By posting the URL to this article, you've forced the uncertainty about their claims. How can we know just how much momentum this discovery carries?
Now - my article is much more momentous and certain. Unfortunately, due to a quantum mechanical technicality - for it to remain that way - I cannot divulge its location.
Are you going to whip your pda out while kayaking to check whether the whitewater is down the left fork or the right fork up ahead?
Stick a non waterproof device in a waterproof container, with some extra air so it floats, and enjoy the damned river. Look - it's not heavier, isn't uglier and bulkier - and still serves the same purpose!
I've had a Palm IIIxe, a Sony T415, and a Zaurus C7x0 - and I enjoy reading on all of them.
I think the key point, is that it be easy on the eyes. If you're reading in bed, with all the lights out - the backlight has to be very dim. I can turn the backlight on my c7x0 down enough that it's pretty nice - but even though its screen is much higher resolution than the other two, the other two are better at being read for long periods of time (in the dark). That's not to say I don't do it and enjoy it, but I stub my toes more when shuffling off after reading on my Z, because my eyes are more tired (and have a higher burn in from the brighter light).
It could also have to do with the fact that it's backlit with a strong white light, while the other two were subtler green lumin jobs.
I've been thinking for years, and I'm still not published! I would like to formally apologize to both writers as well as the population at large. I'll be sure to blindly stumble forward from now on, and leave the thinking to those who need to be doing it the most.
I just got myself a 12' member through an email advertisement, and was wondering what to do with it now? I know traditionally you use it with women, but that's old - I was thinking of trying something newer. I haven't looked into much besides this - I'm just so happy to have the darned thing!
I also kept logs - and that was my undoing. I was too busy focusing on the numbers coming out of the logs to have my shopping cart completely up to date. When the numbers told me to buy - I clicked "shopping cart" and waited six minutes for it to load. I watched the 100 million mark roll by before my shopping cart loaded and I could click buy.
All the planning in the world can't get you a free powerbook.
actually, 1981 would be the first year - so 2010 would be the 30th year. It will have lasted the predicted 30 years, and run out right at its lifetime. One could easily argue that it technically runs out during some month of 2011, but car manufacturers release a next years models (which would need the VINs) at least half a year early anyway
Here at the United States of America Patent Office a vast proportion of the patent examiners have GEDs. It's by no means mandatory but it is almost expected.
You don't want a pda or computer (which, a pda is) - but you want it electronically. Anything with a keyboard display and memory, as has been mentioned, is going to be 'a computer' - unless it doesn't actually work.
If you don't like the idea of getting a nice little PDA (new palms/sonys are beautiful and sub $150) - you won't like any alternatives.
Buy a damned scanner - they're cheap. Find some OCR - experiment briefly to be sure it can recognize a large percentage of your handwriting - learn the quirks to avoid.
Now take your paper and pencil with you on vacation and write legibly. When you get home, spend the time you check email and get updates on news / relaxing with your hand frequenting the scanner and your notebook every so often. Then you have it MOSTLY done and you'll have to go back over it and fix things.
It's the same principle with beginning writers. It doesn't matter if you throw away what you write the first hour or two - it will get you working. Just start pouring stuff out. Write a paragraph describing something. Now detail the systems that relies on. Now describe those systems.
Now start again because you're jumping around uselessly - there are some core (or nearly core) systems listed there. What other systems are there like that - start documenting those in a uniform manner. Reuse anything you wrote that described things well - ignore anything that didn't.
Try not to think too linearly - if you need to get something out, just get it out - you can move bits and pieces around very easily later.
as far as organization....
Personally I like to do this but with a hierarchical editor. Unfortunately, there's not a decent one (IMO) available for linux. I used to use Progect for Palm - they have a desktop companion for Windows you could try - though it didn't install under Wine (for me). ymmv
Linux Med News covers just about everything you're wondering about in this area - check them out, you'll find enough material to chew on for a while searching their archives. I'm sure more happens in the field than they track, but they centrally track more than I've seen elsewhere.
I have a c700 - the screen is beautiful - 640x480 gloriousness, bright vibrant colors.
itty bitty little screen.
