Thats why you won't need one, you have no use for it. Some of us do have a use for a PDA, for example, I'm a CSE student. Its very useful for me to have a c compiler, jvm, and scheme interpreter in my pocket. I can make use of all the short spats of time i have through out the day, such as when I'm waiting for the bus, I can get a lot done in 20 minutes, even on the tiny keyboard mine has. Its convient always having it as a graphing calculator in my pocket. Its also nice for scheduling and jotting down quick notes, since I _always_ have it with me, although i don't always have a pen and a piece of paper.
When I'm not busy I can use it for entertainment, reading the news, reading books, playing games (native, plus i also have a gameboy and NES emulator), It plays MP3s and using a CF card I can keep a couple TV shows with me as well (a 20 minute show fits nicely into 30megs if done right w/ mpeg4). All this completely ignoring the fact that I use it for wireless internet as well. I have a friend that keeps maps of the city on his...though I don't travel the city enough to make it worth it to me.
I know know what PDA you've been using, but mine has a 320x240 touchscreen display, and while it isn't big enough for most desktop apps there are plenty of apps that don't require full VGA resolution and are quite happy in that small space.
Sure, it would be nice to be able to carry a paper scheduler, a gameboy, a graphing calculator, a couple books, a newspaper, a video player of some sort and an mp3 with me everywhere, but I don't have enough pockets. So I guess I'll have to settle for a tiny device that fits in one pocket, does all of those things combined, and more. Too bad.
You don't quite understand the concept of a PDA, like you said.
haha, I'm @ ASU, we've got the same deal. Though we really enjoy its instability. We know things are never really due when syllabus says they are, because we can just say "Blackboard went down when I had time todo it" and boom, everyone has an extention, usually to the tune of about a week.
I'm sorry, I RARELY defend Microsoft, but they've been far from wildly litigious. I mean, I honestly can't think of a time that MS brought anyone to court for, well, anything. I seem to remember one case where some russian company tried to market something called Windows 95 beer, but I don't recall what happened to that. Please correct me if I've missed some case.
Anyway around it, microsoft has been much more well behaved than Apple when it comes to suing/threatening people. (Recall the themes.org case where apple demanded they remove all OS X alike themes, tho apple did have a vaild claim)
A couple quick tips for people who don't want to try very hard and don't mine losing the weight slowly:
STAY BUSY. Always have something todo, no this doesn't mean sitting in front of the computer all day.That isn't something todo, go running, play a sport, work on your car or even just hang out at a friends house...it will keep you away from the fridge when you're bored.
DRINK LESS SODA, or none at all. Not even diet soda, see the next section for my shpeil on corn syrup. I just stopped buying the stuff, all I drink is water now, and occasionally, fruit juice. REAL fruit juice, not hawiian punch.
AVOID High Fructose Corn Syrup. It turns into fat faster than almost anything else, processed sugars in general do this. The thing about processed sugars is that you're going to find them in almost any sweetened processed food. The deal is that corn syrup is much much cheaper than regular sugar, but also much worse for you. Which do YOU think is more important to food producers?
Anyway, thats about it. I mean, if you really want to look good and be healthy, not just thin, go exersize.
AND GUYS: Don't use "She care more about my mind" as an excuse to not work out. The truth is, she DOES care more about your mind, but you probably won't get a chance to talk to her if you don't look good first.
its not a concept of paying people to write letters, its giving them a tangible incentive to. These are people with strong feelings about things that are just too lazy to find the email address and write. I think a lot of people feel that writing does nothing, in the same way complaining on slashdot does nothing, except complaining on slashdot is a lot easier.
No, you're wrong. The actual problem is that democracy is often the tyranny of the VOCAL MINORITY. Thats part of the reason that lobbying works...that and the bribes
The problem is, everyone on slashdot would rather just complain on slashdot instead of actually writing thier representative a well worded letter.
I was actually thinking about this the other day. What about a slashdot sponsered letter writing compaign that gave people a tangible reward for writing a good letter to thier congress(wo)man.
They could have everyone write an email about what really matter to them, any topic, preferably a technological one as thats what scores points around here. Then have them mail them to thier representative and CC a copy to contest@slashdot.org as well as post it as a comment. Say, 10 highest rated letters win a free subscription (however many page views that is). The cost would be negligable, but the impact of tons of well worded emails coming from intellegent people would have an amazing impact. So, editors, what do YOU think? --btw, the letters should be worded better than this post.
Xine recently seems to have taken a few leaps and bounds as well.
