I own a Zaurus SL-5500 and SL-5600. The 5600 has a larger battery and can support my wifi card turned on and connected to the wifi network for about two hours. If you want to use it like a RIM Blackberry or Danger Sidekick (aka Hiptop), both of which I have owned, you'll only get a couple of hours, so it's not a very good solution. If you want always-on Internet in a handheld, get a BlackBerry or Sidekick (I like the Sidekick more).
If you want a really capable machine, and are willing to limit your network use to surfing the web and occasionally grabbing your email, and are willing to turn it on and off as you need, then a Zaurus is great. I can't tell you how much I love listening to Internet radio stations on my Zaurus running mplayer while I mow my lawn or work around the house.
Dude, I've explained this to you before. Ms. Dos, Ms. Windows, and Ms. Office are not real women. They may be expensive, high maintenance, and completely unpredictable. But they are still not women.
they offered IE for free in the hope that they could "embrace and extend" the internet - stopping all other browsers, and thereby stopping all other platforms - but it didn't work. Huh? It didn't work? If I had a nickel for every time someone told me they wouldn't move to another OS because they wouldn't have IE, I'd have a lot of nickels.
If you can convince someone to use Firefox today, you increase the chances greatly that they will be comfortable switching to Linux at a later date. It's an easy transition when your browser (and even all of its settings, if you want) goes with you.
Every article I read mentions that advancements in Linux and OSX are the reason. While I think this has something to do with it, I think there has been a profound change in computer use in the past ten years.
Ten years ago, all that mattered in computer choice was software. I didn't care about alternatives to Windows because Windows had all the software I cared about.
Move forward to today. Much of the computer use today is as a terminal to the Internet. For many, it doesn't matter what OS you have as long as you can surf the web and read your email. Even reading email can simply mean logging on to the Web (Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo Mail). A dumb terminal with a nice display, a high quality web browser, and nothing else would probably make a useful computer today for much of the population.
Even at the corporate level many companies have moved all or much of their applications into web-based applications. Enterprise vendors are selling products to every large company in the world, and all of them are completely web-centric.
The viability of OSX and Linux have something to do with their advancement. But, it also has much to do with the changing computing landscape.
Ah, yes, I love that argument. Since we are unsure we can keep the roads secure, we should not build the roads at all. I'm sure we'll be better off living in a safe world without roads.
Microsoft has proven time and again that you can create a product first, worry about security later, and still rule the world.
Thinking about this reminds me of how terribly bloated everything has become with verbose formatting and styling of pages. Pictures may be worth a 1000 words, but they require 10 to 100 times the bandwidth of those words.
When records went from 78 rpms to 33 rpms, someone somewhere probably said, "Who needs to fit 25 minutes onto one side of a record? What a waste."
I started my computing experiences accessing BBS' over a 1200 baud modem. It was plenty fast for that purpose, and I enjoyed it immensely. However, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate watching streaming video, downloading entire songs in mere seconds, or talking over my VoIP phone.
Technology marches on, my friend. And it is better, even if our nostalgic heart thinks otherwise. A picture is worth 1000 words, and a little extra bandwidth is a small price to pay.
If everyone had AIDS, you wouldn't have to be all that concerned about STDs now, would you?
I know what you mean. I read about such an STD. It results in 9 months of increasing deformity capped off by up to 48 hours of excrutiating pain. Afterward there are stretch marks, decreased sexual desire, and extreme sleep deprevation. It is then followed by 18 years of agony, a change in lifestyle, complete loss of social life, and expenses in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Because this horrific STD affects nearly 50% of the population, it is often considered "normal".
It works similar to a mail-in rebate. You take the XP install CD, make several copies and sell them on a street corner in Beijing. Then you download Suse and voila, a Linux laptop minus the Microsoft tax.
To research this myth, I contacted all the tier-one server manufactures. Not one would formally cooperate when asked for statistics regarding enhancements to their servers, either by sales of upgrade parts or through calls made by their field-service teams.
Maybe they had work to do with all the business from people upgrading.
Some said the data wasn't available.
Oh, a conspiracy! Or perhaps it was because the data wasn't available.
