I'm not sure now if the 6502 was only inwardly 8 bits, but outwardly 4.
But I know it ran at a little over 1 Mhz, so with a comparatively huge interpreted basic program running on it, I can see why it's slow.
From what I've read, it's also worthwile to look into different kinds of chargers.
The more expensive ones (I've seen them being charged (p.n.i.) at well over $100) don't just feed the batteries electricity, they have quite sophisticated electronics that taste the state of the battery and depending on that and your settings, they calculate the optimal way of charging them.
You can set them to turbo recharge ("the most you can get in 1 hour") or fully recharge, they detect Li-ion, NiCd, NiMH and differ the process for it.
They indicate the state of the battery on sexy backlit lcd matrix screens.
They fit all kinds of battery sizes.
I've seen this being described somewhere in rather prosaic terms, with the charger detecting "bubbles of gas" in the process of charging, and changing the current accordingly.
Apparently, batteries also retain their capacity better and for more cycles with this advanced gear.
They also optimise for the voltage capacity of the batteries.
Maybe it's worth the cost in the long run. Anyway it's definetely a story that will appeal to the Slashdot-crowd:)
I'm sorry I don't have a url in English, I saw it in a Dutch electronics mail order catalogue (Conrad.)
Well, I'm speaking about my own (very real) personal experiences. Which I think is valuable information for others. Who may in turn do with it what they want..
I don't regard the dsm-iv as a very relevant resource. I didn't even bother to look up what it did or didn't say about the topic.
It is compiled by smart ass scientists who jockey for position, backed (or not) by large medical/farmaceutical companies who give their support if they can sell more medicines from it.
The scientist will have "achieved" something if their disease makes it into the dsm. Or if their research proves that medicine x may be helpful for their disease y. This to the detriment of the reliability or scientificness of the dsm, in my option.
But this discussion has now gone rather off topic so I had better not replied anymore.
If avoidance is a key pattern in your life, it will be there in all areas of your life. Relationships, work, your household, etcetera. That's so obvious.
Ever heard of APD? (Avoidant Personality Disorder)
This is one of about twelve well-known and described and generally accepted personality disorders that some people suffer from who describe the same symptoms that you do. Avoiding difficult/painful/stressful jobs that you actually need to do and want to get done, but keep avoiding.
Perhaps you don't "qualify" for all of the traits "necessary" to have the disorder, but you may still have recurring patterns in your life that are common to this disorder.
What I found very helpful, informative and insight-giving is "Cognitive therapy for personality disorders: a schema-focused approach" by J. Young.
He analyses the schemas (patterns) in the lives of people with -among other things- Avoidant Personality Disorder and describes how to handle them.
Even if you don't want to read it, I thought this would give you some clues about what to google for:)
Mind you getting yourself involved in a lawsuit in the u.s. is something many freetime hackers would not be inclined to do.
Contrary to the e.u. or australia, where there is a more sane judicial system, you could be in for a lot of trouble if you even just become a party in a high profile lawsuit like this one.
It could cost you lots of time and money for little or no gain.
So I understand the u.s. Linux people who just don't bother because they think they could get themselves in trouble, so instead judge that they had better spend their time on continuing development.
I also think like most people, that SCO is going to lose this silly case anyhow. So it's just a matter of time.
If they win (quod non) any part of the coming lawsuit, I'm sure we'll hear a lot more from Linux advocates from all over the world, also the ones in the u.s.
I see it happening more and more that people present their summaries, articles and technical papers on the net as pdfs. This is very inconvenient.
Pdfs are nice for printing and publishing on traditional media, because you can be sure they will be in the correct layout etcetera for the printer. But on the web, where people browse between lightweight, easy html-documents, they're just a nuisance.
Please, if you must publish a pdf, publish an html version next to it.
A couple of years ago (the dot com bubble was still hot), the biggest Dutch tabloid newspaper De Telegraaf carried an article about him, in which he portrayed himself as the Next Big Thing (tm) to happen to the internet, likened himself to Uncle Scrooge, Bill Gates etc.
