It is somehow understandable that they want to be able to control people when they are on the Internet from start to end in the US, but are they not taking it a bit far when they also want control over the people of TAIWAN? I mean, come on, Microsoft shouldn't be over there. This is really creepy, and I think it will only get worse...
They'd better make damn sure they only tap US citizens, if they'd start tapping. Otherwise they would somehow be out of their jurisdiction... That would be possible technically speaking, but still, if my packets would go through a US server they would have the right to read em. Or do they?
So far my last two girlfriends I have met online (BBS's...). They were by no means geeks but that was where I found them. It sure worked for me, but as they say, your mileage may vary...
Worth it? That depends on lots of stuff. How serous you are about getting one, how much money you've got, how many other toys are higher on the "I-want" list and so on. Simply, that depends.
What could these actually be used for? It would be cheaper, and the size wouldn't be so strange, if you just bought "plain" plasma screens. Things like this just cause people to drool, but they don't sell any. Too bad.
There are a lot of things running at those frequencies. Take GSM-mobile phones. They run at 1900mhz in the US and 1800 in Europe. If you just crank the output up a bit you'll be able to fry chicken with it. As of today we just fry our brains...
Wahoo! I've never heard this much good Palm-news in one single day ever before!
One thing has both irritated me and worried me about the CE devices; their CF-port. The ability to add NICs, modems and all kinds of stuff really is neat. And now finally they've got it.
With the powerful OS it has, a color-screen (that was previously reported today), and now also a CF-port nothing can stop the Palm. Not even the Gates of Hell...
Color displays are not the one-true-way to defeat Mr. Gates CE, but it sure would help.
Considering how much LCD displays have matured recently the color-screen Palm probably wouldn't have to be *much* larger than the III's.
If the unit would be small it would attract a lot of the CE users, as the 'sexiness' is a very important thing for many. Problem is that a lot of people do not realize the difference between the two platforms. They see the PalmV, which is slick, then they see the CE with color-display and cry out "Waoaow, thaaat's what I want daddy!!". And even though such users probably wouldn't add much to the Palm community, their money sure is wanted...
Conclusion: Color displays are not the only thing, but they really would help attract a lot of users - and their dough.
Sure seems nice, but they couldn't resist throwing in Cyber Patrol and 250 hours of AOL... Cyber Patrol I can understand, to most people it looks good ("it's even child-safe"), but why throw the kids in AOheLL?
Sure, it's probably great if you're going out in the dangerous woods, or for messing with angry bikers, but how comfortable would it actually be when in front of the computer? Seems I won't be needing anyone...
Why does everyone go on and on about installing? I've only installed Redhat, but that's almost easier than installing damn-Windows..
Are the other dists more difficult to install, or what?
Besides, is it suitable for a newbie to run anything else than Redhat? I mean, if the systems difficult to install, wouldn't it be even more difficult to use?
I can't believe that old scam came up on _Slashdot_... I saw it a while ago on the Mitnick mailing list, but there it was quickly battered down. Please understand that this would not be possible, and I even think there are official statements claiming that they do not want anything like that.
Putting tax on E-mail would be like charging people for speaking...
Actually, this didn't surprise me the least. The French are always like this, they won't be like everyone else, if so just for the sake of them having inventeded the system they are using. Just take Citroën as an example. And who doesn't remember the ban of English language in national television. BTW, is that still on? Any French out here who can enlighten me?
Wether computers (or Palmpilots) makes us more effective or not depends on who you are talking about.
I'd say that I'm pretty savvy when it comes to personal copmuters. Heck, I've had them for as long as I can remember. So, computers make _me_ much more effective. On the other hand, some people at my school should stick to pen and paper, they spend more time trying to make the computer work *with* them, instead of against them. I don't know how many girls close both the Windows help screen, as well as the IE4 welcome screen, every single time they log in. I tell them that you actually can click that tiny checkbox down in the corner, and they are usually like "What?! Serious? THANKS!!"...
The same thing goes for Palmpilots. One of the bosses where I work (BTW, a woman...) has a PalmV. I am the lucky owner of an upgraded PalmPersonal (to III), and I can only drool over the PalmV, being a poor student. And what does she do with her PalmV? Nothing! It just sits there in her cradle all day long, I don't even know if she knows it's there.
I'd say my PalmPilot makes me much more productive. If I get an idea on the bus or train to school or work, I just pick it up and write it down. Also it's great for keeping track of tests and assignments. So when the teacher gives us the worlds longest homework and the other students complain it won't fit the page of their Filofaxes, I just write / (Graffiti for enter).
My point is that people who are good at computers become more productive with them, people who neither can use them, nor want to become less productive.
Even if the information is "wrong" people should have access to it. I believe people are not just things than you can input to, but that the inputted information also can be processed within that person. That is to say, people have a mind of their own and we should let them decide what is "wrong" information and what is not.
