Alright, maybe I'm a fool, but if you gave me two Palm units, one with color and one greyscale, I'd get the greyscale unit. I have no use for color, I think it looks stupid on handhelds. If you gave me a choice of CPUs, I'd pick the DragonBall over the ARM because it'll give me better battery life. If you asked if I wanted 32MB RAM or 8MB RAM, I'd go with 8, because I've never used more than 512K and I want better battery life.
Maybe THEY are displaced, but the lower cost / longer life of cars due to automation has enabled the rest of the economy to function MORE efficiently. That's my argument. Automation lets a million people get Hyundai Accents for $7000 instead of $12000, that's a (totally hypothetical) $5mil savings to all of the consumers.
People being replaced by machines is a GOOD thing, I can't stress it enough. Machines do the shitty work that we shouldn't have to. So you lose your nice auto-worker job, that sucks, but now you should go learn how to work in an office where your contribution to the economy will be greater.
I see it firsthand every day working here at a bank corporate offices, we have a lot of middle-age folks who were displaced by the northeast jewlery manufacturing meltdown. People don't lose their jobs forever, they get reabsorbed.
Your logic would honestly stagnate progress in society in a very bad way. Imagine if they were afraid of the steam engine because it would put all the laborers out of work. The steam engine DID put a lot of people out of work, but that paved the way for INCREDIBLE advances of society and economy that I'm pretty sure we all appreciate.
Right now my job is being phased out for less-expensive outsourcers. I'm not upset, I don't want it to stop, it's natural and good for society as a whole. I'll train and get another job.
So you're in the 'it should do everything' camp. All MOST users want is those 4 features, email, maybe mp3 playback, basic audio recording, simple stuff. Palm should produce the 'killer tungstens' but should also produce a highly refined, durable, and STABLE (in the 'it won't change for years' sense) platform for us. The M-series is weak, they're flimsy and the screens are miniscule.
I was thinking that they could probably make a dragonball-based machine in a single-chip (that's CPU, RAM, and I/O logic on one chip), call it the Palm Refernce Platform 1, slap the chip into a super-thick plastic or hard rubber molding with a decent sized b+w LCD (color model as well). Standardize the I/O on a mini-USB port, and make an INTERNAL USB bay for handspring-like cards for wireless, backup, or whatever. They could sell it for $175, which would probably be a really good markup. Business would jump on if Palm would come out with something that they promised to stick to for more than a year, who wants to have 17 different breeds of palm running around the office, all with different OS software and hardware?
Wron on the unemployment factor. Automation is only implemented where it INCREASES output/dollar, AKA PRODUCTIVITY. Higher productivity is GOOD for the economy on the whole, it has a huge ripple effect. That money that would normally go to 'register jockeys' or tellers has gone to technicians for the automated systems and reduced costs for the store/bank. Reduced costs mean reduced prices, and that means more money in the economy for stuff people want, like better cars or computers. This is how it REALLY works, folks; Automation is our FRIEND.
I really miss the black and white, 33MHz palms. What a wonderful idea those were. I never used more than 512K of the ram on those things and the batteries would last me weeks on end. My Palm III and Visor Deluxe worked without flaw for years. Now they've got too many faetures and extras, except for the zire, which feels very cheap and breakable to me (not to mention the TINY screen). I thought the whole idea for the Palm was SIMPLICITY. I think they'd honestly make more money if they just refined those old models, made them smaller and added mini-USB ports for HID keyboards and connectivity. The'd be selling twice as many palms, and the stable platform would finally give corporate customers time to evaluate and migrate to the Palm (right now they can't because the meaning of 'Palm' keeps changing, hardware and software). Here's an idea, LET PocketPC take the speed/features crown, make really high-quality reliable and simple Palms that people can pick up and USE. I'll bet they could put the whole DragonBall palm logic and memory onto one or two chips now, it would be beautiful.
About half the people I know who have Palms have the old ones and they SWEAR by them. I know people who have PalmIIIs that bought a second one, new, just to replace their current one when it dies.
