650 coming out? I am dying to get a 650, but I'm really not interesting in buying one on a network that has 2 or 3 times as many users as the network can handle, forcing them to drop my calls like clockwork every 10 minutes or less, and more often than not just sending callers straight to my voicemail without ever ringing my phone. And yes, this is with one of their best phones with updated software and 100% signal strength in flat-as-a-pancake San Antonio. Oh, and it would also be nice to have a carrier that knew what Caller ID was - right now if I get local "unavailable" I know 100% it's Sprint cellphone customer.
"Shadowmite, a Palm enthusiast has managed to hack his Palm One Treo 650 smartphone, enabling it to work with the Palm One WiFi card... Shadowmite managed to get his hands on the Pa1m One WiFi card and modify it so that his Treo 650 could use it."
That description made absolutely no sense whatsoever. What the fuck is delicious and that other thing, and what the fuck is this folk thing, and why should anyone care?
Do editors even read this shit anymore? I should start submitting hoaxes with random abbreviations to see if it gets posted.
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Now I'm even more confused. First I'm told the hardware is not extra, now I'm told not only is it extra but Tivo doesn't even sell it, and thus certainly doesn't support it.
At least they don't charge you an extra $100 for permission to use hardware that you bought from another company. How nice of them.
My ReplayTV has a built in 10/100, and they never charge for the network software. It took me a while to run ethernet to my tv room, but now I have cute screen savers and all that important stuff.
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It's been so long since I've looked at Tivo, does it come with a net port? I just remember they were charging a good bit to network mutiple Tivos.
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what ReplayTV does for free.
How Tivo makes news: 1) ReplayTV releases feature for free using free, built-in hardware 2) Many years pass 3) Tivo copies feature and charges extra for the hardware and adds a monthly fee 4) News!
When I think "chip designer" I think of really smart people designing custom IC or ASIC, not FPGA. Mostly because I've done a bit of FPGA design. But then again when I'm telling the non-techies what I do I usually say something like chip design...
To whoever said it was the NYT not the EET, point taken.
That was the vaguest article I have ever read. She is a consultant who makes things go and does stuff. Got it.
So, did she really design a custom IC all by her self with no tools and then get a fab to spend millions/billions on her custom chip based on her paper drawings that had never been simulated?
Or, did she design an ASIC?
Or did she simply program an FPGA?
Her "C-1" computer sounded like it was either an FPGA, or an emulator, but certainly not a custom chip.
If I am wrong and she really did design chips, what CAD programs was the high-school dropout able to afford, or were chips so small back then that you really could do it on paper?
I haven't been to a circuit city in a long time since I had to return my TV 3 times just to get one that worked and had an image parallel to the floor, but then again it was a Sony.
I went to a Conns a while ago and asked about TVs, and had a saleperson insist that a 600x800 plasma TV had 2megapixels.
I vaguely recall a CC employee telling me that everybody quotes TVs and monitors in megapixels these days.
Oh, and don't forget minor things like environmental destruction through leaks, air pollution, health costs and death from asthma and heatwave, cost of storm damage, a 9/11 every now and then, and other incidental costs.
Wind energy is far cheaper that oil. Look at it this way:
The cost of wind energy: Buy land in windy place Build windfarm.
The cost of oil: Forge alliance with dictators, oppressors, torturers and terrorists. Provide covert funding and weapons to people who will later bite you in the ass, for example: Osama bin Laden, Sadam Hussen, the shah of Iran, the Taliban, etc. etc. Station tens of thousands of troups in 3rd world countries full of extremists who get off on killing Americans... during PEACETIME. During war station hundreds of thousands of troops in said countries. Fight on average 1 major war per decade at the costs of hundreds of billions of dollars to protect oil producing hellspawn from non-oil-producing hellspawn.
I could have sworn there was at least one other brand...
"although it's less of a factor if you have a dual tuner tivo,"
And no factor if you own a ReplayTV, except that you miss a minute of one of the shows. The one exception was the last episode of friend where they lied to the schedulers and had the climax of the show occur right after the scheduled end of the show. Knowing the network, I assumed they would do this and made sure the show after would be recorded to, though I could have just told by Replay to record a few extra minutes.
Oh, I totally forgot to make fun of you for confusing TP and Delphi, and for assuming you can't write multiple source files in any language without the use of prototypes. But I do suck.
However, I will gladly pounce on you for mentioning unit headers and comparing them to prototypes... because the headers are automatically written by the IDE!!! Thank you for proving my point for me!
