I've been thinking about moving my DVD PC to something that'd look good stacked in with stereo components. Has anyone seen anything reasonably well shielded that wouldn't look out of place next to a VCR?
Yes, but that was a long long long time before Palm was founded (and a long long time before Palm was purchased by U.S. Robotics and a long time before U.S. Robotics was then purchased by 3Com (thus making it a 3Com Connected Organizer).
The patent was filed ~1997 (if I read correctly) and the lawsuit shortly after. It's just taken this long for the patent office to figure out that it IS in fact infringement. It's not like PARC sat on the patent for years before taking action. Also - I'm not real sure about this, but I think Palm actually purchased/licensed the grafitti technology from someone else (not Parc).
(sigh) I need to keep up with my TLA's. I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why being able to emulate a PC command line interpreter using distributed clients on Mac OS9 was anything worth freaking out over. Sure, it's worth style points, but does CERT really need to know about it?:)
Dont underestimate the power of color as an "information digestion aid" (can't think of a better term right now). Color can be used to improve the brain's parsing of displayed information. How about: The battery symbol at the top turns red when it's low. Color-coding tasks by priority? color-coding data by category? Using color to highlight the current time of day in the datebook and differentiate between repeating appointments (typically meetings), one shot appointments, and all-day appointments.
Another factor is that 3Com stands to make quite a bit more money by spinning Palm off. As a division of 3Com, Palm's affect on the stock price was negligible. Great announcements like the recent deals with Sony and Nokia barely nudged 3Com's stock valuation. If Palm were standalone, the effect on the stock price from such announcements would have been much more dramatic. It's not as if 3Com is just cutting Palm loose. They'll get a fairly huge amount of shares in the new Palm and stand to make quite a bit of change off of Palm's efforts. Palm also gets more freedom and "maneouverablility" not living under the 3Com roof. They're not limited to who they can deal with. For instance, it wouldn't look good if Palm - a division of 3Com - were to suddenly write wireless network software to run on Cisco hardware. Strategic decisions don't have to be run past as many committees and managers who may not be as "in tune" with Palm's needs and situations. All in all, I think it's a Good Thing(tm) for everyone involved.
In my experience, a degres isn't so neccessary to get in the door as it is to advance to high-level management and augment pay. In the 3 companies I've had long term relationships with, I've seen complete idiots get promoted to senior positions over other candidates based primarily on educational background. I've also seen dramatic differences in salary between managament peers with/without degrees. IMHO - if you're serious about moving UP the ladder and don't have access to a startup, it's well worth the investment in the long run to get that piece of paper.
A mountain of embattled coders, keyboard/swords held high in celebration atop piles of defeated Windoze boxes, and at the very pinnacle of the mountain, an over-the-top-Conan-looking Penguin, CD distro held high, the sun shining off it... All surrounded by peasants, gleefully picking up free CDs:)
My employer was kind enough to supply me with Apple's G3 laptop with the DVD player, so it purrs away at my desk (at work & at home!) playing Monty Python's Quest for The Holy Grail on infinite repeat.
Now if I could just talk them into letting me install Linux on it, it might actually become a productivity tool .
I think Philips decision to go with the cordless phone port on the European Velo had more to do with the European wireless infrastructure than with any "stupid decision" making. Of course, I could be wrong:)
Something else to be considered is whether the WebCam has linux support. Last time I looked (which, admittedly was a while ago), only the QuickCam had decent linux drivers and I'm not too impressed with the quality it delivers. The best low-cost cam I've seen is the ViCam that's also OEM'd by 3Com. Unfortunately, there's no linux support. I have seen references to an open standard set of drivers, but I've long since lost the link and don't know the progress... Anyone?
By Microsoft to make sure all the linux geeks are too hung over to hit up E-Trade when RH goes public tomorrow AM so they can snatch up a majority share.
Contributers will be notified by E-Mail if they're eligible for early dibs on the kegs. Note that only qualified beer drinkers with over 2 gallons of previous experience and 1 pre-qualified keg-cup will be eligible to participate.
How about appending "in public" to that? The whole idea behind telecommuting was so I can cinch multi-billion-dollar deals butt-nekkid and stanky. (just don't tell them about the Home Office Cam).
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1> Try the $24/mo plan? 2> It also doesn't run Windows CE (but that's a different holy war) 3> And you need this feature because...? The E-100 has 16mb, which works out to about 18 minutes of music (assuming a decent compression and you have no other data on the unit). For $464! 4> Twice? The best price I could find on an E-100 + modem was $664 ($464+$200). That doesn't even include the compatible cell-phone! Last I read, the Palm VII was looking to be under $600. 5> Does that take into consideration roaming and ISP charges (included in the Palm VII)?
What the Palm VII does is read web content through a Proxy server that converts HTML to the Palm VII's compressed data format. In theory, any site can be read through the server, it's just a matter of what URL the device requests. Providing "spoon fed" content out-the-gate is good for several reasons: -It provides out-of-the-box bulletproof functionality. The first user experience will NOT be going to a page that looks like crap or takes minutes (and precious free bandwidth) to load on the Palm device. -It provides immediate value-added benefits (you think "Buy and sell stocks from the palm of your hand" isn't a valuable bullet point?) -It provides a very controlled environment for content delivery.
With that said, I wouldn't be at all suprized if Palm released the 'code' to allow custom URL's to the developer community, enabling anyone to make thier own "spoon fed" pages.
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I've been thinking about moving my DVD PC to something that'd look good stacked in with stereo components. Has anyone seen anything reasonably well shielded that wouldn't look out of place next to a VCR?
How to make a uni-sroke X on the Palm:
Upper left->lower right->upper right->lower left
Yes, but that was a long long long time before Palm was founded (and a long long time before Palm was purchased by U.S. Robotics and a long time before U.S. Robotics was then purchased by 3Com (thus making it a 3Com Connected Organizer).