The only reason..ONLY reason xine seems to have taken so many leaps and bounds is because the mplayer developer spend all thier time making sure stuff plays. The xine developers are more than happy to let the mplayer developers do that while xine works on the GUI, then takes the player code from mplayer to make videos play.
From the mailing list: > > IMHO mplayer is good enough now that it won't lost in/dev/null if i leave. > > Probably not, but will it lose the race against xine?
imho we lose it already. see xine, its popularity started to grow since a month and keeps growing. while we spend our expensive time by rev. engineering codecs, optimizing code, writing demuxers, they improve the gui. then they 'steal' the others and win. we have no chance against xine... Ah, stability. Yes, in old days mplayer was rock solid while xine crashed at every second click. It has been changed: mplayer is now everything but stable (thanks to that many hacks and 10l bugs), while xine improved stability a lot...
This is such a troll, a complete troll. They might not have had one 3 years ago, but they have an impressive one now. They take returns and will refund shipping as well. In fact, when I got my Zaurus from them they included a return shipping label!
Please research before you post 3 year old "facts"
yes, you'll note that the 690MP was the only Sun machine of its time to include VME, MBUS and SBUS (aside from the 670MP -- which was essentially the same machine) afaik
Hah, who would BID on a 690MP, a friend of mine picked up the refridgerator sized 690MP @ our local Uni surplus for $50, because he wanted the case. They had 4 of them available. I Gave him $20 for the box inside from which i gutted a couple microsparc proccesors, a couple sbus nics and an sbus serial card.
I too had this problem with Dell, which is a common problem with my model and models similar to it. It seems the onboard NIC is extremely prone to failure in the L400 and Inspiron 2000/2100. The first time i sent it in they claimed they couldn't find a problem with the PCMCIA nic, which odd since i hadn't sent a PCMCIA nic or made any claims about the PCMCIA slot, so I sent it back, and they replaced the board. This happened 2 more times. On the 3rd time it was roughly 3 weeks before the warrenty ended. So I called, they sent a guy to pick it up. A week later I haven't heard from them, so I called.
Tech support insisted I ABUSED the network port. I tried to explain how insane that sounded, but they kept telling me to call this other number, to the department that does the repairs. Which I did, multiple times, no one ever picked up and I left at least 4 messages. No one returned my callsd. Two weeks later, out of warrenty, I get my laptop back, unrepaired. Thats just BAD customer relations.
"Do you have the right to tap into the cable on the curb and watch free TV? Do you have the right to splice into your neighbor's phone line to bill your calls to him?"
Whats my neighbor doing running his phone cable through my body? Whats the cable company need to run its cable through my body for?
And yeah, if you're using a cell phone, and its not digital, and not encrypted, you better believe I'm gonna be able to listen to it. And hey, if it IS digital and IS encrypted and I figure out how to translate it into human speech, I'm gonna listen to that too.
Frankly, if you're broadcast your signal through my head, and I find a way to understand what you're trying to say, it shouldn't be illegal
Oh cram it. You people have been doing this for years. Everytime something finally satisfies all your bitching you ask for something else. 2-3 years ago you were saying you wanted all that except the 3MP optical zoom camera.
Goto any PDA site, and everytime a new PDA comes out someone says "Oh yeah, I'll buy this when...insert large list of features"
I'm not telling you to stop wanting these things, cause sure, that would be pretty cool, but you can't use "I'll wait fot the next generation" as your reasoning every single time. Obviously you don't need all/any of these things, single out the things you need everyday and go with it. Then go buy high quality stand-alone versions of the stuff you only need once in awhile.
For example, you can already buy cell phones that do mp3, voice recording, calender/scheduling, SD and run PPC. You're going to have to make some kind of sacrifice, thats life. To think that your standards won't be any higher than this in 2-3 years is absurd.
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That the junta^Wgovernment repeals a stupid law? Has that ever happened in the recorded history?
Prohibition.
Thats why you won't need one, you have no use for it. Some of us do have a use for a PDA, for example, I'm a CSE student. Its very useful for me to have a c compiler, jvm, and scheme interpreter in my pocket. I can make use of all the short spats of time i have through out the day, such as when I'm waiting for the bus, I can get a lot done in 20 minutes, even on the tiny keyboard mine has. Its convient always having it as a graphing calculator in my pocket. Its also nice for scheduling and jotting down quick notes, since I _always_ have it with me, although i don't always have a pen and a piece of paper.
