You know, it looks from the pictures like it's the same size as the III-series Palms. In that case, it might work with your keyboard. I know that would make it comptaible with my III-series keyboard... does your Visor have a different serial connector?
I'm glad HandEra isn't making this like Palm's new m500 series. This device fits some of my personal wants: Shaped like a III-series (from the photos) and grayscale screen. I really dislike the small size of the V's and the m's, so it's good to see something of a sturdier size that's more friendly to my hands.
And then there's the screen size, the expansion slots... Whoops, I'm drooling.
It's nothing special, just thought I'd give you another perspective on it.
Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent. I had a brief amihotornot addiction (I used it to keep myself awake when doing homework late at night), but eventually grew disgusted with it. I find myself smirking at diehard users, but I really don't care that much.
For those who care about such things, this story ran on the "front page" of the features section, which always has an "outside the box" design. In this case, that page editor took the obvious route and made it up like a web browser (note to self... figure out way to get spiffy page designs into online version). I made some cute browser buttons (in the GIMP;) ). I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph.
Well, good thing I didn't post it. I'm not sure if I know you "in real life" at school, but many congratulations. You know, I think you guys had waaay too much fun with that wrench image...:)
Oh yes! Shameless plug time! Chips Online(actually, the print cousin) will have full robot coverage next month. Watch that space.
Yeah, I took it a wee bit out of context. On the other hand, I think the reviewers noted this because on PPC and PalmOS, all programs are alqways running. Not in the same sense... but if you leave one program by switching to another (either to the Launcher, or to, say MemoPad), when you come back, nine programs out of ten will be in the exact place you left them.
I can see it how it might work differently, but I wodner if the reviewers were expecting it to eb more Palm-like.
I don't have a theseis for this post... it's part agreement and part disagreement and part me ranting, so bear with me...
rather than be forced to recommend a winCE powered, or palmOS powered device.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Now, I'm no fan of WinCE, but Palm is a good handheld OS.
Think about recommending a PDA to someone. Say this is a co-worker with significantly less tech experience than yourself asking for a recommendation. Do you really think they want to work with Linux on a handheld? Maybe they do. Or maybe they want something that's fast, clean, user-friendly, and designed to be a handheld OS. PalmOS or PocketPC may be better for this.
(Forgive me if I misinterpreted what you said about recommendation.)
It worries me that people are so swift to discount PocketPC and PalmOS in favor of Linux. One of the problems with WinCE (and this may still be a problem with PPC) is that MS basically tried to scale Windows95 down into a handheld, and it just didn't work (not "work" in a program-won't-run sense, but in functionality and ease of use). One part of the review caught my eye: "That's right, the Linux operating system that works so phenomenally well for web servers (including the two running the Brighthand web site) grinds to a halt in this version "
I admire the attempts to make Linux work on more than just servers and desktops. If someday I can switch between ("dual boot":) ) PalmOS and Linux on my handheld, I will be very happy. But Linux is not necessarily the be-all and end-all OS for every application.
PS...It looks like Agenda is trying to make Linux work as a good handheld OS. But as you point out, people will be reluctant to see it as such if Agenda keeps this rush-release practice up.
Perhaps a heavily armed/armored penguin. A penguin in SW stormtrooper armor? That might have negative connotations which you may or may not want. Maybe a penguin in traditional knight's armor....
The real question is, why am I putting so much thought into this?:)
I swear, we must've been posting at the same time. Your timestamp beats mine by two minutes. Discworld fans must be like great minds (thinking alike and such).
Given the nature of Discworld, do you suppose that we would have to start using octal codes to represent shades and blends of squant if it were like octarine?
Also there's the one episode of Star Trek: Voyager in which not just planets but entire species are wiped out, but then they crash Voyager into the time ship and the timeline reverts to the way it was so nobody ever really died... or did they?
Yeah, with the Krenim (sp?)... that was a fun episode. But look at it this way: Were they really killed in the first place? Reality was just altered so that they had never existed. (though to Janeway, it was the same thing)
Just playing devil's advocate. Temporal mechanics is headache-inducing at best.
