I have been with a palm device for a few years now, at first it was a 1 meg pro.
Between its second and third year the digitizer started to drift, but predictably, about once a week it needed recalibration. During it's three years of service to me I NEVER needed to perform a soft or hard reset, though I periodically lost all my data by attempting to squeeze too much out of the batteries. Of course it's full capacity was only one meg so a total sync from my pc did not take too long. Last summer I sold it to a friend of my wife's and last I heard it is still in service no problems. Also last summer I bought an M105, this was for $200, just before the prices plummeted and also the release of the M125( bummer). During my year with the m105, I have had only one complaint; the cheap plastic screen. I, of course, am mostly at fault, after about 1200 games of smallware solfree there is a distinct star-like pattern of scratches emanating from the top right corner of the screen where you drag the cards from, to be placed on the individual stacks. The up-side to this is that as many times as I have dropped it, it never had a fault. I guess the plastic screen is quite durable. And, also with this palm, over a year of use and it has never required a reset, hard or soft, Also I've been more carefull regarding battery life and never let it get so low as to lose data. I feel that it has delivered more than expected for what was very near the bottom of the line products, I was very happy that palm marketed a really cheap PDA that had the same capity and feratures as the "over my budget" V/Vx/M50x series.
This ends my praise section
As I stated above, had it been available I probably would have gotten the expandability of the M125 last summer, so recently as I have been thinking of upgrading of course that is the first model that entered my mind as a possible replacement. Then I started thinking about why I really wanted expandability and realized that I did not want to lock myself into needing overpriced SD/MMC form-factor cards. I looked at visor and realized that while the springboard is well spoken of as far as usability and reliability, it is very proprietary and to be avoided. That leaves me looking at the competition, the PocketPCs. What I now know that I want is a PPC with built in expandability( not a dock like the iPaq) with a CF slot and one other, additional CF or SM or ever SD/MMC. This will allow me to use a CF 802.11 card for networking and also increase storage, simultaneously. I don't believe that any devices have this capability yet, but I am looking, and will turn to the dark side(Microsoft) as soon as something is available.
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Well my young friend I hate to lay a big downer on you but when you take your "required courses in Physics" you will not see enough of this type of material to prove or disprove anything like this. Assuming that you are heading toward a degree in engineering, you are after all reading and posting on SlashDot, you will have to take probably two semesters of introductory, "classic", physics.
Your first year will pound into your head lots of basic F=ma type stuff, and plenty of acceleration is the first derivative of velocity and velocity is the first derivative of position blah blah blah. By they time you finish this semester you will be so tired of figuring out where and when a ball will hit the earth, given that it was thrown at a certain angle and at a certain initial velocity, of course we are neglecting friction due to air.
Your second and last required semester will turn to electricity and magnetism, here let me sum up that semester for you: Electrical fields and Magnetic fields always co-exist orthogonaly.
If you go on to get a minor in physics, as I did, you basically spend a semester or two learning the heavy duty math needed to do heavy duty physics problems yet not taught over in the math dept. Then, you effectually repeat the first semester but no longer neglecting friction. Almost all the problems are impossible to actually solve and you really learn how to accurately estimate solutions, except of course for the really easy ones, which are solvable using coupled differential equations.
Finally, you get to take your upper level electives, one or two may be introductions to quantum physics. I say introductions because all the real juicy stuff is at the PhD level.
At this point none of your questions about time travel will be answered, but you will realize that you need to get you a55 over to your department and finish the degree that will be your bread winner and all your background in physics will do is allow you to do is write a lame post like this on an internet discussion, kind of sad, isn't it?
I've got the same problem with ZiffDavis, I am on some mailing list, and when I click the unsubscribe link I end up at a login page to change my prefs. Of course I have never signed up for this service and consequently have no user name and password to sign in to change the prefs. So I enter my email in the "duh, I forgot my name and password" field, the email they are sending stuff to, that is. It returns that I am not a registered member, "no shit", so why am I getting junk mail to this account in the first place
I don't think that they intend to be spammers without an opt out method, just that over time they have merged passive and active lists and there is no way for the passive victims to login to opt out
OOps, i forgot to mention... i always hated the randomness of the inclusion of the side items, it was like winning the lottery to get the tube of cheese like goo instead of the peanut butter or even worse, the jelly
the best part is if you dump enough tobasco sause on something, it tastes just like tobasco. and we all know that tobasco tastes much better than what they were trying to make those MREs taste like.
