The keys weren't even laptop-style "chicklet" keys... they were basically like the old number-tiles off the 4x4 sliding numbers puzzle. Remember those? Extra points for getting an old one and sliding the keys into a Dvorak layout. That really would be the worst. keyboard. ever.
Seriously, I started with 6502 code, then 68000 on the Amiga, then did a bit of (paid) ARM3 programming, but I just have never, since I owned a Speccy, been able to look at Z80, 8080 or 8086 up. I suspect the oddly named registers and vast panoply of addressing modes are the scariest things...
But tell me, is x86 code as scary as I'm treating it? Because I feel bad that I've ignored it for so long, but maybe I'm at the point where I'm just being dumb.
What do you think? What do people do with assembly language on these chips anyway?
Actually, the link is showing at $219.99, which would be irrestible if it was GSM, instead of just WiFi. Why must Nokia cripple this really cool device without the GSM? Why? Why?
As it stands, my iPhone actually is a phone, plus a great web browser. I'll pass.
I remember NT 4.0 on an Intellistation that would bluescreen when a web-site was not found. This was 'solved' by cranking down the hardware acceleration.
Stupid problems like this on XP seem to be fixed pretty quick. My Dell laptop has blue screened once, and it virtually installed the fix itself after coming back up. (It was something in an HP driver I believe)
Stuff like that rocks, and I'm not sure what the benefit of Vista over XP is.
After Microsoft's brutal treatment of ISO, and the subsequent chaos due to 'voting' members no longer being interested, I'm sure local governments will resist a bit more strongly.
These people may not be as sophisticated as a 'big city' computer company, but you don't have to be Donald Knuth to spot the kind of shadiness that took place in ISO.
My srt-4 is pretty brutal, with an on-off throttle and tallish 1st gear. It will crawl along at 800 rpm, but it really hates being asked to speed up or slow down.
Unless it's full throttle, in which case it's great fun. I'm getting a FIT next time, as the best approximation to a 92 Civic available...
Moving big-ass flat files of data around is still reasonable practice. I've seen code where the fastest way to get data into a system after processing was to spool it out to disk, then call a bulk loader. Of course if you want to be *fancy* you can use an XML file instead of plain text or CSV, but aside from having to link in more libraries, it doesn't seem to buy you much. I remember the great XML craze. Boy, that one didn't solve many problems.
Just watch Douglas Crockford on Yahoo Videos, and you'll see that many of the current problems in Javascript could have been fixed earlier on, instead of which, MS held onto compatibility.
Luckily, there's enough good in Javascript that it continues to live and evolve.
Look up Joe Ganley's 'LISP in Javascript' which is a really cool LISP, that runs in a web page. JS is my favorite language right now, and I'm looking forward to all JIT work being done by Adobe and Mozilla.
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The great irony is that all the things that made LISP useful in the 50's now make it a near perfect language for today. Great abstraction, objects, super efficient compiled code, libraries. And yet...
And yet... a large chunk of those benefits are available in languages with a syntax much closer to C, and those languages are cleaning up. Ruby, Python, Javascript. Personally though, I'm starting to build programs in Javascript that coincidentally have a web-UI, simply because of tools like JSLint, and great libraries like Prototype (think doing Haskelly stuff in Javascript) and jQuery (think Web 2.0 without the pain).
If ATI open their hardware, then I'll switch from NVidia to ATI. No problem.
The ATI hardware in my iMac actually seems to be totally great. Open drivers so we could get the same on Linux would be fantastic. Obviously the hardware is decent.
Long term, open hardware seems to be the way to go. Kudos to Intel for showing Nvidia and ATI the way.
I'd suspect that iPhone penetration isn't high enough, or as high as they planned at this point, hence the fairly large drop. Once enough iPhones get out there, then it will spread like wildfire, just like the iPod. The hardware *and* software are just great. Really hard to imagine how it could be much better.
I'm pissed about the same item now being $200 cheaper, but in all honesty, it was worth every penny of the $600 to say 'f* off' to my Razr, which despite the great hardware, had such lousy software, that making a phonecall aggreivated me every single day.
