I remember the BSA's ad campaign in New York City last year. Big subway ad with a bullseye over an apple and the words "New York City, We're Coming for You" underneath. I was thrilled to see the ad; that kind of obnoxious crap will only push legit users away from the software companies that sponsor it. I even managed a couple of new Linux installs in the weeks after the campaign started - a server at work and a friend's machine.
Slightly more detail, with photos:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4430982785.ht ml
I always associated Royal with low-quality, but if they're not actually building the hardware themselves, and if there will be Linux synching, well that might be pretty cool. Nothing about Mac software though.
Yeah, and one of the nice by-products of Searchlight's display system was that if you tried to use a multi-DOS program on your brand-new NEC Powermate 286/10, someone logged into the BBS would see everything that you did in your other DOS shell. Of course, back then it was considered acceptable behavior to run a BBS only at night, so it didn't really affect my usage;)
Ahh yes good old Alex Chiu. It must be hard to be a complete freakin' lunatic. I especially like his replies to a post on his little bulletin board, and how he equates himself with Tesla and Einstein.
First generation? I switched from the Palm V to a Revo Plus, and never regretted it. I can emulate a Gameboy (or even a C64, for those who like extra irony on their pizza), I can use VNC, properly browse the web thanks to Opera and a real TCP/IP implementation, and just generally kick booty with all kinds of very spiffy built-in apps (a real Word-processor and excellent calendar app in particular). Now, who wants to talk about a real computer?
I've played with KOffice, and was generally impressed - it was certainly a lot faster than StarOffice on the same machine. I'm a Mac user, though, and KOffice really isn't an alternative for me. I've rediscovered AppleWorks, however, and it seems that Apple has finally gotten its act together with this package. 6.0.4 was something of a mess, but I'm using 6.2.2 now, and I haven't opened Word in quite some time. Apple used DataViz's excellent file-conversion tools to attain Word and Excel compatibility. What did DataViz do to get it right?
Is there a reason why the fuel can't be recycled using solar power? Unlike powering homes, where you have to deal with peaks and immediate need, to recycle this stuff all you need is electricity - and it doesn't have to be fast. Big, slow photovoltaic fields would be perfect.
But if Palm didn't buy Be for their OS then what, exactly, did they buy? And why? It seems like a lot of people got screwed in the deal and that every piece of Be technology that anyone interested in the company cares about is going to evaporate. What are Palm's plans? Why spend the money? Is there some good reporting around about what's going on?
Q: What is the status of the Sprint ION business?
A: Sprint has made a decision to discontinue Sprint ION services.
Several factors contributed to this decision, including the state of
the economy. The overriding factor was that a return on investment
could not be realized in a time period that was acceptable in today's
financial environment.
Translation: we made an investment in infrastructure, which should be long-term, but we are unwilling/unable to wait around long enough to start profitting from it.
I don't understand why all of these companies invested in the IT equivalent of water pipes and electrical lines without having the forethought to plan for years before profitability and the patience to wait for that to happen. And no, I am not trolling (well, not intentionally at least).
I used to work in the fashion industry. Take my word for it: the Fabulous People are infinitely worse than anything you could accurately portray in a movie. Don't believe me? Pick up a copy of "W" or "Paper" magazine and prepare to be horrified. Yes, there are actually people who live like that, and who care more about Fashion Week getting cancelled than any other impact 9-11 had on the world. I only wish that I could wear my "Fashion Sucks" t-shirt without being accused of trying to be ironically fashionable. The fashion industry has even co-opted being intentionally unfashionable!
How interesting. You bought something without checking compatibility, and it is somehow Apple's fault.
I love the "I hate Apples because I hate them" attitude. I am using an iBook right now, and can't for the life of my figure out why you have the keyboard so much, or what the problem is with the single mouse when the OS *expects* you to have a mouse with one button. I also can't figure out what the problem was with '95 Macs when compared with '95 era PCs. I don't remember a big speed differential.
When you have some actual rational reasons for disliking Macs then check back.
