Alternatively there is a new Z600 clamshell version out with the same screen as T630. And that one is already out. Though both are Eu phones, no idea when/if they'll find their way to the US. (Although IIRC Z600 is triple-band, so that might work.)
Otherwise I'd recommend looking into Nokia's phones. I've just done some extensive research and it's quite clear that SE phones are top with regards to BT support. Closely followed by Nokia. Most other manyfacturers only have basic BT support. (Ie, headset and transfer files.)
I would assume he runs MythTV on the XBox as well. (The linked program suggests that.) AFAIK MythTV is designed so that using different computers for capturing and viewing is a simple matter.
Besides that you can always use XBMP which in my experience is a very capable media player for the XBox. (Streaming over ethernet is naturally no problems.) Though XBMP doesn't have any real "Tivo" like features.
But there are languages where you don't need to know what a multi dimensional array is. In fact it might be a benefit in some (eg functional languages) not to know about it.
I'm quite sure that most people will never get to the level of coding moderately complicated systems. That takes engineering to be good, and most people just aren't interested enough to do that.
The problem right now is that most people don't even consider that they can tell the computer to do new things. Basic things like renaming a bunch of files in a directory and perhaps even small web crawler scripts. Those are the things which could turn normal people onto programming. (Well IMHO naturally.;-)
Seriously? I can read it for free at least. Though I am currently at the Lund University (also in Sweden) so that might be it.
Personally I agree though. Particualarly with big organisations like ACM and IEEE it's bad that they uphold status quo by making it harder to access everything.
If you treat your employees as sheep then you'll only get sheep as employees. If you're lucky.
If you're not lucky you'll get comptetent and creative people who rapidly become competent, creative and frustrated people. And now/that/ is dangerous.
"Law of Jante" is probably something you read about in propaganda from Randites or similar. Sure it exist as an idea but it's hardly something you'll experience outside of the norm. Basically "jantelagen" is the basic envy of putting down someone who is better than you or the "norm". Hardly something specific to Scandinavia. (Though we did consider it enough of a problem to call it something.;-)
And taxes are really high. If you're a well educated person you should know that Sweden is not a country where you get rich. Though I'd say it's a pretty good place to have kids and in general live.
Encrypted swap/cache partitions? That may kill performance too much so that it's not useful though. But it's one way to get around the problem of not being able to swap because of security requirements.
Email one of the Slashdot editors, get a section called "Slashdot Tells", and post your first lecture, along with assigned reading.
Let the/. "wild herd" post questions and comments, and let them moderate up the ten or fifteen most important questions for your perusal.
In case anyone is interested in doing stuff like this I'd recommend using Kuro5hin as a testbed. There's a lot of good introductionary texts there on a variaty of subjects. And their article system makes it easy to put stuff up for critique and feedback.
I'd recommend anyone who's interested in doing a project like this to check it out. (And once it's done you can always put it on Slashdot or other sites as well. I've seen some cases of that.)
Or do it like the phones integrated into Volvo cars (and I'm sure many other brands). You can't dial out when the car is moving, only accept incomming calls. While that isn't the entire solution, it's a step on the way.
Another example is cars that reduce the amount of distractions when you appear to be in a attentive situation. (Turning, breaking those things.)
The children are innocent, that is true. AFAIK women are draften in Isreal as well as men. So they are not as much civilians as "off duty military". And most significantly, Isreal is a democracy and therefore they all share the responsability for what their government do.
I don't condone the act of terrorist actions. But there is more to the issue than horrible terrorists blowing up innocent women and children.
The point of the XBox UMA is that the 3D chip is no longer a second class citizen in the computer. (Ie connected to the system over a buss/port.) It's more like having a dual CPU setup, but one of the processors is swapped with a 3D chip.
No, you can't play XBox games on a standard PC. (At least not yet, probably never.)
When you develop on one you use Visual Studio with an XBox SDK coupled with a special developer edition of the XBox. (Which has special BIOS and 128MB RAM among other things.)
