I haven't seen any mention of Psion yet, so here's another thread.
I switched from a Palm3 (actually, an IBM WorkPad) to a Psion exactly because of the too-small display. I mean, 160px just isn't very useful (anything longer than "lunch with dad" causes line wraps in the calendar). I chose Psion because of good reviews, and my brother had (and still has) a Series 5.
The Psions give you about twice the display width, plus they come with proper word and spreadsheet apps. Oh yeah, and a file system you can structure yourself (you know, create your own folders, rename files, and yes, also store any odd file you may or may not have an app for on that machine).
I've used it extensively as an ebook reader as well as general PIM device. Sadly, the Revo had issues with the battery, causing data loss (but to be fair, so did any Palm I've ever been near, and I daresay that's quite a few). But until it failed, boy was that ever one great PDA, it was laps ahead of Palm.
Alas, Psion no longer makes PDAs, and even the Symbian-based phones I've seen don't come close to what I want. As an aside, how come all phones nowadays have camera, ringtones, MMS, GPS and whatnot, but not a single one has a half-decent (iCal-compliant!) calendar? How come *nobody* makes "just" phones anymore? I wish somebody would market (a) a just-a-friggin-phone and (b) a PDA that's based on open standards so people can sync with the rest of their friggin data. There, I said it (oh, that felt nice).
If you're stressed, there are two hormones you need to watch: adrenaline and cortisone. Adrenaline gives you that rush when you're busy, but it subsides slower than it builds up, so extended crunch time will give you too much adrenaline. Then, cortisone kicks in. Sadly, cortisone is just like that acid in your muscles (I forget the name) -- it's short-term relief that only adds to your hormonal imbalance.
So, what you need to do is mentally relieve yourself once in a while. I realize that's not the best thing to say on Slashdot, but I am in fact quite earnest.
How you do it (playing a computer game, reading a book on your lunchbreak(!), going bowling or walking the dog) is up to you, as long as you get your mind on something else entirely.
What really works well is sleeping (obviously), or just a nap if you cna manage one mid-day, and also laughing og yawning. Honestly.
If you feel your stress is beginning to become a problem, talk to your manager and see if you can get a couple of wednesdays off -- then your work week will be only two days long, with short and long "weekends" in between. I know from personal experience that this is a great way to recover from work burn-out.
Now I went through ALL THAT TROUBLE to create my very own, personalized, all-original splash screen -- and then I can't get that infernal MoinMoin to give me a user account to upload it to the contest. Gah!
This is one of the times I wish the Score would go higher than 5 (and that I had mod points. Oh, and that I could give you more votes.
Splash screens, however well intended, are not in the user's interest. At best, they're commercials for a product the user already *has*, at worst they are obnoxious interruptions.
Please, pleeeease at least enable the user to dismiss it while OOo is loading, so it's not blocking whatever the user was doing.
Attn. Hollywood: Now see what you made them do! Augh!
Good-bye privacy, I'm sure glad I'm not anywhere near China... but if they need that many satellites, it doesn't sound as if they'll be geo-stationary... (*ominous stare, audience gasps in disbelief*). But of course, it's only fair since the US has been dong essentially the same thing for years (remember the personalized magazine cover story?).
And for the government-weary and/or paranoid readers: which would you rather: (a) gov't plays peeping tom and keeps images sectret, or (b) gov't puts up a web site with a free-for-all control panel so Yu can spy on Hee's neighbour('s daughter Wau-shees-nekkid).
/me crawls back under my rock. Oh, good ole rock.:o)
It's only about two weeks since I suggested we use our space cycles for something link this, and now I see this headline. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!:-)
... Dan Winkler created HyperCard together with Bill Atkinson. Granted, it was by no means a fast runner, but you could write more or less plain English to it:
go to the last card of stack "Home" go to black with visual effect fade to black go to the previous card with visual effect venetian blinds get the third word of line 2 of field "Slashdot" put it into the messagebox
Who could possible be confied by this code? Notice the brilliant little keyword called "it", that you could use with "put" and "get". Neat, simple, easy!
