OS5 claims no more functionality than you can get on a Sony right now.
Yeah, I just love encrypting all of my data with 128 bit RC4 encryption on my Clie 610 before I shoot it over to my computer via bluetooth or 802.11! And it great having an ARM core processor!
Hey! Maybe PalmOS 5 can teach you how to pull your head out of your ass before you make a stupid statement on a public bulletin board! That would be a hell of a feature!
Hmm. I agree with you that Perl is an excellent choice for this task, but I'm wondering if a lexical analyzer generator (like flex or lex) might make a better choice even than Perl? I suppose it would all matter on what exactly was being recognized.
voice recording is a major feature if you ask a newton user
Pure crap. Voice recording didn't come along until the last (and poorest selling) Newton, the 2000. It wasn't even an issue when I bought my 130. It was never seen as a 'killer app' and is overblown these days.
1.) Debian is not harder to install and configure. If you have problems with it, you're either using an ancient version on modern hardware (ie. kernel fixes since then) or you are missing basic requisite knowledge that you should have with any distribution. Glossing it over now with a friendly GUI isn't going to help later when problems arise or you need to do something more complicated with your system.
Complete BS.Debian is substantially more difficult to install than most other modern distro's simply because the installer is poorly organized and implemented. Granted, it doesn't have to be this way, but the fact is: it is.
The Debian installer leaves a lot to be desired. Please don't let your fondness for the distribution cloud your view of what it is. It has the potential to be much better and you're not doing it any great service by excusing it's weak points (particularly the installer).
A user shouldn't have to become a Debian expert in order to install it. IMO it's a matter of interface design. The underlying functionality exists (as you stated). Now it just needs to be better organized.
There were some questions regarding the benchmarks that Tom published when testing the NVidia TNT2 chipset and the 3DFX Voodoo 3 chipset. His results were very different from several other hardware testing sites results.
When confronted, instead of publishing details of his testing methods, he got all pissy.
To simply trust someone as being "independent" merely because they don't seem to be affiliated with one vendor or another would be naive, IMO. Tom has already been suspect after the fiasco involving NVidia 3D accelerators.
Nobody has NO agenda. Tom needs people to go to his site to stay afloat and I for one wouldn't put it past him to fake someting like this in order to drum up interest (al la Dateline's rigging of their "independent" testing of the dangerous side-saddle gas tanks)
It's insulting that someone, anyone would release a crappy fake picture like that and try to insist that it's a real device.
It's an annoying picture, because the objects in the foreground, the supposed object of interest is in soft focus, while the stuff in the background is crisp and clean. Tell me, is this person's digital camera so bad that it can't take a picture of three objects in close proximity without all three of them in focus? Please.
Another thing that makes this stand out on the bullshit alarm is that it is NOTHING like the real leaked pictures that people release of new products. Usually, when people take pictures of new products, they're as technical as possible, lining up the device like they were in a studio showing the device open, closed, any neat features, and most importantly, what the screen and OS look like.
This crappy fake looks as though it was from the background of that crappy Hackers Movie with Angelina Jolie. You don't expect us to believe for a second that this picture was an accident, taken by someone who didn't even realize what they were taking a picture of, do you? What an insult.
The third, most damning piece of evidence I enter into the fold is the crappy lighting and texture effects the moron who made this used. What the hell kind of surface is that on the device? Granite? Some space-aged material? It doesn't reflect light, like the laptop in the background. It's obviously textured. Is it Olsonite, or some other space age material? I think its Fakelite.
My final point: look at the shadow on the pack of cigarettes. It casts a faint shadow away from the camera, what you'd expect from flash photography. Now, look at the shadow of the fake device. It casts a harsher shadow to the left, as though there was a strong light source to the right of the person taking the picture. Where's the shadow from that light source for the pack of cigarettes? It's got to be a powerful light source, because it was bright enough that the flash wasn't able to drown out its shadows.
This picture is a total fake and an insult to our collective intelligence.
