I'd love something the size of a tablet PC, with the option to write with a pen like it was a stylus. I'd even take something a little smaller. But they're just too expensive... and look at the specs! 40 gig hard drive? 60 gig hard drive? 1.6 ghz processor? Why? All I want to do it take notes, surf the web, IM, and email! Just give me a SD/MMC slot and I can put a gig or two storage in there and that's plenty for me.
And though the hand-helds are better price-wisse, and even acceptible size-wise, they are just lacking in the input department. Writing with the stylus, each letter on top of the other inside a little box? No thanks. Too unnatural.
Lysystrata [The Breaker of Armies] is placed in the [historical] war between Athens and Sparta, and the women of Greece declare a sex strike till peace is made.
Well, you know, from what I've heard about the ancient Greeks, that probably didn't make that much of a difference.
Oh yeah sorry, I should have posted a link. I guess I also kinda sounded like an ass in that message.
http://www.arcor.de/privat/dsl/index.jsp
29.95 euros/month for 1 megabit speed with 1 gig download (same as QSC), or 39.95 for flat rate (cheaper). Arcor also adds only 5 euros for 2 megabit, and 10 euros for 3 megabit, and QSC adds 10 euros for each. The arcor packages also come with ISDN, though if you never use that I guess it doesn't matter.
The only billing trouble I've had with Arcor is they recently lowered their prices, and didn't automatically switch me to the new pricing plan. I need to call them and ask them to, but I'm worried they'll make me commit myself to another year of service if I do. Which is probably no problem, but I still don't like when companies do that.
All those plans above look like they cost the same as or more than Arcor, which will give you flatrate DSL and ISDN with three phone numbers. Why would anyone take those?
I don't know where these other "350 million Europeans" are living, but here in Germany it's pretty much the same as the US.
Money is withheld from your pay, and then once a year you file your taxes to see if you overpaid or underpaid during the year, and throw in any other deductions or credits that you're eligible for.
I've tried that and it doesn't really help. The subtitles are often paraphrases of what's actually said in the movie, or sometimes they're expressions or euphemisms. For example, if someone learns that "to buy the farm" in english means "to die", it doesn't help him use the words "buy" or "farm" in any other situation and he's hardly learned anything there.
I like how it promises secure ordering and then the link takes you to a non-secure page that looks like it was made by a 12-year-old. I would guess that he copied the entire site design from somewhere else and then hacked that "enter your CC details to order!" page together himself
Maybe you want to write something and release it, and leave the choice of database up to the user. If I was already running Postgres, and downloaded some PHP thing you made which only worked with mysql, I am probably going to decide that I'd rather not use your product than install yet a second database server just for it.
If your product worked with my database, whatever it was, I wouldn't throw it out right away.
"Expatriates tend to suffer from diseases of luxury. They don't pay taxes, their savings go 10-100 times further, they get privileged positions, and if good, they are valued for their expertise and cultural baggage."
Uh... that's funny. I've American and have been living in Germany for two years now and the German government seems to think I should pay them taxes. My savings also do not go 10-100 times further. Nor do I have a priveleged position.
Maybe you're not clear on the definition of expatriate?
This review (and the link in it to an older model) doesn't mention how the handwriting recognition is. So many handheld reviews don't mention how the handwriting recognition is. They all talk about how easily you can hook a keyboard to it. I don't understand this.
If it's got a keyboard, i.e. you have to set it on a desk or table or something to use it, it's really not mobile, is it?
I want a handheld device I can hold in my left hand, write with the stylus with my right hand, use my natural handwriting (no graffiti), and have the device know what I'm writing. And I want to be able to write naturally, not have one little box I need to write in for capitals, one for lower case, and I write each letter in the same place on the screen.
I want to compose email on the train and I don't want to use some little thumb keyboard, I want to write with the stylus like I would with a pen.
Do so few people actually care about good, natural handwriting input?