Yes! On a Fat Mac that my dad had at home (he was working for Apple at the time). My brother and I can attest that this was an over-the-network multiplayer game. However, with its 90-degree turns and isometric steps I wouldn't exactly compare it to Doom... not the gameplay at least.
Weee! Power to the old Mac games! (Geez, that makes me feel old...)
I am the admin of the computer room at the local youth club. Granted, many LCD monitors are rather sluggish and may be good enough for 4D Stunts Driving, but not good enough for hard-code Halo gaming.
*However* (if there wasn't a "however", why would I bother to post?) some LCD's are actually quite good, if you know where to look. I've upgraded the youth club computers in the near past, and I did a fair amount of research before deciding on a LCD monitor (well, six of 'em).
ViewSonic VG710b is what I decided on. Their listed response time is quoted at 16ms. I don't know if they're even still on the market, but I can tell you that for actual, real-world gaming use, these are definitely workable.
Sadly I can't locate it (on sciam.com), but back in the 80's or early 90's there was an article about some chaps who built a tic-tac-toe computer out of Meccano.
You could "set" a nought or a cross in a given square, turn a handle a number of turns, and the meccano robot/computer would sense the setting and figure out a response. It was rather good at it too, I think.
The thing was upright and was about 1,5x2 meters. I remember a lot of pictures detailing its rather Babbage-like innards.
_Is your "google-fu" also nonexistent, or are you just lazy?_
Neither -- the dictionaries I frequent were unfamiliar with this term, and the web sites I dug up were rather much unrelated (at least it seemed so, but then I didn't really know what I was looking for). Have _you_ tried to search for ":(){:|:& };:"? That results in "Barnes & Noble" and suchlike...
Alas, I still was not able to decipher what the ":(){:|:& };:" bit actually does. Anybody else willing to take a stab at explaining it?
...and when the puny user has typed those three characters and punched ENTER, he may find himself locked into a Wordperfect-style textual GUI with no obvious way out. ESC doesn't work. CTRL-C/BREAK doesn't work. CTRL-X doesn't work.
I can type "man thingamabob" to find out how something works, but from there I don't know how to look for the next thing. And, how the devil do you scroll up?
No, the most important comment to go with the "man" command is the information that a simple single "Q" gets out out of it again. (This at least, is my story.)
Hey bright people, I'm sure it's all fine and dandy that you all come with little do's and don'ts, but a few of us would like to know what that little gimmick actually does, *in plain english*.
My "shell-fu" is practically nonexistent, and I don't have cygwin (the app, the source, the need or the skill).
Please, could someone post a two-liner about what the devil that bunch of parentheses do, and why it would be dangerous to do the obvious and copy/paste it?
Go check out a Psion Revo -- it's got no backlight, which makes the screen clear enough to be readable in dim light (but not at night, don't kid yourself), and it has *no* problems with direct sunlight....posting to last week's story, wondering if this will ever be read.
You betcha they're useless -- in that function. But as long as they're reprogrammable it okay, then we just get a few extra configurable keys -- and they are mighty useful./me hits post-on-Slashdot key.
Just FYI, KDE has UI Guidelines too: * User interface design guidelines: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/ * KDE Style Basics: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/k de/style/basics/
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It's "On a clear disk you can seek forever".
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I haven't seen any mention of Psion yet, so here's another thread.
I switched from a Palm3 (actually, an IBM WorkPad) to a Psion exactly because of the too-small display. I mean, 160px just isn't very useful (anything longer than "lunch with dad" causes line wraps in the calendar). I chose Psion because of good reviews, and my brother had (and still has) a Series 5.
The Psions give you about twice the display width, plus they come with proper word and spreadsheet apps. Oh yeah, and a file system you can structure yourself (you know, create your own folders, rename files, and yes, also store any odd file you may or may not have an app for on that machine).
