This is more of a plea for help then anything, but I do have an intelligent point in the end about the whole thing and me very definitely wanting to go to something more standardized and NEVER use another frivkh,fgjd,h...
Outlook Express and Outlook seem to have different addressbook formats. I believe I started my address book in outlook 2000, but its possible an update of express crept on and defaulted itself or something or other, who knows.. for some reason I can't seem to open up my contacts of info that I have assembled during the last year.
I can't tell you how disstressing that is.
Its a.wab file of 180k in size, and the only
thing I can come up with is that it might be
corrupted.. I even searched MS's knowledgebase
about the issue to discover that they basicly
point you to a 3rd party in order to deal with
.WAB files and suggested instead about exporting
to comma delimited files, which honestly I should have known better to do.. but I figured whats wrong with the.WAB file? Surely a frkin multi-billion dollar company can make a decent save and secure contact program that one can rely on for ones data.. no?? Appearently NO.
Eh. Anyway. So for anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, I would REALLY love to be able to open that file, and would shower anyone with praises for the answer. This is like the first time in a long time I'm dealing with potentially damaging data loss.:(
But it raises an interesting point for discussion about all this crap happening in the first place too I think.:)
I LOVE RTS games. I've played them since ModemWars on the Commodore 64.
I crave for better strategy. I can't tell you how many times I've been tempted to just knock on a developers virtual door and say YO!! WAKE TF UP! Can't you see how annoying this one feature is? Can't you see how cool this unit COULD be.. etc etc. I find the more we embrace the reality of a situation and the less we THINK we trumped it in our own naive thinking, the more we realize we kill ALOT of birds with ALOT of stones, in the simple fact that we have a decent physics engine so that we CAN do that if we really want to.
Guess which feature I loved most in games like Deus Ex? The ability to hoslter my weapon, close the door.. get into the action, FEEL the character, you, whoever it is YOUR trying to be at that moment. It should just FEEL good. I get SOO upset when a game even attempts to have a sword in it, and yet doesn't even bother to have some form of sword play or an art form to it. I apperciate hack and slash and gameplay fun considerations, but DAMN.. Some people LOVE a game that is simple and complex at the same time.
I hope ALOT of people learned from the beautiful games like Black and White, Total Annihalation, and its Kingdoms which I ALMOST loved.. There is a grace about them, and the engines and the physics we define within them are getting better and simpilier year after year... All I can ask is Developers not be so quick to delcare something as fun when it needs to be totally revamped. Maybe creating something so completely fun, requires a breed soo completely willing to expend the effort it takes to encapture what we can think of within a few moments of bullshiting in a messageboard?
Eh. My wish List? Chain of Command. Simplifies things when you model the level of thinking of man today, at its best or worst.. hrm?
Intelligent Underlings, or at least AI that has been whipped into shape/learned by having had been a veteran of past battles with you. Fine, be a total newbie and idiot first battle out. But code in from the units to the commmanders and leaders and planetary systems star-ship based overlords a since of evolution if you have any hope of grasping what it means to have a completely replaying game in terms of fun, uniqueness, and a "Oh, this is something new" feeling every time around.
Ah cool, thanks for the link. I hadn't seen the Samsung I300 yet til now. It looks sweet, but only 5hrs of talk time, and I'm guessing thats
not counting playing super-snake in color while chatting thru the headset.
You are right about the Mono screens. I tend to like color especially if I want to use my Palm as a universal remote for all my devices at home (do a search on google for universal remote software, they are quite slick). But I'd rather have 10hrs use / 2 week standby. Ugh.. I'm so conflicted. Don't we have better battaries yet?
I have thought about a PocketPC.. But it appears the Palm's interface is much more thought out.
The Palm IIIc came out (I didn't hear if the wireless modem for it came out yet finally or not), handspring has color now too.. So what the heck? Why are we still milking the mono LCD market for them? I'm anxious to upgrade my PDA and I wouldn't mind wireless/color/8megs+ of ram as a base feature. Oh ya, and TRGpro has better sound support so you can use it as an autodialer. Palm's sound still sucks. I think they are waiting for Sony to be the one that opens up the wonderful world of MP3s/Video on the Palm. But still, I can't help feel like this is all BULLSHIT. Get on with the flagship model already, people got feature lust damn it!
I agree with you about the bandwidth. In the end the data is saved on the hard drive, so its only a matter of time til you get it. But because everything has been speeding up in our lives, we grow less and less patient to get what we want, hence the "bandwidth problem" when only a few years back, it was a joy to watch data DRAW on a 300 baud modem.:)
But again. The only reason we don't have enough bandwidth is because all that dark-fiber is just laying there BECAUSE.. of Money.:)
Ya, I read your article. Its "interesting". I think the Texas "Myth" was actually quite a real statistic in its time, you forget we didn't always have 6+ billion people on earth. But so what, lets revise my point.. As you say, we need 10 Texases. Big deal. Look at the size of the earth. Give or take, we have PLENTY OF LAND. And with greenhouse-skyscrappers... forget about it.
What your paper doesn't factor in on all this is the Greed Factor.. Thats why we have an obessity problem in the US, and we have world-hungry the further away you go from the US. Man appears to have no clue about fair dispisral of what we have so much of.
Its english-hounds like you who give intelligence a bad name. Do you comment on my point? no. You comment on my spelling/grammar. How childish and unimaginative of you. Its entirely possible I'm an imperfect human who doesn't see the need to pretend to be perfect thru the effort of spell checking unless I'm either asking for money or communicating with a client in a professional manner. But naturally you people never think of that.
Meaty worthwild criticism is always welcome however.
First the internet was a university research tool.
Then it went to public access.. followed by commericialzation of the latest saliva-inducing gold-mine that is the web. The Free Spirit is being drowned out by the desire to make money, which is nothing more then just a mirror image of the people who make up the real world, hopping onto the net and trying to do what they do in the real world... make money, get laid.
So whats happening on the internet is we see more junk, we see consolidation, we see great free-content sites like Mathworld fall pray to IP.
What are we to do?
The answer lies in figuring out the formula to reverse trickle down economics. Fight the system rather then continue to take it up the ass. Otherwise soon there will be NO PLACE to escape the real world, for it would have simply engulfed our latest and greastest escape.
I view the Internet as the Final Front for We the People. If we loose the battle here, we'll forever be under the grip of evil greedy men who know no other way. I think the basic ideals in the Internet more then hint that there is another way.
Heck, I have a friend who actually bought his girlfriend a present for her birthday IN EVERQUEST (it cost ALOT of platnium too)! You know what that tells me? We have a generation that finds value in the virtual world, and the virtual world is limitless, so shouldn't we be?
Another example.. Programmers are more likely to help people for free then Lawyers are. Yet both professions involve coded langauge. Lawyers have woven into the spirit of making money, whereas Programmers have woven into the spirit of the Internet. I can't thank the Internet enough for Linux. Wow.
It always amazed me that we had so many battles in europe over land. Not enough room for us. Then we discover America. And we still fought. Don't we have enough land??
There was once a study done that showed every person in the world (this study was done between 1900-idon'tknow) could have a full acre in Texas.
Believe me, the Earth has plenty of land. And we definitely have plenty of hard drive space. Man keeps fighting because it has yet to figure out another value system. How long are we to be animals under the guise of survival of the fittest? When are we going to actually stand upright and look up the word "Humane" in the nearest dictionary?
