Make Magazine (http://www.makezine.com/) has a short how-to this month on using a Sharp Zaurus as something similar to the device described here. They use a text-only snapshot of wikipedia and convert it into some propietary dictionary format. The database end up only being 300-400 mb, not bad considering how cheap flash media is getting these days.
I think my first experience on a computer was when I was two. My dad had a Macintosh SE that he hadn't been using for a couple years since he uprgraded to a more powerful mac, and basically just gave me a computer to mess around on. He put on some edusoft-type programs, Crystal Quest, a word processor, and Mathematica, Kid Pix, and let me run with it. I don't think I did all that much with it, but it definitley got me hooked on technology. Between that, messing around on his other, more powerful, mac, and discovering the internet, I basically became hooked.
My Dad bought me an HP Pavillion (200Mhz Pentium Pro, 32 MB ram, 8 mb graphics card) when I was six, and he did the same thing as before, and let me mess around that. This time, I had an internet connection and a PC to do whatever I wanted with. He even bought me an IDE for BASIC that I learned to program in. That was my first programming experience. Between the two computers, I was pretty much hooked.
Yeah, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having an web-enabled thermostat. The idea is, presumably, to be able to change the tempurature in your house in the USA while you're off on a bussiness trip in Oogadoogoo, Burkina Faso.
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Updated today Plot hole: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them. Any normal man would've been killed instantly, and Doc Ock doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him.
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Updated today Continuity: When Peter arrives at his aunt's home at the beginning of the movie, it's night. He talks to Harry in the kitchen a few minutes later, and look at the purple balloon by Peter's head, it reflects a window with lots of light coming through it.
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Updated today Continuity: During the final conversation between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, the rips in Spider-Man's suit keep changing. For instance, there is a tear on his right shoulder; for most of the scene, there is a single piece of black webbing left holding the rip together, but when Doc Ock grabs Spider-Man's arm, the rip now has two pieces of black webbing. Then it goes back to one.
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Updated today Continuity: During the train scene, Spider-man's mask had gone partially black. We also see it when Spidey puts his mask back on. Yet when Doc brings him to Harry, we don't even see a patch of darkness on his mask.
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Updated today Continuity: When Peter and Mary Jane are together in his apartment at the end of the film, the collar of Peter's t-shirt keeps changing positions underneath his sweater. Sometimes it is fully visible all the way around, sometimes it's higher on the left or right side, and during the closer shots it isn't visible at all.
votemap
Updated today Factual error: In the scene where Peter is saving the children from the burning building, there is no smoke from the fire. Black smoke would be bellowing out the windows. He wouldn't be able to just stand up and walk through the building.
votemap
Updated today Visible crew/equipment: On the way to the theater Peter Parker intercepts policeman chasing a couple of bad guys. At the end of that scene one of the police cars has a tremendous wreck that swings the car sideways. There is a clear shot of the driver with a black helmet on.
votemap
Updated today Continuity: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself, so he should be under it as they descend, yet in the final shot of him sinking into the ocean, the ball is below him and he is falling after it.
votemap
Updated today Audio problem: It's clear that due to the tentacles' heaviness, they have to made some kind of sound when moving. But yet when Doc Ock takes the tritium from Harry in his house, he leaves without making any sound at all.
votemap
Updated today Factual error: Nobody would dare to cut a metal piece with a saw without eye protection, much less in a surgical room, like the surgeon that wanted to remove Doc Ock's tentacles.
votemap
Updated today Revealing: In the scene where Doc Ock comes out of the hospital and throws a car onto another one, you can tell the man in there is just a dummy. He has no reaction what so ever. He just sits there as if nothing happened.
votemap
Updated this week Revealing: In the scene at the end where Spider-Man and Mary Jane are in the big web, there is a close-up which shows the webbing behind them. We can blatantly see that it's wire wrapped in plastic of some kind to make it look like web.
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Updated this week Factual error: Dr. Octavius says his fusion relies on tritium and that there is only 25 pounds of the substance in the world. In reality, tritium is merely an isotope of hydrogen and is a good deal more common than that. For example, there is a large region of the North Pacific that contains tritium-rich salt water. Submitted by Phoenix
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Updated this week Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as
Yeah, I like Maximum PC as well. The content can sometimes lean towards a newbie-ish user. But that's good in general, because even noobs need to be informed. If you have any hardware questions, Maximum PC usually has the answer, along with some cool reviews.
Whoever modded this funny hasn't read I, Robot. In the last anecdote in the book, such an example happens where giant, mameframe(sp)/super computer like computers determine what's best for humanity via statistics.
