Oh my, evertying about LWUIT seems ugly. It is an ugly acronym, the screenshots look horrible (green text on a very pink folded person) and the rotating cube is unaliassed and completely unnecessary.
There is an article on ZDnet explaining the differences between JavaFX and LWUIT. It explains that LWUIT is a stop gap for people that cannot use JavaFX yet. But looking at the content of the LWUIT homepage I conclude that SUN could have better not release LWUIT at all.
As for phone GUIs, I'm rooting for Plasma. At Akademy last week I saw lots of EEE PCs and other small PCs, Nokia internet tablets, OLPC and OpenMoko machines all running Plasma. And it looks amazing and is easy to use and customize.
I have the same experience when emulating 32 bit windows XP on 64 bit Linux on a quadcore processor (Q6600). The speed difference is huge. VMWare can virtualize multiple cores whereas VirtualBox do only a single processor. Nevertheless, a VMWare machine that can use two cores feels much slower than a VirtualBox machine that can use only one. Integration into the desktop is nice very nice too: one can hide the Windows desktop and have the Windows windows appear over a linux desktop.
My only two complaints are that certain actions in Windows XP can cause a blue screen in the virtual machine and that SMB networking is not entirely reliable.
The amount of light needed for steering growth is very small. The plant notices the difference in intensity in different wavelengths. The amount of light that's available for photosynthesis is the only real limitation. It might be significant.
Mod parent up! This is very plausible. It's a way for Microsoft to kill Yahoo! for free. Even if the SEC does not block it, Microsoft can still walk away after having replaced the board of a competitor with sock puppets. If shareholders go along with this, they're really dumb.
I wonder why Icahn is playing along with this. Maybe he simply cannot go back.
What they're saying is: we absorb light in the coating. Most of then energy that's absorbed is transmitted through the glass to the frame, where it is converted into electrical energy. This idea is from the '70s, but advances in the materials used have improved the efficiency.
Nevertheless, no word is uttered on any practical installations, nor is there any mention of the efficiency compared to the most efficient currently available system, which is very suspicious.
If this becomes popular and oil prices go up, you better get used to living in an orange environment. Since this coating absors mainly non-orange, it might be possible to combine this with greenhouses. The plants get the orange light and the coating takes the rest.
I'm really considering buying a Neo Freerunner. At 300 euros it's reasonably priced.
Some improvements I'd like to perform to it that a normal phone does not have:
- depending on who's calling perform any of these behaviors:
* ring, vibrate or ignore the call
* answer the call with a dynamic or static message for example where i am (coordinates or city name), why i'm not answering (eating, sleeping, meeting)
* install an operator menu ("Jos is in a meeting, i'm openmoko his assistant. do you want to make an appointment for him to call you back?"
- record my accelleration and position all day (because i can)
- switch an annoying caller to a signal of strange noises or a helpfully scripted assistant or a nice song to put them on hold with
- put a filter on incoming and outgoing sounds to give them echo or change the pitch
- record every call i make
Thanks for the suggestions. Both "Metamagical Themas" and GEB are on my bookshelf, read for 15% and 50% respectively. Great books to return to now and then. I'll leaf through your suggestions next time I'm in a huge bookshop.
Perhaps Hofstadter has no need for AI or robots, but I would love to see robots reach our level of thinking while I'm living. Work on AI shows us how we think and that is very fascinating. The rise of the robots will be *the* big event in our lives.
Even though using Wine for apps remains a hit and miss, I've had some very good experiences working with it. At work, I'm developing a closed source Delphi application. Even though the full Delphi 2007 development environment does not run in Wine, I can run the compiler and the resulting application which is very complex (lots of COM and OpenGL) runs for 95% in Wine. It's good to know that we can get this working if customers start asking for it.
No, it's the other way around. There are many ways to fold it so folding is easy. But there is only one solution with the lowest (free) energy. The number of ways to fold is very large. To determine if your solution is the lowest, you have to check all possible ways of folding. So in this game, they'll let you fold and if you are better than all the human and computer opponents for a certain period, you probably get some points.
