"Last year's winner, Theo de Raadt, was recognized for his work as founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. Theo joined a prestigious list of previous winners including Alan Cox, Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall."
Oh yeah, those bad libraries with descriptive function-names! Too many of them.. Or is it not enough? Wow, I'm just too confuzzled for all this thinking.
Yeah, but, iirc, that Tiers Monde thing was pun-ish too, since the poorer strata of Parisian society were also called the tiers monde (yeah, the US isn't the only one with World-envy;).
So basically, what you're saying are cons are actually pros. You just increased the granularity of the process. The total (unstacked) area of the chips will be relatively the same whether they're laid out flat or stacked, so the odds of the chip having no error in it are the same. However, whereas with current technology, the whole chip would have to be thrown out, in a stacked chip, only the bad layer would have to be remade. This assumes that it is possible to test layers separately. If it is possible, it would be possible to decide whether it would be worth it to remake a layer or not, or even stock layers before assembling them, in order to reduce the number of good chips made useless by bad ones.
If it is too complex/expensive to test separate layers (or separate groups of layers), the yields are still not worse than with a single layer chip of the same surface area.
Who cares about what'll be coming in n (for large values of n, probably since the PowerMac line was very recently updated) months? The box is good and the current software offering fits your needs. What more do you need? In other words, if the box isn't currently lacking, go for it, and give the finger to the upgrade threadmill.
Hey, guess what? That data you received from slashdot.org? It was redistributed by a dozen of boxes. Worse! It might even have been redistributed more than once, to multiple targets!
I guess those people calling for an Internet license might be on to something...
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Evolution at a higher level than genotype ("culture", in a way, although that seems far-fetched for ants:), or through mutation, for example. Sexual reproduction mostly allows to recombine existing genes in a new way. What I'm wondering about is how the different colonies can make the difference between themselves and sister colonies.
One night, there're sin, tan and cos together around a campfire, while e^x is all by himself. When someone asks him why he isn't wit the other, e^x says: "I tried to integrate myself, but nothing ever happens."
Have you looked to see exactly what the license is for a demo? It's free. As for the ATOMIK layout, lots of tap keyboards on the palm let the user specify layouts. In fact, you'll discover that the layout is specified in XML for SHARK. Just put the support in for polygons and arbitrary tapboard image, the rest will come.
Sorta like a radial cqntext menu. It has a dictionary, and learns which words are common from you... and gives you the next letter for various words in a radial context menu. Depending on how fast it can generate the menus, you could muscle-memorize words. It could potentially be faster than traditional keyboards."
Mm.. A bit like http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ ? I guess you could at least crib the predictive part of the engine. The problem I see with that is that it makes planning impossible, and, from my experience, that's how our muscle memorizes stuff: by going through sequences of movements very quickly and repetitively. Going drag - hunt - drag, etc likely won't make learning as fast. Modes and dynamism can be annoying
Residents learn to use them this way. It is simply much more faster for them to look interactions and dosages in a Palm than in an incomplete handbook. Being faster than the other students when quizzed -> cookies;) It's not an addiction, it's simply becoming using the tools to become more efficient.
Big Blue has spent R&D money thinking about this for us:)
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/atomik is a layout for tapping. I used it on my m105, and it's pretty good. Definitely better than graffiti if you're standing still and don,t haveto pay attention to your surroundings, and somewhat better than qwerty or alphabetic (I used paper overlays on the graffiti area).
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sharktext uses the same layout in an ingenious way, where you trace a line between the letters of the word. You quickly remember the shape of frequent words, and it works surprisingly well (I'm using the java demo almost as often as the built-in TIP on my tablet PC).
Gee. I never knew I only got 2 hours out of my tablet... I guess it might be the exchange rate and all.
Seriously, I get 3-4.5 hours from my tablet, depending on wifi use and whether I record the lecture or not, double that with an external battery (I leave it to recharge in my backpack, with the zipper open). And I just checked, my M200 would now be around 1500 USD. For a powerful (P-M 1.5-2.0 GHz) 12" with a 1400x1050 screen and a discrete graphic accelerator, I don't think it's that bad. If you want to go as cheap as possible, the Averatec tablet starts at less than 1k USD.
