Set up a Wiki somwhere and just start typing. I've found this to be one of the best ways to quickly build up a large mass of information.
Whenever you think of something that you'd like to save for the future, just type it down somewhere in the Wiki. Later when you have the time you can browse around in it and rearrange the text and improve it.
Yes, it was Win16. And yes, they did have the Windows source code to build it from. I believe this happened because of OS/2 originally being a joint IBM/MS venture.
As for the name, I never understood why they called it OS/2 _for_ Windows. It wasn't as if it ran on top of Windows, as many people seemed to believe. It simply had a nifty way of letting the Windows kernel run inside OS/2 and display windows as if they were native PM windows.
I second this. I have my HRM to thank for my aerobic fitness.
Like you say, most beginners exercise at too high a heart rate, burn out rapidly, and lose interest. For an unfit person, even very light exercise will raise your pulse significatly.
This is the primary reason why unfit people who want to lose weightare recommended low intensity training, like long walks. Higher intensity would most likely burn more energy per time unit, but that hardly helps if they last for five minutes.
Using an HRM will allow you to do most kinds of exercise, yet still maintain a good workout pulse. As you become more fit, it will take more work to get your pulse up to that same level. Also, once up, it will drop much faster if you lighten your exercise.
After a while you will learn to know your body, and how it responds to hard work. Watching your pulse vary with the intensity of your exercise is fun, and can become a challenge in itself.
I do a lot of cycling, and now I know that at 140 bpm or below, I will last for hours. At 160 bpm, even one hour will be quite a strain. At 180 bpm endurance is down to maybe 15 minutes, and if I get up in the 190s, we're talking a few very intense minutes before I'm completly spent.
Also, an HRM will help you notice your fitness improving, which is another source of motivation. You will start noticing that reaching that high heart rate becomes more and more difficult. Your resting pulse will drop after a while as well. A few weeks ago I was sitting by my computer with my pulse meter on, and glanced down at it to see it say 46 bpm. That's when I first realized I am now actually quite fit.
So, bottom line is, if you want to improve your aerobic fitness, get a heart rate monitor. They're not very expensive, and I can almost assure you they will improve your workout .
So by this rationale, getting on the bus without paying is stealing. Parking your car in the city without paying is stealing. Reading a paper in the store is stealing.
What about if your neighbor calls you and asks you to play your new CD so loud that he can hear it through the wall? If you do, are you an accomplice to his stealing the music?
IMHO you are confusing corporate users and home users. Without doubt, home users are disappointed in many of the unpolished sides of OSS.
However, for corporate use, I do not believe this is the case. I have worked as combined developer/part time sys admin for a few corporations, and the situation you describe is unrealistic.
The clipboard situation of Gnome/KDE, of course, is unforgivable. I have no personal experience with this so I simply have to take your word for it.
Those 100 apps you are talking about are not the ones that are typically running on a workstation. All software that is needed for operating business are there, or else switching to OSS had been out of the question in the first place. This includes typical business software, plus the various tools that were developed in house or by consultants.
Also, users do not typically change system settings without contacting IT support. Most Windows boxes are so locked down that the only thing you are allowed to change are things like desktop background picture and IE home page. And I believe this is a good thing.
Bottom line: At the companies I've worked for (mainly 100-400 employees), I don't see any major obstacles to a comany wide OSS rollout.
The ease of which you can make a verb out of a noun is a strong point of the English language.
In my native tounge, Swedish, verbs have to end with an a (with very few exceptions). Essentially, this makes it impossible to verbify nouns that end with a wovel in a good way.
GPRS definitely works in Europe. It is an extension to GSM that uses free time slots to transmit packet data. It has nothing to do with making telephone calls.
One killer app with GSM is that it roams seamlessly between operators that have mutual agreements. Hence, as long as you use a reliable operator, there is no need to swap SIM cards when you travel abroad.
While in Norway last week I discovered that even GPRS roams perfectly, much to my surprise. I was able to use my cell phone for internet service through my Swedish operator, without changing any settings. Talk about mobile internet!
