I think that part of the problem is the price of the Zaurus series . . . They seem to sit around a $500-$600 price point . . . which is loads higher than the typical pricepoint of the Palm or IPAQ line
Mod parent up. I looked really hard at the Zaurus when buying my current PDA. I wanted to run Linux on it like on my home machine. Problem was that when comparing the specs on the Zaurus at $600 it was blown away by the PocketPC I eventually bought. It's a Dell Axim X30 High, which I picked up for $270.
$500 - $600 for a handheld is just too much.
BTW - No usable familiar/opie available for the axim x30 yet, but I guess give it a year or 2 and it will be:)
The only time I had a genuine UI problem with a car was when I drove a Saab, but didn't know that I had to put it in reverse in order to get the key out of the ignition (it's an anti-theft feature). Now that's non-intuitive user interface design.
My car has a completely different set of layout for dash controls from my girlfriends. The gears are in different places on the stick, and the feel of the clutch is completely different.
Well, it's not always that simple. Tried driving a left hand drive *and* right hand drive car ?
Fortunately, the pedals are in the same position otherwise I would have had a lot of accidents.Also the gear layouts for manuals are in the same position too - at least in the cars I've been in. Otherwise I would have been starting out in reverse a fair bit.
But there is one thing that catches me out until I re-familiarize myself with the 'interface'. I do have a tendency to turn on the wipers when I'm making a turn for a while. The clusters on the columns are reversed!
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Now if the bulb is included with the price of the projector due to a 'distribution' agreement, you don't have to pay for it at all!
Another benefit is that you'll find that the up front costs of the bulb are far outweighed by the cheaper costs of the maintenance people you could hire to change that bulb. Forget the fact that having the projector burn out every week or so will leave you with nothing!
What you are talking about is Total Cost of Ownership. This has proven to be irrelevant time and time again in corporations, so why would you worry about it?
Me and a couple of mates used to occasionally (and deliberately) rent the worst sci-fi/horror movie we could find at the local video store.
These were the kind of movies that drove you to drink. Cheesy special effects really add to a movie.
Of those, there were several spoofs that didn't really make it. They were probably the worst. Lobster Man from Mars and Amazon Women on the Moon come to mind.
Of the others, C.H.U.D. springs to mind. For months, people were asking us what a CHUD was.
All together now: "Cannabilistic! Humanoid! Underground! Dweller!"
This reminds me of a story an art teacher told me years ago.
There was a contest between two artists they were famous ones - Michelangelo, Davinci or something, but I wasn't paying attention and art isn't my strength.
Anyways, the first guy steps up to the easel everyone's wondering what brilliant piece of art he is going to produce. He draws a circle. That's all - just a circle. But the shocked onlookers start to look more closely. They get out their tools and it turns out it is a perfect circle drawn freehand. Everyone is suitably impressed.
Now it's the second guys turn and no-one can imagine what he can possibly put on his canvas to top the first guy. He walks over to the other guys canvas and puts a dot on it. Yep, you guessed it. It was in the dead center of the circle.
I'm just wondering if these are urban legends or something like that.
1566 X Server cluster? That should get some decent FPS.
Ohhhh. XServe. My bad.
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That's close. According to Chemical Division of Los Alamos National Labs, the history of alumin(i)um is:
(L. alumen: alum) The ancient Greeks and Romans used alum as an astringent and as a mordant in dyeing. In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name alumine for the base in alum, and Lavoisier, in 1787, thought this to be the oxide of a still undiscovered metal.
Wohler is generally credited with having isolated the metal in 1827, although an impure form was prepared by Oersted two years earlier. In 1807, Davy proposed the name aluminum for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements, and this spelling is now in use elsewhere in the world.
Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society officially decided to use the name aluminum thereafter in their publications.
So it changed in the 1920's. I guess all that Charlston'ing went to people's heads.
However, my first experience with 9.1 was not impressive. I tried to update my laptop, instead of reinstalling. The result was far from good.
I've upgraded my machines from 8.2 to 9.0, then from 9.0 to 9.1. Both upgrades worked well. Both times my machines were fully up to date with latest patches before upgrading and I don't go pulling the latest kernels or X or whatever. Well,there are a couple of apps (mplayer, wine) that I grab directly, but if that's the case I don't use RPMs and I expect to recompile and reinstall them. After all, what's the point of using a distro if you're going to hack it yourself?
