I have to say, the Sidekick really comes through for SSH. There are a few keyboard shortcuts you have to learn (and they're pretty much mnemonic once you figure out that Menu==Ctrl, but they're shown in a pop-up dialog if you forget) but braces, brackets, angles, and most other punctuation are all printed on the keyboard.
Sadly, they hurt the keyboard on the Sidekick II by recessing it so you have to hook your thumbs around the case, and by replacing the soft-topped keys with chiclets. The Sidekick 1 (both mono & color) has the best keyboard of any PDA I've ever used.
Battery life is phenomenal; I can stay online all day in AIM and SSH and still have a bar or two left over. Latency is the only real problem, and there is a line-entry mode if you want to type a long/complex command. I also like the way you can maintain several sessions concurrently.
Interesting point, but mine remains - how can you opt-out of receiving unsolicited high-velocity pellets from guns wielded by 8-year-olds and/or criminals? =)
Yep, I was shocked when I tried to use Safari. It made me angry, actually, because I was trying to use Safari on an iBook and I had to plug a mouse in to use the browser!
However, this isn't the first thing about Mac OS X to reflect poor UI design. The most obvious of these is that they copied the same mistake Windows (and a lot of sawfish themes) made - putting the window closure button right next to the window size controls. So, say, you want to make your browser window bigger, but your hand slips while moving your mouse and you push the button too early or too late and bam! That page you wanted to fill the screen has now been closed, and who knows what the URL was...
The difference between MailList being used for spam and guns killing people is that guns are DESIGNED to kill. They have no other function. There is no stun setting. And very few choose to opt-in. =)
Apple's X11 is just not a good environment for an app to run in. I've noticed a big drop in quality of the sort the author talks about too - but not between Photoshop and GIMP, no: between GIMP for Linux and GIMP for Mac. These apps need to run natively.
That said, there is also more configuration to be performed on GIMP out of the box than with Photoshop. I don't know why the default for line drawing is "perfect but slow," which is what causes those line distortions he complained about (from the GIMP's File menu, choose Preferences, then click "Image Windows" under "Interface" and un-check "Perfect-but-Slow Pointer Tracking").
GIMP is available compiled natively for Windows, but it's unstable. The best version is the one for Linux - use it there and compare that with Photoshop on Mac or Windows. You will have to learn a new interface, yes (for a while, I used nothing but the GIMP, and Photoshop seemed awkward and frustrating when I used it again; but then the GIMP seemed awkward and frustrating when I went back to it - so I understand that feeling, but the author should account for the fact that he's not used to change).
I still have my Zaurus 5000 with Wi-Fi card, but I've just switched to a Treo 300. Unless I'm at home or going someplace where I know Wi-Fi will be available (LUG meeting), it's just not likely I'll be able to find useful access casually. On the Treo, I'm able to run Mochasoft's SSH (very low resolution, but usable) from almost anywhere outdoors, and the battery life is much better on the Treo than the Zaurus + Wi-Fi. Web pages render horribly in Blazer, but if you stick to mobile sites or make your own portal with readymade deep links to the information you need most, it's quite useful. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the Treo 600's release much more so than the US release of the 700-series Zaurii. Of course, if the first US 700 has a phone built-in (not half a phone hanging down the back of the unit, please!) then I'll switch back, because the Zaurus software, including the Opera browser, is just so much more complete.
I prefer one-button dragging interfaces over right-button menu interfaces. For instance, I usually drag links in Mozilla up to the tab bar to open new tabs.
Actually, this weekend I was playing Strategic Conquest, which is at least 13 years old, on OS 10.2.6 in Classic mode. I actually downloaded it to run on my SE/30, but while I was sitting at the iBook I decided to see if it worked, and ended up spending hours battling the computer over iconic cities on polygonal islands.
Even as a critic of Israel, I have to voice my dissent with THAT.
Difference 1: the Israelis aren't blowing up the holy sites of other religions (in fact, it has only been under Israeli stewardship that all three religions which claim that land as a holy place have had access to their own holy sites)
Difference 2: the Israelis aren't forcibly converting the masses to Judaism, and in fact teach evolution in schools, unlike the Taliban or, heck, Kansas.
Difference 3: the Israelis aren't stoning adulterers or crunching gays under walls (though clearly they have human rights problems of their own, including collapsing houses on people, but they are in fact still fighting a war with the Palestinians, and not meting out death as punishment through the legal system*)
Difference 4: Israeli women can work, wear whatever they like, learn to read, get an M.D., be Prime Minister (and leave the fscking house, for crying out loud), even though this is not in accordance with right-wing Orthodox Judaic beliefs.
Difference 5: Israel is not ruled by the iron grip of religious fundamentalism. It is a parliamentary democracy, like Britain and Canada. Israeli Arabs do, indeed, vote. The "Jewish" in "Jewish State" comes from its judicial system, which does base its decisions on Jewish law, but just as in the United States and other Western nations, there is a separation of power between legislation and the courts.
