At my university (Linköping, Sweden) we start with Lisp, then on to Ada (which is very much like pascal btw) and then Java. Each of them is used to teach their specific paradigm (functional, imperativ and oo).
http://www.ipaqlinux.com/ do have a lot of info on running linux on ipaqs. I doubt there is any release (yet) that supports the phone, wifi etc. though.
Here's a quick translation of the norwiegan article. I'm Swedish so nor my english or my norwiegan is perfect, but you should get the picture.
[translation] Secret millon-dollar settlement
An american company will pay about a years revnue to Opera Software. The reason is secret.
Opera software has recieved a sum of money after entering a settlement with an american company. According to a press release that Opera send out today, the settlement has given the company a compensation of 89 million norwiegian kroner (NOK).
The company is not one of operas existing customers.
- We have laid forth some facts against a company. We have agreed not to take this to court. It's also a part of the settlement that we don't tell which the involved company is, says the technical director Håkon Wium Lie of Opera software to Dagbladet.no
- Is this about the cellphone browser or the
pc browser?
- It's not about piracy or patents. We don't give
up any rights in the settlement and we will
continue to deliver good products, Lie says.
It was efter sending a large amount of documents to the american company that the settlement was reached. Thereby this issue won't go to court.
Last year Opera made of profit of 78 million NOK. The settlement thereby brings in a years profit to Opera.
- Although this year we have widely larger ambitions, says Lie. [/translation] The rest is just about the old msn/opera issue.
I think it sounds like this car will be your worst nightmare when it comes to looks. Just think about it. They usually make aircraft, and they're french... it'll look lika e spaced-out, aerodynamic Renault 4 or something =)
If I've gotten this thing right, the claimed SCO source is in some specific versions of the Linux kernel... how exactly does SCO find out which version a company is using?
Yeah, the Anna Mae model is butt ugly, still though, the original reference to the Sally model was because of the large bust... and I think Anna Mae has the body model with the biggest such.
I worked with tech support for a while between high school and the university, and I'll say it's the worst thing I've ever done. I worked at a steel factory for a while and that was much better.
First of all, a lot of the people I worked with had really no experience of fixing computer problems, and the management were even worse. All they looked at was the number of logs you had written and how much pause time you had in the phone system.
Regarding the work itself it was rather ok as long as you helped people with their technical problems, although about 50% of the calls were from angry customers yelling about that their computer has been in service for 2 days longer than it should be, or that the same error still was there after a repair etc... And taking those calls when you had no chance at all to really do anything about the problem was the worst thing of it all. Beeing polite to people who yell at you and call you names, telling them that you will hurry up the process as much as you can when you know you won't do anything about it anyway, because you can't.
I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy to work with tech support.
Well, it might not be better to just run it out of the box, but my personal experience is that mplayer is a better movie player than wmp, so a system built on that I think would be better. You're right though that I'm not at all objective in this matter =)
that they choose to base this kind of project om Windows Media Player, since most poeple still look at linux, with for example mplayer, as untested and possibly unreliable technology. Although a system running linux/mplayer would probably be better, people still hang on to what is familiar to them.
In the
original swedish article it's written that Microsoft believes that IBM probably is working on a Terminal Emulation solution, not a emulation solution.
If you look at the differences between Xp Home edition and Xp professional, they are mainly in hardware and multiuser support. So, possibly, they may have removed the SMP support and set some kind of RAM/Hdd size limit. I guess they might have removed/decreased the multi user support too.
I'm just guessing, but it seems kind of possible anyway =)
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I think that is called "beer".
I actually control my PC with my stereo remote =) (with lirc ofcource)
At my university (Linköping, Sweden) we start with Lisp, then on to Ada (which is very much like pascal btw) and then Java. Each of them is used to teach their specific paradigm (functional, imperativ and oo).
http://www.ipaqlinux.com/ do have a lot of info on running linux on ipaqs. I doubt there is any release (yet) that supports the phone, wifi etc. though.
