I can play games like Deus Ex and CounterStrike fine already with my GeForce3
So, you're using the previous top-of-the-line hardware and you're complaining? I can see if you were using some 5-year old board and it did everything you needed, but geez.
Games will come out (Unreal Tournament 2, anyone?) that will make your GeForce 3 lay down and cry like a baby.
I couldn't find any mention of export limitations,
You didn't look very far into the FIPS pub, did you?:-)
11. Export Control. Certain cryptographic devices and technical data regarding them are
subject to Federal export controls. Exports of cryptographic modules implementing this standard
and technical data regarding them must comply with these Federal regulations and be licensed by
the Bureau of Export Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Applicable Federal
government export controls are specified in Title 15, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part
740.17; Title 15, CFR Part 742; and Title 15, CFR Part 774, Category 5, Part 2.
Now, the real question is, what does this mean? Has anyone looked these up? Can you just use AES/Rijndael in software and publish it or sell it on the net? Or do you have to get a waiver or file notification with the Bureau of Export Administration, as you did with DES?
Stallman and Kahn make the argument that society is better off if the fruits of everyone's labor is given out for free to everyone else. This is rank communism.
The freedom to do what I want with my creations is just that -- a freedom.
If I want to write software that I then shred, that's my right. Stallman would force me to give it away.
Since the book is subtitled Confessions of a B-Movie Actor you might think that this answer would be found in the book.
And you'd be right!
Sarcasm aside, the book is very good. In it, Bruce says that he thought about trying to be a Star, and decided instead to be a good working B-movie actor.
The book really made me have a lot of respect for Bruce and the other actors who work their tails off.
I second (or third?) the recommendation for CodeWarrior from Metrowerks, now a Motorola company.
At my previous job, we did cross-platform development in Java on Macs using CodeWarrior, and we programmed circles around the guys using JBuilder, Vis Cafe, and VisJ on Windows. Part of that was Windows:-), but the rest was that CodeWarrior just works.
The Windows guys kept thrashing around with different tools for a couple of months before they ended up with VisJ. I suspect it was because it only sucked as bad as the other tools, and it's MS. Sigh.
Here's an often overlooked feature that Apple pioneered that every single laptop has now: palm rests.
Remember how laptops had the keyboard flush with the front of the laptop, until the Powerbook was released?
Everyone said "Duh! That makes so much sense!"-- it was a much better design to have a place to rest your hands while typing, but it took Apple to see it.
That's the kind of engineering detail that keeps Apple ahead of the game. Let's hope they can keep it up!
Could be, but my point is that you still need to protect yourself.
But the other point is that it's the government trying to protect us with stuff that won't work.
It's like the government mandating that you will lock your house up every day with a government-approved lock.
A better (as in more freedom) method is to allow civilians to protect themselves by carrying firearms (with appropriate types of ammunition) on flights.
The first shot will drop the plane. Depressurization and rupture, remember?
You moron. Haven't you been listening to the calls for more air marshals on board flights? What do you think they carry, slingshots?
Frangible ammo will fragment and not punch through aircraft skin. Not to mention that a single bullet through the skin would simply cause a leak, unlike the exciting movies where a small bullet causes half the plane to blow away.
And we haven't even mentioned air rage.
What about it? How many road rage shootings have you heard about? What do you think the percentage is? How many incidents would it take to match one incident of hijacking-crashing-into-WTC-killing-5,000 that would be prevented by armed civilians on board a plane?
Forget the fact that you have to pay hundreds of dollars for a reader before you get any content....
Not. Already have a Palm.
Forget the fact that reading this stuff gives you a headache....
Not. I've read for easily hundreds of hours on my Palm without a single headache.
Forget the fact it's a pain in the neck to flip between pages....
Not. It's easier on a Palm than with paper. I can hold a Palm (sideways, using the Palm Reader) and flip pages with one hand, which is tough to do with paper, especially a hardback.
Forget the fact that there's so few books available in eBook format....
Not. There's more at www.peanutpress.com than I can keep up with. And people said the same thing about CD twenty years ago.
Forget the fact that the competing "technology"(paper books) is superior....
In some ways. (Heh, you thought I was going to say "Not") But ebooks are superior in other ways.
This should be a FAQ, since every ebook article on/. goes through the same cycle
Read at night without a light that keeps your S.O. awake
Keep a half-dozen books in your pocket so you can start reading something else if one book is boring
Use "Find" to find the first occurrence of a character to figure out just who that person was again
Read during a boring meeting when people think you're checking your busy calendar on your Palm
Re-download a copy (for free) when the copy you had was trashed somehow (try that with a paper book)
People are going to have to face up to the fact that ebooks have (at least) a niche, and they're not going away. They'll change in form and capability, but they're not going anywhere. They're not replacing paper (yet), but paper is not the end-all and be-all of the written word. If it were, you wouldn't be reading/.
