I quit wow after achieving all of the small group content, which includes getting the top PvP rank. I was struggling to advance in 20 man raid content, but the reason I quit, is that the upcomming expansion means that any gear you gather before the expansion time will be relatively worthless: green and blue level 70 gear will be as good or better than level 60 epics, so if you aren't part of a guild that makes existing high end content easy, then its not worth the effort.
Same issue happened to me when I tried upgrading around the time it was released. Am I sure that my motherboard's latest bios updates wont cause this to happen again. No. There is no SP2 benefit that makea up for this uncertainty.
I had to RTFA to find out that AIT claims it lost "$500K in revenues" -- which pretty much means it is assuming some comparison between its alleged fake clicks to either a % conversion rate of real clicks or assuming that all of the clicks would have resulted in sales.
Its not much of a basis for a lawsuit. The damages should be based on costs incurred to deal with fake clicks, because legitimate sales/clicks weren't blocked.
It costs you more than $4000 per year even when you leave out several costs. But include insurance and market value depreciation and it will tend to be much higher.
20mpg car at $2.40/gal gas = 12cents per mile If you take a $25k new car and assume its worth 5k after 100k miles, then that is another 20cents per mile cost. So, you are already not that far off from 40 cents, and you haven't included maintenance, or different depreciation models that could reasonably add up to that amount.
1. At small scales rolling resistance is much higher. -- because surface smoothness is relatively much choppier. -- benefit of round wheels and gliding potenitial is much less.
It moves by wobbling from side to side with a weight moving like a helicopter rotor to sequentially push down on each wheel. so,
2. This simplifies small scale motion, because you dont need gears, axels or chains to transfer motor rotation into differen axes.
An entire downtown core could exert enough pressure to impact something. Pressure at any one point must be spread out and dampened. Rather than finger a single buildign they should look at the building density in the area.
Some spring assisted footwear could generate both impressive running speeds and considerable energy with this device.
If the footwear had heel activated absorbtion and toe activated release, the power could be used to assist toe push effort, and increase speed/effort ratio.
*You can hit the level cap in 400-500 hours play time. Far faster than any other game. *You dont need a game guide to make your way around and get to the level cap. *very quick transportation systems *very easy to have sufficient money for needs. *long betas to iron out balance and bugs
WoW's game once you hit the level cap is ok, but not spectacular. A nice technical innovation they have is seemless loading of new areas.
Any new game can do well if they match WoW in all of the above keys. And provide more variety for the end game. A better WoW is one that's even faster with less time sinks.
The Platforms are stale. They should be launching a next generation console at the end of this year instead of next.
There will definitely be consumer excitement about something fresh, and so developer excitement too.
The argument that developers will be burdened and oppressed to learn new APIs and architectures is extremely pathethic. Why would they bother to learn them 2 years later when the author would like MS to release after Sony.
Lua is spectacularly elegant. A functional language just as powerful as any other, but very simple and readable. Also has a powerful alternative to object programming.
encapsulation warns me when I make assumptions about how an interface is implemented (which could change)
Our programs manipulate our data. The libraries we use to transform/manipulate our data should return it to us for our safekeeping. The bank account object you provide for me could lose its withdraw and balance methods, essentially not only allowing me to lose useful functionality (withdraw), but also the main data/information (balance). Your interface implementation could be changed, but not necessarily to my benefit.
Beyond that, though, is the tedium and drudgery of crafting classes and implementing interfaces, which repetitively takes a lot of lines of code to accomplish fairly little.
As for Lua, we already had a surplus of untyped scripting languages (Python, ECMAScript, Perl, Tcl, Ruby). I wish they'd put that effort into something truly novel.
There's an extra level of elegance to Lua, even over python and ruby. It's a bit faster and a lot smaller than the others, and there is a nice implementation on palms Plua
Encapsulation is a restriction not a benefit. Just as non-open source software allows your data to be held hostage by the class producer authors. Reusability is poor because while both Accounting and Genealogy software might use a person object neither is interested in holding the other's baggage. An object hierarchy becomes a house of cards, built on excruciating desicions of what to include and exclude at each level, and how much baggage to bring along. Really the only good that ever came out of OOP was a straightforward way of passing around references to the same data, and easily creating and destroying records from classes.
<a href="http://www.lua.org/home.html">Lua</a&g t; is probably the best syntactically designed language out there in terms of both expressive power and readability.
