If you've been considering upgrading to the new Treo 750, you're going to spend $500 with a two year contract. And it only comes with 64 MB of ram and a best case expansion of 2 gig which puts the price at $550 and is obviously inferior on paper.
The memory comparison is unfair. Although data like music and video don't differ based on platform, apps do. Most of my palm apps are less than 250k (PalmOS). Given that this iPhone runs OSX, I seriously wonder how much each widget will take... and I don't use my Treo as a media player, just a phone/PDA (don't even have data service)... most likely lots of business folks do the same thing. Add in the songs and the 8GB isn't a whole lot.
Don't get me wrong, I like the iPhone, but don't diss the Treo (well, at least the Palm OS ones).
Your Treo has accelerometers and a proximity sensor? It has a Dock Connector? It has a full web browser (not some shrunken down "baby browser")? It has a touchscreen interface? It has a virtual keyboard so you don't have to press 7 four times to get an S? It syncs with iTunes?
Look, I'm as rabid a mac fan as any (look at my comment history)... but I'll agree with the GP poster... feature-wise the Treo is not too far off from the iPhone.
My Treo has a touchscreen (I almost never use the stylus, just my fingernails... no smudges)... sure, no mulit-touch, but it works.
The Treo also has a *real* keyboard, which is proven at what it does... and no, I don't have to push 7 four times to get an S (makes me wonder if you've ever seen/used a Treo).
Seriously, I like what Apple has demo'd in the iPhone. But I also like my existing Treo, which has some "features" that the iPhone doesn't have: expandable memory, a proven UI (Palm OS), and a massive existing software base. Besides the iPhone isn't even shipped yet. We'll see how usable and cool it is when it gets here. No need to spread FUD or astroturf.
Again, Linux uses its monopoly position in the free-OS market to stomp on Corporate America. Companies such as Microsoft cannot compete with the hippy OS because they have employees to pay, hardware to buy, and general overhead that any company has and cannot compete with Linux which is put together in a COMMUNIST style by a bunch of long-haired (Alex, RMS) free-thinkers.
LOL, I just imagined Stephen Colbert doing that monologue on his show. Nice:-)
Montana Sen. Conrad Burns' loss to Democrat Jon Tester comes as a blow to broadcasters. Burns, a former broadcaster, was one of the industry's most reliable supporters on Capitol Hill.
... this means ClearChannel/Infinity/etc. have to deal with a) newcomer and netroots-enabled Tester and b) lost a strong supporter
Joe Barton, a Texas Republican, often sided with the cable industry over broadcasters in the inter-industry fights that shape policy. He also led the fight against media indecency.
... less legislation of morality
It was a power at least one chairman was ready to exert even before he wins back the gavel as Dingell told reporters he didn't plan to be idle. Dingell already was pushing the FCC to make a thorough examination of AT&T's $81 billion merger with BellSouth.
...well more good news. Less mergers = less likely we see draconian implementations.
The Bad: Well, Hollywood is better friends with the Democrats.
The Ugly? Well, both are pretty beholden to our corporate masters... unless we're willing to get our government to revoke corporate charters (ie, the corp death penalty), we're not going to starting winning that war.
This isn't a big deal if you use Linux and want to get an iPod, but if you're a long time iPod and iTunes user who would like to switch to Linux, the lack of Linux support for iTunes music can keep you tied to Windows.
Are you talking about the iPod or iTunes... or iTMS? They're different you know. The iPod *has* the best Linux support. iTunes, iTMS... well, fuggetaboutit (as if the average linux user would even want to support DRM).
Tax a business, their costs increase, they pass that charge onto their customers. If you are going to tax it, tax it at the pump so everyone knows about it. Provide tax relief for people who will be impacted, and get on with it.
How TF did this get moderated insightful? Did this person read the Prop 87 proposal at all?
"...Prohibits producers from passing tax on to consumers."
Fact is, the Oil companies are ALREADY charging what the market will bear, so increases in the costs will not necessarily increase the cost of gas at the pump. Similar arguments can be had for other inelastic costs like monopoly software (Microsoft).
