[[...it could actually run a VoIP wifi app, several of which already exist for OS X, and thus leave them on the bad side of convergence...]]
Let us also remember the fine line Apple is walking with the "iPhone" name. Cisco already has a VOIP iPhone, and if Apple wants to use the name then they have to be able to show a judge (and Cisco) that the iPhone CAN NEVER use VOIP and thus compete with Cisco.
I suspect this lockdown has less to do with Apple's revenue stream vis-a-vis 3rd party developers, and more to do with ensuring they can navigate the legal jungle of the telephone world without worry.
I have been using my Kyo7135 for over a year now and it is GREAT. I bought a Palm Tungsten C recently figuring that the 802.11b and faster processor would be superior to the Smartphone and would lead me to replace the Kyo7135. But the convenience of having the phone and PDA in the same package keep me coming back to the SmartPhone and I will probably be reselling the Tungsten C instead... even tho I love the design of the newer Palm as well. Until we see a PalmOS 5 SmartPhone with a decent battery life, I am sticking with this little miracle.
You may want to check out this site for a listing of all of the phones available and which services they go with. There are actually a lot of choices out there, but you need to zero in on exactly which of them you are most interested in, if you want to make sure you are making the right choice.
First off, there are basically three O/Ses to choose from:
Palm: This is the old faithful. Palm has a number of SmartPhones out there to choose from including the Tungsten W (their own model), Kyocera's 6135 (black and white model) and 7135 (color model), Handspring's line of Treos, and Samsung's i300. Palm is a great O/S for SmartPhones because of its low power consumption and easy integration with different form factors. The best of these in my opinion are the Kyocera SmartPhones for their depth of integration and focus on being a phone first and a PDA second. You can find Palm-based phones for both GSM (i.e. AT&T Wireless, Cingular, etc.) systems and CDMA (i.e. Verizon, Sprint, etc.) systems.
PocketPC: PocketPC phones are out there and there are a lot of providers to choose from. Aside from the clunky first-generation PocketPC phones like the AudioVox Thera, the newer ones use a version of PocketPC specifically designed for phone use. These models are powerful, fast, and look very cool. They generally only have one form factor - a normal PDA shape with an antenna attached. So don't go looking for a flip-phone model. PocketPC phones have a few downsides, however, as they tend to be battery drainers (don't expect to be away from a plug for days on end) and the O/S can crash (sometimes in the middle of a call). However, if you want PDA-first, phone-second functionality, this is a good choice. At the moment, PocketPC Phones only come in GSM models, the only CDMA model out there is the AudioVox Thera.
You may also have heard of SmartPhone 2002 which is another effort to bring windows to cell phones. The only model currently out is the Orange SA phone and based on the early reviews, your choice here is simple - STAY AWAY UNTIL REVISION 2!
Symbian OS: Symbian O/S is the descendent of the EPOC O/S which ran PDAs in Europe like the Revo and exists today as a powerful PDA operating system specifically made for cellular phone integration. Nokia is the main owner of this O/S and has the most interesting offerings, but Sony Ericsson is where you will find the best phones in the USA. Their P800 will be a great choice when it comes out here and the t68i is already a hit for AT&T Wireless and Apple with its built-in BlueTooth technology. Symbian phones are only available for GSM networks at this time.
For the Northeastern USA, the best choice will probably be the Kyocera 7135 SmartPhone. You are right that it is not selling on the Verizon system yet, but you can buy it from the Kyocera store activated for Alltell and then have your local Verizon store activate it for you. (Yes, they will do that.) You will want to check out SmartPhoneSource for a good community of people who have done this and for directions on doing it.
This may be too long from the original posting to grab the attention of the poster. You note in your story that it took you some time to figure out "what you loved." What is the best way to flush this out of yourself and find out which of your myriad talents (or meager few talents, depending on how you look at it) is the one you love? For me, I have always assumed it is writing, but I find it hard to make myself write in my free time - too much other stuff to do. If I won't do it in my free time, how will I make myself do it as a job?
Thanks if anyone feels like responding.