I've used it extensively as an ebook reader as well as general PIM device. Sadly, the Revo had issues with the battery, causing data loss (but to be fair, so did any Palm I've ever been near, and I daresay that's quite a few). But until it failed, boy was that ever one great PDA, it was laps ahead of Palm.
Alas, Psion no longer makes PDAs, and even the Symbian-based phones I've seen don't come close to what I want. As an aside, how come all phones nowadays have camera, ringtones, MMS, GPS and whatnot, but not a single one has a half-decent (iCal-compliant!) calendar? How come *nobody* makes "just" phones anymore? I wish somebody would market (a) a just-a-friggin-phone and (b) a PDA that's based on open standards so people can sync with the rest of their friggin data. There, I said it (oh, that felt nice).
If you're stressed, there are two hormones you need to watch: adrenaline and cortisone. Adrenaline gives you that rush when you're busy, but it subsides slower than it builds up, so extended crunch time will give you too much adrenaline. Then, cortisone kicks in. Sadly, cortisone is just like that acid in your muscles (I forget the name) -- it's short-term relief that only adds to your hormonal imbalance.
So, what you need to do is mentally relieve yourself once in a while. I realize that's not the best thing to say on Slashdot, but I am in fact quite earnest.
How you do it (playing a computer game, reading a book on your lunchbreak(!), going bowling or walking the dog) is up to you, as long as you get your mind on something else entirely.
What really works well is sleeping (obviously), or just a nap if you cna manage one mid-day, and also laughing og yawning. Honestly.
If you feel your stress is beginning to become a problem, talk to your manager and see if you can get a couple of wednesdays off -- then your work week will be only two days long, with short and long "weekends" in between. I know from personal experience that this is a great way to recover from work burn-out.
Hope it helps, and good luck to you!
Oh man!
Now I went through ALL THAT TROUBLE to create my very own, personalized, all-original splash screen -- and then I can't get that infernal MoinMoin to give me a user account to upload it to the contest. Gah!
And it was such a *lovely* 1x1px splash...
Hear, hear!
This is one of the times I wish the Score would go higher than 5 (and that I had mod points. Oh, and that I could give you more votes.
Splash screens, however well intended, are not in the user's interest. At best, they're commercials for a product the user already *has*, at worst they are obnoxious interruptions.
Please, pleeeease at least enable the user to dismiss it while OOo is loading, so it's not blocking whatever the user was doing.
It's "NovodeX", actually. (novodex.com)
;-)
A google search for "Aegia Novadex" returns exactly one hit -- your post. Congratulations on your googlewhack.
Attn. Hollywood: Now see what you made them do! Augh!
... but if they need that many satellites, it doesn't sound as if they'll be geo-stationary ... (*ominous stare, audience gasps in disbelief*). But of course, it's only fair since the US has been dong essentially the same thing for years (remember the personalized magazine cover story?).
/me crawls back under my rock. Oh, good ole rock. :o)
Good-bye privacy, I'm sure glad I'm not anywhere near China
And for the government-weary and/or paranoid readers: which would you rather:
(a) gov't plays peeping tom and keeps images sectret, or
(b) gov't puts up a web site with a free-for-all control panel so Yu can spy on Hee's neighbour('s daughter Wau-shees-nekkid).
What do you mean, "once they get around that"? Didn't you read the wallclimbing robots story the other day? Duh... ;-)
It's only about two weeks since I suggested we use our space cycles for something link this, and now I see this headline. That makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside! :-)
Granted, it was by no means a fast runner, but you could write more or less plain English to it:Who could possible be confied by this code?
Notice the brilliant little keyword called "it", that you could use with "put" and "get". Neat, simple, easy!
eulogy
Monkey Island were excellent, but surely not the only 'funny' game.
If it's not obvious, I'm a fan of the Neverhood. No point in describing its funniness?(?) if you're not familiar with it -- but it's hilarious indeed.
