... it's the same goddam crap you'll find no problem on any of the P2P music-stealing programs.
One of the reasons I'd gladly pay for downloading music is because it's old or obscure and I can't find it elsewhere. If I wanted Britney Spears or some crap like that, all I'd have to do is look for it on any P2P program and I'd get a billion results.
Do they think people's motivation for using pay-to-download site will just be the fact that it's legal?
Not at all, thanks for the info. I've actually been reading up a bit since posting that, and was thinking of the 5600 because it's about $320 on amazon. The 6000 looks nice, but is quite a bit more. Supposed to have a much nicer display, though. That would be nice, since using it on the train and having a sunbeam shine in the window on it (as will inevitably happen) would be a pain if I couldn't use it anymore.
I've got some questions I've been meaning to ask a SL-860 owner. I see you don't display your email so I hope you check the replies to your post. I hope your answers to these questions are still valid since you've removed the software it comes with...
1. How is the handwriting recognition? I'm not really interested in using the tiny keyboard, but if I can train it to recognize my handwriting, and actually do a good job of it, that's a big plus.
2. Does it come with a good word processor? (If you never even bothered with the software that it comes with, can you get a good word processor for it with whatever software you're running?)
3. How is the screen? In sunlight?
4. If I doubt I'll ever use the keyboard, would you suggest I get some other model of Zaurus? Basically all I want is a PDA that fits in my pocket, I can read e-texts, write documents (with the stylus!!), read and answer emails (again, with stylus, no tiny keyboard), IM (stylus), and browse the web.
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1. Reading e-texts. There are so many free books on the web from Project Gutenberg, but it's so uncomfortable to read them at a desktop PC that I never do.
2. Good handwriting recognition. Those tiny little keyboards on some PDAs are jokes. And tapping each letter on the screen has got to be almost as crappy. I want to be able to train the device on what my handwriting looks like, and have it do a good job of reading it. Profiles would be nice, so more than one person can have it trained on their handwriting.
3. Wireless. Connectivity would be great on a handheld, but not worth much if I have to stay tethered to something with a cable or docking station or something.
4. Web browser. I do enjoy the idea of browsing the web on a small, hand-held device fron the comfort of the living room. I don't care if it's in a tiny window with a horizontal scroll bar.
5. E-mail. I enjoy the idea of checking my email from a wireless hot spot, and being able to reply there too (writing the email with its good handwriting recognition, of course).
6. IM. If I'm not using the computer for anything more than a chat at the time, why not do it from the EZ chair. (OK this is a lazy, nerdy requirement.)
7. Word processor. Doesn't need a ton of features. Just something more advanced than notepad to write in while on the train or something.
8. Removable storage. Preferably MMC or smart media, since I already have devices that use those and already have the disks.
I like the key layout. There' no Windows keys to accidentally hit when I'm going for the ctrl or the alt key, and the backslash is up where it belongs, above the rectangular enter key.
And while it's not buckling spring, I would dispute their "quite" claim. It is quite loud to use. The best way I can describe the sound it makes is like a RATTLE. The keys all wiggle a bit from side to side, and if you pick up the keyboard and shake it around like an etch-a-sketch it'll sound like shaking a rattle. For this reason the keys to make a bit of noise when typing, unless you make an effort to hit the keys very softly, which i don't.
haha, so the politicians relied on their email to remind them of the "genuine political business" they should be discussing?
so without their email, they were all sitting around saying to each other "we need to realign our political strategy to centralize what is decentralized into a whole new paradigm"
I love Phoenix. But I don't like the irritating password manager that always asks me if I want to remember passwords for this site. Or if I just submit things to a form, it asks me if I want to remember these values.
You said it yourself. "Companies are paying to dump junk..."
That's right. They're paying. Which means someone in China is accepting money to allow it. It's not as though IBM flies around with a cargo jet full of garbage and pulls the lever to dump it all out when they get to China.
"Large ships take this stuff to Asia every day."
Well maybe when they get to Asia, Asia should say "Go home" as opposed to "Give us the money."
Did it ever cross your friend's mind that maybe the Chinese, who are allowing this, are the ones he should be talking to first?
People should think of this analogy: You're walking down the sidewalk, and you come to a fence with a big mean doberman behind it. You stick your fingers through the bars of the fence and he bites you.
Whose fault is it? Sure the doberman is bad and dangerous. But you could have avoided it. You're the one the stuck your fingers in there.
If you didn't know dobermans were dangerous, you do now. So if you do it again, you've really got no one to blame but yourself.
