I'm sorry but that review was pretty much biased. The Pocket PC is a POCKET PC (I don't know how to say it more clearly : it is PC that fits in a pocket !). That's why there is a hierarchical file system and all this extra stuff that made the reviewer complain. It is why I like my E105 more than the Palms I tested : it can do a lot more stuff, and work pretty much like my home PC.
The reviewer assumed all you expect from a PDA is take a few notes and check your appointments - because that's what his Palm experience made him expect. Well, I'm sorry, but there's no reason why PDA should be restricted to this. MP3 for example is a great killer app for a PDA.
But then can you have both the MP3 module and a compactflash module at the same time ? at least on the WinCE machines everything is already in the PDA, you can have it all at the same time (and for cheaper than an Handspring with all the necessary ad-ons).
But what good is a 340 MB microdrive if PalmOS doesn't handle MP3, doesn't handle more than 256 colors and has a ridiculous screen resolution ? Store your girlfriend phone number ? You can probably plug a RAID 5 storage array into any Palm with some hack. That doesn't make it usefull. At least on WinCE devices you can use the space for something other than storing text.
I've on me a cell phone and a PDA, plus my wallet, a digicam and bunch of papers I need. Now if I can save on the MP3 player I find it great. If I can also have later on the cell phone into the PDA I'll be the first to buy it.
You are right that one device for everything is usually not the best solution, but you forgot one thing : when it must be a portable device, integration (==weight and size reduction) is a real bonus.
My Cassiopeia batteries last 6 hours of straight use. And it plays MP3, MPEG, does display full city maps, let me browse the web (not just with Avantgo but real browsing on real WWW site), etc... there's a reason why they changed the name to PocketPC : it IS a Pocket PC, not just an advanced calculator like the Palm.
It is even better than Grafiti : letters drawing is closer to the way you draw them naturally, also you can actually SEE what you draw (since you draw on the screen, not an off-screen surface like Palm).
Also the Help is really cool with Jot, as it shows you clearly how to draw everything.
Don't forget it has a compactflash port (Type II on many of these devices). It takes all CompactFlash memory card (up to 192 MB), plus the 340 MB miniature hard drive from IBM (soon 1 GB version will be out as well). Try doing that with your weak Palm Pilot:)
Been done for a year. It's called the Cassiopeia E105. It is a WinCE 2.11 PDA with a gamepad, and it runs the Gameboy Color emulator beautifully (been playing Zelda Color for a while on it, it's even better than a real game boy:)
It RUNS without problem - it is just a regular PC with Intel 810 chipset (which includes both audio and video onboard). This is what is cool with this unit : standard PC, no compromise.
So many people are trying to find solutions to this problem. There is no easy solution, unless you start doing illegitimate stuff like search engine spamming.
One thing you can do is exchange links with other sites on the same subject. This will increase visits, but your site needs to be really good so that people come back.
Well since he mentionned 1:12 compression, and since he was refering to compressing CDs (44 Khz, 16 bit, stereo) that makes it 112 Kbit bitrate. 128 Kbit is only 1:11.
Well I can only speak for myself, but all the brightest people I met were not totally sane - while those with more "regular" intelligence looked quite "normal" as far as their mental health was concerned (they were also pretty boring, but that's another issue).
Plus many famous genius are quite sick in their heads. I guess it takes some kind of crazyness to raise your mind above the crowd.
What ? Helping people take care of themselves with government money ? You surely are not a true American (TM), people should be free to work at McDonalds for shitty salaries and have their kids put in jail. Anybody willing to help the poor with Good American (TM) taxes is surely a commie.
Funny the average US republican candidate is ready to give millions to police but not a cents to help people in the first place. I think any election candidate should be put to work at Burger King and live in a trailer with this only income with 2 kids, for 3 or 4 months. Instead of that they all are rich tycoons living in their little golden universe. No wonder they are against welfare...
"Yeah but" - Attention Disorder only exists in the US, so far at least it doesn't exists in Europe : it is not on psychiatrists and psychologist list of mental diseases. How come you ask ? Well it seems nobody was ever diagnosed with this over here. Makes you wonder if either : a) we are ignoring the pain of millions of people (but why don't they complain then ?) or more likely : b) it is just another US drug-industry scam to feed active kids more pills
It seems to be the trend in US to describe anything slightly out of the norm to be a mental disease or illness and feed people with pills just to keep them quiet and to not have to accept the way the way they are. (don't misunderstand me, there are legitimate use of psychiatric drugs, but a noisy kid is definitely not one of them)
You destroyed Germany ? Last time I looked at their economy and the absorbtion of Chrysler by Mercedes, it looked like Germany was alive and kicking. Or maybe you want to talk about how you crushed Japan ? Last time I looked at the commercial trade balance of the US it looked like you were being screwed very hard by both Europe and Asia.
