Are the students taking classes in BASIC and C? Maybe some machine langauge? I really doubt it.
Unless they are, they have absolutely no use for laptops.. the money could be better spent elsewhere, afterschool programs, better compensating teachers, etc.
Also, is every student going to have one of these to use? If not, it puts another sort of status barrier up, and there are far too many of those as it is... race, religion, money, and so on.
But there is a rising chorus of geeks--a chorus led by some very high-profile computer science professors and researchers--who say that one machine should never be computerized: the voting machine.
'Rising chorus of geeks'? Who decided all of a sudden this was a good idea? I know it wasn't me..
Whatever way this whole thing goes though, we'll always have problems, as this article points out. Elections will never really be accurate / balanced.
Selker is convinced that DREs are the way of the future; many notable computer scientists continue to believe otherwise.
They are.. I'm a bit wary with what I've been reading lately though.
Also not true, the Apple Lisa was the first true GUI.
The first GUI was developed in 1979 at Xerox's Palo Alto lab, unless I'm mistaken.
Steve Jobs traded something like one million US$ for a tour of the labs where he first encountered the "Alto", a prototype machine with a graphical interface. This is what led to the Apple Lisa, which was released in 1983 or 1984, if memory serves.
1. You can not play games on it.
2. It cannot be used by my grandma.
3. It lacks a GUI of any note.
4. There is no support available for it.
5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes.
6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform.
7. You have to compile everything and know C.
8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor.
9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux.
10.It is dying.
1. Of course you can play games on it.
2. Sure it can.
3. You can use any popular GUI. wm, KDE, GNOME etc.
4. Are you too stupid to figure out mailing lists?
5. No, it's not.
6. Ehm. Yes it can.
7. Wrong again.
8. Sometimes. Same thing with any *NIX though.
9. ? Wrong wrong wrong.:(
10. Hah! Not hardly.
Quake III is what . . . almost five years old? You're missing my point. Carmack will not release the source code to Doom III the same day id releases the game. He's going to profit off of it as much as he can first.
Besides his obvious technical skills, it's stuff like releasing the code that makes me look up to him as a developer.
I hate to be the one to break it to everyone, but Carmack isn't the brightest dev I've encountrered in my time.
Game developers are looking out for theirinterests, not yours or the public's. I doubt Carmack would open-source his life's work just to get that warm fuzzy feeling inside. ; )
I read about this release a few days ago at one of the PocketPC software sites that I visit. I would never have even considered posting it.
I try to tell myself that this site is independent, I try to tell myself that the stories are un-biased, but I really don't know. The "PDA Reviews" from a few days ago were nothing but links to pages with info that you could read on the box of the unit on a store shelf, or on any good online hardware retailer's website. There was absolutely no content there that was useful, no comparisions, no pros/cons between PalmOS and PocketPC, ect. Or perhaps I'm wrong and there was something of use there, maybe I just passed over it.
I would much rather have important stories on the frontpage for a little while longer then to have new articles that, at a stretch, could be classified as Spam popping up every five minutes.
Things to think on . . .
Is it a shameless plug? Like I said, I really hope not. Or is it worse than that? A paid ad? Let's hope for the best.
Is this "News for Nerds."? I suppose that it most assuredly could be classified as that. From reading the comments so far it would seem that this game has quite a few followers. It will probably have a good deal of new ones from this story.
But is this "Stuff that matters." Well, that is very debatable.
My something rather (I think it was an S3 Virge, but this was in the days when no one cared anyway) became a Voodoo 2 became a Geforce 256 became a Radeon 8500 (Which I bought budget at $100 canadian).
ahhh I remember that little Virge chip soldered onto the AT motherboard my Digital was built off of. Pentium running at 100MHz, 8MB 33Mhz Ram, 1.2 Gigabyte Hard Drive.....
Later I upgraded the Graphics to one of the latest and greatest....a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster!
Just make sure you have a Throroughbred B. I am not sure if all of the A versions have been phased out. If you try to clock an older Throroughbred A proc that fast, you'll most likely fry it.
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How does MRAM fair against magnets?
Unless they are, they have absolutely no use for laptops.. the money could be better spent elsewhere, afterschool programs, better compensating teachers, etc.
