I know this was a problem with earlier versions of Outlook, dunno what version you're using or if the problem has since been resolved, but a PST larger than 750mb will reduce Outlook to below a snail's pace. We're talking 30-45 minutes for Outlook to completely start, the entire time being reported by Windows as "not responding." Once it's up it would tend to be pretty speedy. Only saw this a few times, and it was a couple years ago...most people are sane enough to not have a 750mb+ PST.
I've ordered a few items from Lik-Sang, and had nothing but good experiences from them. Hell, my Doctor GB Card was ordered on a Thursday and arrived the following Monday. Not bad for reasonably-priced international shipping.
Get a Rhinoskin case (www.rhinoskin.com). I've got the ShockSuit Sport Case...durable as hell. I've only managed to break the case once since I had it, and all that happened was the belt clip came apart. Rhinoskin sent me a replacement clip, no questions asked.
"Since Win95" is a bad choice of words...the default IE installed by the earlier releases of Win95 was absolutely depressingly pitiful, and didn't have all the all-in-one features you're talking about. That didn't really happen till IE 4.0.
Ahh, those wonderful days when it was actually better to use Netscape instead of IE...
Most likely, they were given the distinct impression that, like most temporary workers, they would be evaluated and potentially considered for full-time hire 6-12 months after starting. This is pretty standard for temporary workers...you bring someone in on a temp basis due to cash restraints or other limitations, then after a while you either give them a full-time job or you get rid of them. Microsoft was just keeping the people as temps indefinitely.
The mouse is made to be used in hazardous environments, the kinds of places that would kill your average mouse within a few days, if not hours. So, let's say an average lifetime of 5 days in these environments for one of your mice. That's 365/5*$20=$1460 a year. Quite a bit more than $279. Actually, using your $20 average mouse price, if your environment could kill 14 mice a year, then this mouse saves you money.
For that kind of money, you're not going to get one that has all those features AND is that durable. This isn't designed for people to use on their desk. This isn't designed for people browsing the internet. This is for places where you have to have a PC in a hazardous environment. We're talking forklifts moving around, sparks flying, excessively high temperatures, caustic chemicals, piles of dirt and grease, etc. I don't think anyone makes a mouse that can take that sort of punishment AND have the "nice" features you seem to be demanding. And if they did, I bet it'll cost more than this one does.
Maybe because it doesn't really have any relevance to what Theo does?
Quite simply, it's about like asking him what he thinks of some large company deploying BSD/OS.
The users aren't heading at Open/Net/FreeBSD, they're heading at Apple. Not like Theo's gonna get any emails from Joe Machead asking him how to change the system event sounds in OS X or anything.
I tried to explain this to my mother once when we were at a campsite waiting for another family to show up.
The probability does not change just because the particular event in question actually happens in a given place and time. The factors involved in computing the probability are not related at all to the way anything eventually happens...that's why it's called probability...it is a prediction of the likelihood of some event.
This probably still doesn't explain it all that well...oh well...my mom never got it either.
It means that the time required for the process grows at a rate that is similar to the curve generated by squaring the primary value that increases computation time (represented as n). "Big-O" notation is one of a couple different ways to express how a particular process' time requirements increase as the size of the job increases. If I remember right, Big-O represents the worst-case scenario (the time growth curve will be no worse than this). Combined with Big-Omega and Big-Theta, you get worst-case, best-case, and average curves.
I'm one of those people who says that from time to time. I don't consider it ignorant. However, I do tend to look at the problem from a slightly different angle:
I do not owe anyone a goddamned thing.
You want to give your money to charities and humanitarian efforts? Fine. You do that. Best of luck to you. But don't try to tell me, or anyone else, what they should be doing with their money. The social issues are irrelevant. The economic issues are irrelevant. It's my money and I'll do with it what I damn well please. If some people in third-world countries die as a result, so what? It's not really my problem. Chances are the socio-economic structure in that country is not capable of handling that many people, and the population reduction might do more good than anything else. If Homeless Joe kicks the bucket, it doesn't affect me in the slightest.
Life's not fair, and sometimes people die. That's why we make more.
Umm...the "sonic" technology was purely from the Lynch movie...didn't exist in the book at all. I've re-read the bastard 10 times looking for any reference to the "Weirding Way" as anything other than an extremely advanced method of close fighting technique. Seems to be a mix of superb martial arts training with bits of Bene Gesserit mental and physical self-control tossed in. Mix this with the inherent stamina and toughness of the Fremen and you have very powerful fighters.
As far as the "religious fanatic" statements, that's because the Fremen see Paul as a religious figure. He is the Mahdi, the Voice from the Outer World, the Savior, the One who will bring them Out of Darkness. If that ain't religious, I don't know what is.
