True, the palm Vx was the Perfect Palm:) Too bad they killed it. Id still buy one today if i was in the market. I guess the size is personal preference. The Vx ruled because it was small. I hate the tiny palms now too. Like my T615C, large, but not large. You konw what i mean.
As evil as Sony is, they're eating Palm in the handheld market, IMO. You can't deny that their Clie line is pretty damn sexy. Most have color screens, silver casings, chrome accents, and the screens are marvelous to look at (320x320 color). Plus even their budget palms use rechargable batteries.
In addition, look at some of the cool things Sony builds in. My clie has a built in mp3 player, works off a memory stick. Their newest line is very different, it flips open at the top, and you have a keyboard and a screen all in one. And thats a 480 by 320 screen, if i remember right. Plus you can get that with a digital camera.
Palm, only entry level people are going to pay for what you're selling. Look at what other companies are doing, and make the best looking, great-screened, multi function Palm device out there. Maybe then i'll start looking at you when I need a new palm.
Exactly what our community did:D Picture a 2 foot diameter flagpole with somethign that looks like one of those little flags you'd fly off your antenna or something. Its kinda funny actually
Look at some of the Sony Clie handhelds out there, sleek cases, 320 x 320 screens, and (at least mine has) 16 bit color. Absolutely beautiful. Add in a mp3 player and they look quite attractive:)
In the MSNBC article, there is a quote "By rewriting wiretap laws, CSEA would allow limited surveillance without a court order when there is an "ongoing attack" on an Internet-connected computer or "an immediate threat to a national security interest." That kind of surveillance would, however, be limited to obtaining a suspect's telephone number, IP address, URLs or e-mail header information--not the contents of online communications or telephone calls. ". So you have to figure, there's always an attack going on somewhere on an internet-connected computer. Heck, even wargaming would be covered. So i think the feds just got a freebie there, and im sure if your email or URLs indicate you like computers, and THEY are watching you...things could be doubleplusungood. Yes the 1984 word there IS intentional.
The sad part is, i doubt many people will fight this. Sure, the media will acknowledge its existance, but will say that it makes life sentences available for hackers who damage our infrastructure, and further hurt digital terrorists in our country (clip of something in there). Nobody will hear about the invasion of privacy stuff. Oh wait--what privacy. Sorry, guess i forgot that its not for your average American Citizen.
Learning can be fun, and still be effective. When you get in to a project, you generally have fun doing so. I like my job because its challenging, and makes me think. Its pretty good for a 17 year old high school kid to be doing CAD work.
There's a difference between "learning games" and programs like this. This teaches real world problem solving, construction techniques, electronics, and a host of other things. I learned about.ohh lets see here. Electronics, machining, construction, hydraulics, pneumatics, cars, acting, improvisation, teamwork, leadership, writing, high level physics, animatronics/robotics, all through "fun" learning activities. Check out www.dini.org. Things like this are good in schools. Id seriously bet that you'd see higher interest among some kids with things like this in place. I mean comeon, kids like violence. hehe. Plus its something to get involved in and not the standard "sit down and learn from ME because i am GOD now" educational model.
Hmm.... If i have to click yes to accept the Windows EULA....what happens if i click "NO". Seriously. This is a legit question....well....as least as legit as anything can be at 12:10 in the morning loaded up on caffeine. Back to my question.... If i were to click no on such an agreement... Would the computer just shut down and wait for me to turn it back on again... Or would it be cool enough to erase Windows from the hard drive. Neat way around the Microsoft tax.
I dont know much about the Zaurus...I dont own one. However, how hard would it be to write an emulator of sorts to run PalmOS applications on it....or port PalmOS stuff to the Zaurus? Seems that since it runs linux (well...sort of) it should be possible.
Seriously....an emulator for Palm could do this well. I know if i was getting a PDA again....i most likely would buy this for the strangeness factor of it. However, most of my friends wouldnt. In fact, i was talking to one...and his first concern was software. Not everyone is a programmer or wishes to learn. Until Sharp and the whole community starts doing stuff and writing programs for those people, this is going to remain a product targeted for a specail group of people.
AAACK the dreaded dead hands strike again. I meant to say that i dont think it will do too much good. AFAIK some laptops still use NiCd batteries, although not many. can anyone say memory effect?
This sounds like a good idea. It is just so fun running out of battery power on a nice trip......this could help cure. It says it charges the battery. Well, does this mean i have to take the battery out of my laptop or buy a spare and charge it or something? Just how well would a battery react to this kind of charge? Im no expert, but i dont think being charged at changing rates for a short period of time will do too much good for those 100+ dollar batteries.
