I'll admit that I did miss the 'the' the first time. (Wow, I never thought I'd get "the the the" into a grammatically-correct sentence.) But it is well-known that the brain takes shortcuts when reading, and mine glossed over the 'the' and skipped right to the attention-grabbing capital letters.
Furthermore, few people outside the USA are likely to know what "the VA" is, so a bit of clarification would be handy. Scroll the Slashdot front page right now--this is one of the shortest headlines on the screen. The Web is not a newspaper--we don't need to save every precious inch.
And I know the name was dropped six months ago but it was around for over ten years before that and it's still in my head. So sue me.
"The VA" can't refer to "VA Linux" -- sure it could: this is Slashdot. Happens all the time.;-)
No. But that is how Slashdot refers to it, so since we're here on Slashdot right now, I figured I'd refer to it the same way so that people would know what the hell I'm referring to.
... and it would make a REALLY shitty eBook reader. The screen is tiny and it takes WAY too much effort to (accurately) change pages. If I've got to read anything on a tiny screen, I'd rather use my Axim, which has a similarly-small screen but it also has higher resolution (640x480) and hardware buttons to neatly, easily jump a page (screnful) at a time.
I'm all for having multiple redundant copies of every manual ever made at my fingertips no matter where I am, and I'd love to have some handy PDFs on my iPhone for God-knows-what, but when I hear 'eBook' I think "something that I'd like to curl up with for a few hours," which definitely ain't the iPhone.
I'm sure I'll get modded to -5, Flamebait, but fucking A, Zonk, Slashdot isn't a newspaper. You don't need to be so economical in your headlines. When I saw the headline, I first thought of VA Linux--you know, the guys who kinda sorta own you. "Medical centers" threw me, so I thought for a second that it might mean the state of Virginia. Then it dawned on me that you probably meant the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Please, God, isn't there some kind of Editing 101 correspondence-school course we can send all these guys to? I mean, I love Slashdot to death, but please God, can you give the staff just one ounce of basic editorial skills: spelling, grammar, etc? Teach them to write for clarity, not just brevity? Maybe go for broke and touch on dupe-checking, fact-checking, changing links so they point to the original article instead of some guy's AdSense-laden blog page that says nothing more than "here's the story"?
You're EDITORS, for God's sake (even if in name only), you are indeed allowed to EDIT submissions.
And your comment contributes to the conversation how?
I added mine because most people don't read the articles* so after digging around for a while on Mozilla's not-exactly-easy-to-navigate site I figured I'd post the link and maybe save some people the trouble, since the Slashdot "editors" (Zonk, you retarded piece of shit, why am I not surprised?) didn't realize that THEIR READERSHIP might be interested in checking out the newest version of Firefox.
In short, fuck you.
* I come to Slashdot for the discussion, not the articles. Why click a link to read what some tool thinks about Firefox when I can click a link and read what hindreds of tools think about Firefox?:-)
Hi. I'm sootman. I have tried OOo several time over the years. I can't stand using it. It's just clunky, slow, and has lots of little annoyances.
That said, I feel the same way about Office 2000 and newer. I've stuck with Office 97 (and Office X for Mac OS X) on any personal machine. As for the newest Office, the ribbon looks OK, and I think Live Previews of formatting is a great idea, but I can live without those and am happy to stick with Office 97.
Also, I haven't tried OOo in maybe a year and a half or more, so maybe it's better now. I'll give it a shot when I have some time. FYI, I don't go around bad-mouthing OOo to people who are considering it, so I'm not setting back the cause. Most people aren't as picky as I am. I just show it to people and let them make up their own minds. People with crapware-laden 2 GHz Celerons with XP Home and 128 MB RAM (11 MB shared for video) don't seem to mind the speed.:-)
A coworker went to Staples and purchased a version of McAfee for home, even after I told her AVG would do everything she wanted it to, and for free. I got the impression that she didn't think something that didn't cost anything would be able to do what she wanted...
Too bad. You missed a great opportunity--you should have sold her a copy! No, I'm not being a smartass and saying you should have taken advantage of her. Well, actually, I guess I am--not being a smartass, but it seems that some people insist on being taken advantage of, and she evidently is one of them.* If they insist on burning money, you might as well help them put that money to good use! From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible -- just enough to cover the cost. Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can. If this seems surprising to you, please read on....
