Palm Pilots never seem to have enough storage to keep [lots of] whole books or widespread connectivity.
You wot? Granted, my clie has 16 Mb, but even a bunch of games and a small library of books I still have over 7 Mb free.
I strongly recommend any fellow palm owners to check out the superb Weasel Reader which uses ZTXT format (basically a zipped plaintext).. it's open source, efficient, and an all round lovely app. The kind of application you could take home to meet grandma.
Good link, thanks! Unfortunately I have no modpoints with which to give you a +informative (typically, I let unused modpoints expire just yesterday due to lack of anything worth modding), but nonetheless, just wanted to say thanks for that link
I interpreted the "conflict" as "competition" like AMD vs Intel or WD vs Maxtor and not like US vs USSR.
Meanwhile, in other news today, AMD's headquarters was reduced to rubble in an apparent bombing attack. No suspects have as yet been named, but sources say a fragment of bomb casing was found with some kind of marking on it, which investigators hope may offer some clues. The fragment was incomplete, but was described as having "a kind of swirl, and two words. The first was illegible, but the second read 'inside'"
This just sounds a lot to me like the old rumor that if you went faster than 30 mph your blood would boil.
I know it's easy to say this with hindsight, but I completely fail to understand where that ever came from, given that many species of animal have been able to exceed 30 Mph for.. well, pretty much all of human history, really... a cheetah can quite easily double that figure, and the Indian spine tailed swift has been clocked at 219 Mph.. I can understand that the people who held this belief probably hadn't seen too many of them around, but man has been riding horses at 30 Mph or more for a very long time.
Oh well, offtopic, I know, but I just find it puzzling
I couldn't find anything in the article, but does anyone know just how close it's going to be compared to usual? Just because it's the closest in 60,000 years or whatever it is doesn't mean that the majority of people could even notice a difference.
At it's closest it will be approximately 1.4 feet away.
Sorry, the Duh! is on you. The gramattical guide book to which the parent refers is from the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy (think about it. How often do you find a grammer guide for time travel in your local bookshop?)
--- quote --- One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is also no problem about changing the course of history - the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.
The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own father or mother.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up: and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be.
'Chimpanzees share 99.4 percent of functionally important DNA with humans and belong in our genus
I might be mistaken about this, but I'm sure I've read/seen/heard somewhere that yes, chimps share 99.4% DNA with humans, but rats share about 75% and a banana shares about 50%
I'm not familiar with this LSXCommand of which you speak, but I suspect it's something like the rather nifty slickrun for windows. Basically, it's a small floating text-field with configurable keywords.. for a simple example, you can have it launch calculator with 'calc' or whatever, but where it gets much more handy is defining keywords to search google or dictionary.com, stuff like that. It's handy, unobtrusive, and free.. definately worth checking out - I always feel crippled now using a windows system without it
I am in the process of starting an ISP where advertising of ANY kind is absolutely forbidden and technically (as much as possible) prevented... On a related note - would you sign up on this ISP?
Sounds like a great idea! I'd certainly consider signing up, provided: The price was reasonable (obviously) You can block a decent amount of the ads (say, 70% or more) and.. importantly, you NEVER accidentally block legitimate data - i.e. blocking non-ad web pages or non-spam emails by mistake
Now I'm no astrophysicist, but... I used to think about this stuff a lot as a kid, including the good ol "In an infinite universe, everything must exist" theory. Yes! Somewhere there really IS a Natalie Portman who wants to-.. eh, never mind...
Not only that, but by logical extension, there's an infinite number of every possible thing/object/whatever in the universe.
So far, so good.. but.. this causes problems
For example, that means there's an infinite number of infinitely large fish. (yes, silly example, but my point is serious)
Basically, this means that amongst all the other stuff, there's an infinite amount of infinite permutations of infinitely large objects. Surely an infinitely large object would.. uh.. "fill" an infinitely large universe? even though it can't, because the universe is inifinite and-... AARRRGH!
Sorry. My brain just went bang, and oozed out of my ears.
But seriously, how does that work out? An infinite number of finite size objects take up an infinite area... a single infinite size object takes up an infinite area.. as does an infinite number of infinite sized objects... But none of these will fill an infinite space?
heh. it does my head in. I can handle infinity on one side of the equation, but not both. Will an infinite amount of water fill an infinitely big bucket?
