I attend Wayland High School in MA. Our computer lab consists of a bunch of iMacs and G3-All-in-ones. This year we also acquired a bunch (15/20 maybe) iBooks and Airport Base Stations. A teacher can sign out the iBook station for his or her class to use for a period. Supposedly, they all really like it (the labs can be crazy to run a class in).
Earlier this year, however, I was involved in a Computer Graphics independent study. I was writing my software to run on OpenGL/X11 in LinuxPPC. I tried to get the computer people to even let me install Linux on a single computer, but there was no such luck. Her major point that she used against Linux was that our school has over 900 software programs that run on MacOS and she couldn't justify losing even one computer that could run them.
I think this is something Linux users forget. Linux office apps are OK, but school isn't all about Office. Sure, Linux can handle word processing, web browsing, etc. But how many "Mario Teaches Typing", "Interactive Physics", "Electric Field Hockey", "Geometric Golfer", "Geometry Sketchpad", "Green Globs and Math Equations" (to name a few of the ones I've used in various classes) are there for Linux? Sure, Linux can take care of all the work, but how much learning can it provide?
Maybe some company could take on writing a bunch of educational apps open-source, and then make a profit on binary CDs, etc.
OK, first let's ship everything we need to launch to India... then we've already spent any money we would have saved from that 1% difference in gravity:)
I know plenty of Islams and they would take effence from what you said, and i do.
I know plenty of Muslims and they would take offense at you calling them "Islams."
And besides, you spelled offense wrong... and "I," and that's just in one sentence. Amazing!
-Toad
Well, I already knew this.
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Hell, in my physics classroom it's about 30% as strong as anywhere else. I proved it myself in a lab last week- it's about 3.2 m/s^2 in our corner of the room!
Strangely enough, it's just about 9.8 up front. I guess the earth is pretty aspherical.
It is not very hard to give software the perfect Aqua look without using GIFs when running in OSX. There is a section of Carbon called the AppearanceManager, which includes calls for drawing every single widget that Aqua provides, without actually adding a "real" widget. I haven't looked at the Mozilla code (ever), but they could probably use these calls from the Appearance Manager to draw anything they need.
All PowerPCs are capable of 64-bit. You just need to toggle some bit in some special purpose register. It's just that no OS runs them in 64-bit mode that I know of:)
There was some talk of the Linux kernel being modified to run 64-bit on PPC, but eventually they determined that it would be more trouble than it's worth.
At first I misread: NASA and university researchers are looking into creating PANTS that emit a jellyfish-like glow as a signal of trouble
Just imagine what sort of trouble!
So, after a French agent sells some manuals to the Poles, all the Polish mathematicians will be listening in on German cell phone traffic?
(Allusion to Enigma. If you don't get it, Google for "Enigma Rejewski Hans-Thilo" or something.
No, no goatse.cx link... There's an emulator I helped out a bit on (interrupts and timers) called Playboy Advance. It runs on Macs and runs almost every commercial game.
You can "tinker" your own car and get a little extra mileage with just a little bit of acid and water and these plans. Basically, it runs a current through the electrolyte-filled water, causing it to electrolyse into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas. These go boom and you go faster. (don't worry, it's a little boom.)
Is there any hope of survival against the incumbent phone companies who will do anything to squash competition?
These guys must be competing with Apple, who seems to have recently developed some plans related to squash. People have been saying Apple has been on the edge for years, but now that the big bad phone companies are after their squash...
Aqua isn't just glowing buttons, while the glowing buttons are nice looking. Just as Apple created the first Human Interface Guidlines, they've done it again(pdf) for Aqua, with many changes. It is a good read, even if you don't plan on developing for MacOS X.
What looks like a Squash? They taste sort of like pumpkins, but nothing looks quite like squash.
Secondly, how are they going to get a computer to look like a squash and still work? I guess they managed to make the iBook look like a toilet-seat, so anything's possible.
"Now we can speak all the languages! And all are going to understand to us, right? This it was translated by Babelfish. He is so correct, no? I am certain that this he is English perfect (same that what a native one would speak)"
We can all talk like this now, and foreigners can have even more reasons to laugh at Americans.
Yet another slashdot spelling mistake... If you're going to try to be witty and use other languages to try to increase people's perception of your intelligence or chic-ness, at least do it right.
And this is a first post- MY first post, not the story's first post...
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I think Kibo-bytes is an excellent name for a new dog food! It's like Kibbles and Bits for big dogs.
-Todd
I attend Wayland High School in MA. Our computer lab consists of a bunch of iMacs and G3-All-in-ones. This year we also acquired a bunch (15/20 maybe) iBooks and Airport Base Stations. A teacher can sign out the iBook station for his or her class to use for a period. Supposedly, they all really like it (the labs can be crazy to run a class in).
