I tried an Apple Watch and switched back to Garmin.
1/ Battery life. My Felix 5 plus battery lasts all week. My Apple Watch died about once a week. A dead device is not real useful. Yes, I liked all the nifty âoesmart watchâ features and yes, I do multiple exercise sessions a day and yes, I need a device that can keep up with me and Apple Watch isnâ(TM)t it.
2/ Better health and sports metrics. I find sleep monitoring helpful, Apple Watch doesnâ(TM)t have it. I find V02max estimation helpful, Apple Watch doesnâ(TM)t have it. I find heart rate variability metrics for stress and training load helpful, Apple Watch doesnâ(TM)t have it.
I'm very happy with a Spire laptop backpack I bought a couple of years ago. It has a separate padded sleave for the laptop, several internal and external compartments, and chest and waist straps for stability when running. See http://www.spireusa.com/.
I'm really disappointed that the press simply lumps all incidents like this into "computer" problems. They are problems with specific software packages and how the systems are managed.
We are never going to get to the point where people shop for systems based on the quality of the software or gain an appreciation for secure system management until articles like this bring those issues to light. If noone knows there are choices, the general public will continue buying the same old stuff.
12MPH is slow for a bicycle. I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I *average* 13MPH INCLUDING STOPS on my 4 mile ride home. Cruising speed on the flat part of the route for me is around 18 to 20 and there are folks riding who pass me.
The proposed design is way too busy with too many features I'd turn off if I were using it. The ultimate e-mail client IMHO is one that does e-mail, only e-mail and does it well. The ultimate e-mail client needs to:
1/ Support *all* inbound e-mail standards, pop, apop, pop over ssl, imap, imap over ssl, MicroSoft exchange (I don't want to run Outbreak^h^h^h^h^hlook), etc. I don't want to change e-mail clients to match up with whatever e-mail server is in use where I am working.
2/ Support *all* outbound e-mail standards, smtp *and* the various authenticated smtp methods. Security matters.
3/ Deal with *all* content standards, MIME, HTML, etc. and provied fine control over how they are viewed (e.g. no html, html without downloading images, etc.)
4/ Supports crypography (GPG, S/MIME, etc).
5/ Message filters. Filter inbound mail, filter on demand, etc. Filter on any header or other part of the message. Filter using external programs like spamassassin, etc.
6/ A Clean UI. No oversized cute buttons, etc. Let me decide where to put the list of my folders, messages in a folder, etc.
An example of an e-mail client that's close to ideal for me is KDE's Kmail.
This is a very dangerous strategy for Microsoft. Imagine that some PHB takes the ad seriously and starts checking to see what the costs are in their computing environment and what the "lock-in" issues are?
Gartner and other places will tell that PHB that Windows costs *more* than UNIX (licensing, support). And we all know about the "lock-in" of Windows software (*cough* Office, exchange, etc.) and file formats.
I think that anyone that does a serious analysis of the claims in the ad will come away with the opposite view than Microsoft wants them to have.
Check out sitescooper (http://www.sitescooper.org). I use this to grab web sites for off-line reading on my Palm. It supports a wide variety of off-line readers and file formats.
I just got back from the LISA '01 conference and there was a guy (can't remember his name...) that had a SHARP there. He had received it on Thursday before the conference and was showing it off at the Linux on Handhelds BOF.
I got a chance to use it and it was quite nifty. The thumb keyboard is very usable. I opened a terminal window and was able to type in a few stock UNIX commands, no problems. The keyboard's main problem was a lack of control keys and the escape key. They may be there with some funny mapping, but I couldn't find them in the few minutes I had to play with the device.
The other impression I got was how well built the device is. It's much stronger than it looks and the slide that hides the keyboard has a nice solid feel to it.
I'm planning on ordering one in the next few days...
It's no more or less idiotic than auto insurance that charges you more for a sports car and less for a Volvo. The insurers don't take into account the skill of the driver just the frequency that a certain type of vehicle requires the insurer to pay out. If the NT versus Linux difference helps to determine when the insurer will have to pay out then they will use it to determine the rates.
