Coinmarketcap should have announced this change before execution. Not notifying users was irresponsible and has damaged their reputation as a reliable data provider.
Actually there is one thing left, but it's also the kind of hard job that Apple doesn't handle well. Right now we pick phones based on how easy it is to enter data without a keyboard. That's pretty ludicrous when you think about it. If we could input data to a phone by speaking into it how amazing would that be? Yeah, I know, voice rec is hard, but when it comes along it's going to be the only kind of smartphone worth owning. And Apple isn't even working on it.
My old G1 did voice recognition really bad. My G2 does voice recognition much better (speaking German names in their English version is pretty funny). So as it looks, Google is trying hard to get voice recognition into Gx phones. Now Google has some brilliant voice recognition folks working for them, who really LOVE spoken words. (hi R., best wishes from Munich;) Therefore, when the time comes that the spoken word is handling your phone, it might be a Google phone.
Zune has an imitation touch wheel, that doesn't work as promised by first look.
Hey, Microsoft marketing folks: what about iTouchWheel(R) as another buzz word?
Zune: "me too" inferiority as far as the eye can see.
was built by Konrad Zuse who probably was the
first hacker too since the living room of his
parents appartment was pretty completely filled
out by his computer in 1941.
Emacspeak is a speech enabled interface for computer users who are blind.
Written by T.V. Raman who is blind himself, Emacspeak has opened the door of high performance computing to many others who would be locked out otherwise.
Emacspeak provides speech enabled web browsing, spread sheets, speech icons, speech locking (different kinds of text are spoken with different voices, similar to text colorisation in Vim), speech enabled handling of formulas, email, news and so many more features. Check it out yourself.
I did and this was the final kick that convinced me, that Emacspeak is the most advanced non graphical user interface available on this planet. (It is IMHO even more advanced than many GUIs:)
I therefore nominate Emacspeak for/.'s Best Designed Interface in a Non-GUI App Award.
...can see Red Hat stock jumping skyward if a billion communists suddenly decide...
Ever been there? Probably not. You wouldnt find too many "communists" there. But it would take your breath when you feel their will to innovate.
It is amazing to see that computing America has first class technical knowledge but information state about other countries remained on a cowboy level. I dont want to insult cowboys, a profession which I like very much. They are IMHO connected with freedom (same thing applies to Linux:).
But while a cowboy doesnt need to know too much about politics, cyber cowboys should.
To clarify that Scientology produced disk defragmentation thing:
It is the German catholic church which is opposing Windows 2000 because of that piece of software This has nothing to do with German government or German laws (not yet:)
As so often, IMHO moral and business are often pretty close together. Among moral considerations, churches see Scientology as competition for the souls and the purses of their faithful.
The church ban was often used in former times to fight against individuals which were not in line with religious (or political) ideas of those at the top of the catholic church.
More famous people banned were Martin Luther (in 1521), who later translated the bible from Latin into a living language and queen Elisabeth I of England (in 1570).
So if you should get banned by accident, you are in prominent company:)
Team up with the guys from PALM and/or HANDSPRING. For them, the availability to download books into their devices has cash value since it can attract new customers. They'll eventually place some pointer to PG into their hand-held manuals or their web sites.
Try to get some authors to sponsor PG by providing etext stuff (or even books?) donated to PG.
The/. crew provides a column "My Favorite Literature Download of the Month" which can bring new insights to geeks who usually read more Perl than literature pearls (training the other half of your brain cannot be wrong and might even improve your programming skills:)
Sorry to correct you: most part of the information sent through the web is ASCII. Download a web page and check the content.
It wouldn't be difficult to offer web pages which can be accessed by people who are blind. If your Lynx browser can access your web page, then a person who is blind can too.
Check your SDRAMS for memory errors. I had the same problems for about eight weeks until I found out that some SDRAM memory cells were unstable. Memtest is quite good in finding broken memory chips which other memory testers cannot find.
That Little Green Heat Sink (LGHS) of the BP6 may need some special treatment if you want to oc your BP6 baby:
The LGHS is casted out of Aluminum. The side which makes contact with the BX chips is not flattenened mechanically after casting (bean counters?).
Problem: When the LGHS cools down after casting, it will bend upwards because of its shape (look at its bridge like design). Now the contact surface will make very bad contact with your BX chip.
