This thing is truely glorious. I love it. It looks extremely fun to watch and somewhat useful. The only problem is that it was made about 10 years too late. In this decade, we don't use casettes, and some of us rarely use cd's. I use my ipaq for music with mp3's. I think that this would be really big if it would have been done 10 years ago. Anyway, just my 2 cents.
I know I might sound like someone that thinks they are all that and a bag of chips, but I think napster could have done a better job at staying free. I really don't like the idea of paying for it, and I don't think anyone else does, either. Napster was a great thing, and probably made stores sell MORE cd's rather than less. I download a mp3, I listen to it, and if I like the song I buy the cd, just to support the author and record company. Atleast I used to. I have seized to do so. 1, because the record companies refused to listen to the authors who WROTE the songs that the record companies purchased, and 2, because they didn't notice any changes in the cd's being sold. It's only obvious that it will sell more cds than usual because it's kind of a 'Try before you buy' sort of thing. I'm a picky guy and I know the difference between an mp3 and a real cd. They are pretty close, yes, but the cd is higher quality. It's like a game company releasing a demo. They have a demo for different parts of the game so you can try everything out. One can get close to playing the real game but has to open another demo to continue. It's not the same.
Not only do I not agree with napster for not fighting hard enough, but I don't like the way they had a central server. That's a big nono. I like other places like limewire or freenet, just because they can't be stopped. Peer to peer file sharing is the only way to go nowadays.
We all must admit that napster did a great thing for us all, it started a whole new thing for the world when it comes to file sharing, but things need to be improved. We never stuck with the model T or the 286, we kept moving and improving.
Look at that thing. It's truely a disgrace. It looks exactly like a palm but it has 2 more buttons in the graffiti area. It's really just copying palm, which has been attempted before. I also remember reading a news article about linux for the Palm, though they hadn't made a version compatible with the IIIc is why I didn't get it. I have since sold my 3c and have gone with the ipaq h3650. It's a solid handheld other than the windows part of it. It's somewhat light, it does enough color for what I need, it has a fairly good speaker, earphone plug, and IS compatible with linux. Did I forget to mention the sweet 206 mhz processor and 32 mb ram? Oh, and while we are on the topic of processors, I seem to remember a palm having that same processor. What did they do, take a palm and put a different cover on it and call it their own model? Come on everyone, lets get atleast SOME originality. The Linux DA os even LOOKS like palm, and I haven't really been happy with the small screens and software of palm. They aren't even multitasking.
Also, from what I hear, the Agenda has many good qualities too.
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I know I might sound like someone that thinks they are all that and a bag of chips, but I think napster could have done a better job at staying free. I really don't like the idea of paying for it, and I don't think anyone else does, either. Napster was a great thing, and probably made stores sell MORE cd's rather than less. I download a mp3, I listen to it, and if I like the song I buy the cd, just to support the author and record company. Atleast I used to. I have seized to do so. 1, because the record companies refused to listen to the authors who WROTE the songs that the record companies purchased, and 2, because they didn't notice any changes in the cd's being sold. It's only obvious that it will sell more cds than usual because it's kind of a 'Try before you buy' sort of thing. I'm a picky guy and I know the difference between an mp3 and a real cd. They are pretty close, yes, but the cd is higher quality. It's like a game company releasing a demo. They have a demo for different parts of the game so you can try everything out. One can get close to playing the real game but has to open another demo to continue. It's not the same.
Not only do I not agree with napster for not fighting hard enough, but I don't like the way they had a central server. That's a big nono. I like other places like limewire or freenet, just because they can't be stopped. Peer to peer file sharing is the only way to go nowadays.
We all must admit that napster did a great thing for us all, it started a whole new thing for the world when it comes to file sharing, but things need to be improved. We never stuck with the model T or the 286, we kept moving and improving.
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Look at that thing. It's truely a disgrace. It looks exactly like a palm but it has 2 more buttons in the graffiti area. It's really just copying palm, which has been attempted before. I also remember reading a news article about linux for the Palm, though they hadn't made a version compatible with the IIIc is why I didn't get it. I have since sold my 3c and have gone with the ipaq h3650. It's a solid handheld other than the windows part of it. It's somewhat light, it does enough color for what I need, it has a fairly good speaker, earphone plug, and IS compatible with linux. Did I forget to mention the sweet 206 mhz processor and 32 mb ram? Oh, and while we are on the topic of processors, I seem to remember a palm having that same processor. What did they do, take a palm and put a different cover on it and call it their own model? Come on everyone, lets get atleast SOME originality. The Linux DA os even LOOKS like palm, and I haven't really been happy with the small screens and software of palm. They aren't even multitasking. Also, from what I hear, the Agenda has many good qualities too.