It has an easy to read vb/pascal like syntax without semicolons. It has full functional powers No silly restrictions such as immutable variables. Tables as a replacement to both lists, and classes, essentially fully associative keyed lists and since any value can be a function a Table can act as a "method" container. Powerful extention mechanisms to define class inheritance/relationships within the language itself (rather than the compiler). great calling convention with multiple assignment/return values.
Lua is a great introductory language, in that it is exceptionally readable. While you will immidiately gravitate to using functional paradigms, you're not forced to using them exclusively. It has elegant OOP and imperative paradigms as well.
I love open source, but I run windows. Practically every useful linux open source project has a windows port. Windows has more intuitive system management, and games.
Similarly, Palm has a great light weight API suitable for PDAs. Just because the underlying system isn't open, doesn't mean its not useful, or that you can't use open software with it.
Proprietary E-book formats are indeed unattractive lock-in, and its a fair point that older OS versions and models will be abandoned, and unupgradeeable, yet using open formats and open tools side by side with a useful system provides the best environment. You know going in whether your data will be locked in, and can act accordingly.
This is a great product idea. It is desirable whether or not it ever gets outside publisher support.
1. Its not priced as a loss leader, so VIA/Apex can make $ off the hardware.
2. It doesn't bondage the consumer with restrictive wrappings, so you can run linux, mame, internet communication tools, custom media players, and PC games.
3. The processor/graphics chip is actually good enough to run most existing games (low rez), and is even suited to run dx9 games better than existing low end ATI/nvidia cards (on paper anyway). I'd imagine the marketing format will be to offer dual PC/Apex games in one box. Maybe there might not even be any license fees to make games for it! Or publishers would pay a small fee to have a standard "Works with Apex" sticker on their PC game's packaging.
The only weak link is that most PC and console games are suited to highly contrasting controllers.
The "videos" link isn't slashdotted atm, and is definitely worth checking out, especially if you're tempted to just rant how "quake is a bad interface for writting essays"
What's good about this technology, is that it is just cool/useful enough to use right out of the box with existing OS/WM/applications, but probably does provide a framework to extend and improve programming styles and UI techniques.
I guess its fair to be critical that much of this wasn't invented by Sun, but it doesn't change the point that its been rolled into an apparently useful package.
Just want to agree with Java not quite having the simplicity of VB. The extra rules regarding arrays and how and when you can address and populate them are just one complication, I found myself cratching my head over for too long.
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A system using perfectly fair machines can still be compromised if you control the central server the machines report to.
A paper trail that informs the voter what he just voted for, and poll workers what the tally/results are for their presinct is necessary to prevent tampering with the reported vote tally.
Diebold is one of our GOP-supporting overlords. It would be difficult to detect if they passed a backdoor password/method that allowed/permitted selected GOP hackers to modify vote tallys, or spoof a voting machine to overwrite previously reported legitimate tallies.
One of the Diebold memos suggested that votes were sitting unencrypted on an open ftp server, so the impression is even someone with the most basic technical skills could browse and alter them.
Apparently my design for a molecular assembler is deemed impossible for the sticky or fat finger aspect, but I need help understanding why this is impossible. I think I can circumvent that problem.
Anyways here's the design. It is simple and achievable. It is not conducive to building/replicating itself easily though.
The core is an STM microscope-like device, with many parralel tips each working on its own square millimeter (or smaller) area. Needle Tips or fingers doped with the next mollecule (properly oriented) to be inserted move along a conveyor belt where each are inserted into one of the parallel heads, the head then sticks the molecule in place, then the needle is sucked out, and sent to be refilled.
I don't really have a process for making mollecules, and placing them in the proper orientation on a needle. The one good thing about this design, is that there probably exists a needle material than can react "properly" with any given mollecule, such that it can 1) capture it, and 2) release it. (One method of releasing could just be to jab the needle quickly forward, flinging the package into place).
There's one problem with Drexler's universal assembler theory, with little publicity, that is only partially solved by my design. There is not an infinite number of universal assemblers created instantly, and as a secondary problem, programming them to work and move around cooperatively is not easy, and increases their required size if only because of the massive cpu they need to operate with.
