June 9, 1999 was her 18th birthday. Before that, assuming he really is 19 (or older) there was a window of time when statutory rape laws prevented him from consummating a relationship with her.
On wheel mice, pressing the wheel down is the same as pressing the middle button. However, I don't know whether the tracking works under Linux just as it does in Windows.
Reminds me of an old math teacher of mine...
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...who loved stuff like this. (He probably mentioned it in class today back home.) I just missed his anniversary, too -- he got married on November 18, 1988, or 111888. He even has that six-digit number engraved on the innerside of his wedding ring.
We won't have any of those combos around again until 11/11/2011 (111111) or 11/12/2022 (111222) if you want distinct digits.
Only Windows Networking (SMB) shares were subjected to the network sweep. As a result, any Linux, *BSD, or other shares were left untouched. In fact, by clicking on a person's URL in a Slashdot post (a NetBSD server) I was able to find a cache of MP3's and Warez that were completely ignored by Lerchey and crew.
Use Linux, or any non-SMB FTP server for that matter, and you can leech to your heart's content.
True, although you don't _need_ a keyboard to use a Palm. 3Com and US Robotics have sold millions of units without the need for a keyboard. What's more, unlike a laptop, you can use the unit entirely without the keyboard as a means of entry.
I remember reading about Synapse on Slashdot before, and it looks somewhat better. I haven't used either of these, though. Still, on the 3Dwm page, it looked like all of the screenshots were just 2-D screenshots horribly distorted to be viewed at an angle. These weren't 3-D applications. Personally, 3-D window managers won't be ready for prime time until there are plenty of decent 3-D applications that people can use.
It's hard to imagine the ramifications of having every kid equipped with his/her own computing device. At my younger brother's middle school, my brother reports lots of script kiddies doing their very best to foul up the (Windows-based) systems in the library and the computer labs. Can you imagine what might happen if kids started beaming potentially harmful applications or data?
BTW, I've owned a Palm for two years now -- bought it in high school, even. I love it, and I've only had a couple of problems with misbehaved apps. pilot-xfer is an invaluable tool to back up the entire unit in one shot (on OS/2, Linux, or Win32).
Many sites dealing in illegal (copyright-wise) material will ask you to click porn banners or succumb to wave after wave of JavaScript popup ads. I remember coming into my room last summer to find windows recursively opening more windows, all pornographic. My roommate insists that he was just trying to get some Nintendo and Genesis ROMs, and I felt compelled to believe him.
Personally, I'm more appalled by sites that 'force' you to join pyramid money-making schemes like AllAdvantage or GoToWorld (or both, in some cases!) Apparently people are obsessed with making five bucks a month off of every sucker who wants MP3's. More power to 'em, but count me out of this. (Besides, in my typical nonconformist style, most ad-viewing proggies are Windows-only, and I can't run them.)
Although both Red Hat and OpenLinux distributions are based on the Linux 2.3 kernel,
The Linux 2.3 kernel? I should hope not. Besides this one little error, though, I thought this was a pretty fair article that touched all the bases for both end users and enterprise computing. Personally, I would recommend OpenLinux 2.3 for a Linux newbie, although I run Red Hat 6.0 myself.
Sorry to back ZDNet up, but what OS is the only place (on x86 hardware) where you can consistently:
Play QuickTime movies?
Use nearly any Netscape plugin or ActiveX control created?
Choose from a selection of tens of thousands of programs developed to cater to the masses (i.e. point, click, do something), and millions of other programs that, um, "need improvement"?
Use applications that have a consistent look and feel -- that is, they aren't binding themselves to one of several different widget themes and sets available?
Find a friend who knows at least something about it? (Think about this from an end-user perspective -- not everyone knows about #linux and comp.os.linux.*)
Sure, Linux can do some cool stuff. But it's Windows that has the "everyone else uses it, so it's OK to use" factor. Can you imagine tech support calls where the user can't fathom why the computer program he/she just bought can't run on his/her new system? ("It said it was for PC, and I have a PC!" "OK, click Start..." "Um, Start? I have a foot/K/nothing in the corner of the screen." "Sorry, that program won't work with your system.")
PalmStation has two screenshots of the PalmOS Emulator running a color OS. No word on whether they're real or not, but if they are... (imitating Tank in The Matrix) Yeah! Wow.
...but a laptop is so... heavy" Don't even start with that.
