It's a Chinese to English dictionary and is Windows Mobile/PalmOS only. I.e. not Symbian or Android.
Also I can get GPS maps of Taiwan in English on WinMo.
WinMo has a lot more software vendors for things like this than Symbian because it's not very hard to port Windows desktop applications to WinMo. And I think in Asia there's a lot of people with Windows mobile devices and frankly a lot of cracked WinMo software.
I am Mirriam Obasanjo, widow of former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. I have 1 MILLION datacenters supplied as part of a government contract which was cancelled. Unless I can get them out of the country soon they will have to be returned. In return for your cooperations I will give you a fee of ten percent. Please tell me your bank account details so I can arrange transfer of the datacenters as soon as possible.
What if there were VELOCIRAPTORS in the unfamiliar territory? Then I think the directions would be "Turn left and head up the mountain, don't turn right and walk through the jungle. The VELOCIRAPTORS hunt in packs there".
I think I'd be cautious and preserve any interface indefinitely. That being said I'd also be cautious about exposing an interface in the first place for exactly that reason.
The current trend for refactoring, where people spend most of their time rewriting code they've already written once and usally manage break compatibility to boot seems to me to be disasterous.
It I were a network support guy I think I'd have a magic 8 ball sabotaged so it always says "OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD". When people came to ask me about email, I'd say "Well it's not magic! It's easy to check once you understand the basics of the technology" and make a great show of unpacking the 8 ball and shaking it and then show them the answer.
It's actually a remarkable story - he was in charge of the 'port', but actually he just played the arcade game at his hotel, wrote a spec and reimplemented it from scratch. When it was done he had code that just fit into the Rom - only a 'dozen or so bytes' were free. It's easily one of the best arcade ports to the Atari too.
Actually since Atari is the topic, I had one back in the day and there are two things I saw demonstrated that I never could figure out.
One was a turbo loader for cassette tapes. There was a lump of electronics in potting compound and a normal cassette recorded. They claimed it could load from tape faster than an 1050 disk drive. It couldnâ(TM)t but it was pretty close. The lump of potted electronics was quite small and the sold the whole thing for about 40 bucks. I never figured out how they managed to modulate and demodulate that high a baud rate with what must have been a couple of Op Amps. I donâ(TM)t know how stable it was - probably not very - but I donâ(TM)t think it was faked.
The other was an Atari 800XL with a Prestel cartridge. It was displaying 40Ã--24 text in the Prestel font, which is easy to do on an Atari. But it was also displaying Prestel colors. They allow any character cell to have one of 8 colors (basically R1G1B1) in the foreground and one in the background. If you looked carefully the screen looked like Mode 0 with a strage overlay color, like they used the player missile graphics or something. But PMG doesnâ(TM)t look like it can handle the worst case where either the background or the foreground can change each character square. It was sort of flickery too, though not as bad as if they interlaced a color frame and a text frame alternately.
I don't like the idea of releasing something with an software interface which is clunky and then releasing something else with a new and incompatible 'better' interface. Think carefully before you release an interface and then support it forever. Otherwise no one will use your stuff.
It's an incompatible fork with fundamental changes.
Applications no longer deal with interface pointers. The classes wrapping around interfaces are used a container for an interface pointer, providing garbage collection the "direct" way 8-)
Einstein, Newton, Hawking and Slashdot once competed to see who could produce the most brilliant physics paper. Slashdot's paper said only "imagine a beowulf cluster of portman's hot grits. first post". On the way back Hawking gave Slashdot a wedgie. Natalie Portman watched and laughed and then her and Hawking went home together. As she left Portman made a point of showing Slashdot a bag of grits.
Only if you're the first person to post that particularly cliche. If you're the second it's -1 redundant. Cliche posters need to have hair trigger reflexes to survive.
It's a bit like "Bark for a dollar!" except the second barker pays the first.
You know in a way Slashdot is a bit like Iran. There are dissidents here and there are Basij, the moderators. Right now the dissidents are kept in line, all the ones that step up get downmodded as troll by the moderators which is a bit like being beaten up by the Basij.
Now like Iran if the dissidents start to demonstrate in large numbers the first few would lose their karma and be forced to post at -1. This is like being killed by the Basij. If they all did it at once some of the moderators would start to mod them up, rather like when troops in a revolution stop shooting demonstraters. Soon the trolls would win and post at +5 and anyone that complained would be modded down.
This would be regime change. Now I say to the trolls - stand up and bring down the regime. Windows rules and Linux sucks. GNAA forever!