Here's a quick translation of the norwiegan article. I'm Swedish so nor my english or my norwiegan is perfect, but you should get the picture.
[translation]
Secret millon-dollar settlement
An american company will pay about a years revnue to Opera Software. The reason is secret.
Opera software has recieved a sum of money after entering a settlement with an american company. According to a press release that Opera send out today, the settlement has given the company a compensation of 89 million norwiegian kroner (NOK).
The company is not one of operas existing customers.
- We have laid forth some facts against a company. We have agreed not to take this to court. It's also a part of the settlement that we
don't tell which the involved company is, says the technical director Håkon Wium Lie of Opera software to Dagbladet.no
- Is this about the cellphone browser or the
pc browser?
- It's not about piracy or patents. We don't give
up any rights in the settlement and we will
continue to deliver good products, Lie says.
It was efter sending a large amount of documents to the american company that the settlement was reached. Thereby this issue won't go to court.
Last year Opera made of profit of 78 million NOK. The settlement thereby brings in a years profit to Opera.
- Although this year we have widely larger ambitions, says Lie.
[/translation]
The rest is just about the old msn/opera issue.
but this sign brings back some sweet memories =)
I think it sounds like this car will be your worst nightmare when it comes to looks. Just think about it.
They usually make aircraft, and they're french... it'll look lika e spaced-out, aerodynamic Renault 4 or something =)
I'm learning lisp at the univeristy right now, it's really another world, upside down and inside out, for me who's used to c/c++ =)
Does that really work in as proof in court?
If I've gotten this thing right, the claimed SCO source is in some specific versions of the Linux kernel... how exactly does SCO find out which version a company is using?
Afternoon? I'm in Sweden and it's early morning (soon 1 PM) here =)
Yeah, the Anna Mae model is butt ugly, still though, the original reference to the Sally model was because of the large bust... and I think Anna Mae has the body model with the biggest such.
Hey, I checked the real doll website and I couldn't find any Sally model. You must've been thinking of the Anna Mae model =)
That synthetic skin would have to be really strong for this thing not to blow up due to low pressure, wouldn't it?
I worked with tech support for a while between high school and the university, and I'll say it's the worst thing I've ever done. I worked at a steel factory for a while and that was much better.
First of all, a lot of the people I worked with had really no experience of fixing computer problems, and the management were even worse. All they looked at was the number of logs you had written and how much pause time you had in the phone system.
Regarding the work itself it was rather ok as long as you helped people with their technical problems, although about 50% of the calls were from angry customers yelling about that their computer has been in service for 2 days longer than it should be, or that the same error still was there after a repair etc... And taking those calls when you had no chance at all to really do anything about the problem was the worst thing of it all. Beeing polite to people who yell at you and call you names, telling them that you will hurry up the process as much as you can when you know you won't do anything about it anyway, because you can't.
I wouldn't recommend my worst enemy to work with tech support.
Do anyone know the actual features of this robot?
Is it programmable, what kind of AI does it have etc?
Well, it might not be better to just run it out of the box, but my personal experience is that mplayer is a better movie player than wmp, so a system built on that I think would be better.
You're right though that I'm not at all objective in this matter =)
that they choose to base this kind of project om Windows Media Player, since most poeple still look at linux, with for example mplayer, as untested and possibly unreliable technology. Although a system running linux/mplayer would probably be better, people still hang on to what is familiar to them.
It's a nice idea, but since hardware drivers require hardware access, I think it's rather impossible.
Those are actually very common surnames in Sweden =)
In the original swedish article it's written that Microsoft believes that IBM probably is working on a Terminal Emulation solution, not a emulation solution.
http://microsoft.has.no.secure-future.info/
;)
(I hope this ain't redundant...)
That server seems to be under quite a lot of pressure right now though
If you look at the differences between Xp Home edition and Xp professional, they are mainly in hardware and multiuser support. So, possibly, they may have removed the SMP support and set some kind of RAM/Hdd size limit. I guess they might have removed/decreased the multi user support too.
I'm just guessing, but it seems kind of possible anyway =)