There is a thing on Mars called the wind. Suppose it was buried thousands of years ago and only recently got cleared? I, however, favour the Beagle 2 theory....
Re:Replaced by: My gun didn't know me so I got kil
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I'm from the UK where handguns are banned (gun crime has since gone up, but I digress).
This thing works be recognising pressure from your hand. If you fish the gun out at 3am after hearing someone breaking in, wouldn't nervousness / sweat alter the way you hold the gun? Would it then not shoot?
Also, suppose you get one of these guns and then don't use it for 5 years. It must have a battery in, and batteries go flat... I can't really imagine leaving a gun to charge. Perhaps they could build the battery in to the magazine (that the right word?) and you could leave that out to charge with the gun locked away.
I recall reading (in a maths exam, actually) about how incredible the precision in a hard drive is.
The analogy was flying a jumbo jet at 20,000MPH approximately 2 inches above the ground and reading a line of coins (heads or tails) out of the window.
What's even more incredible is that my Western Digital 250GB drive works fine after it fell out of my computer on to a stone floor - a 6 foot drop. Apart from a huge dent in one corner, it works just fine.
It's a Transmeta CPU. It crawls regardless of what you run on it. The author doesn't state whether he maxed out the RAM on his to improve performance.
Sure, you could make Linux lighter. But I can't see how you could get a performance improvement on the most important part of the tablet PC - using the pen. Decoding handwriting (if it's even possible on Linux) comes down to pure CPU power, which the TC1000 just doesn't have.
If he's running Linux on it because it crawls, the pen support is not going to be that important. Why not get a faster machine instead?
I'm sure I read this page months ago when I was thinking about trying Linux on my TC1000. However, Tablet PC Edition is an excellent implementation of Windows XP, and has got even better since SP2.
I can't see why you'd want to run Linux on a Tablet PC given the (almost) total lack of support for it. Perhaps it's better to just bite the bullet and accept that Microsoft have come up with something pretty good.
Saying that, I sold the Tablet six months ago and my Thinkpad dualboots Linux and Windows, which is genuinely useful. Linux on a Tablet PC can be said to have novelty use only.
My website exists solely on the revenue from adverts. Being Pocket PC centric, readers are quite technology literate and hence a good number of them use FireFox.
The ads are small, suit the page style, and are 100% connected to the site's content. (Pocket PC games). Why do poeople block them? It's OK in my book to block pop-ups, but I think reading a website and deliberately blocking its adverts is akin to going into a shop, reading their newspaper, and putting it back on the shelf.
We've gone from having a 2% CTR to less than 0.25. The site costs $168/month to run, and my student loan, and not the advertising revenue, covers the bills.
I got a call from a company selling stairlifts a few weeks ago. Not having much else to do, I played along. It went a little like this:
Them: Hi, I'm calling from Stairlifts Inc. Do you ever have trouble getting up the stairs in your home? Me: Oh, yes. Quite often. Them: Are you over 50? Me: Yes. [I'm not, but what do they know?] Them: Could we interest you in a meeting with our salesman? Me: That'd be nice. [We arrange a date, I give them a false address] Them: Thank you very much! He'll be along soon. Me: Thank YOU. Please remind your salesman that it's the 1st bungalow on the left. *CLICK*
You know, Microsoft bashing is not a religion or something to aspire to. For me Windows XP is better than 2000, and when it comes down to it, I don't think people should be saying things like that when they don't really understand or mean them.
Given there's nothing better (I'm gonna get flamed now), you might as well stop moaning and live with it. I dunno about you, but Windows XP was a huge improvment over anything previously. I can still remember the shock when I installed it and it actually found and had drivers for all my hardware, even an ancient Conexant 56k modem.
Since when has it been possible to install Linux and have everything work? No, you have to fiddle around deep down, and even then you're lucky if something goes right. Hell, I installed Linux and it couldn't even find my USB mouse.
Kevin Warwick (aka Captain Cyborg) gave a guest lecture at my university about 3 weeks ago. In it he discussed the implant he had placed on to a nerve in his arm, and the attempts he made to link electronic devices to his nervous system.
One interesting (at least to me) part was an experiment where he linked an ultrasonic distance sensor (worn on a hat) to his arm. As something got closer, the pulses became more rapid.
With his eyes open, he could sense the pulses, but not really make sense of them. When he was wearing a blindfold, someone moved quickly towards him. Instinctively, he stepped back out of their way.
It goes to show just how quickly the brain can learn to adapt, and potentially this could have a huge future if it's successful. I have to admit I don't see the point in using the tongue, but Warwick's method of using an implant and a nerve now definitely merits more investigation.
I bought the game from a store yesterday. It only took 20 minutes to install off the 5 CDs, you would think they could make it on DVD. And whats with not giving us jewl cases for a $55 game? Cheap paper sleves are for Drivers, not AAA title games.
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I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK it was released on DVD. At least we're embracing the future - I vaguely recall the same thing happening with Far Cry. For some unbelivably stupid reason the publishers assume that America lacks DVD technology.