People seem to have me a bit wrong here...I have nothing against the *concept* of a 3D user interface...I think we will indeed be there at some point. I do think that we're going to have to completely re-think the way we look at and represent data at a fundamental level. No half-assed attempt is going to cut it...I'm not even sure an open-source project will have the capacity to do it, unless by luck or the inclusion of some very good UI researchers.
Page relationships are already adequately handled with 2D displays, either with scrolling or by an action that causes the next page to be displayed. You can't see the next page in a book until you turn to it...it's not a true 3D representation of the data.
I think usability is of great importance, seeing as how the interface must obviously be used. 3D representation is great when there is a clear spatial representation in more than 2 dimensions...like when your predator is chasing prey or when I'm shooting at someone in Quake.
What I was trying to say in my other post is that the problem with designing a 3D interface is not simply transposing a 2D concept into 3D space. We will have to come up with very new ideas for the representation of data and its relevance to other data. There is a good chance that the emphasis on text will have to be reduced. Text is a 2D creature. It flows in only 2 dimentions. Quite simply, I don't think anyone knows quite how to handle this beast yet. When someone does, I'll certainly want to give it a spin.
Any 2-d representation may be mappable to 3-d space, but do you actually think that the usability of the data will always come out at least or higher than the level it had as a 2-d representation? Remember that, when all is said and rendered, someone still has to be able to look at it.
It's all about what you want to do with a handheld.
I have a nice workstation on my desk. I have several boxes of varying capacity and purpose at home. I have a laptop for the times I need a PC away from home or office. And, to top it all off, I have a Handspring Visor Deluxe.
I don't need to be able to play MP3s while I'm walking from one building to the next. I don't need to be able to IRC (hell, I waste enough time with that as it is when I'm at my desk). SSH anywhere could be handy, but there's rarely a time when I can't sit down at someone else's PC and grab a copy of PuTTY right quick. I do need something that I can use for quick notes, calendaring, a couple small reference apps, and the occasional simple time-passing game (for long meetings). A Visor suits this purpose for me nicely, while costing half that of the iPaq.
I've borrowed various other "better" handheld devices from friends, and I've had many people try to convince me that their handheld is so much better because it can do this and that and the other...but quite simply, if I want the functionality of a full PC, I'd rather have a full PC. My primary need for a handheld is a notepad I paid too damn much for to lose. Tried for years to carry notepads or dayplanners or other things like that...always lose them within a week.
It's all about what you want to do with a handheld. At $250, it's worth it to me for the reduced frustration and increased productivity (thanks to not forgetting things). At $500 (current price of an iPaq from Microwarehouse), I start thinking about what I could buy for one of my real boxes with that cash.
'Tis the nature of open-source stuff...no one owes anyone an answer to a question about a long-term goal of a project. The trend is, of course, that porting will most likely happen, just as it has with many other projects. Hell, FreeBSD was once strictly x86 only, but now has an Alpha port. And on the same note, NetBSD came from 386BSD, but now supports a whole buttload of platforms.
It'd be nice if every developer answered every question emailed to them, but as the user population of the open source community grows, it becomes quite impractical to answer all of them. You do want them to get around to actually writing code, don't you?
He hooked up the controller from his own Centipede arcade machine. Considering the tendency of Centipede trackballs to get rather gummy or just downright barely working (there's a machine I played once where you had to put some major spin on the bastard to get even the slightest movement), I can't blame him for bringing his own well-maintained trackball. The electronics that receive the input from it are still the same.
Home version != arcade version. The play's going to be different, sometimes the scoring is different, the levels may be different, etc. Even if it's an emulation using the same arcade rom, there's no guarantee to Guinness that the gameplay was the same. Perhaps the emulator ran the game slightly slower so your reflexes didn't have to be as good. For all they know, you could have hacked the rom to make it significantly easier. Sure you could technically also do that with the arcade version, but as a general rule the overall chances of cheating are less on an actual arcade unit. Guinness wants its records to stand up to questioning. It may have started out as a bar book, but now a lot of people use it as a reference of sorts. With that comes increased responsibility for integrity.
It's a nice add-on feature, and if it doesn't increase the cost too much, why the hell not?
There's also a player out there (Shinco 868, I believe) that has a built-in Genesis. I would've bought it, but I was having trouble finding any reviews of the DVD playback quality. Also, the Genesis portion uses separate video outs, which are PAL, so I would've needed to buy a converter as well.
