The goal of ArsDigita University was to offer the world's best computer science education, at an undergraduate level, to people who were otherwise unable to obtain it. ADUni.org is now a site run by alumni of the school seeking to carry on that mission.
In 2000-2001, 34 talented and motivated college graduates attended a one-year, intensive, comprehensive undergraduate computer science program, for free. The program was an experiment in curriculum design, free education, and the effect of the Internet on the future of education. ArsDigita University was the brainchild of entrepreneur Philip Greenspun and the ArsDigita Foundation.
After one year, ArsDigita University lost funding and was forced to close its physical doors. Yet, we prefer to think of the program as dormant, not dead. As we redesign aduni.org, we will continue to host all of our course materials and will provide as much information as possible about the workings of this past year - who we are, what we did, how we did it, what worked, what didn't work, and what we're doing now.
I don't think there's any other group in the world that can promote free software as well as the BSA can. I mean, the more BSA extortional "warning letters" that are sent or jack-booted thugs that come raiding into offices, the more that IT organizations are going to look for alternatives.
It's been argued on Slashdot before that more people would take free software seriously if they had to pay for all the stuff they use already. I agree. I say, good, make them pay up (plus penalties!), then they'll get a clue and stop using M$.
I don't think there should be anyone on Slashdot that's one bit against the BSA. Go BSA, go!
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa googledy dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me
What do you get when you use the web too much
Browsing all day and getting a gut
What are you at, getting terribly fat
What do you think will come of that
I don't like the look of it
Oompa loompa googledy da
If you're a good hacker, you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the Oompa Loompa Googledy do
Googledy do
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got another portal for you
Oompa loompa doompeda dee
If you're "Feeling Lucky" you'll listen to me
Programming's fine when it's once in a while
It earns you lots of money and keeps you in style
But it's repulsive, revolting and wrong
Programming and hacking all day long
The way that a geek does
Oompa loompa googledy da
Given good bandwidth you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the Oompa Loompa Googledy do
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got another feature for you
Oompa loompa googledy dee
If you are wise you'll program with me
Who do you blame when your program is slow
Unscalable and bloated like a hindue cow
Blaming the admins is a lie and a shame
You know exactly who's to blame
Only the de-ve-lo-per
Oompa loompa googledy da
If you're not spoiled then you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the Oompa Loompa Googledy do
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got another search for you
Oompa loompa doompeda dee
If you are wise you'll advertise with me
What do you get from a glut of TV
A pain in the neck and an IQ of three
Why don't you try simply searching the web
Or could you just not bear to look
You'll get no
You'll get no
You'll get no
You'll get no
You'll get no commercials
Oompa loompa googledy da
If you like programming you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the - Oompa -
Oompa Loompa Googledy do
(With all due respect to Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley http://gunther.simplenet.com/v/data/theoompa.htm )
According to this article Google is getting deluged by resumes, this is just a way for them to weed out the 600+ resumes they get a day.
The winner of this contest (and maybe a few of the runner ups) will most likely get a job offer as well. Beats having to weed through 4200 greatly exagerated CVs every week...
I would say that this argument is very similar to the issue of Marijuana.
The fact is that this is a very common drug, yet it's still criminilized for little to no real reason since it doesn't seem to be any more dangerous than alcohol. We can debate this, but the fact is that smoking weed is probably as common as fileswapping (Maybe more so, or probably at the same time!). According to your logic, maryjane should be legal by now.
E.g. "The first time a senator's teenaged offspring get's hauled in for smoking a joint in the park, we'd see some serious talk about what makes someone a criminal."
So I would say that if Jane Budlover is still being prosecuted for blazing up now and then, she's going to still have problems downloading copyrighted files for a very long time.
-Russ
Die Photo and Size
on
Intel's Big Chip
·
· Score: 5, Informative
"Slide 22 of the presentation features a die photo of McKinley. The large 3 MB L3 cache is notable, and according to the presentation, it consumes 20% less area than traditional designs and is overall 85% efficient (~70% for traditional designs)."
Everyone else seems to want to ignore the C# issue so I'll take the bait.
If you program in C# you're limiting yourself to an untested, almost unportable language and to the Microsoft platform. I would think that if you were serious enough to waste all of Slashdot's time with this question, you would be serious enough to choose a real programming language, not some Microsoft marketing scheme.
Use Java. If you don't know it already, I would suggest that it's much more valuable to learn than C#. If you already "know" Java, a challenging project like this will teach you a ton and give you a much better depth in the language which employers are really looking for these days. Every second you spend learning Java will be more money in your pocket. Every second you spend learning C# will be more money in Microsoft's. And hell, if you do it in C++, you'll be even more of a programming head and even more valuable.