You can then execute code and debug code on the developer Xbox from you PC over the network. (And if you mod your XBox you can develop like this too.)
Hasn't both Intel and nVidia been ditched in favour of IBM and ATI for XBox2? Which would make those made up specifications so clearly incorrect that it's not even worth mentioning.
And "30 GB Solid state drive"? Why the bloody hell would I want a SSD in a console?
Furthermore I seriously doubt that they'll put as much as 1GB of RAM in a console. I have that in my PC, but it's almost never used. And that's running a lot of different programs at once. A console has more use for smaller but faster memory.
Hardware that can do tesselation and such I do believe in though. At least adding a "mesh shader" should be the next big step for graphics hardware. It's make it easier to further unload the CPU for games as well.
Adding a HDD was one of the best things Microsoft did with the XBox, that and having ethernet as standard. Those two will be requirements for future consoles, if you ask me.
I don't see what adding a HDD has to do with dll's though.
One idea of why the machines stopped was because they didn't start the war. Since a human came to them and offered a truce they went along with it. From the Animatrix it seemed like the robots never really wanted the war in the first place.
The reason I was dissapointed in the movie was because of the cliche ideas (mainly the plot ideas, the background is interesting enough), drawn out scenes and sucky dialogue. I don't mind that all the people talk like they've read "philisophy for dummies" but some of the dialogue between eg Trinity and Neo made me cringe.
"I just can't do this without you Trin..." "Ohh Neo, but you have to."
I had a feeling that I was going to break out in a rash in some of the more cliche parts. New reqruit who fakes his way and grows into a man during the 2 hour long battle, puh-fucking-lease!
All in all I did find the story pretty interesting. And there weren't any real inconcistencies AFAI-can tell. Those annoy me the most in movies, so all in all I'm happy. (I just think it's sad that it could have been better.)
I do agree with you that understanding how a CPU works in detail is not necessary and completely uninteresting even for many programmers. (For the sake of programming, not if you need to squeese the added performance.)
The entire point of the original article is that knowing how to "click the icons" and the basic logic it requires will/not/ be sufficient to be deemed "computer literate" in a few decades. If that is your limits you will become a second class citizen, much like those today who are unable to read and write.
It's like a person who knows that a hammer is a tool with one heavy end and one long end. But has yet to grasp that you can use it to hit nails, and furthermore has no idea of why he'd want to use it to hit nails.
While a computer is only a tool it is to most advanced and most versetile tool which exist, by far. If your limit in using it is to use what other people do for you then you will never be able to use it's power to any significant extent.
To again use the hammer and nail comparason. Most people today are on a level where if someone else use a hammer to put a nail in a wall they can hang a picture there. They also understand that they can change the picture or even put up a speak there instead. But they have to idea of how to use a hammer to put up new nails, and they don't even understand why they'd want to learn that. (This comparison may be a bit harsh, but then again all comparisons are.;-)
Now I'm not sure that I agree that just because you can't use a computer at a level which today would make you a "power user" you'll be essentially illiterate in a couple of decades. However I'm going to make sure that my children (when that time comes) will know enough about computers that when the times comes for them to put up a new painting they'll know that hammers can be used for that and have the capability to learn how to use it.
In my japanese class we had about a week each for hiragana and katakana. My tip for learning those fast is to collect a bunch of words in japanese. It's a good idea to select a lot simple ones, like yama (mountain), yuki (snow) and similar. Now begin with the vowels and the K* hiragana. Spell as many of the words as you can. Next do the same with T* hiragana and so on. After you've done that add the "tenten" for G*, D* etc. (They are pretty easy since eg K always become G.) And add the halfsize hiragana (ya, yu and yo) and tsu/tu.