Err, no, the firewall is outbound too. If an application tries to access the internet without your permission you get a warning message come up asking if you want to block it or not.
The OLD Windows Firewall was inbound only, or am I missing something really obvious here?
It's been running for nearly six months now on my Thinkpad T40 (I was in the beta program) and I've never had a problem. I've been able to take off my software firewall and let Windows handle it. No stability issues or compatiblility issues.
A job well done, though it'll pain a moderator to let that last comment stand.;)
I've been thinking along the same lines recently. What's the point in submitting a story to/. when it's patently obvious your server isn't going to be able to hold up? 20 comments and it's gone down, and, of course, most Caches are useless for things like screenshots.
If you're going to faff around hosting pictures at least try to spread the load a bit. My site got/.'d and it struggled to stay afloat, and it's a dual P4 dedicated server with 1GB of RAM.
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I think in this case, the drive wasn't dead. The guy had accidentally deleted something.
Precisely - what's wrong with taking it back to the shop and asking for a new one? This is just someone out to try to make cash from MS and I don't think it should have been posted on Slashdot, as it will no doubt aid their cause.
You can always tell when something is fake because the spelling and grammar is all wrong. eg, "adviced", the use of exclamation marks, "and not only."
Doesn't take a genius to spot it, but does suggest that it was created by someone who's not a native English speaker. Seems that most bad things on the net (spam and so forth) seem to be heading out from foreign countries.
What if Microsoft decided to put some support behind Linux? Suppose they take the current source, fix the issues, get decent drivers and make it look pretty. They then slap their logo on it and release it. (Either by download or sticking it on a CD and charging for it.)
OK, they've lost money on it. But if they suddenly switch half the Linux community to Microsoft Linux (never thought I'd say those two words together!) they then control that market too.
On my news submission form, there's a field for people to enter their email address. When I receive the completed form (it's forwarded to my Gmail account) and the sender has used a Gmail address, a yellow warning bar appears cautioning about trusting the email.
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Pity really - they had a chance, and screwed it. I couldn't care less if the software I use (assuming it's free) has a banner ad somewhere in it.
I get extremely pissed off if it includes spyware and then the developers lie about it.
Long live Exeem Lite! May the creator of Exceem make no profit on it at all.
Well, I never thought I'd see the day that Slashdot promotes AOL...
There is a thing on Mars called the wind. Suppose it was buried thousands of years ago and only recently got cleared? I, however, favour the Beagle 2 theory....
I'm from the UK where handguns are banned (gun crime has since gone up, but I digress).
This thing works be recognising pressure from your hand. If you fish the gun out at 3am after hearing someone breaking in, wouldn't nervousness / sweat alter the way you hold the gun? Would it then not shoot?
Also, suppose you get one of these guns and then don't use it for 5 years. It must have a battery in, and batteries go flat... I can't really imagine leaving a gun to charge. Perhaps they could build the battery in to the magazine (that the right word?) and you could leave that out to charge with the gun locked away.
Surely the world should end on a Thursday...
I saw it get installed today via Automatic Updates, but I'm stumped if I know where it installed to.
Does it run in the background (not in scheduled tasks) or have I missed something obvious?
I recall reading (in a maths exam, actually) about how incredible the precision in a hard drive is.
The analogy was flying a jumbo jet at 20,000MPH approximately 2 inches above the ground and reading a line of coins (heads or tails) out of the window.
What's even more incredible is that my Western Digital 250GB drive works fine after it fell out of my computer on to a stone floor - a 6 foot drop. Apart from a huge dent in one corner, it works just fine.
Assuming this gets bundled free with all Apple computers - how come it's illegal for Microsoft to do something similar?
Presumably, other office software is now going to suffer.
It's a Transmeta CPU. It crawls regardless of what you run on it. The author doesn't state whether he maxed out the RAM on his to improve performance.
Sure, you could make Linux lighter. But I can't see how you could get a performance improvement on the most important part of the tablet PC - using the pen. Decoding handwriting (if it's even possible on Linux) comes down to pure CPU power, which the TC1000 just doesn't have.
If he's running Linux on it because it crawls, the pen support is not going to be that important. Why not get a faster machine instead?
I'm sure I read this page months ago when I was thinking about trying Linux on my TC1000. However, Tablet PC Edition is an excellent implementation of Windows XP, and has got even better since SP2.
I can't see why you'd want to run Linux on a Tablet PC given the (almost) total lack of support for it. Perhaps it's better to just bite the bullet and accept that Microsoft have come up with something pretty good.
Saying that, I sold the Tablet six months ago and my Thinkpad dualboots Linux and Windows, which is genuinely useful. Linux on a Tablet PC can be said to have novelty use only.
Excuse me. Guns don't kill people. Bullets don't kill people.
:)
Death kills people.
[Thank you, GTA3]
My website exists solely on the revenue from adverts. Being Pocket PC centric, readers are quite technology literate and hence a good number of them use FireFox.
