I never minded the ibook on my lap- but I did feel it in my pack. My Newton MP2100 or another PDA on the otherhand- I never minded carrying that around...
Electronic note-taking is the pits - it's much easier to rip a sheet from a pad and clip it to the relevant report than it is to scroll through hundreds of files called 'minutes of meeting x', opening each one up to see what Bob thought about trading in the old copier.
It all depends on the device you're using. 3 years ago, a lot of folks may still have been using 160x160 Palm PDAs. That is the pits, I'll give you that. Using CalliGrapher on a PocketPC isn't bad, though the screen is still a little small IMHO- ~3.5" is suboptimal, but very very doable with the right software, which Pocket PC has. The Zaurus and Palm OS both lack a good notetaking app.
The best notetaker is the Newton MP2100. Good HWR (not character recog, not grafiti) and a great notes app that lets you mix recognized text and sketches/shapes.
Unlike that legal pad, I can do a text search of my notes. On the Newton, I've not had problems printing over IrDA to the HP LaserJets we have at work or over ethernet or wireless. Printing off a page of Notes from the Newton pretty much always looks better than something on a legal pad, with most of it recognized into ASCII text.
When you say "palmtop," do you mean palmtop or PDA? A palmtop is usually used in reference to a handheld PC, something with a keyboard. Think HP200lx or Jornada 720. A PDA is usually one you hold in one hand and use a stylus in another.
I use a PDA as my primary computer at home. I take all of my college lecture notes on it too. I use it at work for meeting notes, todos, etc.
I don't have a cell phone, but if I got one, it'd be something simple with bluetooth, so I could go online with the PDA. A cellphone's PDA functions wouldn't come even remotely close to doing what I needed it to.
The drawbacks with this is that on my Palm I was able to adjust sounds and alarms much better than on the CE device. On the CE there are only two volumes, and if I turn down the volume to avoid annoying my close vicinity while playing games I also turn off the sound for alerts in my calendar and other notifications. Most annoying.
That's an implementation issue. For that, you should be complaining to the company that made your QTEK. I've never used a WinCE/PPC/Windows Mobile device that only had two volume settings- but I've also never used a QTEK.
Indeed- a very common opinion. Since MS makes Win CE, it must be teh suxk!! Windoze for lusers!!1
I'll say it: I like CE. While there are things I'd change, for me, it's the best OS for my uses. Unlike other OSes, it provides a very small, un-bloated base on which I can run my own user environment. It's fast enough, it uses very little RAM, and it has a lot of features.
Not only can it multithread, you can have have multiple processes. In OS 6, there is multithreading- but only one process running at a time. On CE, I can put *any* application in the background- be it some script I wrote, my email app or web browser downloading something, whatever. On OS 6, I can't just put the app in the background, like I do on a desktop OS or on WinCE. No sir. I can put a specific thread-task in the background, provided the developer foresaw the way I would use his application enough to have written in specific support for backgrounding. There is no way that any developer can forsee every and each reason that a user would want to leave an app running- doing something on the CPU- in the background. But a developer shouldn't have that responsibility, the OS should do it.
But, thankfully Win CE does. The one annoyance I have about CE-based handhelds is that it's hard to find good vanilla CE handhelds these days. I'd rather run the more featured Win CE 4.x than WM 2003, though WM2k3 has caught up in a lot of respects, finally getting a better IE and the ability to mount SMB shares, etc...
While kdepim helps in one area, it doesn't fix the rest of the Zaurus. Even with kdepim, there are still a lot more areas in which the Zaurus lacks than it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, there are some really nice apps for the Zaurus, most of them commercial or at least non-open source. NetFront and Opera come to mind, both kick-ass web browsers. Though with WM2003, which brought a much improved Pocket IE. Pocket IE is now almost on par with IE 5.5 or 6 on desktop Windows- in PPC 2k and 2k2, IE was closer to a superset of IE 3 (*shudder*). Just add ftxBrowser for tabs and customizable hotkeys. NetFront also runs well on CE. The slight browsing advantage of the Zaurus doesn't make up for all of the shortcomings.
