How about, something that cost not as expensive as a 29" tv, or a dvd player, or a 5.1 surround sound system? If you know how many people have all above, (I have one, being a student), you will know only insane will spend 400 on a pda.
I watched A Passage to India, and I could not tell which one was him! Watch it and you know what I mean. The only other occation like this is Billy Bob in A Simple Plan.
btw the favorite post-brit Lean of mine are always India and Ryan's Daughter!
Hello, if it's small enough to put in a pocket, it's good enough for people. Why do you want them to be as small as a fly? (Don't give me the implant BS, people will never implant a gadget that gets outdated in 2 years.)
Do you know there are keyring size camera, it never took off because 1) people don't want to take out a camera everyday 2) The dominant format (35mm) has so much larger market share that everything 35mm related is so much cheaper.
Why would I want a keyring size walkman? I actually have backuped all my cd into cdr, I can buy a good diskman and put them in my bag (when you have 50+ CDs, the size of them are samller than minidisc.) But I decided its a waste of time. My Kenwood system is so much better than any earphone sound. I do put the CDRs in the place I worked, so that's only 2 hours no music everyday, so what. The point is, sometime the home version is better, and people think it's not worth it to get a portable version, for less quality. Even if that quality is much better than 20 years ago. Which will make the portable of that product a niche product, which become expensive.
Frankly, I don't see how much faster palm need to be, besides decoding mp3. You only need a wireless connection and everything can be done server side. Just change the resolution to 320X320 and that's it. (make a kid/pager size version that folds the screen, if you want portability and large screen, this is the only way.)
. I work for Microsoft because I am working with some of the brightest, most motivated..
I'm just curious, why is this a good thing? I mean, if you are an scientist, a really good one, sure working w/ the best people is good enough a reason to stay at one place. But I think to most programmers, higher pay would be a more attractive priority than working w/ bright people. Providing all other conditions are the same. You see research scientists can do that because they are trying to change the future. Are you staying in MS for the same reason? Now be carful if you say yes, because that means you condone, support their policy. The future of one protoclol, one system, one company.
. Microsoft is a company trying to compete - our business practices are no different than those of our competitors - the only difference is that we're better at them and don't go off crying buwahaa to Janet Reno when we get beaten.
I'm sure the burglars say the same thing.
p.s. Why are you so defensive, spliting the borg can only increase your stock price, no?
This sounds incredibly interesting, could you tell me the title of the book?
(search amazon only reveal "God's Samurai : Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (Brassey's Commemorative Series, Wwii) by Gordon William Prange, et al. Hardcover (September 1990)", doesn't seem right to me.)
CY
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on the fortune magazine's.net interview issue, (or the "I remember microsoft" article, I don't remember.) One executive actually say that, "Microsoft works better when its wearing a jihad." If this doesn't vividly represent the zealot mentality, in other words, "we are always right", I don't know it is.
We all know the famous penguin with a jihad picture, no body will be surprised by the linux/windows war in front of us.
Basically I encouter as much problem with NN4.6 as you do. So mostly I use Netscape 3.04 with JS java turn off for most task, (Netscape3 with JS on is suicide)
On my libretto 223 32meg, I can honestly say NN3 is faster than IE5, slightly. And that's what is matters. I only use slashdot, dejanews and ebay anyway. I will only use IE5 when I go to fansy sites. It takes 10 seconds to open NN4.6 on this win98 machine. However I will switch to mozilla as soon as possible. (whenever they make switch window fast enough, m16 is too slow) The nightmare of this win98 gives me remind me daily that I shouldn't use any ms product.
Hopefully SUN will learn something from Netscape, I speak this from my heart. You really ought to try out the sweet 3.04, if you have forgotten how fast it is.
But for a beast, unless its really really well documented and well written (which judging by the product,it doesnt seem to be) it probably wont be worth the time.
but people can pull a CA and rip off the "asset" and "sell off" to various open source projects.
At the vary least, how can it hurt? Sun is not exactly pushing staroffice anyway. CY
NIC is a bust, didn't you miss the moniyor sell separately bit? The says on the main page total including shipping 379. Yeah right, I pay 200 for a webtv. You can get a real webtv (classic) for 70 buck for crying out loud. It only say 10/100, I didn't see regular ISP on the faq.
A flat screen for 400 is.. ok. It's a winner for 300. I'm sure those taiwan manu. has figured out a way to do it.
I have pulled about 8 full jerry goldsmith albums from napster, the oldest one is out of print and used goes up to $120 (really, it's "Under Fire") Go try to find even one complete goldsmith album in newsgroup, lamer.
(for the record, I have 2 real goldsmith cds and plan to buy 3 more. That's all I plan do as a student. I don't care whatever justification napster users have come up with, nobody can afford a some what complete goldsmith collection!)