Are you assuming that people who study rocket trajectories are inherently more "open-minded" than someone who works at wal-mart?
inherently no - statistically yes. Anyone saying education doesn't improve open-mindness and curiosity is either a liar or going to school in Kansas.
Pro-gun nuts are usually scared people : scared of the governement, scared of people different than they are (foreigners/blacks/gays/etc.), scared of "criminal" (a broad name they use to describe anybody who doesn't go to church on sunday). They see the world as a battlefield were they have to save their butt with firearms. I'm sorry, but that is not what I can "open-minded". These people need a good therapy, not an assault rifle.
How do you know that ? Did God told it to you in person ? Unless He did, I don't see why you should be an authority on it. After all only He decides the rules, not some drunk Anonymous Coward on Slashdot.
Oh well, the NRA guys are not well known for their open-minded, forward thinking ideas. Neither are they known for being great travelers and being educated either. There are more rednecks at the NRA than astrophysicians:)
I am somewhat surprised at the high level of anti-gun sentiment on slashdot. You would think that in a group with a large percentage of self-described nerds with a penchant for anti-government, libertarian thinking, there would be more people into firearms. Or at least that the detractors would be better informed.
Being libertarian doesn't mean being a paranoid guy stockpiling guns. You can pretty much fight a governement you don't like with your brain in the Internet age. And you know, there's something really cool to complain about a governement. That's called "election". Stop ready the NRA newspapers and try reading about politics sometimes.
the Bill of Rights
Well the Bill of Right was version 0.9 beta. Like every human work in its first version, it needs a little debugging. Is all the software you use the first public release only ? Still using the original Linux piece of code that went out years ago ? Why would a set of laws be totally perfect in their first version (that is centuries old with that ?)
Why don't we take China for instance. VERY strict gun laws. But THOUSANDS are killed yearly. OH I guess its not REALLY murder though if the government is doing it.
Indeed, legal execution isn't considered as murder. I object as much as anyone to it, but that doesn't have anything to do with the subject here. Because there's a dictatorship in a country were guns are banned doesn't means "gun=democracy" (at least take the many democratic countries were there's a general gun ban as a counter example).
How about Cuba. Very stict gun laws, but again not murder as its the government doing to shooting.
Same thing : so ? What's your point ?
Oh and for your record, lets add this one in. In Sweden or is it Switzerland, can't remeber
Of course, you are a NRA zealots, so facts don't matter as much as the bullshit they try to spread around. But since you talk about it, it's Switzerland no Sweden that the NRA loves so much.
which, every house hold has a gun and their murder rate is less then it is here.
But the gun dead/habitants is 10x higher than, say, in UK (total ban on guns). So you see, the rate being lower doesn't prove anything at all.
Wonder why that is? Again gun control that the government is currently propossing does nothing but take guns out of the hands of LEGAL, LAW ABIDING Citizens.
As well as criminal, since when guns are banned you can just arrest any potentiel serial killer for owning a gun. Right now you have to wait for the killing spree to arrest him - but too late.
But you could be right, I think that person who is going to hold up the liquor store will almost surely take off the gun lock before he shoots the guy at the counter. But maybe he won't use one? Enforce the current gun laws against Criminals. Don't make Criminals out of Law Abiding Citizens.
The problem is, a killer is a criminal but a future killer is a good citizen (TM). You are the victim of the "John Wayne" syndrom : there are good and bad peoples, and it is easy to find who is who. Well, I'm affraid reality is not that way...
My first game on PC was Ultima V... I played it for almost 2 years ! I learned english too with it, which helped me greatly later on. I owe a lot to that game.
Do you mean a switch that would duplicate all operations to 2 mirrors ?
Well it should be pretty easy to write - after all it is just a proxy that relays order to 2 servers instead of one. Since all orders arrive thru text SQL commands it shouldn't be too difficult. Also it should be easy to implement a simple load balancing for read operations.
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I'm sorry but that review was pretty much biased. The Pocket PC is a POCKET PC (I don't know how to say it more clearly : it is PC that fits in a pocket !). That's why there is a hierarchical file system and all this extra stuff that made the reviewer complain. It is why I like my E105 more than the Palms I tested : it can do a lot more stuff, and work pretty much like my home PC.