This is why it will take many years before GSM will lose its position as king of cell phone services - it just works, and is _reliable_ as hell. Audio quality is not optimal, but it's good enough. Data throughput is limited, at least without EDGE, but it's good enough for email, and it's _reliable_.
Before I started university and had to take about two and a half million credits worth of maths and physics, my handwriting was pretty poor.
Now, drawing illegible symbols just doesn't cut it when doing maths. If you can't tell an x from a y, or h from h-bar, you're bound to make horrible and very unneccessary mistakes. Not to mention all those Greek letters, that I had never seen before.
So having to type all the letters in an orderly manner really taught me how to draw them quick yet legible. After a year or two I noticed my maths writing manners had leaked over to my ordinary writing.
I would say that I now possess a pretty decent handwriting style. So there's your magic bullet: Get a degree in maths or physics!
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Her name is Alberta, she lives in Vancouver?
Additionally, if the kick is good enough this will solve the problem with the ISS slowly sliding towards the center of the earth.
Set up a Wiki somwhere and just start typing. I've found this to be one of the best ways to quickly build up a large mass of information.
Whenever you think of something that you'd like to save for the future, just type it down somewhere in the Wiki. Later when you have the time you can browse around in it and rearrange the text and improve it.
And where is the Springfield Tire Fire? Did they miss that one?
And before that he went to Caltech, the Calcutta Institute of Technology.
Chances are, it will be my last Windows OS.
I hear you, I too fear Windows will be the end of me.
Yes, it was Win16. And yes, they did have the Windows source code to build it from. I believe this happened because of OS/2 originally being a joint IBM/MS venture.
As for the name, I never understood why they called it OS/2 _for_ Windows. It wasn't as if it ran on top of Windows, as many people seemed to believe. It simply had a nifty way of letting the Windows kernel run inside OS/2 and display windows as if they were native PM windows.
Yes, but what do you think of a person who only does the bare minimum? We want you to express yourself!
No, I believe you're confusing it with zombo.com.
GSM is not a technology in itself, it is a brand name for a certain TDMA design.
GSM is old. I believe the standard was set in something like 1982. The first networks started appearing around 1990.
All new systems that I know of use variations on CDMA.
If I understood it correctly Microsoft proposed just that, but EU refused. There will be no media players at all in XP.
I second this. I have my HRM to thank for my aerobic fitness.
Like you say, most beginners exercise at too high a heart rate, burn out rapidly, and lose interest. For an unfit person, even very light exercise will raise your pulse significatly.
This is the primary reason why unfit people who want to lose weightare recommended low intensity training, like long walks. Higher intensity would most likely burn more energy per time unit, but that hardly helps if they last for five minutes.
Using an HRM will allow you to do most kinds of exercise, yet still maintain a good workout pulse. As you become more fit, it will take more work to get your pulse up to that same level. Also, once up, it will drop much faster if you lighten your exercise.
After a while you will learn to know your body, and how it responds to hard work. Watching your pulse vary with the intensity of your exercise is fun, and can become a challenge in itself.
I do a lot of cycling, and now I know that at 140 bpm or below, I will last for hours. At 160 bpm, even one hour will be quite a strain. At 180 bpm endurance is down to maybe 15 minutes, and if I get up in the 190s, we're talking a few very intense minutes before I'm completly spent.
Also, an HRM will help you notice your fitness improving, which is another source of motivation. You will start noticing that reaching that high heart rate becomes more and more difficult. Your resting pulse will drop after a while as well. A few weeks ago I was sitting by my computer with my pulse meter on, and glanced down at it to see it say 46 bpm. That's when I first realized I am now actually quite fit.
So, bottom line is, if you want to improve your aerobic fitness, get a heart rate monitor. They're not very expensive, and I can almost assure you they will improve your workout .
If I remember this correctly the particle's wavefunction is either already in one of its eigenvalues, or not.
