Holy crap! I looked at this thing over a year ago, and even talked to a representative from the company that said it would be ready bye April 2001. I haven't heard anything from FIC so I just assumed it was another project down the drains. This is great news. It's going to be an awesome product!
Interesting stuff. If it as good as it sounds I'd be interested. I'm still in the process of downloading Star Office 6.0 after waiting all day to be able to connect to their servers. Too bad they aren't going to offer some type of limited demo of the product.
He's right. I also use Word Smith with a palm portable keyboard and a Palm IIIc. Not only is it a good doc program, it is also a good memo program that can do formatting (bold, itallic, underline), and it syncs perfectly with jpilot.
.94 & previous releases seem to have memory le
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This seems to have been a re-occuring problem among all of the releases, but even worse with.94 (.93 seemed to be getting better). Here are my specs : 1.2 ghz athlon w/ 266 fsb, 266MB PC133, gf2 ultra, sblive 5.1...)
I started mozilla having 136 MB with the buffers & cached memory. After about an hour or so of watching realplayer videos in cnn & abc and going to various sites I had only 85 MB free with buffers & cached memory included. I noticed a very aparent slowdown in the way programs loaded. I closed the window with realplayer with no ram gain. I then clozed mozilla. and my free memory went back up to 135 or so.
This may be caused by the fact that I have 4-5 windows open at once. I later tried using the "flush memory" option which only freed up about 5-10MB. The older versions seemed to have much less of this problem, but it was still noticeable. I use opera 5.05TP1 and it not only loads in a second or two, but is much faster at loading web pages and allows you to have up to 10 or more pages open at once in one opera window. This is quite nice for the way I browse. Unfortunately It does not have real player support, but id does have java & flash suport.
I use my Palm Pilot IIIc extensively in school, and at home. It's an invaluable tool for contacting parents as to the location of my sister...but that's off topic.
In school I use my Palm IIIc as a word processor and I have been for over a year. Using it with the Palm Portable Keyboard, I can easily fit both into my pockets, and yet have the ability to quickly take notes at over 100 wpm, and write rough drafts of essays on my palm, type Do-Nows, and type up labs.
I also use it as an interactive agenda that is much easier to use and access then the paper one handed out by the school.
Lastly I use it to remember all the phone numbers that I otherwise would forget. I have other uses but these are the ones that I use mainly in school.
As for games, I really don't play them in class unless I have a subsitute and have already completed my work. I do this because I know that using my Palm is a right, and not a privilage.
At first my teachers were speptical of its uses, but by the end of the year most students were in awe of it's usefullness (no need to write a rough draft, only to type it up at home), and teachers were also impressed with it's functionality compared to using pen & paper.
I can't use a laptop in my High School because it is prohibited until you become a senior, and I am entering my Jenior year in a few weeks.
I used QuickWord + doc files (purchased) last year with Windows 98, but this year I am using WordSmith and the memo format unless it goes over 4k at which time I'd use the doc format and do a backup of the palm (there is no easy to use two way conduit for linux).
Although this may be a slight setback, I think I will be able to do everything I did in Windows in Linux, and because of it's added stability & multi-user nature I can easily use VNC at school (in classes with computers for all students or the library).
I had BestBuy do that to me twice! I was calling to see if they had a product stocked in my local store. The solution was simple for me: Don't buy from BestBuy...
I admit, they do have the crappiest customer service imaginable, and they are complete imbusils, however for $40 a month I get 2.0 - 2.8 Mbits/s which is amazingly fast for the price. I use linux which they don't support anyway, so I wouldn't get customer service regardless of its quality.
It's amusing to see Microsoft attack AOL for the same reasons they have been sued for numerous times. I guess they can't apply the same standards to themselves. Maybe AOL is just trying to "inovate".
If there are two things that Microsoft does well it's trying to eliminate consumer choice, and forcing consumers to buy their products!
Come on... Do you seriously think a senator is going to take a bold move like attacking Microsoft for $52,000. That's pocket change to them. What did Schumer do for Citigroup that gave close to 4 times that amount?
I doubt someone is going to attack a company as large as Microsoft for a measly $52,000.