While it's fun to talk about the technical merits of one OS versus another, I think the economics favor open source. Economics will win in the end. This article adds two interesting points to the economic part of the discussion, risk management via insurance and staffing.
One way businesses manage risk is to insure against loss. That's costly, so you do what you can to save on insurance costs. Hiring people is expensive. Boring stuff, I know, but think about how that fits into an overall cost picture for chosing an operating system for, say, an e-comerce site.
- Less costly operating system due to no licensing costs, no (or very low) initial purchase (the easy to spot costs we've heard about over & over again)
- An operating system that your hard to find technical people prefer to work with (it's cheaper to keep people than to hire new people)
- And add to that, lower insurance costs
It's not just "free" software anymore, it's a broad cost savings strategy. Bottom line stuff like this often makes business people change their minds about purchases they might otherwise have not thought about.
As funny as it would be to see people pinned to the floor of a maglev train by the magnets, it doesn't work that way. Nor will they erase magnetic media, etc., etc.
I rode I maglev demo train at Expo86 in Canada and it was a super smooth ride with no magnet problems!
A cheaper solution that consists of a sticker and some software is the fitaly "keyboard". It's an overlay you put on the graffi area with a letter frequency arranged tapping keyboard. Work well for me.
I work in a research lab and flextime is a perk that compensates me for the lower salary for being in research.
One thing you need to do is to convince your management that flextime is a perk that helps them to recruit and retain people. Make it a bottom line issue for them.
I'd look for a plan that has no roaming charges and free long distance. I'm using one from GTE (nee Verizon) that has that and uses a dual mode phone (CDMA & AMPS) to get pretty much universal coverage.
As long as I stay within the maximum number of minutes the bill is the same if I'm mostly at home that month or on the road.
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Yup, the handwriting recognition on the last Newton model (MP 2100) worked *wonderfully* for me. It got better in part because the 2100 had a faster CPU than the previous Newtons. It's the main thing I miss on the Palm Pilot.
I'd bet the HR engine works even better on a G4 with lots of cycles to burn!
The author of this article misses the main reason I believe linux virii will be short lived. It's the same reason linux itself is so bug free: many eyeballs.
If a linux virus were released, many people would analyze, take it apart and create tools to remove it in short order.
The problem with deep-blue and other present day examples of machine "intelligence" is that they take an approach very different from what humans do to solve the problem. It's thought that human chess players consider only a handful of possible moves and only a few plys into the future when picking a move. They apparently depend more on positional information to base their decisions. (I don't have the name of study at hand, but it was written back in the 1950s.)
Deep-blue simply tries all the possible moves as rapidly as possible, trimming down the move tree with a fairly simple anlaysis of position and material gained. It picks winning moves because it can "play" all the possible moves far out into the future and choose the line of attack that wins. There is special purpose "chess move" hardware built into deep-blue that accomplishes this feat.
Is that intelligent? Maybe. But it's not the same as human intelligence. It's also not "intelligent" in the sense that deep-blue can only play chess. It can't turn around and play checkers or go or any other game. It's a one trick pony.
It's mounted *above* the blades on the center mast. The pilot stays with the aircraft and the chute is used to land the *whole* thing (pilot and aircraft). The BRS site has video of deploying such a system on a light plane (some model of Cessna I think...)
While I agree that the lack of autorotation is a problem with this vehicle, it *does* have a ballistic parachute system. This is a quick deployment parachute that is found on some other ultralight aircraft and hang gliders. Do a quick search on google for "ballistic parachute" and you can find some neat video of the device in action.
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I tried an Apple Watch and switched back to Garmin.
1/ Battery life. My Felix 5 plus battery lasts all week. My Apple Watch died about once a week. A dead device is not real useful. Yes, I liked all the nifty âoesmart watchâ features and yes, I do multiple exercise sessions a day and yes, I need a device that can keep up with me and Apple Watch isnâ(TM)t it.