Also....looking at some of the people this would be marketed to, that five minutes of vigorous activity...man that could be a killer. I would think something like those crank powered radios would work....use the crank or pedal to wind a spring to get that five minutes of power. Or use a nice sized flywheel in there to help it. Should be interesting to see what happens with this.....
Wouldn't it make sense for NASA to plan for these things? Realizing that this satellite has been up there since '92, but still....They must know that things will happen. How much more would it take to add some sort of small steering package to keep the possibility of this thing crashing in a populated area down, or even keeping some maneuvering fuel ?!?!?
"The probability of the few EUVE surviving pieces falling into a populated area and hurting someone is very small," said Ronald Mahmot" Yes the probability is small, but wouldn't that be a sucky day? Im serious, lets PLAN for these things to happen so that we can make sure it WON'T fall in a populatd area at all....
I was wondering this too.....sort of. Im a junior in priso.....err school so i need to look closely at which colleges i want. Taken 2 semesters of VB, hated it. Im going to learn c or perl or something like that soon. In the cisco web-based class, CCNA i think? Anyways, as a student who likes more of the physical side of things....networking, repairing systems, things like that rather than programming, what should i take? It sounded like CIS was good.....but im not sure now. Lots of stuff flying around here.....im confused! Im just not sure if a CS degree would be what i am really intersted in. If you guys have any advice, it would be very welcome!
Being a high school student......i can say i work on holidays. Not just on school schiznit but i also have a job!!!! AARGH!. Seriously, today i had to work on a project for school and also spent about 6 hours on the job. Well i work at home but still..... My dad who is self employed, worked too. I suppose it is the same type of pattern for many of those who are self employed.
Obviously, if this plane has been flying and usable for the past forty years, the designers must have done something right. For the role it plays, its perfect. I think the role of strategic bomber has been relegated to such planes as the B-2. So, for carpet bombing, you want a plane thats big and has a long range. Screw the air defense because by now you should have air control. I'd hate to see what designing and the contract for a new plane would be just because this is "too old"
If you think about it, there really wouldn't be that much needed to make these planes more modern. Yes the computer upgrade would be necessary in my mind. Add the new navigation and targeting radar systems, if that hasn't been done already. I suppose the radar jammers, (if they have them?) would be good enough. The um....idea that they're working off of now is fighting third-world countries. They'll be using old radar. So the old jammers are what you need. If newer ones are needed, use the pod (forget the name off the top of my head).
And this thing is IMPRESSIVE. If you've seen one, its hard to imagine it flying, even more so with the amount of ordinance it can carry. And what's more demoralizing that being carpet-bombed by one of these old big planes? Well maybe beign hit by a bomb.......but thats besides the point.
So maybe what needs to be the area of concern is not the age, but the capacity and reliability of these planes.
The only thing with STP is that if your installer doesn't know what know what he or she is doing.....it gets messy. All that nice shieiding......think a nice big antenna. MAKE SURE that shielding is grounded. No, make sure its grounded! Screened twisted pair (ScTP) is a little better. STP has shielding around the whoe cable, as well as each two pairs. Screened just has the outer shield, which works just fien from my experience.
yep Rainbow 6, good read.
You wanna read smething scary, read Storming Heaven by Dale Brown. Its freaky. Its about planes......and them crashing in to certain things
I dont think the issue of bombing is what they're worrying about here. At least for me, i'd be worrying about diseases, not just anthrax which is supposed to be not that communicable, but other disesases such as smallpox.
Heres the scenerio. Man brings bag of anthrax in pants pocket(or even better, crotch it) to show. He breaks in to the maintenence room, spreads it in to the outlet duct of the HVAC system. Now, anthrax is hard to spread, but you still might get a few people. It takes about 8,000 spores to infect a person, from what i read somewhere. Im sure you could get a few people with a small baggie full.
This talks about visitors to the show. But, what about the maintenence staff that works there? The janitors? Heck, even the people running the show. We'd hope they all are honest and reputable. But then, if it was my life, I'd want them checked too. Heck, if i was trying something, i'd pose as a maintenence man! More freedom to go anywhere, carry large items, did the organizers think of that?
I like the fact that they're at least trying to do something though.. Maybe they should be just a little less restrictive. I mean, its a computer show! And people can't bring their computers in?
I remember in our Biology class we were watching something on this once. There was this really interesting computer-generated image of South America/ the amazon--without the trees. Whole place was covered with these craters. I wish i had been able to get that video, was kind of scary. So im sure things like this have happened before.
