Not even close. I use it to keep my time records and appointments, and it syncs into my time-and-billing application every day. When I used to use paper (DayTimers), I had hours of manual entry every month, and once I "misplaced" my DayTimers for a few days. Lost appointments and total paranoia about lost billable time. With my Pilot, I sync to my laptop daily, backup tot the network nightly, and never sweat a lost minute. The two times I've had to replace the unit (I wear out the writing area quite frequently plus they're not the most robust critters on the planet), I lost 0 time as 3com swapped the unit in an even exchange.
Plus I can search the phone book when I'm paged - can't do that with a paper phone book.
Plus alarms go off to remind me to do things. Can't do that with paper, and programming a watch alarm with reminders that make sense is impossible unless you have one of those Timexes that reads the computer's screen.....
It would be interesting to discover how far a seriously critical view of the benefits to society of the law of copyright... would have a chance of being publicly stated in a society in which the channels of expression are so largely controlled by people who have a vested interest in the existing situation. -- Friedrich A. Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism" quoted on The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights
Many modern economic theorists, particularly those of libertarian persuasion, now believe that licensing is primarily a market response to keep competition down.
See, for example, "Government Licensing: The Enemy of Employment" by Steven Yates (http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/9607yate.html)
"Not long ago I found myself without a job. The experience offered me some insight into the causes of unemployment in American society. I knew that occupational licensure was both a stumbling block to would-be entrepreneurs and a spur to joblessness because it prices entry into markets out of many people's reach and creates disincentives to hire. I now have firsthand experience of how government bureaucracy systematically blocks individuals' efforts to offer services to others in order to improve their own well-being..... "
Some states are finding it difficult to implement licensing regs. See, for example, http://www.ij.org/publications/liberty/1997/l%5F6% 5F97%5Fb.html
>> In May, the Institute won the opening round in its challenge to California's cosmetology licensing regime. In Cornwell v. California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, U.S. district court judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego denied the state's motion to dismiss, letting stand our claims that the licensing regulations violate the due process, equal protection, and the privileges or immunities guarantees of the federal and state constitutions. > Sue A. Blevins is a writer and health policy consultant based in Boston.
>> Executive Summary
>> Nonphysician providers of medical care are in high demand in the United States. But licensure laws and federal regulations limit their scope of practice and restrict access to their services. The result has almost inevitably been less choice and higher prices for consumers. This is what we have to look forward to if we let the camel's nose into this tent. IMHO YMMV....
http://www.boners.com/dilbert/ has nothing to do with Dilbert... links to jerkcity.com, wherein I could not find (in a quick and lazy scan) anything relating ot our favorite engineer. What am I missing?
I used to have Altavista (Advanced Search) as the top link in my bookmarks file, but I just dropped it. I was *_VERY_* distressed to see that AltaVista is selling out search results to the highest bidder (see http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/19 110.html ).
When I search the web through any search site, I want actual hits, not ads some company has paid you to return as hits. I find this to be disgusting. Altavista's value was its ability to return unbiased (or relatively so) lists of hits.
As a result of this, I will no longer use Altavista or recommend it to my clients and friends.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Eric Carr, Sm@rt Reseller
WebBench measures the performance of Web servers in responses per second........ The answer: Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with IIS, hands down. SuSE, the least effective Linux, is 16 percent faster than IIS, and Caldera, the leader, is 50 percent faster.
Commercial Linux releases are ready for your server business.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Eric Carr, Sm@rt Reseller
Forget Linux's hype. Forget Microsoft Corp.'s server market share. The bottom line, according to our hands-on analysis, is that commercial Linux releases can do much more with far less than Windows NT Server can.
Check this page out: http://www.novell.com/advantage/nw5/nw5-mindcraf tcheck.html
Starts out >>>
Reality Check
You can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time....
Mindcraft's "A File Server Comparison: Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and Novell NetWare 5"
For the second time, Mindcraft, Inc. has published a product comparison of dubious origin, unprofessional methods and biased results. Novell is embarrassed to respond to such prejudiced work, but does have an obligation to inform the market of the facts and publish its own benchmarks with accurate and reproducible results.
Lots more in the study.
FWIW a search of Novell's site for Mindcraft" turns up some studies that are apparent;y pro-Novell, so Novell is not ashamed to quote 'em when they're good;-)
>> Between the democrats inventing everything and the republicans shitting on civic rights, the independent vote is looking pretty good. Maybe Libertarian is where you (we all?) should be... http://www.lp.org/
Slashdot Mirror
Nice ... a "keeper" ... thanks for sharing that.
Of course, if you're a 1-man-shop, your job is owned by your company (ie. you) and they both own you [bseg]
Not even close. I use it to keep my time records and appointments, and it syncs into my time-and-billing application every day. When I used to use paper (DayTimers), I had hours of manual entry every month, and once I "misplaced" my DayTimers for a few days. Lost appointments and total paranoia about lost billable time. With my Pilot, I sync to my laptop daily, backup tot the network nightly, and never sweat a lost minute. The two times I've had to replace the unit (I wear out the writing area quite frequently plus they're not the most robust critters on the planet), I lost 0 time as 3com swapped the unit in an even exchange.
