If all of the metadata is stored in directories, then copying the directories and all of their contained files would naturally include the metadata.
Mac OSX uses the "file as a directory" strategy, and the BeOS used the dynamic file metadata approach. Combining the two is the way to go and buys you a tremendous amount of new functionality over traditional file systems.
I'm mostly in agreement, but then again, if the best we can do to conceptualize the force of gravity is a depression/curvature in space-time, maybe there's a way to create a bubbling out of space-time... kind of like a hernia in the fabric of space-time.
I guess I should start reading my copy
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I've had that book on my shelf for ages, but haven't found a good time to read it. I think the most recent Robert Jordan flop has left me a little cold on Fantasy... dunno.
Then again, from the looks of GRRM's publishing schedule, I might want to wait until he's finished the series before I start to read them.
I guess he was lucky to be in netscape at the time, most of what he did afterwards kind of failed miserably.
I know people from NCSA who knew Andreesen fairly well. The guy is no great oracle/wunderkind. He just got lucky to be in the right place at the right time. The rest was all marketing by Netscape to try to push the value of their company.
I'm not trying to put him down or anything -- I'm just saying that posting everything he says to the front page of/. is probably an idea of questionable worth.
It's a fundamental difference between the US and the UK. Here, we work because we need the money, not for some greater sense of purpose. It's not about the economy, it's simply about living in a modern Western country and not being a slave.
You misunderstand. Money is about freedom. I probably already make off my investments than you do working for an equal amount of time, assuming you have some "average" income ($100k US per year). In another five years of steady effort, I'll make more off bonds in a month than you'll make working your 48 weeks every year.
While I'm spending all of my time with my kids going camping, taking vacations year round, and taking on pet projects as I feel like it, you'll be waking up and going to work every day, letting some boss push you around until you retire way too old to really enjoy much of the life you have left.
To each his own, I guess. Enjoy your extra couple of weeks a year for these few years. I'll drop by England and buy you a few pints as I enjoy the second forty or fifty years of my life in style.:)
Luck? Nothing of the kind. I could do it over and over and over. It's about making smart choices and working your ass off to achieve your goals. It doesn't happen every time, but work at it and it will.
If you think it's luck, then the only way you'll ever achieve real financial success is to stumble into it. Take control of your own future. Make your own "luck".
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I was actually discussing this issue today with some friends of mine from Europe. The consensus was that yes, Americans work harder, but they're also rewarded more for doing so by being allowed easier upward mobility and better value for the money they earn.
Work hard and smart in the US, and you'll find yourself retiring in your forties. The money that you make in a day will buy you more clothing, gasoline, food, etc., than most other places in the world.
As with anything in life, it's a trade-off. I have friends who take it easy at work. They come in late, leave early, etc. They're enjoying their lives, so to speak, but they'll have that same routine until they're all 65 (or older, if Social Security falls apart). Not me, bud. I'm working my ass off, and I'll probably retire within the next five years (before I'm 40).
If you don't like it, you can always move to somewhere more suitable to your work ethic, I guess. Personally, I'd move to Thailand.:)
How's Mozilla on OSX these days? I use it exclusively for my email on my PC, and I just chuckle when I hear my colleagues complaining about their MS mail clients.
I don't know about you, but I don't find the name `FreeCraft' to be `confusingly similar' to `WarCraft' or `StarCraft'.
You don't, but these cases aren't decided by/.-reading geeks, they're decided by technologically ignorant judges and juries who would be presented with the names of all of the Blizzard games, as well as a healthy variety of game names in the industry. For an unknowledgeable judge/jury, anything that uses *Craft, is advertised as based on the WarCraft II game, and looks similar is going to be deemed "confusingly similar".
I don't see the EFF stepping up to defend this one.
Why did the FreeCraft people choose a *Craft name? Because they were trying to horn in on some of the success of Blizzard, obviously. They wanted there to be a strong name association between their project and a branded one that Blizzard created.
You guys making FreeCraft should have flown a bit more under the radar. Blizzard developed the brand, let them have it and create something of your own. Spending time in court over something like this seems counterproductive, if your goal is just to get good fun free software out to people. Spend your time coding instead.
Give me a break. Yes, suggesting that some type of system-wide pirate destruction program should be implemented was technologically unsavvy on Hatch's part, but RTFA.
