I'm sorry I can't help the poster of the main article; it's out of my league.
I've seen numerous posts about how clickers are stupid. I personally couldn't wait to take a class with the clickers. Now I'm in one, and the class loves them. Of course, it's a geeky class (Data Structures and Algorithms II), but that doesn't change anything. We keep bugging the professor to get to the clicker questions, and when she does we have a field day.
While there are hiccups, the system for the most part works. Sometimes people can't get it to connect, sometimes it lags quite a bit, but in the end it works.
As for a waste of money, the clickers we use only cost $15, and the University pays the subscription fee to use them -- once we buy them and enroll in a UAkron class, we can use the clicker in any class at any school for the rest of its useful life. I think $15 is a good investment in such a useful tool.
I don't know about Palms, but you can get VTI Pocket for a PocketPC. VTI is a calculator emulator; VTI Pocket is (logically enough) the PocketPC version of it.
The 83+ Silver and 84+ Silver have 2MB of ROM, and 128 KB of RAM, all done via page swapping in a 64KB address space. To get technical, $0000 to $3999 are fixed on ROM page 0, two of the remaining 16KB chunks can be mapped to any of the RAM or ROM pages, and the last 16KB chunk can be mapped to any of the RAM pages (can't do ROM as this is where the stack is; hardware prevents it anyway).
It *might* be possible to run linux, but it wouldn't be very practical unless you build USB Mass Storage drivers into it (and that would restrict it to the 84+ only).
You know, that's a project idea...
He (Mihcael) is (I think) working on it. You might not get grayscale per se, but if you run it at twice or thrice the framerate and toggle the pixels in the data stream, you'd get the same effect. This current achievement is with the processor in low-speed 6MHz mode; there's a faster 15MHz mode as well. The processor speed would affect the bandwidth you get with the USB with the way the hardware is set up.
My high school started using a program for that my senior year. I never bothered to try to crack it as I had no need -- at least one of my network accounts was an Administrator, and Administrators aren't affected by that program.:)
I installed the beta and rebooted like it asked. I fired up Trillian and it crashed in wininet.dll. I was able to use it just fine until I dismissed the error dialog, at which point it quit. I immediately uninstalled IE7, going back to IE6, and rebooted again. But wait, that's not all the rebooting I had to do to wipe it out. When I got back into my desktop, OE was crashing in msoe.dll. Another reboot to try the System Restore wizard to the install checkpoint for IE7. That didn't help. I tried running an OE installer, but it said I already had a later version installed. Whatever. I tried System File Checker, but that didn't see the CD sitting in my drive. Turns out the damn thing only looks at the location specified in the registry and won't ask you for another location if it can't find the files. It was looking at D: (which, at the time, WAS my CD drive), which is a FAT32 partition that I use for transferring data safely between Windows and Linux. I renamed my CD drive to R: as soon as I got the computer. After googling a bit, I found where in the registry I had to change the path. I finally got my computer back to a somewhat stable state. I say somewhat as I've had at least 2 different BSODs since I went through all this. I normally only get a BSOD once a month, if that often.
To make a long story short: Don't bother with the beta if you want to use your computer for anything productive.
Hmm, maybe it'll end up being what Family Guy went through. They get un-canceled some years later... But they won't be able to poke fun back at the network like they did...
Now, with the 32-bit hardware driver problem, I can understand that. But Microsoft already ran 16-bit apps under emulation since the earliest days of NT (via NTVDM or WOW - If you ever see either of those in yout task manager, you still use 16-bit code for something) - I see absolutely no reason whythey would have discontinued that.
The Athlon64 runs 16-bit code extremely slowly. Also, MS would have to WoW32 inside the WoW64, which I'm sure would cause a lot of headaches.
Frankly, I never run any 16-bit apps, and there's always VMWare if I would want to.
Because the binaries they hold serve different purposes. Often the stuff in/bin is statically linked so that it is usable in the event of a catastrophic failure, where as/usr/bin and/usr/local/bin binaries are often only usable if the system comes up.
Not so./bin is dynamically linked binaries that should be available if/usr/bin can't be mounted./sbin isn't superuser bin, it's static bin. Same for/usr/sbin.
If most messages are sent client to client, then how does it work if both parties are behind (different) firewalls? That obviously has to use the server, and last I checked, you have to *manually enable* client to client messaging. Also, I think that's a fairly recent feature to the client.
At least in the latest Pro version, Trillian has integrated Wikipedia lookup support for many terms. I find it quite useful when stuff comes up that I don't know exactly what it is, and also just for laughs to see what it says about some common stuff.
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I'm sorry I can't help the poster of the main article; it's out of my league.
