You couldn't afford an assembler back then, too many $$$. The Z80 chip was actually pretty easy to work with for machine language programming and it was also easy to just embed that into a basic program as a "boot loader"
It's relevant because it means that the police can avoid the 4th amendment simply by having a 3rd party examine things instead of the police doing it directly. It's another word game that's being used to gut the 4th
It's highly personal. My Seiki 39" doesn't bother me at all. I also didn't bother 3 other people that I let use it for a while.
The 4th person however... he's a programmer with an autism spectrum disorder (formerly aspegers) with a sensory issue. He compared it to scraping sharp fingernails on the back of his eyeballs...
When you consider how may programmers and slashdot readers there are that fall into or close to that category, then you'll get responses like the GP of this post.
It probably is, which is a downer. It's not the missing function keys or the wasted space on the sides either.
Look at where the up arrow is at. Now look at where your right pinky will probably land if you want to do a right shift... That is exactly the reason why I ebay'ed my EEE PC...
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I'd put this further as saying Nicholson played a great comic book Joker.
Ledger played the Joker as a real human being. That gives a LOT more emotional shock value in the end, since you could actually imagine Ledger's Joker existing in the real world.
Adding a DVI port would probably raise the cost by $5-$10, a real no-no on a extremely low cost product. Also many projectors only have VGA. (Which BTW is about the only reason you see an external monitor connector on a laptop anymore.)
When I was teaching CS in college, that's exactly the kind of thing I did. I also made them completely type in the first (short) 4-5 programs we went over in class. I'd get serious complaints, but everyone in my classes learned the basic stuff much faster than the other "powerpoint" driven classrooms.
You have to get these basics stuck in the head of students quickly. Don't spread them out over the entire semester like so many other instructors do (esp. the powerpoint instructors). It sounds simple, but to learn how to program means that you need to write programs. So get your students writing as many programs as they reasonably can, as quickly as you can. (My sections often had students writing 2X the number of programs that other sections did.)
One thing: about all of them responded to antibiotics. They also showed many of the symptoms of lyme disease. To be blunt, neurological lyme disease can definitely screw someone up enough that they think they have all kinds of wild things and make them do strange things like rubbing against fabic enough until fibers get embedded into the skin.
I should know. I've had neurological lyme for 25+ years, and I've actually done those things, felt "bugs" crawling under my skin, etc. etc. After nearly 10 years of antibiotics, I'm now pretty close to normal.
So this probably isn't something new, just something most doctors ignore...
I can fully attest that you can give many doctors more information about what's happening than they can ever image getting from a patient, and still have them tell you it's all in your head.
To be blunt, if you've never been in this sort of situation before, you don't have the slightest clue about what you're talking about.
As for lyme disease specifically, it's very, very well known that the tests for it are horribly inaccurate. Even worse, if you do get a positive result, the doctor probably doesn't have a clue about antibiotic treatment of a neurological condition and making sure that the abx can get past the blood-brain barrier. (ie, your chance for a correct diagnosis is slim, and your chance for correct treatment is even slimmer.)
In the long run, unless they start tearing up the countryside for raw materials, they will actually hit about the same limit that the assembly line has.
Why?
Bringing in the raw materials, getting the assembled products out, and the growth of the availble energy supply all follow roughly linear curves.
This really shows a basic lack of knowledge in logistics.
For those CS people out there, go back to parallel computing theory. If the parallel code sections are infinitely fast, you still have the length of time needed for the serial portions.
Was the insult really necessary? Or are you just a 3 year old?
I currently own and use for development work 5 Palms (visor, TE, treo 90, 2 T3s) and 2 PPCs (axim X5 & x50v). To be blunt, I do development work on PDA programs, and I find it hard to get good use out of these devices. I expect that most people get even less use of them than I do.
Anyway, PDAs working as laptop replacements will have a short lifetime. In 2-3 years you'll see a 6oz, PDA sized PC running XP. Who'd want a PDA then?
"Actually, the Pocket PC is now the dominant PDA OS on the market."
Unfortunately, those numbers came from Gartner, which has an extremely well know MS bias. So in order to get the results they wanted, they left out the 1M+ treos that were sold. (While at the same time including RIM...)