You never know what you'll find ...
Here's and old entry in my reading list: We'll Return, After This Message
Yes! On a Fat Mac that my dad had at home (he was working for Apple at the time). My brother and I can attest that this was an over-the-network multiplayer game. However, with its 90-degree turns and isometric steps I wouldn't exactly compare it to Doom ... not the gameplay at least.
Weee! Power to the old Mac games! (Geez, that makes me feel old...)
I am the admin of the computer room at the local youth club. Granted, many LCD monitors are rather sluggish and may be good enough for 4D Stunts Driving, but not good enough for hard-code Halo gaming.
*However* (if there wasn't a "however", why would I bother to post?) some LCD's are actually quite good, if you know where to look. I've upgraded the youth club computers in the near past, and I did a fair amount of research before deciding on a LCD monitor (well, six of 'em).
ViewSonic VG710b is what I decided on. Their listed response time is quoted at 16ms. I don't know if they're even still on the market, but I can tell you that for actual, real-world gaming use, these are definitely workable.
Sadly I can't locate it (on sciam.com), but back in the 80's or early 90's there was an article about some chaps who built a tic-tac-toe computer out of Meccano.
You could "set" a nought or a cross in a given square, turn a handle a number of turns, and the meccano robot/computer would sense the setting and figure out a response. It was rather good at it too, I think.
The thing was upright and was about 1,5x2 meters. I remember a lot of pictures detailing its rather Babbage-like innards.
Well, if you ask me then the ultimate in retro computing has already been slashdotted once before: the ElectriClerk.
_Is your "google-fu" also nonexistent, or are you just lazy?_
:|:& };:"? That results in "Barnes & Noble" and suchlike...
:|:& };:" bit actually does. Anybody else willing to take a stab at explaining it?
Neither -- the dictionaries I frequent were unfamiliar with this term, and the web sites I dug up were rather much unrelated (at least it seemed so, but then I didn't really know what I was looking for). Have _you_ tried to search for ":(){
Alas, I still was not able to decipher what the ":(){
...and when the puny user has typed those three characters and punched ENTER, he may find himself locked into a Wordperfect-style textual GUI with no obvious way out. ESC doesn't work. CTRL-C/BREAK doesn't work. CTRL-X doesn't work.
I can type "man thingamabob" to find out how something works, but from there I don't know how to look for the next thing. And, how the devil do you scroll up?
No, the most important comment to go with the "man" command is the information that a simple single "Q" gets out out of it again. (This at least, is my story.)
Hey bright people,
I'm sure it's all fine and dandy that you all come with little do's and don'ts, but a few of us would like to know what that little gimmick actually does, *in plain english*.
My "shell-fu" is practically nonexistent, and I don't have cygwin (the app, the source, the need or the skill).
Please, could someone post a two-liner about what the devil that bunch of parentheses do, and why it would be dangerous to do the obvious and copy/paste it?
Thanks.....
Go check out a Psion Revo -- it's got no backlight, which makes the screen clear enough to be readable in dim light (but not at night, don't kid yourself), and it has *no* problems with direct sunlight. ...posting to last week's story, wondering if this will ever be read.
My first thought, too. But I very much doubt it's voice-controlled. (Oh well, I guess they gotta leave some room for version 3.)
You betcha they're useless -- in that function. But as long as they're reprogrammable it okay, then we just get a few extra configurable keys -- and they are mighty useful. /me hits post-on-Slashdot key.
Just FYI, KDE has UI Guidelines too: k de/style/basics/
* User interface design guidelines: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/design/ui/
* KDE Style Basics: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/
Yeah, ST is noce (I use it too), but it's very strictly for businesses -- in other words completely incompatible with any other IM.
And yes I know it's supposed to be able to talk to AOL, but its doing a less than stellar job at it. I've tried.
Really? Then why are you not posting as AC...?