If you've ever read an article bio of him, you've probably read how he got started with MP3.com. His field was search engines, and he noticed that one of the most popular searches that people were doing (if not the most popular) was for "mp3." He didn't really know much about MP3s, if at all, but when he noticed what a popular search term it was, he went and registered MP3.com.
First off, I apologize to you, Blue Lang, for lambasting you the way I did. I'd read a number of posts that I found ridiculous, and instead of responding to each of them, decided to go off on a rant on them in one fell swoop, which ended up being your post. So, I was more, um, forceful than I would've been had i read your post in a vacuum, so I'm sorry. Still don't agree with you, and I still think the politician's quote was dead-on, so here we gooooo.
I really don't get exercised when a politician makes some derogatory statement about my lifestyle and hobbies. If they knew my lifestyle and hobbies, they'd probably slam the Hell out of me. (Hell, GOP candidate Alan Keyes got slammed for doing a stage dive for his fans -- you can't do anything but laugh at out of touch people like that.) But it gets pretty tiring seeing every single group get all bent out of shape whenever someone doesn't agree with them and dares to say it out loud. To me, Political Correctness has gotta be one of the biggest problems this country faces today.
Um, which bra burners were fighting for the right to vote? Women had the right to vote for decades before those losers started up. Tree-huggers exist for the sole reason to be laughed at. You understand that I'm talking about people who literally burned their bras and hug trees, right? I'm not talking about suffragists, environmentalists, or free speech advocates. I'm talking about wackos, specifically the large number of them that always pipe up when the subject of the article comes up.
The quote was a tired, untrue cliche spouted by a lot of the same people who either think that it's oh-so pithy, or haven't been able to come up with something better for the last dozen years or so.
I care very much about free speech, enough that I used to be an ACLU member, until they got too political and became a living, breathing double standard. I most definitely don't find the Peacefire kids to be heroes in any sense of the word, however.
As for the troll thing, I said that I found it ironic that any free speech advocates would label me as such, since the intended effect on Slashdot is to label someone a troll, so that they get scored down, thus fewer people get to see their point of view. Sounds pretty anathema to their goals, but hey, that's just me. If someone wants to call me one just because I can be abrasive as all get out, well, that's their choice. It's not something I'm going to get worked up about. And yes, the point is that I'm having fun, because in the grand scheme of things, I don't take the actions of Peacefire organization to be any big whoop.
I don't like censorship either. I'm a libertarian. And I'm not talking about the Slashdot brand of libertarianism -- you know, the special "Let me do whatever I want to do. Oh, but hey, while I've got you here, could you go after large corporations over web browsers? Oh yeah, and you don't mind if I engage in a little class warfare baiting, do you? Wait, before you go, teach those bad ol' tobacco companies a lesson, whydon'tcha. Oh yeah, and I know the Constitution doesn't say anything about them, but I think the government owes it to me to give me free health care for life. Maybe free pez, too. While we're at it, I know the Bill of Rights forbids it, but let's take away all the guns from our citizens, especially gun nuts like ESR!" brand of libertarianism.
However, children don't have the same rights as adults, nor should they, because they don't have the same responsibilities. If a parent wants to put filtering software on their computer, that's their decision, and silly cries of "Censorship!" are just that -- silly. Same with local library boards and schools. People do not have the right to internet access, no more than I have the right to demand that my library starts subscribing to "Amateur Dog Humpers Weekly." If I want that magazine, I'll have to get it myself, and if someone wants to view a site that their library blocks, then go get yourself a free ISP and download all the blocked material you want.
If the system is still implemented as it was before, then a certain number of posts that get moderated "Troll" coming from a specific IP address, within a certain time period, would trigger, for a certain time period (a day, I think), posts coming from that same IP to be blocked.
There is also a mechanism which keeps the same person from posting more than once within a certain time period, perhaps 70 seconds.