I am definitely in the same boat. My first PDA was a Philips Nino which I bought because after using both in a store, I found the Nino SO MUCH easier to write on. JOT works with the way I write and think, and has always been a lot easier to use than Grafiti. When I upgraded from my Nino to a Palm IIIc, I decided to try out Grafiti but after a month of use decided Grafiti was simply not worth the effort. I bought CIC's version for the Palm, and found myself suddenly productive again.
Many say that JOT is slower than Grafiti and they have a point. A well-practiced Grafiti user will outpace a well-practiced JOT user every time... but the number of well-practiced Grafiti users I know can be counted on one finger. All the rest use the on-screen keyboard instead. But every person I know who installed JOT uses it daily.
I have found it amusing how religious and political leaders have been rushing to "ban cloning" in an attempt to keep it from happening. While I am a religious guy and do consider cloning to be a major moral problem, there is no deterent value in these actions. The fame and place in scientific history for the person or group who produces the first human clone are more than enough incentive for the crazies of the world to do it. The consequences (read: legal punishments and moral condemnation) will be seen by these people are irrelevant, because what they really seek is recognition and a place in history books.
Still, I suppose we have to try and slow down some of these changes to the human race. The nuclear bomb came before we were ready for it, and we are still struggling to catch up to it politically and morally. Cloning has the potential to change the world even more, so the more lead time we have for legislators and philosophers to work on this, the better.
But I will be shocked if the first legal and widely advertised cloning clinic is not openned in 2003 or 2004.
That's called "bending the truth". For your friend to have had a possession of iDVD without having purchased a mac with a DVD burner in built, he must have pirated the software.
Actually, this is not necesarily true. My brother just bought one of the new 1 GHz TiBooks without a DVD-R drive and it came included with iDVD. It was apparently just cheaper to have one standard build of the software for the 1 GHz TiBooks. Legal copy, no DVD-R.
...until someone gets sued for allowing the packaging of such discs to be punctured, thus prematurely invalidating the promotional DVD value. I can see the advertiser being FURIOUS if they paid a few million dollars to imprint, say, the newest BMW ad on the James Bond soundtrack, only to find that no consumers can view it because the plastic shrinkwrap failed to keep out enough air.
Seems like a disaster waiting to happen. No to mention that it will drive MORE people to rip this video in order to be able to rewatch it - exactly what the RIAA and MPAA do NOT want.
I very much enjoyed the book and I think one thing that is being missed by many of these poster is that it is obviously not a stand-alone. The book creates an excellent story using the scraps of legend Herbert left in the original Dune stories and actual creates something (for me) as enjoyable as the original. But the ending of this book (fear not, no spoilers) leaves so many plot threads hanging out unresolved, that it is obvious this is only the beginning of a much larger series. Even though I feel like I should be dreading this, as it is another sequel demanded by the marketting wonks, I am really looking forward to the next novel.
It is even more amazing how much I liked this considering how much I hated Anderson's Star Wars novels. But I guess having Brian Herbert at his side is keeping him honest to the history and character of the universe, and letting him be a more pure storyteller.
If you ask me the Kyocera 7135 is the one with right form factor (though the Samsung i500 is similar). They understand that a SmartPhone needs to be a phone FIRST and a PDA second - without surrendering on the power.
I'd imagine you'd have a few other requirements, too:
1. Water-resistant. Chances are it will get sprayed or splashed rather often. Would not need water-proof, but something not damaged by a spritz here and there.
2. Cleanable. You will want something that can be cleaned off, if the kids drop a jar of tomato sauce and splatters go all over the screen or keyboard.
3. Easily loadable with new info. If you want recipes then you will want the ability to load new ones. Some simple method for info transfer (802.11b, SD cards, etc) would be useful.
4. Not easily overheated. If you are making a roast in the kitchen in the 105 degree heat of summer, you want to make sure the processor does not get cooked. Might be best to avoid a processor like the P4 which is normally very hot anyway, or install robust heat dissipation.
5. Reasonably quiet. Not a big requirement if you are already using an electric mixer, I guess, but it would be nice to have it running but quiet while you are doing some reading and waiting for your confection to bake.
Seems like THIS would be more practical for most airborne trips. It is a handheld trackball where you move the cursor and buttons with your fingers. At least it would not require me to learn a whole new method for working with the computer.