I think it really doesn't matter though. What important is not what oscar's ruling is, but what other film festivals' rules are.
You see the documentary branch of the Oscar has been sucked for decades, and it's not likely to change any time soon. People don't look at Oscar result to measure good documentaries. And there is discussion about even moving the documentaries award presentation to the earlier day technicle award cenemony just so we don't have to hear weenies' lame acceptance speech.
I hope at least Sun Dance has a more sensible rule. I mean there are alright too much black horse films coming out at the end of chrismas just to make them eligible for academy. The logic is that if you can't even attract a backing of 1 week run, then chances are the film is not very good. David O Russell, Atom Eyogan all got their start at film festival, it's a good enough system.
I always hear people complain the plot of PM is too complex (for a PG 13). There are something I didn't catch until the second time. Why are you saying Mononoke is too simple?
Real discussion please. As for me, I think the flew of Mononoke is sometimes the score are too "epic" and mature. If the male lead (with a great voice in the Eng version btw) had a little bit of relationship with Lady Eboshi, then it would have justify the scope of the film.
technically, getting/spreading new songs grom napster is much slower than alt.binay.* I couldn't find one track of "13th warriors" just two months ago (well after the release of the film) Now I see the whole CD everyday. But I already made up my mind that I'm going to buy this one once I start my summer job. It's hard to keep telling myself no.
CY
It's time to make a "napster kill the britney Spears" flash/quicktime songs, don't you think?
I believe the first publisher publish slashdot comment without asking is some lame ZD magazine. It's been done. MS can always pretend to be the anonymous poster in the culombine book and sue/. ass off.
Slashdot Mirror
Does it take a rocket sciensist to figure out the guy has no humor, he is quoting Dennis Miller.
CY
because they keep adding junk to the html "standard", real man uses lynx.
How about, something that cost not as expensive as a 29" tv, or a dvd player, or a 5.1 surround sound system? If you know how many people have all above, (I have one, being a student), you will know only insane will spend 400 on a pda.
CY
I watched A Passage to India, and I could not tell which one was him! Watch it and you know what I mean. The only other occation like this is Billy Bob in A Simple Plan.
btw the favorite post-brit Lean of mine are always India and Ryan's Daughter!
CY
You guys are serious or what, ever heard of that little director.... whatzhisname... Alfrad Lean? Fritz Lean, David Lean? :D
CY
Hello, if it's small enough to put in a pocket, it's good enough for people. Why do you want them to be as small as a fly? (Don't give me the implant BS, people will never implant a gadget that gets outdated in 2 years.)
Do you know there are keyring size camera, it never took off because 1) people don't want to take out a camera everyday 2) The dominant format (35mm) has so much larger market share that everything 35mm related is so much cheaper.
Why would I want a keyring size walkman? I actually have backuped all my cd into cdr, I can buy a good diskman and put them in my bag (when you have 50+ CDs, the size of them are samller than minidisc.) But I decided its a waste of time. My Kenwood system is so much better than any earphone sound. I do put the CDRs in the place I worked, so that's only 2 hours no music everyday, so what. The point is, sometime the home version is better, and people think it's not worth it to get a portable version, for less quality. Even if that quality is much better than 20 years ago. Which will make the portable of that product a niche product, which become expensive.
Frankly, I don't see how much faster palm need to be, besides decoding mp3. You only need a wireless connection and everything can be done server side. Just change the resolution to 320X320 and that's it. (make a kid/pager size version that folds the screen, if you want portability and large screen, this is the only way.)
CY
I do think Boxen pronounce better than Boxes (Boxeseses), the typo is intentional. However Virii just sound awful.
cy
. I work for Microsoft because I am working with some of the brightest, most motivated ..
I'm just curious, why is this a good thing? I mean, if you are an scientist, a really good one, sure working w/ the best people is good enough a reason to stay at one place. But I think to most programmers, higher pay would be a more attractive priority than working w/ bright people. Providing all other conditions are the same. You see research scientists can do that because they are trying to change the future. Are you staying in MS for the same reason? Now be carful if you say yes, because that means you condone, support their policy. The future of one protoclol, one system, one company.
. Microsoft is a company trying to compete - our business practices are no different than those of our competitors - the only difference is that we're better at them and don't go off crying buwahaa to Janet Reno when we get beaten.
I'm sure the burglars say the same thing.
p.s. Why are you so defensive, spliting the borg can only increase your stock price, no?
CY
This sounds incredibly interesting, could you tell me the title of the book?
(search amazon only reveal "God's Samurai : Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (Brassey's Commemorative Series, Wwii) by Gordon William Prange, et al. Hardcover (September 1990)", doesn't seem right to me.)
