Without question, the MAIN reason I bought my current PDA (Handspring Visor, PalmOS) is beacuse of the ease of use of Graffiti.
Is there an open source equivalent? Or even a Linux equivalent that will run on these vaporous Linux PDAs? I'd love to run Linux on my PDA, if for nothing but the applications, but without Graffiti, I'm sure I wouldn't use it much.
Then again, how does text entry happen on WinCE? I've never used it.
Where your wireless keyboard will control whatever of your computers you want.. physical KVM switches may become obsolete. Where I'll be able to type text into my Visor, if there's a bluetooth keyboard around, or X10 will be able to produce wireless devices with ease. My PDA will control my television, and not through that dinky IR port either. I'll be able to close the blinds, or dim the lights, with a GUI on my PDA, AS I'm walking up the stairs to my apartment.
Peer to peer will always survive and it will do so because this community just will NOT take no for an answer.
I hate to do this, because it paints P2P technologies with an unethical light, but if there is ever an official P2P war, it will have the same results as the war-on-drugs, or prohibition of alcohol, or trying to keep Marijuana illegal.
I truly believe that pot will (eventually) become legal to grow, and smoke, and the governments will tax it heavily (as they do tobacco) and profit from it. I'm not HOPEFUL that this will happen, nor am I opposed to it. I just believe it will happen.
The "war-on-drugs" is mildly successful, but, if I wanted to go our and get a shot of heroin, or a cap of Mescaline tonight, I wouldn't have a whole lot of trouble finding someone to sell it to me.
And we all know how prohibition of alcohol turned out.
Warez is illegal, but it will never go away because you just can't prosecute.
You _can_ prosecute, it's just difficult. It's a losing battle. Prosecuting one person in one town isn't going to solve anything, and prosecuting too many people just becomes ultimately more expensive than the projected "loss" by individuals 'pirating' your software.
It's like arresting one junkie for possession. It doesn't solve the problem. Our prisions just aren't big enough to hold everyone who violates the law, which is why we have varying levels of prosecution.
Uh, yeah, that was prolly a troll, but in the event that you WERE serious, a solution to your problem is simple: DON'T USE SAID SOFTWARE.
If someone wants to develop it, all power to them, but one of the the beauties of Linux is that you don't need to install the GUI to manage your webserver.
I think that one of the main reasons that MacOS has been so stable(compared to Windows) over the years is because of Apple's stranglehold on hardware.
Not only on the CPUs, but also on third party hardware and drivers. I could be wrong, but don't they approve any device and driver before it will run on the OS?
Try to dump the OS onto the hodgepodge Intel platform, and you end up with the same problems x86 users are already facing (including 20+ years of backward compatibility).
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I've pulled 250K/sec from [menace] (side note: being unb, you likely know what menace is, and since when is it unb.edu, not unb.ca ?), over my vibe line in Moncton.
But yes, anything over 200K/sec is very impressive. I'm sitting on crappy Bell Sympatico High Speed here, and it truly sucks the nut. 120K/sec downstream, 15K/sec upstream. Pathetic.
Post a link to Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, pouring hot grits all over herself on the front page of slashdot.
(We _are_ still into her, right?)
That's SURE to generate more than 34000 hits at once.
My (former) telephone company was doing this before I left the province (last October).
It doesn't translate directly to the standard coax that we're used to coming out of our walls, but a special connection that plugs into a 'tuner' box, and 'tunes' one channel at a time, much the same way small-dish sattelite 'tuners' work.
Anyone I've asked has said that it hasn't hurt ADSL performance (same network as the VibeTV stuff) too much.
NBTel's supposed to be worldclass in telecommunications (or something). After all, one of my hometown's main industries is hosting callcenters. That's right. You call AOL customer service, you get Moncton(Riverview), NB, Canada. Same with Equifax.
Oops, drifting offtopic. Anyway, my point was that this is being done, and it's similar quality to small-dish sattelite TV (Bell Expressview, or Starchoice in Canada).
Before the cable company in NB got bought by Shaw/Rogers, they were talking about providing telephone service. Stange how things get twisted around.
Half of the company I work at is based in Montreal (where I am), and the other half is in San Francisco (actually, the SF 'half' is larger.. details).
The admins from the SF office came up to Montreal last fall for meetings. The day they got here, we had a (in San Francisco) hub fail, and spew packets all over our network, and screw up our main hub. There was nobody at the office there to fix the problem. What'd we do? We couldn't VNC into the system, becuase we couldn't get much past the router. The guys from SF called in a few favors, got people to drop off keys, and pick up hubs at CompUSA, and the problem was fixed within a few hours. Could've been much worse.
The moral: Problems like that can always be fixed. Vacations (or out of town meetings for that matter) are needed.
Most of those bushisms would sound stupid in any context. Tell me how you could use the word 'misunderestimated' IN context, and without looking like an idiot?