Others said it was proprietary information that couldn't be released for competitive reasons. All claimed to find the question surprising -- and were interested in reading the results.
Fortunately, one vendor, who shall remain nameless,
Ah yes, the nameless vendor. Can we say red flag?
forwarded the informal comments of a marketing manager, whose name was removed from the e-mail.
Informal comments of a marketing manager? Are you serious?
There you have it. InfoWorld has debunked a myth using the informal comments of a nameless marketing manager from a nameless vendor from some unknown date and time at an unknown location.
Myth #7: That a company whose revenue is based on page-views and number of magazines sold is more credible than a tabloid.
This just shows me how fictional Star Trek really is. Starfleet uses tiny portable computers with an LCD to save the universe from certain doom. But you've just proven that what people will really use them for is to flip through pictures of Pam Anderson while sitting on the crapper without having to pay for Playboy.
Your assertion that mp3s offer you choice to the ITMS is very flawed. This isn't an alternative for legal music on an IPOD. There are only two ways to get mp3s on your IPOD. 1) Steal Music 2) Go to the store, buy an album, rip an album in mp3, move mp3s to IPOD.
Option 2 is the only legal option, and it is hardly an option to ITMS. It is like considering driving to the store and buying blocks of ice as an alternative to paying for electricity to cool your refridgerator.
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No. I've seen at least 256k comments on/. that were >= in geekiness to the prior comment. In fact, I wrote a Perl script that can compare comments and return all geekier comments. It summarizes the comparison results as a graph in ASCII art so that you can view them when you ssh to your Linux box. If you would like a copy of the program, please email me in Klingon. I accept payment in Magic The Gathering cards. This comment is published under terms of the Creative Commons Share-Alike License version 2.0.
When I talk on my Vonage phone, I use as many technical terms and acronyms as possible. The US Patent and Trademark Office is proof that even if the government listens to my conversation, they won't be able to find anyone that can understand it.
Yes, what is the advantage of a camera-phone that you can get for virtually free after commiting to a service plan when you can already send pictures with your $2000 laptop when combined with with a $500 digital camera? Throw in $200 for a CDPD modem and $40/month plus $.30 per byte for the account and then your laptop can send these pictures from anywhere just like the camera-phone device.
I guess camera-phones are due to be tossed in the technological scrap heap any day now.
That sounds great in theory. Unfortunately the facts are that most of us provide the same information to all the websites and vendors we deal with. Gaining access to any one usually means the theif has access to all your information.
In the end, I'd rather trust all my information to one of the largest security systems in the world rather than Joe Bob's Tackle Supply.
What I've learned from this thread is that to be modded up you need to have extensive credible knoweledge of geology and chemistry, or you need to post any excerpt from South Park's Terrance & Phillip.
You must be joking. Seriously. I recently switched from Windows to Linux, and I have some devices that simply don't have any support. Such as my HP scanner (not supported by sane), a USB voice/data/fax modem, a Broadcom based 802.11g card, etc. These are NOT new products. As it stands now, some of these products may never see the light of day in Linux. I would gladly contribute to a public bounty to get drivers for these devices. If no one comes forward with drivers, it won't cost me anything.
You say "you'll be driving for early availability". Yes, yes...I want ANY availability. Any availability, much less early availability, is better than a 2'x1' peice of useless plastic collecting dust on my desktop.
Just because Epiphany has qualities that you like, thus making giving it a "legitamite place", isn't sufficient reason it needs to be the default Gnome browser. Many would say Galeon should be the default, while others could say Mozilla itself. No one says the Epiphany browser won't continue to be available, it's just not going to be Gnome's default.
More interesting is the article over at ZDNet. In that article, Baystar contends that Darl should step down, and that SCO is wasting it's time with the Unix business. Baystar suggests that SCO make litigation its only business.
Listening to geeks argue which use of a computer makes a Real Man is like sitting in a college football team's locker room listening to the players discuss the qualities to look for in an economic analyst.