The Z makes a pretty poor PDA. It didn't even make a good mobile workstation and tiny development platform. I have more development options on WinCE that provide GUI access on CE. I have a number of good math apps on CE, including GNU Maxima, with the GUI-mode xmaxima- even gnuplot runs within the window. On the Zaurus I havea CLI version of octave- better than nothing, but far from optimal.
On the Zaurus, there is still no handwriting recognition, even after years. Character recog yes, but until the new 3.10 ROM it took 0.5-1 sec to recognize a character! For me, the biggest failing was the complete lack of a decent notetaking app... I used to carry around my Zaurus C760 and my Newton MP2100 to class with me. Nerdy, to be sure.:P
And speaking of applications, it is, relatively speaking, difficult to write Palm OS applications.
Well, that depends on how you're going about it. It is a pretty big pain in the butt to write Palm OS apps in the sanctioned dev system- C + POS APIs- but there are other languages that do it better. PocketSmalltalk makes it a lot easier, largely by giving you a more powerful language and a lot of little convenient features. There are also a lot of funky little db/RAD systems for the Palm, but Pocket Smalltalk is one of the few setups that make it easier to develop for the Palm and retain power and control. NSBasic and PocketC are also good options, though IMHO a little on the simplistic RAD side, but still useful for most applications.
Also interesting, since ultimately it would mean that you could run palmos on pocketpc.
Two notes: 1. Huh? Why would you come to that conclusion? Linux != WinCE. Even sharing the same APIs- POSIX+X, doesn't mean that another Unix OS like Solaris or *BSD could even run this neccesarily.
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"based on" can mean a lot of things. Though even taken pretty liberally, I wouldn't agree with the assertion that POS 6 is based on BeOS. There is some BeOS code in there, yes, but Palm OS was not based on BeOS.
So what you've got is a win for PalmSource (they sell more PalmOS), a win for Linux (it gets more devices) and a win for software developers (who need only develop to PalmOS to run on Linux devices).
I doubt the last one will pan out that way. That is, there have been a few proprietary GUI- or VM-layers for Linux over the years. None of them have magically given developers the ability to develop for this one subset platform (say, Palm OS on Linux) and deploy to the superset. The article says that to do a GUI, you'll have to use the Palm OS GUI API. It's not like I can just go download any Linux app that was written for that Amiga runtime and run it. Like Palm OS now, I doubt it'll be something you can just download and install for free- heck, I doubt you'll even be able to buy it and use it to run your Palm OS+Linux apps. It'll be there on a PDA that you bought that came with it, licensed by the hardware manufacturer. And you'll have to pay to upgrade, probably have to buy a new device. Palm doesn't want things to change, they just are trying to find a new angle.
Though, perhaps you could pray to the POS gods that someone writes an X server for Palm OS. At first, I laughed at the idea, but if you have everything written on the Linux side and just use the POS API for the GUI stuff it could be possible. I use an X server on WinCE occasionally for remote access, though usually Windows RDP or VNC make more sense.
Not only was the SL-5x00 series more expensive than similar PDAs, it had more flaws than that. I talk about the SL-5x00 because it's what sold at best buy- I know of no B&M stores in the US that carried the SL-6k. The screens on the SL-5x00 PDAs really sucked. Which was really sad- a week after I bought my SL-5500, I won a Dell Axim X5 Basic at a conference- and had in my possesion a PDA with the best screen I've ever seen and a PDA with the worst. The sad part? Sharp made both the screen in the Zaurus and in the Axim, yet reserved the good stuff for someone else and the crap for their own device.
No longer does the Z have a monopoly on VGA displays. That was it's main advantage, and it's lost. You could go buy a used C700 for $400, or a new C860 $600-700. But why bother when you could buy a new Dell Axim X50V- built in wifi and bluetooth, VGA screens, even dual ports- for $424? Heck, Dell has a promotion going on for that highest end Axim, selling for a piddly $375.
VGA screens on PDAs are really nice, though using it for a long time can strain the eye at that size. The iPAQ hx4700's 4" screen helps that a ton, though it costs a whopping $650. I much prefer the 5" 800x480 screen as found on the Sigmarion 3, OQO, or Nexio S160.