For several years now I've tried to use PDAs (both Palm & PPC) to do some laptop level work. It mostly ends up in failure. Then I bought a super small Fujitsu P1120, and I've never been happier.
You were alright until you said "determined in court". Court costs are too expensive and land hardest on those fighting the patent.
Instead, break the PTO into 2 parts, the first does the rubberstamping, the second only acts with a complaint and does an in depth look at the patent. The advantage is the 2nd stage will be able to get external prior art and help.
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The fugitsu P1120 is probably the cheapest super mini notebook around right now, and it's around $1100 (with a 800Mhz transmeta, no less). Saying it should be $700 is just unrealistic.
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For about $1100 you can get a fugitsu P1120. Sure it's a little bit bigger, heavier, and slower, but with the wide screen and a 9 hour battery life it's a heck of a lot more useful. Plus it also gives me $900 more dollars for beer money:-).
No it is backed by physical objects like the gold reserve for example.
No, it isnt't. It's only partially backed up. (And a sizeable chunck of that backup is just promisary notes...) Your insistance that the entire US money supply is totally backed by assets is flat out wrong. (Even if it is all backed up by assets, how does that stop counterfeiting?)
You also say that things like songs are just "conceptual vapour". However people are willing to pay for them. Therefore they have value. (That is *very* basic econ. Everything is trade, even if it involves money, because modern currencies have a fluctuating value. Even a song is just another item to barter.) Therefore laws were set up so that they could easily be distributed while still compensating the author.
You do realize that before copyright there was severe information hording and attacks against leakers to the point of murder in order to keep it secret? Ahh, the good old days...
No it doesnt. The physical money has to exists to back up the echange of information about it. If one bank were to decide they do not need cash to back the transaction up they would be commiting fraud. Each banknote is unique and can be owned only by one person at a time. This is not the same for music where no physical equivalent exists and which is freely replicated at no cost. Your analogy would be correct if banks were permitted to make up amounts in their vaults from thin air.
Sigh...
There's between $500B and $1T of US currency in actual physical form. There's around $10T in actual US money around. The extra $9T+ is mostly in electronic form. (ie, just bits, just like a mp3...)
By law, there can be only one copy of a certain piece of money. By law, only those with the right to copy may legally copy a copyrighted work. What's the difference?
You're right that a bank would be committing fraud if it multiply issued the same virtual bills. But that doesn't mean that it can't be done, just that it's illegal to do so. Just like with copyrighted songs... Besides, a number of crackers have been successful in making money that way.
The only real difference I see is that government has already forced a form of DRM on us as regards to money in order to help prevent counterfeiting.
The US currency system is called a "fiat" (faith) system for good reason. US currency is only worth something because someone else thinks that it's worth something, not because it's backed by anything. (Yes, federal reserve banks must have backing, but much of that is in assessed valuations and promisary notes.)
I still haven't heard of a good argument about why it's morally right to copy copyrighted works, but yet not counterfeit money. Why is it right to electronically copy a song, but not electronically copy a dollar bill?
It is fundamentally different. Sand can have price. One can sell special kind of sand that occurs in only one place on Earth. That sand then can be re-sold. It is a physical object. Sand normally is considered "free" due to its abundance in nature but it is not inherently so. Information on the other hand, simply cannot have a price no nore then vacuum can.
Ok, now extend this to money. Money is an abstract concept that can have both physical (bills & coins) and non-physical (wire transfer, etc) forms. However money has value over and above any of it's possible forms.
Now you can have a digital econding of money (wire transfer) and a digital encoding of a song (mp3). Going by your argument, either money is the same as the song and has no value (dropping the world back to barter...), or you are treating two very similar abstract concepts in totally different fashions.
This is totally false and won't stand up in court. Either get it notarized or at a minimum get two people that are not to closely associatied with you to read it and sign it. If you'll soon go for a patent, then first file a provisional one if you need more time (up to 1 year).
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I might be able to handle a 1x1 board... if I get to go first..