The most important issue here is who the heck should decide if something is "wrong" or not. Yes, with certain things you can say that this is right and that is wrong, for example a hypothesis regarding a chemical experiment. But when it comes to different ideologies, there is no single way to say that this is wrong and that is right. I believe in capitalism and I do not think communism is the way to go, but look at U.S., and all the problems it has. Obviously it does not utilize the 'ideal ideology'. Communism is a great idea, that no person is worth more than another, and that therefore no one should have more than anyone else. Problem is that it doesn't work in Real Life. If we let people read whatever they want, and let them make their own decisions, someone might just get a bright idea of how to merge the best of communism with the best of capitalism, or any other ideology for that matter, and that would be a really great thing, right? This of course requires that there is an open debate in society and freedom of speech. Something that can not be found in neither China nor USA.
OK, OK, 50 states. I'm not from that side of the swamp, alright?
The United States of America, the worlds greatest democracy! Hooray! I think it is weird that China, you know that big, communist country over to the east with loads of people in it, filters Internet content. And now, Uncle Sam won't even let his own children read what texts they want? Isn't that what libraries are for? It's just like the days of the black-listing of the communists, when people couldn't read whatever they wanted. Who knows what they'll be filetering away this time? I'm sure glad I don't live in one of the great 52 states, and that I don't have to rely on a library for connecting to the Internet. Worlds greatest democracy... *Shaking my head*
Now this was why I said 'medically' fat, not that half of the population was statistically overweight. I consider people overweight who are not medically overweight, but what being medically overweight is is that your body gets hurt by it. There is more than a marginally larger risk of getting diseases, you die earlier and you have trouble moving etc. Have I clarified what I was trying to say, or just made it worse?
Now, this might have been mentioned previously, but my head aches to much for me to check it up. Here comes the rant.
Isn't the United States of America a wonderful country? Not only do they go around the world, creating and fighting wars that are none of their damn business, also the seem to like to screw their own country. I mean, just take a look at it. Like half of the population is medically fat, a rather large quantity of the population is analphabetic, and loads of people have no homes. I wouldn't call a country modern where people are starving to death, nor where a murder occurs like every half minute.
With this situaion, is the right thing to do to invest $500 000 000 000 into developing tiny machines?
Poor country. And I'm going there next week! Perhaps I'm crasy too...
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It is somehow understandable that they want to be able to control people when they are on the Internet from start to end in the US, but are they not taking it a bit far when they also want control over the people of TAIWAN? I mean, come on, Microsoft shouldn't be over there. This is really creepy, and I think it will only get worse...
They'd better make damn sure they only tap US citizens, if they'd start tapping. Otherwise they would somehow be out of their jurisdiction... That would be possible technically speaking, but still, if my packets would go through a US server they would have the right to read em. Or do they?
So far my last two girlfriends I have met online (BBS's...). They were by no means geeks but that was where I found them. It sure worked for me, but as they say, your mileage may vary...
Worth it? That depends on lots of stuff. How serous you are about getting one, how much money you've got, how many other toys are higher on the "I-want" list and so on. Simply, that depends.
What would the purpose of this be? What could Compaq earn from this move? Any ideas?
What could these actually be used for? It would be cheaper, and the size wouldn't be so strange, if you just bought "plain" plasma screens. Things like this just cause people to drool, but they don't sell any. Too bad.
There are a lot of things running at those frequencies. Take GSM-mobile phones. They run at 1900mhz in the US and 1800 in Europe. If you just crank the output up a bit you'll be able to fry chicken with it. As of today we just fry our brains...
Wahoo! I've never heard this much good Palm-news in one single day ever before!
One thing has both irritated me and worried me about the CE devices; their CF-port. The ability to add NICs, modems and all kinds of stuff really is neat. And now finally they've got it.
With the powerful OS it has, a color-screen (that was previously reported today), and now also a CF-port nothing can stop the Palm. Not even the Gates of Hell...
Color displays are not the one-true-way to defeat Mr. Gates CE, but it sure would help.
Considering how much LCD displays have matured recently the color-screen Palm probably wouldn't have to be *much* larger than the III's.
If the unit would be small it would attract a lot of the CE users, as the 'sexiness' is a very important thing for many. Problem is that a lot of people do not realize the difference between the two platforms. They see the PalmV, which is slick, then they see the CE with color-display and cry out "Waoaow, thaaat's what I want daddy!!". And even though such users probably wouldn't add much to the Palm community, their money sure is wanted...
Conclusion: Color displays are not the only thing, but they really would help attract a lot of users - and their dough.
Sure seems nice, but they couldn't resist throwing in Cyber Patrol and 250 hours of AOL... Cyber Patrol I can understand, to most people it looks good ("it's even child-safe"), but why throw the kids in AOheLL?
Now if they'd let you custom design them, that would be cool. You send them your image, and they paint it on, that would make me buy one for sure...
Luckily we "crazy Swedes" have not gotten THAT dumb idea yet... That's insane! I thought you guys 'over there' (the US) had freedom of speech...
And how are you to be able to connect it to other things? SR232? USB? IR? Bluetooth?
Sure, it's probably great if you're going out in the dangerous woods, or for messing with angry bikers, but how comfortable would it actually be when in front of the computer? Seems I won't be needing anyone...
