That's not true for most people. I don't know about you, but most people will spend several hours a day for at least 4 years writing and reviewing notes.
If you want to spend a few hours looking for the best / easiest method, it seems like time well spent. Even if you do conclude that pen and paper are still your best option.
I found that over the last year or so, a growing number of people were taking notes with an iPaq and folding keyboard. I know I found my PDA was lighter then the 4 or 5 notebooks I would have needed, and easier to pull out and review at odd free moments.
I didn't need to draw diagrams often, but when I did I would use my zaurus' paint program, and reference the filename in the text of my notes. Simple, if not elegant. I can see, however, how that might not work in some classes.
there are a few things like solving intercepts, and more likely basic games and programs. I remember a few times during math tests, when I finished early with the equation problems I knew how to solve, I would go back to the ones I didn't and try to solve them by writing a basic program that would try all possible solutions from 0 on up untill it started to zero in on the answer. Sometime it would come up with an answer, sometimes I ran out of time waiting for the calc to find a answer. An over clocked calc would have been a bit of an advantage.
So I was a dork... a dork who was bad at math, but good at solving problems.
I'm sure from outside the US, you have unique perspective of our political system. I think you should remember though. The images of the US you receive are filtered by the media outlets. Here, we constantly debate which way the media, so its hard to say that what gets filtered to you is the whole truth. On top of that, I think that Europeans tend to be more liberal (do European's use the term progressive?) then Americans. I'm not saying its wrong, but if you believe in the theory that people tend to seek information that supports their views, and rejects alternatives, then your media would be further filtered by local anchors. And please don't take Fahrenheit 911 as a true documentary. Its not. Moore bent the hell out of the truth. He played tricks like taking clips of bush speaking about Irish bombings and mixed them with clips of Sept. 11, implying that the subject was local terrorism.
Sure we are aware of all the accusations you know, but we also know that there is no conclusive evidence. In fact, there is usually quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, but by the time it comes out its not a big story anymore and doesn't get on TV here, much less over seas.
Really, I see this as a good reason why we'll have to reject your offer to vote in our elections. We have a hard enough time getting the whole story here. Besides there is that whole independence thing.
,Cal
P.S. I hope you don't take this as an attack on you, it wasn't meant to be.
I don't like the way the government is spending money either, but the devaluation of the dollar was a conscience decision. By lowering the value of a dollar, products produced in the US are cheaper on the world market. That protects US manufacturers/producers from imports and improves our ability to compete in global markets.
Because this plan makes imports more expensive, I think the plan would be more effective if we could develop some sort of energy policy that didn't evolve imported oil.
Of course, its only my take on things.
BTW I think the CDN is still weak. Compare it to the Euro and the rest of the world currency market, not just the US dollar... Of cource I did no fact checking, so I could be wrong here to.
Thats true, and sort of my point. I think I unstated the loss of market share Microsoft will likely experience though. Operating Systems and software in general are becoming commodities... if they aren't already. Anyway, there is still plenty of room in the software market for Microsoft even with Linux nipping at its heals.
BTW Loss of market share doesn't always mean a loss of revenue. MS has lots of opportunities to develop new core competencies.
No body is going to win... except customers, maybe. This is normal market dynamics with an open source twist. A first mover (sorta) is moving up market and a lower price competitor is moving in. Sure Microsoft will lose some market share with the introduction of a new competitor. Anyway, on the continuum of price/product strategy Linux will be the low cost leader, or even a integrated offering with companies like Red Hat, and Microsoft's products will move into a differentiated position.
People always ask, how can MS compete against a free product. I would point to the bottled water market. Even with nearly free water almost everywhere, high priced competitors still do pretty well, because people think bottled water is of better quality. Same thing can happen with software. I'm looking forward to cool stuff Microsoft is going to have to produce to keep itself above the Linux tide.
I saw a couple of posts that suggested that the ARM cores have only reached 400mhz. Actually some Pocket PCs are already comeing out with 500+ mhz, and more interestingly, Samsung has a 1ghz processor. I have read a press report that the 1ghz processor is shipping, but I havn't seen one in any consumer device yet, so I assume its more of an industrial type part.