CY
on the fortune magazine's .net interview issue, (or the "I remember microsoft" article, I don't remember.) One executive actually say that, "Microsoft works better when its wearing a jihad." If this doesn't vividly represent the zealot mentality, in other words, "we are always right", I don't know it is.
We all know the famous penguin with a jihad picture, no body will be surprised by the linux/windows war in front of us.
CY
Basically I encouter as much problem with NN4.6 as you do. So mostly I use Netscape 3.04 with JS java turn off for most task, (Netscape3 with JS on is suicide)
On my libretto 223 32meg, I can honestly say NN3 is faster than IE5, slightly. And that's what is matters. I only use slashdot, dejanews and ebay anyway. I will only use IE5 when I go to fansy sites. It takes 10 seconds to open NN4.6 on this win98 machine. However I will switch to mozilla as soon as possible. (whenever they make switch window fast enough, m16 is too slow) The nightmare of this win98 gives me remind me daily that I shouldn't use any ms product.
Hopefully SUN will learn something from Netscape, I speak this from my heart. You really ought to try out the sweet 3.04, if you have forgotten how fast it is.
CY
The napster clone from scour.com
Actually the best napster clone I ever used. Let's just say mozilla is useful.
But for a beast, unless its really really well
documented and well written (which judging by the product,it
doesnt seem to be) it probably wont be worth the time.
but people can pull a CA and rip off the "asset" and "sell off" to various open source projects.
At the vary least, how can it hurt? Sun is not exactly pushing staroffice anyway.
CY
Yeah, you are the guy who tell radio shaqe (hopefully I misspell it) what your address is whenever you go buy an AAA battery.
I always spell anonymous for them.
CY
NIC is a bust, didn't you miss the moniyor sell separately bit? The says on the main page total including shipping 379. Yeah right, I pay 200 for a webtv. You can get a real webtv (classic) for 70 buck for crying out loud. It only say 10/100, I didn't see regular ISP on the faq.
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A flat screen for 400 is.. ok. It's a winner for 300. I'm sure those taiwan manu. has figured out a way to do it.
CY
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if you still can find it, a classic!
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I have pulled about 8 full jerry goldsmith albums from napster, the oldest one is out of print and used goes up to $120 (really, it's "Under Fire") Go try to find even one complete goldsmith album in newsgroup, lamer.
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(for the record, I have 2 real goldsmith cds and plan to buy 3 more. That's all I plan do as a student. I don't care whatever justification napster users have come up with, nobody can afford a some what complete goldsmith collection!)
CY
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I think Oscar make that lame Skapespear flick triple its B.O., otherwise known as "The Last triumphs of Maramax".
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I think it really doesn't matter though. What important is not what oscar's ruling is, but what other film festivals' rules are.
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You see the documentary branch of the Oscar has been sucked for decades, and it's not likely to change any time soon. People don't look at Oscar result to measure good documentaries. And there is discussion about even moving the documentaries award presentation to the earlier day technicle award cenemony just so we don't have to hear weenies' lame acceptance speech.
I hope at least Sun Dance has a more sensible rule. I mean there are alright too much black horse films coming out at the end of chrismas just to make them eligible for academy. The logic is that if you can't even attract a backing of 1 week run, then chances are the film is not very good. David O Russell, Atom Eyogan all got their start at film festival, it's a good enough system.
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No to be nikpick, the cardinals and archbishops had a lot more fun (read: mistresses) than their later colleages in the high renaissance period.
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If you are interesting in Michelangelo's biography, I recommand The World of Michealangelo from the Time-Life series.
VY
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I always hear people complain the plot of PM is too complex (for a PG 13). There are something I didn't catch until the second time. Why are you saying Mononoke is too simple?
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Real discussion please. As for me, I think the flew of Mononoke is sometimes the score are too "epic" and mature. If the male lead (with a great voice in the Eng version btw) had a little bit of relationship with Lady Eboshi, then it would have justify the scope of the film.
CY
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technically, getting/spreading new songs grom napster is much slower than alt.binay.* I couldn't find one track of "13th warriors" just two months ago (well after the release of the film) Now I see the whole CD everyday. But I already made up my mind that I'm going to buy this one once I start my summer job. It's hard to keep telling myself no.
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CY
It's time to make a "napster kill the britney Spears" flash/quicktime songs, don't you think?
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For example, I always click "next" within the deja.com domain. A precache will really save me a lot of trouble.
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I officailly endorse this post!
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I believe the first publisher publish slashdot comment without asking is some lame ZD magazine. It's been done. MS can always pretend to be the anonymous poster in the culombine book and sue /. ass off.
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CY
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