Well, this is what many of us who take Ben Franklin's old saying about surrendering freedom for security to heart have been talking about. Even if we COULD surrender part of our freedoms for safety, I don't think it would be a Good Thing (tm). What all of our idiot members of Congress are discussing are measures that would take away our freedoms without providing us with any additional security at all. I think anyone introducing any such legislation (or perhaps any legislation at all) should be required to logically prove, within reason, how the measure they are proposing would actually deal with the problem at hand. As someone remarked, how would such a scheme have possibly stopped foreign nationals from executing their scheme. It wouldn't have? BZZZZZT!
I was under the impression that the spectrum for "real" GSM in the USA is owned by the military, and that much of the 3G spectrum is the same way. My concern is that there's a new world standard being implemented, but we here in the US will once again have incompatible phones. When I flew from England to Spain all of the Europeans were able to take out their cell phones and start talking. I used mine to scratch my head. Bad enough that we have so called GSM1900, must we also have 3G phones that report "No Service" when we cross national borders?
Not that if affects me very much since as a contrarian I went out and bought a Psion Revo+ as soon as they were discontinued, BUT...
I've been hearing about problems with battery life when Linux is loaded onto one of these wee beasties. Does Linux running on an iPaq now have battery-life parity with WinCE (or whatever they're calling it this week) running on the same machine?
(and I'm loving the Revo, BTW. I don't even remember which drawer I threw my Palm V into)
Kindly see this URL:
http://www.amnesty-hamburg.de/bezirk/briefe/e06- 99 _aktion.html
Or this one (search for LaGrande):
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/foreignnatl.html for more specific details of the case to which I am referring.
For that constitutionally protected speech he was carted off by the FBI, held without bail, and denied access to his Consulate while who-knows-what psychological games were played with his mind (not to mention outright interrogation techniques).
The requirement that an arresting government contact the consulate of any foreign nationals they may arrest is governed by something called the Vienna Convention. The US invokes this convention repeatedly and loudly whenever one of our citizens is arrested abroad, but is notourious for denying that same right to foreign citizens arrested here. We've even gone so far as to execute people without allowing them this right.
I was under the impression that this was mostly a result of the State Department lacking the necessary power to compel the states to adhere to the treaty (this despite the fact that treaties and other federal laws are supposed to be the law of the land) - I know for a fact that this is what happened in Arizona a couple of years ago, when that state simply ignored the State Department's request that a pair of German nationals be allowed to contact their consulate and executed them (the Germans, not the State Department - I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which one was more deserving). That said, why should a prisoner held by the FEDERAL authorities be denied this right? What is the justification?
Our government seems to ignore the fact that ratified treaties are not simply casual agreements with foreign governments but carry the force of law in the US as well. If anyone wonders why the US is so hated abroad, this sort of double-standard might be a good place to start
I'm a republican with a little "r" - abolish the states! Uniform governance and protection for all US citizens!
A good term for states that allow their citizens to conduct economic activities nearly unfettered but prohibit any political dissent is fascism. Arbitrary enforcement of laws enacted without any kind of legitimate legislative process is also a prominant feature of fascist governments.
We constantly refer to China as a Communist country, but with its Socialist public institutions and centrally planned economy rotting faster each day, I think it makes more sense to start comparing it to Mussolini's or Franco's regime.
Glad to see that MS is trying to retain the loyalties of the great mass of newly-unemployed IT workers who no doubt will soon be living on these in addition to accessing the net from them. It'll be like having my DSL back!
What about seeing to their existing products?
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While all of this is lovely as far as pie-in-the-sky stuff goes, what about desperately needed updates to current models? USB anywhere on their product line (promised for nearly a year now)? How about a Macintosh connection suite that doesn't look like it's been ported from the Apple IIe? I think Psion should get cracking on things that will restore them to financial health *today* rather than throwing money directly down the sewer by investing in concept art which, as we all know, will never result in a physical product.
Oh, and I *DO* like Psion's products. Moderate flame levels accordingly.
Bah. Like a marksman who fires his gun between hearbeats, I just listen for the 60-cycle hum and slam my PCI cards in during the trough between signal peaks. Unfortunately my teeth are starting to blacken from gnawing on live IDE ribbon cables, so I may have to reconsider my hardware techniques.