I just got done reading quite a bit of the comments here. Most comments delt with how to approach our elders, in the fact that they are NOT stupid, they are quite intelligent, and if you feed them the information in the right way, they will learn rather then continue to live in fear of the technology.
..Yet how quickly those same posters who apply such wisdom to the elderly, will quickly call today's middleaged or young ones stupid for failing to grasp a principal we might know.
...yet we were all newbies once, no?
I see countless posters, especially in recent articles, mentioning how they wish they learned programming way back when they were younger or how if only this or only that. Granted, learning how to use the mouse is a far cry from learning how to "manipulate the data" in memory thru arcane syntax. Then there's branching logic and multi-threading and me oh my.. But its only a matter of seeing all that arcane knowledge in the right light, is it not? How much better the open source community would do if they nurtured wannabe programmers rather then condem them back to the side-lines to continue dreaming.
There are those self motivated enough to pick up a damn book and read and read and read, and learn, and implement and become self-made programmers. There are others who were fortunate enough to afford college and have the knowledge feed to them until they got it or dropped out.
But what about those who only needed the proper guidance? The proper hand holding? Or perhaps just a lift over one particular mental-wall that prevented them from seeing the whole overall picture?
The entry-bar for programming has lowered greatly thanks to Java, Python and OO concepts in general. Some feel there will be a day where the entry-bar is lowered enough to where you can tell a computer what to do in detail purely thru english.. I feel all that is present today, no matter how arcane/complicated it is to learn how to program today.. all you need is a good teacher and/or a good written lesson plan, no?
So let me pose the following questions...
1. How many power users today who have a good grasp on utilizing their computers wish they were programmers and would probably give it a best effort try if they thought the path they were taking would lead to enlightenment on being that programmer?
2. Joe PowerUser, who knows enough to build his own clonePC and work with Linux and WindowsOfTheYear and he wants to learn to program in C (which I consider the mother of all languages worth learning today).. How would he go about it? What if he barely knew algebra? What if his common sense logic was a bit off?
What would he have to read (HOWTO URLs would be helpful rather then just books, but books work well to I hear) before he can even read the "Learn C in 21 days" stuff?
I'm talking about gaining some good foundation logic, not just "enough to get by". The better the foundation, the more fluid the housework.
-Mathematics and You 101?
-Pure and Simple Logic HOWTO?
-Structure and Design principals with pseudocode examples?
This may all be offtopic, and I may not have even structured this comment well enough.. but I can either try to please those that would nitpick, or I can appeal to those with a sense of reason beyond my own and would simply grant rather then talk about how I've been denied. I do hope I caused nothing more then a flood of replies of some pointers on where to go for those who wish to learn more then how to push their mouse.
Its an ancient manipulation trick. Make people believe in something before that something even exists, and eventually the common people will unknowingly make it exist.
And so it becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.
Thats why independant parties never win in the US. The media hammers into the minds of the people that there are only logically two choices, A or B. There is no C, and even if there was, you'd be a fool to pick it because you would have wasted your vote. The few strong minded people that exist would try to make a showing, but are proven wrong my the masses of weakminded "individuals" that listened to the "advice".
So the question is.. How do we make the weak minded strong minded?
Maybe if people stopped putting other people down and hindering them as they try to climb up, and instead gave them a helping hand.. we'd have one hell of a strong poor-middle class society FINALLY kickin the ruling society in the ass. That'd be cool.
Actually, to further add to your disbeliefing willies.. Do a google search on "Bill Gates 666".
Fact is, and you can do this on your own, if you add up the numerical value of Bill Gates name in ASCII values, it adds up to 663 + III (Bill Gates the 3rd), and that equals 666.
People are quick to cry Numerology BS, but the way it works is that you are determining the number of the man's name by the language he subscribes to. Many figure heads in history that have controlled the world in a massive way have their names add up to 666, but its by their own native language (Bill Gate's occuptional/native language is ASCII), not all by straight english of 1 to 26.
What bothers me most is that one day the US just decides its ok to export encyrption now. Why? Because the hell with a thousand pentium computers, they probably have quantum super computers hidden deep in Area 51 by now.:)
But think about it. What does going out of your way as a consumer to buy 128-bit encryption do? NSA and other snooping agencies in the world have a problem. Soo many communications going on, every teenager has a cell phone now adays yakin about who knows what. But if you go out of your way to encrypt your conversation, then in my opinion you FLAG yourself as worthy of some super-brute force snooping action.
Now if EVERYONE had the simple luxury of one push of a button crypto, then awesome. You'd be hiding out in the open again. But I bet they pay particular interest to the first bunch to run up and grab these phones.
Ohh Yes, can I buy a bullseye for my head too!
Just remember, the government likes to have about a decade or two of advance technology above and beyond what the consumers have access to. They like that buffer zone of protection, so if they are ok with encryption now.. be afraid, be VERY afraid of the new toys they probably just developed.
There was a time the whole world didn't even have billions of dollars, now we have a country that commands trillions and only recently decided they have SOO MUCH, that they are now actually willing to give 1.35 trillion BACK to people, Woah.. they must REALLY be hiding something.
Any middle-income person looking at millions
of dollars from the outside can easily make
the statement that they wouldn't blow the money.
But lets see whats going on here..
Toni Braxton, Ms. Nobody one day.. Ms. Big Thing next day. She gets sold on the expensive "lifestyle", shes told she's making the record company well over a hundred million dollars.. so naturally you think, you're WELL into the realm of a true millionaire, so whats the big deal about blowing a few million living your SuperStar Lifestyle? Problem is if you don't keep the math in your head (which is hard to do for most artists in calculating millions going this way and that way for different reasons).. you forget that all you earned out of all that was a few million total.:(
There are a myrid of different jobs on this earth that seems glamerous or EASY, and earns you millions of dollars. But it comes all down to substance. Toni Braxton got a good deal if she was simply Made a star by the Record Industry and they had their own writers write songs for her. But if she truly wrote her own songs, and hence, is truly an artst.. then most of that money should have went to her.
Pay for Creativity, Innovativness, Ingenunity, true product or service. Pay the Middle man too for refering you or distrubuting Concepts to you, but let him make the $3mil out of the $180mil, middle men are plentiful and the only difference between one record company and another.. is artists picked one verses the other as to who they'd sell their souls too. All the record companies own souls in the end and steal the fruits of another's labor.
The internet only RECENTLY came into public concept in a big way. Before the Internet, there was only shelf space, radio, TV, and all the other gates into Stardom, controlled solely by the record industry and "Talent scouts" they set up thru RIAA or MPAA.
Going for another homerun in the./ scoring system.:P
I didn't forget about the Kernel either.
But lets face it. The things that matter most in the differences between the linux distros also take up very little space. Today, its common that a linux install has a handful of kernels to choose from. Whats wrong with releasing a distro that has a kernel that functions from each distro, plus a unified kernel that is slowly evolving in the background? A Linux Distro can be designed to allow to easily switch in and out of different flavors, and to have symbolic links in enough places so that very little switching would have to be done in the end anyway. But enable the endusers to take the easy of decision making into their own hands, and same as developers. Stop leaving it in the ends of the Distros cause they aren't gonna unfragment on their own anytime soon.