"symbols that are exceptionally well separated from each other graphically" :)
3Com blows it there, I'm always making C's when I want L's
The patent was filed ~1997 (if I read correctly) and the lawsuit shortly after. It's just taken this long for the patent office to figure out that it IS in fact infringement. It's not like PARC sat on the patent for years before taking action.
Also - I'm not real sure about this, but I think Palm actually purchased/licensed the grafitti technology from someone else (not Parc).
(sigh) I need to keep up with my TLA's. I spent 5 minutes trying to figure out why being able to emulate a PC command line interpreter using distributed clients on Mac OS9 was anything worth freaking out over. :)
Sure, it's worth style points, but does CERT really need to know about it?
Dont underestimate the power of color as an "information digestion aid" (can't think of a better term right now). Color can be used to improve the brain's parsing of displayed information.
How about:
The battery symbol at the top turns red when it's low.
Color-coding tasks by priority?
color-coding data by category?
Using color to highlight the current time of day in the datebook and differentiate between repeating appointments (typically meetings), one shot appointments, and all-day appointments.
Another factor is that 3Com stands to make quite a bit more money by spinning Palm off. As a division of 3Com, Palm's affect on the stock price was negligible. Great announcements like the recent deals with Sony and Nokia barely nudged 3Com's stock valuation. If Palm were standalone, the effect on the stock price from such announcements would have been much more dramatic.
It's not as if 3Com is just cutting Palm loose. They'll get a fairly huge amount of shares in the new Palm and stand to make quite a bit of change off of Palm's efforts.
Palm also gets more freedom and "maneouverablility" not living under the 3Com roof. They're not limited to who they can deal with. For instance, it wouldn't look good if Palm - a division of 3Com - were to suddenly write wireless network software to run on Cisco hardware. Strategic decisions don't have to be run past as many committees and managers who may not be as "in tune" with Palm's needs and situations.
All in all, I think it's a Good Thing(tm) for everyone involved.
In my experience, a degres isn't so neccessary to get in the door as it is to advance to high-level management and augment pay. In the 3 companies I've had long term relationships with, I've seen complete idiots get promoted to senior positions over other candidates based primarily on educational background. I've also seen dramatic differences in salary between managament peers with/without degrees.
IMHO - if you're serious about moving UP the ladder and don't have access to a startup, it's well worth the investment in the long run to get that piece of paper.
A mountain of embattled coders, keyboard/swords held high in celebration atop piles of defeated Windoze boxes, and at the very pinnacle of the mountain, an over-the-top-Conan-looking Penguin, CD distro held high, the sun shining off it... All surrounded by peasants, gleefully picking up free CDs :)
My employer was kind enough to supply me with Apple's G3 laptop with the DVD player, so it purrs away at my desk (at work & at home!) playing Monty Python's Quest for The Holy Grail on infinite repeat.
Now if I could just talk them into letting me install Linux on it, it might actually become a productivity tool .
I think Philips decision to go with the cordless phone port on the European Velo had more to do with the European wireless infrastructure than with any "stupid decision" making. Of course, I could be wrong :)
Something else to be considered is whether the WebCam has linux support. Last time I looked (which, admittedly was a while ago), only the QuickCam had decent linux drivers and I'm not too impressed with the quality it delivers. The best low-cost cam I've seen is the ViCam that's also OEM'd by 3Com. Unfortunately, there's no linux support.
I have seen references to an open standard set of drivers, but I've long since lost the link and don't know the progress... Anyone?
For a while, Sony's upcoming Playstation 2 was spec'd as more powerful than export reg's would allow :)
I can see it already, everyone clamoring to homestead a ".uranus"
By Microsoft to make sure all the linux geeks are too hung over to hit up E-Trade when RH goes public tomorrow AM so they can snatch up a majority share.
Remember, it's all fun and games until someone loses and eyeball.
;)
Then it's just games, like "Find the eyeball"
Contributers will be notified by E-Mail if they're eligible for early dibs on the kegs.
Note that only qualified beer drinkers with over 2 gallons of previous experience and 1 pre-qualified keg-cup will be eligible to participate.
I was told it stands for "British Naval Connector"
How about appending "in public" to that?
The whole idea behind telecommuting was so I can cinch multi-billion-dollar deals butt-nekkid and stanky. (just don't tell them about the Home Office Cam).
1> Try the $24/mo plan?
2> It also doesn't run Windows CE (but that's a different holy war)
3> And you need this feature because...? The E-100 has 16mb, which works out to about 18 minutes of music (assuming a decent compression and you have no other data on the unit). For $464!
4> Twice? The best price I could find on an E-100 + modem was $664 ($464+$200). That doesn't even include the compatible cell-phone! Last I read, the Palm VII was looking to be under $600.
5> Does that take into consideration roaming and ISP charges (included in the Palm VII)?
What the Palm VII does is read web content through a Proxy server that converts HTML to the Palm VII's compressed data format. In theory, any site can be read through the server, it's just a matter of what URL the device requests.
Providing "spoon fed" content out-the-gate is good for several reasons:
-It provides out-of-the-box bulletproof functionality. The first user experience will NOT be going to a page that looks like crap or takes minutes (and precious free bandwidth) to load on the Palm device.
-It provides immediate value-added benefits (you think "Buy and sell stocks from the palm of your hand" isn't a valuable bullet point?)
-It provides a very controlled environment for content delivery.
With that said, I wouldn't be at all suprized if Palm released the 'code' to allow custom URL's to the developer community, enabling anyone to make thier own "spoon fed" pages.
Ahh, if only they worked in cubeland.. :)
Then I could get this 200watt sub out from under my desk