Gandalf says (when giving backstory in the books) that he believes that The Artist Formerly Known As Smeagol was of hobbit-kind. Make of that phrase what you will. Various usenet threads (recent example) have discussed this to death.
This would be exciting if I didn't already know what is going to happen.
There's the excitement (if you can call it that) of "what are they going to change to fix up the changes that they made for the first movie". Like, a butterfly flapped its wings when they were reforging Narsil, and therefore we will end up with an Eowyn/Arwen catfight. Bug or feature? You decide:)
Handera had virtual graffiti area for a while and Sony has recently picked up the idea and gone 320x480 (in their own wacky way). So your ideal PDA is either already out there or "coming soon".... just not from Palm.. heh.
Please ignore my last sentence due to me being on crack (2003 is the monochrome projection, 2004 is the color; still too long to go without exhaling though so the penultimate sentence may stand.)
When will they start making PDAs with electronic paper
Patience grasshopper. The answer is in the very site you cite, you just have to read their July press release.
These color electronic ink displays are targeted for commercialization in
2004. Using E Ink's electronic ink technology in components made by TOPPAN, Philips plans to first introduce monochrome displays (ranging from black & white to 4-bit gray scale initially) for handheld devices and portable consumer electronics next year.
I wouldn't hold my breath though. No projection for color and that's what would really be exciting.
To some people, size matters enough that a.75"-1" difference will look interesting even if it introduces a new potential point of failure. I don't claim to understand these people though.;)
Eh. I wouldn't worry about that much. Palm-sized computers are fairly mainstream now (I see people using them on the bus all the time), so I doubt the average prospective buyer even knows that tungsten is an element.:-b At best they would probably be thinking "tungsten carbide --> won't break when I drop it".
I really expected Palm to have something new by now.
Cheer up, you could have jumped ship to Handspring, like I did a while back when I found myself saying that. (Oh well. Springboards were a fun ride while it lasted.)
It's all about how you use it... I know people who only have 2M and don't feel cramped, and I even know people who have 8M and are only using 2M of it (!!!) so I could believe there's still an entry-level market for 2M if it's really low priced (and allowing for entry-level people perhaps not knowing how cheaply you can get a 8M handheld as long as you don't mind it being an orphaned line (gee thanks Handspring)). Shrug.
I would ask you to show me a decent Palm-based phone that does not have a keyboard. Every Treo does. Now the Palm will.
As someone upstream pointed out, Kyocera is sticking with a Graffiti area in the forthcoming 7135. I can't decide what to feel about the form factor though.
every shot of OS5 looks just like every other Palm OS since... well since the beginning.
Yeah, what gives?... in Intro to HCI we learned the critical importance of changing the user interface as much as possible between OS versions. (Or was that, the importance of not changing... hm, well, maybe I shouldn't have slept through that lecture.;)
Don't forget palmopensource.com and freewarepalm.com which enable a significant time savings (i.e. anyone who looks for games there can automatically skip the "find cracked warez version" step that seems to be dear to the piratical hearts of much of the more vocal/. readership. To whom I say, good grief, get a haircut and a job and cough up the dough already.)
Who thinks that people silly enough to believe the first trip to the moon was a hoax will now believe that this trip is for real?
That was my first thought too.
But then I realized that the solution is obvious: We just need to round up all the people who think that the moon landing was a hoax, take them to the moon, and -- this is the important bit -- leave them there.
Yeah, the key thing is the application, not the current platform. Though for some reason people seem more hung up on the idea of wedding photography robots being bright red than the idea of terrorist-stalking robots being unable to climb stairs (the stairs issue was why we didn't invite a similarly shaped robot to our wedding - as a friend/co-worker of the groom, of course, not as a photographer).
Yeah. Anonymity can be a real useful feature, but there are a lot of people whose sole hobby is to make it seem like a bug (by making it harder for the rest of us to extract anyone that rude from our gene pool).
topical remarks:
- Interesting that bonobos apparently also have this genetic thingummy.
- I wonder how the postulated ancient die-off event compares in terms of severity to the near-extinction of cheetahs. It sounds as though chimp diversity, except for this one factor, "bounced back" (or else was not that severely impacted) whereas cheetahs are still all basically clones of Jango Fett - but, it also sounds like chimps have had maybe 200 times as long to recover from it?
