That's exactly what I do. Pick a random bunch of letters near each other on the keyboard and type it 25 times. My hands know how to type it - although I don't know what it is past the first letter, muscle memory does. Also I can type it in the dark...
Re:What about the BeOS sourcecode then?
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Sorry motown, PalmSource made it clear right from the start that they bought BeOS purely for the people - it was just a big pile of brilliant OS developers to them. They never intended to do anything with BeOS.
I suspect they have not released the source code because this would require them to do stuff with it - at least have legal and a handful of developers go through it to make sure they can open all the source - and they will not spare the resource.
I just had a look and I can't even see a Linux device that uses AAs - and these are the things that are aimed for people like our shouty friend.
Even that Simputer doohickey designed for the third world has a LiIon in it.
Hmmm. Anyone got one of those emergency chargers that recharges your Palm from AAs? How many charges do you get froma pack - it's only a couple isn't it?
That would suggest that a modern PDA would not last very long on AAs, making then very uneconomic. I bet if you put a modern LiIon in a Palm III it would go months between charges.
If PalmOS for Linux works, then this would be entirely possible to do, since it will mean a new generation of PalmOS devices that can also run Linux apps.
(Explanation: It's marketing's fault that they renames OS5 and OS6 to Cobalt and Garnet, thus meaning that I can't remember which one is which.)
(Explanation of the explanation: Marketing did this because PalmSource do not want people to consider OS5 to be out-of-date. They propose to sell: Cobalt on high-enbd PDAs Garnet on low-end PDAs and smartphones Girasol (or whatever they call PalmOSonLinux) on PDAs and smartphones that already run Linux, and possibly on high-end PDAs that want to offer both PalmOS and Linux software.
It's this last category that should excite Slashdot readers - a PDA that has the ease-of-use PIM functions of a Palm, with the Beowulf clustering abilities of Linux.
The comaprison to what the MAc does is spot-on. The idea here is to have neat Palm apps + grungy powerful linux apps on one box, same as the Mac combines photoshop and Office on a BSd core.
Assuming of course it works.
Re:Palm is dead, but not in the Apple sense
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Can I just be pedantic and point out that both your problems are with PalmOne, not with PalmSource?
So you should welcome this announcement, because is should mean PalmOs becomes available on a wider range of hardware.
Palm PIMs and GUI, closed source, running on: PalmOS for Linux, which might be open or closed or (most likely) a mixture of the two) running on: Linux, which is open of course.
The reason for thinking Linux is that there seems to be plenty of PDA/smartphone hardware out there that already runs Linux, so it gives them a good installe dbase to start from.
Well, they say they're not giving up on Garnet, but the fact that none of the hardware manufacturers have yet produced a piece of hardware that runs Garnet must be a factor in this attempt to expand the ammount of hardware that runs PalmOS.
It will be a Linux application, that runs on Linux, that runs PalmOS applications.
Why are they doing this? to allow Linux to be an abstraction layer between the hardware and PalmOS.
So, you can take all the zillions of wierd pieces of hardware that run Linux (Toasters, smartphones, IBM mainframes) and after a relatively small piece of work, run PalmOS on them.
It's a way to drive PalmOS sales. Manufacturer makes some hardware, e.g. a smartphone, that runs linux. They buy a PalmOS for Linux license, and bing! their hardware runs PalmOS, with all the palmos goodies that entails. Including (after a recompile) all the third party PalmOS apps. Oh, and it can run native Linux apps too.
You can't really prove that God isn't all-powerful, since that's part of the definition.
You can try and prove that nothing could be all-powerful (Can god create a rock he cannot life? Where was God standing when he created the universe?) etc.
It's really about Occams' Razor. This is why I describe myself as a functional atheist; technically I'm agnostic, in that I do not know if God exists or not. For that matter, I do not know if the 3rd law of thermodynamics is true or not, and I'm not entirely convinced that I exist. However, I have found that I get the best results at predicting the results of experiments if I act on the assumption that I exist and that the 3rd law is true. I have found that acting on the assumption that God exists makes no difference to my ability to predict the results of experiments.
Given then that it does not appear to matter whether or not I believe in God, what should I do? A brief ammount of thought about Pascal's Wager would suggest that not believing in God is the best approach to take. (This is the opposite of what Pascal's wager says - the thought is in realising the flaws in the argument)
Yes, all castles spiral the staircase the same way, so that it is easier (for right handed people) to fight down than it is up.
But this trick only works if both defenders and attackers are the same-handed.
If the defenders are left handed and attackers right-handed, then this fails, since the defenders are impeded as well as the attackers. Flipping the direction of the stair, while meaning that the defenders have it easier, also makes it easier for the right-handed attackers to fight up.
Having attackers and defenders opposite hands just means neither side has an advantage.
Oh, I agree, gun crime is not as bad as people make out.
However, that 0.5% equates to 10,340 firearm offences, which include: 68 murders 1,210 serious violent assaults 3,490 less serious assaults 4,030 armed robberies
(These figures for Englan and Wales in 2003/2004)
While I'm glad those numbers are relatively small, still you have to admit that having some of the strongest gun control laws in the world does not stop gun crime.