The linked product seems more like a handheld trackpoint and really a mouse. My two cents.
Many folks have already likened this "clarion call" to the colonization of the New World lead by people seeking freedom from Britain. What this idea seems to ignore is one major thing that allowed freedom to work in the new work: DISTANCE. The American colonists could enact a number of laws that flew in the face of British standards because they were far enough away for British politicians to ignore.
Right now, I doubt there is anywhere on earth that is quite this way - transportation has made the world smaller and smaller, and most lands with any value already have indiginous peoples who are not likely to let some Americans in "to coexist peacefully and start our own government." Too much well-known history with the Indians.
So where is there a place out of reach of government by distance, where you might possibly find funding to get to and to develp, and where there are no indigiginous tribes to worry about? The moon! Simply find a corporation or society or extremely rich philanthropist willing to support the founding... until a hundred or so years later when they try to impose a tax on your tea and you have to mount a Revolution.
Was there a "vision" for these shows - an overriding philosophical reason to make them - like getting kids interested in science, pushing the boundaries of tech, enhancing popular understanding of engineering principles? Or did the game show part of the show come first and a realization of their value later?
I am not sure this is really what everyone is saying it is about. It is easy to forget, but New York City was the site of the 9/11 attacks. Every movement of a major trade show, event, concert, etc. is going to be noted, criticized, and pushed through the New York Press which is read by the majority of the world. Since obviously the New York Press would be against a major trade show like MacWorld moving out of New York, it would likely cause a lot of bad press for Apple. And it is a lot easier for Apple to simply not rock the boat right now. I suspect that if IDG had waited another year before making the announcement, Apple would have been a lot more open to it. Right now, they don't want any bad press, if they can avoid it.
The unit also supports POP mail servers. This worked without hitch and was quite nifty. IMAP support would be nicer, but I suspect that it would be horribly slow over the phone's internet connection.,
Check out Gopher King. They offer a cheap, but not-free, service for checking any mail on the web and presenting it in a lite format perfect for PDAs. I have used it on a Palm VIIx and a Kyocera 6035 and it works great with both thru a PDA. Their regular site should work fine thru the HipTop's built-in browser, as it is built to be lite on the images and efficient in the HTML.
GWB...He wants to fight Iraq, because he doesn't like them, and is just looking for an excuse to initiate the attack.
While I am not convinced of the morality of our attacking Iraq at this moment in time, I think it is foolish to say that Bush "just does't like" the nation. Sure there is a family history here, but you must admit:
Iraq signed a cease fire agreement, where it agreed to disarm.
Iraq has violated the cease fire by kicking out inspectors, and has violated U.N. resolution again and again by refusing to let them back in.
Sadaam is a threat to the stability of the region. (At the least, he is paying off families of suicide bombers which has been shown on Arab TV.)
Sadaam has done some very nasty stuff, including using chemical weopans on his own people (the Kurds).
You may not feel that these reasons are enough to initiate a war half-way across the world, but you must admit they are not "just an excuse."
Blair and GWB say Iraq has mass destruction weapons. So what ? The US also has. Is US the only country that is allowed to have it ?
Nope, so do Britain, France, Israel, Germany, Russia, Pakistan, India, etc. and we are not attacking them. Then again, we (we = U.S.A. in this case) don't keep handguns out of the hands of the average citizen. But we do keep them out of the hands of felons, because they are more likely to use them to harm others. The same principle applies here. If Sadaam gets The Bomb, he is very likely to use it against Israel or Iran.
Iraq will be attacked because it's not doing what UN said. But Israel doesn't do it either, and will not be attacked because it's friend to US.
This is your best argument on the subject, in my opinion. Apples to apples, as it were. At the same time, do you really feel that Israel is likely to use their Nukes on their neighbors without being attacked first? I don't. Would Iraq use their nukes on their neighbors? I believe they would, either to hurt Israel or their long-time foe, Iran.
I think the whole thing stinks. War stinks.
I give you that war stinks. But being conquered by a madman or nuked stinks a lot worse than war, in general.
