How is this news? If you follow any tech news outlet, you know that every piece of Apple news is immediately jumped on by a rabid pack of trolls. For whatever reason, Apple anti-fans are the biggest vocal minority on the internet.
I didn't want one either. So much so that when my wife surprised me with an Apple watch for Christmas last year, I could hardly hide my disappointment. Thinking "I really didn't *want* one of these"...
But having used a smart watch for a while now, I absolutely love it. Why?
1. The haptic feedback. I run my phone on silent 24/7, which meant that I was constantly having to double-check that I didn't miss a message while walking around. There's no missing or mistaking the prominent tap from the watch so this problem is solved. No more missed messages and no more randomly checking my phone. 2. The weather. I wouldn't have predicted this one, but having the current weather conditions plus the day's high/low temps on the watch face is super useful. I probably look at my watch for the weather conditions almost as often as I look at it for the time. 3. The general freedom of not needing my phone in my hand. In lots of small ways throughout the day, a well-functioning smart watch is another one of those "living in the future" joys. Sending messages by voice without even pulling out your phone, pausing/resuming podcasts while mowing the lawn, getting haptic navigation directions while having an uninterrupted conversation... a good smart watch is clearly a step forward.
As a former skeptic turned believer, it's a shame to see so many people dumping on these devices without having the chance to really see what they offer.
I went out and bought some cheap-assed, modular draws like these. Papers in one drawer, cables in another, etc. Stack them next to your desk and you're good to go.
"...AT&T may... at any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach, unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied;"
Doesn't this say that SCO has to inform the licensee of the violation and give them a chance to remedy the problem within two months?
The eight who voted against the bill were: Ron Paul, R-Texas; Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.; Kendrick Meek, D-Fla.; Tim Ryan, D-Ohio; Ted Strickland, D-Ohio; Lee Terry, R-Neb.; Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Chris Cannon, R-Utah.
Hopefully voters will remember how well the dissenting congressmen "represented" them the next time they go to the polls.
I drove my 2003 Prius from Minneapolis, MN to Portland, OR. I did around 85 MPH most of the way and averaged 42 MPG for the whole trip. The mileage was best driving through/over the rockies where I could regenerate a ton of power on the long downhills.
The Prius' mileage is *worst* on highways, so 42 MPG at 85 MPH is a happy story.
I see a few people have mentioned fears of the cost of having the car serviced. Apparently, Toyota heard those same fears so they bumped up the warranty all around so people shouldn't have anything to worry about. The combustion and electrical systems are both fully covered for something like 8 years (don't have the details in front of me now) and they include two and a half years of bi-yearly checkups (which includes an oil change if that floats your boat).
I recently read about an experimentally observed connection between language and memory (sorry, I don't remember where - maybe Discover magazine?). My recollection is (ironically?) terribly short on details.
The experiment was basically to take children at some age where their vocabulary was of some measured size and expose them to something (maybe watched a video?). Then they went back to the kids some time later when their vocabulary was of some size significantly greater and asked the kids to describe the previous event. They found that when describing the memory, the children only used words that they knew at the time.
An extrapolation of this data is that your ability to form memories is directly proportional to the number of words you have in your vocabulary. As with all things, it's probably more complex than that, but the evidence that there is a link between memory and vocabulary is compelling.
If you disagree with RMS... why don't you stop using the software he wrote with his convictions ?
Because I'm not a zealot.:-) I believe in free software and open source software. I enjoy using and contributing to it. I just disagree with RMS and his zealots to the extent that they goes too far. Calling a free and open source product like Eclipse "useless" because RMS hasn't written Java, for example, is too much.
even parts of windows 2k/xp were written by open-source "zealots" so I suggest you stay away from it too...
In case there was any confusion, I want to make it clear that I don't use the phrase "free software 'zealot'" lightly. The fact that something was written by open source developers in no way implies that it was written by zealots. Like I said, I would estimate that only about 5% of the free software community falls into the "zealotous" camp.
Do you think this situation would have come about if RMS et al, weren't so "zealotous"?
First, I would repeat that the "et al" in Stallman's zealot camp is small. The number of people who respect him is large, but the number of people who take his word as gospel truth is small.
Yes. No one would deny Stallman's contribution to Open Source, but he is neither the creator of the free software movement nor is he the driving force behind it. The prime strength of the open source movement is the lack of centralization that your statement implies. Open source and free software doesn't require RMS to thrive (and I'm sure he's glad for that).