Naturally you'll have to repeat a lot otherwise you'll just forget them as soon as you've learned them. The same can be done with katakana and "engrish" if you want to learn those. (That's really more useful since you can guess the meaning of the word since it's usually English.) I've had quite a bit of fun with the game "Midnight Club 2" on the Tokyo level just by reading the street signs. (A lot are in katakana or simple kanji.) A lot of manga has both katakana and hiragana left as sound effects even in translated versions. So you can always enjoy yourself by reading those out.
Oh yeah, if you want to learn kanji you can always buy a practice book for "jouyou kanji". But particularly with kanji you're likely to foget them as soon as you learn them unless you make sure to repeat them often.
I doubt you can get a modchip today which doesn't have an on/off switch. And even if it doesn't have that you can always install one yourself.
And for me a modded XBox is a lot more useful than an unmodded one. Being able to stream video and audio to it is a feature I use a lot. More than playing games even.
I use CD cases, like those CaseLogic make. The ones I have fit 200 CD/DVDs and they aren't particularly expensive. I think the later models fit even more discs though.
One thing that annoyed me with the CaseLogic cases was that you can't remove the sheets with the discs. This can make restructuring a major pain, so it's worth looking up before you buy.
I doubt that the cost of the processor is significant compared to the cost of contructing the metal and plastic housing for the light. And on top of that you have the cost for the lights. (Unless LEDs are used, still strong LEDs are not cheap.)
Naturally if you are giving a lecture you should open files before the lecture begins. Though I know what you mean and most lecturers I've had suffered from lack of "common sense" as well.
If you use an older version of Acrobat (if it can be found) I bet it'll be faster. They seem to have gotten a lot slower with the latest versions. Or perhaps use GhostView or some other alternative.
The problem isn't that the CPU is slow. The problem is crappy applications.
It could work if they took the money they get from the sales of games and put it back into the system in order to make a really good *free* online service. I'm not going to pay money to buy games at the same price as in the store. The naivity of believing that is bordering on criminal.
And last I check their slogan "For gamers, by gamers" was used/owned by Interplay.
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Alternatively there is a new Z600 clamshell version out with the same screen as T630. And that one is already out. Though both are Eu phones, no idea when/if they'll find their way to the US. (Although IIRC Z600 is triple-band, so that might work.)
Otherwise I'd recommend looking into Nokia's phones. I've just done some extensive research and it's quite clear that SE phones are top with regards to BT support. Closely followed by Nokia. Most other manyfacturers only have basic BT support. (Ie, headset and transfer files.)
I would assume he runs MythTV on the XBox as well. (The linked program suggests that.) AFAIK MythTV is designed so that using different computers for capturing and viewing is a simple matter.
Besides that you can always use XBMP which in my experience is a very capable media player for the XBox. (Streaming over ethernet is naturally no problems.) Though XBMP doesn't have any real "Tivo" like features.
But there are languages where you don't need to know what a multi dimensional array is. In fact it might be a benefit in some (eg functional languages) not to know about it.
;-)
I'm quite sure that most people will never get to the level of coding moderately complicated systems. That takes engineering to be good, and most people just aren't interested enough to do that.
The problem right now is that most people don't even consider that they can tell the computer to do new things. Basic things like renaming a bunch of files in a directory and perhaps even small web crawler scripts. Those are the things which could turn normal people onto programming. (Well IMHO naturally.
Seriously? I can read it for free at least. Though I am currently at the Lund University (also in Sweden) so that might be it.
Personally I agree though. Particualarly with big organisations like ACM and IEEE it's bad that they uphold status quo by making it harder to access everything.
If you treat your employees as sheep then you'll only get sheep as employees. If you're lucky.
/that/ is dangerous.
If you're not lucky you'll get comptetent and creative people who rapidly become competent, creative and frustrated people. And now
AFAIK something like this is already in place. It's just that apt-get / dselect are not configured to fail if the signature is incorrect.
