How valuable is it to emulate PalmOS on Windows CE. Doe oyu really expect to convert a WinCE user by convinceing him first to install the PalmOS emulator then having him install palm apps?
Heck no! I think this will help convert Palm users to WinCE, effectively by saying, "hey, if you convert over to WinCE you not only have all your existing apps, but [Pocket]Word, Excel, etc. as well."
As the original poster said:
If this works, I may just have to
fork over the cash for an iPaq. This has pretty profound implications; its like carrying two handhelds in one
I think there was a linux kernel configuration interface that worked much like this, except moreso.... it was reported to be like a text adventure game.
- Look.
You see files here. Also, a Trashcan and the Internet
- Take Internet.
You can't do that!
- Drop files.
Where?
- Drop files in Trashcan.
rm -rf/ Done. 261792K deleted.
- Ah! Undo! Undo!
I don't understand that.
- Get files from backup!
I see no backup here
- Get backup from Internet
It is getting dark. You are eaten by a grue. C:\
iarchitect.com has a lot of great tips on GUI design, completely cross-platform.
A lot of it is common sense, but many X developers would do well to go through the site. Fortunately the GTK pushes developers in the right direction (build the tools, and you can implicitly enforce the standards), but we still have a ways to go for GNOME to be as consistent as, say, Macs were in the late '90s.
Oh, and M$ bashers will have many opportunities for chuckles here.:-)
While I was working for the feds,
I met a worm they called Code Red...
And Code Red hit 100K hosts,
And every host had 3 infections
And every infection had 100 threads
And every thread sent 100k
And every k had a thousand bytes [*]
And every byte was sent in 1 packet
And every packet had a 40-byte header
Headers, packets,
Bytes, k,
Infections, hosts and threads...
Once every month, just to piss off the Feds.
Except that Microsoft's money isn't "winning" against Open Source software... which can't be "bought", at least not in this context.
Even the anti-GPL, anti-Linux FUD is just
causing more and more people to ask "What is
this GNU thing and why is Microsoft so up
in arms about it?
(Billy G, do me a favor: just keeping telling
all those IT folks to avoid GNU. And to say No to Drugs. Yeah, you do that. Cause we all know how sweet that forbidden fruit is, don't we now?:-) )
we'll just see more computers ship with the only profitable digital information: porn
...Insert "gives a whole new meaning to sex on the desktop" joke here...
Seriously, though; I doubt that more OEM control is going to open the unremovable-pr0n-on-the-desktop floodgates. Family-oriented computer outlets would never sell such models (imagine the backlash), and responsible adults with kids would never buy them.
Now, unremoveable AOL crap on the desktop... that's another story. I can definitely envision a future where Steve Case blits 1280x1024 ads out to people on their desktops every 10 minutes.
How many do you know that haven't followed the upgrade curve for MS?
Tons! Virtually none that I know of have upgraded to Windows 2000; we're still on NT4 here. Why? Stability; the devil you know being better than the one you don't know; upgrades are a hassle, etc. Even the PC mags were urging businesses to hold back: Win2K simply was not worth the upgrade if all you're doing is running MSWord and MSExcel in house.
It is like no one ever getting fired for buying IBM.
Which, BTW, is no longer the case, at least as far as hardware [Aptiva, anyone?] or software [OS/2?] is concerned.
AOL only saved itself by carpet-bombing homes, bookstores and copy places with their "X Hours Free AOL" CDs. (I'm using one as a coaster right now).
.NET doesn't have to succeed with Joe Six Pack; it has to succeed with corporate types with serious $$$ on the line... and who will think twice before letting their business depend on shaky technologies.
Just b/c we are altering the state of the earth does not mean that we will 'destroy it' 'kill it' 'kill ourselves off' etc. The earth will return.
We will survive. Get over it.
Why are you so certain that "we will survive"? I don't recall any guarantee being given by any god/goddess of any religion that says, "sure, screw with the air and the water; I'll fix it for you."
When you drive a car, do you always go as fast as possible, heedless of bad road conditions? Of course you don't. You don't drive a car faster than you can control it, because when that needle hits 120 mph, bad things can happen from which there's no return.
The environment is like that car. Sure, maybe we could throw a lot of crap at the earth and it would absorb it. Or maybe it won't, and we'll all be wearing SPF 45 and buying oceanfront condos in Utah. You don't know. I don't know. No one knows.
And yes, just because we are accelerating it does means it's a bad thing. Because that means it is even less under our control. Because we are venturing into unknown territory.
Just because we've made it this far doesn't mean we're guaranteed to survive. The smart thing to do, the conservative thing to do, is to not push the envelope where this planet is concerned. Not because we know what will happen.... but because we don't.
