I use Andi Graph. http://dougmelton.com/android/andie-graph/ . It's free if you already own a TI calculator. If you don't, you are morally obligated to purchase a TI calculator so that you can say you've paid for the software. It is exactly like using a real TI-8x calculator except the buttons are not tactile.
It runs faster than a real TI-8x on an HTC One V phone, which is a low-end ICS phone. If you want to run it on a PC, get the Android emulator from Google.
If you don't have your cable to rip the ROM from your calculator, you can find the ROM using Google. I don't think there is a version for iOS.
There are TI-83/83+/85/86 emulators for Android. You just load a TI ROM into them and you're done. Having tried it, here are the biggest problems:
1. Battery life sucks. 2. The touchscreen is a lousy keypad for a calc with that many buttons.
I know that many profs won't allow these devices during tests because of the potential for communicating with other people using them during the tests.
Apple will never allow these emulators on iDevices. They don't like people running arbitrary code in the walled garden. zShell anyone?
We also need to get some sanity with hyphenation and re-flow, and, I am disappointed that my reader doesn't seem to do a good job of kerning, or do ligatures at all.
Disclaimer: I am a technical writer, and have a lot of experience with publishing workflows.
I love the ease of obtaining books for my e-book reader. I also love the space savings I get from e-books and not having to choose which physical book to dispose of when I get a new one.
Given good content to work with, any programmer could figure out how to make it beautiful using LaTeX. There are even several excellent packages for typesetting novels out there on CTAN. However, there isn't a mature, standardized workflow to get from LaTeX to epub. I sort of expected this by now. It'd be nice if XeLaTeX had an output driver for epub. Everything on planet LaTeX revolves around PDF output, and it doesn't do tagged PDF output, which means that paragraphs cannot be reflowed. So, you can generate a beautiful document for your e-book reader, as long as you don't plan to zoom, and you have to generate a different PDF file for every size of device out there.
That's not to say that LaTeX and friends haven't come a long way. Synctex and TeXworks make editing a joy. XeTeX and fontspec make font selection easy-cheesy.
However, I pine for the day when I can just do epublatex document.tex or taggedpdflatex document.tex and get awesome output. I don't want to have to rasterize my graphics either... I just want it to work. It's coming, I'm sure.
US-CERT's mission is to improve the nation's cybersecurity posture, coordinate cyber information sharing and proactively manage cyber risks to the nation while protecting the constitutional rights of Americans. US-CERT vision is to be a trusted global leader in cybersecurity - collaborative, agile, and responsive in a complex environment.
Information is available from the US-CERT web site, mailing lists, and RSS channels.
US-CERT also provides a way for citizens, businesses, and other institutions to communicate and coordinate directly with the United States government about cyber security.
Who runs US-CERT? US-CERT is the operational arm of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Where is US-CERT located? US-CERT is located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area.
What is US-CERT's relationship to NCSD and DHS? US-CERT is the operational arm of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The NCSD was established by DHS to serve as the federal government's cornerstone for cyber security coordination and preparedness, including implementation of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace .
Most web sites run on name-based virtual hosts. This allows multiple web sites to use the same instance of the web server (Apache, IIS, etc.), reducing costs.
This presents a chicken-an-egg problem with TLS/SSL (the encryption used for https).
When the web server receives the initial request from the browser, it sends back a certificate for it's domain that says to the browser, "Yes, I am really where-ever.com, because I paid money to GoDaddy, Comodo, Verisign or whoever and they'll corroborate."
The problem is, when that first request comes in, and you are using TLS/SSL and name-based virtual hosting, the server can't read what domain name was requested to present the correct certificate. You haven't finished negotiating the TLS/SSL connection yet, so you can't read the URI embedded in the request.
So, you need a different IP for each domain that you are going to serve (IP addresses are becoming rare) or use some other hack to accomplish this.
