Unfortunately this won't work. The post office will not forward (or return to sender) anything that's sent Bulk Rate Presort. This is why mail forwarded from an old address does not include junk mail.
I've got 2 Panasonics that have a bug that if you schedule a timer recording that ends at midnight (for instance a show that starts at 11:00 PM and ends at 12:00 AM), they will, on occasion, forget to update their internal clock to the next day, so the clock ends up 1 day behind and has to be reset. Truly annoying when you forget about it.
Sure, but then again wireless is slow. When I moved into my new place I considered wireless, but there's sometimes when you really do want a 100MB connection between systems. Consequently I spent a day and ran 6 CAT-5 drops throughout the house.
Even the smallest keyboards are too bulky and inconvenient to carry around all the time. The point of a PDA is to be simple and fast and they get in the way IMHO.
No, it's true 384/384 (I pay for it too). The problem seems to be on Verizon's side of things. It's a business account, so it's supposed to be a guarantee, but my ISP says Verizon has been screwing around a bit with things.
In any event, things are working good this week, and it always works during the night time. Just usual day traffic that's the problem.
Well, it obviously did confuse people. The Buchananon vote aside, there are also reports of 19,000 disqualified ballots due to having both the 2nd and 3rd hole punched.
If we need warning labels about not swallowing your Palm Pilot (exaggeration, but you get the idea), then I can see how people found this confusing even if you and I wouldn't have.
But the whole problem you have there is that we're not a democracy, nor do we claim to be so. We're a republic. We don't directly control what happens to us, we pick people to represent us.
And as much as quoting TV shows sounds silly, I'll quote The West Wing from last night, "Could the people do a better job picking [people to represent them]? Sure. But that's the system we have."
The problem with #2 (which sounds good on the surface) is that how do you know thta your NT machines never communicated with Redmond and sent them something unique like your NIC's ID or your hard drive's ID or at very least your IP address (assuming you're not using dialup).
...as another person up there noted, people around the age of 18 won't vote.
You see, it's a Catch 22...politicians pander to the senior citizens, etc. because they have very large voter turnout percentages. As such, in order to get elected, you have to address their needs.
The under 21 crowd has historically had the lowest voter turnout of pretty much any group. Politicians don't care about this group because basically their vote is chump change. However, the catch is that the under 21 crowd doesn't vote because politicians don't care about them. Ugh!
This is all obvious, I'm sure, but I'd like to put forth this challenge. I'd bet the average Slashdot reader is in their 20s (I said average, not all!). As such, you likely know people in the 18-20something group. Go out there and encourage them to vote! Don't tell them who to vote for, just pester them to actually go do it.
Politicians may not care about our age group (I use 'our' broadly as I'm almost out of the apathy age group), but for once, let's send them a message that we do matter. If all of the sudden, these age groups had 50% or better voter turnout, we'd start to matter to politicians.
Since no one's mentioned it, AMD has a competing technology called "PowerNow!" You can read about it here
It's already available in the K6-2/3+ line and should be available for the Athlon laptops sometime early next year.
Unlike Intel's technology, PowerNow! users a gradient technology (though certainly not quite like Transmeta's level) instead of just fixed speed steppings.
Thunderbirds and Durons are "locked" in the sense that their L1 bridges are cut (nothing to do with L1 cache, just the name of a few traces on the top of the chip). You can reconnect these and "unlock" your processor.
There's been no proof that anyone has processors with the infamous "missing pins" that are supposed to be the final locking solution if you believe rumors. AMD has never stated they will do this either.
I can't find the press release at the moment, but I think Via stated they're going to push off their SMP Athlon chipset until sometime Q1 or Q2 next year, instead focusing their attention on DDR SDRAM PIII chipsets (since Intel won't be doing those...or at least they claim they won't) as well as their P4 chipsets (which they licensed the rights to produce).
Then you don't want a CE device. It's no good if the EMS needs to pop the CE device in a cradle to charge it every day. What if they forget one day? At least on the Palm solution (the IIIs and 7s anyway), you can have a bunch of triple A batteries laying around, and swap them out in the matter of seconds. And if you're willing to pay the expense, you can even use wireless Palm 7s to transmit data from the scene back to your hospital, etc.
I believe a single 760MP Northbridge can only handle 2 processors, but I think AMD has hinted that you can have 2 (or more?) 760MP's on a single board, so in theory 4 or 8 way should be possible, but I expect we'll see 2-way first.
By your same logic, it's unfair of the airlines to send planes over my house/place of work because there's a non-zero chance that one will fall from the sky killing me.
I (and others) participated in a pro-Cassini demonstration in Washington DC. There were a good # of anti-Cassini demonstrators across the street.
Their general opinion was "nukes are bad, m-kay"... but they managed to get a piece on 60 minutes as well.
I'm glad NASA faced down the protests and launched the spacecraft, and I'm happy to hopefully have participated a little bit in that success (though I'm not neive, I'm sure it would have gone off even w/o me).
Anyway, I wear a small Cassini mission pin on my jacket that I got that day.
