The iTunes AppleScript interface is pretty nice. Does it allow the Pre to show up as a device icon in iTunes just like an iPod? Or would the Pre user have to run the Apple Script separately for Sync to occur. I think there is a clear advantage to Palm to have the Pre work exactly like an iPod, and some posts seem to suggest that the API is sufficient for them to do so.
Many of the posts here suggest that it is possible to write an iTunes plugin that would provide seamless integration between iTunes and a device like the Pre. The only iTunes SDK I know about is for visualizers - you know for with the music. I do not dispute that using the iTunes Lib XML file would be a reasonable thing for Palm to do. But I don't think they have a way to make the Pre integrate like an iPod in iTunes. Nor am I suggesting that this is something Apple should fix.
Apple provides legitimate methods to connect a device to iTunes via a public API and/or Toolkit. This lets them support things easier by making sure the public API works after changes.
I am an ADC member, and I am not able to find the API you are talking about. At the cost of my mod points here, could you please give a link, or name I can use to find the API?
Intro to moral philosophy was not my best class. But a lottery would certainly be fair. Instead I would suggest we outlaw those activities that cause harm, let's not argue about the method of measurement, to the ocean, or specifically whales. And if in fact as some ancestor post suggested this will result in human death, then so be it. You know, it is demonstrable that lowering the speed limit on highways reduces death by collision, but we re perfectly happy to leave the limit high for our convenience. Seems like a similar argument to me.
Get back to me when there are 6 billion whales with and expected increase of 3 billion over the next decade or so. I would be willing to give up a nation of people if I could put the ocean back the way it was a hundred years ago.
I was responsible for the Infocom Zip on 6502 in 1985. I had the 1 MHz Apple II+ version running just 4% slower than the 4.7MHz 8088 PC XT. Of course the guy doing the XT ASM, while not the ASM programmer I was, was smart enough to go work for M$...
So, in other words: because Apple didn't waste years with a dropped OS like Longhorn, and actually put out significant updates on a regular schedule....you're holding it against them.
Got it.
Copland? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) Systems 7,8 and 9 were the lost years. Hardware that would support memeoy protection and pre-emptive multi tasking, but no OS to do the same. If there had been an alternative that did audio in those days I'd have switched.
I assume it was Vellum, which is a name that has meant different things at different times: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum#Paper_vellum "Modern imitation or "paper vellum" made from plasticized cotton. Usually translucent, paper vellum is often used in applications where tracing is required, such as architectural plans. Like natural vellum, the synthetic is more dimensionally stable than a linen or paper sheet, which is frequently critical in the development of large scaled drawings and plans such as Blueprints."
I don't know how it was done on the fusalage, nor how it is done today. But with wings (my experiance in late 70s), drawings were to scale and tooling was made from the drawing with a caliper. I can see how a 00 vs an 03 pen might really make a difference. On something with a curve, a few dimention notations might not fully describe the part.
My 10 year old showed this to me :
http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust
It is not exactly physically accurate, but it is really pretty cool and fun, and much more accurate than I expected. And can I say fast for what I thought one could get from Java.
But I don't believe you have the technology to prove said rock is going to hit the Earth in 30-40 years ; even small inaccuracies in orbital measurements and simulation could cause massive variation in the predicted position decades later.
We have demonstrated techniques for simulation of accurate orbits out to 50 Myr http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0004-637X/592/1/620/ so I think even a few hundred years we can do for accurate collision calculations. The biggest issue then is the orbital determination of the impactor. We use radar for orbit determination and we are very good at it: http://impact.arc.nasa.go/news_detail.cfm?ID=132 The article gives an example of measuring Yarkovsky effect on a 1/2 km asteroid, which changed it's orbit by 15 km over 12 years of observation. I can not give a site, but I would estimate that inside of 6 months we can plot an important orbit to a few centimeters, and if we expect impact inside of 30 years we can predict the time to within 1 minute, which would locate the impact on Earth to within a few tens of km.
You might want to read up on conservation of angular momentum, or just try what you suggest with a spinning bicycle wheel. My point being that changing the sign on the angular momentum of a star would be equally difficult any way you want to try to do it.
You are of course right. I was focused on detecting every event. The issue with most (all?) detectors is a small dead time Td after a detection event. If the time between events is >> Td it is not such a big deal, so monopole and dark matter detectors do not suffer too much. But if you want to have a detector with a lot of dynamic range, and accuracy then it is an issue.
If we are interested in doing Science we will send robots. Having human control nearby seems like a waste of mass.
If the goal is saving the human race, then I suspect we will eventually decide to save culture, or knowledge, or memories, or whatever. Legs and sweat glands were great for moving from the trees to the savanna but not so much for the move into the galaxy. The short term save is to build robots to detect and protect us from impactors. The long t erm save is to build robots that like us, will write home, and send them into the galaxy.
Well, I don't think it is relevant on the galactic scale, but the GP might be mangling "Quantized Fields and Particle Creation in Expanding Universes" http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v183/i5/p1057_1
I much prefer my fountain pens to any ball point I have used. I keep my lab books and personal journals using fountain pens. But my hand writting is a little tough to read and at 43 I still work not to rush. If I didn't spend most of the day typing every thing else I might prefer typing notes.
I understand this being/. most people think that argh is just a pirate term, since there are so many RIAA stories. In the context of Physics, which is what this post is about, argh is an SI unit of work done incorrectly.
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Please- a quick howto. I hate /. on my iPhone.
Apple provides an API toallow iTunes to snyc to anything. All palm needed was a plugin.
The iTunes AppleScript interface is pretty nice. Does it allow the Pre to show up as a device icon in iTunes just like an iPod? Or would the Pre user have to run the Apple Script separately for Sync to occur. I think there is a clear advantage to Palm to have the Pre work exactly like an iPod, and some posts seem to suggest that the API is sufficient for them to do so.