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I know this was a problem with earlier versions of Outlook, dunno what version you're using or if the problem has since been resolved, but a PST larger than 750mb will reduce Outlook to below a snail's pace. We're talking 30-45 minutes for Outlook to completely start, the entire time being reported by Windows as "not responding." Once it's up it would tend to be pretty speedy. Only saw this a few times, and it was a couple years ago...most people are sane enough to not have a 750mb+ PST.
The quality on a cell phone like this will probably be piss-poor. If you're lucky, maybe you'll get 300bps.
Better off with that ham radio network stuff.
I've ordered a few items from Lik-Sang, and had nothing but good experiences from them. Hell, my Doctor GB Card was ordered on a Thursday and arrived the following Monday. Not bad for reasonably-priced international shipping.
Get a Rhinoskin case (www.rhinoskin.com). I've got the ShockSuit Sport Case...durable as hell. I've only managed to break the case once since I had it, and all that happened was the belt clip came apart. Rhinoskin sent me a replacement clip, no questions asked.
Read the full brief sometime. Not only did he do portscans, there were pingfloods too (which they tried to pass off as "throughput tests")
"Since Win95" is a bad choice of words...the default IE installed by the earlier releases of Win95 was absolutely depressingly pitiful, and didn't have all the all-in-one features you're talking about. That didn't really happen till IE 4.0.
Ahh, those wonderful days when it was actually better to use Netscape instead of IE...
Most likely, they were given the distinct impression that, like most temporary workers, they would be evaluated and potentially considered for full-time hire 6-12 months after starting. This is pretty standard for temporary workers...you bring someone in on a temp basis due to cash restraints or other limitations, then after a while you either give them a full-time job or you get rid of them. Microsoft was just keeping the people as temps indefinitely.
The mouse is made to be used in hazardous environments, the kinds of places that would kill your average mouse within a few days, if not hours. So, let's say an average lifetime of 5 days in these environments for one of your mice. That's 365/5*$20=$1460 a year. Quite a bit more than $279. Actually, using your $20 average mouse price, if your environment could kill 14 mice a year, then this mouse saves you money.
For that kind of money, you're not going to get one that has all those features AND is that durable. This isn't designed for people to use on their desk. This isn't designed for people browsing the internet. This is for places where you have to have a PC in a hazardous environment. We're talking forklifts moving around, sparks flying, excessively high temperatures, caustic chemicals, piles of dirt and grease, etc. I don't think anyone makes a mouse that can take that sort of punishment AND have the "nice" features you seem to be demanding. And if they did, I bet it'll cost more than this one does.
Maybe because it doesn't really have any relevance to what Theo does?
Quite simply, it's about like asking him what he thinks of some large company deploying BSD/OS.
The users aren't heading at Open/Net/FreeBSD, they're heading at Apple. Not like Theo's gonna get any emails from Joe Machead asking him how to change the system event sounds in OS X or anything.
I tried to explain this to my mother once when we were at a campsite waiting for another family to show up.
The probability does not change just because the particular event in question actually happens in a given place and time. The factors involved in computing the probability are not related at all to the way anything eventually happens...that's why it's called probability...it is a prediction of the likelihood of some event.
This probably still doesn't explain it all that well...oh well...my mom never got it either.
It means that the time required for the process grows at a rate that is similar to the curve generated by squaring the primary value that increases computation time (represented as n). "Big-O" notation is one of a couple different ways to express how a particular process' time requirements increase as the size of the job increases. If I remember right, Big-O represents the worst-case scenario (the time growth curve will be no worse than this). Combined with Big-Omega and Big-Theta, you get worst-case, best-case, and average curves.
I hope you don't honestly think your analogy isn't crap.
I'm one of those people who says that from time to time. I don't consider it ignorant. However, I do tend to look at the problem from a slightly different angle:
I do not owe anyone a goddamned thing.
You want to give your money to charities and humanitarian efforts? Fine. You do that. Best of luck to you. But don't try to tell me, or anyone else, what they should be doing with their money. The social issues are irrelevant. The economic issues are irrelevant. It's my money and I'll do with it what I damn well please. If some people in third-world countries die as a result, so what? It's not really my problem. Chances are the socio-economic structure in that country is not capable of handling that many people, and the population reduction might do more good than anything else. If Homeless Joe kicks the bucket, it doesn't affect me in the slightest.
Life's not fair, and sometimes people die. That's why we make more.
Umm...the "sonic" technology was purely from the Lynch movie...didn't exist in the book at all. I've re-read the bastard 10 times looking for any reference to the "Weirding Way" as anything other than an extremely advanced method of close fighting technique. Seems to be a mix of superb martial arts training with bits of Bene Gesserit mental and physical self-control tossed in. Mix this with the inherent stamina and toughness of the Fremen and you have very powerful fighters.
