On what grounds does elcomsoft qualify for constitutional rights?
They don't have to. Constitutional rights are not granted to citizens by the government - the Bill of Rights is an explicit denial of the power of Congress to take away those rights. "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech"
Red Cross offices (in the Raleigh NC area at least) are being overwhelmed by donors and are asking everyone to call and make an appointment rather than just dropping by.
The Fitaly layout is optimized for one-finger (i.e. stylus) input, not one complete hand. There are variants of the Dvorak layout optimized for one-hand use, and they would probably be among the best choices for a one-hand keyboard that has one key per letter. OTOH, from the picture this isn't a one-handed keyboard at all, but a gamepad with an alphabetic keyboard attached for your thumbs. A two-thumb optimized layout would probably end up being more like Fitaly than any other existing layout.
The margin of error is not in the election itself, but rather in the counting methods used. According to the numbers I've heard, punch card ballots have an error rate as high as 4 or 5 percent (this is considered acceptable (by the people who made the decisions, not by me) since the errors are random and thus do not affect the results except in exceedingly close elections). Other common methods, such as pulling levers or optical scanners, have error rates ranging from 0.25% to 1%. The national popular vote has a margin of approximately 200,000 out of 100,000,000, or 0.2%, which puts it within the margin of error cited above. I'll leave it to the statisticians to determine if that means it's fair to call that a tie.
It is relevant because a lot of/. readers were exclueded from the IPO just like mrsam was; and the statute of limitations has not run out, so there's still time to file your own claim.
IIRC, Apple was trying to claim that their interface was protected by copyright, a proposition which was rejected by the judge. Here, Adobe has actually recieved a patent, which means the case deals with an entirely different set of laws.
You can barely emulate a Palm at full speed on a 300MHz desktop machine; there's no way it would be faster on a 133MHz StrongARM. Granted, the current emulators, being mainly for debugging purposes, have a ton of extra error checks, but I don't think it'd be enough to make up the difference.
Devices using 3.5 are out, but 3.5 is not available as an upgrade yet. Dunno why they're holding it back.
There have been indications on palm-dev-forum that OS4.0 will be dramatically different. No clue on when it will arrive, but it will presumably be associated with new hardware (possibly the rumored switch to the StrongARM processor; more likely some sort of expansion interface and higher display resolution/larger screens)
The m100 doesn't have flash. It's a little cheaper than the Visor, but the springboard potential and faster (USB) syncing make the Visor a much better deal IMHO.
Emusic.com does exactly this - $1 per track (less if you buy a whole album at once), and half goes to the artist. Selection is mostly limited to independant artists, but there's some major-label content there (albeit usually just older stuff)
Actually this might not be a bad idea, as long as it is optional. How often have you searched for a legitimate topic and ended up with a bunch of porn sites instead?
With Google, never. Other engines (like AltaVista) have this problem (AltaVista already has a "family filter" option), but I've never seen it on Google.
I agree with isaac about the usefulness of the silkscreen graffiti area. On the more general issue of the limited display resolution, that is being addressed. No official announcements, but at least one Palm engineer has been observed saying that one or more near-future devices will have resolution higher than 160x160.
Not officially, but they're sold out all over the country, and some people have reported that their orders were abruptly cancelled. My guess is that when they become available again, you will have to commit to an ISP contract to buy one.
Palm also released some new accessories today, including the folding keyboard discussed here a while ago (made by Think Outside but sold under the Palm brand) and a digital camera attachment. They've also added an unlimited-use plan for the Palm VII.
The Springboard standard is tied to the Palm Computing platform. It would not be possible to create a proper Springboard-using device without being compatible with Palm software. While this would be great, given the large body of Palm software out there, but it's not really feasible, since this would require an implementation of a large part of PalmOS along with a m68k-compatible processor (or emulator).
You have the right to make backups of things you purchase, but the publisher is under no obligation to make it possible to make those copies with a particular piece of hardware (in this case a CDRW drive). CDs are somewhat unique in that it is easy to produce an exact duplicate of the disc. There is no way to duplicate for instance a book, and books are certainly not illegal (you can photocopy a book, but that would be analogous to using a tape to copy a CD, which still works in this case)
Who says it was pirated? Win2k has been in beta for a while now; many people have perfectly legitimate copies of it. I of course don't know the details of Jon's situation, but you can't just assume that it's been pirated just because it's not available to the general public yet.
The/. blurb doesn't make this clear enough: The purpose of this is not to play the cd that is in your drive; it lets mp3.com build a list of cds you own, and then you can listen to songs from those cds via a shoutcast-like stream. I suppose this makes sense for people who have enough bandwith to listen to streaming mp3s, not enough CPU/disk space to encode their collection themselves, and not enough patience to change cds on their own. Somehow I don't think this is a very large segment of the population.
