interestingly, this also hurts amiga. recently, bill mcewen stated:
6. Amiga is also making available for release before Christmas Amiga SmartPhone Packs. These will be similar to the Pocket Paks, but targeted for the new SmartPhones coming out this year. As you know they will run on the new Sendo Z100, and they will be available for the new phones being offered by Orange also.
this might have some major impact on their financial situation. but then, many amigoids didn't seem to like the idea that their system is going to be sponsored by microsoft...
The watch has a motion sensor and temperature detector, intended to see whether you are awake or asleep, and so it wouldn't register anything if you take it off, except that you had taken it off...
Shouldn't be a real problem. Mount it on some moving toy, and put it in the oven or something;-)
I don't get it. When it "registers" what its wearer is hearing, what is it doing?
The radios signal contains a station ID, and I'd expect it to record this ID once a minute. So you would need about 10 K RAM to store data for a whole week. And if you talk or play a CD without a radio in the background, it just records a "no station" ID.
The radio stations surely keep databases about their program, so when the watch records "switched channel to competitor at 17:23" they can look it up and find out that you hate Britney.
Your typical day would be: get up, tune your radio to the most obscure underground station around, drop the watch in front of it, and do whatever you want for the day without the watch. Spoiling the stats for fun and profit.
If somebody find a link to confirm this, I would like to have one of those devices!
Imagine it: your plane's pilot suddenly has to sneeze, or he develops a nervous tic, or he has a muscle spasm.
So when you type something in your computer, and sneeze, you suddenly type random characters? No, you sense that you'll going to sneeze, and move your hands away from the keyboard.
It's not difficult to think about how to apply the same principle for pilots: the signals from the hand muscles are interpreted only if one foot is on a pedal. To sneeze, he just steps away from the pedal for a few seconds.
And for the muscle spasm, the same is going to happen as for heart attacks: the co-pilot takes over.
There's a lot of stuff at http://www.ams.or.at/itjobs/, including infos for foreigners, visa related issues etc. You can search a job database, or you can post your resume and companies might contact you.
What I've been told they are looking for people especially in Vienna. Which means, you can see a shit load of European culture because before the World War 1 Austria kinda was running the place;-) I never liked Vienna, but if you are used to US cities, it's probably pretty nice.
Concerning language, German skills might help a little, but the various dialects are typically so brutal that native Germans get lost. However, the dialects are simplier and a lot easier to learn than the bloated original German. People in IT business should speak English reasonably well, if you can live with the accent.
True, all those BeOS users may wind up looking for a home, but if they didn't amount to enough users to sustain Be, how will they sustain Amiga?
Some guy once put it that way: "The Amiga as its lowest point always was way above BeOS at its highest." Yes, it is "stupid OS war" quote and stuff, but nevertheless quite fitting.
Consequently, who cares about the BeOS dudes? They are even more irrelevant than Amigoids, and they never even had a past.
They early BeBox was cool, after that it just became in a "Unix with arse and tits" without much to distinguish itself from others. Enter lots of fossilzed geeks who don't do anything else than porting fossilized Unix code, and the "arse and tits" part almost vanishes.
This didn't happen on the classic Amiga because it was too different. There is ixemul.library, there is GeekGadgets, but it's mostly developer tools for quick'n'dirty ports (which is of course cool). Hence, the classic Amiga stayed something of it's own, not unlike MacOS before X.
I used to teach GED classes, and I had students who passed who came back and told me that they had essentially closed their eyes and guessed at the multiple test questions, and done this over and over until they got a passing score.
Here, the fault clearly lies within the educationnal system, in particular the testing.
Where I studied, multiple choice tests were quite the exception. Usually a question was actually an order like "Explain..." or "Outline the process of...". So the answer was not checking a box, but write a little essay (typically 3 lines to half a page). Closing your eyes doesn't work well here.
Then, if you failed the same exame 3 times, you were in trouble. If you failed 5 times - "Good bye, you are too stupid for this place".
(In practice, the 3 / 5 limit was not really carried out, and there are some tricks you can summon. I never knew anyone who actually got kicked. But I know a couple of people who took the "you are too stupid" serious and moved on.)
A stupid educational system makes it easy for stupid people to pass.
[The WWW] was invented by a guy at CERN, and Mosaic, the first massively popular graphical client, was written at NCSA. Since Web stuff became a commercial thing, exactly what "innovation" have we recieved? Bigger and more offensive ads and horrifically noncompliant HTML, that's what.
Actually, Mosaic already started the whole shit with providing a tolerant HTML parser. Netscape just picked it up (as it where essentially the same people).