Many of the posts here suggest that it is possible to write an iTunes plugin that would provide seamless integration between iTunes and a device like the Pre. The only iTunes SDK I know about is for visualizers - you know for with the music. I do not dispute that using the iTunes Lib XML file would be a reasonable thing for Palm to do. But I don't think they have a way to make the Pre integrate like an iPod in iTunes. Nor am I suggesting that this is something Apple should fix.
Apple provides an API toallow iTunes to snyc to anything.
I have been looking and can not find this API. Would you mind linking to it, or providing its name?
Apple provides legitimate methods to connect a device to iTunes via a public API and/or Toolkit. This lets them support things easier by making sure the public API works after changes.
I am an ADC member, and I am not able to find the API you are talking about. At the cost of my mod points here, could you please give a link, or name I can use to find the API?
A few more than just NYC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_transit_in_the_United_States but not a hundred cities.
Is the Cilk runtime available for OS X? If not then why consider it on OS X?
Intro to moral philosophy was not my best class. But a lottery would certainly be fair. Instead I would suggest we outlaw those activities that cause harm, let's not argue about the method of measurement, to the ocean, or specifically whales. And if in fact as some ancestor post suggested this will result in human death, then so be it. You know, it is demonstrable that lowering the speed limit on highways reduces death by collision, but we re perfectly happy to leave the limit high for our convenience. Seems like a similar argument to me.
Get back to me when there are 6 billion whales with and expected increase of 3 billion over the next decade or so. I would be willing to give up a nation of people if I could put the ocean back the way it was a hundred years ago.
I was responsible for the Infocom Zip on 6502 in 1985. I had the 1 MHz Apple II+ version running just 4% slower than the 4.7MHz 8088 PC XT. Of course the guy doing the XT ASM, while not the ASM programmer I was, was smart enough to go work for M$...
So, in other words: because Apple didn't waste years with a dropped OS like Longhorn, and actually put out significant updates on a regular schedule....you're holding it against them.
Got it.
Copland? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
Systems 7,8 and 9 were the lost years. Hardware that would support memeoy protection and pre-emptive multi tasking, but no OS to do the same. If there had been an alternative that did audio in those days I'd have switched.
I assume it was Vellum, which is a name that has meant different things at different times: see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellum#Paper_vellum "Modern imitation or "paper vellum" made from plasticized cotton. Usually translucent, paper vellum is often used in applications where tracing is required, such as architectural plans. Like natural vellum, the synthetic is more dimensionally stable than a linen or paper sheet, which is frequently critical in the development of large scaled drawings and plans such as Blueprints."
Not Cal.
I don't know how it was done on the fusalage, nor how it is done today. But with wings (my experiance in late 70s), drawings were to scale and tooling was made from the drawing with a caliper. I can see how a 00 vs an 03 pen might really make a difference. On something with a curve, a few dimention notations might not fully describe the part.
My 10 year old showed this to me : http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust It is not exactly physically accurate, but it is really pretty cool and fun, and much more accurate than I expected.
And can I say fast for what I thought one could get from Java.
But I don't believe you have the technology to prove said rock is going to hit the Earth in 30-40 years ; even small inaccuracies in orbital measurements and simulation could cause massive variation in the predicted position decades later.
We have demonstrated techniques for simulation of accurate orbits out to 50 Myr http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0004-637X/592/1/620/ so I think even a few hundred years we can do for accurate collision calculations.
The biggest issue then is the orbital determination of the impactor. We use radar for orbit determination and we are very good at it: http://impact.arc.nasa.go/news_detail.cfm?ID=132 The article gives an example of measuring Yarkovsky effect on a 1/2 km asteroid, which changed it's orbit by 15 km over 12 years of observation.
I can not give a site, but I would estimate that inside of 6 months we can plot an important orbit to a few centimeters, and if we expect impact inside of 30 years we can predict the time to within 1 minute, which would locate the impact on Earth to within a few tens of km.
You might want to read up on conservation of angular momentum, or just try what you suggest with a spinning bicycle wheel. My point being that changing the sign on the angular momentum of a star would be equally difficult any way you want to try to do it.
I thought the same. And tried vtvgthafhjugyr.com which was intercepted. So much for implenting their own spec. Or for documenting the actual behavior.
You are of course right. I was focused on detecting every event. The issue with most (all?) detectors is a small dead time Td after a detection event. If the time between events is >> Td it is not such a big deal, so monopole and dark matter detectors do not suffer too much. But if you want to have a detector with a lot of dynamic range, and accuracy then it is an issue.
While the radiation is random, the measurment being so depends on a perfect detector.
If we are interested in doing Science we will send robots. Having human control nearby seems like a waste of mass.
If the goal is saving the human race, then I suspect we will eventually decide to save culture, or knowledge, or memories, or whatever. Legs and sweat glands were great for moving from the trees to the savanna but not so much for the move into the galaxy.
The short term save is to build robots to detect and protect us from impactors.
The long t erm save is to build robots that like us, will write home, and send them into the galaxy.
Well, I don't think it is relevant on the galactic scale, but the GP might be mangling "Quantized Fields and Particle Creation in Expanding Universes" http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PR/v183/i5/p1057_1
I much prefer my fountain pens to any ball point I have used. I keep my lab books and personal journals using fountain pens. But my hand writting is a little tough to read and at 43 I still work not to rush. If I didn't spend most of the day typing every thing else I might prefer typing notes.
I understand this being /. most people think that argh is just a pirate term, since there are so many RIAA stories. In the context of Physics, which is what this post is about, argh is an SI unit of work done incorrectly.