Why not? I already lug around all my notebooks and supplies -- the last thing I need is something that weighs five pounds or more and requires a relatively large amount of physical space. Lecture hall "desks" barely support a laptop, but I can take my Palm III out from my pants or shirt pocket and use it without it requiring any desk space. Additionally, the Palm is usable within a second of me pressing the power button, and it can power on in any of the basic four applications I use so frequently. Try keeping your laptop on standby all the time. Even if it doesn't drain your batteries, you still have to wait for it to come up to speed before you begin to launch your application of choice.
Laptops aren't just heavy, they're not "thin" in the sense that they weren't designed to be organizers.
"...but I've already got a laptop, I need something for meetings" Then buy lotus notes.
Sorry, last time I checked Lotus Notes was still a desktop app. You're still bound to standard Windows conventions. Palms don't crash, either. But they don't run Linux, you say? PalmOS is one of the leanest, tightest pieces of software you'll see, and it's designed exclusively for these devices. Even if you could run Linux on one of these babies, the most you could do with it is to say "I run Linux on my palmtop! Isn't that just cool?"
"...but palms are so cute" Buy a tamaguchi.
Nobody ever said a Palm was cute. It's a useful, productive, thin client and organizer. It's sold over five million units despite almost no advertising, free (what?! free? and it's not Linux? it can't REALLY be free...) development tools, and hardware numbers that seemingly can't hold a candle to feature-packed WinCE machines. Apparently the marketplace knows better than you do.
I like what Palm has been doing to blaze new trails and sell a boatload of units to people all over the place. However, CompactFlash is one of only a few standards in the PDA/camera market, and I for one am very happy to see a company take advantage of it.
Now if we only had this coupled with a color screen -- although, to be honest, the combined increase in power consumption and CPU load would take a bit of usability out of the beast.
This unit should fit in nicely into a niche market or two. 340MB can only be filled with Doc files at the moment -- the average PalmOS app takes a couple dozen K. Hopefully someone might make a TRGpro-compatible adapter to play MP3's to a headset. Now THAT would be sweet.
Not exactly -- the Palm V and Vx have rechargeable batteries, but the Palm VII takes two AAA cells. It uses the cells to periodically recharge a cell that is reserved for the wireless modem.
If I know Palm, and I'm not saying I do, I'd guess that they'll keep at least one monochrome, entry-level model. At this rate, it looks like the Palm IIIx or IIIe would be that model. If they crack the $100 price point with the Palm OS, I see big things in the future for the Palm line. More importantly, it'll satisfy those people who still prefer the look of monochrome screens. Personally, I don't think I'd buy one of those devices until sufficiently many color apps were to be available.
According to what I've seen from 3Com, you'll be able to use the new HotSync Manager with both Palms. However, once you've upgraded your III, only it will be able to take advantage of the higher transfer rates. Your IIIe is not flash-upgradeable, but it will still connect and synchronize its databases.
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Palm also provides an optional connection to Macintosh systems. Handspring Visors sync via a USB cradle which will work in any Win9x or recent-model Macintosh environment. For the Palms with serial cradles, a suite of very useful utilities called pilot-link has been created for Linux and ported to OS/2.
To be fair, bear in mind that the Palm series of "connected organizers" has been traditionally targeted toward the business crowd. That's why * you see such extravagant leather cases for it; * conduits to programs like Outlook are available; * and, of course, it's designed for Windows and Mac first.
I am sick and tired of atheists ranking on religion whenever a tragic news story is posted to slashdot.
User: "I pray for the victims of that terrible accident." Atheist: "Nope! No prayer for me! No God for me! You must be a fool with that prayer stuff -- I don't believe in God! Don't pray; it's stupid!"
I have no problem with you being an atheist, but for our collective sake please don't be an anti-theist (sp?). Religious flame wars like this are the worst of all.
I looked (or tried to look) at those sites, just out of curiosity, and here's what I found:
chupa.com takes "suck" in a different sense of the word.
sol.com is Seville On-Line, with touristy info about the town of Seville. However, continuing the trend from chupa.com, it includes a handy section called "Sevilla Erotica," with travel tips for perverts.
graphicossilicios.com is still available. (Snap it up while you can!)
noticias.com might very well be sued by CNet if this lawsuit bears fruit, since they have technology information. (They also run Sólo Linux, which is fairly informative albeit poorly laid out.)
Internet Explorer 5 calls that AutoComplete. But it's not really buggy, open-source, and horribly behind schedule. So I don't think Slashdot readers want to hear about it.
