The article, if you had bothered to actually read it, is referring to the PDA versions of the Joornadas, not the HPC versions. The 54x series, as well as the new 56x series do not have keybaords, and look like any other PocketPC PDA.
"I think it's safe to assume Microsoft is going to end up requiring everyone to use Passport in order to use services like Hotmail."
You're behind the times pal - MS locked Passport into Hotmail a long time ago. I've never visited Passport.com, but I have my happy little Passport ID, since I've been a member of Hotmail since way back before MS owned them.
The strange thing is that when I go to get my downloads, I still get asked for my BetaID & password. I can't log into without logging into Passport. You'd think that having a singular uname/pass would be convenient, except that I know need two unmaes/passes to get into one place. How thoughful of MS.
-bZj
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My HP Jornada 548 also has "HP task switcher", which does what you mention about the iPaq's 'Q' button. It only has 32MB of memory, but with the built in CF slot, that is less of an issue [especially since you can get a 128MB CF card for $80 shipped]. The durability of the Jornada is second to none.
The one area it loses ground is the slow 133MHz SH3 processor. It's fast enough to do your everyday tasks, with limited multi-tasking, but playing Quake would be a bit slow. Hopefully, HP's next Jornada will have something with a little more power beind it.
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I don't know if you meant an iPaq running Linux, but out of the box, any WinCE/PocketPC device does sync with Outlook 2000, and actually most of them come with Outlook 2000.
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They're trading below a dollar a shoare, I don't think many people care what the ticker says, as long as it goes UP.
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Sounds fun, but does Apple care?
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I'm a connoisseur of OSes. I install 'em all to play with [*BSD, Linuxes, BeOS, Windows], so for this reason I would like an x86 version of OS X. I already grabbed the supposed Intel port of Darwin [not yet tried it out].
But, does Apple care about such a beast?
They would have to start supporting the newest technology, from all different vendors, not just themselves. Big expansion of their happy little driver coding armies
They would have to expand their customer services exponentially, to support all the people fleeing MS, who don't know the first thing about MacOS, let alone *nix.
The would be taking an aggressive step towards MS, that they would not take to kindly. I mean Apple's not really competition for MS in the PC market, but this would make them direct competitors, and everyone has an opinon about what MS does to competitors.
I don't think it is in Apple's best interest [as far as business practices are concerned] to supply an x86 port of OS X. It may be a nice little bit of press, and 'response to customer appeals', but it would change a lot of their business model.
Of course, there is the added benefit [to end users] of increased interoperability between both *nix and Macs, which may be a nice bit for the business world. Interesting thought... MS's being the only OSes without the OS X seal of approval.
This isn't intentional. Try this...
Make an HTML page with the following:
This will give you that nice blue screen in either browser. Somehow 'mozilla' is translated to blue. You can stumble up colors by throwing anything into the bgcolor= tag. I got a strange color from bgcolor="donkey".
Incorrect my friend. As the name implies, 'Communicator' is the bundled package of all the Mail/Browser/News/etc. The browser-only was Called 'Navigator' back in the day.
For the 1st: Conventionally, 'bloat' has not refered to memory usage, but extra, useless programs and a large base of files installed to the harddrive.
Second: I have not been able to get NS6 to use more than 22MB of RAM. I open more windows, I click on multiple links in those windows, and it never goes above 22MB.
I guesss I'm lucky.
-bZj
Tard. What do you consider CSS? The biggest command that one notices is the lack of the A:hover command. Do you really need the damn link color to change or underline itself for you to know it is a link? You don't notice the little hand that pops up?
-bZj
It sucked. I tried it because I was doing web work over the summer, and it sounded really cool, but it was lame. It was like using IE 3.x, but worse.
-bZj
Well, under US law, a parody does not fall under Trademark laws. You can do what ever you want with a trademark as long as it is for the sake of comedy [a strange interpretation of the 1st ammendment, but whatever]. I refer you to the case of Public Enemy back on Fear of a Black Planet. Look it up.
-bZj
Tard. I've never registered to vote - because I've never [until now] seen something I believed in - and I've been called for jury duty twice already. Luckily, being in college, I never have to go.
-bZj
I was asked in my [don't shun me] Advanced Writing for Business class how it is spelled, and I luckily had my Webster's New World College Dictionary, Third Edition, 1996, on me, so:
e-|mail (e'mal) n. [also E-] [Colloq.] short for ELECTRONIC MAIL
I always use the hyphen, b/c I listen to my e-mail over the phone sometimes, and I prefer to be phonetically correct, which happens to be how Webster, our Scrabble go to, sees it too.
I can try to use different words to describe it, but I'm poor. I just am. I've never starved, but that's only b/c my mother was awesome.
But, now I go to USC, and it's b/c I busted my ass in school, and got an [almost] full ride. And I went to a crappy high school too, b/c it was the only one in town [not that i could have paid for a better one].
When i graduate and get a job, I plan on donating to my school, so that people who make the grade, but don't have the cash can still go, but I don't want to pay for everybody to go just b/c they think they deserve to.
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The article, if you had bothered to actually read it, is referring to the PDA versions of the Joornadas, not the HPC versions. The 54x series, as well as the new 56x series do not have keybaords, and look like any other PocketPC PDA.
-bZj
I can't believe this lameness got posted on Slashdot. I think I had been using Moz for about a week before I saw MQ and realized what a sham it was.
Ah well, life goes on I suppose.
-bZj
"I think it's safe to assume Microsoft is going to end up requiring everyone to use Passport in order to use services like Hotmail."
You're behind the times pal - MS locked Passport into Hotmail a long time ago. I've never visited Passport.com, but I have my happy little Passport ID, since I've been a member of Hotmail since way back before MS owned them.