I'm always surprised at how useful simple things like this can be. Look at how, over the years, the breakdown of the costs has changed from the goods being expensive, to the services being expensive. Mind you, I'm not convinced this is entirely due to cheap outsourcing to china, since most of the goods aren't manufactured, but are agricultural produce.
Interesting too to see how other factors play such a part; the pear tree is more expensive not because of pears per se but because of increased diesel costs. And the gold rings are cheaper, despite gold prices rising, because they are unfashionable and so retailers are dropping prices ot stimulate demand.
You forgot to mention that they will outsource the project, probably to EDS, raising further security questions.
Also, no-one has made any mention of the bootstrap problem; what exactly is going to stop me getting a forged passport etc. and using that to get a super biometric ID?
The only ray of light in all of this is that this Government has never had any sort of major computer project work at all, so at least we can be assured that it will never happen.
Send a spam to G4@spammeanddie.net and the custom thunderbird software of everyone who uses spammeanddie.net floods them.
If that were the case, do you think the spammers would start filtering spammeanddie.net addresses out of their victim lists?
This is not an avocation of doing this or the Lycos thing, just noodling the idea about.
Another noodle, how about a doohickey that does this but in a way that does no harm. Get a co-ordinated effort that hits the bad sites just once. That way you don't DOS them, but you do ruin the click thru ratio and hopefully persuade some stupid people to stop using spammers?
That's interesting, does the ipod treat audiobook files differently that music files?
I am just about to try out the BBCs new scheme of making In Our Time available as an MP3 download so you can listen to it on your pod.
(In Our Time is a show on BBC Radio 4 where an interviewer gets four of the top experts on to explain it. It's absolutely fascinating.)
And please, people, stop saying that it is daft to have ipod books.
The first book sounds ideal if you are buying a pod for a non-techie and don;t want to give them free tech support. If I were buying my mom a pod, I'd want to drop a few bucks more for a good book on how to work it. And the O'Reilley hack books are usually an excellent short-cut to spending a month trawling thru forums looking for info.
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Idealist and idealistic mean different things.
That's exactly what I do. Pick a random bunch of letters near each other on the keyboard and type it 25 times. My hands know how to type it - although I don't know what it is past the first letter, muscle memory does. Also I can type it in the dark...
I've got to pick one? Fair enough.
Which one runs vi, then?
Sorry motown, PalmSource made it clear right from the start that they bought BeOS purely for the people - it was just a big pile of brilliant OS developers to them. They never intended to do anything with BeOS.
I suspect they have not released the source code because this would require them to do stuff with it - at least have legal and a handful of developers go through it to make sure they can open all the source - and they will not spare the resource.
It is a pity though.
I just had a look and I can't even see a Linux device that uses AAs - and these are the things that are aimed for people like our shouty friend.
Even that Simputer doohickey designed for the third world has a LiIon in it.
Hmmm. Anyone got one of those emergency chargers that recharges your Palm from AAs? How many charges do you get froma pack - it's only a couple isn't it?
That would suggest that a modern PDA would not last very long on AAs, making then very uneconomic. I bet if you put a modern LiIon in a Palm III it would go months between charges.
If PalmOS for Linux works, then this would be entirely possible to do, since it will mean a new generation of PalmOS devices that can also run Linux apps.
Bloody Marketing.
(Explanation: It's marketing's fault that they renames OS5 and OS6 to Cobalt and Garnet, thus
meaning that I can't remember which one is which.)
(Explanation of the explanation: Marketing did this because PalmSource do not want people to consider OS5 to be out-of-date. They propose to sell:
Cobalt on high-enbd PDAs
Garnet on low-end PDAs and smartphones
Girasol (or whatever they call PalmOSonLinux) on PDAs and smartphones that already run Linux, and possibly on high-end PDAs that want to offer both PalmOS and Linux software.
It's this last category that should excite Slashdot readers - a PDA that has the ease-of-use PIM functions of a Palm, with the Beowulf clustering abilities of Linux.
The comaprison to what the MAc does is spot-on. The idea here is to have neat Palm apps + grungy powerful linux apps on one box, same as the Mac combines photoshop and Office on a BSd core.
Assuming of course it works.
Can I just be pedantic and point out that both your problems are with PalmOne , not with PalmSource?
So you should welcome this announcement, because is should mean PalmOs becomes available on a wider range of hardware.
It will comprise:
Palm PIMs and GUI, closed source, running on:
PalmOS for Linux, which might be open or closed or (most likely) a mixture of the two) running on:
Linux, which is open of course.
The reason for thinking Linux is that there seems to be plenty of PDA/smartphone hardware out there that already runs Linux, so it gives them a good installe dbase to start from.
Well, they say they're not giving up on Garnet, but the fact that none of the hardware manufacturers have yet produced a piece of hardware that runs Garnet must be a factor in this attempt to expand the ammount of hardware that runs PalmOS.
They appear to intend the dragonball emulation environment to be there, but for native OS5 apps to need a recompile.