When Microsoft comes up with a cool project that is not meant to destroy all competition but to help people to learn to help themselves, we will not complain. However, Microsoft always works from the mindset that there can be only one operating system and only one company. They crush competition in the bud. Some competitors are allowed to live a bit to appease some governments that are not 100% under the companies influence.
So if children in the development world are not brought up with this mindset, they may become competition to Microsoft or otherwise weaken Microsofts position. This must be avoided. They must be brainwashed into equating computers with Windows.
Now the OLPC was not meant to teach children about linux or windows. It is meant to teach children whatever it is that children need to be taught. And teaching them that they need to use windows to use a computer is not what should be taught. No company should be able to force their products into any school. School should be a marketfree place.
And pretty awful at understanding statistics and noise. Godwin's law is completely obvious to anyone that is in contact with her brain. As *any* conversation grows longer, the probability of *any* subject to come up approaches unity. Godwin's law has one redeeming feature: it discourages people that are not in contact with their brain from bringing up the 3rd Reich, because they think it is a clever law and feel ashamed of falling into the logic trap.
Mister Schauble can enjoy an easy career as burglar when he's out of office. With 4000 copies of your fingerprint circulating, it cannot be used as evidence any more.
The only thing dumb thing he could get caught with is when he leaves wheelchair tracks at the scene of the crime.
Did someone see you press that button? A third party may have pressed that button or maybe you toggled a bit in memory or have daemon running that presses such buttons for you.
Slashdot Mirror
Easy!
Java is a GPL platform just like Qt. There is little difference.
Oh my, evertying about LWUIT seems ugly. It is an ugly acronym, the screenshots look horrible (green text on a very pink folded person) and the rotating cube is unaliassed and completely unnecessary.
There is an article on ZDnet explaining the differences between JavaFX and LWUIT. It explains that LWUIT is a stop gap for people that cannot use JavaFX yet. But looking at the content of the LWUIT homepage I conclude that SUN could have better not release LWUIT at all.
As for phone GUIs, I'm rooting for Plasma. At Akademy last week I saw lots of EEE PCs and other small PCs, Nokia internet tablets, OLPC and OpenMoko machines all running Plasma. And it looks amazing and is easy to use and customize.
The road is here according to a Dutch source.
I have the same experience when emulating 32 bit windows XP on 64 bit Linux on a quadcore processor (Q6600). The speed difference is huge. VMWare can virtualize multiple cores whereas VirtualBox do only a single processor. Nevertheless, a VMWare machine that can use two cores feels much slower than a VirtualBox machine that can use only one. Integration into the desktop is nice very nice too: one can hide the Windows desktop and have the Windows windows appear over a linux desktop.
My only two complaints are that certain actions in Windows XP can cause a blue screen in the virtual machine and that SMB networking is not entirely reliable.
So where is the modern Lemmings or Pushover?
The 2D portal is pretty cool though.
The amount of light needed for steering growth is very small. The plant notices the difference in intensity in different wavelengths.
The amount of light that's available for photosynthesis is the only real limitation. It might be significant.
Mod parent up! This is very plausible. It's a way for Microsoft to kill Yahoo! for free.
Even if the SEC does not block it, Microsoft can still walk away after having replaced the board of a competitor with sock puppets. If shareholders go along with this, they're really dumb.
I wonder why Icahn is playing along with this. Maybe he simply cannot go back.
All sentences in the linked article are artfully crafted to contain snippets like 'increases power', 'decreases cost'.
However the linked movie is fairly insightful.
What they're saying is: we absorb light in the coating. Most of then energy that's absorbed is transmitted through the glass to the frame, where it is converted into electrical energy. This idea is from the '70s, but advances in the materials used have improved the efficiency.
Nevertheless, no word is uttered on any practical installations, nor is there any mention of the efficiency compared to the most efficient currently available system, which is very suspicious.
If this becomes popular and oil prices go up, you better get used to living in an orange environment.