One area that has peeved me off is that I couldn't even boot from the 9.0 and 9.1 CDs/DVD. But I came across a really useful trick. You can boot the old 8.2 cd, and when you get to the Install options screen, you switch the CD/DVD to the later CD/DVD.Hit the Upgrade and away you go!
What I find disconcerting is how much of this is making it out into the public. Don't these people clear with PR before voicing all these claims? Honestly, all these conflicting reports are just plain unprofessional.
I reckon it was some 'nobody' in Australia getting interviewed, running his mouth off and not realising he was getting quoted. Now HQ is scrambling to cover for him.
Seriously, didn't they just have their big quarterly shindig that week in China? Yeah - here it is. So if he was important he would be there. If they were announcing anything this big, they would have done it there, right? That's where they announced Solaris open source.
If Sun opens up the source for Solaris, that might includes the code for Unix ! Does that mean no more guessing about SCO?
Schwartz from eweek interview: We took a license from AT&T initially for $100 million as we didn't own the IP. The license we took also made clear that we had rights equivalent to ownership.
and the Register:
"Sun has taken delight in watching this IP battle play out. Scott McNealy, CEO at Sun, said the company paid $100 million to use Unix "free and clear".
OK, so did anyone ask Linus what his opinion was about me supporting only 1 distro, because I can't possibly rely on different distros being compatible and can't afford to test on every one?
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And the fair maiden
it did not save.
the LED lit up
passing a microwave
And a wireless phone
in the 2.4GHz band
again did cause
light on my hand.
DRM or no, there's a project at handhelds.org so we can get this Windows stuff off it. If anyone can lend a hand, it would be much appreciated !!
If they are concerned over a lawsuit, then why can't they just call their product an uninstaller.
I went and checked out where Genetic Savings and Clone was located and their HQ backs onto an ancient Indian Burial Ground !!
Mod parent up. I looked really hard at the Zaurus when buying my current PDA. I wanted to run Linux on it like on my home machine. Problem was that when comparing the specs on the Zaurus at $600 it was blown away by the PocketPC I eventually bought. It's a Dell Axim X30 High, which I picked up for $270.
$500 - $600 for a handheld is just too much.
BTW - No usable familiar/opie available for the axim x30 yet, but I guess give it a year or 2 and it will be :)
The only time I had a genuine UI problem with a car was when I drove a Saab, but didn't know that I had to put it in reverse in order to get the key out of the ignition (it's an anti-theft feature). Now that's non-intuitive user interface design.
Security by obscurity?
Well, it's not always that simple. Tried driving a left hand drive *and* right hand drive car ?
Fortunately, the pedals are in the same position otherwise I would have had a lot of accidents.Also the gear layouts for manuals are in the same position too - at least in the cars I've been in. Otherwise I would have been starting out in reverse a fair bit.
But there is one thing that catches me out until I re-familiarize myself with the 'interface'. I do have a tendency to turn on the wipers when I'm making a turn for a while. The clusters on the columns are reversed! ws
It's like a cross between the Thunderbirds car and a Citroen!
You've got it all wrong!
Now if the bulb is included with the price of the projector due to a 'distribution' agreement, you don't have to pay for it at all!
Another benefit is that you'll find that the up front costs of the bulb are far outweighed by the cheaper costs of the maintenance people you could hire to change that bulb. Forget the fact that having the projector burn out every week or so will leave you with nothing!
What you are talking about is Total Cost of Ownership. This has proven to be irrelevant time and time again in corporations, so why would you worry about it?
I write for a living, in a newspaper. .... ...the MS lawyers would have a defamitation suit field day if I make the slightest mistake.
defamitation? Hope you writers have spell checkers.
Doesn't most MS products actually charge per CAL/per user, or have some sort of hybrid "Pay $X for machine + x CAL's, and then $Y/CAL"
If that's the case, then there is virtually no difference!
I can't wait for the spam people and porn sites to get a hold of semantic web technology.
The meaning of is V1.agra and C011.3G3 GIRLZ!