"The manga version of Star Wars was pretty good, but off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?" Well, all sorts of japanese media has been redone for America. Remember Power Rangers? The whole plot was completley different for the US and Japan versions. In fact, they just used fight scenes and such from the Japanese version of the series, and created a series with a new, completley different plot. Actually, I recall the Japanese version being better (Being relativley young, I remember watching it). Also, anime can sometimes be redone. Following along the lines of young, child fads and franchises, the Pokemon movies had seperate plots. And the series was reformatted to be more US friendly I think. So, while I'm sure the US has done it's share of "outsourcing" of it's pop culture, we're readapting other culture's pop culture to be more US friendly.
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"The manga version of Star Wars was pretty good, but off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?"
Well, all sorts of japanese media has been redone for America. Remember Power Rangers? The whole plot was completley different for the US and Japan versions. In fact, they just used fight scenes and such from the Japanese version of the series, and created a series with a new, completley different plot. Actually, I recall the Japanese version being better (Being relativley young, I remember watching it). Also, anime can sometimes be redone.
Following along the lines of young, child fads and franchises, the Pokemon movies had seperate plots. And the series was reformatted to be more US friendly I think.
So, while I'm sure the US has done it's share of "outsourcing" of it's pop culture, we're readapting other culture's pop culture to be more US friendly.
Wouldn't Knoppix with a Arabic language hack work? Of course, you'd have to use the older version, so it could work well with older systems. This of course is assuming you're professors are using the computers already there (An image like this wouldn't hurt however if they're bringing their own systems)
"Most schools are immersed in a Windows monoculture."
Yes and no. As stated before, many schools also run mac systems. I know my school has at least one lab devoted to iMacs. My main point however, is that we are not tottally imerssed in windows systems. I have a teacher for tech right now. He knows that I'm a fellow geek. I start talking to him, and this guy is totally pro linux. The door has a Red Hat sticker. He doesn't seem to have any objections when he notices I'm surfing on XBox Linux in my spare time and am doing it in knoppix in Mozilla. In fact, he seems happy about it, and then shows me the specs on the new solaris system he's going to get for his networking class. A student from another period (presumably this networking class) walks in getting a binder. His shirt has the text "overclocked"
My point is, that while the masses at the school are running windows, a majority of the systems also are not M$. I would bet that the school site isn't being run on IIS, it's apache.
True, we don't have linux for the masses in the schools yet, but we certainly have a stronghold in some regard. To tell the truth, we haven't truly mastered linux for the desktop anyway. It would be a steep learning curve for someone to move to linux who is so used to windows. Our main focus should be to get Desktop Linux suitable for the average joe. Until then, we geeks still can still run the school through open source.
It appears that your link is forbidden. Possibly a/. effect?
Also,
To anyone who hasn't listened to the broadcast, and enjoyed the book, (I too, am a DNA fanboy) LISTEN TO THEM. The series acuratley represents the book, which is logical, seeing as how the book came from the radio. The film version will never get close to this.
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There's at least one good reason to keep support. Servers.
I have an old (read: OLD.) hp pavillion I managed to get a hold of and I didn't want to use the hard drive because of some issues. So... wouldn't it be great to use knoppix with all of it's available tools to create say... a web server? Knoppix has apache btw.
Yeah, I could probably just use a floppy distro, but then I wouldn't get the cool on the fly decompression, etc. of knoppix. Anyone know of a project that put knoppix on a smaller capacity?
Just to tell everyone,
Definitely wait till after the credits. Without giving away anything...There's a nice suprise.
The ending may upset a few though.
I especially enjoyed how philisophical this was. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but my friend and I are constantly debating some of the theories in this series. (Yep, we're that geeky) This time, it seems that they are a bit more open to the philosophy than in the prior film, possibly due to the amount of brain work put into the meaning of the first movie.
Also, if you look at one of the terminals, I thought I might've seen a *nix prompt and the words "IP adress"
You will enjoy this movie.
Actually, freevo has a main page. http://www.freevo.org . while I haven't installed it yet, I want to mod an xbox and see if there's anyway in hell that I can get a tv capture card on using either a pci slot, or modified usb. If that doesn't work, and it probably won't, I'll just get an old athlon, cheap mobo, etc. and build my own system.
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Make Magazine (http://www.makezine.com/) has a short how-to this month on using a Sharp Zaurus as something similar to the device described here. They use a text-only snapshot of wikipedia and convert it into some propietary dictionary format. The database end up only being 300-400 mb, not bad considering how cheap flash media is getting these days.
I think my first experience on a computer was when I was two. My dad had a Macintosh SE that he hadn't been using for a couple years since he uprgraded to a more powerful mac, and basically just gave me a computer to mess around on. He put on some edusoft-type programs, Crystal Quest, a word processor, and Mathematica, Kid Pix, and let me run with it. I don't think I did all that much with it, but it definitley got me hooked on technology. Between that, messing around on his other, more powerful, mac, and discovering the internet, I basically became hooked.
