The mentioned PDA uses WindowsCE, I consider it annoying as it means it is quite unsync'able with something else than Windows (OK, there's a commercial conduit for OSX but even...). Now, I'd have been quite happy to see it compared with a Linux PDA: the GBA has an ARM7500FE while my Zaurus has a StrongARM@202. I can play Doom (prBoom) and Quake on my Z (OK, let's forget Quake;) no, why wasn't this comparison more open ? Maybe because this came from an individual which could not afford anything else than what he actuallly tested. It's a pity because it just is not exhaustive.
I now consider this problem as a minor annoyance : you can't expect this too happen as systematically as spam. I use a bluetooth phone but I am not an hardcore phoner : bluetooth is fine in conjunction with my powerbook, in case I need to access my company's network on the go.
Using redundant private address allows more than the 2^32 addresses to be created, as long as we have some "hubs" standing between each of the subnets, it's ok... The real "problem" is that we could eventually get to some private inside private inside private network which could force consummers to pay some toll-fees to access other subnets...
If someone wants to sell you something for less money than it takes you to make it: buy it from him!. Use the money you've saved to do something more interesting.
Like for exemple, how the USA saved money by delocalizing their workforce ?
you believe that your average traveller is likely to purchase more at duty free if they are advertised at using WiFi. No, you just misunderstood my whole point : what I actually "believe" is that it should be possible for a bunch of shops not to lose money offering Wifi in an Airport Terminal. This obviously involves advertising (how do shops make money ?)
Bear in mind that non-frequent flyers aren't that individually important to airlines. Hence that massive disparity in service between coach and non-coach. There isn't a massive economic incentive to give economy class passengers anything over the bare minimum. I just consider my situation and the one of most people I know : we do not travel that much were we given the choice to fly or take the train, the internet access would be consider after both time and costs aspects. I do not know how many of each of us there are, if there are more frequent flyers or occasional ones but I guess there'd be some opportunity which could be triggered by giving people a way to communicate with others while being able to send them messages.
The beauty of having been the birthplace the world's most important (according to Weber et al) language is that we don't have to waste time learning any other ones. I believe they even teach it in Switzerland these days... If you argue this regarding my typo, then, well, I just have to get more used to this Swiss German keyboard.:)
No this isnt a conspiracy against the working man, the shops just want to stay profitable. I doubt a cafe or a bookstore for that matter will make millions. I doubt it too, but I think if the Terminal shops associates, they will not lose money, hence my remark.
All the frequent flyer lounges I've ever been in have either free internet terminals or WiFi - so airlines have already taken care of that. How many frequent flyers are there for one occasional flyer ? I don't plan to fly every week, do I have not to benefit from a wireless access point in 2002 ? What if this gives salers further occasion to get me in their shops ? My point is : it will rather gain airports/lines/shops money than lse them some. Now, they way they can earn money by giving away internet access still has to be handled on a per-airport basis.
However given that I don't have a f***ing clue what 'Ivraie' means it wasn't very effective. I like to teach interseting stuff to young people (even Brits;) so, what you have to remember is "Ivraie" is not "true", it rather is the bit you'll drop when harvesting...
not "nationalism" : protectionism. If you buy a Nokia phone, you might at least save its import taxes, no ? And you'll also improve your country's economy by keepping some of your fellow citizen at work.
How's this "nationalist" when every country in the workl, except European countries have understood how vital it is to keep their populations from consuming more foreign than local goods for economic sanity's sake ?
thousands ? A spot costs 200$. It might just be enough for a plane's passengers. (only one or 2 dozens might actually use it)
Proxy them the whole internet so that they get an ad frame each time they surf. The ads will be about bargains or sales in the duty free shops. So, each shop will surely make a little money out of the little investment it takes : browsing the Internet with a laptop is not the same as letting anymone Torrentse.cx his harddisc, is it ?
Now, of course, this won't earn companies millions but it might make their customers (the flight passengers) happy. So, they'll tell their fellows travellers...
Seriously think about this instead of posting such an idiotic comment, Mr "Vrai" (as in "Ivraie").
Nokia is Finnish so I guess you are happy to spend money on your nattional production, aren't you ? BTW how less expensive are Nokia devices, up there ?
If they just put a proxy in the middle that would add a top ad frame to the web pages I'd be browsing, I'd consider it more decent. Remember the wireless telephone boom only started when they began giving away phones with subscriptions. Here, it's the same deal : let people depend on these accesses and insert a decently sized ad in the pages they'll be browsing (this could BTW be an ad for one of the airport shops)...
In September, while travelling between Bern(CH) and Frisco. I had the sweet surprise to see some Wifi logo in SFO. I then open my iBook and check for a network, which I find. I try to browse and find a web page which asks me to pay 25$. Bullshit! How do they believe they will sell such access, especially to people who need at most one hour accesses ??? If you want such networks to develop, you will have to give the access for FREE (as in Beer).