The OS sucks to develop for, unless you're starting a brand-new EPOC-only application. It's heavily object-oriented to the point that you can't easily port anything written for any other OS without a hell of a lot of work.
That's (IMHO) why the platform died -- the OS is too difficult to develop for, in this cross-platform world.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Notice how it doesn't say anything about "only political speech", or "no whining".
Notice how it doesn't say "The University of Utah shall make no law". The first amendment doesn't necessarily apply here. I know that some of the Bill of Rights have been extended such that states cannot make laws which abridge those rights, but I don't know how that extends to state universities. Anyone?
J (jamie@mccarthy.vg) updates the main posting by saying that Ashcroft "prefers thought control", using as evidence the quote "We have to exhibit responsibility in other ways, so that the culture inhibits or restrains this impulse."
WTF? If you don't think that inhibiting the impulse to go on a shooting spree at your local school is a good thing, you are a sick fuck. Pardon my french.
Society's main purpose is to inhibit the impulses to kill other members of society.
What the hell is/. doing letting idiots like this update main postings?
The site at yopy.org appears to be down and has been for a while.
Personally, I think Linux handhelds are a waste of time -- it requires too many resources (memory, processor, storage, screen resolution) to be useful on a handheld. But don't let that stop you.
Q: What operating system does the Sony CLIE Handheld support?
A: The CLIE Handheld supports Windows® 98, 98 SE, and Windows 2000 Professional
Q: Does the CLIE Handheld support the Mac® OS?
A: Sorry, at this time the CLIE Handheld does not support the Mac OS.
Q: Does the CLIE Handheld support Windows 95, Windows NT®, Linux® or Unix®?
A: Sorry, at this time the CLIE Handheld does not support these operating systems.
Re:eBooks have a VERY long way to go
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Here's what an eBook would have to be capable of doing to replace a plain-old paperback-
This reminds me of someone saying: "Here's what an automobile would have to be capable of doing to replace a plain-old horse."
Ebooks are a separate entity that serve some of the same purposes as paperbacks, but it's a different ballgame.
Some advantages of ebooks on a Palm:
Carry 10 "paperbacks" in your pocket
Read at night with the backlight without keeping your s.o. awake
Search for a nicely-crafted phrase you remember but can't find
No dead trees (fewer, at least)
Keep your library on a zip disk instead of 3 bookcases
I'm not saying there aren't disadvantages; there are. But ebooks aren't going to fail because they don't match up to paperbacks in every way.
Bzzz. Thanks for playing, try again later. The 2nd Amendment uses the same phrase "the people" as is in the 1st and 4th amendments. The 10th clearly differentiates betweeen "the people" and "states", so it's not like they're interchangeable.
Check out the recent Emerson case in Texas -- the 2nd Amendment guarantees individual rights. The initial clause is explanatory in why the founders thought they needed to enumerate the right, but it's not restrictive.
Read it this way: "A well-educated electorate, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed."
It's pretty clear that the right is individual and absolute.
What freedoms do metal detectors restrict? The freedom to bring a crowbar to school in your backpack, just in case you need to pry open an air vent?
So you have no problems with your kid setting off the metal detector because she has a house key in her pocket and having armed guards rummage thru her backpack, purse, pockets, etc.? Your daughter will probably grow up to be a good little sheep. Or a rebel, and who could blame her?
What freedoms do armed guards restrict?
It's not a question of freedoms in this case, it's a question of "learning environment". Why don't you have armed guards in your house, mandated by the government? You'd be much safer, and it wouldn't be impinging on your freedoms, would it?
"Overtake CE"? I don't know what you've been smoking, but let us have some. The Palm OS is crushing CE in the market, by at least 4 to 1. This'll probably increase, given the number of companies punting their CE products.
This happened shortly after 3com announced the spinoff of Palm Computing and that they would be licensing the Palm OS to third parties.
Hmmmm, no. Handspring was founded about a year ago, long before Palm Computing was announced to be spun off. Indeed, rumor has it that Hawkins and Dubinsky left because (at that time) 3COM wouldn't spin off Palm.
And the Palm OS has been licensed to 3rd parties for quite some time as well. IBM makes the Workpad, a Palm OS device, and Qualcomm has a license to use it in a phone, but I don't think they've released anything yet.