Yes, but what a dream! What a chance to do something cool in a great place to live! I mean, if they had just spent a bit more time on story development (or hired some clueful writers) they might have been a success. That's a chance worth taking... There's a lot more to work than being in some dark office in frickin' Iowa (apologies to any of you who are there...) San Francisco is an incredibly expensive place to live/work, but it's worth it to many of the tech companies based there.
Anyone reading this who lives in Hawaii and is a programmer? I'd cut my pay in 1/4 to be you, I don't care. Living in Hawaii and programming like my man Phillipe Kahn is freakin' cool.
"Build something innovative that solves a difficult problem and you will have something.
Most of the long-term successful companies were built on those terms." -PK
Wait, are you sure that's OE and not normal Outlook? If it came with Office I would assume it's the latter, but I haven't installed Office XP so I don't know.
I'm using the latest Outlook Express and Ctl-F3 works fine to see the original source of any email. Not sure where this guy is getting his info. Maybe it's different on XP (I'm on Windows 2000), but I'm using the newest OE (6.000.2600) so it shouldn't be different.
Ctl-F3 is handy for copying and pasting SPAM messages into SpamCop web forms.
I have to come to defense of Outlook Express. (God help me...).
If you're not familiar with the two Outlook products, here's an overview: Normal "Outlook" is the crappy Microsoft Office-integrated, do-it-all, unsecure, scheduling, Exchange-client, mail reader and more and Outlook Express is simply the POP/IMAP that comes with IE. The latter is a great mail client.
I don't use Internet Explorer anymore - I've been using Mozilla since 9.5 (a few months now) and I love it. But I can't use the Mozilla mail client yet, it's just not mature enough. OE is simple to use, fast, manages the 10,000 emails I have in folders without problems, doesn't make me manage each email account separately (though I could if I wanted), decent filtering, higher-security, etc. Whoever wrote this app at Microsoft had a clue as it's really well done. There's not much wrong with it, except, I guess, whatever this guy is ranting about and the fact that it's a Microsoft product.
The last bit does bother me as I'm slowly weaning myself from M$ products. I have TRIED many other email programs (for Windows) and not been satisfied at all. The Bat!, Eudora, Mozilla, Opera's Email bit and others that have come and gone from my system. Until they're more like OE, I'm not switching...
I'm really pulling for the Mozilla team and gave my feedback to some of the Mail guys during the Bug Week or whatever it's called. But I'm not a C++ programmer (and even if I was, I'm not installing Microsoft Visual C++ to develop with Mozilla...) so I just have to wait until it gets mature enough for daily use.
One good thing though is that the Mozilla importer is great for pulling in my emails from OE already. So when the UI is up to snuff, it'll be a snap to switch over. (And then I can seriously consider switching over to Linux full-time also...)
Hmmmm... Interesting. The first link on the TimeDomain's website is this LA Times Article about how the FCC is set to aprove the technology next month and how they used UWB during the World Trade Center disaster to look for victims.
Like Johnny used to say: "I, I did not know that."
The mistake is thinking that Palm's decision has only to do with Microsoft - granted M$ now has a 20% share and rising fast of the PDA market, but I don't think that Palm cares much about that market any more. Palm's heading wireless and the competition is more likely going to be Symbian (EPOC) and Java more than Microsoft.
I say this because Palm is going to be launching their 5.0 OS in the first week in February, but despite the addition of BeOS, they're not going to be adding multimedia stuff and instead are concentrating on wireless connectivity and the ARM processor. They've prioritized, and personally, I agree with their priorities.
Just like Handspring's Treo, Palm is thinking about betting the farm on connected devices. Phones, PDAs with WiFi, etc. They'll have to have tremendous battery life and be very secure, etc. but that's one thing that Microsoft doesn't have, so at least this plain is wide open.
I submitted some "research" I did about this to Slashdot a few days ago but it got turned down, you can read it here.
This is a bit offtopic, but it's a real question: Why are there still three BSDs? OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD? And if these are all open-source, why doesn't Linux benefit from their code and just implement their kernel (since, from what I understand BSD scales better than Linux). I can understand why there was Unix fragmentation before open source was common, but why now?
And finally (back on topic) why EXACTLY is BSD more secure than other OSs (Windows, etc.) Does it automatically protect from buffer overruns or something?
