectivity through my jabber server. Once it's set up, Jabber is so much better than Trillian, I don't see what all the fuss is about.
-gps
Uh, it is in HTML, or RTF, if you prefer
Remember that that virus also went through people's web caches looking for email addresses as well...so if you have yours on your website, it'll appear that you're more popular than you actually are ;>
Don't feel bad, I got my hopes up to when all these people started asking my advice on documents.
-gps
I was going to post a comment similar to this, but you've really hit the nail on the head... I used to be my high school's "tech" person, and I also worked in the elementary labs, as well as keeping the other ~350 computers in the school up and running.
:)
Each classroom had a minimum of 4 computers with english/language arts classes having more (for typing projects?). In at least 95% of the classrooms, the computers went unused for the entire year. In the english rooms, the typical action was to sign out a lab for the period since the 6-8 machines in the classroom couldn't accomodate the whole class using them, so why bother staying in the room?
If we had consolidated maybe half of these machines into 5-6 high quality labs, given the rest of the money to teachers who deserved them and programs that needed them (the year I graduated, the budget got shot down and the vast majority of the arts programs there were screwed), a lot of good could have come of the funds.
Anyway, just wanted to post a big "hear, hear" to this comment...if I had mod points, I would've modded it up instead
-Gabe
Did you read the article? The article's faults with Slashdot were not with the journalists (as would be assumed by the title) but with the users who call someone a "luser who uses Windoze".
Your criticisms *are* valid, and should probably be addressed, but they were not in this article, and I think Michael's reaction to someone who doesn't seem to know how to write a proper title for his article is perfectly valid.
-Gabe
So you can put them both in a 2+ DVD changer and not have to get up to flip it over? I dunno, that's my guess though.
As much as I hate Network Solutions (and I really do), I just transferred my domain away from them to Register.com and had no problems from either registrar...it happened pretty much as it should, which was a nice relief, after hearing all of these horror stories...
Just my perspective...
It is on DVD, but there's no interesting additional features. I also own it on VHS, but, hell, I may get it on DVD also for the hell of it...:>