Since free software is not a matter of price, a low price isn't more free, or closer to free. So if you are redistributing copies of free software, you might as well charge a substantial fee [emphasis mine] and make some money [emphasis theirs]. Redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you do it, you might as well make a profit from it.
Free software is a community project, and everyone who depends on it ought to look for ways to contribute to building the community. For a distributor, the way to do this is to give a part of the profit to the Free Software Foundation or some other free software development project. By funding development, you can advance the world of free software.
Distributing free software is an opportunity to raise funds for development. Don't waste it! [emphasis theirs, but I agree.:-) ]
And, in case it wasn't clear up until now: "In order to contribute funds, you need to have some extra. If you charge too low a fee, you won't have anything to spare to support development."
So charge as much as you can! Hell, charge more than the commercial offering and throw in some support. And if you've got a guilty conscience, a) get over it or b) send some money to the FSF. If you really don't need money, tell them you're an "authorized distributor" and they can make a check out to "FSF" with the name of the software in the memo line.
Richard Stallman wants software to be capital-F-Free, as in hackable, usable, modifiable. I don't think he has ever once said that people should give away their time. If you're spending your time extolling the virtues of Free software, you should get paid!
* See also the recent thread about the $199 WalMart PC that is in a bigger-than-needed case because people think bigger == better. The last thing I need is another fullsize tower, but I would have bought one in a second if it were the size of a Shuttle PC.
And the magical link that everyone wants is...
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Only recently has the company admitted what was clear from the outset: the first Zune was rushed to market (it was a "sprint cycle," in Microsoft terms), and "compromises" were made in order to make that happen. So Microsoft started over.
Sweet! Only one rev left until we get to MS's famous "adequate" 3.0 phase!
Turn your house up 1 degree in the summer and down 1 degree in the winter...
a) jacks to raise one side of the house are very expensive b) plus I'm not sure if my foundation could take it c) even at just 1 degree, small objects would all roll to one side of the house.
The right to vote is worth your life, but the vote itself is only valuable if there are worthwhile options. What good is a million dollars if the food store only sells rocks and hay?
Also, individual votes were worth a lot more when there were only four million people in the country, many of whom (women, blacks) couldn't vote. So a presidential vote today is worth... what, less than 1/100 what it was worth in 1790? And unlike monetary inflation, where a dollar is worth less than it used to be but we all have more of them so it more or less balances out, a vote is worth less and we all still only have one.
Furthermore, the idea that everyone should vote is flawed. Do we all vote on how medicine should be practiced? On how bridges should be built? Then why insist that the uneducated masses should have a say in how the government is run? It absolutely is everyone's right to vote--no one who wants to vote should be turned away--but in an ideal world, I wish that the only people who would vote would be the ones who care enough about politics to study the issues and the people and make rational, well-informed decisions. Just like any other technical issue, these things should be decided on technical merits--elections should not be popularity contests based on who has the scariest ads and best looking posters.
Funny how you mentioned "It's a Small World." I heard about this being developed about ten years by at Disney in Orlando. They were thinking of making some of the lanes in the parking areas play short snippets of songs, and I'll bet IASW was one of the choices. They didn't go forward with it, AFAIK, because of several problems...
the road surface would wear down and the sounds would change. harder road surfaces would just damage tires more
unknown effects on tires
you've got to drive at a certain speed to get the effect--too slow and it would just be bumps, not music. (and there are plenty of elderly and handicapped at Disney who drive slowly)
didn't want to encourage erratic driving by people who want to hear how IASW sounds at 160 BPM, or cause people to do laps through the lot so they could hear all the different songs
The idea is pretty obvious, really. You know how some highways have grooves outside of the normal driving areas that make a moaning sound when you drive over them? Just space the grooves differently and voila, music.
All Apple did was glamorize it with pretty effects and give it a cool name
And publicize it, so people would know it's there and use it, and make it easy to use, so you can watch the one-minute video demo and know everything you need to know about it. How many Windows users know about, or use, shadow copy? Not very many.