My Pioneer DV333 (cheapest Pioneer model -- got it on sale) plays DVD, CD, CDR, and CDRW(haven't tested CDRW). I've successfully encoded episodes of Futurama to VCD (CDR) to watch on my player, and I use CDR-audio all the time.
It's supposed to play SVCD, too, which is cool. I should get off my butt and try that someday (-:
Dude, Nash Bridges is from San Francisco, and he has that sweetass Cuda that's likely not helping the pollution 'problem' any. Relax, he's a police officer, and he's not going to let his senator do anything rash.
Mandrake also installs Kudzu (sp?) by default. In fact, it told me last night that my CDRom has been removed from my computer.. either it's flaky (it's always worked for me before), or my CDRom's in some serious trouble (-:
I'm incredibly happy with Mandrake, coming from Redhat.
I have ABSOLUTELY no problem with product placement so long as it stays passive -- I mean, so long as ET doesn't start asking for Pepsi, and the characters don't make stupid references to the products.
Yeah.. Pay AND see ads sucks. I _REALLY_ hate it when I pay $10.25 for a movie ticket, and have to sit through a 3 minute Passaat commercial.
I don't mind the trailers so much, because they're at lease somewhat related to what I'm about to watch, but car commercials at the movies tick me off. (-:
I would, however, consider a deal with certain 'content' providers to make a payment in PLACE of their ads.
Don't pay, get bombarded with the ads, as usual. _DO_ pay, see no ads.
Also, I find google's search-sensitive, non-in-my-face ads to be much more effective than stupid banners. F'rinstance, as I'm typing this, the banner at the top of the page is a broken image, and I have NO IDEA what the banner on the previous page was, because I have, as have many many web users, developed some sort of automagic ignore-the-banner reflex.
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Without question, the MAIN reason I bought my current PDA (Handspring Visor, PalmOS) is beacuse of the ease of use of Graffiti.
Is there an open source equivalent? Or even a Linux equivalent that will run on these vaporous Linux PDAs? I'd love to run Linux on my PDA, if for nothing but the applications, but without Graffiti, I'm sure I wouldn't use it much.
Then again, how does text entry happen on WinCE? I've never used it.
or a bluetooth-like protocol.
Where your wireless keyboard will control whatever of your computers you want.. physical KVM switches may become obsolete. Where I'll be able to type text into my Visor, if there's a bluetooth keyboard around, or X10 will be able to produce wireless devices with ease. My PDA will control my television, and not through that dinky IR port either. I'll be able to close the blinds, or dim the lights, with a GUI on my PDA, AS I'm walking up the stairs to my apartment.
It's possible now.. just REALLY expensive.
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I only wish that NAID (Montreal, where I live) still existed.. ):
Don't talk to me about smelling the coffee. I'm Canadian, and I know all about levies(taxes).
Peer to peer will always survive and it will do so because this community just will NOT take no for an answer.
I hate to do this, because it paints P2P technologies with an unethical light, but if there is ever an official P2P war, it will have the same results as the war-on-drugs, or prohibition of alcohol, or trying to keep Marijuana illegal.
I truly believe that pot will (eventually) become legal to grow, and smoke, and the governments will tax it heavily (as they do tobacco) and profit from it. I'm not HOPEFUL that this will happen, nor am I opposed to it. I just believe it will happen.
The "war-on-drugs" is mildly successful, but, if I wanted to go our and get a shot of heroin, or a cap of Mescaline tonight, I wouldn't have a whole lot of trouble finding someone to sell it to me.
And we all know how prohibition of alcohol turned out.
Warez is illegal, but it will never go away because you just can't prosecute.
You _can_ prosecute, it's just difficult. It's a losing battle. Prosecuting one person in one town isn't going to solve anything, and prosecuting too many people just becomes ultimately more expensive than the projected "loss" by individuals 'pirating' your software.
It's like arresting one junkie for possession. It doesn't solve the problem. Our prisions just aren't big enough to hold everyone who violates the law, which is why we have varying levels of prosecution.
And THAT, my friends is precisely why the Americans leave us Canadians alone. (-:
Uh, yeah, that was prolly a troll, but in the event that you WERE serious, a solution to your problem is simple: DON'T USE SAID SOFTWARE.
If someone wants to develop it, all power to them, but one of the the beauties of Linux is that you don't need to install the GUI to manage your webserver.
I think that one of the main reasons that MacOS has been so stable(compared to Windows) over the years is because of Apple's stranglehold on hardware.
Not only on the CPUs, but also on third party hardware and drivers. I could be wrong, but don't they approve any device and driver before it will run on the OS?
Try to dump the OS onto the hodgepodge Intel platform, and you end up with the same problems x86 users are already facing (including 20+ years of backward compatibility).
kidding.
the ironic thing is that if this case law existed a year and a half ago, eToys might've been able to use it as ammunition against etoy.
