You're right about this fact that MSN spaces does most of what lots of people need. Lots of people, though, not most of people. The number of blogs in asian/persian/arabic/hindi... languages are so big that the lack of support for internationalization is a big concern. You simply CAN'T do it with current version of MSN spaces, no matter how simple and basic your needs are for a say, Persian weblog (I think now there are round 18,000 Persian weblogs on the net!).
Ultra-Edit doesn't allow you to produce any files which you couldn't with notepad
hmmmm, Hex editing a binary file? Searching for regular expressions? Search and replace in multiple files on disk? etc.
But generally you're right. It was not a good metaphor. MOST of the things you do with UltraEdit is in theory possible to to with the notepad but with blogger there are LOTS of things you can do that are impossible with MSN spaces.
I've just took a look at MSN spaces. It's interface to create the weblog and change its layout is interesting and very easy to use. But my main concern is that it is very limiting. You can't edit the template in the way you can do it like in Blogger (which is now owned by Google). In blogger you can edit the HTML file that is the template of your weblog and this gives you the control on EVERYTHING but in MSN spaces you can just play with the layout of predefined "module" but can't really change the code behind. Also, it seems the total space allocated to each weblog is very small (10MB). Plase notice that it also includes the space for the photos and "music" so you can imagine you can't expect much from it. The other problem is that there is no support for internationalization: you can't create a chines, korean, arabic, persian... blog! You can't change the stylesheets to support RTL paragraphs etc.
All in all, it's nice, but very limited. It's like comparing the notepad to Ultra-Edit....
... VGA has only 16 colors in 640x480. It could only show 256 colors in the 320x200. Comparing it to what most PDAs do now, it seems that getting 64K colors in 320x200 is already beyound what VGA did!
if you've played one RTS, then you've played them all.
I don't believe in that. The strategy you take in a RTS is more than knowing the armors, units and such. The mechanics of different games are so different that there is no uinque formula to play them all. In StarCraft if you waste the resources, soon they will finish and a single unit of the enemy will be able to take down the whole city of yours. But in a game like Total Annihilation, the resources are infinite and simply sending 100 units (yeah, 100s, not like 10s in starcraft) to attack a city of your enemy is practically useless in a 2 minutes he'll recover to the same situation as before. For an experience gamer, it's the mechanics of the games, not the stats of the units that matters.
Memory chips can get really hot! I have a Athlon 2800+ system at home and I use 2 modules of 512MB Kingston HyperX SDRAM (yeah, those that come with a stylish blue heatsink) in it. Recently, I measured the temperature of various system components and was quite surprized that the hottest parts under heavey loads where actually these SDRAM modules! With a 2,2,2,5 timing I could measure 57C!
When games announce the minimum requirements, they usually just mean a system that can just run the program but not they don't mean you can actually enjoy playing the game on such a machine.
For example, Unreal Tournament 2004 minimum requirement is 256MB RAM but in practice, below 1GB you'll face paging that would slowdown the game every now and then. Now, 386MB for the minimum? That's in fact a huge requirement and I know of no other game with such a minimum requirements. If the guideline is 4 times the memory of the minimum system, that means you need something like 1.5GB RAM for a an acceptable gaming experience.
OK, no problem. Add the "proficiency" to the list of the complaints againt Maths Olympiads. It does not change my argument that the important question here is not if Maths is a sport or not, but how a Maths (or physics or anything) Olympiad can help kids.
I don't think the right question is about math being a sport. No body has claimed that. The name of this competition is just simply math olympiad. It is a competition on math proficiency of the high-school level kids. Now, you may argue that such a competition is not really helping maths, or it is can't really help kids getting more interested in maths or anything but just sticking to a word in a whole article and running debates on a totally unrelated thing is just rediculous.
Here in Switzerland, the online banking system is the same with "scratch-list" or a list of one-time passwords that are used one by one for each access to the online banking service.
Recently, UBS and some other banks have even a better solution. Instead of a paper list that somebody may secretly take a copy of, they give the customers some type of smartcard and a special small calculator-like device to read it. Each time you access the bank's website to do some banking transactions, you enter your user and password, then a number is displayed on the screen. You enter this number in the card-reader holding the smartcard you have, and it returns back a hash value that you enter in the webpage. Now, each user have a unique smartcard and the number that the webpage generates is random so there is practically no way to predict the needed hash value to access the banking record unless you can physically access the smartcard. And needless to say the smartcard has itself a user selectable password that can be changed using the card-reader to protect it against theft. This way, even bank employee can't steal your password and/or scratch-list!