The reviewer assumed all you expect from a PDA is take a few notes and check your appointments - because that's what his Palm experience made him expect. Well, I'm sorry, but there's no reason why PDA should be restricted to this. MP3 for example is a great killer app for a PDA.
But then can you have both the MP3 module and a compactflash module at the same time ? at least on the WinCE machines everything is already in the PDA, you can have it all at the same time (and for cheaper than an Handspring with all the necessary ad-ons).
But what good is a 340 MB microdrive if PalmOS doesn't handle MP3, doesn't handle more than 256 colors and has a ridiculous screen resolution ? Store your girlfriend phone number ? You can probably plug a RAID 5 storage array into any Palm with some hack. That doesn't make it usefull. At least on WinCE devices you can use the space for something other than storing text.
I've on me a cell phone and a PDA, plus my wallet, a digicam and bunch of papers I need. Now if I can save on the MP3 player I find it great. If I can also have later on the cell phone into the PDA I'll be the first to buy it.
You are right that one device for everything is usually not the best solution, but you forgot one thing : when it must be a portable device, integration (==weight and size reduction) is a real bonus.
My Cassiopeia batteries last 6 hours of straight use. And it plays MP3, MPEG, does display full city maps, let me browse the web (not just with Avantgo but real browsing on real WWW site), etc... there's a reason why they changed the name to PocketPC : it IS a Pocket PC, not just an advanced calculator like the Palm.
It is even better than Grafiti : letters drawing is closer to the way you draw them naturally, also you can actually SEE what you draw (since you draw on the screen, not an off-screen surface like Palm).
Also the Help is really cool with Jot, as it shows you clearly how to draw everything.
Don't forget it has a compactflash port (Type II on many of these devices). It takes all CompactFlash memory card (up to 192 MB), plus the 340 MB miniature hard drive from IBM (soon 1 GB version will be out as well). Try doing that with your weak Palm Pilot :)
Someone will come out with a Gameboy type Palm
:)
Been done for a year. It's called the Cassiopeia E105. It is a WinCE 2.11 PDA with a gamepad, and it runs the Gameboy Color emulator beautifully (been playing Zelda Color for a while on it, it's even better than a real game boy
It RUNS without problem - it is just a regular PC with Intel 810 chipset (which includes both audio and video onboard). This is what is cool with this unit : standard PC, no compromise.
So many people are trying to find solutions to this problem. There is no easy solution, unless you start doing illegitimate stuff like search engine spamming.
One thing you can do is exchange links with other sites on the same subject. This will increase visits, but your site needs to be really good so that people come back.
Sounds to more like 18th century to me. But car manufacturer are not people who like to change...
Did you say non-stop orgies. ? Count me in !
Well since he mentionned 1:12 compression, and since he was refering to compressing CDs (44 Khz, 16 bit, stereo) that makes it 112 Kbit bitrate. 128 Kbit is only 1:11.
Duh !!! There's no fixed bitrate of 112 kbit for MP3. In fact most of my MP3 or 128 or 160 Kbit. MP3 can go up to 384 Kbit if you want to !
So in effect 128 Kbit MP3 = 128 Kbit of any other compression scheme. This is not about filesize, it is about sound quality.
Well I can only speak for myself, but all the brightest people I met were not totally sane - while those with more "regular" intelligence looked quite "normal" as far as their mental health was concerned (they were also pretty boring, but that's another issue).
Plus many famous genius are quite sick in their heads. I guess it takes some kind of crazyness to raise your mind above the crowd.
What ? Helping people take care of themselves with government money ? You surely are not a true American (TM), people should be free to work at McDonalds for shitty salaries and have their kids put in jail. Anybody willing to help the poor with Good American (TM) taxes is surely a commie.
Funny the average US republican candidate is ready to give millions to police but not a cents to help people in the first place. I think any election candidate should be put to work at Burger King and live in a trailer with this only income with 2 kids, for 3 or 4 months. Instead of that they all are rich tycoons living in their little golden universe. No wonder they are against welfare...