If you answer yes, you're putting a finite size on your bucket, and if you answer no, you're putting a finite size on your water. Therefore.. is it unanswerable?
Sorry, I know this is a little (well, okay, totally) OT, but your sig is absolutely fantastic: I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it
I assume it's a quote from someone, but a quick google didn't turn anything up. Any idea who it's from?
$30 for the c64 $150 for the supercpu (20mhz) $75 for the memory module for the supercpu $30 for the 16meg FPM simm for the memory module $100 for the ide64 adaptor $150 for the ramlink $50 for the ramlink ram expansion board $30 for simms to fill the ramlink (16 more megs)
Having masses of hot chicks crawling over each other to rip your clothes off and make sweet luuurve to you all night long because you are a techno-geek-GOD.... Priceless... Whaaaaat?.. why are you looking at me like that?:P
Even if they copy everything off of your hard drive and send it to their own servers, according to most Slashdotters, that is only copyright infringement (not theft)
I assume by that you're referring to the claim many slashdotters make that downloading music illegally from p2p networks, etc, is copyright infringement as opposed to theft.
Fair enough, but this situation strikes me as somewhat different
Assuming hypothetically that this spyware actually was copying files from your HD and sending them to others, this is rather different to a p2p
example: Bob buys a CD, published by Sony, and performed by Michael Jackson (prolly not signed to Sony. Don't care. it's just an example)
Bob then shares these MP3s on Kazaa, and someone downloads them.
Who's being stolen from? Not Bob. He's perfectly happy to share his MP3s. So if there even IS a case of theft going on here, the victim is between Sony or M.J... who it is between those two is left as an exercise for the reader..
Now.. the spyware scenario.
Bob has those same MP3s on his computer, but only because he finds it more convenient to listen to than having to dig out his legally bought CD. Being a very moral type, he would never think of doing something so terrible as sharing the MP3s with people who might not have paid for the CD, so no p2p networks here.
Then he sees this ad for this nifty IE toolbar that'll make his mouse cursor pretty, let him search without going to a search page / other useless "features"
After installing it, the provider of the toolbar starts copying Bob's files completely without his knowledge, and against his will
That, to me, sounds a lot closer to theft, or at least a major invasion of privacy/rights than downloading stuff on p2p
(footnote. If you've drawn any conclusions on my opinion of p2p networks from this post, discard them. I don't think they're wrong, I don't think they're right. They're just there.)
"if anyone walked within about 30 feet of where I was ripping"..."the needle might pick up the vibrations of the footsteps and alter the recording"
IANA Hifi guru, but my dad is, and I've learnt a couple of things over the years. Sounds to me like you need airpods (expensive optimal solution) or cones (cheaper. dunno if 'cones' is even the right term)
Basically these isolate your turntable from vibration. The cones (which are literally just pointy cones) do it by minimising contact between the turntable and the surface it sits on - you rest the turntable on 3 cones. Hence the only contact to the surface beneath is three tiny points.
Airpods take the concept further. they're magnetically repelling cylinders. Basically, they cause your turntable to be magnetically levitated, and therefore heavily isolated from external vibration.
I'd point you to some good websites, but like I said, I don't know much about this stuff personally. A quick google should turn up some good info tho.
I try. I really do. I try SO hard not to post stuff like "mod x up" or "mod x down". I always figure that if you don't have mod points, don't try to mod.
However, this one I can't ignore. Troll. WHY, please?
This person is making a perfectly valid comment, which I will back up (I have bought NWN and UT2003 and have no problems with the copy protection on either of them. Also I back up EvilAlien in NWN shipping in a playable state)
the line "You must be bitter" doesn't constitute a troll, as it was in response to the original poster's "Then again, maybe I'm just bitter"
Rotational velocity: 948 furlongs per fortnight Weight:.5 a small child per coffee-table
Operating temperature: As warm as a large cow.
Operating noise range: Approx that of a dyslexic peg-legged mime performing an impromptu street rendition of Macbeth using a small matchbox containing 12 red ants as his only prop.
Yes, if you delete from a dosbox / cmd, it bypasses the recycle bin, but what's the point? just shift-delete something in windows for the same effect. And then you're back to square 1 anyways. You have an insecurely deleted file which would be trivial to recover.
