For the past few years its been a Sony CLIE, PEG-SJ22. Nice simple unit, good form factor (Palm always makes its smaller Palms skinny and long, rather than reducing the width), good everything, though the touchscreen is very "noisy".
I've had a few ok doodle/sketch programs for it over the years, including some that used smoothing algorithms, but nothing that was A. color B. smoothing and C. transfering a doodle to PC via IR or over a network
Right now I'm jonesing for a Fujitsu P1510D, which has a touch sensitive screen (I like that better I think than the weird floating sensor of most Tablet PCs) but it seeems likely to cost me at least $1300... I like the idea of a truly (stow it and forget it PC) as well, but it seems steep for just a little art pad, given my doodle-nature.
Any suggestions for something with a really good doodle program on a touch sensitive screen, where I can easily get the resulting sketch up to my website?
But I can't agree with you on worrying about "very unique"... *Nothing* in the world is "the only one of its kind", everything can be categorized in some way or the other. So nothing is unique in a technical sense. Or, everything is unique, in at least a trivial way, no two things can be quite the same, even a quantum level duplicate would have to occupy a different place in space/time. So it makes logical and intuitive sense to speak of "degrees of unqiueness"..only pedantically does it fail.
Another poster was talking about haiku here. I'm not a big fan of the form but I was hoping to get my metagripe posted on Tuesday Morning Quarter back, thus:
So, all things are "things", but no two things quite the same; unique: a spectrum.
Lets wait until all the major players are out. PS2 was probably "nextgen" til Xbox and GC rounded it out and made it a generation. Right now, 360 stands alone.
It's too bad that only one of the 2 screens is touch sensative; I'm sure there are cost or technical considerations, but it's an odd assymetry that I dislike.
Overall I think the touch screen is great, but the dual screens are kind of gimmicky... and I really wish it had some kind of nubbish analog control.
I'm not "advocating" anything, I'm thinking about alternate setups while looking askance at tactics of my law enforcement officials.
Now, are "fraud and racketeering" the actual crime that a disinterested party would say he was arrested for, or is it "running an online gambling site"?
And how do you propose dividing laws into ones where "you can be arrested at airports" and those where "you can't be arrested at airports?"
I'm not proposing much of anything. I think it's clear that there's a subjective element to the enforcement of laws. I don't think it's unreasonable or contradictory to wish that law enforcment save such tactics for more serious crimes.
If "friendly" nations like the UK won't extradite a guy, then maybe that's a sign that a seal inictment is an assholish tactic.
Why should a portion of an airport not be subject to the same laws that govern the land surrounding it? For similar reasons that embassy's are considered part of the nation they represent?
Honestly, I have no problem with it. If Bin Laden were to spend the rest of his life, flying around your airport "safe harbors" to plan out future attacks, I would sure as hell be pissed if he wasn't arrested because he was in "safety."
I wouldn't advocate for 100% "safe harbor", but I still don't like it as a tactic, especially for fairly victimless crimes.
I am grateful to Netflix for finally letting me turn my.txt file of "maybe checkout this movie someday" into an actual list that I'm actually plowing through. Unfortunately, the queue tends to grow over time... I try to counteract this by setting aside time on a semiregular schedule, but still...
No doubt about it, the guy was dumb if he knew about the stopover and went for it anyway.
But still, what if some shlub happened to have a playboy in his suitcase and his jet had to make a planned or unplanned stopover in some nation where such material was an arrestable offence? I think it's right to not applaud stakeouts based on airport stopovers. I'm not saying that the USA doesn't have the right to do such a thing, I just think it's an ugly precedent. (Hence the "raised eyebrow" in my original post, rather than more of a shout of outrage.)
Is it my right to violate copyright if I think the law is wrong?
Huh? Are you referring to other articles or what?
All in all, it seems to be a matter of dumb, nanny-state laws. Depending on how you view "rights", a crackdown on Internet Gambling might indeed involve YRO.
Also, I have to raise an eyebrow at arrests at airline stopovers. It might have been careless on part of the guy arrested, but it seems like a way for our government to do an end-run around extradition laws of other countries.
Heheh, yeah. I got thwomped by freshman in their shiny Pentium's vs my trust 486/16 on Duke Nukem's Water level (over the brand new dorm ethernet!) when the FPS became 1 , and I've been a console gamer ever since.
I just bought one of those amazing cute HP slimlines for like $550. It's probably the first PC I owned that does well with "Liberty City", and does everything else amazing well. If you don't need a PC for games, you can get by with some very old hardware indeed. (And yes, I do recognize how much better PCs do in certain genres, and how much I suck for not like WASD/mouse play)
If Metroid Prime was the first entry in the series, there's no way she would be as big as she is now, for the aforementioned reasons... looking through someone's eyes is cool and immersive, but you're more "you" than you are the character.