The Other issue only partially addressed is speed. If everything is built using 3d tetris-like merging of 10nm building blocks (mollecules), then finishing a square milimeter takes 10B blocks. A quadrillion blocks makes a cubic milimeter of something. Even at 1 billion blocks per second, it takes 11.5 days to make 1 milimeter thick object. The billion blocks per second seems outrageously high to reach, but another way to increase throughput (but increase congestion of feeder needles) is to have denser parallel heads. If each head works on a square micrometer area, then building a cubic micrometer object takes 1 million 10nm blocks. At (only) 100K blocks per second, a 1mm thick object takes 10,000 secs = 2.77 hours
There's one other big problem. Like building a house of cards on an uneven surface, mollecules won't necessarily maintain a desired orientation without simultaneously placing adjoining molecules to couterbalance them. Seems like there would be a solution to this, with all the arms in such close proximity, but it would also slow down the process.
This is an absolute killer app. I haven't used this or kexi but comparing the 2 superficially:
Kexi runs on win32 also, and designed to eventually use sql lite so it will fit on PDAs. Its screenshots look a bit more polished, but apparently uses c++ as scripting language.
Rekall (beta) has macros, easier scripting, also a beta windows version (free?).
Is one project more advanced than the other? more features?
Its a killer app because you can design many apps quicker. Optionally focusing just on a general core, but let the user extend it easily with custom features or special info requirements. Small business consulting obviously too. All without runtime fees, or MS tax per user. With PDA's already hitting late 90s processing power, giving them 90s computing model apps is a big deal.
Kasparov played the same moves as game 1 in game 3. The comp is the one who deviated.
Essentially, the computer uses an opening book, in which many althernatives for the first 10-20 moves are calculated to be identically good to each other.
If the same first out of book position was reached again, and kasparov played the same moves using the same amount of thinking time, then yes, Fritz would also play identically.
5 years ago, We did not give our teen daughter (11 at the time) her own bedroom computer, although there is one in the basement now, for the kids.
At first, we let her use her mom's computer in public familly space. When we found porn on the puter, we let her know that we would catch her breaking any of our rules, so she shouldn't do so.
We also later found message logs that made us intervene in her life, without letting on that we spied on her. Teens aren't very open to their parents, and her computer activity let us keep tabs on her.
The point is we had rules, rules were broken, we enforced the rules until they were followed.
I'm hesitating between Palm and Zaurus as a portable gaming platform. Unlike this reviewer, I've pretty much ruled out PPC because of the lack of freeware. But I'm working only on conjecture.
While the Zaurus has games I know I like such as Nethack, chess, puzzle and card games, and mame (though interest is only mild), palm is cheaper, and looks to have the same game categories, perhaps all more tailored to PDAs. For the same price as a zaurus, OTOH, there's the zodiac, which my wife and kids might be more likely to use.
The problem with GBAs for me, beyond the expense, is the games are targeted at children.
The purpose for a tablet is computing without a table, or a sitting/lying down environment where computing while needing mobility away from that chair or bed. The real need is computing while standing, and moving around. Unfortunately given PDA competition, its wanting computing with something heavy and battery intensive (or that needs the extra mhz)
For business, you could think that Inventory management would be suitable, but really, the cost savings of avoiding a 2 step process of pen and paper combined with delayed data entry doesn't make sense.
The only business app is sales/presentation outside of meeting rooms, having instant access to any information. To justify the extra bulk compared to PDA, it has to be cpu intensive hi-res video info. PDAs are improving pretty rapidly, and seem better suited.
While tablets in schools is an excellent app even if they are bulky, because they can replace 20 pounds of textbooks. I'm unimpressed with your argument that they are useful for people failing to comprehend how to use a mouse. A system of tablets compatible with laptops and PCs is very convenient, but 8-10 hour battery life (or at least 6) would be needed to make that truly useful. Again, a beefed up pda is more suited because of lower power consumption.
The only app I appreciate right now, is pervasive computing around the home and office. the convenience of Full screen web browsing/web type games/solitaire type apps or the occasional relatively high power app, while moving around very little. Useful when you have too much money.
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I quit wow after achieving all of the small group content, which includes getting the top PvP rank. I was struggling to advance in 20 man raid content, but the reason I quit, is that the upcomming expansion means that any gear you gather before the expansion time will be relatively worthless: green and blue level 70 gear will be as good or better than level 60 epics, so if you aren't part of a guild that makes existing high end content easy, then its not worth the effort.
