The Palm Tungsten C ($500) and Sony Clie UX-50 ($700) include Wi-Fi. High chip cost and battery consumption are the main reasons why Wi-Fi is not yet standard on your average PDA.
Hit Control-E for "Expunge." That purges all deleted messages from an IMAP folder. I've never used it with Exchange, but it works flawlessly with a regular IMAP server.
In Windows, you can use PDFCreator to export a document from any application to PDF format, as long as that application supports printing. Unlike Adobe Acrobat, PDFCreator is free (GPL).
As I sit down in front of my Dell monitor drinking Mountain Dew Code Red ("A taste as real as the streets"), I can't help but wonder the depths to which product placement has affected us. After all, wasn't it in "The Matrix" - Catch The Matrix Revolutions only in theaters this November where we are encouraged to "free our minds"? I can't believe that TiVo - TV Your Way is being blamed for a decline in traditional advertising on networks like Fox -- check out their new Monday night line-up!.
I think people need to mellow out with a Guinness Draught - drink straight from the bottle and just learn to enjoy the ride. After all, if you really wanted to enjoy some independent thought, you wouldn't watch Philips High-Definition Plasma Screen - higher-resolution than reality.
Many companies, particularly financial institutions, require that all IMs be logged. If Jabber gains server-side logging, then it will become acceptable to use at companies that must log all IMs.
I think it would be cool if Compaq tech support started answering their phones. Instead, I have to wait 30 minutes before I get an operator who takes down my name, computer's serial number, and problem description -- and then places me in a 60-minute queue to speak with a tech.
If the web is the only way you have been searching for local businesses, I'd like to be the first to tell you that there are a lot of companies that don't have web sites yet.
Local restaurants, pharmacies, and other shops are listed in the yellow pages, but many don't have web sites. Yahoo! Yellow Pages finds these shops. A web search engine won't.
You know, Yahoo! Shopping supported searches before Froogle was ever invented. Yahoo!'s original site only returned listings from (thousands of) Yahoo! shops, whereas Froogle sometimes returns listings from web sites that aren't stores at all. For example, two of the 12 links from a Froogle search for an import video game lead to discussions about the game; some lead to stores where I as an American can't shop. On the other hand, Yahoo!'s search gives me five shops where I can check out right away.
XML is not a selling point for an office suite. Users expect a good user interface and an easy migration. OpenOffice is not there yet. Its help assistant spawns 1024x768 help windows to say as little as "I have automatically capitalized the first letter of your sentence." It has no integrated PIM software to unseat Microsoft Outlook. It has no easy migration path for the millions of users who open documents with useful macros and scripts. OpenOffice has no drop-in replacement for Microsoft Access-driven applications; primitive as Access is, many companies use it to develop simple database applications that would need to be recreated from scratch in another suite.
At this point in time, there's no reason to switch from Microsoft Office to another office suite simply because this new suite uses XML. XML is best suited as a tool for the back-end developer, not an excuse to migrate to a product that has so many rough edges in its current form.
The performance gains from compiling your own software are negligible at best, and certainly don't offset the 23+ hours that it took to compile Gentoo on a modest machine (700 MHz Athlon, 384 MB RAM).
The community for Gentoo is still rather small, and thus close-knit. Once it becomes as popular as, say, Debian, the ops in #gentoo will resort to "RTFM and STFU, noob" as in most Linux help forums.
Gentoo is the flavor of the month. Once something more bleeding-edge and less popular comes along, it will die out.
Does it support two-way sync with a host computer? The one thing that swayed me to a Treo 270 over the Sidekick was that the Sidekick could *read* data from my laptop, but not *write* modified data back to it. Or the other way around.
Single point of failure. EMC will sell you an 18 terabyte storage array that will fail over if one drive stops working. It's much easier to switch one drive than one platter.
When something on your home-brew PC dies, you're responsible for diagnosing the problem and acquiring the parts necessary to fix it.
HP's tech support is notoriously bad (I've dealt with it in the past week) but at least you can hand off the problem to someone else. I don't think you'd appreciate being the only point of contact for 100 home-brew thin clients' tech support.
Something like "Be Free Ad Serving Technology." They provided redirection services when I was a Google affiliate (which provided me a whopping $0.00 in income; I was just below their threshold when they cancelled it).
A quick Google search suggests that BFAST is a brand owned by ValueClick, an advertising company.
Everyone in the IT community has heard of Linux, but most people know it as a community effort. The commercial is targeted at corporate buyers, and seeks to enhance Linux's image by associating the operating system with a well-known, respected company (IBM).
This isn't the 1950s. Big businesses use commercials nowadays to build brands, not sell products. Consider the most well-known commercials, like Apple's "1984" ad and Coca-Cola's "Mean Joe Green" spot from the '70s. Memorable campaigns don't drill product data into your head.
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My Treo 270 can do GPRS Internet access, which is always on. Other Palm OS Internet-capable phones include the Palm Tungsten W and Kyocera 7135.
The Palm Tungsten C ($500) and Sony Clie UX-50 ($700) include Wi-Fi. High chip cost and battery consumption are the main reasons why Wi-Fi is not yet standard on your average PDA.
Sony also announced two Clies today, which cost $200 and $250 respectively. Not bad, but not revolutionary.
Hit Control-E for "Expunge." That purges all deleted messages from an IMAP folder. I've never used it with Exchange, but it works flawlessly with a regular IMAP server.