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So, you're using the previous top-of-the-line hardware and you're complaining? I can see if you were using some 5-year old board and it did everything you needed, but geez.
Games will come out (Unreal Tournament 2, anyone?) that will make your GeForce 3 lay down and cry like a baby.
NVidia and Apple are pretty buddy-buddy at this point.
Check the Apple Store.
This post is pretty confused, not to mention the unmatched parens. :-)
Note that the Palm Vx has a 160x160 display and does not have a jog dial.
All Clie models have a jog dial. Some have 320x320 displays.
You didn't look very far into the FIPS pub, did you? :-)
11. Export Control. Certain cryptographic devices and technical data regarding them are subject to Federal export controls. Exports of cryptographic modules implementing this standard and technical data regarding them must comply with these Federal regulations and be licensed by the Bureau of Export Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Applicable Federal government export controls are specified in Title 15, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 740.17; Title 15, CFR Part 742; and Title 15, CFR Part 774, Category 5, Part 2.
Now, the real question is, what does this mean? Has anyone looked these up? Can you just use AES/Rijndael in software and publish it or sell it on the net? Or do you have to get a waiver or file notification with the Bureau of Export Administration, as you did with DES?
The freedom to do what I want with my creations is just that -- a freedom.
If I want to write software that I then shred, that's my right. Stallman would force me to give it away.
Screw Stallman.
Since the book is subtitled Confessions of a B-Movie Actor you might think that this answer would be found in the book.
And you'd be right!
Sarcasm aside, the book is very good. In it, Bruce says that he thought about trying to be a Star, and decided instead to be a good working B-movie actor.
The book really made me have a lot of respect for Bruce and the other actors who work their tails off.
I second (or third?) the recommendation for CodeWarrior from Metrowerks, now a Motorola company.
At my previous job, we did cross-platform development in Java on Macs using CodeWarrior, and we programmed circles around the guys using JBuilder, Vis Cafe, and VisJ on Windows. Part of that was Windows :-), but the rest was that CodeWarrior just works.
The Windows guys kept thrashing around with different tools for a couple of months before they ended up with VisJ. I suspect it was because it only sucked as bad as the other tools, and it's MS. Sigh.
Remember how laptops had the keyboard flush with the front of the laptop, until the Powerbook was released?
Everyone said "Duh! That makes so much sense!"-- it was a much better design to have a place to rest your hands while typing, but it took Apple to see it.
That's the kind of engineering detail that keeps Apple ahead of the game. Let's hope they can keep it up!
But the other point is that it's the government trying to protect us with stuff that won't work.
It's like the government mandating that you will lock your house up every day with a government-approved lock.
A better (as in more freedom) method is to allow civilians to protect themselves by carrying firearms (with appropriate types of ammunition) on flights.
The first shot will drop the plane. Depressurization and rupture, remember?
You moron. Haven't you been listening to the calls for more air marshals on board flights? What do you think they carry, slingshots?
Frangible ammo will fragment and not punch through aircraft skin. Not to mention that a single bullet through the skin would simply cause a leak, unlike the exciting movies where a small bullet causes half the plane to blow away.
And we haven't even mentioned air rage.
What about it? How many road rage shootings have you heard about? What do you think the percentage is? How many incidents would it take to match one incident of hijacking-crashing-into-WTC-killing-5,000 that would be prevented by armed civilians on board a plane?
Most publiers are releasing only older titles on e-books. I have yet to see a new hardcover edition be simultaneous released on e-books.
You're looking in the wrong places, apparently. www.peanutpress.com has released at least several simultaneous with the hardback.
According to some inside info :-) King's Black House will be released as ebook the day it's available in hardback.
Forget the fact that you have to pay hundreds of dollars for a reader before you get any content....
Not. Already have a Palm.
Forget the fact that reading this stuff gives you a headache....
Not. I've read for easily hundreds of hours on my Palm without a single headache.
Forget the fact it's a pain in the neck to flip between pages....
Not. It's easier on a Palm than with paper. I can hold a Palm (sideways, using the Palm Reader) and flip pages with one hand, which is tough to do with paper, especially a hardback.
Forget the fact that there's so few books available in eBook format....
Not. There's more at www.peanutpress.com than I can keep up with. And people said the same thing about CD twenty years ago.
Forget the fact that the competing "technology"(paper books) is superior....
In some ways. (Heh, you thought I was going to say "Not") But ebooks are superior in other ways.
This should be a FAQ, since every ebook article on /. goes through the same cycle
People are going to have to face up to the fact that ebooks have (at least) a niche, and they're not going away. They'll change in form and capability, but they're not going anywhere. They're not replacing paper (yet), but paper is not the end-all and be-all of the written word. If it were, you wouldn't be reading /.
