I installed it this morning. Most sites I looked at came though ok. I had trouble loading all the images from/. Overall it is very cool.
What I do want is a better way to enter text. It was never much of an issue with the PSP until now. The phone like text entry system is a little wacky. I would like a true virtual keyboard with some kind of a9 like predictive text
I loved my Amiga 1000 and even did some professional development for it. I kept it running for a great many years before it finally gave up the ghost. There were many things that contributed to it's demise, but one of them has to be it's over specialized hardware.
Part of what made it so awesome was how incredible it was at graphics. How perfectly tuned it was to making a video signal. Unfortunately that limited the design of the hardware, the speed of the processor. Even if you had a faster processor for it, everything had to slow down to 7.xxxx MHz (IIRC) when you hit the video interface.
Then the PC got better video cards, and I could just upgrade that one part. The Amiga was always playing catchup with custom designed chips tuned to the hardware. After a while it felt like they were always a day late and a dollar short. It was still an amazing machine for video, but for a general purpose system it had seriously lost it's luster.
That they felt that the x86 had a better roadmap, and would unlimitedly be the right platform. I honestly don't see the need for alternate theories (some of them quite out there). While not defending DRM, you have to admit that Apple's approach to DRM hasn't been especially draconian (when compared to others out there). This latest theory would make more sense to me if we saw an existing push by Apple to stronger DRM.
Well it isn't I, per say, who used the cliche. It was the main character. Hopefully it was clear it was a cliche, which is why he used it. As for typos, yes there are some. If you think that is why it was passed over, well I have read the rejection letters, that was never the problem. I have gotten better traction than most first time authors.
Unknown authors also release their novels free on the net. Then they use venues like Slashdot to help get the word out. For example, I am doing that just now. Oh wait, I've said too much...
OK that was shameless self promotion, and I'll not repent. But it is great that more established authors are out there doing this. It adds an air of legitimacy to all of us who are trying to use alternative means of publishing or promoting our works.
And there are several companies who do this. CafePress, Xlibris, iUniverse, and Lulu are all examples. I use Lulu to offer printed copies of my novel. That is not to say the big publishing houses are going to shrivel and die tomorrow. They can promote books far more efficiently than most individuals can, and it is functionally impossible to get a self published book reviewed or sold directly though brick and mortar bookstores.
If I can play light cycles in real life, then what is my virtual self doing? Sitting on the couch eating BBQ potato chips? This is all so confusing, won't the MCP set all of this straight?
Yes and before it was called AmiPro, there was an earlier version of it called Ami but none of those products were ever made by MicroPro (later WordStar International). There was also a version of WordStar for Windows that was also called WordPro. It was made by Xoom (the same people who later competed with GeoCities in the free homepage business). None of these products were the first wordprocessor though
WordPro didn't show up on the scene until 1997 IIRC. It was Xoom's rereleased version of the WordStar suite. I think you are referring to WordStar. However I believe Electric Pencil predated WordStar
It was innovative, and had some interesting points (the developer documentation was well done). However I have to say that it wasn't a Windows Killer IMHO. While a better Pen OS than Windows for Pen Computing, the latter provided a better overall user experience and could run apps I already had. The programming interface to PenPoint struck me as cumbersome (though I never did any development for it).
I want to know what was the methodology used? Was this just a box plugged into the net without a firewall? Were they connecting to web sites (if so what ones?) Where they checking mail (what client, was the email address new)? Etc
It would be very easy to build up a system and get it infected though use, but there is no real information to tell us how real world it is, just to scare us (or make us happy we use a different OS).
One of the earliest forms of AI I ever learned about was MENACE. A pre-computer means of training a system to play and win Tic-Tac-Toe. I will confess to loosing more than a little time "training" my system.
I am all for increasing space exploration, and by all means the more people (or countries) at the party the better, but has there been any coverage of how they plan to pay for this effort?
They had serious problems meeting their obligations for the ISS, they operated MIR on a shoestring, the economy is improving but do they have the cash for it?
I hope they do. I hope the US shakes more money loose from the trees for our own programs as well.
Decades ago it was the waiter or waitress at the restaurant we used to worry about. When mail order began to grow, it was the person at the other end of the line of a mail-order company. Outsourcing (in country or out of country) is just a form of concentration of this phenomena.
Sending potentially valuable information to people in a high stress, low paying job (in country or out of country, my wife worked in a call center in college) with poor controls is a risk. We have known this since the beginning, but we just seem to relearn the lesson each time.
Perhaps it is time for those of us who care about preserving fair use, and copyright reform, to stop being reactionary and be proactive. Perhaps it is time to put our energies, and (more importantly) monies into lobbying for the legislation we want, and not just stopping the ones we don't.
I'm not saying it would be easy, just that it is time to add this to the conversation.
Their claim (and I am not defending it), included other things (including purchasing and transfering to other devices). You have to look at all of the aspects of the claim when looking for prior art.
Let's not be so quick to summarize people who fall for Phishing emails as idiots. These emails are designed to look like they are coming from the institution they claim to be, are often very sophisticated, and go not promise unreasonable riches in return.
If I made a cartoon of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, or any of dozens of other fairy tales that are in the public domain, do you really think I'd get them released with Disney fighting me?
Yes I do. Disney does enough, without needing to invent things you think they might do. If you tried to copy the visual representation of the characters they created, then I would expect them to object. But if I go to my local video store and look in the kids section I have seen a couple of differnt Snow Whites, and other stories that Disney has adapted
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I installed it this morning. Most sites I looked at came though ok. I had trouble loading all the images from /. Overall it is very cool.