In the downtown area of the pseudo-town of Silver Spring, MD (it's sort of spread out all over the place), the penguin is kind of an unofficial mascot. There is a mural outside the Metro station which shows a typical Metro train populated by penguins instead of humans. What's really relevant here is that a couple of the "Pedestrian X-ing" signs in the city show a male figure, a female figure, a child figure and, yes, a penguin (emperor?) crossing the street.
Another abstract reference to the "average user". Yep.:)
"I think it's fair to say that the only reason folks still use windows is because they've invested so much time in figuring out the totally convoluted way to do simple things" I don't think it's so much that as people just being comfortable with Microsoft apps (I'm constantly surprised at the steep learning curve I see people experiencing even when learnign new word processors, even though the basic concept is the same). Yes, Microsoft has a monopoly. Does that, in itself, make their OS bad? I really don't think so. Now, Windows isn't the greatest thing out there, but somestimes it's all you need.
I totally agree with you on the point of dumbing-down the OS. The screenshots I've seen of the next major Windows version are frightening in their apparent simplicity (big shiny buttons! whee!).
Games are basically the only reason to still use Windoze
I like some aspects of linux, but I can name several reasons folks still use Windows. User-ease, for one. Microsoft Office (or Corel, i suppose) is another.
I don't want to start an argument here, but I'd like to point out that there are other reasons for the average user to use Windows.
Well, I won't argue with you about the quality of the movie, but I will nitpick. First, I thought it was pretty clear in the factory that Tania shines sunlight in Konig's eyes, distracting him long enough for Vasiliy to get his rifle, which he promptly uses to shoot Konig in the hand, giving him (Vasiliy) time to escape. Also, there was plenty of snow throughout the movie. Not always, but it was there. Yeah, the love story was pretty goofy. Totally on the mark there, as it were.
Right, I saw this yesterday, and my biggest complaint was the romance/sex overload. I can deal with the plausibility of the presence of female soldiers, and I can deal with two main characters falling in love with her... but it all just reinforced the idea that sex screws up everything. The guys are trying to fight a war, and love (at close range, in this case, not a sweetheart at home) seems to be an unnecessary distraction keeping them from their tasks. The sniper and military parts of the movie were really good, and it held be to the extent that the final bullet in Vasiliy and Konig's duel, though expected, still made me jump. But the romantic elements of the film were just obnoxious. I know this is how movies work these days, but this one really could have (IMO) done without it.
Amazing. One of my friends has for several years had a stuffed penguin named Soup. No, we don't know why. And we're none of us Linux geeks. Funny how these things work.
Damn. I was determined not to post to this story, and then you had to go and read my mind. Please don't laugh, I have to get this off my chest.
I watched my first star trek in fifth grade. That was Voyager's 1st season. I still vividly recall Future's End. Now, I will say that I have a very active mind, and I spent a lot of time thinking about Captain Braxton and the 29th century. Car rides, long hikes, boring gym classes, whatever... whenever my brain was on "idle," I would start speculating. Soon I had an entire 29th Century (or C29, as I couldn't help calling it) setting thought up. A crew for a ship, uniforms, technology, politics, history... the works. No one really wanted to hear about it, so I just kept it to myself and let it grow in my head.
Eventually, i matured, and found it felt much better to spin my own universes in my mind. C29 sank to the back of my mind, and I've recently found myself cannibalizing some of those ideas for my original fiction. But I still recall a lot of it. In fact, I probably still hve my sketched out uniform designs somewhere. Maybe I should turn it all into a webpage.
When series V was more sepculation than fact, one rumor I found was much like this one, except that it specificed occasional appearances by Captain Braxton from the 29th century, in pursuit of temporal criminals and suchforth. That blew my mind, especially since i hadn't thought about it for a couple years.
For all that it would doubtless conflict with my ideas, I would love to see a C29 series. There's so much potential, as you said.
I guess it's hard to take all i've said here seriously. This being slashdot, mockery is probably forthcoming. Whatever. Had to get this off my chest.