Aren't some secure mail transport mechanisms dependent upon a form of checksumming of the bytes in the body, to ensure that the message has not been compromised? By definition, it seems that any mail agent that tacks on material to the message body would break secure transport.
It appears that your operating system is not supported by shockwave.com. We support the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 (or later), and Mac OS 8.1 (or later)."
I just saw this, from Solaris (on which, BTW, I run Netscape 4 with a Shockwave plug-in that works just fine). My response: what kind of BS is this?
So now Shockwave.com doesn't like my fsck'ing operating system? WHY? Why should it care about my OS, if my browser is up to the task?
Next I suppose they'll shut me out for having
a monitor that's too small, or one which doesn't display 16M colors, or that was manufactured by
Sony.
Finally, I suppose, I'll see something like this:
Your IP address is on our list of Open Source Development sites. Shockwave does not display its content to individuals who support the FSF, the GPL, Linux, Global Warming Theory or Public Television. Go back to China, you un-American
commie pinko freeloader.
A bit off topic but the/. article calls it GNU/Linux. Do we really have to go down rms's path of brainwashing?
Personally, I prefer Lignux: pronounced with a silent "g", and occasionally spelled with an invisible "g".
I don't think it's a bad thing for the Great Unwashed to see those two names together. This article was about the underrepresentation of Linux in statistics... RMS might argue that GNU is similarly "underexposed", especially given the importance of GNU software to most Linux systems.
Besides, have the "GNU" out there also gets people asking "What's GNU"? To which I can respond, "Nothing much; what's gnu with you?"
And then, I can tell them all about Open Source software and why it's so damned important.
You should go to the Operation Clambake site (here) and read up on how Scientology deals with critic (short answer: by harrasing the hell out of anyone who might compromise the influx of cash).
In particular, find references to R2-45:
a particularly nasty way that LRH recommended the CoS deal with critics.
Re: the point made about apple.biz versus apple.com: right on the money. ICANN has created a huge mess that should keep lawyers happy for years...
Here's what they should have done:
TLDs are 2-letter by country:.us,.fr, etc.
Countries are "naming authorities" which can resolve squabbles over who is entitled to
what.
Special TLDs of ".com", ".org", ".edu",
".int" are reserved for
Internationally-registered corporate/
nonprofit marks; e.g., apple.com.
So most of the important stuff stays as is.
By convention, countries use.com,.edu,.org, etc. whereever possible.
Examples:
apple.com.ca.us: Apple Computer of California, US
apple.com.us: same, cuz it's a national TM
apple.com: same, cuz it's international too
applemovers.com.md.us: Apple Movers (Maryland, US)
applemovers.com.va.us: Apple Movers (Virginia, US: unrelated to the one in Maryland)
applemovers.com.ca: Apple Movers of Canada
Oh, yeah, one more thing. All those names are UTF8.
Here's an idea though. The extension isn't.FMS, but.DLL, or.DOC, or.JPG, with enough random contextual crap to make it look like a valid file of that format.
Sure, MS can detect/defeat it. But they'll have to keep bloating their OS to do so. Everytime they do, we do an end run and change the format a little, until random users start complaining that their (legit).DOC,.JPG, whatever files don't work because MS's hacks are too over-eager.
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Heck no! I think this will help convert Palm users to WinCE, effectively by saying, "hey, if you convert over to WinCE you not only have all your existing apps, but [Pocket]Word, Excel, etc. as well." As the original poster said:
- Look.
You see files here. Also, a Trashcan and the Internet
- Take Internet.
You can't do that!
- Drop files.
Where?
- Drop files in Trashcan. /
rm -rf
Done. 261792K deleted.
- Ah! Undo! Undo!
I don't understand that.
- Get files from backup!
I see no backup here
- Get backup from Internet
It is getting dark. You are eaten by a grue.
C:\
A lot of it is common sense, but many X developers would do well to go through the site. Fortunately the GTK pushes developers in the right direction (build the tools, and you can implicitly enforce the standards), but we still have a ways to go for GNOME to be as consistent as, say, Macs were in the late '90s.
Oh, and M$ bashers will have many opportunities for chuckles here. :-)
While I was working for the feds,
:-)
I met a worm they called Code Red...
And Code Red hit 100K hosts,
And every host had 3 infections
And every infection had 100 threads
And every thread sent 100k
And every k had a thousand bytes [*]
And every byte was sent in 1 packet
And every packet had a 40-byte header
Headers, packets,
Bytes, k,
Infections, hosts and threads...
Once every month, just to piss off the Feds.
[*] 1024 just doesn't scan well.
Even the anti-GPL, anti-Linux FUD is just causing more and more people to ask "What is this GNU thing and why is Microsoft so up in arms about it?