A web development company that put the site up for him was responsible for not registering the software and attributing it properly, however, they did fall under the "free for non-profit use" clause, so no one was out hard money. When the attribution problem was pointed out (or maybe before, the article isn't specific on this point), they endeavored to remedy the situation.
There is a world of difference between an accidental incident like this committed by someone probably not even directly hired by Hatch and the willful and continual downloading, replication, and distribution of copyrighted materials.
I'm sure, however, that most of the Kazaa'ing losers reading the article will ignore that obvious distinction and think once again that their whole moral outlook is justified.
When you're battling religious-type beliefs that don't have any hard evidence anyway, producing contrary evidence doesn't help clarify the matter in their minds.
UFO conspiracy theorists will go to their graves believing that the government is hiding alien spacecraft, and no amount of factual information will convince them otherwise.
The difference is that when Science learns that it's wrong, it admits it and moves on to try to learn more about the universe.
When the Bible is shown to be wrong, people hold to it doggedly, making excuse after excuse until they're left in exile on the lunatic fringe defending the utterly laughable (Fundamentalists), or they must dilute the "facts" in the Bible so much that what they're left with is practically useless as a religious text describing an almighty Creator(Catholics).
For those who take the Bible literally, believing that all words of the Bible are true and perfect:
No, a rabbit does not chew its cud.
Jesus lies quite egregiously to try to save his own skin in the Bible when questioned by the Pharisies.
The Earth is not flat with four corners.
No evidence exists for a worldwide flood between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago, and even less evidence exists that we and all land/air animals came from creatures that rode an ark during that time.
The Egyptians, who were meticulous record keepers, made no mention of massive Jewish slave use that was ripped away from them by the coming of Moses. Further, if the Nile had been turned to blood, it would have caused untold destruction upon the entire region that depended upon it for their very survival. We would have learned about it by now, most likely.
Jesus describes his "kingdom" in some detail then goes on to say how not even all of his Apostles would be dead by the time he returned to his glory for all to see... I think it's safe to say that prophecy was full of crap.
Christians are completely unable to do any of the things that Jesus claimed they could with even a little faith: They can't move mountains, they can't whither trees or tell them to jump into the ocean (well, they can, but nothing happens), they can't walk on water, they can't provably cure the sick, they can't do shit. Furthermore, all followers of Christ are supposed to be able to prove the divinity of their cause. Jesus said they would prove it by drinking deadly poison, handling deadly snakes, and speaking in tongues (in a way such that all people of all languages can understand what they say).
To believe that Jonah spent days inside a whale is an utter joke. Do you believe all of the ridiculous claims made by Islam and Hindu texts? Hmm, I wonder why not? Can we say special pleading?
Hey, from your perfect Bible, name me the exact ten commandments.
Face facts. The Bible is so obviously wrong, you'd have to be heavily deluded or bribed to believe otherwise. I guess the elusive promise of everlasting life is quite a bribe. I'd go for it too, but my sense of intellectual honesty just can't stomach all of the bullshit.
Just because Christians are so simple as to believe in an obviously wrong religious text doesn't mean that Science is inferior when it admits its mistakes and moves on.
- check the population densities of Scandinavia, which has amazingly good mobile coverage even north of the Arctic circle. They aren't very different from the US.
If someone is surmouting that barrier doesn't mean that the argument is incorrect. Maybe Scandinavian wireless telcos are goverment subsidized like everything else there. Maybe their Arctic Circle coverage is heavily subsidized by the rest of their business. The fact remains that building a huge nationwide network in the US is an extraordinarily expensive, time consuming, difficult proposition. When you add in the financial return because of population densities here and the competition of cheap land line alternatives, the reason why commercial success of cell phone companies (and thus technology) lags the rest of the world becomes more obvious. Sheesh, a few friends of mine and I could get together and pool our money to afford enough cell sites to cover Scandanavia.:) In the US, we're talking about billions and billions of dollars just to get a basic network built out.
(1) there are three conflicting digital standards vs the single global standard elsewhere (GSM), due to laissez-faire regulation by the FCC, and
What, you think your average American cares that his phone won't work in Bulgaria if they happen to be there? Hardly. When a user here signs up for cell phone use, they only expect to be able to use their phone anywhere they happen to be -- which for 95% of the target market is within about 20 miles of their homes.
