I don't know about you, but I'll rather be keeping my win98 systems safely protected behind nat and a strict firewall than trusting some stranger offering me unofficial service packs.
Really, why bother, the dedicated calculator is dead. Just install EasyCalc
and EasyStat which can do some pretty neat stuff
for your Palm and you're all set.
My Tungsten T3 has a 144Mhz ARM CPU, which is loads faster than anything dedicated calculators can offer
and has a beautiful 320x480 16bit tft.
Plus there are loads of software for Palms that can do statistics, etc..
Too bad HP can't see it. Or maybe they can and they want to rip you off? After all, if you buy a Palm, all you
have to do it upgrade your software to get new features. With this, you need to buy a new calc.
Really, why bother, the dedicated calculator is dead. Just install EasyCalc
and EasyStat which can do some pretty neat stuff
for your Palm and you're all set.
My Tungsten T3 has a 144Mhz ARM CPU, which is loads faster than anything dedicated calculators can offer
and has a beautiful 320x480 16bit tft.
Plus there are loads of software for Palms that can do statistics, etc..
Too bad HP can't see it. Or maybe they can and they want to rip you off? After all, if you buy a Palm, all you
have to do it upgrade your software to get new features. With this, you need to buy a new calc.
Talk about a rip-off if I ever saw one.
somewhat misleading..
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Hardware Hacking
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· Score: 0, Flamebait
You do not need to be an electrical engineer to understand how computer hardware works
I'm sorry, but that's just bull. Sure, you may attain some elementary level knowledge about hardware
without a good solid educational foundation (some-thing on the level of Tom's Hardware), but you will
never understand the low-level functions, optimizations and important design decisions without it.
Come on, I know you're trying to sell a book here, but lets not openly lie (like some).
C++ is being phased out by Java, C# and various scripting languages anyway, because they're safe and speed usually doesn't matter if you're just trying to get some non-time-critical work done. If I had a penny everytime C++ was used for string manipulation which could have been done in perl 100 times faster and more secure, I'd be a rich man right now.
I guess that's the schools fault though, not teaching kids to use the right tool for the job.
Of course, C++ is here to stay, but eventually the only place where it'll be used is going to be games, system programming and embedded applications (but even here, Java is starting to turn up, which imo is a mistake.)
Terms of service are displayed so that the provider can discontinue the service to that particular client if he breaks them, it's never used to sue anyone. He didn't seem to hurt their website significantly (after all, it was months before they noticed it?) so there's nothing illegal in that.
OTOH, if he signed (and not just viewed or clicked on a button), a confidentiality agreement, then he's fucked.
I have done a little review of my own and wasnt impressed with GNOME 2.5-dev, not that it lacked anything, it is more that it had TOO MUCH of everything. AA fonts, sounds effects pretty menus and icons, window shading and whatnot do not make a productive work environment. I mean, this is unix we are talking about, bring on the lightweight tools that run on a P100, gnome 1.x sort of had it right, but with the switch to GTK2 everything has done down the drain, well, sort of. I guess it is nice if you have a P4 and a gig of ram, but not everyone does.
OTOH, I like the new file selector. One day it will be as good as the KDE one.
... than just free software. After all, there are a number of products which are in a way free but you have to pay for them (winex, mozilla, openoffice,...). they not only present a viable business solution, but also show that open source can be profitable and fits well into the america corporational paradigm.
The issues here are too complex for one to argue either for or against IP laws. The simple matter of fact is that it
does benefit some businesses and it hurts others. I could find cases of both and this kind of arguing over if it is really
fruitless and only serves to deepen the pockets of the media which distributes such articles.
imo the KDE people should take a step back and see what they're doing. all those pretty menus and shiny lights and a multitude of buttons and applets. neat, but useless. instead of new features (which KDE has enough already) they should focus more on the interface and how to make it more efficient.
Those who know how to use open source software are already using it, so I don't see what kind of oppurtunities you're talking about
Too early to tell
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Brine on Mars?
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· Score: -1, Redundant
to conclusions based upon early data before the rover has even "hit the road." We'll be getting more and better data.
As an example. One of my geology profs was studying an outcropping of calcium-rich meta-igneous rock (meta basalt). He kept finding a mix of calcium oxalate minerals on the surface of the rock in numerous places, but couldn't understand how they would be a weathering product. Oxalate minerals are unusual in nature.