Now if I could retrofit Palm software on to it... well... I might use it as a PDA!
You can. On ZSI, there is a Z port of POSE, the Palm OS Emulator. Granted, you can only run up to POS 4.x, no 5 or 6, but most software still works on 4. It runs at a good speed too, at least on the C760. I never tried anything really fancy, but it worked well for non-gfx intensive apps.
But yeah, the Zaurus makes for a poor PDA. I prefer WinCE- it has most of the power of Linux and it makes a good PDA.
Half of me is dying to try Superwaba, but the possible compatibility issues frighten me. There's nothing I hate worse than having to have multiple JVM's on my computer, especially one with limited device storage.
Then try it. It's not like you've gotta marry it or anything. On the desktop, with real Java, I do believe you just need some compat classes inbetween the Waba app and your regular JVM- you don't need another JVM installed.
You can already run Palm OS 5.x and 6.x as a VM. Not sure if there's an OS X version of the 5 or 6 simulators, though there is for Windows and there have been emulators of OS 4 I've used on OS X- not looked for the newer guys.
Try NetFront, which is a pretty good browser. Or, if you're using vanilla WinCE or WM2003, IE isn't bad, though it does suck eggs in PPC 2k and 2k2. But either way, if you're using IE on any CE OS, you should be using ftxBrowser, which adds tabs, configurable hotkeys and a better bookmarks system. One of the first things I install on a new CE installation.
I think the parent poster forgot about the simple fact that most of Gentoo's detractors know nothing of it other than something that they read or some rumor that they heard and are now taking it as truth.
Uhhh... Nothing new there. That's pretty much how most detractors work. Except when it comes to neo-conservatives, everything negative about them is true.
Up here in Northern Minnesota (Duluth), I've had some cold weather machines that otherwise were fine but suffered spontaneous reboots. At first, it scared me (thought the machine was gunna die), but it kept on trucking- just rebooting for shits and giggles, where before when the machine was inside it had no problem.
Why in the sam hill would I want to 'switch to internet explorer rendering'?
These days it is very rare that I'd need to view a page in IE, but it happens once in a while for me. For that, I use an extension for FF that lets me right click and say "open in IE." *shrug* Some folks may run into this problem more, and if this is done well, you could just pop into IE and view that page, then move on, keeping your tabs in the same window, etc.
That's not so bad. My girlfriend comes to me with questions like: "if we had a kid, would it be mean to name him Spock? I mean, would other kids make fun of him?" poor kid.
Why do people seem to think that SQL is the only way to filter and sort data? Don't get me wrong, it's convenient, but no more so than the facilities I've available in the programming system I use. It may be a pain in C/C++/Java though, so I suppose that explains the dblust.
You're very right- the optical media we have now sucks. It can go to crap in a couple years, and this is sadly not all that rare. But a HD isn't the solution either... What I do for my "unique recordings" is etch the information into metal plates, you know, like L. Ron Hubbard. Sure, whenever I want to listen to a song I end up spending a lot of time transcribing the information into a hexeditor, and then playing it in iTunes. Sure, a pain in the butt, but it's worth it!
I thought about this too. I tend to rip to a higher bitrate of MP3s- 256/VBR or so- but then it sucks when I want to put some MP3s on my PDA, where a 140 MB album is a bit overkill. It's a shame there's not some mp3->ogg fairy that would do the conversion without possibly killing sound...
Usually I wouldn't post in a retard-o-thread like this, but I'm confused by this exchange. A few questions:
1. Canada invaded Iraq? Holy shit I must be getting my news from the wrong source.
When did he say that? I mean, right after that he said: "That, or you are not from the U.S." It seems pretty straightforward to me that he was saying either you live in a country that invaded Iraq, or do not live in the US. True, yes?
2. BTW, you bash USA for Iraq in your sig. How's the ivory coast this time of year?
What does this mean? It seems like it's supposed to be some sort of dig or dis, but I don't follow. Are you talking about some other Ivory Coast that I don't know about, one that would make this statement make more sense? If so, please enlighten me. Are you implying he should move to Africa because he, a USian, didn't like that the Bush administration invaded Iraq?