The switches were appropriate for the game at hand, though... Asteroids etc sometimes just use buttons in fact (though what they're supposed to do when the player presses left AND right I'm not certain)
One of the things missing from Mario Strikers is the ability to "lock" to a specific player (it's probably an offspring of how there's one capain and a triplet of supporters). In NHL Hitz and Sega Soccer Slam, if I'm playing on the same side as a human, I always like to lock my controller to a single player, because I can identify with the single person, rather than bouncing around (esepcially because sometimes there's contention for control of the player nearest the action.)
when trying to capture a scene from a DVD for an animated GIF using previous versions of Intervideo's stuff, I was surprsied to realize there's a mismatch between what you see on the screen and what came up in the screencapture directory. Using at least the default players there wasn't an easy way to capture a series of even spaced stills.
I bought a DS because of Electroplankton (mostly from the respect for the artist and his SimTunes) but I don't think it's keeping people charmed for ages... (I do wish it was more SimTunes like, somewhere closer to a tool than "just" a toy...)
Casual Gaming is interesting though. I heard how those "10 in ones" are a monstorously huge market. Too bad there's not more of an indy movement w/ standalone hardware...
isn't that standard in America? when I visited I saw a sign on a lift that said floors "x thru y". it stuck in my mind because I thought it was stupid to use a word in the first place let alone an abbreviated one when a simple dash would be far better.
Random evolutionary question, are there any drawbacks from an evolutionary point of view to the "new design"? If not, that why didn't the variation predominate earlier? Just because the evolutionary drift didn't lean that way?
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I've been using Palm since 1997.
For the past few years its been a Sony CLIE, PEG-SJ22. Nice simple unit, good form factor (Palm always makes its smaller Palms skinny and long, rather than reducing the width), good everything, though the touchscreen is very "noisy".
I've had a few ok doodle/sketch programs for it over the years, including some that used smoothing algorithms, but nothing that was A. color B. smoothing and C. transfering a doodle to PC via IR or over a network
Right now I'm jonesing for a Fujitsu P1510D, which has a touch sensitive screen (I like that better I think than the weird floating sensor of most Tablet PCs) but it seeems likely to cost me at least $1300... I like the idea of a truly (stow it and forget it PC) as well, but it seems steep for just a little art pad, given my doodle-nature.
Any suggestions for something with a really good doodle program on a touch sensitive screen, where I can easily get the resulting sketch up to my website?
Exactly.
But I can't agree with you on worrying about "very unique"...
*Nothing* in the world is "the only one of its kind", everything can be categorized in some way or the other. So nothing is unique in a technical sense. Or, everything is unique, in at least a trivial way, no two things can be quite the same, even a quantum level duplicate would have to occupy a different place in space/time. So it makes logical and intuitive sense to speak of "degrees of unqiueness"..only pedantically does it fail.
Another poster was talking about haiku here. I'm not a big fan of the form but I was hoping to get my metagripe posted on Tuesday Morning Quarter back, thus:
So, all things are "things",
but no two things quite the same;
unique: a spectrum.
Lets wait until all the major players are out.
PS2 was probably "nextgen" til Xbox and GC rounded it out and made it a generation.
Right now, 360 stands alone.
Why would you need two touch screens if you're only going to be able to use one at a time?
Why have a crosspad if you can only press one direction at once?
But seriously... it would be nice to have the option to have the 2 browser screens treated as a single virtual screen, and allow clicking anywhere...
It's too bad that only one of the 2 screens is touch sensative; I'm sure there are cost or technical considerations, but it's an odd assymetry that I dislike.
Overall I think the touch screen is great, but the dual screens are kind of gimmicky... and I really wish it had some kind of nubbish analog control.
I'm not "advocating" anything, I'm thinking about alternate setups while looking askance at tactics of my law enforcement officials.
Now, are "fraud and racketeering" the actual crime that a disinterested party would say he was arrested for, or is it "running an online gambling site"?
And how do you propose dividing laws into ones where "you can be arrested at airports" and those where "you can't be arrested at airports?"
I'm not proposing much of anything. I think it's clear that there's a subjective element to the enforcement of laws. I don't think it's unreasonable or contradictory to wish that law enforcment save such tactics for more serious crimes.
If "friendly" nations like the UK won't extradite a guy, then maybe that's a sign that a seal inictment is an assholish tactic.