Then it dawned on him. Oxalates are common in kidney stones. He bought a live trap and captured several wild rats. Then he kept them in a lab and realized they like to urinate in the same place. What appeared to be a strange chemical weathering reaction was actually just evaporated rat urine.
Point is, first impressions may be incorrect and additional data and study leads to more accurate conclusions. Sometimes those later conclusions are more interesting (or comical) than the original hypothesis.
The permanent Martian ice caps are just that, water ice. They expand and shrink seasonally, with much of the winter increase being CO2 ("dry") ice. In the Martian summers the poles are too warm for CO2 ice, in the Martian winters, too cold for some of the atmospheric CO2 not to freeze out. (So yes, at any given time, one pole is mostly water ice, the other mostly (covered with) dry ice -- except in spring and fall when the CO2 is changing poles -- which is also when you tend to get planetary dust storms. Imagine that.)
This has been more or less known since some astronomer first pointed a spectrometer at Mars, and largely confirmed by subsequent observation and exploration.
The only real discussion is the percentages of same, and how much (if any) water or water ice is in the soil further from the poles.
He's one of very few to be designated a Science Fiction Grand Master, he's the author of the classic novels Childhood's End and Rendezvous With Rama, and he first created the popular axiom "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magick."
Um no, that was Asimov. Clarke coined the term "Violence is the last refuse of the incompetent"
The key task of the FCC should be to unwrite old rules and write a few new rules so as to create clear incentives for existing network operators and service providers to build a Big Broadband network. Regulation negatively influences Big Broadband business plans. Currently federal and state regulation causes consumers and taxpayers
to pay staggering sums to sustain old networks when much less money could pay for the same services plus additional services and also for
the cost of building Big Broadband to every home and business.
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Can you trust him?
I don't know about you, but I'll rather be keeping my win98 systems safely protected behind nat and a strict firewall than trusting some stranger offering me unofficial service packs.
Really, why bother, the dedicated calculator is dead. Just install EasyCalc and EasyStat which can do some pretty neat stuff for your Palm and you're all set. My Tungsten T3 has a 144Mhz ARM CPU, which is loads faster than anything dedicated calculators can offer and has a beautiful 320x480 16bit tft.
Plus there are loads of software for Palms that can do statistics, etc..
Too bad HP can't see it. Or maybe they can and they want to rip you off? After all, if you buy a Palm, all you have to do it upgrade your software to get new features. With this, you need to buy a new calc.
Talk about a rip-off if I ever saw one.
Really, why bother, the dedicated calculator is dead. Just install EasyCalc and EasyStat which can do some pretty neat stuff for your Palm and you're all set. My Tungsten T3 has a 144Mhz ARM CPU, which is loads faster than anything dedicated calculators can offer and has a beautiful 320x480 16bit tft.
Plus there are loads of software for Palms that can do statistics, etc..
Too bad HP can't see it. Or maybe they can and they want to rip you off? After all, if you buy a Palm, all you have to do it upgrade your software to get new features. With this, you need to buy a new calc.
Talk about a rip-off if I ever saw one.
You do not need to be an electrical engineer to understand how computer hardware works
I'm sorry, but that's just bull. Sure, you may attain some elementary level knowledge about hardware without a good solid educational foundation (some-thing on the level of Tom's Hardware), but you will never understand the low-level functions, optimizations and important design decisions without it.
Come on, I know you're trying to sell a book here, but lets not openly lie (like some).
C++ is being phased out by Java, C# and various scripting languages anyway, because they're safe and speed usually doesn't matter if you're just trying to get some non-time-critical work done. If I had a penny everytime C++ was used for string manipulation which could have been done in perl 100 times faster and more secure, I'd be a rich man right now. I guess that's the schools fault though, not teaching kids to use the right tool for the job. Of course, C++ is here to stay, but eventually the only place where it'll be used is going to be games, system programming and embedded applications (but even here, Java is starting to turn up, which imo is a mistake.)
Terms of service are displayed so that the provider can discontinue the service to that particular client if he breaks them, it's never used to sue anyone. He didn't seem to hurt their website significantly (after all, it was months before they noticed it?) so there's nothing illegal in that.