We have Gigabyte hard drives today. All thats needed is a packaging system that is aware of the structure of each main distro and their differences. And for it to tell the difference between a base priority package, and all the same 3rd party crap that comes with EVERY DISTRO. Its not hard, its not rocket science. STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND JUST DO IT.
Hell, I'll help.. and I'll put money on it. Anyone think they can pull off what I'm talking about? Contact me and I'll get the project funded, seriously.
I've had these ideas for awhile now, and I'm sick of watching all this fragmentation happening in the market... so I give this one away for free, right here.. right now. Take notes. Contact me for further and more elebrate details.
Making a generic distro is EASY.
Why?
Because they are all based on UNIX and we have symbolic links.
Make a script file that goes thru every directory and file, taking note of them and their location.
Do that to every distro. You will then have a listing of all the files and their location within every distro. Do that for Standard, Advanced, and certain custom installations.
Do a simple "diff" with a script on those textfiles lists to filter out all the files that do have standard locations.
Have the script file account for the difference between a link and an actual file.
Fill in the gaps of difference between all distros using symbolic links. Ensuring that no matter which distro an application or.RPM or.DEB or.TGZ may be for... it will always find the files and library files and paths, etc it needs to find.
The biggest mess will be/etc. But in reality, there isn't a whole heck of alot to do there, and its directory is small. You could actually have many different/etc's if you wanted to... linking in the different directory strucutres for the rc.d scripts and switching distro-personalities on the fly with a simple setup.
Then all the slow and bloated and confused LSB has to do is just come to certain terms on what to do within the/etc to make things standard, or at least compatible with each other.
What LSB and othe organziations fail to realize is that the longer distros are fragmented, the more so they will become fragmented. A work around solution like symbolic links (which is already done anyway on all distros, just not to the extreme logical conclusion they need to be done at)... is the best thing to do TODAY.
At that point, we can then take our time to figure out where the actual PHYSICAL files should be kept and the paths that should be considered STANDARD within the see of solid and symbolic links within our UNIX system.
A map of this Standards base can then be created and files and links and then be replaced and moved on the fly with a simple script.
This map can eventually be used by 3rd party developers so that while the Distro makers squabble over who's right and wrong about how things can be done... The developers in the meantime have something they can savely work with and be sure that it'll work on Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, Corel, TurboLinux, Slackware, etc.
My plans go much deeper. I have detailed a way to create a standards base for ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS with such extreme logic, that I doubt few people would complain with the new way Operating systems and their folders and how applications and data and user data and configuration files, etc can and SHOULD be stored in relation to the root directory of ANY operating system.
I totally agree. All this money is QUITE depressing. Its no coincidence that Americans are so sucidial and murderous and have little regard for life or the finer things about it that we have all missed in our blinding desire for that American Dream.
...and its entirely something else when its not a "someone" but a paper-based entity known as a Corporation that exists for the purpose of making money and taking advantage of situations and capitalizing on them. Taking advantage is the nature of business. If we both trade two items or one item for cash value... We both like to think we are getting the better end of the deal... Perhaps alot of times we are even afraid to tell someone the real reason WHY you would be willing to engage in the deal for free that you change the buyer or seller's mind as to why you yourself are either parting with or buying something.
Whats at question here is if Microsoft has taken advantage in a NAUGHTY, ILLEGAL WAY. Sadly what is often considered Naughty is not always considered illegal (Not that I'm complaining about porno or anything ). And when the nature of law prevents justice from being served in a timly matter... its time to change that law. Especially if by the time justice gets there, it doesn't even matter anymore because they were ruling on a case about Operating Systems by the time we have all moved to Web Applications and the whole landscape changed... And once again, Microsoft would have reinvented themselves like they are doing now with microsoft.net. Hopefully not TOO SOON.:(
Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful that this system does have its good points, being the BASE concepts that went into the constitution with enough purity such that it would itself defend people against future politicians and megacorps. Its the Amendments I haven't been to fond of. Especially since not every one of them was legally passed based on the rules of the constitution in the first place.:)
I agree with you though, the Bill of Rights protects people from an over zealous 'justice' system. But one thing this system seems to not care about is GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. Its one thing to assume something or to let your personal opinion or the personal opinion of a mass mob (like that fact didn't come into play with OJ's case after what recently happened with King and the LA mob crisis) come into concern in regards to Justice or Doing the Right thing. Our jury selection system is setup among the same principals. Picking 12 people who are suppose to represent your peers in society, your equals, and to have them judge you fairly. The fairness comes into play when both sides get to pick jury members based on such things as color, or background or other personal issues that might taint ot solidify one jury member over another.
So then I ask... if Microsoft was to be judged
by a jury of their Peers. Who would it be? Fellow interest groups? Competitors? Their Customers? Non-profit technology based organizations? A mixture of them all?
Surely Microsoft should not be judged by people who don't even understand that the essence of time in the world of technology is too precious to waste on such an important issue.
And as far as witch hunts go... It is one thing
to have an individuals life judged upon when they have effected or influenced the lives of so many others. Its another thing to judge someone who was practicing their mystic arts in the corner and assumed privacy of their own home. And its entirely something else when you are judging someone who has manytimes over capitalized off their customer's ignorance and then using that ignorance as defence in their own trial.
Are you implying that Microsoft is innocent? Or that even a obviously guilty party has the right to manipulate the system all they want?
You have to have money in order to go thru a legal case of this size. How many court cases thru history have put most companies out of business simply due to all the legal fees? If you believe strongly that OJ Simson did it, and even if today he was actually to admit it and even produce a video tape of him committing the crime... How fair do you think it is that the guilty can no longer be punished due to the way the laws are written in the US?
And since when has the consumers liking and disliking having anything to do with anything? I don't know about you but I hate MS Windows, and this is after realizing all the little things in it that does make it quite a user friendly OS... until the registry starts to get a bit swisscheesed the moment you install your first application. I have yet to see any Most-Requested Consumer feature go into MS Windows yet. How many people realize that programming today allows us to move to a completely seperate platform with our code if we wanted to thanks to emulation transport layers and other form of translation glue between hardware and software? Win32 APIs, etc could be more standardize to allow consumers more applications written for cross-platform compatiblity allowing customers TRUE CHOICE without being locked into the market.
Microsoft is a Monopoly because they are LOCKING the market with their software. Its plain and simple. The fact that it TAKES SO DAMN LONG to even find them guilty in a court of law just shows that the tech industry was not thought of when due process was made into the overly bloated system it is today. And as long as this country is routed in Capitalism and every level in our government and corporations has some manager or government offical practicing what they do best on their job... Job Security. When's the last time you had to write a description about your job and you bullshitted so much in fear that they might find out they really didn't need you and could instantly be replaced or your position faded out entirely?
When you say "Good for Microsoft", your also saying 'Good for this system of things'. Course, thats just my opinion.
How long we gonna let this crap continue as
a society?
The Judge in the DeCSS vs. MPAA case use to work for the MPAA. Microsoft is DEFINITELY one of those special interest groups some lower-noticed politicians always talk about. And When are people going to realize that Newspapers, Radio, TV, Internet... It shapes us as a culture. Why do you think AOL and TimeWarner wanna get together so badly? Why do you think Microsoft invested so much in WebTV, satilites, NBC, doubleclick, etc. They know what the game is.