I remember when Google announced the svgweb javascript library to enable SVG support in IE. That sort of reinforced the notion that Microsoft was playing catch-up in the browser technology arena. Microsoft is now, at least trying, I think, to present the appearance that Google is the company that is behind. Not to mention it doesn't hurt MS to have value added to Chrome when it runs on Windows. They're not going to make this happen for Chrome running on GNU/Linux.
I don't know whether school lunch programs actually increase student performance or not. It is unconscionable that children go hungry while others eat in front of them, so I consider the programs necessary.
The three of my four kids who are in school take a lunch box. One of them is overweight, and we found out he was spending his allowance on a la carte junk food in the cafeteria line, particularly ice cream bars.
Frankly, there isn't any reason for the junk food to be there in the first place. I was astonished to find out that the school policy is to not enforce parents' requests to not allow children to buy junk food in the cafeteria.
It's not realistic for most parents to be with their kids all the time. It takes a village to raise a child. I don't think secret PIN numbers are necessary to help kids eat better in school. I think we just need to get the junk food out of the cafeteria. If parents *want* their kids eating crap, put it in the lunch box, but don't try to sell it to my kids while I'm not looking. I don't think we should expect teachers or lunch workers to be food police. Get the bad food out so they don't have to deal with it and parents don't have to worry about it.
I would, perhaps, adorn the halls with now-public-domain portraits of famous logicians, a photo of Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Bjorne Strostrup, etc, maybe an image of an abacus, an image of a punchcard (floating across vat of mercury if you want to see something neat), posters of code from BASIC, COBOL, C, Pascal, Fortran, C++, Java, Perl, PHP and Python, maybe some Maple or Mathematica code, an image of the innards of an ic or two (perhaps an i386, an m68k, an alpha, and an amd64), and definitely a screensaver of flying toasters.
I think it would be better to adorn the walls with large flat panel monitors actually depicting programs than just static images.
The issue is moot. Now that Appalachian State has conquered Michigan, nothing else will matter ever again. All meaningful stories are duplicates of this one.
To most of us, Slashdot has been purely laughable for a long time already. But as long as it can stay in the news, it will keep damaging Microsoft's reputation; other pepole keep hearing the general news of "Windows being under attack". The big question, and what we should hope for is: when will Slashdot's trolling/ever/ stop?
Sound will be a problem. Graphics will be a problem. Those two things, only because nobody buys a new sound chipset or graphics chipset to put in their Macs. But everything else will be OK.
1. cmd blows. bash rocks. I can't stand the Windows shell. You can't get anything done, and it is not well documented. 2. There are certain applications which are just better on *nix. TeX to name one. MiKTeX has come a long way, but font installation is easier in teTeX. ghostscript, sed, awk, grep, etc. Gotta have those things. Cygwin is ugly. 3. netfilter is better than Windows firewall. 4. Not as many worms and viruses affect *nix. 5. *nix has much better backup capabilities. dump, tar, etc. How does Windows help you to make backups?
That being said, 97% of people: 1. Don't give a shit about shells because they are content to not do better than mediocre productivity. 2. Are ignorant about how bad their documents look in Word and don't know how easy LaTeX makes good document preparation. As Oetiker put it, "your hamster might have some difficulty grasping the concept of text markup". 3. Windows users seem to be content with bad security. 4. Are so stupid that they will execute any code attached to any e-mail. 5. Don't do backups.
OS X already does all of the things Linux advocates have been said we need to do for years. Look at OS X's market share. It just doesn't matter.
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For that TI-8x look and feel...
I use Andi Graph. http://dougmelton.com/android/andie-graph/ . It's free if you already own a TI calculator. If you don't, you are morally obligated to purchase a TI calculator so that you can say you've paid for the software. It is exactly like using a real TI-8x calculator except the buttons are not tactile.
It runs faster than a real TI-8x on an HTC One V phone, which is a low-end ICS phone. If you want to run it on a PC, get the Android emulator from Google.
If you don't have your cable to rip the ROM from your calculator, you can find the ROM using Google. I don't think there is a version for iOS.
