to find out how many mb of data people write on paper per year. I suppose you'd have to take a sample of about 10000 people, then enter all the things they write in a year into some handwriting recognition program. Of course it'd take less time than normal handwriting recognition because the program would only have to scan for the number of letters, rather than what the letters actually were.
The laptop/tablet combination is really a neat idea. You have a keyboard with a touchpad or nipple for mouse movement, but also a touch screen and stylus. The LCD rotates 180 degrees so you can have it in a laptop form factor (LCD and keyboard at 90 degrees), or in a tablet form (like a closed laptop, but with the LCD screen facing outwards). That way, you can carry it around like a notepad and write on it in tablet form, but then sit down, swing it around into a laptop, and use it for typing in a meeting. Wow, thanks! I didn't know what the laptop/tablet combination did already. You see I'm blind, and couldn't look at the pictures. I've been thinking about selling my current laptop and buying a tablet to replace it So, you've got a perfectly good laptop now, and instead of just buying a notepad, you're going to buy a combination of the two? prices need to come down a bit more before I do that. You're waiting to buy something that contains half of what you have already, when you could (probably) buy a notepad right now? Well, if it's what you want I can't stop you, but I think it might be a good idea to reconsider...
so you get a Laptop and a Tablet wrapped up into one That's a bad thing. People either want a Tablet or a Laptop or a Tablet and a seperate laptop, a mixture of the two just means missing out on the convenience of both.
it still provides a good search engine with no ads it can't become another Netscape. If it becomes too bloated on the main search engine page it'll still be a good search engine. However, if they change the search engine code so much that it no longer functions efficiently and smoothly without problems (the way it does now), it may become a failure.
A few years ago people actually got crushed by tanks for demonstrating against the Chinese government? Actually, there's no evidence to back up what happened to that student, although he may possibly have been killed.
...however if Linux was a little easier to use they wouldn't be necessary. I know it's getting more user friendly, especially with stuff like Red Hat, but it's still got a long way to go.
If an OS was properley secure there shouldn't be as many security updates as there is. Of course if there's a need for updates bringing out the updates quickly and making them effective is a necessity, but if the OS is in development for longer possibly those updates might not have had to excist in the first place.
how come on 364 days a year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers and certainly not to take sweets from them, but on one day of the year we actively encourage it? Such is our modern society.
MSN is being split into two subdivisions First Microsoft was forced to split itself into 2 divisions, now they are actively doing it themselves. Maybe they've decided that more divisions is better for the company as a whole?
are always parodying things. They often parody Fox themselves, but do they sue? No. I can understand Fox News being annoyed at this, but to take such strong action as to sue them is a bit over the top. I might recommend Fox News to tell The Simpsons to get rid of all copies of the episode and to never have it shown, at the most.
Time for every single developer who has contributed code to the kernel to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO. A better idea might be to get together a petition, sending it to SCO telling them to stop this. If they fail to comply, the petition could be used as evidence in court against SCO, strengthing the cause of the open source community.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it is working through ECMA International, the Geneva-based standards organization, to push the development of a standard set of language extensions that will create a binding between the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard C++ programming language and Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
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Microsoft and ECMA officials said with a standard binding for C++ and the CLI developers will be better able to take advantage of the.Net platform and key features of the CLI. The binding will open developers up to more modern features, such as garbage collection and security.
Herb Sutter, Microsoft program manager and convener of the ISO C++ standards committee, said C++ is the most widely used cross-platform, vendor-neutral programming language, based on studies and job listings.
The CLI is a runtime environment that supports multiple languages and provides support for many of the modern features Microsoft wants to extend to C++ developers, including garbage collection, generics and others. ECMA already has standardized the CLI as well as Microsoft's C# language.
Sutter said Microsoft ships a set of extensions to C++ that enable.Net development for programmers, but there is a need for more support and a need for a standard.
"I'm an architect responsible for leading the team to make C++ work better with.Net," Sutter said. "To us, C++ is a very important language and we want it to be complete."
"C++ is the language most of our customers are using to write code today for Windows," Sutter added. "It's a very strong and mature language and it's widely used internally, inside Microsoft. And because C++ is so strategic we need to make sure we deliver on the promises [of.Net] so that you can write well for the platform with all the languages [supported by the Common Language Runtime]."
Sutter added that Microsoft has not done as good a job on managed C++ "as we felt we ought to."
