In many places you can absolutely walk into a store w/o pre-order or call ahead, find a PS3 and walk out with it for retail w/o Bundle. I did that twice (once for a buddy who I knew was jonesing for a PS3.) I was hunting for Wii's (without success I might add) I don't know how many shipments Sony has made, but random Gamestops around here have been getting several a week and seem to have pretty good availability right up to Christmas. Presumably even better now.
I think the scalpers/speculators had every right to exploit the presumed limited demand and get what the market would bear, but on the other hand, they have no right whatsoever to complain if things don't work out. Plus, I have every right to mock them with my monkey pants.
I like my 7100t (stopgap till GSM Treo 650) but the bluetooth is only for headsets/car kits - no dialup networking, no sync, no BT keyboards, nothing.
The HP phone has some real issues - I returned mine, will try it again once they've incorporated the learning from this one. (No car kit support, flaky switching between networks, insane Windows wizard for joining wifi networks, etc...) Plus, have you seen it with the keyboard attached? U.G.L.Y...
80 GB has been max for far too long. When you throw 50 GB of that at your music, it fills up fast. I haven't seen anything on the speed of the drive, but generally higher-density data at same rpm should be faster throughput which is all that matters.
9.5mm means this will fit in the Powerbooks (and presumably most standard laptops as well) Sign me up for one as soon as they're available to consumers.
So, the most intruiging feature there was that the laptop/drive could appear as a USB device on the desktop. Anyone know if this is handled through hardware/bios and would be something that you'd still have with a Linux/BSD install? That could be a killer feature, and given the prevalence of the generic Mass Storage profile seems actually possible.
I've been burned on the CD/DVD docking stations, or other hardware specific goodies, far too often to just assume this will work.
This is true - PalmSource has confirmed that the 256 MB limit is for internal RAM. External sources - CF, SD, memory stick, etc. are supported at least up to current capacities (1 GB or so)
The "Chief Competitive Officer" posted to Palminfocenter on this:
RE: Limited vision
Michael Mace @ 2/10/2004 12:39:57 PM
We can go higher than 256 megs in future editions of Palm OS Cobalt. And keep in mind that you can go to gigs of storage on a memory card.
As for the naming, numbers were a problem because in the PC world a higher number means the lower number is obsolete (Windows 98 immediately replaces Windows 95). Palm OS Garnet is just fine for many users and will persist a long time, so licensees asked us to move away from numbers.
I have worked on a lot of naming over the years, and the one sure thing is that you can never please everyone. It is very hard to find names that pass trademark muster and also do not mean something inappropriate in some country. We settled on minerals because they are an ingredient in many things. That seemed appropriate for software designed as an element in many great products.
If both iChat users are using iChat AV (the software, not the iChat delivered with Jaguar) you can do one-way video chat if the other machine is missing a camera. I do this all the time (ok, just to test and go "hey this is cool" but it does work)
No idea if AOL will support that on PC, but it is a feature of the iChat AV network.
Hmmm, looking at it with more detail - the wind would have been more than I'd expected. According to various online sources, the foam fell 81 seconds after liftoff, when you'd expect the shuttle to be rising at around 5000 mph.
Still, the whole thing is fairly complicated - clearly you're supersonic, so inside the shockwave I really have no idea what the "apparent" wind would be.
Given what Theaetetus said about using the pictures to estimate velocity, that's probably how they did it.
I was just curious as this whole wave of stories seems to just rattle off things like 500 mph without any reference as to why.
Why are they firing the foam at 500 mph? I haven't seen a good explanation of where they get that figure from.
As far as I can see, I'd imagine that the foam falls from the fuel tank/booster onto the shuttle wing. The rate of fall should be only the relative acceleration that the shuttle experiences during the fall. (Since both foam and shuttle are presumably moving at the same speed when it detaches from the launcher)
So the total acceleration should be the acceleration of the shuttle (max 3G at liftoff according to a couple of web sources) plus normal gravity - call it 4 G. At most, the foam could fall the full 56 meters of the shuttle/booster/tank height (and most likely substantially less than that).
So, a quick (and probably hideously wrong) calculation based on v^2=2 * Accel * Distance shows that the end velocity of a body falling 56 meters at 4g should be about 33 meters/second, or 119 kph (74 mph)
Bluetooth SD cards are, as yet, incompatible with PALM OS 5.x. So if you don't have it built in, you're SOL.