From both of these things, you cannot say that Slashdot has truly free speech. I'm not even arguing that Slashdot is doing a bad thing, but if you're going to, on principle, excoriate someone who thinks that some limitations on free speech aren't so bad, but excuse Slashdot for its own limitations on free speech, then your position isn't based upon principle after all. Instead, it's a subjective position, which doesn't really give you much moral high ground in this argument, because you're basically saying that, "Well, I just like my limitations better than yours."
Ahhh, but you miss the difference, and the reason why I'm not a hypocrite. I am having fun on a Saturday morning, pointing out how some of these people have brainwashed themselves into thinking that they're heroic in a world of absolutes. Call it trolling if you choose, I don't care -- of course, it does bring up the delicious possible irony of the anti-"censorware" crowd trying to label me a troll so that most people will ignore the points I'm making. Hmmmm?:)
The point is that I'm just having fun, not ranting and raving about revolutions (Ha!), putting politicians up against the wall, and other silly things like that. I don't take my ridiculing of the poster's point as word from on high, something that every child should be tought in school, as opposed to the self-important dreck that comes out of the anti-"censorware" movement.
But hey, if labelling me helps you feel all warm and fuzzy and safe inside, Skippy, let me be the first to tell you to go right ahead and continue doing it.:)
That is, about people making such a big deal about free speech that the debate becomes ludicrous. Do you really think you come off as a rational person when you attack res0? He surely didn't say anything worth throwing your average person into a hissy fit.
And as for Free Speech, I find your post even more ironic. Here's a hint, kid: There isn't free speech at Slashdot. Post too many trolls (read: posts that argue that Linux isn't perfect, or that don't meet the proper lame anti-Microsoft joke quota) in one day, and Slashdot might take away the ability to post from that user's IP address for a while. Same goes for the newly instituted "70 second between posts" rule, which screws the prolific and the speed typers out there. In other words, there is no free speech at Slashdot -- perhaps you could take up the crusade to boycott Slashdot?
As does your response. Your immature response, by the way, is why politicians laugh at people like you and make comments like the one you quoted. See, you come off as having absolutely no sense of proportion, as being just another wacko zealot, like the tree huggers and bra burners that came before you. I.e., the punchline to a passé joke. Get a grip, climb down from your high horse, learn the meaning of the first amendment, talk to people instead of making utopian speeches at themm and maybe people would actually be open to debating the subject with you. As it stands, you come off like a bunch of kiddies wanting to do a lot of grandstanding to give yourself a false sense of relevance.
And for the love of God, quit saying stupid nonsensical shit like, "The Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it." No, Skippy, it doesn't, not anymore than a Tooth Fairy actually brought you cash for your lost baby molars.
Anyone else see that? Took me by surprise because I figured that after all the both hype and bad press that this title (and John Romero) has received, I would've heard about it before then. I'm assuming it didn't really come out, because there would've been a lot of talk, whether good or bad, if it did come out. It actually doesn't look all that bad to me, although I definitely am not on top of the gaming world (heh, that's probably an understatement, as the last games I've bought were Diablo, Carmageddon, and the Ultima 1-8 combo pack.) Would be nice if it were judged on the gameplay instead of all the politics surrounding it, but after this long, that's probably doubtful. Hey, I might even pick it up.
The potential Linux audience is pretty small to begin with, and combined with the fact that it's already taking them forever and a day to get the product out, the extra hassle for little return doesn't sound like a great proposition. Maybe some of the folks at RedHat who became millionaires by selling other peoples' code could invest in well-financed Linux game-porting company. 'Til that or something similar happens, you'll have to keep paying Bill or Stevie J. for an OS on which you can play the top notch games.
You didn't really believe that fluff about VA Linux buying up every other Linux company because they're looking after Linux users' best interests, did you?
Q: Which is most quickly heading toward zero: VA Linux's stock price, or the number of other Linux-related companies it hasn't bought out yet?:)
What's gonna happen if you don't get to play it right away? Seriously. Your computer's not going anywhere. Actually, I don't think it would be such a bad idea to hold it off until the late Fall of this year -- I think some of the people around here could stand to actually get out and enjoy the summer instead of staying sequestered by themselves up in their rooms every day and night. Save it 'til Winter when nobody else wants to go out anyway.