The M505 could even use a little shrinking still. PocketPC devices are not addressing shrinking form factor, but rather are adding bloatware bells and whistles. I would not even consider looking at one if I couldn't leave it in my shirt pocket comfortably.
Wow, full circle - This is why I think that Handspring is smart by betting the farm on the Treo. I'm with you - I want my PDA to be small and extremely portable, just like my mobile phone. From what I've read and seen (and from what Handspring claims) the Treo is the smallest of all the Palm devices so far (smaller than a deck of cards) and it's a phone which means I can kill two birds with one credit card purchase. I think a lot of people will be just like me.
This is definitely the area where the PocketPC is going to have trouble following the PalmOS - to this small of a form factor and functionality, which I would venture is much more important than Color/Memory/MP3, etc. "Stinger" cuts too much out of the OS to be a PDA on a phone, I think. But that doesn't matter - it's considered a different platform anyways. I can't write a PocketPC/Stinger application that will work effortlessly like I can write a PalmOS app right now that will still work on the Treo.
The question in my mind is what's going to happen with PalmOS 5.0? Suddenly, the PalmOS is as power hungry as the PocketPC. Will there be a PalmOS 5.0 based Treo? It's a good question. Does this mean that PDAs will all progress to 32 bits, but "Communicators" will be stuck in 16 bit for the time being? Maybe not since there's Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola and the rest of the Symbian group to think about. The Symbian OS is 32 bits and runs on their phones. But when will their "Smartphones" move up to be more like PDAs? (Not counting the Nokia 9210 which is more PDA than mobile phone). And when are we going to see the first Linux based PDA/Phone?
As silly as this sounds, I hate UML just because I think the arrows point the wrong way. If an object derives from another object, it should have a an arrow point at it, not an arrow pointing at it's parent. I think down, not up. This little point means that every diagram in UML looks backwards and ugly to me.
The idea is that UML is not a real "language", but a set of commonly defined pictograms. And I don't like how they are defined. It's like I can't accept that an 'E' faces to the right. But the thing is that I learned letters a long time ago and I don't fight it, UML, however, is just someone else's idea about how to draw a diagram and I don't - and won't - agree with it.
In the first week in February, Palm is having it's annual developer's conference called PalmSource in San Jose. This year it looks like they are going to be releasing details about the new PalmOS v5.0 which is the next generation, 32-bit Palm OS incorporating bits of BeOS. (They started working on the OS before they bought Be.) Remember that Palm is also spinning off their operating systems division soon, so I assume that they are going to try to use this conference as some sort of launching pad. Here's a link to an InfoSync article about the new Palm OS.
I think the Slashdot editors are too young to know that a "mini-computer" used to be the term for a computer smaller than the room sized monoliths they used to have at like IBM and a "micro-computer" is what is also called a PC.
Tom's has the right title, "build your own mini-PC".
You're sort of blowing off the ARM7. The GBA has a pretty kickin' processor, the ARM7TDMI which is being used in a variety of PDAs now or coming soon. (Though the GBA is running slowly - 16MHz - to save battery life.) I've been trying to figure out how much of an effort it would be to port Linux for ARM to the GBA.
If you could get Linux running on the GBA, you could sell a 256 meg cartridge with the system and lots of empty space to play with. This would allow a whole bunch of capabilities:
MP3 Player
Internet access via modem attached to phone or mobile via the GBA Link cable.
Web browser
Multi-player games over the net
Downloading additional game ROMs and MP3s
Java for easy development
etc.
This would kick ass and be A LOT cheaper than any solution the Microsoft could come up with (or maybe even Palm). If someone is really tricky, they could include a GSM SIM-card in the cartidge for wireless access right out of the box. The platform is a LOT more expandable than I think Nintendo is letting on right now.
"...the dazzling, never-seen-anything-like-it, ultra-top secret computer perched before him."
What a complete screw-up! Yeah - I'd say Steve's gonna get just a little peeved over this one. Isn't this the 2nd time that Time's done this in the past few months? IIRC, Time was the one who blew the whistle on "Ginger" too...
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From aduni.org:
The goal of ArsDigita University was to offer the world's best computer science education, at an undergraduate level, to people who were otherwise unable to obtain it. ADUni.org is now a site run by alumni of the school seeking to carry on that mission.
In 2000-2001, 34 talented and motivated college graduates attended a one-year, intensive, comprehensive undergraduate computer science program, for free. The program was an experiment in curriculum design, free education, and the effect of the Internet on the future of education. ArsDigita University was the brainchild of entrepreneur Philip Greenspun and the ArsDigita Foundation.