It's like a movie: a lot of good movies have special effects, but just having lots of special effects doesn't make a movie good, and just because lots of bad movies have special effects, doesn't mean all movies with special effects are bad. Same thing with Apple: yeah, they take basic features and make them shiny, but a) just making things shiny doesn't make them good, and b) just because there's lots of bad shiny crap out there, doesn't mean that what Apple does is bad just because it's shiny. It's possible to be good and shiny, and that's what Apple does: make it good first, and shiny second.
And before you get another raging hardon over backups, just remember that Microsoft didn't invent them either. VMS's file system has had this since the 1980s (if what I've read in every other Time Machine thread is true.) You MS apologists (and employees) are such jealous little whiners. All you can ever say is "Wah. We did it first. Why isn't anyone paying attention to us?" Do you really want to get into a contest to see who came up with how many things first?
"...Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared... For that price, they'll be able to poke through, say, the first 100 issues of Stan Lee's 1963 creation "Amazing Spider-Man" at their leisure... Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded..."
So: the shit is forty-four years old. What's the big fucking deal if people print it? Or download them so they can read them while on a flight? You don't have to give up your copyrights. It's not like you're releasing the characters into the public domain and all of a sudden you'll see stickers on the backs of Chevy pickups depicting Spider-Man pissing on a Ford logo. (Not that copyright laws have prevented Bill Watterson's 'Calvin' from being abused as such anyway.) You're not making it available to all to print infinite copies--just your typical "personal use" type of thing. And what if people do start printing them, binding them, and selling them? Guess what: that means there's a market, shitheads! Print NICE collections at REASONABLE prices and watch them fly out the door.
I can only assume that Stan Lee and the others learned a lot about their craft by a) reading old stories and myths and b) looking at old art. What if the complete works of van Gogh, da Vinci, Homer,* Shakespeare, and all the rest were under such draconian control? Would you even be an artist if Sonny Bono had been alive in 1000 BC? Why even charge at all, you hypocritical fucks? You've already made some money once. Releasing them for free might actually grow the comic audience. That would inspire some new fans (and probably some new artists.) Rather than always trying to get a bigger slice of the pie, why don't you try to make the whole pie bigger?
"The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99 monthly with a year-long commitment."
Consider the other angles. I am not a huge comic fan. But, it's a big part of our culture and yes, I would kind of like to see how Spidey, the X-Men, and all the rest came about. If I did, maybe I'd become a fan and start buying the current stuff. But I do not care enough to pay and jump through a lot of hoops. So I'll continue to be the non-comic-buyer that I am.
It's a very simple question: do you want to a) gain new fans or b) milk your existintg fan base? I think we all know the answer. Probably because that's an easier sell to the bean-counters: rather than possibly making a huge pile of money by exponentially increasing the market, they'd rather just have a smaller but predictable amount--"Lucas has shown us the way. X% of existing comic buyers will pay $Y per month for whatever we shove down their throats. That will net us $Z in 2008."
Also: "can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded"? I guess these douchebags never heard of screenshots, either.
* no, not Simpson, I mean the old Greek guy.
PS: sorry for all the swearing, but this stuff really, really, really pisses me off.
But Macintoshes seem to be discoverable by default
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that. I don't have a virgin test Mac to verify but I'm pretty sure that while bluetooth will be on by default if you have it (and I'm not even sure about that) you've got to hit some settings to make a Mac discoverable.
As for advertising that they're a Mac and the user name--the default system name of a Mac is something like "Bob's PowerMac" (where "Bob" was the name of the first user to set up the machine.) Easily changed in System Prefs -> Sharing, but I'll grant that most people don't do that.
Oh yeah, it's not rocket science. You can accomplish it with nothing more than Apache and its built-in indexing. But mine is specifically sized & styled for the iPhone and has a couple other niceties.
I don't know if there's something about tablet PCs that is useful to the financial+mobile set, but until it was mentioned above, I never considered tablets would be useful to artists and designers.
Oh yeah. It's not a great all-day machine, but certain tasks in Photoshop (and Illustrator, not to mention specialized apps like ArtRage) are 10x easier to do when you can actually draw right on the screen. (Wacom Cintiq's are also nice.) It's twice as good as using a traditional graphics tablet and ten times better than using a mouse.
And speaking of "the financial+mobile" set, there's another potentially untapped market: assassins. Tom Cruise's character in Collateral used a tablet PC. (A ComHPaq TC1000 or 1100.):-)
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I'll admit that I did miss the 'the' the first time. (Wow, I never thought I'd get "the the the" into a grammatically-correct sentence.) But it is well-known that the brain takes shortcuts when reading, and mine glossed over the 'the' and skipped right to the attention-grabbing capital letters.
