For some "heavy" formulas (electromagnetic fields, electricity, thermodynamics,... more than half of Physics, actually) it is quite a pain to do the parsing "in your head". Hence the use of the 'standard' notation. (either native on the TI or with the 'eval' key on the HP)
However, as you hinted, the HP calculators suffer from a too small screen. Both on width and in height.
Besides with the TI you can copy and paste parts of formulas, I'm not sure it's that easy with RPN.
But I agree with a former poster that a plugin for RPN for the TI would be good. For some stuff it's just faster.
> Slashdot trolls have announced they can not afford to make beowulf clusters of these notes.
ROTFL !!
:)
In recent news, the British Parliament presented the new series of bank notes.
According to Lord Smith, a 10 PoundXP note will have a higher buying power than
a 10 euro note.
The European Federal bank introduces the 50 euro note as a response.
Richard Stallman calls to the European Bank to free the printing process for bank notes.
"People need Free Money, it's in the nature of Man."
Wired ran an interview of Craig Mundie: "Euros are anti-American. In the interest of American businesses and consumers, euros shouldn't be allowed as a currency inside the US."
The European Federal Bank commented recently that a low-orbital nuclear explosion
would not only wreck all cash dispensers, computers and electric razors for 5000 miles around, it would also rob 300 million of europeans of their pocket change.
Cautious people are already storing water and food supplies.
Tom's Hardware ran a video showing a 50 euros note frying in flames due to massive overclocking ( up to 500 euros ) after the thermal dump was removed.
<just checking>
So your computation runs like this:
n= log (400/42)/log 2
n # log(10)/log(2) # 3.32
</just checking>
(# here is supposed to mean 'not very different from')
We need Deep Thought to design computers whose computing power is (twice) multiplied by 42 every 18 months !:-)
> "Symmetric" means that encoding the video is as fast as decoding.
Well, it *could* also mean that decoding is as slow as encoding:)
Besides, do we really need yet another proprietary video codec ?
If it's effective, it won't take long for it to migrate to webcasting, movie previews, etc...
See how often QuickTime is used, and how compatible it is w/ Linux, won't we risk the same thing again ? and again ? and again ??
When I tried zsh, I liked it sooo much that I spent a whole night reprogramming (and enhancing) my prompt.
Now it looks really good. If there was a zsh-prompt-howto I think I would submit it...
Besides, who said we *need* either Gnome or Kde ?
I remember the times when fvwm was the king of the hill. Right now, I use only a highly customized Enlightenment, and I pick the apps that I like, usually Konqueror and gvim.
> It said Requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux. Now what?
That's easy !
$ wine iexplore.exe
err:win32:PE_fixup_imports No implementation for SHLWAPI.dll.249(StrRetToStrW) imported from C:\windows\system\shdocvw.dll, setting to 0xdeadbeef
wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
ah, well. "apt-get install mozilla" , then I guess...
The grand parent post is incorrect, and the one I'm replying to is correct.
Mod this one up at least to the same rating as "Intergating Web Browser and File Browser"
I was thinking of this problem, even while writing my previous message,
and obviously it's not easily solved.
I did a potato install for a friend yesterday, and upgraded to woody.
Thank god apt didn't spit out all suggested packages when I did the dist-upgrade !
The xterm would have run out of ink !:)
Best solution would probably be:
1. run dselect-upgrade for upgrades, even if it's a bit enthusiastic with removing stuff
2. actually *look* (gasp!) at the package's description when doing an apt-get install
3. use Clippy(tm) ! Something like:
"I see you're installing libfoo.
To get a better foo experience, I could install libbar for you !
(Note: you need to be registered at DebianPassPort)
"
;-)
Wouldn't that be stow ?
stow --version
stow (GNU Stow) version 1.3.2
Description: Organiser for/usr/local/ hierarchy
GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under/usr/local/
by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under
/usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that
all the software is installed in the same place.
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For some "heavy" formulas (electromagnetic fields, electricity, thermodynamics, ... more than half of Physics, actually) it is quite a pain to do the parsing "in your head". Hence the use of the 'standard' notation. (either native on the TI or with the 'eval' key on the HP)
However, as you hinted, the HP calculators suffer from a too small screen. Both on width and in height.
Besides with the TI you can copy and paste parts of formulas, I'm not sure it's that easy with RPN.
But I agree with a former poster that a plugin for RPN for the TI would be good. For some stuff it's just faster.
It could be done, with a USB hub and a master job server on a PC...
Imagine this: inverting a 10x10 matrix in *five* seconds !!!!!
It seems they changed the connectors. That's good, but I hope the plug sticks a bit better.
I can't remember how many times my 2 players, 2 calculators chess games crashed because the cable had moved a tiny bit.
That's because Debian is the only distribution which freezes its releases.
And it is widely known that geeks only 'cook' frozen meals: 3 minutes in the microwave, and eat with a plastic fork.
Haven't we seen this type of virus in sigs here quite often:
*** WARNING: VIRUS CODE STARTS HERE ***
Hello, I'm a George W. Bush virus.
To help me spread, please email me to all your friends, relatives, colleagues,
and then format your hard disk.
*** END OF VIRUS CODE ***
The cowboynealae algae has been known to Slashdot for quite some time, now...
> Slashdot trolls have announced they can not afford to make beowulf clusters of these notes.
ROTFL !!
:)
In recent news, the British Parliament presented the new series of bank notes.