I got my 14 hour TiVo for $99 (after rebates), and added a 30g drive to it that cost another $100.
So for $199 (yes plus $10/month... but that's not hard to swallow in my book) I've got a 52 hour unit.
It's not just like a "$50 VCR" because you don't need to buy tapes (which can't be used forever since they degrade over time). My cable box also doesn't support VCR control, so I can't just click on a program I'd like to record...TiVo can do just that. And finally, the video quality coming out of this thing (I use the medium quality - 32 hours in my config) is at least twice as good as VHS. Sure you get a little pixelation in low bitrate modes, but compared to analog VCRs, it's no contest.
More accurately, the OS suggests that certain dialogs be screen width. Debug ROMS on the emulator will complain at you, but I don't believe there's anything that'd actually break.
A hack to double screen draw routines would be the way to go.
Actually that makes a good deal of sense. Since you have to specify the screen mode to use in order to go to a color screen, it'd make sense for them to make it so that you have to specify a call to go to 320x320 mode. That would be a reasonable solution.
Though I don't think it's going to happen in this iteration unfortunately. Also, I've heard there's a shortage of small TVT LCD displays even at the 160x160 range, so I imagine that'd be even worse at 320x320. Oh well, maybe in a year?
Some of the comments ask whether Handspring can push OS/3.5 to support resolutions greater than 160x160 since they're going to have to hack in 16-bit support anyway.
As a Palm programmer, I'll confirm it's true that the OS/3.5 data structures are set for 8-bit color depths, so it'll be interesting to see how Handspring gets around that.
However, there's never been a resolution limit imposed in the OS. Higher res screens should work just fine in the current OS.
*BUT* most apps would break (or only use the left 1/2 of the screen) since resources (things like buttons, labels, etc.) are all hard coded as to their starting position and length (in pixels), so it'd require quite a rewrite for apps.
That being said, I think it is time to move on to a higher res screen. It's possible that they could release a hack that'll just double the pixel width of all screen draw routines in the interm to prevent breaking apps (though they'd likely look a bit odd).
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Run on a 486-50 /w 8mb of RAM.
Unfortunately this won't work. The post office will not forward (or return to sender) anything that's sent Bulk Rate Presort. This is why mail forwarded from an old address does not include junk mail.
Out of curiosity, what bug does your VCR have?
I've got 2 Panasonics that have a bug that if you schedule a timer recording that ends at midnight (for instance a show that starts at 11:00 PM and ends at 12:00 AM), they will, on occasion, forget to update their internal clock to the next day, so the clock ends up 1 day behind and has to be reset. Truly annoying when you forget about it.
Sure, but then again wireless is slow. When I moved into my new place I considered wireless, but there's sometimes when you really do want a 100MB connection between systems. Consequently I spent a day and ran 6 CAT-5 drops throughout the house.
Even the smallest keyboards are too bulky and inconvenient to carry around all the time. The point of a PDA is to be simple and fast and they get in the way IMHO.
Personally, I think handwritten input might be a better way to go.
No, it's true 384/384 (I pay for it too). The problem seems to be on Verizon's side of things. It's a business account, so it's supposed to be a guarantee, but my ISP says Verizon has been screwing around a bit with things.
In any event, things are working good this week, and it always works during the night time. Just usual day traffic that's the problem.
Yeah, and my "guaranteed" 384/384 both way SDSL connection can barely stream 128k MP3s during the daytime. Thanks Verizon!
Well, it obviously did confuse people. The Buchananon vote aside, there are also reports of 19,000 disqualified ballots due to having both the 2nd and 3rd hole punched.
If we need warning labels about not swallowing your Palm Pilot (exaggeration, but you get the idea), then I can see how people found this confusing even if you and I wouldn't have.
But the whole problem you have there is that we're not a democracy, nor do we claim to be so. We're a republic. We don't directly control what happens to us, we pick people to represent us.
And as much as quoting TV shows sounds silly, I'll quote The West Wing from last night, "Could the people do a better job picking [people to represent them]? Sure. But that's the system we have."
The problem with #2 (which sounds good on the surface) is that how do you know thta your NT machines never communicated with Redmond and sent them something unique like your NIC's ID or your hard drive's ID or at very least your IP address (assuming you're not using dialup).
So if you favor Harry Browne, then vote for him!
As to the 'hang both', Nader supports a "none of the above" box on all elections.
...as another person up there noted, people around the age of 18 won't vote.
You see, it's a Catch 22...politicians pander to the senior citizens, etc. because they have very large voter turnout percentages. As such, in order to get elected, you have to address their needs.
The under 21 crowd has historically had the lowest voter turnout of pretty much any group. Politicians don't care about this group because basically their vote is chump change. However, the catch is that the under 21 crowd doesn't vote because politicians don't care about them. Ugh!
This is all obvious, I'm sure, but I'd like to put forth this challenge. I'd bet the average Slashdot reader is in their 20s (I said average, not all!). As such, you likely know people in the 18-20something group. Go out there and encourage them to vote! Don't tell them who to vote for, just pester them to actually go do it.