Meanwhile, ECMA last week launched a new task group, known as TG5, in its programming language technical committee to oversee the development of the C++ binding. Sutter said the group will have its first meeting at the beginning of December, and he expects to have all the technical work for the standard completed by next September and a standard by the end of 2004. Microsoft, along with Dinkumware Ltd. and Edison Design Group Inc. developed a draft of the standard.
JP LeBlanc, vice president and general manager of the mobile and C++ solutions group at Borland Software Corp., Scotts Valley, Calif., said, Borland is very supportive of Microsoft's effort to push a C++ CLI binding standard through ECMA.
"We are a big believer in standards and by Microsoft taking this step it will help us better support their platform for C++ developers," LeBlanc said. "The significance for C++ developers is big. A huge problem of C++ on Windows in the past has not only been conformance to the C++ language specification but also binary compatibility and interoperability between the compilers and their associated C++ runtime environments."
However, LeBlanc said: "This standard needs to be explicit and complete so that Borland, a leading C++ solutions company, and other C++ technology vendors, can deliver a fully compatible and interoperable development environment to Microsoft's offering to developers. In addition, the specification must continue to support source code portability of C++ applications to platforms other than Microsoft's Windows [.NET platform]."
"CLI was designed to be a platform to support many different programming languages. But sometimes people have the impression that C# is the 'preferred' or 'best' language for programming on a CLI platform," said Thomas Plum, a C++ developer and vice president of technology and engineering at Plum Hall Inc. of Kamuela, Hawaii. The significance of [the ECMA standard] to C++ programmers is that it shows a commitment by Microsoft, and serious interest by other companies, in making C++ a first-class language for building applications on the CLI C++ platform."
Microsoft possible buying Google in this week's Guardian. I think this would be a terrible thing, as Google is an excellent service, and if Microsoft got hold of it it would almost complete their monopoly on such things, completely eliminating their only real competitor.
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to find out how many mb of data people write on paper per year. I suppose you'd have to take a sample of about 10000 people, then enter all the things they write in a year into some handwriting recognition program. Of course it'd take less time than normal handwriting recognition because the program would only have to scan for the number of letters, rather than what the letters actually were.
with almost any flat surface, with this litte device, and it's significantly cheaper, at $26.99
This is THE most interesting thing I have ever read, thankyou for bringing it to my attention. I'm in your debt.
What overclocks better - 2500+ bartons or 2600+ and why?
It appears I was wrong! From Netcraft:
OS: Solaris Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) PHP/4.3.1 mod_perl/1.27
sites getting slashdotted already, looks like they were using an OpenBSD server.
You'd get killer awesome battery life too
Radical, dude.
The laptop/tablet combination is really a neat idea. You have a keyboard with a touchpad or nipple for mouse movement, but also a touch screen and stylus. The LCD rotates 180 degrees so you can have it in a laptop form factor (LCD and keyboard at 90 degrees), or in a tablet form (like a closed laptop, but with the LCD screen facing outwards). That way, you can carry it around like a notepad and write on it in tablet form, but then sit down, swing it around into a laptop, and use it for typing in a meeting.
Wow, thanks! I didn't know what the laptop/tablet combination did already. You see I'm blind, and couldn't look at the pictures.
I've been thinking about selling my current laptop and buying a tablet to replace it
So, you've got a perfectly good laptop now, and instead of just buying a notepad, you're going to buy a combination of the two?
prices need to come down a bit more before I do that.
You're waiting to buy something that contains half of what you have already, when you could (probably) buy a notepad right now? Well, if it's what you want I can't stop you, but I think it might be a good idea to reconsider...
so you get a Laptop and a Tablet wrapped up into one
That's a bad thing. People either want a Tablet or a Laptop or a Tablet and a seperate laptop, a mixture of the two just means missing out on the convenience of both.
it still provides a good search engine with no ads it can't become another Netscape. If it becomes too bloated on the main search engine page it'll still be a good search engine. However, if they change the search engine code so much that it no longer functions efficiently and smoothly without problems (the way it does now), it may become a failure.
A few years ago people actually got crushed by tanks for demonstrating against the Chinese government?
Actually, there's no evidence to back up what happened to that student, although he may possibly have been killed.
to 1984.
Nice link... ... doofus
It was a type, correct link here
...however if Linux was a little easier to use they wouldn't be necessary. I know it's getting more user friendly, especially with stuff like Red Hat, but it's still got a long way to go.
If an OS was properley secure there shouldn't be as many security updates as there is. Of course if there's a need for updates bringing out the updates quickly and making them effective is a necessity, but if the OS is in development for longer possibly those updates might not have had to excist in the first place.
