Not at all, I love my orange Deluxe and have been hassling Handspring for ages to stop making the boring colours used for the Platinum and Prism and go back to bright, multi-coloured machines.
Overall the Visors just look better than the Palms and it's not just the colour, it's the shape, the ridges in the plastic. Every time I see mine next to any Palm I can't believe how much better their design looks - there's just something totally mundane about the Palms.
Handspring's Deluxe is really cool looking, unlike the drab, run-of-the-mill Vx (please Palm give us some decent bright colours, enough of this horrible black and silver); at least the Vx isn't totally ugly like the rest of the Palms. Light? Who cares about an ounce or two, unless you're a decrepit invalid. The only thing the Vx has going for it is thinness - you can actually comfortably stuff it in your back pocket.
The whole point of Graffiti is that it doesn't matter how horrible and ugly your actual handwriting is. It works extremely well and you can quickly learn to write at nearly full speed. Took me two minutes to learn and about a day to get almost totally proficient.
I wish they'd stop making these things with keyboards, they're a waste of time, space and add weight. Handwriting is the only way to go with these things. If Psion made a nice handheld without the keyboard I'd buy one in a second. If you want a keyboard get a laptop, they're completely inappropriate on a handheld.
You used to need a mathematics degree and be a top flight academic to be a programmer, back in the beginning.
Or rather programming used to attract these sort of people and it was a long standing myth that mathematics ability was essential to programming; perhaps if you're designing mathematical algorithms or doing theoritical computer science, but language ability is actually very important in programming combined with the ability to think logically which has nothing to do with mathematics.
The end result is natural language programming. You literally tell the computer what you want it to do, and its amazing compiler will produce perfect code.
And who is going to write the software that makes all this possible? Another myth, that programmers will one day be unnecessary.
Yeah, so maybe they had a good reason for not wanting to go home? Maybe they were safer on the streets, especially if the streets are so safe with all those cameras?
The UK has been an abusive police state since the days of their own Reagan impersonator, Thatcher. And abuse of the public by the police goes back even further - your chances of being harassed, beaten up and then arrested for not co-operating in your beating are extremely high if you're not white or not English (i.e. Scottish or Irish). They also have a long history of suppressing protest as does the US.
I wonder though how easy it would be to damage or interfere with these cameras without actually touching them directly?
Or the typical rightwing Christian. They're the same psychopaths across all religions.
If Hitler had been Catholic and born a few hundred years ago he would have become Saint Adolf for his contribution to wiping out the Jews.
Scientology is a dangerous, stupid religion, but no more so than any other religion. They guard their texts very carefully for one simple reason - if you read them you realise how stupid and juvenile they really are. That means that no rational, intelligent person would ever fork out large sums of money for them or join to get access, but I don't know why they're worried - evangelists live very well off their gullible followers. Other religions thrive despite having the most ludicrous, idiotic beliefs - why should yet another dumb religion be any different.
Nowhere is there mention of music being free in the future, but rather that musicians will actually get paid for what they do. The reality is that only the extremely successful musicians ever make any real money, the rest either eke out an existence or end up owing the record label a fortune for advertising, recording etc. The fact is that right now the record labels risk nothing and in return make an absolute fortune. Hell at least the drug syndicates take risks for their profits.
I want to see the day where I can buy directly from the creators so that they are rewarded instead of the crime syndicates that currently take all the money. Books are a little difficult - it's easy for me to publish and sell my own music, but printing books is quite expensive. Hopefully e-books and quality, cheap readers will change that.
I am one of numerous people who has bought a lot more music since Napster appeared. Why? Because I was exposed to numerous things I would never have heard otherwise. So the Racketeering industry can shut it down if they like, but they're going to lose a lot of money in the process. And any copy protection scheme they come up with will be defeated, maybe not in the US police state, but there are numerous countries where it can be done with impunity.
Oracle's license clearly states you have no recourse even if their software destroys your 3Tb database.
There is debate wrt whether the cheaper/free products can scale up to the size of Oracle databases, but most of it is more than likely FUD. Oracle refuse to allow proper testing and independent testing that has been done without their permission has been inconclusive; that tells me Oracle has something to hide.
OTOH most people will cover themselves by buying Oracle; at least that way you can blame them, afterall it is a well known, expensive product.
Non-competes are not generally enforceable (regardless of what the whores in their legal dept claim).
Threatening termination because you refuse to sign a new agreement should be illegal and is one of numerous reasons why we need an IT union. It should also be a legal requirement that any and all conditions of employment are disclosed at the time of the offer; anything not disclosed is null and void. The US is desperately in need of very clear restrictions on what businesses may and may not do - they should be far more closely monitored and controlled by government (unfortunately the government is currently in the pay of big business). In civilised countries all these business practices are completely illegal and the law is always in favour of the employee.