The OS sucks to develop for, unless you're starting a brand-new EPOC-only application. It's heavily object-oriented to the point that you can't easily port anything written for any other OS without a hell of a lot of work.
That's (IMHO) why the platform died -- the OS is too difficult to develop for, in this cross-platform world.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Notice how it doesn't say anything about "only political speech", or "no whining".
Notice how it doesn't say "The University of Utah shall make no law". The first amendment doesn't necessarily apply here. I know that some of the Bill of Rights have been extended such that states cannot make laws which abridge those rights, but I don't know how that extends to state universities. Anyone?
J (jamie@mccarthy.vg) updates the main posting by saying that Ashcroft "prefers thought control", using as evidence the quote "We have to exhibit responsibility in other ways, so that the culture inhibits or restrains this impulse."
/. doing letting idiots like this update main postings?
WTF? If you don't think that inhibiting the impulse to go on a shooting spree at your local school is a good thing, you are a sick fuck. Pardon my french.
Society's main purpose is to inhibit the impulses to kill other members of society.
What the hell is
How are MultiMedia Cards different from CompactFlash or PCMCIA cards?
Size, size, and size. MMCs are about the size of a postage stamp, and about as thick as a quarter. They rock.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Whining won't help. :-)
The site at yopy.org appears to be down and has been for a while.
Personally, I think Linux handhelds are a waste of time -- it requires too many resources (memory, processor, storage, screen resolution) to be useful on a handheld. But don't let that stop you.
thats what I was thinking...I can understand being upset and pissed for about 5 minutes. After that, get a fucking life.
So, you are the arbitrator of how people should spend their time, and you've decided that playing Diablo 2 isn't an approved activity?
I agree that some people go way overboard with some games, but that's their right.
Clearly, everyone should be playing Unreal Tournament.
Truly lame, IMHO.
From the FAQ at the Sony site:
Q: What operating system does the Sony CLIE Handheld support?
A: The CLIE Handheld supports Windows® 98, 98 SE, and Windows 2000 Professional
Q: Does the CLIE Handheld support the Mac® OS?
A: Sorry, at this time the CLIE Handheld does not support the Mac OS.
Q: Does the CLIE Handheld support Windows 95, Windows NT®, Linux® or Unix®?
A: Sorry, at this time the CLIE Handheld does not support these operating systems.
Here's what an eBook would have to be capable of doing to replace a plain-old paperback-
This reminds me of someone saying: "Here's what an automobile would have to be capable of doing to replace a plain-old horse."
Ebooks are a separate entity that serve some of the same purposes as paperbacks, but it's a different ballgame.
I'm not saying there aren't disadvantages; there are. But ebooks aren't going to fail because they don't match up to paperbacks in every way.
That $100 Matlab student version severely limits the size of the matrix you can use. If you want to do anything with images or 3D data, forget it.
This isn't true in the latest version of Matlab for Students.
Bzzz. Thanks for playing, try again later. The 2nd Amendment uses the same phrase "the people" as is in the 1st and 4th amendments. The 10th clearly differentiates betweeen "the people" and "states", so it's not like they're interchangeable.
Check out the recent Emerson case in Texas -- the 2nd Amendment guarantees individual rights. The initial clause is explanatory in why the founders thought they needed to enumerate the right, but it's not restrictive.
Read it this way:
"A well-educated electorate, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and read books shall not be infringed."
It's pretty clear that the right is individual and absolute.
Have a nice day.
So you have no problems with your kid setting off the metal detector because she has a house key in her pocket and having armed guards rummage thru her backpack, purse, pockets, etc.? Your daughter will probably grow up to be a good little sheep. Or a rebel, and who could blame her?
What freedoms do armed guards restrict?
It's not a question of freedoms in this case, it's a question of "learning environment". Why don't you have armed guards in your house, mandated by the government? You'd be much safer, and it wouldn't be impinging on your freedoms, would it?
"Overtake CE"? I don't know what you've been smoking, but let us have some. The Palm OS is crushing CE in the market, by at least 4 to 1. This'll probably increase, given the number of companies punting their CE products.
Hmmmm, no. Handspring was founded about a year ago, long before Palm Computing was announced to be spun off. Indeed, rumor has it that Hawkins and Dubinsky left because (at that time) 3COM wouldn't spin off Palm.
And the Palm OS has been licensed to 3rd parties for quite some time as well. IBM makes the Workpad, a Palm OS device, and Qualcomm has a license to use it in a phone, but I don't think they've released anything yet.