The T28 doesn't have Bluetooth, you'd have to buy an adapter. The T28 also doesn't have GPRS, so you'd have to do dialup (9600 baud) possibly to an ISP you'll have to pay separately.
T39 has BT and GPRS and may be found cheaper than the T68, but if you are getting new GSM service you can get the T68 for next to nothing.
I saw the original demoed at CTIA in Orlando earlier this year. Was very impressive when coupled with a bluetooth phone.
One example used email forms on a pad. You wrote in the different boxes like TO: and SUBJECT: then the message below. When you marked the box checked SEND the message was squirted to the phone via bluetooth, then over the air. You could send text or digital ink which would be included in the email as an attachment.
This looked to tbe the best way to send email if all you had was a phone. No funky predictive spelling do-dads on a standard phone keypad.
The logitech looks like they managed to both dumb-down and encumber the thing. USB cradle? IE?.Net ? Yech!
If the original Anoto pen was available for $199 I'd buy it. No cradle, no 20MB software loads, just use it with your bluetooth phone.
As touched on in the article, vending machine rule in Japan. We probably won't be getting the beer machines here, even though a machine is probably better at checking IDs. A toy store in the Ginza area has a giant vending area outside where there's Barbies and such going up to $100. Giftwrap is also included.
Near where my Mom lived there was an egg vending machine. Best I could figure it was stocked by farmers just outside town. I thought it was a great idea. A very inexpensive storefront for the egg farmer. I wouldn't see that as dehumanizing, but rather a way for the farmer to sell his eggs direct in an affordable manner.
I agree 100% that identification should not be required by the gov't for travel. I was annoyed by the airlines requiring ID since the Gulf War, long before the 9/11 crackdowns. I've always thought the extra requirement was welcomed by the airlines since it allowed them to keep people from reselling FF tickets or reselling non-refundable tickets and the like.
*IF* there is no way to get past security without ID, then I propose this change: You show ID and subject yourself to search to enter the secured area, but that's it. You don't show ID again once you've been "cleared". You then could have plane tickets in the name of John Doe if you wanted since the simple possession of the ticket entitled you to board the plane.
I still don't like the idea of showing ID to enable me to fly. I'm unconvinced this does anything to deter any "evildoer" from flying. But if I can't get around that, I'd at least be happier if where I traveled was private.
If skipping commercials on TV is stealing, then flipping pages in a magazine should be too, right? Granted, I paid for the magazine ( other than the ones I read at Barnes and Noble ), but the magazine cost was subsidised by the advertisers.
No, the advertisers aren't paying for you to watch their commercials. They're paying for the *opportunity* for you to watch their commercials. Viewers have always had the opportunity to chat with their friends, go take a leak, or skip the commercials all together. The opportunity they paid for still exists.
I've been using iSilo as a way to put a bunch of documents in my Palm for a while. I begrudingly tried AvantGo, just because I was "forced" to use it to get some information. All they seemed to do was force providers to hide a URL to a Palm-friendly version of their web page. A few times I found the URL for an Avantgo page, told iSilo where to find it, and I got the data just the same.
Only slight advantage I see is that Avantgo is triggered by the hotsync process, but that in itself is a pain. If I don't have a net connection at that moment, or I'd just synced 10 minutes ago, I'd have to wait for it to try to sync. With iSilo I just run it prior to hotsyncing if I want to update.
I just loaded iSilo 3 on my Visor. It did a great job of a site with pictures, I think I'll probably use it, rather than any of the photo album apps to view pics now.
I'm another one who's disappointed, TiVo and AdCritic were a killer combination. Since everything I watch on TV is via my TiVo, I rarely see commercials.
Occaisionally someone would say "Hey see the new ***** commercial with the Jack Russell Terrier?"? My answer would be no, but I'd go to AdCritic to check it out.
Would be good PR, good complement to TiVo. No, we don't want to eliminate all commercials, we provide the on the web site. No, your television watching isn't interrupted by commercials, but you can view them, at your leisure later!