3. I may come from the great white north but at least I'm not a hypocrite. My country doesn't start wars and I'm damn proud of it.
Another big point of confusion. When did this guy make any hypocritical statements about the war in Iraq? I mean, I'm a US citizen, and I did not vote for Bush, and if the war as it was proposed had been put up for referrendum I wouldn't have voted for it. But am I automatically a hypocrite because I am a US citizen? Believe me, if I were Canadian, I'd be proud of it too. I'm personally proud that I live in one of the bluest counties in this just-past election.
4. Great White North == Canada... it's in the north, it's big and usually snow covered.
I am not speaking for Phillup, but I've heard other folks talk up where I live- Northern Minnesota- as the "Great White North." Not everyone makes the assumption that the only place with snow in North America is Canada. Next time someone mentions it, I will do them and you a favor and ask them to refer to the north central region as the "Minor White North," or perhaps just "Kinda Kanada?"
As far as I can tell, your statements stemmed from Phill's sig, which reads:
Don't confuse a statement against the Republicans as a statement for the Democrats.
What is so confusing about that? What is hypcritical? I'm very open minded- please do share with me how that one small statement, which makes sense to me, turned into... all this. In the case you don't know what he's probably trying to say by that, I'll explain. In the US of A, we are given two choices for political parties: the Republicans and the Democrats. The Republicans are a lot like your Christian Heritage Party, and are becoming more and more like them. The Democrats, when it comes down to it, aren't that much better- they're still more conservative than almost all of your political parties. A lot of people in the States feel like they don't have any real choice. Because of this two party system, people assume that a statement against one party means that you are supporting the other party. That is, if you say "Bush sucks!" they take that to mean "Kerry rules!" Or vice versa. Which for a lot of folks couldn't be further from the truth. I can go into further detail if you'd like, just say the word my friend.
Poor Phill prolly tried to get information about you by clicking on your URL which just seems to point to one of those shitty generic search pages that promise "pictures of latin women models, russian brides to order - latin women - latina women - latin women photos", though he should've looked at your email addy for the biggest clue.
I mean, really man- what are you talking about? Please do reply. I'm not some minion of Phillup, I'm just curious what you're trying to communicate...
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I never minded the ibook on my lap- but I did feel it in my pack. My Newton MP2100 or another PDA on the otherhand- I never minded carrying that around...
Electronic note-taking is the pits - it's much easier to rip a sheet from a pad and clip it to the relevant report than it is to scroll through hundreds of files called 'minutes of meeting x', opening each one up to see what Bob thought about trading in the old copier.
It all depends on the device you're using. 3 years ago, a lot of folks may still have been using 160x160 Palm PDAs. That is the pits, I'll give you that. Using CalliGrapher on a PocketPC isn't bad, though the screen is still a little small IMHO- ~3.5" is suboptimal, but very very doable with the right software, which Pocket PC has. The Zaurus and Palm OS both lack a good notetaking app.
The best notetaker is the Newton MP2100. Good HWR (not character recog, not grafiti) and a great notes app that lets you mix recognized text and sketches/shapes.
Unlike that legal pad, I can do a text search of my notes. On the Newton, I've not had problems printing over IrDA to the HP LaserJets we have at work or over ethernet or wireless. Printing off a page of Notes from the Newton pretty much always looks better than something on a legal pad, with most of it recognized into ASCII text.
When you say "palmtop," do you mean palmtop or PDA? A palmtop is usually used in reference to a handheld PC, something with a keyboard. Think HP200lx or Jornada 720. A PDA is usually one you hold in one hand and use a stylus in another.
I use a PDA as my primary computer at home. I take all of my college lecture notes on it too. I use it at work for meeting notes, todos, etc.
I don't have a cell phone, but if I got one, it'd be something simple with bluetooth, so I could go online with the PDA. A cellphone's PDA functions wouldn't come even remotely close to doing what I needed it to.
