If you're thinking of buying cooling supplies, Silicon Valley Compucycle has good prices on case fans, CPU fans, thermal grease, and so on. They ship quite quickly, too.
One advantage to "doing it yourself" in building a computer is that you pick up the skills to understand how to work with the innards of a computer. It's become a lot easier these days with Plug and Play (or Plug and Pray as it may be) peripherals and such, but it's still an educational experience.
Building your own system will basically force you to research each, individual piece. Which CPU should I buy? Which motherboard? What kind of RAM does that motherboard take? Why should I go with Foo Company's video card over Baz Company's? What's the difference between IDE and SCSI? And so on.
Having this kind of knowledge will also come in handy when you want to upgrade your computer. It'll also come in handy when a friend of yours needs to have his/her computer upgraded as well.
"Teach a man how to fish and he won't go hungry" and all.
It's not Quake, but maybe this is the next big thing in video games?
Personally, I don't want to suffer realistic force feedback from a game like Quake. I'd rather not feel what a launched rocket feels like, thankyouverymuch.
But what constitutes the "same PC"? If I go and upgrade to a faster CPU, does that make it a different PC? How about a different motherboard? RAM? Upgrade the hard drive (but keep its contents the same through Norton Ghost or something)?
However, when I type in japanese, it takes me a lot longer to type the character phonetically and then select the proper character from a list to use. Pen input of complex characters would be signifigantly faster because, assuming the character regonizer is good enough, you wouldnt need to select the character from a list.
Having done university research and worked in Japan, I've witnessed people whose primary method of inputting text is using the kana-kanji henkan method of entering in the phonetic equivalent of a kanji character then selecting its proper kanji character. For people who have used this all their computing lives, it's not at all a very slow method of input but, pretty much, as fast as a lot of type English.
As for me, my kanji handwriting skill is pretty abysmal. It would take me far longer to scribble something onto a penpad so that it's recognizable than it would to take me to use the kana-kanji henkan method of entering Japanese. In other words, I can type Japanese a lot faster than I can write it, just as is the case with my writing in English.
How will this differentiate between voiced and unvoiced consonants? "Pat" and "bat" sound different but the two initial consonants are extremely similar outside of vocalization. Yes, the articulation of the "b" is longer than the "p", but it's really miniscule and probably differs from person to person. I wonder if this will take the tack of making the phone "learn" how to discern such, or will it make the person learn how to "speak" in a way that the phone "understands" (kind of like handwriting recognition versus using Graffiti)...
Although the article talks about getting 100% accuracy in discerning vowel sounds, the Japanese language is pretty simple in its vowels -- a, i, u, e, and o, and that's about it. What about vowel sounds like umlauted vowels that occur in European languages? Heck, what about African languages that incorporate clicks and creaky vowels?
This sounds like promising technology, but the article leaves a lot of questions that need to be answered. I guess five more years of research will help, though.
Visor Deluxe + 3 new colors = Neo
Visor Platinum + Rechargeable = Pro
... or am I not seeing much else?
I went and sold my Platinum when the Prism came out in hopes that _real_ new features (increased resolution, more on-screen colors (not just the case!!!)) were around the corner. It seems like there's really nothing new under the sun from Handspring this time around...
Slashdot Mirror
(Dopewars: Unix, Palm, Macintosh, and Windows versions.)
We just need more sites like this one...
You may call it "sloppy coding."
I'm going to call it "job security."
If you're thinking of buying cooling supplies, Silicon Valley Compucycle has good prices on case fans, CPU fans, thermal grease, and so on. They ship quite quickly, too.
One advantage to "doing it yourself" in building a computer is that you pick up the skills to understand how to work with the innards of a computer. It's become a lot easier these days with Plug and Play (or Plug and Pray as it may be) peripherals and such, but it's still an educational experience.
Building your own system will basically force you to research each, individual piece. Which CPU should I buy? Which motherboard? What kind of RAM does that motherboard take? Why should I go with Foo Company's video card over Baz Company's? What's the difference between IDE and SCSI? And so on.
Having this kind of knowledge will also come in handy when you want to upgrade your computer. It'll also come in handy when a friend of yours needs to have his/her computer upgraded as well.
"Teach a man how to fish and he won't go hungry" and all.
There are removal instructions at:
http://www.archive.org/internet/remove.html
How can you? It's called "A Patchy" server, after all.
Funny how even though people here seem to be against Amazon.com, they almost always link to their site when supplying links about books and such...
Personally, I don't want to suffer realistic force feedback from a game like Quake. I'd rather not feel what a launched rocket feels like, thankyouverymuch.
For Colorado: http://www.conocall.com
Does anyone have a sendmail configuration to reject Klez?
But what constitutes the "same PC"? If I go and upgrade to a faster CPU, does that make it a different PC? How about a different motherboard? RAM? Upgrade the hard drive (but keep its contents the same through Norton Ghost or something)?
Will we get to hunt the Mountain Wumpus again?
If distributing virus source code become outlawed, only outlaws will distribute virus source code...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/03/15/195620 0
Having done university research and worked in Japan, I've witnessed people whose primary method of inputting text is using the kana-kanji henkan method of entering in the phonetic equivalent of a kanji character then selecting its proper kanji character. For people who have used this all their computing lives, it's not at all a very slow method of input but, pretty much, as fast as a lot of type English.
As for me, my kanji handwriting skill is pretty abysmal. It would take me far longer to scribble something onto a penpad so that it's recognizable than it would to take me to use the kana-kanji henkan method of entering Japanese. In other words, I can type Japanese a lot faster than I can write it, just as is the case with my writing in English.
How will this differentiate between voiced and unvoiced consonants? "Pat" and "bat" sound different but the two initial consonants are extremely similar outside of vocalization. Yes, the articulation of the "b" is longer than the "p", but it's really miniscule and probably differs from person to person. I wonder if this will take the tack of making the phone "learn" how to discern such, or will it make the person learn how to "speak" in a way that the phone "understands" (kind of like handwriting recognition versus using Graffiti)...
Although the article talks about getting 100% accuracy in discerning vowel sounds, the Japanese language is pretty simple in its vowels -- a, i, u, e, and o, and that's about it. What about vowel sounds like umlauted vowels that occur in European languages? Heck, what about African languages that incorporate clicks and creaky vowels?
This sounds like promising technology, but the article leaves a lot of questions that need to be answered. I guess five more years of research will help, though.
Yeah. Look at Windows at 2000.0...
Been holding out for too long. Time to buy a DVD player...
One word: Blazemonger.
Their customer service department (Guido and Nunzio) will be knocking on your door shortly...
I'm glad Sony is working hard to innovate. It's seemed that Palm has been pretty content at just releasing hardware that's a lot less innovative...
Why didn't these mailing lists just restrict who can post onto their lists to those actually on the list?
Damn it. So that's why they had us write a cheating detector in my freshman computer science class. I should have cheated back then...
Let's get those folks from Microsoft's marketing department to vote...
So, is it basically:
Visor Deluxe + 3 new colors = Neo
Visor Platinum + Rechargeable = Pro
... or am I not seeing much else?
I went and sold my Platinum when the Prism came out in hopes that _real_ new features (increased resolution, more on-screen colors (not just the case!!!)) were around the corner. It seems like there's really nothing new under the sun from Handspring this time around...