You know, while a historical doesn't seem to have much potential, it could have been much, much worse. One of the other rumors I encountered a while ago was a Starfleet Academy series. Good gods, it would've been the voyages of the starship Loveboat, NCC-90210....;)
I stumbled over "Press Enter" when I was doing some research on Timothy Zahn and had gone in search of his "Cascade Point" (also good). But the anthology that I found had "Press Enter []" right before "Cascade Point, and aftrer glimpsing just a page, it had me hooked. I read it all the way through, then went back and started at the beginning and read it again. And again.
I really don't know why. I read the story mutliple times, and it haunted me for days afterward. I'm not sure exactly what it was, though. There, you see, I still get the shivers thinking about it. Amazing.
You know, I can just see the main character becoming the scary old man of his neighborhood....
It makes me think of a story I vaguely remember reading about a guy who is convinced his wife has been stolen by some supersecret organization, and he uses his skills as a hacker to start bringing down computers worldwide in an effort to get her back. Also a shiver-generator, though not as much as "Press Enter []."
Am I the only one who thinks there's a little box in the title? As in the prompt? Maybe it should be "-". Oh well.
Now I'm going to have to go to that library and check that anthology out again. And maybe some other Varley stuff.
Hell yes. The IIIxe has 8 meg, and I use a bit over half of that, but I could be convinced to take off SolarWars and some of my bigger docs to make room.
I don't quite follow what he did, but if it could fit perl in 2-3 megs, there would definitiely be some takers.
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Just about any General Motors SVU, I'd guess...
-J
so you can run all the Windows games you want on your favorite OS
But I already do! 8-)
(sorry, couldn't help it)
-J
When I see that word, all I can think of are the Simps in Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama.
But that's probably just me.
-J
This is true. Which is why I'm glad to see dissension against the "smaller and thinner" movement.
-J
You know, it looks from the pictures like it's the same size as the III-series Palms. In that case, it might work with your keyboard. I know that would make it comptaible with my III-series keyboard... does your Visor have a different serial connector?
-J
I'm glad HandEra isn't making this like Palm's new m500 series. This device fits some of my personal wants: Shaped like a III-series (from the photos) and grayscale screen. I really dislike the small size of the V's and the m's, so it's good to see something of a sturdier size that's more friendly to my hands.
And then there's the screen size, the expansion slots... Whoops, I'm drooling.
-J
Would you agree, then, that there only two or three shows on UPN worth watching, and their titles all start with the same two words? ;)
-J
The Print Edition of my school paper (I work with both Print and Online) did a feature a couple issues ago about this phenomenon.
It's nothing special, just thought I'd give you another perspective on it.
Personally, I'm kind of ambivalent. I had a brief amihotornot addiction (I used it to keep myself awake when doing homework late at night), but eventually grew disgusted with it. I find myself smirking at diehard users, but I really don't care that much.
For those who care about such things, this story ran on the "front page" of the features section, which always has an "outside the box" design. In this case, that page editor took the obvious route and made it up like a web browser (note to self... figure out way to get spiffy page designs into online version). I made some cute browser buttons (in the GIMP ;) ). I don't know where I'm going with this paragraph.
-J
Well, good thing I didn't post it. I'm not sure if I know you "in real life" at school, but many congratulations. :)
You know, I think you guys had waaay too much fun with that wrench image...
Oh yes! Shameless plug time! Chips Online(actually, the print cousin) will have full robot coverage next month. Watch that space.
-J
Yeah, I took it a wee bit out of context. On the other hand, I think the reviewers noted this because on PPC and PalmOS, all programs are alqways running. Not in the same sense... but if you leave one program by switching to another (either to the Launcher, or to, say MemoPad), when you come back, nine programs out of ten will be in the exact place you left them.
I can see it how it might work differently, but I wodner if the reviewers were expecting it to eb more Palm-like.
-J
I don't have a theseis for this post... it's part agreement and part disagreement and part me ranting, so bear with me...
rather than be forced to recommend a winCE powered, or palmOS powered device.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Now, I'm no fan of WinCE, but Palm is a good handheld OS.
