I've had my 600 for 6 months now and I've had zero problems with reliability. In fact, one of the things that has impressed me most about the 600 is how solid it is. Perhaps it's not that your Treos were built like crap, but that your employees treeated them like crap??
Agreed. I currently have a $100 1GB SD card in my Treo 600. I have no problem saving and using photos or mp3's on it, and I can even run applications off of it. Why pay extra for a big chunk of built-in memory when flash cards get cheaper all the time?
I think the headline to the AP article doesn't do justice to the spirit of the awards. It seems the awards celebrate seemingly useless discoveries. Of course, no one can say definitively that any of these discoveries won't prove useful in the future. In fact, history is littered with useless discoveries that later prove very useful (Gregor Mendel and his theories of heredity come to mind). The scientists at these awards know that, and they also know that the general public doesn't know it. It's a chance for them to come together and commiserate.
Contrast this to truly dubious science, like that practiced by that Schon guy at Bell Labs who said he could make any material a superconductor, and fudged all his data to prove it. Now that was dubious science.
You just don't get it. Your argument makes me wonder if you've ever heard of a contemporary of Franklin's, Adam Smith. We still, as in Franklin and Smith's time, live in a world of ultimate SCARCITY. THAT is the root cause of the "slave system" of which you speak -- time is scarce (and always will be), energy is scarce, and yes, despite what you say, land is also scarce.
Yes, a very few people (far fewer than you think) do not have to work at all in our system because they hold such immense wealth, but that doesn't change the fact that for our economy to function, it still requires a massive amount of human labor, both manual and mental. Stock in a company is only valuable while that company is ACTIVELY making money, and farmland is only valuable when it is in use ACTIVELY growing crops or ACTIVELY being developed. In turn, that company can only make money if someone is ACTIVELY delivering the products/services of the company to customers and someone else is ACTIVELY keeping the computers running, and the farm can only produce crops if someone is ACTIVELY harvesting them or at least keeping the machinery in good repair. You see by now, there is no wealth without labor.
What's more important is that we all use the labor of others in the same way that ours is used. I'm sure you didn't make that car you drive, nor did you make the computer that you used to post your message. If auto workers didn't have to work for money, would they get up early every morning to clock-in for backbreaking work? If chip engineers didn't need to design new chips to pick up a paycheck, would they spend hours of overtime to meet deadlines?
So, the "slave system" is not the ugly one-sided subjugation you make it out to be. In fact, it is one of mankind's most *beautiful* creations -- a system whereby you are forced to serve the will of others in order to benefit yourself. I believe Benjamin Franklin, with his "industry and frugality" motto, would tell you the same thing.
Oh, and, I honestly don't believe Franklin really had anything against intellectual property or the patenting of inventions. I know he was present at the Constitutional Convention, and as far as I know he made no fuss about giving Congress the right to grant patents. For all I know, he might have sponsored the motion. But for Franklin personally, the use and popularity of his inventions was the end in itself, not the means to fortune.
Actually, Franklin's fortune was a tidy sum, but definitely could *not* be called vast. Yes, he made good money with his print shop, newspaper, and his Almanack, but keep in mind that most of his life America was still a backwater and publishing just wasn't of the scale that it is today. Franklin's fortune was no comparison to the that of the great trade magnates of his day.
In other words, he was about as well off as a successful small businessman today, not a Rockefeller by any means.
Not really surprising, given that Franklin was a printer, newspaper publisher, almanac writer, and colonial postmaster. All of these jobs have the common thread of promoting the spread of knowledge and ideas. To Franklin, the free dissemination of new and useful ideas was the key to progress.
And yes, the other jobs supported him well enough that he didn't need to make money from his inventions.
I read the book, and it was enough for me to take Franklin on as one of my personal heroes.
"In one case, the audit found that Logicon's $3.6 million estimate of how much the state spent in one year on software maintenance was overstated by $3.2 million. This figure and others were used to bolster claims of the state's potential savings."