Can you tell me the difference between George Bush and Hitler? This is not a taunt, but an honest question.
Hitler: Attacks to annex additional land to a German Empire (Austria, Poland, most of Europe). Bush: Counterattacks after America attacked in 9/11, leaves governance of land in the hands of the indigenous population (Afghanistan), Attacks to punish the breaking of a ceasefire agreement, will leave governance in the hands of the indigenous peoples (Iraq)
Hitler: Attempted genocide against enemies and people groups (Jews, homosexuals, Russians, etc.) Bush: Ordered the dropping of food for enemies who were starving (Afghanistan)
There is plenty more, but that seems like enough.
Feel like I should post something like "1 Stealth Bomber: $2.4 billion. Freedom for Afghanistan: priceless."
True but while Snow White is part of the common consciousness (it was a myth for centuries before it was merchandised by Disney), the same can hardly be said for Golden Age Superheroes. Someone could argue (and likely will) that any derivative work on these heroes after the miniseries is in fact "drawing directly from what THEY did" unless the author can show that they first learned of the heroes by digging them out of grandma's attic.
Not saying that was right or that it will work. But I can't imagine ABC's lawyers not trying this trick... unless of course the miniseries is a disaster.
The heroes are slated to get a return engagement in 2003 when Peter Hogan pens a Terra Obscura miniseries for ABC [with art by Yanique Paquette and Karl Story], utilizing the same characters on the same world. Ideally, interest will be high enough, according to Hogan, in the miniseries that ABC will launch the heroes of Terra Obscura in their own ongoing monthly
So how long until ABC sues someone who uses these "public domain" superheroes in their own work, for violation of copyright, trademark, or something else? I don't imagine it will take some lawyer long to try and argue that once the characters have appeared in an ABC miniseries that they "belong" to ABC and that allowing other people to use the characters will cause damage to ABC's unique use of them.
...the article also mentions 802.11g, which is more likely to become the standard for the vast majority of users. It is backwards compatible with the Apple Airports and Linksys wireless routers that are making so many inroads into homes and small businesses. Why pay a premium to upgrade everything to 802.11a when with 802.11g you can upgrade the router first and then the cards one at a time as money makes itself available? This option also allows for the largest compatibility for visitors - inmportant in public places like coffee bars and airports which are already adopting wireless standards for customers.
That is my two cents. Of course, the big variable is when 802.11g recieves finalized specs. 802.11a is already there.
One more question for the grou: I have read a lot (for a Business Analyst) about wireless networking and have yet to see a place which explains the "lettering system" used by the 802.11 products. Why are a, b, and g given those names? Are there 802.11c and d awaiting consideration?
My brother developed amblyopia (a.k.a. "Lazy Eye") pretty early in his life. They started out simply treating him by patching the good eye and forcing the "bad" one to work harder. But they went overboard and wound up causing ambyopia in the good eye. When we went to a second doctor to solve the new problem, he gave my brother a new assignment: Wear the patch half the day and then play video games when you got home from school. Playing the games forced the eyes to work together and strengthened them both. Would not have been enough without the patch-wearing as well, but together they were a very effective treatment. Today, his eyes are equal partners in his vision.
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[[...it could actually run a VoIP wifi app, several of which already exist for OS X, and thus leave them on the bad side of convergence...]] Let us also remember the fine line Apple is walking with the "iPhone" name. Cisco already has a VOIP iPhone, and if Apple wants to use the name then they have to be able to show a judge (and Cisco) that the iPhone CAN NEVER use VOIP and thus compete with Cisco. I suspect this lockdown has less to do with Apple's revenue stream vis-a-vis 3rd party developers, and more to do with ensuring they can navigate the legal jungle of the telephone world without worry.
Mod-Blog. Perhaps coincidentally, it is also the BLog that I post to. ;-)
I have been using my Kyo7135 for over a year now and it is GREAT. I bought a Palm Tungsten C recently figuring that the 802.11b and faster processor would be superior to the Smartphone and would lead me to replace the Kyo7135. But the convenience of having the phone and PDA in the same package keep me coming back to the SmartPhone and I will probably be reselling the Tungsten C instead... even tho I love the design of the newer Palm as well. Until we see a PalmOS 5 SmartPhone with a decent battery life, I am sticking with this little miracle.
