To clarify, the bends is related to pressure differential. Ascend slowly and let the pressure equalise and you'll be fine. Ascend too fast and you get bubbles, leading to all sorts of fun, including potential embolism. Yum.
Pure O2 tolerance is dependant on the individual, but for Nitrox (more 02, less N than air for rec diving) 1.4ata is considered safe, 1.6 is considered dangerous and over 1.6 is considered suicide. Compressed air becomes unsafe at about 50m and Nitrox even earlier. tech divers use all sorts of curious mixes to get well beyond this level. Pure 02 becomes unsafe at about 4m, which still allows technical divers to use it as a decompression gas.
And you can get high (narked) at any depth on standard air, although it generally occurs below 30m. Completely harmless in itself and disappears upon ascent. As long as you don't try to talk to the fishes...
Sorry, but the grand-parent is correct. The Audigy will not mix DD5.1 on the fly - only nVidia's nForce did this (and it was fantastic).
The Creative cards will, however, use CMSS (another Creative invention) to upmix a 2 channel source to 5.1 when used with certain Creative amps. Alternately, there's always Dolby Pro Logic.
Bless it. Works beautifully on my iBook. I do however miss:
Halflife 2
The ability to turn off the laptop screen and use merely the external monitor
Relatime dolby from my SoundStorm
But those are the full sum of my regrets after moving from a Athlon 2800+/nForce 2 to an iBook. The OS easily makes up for the relatively slow hardware:-)
The Palm Tungsten T(1/2/3) has a voice recorder. It records either to an SD card or to internal memory in a bog-standard WAV format. If you write to the internal memory it'll sync to the desktop as well.
That's because in V5 they block product keys which aren't of the subset they've distributed.
It's fairly easy to get around (not that I'm going to provide help), but it should server it's purpose - it'll knock out most of the leaked (or generated) corporate keys. And while it's a minor irritant to anyone sufficiently motivated to get around it, it'll block those without the knowledge or inclination to beat it.
Personally I think MS should be taking the moral high ground and supplying at least security patches to those using illegit keys (if not feature enhancements) purely for the sake of those who have to put up with infected zombie PCs, but obviously they think otherwise:-(
If you're willing to spend money, Agendus is a nice solution. Very contact orientated and takes care of the Palm side. There also Agendus for Windows which has the corrosponding functionality on the desktop. It's well worth the money if you're into these sort of things.
Someone else mentioned DateBk5, which is more task orientated.
If you just want desktop access to multiple addresses, try the latest version of Palm Desktop. But this won't solve the handheld-side problem...
Finally, why not Outlook? Yes, it costs money, and yeah, it's bollocks for e-mail, but if you install and ignore it makes a handle 'universal sync point'.
I should point out that there are trips running out to White Island regularly. In particular, it's a popular dive spot, considered by many to be on par with the Poor Knights.
Battery life sucks, but it's fine for reading (especially at night when you can turn the backlight down).
You're right BTW, PalmOS doesn't support AA, but PalmReader Pro does. It's still mediocre. Cobalt does, but it looks like a rebuild is required for apps to use it:-(
And PalmReader Std/Pro support the T3 screen, including recall of orientation, so I can use the device in portrait and automatically switch to landscape when I start PR. It's all good.
While I'm sure I'll be mocked (since Palm OS isn't Linux), my T3 is great for ebooks.
+ Palm Reader is all good, and plenty of other choices. + Large library available (http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/) + Small device, great resolution (320 x 480, potrait or landscape). + Lots of other software:-)
- Anti-aliasing is mediocre at best. Resoltion does make up for it somewhat... - T3 battery life is very mediocre. Perhaps a Clie instead, if this is a concern. - Not cheap.
At Unisys I had the opposite problem - we were expected to have personal cellphones and use them for work purposes!
Are they supplying you with a work cellphone? I can't comment on your location, but certainly in NZ it's taken as a given that everyone is contactable by cellphone during work hours.