I wouldn't count SpyMac in. There are many reports of too slow operation, long periods of being down etc.
My personal experience? They never sent me any answer when I joined in. I simply filled some forms related to some personal information and then there has never been any answer....
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is not just using the right compiler and right options, but the bechmark codes they use. Just look at this bench mark, are they really C++ codes? Are they the type of the codes that pushes the programmer to use the most advanced techniques?
I for one, use C++ because of Boost, because of Blitz++, because of not having a garbage collection mechanism. Why these benchmarks never use a code to calculate some really challenging processing like a series of operations on large matrixes of complex numbers? Why they don't try benchmark where you have to allocate and free a large number of nodes in a large scale graph traversal and coloring program? Why they don't try to see how ESPRESSO performs in C++ and Java? How about large scale FFTs? Raytracing? Finite elements? JPEG compression and decompression?
You can get any results you wish in comparision of any two languages and implementations as long as you don't write even a single routine of real-world code.
I use a Nokia 6310i and without bluetooth the standby is round 10 days and with bluetooth on, well, I don't see any difference. Usually it works 9 or even the same 10 days with the blutooth. I think it depends on the implementation and with a good implementation the consumption can be controlled like this case.
I agree. Javascript is not always just for beautification, but to add functionality to the web pages. How else would ever John walker could write his Calendar Converter page?
take a look : http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar
I tried to take a look at the source codes in the zip file attached to the article. McAfee blocked the operation too! I had clicked on the view button in winrar to look at the file and it seems that McAfee could even check the temporary file that was made for the viewer.
Far from truth. Recently my wife was thinking of buying a MP3 player and a handheld dictionary. Also she needed a scientific calculator. Btw, she just loves to read classic litrature. OBVIOUSLY, she didn't end up with an iPOD. Instead she bought an iPAQ 1940 with a SD memory card. Now, while the device does all those things in one box, she can browse the web over GPRS by connecting to her mobile phone by bluetooth, do the PIM things and use the Pocket PC for navigation by borowing my bluetooth GPS.
Granted, you can do each one of those things in a better way using a dedicated device, but what if you need to do all of them? And my wife is not the only one who needs and does all those things. I already do that too:)
Since HP got out of the handheld market in their own right and passed the HP name to their new beaux Compaq?
Not entirely true. Actually, it was Compaq who made the iPAQs in the first place, then HP bought Compaq and kept iPAQ name and from 2003 all iPAQs are branded under HP and nothing else.
In 2002 the better Pocket PC had 32-64M of RAM, one or two flash card slots, and a processor between 200 and 400 MHz, with a 320x240 transflective display. In 2004 the Pocket PC has, what, 64M of RAM, 1-2 flash card slots, a processor between 200 and 400 MHz, and a 320x240 transflective display...
Maybe that has a simple explanation: the processor power of the Pocket PCs where already enough! Most of the applications in a Pocket PC really don't need a 3.0GHz processor to run. This is why you see a small differece between the 200MHz and 400MHz PDAs running most of the programs. What people actually need is not a faster processor, but less weight, smaller size, more wireless functionality and lower prices. This has been the things that the companies have been really focusing on. From iPAQ series, you can compare a h3870 to a 1940 model and see the difference in size and form factor WITH added functionality. And 1940 is really a 2003 model. For 2004, we expect to see models using Intel Bulverde 624 MHz processor if you like to go for the faster processors. Also there are already 128MB Pocket PCs in the market and the OS already supports higher resolution screens (Windows Mobile 2003 SE) so VGA resolution (640x480) is bound to hit the market sooner or later. The other interesting advancement in the Pocket PC series was accelerated graphics powered by ATI. All in all, what I see in the Pocket PCs from 2002 till now is a constant growth in functionality and drop in the prices.
