I am not a graphics or movie-maker type, but Motion looks like it might be fun to play around with. However, my Mac is a 800MHz G4 iBook with 640MB ram.
Can Motion be run on this, or are the cpu and graphics too wimpy?
I have a G4 iBook, and wanted GPS and mapping. I first got Route 66 mapping software with US and Canada maps. I then, after a bit of searching, got a Rayming TripNav TN-200 - USB GPS receiver (at mightygps.com). This is just a small, usb-powered module.
After a bit of configuring, it works, and works well.
I also have a 12" G4 iBook. YDL came out with graphics support for it at the end of this January. I have emailed you a copy of my communications with YDL's Troy Vitullo (there are some other discussions mixed in, but you should be able to get what you need - if not, contact Troy).
According to http://www.boxofficeguru.com/, the opening and total revenue for Armeggedon were $36M and $201M, while the same for Deep Impact were $41M and $140M.
So, although Ar did better then DI at the box office, I would not say that it "destroyed" it.
I'm just waiting for Ashcroft, close to the election, to declare the Democratic party a terrorist organization (since it opposes the Bushy boyz) and have all their candidates arrested and shipped to Guantanamo.
Re: "what would be the point of a right to pursue anything if you wouldn't then have the right to what you pursued?"
By this logic, if you wanted someone and pursued her/him, you would have a right to have her/him. IOW, it does not follow.
Re(2): "once you have that happiness they can't take it away from you, either, which is the truer meaning of a right."
As King Solomon's ring was reputed to say (as a consolation), "This too shall pass." This applies to both good and bad times. Happiness passes, as does (if you are lucky) sadness. Or, as Keynes said, "In the long run, we are all dead."
Not only that, but, imho, the new mail interface sucks. I use Mozilla, and I cannot use the keyboard for selecting "unread" mail and which folder I want to store mail into.
I have sent a message to Yahoo help requesting the ability to change to the old interface.
I like emacs also, and have been using it for over fifteen years (I run cygwin on Winspire).
One reason is that my scripting language of choice is gawk (contact my analyst for the sordid details), and emacs supports it. If SEE supported it, I might try it - heck, from the comments, I might try it anyway.
What happens in thirty years when your kids want to look at the baby pictures you took of them, and the digital phots are unreadable on any devices then available? As an example, if you have anything stored on 5-1/4" floppies, good luck trying to read them now. Prints I made thirty years ago are still fine. I worry about the future of the thousands of digital pictures I have taken and will take.
The HP 32sii (discontinued) and HP 33s (its replacement, about $50) have unshifted A-F keys in hex mode. They natively just do arithmetic operations, but I have written (and posted to comp.sys,hp48) routines for doing and, or, not,... on the 33s for up to 34 bit operands (limited by the 36 bit integers of these calculators).
For calculus, I would expect the TI-89 to be superior to the HP-48GX, since the GX has very little symbolic math capabilities. The HP-49G, and its successor, the faster and somewhat more powerful HP-49G+, have a symbolic math capability which is quite comparable to, and arguably superior to the 89's.
With regards to "I thought the idea that pollution of the information space was a "crime" in and of itself was an interesting point - I generally consider the net to be something of a cesspool, and it's not just cream that floats to the top... On the other hand, dive right in (yuck. Nasty mental image)" - afaik, there are two common situations where things float to the top: cream in milk and scum in a pond. Choose the one you prefer to fit any situation.
Actually, shell sort is O(n^1.25) or so - see Knuth (the answer to all these type of questions). So it is, for large n, better than bubble sort and worse than heap sort.
BTW, I have sometimes used the much maligned bubble sort in cases when I knew in advance that few (less than 20) items were to be sorted.
I like heapsort. It has a guaranteed n*log(n) worst case and average case, and uses no storage other than the input array. Quicksort is often preferred because its average time is, IIRC, about half of heapsort's.
Heapsort is discussed in Knuth vol 3 and in "Combinatorial Algorithms" by Nijenhuis and Wilf. The latter has a generic, high-level implementation and a (not easy to understand) 23 line fortran version.
IIRC, Damon Knight wrote a short story (probably 30 or more years ago) about meeting aliens that could hear humans' subvocalizations (svs). The main plot was about how the aliens would interpret the svs as speech that should be acted upon, not as wishes to be ignored. There was a technology developed to suppress the svs. The final sentence of the story, which followed a recital of a great pianist at which the sv suppressor malfunctioned, has the protagonist receiving a small package delivered to his room, and remembering that he had sv-ed during the recital "I wish I had those hands."
I recall reading (perhaps in Asimov's autobiography) Asimov writing that he did not come up with the three laws. John Campbell, the great editor of Astounding Science Fiction, came up with the laws after reading one of Asimov's first robot stories. He told Asimov, and the laws became part of every robot story.
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Too many years ago, I came up with what was, for the time (late 1960's) the universal data medium: punched magnetic tape!
Just take your mag tape (7-track preferred, but you could use the new-fangled 9-track type) and run it through a teletype tape punch.
Almost as useful as using scissors to make the holes in 80-column punch cards.
This seems to me to be a well-reasoned argument. It might explain why Apple has not gone to court (yet).
I am not a graphics or movie-maker type, but Motion looks like it might be fun to play around with. However, my Mac is a 800MHz G4 iBook with 640MB ram.
