I think you have to count the Model 100. It was a true laptop. It was smaller than the modern Thinkpad that I am typing this on right now. Ran forever on 4 AA batteries. I don't see how the fact that there wasn't a desktop version is relevant to whether it is a legitmate laptop or a legitmate platform. I actually see people still using these things. Reporters love them. This makes me want to dig up the one we had...
I wasn't talking about an Amiga laptop, I was talking about the C=64 luggable. I only saw one in person once and it really shouldn't could as a laptop.
Well, obviously x86 and Macs. Then there is the trusty TRS Model 100, and IBM makes an AIX laptop. There was also that lovely luggable version of the C=64. I always wanted one of those, but the 4" monitor seemed a bit small for games.
Oh wait, that is already five, and you asked for four. Maybe the Commodore doesn't count. Oh course, there are WinCE devices that became laptops as well...
Seriously, what are the four according to you? I am interested now.
Forget All Things Considered. I want to get Car Talk and This American Life and be able to fast forward the ads. Yeah, I know NPR doesn't have ads, but somehow I have heard all I can take about Corn-Ferry Intl, not to mention the WBUR Citzens of the World Tour to Tuscany. I thought I sent my money in each year so that I wouldn't have to listen to ads. Maybe it is time to stop sending money in.
If I throw out a Windows 2000 CD, does that mean that Windows 2000 is now in the public domain? No, it means that any bum off the street can pick it up. It does not mean that the IP contained on that CD can now be freely distributed. There is a big difference here.
... and then your grandma will be stitching GNU/Doilies all afternoon.
Seriously, if some of these people are so devoted to their hobby, you would think some of them would "author" their own patterns and release them for free to the community. Seems like that would be a better way of expressing your creativity than scanning in someone else's design and sending it to a group of 300 people.
If a post is about things you don't understand, then you should simply LEAVE IT ALONE in M2, rather than applying your ignorance destructively.
When I M2 I regularly leave 2, 3, or sometimes even 4 or the 10 moderations untouched because I don't have the time to investigate them to see if the comment really is moderated fairly or not.
The inexpensive Mac that I bought in college cost more that the 12" Powerbook does now, without taking inflation into account. I would have loved to have had a notebook. You can take it to the library, use it for group projects, decide to work outside one day in the spring, take it home easily over break, and if you need to demo something you can use your own machine. At Stanford I could even watch class anywhere with a network connection either live or after the fact. I was limited to watching in my dorm room since I didn't have a laptop.
Notice that the list does not include taking notes in class. I never wanted to do that, but having a laptop enables you to do that if you want to.
Given the prices of laptops today, I would much rather have a laptop in college than a desktop.
Many other students could afford a laptop and I was always jealous. They loved them. Never heard of one beng stolen though. Now bicycles on the other hand...
Unless you are a serious gamer I would never reccomend that you get a desktop rather than a laptop.
Even movies from the 80's that used blue screens for everything looked more realistic than today's CGI aided movies,
"Looked" or "looks"? I remember as a kid that Superman "looked" more realistic than Gollum "looked" to me as an adult. However, when I view Superman now, it "looks" less realistic than Gollum. Seriously, as a kid, I didn't look to see if the effects looked fake, I just believed in them. I look back at old movies now and effects that I thought were amazing at the time look terrible to me now.
That said, well done CGI (Jurassic Park) looks better than quickie CGI (Spiderman).
Actually, there is another IBM PDA that has a USB host controller. You can read about it here. They are in production right now. I have one. It is sweet.
I wish I could troll that well. You certainly have trolled me haven't you? I wasn't a janitor and I wasn't a top decision maker either. OK, actually I was a janitor part time since Crip made us clean our own workspaces. You can click on my user page to see some of my qualifications, troll.
Fine, don't buy it. I am not the one trying to sell you something. ATI and NVidia are however. While you are being so skeptical, go ahead and read this. I am sure that it was simply a "mistake" as well.
This is a serious business and if you don't think that both ATI and NVidia are going to do everything they can to gain an advantage you have your head in the sand. The benchmark people want to maintain their relevance and the way to do that is to only call out one of the manufacturers at a time. If they went after both of them at once it makes their benchmark look bad instead of making NVidia look bad.
When the disaster happened I suggested exactly this scenario. Send up another shuttle and use a tether to go from ship to ship. I have worked on the shuttle program and in my experience there wouldn't be a single astronaut that wouldn't volunteer for such a mission, even knowing how dangerous it could be. Of course, everyone cited Ron Dittemore and said that I was wrong, since a rescue was "impossible".
Administrators didn't want to admit the possiblity of a rescue becuase it makes the decision to not have the shuttle inspected using telescopes look even worse.