I'd demand pay times 5 for whatever the period is, if they don't like it they can sue me (and spend the rest of the days looking over their shoulder).
Err, shouldn't Lambourghini be suing Blizzard for stealing their name in that case?
Diablo is not a trademark it's just a word and anybody can use it for whatever they want. More than likely it is mere coincidence that New Line are using the same word that was used for a game. I hope they lose, big time.
Hopefully there'll now be parody of the idiots taking down the site. Making fun of schools and the usually stuffy attitudes they have is something I strongly encourage in children.
So the Cash Cow is at it again, lying about everything, ripping the public off and claiming to be defending musicians' rights. Somebody please take down these lying scum.
Salt Lake City is the last place on the entire planet I would ever consider living. They'd have to be paying mega-salaries to convince me to live there for any length of time. I visited once and the place is clearly run by backward, religious nutcases. I'd rather live in Texas and that saying a lot (Texas being backward redneck central).
I'm not an alcohol drinker, but the alcohol laws and how late clubs can stay open invariably reflect the level of general tolerance and degree of conservatism of a place.
No it isn't. In each case the countries in question use their censorship as a weapon of oppression. So you think the brutal regimes in Singapore, Malaysia and the Middle East are OK? Don't care that censorship is used to perpetuate the torture and murder of women in the Middle East?
High levels of censorship invariably equals oppression because only oppressive governments care what their people say.
It always amuses me that the 'pro-family' types are really anti-sex (regardless of any moronic platitudes to the contrary) - I'm curious, how did they make their families?
Will this censorship include blocking dangerous religious material, like the bible? People worry about movies and books that they claim (without any proof of course) incite general and sexual violence, yet we know very well that this one book has been and continues to be directly responsible for discrimination, violence and oppression throughout the world.
This is all part of the drug companies' ludicrous assertion that they should be allowed to patent DNA strands from plants and animals - patenting a drug you create based on a gene is one thing, but anything else is nonsense. Since most of the useful plants and animals are in the southern hemisphere, in third world countries, hopefully these countries will get together and tell the large pharmaceutical corporations where to stick their patents based on plant material often stolen without the country's knowledge or consent.
Right now we also have a legal battle going on wrt the use of cheap alternatives to expensive patented anti-AIDS medications. On the one hand we have very poor countries desperately trying to save or at least extend the lives of millions of infected people and on the other we have rich drug companies who don't care as long as they make their billions of dollars.
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Not at all, I love my orange Deluxe and have been hassling Handspring for ages to stop making the boring colours used for the Platinum and Prism and go back to bright, multi-coloured machines.
Overall the Visors just look better than the Palms and it's not just the colour, it's the shape, the ridges in the plastic. Every time I see mine next to any Palm I can't believe how much better their design looks - there's just something totally mundane about the Palms.
Handspring's Deluxe is really cool looking, unlike the drab, run-of-the-mill Vx (please Palm give us some decent bright colours, enough of this horrible black and silver); at least the Vx isn't totally ugly like the rest of the Palms. Light? Who cares about an ounce or two, unless you're a decrepit invalid. The only thing the Vx has going for it is thinness - you can actually comfortably stuff it in your back pocket.
The whole point of Graffiti is that it doesn't matter how horrible and ugly your actual handwriting is. It works extremely well and you can quickly learn to write at nearly full speed. Took me two minutes to learn and about a day to get almost totally proficient.
I wish they'd stop making these things with keyboards, they're a waste of time, space and add weight. Handwriting is the only way to go with these things. If Psion made a nice handheld without the keyboard I'd buy one in a second. If you want a keyboard get a laptop, they're completely inappropriate on a handheld.
Or rather programming used to attract these sort of people and it was a long standing myth that mathematics ability was essential to programming; perhaps if you're designing mathematical algorithms or doing theoritical computer science, but language ability is actually very important in programming combined with the ability to think logically which has nothing to do with mathematics.
The end result is natural language programming. You literally tell the computer what you want it to do, and its amazing compiler will produce perfect code.
And who is going to write the software that makes all this possible? Another myth, that programmers will one day be unnecessary.
Yeah, so maybe they had a good reason for not wanting to go home? Maybe they were safer on the streets, especially if the streets are so safe with all those cameras?
The UK has been an abusive police state since the days of their own Reagan impersonator, Thatcher. And abuse of the public by the police goes back even further - your chances of being harassed, beaten up and then arrested for not co-operating in your beating are extremely high if you're not white or not English (i.e. Scottish or Irish). They also have a long history of suppressing protest as does the US.
I wonder though how easy it would be to damage or interfere with these cameras without actually touching them directly?
Christianity is also a cult. And equally dangerous to society and civilisation.
Or the typical rightwing Christian. They're the same psychopaths across all religions. If Hitler had been Catholic and born a few hundred years ago he would have become Saint Adolf for his contribution to wiping out the Jews.