The drawbacks with this is that on my Palm I was able to adjust sounds and alarms much better than on the CE device. On the CE there are only two volumes, and if I turn down the volume to avoid annoying my close vicinity while playing games I also turn off the sound for alerts in my calendar and other notifications. Most annoying.
That's an implementation issue. For that, you should be complaining to the company that made your QTEK. I've never used a WinCE/PPC/Windows Mobile device that only had two volume settings- but I've also never used a QTEK.
Indeed- a very common opinion. Since MS makes Win CE, it must be teh suxk!! Windoze for lusers!!1
I'll say it: I like CE. While there are things I'd change, for me, it's the best OS for my uses. Unlike other OSes, it provides a very small, un-bloated base on which I can run my own user environment. It's fast enough, it uses very little RAM, and it has a lot of features.
Not only can it multithread, you can have have multiple processes. In OS 6, there is multithreading- but only one process running at a time. On CE, I can put *any* application in the background- be it some script I wrote, my email app or web browser downloading something, whatever. On OS 6, I can't just put the app in the background, like I do on a desktop OS or on WinCE. No sir. I can put a specific thread-task in the background, provided the developer foresaw the way I would use his application enough to have written in specific support for backgrounding. There is no way that any developer can forsee every and each reason that a user would want to leave an app running- doing something on the CPU- in the background. But a developer shouldn't have that responsibility, the OS should do it.
But, thankfully Win CE does. The one annoyance I have about CE-based handhelds is that it's hard to find good vanilla CE handhelds these days. I'd rather run the more featured Win CE 4.x than WM 2003, though WM2k3 has caught up in a lot of respects, finally getting a better IE and the ability to mount SMB shares, etc...
While kdepim helps in one area, it doesn't fix the rest of the Zaurus. Even with kdepim, there are still a lot more areas in which the Zaurus lacks than it doesn't. Don't get me wrong, there are some really nice apps for the Zaurus, most of them commercial or at least non-open source. NetFront and Opera come to mind, both kick-ass web browsers. Though with WM2003, which brought a much improved Pocket IE. Pocket IE is now almost on par with IE 5.5 or 6 on desktop Windows- in PPC 2k and 2k2, IE was closer to a superset of IE 3 (*shudder*). Just add ftxBrowser for tabs and customizable hotkeys. NetFront also runs well on CE. The slight browsing advantage of the Zaurus doesn't make up for all of the shortcomings.
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The Z makes a pretty poor PDA. It didn't even make a good mobile workstation and tiny development platform. I have more development options on WinCE that provide GUI access on CE. I have a number of good math apps on CE, including GNU Maxima, with the GUI-mode xmaxima- even gnuplot runs within the window. On the Zaurus I havea CLI version of octave- better than nothing, but far from optimal.
On the Zaurus, there is still no handwriting recognition, even after years. Character recog yes, but until the new 3.10 ROM it took 0.5-1 sec to recognize a character! For me, the biggest failing was the complete lack of a decent notetaking app... I used to carry around my Zaurus C760 and my Newton MP2100 to class with me. Nerdy, to be sure.
And speaking of applications, it is, relatively speaking, difficult to write Palm OS applications.
Well, that depends on how you're going about it. It is a pretty big pain in the butt to write Palm OS apps in the sanctioned dev system- C + POS APIs- but there are other languages that do it better. PocketSmalltalk makes it a lot easier, largely by giving you a more powerful language and a lot of little convenient features. There are also a lot of funky little db/RAD systems for the Palm, but Pocket Smalltalk is one of the few setups that make it easier to develop for the Palm and retain power and control. NSBasic and PocketC are also good options, though IMHO a little on the simplistic RAD side, but still useful for most applications.
Also interesting, since ultimately it would mean that you could run palmos on pocketpc.
Two notes:
1. Huh? Why would you come to that conclusion? Linux != WinCE. Even sharing the same APIs- POSIX+X, doesn't mean that another Unix OS like Solaris or *BSD could even run this neccesarily.
2. you already can, to some extent.
"based on" can mean a lot of things. Though even taken pretty liberally, I wouldn't agree with the assertion that POS 6 is based on BeOS. There is some BeOS code in there, yes, but Palm OS was not based on BeOS.