While this is certainly true, that old 486 would be hard pressed to run a more modern distro with KDE or Gnome and all of the bells and whistles that go along with it. On the other hand, my school had a bunch of old color X terminals in a nice quiet compsci lab, and I was able to use them to access my computer in my dorm room and run all of those neat things just fine. While a 486-based X terminal wouldn't be as fast as a more modern pc running the same apps locally(maybe) it certainly would be faster than running all of that stuff on the 486 itself - and thus a pretty decent allocation of otherwise obsolete hardware.
I've heard from friends inside of the Alpha team that the problems started in December, when the head of the series 7 design team told the president of Compaq a month before the chip was supposed to be finished that he'd need six more months. Thanks to that delay Compaq had to reneg on several contracts, and that may have made Alpha the most obvious candidate for the axe when Compaq's recent financial problems manifested themselves. For those who don't know, the Alpha team always has two separate design projects going at once; one for the next generation chip, and one for the chip after that. The next scheduled release was (if I remember correctly) series seven, but that team has bungled things so badly that series eight is nearly finished and seven still isn't close to release. Its a shame, really. From what I've heard the eight is a real jem.
Oh, and there's also a rumor that Samsung, one of the Alpha's main fabs other than IBM, is no longer interested in producing it...more problems.
My (former) Japanese gf told me about this show one day, and YES even though I've seen the Japanese gameshow where people have to crawl through octopus tanks, and the one where they race babies, and even the one that involved several rounds of (get ready) plastic miniature building, I can't believe that she was essentially accurate on the details.
The one comforting thing about this, if there is one, is that the US hasn't quite reached this point yet; all of the so-called reality shows here are utter trash, completely pre-fab outdoors versions of the Price is Right. When we start taking it as seriously as poor Mr. Eggplant, well, then I really will move to Canada.
On an aside, the only reality show I ever watched and enjoyed wasn't a gameshow at all - it was Lionheart Television's "Castaway", supposedly the inspiration for "Survivor" (though if there's a connection other than the island I can't see it). No game show, no winners, no losers, just a big bunch of people trying to forge a community of some sort on a remote island. Good stuff, and yes, no tribal councils.
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I remember the BSA's ad campaign in New York City last year. Big subway ad with a bullseye over an apple and the words "New York City, We're Coming for You" underneath. I was thrilled to see the ad; that kind of obnoxious crap will only push legit users away from the software companies that sponsor it. I even managed a couple of new Linux installs in the weeks after the campaign started - a server at work and a friend's machine.
Slightly more detail, with photos:t ml
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS4430982785.h
I always associated Royal with low-quality, but if they're not actually building the hardware themselves, and if there will be Linux synching, well that might be pretty cool. Nothing about Mac software though.
Yeah, and one of the nice by-products of Searchlight's display system was that if you tried to use a multi-DOS program on your brand-new NEC Powermate 286/10, someone logged into the BBS would see everything that you did in your other DOS shell. Of course, back then it was considered acceptable behavior to run a BBS only at night, so it didn't really affect my usage ;)
Ahh yes good old Alex Chiu. It must be hard to be a complete freakin' lunatic. I especially like his replies to a post on his little bulletin board, and how he equates himself with Tesla and Einstein.
First generation? I switched from the Palm V to a Revo Plus, and never regretted it. I can emulate a Gameboy (or even a C64, for those who like extra irony on their pizza), I can use VNC, properly browse the web thanks to Opera and a real TCP/IP implementation, and just generally kick booty with all kinds of very spiffy built-in apps (a real Word-processor and excellent calendar app in particular). Now, who wants to talk about a real computer?
I've played with KOffice, and was generally impressed - it was certainly a lot faster than StarOffice on the same machine. I'm a Mac user, though, and KOffice really isn't an alternative for me. I've rediscovered AppleWorks, however, and it seems that Apple has finally gotten its act together with this package. 6.0.4 was something of a mess, but I'm using 6.2.2 now, and I haven't opened Word in quite some time. Apple used DataViz's excellent file-conversion tools to attain Word and Excel compatibility. What did DataViz do to get it right?
Is there a reason why the fuel can't be recycled using solar power? Unlike powering homes, where you have to deal with peaks and immediate need, to recycle this stuff all you need is electricity - and it doesn't have to be fast. Big, slow photovoltaic fields would be perfect.