Plus I can search the phone book when I'm paged - can't do that with a paper phone book.
Plus alarms go off to remind me to do things. Can't do that with paper, and programming a watch alarm with reminders that make sense is impossible unless you have one of those Timexes that reads the computer's screen.....
It would be interesting to discover how far a seriously critical view of the benefits to society of the law of copyright ... would have a chance of being publicly stated in a society in which the channels of expression are so largely controlled by people who have a vested interest in the existing situation. -- Friedrich A. Hayek, "The Intellectuals and Socialism" quoted on The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/CuttingEdg e/skycar990211.html
Many modern economic theorists, particularly those of libertarian persuasion, now believe that licensing is primarily a market response to keep competition down.
.... "
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....
See, for example, "Government Licensing: The Enemy of Employment" by Steven Yates (http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/9607yate.html)
"Not long ago I found myself without a job. The experience offered me some insight into the causes of unemployment in American society. I knew that occupational licensure was both a stumbling block to would-be entrepreneurs and a spur to joblessness because it prices entry into markets out of many people's reach and creates disincentives to hire. I now have firsthand experience of how government bureaucracy systematically blocks individuals' efforts to offer services to others in order to improve their own well-being.
Some states are finding it difficult to implement licensing regs. See, for example, http://www.ij.org/publications/liberty/1997/l%5F6
>> In May, the Institute won the opening round in its challenge to California's cosmetology licensing regime. In Cornwell v. California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, U.S. district court judge Rudi Brewster in San Diego denied the state's motion to dismiss, letting stand our claims that the licensing regulations violate the due process, equal protection, and the privileges or immunities guarantees of the federal and state constitutions. > Sue A. Blevins is a writer and health policy consultant based in Boston.
>> Executive Summary
>> Nonphysician providers of medical care are in high demand in the United States. But licensure laws and federal regulations limit their scope of practice and restrict access to their services. The result has almost inevitably been less choice and higher prices for consumers.
This is what we have to look forward to if we let the camel's nose into this tent. IMHO YMMV
http://www.boners.com/dilbert/ has nothing to do with Dilbert ... links to jerkcity.com, wherein I could not find (in a quick and lazy scan) anything relating ot our favorite engineer. What am I missing?
Gentlemen and Ladies:
9 110.html ).
I used to have Altavista (Advanced Search) as the top link in my bookmarks file, but I just dropped it. I was *_VERY_* distressed to see that AltaVista is selling out search results to the highest bidder (see http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/1
When I search the web through any search site, I want actual hits, not ads some company has paid you to return as hits. I find this to be disgusting. Altavista's value was its ability to return unbiased (or relatively so) lists of hits.
As a result of this, I will no longer use Altavista or recommend it to my clients and friends.
More proof:
:() has a nice chart that exactly counters Mindcraft's charts
9 6115,00.html
.......
This article from ZDNet (couldn't find it last night
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,21
January 25, 1999 Issue
Linux Is The Web Server's Choice
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Eric Carr, Sm@rt Reseller
WebBench measures the performance of Web
servers in responses per second.
The answer: Linux with Apache beats NT 4.0 with
IIS, hands down. SuSE, the least effective Linux,
is 16 percent faster than IIS, and Caldera, the
leader, is 50 percent faster.
(more text at the site)
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/issue/0,4537,39802 2,00.html
, 387506,00.html
has the comment: ``We know that Linux beats NT in this arena (see "Reviews: Linux Takes On NT,")'', which links (after several jumps) to:
http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/infopack/0,5483
which starts out with:
January 25, 1999
Linux Up Close: Time To Switch
Commercial Linux releases are ready for your server business.
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols & Eric Carr, Sm@rt Reseller
Forget Linux's hype. Forget Microsoft Corp.'s
server market share. The bottom line, according to
our hands-on analysis, is that commercial Linux
releases can do much more with far less than
Windows NT Server can.
Check this page out:f tcheck.html
;-)
http://www.novell.com/advantage/nw5/nw5-mindcra
Starts out >>>
Reality Check
You can Fool Some of
the People Some of the
Time....
Mindcraft's "A File Server Comparison:
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 and
Novell NetWare 5"
For the second time, Mindcraft, Inc. has published a
product comparison of dubious origin, unprofessional
methods and biased results. Novell is embarrassed to
respond to such prejudiced work, but does have an
obligation to inform the market of the facts and publish its
own benchmarks with accurate and reproducible results.
Lots more in the study.
FWIW a search of Novell's site for Mindcraft" turns up some studies that are apparent;y pro-Novell, so Novell is not ashamed to quote 'em when they're good
>> Between the democrats inventing everything and the republicans shitting on civic rights, the independent vote is looking pretty good. ... http://www.lp.org/
...
Maybe Libertarian is where you (we all?) should be
AngusSF