So long as the port is IRDA it's *possible*. I don't know of any software that does it... i guess the logic there would be that even many large remote controls would be less obtrusive than a laptop.
By the way, I've tried a couple different remote control programs on my Visor Deluxe, and I've found that the range is very limited. There is however a reasonably priced springboard module that is just a hardware souped up version of OmniRemote
They participated in East Bay Golden State Venture Capital Conferece...
ThinDISC Media, Inc. is creating a new digital advertising medium known as ThinDISC. The physically unique ThinDISC is one-fifth the thickness of a standard compact disc. This proprietary optical media will extend all market segments for digital media within data distribution, advertising and sales promotion markets. TDM will enable advertisers and print media publishers to capture a larger segment of the emerging $400B Internet e-commerce market because of ThinDISC's unique delivery methods. Exclusive new packaging and distribution methods, coupled with never before achieved, low replication costs and extraordinary quantity capability within tight deadlines will enable the digital publishing revolution to reach mass media proportions that were previously economically unfeasible with any other form of digital media
'a completely functional digital disc that's five times thinner than a regular DVD or CD' and 'is also flexible enough to wrap around soda cans and be inserted into magazines without breaking,'
Does anyone remember Bernoulli drives? they had a floppy that that got stiff (i can just see the replys to this post with tons of euphamisms) when it spun up. They weren't teriffically fast, but lots of mac people swore by em
HTML and LaTeX are both generic markup systems, and a comparison between tags for structural elements in both cases.
H1 -- \chapter
H2 -- \secion
etc
and list type thingies:
LI - \item
UL - \begin{enumerate}
and everyones favories highlights:
I/I - emphtext
B/B - textbftest
etc... etc...
In most cases the differences are trivial, seeming to indicate that, at first approximation, translating between these two systems should not prove too difficult.
There are translation programs that use these similarities, but in order to exploit the richness of the LaTeX language as compared to HTML (especially , which has no support for tables or mathematics), an ad hoc approach has to be adopted. To handle correctly LaTeX commands that have no equivalent in HTML , such elements can either be transformed into bitmap or pictures (an approach taken by LaTeX2HTML ), or the user can specify how the given element should be handled in the target language.
Accordingly, the migration would be simple if some steps were taken to convert those tables and equations... but good luck getting people to switch until the big gorillas get behind it
The Cassini Orbiter's mission consists of delivering a probe (called Huygens, provided by ESA) to Titan, and then remaining in orbit around Saturn for detailed studies of the planet and its rings and satellites. The principal objectives are to: (1) determine the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the rings; (2) determine the composition of the satellite surfaces and the geological history of each object; (3) determine the nature and origin of the dark material on Iapetus' leading hemisphere; (4) measure the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the magnetosphere; (5) study the dynamical behavior of Saturn's atmosphere at cloud level; (6) study the time variability of Titan's clouds and hazes; and, (7) characterize Titan's surface on a regional scale. The spacecraft was originally planned to be the second three-axis stabilized, RTG-powered Mariner Mark II, a class of spacecraft developed for missions beyond the orbit of Mars. However, various budget cuts and rescopings of the project have forced a more special design, postponing indefinitely any implementation of the Mariner Mark II series.
Cassini is currently planned to take a similar tour of the solar system as did Galileo, referred to as a VVEJGA (Venus-Venus-Earth-Jupiter Gravity Assist) trajectory. Several opportunities exist for Cassini to make observations of asteroids, although exact encounters remain to be determined after the spacecraft has been launched as it depends on the launch date. Current plans call for an arrival in June 2004. Shortly after entering orbit around Saturn, Huygens will separate from the Cassini orbiter and begin its entry into the atmosphere of Titan. Cassini is then expected to make at least 30 loose elliptical orbits of the planet, each optimized for a different set of observations.
Cassini's instrumentation consists of: a radar mapper, a CCD imaging system, a visible/infrared mapping spectrometer, a composite infrared spectrometer, a cosmic dust analyzer, a radio and plasma wave experiment, a plasma spectrometer, an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, a magnetospheric imaging instrument, a magnetometer, an ion/neutral mass spectrometer. Telemetry from the communications antenna as well as other special transmitters (an S-band transmitter and a dual frequency Ka-band system) will also be used to make observations of the atmospheres of Titan and Saturn and to measure the gravity fields of the planet and its satellites
If you have the option of 32-bit compatibility, it may not be worthwhile to migrate existing code to 64-bit. Converting code to 64-bit makes sense if you plan on using huge files or a huge address space. Converting to 64-bit also makes sense if you can utilize efficient 64-bit integer types or other 64-bit processor features and performance that would be otherwise unavailable.
