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PDA Wars: HP Strikes Back With New Jornadas
wbav writes "According to this article on cnn HP has anounced that they are releasing two new models. At 6 ounces it sports a 203 mhz processor and 32 or 64 megs of ram depending on the model. It comes with Pocket PC 2002, and support for VPNs. Very nice." I do wonder what will happen to the Jornada, given the HP purchase of Compaq - my understanding is that the iPaq has kicked far more butt then the Jornada.
Why, then, do the Slashdot editors fall silent when asked about the problems with the site?
All the readers are wondering what is going on with the various bugs ('reply' buttons take you back to the homepage, can't login, etc.) that are preventing them from using the site.
Worse yet, many of the users actually use Slashcode on their own sites! Don't they deserve to know about bugs that may affect them? By "sweeping it under the rug", you are no better than Microsoft who tries to hide their bugs for months while they prepare a patch.
Your only response has been to mod down anyone who has pointed out these flaws to '-1', where their post won't be seen by most readers. That same "instant mod down" probably will happen to this post, too, and that's a shame.
As developers and coders ourselves, we are aware that all software has bugs. We'll forgive you! But it's time to come clean. Thank you.
First off, don't bother wasting your mod points on this one. The slashdot editors will take care of modding this one down for you.
The "spririt" of open-source software (which is always so highly praised on Slashdot) is openness and cooperation. Open source software contributors pride themselves on making their changes public for the benefit of all.
All the readers are wondering what is going on with the various bugs ('reply' buttons take you back to the homepage, can't login, etc.) that are preventing them from using the site.
Why, then, do the Slashdot editors fall silent when asked about the problems with the site?
Worse yet, many of the users actually use Slashcode on their own sites! Don't they deserve to know about bugs that may affect them? By "sweeping it under the rug", you are no better than Microsoft who tries to hide their bugs for months while they prepare a patch.
Your only response has been to mod down anyone who has pointed out these flaws to '-1', where their post won't be seen by most readers. That same "instant mod down" probably will happen to this post, too, and that's a shame.
As developers and coders ourselves, we are aware that all software has bugs. We'll forgive you! But it's time to come clean. Thank you.