What's really funny is when very random stuff meanders its way to the top of the queue, and you're left wondering...why THAT??
Why should a portion of an airport not be subject to the same laws that govern the land surrounding it?
For similar reasons that embassy's are considered part of the nation they represent?
Honestly, I have no problem with it. If Bin Laden were to spend the rest of his life, flying around your airport "safe harbors" to plan out future attacks, I would sure as hell be pissed if he wasn't arrested because he was in "safety."
I wouldn't advocate for 100% "safe harbor", but I still don't like it as a tactic, especially for fairly victimless crimes.
I am grateful to Netflix for finally letting me turn my .txt file of "maybe checkout this movie someday" into an actual list that I'm actually plowing through. Unfortunately, the queue tends to grow over time... I try to counteract this by setting aside time on a semiregular schedule, but still...
No doubt about it, the guy was dumb if he knew about the stopover and went for it anyway.
But still, what if some shlub happened to have a playboy in his suitcase and his jet had to make a planned or unplanned stopover in some nation where such material was an arrestable offence? I think it's right to not applaud stakeouts based on airport stopovers. I'm not saying that the USA doesn't have the right to do such a thing, I just think it's an ugly precedent. (Hence the "raised eyebrow" in my original post, rather than more of a shout of outrage.)
Is it my right to violate copyright if I think the law is wrong?
Huh? Are you referring to other articles or what?
All in all, it seems to be a matter of dumb, nanny-state laws. Depending on how you view "rights", a crackdown on Internet Gambling might indeed involve YRO.
Also, I have to raise an eyebrow at arrests at airline stopovers. It might have been careless on part of the guy arrested, but it seems like a way for our government to do an end-run around extradition laws of other countries.
Heheh, yeah. I got thwomped by freshman in their shiny Pentium's vs my trust 486/16 on Duke Nukem's Water level (over the brand new dorm ethernet!) when the FPS became 1 , and I've been a console gamer ever since.
I just bought one of those amazing cute HP slimlines for like $550. It's probably the first PC I owned that does well with "Liberty City", and does everything else amazing well. If you don't need a PC for games, you can get by with some very old hardware indeed. (And yes, I do recognize how much better PCs do in certain genres, and how much I suck for not like WASD/mouse play)
If Metroid Prime was the first entry in the series, there's no way she would be as big as she is now, for the aforementioned reasons... looking through someone's eyes is cool and immersive, but you're more "you" than you are the character.
The switches were appropriate for the game at hand, though... Asteroids etc sometimes just use buttons in fact (though what they're supposed to do when the player presses left AND right I'm not certain)
Why does pumped up bass sound so good, anyway?
That's the trouble with women, the faster you know they are, the harder it is to know where to find 'em.
"You don't have to be Einstein to know smoking is bad for you... but it doesn't hurt!"
Oh, anyone can have a bad picture.
this is a little hotter... especially if brains gets you hot.
One of the things missing from Mario Strikers is the ability to "lock" to a specific player (it's probably an offspring of how there's one capain and a triplet of supporters).
In NHL Hitz and Sega Soccer Slam, if I'm playing on the same side as a human, I always like to lock my controller to a single player, because I can identify with the single person, rather than bouncing around (esepcially because sometimes there's contention for control of the player nearest the action.)
when trying to capture a scene from a DVD for an animated GIF using previous versions of Intervideo's stuff, I was surprsied to realize there's a mismatch between what you see on the screen and what came up in the screencapture directory. Using at least the default players there wasn't an easy way to capture a series of even spaced stills.
Yeah, It doesn't matter so much, but I thought it was a very ontopic post. Well, maybe the metamoderation will give me some vindication ;-)
I bought a DS because of Electroplankton (mostly from the respect for the artist and his SimTunes) but I don't think it's keeping people charmed for ages... (I do wish it was more SimTunes like, somewhere closer to a tool than "just" a toy...)
Casual Gaming is interesting though. I heard how those "10 in ones" are a monstorously huge market. Too bad there's not more of an indy movement w/ standalone hardware...
isn't that standard in America? when I visited I saw a sign on a lift that said floors "x thru y". it stuck in my mind because I thought it was stupid to use a word in the first place let alone an abbreviated one when a simple dash would be far better.
What, and have it look like "X minus Y"?
And you were looking at an elevator, not a lift.
--Kirk, ever the diplomat.
They say porn is one of the early drivers of new visual media, from the printing press to moves to cable to video and dvd to the internet.
Random evolutionary question, are there any drawbacks from an evolutionary point of view to the "new design"? If not, that why didn't the variation predominate earlier? Just because the evolutionary drift didn't lean that way?