I've pulled 250K/sec from [menace] (side note: being unb, you likely know what menace is, and since when is it unb.edu, not unb.ca ?), over my vibe line in Moncton.
But yes, anything over 200K/sec is very impressive. I'm sitting on crappy Bell Sympatico High Speed here, and it truly sucks the nut. 120K/sec downstream, 15K/sec upstream. Pathetic.
Post a link to Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, pouring hot grits all over herself on the front page of slashdot.
(We _are_ still into her, right?)
That's SURE to generate more than 34000 hits at once.
For the humour-impaired: this is a joke.
My (former) telephone company was doing this before I left the province (last October).
It doesn't translate directly to the standard coax that we're used to coming out of our walls, but a special connection that plugs into a 'tuner' box, and 'tunes' one channel at a time, much the same way small-dish sattelite 'tuners' work.
Anyone I've asked has said that it hasn't hurt ADSL performance (same network as the VibeTV stuff) too much.
NBTel's supposed to be worldclass in telecommunications (or something). After all, one of my hometown's main industries is hosting callcenters. That's right. You call AOL customer service, you get Moncton(Riverview), NB, Canada. Same with Equifax.
Oops, drifting offtopic. Anyway, my point was that this is being done, and it's similar quality to small-dish sattelite TV (Bell Expressview, or Starchoice in Canada).
Before the cable company in NB got bought by Shaw/Rogers, they were talking about providing telephone service. Stange how things get twisted around.
Half of the company I work at is based in Montreal (where I am), and the other half is in San Francisco (actually, the SF 'half' is larger.. details).
The admins from the SF office came up to Montreal last fall for meetings. The day they got here, we had a (in San Francisco) hub fail, and spew packets all over our network, and screw up our main hub. There was nobody at the office there to fix the problem. What'd we do? We couldn't VNC into the system, becuase we couldn't get much past the router. The guys from SF called in a few favors, got people to drop off keys, and pick up hubs at CompUSA, and the problem was fixed within a few hours. Could've been much worse.
The moral: Problems like that can always be fixed. Vacations (or out of town meetings for that matter) are needed.
You step out onto the street, and out of nowhere, splat!
The company would survive. They'd hire someone in a hurry. They'd pay them a fortune.
Most of those bushisms would sound stupid in any context. Tell me how you could use the word 'misunderestimated' IN context, and without looking like an idiot?
Subliminably.
Slightly offtopic, but a suggestion:
My Pioneer DV333 (cheapest Pioneer model -- got it on sale) plays DVD, CD, CDR, and CDRW(haven't tested CDRW). I've successfully encoded episodes of Futurama to VCD (CDR) to watch on my player, and I use CDR-audio all the time.
It's supposed to play SVCD, too, which is cool. I should get off my butt and try that someday (-:
Uh.. you _do_ know who Nash Bridges is, right? I was joking. (-:
Tune into CBS tonight at.. uh 10pm your(our) time.
Or vice versa..
Could be VERY bad if a Passenger-Carrying 747 was mistaken for a military unit -- likely VERY similar radar fingerprints, etc.
Dude, Nash Bridges is from San Francisco, and he has that sweetass Cuda that's likely not helping the pollution 'problem' any. Relax, he's a police officer, and he's not going to let his senator do anything rash.
(-:
And it's a Hemi to boot!
Heh, first thing I did after clicking on this story is CTRL-F, "BigBlockMopar" (-:
Mandrake also installs Kudzu (sp?) by default. In fact, it told me last night that my CDRom has been removed from my computer.. either it's flaky (it's always worked for me before), or my CDRom's in some serious trouble (-:
I'm incredibly happy with Mandrake, coming from Redhat.
I have ABSOLUTELY no problem with product placement so long as it stays passive -- I mean, so long as ET doesn't start asking for Pepsi, and the characters don't make stupid references to the products.
Yeah.. Pay AND see ads sucks. I _REALLY_ hate it when I pay $10.25 for a movie ticket, and have to sit through a 3 minute Passaat commercial.
I don't mind the trailers so much, because they're at lease somewhat related to what I'm about to watch, but car commercials at the movies tick me off. (-:
People expect web content to be free.
I would, however, consider a deal with certain 'content' providers to make a payment in PLACE of their ads.
Don't pay, get bombarded with the ads, as usual. _DO_ pay, see no ads.
Also, I find google's search-sensitive, non-in-my-face ads to be much more effective than stupid banners. F'rinstance, as I'm typing this, the banner at the top of the page is a broken image, and I have NO IDEA what the banner on the previous page was, because I have, as have many many web users, developed some sort of automagic ignore-the-banner reflex.
With 2.8GB of storage and MPEG4 encoding a person could easily record full length movies/tv/home video on a CD-R that costs less than 50 cents!
Think you might have stumbled onto the answer to your own question (-:
That may be PRECISELY the reason we haven't seen quad density CDRs.