I am working on a device that installs in the case and works by proximity to a belt worn or key fob transciever. when the laptop, in its case, is too far from the transciever it will deliver about the equivelant voltage as a stun-gun via the handle.
i thought of this one day in Houston Intl. Airport, i was sitting at one of the overpriced bars with my heals cleanched around my laptop case to keep it from walking off without me.
My home was recently burgerarized and to my surprise they left two good laptops, i feel that the risk of the next owner (pawn shop) discovering the previous owner (me), via software registration/registry entries, scared 'em off. Of course the thiefs would not be familiar with high end concealment tools such as fdisk and format.
they did steal my laptop case to carry off the contents of my change jar, damn crackheads.
What banner adds, you don't mean that single little one at the top of each page? I had to go looking for it after reading this article, never noticed it before.
If you want to make some money by offering a nag-free subscription, you need to make the sit more annoying. A good example is weather.com, with the multiple pop-ups one would think your at a porn site or a site that is hosted free on anglefire.(Thank Dog for Pop-up Stopper)
Nay, I doubt that you will get many subscriptions from readers who want to get rid of the little banner add. If you need cash, why not just ask? Do a fund raiser, like a bake sale without actually giving away any cookies.
In addition to using the ORBZ list we block out the other three big domestic Spam sources, msn.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com. This helps a lot, but in general any web-based mail service that allows anonymous accounts is a good target. As the co-owner of several small private (not an ISP) domains, we can do this. As digital snobs, we don't really want mail from the digitally impaired, so, we can do this.
Actually, the few people trapped on those services that we want communication with we make exceptions and allow their mail to pass, but they have to know their recipient well enough to call first and set it up.
it looks like his DSL has been cut off, as well as being turned off by the limited host, freeservers, that he moved to when the FBI took all his stuff. On the cached version at google you can see him pleading for someone to donate space/bandwidth. i think he is going to have trouble finding any takers "yes i would like the FBI to raid my business"
it really looks like he is having a bad day, could it get any worse....
Oh yeah, he lives with his mom. ha ha ha ha
1. they are only not allowing any new cyber-cafes to open for 45 days, so what!
2. they are restricting access to people under 18 to before 8:00pm on school nights.
3. the victim of the fatal stabbing was 20 yrs old and would not be affected by the new restriction.
4. any time old farts hear of violent crime amongst young persons( defined as any one under 30) in an urban environment they cry "gang", boy do these guys have a clue or what?
yeah, in adition to the 40 regular hours(52 weeks/year) you would need to rack up an additional 69.5 hours a week at time and a half. to even it out its best to just work 15.65 hours a day 365 days a year. 70K "no Problem"
i think you are right on with the software piracy issue, it is one of the reasons i forked to the M$/X86 realm 6 or 7 yaers ago. a point to ponder is wether Microsoft's current registration scheme will cause some expatriots like myself to return to apple when the free PC software well dries up.
Sorry about your pitiful life, what is the price diffrerenc between a new dell dimension and the new apple imac. if the imac is what you really want would you pay the difference. if you can't afford that pittance send me your address and i'll send you a nice stout rope for you to hang yourself, end it all now save the rest of us the hassle of listening to you. booie-hooie, i wish it were the booming 2000 again, but i've held my breath longer than this curent recession.
As all you network "professionals" doubtlessly already know none of the clients that you support use MS operating systems or the double-secret-proprietary Word format... And since most of you "professionals" only have access to one PC [in your step-dads basement and loaded on your only partition is some obscure pre-pre-beta LIN(Hey, I don't ever use MS, look at me I'm cool!!! )UX distribution]....
Welcome back to this side of the looking glass:
Now that we are all facing reality, lets admit that it is a good defacto standard to transfer and view doco, yes, we engineering professionals could all transfer doco using the LATEX standard, but then again, on the rare occasion we need to deal with the lesser species (about 2 dozen times a day) its nice to use a product we can assume the sheep have pre-installed by their friends at Gateway and Compaq.
