Just because you don't see any errors you asume that they aren't handled all that well ?!
They just aren't there !!
That is (yet another reason) why Linux is a great OS
I hate that 'Warning: You farted or your mouse moved, are you sure ? - Yes/No/Cancel'-Windows-crap.
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CmdrTaco has got the Slashcode but doesn't do anything with it. Now it's this stupid bar on top of my screen. It can be turned of but for that you have to log in every time. Ditch the bar or use cookies to remember my login and move up the loginbox so i can enter my password without scrolling to page down first.
Out AC, ditch anonymous posting ! You should be able for to post anonymously but that would have to mean your name isn't shown but your karma can still be affected.
My guess would by it's fake.
I'm not a pro on how the XBox's OS functions but I don't have a clue how you are going to press/click the OK-button.
The things on the bottom of the screen show you what certain buttons on the controller do, but I don't see a button for OK amongst them.
By the way: I'd like a back-button on my WIN98 BSOD !!
because it runs Mac OS, how are you going to synch (it still kinda is a PDA !) to a PC which most lusers have? I'm not buying a I-mac just to synch my PDA.
I also thing it's a fake, the shadow on the left side is much burrier than the sigarettepack's shadow. Also the angle of the table doesn't seem to match the one in whick the device is rendered, it looks a bit like the device in bent upwards so it's right half is clear from the table.
The key to problem-solving is not to work around the problem but to eliminate the problems source. You're problem is that when you go to work you are searched which you don't like. By eliminating the source I don't mean get the security measures a bit louser (speelingk ?!) but the not having to be searched: so don't go to or leave work, sleep in you lab !!
PS: this was meant to be funny, but I don't think that is really clear.
AFAIK, the signals are delayed according to a certain algorithm (known to the DOD).
The delay is known by everybody. The GPS satelites constantly emit their (atom)clock's time and their ID, a GPS-receiver uses those times to calcutate the source's distance.
I designed a program a little while ago which tracks big slabs of steel placed in stacks of 10 slabs high on one big 'parking lot' at a steelfactory. Cranes roll around the lot moving around slabs, controlled by orders given from a server. Each slabs GPS-location and position in it's pile is stored on the servers DataBase. The crane sends the current weight in it's grabbingthinghy to the server which then calculates how many slabs are picked from which pile.
But back to he point, those cranes are accurate to 5 metres/15 feet. See how GPS works more information. This page only leaves out on thing. They state you need 3 satelites to make out your position. They don't mention that it's posibble to make calculations with more than 3 satelites. In that case you end up with several position with which the actually position is interpollated. This works quite well because on most places on earth you receive signals from 4 or 5 satelites which means you don't get 1 position but 2 or even 3.
I think that computers that anticipate human actions and make their own well informed decisions, and so on, will be much more useful and more important than a computer that can interact well in a natural language.
A few years ago is saw a little basic-program that actually anticipated human actions. First you would key in a 'random' combination of four 0's or 1's.(0101, 1001 etc etc.) Then you would have to close your eyes and again type a 1 or 0 at random for 15 times. The monitor would actually show if you were going to press a 0 or 1 before you pressed it. Afterwards it could show the % it got right. Most of the time it got above 50% !!
This was accomplished by making good use of the fact that human can't be random. The program was supposed to find a sequence in your dissions.
I can't imagine than a monitor or any other device which magnetic field is used for charging a portable device doesn't consume more power. (Since the magnetic field is drained)
You could get in serious trouble if you used a device that is able to recharge it's battery by stealing energy from everything it passes.
Scotty: Captain, our shields are going off-line. Something is draining our power !!
Kirk: Must be one of them script-kiddies with their Linuxwatches !
You just came up with the ultimate solution!!
The 'charging while you sleep'-thing is nice.
Than look again at that last sentence and do the math. Most/.readers spend as much time sleeping as sitting behind a monitor. What you need is a linuxwatch that recharges itself from the magnetic field generated by a monitor !!
Wow, I could become rich if I marketed this right !
6 hours is REALLY not much, but what did you expect ?! it's a prototype.
The article states:
IBM has predicted all-day battery life will appear in a year or so.
That still extremly short, compare a watch with a screen that small to a (for example) Compaq Ipaq.
Those things run quite a while on one recharge. But it his a much larger colorscreen, has more memory and processing power (and it can also run Linux) but the watch is running 24/7 and a PDA about 1 hour on a single day. (just a guess)
IF big blue starts to manufacture these watches, they should ahip at with a cradle for synch and ofcourse recharging. If they can get this thing to run for a couple of days that will be enough for my.
Of course this weird sentence is caused by the translation.
My guess is that the robot move in a imaginary cage/cube (much like communication satalites).
Hey, it's just an opinion.
I think all of those gizmos trying to replace a standard keyboard fail.
But for a portable device a full size keyboard is to clumsy and the frogpad (maybe in a changed setup) could do fine. Again that's just my opinion. I've noticed that i am the only/. reader how also thinks Palm's graffiti-pad is a great solution.
but maybe it could become more cooler if Nokia worked together with some PDA-company (Best choice would be Palm IMHO). They could reduce the keyboard's size be building one of these in it to make more room for the screen.