In Britain ordinary household lightbulbs have a bayonet attachment. You just shove it in and give it a little twist and it's in
Yep. And those make me nervous these days. Occasionally you'll come across a light socket that needs a more-than-reasonable amount of torque to get the bulb into the bayonet fitting.. I know someone who was doing that, and had the bulb shatter in his hand, lacerating it rather badly. Since then, I always hold the bulb in a doubled-up cloth while putting it in... or better still, use those energy saving lightbulbs which are much tougher (and last longer..and use less energy:)
Just a friendly bit of advice for all the other brits here:)
"PHP has perhaps the best manual of any language. "
I have to second this. As a disclaimer, I'm no PHP zealot - only tried it out for the first time three days ago, and am still undecided on which scripting language I want to use, but PHP's documentation on www.PHP.net impressed the hell out of me. It's well laid out, thorough, and just about every page has user submitted tips, tricks, and example source. I wish this were the rule rather than the exception.. only too frequently learning a new language is seriously hampered by trying to wade through incomprehensibly technical documentation when all you're trying to do is learn how to specify a FOR loop in the language
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Palm Pilots never seem to have enough storage to keep [lots of] whole books or widespread connectivity.
You wot?
Granted, my clie has 16 Mb, but even a bunch of games and a small library of books I still have over 7 Mb free.
I strongly recommend any fellow palm owners to check out the superb Weasel Reader which uses ZTXT format (basically a zipped plaintext).. it's open source, efficient, and an all round lovely app. The kind of application you could take home to meet grandma.
Good link, thanks!
Unfortunately I have no modpoints with which to give you a +informative (typically, I let unused modpoints expire just yesterday due to lack of anything worth modding), but nonetheless, just wanted to say thanks for that link
I interpreted the "conflict" as "competition" like AMD vs Intel or WD vs Maxtor and not like US vs USSR.
Meanwhile, in other news today, AMD's headquarters was reduced to rubble in an apparent bombing attack. No suspects have as yet been named, but sources say a fragment of bomb casing was found with some kind of marking on it, which investigators hope may offer some clues. The fragment was incomplete, but was described as having "a kind of swirl, and two words. The first was illegible, but the second read 'inside'"
I installed it on a win2k box using a 56k modem. It chastised me for not being connected to the internet. Helloooooo.
Win XP & a 56k here. Same problem
Neat idea. Lousy implementation. Go Go Super Open Source Code Team!
This just sounds a lot to me like the old rumor that if you went faster than 30 mph your blood would boil.
I know it's easy to say this with hindsight, but I completely fail to understand where that ever came from, given that many species of animal have been able to exceed 30 Mph for.. well, pretty much all of human history, really... a cheetah can quite easily double that figure, and the Indian spine tailed swift has been clocked at 219 Mph.. I can understand that the people who held this belief probably hadn't seen too many of them around, but man has been riding horses at 30 Mph or more for a very long time.
Oh well, offtopic, I know, but I just find it puzzling
Don't forget my favorite, the famous "Sproing Boots"!
:)
Not only not forgotten, but avaliable to buy - You -have- to see the videos on the photo gallery page
I couldn't find anything in the article, but does anyone know just how close it's going to be compared to usual? Just because it's the closest in 60,000 years or whatever it is doesn't mean that the majority of people could even notice a difference.
At it's closest it will be approximately 1.4 feet away.
RUUUUUUNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!
Sorry, the Duh! is on you.
The gramattical guide book to which the parent refers is from the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy (think about it. How often do you find a grammer guide for time travel in your local bookshop?)
--- quote ---
One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that
of accidentally becoming your own father or mother. There is no
problem involved in becoming your own father or mother that a
broadminded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is
also no problem about changing the course of history - the course
of history does not change because it all fits together like a
jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things
they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the
end.
The major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main
work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner's Time
Traveller's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you
for instance how to describe something that was about to happen
to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward
two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described
differently according to whether you are talking about it from
the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the
further future, or a time in the further past and is further
complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst
you are actually travelling from one time to another with the
intention of becoming your own father or mother.
Most readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified
Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up:
and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond
this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this
tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the
term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered
not to be.
'Chimpanzees share 99.4 percent of functionally important DNA with humans and belong in our genus
I might be mistaken about this, but I'm sure I've read/seen/heard somewhere that yes, chimps share 99.4% DNA with humans, but rats share about 75% and a banana shares about 50%
Can anyone confirm/deny this..?
