Clearly they need to install shielding. People taking phones onto planes and leaving them on is inevitable even if you tell them to switch them off. Having the safety of a plane rely on the goodwill of its passengers to follow instructions is ridiculous and is just a convenient way for airlines to shift the blame.
Oh yeah. So all the formatting can be completely destroyed and the text can be shoehorned into 80 column format. No thanks, I'll get my texts as bootlegs as the bootleggers on alt.whatever.ebook put a lot more care into the formatting of their texts.
OK, I was just kidding for the last bit. I did have an elementary electronics kit as a kid but now I'm in my thirties I've decided to take up electronics again. It turns out I've spent a good few $100 just making the simplest little robot. I had to buy tools and books as well as parts. Luckily I can afford it now but as a kid it would have been well out of my means.
Electronics education is a joke. Take the transistor. You can pretty well specify what it does with a handful of equations. But that's not how it's described in the books. No, they describe a multiplicity of different ways of doing things and write text which is basically a fairy story to describe how and what it does. If EE students where just taught some mathematics first then much of the rest of the course would be a breeze. Additionally the students would also be numerate - something of an advantage in the electronics world you'd think. Anyway, if you're serious as an electronic engineer then you had lots of hands on experience in your parents' garage before you discovered girls.
I can just imagine. I'm browsing for music and play a track. I decide I don't want it. A window pops up: "Are you sure you don't want to buy this?". I say Yes. Another window pops up: "Are you really sure you don't want to buy this?". I click Yes. "Well scroll down to the bottom of this window and click on the really hard to see checkbox to agree that you definitely don't want us to draw money from your account to pay for it". I click on it. An hour later a window pops up: "Are you sure you don't want to get the track?". A bit later I kick up winamp. A Real window pops up going: "We at Real networks can see you like playing music. Would you like us to uninstall all of your other music apps and make Real the default and install spyware all over your hard drive and BTW do you want to buy that track?"
but it is usually just a delay, not an honest-to-god *hang*
I get hangs. One by one, as applications touch the filesystem and block, every thing hangs up. Processes are unkillable (presumably because they're hanging on a system call) and eventually the finder and then the screen locks up. This has happened in every release except maybe the last one because I've learned not to make this mistake! WIndows machines used to do something like this years ago - but now they can relatively gracefully handle losing the network.
I like to keep up witrh the latest patches. There seems to be a new OSX patch that requires booting about once a week. And have they fixed the way the finder hangs if you detach from a network from which you have a Samba mount? Goddamn! I kept forgetting to unmount first and had to reboot my Powerbook every time I took it home from work.
Apple do lead in colors! I just started using XP for the first time in my life. It took me a few minutes to recognize the color scheme. It's just like the stuff in the 0-6 months section of the toy shop. The pastoral background scene and the primary colors are from the same school of design as mom decorating for her new baby.
Still, XP does boot and shut down fast. That's something worth paying for and I wish Apple would follow.
I feel using programming shorthand leads to increased maintenance
That's why I never use functions calls. They obfuscate the code because they hide what's being done in another function somewhere else. So I always replace any function call in any code I see with a hand-inlined copy of the body of the function. That way everyone can see clearly exactly what's going on. Shorthand? Who needs it?
Your brain is built using pieces of DNA that have been patented by many different companies. EVery time you think you're violated 27 patents. You evil person you...
...struggling to figure out how to develop this technology. One marketing exec is trying to hard to figure out how to download a pdf file that has documentation for Java. Another is trying to figure out how to use a keyboard because he's heard you need to type text to write Java code. A third one is browsing the web trying to find a Java-programming-for-retarded-monkeys web site that might tell them what to do. And there's a fourth guy in the blue-sky-R&D department who's hard at work trying to figure out how to keep the window open for 30 seconds. In fact there's another top secret R&D marketing guy who thinks it may be possible to make the window bigger than the screen!
Will wonders ever cease? These marketing types really are at the cutting edge of innovation.
...'wireless allowed'. Buyers of tickets for these flights sign a waiver saying they (or their families) won't sue if the plane crashes due to the use of wireless. After a few years of these flights, with no accident occurring, we can then switch over to everyone flying on wireless flights. Simple!
I've replaced SETI@Home at least temporarily on all of my Boxen
Like it's going to make a difference. Number crunching does not find drugs. Yes, there are some people in the biotech industry who like to make a noise and get funding for their hare-brained projects. But simulating a bunch of molecules doesn't find drugs. People in labs testing finds drugs. We're a long way from simulations that work and it's far to early in the development of the technology to be wasting millions of CPU hours on it.
You forgot the key words. Too small for you. I got glasses years ago and have no problem. I've probably read 30 MB of books now on my 'tiny' screen with no problem.
Mod down parent. This is offtopic. We're discussing Palm here, not your particular needs. For every device there is a person who says "I can't see the use" and for every such person there are 10 others who can see the use. Please don't upgrade but please don't feel the need to tell us all about it.