Wow, you really told me. Care to point out one single lie I've told? The fact that you say Slashdot is an audience that knows what it's talking about shows how laughably misinformed you are. I could point you to plenty of lies by Slashdotters, and I'd bet that you probably believed them all, hook, line, and sinker, like the gullible chimp you are. You have no higher thought process than to think that something must true if one million Slashdot monkeys say it one million times -- I can't wait to see you fall in line like a good little Slashdotter and post made-up things about Win2K.
As far as anyone selling anything, ask yourself why you decided to get in on this conversation discussing something -- the Cassiopeia -- that you've never used, much less know nothing about. Little baby afraid someone might actually learn something around here? "Open Source, Closed Minds. We are Slashdot" was practically invented for you.
Seriously, it happens, and there's nothing wrong with my Palms, unless you count the stylus holder being cracked on both of them. I'm not saying that it happens to me all the time, or that it's happened a lot -- just that it has indeed happened more than a handful of times. As someone who's been using them since the days when Palm HQ was about the only Palm download place on the map, and you could actually download everything from their site and try it in one night, I've probably done just about everything you can do to a Palm short of hardware modifications. (Hmm, didn't mean to make that sound like a "my dick is bigger than yours" thing, just trying to let you in on my personal experience.)
That's nice, but some of us who have actually been using Palm Pilots since the very beginning, and who actually use bleeding edge code on it, know better. Or maybe the authors of those apps just felt like informing their users that they better back up their data in case of a hard reset because they just loved to hear themselves type.
Of course, it also sounds like you and the alleged "anyone else in your office" has absolutely no experience with the Cassiopeia. Your opinion has just fallen off the worthiness radar -- thanks for playing, though.
Not sure what you're getting at. The program I mentioned isn't an emulator, it's Doom (Jimmy Software has also released their own free port of Doom, Doom4CE). The only reason I mentioned the color GameBoy emulator is because the version of CE Doom that I mentioned is made by the same guy (guys?) who produced PalmGB. For anyone who's tried this amazing little piece of software, they know that these guys write some damn good code. (As does Jimmy Software, come to think of it.)
That Jornada you were looking at was a Handheld PC (HPC -- the type that have keyboards) model, though, wasn't it? There are also Palm-sized (PPC) Jornadas which have the features you mentioned, except for Pocket Word/Excel, although it does have Outlook. They're the size of non-V Palms -- the Compaq Aeros have that sweet Palm V size and shape -- so they're definitely made to fit in your jacket pocket. Not trying to make you think twice about your purchase or anything, just wanted to point out that the Jornada HPCs aren't really analagous to the Palms.
More reliable? I've had to do many more hard resets, having to restore all my data on each of both my Palm Pilot and my Palm III, than the handful of times I've ever had to do soft resets on my Cassiopeia E-105 (which has never needed a hard reset). Give it a try before you speak next time.
Combined with the fact that there is no decent Doom for the Palm, and that the color graphics, sound, and screen size on those machines is a joke compared to the Cassiopeia, I'll stick with my choice anyday.
It's based on the original Linux source release from Id, and is brought to you by the same wizard (wizards?) who produced the greatest entertainment app of all time on any PDA: PalmGB, the color Gameboy emulator for WinCE. More info available here, as long as you're willing to put up with the midis playing in the background.;) (Actually, the one playing on the Doom screen is pretty cool, but I digress.)
It uses Kerberos as defined by the standard. If people are going to bitch and moan about Microsoft doing this, then stop writing ambiguities into the standards. Of course, there's a reason why this field was left open, and that's so that vendors (apparently, only vendors other than Microsoft, haha) could could use it for things like vendor-specific or application-specific data. Now that Microsoft uses it to their advantage, everyone's in tears. Well Boo-frickin'-hoo.
Whoops, now that I see your comment that Win2K has only 27 apps avaiable for it, I realize that you have no idea what you're talking about. My post would've been better spent replying to someone with a clue.
