Have you actually USED a Treo? I have a Treo 270, and while it's not perfect, I would never again go back to carrying around two devices.
The PDA part is hardly unusable, and it's adequate (though not great) as a phone. In fact, even if it wasn't a phone, I think I'd still like it better than any of the other PDAs I've had, simply for it's small size.
Although in most cases it owns the rights to the books it has published, O'Reilly will release books under the Founders' Copyright only with the author's permission. The company is in the process of soliciting that permission, and 80% of the authors who have responded to date have agreed to honor the Founders' Copyright. O'Reilly is also applying the Creative Commons Attribution license to hundreds of out-of-print books, pending author approval.
Most of the time, maybe. My Vaio laptop is "no longer under warranty" because I didn't mail the card in within 90 days, even though it was sold to me as having a "One Year Warranty"
Someone did that, a long time ago. It was called OS/2. It even ran Windows applications better than Windows did (protected memory.)
The result? It would run all the Windows apps, so people decided they didn't need to write native applications for it, and it completely failed (on the desktop market, anyway, I know it's still in use in some places.)
And seeing as the PowerPC is a Motorola chip, and Apple just happens to be the biggest user of these Motorola chips, I don't see how this had anything to do with competition between Apple and Sony.
I think what was impressive here was that it WAS powered down, but not in the normal way. The fact that it came back from a hibernation, and then recognized inserted or removed PCMCIA cards is (what is claimed to be) impressive. I swap out cards with the power on all the time in Linux, that works just fine. Basically, with the hibernation, it's essentially like a card were inserted or removed without it giving notification of it happening, and still coming back up and working properly.
No one paid for the major league baseball internet-cast?
As a Mets fan out in California, I gladly paid my $10 for the entire season's (every team, every game) webcast. I'll have to see how much it is for the season this year before saying whether or not I'd do it again.
Bandwidth isn't free. Spam takes up bandwidth. Sure, it doesn't take up a lot of yours, and you're probably paying by time, not by usage, but not everyone is. Major backbones get bogged down in it. AT&T's Worldnet e-mail had delays of up to a day because of spam. It gets expensive. It's not simply "deleting 10 messages a day," for anyone except the end user.
First Amendment only disallows the GOVERNMENT from restricting your right to free speech. It has nothing to do with you agreeing to a contract (and, as other people have said, it's unclear whether or not an EULA is a legally binding contract) that prevents you from saying something. They're allowed to put it in the agreement. I don't like it, and I don't use their software.
The 57MB download only includes the code, not the 900,000 web pages. Instructions for downloading those are included with the initial download. This is what takes up most of the space on the CDs.
Yeah, my time is valuable to me too. I also ENJOY putting my new PCs together, and consider it time well spent.
On the other hand, I certainly don't need just another linux box when I decide to get something faster than my 1ghz athlon, so I've been considering a mac for my next machine...
Flash does crawl in linux, but its cause the linux version of it sucks. I use the windows one with the crossover plugin, and its a whole lot faster. So, it doesn't seem to be an X problem, just a program not at all optimized for it, or something.
Actually, this just shows how MS used their monopoly to force IE on people. Windows used to (maybe still does, don't know) come with an "Online Services" folder or something, that included AOL. In order for AOL to be included there, they had to ship with IE. And then, when they got rid of that, and started just having MSN there or something, AOL was still under contract or something to still ship with IE. Then again, I could be completely wrong about all of this.
I got my Celeron because I need something that could decode Ogg files without the need for a fan. Unfortunately, the damn power supply fan still makes too much noise (as does the hard drive, but I think that will shortly be replaced by flash). Duron may be able to do this, I doubt P3/P4/Athlon have any shot at it.
At the risk of responding to/encouraging a troll/flamebait/offtopic post...
If they wanted to "silence" people, they could have deleted the post. Modding down an off-topic post as off-topic seems to make sense to me. What does slashdot moderation have to do with oracle being breakable?
Yes, the editors may have modded it down, but only so people could actually find the comments about the actual article. Modding it to -1 does NOT prevent anyone from reading it. In fact, your message has a direct link to it that no one is prevented from using. (and I'm reading your message even though it has already been modded down to 0).
