O Palm Vx, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. You are super slim and very light indeed. A PDA is only as useful as it is portable, and you are the most portable of them all. You are a beautiful metallic color, and you get nice and chilly when I set you down. When I take you out, people look at you with envy because you are so sexy. You have a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which I like better than the AA batteries your predecessors (and your successor, the Palm VII) require. I like this because I like always having a fully charged battery, instead of having to replace batteries periodically. Some people don't like this because they don't like carrying around your cradle or your travel recharger when they travel, but I don't mind. Unlike your dull sibling the Palm V, you have 8 MB of main memory, four times as much. You are much smarter and can remember much more stuff. You come with AvantGo, which is nice for reading stuff fro! ! m the Web when I'm not at my machine. Whenever I HotSync you, you download some of my favorite Web pages, and I can read them later, like during a boring meeting. But Palm Vx, you are not perfect. I will now list some of your flaws, so you will not get a big head on me.
You are practically naked. The little leather cover that comes with you is little more than something to protect your screen from getting scratched. What's more, it presses one of your buttons when it is held closed, and this can mess up alarms that go off while the cover is on in this way (though there is a HackMaster hack, PalmVHack, that works around this). I'm working on getting a new case for you right now.
This is a common misconception of the Gnu GPL. The GPL prevents *other* people form releasing binary-only versions w/ proprietary code. Sun can release it under as many licenses as they want to, including closed. An example of this is Perl, which is releasd under two licenses- Artistic and GPL.
I am having a hard time parsing you sentence that begins with "After contemplating..." I think you meant "I did not find it hard not to disagree at least to some extent." (Is that 6 negatives?)
Well there is a 1/37 million chance they picked *this* guy, but that would make it seem that the probability of a random DNA sequence matching *anyone* in this DNA database seem to be rougly 600,000 times that, or just one in 60. (really it would be 1 - (1-1/37million)^600,000 )
Ethics eh? Corporations don't *have* ethics. This isn't some leftist rant. Basically, they are just responsible to shareholders for profit and stock prices. They get away with what they can get away with to achieve these objectives. That is *legally* required. They just like to cause the perception (w/ ads usually) that they *care* about you and are your *friend*. Microsoft is/was no less ethical than any other corporation. They just went too far in their money-making zeal and are now getting punished.
Airlines can *require* execs to fly on 1/1/00, but, as these execs have a very good idea of the likelihood of surviving the flight, it is very unlikely that they would take a non-negligible risk of death over the risk of losing their job. Who are they kidding? This is just a ploy to reassure the masses. (It's unlikely the public would even find out if these execs didn't fly. It could easily be a corporate cover-up.)
I can't find the url, but I seem to remember an article about how M$ tried to put hotmail on nt to brag about it and then quietly put it back to linux or a unix variation. Even if it was a unix and not linux, that still proves apache/smb is a better combo. And also the url about how ms threatened to leave nasdaq unless nasdaq used nt, so nasdaq used nt on some non-real-time not-very-important task. Anyone remember this?
Fabulous comment. It had puzzled me for a while that an extreme license (like GPL) is very incompatible with businesses that try to profit off of software development. It is basically the problem of the commons/prisoner's dilemma that is often mentioned in introductory philosophy or microeconoms courses. If software company A and rival software company B both release their code, both will benefit in the long run through offering tech support and custom solutions. But in the short run, if company B uses a standard open-source license and company A doesn't, company A can benefit at company B's expense. Although I do think (and hope) that if the new open-source licenses (like apple's or sun's) restrict software development for a large enough niche, a hobbyist open-source project will provide a replacement. (By hobbyist I'm not being pejorative. I mean that as programmers who contribute unpaid time to the open-source community.) (e.g. It's difficult and cost-prohibitive to develop plugins for Photoshop -> Gimp, a MUCH better and more customizable program imho.)
One must atleast respect RedHat's intentions. By contributing to Linux and allowing ANYONE to use their products, their motivation is to allow anyone with a little knowledge to use Linux and not Windows. And if Linux is easier to use, then Redhat and the entire Linux community benefits. An easy-to-use wm substantially decreases the learning curve associated with Linux, so that former Windows users can become expert Linux users more quickly and with less frustration. So even if KDE isn't the best, atleast RedHat has good intentions. Even *if* funding KDE is a bad thing, RH's intention is to make Linux easier-to-use. Which wm they fund has little impact on their bottom-line in the short-run.