There are TI-83/83+/85/86 emulators for Android. You just load a TI ROM into them and you're done. Having tried it, here are the biggest problems:
1. Battery life sucks.
2. The touchscreen is a lousy keypad for a calc with that many buttons.
I know that many profs won't allow these devices during tests because of the potential for communicating with other people using them during the tests.
Apple will never allow these emulators on iDevices. They don't like people running arbitrary code in the walled garden. zShell anyone?
I can't believe there isn't a cesspool of litigation between these companies yet.
it's a space sta^h^h^h datacenter.
We also need to get some sanity with hyphenation and re-flow, and, I am disappointed that my reader doesn't seem to do a good job of kerning, or do ligatures at all.
Disclaimer: I am a technical writer, and have a lot of experience with publishing workflows.
I love the ease of obtaining books for my e-book reader. I also love the space savings I get from e-books and not having to choose which physical book to dispose of when I get a new one.
Given good content to work with, any programmer could figure out how to make it beautiful using LaTeX. There are even several excellent packages for typesetting novels out there on CTAN. However, there isn't a mature, standardized workflow to get from LaTeX to epub. I sort of expected this by now. It'd be nice if XeLaTeX had an output driver for epub. Everything on planet LaTeX revolves around PDF output, and it doesn't do tagged PDF output, which means that paragraphs cannot be reflowed. So, you can generate a beautiful document for your e-book reader, as long as you don't plan to zoom, and you have to generate a different PDF file for every size of device out there.
That's not to say that LaTeX and friends haven't come a long way. Synctex and TeXworks make editing a joy. XeTeX and fontspec make font selection easy-cheesy.
However, I pine for the day when I can just do epublatex document.tex or taggedpdflatex document.tex and get awesome output. I don't want to have to rasterize my graphics either... I just want it to work. It's coming, I'm sure.
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
http://www.us-cert.gov/
From the US-CERT "About Us" page:
US-CERT's mission is to improve the nation's cybersecurity posture, coordinate cyber information sharing and proactively manage cyber risks to the nation while protecting the constitutional rights of Americans. US-CERT vision is to be a trusted global leader in cybersecurity - collaborative, agile, and responsive in a complex environment.
Information is available from the US-CERT web site, mailing lists, and RSS channels.
US-CERT also provides a way for citizens, businesses, and other institutions to communicate and coordinate directly with the United States government about cyber security.
Who runs US-CERT?
US-CERT is the operational arm of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Where is US-CERT located?
US-CERT is located in the Washington DC Metropolitan area.
What is US-CERT's relationship to NCSD and DHS?
US-CERT is the operational arm of the National Cyber Security Division (NCSD) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The NCSD was established by DHS to serve as the federal government's cornerstone for cyber security coordination and preparedness, including implementation of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace .
Most web sites run on name-based virtual hosts. This allows multiple web sites to use the same instance of the web server (Apache, IIS, etc.), reducing costs.
This presents a chicken-an-egg problem with TLS/SSL (the encryption used for https).
When the web server receives the initial request from the browser, it sends back a certificate for it's domain that says to the browser, "Yes, I am really where-ever.com, because I paid money to GoDaddy, Comodo, Verisign or whoever and they'll corroborate."
The problem is, when that first request comes in, and you are using TLS/SSL and name-based virtual hosting, the server can't read what domain name was requested to present the correct certificate. You haven't finished negotiating the TLS/SSL connection yet, so you can't read the URI embedded in the request.
So, you need a different IP for each domain that you are going to serve (IP addresses are becoming rare) or use some other hack to accomplish this.
Do you remember this: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/22/1246248/Google-Brings-SVG-Support-To-IE ?
I remember when Google announced the svgweb javascript library to enable SVG support in IE. That sort of reinforced the notion that Microsoft was playing catch-up in the browser technology arena. Microsoft is now, at least trying, I think, to present the appearance that Google is the company that is behind. Not to mention it doesn't hurt MS to have value added to Chrome when it runs on Windows. They're not going to make this happen for Chrome running on GNU/Linux.