According to Lord Smith, a 10 PoundXP note will have a higher buying power than
a 10 euro note.
The European Federal bank introduces the 50 euro note as a response.
Richard Stallman calls to the European Bank to free the printing process for bank notes.
"People need Free Money, it's in the nature of Man."
Wired ran an interview of Craig Mundie: "Euros are anti-American. In the interest of American businesses and consumers, euros shouldn't be allowed as a currency inside the US."
Related News:
The European Federal Bank commented recently that a low-orbital nuclear explosion
would not only wreck all cash dispensers, computers and electric razors for 5000 miles around, it would also rob 300 million of europeans of their pocket change.
Cautious people are already storing water and food supplies.
Tom's Hardware ran a video showing a 50 euros note frying in flames due to massive overclocking ( up to 500 euros ) after the thermal dump was removed.
Just a slight typo correction:
:-)
:)
Actually, Moore's Law reads like this:
42*(2^n)
Not like that:
(42*2)^n
<just checking>
So your computation runs like this:
n= log (400/42)/log 2
n # log(10)/log(2) # 3.32
</just checking>
(# here is supposed to mean 'not very different from')
We need Deep Thought to design computers whose computing power is (twice) multiplied by 42 every 18 months !
Nice catch, though !
Actually there are some cases, with *mobile* phones when a visual input would be helpful.
"Which flowers do I buy ? The red ones, or the yellow ones ?"
"I don't know, do they match the living-room ?"
"Hmm... not sure"
"OK show me...."
"Hello, it's me, I can't seem to find your house, can you give me directions ?"
"Where are you ?"
"err...can't say exactly..."
"OK show me....."
There are countless cases when getting visual info would be helpful.
But *please*, remember to leave the video off by default !
> does it scale well enough for corporate video conferencing?
:-)
At the moment, it looks hardly better than ASCII-art.
Ever tried aaxine ? Or aatv ?
> "Symmetric" means that encoding the video is as fast as decoding.
:)
Well, it *could* also mean that decoding is as slow as encoding
Besides, do we really need yet another proprietary video codec ?
If it's effective, it won't take long for it to migrate to webcasting, movie previews, etc...
See how often QuickTime is used, and how compatible it is w/ Linux, won't we risk the same thing again ? and again ? and again ??
No you're not.
When I tried zsh, I liked it sooo much that I spent a whole night reprogramming (and enhancing) my prompt.
Now it looks really good. If there was a zsh-prompt-howto I think I would submit it...
Besides, who said we *need* either Gnome or Kde ?
I remember the times when fvwm was the king of the hill. Right now, I use only a highly customized Enlightenment, and I pick the apps that I like, usually Konqueror and gvim.
The right tool for the right task, always...
> It said Requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux. Now what?
That's easy !
$ wine iexplore.exe
err:win32:PE_fixup_imports No implementation for SHLWAPI.dll.249(StrRetToStrW) imported from C:\windows\system\shdocvw.dll, setting to 0xdeadbeef
wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
ah, well. "apt-get install mozilla" , then I guess...
The grand parent post is incorrect, and the one I'm replying to is correct.
Mod this one up at least to the same rating as "Intergating Web Browser and File Browser"
I was thinking of this problem, even while writing my previous message,
:)
and obviously it's not easily solved.
I did a potato install for a friend yesterday, and upgraded to woody.
Thank god apt didn't spit out all suggested packages when I did the dist-upgrade !
The xterm would have run out of ink !
Best solution would probably be:
1. run dselect-upgrade for upgrades, even if it's a bit enthusiastic with removing stuff
2. actually *look* (gasp!) at the package's description when doing an apt-get install
3. use Clippy(tm) ! Something like:
"I see you're installing libfoo.
To get a better foo experience, I could install libbar for you !
(Note: you need to be registered at DebianPassPort)
"
;-)
This works for *upgrades*, not for installing basic packages.
:)
(though you could do a dselect-upgrade, install , dselect-upgrade, but that's a bit messy
It would be great if apt could just print a list of suggested/recommended packages when doing an apt-get install.
Wouldn't that be stow ?
/usr/local/ hierarchy
/usr/local/
/usr/local/stow/, and then using symlinks to create the illusion that
stow --version
stow (GNU Stow) version 1.3.2
Description: Organiser for
GNU Stow helps the system administrator organise files under
by allowing each piece of software to be installed in its own tree under
all the software is installed in the same place.
> I *knew* that mutt doesn't *require* a spell checker,
This is why Debian has fiels called 'Recommends' and 'Suggests'. However, apt doesn't honor these, other frontends do (like aptitude)
Package: mutt
Depends: libc6, libsasl7, exim | mail-transport-agent
Recommends: mime-support
Suggests: locales, urlview, ispell, gnupg | pgp | pgp5i
apt won't install ispell, but other aptitude will tell you that those packages are suggested or recommended by the package maintainer.
> When one jammer sends you a PGP signed grocery list, send him or her your chocolate
> cheesecake recipe.
Hmm, I'm not sure. *My* chocolate cheesecake would be considered as a terrorist weapon in many countries...
> p.s. I am sure a game used this type of thing before
... good memories.
Yep.
I remember "Strike Commander" built its terrain maps this way. (Fractals + smoothing + texture + objects)
(back in '92 ? '93 ? )
... ten 1.44 Mb disquettes, 1hr of fractal stuff on my good ole 386...