The major catch is cable is only available in Wellington, Christchurch and (maybe) Auckland? I had cable in WLG and it was great, though the compulsary modem rental was kind of sucky.
Now I'm in Taupo and have ADSL. Unfortunately cheap ADSL = 128kpbs. Sigh. Prices vary as the monopolistic Telecom (they own the local loop) charges a flat rate, then ISPs charge their own on top. These are home user prices.
128kbps = ~$60 / month (5Gb limit)
256kpbs = ~$60 / month (500Mb limit)
256kpbs = ~$70 / motnh (1Gb limit)
256kpbs = ~$80 / month (2Gb limit)
Unlimited = ~$70 / month (500Mb limit)
Unlimited = ~$90 / motnh (1Gb limit)
Anything with more data is a 'business' plan.
To add insult to injury, a commerce commission committe recommended that the local loop not be unbunbled. Telecom responded by raising line rentals slightly.
Other options are one way satellite (you use a modem for upstream) and cellular (Woosh). The former is relatively cheap, but you still need a phone line available, and the latter is limited to Auckland currently.
The Bush admin. doesn't mistreat the UN - it ignores it. Instances - Kyoto, International Court (which it kicked up a huge stink about). And yes, Kyoto is flawed, but it's a step forward, even if a little one.
As for Iraq round 2, the US refused to compromise. Ditto with the French. Shame on both of them. In any case the lack of WMD certainly proved the gist of the Iraqi action was somewhat effectual, if overly hard on the populace.
And this of course leads to the whole issue with the United Nations - it is about compromise. Look at the amount of disagreement in politics in your own country - now imagine it with different cultures, different races, many of whom have been fighting for centuries. Is it any surprise that the UN is often ineffectual?
And just how should the UN 'curb these problems'? It has no teeth - which sovereign nation is going to give the UN any power which could result in violation of sovereignty? Further, let us not forget all the resolutions against Israel the US has vetoed - how just is this? Nor the US human rights violations in Guantanamo.
Finally, who blames the US for North Korea? Certainly everyone's favourite idiot Bush did not help with his 'Axis of Evil' rhetoric, but I certainly cannot see how it's the fault of the US. Any rational person would conceed the US has done a lot of good in that region and in the world and continues to work against human rights violations. It just a shame the current administration seems to be more worried with showpieces like Iraq and giving the religious right a hand at the UN than preserving freedom in the US. PATRIOT act indeed....
The US came awfully late to the party in 1917. It was a helpful step in pushing the Germans to an armisitice, but you hardly saved us.
As for 1942, the Russian beat the Nazis. The turning point of WW2 was Stalingrad, not D-Day. And you didn't help us when we were under threat of invasion, you sat it out under Hitler declared war on you.
The fact that Europe was bankrupt and somewhat fed up with war has shaped the European armed forces and attitudes for the remainder of the century. Unlike America, we've had the enemy in our towns and cities, bombs falling nightly from the sky, and know that war is dirty, whoever wins.
And let it not be said that we're not grateful for your help - but to claim the US single handedly saved Europe is both ignorant and arrogant. Read a history book, please!
I was down in Wellington over the w/e and caught up with Mauricio (first emperor of Geekzone), who was showing this off. It hadn't needed training, but didn't make any mistakes during the time I saw it, and Mauricio has a good Brazilian accent - about as far as you can get from a US accent. Even as a long time Palm user, I was rather impressed.
On the downside, it always answers in a US english female voice, with no way to change:-(
Maybe in the US, but in NZ Macs are still overpriced (although it's getting better).
It doesn't help that Renaissance, the NZ distributor, demand sales quotas and a pint of blood to get dealer access to Apple products. We tried, but the end result is we have Linux workstations and servers and build PC hardware for our clients. Their loss I guess, but unless you've a solid retail channel already in existence you haven't a hope.
GamePlanet (http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/), the 'gaming news' site of one of NZ's big online game stores announce this morning it was delayed. 11:30am (NZST) they updated to say they had just been informed it had gone gold.
