I've owned a palm of one sort or another since the US Robotics Pilot 1000, circa 1996...
I can't live without mine, it reminds me of birthdays, my g/fs period, stores phone #'s and an endless ammount of passwords (for work, different roots/backup passwords on every machine). I jot down ideas i have, work on song lyrics while Im waiting for an oil change, about the only things I wish I could do that I couldn't is load a serious videogame on it (something with a story) and have a basic midi sequencer that I could mess with... At one point I had a databse of my consle systems / games in it so when I saw an intersting game (say on a shoping trip) I could tell if I had it... but that is *serious* nerd stuff. For me the birthday reminder (a GPL BTW) is a killer app, it makes me the perfect boyfriend/brother/son/friend.
That being said, *most* people dont need palms. The reality is that most people can remember everything they need to know... When the day comes that they can't, we've got problems. The argument that it can remember phone #'s is pretty much useless, anyone with a palm has a cell phone with an address book. The reality of the situation is handhelds need to come up with a killer app that makes people need them again. Cell Phones stole *just* enough wind from the palms sails to make them pointless for most people. I think the killer app will actually be something like the Cybiko except for adults... but thats a story for another long winded message:)
You must remind me of nothing. However, I've had quite a few bad experiences with places listed on pricewatch... Maybe I should have said, I never would buy anything from a company listed on pricewatch.
The problem I had was with two seperate places (within a few days of eachother) was they both tried the bait and switch, I ordered some processors, and *both* places called and said they didnt have the processor in stock but I could get the boxed version for only 40$ more (40$ more on 80$ processors). One place cancelled my order, and the other charged my CC but never shipped anything... they wanted a 5% cancelation fee, which I agreed to because it was easier then fighting them... after two weeks they *still* hadn't credited me, every time I called their customer service line I got a busy signal. Anyways, as it was pretty much fraud at this point, I submitted a claim to my CC company and they cancelled the charge...
Thats why I dont shop at pricewatch. Since then I've been paying 10% more at buy.com and been happy with their service (although Im sure someone out there has some horror stories about them)
AMD's prices are just *dirt* chip, this is why they aren't making any money. An 800mhz PIII chip costs 89$, on pricewatch (which I would never buy from by the way). 87$ buys you an Athlon 2100 cpu, which is just about 1ghz faster then the intel part. AMD's processors are an amazing value, but AMD has to have trouble making a profit on them.
Id love one on the desktop if the performance is good. Less power = less cooling = less noise! We had a power out here about two weeks ago, and for 10 blissfull minutes, none of our 5 tvs were on, none of *7* computers were on. I think until that moment, I had forgotten what silence sounded like. I like quiet:)
What have you been to a public school latley? Kids can learn to type, point and click, and copy each others assignments on linux and those skills will transfter to many other systems;)
Whoever tries this in the US will be the first to go out of business. People just wont stand for it. I'll go to juno for 9.99$ a month and save 40$ a month. Remember all those adds showing people talking to garndma online and downloading movies, and researching reports, and video chat ?
For people in my age group (20 something) DSL is a *lifestyle issue*. I download the TV I wanna watch, I get all my music from emusic, my musican friends send me their track (24 bit wav of course -- mp3 eats quality)... we will not give it up easily:)... and just think of all the things I wont admit to doing with DSL
I agree with you 101%; For me, copy protected music will be the *REASON* to stop buying music. My cd collection lives under my bed, everything gets transfered to mp3 then stowed. I have 4 mp3 players, and I pretty much dont leave the house without one of them. I like things this way, I like my mp3 players. I'm not buying new hardware for sony, I'm gonna find new artists who aren't protected. If theres something I can't live without [ie a sting album, and he's a media whore so I know he'll be the first guy out there with copy protection], I'll download the MP3 and be a pirate:D.
I would really like to see bzip2 take over as the defacto compression standard... it is much smaller then zip and smaller then gzip, in some cases (source code in particular) it is almost 50% better). As an informal survey take the crystal space distribution (crystalspce.org)
cs94_002.tar.bz2 (Source) 10.7Meg,
cs94_002.tar.gz (Source) 12.6Meg,
cs94_002.zip (Source) 16.7Meg
As a side note, winrar will extract bzip2 but not create it.
ohh you were so close... you almost discovered the true power of American capitalism... When a company becomes large enough, they *tell * consumers what to want. That was the real innovation behind MTV, tell kids what kind of music they want to listen to. Tell people "be original" and drink Dr Pepper. If I believe the commercials, a Nokia phone with a red faceplate would get me laid. Pepsi, "for those who think young."
Microsoft picks some technology, convinces everyone they want it, and then when the industry catches up, MS has already moved on.
Obviously, you've never been a boss. Why expose yourself to security, legal, or financial risks with no potential gain? YOUR boss could be fired or sanctioned for authorizing software. Those are exactly the thoughts running through your bosses head. It may be short sighted, but that's business.
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I dont know what you downloaded, but the jpeg "ss1" on the front page is 1,160,721 bytes ... or 1.10MB
That the JPEG on the front page is 1.1 megs?! some of my websites are smaller then 1 meg!