For me, given that my workplace requires LEAP support for 802.11b I'd *much* rather have bluetooth and gateway through my laptop. But then, that's what the Tungsten T is for I suppose.
And this is not a new idea with stow. Intelligent administrators have been doing this forever. Otherwise/usr/local turns into an unmanagable mess.
Indeed, I've been using stow to do this for years. Stow isn't sexy, but it works and works well. It's a great solution for people who want to compile their own stuff and still do basic package management.
That said when I was doing this a lot, we had to write our own wrappers for the various CPAN modules, and certain programs that expected append to shared.info files were SOL in a stow universe but those could all be configured away in a very small amount of time.
In general, I agree, but I think Phone/PDA is a marriage that may make too much sense to not happen. If you strip out the frills, the basic elements of the PDA - contact info and schedule are pretty similar. As other posters have noted, unifying address lists is a great thing.
The treo isn't trying to a small computer - the keyboard may look like it is, but that just makes it potentially only competitor to the larger RIM devices as kick-ass SMS/small email machines out there.
The treo is by no means a perfect device. Buy one expecting to be happy with it in 2 years and you're fooling yourself. I do think it's a logical step foward in the evolution of mobile organizer design. I can't imagine that a later version won't have bluetooth.
I'm completely addicted to my Treo - not because it does anything that my old palm+cell phone combo didn't do, or omnisky service but because it's all there in one incredibly small and handy device.
The 2nd generation battery life is borderline but works for me (suitable for weekend trips with heavy internet use without a charger) and it is much smaller than the kyocera or samsung phones (or the Nokia, or the announced PocketPC phones).
It does have negatives (no mute function, are they insane?) but having my information, my internet access with me almost all the time is fantastic.
I'll probably pull my SIM card, sell this one on ebay and get a 270 when they're out, but for now, I'm in heaven.
The only thing that competes in my mind is a Bluetooth PDA (PalmOS or PocketPC if that's your bag) and a Bluetooth phone. No IR, no cables, just connect. These hassles may seem minor, but this is a realm dominated by usability issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love LaTex. I wrote my thesis in it in emacs. Still, once HTML came along it was immediately obvious that this was a more accessible language for the general public. People went from TeX/LaTeX to HTML in an afternoon. Going the other way would be tough.
Also, a big strength of HTML is that it's not a rigorous language. Most pages contain egregious errors which does not prevent them from being rendered (roughly correctly). As a concept I inifinitely prefer LaTeX, but it's a pain to actually do stuff in.
The first analogy that springs to mind would be replacing perl code with compiled C for system admin tasks. Sure, you can do it and there are some benefits, but who would?
I drag my LaTex environment around with me from system to system but in day to day use - I'll use HTML or a word processor for 95% of my work.
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In many places you can absolutely walk into a store w/o pre-order or call ahead, find a PS3 and walk out with it for retail w/o Bundle. I did that twice (once for a buddy who I knew was jonesing for a PS3.) I was hunting for Wii's (without success I might add) I don't know how many shipments Sony has made, but random Gamestops around here have been getting several a week and seem to have pretty good availability right up to Christmas. Presumably even better now.
I think the scalpers/speculators had every right to exploit the presumed limited demand and get what the market would bear, but on the other hand, they have no right whatsoever to complain if things don't work out. Plus, I have every right to mock them with my monkey pants.
I like my 7100t (stopgap till GSM Treo 650) but the bluetooth is only for headsets/car kits - no dialup networking, no sync, no BT keyboards, nothing.
The HP phone has some real issues - I returned mine, will try it again once they've incorporated the learning from this one. (No car kit support, flaky switching between networks, insane Windows wizard for joining wifi networks, etc...) Plus, have you seen it with the keyboard attached? U.G.L.Y...
80 GB has been max for far too long. When you throw 50 GB of that at your music, it fills up fast. I haven't seen anything on the speed of the drive, but generally higher-density data at same rpm should be faster throughput which is all that matters.
9.5mm means this will fit in the Powerbooks (and presumably most standard laptops as well) Sign me up for one as soon as they're available to consumers.
So, the most intruiging feature there was that the laptop/drive could appear as a USB device on the desktop. Anyone know if this is handled through hardware/bios and would be something that you'd still have with a Linux/BSD install? That could be a killer feature, and given the prevalence of the generic Mass Storage profile seems actually possible.