;-)
Furthermore, few people outside the USA are likely to know what "the VA" is, so a bit of clarification would be handy. Scroll the Slashdot front page right now--this is one of the shortest headlines on the screen. The Web is not a newspaper--we don't need to save every precious inch.
And I know the name was dropped six months ago but it was around for over ten years before that and it's still in my head. So sue me.
"The VA" can't refer to "VA Linux" -- sure it could: this is Slashdot. Happens all the time.
Is every PC that Walmart sells a "WalMart PC"?
No. But that is how Slashdot refers to it, so since we're here on Slashdot right now, I figured I'd refer to it the same way so that people would know what the hell I'm referring to.
Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out, November 12, 2007.
... and it would make a REALLY shitty eBook reader. The screen is tiny and it takes WAY too much effort to (accurately) change pages. If I've got to read anything on a tiny screen, I'd rather use my Axim, which has a similarly-small screen but it also has higher resolution (640x480) and hardware buttons to neatly, easily jump a page (screnful) at a time.
I'm all for having multiple redundant copies of every manual ever made at my fingertips no matter where I am, and I'd love to have some handy PDFs on my iPhone for God-knows-what, but when I hear 'eBook' I think "something that I'd like to curl up with for a few hours," which definitely ain't the iPhone.
I'm sure I'll get modded to -5, Flamebait, but fucking A, Zonk, Slashdot isn't a newspaper. You don't need to be so economical in your headlines. When I saw the headline, I first thought of VA Linux--you know, the guys who kinda sorta own you. "Medical centers" threw me, so I thought for a second that it might mean the state of Virginia. Then it dawned on me that you probably meant the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Please, God, isn't there some kind of Editing 101 correspondence-school course we can send all these guys to? I mean, I love Slashdot to death, but please God, can you give the staff just one ounce of basic editorial skills: spelling, grammar, etc? Teach them to write for clarity, not just brevity? Maybe go for broke and touch on dupe-checking, fact-checking, changing links so they point to the original article instead of some guy's AdSense-laden blog page that says nothing more than "here's the story"?
You're EDITORS, for God's sake (even if in name only), you are indeed allowed to EDIT submissions.
And your comment contributes to the conversation how?
:-)
I added mine because most people don't read the articles* so after digging around for a while on Mozilla's not-exactly-easy-to-navigate site I figured I'd post the link and maybe save some people the trouble, since the Slashdot "editors" (Zonk, you retarded piece of shit, why am I not surprised?) didn't realize that THEIR READERSHIP might be interested in checking out the newest version of Firefox.
In short, fuck you.
* I come to Slashdot for the discussion, not the articles. Why click a link to read what some tool thinks about Firefox when I can click a link and read what hindreds of tools think about Firefox?
Hi. I'm sootman. I have tried OOo several time over the years. I can't stand using it. It's just clunky, slow, and has lots of little annoyances.
:-)
That said, I feel the same way about Office 2000 and newer. I've stuck with Office 97 (and Office X for Mac OS X) on any personal machine. As for the newest Office, the ribbon looks OK, and I think Live Previews of formatting is a great idea, but I can live without those and am happy to stick with Office 97.
Also, I haven't tried OOo in maybe a year and a half or more, so maybe it's better now. I'll give it a shot when I have some time. FYI, I don't go around bad-mouthing OOo to people who are considering it, so I'm not setting back the cause. Most people aren't as picky as I am. I just show it to people and let them make up their own minds. People with crapware-laden 2 GHz Celerons with XP Home and 128 MB RAM (11 MB shared for video) don't seem to mind the speed.
Good point. But...
A coworker went to Staples and purchased a version of McAfee for home, even after I told her AVG would do everything she wanted it to, and for free. I got the impression that she didn't think something that didn't cost anything would be able to do what she wanted...
Too bad. You missed a great opportunity--you should have sold her a copy! No, I'm not being a smartass and saying you should have taken advantage of her. Well, actually, I guess I am--not being a smartass, but it seems that some people insist on being taken advantage of, and she evidently is one of them.* If they insist on burning money, you might as well help them put that money to good use! From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html And, in case it wasn't clear up until now: "In order to contribute funds, you need to have some extra. If you charge too low a fee, you won't have anything to spare to support development."