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June 9, 1999 was her 18th birthday. Before that, assuming he really is 19 (or older) there was a window of time when statutory rape laws prevented him from consummating a relationship with her.
On wheel mice, pressing the wheel down is the same as pressing the middle button. However, I don't know whether the tracking works under Linux just as it does in Windows.
...who loved stuff like this. (He probably mentioned it in class today back home.) I just missed his anniversary, too -- he got married on November 18, 1988, or 111888. He even has that six-digit number engraved on the innerside of his wedding ring.
We won't have any of those combos around again until 11/11/2011 (111111) or 11/12/2022 (111222) if you want distinct digits.
Only Windows Networking (SMB) shares were subjected to the network sweep. As a result, any Linux, *BSD, or other shares were left untouched. In fact, by clicking on a person's URL in a Slashdot post (a NetBSD server) I was able to find a cache of MP3's and Warez that were completely ignored by Lerchey and crew.
Use Linux, or any non-SMB FTP server for that matter, and you can leech to your heart's content.
True, although you don't _need_ a keyboard to use a Palm. 3Com and US Robotics have sold millions of units without the need for a keyboard. What's more, unlike a laptop, you can use the unit entirely without the keyboard as a means of entry.
I remember reading about Synapse on Slashdot before, and it looks somewhat better. I haven't used either of these, though. Still, on the 3Dwm page, it looked like all of the screenshots were just 2-D screenshots horribly distorted to be viewed at an angle. These weren't 3-D applications. Personally, 3-D window managers won't be ready for prime time until there are plenty of decent 3-D applications that people can use.
It's hard to imagine the ramifications of having every kid equipped with his/her own computing device. At my younger brother's middle school, my brother reports lots of script kiddies doing their very best to foul up the (Windows-based) systems in the library and the computer labs. Can you imagine what might happen if kids started beaming potentially harmful applications or data?
BTW, I've owned a Palm for two years now -- bought it in high school, even. I love it, and I've only had a couple of problems with misbehaved apps. pilot-xfer is an invaluable tool to back up the entire unit in one shot (on OS/2, Linux, or Win32).
Many sites dealing in illegal (copyright-wise) material will ask you to click porn banners or succumb to wave after wave of JavaScript popup ads. I remember coming into my room last summer to find windows recursively opening more windows, all pornographic. My roommate insists that he was just trying to get some Nintendo and Genesis ROMs, and I felt compelled to believe him.
Personally, I'm more appalled by sites that 'force' you to join pyramid money-making schemes like AllAdvantage or GoToWorld (or both, in some cases!) Apparently people are obsessed with making five bucks a month off of every sucker who wants MP3's. More power to 'em, but count me out of this. (Besides, in my typical nonconformist style, most ad-viewing proggies are Windows-only, and I can't run them.)
Although both Red Hat and OpenLinux distributions are based on the Linux 2.3 kernel,
The Linux 2.3 kernel? I should hope not. Besides this one little error, though, I thought this was a pretty fair article that touched all the bases for both end users and enterprise computing. Personally, I would recommend OpenLinux 2.3 for a Linux newbie, although I run Red Hat 6.0 myself.
- Play QuickTime movies?
- Use nearly any Netscape plugin or ActiveX control created?
- Choose from a selection of tens of thousands of programs developed to cater to the masses (i.e. point, click, do something), and millions of other programs that, um, "need improvement"?
- Use applications that have a consistent look and feel -- that is, they aren't binding themselves to one of several different widget themes and sets available?
- Find a friend who knows at least something about it? (Think about this from an end-user perspective -- not everyone knows about #linux and comp.os.linux.*)
Sure, Linux can do some cool stuff. But it's Windows that has the "everyone else uses it, so it's OK to use" factor. Can you imagine tech support calls where the user can't fathom why the computer program he/she just bought can't run on his/her new system? ("It said it was for PC, and I have a PC!" "OK, click Start..." "Um, Start? I have a foot/K/nothing in the corner of the screen." "Sorry, that program won't work with your system.")PalmStation has two screenshots of the PalmOS Emulator running a color OS. No word on whether they're real or not, but if they are... (imitating Tank in The Matrix) Yeah! Wow.
...but a laptop is so... heavy"
Don't even start with that.
