When you first get one of these, expect to first couple of batteries to drain quickly. I believe it charges an on-board battery that's basically used to keep the info on the Blackberry intact when the AA dies.
This is not quite true. Mobitex base stations have huge coverage - tens of miles in radius, and TX power is 2-6 Watts. Portable Mobitex modems have output power about 2 W and draw huge pulses of current. That's why a secondary battery is needed - it gets trickle-charged from AAs.
BTW, I have BlackBerry around but Fido GSM works better for me. In fact, Fido already has Email over SMS. If you need only message digests check out my mail-SMS at my home page at GeoCities.
Pure water is used to cool many of high-power vacuum tubes. Anodes of these tubes are located in vacuum, inside of metal-glass container, and water circulates inside of anode, through channels. Oil is too dense and would not come through fast enough. The resistance of pure water is high, it easily withstands tens of kilovolt. The radio transmitters I looked at were in range of hundreds of kilowatt (AM broadcasting). Parameters of water were monitored all the time, automatically, and distillers were on site as part of the whole setup, complete with heat exchangers and fountains outdoors - no problems whatsoever.
Well, I registered both WordPerfect and StarOffice (including SO 5.1 this morning). I have both on my computer. Registration is painless and, I think, fair (they spent real money on the product, after all).
I do not see, however, a clear winner between SO and WP. Ugliness of WP is of lesser importance to me; speed does matter. I have some MIME types configured in Netscape to start WP - try this with StarOffice! However, when started, WP does quite a few things badly and slowly; it still can't print in color for me.
For industrial use WP is OK (if you, for example, fill forms all the day). I'd be reluctant to use WP for more intricate work, such as preparing documents for the Big Boss. People like students (who do not need embedded VB stuff to run an SQL query on every keystroke) can and should use WP. It is definitely a word processor that everyone can use (LyX sometimes generates illegal LaTeX code and asks to fix it!)
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When you first get one of these, expect to first couple of batteries to drain quickly. I believe it charges an on-board battery that's basically used to keep the info on the Blackberry intact when the AA dies.
This is not quite true. Mobitex base stations have huge coverage - tens of miles in radius, and TX power is 2-6 Watts. Portable Mobitex modems have output power about 2 W and draw huge pulses of current. That's why a secondary battery is needed - it gets trickle-charged from AAs.
BTW, I have BlackBerry around but Fido GSM works better for me. In fact, Fido already has Email over SMS. If you need only message digests check out my mail-SMS at my home page at GeoCities.
Pure water is used to cool many of high-power vacuum tubes. Anodes of these tubes are located in vacuum, inside of metal-glass container, and water circulates inside of anode, through channels. Oil is too dense and would not come through fast enough. The resistance of pure water is high, it easily withstands tens of kilovolt. The radio transmitters I looked at were in range of hundreds of kilowatt (AM broadcasting). Parameters of water were monitored all the time, automatically, and distillers were on site as part of the whole setup, complete with heat exchangers and fountains outdoors - no problems whatsoever.
I do not see, however, a clear winner between SO and WP. Ugliness of WP is of lesser importance to me; speed does matter. I have some MIME types configured in Netscape to start WP - try this with StarOffice! However, when started, WP does quite a few things badly and slowly; it still can't print in color for me.
For industrial use WP is OK (if you, for example, fill forms all the day). I'd be reluctant to use WP for more intricate work, such as preparing documents for the Big Boss. People like students (who do not need embedded VB stuff to run an SQL query on every keystroke) can and should use WP. It is definitely a word processor that everyone can use (LyX sometimes generates illegal LaTeX code and asks to fix it!)