Think about recommending a PDA to someone. Say this is a co-worker with significantly less tech experience than yourself asking for a recommendation. Do you really think they want to work with Linux on a handheld? Maybe they do. Or maybe they want something that's fast, clean, user-friendly, and designed to be a handheld OS. PalmOS or PocketPC may be better for this.
(Forgive me if I misinterpreted what you said about recommendation.)
It worries me that people are so swift to discount PocketPC and PalmOS in favor of Linux. One of the problems with WinCE (and this may still be a problem with PPC) is that MS basically tried to scale Windows95 down into a handheld, and it just didn't work (not "work" in a program-won't-run sense, but in functionality and ease of use). One part of the review caught my eye: "That's right, the Linux operating system that works so phenomenally well for web servers (including the two running the Brighthand web site) grinds to a halt in this version "
I admire the attempts to make Linux work on more than just servers and desktops. If someday I can switch between ("dual boot" :) ) PalmOS and Linux on my handheld, I will be very happy. But Linux is not necessarily the be-all and end-all OS for every application.
PS...It looks like Agenda is trying to make Linux work as a good handheld OS. But as you point out, people will be reluctant to see it as such if Agenda keeps this rush-release practice up.
-J
Perhaps a heavily armed/armored penguin. A penguin in SW stormtrooper armor? That might have negative connotations which you may or may not want. Maybe a penguin in traditional knight's armor....
:)
The real question is, why am I putting so much thought into this?
-J
Hey you, off my mental wavelength. :)
I swear, we must've been posting at the same time. Your timestamp beats mine by two minutes. Discworld fans must be like great minds (thinking alike and such).
Given the nature of Discworld, do you suppose that we would have to start using octal codes to represent shades and blends of squant if it were like octarine?
-J
Man, you haven't lived until you've grown octagonal rods in your eyes and seen the eighth color, octarine, the color of magic.
Of course I can't describe it to you, but it's sort of a purplish-green....
-J
Also there's the one episode of Star Trek: Voyager in which not just planets but entire species are wiped out, but then they crash Voyager into the time ship and the timeline reverts to the way it was so nobody ever really died ... or did they?
Yeah, with the Krenim (sp?)... that was a fun episode. But look at it this way: Were they really killed in the first place? Reality was just altered so that they had never existed. (though to Janeway, it was the same thing)
Just playing devil's advocate. Temporal mechanics is headache-inducing at best.
-J
In the downtown area of the pseudo-town of Silver Spring, MD (it's sort of spread out all over the place), the penguin is kind of an unofficial mascot. There is a mural outside the Metro station which shows a typical Metro train populated by penguins instead of humans. What's really relevant here is that a couple of the "Pedestrian X-ing" signs in the city show a male figure, a female figure, a child figure and, yes, a penguin (emperor?) crossing the street.
-J
Another abstract reference to the "average user". :)
Yep.
"I think it's fair to say that the only reason folks still use windows is because they've invested so much time in figuring out the totally convoluted way to do simple things"
I don't think it's so much that as people just being comfortable with Microsoft apps (I'm constantly surprised at the steep learning curve I see people experiencing even when learnign new word processors, even though the basic concept is the same). Yes, Microsoft has a monopoly. Does that, in itself, make their OS bad? I really don't think so. Now, Windows isn't the greatest thing out there, but somestimes it's all you need.
I totally agree with you on the point of dumbing-down the OS. The screenshots I've seen of the next major Windows version are frightening in their apparent simplicity (big shiny buttons! whee!).
-J
Games are basically the only reason to still use Windoze
I like some aspects of linux, but I can name several reasons folks still use Windows. User-ease, for one. Microsoft Office (or Corel, i suppose) is another.
I don't want to start an argument here, but I'd like to point out that there are other reasons for the average user to use Windows.
-J
Well, the snow was most plentiful in his flashbacks, but I definitely remember snow on the ground throughout.
;)
Target moves his head two inches and you've wasted the shot.
Very true.
Though... depends which eye you're aiming at, and which way he moves...