Providence, RI, Yesterday while stopped at a shopping center for removable media, Marc Doughty parked his car within two inches of some lady who's Corolla was taking two spaces. Marc went into the store to do his shopping, when he returned the Corolla's middle-aged female owner was crawling over her passenger seat to enter her vehicle. When Marc approached his car (smile wide on his face) the woman spoke, "You blocked me in!" she said. Marc replied, "I'm parked in the nice painted lines, you aren't I'm following the rules, you're not. You blocked yourself in." "But there was a carriage in the way!" "That's why the transmission has the 'park' feature, so you can get out and move carriages out of the way, no excuse for a Corolla to take two spaces in a busy lot." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Apparently you don't understand manners. We all need to follow the rules, normally your blatant rudeness would go unpunished, but as long as I'm around you can bet I'll be enforcing order." "OH-KAY?!?"
Seriously though, I'm now the official road-politeness enforcer. If you drive very recklessly or double-park, or throw trash out your window and I see it you'll now earn yourself a spitting-on, car-keying, or a call to the state police. I'm considering stink bombs and/or brake fluid spattering ('better get MAACO' after that). Watch yourself from Boston to Cranston, RI, I'm on duty.
not quite, I've been in environments where we lowly techs can get 30 minute to an hour of admin access to handle certain data migrations or add machines to the domain. If I had this hack, got admin access, and remoted-into the server boxes I could get EVERYONE'S password, and put it on a disk for use later.
I'm running Moz 1.4 on a PIII/500 laptop. It's about the same speed in Windows as IE6, and in Linux it's a bit faster (except at getting it initially fired up, of course). If moz is bogging down on your machine there's something wrong.
that's why the moderation system could be weighted to the number of downloads of the song, maybe it could be represented as a percent of downloaders who would recommend it to others. Britney would have %95, as would Brian Eno, but CrapFestJamShack out of some kids basement wouldn't be so successful.
Not as far as I'm concerned. The gcc optimizations for the C3 seies of CPU are way off. Until I get really efficient binaries from "-march=c3-ezra" I'm afraid I'll stick to the iBook or PIII-M system.
Also, the CLE266 chipset doesn't have linux support from VIA, XFree-4.4 will have 2D drivers for the onboard graphics, and sound is coming along in ALSA, but RIGHT NOW linux totally sucks on VIA's low-power stuff.
If anything, VIA should be working with GCC developers to get really good CPU targets worked out, and they should fork over everything they've got on their chipsets to X, ALSA, and kernel developers. They've got nothing to lose, VIA doesn't have an edge in ANY market, their audio sucks, their video sucks, their CPUs are puny, their motherboard designs are pretty weak. All they've got is that their product uses less juice than any other major player, they oughtta make the most of that by helping out the open-source stuff run on it.
Fuck that! if the rich are going to hire accountants to find ways to avoid paying taxes I'm sure as hell going to find any way I can to return the favor. If you're a low-wage earner who reports their full income from cash tips, you're doing youself a huge disservice. Anyway, the more the rules are violated the more likely we'll get some sort of reasonable solution to the convoluted tax code we have to deal with now.
Wages are tax free when you take the cup of change at the end of the day and go spend it. Honestly, do you think Dunkin Donuts employees are reporting the change they collect? Be realistic here, nobody is going to report those earnings. It's remarkably easy to not report cash earnings, especially when it's relatively small amounts daily.
As for how it would differ from the way things work now, those people working the coffee shop get paid about $7/hr, which is not enough to live independently on. If they had more money to spend they would, whereas a lot of the customers make decent money, and therefore stash a bunch of it away from the day-to-day 'flow' of money.
I've started leaving the spare change when I buy little stuff like coffee, takeout food, and trinkets at small shops. Imagine what would happen to the economy if everybody left their 37 cents after buying coffe? The people working minimum-wage at the coffee shops would be making over $30/hour! I think 'micropayments' in real life (not online) could seriously revolutionize the economy, it would finally give the poorest amongst us the ability to make decent (and tax-free) earnings.
