One crash, over Labor Day at an LA gaming convention. Battery failure was the main reason (forgot to replace them before I left), fortunately I had HotSynced the previous night. So that's one crash in over a year of heavy work.
Personally, I think the WinCE machines are aptly named: "Wince." It's what I do when I think about using them. The Palm is small, tight, and fairly dedicated purpose: it is basically a practical version of a Day Planner that I actually use (never was able to wrap my mind around dedicating myself to a Day Planner notebook, but I slip my Palm III into my pocket whenever I'm away from my desk.)
I don't want a general purpose PDA. I have desktops and laptops for that, I don't want one in my pocket. I don't need a spell check in my Palm, much less Word. Notepad does the trick, I can ratchet up the formatting after I sync it up and then suck the doc into Word.
One thing just occurred to me. Yes, I plan on scanning my library and CD's, also my laser discs and DVD's (yes, I'm somewhat anal-retentive), but then I figured that the most valuable place would be to have the stupid thing update my comic book collection inventory! Now THAT would be useful (somewhere in the many-thousands)!
I have the databases built (in most cases), just gotta get my laptop configured....
Not enough mass, coupled with not enough RPM's, for it to be really perceptible.
Now, if you had one of those old 14" platters (IBM S/34ish, areal density something like 300k/square inch) like the one sitting in my living room that I want to build into a coffee table....
How are they going to get it serviced? IBM repair people KNOW their big iron and who bought it. The moment they have a chip pop it becomes a huge freakin' paperweight. It's not like those things are field-servicable by mere mortals.
"Uh, hello? IBM? Would you come out and service our stolen PC?"
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Re:"Rejected"? What would Turner say?
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Spot on! As I sit here waiting for a database and log to dump, I worked through your post. Very cogent. Communications is the key, and a majority of the "l33t" can't do that without resorting to flames and profanity. In particular they can't respond without vilifying the intelligence of the originator which results in an automatic shut-out. And when you're dealing with Congresscritters and attorneys, you have to be respectful and direct, otherwise you're summarily dismissed.
So the analogy holds true: we have a bunch of madmen who live beyond civilization, they explored it, built infrastructure, showed us where to live, and now that civilization encroaches they try to get mean, as a result civ doesn't like them and they don't like civ, so they retreat further west into increasingly obscure technology.
And I must plead ignorance as history isn't my strong suit: who is Turner? Dinking with this stuff for 25 years definitely is rotting my mind.
I hate to invoke Shatner, but get a life! Learn to live in society, because you don't have much of a choice, unless you're planning on moving to an oil platform in the middle of the sea. Believe it or not, there's more to life than computers and coding. I actually survived four days without email! It can be done!
If any of those sites posted DeCSS, and who amongst us believes there were none, then DeCSS will be archived and live on in perpetuity....
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The problem with Douglas Adams,
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is that he doesn't write anymore. He's so involved with other projects that nothing new has seen the light of day under his pen. I think Pratchett has far outstripped him in terms of quality and is nearing Piers Xanthony for quantity (but much better quality than Xanth: I gave up on him over a decade ago, though I did enjoy his Incarnations of Immortality series.)
Adams was, more or less, one trick pony. He did a great job with the Hitchhiker series, then he wrapped it up. He did the two Dirk Gently books and promised the third (Salmon of Doubt) but never delivered. As much as it pains me to say it, I've pretty much given up hope for Adams.
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I wouldn't look too hard for Moving Pictures.
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I consider it sub-par. I paid a truly exorbitant amount through Amazon to get a foreign edition (which turned out to be paperback) and was very disappointed. It highly features Gaspod the Wonder Dog, the lead characters are good, but overall I thought it a let down.
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One crash, over Labor Day at an LA gaming convention. Battery failure was the main reason (forgot to replace them before I left), fortunately I had HotSynced the previous night. So that's one crash in over a year of heavy work.
Personally, I think the WinCE machines are aptly named: "Wince." It's what I do when I think about using them. The Palm is small, tight, and fairly dedicated purpose: it is basically a practical version of a Day Planner that I actually use (never was able to wrap my mind around dedicating myself to a Day Planner notebook, but I slip my Palm III into my pocket whenever I'm away from my desk.)
I don't want a general purpose PDA. I have desktops and laptops for that, I don't want one in my pocket. I don't need a spell check in my Palm, much less Word. Notepad does the trick, I can ratchet up the formatting after I sync it up and then suck the doc into Word.
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Amen to that! I like the fact that I only change my batteries every 6 weeks or so in my Palm III.
I was hoping they'd come out with a less expensive version of the Vx, but I guess I'm just going to have to suck up the $400 and buy one. Sigh.
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One thing just occurred to me. Yes, I plan on scanning my library and CD's, also my laser discs and DVD's (yes, I'm somewhat anal-retentive), but then I figured that the most valuable place would be to have the stupid thing update my comic book collection inventory! Now THAT would be useful (somewhere in the many-thousands)!
I have the databases built (in most cases), just gotta get my laptop configured....
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Why is it that I can see a comedy remake of Apollo 13 (or any other space disaster movie) made with Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor?
Personally, I think that'd be pretty cool!
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Not enough mass, coupled with not enough RPM's, for it to be really perceptible.
Now, if you had one of those old 14" platters (IBM S/34ish, areal density something like 300k/square inch) like the one sitting in my living room that I want to build into a coffee table....
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How are they going to get it serviced? IBM repair people KNOW their big iron and who bought it. The moment they have a chip pop it becomes a huge freakin' paperweight. It's not like those things are field-servicable by mere mortals.
"Uh, hello? IBM? Would you come out and service our stolen PC?"
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Spot on! As I sit here waiting for a database and log to dump, I worked through your post. Very cogent. Communications is the key, and a majority of the "l33t" can't do that without resorting to flames and profanity. In particular they can't respond without vilifying the intelligence of the originator which results in an automatic shut-out. And when you're dealing with Congresscritters and attorneys, you have to be respectful and direct, otherwise you're summarily dismissed.
So the analogy holds true: we have a bunch of madmen who live beyond civilization, they explored it, built infrastructure, showed us where to live, and now that civilization encroaches they try to get mean, as a result civ doesn't like them and they don't like civ, so they retreat further west into increasingly obscure technology. And I must plead ignorance as history isn't my strong suit: who is Turner? Dinking with this stuff for 25 years definitely is rotting my mind.
I hate to invoke Shatner, but get a life! Learn to live in society, because you don't have much of a choice, unless you're planning on moving to an oil platform in the middle of the sea. Believe it or not, there's more to life than computers and coding. I actually survived four days without email! It can be done!
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If any of those sites posted DeCSS, and who amongst us believes there were none, then DeCSS will be archived and live on in perpetuity....
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is that he doesn't write anymore. He's so involved with other projects that nothing new has seen the light of day under his pen. I think Pratchett has far outstripped him in terms of quality and is nearing Piers Xanthony for quantity (but much better quality than Xanth: I gave up on him over a decade ago, though I did enjoy his Incarnations of Immortality series.)
Adams was, more or less, one trick pony. He did a great job with the Hitchhiker series, then he wrapped it up. He did the two Dirk Gently books and promised the third (Salmon of Doubt) but never delivered. As much as it pains me to say it, I've pretty much given up hope for Adams.
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I consider it sub-par. I paid a truly exorbitant amount through Amazon to get a foreign edition (which turned out to be paperback) and was very disappointed. It highly features Gaspod the Wonder Dog, the lead characters are good, but overall I thought it a let down.
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