Politicians may not care about our age group (I use 'our' broadly as I'm almost out of the apathy age group), but for once, let's send them a message that we do matter. If all of the sudden, these age groups had 50% or better voter turnout, we'd start to matter to politicians.
So do it!
Since no one's mentioned it, AMD has a competing technology called "PowerNow!" You can read about it here
It's already available in the K6-2/3+ line and should be available for the Athlon laptops sometime early next year.
Unlike Intel's technology, PowerNow! users a gradient technology (though certainly not quite like Transmeta's level) instead of just fixed speed steppings.
Thunderbirds and Durons are "locked" in the sense that their L1 bridges are cut (nothing to do with L1 cache, just the name of a few traces on the top of the chip). You can reconnect these and "unlock" your processor.
There's been no proof that anyone has processors with the infamous "missing pins" that are supposed to be the final locking solution if you believe rumors. AMD has never stated they will do this either.
I can't find the press release at the moment, but I think Via stated they're going to push off their SMP Athlon chipset until sometime Q1 or Q2 next year, instead focusing their attention on DDR SDRAM PIII chipsets (since Intel won't be doing those...or at least they claim they won't) as well as their P4 chipsets (which they licensed the rights to produce).
Then you don't want a CE device. It's no good if the EMS needs to pop the CE device in a cradle to charge it every day. What if they forget one day? At least on the Palm solution (the IIIs and 7s anyway), you can have a bunch of triple A batteries laying around, and swap them out in the matter of seconds. And if you're willing to pay the expense, you can even use wireless Palm 7s to transmit data from the scene back to your hospital, etc.
I believe a single 760MP Northbridge can only handle 2 processors, but I think AMD has hinted that you can have 2 (or more?) 760MP's on a single board, so in theory 4 or 8 way should be possible, but I expect we'll see 2-way first.
By your same logic, it's unfair of the airlines to send planes over my house/place of work because there's a non-zero chance that one will fall from the sky killing me.
Where are the protests?
Actually, it was more than that.
... but they managed to get a piece on 60 minutes as well.
I (and others) participated in a pro-Cassini demonstration in Washington DC. There were a good # of anti-Cassini demonstrators across the street.
Their general opinion was "nukes are bad, m-kay"
I'm glad NASA faced down the protests and launched the spacecraft, and I'm happy to hopefully have participated a little bit in that success (though I'm not neive, I'm sure it would have gone off even w/o me).
Anyway, I wear a small Cassini mission pin on my jacket that I got that day.
Although I personally belive this feature is so that you don't have to rewind when you miss the point to stop fastforwarding....
There is a hack that allows you to turn off this feature if you want to. Check out the FAQ on avsforum.
Hmm. I guess the issue is, don't pay $700.
... but that's not hard to swallow in my book) I've got a 52 hour unit.
I got my 14 hour TiVo for $99 (after rebates), and added a 30g drive to it that cost another $100.
So for $199 (yes plus $10/month
It's not just like a "$50 VCR" because you don't need to buy tapes (which can't be used forever since they degrade over time). My cable box also doesn't support VCR control, so I can't just click on a program I'd like to record...TiVo can do just that. And finally, the video quality coming out of this thing (I use the medium quality - 32 hours in my config) is at least twice as good as VHS. Sure you get a little pixelation in low bitrate modes, but compared to analog VCRs, it's no contest.
Yes, motherboards based on the KT133 chipset (Via's chipset for Durons & Thunderbirds) can use PC-133 or PC-100 just fine.
More accurately, the OS suggests that certain dialogs be screen width. Debug ROMS on the emulator will complain at you, but I don't believe there's anything that'd actually break.
A hack to double screen draw routines would be the way to go.
And I suspect you're right about the LCD.
Actually that makes a good deal of sense. Since you have to specify the screen mode to use in order to go to a color screen, it'd make sense for them to make it so that you have to specify a call to go to 320x320 mode. That would be a reasonable solution.
Though I don't think it's going to happen in this iteration unfortunately. Also, I've heard there's a shortage of small TVT LCD displays even at the 160x160 range, so I imagine that'd be even worse at 320x320. Oh well, maybe in a year?
Some of the comments ask whether Handspring can push OS/3.5 to support resolutions greater than 160x160 since they're going to have to hack in 16-bit support anyway.
As a Palm programmer, I'll confirm it's true that the OS/3.5 data structures are set for 8-bit color depths, so it'll be interesting to see how Handspring gets around that.
However, there's never been a resolution limit imposed in the OS. Higher res screens should work just fine in the current OS.
*BUT* most apps would break (or only use the left 1/2 of the screen) since resources (things like buttons, labels, etc.) are all hard coded as to their starting position and length (in pixels), so it'd require quite a rewrite for apps.
That being said, I think it is time to move on to a higher res screen. It's possible that they could release a hack that'll just double the pixel width of all screen draw routines in the interm to prevent breaking apps (though they'd likely look a bit odd).