First off, there are basically three O/Ses to choose from:
You may also have heard of SmartPhone 2002 which is another effort to bring windows to cell phones. The only model currently out is the Orange SA phone and based on the early reviews, your choice here is simple - STAY AWAY UNTIL REVISION 2!
For the Northeastern USA, the best choice will probably be the Kyocera 7135 SmartPhone. You are right that it is not selling on the Verizon system yet, but you can buy it from the Kyocera store activated for Alltell and then have your local Verizon store activate it for you. (Yes, they will do that.) You will want to check out SmartPhoneSource for a good community of people who have done this and for directions on doing it.
Hope this is helpful.
This may be too long from the original posting to grab the attention of the poster. You note in your story that it took you some time to figure out "what you loved." What is the best way to flush this out of yourself and find out which of your myriad talents (or meager few talents, depending on how you look at it) is the one you love? For me, I have always assumed it is writing, but I find it hard to make myself write in my free time - too much other stuff to do. If I won't do it in my free time, how will I make myself do it as a job? Thanks if anyone feels like responding.
Many say that JOT is slower than Grafiti and they have a point. A well-practiced Grafiti user will outpace a well-practiced JOT user every time... but the number of well-practiced Grafiti users I know can be counted on one finger. All the rest use the on-screen keyboard instead. But every person I know who installed JOT uses it daily.
Still, I suppose we have to try and slow down some of these changes to the human race. The nuclear bomb came before we were ready for it, and we are still struggling to catch up to it politically and morally. Cloning has the potential to change the world even more, so the more lead time we have for legislators and philosophers to work on this, the better.
But I will be shocked if the first legal and widely advertised cloning clinic is not openned in 2003 or 2004.
Actually, this is not necesarily true. My brother just bought one of the new 1 GHz TiBooks without a DVD-R drive and it came included with iDVD. It was apparently just cheaper to have one standard build of the software for the 1 GHz TiBooks. Legal copy, no DVD-R.
Seems like a disaster waiting to happen. No to mention that it will drive MORE people to rip this video in order to be able to rewatch it - exactly what the RIAA and MPAA do NOT want.
It is even more amazing how much I liked this considering how much I hated Anderson's Star Wars novels. But I guess having Brian Herbert at his side is keeping him honest to the history and character of the universe, and letting him be a more pure storyteller.
My two cents.
If you ask me the Kyocera 7135 is the one with right form factor (though the Samsung i500 is similar). They understand that a SmartPhone needs to be a phone FIRST and a PDA second - without surrendering on the power.
The official press release,/a> can also be found at Palm Info Center.
I'd imagine you'd have a few other requirements, too: 1. Water-resistant. Chances are it will get sprayed or splashed rather often. Would not need water-proof, but something not damaged by a spritz here and there. 2. Cleanable. You will want something that can be cleaned off, if the kids drop a jar of tomato sauce and splatters go all over the screen or keyboard. 3. Easily loadable with new info. If you want recipes then you will want the ability to load new ones. Some simple method for info transfer (802.11b, SD cards, etc) would be useful. 4. Not easily overheated. If you are making a roast in the kitchen in the 105 degree heat of summer, you want to make sure the processor does not get cooked. Might be best to avoid a processor like the P4 which is normally very hot anyway, or install robust heat dissipation. 5. Reasonably quiet. Not a big requirement if you are already using an electric mixer, I guess, but it would be nice to have it running but quiet while you are doing some reading and waiting for your confection to bake.
The linked product seems more like a handheld trackpoint and really a mouse. My two cents.
Right now, I doubt there is anywhere on earth that is quite this way - transportation has made the world smaller and smaller, and most lands with any value already have indiginous peoples who are not likely to let some Americans in "to coexist peacefully and start our own government." Too much well-known history with the Indians.
So where is there a place out of reach of government by distance, where you might possibly find funding to get to and to develp, and where there are no indigiginous tribes to worry about? The moon! Simply find a corporation or society or extremely rich philanthropist willing to support the founding... until a hundred or so years later when they try to impose a tax on your tea and you have to mount a Revolution.
