I've had nothing but bad luck with Palm OS devices. I've got a palm IIIe that wouldn't hotsync after 3 months, Had 2 Handspring Visors that fried (bought the first one it died in 48 hours (touch screen wouldn't respond), returned it for the 2nd one that kicked off after 2 weeks (hit the power button all that would come on is the backlight).
The only PDA that I've never had a problem with is my eMate 300 (Newton OS), five years old and all I've ever had to do was recondition the battery pack ($20).
When I first moved out into my own place I got a next day air package from my exhippie uncle. It had a Leatherman Wave (with the leather belt pouch) inside with hand written post-it saying, "This is your life line, don't lose it." I'll be damed if he wasn't right. So far its fixed cars (import and domistic) computers (mac and pc), Stereos (one Aiwa and a one old ass RCA Victrola) and opened more beers than some bar tenders.
PS. You don't need a lock pick set for B&A, That leatherman worked just fine for breaking into that fire station (long, very kinky story).
Ok this is how most mac people would respond to that, "We don't need to be competitive. Our stuff is better. Smart people get that, if you don't then you must not be smart enought to use a mac."
How I would respond to that, "It's a Mac. I'll take it out of the box , rack it, turn it on, spend about 1/2 an hour setting it up, and walk away. What other system in that class can you say that about?"
I would like to know what effect these "protected" CDs would have on older ROM based Power Macs like mine. (it's a ROM the there's no way to mess with it, example, why you can't change the start-up chime on old Macs.)
beings that I only buy LPs (yes they still make them, yes they do sound better, and yes they do last longer) and burn them to CDR I have no way or desire (to buy a CD by that talentless hack) to test this.
to all you who say that private space flight can't happen. I point to Burt Rutan (www.scaled.com) of Voyager fame (not the show, the airplane that few around the world nonstop on one tank of gas in 1986). In the avation world this guy is a god. If Burt says,"I'm going after the X Prize." He'll do it.
Who do you think will win this race guy that wrote a really cool computer game or guy that had airfoil designs rejected by NASA because "they're to cheap to be any good."
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I've had nothing but bad luck with Palm OS devices. I've got a palm IIIe that wouldn't hotsync after 3 months, Had 2 Handspring Visors that fried (bought the first one it died in 48 hours (touch screen wouldn't respond), returned it for the 2nd one that kicked off after 2 weeks (hit the power button all that would come on is the backlight).
The only PDA that I've never had a problem with is my eMate 300 (Newton OS), five years old and all I've ever had to do was recondition the battery pack ($20).
When I first moved out into my own place I got a next day air package from my exhippie uncle. It had a Leatherman Wave (with the leather belt pouch) inside with hand written post-it saying, "This is your life line, don't lose it." I'll be damed if he wasn't right. So far its fixed cars (import and domistic) computers (mac and pc), Stereos (one Aiwa and a one old ass RCA Victrola) and opened more beers than some bar tenders.
PS. You don't need a lock pick set for B&A, That leatherman worked just fine for breaking into that fire station (long, very kinky story).
Ok this is how most mac people would respond to that, "We don't need to be competitive. Our stuff is better. Smart people get that, if you don't then you must not be smart enought to use a mac."
How I would respond to that, "It's a Mac. I'll take it out of the box , rack it, turn it on, spend about 1/2 an hour setting it up, and walk away. What other system in that class can you say that about?"
I would like to know what effect these "protected" CDs would have on older ROM based Power Macs like mine. (it's a ROM the there's no way to mess with it, example, why you can't change the start-up chime on old Macs.)
beings that I only buy LPs (yes they still make them, yes they do sound better, and yes they do last longer) and burn them to CDR I have no way or desire (to buy a CD by that talentless hack) to test this.
to all you who say that private space flight can't happen. I point to Burt Rutan (www.scaled.com) of Voyager fame (not the show, the airplane that few around the world nonstop on one tank of gas in 1986). In the avation world this guy is a god. If Burt says,"I'm going after the X Prize." He'll do it.
Who do you think will win this race
guy that wrote a really cool computer game
or
guy that had airfoil designs rejected by NASA because "they're to cheap to be any good."