It's fine for me, I enjoy it - but I don't expect most average users would like 640x480 in such a small screen - I'd recommend she get an older style 90 libretto or some such over a new fangled pda with a 640 screen you could hide in your hand, unless she's sure she could use it (i.e. check it out in person, try it, etc.)
That said, the thumb keyboard is the best damned thumb keyboard I've even had the pleasure of using - it blows all the others out of the water.
If she already has a cellphone and plan, adding data service to it can be fairly cost effective. I know for a fact that T-Mobile offers unlimited GPRS for $20 a month if you have a $30 plan or greater - otherwise it's $30 a month. That right there is cheaper than broadband (and rightly so, it is slower of course). Verizon and others have similar plans, though most of them specify its for pda use - not laptops/etc. (which, if she gets a pda - won't invalidate the usage at all) [the idea is likely just a "you won't enjoy doing too many tasks at once on this connection"]
That said - your mother probably still wants a full keyboard/etc. to go with things - she certainly doesn't want to be writing emails with a stylus. So unless she's big on thumb typing - you shouldn't rule out anything just because it doesn't have a builtin keyboard. Clie's are fairly cost effective, and Palm has bluetooth connectivity built into palmos 5 and above - perhaps the clamshell clie with the camera/bluetooth/wifi - uw20? I don't know if that has a separate keyboard attachment though.
Keep in mind that she'll be getting a relatively small screen with whaever she does settle on, what specific bills is she saving on by getting rid of her desktop - that she couldn't just get a dialup account instead of broadband to avoid?
number portability means you can take your number between carriers - not between geographic regions. Putting aside the "but they could!" factors, the simple fact remaining is that you should want a local number to wherever you are living - how else can someone in that area call your cell phone from a land line? Oh, they'll just dial long distance. Thanks ass.
Well, they should've bought a nationwide free long distance unlimited minutes cell phone if they wanted to be my friend!
That aside - the main reason is more likely so they can more accurately guage need for towers and coverage saturation. Actual roaming varies greatly, but there are trends to it - but for a yearly "where should we add towers" judgement, it's much cleaner to say "well, we have X customers here - so we have enough towers for now." than to say "our towers have noted X customers here, and time regression indicates that Y of them tend to stay in that area. After running this algorithm against every geographic location, we're confident that we should never have let numbers slide all around and we want to kill ourselves."
the source is still out there, worst case scenario - the license isn't gpl, and they don't change it to be so - some of the developers split off and recruit noobs, and we end up with a renamed X that everyone uses - that takes a little while to ramp back up to full speed.
It's not the end of the world, but it (could) be annoying, that's for sure. I think thorough investigation is needed (e.g. try reading the license)
None of the comments I've read (and perhaps I missed the all important one) seem to address the real issue.
It's not that the average person can't drive well while talking on a cellphone or otherwise distracted.
It's that the average person can't drive well.
PERIOD.
Too many people assume driving is a simple task, when in reality your well being becomes the task of those around you who are busy anticipating your sudden lane change, noticing you drifting into their lane and backing off or changing so you don't sideswipe them, or noting that while their light just turned green - you don't seem to give a rats ass and are going to run a red light 3 seconds late.
Drivers licenses are given out way too casually, and people aren't tested under real situations. I drove around in Ireland this summer - and while it's not nearly as much traffic, the roads are wide enough for two vehicles. Two vehicles hugging the shoulder - hoping their side view mirrors aren't the same elevation. I didn't get in an accident, I didn't see any accidents.
One thing that was really refreshing, is when on the faster roads that have 'passing zones' - i.e. fewer lanes than one would prefer when stuck behind a slow vehicle - people routinely calmy wait for you to move aside for them, or calmy move aside for you (depending on who's going faster). Afterwards, the passer blinks their emergency lights as a "thank you" and goes on their merry way. That's right - motorists working together, and THANKING one another afterwards. I curse a storm in the states when I drive, I ENJOYED driving in Ireland - and not just on the scenic routes. Note: roundabouts kinda suck though, imo. They're good for low traffic, but damn they are pretty annoying in high traffic.