Keep in mind that there are also downsides to 64-bit programs that result from the increased program memory usage because many basic data types expand from 32-bit to 64-bit quantities. Also, you may need to test and support both a 32-bit and 64-bit version of your code when a single 32-bit version would work as well.
For most existing X applications, unless porting to 64-bit is required, using 32-bit compatibility is an appropriate option. For libraries, the choice of whether to support 64-bit is based on the needs of the library customers. Since a 64-bit application may require various libraries, providing 64-bit library implementations is generally a good idea even if not currently needed.
Its still being used in our research division for natural language processing. It's symbolic nature makes it a good choice. And a lot of the new people that come on to the project already know LISP, so its not too bad of a transition for them
WCCO in Minneapolis/St Paul has a story on a Minn Charity that does that Here's the link that has the story below:
The Minnesota Wireless Foundation is joining a statewide effort to collect used cellular telephones for the victims of domestic violence.
The wireless service providers hope to collect 2,000 used cell phones by the end of the year.
The phones will be donated to "Call to Protect," and reprogrammed to dial local emergency services and domestic-violence hot lines using airtime donated by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association.
The phones collected this year will be activated by early 2001 and distributed to violence-prevention organizations.
Collection boxes have been placed in more than 30 retail stores around the metro area to collect the phones.
HR 3234 dictates that "all data transmission which through a procedure can be reformed as human speech falls under jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission and shall fall under the regulatory powers of such". The general move in the United State, at least, as been to try to adopt old legislation to fit the Internet. I would imagine that in part has a lot to do with the telecommunications industry lobby.
Without regulation, businesses always manage to stomp on the consumer -- but the laws going through congress are doing the consumer more harm than good. Voice over IP, even between private parties will fall under the same regulations a telephones, and then we see all sorts of problems with the government stepping in so we can't avoid paying AT&T or Sprint their nickel a minute.
Dependency management is an important feature of package management systems. It helps keep system consistency, making sure that everything needed for a certain piece of software to work is there, in the expected version.
But tools such as rpm or dpkg have limited handling of dependencies. They're limited to figuring what dependencies a package has and telling the user that an operation effecting that package cannot be performed until all dependencies are met. For example, installing the Pingus package could involve the following steps: Download the pingus package. Try to install it; see the package manager complain about missing libraries called libClanLib.so and libSDL.so. Figure out what packages provide these libraries. Download the ClanLib and SDL packages. Try to install these libraries; see the package manager complain again about a library called libHermes.so.1; curse the package manager. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the Hermes package, and install it. Finally, install pingus.
Similar scenarios can be found for package removal, since a package cannot be uninstalled until any and all packages that depend on it are removed first.
Package upgrade is similar to installation; it is not enough to simply get the newest version and install. The newer package might have different dependencies from the old one, requiring different or new versions of certain packages
buzz has it around microsoft that the project may be going nowhere. even tho the whitepapers are just out, there are some people on the inside who say that it may not even make it into the next developer studio, with objective C taking it's place.
Why objective C? The mac team at microsoft has been developing office, ie, etc for OSX for some time, and the higherups like the speed at which they are coming along. Obj C also has more tools for compiling cross platform, and MS is looking to take a lot of the same application apis and develop them on both NtT(2000) and OSX. Also, it looks like they are having some serious performance issues getting the C# compiler to spit out code that is clean on anything but a solid intel instrcution set. the optimizion sucks on alphas and ppcs, and there are even some strange little bugs that pop up when an app compiled on an pentium runs on an athlon and vice versa. This language has a long way to go, and given the alternatives, it looks like it make become like activeX. still there, but sucking balls and not doing anything useful.
how in the world would any companies manage to actually stop file sharing? i mean, suing napster and running them out of businees and thus forcing their server to go down is one thing, but the is no legal action anyone could take to stop other protocols. and even so, how would they do it? the major backbones would all have to have restrictions over what ports/protocols could be used. given how even script kiddies seem to ger around things like napster bans and whatnot, it seems like companies would have to invest more manpower (and thus money) in keeping people from xfering files than it would be worth... even if they are the companies being hurt by piracy. This story looks like so much typical slashdot FUD. oh no, your rights are being taken away. big brother is watching everything you do. yeah, right. as if i'm important enough. c'mon, this is ridiculous.