After one year, ArsDigita University lost funding and was forced to close its physical doors. Yet, we prefer to think of the program as dormant, not dead. As we redesign aduni.org, we will continue to host all of our course materials and will provide as much information as possible about the workings of this past year - who we are, what we did, how we did it, what worked, what didn't work, and what we're doing now.
I don't think there's any other group in the world that can promote free software as well as the BSA can. I mean, the more BSA extortional "warning letters" that are sent or jack-booted thugs that come raiding into offices, the more that IT organizations are going to look for alternatives.
It's been argued on Slashdot before that more people would take free software seriously if they had to pay for all the stuff they use already. I agree. I say, good, make them pay up (plus penalties!), then they'll get a clue and stop using M$.
I don't think there should be anyone on Slashdot that's one bit against the BSA. Go BSA, go!
-Russ
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa googledy dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me
What do you get when you use the web too much
Browsing all day and getting a gut
What are you at, getting terribly fat
What do you think will come of that
I don't like the look of it
Oompa loompa googledy da
If you're a good hacker, you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the Oompa Loompa Googledy do
Googledy do
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got another portal for you
Oompa loompa doompeda dee
If you're "Feeling Lucky" you'll listen to me
Programming's fine when it's once in a while
It earns you lots of money and keeps you in style
But it's repulsive, revolting and wrong
Programming and hacking all day long
The way that a geek does
Oompa loompa googledy da
Given good bandwidth you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the Oompa Loompa Googledy do
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got another feature for you
Oompa loompa googledy dee
If you are wise you'll program with me
Who do you blame when your program is slow
Unscalable and bloated like a hindue cow
Blaming the admins is a lie and a shame
You know exactly who's to blame
Only the de-ve-lo-per
Oompa loompa googledy da
If you're not spoiled then you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the Oompa Loompa Googledy do
Oompa loompa googledy doo
I've got another search for you
Oompa loompa doompeda dee
If you are wise you'll advertise with me
What do you get from a glut of TV
A pain in the neck and an IQ of three
Why don't you try simply searching the web
Or could you just not bear to look
You'll get no
You'll get no
You'll get no
You'll get no
You'll get no commercials
Oompa loompa googledy da
If you like programming you will go far
You will live in Menlo Park too
Like the - Oompa -
Oompa Loompa Googledy do
(With all due respect to Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley http://gunther.simplenet.com/v/data/theoompa.htm )
Sure beats hiring programmers.
No, that's it!
According to this article Google is getting deluged by resumes, this is just a way for them to weed out the 600+ resumes they get a day.
The winner of this contest (and maybe a few of the runner ups) will most likely get a job offer as well. Beats having to weed through 4200 greatly exagerated CVs every week...
-Russ
How do they justify the extra $117? Shipping fees?
It shouldn't be due to shipping fees - Flextronics is manufacturing the European XBoxes in Sárvár, Hungary. Not a country known for it's high cost of labor.
-Russ
I would say that this argument is very similar to the issue of Marijuana.
The fact is that this is a very common drug, yet it's still criminilized for little to no real reason since it doesn't seem to be any more dangerous than alcohol. We can debate this, but the fact is that smoking weed is probably as common as fileswapping (Maybe more so, or probably at the same time!). According to your logic, maryjane should be legal by now.
E.g. "The first time a senator's teenaged offspring get's hauled in for smoking a joint in the park, we'd see some serious talk about what makes someone a criminal."
So I would say that if Jane Budlover is still being prosecuted for blazing up now and then, she's going to still have problems downloading copyrighted files for a very long time.
-Russ
Ace's Hardware has this bit with more information including links to an Intel presentation.
"Slide 22 of the presentation features a die photo of McKinley. The large 3 MB L3 cache is notable, and according to the presentation, it consumes 20% less area than traditional designs and is overall 85% efficient (~70% for traditional designs)."
And here's a story with the photo from that same article (no need to download 2.5 meg pdf...)
-Russ
You're right, of course. I have no idea what I was thinking. Hyperbole I guess.
;-)
The post got tagged as flamebait anyways, oh well.
-Russ
Where do I send my resume?
;-)
-Russ
Everyone else seems to want to ignore the C# issue so I'll take the bait.
If you program in C# you're limiting yourself to an untested, almost unportable language and to the Microsoft platform. I would think that if you were serious enough to waste all of Slashdot's time with this question, you would be serious enough to choose a real programming language, not some Microsoft marketing scheme.