Athlon 1400 512MB RAM 10GB Quantum Fireball IDE HD Gentoo Linux "-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
OOo takes about 5 or 6 seconds to load for me. It's a bit laggy if I leave it for a while, but it picks up to speed as I use it. I think that something is wrong with your configuration/setup since mine _should_ be about 20-30% SLOWER than yours and it's 900% faster.
BTW, my memory usage is about 75MB with OOo loaded, not including cache or buffers.
Seriously, something has got to happen in terms of standardization. I got very strange looks when I told my office that I wasn't able to fill out the excel-embedded-in-word timesheet and the'd have to accept tab-delimited text files instead. Come to think of it, maybe that's why they put me on salary, so the HR-queen wouldn't have to transfer all my text timesheets to the company format each week.
I told them it was because I was storing my timesheet on a Palm, which can't do Office. The mere mention of Linux at the company I work for is likely to get my car keyed.
Woah, I don't think you have a moral obligation to take up arms, but you do have the blood of innocent people on your hands, as we all do. Just because you don't have much of a choice doesn't mean the choice you do make matters any less. I'm not out there putting bullets into politician's heads, but I do consider myself a 'legitimate target' for palestinian attack because I'm a part of the machine that's holding them down. I can't absolve my responsibility for the actions that the elected leaders of this country have made.
I'm sorry, but I can't say to childern and elderly palestinians that "It's not my fault, all of the choices I had on the ballot support this". The business of who makes it to the ballot is the responsibility of the people too.
Also, concerning METHODS, you are right. Low-key ops will have higher success rates than blowing up buildings. The Palestinians would have better luck nailing a few of Israel's supporters in our senate than busloads of Israelis on the way to work.
Terrorism does not require massive bloodshed of innocents, it would in fact be much MORE effective if it directly affected it's targets (ploitical and corporate in this case). The idea that terrorism (as a doctrine) is aimed at the populace at-large is incorrect, it is just a lot easier in practice to attack the least protected of your 'audience'.
Also, as a citizen in a democratic country I am PERSONALLY responsible for the actions of my country. All in all very few of us can be counted as 'innocent' when you look beyond direct and immediate actions. The WTC, IMO was amongst the most appropriate targets because it had the LOWEST ratio of innocent people of the available targets (how many children were in the WTC/Pentagon, not many), not to mention it being the home of those who finance our little empire.
War in Iraq? I didn't support it but I financed it with MY tax money. My Problem.
Israeli weapons killing Palestinians? I don't support it, but again, I finance it and leaders I have voted for DO support it. My Problem.
Foreign sweatshops? I'm not a fan, but damn straight I finance them almost every time I go out shopping.
One of the cornerstones of Democracy is personal responsibility for the actions of your elected government. If you don't like that fact you should remove yourself from the position of financier of your nation.
There are times when extraordinary circumstances (Enron, DMCA, etc.) call for extraordinary measures beyond those the law provides for. In cases where justice clearly is not and cannot be done according to the written law there is a need for selfless individuals to take up arms. This is already practiced in many prisons where perverts are allowed to be abused, tortured, and killed; that attitude needs to spread to the rest of us.
Actually the idea is to just put walls up around all the college campuses and selected neighborhoods. Also, someone to enforce the 'enhanced' prison will be needed. Let's call them the Gestapo, that way we don't need to hire unionized correctional workers.
I believe it is perfectly legal for me to obtain content that I have license to. I can share out files at home, connect to that machine from work and listen to music, right? I PAID for the music!
Most of my MP3s are replacements for CDs that were destroyed.
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Alright, maybe I'm a fool, but if you gave me two Palm units, one with color and one greyscale, I'd get the greyscale unit. I have no use for color, I think it looks stupid on handhelds. If you gave me a choice of CPUs, I'd pick the DragonBall over the ARM because it'll give me better battery life. If you asked if I wanted 32MB RAM or 8MB RAM, I'd go with 8, because I've never used more than 512K and I want better battery life.