Why not? I already lug around all my notebooks and supplies -- the last thing I need is something that weighs five pounds or more and requires a relatively large amount of physical space. Lecture hall "desks" barely support a laptop, but I can take my Palm III out from my pants or shirt pocket and use it without it requiring any desk space. Additionally, the Palm is usable within a second of me pressing the power button, and it can power on in any of the basic four applications I use so frequently. Try keeping your laptop on standby all the time. Even if it doesn't drain your batteries, you still have to wait for it to come up to speed before you begin to launch your application of choice.
Laptops aren't just heavy, they're not "thin" in the sense that they weren't designed to be organizers.
"...but I've already got a laptop, I need something for meetings"
Then buy lotus notes.
Sorry, last time I checked Lotus Notes was still a desktop app. You're still bound to standard Windows conventions. Palms don't crash, either. But they don't run Linux, you say? PalmOS is one of the leanest, tightest pieces of software you'll see, and it's designed exclusively for these devices. Even if you could run Linux on one of these babies, the most you could do with it is to say "I run Linux on my palmtop! Isn't that just cool?"
"...but palms are so cute"
Buy a tamaguchi.
Nobody ever said a Palm was cute. It's a useful, productive, thin client and organizer. It's sold over five million units despite almost no advertising, free (what?! free? and it's not Linux? it can't REALLY be free...) development tools, and hardware numbers that seemingly can't hold a candle to feature-packed WinCE machines. Apparently the marketplace knows better than you do.
I like what Palm has been doing to blaze new trails and sell a boatload of units to people all over the place. However, CompactFlash is one of only a few standards in the PDA/camera market, and I for one am very happy to see a company take advantage of it.
Now if we only had this coupled with a color screen -- although, to be honest, the combined increase in power consumption and CPU load would take a bit of usability out of the beast.
This unit should fit in nicely into a niche market or two. 340MB can only be filled with Doc files at the moment -- the average PalmOS app takes a couple dozen K. Hopefully someone might make a TRGpro-compatible adapter to play MP3's to a headset. Now THAT would be sweet.
To go along with that 3D operating system, you'd want a 3D GUI. Give Synapse a try.
Not exactly -- the Palm V and Vx have rechargeable batteries, but the Palm VII takes two AAA cells. It uses the cells to periodically recharge a cell that is reserved for the wireless modem.
If I know Palm, and I'm not saying I do, I'd guess that they'll keep at least one monochrome, entry-level model. At this rate, it looks like the Palm IIIx or IIIe would be that model. If they crack the $100 price point with the Palm OS, I see big things in the future for the Palm line. More importantly, it'll satisfy those people who still prefer the look of monochrome screens. Personally, I don't think I'd buy one of those devices until sufficiently many color apps were to be available.
Yes.
According to what I've seen from 3Com, you'll be able to use the new HotSync Manager with both Palms. However, once you've upgraded your III, only it will be able to take advantage of the higher transfer rates. Your IIIe is not flash-upgradeable, but it will still connect and synchronize its databases.
Palm also provides an optional connection to Macintosh systems. Handspring Visors sync via a USB cradle which will work in any Win9x or recent-model Macintosh environment. For the Palms with serial cradles, a suite of very useful utilities called pilot-link has been created for Linux and ported to OS/2.
To be fair, bear in mind that the Palm series of "connected organizers" has been traditionally targeted toward the business crowd. That's why
* you see such extravagant leather cases for it;
* conduits to programs like Outlook are available;
* and, of course, it's designed for Windows and Mac first.
I am sick and tired of atheists ranking on religion whenever a tragic news story is posted to slashdot.
User: "I pray for the victims of that terrible accident."
Atheist: "Nope! No prayer for me! No God for me! You must be a fool with that prayer stuff -- I don't believe in God! Don't pray; it's stupid!"
I have no problem with you being an atheist, but for our collective sake please don't be an anti-theist (sp?). Religious flame wars like this are the worst of all.
And check it out -- they even have an article about this very issue. It's from the "ni-lo-pienses-CmdrTaco" department.
McDonald's did sue a Scottish man surnamed Allen that sold hamburgers under the name McAllen. They lost.
It looks like Bloomberg fixed their servers to not display what I've specified in the section header (although the banner ads are still gone).
Either their news stories switch to static content after a while (blech) or I've singlehandedly effected a change in their web page coding strategy.
That's offtopic, but pretty damned cool.
Note all those options specified in the link? With a little tinkering, you can make an ordinary article just a little more eye-catching.
Internet Explorer 5 calls that AutoComplete.
But it's not really buggy, open-source, and horribly behind schedule. So I don't think Slashdot readers want to hear about it.