Not quite. I have a router that does NAT. I leave UPnP turned on, and I trust my security.
A NAT makes quite a good firewall against outside attacks (port scans and the like). Leaving UPnP tuned on means that you trust what is inside your own network -- you do not currently have any worms/rootkits/malware, and you are not going to visit sites that host that sort of thing. It works great for me! No having to manually open up ports to use a torrent client to get the latest Ubuntu.
Yes, some "trusted" sites may get compromised and I could get a "drive-by" malware install. But that has not happened yet.
I can agree with you. Your abandoning of RPN is NOT because of RPN itself, but the features of the calculator. I understand that.
I am a HUGE fan of RPN, but I blame HP for what they have let themselves become. They used to make the biggest baddest calculator in the world -- around 20 years ago. AFAIK, they invented the graphing calc. However, after the 48S series, they rested on their laurels and did not do much. The 48G line was really the 48S with a built-in equation cartridge and more memory, and slightly improved UI for some menus, and a slight speed bump (but not so big that you would notice). That is really all they changed. No bigger high-res screen. Several years later they tried to catch-up with the 49 and 50 series, but they monkied with one of the best things about their calcs: a quality keyboard.
If I could travel back in time to after the 48S was released and run HP's calc section, they would rule the world right now. The formula is simple: don't give up. Add a quality algebraic mode that works as well as RPN. Bump the resolution of the screen. Keep on polishing the UI and add features. Don't sacrifice on quality of the keyboard. Regular speed bumps. Also, be sure the the main-line models are $150 or less. If they would have done all this, people would be asking: "TI who?"
On the other hand, if TI (or Casio) would add a decent RPN mode to their calculators, I would be their biggest fan.
In any case, truly good technologies don't require much time to learn.
A lot of people who love editing with VI would disagree with you. Yes, it is a lot more trouble to learn this than to just use Notepad, but those who have learned it love it and would never go back.
Also, by your definition, the automatic transmission should easily beat a stick-shift. Guess what race cars use?
You are right about anecdotes. However, in the absence of real data, anecdotes are all we have.
Let me put it this way: the people who bash RPN are mostly people who have not really used it. If a person actually takes the time to learn RPN and become proficient with it, they never seem to want to go back. I would LOVE to hear from somebody who is good at RPN, but still prefers algebraic entry.
Yes, in some cases, it might be easier to just enter the equation as it is listed. With the HP 48 G series (the latest that I have used), you CAN enter equations that way if you want to.
Generally, I can bang out an equation on RPN much faster than I can using a standard algebraic calculator. Also, hitting "enter" to duplicate an entry on the stack only takes one keystroke, where storing a number to a named memory location typically takes at least three key presses. And, you never have to bother to hit a parenthesis key. Yes, your own brain has to do a little more work, but some of us enjoy that.
I also wondered why they need Whispernet. Really, Frotz would be perfect on something like a Kindle or Nook (I requested that they add it in a future version of Nook firmware, but I am not holding my breath).
Really, the Z-machine should not be that hard to implement, and storing Z-code and save games locally makes a LOT more sense that having to shuttle data over the cell network.
Add a rocket. Move the rocket a little bit -- a little rotation is enough Add a rocket. Move the rocket a little bit -- a little rotation is enough Recurse until your processor slows to a crawl
HUH? I do not see what the big deal is. Each script is only one single friggin kilobyte! Even though each page includes the source and some comments, and the usual HTML wrappers, I cannot imagine each page being more than about 5K to 10K each. Evan an old Pentium should be able to keep up with that kind of load.
is there any documentation that traffic stops actually do anything substantive to reduce your chance of vehicular injury?
Even if there isn't, imagine if the police NEVER did traffic stops. Most teenagers would start driving much faster. If there was no chance of a speeding ticket, I would even drive faster. I am sure that there are some people who would have no problem going 80 MPH in a residential area on a motorcycle.
Just the threat of a ticket is enough to keep most people mostly honest most of the time.
I think the most recent games they sold were before 2005, many of them were late early 90's. In addition to that many other services like Steam and Impulse sold the exact same products for pretty much the same price so the market was not only small, but highly competitive.
True, but GOG won my heart because it was entirely DRM-free, totally unlike Steam. Not to knock Steam (I have spent money there too), but, all things being equal, I would have rather given my money to GOG.com.
I *could* pirate games, but I do not because it is completely dishonest. If I did any significant degree of illegal copying, I to not think that I could live with myself and would suffer guilt over the shut-down of a great site like GOG.com.
I will miss the site. I got some of their freebies, and purchased several games (most of which I have not even had the time to play yet).
Good-bye GOG.com. You were a good friend, and my first stop for games when I was bored. You will be missed. I did not give you too much money (having a wife and kids limits gaming time), but you were worth every penny that I spent.