Use Java. If you don't know it already, I would suggest that it's much more valuable to learn than C#. If you already "know" Java, a challenging project like this will teach you a ton and give you a much better depth in the language which employers are really looking for these days. Every second you spend learning Java will be more money in your pocket. Every second you spend learning C# will be more money in Microsoft's. And hell, if you do it in C++, you'll be even more of a programming head and even more valuable.
Just my thoughts. Follow the money, baby...
-Russ
Yes, but what a dream! What a chance to do something cool in a great place to live! I mean, if they had just spent a bit more time on story development (or hired some clueful writers) they might have been a success. That's a chance worth taking... There's a lot more to work than being in some dark office in frickin' Iowa (apologies to any of you who are there...) San Francisco is an incredibly expensive place to live/work, but it's worth it to many of the tech companies based there.
Anyone reading this who lives in Hawaii and is a programmer? I'd cut my pay in 1/4 to be you, I don't care. Living in Hawaii and programming like my man Phillipe Kahn is freakin' cool.
"Build something innovative that solves a difficult problem and you will have something.
Most of the long-term successful companies were built on those terms." -PK
-Russ
Wait, are you sure that's OE and not normal Outlook? If it came with Office I would assume it's the latter, but I haven't installed Office XP so I don't know.
What are you thinking about switching to?
-Russ
I'm replying to my own post, sorry.
I'm using the latest Outlook Express and Ctl-F3 works fine to see the original source of any email. Not sure where this guy is getting his info. Maybe it's different on XP (I'm on Windows 2000), but I'm using the newest OE (6.000.2600) so it shouldn't be different.
Ctl-F3 is handy for copying and pasting SPAM messages into SpamCop web forms.
-Russ
I have to come to defense of Outlook Express. (God help me...).
If you're not familiar with the two Outlook products, here's an overview: Normal "Outlook" is the crappy Microsoft Office-integrated, do-it-all, unsecure, scheduling, Exchange-client, mail reader and more and Outlook Express is simply the POP/IMAP that comes with IE. The latter is a great mail client.
I don't use Internet Explorer anymore - I've been using Mozilla since 9.5 (a few months now) and I love it. But I can't use the Mozilla mail client yet, it's just not mature enough. OE is simple to use, fast, manages the 10,000 emails I have in folders without problems, doesn't make me manage each email account separately (though I could if I wanted), decent filtering, higher-security, etc. Whoever wrote this app at Microsoft had a clue as it's really well done. There's not much wrong with it, except, I guess, whatever this guy is ranting about and the fact that it's a Microsoft product.
The last bit does bother me as I'm slowly weaning myself from M$ products. I have TRIED many other email programs (for Windows) and not been satisfied at all. The Bat!, Eudora, Mozilla, Opera's Email bit and others that have come and gone from my system. Until they're more like OE, I'm not switching...
I'm really pulling for the Mozilla team and gave my feedback to some of the Mail guys during the Bug Week or whatever it's called. But I'm not a C++ programmer (and even if I was, I'm not installing Microsoft Visual C++ to develop with Mozilla...) so I just have to wait until it gets mature enough for daily use.
One good thing though is that the Mozilla importer is great for pulling in my emails from OE already. So when the UI is up to snuff, it'll be a snap to switch over. (And then I can seriously consider switching over to Linux full-time also...)
That's it.
-Russ
Hmmmm... Interesting. The first link on the TimeDomain's website is this LA Times Article about how the FCC is set to aprove the technology next month and how they used UWB during the World Trade Center disaster to look for victims.
Like Johnny used to say: "I, I did not know that."
-Russ
You can find a picture of the satelite and a bunch of info about the project here. http://www.ew.usna.edu/~bruninga/pcsat.html
-Russ
The mistake is thinking that Palm's decision has only to do with Microsoft - granted M$ now has a 20% share and rising fast of the PDA market, but I don't think that Palm cares much about that market any more. Palm's heading wireless and the competition is more likely going to be Symbian (EPOC) and Java more than Microsoft.
I say this because Palm is going to be launching their 5.0 OS in the first week in February, but despite the addition of BeOS, they're not going to be adding multimedia stuff and instead are concentrating on wireless connectivity and the ARM processor. They've prioritized, and personally, I agree with their priorities.
Just like Handspring's Treo, Palm is thinking about betting the farm on connected devices. Phones, PDAs with WiFi, etc. They'll have to have tremendous battery life and be very secure, etc. but that's one thing that Microsoft doesn't have, so at least this plain is wide open.
