How can you suggest that the internet as a whole can be either harmful or harmless? There's such a wide range of things that make the interent-porn, gaming, newsgroups, bulletin boards, research, trolling Slashdot, IMs, email etc. It's a tool, and as such comments can only be made on the relative safety of the activities done with it, not on the tool itself.
Let's make a table:
Handheld Platform: Porting Effort
Linux/X11 (handhelds.org, Yopy): trivial (some layout changes)
Linux-QPE (Zaurus): modest (reuse libraries, rewrite GUI)
PocketPC: significant (lots of API limitations relative to XP)
PalmOS: extreme (can't write all-native apps, memory limits, no file system, no resizeable windows, no layout manager, no multitasking, no standard APIs).
Ironic, isn't it, that popularity is inversely proportional to difficulty of software development? Of course, that's a pretty general rule.
Now, why is that? Well, look at this news item. When someone ports a Commodore 64 emulator to a Linux/X11 handheld, it's not news because it's so trivial. When someone ports it to PalmOS, it's big news. I once ported a web browser to a Linux/X11 handheld, and that wasn't news either. You still can't get anything of comparable quality for PalmOS, and so every junky PalmOS web browser is a news item.
Bad OS platforms make for good press, lots of business opportunities, and lots of PR. Programmers feel proud when they have mastered a bad platform and managed to create the tiniest app for a bad platform. That's why PalmOS and Windows XP keep winning in the market. What to do about it, I don't know.
Is ANY teenage girl going to buy something by the people who bought you Magic:The Gathering, Dungeon and Dragons and the Lifelong Virginity expansion packs?
Probably because you had to do adult things, like aim, think, and use more than just the fire button
JKII that's true, but JKA can be summed up as "Protect+Absorb+Spam Dual Saber Attacks". You can beat the final boss in hard mode by holding down the fire button and running in circles fer Christ's sake
UK are about to test high altitude platforms, according to this article, as a way of bringing high-speed internet services to computer users in remote areas out of reach of broadband
I assume this means backwards places like the Fens, Channel Islands, Welsh valleys and Liverpool. It might help to teach them what a computer and electricity are for first.
A consequence of space exploration being government run is the fact that missions will be continually over funded and unambitious, as successive presidents and politicians look at NASA and the entirety of space as merely being an extremely expensive photo opportunity. It took 25 years from the invention of modern rockets to the moon landings, and in nearly 40 after that, we've done little more than send up continuous, well publicised but ultimately futile shuttle missions. Much as it pains me to say it, the future of space lies in private hands who have the ambition to(pardon the pun) reach for the stars
" I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last. "
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
If it succeeds, they're sorted for life. If it doesn't, well, the Hubble was going to be scrapped anyway, and the government's already paid for the flight and research
I don't know why, but something about the webpage
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Yahoo! Research Labs
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Reminds me of those game development companies set up by 14 years old
What? He learned that we're a bunch of seersucker-wearing middle-aged viagra-crazed nitwits who like to spend our extra time fishing for rings in ladies bathrooms, root through ashtrays for hints and buy wine from places that sell condoms too?
We live in constant fear of murderous cars as well
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How can you suggest that the internet as a whole can be either harmful or harmless? There's such a wide range of things that make the interent-porn, gaming, newsgroups, bulletin boards, research, trolling Slashdot, IMs, email etc. It's a tool, and as such comments can only be made on the relative safety of the activities done with it, not on the tool itself.
Let's make a table: Handheld Platform: Porting Effort Linux/X11 (handhelds.org, Yopy): trivial (some layout changes) Linux-QPE (Zaurus): modest (reuse libraries, rewrite GUI) PocketPC: significant (lots of API limitations relative to XP) PalmOS: extreme (can't write all-native apps, memory limits, no file system, no resizeable windows, no layout manager, no multitasking, no standard APIs). Ironic, isn't it, that popularity is inversely proportional to difficulty of software development? Of course, that's a pretty general rule. Now, why is that? Well, look at this news item. When someone ports a Commodore 64 emulator to a Linux/X11 handheld, it's not news because it's so trivial. When someone ports it to PalmOS, it's big news. I once ported a web browser to a Linux/X11 handheld, and that wasn't news either. You still can't get anything of comparable quality for PalmOS, and so every junky PalmOS web browser is a news item. Bad OS platforms make for good press, lots of business opportunities, and lots of PR. Programmers feel proud when they have mastered a bad platform and managed to create the tiniest app for a bad platform. That's why PalmOS and Windows XP keep winning in the market. What to do about it, I don't know.
Is ANY teenage girl going to buy something by the people who bought you Magic:The Gathering, Dungeon and Dragons and the Lifelong Virginity expansion packs?
ET sold the system on it's own
Probably because you had to do adult things, like aim, think, and use more than just the fire button JKII that's true, but JKA can be summed up as "Protect+Absorb+Spam Dual Saber Attacks". You can beat the final boss in hard mode by holding down the fire button and running in circles fer Christ's sake
In Soviet Russia
Perl compiler debugs you
Quick mention of summer
Eidos today stated:"Yeah, we'd quite like Metal Gear Solid sales figures. Here's a bastardised sequel"
Too controversial. It would encourage kids to start throwing bricks off buildings
Sadly, the man is 1337_Aragorn_2k4
At least we won't have to put up with Sierra's humour
5 bob and a ferret, and I'd be cleaning chimneys all day for rich folk with letters
We're scrapping the RAF, replacing it with Bahamut
UK are about to test high altitude platforms, according to this article, as a way of bringing high-speed internet services to computer users in remote areas out of reach of broadband
I assume this means backwards places like the Fens, Channel Islands, Welsh valleys and Liverpool. It might help to teach them what a computer and electricity are for first.
A consequence of space exploration being government run is the fact that missions will be continually over funded and unambitious, as successive presidents and politicians look at NASA and the entirety of space as merely being an extremely expensive photo opportunity. It took 25 years from the invention of modern rockets to the moon landings, and in nearly 40 after that, we've done little more than send up continuous, well publicised but ultimately futile shuttle missions. Much as it pains me to say it, the future of space lies in private hands who have the ambition to(pardon the pun) reach for the stars
" I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed that I would see the last. " --Dr. Jerry Pournelle
I guess it's good NASA didn't seem a spotty teenager inside the probe to send the images.
"That's not Mars, it's Paris Hilton"
Getting the office running on Linux might actually require work.
Nigerian Advertising Careers?
the Spirit rover is getting ready to grind the rock Adirondack
Science article->Pulp Fantasy in just 1 sentence
Every space mission gets a conspiracy theory. What's this one going to be?
If he was alive, he'd probably be turning in his grave
If it succeeds, they're sorted for life. If it doesn't, well, the Hubble was going to be scrapped anyway, and the government's already paid for the flight and research
Reminds me of those game development companies set up by 14 years old
Why their message boards are the dregs of the internet
Is it in the Cheerios? I like Cheerios
What? He learned that we're a bunch of seersucker-wearing middle-aged viagra-crazed nitwits who like to spend our extra time fishing for rings in ladies bathrooms, root through ashtrays for hints and buy wine from places that sell condoms too? We live in constant fear of murderous cars as well