I've been using a Palm IIIc and a Palm IIIxe interchangeably for the past few years to read e-books, downloaded news articles, write short stories, notes, etc.
I use the Palm IIIxe when I know I'll be reading outdoors where there's a lot of sunlight. For indoor use, I stick with my Palm IIIc.
Haven't really felt a strong urge to upgrade, otherwise. Don't need a digital camera, MP3 player, hibachi bbq, toe massage, whatever. I just need the ability to read plain ol' ASCII text and somewhere to store numbers and addresses.
Heh, good question. Haven't figured that one out yet, either. I also drop down to the console whenever I use Wordperfect.
I'm using Slackware 9.0 with WindowMaker. For me, switching between a console and X-Windows is simply a matter of hitting CTRL-ALT-[Function Key] to switch to a console, and then ALT-F7 to switch back.
...I'm still running WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS under FreeDOS running in DOSEmu on my Slackware box.
I use vi for most other tasks (scripting, editing config files), but when it comes to real writing and formatting, nothing beats good ol' WP5.1 for DOS. Never cared for that Windows GUI. All the icons and menu bars....too distracting.
How are we supposed to trust a voting system, when the system itself is owned and operated by staunch supporters of the Bush administration?
I came across the following in the Graydon Carter's "Editor's Letter" section in the latest issue of Vanity Fair (April 2004):
"Walden O'Dell is chairman and CEO of Diebold, one of the largest electronic-voting-machine manufacturers in the country. He also happens to be a Bush 'pioneer,' which means he's raised at least $100,000 for the president's re-election campaign. In mid-2003, he helped organize a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Dick Cheney that brought in a further $600,000. A few months later, O'Dell called upon Ohio Republicans for even more money for the party, proclaiming his commitment to help 'Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.' Diebold itself has given $100,000 in soft-money contributions to the Republican National Committee. (The company has donated nothing to the Democrats.) One of the company's directors raised $200,000 for the Bush re-election campaign, and 11 other Diebold executives anted up $2,000 apiece."
Shouldn't these voting machines be operated by some kind of non-partisan/bi-partisan organization?
http://www.mytypewriter.com/generic81.html
Just out of curiosity....where about in the boonies will you be moving to? And is this going to be your primary residence?
Good luck.
-- anthony
Doesn't need electricity, batteries, and I don't need to worry about getting spammed for a "free" upgrade from Underwood or Royal. The only bug is when I type a sequence of keys too quickly and the metal levers get tangled. I'm a lot more productive while using one because there are no distractions, like the Internet, Usenet, video games, MP3 downloads, all that online/wired/wirelss crap that sucks the life right outta you and keeps you from doing what really matters, like writing rambling, stream-of-consciousness replies to Slashdot posts.
...My dad worked for Atari in the early-80s when the 2600 ruled the market. It was cool. Sometimes he'd take us down there on the weekends to play in the free arcade.
My dad's own take on Atari's demise: Their engineers were a bunch of coke addicts. Now, this could very well be just the circle of folks that my dad worked with.
Here's one for the urban legend file: There used to be a couch in the lobby of the building, and every night at midnight (according to my dad who sometimes worked the graveyard shift), the face of an old Indian chieftian used to appear in the fabric. It used to freak out all the security guards who had to sit there looking at it all night.
It's an app used primarily in the legal industry. You can in hard copies or import text/doc files. Once the file's been imported into the system, you can highlight bits of text and do the things that you need to do. Used it a lot when I was a legal assistant, mostly for summarizing deposition or trial transcripts.
Whenever I hear 80's music now, I imagine myself in-game, cruising along the beach in a stolen car looking for things to run over or crash into. Then, maybe later, pull over and blow away a few people with my shotgun.
Thanks RockStar, my memory of the 80's will never be the same.
....his other writings are boring and overly academic in the sense that I feel like I'm having to read it as an assignment in high school English class. But hey...this one might be different. I doubt it.