"Law of Jante" is probably something you read about in propaganda from Randites or similar. Sure it exist as an idea but it's hardly something you'll experience outside of the norm. Basically "jantelagen" is the basic envy of putting down someone who is better than you or the "norm". Hardly something specific to Scandinavia. (Though we did consider it enough of a problem to call it something. ;-)
And taxes are really high. If you're a well educated person you should know that Sweden is not a country where you get rich. Though I'd say it's a pretty good place to have kids and in general live.
Encrypted swap/cache partitions? That may kill performance too much so that it's not useful though. But it's one way to get around the problem of not being able to swap because of security requirements.
In case anyone is interested in doing stuff like this I'd recommend using Kuro5hin as a testbed. There's a lot of good introductionary texts there on a variaty of subjects. And their article system makes it easy to put stuff up for critique and feedback.
I'd recommend anyone who's interested in doing a project like this to check it out. (And once it's done you can always put it on Slashdot or other sites as well. I've seen some cases of that.)
Or do it like the phones integrated into Volvo cars (and I'm sure many other brands). You can't dial out when the car is moving, only accept incomming calls. While that isn't the entire solution, it's a step on the way.
Another example is cars that reduce the amount of distractions when you appear to be in a attentive situation. (Turning, breaking those things.)
cp would require that you can read the the partition as a filesystem. Using dd doesn't have that requirement.
The children are innocent, that is true. AFAIK women are draften in Isreal as well as men. So they are not as much civilians as "off duty military". And most significantly, Isreal is a democracy and therefore they all share the responsability for what their government do.
I don't condone the act of terrorist actions. But there is more to the issue than horrible terrorists blowing up innocent women and children.
The point of the XBox UMA is that the 3D chip is no longer a second class citizen in the computer. (Ie connected to the system over a buss/port.) It's more like having a dual CPU setup, but one of the processors is swapped with a 3D chip.
No, you can't play XBox games on a standard PC. (At least not yet, probably never.)
When you develop on one you use Visual Studio with an XBox SDK coupled with a special developer edition of the XBox. (Which has special BIOS and 128MB RAM among other things.)
You can then execute code and debug code on the developer Xbox from you PC over the network. (And if you mod your XBox you can develop like this too.)
Hasn't both Intel and nVidia been ditched in favour of IBM and ATI for XBox2? Which would make those made up specifications so clearly incorrect that it's not even worth mentioning.
And "30 GB Solid state drive"? Why the bloody hell would I want a SSD in a console?
Furthermore I seriously doubt that they'll put as much as 1GB of RAM in a console. I have that in my PC, but it's almost never used. And that's running a lot of different programs at once. A console has more use for smaller but faster memory.
Hardware that can do tesselation and such I do believe in though. At least adding a "mesh shader" should be the next big step for graphics hardware. It's make it easier to further unload the CPU for games as well.
Adding a HDD was one of the best things Microsoft did with the XBox, that and having ethernet as standard. Those two will be requirements for future consoles, if you ask me.
I don't see what adding a HDD has to do with dll's though.
One idea of why the machines stopped was because they didn't start the war. Since a human came to them and offered a truce they went along with it. From the Animatrix it seemed like the robots never really wanted the war in the first place.
The reason I was dissapointed in the movie was because of the cliche ideas (mainly the plot ideas, the background is interesting enough), drawn out scenes and sucky dialogue. I don't mind that all the people talk like they've read "philisophy for dummies" but some of the dialogue between eg Trinity and Neo made me cringe.
"I just can't do this without you Trin..."
"Ohh Neo, but you have to."
I had a feeling that I was going to break out in a rash in some of the more cliche parts. New reqruit who fakes his way and grows into a man during the 2 hour long battle, puh-fucking-lease!
All in all I did find the story pretty interesting. And there weren't any real inconcistencies AFAI-can tell. Those annoy me the most in movies, so all in all I'm happy. (I just think it's sad that it could have been better.)
I do agree with you that understanding how a CPU works in detail is not necessary and completely uninteresting even for many programmers. (For the sake of programming, not if you need to squeese the added performance.)
