Nokia 7700, among other things, has a full blown html/xhtml browser, imap/pop3 mail, spreadsheet, word processor, camera, music/video player and radio.
Now, what else do you need?:)
Disclaimer: Yes, I am involved with the company. OTOH I'm not paid to pitch this;)
The grief of losing an item on which you used many hours of your Very Real time to obtain can be big.
As I have seen the player point of view and the administration point of view of a MMOG, I can say only this: Nothing is virtual. Players are real persons. They use their real time to play. For the hardcore player their character is as real as the paycheck they receive for doing their more 'boring' job. Yes, it is easy to toss a player with 'it's just a game, get over it', but anyone who has played any of these games know that it's not that simple.
When you play. Remeber; your virtual comrade/enemy is also a living, breathing person.
Well, IMO, that fits to this analogy. I too learned using oscilloscope 'the hard way'.
I think the old analog oscilloscopes are to frequency analysis as assembler is to programming. When you use an old oscilloscope you get the feeling you know what you are looking because you have to tune it carefully and actually beforehand know something about what you are trying to look.
I learned programming first with BASIC on Commodore 64. Then with Visual basic some years later. After that some C. At this point I knew something about how computers (processors namely) work. I gave assembler a shot. I'm not very proficient with it, but I learned more about memory management, registers and other low level stuff. Nowadays learning a new programming language is not a problem. Instruction sets, stack orders, OO theory and procedural theory (to name a few) are just components of programming as a whole. Language doesn't matter. I haven't done any project where I would necessarily need assembler to anything, but it eases atleast debugging when you know what the processor is supposed to do when you do a loop, comparison, manage a C structure or class members.
I'm a curious person. I sometimes reverse engineer binaries just to have a glimpse at some particularly interesting phenomenon in a program. I found it very pleasing when I actually understood the output of a disassembler on the first try.
I'm also getting increasingly offtopic here, so I'll shut up now.:)
All good and well, but really. If someone were to say on slashdot "Wonder if they are properly testing this in life-like conditions and with standard edge-case scenarios?", it would have prolly been YOU who had jumped that with: "Look, they are Smarter Engineers Than You at NASA for crying out loud! Why don't you shut up! They prolly know million times better how to debug their zillion dollar gizmos!"
Then again, everything looks different from post mortem.
Infact, I was suspecting it. I'm in the process of playing Max Payne 2 through, and indeed it seems that on a third to fifth try of one particularly nasty spot I suddenly miraculously got through it even thou I felt I got a lot of hits.
Which is good. I hate games where I have to endlessly reload to get past some point....Half-Life's end comes to mind. I hated it and actually went through the final encounter with cheats on for the first time. I tried it some 10-20 times without them thou.
However, one analyst said that between now and summer, HP may come up with a way to convert WMA to AAC, or an equivalent technical fix. I guess we wait and see.
Moreover, one security consultant said that farmers may come up with a way to convert manure into milk, or an equilavent agricultural fix. I guess we wait and see.
Congratulations to the developers of Valgrind, VideoLAN, JACK, and Pango.
Four pieces of 'Nobel' winners which I have never heard of. Time to RTFA and educate myself what are these crucial parts of OSS I never even dreamed to need.
Well.. It doesn't work quite that way. Symbian creates a platform. It's not 'Nokia Symbian', it's just Symbian. The nokia S60 is another layer of itself so it's not automagically backported to Symbian. (UIQ is actually just a reference UI for Symbian 7. Nokia made it's own -- S60+S80+S90, SonyEricsson decided to use the UIQ)
After that the customers (Nokia, SonyEricsson and so forth) throw out what they don't want, recode some parts which they want to interface their own way and code new ones.
I strongly suspect this perl thingie will be Nokia proprietary piece. Nokia has a good history of making open API's thou. So I think they might very well make atleast the specs available for other symbian owners and customers.
Of course, any Nokai UI/Platform customer phone will have it also.
This is very much of what's wrong with world today. You can't expect anything if not explicitly stated so. It might sound fair that in an election process to a competition you would be treated exactly like your competitors. But why? Why would you if it was not explicitly stated that the election process is equal/well-matched (which is the proper term?).
This applies to so many aspects nowadays. Just think... How many times you were screwed around in the past year because you trusted the other party to follow the same implications you had of a non-formal contract? (Like a verbal promise with further reaching implications)
PS. Yeah.. I'm a sucker. Not going to details here;)
Slashdot Mirror
Now, what else do you need?
Disclaimer: Yes, I am involved with the company. OTOH I'm not paid to pitch this ;)
I'm not old, but I do remember lists of stuff you could do while your C64 booted
... (?)
;)
Like what?
1. Blink an eye
2.
Now, lets talk about the lists what to do while switching town in ultima IV.
I play EverQuest and ocassionally code in a Mud.
The grief of losing an item on which you used many hours of your Very Real time to obtain can be big.
As I have seen the player point of view and the administration point of view of a MMOG, I can say only this:
Nothing is virtual. Players are real persons. They use their real time to play. For the hardcore player their character is as real as the paycheck they receive for doing their more 'boring' job.
