The display looks to have some other type of hinge besides the usual clamshell, along the lines of the GRiD Convertible or the Clio -- perhaps it's even removable and useable as a tablet. That would require a digitizer underneath both the display AND the paper, no? I don't know -- this thing looks like a bad compromise to me. At any rate, I'm hopeful that we'll see more modularity in these devices, so that a common processor/storage core could be configured as a PDA, a tablet, or a subnotebook, depending on what you needed, AND what your project's pricepoint dictates. For example, in k-12 education, your pricepoint is way below a full laptop, but a pda for every student is a real possibility.
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I don't know of a Gore-Tex-like process for cotton. IIRC, Gore-Tex (and their competitor whose name I can't remember) applies a thin coating of teflon that creates a mesh with holes that are too small for water droplets but small enough for water vapor to pass through. Sounds like this technology could be used for clothes that won't make you look like an REI-Coop poster child.
I had a shirt from 1992 for the GRiD PalmPad, which was a handheld tablet that used Jeff Hawkins' handwriting recognition for data collection and was ruggedized to withstand a three-foot drop onto concrete (if you crossed your fingers:) Anyway, the shirt said, "Beat me, byte me, make me check bad writes." I thought that was pretty clever, and I wore it proudly on a vacation back home to the East Coast. When I got back to Fremont and unpacked my suitcase, it was nowhere to be found.
Hey, dude, the article says reel mowers are making a comeback. You're on the "cutting" edge. (groan)
Seriously though, it is the aggregation of consumer activity such as yours, and not that of "industry", which will make the greatest difference in reducing greenhouse emissions and global climate change. So, take pride in your little yard, your non-SUV transportation, and the killer triceps you'll develop pushing your little reel mower around.
I had a similar reaction to this same passage and thought back to Jaron Lanier's software sucks rant, in which he rejects Unix precisely because of this. Hey, freedom of choice.
It's well-known that the invention of eyeglasses in Florence greatly improved worker productivity. I wonder what future historians will say about lasik, which seems to be very popular with people in information technology.
Listening to your albums, I always thought Linnell had the higher voice and Flans had the lower voice. What a shock it was to see you in concert and realize that it was the other way around. It changed the way I thought of all your songs. Did you guys ever have a similar experience?
The two of you have collaborated for a long time and produced a lot of great stuff. A lot of other really creative duos/groups flame out or are undone by their egos. How do account for your longevity?
Would you mind if we balanced this glass of milk where your visiting friend accidentally was killed?
Would it be ok with you if we wrote a reminder of things we'd forget to do today otherwise, using a green magic marker if it's alright on the back of your head?
I agree that the PalmOS is great. I'm a Handspring user. I particularly love the eyemodule. Just plug it in and it works. I just took a bunch of pics at the National Gallery. Very discreet.
Still, I think we're beginning to see the limits to what the PalmOS can be extended to do, especially for vertical market and enterprise apps. I don't see Palm going away, but I do see customers trying to get these apps to run on Palm, and when they're disappointed by the performance, they start looking at Wince.
So, I applaud these efforts to get Linux and GUI's ported to these devices. I hope we will continue to have competition and choice on PDAs.
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I'm seeing vertical applications being developed for or ported to handhelds that are too big and fat for the Palm but that run acceptably on Pocket PC. Linux could be a worthy competitor in that space.
In Economics, the highest price you are willing to pay is referred to as your reservation price. This may be higher than the market-clearing price which you actually pay. The difference between the two is called consumer surplus. Mass merchants have historically found it less costly to just assign what they think will be the market clearing price rather than try to haggle with each customer to try to close in on his/her reservation price. I mean, when you go down a supermarket aisle, do you haggle over the price of every item?
Enter the web. Amazon has your shopping history and other information that helps them guess your real reservation price. You evaluate their product several times, checking prices at other sites, trying to make up your mind. Each time you look, Amazon presents you with a different price, effectively negotiating to try to get you to buy closer to your reservation price than the market clearing price. And it's done by a machine, not a costly sales rep. I don't blame them for trying it.
Palms don't have a built-in microphone, so are they using the one in a connected wireless handset? If so, dialing into your Palm remotely would just be the next logical step. Seems a little less ridiculous that way -- really a modular approach. I remember reading Bill Joy describe how that's what he wanted Jini to do -- allow his wireless phone to talk to his car speakers to provide speakerphone capabilities. Treat things like components instead of monolithic devices.