Does the searching actually take place on your own computer? Could someone dissect this program, then, and get an insight into the elusive google search criteria?
I do not believe that running sound through analog equipment will produce any kind of effect on it that couldn't be simulated digitally well enough to be undistinguishable by the human ear. But I am admittedly not an audiophile, so I welcome anyone to explain to me why I'm wrong.
...like this one piss me off. Why do I need to read the intro text and then click "Next" to go to page 2? And then later to go to page 3, 4, 5, etc?
Why do people think it's cool to split articles up into pages like this, making the user click a "Next page" link? Are they aware that web browsers have a veritcal scroll bar? Do they know they could show us the whole thing at once?
It's not as though simple text will take too long to transfer. Do they just want us to see a wider array of their ads?
To tell the truth, I am now considering a 5600. The only things I want to do are:
1. Word processing 2. Email 3. IM 4. Web browsing 5. E-text reading (i.e. from proj. gutenberg)
And I'd really like to use handwriting recognitionfor that. I don't care if it's slower than typing. I write better when I use a pen and paper than when I type, strangely enough. The 5600, coupled with a large SD/MMC for storage and a Wi-Fi CF card, seems like the ticket.
My only real concern is the handwriting recognition. I know most people don't like it, but I think I would if it (a) let me use my normal handwriting and (b) wasn't slower than using a real pen and paper. Any ideas on that?
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Nobody even reads on planes or trains anymore, we all have laptops and watch DVDs. You can even rent little DVD players in the airport.
Now we need video blogs. How low can our attention spans get?
I'd love something the size of a tablet PC, with the option to write with a pen like it was a stylus. I'd even take something a little smaller. But they're just too expensive... and look at the specs! 40 gig hard drive? 60 gig hard drive? 1.6 ghz processor? Why? All I want to do it take notes, surf the web, IM, and email! Just give me a SD/MMC slot and I can put a gig or two storage in there and that's plenty for me.
And though the hand-helds are better price-wisse, and even acceptible size-wise, they are just lacking in the input department. Writing with the stylus, each letter on top of the other inside a little box? No thanks. Too unnatural.
Is there some happy medium I'm just not aware of?
Lysystrata [The Breaker of Armies] is placed in the [historical] war between Athens and Sparta, and the women of Greece declare a sex strike till peace is made.
Well, you know, from what I've heard about the ancient Greeks, that probably didn't make that much of a difference.
Oh yeah sorry, I should have posted a link. I guess I also kinda sounded like an ass in that message.
http://www.arcor.de/privat/dsl/index.jsp
29.95 euros/month for 1 megabit speed with 1 gig download (same as QSC), or 39.95 for flat rate (cheaper). Arcor also adds only 5 euros for 2 megabit, and 10 euros for 3 megabit, and QSC adds 10 euros for each. The arcor packages also come with ISDN, though if you never use that I guess it doesn't matter.
The only billing trouble I've had with Arcor is they recently lowered their prices, and didn't automatically switch me to the new pricing plan. I need to call them and ask them to, but I'm worried they'll make me commit myself to another year of service if I do. Which is probably no problem, but I still don't like when companies do that.
All those plans above look like they cost the same as or more than Arcor, which will give you flatrate DSL and ISDN with three phone numbers. Why would anyone take those?
I don't know where these other "350 million Europeans" are living, but here in Germany it's pretty much the same as the US.
Money is withheld from your pay, and then once a year you file your taxes to see if you overpaid or underpaid during the year, and throw in any other deductions or credits that you're eligible for.
I've tried that and it doesn't really help. The subtitles are often paraphrases of what's actually said in the movie, or sometimes they're expressions or euphemisms. For example, if someone learns that "to buy the farm" in english means "to die", it doesn't help him use the words "buy" or "farm" in any other situation and he's hardly learned anything there.
How do you change your language on windows XP? I don't see an option for it. (XP Home)
Those all look like they have the shareware free trial version for download; they don't look like they're selling the registered version.
