Coming from a country where headlights are compulsory at all times, I have noticed that cars without headlights (I'd say less than 1% of the cars during daytime) are a lot easier to miss; possibly because the brain subconsciously writes them off as being parked. It's really kind of spooky the way you just don't notice them until they are really close.
So, I'd say the risk with this kind of sound might well be that people will disregard the old kind of alarms even more when we've all gotten used to this new sound.
Actually the caffeine content is not was is suspected for the deaths. The culprit is instead thought to be taurine which is a substance that regulates the salt levels of the body. That seems to me as a plausible explanation. It is a bit odd that the Times article completely fails to mention it, but maybe it was deemed to be too technical.
First of all DOM doesn't parse files; it normally uses SAX for that. DOM is an, IMHO, rather complicated model to access the data once it's been parsed.
As your goal is to build a java application, I'd definitely recommend JDOM because it is lightweight and the data is stored in normal java constructs.
They just need to mae it so that Mozilla uses less than 100 MBs of your memory,
You run linux obviously; linux reports the total memory usage for each thread and mozilla forks off five threads on start-up...
15-20 MB is still a bit much if all you want is the browser, but I expect that number will decrease once they get to do some serious optimization. (Galeon only swallows 10 MB.)
I use gpm with the -M and -R options to bind both a serial mouse and a touchpad to/dev/gpmdata and then use that pseudo-device as my X-pointer. Works fine.
I have an Inspiron laptop with a PCMCIA modem that supports "normal" phoneline, ISDN and GSM. Unfortunately you have to pay ~$180 each for the connector cables for ISDN and GSM.:-\
Apart from the price it works like an ordinary modem; the IP-stack lives on the laptop so you can run any OS you like (Linux in my case). In theory you can use any cell phone; only thing is that there has to be a suitable connector and a cable.
As it works like a normal modem you'll pay per minute; "free" numbers (1-800 et al.) aren't free when you call from a cell phone though.
For incoming calls you have to have a special data line subscription from the cell net operator.
And, yeah, the major draw back: it's only 9600 bps; enough only if you're desperate...
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Coming from a country where headlights are compulsory at all times, I have noticed that cars without headlights (I'd say less than 1% of the cars during daytime) are a lot easier to miss; possibly because the brain subconsciously writes them off as being parked. It's really kind of spooky the way you just don't notice them until they are really close.
So, I'd say the risk with this kind of sound might well be that people will disregard the old kind of alarms even more when we've all gotten used to this new sound.
Actually the caffeine content is not was is suspected for the deaths. The culprit is instead thought to be taurine which is a substance that regulates the salt levels of the body. That seems to me as a plausible explanation. It is a bit odd that the Times article completely fails to mention it, but maybe it was deemed to be too technical.
First of all DOM doesn't parse files; it normally uses SAX for that. DOM is an, IMHO, rather complicated model to access the data once it's been parsed.
As your goal is to build a java application, I'd definitely recommend JDOM because it is lightweight and the data is stored in normal java constructs.
/J
You run linux obviously; linux reports the total memory usage for each thread and mozilla forks off five threads on start-up...
15-20 MB is still a bit much if all you want is the browser, but I expect that number will decrease once they get to do some serious optimization. (Galeon only swallows 10 MB.)
/J
And M16 will never support those entities! (Which btw wasn't part of the original HTML4 spec.)
M17 on the other hand already does.
/J
Woah, you seem to have a fairly closed mind yourself if you beleive that your way of doing things is the only correct one.
Personally, I got a noticeable increase in productivity when I was allowed to install Linux instead of NT at work.
On the other hand; I'd be happy to use IE if only it was available for Linux... until Mozilla passes IE in usability that is. (Very Soon Now (tm)!)
/J
I see no problem at all with that page... Was it the right URL?
> The whole world should communicate with Perl!
Cool! But should it be @virus or %virus in plural...
Nah, it has to be proven that you knew (or at least should've known) that the link was pointing at illegal material in order to frame you.
I use gpm with the -M and -R options to bind both a serial mouse and a touchpad to /dev/gpmdata and then use that pseudo-device as my X-pointer. Works fine.
I have an Inspiron laptop with a PCMCIA modem that supports "normal" phoneline, ISDN and GSM. Unfortunately you have to pay ~$180 each for the connector cables for ISDN and GSM. :-\
Apart from the price it works like an ordinary modem; the IP-stack lives on the laptop so you can run any OS you like (Linux in my case). In theory you can use any cell phone; only thing is that there has to be a suitable connector and a cable.
As it works like a normal modem you'll pay per minute; "free" numbers (1-800 et al.) aren't free when you call from a cell phone though.
For incoming calls you have to have a special data line subscription from the cell net operator.
And, yeah, the major draw back: it's only 9600 bps; enough only if you're desperate...