We derive part of our list of likes and dislikes, whats cool or corney, our fads, whats considered in or out from the media and all forms of marketing ideas and opinions, thru simple word of mouth or even from sites such as/., our Brain Junk food... Our perfect Time Filler viewport to the rest of the world. Well, not everything is junkfood... I personal like to think my daily dose of/. is quite a good health food choice.:)
But seriously. Money is the root of all evil. Its only recently everything started coming out. Hell, in the 1950's, we use to think smoking cigarettes actually had HEALTH BENEFITS. I wonder why we thought something like that. Surely it had nothing to do with the TV commericals from the Tabacoo Industry saying so, could it?
Now we NERDS and GEEKS, we know plenty about the moves Microsoft has done ever since their original lie to IBM about having developed an Operating System for the PC all by them little'o selves. Awww.. Aren't they so talent. Sure, or so it seemed after Gates realized it's easy to talk programmers out of their own ideas and creation back in the day, especially when you have $50k to throw at them.
Course. Now that we see what the computer landscape has become, it costs sometimes a cool $5k just to buy a good domain name. How many
people wish they knew that back in the days of IRC and Gopher... Back when having a.com was considered a disgusting thing on the net... Try to sit in a IRC channel back then with "aol.com" attached to your nickname.
I just think we all need to wake up. Or if we're awake, get the hell outta bed already and start the dawn of a new day. It use to be you had to be connected, rich, or powerful to communicate with the masses. This forumla was true until the Internet. Now it is reversed. Thanks to Paid to Surf Advertising being thrown left and right in our Cyberspace and the advent of $28/month computers and laptop leasing with free one year internet service... the Internet more then pays for itself, just simply by running a few ad banners on your computer.
The truth is, your personal information is GOLD on the net. They are willing to pay you just to learn a little bit more about you. Mailing lists have been bought and sold so much, how commonly we recieve more then one thing from one company who just happened to have purchased every misspelling of our name and every forwarding address we ever had. I made the mistake when I was around 12yrs old circling the entire block of numbers on one of those reader service cards just because I realized the magazine didn't show what each number would get me in the mail, so I figured I'd find out. Ugh... Lets just say I almost changed my name.:)
One day though, it will be very appearent that you will be able to sell your information to the highest bidder, especially if you fall into certain consumer catagories because you have so much money to spend here or there and what your interests are and what your most likely going to spend your money on verses what is a complete waste of time to advertise to you about. One day, target marketing will be so accurate, it will be scarey. And then we will realize, we have no more secrets to sell about ourselves for we have given it all away for mere pennies compared to what the true value of our privacy is.
Oh ya, and whats this have to do with the US Supreme Court rejecting MS Case? Dare I even suggest a theory? It could just be no one wants to touch this MS Case which is a major hot potato issue. Especially not during election.:)
Each president demands their ass is kissed just right, just a certain way. Everyone is waiting to see who's ass they gotta kiss.:)
Actualy, what I ment was that it had a SERIAL connection PLUS the CF Slot. The Visor only has a Serial slot, no?
Therefore, the TRGpro allows two devices at once.. for example, the IBM 1GB MicroDrive, plus a wireless modem or the keyboard.
The Visor though you say allows modeming and keyboard usage. So your telling me it has two connectors? I didn't see this when I went to the website.:(
But ya, I'm also excited about the TRGpro speaker. They say you can play.WAV files (Does that mean MP3's too???, is there even a MP3 Player for the Palm?)... and they mention that its good enough to use up to a phone to dial phone numbers which is a BIG PLUS.
I'm hoping I can pick your brain about your TRGpro , because I'm leaning to buy one of them over all the rest so far.
I'm in the market for a Palm and I'm SERIOUSLY
considering a TRGpro based on the fact that
it seems to be the ONLY PALM (Would love to be corrected on this if I'm wrong) that can have
more then one addon device or card attached to it at the same time. All others, appearently even the Visor, only has the ability to add ONE device.. and I'm not thrilled about swappin devices in and out more then I have to.
I called TRGpro and asked them about getting a wireless modem.. They were reluctant to tell me based on this not OFFICALLY being supported, but they say the Palm III Minstrel modem at http://www.novatelwireless.com/ will attach to the TRGpro but they don't offically recommend it because it doesn't snap on all the way, forcing you to hold it on with a rubberband or something.
I NEED to have Wireless for the work I do. I wanted to also have COLOR because I really like the idea of color... So I looked at the Palm IIIc, but they don't have a wireless modem yet (sigh) and honestly... I like the idea of being able to have a 1GB card in my TRGpro more then simply having color so I think I'm going with that.:)
How easy does the PalmOS handle another storage area though? How do I select whether I want to store something in the 8megs of ram, the 2megs of flash, or the 1GB of space? And can I use that space for anything? Like running Palm Apps right from that space?
When you went thru your selection process, which PDAs did you have it narrowed down to? Which were the features that made you hesitate on which one to buy?
Also, any ideas on where TRGpro is going from here? The Tech guy I talked to didn't have much to say. I'm very interested on the direction of this company though... if they play it right, they could rise up out of all this PDA mess as the MOST SENSIBLE PDA to get in my opinion. I'd like to see them have built in Bluetooth and go color honestly. If they could have the CF Slot, 8megs of ram, serial addon slot, Color, and Bluetooth... WOAH... There would be NO COMPETITION.:)
And just so you can't say I wasn't informative in this post....
http://www.pacificneotek.com/omnisw.htm
OmniRemote, lets you turn your Palm into a SUPER Universal Remote. God I can't wait for that.. And theres another project on the web that will let you have a IR Remote for your WinAMP, displaying song titles in your Palm and everything. Oh boy oh boy!!:)
Thanks!
-Matthew Cortes
Chief Technology Officer
Landway Securities, Inc.
Am I the ONLY person that has every thought
of this before?
Why not use Kinetic energy off the tires?
There's 4 TIRES on a damn car. Can't the
turning of them be in it of itself the
generator-recharger for the batter? Like
a handcranked-electricity recharge that
cracks REALLY fast...
I would think you'd never have to worry about
pluggin in again if you had something like
this.. heck.. The alternator works on the
same concept, doesn't it?
Anyone explain to me why this isn't just so common sensilly LOGICAL?
Couldn't a kernel be designed to split the
processes of server and client software between
2 or more processors? For example, one processor
handles all the server requests and another
processor handles all the client requests within
the same system?
If we are SO Client/Server oriented, then is it
not worth having a system designed to where it
embraces that design philosophy down to the
hardware level?
This is already done as far as having seperate computers act as servers to seperate computers acting as clients. But now that alot of software on a SINGLE computer interacts in a Client/Server way on a single CPU... perhaps its time to have
more then a single CPU and or data bus lines?
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This is more of a plea for help then anything, but I do have an intelligent point in the end about the whole thing and me very definitely wanting to go to something more standardized and NEVER use another frivkh,fgjd,h ...
.wab file of 180k in size, and the only
.WAB file? Surely a frkin multi-billion dollar company can make a decent save and secure contact program that one can rely on for ones data.. no?? Appearently NO.
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Outlook Express and Outlook seem to have different addressbook formats. I believe I started my address book in outlook 2000, but its possible an update of express crept on and defaulted itself or something or other, who knows.. for some reason I can't seem to open up my contacts of info that I have assembled during the last year.