One last thing: anything can be mapped to a drive, and drives don't just have to be letters.
Reminds me of this 15 year old Acorn technology which has always allowed one to develop its own filer modules to access whichever file or device type as if it were a directory.
Yep, unless you edit your %SYSTEM/etc/hosts and add the nice ip address of an MS-compliant search engine server which would be syntactically compatible with Google. (I did it in order to use Av.com from Safari : it just works.)
It is ALREADY integrated in MSIE : just type some search query directly in MSIE's URL bar and then enter : you'll eventually be taken to an MSN Search result page.
Let's get back too the ROOTS: Besides this political aspect (Google who claimed they were using Linux will only see their service's quality lower after Kro tell them to drop it for some NTXPCE2003 stuff), av.com is also much more reliable when it comes to filter requests (+url=tompox -link:mirko +toto*...). BTW, if you look for "end the" (qquotes included) on AV.com, you'll get the expected results. In Google, some ""the end" will appear within the top 10 results...
The reason I still have a Zaurus iss because I LOVE to code in Qt/C++ : otherwise, I plan to acquire an iPod which may become my only PIM. (I do lot of sport and my Discman just lets me down when I move too much)
Hi, As I answered previously, no one of these solutions actually works. The AppleScript Address Book Sync, which is the most advanced of these projects, only works with ROMv2.38 whereas, like most peoplee, I switched to ROMv3 : such PIM data are not stored in flat ascii files anymore but in some poorly documented binary blurb. I actually consider writing my own PIM app for the Zaurus, this will expectedly come with an OSX soft or SyncML filter. I plan to solve this issue this way because Apple's ADC provides much better API info than Sharp: I'll keep my Zaurus until it dies but I'll never buy another unless this is as open as my RiscPC was.
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The mentioned PDA uses WindowsCE, I consider it annoying as it means it is quite unsync'able with something else than Windows (OK, there's a commercial conduit for OSX but even...). : ;) no, why wasn't this comparison more open ?
Now, I'd have been quite happy to see it compared with a Linux PDA
the GBA has an ARM7500FE while my Zaurus has a StrongARM@202.
I can play Doom (prBoom) and Quake on my Z (OK, let's forget Quake
Maybe because this came from an individual which could not afford anything else than what he actuallly tested.
It's a pity because it just is not exhaustive.
I actually did not RTFA, yep.
:)
Thanks for your fine explanation
I now consider this problem as a minor annoyance : you can't expect this too happen as systematically as spam.
I use a bluetooth phone but I am not an hardcore phoner : bluetooth is fine in conjunction with my powerbook, in case I need to access my company's network on the go.
Using redundant private address allows more than the 2^32 addresses to be created, as long as we have some "hubs" standing between each of the subnets, it's ok...
The real "problem" is that we could eventually get to some private inside private inside private network which could force consummers to pay some toll-fees to access other subnets...
My point too : I'd also be surprised if there were not an automatical blocking system after failing to communicate the relevant PIN 3 times...
Also, Bluetooth only has a 5-10 meters so it's hard not to find out who may have sent something.
Both of the above points make me wonder whether this story is more than an actual legend...
Windows 95, Windows NT and the Mac OS are not supported at this time.
Only available to DRM-aware Windows versions ?
Erm... Better keep on going to GNUArt
If someone wants to sell you something for less money than it takes you to make it: buy it from him!. Use the money you've saved to do something more interesting.
Like for exemple, how the USA saved money by delocalizing their workforce ?
you believe that your average traveller is likely to purchase more at duty free if they are advertised at using WiFi.
... :)
No, you just misunderstood my whole point : what I actually "believe" is that it should be possible for a bunch of shops not to lose money offering Wifi in an Airport Terminal. This obviously involves advertising (how do shops make money ?)
Bear in mind that non-frequent flyers aren't that individually important to airlines. Hence that massive disparity in service between coach and non-coach. There isn't a massive economic incentive to give economy class passengers anything over the bare minimum.
I just consider my situation and the one of most people I know : we do not travel that much were we given the choice to fly or take the train, the internet access would be consider after both time and costs aspects.
I do not know how many of each of us there are, if there are more frequent flyers or occasional ones but I guess there'd be some opportunity which could be triggered by giving people a way to communicate with others while being able to send them messages.
The beauty of having been the birthplace the world's most important (according to Weber et al) language is that we don't have to waste time learning any other ones. I believe they even teach it in Switzerland these days
If you argue this regarding my typo, then, well, I just have to get more used to this Swiss German keyboard.
No this isnt a conspiracy against the working man, the shops just want to stay profitable. I doubt a cafe or a bookstore for that matter will make millions.
I doubt it too, but I think if the Terminal shops associates, they will not lose money, hence my remark.
All the frequent flyer lounges I've ever been in have either free internet terminals or WiFi - so airlines have already taken care of that.
;) so, what you have to remember is "Ivraie" is not "true", it rather is the bit you'll drop when harvesting...
