"'It's kind of like having your computer with you all the time,' said Devereaux."
That's because you have your computer with you all the time sweetheart.
"Devereaux and a small team of engineers have been working on the electronic aspect of the wearable computer for three years; however, they have yet to figure out one critical issue--what should a wearable computer look like?"
"Over the past five decades, space flight hardware has been designed for human servicing. Space walks are planned for most of the assembly missions for the International Space Station, and they are a key contingency for resolving on-orbit failures. Combined with our substantial investment in EVA tools, this accumulation of equipment requiring a humanoid shape and an assumed level of human performance presents a unique opportunity for a humanoid system."
"The current release of OpenOffice for Mac OS X requires x11," Siress said. "I've got my Hamburg (Germany) team working on eliminating that requirement right now and using Java."
Using Java for graphics! - Can you think of something worse?
Which, of course, brings us to the question why apple has not integrated X into MacOS X... (pun intended)
"The partnership is expected to produce a Java-based version of OpenOffice by the end of the year, followed by a commercial StarOffice release sometime in 2003."
Q: What development languages does Kylix 3 support?
Once installed, Kylix 3 delivers two separate IDEs--one for use with the Delphi language and one that supports C/C++. This support enables Kylix developers to provide solutions in the language that suits them or the language that is appropriate for the given project. Both IDEs take advantage of the sophisticated CLX architecture and each has corresponding support for crossplatform development with a Borland product for the Windows platform: Delphi language with Delphi, and C/C++ with C++Builder.
Q: Can I use standard Linux development tools along with Kylix 3?
Yes. For example, use build tools such as Make files or Ant, and editors such as vi or Emacs.
The new communications satellite fired the imaginations of people around the world. The global television audience for the Telstar debut numbered in the hundreds of millions. An instrumental hit called "Telstar" by a British rock group, the Tornadoes, stayed on the Billboard Top 40 music chart for 13 weeks, including three weeks at No. 1. And Jazz legend Duke Ellington composed a short piece also entitled "Telstar."
"Finally, there is the issue of format. As proprietary data formats give way to XML, and XML gives way to whatever comes five years later, things are going to get lost in the shuffle. Who to call when you need to translate a fifty-year-old Word file? Not to mention the fact that binary storage will sooner or later be replaced with non-binary molecular or holographic storage."
that is the real problem!
you can backup your data every day, copy it from one raid-system to another, have 30 backup tapes, have it on cd-r.
an then in 20 years you want to access it and don't have a program to read the file. for example access to old east german stasi files is only possible by using the old east german computer systems again.
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"'It's kind of like having your computer with you all the time,' said Devereaux."
That's because you have your computer with you all the time sweetheart.
"Devereaux and a small team of engineers have been working on the electronic aspect of the wearable computer for three years; however, they have yet to figure out one critical issue--what should a wearable computer look like?"
Yeah right
OK, you're right. Or as DJB puts it: "This is revisionist history, not a technical dispute."
But you're wrong concerning the AOL CDs. One of NSA's missions is "protection of U.S. information systems". So no AOL allowed...
So using 4096 bit encryption wasn't as paranoid as everybody told me...
Quantum Computers, Advances in Number Theory; looks like this decade will become interesting.
BTW Could the admin of http://cr.yp.to please check the serverlogs for any visitors from nsa.gov?
...compatibility.
"Over the past five decades, space flight hardware has been designed for human servicing. Space walks are planned for most of the assembly missions for the International Space Station, and they are a key contingency for resolving on-orbit failures. Combined with our substantial investment in EVA tools, this accumulation of equipment requiring a humanoid shape and an assumed level of human performance presents a unique opportunity for a humanoid system."
"The current release of OpenOffice for Mac OS X requires x11," Siress said. "I've got my Hamburg (Germany) team working on eliminating that requirement right now and using Java."
Using Java for graphics! - Can you think of something worse?
Which, of course, brings us to the question why apple has not integrated X into MacOS X... (pun intended)
"The partnership is expected to produce a Java-based version of OpenOffice by the end of the year, followed by a commercial StarOffice release sometime in 2003."
I really hope CNet got this wrong!
From the Borland Kylix 3 FAQ
Q: What development languages does Kylix 3 support?
Once installed, Kylix 3 delivers two separate IDEs--one for use with the Delphi language and one that supports C/C++. This support enables Kylix developers to provide solutions in the language that suits them or the language that is appropriate for the given project. Both IDEs take advantage of the sophisticated CLX architecture and each has corresponding support for crossplatform development with a Borland product for the Windows platform: Delphi language with Delphi, and C/C++ with
C++Builder.
Q: Can I use standard Linux development tools along with Kylix 3?
Yes. For example, use build tools such as Make files or Ant, and editors such as vi or Emacs.
http://borland.com/kylix/pdf/kyl3_faq.pdf
So, looks like no GCC-support...
Too bad they haven't provided mp3s. I would love to hear it play...
Looks like other people liked the name too...
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From the Lucent Press Release
The new communications satellite fired the imaginations of people around the world. The global television audience for the Telstar debut numbered in the hundreds of millions. An instrumental hit called "Telstar" by a British rock group, the Tornadoes, stayed on the Billboard Top 40 music chart for 13 weeks, including three weeks at No. 1. And Jazz legend Duke Ellington composed a short piece also entitled "Telstar."
http://www.lucent.com/press/0702/020710.bla.htm
yeah, can you imagine a world where tv newsreels where send via airmail to the broadcasting station?
weird thought. we've come a long way in 40 years...
"Finally, there is the issue of format. As proprietary data formats give way to XML, and XML gives way to whatever comes five years later, things are going to get lost in the shuffle. Who to call when you need to translate a fifty-year-old Word file? Not to mention the fact that binary storage will sooner or later be replaced with non-binary molecular or holographic storage."
that is the real problem!
you can backup your data every day, copy it from one raid-system to another, have 30 backup tapes, have it on cd-r.
an then in 20 years you want to access it and don't have a program to read the file. for example access to old east german stasi files is only possible by using the old east german computer systems again.
anything else would just be way too expensive...
Has anybody ever used POV-Ray as an output device in a software project?
I mean, I always thought that it would be a great way to visualize data.
Just crunch your numbers, feed them into POV-Ray via a script, display the image.
I'm curious...
As heise reports, CMG stopped it!!!