Ya know, if you've spent so much money on such a powerful piece of equipment you might just want to know a little about it...
Why does everyone go on and on about installing? I've only installed Redhat, but that's almost easier than installing damn-Windows..
Are the other dists more difficult to install, or what?
Besides, is it suitable for a newbie to run anything else than Redhat? I mean, if the systems difficult to install, wouldn't it be even more difficult to use?
I can't believe that old scam came up on _Slashdot_... I saw it a while ago on the Mitnick mailing list, but there it was quickly battered down. Please understand that this would not be possible, and I even think there are official statements claiming that they do not want anything like that.
Putting tax on E-mail would be like charging people for speaking...
Linus - Lotus - Linux
OK, I'm already confused...
Actually, this didn't surprise me the least. The French are always like this, they won't be like everyone else, if so just for the sake of them having inventeded the system they are using. Just take Citroën as an example. And who doesn't remember the ban of English language in national television. BTW, is that still on? Any French out here who can enlighten me?
Wether computers (or Palmpilots) makes us more effective or not depends on who you are talking about.
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I'd say that I'm pretty savvy when it comes to personal copmuters. Heck, I've had them for as long as I can remember. So, computers make _me_ much more effective. On the other hand, some people at my school should stick to pen and paper, they spend more time trying to make the computer work *with* them, instead of against them. I don't know how many girls close both the Windows help screen, as well as the IE4 welcome screen, every single time they log in. I tell them that you actually can click that tiny checkbox down in the corner, and they are usually like "What?! Serious? THANKS!!"
The same thing goes for Palmpilots. One of the bosses where I work (BTW, a woman...) has a PalmV. I am the lucky owner of an upgraded PalmPersonal (to III), and I can only drool over the PalmV, being a poor student. And what does she do with her PalmV? Nothing! It just sits there in her cradle all day long, I don't even know if she knows it's there.
I'd say my PalmPilot makes me much more productive. If I get an idea on the bus or train to school or work, I just pick it up and write it down. Also it's great for keeping track of tests and assignments. So when the teacher gives us the worlds longest homework and the other students complain it won't fit the page of their Filofaxes, I just write / (Graffiti for enter).
My point is that people who are good at computers become more productive with them, people who neither can use them, nor want to become less productive.
Even if the information is "wrong" people should have access to it. I believe people are not just things than you can input to, but that the inputted information also can be processed within that person. That is to say, people have a mind of their own and we should let them decide what is "wrong" information and what is not.
The most important issue here is who the heck should decide if something is "wrong" or not. Yes, with certain things you can say that this is right and that is wrong, for example a hypothesis regarding a chemical experiment. But when it comes to different ideologies, there is no single way to say that this is wrong and that is right. I believe in capitalism and I do not think communism is the way to go, but look at U.S., and all the problems it has. Obviously it does not utilize the 'ideal ideology'. Communism is a great idea, that no person is worth more than another, and that therefore no one should have more than anyone else. Problem is that it doesn't work in Real Life. If we let people read whatever they want, and let them make their own decisions, someone might just get a bright idea of how to merge the best of communism with the best of capitalism, or any other ideology for that matter, and that would be a really great thing, right? This of course requires that there is an open debate in society and freedom of speech. Something that can not be found in neither China nor USA.
OK, OK, 50 states. I'm not from that side of the swamp, alright?
I add two more: *cough* *cough*
The United States of America, the worlds greatest democracy! Hooray! I think it is weird that China, you know that big, communist country over to the east with loads of people in it, filters Internet content. And now, Uncle Sam won't even let his own children read what texts they want? Isn't that what libraries are for? It's just like the days of the black-listing of the communists, when people couldn't read whatever they wanted. Who knows what they'll be filetering away this time? I'm sure glad I don't live in one of the great 52 states, and that I don't have to rely on a library for connecting to the Internet. Worlds greatest democracy... *Shaking my head*
Now this was why I said 'medically' fat, not that half of the population was statistically overweight. I consider people overweight who are not medically overweight, but what being medically overweight is is that your body gets hurt by it. There is more than a marginally larger risk of getting diseases, you die earlier and you have trouble moving etc. Have I clarified what I was trying to say, or just made it worse?
Now, this might have been mentioned previously, but my head aches to much for me to check it up. Here comes the rant.
Isn't the United States of America a wonderful country? Not only do they go around the world, creating and fighting wars that are none of their damn business, also the seem to like to screw their own country. I mean, just take a look at it. Like half of the population is medically fat, a rather large quantity of the population is analphabetic, and loads of people have no homes. I wouldn't call a country modern where people are starving to death, nor where a murder occurs like every half minute.
With this situaion, is the right thing to do to invest $500 000 000 000 into developing tiny machines?
Poor country. And I'm going there next week! Perhaps I'm crasy too...
All the more reason to drink Jolt.
:-)
Mom: Are we out of any groceries?
Me: Yes, milk, bread, butter, and Jolt.
Mom: OK, I'll pick that up then...
Now I don't have to sleep anymore