What bad experience did you have with Palm OS? they continue to be the market leader, continue to be the easiest to use for non-technical folks, continue to be easier to synch with a PC, and continue to offer less-expensive devices than WinCE.
I don't know where you're coming from -- certainly geeks love iPaqs because they have beefier hardware, but Palm's bread and butter is selling to business people and consumers who have no interest in running linux on a PDA. They want to push a button and have their schedule available with no hourglass on the screen. Sony develops almost exclusively consumer-entertainment Palm OS devices, most of which have nicer screens and better multimedia capabilities than any WinCE device available. Handspring is building communication devices on palm OS, all of which work much better (and longer) than the WinCE smartphones.
Give it a rest, already! I'm tired of this bogus charge. No freedoms have been removed.
Writ of Habeas Corpus? I recall something about that being a small part of our need for a revolution in the first place -- we didn't like the idea of a king or governor locking people up with no reason.
I'm saying that Palm needs to look back at what jumpstarted the industry
What jumpstarted the industry was Palm. Apple did it first, but Palm did it successfully: small enough to fit in a pocket, accurate recognition with minimal training, extensive battery life, simple functionality.
The Zire product line is aimed at home users, the Tungsten line is for business. Palm had said earlier that there would be high-end Zires and possibly cheap tungsten devices.
FWIW, I used to archive all my stuff on SVCD, but now that my home entertainment PC is set up, i've copied all the CDs back to the drive in there. The disk space is so cheap that the added convenience of having a hundred movies and other stuff right on the menu beats digging through stacks of CDs. After all, that's why i ripped all my CDs to MP3 years ago:)
Re:Recordable DVD Drive a Deal-Breaker?
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Personally, I won't bother to find out first hand until they slap a recordable DVD drive in there.
You can upgrade a TiVo with two 120 gig hard drives and record a few hundred hours of TV for the same cost as a DVD recordable drive.
I have a DVD-recorder, but I don't use $10 discs on recording stuff off TV...
I've been wondering about this for over a year, ever since I got a ThinkPad A22p, which has a GORGEOUS 15" LCD that runs native at 1600x1200.
I have a 19" CRT at home and a 21" at work, and this LCD beats both of them for quality, so i looked around to try and buy one. It literally did not exist -- you can but 19" LCDs with 1280x1024 (I suppose some people enjoy large pixels) but trying to buy one of these beautiful small LCDs was impossible. IBM doesn't sell them, nobody sells them.
I'm totally baffled by this. We would love to buy these LCDs for our desktops if we could get them for $1,000+ but as it is we keep these huge 21" 75 pound monitors on peoples desks, and most of those are run at 1280x1024 to stay readable.
I'm actually thinking about buying a cheap IBM and ripping it apart if I can get the screen cabling to go to the digital out on a GeForce card.
Remember sept 11th -- just about every news site was down, but slashdot kept right on humming.
I understand the thought you're expressing, but it's entirely possible that by tonight nothing else will be functional (we have just now started the shock-and-awe part of the war, according to CNN, MSNBC, etc)
The news organizations use InMarSat video terminals -- it's a 64k ISDN connection, which is why it is so grainy.
We do a lot of this (for medical projects) and sometimes mux two channels for a 128k connection, but it is not something you'd want to troubleshoot in the field with a non-technical person. It also gets a lot bigger in size, while the little video systems the news guys have all fit in a small briefcase and have a single panel dish built in.
We have stores that sell drug paraphernalia like water bongs, yet smoking and possessing marijuana is illegal. They claim it is for tobacca. Yeah, right!
Actually, I have smoked turkish tobacco in a water pipe -- even remember reading an article about the "fad" catching on in california or something.
Totally different than cigarettes, and very easy to see why the early settlers found tobacco so appealing.
That's what happened to me, too. Always mocked the show (like many others) thinking it was brainless and just as dopey as the movie.
A friend was watching an FX marathon a year ago, and I literally bought TiVo just so i could see the entire series in three months. I cannot think of any other show in television history that has had as many long-running plotlines/characters and subtle long-term foreshadowing.
Re:Who needs a "Palm" device of ANY kind?