You think carving an Apple into a pumpkin is hard? Try carving a pumpkin into an Apple.
how come on 364 days a year we tell our kids not to talk to strangers and certainly not to take sweets from them, but on one day of the year we actively encourage it? Such is our modern society.
MSN is being split into two subdivisions
First Microsoft was forced to split itself into 2 divisions, now they are actively doing it themselves. Maybe they've decided that more divisions is better for the company as a whole?
I was suprised to not see this, but here's a link to Dr Tatiana's Website.
She clearly changed her name to garner sales. :)
What do you mean, 'she'?
This is Slashdot, the only problems with people's sex life here is that they don't have one.
are always parodying things. They often parody Fox themselves, but do they sue? No. I can understand Fox News being annoyed at this, but to take such strong action as to sue them is a bit over the top. I might recommend Fox News to tell The Simpsons to get rid of all copies of the episode and to never have it shown, at the most.
Time for every single developer who has contributed code to the kernel to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO.
A better idea might be to get together a petition, sending it to SCO telling them to stop this. If they fail to comply, the petition could be used as evidence in court against SCO, strengthing the cause of the open source community.
The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant said it is working through ECMA International, the Geneva-based standards organization, to push the development of a standard set of language extensions that will create a binding between the International Standards Organization (ISO) standard C++ programming language and Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure (CLI).
.Net platform and key features of the CLI. The binding will open developers up to more modern features, such as garbage collection and security.
.Net development for programmers, but there is a need for more support and a need for a standard.
.Net," Sutter said. "To us, C++ is a very important language and we want it to be complete."
.Net] so that you can write well for the platform with all the languages [supported by the Common Language Runtime]."
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Microsoft and ECMA officials said with a standard binding for C++ and the CLI developers will be better able to take advantage of the
Herb Sutter, Microsoft program manager and convener of the ISO C++ standards committee, said C++ is the most widely used cross-platform, vendor-neutral programming language, based on studies and job listings.
The CLI is a runtime environment that supports multiple languages and provides support for many of the modern features Microsoft wants to extend to C++ developers, including garbage collection, generics and others. ECMA already has standardized the CLI as well as Microsoft's C# language.
Sutter said Microsoft ships a set of extensions to C++ that enable
"I'm an architect responsible for leading the team to make C++ work better with
"C++ is the language most of our customers are using to write code today for Windows," Sutter added. "It's a very strong and mature language and it's widely used internally, inside Microsoft. And because C++ is so strategic we need to make sure we deliver on the promises [of
Sutter added that Microsoft has not done as good a job on managed C++ "as we felt we ought to."
Meanwhile, ECMA last week launched a new task group, known as TG5, in its programming language technical committee to oversee the development of the C++ binding. Sutter said the group will have its first meeting at the beginning of December, and he expects to have all the technical work for the standard completed by next September and a standard by the end of 2004. Microsoft, along with Dinkumware Ltd. and Edison Design Group Inc. developed a draft of the standard.
JP LeBlanc, vice president and general manager of the mobile and C++ solutions group at Borland Software Corp., Scotts Valley, Calif., said, Borland is very supportive of Microsoft's effort to push a C++ CLI binding standard through ECMA.
"We are a big believer in standards and by Microsoft taking this step it will help us better support their platform for C++ developers," LeBlanc said. "The significance for C++ developers is big. A huge problem of C++ on Windows in the past has not only been conformance to the C++ language specification but also binary compatibility and interoperability between the compilers and their associated C++ runtime environments."
However, LeBlanc said: "This standard needs to be explicit and complete so that Borland, a leading C++ solutions company, and other C++ technology vendors, can deliver a fully compatible and interoperable development environment to Microsoft's offering to developers. In addition, the specification must continue to support source code portability of C++ applications to platforms other than Microsoft's Windows [.NET platform]."
"CLI was designed to be a platform to support many different programming languages. But sometimes people have the impression that C# is the 'preferred' or 'best' language for programming on a CLI platform," said Thomas Plum, a C++ developer and vice president of technology and engineering at Plum Hall Inc. of Kamuela, Hawaii. The significance of [the ECMA standard] to C++ programmers is that it shows a commitment by Microsoft, and serious interest by other companies, in making C++ a first-class language for building applications on the CLI C++ platform."
Microsoft possible buying Google in this week's Guardian. I think this would be a terrible thing, as Google is an excellent service, and if Microsoft got hold of it it would almost complete their monopoly on such things, completely eliminating their only real competitor.