As far as the "religious fanatic" statements, that's because the Fremen see Paul as a religious figure. He is the Mahdi, the Voice from the Outer World, the Savior, the One who will bring them Out of Darkness. If that ain't religious, I don't know what is.
People seem to have me a bit wrong here...I have nothing against the *concept* of a 3D user interface...I think we will indeed be there at some point. I do think that we're going to have to completely re-think the way we look at and represent data at a fundamental level. No half-assed attempt is going to cut it...I'm not even sure an open-source project will have the capacity to do it, unless by luck or the inclusion of some very good UI researchers.
Page relationships are already adequately handled with 2D displays, either with scrolling or by an action that causes the next page to be displayed. You can't see the next page in a book until you turn to it...it's not a true 3D representation of the data.
I think usability is of great importance, seeing as how the interface must obviously be used. 3D representation is great when there is a clear spatial representation in more than 2 dimensions...like when your predator is chasing prey or when I'm shooting at someone in Quake.
What I was trying to say in my other post is that the problem with designing a 3D interface is not simply transposing a 2D concept into 3D space. We will have to come up with very new ideas for the representation of data and its relevance to other data. There is a good chance that the emphasis on text will have to be reduced. Text is a 2D creature. It flows in only 2 dimentions. Quite simply, I don't think anyone knows quite how to handle this beast yet. When someone does, I'll certainly want to give it a spin.
Any 2-d representation may be mappable to 3-d space, but do you actually think that the usability of the data will always come out at least or higher than the level it had as a 2-d representation? Remember that, when all is said and rendered, someone still has to be able to look at it.
It's all about what you want to do with a handheld.
I have a nice workstation on my desk. I have several boxes of varying capacity and purpose at home. I have a laptop for the times I need a PC away from home or office. And, to top it all off, I have a Handspring Visor Deluxe.
I don't need to be able to play MP3s while I'm walking from one building to the next. I don't need to be able to IRC (hell, I waste enough time with that as it is when I'm at my desk). SSH anywhere could be handy, but there's rarely a time when I can't sit down at someone else's PC and grab a copy of PuTTY right quick. I do need something that I can use for quick notes, calendaring, a couple small reference apps, and the occasional simple time-passing game (for long meetings). A Visor suits this purpose for me nicely, while costing half that of the iPaq.
I've borrowed various other "better" handheld devices from friends, and I've had many people try to convince me that their handheld is so much better because it can do this and that and the other...but quite simply, if I want the functionality of a full PC, I'd rather have a full PC. My primary need for a handheld is a notepad I paid too damn much for to lose. Tried for years to carry notepads or dayplanners or other things like that...always lose them within a week.
It's all about what you want to do with a handheld. At $250, it's worth it to me for the reduced frustration and increased productivity (thanks to not forgetting things). At $500 (current price of an iPaq from Microwarehouse), I start thinking about what I could buy for one of my real boxes with that cash.
'Tis the nature of open-source stuff...no one owes anyone an answer to a question about a long-term goal of a project. The trend is, of course, that porting will most likely happen, just as it has with many other projects. Hell, FreeBSD was once strictly x86 only, but now has an Alpha port. And on the same note, NetBSD came from 386BSD, but now supports a whole buttload of platforms.
It'd be nice if every developer answered every question emailed to them, but as the user population of the open source community grows, it becomes quite impractical to answer all of them. You do want them to get around to actually writing code, don't you?
Maybe, just maybe, they want to get the damn thing working decently before they concern themselves with porting? Ever think of that?
He hooked up the controller from his own Centipede arcade machine. Considering the tendency of Centipede trackballs to get rather gummy or just downright barely working (there's a machine I played once where you had to put some major spin on the bastard to get even the slightest movement), I can't blame him for bringing his own well-maintained trackball. The electronics that receive the input from it are still the same.
Home version != arcade version. The play's going to be different, sometimes the scoring is different, the levels may be different, etc. Even if it's an emulation using the same arcade rom, there's no guarantee to Guinness that the gameplay was the same. Perhaps the emulator ran the game slightly slower so your reflexes didn't have to be as good. For all they know, you could have hacked the rom to make it significantly easier. Sure you could technically also do that with the arcade version, but as a general rule the overall chances of cheating are less on an actual arcade unit. Guinness wants its records to stand up to questioning. It may have started out as a bar book, but now a lot of people use it as a reference of sorts. With that comes increased responsibility for integrity.
It's a nice add-on feature, and if it doesn't increase the cost too much, why the hell not?
There's also a player out there (Shinco 868, I believe) that has a built-in Genesis. I would've bought it, but I was having trouble finding any reviews of the DVD playback quality. Also, the Genesis portion uses separate video outs, which are PAL, so I would've needed to buy a converter as well.