I have no idea what this story is about. It's traditional to make the first paragraph of a story a summary of what the rest of the story is about. In fact, when/. was established someone understood this fact and so had the idea of putting the first paragraph of each story on the front page with a link to the rest of the story. But that seems to have been forgotten over the years. This reads like someone just figured something out while sitting on the toilet and couldn't wait to run to his PC to tell his friends about it. It isn't even in complete sentences.
Well my computer has this cable but I can't see where on the radio to plug it in. Aha! I was using the printer cable, no wonder it didn't fit. Let me try this one with a kind of weird flat plug on the end...
SBC wants you to pay them more for a shared 'family' service. In fact many ISPs have agreements specifying you may connect only one computer. Screw them! Linksys hubs (probably ~$50) (1) know about PPoE and (2) do network address translation so you can have 100 computers attached and yet it looks like one computer to SBC.
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Full screen vim with PgUp/PgDn now work fine for me.
Clearly they need to install shielding. People taking phones onto planes and leaving them on is inevitable even if you tell them to switch them off. Having the safety of a plane rely on the goodwill of its passengers to follow instructions is ridiculous and is just a convenient way for airlines to shift the blame.
6 years later I still have all the notes I scribbled on my Palm. (At least the interesting ones!)
Actually there was a /. story about them paying it many months ago!
If something was chasing after me, and I had wings, I'd fly away.
Oh yeah. So all the formatting can be completely destroyed and the text can be shoehorned into 80 column format. No thanks, I'll get my texts as bootlegs as the bootleggers on alt.whatever.ebook put a lot more care into the formatting of their texts.
But I'm serious about the equations!
Electronics education is a joke. Take the transistor. You can pretty well specify what it does with a handful of equations. But that's not how it's described in the books. No, they describe a multiplicity of different ways of doing things and write text which is basically a fairy story to describe how and what it does. If EE students where just taught some mathematics first then much of the rest of the course would be a breeze. Additionally the students would also be numerate - something of an advantage in the electronics world you'd think. Anyway, if you're serious as an electronic engineer then you had lots of hands on experience in your parents' garage before you discovered girls.
We should be looking for weapons of mass destruction. If there's any chance there are any on Mars we should invade it and liberate the Martians.
I can just imagine. I'm browsing for music and play a track. I decide I don't want it. A window pops up: "Are you sure you don't want to buy this?". I say Yes. Another window pops up: "Are you really sure you don't want to buy this?". I click Yes. "Well scroll down to the bottom of this window and click on the really hard to see checkbox to agree that you definitely don't want us to draw money from your account to pay for it". I click on it. An hour later a window pops up: "Are you sure you don't want to get the track?". A bit later I kick up winamp. A Real window pops up going: "We at Real networks can see you like playing music. Would you like us to uninstall all of your other music apps and make Real the default and install spyware all over your hard drive and BTW do you want to buy that track?"
I like to keep up witrh the latest patches. There seems to be a new OSX patch that requires booting about once a week. And have they fixed the way the finder hangs if you detach from a network from which you have a Samba mount? Goddamn! I kept forgetting to unmount first and had to reboot my Powerbook every time I took it home from work.
Still, XP does boot and shut down fast. That's something worth paying for and I wish Apple would follow.
Does *everything* run at native speeds under MOL? What about playing DVDs, sound, 3D graphics etc.
No need to show off! Some of us will have to buy one of these new devices instead.
Your brain is built using pieces of DNA that have been patented by many different companies. EVery time you think you're violated 27 patents. You evil person you...
Will wonders ever cease? These marketing types really are at the cutting edge of innovation.
...'wireless allowed'. Buyers of tickets for these flights sign a waiver saying they (or their families) won't sue if the plane crashes due to the use of wireless. After a few years of these flights, with no accident occurring, we can then switch over to everyone flying on wireless flights. Simple!
You forgot the key words. Too small for you. I got glasses years ago and have no problem. I've probably read 30 MB of books now on my 'tiny' screen with no problem.
Mod down parent. This is offtopic. We're discussing Palm here, not your particular needs. For every device there is a person who says "I can't see the use" and for every such person there are 10 others who can see the use. Please don't upgrade but please don't feel the need to tell us all about it.
I have no idea what this story is about. It's traditional to make the first paragraph of a story a summary of what the rest of the story is about. In fact, when /. was established someone understood this fact and so had the idea of putting the first paragraph of each story on the front page with a link to the rest of the story. But that seems to have been forgotten over the years. This reads like someone just figured something out while sitting on the toilet and couldn't wait to run to his PC to tell his friends about it. It isn't even in complete sentences.
Well my computer has this cable but I can't see where on the radio to plug it in. Aha! I was using the printer cable, no wonder it didn't fit. Let me try this one with a kind of weird flat plug on the end...
SBC wants you to pay them more for a shared 'family' service. In fact many ISPs have agreements specifying you may connect only one computer. Screw them! Linksys hubs (probably ~$50) (1) know about PPoE and (2) do network address translation so you can have 100 computers attached and yet it looks like one computer to SBC.