I like how it promises secure ordering and then the link takes you to a non-secure page that looks like it was made by a 12-year-old. I would guess that he copied the entire site design from somewhere else and then hacked that "enter your CC details to order!" page together himself
That's different from a normal rim job how?
What on earth are you talking about with this tax-free status? I am American living in Germany and I have to pay taxes.
Maybe you want to write something and release it, and leave the choice of database up to the user. If I was already running Postgres, and downloaded some PHP thing you made which only worked with mysql, I am probably going to decide that I'd rather not use your product than install yet a second database server just for it.
If your product worked with my database, whatever it was, I wouldn't throw it out right away.
"Expatriates tend to suffer from diseases of luxury. They don't pay taxes, their savings go 10-100 times further, they get privileged positions, and if good, they are valued for their expertise and cultural baggage."
Uh... that's funny. I've American and have been living in Germany for two years now and the German government seems to think I should pay them taxes. My savings also do not go 10-100 times further. Nor do I have a priveleged position.
Maybe you're not clear on the definition of expatriate?
This review (and the link in it to an older model) doesn't mention how the handwriting recognition is. So many handheld reviews don't mention how the handwriting recognition is. They all talk about how easily you can hook a keyboard to it. I don't understand this.
If it's got a keyboard, i.e. you have to set it on a desk or table or something to use it, it's really not mobile, is it?
I want a handheld device I can hold in my left hand, write with the stylus with my right hand, use my natural handwriting (no graffiti), and have the device know what I'm writing. And I want to be able to write naturally, not have one little box I need to write in for capitals, one for lower case, and I write each letter in the same place on the screen.
I want to compose email on the train and I don't want to use some little thumb keyboard, I want to write with the stylus like I would with a pen.
Do so few people actually care about good, natural handwriting input?
someone read it and tell me if it'll help me learn german faster
Does the searching actually take place on your own computer? Could someone dissect this program, then, and get an insight into the elusive google search criteria?
I know it must be an old joke by now, but I just realized it.
It seems very fitting.
I do not believe that running sound through analog equipment will produce any kind of effect on it that couldn't be simulated digitally well enough to be undistinguishable by the human ear. But I am admittedly not an audiophile, so I welcome anyone to explain to me why I'm wrong.
Can someone explain to me what is meant when sound is described as "warm"?
Who does that mean we should blame?
...like this one piss me off. Why do I need to read the intro text and then click "Next" to go to page 2? And then later to go to page 3, 4, 5, etc?
Why do people think it's cool to split articles up into pages like this, making the user click a "Next page" link? Are they aware that web browsers have a veritcal scroll bar? Do they know they could show us the whole thing at once?
It's not as though simple text will take too long to transfer. Do they just want us to see a wider array of their ads?
All the time slashdot has these stories "I'm here at the whatever convention..." and there's never any announcement before-hand that it's going on.
Surely announcing this kind of stuff is just as news-for-nerd-worthy as what's on the next episode of cowboy bebop or whatever it is
Hm you have used a 5500 too?
To tell the truth, I am now considering a 5600. The only things I want to do are:
1. Word processing
2. Email
3. IM
4. Web browsing
5. E-text reading (i.e. from proj. gutenberg)
And I'd really like to use handwriting recognitionfor that. I don't care if it's slower than typing. I write better when I use a pen and paper than when I type, strangely enough. The 5600, coupled with a large SD/MMC for storage and a Wi-Fi CF card, seems like the ticket.
My only real concern is the handwriting recognition. I know most people don't like it, but I think I would if it (a) let me use my normal handwriting and (b) wasn't slower than using a real pen and paper. Any ideas on that?
Sean
"Imagine that idea, people might do the legal thing when presented a legal alternative"
"after iTMS came out, I have not downloaded an illegal song."
You never had the legal alternative to go to the store and buy CDs before iTMS came out? That's odd.