The applications were good enough and could replace paper systems.
The programs were easy to learn, and you could back everything up. Battery life was good, too.
A Palm IIIe costs twenty bucks today. It is still useful with the addition an outliner (Arranger), metric conversion software, and e-readers like Plucker and Weasel reader.
The Japanese folding keyoard is ten bucks (new), and works fine once paired with the proper program.
The palm is a brilliant device, still.
The icyball refrigerator had no moving parts. It used about a cup of kerosene a day. It was developed in the 1920's based upon the notion that inexpensive refrigeration was very important for the world. It *still* seems like a good idea.
See
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In Toronto I get CBS, PBS, NBC, ABC, UPN and WB over the air. Cable carries these signals most places. There are some restrictions on encrypted US satellite signals, but none I have found in over-the-air transmission.
The 1911 Britannica is online here:
http://1911encyclopedia.org/
For recent information, magazines are best. But for issues like the origin of concepts, or ideas, the 1911 is unbeatable, still. The Online version appears to been run through a scanner, with the technical problems that come with scanning a typeset document. I have not found out how to help the site with proofreading.
Funny. Dark. In America, disk jockeys like Limbaugh are their finest political pundits/junkies.
In America, are principles really so funny?
Mandrake has proposed a set of rules that they want to follow to accomodate the the different interests at play in the Open Source world. This is a tremendous challenge for any software company.
The schools are now training new generations of their customers. For free. Microsoft should pay the schools to do this, supplying them with all the software and hardware they need. For free. What is it worth to Microsoft to lose a generation of trained customers?
Fax machines did exist in the 19th century but were
proprietary. Fax was little used until open standards for a fax modem were created. This open standard fax modem definition allowed fax machines to talk to each other, anywhere.
Proprietary vendors had little market for their product, until open standards were established.
Isn't this a shortsighted view?
We really have to be more adaptable to different models. The proprietary model is not required to make money. Other business models work as well.
For example, generic products can be sold profitably. 'Bayer Aspirin' is sold profitably beside generic 'Aspirin' and ASA tablets.
Also as an example, many people make money by using the English language well. They do not own it, but they teach it, they write it, they help people with it, they package it, they use it. And they profit from it.
Also, Patents and copyrights run out, and then the intellectual property flows into the public domain.
The way in which you make money changes, and models change too.
Erector and Meccano were competitors.
Erector was a product of A.C. Gilbert Corporation who also made American Flyer Trains. Meccano was British made.
In any case, Erector and Meccano were *not* the same, and yet a combination of the two different systems was most useful. Nots, bolts, girders and angle brackets were all different. The nuts and bolts in Erector were larger, and easier to use by small hands.
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100 years ago, the FDA was an honorable organization that looked out for the public interest. Do they still have this function?
The applications were good enough and could replace paper systems. The programs were easy to learn, and you could back everything up. Battery life was good, too. A Palm IIIe costs twenty bucks today. It is still useful with the addition an outliner (Arranger), metric conversion software, and e-readers like Plucker and Weasel reader. The Japanese folding keyoard is ten bucks (new), and works fine once paired with the proper program. The palm is a brilliant device, still.
The icyball refrigerator had no moving parts. It used about a cup of kerosene a day. It was developed in the 1920's based upon the notion that inexpensive refrigeration was very important for the world. It *still* seems like a good idea. See ahref=http://www.ggw.org/~cac/IcyBall/crosley_icyb all.htmlrel=url2html-9122http://www.ggw.org/~cac/I cyBall/crosley_icyball.html>
In Toronto I get CBS, PBS, NBC, ABC, UPN and WB over the air. Cable carries these signals most places. There are some restrictions on encrypted US satellite signals, but none I have found in over-the-air transmission.
The 1911 Britannica is online here: http://1911encyclopedia.org/ For recent information, magazines are best. But for issues like the origin of concepts, or ideas, the 1911 is unbeatable, still. The Online version appears to been run through a scanner, with the technical problems that come with scanning a typeset document. I have not found out how to help the site with proofreading.
Funny. Dark. In America, disk jockeys like Limbaugh are their finest political pundits/junkies.
In America, are principles really so funny?
Mandrake has proposed a set of rules that they want to follow to accomodate the the different interests at play in the Open Source world.
This is a tremendous challenge for any software company.
The schools are now training new generations
of their customers. For free. Microsoft should pay the schools to do this, supplying them with all the software and hardware they need. For free.
What is it worth to Microsoft to lose a generation of trained customers?
Fax machines did exist in the 19th century but were
proprietary. Fax was little used until open standards for a fax modem were created. This open standard fax modem definition allowed fax machines to talk to each other, anywhere.
Proprietary vendors had little market for their product, until open standards were established.
Isn't this a shortsighted view? We really have to be more adaptable to different models. The proprietary model is not required to make money. Other business models work as well. For example, generic products can be sold profitably. 'Bayer Aspirin' is sold profitably beside generic 'Aspirin' and ASA tablets. Also as an example, many people make money by using the English language well. They do not own it, but they teach it, they write it, they help people with it, they package it, they use it. And they profit from it. Also, Patents and copyrights run out, and then the intellectual property flows into the public domain. The way in which you make money changes, and models change too.
You seem to imply that Microsoft has begun to support their software. Is this true?
Erector and Meccano were competitors.
Erector was a product of A.C. Gilbert Corporation who also made American Flyer Trains. Meccano was British made.
In any case, Erector and Meccano were *not* the same, and yet a combination of the two different systems was most useful. Nots, bolts, girders and angle brackets were all different. The nuts and bolts in Erector were larger, and easier to use by small hands.