I own the development version and there are a few unfair points.
Size-It may be bigger than a IPAQ, but remember it has a compact flash and SD card built in. The IPAQ needs a separate card reader to do the same. Comparing it against the Palm was totally unfair, these are different products. And anyway we are talking cm's here. It fits nicely in my pocket shirt pocket. How much smaller does it need to be? As for the size when the keyboard is out, well thats when its being used not carried. Whats the palm alternative, a separate keyboard you need to carry round.
Battery Life- I have found mine totally acceptable. Then again I don't stare at my MP3 files being played like Walt does. Does he watch his washing machine on spin too?
Since I've got it, its been my MP3 player, e book reader, games machine and address/calender book and photo album. If I had the money to get a wireless lan card it would be my browser/email client to.
I did have issues initially with synching, but this was the development version, and since then nothing. However I wish Sharp had been a little more slick with there support and rollout.
Best of all I have the most configurable PDA which I can write application I want forin a comfortable(and free) programming environment.
Easy- Stick it on the web and allow everyone to add their comments. This would be the ultimate irony using open-source methods to bring the beast down.
Is books that do not use large amount of white space and large fonts to make it look like they have a lot in but don't.
No more books on C for dummys, Java for idiots, learn C++ in 24 hrs. Been there, done that.
I do want Books on difficult things such as using perl with C, strange languages no one but me has heard off, Lots of good examples I can go away and play with.
Perfer dead trees because I can put them on my book case and say to myself, I'll never read all that. But I'll put up with e-books if that is the only way.
Like O'Reilly, Wrox and New Riders. If your one of them, well done. The bad ones and rip offs are to many to mention.
P.S a new book on erlang would be nice(See above comment on unknown languages)
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Ok Troll boy,
low budget? Well when star trek want to make a new aliaen species they usually resort to sticking a bit of plastic on there nose. Thats right, forget the infinite evolution possibilities in the universe, all nature can come up with is a little nasal surgery.
At least in farscape the variations in the Aliens are large and interesting.
Farscape is original and superb Sci Fi. It also got the best looking aliens babes in the TV universe.
From what I have read about Heisenberg I get the impression that he was just not interested in politics. He may well of been too arrogant to beleive that no one but he could make a bomb without him and since he did not think it was possible, it clearly was'nt. Something many eminent older scientists suffer from(There was something about an elementry arithmetic error)
I beleive he was only interested in the physics not in the applications which is why he went to to see Bohr. Bohr on the other hand was probably more aware of the possibilities and more politically active.Which was why he was aghast at how the conversation was going.
There is a transcript of Heisenberg and his team which was secretly recorded by the allied security services when news was relayed to them about the bomb being dropped in Japan. The reaction was disbelief that it had occurred. Not the reaction of a man who could forsee that it could be done.
The myth about Heisenberg being some sort of scientific resistance fighter has grown up after the war. I for one don't beleive. I think he was just another scientist who was happy as long as he could do his research and damn the consequences. Fortunately for history his arrogance prevented him from completing the job
It reminds me of a big conference run by Ericsson where a tune was sung by a rap singer(So selling any street cred down the river). The song went as far as I can remember "Fast forward together".
The net result? well the division is no more, nor half the employees(including the divisional cheif) and the policy it was trying to promote is languishing in telecoms hell.
It also reminds me of the Sirius Cybernetics theme tune "put your head in a plastic pig... "
Erlang escaped from Ericsson R+D a long time ago, and is used a lot outside Ericsson, especially in
robustness applications. Theres a tough learning curve, but once you are there its difficult to go back to procedural programming
I cannot see the point of anything that small.
My boss bought tosh libretto on the basis of saving weight when travelling and got continually frustrated by the small keyboard and screen. So now he uses a Sony Vaio, which is heavier but at least is usable.
This seems to fit in between a normal laptop (with a usable keyboard and screen) and a PDA (with its lightweight and battery life), but does neither function particularly well and at quite a cost.
I like the extended battery life however...
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I own the development version and there are a few unfair points.
Size-It may be bigger than a IPAQ, but remember it has a compact flash and SD card built in. The IPAQ needs a separate card reader to do the same. Comparing it against the Palm was totally unfair, these are different products. And anyway we are talking cm's here. It fits nicely in my pocket shirt pocket. How much smaller does it need to be?
As for the size when the keyboard is out, well thats when its being used not carried. Whats the palm alternative, a separate keyboard you need to carry round.