And to any other businesses that want to follow-up with a similar business model: I am honest, and I am willing to pay for my games -- and I hate DRM.
Don't worry. The government regulations will guarantee that it is never as efficient. Every car has to meet safety requirements: air bags, crash tests, type of glass used (plexiglass not allowed), etc. If this thing really is that light, it might not do too well in crash tests. In order to meet those requirements, it will have to be beefed up.
If that was meant as a slam against Bush, might I point out that the people who slipped this turd in are both Democrats?
Apparently Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein are quickly drafting a special amendment that says the law wouldn't apply to "websites that serve as a conduit for the mass dissemination of secret documents."
Neither side of the aisle has been particularly kind to journalists.
This reminds me of the old cheesy sci-fi shows where a rogue computer/program/programmer/hacker shocks the victims to death through the computer keyboard. Begin a very technical person, I used to just scoff and laugh. If only I knew then that it would one day be possible.
I work for Agilent. Trust me. They still call them scopes...
And for the original poster, be sure to check out how many waveform per second the scope can store. That is the reason that some people do NOT like digital scopes is that they first used a digital scope that cannot trigger and re-arm again in a reasonable period of time. Let's assume that you have a waveform that has an occasional glitch, but you can't set a trigger for it, so you have to catch it by chance. If your scope can capture 10,000 waveform per second, you stand a 10x greater chance than one that can only capture 1,000 waveforms per second. I believe that Agilent wins in this category.
I am not sure that I understand. Boingboing used his image in a blog post. He is upset because there is an advertisement next to it? Or his he just mad because Boingboing is using the image in the first place?
To me, if a corporation wants to use the image IN an advertisement, then it is time to get upset. Until then, no big deal. If I had some CC-licensed images, I would feel honored if Boingboing used one. Then again, I am a little bit of a Boingboing fan.
Too bad too. I do not own an iPhone, iPad or iPod just because Apple is being a jerk with how they are controlling things. I also avoided the Kindle and went with the Nook for the same reason.
I am all for authors getting more money. However, the Amazon exclusivity is asinine because they leave out a large number of buyers (me included).
Why does it look like the case is alligator skin? I'm not sure, but don't they give a shit about things like that? Aside from that little oversight, this could be the last nail in the American-technology coffin.
Oh yeah? Well, if it IS alligator, then US is the only supplier! Take that, China.
Then again, China does have its own alligators, but those are endangered. Certainly no enough for more than a few thousand tablets, max.
I absolutely do NOT want one of those things. Call me old-fashioned, but I like stereoscopic vision. I would really rather have both of my eyes working just fine, thank you.
The good thing about guns is that they do not constantly spew out a continuous stream of dangerous projectiles for minutes at a time. Even a full-auto machine gun will run out of bullets after a dozen seconds or so. A laser can emit dangerous projectiles for minutes as a time, and the projectiles can bounce off any reflective surface. This thing is very likely to blind somebody unless rigorous safety procedures are used.
Anybody who buys one of these without the appropriate safety glasses is a complete idiot and deserves what they get. I just hope they do not blind anybody else in the process.
This must have been a long time ago, back when you had easy access to the address lines.
Now, that same job would be VERY difficult! Most data accesses occur to data in the cache, which is not brought out to pins outside of the processor. And when memory accesses do happen, they happen over dedicated DDR address lines, which are very high speed (hard to probe), and the address lines are used to access both rows and columns, so some external circuitry is needed in order to determine what the real address is.
Cool idea though, but pretty hard to pull off these days without a serious engineering effort.
I recently purchased an HP OfficeJet 8500 pro printer, and am very happy with it. This is meant for businesses that print a lot, so it is overkill for my home. The printer is more expensive up front, but the XL black ink comes out to about 2 cents per page -- very reasonable. Also, the print head is NOT built into the cartridges, but the print heads are user-replaceable (two heads, at around $45 each).
The way that I decided on this printer was to look at the printers offered by my local Staples. Then, I figured out the average cost of a typical black text page based on the price of the ink at local B&M stores. I purchased the printer with the lowest ink cost that also offered user-repleacable print heads. Simple!
I figured that there are two ways to get reasonable prices for an ink-jet:
1) Buy a high-end office printer that has larger ink cartridges, and buy only original cartridges to make the printer last as long as possible.
2) Buy the cheapest that you can get and get 3rd party refilled cartridges. When the printer dies early, throw it away and get a new one.
3) Buy a laser, but the printer is even more expensive.
The printer companies have to make their money back somehow. The home market is very price sensitive up front (the Best Buy ads only list the printer cost, not the ink cost), so "home printers" have to be cheap, so the ink is expensive. Office printers are not usually purchased as a result of a Sunday sales advertisement, and is usually thought about a lot more. Office printers are more expensive, but the ink cartridge typically has a lot more ink volume for the same price as a "home" ink cartridge, resulting in a lower TCO assuming a decent amount of printing.