2/ Better health and sports metrics. I find sleep monitoring helpful, Apple Watch doesnâ(TM)t have it. I find V02max estimation helpful, Apple Watch doesnâ(TM)t have it. I find heart rate variability metrics for stress and training load helpful, Apple Watch doesnâ(TM)t have it.
Is it time to dust off the reruns of the "Andromeda Strain"? :-)
(see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/)
I'm very happy with a Spire laptop backpack I bought a couple of years ago. It has a separate padded sleave for the laptop, several internal and external compartments, and chest and waist straps for stability when running. See http://www.spireusa.com/.
I'm a satisfied customer.
I'm really disappointed that the press simply lumps all incidents like this into "computer" problems. They are problems with specific software packages and how the systems are managed.
We are never going to get to the point where people shop for systems based on the quality of the software or gain an appreciation for secure system management until articles like this bring those issues to light. If noone knows there are choices, the general public will continue buying the same old stuff.
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12MPH is slow for a bicycle. I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I *average* 13MPH INCLUDING STOPS on my 4 mile ride home. Cruising speed on the flat part of the route for me is around 18 to 20 and there are folks riding who pass me.
The proposed design is way too busy with too many features I'd turn off if I were using it. The ultimate e-mail client IMHO is one that does e-mail, only e-mail and does it well. The ultimate e-mail client needs to:
1/ Support *all* inbound e-mail standards, pop, apop, pop over ssl, imap, imap over ssl, MicroSoft exchange (I don't want to run Outbreak^h^h^h^h^hlook), etc. I don't want to change e-mail clients to match up with whatever e-mail server is in use where I am working.
2/ Support *all* outbound e-mail standards, smtp *and* the various authenticated smtp methods. Security matters.
3/ Deal with *all* content standards, MIME, HTML, etc. and provied fine control over how they are viewed (e.g. no html, html without downloading images, etc.)
4/ Supports crypography (GPG, S/MIME, etc).
5/ Message filters. Filter inbound mail, filter on demand, etc. Filter on any header or other part of the message. Filter using external programs like spamassassin, etc.
6/ A Clean UI. No oversized cute buttons, etc. Let me decide where to put the list of my folders, messages in a folder, etc.
An example of an e-mail client that's close to ideal for me is KDE's Kmail.
This is a very dangerous strategy for Microsoft. Imagine that some PHB takes the ad seriously and starts checking to see what the costs are in their computing environment and what the "lock-in" issues are?
Gartner and other places will tell that PHB that Windows costs *more* than UNIX (licensing, support). And we all know about the "lock-in" of Windows software (*cough* Office, exchange, etc.) and file formats.
I think that anyone that does a serious analysis of the claims in the ad will come away with the opposite view than Microsoft wants them to have.
Check out sitescooper (http://www.sitescooper.org). I use this to grab web sites for off-line reading on my Palm. It supports a wide variety of off-line readers and file formats.
I just got back from the LISA '01 conference and there was a guy (can't remember his name...) that had a SHARP there. He had received it on Thursday before the conference and was showing it off at the Linux on Handhelds BOF.
I got a chance to use it and it was quite nifty. The thumb keyboard is very usable. I opened a terminal window and was able to type in a few stock UNIX commands, no problems. The keyboard's main problem was a lack of control keys and the escape key. They may be there with some funny mapping, but I couldn't find them in the few minutes I had to play with the device.
The other impression I got was how well built the device is. It's much stronger than it looks and the slide that hides the keyboard has a nice solid feel to it.
I'm planning on ordering one in the next few days...
It's no more or less idiotic than auto insurance that charges you more for a sports car and less for a Volvo. The insurers don't take into account the skill of the driver just the frequency that a certain type of vehicle requires the insurer to pay out. If the NT versus Linux difference helps to determine when the insurer will have to pay out then they will use it to determine the rates.