The only reason we see so few of these impact craters is that Earth's crust keeps changing. Without it, we'd look like the moon. Sure that would foster growth of civilization.
After weeks of conference calls and quiet rallying of the troops, technology companies including
Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Compaq Computer held a coming-out press conference Monday to oppose
a broad copyright protection proposal being backed by Walt Disney and Sen. Ernest Hollings Wow, maybe they realize this'll be bad for business? I mean to the average consumer, nobody will really care, they'll see it as being just another development or something. But most/. readers (me included) would avoid anyone who does back this bill. Good move, however, why don't we see more companies like AMD and some of the linux distributors backing this? If i were them, i'd be listening to my market and tearing this apart!
The bill would bar the sale of any "interactive digital device" that did not have the anti-piracy
technology built in I don't think most people realize what that means, and i think that's what these companies need to do. They have the money, now start advertising. Make sure people know how restrictive this is. I know somebody said this in a discussion yesterday, but oh well. Show a cartoon of a kid trying to print a picture for school and being taken to prison and being abused there. Finally, there's some compainies opposing this, at least a little bit!
Obviously the strategy of wait until virii come out ISN'T working, so at least theyre trying to do something else to combat this problem. As a person who has lost many, many hours of work due to a virus attack, I know what it's like to get screwed over by one. However, I don't think prison time will do anything, just make these people more pissed off, let them learn more, and make more criminals.
I hate when this happens, but i really don't have any good solutions. Charge them fines, well, thats the same thing as prisons. Maybe the solution is to be proactive and make software programs that can't be attacked with viruses, that learn from past mistakes, not keep doing things the same old way and only act when somebody notices.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but hey, what the heck?
I really don't like this idea, let me get that out here first. However, i do see some strong points to this, IF the government/industries don't abuse it. ``Four Arab-looking guys reading the Koran are much less suspicious if they have the cards and can just slash them through card readers,'' he said. Yes, i could see that happening. I can also see that people are still going to be wary. Nothing changes. But now, what does that card really tell you? That this is john doe and you can be REALLY sure of that? I never saw anything that would include a psychological profile and a detailed history of my life!
Also, i have a feeling many of us are subject to that kind of thing now. At least in our school, and some other ones i know of, you are required to carry your ID on you at all times. If you dont, they can put you in detention, however their logic works. We used to have to freakin wear them! So many of us coming from school, or othr jobs where we have to do this are used to this kind of thing.
I guess this could be benificial too. Gives me less stuff to carry in my wallet. One less thing to lose. BUT, if i do lose it im screwed royally basically and i dont want anyone being able to see all my personal info!
Hmm, follows the normal Intel marketing trend. Make new processor, make it use a proprietery motherboard, and clean up on the profits after making everyone else believe that its the fastest thing out there. BUT, won't this backfire? Intel seems to be pushing the "Megahertz Myth" pretty hard. To the average consumer, Pentium 3 1.2 gigahertz is not as good as that pretty new Pentium 4 2 gigahertz processor. We shall see......
This opens up so many possibilities! Like the article mentioned, satellite station keeping for one. Also, we would know exactly where they were (well, down to a few dozen meters at least) for avoidane and things like that.
Also, so much is said about the problems of space debris. GPS recievers can be small, small enough to attach to debris. Yes, placing it on every little thing could suck, but on the larger things that pose a real hazard. I know there is a project to map the sky's debris, forgot the link. Now, astronauts could know in real time where this stuff is.
Using this for navigation might not work now. As far out as you are, the satellites are really close together, and any errors you see now are going to be much larger. But, we could place GPS satellites orbiting other bodies to use for solar system navigation. LIke i said, lots of possibilites.
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I'll second that modding request. Quite good.....quite good. Very classy.
True, the palm Vx was the Perfect Palm :) Too bad they killed it. Id still buy one today if i was in the market. I guess the size is personal preference. The Vx ruled because it was small. I hate the tiny palms now too. Like my T615C, large, but not large. You konw what i mean.
As evil as Sony is, they're eating Palm in the handheld market, IMO. You can't deny that their Clie line is pretty damn sexy. Most have color screens, silver casings, chrome accents, and the screens are marvelous to look at (320x320 color). Plus even their budget palms use rechargable batteries.
In addition, look at some of the cool things Sony builds in. My clie has a built in mp3 player, works off a memory stick. Their newest line is very different, it flips open at the top, and you have a keyboard and a screen all in one. And thats a 480 by 320 screen, if i remember right. Plus you can get that with a digital camera.