Actually, no. They're searchable even when not converted. You know, like, the search tool also does the HWR on the fly? Bringing a laptop in a meeting is distracting: not only is there an additional barrier between you and the other people (visual contact IS important, even in this age), but the noise of the keyboard rapidly get annoying (and I feel sorry for you if your keyboard isn't even slightly clicky:p). My TPC (the M200), otoh, lets me take notes anywhere on presentations, just like on paper, AND both the notes and the presentation will be searchable. I never have to leave my typing mode to select where I want my notes to go with a keyboard, etc. Most of the people I know in college (DDS... I guess health can be different from engineering on several aspects) who have bought laptops never knew that tablets existed, and, had they known, there usually would have been one of comparable performance available (the Averatec is surprisingly cheap, but that's understandable since it's Averatec)... This is very much a problem of publicity.
Re the quality of the HWR, try Win XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 (AKA XP TPC w/ SP2). The TIP and the way to interface with it have changed a lot, and so has the HWR engine. And it gets better with time, the engines requires you to change your writing method a bit sometimes (to what they should have been had we not all decided that calligraphy was BS back in grade school;).
As a Cambodian, I beg to differ. The Khmer Rouges' admitted goal was to drastically (by approximately 80%) reduce the population of the country, under the pretext that the land couldn't support that many people. Cambodia is a very fertile place. I've gone back there, and while there are many poor people, I'd say that very few are actually dying of malnutrition. The reign of the Khmer Rouges was the theater of one of the worst cases of/auto-genocide/ in history, and we can only be happy that someone had the guts to come in to try and stop the insanity.
I guess you would have cheered after Briand & Kellog if you'd been there at the time.
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"Last year's winner, Theo de Raadt, was recognized for his work as founder and project leader of the OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects. Theo joined a prestigious list of previous winners including Alan Cox, Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall."
Oh yeah, those bad libraries with descriptive function-names! Too many of them.. Or is it not enough? Wow, I'm just too confuzzled for all this thinking.
Yeah, but, iirc, that Tiers Monde thing was pun-ish too, since the poorer strata of Parisian society were also called the tiers monde (yeah, the US isn't the only one with World-envy ;).
So basically, what you're saying are cons are actually pros. You just increased the granularity of the process. The total (unstacked) area of the chips will be relatively the same whether they're laid out flat or stacked, so the odds of the chip having no error in it are the same. However, whereas with current technology, the whole chip would have to be thrown out, in a stacked chip, only the bad layer would have to be remade. This assumes that it is possible to test layers separately. If it is possible, it would be possible to decide whether it would be worth it to remake a layer or not, or even stock layers before assembling them, in order to reduce the number of good chips made useless by bad ones.
If it is too complex/expensive to test separate layers (or separate groups of layers), the yields are still not worse than with a single layer chip of the same surface area.
Who cares about what'll be coming in n (for large values of n, probably since the PowerMac line was very recently updated) months? The box is good and the current software offering fits your needs. What more do you need? In other words, if the box isn't currently lacking, go for it, and give the finger to the upgrade threadmill.
Hey, guess what? That data you received from slashdot.org? It was redistributed by a dozen of boxes. Worse! It might even have been redistributed more than once, to multiple targets!
I guess those people calling for an Internet license might be on to something...
nt
Evolution at a higher level than genotype ("culture", in a way, although that seems far-fetched for ants :), or through mutation, for example. Sexual reproduction mostly allows to recombine existing genes in a new way. What I'm wondering about is how the different colonies can make the difference between themselves and sister colonies.
EMACS+TTS (festival, emacspeak, who knows?). Emacs is incredibly scriptable, has a shell, multiple buffers, etc. No need for new full-blown app :)
Wow. How does your opinion that the author is a bigoted hack preclude the possibility of said author's work being "great"?
I believe you meant to write K.
Bah, it was better with cheerleaders, as a way to sort engineers from mathematicians :)
One night, there're sin, tan and cos together around a campfire, while e^x is all by himself. When someone asks him why he isn't wit the other, e^x says: "I tried to integrate myself, but nothing ever happens."
Probably figuring how to make Johnny Charest win the next elections...