The original (bended) heatsink may produce hot spots on your BX chip. Even an additional fan cannot help, if the heat sink makes poor contact.
______|---------|______ |-------------------|
LGHS hot after casting
_______/--------\_______ |----______________----|
LGHS cooled down after casting
Solution: Pull the two white plugs which are pressing the LGHS against the chip and remove the LGHS. Take fine water resistant sanding paper (120 is OK), apply some water for smoothest results and put paper on a flat piece of glass. Now flatten the LGHS contact surface.
Control result by holding a ruler against the surface and look against light. If surface is flat, you'll see a nice constant boundary.
Use heat transfer compound when reassembling. This may make the difference between a stable and an unstable board. Same thing applies for the CPU heat sinks.
Some minor discrepancy which catched my eye. The author first states that (A)
Authoritarian methods will kill any given open source project more effectively than anything else.
and later (B)
Open source may sound democratic, but it isn't. Leaders of the best known open source development efforts often explicitely stated that they function as dictators
It seems impossible that booth of these statements are true. Did the author miss something here?
This leads to one major difference between science and (Open Source) software development which N.B. didn't touch:
It can be described with hill climbing. When scientists work together to do research on a topic, they try to climb a hill. There exists only one hill and they know when they have reached the top of it because they can proof it by something like a formula.
(Open Source) software design is like hill climbing too, but there are many different hills you can climb on and you have to choose one of them which is good enough for you. You usually never reach the top, because the hill grows as you climb. Therefore a dictator which has a good feeling for the right direction is of great value. (Therefore sentence B seems to be true).
Science and software design may have some things in common. But I'm not sure if software design isn't related more to philosophy than to the scientific world.
Their web pages look relatively Linux friendly and reasonable. So it might be worth to find out _why_ they trademarked Linux (only stupid or unfriendly?).
That whole moderation project seems to become over regulated. Sound pretty like a control freak paradise to me.
Time to moderate the moderation? Why not trusting in the bad taste of the masses?
Every/. reader who is logged in (no ACs) is able to moderate. The volume of moderation points is limited per day. People whose postings were loved (got points) get more moderation points than the average.
Postings are not rated by absolute points but by relative weights. Six groups: best, better, equal, below, lowest, unrated
Weights are calculated for each/. theme as weight = points_received * number_of_postings_for_that_theme / total_points_given_for_that_theme
Forget their marketing babble. I wouldn't buy their overclocked 466 Celeron boards because they have chosen the wrong CPU. 466 Celerons don't perform as good as 366 when it comes to oc. The only 466++ bonus: these chips run cooler than their slower brothers, 366: about 33W, 466: about 30 W booth at 550 mhz (calculated from INTEL specs. Search for the INTEL 243658-009 datasheet). But what about this 8 fold speed increase they are talking about? Do they mean the 8x multiplier setting of the ABIT BP6? Sorry to say that this doesn't matter, because Celerons have locked multipliers: The 300A is locked at 4,54, the 366 at 5.54 and the 466 at 7.0. So using a 2x multiplier, your 466 will run as fast as using a 8x multiplier. Your Celereon simply ignores your multiplier settings. Your only way to oc the cpu is by increasing the speed of the fsb. INTEL thinks that Celerons should run only using a 66 MHz fsb (perhaps Celerons would be too fast otherwise ?:) Now if you change the speed of the fsb to a healthy 100 MHz, your 466 Celeron would try to run at 706 MHz. To get it to boot (if it posts at all), you'll have to increase its core voltage to about 2.2 - 2.3 volts. But be prepared to have a fire extinguisher at hand after 10 minutes:) So you have to go down with your fsb speed back to about 80 MHz. Now your CPU runs stable without signs of smoke at about 550 MHz. But which CPU will be faster: A 466 Celeron running at 550 MHz with a 80 MHz fsb or a 366 Celeron running at 550 MHz with a 100 MHz fsb? BTW: The main problem when overclocking is heat dissipation. A 366 running at 550 will release about 33 W. Air coolers big enough to remove that amount of heat will be pretty bulky (and don't forget your BX chip with that nice tiny green cooling cap). My BP6 runs perfectly stable at 366@550 (Vcore 2.2 Volts) as long as you let it run cool. At the moment I'm using an additional big room ventilator which blows cool air into the open case. (CPUs about 50 grd C, BX chip 48 grd C). Upgrading to a water cooling system and 2x600 mhz comes into mind. Just yesterday I happend to buy a nice litte silent water pump and some copper:) --
While code forking is evidence that there exists a centrifugal force in the world of open code, code reunification is the living proof that there must be an attractive force too. BTW, what about anti matter, black holes, super novae?;)
I would beg to differ too:) First: My annotations came under the title 'Blind support and Linux'. So the argument
moving to GUIs for those things they
do better, graphics and netscape
sounds somewhat strange.
