I'm sorry to say this, because I love my Palm III, but as a gaming platform, it really sucks. I mean, I like spades and chess and stuff like that, but action games suffer under the quality of the display and the buttons. The display doesn't work well for animation, the LCDs just don't cycle fast enough, so you get trails and blurriness for moving objects. The buttons were designed to not be pressed accidentally when you put this thing in your pocket, so they're not really the best for giving you good tactile feedback that they've been pressed. I mean, pressing it once is great for launching an application, but for fine maneuvering a spaceship that you can't see well on the screen when it moves anyway, is just not a pleasurable experience. I think it's really cool that handhelds are becoming so flexible that you can do anything with them, from personal organizer to web browser, to game machine, but the Palm has some design issues you just can't code around.
Wince? don't even go there. My Boss showed me his Wince machine, all the cool gadgets, the fact that it's got way more memory, built in modem, PCMCIA card slot, $70 cheaper, etc. the fact is, he never uses it, he couldn't get the handwriting recognition to work reliably. I use my Palm III every day, and it's been about 3 months now, and I still use it every day. So who got the better deal. I don't know if his Wince toy is just harder to use or what, but my Palm III just works, and gets the job done, and has only locked once (on calculator?!).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Stop with the criticizing/. content already! If you don't like it, don't hit the link! Moron.
If Fucking Martha Stewart does a show about interior decorating server rooms, is this worthy content for/.? hell yes! But I'm not going to click that link, I'll click the one below it about the umpteen billionth iteration of CDA to pass through congress, I'm sure as hell not going to go into the Martha Stewart story and complain that it doesn't belong in/., and that there's too much commenting going on wasting bandwidth.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
excellent distillation of why MTV isn't cool like it was back in 1985.
Now what I don't get is, MTV was raking in TONS of cash back then, so why was this model deemed something they had to shitcan, and why hasn't any other broadcaster created a station that does what MTV used to do - play videos?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months." -jafac's law
I said I "messed with" the beta. I didn't "beta test", and I didn't have time to chase after something as glaringly obvious as this issue. But there is little chance of any kind of user-side resolution with error messaging as obtuse as this, so what would be the point?
(If you're wondering how I got ahold of the beta if I'm not a "beta tester", it was provided with a win2k class I attended, still have it, still using it as a coaster.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Too much redundancy, Not enough customizability, Not enough uniformity,
What research did MS put into it's widget set? "duh, Macs have this neato button that lets you close this window with one click - but lets put it in the other corner so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool menu that shows all the programs that are running - let's do that, but put it on the other side of the screen so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool icon that you can click on, and see all the stuff on your hard drive, but let's put it in the other corner so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool icon that you can drag files to that you don't want anymore, but it doesn't delete them so you don't actually delete stuff accidentally - but let's put it in the other corner so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool hierarchial menu that lets you select commonly used programs and functions - let's put ours in the other corner so we don't get sued."
The result? Everything's BASSACKWARDS - unintuitive, hard to use, takes up more screen real estate, and ultimately, a big steaming pile of crap. Microsoft's problem is that it's research is done by it's marketing and legal department, not RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, and I forgot to add, what's so great is that the Wizards content can be changed very easily, by downloading new files and stuff - so this is an easily updateable help system for the product.
What's NOT so great is, different versions of IE implemented some scripting differently, that was a pain in the neck. I think we're moving away from this in our next version, because HTML/JavaScript just doesnt give us enough control, etc.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
My company writes a product that uses ActiveX controls to display a web interface in a sub-pane of the app (actually slaves IE), which acts as the Admin console's "wizards". The HTML and scripting gives us the ability to use BIG FONTS and graphics to aid the user in using the product for the first time. "Normal" operation is done by replacing the web pane with other ActiveX controls, to display the objects the user's going to work with in the "normal" mode of operation, once he's become familliar with how the product works, and what the terminoligy means, and what things need to be done.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think that the reason that the linux commmunity hates Java so much is that it claims to be cross platform and IS NOT.
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"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Slashdot Mirror
FUCK that!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Before you go on the "Linux FUD" defensive, why not read all of the posts and learn a few things:
1. It's not hotmail per se that was cracked, it was Passport.
2. Passport runs on IIS.
3. ANY OS can be insecure if administered by a fool. In this case, it wasn't the OS, it was the web application.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Ahh, if I could only get DJGPP to install - er, unzip, without directory creation errors and filename collisons due to case insensitivity. . .
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
3) Perl is so obtuse that you NEED one of the O'Reilly books to be able to effectively use it.
(just making an unjustified claim here for the humor value - not asserting anything).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I'm sorry to say this, because I love my Palm III, but as a gaming platform, it really sucks. I mean, I like spades and chess and stuff like that, but action games suffer under the quality of the display and the buttons. The display doesn't work well for animation, the LCDs just don't cycle fast enough, so you get trails and blurriness for moving objects. The buttons were designed to not be pressed accidentally when you put this thing in your pocket, so they're not really the best for giving you good tactile feedback that they've been pressed. I mean, pressing it once is great for launching an application, but for fine maneuvering a spaceship that you can't see well on the screen when it moves anyway, is just not a pleasurable experience. I think it's really cool that handhelds are becoming so flexible that you can do anything with them, from personal organizer to web browser, to game machine, but the Palm has some design issues you just can't code around.