While that post may be interesting, it had absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, that is, Oracle being breakable. So it was modded down as off-topic. Good. That's what it was.
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Have you actually USED a Treo? I have a Treo 270, and while it's not perfect, I would never again go back to carrying around two devices.
The PDA part is hardly unusable, and it's adequate (though not great) as a phone. In fact, even if it wasn't a phone, I think I'd still like it better than any of the other PDAs I've had, simply for it's small size.
Most of the time, maybe. My Vaio laptop is "no longer under warranty" because I didn't mail the card in within 90 days, even though it was sold to me as having a "One Year Warranty"
Wrong.
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http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.
Someone did that, a long time ago. It was called OS/2. It even ran Windows applications better than Windows did (protected memory.)
The result? It would run all the Windows apps, so people decided they didn't need to write native applications for it, and it completely failed (on the desktop market, anyway, I know it's still in use in some places.)
And seeing as the PowerPC is a Motorola chip, and Apple just happens to be the biggest user of these Motorola chips, I don't see how this had anything to do with competition between Apple and Sony.
Which, by the way, they responded to with the biggest load of crap I've ever read.
I think what was impressive here was that it WAS powered down, but not in the normal way. The fact that it came back from a hibernation, and then recognized inserted or removed PCMCIA cards is (what is claimed to be) impressive. I swap out cards with the power on all the time in Linux, that works just fine. Basically, with the hibernation, it's essentially like a card were inserted or removed without it giving notification of it happening, and still coming back up and working properly.
No one paid for the major league baseball internet-cast? As a Mets fan out in California, I gladly paid my $10 for the entire season's (every team, every game) webcast. I'll have to see how much it is for the season this year before saying whether or not I'd do it again.
Bandwidth isn't free. Spam takes up bandwidth. Sure, it doesn't take up a lot of yours, and you're probably paying by time, not by usage, but not everyone is. Major backbones get bogged down in it. AT&T's Worldnet e-mail had delays of up to a day because of spam. It gets expensive. It's not simply "deleting 10 messages a day," for anyone except the end user.
First Amendment only disallows the GOVERNMENT from restricting your right to free speech. It has nothing to do with you agreeing to a contract (and, as other people have said, it's unclear whether or not an EULA is a legally binding contract) that prevents you from saying something. They're allowed to put it in the agreement. I don't like it, and I don't use their software.
The 57MB download only includes the code, not the 900,000 web pages. Instructions for downloading those are included with the initial download. This is what takes up most of the space on the CDs.
Yeah, my time is valuable to me too. I also ENJOY putting my new PCs together, and consider it time well spent.
On the other hand, I certainly don't need just another linux box when I decide to get something faster than my 1ghz athlon, so I've been considering a mac for my next machine...
Looks like someone beat Woz to the punch here... and he just started a new company and all...
Flash does crawl in linux, but its cause the linux version of it sucks. I use the windows one with the crossover plugin, and its a whole lot faster. So, it doesn't seem to be an X problem, just a program not at all optimized for it, or something.
Actually, this just shows how MS used their monopoly to force IE on people. Windows used to (maybe still does, don't know) come with an "Online Services" folder or something, that included AOL. In order for AOL to be included there, they had to ship with IE. And then, when they got rid of that, and started just having MSN there or something, AOL was still under contract or something to still ship with IE. Then again, I could be completely wrong about all of this.
I got my Celeron because I need something that could decode Ogg files without the need for a fan. Unfortunately, the damn power supply fan still makes too much noise (as does the hard drive, but I think that will shortly be replaced by flash). Duron may be able to do this, I doubt P3/P4/Athlon have any shot at it.
At the risk of responding to/encouraging a troll/flamebait/offtopic post...
If they wanted to "silence" people, they could have deleted the post. Modding down an off-topic post as off-topic seems to make sense to me. What does slashdot moderation have to do with oracle being breakable?
Yes, the editors may have modded it down, but only so people could actually find the comments about the actual article. Modding it to -1 does NOT prevent anyone from reading it. In fact, your message has a direct link to it that no one is prevented from using. (and I'm reading your message even though it has already been modded down to 0).
While that post may be interesting, it had absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand, that is, Oracle being breakable. So it was modded down as off-topic. Good. That's what it was.