As far as I am aware, the proc is 32bit (ARM) and the display is 16bit (== ~64k colours).
The main difference between this and an ARM powered Palm (from what I've read anyway) is that this has a custom gaming API and the extended hardware to turn it into a games machine (as some ppl have noted, Palm games tend to be on the simple side (speaking as a Tungsten owner)).
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I'll bite:-)
IE isn't standards compliant because it breaks several W3C standards and doesn't support many of the standards it implements properly. That's a fact I'm afraid. Whether or not the behaviour in IE should be standard is up for debate (though I choose Moz).
IE isn't too bad, outstanding issues which make it a pain in the arse include:
1) Bollocks PNG support. Alpha channel support needs a custom tag (DXImage filter or something similar). 2) CSS box model, width includes margins/padding size. 3) Doesn't support absolute positioning without width/height size: e.g.
top: 100px; bottom: 100px; width: 100%;
will result in a box 0px (unless there's content in which case it's the content height) and 100% wide. In mozilla and compliant broswers it is a box 100px from the top of the window to 100px from the bottom. 4) Background positioning from a origin doesn't work (see CSS/Edge for a demo, link is on mozilla.org/start/1.0). 5) CSS 2 content generation support is nonexistant. CSS 2 support in general is hit and miss. 6) No support for W3C event system. 7) Lots of other small issues which slip my mind at present:-)
Lists of CSS support/bugs tend to be fairly easy to find on the net though many are a little out of date.
ok...then have you used jdk for linux? if so, why? java is an open standard (or was ment to be)...so why develop for only the MS implamentation?
Whoops. I meant the Sun Win32 JVM (1.4.1). I refuse, on principle, to touch the MS 1.1.4 JVM. And why over Linux? Because the Win32 version gets a huge amount of testing, a huge amount of users and has the greatest chances of reliability and speed. When the Linux JVM has had a chance to mature a bit, then I might well jump on board.
gimp is plenty.
Agreed, for most users. For those that *need* Photoshop though (including anyone submitting work to print shops) there is no substitute. And there's a surprising amount of people who need it.
however...highlight and middle-click (both left and right button at the same time for those emulating 3 buttons) is far nicer than the ^c ^v of windows, and is pretty standard in the XFree86 system
Semantic. It may be nicer, but does almost everything use it? And yes, it is a programming choice. And as a programmer, choice is good. As a user though, inconsistency is bad. As a user I want every application I load to work the same, and if it doesn't I'm unlikely to use it (same under Win32). Java has always irked me as a user can tell their not using Windows. Development choice should not be visible to the end user (unless they go looking).
On the hardware front, yeah the Palm works. It's a pain in the arse though. And QO still doesn't work, along with plenty of other proprietary conduits. My mouseman works, but the side button doesn't. And yeah, Canon is terrible (i.e. doesn't) at providing product info for driver developers. But end users don't care - they'll blame Linux, not Canon.
I'd certainly agree. Linux *could* take the desktop. With work. Fingers crossed discussion like this will ferret out what needs to be done. I'd love to be proved wrong on all points, so bring it on:-)
But I am also a user. And Windows gives me a better browser (don't talk about standards. Sites look better in IE, and thats what I care about as a user,) a slicker e-mail client, etc.
I'll argue that. Everyone works fine for me (although microsoft.com doesn't do the DHTML menus) with Mozilla 1.1 on Win2k. And the Mozilla mail client beats the pants off Outlook Express.
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To clarify, the bends is related to pressure differential. Ascend slowly and let the pressure equalise and you'll be fine. Ascend too fast and you get bubbles, leading to all sorts of fun, including potential embolism. Yum.
Pure O2 tolerance is dependant on the individual, but for Nitrox (more 02, less N than air for rec diving) 1.4ata is considered safe, 1.6 is considered dangerous and over 1.6 is considered suicide. Compressed air becomes unsafe at about 50m and Nitrox even earlier. tech divers use all sorts of curious mixes to get well beyond this level. Pure 02 becomes unsafe at about 4m, which still allows technical divers to use it as a decompression gas.