Also: Get off your goddamn cellphone, it's sure not helping your driving. That's the bottom line - it's not helping, so unless it's a huge emergency and you're using a handsfree or a passenger is handling it - stfu.
Seriously. Back in May I got married, went on a honeymoon, and came back and immediately moved. That was a 2 week period during which I was too busy to care that I didn't have a soda to suck on. I gave up caffeine and television (which, admittedly, wasn't a hard habit to drop with all the crap they show - I was already down to practically no watching) when I moved - switched to water and kool-aid (with less sugar than recommended). Koolaid or other equivalent powdered sugar drinks are cheaper by far, still give you a good flavor, but more importantly keep you better hydrated (and, of course, no caffeine).
Of course - it helped a whole lot that I had the whole wedding+vacation for the first >week - because there definitely is some withdrawl. Honestly though, you could get over the initial effects with a good 4 day weekend if you start right away.
When you decide to quit though, quit. Slowly lower your intake all you like - you can't halve something into nothing, eventually you need to cold turkey it. It'll be easier after weening down, but it's also real easy to up your level right back where you were by simply sucking an extra soda down and overrunning your 'plan'. Just set aside some time and keep yourself busy and moving during it. It just kinda happened to me, buy I was damned happy for it.
So - after working for 8 hours a day in your day job, you come home to a relaxing evening of free time where it seems to just FLY by. I'm not entirely sure this experience can be directly compared, perhaps if you could try 2.6 during the (drudging?) hours of your workday?:)
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Some people apparently not only have no knowledge of heisenbergs uncertainty principle, but no sense of humor either.
Mod points are clearly given out too freely. Perhaps an intelligence test in the future?
By posting the URL to this article, you've forced the uncertainty about their claims. How can we know just how much momentum this discovery carries?
Now - my article is much more momentous and certain. Unfortunately, due to a quantum mechanical technicality - for it to remain that way - I cannot divulge its location.
What character would be best at soloing and power leveling. Hmmmm tough one.
Guess we'll have a million Data's around.
Are you going to whip your pda out while kayaking to check whether the whitewater is down the left fork or the right fork up ahead?
Stick a non waterproof device in a waterproof container, with some extra air so it floats, and enjoy the damned river. Look - it's not heavier, isn't uglier and bulkier - and still serves the same purpose!
I've had a Palm IIIxe, a Sony T415, and a Zaurus C7x0 - and I enjoy reading on all of them.
I think the key point, is that it be easy on the eyes. If you're reading in bed, with all the lights out - the backlight has to be very dim. I can turn the backlight on my c7x0 down enough that it's pretty nice - but even though its screen is much higher resolution than the other two, the other two are better at being read for long periods of time (in the dark). That's not to say I don't do it and enjoy it, but I stub my toes more when shuffling off after reading on my Z, because my eyes are more tired (and have a higher burn in from the brighter light).
It could also have to do with the fact that it's backlit with a strong white light, while the other two were subtler green lumin jobs.
Oh crap!
I've been thinking for years, and I'm still not published! I would like to formally apologize to both writers as well as the population at large. I'll be sure to blindly stumble forward from now on, and leave the thinking to those who need to be doing it the most.
I just got myself a 12' member through an email advertisement, and was wondering what to do with it now? I know traditionally you use it with women, but that's old - I was thinking of trying something newer. I haven't looked into much besides this - I'm just so happy to have the darned thing!
So, what are your suggestions?
sanity in an insane world.
P.S. - parent - stop reading the articles, those of us who read aren't supposed to post.
Oh crap, some men in suits are at my door.
I also kept logs - and that was my undoing. I was too busy focusing on the numbers coming out of the logs to have my shopping cart completely up to date. When the numbers told me to buy - I clicked "shopping cart" and waited six minutes for it to load. I watched the 100 million mark roll by before my shopping cart loaded and I could click buy.
All the planning in the world can't get you a free powerbook.
Free downloads (e.g. "Free music Tuesdays" and the likes) didn't count as entries in the contest as per the rules.