PS, can't anyone solve my riddle in C? I'll let you build operators that are missing from C. Can you mush them together, like !& for nand, or do you have to use ()s?
So, if I think that typing something twice when it only needs to be typed once is bad, then I suck. Personally, I prefer to leave brainless, repetitive tasks to computers because I hear they are good at that stuff, but then again I suck. Sometimes I even use them to calculate things, or use floating point instead of using fixed point in assembly, or make fire without use of flint nor steal, but that's probably because I suck.
That was both intelligent and insightful, are you sure you have the right web site? You're supposed to be posting things like "pascal is the sux0r, msft told me so."
Anyway, I'm a hardware guy that programs for fun and for work when he has to. I've used c, c++, java, ada, pascal, delphi, scheme, asm, matlab, VHDL, etc. When I first used Delphi in 1995 it's IDE was not just beyond anything I had ever used before, that 1995 IDE is STILL beyond the latest C++ IDE Microsoft released to date.
In addition, Pascal-based languages are inherently more intuitive that any C-based language, and thus more readable. The simplest example I can give is something I do all the time: logic operations.
Say you want to write: (a or b) and (c nor d) xor (e nand f)
In Pascal/Delphi you write (a or b) and (c nor d) xor (e nand f)
In C you write...
that was a trick: unless you are a memorizing champion, before you can write this in c you go to your book shelf and you look up "xor" in the index, but you won't see it. So then you look up "logic" but that's not their either, so you start guessing. You're pretty sure you used an xor last year and it was something with a pipe, or mayme a percentage symbol, so you start at the beginning of the index and start to flip through all the giberish combinations that look like swears from the sunday comics. Eventually you find the answer.
So, now you write:...
HA! Tricked you again! In Pascal the compiler is smart enough to compile the code without having it's hand held the entire time by forcing the user to write crap like prototypes. In this example, I never specified whether I wanted to write logical or bitwise comparisons. Pascal/Delphi is smart enough to figure it out on its own. C++ is lost without you holding it's hand in the scary darkness.
The more news I read about Tivos, the more I love my Replay 5040. Never mind the fact that it costs less and has more features and comes with things that Tivo users have to buy seperately, but it skips commercials, doesn't ram ads down my throat and doesn't tell the mother company if I paused or rewound Ms. Jacksons teet.
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tape backups" or something like that. It may not travel at the speed of light, but remember bandwidth = data/time. Put enough physical data on an asteroid (or in a stationwagon) and you can beat any pipe our puny human technology is capable of.
Not only is the Internet 35, but so is the WWW!!!
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Just ask the "tech" "reporter" at AP "news."
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I heard that "ground" on a coral island isn't actually ground, but several volts above ground, which can interfere with switches, relays etc. and cause unwanted currents and corrosion.
Perhaps there is an evolutionary cause/effect relationship going on here.
I'm not sure about the latest versions, but I know win9x has a 400ms delay from when you click to when a window reacts, and there were tweakers that removed the delay. Why did MS add a delay? Who knows.
Reminds me of a moron in college who was exploring his new Pentium but didn't understand what a ZIF socket was, so he tried to pry the CPU out with a screwdriver under the corner of the chip. Snapped the corner right off.
His solution? Sell off the remaining parts of his brand new computer for a fraction of what he paid.
I've done stupid things like drop harddrives onto hard surfaces, but the dumbest thing I did was when I was messing with my Athlon CPU. I got the fan wires caught between the cpu and heatsink, which quickly melted, shorted out, and fried all the fan controllers on my mobo. I hacked togethere a 80mm fan connected to main power with an adapter from 80mm to 60mm on the cpu, booted up, and everything worked fine. On top of that, it was quieter than before!
Since blue LED fans were the same as quiet black ones I went with the LEDs, which quickly became addicting and now I have about 20 blue lights on and in my computer.
I called and asked Sony why my (and 50% of other owners') DVD player stopped working after one year. They claimed they never heard of my well documented problem nor from any of those 50% of owners (not one) but would be glad to look at my player for $180 plus shipping.
They also denied ever hearing about problems with my reciever, which also died a little after a year.
To be fair, years ago they did repair my CD player which died after one year.
What about bringing humanity together for great accomplishments? What about colonizing the solar system? What about exploring the universe? What about inspiring future generations? What about showing democracy is superior to communism...