Also, is every student going to have one of these to use? If not, it puts another sort of status barrier up, and there are far too many of those as it is... race, religion, money, and so on.
I read about these devices over a year ago..
For all of you slashdot geeks with analog modems. ;-)
'Rising chorus of geeks'? Who decided all of a sudden this was a good idea? I know it wasn't me..
Whatever way this whole thing goes though, we'll always have problems, as this article points out. Elections will never really be accurate / balanced.
Selker is convinced that DREs are the way of the future; many notable computer scientists continue to believe otherwise.
They are.. I'm a bit wary with what I've been reading lately though.
The first GUI was developed in 1979 at Xerox's Palo Alto lab, unless I'm mistaken.
Steve Jobs traded something like one million US$ for a tour of the labs where he first encountered the "Alto", a prototype machine with a graphical interface. This is what led to the Apple Lisa, which was released in 1983 or 1984, if memory serves.
1. You can not play games on it. 2. It cannot be used by my grandma. 3. It lacks a GUI of any note. 4. There is no support available for it. 5. It is an assortment of fragmented OSes. 6. It cannot be run on the x86 platform. 7. You have to compile everything and know C. 8. Support for the latest hardware is always poor. 9. It is incompatiable with GNU/Linux. 10.It is dying. 1. Of course you can play games on it. 2. Sure it can. 3. You can use any popular GUI. wm, KDE, GNOME etc. 4. Are you too stupid to figure out mailing lists? 5. No, it's not. 6. Ehm. Yes it can. 7. Wrong again. 8. Sometimes. Same thing with any *NIX though. 9. ? Wrong wrong wrong. :(
10. Hah! Not hardly.
The 'main demographic' is dumbass script kiddies who don't have any idea what the f*ck they're talking about. :-/
Besides his obvious technical skills, it's stuff like releasing the code that makes me look up to him as a developer.
I hate to be the one to break it to everyone, but Carmack isn't the brightest dev I've encountrered in my time.
Game developers are looking out for theirinterests, not yours or the public's. I doubt Carmack would open-source his life's work just to get that warm fuzzy feeling inside. ; )
ugh, tell me about it. I don't have the bandwidth to download seven 650MB ISOs. :S
PCI devices can all share a common interrupt request.
Please back up the statement "it was after all bringing in profit" with some sort of proof.
er . . . you can get a Palm with 8MB of RAM for about $75-85. That's not _that_ much cheaper.
Has anyone tried to install the Newton OS on Palm or PPC devices? I know that Linux is easily installed on either.
But is this just a shameless plug? A lot of stories tend to look like that. : (
Nethack. : )
I try to tell myself that this site is independent, I try to tell myself that the stories are un-biased, but I really don't know. The "PDA Reviews" from a few days ago were nothing but links to pages with info that you could read on the box of the unit on a store shelf, or on any good online hardware retailer's website. There was absolutely no content there that was useful, no comparisions, no pros/cons between PalmOS and PocketPC, ect. Or perhaps I'm wrong and there was something of use there, maybe I just passed over it.
I would much rather have important stories on the frontpage for a little while longer then to have new articles that, at a stretch, could be classified as Spam popping up every five minutes.
Things to think on . . .
Is it a shameless plug? Like I said, I really hope not. Or is it worse than that? A paid ad? Let's hope for the best.
Is this "News for Nerds."? I suppose that it most assuredly could be classified as that. From reading the comments so far it would seem that this game has quite a few followers. It will probably have a good deal of new ones from this story.
But is this "Stuff that matters." Well, that is very debatable.
You did imply it though ; P
Thought I may as well say it before someone else did. ; P
You can sync any almost any PDA to ACT!.
I was 15 when I got my first PalmOS device. "Business professionals" are not the only ones who use them.
Ok?
Thanks.
ahhh I remember that little Virge chip soldered onto the AT motherboard my Digital was built off of. Pentium running at 100MHz, 8MB 33Mhz Ram, 1.2 Gigabyte Hard Drive.....
Later I upgraded the Graphics to one of the latest and greatest....a Creative Labs Graphics Blaster!
Just make sure you have a Throroughbred B. I am not sure if all of the A versions have been phased out. If you try to clock an older Throroughbred A proc that fast, you'll most likely fry it.