What is it with you litigious anti-Walmart goons?
It's NOT a monopoly, as you stated
No, it acts as a Monopsony. For the link lazy (courtesy of wikipedia):
In economics, a monopsony is a market form with only one buyer, called "monopsonist", facing many sellers. It is an instance of imperfect competition, symmetrical to the case of a monopoly, in which there is only one seller facing many buyers..
Wal-Mart has a known power, and does not act the same as your average free-market player. Note: being a monopsony isn't illegal per-se, and since reality != theory it can be argued that Wal-Mart is not a monopsony either.
I know that Google employees receive a $5000 discount (plus a few other perks that I'm not clear on) on any purchase of a hybrid vehicle that gets 45 mpg (ie, Prius, Insight or Civic Hybrid).
I think one or both of the founders drive a Prius as well, so this would be inline with their vision of what can be done to make the world a better place.
You obviously haven't seen Google's search history feature.
Funny, I use Google all the time, and I don't see anything in my search history... at all. Is it because I use the nice little Firefox feature of wiping cookies at each boot?
Yeah, we got the 05, wife wanted new car to replace hers, she didnt like anything else out there (she's from Europe, so most big cars sucked for her), so she kept the 05. Then I got my own the next year... got too addicted to "stealth mode":-)
The iPod2Car Toyota version works well enough for my 04.
Yeah, heard some ppl had troubles with it, and there was a group buy for the VIAStech one in PriusChat, so I joined. My VAIStech has some sound quality issues (perhaps I need to install a sound-isolator loop?).. the sound is very tinny. We used the MD-changer input, maybe I should just use the CD changer input since the wife likes using the ipod over the steering wheel controls anyway.
This mod I bought for our 2005 Prius allows control through the steering wheel and touch-screen: http://www.vaistech.com/sli.html
They even have a video-in unit.
All that said, I am just as happy with the line-in for our 2006 Prius (any audio source works, and I can control almost as easily with the iPod in the cupholder.
And also the horrer of open source software. 2006 and people are still developing code without a database abstraction layer.
Do you know how expensive it is to abstract away differences in database syntax (especially when large companies like Oracle make significant ca$h intentionally making their syntax different/nonstandard)? If you think it's so easy, perhaps you should write it yourself for OpenACS instead of bitching about why it's not there...
I wasn't surprised at all when I read this blog entry. My Macbook (the vanilla version, cheapest of the three) is so hot that I actually burnt my skin. If I put it on a pillow, it gets excessively hot and makes the laptop hum like hell.
Dude, use a frickin LapPad... you know something designed to work with laptop vents, that isn't too heavy and has a cusion for your parts... all while deflecting the heat from the laptop.
Having had several P4M space heaters that double as a notebooks for the past 3 years ( 5 laptops in two seperate companies no less), I have become averse to frying my balls:-)
I just wish I could get onto the Yahoo beta. Will they ever finish that?
Been there, done that. Compared to GMail (or even yahoo basic) it's so slow it's almost unusable. Sometimes an AJAX operation will take seconds... I meanwhile tab over to/. and then forget to send the email (tho I think they did add autosave like Gmail has).
I've since started using Gmail more. If only Y!mail beta didn't suck so much, I'd still be using that. Nice idea, performance blows. They should cut back the feature and UI bloat, and deliver solid performance.
As someone who knows quite a few non-Americans on H1B, this might simply be a case of people creating jobs, so they can justify an H1B for specific people. ie, someone is already here in the US, would like a job, and the hiring manager at some company (or a friend running some body-shop consultancy) lazily writes up a job description "requiring H1B Visa"... therefore targetting the job at the friend/acquaintance that they want to hire.
I know that this "job-tailoring" is done frequently in the industry as a way of getting the exact person you know. Just that if it fits this shoe, it's quite certainly illegal... kind of like saying you want someone who is/not specific race/disabled/etc.