I guess what I want is a Handspring Visor Deluxe.
Maybe THEY are displaced, but the lower cost / longer life of cars due to automation has enabled the rest of the economy to function MORE efficiently. That's my argument. Automation lets a million people get Hyundai Accents for $7000 instead of $12000, that's a (totally hypothetical) $5mil savings to all of the consumers.
People being replaced by machines is a GOOD thing, I can't stress it enough. Machines do the shitty work that we shouldn't have to. So you lose your nice auto-worker job, that sucks, but now you should go learn how to work in an office where your contribution to the economy will be greater.
I see it firsthand every day working here at a bank corporate offices, we have a lot of middle-age folks who were displaced by the northeast jewlery manufacturing meltdown. People don't lose their jobs forever, they get reabsorbed.
Your logic would honestly stagnate progress in society in a very bad way. Imagine if they were afraid of the steam engine because it would put all the laborers out of work. The steam engine DID put a lot of people out of work, but that paved the way for INCREDIBLE advances of society and economy that I'm pretty sure we all appreciate.
Right now my job is being phased out for less-expensive outsourcers. I'm not upset, I don't want it to stop, it's natural and good for society as a whole. I'll train and get another job.
But the screens are tiny! I like the Handspring Visor Deluxe-sized screen.
So you're in the 'it should do everything' camp. All MOST users want is those 4 features, email, maybe mp3 playback, basic audio recording, simple stuff. Palm should produce the 'killer tungstens' but should also produce a highly refined, durable, and STABLE (in the 'it won't change for years' sense) platform for us. The M-series is weak, they're flimsy and the screens are miniscule.
I was thinking that they could probably make a dragonball-based machine in a single-chip (that's CPU, RAM, and I/O logic on one chip), call it the Palm Refernce Platform 1, slap the chip into a super-thick plastic or hard rubber molding with a decent sized b+w LCD (color model as well). Standardize the I/O on a mini-USB port, and make an INTERNAL USB bay for handspring-like cards for wireless, backup, or whatever. They could sell it for $175, which would probably be a really good markup. Business would jump on if Palm would come out with something that they promised to stick to for more than a year, who wants to have 17 different breeds of palm running around the office, all with different OS software and hardware?
Wron on the unemployment factor. Automation is only implemented where it INCREASES output/dollar, AKA PRODUCTIVITY. Higher productivity is GOOD for the economy on the whole, it has a huge ripple effect. That money that would normally go to 'register jockeys' or tellers has gone to technicians for the automated systems and reduced costs for the store/bank. Reduced costs mean reduced prices, and that means more money in the economy for stuff people want, like better cars or computers. This is how it REALLY works, folks; Automation is our FRIEND.
I really miss the black and white, 33MHz palms. What a wonderful idea those were. I never used more than 512K of the ram on those things and the batteries would last me weeks on end. My Palm III and Visor Deluxe worked without flaw for years. Now they've got too many faetures and extras, except for the zire, which feels very cheap and breakable to me (not to mention the TINY screen). I thought the whole idea for the Palm was SIMPLICITY. I think they'd honestly make more money if they just refined those old models, made them smaller and added mini-USB ports for HID keyboards and connectivity. The'd be selling twice as many palms, and the stable platform would finally give corporate customers time to evaluate and migrate to the Palm (right now they can't because the meaning of 'Palm' keeps changing, hardware and software). Here's an idea, LET PocketPC take the speed/features crown, make really high-quality reliable and simple Palms that people can pick up and USE. I'll bet they could put the whole DragonBall palm logic and memory onto one or two chips now, it would be beautiful.
About half the people I know who have Palms have the old ones and they SWEAR by them. I know people who have PalmIIIs that bought a second one, new, just to replace their current one when it dies.