I'm not familiar with this LSXCommand of which you speak, but I suspect it's something like the rather nifty slickrun for windows. Basically, it's a small floating text-field with configurable keywords.. for a simple example, you can have it launch calculator with 'calc' or whatever, but where it gets much more handy is defining keywords to search google or dictionary.com, stuff like that. It's handy, unobtrusive, and free.. definately worth checking out - I always feel crippled now using a windows system without it
I am in the process of starting an ISP where advertising of ANY kind is absolutely forbidden and technically (as much as possible) prevented ...
:)
On a related note - would you sign up on this ISP?
Sounds like a great idea!
I'd certainly consider signing up, provided:
The price was reasonable (obviously)
You can block a decent amount of the ads (say, 70% or more)
and.. importantly, you NEVER accidentally block legitimate data - i.e. blocking non-ad web pages or non-spam emails by mistake
Good luck with it
..but the world needs pedants..
If this thing had no i/o, as the article claims, it'd be a high tech brick.
Despite the fact that it has no screen, speakers, keyboard, sockets, etc, it DOES have i/o - the wireless connection.
Just being picky.
Now I'm no astrophysicist, but...
I used to think about this stuff a lot as a kid, including the good ol "In an infinite universe, everything must exist" theory. Yes! Somewhere there really IS a Natalie Portman who wants to-.. eh, never mind...
Not only that, but by logical extension, there's an infinite number of every possible thing/object/whatever in the universe.
So far, so good.. but.. this causes problems
For example, that means there's an infinite number of infinitely large fish. (yes, silly example, but my point is serious)
Basically, this means that amongst all the other stuff, there's an infinite amount of infinite permutations of infinitely large objects. Surely an infinitely large object would.. uh.. "fill" an infinitely large universe? even though it can't, because the universe is inifinite and-... AARRRGH!
Sorry. My brain just went bang, and oozed out of my ears.
But seriously, how does that work out?
An infinite number of finite size objects take up an infinite area...
a single infinite size object takes up an infinite area..
as does an infinite number of infinite sized objects...
But none of these will fill an infinite space?
heh. it does my head in. I can handle infinity on one side of the equation, but not both. Will an infinite amount of water fill an infinitely big bucket?
If you answer yes, you're putting a finite size on your bucket, and if you answer no, you're putting a finite size on your water. Therefore.. is it unanswerable?
I probably just need more coffee..
Name 3 other brands of Cola.
Virgin, Panda, and any "shop's own" brand you choose (Safeway, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Co-op, Somerfields, whatever)
Sorry, I know this is a little (well, okay, totally) OT, but your sig is absolutely fantastic:
I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it
I assume it's a quote from someone, but a quick google didn't turn anything up. Any idea who it's from?
$30 for the c64
$150 for the supercpu (20mhz)
$75 for the memory module for the supercpu
$30 for the 16meg FPM simm for the memory module
$100 for the ide64 adaptor
$150 for the ramlink
$50 for the ramlink ram expansion board
$30 for simms to fill the ramlink (16 more megs)
Having masses of hot chicks crawling over each other to rip your clothes off and make sweet luuurve to you all night long because you are a techno-geek-GOD.... Priceless
Even if they copy everything off of your hard drive and send it to their own servers, according to most Slashdotters, that is only copyright infringement (not theft)
I assume by that you're referring to the claim many slashdotters make that downloading music illegally from p2p networks, etc, is copyright infringement as opposed to theft.
Fair enough, but this situation strikes me as somewhat different
Assuming hypothetically that this spyware actually was copying files from your HD and sending them to others, this is rather different to a p2p
example:
Bob buys a CD, published by Sony, and performed by Michael Jackson (prolly not signed to Sony. Don't care. it's just an example)
Bob then shares these MP3s on Kazaa, and someone downloads them.
Who's being stolen from? Not Bob. He's perfectly happy to share his MP3s. So if there even IS a case of theft going on here, the victim is between Sony or M.J... who it is between those two is left as an exercise for the reader..
Now.. the spyware scenario.