I can't tell you how disstressing that is.
Its a
thing I can come up with is that it might be
corrupted.. I even searched MS's knowledgebase
about the issue to discover that they basicly
point you to a 3rd party in order to deal with
.WAB files and suggested instead about exporting
to comma delimited files, which honestly I should have known better to do.. but I figured whats wrong with the
Eh. Anyway. So for anyone who hasn't figured it out yet, I would REALLY love to be able to open that file, and would shower anyone with praises for the answer. This is like the first time in a long time I'm dealing with potentially damaging data loss.
But it raises an interesting point for discussion about all this crap happening in the first place too I think.
Sincerely,
-Matthew
ie. Chain of Command.
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I LOVE RTS games. I've played them since ModemWars on the Commodore 64.
I crave for better strategy. I can't tell you how many times I've been tempted to just knock on a developers virtual door and say YO!! WAKE TF UP! Can't you see how annoying this one feature is? Can't you see how cool this unit COULD be.. etc etc. I find the more we embrace the reality of a situation and the less we THINK we trumped it in our own naive thinking, the more we realize we kill ALOT of birds with ALOT of stones, in the simple fact that we have a decent physics engine so that we CAN do that if we really want to.
Guess which feature I loved most in games like Deus Ex? The ability to hoslter my weapon, close the door.. get into the action, FEEL the character, you, whoever it is YOUR trying to be at that moment. It should just FEEL good. I get SOO upset when a game even attempts to have a sword in it, and yet doesn't even bother to have some form of sword play or an art form to it. I apperciate hack and slash and gameplay fun considerations, but DAMN.. Some people LOVE a game that is simple and complex at the same time.
I hope ALOT of people learned from the beautiful games like Black and White, Total Annihalation, and its Kingdoms which I ALMOST loved.. There is a grace about them, and the engines and the physics we define within them are getting better and simpilier year after year... All I can ask is Developers not be so quick to delcare something as fun when it needs to be totally revamped. Maybe creating something so completely fun, requires a breed soo completely willing to expend the effort it takes to encapture what we can think of within a few moments of bullshiting in a messageboard?
Eh. My wish List? Chain of Command. Simplifies things when you model the level of thinking of man today, at its best or worst.. hrm?
Intelligent Underlings, or at least AI that has been whipped into shape/learned by having had been a veteran of past battles with you. Fine, be a total newbie and idiot first battle out. But code in from the units to the commmanders and leaders and planetary systems star-ship based overlords a since of evolution if you have any hope of grasping what it means to have a completely replaying game in terms of fun, uniqueness, and a "Oh, this is something new" feeling every time around.
But thats just for starters.
-Matthew
Ah cool, thanks for the link. I hadn't seen the Samsung I300 yet til now. It looks sweet, but only 5hrs of talk time, and I'm guessing thats
not counting playing super-snake in color while chatting thru the headset.
You are right about the Mono screens. I tend to like color especially if I want to use my Palm as a universal remote for all my devices at home (do a search on google for universal remote software, they are quite slick). But I'd rather have 10hrs use / 2 week standby. Ugh.. I'm so conflicted. Don't we have better battaries yet?
I have thought about a PocketPC.. But it appears the Palm's interface is much more thought out.
The Palm IIIc came out (I didn't hear if the wireless modem for it came out yet finally or not), handspring has color now too.. So what the heck? Why are we still milking the mono LCD market for them? I'm anxious to upgrade my PDA and I wouldn't mind wireless/color/8megs+ of ram as a base feature. Oh ya, and TRGpro has better sound support so you can use it as an autodialer. Palm's sound still sucks. I think they are waiting for Sony to be the one that opens up the wonderful world of MP3s/Video on the Palm. But still, I can't help feel like this is all BULLSHIT. Get on with the flagship model already, people got feature lust damn it!
-Matthew
I agree with you about the bandwidth. In the end the data is saved on the hard drive, so its only a matter of time til you get it. But because everything has been speeding up in our lives, we grow less and less patient to get what we want, hence the "bandwidth problem" when only a few years back, it was a joy to watch data DRAW on a 300 baud modem. :)
:)
But again. The only reason we don't have enough bandwidth is because all that dark-fiber is just laying there BECAUSE.. of Money.
-Matthew
Ya, I read your article. Its "interesting". I think the Texas "Myth" was actually quite a real statistic in its time, you forget we didn't always have 6+ billion people on earth. But so what, lets revise my point.. As you say, we need 10 Texases. Big deal. Look at the size of the earth. Give or take, we have PLENTY OF LAND. And with greenhouse-skyscrappers... forget about it.
What your paper doesn't factor in on all this is the Greed Factor.. Thats why we have an obessity problem in the US, and we have world-hungry the further away you go from the US. Man appears to have no clue about fair dispisral of what we have so much of.
-Matthew
Its english-hounds like you who give intelligence a bad name. Do you comment on my point? no. You comment on my spelling/grammar. How childish and unimaginative of you. Its entirely possible I'm an imperfect human who doesn't see the need to pretend to be perfect thru the effort of spell checking unless I'm either asking for money or communicating with a client in a professional manner. But naturally you people never think of that.
Meaty worthwild criticism is always welcome however.
-Matthew
First the internet was a university research tool.
Then it went to public access.. followed by commericialzation of the latest saliva-inducing gold-mine that is the web. The Free Spirit is being drowned out by the desire to make money, which is nothing more then just a mirror image of the people who make up the real world, hopping onto the net and trying to do what they do in the real world... make money, get laid.
So whats happening on the internet is we see more junk, we see consolidation, we see great free-content sites like Mathworld fall pray to IP.
What are we to do?
The answer lies in figuring out the formula to reverse trickle down economics. Fight the system rather then continue to take it up the ass. Otherwise soon there will be NO PLACE to escape the real world, for it would have simply engulfed our latest and greastest escape.
I view the Internet as the Final Front for We the People. If we loose the battle here, we'll forever be under the grip of evil greedy men who know no other way. I think the basic ideals in the Internet more then hint that there is another way.
Heck, I have a friend who actually bought his girlfriend a present for her birthday IN EVERQUEST (it cost ALOT of platnium too)! You know what that tells me? We have a generation that finds value in the virtual world, and the virtual world is limitless, so shouldn't we be?
Another example.. Programmers are more likely to help people for free then Lawyers are. Yet both professions involve coded langauge. Lawyers have woven into the spirit of making money, whereas Programmers have woven into the spirit of the Internet. I can't thank the Internet enough for Linux. Wow.
It always amazed me that we had so many battles in europe over land. Not enough room for us. Then we discover America. And we still fought. Don't we have enough land??
There was once a study done that showed every person in the world (this study was done between 1900-idon'tknow) could have a full acre in Texas.
Believe me, the Earth has plenty of land. And we definitely have plenty of hard drive space. Man keeps fighting because it has yet to figure out another value system. How long are we to be animals under the guise of survival of the fittest? When are we going to actually stand upright and look up the word "Humane" in the nearest dictionary?
Sincerely,
-Matthew
Technetos, Inc.
I just got done reading quite a bit of the comments here. Most comments delt with how to approach our elders, in the fact that they are NOT stupid, they are quite intelligent, and if you feed them the information in the right way, they will learn rather then continue to live in fear of the technology.
