Well, yeah, all the other variants except for possibly ROM-DOS will work;)
Assuming you're using a version of DR-DOS that can get around the Win3.1 OS detection scheme. FWIW, I believe drdos.org still offers DR-DOS 7.03 for download.
41 = Old, but cheap, and with usable power 60 = New, fast (it's actually a Core Duo), not cheap 60s = New, fast (Core Duo again), smaller, and also not cheap
I can speak as someone who uses PDFCreator, which uses the same engine as KDE's PDF driver, IIRC. Also, I *THINK* they're using a similar engine in OpenOffice.
A halfway decent PDF creator will take a PostScript file, and convert it to a PDF.
PostScript distinguishes between text and images.
PDFCreator makes PDFs that have text that is rendered as text.
He must be talking about the Lupo 3L, which is now out of production. 85 MPG highway in a car approximately the same size as a Geo Metro.
DSG dual-clutch 6-speed automatic transmission (closer mechanically to a twin-manual than an automatic), 1.2L 3-cylinder TDI (direct injection turbodiesel).
Check on TDIClub.com - there's threads about this. It IS only 45-state legal right now.
And, the current version is rated for 42 MPG hwy. The car's gotten bigger. The 46 MPG number is one that has the same engine as the 42 MPG one, but it's a smaller car. 49 MPG is an older number for a less powerful engine with SLIGHTLY worse emissions, and less fuel consumption.
The engine they used in their car is one that, when in a 4th generation Jetta or Golf, gets 49 MPG hwy according to the EPA, and much better in practice.
Another thing that makes me glad I'm not in a state that is a victim of CARB is that diesels, which can help end our dependence on oil, aren't allowed in CARB states.
Why? Nitrogen oxides.
The funny thing is, studies are showing that the nitrogen oxides actually... wait for it... *REDUCE* ozone in areas like California, especially those from diesels.
Also, diesels last longer (less junkyard space taken, less energy used and pollution created recycling them, less energy used and pollution created making the replacement car), are much more fuel efficient than gassers, degrade in emissions much more gracefully than gassers, and oh, yeah, do that whole biodiesel thing.
You overestimate the intelligence of the average computer user at a college.
(as the IE popup bar comes up, saying that a popup has been blocked, and a warning from Campus Connect says to check your popup blocker) "Hey, why isn't Campus Connect working?"
(when the wireless login comes up) "Hey, what's this? This isn't what I went to! It must not be working!" (when all they need to do is login with their e-mail username and password, which IT SAYS TO DO BESIDE THE LOGIN FIELD)
Your phone doesn't have a dedicated button to hang up on a call (not uncommon on phones like Nokia's B&W bargain basement models), yet it's got J2ME support?
Wow.
OK, let me mention another advantage of J2ME. J2ME apps can't auto execute. Viruses tend to work better when they can.
J2ME is actually very well sandboxed away from the rest of the phone.
You can always terminate a J2ME app easily (push the red button), it can't stay resident, it has no access to any personal info (except for any data in the J2ME app's own database), it can't access the web without user intervention (the phone fires an alert asking for permission if an unknown app wants online - I've even seen it when I updated an app on my old phone), and accessing the GPS chip or the camera is yet another "must have permission" function, and doesn't work on all phones that have those features.
Anyway, J2ME apps can usually only touch the keypad (and not the End button), the screen, the backlight, the speakers, the vibe alert, and the network connection. Some phones allow access to the camera and the GPS chip. No access to the address book, no access to the phone part of the phone.
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Actually, I have used WiFi in class to contribute to the discussion, not just to slack off. ;)
Actually, where I work, the ISP provides filtering service, and "Web Proxies/Anonymizers" is one of the blocked categories.
Not that it means anything... there's so many ways around it that it's not funny...
Well, yeah, all the other variants except for possibly ROM-DOS will work ;)
Assuming you're using a version of DR-DOS that can get around the Win3.1 OS detection scheme. FWIW, I believe drdos.org still offers DR-DOS 7.03 for download.
FreeDOS doesn't have the hooks that Windows 3.11 needs.
So, MS-DOS.
That model's a "convertible" model, which means one minute, it's a normal laptop, the next, it's a tablet.
There's two X41s.
The X41 (NOT the X41 Tablet) is an updated version of the X40 that has the i915GM chipset and DDR2 RAM. Nothing else is changed.
The X41 Tablet is a somewhat modified version of the X41 that is a convertible tablet.
Looks like he's describing the ThinkPad X series.