Oh course this is at least the second time ATI has been caught doing this sort of thing. Remember the Q3A cheats, which were even worse since they affected the performance of a game, lowering the quality. So peppering your post with caveats is (perhaps) a bit generous, given the situation.
Those who read the article, which is probably a small percentage of/.ers, know that ATI was caught cheating as well. They just weren't caught doing as many things as NVidia was. It is possible that both are cheating the same amount.
Of course if the article title was, "Everybody cheats on our benchmark!" then that would do more to undermine their benchmark than anything else. Instead they made the focus of the article the fact that NVidia is cheating.
No, there are tags that can store additional information on the fly, just like a smart card. However I doubt that they would be putting those in the bills.
Maybe once we put smart cards in all our money we will see the advantages to putting our money in smart cards...
I have the CDL/IBM pda with the fingerprint reader, smart card reader, bluetooth and GSM cell phone sitting on my desk. I have one because I am on the development team. You can buy it from CDL, however I don't think they are aimed at the consumer market.
That is probably true of many of these devices. You aren't going to find them at buy.com since they are not aimed at consumers, but are intended to be part of some larger system.
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We should designate some day in the near future as "Everybody is a Spammer" day. On that day, everyone will send as much spam as possible to every email address they have. Since 8th graders are capable of spamming effectively I would guess that a significant percentage of the population is as well.
What would the result of this be? Email would be totally unusable that day and perhaps for many days afterwards. Not only would it get government officials to take notice, it would cause even the spammers to see the evil of spam. Those that are capable of seeing it anyhow, most of them are probably blind to it.
Also, everyone that became a spammer for a day would Profit!
In the US, a "regular" pool, the kind that high schools use for competitions, and therefore the most common, is 25 yards long. We used a pool that was 25 yards by 50 meters, so you could run the lanes either way.
It was actually a 2.5 mile freeway that was built for the movie. Yeah, it looks like 101 on the peninsula, and it is called 101, but it was actually in the east bay, near Alameda.
The Architect said that Neo's brain had been modified. This might allow him control over machines in the real world, if that is where they are. This movie seemed to focus much more on the question of determinism as opposed to the first movie focusing on the allegory of the cave.
The idea of a brain being changed could explain Agent Smith's control over Bain. He could have reprogrammed Bain's mind in some way (the mind makes it real) causing him to behave differently in the real world. This would again go back to the question of how different are the humans and the machines/programs.
I think there is plenty of evidence for either answer. I do think the focus of the second movie was the question of choice though rather than the question of reality.
Notice also that the number on the door that was opened was 101. I was wondering about the significance of that. Anytime a number shows up it seems to be significant in some way.
It appears that I posted my JE before anybody else had seen the movie, so the all avoided it. Good for them. Here are my random thoughts, copied straight from the JE:
Just got back from a Wednesday night showing of The Matrix Reloaded. I am at a conference and Schlumberger was kind enough to be handing out tickets at their booth. I am helping to staff the booth across from them and they gave me a ticket. Can't complain much about free tickets to a movie a day before it comes out. To top it off, we got the best seats in the house, five rows up (stadium seating), right in the middle of the row.
I didn't like it as much as the first one, probably because the first one seemed rather fresh and new. This one is of course bigger and badder, but maybe not as novel. There isn't the sense of discovery, or even much doubt that things will turn out alright, since you know that Neo is now all-powerful. Just the same he expresses his own doubts throughout, probably to convince the audience that there is real drama here.
The movie opens with a view of the workings of the matrix, which zooms outward fractally to finally reveal a clock. A timecard clock to be exact, leading to the question of are the people punching in machines themselves or part of a machine. I just wanted to hear, "We don't need no education!"
Ok, the rest of this might contain major spoilers, so beware. Don't read it if you haven't seen it yet. Of course who am I kidding, nobody reads this thing....
The movie features a constant discoure on determinism. Are we automatons, or do we have free will? The word "choice" comes up so often that you will get sick of it. I thought that the philosophy in the first movie was much more subtle. This one is pounding you over the head with it. Lots of symbolism too, I probably missed lots of stuff, but here is some of what I noticed.
The movie begins with Neo having a vision of the future, and like Minority Report, though he knows the future there isn't much he can do to stop it. In fact knowing this will cause him to take actions that will lead to the occurance event he is trying to prevent. Ohhh, what a paradox. One of the bad guys will be put in a similar situation, causing the very thing he is trying to prevent by his betrayl of his digital girlfriend who get revenge by seeking some lip time with Neo. The movie thrives on paradox by the way. Lots of stuff for theoretical CS people and math people to chew on with their philosophy buddies.
Speaking of choice, Agent Smith has become a virus and a "free agent", no longer taking orders from above. Interesting that the machine has free will but the humans keep wondering if they do. He is able to infect a human, though much of this subplot is left to be resolved in the next movie. Smith is certainly a fun character to watch, but he didn't strike me as being as fearsome or as hate-worthy as he was in the first movie.