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I challenge ANYONE to convince me that they "need" a computer to keep track of their appointments and phone numbers
Nobody is forcing you to buy one, and I don't think anyone is required to convince you they are worthy of owning a PDA.
that said, if you've never met someone who:
a) has a lot of contacts with frequently changing information
b) needs to share contact and scheduleing information with secrataries, coworkers, etc
c) retrieves changing information on a regular basis to be viewed at unscheduled times
d) doesn't want to wait 30 seconds for a computer to turn on just to look up a phone number
e) doesn't want to constantly worry about a battery dying in the middle of something important
Then I can believe you don't know anyone who would find a PDA more useful than paper or a notebook computer. But some of us do all those things on a regular basis.
Legally, you have no automatic rights to use or redistribute anything. This is how copyright works. So Microsoft is not "taking away your rights", since you never had them in the first place.
That's not really accurate -- MS (and most commercial software vendors) use their licenses to restrict actions that would otherwise be unfettered by standard copyright law (if they didn't, why would they bother having licenses?), such as resale, nature of use and decompilation.
There's nothing "bad" about this -- I use contracts to restrict use when I license my copyrights (I charge more for commercial than educational use, for example).
The GPL gives rights on top of those granted by default, where a standard license agreement (whether mine or MS's) takes them away.
hey, everyone! i don't think this is public yet, but there are some faulty capacitors going around!!!!! send this message to ten of your friends and post it everywhere or else nobody will know!!!!!!
Yeah, those lazy divorced people who had spouses screw up their credit years ago -- why don't you take responsibility for detrimental actions committed without your knowledge!
Geez, people just want to avoid personal responsibility so much these days
WTF?! Have you looked at tax returns recently? Are you wealthy?
On a global scale (which is the original poster's comment) if you have access to a computer and enough liesure time to be reading slashdot, then yes we are both pretty wealthy. We (in the wealthy world, not you and me in particular) will do most of the research while the rest of the world is busy trying to make sure they have food to eat and a bed to sleep in.
What a way to lose your competitive national advantage - by being the country that pays for software other folks are using for free. Unless we transition to a world where either (1) everyone everywhere pays for software or (2) everyone everywhere has good free software to use, the laws of economics are just going to reward the nations with the most crooks.
Or, it can just continue as it has been. The wealthy have always paid for research & development -- once we spend a billion dollars figuring out how to do something, keeping that knowledge from everyone else out of spite is pretty pointless.
This seems like a win-win situation -- it doesn't have many technical details, but since the radar and WiFi spectrums overlap only somewhat, i'm guessing that WiFi devices will simply use the NON-overlapping spectrum with some safe zone when they detect radar. Which makes sense anyways, since interference would work on both the radar and the WiFi. It may reduce range or data rates but this seems like a pretty good way to solve the problem without having to get congress or the FCC involved. And adding more spectrum in the 2.4Ghz range might solve a lot more range/bandwidth problems than just those of military radar.
Many, many ceramic tiles come off during reentry -- they are completely replaced with every flight. Losing tiles is not a problem (unless you lost a huge number of tiles in the same area all before you start reentry, that is).
Doh! you're right, the Duo is the small format -- the two-sided stick is "Memory Stick with Memory Select Function". It just seemed so logical my brain decided to re-brand their product line.
Given the timing/context of the message and previous announcements, it has been generally assumed that nothing prior to the NX series of handhelds will be compatible, meaning that anything older than about 5 months is no good. The new MS format apparently requires more processing power to run, but you're right that they haven't confirmed what is and isn't good yet. The fact that the Memory Stick Duo exists (a two-sided memory stick of 128MB on each side) is a pretty good sign that the incompatibility is more wide-ranging that a software patch.
The main reason is that the Memory Stick, in implementation, sucks in just about every way imaginable.
It is bigger than SD/MMC, more expensive per MB than just about any other removable media, slower, and is still maxed out at 128 MBs.
Sony has been promising gigabyte memory sticks for years, and just recently they announced that not only will it be delayed further, but in fact they won't work on ANYTHING but new devices.
I'm the very happy owner of a Sony NR70V, but to suggest memory sticks are even remotely competetive with the plethora of compactflash and SD/MMC available in stores today is ridiculous.
The sooner Sony gives up on this stupid attempt to control storage media, the better off they and their customers will be.
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Until they have SSH clients and proper wireless access, the point is moot anyway.
Huh? how many SSH clients do you need?
It isn't enough that the offer GSM, CDMA, Bluetooth, and 802.11? What other form of wireless are you looking for -- telepathy?