Wince? don't even go there. My Boss showed me his Wince machine, all the cool gadgets, the fact that it's got way more memory, built in modem, PCMCIA card slot, $70 cheaper, etc. the fact is, he never uses it, he couldn't get the handwriting recognition to work reliably. I use my Palm III every day, and it's been about 3 months now, and I still use it every day. So who got the better deal. I don't know if his Wince toy is just harder to use or what, but my Palm III just works, and gets the job done, and has only locked once (on calculator?!).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
He can show us how he did it using Power Point
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
intel suck-up!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
at least he's not fucking fucking fucking fuck fucking fuck ducks all fucking day (in the Netherlands, I think it was. . .)
ah, slashdot
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
GWAR
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
oops. Meant Squeak. Not SmallTalk, but I think SmallTalk is also more cross platform than Java. Not sure.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
4 different platforms IS NOT cross-platform.
Compared to how many platforms something like SmallTalk or Perl run on, Java is a joke.
Can you implement the latest Java on Linux? How about Mac OS? How about Be? How about BSD? - anything on BSD?
That's like, NT is cross platform. Lookee, we run on Intel 486, Pentium, PentiumII, PentiumIII, AMD, and Cyrix. Wowee!
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
How 'bout: "Womyn with dicks"
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
I've yet to find a chick with a workable buffer overflow exploit.
(blah, blah, blah, this guy just talks TOO MUCH)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
creativity != the "staggering drunk" camera work.
Just MY humble opinon.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
God DAMN it!
/. content already!
/.? hell yes! But I'm not going to click that link, I'll click the one below it about the umpteen billionth iteration of CDA to pass through congress, I'm sure as hell not going to go into the Martha Stewart story and complain that it doesn't belong in /., and that there's too much commenting going on wasting bandwidth.
Stop with the criticizing
If you don't like it, don't hit the link!
Moron.
If Fucking Martha Stewart does a show about interior decorating server rooms, is this worthy content for
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
you know, this argument actually reminds me of the same exact shit we used to complain about top-40 radio stations back in the early 80's.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
excellent distillation of why MTV isn't cool like it was back in 1985.
Now what I don't get is, MTV was raking in TONS of cash back then, so why was this model deemed something they had to shitcan, and why hasn't any other broadcaster created a station that does what MTV used to do - play videos?
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Recent list of cool stuff - now rotting carcasses in Steve Jobs' back yard:
OpenDoc
CyberDog
>3 PCI slots in Macs
Newton
QuickDraw3d
>1 button mouse
Themes in 8.6
Coming soon: Cross-platform ability of OPENSTEP/YellowBox/Cocoa
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I said I "messed with" the beta. I didn't "beta test", and I didn't have time to chase after something as glaringly obvious as this issue. But there is little chance of any kind of user-side resolution with error messaging as obtuse as this, so what would be the point?
(If you're wondering how I got ahold of the beta if I'm not a "beta tester", it was provided with a win2k class I attended, still have it, still using it as a coaster.)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
No, the registry won't corrupt, just your system preferences, PRAM, and desktop file.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Windows GUI is awful, worthless ROT!
Too much redundancy,
Not enough customizability,
Not enough uniformity,
What research did MS put into it's widget set?
"duh, Macs have this neato button that lets you close this window with one click - but lets put it in the other corner so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool menu that shows all the programs that are running - let's do that, but put it on the other side of the screen so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool icon that you can click on, and see all the stuff on your hard drive, but let's put it in the other corner so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool icon that you can drag files to that you don't want anymore, but it doesn't delete them so you don't actually delete stuff accidentally - but let's put it in the other corner so they don't sue us."
"duh, Macs have this cool hierarchial menu that lets you select commonly used programs and functions - let's put ours in the other corner so we don't get sued."
The result?
Everything's BASSACKWARDS - unintuitive, hard to use, takes up more screen real estate, and ultimately, a big steaming pile of crap.
Microsoft's problem is that it's research is done by it's marketing and legal department, not RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Hey, why not CWorthy then?
(the old Novell Console interface)
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
Oh, and I forgot to add, what's so great is that the Wizards content can be changed very easily, by downloading new files and stuff - so this is an easily updateable help system for the product.
What's NOT so great is, different versions of IE implemented some scripting differently, that was a pain in the neck. I think we're moving away from this in our next version, because HTML/JavaScript just doesnt give us enough control, etc.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
My company writes a product that uses ActiveX controls to display a web interface in a sub-pane of the app (actually slaves IE), which acts as the Admin console's "wizards". The HTML and scripting gives us the ability to use BIG FONTS and graphics to aid the user in using the product for the first time. "Normal" operation is done by replacing the web pane with other ActiveX controls, to display the objects the user's going to work with in the "normal" mode of operation, once he's become familliar with how the product works, and what the terminoligy means, and what things need to be done.
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
I think that the reason that the linux commmunity hates Java so much is that it claims to be cross platform and IS NOT.
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"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."