Doesn't have to be FREE, just provide a nice discount, both Palm and Sony has developer programs that provide nice discounts for the products.
hmmm. The goal of Palm and Sony is to sell hardware (PDAs); as such it makes good sense to give away development tools, emulators, etc., and (when convenient) to provide limited discounts on some models of the hardware for registered developers. Poof! Lots of third party software, lots of reasons for non-developers to buy PalmOS instead of a competitor's product.
Fundamentally this kind of "free stuff" is about making your real product more attractive to its target audience.
If the development toolset is the real product, then you can't give it away and survive; you can't even discount it to developers (because your whole market is developers so that would be "everybody"); instead, probably take the crack-dealer approach, "first hit is free, you're hooked now, you pay".
If instead the development toolset's relationship to the product is "effortlessly [from your perspective] causes the creation of things that make the product itself worth buying", then yeah, cast your bread upon the waters and get it back 1024-fold or whatever... don't necessarily make everything free but make enough of it free (or make enough of the specs open that other people create free/cheap tools) so that the most shoestring-budget developers truly only "need" to buy your actual product, your PDA-or-whatever (and if you have different interchangable gradations, from "minimalist free toolset" to "all-singing all-dancing commercial toolset", you can work the crack-dealer angle back into it after all... here the comparison to PalmOS development tools definitely breaks down because it requires actual effort to move a project's codebase from the gcc-based tools to the commercial tools, so it becomes hard to justify moving in either direction.) And if developers are only a tiny fraction of your real product's real audience, sure, you can probably afford to give developers some discount on the product itself, after you've finished thinking about how cheap you can make the tools.
I have no point here, I just like saying "I could more easily believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven.";-)
(In any case, I think that all that we have really discovered for certain is that "most people who responded to this survey and claimed to be free software developers also claimed to be male and to have a significant other".)
... we must conclude that nobody on/. actually does anything useful.
...the need for the "haiku rider" being that, evidently, in the mind of whoever came up with this scheme, someone is more likely to believe you if you point at a "poem" and say "that's COPYRIGHTED you hoser" than if you point at six lines of random legalese.
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Gandalf says (when giving backstory in the books) that he believes that The Artist Formerly Known As Smeagol was of hobbit-kind. Make of that phrase what you will. Various usenet threads (recent example) have discussed this to death.
This would be exciting if I didn't already know what is going to happen.
:)
There's the excitement (if you can call it that) of "what are they going to change to fix up the changes that they made for the first movie". Like, a butterfly flapped its wings when they were reforging Narsil, and therefore we will end up with an Eowyn/Arwen catfight. Bug or feature? You decide
Handera had virtual graffiti area for a while and Sony has recently picked up the idea and gone 320x480 (in their own wacky way). So your ideal PDA is either already out there or "coming soon".... just not from Palm.. heh.
Please ignore my last sentence due to me being on crack (2003 is the monochrome projection, 2004 is the color; still too long to go without exhaling though so the penultimate sentence may stand.)
Patience grasshopper. The answer is in the very site you cite, you just have to read their July press release. I wouldn't hold my breath though. No projection for color and that's what would really be exciting.
To some people, size matters enough that a .75"-1" difference will look interesting even if it introduces a new potential point of failure. I don't claim to understand these people though. ;)
Eh. I wouldn't worry about that much. Palm-sized computers are fairly mainstream now (I see people using them on the bus all the time), so I doubt the average prospective buyer even knows that tungsten is an element. :-b At best they would probably be thinking "tungsten carbide --> won't break when I drop it".
I really expected Palm to have something new by now.
Cheer up, you could have jumped ship to Handspring, like I did a while back when I found myself saying that. (Oh well. Springboards were a fun ride while it lasted.)
It's all about how you use it... I know people who only have 2M and don't feel cramped, and I even know people who have 8M and are only using 2M of it (!!!) so I could believe there's still an entry-level market for 2M if it's really low priced (and allowing for entry-level people perhaps not knowing how cheaply you can get a 8M handheld as long as you don't mind it being an orphaned line (gee thanks Handspring)). Shrug.
I would ask you to show me a decent Palm-based phone that does not have a keyboard. Every Treo does. Now the Palm will.
As someone upstream pointed out, Kyocera is sticking with a Graffiti area in the forthcoming 7135. I can't decide what to feel about the form factor though.
every shot of OS5 looks just like every other Palm OS since... well since the beginning.