-J
Well, I won't argue with you about the quality of the movie, but I will nitpick. First, I thought it was pretty clear in the factory that Tania shines sunlight in Konig's eyes, distracting him long enough for Vasiliy to get his rifle, which he promptly uses to shoot Konig in the hand, giving him (Vasiliy) time to escape. Also, there was plenty of snow throughout the movie. Not always, but it was there.
Yeah, the love story was pretty goofy. Totally on the mark there, as it were.
-J
Right, I saw this yesterday, and my biggest complaint was the romance/sex overload. I can deal with the plausibility of the presence of female soldiers, and I can deal with two main characters falling in love with her... but it all just reinforced the idea that sex screws up everything. The guys are trying to fight a war, and love (at close range, in this case, not a sweetheart at home) seems to be an unnecessary distraction keeping them from their tasks.
The sniper and military parts of the movie were really good, and it held be to the extent that the final bullet in Vasiliy and Konig's duel, though expected, still made me jump.
But the romantic elements of the film were just obnoxious. I know this is how movies work these days, but this one really could have (IMO) done without it.
-J
Amazing. One of my friends has for several years had a stuffed penguin named Soup.
No, we don't know why. And we're none of us Linux geeks. Funny how these things work.
-J
Damn. I was determined not to post to this story, and then you had to go and read my mind. Please don't laugh, I have to get this off my chest.
I watched my first star trek in fifth grade. That was Voyager's 1st season. I still vividly recall Future's End. Now, I will say that I have a very active mind, and I spent a lot of time thinking about Captain Braxton and the 29th century. Car rides, long hikes, boring gym classes, whatever... whenever my brain was on "idle," I would start speculating. Soon I had an entire 29th Century (or C29, as I couldn't help calling it) setting thought up. A crew for a ship, uniforms, technology, politics, history... the works. No one really wanted to hear about it, so I just kept it to myself and let it grow in my head.
Eventually, i matured, and found it felt much better to spin my own universes in my mind. C29 sank to the back of my mind, and I've recently found myself cannibalizing some of those ideas for my original fiction. But I still recall a lot of it. In fact, I probably still hve my sketched out uniform designs somewhere. Maybe I should turn it all into a webpage.
When series V was more sepculation than fact, one rumor I found was much like this one, except that it specificed occasional appearances by Captain Braxton from the 29th century, in pursuit of temporal criminals and suchforth. That blew my mind, especially since i hadn't thought about it for a couple years.
For all that it would doubtless conflict with my ideas, I would love to see a C29 series. There's so much potential, as you said.
I guess it's hard to take all i've said here seriously. This being slashdot, mockery is probably forthcoming. Whatever. Had to get this off my chest.
You know, while a historical doesn't seem to have much potential, it could have been much, much worse. One of the other rumors I encountered a while ago was a Starfleet Academy series. Good gods, it would've been the voyages of the starship Loveboat, NCC-90210.... ;)
-J
I stumbled over "Press Enter" when I was doing some research on Timothy Zahn and had gone in search of his "Cascade Point" (also good). But the anthology that I found had "Press Enter []" right before "Cascade Point, and aftrer glimpsing just a page, it had me hooked. I read it all the way through, then went back and started at the beginning and read it again. And again.
I really don't know why. I read the story mutliple times, and it haunted me for days afterward. I'm not sure exactly what it was, though. There, you see, I still get the shivers thinking about it. Amazing.
You know, I can just see the main character becoming the scary old man of his neighborhood....
It makes me think of a story I vaguely remember reading about a guy who is convinced his wife has been stolen by some supersecret organization, and he uses his skills as a hacker to start bringing down computers worldwide in an effort to get her back. Also a shiver-generator, though not as much as "Press Enter []."
Am I the only one who thinks there's a little box in the title? As in the prompt? Maybe it should be "-". Oh well.
Now I'm going to have to go to that library and check that anthology out again. And maybe some other Varley stuff.
-J
Hell yes.
The IIIxe has 8 meg, and I use a bit over half of that, but I could be convinced to take off SolarWars and some of my bigger docs to make room.
I don't quite follow what he did, but if it could fit perl in 2-3 megs, there would definitiely be some takers.
-J