No, I've only got one. I've had one for some time, but a few years ago I said I was thinking of getting another, and since then some people have called me "Two Sheds"...
I'm with you there on the reasoning, but saying 'foreign bureaucrat' like that is misleading - any EU ruling is (theoretically) a consensus reached by the representatives of each member country.
If you're going to bitch about the EU, the correct target is democratic organisation of the system - or lack thereof. Council of Ministers, anyone?
Don't forget, we can come up with our own humdingers every now and again (the oft-quoted EU standard bannana curvature was in fact of British origin).
Back on topic - I personally think SI is by far the sanest and most useful measurement system, but if someone else doesn't and actually wants to use pounds and ounces, that's fine by me. The best system should win because it is the best - not because the alternative is illegal.
Erm, incorrect. While the Eurostar incorporates many of the features of the French TGV trains (which are bloody brilliant btw) it's production was an Anglo-French co-operation (like Concorde) and therefore has a hell of a lot of British design and engineering in there too.
When you consider the different rail and power systems the Eurostar is capable of operating on you begin to appreciate just how much of an engineering achievement it is. I mean, come on, a train 1/4 of a mile long (the longest passenger train in the world) capable of traveling at 186mph across the signalling and power systems of 7 different countries!
It's just a pity that the rail infrastructure in the UK can't accomodate high speed services. It travels about 80mph slower in the UK than in France. With Railtrack as cocked up as it is, it doesn't look like that's about to change either (they have the contract for the new high speed line through Kent to London).
Interestingly, the reason the train goes so slowly through Kent (relatively - it's still doing about 100mph) is because if 2 Eurostars were to pass each other on the closely spaced Kent track at full speed (ie a closing speed of 372mph) the resuting pressure wave would blow out the windows on the train!
I've just been to cahighspeedrail.ca.gov and I have to say, the splash photo on the front page looks pretty much identical to a Eurostar... in fact, the background behind it looks suspiciously like the London Waterloo terminus too...
Did you even read the article? It records these paid-for spots using the Tivo's reserved space. This is not userspace stuff - it's exclusively for the Tivo's use.
It makes absolutely no impact on the amount of space you have available to record your own stuff.
It does seem that Laser at least has become a generic term, with the 'light' bit meaning the spectrum in general - take the Laurence Livermore Labs CMT Laser which they refer to as a 'table top X-ray Laser'. It gets down to 14-20 nm.
The Rutherford Appleton Lab's VULCAN X-ray Laser here in the UK gets down to about 5.9nm, though it's apparently huge (providing 90J of energy IIRC) whereas the CMT ('Comet') is obviously compact but only produces 5 or 6J of energy.
That's probably out of date by now but the point stands...
What we really need is for someone to reverse engineer to phone API. Handspring would probably not want to rock the PalmOS boat by opening any specifications.
DO NOT buy an R380 - about as useful as a lump of plastic. Gives you the impression that they never actually bothered beata testing it (my faith in Symbian has been severely knocked by this phone).
I'm using the Motorola 008 now, and it is actually quite useful, if a little klunky. Though the Treo does have the advantage of running PalmOS (MDIP JAVA support just doesn't quite cut the mustard IMHO).
That was the whole point of setting up NASA, right? So that Space wasn't controlled by the military - back in the 60s there was big competition between the US armed forces as to who got to control the space programme. NASA was the solution to that.
j.
It may run Windows CE, but the Trium Mondo looks like a very cool piece of kit - have a look here
It can do GSM with GPRS, so when that goes mainstream in the next few months (in the UK at least) we'll have always-on, mobile internet. Can't wait! Of course there's always the Ericsson R380 in the mean time...
What about if your palm _is_ hooked up to the phone - by the time this is mainstream, that will probably be the truth. Handpsring has the GSM Springboard module in the works, Ericsson has the Simbian-based R380, Nokia has the Communicator...
Remember the old maxim, all applications grow until they can read email? PDAs etc are going the same way - when communication is ubiquitous (bluetooth etc.) you could talk to anything.
What about Oracle's iFS? Filesystem integrated into the database - yum. I haven't had the opportunity to play with it yet (waiting for it to go stable on Linux) but the absolute gem in my opinion is the few hundred import filters which automagically strip out proprietary data formats and store the files as XML in the 8i database. MS Word files anyone? No problemo... james
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No, I've only got one. I've had one for some time, but a few years ago I said I was thinking of getting another, and since then some people have called me "Two Sheds"...
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Anyone would have thought you knew that already :-)
it prevents scripting attacks because you can't email someone malicious javascript, for example, as the keywords will be replaced.
james
Well, left or right - depends which side the pedestrians are on :-)
james
I'm with you there on the reasoning, but saying 'foreign bureaucrat' like that is misleading - any EU ruling is (theoretically) a consensus reached by the representatives of each member country.
If you're going to bitch about the EU, the correct target is democratic organisation of the system - or lack thereof. Council of Ministers, anyone?