Providence, RI, Yesterday while stopped at a shopping center for removable media, Marc Doughty parked his car within two inches of some lady who's Corolla was taking two spaces. Marc went into the store to do his shopping, when he returned the Corolla's middle-aged female owner was crawling over her passenger seat to enter her vehicle. When Marc approached his car (smile wide on his face) the woman spoke, "You blocked me in!" she said. Marc replied, "I'm parked in the nice painted lines, you aren't I'm following the rules, you're not. You blocked yourself in."
"But there was a carriage in the way!"
"That's why the transmission has the 'park' feature, so you can get out and move carriages out of the way, no excuse for a Corolla to take two spaces in a busy lot."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Apparently you don't understand manners. We all need to follow the rules, normally your blatant rudeness would go unpunished, but as long as I'm around you can bet I'll be enforcing order."
"OH-KAY?!?"
Seriously though, I'm now the official road-politeness enforcer. If you drive very recklessly or double-park, or throw trash out your window and I see it you'll now earn yourself a spitting-on, car-keying, or a call to the state police. I'm considering stink bombs and/or brake fluid spattering ('better get MAACO' after that). Watch yourself from Boston to Cranston, RI, I'm on duty.
I was thinking that you consolidate all services to one server and gawk as you realize that you spent WAY too much loot on all those blinkenlights.
not quite, I've been in environments where we lowly techs can get 30 minute to an hour of admin access to handle certain data migrations or add machines to the domain. If I had this hack, got admin access, and remoted-into the server boxes I could get EVERYONE'S password, and put it on a disk for use later.
I'm running Moz 1.4 on a PIII/500 laptop. It's about the same speed in Windows as IE6, and in Linux it's a bit faster (except at getting it initially fired up, of course). If moz is bogging down on your machine there's something wrong.
that's why the moderation system could be weighted to the number of downloads of the song, maybe it could be represented as a percent of downloaders who would recommend it to others. Britney would have %95, as would Brian Eno, but CrapFestJamShack out of some kids basement wouldn't be so successful.
Not as far as I'm concerned. The gcc optimizations for the C3 seies of CPU are way off. Until I get really efficient binaries from "-march=c3-ezra" I'm afraid I'll stick to the iBook or PIII-M system.
Also, the CLE266 chipset doesn't have linux support from VIA, XFree-4.4 will have 2D drivers for the onboard graphics, and sound is coming along in ALSA, but RIGHT NOW linux totally sucks on VIA's low-power stuff.
If anything, VIA should be working with GCC developers to get really good CPU targets worked out, and they should fork over everything they've got on their chipsets to X, ALSA, and kernel developers. They've got nothing to lose, VIA doesn't have an edge in ANY market, their audio sucks, their video sucks, their CPUs are puny, their motherboard designs are pretty weak. All they've got is that their product uses less juice than any other major player, they oughtta make the most of that by helping out the open-source stuff run on it.
Maybe a moderation system is in order?
Fuck that! if the rich are going to hire accountants to find ways to avoid paying taxes I'm sure as hell going to find any way I can to return the favor. If you're a low-wage earner who reports their full income from cash tips, you're doing youself a huge disservice. Anyway, the more the rules are violated the more likely we'll get some sort of reasonable solution to the convoluted tax code we have to deal with now.
Wages are tax free when you take the cup of change at the end of the day and go spend it. Honestly, do you think Dunkin Donuts employees are reporting the change they collect? Be realistic here, nobody is going to report those earnings. It's remarkably easy to not report cash earnings, especially when it's relatively small amounts daily.
As for how it would differ from the way things work now, those people working the coffee shop get paid about $7/hr, which is not enough to live independently on. If they had more money to spend they would, whereas a lot of the customers make decent money, and therefore stash a bunch of it away from the day-to-day 'flow' of money.
I've started leaving the spare change when I buy little stuff like coffee, takeout food, and trinkets at small shops. Imagine what would happen to the economy if everybody left their 37 cents after buying coffe? The people working minimum-wage at the coffee shops would be making over $30/hour! I think 'micropayments' in real life (not online) could seriously revolutionize the economy, it would finally give the poorest amongst us the ability to make decent (and tax-free) earnings.