Yeah, the FCC was fairly hands-off. Usually, you want that in a government. Sometimes it bites you in the butt. I could go through a long list of failed technologies mandated by governments that should have been left to the free markets.
(2) no separate area code was allocated for mobiles (unlike Europe) meaning that callers can't tell they are calling a mobile, which means that they can't be charged extra for the call. The result of (2) is that mobile phone users must pay for all incoming calls, and don't give out their mobile number (or just turn off the mobile phone).
This has been a small pressure point for consumers in the past, but probably not as big a fact as the expenses that telcos have to go through to build a nationwide network in the US. Plus, this problem goes hand-in-hand with the land line quality issue anyhow. US consumers have good land lines. They're easy to get, cheap, and reliable. With the increasing availability of semi flat-rate calling blocks, we should see an explosion of cell phone use if you're correct about the main factors of lagging US wireless telcos.
Btw, I sell infrastructure solutions to many of the major cell phone companies here in the US and a couple abroad. I know a little something about what I'm talking about.
A couple of factors make the US markets very different:
We've got a lot of ground to cover per capita. When a wireless telco has to provide decent coverage over such vast areas, they have less money to spend on upgrading to the latest technology. For Europe, SE Asia and other areas where cell phone usage has skyrocketed, you'll find that the per-cell-site number of users is much higher than here in the US. More dense user areas mean much less overhead and hassle for the wireless telcos.
Our land line telcos don't suck ass as badly as most of the rest of the world's. For years, people in the US giggled or shook their heads sadly when they heard about the expenses that Europeans were burdened with just to have a regular phone line. "No flat rate calling? You poor bastards!" Consequently, the impetus to switch to cell phones has been that much less.
For example, I spent some time living in Thailand. The main telco in Bangkok is government owned, so it sucks beyond belief. Want a phone line? Sure, you'll have installed within 3 or 4 months, assuming they can allocate the lines at all. And then, once you get that phone line, you're paying 2 to 3 times as much as someone in the US for it. My office there had a 128k line in a posh downtown office (about 2 years ago), and it was $1500 a month! Jeez... a DSL line here at the same speed (and a hell of a lot more reliable) is $45 per month.
So is it any wonder that cell phones would be popular in such hostile land line environments?
It just goes to show, that having it in one part of life can really hurt you in another part, or when things change.
Part of me thinks that having some outcomes be predetermined, as long as the statistical payouts are honored, is okay.
On the other hand, there should be some reasonable randomness in the system if they want to call it "gambling". In a more random system, there could be a night of heavy use where the machine loses money. That wouldn't seem possible with these machine's so closely watching their payouts.
I'd think that the machines should be checkable to make sure that they're making proper payouts, and that the way they work should be public knowledge, to avoid user confusion.
It's always amusing how "human power" advocates always forget that turning a little hand crank enough to get useful power takes a lot of energy to. Tricky old thermodynamics laws.
Jesus Christ, that whole "new technology eliminates jobs" bitch was proven short-sighted so many decades ago. The only thing more surprising than the fact that someone is lame enough to bring it up is the fact that some other numb nuts was lame enough to mark it as "insightful".
Yes, some people will lose their jobs that are no longer needed, but the truth of the matter is that people will then tend to gain skills and find better jobs... better jobs involving less shit work for higher pay.
Compare the unemployment rates of the US vs most of Europe where Luddite attitudes like yours have a much greater hold. Most European countries tend to have more than twice the per-capita people out of work. A lot of good all of those European Trade Unions do.
When are the communist types going to ever begin to comprehend it? Keeping a tight grip on people, commercial technology, innovations, price levels, etc. is just bad. The US has proven time and again that free markets win out time and time again.
Just admit that you never understood free market economics and learn from those who did and do.
The results speak for themselves.
Not to wave the flag much more or anything, but the US has economically kicked the shit out of so much of the rest of the world for so long now, that we're now having to spend significant amounts of our tax dollars just to help the rest of the world even begin to compete. If I were a leader of one of those other countries, I'd be signing up to take lessons from the US instead of always trying to find ways to criticize its methods.
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If all of the metadata is stored in directories, then copying the directories and all of their contained files would naturally include the metadata.
Mac OSX uses the "file as a directory" strategy, and the BeOS used the dynamic file metadata approach. Combining the two is the way to go and buys you a tremendous amount of new functionality over traditional file systems.