So charge as much as you can! Hell, charge more than the commercial offering and throw in some support. And if you've got a guilty conscience, a) get over it or b) send some money to the FSF. If you really don't need money, tell them you're an "authorized distributor" and they can make a check out to "FSF" with the name of the software in the memo line.
Richard Stallman wants software to be capital-F-Free, as in hackable, usable, modifiable. I don't think he has ever once said that people should give away their time. If you're spending your time extolling the virtues of Free software, you should get paid!
* See also the recent thread about the $199 WalMart PC that is in a bigger-than-needed case because people think bigger == better. The last thing I need is another fullsize tower, but I would have bought one in a second if it were the size of a Shuttle PC.
... right here: Get Firefox 3 Beta 1
"The Social" was moved online, where Zune users might actually find others to share their musical tastes with.
(No additional comment needed.)
Only recently has the company admitted what was clear from the outset: the first Zune was rushed to market (it was a "sprint cycle," in Microsoft terms), and "compromises" were made in order to make that happen. So Microsoft started over.
Sweet! Only one rev left until we get to MS's famous "adequate" 3.0 phase!
Turn your house up 1 degree in the summer and down 1 degree in the winter...
a) jacks to raise one side of the house are very expensive
b) plus I'm not sure if my foundation could take it
c) even at just 1 degree, small objects would all roll to one side of the house.
All you need are more lava lamps.
No, wait, sorry 'bout that. Yeah, that's a moon. Carry on.
The right to vote is worth your life, but the vote itself is only valuable if there are worthwhile options. What good is a million dollars if the food store only sells rocks and hay?
Also, individual votes were worth a lot more when there were only four million people in the country, many of whom (women, blacks) couldn't vote. So a presidential vote today is worth... what, less than 1/100 what it was worth in 1790? And unlike monetary inflation, where a dollar is worth less than it used to be but we all have more of them so it more or less balances out, a vote is worth less and we all still only have one.
Furthermore, the idea that everyone should vote is flawed. Do we all vote on how medicine should be practiced? On how bridges should be built? Then why insist that the uneducated masses should have a say in how the government is run? It absolutely is everyone's right to vote--no one who wants to vote should be turned away--but in an ideal world, I wish that the only people who would vote would be the ones who care enough about politics to study the issues and the people and make rational, well-informed decisions. Just like any other technical issue, these things should be decided on technical merits--elections should not be popularity contests based on who has the scariest ads and best looking posters.
- the road surface would wear down and the sounds would change. harder road surfaces would just damage tires more
- unknown effects on tires
- you've got to drive at a certain speed to get the effect--too slow and it would just be bumps, not music. (and there are plenty of elderly and handicapped at Disney who drive slowly)
- didn't want to encourage erratic driving by people who want to hear how IASW sounds at 160 BPM, or cause people to do laps through the lot so they could hear all the different songs
The idea is pretty obvious, really. You know how some highways have grooves outside of the normal driving areas that make a moaning sound when you drive over them? Just space the grooves differently and voila, music.They should give AT&T $843,000.
Yeah, forget you guys--I'm gonna make my own partition table, with /blackjack and /hookers. In fact, forget the partition table...
All Apple did was glamorize it with pretty effects and give it a cool name
And publicize it, so people would know it's there and use it, and make it easy to use, so you can watch the one-minute video demo and know everything you need to know about it. How many Windows users know about, or use, shadow copy? Not very many.
It's like a movie: a lot of good movies have special effects, but just having lots of special effects doesn't make a movie good, and just because lots of bad movies have special effects, doesn't mean all movies with special effects are bad. Same thing with Apple: yeah, they take basic features and make them shiny, but a) just making things shiny doesn't make them good, and b) just because there's lots of bad shiny crap out there, doesn't mean that what Apple does is bad just because it's shiny. It's possible to be good and shiny, and that's what Apple does: make it good first, and shiny second.
And before you get another raging hardon over backups, just remember that Microsoft didn't invent them either. VMS's file system has had this since the 1980s (if what I've read in every other Time Machine thread is true.) You MS apologists (and employees) are such jealous little whiners. All you can ever say is "Wah. We did it first. Why isn't anyone paying attention to us?" Do you really want to get into a contest to see who came up with how many things first?