A couple of days later it turns out his "anonymous venture capitalist" is his rich daddy..:) And the big and impressive colour picture of him amidst the 19" racks with servers, routers, storage units, ups's, cables etc. was not taken in his company, but was him standing among the gear of his colo company:) He was fighting with all of his 50.. oops, 20.. sorry 10, no.. 5 employees, none of whom could program or decently operate a unix system.
In the course of the years his company turned itself into a major slapstick with sysops announcing to peering isps that they were "as of now publicising the following ip-range: 192.168.0.0/16"
You know, if it makes you sleep better, Dutch law is a lot more relaxed on this sort of issues than US law. Or should I say less hysterical. Or should I say less outrageous in how it is put into effect if this would become the subject of a lawsuit (which no one is expecting.)
As for the moral issue. I suppose you could go on and on on this on a philosophical level, but hey, what are the moral rights to an email account of a spammer who harrasses millions of ordinary users every day, who drops his domain as soon as people find out, and runs? Do you really think anything meaningful is going on here on an ethical level?
I think Mozilla's really mostly a developers' browser. Yes, it's very standards compliant but that covers most of the positive things you can say about it.
It's so standards compliant that some sites appear broken or not at all in it.
It's so slow that I avoid using it. For instance try typing in a text area. A minute or two after you typed a line it has fully appeared.
I use kde and konqueror usually does it for me, although it also has its drawbacks such as the jumping way in which it builds up a html page.
The Darpa representative was quoted as saying: "I like to think that our support to this project could stop the development of just one highly secure operating system."
I think Linux and for that matter the BSDs cannot be a passing technology.
Differences with os2 for instance:
- They have not been hyped by ad campaigns and marketdroids, but have grown patiently and steadily purely based on the qualities they had
- They exist for over ten years
- They have a very large and ever growing community of developers, admins and users around them that back them. Mostly not for money, but because they enjoy working with it
- Microsoft inspires a lot of people to back some sort of counter movement with their marketing, judicial and economic tactics. Which will just naturally be Linux, which is their arch enemy. Even if those people are just armchair Linux supporters, they still support it.
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It's nice for really oo minded people that they can now feel at home in php with all the new keywords and protection and 'type awareness' stuff added (I liked that last new word particularly:)
I for one am very pragmatic about it. Use oo when it improves meaningful architecture of your app, improves reusability etc., but not for the sake of it. (Like for instance Java forces you to do)
Mostly, structured programming (sequention, alteration, iteration) will do the job.
Especially in web applications. (I daresay)
Especially in simple web applications.
And you can still do that. You don't have to use complex oo ways of programming, oo design patterns and the like. You can just program in whatever way you like or are used to. I hesitate to say it:) but there's more than one w... well you get it.
What do you mean PHP is leaving its roots behind that have made it so successful? PHP is versatile, baby!
Go ahead, use your php4 scripts under php5, I'll be surprised if it's any of the new Fancy Web Application Stuff (tm) that breaks them.
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Just compile it with gcc.
gcc is available as a binary for Windows as well.
No need for visual c++, microsoft foundation classes, interdev or whatever.
There is an interesting difference to do with measuring processing speed vs. measuring data storage.
Unlike for processing speed, and like for physical temperature, you can set an "absolute zero" for data storage, based on the current physical theorem for atoms and molecules.
-273Celcius == -460Fahrenheit == 0 Kelvin, because 0 K is the temperature at which atoms are motionless.
Likewise, the tiniest physical alteration performable AND measurable to an atom would represent the smallest possible unit of data storage. Hence, the unit that forms the basis for the highest possible density of data storage.
On a rather philosophical note, measuring data storage on an absolute scale I think is possible because unlike processing speed, data storage always has a 1:1 mapping with whatever matter is representing it.
Pardon me for the tasteless equation, but "Initiative for Software Choice" sounds like the software equivalent of "Pro-choice" pro-abortion activists. It's just a nice euphemism..
Fire was started by an anonymous coward. 2 tiny fires were already put out the day before the big fire. Jerrycans with petrol and matches were found in the (remaining part of the) building. 1 guy was arrested today. The police refused to comment about him.
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I'm not sure now if the 6502 was only inwardly 8 bits, but outwardly 4. But I know it ran at a little over 1 Mhz, so with a comparatively huge interpreted basic program running on it, I can see why it's slow.