I've seen numerous posts about how clickers are stupid. I personally couldn't wait to take a class with the clickers. Now I'm in one, and the class loves them. Of course, it's a geeky class (Data Structures and Algorithms II), but that doesn't change anything. We keep bugging the professor to get to the clicker questions, and when she does we have a field day.
While there are hiccups, the system for the most part works. Sometimes people can't get it to connect, sometimes it lags quite a bit, but in the end it works.
As for a waste of money, the clickers we use only cost $15, and the University pays the subscription fee to use them -- once we buy them and enroll in a UAkron class, we can use the clicker in any class at any school for the rest of its useful life. I think $15 is a good investment in such a useful tool.
I don't know about Palms, but you can get VTI Pocket for a PocketPC. VTI is a calculator emulator; VTI Pocket is (logically enough) the PocketPC version of it.
The 83+ Silver and 84+ Silver have 2MB of ROM, and 128 KB of RAM, all done via page swapping in a 64KB address space. To get technical, $0000 to $3999 are fixed on ROM page 0, two of the remaining 16KB chunks can be mapped to any of the RAM or ROM pages, and the last 16KB chunk can be mapped to any of the RAM pages (can't do ROM as this is where the stack is; hardware prevents it anyway). It *might* be possible to run linux, but it wouldn't be very practical unless you build USB Mass Storage drivers into it (and that would restrict it to the 84+ only). You know, that's a project idea...
Mod Parent Up -- One of the authors of the program posted it.
Not yet, and not probably -- not enough RAM/ROM to do so. :)
For the record, the 84+ uses a dual-speed 6/15MHz Z80.
Knowing those guys (Dan and Michael), they do it for the hell of it, not for the fame. Chilax dude.
He (Mihcael) is (I think) working on it. You might not get grayscale per se, but if you run it at twice or thrice the framerate and toggle the pixels in the data stream, you'd get the same effect. This current achievement is with the processor in low-speed 6MHz mode; there's a faster 15MHz mode as well. The processor speed would affect the bandwidth you get with the USB with the way the hardware is set up.
They're working on that now. I don't know where one can get more details, though.
My high school started using a program for that my senior year. I never bothered to try to crack it as I had no need -- at least one of my network accounts was an Administrator, and Administrators aren't affected by that program. :)
I installed the beta and rebooted like it asked. I fired up Trillian and it crashed in wininet.dll. I was able to use it just fine until I dismissed the error dialog, at which point it quit. I immediately uninstalled IE7, going back to IE6, and rebooted again. But wait, that's not all the rebooting I had to do to wipe it out. When I got back into my desktop, OE was crashing in msoe.dll. Another reboot to try the System Restore wizard to the install checkpoint for IE7. That didn't help. I tried running an OE installer, but it said I already had a later version installed. Whatever. I tried System File Checker, but that didn't see the CD sitting in my drive. Turns out the damn thing only looks at the location specified in the registry and won't ask you for another location if it can't find the files. It was looking at D: (which, at the time, WAS my CD drive), which is a FAT32 partition that I use for transferring data safely between Windows and Linux. I renamed my CD drive to R: as soon as I got the computer. After googling a bit, I found where in the registry I had to change the path. I finally got my computer back to a somewhat stable state. I say somewhat as I've had at least 2 different BSODs since I went through all this. I normally only get a BSOD once a month, if that often. To make a long story short: Don't bother with the beta if you want to use your computer for anything productive.
Hmm, maybe it'll end up being what Family Guy went through. They get un-canceled some years later... But they won't be able to poke fun back at the network like they did...
So all $X000 of tution they spend doesn't count as paying for internet access?
From what I've read, it will be free as in beer only if you have an XP Pro license. As for the prerelease, they gave you a key when you downloaded it.
The Athlon64 runs 16-bit code extremely slowly. Also, MS would have to WoW32 inside the WoW64, which I'm sure would cause a lot of headaches.
Frankly, I never run any 16-bit apps, and there's always VMWare if I would want to.
Because the binaries they hold serve different purposes. Often the stuff in /bin is statically linked so that it is usable in the event of a catastrophic failure, where as /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin binaries are often only usable if the system comes up.
Not so. /bin is dynamically linked binaries that should be available if /usr/bin can't be mounted. /sbin isn't superuser bin, it's static bin. Same for /usr/sbin.
If most messages are sent client to client, then how does it work if both parties are behind (different) firewalls? That obviously has to use the server, and last I checked, you have to *manually enable* client to client messaging. Also, I think that's a fairly recent feature to the client.
At least in the latest Pro version, Trillian has integrated Wikipedia lookup support for many terms. I find it quite useful when stuff comes up that I don't know exactly what it is, and also just for laughs to see what it says about some common stuff.
It even recognizes CowboyNeal.
You can't take the Bible literally all the time. Just becuase it doesn't say there IS life on other planets doesn't mean that there isn't.
The standard pistol is even better than the SMG.