Difference 6: Israelis protest against their army's actions, and aren't hanged, stoned, shot, or maimed for doing so.
Should I go on?
* There is only one death penalty in Israel, which is reserved for Nazis.
And recursion is lots of fun, but I use REs to recognize and extract tokens and boundaries, because it's so easy to write and change simple REs.
There is a middle way between overly complex REs which mere mortals cannot read nor safely modify, and overly complex parsers that never take advantage anything more functional than getc().
Hmm, the www.otherpower.com site that you say the author should read, is copyright 2003 by FORCE FIELD, which is the name of the company splashed across the screen at www.wondermagnet.com, which is where the article came from.
I'm taking a class right now myself, and all of my professor's notes are on the web, too. To me, this means I don't HAVE to have a paper copy, because I can go to any computer lab, public access terminal on campus or at the library, or even a privately owned, Internet-connected PC (I know they're rare), and read these notes without having to kill a tree OR carry its poor, mutilated remains around with me.
I do carry a skinny little notepad (made out of butterfly wings and elephant ears), which I jot notes on in class, but I keep it short by avoiding redudancy with the web notes.
Seems to me that it will hurt image quality, but not for any LCD-specific reason. Even the glass touchscreens that are overlaid on PDA screens gives them a "coke bottle" look. I can't wait for OLED screens on laptops, with nothing between the pixel and me but air.
I burned a copy with almost no trouble; the problem is, my Dreamcast won't boot it; it treats it like a music CD and displays the ROM CD playing app. My Dreamcast is pretty new, though, and I've heard that Sega changed the ROM last November to disallow games copied using CD-R disks; has anyone booted this distro with a Dreamcast bought this year?
People have been swapping pictures on IRC forever. Many users in computer-support channels offer repositories of helpful files to other visitors. Isn't this P2P? If the only difference between Napster and the Web in terms of file swapping is that Napster is a virtual network, here is another example of a virtual network (IRC) which people have used for over a decade now to swap files for many legitimate reasons.
Slashdot Mirror
Mod parent very, very funny!
I have to say, the Sidekick really comes through for SSH. There are a few keyboard shortcuts you have to learn (and they're pretty much mnemonic once you figure out that Menu==Ctrl, but they're shown in a pop-up dialog if you forget) but braces, brackets, angles, and most other punctuation are all printed on the keyboard.
Sadly, they hurt the keyboard on the Sidekick II by recessing it so you have to hook your thumbs around the case, and by replacing the soft-topped keys with chiclets. The Sidekick 1 (both mono & color) has the best keyboard of any PDA I've ever used.
Battery life is phenomenal; I can stay online all day in AIM and SSH and still have a bar or two left over. Latency is the only real problem, and there is a line-entry mode if you want to type a long/complex command. I also like the way you can maintain several sessions concurrently.
Interesting point, but mine remains - how can you opt-out of receiving unsolicited high-velocity pellets from guns wielded by 8-year-olds and/or criminals? =)
Yep, I was shocked when I tried to use Safari. It made me angry, actually, because I was trying to use Safari on an iBook and I had to plug a mouse in to use the browser!
However, this isn't the first thing about Mac OS X to reflect poor UI design. The most obvious of these is that they copied the same mistake Windows (and a lot of sawfish themes) made - putting the window closure button right next to the window size controls. So, say, you want to make your browser window bigger, but your hand slips while moving your mouse and you push the button too early or too late and bam! That page you wanted to fill the screen has now been closed, and who knows what the URL was...
The difference between MailList being used for spam and guns killing people is that guns are DESIGNED to kill. They have no other function. There is no stun setting. And very few choose to opt-in. =)
If only I weren't so picky. *grin*
I *do* want a full-sized keyboard, just one without a numpad.
I've been watching the EluminX and its knockoffs, too, but I've been wondering when someone's going to offer a *smaller* one.
I prefer keyboards without numpads, to shorten the travel distance to the mouse (I'm a righty). I agree about the arrow keys, though.
I'm a Photoshop user and a GIMP fan.
Apple's X11 is just not a good environment for an app to run in. I've noticed a big drop in quality of the sort the author talks about too - but not between Photoshop and GIMP, no: between GIMP for Linux and GIMP for Mac. These apps need to run natively.
That said, there is also more configuration to be performed on GIMP out of the box than with Photoshop. I don't know why the default for line drawing is "perfect but slow," which is what causes those line distortions he complained about (from the GIMP's File menu, choose Preferences, then click "Image Windows" under "Interface" and un-check "Perfect-but-Slow Pointer Tracking").
GIMP is available compiled natively for Windows, but it's unstable. The best version is the one for Linux - use it there and compare that with Photoshop on Mac or Windows. You will have to learn a new interface, yes (for a while, I used nothing but the GIMP, and Photoshop seemed awkward and frustrating when I used it again; but then the GIMP seemed awkward and frustrating when I went back to it - so I understand that feeling, but the author should account for the fact that he's not used to change).