I don't think that any benefits would be worth the extra load on the server compressing all this dynamically-generated data, though. Especially because I don't think the benefits would be too drastic for most users. A lot of users (I'd guess most) have net connections (modems, isdn adapters, etc.) that already perform decent text compression between them and their ISPs. Just my opinion, corrections welcome
As an aside, IIS 5.0 (maybe 4 as well, I'm not sure) also supports compressing sent data -- any idea if Netscape can handle this as well?
Implementing unfinished standards helps to speed adoption, by getting developers used to using them. Not only does it give them a head start, but it highlights poor specification features and possible improvements, because people are using it in real situations and in decent numbers, letting them see the flaws. Microsoft never disguised the fact that their early implementation might differ from the final standard, and warned developers accordingly.
<laughs>Well, despite your flaming me, your first paragraph cracked me up.
And c'mon, you know you'd get bored if there was nothing more to these threads than boosterism mixed in with off-topic trolls. It gets a bit much and I just can't help but post and inject a little reality into the discussions before my eyes completely roll out of their sockets.;)
Now, you gonna tell me that Mozilla's FAQ answer wasn't completely weak? It was like, "No we don't support that feature, but don't think about that -- let me distract you with some famous Internet guy lashing out at that evil Microsoft"
OK, but will it still be a coup if his begging isn't successful?:)
Actually, an open source browser isn't all that important to me personally, but I do want to see them put out a great browser -- both Mozilla and Internet Explorer will benefit down the line by their competition if Mozilla puts out a good browser.
I tried out some earlier builds, although now I just try out all the milestones, but the layout glitches or the lack of oodles of extras (or even Java) isn't what keeps me from testing Mozilla more than I do -- it's just that it seems to take so much longer to get things done. I always lose my patience and give up using it after about one night until the next milestone comes out.
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If you've ever read an article bio of him, you've probably read how he got started with MP3.com. His field was search engines, and he noticed that one of the most popular searches that people were doing (if not the most popular) was for "mp3." He didn't really know much about MP3s, if at all, but when he noticed what a popular search term it was, he went and registered MP3.com.
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First off, I apologize to you, Blue Lang, for lambasting you the way I did. I'd read a number of posts that I found ridiculous, and instead of responding to each of them, decided to go off on a rant on them in one fell swoop, which ended up being your post. So, I was more, um, forceful than I would've been had i read your post in a vacuum, so I'm sorry. Still don't agree with you, and I still think the politician's quote was dead-on, so here we gooooo.
I really don't get exercised when a politician makes some derogatory statement about my lifestyle and hobbies. If they knew my lifestyle and hobbies, they'd probably slam the Hell out of me. (Hell, GOP candidate Alan Keyes got slammed for doing a stage dive for his fans -- you can't do anything but laugh at out of touch people like that.) But it gets pretty tiring seeing every single group get all bent out of shape whenever someone doesn't agree with them and dares to say it out loud. To me, Political Correctness has gotta be one of the biggest problems this country faces today.
Um, which bra burners were fighting for the right to vote? Women had the right to vote for decades before those losers started up. Tree-huggers exist for the sole reason to be laughed at. You understand that I'm talking about people who literally burned their bras and hug trees, right? I'm not talking about suffragists, environmentalists, or free speech advocates. I'm talking about wackos, specifically the large number of them that always pipe up when the subject of the article comes up.
The quote was a tired, untrue cliche spouted by a lot of the same people who either think that it's oh-so pithy, or haven't been able to come up with something better for the last dozen years or so.
I care very much about free speech, enough that I used to be an ACLU member, until they got too political and became a living, breathing double standard. I most definitely don't find the Peacefire kids to be heroes in any sense of the word, however.
As for the troll thing, I said that I found it ironic that any free speech advocates would label me as such, since the intended effect on Slashdot is to label someone a troll, so that they get scored down, thus fewer people get to see their point of view. Sounds pretty anathema to their goals, but hey, that's just me. If someone wants to call me one just because I can be abrasive as all get out, well, that's their choice. It's not something I'm going to get worked up about. And yes, the point is that I'm having fun, because in the grand scheme of things, I don't take the actions of Peacefire organization to be any big whoop.