/not/ be sufficient to be deemed "computer literate" in a few decades. If that is your limits you will become a second class citizen, much like those today who are unable to read and write.
;-)
The entire point of the original article is that knowing how to "click the icons" and the basic logic it requires will
It's like a person who knows that a hammer is a tool with one heavy end and one long end. But has yet to grasp that you can use it to hit nails, and furthermore has no idea of why he'd want to use it to hit nails.
While a computer is only a tool it is to most advanced and most versetile tool which exist, by far. If your limit in using it is to use what other people do for you then you will never be able to use it's power to any significant extent.
To again use the hammer and nail comparason. Most people today are on a level where if someone else use a hammer to put a nail in a wall they can hang a picture there. They also understand that they can change the picture or even put up a speak there instead. But they have to idea of how to use a hammer to put up new nails, and they don't even understand why they'd want to learn that. (This comparison may be a bit harsh, but then again all comparisons are.
Now I'm not sure that I agree that just because you can't use a computer at a level which today would make you a "power user" you'll be essentially illiterate in a couple of decades. However I'm going to make sure that my children (when that time comes) will know enough about computers that when the times comes for them to put up a new painting they'll know that hammers can be used for that and have the capability to learn how to use it.
Palladium doesn't (AFAIK) protect from hardware attacks. So there are still vulnerabilities.
In my japanese class we had about a week each for hiragana and katakana. My tip for learning those fast is to collect a bunch of words in japanese. It's a good idea to select a lot simple ones, like yama (mountain), yuki (snow) and similar. Now begin with the vowels and the K* hiragana. Spell as many of the words as you can. Next do the same with T* hiragana and so on. After you've done that add the "tenten" for G*, D* etc. (They are pretty easy since eg K always become G.) And add the halfsize hiragana (ya, yu and yo) and tsu/tu.
Naturally you'll have to repeat a lot otherwise you'll just forget them as soon as you've learned them. The same can be done with katakana and "engrish" if you want to learn those. (That's really more useful since you can guess the meaning of the word since it's usually English.) I've had quite a bit of fun with the game "Midnight Club 2" on the Tokyo level just by reading the street signs. (A lot are in katakana or simple kanji.) A lot of manga has both katakana and hiragana left as sound effects even in translated versions. So you can always enjoy yourself by reading those out.
Oh yeah, if you want to learn kanji you can always buy a practice book for "jouyou kanji". But particularly with kanji you're likely to foget them as soon as you learn them unless you make sure to repeat them often.
I doubt you can get a modchip today which doesn't have an on/off switch. And even if it doesn't have that you can always install one yourself.
And for me a modded XBox is a lot more useful than an unmodded one. Being able to stream video and audio to it is a feature I use a lot. More than playing games even.
I use CD cases, like those CaseLogic make. The ones I have fit 200 CD/DVDs and they aren't particularly expensive. I think the later models fit even more discs though.
One thing that annoyed me with the CaseLogic cases was that you can't remove the sheets with the discs. This can make restructuring a major pain, so it's worth looking up before you buy.
I doubt that the cost of the processor is significant compared to the cost of contructing the metal and plastic housing for the light. And on top of that you have the cost for the lights. (Unless LEDs are used, still strong LEDs are not cheap.)
Naturally if you are giving a lecture you should open files before the lecture begins. Though I know what you mean and most lecturers I've had suffered from lack of "common sense" as well.
If you use an older version of Acrobat (if it can be found) I bet it'll be faster. They seem to have gotten a lot slower with the latest versions. Or perhaps use GhostView or some other alternative.
The problem isn't that the CPU is slow. The problem is crappy applications.
It could work if they took the money they get from the sales of games and put it back into the system in order to make a really good *free* online service. I'm not going to pay money to buy games at the same price as in the store. The naivity of believing that is bordering on criminal.
And last I check their slogan "For gamers, by gamers" was used/owned by Interplay.