Same issue happened to me when I tried upgrading around the time it was released.
Am I sure that my motherboard's latest bios updates wont cause this to happen again. No. There is no SP2 benefit that makea up for this uncertainty.
I had to RTFA to find out that AIT claims it lost "$500K in revenues" -- which pretty much means it is assuming some comparison between its alleged fake clicks to either a % conversion rate of real clicks or assuming that all of the clicks would have resulted in sales.
Its not much of a basis for a lawsuit. The damages should be based on costs incurred to deal with fake clicks, because legitimate sales/clicks weren't blocked.
You drive 10k miles per year...
It costs you more than $4000 per year even when you leave out several costs.
But include insurance and market value depreciation and it will tend to be much higher.
20mpg car at $2.40/gal gas = 12cents per mile
If you take a $25k new car and assume its worth 5k after 100k miles, then that is another 20cents per mile cost.
So, you are already not that far off from 40 cents, and you haven't included maintenance, or different depreciation models that could reasonably add up to that amount.
they do say the rat brain can fly straight in hurricane winds
There's 2 reasons this is useful.
1. At small scales rolling resistance is much higher. -- because surface smoothness is relatively much choppier. -- benefit of round wheels and gliding potenitial is much less.
It moves by wobbling from side to side with a weight moving like a helicopter rotor to sequentially push down on each wheel. so,
2. This simplifies small scale motion, because you dont need gears, axels or chains to transfer motor rotation into differen axes.
An entire downtown core could exert enough pressure to impact something. Pressure at any one point must be spread out and dampened. Rather than finger a single buildign they should look at the building density in the area.
p.s. i have no geology training.
running would generate even more energy.
Some spring assisted footwear could generate both impressive running speeds and considerable energy with this device.
If the footwear had heel activated absorbtion and toe activated release, the power could be used to assist toe push effort, and increase speed/effort ratio.
WoW's success comes from:
*You can hit the level cap in 400-500 hours play time. Far faster than any other game.
*You dont need a game guide to make your way around and get to the level cap.
*very quick transportation systems
*very easy to have sufficient money for needs.
*long betas to iron out balance and bugs
WoW's game once you hit the level cap is ok, but not spectacular. A nice technical innovation they have is seemless loading of new areas.
Any new game can do well if they match WoW in all of the above keys. And provide more variety for the end game. A better WoW is one that's even faster with less time sinks.
The Platforms are stale. They should be launching a next generation console at the end of this year instead of next.
There will definitely be consumer excitement about something fresh, and so developer excitement too.
The argument that developers will be burdened and oppressed to learn new APIs and architectures is extremely pathethic. Why would they bother to learn them 2 years later when the author would like MS to release after Sony.
Lua is spectacularly elegant. A functional language just as powerful as any other, but very simple and readable.
Also has a powerful alternative to object programming.
As an introduction to progamming, PDA programming is a good start, because small programs can be useful on these. is a Lua implementation for Palm with a simple and effective integrated UI language that is all thoughtfully designed.
The older Clie's seem much more worthwhile than the 31. 320x320, 16MB, 4 hardware buttons +jog dial.
I guess if you want a PDA/mp3 player, its ok.
encapsulation warns me when I make assumptions about how an interface is implemented (which could change)
Our programs manipulate our data. The libraries we use to transform/manipulate our data should return it to us for our safekeeping. The bank account object you provide for me could lose its withdraw and balance methods, essentially not only allowing me to lose useful functionality (withdraw), but also the main data/information (balance). Your interface implementation could be changed, but not necessarily to my benefit.
Beyond that, though, is the tedium and drudgery of crafting classes and implementing interfaces, which repetitively takes a lot of lines of code to accomplish fairly little.
As for Lua, we already had a surplus of untyped scripting languages (Python, ECMAScript, Perl, Tcl, Ruby). I wish they'd put that effort into something truly novel.
There's an extra level of elegance to Lua, even over python and ruby. It's a bit faster and a lot smaller than the others, and there is a nice implementation on palms Plua
OOP SUCKS!
Encapsulation is a restriction not a benefit.
Just as non-open source software allows your data to be held hostage by the class producer authors.
Reusability is poor because while both Accounting and Genealogy software might use a person object neither is interested in holding the other's baggage.