(Billy G, do me a favor: just keeping telling all those IT folks to avoid GNU. And to say No to Drugs. Yeah, you do that. Cause we all know how sweet that forbidden fruit is, don't we now? :-) )
...Insert "gives a whole new meaning to sex on the desktop" joke here...
Seriously, though; I doubt that more OEM control is going to open the unremovable-pr0n-on-the-desktop floodgates. Family-oriented computer outlets would never sell such models (imagine the backlash), and responsible adults with kids would never buy them.
Now, unremoveable AOL crap on the desktop... that's another story. I can definitely envision a future where Steve Case blits 1280x1024 ads out to people on their desktops every 10 minutes.
Other people, that is. I'll be running GNOME. :-)
How many do you know that haven't followed the upgrade curve for MS?
Tons! Virtually none that I know of have upgraded to Windows 2000; we're still on NT4 here. Why? Stability; the devil you know being better than the one you don't know; upgrades are a hassle, etc. Even the PC mags were urging businesses to hold back: Win2K simply was not worth the upgrade if all you're doing is running MSWord and MSExcel in house.
It is like no one ever getting fired for buying IBM.
Which, BTW, is no longer the case, at least as far as hardware [Aptiva, anyone?] or software [OS/2?] is concerned.
In other words, MS ain't forever. :-)
.NET doesn't have to succeed with Joe Six Pack; it has to succeed with corporate types with serious $$$ on the line... and who will think twice before letting their business depend on shaky technologies.
Why are you so certain that "we will survive"? I don't recall any guarantee being given by any god/goddess of any religion that says, "sure, screw with the air and the water; I'll fix it for you."
When you drive a car, do you always go as fast as possible, heedless of bad road conditions? Of course you don't. You don't drive a car faster than you can control it, because when that needle hits 120 mph, bad things can happen from which there's no return.
The environment is like that car. Sure, maybe we could throw a lot of crap at the earth and it would absorb it. Or maybe it won't, and we'll all be wearing SPF 45 and buying oceanfront condos in Utah. You don't know. I don't know. No one knows.
And yes, just because we are accelerating it does means it's a bad thing. Because that means it is even less under our control. Because we are venturing into unknown territory.
Just because we've made it this far doesn't mean we're guaranteed to survive. The smart thing to do, the conservative thing to do, is to not push the envelope where this planet is concerned. Not because we know what will happen.... but because we don't.
.ORG (Since .org is for non-profits).
Uh....why? Will jackbooted Adobe thugs be coming around to those houses in the middle of the night?
Aren't some secure mail transport mechanisms dependent upon a form of checksumming of the bytes in the body, to ensure that the message has not been compromised? By definition, it seems that any mail agent that tacks on material to the message body would break secure transport.
It appears that your operating system is not supported by shockwave.com. We support the following operating systems: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 (or later), and Mac OS 8.1 (or later)."
I just saw this, from Solaris (on which, BTW, I run Netscape 4 with a Shockwave plug-in that works just fine). My response: what kind of BS is this?
So now Shockwave.com doesn't like my fsck'ing operating system? WHY? Why should it care about my OS, if my browser is up to the task?
Next I suppose they'll shut me out for having a monitor that's too small, or one which doesn't display 16M colors, or that was manufactured by Sony.
Finally, I suppose, I'll see something like this:
Sheesh.
...and if it's planned, anyone know when?
Personally, I prefer Lignux: pronounced with a silent "g", and occasionally spelled with an invisible "g".
I don't think it's a bad thing for the Great Unwashed to see those two names together. This article was about the underrepresentation of Linux in statistics... RMS might argue that GNU is similarly "underexposed", especially given the importance of GNU software to most Linux systems.
Besides, have the "GNU" out there also gets people asking "What's GNU"? To which I can respond, "Nothing much; what's gnu with you?" And then, I can tell them all about Open Source software and why it's so damned important.
In particular, find references to R2-45: a particularly nasty way that LRH recommended the CoS deal with critics.
Very interesting reading.
Re: the point made about apple.biz versus apple.com: right on the money. ICANN has created a huge mess that should keep lawyers happy for years...
Here's what they should have done:
Examples:
Oh, yeah, one more thing. All those names are UTF8.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win."
- Ghandi's formula for revolutionary change
See? Won't be long now.
Sure, MS can detect/defeat it. But they'll have to keep bloating their OS to do so. Everytime they do, we do an end run and change the format a little, until random users start complaining that their (legit) .DOC, .JPG, whatever files don't work because MS's hacks are too over-eager.
FUD galore!
I don't know, how does the cost of Windows compare with the cost of other OSs?
Well, let's compare it to Linux. Ratio of Cost(MSWindows)/Cost(Linux) for some positive n is n/0, or +infinity.
Wow.