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Holy crap! I looked at this thing over a year ago, and even talked to a representative from the company that said it would be ready bye April 2001. I haven't heard anything from FIC so I just assumed it was another project down the drains. This is great news. It's going to be an awesome product!
Interesting stuff. If it as good as it sounds I'd be interested. I'm still in the process of downloading Star Office 6.0 after waiting all day to be able to connect to their servers. Too bad they aren't going to offer some type of limited demo of the product.
He's right. I also use Word Smith with a palm portable keyboard and a Palm IIIc. Not only is it a good doc program, it is also a good memo program that can do formatting (bold, itallic, underline), and it syncs perfectly with jpilot.
This seems to have been a re-occuring problem among all of the releases, but even worse with .94 (.93 seemed to be getting better). Here are my specs : 1.2 ghz athlon w/ 266 fsb, 266MB PC133, gf2 ultra, sblive 5.1...)
I started mozilla having 136 MB with the buffers & cached memory. After about an hour or so of watching realplayer videos in cnn & abc and going to various sites I had only 85 MB free with buffers & cached memory included. I noticed a very aparent slowdown in the way programs loaded. I closed the window with realplayer with no ram gain. I then clozed mozilla. and my free memory went back up to 135 or so.
This may be caused by the fact that I have 4-5 windows open at once. I later tried using the "flush memory" option which only freed up about 5-10MB. The older versions seemed to have much less of this problem, but it was still noticeable. I use opera 5.05TP1 and it not only loads in a second or two, but is much faster at loading web pages and allows you to have up to 10 or more pages open at once in one opera window. This is quite nice for the way I browse. Unfortunately It does not have real player support, but id does have java & flash suport.
If you are using linux & have Netscape do this:
/usr/lib/netscape/plugins/* /home/username/mozilla/mozilla/plugins/
cp
or wherever you installed mozilla too... good luck
I use my Palm Pilot IIIc extensively in school, and at home. It's an invaluable tool for contacting parents as to the location of my sister...but that's off topic.
In school I use my Palm IIIc as a word processor and I have been for over a year. Using it with the Palm Portable Keyboard, I can easily fit both into my pockets, and yet have the ability to quickly take notes at over 100 wpm, and write rough drafts of essays on my palm, type Do-Nows, and type up labs.
I also use it as an interactive agenda that is much easier to use and access then the paper one handed out by the school.
Lastly I use it to remember all the phone numbers that I otherwise would forget. I have other uses but these are the ones that I use mainly in school.
As for games, I really don't play them in class unless I have a subsitute and have already completed my work. I do this because I know that using my Palm is a right, and not a privilage.
At first my teachers were speptical of its uses, but by the end of the year most students were in awe of it's usefullness (no need to write a rough draft, only to type it up at home), and teachers were also impressed with it's functionality compared to using pen & paper.
I can't use a laptop in my High School because it is prohibited until you become a senior, and I am entering my Jenior year in a few weeks.
I used QuickWord + doc files (purchased) last year with Windows 98, but this year I am using WordSmith and the memo format unless it goes over 4k at which time I'd use the doc format and do a backup of the palm (there is no easy to use two way conduit for linux).
Although this may be a slight setback, I think I will be able to do everything I did in Windows in Linux, and because of it's added stability & multi-user nature I can easily use VNC at school (in classes with computers for all students or the library).
Jason Cohen
I had BestBuy do that to me twice! I was calling to see if they had a product stocked in my local store. The solution was simple for me: Don't buy from BestBuy...
Sorry, in the future I will do that
I admit, they do have the crappiest customer service imaginable, and they are complete imbusils, however for $40 a month I get 2.0 - 2.8 Mbits/s which is amazingly fast for the price. I use linux which they don't support anyway, so I wouldn't get customer service regardless of its quality.
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It's amusing to see Microsoft attack AOL for the same reasons they have been sued for numerous times. I guess they can't apply the same standards to themselves. Maybe AOL is just trying to "inovate". If there are two things that Microsoft does well it's trying to eliminate consumer choice, and forcing consumers to buy their products!
Come on... Do you seriously think a senator is going to take a bold move like attacking Microsoft for $52,000. That's pocket change to them. What did Schumer do for Citigroup that gave close to 4 times that amount? I doubt someone is going to attack a company as large as Microsoft for a measly $52,000.