The strange thing is that when I go to get my downloads, I still get asked for my BetaID & password. I can't log into without logging into Passport. You'd think that having a singular uname/pass would be convenient, except that I know need two unmaes/passes to get into one place. How thoughful of MS.
-bZj
prompt> finger Down8
Login: Down8 In real life: I am a Viking.
My HP Jornada 548 also has "HP task switcher", which does what you mention about the iPaq's 'Q' button. It only has 32MB of memory, but with the built in CF slot, that is less of an issue [especially since you can get a 128MB CF card for $80 shipped]. The durability of the Jornada is second to none.
The one area it loses ground is the slow 133MHz SH3 processor. It's fast enough to do your everyday tasks, with limited multi-tasking, but playing Quake would be a bit slow. Hopefully, HP's next Jornada will have something with a little more power beind it.
-bZj
prompt> finger Down8
Login: Down8 In real life: I am a Viking.
I don't know if you meant an iPaq running Linux, but out of the box, any WinCE/PocketPC device does sync with Outlook 2000, and actually most of them come with Outlook 2000.
-bZj
prompt> finger Down8
Login: Down8 In real life: I am a Viking.
They're trading below a dollar a shoare, I don't think many people care what the ticker says, as long as it goes UP.
-bZj
prompt> finger Down8
Login: Down8 In real life: I am a Viking.
But, does Apple care about such a beast?
They would have to start supporting the newest technology, from all different vendors, not just themselves. Big expansion of their happy little driver coding armies
They would have to expand their customer services exponentially, to support all the people fleeing MS, who don't know the first thing about MacOS, let alone *nix.
The would be taking an aggressive step towards MS, that they would not take to kindly. I mean Apple's not really competition for MS in the PC market, but this would make them direct competitors, and everyone has an opinon about what MS does to competitors.
I don't think it is in Apple's best interest [as far as business practices are concerned] to supply an x86 port of OS X. It may be a nice little bit of press, and 'response to customer appeals', but it would change a lot of their business model.
Of course, there is the added benefit [to end users] of increased interoperability between both *nix and Macs, which may be a nice bit for the business world. Interesting thought... MS's being the only OSes without the OS X seal of approval.
My pennies,
-bZj
But why isn't it .air [or .aer] and .mus?
.333 naming system.
This makes more sense, and keeps with the current
-bZj
IE5.5 Score
NS6 Score
If you'll notice, they both got the same overall score, so it comes down to a matter of taste.
-bZj
100% compliance is very hard, when you also want 100% compatibility with buggy web pages.
I can, without a second thought, say I do not want this. If it is buggy, fix it. IE made the web world lazy by doing so.
-bZj
Oops. Should have been:
<body bgcolor=mozilla>
This isn't intentional. Try this...
Make an HTML page with the following:
This will give you that nice blue screen in either browser. Somehow 'mozilla' is translated to blue. You can stumble up colors by throwing anything into the bgcolor= tag. I got a strange color from bgcolor="donkey".
-bZj
Well, Netscape 'invented' the majority of simple HTML code.
-bZj
For a more realistic view of the memory usage, look at this.
I wasn't doing anything but looking at Slashdot in both browsers.
-bZj
Incorrect my friend. As the name implies, 'Communicator' is the bundled package of all the Mail/Browser/News/etc. The browser-only was Called 'Navigator' back in the day.
God, I miss 3 Gold.
-bZj
For the 1st: Conventionally, 'bloat' has not refered to memory usage, but extra, useless programs and a large base of files installed to the harddrive.
Second: I have not been able to get NS6 to use more than 22MB of RAM. I open more windows, I click on multiple links in those windows, and it never goes above 22MB.
I guesss I'm lucky.
-bZj
I think you have the wrong version, as the option to ad mime types is in the final version I have:
See...?
-bZj
I scroll just fine with my middle button. Change your mouse settings. -bZj
Worked just fine for me. -bZj
Tard. What do you consider CSS? The biggest command that one notices is the lack of the A:hover command. Do you really need the damn link color to change or underline itself for you to know it is a link? You don't notice the little hand that pops up? -bZj
It sucked. I tried it because I was doing web work over the summer, and it sounded really cool, but it was lame. It was like using IE 3.x, but worse. -bZj
Well, under US law, a parody does not fall under Trademark laws. You can do what ever you want with a trademark as long as it is for the sake of comedy [a strange interpretation of the 1st ammendment, but whatever]. I refer you to the case of Public Enemy back on Fear of a Black Planet. Look it up. -bZj
Tard. I've never registered to vote - because I've never [until now] seen something I believed in - and I've been called for jury duty twice already. Luckily, being in college, I never have to go. -bZj
I was asked in my [don't shun me] Advanced Writing for Business class how it is spelled, and I luckily had my Webster's New World College Dictionary, Third Edition, 1996, on me, so:
e-|mail (e'mal) n. [also E-] [Colloq.] short for ELECTRONIC MAIL
I always use the hyphen, b/c I listen to my e-mail over the phone sometimes, and I prefer to be phonetically correct, which happens to be how Webster, our Scrabble go to, sees it too.
-bZj
I can try to use different words to describe it, but I'm poor. I just am. I've never starved, but that's only b/c my mother was awesome.
But, now I go to USC, and it's b/c I busted my ass in school, and got an [almost] full ride. And I went to a crappy high school too, b/c it was the only one in town [not that i could have paid for a better one].
When i graduate and get a job, I plan on donating to my school, so that people who make the grade, but don't have the cash can still go, but I don't want to pay for everybody to go just b/c they think they deserve to.
-bZj