Thanks again, slashdot! Between be clicking the "reply" button and actually getting that reply written and posted, three other people said the same thing, and ended up right above me. Now I'm probably going to be -1 Redundant too! Hurrah!
I read the first half of that article earlier. Now, thanks to Slashdot, server load means I can't read the second half! Hurrah! It wouldn't be so annoying but the page I'm stuck trying to load is called "Performance Anxiety"...
That's exactly what I thought when I first head about it, and what I continue to think everytime I see anything about it. Barring some sort of MagicCell (TM) invention in the next twelve months, I just don't see how Sony are expecting to pull it off. This thing has almost as much horsepower as my iBook and my iBook battery lasts about three hours. Not to mention that my iBook battery weighs at least twice what any entire handheld should.
Or there's price, of course. I'm sure there's some caveat because when the specs on some far-off device look too good to be true, let's face it, they usually are.
...because they are arranged with two monitors on my Linux workstation and one of my WinXP machine (for when you just can't escape M$).
How is this relevent, you ask?
Because an incredibly cute little program called Synergy lets me warp the mouse pointer back and forth between linux and Windows, so the Windows monitor effectively just becomes a third screen in my setup. You can't drag windows to it, of course, but you can cut & paste between the OSs. It's excellent. No more dual booting for me!
Sometimes, the continued reporting of how our rights as consumers are being eroded makes me want to put slashdot in my barred hosts file. And then move to a cave. I'm sick of this crap, I really am.
Hmmm. "The tzero is being readied for production, and is expected to begin deliveries in 2002.", and the article you cite is from 2000.... I smell the ugly stench of vapourware!
But what about shoplifting? A recent survey I saw suggested that razor blades are the most commonly shoplifted item here in the UK, because they are easy to sell on, very small, and comparatively very valuable for their size and weight. This, I suspect, is exactly why it was razorblades being targeted in this trial. If RFID tags put a stop to shoplifting, their could be a direct benefit to the consumer in the form of a price drop.
I started the PhD because I wanted to, not because I thought it would be a great career move. As others have said, it's hard enough to motiviate yourself through a PhD (e.g., I'm reading Slashdot right now and not analysing results...) when you really want it; if you're doing it as a political move, there's no way you'd finish.
Having said that, I can't see it hurting my career. If I don't end up in academia anyway I'm probably going to consult and write freelance and a big fat "Dr." in front my name isn't going to hurt me any. As someone in this thread said. it's not a shortcut to credibility -- you still have to earn that -- but I can't see it ever being a hindrance. The only downside is I've done three years of crappy pay when I could have been earning something decent, but every silver lining has a cloud.
...they're claiming the Linux kernel contains more infinging lines than it actually has? What do we do then? Cat together the X, Mozilla, and kernel source trees and start over?
Erm, I got distracted by something shiny there and forgot to finish my argument. I was going to go on to say, support DOS stuff under WinXP really is a relic, whereas supporting GTK1.X apps is all-too-current and important, like supporting 32bit apps on a 64bit processor. So I would suggest that some backwards compatibility is good but it must be taken in moderation.
This isn't a double standard. The current file dialog has the problem that it is effective a big morass of publically callable functions and data that $RANDOM_APP hooks into in unpredicable ways. Change even one function, and dozens of $RANDOM_APPs are going to instantly break, and that's very bad. There are a lot of GTK1.X programs kicking around and pretty much every one calls the file dialog at one point or another.
The only way around this is to design a new one and write it into a new GTK verion then depricate the old file dialog; hopefully the new one would have a sensible API to allow incremental improvements through time, this time.
ObDisclaimer: I'm not a Gnome developer, but I read up on this some time ago.
Dammit, I think you beat me to that quote, which I only put in my sig a few weeks back...
But then, I added them after buying the season 3 DVDs, which came out here in.uk about six weeks ago. I nearly fell off my chair when I realised that the US hasn't even got Season 2 yet, which we've had for over six months. What's up with that?
Thanks, I was wondering why so much fuss was being talked about a "MySQL error: too many connections" page...
I have something similar to this for Mac OS X, called Konfabulator. It's very neat, but suffers a bit from a problem already mentioned several times here: pretty widgets are usually big widgets, because it takes more icons to be pretty and functional than it does to just be functional. And big widgets are much more likely to be covered by open windows.