I'm sorry, wasn't "General Fan" one of the characters from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"? I think his performance was just fine.
(avoiding rotten tomatoes)
But if Palm didn't buy Be for their OS then what, exactly, did they buy? And why? It seems like a lot of people got screwed in the deal and that every piece of Be technology that anyone interested in the company cares about is going to evaporate. What are Palm's plans? Why spend the money? Is there some good reporting around about what's going on?
Translation: we made an investment in infrastructure, which should be long-term, but we are unwilling/unable to wait around long enough to start profitting from it.
I don't understand why all of these companies invested in the IT equivalent of water pipes and electrical lines without having the forethought to plan for years before profitability and the patience to wait for that to happen. And no, I am not trolling (well, not intentionally at least).
I used to work in the fashion industry. Take my word for it: the Fabulous People are infinitely worse than anything you could accurately portray in a movie. Don't believe me? Pick up a copy of "W" or "Paper" magazine and prepare to be horrified. Yes, there are actually people who live like that, and who care more about Fashion Week getting cancelled than any other impact 9-11 had on the world. I only wish that I could wear my "Fashion Sucks" t-shirt without being accused of trying to be ironically fashionable. The fashion industry has even co-opted being intentionally unfashionable!
How interesting. You bought something without checking compatibility, and it is somehow Apple's fault.
I love the "I hate Apples because I hate them" attitude. I am using an iBook right now, and can't for the life of my figure out why you have the keyboard so much, or what the problem is with the single mouse when the OS *expects* you to have a mouse with one button. I also can't figure out what the problem was with '95 Macs when compared with '95 era PCs. I don't remember a big speed differential.
When you have some actual rational reasons for disliking Macs then check back.
I hadn't realized that Disaster Area was scheduled to play this month. And me without rubber bungs for my ears.
Well, this is what many of us who take Ben Franklin's old saying about surrendering freedom for security to heart have been talking about. Even if we COULD surrender part of our freedoms for safety, I don't think it would be a Good Thing (tm). What all of our idiot members of Congress are discussing are measures that would take away our freedoms without providing us with any additional security at all. I think anyone introducing any such legislation (or perhaps any legislation at all) should be required to logically prove, within reason, how the measure they are proposing would actually deal with the problem at hand. As someone remarked, how would such a scheme have possibly stopped foreign nationals from executing their scheme. It wouldn't have? BZZZZZT!
I was under the impression that the spectrum for "real" GSM in the USA is owned by the military, and that much of the 3G spectrum is the same way. My concern is that there's a new world standard being implemented, but we here in the US will once again have incompatible phones. When I flew from England to Spain all of the Europeans were able to take out their cell phones and start talking. I used mine to scratch my head. Bad enough that we have so called GSM1900, must we also have 3G phones that report "No Service" when we cross national borders?
Not that if affects me very much since as a contrarian I went out and bought a Psion Revo+ as soon as they were discontinued, BUT...
I've been hearing about problems with battery life when Linux is loaded onto one of these wee beasties. Does Linux running on an iPaq now have battery-life parity with WinCE (or whatever they're calling it this week) running on the same machine?
(and I'm loving the Revo, BTW. I don't even remember which drawer I threw my Palm V into)
Kindly see this URL:- 99 _aktion.html
l
http://www.amnesty-hamburg.de/bezirk/briefe/e06
Or this one (search for LaGrande):
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/foreignnatl.htm
for more specific details of the case to which I am referring.
For that constitutionally protected speech he was carted off by the FBI, held without bail, and denied access to his Consulate while who-knows-what psychological games were played with his mind (not to mention outright interrogation techniques).
The requirement that an arresting government contact the consulate of any foreign nationals they may arrest is governed by something called the Vienna Convention. The US invokes this convention repeatedly and loudly whenever one of our citizens is arrested abroad, but is notourious for denying that same right to foreign citizens arrested here. We've even gone so far as to execute people without allowing them this right.