I'm mostly in agreement, but then again, if the best we can do to conceptualize the force of gravity is a depression/curvature in space-time, maybe there's a way to create a bubbling out of space-time... kind of like a hernia in the fabric of space-time.
I've had that book on my shelf for ages, but haven't found a good time to read it. I think the most recent Robert Jordan flop has left me a little cold on Fantasy... dunno.
Then again, from the looks of GRRM's publishing schedule, I might want to wait until he's finished the series before I start to read them.
I guess he was lucky to be in netscape at the time, most of what he did afterwards kind of failed miserably.
/. is probably an idea of questionable worth.
I know people from NCSA who knew Andreesen fairly well. The guy is no great oracle/wunderkind. He just got lucky to be in the right place at the right time. The rest was all marketing by Netscape to try to push the value of their company.
I'm not trying to put him down or anything -- I'm just saying that posting everything he says to the front page of
It's a fundamental difference between the US and the UK. Here, we work because we need the money, not for some greater sense of purpose. It's not about the economy, it's simply about living in a modern Western country and not being a slave.
:)
You misunderstand. Money is about freedom. I probably already make off my investments than you do working for an equal amount of time, assuming you have some "average" income ($100k US per year). In another five years of steady effort, I'll make more off bonds in a month than you'll make working your 48 weeks every year.
While I'm spending all of my time with my kids going camping, taking vacations year round, and taking on pet projects as I feel like it, you'll be waking up and going to work every day, letting some boss push you around until you retire way too old to really enjoy much of the life you have left.
To each his own, I guess. Enjoy your extra couple of weeks a year for these few years. I'll drop by England and buy you a few pints as I enjoy the second forty or fifty years of my life in style.
Luck? Nothing of the kind. I could do it over and over and over. It's about making smart choices and working your ass off to achieve your goals. It doesn't happen every time, but work at it and it will.
If you think it's luck, then the only way you'll ever achieve real financial success is to stumble into it. Take control of your own future. Make your own "luck".
I was actually discussing this issue today with some friends of mine from Europe. The consensus was that yes, Americans work harder, but they're also rewarded more for doing so by being allowed easier upward mobility and better value for the money they earn.
:)
Work hard and smart in the US, and you'll find yourself retiring in your forties. The money that you make in a day will buy you more clothing, gasoline, food, etc., than most other places in the world.
As with anything in life, it's a trade-off. I have friends who take it easy at work. They come in late, leave early, etc. They're enjoying their lives, so to speak, but they'll have that same routine until they're all 65 (or older, if Social Security falls apart). Not me, bud. I'm working my ass off, and I'll probably retire within the next five years (before I'm 40).
If you don't like it, you can always move to somewhere more suitable to your work ethic, I guess. Personally, I'd move to Thailand.
How's Mozilla on OSX these days? I use it exclusively for my email on my PC, and I just chuckle when I hear my colleagues complaining about their MS mail clients.
I don't know about you, but I don't find the name `FreeCraft' to be `confusingly similar' to `WarCraft' or `StarCraft'.
/.-reading geeks, they're decided by technologically ignorant judges and juries who would be presented with the names of all of the Blizzard games, as well as a healthy variety of game names in the industry. For an unknowledgeable judge/jury, anything that uses *Craft, is advertised as based on the WarCraft II game, and looks similar is going to be deemed "confusingly similar".
You don't, but these cases aren't decided by
I don't see the EFF stepping up to defend this one.
Why did the FreeCraft people choose a *Craft name? Because they were trying to horn in on some of the success of Blizzard, obviously. They wanted there to be a strong name association between their project and a branded one that Blizzard created.
You guys making FreeCraft should have flown a bit more under the radar. Blizzard developed the brand, let them have it and create something of your own. Spending time in court over something like this seems counterproductive, if your goal is just to get good fun free software out to people. Spend your time coding instead.
Give me a break. Yes, suggesting that some type of system-wide pirate destruction program should be implemented was technologically unsavvy on Hatch's part, but RTFA.
A web development company that put the site up for him was responsible for not registering the software and attributing it properly, however, they did fall under the "free for non-profit use" clause, so no one was out hard money. When the attribution problem was pointed out (or maybe before, the article isn't specific on this point), they endeavored to remedy the situation.
There is a world of difference between an accidental incident like this committed by someone probably not even directly hired by Hatch and the willful and continual downloading, replication, and distribution of copyrighted materials.
