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Retail Sharp Zaurus Released
Arminius writes "It looks like Sharp has finally released the Linux based Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 for retail sale. This thing is so awesome! Other than only being able to listen to mp3's thru my headphones only, this thing blows away
my iPaq 3835! It even has Opera as the web browser. "
Have you changed your browser agent string into making it think you have IE?
Not that I'm saying for sure that you have (I'm not) but as a general message for the folks who read this post, DON'T CHANGE YOUR USER AGENT STRING! It only makes IE look more common than it already is. If all of the users of Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror pretend that they're IE, webmasters will have no idea that anyone other than IE users come to their site and be more inclined to write IE-only content.
Can't see their site without changing the user agent string? This is where your principles come into play. Do you actually care about and support the "alternative" browsers or do you not really care at all. There is very little middle ground here. The choice is of course yours, but principles are not important while they are convenient. They are only important when you stick by them when they are significantly incovenient.
- I don't need to go outside, my CRT tan'll do me just fine.
Look man, evaluate the product not their web site. You can still go get specifications for the Zaurus just run Netscape and be a little forgiving. And don't be such arses when it comes to their choice of Opera. Opera is lightweight and has already been used in many embedded products and has itself been proven. No doubt it was a ignorant thing but the product has some good qualities. I picked up mine and have the 802.11b CF card and it is amazing. Don't knock till you try it and talk about merits and faults of the product not advetisments. Ho
Opera has been proven to work GREAT as an EMBEDDED browser, while Mozilla is great, I'm not sure it is as good as Opera in the embedded marked. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's better, even when you're using Linux.
I hope most folks are like me and refuse to set the Opera browser to anything other than Opera. We will never get rid of this IE only crap if we use workarounds. ITs off topic I know but I am at the max so mod me down. Wish Slashdot had a Meta Mod function, that you could set since often very interesting side discussion emerge that the Newbees proudly mod down as Off topic.
Help fight continental drift.
s/to be able to blame someone/to be able to have competent support without having to invest in the non-profitable area of building their own expertise or relying on the so-called "Linux community" (that may be fine for individual users, but no company with any regard for its own existence would rely solely on that community for support.)/. In other words, just because there are free (as in price) alternatives to those they chose, that doesn't mean there are no associated costs. The basic equation would be "if price(service contract) + price(licensing fees) < salary(programmer)*n + salary(support)*m + projected loss due to late market entry; then buy from Lineo/Trolltech/Opera; else DIY", where 'n' is the projected number of programmers necessary to duplicate any specific effort already done by companies such as Lineo or Trolltech that have not been made freely available and 'm' is the projected number of support personal. Both of these are above and beyond any current programmers or support employees.
Check out www.myzaurus.com and www.thekompany.com/embedded for the most available stuff.
If the 5500 uses the same screen, I don't think I'm interested.