Me and a couple of mates used to occasionally (and deliberately) rent the worst sci-fi/horror movie we could find at the local video store.
These were the kind of movies that drove you to drink. Cheesy special effects really add to a movie.
Of those, there were several spoofs that didn't really make it. They were probably the worst. Lobster Man from Mars and Amazon Women on the Moon come to mind.
Of the others, C.H.U.D. springs to mind. For months, people were asking us what a CHUD was.
All together now:
"Cannabilistic! Humanoid! Underground! Dweller!"
IBM doesn't distribute Linux. That's why they use SuSE (or Red Hat).
Have you ever wondered why they -and all the other large,established IT vendors- don't?
You can bet their lawyers are telling them it's for this exact reason.The patents issue.
And in case you're wondering. No, I'm not an MS troll.
925 million 12 packs of beer on the wall
925 million 12 packs of beer
take one down
pass it around
924 million 9 hundred and 99 thous...
err, fuck it and pass me a beer.
This reminds me of a story an art teacher told me years ago.
There was a contest between two artists they were famous ones - Michelangelo, Davinci or something, but I wasn't paying attention and art isn't my strength.
Anyways, the first guy steps up to the easel everyone's wondering what brilliant piece of art he is going to produce. He draws a circle. That's all - just a circle. But the shocked onlookers start to look more closely. They get out their tools and it turns out it is a perfect circle drawn freehand. Everyone is suitably impressed.
Now it's the second guys turn and no-one can imagine what he can possibly put on his canvas to top the first guy. He walks over to the other guys canvas and puts a dot on it. Yep, you guessed it. It was in the dead center of the circle.
I'm just wondering if these are urban legends or something like that.
That's it.
I'm changing my name to "Fuck Off Pig".
1566 X Server cluster? That should get some decent FPS.
Ohhhh. XServe. My bad.
(L. alumen: alum) The ancient Greeks and Romans used alum as an astringent and as a mordant in dyeing. In 1761 de Morveau proposed the name alumine for the base in alum, and Lavoisier, in 1787, thought this to be the oxide of a still undiscovered metal.
Wohler is generally credited with having isolated the metal in 1827, although an impure form was prepared by Oersted two years earlier. In 1807, Davy proposed the name aluminum for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum. Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements, and this spelling is now in use elsewhere in the world.
Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society officially decided to use the name aluminum thereafter in their publications.
So it changed in the 1920's. I guess all that Charlston'ing went to people's heads.
I've upgraded my machines from 8.2 to 9.0, then from 9.0 to 9.1. Both upgrades worked well. Both times my machines were fully up to date with latest patches before upgrading and I don't go pulling the latest kernels or X or whatever. Well,there are a couple of apps (mplayer, wine) that I grab directly, but if that's the case I don't use RPMs and I expect to recompile and reinstall them. After all, what's the point of using a distro if you're going to hack it yourself?
One area that has peeved me off is that I couldn't even boot from the 9.0 and 9.1 CDs/DVD. But I came across a really useful trick. You can boot the old 8.2 cd, and when you get to the Install options screen, you switch the CD/DVD to the later CD/DVD.Hit the Upgrade and away you go!
I reckon it was some 'nobody' in Australia getting interviewed, running his mouth off and not realising he was getting quoted. Now HQ is scrambling to cover for him.
Seriously, didn't they just have their big quarterly shindig that week in China? Yeah - here it is. So if he was important he would be there. If they were announcing anything this big, they would have done it there, right? That's where they announced Solaris open source.
Schwartz from eweek interview: We took a license from AT&T initially for $100 million as we didn't own the IP. The license we took also made clear that we had rights equivalent to ownership.
and the Register: "Sun has taken delight in watching this IP battle play out. Scott McNealy, CEO at Sun, said the company paid $100 million to use Unix "free and clear".
I might, or I might not.
But I'm damn sure I'm not giving free market research to Microsoft.
...I also think it is admirable that they are taking responsibility for the damage in some way. Props to Microsoft.
Oh, come on troll! You call that taking responsibility?
How about paying for the time of all the admins that have been running around patching systems to get rid of it?
OK, so did anyone ask Linus what his opinion was about me supporting only 1 distro, because I can't possibly rely on different distros being compatible and can't afford to test on every one?