Respectfully, I disagree. If Linux depends on customers (the power-users) who already know about Linux, then no progress will be made beyond where we are now.
HP is putting Linux on lower-end machines selling to people who probably don't really care about Windows, **providing** that all their documents still open and their music plays.
If this comes off, and they sell enough machines, then maybe we'll see them roll it out across some other countries.
The deal in Houston to blanket the area with wi-fi has also gone up on the blocks, though Mayor Bill White has wrung a $5mil payment from Earthlink. I'm guessing this one isn't going to go ahead either.
My new Dell M65 work laptop blue-screened whilst printing a document I hadn't saved. Luckily windows XP directed me to the right patch after restarting, but my old M60 never crashed in 2 YEARS.
Windows XP on decent hardware is pretty damn solid, but I still prefer OS X or Ubuntu.
He may not like the U.S., but it's called picking a canonicalized format. Consider the alternative for implementing this in software, parsing of the values in the XML would now depend on settings also found in the XML. That would be insane. Here's a reference to XML DTDs. This is exactly what should be used to defining localized formula names etc. With XML, you might not be able to do much with it, but given a 'real', properly defined XML format, it should at *least* be possible to parse all the information in the damn thing!!
Why use a DTD?
XML provides an application independent way of sharing data. With a DTD, independent groups of people can agree to use a common DTD for interchanging data. Your application can use a standard DTD to verify that data that you receive from the outside world is valid. You can also use a DTD to verify your own data.
A lot of forums are emerging to define standard DTDs for almost everything in the areas of data exchange. Take a look at: CommerceNet's XML exchange and http://www.schema.net./ Where is a DTD referenced? That's right, at the top of the XML file.
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If it generates x86 code, I refuse to look!!
Seriously, I started with 6502 code, then 68000 on the Amiga, then did a bit of (paid) ARM3 programming, but I just have never, since I owned a Speccy, been able to look at Z80, 8080 or 8086 up. I suspect the oddly named registers and vast panoply of addressing modes are the scariest things...
But tell me, is x86 code as scary as I'm treating it? Because I feel bad that I've ignored it for so long, but maybe I'm at the point where I'm just being dumb.
What do you think? What do people do with assembly language on these chips anyway?
Let's hope for all our sakes that McCain and Clinton never run on the same ticket!
Actually, the link is showing at $219.99, which would be irrestible if it was GSM, instead of just WiFi. Why must Nokia cripple this really cool device without the GSM? Why? Why?
As it stands, my iPhone actually is a phone, plus a great web browser. I'll pass.
And contact the Apple legal department!! ;-)
I remember NT 4.0 on an Intellistation that would bluescreen when a web-site was not found. This was 'solved' by cranking down the hardware acceleration.
Stupid problems like this on XP seem to be fixed pretty quick. My Dell laptop has blue screened once, and it virtually installed the fix itself after coming back up. (It was something in an HP driver I believe)
Stuff like that rocks, and I'm not sure what the benefit of Vista over XP is.
After Microsoft's brutal treatment of ISO, and the subsequent chaos due to 'voting' members no longer being interested, I'm sure local governments will resist a bit more strongly.
These people may not be as sophisticated as a 'big city' computer company, but you don't have to be Donald Knuth to spot the kind of shadiness that took place in ISO.
My srt-4 is pretty brutal, with an on-off throttle and tallish 1st gear. It will crawl along at 800 rpm, but it really hates being asked to speed up or slow down.
Unless it's full throttle, in which case it's great fun. I'm getting a FIT next time, as the best approximation to a 92 Civic available...
(typed on my OLPC, see my Journal)
Don't worry! You can fix this problem by driving 1 inch off the bumper of the SUV in front of you!!
Take a look at this Tektronix 4014 ... I do love wikipedia for finding crazy stuff.
I did my uni graphics programming on one of these. Hilbert curves and stuff I think.