I don't like censorship either. I'm a libertarian. And I'm not talking about the Slashdot brand of libertarianism -- you know, the special "Let me do whatever I want to do. Oh, but hey, while I've got you here, could you go after large corporations over web browsers? Oh yeah, and you don't mind if I engage in a little class warfare baiting, do you? Wait, before you go, teach those bad ol' tobacco companies a lesson, whydon'tcha. Oh yeah, and I know the Constitution doesn't say anything about them, but I think the government owes it to me to give me free health care for life. Maybe free pez, too. While we're at it, I know the Bill of Rights forbids it, but let's take away all the guns from our citizens, especially gun nuts like ESR!" brand of libertarianism.
However, children don't have the same rights as adults, nor should they, because they don't have the same responsibilities. If a parent wants to put filtering software on their computer, that's their decision, and silly cries of "Censorship!" are just that -- silly. Same with local library boards and schools. People do not have the right to internet access, no more than I have the right to demand that my library starts subscribing to "Amateur Dog Humpers Weekly." If I want that magazine, I'll have to get it myself, and if someone wants to view a site that their library blocks, then go get yourself a free ISP and download all the blocked material you want.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
If the system is still implemented as it was before, then a certain number of posts that get moderated "Troll" coming from a specific IP address, within a certain time period, would trigger, for a certain time period (a day, I think), posts coming from that same IP to be blocked.
There is also a mechanism which keeps the same person from posting more than once within a certain time period, perhaps 70 seconds.
From both of these things, you cannot say that Slashdot has truly free speech. I'm not even arguing that Slashdot is doing a bad thing, but if you're going to, on principle, excoriate someone who thinks that some limitations on free speech aren't so bad, but excuse Slashdot for its own limitations on free speech, then your position isn't based upon principle after all. Instead, it's a subjective position, which doesn't really give you much moral high ground in this argument, because you're basically saying that, "Well, I just like my limitations better than yours."
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Ahhh, but you miss the difference, and the reason why I'm not a hypocrite. I am having fun on a Saturday morning, pointing out how some of these people have brainwashed themselves into thinking that they're heroic in a world of absolutes. Call it trolling if you choose, I don't care -- of course, it does bring up the delicious possible irony of the anti-"censorware" crowd trying to label me a troll so that most people will ignore the points I'm making. Hmmmm? :)
The point is that I'm just having fun, not ranting and raving about revolutions (Ha!), putting politicians up against the wall, and other silly things like that. I don't take my ridiculing of the poster's point as word from on high, something that every child should be tought in school, as opposed to the self-important dreck that comes out of the anti-"censorware" movement.
But hey, if labelling me helps you feel all warm and fuzzy and safe inside, Skippy, let me be the first to tell you to go right ahead and continue doing it. :)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
That is, about people making such a big deal about free speech that the debate becomes ludicrous. Do you really think you come off as a rational person when you attack res0? He surely didn't say anything worth throwing your average person into a hissy fit.
And as for Free Speech, I find your post even more ironic. Here's a hint, kid: There isn't free speech at Slashdot. Post too many trolls (read: posts that argue that Linux isn't perfect, or that don't meet the proper lame anti-Microsoft joke quota) in one day, and Slashdot might take away the ability to post from that user's IP address for a while. Same goes for the newly instituted "70 second between posts" rule, which screws the prolific and the speed typers out there. In other words, there is no free speech at Slashdot -- perhaps you could take up the crusade to boycott Slashdot?
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
As does your response. Your immature response, by the way, is why politicians laugh at people like you and make comments like the one you quoted. See, you come off as having absolutely no sense of proportion, as being just another wacko zealot, like the tree huggers and bra burners that came before you. I.e., the punchline to a passé joke. Get a grip, climb down from your high horse, learn the meaning of the first amendment, talk to people instead of making utopian speeches at themm and maybe people would actually be open to debating the subject with you. As it stands, you come off like a bunch of kiddies wanting to do a lot of grandstanding to give yourself a false sense of relevance.