OTOH, if he signed (and not just viewed or clicked on a button), a confidentiality agreement, then he's fucked.
i agree with this post.
I have done a little review of my own and wasnt impressed with GNOME 2.5-dev, not that it lacked anything, it is more that it had TOO MUCH of everything. AA fonts, sounds effects pretty menus and icons, window shading and whatnot do not make a productive work environment. I mean, this is unix we are talking about, bring on the lightweight tools that run on a P100, gnome 1.x sort of had it right, but with the switch to GTK2 everything has done down the drain, well, sort of. I guess it is nice if you have a P4 and a gig of ram, but not everyone does. OTOH, I like the new file selector. One day it will be as good as the KDE one.
But oh well.
... than just free software. After all, there are a number of products which are in a way free but you have to pay for them
(winex, mozilla, openoffice,...). they not only present a viable business solution, but also show that open source can
be profitable and fits well into the america corporational paradigm.
The issues here are too complex for one to argue either for or against IP laws. The simple matter of fact is that it does benefit some businesses and it hurts others. I could find cases of both and this kind of arguing over if it is really fruitless and only serves to deepen the pockets of the media which distributes such articles.
in the end, the free market will decide.
the link in the article is broken: this is the correct link
THAT YOU'RE BEING SARCASTIC
imo the KDE people should take a step back and see what they're doing. all those pretty menus and shiny lights and a multitude of buttons and applets. neat, but useless. instead of new features (which KDE has enough already) they should focus more on the interface and how to make it more efficient.
Those who know how to use open source software are already using it, so I don't see what kind of oppurtunities you're talking about
to conclusions based upon early data before the rover has even "hit the road." We'll be getting more and better data.
As an example. One of my geology profs was studying an outcropping of calcium-rich meta-igneous rock (meta basalt). He kept finding a mix of calcium oxalate minerals on the surface of the rock in numerous places, but couldn't understand how they would be a weathering product. Oxalate minerals are unusual in nature.
Then it dawned on him. Oxalates are common in kidney stones. He bought a live trap and captured several wild rats. Then he kept them in a lab and realized they like to urinate in the same place. What appeared to be a strange chemical weathering reaction was actually just evaporated rat urine.
Point is, first impressions may be incorrect and additional data and study leads to more accurate conclusions. Sometimes those later conclusions are more interesting (or comical) than the original hypothesis.
Not this old argument again
The permanent Martian ice caps are just that, water ice. They expand and shrink seasonally, with much of the winter increase being CO2 ("dry") ice. In the Martian summers the poles are too warm for CO2 ice, in the Martian winters, too cold for some of the atmospheric CO2 not to freeze out. (So yes, at any given time, one pole is mostly water ice, the other mostly (covered with) dry ice -- except in spring and fall when the CO2 is changing poles -- which is also when you tend to get planetary dust storms. Imagine that.)
This has been more or less known since some astronomer first pointed a spectrometer at Mars, and largely confirmed by subsequent observation and exploration.
The only real discussion is the percentages of same, and how much (if any) water or water ice is in the soil further from the poles.
He's one of very few to be designated a Science Fiction Grand Master, he's the author of the classic novels Childhood's End and Rendezvous With Rama, and he first created the popular axiom "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magick."
Um no, that was Asimov. Clarke coined the term "Violence is the last refuse of the incompetent"
I just searched for "FloodMT" and got exactly same results on both google and yahoo. Strange coincidence
The key task of the FCC should be to unwrite old rules and write a few new rules so as to create clear incentives for existing network operators and service providers to build a Big Broadband network. Regulation negatively influences Big Broadband business plans. Currently federal and state regulation causes consumers and taxpayers to pay staggering sums to sustain old networks when much less money could pay for the same services plus additional services and also for the cost of building Big Broadband to every home and business.
Anyway, I took a look, and decided that Microsoft is GAYER THAN AIDS.
When you break the law and possibly expose thousands of users to a root exploit, at least you could be politically correct about.
"GAYER THAN AIDS", what the hell?
I hope they sue him..
i think taco patched slashcode to make one downmod count for several karma points.
too bad no such package exists
why i post at 0 even though my karma is terrible?
for a second there i thought they had a patent on CSS