Moving big-ass flat files of data around is still reasonable practice. I've seen code where the fastest way to get data into a system after processing was to spool it out to disk, then call a bulk loader.
Of course if you want to be *fancy* you can use an XML file instead of plain text or CSV, but aside from having to link in more libraries, it doesn't seem to buy you much.
I remember the great XML craze. Boy, that one didn't solve many problems.
If I'd been given $200 as a small child, I would have spent it on $200 worth of candy.
That, or my dad would have taken it off me!
You mean the "country Fayre"?
Yep, reading it now. Looks totally awesome.
As Brendan Eich says, you don't need a 5MB CLR implementation to do cool stuff.
Just watch Douglas Crockford on Yahoo Videos, and you'll see that many of the current problems in Javascript could have been fixed earlier on, instead of which, MS held onto compatibility.
Luckily, there's enough good in Javascript that it continues to live and evolve.
Look up Joe Ganley's 'LISP in Javascript' which is a really cool LISP, that runs in a web page. JS is my favorite language right now, and I'm looking forward to all JIT work being done by Adobe and Mozilla.
Not a chance, my Hindu friend!!!
The great irony is that all the things that made LISP useful in the 50's now make it a near perfect language for today. Great abstraction, objects, super efficient compiled code, libraries. And yet ...
... a large chunk of those benefits are available in languages with a syntax much closer to C, and those languages are cleaning up. Ruby, Python, Javascript. Personally though, I'm starting to build programs in Javascript that coincidentally have a web-UI, simply because of tools like JSLint, and great libraries like Prototype (think doing Haskelly stuff in Javascript) and jQuery (think Web 2.0 without the pain).
And yet
If ATI open their hardware, then I'll switch from NVidia to ATI. No problem.
The ATI hardware in my iMac actually seems to be totally great. Open drivers so we could get the same on Linux would be fantastic. Obviously the hardware is decent.
Long term, open hardware seems to be the way to go. Kudos to Intel for showing Nvidia and ATI the way.
I'd suspect that iPhone penetration isn't high enough, or as high as they planned at this point, hence the fairly large drop. Once enough iPhones get out there, then it will spread like wildfire, just like the iPod. The hardware *and* software are just great. Really hard to imagine how it could be much better.
I'm pissed about the same item now being $200 cheaper, but in all honesty, it was worth every penny of the $600 to say 'f* off' to my Razr, which despite the great hardware, had such lousy software, that making a phonecall aggreivated me every single day.
Respectfully, I disagree. If Linux depends on customers (the power-users) who already know about Linux, then no progress will be made beyond where we are now.
HP is putting Linux on lower-end machines selling to people who probably don't really care about Windows, **providing** that all their documents still open and their music plays.
If this comes off, and they sell enough machines, then maybe we'll see them roll it out across some other countries.
Shhhhh, don't mention the Olympics!! They are sticking with ... (You know what). ;-)
Dude, stick with VC 6.0, or g++ then, because the 'managed c++/cli' looks not much like C++, and they are trying to ratify it as a standard.
The deal in Houston to blanket the area with wi-fi has also gone up on the blocks, though Mayor Bill White has wrung a $5mil payment from Earthlink. I'm guessing this one isn't going to go ahead either.
Comcast and ATT must be laughing now.
Damn you HP!!
My new Dell M65 work laptop blue-screened whilst printing a document I hadn't saved. Luckily windows XP directed me to the right patch after restarting, but my old M60 never crashed in 2 YEARS.
Windows XP on decent hardware is pretty damn solid, but I still prefer OS X or Ubuntu.
XML provides an application independent way of sharing data. With a DTD, independent groups of people can agree to use a common DTD for interchanging data. Your application can use a standard DTD to verify that data that you receive from the outside world is valid. You can also use a DTD to verify your own data.
A lot of forums are emerging to define standard DTDs for almost everything in the areas of data exchange. Take a look at: CommerceNet's XML exchange and http://www.schema.net./ Where is a DTD referenced? That's right, at the top of the XML file.