Personally I don't have any problem using IE and waiting for the next thing in Longhorn. In fact most websites are already optimized for IE and while most of the users are also using IE, I don't see why new websites would NOT be optimized for IE too. On my machine I have both FireFox and IE but frankly, I don't see any point using FireFox and mostly use IE. At least the sites that I usually visit render equally in both, well, asides those who only render correctly in IE. Personally, I don't care for tabbed-browsing and with google toolbar I have no problem with pop-ups. Interestingly, I like the Outlook 2003 more than others and together they work very well. For someone like me, who has no problem using what he already has, there is no motivation to switch to something else, even if the new software be free. And yes, I browse the web all the day so my experience is not limited to occasional use.
I don't see any of these two features new or non-existant on the PocketPCs.
Some existing PockePC devices already can act as a USB host, but you need a special cable to connect other devices to them.
Also on a PocketPC device you can install the program in the flash memory of the device (e.g. iPAQ files store on an old 3970 is 18MB). I install some critical programs like eWallet in the flash and also put their data files in the flash memory too so if the battery goes flat they'll be safe.
Actually, it is normal people who like swiss knifes more: They download/buy one package to do all things. A developer on the other hand usually tries to get the best tool to do a specific job. For a developer, no one software is the best answer for all questions.
Don't we already have lots of advanced (and open source) tools for things like FTP and editing text files that are much better than Mozilla for those tasks?
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So it's time to switch to a serverless network under an open-source project? You mean something like Kademlia in the eMule?
You're right about this fact that MSN spaces does most of what lots of people need. Lots of people, though, not most of people. The number of blogs in asian/persian/arabic/hindi... languages are so big that the lack of support for internationalization is a big concern. You simply CAN'T do it with current version of MSN spaces, no matter how simple and basic your needs are for a say, Persian weblog (I think now there are round 18,000 Persian weblogs on the net!).
I've just took a look at MSN spaces. It's interface to create the weblog and change its layout is interesting and very easy to use. But my main concern is that it is very limiting. You can't edit the template in the way you can do it like in Blogger (which is now owned by Google). In blogger you can edit the HTML file that is the template of your weblog and this gives you the control on EVERYTHING but in MSN spaces you can just play with the layout of predefined "module" but can't really change the code behind. Also, it seems the total space allocated to each weblog is very small (10MB). Plase notice that it also includes the space for the photos and "music" so you can imagine you can't expect much from it. The other problem is that there is no support for internationalization: you can't create a chines, korean, arabic, persian... blog! You can't change the stylesheets to support RTL paragraphs etc. All in all, it's nice, but very limited. It's like comparing the notepad to Ultra-Edit....
... VGA has only 16 colors in 640x480. It could only show 256 colors in the 320x200. Comparing it to what most PDAs do now, it seems that getting 64K colors in 320x200 is already beyound what VGA did!
Memory chips can get really hot! I have a Athlon 2800+ system at home and I use 2 modules of 512MB Kingston HyperX SDRAM (yeah, those that come with a stylish blue heatsink) in it. Recently, I measured the temperature of various system components and was quite surprized that the hottest parts under heavey loads where actually these SDRAM modules! With a 2,2,2,5 timing I could measure 57C!
I don't understand what you are talking about. VC-9's details are already available. Take a look at http://www.mpegla.com/pid/vc9/.
When games announce the minimum requirements, they usually just mean a system that can just run the program but not they don't mean you can actually enjoy playing the game on such a machine. For example, Unreal Tournament 2004 minimum requirement is 256MB RAM but in practice, below 1GB you'll face paging that would slowdown the game every now and then. Now, 386MB for the minimum? That's in fact a huge requirement and I know of no other game with such a minimum requirements. If the guideline is 4 times the memory of the minimum system, that means you need something like 1.5GB RAM for a an acceptable gaming experience.
OK, no problem. Add the "proficiency" to the list of the complaints againt Maths Olympiads. It does not change my argument that the important question here is not if Maths is a sport or not, but how a Maths (or physics or anything) Olympiad can help kids.
I don't think the right question is about math being a sport. No body has claimed that. The name of this competition is just simply math olympiad. It is a competition on math proficiency of the high-school level kids. Now, you may argue that such a competition is not really helping maths, or it is can't really help kids getting more interested in maths or anything but just sticking to a word in a whole article and running debates on a totally unrelated thing is just rediculous.