... continuing to comment on the original editorial by RMS,:
A. The last operating system I paid money for was MacOS 7.5.1, 'cause you can't get the hardware with out it pre installed. I picked up a really old hard-drive at a yard sale and found that it had Word5 for Mac installed (Score). And it can easily open documents created by office 2000 Professional.
B1. Jumping straight to the first paragraph of Example 2. of the editorial, the melon-head recommends that we use PDF as one of the preferred formats. Does any one know how hard it is to steal that product from Adobe???
B2. Has the author ever paid for his own bandwidth? PDF? Why not type everything out on paper, scan it, and email it as.PICT or.BMP files, DUH!
C. Really, how can you ensure that your SAMBA config is working right unless you have a "test client". I mean, your PHB is going to insist that all purchases come from an approved vendor I.E. Dell, so why not just get a kick-arse laptop and leave winderz on it... admit it, the power management is pretty good and you have to run a few apps, Snifferpro and VisualRoute.
Lets face it, either you are a pro and you have several machines at your disposal and can sacrifice one to the Gods of compatibility and install MS, or this is your first day computing and your only PC has Winderz as Michael Dell intended it when he put it in the box and sent it to your mom. Either way quit yer bellyaching and pretending that you "have trouble" reading a word document.
P.S. I'm not a complete Gates lover, I use BSD on all my important machines, but I try not to get used to the X-top, as it is hardly ever there when I need it, you know, when your telnet-ing in from a router that you have SSHed into from a web appliance that you have SecureCRTed into from a friends house or a rental workstation at the coffee shop.
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I have been with a palm device for a few years now, at first it was a 1 meg pro. Between its second and third year the digitizer started to drift, but predictably, about once a week it needed recalibration. During it's three years of service to me I NEVER needed to perform a soft or hard reset, though I periodically lost all my data by attempting to squeeze too much out of the batteries. Of course it's full capacity was only one meg so a total sync from my pc did not take too long. Last summer I sold it to a friend of my wife's and last I heard it is still in service no problems. Also last summer I bought an M105, this was for $200, just before the prices plummeted and also the release of the M125( bummer). During my year with the m105, I have had only one complaint; the cheap plastic screen. I, of course, am mostly at fault, after about 1200 games of smallware solfree there is a distinct star-like pattern of scratches emanating from the top right corner of the screen where you drag the cards from, to be placed on the individual stacks. The up-side to this is that as many times as I have dropped it, it never had a fault. I guess the plastic screen is quite durable. And, also with this palm, over a year of use and it has never required a reset, hard or soft, Also I've been more carefull regarding battery life and never let it get so low as to lose data. I feel that it has delivered more than expected for what was very near the bottom of the line products, I was very happy that palm marketed a really cheap PDA that had the same capity and feratures as the "over my budget" V/Vx/M50x series.
This ends my praise section
As I stated above, had it been available I probably would have gotten the expandability of the M125 last summer, so recently as I have been thinking of upgrading of course that is the first model that entered my mind as a possible replacement. Then I started thinking about why I really wanted expandability and realized that I did not want to lock myself into needing overpriced SD/MMC form-factor cards. I looked at visor and realized that while the springboard is well spoken of as far as usability and reliability, it is very proprietary and to be avoided. That leaves me looking at the competition, the PocketPCs. What I now know that I want is a PPC with built in expandability( not a dock like the iPaq) with a CF slot and one other, additional CF or SM or ever SD/MMC. This will allow me to use a CF 802.11 card for networking and also increase storage, simultaneously. I don't believe that any devices have this capability yet, but I am looking, and will turn to the dark side(Microsoft) as soon as something is available.
Well my young friend I hate to lay a big downer on you but when you take your "required courses in Physics" you will not see enough of this type of material to prove or disprove anything like this. Assuming that you are heading toward a degree in engineering, you are after all reading and posting on SlashDot, you will have to take probably two semesters of introductory, "classic", physics.
Your first year will pound into your head lots of basic F=ma type stuff, and plenty of acceleration is the first derivative of velocity and velocity is the first derivative of position blah blah blah. By they time you finish this semester you will be so tired of figuring out where and when a ball will hit the earth, given that it was thrown at a certain angle and at a certain initial velocity, of course we are neglecting friction due to air.