Palm is going to tank pretty soon unless they put some real hardware in their machines.
What, like an Intel XScale 400mhz processor in a unit that has a better screen and lower cost than a comparable PocketPC device?
How is that any better than a tape recorder?
you can record 10,000 hours of minimal-quality audio? Silence takes up just as much space on tape as sound does, not so with decent digital encoding.
What bad experience did you have with Palm OS? they continue to be the market leader, continue to be the easiest to use for non-technical folks, continue to be easier to synch with a PC, and continue to offer less-expensive devices than WinCE.
I don't know where you're coming from -- certainly geeks love iPaqs because they have beefier hardware, but Palm's bread and butter is selling to business people and consumers who have no interest in running linux on a PDA. They want to push a button and have their schedule available with no hourglass on the screen. Sony develops almost exclusively consumer-entertainment Palm OS devices, most of which have nicer screens and better multimedia capabilities than any WinCE device available. Handspring is building communication devices on palm OS, all of which work much better (and longer) than the WinCE smartphones.
Give it a rest, already! I'm tired of this bogus charge. No freedoms have been removed.
Writ of Habeas Corpus? I recall something about that being a small part of our need for a revolution in the first place -- we didn't like the idea of a king or governor locking people up with no reason.
I'm saying that Palm needs to look back at what jumpstarted the industry
What jumpstarted the industry was Palm. Apple did it first, but Palm did it successfully: small enough to fit in a pocket, accurate recognition with minimal training, extensive battery life, simple functionality.
The Zire product line is aimed at home users, the Tungsten line is for business. Palm had said earlier that there would be high-end Zires and possibly cheap tungsten devices.
FWIW, I used to archive all my stuff on SVCD, but now that my home entertainment PC is set up, i've copied all the CDs back to the drive in there. The disk space is so cheap that the added convenience of having a hundred movies and other stuff right on the menu beats digging through stacks of CDs. After all, that's why i ripped all my CDs to MP3 years ago :)
Personally, I won't bother to find out first hand until they slap a recordable DVD drive in there.
You can upgrade a TiVo with two 120 gig hard drives and record a few hundred hours of TV for the same cost as a DVD recordable drive.
I have a DVD-recorder, but I don't use $10 discs on recording stuff off TV...
I've been wondering about this for over a year, ever since I got a ThinkPad A22p, which has a GORGEOUS 15" LCD that runs native at 1600x1200.
I have a 19" CRT at home and a 21" at work, and this LCD beats both of them for quality, so i looked around to try and buy one. It literally did not exist -- you can but 19" LCDs with 1280x1024 (I suppose some people enjoy large pixels) but trying to buy one of these beautiful small LCDs was impossible. IBM doesn't sell them, nobody sells them.
I'm totally baffled by this. We would love to buy these LCDs for our desktops if we could get them for $1,000+ but as it is we keep these huge 21" 75 pound monitors on peoples desks, and most of those are run at 1280x1024 to stay readable.
I'm actually thinking about buying a cheap IBM and ripping it apart if I can get the screen cabling to go to the digital out on a GeForce card.
Remember sept 11th -- just about every news site was down, but slashdot kept right on humming.
I understand the thought you're expressing, but it's entirely possible that by tonight nothing else will be functional (we have just now started the shock-and-awe part of the war, according to CNN, MSNBC, etc)
The news organizations use InMarSat video terminals -- it's a 64k ISDN connection, which is why it is so grainy.
We do a lot of this (for medical projects) and sometimes mux two channels for a 128k connection, but it is not something you'd want to troubleshoot in the field with a non-technical person. It also gets a lot bigger in size, while the little video systems the news guys have all fit in a small briefcase and have a single panel dish built in.
We have stores that sell drug paraphernalia like water bongs, yet smoking and possessing marijuana is illegal. They claim it is for tobacca. Yeah, right!
Actually, I have smoked turkish tobacco in a water pipe -- even remember reading an article about the "fad" catching on in california or something.
Totally different than cigarettes, and very easy to see why the early settlers found tobacco so appealing.
That's what happened to me, too. Always mocked the show (like many others) thinking it was brainless and just as dopey as the movie.
A friend was watching an FX marathon a year ago, and I literally bought TiVo just so i could see the entire series in three months. I cannot think of any other show in television history that has had as many long-running plotlines/characters and subtle long-term foreshadowing.