If they browsers would have been militant against broken HTML from the beginning, and provided decipherable error messages (ever seen sgmls in action?) so people just could have fixed them, the whole shit wouldn't have happened - independant of commercial or open source.
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Isin't newOS the default folder name Microsoft Operating System Creator uses for a new project?
No, that would be "MyOS".
(Giveaway)
The watch has a motion sensor and temperature detector, intended to see whether you are awake or asleep, and so it wouldn't register anything if you take it off, except that you had taken it off...
Shouldn't be a real problem. Mount it on some moving toy, and put it in the oven or something ;-)
I don't get it. When it "registers" what its wearer is hearing, what is it doing?
The radios signal contains a station ID, and I'd expect it to record this ID once a minute. So you would need about 10 K RAM to store data for a whole week. And if you talk or play a CD without a radio in the background, it just records a "no station" ID.
The radio stations surely keep databases about their program, so when the watch records "switched channel to competitor at 17:23" they can look it up and find out that you hate Britney.
Your typical day would be: get up, tune your radio to the most obscure underground station around, drop the watch in front of it, and do whatever you want for the day without the watch. Spoiling the stats for fun and profit.
If somebody find a link to confirm this, I would like to have one of those devices!
Imagine it: your plane's pilot suddenly has to sneeze, or he develops a nervous tic, or he has a muscle spasm.
So when you type something in your computer, and sneeze, you suddenly type random characters? No, you sense that you'll going to sneeze, and move your hands away from the keyboard.
It's not difficult to think about how to apply the same principle for pilots: the signals from the hand muscles are interpreted only if one foot is on a pedal. To sneeze, he just steps away from the pedal for a few seconds.
And for the muscle spasm, the same is going to happen as for heart attacks: the co-pilot takes over.
There's a lot of stuff at http://www.ams.or.at/itjobs/, including infos for foreigners, visa related issues etc. You can search a job database, or you can post your resume and companies might contact you.
What I've been told they are looking for people especially in Vienna. Which means, you can see a shit load of European culture because before the World War 1 Austria kinda was running the place ;-) I never liked Vienna, but if you are used to US cities, it's probably pretty nice.
Concerning language, German skills might help a little, but the various dialects are typically so brutal that native Germans get lost. However, the dialects are simplier and a lot easier to learn than the bloated original German. People in IT business should speak English reasonably well, if you can live with the accent.
True, all those BeOS users may wind up looking for a home, but if they didn't amount to enough users to sustain Be, how will they sustain Amiga?
Some guy once put it that way: "The Amiga as its lowest point always was way above BeOS at its highest." Yes, it is "stupid OS war" quote and stuff, but nevertheless quite fitting.
Consequently, who cares about the BeOS dudes? They are even more irrelevant than Amigoids, and they never even had a past.
They early BeBox was cool, after that it just became in a "Unix with arse and tits" without much to distinguish itself from others. Enter lots of fossilzed geeks who don't do anything else than porting fossilized Unix code, and the "arse and tits" part almost vanishes.
This didn't happen on the classic Amiga because it was too different. There is ixemul.library, there is GeekGadgets, but it's mostly developer tools for quick'n'dirty ports (which is of course cool). Hence, the classic Amiga stayed something of it's own, not unlike MacOS before X.
I used to teach GED classes, and I had students who passed who came back and told me that they had essentially closed their eyes and guessed at the multiple test questions, and done this over and over until they got a passing score.
Here, the fault clearly lies within the educationnal system, in particular the testing.
Where I studied, multiple choice tests were quite the exception. Usually a question was actually an order like "Explain..." or "Outline the process of...". So the answer was not checking a box, but write a little essay (typically 3 lines to half a page). Closing your eyes doesn't work well here.
Then, if you failed the same exame 3 times, you were in trouble. If you failed 5 times - "Good bye, you are too stupid for this place".
(In practice, the 3 / 5 limit was not really carried out, and there are some tricks you can summon. I never knew anyone who actually got kicked. But I know a couple of people who took the "you are too stupid" serious and moved on.)
A stupid educational system makes it easy for stupid people to pass.
The US has been trying to dictate US-style business practices for a long time. In many areas that is actually good [...]
For example?
Actually, Mosaic already started the whole shit with providing a tolerant HTML parser. Netscape just picked it up (as it where essentially the same people).
If they browsers would have been militant against broken HTML from the beginning, and provided decipherable error messages (ever seen sgmls in action?) so people just could have fixed them, the whole shit wouldn't have happened - independant of commercial or open source.