Sun have done a system very simular to this, and as far as I know it is far cooler;)
For those who are interested it is called Jini. And you can get to their site here.
Personally I wasn't a fan of the trackball, it had the age old problem the same as mice, they got too dirty too easy. Bring on touchpads and/or inplants.
They should reduce their prices, though I'm in the understanding that they've had to raise their prices to make enough money to pay everyone (and of course the artests a whole heap as well) because of loss of sales due to piracy. I would say it is proberbly more likely that they will increase their prices rather than reduce.
>Of course the few odd pirates will impact the bottom line, but I'm guessing there are a lot of people who get an MP3 from a friend, off the net, etc. and then go buy the album.
As I myself do actually find most of the cd's I want by downloading the mp3 first, and then deciding I like it so grab the cd.
I'm a fairly big CD owner, just on 300 odd, and most have been chosen because of an mp3.
Well maybe I'm one of the few people who do this but I actually buy the audio cd/game if I like it enough, how ever I will get an MP3 if there is only one song on the cd I actually want/like. Dunno I spose thats just me. -D_Leary
And something I would like to know, on that X windows theme, would be what window manager does it use if it uses X Windows? One can only hope about the TCP/IP stack though, that would just kewl.
Well I would certainly hope it would sync with linux, there's no real point in getting it (well for me anyway) unless it works under linux.
And on the mobile side of things, remote syncing etc, it looks likely that you'll have to buy an "adaptor" from your PDA/PMA (well it is really a personal multimedia assistant rather than a personal digital assistant) to your cell phone, I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but I know that in New Zealand you pay a rather large sum of money just for the cell phone call, and then a stupidly large amount for the adaptor.
I see that the PalmVII would be a better option for remote syncing, as soon as it becomes available in New Zealand of course, and this should be left just for the multimedia stuff, the MP3's, video etc. Which are never the less damned cool.
But on saying that the PalmVII would be a better option, the Yopy would be a great portable multimedia soltion.
Well this is true, but you've got to wonder what the development time would be of getting the Transmeta chip installed etc. Because the Cruseo (sorry my memory and spelling are shocking) is an x86 based chip it will actually take up more room on the flash, and on the ram, than an ARMs linux would, as it is my understanding that ARMs linux is designed to be somewhat smaller, unlike the x86 counterpart. -D_Leary
I must say I've seen a lot of lame posting on the list today, but thats not what I'm posting about. I must say that is one DAMNED nice PDA, I've noticed a few mentions on how it isn't going to be thats great because it linux is too big an os for a PDA, but what if you could hook up a USB zip drive to it, that would make things a lot nicer, or iomegas smaller veriation, a click drive, I'm sure one of those would make it all the more nicer (and it isn't too much bigger). I also like the way they've put in the mp3 player into it, its almost like it does everything, which gives me my doubts as to weather it is a prank or not cause something can't be this good.
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Sun have done a system very simular to this, and as far as I know it is far cooler ;)
For those who are interested it is called Jini. And you can get to their site here.
Do you guys run distributed.net or do you run something that works in a simular manner?
Personally I wasn't a fan of the trackball, it had the age old problem the same as mice, they got too dirty too easy.
Bring on touchpads and/or inplants.
They should reduce their prices, though I'm in the understanding that they've had to raise their prices to make enough money to pay everyone (and of course the artests a whole heap as well) because of loss of sales due to piracy.
I would say it is proberbly more likely that they will increase their prices rather than reduce.
-D_Leary
I would have to agree with the statement
>Of course the few odd pirates will impact the bottom line, but I'm guessing there are a lot of people who get an MP3 from a friend, off the net, etc. and then go buy the album.
As I myself do actually find most of the cd's I want by downloading the mp3 first, and then deciding I like it so grab the cd.
I'm a fairly big CD owner, just on 300 odd, and most have been chosen because of an mp3.
-D_Leary
Well maybe I'm one of the few people who do this but I actually buy the audio cd/game if I like it enough, how ever I will get an MP3 if there is only one song on the cd I actually want/like. Dunno I spose thats just me. -D_Leary
And something I would like to know, on that X windows theme, would be what window manager does it use if it uses X Windows?
One can only hope about the TCP/IP stack though, that would just kewl.
Well I would certainly hope it would sync with linux, there's no real point in getting it (well for me anyway) unless it works under linux.
And on the mobile side of things, remote syncing etc, it looks likely that you'll have to buy an "adaptor" from your PDA/PMA (well it is really a personal multimedia assistant rather than a personal digital assistant) to your cell phone, I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but I know that in New Zealand you pay a rather large sum of money just for the cell phone call, and then a stupidly large amount for the adaptor.
I see that the PalmVII would be a better option for remote syncing, as soon as it becomes available in New Zealand of course, and this should be left just for the multimedia stuff, the MP3's, video etc. Which are never the less damned cool.
But on saying that the PalmVII would be a better option, the Yopy would be a great portable multimedia soltion.
-D_Leary
Well this is true, but you've got to wonder what the development time would be of getting the Transmeta chip installed etc. Because the Cruseo (sorry my memory and spelling are shocking) is an x86 based chip it will actually take up more room on the flash, and on the ram, than an ARMs linux would, as it is my understanding that ARMs linux is designed to be somewhat smaller, unlike the x86 counterpart. -D_Leary
I must say I've seen a lot of lame posting on the list today, but thats not what I'm posting about.
I must say that is one DAMNED nice PDA, I've noticed a few mentions on how it isn't going to be thats great because it linux is too big an os for a PDA, but what if you could hook up a USB zip drive to it, that would make things a lot nicer, or iomegas smaller veriation, a click drive, I'm sure one of those would make it all the more nicer (and it isn't too much bigger).
I also like the way they've put in the mp3 player into it, its almost like it does everything, which gives me my doubts as to weather it is a prank or not cause something can't be this good.
Well that was my 2 seconds worth.