I knew that description sounded familiar. The door sound from Star
Trek. And it must work, I just watched an episode, and sure enough,
people were facing the door when the sound occurred.
They might have problems patenting a sound from a 60's TV show.
Here's a WAV
file. For best results, repeat 3 times.
First saw these guys selling their concept at the Las Vegas Hilton. Outside the Star Trek Experience, where you can buy "Romulan Ale" they were selling the "kits" for you to attach your hair follicle and bit of poetry or whatever.
Heard this on the news today, was surprised it was "news" since I first saw this being peddled 2 years ago.
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Maybe I should get a class action suit going for all my Murphy bretheren and sue Budweiser, Miller, Coors, TGI Friday's and anyone else who pushes getting plastered next March 17th.
Guess we can let Guiness slide on this one.
I thought the same thing, but I checked my facts first...
The # of characters is dependent on which shoe. I looked at one of the cross trainers, saw the limitation. So I re-read the article. The author ordered`"ZOOM XC USA running shoes" If you look at that shoe, you see that # of allowed characters is 12.
Makes sense that "SWEATSHOP" is now rejected. They'd have a default list that automatically rejects. If a human rejects an ID, then that rejection is added to the automatic list.
Always one to want to see the whole story, who had the domain prior to 16 August? I see the.Net and.org variations were taken before then. I'd find it hard to believe that this name just hadn't been snatched up until August.
Was the name really "available"? Did the previous owner give it up, or just fail to pay the bill? Was AOL the previous owner?
I am one to believe in funny timing. I acquired a domain in 1998 that had "lapsed". Within a month I got a call from someone who wanted it, had been waiting for it to become available, I'd beat them to it. Another domain I registered a year later on a Friday got me an email the following Monday from a company who was "just about to register", but I'd beat them to it.
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The T28 doesn't have Bluetooth, you'd have to buy an adapter. The T28 also doesn't have GPRS, so you'd have to do dialup (9600 baud) possibly to an ISP you'll have to pay separately.
T39 has BT and GPRS and may be found cheaper than the T68, but if you are getting new GSM service you can get the T68 for next to nothing.
I saw the original demoed at CTIA in Orlando earlier this year. Was very impressive when coupled with a bluetooth phone.
.Net ? Yech!
One example used email forms on a pad. You wrote in the different boxes like TO: and SUBJECT: then the message below. When you marked the box checked SEND the message was squirted to the phone via bluetooth, then over the air. You could send text or digital ink which would be included in the email as an attachment.
This looked to tbe the best way to send email if all you had was a phone. No funky predictive spelling do-dads on a standard phone keypad.
The logitech looks like they managed to both dumb-down and encumber the thing. USB cradle? IE?
If the original Anoto pen was available for $199 I'd buy it. No cradle, no 20MB software loads, just use it with your bluetooth phone.
As touched on in the article, vending machine rule in Japan. We probably won't be getting the beer machines here, even though a machine is probably better at checking IDs.
A toy store in the Ginza area has a giant vending area outside where there's Barbies and such going up to $100. Giftwrap is also included.
Near where my Mom lived there was an egg vending machine. Best I could figure it was stocked by farmers just outside town. I thought it was a great idea. A very inexpensive storefront for the egg farmer. I wouldn't see that as dehumanizing, but rather a way for the farmer to sell his eggs direct in an affordable manner.
I agree 100% that identification should not be required by the gov't for travel. I was annoyed by the airlines requiring ID since the Gulf War, long before the 9/11 crackdowns. I've always thought the extra requirement was welcomed by the airlines since it allowed them to keep people from reselling FF tickets or reselling non-refundable tickets and the like.
*IF* there is no way to get past security without ID, then I propose this change: You show ID and subject yourself to search to enter the secured area, but that's it. You don't show ID again once you've been "cleared". You then could have plane tickets in the name of John Doe if you wanted since the simple possession of the ticket entitled you to board the plane.