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I now this will be moderated funny, but
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A typical Palm Vx user review...
O Palm Vx, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways. You are super slim and very light indeed. A PDA is only as useful as it is portable, and you are the most portable of them all. You are a beautiful metallic color, and you get nice and chilly when I set you down. When I take you out, people look at you with envy because you are so sexy. You have a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which I like better than the AA batteries your predecessors (and your successor, the Palm VII) require. I like this because I like always having a fully charged battery, instead of having to replace batteries periodically. Some people don't like this because they don't like carrying around your cradle or your travel recharger when they travel, but I don't mind. Unlike your dull sibling the Palm V, you have 8 MB of main memory, four times as much. You are much smarter and can remember much more stuff. You come with AvantGo, which is nice for reading stuff fro! ! m the Web when I'm not at my machine. Whenever I HotSync you, you download some of my favorite Web pages, and I can read them later, like during a boring meeting. But Palm Vx, you are not perfect. I will now list some of your flaws, so you will not get a big head on me.
You are practically naked. The little leather cover that comes with you is little more than something to protect your screen from getting scratched. What's more, it presses one of your buttons when it is held closed, and this can mess up alarms that go off while the cover is on in this way (though there is a HackMaster hack, PalmVHack, that works around this). I'm working on getting a new case for you right now.
This is a common misconception of the Gnu GPL. The GPL prevents *other* people form releasing binary-only versions w/ proprietary code. Sun can release it under as many licenses as they want to, including closed. An example of this is Perl, which is releasd under two licenses- Artistic and GPL.
I am having a hard time parsing you sentence that begins with "After contemplating..." I think you meant "I did not find it hard not to disagree at least to some extent." (Is that 6 negatives?)
Well there is a 1/37 million chance they picked *this* guy, but that would make it seem that the probability of a random DNA sequence matching *anyone* in this DNA database seem to be rougly 600,000 times that, or just one in 60. (really it would be 1 - (1-1/37million)^600,000 )
This is a bit irrelevant, no? Companies can just establish themesleves elsewhere. Delaware is a good example.
-- Noone expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Airlines can *require* execs to fly on 1/1/00, but, as these execs have a very good idea of the likelihood of surviving the flight, it is very unlikely that they would take a non-negligible risk of death over the risk of losing their job. Who are they kidding? This is just a ploy to reassure the masses. (It's unlikely the public would even find out if these execs didn't fly. It could easily be a corporate cover-up.)
apple II run linux??? imagine a beowulf cluster!!!
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drool
sorry, couldn't resist it
I can't find the url, but I seem to remember an article about how M$ tried to put hotmail on nt to brag about it and then quietly put it back to linux or a unix variation. Even if it was a unix and not linux, that still proves apache/smb is a better combo. And also the url about how ms threatened to leave nasdaq unless nasdaq used nt, so nasdaq used nt on some non-real-time not-very-important task. Anyone remember this?
Fabulous comment. It had puzzled me for a while that an extreme license (like GPL) is very incompatible with businesses that try to profit off of software development. It is basically the problem of the commons/prisoner's dilemma that is often mentioned in introductory philosophy or microeconoms courses. If software company A and rival software company B both release their code, both will benefit in the long run through offering tech support and custom solutions. But in the short run, if company B uses a standard open-source license and company A doesn't, company A can benefit at company B's expense. Although I do think (and hope) that if the new open-source licenses (like apple's or sun's) restrict software development for a large enough niche, a hobbyist open-source project will provide a replacement. (By hobbyist I'm not being pejorative. I mean that as programmers who contribute unpaid time to the open-source community.) (e.g. It's difficult and cost-prohibitive to develop plugins for Photoshop -> Gimp, a MUCH better and more customizable program imho.)
Well as soon as cd-r's become cheaper and more ubiquitious vending machines will disappear. This strikes me as a silly new idea.
One must atleast respect RedHat's intentions. By contributing to Linux and allowing ANYONE to use their products, their motivation is to allow anyone with a little knowledge to use Linux and not Windows. And if Linux is easier to use, then Redhat and the entire Linux community benefits. An easy-to-use wm substantially decreases the learning curve associated with Linux, so that former Windows users can become expert Linux users more quickly and with less frustration. So even if KDE isn't the best, atleast RedHat has good intentions. Even *if* funding KDE is a bad thing, RH's intention is to make Linux easier-to-use. Which wm they fund has little impact on their bottom-line in the short-run.