Yes, it is easy to toss a player with 'it's just a game, get over it', but anyone who has played any of these games know that it's not that simple.
When you play. Remeber; your virtual comrade/enemy is also a living, breathing person.
Well, IMO, that fits to this analogy.
:)
I too learned using oscilloscope 'the hard way'.
I think the old analog oscilloscopes are to frequency analysis as assembler is to programming.
When you use an old oscilloscope you get the feeling you know what you are looking because you have to tune it carefully and actually beforehand know something about what you are trying to look.
I learned programming first with BASIC on Commodore 64. Then with Visual basic some years later. After that some C. At this point I knew something about how computers (processors namely) work. I gave assembler a shot. I'm not very proficient with it, but I learned more about memory management, registers and other low level stuff. Nowadays learning a new programming language is not a problem. Instruction sets, stack orders, OO theory and procedural theory (to name a few) are just components of programming as a whole. Language doesn't matter.
I haven't done any project where I would necessarily need assembler to anything, but it eases atleast debugging when you know what the processor is supposed to do when you do a loop, comparison, manage a C structure or class members.
I'm a curious person. I sometimes reverse engineer binaries just to have a glimpse at some particularly interesting phenomenon in a program. I found it very pleasing when I actually understood the output of a disassembler on the first try.
I'm also getting increasingly offtopic here, so I'll shut up now.
BatMUD
Way to spin the topic into MS bashing thou! ;)
Well, you must admit the original analogy was flawed and your posts parent corrected it.
Ayn Rand is a kook anyway, so... Feh...
You know the drill.
Hohum...
How hard it can be to do this, if the vending machines can already distinguish pretty clever counterfeits bank notes.
I think I hava 6310 from the first batch. Never bothered to flash it because I rarely use it.
This one does not have the vulnerability. You see, if you switch bluetooth on, the whole phone crashes immediately.
All good and well, but really.
If someone were to say on slashdot "Wonder if they are properly testing this in life-like conditions and with standard edge-case scenarios?", it would have prolly been YOU who had jumped that with:
"Look, they are Smarter Engineers Than You at NASA for crying out loud! Why don't you shut up! They prolly know million times better how to debug their zillion dollar gizmos!"
Then again, everything looks different from post mortem.
Oh, Max Payne has auto-dynamic difficulty?
...Half-Life's end comes to mind. I hated it and actually went through the final encounter with cheats on for the first time. I tried it some 10-20 times without them thou.
Infact, I was suspecting it. I'm in the process of playing Max Payne 2 through, and indeed it seems that on a third to fifth try of one particularly nasty spot I suddenly miraculously got through it even thou I felt I got a lot of hits.
Which is good. I hate games where I have to endlessly reload to get past some point.
However, one analyst said that between now and summer, HP may come up with a way to convert WMA to AAC, or an equivalent technical fix. I guess we wait and see.
Moreover, one security consultant said that farmers may come up with a way to convert manure into milk, or an equilavent agricultural fix. I guess we wait and see.
The questions is formed so that the outcome is pretty much evident.
'iamsolame' in Postal 2.
Head to parade practise.
Sow napalm and grenades all over the place.
And would I really give a shit what they think, being dead and all? :)
Four pieces of 'Nobel' winners which I have never heard of. Time to RTFA and educate myself what are these crucial parts of OSS I never even dreamed to need.
Well.. It doesn't work quite that way.
Symbian creates a platform. It's not 'Nokia Symbian', it's just Symbian. The nokia S60 is another layer of itself so it's not automagically backported to Symbian. (UIQ is actually just a reference UI for Symbian 7. Nokia made it's own -- S60+S80+S90, SonyEricsson decided to use the UIQ)
After that the customers (Nokia, SonyEricsson and so forth) throw out what they don't want, recode some parts which they want to interface their own way and code new ones.
I strongly suspect this perl thingie will be Nokia proprietary piece.
Nokia has a good history of making open API's thou. So I think they might very well make atleast the specs available for other symbian owners and customers.
Of course, any Nokai UI/Platform customer phone will have it also.
Unless ofcourse you are asking advice how to operate a vacetomy on yourself....
Well... How about reading the articles?
rm -f * ~
(Should have been 'rm -f *~')
Nah...u de-drunkedness to oh-woe-where-this-world-is-going-drunkedness ;)
I just succumbed from raging-lunatic-with-better-than-all-of-thou-attit
Actually... (Not related to grandparent)
;)
This is very much of what's wrong with world today. You can't expect anything if not explicitly stated so.
It might sound fair that in an election process to a competition you would be treated exactly like your competitors. But why? Why would you if it was not explicitly stated that the election process is equal/well-matched (which is the proper term?).
This applies to so many aspects nowadays.
Just think...
How many times you were screwed around in the past year because you trusted the other party to follow the same implications you had of a non-formal contract? (Like a verbal promise with further reaching implications)
PS. Yeah.. I'm a sucker. Not going to details here