I submitted some "research" I did about this to Slashdot a few days ago but it got turned down, you can read it here.
-Russ
This is a bit offtopic, but it's a real question: Why are there still three BSDs? OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD? And if these are all open-source, why doesn't Linux benefit from their code and just implement their kernel (since, from what I understand BSD scales better than Linux). I can understand why there was Unix fragmentation before open source was common, but why now?
And finally (back on topic) why EXACTLY is BSD more secure than other OSs (Windows, etc.) Does it automatically protect from buffer overruns or something?
-Russ
The M505 could even use a little shrinking still. PocketPC devices are not addressing shrinking form factor, but rather are adding bloatware bells and whistles. I would not even consider looking at one if I couldn't leave it in my shirt pocket comfortably.
Wow, full circle - This is why I think that Handspring is smart by betting the farm on the Treo. I'm with you - I want my PDA to be small and extremely portable, just like my mobile phone. From what I've read and seen (and from what Handspring claims) the Treo is the smallest of all the Palm devices so far (smaller than a deck of cards) and it's a phone which means I can kill two birds with one credit card purchase. I think a lot of people will be just like me.
This is definitely the area where the PocketPC is going to have trouble following the PalmOS - to this small of a form factor and functionality, which I would venture is much more important than Color/Memory/MP3, etc. "Stinger" cuts too much out of the OS to be a PDA on a phone, I think. But that doesn't matter - it's considered a different platform anyways. I can't write a PocketPC/Stinger application that will work effortlessly like I can write a PalmOS app right now that will still work on the Treo.
The question in my mind is what's going to happen with PalmOS 5.0? Suddenly, the PalmOS is as power hungry as the PocketPC. Will there be a PalmOS 5.0 based Treo? It's a good question. Does this mean that PDAs will all progress to 32 bits, but "Communicators" will be stuck in 16 bit for the time being? Maybe not since there's Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola and the rest of the Symbian group to think about. The Symbian OS is 32 bits and runs on their phones. But when will their "Smartphones" move up to be more like PDAs? (Not counting the Nokia 9210 which is more PDA than mobile phone). And when are we going to see the first Linux based PDA/Phone?
-Russ
As silly as this sounds, I hate UML just because I think the arrows point the wrong way. If an object derives from another object, it should have a an arrow point at it, not an arrow pointing at it's parent. I think down, not up. This little point means that every diagram in UML looks backwards and ugly to me.
The idea is that UML is not a real "language", but a set of commonly defined pictograms. And I don't like how they are defined. It's like I can't accept that an 'E' faces to the right. But the thing is that I learned letters a long time ago and I don't fight it, UML, however, is just someone else's idea about how to draw a diagram and I don't - and won't - agree with it.
-Russ
In the first week in February, Palm is having it's annual developer's conference called PalmSource in San Jose. This year it looks like they are going to be releasing details about the new PalmOS v5.0 which is the next generation, 32-bit Palm OS incorporating bits of BeOS. (They started working on the OS before they bought Be.) Remember that Palm is also spinning off their operating systems division soon, so I assume that they are going to try to use this conference as some sort of launching pad. Here's a link to an InfoSync article about the new Palm OS.
-Russ
Yeah, this title had me confused too...
I think the Slashdot editors are too young to know that a "mini-computer" used to be the term for a computer smaller than the room sized monoliths they used to have at like IBM and a "micro-computer" is what is also called a PC.
Tom's has the right title, "build your own mini-PC".
-Russ
WHOA! Is that a freakin' DEATH STAR? What are we trying to do, scare the aliens off?
-Russ
If you could get Linux running on the GBA, you could sell a 256 meg cartridge with the system and lots of empty space to play with. This would allow a whole bunch of capabilities:
- MP3 Player
- Internet access via modem attached to phone or mobile via the GBA Link cable.
- Web browser
- Multi-player games over the net
- Downloading additional game ROMs and MP3s
- Java for easy development
- etc.
This would kick ass and be A LOT cheaper than any solution the Microsoft could come up with (or maybe even Palm). If someone is really tricky, they could include a GSM SIM-card in the cartidge for wireless access right out of the box. The platform is a LOT more expandable than I think Nintendo is letting on right now.-Russ
"...the dazzling, never-seen-anything-like-it, ultra-top secret computer perched before him."
What a complete screw-up! Yeah - I'd say Steve's gonna get just a little peeved over this one. Isn't this the 2nd time that Time's done this in the past few months? IIRC, Time was the one who blew the whistle on "Ginger" too...
-Russ