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650 coming out? I am dying to get a 650, but I'm really not interesting in buying one on a network that has 2 or 3 times as many users as the network can handle, forcing them to drop my calls like clockwork every 10 minutes or less, and more often than not just sending callers straight to my voicemail without ever ringing my phone. And yes, this is with one of their best phones with updated software and 100% signal strength in flat-as-a-pancake San Antonio. Oh, and it would also be nice to have a carrier that knew what Caller ID was - right now if I get local "unavailable" I know 100% it's Sprint cellphone customer.
managed to get a Treo 650 to use WiFi?
"Shadowmite, a Palm enthusiast has managed to hack his Palm One Treo 650 smartphone, enabling it to work with the Palm One WiFi card...
Shadowmite managed to get his hands on the Pa1m One WiFi card and modify it so that his Treo 650 could use it."
That description made absolutely no sense whatsoever. What the fuck is delicious and that other thing, and what the fuck is this folk thing, and why should anyone care?
Do editors even read this shit anymore? I should start submitting hoaxes with random abbreviations to see if it gets posted.
Now I'm even more confused. First I'm told the hardware is not extra, now I'm told not only is it extra but Tivo doesn't even sell it, and thus certainly doesn't support it.
At least they don't charge you an extra $100 for permission to use hardware that you bought from another company. How nice of them.
My ReplayTV has a built in 10/100, and they never charge for the network software. It took me a while to run ethernet to my tv room, but now I have cute screen savers and all that important stuff.
It's been so long since I've looked at Tivo, does it come with a net port? I just remember they were charging a good bit to network mutiple Tivos.
what ReplayTV does for free.
How Tivo makes news:
1) ReplayTV releases feature for free using free, built-in hardware
2) Many years pass
3) Tivo copies feature and charges extra for the hardware and adds a monthly fee
4) News!
AHA! So it is an FPGA.
When I think "chip designer" I think of really smart people designing custom IC or ASIC, not FPGA. Mostly because I've done a bit of FPGA design. But then again when I'm telling the non-techies what I do I usually say something like chip design...
To whoever said it was the NYT not the EET, point taken.
That was the vaguest article I have ever read. She is a consultant who makes things go and does stuff. Got it.
So, did she really design a custom IC all by her self with no tools and then get a fab to spend millions/billions on her custom chip based on her paper drawings that had never been simulated?
Or, did she design an ASIC?
Or did she simply program an FPGA?
Her "C-1" computer sounded like it was either an FPGA, or an emulator, but certainly not a custom chip.
If I am wrong and she really did design chips, what CAD programs was the high-school dropout able to afford, or were chips so small back then that you really could do it on paper?
I haven't been to a circuit city in a long time since I had to return my TV 3 times just to get one that worked and had an image parallel to the floor, but then again it was a Sony.
I went to a Conns a while ago and asked about TVs, and had a saleperson insist that a 600x800 plasma TV had 2megapixels.
I vaguely recall a CC employee telling me that everybody quotes TVs and monitors in megapixels these days.
Oh, and don't forget minor things like environmental destruction through leaks, air pollution, health costs and death from asthma and heatwave, cost of storm damage, a 9/11 every now and then, and other incidental costs.
Wind energy is far cheaper that oil. Look at it this way:
The cost of wind energy:
Buy land in windy place
Build windfarm.
The cost of oil:
Forge alliance with dictators, oppressors, torturers and terrorists.
Provide covert funding and weapons to people who will later bite you in the ass, for example: Osama bin Laden, Sadam Hussen, the shah of Iran, the Taliban, etc. etc.
Station tens of thousands of troups in 3rd world countries full of extremists who get off on killing Americans... during PEACETIME.
During war station hundreds of thousands of troops in said countries.
Fight on average 1 major war per decade at the costs of hundreds of billions of dollars to protect oil producing hellspawn from non-oil-producing hellspawn.
I could have sworn there was at least one other brand...
"although it's less of a factor if you have a dual tuner tivo,"
And no factor if you own a ReplayTV, except that you miss a minute of one of the shows. The one exception was the last episode of friend where they lied to the schedulers and had the climax of the show occur right after the scheduled end of the show. Knowing the network, I assumed they would do this and made sure the show after would be recorded to, though I could have just told by Replay to record a few extra minutes.
Oh, I totally forgot to make fun of you for confusing TP and Delphi, and for assuming you can't write multiple source files in any language without the use of prototypes. But I do suck.
However, I will gladly pounce on you for mentioning unit headers and comparing them to prototypes... because the headers are automatically written by the IDE!!! Thank you for proving my point for me!