"Yeah but" - Attention Disorder only exists in the US, so far at least it doesn't exists in Europe : it is not on psychiatrists and psychologist list of mental diseases. How come you ask ? Well it seems nobody was ever diagnosed with this over here. Makes you wonder if either :
a) we are ignoring the pain of millions of people (but why don't they complain then ?) or more likely :
b) it is just another US drug-industry scam to feed active kids more pills
It seems to be the trend in US to describe anything slightly out of the norm to be a mental disease or illness and feed people with pills just to keep them quiet and to not have to accept the way the way they are. (don't misunderstand me, there are legitimate use of psychiatric drugs, but a noisy kid is definitely not one of them)
You destroyed Germany ? Last time I looked at their economy and the absorbtion of Chrysler by Mercedes, it looked like Germany was alive and kicking. Or maybe you want to talk about how you crushed Japan ? Last time I looked at the commercial trade balance of the US it looked like you were being screwed very hard by both Europe and Asia.
Are you assuming that people who study rocket trajectories are inherently more "open-minded" than someone who works at wal-mart?
inherently no - statistically yes. Anyone saying education doesn't improve open-mindness and curiosity is either a liar or going to school in Kansas.
Pro-gun nuts are usually scared people : scared of the governement, scared of people different than they are (foreigners/blacks/gays/etc.), scared of "criminal" (a broad name they use to describe anybody who doesn't go to church on sunday). They see the world as a battlefield were they have to save their butt with firearms. I'm sorry, but that is not what I can "open-minded". These people need a good therapy, not an assault rifle.
How do you know that ? Did God told it to you in person ? Unless He did, I don't see why you should be an authority on it. After all only He decides the rules, not some drunk Anonymous Coward on Slashdot.
Oh well, the NRA guys are not well known for their open-minded, forward thinking ideas. Neither are they known for being great travelers and being educated either. There are more rednecks at the NRA than astrophysicians :)
I am somewhat surprised at the high level of anti-gun sentiment on slashdot. You would think that in a group with a large percentage of self-described nerds with a penchant for anti-government, libertarian thinking, there would be more people into firearms. Or at least that the detractors would be better informed.
Being libertarian doesn't mean being a paranoid guy stockpiling guns. You can pretty much fight a governement you don't like with your brain in the Internet age. And you know, there's something really cool to complain about a governement. That's called "election". Stop ready the NRA newspapers and try reading about politics sometimes.
the Bill of Rights
Well the Bill of Right was version 0.9 beta. Like every human work in its first version, it needs a little debugging. Is all the software you use the first public release only ? Still using the original Linux piece of code that went out years ago ? Why would a set of laws be totally perfect in their first version (that is centuries old with that ?)
Why don't we take China for instance. VERY strict gun laws. But THOUSANDS are killed yearly. OH I guess its not REALLY murder though if the government is doing it.
Indeed, legal execution isn't considered as murder. I object as much as anyone to it, but that doesn't have anything to do with the subject here. Because there's a dictatorship in a country were guns are banned doesn't means "gun=democracy" (at least take the many democratic countries were there's a general gun ban as a counter example).
How about Cuba. Very stict gun laws, but again not murder as its the government doing to shooting.
Same thing : so ? What's your point ?
Oh and for your record, lets add this one in. In Sweden or is it Switzerland, can't remeber
Of course, you are a NRA zealots, so facts don't matter as much as the bullshit they try to spread around. But since you talk about it, it's Switzerland no Sweden that the NRA loves so much.
which, every house hold has a gun and their murder rate is less then it is here.
But the gun dead/habitants is 10x higher than, say, in UK (total ban on guns). So you see, the rate being lower doesn't prove anything at all.
Wonder why that is? Again gun control that the government is currently propossing does nothing but take guns out of the hands of LEGAL, LAW ABIDING Citizens.
As well as criminal, since when guns are banned you can just arrest any potentiel serial killer for owning a gun. Right now you have to wait for the killing spree to arrest him - but too late.
But you could be right, I think that person who is going to hold up the liquor store will almost surely take off the gun lock before he shoots the guy at the counter. But maybe he won't use one? Enforce the current gun laws against Criminals. Don't make Criminals out of Law Abiding Citizens.
The problem is, a killer is a criminal but a future killer is a good citizen (TM). You are the victim of the "John Wayne" syndrom : there are good and bad peoples, and it is easy to find who is who. Well, I'm affraid reality is not that way...
My first game on PC was Ultima V... I played it for almost 2 years ! I learned english too with it, which helped me greatly later on. I owe a lot to that game.
Seek the way of the Avatar...
Do you mean a switch that would duplicate all operations to 2 mirrors ?
Well it should be pretty easy to write - after all it is just a proxy that relays order to 2 servers instead of one. Since all orders arrive thru text SQL commands it shouldn't be too difficult. Also it should be easy to implement a simple load balancing for read operations.