Here in Switzerland, the online banking system is the same with "scratch-list" or a list of one-time passwords that are used one by one for each access to the online banking service. Recently, UBS and some other banks have even a better solution. Instead of a paper list that somebody may secretly take a copy of, they give the customers some type of smartcard and a special small calculator-like device to read it. Each time you access the bank's website to do some banking transactions, you enter your user and password, then a number is displayed on the screen. You enter this number in the card-reader holding the smartcard you have, and it returns back a hash value that you enter in the webpage. Now, each user have a unique smartcard and the number that the webpage generates is random so there is practically no way to predict the needed hash value to access the banking record unless you can physically access the smartcard. And needless to say the smartcard has itself a user selectable password that can be changed using the card-reader to protect it against theft. This way, even bank employee can't steal your password and/or scratch-list!
I wouldn't count SpyMac in. There are many reports of too slow operation, long periods of being down etc. My personal experience? They never sent me any answer when I joined in. I simply filled some forms related to some personal information and then there has never been any answer....
is not just using the right compiler and right options, but the bechmark codes they use. Just look at this bench mark, are they really C++ codes? Are they the type of the codes that pushes the programmer to use the most advanced techniques? I for one, use C++ because of Boost, because of Blitz++, because of not having a garbage collection mechanism. Why these benchmarks never use a code to calculate some really challenging processing like a series of operations on large matrixes of complex numbers? Why they don't try benchmark where you have to allocate and free a large number of nodes in a large scale graph traversal and coloring program? Why they don't try to see how ESPRESSO performs in C++ and Java? How about large scale FFTs? Raytracing? Finite elements? JPEG compression and decompression? You can get any results you wish in comparision of any two languages and implementations as long as you don't write even a single routine of real-world code.
I use a Nokia 6310i and without bluetooth the standby is round 10 days and with bluetooth on, well, I don't see any difference. Usually it works 9 or even the same 10 days with the blutooth. I think it depends on the implementation and with a good implementation the consumption can be controlled like this case.
I agree. Javascript is not always just for beautification, but to add functionality to the web pages. How else would ever John walker could write his Calendar Converter page? take a look : http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar
I have just checked the demonstration page too. McAffee also blocks it and gives you a warning about a torjan being run.
I tried to take a look at the source codes in the zip file attached to the article. McAfee blocked the operation too! I had clicked on the view button in winrar to look at the file and it seems that McAfee could even check the temporary file that was made for the viewer.
without a stored program, it is called a calculator, not a computer brother.
Far from truth. Recently my wife was thinking of buying a MP3 player and a handheld dictionary. Also she needed a scientific calculator. Btw, she just loves to read classic litrature. OBVIOUSLY, she didn't end up with an iPOD. Instead she bought an iPAQ 1940 with a SD memory card. Now, while the device does all those things in one box, she can browse the web over GPRS by connecting to her mobile phone by bluetooth, do the PIM things and use the Pocket PC for navigation by borowing my bluetooth GPS. Granted, you can do each one of those things in a better way using a dedicated device, but what if you need to do all of them? And my wife is not the only one who needs and does all those things. I already do that too :)
Personally I don't have any problem using IE and waiting for the next thing in Longhorn. In fact most websites are already optimized for IE and while most of the users are also using IE, I don't see why new websites would NOT be optimized for IE too. On my machine I have both FireFox and IE but frankly, I don't see any point using FireFox and mostly use IE. At least the sites that I usually visit render equally in both, well, asides those who only render correctly in IE. Personally, I don't care for tabbed-browsing and with google toolbar I have no problem with pop-ups. Interestingly, I like the Outlook 2003 more than others and together they work very well. For someone like me, who has no problem using what he already has, there is no motivation to switch to something else, even if the new software be free. And yes, I browse the web all the day so my experience is not limited to occasional use.
I don't see any of these two features new or non-existant on the PocketPCs. Some existing PockePC devices already can act as a USB host, but you need a special cable to connect other devices to them. Also on a PocketPC device you can install the program in the flash memory of the device (e.g. iPAQ files store on an old 3970 is 18MB). I install some critical programs like eWallet in the flash and also put their data files in the flash memory too so if the battery goes flat they'll be safe.