3. Pay a team of voracious lawyers to hunt down people on the Internet for slanderous comments concerning 2. and threaten them with ruinous legal action. Sue some grandmothers.
Just a minor correction: Look, there's a lot of technology that could be used to kill a lot of people. The American taxpayer paid for that R&D, and it should be used in our interests.
Well is that a bad thing? If the US tax payer paid for the technology it should be used in the interests of the US? This isn't like a football match where both sides are interchangeable. The US system is much more free than China or Irans If people are going to be killed with technology paid for by the US tax payer those people should be the ones fighting for the rival system, not ones fighting for the US one. That's the reason that the US funds defence R&D - it wants to maintain and extend its technological advantage.
Because every now and then you will be forced to fight to make sure that free societies survive and spread and unfree societies are rolled back and eventually eradicated. And with a technological advantage you end up with Desert Storm style turkey shoots where the unfree side is slaughtered efficiently with high tech gizmos and the free side takes very light casualties. I think it is in the public interest for this to be the norm - and I don't just mean the interests of the US public.
Seriously, read up on D Day for what sort of casualties US soldiers take when the unfree side has technological parity. And its more serious than that - modern free societies compared to 1940's ones have an allergy to even light military casualties whereas unfree societies can hurl their more numerous but badly equipped troops in human wave attacks and then kill anyone who complains.
For freedom and democracy to survive long term it is vitally important that the perception in unfree societies is that their armies will be decimated like the Iraqi army if they challenge free societies openly.
Slashdot Mirror
I like this on WinMo.
http://www.pleco.com/
It's a Chinese to English dictionary and is Windows Mobile/PalmOS only. I.e. not Symbian or Android.
Also I can get GPS maps of Taiwan in English on WinMo.
WinMo has a lot more software vendors for things like this than Symbian because it's not very hard to port Windows desktop applications to WinMo. And I think in Asia there's a lot of people with Windows mobile devices and frankly a lot of cracked WinMo software.
Actually Nokia used to use careful phrases like "Series 60 : Optimised for Symbian", implying that S60 could potentially run on other OSs.
Survivor ISS.
There will be no survivors, that's the point. I was thinking of calling it
Die in a fire! Burn in Hell!
They should put some celebrities on it and have them plead for money unless people want to watch them die a horrible fiery death.
Hmm, on second thoughts that woul be awesome to watch.
Greetings in Christ.
I am Mirriam Obasanjo, widow of former President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria. I have 1 MILLION datacenters supplied as part of a government contract which was cancelled. Unless I can get them out of the country soon they will have to be returned. In return for your cooperations I will give you a fee of ten percent. Please tell me your bank account details so I can arrange transfer of the datacenters as soon as possible.
Yours in great honesty,
Mirrian Obasanjo.
Yeah, exactly. Legally speaking if you upload copyrighted pictures to the internet the law will fuck you in the ass.
That's what IANAL means.
What if there were VELOCIRAPTORS in the unfamiliar territory? Then I think the directions would be "Turn left and head up the mountain, don't turn right and walk through the jungle. The VELOCIRAPTORS hunt in packs there".
I think I'd be cautious and preserve any interface indefinitely. That being said I'd also be cautious about exposing an interface in the first place for exactly that reason.
The current trend for refactoring, where people spend most of their time rewriting code they've already written once and usally manage break compatibility to boot seems to me to be disasterous.
It I were a network support guy I think I'd have a magic 8 ball sabotaged so it always says "OUTLOOK NOT SO GOOD". When people came to ask me about email, I'd say "Well it's not magic! It's easy to check once you understand the basics of the technology" and make a great show of unpacking the 8 ball and shaking it and then show them the answer.
Thanks! Tip your IT guy. Try the cheetos.
Landon Dyer, who wrote/ported Donkey Kong for Atari 8 bit machines has a blog
http://www.dadhacker.com/blog/?p=987
It's actually a remarkable story - he was in charge of the 'port', but actually he just played the arcade game at his hotel, wrote a spec and reimplemented it from scratch. When it was done he had code that just fit into the Rom - only a 'dozen or so bytes' were free. It's easily one of the best arcade ports to the Atari too.
Actually since Atari is the topic, I had one back in the day and there are two things I saw demonstrated that I never could figure out.
One was a turbo loader for cassette tapes. There was a lump of electronics in potting compound and a normal cassette recorded. They claimed it could load from tape faster than an 1050 disk drive. It couldnâ(TM)t but it was pretty close. The lump of potted electronics was quite small and the sold the whole thing for about 40 bucks. I never figured out how they managed to modulate and demodulate that high a baud rate with what must have been a couple of Op Amps. I donâ(TM)t know how stable it was - probably not very - but I donâ(TM)t think it was faked.