I don't know how non-traditional this is, but I started out not going to college at all. I was working as a file/mail clerk in 1991, intending to become a "writer," when the office dropped a PC in the mailroom running Wordperfect Office 3.1 on a Novell network. That was enough to get me hooked. Bought my first HP 386 in 1993 and began programming in QBasic and hacking around with a Netcom shell account. Still working as a file clerk, I moved into a paralegal job where I worked on trials for two years. I got that job because I was the only one who knew how to program a Paradox 3.5 database. After that, I transferred into the firm's MIS department and eventually wound up contracting/consulting (geek terms for "temping") as a Windows PC/networking guy. Now I'm currently testing wireless VoIP phones at a company in San Jose where I'm learning a lot more than I thought I'd ever need to know about RF and voice-over-IP. Still intending to be a "writer," though.
-- anthony
Maybe Edgar Cayce was right when he spoke of Atlantis and the use of crystals: "...Rays of various kinds were controlled, including the death ray. Fluxes of metals unknown today were used in the various types of air and water craft which were constructed by the Atlanteans. The forces used to propel these crafts were first gas and electricity, but later, forces from the sun's rays - caught and reflected by crystals."
Maybe there is some truth to what the whackos say about crystal power.
...so all the hype was about a giant rectangular webcam.
I'd still go for one of these things instead: http://www.alphasmart.com/products/as3000_overview.html
Now if there were only a way to view donkey porn on it....
-- anthony
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I've been using a Palm IIIc and a Palm IIIxe interchangeably for the past few years to read e-books, downloaded news articles, write short stories, notes, etc.
I use the Palm IIIxe when I know I'll be reading outdoors where there's a lot of sunlight. For indoor use, I stick with my Palm IIIc.
Haven't really felt a strong urge to upgrade, otherwise. Don't need a digital camera, MP3 player, hibachi bbq, toe massage, whatever. I just need the ability to read plain ol' ASCII text and somewhere to store numbers and addresses.
-- anthony
Heh, good question. Haven't figured that one out yet, either. I also drop down to the console whenever I use Wordperfect.
I'm using Slackware 9.0 with WindowMaker. For me, switching between a console and X-Windows is simply a matter of hitting CTRL-ALT-[Function Key] to switch to a console, and then ALT-F7 to switch back.
-- anthony
...I'm still running WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS under FreeDOS running in DOSEmu on my Slackware box.
I use vi for most other tasks (scripting, editing config files), but when it comes to real writing and formatting, nothing beats good ol' WP5.1 for DOS. Never cared for that Windows GUI. All the icons and menu bars....too distracting.
How are we supposed to trust a voting system, when the system itself is owned and operated by staunch supporters of the Bush administration?
I came across the following in the Graydon Carter's "Editor's Letter" section in the latest issue of Vanity Fair (April 2004):
"Walden O'Dell is chairman and CEO of Diebold, one of the largest electronic-voting-machine manufacturers in the country. He also happens to be a Bush 'pioneer,' which means he's raised at least $100,000 for the president's re-election campaign. In mid-2003, he helped organize a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Dick Cheney that brought in a further $600,000. A few months later, O'Dell called upon Ohio Republicans for even more money for the party, proclaiming his commitment to help 'Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.' Diebold itself has given $100,000 in soft-money contributions to the Republican National Committee. (The company has donated nothing to the Democrats.) One of the company's directors raised $200,000 for the Bush re-election campaign, and 11 other Diebold executives anted up $2,000 apiece."
Shouldn't these voting machines be operated by some kind of non-partisan/bi-partisan organization?
-- anthony
http://www.mytypewriter.com/generic81.html Just out of curiosity....where about in the boonies will you be moving to? And is this going to be your primary residence? Good luck. -- anthony
Hands down.
Doesn't need electricity, batteries, and I don't need to worry about getting spammed for a "free" upgrade from Underwood or Royal. The only bug is when I type a sequence of keys too quickly and the metal levers get tangled. I'm a lot more productive while using one because there are no distractions, like the Internet, Usenet, video games, MP3 downloads, all that online/wired/wirelss crap that sucks the life right outta you and keeps you from doing what really matters, like writing rambling, stream-of-consciousness replies to Slashdot posts.