If it's not it is undecided prior to observation in what energy state it is, but it will collapse into one of the eigenvalues.
The particle must be in an eigenvalue to produce a standing wave solution to the Schrodinger equation, or else the particle would vanish.
So yes, in layman terms, the particle chooses one energy state when you observe it.
I'm all in favor of the DVD Consortium, who divides the world not into different worlds, but into six regions.
So by this rationale, getting on the bus without paying is stealing. Parking your car in the city without paying is stealing. Reading a paper in the store is stealing.
What about if your neighbor calls you and asks you to play your new CD so loud that he can hear it through the wall? If you do, are you an accomplice to his stealing the music?
Clearly, your claim is flawed.
IMHO you are confusing corporate users and home users. Without doubt, home users are disappointed in many of the unpolished sides of OSS.
However, for corporate use, I do not believe this is the case. I have worked as combined developer/part time sys admin for a few corporations, and the situation you describe is unrealistic.
The clipboard situation of Gnome/KDE, of course, is unforgivable. I have no personal experience with this so I simply have to take your word for it.
Those 100 apps you are talking about are not the ones that are typically running on a workstation. All software that is needed for operating business are there, or else switching to OSS had been out of the question in the first place. This includes typical business software, plus the various tools that were developed in house or by consultants.
Also, users do not typically change system settings without contacting IT support. Most Windows boxes are so locked down that the only thing you are allowed to change are things like desktop background picture and IE home page. And I believe this is a good thing.
Bottom line: At the companies I've worked for (mainly 100-400 employees), I don't see any major obstacles to a comany wide OSS rollout.
Microsoft were mandated to publish their protocols and API:s, but they were also allowed to collect royalties from this.
Hence, MS can soon point to the published "CIFS Standard 1.0" or something similar, and claim "Hey, Samba uses this without paying us!".
The ease of which you can make a verb out of a noun is a strong point of the English language.
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In my native tounge, Swedish, verbs have to end with an a (with very few exceptions). Essentially, this makes it impossible to verbify nouns that end with a wovel in a good way.
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More to the point would be an average per Windows license sold in the EU.
Things like:
* Microsoft Exchange
* Active Directory
* The non-standard Kerberos extensions
* Terminal Services for Windows
and probably dozens more, where buying the server locks you into buying the client.
GPRS definitely works in Europe. It is an extension to GSM that uses free time slots to transmit packet data. It has nothing to do with making telephone calls.
One killer app with GSM is that it roams seamlessly between operators that have mutual agreements. Hence, as long as you use a reliable operator, there is no need to swap SIM cards when you travel abroad.
While in Norway last week I discovered that even GPRS roams perfectly, much to my surprise. I was able to use my cell phone for internet service through my Swedish operator, without changing any settings. Talk about mobile internet!
This is why it will take many years before GSM will lose its position as king of cell phone services - it just works, and is _reliable_ as hell. Audio quality is not optimal, but it's good enough. Data throughput is limited, at least without EDGE, but it's good enough for email, and it's _reliable_.
Before I started university and had to take about two and a half million credits worth of maths and physics, my handwriting was pretty poor.
Now, drawing illegible symbols just doesn't cut it when doing maths. If you can't tell an x from a y, or h from h-bar, you're bound to make horrible and very unneccessary mistakes. Not to mention all those Greek letters, that I had never seen before.
So having to type all the letters in an orderly manner really taught me how to draw them quick yet legible. After a year or two I noticed my maths writing manners had leaked over to my ordinary writing.
I would say that I now possess a pretty decent handwriting style. So there's your magic bullet: Get a degree in maths or physics!
Volvo commonly puts the battery in the trunk these days.
Of course, with a car like this there's no knowing where the battery might be.
Calories don't make people fat. People make people fat!
For SyncML-devices, Mobical.net offers a good service. They let you synchronize contacts and calendar for free.
I use it primarily as a backup of my contact info, in case I'd lose my cell phone. However the web interface is quite neat.