The ads are small, suit the page style, and are 100% connected to the site's content. (Pocket PC games). Why do poeople block them? It's OK in my book to block pop-ups, but I think reading a website and deliberately blocking its adverts is akin to going into a shop, reading their newspaper, and putting it back on the shelf.
We've gone from having a 2% CTR to less than 0.25. The site costs $168/month to run, and my student loan, and not the advertising revenue, covers the bills.
I got a call from a company selling stairlifts a few weeks ago. Not having much else to do, I played along. It went a little like this:
Them: Hi, I'm calling from Stairlifts Inc. Do you ever have trouble getting up the stairs in your home?
Me: Oh, yes. Quite often.
Them: Are you over 50?
Me: Yes. [I'm not, but what do they know?]
Them: Could we interest you in a meeting with our salesman?
Me: That'd be nice. [We arrange a date, I give them a false address]
Them: Thank you very much! He'll be along soon.
Me: Thank YOU. Please remind your salesman that it's the 1st bungalow on the left.
*CLICK*
Whad' I do?
You know, Microsoft bashing is not a religion or something to aspire to. For me Windows XP is better than 2000, and when it comes down to it, I don't think people should be saying things like that when they don't really understand or mean them.
Given there's nothing better (I'm gonna get flamed now), you might as well stop moaning and live with it. I dunno about you, but Windows XP was a huge improvment over anything previously. I can still remember the shock when I installed it and it actually found and had drivers for all my hardware, even an ancient Conexant 56k modem.
Since when has it been possible to install Linux and have everything work? No, you have to fiddle around deep down, and even then you're lucky if something goes right. Hell, I installed Linux and it couldn't even find my USB mouse.
Kevin Warwick (aka Captain Cyborg) gave a guest lecture at my university about 3 weeks ago. In it he discussed the implant he had placed on to a nerve in his arm, and the attempts he made to link electronic devices to his nervous system.
One interesting (at least to me) part was an experiment where he linked an ultrasonic distance sensor (worn on a hat) to his arm. As something got closer, the pulses became more rapid.
With his eyes open, he could sense the pulses, but not really make sense of them. When he was wearing a blindfold, someone moved quickly towards him. Instinctively, he stepped back out of their way.
It goes to show just how quickly the brain can learn to adapt, and potentially this could have a huge future if it's successful. I have to admit I don't see the point in using the tongue, but Warwick's method of using an implant and a nerve now definitely merits more investigation.
I bought the game from a store yesterday. It only took 20 minutes to install off the 5 CDs, you would think they could make it on DVD. And whats with not giving us jewl cases for a $55 game? Cheap paper sleves are for Drivers, not AAA title games. [/rant].
I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the UK it was released on DVD. At least we're embracing the future - I vaguely recall the same thing happening with Far Cry. For some unbelivably stupid reason the publishers assume that America lacks DVD technology.
We should have lost disc swapping 5 years ago.
Err, no, the firewall is outbound too. If an application tries to access the internet without your permission you get a warning message come up asking if you want to block it or not.
The OLD Windows Firewall was inbound only, or am I missing something really obvious here?
It's been running for nearly six months now on my Thinkpad T40 (I was in the beta program) and I've never had a problem. I've been able to take off my software firewall and let Windows handle it. No stability issues or compatiblility issues.
;)
A job well done, though it'll pain a moderator to let that last comment stand.
I've been thinking along the same lines recently. What's the point in submitting a story to /. when it's patently obvious your server isn't going to be able to hold up? 20 comments and it's gone down, and, of course, most Caches are useless for things like screenshots.
/.'d and it struggled to stay afloat, and it's a dual P4 dedicated server with 1GB of RAM.
If you're going to faff around hosting pictures at least try to spread the load a bit. My site got
I think in this case, the drive wasn't dead. The guy had accidentally deleted something.
Precisely - what's wrong with taking it back to the shop and asking for a new one? This is just someone out to try to make cash from MS and I don't think it should have been posted on Slashdot, as it will no doubt aid their cause.
You can always tell when something is fake because the spelling and grammar is all wrong. eg, "adviced", the use of exclamation marks, "and not only."
Doesn't take a genius to spot it, but does suggest that it was created by someone who's not a native English speaker. Seems that most bad things on the net (spam and so forth) seem to be heading out from foreign countries.
What if Microsoft decided to put some support behind Linux? Suppose they take the current source, fix the issues, get decent drivers and make it look pretty. They then slap their logo on it and release it. (Either by download or sticking it on a CD and charging for it.)
OK, they've lost money on it. But if they suddenly switch half the Linux community to Microsoft Linux (never thought I'd say those two words together!) they then control that market too.
On my news submission form, there's a field for people to enter their email address. When I receive the completed form (it's forwarded to my Gmail account) and the sender has used a Gmail address, a yellow warning bar appears cautioning about trusting the email.
Have you noticed how all judges in the UK seem to have the first name Justice? Must be some sort of ordained-from-birth thing.