Both CDMA and GPRS are new to North America. Like all things Electronic, new = expensive. You'll only find CDMA & GPRS in areas large populations right now. Later on they'll slowly work their way into the smaller citeis in towns.
Since GPRS is based on GSM, Europe & Asia should be way ahead of North American when it comes to GPRS.
CDPD is another wireless data technology capable of surfing the web that isn't really all that expensive. (in a relative sort of way,) It's slow so that impeded its growth. Also it doesn't work with cell phones. (At least not to my knowledge.) It's rapidly being replaced by CDMA & GPRS.
Considering how much of my garage floor is filled with 15 year old books from College that I haven't looked at since getting out, an iPaq would have been a good idea.
Okay, I could dump the books, but after spending $80.00+ a pop (Back then) and losing countless hours of my life beating my head against them in a vain attempt to understand Maxwell's equations, I just can't bear to throw them out.
I've worked with Rational Visual Test(or Irrational Test as we often refer to it.) With both you can call commands from different programs. I have't tried doing similar tasks in PERL, but mostly because I have not immersed myself in PERL.
I think that was his point when he described point 4 of his discussion: Make it easy for the user to find out how to do things.
There are lots of apps, but unless you've tinkered with Linux a while, knowing how to use them to do what you want can be daunting. (Yes, there are How-tos, but they range from excellent to cryptic.) Although I don't think I'd ever go so far as to advocate a "Clipit" equivalent for Linux, that annoying paper clip serves a useful purpose for the non-geek computer user.
Most newbie Linux websites and books tend to focus on installation but the problem is once the system is installed and the newbie can boot up with X-windows, the book ends.
Put an access point in the elevator shaft Since the elevator shaft would open to just about every floor, you'd get the most bang for your buck there. Of course, a lot depends upon the wall material and layout of your building.
One thing to remember would be that LCD Displays have a limited temperature range. Pumping heat into them would work wonders in Minnesota in the winter, but be a disater in Phoenix any other time of year.
If either is hard, why does my 4 year old have no trouble navigating to www.pbskids.com or www.disney.com? (admittantly that's on Windows ME cause my wife prefers Windows.) Or for that matter starting up Sim City (in this case Mandrake with KDE) He can make trains go all over the place, so he loves SIM City. The other two kids (10 & 11) in my house taught me how do themes in KDE. Seems to me that this whole subject is driven by pessimistic people who like whining.
...The original 2-seat pusher LongEZ became the 4-seat Velocity, the taildragger Quickie, and inspired the commercial LearStar and Beechcraft StarShip designs. Rutan was heading up Beechcraft when the Starship was designed. It was his pet project, but many of the engineers hated the project. They weren't inspired to build it, they were paid to work on it & and told to do it even though they objected to the design approach. The Starship was all composite and a Canard which was a major design departure from Beechcraft's bread and butter - the King Air series. The Starship ended up costing twice as much as a King Air with less performance which goes to prove that just because you can do something doesn't mean it makes business sense.
Of course it was predictable. 90% of Slashdot is. - including your comment What were you expecting/hoping?
I read it to see how he makes his comparisons. It was too bad he didn't try to make a point by point rebuttle. That could be a good read.
I liked the receipe anology but of course many people eat fast food all the time. Kentucky Fried Chicken doesn't publish their receipe. People wanting food and lacking the skills and/or time can enjoy fried chicken without going through the process of cooking the bird themselves. Sure they might get something a bit better if they cooked it themselves, but if you don't have the same equipment, you can't get the same thing. Most Computer users aren't even aware that they can get any alternative to Closed Source Software just the same way that people who have never tasted a free range chicken haven't a clue what they are missing.
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Checkout how Dr Seuss explains computers crashing here
Many of us are "example learners" as opposed to "book learners".
Considering the number of tetris clones I can find at Freshmeat I'd have to agree with you.
Both CDMA and GPRS are new to North America. Like all things Electronic, new = expensive. You'll only find CDMA & GPRS in areas large populations right now. Later on they'll slowly work their way into the smaller citeis in towns.
Since GPRS is based on GSM, Europe & Asia should be way ahead of North American when it comes to GPRS.
CDPD is another wireless data technology capable of surfing the web that isn't really all that expensive. (in a relative sort of way,) It's slow so that impeded its growth. Also it doesn't work with cell phones. (At least not to my knowledge.) It's rapidly being replaced by CDMA & GPRS.
Considering how much of my garage floor is filled with 15 year old books from College that I haven't looked at since getting out, an iPaq would have been a good idea.
Okay, I could dump the books, but after spending $80.00+ a pop (Back then) and losing countless hours of my life beating my head against them in a vain attempt to understand Maxwell's equations, I just can't bear to throw them out.
I've worked with Rational Visual Test(or Irrational Test as we often refer to it.) With both you can call commands from different programs. I have't tried doing similar tasks in PERL, but mostly because I have not immersed myself in PERL.
I think that was his point when he described point 4 of his discussion: Make it easy for the user to find out how to do things.
There are lots of apps, but unless you've tinkered with Linux a while, knowing how to use them to do what you want can be daunting. (Yes, there are How-tos, but they range from excellent to cryptic.) Although I don't think I'd ever go so far as to advocate a "Clipit" equivalent for Linux, that annoying paper clip serves a useful purpose for the non-geek computer user.
Most newbie Linux websites and books tend to focus on installation but the problem is once the system is installed and the newbie can boot up with X-windows, the book ends.
Put an access point in the elevator shaft Since the elevator shaft would open to just about every floor, you'd get the most bang for your buck there. Of course, a lot depends upon the wall material and layout of your building.
One thing to remember would be that LCD Displays have a limited temperature range. Pumping heat into them would work wonders in Minnesota in the winter, but be a disater in Phoenix any other time of year.
I believe it is wrong to change the User Agent string in browsers, particularly in order to pretend to be an MS browser.
Could some moderatior Mod this comment up. He makes a very good point.
If either is hard, why does my 4 year old have no trouble navigating to www.pbskids.com or www.disney.com? (admittantly that's on Windows ME cause my wife prefers Windows.) Or for that matter starting up Sim City (in this case Mandrake with KDE) He can make trains go all over the place, so he loves SIM City.
The other two kids (10 & 11) in my house taught me how do themes in KDE.
Seems to me that this whole subject is driven by pessimistic people who like whining.
...The original 2-seat pusher LongEZ became the 4-seat Velocity, the taildragger Quickie, and inspired the commercial LearStar and Beechcraft StarShip designs.
Rutan was heading up Beechcraft when the Starship was designed. It was his pet project, but many of the engineers hated the project. They weren't inspired to build it, they were paid to work on it & and told to do it even though they objected to the design approach.
The Starship was all composite and a Canard which was a major design departure from Beechcraft's bread and butter - the King Air series.
The Starship ended up costing twice as much as a King Air with less performance which goes to prove that just because you can do something doesn't mean it makes business sense.
Of course it was predictable. 90% of Slashdot is. - including your comment
What were you expecting/hoping?
I read it to see how he makes his comparisons. It was too bad he didn't try to make a point by point rebuttle. That could be a good read.
I liked the receipe anology but of course many people eat fast food all the time. Kentucky Fried Chicken doesn't publish their receipe. People wanting food and lacking the skills and/or time can enjoy fried chicken without going through the process of cooking the bird themselves. Sure they might get something a bit better if they cooked it themselves, but if you don't have the same equipment, you can't get the same thing.
Most Computer users aren't even aware that they can get any alternative to Closed Source Software just the same way that people who have never tasted a free range chicken haven't a clue what they are missing.