Your second and last required semester will turn to electricity and magnetism, here let me sum up that semester for you: Electrical fields and Magnetic fields always co-exist orthogonaly.
If you go on to get a minor in physics, as I did, you basically spend a semester or two learning the heavy duty math needed to do heavy duty physics problems yet not taught over in the math dept. Then, you effectually repeat the first semester but no longer neglecting friction. Almost all the problems are impossible to actually solve and you really learn how to accurately estimate solutions, except of course for the really easy ones, which are solvable using coupled differential equations.
Finally, you get to take your upper level electives, one or two may be introductions to quantum physics. I say introductions because all the real juicy stuff is at the PhD level.
At this point none of your questions about time travel will be answered, but you will realize that you need to get you a55 over to your department and finish the degree that will be your bread winner and all your background in physics will do is allow you to do is write a lame post like this on an internet discussion, kind of sad, isn't it?
I've got the same problem with ZiffDavis, I am on some mailing list, and when I click the unsubscribe link I end up at a login page to change my prefs. Of course I have never signed up for this service and consequently have no user name and password to sign in to change the prefs. So I enter my email in the "duh, I forgot my name and password" field, the email they are sending stuff to, that is. It returns that I am not a registered member, "no shit", so why am I getting junk mail to this account in the first place
I don't think that they intend to be spammers without an opt out method, just that over time they have merged passive and active lists and there is no way for the passive victims to login to opt out
OOps, i forgot to mention... i always hated the randomness of the inclusion of the side items, it was like winning the lottery to get the tube of cheese like goo instead of the peanut butter or even worse, the jelly
the best part is if you dump enough tobasco sause on something, it tastes just like tobasco. and we all know that tobasco tastes much better than what they were trying to make those MREs taste like.
two words: Tuna Casarole Q.E.D
Here is the best solution to your maxtor problem.
Step One:
Don't use maxtor
Oh my god!!
We must be long lost brothers. My mom did the same thing and we still have it too.
I am working on a device that installs in the case and works by proximity to a belt worn or key fob transciever. when the laptop, in its case, is too far from the transciever it will deliver about the equivelant voltage as a stun-gun via the handle.
i thought of this one day in Houston Intl. Airport, i was sitting at one of the overpriced bars with my heals cleanched around my laptop case to keep it from walking off without me.
My home was recently burgerarized and to my surprise they left two good laptops, i feel that the risk of the next owner (pawn shop) discovering the previous owner (me), via software registration/registry entries, scared 'em off. Of course the thiefs would not be familiar with high end concealment tools such as fdisk and format.
they did steal my laptop case to carry off the contents of my change jar, damn crackheads.
i find that the light can be "fixed" with a small piece of black tape
What banner adds, you don't mean that single little one at the top of each page? I had to go looking for it after reading this article, never noticed it before.
If you want to make some money by offering a nag-free subscription, you need to make the sit more annoying. A good example is weather.com, with the multiple pop-ups one would think your at a porn site or a site that is hosted free on anglefire.(Thank Dog for Pop-up Stopper)
Nay, I doubt that you will get many subscriptions from readers who want to get rid of the little banner add. If you need cash, why not just ask? Do a fund raiser, like a bake sale without actually giving away any cookies.
I Just don't care, blocked is blocked, and do they or do they not allow anonomous users to sign up for email?
YOU ARE MY HERO!!!! And thanks for reminding me of usa.net, i'll have to add them to my list.
it's kind of hard to get cheap hosting with unlimited addresses, better to host your own server, preferably, sneek it into the rack at work for free.
Step One: don't use Hotmail, it's part of the problem, not part of the cure.
In addition to using the ORBZ list we block out the other three big domestic Spam sources, msn.com, hotmail.com, and yahoo.com. This helps a lot, but in general any web-based mail service that allows anonymous accounts is a good target. As the co-owner of several small private (not an ISP) domains, we can do this. As digital snobs, we don't really want mail from the digitally impaired, so, we can do this.