I challenge ANYONE to convince me that they "need" a computer to keep track of their appointments and phone numbers
Nobody is forcing you to buy one, and I don't think anyone is required to convince you they are worthy of owning a PDA.
that said, if you've never met someone who:
a) has a lot of contacts with frequently changing information
b) needs to share contact and scheduleing information with secrataries, coworkers, etc
c) retrieves changing information on a regular basis to be viewed at unscheduled times
d) doesn't want to wait 30 seconds for a computer to turn on just to look up a phone number
e) doesn't want to constantly worry about a battery dying in the middle of something important
Then I can believe you don't know anyone who would find a PDA more useful than paper or a notebook computer. But some of us do all those things on a regular basis.
Legally, you have no automatic rights to use or redistribute anything. This is how copyright works. So Microsoft is not "taking away your rights", since you never had them in the first place.
That's not really accurate -- MS (and most commercial software vendors) use their licenses to restrict actions that would otherwise be unfettered by standard copyright law (if they didn't, why would they bother having licenses?), such as resale, nature of use and decompilation.
There's nothing "bad" about this -- I use contracts to restrict use when I license my copyrights (I charge more for commercial than educational use, for example).
The GPL gives rights on top of those granted by default, where a standard license agreement (whether mine or MS's) takes them away.
hey, everyone! i don't think this is public yet, but there are some faulty capacitors going around!!!!! send this message to ten of your friends and post it everywhere or else nobody will know!!!!!!
Yeah, those lazy divorced people who had spouses screw up their credit years ago -- why don't you take responsibility for detrimental actions committed without your knowledge!
Geez, people just want to avoid personal responsibility so much these days
WTF?! Have you looked at tax returns recently? Are you wealthy?
On a global scale (which is the original poster's comment) if you have access to a computer and enough liesure time to be reading slashdot, then yes we are both pretty wealthy. We (in the wealthy world, not you and me in particular) will do most of the research while the rest of the world is busy trying to make sure they have food to eat and a bed to sleep in.
What a way to lose your competitive national advantage - by being the country that pays for software other folks are using for free. Unless we transition to a world where either (1) everyone everywhere pays for software or (2) everyone everywhere has good free software to use, the laws of economics are just going to reward the nations with the most crooks.
Or, it can just continue as it has been. The wealthy have always paid for research & development -- once we spend a billion dollars figuring out how to do something, keeping that knowledge from everyone else out of spite is pretty pointless.
This seems like a win-win situation -- it doesn't have many technical details, but since the radar and WiFi spectrums overlap only somewhat, i'm guessing that WiFi devices will simply use the NON-overlapping spectrum with some safe zone when they detect radar. Which makes sense anyways, since interference would work on both the radar and the WiFi. It may reduce range or data rates but this seems like a pretty good way to solve the problem without having to get congress or the FCC involved. And adding more spectrum in the 2.4Ghz range might solve a lot more range/bandwidth problems than just those of military radar.
Many, many ceramic tiles come off during reentry -- they are completely replaced with every flight. Losing tiles is not a problem (unless you lost a huge number of tiles in the same area all before you start reentry, that is).
Doh! you're right, the Duo is the small format -- the two-sided stick is "Memory Stick with Memory Select Function". It just seemed so logical my brain decided to re-brand their product line.
Given the timing/context of the message and previous announcements, it has been generally assumed that nothing prior to the NX series of handhelds will be compatible, meaning that anything older than about 5 months is no good. The new MS format apparently requires more processing power to run, but you're right that they haven't confirmed what is and isn't good yet. The fact that the Memory Stick Duo exists (a two-sided memory stick of 128MB on each side) is a pretty good sign that the incompatibility is more wide-ranging that a software patch.
The main reason is that the Memory Stick, in implementation, sucks in just about every way imaginable.
It is bigger than SD/MMC, more expensive per MB than just about any other removable media, slower, and is still maxed out at 128 MBs.
Sony has been promising gigabyte memory sticks for years, and just recently they announced that not only will it be delayed further, but in fact they won't work on ANYTHING but new devices.
I'm the very happy owner of a Sony NR70V, but to suggest memory sticks are even remotely competetive with the plethora of compactflash and SD/MMC available in stores today is ridiculous.
The sooner Sony gives up on this stupid attempt to control storage media, the better off they and their customers will be.