Palm, only entry level people are going to pay for what you're selling. Look at what other companies are doing, and make the best looking, great-screened, multi function Palm device out there. Maybe then i'll start looking at you when I need a new palm.
Exactly what our community did :D Picture a 2 foot diameter flagpole with somethign that looks like one of those little flags you'd fly off your antenna or something. Its kinda funny actually
Look at some of the Sony Clie handhelds out there, sleek cases, 320 x 320 screens, and (at least mine has) 16 bit color. Absolutely beautiful. Add in a mp3 player and they look quite attractive :)
The sad part is, i doubt many people will fight this. Sure, the media will acknowledge its existance, but will say that it makes life sentences available for hackers who damage our infrastructure, and further hurt digital terrorists in our country (clip of something in there). Nobody will hear about the invasion of privacy stuff. Oh wait--what privacy. Sorry, guess i forgot that its not for your average American Citizen.
There's a difference between "learning games" and programs like this. This teaches real world problem solving, construction techniques, electronics, and a host of other things. I learned about.ohh lets see here. Electronics, machining, construction, hydraulics, pneumatics, cars, acting, improvisation, teamwork, leadership, writing, high level physics, animatronics/robotics, all through "fun" learning activities. Check out www.dini.org. Things like this are good in schools. Id seriously bet that you'd see higher interest among some kids with things like this in place. I mean comeon, kids like violence. hehe. Plus its something to get involved in and not the standard "sit down and learn from ME because i am GOD now" educational model.
Hmm.... If i have to click yes to accept the Windows EULA....what happens if i click "NO". Seriously. This is a legit question....well....as least as legit as anything can be at 12:10 in the morning loaded up on caffeine. Back to my question.... If i were to click no on such an agreement... Would the computer just shut down and wait for me to turn it back on again... Or would it be cool enough to erase Windows from the hard drive. Neat way around the Microsoft tax.
Its late. It made sense when i typed it
Seriously....an emulator for Palm could do this well. I know if i was getting a PDA again....i most likely would buy this for the strangeness factor of it. However, most of my friends wouldnt. In fact, i was talking to one...and his first concern was software. Not everyone is a programmer or wishes to learn. Until Sharp and the whole community starts doing stuff and writing programs for those people, this is going to remain a product targeted for a specail group of people.
AAACK the dreaded dead hands strike again. I meant to say that i dont think it will do too much good. AFAIK some laptops still use NiCd batteries, although not many. can anyone say memory effect?
Also....looking at some of the people this would be marketed to, that five minutes of vigorous activity...man that could be a killer. I would think something like those crank powered radios would work....use the crank or pedal to wind a spring to get that five minutes of power. Or use a nice sized flywheel in there to help it. Should be interesting to see what happens with this.....
"The probability of the few EUVE surviving pieces falling into a populated area and hurting someone is very small," said Ronald Mahmot" Yes the probability is small, but wouldn't that be a sucky day? Im serious, lets PLAN for these things to happen so that we can make sure it WON'T fall in a populatd area at all....
I was wondering this too.....sort of. Im a junior in priso.....err school so i need to look closely at which colleges i want. Taken 2 semesters of VB, hated it. Im going to learn c or perl or something like that soon. In the cisco web-based class, CCNA i think? Anyways, as a student who likes more of the physical side of things....networking, repairing systems, things like that rather than programming, what should i take? It sounded like CIS was good.....but im not sure now. Lots of stuff flying around here.....im confused! Im just not sure if a CS degree would be what i am really intersted in. If you guys have any advice, it would be very welcome!
Being a high school student......i can say i work on holidays. Not just on school schiznit but i also have a job!!!! AARGH!. Seriously, today i had to work on a project for school and also spent about 6 hours on the job. Well i work at home but still..... My dad who is self employed, worked too. I suppose it is the same type of pattern for many of those who are self employed.
jw if anyone can answer this...... wouldn't that be bad for the blades?
when they're right next to eachother..can't imagine that would be goood
If you think about it, there really wouldn't be that much needed to make these planes more modern. Yes the computer upgrade would be necessary in my mind. Add the new navigation and targeting radar systems, if that hasn't been done already. I suppose the radar jammers, (if they have them?) would be good enough. The um....idea that they're working off of now is fighting third-world countries. They'll be using old radar. So the old jammers are what you need. If newer ones are needed, use the pod (forget the name off the top of my head).
And this thing is IMPRESSIVE. If you've seen one, its hard to imagine it flying, even more so with the amount of ordinance it can carry. And what's more demoralizing that being carpet-bombed by one of these old big planes? Well maybe beign hit by a bomb.......but thats besides the point.