Mind you, I could hook my spare 17" monitor up to $RANDOM_BOX and just have it showing a bunch of these things all the time. That'd rock.
That'll teach me to cut&paste without reading it closely enough. I actually knew Blue Tooth was the literal translation, just wasn't paying enough attention.
To the defence of the original article it had the accented characters correct; either my browser or Slashdot munged it. I count myself lucky enough to have never done any i18n work and hence I can only imagine what hassles this can bring.
Bluetooth I can answer, but I'm so lazy I'm going to quote this instead:
By the way if, you're wondering where the Bluetooth name originally came from, it named after a Danish Viking and King, Harald Blatand (translated as Bluetooth in English), who lived in the latter part of the 10th century. Harald Blatand united and controlled Denmark and Norway (hence the inspiration on the name: uniting devices through Bluetooth). He got his name from his very dark hair which was unusual for Vikings, Blatand means dark complexion. However a more popular, (but less likely reason), was that Old Harald had a inclination towards eating Blueberries , so much so his teeth became stained with the colour, leaving Harald with a rather unique set of molars. And you thought your teeth were bad...
Apparantly it was a prototype name that stuck (most of the early work was done by the Scandanavian mobile firms Nokia and Ericsson), and never got changed. I'd rather that than AMD's approach of using the coolest prototype names (Sharptooth, Sledgehammer, Clawhammer) and replacing them with frankly rubbish model names (K6-3, Opteron, Athlon 64).
The Sharp Zaurus has a mic port and runs Linux, so I'm sure phone recorder software could be whipped up in under ten minutes. The interface jack the phone side might be a bit funky though. Furthermore, it has a CompactFlash port that can take a CF modem, which gives you your dialup. Ta-da!
Of course code that is peer reviewed by a large group of coders will become better over time.
Well, yeah, that seems intuiative... but if you're working with a team of half a dozen other people in a big company with strict coding guidelines, then it seems to be there would be a fair bit of peer review. Whereas if you're working on one of the smaller open source projects with just you developing and the odd patch coming in, not to mention no boss figure looking critically at your code, there's little reason to clean code up. What I'm saying is that this peer review thing cuts both ways.
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Thanks again, slashdot! Between be clicking the "reply" button and actually getting that reply written and posted, three other people said the same thing, and ended up right above me. Now I'm probably going to be -1 Redundant too! Hurrah!
I read the first half of that article earlier. Now, thanks to Slashdot, server load means I can't read the second half! Hurrah! It wouldn't be so annoying but the page I'm stuck trying to load is called "Performance Anxiety"...
That's exactly what I thought when I first head about it, and what I continue to think everytime I see anything about it. Barring some sort of MagicCell (TM) invention in the next twelve months, I just don't see how Sony are expecting to pull it off. This thing has almost as much horsepower as my iBook and my iBook battery lasts about three hours. Not to mention that my iBook battery weighs at least twice what any entire handheld should.
Or there's price, of course. I'm sure there's some caveat because when the specs on some far-off device look too good to be true, let's face it, they usually are.
...because they are arranged with two monitors on my Linux workstation and one of my WinXP machine (for when you just can't escape M$).
How is this relevent, you ask?
Because an incredibly cute little program called Synergy lets me warp the mouse pointer back and forth between linux and Windows, so the Windows monitor effectively just becomes a third screen in my setup. You can't drag windows to it, of course, but you can cut & paste between the OSs. It's excellent. No more dual booting for me!
3.???
4. Profit!
Fortunately, I'm a .uk person and so have a good three years more to enjoy before all the same sucky laws as the US have now get implemented here.
... so here's a "from the gut" reaction.
Ah, shit.
Sometimes, the continued reporting of how our rights as consumers are being eroded makes me want to put slashdot in my barred hosts file. And then move to a cave. I'm sick of this crap, I really am.
Hmmm. "The tzero is being readied for production, and is expected to begin deliveries in 2002.", and the article you cite is from 2000.... I smell the ugly stench of vapourware!
Additionally, some major component appears to be on tow. I'm rather baffled as to what this is. Bolt-on internal combustion engine, perhaps?
But what about shoplifting? A recent survey I saw suggested that razor blades are the most commonly shoplifted item here in the UK, because they are easy to sell on, very small, and comparatively very valuable for their size and weight. This, I suspect, is exactly why it was razorblades being targeted in this trial. If RFID tags put a stop to shoplifting, their could be a direct benefit to the consumer in the form of a price drop.