From what I've read, it's also worthwile to look into different kinds of chargers.
:)
The more expensive ones (I've seen them being charged (p.n.i.) at well over $100) don't just feed the batteries electricity, they have quite sophisticated electronics that taste the state of the battery and depending on that and your settings, they calculate the optimal way of charging them.
You can set them to turbo recharge ("the most you can get in 1 hour") or fully recharge, they detect Li-ion, NiCd, NiMH and differ the process for it.
They indicate the state of the battery on sexy backlit lcd matrix screens.
They fit all kinds of battery sizes.
I've seen this being described somewhere in rather prosaic terms, with the charger detecting "bubbles of gas" in the process of charging, and changing the current accordingly.
Apparently, batteries also retain their capacity better and for more cycles with this advanced gear.
They also optimise for the voltage capacity of the batteries.
Maybe it's worth the cost in the long run.
Anyway it's definetely a story that will appeal to the Slashdot-crowd
I'm sorry I don't have a url in English, I saw it in a Dutch electronics mail order catalogue (Conrad.)
Perhaps someone else can provide a link?
Well, I'm speaking about my own (very real) personal experiences. Which I think is valuable information for others. Who may in turn do with it what they want..
I don't regard the dsm-iv as a very relevant resource. I didn't even bother to look up what it did or didn't say about the topic.
It is compiled by smart ass scientists who jockey for position, backed (or not) by large medical/farmaceutical companies who give their support if they can sell more medicines from it.
The scientist will have "achieved" something if their disease makes it into the dsm. Or if their research proves that medicine x may be helpful for their disease y. This to the detriment of the reliability or scientificness of the dsm, in my option.
But this discussion has now gone rather off topic so I had better not replied anymore.
Of course it's not just about social issues.
If avoidance is a key pattern in your life, it will be there in all areas of your life. Relationships, work, your household, etcetera.
That's so obvious.
Ever heard of APD? (Avoidant Personality Disorder)
:)
This is one of about twelve well-known and described and generally accepted personality disorders that some people suffer from who describe the same symptoms that you do.
Avoiding difficult/painful/stressful jobs that you actually need to do and want to get done, but keep avoiding.
Perhaps you don't "qualify" for all of the traits "necessary" to have the disorder, but you may still have recurring patterns in your life that are common to this disorder.
What I found very helpful, informative and insight-giving is "Cognitive therapy for personality disorders: a schema-focused approach" by J. Young.
He analyses the schemas (patterns) in the lives of people with -among other things- Avoidant Personality Disorder and describes how to handle them.
Even if you don't want to read it, I thought this would give you some clues about what to google for
On Solaris, if you grep through /bin/ls, you will see that it is copyrighted by Microsoft.
How this is and what the history of this is? I have no idea. I find it very strange.
Mind you getting yourself involved in a lawsuit in the u.s. is something many freetime hackers would not be inclined to do.
Contrary to the e.u. or australia, where there is a more sane judicial system, you could be in for a lot of trouble if you even just become a party in a high profile lawsuit like this one.
It could cost you lots of time and money for little or no gain.
So I understand the u.s. Linux people who just don't bother because they think they could get themselves in trouble, so instead judge that they had better spend their time on continuing development.
I also think like most people, that SCO is going to lose this silly case anyhow. So it's just a matter of time.
If they win (quod non) any part of the coming lawsuit, I'm sure we'll hear a lot more from Linux advocates from all over the world, also the ones in the u.s.
I see it happening more and more that people present their summaries, articles and technical papers on the net as pdfs. This is very inconvenient.
Pdfs are nice for printing and publishing on traditional media, because you can be sure they will be in the correct layout etcetera for the printer. But on the web, where people browse between lightweight, easy html-documents, they're just a nuisance.
Please, if you must publish a pdf, publish an html version next to it.
This guy is hilarious.
:) :)
A couple of years ago (the dot com bubble was still hot), the biggest Dutch tabloid newspaper De Telegraaf carried an article about him, in which he portrayed himself as the Next Big Thing (tm) to happen to the internet, likened himself to Uncle Scrooge, Bill Gates etc.
A couple of days later it turns out his "anonymous venture capitalist" is his rich daddy..
