True. Especially for this category of device where you are likely to be entering or looking up information during a voice call. But it is nice to be able to pull a rinning phone out of your pocket and quickly answer it at your ear. If a headset is required then you end up struggling to unwind the cord, which will of course create at least one knot, and missing the call before getting everything in place.
Not to defend Palm, but there is a dramatic advantage in time between charging for PalmOS devices even though they have similar ratings for operational time. The difference is that PocketPC users are utilizing the functionality of their more powerful devices to do lengthy tasks such as listening to MP3s or watching video clips.
Since most PalmOS devices cannot do these things, owners of such devices will turn them on, get their data in a couple of taps, then turn it off. Thus their full operational time is spread out over many more days. Palm uses this usage pattern to claim weeks of usage for their devices.
It will certainly vary widely by individual, and the high-end PalmOS devices such as the new Clies are made for multimedia, but in general this is probably a pretty accurate gauge of typical usage.
Isn't Dell climbing into the printer business as well, and the router business?
I thought Cisco wasn't allowing them to resell anymore because Dell has the PowerConnect line out...
No, Dell is getting into the switch business. And, yes, Cisco has cut them off from reselling Cisco switches as a result. Dell offers a full line of managed switches competing with Cisco's Catalyst 2950 and 3500 series as well as an inexpensive unmanaged line.
Dell does currently resell other manufacturers' PDAs, but now they are announcing their intention to sell their own branded line based on the MS PocketPC (WinCE) OS.
The thing about Dell is that they do not enter a new market lightly. They have waited until the PDA market matured enough that they could take commonly used technology and win market share by selling it for less. I think other PDA manufacturers should be very concerned. And PDA consumers should be excited about the competition.
"At least I won't have to look at those adds that want to sell me some breast enlargement pills. Hopefully they will know exactly what adds I want to see."
I know. I hate those.
Especially when I am looking for information on natural Viagra and penis enlargement.
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"Next there's the state moneys. Do you wonder why recently nearly every program on NRP/PBS is brought to you by "Minnesota Public Broadcasting" (in Los Angeles) or "Oregon Public Broadcasting" or whatever?"
Shows such as Marketplace and the Savvy Traveler are brought to you by Minnesota Public Radio because MPR is run like a successful business and competes with NPR for progam distribution. MPR established Public Radio International years ago as an alternate means of distributing programming after NPR turned down the MPR-produced Prairie Home Companion.
DateBk and other applications like Action Names are not so much replacements for Palm's built-in Date Book as enhancements to it. They all use the actual Palm app in ROM and add on to it. Therefore the data that is entered into DateBk is readable by the any other application.
This is a design goal of Palm (now the separate PalmSource for the PalmOS), to keep to built-in applications simple and utilitarian and to allow for a thriving market for third party enhancements.
The Palm Date Book app in PalmOS 5 will be the same "crap" version that you don't like from OS 4.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say compared to Outlook. It sure better be limited compared to Outlook - it runs on a handheld device! Palm has bundled Pocket Mirror for synching to Outlook for some time now so users can already "take an *exact* copy of their PC stuff on their new Palm." Of course it's not perfect but look what it's trying to sync with.
"Well, I would say that the logic is that any company that could use it's own products and doesn't opens itself up to criticism concerning the quality of said products [...] If AOL/TW doesn't use the email system that AOL/TW sells, then what does it say about that email system?"
It says that their products are appropriate for their intended consumer audience and not necessarily for everyone. AOL markets to the low end, the new user, and their product is perfectly appropriate to that user. It is not nearly appropriate for business use.
I used to work at Kraft Foods, and I assure you that at company headquarters the cafeteria does not serve Minute Rice, Stove Top stuffing, or Oscar Mayer wieners.
I became interested in the idea of alternative user interfaces when I was using a Newton MessagePad. I liked the Newton's metaphor of a continuous scroll of paper - draw a line across the screen to end one entry and begin a new one. The "stationary" that you are writing on can become a spreadsheet for numbers and formulas, lined paper for text with handwriting recognition, blank for drawings, etc. All data was stored in a database format so universal search was quick and efficient. There was no file system.