Sure the big bad first world is mean and dangerous just like the doberman. Sure maybe it should feel guilty for that. But if you keep buying it's toxic junk and making yourself sick with it, here's a solution: STOP DOING IT.
It's hard to feel sorry for people that keep making the same mistake over and over.
And don't give me anything about their hurting economy, being forced to work under such conditions, etc. etc. Last time I opened my history book, there were Chinese people before there were computers. Somehow they managed to get by without our toxic garbage. Clearly it's possible.
The problem with all that is that it takes effort. I'm sorry but for most people the money they save in a tax write off is not worth driving all around town looking for a school or dump that can safely take a monitor off your hands.
Good Will and other thrift stores won't take any more monitors. At least, the ones around here won't. They've already got too many.
It's kind of the same situation with recycling bottles and cans in California. I used to live in Oregon, where you can take your empty bottles and cans to any grocery store, any time day or night. Five cents for cans, ten cents for bottles.
Here in California, you have to take them to a designated recycling center, which is open about six hours a day on weekdays. And there's only one in the city I live in, all the way across town. And you can take a hundred cans back, and you won't get jack shit because the redemption value is so low in California. And they don't give you cash, either, they give you a certificate that you have to take to a nearby grocery store or something, stand in line there, and then they'll give you your 90 cents or whatever it is you've got.
I used to take my bottles and cans back out of a sense of duty. But I got sick of going down there on my lunch break (the only time I could go there when the recycling center is open) to find out that either
(A) The recycling center was closed for lunch, or closed on Tuesdays, or something like that. or (B) There was a long line of people returning bottles and cans, when it's my turn I get a certificate for 90 cents, which I then have to take to the grocery store next door and stand in line to claim.
I started throwing my bottles and cans away. I feel bad about it, but Jesus Christ it's like they went out of their way to make it invonvenient in this state. In some cities (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Sacramento) you can throw cans into the trash and rest assured that some homeless person will pick them out. But in the suburban white bread town I'm stuck in at the moment? No way. Those cans are going straight to the dump.
Same deal with monitors. They really ought to be recycled. So it'd be nice if it weren't such a pain in the ass to do so. I'd gladly support my tax dollars going toward recycling centers that took monitors and didn't completely suck. Or worked out a deal with grocery stores or someone else to handle it, like they do in Oregon.
But the camera's not built in. You get the camera attachment as an additional accessory, for an extra cost of course.
I have a T68i. It's damn cool. I'm sad that they're going to start selling them in the US because I like being one of the only people to have one. I got mine on the SAN FRANCISCO CELL PHONE BLACK MARKET.
As far as I know, to even do that with big connections you need to go through the same ISP and PPP bond them together. Say I have two T1 lines, one from Sprint and one from UUNet. Each one can transfer 1.54 megabits per second, theoretically. Even though I have two T1 lines, if I go and connect to some remote FTP server, it's only going to send data back to Sprint or UUNet. It can't figure out "hey this guy's got two connections, I should start sending him data on both of them" and suddenly be able to download twice as fast, can I? I may have two T1 lines, but I still can't transfer a file faster than 1.54mb/s.
If if you have two T1 lines from the same ISP (say I have two from Sprint), it takes special configuration, putting them together with a PPP bond, to make them work as one pipe. As far as I know.
Now apply this logic to the type of connections you might have in your apartment. Say you have one DSL connection and one cable connection. Are they really going to increase your transfer speed?
I can see how you'd be able to SEND data faster, but how does receiving work? Can someone explain this to me?
I click on the link for Sony Ericsson, I get the page for DoCoMo. I click on the link for DoCoMo, I get something on overclocking. IF'N THAT AIN'T WACKY.
Come on man.. there were what, 19 digital theaters in the whole country listed when Episode 2 came out? Don't blow $140k of the college's money. That money came from tuition and tax payers. Wait until digital theaters are common enough for this to be practical. By then the price will probably be lower too.
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... it's the same goddam crap you'll find no problem on any of the P2P music-stealing programs.
One of the reasons I'd gladly pay for downloading music is because it's old or obscure and I can't find it elsewhere. If I wanted Britney Spears or some crap like that, all I'd have to do is look for it on any P2P program and I'd get a billion results.
Do they think people's motivation for using pay-to-download site will just be the fact that it's legal?
Not at all, thanks for the info. I've actually been reading up a bit since posting that, and was thinking of the 5600 because it's about $320 on amazon. The 6000 looks nice, but is quite a bit more. Supposed to have a much nicer display, though. That would be nice, since using it on the train and having a sunbeam shine in the window on it (as will inevitably happen) would be a pain if I couldn't use it anymore.