I still don't like the idea of showing ID to enable me to fly. I'm unconvinced this does anything to deter any "evildoer" from flying. But if I can't get around that, I'd at least be happier if where I traveled was private.
If skipping commercials on TV is stealing, then flipping pages in a magazine should be too, right? Granted, I paid for the magazine ( other than the ones I read at Barnes and Noble ), but the magazine cost was subsidised by the advertisers.
No, the advertisers aren't paying for you to watch their commercials. They're paying for the *opportunity* for you to watch their commercials. Viewers have always had the opportunity to chat with their friends, go take a leak, or skip the commercials all together. The opportunity they paid for still exists.
Tweak the driver to show rate of web site hits instead. Quick look tells you how high the traffic is.
I've been using iSilo as a way to put a bunch of documents in my Palm for a while. I begrudingly tried AvantGo, just because I was "forced" to use it to get some information. All they seemed to do was force providers to hide a URL to a Palm-friendly version of their web page. A few times I found the URL for an Avantgo page, told iSilo where to find it, and I got the data just the same.
Only slight advantage I see is that Avantgo is triggered by the hotsync process, but that in itself is a pain. If I don't have a net connection at that moment, or I'd just synced 10 minutes ago, I'd have to wait for it to try to sync. With iSilo I just run it prior to hotsyncing if I want to update.
I just loaded iSilo 3 on my Visor. It did a great job of a site with pictures, I think I'll probably use it, rather than any of the photo album apps to view pics now.
I'm another one who's disappointed, TiVo and AdCritic were a killer combination. Since everything I watch on TV is via my TiVo, I rarely see commercials.
Occaisionally someone would say "Hey see the new ***** commercial with the Jack Russell Terrier?"? My answer would be no, but I'd go to AdCritic to check it out.
Would be good PR, good complement to TiVo. No, we don't want to eliminate all commercials, we provide the on the web site. No, your television watching isn't interrupted by commercials, but you can view them, at your leisure later!
Hmm.... must forward idea to TiVo...
They forgot to mention in the item description that for a fee you could have your Palm ViiB "upgraded" to an i705b.
I knew that description sounded familiar. The door sound from Star Trek. And it must work, I just watched an episode, and sure enough, people were facing the door when the sound occurred.
They might have problems patenting a sound from a 60's TV show.
Here's a WAV file. For best results, repeat 3 times.
First saw these guys selling their concept at the Las Vegas Hilton. Outside the Star Trek Experience, where you can buy "Romulan Ale" they were selling the "kits" for you to attach your hair follicle and bit of poetry or whatever. Heard this on the news today, was surprised it was "news" since I first saw this being peddled 2 years ago.
Maybe I should get a class action suit going for all my Murphy bretheren and sue Budweiser, Miller, Coors, TGI Friday's and anyone else who pushes getting plastered next March 17th. Guess we can let Guiness slide on this one.
I thought the same thing, but I checked my facts first... The # of characters is dependent on which shoe. I looked at one of the cross trainers, saw the limitation. So I re-read the article. The author ordered`"ZOOM XC USA running shoes" If you look at that shoe, you see that # of allowed characters is 12. Makes sense that "SWEATSHOP" is now rejected. They'd have a default list that automatically rejects. If a human rejects an ID, then that rejection is added to the automatic list.
Always one to want to see the whole story, who had the domain prior to 16 August? I see the .Net and .org variations were taken before then. I'd find it hard to believe that this name just hadn't been snatched up until August.
Was the name really "available"? Did the previous owner give it up, or just fail to pay the bill? Was AOL the previous owner?
I am one to believe in funny timing. I acquired a domain in 1998 that had "lapsed". Within a month I got a call from someone who wanted it, had been waiting for it to become available, I'd beat them to it. Another domain I registered a year later on a Friday got me an email the following Monday from a company who was "just about to register", but I'd beat them to it.