Actually, the few people trapped on those services that we want communication with we make exceptions and allow their mail to pass, but they have to know their recipient well enough to call first and set it up.
it looks like his DSL has been cut off, as well as being turned off by the limited host, freeservers, that he moved to when the FBI took all his stuff. On the cached version at google you can see him pleading for someone to donate space/bandwidth. i think he is going to have trouble finding any takers "yes i would like the FBI to raid my business" it really looks like he is having a bad day, could it get any worse.... Oh yeah, he lives with his mom. ha ha ha ha
1. they are only not allowing any new cyber-cafes to open for 45 days, so what! 2. they are restricting access to people under 18 to before 8:00pm on school nights. 3. the victim of the fatal stabbing was 20 yrs old and would not be affected by the new restriction. 4. any time old farts hear of violent crime amongst young persons( defined as any one under 30) in an urban environment they cry "gang", boy do these guys have a clue or what?
yeah, in adition to the 40 regular hours(52 weeks/year) you would need to rack up an additional 69.5 hours a week at time and a half. to even it out its best to just work 15.65 hours a day 365 days a year. 70K "no Problem"
i think you are right on with the software piracy issue, it is one of the reasons i forked to the M$/X86 realm 6 or 7 yaers ago. a point to ponder is wether Microsoft's current registration scheme will cause some expatriots like myself to return to apple when the free PC software well dries up.
Sorry about your pitiful life, what is the price diffrerenc between a new dell dimension and the new apple imac. if the imac is what you really want would you pay the difference. if you can't afford that pittance send me your address and i'll send you a nice stout rope for you to hang yourself, end it all now save the rest of us the hassle of listening to you. booie-hooie, i wish it were the booming 2000 again, but i've held my breath longer than this curent recession.
As all you network "professionals" doubtlessly already know none of the clients that you support use MS operating systems or the double-secret-proprietary Word format... And since most of you "professionals" only have access to one PC [in your step-dads basement and loaded on your only partition is some obscure pre-pre-beta LIN(Hey, I don't ever use MS, look at me I'm cool!!! )UX distribution]....
.PICT or .BMP files, DUH!
Welcome back to this side of the looking glass:
Now that we are all facing reality, lets admit that it is a good defacto standard to transfer and view doco, yes, we engineering professionals could all transfer doco using the LATEX standard, but then again, on the rare occasion we need to deal with the lesser species (about 2 dozen times a day) its nice to use a product we can assume the sheep have pre-installed by their friends at Gateway and Compaq.
... continuing to comment on the original editorial by RMS,:
A. The last operating system I paid money for was MacOS 7.5.1, 'cause you can't get the hardware with out it pre installed. I picked up a really old hard-drive at a yard sale and found that it had Word5 for Mac installed (Score). And it can easily open documents created by office 2000 Professional.
B1. Jumping straight to the first paragraph of Example 2. of the editorial, the melon-head recommends that we use PDF as one of the preferred formats. Does any one know how hard it is to steal that product from Adobe???
B2. Has the author ever paid for his own bandwidth? PDF? Why not type everything out on paper, scan it, and email it as
C. Really, how can you ensure that your SAMBA config is working right unless you have a "test client". I mean, your PHB is going to insist that all purchases come from an approved vendor I.E. Dell, so why not just get a kick-arse laptop and leave winderz on it... admit it, the power management is pretty good and you have to run a few apps, Snifferpro and VisualRoute.
Lets face it, either you are a pro and you have several machines at your disposal and can sacrifice one to the Gods of compatibility and install MS, or this is your first day computing and your only PC has Winderz as Michael Dell intended it when he put it in the box and sent it to your mom. Either way quit yer bellyaching and pretending that you "have trouble" reading a word document.
P.S. I'm not a complete Gates lover, I use BSD on all my important machines, but I try not to get used to the X-top, as it is hardly ever there when I need it, you know, when your telnet-ing in from a router that you have SSHed into from a web appliance that you have SecureCRTed into from a friends house or a rental workstation at the coffee shop.
Your device seems to be having trouble with diagonals, horizontal, and/or vertical movement, but is doing circles just fine.
yeah, well i've got one that runs at 6.1 gig. Pictured here took me only about a minute to build the whole thing, in PhotoShop that is.
We do the same thing, now that we nolonger get any email from yahoo.com, hotmal.com, and msn.com domains our inboxes have really cleared up.