of the teacher who decided to record his lecture and just play the tape for the students while he got some other stuff done.
he left the room with the tape running, returned an hour or two later to discover a room devoid of students, but full of small tape recorders that the students had left running on their desks to transcribe the lecture.
my father told me this, so I'm not sure if it was true or 'urban legend' but cautionary nonetheless, no?
I think the current nokia set restrict what you can do via infra-red, (as compared to bluetooth,) so my complaint was probably better directed at them rather than iSync.
That said, the iSync support page does not cover anything about IR connections that I can see. how did you set your connnection up? for me iSync has no idea about the presence of a connected, recognized IR phone.
the services available via infra-red (according to the documentation I read (I know you're not supposed to admit to that here.)) on the nokia3650 seem to be limited to using it as a modem, but file transfer is not obviously possible. some data beaming too, (phone #s and the like) but file transfers aren't covered.
notably the number of pages in the manual regarding the available utilities are heavily weighted in favor of BT, and there is woefully little on IR.
hmmm, I don't think that the concept of 'just' a faster CPU passes the 'novel' part of the qualification for a patent. I think this goes back to the point of patenting a method/concept, not an implementation.
but you might get more mileage by patenting a CPU that runs faster than 4GHz because ________
you fill in the blank. providing that cause is viewed as novel, (where just running faster that 4GHz isn't) you might get your patent.
Well, what if someone has the idea while you're still in development, but have not yet acquired the patent? then, despite all your secret work, you end up having to pay royalties to someone else. and before you say 'prior art' remember that only works if the 'art' is out in the viewable domain. If you keep it a secret, it doesn't count.
This way you can at least prevent anyone else from getting the drop on you. if you are fortunate to get your product out with a couple of years left on the patent gives you a couple of years to recoup your R&D loss before the rest of the crowd move in.
As a side note, there's a story in one of Feynman's books about someone coming to him while at Los Alamos about patenting various atomic products, (planes, submarines, spaceships etc.) It seems relevant to the discussion, but I don't remember it very well.
I had a long conversation with sprint support about this, and they were willing to do it, (downgrade me for free to a barebones phone that is.) I then discovered that the phone I had, (the screen had died) had a free replacement policy. (It was a sanyo clamshell, I forget which model.) of course the replacement then broke a week later. I have since downgraded back to my original sanyo 4500 or whatever. better range, longer battery life... the only down side is that the clock does not work out of sprint pcs range. so no alarm clock.
Sprint it seems is reluctant, but not completely opposed to giving you the low end "phone-only" handset if you want it. but for the most part, (in my admittedly limited experience) is that the phone support people are much nicer than the people in the stores. (hear that clackamas?!? though the guy near lloyd center was nice. (portland, OR for the curious))
On the other hand I just switched over to a t-mobile/nokia/symbian 60 phone. Which does not have much service in the area where I am currently (temporarily I hope) stuck. (north-eastern vermont for the still curious)
I was wondering just how many people would immediately go looking for this.. so did i, out fof random curiosity, but I don't actually know where it is, other that its somewhere in the southwest.
do you have more specific info about its location?
With HTML, you can view thousands of utterly pointless "webPages" created with this medium by otherwise totally incompetent "artists/thinkers/journalists/etc.", who more often than not belong to the "insert related derogatory term here" stereotype.
do a system wide search for.sol files, anything not attached to 'neverball' is probably a flash cookie.
I've been working for a compnay doing e-learning stuff, and as a result of people turning off standard cookies, the only remaining method of retaining persistence is through the flash 'cookie.'
We are not, (due to some cd based distribution, and various learning-management-system restrictions*) allowed to use server side technology at all. has anyone another alternative? I prefer to use as little flash as possible, but it does smooth over a lot of browser/dhtml incompatibilities
on OS X you can usually find all the flash cookies in/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/something I have to flush them occasionally to get around caching problems
*this may not be a valid problem, but I just haven't gotten around to reading all the docs for the lms. It was/is technically SEP, and I prefer for the moment to leave it that way...
The first time I went to texas for my last job, (would have been about february 2003,) I thought it would be warm down' there in the south, so of course we had 3 inches of hail in dallas. Taking down the tent in that weather was not a lot of fun.
(In defence of the people in the northeast, a large percentage know how to drive in that kind of weather... though perhaps not in NY...)
Though the last couple of weeks that the tour was in Austin a couple of months later, the tempreature rarely dropped below 90 in the shade.