See in the Olde English monetary system, which was not decimal based, this would have been simple. Each person would pay (to split a 10 pound fee): 3 pound, 7 tuppence, 12 farthing, 8&1/2 shilling and 17 zorkmid. Much simpler than having one of the three pay an the extra cent that todays messy decimal based system would require.:)
in a few years, PalmOS and WinCE will be dead and embedded linux will be running all PDA's.
We'll see, I suppose. What's most important to a device like a PalmOS device is the UI and so far, Linux ain't doing so hot in that particular category.
I run an Ipaq with Linux on it now and it isn't anywhere close to being as useful as PalmOS. I could see running PalmOS (which really is just an applications api on a licensed kernel) running on top of a Linux kernel, if the kernel can be pared down to a non-humongous footprint.
There's an element of Real Time with the handhelds, too. Nothing is more annoying than waiting for an application to fire off in wince. It amazes me how slow Microsoft can make a StrongArm processor run. It reminds me of that/. sotry a few months ago about the researchers slowing down light...
You've obviously never been thrown into the position of Mailing List Maintainer for an active list:)
It's a harrowing experience on an active list (the list I was thrust into has 400+ members at any given time with people subscribing and unsubscribing constantly, and averages 100+ messages per day). A book like this would have been an invaluable asset. Hell I still might pick it up.
One word to those who'll listen: If you're using Majordomo and Sendmail, use Bulkmailer. It gave me a logarithmic speed increase (literally: a 20 minute delivery became a 2 minute delivery time).
Umm. what facts? Where? Cite your sources. These statements may be BASED on facts, but they aren't facts. Hell, Titanic the movie was BASED on facts (ie the damn thing went down in 191x, or something) but it isn't FACT.
If these numbers can be had in properly engineered environment, then engineer it and bring us some FACTS! Otherwise, you're talking out of your ASS. Period.
I cocncur. What was his crime? Being a dick. Now as much as I hate dicks, 8 months does seem liek a long time for this. I think they should have just let the CEO's of all the companies he harassed take turns kicking him in the nuts or punching him in the gut. That seems a tad more apropos.
Answer: You're lying. You're talking out of your ass based on specs and dead reckonin'. They did the numbers, you did the empty speculation, and guess what? Reality wins, hands down.
I did some hunting around on e-bay to see how viable this really is. I found that of the 5227 items that popped up in a search for "diablo 2":
4397 of the items were priced less than $10.
456 of the items were priced between $11-25.
227 of the items were priced between $26-$50.
95 items were priced between $51-$100.
38 items were priced between $101-$200.
and 14 were priced higher than $201 (and one of those 14 isn't related to the game, it's a windsurfing sail).
Eyeballing the lists, it appears that more than half of the auctions at all level have no bids. This is just a guesstimate (I don't have time to count up the number of bids on the 5,080 items less than $50, it is true for the items over $51)
I'm highly skeptical that anyone could routinely make >$5000 month, easy, as is claimed by the guy in the article.
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Imagine making a Beowulf cluster of these!
Congrats!
OS5 claims no more functionality than you can get on a Sony right now.
Yeah, I just love encrypting all of my data with 128 bit RC4 encryption on my Clie 610 before I shoot it over to my computer via bluetooth or 802.11! And it great having an ARM core processor!
Hey! Maybe PalmOS 5 can teach you how to pull your head out of your ass before you make a stupid statement on a public bulletin board! That would be a hell of a feature!
Hmm. I agree with you that Perl is an excellent choice for this task, but I'm wondering if a lexical analyzer generator (like flex or lex) might make a better choice even than Perl? I suppose it would all matter on what exactly was being recognized.
Yeah then he could run two hopeful companies into the ground...
Prove it. I can post screenshots of my uptimes. Your claims are utterly worthless, not to mention probably misrepresentations, if not outright lies.
voice recording is a major feature if you ask a newton user
Pure crap. Voice recording didn't come along until the last (and poorest selling) Newton, the 2000. It wasn't even an issue when I bought my 130. It was never seen as a 'killer app' and is overblown these days.