Battery Life- I have found mine totally acceptable. Then again I don't stare at my MP3 files being played like Walt does. Does he watch his washing machine on spin too?
Since I've got it, its been my MP3 player, e book reader, games machine and address/calender book and photo album. If I had the money to get a wireless lan card it would be my browser/email client to.
I did have issues initially with synching, but this was the development version, and since then nothing. However I wish Sharp had been a little more slick with there support and rollout.
Best of all I have the most configurable PDA which I can write application I want forin a comfortable(and free) programming environment.
I'm happy, I hope Walt is in his Windows world
By a Sharp Zaurus then.
Even comes with linux console mode
I've just noticed
E xx on
E nr on
Whose next?
E ps on?
Easy- Stick it on the web and allow everyone to add their comments. This would be the ultimate irony using open-source methods to bring the beast down.
Is books that do not use large amount of white space and large fonts to make it look like they have a lot in but don't.
No more books on C for dummys, Java for idiots, learn C++ in 24 hrs. Been there, done that.
I do want Books on difficult things such as using perl with C, strange languages no one but me has heard off, Lots of good examples I can go away and play with.
Perfer dead trees because I can put them on my book case and say to myself, I'll never read all that. But I'll put up with e-books if that is the only way.
Like O'Reilly, Wrox and New Riders. If your one of them, well done. The bad ones and rip offs are to many to mention.
P.S a new book on erlang would be nice(See above comment on unknown languages)
Ferangi? Sounds more like Enron
Ok Troll boy,
low budget? Well when star trek want to make a new aliaen species they usually resort to sticking a bit of plastic on there nose. Thats right, forget the infinite evolution possibilities in the universe, all nature can come up with is a little nasal surgery.
At least in farscape the variations in the Aliens are large and interesting.
Farscape is original and superb Sci Fi. It also got the best looking aliens babes in the TV universe.
From what I have read about Heisenberg I get the impression that he was just not interested in politics. He may well of been too arrogant to beleive that no one but he could make a bomb without him and since he did not think it was possible, it clearly was'nt. Something many eminent older scientists suffer from(There was something about an elementry arithmetic error)
I beleive he was only interested in the physics not in the applications which is why he went to to see Bohr. Bohr on the other hand was probably more aware of the possibilities and more politically active.Which was why he was aghast at how the conversation was going.
There is a transcript of Heisenberg and his team which was secretly recorded by the allied security services when news was relayed to them about the bomb being dropped in Japan. The reaction was disbelief that it had occurred. Not the reaction of a man who could forsee that it could be done.
The myth about Heisenberg being some sort of scientific resistance fighter has grown up after the war. I for one don't beleive. I think he was just another scientist who was happy as long as he could do his research and damn the consequences. Fortunately for history his arrogance prevented him from completing the job
Funny that Swiss Economists should come up with this conclusion.
Swiss - Sit back and watch the rest of the world fight tyranny and just rake the money in wherever and however it was attained
Economists - Earn money based on pseudo-science and predictions which are as reliable as those gained by examining chicken entrails.
Therefore should'nt we just punish Swiss Economists
Why do company bother with such trash?
It reminds me of a big conference run by Ericsson where a tune was sung by a rap singer(So selling any street cred down the river). The song went as far as I can remember "Fast forward together".
The net result? well the division is no more, nor half the employees(including the divisional cheif) and the policy it was trying to promote is languishing in telecoms hell.
It also reminds me of the Sirius Cybernetics theme tune "put your head in a plastic pig... "
...and 20 years of free technical support:)
Thats a gift that keeps on giving.
T-1000 here we come!
Erlang escaped from Ericsson R+D a long time ago, and is used a lot outside Ericsson, especially in
robustness applications. Theres a tough learning curve, but once you are there its difficult to go back to procedural programming
Err, that would'nt be erlang by any chance
Because then I can get their perfectable usable low end ones really cheap
Explains why I have been getting "Kill, Kill" messages from them for years
I cannot see the point of anything that small. My boss bought tosh libretto on the basis of saving weight when travelling and got continually frustrated by the small keyboard and screen. So now he uses a Sony Vaio, which is heavier but at least is usable. This seems to fit in between a normal laptop (with a usable keyboard and screen) and a PDA (with its lightweight and battery life), but does neither function particularly well and at quite a cost. I like the extended battery life however...
For as long as people are willing to pay for them