Actually, recognition of Chinese characters is easier 'cause there's a standard stroke order (and number which is how they're looked up in dictionaries) which is expected to be followed.
Well, in the meanwhile, one can get an Axiotron Modbook (but it doesn't support rotation, and there've been some technical glitches w/ some units).
Microsoft's Tablet PCs are pretty decent though --- if only there were a pen-centric utility for accessing and managing files --- but if one of the note-taking programs (OneNote, EverNote, GoBinder &c.) suits one's needs it's almost as good as Go Corporation's PenPoint, plus one gets to use any Windows app.
Actually, there's a nifty add-on for Word which allows one to use proofreading marks as editing gestures which makes corrections very fast and natural in feeling.
Hopefully before that day comes, Apple will start making tablets again --- I really need a replacement for my Newton MessagePad and my Fujitsu Stylistic is just too big to travel w/ me constantly as the MP did (and my Sony PRS-505 ebook reader does --- something that size, w/ pen input would be perfect).
The DNA storage aspect is kind of interesting --- consider a world in which everyone's DNA is catalogued --- now consider being a criminal in such a world --- one would have to take the same sort of precautions people once used against witchcraft (ensuring that one didn't allow anyone else access to hair, fingernails, blood &c.) --- or imagine being a revolutionary against a government w/ such information:...In the course of a firefight, a revolutionary is wounded so badly that he bleeds through some garment specifically designed to soak up blood and prevent it from dropping anywhere...
``I've been blooded!''
``Sorry to hear that,'' his cell leader replies, ``you know the drill, you're rear guard and don't get on the transport --- try to take as many of them with you as you can. Got any grenades left?''
``No, I'm low on ammunition too.''
``Okay, everybody pass any clips you can spare to the blooded guy, here's my last grenade, you know what to do with it. Let's move out!''
At the pick up point the blooded guy finds a hiding place, digs a small hole, pulls the pin from a grenade, places it in the hole, then steps on it, holding the lever in place, locks and loads a fresh clip and waits for the government troops to arrive....
Not only that it'd allow one to share a laptop in a group setting (undock my iPhone, hand it to my daughter, she docks her iTouch) and would afford an easy way to enable wireless networking at need (iPhone vs. iTouch).
My experience matches yours. I had a huge increase in battery life when I swapped out the HD in my Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 for a CF-IDE adapter w/ a 2GB (booting Windows 2000) and 4GB (data, swap space) CF cards in it.
Ran much cooler and was absolutely silent (no fan).
My complaint is that browsers don't even try to do either h&j or support mathematics (and by extension special characters).
Newspaper typography is (for the most part) an oxymoron, since ads are sold by the column inch, which makes them tend toward obnoxiously narrow columns.
hyphenation and justification --- instead of just setting one line at a time, the system should consider the entire paragraph and set it so that all lines are as nice as possible w/ the best possible breaks.
The phone is cheaper through the pre-paid group 'cause it's subsidized by the money the company anticipates making selling pre-paid cell time and that's the price point it needs to be at to compeat w/ other pre-paid phones.
'cept that you shouldn't need to connect a bluetooth mouse or keyboard --- just add in handwriting recognition, or at least the ability to make annotations / scribble on a page.
Wouldn't it be better if instead of hacking and distributing copies of Apple's OS if there were a straight-forward set of instructions on how to take a purchased OS, copy it to an image / partition, modify that, then burn it to a DVD and install?
If there is such a guide and I missed it, my apologies.
I've decided the Axiotron Modbook is too large for me, and would prefer to load Leopard onto a Fujitsu Stylistic.
Because one can't depend on a machine to properly do typography.
Bad things which ebook readers will allow:
- stacks
- orphans
- widows
Fortunately most of them turn off hyphenation (even if the defaults are against that --- Sony's.lrf BBeB reader always justifies text which can look pretty awful sometimes), but if hyphenation is enabled, one gets some pretty bad breaks.
More egregiously, a.pdf is the best way to get a true italic font to view on the Sony.
All that said, I read a lot of books on my Sony and haven't yet found time to make optimized.pdfs for it (though the.pdf version of _Star Dragon_ I made which is available at www.mikebrotherton.co m works surprisingly well) --- I do still read larger-format.pdfs on my Fujitsu Stylistic though.
Yes, if the game developers are willing to put in the effort necessary to make their game compile using GNUstep --- which unfortunately, may involve more engineering effort than the Linux market could bear.
Yep. Training w/ a longbow was so involved that one King of England (Henry VII?) actually outlawed the creation of games for boys aged ~8--12 so that they'd spend their spare time practicing archery.
Shouldn't it just be a matter of calibrating the new device?
Make it, make a replica, adjust the settings on the replica so that it tracks the same and when one asks for a 1" square (or circle) one gets a 1" circle.
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Actually, recognition of Chinese characters is easier 'cause there's a standard stroke order (and number which is how they're looked up in dictionaries) which is expected to be followed.
William
Well, in the meanwhile, one can get an Axiotron Modbook (but it doesn't support rotation, and there've been some technical glitches w/ some units).
Microsoft's Tablet PCs are pretty decent though --- if only there were a pen-centric utility for accessing and managing files --- but if one of the note-taking programs (OneNote, EverNote, GoBinder &c.) suits one's needs it's almost as good as Go Corporation's PenPoint, plus one gets to use any Windows app.
William
Actually, there's a nifty add-on for Word which allows one to use proofreading marks as editing gestures which makes corrections very fast and natural in feeling.
