The iPhone is absolutely superior watching stuff (Photos, Video, Music, the Web), but....
The E70 is absolutely superior writing. The keyboard is really nice, ssh is fast etc. The gmail app is very nice etc etc...
However, I had two major problems with it (and that is why I bought the iPhone). (i) The browser needs to much memory, it always crashes after a few steps. So I needed to use opera mini. (ii) The music player is bad. For instance when I restarted it did not remember where in a song (or more likely a long podcast) I stopped. So I had to scroll and remember this myself.
Not like your enterprise is going to care which company is making more money.
Companies will care. They need suppliers that have the cash to remain around to give support and take responsibility for problems. Sure x86-64, wave of the future... unless it dies with AMD a year from now.
The problem with x86-64 is compilers. Currently I gain a factor of 2-3 using intels compilers of gcc (and several other compilers I tried) in AMD hardware. And obviously Intel compilers are not available for x86-64.
I am still using my 266 Mhz 96Mb, 3Gb HP-armace 1700 notebook for some quite serious work. (Programming, browsing, graphics, writing). It has as always worked fine but is getting a bit bulky.
The trick is to NOT use KDE/Gnome and kill openoffice, gimp, acroread, realplayer, xine when you do not need it.
Because TV3 (or the other London based companies) would never show a Wilgot Sjöman movie (or anything else of high artistic quality/low commercial value)
In other countries, if you sue someone (and actually if you get sued) and loose you have to pay the legal costs of the counterpart. That would solve a lot of problems if this was the case (default) in the US.
Ofcourse then there is a big difference between anglosaxan case base law, and other countries where, the parlament decided how the law should be used.
Anyhow, this things are to my knowledhe certainly much much worse in the US than anywhere else.
Some interesting differences:
I burn myself on hot coffee I bought: US - sue for >$1.000 Sweden: Get a free coffee
I get hit by a car and get pain in my neck; US - sue for >$100.000 Sweden: Get possible $10.000
After spending 8 years in prison, new evidence show that I am not quilty:
I have been using gnus/nnml for many years.
However I recently switched to the imap (mbox) format as I wanted to be able to read my mail from other machines without loggin in through my firewall. I did not use gnus to filter mail put just some simple mh commands and some scripts that automatically generated the.active file etc.
What I miss most is ;
> grep xxx ~/Mail/foo/*
It is a pain to search through mailboxed w
the ml format (which is used by nntp) is really nice and I can not see why it should not be significantly much faster than mbox. However it is not supported by nnimap, and until I find another mailreader that reads mail as if it was nntp-news I will stay with gnus.
In many other countries you make a manual count
Easy to do if you can get 1/1000 people to work
as voting officials. These people (atleast one representative per party present) count the few thousand votes (with atleast one representative per party present) and report to the offical vitng headquarter.
You can easily count a few thousand votes in a few of hours.
It seems also like a very stupid system to punch holes in a box. Just simple choose a card with the name of yur candidate and put it into an anvelope.
One of my friends set up a VPN between two windows networks, without even using an extra machine. He run linux under vmware (which is not free) on two windows machines. Then he run cipe on linux. Works fine.
yours
arne
---
(This is not anonymous Coward but Arne using galeon)
I was very suprised when visiting New York last week. Noone (I mean hardly anyone) talked in a mobile telephone. In stockholm (and all of Scandinavia) about 25% of the people walking on the streets are talking in a phone. (Earsdropping on the bus is fun).
Besides the wireless broadband is hot (most appartments are offered some type of >512 Kbaud connection for about $25 a month.)
- What doubletwist announce is not the complete human genome. They claim: "We have built upon this accomplishment by processing this data to reveal its most important information - the genes, "That means that they have all (or atleast 105000) genes in their database, but that does not mean that they have the complete genome (i.e. every single nucleotide). The genes is only about 10% of the genome.
- I think the public database have about 90000 genes in their database. They claim to finish a rough draft of the genome this year.
- Some people expect the total number of genes to be 140000.
- Incyte has probably had almost all genes in their database for a year (the only sequence the cDNA so they do not have genomic information)
- rumours say that celera will ship a first draft (95% complete) genome sequence this or next week. They have promised to finish it to the same completeness as the fruit fly (drosophila) this year.
So the genome is hot, but this announcement from doubleclick is probably mainly important for the stock market.
It was a long time ago since the success of a single scientific method will (or will not) make such an impact on everyones future.
Venter who invented shotgun sequencing and Gene Myers who managed to assemble the Drosphile (fruitfly) genome, might succeed to assemble the genome before the public project (NiH/Sanger), however it is very likely that they need to use data (maps) from the public project.
The question is if they will get it before the public project has finished (or if they can manage without it)
Patents is just another sign of that the US legal system is quite bad. To say the least. The correlation between a conviction and income is probably much stronger that the correlation of guilt and conviction.