I have a similar (but lower in hardware) setup:
Athlon 1400
512MB RAM
10GB Quantum Fireball IDE HD
Gentoo Linux "-march=athlon-tbird -O3 -pipe"
OOo takes about 5 or 6 seconds to load for me. It's a bit laggy if I leave it for a while, but it picks up to speed as I use it. I think that something is wrong with your configuration/setup since mine _should_ be about 20-30% SLOWER than yours and it's 900% faster.
BTW, my memory usage is about 75MB with OOo loaded, not including cache or buffers.
And there's a slim chance I won't get fired!
Seriously, something has got to happen in terms of standardization. I got very strange looks when I told my office that I wasn't able to fill out the excel-embedded-in-word timesheet and the'd have to accept tab-delimited text files instead. Come to think of it, maybe that's why they put me on salary, so the HR-queen wouldn't have to transfer all my text timesheets to the company format each week.
I told them it was because I was storing my timesheet on a Palm, which can't do Office. The mere mention of Linux at the company I work for is likely to get my car keyed.
It's a NEW distro, they can have whatever they need in the base. That's why distributions are forked, right?
Woah, I don't think you have a moral obligation to take up arms, but you do have the blood of innocent people on your hands, as we all do. Just because you don't have much of a choice doesn't mean the choice you do make matters any less. I'm not out there putting bullets into politician's heads, but I do consider myself a 'legitimate target' for palestinian attack because I'm a part of the machine that's holding them down. I can't absolve my responsibility for the actions that the elected leaders of this country have made.
I'm sorry, but I can't say to childern and elderly palestinians that "It's not my fault, all of the choices I had on the ballot support this". The business of who makes it to the ballot is the responsibility of the people too.
Also, concerning METHODS, you are right. Low-key ops will have higher success rates than blowing up buildings. The Palestinians would have better luck nailing a few of Israel's supporters in our senate than busloads of Israelis on the way to work.
Alright, let's get this straight:
Terrorism does not require massive bloodshed of innocents, it would in fact be much MORE effective if it directly affected it's targets (ploitical and corporate in this case). The idea that terrorism (as a doctrine) is aimed at the populace at-large is incorrect, it is just a lot easier in practice to attack the least protected of your 'audience'.
Also, as a citizen in a democratic country I am PERSONALLY responsible for the actions of my country. All in all very few of us can be counted as 'innocent' when you look beyond direct and immediate actions. The WTC, IMO was amongst the most appropriate targets because it had the LOWEST ratio of innocent people of the available targets (how many children were in the WTC/Pentagon, not many), not to mention it being the home of those who finance our little empire.
War in Iraq? I didn't support it but I financed it with MY tax money. My Problem.
Israeli weapons killing Palestinians? I don't support it, but again, I finance it and leaders I have voted for DO support it. My Problem.
Foreign sweatshops? I'm not a fan, but damn straight I finance them almost every time I go out shopping.
One of the cornerstones of Democracy is personal responsibility for the actions of your elected government. If you don't like that fact you should remove yourself from the position of financier of your nation.
Damn straight!
There are times when extraordinary circumstances (Enron, DMCA, etc.) call for extraordinary measures beyond those the law provides for. In cases where justice clearly is not and cannot be done according to the written law there is a need for selfless individuals to take up arms. This is already practiced in many prisons where perverts are allowed to be abused, tortured, and killed; that attitude needs to spread to the rest of us.
Actually the idea is to just put walls up around all the college campuses and selected neighborhoods. Also, someone to enforce the 'enhanced' prison will be needed. Let's call them the Gestapo, that way we don't need to hire unionized correctional workers.
I believe it is perfectly legal for me to obtain content that I have license to. I can share out files at home, connect to that machine from work and listen to music, right? I PAID for the music!
Most of my MP3s are replacements for CDs that were destroyed.