So maybe what needs to be the area of concern is not the age, but the capacity and reliability of these planes.
The only thing with STP is that if your installer doesn't know what know what he or she is doing.....it gets messy. All that nice shieiding......think a nice big antenna. MAKE SURE that shielding is grounded. No, make sure its grounded! Screened twisted pair (ScTP) is a little better. STP has shielding around the whoe cable, as well as each two pairs. Screened just has the outer shield, which works just fien from my experience.
yep Rainbow 6, good read.
You wanna read smething scary, read Storming Heaven by Dale Brown. Its freaky. Its about planes......and them crashing in to certain things
Heres the scenerio. Man brings bag of anthrax in pants pocket(or even better, crotch it) to show. He breaks in to the maintenence room, spreads it in to the outlet duct of the HVAC system. Now, anthrax is hard to spread, but you still might get a few people. It takes about 8,000 spores to infect a person, from what i read somewhere. Im sure you could get a few people with a small baggie full.
This talks about visitors to the show. But, what about the maintenence staff that works there? The janitors? Heck, even the people running the show. We'd hope they all are honest and reputable. But then, if it was my life, I'd want them checked too. Heck, if i was trying something, i'd pose as a maintenence man! More freedom to go anywhere, carry large items, did the organizers think of that?
I like the fact that they're at least trying to do something though.. Maybe they should be just a little less restrictive. I mean, its a computer show! And people can't bring their computers in?
The only reason we see so few of these impact craters is that Earth's crust keeps changing. Without it, we'd look like the moon. Sure that would foster growth of civilization.
Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Compaq Computer held a coming-out press conference Monday to oppose
a broad copyright protection proposal being backed by Walt Disney and Sen. Ernest Hollings Wow, maybe they realize this'll be bad for business? I mean to the average consumer, nobody will really care, they'll see it as being just another development or something. But most
The bill would bar the sale of any "interactive digital device" that did not have the anti-piracy
technology built in I don't think most people realize what that means, and i think that's what these companies need to do. They have the money, now start advertising. Make sure people know how restrictive this is. I know somebody said this in a discussion yesterday, but oh well. Show a cartoon of a kid trying to print a picture for school and being taken to prison and being abused there. Finally, there's some compainies opposing this, at least a little bit!
I hate when this happens, but i really don't have any good solutions. Charge them fines, well, thats the same thing as prisons. Maybe the solution is to be proactive and make software programs that can't be attacked with viruses, that learn from past mistakes, not keep doing things the same old way and only act when somebody notices.
I really don't like this idea, let me get that out here first. However, i do see some strong points to this, IF the government/industries don't abuse it. ``Four Arab-looking guys reading the Koran are much less suspicious if they have the cards and can just slash them through card readers,'' he said. Yes, i could see that happening. I can also see that people are still going to be wary. Nothing changes. But now, what does that card really tell you? That this is john doe and you can be REALLY sure of that? I never saw anything that would include a psychological profile and a detailed history of my life!
Also, i have a feeling many of us are subject to that kind of thing now. At least in our school, and some other ones i know of, you are required to carry your ID on you at all times. If you dont, they can put you in detention, however their logic works. We used to have to freakin wear them! So many of us coming from school, or othr jobs where we have to do this are used to this kind of thing.
I guess this could be benificial too. Gives me less stuff to carry in my wallet. One less thing to lose. BUT, if i do lose it im screwed royally basically and i dont want anyone being able to see all my personal info!
Hmm, follows the normal Intel marketing trend. Make new processor, make it use a proprietery motherboard, and clean up on the profits after making everyone else believe that its the fastest thing out there. BUT, won't this backfire? Intel seems to be pushing the "Megahertz Myth" pretty hard. To the average consumer, Pentium 3 1.2 gigahertz is not as good as that pretty new Pentium 4 2 gigahertz processor. We shall see......
This opens up so many possibilities! Like the article mentioned, satellite station keeping for one. Also, we would know exactly where they were (well, down to a few dozen meters at least) for avoidane and things like that.
Also, so much is said about the problems of space debris. GPS recievers can be small, small enough to attach to debris. Yes, placing it on every little thing could suck, but on the larger things that pose a real hazard. I know there is a project to map the sky's debris, forgot the link. Now, astronauts could know in real time where this stuff is.
Using this for navigation might not work now. As far out as you are, the satellites are really close together, and any errors you see now are going to be much larger. But, we could place GPS satellites orbiting other bodies to use for solar system navigation. LIke i said, lots of possibilites.