And for the love of God, quit saying stupid nonsensical shit like, "The Internet views censorship as damage and routes around it." No, Skippy, it doesn't, not anymore than a Tooth Fairy actually brought you cash for your lost baby molars.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Can anybody recall how many times MS has announced a product, killed off the competitors, and then never bothered to release the product?
No, I can't. You make it sound like you can, though, so please tell us how many times that it's happened.
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Anyone else see that? Took me by surprise because I figured that after all the both hype and bad press that this title (and John Romero) has received, I would've heard about it before then. I'm assuming it didn't really come out, because there would've been a lot of talk, whether good or bad, if it did come out. It actually doesn't look all that bad to me, although I definitely am not on top of the gaming world (heh, that's probably an understatement, as the last games I've bought were Diablo, Carmageddon, and the Ultima 1-8 combo pack.) Would be nice if it were judged on the gameplay instead of all the politics surrounding it, but after this long, that's probably doubtful. Hey, I might even pick it up.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
The potential Linux audience is pretty small to begin with, and combined with the fact that it's already taking them forever and a day to get the product out, the extra hassle for little return doesn't sound like a great proposition. Maybe some of the folks at RedHat who became millionaires by selling other peoples' code could invest in well-financed Linux game-porting company. 'Til that or something similar happens, you'll have to keep paying Bill or Stevie J. for an OS on which you can play the top notch games.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
You didn't really believe that fluff about VA Linux buying up every other Linux company because they're looking after Linux users' best interests, did you?
Q: Which is most quickly heading toward zero: VA Linux's stock price, or the number of other Linux-related companies it hasn't bought out yet? :)
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What's gonna happen if you don't get to play it right away? Seriously. Your computer's not going anywhere. Actually, I don't think it would be such a bad idea to hold it off until the late Fall of this year -- I think some of the people around here could stand to actually get out and enjoy the summer instead of staying sequestered by themselves up in their rooms every day and night. Save it 'til Winter when nobody else wants to go out anyway.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Nothing like using a rehash of a 30-year old OS to emulate a 20-year old OS.
Linux Community, thy name is creativity. Hats off to ya.
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Wow, you really told me. Care to point out one single lie I've told? The fact that you say Slashdot is an audience that knows what it's talking about shows how laughably misinformed you are. I could point you to plenty of lies by Slashdotters, and I'd bet that you probably believed them all, hook, line, and sinker, like the gullible chimp you are. You have no higher thought process than to think that something must true if one million Slashdot monkeys say it one million times -- I can't wait to see you fall in line like a good little Slashdotter and post made-up things about Win2K.
As far as anyone selling anything, ask yourself why you decided to get in on this conversation discussing something -- the Cassiopeia -- that you've never used, much less know nothing about. Little baby afraid someone might actually learn something around here? "Open Source, Closed Minds. We are Slashdot" was practically invented for you.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Seriously, it happens, and there's nothing wrong with my Palms, unless you count the stylus holder being cracked on both of them. I'm not saying that it happens to me all the time, or that it's happened a lot -- just that it has indeed happened more than a handful of times. As someone who's been using them since the days when Palm HQ was about the only Palm download place on the map, and you could actually download everything from their site and try it in one night, I've probably done just about everything you can do to a Palm short of hardware modifications. (Hmm, didn't mean to make that sound like a "my dick is bigger than yours" thing, just trying to let you in on my personal experience.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
That's nice, but some of us who have actually been using Palm Pilots since the very beginning, and who actually use bleeding edge code on it, know better. Or maybe the authors of those apps just felt like informing their users that they better back up their data in case of a hard reset because they just loved to hear themselves type.