I have observed a clear difference between Windows and Mac users. Windows users will almost always open an application and then open a file from within that application. Mac users tend to select a file from a folder and open it - the application associated with it then opens. To generalize: Windows users are application-centric and Mac users are document-centric. I believe a document-centric view is superior, but it has little to do with the merits of the operating systems. Windows and MacOS are more similar than different from this perspective.
I used to be the "IT guy" for a sales office. I always wanted to teach people to store files in folders according to the project the file was associated with. Most people kept spreadsheets in one folder and Word documents in another folder for example. I thought that was foolish, but realized that changing this behavior was too difficult. I used to cringe when asking someone to copy a file onto a floppy and they would open its associated application and then do a File-Open then File-Save As and change the target disk. Very few people understood the concept of files as discreet entities that could be moved with a file management program.
I still like the file-less UI of the Newton though. Everything is easily searchable and you just start writing without first having to choose an application. Add some code words at the end of an entry to link to related items and then you can find everything related by searching on those terms.
The advantage of Linux is not the apps, it's the OS itself. Windows is unstable, expensive, buggy, and insecure compared to Linux. Anyone using Linux has chosen it for specific reasons that do not apply the Microsoft operating systems.
The real threat is the other direction. If Windows apps ran on other platforms wouldn't that reduce the marketability of Windows?
Enough with the censorship crap. Those of you that own radio stations can make your own playlist from the "banned" songs if it upsets you that much.
Here, set yourself up and go for it. http://www.irational.org/radio/radio_guide/
Choosing not to play something for fear of offending listeners is not censorship. You still have every right to listen to, and even purchase (you know who you are) your own music. No one is trampling on your rights.
This weekend I heard "You dropped a bomb on me" on a Raleigh, NC radio station and thought it distasteful. This despite the fact that I was not in one of the cities directly affected, bombs were not used, and none were dropped on me. If I was a radio station program manager I would not have played that song. (Of course I wouldn't really make my own decisions, being the whore of the major record labels and all.)
So stop highlighting of one particular song to show the ridiculousness of it all ("'Obla Di, Obla Da' fer Chrissakes!"). Clear Channel owns half the radio stations in the world and can do whatever it wants with it's air time.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, this is Slashdot. You know the answer to that.
True. Especially for this category of device where you are likely to be entering or looking up information during a voice call. But it is nice to be able to pull a rinning phone out of your pocket and quickly answer it at your ear. If a headset is required then you end up struggling to unwind the cord, which will of course create at least one knot, and missing the call before getting everything in place.
Not to defend Palm, but there is a dramatic advantage in time between charging for PalmOS devices even though they have similar ratings for operational time. The difference is that PocketPC users are utilizing the functionality of their more powerful devices to do lengthy tasks such as listening to MP3s or watching video clips.
Since most PalmOS devices cannot do these things, owners of such devices will turn them on, get their data in a couple of taps, then turn it off. Thus their full operational time is spread out over many more days. Palm uses this usage pattern to claim weeks of usage for their devices.
It will certainly vary widely by individual, and the high-end PalmOS devices such as the new Clies are made for multimedia, but in general this is probably a pretty accurate gauge of typical usage.
I thought Cisco wasn't allowing them to resell anymore because Dell has the PowerConnect line out...
No, Dell is getting into the switch business. And, yes, Cisco has cut them off from reselling Cisco switches as a result. Dell offers a full line of managed switches competing with Cisco's Catalyst 2950 and 3500 series as well as an inexpensive unmanaged line.
Dell does currently resell other manufacturers' PDAs, but now they are announcing their intention to sell their own branded line based on the MS PocketPC (WinCE) OS.
The thing about Dell is that they do not enter a new market lightly. They have waited until the PDA market matured enough that they could take commonly used technology and win market share by selling it for less. I think other PDA manufacturers should be very concerned. And PDA consumers should be excited about the competition.
I know. I hate those.
Especially when I am looking for information on natural Viagra and penis enlargement.
"Next there's the state moneys. Do you wonder why recently nearly every program on NRP/PBS is brought to you by "Minnesota Public Broadcasting" (in Los Angeles) or "Oregon Public Broadcasting" or whatever?"
