I love my Visor phone and the main advantage, and the reason I bought one was the components - if the Visor breaks - I just go out and buy another one. Same for the phone. With hopefully little downtime in between.
If the Treo breaks I'm hosed for either a lot of $$ or time cause I'll have to send it somewhere for repairs. Sorry but I'll keep my old stuff.
My thought would be to get a trailer. Then you could simple rent or borrow something to pull it with... and you aren't responsible for taking care of anything mechanical... Depending on your budget this could be as big as a semi trailer - or something as small as a UHaul or something similar.
I sat down one in front of my brother-in-laws PocketPC and was totally lost! Don't know if this was from my Palm experience or what but it wasn't in my opinion - user-friendly.
I think what is really happening is similar to the PC market. Everyone has a handheld. I have a new Handspring Visor deluxe as well as an old original Palm Professional and frankly there isn't much difference in the two besides memory. The only reason I bought the Handspring was for the VisorPhone:)
Doesn't matter how 'cool' it looks or what it will do - bottom line is someone walks into a store and sees the iMac sitting there for $1400 next to a PC for $699.
Both run Office. Both access the 'net. Both play music. Both can probably edit video to a limited extent.
Please, oh please, learn HTML. Not Dreamweaver HTML, but Notepad HTML. Study the W3C guidelines. Force yourself to use a text based editor.
I see people all the time that can whip out a Flash animation or program a nice dynamic page, but if you look at the underlying HTML it's just a mess. Missing alt tags, font tags wrapped around images and shims. Ugh. Learn good, solid, HTML and the rest will come easy.
It was a joy to read. It was even better realizing that yes, he still has 'it'. Whatever that is... I really enjoy reading his childrens books to my 2yr old. Fantastic artwork and at some basic level - funny for both of us.:)
I'd imagine you could build something cool out of PVC. It's cheap and easy to work with. Then just cover it with some fabric using snaps or maybe velcro.
The very first demo shots of Q3 featured some digitized shots of id employees - this is nothing new.
And if you check out the latest patch for Q3 (if you haven't updated the boxed version) there are 4-5 'skins' of some of the guys at id. "Look - I'm Carmack!"
I was always hoping Steed would post a HOWTO on how the common guy could do this... probably never happen now:(
Yawn. Who is going to pay the electric bill in these third world countries?? The phone bill? The phone line? Who is going to service the PC when it breaks? I like the idea of 'a PC in ever home' - but there are a lot of costs associated with owning a PC beyond the initial hardware.
I install Winblows (first mistake) and it asks me if I want to install "Online Services" - like AOL, MSN and all that crap. I of course, pick "No". It does it anyway. Loading megabytes of junk on my disk, which I have to delete.
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I thought this was one of the best things I've read on this well worn subject in awhile.
And then proceeds to drift off course and land on your house.
I love my Visor phone and the main advantage, and the reason I bought one was the components - if the Visor breaks - I just go out and buy another one. Same for the phone. With hopefully little downtime in between.
If the Treo breaks I'm hosed for either a lot of $$ or time cause I'll have to send it somewhere for repairs. Sorry but I'll keep my old stuff.
Oh, forget about Doom! What's up with your car collection? Anything new? Haven't heard any new 1000hp stories in awhile! :)
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Bugs? I thought they were "Features"
Somehow I found it funny this article is right under the monkey/mouse/mind control article?
Maybe now George can get on the net now and see what all these 'terrorist' sites are all about.
Yeah - until The Carmack pull up in his little 1000hp ride...
My thought would be to get a trailer. Then you could simple rent or borrow something to pull it with... and you aren't responsible for taking care of anything mechanical... Depending on your budget this could be as big as a semi trailer - or something as small as a UHaul or something similar.
I sat down one in front of my brother-in-laws PocketPC and was totally lost! Don't know if this was from my Palm experience or what but it wasn't in my opinion - user-friendly.
:)
I think what is really happening is similar to the PC market. Everyone has a handheld. I have a new Handspring Visor deluxe as well as an old original Palm Professional and frankly there isn't much difference in the two besides memory. The only reason I bought the Handspring was for the VisorPhone
Doesn't matter how 'cool' it looks or what it will do - bottom line is someone walks into a store and sees the iMac sitting there for $1400 next to a PC for $699.
Both run Office. Both access the 'net. Both play music. Both can probably edit video to a limited extent.
Which one are you going to buy?
I'll second that! It's also updated frequently, has good online docs, and it's free!
Yeah - but will they send me XP for free in one of those pretty tin boxes?
Never happen.
They'd have to use MSN approved bombs, and of course have to be signed up to Passport before even thinking about sending anything over...
Please, oh please, learn HTML. Not Dreamweaver HTML, but Notepad HTML. Study the W3C guidelines. Force yourself to use a text based editor.
I see people all the time that can whip out a Flash animation or program a nice dynamic page, but if you look at the underlying HTML it's just a mess. Missing alt tags, font tags wrapped around images and shims. Ugh. Learn good, solid, HTML and the rest will come easy.
It was a joy to read. It was even better realizing that yes, he still has 'it'. Whatever that is... I really enjoy reading his childrens books to my 2yr old. Fantastic artwork and at some basic level - funny for both of us. :)
Yeah that must be it. Oh yeah your mom said hi.
StarWars/SETI - communicate with aliens and blow up ICBMs!
I'd imagine you could build something cool out of PVC. It's cheap and easy to work with. Then just cover it with some fabric using snaps or maybe velcro.
Joy. Thanks Microsoft for making my job easier.
Bunch of #$Q#!@#)(*+@(*#$ assh*les...
And if you check out the latest patch for Q3 (if you haven't updated the boxed version) there are 4-5 'skins' of some of the guys at id. "Look - I'm Carmack!"
I was always hoping Steed would post a HOWTO on how the common guy could do this... probably never happen now :(
Dave is writing even shittier music than Metallica... and trying to find a decent guitarist since Marty bailed.
Can you play Quake on it? If so what kind of framerate are we looking at... What?
Yawn. Who is going to pay the electric bill in these third world countries?? The phone bill? The phone line? Who is going to service the PC when it breaks? I like the idea of 'a PC in ever home' - but there are a lot of costs associated with owning a PC beyond the initial hardware.
Send them to me - I'll Xerox and turn into PDF's -and then publish (for free of course) at Katzster.net. I mean that's what it's all about right Katz?
I mean god forbid some kid has to go to the bookstore and shell out cash for your artistic work!
For that matter - send em to me and I'll read em aloud and record MP3's and put em on Napster... :)
This infuriates me to no end. :)