I can't live without mine, it reminds me of birthdays, my g/fs period, stores phone #'s and an endless ammount of passwords (for work, different roots/backup passwords on every machine). I jot down ideas i have, work on song lyrics while Im waiting for an oil change, about the only things I wish I could do that I couldn't is load a serious videogame on it (something with a story) and have a basic midi sequencer that I could mess with ... At one point I had a databse of my consle systems / games in it so when I saw an intersting game (say on a shoping trip) I could tell if I had it ... but that is *serious* nerd stuff. For me the birthday reminder (a GPL BTW) is a killer app, it makes me the perfect boyfriend/brother/son/friend.
That being said, *most* people dont need palms. The reality is that most people can remember everything they need to know ... When the day comes that they can't, we've got problems. The argument that it can remember phone #'s is pretty much useless, anyone with a palm has a cell phone with an address book. The reality of the situation is handhelds need to come up with a killer app that makes people need them again. Cell Phones stole *just* enough wind from the palms sails to make them pointless for most people. I think the killer app will actually be something like the Cybiko except for adults ... but thats a story for another long winded message :)
I believe that was an add for "monster garage" on Discovery. If not the monster garage commerical is the same damn thing.
The problem I had was with two seperate places (within a few days of eachother) was they both tried the bait and switch, I ordered some processors, and *both* places called and said they didnt have the processor in stock but I could get the boxed version for only 40$ more (40$ more on 80$ processors). One place cancelled my order, and the other charged my CC but never shipped anything ... they wanted a 5% cancelation fee, which I agreed to because it was easier then fighting them ... after two weeks they *still* hadn't credited me, every time I called their customer service line I got a busy signal. Anyways, as it was pretty much fraud at this point, I submitted a claim to my CC company and they cancelled the charge ...
Thats why I dont shop at pricewatch. Since then I've been paying 10% more at buy.com and been happy with their service (although Im sure someone out there has some horror stories about them)
AMD's prices are just *dirt* chip, this is why they aren't making any money. An 800mhz PIII chip costs 89$, on pricewatch (which I would never buy from by the way). 87$ buys you an Athlon 2100 cpu, which is just about 1ghz faster then the intel part. AMD's processors are an amazing value, but AMD has to have trouble making a profit on them.
Check out this link, Tales from Afternow
It's a "Radio play" that may interest you ... it takes the form of a broadcast from a dystopian future where corporations have copywritten everything
the other choices were just as bad ... "escrow" or (held in) "trust" ...
dude every time you link to k5 from slashdot a little piece of k5 dies
Id love one on the desktop if the performance is good. Less power = less cooling = less noise! We had a power out here about two weeks ago, and for 10 blissfull minutes, none of our 5 tvs were on, none of *7* computers were on. I think until that moment, I had forgotten what silence sounded like. I like quiet :)
I can't help thinking this organism will be kind of like a floppy distro :)
Good for you. Are there two telephone companies in your town? Cuz theres just 1 in mine.
What have you been to a public school latley? Kids can learn to type, point and click, and copy each others assignments on linux and those skills will transfter to many other systems ;)
For people in my age group (20 something) DSL is a *lifestyle issue*. I download the TV I wanna watch, I get all my music from emusic, my musican friends send me their track (24 bit wav of course -- mp3 eats quality) ... we will not give it up easily :) ... and just think of all the things I wont admit to doing with DSL
XML is a "meta langauge" -- a language used to describe a language. The language they describe could still be hopelessly obfuscated.
I to am frustrated at the difficlty of finding linux waerz :D
and now for a *funny* joke involving techno ...
Granted, brittney spears spends 4 hours recording and then pays people to do the other 196 hours ... but what can ya do :)
I agree with you 101%; For me, copy protected music will be the *REASON* to stop buying music. My cd collection lives under my bed, everything gets transfered to mp3 then stowed. I have 4 mp3 players, and I pretty much dont leave the house without one of them. I like things this way, I like my mp3 players. I'm not buying new hardware for sony, I'm gonna find new artists who aren't protected. If theres something I can't live without [ie a sting album, and he's a media whore so I know he'll be the first guy out there with copy protection], I'll download the MP3 and be a pirate :D.
cs94_002.tar.bz2 (Source) 10.7Meg,
cs94_002.tar.gz (Source) 12.6Meg,
cs94_002.zip (Source) 16.7Meg
As a side note, winrar will extract bzip2 but not create it.
Microsoft picks some technology, convinces everyone they want it, and then when the industry catches up, MS has already moved on.
Obviously, you've never been a boss. Why expose yourself to security, legal, or financial risks with no potential gain? YOUR boss could be fired or sanctioned for authorizing software. Those are exactly the thoughts running through your bosses head. It may be short sighted, but that's business.
I think you're a meta-troll. And if so you've done a damn fine job of it
Came out in the US a year or so ago called Frequency.
Someone profiting by violating privacy, dosent care about privacy. Yep thats pretty much the problem with things right now