In Windows, you can use PDFCreator to export a document from any application to PDF format, as long as that application supports printing. Unlike Adobe Acrobat, PDFCreator is free (GPL).
Product placement exists in books too. Just look at The Bulgari Connection .
As I sit down in front of my Dell monitor drinking Mountain Dew Code Red ("A taste as real as the streets"), I can't help but wonder the depths to which product placement has affected us. After all, wasn't it in "The Matrix" - Catch The Matrix Revolutions only in theaters this November where we are encouraged to "free our minds"? I can't believe that TiVo - TV Your Way is being blamed for a decline in traditional advertising on networks like Fox -- check out their new Monday night line-up!.
I think people need to mellow out with a Guinness Draught - drink straight from the bottle and just learn to enjoy the ride. After all, if you really wanted to enjoy some independent thought, you wouldn't watch Philips High-Definition Plasma Screen - higher-resolution than reality.
Many companies, particularly financial institutions, require that all IMs be logged. If Jabber gains server-side logging, then it will become acceptable to use at companies that must log all IMs.
I think it would be cool if Compaq tech support started answering their phones. Instead, I have to wait 30 minutes before I get an operator who takes down my name, computer's serial number, and problem description -- and then places me in a 60-minute queue to speak with a tech.
Forrester's site doesn't validate either. Neither does Slashdot. Guess you'd better get off the Internet.
GNU's home page recommends that you say it "guh-new." To me, that makes sense: saying "new software" sounds confusing.
:)
Now if they could do away with the semantic arguments (free, Free, gratis, libre, free-as-in-whatever, GNU/Everything) then we'd be all set.
Apparently you've never seen teen girl squad (Flash required). The only way to pronounce "VoIP" is exactly as you have it: "voyp!"
If the web is the only way you have been searching for local businesses, I'd like to be the first to tell you that there are a lot of companies that don't have web sites yet.
Local restaurants, pharmacies, and other shops are listed in the yellow pages, but many don't have web sites. Yahoo! Yellow Pages finds these shops. A web search engine won't.
You know, Yahoo! Shopping supported searches before Froogle was ever invented. Yahoo!'s original site only returned listings from (thousands of) Yahoo! shops, whereas Froogle sometimes returns listings from web sites that aren't stores at all. For example, two of the 12 links from a Froogle search for an import video game lead to discussions about the game; some lead to stores where I as an American can't shop. On the other hand, Yahoo!'s search gives me five shops where I can check out right away.
XML is not a selling point for an office suite. Users expect a good user interface and an easy migration. OpenOffice is not there yet. Its help assistant spawns 1024x768 help windows to say as little as "I have automatically capitalized the first letter of your sentence." It has no integrated PIM software to unseat Microsoft Outlook. It has no easy migration path for the millions of users who open documents with useful macros and scripts. OpenOffice has no drop-in replacement for Microsoft Access-driven applications; primitive as Access is, many companies use it to develop simple database applications that would need to be recreated from scratch in another suite.
At this point in time, there's no reason to switch from Microsoft Office to another office suite simply because this new suite uses XML. XML is best suited as a tool for the back-end developer, not an excuse to migrate to a product that has so many rough edges in its current form.
The performance gains from compiling your own software are negligible at best, and certainly don't offset the 23+ hours that it took to compile Gentoo on a modest machine (700 MHz Athlon, 384 MB RAM).
The community for Gentoo is still rather small, and thus close-knit. Once it becomes as popular as, say, Debian, the ops in #gentoo will resort to "RTFM and STFU, noob" as in most Linux help forums.
Gentoo is the flavor of the month. Once something more bleeding-edge and less popular comes along, it will die out.
Does it support two-way sync with a host computer? The one thing that swayed me to a Treo 270 over the Sidekick was that the Sidekick could *read* data from my laptop, but not *write* modified data back to it. Or the other way around.
Yeah, I read that article too. It was on Slashdot earlier this month.
Slashdot has a discussion about that HardOCP article here.
Single point of failure. EMC will sell you an 18 terabyte storage array that will fail over if one drive stops working. It's much easier to switch one drive than one platter.
Tech support.
When something on your home-brew PC dies, you're responsible for diagnosing the problem and acquiring the parts necessary to fix it.
HP's tech support is notoriously bad (I've dealt with it in the past week) but at least you can hand off the problem to someone else. I don't think you'd appreciate being the only point of contact for 100 home-brew thin clients' tech support.
An eBookman, which reads e-books and has some PDA features, is $129-199.
By contrast, a used Palm IIIxe will cost you about $50 used.
I submitted a correction.
In the meantime, enjoy the history of the 'h' in Pittsburgh.
Something like "Be Free Ad Serving Technology." They provided redirection services when I was a Google affiliate (which provided me a whopping $0.00 in income; I was just below their threshold when they cancelled it).
A quick Google search suggests that BFAST is a brand owned by ValueClick, an advertising company.
Everyone in the IT community has heard of Linux, but most people know it as a community effort. The commercial is targeted at corporate buyers, and seeks to enhance Linux's image by associating the operating system with a well-known, respected company (IBM).
This isn't the 1950s. Big businesses use commercials nowadays to build brands, not sell products. Consider the most well-known commercials, like Apple's "1984" ad and Coca-Cola's "Mean Joe Green" spot from the '70s. Memorable campaigns don't drill product data into your head.