-- anthony
...My dad worked for Atari in the early-80s when the 2600 ruled the market. It was cool. Sometimes he'd take us down there on the weekends to play in the free arcade.
My dad's own take on Atari's demise: Their engineers were a bunch of coke addicts. Now, this could very well be just the circle of folks that my dad worked with.
Here's one for the urban legend file: There used to be a couch in the lobby of the building, and every night at midnight (according to my dad who sometimes worked the graveyard shift), the face of an old Indian chieftian used to appear in the fabric. It used to freak out all the security guards who had to sit there looking at it all night.
-- anthony
oh yeah, right. that, too.
where the hell is my spoon...?
-- anthony
is "marginalia."
It's an app used primarily in the legal industry. You can in hard copies or import text/doc files. Once the file's been imported into the system, you can highlight bits of text and do the things that you need to do. Used it a lot when I was a legal assistant, mostly for summarizing deposition or trial transcripts.
Check 'em out here at http://www.summation.com
-- anthony
in 10,000 years computer networks will crash around the world due to the Y10K bug.
-- anthony
...looks like the site's been slashdotted. i really am curious to know what the numbers are for QBasic.
bwahahaha!
that gorilla game kicked ass....wonder if it's been ported?
-- anthony
but how many people do you know who actually paid for their copies of windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP?
mass piracy in the workplace is a common occurence.
i use slackware, btw. so don't start calling me a thief.
-- anthony
Whenever I hear 80's music now, I imagine myself in-game, cruising along the beach in a stolen car looking for things to run over or crash into. Then, maybe later, pull over and blow away a few people with my shotgun.
Thanks RockStar, my memory of the 80's will never be the same.
-- anthony
"..[T]he famous equation E=mc2 might not be entirely correct..."
It isn't.
Time slows when you've smoked one too many doobs or when you're bored out of your mind.
-- anthony
...in a nightmarish, Frankenstein kinda way.
Think I'll stick to my McDonald's cheeseburgers.
-- anthony
....his other writings are boring and overly academic in the sense that I feel like I'm having to read it as an assignment in high school English class. But hey...this one might be different. I doubt it.
-- anthony
i think they did and called it "Pez". -- anthony
...claims that he remembers his own birth.
For me, that would be a very disturbing experience.
-- anthony
...eating a bottleful of Flintstones vitamins. I was about 2-3 years old. She was four years older. -- anthony
I don't know how non-traditional this is, but I started out not going to college at all. I was working as a file/mail clerk in 1991, intending to become a "writer," when the office dropped a PC in the mailroom running Wordperfect Office 3.1 on a Novell network. That was enough to get me hooked. Bought my first HP 386 in 1993 and began programming in QBasic and hacking around with a Netcom shell account. Still working as a file clerk, I moved into a paralegal job where I worked on trials for two years. I got that job because I was the only one who knew how to program a Paradox 3.5 database. After that, I transferred into the firm's MIS department and eventually wound up contracting/consulting (geek terms for "temping") as a Windows PC/networking guy. Now I'm currently testing wireless VoIP phones at a company in San Jose where I'm learning a lot more than I thought I'd ever need to know about RF and voice-over-IP. Still intending to be a "writer," though. -- anthony
Maybe Edgar Cayce was right when he spoke of Atlantis and the use of crystals: "...Rays of various kinds were controlled, including the death ray. Fluxes of metals unknown today were used in the various types of air and water craft which were constructed by the Atlanteans. The forces used to propel these crafts were first gas and electricity, but later, forces from the sun's rays - caught and reflected by crystals."
Maybe there is some truth to what the whackos say about crystal power.
Or maybe not.
-- anthony /p>
Only a system running Windows XP with Minesweeper installed and configured could save us! All hail Bill Gates, Savior of Humanity!!
/duck
-- anthony
...so all the hype was about a giant rectangular webcam. I'd still go for one of these things instead: http://www.alphasmart.com/products/as3000_overview .html
Now if there were only a way to view donkey porn on it....
-- anthony
...there were only cockroaches and Dick Clark.
-- anthony