It has a nice small form factor (for a Palm Device) and not much larger than your average phone. It has a color screen. Can do voice memos, which is a great feature! I can access the Internet, check email, and use it as an access device to my ISP for my PC using the data cable which is sold separately. It's fantastic!
I also like the functionality of having my contact list sync'd from my PC and being able to call directly from that. It keeps me organized and reminds me of things I have to do. It's everything I want in a personal communications/organizer device. It's so nice to finally have a Palm device and phone in one small package. Oh, and btw, it looks really cool!
No, actually he said: "UPS Ground does not insure international shipments..." I know it's easy for us to tell you what you should have done after the fact, so here it is. You should have paid the extra to have it shipped at the level where it becomes insurable.
Rules to live by:
Rule #1: Never ship anything without insurance. Ever.
Rule #2: If it's not possible to ship with insurance, refer to rule #1.
Sorry dude, but that's one of thos mistakes you (hopefully) only make once in life. It was good of you to post the story of your misfortune here. Perhaps you will help some other geeks out.
I worked with a couple of these systems during my last year of college. I can't say that I'm sad to see them go, as I'm all for "better" (subjective, I know) technology. The box and MPE OS were very stable and they provided me with some very valuable learning experiences early on. Backups using those big reel tapes. Ahhh yes! Those were the days.;)
So, yeah, onward and upward, but it's still nice to look back now and again. We should definitely remember where we came from.
Actually, that's what I was making fun of in my original post. The submitters mistake referring to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks as opposed to DOS (Disk Operating System). This was not meant to take another jab at Microsoft.
It's kind of funnier actually that I have to explain my comment, but I realize that not everyone who visits/. knows the difference and that's why I'm posting again to clear the air.
Back when I first got DSL and downloaded my first.iso images I wondered myself how the companies that centered their business model around the compilation of a Linux distribution and the distributing of that distribution would make it in the "future" where bandwidth would be available in larger quantities and CD burners would be ubiquitous.
Certainly we should all support our favorite distribution by purchasing a packaged product once in awhile. This isn't too hard when most are priced between $30 and $50 dollars.
However, I do not see how these companies can continue to survive much longer without venturing into different product areas as Red Hat has done. I really don't think their revenue streams can support them for much longer. Suse has had troubles recently for some of the same reasons (IMHO).
Just to provide a little insight, I was a cop at one time and one of the most important lessons I learned, that still serves me well, is that there are in fact (at least) three sides to every story. One side for each of the parties involved and then the side of truth which is always in the middle.
Regulation or not, they still are used for purposes other that what they were designed.
I think what he means, is that regulation of inanimate objects doesn't nearly go all the way toward stopping the people that actually carry out these acts of terrorism. The government too often focuses on the wrong part of the issue. It's so easy to ban and regulate objects instead of banning or regulating behavior, or changing behavior, if you like.
The root problem of the issue is always people. All of the inamimate objects are useless without the people to make use of them. Guns don't shoot themselves. Dynamite doesn't blow itself up. Planes don't fly themselves. People do!
Nice idea, but I always thought that Star Trek (the entire franchise) in all of it's incarnations, was about teamwork. It's always been about people coming together to get the job done. Regardless of color, creed, religion, etc. This is what I always loved about it. The super hero's you speak of were all flawed in some way and could not get the job done without the entire team. Everyone contributed.
Spock (my personal favorite) had superior strength and intellect, but at times he was too logical. This was his "achilles heel". Data, was much the same.
Capt.'s Kirk, Picard, and Janeway (pardon me forgetting the DS9 captain's name...didn't really watch it) were the leaders that pulled together the strengths of the team to get the job done, often in the most harrowing of circumstances.
So, I think you are right about the hero part, just not the super hero part. All of the characters were hero's in their own way. They all braved the "unknown" and faced their worst fears.
I'd like to take this time to say thanks to the Slashteam. Great job!
Also, I'd like to take this opportunity (since Slashdot is read by people from many countries) to thank the rest of the world for all of the support. We are going to need it even more in the future as we plan and execute our next course of action and the many actions sure to be in our future.
