How about a wireless local network ( something like the new apple airport). You could set up receivers all around an office building or campus or conference center.
Add some servers to save your database to ( could just set it up to try to sync wirelessly (encrypted) every few minutes and to not try for a while if it finds that it is out of range.) You could then put a simple email program on the palm.
Of course what you really need is a very small implementation of X so that you could run a palm emulator running on either the pc back in you office or on the server...... Humm... Staroffice on a palm running remotely on a sun box...
But if there are no other packages, no second contrib CD, etc., then this is a Bad Thing.
I expect that since it is based on Debian it wouldn't be that hard to ftp to one of the Debian mirrors and add/upgrade things.
Anyone who saw the Coral disribution think to ask if dpkg would work with it? If they messed around with the Debian package rules and where things are installed that could be a problem
I guess if it comes down to it though, there are always tarballs. I have never had any trouble with software that I installed on my Debian system from a tarball as long as I put it under/usr/local and kept a README about what and where everything went.
However, I'm not so sure that we should open it up to people outside the discipline. This is my major concern. I don't want non-mathematicians reviewing SIAM, as I'm sure that non-physicians should have no right to review medical journals.
While I agree that having non-physicians review medical journals would probably be a mistake how do we say whether someone is a mathematician?
Only someone with a degree in that area is a mathematician?
I would suggest that there are a lot of people that do not have a degree in a certain area of math or science but that still know a great deal.
I think instead the way to go is a/. type of moderating system along with guest critics for the more interesting papers. These guest critics would quickly develop a reputation as to thier intellectual powers, clear thinking, and fairness.
We could also give a higher starting number to the comments of recognised scientists or experts. This would funtion similarly to the way anonymous cowereds start at -1 on slashdot where as people that are logged in start higher.
Perhaps we could even have someones starting point be figured by some sort of average of how they have been promoted or demoted in past postings. Start new posters with a 0 and let them climb their way up or down from there over time.
Another topic that we have to talk about is whether or not most people would a) be interested and b) can understand topics in journals. I realise that the Slashdot reader is more intelligent than your average web surfer, but realistically, would your average AOL user be able to adequately understand stuff published in the NEJM (New England J. of Med)? Would they really care?
Probably not. But the fact that your average AOLer doesn't care about a subject doen't mean that you want to prevent him from reading about it if the urge strikes. Saying that he can't handle certain information is a mistake. There are plenty of places to read about junk science (like the supermarket rags), having seachable access to "real" science would be a nice balance.
I would gladly check the box and donate a couple of extra dollars to the space program if it were an option on my tax form... especially if it ment that my little girl ( who is crazy about anything having to do with rockets or space ) might someday have a chance to go there.
If I have a big enough place to put them under the desk I like towers, lots of space to fiddle around in when you are adding or swapping hardware.
If I don't have space for a tower I like a monitor connected to the video out of a laptop that is sitting on a shelf over or next to the monitor. I also like a full sized ergonomic keyboard plugged into the laptop.
Those netwinder boxes approch the "laptop" footprint although the laptop can also travel.
I think that for non-tower desktop machine a netwinder type box sitting next to a 15 - 19 inch lcd screen is much more stylish then anything else.
If these displays are flexible then you could probably make them role up inside a cell-phone. Combine them with a bunch of satellites and you could even build the hand held video phones that they use in 'Earth Final Conflict'
The biggest effect that I have noticed from the internet is that I am exposed to many ideas and points of view that I would never have even been aware of before. I have incorportated many of them into my own thinking.
I live in the U.S.
America is often accused of cultural imperialism, usually by those who don't like changes they are seeing in their own culture. I think that the main reason that American culture is so vibrant and so dominating is that new ideas, words, and outlooks are incorporated into it whenever they are found.
One of the big effects of the internet will be to put this process on "internet time". In other words I expect that the incorporation of new ideas and the resulting social change will speed up. I also expect that this process will increase and accelerate in other more traditional or conservative societies. This mixing of ideas and creating of new "philosophies" does seem to me to follow in the footsteps of the enlightenment.