..Yet how quickly those same posters who apply such wisdom to the elderly, will quickly call today's middleaged or young ones stupid for failing to grasp a principal we might know.
...yet we were all newbies once, no?
I see countless posters, especially in recent articles, mentioning how they wish they learned programming way back when they were younger or how if only this or only that. Granted, learning how to use the mouse is a far cry from learning how to "manipulate the data" in memory thru arcane syntax. Then there's branching logic and multi-threading and me oh my.. But its only a matter of seeing all that arcane knowledge in the right light, is it not? How much better the open source community would do if they nurtured wannabe programmers rather then condem them back to the side-lines to continue dreaming.
There are those self motivated enough to pick up a damn book and read and read and read, and learn, and implement and become self-made programmers. There are others who were fortunate enough to afford college and have the knowledge feed to them until they got it or dropped out.
But what about those who only needed the proper guidance? The proper hand holding? Or perhaps just a lift over one particular mental-wall that prevented them from seeing the whole overall picture?
The entry-bar for programming has lowered greatly thanks to Java, Python and OO concepts in general. Some feel there will be a day where the entry-bar is lowered enough to where you can tell a computer what to do in detail purely thru english.. I feel all that is present today, no matter how arcane/complicated it is to learn how to program today.. all you need is a good teacher and/or a good written lesson plan, no?
So let me pose the following questions...
1. How many power users today who have a good grasp on utilizing their computers wish they were programmers and would probably give it a best effort try if they thought the path they were taking would lead to enlightenment on being that programmer?
2. Joe PowerUser, who knows enough to build his own clonePC and work with Linux and WindowsOfTheYear and he wants to learn to program in C (which I consider the mother of all languages worth learning today).. How would he go about it? What if he barely knew algebra? What if his common sense logic was a bit off?
What would he have to read (HOWTO URLs would be helpful rather then just books, but books work well to I hear) before he can even read the "Learn C in 21 days" stuff?
I'm talking about gaining some good foundation logic, not just "enough to get by". The better the foundation, the more fluid the housework.
-Mathematics and You 101?
-Pure and Simple Logic HOWTO?
-Structure and Design principals with pseudocode examples?
This may all be offtopic, and I may not have even structured this comment well enough.. but I can either try to please those that would nitpick, or I can appeal to those with a sense of reason beyond my own and would simply grant rather then talk about how I've been denied. I do hope I caused nothing more then a flood of replies of some pointers on where to go for those who wish to learn more then how to push their mouse.
-Matthew
Its an ancient manipulation trick. Make people believe in something before that something even exists, and eventually the common people will unknowingly make it exist.
And so it becomes a self fullfilling prophecy.
Thats why independant parties never win in the US. The media hammers into the minds of the people that there are only logically two choices, A or B. There is no C, and even if there was, you'd be a fool to pick it because you would have wasted your vote. The few strong minded people that exist would try to make a showing, but are proven wrong my the masses of weakminded "individuals" that listened to the "advice".
So the question is.. How do we make the weak minded strong minded?
Maybe if people stopped putting other people down and hindering them as they try to climb up, and instead gave them a helping hand.. we'd have one hell of a strong poor-middle class society FINALLY kickin the ruling society in the ass. That'd be cool.
-Matthew
Actually, to further add to your disbeliefing willies.. Do a google search on "Bill Gates 666".
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Fact is, and you can do this on your own, if you add up the numerical value of Bill Gates name in ASCII values, it adds up to 663 + III (Bill Gates the 3rd), and that equals 666.
People are quick to cry Numerology BS, but the way it works is that you are determining the number of the man's name by the language he subscribes to. Many figure heads in history that have controlled the world in a massive way have their names add up to 666, but its by their own native language (Bill Gate's occuptional/native language is ASCII), not all by straight english of 1 to 26.
Believe in God or not, but fact is fact.
-Matthew
What bothers me most is that one day the US just decides its ok to export encyrption now. Why? Because the hell with a thousand pentium computers, they probably have quantum super computers hidden deep in Area 51 by now. :)
But think about it. What does going out of your way as a consumer to buy 128-bit encryption do? NSA and other snooping agencies in the world have a problem. Soo many communications going on, every teenager has a cell phone now adays yakin about who knows what. But if you go out of your way to encrypt your conversation, then in my opinion you FLAG yourself as worthy of some super-brute force snooping action.
Now if EVERYONE had the simple luxury of one push of a button crypto, then awesome. You'd be hiding out in the open again. But I bet they pay particular interest to the first bunch to run up and grab these phones.
Ohh Yes, can I buy a bullseye for my head too!
Just remember, the government likes to have about a decade or two of advance technology above and beyond what the consumers have access to. They like that buffer zone of protection, so if they are ok with encryption now.. be afraid, be VERY afraid of the new toys they probably just developed.
There was a time the whole world didn't even have billions of dollars, now we have a country that commands trillions and only recently decided they have SOO MUCH, that they are now actually willing to give 1.35 trillion BACK to people, Woah.. they must REALLY be hiding something.
-Matthew
Any middle-income person looking at millions
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of dollars from the outside can easily make
the statement that they wouldn't blow the money.
But lets see whats going on here..
Toni Braxton, Ms. Nobody one day.. Ms. Big Thing next day. She gets sold on the expensive "lifestyle", shes told she's making the record company well over a hundred million dollars.. so naturally you think, you're WELL into the realm of a true millionaire, so whats the big deal about blowing a few million living your SuperStar Lifestyle? Problem is if you don't keep the math in your head (which is hard to do for most artists in calculating millions going this way and that way for different reasons).. you forget that all you earned out of all that was a few million total.
There are a myrid of different jobs on this earth that seems glamerous or EASY, and earns you millions of dollars. But it comes all down to substance. Toni Braxton got a good deal if she was simply Made a star by the Record Industry and they had their own writers write songs for her. But if she truly wrote her own songs, and hence, is truly an artst.. then most of that money should have went to her.
Pay for Creativity, Innovativness, Ingenunity, true product or service. Pay the Middle man too for refering you or distrubuting Concepts to you, but let him make the $3mil out of the $180mil, middle men are plentiful and the only difference between one record company and another.. is artists picked one verses the other as to who they'd sell their souls too. All the record companies own souls in the end and steal the fruits of another's labor.
The internet only RECENTLY came into public concept in a big way. Before the Internet, there was only shelf space, radio, TV, and all the other gates into Stardom, controlled solely by the record industry and "Talent scouts" they set up thru RIAA or MPAA.
SIncerely,
-Matthew
Why would that be a problem?
There is no drive lettering in UNIX... links
can transend multiple partitions once they
are mounted. no?
-Matthew
Technetos, Inc.
Going for another homerun in the ./ scoring system. :P
I didn't forget about the Kernel either.
But lets face it. The things that matter most in the differences between the linux distros also take up very little space. Today, its common that a linux install has a handful of kernels to choose from. Whats wrong with releasing a distro that has a kernel that functions from each distro, plus a unified kernel that is slowly evolving in the background? A Linux Distro can be designed to allow to easily switch in and out of different flavors, and to have symbolic links in enough places so that very little switching would have to be done in the end anyway. But enable the endusers to take the easy of decision making into their own hands, and same as developers. Stop leaving it in the ends of the Distros cause they aren't gonna unfragment on their own anytime soon.