An object hierarchy becomes a house of cards, built on excruciating desicions of what to include and exclude at each level, and how much baggage to bring along.
Really the only good that ever came out of OOP was a straightforward way of passing around references to the same data, and easily creating and destroying records from classes.
<a href="http://www.lua.org/home.html">Lua</a&g t; is probably the best syntactically designed language out there in terms of both expressive power and readability.
It has an easy to read vb/pascal like syntax without semicolons.
It has full functional powers
No silly restrictions such as immutable variables.
Tables as a replacement to both lists, and classes,
essentially fully associative keyed lists
and since any value can be a function a Table can act as a "method" container.
Powerful extention mechanisms to define class inheritance/relationships within the language itself (rather than the compiler).
great calling convention with multiple assignment/return values.
Lua is a great introductory language, in that it is exceptionally readable. While you will immidiately gravitate to using functional paradigms, you're not forced to using them exclusively. It has elegant OOP and imperative paradigms as well.
I love open source, but I run windows. Practically every useful linux open source project has a windows port. Windows has more intuitive system management, and games.
Similarly, Palm has a great light weight API suitable for PDAs. Just because the underlying system isn't open, doesn't mean its not useful, or that you can't use open software with it.
Proprietary E-book formats are indeed unattractive lock-in, and its a fair point that older OS versions and models will be abandoned, and unupgradeeable, yet using open formats and open tools side by side with a useful system provides the best environment. You know going in whether your data will be locked in, and can act accordingly.
This is a great product idea. It is desirable whether or not it ever gets outside publisher support.
1. Its not priced as a loss leader, so VIA/Apex can make $ off the hardware.
2. It doesn't bondage the consumer with restrictive wrappings, so you can run linux, mame, internet communication tools, custom media players, and PC games.
3. The processor/graphics chip is actually good enough to run most existing games (low rez), and is even suited to run dx9 games better than existing low end ATI/nvidia cards (on paper anyway). I'd imagine the marketing format will be to offer dual PC/Apex games in one box. Maybe there might not even be any license fees to make games for it! Or publishers would pay a small fee to have a standard "Works with Apex" sticker on their PC game's packaging.
The only weak link is that most PC and console games are suited to highly contrasting controllers.
The "videos" link isn't slashdotted atm, and is definitely worth checking out, especially if you're tempted to just rant how "quake is a bad interface for writting essays"
What's good about this technology, is that it is just cool/useful enough to use right out of the box with existing OS/WM/applications, but probably does provide a framework to extend and improve programming styles and UI techniques.
I guess its fair to be critical that much of this wasn't invented by Sun, but it doesn't change the point that its been rolled into an apparently useful package.
Just want to agree with Java not quite having the simplicity of VB. The extra rules regarding arrays and how and when you can address and populate them are just one complication, I found myself cratching my head over for too long.
A system using perfectly fair machines can still be compromised if you control the central server the machines report to.
A paper trail that informs the voter what he just voted for, and poll workers what the tally/results are for their presinct is necessary to prevent tampering with the reported vote tally.
Diebold is one of our GOP-supporting overlords. It would be difficult to detect if they passed a backdoor password/method that allowed/permitted selected GOP hackers to modify vote tallys, or spoof a voting machine to overwrite previously reported legitimate tallies.
One of the Diebold memos suggested that votes were sitting unencrypted on an open ftp server, so the impression is even someone with the most basic technical skills could browse and alter them.
Apparently my design for a molecular assembler is deemed impossible for the sticky or fat finger aspect, but I need help understanding why this is impossible. I think I can circumvent that problem.
Anyways here's the design. It is simple and achievable. It is not conducive to building/replicating itself easily though.
The core is an STM microscope-like device, with many parralel tips each working on its own square millimeter (or smaller) area. Needle Tips or fingers doped with the next mollecule (properly oriented) to be inserted move along a conveyor belt where each are inserted into one of the parallel heads, the head then sticks the molecule in place, then the needle is sucked out, and sent to be refilled.
I don't really have a process for making mollecules, and placing them in the proper orientation on a needle.
The one good thing about this design, is that there probably exists a needle material than can react "properly" with any given mollecule, such that it can 1) capture it, and 2) release it. (One method of releasing could just be to jab the needle quickly forward, flinging the package into place).