Hi Ogmo,
I've got some questions I've been meaning to ask a SL-860 owner. I see you don't display your email so I hope you check the replies to your post. I hope your answers to these questions are still valid since you've removed the software it comes with...
1. How is the handwriting recognition? I'm not really interested in using the tiny keyboard, but if I can train it to recognize my handwriting, and actually do a good job of it, that's a big plus.
2. Does it come with a good word processor? (If you never even bothered with the software that it comes with, can you get a good word processor for it with whatever software you're running?)
3. How is the screen? In sunlight?
4. If I doubt I'll ever use the keyboard, would you suggest I get some other model of Zaurus? Basically all I want is a PDA that fits in my pocket, I can read e-texts, write documents (with the stylus!!), read and answer emails (again, with stylus, no tiny keyboard), IM (stylus), and browse the web.
1. Reading e-texts. There are so many free books on the web from Project Gutenberg, but it's so uncomfortable to read them at a desktop PC that I never do.
2. Good handwriting recognition. Those tiny little keyboards on some PDAs are jokes. And tapping each letter on the screen has got to be almost as crappy. I want to be able to train the device on what my handwriting looks like, and have it do a good job of reading it. Profiles would be nice, so more than one person can have it trained on their handwriting.
3. Wireless. Connectivity would be great on a handheld, but not worth much if I have to stay tethered to something with a cable or docking station or something.
4. Web browser. I do enjoy the idea of browsing the web on a small, hand-held device fron the comfort of the living room. I don't care if it's in a tiny window with a horizontal scroll bar.
5. E-mail. I enjoy the idea of checking my email from a wireless hot spot, and being able to reply there too (writing the email with its good handwriting recognition, of course).
6. IM. If I'm not using the computer for anything more than a chat at the time, why not do it from the EZ chair. (OK this is a lazy, nerdy requirement.)
7. Word processor. Doesn't need a ton of features. Just something more advanced than notepad to write in while on the train or something.
8. Removable storage. Preferably MMC or smart media, since I already have devices that use those and already have the disks.
In the contaxt of another article everyone would be saying it's just more proof of the man making it look like we need to import more foreign workers
... than I always pictured this particular reservation when reading Sherman Alexie books.
what a bunch of goddam dorks
cabin boy was awesome..
"cap'n says i'm dumb as a carp. this is how a harem girl dances"
andy richter's finest role.
Yes i have their silent 101 key keyboard.
I like the key layout. There' no Windows keys to accidentally hit when I'm going for the ctrl or the alt key, and the backslash is up where it belongs, above the rectangular enter key.
And while it's not buckling spring, I would dispute their "quite" claim. It is quite loud to use. The best way I can describe the sound it makes is like a RATTLE. The keys all wiggle a bit from side to side, and if you pick up the keyboard and shake it around like an etch-a-sketch it'll sound like shaking a rattle. For this reason the keys to make a bit of noise when typing, unless you make an effort to hit the keys very softly, which i don't.
Amazingly, the loseriest group ever mentioned on slashdot isn't a computer group.
Would many companies have some reason to buy Segways? I can't see the senior staff of mine demanding Segways as perks.
haha, so the politicians relied on their email to remind them of the "genuine political business" they should be discussing?
so without their email, they were all sitting around saying to each other "we need to realign our political strategy to centralize what is decentralized into a whole new paradigm"
That sounds rather dramatic, with them wanting you to cave and being nervous about ringing up an order without your address.
I'm sure the low-paid employees actually didn't give a shit.
1) You say that XP usually crashes because of old games? So the solution is moving to an OS that won't support those games at all?
2) Have fun when they get to high school and can't play the latest online game with all their friends.
...than you did on the Star Trek series?
I love Phoenix. But I don't like the irritating password manager that always asks me if I want to remember passwords for this site. Or if I just submit things to a form, it asks me if I want to remember these values.
How do I turn that off?
For the love of God.
You said it yourself. "Companies are paying to dump junk..."
That's right. They're paying. Which means someone in China is accepting money to allow it. It's not as though IBM flies around with a cargo jet full of garbage and pulls the lever to dump it all out when they get to China.
"Large ships take this stuff to Asia every day."
Well maybe when they get to Asia, Asia should say "Go home" as opposed to "Give us the money."
Did it ever cross your friend's mind that maybe the Chinese, who are allowing this, are the ones he should be talking to first?
Amen.