I'm sure, however, that most of the Kazaa'ing losers reading the article will ignore that obvious distinction and think once again that their whole moral outlook is justified.
Jesus Christ, I was about to die without another SCO story in the last fifteen minutes.
I'd like to not filter all of these stories out, since it would be nice to see the important SCO news updates, but isn't this a bit much?
I want to set up a couple of robotically-aimed low-powered LASERs in my backyard that are programmed to target small flying insects.
When you're battling religious-type beliefs that don't have any hard evidence anyway, producing contrary evidence doesn't help clarify the matter in their minds.
UFO conspiracy theorists will go to their graves believing that the government is hiding alien spacecraft, and no amount of factual information will convince them otherwise.
When the Bible is shown to be wrong, people hold to it doggedly, making excuse after excuse until they're left in exile on the lunatic fringe defending the utterly laughable (Fundamentalists), or they must dilute the "facts" in the Bible so much that what they're left with is practically useless as a religious text describing an almighty Creator(Catholics).
For those who take the Bible literally, believing that all words of the Bible are true and perfect:
- No, a rabbit does not chew its cud.
- Jesus lies quite egregiously to try to save his own skin in the Bible when questioned by the Pharisies.
- The Earth is not flat with four corners.
- No evidence exists for a worldwide flood between 4,000 and 6,000 years ago, and even less evidence exists that we and all land/air animals came from creatures that rode an ark during that time.
- The Egyptians, who were meticulous record keepers, made no mention of massive Jewish slave use that was ripped away from them by the coming of Moses. Further, if the Nile had been turned to blood, it would have caused untold destruction upon the entire region that depended upon it for their very survival. We would have learned about it by now, most likely.
- Jesus describes his "kingdom" in some detail then goes on to say how not even all of his Apostles would be dead by the time he returned to his glory for all to see... I think it's safe to say that prophecy was full of crap.
- Christians are completely unable to do any of the things that Jesus claimed they could with even a little faith: They can't move mountains, they can't whither trees or tell them to jump into the ocean (well, they can, but nothing happens), they can't walk on water, they can't provably cure the sick, they can't do shit. Furthermore, all followers of Christ are supposed to be able to prove the divinity of their cause. Jesus said they would prove it by drinking deadly poison, handling deadly snakes, and speaking in tongues (in a way such that all people of all languages can understand what they say).
- To believe that Jonah spent days inside a whale is an utter joke. Do you believe all of the ridiculous claims made by Islam and Hindu texts? Hmm, I wonder why not? Can we say special pleading?
- Hey, from your perfect Bible, name me the exact ten commandments.
Face facts. The Bible is so obviously wrong, you'd have to be heavily deluded or bribed to believe otherwise. I guess the elusive promise of everlasting life is quite a bribe. I'd go for it too, but my sense of intellectual honesty just can't stomach all of the bullshit.Just because Christians are so simple as to believe in an obviously wrong religious text doesn't mean that Science is inferior when it admits its mistakes and moves on.
Good riddance to those pesky writing implements, I say.
This argument comes up again and again
:) In the US, we're talking about billions and billions of dollars just to get a basic network built out.
Because it's an argument with a lot of merit.
- check the population densities of Scandinavia, which has amazingly good mobile coverage even north of the Arctic circle. They aren't very different from the US.
If someone is surmouting that barrier doesn't mean that the argument is incorrect. Maybe Scandinavian wireless telcos are goverment subsidized like everything else there. Maybe their Arctic Circle coverage is heavily subsidized by the rest of their business. The fact remains that building a huge nationwide network in the US is an extraordinarily expensive, time consuming, difficult proposition. When you add in the financial return because of population densities here and the competition of cheap land line alternatives, the reason why commercial success of cell phone companies (and thus technology) lags the rest of the world becomes more obvious. Sheesh, a few friends of mine and I could get together and pool our money to afford enough cell sites to cover Scandanavia.
(1) there are three conflicting digital standards vs the single global standard elsewhere (GSM), due to laissez-faire regulation by the FCC, and
What, you think your average American cares that his phone won't work in Bulgaria if they happen to be there? Hardly. When a user here signs up for cell phone use, they only expect to be able to use their phone anywhere they happen to be -- which for 95% of the target market is within about 20 miles of their homes.