My Dad bought me an HP Pavillion (200Mhz Pentium Pro, 32 MB ram, 8 mb graphics card) when I was six, and he did the same thing as before, and let me mess around that. This time, I had an internet connection and a PC to do whatever I wanted with. He even bought me an IDE for BASIC that I learned to program in. That was my first programming experience. Between the two computers, I was pretty much hooked.
Yeah, but that kind of defeats the purpose of having an web-enabled thermostat. The idea is, presumably, to be able to change the tempurature in your house in the USA while you're off on a bussiness trip in Oogadoogoo, Burkina Faso.
Gates says Open-Source kills kittens! And Babies! THINK OF THE BABIES!!!!!
anyone kow how I can edit this post so I can put in some
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Here's what the site said: Updated today Plot hole: Harry tells Doc Ock that in order to find Spider-Man he must find Peter first. Doc Ock finds Peter with Mary Jane in the cafe and throws a car through the window straight at them. Any normal man would've been killed instantly, and Doc Ock doesn't know that Peter is Spider-Man. Given that Peter is his only lead on Spider-Man, it makes no sense that Doc Ock would effectively try to kill him. votemap Updated today Continuity: When Peter arrives at his aunt's home at the beginning of the movie, it's night. He talks to Harry in the kitchen a few minutes later, and look at the purple balloon by Peter's head, it reflects a window with lots of light coming through it. votemap Updated today Continuity: During the final conversation between Spider-Man and Doc Ock, the rips in Spider-Man's suit keep changing. For instance, there is a tear on his right shoulder; for most of the scene, there is a single piece of black webbing left holding the rip together, but when Doc Ock grabs Spider-Man's arm, the rip now has two pieces of black webbing. Then it goes back to one. votemap Updated today Continuity: During the train scene, Spider-man's mask had gone partially black. We also see it when Spidey puts his mask back on. Yet when Doc brings him to Harry, we don't even see a patch of darkness on his mask. votemap Updated today Continuity: When Peter and Mary Jane are together in his apartment at the end of the film, the collar of Peter's t-shirt keeps changing positions underneath his sweater. Sometimes it is fully visible all the way around, sometimes it's higher on the left or right side, and during the closer shots it isn't visible at all. votemap Updated today Factual error: In the scene where Peter is saving the children from the burning building, there is no smoke from the fire. Black smoke would be bellowing out the windows. He wouldn't be able to just stand up and walk through the building. votemap Updated today Visible crew/equipment: On the way to the theater Peter Parker intercepts policeman chasing a couple of bad guys. At the end of that scene one of the police cars has a tremendous wreck that swings the car sideways. There is a clear shot of the driver with a black helmet on. votemap Updated today Continuity: Doc Ock pulls the giant sun ball and its support down onto himself, so he should be under it as they descend, yet in the final shot of him sinking into the ocean, the ball is below him and he is falling after it. votemap Updated today Audio problem: It's clear that due to the tentacles' heaviness, they have to made some kind of sound when moving. But yet when Doc Ock takes the tritium from Harry in his house, he leaves without making any sound at all. votemap Updated today Factual error: Nobody would dare to cut a metal piece with a saw without eye protection, much less in a surgical room, like the surgeon that wanted to remove Doc Ock's tentacles. votemap Updated today Revealing: In the scene where Doc Ock comes out of the hospital and throws a car onto another one, you can tell the man in there is just a dummy. He has no reaction what so ever. He just sits there as if nothing happened. votemap Updated this week Revealing: In the scene at the end where Spider-Man and Mary Jane are in the big web, there is a close-up which shows the webbing behind them. We can blatantly see that it's wire wrapped in plastic of some kind to make it look like web. votemap Updated this week Factual error: Dr. Octavius says his fusion relies on tritium and that there is only 25 pounds of the substance in the world. In reality, tritium is merely an isotope of hydrogen and is a good deal more common than that. For example, there is a large region of the North Pacific that contains tritium-rich salt water. Submitted by Phoenix votemap Updated this week Factual error: Considering the brightness of the fusion process, Dr. Octavius has to wear special goggles to be able to see it. Yet no one else in the room is wearing such goggles or seem hurt by watching the whole process, just as
Yeah, I like Maximum PC as well. The content can sometimes lean towards a newbie-ish user. But that's good in general, because even noobs need to be informed. If you have any hardware questions, Maximum PC usually has the answer, along with some cool reviews.
Whoever modded this funny hasn't read I, Robot. In the last anecdote in the book, such an example happens where giant, mameframe(sp)/super computer like computers determine what's best for humanity via statistics.
