Maybe you're right and that is what it should be, but I just felt the need to try and clear up the situation, since so many people had a false impression. (And then preceeded to poke holes in the false impression, which just grated on my nerves a little. At least criticize the actual system and not what you thought it was )
Several people posting seem to have the impression that this thing is like a USB thumb drive shaped like a pen. It is not a storage device, it is an interface metaphor. The actual data still has to move across a network. It is just a more fluid and intuitive (well fluid and intuitive is a matter of opinion) of telling the systems to transfer data. ie, instead of expilictly transfering the data from the PDA (via hotsync, ftp, nfs, whatever) the pen motion initiates an implicit transfer of data.
They did do this, they were called custom boot floppies and they were a pain in the neck to setup. I think gaming has become much less of a hassle now that those days are over.
IMHO the reason you hear about people like Bill Gates is because they are the exception not the rule. It's a story of success over odds and people love that stuff, gives 'em hope.
I can almost guarentee you some other program (whose functionality includes playing DVDs) installed the codec when it was installed and WiMP just takes advantage of the fact.
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You do realize that the hardened PHP code is open right? Or was it too challenging to go the website and click download?
What do you mean by relations? You keep saying relational DBs are inherently fast and good and damn if they aren't perfect but they aren't SQL and they don't have relationships they have relations. Now I understand if you feel like you shouldn't have to explain what a relation is, but at least provide a link somewhere. Do you mean relation in teh mathematical sense? (Ie a directed graph or a function or an equilvalence relation, etc.)
Of course, you're probably trolling, with the 5 name name and the need to advertise your profession on slashdot. In which case I fell for it, but I couldn't just read these things you wrote as statement of fact without bothering to provide any explanation or evidence.
Well in that case how can you compile C++ down to machine language? Machine language certainly doesn't support classes or templated functions or polymorphism. What exactly do you think a compiler does anyway?
much like velocity is a derivative of acceleration
Mathematically, isn't velocity more like an anti-derivative (or indefinite integral, or whatever) of acceleration? Unless you didn't mean derivative in the strict mathematical sense. In which case I apologize for being a pedant.
It's like making your own urpmi source for Mandrake and then setting all the clients to hit it as part of a cron job or as part of login. But with the added bonus of being able to easily change the configuration in a central location and have it take effect for all clients.
In order to have the config take effect for all clients, couldn't you create an rpm that would update their config, and put it on the urpmi source?
Slightly more work yes, but sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
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59 blocks should be enough for everyone!
Don't symlinks break the spatial metaphor though? (ie everything is a physical object, and only exists in one place)
Maybe you're right and that is what it should be, but I just felt the need to try and clear up the situation, since so many people had a false impression. (And then preceeded to poke holes in the false impression, which just grated on my nerves a little. At least criticize the actual system and not what you thought it was )
Several people posting seem to have the impression that this thing is like a USB thumb drive shaped like a pen. It is not a storage device, it is an interface metaphor. The actual data still has to move across a network. It is just a more fluid and intuitive (well fluid and intuitive is a matter of opinion) of telling the systems to transfer data. ie, instead of expilictly transfering the data from the PDA (via hotsync, ftp, nfs, whatever) the pen motion initiates an implicit transfer of data.
Donald Duck!
What about the Amulet of Yendor?
And here is a link to the cache of the PDF itself, for the truly lazy
Yes.
They did do this, they were called custom boot floppies and they were a pain in the neck to setup. I think gaming has become much less of a hassle now that those days are over.
too bad that function doesn't compute the factorial of anything. It's also not recursive.
I'd buy them in a heart beat. Where's ThinkGeek with the products people really want?
Not even Safari? I was using Konqueror on it, and it seemed to be OK.
Snails are tasty! Mmmm. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
IMHO the reason you hear about people like Bill Gates is because they are the exception not the rule. It's a story of success over odds and people love that stuff, gives 'em hope.
Exactly! Couldn't have said it better myself.
Not if you ask harddrive manufacturers...
I can almost guarentee you some other program (whose functionality includes playing DVDs) installed the codec when it was installed and WiMP just takes advantage of the fact.
You do realize that the hardened PHP code is open right? Or was it too challenging to go the website and click download?
What do you mean by relations? You keep saying relational DBs are inherently fast and good and damn if they aren't perfect but they aren't SQL and they don't have relationships they have relations. Now I understand if you feel like you shouldn't have to explain what a relation is, but at least provide a link somewhere. Do you mean relation in teh mathematical sense? (Ie a directed graph or a function or an equilvalence relation, etc.)
Of course, you're probably trolling, with the 5 name name and the need to advertise your profession on slashdot. In which case I fell for it, but I couldn't just read these things you wrote as statement of fact without bothering to provide any explanation or evidence.
I think that was his point. Just because one particular method of garbage collection does bad things, doesn't mean that there isn't a better method.
Well in that case how can you compile C++ down to machine language? Machine language certainly doesn't support classes or templated functions or polymorphism. What exactly do you think a compiler does anyway?
According to the site Tremor (the integer only implemnetation of ogg/vorbis) currently decodes at approx. 80% of real-time on the iPod.
Mathematically, isn't velocity more like an anti-derivative (or indefinite integral, or whatever) of acceleration? Unless you didn't mean derivative in the strict mathematical sense. In which case I apologize for being a pedant.
No, no it scales:
iBook -> PowerBook
iPod -> PowerPod
In order to have the config take effect for all clients, couldn't you create an rpm that would update their config, and put it on the urpmi source? Slightly more work yes, but sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
His perl script obviously opens port 5 twice, thus opening port 5^2, which is the same thing as 25, but it 'tricks' the computer.