I concur. It's amazing that the US patent office would grant a patent on the number of strokes it takes to write a character...
I concur. This list should be re-labeled "The Dirty Dozen, if you want your Kid to turn out to be a Tree-Hugging Hippie". Nyuk.
1.) Debian is not harder to install and configure. If you have problems with it, you're either using an ancient version on modern hardware (ie. kernel fixes since then) or you are missing basic requisite knowledge that you should have with any distribution. Glossing it over now with a friendly GUI isn't going to help later when problems arise or you need to do something more complicated with your system.
Complete BS.Debian is substantially more difficult to install than most other modern distro's simply because the installer is poorly organized and implemented. Granted, it doesn't have to be this way, but the fact is: it is.
The Debian installer leaves a lot to be desired. Please don't let your fondness for the distribution cloud your view of what it is. It has the potential to be much better and you're not doing it any great service by excusing it's weak points (particularly the installer).
A user shouldn't have to become a Debian expert in order to install it. IMO it's a matter of interface design. The underlying functionality exists (as you stated). Now it just needs to be better organized.
There were some questions regarding the benchmarks that Tom published when testing the NVidia TNT2 chipset and the 3DFX Voodoo 3 chipset. His results were very different from several other hardware testing sites results.
When confronted, instead of publishing details of his testing methods, he got all pissy.
To simply trust someone as being "independent" merely because they don't seem to be affiliated with one vendor or another would be naive, IMO. Tom has already been suspect after the fiasco involving NVidia 3D accelerators.
Nobody has NO agenda. Tom needs people to go to his site to stay afloat and I for one wouldn't put it past him to fake someting like this in order to drum up interest (al la Dateline's rigging of their "independent" testing of the dangerous side-saddle gas tanks)
It's insulting that someone, anyone would release a crappy fake picture like that and try to insist that it's a real device.
It's an annoying picture, because the objects in the foreground, the supposed object of interest is in soft focus, while the stuff in the background is crisp and clean. Tell me, is this person's digital camera so bad that it can't take a picture of three objects in close proximity without all three of them in focus? Please.
Another thing that makes this stand out on the bullshit alarm is that it is NOTHING like the real leaked pictures that people release of new products. Usually, when people take pictures of new products, they're as technical as possible, lining up the device like they were in a studio showing the device open, closed, any neat features, and most importantly, what the screen and OS look like.
This crappy fake looks as though it was from the background of that crappy Hackers Movie with Angelina Jolie. You don't expect us to believe for a second that this picture was an accident, taken by someone who didn't even realize what they were taking a picture of, do you? What an insult.
The third, most damning piece of evidence I enter into the fold is the crappy lighting and texture effects the moron who made this used. What the hell kind of surface is that on the device? Granite? Some space-aged material? It doesn't reflect light, like the laptop in the background. It's obviously textured. Is it Olsonite, or some other space age material? I think its Fakelite.
My final point: look at the shadow on the pack of cigarettes. It casts a faint shadow away from the camera, what you'd expect from flash photography. Now, look at the shadow of the fake device. It casts a harsher shadow to the left, as though there was a strong light source to the right of the person taking the picture. Where's the shadow from that light source for the pack of cigarettes? It's got to be a powerful light source, because it was bright enough that the flash wasn't able to drown out its shadows.
This picture is a total fake and an insult to our collective intelligence.
Ever try to split a $10 parking fee 3 ways?
:)
See in the Olde English monetary system, which was not decimal based, this would have been simple. Each person would pay (to split a 10 pound fee): 3 pound, 7 tuppence, 12 farthing, 8&1/2 shilling and 17 zorkmid. Much simpler than having one of the three pay an the extra cent that todays messy decimal based system would require.
Isn't Sony a member of the RIAA and MPAA?
I don't know, you tell me. Or do I have to research everything and you get to shout out vague pseudo-accusations?
I really couldn't care less about this gadget.
Umm, yeah, that gadget is what we're talking about here...you know, in this forum that's about that gadget?