And you can get high (narked) at any depth on standard air, although it generally occurs below 30m. Completely harmless in itself and disappears upon ascent. As long as you don't try to talk to the fishes...
Sorry, but the grand-parent is correct. The Audigy will not mix DD5.1 on the fly - only nVidia's nForce did this (and it was fantastic).
The Creative cards will, however, use CMSS (another Creative invention) to upmix a 2 channel source to 5.1 when used with certain Creative amps. Alternately, there's always Dolby Pro Logic.
Screen Spanning Doctor.
Bless it. Works beautifully on my iBook. I do however miss:
But those are the full sum of my regrets after moving from a Athlon 2800+/nForce 2 to an iBook. The OS easily makes up for the relatively slow hardware
Not to restart Palm vs. PPC but...
The Palm Tungsten T(1/2/3) has a voice recorder. It records either to an SD card or to internal memory in a bog-standard WAV format. If you write to the internal memory it'll sync to the desktop as well.
That's because in V5 they block product keys which aren't of the subset they've distributed.
:-(
It's fairly easy to get around (not that I'm going to provide help), but it should server it's purpose - it'll knock out most of the leaked (or generated) corporate keys. And while it's a minor irritant to anyone sufficiently motivated to get around it, it'll block those without the knowledge or inclination to beat it.
Personally I think MS should be taking the moral high ground and supplying at least security patches to those using illegit keys (if not feature enhancements) purely for the sake of those who have to put up with infected zombie PCs, but obviously they think otherwise
If you're willing to spend money, Agendus is a nice solution. Very contact orientated and takes care of the Palm side. There also Agendus for Windows which has the corrosponding functionality on the desktop. It's well worth the money if you're into these sort of things.
Someone else mentioned DateBk5, which is more task orientated.
If you just want desktop access to multiple addresses, try the latest version of Palm Desktop. But this won't solve the handheld-side problem...
Finally, why not Outlook? Yes, it costs money, and yeah, it's bollocks for e-mail, but if you install and ignore it makes a handle 'universal sync point'.
I should point out that there are trips running out to White Island regularly. In particular, it's a popular dive spot, considered by many to be on par with the Poor Knights.
Battery life sucks, but it's fine for reading (especially at night when you can turn the backlight down).
:-(
You're right BTW, PalmOS doesn't support AA, but PalmReader Pro does. It's still mediocre. Cobalt does, but it looks like a rebuild is required for apps to use it
And PalmReader Std/Pro support the T3 screen, including recall of orientation, so I can use the device in portrait and automatically switch to landscape when I start PR. It's all good.
While I'm sure I'll be mocked (since Palm OS isn't Linux), my T3 is great for ebooks.
:-)
+ Palm Reader is all good, and plenty of other choices.
+ Large library available (http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/)
+ Small device, great resolution (320 x 480, potrait or landscape).
+ Lots of other software
- Anti-aliasing is mediocre at best. Resoltion does make up for it somewhat...
- T3 battery life is very mediocre. Perhaps a Clie instead, if this is a concern.
- Not cheap.
Cheers - James
At Unisys I had the opposite problem - we were expected to have personal cellphones and use them for work purposes!
Are they supplying you with a work cellphone? I can't comment on your location, but certainly in NZ it's taken as a given that everyone is contactable by cellphone during work hours.
The major catch is cable is only available in Wellington, Christchurch and (maybe) Auckland? I had cable in WLG and it was great, though the compulsary modem rental was kind of sucky.
If I remember rightly (in NZ$, 0.67 NZ = 1 US):
128kbps = $66.95 / month (10Gb limit)
256kpbs = $76.95 / month (5Gb limit)
512kpbs = $79.95 / month (1Gb limit)
2Mbps = $119.95 / month (1Gb limit)
Now I'm in Taupo and have ADSL. Unfortunately cheap ADSL = 128kpbs. Sigh. Prices vary as the monopolistic Telecom (they own the local loop) charges a flat rate, then ISPs charge their own on top. These are home user prices.