Shows such as Marketplace and the Savvy Traveler are brought to you by Minnesota Public Radio because MPR is run like a successful business and competes with NPR for progam distribution. MPR established Public Radio International years ago as an alternate means of distributing programming after NPR turned down the MPR-produced Prairie Home Companion.
DateBk and other applications like Action Names are not so much replacements for Palm's built-in Date Book as enhancements to it. They all use the actual Palm app in ROM and add on to it. Therefore the data that is entered into DateBk is readable by the any other application.
This is a design goal of Palm (now the separate PalmSource for the PalmOS), to keep to built-in applications simple and utilitarian and to allow for a thriving market for third party enhancements.
The Palm Date Book app in PalmOS 5 will be the same "crap" version that you don't like from OS 4.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say compared to Outlook. It sure better be limited compared to Outlook - it runs on a handheld device! Palm has bundled Pocket Mirror for synching to Outlook for some time now so users can already "take an *exact* copy of their PC stuff on their new Palm." Of course it's not perfect but look what it's trying to sync with.
"Well, I would say that the logic is that any company that could use it's own products and doesn't opens itself up to criticism concerning the quality of said products [...] If AOL/TW doesn't use the email system that AOL/TW sells, then what does it say about that email system?"
It says that their products are appropriate for their intended consumer audience and not necessarily for everyone. AOL markets to the low end, the new user, and their product is perfectly appropriate to that user. It is not nearly appropriate for business use.
I used to work at Kraft Foods, and I assure you that at company headquarters the cafeteria does not serve Minute Rice, Stove Top stuffing, or Oscar Mayer wieners.
I became interested in the idea of alternative user interfaces when I was using a Newton MessagePad. I liked the Newton's metaphor of a continuous scroll of paper - draw a line across the screen to end one entry and begin a new one. The "stationary" that you are writing on can become a spreadsheet for numbers and formulas, lined paper for text with handwriting recognition, blank for drawings, etc. All data was stored in a database format so universal search was quick and efficient. There was no file system.
I have observed a clear difference between Windows and Mac users. Windows users will almost always open an application and then open a file from within that application. Mac users tend to select a file from a folder and open it - the application associated with it then opens. To generalize: Windows users are application-centric and Mac users are document-centric. I believe a document-centric view is superior, but it has little to do with the merits of the operating systems. Windows and MacOS are more similar than different from this perspective.
I used to be the "IT guy" for a sales office. I always wanted to teach people to store files in folders according to the project the file was associated with. Most people kept spreadsheets in one folder and Word documents in another folder for example. I thought that was foolish, but realized that changing this behavior was too difficult. I used to cringe when asking someone to copy a file onto a floppy and they would open its associated application and then do a File-Open then File-Save As and change the target disk. Very few people understood the concept of files as discreet entities that could be moved with a file management program.
I still like the file-less UI of the Newton though. Everything is easily searchable and you just start writing without first having to choose an application. Add some code words at the end of an entry to link to related items and then you can find everything related by searching on those terms.
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The advantage of Linux is not the apps, it's the OS itself. Windows is unstable, expensive, buggy, and insecure compared to Linux. Anyone using Linux has chosen it for specific reasons that do not apply the Microsoft operating systems.
The real threat is the other direction. If Windows apps ran on other platforms wouldn't that reduce the marketability of Windows?
Enough with the censorship crap. Those of you that own radio stations can make your own playlist from the "banned" songs if it upsets you that much.
Here, set yourself up and go for it. http://www.irational.org/radio/radio_guide/
Choosing not to play something for fear of offending listeners is not censorship. You still have every right to listen to, and even purchase (you know who you are) your own music. No one is trampling on your rights.
This weekend I heard "You dropped a bomb on me" on a Raleigh, NC radio station and thought it distasteful. This despite the fact that I was not in one of the cities directly affected, bombs were not used, and none were dropped on me. If I was a radio station program manager I would not have played that song. (Of course I wouldn't really make my own decisions, being the whore of the major record labels and all.)
So stop highlighting of one particular song to show the ridiculousness of it all ("'Obla Di, Obla Da' fer Chrissakes!"). Clear Channel owns half the radio stations in the world and can do whatever it wants with it's air time.