As someone currently two years into a PhD on heuristic frequency assignment for wireless networks here in cs.cf.ac.uk, I think I'm qualified to hold an opinion here :o)
I started the PhD because I wanted to, not because I thought it would be a great career move. As others have said, it's hard enough to motiviate yourself through a PhD (e.g., I'm reading Slashdot right now and not analysing results...) when you really want it; if you're doing it as a political move, there's no way you'd finish.
Having said that, I can't see it hurting my career. If I don't end up in academia anyway I'm probably going to consult and write freelance and a big fat "Dr." in front my name isn't going to hurt me any. As someone in this thread said. it's not a shortcut to credibility -- you still have to earn that -- but I can't see it ever being a hindrance. The only downside is I've done three years of crappy pay when I could have been earning something decent, but every silver lining has a cloud.
Clearly, this is the Linux kernel programmer's chief sin: being 53 times more efficient than the original Unix guys.
Or maybe the s00per s33kr1t method for making Linux 2.4 was:
$code =~ s/\n//;
$code =~ s/Unix/Linux/;
...they're claiming the Linux kernel contains more infinging lines than it actually has? What do we do then? Cat together the X, Mozilla, and kernel source trees and start over?
f) I only play with CmdrTaco's joystick
Erm, I got distracted by something shiny there and forgot to finish my argument. I was going to go on to say, support DOS stuff under WinXP really is a relic, whereas supporting GTK1.X apps is all-too-current and important, like supporting 32bit apps on a 64bit processor. So I would suggest that some backwards compatibility is good but it must be taken in moderation.
This isn't a double standard. The current file dialog has the problem that it is effective a big morass of publically callable functions and data that $RANDOM_APP hooks into in unpredicable ways. Change even one function, and dozens of $RANDOM_APPs are going to instantly break, and that's very bad. There are a lot of GTK1.X programs kicking around and pretty much every one calls the file dialog at one point or another.
The only way around this is to design a new one and write it into a new GTK verion then depricate the old file dialog; hopefully the new one would have a sensible API to allow incremental improvements through time, this time.
ObDisclaimer: I'm not a Gnome developer, but I read up on this some time ago.
I predict we'll get our section three days before IBM crushes them to death in court.
"Oh, I'm sorry. You're crying, like a girl."
Dammit, I think you beat me to that quote, which I only put in my sig a few weeks back...
.uk about six weeks ago. I nearly fell off my chair when I realised that the US hasn't even got Season 2 yet, which we've had for over six months. What's up with that?
But then, I added them after buying the season 3 DVDs, which came out here in
Thanks, I was wondering why so much fuss was being talked about a "MySQL error: too many connections" page...
I have something similar to this for Mac OS X, called Konfabulator. It's very neat, but suffers a bit from a problem already mentioned several times here: pretty widgets are usually big widgets, because it takes more icons to be pretty and functional than it does to just be functional. And big widgets are much more likely to be covered by open windows.
Mind you, I could hook my spare 17" monitor up to $RANDOM_BOX and just have it showing a bunch of these things all the time. That'd rock.
DPReview did a comprehensive review of a bunch of flash cards here but it's rather out of date now. Time to bug them to update it, I think...
That'll teach me to cut&paste without reading it closely enough. I actually knew Blue Tooth was the literal translation, just wasn't paying enough attention.
To the defence of the original article it had the accented characters correct; either my browser or Slashdot munged it. I count myself lucky enough to have never done any i18n work and hence I can only imagine what hassles this can bring.
Bluetooth I can answer, but I'm so lazy I'm going to quote this instead:
Apparantly it was a prototype name that stuck (most of the early work was done by the Scandanavian mobile firms Nokia and Ericsson), and never got changed. I'd rather that than AMD's approach of using the coolest prototype names (Sharptooth, Sledgehammer, Clawhammer) and replacing them with frankly rubbish model names (K6-3, Opteron, Athlon 64).
ZigBee is pretty rubbish though.
The Sharp Zaurus has a mic port and runs Linux, so I'm sure phone recorder software could be whipped up in under ten minutes. The interface jack the phone side might be a bit funky though. Furthermore, it has a CompactFlash port that can take a CF modem, which gives you your dialup. Ta-da!
Is each screen a different colour?