The only way to enter for free was to use the "Recommend to a Friend" and send to itunes100@apple.com.
actually, 1981 would be the first year - so 2010 would be the 30th year. It will have lasted the predicted 30 years, and run out right at its lifetime. One could easily argue that it technically runs out during some month of 2011, but car manufacturers release a next years models (which would need the VINs) at least half a year early anyway
It seems to me just recently certain cable providers have finally begun blocking port 25 to prevent all the spam/zombies/etc. bullshit.
Is your amazing telecommuting company of ~20 people or so a spam circle? Or are you just using crap residential cable to handle your 'business' email?
Email is fine, your setup/admin is hosed.
Here at the United States of America Patent Office a vast proportion of the patent examiners have GEDs. It's by no means mandatory but it is almost expected.
You don't want a pda or computer (which, a pda is) - but you want it electronically. Anything with a keyboard display and memory, as has been mentioned, is going to be 'a computer' - unless it doesn't actually work.
If you don't like the idea of getting a nice little PDA (new palms/sonys are beautiful and sub $150) - you won't like any alternatives.
Buy a damned scanner - they're cheap. Find some OCR - experiment briefly to be sure it can recognize a large percentage of your handwriting - learn the quirks to avoid.
Now take your paper and pencil with you on vacation and write legibly. When you get home, spend the time you check email and get updates on news / relaxing with your hand frequenting the scanner and your notebook every so often. Then you have it MOSTLY done and you'll have to go back over it and fix things.
Just start writing.
It's the same principle with beginning writers. It doesn't matter if you throw away what you write the first hour or two - it will get you working. Just start pouring stuff out. Write a paragraph describing something. Now detail the systems that relies on. Now describe those systems.
Now start again because you're jumping around uselessly - there are some core (or nearly core) systems listed there. What other systems are there like that - start documenting those in a uniform manner. Reuse anything you wrote that described things well - ignore anything that didn't.
Try not to think too linearly - if you need to get something out, just get it out - you can move bits and pieces around very easily later.
as far as organization....
Personally I like to do this but with a hierarchical editor. Unfortunately, there's not a decent one (IMO) available for linux. I used to use Progect for Palm - they have a desktop companion for Windows you could try - though it didn't install under Wine (for me). ymmv
Linux Med News covers just about everything you're wondering about in this area - check them out, you'll find enough material to chew on for a while searching their archives. I'm sure more happens in the field than they track, but they centrally track more than I've seen elsewhere.
http://www.linuxmednews.com/
'slurpee'.
no wait,
'the'
I wonder if that's statistically likely anyway. Oh well. Slurpees are damned good tho.
I have a c700 - the screen is beautiful - 640x480 gloriousness, bright vibrant colors.
itty bitty little screen.
It's fine for me, I enjoy it - but I don't expect most average users would like 640x480 in such a small screen - I'd recommend she get an older style 90 libretto or some such over a new fangled pda with a 640 screen you could hide in your hand, unless she's sure she could use it (i.e. check it out in person, try it, etc.)
That said, the thumb keyboard is the best damned thumb keyboard I've even had the pleasure of using - it blows all the others out of the water.
If she already has a cellphone and plan, adding data service to it can be fairly cost effective. I know for a fact that T-Mobile offers unlimited GPRS for $20 a month if you have a $30 plan or greater - otherwise it's $30 a month. That right there is cheaper than broadband (and rightly so, it is slower of course). Verizon and others have similar plans, though most of them specify its for pda use - not laptops/etc. (which, if she gets a pda - won't invalidate the usage at all) [the idea is likely just a "you won't enjoy doing too many tasks at once on this connection"]
That said - your mother probably still wants a full keyboard/etc. to go with things - she certainly doesn't want to be writing emails with a stylus. So unless she's big on thumb typing - you shouldn't rule out anything just because it doesn't have a builtin keyboard. Clie's are fairly cost effective, and Palm has bluetooth connectivity built into palmos 5 and above - perhaps the clamshell clie with the camera/bluetooth/wifi - uw20? I don't know if that has a separate keyboard attachment though.