I still have my Zaurus 5000 with Wi-Fi card, but I've just switched to a Treo 300. Unless I'm at home or going someplace where I know Wi-Fi will be available (LUG meeting), it's just not likely I'll be able to find useful access casually. On the Treo, I'm able to run Mochasoft's SSH (very low resolution, but usable) from almost anywhere outdoors, and the battery life is much better on the Treo than the Zaurus + Wi-Fi. Web pages render horribly in Blazer, but if you stick to mobile sites or make your own portal with readymade deep links to the information you need most, it's quite useful. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the Treo 600's release much more so than the US release of the 700-series Zaurii. Of course, if the first US 700 has a phone built-in (not half a phone hanging down the back of the unit, please!) then I'll switch back, because the Zaurus software, including the Opera browser, is just so much more complete.
I prefer one-button dragging interfaces over right-button menu interfaces. For instance, I usually drag links in Mozilla up to the tab bar to open new tabs.
Actually, this weekend I was playing Strategic Conquest, which is at least 13 years old, on OS 10.2.6 in Classic mode. I actually downloaded it to run on my SE/30, but while I was sitting at the iBook I decided to see if it worked, and ended up spending hours battling the computer over iconic cities on polygonal islands.
Hear, hear!
But also hear: all humans have rights in America, including the right of habeus corpus, under the Constitution.
Maybe Ashcroft and W. ought to read it some time.
Even as a critic of Israel, I have to voice my dissent with THAT.
Difference 1: the Israelis aren't blowing up the holy sites of other religions (in fact, it has only been under Israeli stewardship that all three religions which claim that land as a holy place have had access to their own holy sites)
Difference 2: the Israelis aren't forcibly converting the masses to Judaism, and in fact teach evolution in schools, unlike the Taliban or, heck, Kansas.
Difference 3: the Israelis aren't stoning adulterers or crunching gays under walls (though clearly they have human rights problems of their own, including collapsing houses on people, but they are in fact still fighting a war with the Palestinians, and not meting out death as punishment through the legal system*)
Difference 4: Israeli women can work, wear whatever they like, learn to read, get an M.D., be Prime Minister (and leave the fscking house, for crying out loud), even though this is not in accordance with right-wing Orthodox Judaic beliefs.
Difference 5: Israel is not ruled by the iron grip of religious fundamentalism. It is a parliamentary democracy, like Britain and Canada. Israeli Arabs do, indeed, vote. The "Jewish" in "Jewish State" comes from its judicial system, which does base its decisions on Jewish law, but just as in the United States and other Western nations, there is a separation of power between legislation and the courts.
Difference 6: Israelis protest against their army's actions, and aren't hanged, stoned, shot, or maimed for doing so.
Should I go on?
* There is only one death penalty in Israel, which is reserved for Nazis.
And recursion is lots of fun, but I use REs to recognize and extract tokens and boundaries, because it's so easy to write and change simple REs.
There is a middle way between overly complex REs which mere mortals cannot read nor safely modify, and overly complex parsers that never take advantage anything more functional than getc().
Strange, because I tried to *buy* some magnets from them and they never replied to my voice- and e-mail.
Hmm, the www.otherpower.com site that you say the author should read, is copyright 2003 by FORCE FIELD, which is the name of the company splashed across the screen at www.wondermagnet.com, which is where the article came from.
I'm taking a class right now myself, and all of my professor's notes are on the web, too. To me, this means I don't HAVE to have a paper copy, because I can go to any computer lab, public access terminal on campus or at the library, or even a privately owned, Internet-connected PC (I know they're rare), and read these notes without having to kill a tree OR carry its poor, mutilated remains around with me.
I do carry a skinny little notepad (made out of butterfly wings and elephant ears), which I jot notes on in class, but I keep it short by avoiding redudancy with the web notes.
Seems to me that it will hurt image quality, but not for any LCD-specific reason. Even the glass touchscreens that are overlaid on PDA screens gives them a "coke bottle" look. I can't wait for OLED screens on laptops, with nothing between the pixel and me but air.
I like this one:
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/toasterpc/
As every good subject of the Crown knows, the word is "immiscible," not "unmixable."
In Defence of H.M. English,
Hon. J.N. Rose, Esq.
http://mindprod.com/images/mskeyboard.jpg
(from http://mindprod.com/jglossdsk.html)
I like having a command key so close to the left arrow key so that I can back out of writing pithy messages like this.
I burned a copy with almost no trouble; the problem is, my Dreamcast won't boot it; it treats it like a music CD and displays the ROM CD playing app. My Dreamcast is pretty new, though, and I've heard that Sega changed the ROM last November to disallow games copied using CD-R disks; has anyone booted this distro with a Dreamcast bought this year?
Right on...much of what the author says is interesting and even credible, but he really starts to venture into Bible Code territory with this stuff.
People have been swapping pictures on IRC forever. Many users in computer-support channels offer repositories of helpful files to other visitors. Isn't this P2P? If the only difference between Napster and the Web in terms of file swapping is that Napster is a virtual network, here is another example of a virtual network (IRC) which people have used for over a decade now to swap files for many legitimate reasons.