Second: Nobody will dispute the importance of a CLI. The point is: soon a blind power user will find out, that the command line interface isn't enough to fullfill his/her needs.
Think about working with a spreadsheet and a screen reader. Now an intelligent speech enabled user interface like Emacspeak enters the arena.
And finally: I didn't promote a personalized user interface but an intelligent user interface. A pretty differend beast. An IUI works as a transmitter between you box and the user. This could be a speech enabled interface which 'knows' that this application uses windows. Think about a news reader where thread info is stored in one window, header info in the second and the message in a third window.
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Coinmarketcap should have announced this change before execution. Not notifying users was irresponsible and has damaged their reputation as a reliable data provider.
Check out that README file from SIMATIC PCS 7 CEMAT libraries found at
http://bit.ly/brTlB7
Page 2 "Projekt Schlüssel" (=project key) 024
I bet a "gefillte fish" that project key 024 is stuxnet's target site...
Actually there is one thing left, but it's also the kind of hard job that Apple doesn't handle well. Right now we pick phones based on how easy it is to enter data without a keyboard. That's pretty ludicrous when you think about it. If we could input data to a phone by speaking into it how amazing would that be? Yeah, I know, voice rec is hard, but when it comes along it's going to be the only kind of smartphone worth owning. And Apple isn't even working on it.
My old G1 did voice recognition really bad. My G2 does voice recognition much better (speaking German names in their English version is pretty funny). So as it looks, Google is trying hard to get voice recognition into Gx phones. Now Google has some brilliant voice recognition folks working for them, who really LOVE spoken words. (hi R., best wishes from Munich ;) Therefore, when the time comes that the spoken word is handling your phone, it might be a Google phone.
I can prove that she exists.
Once I sent her something after emailing her for her address.
After that she sent me a very kind email, a IBM robot never would send ;)
Enjoy!
And last but not least:
iPod comes with a real touch wheel.
Zune has an imitation touch wheel, that doesn't work as promised by first look.
Hey, Microsoft marketing folks: what about iTouchWheel(R) as another buzz word?
Zune: "me too" inferiority as far as the eye can see.
was built by Konrad Zuse who probably was the
first hacker too since the living room of his
parents appartment was pretty completely filled
out by his computer in 1941.
Zuse
--
Emacspeak is a speech enabled interface
:)
:)
/.'s
for computer users who are blind.
Written by T.V. Raman who is blind himself,
Emacspeak has opened the door of high performance
computing to many others who would be locked out otherwise.
Even the NSA is using it. So it has to be powerful
Emacspeak provides speech enabled web browsing,
spread sheets, speech icons, speech locking
(different kinds of text are spoken with different
voices, similar to text colorisation in Vim),
speech enabled handling of formulas, email, news
and so many more features. Check it out yourself.
Did you ever see a blind person playing Tetris?
I did and this was the final kick that convinced me,
that Emacspeak is the most advanced
non graphical user interface available on this planet.
(It is IMHO even more advanced than many GUIs
I therefore nominate Emacspeak for
Best Designed Interface in a Non-GUI App Award.
Enjoy!
Hans
--
Ever been there? Probably not. You wouldnt find
too many "communists" there. But it would take
your breath when you feel their will to innovate.
It is amazing to see that computing America
has first class technical knowledge but
information state about other countries remained
on a cowboy level. I dont want to insult
cowboys, a profession which I like very much.
They are IMHO connected with freedom (same thing
applies to Linux
But while a cowboy doesnt need to know too much about politics, cyber cowboys should.
--
Spacedaily claims, that there could be some problems
with the descent engine.