Bob has those same MP3s on his computer, but only because he finds it more convenient to listen to than having to dig out his legally bought CD. Being a very moral type, he would never think of doing something so terrible as sharing the MP3s with people who might not have paid for the CD, so no p2p networks here.
Then he sees this ad for this nifty IE toolbar that'll make his mouse cursor pretty, let him search without going to a search page / other useless "features"
After installing it, the provider of the toolbar starts copying Bob's files completely without his knowledge, and against his will
That, to me, sounds a lot closer to theft, or at least a major invasion of privacy/rights than downloading stuff on p2p
(footnote. If you've drawn any conclusions on my opinion of p2p networks from this post, discard them. I don't think they're wrong, I don't think they're right. They're just there.)
"Speaking of DNF"
Somewhat ironic.. I read that as "Did Not Finish" (as in failed to reach the end of a race).. then a moment later realised it's Duke Nukem Forever.
Perhaps a little too convenient of a coincidence?
"if anyone walked within about 30 feet of where I was ripping"..."the needle might pick up the vibrations of the footsteps and alter the recording"
:)
IANA Hifi guru, but my dad is, and I've learnt a couple of things over the years. Sounds to me like you need airpods (expensive optimal solution) or cones (cheaper. dunno if 'cones' is even the right term)
Basically these isolate your turntable from vibration. The cones (which are literally just pointy cones) do it by minimising contact between the turntable and the surface it sits on - you rest the turntable on 3 cones. Hence the only contact to the surface beneath is three tiny points.
Airpods take the concept further. they're magnetically repelling cylinders. Basically, they cause your turntable to be magnetically levitated, and therefore heavily isolated from external vibration.
I'd point you to some good websites, but like I said, I don't know much about this stuff personally. A quick google should turn up some good info tho.
Hope this is some help
I try. I really do.
I try SO hard not to post stuff like "mod x up" or "mod x down". I always figure that if you don't have mod points, don't try to mod.
However, this one I can't ignore.
Troll. WHY, please?
This person is making a perfectly valid comment, which I will back up (I have bought NWN and UT2003 and have no problems with the copy protection on either of them. Also I back up EvilAlien in NWN shipping in a playable state)
the line "You must be bitter" doesn't constitute a troll, as it was in response to the original poster's "Then again, maybe I'm just bitter"
The full specifications are:
.5 a small child per coffee-table
Storage: 195.7 decabytes per 3.3 twips
Rotational velocity: 948 furlongs per fortnight
Weight:
Operating temperature: As warm as a large cow.
Operating noise range: Approx that of a dyslexic peg-legged mime performing an impromptu street rendition of Macbeth using a small matchbox containing 12 red ants as his only prop.
Yes, if you delete from a dosbox / cmd, it bypasses the recycle bin, but what's the point? just shift-delete something in windows for the same effect. And then you're back to square 1 anyways. You have an insecurely deleted file which would be trivial to recover.
In Britain ordinary household lightbulbs have a bayonet attachment. You just shove it in and give it a little twist and it's in
.and use less energy :)
:)
Yep. And those make me nervous these days. Occasionally you'll come across a light socket that needs a more-than-reasonable amount of torque to get the bulb into the bayonet fitting.. I know someone who was doing that, and had the bulb shatter in his hand, lacerating it rather badly. Since then, I always hold the bulb in a doubled-up cloth while putting it in... or better still, use those energy saving lightbulbs which are much tougher (and last longer.
Just a friendly bit of advice for all the other brits here
The following is an example game file your program is supposed to output a dataset for that is "most human". I give you:
NFG 1 R "game1" { "1" "2" } { 2 2 }
21 3 3 5 3 5 5 3
What is the most human response? Anyone? Anyone?
tH1z g4m3 suxX0rz h4iRy bH4LlZ!~##!@~
3y3@m g0nN4 g0 pl4y Qu4ke!!~#~~@
"PHP has perhaps the best manual of any language. "
I have to second this. As a disclaimer, I'm no PHP zealot - only tried it out for the first time three days ago, and am still undecided on which scripting language I want to use, but PHP's documentation on www.PHP.net impressed the hell out of me. It's well laid out, thorough, and just about every page has user submitted tips, tricks, and example source. I wish this were the rule rather than the exception.. only too frequently learning a new language is seriously hampered by trying to wade through incomprehensibly technical documentation when all you're trying to do is learn how to specify a FOR loop in the language