One point missed here (probably because there are very few biologist reading./) is that in biology (or in life science in general) the amount of published is much greater than in physics. Further it is often very difficult for a non expert to know if an experiment was carefully done or not. (How long was the incubation time, what cell-line was used etc etc). Finally no life-scientist write pappers in TeX and reading a word-double-spaced manuscript is much more difficult than a properly formated paper.
So what an e-journal need to provide is: 1) A ranking (peer-review,./ style or somehow) that tells me (a) if this paper is correct (b) how important it is 2) Someone formatting the paper into a nice layout. 3) A good capacity for me to search of all papers, new papers, papers with keywords etc.
I was just waiting for the IIIe to arrive in Europe. I thought it would be the perfect organiser for me, rather cheap, good screen powerfull enough.
But according to this article it won't be released ! So what to do ? By a Palm V (Cool and Expensive) a DaVinci (Cheap and Cheap) or stick for another yet to my paper calendar
Retrospect is excellent, only problem is that the server only runs on Mac (a beta of the NT exist but is not usable yet.). We use it to back up about 100 macs and some pcs. We have done backups to tapes and to CD's. No problems.
On my machines (some 10 unix machines) we only use some scripts that search for files that has changed since tha last backup, and then afio these files to the tape. Main problem is that we create to many files and the tape station is not reliable enough. We will change to CD or DVD soon (when someone has time to change the script)
I could not agree more. Lyx is excellent for writing documents, the GUI is though not very nice, for instance I would like to be able to split the window and atleast have more than one window up at one time. Therefore for long documents I started using xemacs (tex)
However unfortunately we need one more thing and that is the capability to read M$-word files of all stupid versions. Still I think only wordperfect reads my Mac word 5.1 files but it does not even read rtf correctly.
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I own an E70 and an iPhone.
The iPhone is absolutely superior watching stuff (Photos, Video, Music, the Web), but....
The E70 is absolutely superior writing. The keyboard is really nice, ssh is fast etc. The gmail app is very nice etc etc...
However, I had two major problems with it (and that is why I bought the iPhone). (i) The browser needs to much memory, it always crashes after a few steps. So I needed to use opera mini. (ii) The music player is bad. For instance when I restarted it did not remember where in a song (or more likely a long podcast) I stopped. So I had to scroll and remember this myself.
Arne
Sync under linux
(I know about multisync but from what I tried it does not work very well)
Not like your enterprise is going to care which company is making more money.
Companies will care. They need suppliers that have the cash to remain around to give support and take responsibility for problems. Sure x86-64, wave of the future... unless it dies with AMD a year from now.
The problem with x86-64 is compilers. Currently I gain a factor of 2-3 using intels compilers of gcc (and several other compilers I tried) in AMD hardware. And obviously Intel compilers are not available for x86-64.
I am still using my 266 Mhz 96Mb, 3Gb HP-armace 1700 notebook for some quite serious work. (Programming, browsing, graphics, writing). It has as always worked fine but is getting a bit bulky.
The trick is to NOT use KDE/Gnome and kill openoffice, gimp, acroread, realplayer, xine when you do not need it.
Because TV3 (or the other London based companies) would never show a Wilgot Sjöman movie (or anything else of high artistic quality/low commercial value)
yours
arne
Size matters
Palm 10X has a small screen and is still too thick
Palm V and Palm M are much nicer (larger screens and thinner).
Zire, looks like (good ?) a compromise screen (and price) as Palm 10X but size as Palm V
In other countries, if you sue someone (and actually if you get sued) and loose you have to pay the legal costs of the counterpart. That would solve a lot of problems if this was the case (default) in the US.
Ofcourse then there is a big difference between anglosaxan case base law, and other countries where, the parlament decided how the law should be used.
Anyhow, this things are to my knowledhe certainly much much worse in the US than anywhere else.
Some interesting differences:
I burn myself on hot coffee I bought:
US - sue for >$1.000 Sweden: Get a free coffee
I get hit by a car and get pain in my neck;
US - sue for >$100.000 Sweden: Get possible $10.000
After spending 8 years in prison, new evidence show that I am not quilty:
US: Get $0 Sweden: Get >$100.000
That's all folks....
But can I sync to any calander tool on my Linux box ?
nice points !!!
I have been using gnus/nnml for many years. .active file etc.
However I recently switched to the imap (mbox) format as I wanted to be able to read my mail from other machines without loggin in through my firewall. I did not use gnus to filter mail put just some simple mh commands and some scripts that automatically generated the
What I miss most is ;
> grep xxx ~/Mail/foo/*
It is a pain to search through mailboxed w
the ml format (which is used by nntp) is really nice and I can not see why it should not be significantly much faster than mbox. However it is not supported by nnimap, and until I find another mailreader that reads mail as if it was nntp-news I will stay with gnus.
mvh
arne
Just downloaded percompiled binaries and after
2 crashes (actually one crash and one froozen) in
the first 30 minutes I decided to stocl to ns-4
Konqueror seemed slightly more stable, but still
much less stable than ns-4 (which does not say much)
In many other countries you make a manual count
Easy to do if you can get 1/1000 people to work
as voting officials. These people (atleast one representative per party present) count the few thousand votes (with atleast one representative per party present) and report to the offical vitng headquarter.