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I own a Zaurus SL-5500 and SL-5600. The 5600 has a larger battery and can support my wifi card turned on and connected to the wifi network for about two hours. If you want to use it like a RIM Blackberry or Danger Sidekick (aka Hiptop), both of which I have owned, you'll only get a couple of hours, so it's not a very good solution. If you want always-on Internet in a handheld, get a BlackBerry or Sidekick (I like the Sidekick more).
If you want a really capable machine, and are willing to limit your network use to surfing the web and occasionally grabbing your email, and are willing to turn it on and off as you need, then a Zaurus is great. I can't tell you how much I love listening to Internet radio stations on my Zaurus running mplayer while I mow my lawn or work around the house.
Dude, I've explained this to you before. Ms. Dos, Ms. Windows, and Ms. Office are not real women. They may be expensive, high maintenance, and completely unpredictable. But they are still not women.
they offered IE for free in the hope that they could "embrace and extend" the internet - stopping all other browsers, and thereby stopping all other platforms - but it didn't work.
Huh? It didn't work? If I had a nickel for every time someone told me they wouldn't move to another OS because they wouldn't have IE, I'd have a lot of nickels.
If you can convince someone to use Firefox today, you increase the chances greatly that they will be comfortable switching to Linux at a later date. It's an easy transition when your browser (and even all of its settings, if you want) goes with you.
Every article I read mentions that advancements in Linux and OSX are the reason. While I think this has something to do with it, I think there has been a profound change in computer use in the past ten years.
Ten years ago, all that mattered in computer choice was software. I didn't care about alternatives to Windows because Windows had all the software I cared about.
Move forward to today. Much of the computer use today is as a terminal to the Internet. For many, it doesn't matter what OS you have as long as you can surf the web and read your email. Even reading email can simply mean logging on to the Web (Hotmail, GMail, Yahoo Mail). A dumb terminal with a nice display, a high quality web browser, and nothing else would probably make a useful computer today for much of the population.
Even at the corporate level many companies have moved all or much of their applications into web-based applications. Enterprise vendors are selling products to every large company in the world, and all of them are completely web-centric.
The viability of OSX and Linux have something to do with their advancement. But, it also has much to do with the changing computing landscape.
Ah, yes, I love that argument. Since we are unsure we can keep the roads secure, we should not build the roads at all. I'm sure we'll be better off living in a safe world without roads.
Microsoft has proven time and again that you can create a product first, worry about security later, and still rule the world.
Thinking about this reminds me of how terribly bloated everything has become with verbose formatting and styling of pages. Pictures may be worth a 1000 words, but they require 10 to 100 times the bandwidth of those words.
When records went from 78 rpms to 33 rpms, someone somewhere probably said, "Who needs to fit 25 minutes onto one side of a record? What a waste."
I started my computing experiences accessing BBS' over a 1200 baud modem. It was plenty fast for that purpose, and I enjoyed it immensely. However, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate watching streaming video, downloading entire songs in mere seconds, or talking over my VoIP phone.
Technology marches on, my friend. And it is better, even if our nostalgic heart thinks otherwise. A picture is worth 1000 words, and a little extra bandwidth is a small price to pay.
If everyone had AIDS, you wouldn't have to be all that concerned about STDs now, would you?
I know what you mean. I read about such an STD. It results in 9 months of increasing deformity capped off by up to 48 hours of excrutiating pain. Afterward there are stretch marks, decreased sexual desire, and extreme sleep deprevation. It is then followed by 18 years of agony, a change in lifestyle, complete loss of social life, and expenses in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Because this horrific STD affects nearly 50% of the population, it is often considered "normal".
It works similar to a mail-in rebate. You take the XP install CD, make several copies and sell them on a street corner in Beijing. Then you download Suse and voila, a Linux laptop minus the Microsoft tax.
When technology advances enough to make laptop components large enough to fit on a desk.
The real amazing thing will be seeing how long the article's author Gary Krakow keeps his job.
There you have it. InfoWorld has debunked a myth using the informal comments of a nameless marketing manager from a nameless vendor from some unknown date and time at an unknown location.
Myth #7: That a company whose revenue is based on page-views and number of magazines sold is more credible than a tabloid.