So, the audit is claiming that the entire state of California is only spending $400,000 a year on software maintenance? That's loaded salaries for only 3-5 people. Must be a very special group of people, to keep up the software for a whole state goverment.
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I've had my 600 for 6 months now and I've had zero problems with reliability. In fact, one of the things that has impressed me most about the 600 is how solid it is. Perhaps it's not that your Treos were built like crap, but that your employees treeated them like crap??
Agreed. I currently have a $100 1GB SD card in my Treo 600. I have no problem saving and using photos or mp3's on it, and I can even run applications off of it. Why pay extra for a big chunk of built-in memory when flash cards get cheaper all the time?
Contrast this to truly dubious science, like that practiced by that Schon guy at Bell Labs who said he could make any material a superconductor, and fudged all his data to prove it. Now that was dubious science.
Would that be a hacker who uses Viper?
You just don't get it. Your argument makes me wonder if you've ever heard of a contemporary of Franklin's, Adam Smith. We still, as in Franklin and Smith's time, live in a world of ultimate SCARCITY. THAT is the root cause of the "slave system" of which you speak -- time is scarce (and always will be), energy is scarce, and yes, despite what you say, land is also scarce.
Yes, a very few people (far fewer than you think) do not have to work at all in our system because they hold such immense wealth, but that doesn't change the fact that for our economy to function, it still requires a massive amount of human labor, both manual and mental. Stock in a company is only valuable while that company is ACTIVELY making money, and farmland is only valuable when it is in use ACTIVELY growing crops or ACTIVELY being developed. In turn, that company can only make money if someone is ACTIVELY delivering the products/services of the company to customers and someone else is ACTIVELY keeping the computers running, and the farm can only produce crops if someone is ACTIVELY harvesting them or at least keeping the machinery in good repair. You see by now, there is no wealth without labor.
What's more important is that we all use the labor of others in the same way that ours is used. I'm sure you didn't make that car you drive, nor did you make the computer that you used to post your message. If auto workers didn't have to work for money, would they get up early every morning to clock-in for backbreaking work? If chip engineers didn't need to design new chips to pick up a paycheck, would they spend hours of overtime to meet deadlines?
So, the "slave system" is not the ugly one-sided subjugation you make it out to be. In fact, it is one of mankind's most *beautiful* creations -- a system whereby you are forced to serve the will of others in order to benefit yourself. I believe Benjamin Franklin, with his "industry and frugality" motto, would tell you the same thing.
Oh, and, I honestly don't believe Franklin really had anything against intellectual property or the patenting of inventions. I know he was present at the Constitutional Convention, and as far as I know he made no fuss about giving Congress the right to grant patents. For all I know, he might have sponsored the motion. But for Franklin personally, the use and popularity of his inventions was the end in itself, not the means to fortune.
Actually, Franklin's fortune was a tidy sum, but definitely could *not* be called vast. Yes, he made good money with his print shop, newspaper, and his Almanack, but keep in mind that most of his life America was still a backwater and publishing just wasn't of the scale that it is today. Franklin's fortune was no comparison to the that of the great trade magnates of his day.
In other words, he was about as well off as a successful small businessman today, not a Rockefeller by any means.
Not really surprising, given that Franklin was a printer, newspaper publisher, almanac writer, and colonial postmaster. All of these jobs have the common thread of promoting the spread of knowledge and ideas. To Franklin, the free dissemination of new and useful ideas was the key to progress.
And yes, the other jobs supported him well enough that he didn't need to make money from his inventions.
I read the book, and it was enough for me to take Franklin on as one of my personal heroes.
"In one case, the audit found that Logicon's $3.6 million estimate of how much the state spent in one year on software maintenance was overstated by $3.2 million. This figure and others were used to bolster claims of the state's potential savings."
So, the audit is claiming that the entire state of California is only spending $400,000 a year on software maintenance? That's loaded salaries for only 3-5 people. Must be a very special group of people, to keep up the software for a whole state goverment.