I went out an bought this unit Tuesday night at Circuit City. I'm very satisfied with the unit, but I have noticed that it puts out some nasty interference upon boot up - I have a panasonic VCR sitting directly under it, and there's notiable picture distortion on the VCR's signal when the Apex boots. However, upon switching over to the Apex's feed, the distortion went away. This weekend I plan to do some scientific research into the cause of the interference (it is mentioned in the manual), and I'll post any results here.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Other than that, I'm extremely satisfied with the unit. It has some very nice audio output, including digital coax (which can go straight into, say, a DAT deck, or a sound card. heh heh).
Speaking as a high school student with a palm pilot, I can say that I've tried a few of these things over the past two years (never cheated with it:).
Seriously, although all students can either purchase or borrow at TI calculator for their math classes, most of them can't or won't shell out $200-400 dollars for a PDA. Sure, they're cheaper than laptops, but I think the current affordability threshold for classroom tools is about $100. Until PDAs get cheaper, students won't go out and buy them en masse, and schools won't be able to afford to get one for every student, and, of course, "If everyone can't use them, then no one can."
Hemos! Here's your simple plan for good coverage of this story:
1. Identify the news agency local to the conference. 2. Email/write/call them, and propose a trade: they provide slashdot with pictures, interviews, etc. Slashdot provides their website with many many thousands of hits. 3. Offer to mirror their website, so we can all look at the borgs being built even after their site has been blown out of the the water.
Hemos! Here's your simple plan for good coverage of this story:
1. Identify the news agency local to the conference. 2. Email/write/call them, and propose a trade: they provide slashdot with pictures, interviews, etc. Slashdot provides their website with many many thousands of hits. 3. Offer to mirror their website, so we can all look at the borgs being built even after their site has been blown out of the the water.
Metrowerks CodeWarrior, for the MacOS, will do inline PPC Asm. Motorola also made something of the sort, apparently, but its difficult to locate. Might wanna call the boys in Pheonix up and ask them.
As for doing assembly for Linux/PPC, I'd ask the guys working on that project, or sniff around in their mailing list archives.
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I went out an bought this unit Tuesday night at Circuit City. I'm very satisfied with the unit, but I have noticed that it puts out some nasty interference upon boot up - I have a panasonic VCR sitting directly under it, and there's notiable picture distortion on the VCR's signal when the Apex boots. However, upon switching over to the Apex's feed, the distortion went away. This weekend I plan to do some scientific research into the cause of the interference (it is mentioned in the manual), and I'll post any results here.
Has anyone else experienced this?
Other than that, I'm extremely satisfied with the unit. It has some very nice audio output, including digital coax (which can go straight into, say, a DAT deck, or a sound card. heh heh).
Speaking as a high school student with a palm pilot, I can say that I've tried a few of these things over the past two years (never cheated with it :).
Seriously, although all students can either purchase or borrow at TI calculator for their math classes, most of them can't or won't shell out $200-400 dollars for a PDA. Sure, they're cheaper than laptops, but I think the current affordability threshold for classroom tools is about $100. Until PDAs get cheaper, students won't go out and buy them en masse, and schools won't be able to afford to get one for every student, and, of course, "If everyone can't use them, then no one can."
Press Release: The new bug will not likely affect your computer, the OS blows so hard you'll never notice.
Some of us hope to run Linux/PPC on our new G4s...
Hemos! Here's your simple plan for good coverage of this story:
Hemos! Here's your simple plan for good coverage of this story:
1. Identify the news agency local to the conference.
2. Email/write/call them, and propose a trade: they provide slashdot with pictures, interviews, etc. Slashdot provides their website with many many thousands of hits.
3. Offer to mirror their website, so we can all look at the borgs being built even after their site has been blown out of the the water.
Metrowerks CodeWarrior, for the MacOS, will do inline PPC Asm. Motorola also made something of the sort, apparently, but its difficult to locate. Might wanna call the boys in Pheonix up and ask them.
As for doing assembly for Linux/PPC, I'd ask the guys working on that project, or sniff around in their mailing list archives.