You have it backwards, I think. I think Microwriter is the name of that old UK company, and AgendA is the name of their little computer. If you look at this picture with the chording keyboard highlighted, and the screen shows this is not just a keyboard.
[The above phrasing was awkward, and still doesn't make clear to all readers that we're talking about an apparently unrelated keyboard/computer which has nothing to do with the Agenda Linux PDA which is the main thread. Search engine users should follow links to the main thread.]
Newstrolls just mentioned eGrail. The eGrail web site is a little rough -- I think there are Microsoft proprietary characters splattered around. There's not a good description of the capabilities of eGrail. I did find this eGrail features summary.
Well, maybe you should wait for the DVD "Director's Cut" version. With Bart after the credits saying "We put all the good stuff in the movie! Watch it again!"
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Yes, I know about BusyBox. I've been tinkering with the single-floppy Linux Router Project packages.
Actually controlling some of the most powerfull phenomena on Earth is opening a can of worms I don't think we are prepared to open.
You're overestimating our power. Right now there are 1,800 thunderstorms on the planet. Most are too small, or don't have enough temperature difference to be violent enough for tornadoes. Even here in the USA where we get Arctic-fed cold fronts spilling across the continent, only 1% of storms cause tornadoes.
And the proposal would not stop thunderstorms and their rain, the goal is to disrupt a single powerful updraft, and leave multiple-updraft thunderstorms operating.
Not that it would be easy to create and control that much power safely. If you have that powerful a power plant, you could instead just have a flying building with enough fans to directly change airflows. Sometimes applying energy in the form of a physical device is easier than radiant energy.
Obviously, the winners of an athletic event will now have to undergo a blood test rather than a urine test.
In addition to testing for drugs, a new blood test is needed: "Is it blood?"
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Yup, I have a dying PDA for which nobody made apps and I can't get the SDK. At least with a Linux PDA I have a chance to make it do a few special things for me, or to keep up with new desktop apps to sync with.
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8MB RAM is plenty of room for apps -- my first 386 Unix machine had 8MB. With all the shared memory, many tools are small; I see Red Hat "ls" is 43K, "sort" is 26K, "less" is 79K, and "telnet" is 63K, so 100 apps the size of "telnet" would be 6.3MB -- not counting the shared libraries.
I wonder if they're using a compressed filesystem, or simply compressing many of the files, to fit more on the Flash ROM.
They might send the welcome wagon... or they might call the exterminators.
Or they might be the exterminators. A race might send out a fleet of self-replicating machines to protect itself, whether the threat is real or imaginary. That fleet then becomes a danger for everyone else.
We have already imagined one such threat. The math has long suggested there could be many intelligences in our galaxy. How many might be trying to protect themselves, and how many fleets of destroyers roaming space?
There are indeed reasons for intelligent civilizations to keep quiet. Of course, there may be Star-Fleet-like organizations encouraging peace -- there's reason for doing so.
Or it might be that all the meat tends to convert itself into mechanisms and we don't hear from them because everyone's floating in the sunlight and busy in the Stellarnet chat rooms...
Maybe they had trouble finding something to sync to. You first need a similar app on your Linux desktop, then the app needs to be open enough that you can write a sync tool. Well, with the StarOffice source code it should be possible to sync to those tools. And ApplixWare is using legible file formats so sync should be possible with that also.
And you have something wrong there. It's 8 MB *ROM*, 2 Meg flash *RAM*
I cut and pasted that from the announcement. 8MB RAM, 2MB Flash ROM (Flash ROM is a type of ROM which can be altered -- but alteration is much slower than RAM and there's a limit of about 100,000 alterations).
The VR3+ FAQ also mentioned the same 2MB Flash/4MB Flash number.
Look for an ISP with a live "status" web page that shows the status of their network. If they're willing to show that they're OK or not then they probably care about fixing things quickly.
There are plenty of tools out there. It's trivial to run Big Brother, SPong, Mon, or one of the other public packages that shows and reports device status on a web page. And it also lets the customers take a look and see if there are known problems before they phone Tech Support, particularly if the Status page includes announcements from Tech Support about known problems. (Assuming, of course, that the problem is not that the Status web server is down or the network link to it is dead...)
1 High-speed 1.6 MHz clocked serial port for external keyboard, mass storage, wireless, etc.
BUILT-IN SOFTWARE Linux VR operating system
Contacts, To-Do, Schedule, Notes, Calculator, Quicksync for Linux and Windows PC, Mail, Network, Terminal, Games, Bootloader, Utilities
Backlit display for clear viewing in low light conditions
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PRICING AND AVAILABILITY The Agenda VR3 will be available in October 2000.
Pricing for the Agenda VR3 is expected to begin as low as $149 MSRP. Product availability, pricing and product specifications are subject to change without notice.
Pay to not see ads? Hmm.. So maybe pay Slashdot to get a no-ads version displayed to me? I imagine the advertisers on the ads version wouldn't like losing those clicks...although that depends upon the percentage and the demographic of the no-ads subscribers. Not that the advertisers have any complaint unless the contracts don't allow subscribers.
Oops, I made a mistake in the second estimate. A "ping" actually involves a packet which exited my machine, entered the other machine, the reply exited the other machine, and entered my machine. The "ping" time is a round trip and is processed by two machines -- so a 2 ms ping time actually involves being processed twice, so I should cut in half the time for the estimate.
So the second estimate should be doubled, to 4Mbps.
But thanks to Japanese FORTRAN we'd all know that variables containing the symbol [NUMBER] are only for integers.