Yeah, the FCC was fairly hands-off. Usually, you want that in a government. Sometimes it bites you in the butt. I could go through a long list of failed technologies mandated by governments that should have been left to the free markets.
(2) no separate area code was allocated for mobiles (unlike Europe) meaning that callers can't tell they are calling a mobile, which means that they can't be charged extra for the call. The result of (2) is that mobile phone users must pay for all incoming calls, and don't give out their mobile number (or just turn off the mobile phone).
This has been a small pressure point for consumers in the past, but probably not as big a fact as the expenses that telcos have to go through to build a nationwide network in the US. Plus, this problem goes hand-in-hand with the land line quality issue anyhow. US consumers have good land lines. They're easy to get, cheap, and reliable. With the increasing availability of semi flat-rate calling blocks, we should see an explosion of cell phone use if you're correct about the main factors of lagging US wireless telcos.
Btw, I sell infrastructure solutions to many of the major cell phone companies here in the US and a couple abroad. I know a little something about what I'm talking about.
- We've got a lot of ground to cover per capita. When a wireless telco has to provide decent coverage over such vast areas, they have less money to spend on upgrading to the latest technology. For Europe, SE Asia and other areas where cell phone usage has skyrocketed, you'll find that the per-cell-site number of users is much higher than here in the US. More dense user areas mean much less overhead and hassle for the wireless telcos.
- Our land line telcos don't suck ass as badly as most of the rest of the world's. For years, people in the US giggled or shook their heads sadly when they heard about the expenses that Europeans were burdened with just to have a regular phone line. "No flat rate calling? You poor bastards!" Consequently, the impetus to switch to cell phones has been that much less.
It just goes to show, that having it in one part of life can really hurt you in another part, or when things change.For example, I spent some time living in Thailand. The main telco in Bangkok is government owned, so it sucks beyond belief. Want a phone line? Sure, you'll have installed within 3 or 4 months, assuming they can allocate the lines at all. And then, once you get that phone line, you're paying 2 to 3 times as much as someone in the US for it. My office there had a 128k line in a posh downtown office (about 2 years ago), and it was $1500 a month! Jeez... a DSL line here at the same speed (and a hell of a lot more reliable) is $45 per month.
So is it any wonder that cell phones would be popular in such hostile land line environments?
Part of me thinks that having some outcomes be predetermined, as long as the statistical payouts are honored, is okay.
On the other hand, there should be some reasonable randomness in the system if they want to call it "gambling". In a more random system, there could be a night of heavy use where the machine loses money. That wouldn't seem possible with these machine's so closely watching their payouts.
I'd think that the machines should be checkable to make sure that they're making proper payouts, and that the way they work should be public knowledge, to avoid user confusion.
It's always amusing how "human power" advocates always forget that turning a little hand crank enough to get useful power takes a lot of energy to. Tricky old thermodynamics laws.
Jesus Christ, that whole "new technology eliminates jobs" bitch was proven short-sighted so many decades ago. The only thing more surprising than the fact that someone is lame enough to bring it up is the fact that some other numb nuts was lame enough to mark it as "insightful".
Yes, some people will lose their jobs that are no longer needed, but the truth of the matter is that people will then tend to gain skills and find better jobs... better jobs involving less shit work for higher pay.
Compare the unemployment rates of the US vs most of Europe where Luddite attitudes like yours have a much greater hold. Most European countries tend to have more than twice the per-capita people out of work. A lot of good all of those European Trade Unions do.
When are the communist types going to ever begin to comprehend it? Keeping a tight grip on people, commercial technology, innovations, price levels, etc. is just bad. The US has proven time and again that free markets win out time and time again.
Just admit that you never understood free market economics and learn from those who did and do.
The results speak for themselves.
Not to wave the flag much more or anything, but the US has economically kicked the shit out of so much of the rest of the world for so long now, that we're now having to spend significant amounts of our tax dollars just to help the rest of the world even begin to compete. If I were a leader of one of those other countries, I'd be signing up to take lessons from the US instead of always trying to find ways to criticize its methods.
Oh, excellent piece of hardware!
Thanks for the tip.
a unit with the following:
1. GSM or GPRS
2. PIM, preferrably Palm OS
3. BlueTooth enabled
Anyone know if these things are available in any products? Any product roundup reviews worth pointing to?
Whatever happened to their purchase of the BeOS?