I have come to appreciate using key chords. it keeps my left hand busier and has cut way down on the tendinitis pain I had with 2 and 3 button dependency.
it does get ridiculous in 3D applications though where with things like houdini and maya etc. you have chords with both the mouse AND the keyboard.
oddly, one of apple's own products, (though only recently purchased,) shake, REQUIRES the use of a 3 button mouse. this if nothing else should convince people that macs and apple are fully conversant with multiple button mice. (this does make it a pain to run shake on a laptop, but the 3 buttons on your average Wacom tablet are better.)
and to the grand parent, as far as I know, multiple selections on windows with a 2 or 3 button mouse still requres the use of shift of control. has this changed
there was a comic relief one-off that ended with joanna lumley as the doctor. also included jim broadbent, rowan atkinson and jugh grant (and one other that I can't remember) with julia sawhalha as the companion, (who was going to marry the doctor, was thrilled at the hugh grant incarnation and a bit dissappointed by the end.)
I think it would be nice if they carried the opera idea to where somebody DIED occasionally, (and it wasn't in their mind, or on a holodeck or something) I think that's what I liked about B5, people actually died! and occasionally they !!didn't come back next week!!!
I grant you actors need jobs, but still, mortality would increase interest in these shows quite a bit. I lost interest in Voyager really early on, (episode 1 IIRC) I originally thought it would be really interesting, the limited scope of medical aid, and finite crew, closed box, microbes and diseases no one had ever heard of and couldn't cure...[I swear, the fact that they could cure any disease in one episode has been annoying me since tng] etc., would lead eventually to a larger contingent of previously unknown aliens on board and eventually to a potentially very small crew. with all the anguish that would entail.
remember, the hallmark of a good opera is the high body count
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of the teacher who decided to record his lecture and just play the tape for the students while he got some other stuff done.
he left the room with the tape running, returned an hour or two later to discover a room devoid of students, but full of small tape recorders that the students had left running on their desks to transcribe the lecture.
my father told me this, so I'm not sure if it was true or 'urban legend' but cautionary nonetheless, no?
but where's the accent?
would that be
r ee-va`
man`-drai-va
man-drai`-va
man-dree`-va
man-d
man-dree-vai` (long a)
the choice could have innuendo consequences...
I think the current nokia set restrict what you can do via infra-red, (as compared to bluetooth,) so my complaint was probably better directed at them rather than iSync.
That said, the iSync support page does not cover anything about IR connections that I can see. how did you set your connnection up? for me iSync has no idea about the presence of a connected, recognized IR phone.
the services available via infra-red (according to the documentation I read (I know you're not supposed to admit to that here.)) on the nokia3650 seem to be limited to using it as a modem, but file transfer is not obviously possible. some data beaming too, (phone #s and the like) but file transfers aren't covered.
notably the number of pages in the manual regarding the available utilities are heavily weighted in favor of BT, and there is woefully little on IR.
if anyone knows differently please let me know?
hmmm, I don't think that the concept of 'just' a faster CPU passes the 'novel' part of the qualification for a patent. I think this goes back to the point of patenting a method/concept, not an implementation.
but you might get more mileage by patenting a CPU that runs faster than 4GHz because ________
you fill in the blank. providing that cause is viewed as novel, (where just running faster that 4GHz isn't) you might get your patent.
Well, what if someone has the idea while you're still in development, but have not yet acquired the patent? then, despite all your secret work, you end up having to pay royalties to someone else. and before you say 'prior art' remember that only works if the 'art' is out in the viewable domain. If you keep it a secret, it doesn't count.
This way you can at least prevent anyone else from getting the drop on you. if you are fortunate to get your product out with a couple of years left on the patent gives you a couple of years to recoup your R&D loss before the rest of the crowd move in.
As a side note, there's a story in one of Feynman's books about someone coming to him while at Los Alamos about patenting various atomic products, (planes, submarines, spaceships etc.) It seems relevant to the discussion, but I don't remember it very well.
personally I would like to see it work via Infra-Red,
my laptop is currently too old to have bluetooth built in. and I'm not getting a new one till tiger...
but i wanna do it NOW!!!
I had a long conversation with sprint support about this, and they were willing to do it, (downgrade me for free to a barebones phone that is.)
I then discovered that the phone I had, (the screen had died) had a free replacement policy. (It was a sanyo clamshell, I forget which model.) of course the replacement then broke a week later. I have since downgraded back to my original sanyo 4500 or whatever. better range, longer battery life... the only down side is that the clock does not work out of sprint pcs range. so no alarm clock.