(Yes, I know there are several Japanese writing systems. For computers, the ideograms are the most different from the common ASCII codes.)
I think C is a poor example. C is too minimalist, and was created more from mathematics than language. There aren't many ways to express if(expression){stuff}else{stuff}. The sections [IF](expression)[THEN]{stuff1}[ELSE]{stuff2} can only be rearranged in a few ways, and there isn't really that much difference.
Yoda C: {stuff1}[OR]{stuff2}[WHEN](!expression)
Now, take COBOL. Please take it. Rigorous English appearance, but strict grammar rules. COBOL would be different simply because the grammar would have been designed for whatever language its creator used. It happened to be American. I can hardly wait for Microsoft Cobolscript web pages. [Yes, I know Cobolscript exists]
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You have it backwards, I think. I think Microwriter is the name of that old UK company, and AgendA is the name of their little computer. If you look at this picture with the chording keyboard highlighted, and the screen shows this is not just a keyboard. [The above phrasing was awkward, and still doesn't make clear to all readers that we're talking about an apparently unrelated keyboard/computer which has nothing to do with the Agenda Linux PDA which is the main thread. Search engine users should follow links to the main thread.]
I thought the "sync" was referring to address book and appointments. But it wasn't described. I'm inferring this from the separate mention of email.
Newstrolls just mentioned eGrail. The eGrail web site is a little rough -- I think there are Microsoft proprietary characters splattered around. There's not a good description of the capabilities of eGrail. I did find this eGrail features summary.
Well, maybe you should wait for the DVD "Director's Cut" version. With Bart after the credits saying "We put all the good stuff in the movie! Watch it again!"
Yes, I know about BusyBox. I've been tinkering with the single-floppy Linux Router Project packages.
And the proposal would not stop thunderstorms and their rain, the goal is to disrupt a single powerful updraft, and leave multiple-updraft thunderstorms operating.
Not that it would be easy to create and control that much power safely. If you have that powerful a power plant, you could instead just have a flying building with enough fans to directly change airflows. Sometimes applying energy in the form of a physical device is easier than radiant energy.
In addition to testing for drugs, a new blood test is needed: "Is it blood?"
Yup, I have a dying PDA for which nobody made apps and I can't get the SDK. At least with a Linux PDA I have a chance to make it do a few special things for me, or to keep up with new desktop apps to sync with.
I wonder if they're using a compressed filesystem, or simply compressing many of the files, to fit more on the Flash ROM.
We have already imagined one such threat. The math has long suggested there could be many intelligences in our galaxy. How many might be trying to protect themselves, and how many fleets of destroyers roaming space?
There are indeed reasons for intelligent civilizations to keep quiet. Of course, there may be Star-Fleet-like organizations encouraging peace -- there's reason for doing so.
Or it might be that all the meat tends to convert itself into mechanisms and we don't hear from them because everyone's floating in the sunlight and busy in the Stellarnet chat rooms...
Maybe they had trouble finding something to sync to. You first need a similar app on your Linux desktop, then the app needs to be open enough that you can write a sync tool. Well, with the StarOffice source code it should be possible to sync to those tools. And ApplixWare is using legible file formats so sync should be possible with that also.
I cut and pasted that from the announcement. 8MB RAM, 2MB Flash ROM (Flash ROM is a type of ROM which can be altered -- but alteration is much slower than RAM and there's a limit of about 100,000 alterations).
The VR3+ FAQ also mentioned the same 2MB Flash/4MB Flash number.
There are plenty of tools out there. It's trivial to run Big Brother, SPong, Mon, or one of the other public packages that shows and reports device status on a web page. And it also lets the customers take a look and see if there are known problems before they phone Tech Support, particularly if the Status page includes announcements from Tech Support about known problems. (Assuming, of course, that the problem is not that the Status web server is down or the network link to it is dead...)
Note to mortician: I wouldn't be caught dead in one of these.
USER INTERFACE
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BUILT-IN SOFTWARE Linux VR operating system Contacts, To-Do, Schedule, Notes, Calculator, Quicksync for Linux and Windows PC, Mail, Network, Terminal, Games, Bootloader, Utilities Backlit display for clear viewing in low light conditions
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PRICING AND AVAILABILITY The Agenda VR3 will be available in October 2000. Pricing for the Agenda VR3 is expected to begin as low as $149 MSRP. Product availability, pricing and product specifications are subject to change without notice.
The only Vax I want to save is the famous moskvax . I saw it when it was first unveiled.
Pay to not see ads? Hmm.. So maybe pay Slashdot to get a no-ads version displayed to me? I imagine the advertisers on the ads version wouldn't like losing those clicks...although that depends upon the percentage and the demographic of the no-ads subscribers. Not that the advertisers have any complaint unless the contracts don't allow subscribers.
So the second estimate should be doubled, to 4Mbps.
We'll need several gigabytes of disk space for the compiler "localization" file collections...
Code review would involve dancing through the code instead of walking through it...
But thanks to Japanese FORTRAN we'd all know that variables containing the symbol [NUMBER] are only for integers. (Yes, I know there are several Japanese writing systems. For computers, the ideograms are the most different from the common ASCII codes.)
Yoda C: {stuff1}[OR]{stuff2}[WHEN](!expression)
Now, take COBOL. Please take it. Rigorous English appearance, but strict grammar rules. COBOL would be different simply because the grammar would have been designed for whatever language its creator used. It happened to be American. I can hardly wait for Microsoft Cobolscript web pages. [Yes, I know Cobolscript exists]