I, for one, hope that the hiring managers who put up such job descriptions get fired, as it's part and parcel of the corruption. Just wish we could fire them for other similar "job-tailoring" activities.
Instead I've gone on the defensive and assumed that my identity is already compromised. I coughed up $130 for 3 in 1 credit monitoring services (one of the big three credit bureaus has a two for one going if you call them. got a spouse?)
Nice credit score you got there... would be a pity if something were to... happen to it. We got this great "protection" plan here, and if you want to sign up today, we're running a "discount". /cue gangsta chuckle
I like what allofmp3 has tried to do, offer a vast array of music
Don't discount this, I've found there what I couldn't find at iTunes or eBay (ex: Ibiza, vol.2 from '95). This alone makes them worthwhile and I would be very disappointed if the shutdown occurred.
In fact, I seem to recall a study criticizing Sleep mode because users tend to leave monitors and computers on all the time and let them sleep which resulted in actually wasting more energy than people who might have left their computer run inactive for an hour here and there but shut it down overnight.
Where is your proof? Based on my knowledge of power usage (at least in laptops), this makes no sense whatsoever. RAM power usage is a pittance in comparison to HD/Monitor/CPU wattage needs, and that's when it's actively being used!
If Tivo and others really wanted to get ahead of the curve I'd suggest targeted commercial breaks, i.e., instead of the broad spectrum network advertising during commercial breaks, overlay them with targeted and well-crafted shorts designed to catch the eye of that tivo's owner tastes.
Given the many content industry executives' opinions regarding "not watching advertising == theft", how do you think they would react to basically being told that instead of the marginal "blipverts" you get when watching, now *some other advertiser* gets to fully overwrite that even marginal visibility? Talk about ad-space dilution.
Now look at it from the advertiser's point of view... you purchase a spot, and some other schmoe gets your audience if that audience has TiVo? Sounds like the web "framing/deep linking" wars all over again.
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Don't get me wrong, I like the iPhone, but don't diss the Treo (well, at least the Palm OS ones).
Seriously, I like what Apple has demo'd in the iPhone. But I also like my existing Treo, which has some "features" that the iPhone doesn't have: expandable memory, a proven UI (Palm OS), and a massive existing software base. Besides the iPhone isn't even shipped yet. We'll see how usable and cool it is when it gets here. No need to spread FUD or astroturf.
The Bad: Well, Hollywood is better friends with the Democrats.
The Ugly? Well, both are pretty beholden to our corporate masters... unless we're willing to get our government to revoke corporate charters (ie, the corp death penalty), we're not going to starting winning that war.
Are you talking about the iPod or iTunes... or iTMS? They're different you know. The iPod *has* the best Linux support. iTunes, iTMS... well, fuggetaboutit (as if the average linux user would even want to support DRM).
How TF did this get moderated insightful? Did this person read the Prop 87 proposal at all?
Fact is, the Oil companies are ALREADY charging what the market will bear, so increases in the costs will not necessarily increase the cost of gas at the pump. Similar arguments can be had for other inelastic costs like monopoly software (Microsoft).
Dunno, maybe it has something to do with naming similarity to the friendly Mozilla?
Now where have I read that phrase before? *googles* oh yeah...
Dude, at least site the source of your data (and more complete information at that): wikipedia page for Alan Cox.
No, it acts as a Monopsony. For the link lazy (courtesy of wikipedia):
In economics, a monopsony is a market form with only one buyer, called "monopsonist", facing many sellers. It is an instance of imperfect competition, symmetrical to the case of a monopoly, in which there is only one seller facing many buyers..
Wal-Mart has a known power, and does not act the same as your average free-market player. Note: being a monopsony isn't illegal per-se, and since reality != theory it can be argued that Wal-Mart is not a monopsony either.
I know that Google employees receive a $5000 discount (plus a few other perks that I'm not clear on) on any purchase of a hybrid vehicle that gets 45 mpg (ie, Prius, Insight or Civic Hybrid).