According to the court filing, ICANN just doens't want to give reseller privledges to Afternic because of past violations of domain registration policies. While Register.com and Network Solutions are themselves not very customer friendly, Afternic went as far as massregistering domain names under made up names of people and companies, squatted on them, and then resold them. ICANN is is worried that if they let Afternic become a reseller, they'll take thier list of 5000 or so choice domains (and their equivants when the new TLDs become available) that ICANN obtained from afternic internal documents and set them aside in a higher priced area. It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out in court
Slashdot Mirror
By the way, I've tried a couple different remote control programs on my Visor Deluxe, and I've found that the range is very limited. There is however a reasonably priced springboard module that is just a hardware souped up version of OmniRemote
ThinDISC Media, Inc. is creating a new digital advertising medium known as ThinDISC. The physically unique ThinDISC is one-fifth the thickness of a standard compact disc. This proprietary optical media will extend all market segments for digital media within data distribution, advertising and sales promotion markets. TDM will enable advertisers and print media publishers to capture a larger segment of the emerging $400B Internet e-commerce market because of ThinDISC's unique delivery methods. Exclusive new packaging and distribution methods, coupled with never before achieved, low replication costs and extraordinary quantity capability within tight deadlines will enable the digital publishing revolution to reach mass media proportions that were previously economically unfeasible with any other form of digital media
Does anyone remember Bernoulli drives? they had a floppy that that got stiff (i can just see the replys to this post with tons of euphamisms) when it spun up. They weren't teriffically fast, but lots of mac people swore by em
H1 -- \chapter /I - emphtext /B - textbftest
H2 -- \secion
etc
and list type thingies:
LI - \item
UL - \begin{enumerate}
and everyones favories highlights:
I
B
etc... etc...
In most cases the differences are trivial, seeming to indicate that, at first approximation, translating between these two systems should not prove too difficult.
There are translation programs that use these similarities, but in order to exploit the richness of the LaTeX language as compared to HTML (especially , which has no support for tables or mathematics), an ad hoc approach has to be adopted. To handle correctly LaTeX commands that have no equivalent in HTML , such elements can either be transformed into bitmap or pictures (an approach taken by LaTeX2HTML ), or the user can specify how the given element should be handled in the target language.
Accordingly, the migration would be simple if some steps were taken to convert those tables and equations... but good luck getting people to switch until the big gorillas get behind it
heh. at least i didn't tell you about my shuttle cock
16MB RAM
8MB ROM
2MB Flash Memory (the useful part)
the cpu isn't to shabby, its a 167 Mhz R5230
but at 20 bucks a pop with no required service, i would have grabbed a trunkful and unloaded them on ebay!
but i just can't resist:P. Cassini goes to Jupiter to get more stupider....
The Cassini Orbiter's mission consists of delivering a probe (called Huygens, provided by ESA) to Titan, and then remaining in orbit around Saturn for detailed studies of the planet and its rings and satellites. The principal objectives are to: (1) determine the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the rings; (2) determine the composition of the satellite surfaces and the geological history of each object; (3) determine the nature and origin of the dark material on Iapetus' leading hemisphere; (4) measure the three-dimensional structure and dynamical behavior of the magnetosphere; (5) study the dynamical behavior of Saturn's atmosphere at cloud level; (6) study the time variability of Titan's clouds and hazes; and, (7) characterize Titan's surface on a regional scale. The spacecraft was originally planned to be the second three-axis stabilized, RTG-powered Mariner Mark II, a class of spacecraft developed for missions beyond the orbit of Mars. However, various budget cuts and rescopings of the project have forced a more special design, postponing indefinitely any implementation of the Mariner Mark II series. Cassini is currently planned to take a similar tour of the solar system as did Galileo, referred to as a VVEJGA (Venus-Venus-Earth-Jupiter Gravity Assist) trajectory. Several opportunities exist for Cassini to make observations of asteroids, although exact encounters remain to be determined after the spacecraft has been launched as it depends on the launch date. Current plans call for an arrival in June 2004. Shortly after entering orbit around Saturn, Huygens will separate from the Cassini orbiter and begin its entry into the atmosphere of Titan. Cassini is then expected to make at least 30 loose elliptical orbits of the planet, each optimized for a different set of observations. Cassini's instrumentation consists of: a radar mapper, a CCD imaging system, a visible/infrared mapping spectrometer, a composite infrared spectrometer, a cosmic dust analyzer, a radio and plasma wave experiment, a plasma spectrometer, an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph, a magnetospheric imaging instrument, a magnetometer, an ion/neutral mass spectrometer. Telemetry from the communications antenna as well as other special transmitters (an S-band transmitter and a dual frequency Ka-band system) will also be used to make observations of the atmospheres of Titan and Saturn and to measure the gravity fields of the planet and its satellites
If you have the option of 32-bit compatibility, it may not be worthwhile to migrate existing code to 64-bit. Converting code to 64-bit makes sense if you plan on using huge files or a huge address space. Converting to 64-bit also makes sense if you can utilize efficient 64-bit integer types or other 64-bit processor features and performance that would be otherwise unavailable. Keep in mind that there are also downsides to 64-bit programs that result from the increased program memory usage because many basic data types expand from 32-bit to 64-bit quantities. Also, you may need to test and support both a 32-bit and 64-bit version of your code when a single 32-bit version would work as well. For most existing X applications, unless porting to 64-bit is required, using 32-bit compatibility is an appropriate option. For libraries, the choice of whether to support 64-bit is based on the needs of the library customers. Since a 64-bit application may require various libraries, providing 64-bit library implementations is generally a good idea even if not currently needed.