I was upset last night when I rented Snatch for the first time, only to find out the Screen Gems (who distributed the movie) is a Sony company.
Golly, that's really fascinating. Did you get in a tizzy about anything else yesterday? Do tell.
The hypocracy of this site is maddening at times.
Particularly when members rent movies by companies that they publicly dennounce. That sort of hypocracy really chaps my hide.
in a few years, PalmOS and WinCE will be dead and embedded linux will be running all PDA's.
/. sotry a few months ago about the researchers slowing down light...
We'll see, I suppose. What's most important to a device like a PalmOS device is the UI and so far, Linux ain't doing so hot in that particular category.
I run an Ipaq with Linux on it now and it isn't anywhere close to being as useful as PalmOS. I could see running PalmOS (which really is just an applications api on a licensed kernel) running on top of a Linux kernel, if the kernel can be pared down to a non-humongous footprint.
There's an element of Real Time with the handhelds, too. Nothing is more annoying than waiting for an application to fire off in wince. It amazes me how slow Microsoft can make a StrongArm processor run. It reminds me of that
Use a credit card to make the purchase. I don't buy anything from a vendor who doesn't take plastic or use a service that does.
Yeah, I've got an old p-166 lying around here somewhere, we could cool POS with chintzy fans from Wal-mart!
Useless idea for a book, IMHO.
:)
You've obviously never been thrown into the position of Mailing List Maintainer for an active list
It's a harrowing experience on an active list (the list I was thrust into has 400+ members at any given time with people subscribing and unsubscribing constantly, and averages 100+ messages per day). A book like this would have been an invaluable asset. Hell I still might pick it up.
One word to those who'll listen: If you're using Majordomo and Sendmail, use Bulkmailer. It gave me a logarithmic speed increase (literally: a 20 minute delivery became a 2 minute delivery time).
but as was said earlier, we MUST give due credit.
Is this actually a requirement of the BSD Licence?
Ideals that even Microsoft of all people adhered to when using code from the community.
Like they did in the NT TCP/IP stack? Cite your sources, please.
Umm... before you accuse check your facts.
Umm. what facts? Where? Cite your sources. These statements may be BASED on facts, but they aren't facts. Hell, Titanic the movie was BASED on facts (ie the damn thing went down in 191x, or something) but it isn't FACT.
If these numbers can be had in properly engineered environment, then engineer it and bring us some FACTS! Otherwise, you're talking out of your ASS. Period.
Seems fair, maybe even excessive.
I cocncur. What was his crime? Being a dick. Now as much as I hate dicks, 8 months does seem liek a long time for this. I think they should have just let the CEO's of all the companies he harassed take turns kicking him in the nuts or punching him in the gut. That seems a tad more apropos.
Can anyone help on this one?
Answer: You're lying. You're talking out of your ass based on specs and dead reckonin'. They did the numbers, you did the empty speculation, and guess what? Reality wins, hands down.
I did some hunting around on e-bay to see how viable this really is. I found that of the 5227 items that popped up in a search for "diablo 2":
4397 of the items were priced less than $10.
456 of the items were priced between $11-25.
227 of the items were priced between $26-$50.
95 items were priced between $51-$100.
38 items were priced between $101-$200.
and 14 were priced higher than $201 (and one of those 14 isn't related to the game, it's a windsurfing sail).
Eyeballing the lists, it appears that more than half of the auctions at all level have no bids. This is just a guesstimate (I don't have time to count up the number of bids on the 5,080 items less than $50, it is true for the items over $51)
I'm highly skeptical that anyone could routinely make >$5000 month, easy, as is claimed by the guy in the article.
Lisp may be fast, but assembly is the fASTeST.
Not to develop, not by several magnitudes, you l33t h4x0r, you.
the original ST series .... all the chicks in those mini-dresses, yowzaa!
I like the alternate universe from Deep Space 9 where ALL the hot chicks are lesbians! Woot! Set phasers for XXX Action!