People should think of this analogy: You're walking down the sidewalk, and you come to a fence with a big mean doberman behind it. You stick your fingers through the bars of the fence and he bites you.
Whose fault is it? Sure the doberman is bad and dangerous. But you could have avoided it. You're the one the stuck your fingers in there.
If you didn't know dobermans were dangerous, you do now. So if you do it again, you've really got no one to blame but yourself.
Sure the big bad first world is mean and dangerous just like the doberman. Sure maybe it should feel guilty for that. But if you keep buying it's toxic junk and making yourself sick with it, here's a solution: STOP DOING IT.
It's hard to feel sorry for people that keep making the same mistake over and over.
And don't give me anything about their hurting economy, being forced to work under such conditions, etc. etc. Last time I opened my history book, there were Chinese people before there were computers. Somehow they managed to get by without our toxic garbage. Clearly it's possible.
The problem with all that is that it takes effort. I'm sorry but for most people the money they save in a tax write off is not worth driving all around town looking for a school or dump that can safely take a monitor off your hands.
Good Will and other thrift stores won't take any more monitors. At least, the ones around here won't. They've already got too many.
It's kind of the same situation with recycling bottles and cans in California. I used to live in Oregon, where you can take your empty bottles and cans to any grocery store, any time day or night. Five cents for cans, ten cents for bottles.
Here in California, you have to take them to a designated recycling center, which is open about six hours a day on weekdays. And there's only one in the city I live in, all the way across town. And you can take a hundred cans back, and you won't get jack shit because the redemption value is so low in California. And they don't give you cash, either, they give you a certificate that you have to take to a nearby grocery store or something, stand in line there, and then they'll give you your 90 cents or whatever it is you've got.
I used to take my bottles and cans back out of a sense of duty. But I got sick of going down there on my lunch break (the only time I could go there when the recycling center is open) to find out that either
(A) The recycling center was closed for lunch, or closed on Tuesdays, or something like that.
or
(B) There was a long line of people returning bottles and cans, when it's my turn I get a certificate for 90 cents, which I then have to take to the grocery store next door and stand in line to claim.
I started throwing my bottles and cans away. I feel bad about it, but Jesus Christ it's like they went out of their way to make it invonvenient in this state. In some cities (San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Sacramento) you can throw cans into the trash and rest assured that some homeless person will pick them out. But in the suburban white bread town I'm stuck in at the moment? No way. Those cans are going straight to the dump.
Same deal with monitors. They really ought to be recycled. So it'd be nice if it weren't such a pain in the ass to do so. I'd gladly support my tax dollars going toward recycling centers that took monitors and didn't completely suck. Or worked out a deal with grocery stores or someone else to handle it, like they do in Oregon.
"helping a client get more rich..."
Yes, you are definitely a scientist.
"It's the fact that hardware I *bought* and the DVD I *bought* artificially limits my ability to use the media as designed."
That's right. You bought it. Nobody forced you to. That really invalidates your right to whine about it.
But the camera's not built in. You get the camera attachment as an additional accessory, for an extra cost of course.
I have a T68i. It's damn cool. I'm sad that they're going to start selling them in the US because I like being one of the only people to have one. I got mine on the SAN FRANCISCO CELL PHONE BLACK MARKET.
Can someone explain how this works to me?
As far as I know, to even do that with big connections you need to go through the same ISP and PPP bond them together. Say I have two T1 lines, one from Sprint and one from UUNet. Each one can transfer 1.54 megabits per second, theoretically. Even though I have two T1 lines, if I go and connect to some remote FTP server, it's only going to send data back to Sprint or UUNet. It can't figure out "hey this guy's got two connections, I should start sending him data on both of them" and suddenly be able to download twice as fast, can I? I may have two T1 lines, but I still can't transfer a file faster than 1.54mb/s.
If if you have two T1 lines from the same ISP (say I have two from Sprint), it takes special configuration, putting them together with a PPP bond, to make them work as one pipe. As far as I know.
Now apply this logic to the type of connections you might have in your apartment. Say you have one DSL connection and one cable connection. Are they really going to increase your transfer speed?
I can see how you'd be able to SEND data faster, but how does receiving work? Can someone explain this to me?
I click on the link for Sony Ericsson, I get the page for DoCoMo. I click on the link for DoCoMo, I get something on overclocking. IF'N THAT AIN'T WACKY.
Come on man.. there were what, 19 digital theaters in the whole country listed when Episode 2 came out? Don't blow $140k of the college's money. That money came from tuition and tax payers. Wait until digital theaters are common enough for this to be practical. By then the price will probably be lower too.