Sprint it seems is reluctant, but not completely opposed to giving you the low end "phone-only" handset if you want it. but for the most part, (in my admittedly limited experience) is that the phone support people are much nicer than the people in the stores. (hear that clackamas?!? though the guy near lloyd center was nice. (portland, OR for the curious))
On the other hand I just switched over to a t-mobile/nokia/symbian 60 phone. Which does not have much service in the area where I am currently (temporarily I hope) stuck. (north-eastern vermont for the still curious)
"if my head weren't nailed on..."
I was wondering just how many people would immediately go looking for this.. so did i, out fof random curiosity, but I don't actually know where it is, other that its somewhere in the southwest.
do you have more specific info about its location?
With HTML, you can view thousands of utterly pointless "webPages" created with this medium by otherwise totally incompetent "artists/thinkers/journalists/etc.", who more often than not belong to the "insert related derogatory term here" stereotype.
do a system wide search for .sol files, anything not attached to 'neverball' is probably a flash cookie.
/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/something I have to flush them occasionally to get around caching problems
I've been working for a compnay doing e-learning stuff, and as a result of people turning off standard cookies, the only remaining method of retaining persistence is through the flash 'cookie.'
We are not, (due to some cd based distribution, and various learning-management-system restrictions*) allowed to use server side technology at all. has anyone another alternative? I prefer to use as little flash as possible, but it does smooth over a lot of browser/dhtml incompatibilities
on OS X you can usually find all the flash cookies in
*this may not be a valid problem, but I just haven't gotten around to reading all the docs for the lms. It was/is technically SEP, and I prefer for the moment to leave it that way...
only requires one button on my phone... or any of the three that I've had so far...
it's only when I access it elsewhere that I need to key in other numbers...
the game would give you the shock, tag you, and then never let you play again.
The first time I went to texas for my last job, (would have been about february 2003,) I thought it would be warm down' there in the south, so of course we had 3 inches of hail in dallas. Taking down the tent in that weather was not a lot of fun.
(In defence of the people in the northeast, a large percentage know how to drive in that kind of weather... though perhaps not in NY...)
Though the last couple of weeks that the tour was in Austin a couple of months later, the tempreature rarely dropped below 90 in the shade.
I have come to appreciate using key chords. it keeps my left hand busier and has cut way down on the tendinitis pain I had with 2 and 3 button dependency.
it does get ridiculous in 3D applications though where with things like houdini and maya etc. you have chords with both the mouse AND the keyboard.
oddly, one of apple's own products, (though only recently purchased,) shake, REQUIRES the use of a 3 button mouse. this if nothing else should convince people that macs and apple are fully conversant with multiple button mice. (this does make it a pain to run shake on a laptop, but the 3 buttons on your average Wacom tablet are better.)
and to the grand parent, as far as I know, multiple selections on windows with a 2 or 3 button mouse still requres the use of shift of control. has this changed
there was a comic relief one-off that ended with joanna lumley as the doctor. also included jim broadbent, rowan atkinson and jugh grant (and one other that I can't remember) with julia sawhalha as the companion, (who was going to marry the doctor, was thrilled at the hugh grant incarnation and a bit dissappointed by the end.)
by this count the doctor is already well past 13
mmmmm OS XXX... but I wonder if that will mean you get to look but not touch... virtual interfaces anyone?
side note, when will someone develop the theremin mouse? would would people STILL be complaining about the lack of buttons?
I think it would be nice if they carried the opera idea to where somebody DIED occasionally, (and it wasn't in their mind, or on a holodeck or something) I think that's what I liked about B5, people actually died! and occasionally they !!didn't come back next week!!!
I grant you actors need jobs, but still, mortality would increase interest in these shows quite a bit. I lost interest in Voyager really early on, (episode 1 IIRC) I originally thought it would be really interesting, the limited scope of medical aid, and finite crew, closed box, microbes and diseases no one had ever heard of and couldn't cure...[I swear, the fact that they could cure any disease in one episode has been annoying me since tng] etc., would lead eventually to a larger contingent of previously unknown aliens on board and eventually to a potentially very small crew. with all the anguish that would entail.
remember, the hallmark of a good opera is the high body count
JIHAD!
Herbert wasn't that far off I guess, (except in years.)(frank or brian for that matter.)
I wonder if you could do this at a college football game?
you know how they used to hand out packs of colored boards for the spectators to hold up and make pretty pictures in the bleachers?
what if you mirrored them on a nice sunny day...
well, the air that would cause the splash would probably distort the drop on the way down too.
great, I just got one of those jackets that has special pockets for everything too... damn!
I suppose that would explain why it was called an 'Entmoot"...
what do you mean, 'now'? ;-p