You couldn't afford an assembler back then, too many $$$. The Z80 chip was actually pretty easy to work with for machine language programming and it was also easy to just embed that into a basic program as a "boot loader"
It's relevant because it means that the police can avoid the 4th amendment simply by having a 3rd party examine things instead of the police doing it directly. It's another word game that's being used to gut the 4th
It's highly personal. My Seiki 39" doesn't bother me at all. I also didn't bother 3 other people that I let use it for a while. The 4th person however... he's a programmer with an autism spectrum disorder (formerly aspegers) with a sensory issue. He compared it to scraping sharp fingernails on the back of his eyeballs... When you consider how may programmers and slashdot readers there are that fall into or close to that category, then you'll get responses like the GP of this post.
... if pure robots are cheaper, then they'll replace even enhanced humans for jobs. Period.
It probably is, which is a downer. It's not the missing function keys or the wasted space on the sides either.
Look at where the up arrow is at. Now look at where your right pinky will probably land if you want to do a right shift... That is exactly the reason why I ebay'ed my EEE PC...
I'd put this further as saying Nicholson played a great comic book Joker.
Ledger played the Joker as a real human being. That gives a LOT more emotional shock value in the end, since you could actually imagine Ledger's Joker existing in the real world.
Adding a DVI port would probably raise the cost by $5-$10, a real no-no on a extremely low cost product. Also many projectors only have VGA. (Which BTW is about the only reason you see an external monitor connector on a laptop anymore.)
Mod parent up.
When I was teaching CS in college, that's exactly the kind of thing I did. I also made them completely type in the first (short) 4-5 programs we went over in class. I'd get serious complaints, but everyone in my classes learned the basic stuff much faster than the other "powerpoint" driven classrooms.
You have to get these basics stuck in the head of students quickly. Don't spread them out over the entire semester like so many other instructors do (esp. the powerpoint instructors). It sounds simple, but to learn how to program means that you need to write programs. So get your students writing as many programs as they reasonably can, as quickly as you can. (My sections often had students writing 2X the number of programs that other sections did.)
One thing: about all of them responded to antibiotics. They also showed many of the symptoms of lyme disease. To be blunt, neurological lyme disease can definitely screw someone up enough that they think they have all kinds of wild things and make them do strange things like rubbing against fabic enough until fibers get embedded into the skin.
I should know. I've had neurological lyme for 25+ years, and I've actually done those things, felt "bugs" crawling under my skin, etc. etc. After nearly 10 years of antibiotics, I'm now pretty close to normal.
So this probably isn't something new, just something most doctors ignore...
I also have late stage lyme.
I can fully attest that you can give many doctors more information about what's happening than they can ever image getting from a patient, and still have them tell you it's all in your head.
To be blunt, if you've never been in this sort of situation before, you don't have the slightest clue about what you're talking about.
As for lyme disease specifically, it's very, very well known that the tests for it are horribly inaccurate. Even worse, if you do get a positive result, the doctor probably doesn't have a clue about antibiotic treatment of a neurological condition and making sure that the abx can get past the blood-brain barrier. (ie, your chance for a correct diagnosis is slim, and your chance for correct treatment is even slimmer.)
In the long run, unless they start tearing up the countryside for raw materials, they will actually hit about the same limit that the assembly line has.
Why?
Bringing in the raw materials, getting the assembled products out, and the growth of the availble energy supply all follow roughly linear curves.
This really shows a basic lack of knowledge in logistics.
For those CS people out there, go back to parallel computing theory. If the parallel code sections are infinitely fast, you still have the length of time needed for the serial portions.
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Yes but... If you add the 1.5M treo 600 sales to the P1's PDA sales, you find that P1 shipped over a million units more total in '04 than in '03...
Was the insult really necessary? Or are you just a 3 year old?
I currently own and use for development work 5 Palms (visor, TE, treo 90, 2 T3s) and 2 PPCs (axim X5 & x50v). To be blunt, I do development work on PDA programs, and I find it hard to get good use out of these devices. I expect that most people get even less use of them than I do.
Anyway, PDAs working as laptop replacements will have a short lifetime. In 2-3 years you'll see a 6oz, PDA sized PC running XP. Who'd want a PDA then?
"Actually, the Pocket PC is now the dominant PDA OS on the market."