I think one or both of the founders drive a Prius as well, so this would be inline with their vision of what can be done to make the world a better place.
Er, eh, not that influences my perception of her value to the Mozilla corp at all...
Funny, I use Google all the time, and I don't see anything in my search history... at all. Is it because I use the nice little Firefox feature of wiping cookies at each boot?
Yeah, we got the 05, wife wanted new car to replace hers, she didnt like anything else out there (she's from Europe, so most big cars sucked for her), so she kept the 05. Then I got my own the next year... got too addicted to "stealth mode" :-)
The iPod2Car Toyota version works well enough for my 04.
Yeah, heard some ppl had troubles with it, and there was a group buy for the VIAStech one in PriusChat, so I joined. My VAIStech has some sound quality issues (perhaps I need to install a sound-isolator loop?).. the sound is very tinny. We used the MD-changer input, maybe I should just use the CD changer input since the wife likes using the ipod over the steering wheel controls anyway.
This mod I bought for our 2005 Prius allows control through the steering wheel and touch-screen:
http://www.vaistech.com/sli.html
They even have a video-in unit.
All that said, I am just as happy with the line-in for our 2006 Prius (any audio source works, and I can control almost as easily with the iPod in the cupholder.
Do you know how expensive it is to abstract away differences in database syntax (especially when large companies like Oracle make significant ca$h intentionally making their syntax different/nonstandard)? If you think it's so easy, perhaps you should write it yourself for OpenACS instead of bitching about why it's not there...
Dude, use a frickin LapPad... you know something designed to work with laptop vents, that isn't too heavy and has a cusion for your parts... all while deflecting the heat from the laptop.
Having had several P4M space heaters that double as a notebooks for the past 3 years ( 5 laptops in two seperate companies no less), I have become averse to frying my balls :-)
Been there, done that. Compared to GMail (or even yahoo basic) it's so slow it's almost unusable. Sometimes an AJAX operation will take seconds... I meanwhile tab over to /. and then forget to send the email (tho I think they did add autosave like Gmail has).
I've since started using Gmail more. If only Y!mail beta didn't suck so much, I'd still be using that. Nice idea, performance blows. They should cut back the feature and UI bloat, and deliver solid performance.
I know that this "job-tailoring" is done frequently in the industry as a way of getting the exact person you know. Just that if it fits this shoe, it's quite certainly illegal... kind of like saying you want someone who is/not specific race/disabled/etc.
I, for one, hope that the hiring managers who put up such job descriptions get fired, as it's part and parcel of the corruption. Just wish we could fire them for other similar "job-tailoring" activities.
Instead I've gone on the defensive and assumed that my identity is already compromised. I coughed up $130 for 3 in 1 credit monitoring services (one of the big three credit bureaus has a two for one going if you call them. got a spouse?)
Nice credit score you got there... would be a pity if something were to ... happen to it. We got this great "protection" plan here, and if you want to sign up today, we're running a "discount".
/cue gangsta chuckle
Don't discount this, I've found there what I couldn't find at iTunes or eBay (ex: Ibiza, vol.2 from '95). This alone makes them worthwhile and I would be very disappointed if the shutdown occurred.
Given things like Sarbanes-Oxley, as well as California's security disclosures, they better well get on the ball.
most of these guys are 55+ and have their secretaries print their email for them
In fact, I think more and more clearly, this stereotype is diminishing.
Where is your proof? Based on my knowledge of power usage (at least in laptops), this makes no sense whatsoever. RAM power usage is a pittance in comparison to HD/Monitor/CPU wattage needs, and that's when it's actively being used!
Given the many content industry executives' opinions regarding "not watching advertising == theft", how do you think they would react to basically being told that instead of the marginal "blipverts" you get when watching, now *some other advertiser* gets to fully overwrite that even marginal visibility? Talk about ad-space dilution.
Now look at it from the advertiser's point of view... you purchase a spot, and some other schmoe gets your audience if that audience has TiVo? Sounds like the web "framing/deep linking" wars all over again.