The new logo is awfull. I always thought that SGI's "cube" logo was one of the coolest logos out there. Sad to see a company that was once on top taken over by marketing nitwits.
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How about a wireless local network ( something like the new apple airport). You could set up receivers all around an office building or campus or conference center.
..... Humm... Staroffice on a palm running remotely on a sun box...
Add some servers to save your database to ( could just set it up to try to sync wirelessly (encrypted) every few minutes and to not try for a while if it finds that it is out of range.)
You could then put a simple email program on the palm.
Of course what you really need is a very small implementation of X so that you could run a palm emulator running on either the pc back in you office or on the server.
But if there are no other packages, no second contrib CD, etc., then this is a Bad Thing.
/usr/local and kept a README about what and where everything went.
I expect that since it is based on Debian it wouldn't be that hard to ftp to one of the Debian mirrors and add/upgrade things.
Anyone who saw the Coral disribution think to ask if dpkg would work with it? If they messed around with the Debian package rules and where things are installed that could be a problem
I guess if it comes down to it though, there are always tarballs. I have never had any trouble with software that I installed on my Debian system from a tarball as long as I put it under
While I agree that having non-physicians review medical journals would probably be a mistake how do we say whether someone is a mathematician?
Only someone with a degree in that area is a mathematician?
I would suggest that there are a lot of people that do not have a degree in a certain area of math or science but that still know a great deal.
I think instead the way to go is a
We could also give a higher starting number to the comments of recognised scientists or experts. This would funtion similarly to the way anonymous cowereds start at -1 on slashdot where as people that are logged in start higher.
Perhaps we could even have someones starting point be figured by some sort of average of how they have been promoted or demoted in past postings. Start new posters with a 0 and let them climb their way up or down from there over time.
Probably not. But the fact that your average AOLer doesn't care about a subject doen't mean that you want to prevent him from reading about it if the urge strikes. Saying that he can't handle certain information is a mistake. There are plenty of places to read about junk science (like the supermarket rags), having seachable access to "real" science would be a nice balance.
I would gladly check the box and donate a couple of extra dollars to the space program if it were an option on my tax form ... especially if it ment that my little girl ( who is crazy about anything having to do with rockets or space ) might someday have a chance to go there.
If I have a big enough place to put them under the desk I like towers, lots of space to fiddle around in when you are adding or swapping hardware.
If I don't have space for a tower I like a monitor connected to the video out of a laptop that is sitting on a shelf over or next to the monitor. I also like a full sized ergonomic keyboard plugged into the laptop.
Those netwinder boxes approch the "laptop" footprint although the laptop can also travel.
I think that for non-tower desktop machine a netwinder type box sitting next to a 15 - 19 inch lcd screen is much more stylish then anything else.
When will LCD screens become affordable!
If these displays are flexible then you could probably make them role up inside a cell-phone. Combine them with a bunch of satellites and you could even build the hand held video phones that they use in 'Earth Final Conflict'
Good article.
The biggest effect that I have noticed from the internet is that I am exposed to many ideas and points of view that I would never have even been aware of before. I have incorportated many of them into my own thinking.
I live in the U.S.
America is often accused of cultural imperialism, usually by those who don't like changes they are seeing in their own culture. I think that the main reason that American culture is so vibrant and so dominating is that new ideas, words, and outlooks are incorporated into it whenever they are found.
One of the big effects of the internet will be to put this process on "internet time". In other words I expect that the incorporation of new ideas and the resulting social change will speed up. I also expect that this process will increase and accelerate in other more traditional or conservative societies. This mixing of ideas and creating of new "philosophies" does seem to me to follow in the footsteps of the enlightenment.
The new logo is awfull. I always thought that SGI's "cube" logo was one of the coolest logos out there. Sad to see a company that was once on top taken over by marketing nitwits.