I've been burned on the CD/DVD docking stations, or other hardware specific goodies, far too often to just assume this will work.
The "Chief Competitive Officer" posted to Palminfocenter on this:
Specifically - highlight the person you want to send audio/video to then select "invite to one-way video (or audio) chat" from the Buddies menu.
Wow, that's just flat-out untrue.
If both iChat users are using iChat AV (the software, not the iChat delivered with Jaguar) you can do one-way video chat if the other machine is missing a camera. I do this all the time (ok, just to test and go "hey this is cool" but it does work)
No idea if AOL will support that on PC, but it is a feature of the iChat AV network.
Hmmm, looking at it with more detail - the wind would have been more than I'd expected. According to various online sources, the foam fell 81 seconds after liftoff, when you'd expect the shuttle to be rising at around 5000 mph.
Still, the whole thing is fairly complicated - clearly you're supersonic, so inside the shockwave I really have no idea what the "apparent" wind would be.
Given what Theaetetus said about using the pictures to estimate velocity, that's probably how they did it.
I was just curious as this whole wave of stories seems to just rattle off things like 500 mph without any reference as to why.
Why are they firing the foam at 500 mph? I haven't seen a good explanation of where they get that figure from.
As far as I can see, I'd imagine that the foam falls from the fuel tank/booster onto the shuttle wing. The rate of fall should be only the relative acceleration that the shuttle experiences during the fall. (Since both foam and shuttle are presumably moving at the same speed when it detaches from the launcher)
So the total acceleration should be the acceleration of the shuttle (max 3G at liftoff according to a couple of web sources) plus normal gravity - call it 4 G. At most, the foam could fall the full 56 meters of the shuttle/booster/tank height (and most likely substantially less than that).
So, a quick (and probably hideously wrong) calculation based on v^2=2 * Accel * Distance shows that the end velocity of a body falling 56 meters at 4g should be about 33 meters/second, or 119 kph (74 mph)
Anyone know where I've screwed up on this?
Bluetooth SD cards are, as yet, incompatible with PALM OS 5.x. So if you don't have it built in, you're SOL.
For me, given that my workplace requires LEAP support for 802.11b I'd *much* rather have bluetooth and gateway through my laptop. But then, that's what the Tungsten T is for I suppose.
In general, I agree, but I think Phone/PDA is a marriage that may make too much sense to not happen. If you strip out the frills, the basic elements of the PDA - contact info and schedule are pretty similar. As other posters have noted, unifying address lists is a great thing.
The treo isn't trying to a small computer - the keyboard may look like it is, but that just makes it potentially only competitor to the larger RIM devices as kick-ass SMS/small email machines out there.
The treo is by no means a perfect device. Buy one expecting to be happy with it in 2 years and you're fooling yourself. I do think it's a logical step foward in the evolution of mobile organizer design. I can't imagine that a later version won't have bluetooth.
I'm completely addicted to my Treo - not because it does anything that my old palm+cell phone combo didn't do, or omnisky service but because it's all there in one incredibly small and handy device.
The 2nd generation battery life is borderline but works for me (suitable for weekend trips with heavy internet use without a charger) and it is much smaller than the kyocera or samsung phones (or the Nokia, or the announced PocketPC phones).
It does have negatives (no mute function, are they insane?) but having my information, my internet access with me almost all the time is fantastic.
I'll probably pull my SIM card, sell this one on ebay and get a 270 when they're out, but for now, I'm in heaven.
The only thing that competes in my mind is a Bluetooth PDA (PalmOS or PocketPC if that's your bag) and a Bluetooth phone. No IR, no cables, just connect. These hassles may seem minor, but this is a realm dominated by usability issues.
Don't get me wrong, I love LaTex. I wrote my thesis in it in emacs. Still, once HTML came along it was immediately obvious that this was a more accessible language for the general public. People went from TeX/LaTeX to HTML in an afternoon. Going the other way would be tough.
Also, a big strength of HTML is that it's not a rigorous language. Most pages contain egregious errors which does not prevent them from being rendered (roughly correctly). As a concept I inifinitely prefer LaTeX, but it's a pain to actually do stuff in.
The first analogy that springs to mind would be replacing perl code with compiled C for system admin tasks. Sure, you can do it and there are some benefits, but who would?
I drag my LaTex environment around with me from system to system but in day to day use - I'll use HTML or a word processor for 95% of my work.