IHBT. I will HAND.
Can you GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELVES?!?!?
"...Marvel is putting some of its older comics online Tuesday, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared... For that price, they'll be able to poke through, say, the first 100 issues of Stan Lee's 1963 creation "Amazing Spider-Man" at their leisure... Comics can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded..."
So: the shit is forty-four years old. What's the big fucking deal if people print it? Or download them so they can read them while on a flight? You don't have to give up your copyrights. It's not like you're releasing the characters into the public domain and all of a sudden you'll see stickers on the backs of Chevy pickups depicting Spider-Man pissing on a Ford logo. (Not that copyright laws have prevented Bill Watterson's 'Calvin' from being abused as such anyway.) You're not making it available to all to print infinite copies--just your typical "personal use" type of thing. And what if people do start printing them, binding them, and selling them? Guess what: that means there's a market, shitheads! Print NICE collections at REASONABLE prices and watch them fly out the door.
I can only assume that Stan Lee and the others learned a lot about their craft by a) reading old stories and myths and b) looking at old art. What if the complete works of van Gogh, da Vinci, Homer,* Shakespeare, and all the rest were under such draconian control? Would you even be an artist if Sonny Bono had been alive in 1000 BC? Why even charge at all, you hypocritical fucks? You've already made some money once. Releasing them for free might actually grow the comic audience. That would inspire some new fans (and probably some new artists.) Rather than always trying to get a bigger slice of the pie, why don't you try to make the whole pie bigger?
"The publisher is hoping fans will be intrigued enough about the origins of those characters to shell out $9.99 a month, or $4.99 monthly with a year-long commitment."
Consider the other angles. I am not a huge comic fan. But, it's a big part of our culture and yes, I would kind of like to see how Spidey, the X-Men, and all the rest came about. If I did, maybe I'd become a fan and start buying the current stuff. But I do not care enough to pay and jump through a lot of hoops. So I'll continue to be the non-comic-buyer that I am.
It's a very simple question: do you want to a) gain new fans or b) milk your existintg fan base? I think we all know the answer. Probably because that's an easier sell to the bean-counters: rather than possibly making a huge pile of money by exponentially increasing the market, they'd rather just have a smaller but predictable amount--"Lucas has shown us the way. X% of existing comic buyers will pay $Y per month for whatever we shove down their throats. That will net us $Z in 2008."
Also: "can only be viewed in a Web browser, not downloaded"? I guess these douchebags never heard of screenshots, either.
* no, not Simpson, I mean the old Greek guy.
PS: sorry for all the swearing, but this stuff really, really, really pisses me off.
Hey, lots of geeks have *ahem* ways of building up arm strength.
But Macintoshes seem to be discoverable by default
I'm pretty sure you're wrong about that. I don't have a virgin test Mac to verify but I'm pretty sure that while bluetooth will be on by default if you have it (and I'm not even sure about that) you've got to hit some settings to make a Mac discoverable.
As for advertising that they're a Mac and the user name--the default system name of a Mac is something like "Bob's PowerMac" (where "Bob" was the name of the first user to set up the machine.) Easily changed in System Prefs -> Sharing, but I'll grant that most people don't do that.
In a roundabout way, yes. Enormous demand leads to competition and economies of scale.
Oh yeah, it's not rocket science. You can accomplish it with nothing more than Apache and its built-in indexing. But mine is specifically sized & styled for the iPhone and has a couple other niceties.
Your comment is hysterical (and more than a little insightful.)
Also, your username is more complex than my password.
I don't know if there's something about tablet PCs that is useful to the financial+mobile set, but until it was mentioned above, I never considered tablets would be useful to artists and designers.
:-)
Oh yeah. It's not a great all-day machine, but certain tasks in Photoshop (and Illustrator, not to mention specialized apps like ArtRage) are 10x easier to do when you can actually draw right on the screen. (Wacom Cintiq's are also nice.) It's twice as good as using a traditional graphics tablet and ten times better than using a mouse.
And speaking of "the financial+mobile" set, there's another potentially untapped market: assassins. Tom Cruise's character in Collateral used a tablet PC. (A ComHPaq TC1000 or 1100.)