We as citizens of the world need to send a message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated. Not only in the United States but in every country. We Americans take a lot for granted, but once something like this happens in our own backyard, it becomes personal and you can be certain we will bring all of our resources to bear in punishing those responsible.
Please continue to support us as we go forward. We will prevail and come out even stronger. Rather than tear us apart, this has only steeled us and made us more resolute in the course of action we all know we need to take.
Here is an article on Yahoo about Sony Handycam's
using Bluetooth to make them "networkable" for sharing media.
Is it just me or does Sony seem to support a lot of varied technologies? Seems it would make them less disaster-prone to debacles involving putting all of their technological "eggs" in one proverbial basket. It kind of makes sense when you have Sony's financial backing to be on every bandwagon that comes through town.
They were foremost in the mini-disk market (which sadly didn't make it because I bought one;) and they didn't shy away from the mp3 market with players and memory stick tech.
Thanks for your review. Katz had me scared for a moment. I have never played any of the games and don't know anything about the story, but I do like anime and technology and I've really been looking forward to this movie because of the huge leap forward in animation quality. I feel much better about going to see it now.
To be so into technology, you people sound like a bunch of Luddites! Lets just go ahead and trash all forms of technology and go back to rubbing sticks together for fire.
Whatever happened to hope? It seems that after all of this dot com bullshit everyone is so down on the Internet and computing lately. It's as though everyone is jumping on the anti-technology bandwagon just as five years ago we all thought this huge paradigm shift was occurring, the economy was on an upturn that would last for twenty years and now that we have a hit a little bump in the road, we're all going to hell in a hand basket!
This is just a temporary setback. Call it a Recession if you want. It will pass soon enough and we'll begin moving upward again. This is merely a correction that had to take place. Waaaay too much money was being thrown at ideas that were just that, ideas! They had no substance to back them up. So much of the economy, especially the stock market is affected by emotion. If you look at the market since its inception, it has been on a steady upward trend. Sure we had the Great Depression and the recession back in the 80's, but in general, it continues to move upward.
From the article: "What's extraordinarily frustrating to me is that almost no one is thinking of these possibilities," he says. "When people think about the future and the Internet, what they usually trot out is that example of 'the refrigerator that orders milk for you when you've run out.' " Such scenarios are trivial,..."
This often frustrates me as well. People are quick to decry computing saying it won't "save the world". I seem to remember a article on Slashdot awhile back saying this as well as trying to tell us what computers can't do. How idiotic! There are so many technologies in existance right now that 10 years ago we never would have thought possible. Even more so 40 years ago when the first computers were filling entire floors of a building and now we have much more powerful computers that fit in our pockets...hell! on our wrists even!!
I work in the technology field because it never ceases to fascinate me. Perhaps many of us take so many things around us for granted that we fail to see the enormous wonder in what is now a simple microchip. I'll probably never be a Vint Cerf, Linus Torvalds, or a Tim Berners-Lee, but I feel truly fortunate just to be along for the ride. Who would have ever dreamed that we could send not only one frequency of light down a fiber smaller in diameter than a human hair at OC-192 speeds and faster, much less use DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) to send multiple frequencies of light and make even more use of the existing technology! We not only underestimate computers and technology in general, we underestimate ourselves! This mistake has been made before when the U.S. Patent Office once released a statement back in the 1920's (I believe) saying that anything that could ever be invented already had been. There was nothing else to invent! Nothing else to discover! How short-sighted!
Who cares if James Martins' prophecies don't come true exactly as he says. He seems to be one of the few with documented proof that more than 20 years ago he made far more than just a few ruminations about what the future held and was dead on with a lot of them. Give the guy a break. Also, give technology and humanity a break.
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Well, of course he'd have to have talked to at least one to know he wouldn't want to again.
I just recently got the new Samsung I300 SmartPhone which runs the Palm OS. It is sweet!
It has a nice small form factor (for a Palm Device) and not much larger than your average phone. It has a color screen. Can do voice memos, which is a great feature! I can access the Internet, check email, and use it as an access device to my ISP for my PC using the data cable which is sold separately. It's fantastic!
I also like the functionality of having my contact list sync'd from my PC and being able to call directly from that. It keeps me organized and reminds me of things I have to do. It's everything I want in a personal communications/organizer device. It's so nice to finally have a Palm device and phone in one small package. Oh, and btw, it looks really cool!