128kbps = ~$60 / month (5Gb limit)
256kpbs = ~$60 / month (500Mb limit)
256kpbs = ~$70 / motnh (1Gb limit)
256kpbs = ~$80 / month (2Gb limit)
Unlimited = ~$70 / month (500Mb limit)
Unlimited = ~$90 / motnh (1Gb limit)
Anything with more data is a 'business' plan.
To add insult to injury, a commerce commission committe recommended that the local loop not be unbunbled. Telecom responded by raising line rentals slightly.
Other options are one way satellite (you use a modem for upstream) and cellular (Woosh). The former is relatively cheap, but you still need a phone line available, and the latter is limited to Auckland currently.
The Bush admin. doesn't mistreat the UN - it ignores it. Instances - Kyoto, International Court (which it kicked up a huge stink about). And yes, Kyoto is flawed, but it's a step forward, even if a little one.
As for Iraq round 2, the US refused to compromise. Ditto with the French. Shame on both of them. In any case the lack of WMD certainly proved the gist of the Iraqi action was somewhat effectual, if overly hard on the populace.
And this of course leads to the whole issue with the United Nations - it is about compromise. Look at the amount of disagreement in politics in your own country - now imagine it with different cultures, different races, many of whom have been fighting for centuries. Is it any surprise that the UN is often ineffectual?
And just how should the UN 'curb these problems'? It has no teeth - which sovereign nation is going to give the UN any power which could result in violation of sovereignty? Further, let us not forget all the resolutions against Israel the US has vetoed - how just is this? Nor the US human rights violations in Guantanamo.
Finally, who blames the US for North Korea? Certainly everyone's favourite idiot Bush did not help with his 'Axis of Evil' rhetoric, but I certainly cannot see how it's the fault of the US. Any rational person would conceed the US has done a lot of good in that region and in the world and continues to work against human rights violations. It just a shame the current administration seems to be more worried with showpieces like Iraq and giving the religious right a hand at the UN than preserving freedom in the US. PATRIOT act indeed....
Only in the security council.
For reference, data on use of the veto.
Sigh....
The US came awfully late to the party in 1917. It was a helpful step in pushing the Germans to an armisitice, but you hardly saved us.
As for 1942, the Russian beat the Nazis. The turning point of WW2 was Stalingrad, not D-Day. And you didn't help us when we were under threat of invasion, you sat it out under Hitler declared war on you.
The fact that Europe was bankrupt and somewhat fed up with war has shaped the European armed forces and attitudes for the remainder of the century. Unlike America, we've had the enemy in our towns and cities, bombs falling nightly from the sky, and know that war is dirty, whoever wins.
And let it not be said that we're not grateful for your help - but to claim the US single handedly saved Europe is both ignorant and arrogant. Read a history book, please!
(Speaking as a Briton, depsite the NZ location)
I was down in Wellington over the w/e and caught up with Mauricio (first emperor of Geekzone), who was showing this off. It hadn't needed training, but didn't make any mistakes during the time I saw it, and Mauricio has a good Brazilian accent - about as far as you can get from a US accent. Even as a long time Palm user, I was rather impressed.
:-(
On the downside, it always answers in a US english female voice, with no way to change
Maybe in the US, but in NZ Macs are still overpriced (although it's getting better).
It doesn't help that Renaissance, the NZ distributor, demand sales quotas and a pint of blood to get dealer access to Apple products. We tried, but the end result is we have Linux workstations and servers and build PC hardware for our clients. Their loss I guess, but unless you've a solid retail channel already in existence you haven't a hope.
I stand correctly. Latest opinion is that the gold email's are all fake. Headers certainly seem to indicate it.
All would be helped if Valve would actually own up to something....
GamePlanet (http://www.gameplanet.co.nz/), the 'gaming news' site of one of NZ's big online game stores announce this morning it was delayed. 11:30am (NZST) they updated to say they had just been informed it had gone gold.
Short answer is who knows?