Can Motion be run on this, or are the cpu and graphics too wimpy?
Thanks
As I recall (I've only used it once to make sure it works), it acts as a serial device. I set it up so it is the first one looked for.
I have a G4 iBook, and wanted GPS and mapping. I first got Route 66 mapping software with US and Canada maps. I then, after a bit of searching, got a Rayming TripNav TN-200 - USB GPS receiver (at mightygps.com). This is just a small, usb-powered module.
After a bit of configuring, it works, and works well.
I also have a 12" G4 iBook. YDL came out with graphics support for it at the end of this January. I have emailed you a copy of my communications with YDL's Troy Vitullo (there are some other discussions mixed in, but you should be able to get what you need - if not, contact Troy).
According to http://www.boxofficeguru.com/, the opening and total revenue for Armeggedon were $36M and $201M, while the same for Deep Impact were $41M and $140M.
So, although Ar did better then DI at the box office, I would not say that it "destroyed" it.
I'm just waiting for Ashcroft, close to the election, to declare the Democratic party a terrorist organization (since it opposes the Bushy boyz) and have all their candidates arrested and shipped to Guantanamo.
Actually, this quote seems apropos:
"Money can't buy happiness, but it does allow you to choose your own form of misery."
Re: "what would be the point of a right to pursue anything if you wouldn't then have the right to what you pursued?"
By this logic, if you wanted someone and pursued her/him, you would have a right to have her/him. IOW, it does not follow.
Re(2): "once you have that happiness they can't take it away from you, either, which is the truer meaning of a right."
As King Solomon's ring was reputed to say (as a consolation), "This too shall pass." This applies to both good and bad times. Happiness passes, as does (if you are lucky) sadness. Or, as Keynes said, "In the long run, we are all dead."
You have the right to pursue happiness. Achieving happiness is not guaranteed.
Not only that, but, imho, the new mail interface sucks. I use Mozilla, and I cannot use the keyboard for selecting "unread" mail and which folder I want to store mail into.
I have sent a message to Yahoo help requesting the ability to change to the old interface.
I like emacs also, and have been using it for over fifteen years (I run cygwin on Winspire).
One reason is that my scripting language of choice is gawk (contact my analyst for the sordid details), and emacs supports it. If SEE supported it, I might try it - heck, from the comments, I might try it anyway.
What happens in thirty years when your kids want to look at the baby pictures you took of them, and the digital phots are unreadable on any devices then available? As an example, if you have anything stored on 5-1/4" floppies, good luck trying to read them now.
Prints I made thirty years ago are still fine. I worry about the future of the thousands of digital pictures I have taken and will take.
The HP 32sii (discontinued) and HP 33s (its replacement, about $50) have unshifted A-F keys in hex mode. They natively just do arithmetic operations, but I have written (and posted to comp.sys,hp48) routines for doing and, or, not, ... on the 33s for up to 34 bit operands (limited by the 36 bit integers of these calculators).
For calculus, I would expect the TI-89 to be superior to the HP-48GX, since the GX has very little symbolic math capabilities. The HP-49G, and its successor, the faster and somewhat more powerful HP-49G+, have a symbolic math capability which is quite comparable to, and arguably superior to the 89's.
With regards to "I thought the idea that pollution of the information space was a "crime" in and of itself was an interesting point - I generally consider the net to be something of a cesspool, and it's not just cream that floats to the top... On the other hand, dive right in (yuck. Nasty mental image)" -
afaik, there are two common situations where things float to the top: cream in milk and scum in a pond.
Choose the one you prefer to fit any situation.
Take a look at Archos AV3x0 products.
(www.archos.com)
While not wireless, they can digitize audio and video in real time from NTSC or S-video.
I have a AV 320 and like it a lot.
The way I've heard it is this:
If someone says "Trust me.", count your fingers after shaking their hand.
Actually, shell sort is O(n^1.25) or so - see Knuth (the answer to all these type of questions). So it is, for large n, better than bubble sort and worse than heap sort.
BTW, I have sometimes used the much maligned bubble sort in cases when I knew in advance that few (less than 20) items were to be sorted.
I like heapsort. It has a guaranteed n*log(n) worst case and average case, and uses no storage other than the input array. Quicksort is often preferred because its average time is, IIRC, about half of heapsort's.
Heapsort is discussed in Knuth vol 3 and in "Combinatorial Algorithms" by Nijenhuis and Wilf. The latter has a generic, high-level implementation and a (not easy to understand) 23 line fortran version.
IIRC, Damon Knight wrote a short story (probably 30 or more years ago) about meeting aliens that could hear humans' subvocalizations (svs). The main plot was about how the aliens would interpret the svs as speech that should be acted upon, not as wishes to be ignored. There was a technology developed to suppress the svs. The final sentence of the story, which followed a recital of a great pianist at which the sv suppressor malfunctioned, has the protagonist receiving a small package delivered to his room, and remembering that he had sv-ed during the recital "I wish I had those hands."
I recall reading (perhaps in Asimov's autobiography) Asimov writing that he did not come up with the three laws. John Campbell, the great editor of Astounding Science Fiction, came up with the laws after reading one of Asimov's first robot stories. He told Asimov, and the laws became part of every robot story.
The book was "The Man Who Sold the Moon."