There's one problem with Drexler's universal assembler theory, with little publicity, that is only partially solved by my design. There is not an infinite number of universal assemblers created instantly, and as a secondary problem, programming them to work and move around cooperatively is not easy, and increases their required size if only because of the massive cpu they need to operate with.
The Other issue only partially addressed is speed. If everything is built using 3d tetris-like merging of 10nm building blocks (mollecules), then finishing a square milimeter takes 10B blocks. A quadrillion blocks makes a cubic milimeter of something. Even at 1 billion blocks per second, it takes 11.5 days to make 1 milimeter thick object. The billion blocks per second seems outrageously high to reach, but another way to increase throughput (but increase congestion of feeder needles) is to have denser parallel heads. If each head works on a square micrometer area, then building a cubic micrometer object takes 1 million 10nm blocks. At (only) 100K blocks per second, a 1mm thick object takes 10,000 secs = 2.77 hours
There's one other big problem. Like building a house of cards on an uneven surface, mollecules won't necessarily maintain a desired orientation without simultaneously placing adjoining molecules to couterbalance them. Seems like there would be a solution to this, with all the arms in such close proximity, but it would also slow down the process.
This is an absolute killer app. I haven't used this or kexi but comparing the 2 superficially:
Kexi runs on win32 also, and designed to eventually use sql lite so it will fit on PDAs. Its screenshots look a bit more polished, but apparently uses c++ as scripting language.
Rekall (beta) has macros, easier scripting, also a beta windows version (free?).
Is one project more advanced than the other? more features?
Its a killer app because you can design many apps quicker. Optionally focusing just on a general core, but let the user extend it easily with custom features or special info requirements. Small business consulting obviously too. All without runtime fees, or MS tax per user. With PDA's already hitting late 90s processing power, giving them 90s computing model apps is a big deal.
Kasparov played the same moves as game 1 in game 3. The comp is the one who deviated.
Essentially, the computer uses an opening book, in which many althernatives for the first 10-20 moves are calculated to be identically good to each other.
If the same first out of book position was reached again, and kasparov played the same moves using the same amount of thinking time, then yes, Fritz would also play identically.
5 years ago, We did not give our teen daughter (11 at the time) her own bedroom computer, although there is one in the basement now, for the kids.
At first, we let her use her mom's computer in public familly space. When we found porn on the puter, we let her know that we would catch her breaking any of our rules, so she shouldn't do so.
We also later found message logs that made us intervene in her life, without letting on that we spied on her. Teens aren't very open to their parents, and her computer activity let us keep tabs on her.
The point is we had rules, rules were broken, we enforced the rules until they were followed.
I'm hesitating between Palm and Zaurus as a portable gaming platform. Unlike this reviewer, I've pretty much ruled out PPC because of the lack of freeware. But I'm working only on conjecture.
While the Zaurus has games I know I like such as Nethack, chess, puzzle and card games, and mame (though interest is only mild), palm is cheaper, and looks to have the same game categories, perhaps all more tailored to PDAs. For the same price as a zaurus, OTOH, there's the zodiac, which my wife and kids might be more likely to use.
The problem with GBAs for me, beyond the expense, is the games are targeted at children.
The purpose for a tablet is computing without a table, or a sitting/lying down environment where computing while needing mobility away from that chair or bed. The real need is computing while standing, and moving around. Unfortunately given PDA competition, its wanting computing with something heavy and battery intensive (or that needs the extra mhz)
For business, you could think that Inventory management would be suitable, but really, the cost savings of avoiding a 2 step process of pen and paper combined with delayed data entry doesn't make sense.
The only business app is sales/presentation outside of meeting rooms, having instant access to any information. To justify the extra bulk compared to PDA, it has to be cpu intensive hi-res video info. PDAs are improving pretty rapidly, and seem better suited.
While tablets in schools is an excellent app even if they are bulky, because they can replace 20 pounds of textbooks. I'm unimpressed with your argument that they are useful for people failing to comprehend how to use a mouse. A system of tablets compatible with laptops and PCs is very convenient, but 8-10 hour battery life (or at least 6) would be needed to make that truly useful. Again, a beefed up pda is more suited because of lower power consumption.
The only app I appreciate right now, is pervasive computing around the home and office. the convenience of Full screen web browsing/web type games/solitaire type apps or the occasional relatively high power app, while moving around very little. Useful when you have too much money.