The doors of the dwellings in Zion are all painted blood red. Wonder what that could mean... duh. Neo is treated by many as a saviour, though we don't get to see how he reacts to all this adulation other than a bit of him sneaking off for an overly long and explicit roll in the hay with Trinity. The scene is strikes me as somebody went to Rio for Carnaval and decided to include an homage to Orfeu Negro, just as Orson Wells got way to caught up in the drama of carnaval, this one goes on too long and is probably the main reason for the R rating, other than a bunch of F words in a particularly funny scene.
The fight scene with Smith is exciting, but the real show stopper was the highway chase scene. IT even looked like 101, though I know that they built their highway on the other side of the bay.
Several movie references were made. To name a few: Return of the Jedi when volunteers are asked for to go on a mission. Very similar to Han Solo & Co. volunteering for the Endor mission. Rumble in the Bronx where Jackie Chan takes the swipe at the hovercraft with the big sword. Superman is a really ob
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I wasn't talking about an Amiga laptop, I was talking about the C=64 luggable. I only saw one in person once and it really shouldn't could as a laptop.
As for an AIX laptop, here is what I could find quickly:
http://www.rootvg.net/column_risc.htm Scroll about halfway down to 1994 to find the first, 1996 has the second.
http://www.tecnopolis.ca/aixtp/tphistory.html Has a more detailed history.
Finally, Google is your friend. Especially if you speak japanese. I don't.
Yeah, the C=64 was a luggable, so it doesn't really count. Somebody should slap together a cheapo C=64 laptop just for nostalgia's sake.
Oh wait, that is already five, and you asked for four. Maybe the Commodore doesn't count. Oh course, there are WinCE devices that became laptops as well...
Seriously, what are the four according to you? I am interested now.
Forget All Things Considered. I want to get Car Talk and This American Life and be able to fast forward the ads. Yeah, I know NPR doesn't have ads, but somehow I have heard all I can take about Corn-Ferry Intl, not to mention the WBUR Citzens of the World Tour to Tuscany. I thought I sent my money in each year so that I wouldn't have to listen to ads. Maybe it is time to stop sending money in.
If I throw out a Windows 2000 CD, does that mean that Windows 2000 is now in the public domain? No, it means that any bum off the street can pick it up. It does not mean that the IP contained on that CD can now be freely distributed. There is a big difference here.
Seriously, if some of these people are so devoted to their hobby, you would think some of them would "author" their own patterns and release them for free to the community. Seems like that would be a better way of expressing your creativity than scanning in someone else's design and sending it to a group of 300 people.
When I M2 I regularly leave 2, 3, or sometimes even 4 or the 10 moderations untouched because I don't have the time to investigate them to see if the comment really is moderated fairly or not.
Notice that the list does not include taking notes in class. I never wanted to do that, but having a laptop enables you to do that if you want to.
Given the prices of laptops today, I would much rather have a laptop in college than a desktop.
Many other students could afford a laptop and I was always jealous. They loved them. Never heard of one beng stolen though. Now bicycles on the other hand...
Unless you are a serious gamer I would never reccomend that you get a desktop rather than a laptop.
"Looked" or "looks"? I remember as a kid that Superman "looked" more realistic than Gollum "looked" to me as an adult. However, when I view Superman now, it "looks" less realistic than Gollum. Seriously, as a kid, I didn't look to see if the effects looked fake, I just believed in them. I look back at old movies now and effects that I thought were amazing at the time look terrible to me now.
That said, well done CGI (Jurassic Park) looks better than quickie CGI (Spiderman).
Actually, there is another IBM PDA that has a USB host controller. You can read about it here. They are in production right now. I have one. It is sweet.
I wish I could troll that well. You certainly have trolled me haven't you? I wasn't a janitor and I wasn't a top decision maker either. OK, actually I was a janitor part time since Crip made us clean our own workspaces. You can click on my user page to see some of my qualifications, troll.
This is a serious business and if you don't think that both ATI and NVidia are going to do everything they can to gain an advantage you have your head in the sand. The benchmark people want to maintain their relevance and the way to do that is to only call out one of the manufacturers at a time. If they went after both of them at once it makes their benchmark look bad instead of making NVidia look bad.
Remember not to buy this comment either.
Administrators didn't want to admit the possiblity of a rescue becuase it makes the decision to not have the shuttle inspected using telescopes look even worse.
Oh course this is at least the second time ATI has been caught doing this sort of thing. Remember the Q3A cheats, which were even worse since they affected the performance of a game, lowering the quality. So peppering your post with caveats is (perhaps) a bit generous, given the situation.
Of course if the article title was, "Everybody cheats on our benchmark!" then that would do more to undermine their benchmark than anything else. Instead they made the focus of the article the fact that NVidia is cheating.