When I'm not busy I can use it for entertainment, reading the news, reading books, playing games (native, plus i also have a gameboy and NES emulator), It plays MP3s and using a CF card I can keep a couple TV shows with me as well (a 20 minute show fits nicely into 30megs if done right w/ mpeg4). All this completely ignoring the fact that I use it for wireless internet as well. I have a friend that keeps maps of the city on his...though I don't travel the city enough to make it worth it to me.
I know know what PDA you've been using, but mine has a 320x240 touchscreen display, and while it isn't big enough for most desktop apps there are plenty of apps that don't require full VGA resolution and are quite happy in that small space.
Sure, it would be nice to be able to carry a paper scheduler, a gameboy, a graphing calculator, a couple books, a newspaper, a video player of some sort and an mp3 with me everywhere, but I don't have enough pockets. So I guess I'll have to settle for a tiny device that fits in one pocket, does all of those things combined, and more. Too bad.
You don't quite understand the concept of a PDA, like you said.
Federal law already requires them to identify themselves, why do they need a state law so broad to back up this one simple purpose?
What about things like anonymous proxies and remailers? Privacy? Who needs that?
haha, I'm @ ASU, we've got the same deal. Though we really enjoy its instability. We know things are never really due when syllabus says they are, because we can just say "Blackboard went down when I had time todo it" and boom, everyone has an extention, usually to the tune of about a week.
I'm sorry, I RARELY defend Microsoft, but they've been far from wildly litigious. I mean, I honestly can't think of a time that MS brought anyone to court for, well, anything. I seem to remember one case where some russian company tried to market something called Windows 95 beer, but I don't recall what happened to that. Please correct me if I've missed some case.
Anyway around it, microsoft has been much more well behaved than Apple when it comes to suing/threatening people. (Recall the themes.org case where apple demanded they remove all OS X alike themes, tho apple did have a vaild claim)
A couple quick tips for people who don't want to try very hard and don't mine losing the weight slowly:
STAY BUSY. Always have something todo, no this doesn't mean sitting in front of the computer all day.That isn't something todo, go running, play a sport, work on your car or even just hang out at a friends house...it will keep you away from the fridge when you're bored.
DRINK LESS SODA, or none at all. Not even diet soda, see the next section for my shpeil on corn syrup. I just stopped buying the stuff, all I drink is water now, and occasionally, fruit juice. REAL fruit juice, not hawiian punch.
AVOID High Fructose Corn Syrup. It turns into fat faster than almost anything else, processed sugars in general do this. The thing about processed sugars is that you're going to find them in almost any sweetened processed food. The deal is that corn syrup is much much cheaper than regular sugar, but also much worse for you. Which do YOU think is more important to food producers?
Anyway, thats about it. I mean, if you really want to look good and be healthy, not just thin, go exersize.
AND GUYS: Don't use "She care more about my mind" as an excuse to not work out. The truth is, she DOES care more about your mind, but you probably won't get a chance to talk to her if you don't look good first.
its not a concept of paying people to write letters, its giving them a tangible incentive to. These are people with strong feelings about things that are just too lazy to find the email address and write. I think a lot of people feel that writing does nothing, in the same way complaining on slashdot does nothing, except complaining on slashdot is a lot easier.
No, you're wrong. The actual problem is that democracy is often the tyranny of the VOCAL MINORITY. Thats part of the reason that lobbying works...that and the bribes
The problem is, everyone on slashdot would rather just complain on slashdot instead of actually writing thier representative a well worded letter.
I was actually thinking about this the other day. What about a slashdot sponsered letter writing compaign that gave people a tangible reward for writing a good letter to thier congress(wo)man.
They could have everyone write an email about what really matter to them, any topic, preferably a technological one as thats what scores points around here. Then have them mail them to thier representative and CC a copy to contest@slashdot.org as well as post it as a comment. Say, 10 highest rated letters win a free subscription (however many page views that is). The cost would be negligable, but the impact of tons of well worded emails coming from intellegent people would have an amazing impact. So, editors, what do YOU think? --btw, the letters should be worded better than this post.
.avi is a container format that encompasses many codecs. For example, divx5 files are consider .avi when they are actually mpeg4
Xine recently seems to have taken a few leaps and bounds as well.
/dev/null if i leave.
The only reason..ONLY reason xine seems to have taken so many leaps and bounds is because the mplayer developer spend all thier time making sure stuff plays. The xine developers are more than happy to let the mplayer developers do that while xine works on the GUI, then takes the player code from mplayer to make videos play.
