Great, but one problem for travellers
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Palmtop Nirvana?
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I bought one a couple weeks ago - It has many of the features people on this thread are asking for - video playback, mp3, two SD slots, SD IO, great gaming performance and control layout - and excellent price for the features. I am loving the thing, superb toy, I mean, work tool.
The problem is that it has one rather stunning shortcoming for a high end PDA - Inability to travel.
Lets put it this way - I just found out that tapwave sell a 'travel kit' for $49. 'Odd', I think, why would you need a special travel kit for a PDA? One of the travel plugs I use for my cell phone, my old PDA, my laptop etc should do fine. Until, out of suspicion, I checked the charger that came with the Zodiac - it supports 100 to 120 volts only.
This is something of a surprise - Why, tapwave? Here's a suggestion - for future releases, provide a real charger.
To everyone else - Wonderful product. Buy it. But if you do a lot of travel (like me) understand that you are going to have to factor in the hidden cost of a 240v to 110v adaptor on top of the unit, or the cost of the Zodiac travel kit.
It's especially annoying for me, because I actually don't live in the US - I'm just here for a couple of months - And before I leave, I'm going to have to get one of these travel adaptors. Ouch.
"Another story: Someone gave me an MS Excel spreadsheet. I opened it in Excel, but was unable to discover how to make the row and column headings stay visible when I scrolled to the right or down. The Excel help was no help."
funny you had that problem:
using excel 2000. Help menu -> MS Office help. Type in 'keeping column headers visible when you scroll'.
Two hits returned on this search query, one of which tells you exactly how to do this.
Microsoft provides a great help system, if you actually take the few seconds to use it.
(Having said that - I've been using Abiword and kword a lot recently, and liking them for their lack of bloat and speed - But to claim that MS help offers no assistance is a little misleading - MS always have provided good documentation and help in their products.)
I think he's forgetting something in all this. Sure the computers will have fast enough processors to provide the simulacra to vet your calls, but who is writing the software?
- MS Call Manager (tm) automatically replies to your calls -... don't run it till SP3 though, or you might find your calls answered in most interesting ways.
Re:That is how the rich become rich; usury
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Uh... This is slashdot - correct me if I'm wrong - a forum of geeks. Now what geek do you know who DOESN'T take every opportunity to boast about their toys?
This guy just happens to have more, that's all. A lot more than most of us, but that shouldn't matter.
All those previous posts have been succinct and to the point of the topic of conversation. He also happens to have given an example of his own experience (ie, equipment) with the issue involved - as many people do when posting.
His comments have been polite, never snide, arrogent, or holier-than-thou.
Yet we're whining because he's richer than us. Not a good reflection on the rest of us at all.
I travel a _lot_ on business. Half my time is spent away from home these days, on consulting trips that last from several weeks to a couple of months away.
Having a laptop that plays UT2k4 is important for my sanity after some of those longer meetings.
Actually, while this URL is probably quite valid, it's not really something that should be used to validate your point - The article has no references or links to solid information backing his claims - It could be just another one of a billion other webpages out there talking about things they don't really have the right to talk about.
It's written in a light-hearted, entertaining fashion, but that does not automatically make it _correct_.
To _really_ set this to rest, we need links to news sites, sony.com, etc, to validate the figures and claims made on the actsofgord site, or another webpage that already contains this information.
Put in the question 'When will a time machine be invented.'
If a time machine IS invented (no matter _when_), the inventer, being a geek, will just _have_ to come back to place a bet on the correct date...
So... All we need to do is investigate each of the few hundred (or thousand) individuals who answer the question, and check for any suspicious looking blue police boxes parked outside their house.
Certainly a lot easier than inventing one in the first place, you know.
Sometimes I'm so brilliant that I confuse even myself.
Another problem with these of course is that things like freenet are completely anonymous... so whats stopping spammers from flooding these lists with false entries and ruining the integrity of them.
You're just as likely to download the latest blacklist from freenet, and find that it's an advertisement for herbal viagra...:)
that is, it's the search for extra terrestrial intelligence, not the search for extra terrestrial hyper advanced intelligence.
I don't think we're only searching for godlike civilisations out there - we're searching for _anyone_, _anything_ - just so that we know that we're not all alone in the night.
The only people allowed to insult australians are new zealanders!
Everyone else, lay off! they're OUR bitches!
(Or failing that, go to australia, and insult them to their faces. it's ok that way. say something like "hey tosser - whats a wanker like you doing in a place like this?" that's quite socially acceptable in australia, and will usually result in the australian buying you a drink. really.)
You'd also need to rewrite drivers for EVERY graphics card, sound card, joystick, etc, that you wanted to support.
it was bad enough under dos when you had the choice of about 3 soundcard brands.. these days, with dozens of 3D chipsets on the market, even more soundcards, and 3D sound API's...
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I bought one a couple weeks ago - It has many of the features people on this thread are asking for - video playback, mp3, two SD slots, SD IO, great gaming performance and control layout - and excellent price for the features. I am loving the thing, superb toy, I mean, work tool.