So what you've got is a win for PalmSource (they sell more PalmOS), a win for Linux (it gets more devices) and a win for software developers (who need only develop to PalmOS to run on Linux devices).
I doubt the last one will pan out that way. That is, there have been a few proprietary GUI- or VM-layers for Linux over the years. None of them have magically given developers the ability to develop for this one subset platform (say, Palm OS on Linux) and deploy to the superset. The article says that to do a GUI, you'll have to use the Palm OS GUI API. It's not like I can just go download any Linux app that was written for that Amiga runtime and run it. Like Palm OS now, I doubt it'll be something you can just download and install for free- heck, I doubt you'll even be able to buy it and use it to run your Palm OS+Linux apps. It'll be there on a PDA that you bought that came with it, licensed by the hardware manufacturer. And you'll have to pay to upgrade, probably have to buy a new device. Palm doesn't want things to change, they just are trying to find a new angle.
Though, perhaps you could pray to the POS gods that someone writes an X server for Palm OS. At first, I laughed at the idea, but if you have everything written on the Linux side and just use the POS API for the GUI stuff it could be possible. I use an X server on WinCE occasionally for remote access, though usually Windows RDP or VNC make more sense.
Not only was the SL-5x00 series more expensive than similar PDAs, it had more flaws than that. I talk about the SL-5x00 because it's what sold at best buy- I know of no B&M stores in the US that carried the SL-6k. The screens on the SL-5x00 PDAs really sucked. Which was really sad- a week after I bought my SL-5500, I won a Dell Axim X5 Basic at a conference- and had in my possesion a PDA with the best screen I've ever seen and a PDA with the worst. The sad part? Sharp made both the screen in the Zaurus and in the Axim, yet reserved the good stuff for someone else and the crap for their own device.
No longer does the Z have a monopoly on VGA displays. That was it's main advantage, and it's lost. You could go buy a used C700 for $400, or a new C860 $600-700. But why bother when you could buy a new Dell Axim X50V- built in wifi and bluetooth, VGA screens, even dual ports- for $424? Heck, Dell has a promotion going on for that highest end Axim, selling for a piddly $375.
VGA screens on PDAs are really nice, though using it for a long time can strain the eye at that size. The iPAQ hx4700's 4" screen helps that a ton, though it costs a whopping $650. I much prefer the 5" 800x480 screen as found on the Sigmarion 3, OQO, or Nexio S160.
Now if I could retrofit Palm software on to it... well... I might use it as a PDA!
You can. On ZSI, there is a Z port of POSE, the Palm OS Emulator. Granted, you can only run up to POS 4.x, no 5 or 6, but most software still works on 4. It runs at a good speed too, at least on the C760. I never tried anything really fancy, but it worked well for non-gfx intensive apps.
But yeah, the Zaurus makes for a poor PDA. I prefer WinCE- it has most of the power of Linux and it makes a good PDA.
Half of me is dying to try Superwaba, but the possible compatibility issues frighten me. There's nothing I hate worse than having to have multiple JVM's on my computer, especially one with limited device storage.
Then try it. It's not like you've gotta marry it or anything. On the desktop, with real Java, I do believe you just need some compat classes inbetween the Waba app and your regular JVM- you don't need another JVM installed.
You can already run Palm OS 5.x and 6.x as a VM. Not sure if there's an OS X version of the 5 or 6 simulators, though there is for Windows and there have been emulators of OS 4 I've used on OS X- not looked for the newer guys.
Eclipse runs on ALL platforms.
Uhh, I certainly wouldn't say that. Eclipse doesn't run on the platform I use at home for general computing and development- Windows CE 4.x.
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And having to pay for music violates MY TOS!! So STFU RIAA! I win!
Try NetFront, which is a pretty good browser. Or, if you're using vanilla WinCE or WM2003, IE isn't bad, though it does suck eggs in PPC 2k and 2k2. But either way, if you're using IE on any CE OS, you should be using ftxBrowser, which adds tabs, configurable hotkeys and a better bookmarks system. One of the first things I install on a new CE installation.