;)
Yeah, what gives?... in Intro to HCI we learned the critical importance of changing the user interface as much as possible between OS versions. (Or was that, the importance of not changing... hm, well, maybe I shouldn't have slept through that lecture.
Let me qualify that, you're clearly a sharp guy being at MIT and all.
Perhaps this is a sterling example of the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom?
Is it wrong to murder and eat someone?
C'mon. Relativism is a slippery slope and this is not a good season for tray sledding.
I was wondering why no Random Art.
Don't forget palmopensource.com and freewarepalm.com which enable a significant time savings (i.e. anyone who looks for games there can automatically skip the "find cracked warez version" step that seems to be dear to the piratical hearts of much of the more vocal /. readership. To whom I say, good grief, get a haircut and a job and cough up the dough already.)
Who thinks that people silly enough to believe the first trip to the moon was a hoax will now believe that this trip is for real?
That was my first thought too.
But then I realized that the solution is obvious: We just need to round up all the people who think that the moon landing was a hoax, take them to the moon, and -- this is the important bit -- leave them there.
Yeah, the key thing is the application, not the current platform. Though for some reason people seem more hung up on the idea of wedding photography robots being bright red than the idea of terrorist-stalking robots being unable to climb stairs (the stairs issue was why we didn't invite a similarly shaped robot to our wedding - as a friend/co-worker of the groom, of course, not as a photographer).
My first thought was "Someone's been playing too much Seaman"...
Yeah. Anonymity can be a real useful feature, but there are a lot of people whose sole hobby is to make it seem like a bug (by making it harder for the rest of us to extract anyone that rude from our gene pool).
topical remarks:
- Interesting that bonobos apparently also have this genetic thingummy.
- I wonder how the postulated ancient die-off event compares in terms of severity to the near-extinction of cheetahs. It sounds as though chimp diversity, except for this one factor, "bounced back" (or else was not that severely impacted) whereas cheetahs are still all basically clones of Jango Fett - but, it also sounds like chimps have had maybe 200 times as long to recover from it?
Or "fool me twice, prepare to die", but "Winnipenguin" doesn't sound like a traditional Klingon name to me.
Doesn't have to be FREE, just provide a nice discount, both Palm and Sony has developer programs that provide nice discounts for the products.
hmmm. The goal of Palm and Sony is to sell hardware (PDAs); as such it makes good sense to give away development tools, emulators, etc., and (when convenient) to provide limited discounts on some models of the hardware for registered developers. Poof! Lots of third party software, lots of reasons for non-developers to buy PalmOS instead of a competitor's product.
Fundamentally this kind of "free stuff" is about making your real product more attractive to its target audience.
If the development toolset is the real product, then you can't give it away and survive; you can't even discount it to developers (because your whole market is developers so that would be "everybody"); instead, probably take the crack-dealer approach, "first hit is free, you're hooked now, you pay".
If instead the development toolset's relationship to the product is "effortlessly [from your perspective] causes the creation of things that make the product itself worth buying", then yeah, cast your bread upon the waters and get it back 1024-fold or whatever... don't necessarily make everything free but make enough of it free (or make enough of the specs open that other people create free/cheap tools) so that the most shoestring-budget developers truly only "need" to buy your actual product, your PDA-or-whatever (and if you have different interchangable gradations, from "minimalist free toolset" to "all-singing all-dancing commercial toolset", you can work the crack-dealer angle back into it after all... here the comparison to PalmOS development tools definitely breaks down because it requires actual effort to move a project's codebase from the gcc-based tools to the commercial tools, so it becomes hard to justify moving in either direction.) And if developers are only a tiny fraction of your real product's real audience, sure, you can probably afford to give developers some discount on the product itself, after you've finished thinking about how cheap you can make the tools.
Woho, finaly you can play nethack in colors!
Dude... are you going to pass that around, or smoke it all yourself?
I have no point here, I just like saying "I could more easily believe that two Yankee professors would lie than that stones would fall from heaven."
(In any case, I think that all that we have really discovered for certain is that "most people who responded to this survey and claimed to be free software developers also claimed to be male and to have a significant other".)
Now that, I can't quibble with.
Try h t t p
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dot com. More info.
...the need for the "haiku rider" being that, evidently, in the mind of whoever came up with this scheme, someone is more likely to believe you if you point at a "poem" and say "that's COPYRIGHTED you hoser" than if you point at six lines of random legalese.