Unfortunately, those numbers came from Gartner, which has an extremely well know MS bias. So in order to get the results they wanted, they left out the 1M+ treos that were sold. (While at the same time including RIM...)
For several years now I've tried to use PDAs (both Palm & PPC) to do some laptop level work. It mostly ends up in failure. Then I bought a super small Fujitsu P1120, and I've never been happier.
You were alright until you said "determined in court". Court costs are too expensive and land hardest on those fighting the patent. Instead, break the PTO into 2 parts, the first does the rubberstamping, the second only acts with a complaint and does an in depth look at the patent. The advantage is the 2nd stage will be able to get external prior art and help.
The fugitsu P1120 is probably the cheapest super mini notebook around right now, and it's around $1100 (with a 800Mhz transmeta, no less). Saying it should be $700 is just unrealistic.
For about $1100 you can get a fugitsu P1120. Sure it's a little bit bigger, heavier, and slower, but with the wide screen and a 9 hour battery life it's a heck of a lot more useful. Plus it also gives me $900 more dollars for beer money :-).
No it is backed by physical objects like the gold reserve for example.
No, it isnt't. It's only partially backed up. (And a sizeable chunck of that backup is just promisary notes...) Your insistance that the entire US money supply is totally backed by assets is flat out wrong. (Even if it is all backed up by assets, how does that stop counterfeiting?)
You also say that things like songs are just "conceptual vapour". However people are willing to pay for them. Therefore they have value. (That is *very* basic econ. Everything is trade, even if it involves money, because modern currencies have a fluctuating value. Even a song is just another item to barter.) Therefore laws were set up so that they could easily be distributed while still compensating the author.
You do realize that before copyright there was severe information hording and attacks against leakers to the point of murder in order to keep it secret? Ahh, the good old days...
No it doesnt. The physical money has to exists to back up the echange of information about it. If one bank were to decide they do not need cash to back the transaction up they would be commiting fraud. Each banknote is unique and can be owned only by one person at a time. This is not the same for music where no physical equivalent exists and which is freely replicated at no cost. Your analogy would be correct if banks were permitted to make up amounts in their vaults from thin air.
Sigh...
There's between $500B and $1T of US currency in actual physical form. There's around $10T in actual US money around. The extra $9T+ is mostly in electronic form. (ie, just bits, just like a mp3...)
By law, there can be only one copy of a certain piece of money. By law, only those with the right to copy may legally copy a copyrighted work. What's the difference?
You're right that a bank would be committing fraud if it multiply issued the same virtual bills. But that doesn't mean that it can't be done, just that it's illegal to do so. Just like with copyrighted songs... Besides, a number of crackers have been successful in making money that way.
The only real difference I see is that government has already forced a form of DRM on us as regards to money in order to help prevent counterfeiting.
The US currency system is called a "fiat" (faith) system for good reason. US currency is only worth something because someone else thinks that it's worth something, not because it's backed by anything. (Yes, federal reserve banks must have backing, but much of that is in assessed valuations and promisary notes.)
I still haven't heard of a good argument about why it's morally right to copy copyrighted works, but yet not counterfeit money. Why is it right to electronically copy a song, but not electronically copy a dollar bill?
It is fundamentally different. Sand can have price. One can sell special kind of sand that occurs in only one place on Earth. That sand then can be re-sold. It is a physical object. Sand normally is considered "free" due to its abundance in nature but it is not inherently so. Information on the other hand, simply cannot have a price no nore then vacuum can.
Ok, now extend this to money. Money is an abstract concept that can have both physical (bills & coins) and non-physical (wire transfer, etc) forms. However money has value over and above any of it's possible forms.
Now you can have a digital econding of money (wire transfer) and a digital encoding of a song (mp3). Going by your argument, either money is the same as the song and has no value (dropping the world back to barter...), or you are treating two very similar abstract concepts in totally different fashions.
I was thinking leashed, but it's sunday morning, and my brain hasn't woke up yet...
This one always sticks in my mind: "Employees will be leased and branded in order to improve morale!"
This is totally false and won't stand up in court. Either get it notarized or at a minimum get two people that are not to closely associatied with you to read it and sign it. If you'll soon go for a patent, then first file a provisional one if you need more time (up to 1 year).