How many frequent flyers are there for one occasional flyer ?
I don't plan to fly every week, do I have not to benefit from a wireless access point in 2002 ?
What if this gives salers further occasion to get me in their shops ?
My point is : it will rather gain airports/lines/shops money than lse them some.
Now, they way they can earn money by giving away internet access still has to be handled on a per-airport basis.
However given that I don't have a f***ing clue what 'Ivraie' means it wasn't very effective.
I like to teach interseting stuff to young people (even Brits
not "nationalism" : protectionism.
If you buy a Nokia phone, you might at least save its import taxes, no ?
And you'll also improve your country's economy by keepping some of your fellow citizen at work.
How's this "nationalist" when every country in the workl, except European countries have understood how vital it is to keep their populations from consuming more foreign than local goods for economic sanity's sake ?
thousands ?
A spot costs 200$.
It might just be enough for a plane's passengers. (only one or 2 dozens might actually use it)
Proxy them the whole internet so that they get an ad frame each time they surf.
The ads will be about bargains or sales in the duty free shops.
So, each shop will surely make a little money out of the little investment it takes : browsing the Internet with a laptop is not the same as letting anymone Torrentse.cx his harddisc, is it ?
Now, of course, this won't earn companies millions but it might make their customers (the flight passengers) happy.
So, they'll tell their fellows travellers...
Seriously think about this instead of posting such an idiotic comment, Mr "Vrai" (as in "Ivraie").
Nokia is Finnish so I guess you are happy to spend money on your nattional production, aren't you ?
BTW how less expensive are Nokia devices, up there ?
If they just put a proxy in the middle that would add a top ad frame to the web pages I'd be browsing, I'd consider it more decent.
Remember the wireless telephone boom only started when they began giving away phones with subscriptions.
Here, it's the same deal : let people depend on these accesses and insert a decently sized ad in the pages they'll be browsing (this could BTW be an ad for one of the airport shops)...
In September, while travelling between Bern(CH) and Frisco.
I had the sweet surprise to see some Wifi logo in SFO.
I then open my iBook and check for a network, which I find.
I try to browse and find a web page which asks me to pay 25$.
Bullshit!
How do they believe they will sell such access, especially to people who need at most one hour accesses ???
If you want such networks to develop, you will have to give the access for FREE (as in Beer).
mplugger
Don't know.
But this is the problem : such a program is not obvious.
Especially one year after.
Rosegarden
Just one ?
And how can this reach Reason's level ?
Dunno what IB is, but sounds like a RAD UI dev tool. Glade, any number of Java tools, whatever the KDE tool is that does this.
No, once again I am afraid the tools you mention are not even close to IB's level.
gnumeric
Last time I checked, it didn't have a solver ?
Sodipodi. Not fully comparable yet.
This one looks seriously good.
Exactly, just show them it's not because it has not costed millions in "lawyer^Wexpert" fees that it is not solid..
I do not get your point : av.com just returned some decent results (kernel.org on top, but also kerneli.org, etc. ) ?
One last thing: anything can be mapped to a drive, and drives don't just have to be letters.
Reminds me of this 15 year old Acorn technology which has always allowed one to develop its own filer modules to access whichever file or device type as if it were a directory.
Yep, unless you edit your %SYSTEM/etc/hosts and add the nice ip address of an MS-compliant search engine server which would be syntactically compatible with Google.
(I did it in order to use Av.com from Safari : it just works.)
It is ALREADY integrated in MSIE : just type some search query directly in MSIE's URL bar and then enter : you'll eventually be taken to an MSN Search result page.
What do you mean ? Altavista is NOT slashdotted at this moment ?!
Let's get back too the ROOTS: Besides this political aspect (Google who claimed they were using Linux will only see their service's quality lower after Kro tell them to drop it for some NTXPCE2003 stuff), av.com is also much more reliable when it comes to filter requests (+url=tompox -link:mirko +toto* ...).
BTW, if you look for "end the" (qquotes included) on AV.com, you'll get the expected results.
In Google, some ""the end" will appear within the top 10 results...
The reason I still have a Zaurus iss because I LOVE to code in Qt/C++ : otherwise, I plan to acquire an iPod which may become my only PIM.
(I do lot of sport and my Discman just lets me down when I move too much)
Hi, :
As I answered previously, no one of these solutions actually works.
The AppleScript Address Book Sync, which is the most advanced of these projects, only works with ROMv2.38 whereas, like most peoplee, I switched to ROMv3 : such PIM data are not stored in flat ascii files anymore but in some poorly documented binary blurb.
I actually consider writing my own PIM app for the Zaurus, this will expectedly come with an OSX soft or SyncML filter.
I plan to solve this issue this way because Apple's ADC provides much better API info than Sharp
I'll keep my Zaurus until it dies but I'll never buy another unless this is as open as my RiscPC was.
Thanks but nothing's ready, yet. :(
I use the Zaurus ROMv3 for which there is no solution.