William
Get the nifty felt-type like nib from Wacom and put that in your stylus for a more paper-like experience (if you have a glass screen on your tablet).
William
Hopefully before that day comes, Apple will start making tablets again --- I really need a replacement for my Newton MessagePad and my Fujitsu Stylistic is just too big to travel w/ me constantly as the MP did (and my Sony PRS-505 ebook reader does --- something that size, w/ pen input would be perfect).
William
The DNA storage aspect is kind of interesting --- consider a world in which everyone's DNA is catalogued --- now consider being a criminal in such a world --- one would have to take the same sort of precautions people once used against witchcraft (ensuring that one didn't allow anyone else access to hair, fingernails, blood &c.) --- or imagine being a revolutionary against a government w/ such information: ...In the course of a firefight, a revolutionary is wounded so badly that he bleeds through some garment specifically designed to soak up blood and prevent it from dropping anywhere...
``I've been blooded!''
``Sorry to hear that,'' his cell leader replies, ``you know the drill, you're rear guard and don't get on the transport --- try to take as many of them with you as you can. Got any grenades left?''
``No, I'm low on ammunition too.''
``Okay, everybody pass any clips you can spare to the blooded guy, here's my last grenade, you know what to do with it. Let's move out!''
At the pick up point the blooded guy finds a hiding place, digs a small hole, pulls the pin from a grenade, places it in the hole, then steps on it, holding the lever in place, locks and loads a fresh clip and waits for the government troops to arrive....
William
Boat: A hole in the water into which one throws money.
In a local case, the person who made the tape was accused of illegal wiretapping. Previous discussion of it here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/12/2050212&tid=123
Charges were eventually dropped though.
William
I guess you didn't know that Doom was originally written on NeXTstep? Or that the original level editor was a NeXTstep .app?
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Development_of_Doom
And it's trivial to call pretty much any sort of code from Obj-C anyway.
William
Not only that it'd allow one to share a laptop in a group setting (undock my iPhone, hand it to my daughter, she docks her iTouch) and would afford an easy way to enable wireless networking at need (iPhone vs. iTouch).
William
Instead of mediocre games that require incredibly expensive stuff few people have.
My experience matches yours. I had a huge increase in battery life when I swapped out the HD in my Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 for a CF-IDE adapter w/ a 2GB (booting Windows 2000) and 4GB (data, swap space) CF cards in it.
Ran much cooler and was absolutely silent (no fan).
I was quite bummed when the system died.
William
Expected is probably the wrong word to use --- useful or potentially better? Yes.
William
My complaint is that browsers don't even try to do either h&j or support mathematics (and by extension special characters).
Newspaper typography is (for the most part) an oxymoron, since ads are sold by the column inch, which makes them tend toward obnoxiously narrow columns.
William
>What is an ``h&j algorithm''?
hyphenation and justification --- instead of just setting one line at a time, the system should consider the entire paragraph and set it so that all lines are as nice as possible w/ the best possible breaks.
See the Knuth and Plass paper on it:
http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/SFCS.1979.46
Or look at Knuth's book _Digital Typography_
William
and a decent h&j algorithm --- if only TBL had taken a closer look at TeXview.app on his NeXT Cube before writing worldwideweb.app
William
The phone is cheaper through the pre-paid group 'cause it's subsidized by the money the company anticipates making selling pre-paid cell time and that's the price point it needs to be at to compeat w/ other pre-paid phones.
William
'cept that you shouldn't need to connect a bluetooth mouse or keyboard --- just add in handwriting recognition, or at least the ability to make annotations / scribble on a page.
William
Wouldn't it be better if instead of hacking and distributing copies of Apple's OS if there were a straight-forward set of instructions on how to take a purchased OS, copy it to an image / partition, modify that, then burn it to a DVD and install?
If there is such a guide and I missed it, my apologies.
I've decided the Axiotron Modbook is too large for me, and would prefer to load Leopard onto a Fujitsu Stylistic.
William
Because one can't depend on a machine to properly do typography.
.lrf BBeB reader always justifies text which can look pretty awful sometimes), but if hyphenation is enabled, one gets some pretty bad breaks.
.pdf is the best way to get a true italic font to view on the Sony.
.pdfs for it (though the .pdf version of _Star Dragon_ I made which is available at www.mikebrotherton.co m works surprisingly well) --- I do still read larger-format .pdfs on my Fujitsu Stylistic though.
Bad things which ebook readers will allow:
- stacks
- orphans
- widows
Fortunately most of them turn off hyphenation (even if the defaults are against that --- Sony's
More egregiously, a
All that said, I read a lot of books on my Sony and haven't yet found time to make optimized
William
Isn't the Newton Press (Apple's ebookmaking program) readily available now?
It'll allow one to have more font control and to add graphics.
William
Yes, if the game developers are willing to put in the effort necessary to make their game compile using GNUstep --- which unfortunately, may involve more engineering effort than the Linux market could bear.
William
Yep. Training w/ a longbow was so involved that one King of England (Henry VII?) actually outlawed the creation of games for boys aged ~8--12 so that they'd spend their spare time practicing archery.
William
The U.S. is big, and there's a lot of it where the local phone connection is as good as it gets.
Low bandwidth, flexible pages using CSS are also good for people on mobile units w/ small screens.
William
Shouldn't it just be a matter of calibrating the new device?
Make it, make a replica, adjust the settings on the replica so that it tracks the same and when one asks for a 1" square (or circle) one gets a 1" circle.
William