No, actually he said: "UPS Ground does not insure international shipments..." I know it's easy for us to tell you what you should have done after the fact, so here it is. You should have paid the extra to have it shipped at the level where it becomes insurable.
Rules to live by:
Sorry dude, but that's one of thos mistakes you (hopefully) only make once in life. It was good of you to post the story of your misfortune here. Perhaps you will help some other geeks out.
I'd hate to stray from the status quo where standard interview questions are concerned, so in keeping with it, I ask:
What's it like knowing that, if (God forbid) Linus and Alan were hit by a bus, you might be "The Man"?
Hey, someone had to ask.
I worked with a couple of these systems during my last year of college. I can't say that I'm sad to see them go, as I'm all for "better" (subjective, I know) technology. The box and MPE OS were very stable and they provided me with some very valuable learning experiences early on. Backups using those big reel tapes. Ahhh yes! Those were the days.
So, yeah, onward and upward, but it's still nice to look back now and again. We should definitely remember where we came from.
Actually, that's what I was making fun of in my original post. The submitters mistake referring to DoS (Denial of Service) attacks as opposed to DOS (Disk Operating System). This was not meant to take another jab at Microsoft.
It's kind of funnier actually that I have to explain my comment, but I realize that not everyone who visits
True dat!
Does no one have a sense of humor?
You people kill me!!
Oh well, I've got Karma to burn!!! Moderate on!!
Wooo-hooo!!!
Well, that's what they get for using DOS as the OS for their routers. Sheeeesh!! Some people will never learn!
Back when I first got DSL and downloaded my first
Certainly we should all support our favorite distribution by purchasing a packaged product once in awhile. This isn't too hard when most are priced between $30 and $50 dollars.
However, I do not see how these companies can continue to survive much longer without venturing into different product areas as Red Hat has done. I really don't think their revenue streams can support them for much longer. Suse has had troubles recently for some of the same reasons (IMHO).
Sure these are not cheaper by the MB, but they are incredibly cool!!
Just to provide a little insight, I was a cop at one time and one of the most important lessons I learned, that still serves me well, is that there are in fact (at least) three sides to every story. One side for each of the parties involved and then the side of truth which is always in the middle.
No one has a monopoly on the truth.
Regulation or not, they still are used for purposes other that what they were designed.
I think what he means, is that regulation of inanimate objects doesn't nearly go all the way toward stopping the people that actually carry out these acts of terrorism. The government too often focuses on the wrong part of the issue. It's so easy to ban and regulate objects instead of banning or regulating behavior, or changing behavior, if you like.
The root problem of the issue is always people. All of the inamimate objects are useless without the people to make use of them. Guns don't shoot themselves. Dynamite doesn't blow itself up. Planes don't fly themselves. People do!
Nice idea, but I always thought that Star Trek (the entire franchise) in all of it's incarnations, was about teamwork . It's always been about people coming together to get the job done. Regardless of color, creed, religion, etc. This is what I always loved about it. The super hero's you speak of were all flawed in some way and could not get the job done without the entire team. Everyone contributed.
Spock (my personal favorite) had superior strength and intellect, but at times he was too logical. This was his "achilles heel". Data, was much the same.
Capt.'s Kirk, Picard, and Janeway (pardon me forgetting the DS9 captain's name...didn't really watch it) were the leaders that pulled together the strengths of the team to get the job done, often in the most harrowing of circumstances.
So, I think you are right about the hero part, just not the super hero part. All of the characters were hero's in their own way. They all braved the "unknown" and faced their worst fears.
This is heroism.
Or...."Hacking GNU/Linux Exposed"? DOH!
I'd like to take this time to say thanks to the Slashteam. Great job!
Also, I'd like to take this opportunity (since Slashdot is read by people from many countries) to thank the rest of the world for all of the support. We are going to need it even more in the future as we plan and execute our next course of action and the many actions sure to be in our future.
We as citizens of the world need to send a message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated. Not only in the United States but in every country. We Americans take a lot for granted, but once something like this happens in our own backyard, it becomes personal and you can be certain we will bring all of our resources to bear in punishing those responsible.