We have Gigabyte hard drives today. All thats needed is a packaging system that is aware of the structure of each main distro and their differences. And for it to tell the difference between a base priority package, and all the same 3rd party crap that comes with EVERY DISTRO. Its not hard, its not rocket science. STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND JUST DO IT.
Hell, I'll help.. and I'll put money on it. Anyone think they can pull off what I'm talking about? Contact me and I'll get the project funded, seriously.
Sincerely,
-Matthew
Technetos, Inc.
I've had these ideas for awhile now, and I'm sick of watching all this fragmentation happening in the market... so I give this one away for free, right here.. right now. Take notes. Contact me for further and more elebrate details.
.RPM or .DEB or .TGZ may be for... it will always find the files and library files and paths, etc it needs to find.
/etc. But in reality, there isn't a whole heck of alot to do there, and its directory is small. You could actually have many different /etc's if you wanted to... linking in the different directory strucutres for the rc.d scripts and switching distro-personalities on the fly with a simple setup.
/etc to make things standard, or at least compatible with each other.
Making a generic distro is EASY.
Why?
Because they are all based on UNIX and we have symbolic links.
Make a script file that goes thru every directory and file, taking note of them and their location.
Do that to every distro. You will then have a listing of all the files and their location within every distro. Do that for Standard, Advanced, and certain custom installations.
Do a simple "diff" with a script on those textfiles lists to filter out all the files that do have standard locations.
Have the script file account for the difference between a link and an actual file.
Fill in the gaps of difference between all distros using symbolic links. Ensuring that no matter which distro an application or
The biggest mess will be
Then all the slow and bloated and confused LSB has to do is just come to certain terms on what to do within the
What LSB and othe organziations fail to realize is that the longer distros are fragmented, the more so they will become fragmented. A work around solution like symbolic links (which is already done anyway on all distros, just not to the extreme logical conclusion they need to be done at)... is the best thing to do TODAY.
At that point, we can then take our time to figure out where the actual PHYSICAL files should be kept and the paths that should be considered STANDARD within the see of solid and symbolic links within our UNIX system.
A map of this Standards base can then be created and files and links and then be replaced and moved on the fly with a simple script.
This map can eventually be used by 3rd party developers so that while the Distro makers squabble over who's right and wrong about how things can be done... The developers in the meantime have something they can savely work with and be sure that it'll work on Redhat, Mandrake, Debian, Corel, TurboLinux, Slackware, etc.
My plans go much deeper. I have detailed a way to create a standards base for ALL OPERATING SYSTEMS with such extreme logic, that I doubt few people would complain with the new way Operating systems and their folders and how applications and data and user data and configuration files, etc can and SHOULD be stored in relation to the root directory of ANY operating system.
I definitely invite discussion to say the least.
-Matthew
Technetos, Inc.
WELL SAID!
I totally agree. All this money is QUITE depressing. Its no coincidence that Americans are so sucidial and murderous and have little regard for life or the finer things about it that we have all missed in our blinding desire for that American Dream.
-Matthew
...and its entirely something else when its not a "someone" but a paper-based entity known as a Corporation that exists for the purpose of making money and taking advantage of situations and capitalizing on them. Taking advantage is the nature of business. If we both trade two items or one item for cash value... We both like to think we are getting the better end of the deal... Perhaps alot of times we are even afraid to tell someone the real reason WHY you would be willing to engage in the deal for free that you change the buyer or seller's mind as to why you yourself are either parting with or buying something.
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Whats at question here is if Microsoft has taken advantage in a NAUGHTY, ILLEGAL WAY. Sadly what is often considered Naughty is not always considered illegal (Not that I'm complaining about porno or anything ). And when the nature of law prevents justice from being served in a timly matter... its time to change that law. Especially if by the time justice gets there, it doesn't even matter anymore because they were ruling on a case about Operating Systems by the time we have all moved to Web Applications and the whole landscape changed... And once again, Microsoft would have reinvented themselves like they are doing now with microsoft.net. Hopefully not TOO SOON.
-Matthew (Why can't I reply to myself?)
Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful that this system does have its good points, being the BASE concepts that went into the constitution with enough purity such that it would itself defend people against future politicians and megacorps. Its the Amendments I haven't been to fond of. Especially since not every one of them was legally passed based on the rules of the constitution in the first place. :)
I agree with you though, the Bill of Rights protects people from an over zealous 'justice' system. But one thing this system seems to not care about is GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. Its one thing to assume something or to let your personal opinion or the personal opinion of a mass mob (like that fact didn't come into play with OJ's case after what recently happened with King and the LA mob crisis) come into concern in regards to Justice or Doing the Right thing. Our jury selection system is setup among the same principals. Picking 12 people who are suppose to represent your peers in society, your equals, and to have them judge you fairly. The fairness comes into play when both sides get to pick jury members based on such things as color, or background or other personal issues that might taint ot solidify one jury member over another.
So then I ask... if Microsoft was to be judged
by a jury of their Peers. Who would it be? Fellow interest groups? Competitors? Their Customers? Non-profit technology based organizations? A mixture of them all?
Surely Microsoft should not be judged by people who don't even understand that the essence of time in the world of technology is too precious to waste on such an important issue.
And as far as witch hunts go... It is one thing
to have an individuals life judged upon when they have effected or influenced the lives of so many others. Its another thing to judge someone who was practicing their mystic arts in the corner and assumed privacy of their own home. And its entirely something else when you are judging someone who has manytimes over capitalized off their customer's ignorance and then using that ignorance as defence in their own trial.
-Matthew
Are you implying that Microsoft is innocent? Or that even a obviously guilty party has the right to manipulate the system all they want?
You have to have money in order to go thru a legal case of this size. How many court cases thru history have put most companies out of business simply due to all the legal fees? If you believe strongly that OJ Simson did it, and even if today he was actually to admit it and even produce a video tape of him committing the crime... How fair do you think it is that the guilty can no longer be punished due to the way the laws are written in the US?
And since when has the consumers liking and disliking having anything to do with anything? I don't know about you but I hate MS Windows, and this is after realizing all the little things in it that does make it quite a user friendly OS... until the registry starts to get a bit swisscheesed the moment you install your first application. I have yet to see any Most-Requested Consumer feature go into MS Windows yet. How many people realize that programming today allows us to move to a completely seperate platform with our code if we wanted to thanks to emulation transport layers and other form of translation glue between hardware and software? Win32 APIs, etc could be more standardize to allow consumers more applications written for cross-platform compatiblity allowing customers TRUE CHOICE without being locked into the market.
Microsoft is a Monopoly because they are LOCKING the market with their software. Its plain and simple. The fact that it TAKES SO DAMN LONG to even find them guilty in a court of law just shows that the tech industry was not thought of when due process was made into the overly bloated system it is today. And as long as this country is routed in Capitalism and every level in our government and corporations has some manager or government offical practicing what they do best on their job... Job Security. When's the last time you had to write a description about your job and you bullshitted so much in fear that they might find out they really didn't need you and could instantly be replaced or your position faded out entirely?
When you say "Good for Microsoft", your also saying 'Good for this system of things'. Course, thats just my opinion.