Since this coating absors mainly non-orange, it might be possible to combine this with greenhouses. The plants get the orange light and the coating takes the rest.
Ah a great Amiga 500 classic.
DC3
I'm really considering buying a Neo Freerunner. At 300 euros it's reasonably priced.
Some improvements I'd like to perform to it that a normal phone does not have:
- depending on who's calling perform any of these behaviors:
* ring, vibrate or ignore the call
* answer the call with a dynamic or static message for example where i am (coordinates or city name), why i'm not answering (eating, sleeping, meeting)
* install an operator menu ("Jos is in a meeting, i'm openmoko his assistant. do you want to make an appointment for him to call you back?"
- record my accelleration and position all day (because i can)
- switch an annoying caller to a signal of strange noises or a helpfully scripted assistant or a nice song to put them on hold with
- put a filter on incoming and outgoing sounds to give them echo or change the pitch
- record every call i make
Thanks for the suggestions. Both "Metamagical Themas" and GEB are on my bookshelf, read for 15% and 50% respectively. Great books to return to now and then. I'll leaf through your suggestions next time I'm in a huge bookshop.
Perhaps Hofstadter has no need for AI or robots, but I would love to see robots reach our level of thinking while I'm living. Work on AI shows us how we think and that is very fascinating. The rise of the robots will be *the* big event in our lives.
Flash drives have been around for a while, you know. And so have the filesystems:
YAFFS
JFFS2
LogFS
Even though using Wine for apps remains a hit and miss, I've had some very good experiences working with it. At work, I'm developing a closed source Delphi application. Even though the full Delphi 2007 development environment does not run in Wine, I can run the compiler and the resulting application which is very complex (lots of COM and OpenGL) runs for 95% in Wine. It's good to know that we can get this working if customers start asking for it.
The English Breakfast Network
It helps to find potential problems and also checks for licenses, spelling errors and coding conventions.
No, it's the other way around. There are many ways to fold it so folding is easy. But there is only one solution with the lowest (free) energy. The number of ways to fold is very large. To determine if your solution is the lowest, you have to check all possible ways of folding. So in this game, they'll let you fold and if you are better than all the human and computer opponents for a certain period, you probably get some points.
All that's there is the windows executable and the mac executable.
When Microsoft comes up with a cool project that is not meant to destroy all competition but to help people to learn to help themselves, we will not complain. However, Microsoft always works from the mindset that there can be only one operating system and only one company. They crush competition in the bud. Some competitors are allowed to live a bit to appease some governments that are not 100% under the companies influence.
So if children in the development world are not brought up with this mindset, they may become competition to Microsoft or otherwise weaken Microsofts position. This must be avoided. They must be brainwashed into equating computers with Windows.
Now the OLPC was not meant to teach children about linux or windows. It is meant to teach children whatever it is that children need to be taught. And teaching them that they need to use windows to use a computer is not what should be taught. No company should be able to force their products into any school. School should be a marketfree place.
You must be new here!
And pretty awful at understanding statistics and noise. Godwin's law is completely obvious to anyone that is in contact with her brain. As *any* conversation grows longer, the probability of *any* subject to come up approaches unity. Godwin's law has one redeeming feature: it discourages people that are not in contact with their brain from bringing up the 3rd Reich, because they think it is a clever law and feel ashamed of falling into the logic trap.
Mister Schauble can enjoy an easy career as burglar when he's out of office. With 4000 copies of your fingerprint circulating, it cannot be used as evidence any more.
The only thing dumb thing he could get caught with is when he leaves wheelchair tracks at the scene of the crime.
Tree stumps are much nicer than garden gnomes!
Especially for sitting.
At FOSDEM 2008, another initiative was announce that goes for the kill:
Kill Software Patents
So where can we download this data and what is the license?
The data from tolweb.org are downloadable under a Creative Commons license.
Did someone see you press that button? A third party may have pressed that button or maybe you toggled a bit in memory or have daemon running that presses such buttons for you.