41 = Old, but cheap, and with usable power
60 = New, fast (it's actually a Core Duo), not cheap
60s = New, fast (Core Duo again), smaller, and also not cheap
I can speak as someone who uses PDFCreator, which uses the same engine as KDE's PDF driver, IIRC. Also, I *THINK* they're using a similar engine in OpenOffice.
A halfway decent PDF creator will take a PostScript file, and convert it to a PDF.
PostScript distinguishes between text and images.
PDFCreator makes PDFs that have text that is rendered as text.
It's prototypes, not production.
He must be talking about the Lupo 3L, which is now out of production. 85 MPG highway in a car approximately the same size as a Geo Metro.
DSG dual-clutch 6-speed automatic transmission (closer mechanically to a twin-manual than an automatic), 1.2L 3-cylinder TDI (direct injection turbodiesel).
Check on TDIClub.com - there's threads about this. It IS only 45-state legal right now.
And, the current version is rated for 42 MPG hwy. The car's gotten bigger. The 46 MPG number is one that has the same engine as the 42 MPG one, but it's a smaller car. 49 MPG is an older number for a less powerful engine with SLIGHTLY worse emissions, and less fuel consumption.
However, it's also easy to beat these numbers.
You take the engine out and build a diesel electric hybrid kit car, like what they did.
Oh, and it's 1.9L, not 1.8.
Biomass to liquid, is what the process is called.
Biodiesel. It's made of humans!
Actually, you take a 5-10% hit on fuel economy.
The engine they used in their car is one that, when in a 4th generation Jetta or Golf, gets 49 MPG hwy according to the EPA, and much better in practice.
Actually, the specific engine they're using is an "ALH" code TDI, which comes stock with a turbocharger and intercooler - all TDIs do.
It's out of a fourth generation Jetta TDI, IIRC. Could've been out of a Golf or New Beetle, though.
I've heard that the organizers of TDIFest are trying to get it there, FWIW.
Another thing that makes me glad I'm not in a state that is a victim of CARB is that diesels, which can help end our dependence on oil, aren't allowed in CARB states.
Why? Nitrogen oxides.
The funny thing is, studies are showing that the nitrogen oxides actually... wait for it... *REDUCE* ozone in areas like California, especially those from diesels.
Also, diesels last longer (less junkyard space taken, less energy used and pollution created recycling them, less energy used and pollution created making the replacement car), are much more fuel efficient than gassers, degrade in emissions much more gracefully than gassers, and oh, yeah, do that whole biodiesel thing.
CARB can go suck on a tailpipe.
You overestimate the intelligence of the average computer user at a college.
(as the IE popup bar comes up, saying that a popup has been blocked, and a warning from Campus Connect says to check your popup blocker)
"Hey, why isn't Campus Connect working?"
(when the wireless login comes up)
"Hey, what's this? This isn't what I went to! It must not be working!" (when all they need to do is login with their e-mail username and password, which IT SAYS TO DO BESIDE THE LOGIN FIELD)
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
OK, what about my BeBox and Amiga? (note: I don't actually have either one, just posing a theoretical question)
Your phone doesn't have a dedicated button to hang up on a call (not uncommon on phones like Nokia's B&W bargain basement models), yet it's got J2ME support?
Wow.
OK, let me mention another advantage of J2ME. J2ME apps can't auto execute. Viruses tend to work better when they can.
Read his post again, he mentioned indie labels.
J2ME is actually very well sandboxed away from the rest of the phone.
You can always terminate a J2ME app easily (push the red button), it can't stay resident, it has no access to any personal info (except for any data in the J2ME app's own database), it can't access the web without user intervention (the phone fires an alert asking for permission if an unknown app wants online - I've even seen it when I updated an app on my old phone), and accessing the GPS chip or the camera is yet another "must have permission" function, and doesn't work on all phones that have those features.
Spyware/virus infection is the cost of stupidity.
Then, we get paid to remove it.
Remember that.
Anyway, J2ME apps can usually only touch the keypad (and not the End button), the screen, the backlight, the speakers, the vibe alert, and the network connection. Some phones allow access to the camera and the GPS chip. No access to the address book, no access to the phone part of the phone.
Explain the existence of ClamAV, then.
HTML is for displaying content regardless of how it appears, in whatever the best format is for a program that is browsing the web.
PDF is for making a file that creates a copy of a printed page. Very useful for some things, completely inappropriate for others.
Except these registration sites actually WANT you to click the Google result, and get a registration page.
And there are features like that buried in Excel. Reverse Calculation or something like that.
Just remember, it's BURIED.