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Not quite. I have a router that does NAT. I leave UPnP turned on, and I trust my security.
A NAT makes quite a good firewall against outside attacks (port scans and the like). Leaving UPnP tuned on means that you trust what is inside your own network -- you do not currently have any worms/rootkits/malware, and you are not going to visit sites that host that sort of thing. It works great for me! No having to manually open up ports to use a torrent client to get the latest Ubuntu.
Yes, some "trusted" sites may get compromised and I could get a "drive-by" malware install. But that has not happened yet.
I can agree with you. Your abandoning of RPN is NOT because of RPN itself, but the features of the calculator. I understand that.
I am a HUGE fan of RPN, but I blame HP for what they have let themselves become. They used to make the biggest baddest calculator in the world -- around 20 years ago. AFAIK, they invented the graphing calc. However, after the 48S series, they rested on their laurels and did not do much. The 48G line was really the 48S with a built-in equation cartridge and more memory, and slightly improved UI for some menus, and a slight speed bump (but not so big that you would notice). That is really all they changed. No bigger high-res screen. Several years later they tried to catch-up with the 49 and 50 series, but they monkied with one of the best things about their calcs: a quality keyboard.
If I could travel back in time to after the 48S was released and run HP's calc section, they would rule the world right now. The formula is simple: don't give up. Add a quality algebraic mode that works as well as RPN. Bump the resolution of the screen. Keep on polishing the UI and add features. Don't sacrifice on quality of the keyboard. Regular speed bumps. Also, be sure the the main-line models are $150 or less. If they would have done all this, people would be asking: "TI who?"
On the other hand, if TI (or Casio) would add a decent RPN mode to their calculators, I would be their biggest fan.
A lot of people who love editing with VI would disagree with you. Yes, it is a lot more trouble to learn this than to just use Notepad, but those who have learned it love it and would never go back.
Also, by your definition, the automatic transmission should easily beat a stick-shift. Guess what race cars use?
You are right about anecdotes. However, in the absence of real data, anecdotes are all we have.
Let me put it this way: the people who bash RPN are mostly people who have not really used it. If a person actually takes the time to learn RPN and become proficient with it, they never seem to want to go back. I would LOVE to hear from somebody who is good at RPN, but still prefers algebraic entry.
Yes, in some cases, it might be easier to just enter the equation as it is listed. With the HP 48 G series (the latest that I have used), you CAN enter equations that way if you want to.
Generally, I can bang out an equation on RPN much faster than I can using a standard algebraic calculator. Also, hitting "enter" to duplicate an entry on the stack only takes one keystroke, where storing a number to a named memory location typically takes at least three key presses. And, you never have to bother to hit a parenthesis key. Yes, your own brain has to do a little more work, but some of us enjoy that.
I also wondered why they need Whispernet. Really, Frotz would be perfect on something like a Kindle or Nook (I requested that they add it in a future version of Nook firmware, but I am not holding my breath).
Really, the Z-machine should not be that hard to implement, and storing Z-code and save games locally makes a LOT more sense that having to shuttle data over the cell network.
Hmmm. If I shot up an web-based version of the Koran, will I get death threats? ;)
Actually, it goes like this:
Add a rocket.
Move the rocket a little bit -- a little rotation is enough
Add a rocket.
Move the rocket a little bit -- a little rotation is enough
Recurse until your processor slows to a crawl
Hold down Right, Up, and Space.
HUH? I do not see what the big deal is. Each script is only one single friggin kilobyte! Even though each page includes the source and some comments, and the usual HTML wrappers, I cannot imagine each page being more than about 5K to 10K each. Evan an old Pentium should be able to keep up with that kind of load.
Even if there isn't, imagine if the police NEVER did traffic stops. Most teenagers would start driving much faster. If there was no chance of a speeding ticket, I would even drive faster. I am sure that there are some people who would have no problem going 80 MPH in a residential area on a motorcycle.
Just the threat of a ticket is enough to keep most people mostly honest most of the time.
True, but GOG won my heart because it was entirely DRM-free, totally unlike Steam. Not to knock Steam (I have spent money there too), but, all things being equal, I would have rather given my money to GOG.com.
2nd this.
I *could* pirate games, but I do not because it is completely dishonest. If I did any significant degree of illegal copying, I to not think that I could live with myself and would suffer guilt over the shut-down of a great site like GOG.com.
I will miss the site. I got some of their freebies, and purchased several games (most of which I have not even had the time to play yet).
Good-bye GOG.com. You were a good friend, and my first stop for games when I was bored. You will be missed. I did not give you too much money (having a wife and kids limits gaming time), but you were worth every penny that I spent.
And to any other businesses that want to follow-up with a similar business model: I am honest, and I am willing to pay for my games -- and I hate DRM.
Farewell old friend...