The other was an Atari 800XL with a Prestel cartridge. It was displaying 40Ã--24 text in the Prestel font, which is easy to do on an Atari. But it was also displaying Prestel colors. They allow any character cell to have one of 8 colors (basically R1G1B1) in the foreground and one in the background. If you looked carefully the screen looked like Mode 0 with a strage overlay color, like they used the player missile graphics or something. But PMG doesnâ(TM)t look like it can handle the worst case where either the background or the foreground can change each character square. It was sort of flickery too, though not as bad as if they interlaced a color frame and a text frame alternately.
I don't like the idea of releasing something with an software interface which is clunky and then releasing something else with a new and incompatible 'better' interface. Think carefully before you release an interface and then support it forever. Otherwise no one will use your stuff.
Google has recently been active in directfb.
http://directfb.org/index.php?path=Projects%2F%2B%2BDFB
++DFB
++DFB is an advanced version of DFB++
It's an incompatible fork with fundamental changes.
Applications no longer deal with interface pointers. The classes wrapping around interfaces are used a container for an interface pointer, providing garbage collection the "direct" way 8-)
Good grief.
Einstein, Newton, Hawking and Slashdot once competed to see who could produce the most brilliant physics paper. Slashdot's paper said only "imagine a beowulf cluster of portman's hot grits. first post". On the way back Hawking gave Slashdot a wedgie. Natalie Portman watched and laughed and then her and Hawking went home together. As she left Portman made a point of showing Slashdot a bag of grits.
Only if you're the first person to post that particularly cliche. If you're the second it's -1 redundant. Cliche posters need to have hair trigger reflexes to survive.
It's a bit like "Bark for a dollar!" except the second barker pays the first.
Taco is an evil, evil man.
Microsoft love us and want us to be happy :-)
Except at that point it will be morally acceptable for vegetarians to eat them.
My friend at Netscape used Windows and one day all his source code had been overwritten with billgrulez! repeated over and over again.
You know in a way Slashdot is a bit like Iran. There are dissidents here and there are Basij, the moderators. Right now the dissidents are kept in line, all the ones that step up get downmodded as troll by the moderators which is a bit like being beaten up by the Basij.
Now like Iran if the dissidents start to demonstrate in large numbers the first few would lose their karma and be forced to post at -1. This is like being killed by the Basij. If they all did it at once some of the moderators would start to mod them up, rather like when troops in a revolution stop shooting demonstraters. Soon the trolls would win and post at +5 and anyone that complained would be modded down.
This would be regime change. Now I say to the trolls - stand up and bring down the regime. Windows rules and Linux sucks. GNAA forever!
My X1 came with PDF support
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/mobilephones/overview/x1?lc=en&cc=us
It's a great device really.
No, that was not an example of the US being forced to fight.
You have to admit that taking down the Windows network stack does mean your endpoints are indeed protected. At least the ones on your PC.
He missed out
3. Pay a team of voracious lawyers to hunt down people on the Internet for slanderous comments concerning 2. and threaten them with ruinous legal action. Sue some grandmothers.
Where do I send my invoice?
Hey dude!
Buy this one.
http://photosounder.com/
Just a minor correction: Look, there's a lot of technology that could be used to kill a lot of people. The American taxpayer paid for that R&D, and it should be used in our interests.
Well is that a bad thing? If the US tax payer paid for the technology it should be used in the interests of the US? This isn't like a football match where both sides are interchangeable. The US system is much more free than China or Irans If people are going to be killed with technology paid for by the US tax payer those people should be the ones fighting for the rival system, not ones fighting for the US one. That's the reason that the US funds defence R&D - it wants to maintain and extend its technological advantage.
Because every now and then you will be forced to fight to make sure that free societies survive and spread and unfree societies are rolled back and eventually eradicated. And with a technological advantage you end up with Desert Storm style turkey shoots where the unfree side is slaughtered efficiently with high tech gizmos and the free side takes very light casualties. I think it is in the public interest for this to be the norm - and I don't just mean the interests of the US public.
Seriously, read up on D Day for what sort of casualties US soldiers take when the unfree side has technological parity. And its more serious than that - modern free societies compared to 1940's ones have an allergy to even light military casualties whereas unfree societies can hurl their more numerous but badly equipped troops in human wave attacks and then kill anyone who complains.
For freedom and democracy to survive long term it is vitally important that the perception in unfree societies is that their armies will be decimated like the Iraqi army if they challenge free societies openly.