Jennings: I'll take CAPTCHAs for 1000, Alex...
Big Blue: Damnit.
I don't know whether school lunch programs actually increase student performance or not. It is unconscionable that children go hungry while others eat in front of them, so I consider the programs necessary.
The three of my four kids who are in school take a lunch box. One of them is overweight, and we found out he was spending his allowance on a la carte junk food in the cafeteria line, particularly ice cream bars.
Frankly, there isn't any reason for the junk food to be there in the first place. I was astonished to find out that the school policy is to not enforce parents' requests to not allow children to buy junk food in the cafeteria.
It's not realistic for most parents to be with their kids all the time. It takes a village to raise a child. I don't think secret PIN numbers are necessary to help kids eat better in school. I think we just need to get the junk food out of the cafeteria. If parents *want* their kids eating crap, put it in the lunch box, but don't try to sell it to my kids while I'm not looking. I don't think we should expect teachers or lunch workers to be food police. Get the bad food out so they don't have to deal with it and parents don't have to worry about it.
from lawnmower engines!
Actually, I'm glad to see car companies reclaiming all that kinetic energy that they were previously just radiating off as heat during braking.
I bet a flywheel is an incredibly efficient way to store it, too. Now, lets see if these brakes actually work. Hope they did a better job than Toyota.
cosin() is more fun than sin()...
...use VoIP instead. Much safer.
I would, perhaps, adorn the halls with now-public-domain portraits of famous logicians, a photo of Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Bjorne Strostrup, etc, maybe an image of an abacus, an image of a punchcard (floating across vat of mercury if you want to see something neat), posters of code from BASIC, COBOL, C, Pascal, Fortran, C++, Java, Perl, PHP and Python, maybe some Maple or Mathematica code, an image of the innards of an ic or two (perhaps an i386, an m68k, an alpha, and an amd64), and definitely a screensaver of flying toasters.
I think it would be better to adorn the walls with large flat panel monitors actually depicting programs than just static images.
Just a few thoughts.
Clearly, these planets do not satisfy the Earth-like gravity requirement of a class M planet.
The issue is moot. Now that Appalachian State has conquered Michigan, nothing else will matter ever again. All meaningful stories are duplicates of this one.
Go Apps! Fight Apps! Win Apps!
"Wolverine... it's what's for dinner."
Nobody recently discovered any remains. RTFA. This Slashdot post is BS. Period.
To most of us, Slashdot has been purely laughable for a long time already. /ever/ stop?
But as long as it can stay in the news, it will keep damaging Microsoft's reputation; other pepole keep hearing the general news of "Windows being under attack".
The big question, and what we should hope for is: when will Slashdot's trolling
No, just that since it is limited to graphics and sound, it is not insurmountable.
Sound will be a problem. Graphics will be a problem. Those two things, only because nobody buys a new sound chipset or graphics chipset to put in their Macs. But everything else will be OK.
1. cmd blows. bash rocks. I can't stand the Windows shell. You can't get anything done, and it is not well documented.
2. There are certain applications which are just better on *nix. TeX to name one. MiKTeX has come a long way, but font installation is easier in teTeX. ghostscript, sed, awk, grep, etc. Gotta have those things. Cygwin is ugly.
3. netfilter is better than Windows firewall.
4. Not as many worms and viruses affect *nix.
5. *nix has much better backup capabilities. dump, tar, etc. How does Windows help you to make backups?
That being said, 97% of people:
1. Don't give a shit about shells because they are content to not do better than mediocre productivity.
2. Are ignorant about how bad their documents look in Word and don't know how easy LaTeX makes good document preparation. As Oetiker put it, "your hamster might have some difficulty grasping the concept of text markup".
3. Windows users seem to be content with bad security.
4. Are so stupid that they will execute any code attached to any e-mail.
5. Don't do backups.
OS X already does all of the things Linux advocates have been said we need to do for years. Look at OS X's market share. It just doesn't matter.
Netcraft confirms it, Beastie is... nevermind.
Haven't you seen this?