This just shows me how fictional Star Trek really is. Starfleet uses tiny portable computers with an LCD to save the universe from certain doom. But you've just proven that what people will really use them for is to flip through pictures of Pam Anderson while sitting on the crapper without having to pay for Playboy.
Your assertion that mp3s offer you choice to the ITMS is very flawed. This isn't an alternative for legal music on an IPOD. There are only two ways to get mp3s on your IPOD.
1) Steal Music
2) Go to the store, buy an album, rip an album in mp3, move mp3s to IPOD.
Option 2 is the only legal option, and it is hardly an option to ITMS. It is like considering driving to the store and buying blocks of ice as an alternative to paying for electricity to cool your refridgerator.
No. I've seen at least 256k comments on /. that were >= in geekiness to the prior comment. In fact, I wrote a Perl script that can compare comments and return all geekier comments. It summarizes the comparison results as a graph in ASCII art so that you can view them when you ssh to your Linux box. If you would like a copy of the program, please email me in Klingon. I accept payment in Magic The Gathering cards. This comment is published under terms of the Creative Commons Share-Alike License version 2.0.
When I talk on my Vonage phone, I use as many technical terms and acronyms as possible. The US Patent and Trademark Office is proof that even if the government listens to my conversation, they won't be able to find anyone that can understand it.
> and the company may be poised to
> switch over to the remain five.
Could the Neurocrat please hire some fifth graders to edit articles?
> sniffed SCO spokesman Bake Stowell.
The SCO saga would definitely be more entertaining if his name was Bake.
From the front page of the Neurocrat:
> Contact The Neurocrat editor:
> Curtis Lee Fulton
Hmm, what exactly is the editor doing? Because it isn't what I call editing editing.
Not to mention the Slashdot posting is questionable itself:
> Lockheed Replaces 10,000 Solaris Seats with Linux
Excuse me? Even if this source is reliable, it didn't already happen.
This whole thing is sketchy.
Yes, what is the advantage of a camera-phone that you can get for virtually free after commiting to a service plan when you can already send pictures with your $2000 laptop when combined with with a $500 digital camera? Throw in $200 for a CDPD modem and $40/month plus $.30 per byte for the account and then your laptop can send these pictures from anywhere just like the camera-phone device.
I guess camera-phones are due to be tossed in the technological scrap heap any day now.
That sounds great in theory. Unfortunately the facts are that most of us provide the same information to all the websites and vendors we deal with. Gaining access to any one usually means the theif has access to all your information.
In the end, I'd rather trust all my information to one of the largest security systems in the world rather than Joe Bob's Tackle Supply.
Ever tried to use a cordless phone to dial 911 during a power outage? Guess what? It doesn't work. New tagline:
The price of 900 mhz's thriftiness
If you're thinking of dumping your wired phone for a cordless phone, you might want to reconsider.
What I've learned from this thread is that to be modded up you need to have extensive credible knoweledge of geology and chemistry, or you need to post any excerpt from South Park's Terrance & Phillip.
You must be joking. Seriously. I recently switched from Windows to Linux, and I have some devices that simply don't have any support. Such as my HP scanner (not supported by sane), a USB voice/data/fax modem, a Broadcom based 802.11g card, etc. These are NOT new products. As it stands now, some of these products may never see the light of day in Linux. I would gladly contribute to a public bounty to get drivers for these devices. If no one comes forward with drivers, it won't cost me anything.
You say "you'll be driving for early availability". Yes, yes...I want ANY availability. Any availability, much less early availability, is better than a 2'x1' peice of useless plastic collecting dust on my desktop.
Just because Epiphany has qualities that you like, thus making giving it a "legitamite place", isn't sufficient reason it needs to be the default Gnome browser. Many would say Galeon should be the default, while others could say Mozilla itself. No one says the Epiphany browser won't continue to be available, it's just not going to be Gnome's default.
Keep my system up to date with windowsupdate.microsoft.com.
More interesting is the article over at ZDNet. In that article, Baystar contends that Darl should step down, and that SCO is wasting it's time with the Unix business. Baystar suggests that SCO make litigation its only business.
Listening to geeks argue which use of a computer makes a Real Man is like sitting in a college football team's locker room listening to the players discuss the qualities to look for in an economic analyst.