Don't forget, we can come up with our own humdingers every now and again (the oft-quoted EU standard bannana curvature was in fact of British origin).
Back on topic - I personally think SI is by far the sanest and most useful measurement system, but if someone else doesn't and actually wants to use pounds and ounces, that's fine by me. The best system should win because it is the best - not because the alternative is illegal.
jc.
I really wish Arthur would realise these collaborations just ruin his storys. His books with Gentry Lee went the same way.
Saly he's not the only author with this problem.
j.
Erm, incorrect. While the Eurostar incorporates many of the features of the French TGV trains (which are bloody brilliant btw) it's production was an Anglo-French co-operation (like Concorde) and therefore has a hell of a lot of British design and engineering in there too.
Have a look here and here for more info.
When you consider the different rail and power systems the Eurostar is capable of operating on you begin to appreciate just how much of an engineering achievement it is. I mean, come on, a train 1/4 of a mile long (the longest passenger train in the world) capable of traveling at 186mph across the signalling and power systems of 7 different countries!
It's just a pity that the rail infrastructure in the UK can't accomodate high speed services. It travels about 80mph slower in the UK than in France. With Railtrack as cocked up as it is, it doesn't look like that's about to change either (they have the contract for the new high speed line through Kent to London).
Interestingly, the reason the train goes so slowly through Kent (relatively - it's still doing about 100mph) is because if 2 Eurostars were to pass each other on the closely spaced Kent track at full speed (ie a closing speed of 372mph) the resuting pressure wave would blow out the windows on the train!
I've just been to cahighspeedrail.ca.gov and I have to say, the splash photo on the front page looks pretty much identical to a Eurostar... in fact, the background behind it looks suspiciously like the London Waterloo terminus too...
james
Did you even read the article? It records these paid-for spots using the Tivo's reserved space. This is not userspace stuff - it's exclusively for the Tivo's use.
It makes absolutely no impact on the amount of space you have available to record your own stuff.
Edmund Burke, a famous British statesman (1729-1797).
It does seem that Laser at least has become a generic term, with the 'light' bit meaning the spectrum in general - take the Laurence Livermore Labs CMT Laser which they refer to as a 'table top X-ray Laser'. It gets down to 14-20 nm.
The Rutherford Appleton Lab's VULCAN X-ray Laser here in the UK gets down to about 5.9nm, though it's apparently huge (providing 90J of energy IIRC) whereas the CMT ('Comet') is obviously compact but only produces 5 or 6J of energy.
That's probably out of date by now but the point stands...
james
Fellowship of the Ring
In English we say 'Good Morning' :-)
james
What we really need is for someone to reverse engineer to phone API. Handspring would probably not want to rock the PalmOS boat by opening any specifications.
DO NOT buy an R380 - about as useful as a lump of plastic. Gives you the impression that they never actually bothered beata testing it (my faith in Symbian has been severely knocked by this phone).
I'm using the Motorola 008 now, and it is actually quite useful, if a little klunky. Though the Treo does have the advantage of running PalmOS (MDIP JAVA support just doesn't quite cut the mustard IMHO).
j.
Use a handsfree kit.
:-)
And you have the benefit of not microwaving your brain
They've thought of that - the Euro versions run at 900/1800.
>anyway, I wouldn't recommend Access
>for that purpose anymore
Anymore? You mean you _ever_ would have?
james
That was the whole point of setting up NASA, right? So that Space wasn't controlled by the military - back in the 60s there was big competition between the US armed forces as to who got to control the space programme. NASA was the solution to that. j.
your point, caller??
j.
It may run Windows CE, but the Trium Mondo looks like a very cool piece of kit - have a look here
It can do GSM with GPRS, so when that goes mainstream in the next few months (in the UK at least) we'll have always-on, mobile internet. Can't wait! Of course there's always the Ericsson R380 in the mean time...
j.
What about if your palm _is_ hooked up to the phone - by the time this is mainstream, that will probably be the truth. Handpsring has the GSM Springboard module in the works, Ericsson has the Simbian-based R380, Nokia has the Communicator...
Remember the old maxim, all applications grow until they can read email? PDAs etc are going the same way - when communication is ubiquitous (bluetooth etc.) you could talk to anything.
Imagine what we'll be able to do tomorrow.
james
http://www.apple.com/powermaccube/
'nuff said
Yeah, PPTPv1 is very broken, but PoPToP also implements PPTPv2 which I understand is a massive improvement. You can force v2-only connections too.
Looks to be a v.good product; something that I'm looking at implementing myself.
j.
What about Oracle's iFS? Filesystem integrated into the database - yum. I haven't had the opportunity to play with it yet (waiting for it to go stable on Linux) but the absolute gem in my opinion is the few hundred import filters which automagically strip out proprietary data formats and store the files as XML in the 8i database. MS Word files anyone? No problemo... james
No, that's just our politicians!
j.