I think the parent poster forgot about the simple fact that most of Gentoo's detractors know nothing of it other than something that they read or some rumor that they heard and are now taking it as truth.
Uhhh... Nothing new there. That's pretty much how most detractors work. Except when it comes to neo-conservatives, everything negative about them is true.
Up here in Northern Minnesota (Duluth), I've had some cold weather machines that otherwise were fine but suffered spontaneous reboots. At first, it scared me (thought the machine was gunna die), but it kept on trucking- just rebooting for shits and giggles, where before when the machine was inside it had no problem.
Why in the sam hill would I want to 'switch to internet explorer rendering'?
These days it is very rare that I'd need to view a page in IE, but it happens once in a while for me. For that, I use an extension for FF that lets me right click and say "open in IE." *shrug* Some folks may run into this problem more, and if this is done well, you could just pop into IE and view that page, then move on, keeping your tabs in the same window, etc.
That's not so bad. My girlfriend comes to me with questions like: "if we had a kid, would it be mean to name him Spock? I mean, would other kids make fun of him?" poor kid.
Why do people seem to think that SQL is the only way to filter and sort data? Don't get me wrong, it's convenient, but no more so than the facilities I've available in the programming system I use. It may be a pain in C/C++/Java though, so I suppose that explains the dblust.
You're very right- the optical media we have now sucks. It can go to crap in a couple years, and this is sadly not all that rare. But a HD isn't the solution either... What I do for my "unique recordings" is etch the information into metal plates, you know, like L. Ron Hubbard. Sure, whenever I want to listen to a song I end up spending a lot of time transcribing the information into a hexeditor, and then playing it in iTunes. Sure, a pain in the butt, but it's worth it!
I thought about this too. I tend to rip to a higher bitrate of MP3s- 256/VBR or so- but then it sucks when I want to put some MP3s on my PDA, where a 140 MB album is a bit overkill. It's a shame there's not some mp3->ogg fairy that would do the conversion without possibly killing sound...
1. Canada invaded Iraq? Holy shit I must be getting my news from the wrong source.
When did he say that? I mean, right after that he said: "That, or you are not from the U.S." It seems pretty straightforward to me that he was saying either you live in a country that invaded Iraq, or do not live in the US. True, yes?
2. BTW, you bash USA for Iraq in your sig. How's the ivory coast this time of year?
What does this mean? It seems like it's supposed to be some sort of dig or dis, but I don't follow. Are you talking about some other Ivory Coast that I don't know about, one that would make this statement make more sense? If so, please enlighten me. Are you implying he should move to Africa because he, a USian, didn't like that the Bush administration invaded Iraq?
3. I may come from the great white north but at least I'm not a hypocrite. My country doesn't start wars and I'm damn proud of it.
Another big point of confusion. When did this guy make any hypocritical statements about the war in Iraq? I mean, I'm a US citizen, and I did not vote for Bush, and if the war as it was proposed had been put up for referrendum I wouldn't have voted for it. But am I automatically a hypocrite because I am a US citizen? Believe me, if I were Canadian, I'd be proud of it too. I'm personally proud that I live in one of the bluest counties in this just-past election.
4. Great White North == Canada... it's in the north, it's big and usually snow covered.
I am not speaking for Phillup, but I've heard other folks talk up where I live- Northern Minnesota- as the "Great White North." Not everyone makes the assumption that the only place with snow in North America is Canada. Next time someone mentions it, I will do them and you a favor and ask them to refer to the north central region as the "Minor White North," or perhaps just "Kinda Kanada?"
As far as I can tell, your statements stemmed from Phill's sig, which reads:
What is so confusing about that? What is hypcritical? I'm very open minded- please do share with me how that one small statement, which makes sense to me, turned into
Poor Phill prolly tried to get information about you by clicking on your URL which just seems to point to one of those shitty generic search pages that promise "pictures of latin women models, russian brides to order - latin women - latina women - latin women photos", though he should've looked at your email addy for the biggest clue.
I mean, really man- what are you talking about? Please do reply. I'm not some minion of Phillup, I'm just curious what you're trying to communicate...