While it's fun to talk about the technical merits of one OS versus another, I think the economics favor open source. Economics will win in the end. This article adds two interesting points to the economic part of the discussion, risk management via insurance and staffing.
One way businesses manage risk is to insure against loss. That's costly, so you do what you can to save on insurance costs. Hiring people is expensive. Boring stuff, I know, but think about how that fits into an overall cost picture for chosing an operating system for, say, an e-comerce site.
- Less costly operating system due to no licensing costs, no (or very low) initial purchase (the easy to spot costs we've heard about over & over again)
- An operating system that your hard to find technical people prefer to work with (it's cheaper to keep people than to hire new people)
- And add to that, lower insurance costs
It's not just "free" software anymore, it's a broad cost savings strategy. Bottom line stuff like this often makes business people change their minds about purchases they might otherwise have not thought about.
--ddm
This looks a lot like the technology described in last week's I, Cringley column.
As funny as it would be to see people pinned to the floor of a maglev train by the magnets, it doesn't work that way. Nor will they erase magnetic media, etc., etc.
I rode I maglev demo train at Expo86 in Canada and it was a super smooth ride with no magnet problems!
Maybe I'm confused, but I thought the RBL is used to block e-mail, not web access. I use it and I can view all of the sites listed.
A cheaper solution that consists of a sticker and some software is the fitaly "keyboard". It's an overlay you put on the graffi area with a letter frequency arranged tapping keyboard. Work well for me.
www.fitaly.com
(I'm just a satisfied customer, etc., etc..)
I work in a research lab and flextime is a perk that compensates me for the lower salary for being in research.
One thing you need to do is to convince your management that flextime is a perk that helps them to recruit and retain people. Make it a bottom line issue for them.
I'd look for a plan that has no roaming charges and free long distance. I'm using one from GTE (nee Verizon) that has that and uses a dual mode phone (CDMA & AMPS) to get pretty much universal coverage.
As long as I stay within the maximum number of minutes the bill is the same if I'm mostly at home that month or on the road.
Candle is also available in PeanutPress's eBook format so you can read it on a Palm Pilot.
4 54679-98542-63239
see http://www.peanutpress.com/book.cgi/0312877005/07
VMS (Ick!) has this.
Yup, the handwriting recognition on the last Newton model (MP 2100) worked *wonderfully* for me. It got better in part because the 2100 had a faster CPU than the previous Newtons. It's the main thing I miss on the Palm Pilot.
I'd bet the HR engine works even better on a G4 with lots of cycles to burn!
The author of this article misses the main reason I believe linux virii will be short lived. It's the same reason linux itself is so bug free: many eyeballs.
If a linux virus were released, many people would analyze, take it apart and create tools to remove it in short order.
The problem with deep-blue and other present day examples of machine "intelligence" is that they take an approach very different from what humans do to solve the problem. It's thought that human chess players consider only a handful of possible moves and only a few plys into the future when picking a move. They apparently depend more on positional information to base their decisions. (I don't have the name of study at hand, but it was written back in the 1950s.)
Deep-blue simply tries all the possible moves as rapidly as possible, trimming down the move tree with a fairly simple anlaysis of position and material gained. It picks winning moves because it can "play" all the possible moves far out into the future and choose the line of attack that wins. There is special purpose "chess move" hardware built into deep-blue that accomplishes this feat.
Is that intelligent? Maybe. But it's not the same as human intelligence. It's also not "intelligent" in the sense that deep-blue can only play chess. It can't turn around and play checkers or go or any other game. It's a one trick pony.
It's mounted *above* the blades on the center mast. The pilot stays with the aircraft and the chute is used to land the *whole* thing (pilot and aircraft). The BRS site has video of deploying such a system on a light plane (some model of Cessna I think...)
While I agree that the lack of autorotation is a problem with this vehicle, it *does* have a ballistic parachute system. This is a quick deployment parachute that is found on some other ultralight aircraft and hang gliders. Do a quick search on google for "ballistic parachute" and you can find some neat video of the device in action.