What I do want is a better way to enter text. It was never much of an issue with the PSP until now. The phone like text entry system is a little wacky. I would like a true virtual keyboard with some kind of a9 like predictive text
I loved my Amiga 1000 and even did some professional development for it. I kept it running for a great many years before it finally gave up the ghost. There were many things that contributed to it's demise, but one of them has to be it's over specialized hardware.
Part of what made it so awesome was how incredible it was at graphics. How perfectly tuned it was to making a video signal. Unfortunately that limited the design of the hardware, the speed of the processor. Even if you had a faster processor for it, everything had to slow down to 7.xxxx MHz (IIRC) when you hit the video interface.
Then the PC got better video cards, and I could just upgrade that one part. The Amiga was always playing catchup with custom designed chips tuned to the hardware. After a while it felt like they were always a day late and a dollar short. It was still an amazing machine for video, but for a general purpose system it had seriously lost it's luster.
Still I miss it...
Ron Moore was one of the writers of the show, and the executive producer
And for that matter Carnivale (one of Moore's other recent efforts). But if left with a free hand, do Moore's projects always have to have a messiah?
That they felt that the x86 had a better roadmap, and would unlimitedly be the right platform. I honestly don't see the need for alternate theories (some of them quite out there). While not defending DRM, you have to admit that Apple's approach to DRM hasn't been especially draconian (when compared to others out there). This latest theory would make more sense to me if we saw an existing push by Apple to stronger DRM.
And yes I know it is per se not "per say," that is what I get for typing too fast
Well it isn't I, per say, who used the cliche. It was the main character. Hopefully it was clear it was a cliche, which is why he used it. As for typos, yes there are some. If you think that is why it was passed over, well I have read the rejection letters, that was never the problem. I have gotten better traction than most first time authors.
Unknown authors also release their novels free on the net. Then they use venues like Slashdot to help get the word out. For example, I am doing that just now. Oh wait, I've said too much...
OK that was shameless self promotion, and I'll not repent. But it is great that more established authors are out there doing this. It adds an air of legitimacy to all of us who are trying to use alternative means of publishing or promoting our works.
And there are several companies who do this. CafePress, Xlibris, iUniverse, and Lulu are all examples. I use Lulu to offer printed copies of my novel. That is not to say the big publishing houses are going to shrivel and die tomorrow. They can promote books far more efficiently than most individuals can, and it is functionally impossible to get a self published book reviewed or sold directly though brick and mortar bookstores.
If I can play light cycles in real life, then what is my virtual self doing? Sitting on the couch eating BBQ potato chips? This is all so confusing, won't the MCP set all of this straight?
Face it this company is toast. NeXT even posted a profitable quater once too, and look where they are!
Yeah, all Tom Sawyer like, they got Apple to pay NeXT to take over Apple...
Yes and before it was called AmiPro, there was an earlier version of it called Ami but none of those products were ever made by MicroPro (later WordStar International). There was also a version of WordStar for Windows that was also called WordPro. It was made by Xoom (the same people who later competed with GeoCities in the free homepage business). None of these products were the first wordprocessor though
WordPro didn't show up on the scene until 1997 IIRC. It was Xoom's rereleased version of the WordStar suite. I think you are referring to WordStar. However I believe Electric Pencil predated WordStar
It was innovative, and had some interesting points (the developer documentation was well done). However I have to say that it wasn't a Windows Killer IMHO. While a better Pen OS than Windows for Pen Computing, the latter provided a better overall user experience and could run apps I already had. The programming interface to PenPoint struck me as cumbersome (though I never did any development for it).
I want to know what was the methodology used? Was this just a box plugged into the net without a firewall? Were they connecting to web sites (if so what ones?) Where they checking mail (what client, was the email address new)? Etc
It would be very easy to build up a system and get it infected though use, but there is no real information to tell us how real world it is, just to scare us (or make us happy we use a different OS).
One of the earliest forms of AI I ever learned about was MENACE. A pre-computer means of training a system to play and win Tic-Tac-Toe. I will confess to loosing more than a little time "training" my system.
You can get the latest firmware with supports DUN over BT.
I am all for increasing space exploration, and by all means the more people (or countries) at the party the better, but has there been any coverage of how they plan to pay for this effort?
They had serious problems meeting their obligations for the ISS, they operated MIR on a shoestring, the economy is improving but do they have the cash for it?
I hope they do. I hope the US shakes more money loose from the trees for our own programs as well.
Decades ago it was the waiter or waitress at the restaurant we used to worry about. When mail order began to grow, it was the person at the other end of the line of a mail-order company. Outsourcing (in country or out of country) is just a form of concentration of this phenomena.
Sending potentially valuable information to people in a high stress, low paying job (in country or out of country, my wife worked in a call center in college) with poor controls is a risk. We have known this since the beginning, but we just seem to relearn the lesson each time.
Indeed, and I thought I had typed reactive. Empirical evidence clearly proves me wrong...
Perhaps it is time for those of us who care about preserving fair use, and copyright reform, to stop being reactionary and be proactive. Perhaps it is time to put our energies, and (more importantly) monies into lobbying for the legislation we want, and not just stopping the ones we don't.
I'm not saying it would be easy, just that it is time to add this to the conversation.
Their claim (and I am not defending it), included other things (including purchasing and transfering to other devices). You have to look at all of the aspects of the claim when looking for prior art.
Let's not be so quick to summarize people who fall for Phishing emails as idiots. These emails are designed to look like they are coming from the institution they claim to be, are often very sophisticated, and go not promise unreasonable riches in return.
And all it took was a simple search to come up with the answer.
One shell to rule them all...
Yes I do. Disney does enough, without needing to invent things you think they might do. If you tried to copy the visual representation of the characters they created, then I would expect them to object. But if I go to my local video store and look in the kids section I have seen a couple of differnt Snow Whites, and other stories that Disney has adapted