It will be a Linux application, that runs on Linux, that runs PalmOS applications.
Why are they doing this? to allow Linux to be an abstraction layer between the hardware and PalmOS.
So, you can take all the zillions of wierd pieces of hardware that run Linux (Toasters, smartphones, IBM mainframes) and after a relatively small piece of work, run PalmOS on them.
It's a way to drive PalmOS sales. Manufacturer makes some hardware, e.g. a smartphone, that runs linux. They buy a PalmOS for Linux license, and bing! their hardware runs PalmOS, with all the palmos goodies that entails. Including (after a recompile) all the third party PalmOS apps. Oh, and it can run native Linux apps too.
The usual way is through service and support. Red Hat don;t sell software, they sell support.
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You can't really prove that God isn't all-powerful, since that's part of the definition.
You can try and prove that nothing could be all-powerful (Can god create a rock he cannot life? Where was God standing when he created the universe?) etc.
It's really about Occams' Razor. This is why I describe myself as a functional atheist; technically I'm agnostic, in that I do not know if God exists or not. For that matter, I do not know if the 3rd law of thermodynamics is true or not, and I'm not entirely convinced that I exist. However, I have found that I get the best results at predicting the results of experiments if I act on the assumption that I exist and that the 3rd law is true. I have found that acting on the assumption that God exists makes no difference to my ability to predict the results of experiments.
Given then that it does not appear to matter whether or not I believe in God, what should I do? A brief ammount of thought about Pascal's Wager would suggest that not believing in God is the best approach to take. (This is the opposite of what Pascal's wager says - the thought is in realising the flaws in the argument)
Eh? That doesn't make any sense.
Yes, all castles spiral the staircase the same way, so that it is easier (for right handed people) to fight down than it is up.
But this trick only works if both defenders and attackers are the same-handed.
If the defenders are left handed and attackers right-handed, then this fails, since the defenders are impeded as well as the attackers. Flipping the direction of the stair, while meaning that the defenders have it easier, also makes it easier for the right-handed attackers to fight up.
Having attackers and defenders opposite hands just means neither side has an advantage.
Heck, a journalist recently got a driving license in David Blunkett's name!
Interestingly, the Home Secretary is apparently quite a good driver...
Actually these examples are bad ones since the Passport and the driving license will be two of the flavours that the ID card comes in.
Oh, I agree, gun crime is not as bad as people make out.
However, that 0.5% equates to 10,340 firearm offences, which include:
68 murders
1,210 serious violent assaults
3,490 less serious assaults
4,030 armed robberies
(These figures for Englan and Wales in 2003/2004)
While I'm glad those numbers are relatively small, still you have to admit that having some of the strongest gun control laws in the world does not stop gun crime.
I'm always surprised at how useful simple things like this can be. Look at how, over the years, the breakdown of the costs has changed from the goods being expensive, to the services being expensive. Mind you, I'm not convinced this is entirely due to cheap outsourcing to china, since most of the goods aren't manufactured, but are agricultural produce.
Interesting too to see how other factors play such a part; the pear tree is more expensive not because of pears per se but because of increased diesel costs. And the gold rings are cheaper, despite gold prices rising, because they are unfashionable and so retailers are dropping prices ot stimulate demand.
You forgot to mention that they will outsource the project, probably to EDS, raising further security questions.
Also, no-one has made any mention of the bootstrap problem; what exactly is going to stop me getting a forged passport etc. and using that to get a super biometric ID?
The only ray of light in all of this is that this Government has never had any sort of major computer project work at all, so at least we can be assured that it will never happen.
Ah, so combine it with a Mail service.
Send a spam to G4@spammeanddie.net and the custom thunderbird software of everyone who uses spammeanddie.net floods them.
If that were the case, do you think the spammers would start filtering spammeanddie.net addresses out of their victim lists?
This is not an avocation of doing this or the Lycos thing, just noodling the idea about.
Another noodle, how about a doohickey that does this but in a way that does no harm. Get a co-ordinated effort that hits the bad sites just once. That way you don't DOS them, but you do ruin the click thru ratio and hopefully persuade some stupid people to stop using spammers?
Well, windows just added Welsh. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4059921.s tm , http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20005, http://www.bigfib.com/issue17/tech1-en.html.
The last link answers a lot of questions...
Cripes, I gotta start reading something other than Slashdot. I just spent five minutes trying to figure out if:
"I draw the line at kiddie porn"
was a really sick joke that I didn't get.
That's interesting, does the ipod treat audiobook files differently that music files?
I am just about to try out the BBCs new scheme of making In Our Time available as an MP3 download so you can listen to it on your pod.
(In Our Time is a show on BBC Radio 4 where an interviewer gets four of the top experts on to explain it. It's absolutely fascinating.)
And please, people, stop saying that it is daft to have ipod books.
The first book sounds ideal if you are buying a pod for a non-techie and don;t want to give them free tech support. If I were buying my mom a pod, I'd want to drop a few bucks more for a good book on how to work it. And the O'Reilley hack books are usually an excellent short-cut to spending a month trawling thru forums looking for info.