That could explain, why the two ballistic
devices didn't phone home, despite they would use
their own transmitters.
--
To clarify that Scientology produced disk
:)
:)
defragmentation thing:
It is the German catholic church which is opposing
Windows 2000 because of that piece of software
This has nothing to do with German government or
German laws (not yet
As so often, IMHO moral and business are often
pretty close together. Among moral considerations,
churches see Scientology as competition for the
souls and the purses of their faithful.
The church ban
was often used in former times to fight against
individuals which were not in line
with religious (or political) ideas of those at
the top of the catholic church.
More famous people banned were Martin Luther (in 1521),
who later translated the bible from Latin into a
living language and queen Elisabeth I of England (in 1570).
So if you should get banned by accident, you are
in prominent company
--
I have the impression that Debian's development
model is somewhat slow compared to the release
cycles of commercial Linux distributors.
There is IMHO the danger that Debian falls
behind against commercial Linux distributors.
Could more (benevolent) dictatorship and less
democracy help Debian to release solid code faster?
--
Team up with the guys from PALM and/or HANDSPRING.
;)
/. crew provides a column "My Favorite :)
For them, the availability to download books into their devices
has cash value since it can attract new customers.
They'll eventually place some pointer to PG into
their hand-held manuals or their web sites.
Try to get some authors to sponsor PG by providing
etext stuff (or even books?) donated to PG.
Speak to Tim O'Reilly.
The
Literature Download of the Month" which can
bring new insights to geeks who usually read more
Perl than literature pearls (training the other
half of your brain cannot be wrong and
might even improve your programming skills
--
imagine what _you_ would do without a
decent interface to access the Net?
--
Sorry to correct you:
most part of the information sent through the
web is ASCII. Download a web page and check the
content.
It wouldn't be difficult to offer web pages
which can be accessed by people who are blind.
If your Lynx browser can access your web page,
then a person who is blind can too.
--
I'm sure his parents were really happy when
this guy (Konrad Zuse) built the first freely
programmable computer (the Z1, ready in 1938)
which completely filled up their whole living room.
BTW: his parents did sponsor him. No gov. funding.
--
Take care for the little green heat sink
Check your SDRAMS for memory errors. I had the
same problems for about eight weeks until I found
out that some SDRAM memory cells were unstable.
Memtest is quite good in finding broken memory
chips which other memory testers cannot find.
--
That Little Green Heat Sink (LGHS) of the BP6 may
:)
need some special treatment if you want to oc your
BP6 baby:
The LGHS is casted out of Aluminum. The side which
makes contact with the BX chips is not flattenened
mechanically after casting (bean counters?).
Problem:
When the LGHS cools down after casting,
it will bend upwards because of its shape
(look at its bridge like design). Now the
contact surface will make very bad contact with
your BX chip.
The original (bended) heatsink may produce hot
spots on your BX chip. Even an additional fan
cannot help, if the heat sink makes poor contact.
______|---------|______
|-------------------|
LGHS hot after casting
_______/--------\_______
|----______________----|
LGHS cooled down after casting
Solution:
Pull the two white plugs which are pressing the
LGHS against the chip and remove the LGHS.
Take fine water resistant sanding paper (120 is
OK), apply some water for smoothest results and
put paper on a flat piece of glass. Now flatten
the LGHS contact surface.
Control result by holding a ruler against the
surface and look against light. If surface is
flat, you'll see a nice constant boundary.
Use heat transfer compound when reassembling.
This may make the difference between a stable and
an unstable board. Same thing applies for the CPU
heat sinks.
Now reboot into BIOS and set fsb at will
--
The author first states that (A)
and later (B)
It seems impossible that booth of these statements
are true. Did the author miss something here?
This leads to one major difference between
science and (Open Source) software development
which N.B. didn't touch:
It can be described with hill climbing.
When scientists work together to do research on a
topic, they try to climb a hill. There exists only
one hill and they know when they have reached the
top of it because they can proof it by something
like a formula.
(Open Source) software design is like hill
climbing too, but there are many different hills
you can climb on and you have to choose one of
them which is good enough for you. You usually
never reach the top, because the hill grows as you
climb. Therefore a dictator which has a good
feeling for the right direction is of great value.
(Therefore sentence B seems to be true).