/me feels stupid. *scowls at mozilla for it's awesome tabbed browsing* I posted in the wrong topic.
"The manga version of Star Wars was pretty good, but off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?" Well, all sorts of japanese media has been redone for America. Remember Power Rangers? The whole plot was completley different for the US and Japan versions. In fact, they just used fight scenes and such from the Japanese version of the series, and created a series with a new, completley different plot. Actually, I recall the Japanese version being better (Being relativley young, I remember watching it). Also, anime can sometimes be redone. Following along the lines of young, child fads and franchises, the Pokemon movies had seperate plots. And the series was reformatted to be more US friendly I think. So, while I'm sure the US has done it's share of "outsourcing" of it's pop culture, we're readapting other culture's pop culture to be more US friendly. [ Reply to This ]
"The manga version of Star Wars was pretty good, but off the top of my head I can't think of any other comic books that were redone for a completely different culture. Anyone?" Well, all sorts of japanese media has been redone for America. Remember Power Rangers? The whole plot was completley different for the US and Japan versions. In fact, they just used fight scenes and such from the Japanese version of the series, and created a series with a new, completley different plot. Actually, I recall the Japanese version being better (Being relativley young, I remember watching it). Also, anime can sometimes be redone. Following along the lines of young, child fads and franchises, the Pokemon movies had seperate plots. And the series was reformatted to be more US friendly I think. So, while I'm sure the US has done it's share of "outsourcing" of it's pop culture, we're readapting other culture's pop culture to be more US friendly.
Wouldn't Knoppix with a Arabic language hack work? Of course, you'd have to use the older version, so it could work well with older systems. This of course is assuming you're professors are using the computers already there (An image like this wouldn't hurt however if they're bringing their own systems)
"Most schools are immersed in a Windows monoculture."
Yes and no. As stated before, many schools also run mac systems. I know my school has at least one lab devoted to iMacs. My main point however, is that we are not tottally imerssed in windows systems. I have a teacher for tech right now. He knows that I'm a fellow geek. I start talking to him, and this guy is totally pro linux. The door has a Red Hat sticker. He doesn't seem to have any objections when he notices I'm surfing on XBox Linux in my spare time and am doing it in knoppix in Mozilla. In fact, he seems happy about it, and then shows me the specs on the new solaris system he's going to get for his networking class. A student from another period (presumably this networking class) walks in getting a binder. His shirt has the text "overclocked"
My point is, that while the masses at the school are running windows, a majority of the systems also are not M$. I would bet that the school site isn't being run on IIS, it's apache.
True, we don't have linux for the masses in the schools yet, but we certainly have a stronghold in some regard. To tell the truth, we haven't truly mastered linux for the desktop anyway. It would be a steep learning curve for someone to move to linux who is so used to windows. Our main focus should be to get Desktop Linux suitable for the average joe. Until then, we geeks still can still run the school through open source.
It appears that your link is forbidden. Possibly a /. effect?
Also,
To anyone who hasn't listened to the broadcast, and enjoyed the book, (I too, am a DNA fanboy) LISTEN TO THEM. The series acuratley represents the book, which is logical, seeing as how the book came from the radio. The film version will never get close to this.
There's at least one good reason to keep support. Servers. I have an old (read: OLD.) hp pavillion I managed to get a hold of and I didn't want to use the hard drive because of some issues. So... wouldn't it be great to use knoppix with all of it's available tools to create say... a web server? Knoppix has apache btw.
Yeah, I could probably just use a floppy distro, but then I wouldn't get the cool on the fly decompression, etc. of knoppix. Anyone know of a project that put knoppix on a smaller capacity?
me too. :-(
Sad, Sad world...
Just to tell everyone, Definitely wait till after the credits. Without giving away anything...There's a nice suprise. The ending may upset a few though. I especially enjoyed how philisophical this was. I'm not sure about the rest of you, but my friend and I are constantly debating some of the theories in this series. (Yep, we're that geeky) This time, it seems that they are a bit more open to the philosophy than in the prior film, possibly due to the amount of brain work put into the meaning of the first movie. Also, if you look at one of the terminals, I thought I might've seen a *nix prompt and the words "IP adress" You will enjoy this movie.
Actually, freevo has a main page. http://www.freevo.org . while I haven't installed it yet, I want to mod an xbox and see if there's anyway in hell that I can get a tv capture card on using either a pci slot, or modified usb. If that doesn't work, and it probably won't, I'll just get an old athlon, cheap mobo, etc. and build my own system.
Isn't this book on thinkgeek? Its been on there for a few weeks now. I've been dying to get it, but it's been sold out.