Maybe once we put smart cards in all our money we will see the advantages to putting our money in smart cards...
My home office is going to remove the token ring network next month.
That is probably true of many of these devices. You aren't going to find them at buy.com since they are not aimed at consumers, but are intended to be part of some larger system.
What would the result of this be? Email would be totally unusable that day and perhaps for many days afterwards. Not only would it get government officials to take notice, it would cause even the spammers to see the evil of spam. Those that are capable of seeing it anyhow, most of them are probably blind to it.
Also, everyone that became a spammer for a day would Profit!
In the US, a "regular" pool, the kind that high schools use for competitions, and therefore the most common, is 25 yards long. We used a pool that was 25 yards by 50 meters, so you could run the lanes either way.
It was actually a 2.5 mile freeway that was built for the movie. Yeah, it looks like 101 on the peninsula, and it is called 101, but it was actually in the east bay, near Alameda.
The idea of a brain being changed could explain Agent Smith's control over Bain. He could have reprogrammed Bain's mind in some way (the mind makes it real) causing him to behave differently in the real world. This would again go back to the question of how different are the humans and the machines/programs.
I think there is plenty of evidence for either answer. I do think the focus of the second movie was the question of choice though rather than the question of reality.
Notice also that the number on the door that was opened was 101. I was wondering about the significance of that. Anytime a number shows up it seems to be significant in some way.
It appears that I posted my JE before anybody else had seen the movie, so the all avoided it. Good for them. Here are my random thoughts, copied straight from the JE:
Just got back from a Wednesday night showing of The Matrix Reloaded. I am at a conference and Schlumberger was kind enough to be handing out tickets at their booth. I am helping to staff the booth across from them and they gave me a ticket. Can't complain much about free tickets to a movie a day before it comes out. To top it off, we got the best seats in the house, five rows up (stadium seating), right in the middle of the row.
I didn't like it as much as the first one, probably because the first one seemed rather fresh and new. This one is of course bigger and badder, but maybe not as novel. There isn't the sense of discovery, or even much doubt that things will turn out alright, since you know that Neo is now all-powerful. Just the same he expresses his own doubts throughout, probably to convince the audience that there is real drama here.
The movie opens with a view of the workings of the matrix, which zooms outward fractally to finally reveal a clock. A timecard clock to be exact, leading to the question of are the people punching in machines themselves or part of a machine. I just wanted to hear, "We don't need no education!"
Ok, the rest of this might contain major spoilers, so beware. Don't read it if you haven't seen it yet. Of course who am I kidding, nobody reads this thing....
The movie features a constant discoure on determinism. Are we automatons, or do we have free will? The word "choice" comes up so often that you will get sick of it. I thought that the philosophy in the first movie was much more subtle. This one is pounding you over the head with it. Lots of symbolism too, I probably missed lots of stuff, but here is some of what I noticed.
The movie begins with Neo having a vision of the future, and like Minority Report, though he knows the future there isn't much he can do to stop it. In fact knowing this will cause him to take actions that will lead to the occurance event he is trying to prevent. Ohhh, what a paradox. One of the bad guys will be put in a similar situation, causing the very thing he is trying to prevent by his betrayl of his digital girlfriend who get revenge by seeking some lip time with Neo. The movie thrives on paradox by the way. Lots of stuff for theoretical CS people and math people to chew on with their philosophy buddies.
Speaking of choice, Agent Smith has become a virus and a "free agent", no longer taking orders from above. Interesting that the machine has free will but the humans keep wondering if they do. He is able to infect a human, though much of this subplot is left to be resolved in the next movie. Smith is certainly a fun character to watch, but he didn't strike me as being as fearsome or as hate-worthy as he was in the first movie.
The doors of the dwellings in Zion are all painted blood red. Wonder what that could mean... duh. Neo is treated by many as a saviour, though we don't get to see how he reacts to all this adulation other than a bit of him sneaking off for an overly long and explicit roll in the hay with Trinity. The scene is strikes me as somebody went to Rio for Carnaval and decided to include an homage to Orfeu Negro, just as Orson Wells got way to caught up in the drama of carnaval, this one goes on too long and is probably the main reason for the R rating, other than a bunch of F words in a particularly funny scene.
The fight scene with Smith is exciting, but the real show stopper was the highway chase scene. IT even looked like 101, though I know that they built their highway on the other side of the bay.
Several movie references were made. To name a few: Return of the Jedi when volunteers are asked for to go on a mission. Very similar to Han Solo & Co. volunteering for the Endor mission. Rumble in the Bronx where Jackie Chan takes the swipe at the hovercraft with the big sword. Superman is a really ob
That answer was so you! I am laughing right now. I should have modded you up as funny, but I had to reply.