I think this "completely free Java platform" would have come about without RMS the same way Linux, fetchmail, and Eclipse would have.
There was only one catch, it was build on top of the proprietary java platform. This made it useless for the Free Software community.
If you define the "Free Software community" as the zealotous 5% of free software users who refuse to use software that hasn't been blessed by RMS, you're right.
For the rest of us, Eclipse has been useful (and free and open source) for over a year.
The basic idea of the internet is that of a distributed network filesystem. Discouraging your customers from contributing to the content of that system is to encourage them to become leeches. If it weren't for the people who make content available (including some of your customers), the internet would be a much less valuable resource.
Your policy makes the internet less useful for all of us, including your customers. Your income is predicated on the fact that the internet is useful to your customers. Discouraging users from making content available on the internet will only hurt your business in the long run.
"The main thing about the elderly and others who haven't learned computing yet is that they fear the complexity of the machines."
Prejudice is bad, mmkay?
Whew. Let's get a few things straight.
First of all, NP problems are *not* hard by definition. The class of NP problems certainly includes hard problems, but it also includes all of the P problems.
Second, solving any old NP problem doesn't mean you've solved all NP problems (after all, we have solutions to lots of P problems and P is in NP). It is only NP-COMPLETE problems that have the property of solving every problem in NP via a poly-time reduction.
Third, solving a specific instance of an NP-Complete problem isn't a big deal. I'll make one up right now. The solution to the instance of the CLIQUE problem for n=0 (zero verteces) is false. Wasn't that easy? Solving a specific instance isn't particularly special. You have to solve the *general* problem to grab the big prize (P=NP).
Conclusion: Solving a specific instance of an NP problem isn't anything to wet yourself over.
I'd wager the reasons the Free software crowd (however it is supposed to be these days, Open Source, Free, whatever) hasn't picked it up are: lack of large stores of prewritten smalltalk code, and...
Lack of prewritten Smalltalk? You can download Squeak at www.squeak.org. I highly recommend downloading it and giving it a whirl. Squeak Smalltalk comes with a tremendous amount of (mostly) well-written, extremely reusable code. If you're writing all your Smalltalk applications from scratch, you're doing something wrong!
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How is this news? If you follow any tech news outlet, you know that every piece of Apple news is immediately jumped on by a rabid pack of trolls. For whatever reason, Apple anti-fans are the biggest vocal minority on the internet.
I didn't want one either. So much so that when my wife surprised me with an Apple watch for Christmas last year, I could hardly hide my disappointment. Thinking "I really didn't *want* one of these"...
But having used a smart watch for a while now, I absolutely love it. Why?
1. The haptic feedback. I run my phone on silent 24/7, which meant that I was constantly having to double-check that I didn't miss a message while walking around. There's no missing or mistaking the prominent tap from the watch so this problem is solved. No more missed messages and no more randomly checking my phone.
2. The weather. I wouldn't have predicted this one, but having the current weather conditions plus the day's high/low temps on the watch face is super useful. I probably look at my watch for the weather conditions almost as often as I look at it for the time.
3. The general freedom of not needing my phone in my hand. In lots of small ways throughout the day, a well-functioning smart watch is another one of those "living in the future" joys. Sending messages by voice without even pulling out your phone, pausing/resuming podcasts while mowing the lawn, getting haptic navigation directions while having an uninterrupted conversation... a good smart watch is clearly a step forward.
As a former skeptic turned believer, it's a shame to see so many people dumping on these devices without having the chance to really see what they offer.
This just in: XBL unavailable again due to the massive demand for (the ironically named) Undertow.
I don't see how he could appeal their decision, though.
Without those prosthetics he doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Technology has definitely made my job more stressful. Now in addition to doing my own work, I have to write some guy's term paper.
No, you don't have to dispose all widgets. The only thing I'm aware of that you need to dispose is images.
I went out and bought some cheap-assed, modular draws like these. Papers in one drawer, cables in another, etc. Stack them next to your desk and you're good to go.
"...AT&T may ... at any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach , unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied;"
Doesn't this say that SCO has to inform the licensee of the violation and give them a chance to remedy the problem within two months?
Hopefully voters will remember how well the dissenting congressmen "represented" them the next time they go to the polls.
I drove my 2003 Prius from Minneapolis, MN to Portland, OR. I did around 85 MPH most of the way and averaged 42 MPG for the whole trip. The mileage was best driving through/over the rockies where I could regenerate a ton of power on the long downhills.