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Red Cross offices (in the Raleigh NC area at least) are being overwhelmed by donors and are asking everyone to call and make an appointment rather than just dropping by.
-Ben
Yes, as seen on /. quite a while ago.
The Fitaly layout is optimized for one-finger (i.e. stylus) input, not one complete hand. There are variants of the Dvorak layout optimized for one-hand use, and they would probably be among the best choices for a one-hand keyboard that has one key per letter. OTOH, from the picture this isn't a one-handed keyboard at all, but a gamepad with an alphabetic keyboard attached for your thumbs. A two-thumb optimized layout would probably end up being more like Fitaly than any other existing layout.
The margin of error is not in the election itself, but rather in the counting methods used. According to the numbers I've heard, punch card ballots have an error rate as high as 4 or 5 percent (this is considered acceptable (by the people who made the decisions, not by me) since the errors are random and thus do not affect the results except in exceedingly close elections). Other common methods, such as pulling levers or optical scanners, have error rates ranging from 0.25% to 1%. The national popular vote has a margin of approximately 200,000 out of 100,000,000, or 0.2%, which puts it within the margin of error cited above. I'll leave it to the statisticians to determine if that means it's fair to call that a tie.
It is relevant because a lot of /. readers were exclueded from the IPO just like mrsam was; and the statute of limitations has not run out, so there's still time to file your own claim.
IIRC, Apple was trying to claim that their interface was protected by copyright, a proposition which was rejected by the judge. Here, Adobe has actually recieved a patent, which means the case deals with an entirely different set of laws.
You can barely emulate a Palm at full speed on a 300MHz desktop machine; there's no way it would be faster on a 133MHz StrongARM. Granted, the current emulators, being mainly for debugging purposes, have a ton of extra error checks, but I don't think it'd be enough to make up the difference.
There have been indications on palm-dev-forum that OS4.0 will be dramatically different. No clue on when it will arrive, but it will presumably be associated with new hardware (possibly the rumored switch to the StrongARM processor; more likely some sort of expansion interface and higher display resolution/larger screens)
This page has more details on the hardware.
Emusic.com does exactly this - $1 per track (less if you buy a whole album at once), and half goes to the artist. Selection is mostly limited to independant artists, but there's some major-label content there (albeit usually just older stuff)
I agree with isaac about the usefulness of the silkscreen graffiti area. On the more general issue of the limited display resolution, that is being addressed. No official announcements, but at least one Palm engineer has been observed saying that one or more near-future devices will have resolution higher than 160x160.
wxPython is great, but it is cross-platform and therefore may not have the ability to draw to the root window and do other X-specific things.
Not officially, but they're sold out all over the country, and some people have reported that their orders were abruptly cancelled. My guess is that when they become available again, you will have to commit to an ISP contract to buy one.
Palm also released some new accessories today, including the folding keyboard discussed here a while ago (made by Think Outside but sold under the Palm brand) and a digital camera attachment. They've also added an unlimited-use plan for the Palm VII.
The Springboard standard is tied to the Palm Computing platform. It would not be possible to create a proper Springboard-using device without being compatible with Palm software. While this would be great, given the large body of Palm software out there, but it's not really feasible, since this would require an implementation of a large part of PalmOS along with a m68k-compatible processor (or emulator).
You have the right to make backups of things you purchase, but the publisher is under no obligation to make it possible to make those copies with a particular piece of hardware (in this case a CDRW drive). CDs are somewhat unique in that it is easy to produce an exact duplicate of the disc. There is no way to duplicate for instance a book, and books are certainly not illegal (you can photocopy a book, but that would be analogous to using a tape to copy a CD, which still works in this case)
Who says it was pirated? Win2k has been in beta for a while now; many people have perfectly legitimate copies of it. I of course don't know the details of Jon's situation, but you can't just assume that it's been pirated just because it's not available to the general public yet.
It's on the science page instead of the main page. Most people don't read anything that doesn't make it to the front page.
Ah, yes. I hadn't thought about the fact that this allows you to listen to your music from multiple locations. Good point.
The /. blurb doesn't make this clear enough: The purpose of this is not to play the cd that is in your drive; it lets mp3.com build a list of cds you own, and then you can listen to songs from those cds via a shoutcast-like stream. I suppose this makes sense for people who have enough bandwith to listen to streaming mp3s, not enough CPU/disk space to encode their collection themselves, and not enough patience to change cds on their own. Somehow I don't think this is a very large segment of the population.
Umm... XMMS already supports {ice,shout}cast streams. Just make "xmms %s" the handler for mime type audio/x-scpls, extension .pls in Netscape