Let's see. X - Thin Client.
Foot - Mouth?
Have you looked to see exactly what the license is for a demo? It's free. As for the ATOMIK layout, lots of tap keyboards on the palm let the user specify layouts. In fact, you'll discover that the layout is specified in XML for SHARK. Just put the support in for polygons and arbitrary tapboard image, the rest will come.
Quoting the AC:
:)
" how about an adaptive keyboard?
Sorta like a radial cqntext menu. It has a dictionary, and learns which words are common from you... and gives you the next letter for various words in a radial context menu. Depending on how fast it can generate the menus, you could muscle-memorize words. It could potentially be faster than traditional keyboards."
Mm.. A bit like http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ ? I guess you could at least crib the predictive part of the engine. The problem I see with that is that it makes planning impossible, and, from my experience, that's how our muscle memorizes stuff: by going through sequences of movements very quickly and repetitively. Going drag - hunt - drag, etc likely won't make learning as fast. Modes and dynamism can be annoying
Yeah, I'm an input device nerd
Residents learn to use them this way. It is simply much more faster for them to look interactions and dosages in a Palm than in an incomplete handbook. Being faster than the other students when quizzed -> cookies ;) It's not an addiction, it's simply becoming using the tools to become more efficient.
Big Blue has spent R&D money thinking about this for us :)
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/atomik is a layout for tapping. I used it on my m105, and it's pretty good. Definitely better than graffiti if you're standing still and don,t haveto pay attention to your surroundings, and somewhat better than qwerty or alphabetic (I used paper overlays on the graffiti area).
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/sharktext uses the same layout in an ingenious way, where you trace a line between the letters of the word. You quickly remember the shape of frequent words, and it works surprisingly well (I'm using the java demo almost as often as the built-in TIP on my tablet PC).
This is a democracy, dammit. (a bad one, but still one)
Gee, guess what? Lithography is still used in art.
Let me guess... In SINGLE precision? I'd be more precise in my claims if I were you.
Gee. I never knew I only got 2 hours out of my tablet... I guess it might be the exchange rate and all.
Seriously, I get 3-4.5 hours from my tablet, depending on wifi use and whether I record the lecture or not, double that with an external battery (I leave it to recharge in my backpack, with the zipper open). And I just checked, my M200 would now be around 1500 USD. For a powerful (P-M 1.5-2.0 GHz) 12" with a 1400x1050 screen and a discrete graphic accelerator, I don't think it's that bad. If you want to go as cheap as possible, the Averatec tablet starts at less than 1k USD.
Actually, no. They're searchable even when not converted. You know, like, the search tool also does the HWR on the fly? Bringing a laptop in a meeting is distracting: not only is there an additional barrier between you and the other people (visual contact IS important, even in this age), but the noise of the keyboard rapidly get annoying (and I feel sorry for you if your keyboard isn't even slightly clicky :p). My TPC (the M200), otoh, lets me take notes anywhere on presentations, just like on paper, AND both the notes and the presentation will be searchable. I never have to leave my typing mode to select where I want my notes to go with a keyboard, etc. Most of the people I know in college (DDS... I guess health can be different from engineering on several aspects) who have bought laptops never knew that tablets existed, and, had they known, there usually would have been one of comparable performance available (the Averatec is surprisingly cheap, but that's understandable since it's Averatec)... This is very much a problem of publicity.
;).
Re the quality of the HWR, try Win XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 (AKA XP TPC w/ SP2). The TIP and the way to interface with it have changed a lot, and so has the HWR engine. And it gets better with time, the engines requires you to change your writing method a bit sometimes (to what they should have been had we not all decided that calligraphy was BS back in grade school
As a Cambodian, I beg to differ. The Khmer Rouges' admitted goal was to drastically (by approximately 80%) reduce the population of the country, under the pretext that the land couldn't support that many people. Cambodia is a very fertile place. I've gone back there, and while there are many poor people, I'd say that very few are actually dying of malnutrition. The reign of the Khmer Rouges was the theater of one of the worst cases of /auto-genocide/ in history, and we can only be happy that someone had the guts to come in to try and stop the insanity.
I guess you would have cheered after Briand & Kellog if you'd been there at the time.