Scientology is a dangerous, stupid religion, but no more so than any other religion. They guard their texts very carefully for one simple reason - if you read them you realise how stupid and juvenile they really are. That means that no rational, intelligent person would ever fork out large sums of money for them or join to get access, but I don't know why they're worried - evangelists live very well off their gullible followers. Other religions thrive despite having the most ludicrous, idiotic beliefs - why should yet another dumb religion be any different.
Nowhere is there mention of music being free in the future, but rather that musicians will actually get paid for what they do. The reality is that only the extremely successful musicians ever make any real money, the rest either eke out an existence or end up owing the record label a fortune for advertising, recording etc. The fact is that right now the record labels risk nothing and in return make an absolute fortune. Hell at least the drug syndicates take risks for their profits.
I want to see the day where I can buy directly from the creators so that they are rewarded instead of the crime syndicates that currently take all the money. Books are a little difficult - it's easy for me to publish and sell my own music, but printing books is quite expensive. Hopefully e-books and quality, cheap readers will change that.
I am one of numerous people who has bought a lot more music since Napster appeared. Why? Because I was exposed to numerous things I would never have heard otherwise. So the Racketeering industry can shut it down if they like, but they're going to lose a lot of money in the process. And any copy protection scheme they come up with will be defeated, maybe not in the US police state, but there are numerous countries where it can be done with impunity.
Oracle's license clearly states you have no recourse even if their software destroys your 3Tb database.
There is debate wrt whether the cheaper/free products can scale up to the size of Oracle databases, but most of it is more than likely FUD. Oracle refuse to allow proper testing and independent testing that has been done without their permission has been inconclusive; that tells me Oracle has something to hide.
OTOH most people will cover themselves by buying Oracle; at least that way you can blame them, afterall it is a well known, expensive product.
Non-competes are not generally enforceable (regardless of what the whores in their legal dept claim). Threatening termination because you refuse to sign a new agreement should be illegal and is one of numerous reasons why we need an IT union. It should also be a legal requirement that any and all conditions of employment are disclosed at the time of the offer; anything not disclosed is null and void. The US is desperately in need of very clear restrictions on what businesses may and may not do - they should be far more closely monitored and controlled by government (unfortunately the government is currently in the pay of big business). In civilised countries all these business practices are completely illegal and the law is always in favour of the employee. I'd demand pay times 5 for whatever the period is, if they don't like it they can sue me (and spend the rest of the days looking over their shoulder).
Err, shouldn't Lambourghini be suing Blizzard for stealing their name in that case?
Diablo is not a trademark it's just a word and anybody can use it for whatever they want. More than likely it is mere coincidence that New Line are using the same word that was used for a game. I hope they lose, big time.
Excellent, it's about time this happened.
Hopefully there'll now be parody of the idiots taking down the site. Making fun of schools and the usually stuffy attitudes they have is something I strongly encourage in children.
So the Cash Cow is at it again, lying about everything, ripping the public off and claiming to be defending musicians' rights. Somebody please take down these lying scum.
Salt Lake City is the last place on the entire planet I would ever consider living. They'd have to be paying mega-salaries to convince me to live there for any length of time. I visited once and the place is clearly run by backward, religious nutcases. I'd rather live in Texas and that saying a lot (Texas being backward redneck central).
I'm not an alcohol drinker, but the alcohol laws and how late clubs can stay open invariably reflect the level of general tolerance and degree of conservatism of a place.
No it isn't. In each case the countries in question use their censorship as a weapon of oppression. So you think the brutal regimes in Singapore, Malaysia and the Middle East are OK? Don't care that censorship is used to perpetuate the torture and murder of women in the Middle East?
High levels of censorship invariably equals oppression because only oppressive governments care what their people say.
It always amuses me that the 'pro-family' types are really anti-sex (regardless of any moronic platitudes to the contrary) - I'm curious, how did they make their families?
Will this censorship include blocking dangerous religious material, like the bible? People worry about movies and books that they claim (without any proof of course) incite general and sexual violence, yet we know very well that this one book has been and continues to be directly responsible for discrimination, violence and oppression throughout the world.
This is all part of the drug companies' ludicrous assertion that they should be allowed to patent DNA strands from plants and animals - patenting a drug you create based on a gene is one thing, but anything else is nonsense. Since most of the useful plants and animals are in the southern hemisphere, in third world countries, hopefully these countries will get together and tell the large pharmaceutical corporations where to stick their patents based on plant material often stolen without the country's knowledge or consent.
Right now we also have a legal battle going on wrt the use of cheap alternatives to expensive patented anti-AIDS medications. On the one hand we have very poor countries desperately trying to save or at least extend the lives of millions of infected people and on the other we have rich drug companies who don't care as long as they make their billions of dollars.