From the mailing list:
> > IMHO mplayer is good enough now that it won't lost in
>
> Probably not, but will it lose the race against xine?
imho we lose it already. see xine, its popularity started to grow since a
month and keeps growing. while we spend our expensive time by rev.
engineering codecs, optimizing code, writing demuxers, they improve the gui.
then they 'steal' the others and win. we have no chance against xine...
Ah, stability. Yes, in old days mplayer was rock solid while xine crashed at
every second click. It has been changed: mplayer is now everything but
stable (thanks to that many hacks and 10l bugs), while xine improved
stability a lot...
Sacked!? You mean by The Office Linebacker? [Link to video, Semi work-safe, includes minor profanity]
This is such a troll, a complete troll. They might not have had one 3 years ago, but they have an impressive one now. They take returns and will refund shipping as well. In fact, when I got my Zaurus from them they included a return shipping label!
Please research before you post 3 year old "facts"
You have to keep in mind that your problems don't matter because you don't have the money to make them matter.
Oh, and the folks you worry about, they don't matter either, because Disney will just steal thier ideas and sue anyone that tries to steal from them.
Remember, copyright only exists anymore if you have the money to prove it was yours in the first place.
yes, you'll note that the 690MP was the only Sun machine of its time to include VME, MBUS and SBUS (aside from the 670MP -- which was essentially the same machine) afaik
Hah, who would BID on a 690MP, a friend of mine picked up the refridgerator sized 690MP @ our local Uni surplus for $50, because he wanted the case. They had 4 of them available. I Gave him $20 for the box inside from which i gutted a couple microsparc proccesors, a couple sbus nics and an sbus serial card.
I too had this problem with Dell, which is a common problem with my model and models similar to it. It seems the onboard NIC is extremely prone to failure in the L400 and Inspiron 2000/2100. The first time i sent it in they claimed they couldn't find a problem with the PCMCIA nic, which odd since i hadn't sent a PCMCIA nic or made any claims about the PCMCIA slot, so I sent it back, and they replaced the board. This happened 2 more times. On the 3rd time it was roughly 3 weeks before the warrenty ended. So I called, they sent a guy to pick it up. A week later I haven't heard from them, so I called.
Tech support insisted I ABUSED the network port. I tried to explain how insane that sounded, but they kept telling me to call this other number, to the department that does the repairs. Which I did, multiple times, no one ever picked up and I left at least 4 messages. No one returned my callsd. Two weeks later, out of warrenty, I get my laptop back, unrepaired. Thats just BAD customer relations.
Yes, and for your next trick, sell a bag of powered sugar to an undercover police officer telling him its cocaine.
I'm sure they won't arrest you once you tell them it was a joke.
Just another justification for -1 (Wrong)
"Do you have the right to tap into the cable on the curb and watch free TV? Do you have the right to splice into your neighbor's phone line to bill your calls to him?"
Whats my neighbor doing running his phone cable through my body? Whats the cable company need to run its cable through my body for?
And yeah, if you're using a cell phone, and its not digital, and not encrypted, you better believe I'm gonna be able to listen to it. And hey, if it IS digital and IS encrypted and I figure out how to translate it into human speech, I'm gonna listen to that too.
Frankly, if you're broadcast your signal through my head, and I find a way to understand what you're trying to say, it shouldn't be illegal
mplayer can play sorenson v3 now, thats the format most often used for quicktime (including the trailers on apple.com)
Oh cram it. You people have been doing this for years. Everytime something finally satisfies all your bitching you ask for something else. 2-3 years ago you were saying you wanted all that except the 3MP optical zoom camera.
Goto any PDA site, and everytime a new PDA comes out someone says "Oh yeah, I'll buy this when...insert large list of features"
I'm not telling you to stop wanting these things, cause sure, that would be pretty cool, but you can't use "I'll wait fot the next generation" as your reasoning every single time. Obviously you don't need all/any of these things, single out the things you need everyday and go with it. Then go buy high quality stand-alone versions of the stuff you only need once in awhile.
For example, you can already buy cell phones that do mp3, voice recording, calender/scheduling, SD and run PPC. You're going to have to make some kind of sacrifice, thats life. To think that your standards won't be any higher than this in 2-3 years is absurd.
yes, but now everyone's IP can look like:
: ::be:a:beef:ace
3ffe:10d7:::dead:beef:cafe:babe
and
2001:234d
what exciting words and numbers can you come up with 1234567890ABCDEF!
Its worth noting that i pasted the Konqeror UA, which also uses KHTML, and doesn't broadcast it.