Or don't use a mobile phone at all. For work-related stuff I can be reached at the office, for private matters I can be reached at home, both on landlines. When I'm not at home or at the office, I don't want people trying to reach me (I'm either in a meeting or traveling, and I don't like taking calls during either of those activities), and in the 8 years I've had my current job, I've had zero cases where being reachable on-the-road was critical. So no need for a mobile. I do own one now (and I'll have to admit it comes in handy sometimes), but keep it switched off by default (total usage: about 10 minutes last year).
Older Macs that 'cannot use USB' are at least 8 years old by now: the beige G3 was the last Mac to not have on-board USB (although a $15 PCI card will remedy that), the original iMac was among the first personal computers with USB. USB 2.0 support is another matter.
If the hardware is going to be donated, you may have a problem here. IDK how good Linux hardware support is (especially for Pentium 3-class hardware and contemporary PCI cards). Can you expect to find Linux drivers for whatever 1999-vintage hardware you're being donated?
Nonsense. Computer skills taught in schools should be just that: computer skills. Not 'keyboard shortcuts for Word 97', but skills that can be applied to any computer. Let's face it, any specifics you learn in secondary school are going to be obsolete by the time you get your first job. An example: My secondary school had a lab full of Apple IIs. By the time I needed my own computer, I bought a Macintosh. % of specifics that weren't obsolete: zero.
Morphing the iPod into a PDA won't happen. The iPod is so successful because it isn't a general-purpose device, but optimized for one function.
Apple introducing a PDA isn't likely either. The market has two entrenched players (Palm, WinCE) where Apple would have to start at 0. Unlike the MP3 player market, this is an issue (for a PDA to succeed, you need third-party developers). Worse, the PDA market seems to be declining, in favor of kitchen-sink cellphones, a market Apple has said it won't bother with.
Hubble cost something like $2B (?). Spy satellites like the Keyhole 12 are similar to Hubble, and would cost at least that much. This gives you 10-cm resolution. Sure, you could buy a simple telescope, duct tape a digital camera and a packet radio transmitter to it, and blast it into space. But building optics that won't break during launch, and can handle the temperature changes is another matter. Building an attitude control system (a cluster of miniature rocket engines, plus control system) is nontrivial, too. You'll need energy (solar panels, fuel tanks), also built to last in space. Off-the-shelf? No chance.
Someone with the resources to build a large enough laser (AFAIK 'large enough' is still larger than possible with current technology), can also afford to buy the tracking data, or do his own tracking.
The NOS (a Dutch broadcaster) used to do this as well. To distribute programs efficiently to an audience with C-64s, ZX Spectrums etc., they developed Basicode (see elsewhere on this page), a Basic dialect with interpreters for all those platforms.
$33M a year may seem like a lot, but compared to what Apple and Microsoft spend on OS R&D (both OS X and Windows have had billions poured into them to date) it's peanuts. Now IBM won't have to fund development of the entire OS, but if they're aiming to develop a Linux that can compete on the desktop, they've got their work cut out for them.
Bruce Tognazzini's site. He founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple's Human Interface Evangelist. He's also written two books on UI design.
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Or don't use a mobile phone at all. For work-related stuff I can be reached at the office, for private matters I can be reached at home, both on landlines.
When I'm not at home or at the office, I don't want people trying to reach me (I'm either in a meeting or traveling, and I don't like taking calls during either of those activities), and in the 8 years I've had my current job, I've had zero cases where being reachable on-the-road was critical. So no need for a mobile.
I do own one now (and I'll have to admit it comes in handy sometimes), but keep it switched off by default (total usage: about 10 minutes last year).
The only exception to this is if the engine computer recognizes the situation and cuts off fuel delivery to the engine; your car may or may not.
AFAIK this feature has been widely used since the early '90s.
There's nothing "sudden" about that. What do you think all the hacking he's done on himself has been for?
or we would have had YA device with a non-flat top surface (ie nonstackable).
Gatling gun
Older Macs that 'cannot use USB' are at least 8 years old by now: the beige G3 was the last Mac to not have on-board USB (although a $15 PCI card will remedy that), the original iMac was among the first personal computers with USB.
USB 2.0 support is another matter.
If the hardware is going to be donated, you may have a problem here.
IDK how good Linux hardware support is (especially for Pentium 3-class hardware and contemporary PCI cards). Can you expect to find Linux drivers for whatever 1999-vintage hardware you're being donated?
Nonsense. Computer skills taught in schools should be just that: computer skills. Not 'keyboard shortcuts for Word 97', but skills that can be applied to any computer. Let's face it, any specifics you learn in secondary school are going to be obsolete by the time you get your first job.
An example: My secondary school had a lab full of Apple IIs. By the time I needed my own computer, I bought a Macintosh. % of specifics that weren't obsolete: zero.
Duh, French movies are right here ;-)
Can't seem to find that on the Apple site.
Morphing the iPod into a PDA won't happen. The iPod is so successful because it isn't a general-purpose device, but optimized for one function.
Apple introducing a PDA isn't likely either. The market has two entrenched players (Palm, WinCE) where Apple would have to start at 0. Unlike the MP3 player market, this is an issue (for a PDA to succeed, you need third-party developers).
Worse, the PDA market seems to be declining, in favor of kitchen-sink cellphones, a market Apple has said it won't bother with.
I'll wait for Apple to introduce their version.
No buffer overflow? I'd say that running out of beads is a buffer overflow.
From TFA: "A bill limiting Internet offerings by government entities is back for legislative consideration..."
'101101' (and other six-digit patterns) would have the I Ching as prior art, so tough luck there, Microsoft!
No thanks! Thanks to eXistenZ I know what happens when you do that!
Hubble cost something like $2B (?). Spy satellites like the Keyhole 12 are similar to Hubble, and would cost at least that much. This gives you 10-cm resolution.
Sure, you could buy a simple telescope, duct tape a digital camera and a packet radio transmitter to it, and blast it into space.
But building optics that won't break during launch, and can handle the temperature changes is another matter. Building an attitude control system (a cluster of miniature rocket engines, plus control system) is nontrivial, too. You'll need energy (solar panels, fuel tanks), also built to last in space.
Off-the-shelf? No chance.
The Keyhole series of satellites are similar to Hubble. The KH-12 has "a resolution approaching ten centimeters".
Someone with the resources to build a large enough laser (AFAIK 'large enough' is still larger than possible with current technology), can also afford to buy the tracking data, or do his own tracking.
The captialistic solution would be to hire someone to do the killing for you. Expect to pay more for deniability.
The NOS (a Dutch broadcaster) used to do this as well. To distribute programs efficiently to an audience with C-64s, ZX Spectrums etc., they developed Basicode (see elsewhere on this page), a Basic dialect with interpreters for all those platforms.
$33M a year may seem like a lot, but compared to what Apple and Microsoft spend on OS R&D (both OS X and Windows have had billions poured into them to date) it's peanuts. Now IBM won't have to fund development of the entire OS, but if they're aiming to develop a Linux that can compete on the desktop, they've got their work cut out for them.
Bruce Tognazzini's site.
He founded the Apple Human Interface Group and acted as Apple's Human Interface Evangelist. He's also written two books on UI design.
It didn't work? What a shock! That's why it's called a *test*.
The A380 has two decks that I'm not sure can be removed. You may want to use the Airbus A300-600ST instead.