The Prius' mileage is *worst* on highways, so 42 MPG at 85 MPH is a happy story.
I see a few people have mentioned fears of the cost of having the car serviced. Apparently, Toyota heard those same fears so they bumped up the warranty all around so people shouldn't have anything to worry about. The combustion and electrical systems are both fully covered for something like 8 years (don't have the details in front of me now) and they include two and a half years of bi-yearly checkups (which includes an oil change if that floats your boat).
You have it backwards. Artists go on tour to sell records. My (VH1-educated) understanding is that it's common for artists to lose money on tour.
Good idea.
I recently read about an experimentally observed connection between language and memory (sorry, I don't remember where - maybe Discover magazine?). My recollection is (ironically?) terribly short on details.
The experiment was basically to take children at some age where their vocabulary was of some measured size and expose them to something (maybe watched a video?). Then they went back to the kids some time later when their vocabulary was of some size significantly greater and asked the kids to describe the previous event. They found that when describing the memory, the children only used words that they knew at the time.
An extrapolation of this data is that your ability to form memories is directly proportional to the number of words you have in your vocabulary. As with all things, it's probably more complex than that, but the evidence that there is a link between memory and vocabulary is compelling.
Because I'm not a zealot.
In case there was any confusion, I want to make it clear that I don't use the phrase "free software 'zealot'" lightly. The fact that something was written by open source developers in no way implies that it was written by zealots. Like I said, I would estimate that only about 5% of the free software community falls into the "zealotous" camp.
First, I would repeat that the "et al" in Stallman's zealot camp is small. The number of people who respect him is large, but the number of people who take his word as gospel truth is small.
Yes. No one would deny Stallman's contribution to Open Source, but he is neither the creator of the free software movement nor is he the driving force behind it. The prime strength of the open source movement is the lack of centralization that your statement implies. Open source and free software doesn't require RMS to thrive (and I'm sure he's glad for that).
I think this "completely free Java platform" would have come about without RMS the same way Linux, fetchmail, and Eclipse would have.
If you define the "Free Software community" as the zealotous 5% of free software users who refuse to use software that hasn't been blessed by RMS, you're right.
For the rest of us, Eclipse has been useful (and free and open source) for over a year.
The basic idea of the internet is that of a distributed network filesystem. Discouraging your customers from contributing to the content of that system is to encourage them to become leeches. If it weren't for the people who make content available (including some of your customers), the internet would be a
much less valuable resource.
Your policy makes the internet less useful for all of us, including your
customers. Your income is predicated on the fact that the internet is useful
to your customers. Discouraging users from making content available on the
internet will only hurt your business in the long run.
The GTK version is called the "GTK 2" version. What more do you want?
Have you reported this bug to Eclipse's bugzilla or have you been keeping this one to yourself?
They mention the Linux version here:
http://gobe.com/press/pr8_29_2001.html
Hopefully, this means that future versions of OptimizeIt will be released on top of Eclipse. After all, Borland is an Eclipse board member.
I'm a big fan of OptimizeIt's functionality, but I'd like to see it lose that ugly Swing interface in favor of SWT.
"The main thing about the elderly and others who haven't learned computing yet is that they fear the complexity of the machines." Prejudice is bad, mmkay?
Whew. Let's get a few things straight. First of all, NP problems are *not* hard by definition. The class of NP problems certainly includes hard problems, but it also includes all of the P problems. Second, solving any old NP problem doesn't mean you've solved all NP problems (after all, we have solutions to lots of P problems and P is in NP). It is only NP-COMPLETE problems that have the property of solving every problem in NP via a poly-time reduction. Third, solving a specific instance of an NP-Complete problem isn't a big deal. I'll make one up right now. The solution to the instance of the CLIQUE problem for n=0 (zero verteces) is false. Wasn't that easy? Solving a specific instance isn't particularly special. You have to solve the *general* problem to grab the big prize (P=NP). Conclusion: Solving a specific instance of an NP problem isn't anything to wet yourself over.
I'd wager the reasons the Free software crowd (however it is supposed to be these days, Open Source, Free, whatever) hasn't picked it up are: lack of large stores of prewritten smalltalk code, and...
Lack of prewritten Smalltalk? You can download Squeak at www.squeak.org. I highly recommend downloading it and giving it a whirl. Squeak Smalltalk comes with a tremendous amount of (mostly) well-written, extremely reusable code. If you're writing all your Smalltalk applications from scratch, you're doing something wrong!