Science and software design may have some
things in common. But I'm not sure if software
design isn't related more to philosophy than to
the scientific world.
--
The typical German is a nazi.
The typical Russian is a commie.
The typical Jew is greedy.
...
Such a spirit IMHO doesn't match with the spirit of the people behind Linux.
--
..which filed the Linux trade mark is
www.channel-one.de
They have an email address info@channel-one.de
and apparently feedback@channel-one.de ( I found
the latter using a search engine).
Their web pages look relatively Linux friendly and
reasonable. So it might be worth to find out _why_
they trademarked Linux (only stupid or unfriendly?).
--
could it be that..... (see footer)
--
That whole moderation project seems to become
/. reader who is logged in (no ACs) is able
/. theme as
over regulated. Sound pretty like a control freak
paradise to me.
Time to moderate the moderation?
Why not trusting in the bad taste of the masses?
Every
to moderate. The volume of moderation points
is limited per day. People whose postings were
loved (got points) get more moderation points than
the average.
Postings are not rated by absolute points but
by relative weights. Six groups: best, better,
equal, below, lowest, unrated
Weights are calculated for each
weight = points_received * number_of_postings_for_that_theme / total_points_given_for_that_theme
That's it.
Just my 0.02 moderation points
--
Forget their marketing babble. I wouldn't buy their overclocked 466 Celeron boards because they have chosen the wrong CPU. 466 Celerons don't perform as good as 366 when it comes to oc. The only 466++ bonus: these chips run cooler than their slower brothers, 366: about 33W, 466: about 30 W booth at 550 mhz (calculated from INTEL specs. Search for the INTEL 243658-009 datasheet). But what about this 8 fold speed increase they are talking about? Do they mean the 8x multiplier setting of the ABIT BP6? Sorry to say that this doesn't matter, because Celerons have locked multipliers: The 300A is locked at 4,54, the 366 at 5.54 and the 466 at 7.0. So using a 2x multiplier, your 466 will run as fast as using a 8x multiplier. Your Celereon simply ignores your multiplier settings. Your only way to oc the cpu is by increasing the speed of the fsb. INTEL thinks that Celerons should run only using a 66 MHz fsb (perhaps Celerons would be too fast otherwise ? :) Now if you change the speed of the fsb to a healthy 100 MHz, your 466 Celeron would try to run at 706 MHz. To get it to boot (if it posts at all), you'll have to increase its core voltage to about 2.2 - 2.3 volts. But be prepared to have a fire extinguisher at hand after 10 minutes :) So you have to go down with your fsb speed back to about 80 MHz. Now your CPU runs stable without signs of smoke at about 550 MHz. But which CPU will be faster: A 466 Celeron running at 550 MHz with a 80 MHz fsb or a 366 Celeron running at 550 MHz with a 100 MHz fsb? BTW: The main problem when overclocking is heat dissipation. A 366 running at 550 will release about 33 W. Air coolers big enough to remove that amount of heat will be pretty bulky (and don't forget your BX chip with that nice tiny green cooling cap). My BP6 runs perfectly stable at 366@550 (Vcore 2.2 Volts) as long as you let it run cool. At the moment I'm using an additional big room ventilator which blows cool air into the open case. (CPUs about 50 grd C, BX chip 48 grd C). Upgrading to a water cooling system and 2x600 mhz comes into mind. Just yesterday I happend to buy a nice litte silent water pump and some copper:)
--
While code forking is evidence that there exists ;)
a centrifugal force in the world of open code,
code reunification is the living proof that there
must be an attractive force too.
BTW, what about anti matter, black holes, super novae?
--
First: My annotations came under the title 'Blind
support and Linux'. So the argument
sounds somewhat strange.
Second: Nobody will dispute the importance of a
CLI. The point is: soon a blind power user will
find out, that the command line interface isn't
enough to fullfill his/her needs.
Think about working with a spreadsheet and a
screen reader. Now an intelligent speech enabled
user interface like Emacspeak enters the arena.
And finally: I didn't promote a personalized user
interface but an intelligent user interface.
A pretty differend beast.
An IUI works as a transmitter between you box and
the user. This could be a speech enabled interface
which 'knows' that this application uses windows.
Think about a news reader where thread info is
stored in one window, header info in the second
and the message in a third window.
--