Keep in mind that she'll be getting a relatively small screen with whaever she does settle on, what specific bills is she saving on by getting rid of her desktop - that she couldn't just get a dialup account instead of broadband to avoid?
number portability means you can take your number between carriers - not between geographic regions. Putting aside the "but they could!" factors, the simple fact remaining is that you should want a local number to wherever you are living - how else can someone in that area call your cell phone from a land line? Oh, they'll just dial long distance. Thanks ass.
Well, they should've bought a nationwide free long distance unlimited minutes cell phone if they wanted to be my friend!
That aside - the main reason is more likely so they can more accurately guage need for towers and coverage saturation. Actual roaming varies greatly, but there are trends to it - but for a yearly "where should we add towers" judgement, it's much cleaner to say "well, we have X customers here - so we have enough towers for now." than to say "our towers have noted X customers here, and time regression indicates that Y of them tend to stay in that area. After running this algorithm against every geographic location, we're confident that we should never have let numbers slide all around and we want to kill ourselves."
the source is still out there, worst case scenario - the license isn't gpl, and they don't change it to be so - some of the developers split off and recruit noobs, and we end up with a renamed X that everyone uses - that takes a little while to ramp back up to full speed.
It's not the end of the world, but it (could) be annoying, that's for sure. I think thorough investigation is needed (e.g. try reading the license)
None of the comments I've read (and perhaps I missed the all important one) seem to address the real issue.
It's not that the average person can't drive well while talking on a cellphone or otherwise distracted.
It's that the average person can't drive well.
PERIOD.
Too many people assume driving is a simple task, when in reality your well being becomes the task of those around you who are busy anticipating your sudden lane change, noticing you drifting into their lane and backing off or changing so you don't sideswipe them, or noting that while their light just turned green - you don't seem to give a rats ass and are going to run a red light 3 seconds late.
Drivers licenses are given out way too casually, and people aren't tested under real situations. I drove around in Ireland this summer - and while it's not nearly as much traffic, the roads are wide enough for two vehicles. Two vehicles hugging the shoulder - hoping their side view mirrors aren't the same elevation. I didn't get in an accident, I didn't see any accidents.
One thing that was really refreshing, is when on the faster roads that have 'passing zones' - i.e. fewer lanes than one would prefer when stuck behind a slow vehicle - people routinely calmy wait for you to move aside for them, or calmy move aside for you (depending on who's going faster). Afterwards, the passer blinks their emergency lights as a "thank you" and goes on their merry way. That's right - motorists working together, and THANKING one another afterwards. I curse a storm in the states when I drive, I ENJOYED driving in Ireland - and not just on the scenic routes. Note: roundabouts kinda suck though, imo. They're good for low traffic, but damn they are pretty annoying in high traffic.
Also: Get off your goddamn cellphone, it's sure not helping your driving. That's the bottom line - it's not helping, so unless it's a huge emergency and you're using a handsfree or a passenger is handling it - stfu.
Move.
Seriously. Back in May I got married, went on a honeymoon, and came back and immediately moved. That was a 2 week period during which I was too busy to care that I didn't have a soda to suck on. I gave up caffeine and television (which, admittedly, wasn't a hard habit to drop with all the crap they show - I was already down to practically no watching) when I moved - switched to water and kool-aid (with less sugar than recommended). Koolaid or other equivalent powdered sugar drinks are cheaper by far, still give you a good flavor, but more importantly keep you better hydrated (and, of course, no caffeine).
Of course - it helped a whole lot that I had the whole wedding+vacation for the first >week - because there definitely is some withdrawl. Honestly though, you could get over the initial effects with a good 4 day weekend if you start right away.
When you decide to quit though, quit. Slowly lower your intake all you like - you can't halve something into nothing, eventually you need to cold turkey it. It'll be easier after weening down, but it's also real easy to up your level right back where you were by simply sucking an extra soda down and overrunning your 'plan'. Just set aside some time and keep yourself busy and moving during it. It just kinda happened to me, buy I was damned happy for it.
read.
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short.
article.
So - after working for 8 hours a day in your day job, you come home to a relaxing evening of free time where it seems to just FLY by. I'm not entirely sure this experience can be directly compared, perhaps if you could try 2.6 during the (drudging?) hours of your workday? :)