Try it. You'll discover that RPN is the best way to interface with a calculator, and it soon becomes impossible to work with anything else! Algebraic notation is the spawn of all evil, because it makes it impossible to do complex nested notations. That, and if you have a good RPN calculator you can use the stack for so many things.... it's just a better soln.
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The fact that time spent working has increased has resulted from the change in ideas of technological progress, namely, the exponential growth curve of technology. This type of growth does not sustain itself - indeed, for every whiz-bang technology gadget people must work harder, because it takes more time to forever increase the pace of technology. There's about twice as many gadgets on the market based on technology as there were a year ago - look at that stupid singing fish for an example.
Technology does breed advances in productivity - but those advances get fed right back into the technologial loop. Indeed, at this time advances in productivity are not enough at this time to sustain the required exponentail growth curve. W need productivity-enhancing technologies that enable us to increase our prodictivity to the point where we actually work smarter, not harder.
Some of those technologies are appearing today, here and here, but it will take a while before they actually get implemented in the marketplace. In the meantime, expect people to work longer hours trying to sustain the exponential growth curve that is the foundation of our booming economy.
Attention: As of 2100, biological life is depricated. Please switch to quantumn-computer mapped form of life.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, read Ray Kurzwiel's The Age of Spiritual Machines. He details how in the next 100 years, we'll upload our brains into quantumn computers and cease to be biological life forms. It's a good read, and it's what the future will be. Before I read it, I thought a Brave New World-ish type scenario (of which the genome manipuation is a central feature) would be the future. Now I realize that those technologies will be irrelevant, because we're going to be moving away from a biological-based life form in the future anyway. (How 'bout a book review, or did I just miss it?)
Hmm - works like a champ here on a SPARCstation 20 running solaris 2.5.1 - except they didn't release any 5.0.1 patches or anything? Grr - won't fix the security holes on other platforms, I guess. Here is the link that works about it.
Actually, you're right. The ISP's don't infringe on this patent (except by making web pages - but if I make something with a tool that's violating a patent, am I liable?). The browser manufacturers do. Sue MS. Sue AOL/Netscape. Sue Opera. Sue the W3C. Sue the Lynx team.
Either that, or the RIAA should be suing the ISP's for Napster, as well. Nggg. Arrrg.
MIDI on pilot is very cool, but I'd buy it instentainoulsy (sp?) if there was a way to hook a general midi device up to it - use the palm as complete platform for Midi music. Maybe the pilot will be what the BeOS never quite was...
I wonder if ObjektSynth will port to the pilot (tounge-in-cheek).
Speaking of this, wasn't there supposed to be a similar device for the pilot that would play MP3's?
Buy the psion. You don't need the color, really. The keyboard is (IMHO) 2x as good a feature as the color. Ask anybody who uses a windows powered device if they'd go back to a b/w device. Then ask any psion user if they'd go back to a non-keyboard device. See which one has the stronger response.
I'd also like to point out that the Windows Powered devices are human interface nightmares. Look at the big shot under the "Features" link. Look in the tray. Six items in the tray! Why are they there? On a handheld device, why are those things taking up my valuable screen estate? Yuck. EPOC32 is a much cleaner OS, and the device supports Linux as well.
If you click on the "features" link on the web page, you'll see a close-up - and then realize that this thing is butt-ugly. No, this isn't a troll. The unit looks like a horrid nightmare in human interface design. What is that, bumps and grooves in the shape simply for bumps and grooves? If a product has those things, they should be shaped for the hand - not some unnatural "futuristic" design. As a Linux box it's neat (for 5 mins), but I'd recommend a Psion for those truly interested in ultra-portable Linux.
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Actually, I belive there's a windows API hook to tell if you're dialed up. Sorry.
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No, but if they asked for your phone number (which they likely did) they are now tracking your purchases anyway.
Not always - errors are repeatable, but they can hinge on some specific set of conditions and so infrequently that makes them appear random to the untrained eye. The person in question here was female, and I'm taking the (safe) bet that the person she was confused with was male. This means that:
It wasn't originally a human error (because a human would surely have seen that).
Humans weren't checking the computer
Bingo - instant trouble! The security company was lax here, and it cost her one week's pay, for which she should be compensated.
In this, the age of information, where the numbering, collating, indexing and cross-referencing of millions of identities happens in a single second, the fact that mixups like this still occur disturbs me.
Ok, this statement either shows extreme naiveite or stupidity. Mixups occur because we're in this "age of information" and it's all done by computers. C'Mon, people! You're supposed to be programmers. You know that programmers write sloppy code.
Wasn't there a mavica (or other camera) that at some point had an imation superdisk drive in it instead of a floppy? That seems to be a better solution, because the media is reuslable, cheap, and small. (Plus, quite a few mac owners have superdisk drives because it's often the cheapest way to get a floppy drive on a mac).
The objective of the distrobutions is not necessarily to produce comercial software (as part of the distrobution), but to give and identifying characterstic to the distro. For example, Corel's identifying characteristic is their file manager. (BTW, did the source ever show up for that?) Mandrake features DrakConf. Redhat pioneered kudzu in a distrobution (but it was also adopted by others). Everybody wants to have their distrobution be identifiably different from the others, and Corel's method is through customizing the file manager.