Earlier this year, however, I was involved in a Computer Graphics independent study. I was writing my software to run on OpenGL/X11 in LinuxPPC. I tried to get the computer people to even let me install Linux on a single computer, but there was no such luck. Her major point that she used against Linux was that our school has over 900 software programs that run on MacOS and she couldn't justify losing even one computer that could run them.
I think this is something Linux users forget. Linux office apps are OK, but school isn't all about Office. Sure, Linux can handle word processing, web browsing, etc. But how many "Mario Teaches Typing", "Interactive Physics", "Electric Field Hockey", "Geometric Golfer", "Geometry Sketchpad", "Green Globs and Math Equations" (to name a few of the ones I've used in various classes) are there for Linux? Sure, Linux can take care of all the work, but how much learning can it provide?
Maybe some company could take on writing a bunch of educational apps open-source, and then make a profit on binary CDs, etc.
-Toad
OK, first let's ship everything we need to launch to India... then we've already spent any money we would have saved from that 1% difference in gravity :)
-Toad
I know plenty of Islams and they would take effence from what you said, and i do.
I know plenty of Muslims and they would take offense at you calling them "Islams."
And besides, you spelled offense wrong... and "I," and that's just in one sentence. Amazing!
-Toad
Hell, in my physics classroom it's about 30% as strong as anywhere else. I proved it myself in a lab last week- it's about 3.2 m/s^2 in our corner of the room!
Strangely enough, it's just about 9.8 up front. I guess the earth is pretty aspherical.
-Toad
It is not very hard to give software the perfect Aqua look without using GIFs when running in OSX. There is a section of Carbon called the AppearanceManager, which includes calls for drawing every single widget that Aqua provides, without actually adding a "real" widget. I haven't looked at the Mozilla code (ever), but they could probably use these calls from the Appearance Manager to draw anything they need.
All PowerPCs are capable of 64-bit. You just need to toggle some bit in some special purpose register. It's just that no OS runs them in 64-bit mode that I know of :)
There was some talk of the Linux kernel being modified to run 64-bit on PPC, but eventually they determined that it would be more trouble than it's worth.
In the Tolkein, not the endocrinological or Snow White sense.
I bet you're a big fan of Tolkien, right? I guess that's why you spelled his name wrong. Nice journalism, Slashdot:
-Toad
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Why not have the PPC cross compile to x86? It would be fair then.
-Toad
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At first I misread:
NASA and university researchers are looking into creating PANTS that emit a jellyfish-like glow as a signal of trouble
Just imagine what sort of trouble!
-Toad
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So, after a French agent sells some manuals to the Poles, all the Polish mathematicians will be listening in on German cell phone traffic?
(Allusion to Enigma. If you don't get it, Google for "Enigma Rejewski Hans-Thilo" or something.
-Toad
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No, no goatse.cx link... There's an emulator I helped out a bit on (interrupts and timers) called Playboy Advance. It runs on Macs and runs almost every commercial game.
-Toad
--
You can "tinker" your own car and get a little extra mileage with just a little bit of acid and water and these plans. Basically, it runs a current through the electrolyte-filled water, causing it to electrolyse into Hydrogen and Oxygen gas. These go boom and you go faster. (don't worry, it's a little boom.)
--
Is there any hope of survival against the incumbent phone companies who will do anything to squash competition?
These guys must be competing with Apple, who seems to have recently developed some plans related to squash. People have been saying Apple has been on the edge for years, but now that the big bad phone companies are after their squash...
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Aqua isn't just glowing buttons, while the glowing buttons are nice looking. Just as Apple created the first Human Interface Guidlines, they've done it again(pdf) for Aqua, with many changes. It is a good read, even if you don't plan on developing for MacOS X.
-Toad
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What looks like a Squash? They taste sort of like pumpkins, but nothing looks quite like squash.
Secondly, how are they going to get a computer to look like a squash and still work? I guess they managed to make the iBook look like a toilet-seat, so anything's possible.
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Nice to post a little bit of background on what i-mode is and its effects on the general community.
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"Now we can speak all the languages! And all are going to understand to us, right? This it was translated by Babelfish. He is so correct, no? I am certain that this he is English perfect (same that what a native one would speak)"
We can all talk like this now, and foreigners can have even more reasons to laugh at Americans.
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Yet another slashdot spelling mistake... If you're going to try to be witty and use other languages to try to increase people's perception of your intelligence or chic-ness, at least do it right. And this is a first post- MY first post, not the story's first post...
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