Of course, it also sounds like you and the alleged "anyone else in your office" has absolutely no experience with the Cassiopeia. Your opinion has just fallen off the worthiness radar -- thanks for playing, though.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
Not sure what you're getting at. The program I mentioned isn't an emulator, it's Doom (Jimmy Software has also released their own free port of Doom, Doom4CE). The only reason I mentioned the color GameBoy emulator is because the version of CE Doom that I mentioned is made by the same guy (guys?) who produced PalmGB. For anyone who's tried this amazing little piece of software, they know that these guys write some damn good code. (As does Jimmy Software, come to think of it.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
That Jornada you were looking at was a Handheld PC (HPC -- the type that have keyboards) model, though, wasn't it? There are also Palm-sized (PPC) Jornadas which have the features you mentioned, except for Pocket Word/Excel, although it does have Outlook. They're the size of non-V Palms -- the Compaq Aeros have that sweet Palm V size and shape -- so they're definitely made to fit in your jacket pocket. Not trying to make you think twice about your purchase or anything, just wanted to point out that the Jornada HPCs aren't really analagous to the Palms.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
More reliable? I've had to do many more hard resets, having to restore all my data on each of both my Palm Pilot and my Palm III, than the handful of times I've ever had to do soft resets on my Cassiopeia E-105 (which has never needed a hard reset). Give it a try before you speak next time.
Combined with the fact that there is no decent Doom for the Palm, and that the color graphics, sound, and screen size on those machines is a joke compared to the Cassiopeia, I'll stick with my choice anyday.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
It's based on the original Linux source release from Id, and is brought to you by the same wizard (wizards?) who produced the greatest entertainment app of all time on any PDA: PalmGB, the color Gameboy emulator for WinCE. More info available here, as long as you're willing to put up with the midis playing in the background. ;) (Actually, the one playing on the Doom screen is pretty cool, but I digress.)
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
It uses Kerberos as defined by the standard. If people are going to bitch and moan about Microsoft doing this, then stop writing ambiguities into the standards. Of course, there's a reason why this field was left open, and that's so that vendors (apparently, only vendors other than Microsoft, haha) could could use it for things like vendor-specific or application-specific data. Now that Microsoft uses it to their advantage, everyone's in tears. Well Boo-frickin'-hoo.
Whoops, now that I see your comment that Win2K has only 27 apps avaiable for it, I realize that you have no idea what you're talking about. My post would've been better spent replying to someone with a clue.
Cheers,
ZicoKnows@hotmail.com
I don't think that any benefits would be worth the extra load on the server compressing all this dynamically-generated data, though. Especially because I don't think the benefits would be too drastic for most users. A lot of users (I'd guess most) have net connections (modems, isdn adapters, etc.) that already perform decent text compression between them and their ISPs. Just my opinion, corrections welcome
As an aside, IIS 5.0 (maybe 4 as well, I'm not sure) also supports compressing sent data -- any idea if Netscape can handle this as well?
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Implementing unfinished standards helps to speed adoption, by getting developers used to using them. Not only does it give them a head start, but it highlights poor specification features and possible improvements, because people are using it in real situations and in decent numbers, letting them see the flaws. Microsoft never disguised the fact that their early implementation might differ from the final standard, and warned developers accordingly.
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Besides, we don't want Mozilla to be like the bug-laden products of some companies out there...do we?
Don't pick on RedHat like that -- they're still Open Source and could use our support now that their stock's been tanking.
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<laughs>Well, despite your flaming me, your first paragraph cracked me up.
And c'mon, you know you'd get bored if there was nothing more to these threads than boosterism mixed in with off-topic trolls. It gets a bit much and I just can't help but post and inject a little reality into the discussions before my eyes completely roll out of their sockets. ;)
Now, you gonna tell me that Mozilla's FAQ answer wasn't completely weak? It was like, "No we don't support that feature, but don't think about that -- let me distract you with some famous Internet guy lashing out at that evil Microsoft"
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OK, but will it still be a coup if his begging isn't successful? :)
Actually, an open source browser isn't all that important to me personally, but I do want to see them put out a great browser -- both Mozilla and Internet Explorer will benefit down the line by their competition if Mozilla puts out a good browser.
I tried out some earlier builds, although now I just try out all the milestones, but the layout glitches or the lack of oodles of extras (or even Java) isn't what keeps me from testing Mozilla more than I do -- it's just that it seems to take so much longer to get things done. I always lose my patience and give up using it after about one night until the next milestone comes out.
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