Devices is this one allready excist but most are a PDA that you can make phonecalls with or a cellphone that remembers your appointments.
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Just because you don't see any errors you asume that they aren't handled all that well ?!
They just aren't there !!
That is (yet another reason) why Linux is a great OS
I hate that 'Warning: You farted or your mouse moved, are you sure ? - Yes/No/Cancel'-Windows-crap.
CmdrTaco has got the Slashcode but doesn't do anything with it. Now it's this stupid bar on top of my screen. It can be turned of but for that you have to log in every time. Ditch the bar or use cookies to remember my login and move up the loginbox so i can enter my password without scrolling to page down first.
Out AC, ditch anonymous posting ! You should be able for to post anonymously but that would have to mean your name isn't shown but your karma can still be affected.
I'm not a pro on how the XBox's OS functions but I don't have a clue how you are going to press/click the OK-button.
The things on the bottom of the screen show you what certain buttons on the controller do, but I don't see a button for OK amongst them.
By the way: I'd like a back-button on my WIN98 BSOD !!
because it runs Mac OS, how are you going to synch (it still kinda is a PDA !) to a PC which most lusers have? I'm not buying a I-mac just to synch my PDA. I also thing it's a fake, the shadow on the left side is much burrier than the sigarettepack's shadow. Also the angle of the table doesn't seem to match the one in whick the device is rendered, it looks a bit like the device in bent upwards so it's right half is clear from the table.
PS: this was meant to be funny, but I don't think that is really clear.
AFAIK, the signals are delayed according to a certain algorithm (known to the DOD). The delay is known by everybody. The GPS satelites constantly emit their (atom)clock's time and their ID, a GPS-receiver uses those times to calcutate the source's distance.
But back to he point, those cranes are accurate to 5 metres/15 feet. See how GPS works more information. This page only leaves out on thing. They state you need 3 satelites to make out your position. They don't mention that it's posibble to make calculations with more than 3 satelites. In that case you end up with several position with which the actually position is interpollated. This works quite well because on most places on earth you receive signals from 4 or 5 satelites which means you don't get 1 position but 2 or even 3.
I think that computers that anticipate human actions and make their own well informed decisions, and so on, will be much more useful and more important than a computer that can interact well in a natural language.
A few years ago is saw a little basic-program that actually anticipated human actions. First you would key in a 'random' combination of four 0's or 1's.(0101, 1001 etc etc.) Then you would have to close your eyes and again type a 1 or 0 at random for 15 times. The monitor would actually show if you were going to press a 0 or 1 before you pressed it. Afterwards it could show the % it got right. Most of the time it got above 50% !!
This was accomplished by making good use of the fact that human can't be random. The program was supposed to find a sequence in your dissions.
Imagine a beowolf-cluster of these !!
ZZZ online had this story to a while ago in issue 73.
I can't imagine than a monitor or any other device which magnetic field is used for charging a portable device doesn't consume more power. (Since the magnetic field is drained)
You could get in serious trouble if you used a device that is able to recharge it's battery by stealing energy from everything it passes.
Scotty: Captain, our shields are going off-line. Something is draining our power !!
Kirk: Must be one of them script-kiddies with their Linuxwatches !
There goes my fortune :(
You just came up with the ultimate solution!! /.readers spend as much time sleeping as sitting behind a monitor. What you need is a linuxwatch that recharges itself from the magnetic field generated by a monitor !!
The 'charging while you sleep'-thing is nice.
Than look again at that last sentence and do the math. Most
Wow, I could become rich if I marketed this right !
6 hours is REALLY not much, but what did you expect ?! it's a prototype. The article states: IBM has predicted all-day battery life will appear in a year or so. That still extremly short, compare a watch with a screen that small to a (for example) Compaq Ipaq. Those things run quite a while on one recharge. But it his a much larger colorscreen, has more memory and processing power (and it can also run Linux) but the watch is running 24/7 and a PDA about 1 hour on a single day. (just a guess) IF big blue starts to manufacture these watches, they should ahip at with a cradle for synch and ofcourse recharging. If they can get this thing to run for a couple of days that will be enough for my.
Of course this weird sentence is caused by the translation.
My guess is that the robot move in a imaginary cage/cube (much like communication satalites).
Hey, it's just an opinion. I think all of those gizmos trying to replace a standard keyboard fail. But for a portable device a full size keyboard is to clumsy and the frogpad (maybe in a changed setup) could do fine. Again that's just my opinion. I've noticed that i am the only /. reader how also thinks Palm's graffiti-pad is a great solution.
but maybe it could become more cooler if Nokia worked together with some PDA-company (Best choice would be Palm IMHO). They could reduce the keyboard's size be building one of these in it to make more room for the screen.
Devices is this one allready excist but most are a PDA that you can make phonecalls with or a cellphone that remembers your appointments.
Maybe those 'windowmanager-wars' have calmed down because every release had to be 'bigger and thus better'. Sounds farmilliar, doesn't it ?!