The problem is that it has one rather stunning shortcoming for a high end PDA - Inability to travel.
Lets put it this way - I just found out that tapwave sell a 'travel kit' for $49. 'Odd', I think, why would you need a special travel kit for a PDA? One of the travel plugs I use for my cell phone, my old PDA, my laptop etc should do fine.
Until, out of suspicion, I checked the charger that came with the Zodiac - it supports 100 to 120 volts only.
This is something of a surprise - Why, tapwave? Here's a suggestion - for future releases, provide a real charger.
To everyone else - Wonderful product. Buy it. But if you do a lot of travel (like me) understand that you are going to have to factor in the hidden cost of a 240v to 110v adaptor on top of the unit, or the cost of the Zodiac travel kit.
It's especially annoying for me, because I actually don't live in the US - I'm just here for a couple of months - And before I leave, I'm going to have to get one of these travel adaptors. Ouch.
funny you had that problem:
using excel 2000.
Help menu -> MS Office help.
Type in 'keeping column headers visible when you scroll'.
Two hits returned on this search query, one of which tells you exactly how to do this.
Microsoft provides a great help system, if you actually take the few seconds to use it.
(Having said that - I've been using Abiword and kword a lot recently, and liking them for their lack of bloat and speed - But to claim that MS help offers no assistance is a little misleading - MS always have provided good documentation and help in their products.)
I think he's forgetting something in all this.
... don't run it till SP3 though, or you might find your calls answered in most interesting ways.
Sure the computers will have fast enough processors to provide the simulacra to vet your calls, but who is writing the software?
- MS Call Manager (tm) automatically replies to your calls -
Hey, it worked on Futurama...
Uh... This is slashdot - correct me if I'm wrong - a forum of geeks. Now what geek do you know who DOESN'T take every opportunity to boast about their toys?
This guy just happens to have more, that's all. A lot more than most of us, but that shouldn't matter.
All those previous posts have been succinct and to the point of the topic of conversation. He also happens to have given an example of his own experience (ie, equipment) with the issue involved - as many people do when posting.
His comments have been polite, never snide, arrogent, or holier-than-thou.
Yet we're whining because he's richer than us. Not a good reflection on the rest of us at all.
um....
The linux kernel can't do any of these things either.
It just happens to use a lot of open source tools that sit on top of the kernel to do these things.
Just a matter of UI, not kernel.
I travel a _lot_ on business. Half my time is spent away from home these days, on consulting trips that last from several weeks to a couple of months away.
Having a laptop that plays UT2k4 is important for my sanity after some of those longer meetings.
I use my laptop for gaming an aweful lot.
Actually, while this URL is probably quite valid, it's not really something that should be used to validate your point - The article has no references or links to solid information backing his claims - It could be just another one of a billion other webpages out there talking about things they don't really have the right to talk about.
It's written in a light-hearted, entertaining fashion, but that does not automatically make it _correct_.
To _really_ set this to rest, we need links to news sites, sony.com, etc, to validate the figures and claims made on the actsofgord site, or another webpage that already contains this information.
What a great way to GET a time machine though...
Put in the question 'When will a time machine be invented.'
If a time machine IS invented (no matter _when_), the inventer, being a geek, will just _have_ to come back to place a bet on the correct date...
So... All we need to do is investigate each of the few hundred (or thousand) individuals who answer the question, and check for any suspicious looking blue police boxes parked outside their house.
Certainly a lot easier than inventing one in the first place, you know.
Sometimes I'm so brilliant that I confuse even myself.
Humour isn't just rules - I just looked at and laughed, even though it was actually a rather insightful comment.
Yes, entirely true - The mythical solar powered torch IS more likely as solar cells get cheaper, and batteries better.
huh. go figure. It's kind of funny the way you played on peoples 'perceptions', you know. In fact, _really_ funny the way you fooled me too.
Another problem with these of course is that things like freenet are completely anonymous... so whats stopping spammers from flooding these lists with false entries and ruining the integrity of them.
:)
You're just as likely to download the latest blacklist from freenet, and find that it's an advertisement for herbal viagra...
you've got one already - People just need to remember to perform a lookup against the phone book.
that is, it's the search for extra terrestrial intelligence, not the search for extra terrestrial hyper advanced intelligence.
I don't think we're only searching for godlike civilisations out there - we're searching for _anyone_, _anything_ - just so that we know that we're not all alone in the night.
It may not be perfect, but it's a start.
This is absolutely correct! Totally agree.
The only people allowed to insult australians are new zealanders!
Everyone else, lay off! they're OUR bitches!
(Or failing that, go to australia, and insult them to their faces. it's ok that way. say something like "hey tosser - whats a wanker like you doing in a place like this?" that's quite socially acceptable in australia, and will usually result in the australian buying you a drink. really.)
You'd also need to rewrite drivers for EVERY graphics card, sound card, joystick, etc, that you wanted to support. it was bad enough under dos when you had the choice of about 3 soundcard brands.. these days, with dozens of 3D chipsets on the market, even more soundcards, and 3D sound API's...