Sincerely,
-Matthew
How long we gonna let this crap continue as
/., our Brain Junk food... Our perfect Time Filler viewport to the rest of the world. Well, not everything is junkfood... I personal like to think my daily dose of /. is quite a good health food choice. :)
.com was considered a disgusting thing on the net... Try to sit in a IRC channel back then with "aol.com" attached to your nickname.
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a society?
The Judge in the DeCSS vs. MPAA case use to work for the MPAA. Microsoft is DEFINITELY one of those special interest groups some lower-noticed politicians always talk about. And When are people going to realize that Newspapers, Radio, TV, Internet... It shapes us as a culture. Why do you think AOL and TimeWarner wanna get together so badly? Why do you think Microsoft invested so much in WebTV, satilites, NBC, doubleclick, etc. They know what the game is.
We derive part of our list of likes and dislikes, whats cool or corney, our fads, whats considered in or out from the media and all forms of marketing ideas and opinions, thru simple word of mouth or even from sites such as
But seriously. Money is the root of all evil. Its only recently everything started coming out. Hell, in the 1950's, we use to think smoking cigarettes actually had HEALTH BENEFITS. I wonder why we thought something like that. Surely it had nothing to do with the TV commericals from the Tabacoo Industry saying so, could it?
Now we NERDS and GEEKS, we know plenty about the moves Microsoft has done ever since their original lie to IBM about having developed an Operating System for the PC all by them little'o selves. Awww.. Aren't they so talent. Sure, or so it seemed after Gates realized it's easy to talk programmers out of their own ideas and creation back in the day, especially when you have $50k to throw at them.
Course. Now that we see what the computer landscape has become, it costs sometimes a cool $5k just to buy a good domain name. How many
people wish they knew that back in the days of IRC and Gopher... Back when having a
I just think we all need to wake up. Or if we're awake, get the hell outta bed already and start the dawn of a new day. It use to be you had to be connected, rich, or powerful to communicate with the masses. This forumla was true until the Internet. Now it is reversed. Thanks to Paid to Surf Advertising being thrown left and right in our Cyberspace and the advent of $28/month computers and laptop leasing with free one year internet service... the Internet more then pays for itself, just simply by running a few ad banners on your computer.
The truth is, your personal information is GOLD on the net. They are willing to pay you just to learn a little bit more about you. Mailing lists have been bought and sold so much, how commonly we recieve more then one thing from one company who just happened to have purchased every misspelling of our name and every forwarding address we ever had. I made the mistake when I was around 12yrs old circling the entire block of numbers on one of those reader service cards just because I realized the magazine didn't show what each number would get me in the mail, so I figured I'd find out. Ugh... Lets just say I almost changed my name.
One day though, it will be very appearent that you will be able to sell your information to the highest bidder, especially if you fall into certain consumer catagories because you have so much money to spend here or there and what your interests are and what your most likely going to spend your money on verses what is a complete waste of time to advertise to you about. One day, target marketing will be so accurate, it will be scarey. And then we will realize, we have no more secrets to sell about ourselves for we have given it all away for mere pennies compared to what the true value of our privacy is.
Oh ya, and whats this have to do with the US Supreme Court rejecting MS Case? Dare I even suggest a theory? It could just be no one wants to touch this MS Case which is a major hot potato issue. Especially not during election.
Each president demands their ass is kissed just right, just a certain way. Everyone is waiting to see who's ass they gotta kiss.
Sincerely,
-Matthew
Actualy, what I ment was that it had a SERIAL connection PLUS the CF Slot. The Visor only has a Serial slot, no?
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.WAV files (Does that mean MP3's too???, is there even a MP3 Player for the Palm?)... and they mention that its good enough to use up to a phone to dial phone numbers which is a BIG PLUS.
Therefore, the TRGpro allows two devices at once.. for example, the IBM 1GB MicroDrive, plus a wireless modem or the keyboard.
The Visor though you say allows modeming and keyboard usage. So your telling me it has two connectors? I didn't see this when I went to the website.
But ya, I'm also excited about the TRGpro speaker. They say you can play
-Matthew
I'm hoping I can pick your brain about your TRGpro , because I'm leaning to buy one of them over all the rest so far.
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:)
I'm in the market for a Palm and I'm SERIOUSLY
considering a TRGpro based on the fact that
it seems to be the ONLY PALM (Would love to be corrected on this if I'm wrong) that can have
more then one addon device or card attached to it at the same time. All others, appearently even the Visor, only has the ability to add ONE device.. and I'm not thrilled about swappin devices in and out more then I have to.
I called TRGpro and asked them about getting a wireless modem.. They were reluctant to tell me based on this not OFFICALLY being supported, but they say the Palm III Minstrel modem at http://www.novatelwireless.com/ will attach to the TRGpro but they don't offically recommend it because it doesn't snap on all the way, forcing you to hold it on with a rubberband or something.
I NEED to have Wireless for the work I do. I wanted to also have COLOR because I really like the idea of color... So I looked at the Palm IIIc, but they don't have a wireless modem yet (sigh) and honestly... I like the idea of being able to have a 1GB card in my TRGpro more then simply having color so I think I'm going with that.
How easy does the PalmOS handle another storage area though? How do I select whether I want to store something in the 8megs of ram, the 2megs of flash, or the 1GB of space? And can I use that space for anything? Like running Palm Apps right from that space?
When you went thru your selection process, which PDAs did you have it narrowed down to? Which were the features that made you hesitate on which one to buy?
Also, any ideas on where TRGpro is going from here? The Tech guy I talked to didn't have much to say. I'm very interested on the direction of this company though... if they play it right, they could rise up out of all this PDA mess as the MOST SENSIBLE PDA to get in my opinion. I'd like to see them have built in Bluetooth and go color honestly. If they could have the CF Slot, 8megs of ram, serial addon slot, Color, and Bluetooth... WOAH... There would be NO COMPETITION.
And just so you can't say I wasn't informative in this post....
http://www.pacificneotek.com/omnisw.htm
OmniRemote, lets you turn your Palm into a SUPER Universal Remote. God I can't wait for that.. And theres another project on the web that will let you have a IR Remote for your WinAMP, displaying song titles in your Palm and everything. Oh boy oh boy!!
Thanks!
-Matthew Cortes
Chief Technology Officer
Landway Securities, Inc.
Am I the ONLY person that has every thought
of this before?
Why not use Kinetic energy off the tires?
There's 4 TIRES on a damn car. Can't the
turning of them be in it of itself the
generator-recharger for the batter? Like
a handcranked-electricity recharge that
cracks REALLY fast...
I would think you'd never have to worry about
pluggin in again if you had something like
this.. heck.. The alternator works on the
same concept, doesn't it?
Anyone explain to me why this isn't just so common sensilly LOGICAL?
-Matthew Cortes
Landway Estates, Inc.
What about SMP processors?
Couldn't a kernel be designed to split the
processes of server and client software between
2 or more processors? For example, one processor
handles all the server requests and another
processor handles all the client requests within
the same system?
If we are SO Client/Server oriented, then is it
not worth having a system designed to where it
embraces that design philosophy down to the
hardware level?
This is already done as far as having seperate computers act as servers to seperate computers acting as clients. But now that alot of software on a SINGLE computer interacts in a Client/Server way on a single CPU... perhaps its time to have
more then a single CPU and or data bus lines?
-Matthew