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The display looks to have some other type of hinge besides the usual clamshell, along the lines of the GRiD Convertible or the Clio -- perhaps it's even removable and useable as a tablet. That would require a digitizer underneath both the display AND the paper, no? I don't know -- this thing looks like a bad compromise to me. At any rate, I'm hopeful that we'll see more modularity in these devices, so that a common processor/storage core could be configured as a PDA, a tablet, or a subnotebook, depending on what you needed, AND what your project's pricepoint dictates. For example, in k-12 education, your pricepoint is way below a full laptop, but a pda for every student is a real possibility.
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I don't know of a Gore-Tex-like process for cotton. IIRC, Gore-Tex (and their competitor whose name I can't remember) applies a thin coating of teflon that creates a mesh with holes that are too small for water droplets but small enough for water vapor to pass through. Sounds like this technology could be used for clothes that won't make you look like an REI-Coop poster child.
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I had a shirt from 1992 for the GRiD PalmPad, which was a handheld tablet that used Jeff Hawkins' handwriting recognition for data collection and was ruggedized to withstand a three-foot drop onto concrete (if you crossed your fingers :) Anyway, the shirt said, "Beat me, byte me, make me check bad writes." I thought that was pretty clever, and I wore it proudly on a vacation back home to the East Coast. When I got back to Fremont and unpacked my suitcase, it was nowhere to be found.
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Seriously though, it is the aggregation of consumer activity such as yours, and not that of "industry", which will make the greatest difference in reducing greenhouse emissions and global climate change. So, take pride in your little yard, your non-SUV transportation, and the killer triceps you'll develop pushing your little reel mower around.
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I had a similar reaction to this same passage and thought back to Jaron Lanier's software sucks rant, in which he rejects Unix precisely because of this. Hey, freedom of choice.
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Article mentions Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, which is a lot of fun and very offbeat.
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Hey, the lecture hall could have been slashdotted. Would that have been a first?
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It's well-known that the invention of eyeglasses in Florence greatly improved worker productivity. I wonder what future historians will say about lasik, which seems to be very popular with people in information technology.
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Listening to your albums, I always thought Linnell had the higher voice and Flans had the lower voice. What a shock it was to see you in concert and realize that it was the other way around. It changed the way I thought of all your songs. Did you guys ever have a similar experience?
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The two of you have collaborated for a long time and produced a lot of great stuff. A lot of other really creative duos/groups flame out or are undone by their egos. How do account for your longevity?
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And time is still marching on
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Or is it just me?
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Would it be ok with you if we wrote a reminder of things we'd forget to do today otherwise, using a green magic marker if it's alright on the back of your head?
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Still, I think we're beginning to see the limits to what the PalmOS can be extended to do, especially for vertical market and enterprise apps. I don't see Palm going away, but I do see customers trying to get these apps to run on Palm, and when they're disappointed by the performance, they start looking at Wince.
So, I applaud these efforts to get Linux and GUI's ported to these devices. I hope we will continue to have competition and choice on PDAs.
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This document, produced as a result of Planet Specification Request (PSR) 37, defines the Planetlet for the Solar System Platform.
The goal of the Planetlet is to provide an open, third-party planet development environment for rocks that are less than half the size of the smallest of the previously-known planets in the solar system. Because of the limited size of these rocks, they typically do not provide the features available to larger rocks such as atmospheres, oceans, geological formations, and life forms. The Planetlet specification provides a high-level abstraction for developers to implement features on their planet without having to be concerned with low-level details of the particular rock.
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so says Ian O. Angel, my favorite academic on this particular subject.
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"Let them use Minitel."
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I'm seeing vertical applications being developed for or ported to handhelds that are too big and fat for the Palm but that run acceptably on Pocket PC. Linux could be a worthy competitor in that space.
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From the same site, this piece suggests that ex-GRiD-exec-turned-Gartner-analyst Ken Dulaney thinks Handspring may be considering a switch from palm OS to Linux.
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Who would have thought that Gore would beat Bush in a popularity contest, or that Bush would beat Gore in a college?
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"If you drop your laptop into a river of molten lava, forget it, because, man, it's gone!"
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Enter the web. Amazon has your shopping history and other information that helps them guess your real reservation price. You evaluate their product several times, checking prices at other sites, trying to make up your mind. Each time you look, Amazon presents you with a different price, effectively negotiating to try to get you to buy closer to your reservation price than the market clearing price. And it's done by a machine, not a costly sales rep. I don't blame them for trying it.
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Palms don't have a built-in microphone, so are they using the one in a connected wireless handset? If so, dialing into your Palm remotely would just be the next logical step. Seems a little less ridiculous that way -- really a modular approach. I remember reading Bill Joy describe how that's what he wanted Jini to do -- allow his wireless phone to talk to his car speakers to provide speakerphone capabilities. Treat things like components instead of monolithic devices.
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If only we could send Regis Philbin...
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I believe they all met at Rhode Island School of Design.
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