+64 3 323 6484
:-)
We try to avoid postal codes. There being but 4 million of us it's not too much of an issue
We do have them, but you don't need them, and they are extremely vague...
As far as I am aware, the proc is 32bit (ARM) and the display is 16bit (== ~64k colours).
The main difference between this and an ARM powered Palm (from what I've read anyway) is that this has a custom gaming API and the extended hardware to turn it into a games machine (as some ppl have noted, Palm games tend to be on the simple side (speaking as a Tungsten owner)).
I'll bite :-)
:-)
IE isn't standards compliant because it breaks several W3C standards and doesn't support many of the standards it implements properly. That's a fact I'm afraid. Whether or not the behaviour in IE should be standard is up for debate (though I choose Moz).
IE isn't too bad, outstanding issues which make it a pain in the arse include:
1) Bollocks PNG support. Alpha channel support needs a custom tag (DXImage filter or something similar).
2) CSS box model, width includes margins/padding size.
3) Doesn't support absolute positioning without width/height size: e.g.
top: 100px;
bottom: 100px;
width: 100%;
will result in a box 0px (unless there's content in which case it's the content height) and 100% wide. In mozilla and compliant broswers it is a box 100px from the top of the window to 100px from the bottom.
4) Background positioning from a origin doesn't work (see CSS/Edge for a demo, link is on mozilla.org/start/1.0).
5) CSS 2 content generation support is nonexistant. CSS 2 support in general is hit and miss.
6) No support for W3C event system.
7) Lots of other small issues which slip my mind at present
Lists of CSS support/bugs tend to be fairly easy to find on the net though many are a little out of date.
I can beat that - I live in NZ and we were expelled from ANZUS as the US can't hack us being nuclear free. We're not even an ally, just 'a friend'. :-)
Having said that, I wouldn't put it past our inept politicians to assist the US DoD in their witchhunt....
I have Mozilla set as my mail client, yet mailto: links in IE open in Outlook Express. Sigh...
ok...then have you used jdk for linux? if so, why? java is an open standard (or was ment to be)...so why develop for only the MS implamentation?
:-)
Whoops. I meant the Sun Win32 JVM (1.4.1). I refuse, on principle, to touch the MS 1.1.4 JVM. And why over Linux? Because the Win32 version gets a huge amount of testing, a huge amount of users and has the greatest chances of reliability and speed. When the Linux JVM has had a chance to mature a bit, then I might well jump on board.
gimp is plenty.
Agreed, for most users. For those that *need* Photoshop though (including anyone submitting work to print shops) there is no substitute. And there's a surprising amount of people who need it.
however...highlight and middle-click (both left and right button at the same time for those emulating 3 buttons) is far nicer than the ^c ^v of windows, and is pretty standard in the XFree86 system
Semantic. It may be nicer, but does almost everything use it? And yes, it is a programming choice. And as a programmer, choice is good. As a user though, inconsistency is bad. As a user I want every application I load to work the same, and if it doesn't I'm unlikely to use it (same under Win32). Java has always irked me as a user can tell their not using Windows. Development choice should not be visible to the end user (unless they go looking).
On the hardware front, yeah the Palm works. It's a pain in the arse though. And QO still doesn't work, along with plenty of other proprietary conduits. My mouseman works, but the side button doesn't. And yeah, Canon is terrible (i.e. doesn't) at providing product info for driver developers. But end users don't care - they'll blame Linux, not Canon.
I'd certainly agree. Linux *could* take the desktop. With work. Fingers crossed discussion like this will ferret out what needs to be done. I'd love to be proved wrong on all points, so bring it on
But I am also a user. And Windows gives me a better browser (don't talk about standards. Sites look better in IE, and thats what I care about as a user,) a slicker e-mail client, etc.
;-)
I'll argue that. Everyone works fine for me (although microsoft.com doesn't do the DHTML menus) with Mozilla 1.1 on Win2k. And the Mozilla mail client beats the pants off Outlook Express.
I won't argue anything else though