Don't worry. The government regulations will guarantee that it is never as efficient. Every car has to meet safety requirements: air bags, crash tests, type of glass used (plexiglass not allowed), etc. If this thing really is that light, it might not do too well in crash tests. In order to meet those requirements, it will have to be beefed up.
If that was meant as a slam against Bush, might I point out that the people who slipped this turd in are both Democrats?
Neither side of the aisle has been particularly kind to journalists.
Maybe, but Jedi are not omnipowerful and CAN be defeated in a fight. Also, imagine an army of Jedi Borg... That would be amusing.
This reminds me of the old cheesy sci-fi shows where a rogue computer/program/programmer/hacker shocks the victims to death through the computer keyboard. Begin a very technical person, I used to just scoff and laugh. If only I knew then that it would one day be possible.
I work for Agilent. Trust me. They still call them scopes...
And for the original poster, be sure to check out how many waveform per second the scope can store. That is the reason that some people do NOT like digital scopes is that they first used a digital scope that cannot trigger and re-arm again in a reasonable period of time. Let's assume that you have a waveform that has an occasional glitch, but you can't set a trigger for it, so you have to catch it by chance. If your scope can capture 10,000 waveform per second, you stand a 10x greater chance than one that can only capture 1,000 waveforms per second. I believe that Agilent wins in this category.
I am not sure that I understand. Boingboing used his image in a blog post. He is upset because there is an advertisement next to it? Or his he just mad because Boingboing is using the image in the first place?
To me, if a corporation wants to use the image IN an advertisement, then it is time to get upset. Until then, no big deal. If I had some CC-licensed images, I would feel honored if Boingboing used one. Then again, I am a little bit of a Boingboing fan.
Too bad too. I do not own an iPhone, iPad or iPod just because Apple is being a jerk with how they are controlling things. I also avoided the Kindle and went with the Nook for the same reason.
I am all for authors getting more money. However, the Amazon exclusivity is asinine because they leave out a large number of buyers (me included).
Oh yeah? Well, if it IS alligator, then US is the only supplier! Take that, China.
Then again, China does have its own alligators, but those are endangered. Certainly no enough for more than a few thousand tablets, max.
Crazy Harry
I am not sure the actual, real perpetual motion would be a problem. I doubt that it exists, but I would be very happy to be proven wrong.
I absolutely do NOT want one of those things. Call me old-fashioned, but I like stereoscopic vision. I would really rather have both of my eyes working just fine, thank you.
The good thing about guns is that they do not constantly spew out a continuous stream of dangerous projectiles for minutes at a time. Even a full-auto machine gun will run out of bullets after a dozen seconds or so. A laser can emit dangerous projectiles for minutes as a time, and the projectiles can bounce off any reflective surface. This thing is very likely to blind somebody unless rigorous safety procedures are used.
Anybody who buys one of these without the appropriate safety glasses is a complete idiot and deserves what they get. I just hope they do not blind anybody else in the process.
This must have been a long time ago, back when you had easy access to the address lines.
Now, that same job would be VERY difficult! Most data accesses occur to data in the cache, which is not brought out to pins outside of the processor. And when memory accesses do happen, they happen over dedicated DDR address lines, which are very high speed (hard to probe), and the address lines are used to access both rows and columns, so some external circuitry is needed in order to determine what the real address is.
Cool idea though, but pretty hard to pull off these days without a serious engineering effort.
I recently purchased an HP OfficeJet 8500 pro printer, and am very happy with it. This is meant for businesses that print a lot, so it is overkill for my home. The printer is more expensive up front, but the XL black ink comes out to about 2 cents per page -- very reasonable. Also, the print head is NOT built into the cartridges, but the print heads are user-replaceable (two heads, at around $45 each).
The way that I decided on this printer was to look at the printers offered by my local Staples. Then, I figured out the average cost of a typical black text page based on the price of the ink at local B&M stores. I purchased the printer with the lowest ink cost that also offered user-repleacable print heads. Simple!
I figured that there are two ways to get reasonable prices for an ink-jet:
1) Buy a high-end office printer that has larger ink cartridges, and buy only original cartridges to make the printer last as long as possible.
2) Buy the cheapest that you can get and get 3rd party refilled cartridges. When the printer dies early, throw it away and get a new one.
3) Buy a laser, but the printer is even more expensive.
The printer companies have to make their money back somehow. The home market is very price sensitive up front (the Best Buy ads only list the printer cost, not the ink cost), so "home printers" have to be cheap, so the ink is expensive. Office printers are not usually purchased as a result of a Sunday sales advertisement, and is usually thought about a lot more. Office printers are more expensive, but the ink cartridge typically has a lot more ink volume for the same price as a "home" ink cartridge, resulting in a lower TCO assuming a decent amount of printing.
How do you know this?
Who told?
I am embarrassed...