PS, can't anyone solve my riddle in C? I'll let you build operators that are missing from C. Can you mush them together, like !& for nand, or do you have to use ()s?
So, if I think that typing something twice when it only needs to be typed once is bad, then I suck. Personally, I prefer to leave brainless, repetitive tasks to computers because I hear they are good at that stuff, but then again I suck. Sometimes I even use them to calculate things, or use floating point instead of using fixed point in assembly, or make fire without use of flint nor steal, but that's probably because I suck.
That was both intelligent and insightful, are you sure you have the right web site? You're supposed to be posting things like "pascal is the sux0r, msft told me so."
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Anyway, I'm a hardware guy that programs for fun and for work when he has to. I've used c, c++, java, ada, pascal, delphi, scheme, asm, matlab, VHDL, etc. When I first used Delphi in 1995 it's IDE was not just beyond anything I had ever used before, that 1995 IDE is STILL beyond the latest C++ IDE Microsoft released to date.
In addition, Pascal-based languages are inherently more intuitive that any C-based language, and thus more readable. The simplest example I can give is something I do all the time: logic operations.
Say you want to write:
(a or b) and (c nor d) xor (e nand f)
In Pascal/Delphi you write
(a or b) and (c nor d) xor (e nand f)
In C you write
that was a trick: unless you are a memorizing champion, before you can write this in c you go to your book shelf and you look up "xor" in the index, but you won't see it. So then you look up "logic" but that's not their either, so you start guessing. You're pretty sure you used an xor last year and it was something with a pipe, or mayme a percentage symbol, so you start at the beginning of the index and start to flip through all the giberish combinations that look like swears from the sunday comics. Eventually you find the answer.
So, now you write:
HA! Tricked you again! In Pascal the compiler is smart enough to compile the code without having it's hand held the entire time by forcing the user to write crap like prototypes. In this example, I never specified whether I wanted to write logical or bitwise comparisons. Pascal/Delphi is smart enough to figure it out on its own. C++ is lost without you holding it's hand in the scary darkness.
The more news I read about Tivos, the more I love my Replay 5040. Never mind the fact that it costs less and has more features and comes with things that Tivo users have to buy seperately, but it skips commercials, doesn't ram ads down my throat and doesn't tell the mother company if I paused or rewound Ms. Jacksons teet.
because the first rule that Google claims to follow is "do no evil."
"never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of tape backups" or something like that. It may not travel at the speed of light, but remember bandwidth = data/time. Put enough physical data on an asteroid (or in a stationwagon) and you can beat any pipe our puny human technology is capable of.
Just ask the "tech" "reporter" at AP "news."
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Web Turns 35, but Still Work in Progress
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I heard that "ground" on a coral island isn't actually ground, but several volts above ground, which can interfere with switches, relays etc. and cause unwanted currents and corrosion.
Perhaps there is an evolutionary cause/effect relationship going on here.
I'm not sure about the latest versions, but I know win9x has a 400ms delay from when you click to when a window reacts, and there were tweakers that removed the delay. Why did MS add a delay? Who knows.
Reminds me of a moron in college who was exploring his new Pentium but didn't understand what a ZIF socket was, so he tried to pry the CPU out with a screwdriver under the corner of the chip. Snapped the corner right off.
His solution? Sell off the remaining parts of his brand new computer for a fraction of what he paid.
I've done stupid things like drop harddrives onto hard surfaces, but the dumbest thing I did was when I was messing with my Athlon CPU. I got the fan wires caught between the cpu and heatsink, which quickly melted, shorted out, and fried all the fan controllers on my mobo. I hacked togethere a 80mm fan connected to main power with an adapter from 80mm to 60mm on the cpu, booted up, and everything worked fine. On top of that, it was quieter than before!
Since blue LED fans were the same as quiet black ones I went with the LEDs, which quickly became addicting and now I have about 20 blue lights on and in my computer.
I called and asked Sony why my (and 50% of other owners') DVD player stopped working after one year. They claimed they never heard of my well documented problem nor from any of those 50% of owners (not one) but would be glad to look at my player for $180 plus shipping.
They also denied ever hearing about problems with my reciever, which also died a little after a year.
To be fair, years ago they did repair my CD player which died after one year.
What about bringing humanity together for great accomplishments?
What about colonizing the solar system?
What about exploring the universe?
What about inspiring future generations?
What about showing democracy is superior to communism...