Its still being used in our research division for natural language processing. It's symbolic nature makes it a good choice. And a lot of the new people that come on to the project already know LISP, so its not too bad of a transition for them
Here's the link that has the story below:
The Minnesota Wireless Foundation is joining a statewide effort to collect used cellular telephones for the victims of domestic violence. The wireless service providers hope to collect 2,000 used cell phones by the end of the year. The phones will be donated to "Call to Protect," and reprogrammed to dial local emergency services and domestic-violence hot lines using airtime donated by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association. The phones collected this year will be activated by early 2001 and distributed to violence-prevention organizations. Collection boxes have been placed in more than 30 retail stores around the metro area to collect the phones.
Without regulation, businesses always manage to stomp on the consumer -- but the laws going through congress are doing the consumer more harm than good. Voice over IP, even between private parties will fall under the same regulations a telephones, and then we see all sorts of problems with the government stepping in so we can't avoid paying AT&T or Sprint their nickel a minute.
Dependency management is an important feature of package management systems. It helps keep system consistency, making sure that everything needed for a certain piece of software to work is there, in the expected version. But tools such as rpm or dpkg have limited handling of dependencies. They're limited to figuring what dependencies a package has and telling the user that an operation effecting that package cannot be performed until all dependencies are met. For example, installing the Pingus package could involve the following steps: Download the pingus package. Try to install it; see the package manager complain about missing libraries called libClanLib.so and libSDL.so. Figure out what packages provide these libraries. Download the ClanLib and SDL packages. Try to install these libraries; see the package manager complain again about a library called libHermes.so.1; curse the package manager. Repeat steps 3 and 4 for the Hermes package, and install it. Finally, install pingus. Similar scenarios can be found for package removal, since a package cannot be uninstalled until any and all packages that depend on it are removed first. Package upgrade is similar to installation; it is not enough to simply get the newest version and install. The newer package might have different dependencies from the old one, requiring different or new versions of certain packages
Why objective C? The mac team at microsoft has been developing office, ie, etc for OSX for some time, and the higherups like the speed at which they are coming along. Obj C also has more tools for compiling cross platform, and MS is looking to take a lot of the same application apis and develop them on both NtT(2000) and OSX. Also, it looks like they are having some serious performance issues getting the C# compiler to spit out code that is clean on anything but a solid intel instrcution set. the optimizion sucks on alphas and ppcs, and there are even some strange little bugs that pop up when an app compiled on an pentium runs on an athlon and vice versa. This language has a long way to go, and given the alternatives, it looks like it make become like activeX. still there, but sucking balls and not doing anything useful.
how in the world would any companies manage to actually stop file sharing? i mean, suing napster and running them out of businees and thus forcing their server to go down is one thing, but the is no legal action anyone could take to stop other protocols. and even so, how would they do it? the major backbones would all have to have restrictions over what ports/protocols could be used. given how even script kiddies seem to ger around things like napster bans and whatnot, it seems like companies would have to invest more manpower (and thus money) in keeping people from xfering files than it would be worth... even if they are the companies being hurt by piracy. This story looks like so much typical slashdot FUD. oh no, your rights are being taken away. big brother is watching everything you do. yeah, right. as if i'm important enough. c'mon, this is ridiculous.
According to the court filing, ICANN just doens't want to give reseller privledges to Afternic because of past violations of domain registration policies. While Register.com and Network Solutions are themselves not very customer friendly, Afternic went as far as massregistering domain names under made up names of people and companies, squatted on them, and then resold them. ICANN is is worried that if they let Afternic become a reseller, they'll take thier list of 5000 or so choice domains (and their equivants when the new TLDs become available) that ICANN obtained from afternic internal documents and set them aside in a higher priced area. It'll be interesting to see how this one plays out in court