I was under the impression that this was mostly a result of the State Department lacking the necessary power to compel the states to adhere to the treaty (this despite the fact that treaties and other federal laws are supposed to be the law of the land) - I know for a fact that this is what happened in Arizona a couple of years ago, when that state simply ignored the State Department's request that a pair of German nationals be allowed to contact their consulate and executed them (the Germans, not the State Department - I'll leave it up to the reader to decide which one was more deserving). That said, why should a prisoner held by the FEDERAL authorities be denied this right? What is the justification?
Our government seems to ignore the fact that ratified treaties are not simply casual agreements with foreign governments but carry the force of law in the US as well. If anyone wonders why the US is so hated abroad, this sort of double-standard might be a good place to start
I'm a republican with a little "r" - abolish the states! Uniform governance and protection for all US citizens!
A good term for states that allow their citizens to conduct economic activities nearly unfettered but prohibit any political dissent is fascism. Arbitrary enforcement of laws enacted without any kind of legitimate legislative process is also a prominant feature of fascist governments.
We constantly refer to China as a Communist country, but with its Socialist public institutions and centrally planned economy rotting faster each day, I think it makes more sense to start comparing it to Mussolini's or Franco's regime.
Glad to see that MS is trying to retain the loyalties of the great mass of newly-unemployed IT workers who no doubt will soon be living on these in addition to accessing the net from them. It'll be like having my DSL back!
While all of this is lovely as far as pie-in-the-sky stuff goes, what about desperately needed updates to current models? USB anywhere on their product line (promised for nearly a year now)? How about a Macintosh connection suite that doesn't look like it's been ported from the Apple IIe? I think Psion should get cracking on things that will restore them to financial health *today* rather than throwing money directly down the sewer by investing in concept art which, as we all know, will never result in a physical product.
Oh, and I *DO* like Psion's products. Moderate flame levels accordingly.
>('cept to add new hardware of course.)
Bah. Like a marksman who fires his gun between hearbeats, I just listen for the 60-cycle hum and slam my PCI cards in during the trough between signal peaks. Unfortunately my teeth are starting to blacken from gnawing on live IDE ribbon cables, so I may have to reconsider my hardware techniques.
While this is certainly true, that old 486 would be hard pressed to run a more modern distro with KDE or Gnome and all of the bells and whistles that go along with it. On the other hand, my school had a bunch of old color X terminals in a nice quiet compsci lab, and I was able to use them to access my computer in my dorm room and run all of those neat things just fine. While a 486-based X terminal wouldn't be as fast as a more modern pc running the same apps locally(maybe) it certainly would be faster than running all of that stuff on the 486 itself - and thus a pretty decent allocation of otherwise obsolete hardware.
I've heard from friends inside of the Alpha team that the problems started in December, when the head of the series 7 design team told the president of Compaq a month before the chip was supposed to be finished that he'd need six more months. Thanks to that delay Compaq had to reneg on several contracts, and that may have made Alpha the most obvious candidate for the axe when Compaq's recent financial problems manifested themselves. For those who don't know, the Alpha team always has two separate design projects going at once; one for the next generation chip, and one for the chip after that. The next scheduled release was (if I remember correctly) series seven, but that team has bungled things so badly that series eight is nearly finished and seven still isn't close to release. Its a shame, really. From what I've heard the eight is a real jem.
Oh, and there's also a rumor that Samsung, one of the Alpha's main fabs other than IBM, is no longer interested in producing it...more problems.
My (former) Japanese gf told me about this show one day, and YES even though I've seen the Japanese gameshow where people have to crawl through octopus tanks, and the one where they race babies, and even the one that involved several rounds of (get ready) plastic miniature building, I can't believe that she was essentially accurate on the details.
The one comforting thing about this, if there is one, is that the US hasn't quite reached this point yet; all of the so-called reality shows here are utter trash, completely pre-fab outdoors versions of the Price is Right. When we start taking it as seriously as poor Mr. Eggplant, well, then I really will move to Canada.
On an aside, the only reality show I ever watched and enjoyed wasn't a gameshow at all - it was Lionheart Television's "Castaway", supposedly the inspiration for "Survivor" (though if there's a connection other than the island I can't see it). No game show, no winners, no losers, just a big bunch of people trying to forge a community of some sort on a remote island. Good stuff, and yes, no tribal councils.