Please continue to support us as we go forward. We will prevail and come out even stronger. Rather than tear us apart, this has only steeled us and made us more resolute in the course of action we all know we need to take.
Thank you!
Here is an article on Yahoo about Sony Handycam's
using Bluetooth to make them "networkable" for sharing media.
Is it just me or does Sony seem to support a lot of varied technologies? Seems it would make them less disaster-prone to debacles involving putting all of their technological "eggs" in one proverbial basket. It kind of makes sense when you have Sony's financial backing to be on every bandwagon that comes through town.
They were foremost in the mini-disk market (which sadly didn't make it because I bought one
Just a thought.
Second paragraph, quoting one of the admin assistants:
"...but I like to do it this way on my computer."
'nuff said!
The term "Slashdot Effect" is so passe, so...nineties.
Now "Slashdot-Gangbang"...much better!
All in favor??
Based on the above information, I guess this means they'll have to rename SAMBA.
My nomination for a new name: CIFiliS
I actually like it better and it's original (I hope
Keep up the great work guys!
Thanks for your review. Katz had me scared for a moment. I have never played any of the games and don't know anything about the story, but I do like anime and technology and I've really been looking forward to this movie because of the huge leap forward in animation quality. I feel much better about going to see it now.
If nothing else, it'll help keep you warm in the Winter!
To be so into technology, you people sound like a bunch of Luddites! Lets just go ahead and trash all forms of technology and go back to rubbing sticks together for fire.
Whatever happened to hope? It seems that after all of this dot com bullshit everyone is so down on the Internet and computing lately. It's as though everyone is jumping on the anti-technology bandwagon just as five years ago we all thought this huge paradigm shift was occurring, the economy was on an upturn that would last for twenty years and now that we have a hit a little bump in the road, we're all going to hell in a hand basket!
This is just a temporary setback. Call it a Recession if you want. It will pass soon enough and we'll begin moving upward again. This is merely a correction that had to take place. Waaaay too much money was being thrown at ideas that were just that, ideas! They had no substance to back them up. So much of the economy, especially the stock market is affected by emotion. If you look at the market since its inception, it has been on a steady upward trend. Sure we had the Great Depression and the recession back in the 80's, but in general, it continues to move upward.
From the article: "What's extraordinarily frustrating to me is that almost no one is thinking of these possibilities," he says. "When people think about the future and the Internet, what they usually trot out is that example of 'the refrigerator that orders milk for you when you've run out.' " Such scenarios are trivial,..."
This often frustrates me as well. People are quick to decry computing saying it won't "save the world". I seem to remember a article on Slashdot awhile back saying this as well as trying to tell us what computers can't do. How idiotic! There are so many technologies in existance right now that 10 years ago we never would have thought possible. Even more so 40 years ago when the first computers were filling entire floors of a building and now we have much more powerful computers that fit in our pockets...hell! on our wrists even!!
I work in the technology field because it never ceases to fascinate me. Perhaps many of us take so many things around us for granted that we fail to see the enormous wonder in what is now a simple microchip. I'll probably never be a Vint Cerf, Linus Torvalds, or a Tim Berners-Lee, but I feel truly fortunate just to be along for the ride. Who would have ever dreamed that we could send not only one frequency of light down a fiber smaller in diameter than a human hair at OC-192 speeds and faster, much less use DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) to send multiple frequencies of light and make even more use of the existing technology! We not only underestimate computers and technology in general, we underestimate ourselves! This mistake has been made before when the U.S. Patent Office once released a statement back in the 1920's (I believe) saying that anything that could ever be invented already had been. There was nothing else to invent! Nothing else to discover! How short-sighted!
Who cares if James Martins' prophecies don't come true exactly as he says. He seems to be one of the few with documented proof that more than 20 years ago he made far more than just a few ruminations about what the future held and was dead on with a lot of them. Give the guy a break. Also, give technology and humanity a break.
Darn, forgot all about that and considering OSX looks pretty sweet, I might have to get a Mac soon.
By the way, since you brought it up, why do think MS doesn't port Office to Linux? I have my own opinion, but yours would be far more interesting.
Thanks for the reply,
Jason