Corel's objective is not necessarily to produce a closed-source distrobution. They want to help the KDE project out, but in some respects they need to provide a different set of features to their customers than KDE does. Also don't forget that Corel's custom modifications to kfm are specific to how they have set up their distrobution in regard to samba support, where the filesystems get mounted, etc. They have a greater freedom to customize because they know how they have the system set up. KDE is distro-agnostic. Corel's desktop is a distro-specific hack of KDE. Is it their objective to fragment KDE or to destroy KDE? No, because they'd be biting the hand that feeds them. Remember that.
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No, no, no... the problem is not with WP8 or below, but WP2000 office. It's running using wine, (they didn't even do a native compile) so it's slow as heck. I tend to use BeOS and Gobe Productive lately, which is the fastest suite I've ever seen...
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Better yet - I'm building a time capsule so that I can ask my grandkids if they've come up with a cure for rampant paranoia yet...
Yes, I use RPN. Very useful, very cool. And I love the D&D Stack.
Try it. You'll discover that RPN is the best way to interface with a calculator, and it soon becomes impossible to work with anything else! Algebraic notation is the spawn of all evil, because it makes it impossible to do complex nested notations. That, and if you have a good RPN calculator you can use the stack for so many things.... it's just a better soln.
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Technology does breed advances in productivity - but those advances get fed right back into the technologial loop. Indeed, at this time advances in productivity are not enough at this time to sustain the required exponentail growth curve. W need productivity-enhancing technologies that enable us to increase our prodictivity to the point where we actually work smarter, not harder.
Some of those technologies are appearing today, here and here, but it will take a while before they actually get implemented in the marketplace. In the meantime, expect people to work longer hours trying to sustain the exponential growth curve that is the foundation of our booming economy.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about, read Ray Kurzwiel's The Age of Spiritual Machines. He details how in the next 100 years, we'll upload our brains into quantumn computers and cease to be biological life forms. It's a good read, and it's what the future will be. Before I read it, I thought a Brave New World-ish type scenario (of which the genome manipuation is a central feature) would be the future. Now I realize that those technologies will be irrelevant, because we're going to be moving away from a biological-based life form in the future anyway. (How 'bout a book review, or did I just miss it?)
Hmm - works like a champ here on a SPARCstation 20 running solaris 2.5.1 - except they didn't release any 5.0.1 patches or anything? Grr - won't fix the security holes on other platforms, I guess. Here is the link that works about it.
Descent 1 was very, very, cool. Run it at 640x480, and cloak just before you fly out the exit tube (with cheat). The graphics are just awesome there.
Either that, or the RIAA should be suing the ISP's for Napster, as well. Nggg. Arrrg.
*bzzzt* wrong - Descent was the first successful FPS with a real 3D world.
I wonder if ObjektSynth will port to the pilot (tounge-in-cheek).
Speaking of this, wasn't there supposed to be a similar device for the pilot that would play MP3's?
I'd also like to point out that the Windows Powered devices are human interface nightmares. Look at the big shot under the "Features" link. Look in the tray. Six items in the tray! Why are they there? On a handheld device, why are those things taking up my valuable screen estate? Yuck. EPOC32 is a much cleaner OS, and the device supports Linux as well.
If you click on the "features" link on the web page, you'll see a close-up - and then realize that this thing is butt-ugly. No, this isn't a troll. The unit looks like a horrid nightmare in human interface design. What is that, bumps and grooves in the shape simply for bumps and grooves? If a product has those things, they should be shaped for the hand - not some unnatural "futuristic" design. As a Linux box it's neat (for 5 mins), but I'd recommend a Psion for those truly interested in ultra-portable Linux.
Actually, I belive there's a windows API hook to tell if you're dialed up. Sorry.
No, but if they asked for your phone number (which they likely did) they are now tracking your purchases anyway.
- It wasn't originally a human error (because a human would surely have seen that).
- Humans weren't checking the computer
Bingo - instant trouble! The security company was lax here, and it cost her one week's pay, for which she should be compensated.Ok, this statement either shows extreme naiveite or stupidity. Mixups occur because we're in this "age of information" and it's all done by computers. C'Mon, people! You're supposed to be programmers. You know that programmers write sloppy code.
Sounds like the solution for you is a laptop and a tethered usb camera.
Wasn't there a mavica (or other camera) that at some point had an imation superdisk drive in it instead of a floppy? That seems to be a better solution, because the media is reuslable, cheap, and small. (Plus, quite a few mac owners have superdisk drives because it's often the cheapest way to get a floppy drive on a mac).
Run the whole thing through ispell, for that matter.
The objective of the distrobutions is not necessarily to produce comercial software (as part of the distrobution), but to give and identifying characterstic to the distro. For example, Corel's identifying characteristic is their file manager. (BTW, did the source ever show up for that?) Mandrake features DrakConf. Redhat pioneered kudzu in a distrobution (but it was also adopted by others). Everybody wants to have their distrobution be identifiably different from the others, and Corel's method is through customizing the file manager.
Corel's objective is not necessarily to produce a closed-source distrobution. They want to help the KDE project out, but in some respects they need to provide a different set of features to their customers than KDE does. Also don't forget that Corel's custom modifications to kfm are specific to how they have set up their distrobution in regard to samba support, where the filesystems get mounted, etc. They have a greater freedom to customize because they know how they have the system set up. KDE is distro-agnostic. Corel's desktop is a distro-specific hack of KDE. Is it their objective to fragment KDE or to destroy KDE? No, because they'd be biting the hand that feeds them. Remember that.
No, no, no... the problem is not with WP8 or below, but WP2000 office. It's running using wine, (they didn't even do a native compile) so it's slow as heck. I tend to use BeOS and Gobe Productive lately, which is the fastest suite I've ever seen...