And the big and impressive colour picture of him amidst the 19" racks with servers, routers, storage units, ups's, cables etc. was not taken in his company, but was him standing among the gear of his colo company
He was fighting with all of his 50.. oops, 20.. sorry 10, no.. 5 employees, none of whom could program or decently operate a unix system.
In the course of the years his company turned itself into a major slapstick with sysops announcing to peering isps that they were "as of now publicising the following ip-range:
192.168.0.0/16"
(historical!)
You know, if it makes you sleep better, Dutch law is a lot more relaxed on this sort of issues than US law. Or should I say less hysterical. Or should I say less outrageous in how it is put into effect if this would become the subject of a lawsuit (which no one is expecting.)
As for the moral issue. I suppose you could go on and on on this on a philosophical level, but hey, what are the moral rights to an email account of a spammer who harrasses millions of ordinary users every day, who drops his domain as soon as people find out, and runs? Do you really think anything meaningful is going on here on an ethical level?
I think Mozilla's really mostly a developers' browser.
Yes, it's very standards compliant but that covers most of the positive things you can say about it.
It's so standards compliant that some sites appear broken or not at all in it.
It's so slow that I avoid using it. For instance try typing in a text area. A minute or two after you typed a line it has fully appeared.
I use kde and konqueror usually does it for me, although it also has its drawbacks such as the jumping way in which it builds up a html page.
favourite quote:
The Darpa representative was quoted as saying:
"I like to think that our support to this project could stop the development of just one highly secure operating system."
I think Linux and for that matter the BSDs cannot be a passing technology.
Differences with os2 for instance:
- They have not been hyped by ad campaigns and marketdroids, but have grown patiently and steadily purely based on the qualities they had
- They exist for over ten years
- They have a very large and ever growing community of developers, admins and users around them that back them. Mostly not for money, but because they enjoy working with it
- Microsoft inspires a lot of people to back some sort of counter movement with their marketing, judicial and economic tactics. Which will just naturally be Linux, which is their arch enemy.
Even if those people are just armchair Linux supporters, they still support it.
It's nice for really oo minded people that they can now feel at home in php with all the new keywords and protection and 'type awareness' stuff added (I liked that last new word particularly :)
I for one am very pragmatic about it. Use oo when it improves meaningful architecture of your app, improves reusability etc., but not for the sake of it. (Like for instance Java forces you to do)
Mostly, structured programming (sequention, alteration, iteration) will do the job.
Especially in web applications. (I daresay)
Especially in simple web applications.
And you can still do that. You don't have to use complex oo ways of programming, oo design patterns and the like. You can just program in whatever way you like or are used to. I hesitate to say it :) but there's more than one w... well you get it.
What do you mean PHP is leaving its roots behind that have made it so successful? PHP is versatile, baby!
Go ahead, use your php4 scripts under php5, I'll be surprised if it's any of the new Fancy Web Application Stuff (tm) that breaks them.
Just compile it with gcc. gcc is available as a binary for Windows as well. No need for visual c++, microsoft foundation classes, interdev or whatever.
There is an interesting difference to do with measuring processing speed vs. measuring data storage. Unlike for processing speed, and like for physical temperature, you can set an "absolute zero" for data storage, based on the current physical theorem for atoms and molecules. -273Celcius == -460Fahrenheit == 0 Kelvin, because 0 K is the temperature at which atoms are motionless. Likewise, the tiniest physical alteration performable AND measurable to an atom would represent the smallest possible unit of data storage. Hence, the unit that forms the basis for the highest possible density of data storage. On a rather philosophical note, measuring data storage on an absolute scale I think is possible because unlike processing speed, data storage always has a 1:1 mapping with whatever matter is representing it.
april fool
I stopped reading as soon as I realised he was consistently referring to the programmer as "she"... YECH!
Pardon me for the tasteless equation, but "Initiative for Software Choice" sounds like the software equivalent of "Pro-choice" pro-abortion activists. It's just a nice euphemism..
Fire was started by an anonymous coward.
2 tiny fires were already put out the day before the big fire.
Jerrycans with petrol and matches were found in the (remaining part of the) building.
1 guy was arrested today. The police refused to comment about him.