Was there a "vision" for these shows - an overriding philosophical reason to make them - like getting kids interested in science, pushing the boundaries of tech, enhancing popular understanding of engineering principles? Or did the game show part of the show come first and a realization of their value later?
My two cents.
Check out Gopher King. They offer a cheap, but not-free, service for checking any mail on the web and presenting it in a lite format perfect for PDAs. I have used it on a Palm VIIx and a Kyocera 6035 and it works great with both thru a PDA. Their regular site should work fine thru the HipTop's built-in browser, as it is built to be lite on the images and efficient in the HTML.
And yes, they will do POP, IMAP, AOL, etc.
Thanks for explaining to a slow mind. ;-) Teaches me to try and be too clever for my own good.
While I am not convinced of the morality of our attacking Iraq at this moment in time, I think it is foolish to say that Bush "just does't like" the nation. Sure there is a family history here, but you must admit:
- Iraq signed a cease fire agreement, where it agreed to disarm.
- Iraq has violated the cease fire by kicking out inspectors, and has violated U.N. resolution again and again by refusing to let them back in.
- Sadaam is a threat to the stability of the region. (At the least, he is paying off families of suicide bombers which has been shown on Arab TV.)
- Sadaam has done some very nasty stuff, including using chemical weopans on his own people (the Kurds).
You may not feel that these reasons are enough to initiate a war half-way across the world, but you must admit they are not "just an excuse."Blair and GWB say Iraq has mass destruction weapons. So what ? The US also has. Is US the only country that is allowed to have it ?
Nope, so do Britain, France, Israel, Germany, Russia, Pakistan, India, etc. and we are not attacking them. Then again, we (we = U.S.A. in this case) don't keep handguns out of the hands of the average citizen. But we do keep them out of the hands of felons, because they are more likely to use them to harm others. The same principle applies here. If Sadaam gets The Bomb, he is very likely to use it against Israel or Iran.
Iraq will be attacked because it's not doing what UN said. But Israel doesn't do it either, and will not be attacked because it's friend to US.
This is your best argument on the subject, in my opinion. Apples to apples, as it were. At the same time, do you really feel that Israel is likely to use their Nukes on their neighbors without being attacked first? I don't. Would Iraq use their nukes on their neighbors? I believe they would, either to hurt Israel or their long-time foe, Iran.
I think the whole thing stinks. War stinks.
I give you that war stinks. But being conquered by a madman or nuked stinks a lot worse than war, in general.
Hitler: Attacks to annex additional land to a German Empire (Austria, Poland, most of Europe).
Bush: Counterattacks after America attacked in 9/11, leaves governance of land in the hands of the indigenous population (Afghanistan), Attacks to punish the breaking of a ceasefire agreement, will leave governance in the hands of the indigenous peoples (Iraq)
Hitler: Attempted genocide against enemies and people groups (Jews, homosexuals, Russians, etc.)
Bush: Ordered the dropping of food for enemies who were starving (Afghanistan)
There is plenty more, but that seems like enough.
Feel like I should post something like "1 Stealth Bomber: $2.4 billion. Freedom for Afghanistan: priceless."
Not saying that was right or that it will work. But I can't imagine ABC's lawyers not trying this trick... unless of course the miniseries is a disaster.
That is my two cents. Of course, the big variable is when 802.11g recieves finalized specs. 802.11a is already there.
One more question for the grou: I have read a lot (for a Business Analyst) about wireless networking and have yet to see a place which explains the "lettering system" used by the 802.11 products. Why are a, b, and g given those names? Are there 802.11c and d awaiting consideration?
My brother developed amblyopia (a.k.a. "Lazy Eye") pretty early in his life. They started out simply treating him by patching the good eye and forcing the "bad" one to work harder. But they went overboard and wound up causing ambyopia in the good eye. When we went to a second doctor to solve the new problem, he gave my brother a new assignment: Wear the patch half the day and then play video games when you got home from school. Playing the games forced the eyes to work together and strengthened them both. Would not have been enough without the patch-wearing as well, but together they were a very effective treatment. Today, his eyes are equal partners in his vision.