You can easily count a few thousand votes in a few of hours.
It seems also like a very stupid system to punch holes in a box. Just simple choose a card with the name of yur candidate and put it into an anvelope.
Hi
One of my friends set up a VPN between two windows
networks, without even using an extra machine. He run linux under vmware (which is not free) on two windows machines. Then he run cipe on linux. Works fine.
yours
arne
---
(This is not anonymous Coward but Arne using galeon)
Stockholm is the "wireless capital of the world".
I was very suprised when visiting New York last week. Noone (I mean hardly anyone) talked in a
mobile telephone. In stockholm (and all of Scandinavia) about 25% of the people walking on the streets are talking in a phone. (Earsdropping on the bus is fun).
Besides the wireless broadband is hot (most appartments are offered some type of >512 Kbaud connection for about $25 a month.)
Good point.
I doubt the local 24h convinience store will offer their illegal immigrant a free PIII-677 Mhz either.
It is not universal access it is "if you have a job in a big company" access.
First some explanations:
- What doubletwist announce is not the complete human genome. They claim: "We have built upon this accomplishment by processing this data to reveal its most important information - the genes, "That means that they have all (or atleast 105000) genes in their database, but that does not mean that they have the complete genome (i.e. every single nucleotide). The genes is only about 10% of the genome.
- I think the public database have about 90000 genes in their database. They claim to finish a rough draft of the genome this year.
- Some people expect the total number of genes to be 140000.
- Incyte has probably had almost all genes in their database for a year (the only sequence the cDNA so they do not have genomic information)
- rumours say that celera will ship a first draft (95% complete) genome sequence this or next week. They have promised to finish it to the same completeness as the fruit fly (drosophila) this year.
So the genome is hot, but this announcement from doubleclick is probably mainly important for the stock market.
Nokia has announced that their next communicator will run the PalmOS on to pof EPOC.
Very Well written Sean !!!
See you in Helsingör
It is going to be an interesting spring.
It was a long time ago since the success of a single scientific method will (or will not) make such an impact on everyones future.
Venter who invented shotgun sequencing and Gene Myers who managed to assemble the Drosphile (fruitfly) genome, might succeed to assemble the genome before the public project (NiH/Sanger), however it is very likely that they need to use data (maps) from the public project.
The question is if they will get it before the public project has finished (or if they can manage without it)
Patents is just another sign of that the US legal system is quite bad. To say the least. The correlation between a conviction and income is probably much stronger that the correlation of guilt and conviction.
yours
arne
One point missed here (probably because there are very few biologist reading ./) is that in biology (or in life science in general) the amount of published is much greater than in physics. Further it is often very difficult for a non expert to know if an experiment was carefully done or not. (How long was the incubation time, what cell-line was used etc etc). Finally no life-scientist write pappers in TeX and reading a word-double-spaced manuscript is much more difficult than a properly formated paper.
./ style or somehow) that tells me (a) if this paper is correct (b) how important it is
So what an e-journal need to provide is:
1) A ranking (peer-review,
2) Someone formatting the paper into a nice layout.
3) A good capacity for me to search of all papers, new papers, papers with keywords etc.
I was just waiting for the IIIe to arrive in Europe. I thought it would be the perfect organiser for me, rather cheap, good screen powerfull enough.
But according to this article it won't be released ! So what to do ? By a Palm V (Cool and Expensive) a DaVinci (Cheap and Cheap) or stick for another yet to my paper calendar
I agree.
Retrospect is excellent, only problem is that the server only runs on Mac (a beta of the NT exist but is not usable yet.). We use it to back up about 100 macs and some pcs. We have done backups to tapes and to CD's. No problems.
On my machines (some 10 unix machines) we only use some scripts that search for files that has changed since tha last backup, and then afio these files to the tape. Main problem is that we create to many files and the tape station is not reliable enough. We will change to CD or DVD soon (when someone has time to change the script)
SPECint_95 = 25.7
SPECfp_95 = 22.5
Probably the fastest (affordable) an Compaq AlphaServer DS20 (21264@500MHZ) machine has:
SPECint_95 = 23.6
SPECfp_95 = 48.4
and the fastest intel (PIII xeon @550 MHz):
SPECint_95 = 23.6
SPECfp_95 = 15.1
So unless Compaq starts making $3000 machines I will use K7's soon
I could not agree more. Lyx is excellent for writing documents, the GUI is though not very nice, for instance I would like to be able to split the window and atleast have more than one window up at one time. Therefore for long documents I started using xemacs (tex)
However unfortunately we need one more thing and that is the capability to read M$-word files of all stupid versions. Still I think only wordperfect reads my Mac word 5.1 files but it does not even read rtf correctly.