Fedora Core 2 was my first sucessful venture into Linux. I have tried several distros before, and none of them gave me the out of the box expirence I needed. I installed Fedora on a Old Sony laptop that even the version of windows that came preinstalled didn't support well. Fedora found all the hardware and configured it correctly. It even found and properly setup a printer that I have had trouble with for years on windows (apparently the first version of my printer had problems that were never addressed my Cannon and later models fixed it). In any case, everything works great and I'm impressed. I have installed Fedora on 2 more computers sence, with no problems. I even learned enough to install a usable slackware system on my everyday laptop. Between Slackware and Fedora, I like Fedora better, but because of an odd situation, of haveing no boot option except the hard drive, slack was the only option. I'm glad I tried it for comparision anyway. Finally, Fedora really had a better selection of software on the installation CDs, but with all those CDs it ought to.
No matter how advanced the poduct is all of it eventually becomes a commodity, if the market is big enough. Once that happens, its very difficult for the providers of that product to control the industries it supplies. IBM is trying to jump-start the process(well I think it has already started, and IBM is just speeding it up) so it can capture more control in the direction of the computer/IT industry.
Of cource, thats all in the article... but I like the way I said it better. I've been reading about successfully manageing business in a changing market, by understanding the process in which a new technology becomes a commodity.
my tradeshow class at GSU visited the show and from what I could tell the show was really just an event thrown together to attract more visitors. It wasn't reallyment to present a well thought out vision of the future or anything simular. It was really just a publicly stunt. A fun one though.
I have a T610 which is the same as a T616, just different carriers. Setting up a bluetooth dial up wasn't to much trouble. It took a call to tech help because all the information I could find was based on the T68, but thats ok. I found out later that while the menus are different the process of setting up a dial up connection is the same for both phones. I have had my phone for a long time now, so I'm sure finding T610 info is much easier now.
I think the problem is you just don't know. I use my PDA and laptop with bluetooth cell phone everyday, but because my cell phone stays in my pocket you couldn't tell.
If you never go beyond the standard package, exactly what makes using the zaurus more complex? I mean how much more difficult is taping on the "Notepad" icon on the Z any more difficult then tapping on the "Memo" icon from the Palm? The only real differnce in usability for basic functions is you have to choose a input method at the bottom of the screen. Instead of just defaulting HWR I have to choose between HWR, a onscreen keyboard, or the thumbboard.
I have one. Its useful... sorta. Relative to Palm 3.0 (I havn't tried 5.0 yet) the PIM is just as simple. The Office Suite is far better out of the box. It even has Power Point which I have found very usefull at getting ready for presentations, and for studing notes before a test(all my teacher post note in PPT format now, I don't know why). Excell spreadsheets work well, and so do MSWord.doc's. Now I orginally bought this thing so I could play around with the software on the linux side, but I lost interest in it when I found it was less usefull then I origenally thought it would be.
Generally, like palms, its quicker amd simpler to use then WinCE, but for every day users there is a general lack of software. If you really want to there is alot that con be done at a comand line, that is unavilible out of the box, but make sure you are already versed in the ways of linux.
Otherwise, think of it as a expandible Palm with a good media player and MS Office compatibility....errr simpler?
Actually that is incorrect. Treo 300 owners get to keep their 300 with this offer. They just have to give the serial number to prove they own one. Sorry. I have seen them for $99.00 on handspring.com though.
Everyone keeps saying this company is not like dell, but I don't think they are looking at the statment the way this guy ment it. I think he made the comment from a supply chain managment perspective then a computer industry POV. For instance, he says that he will have his suppliers handle most of the assembly, simularly dell has assembled parts delivered to a UPS wharehouse where UPS does the assembly (I think UPS, it could be some other shipping company). Many people are under the impression that Dell specializes in making computers, but in actualality Dell's real specialty is logistics. That is what this company wants to be in the auto industry. Good luck, because that level of marketing is hard to achive.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to ask this question, but here it goes. The patent seems very vague. It says something like check recipient client's language preference, then use a library (DLL) to translate the message before sending. Isn't that a bit like saying "I found a cure for cancer that involves introducing a chemical into the body's systems?" So what if I come up with another method of doing the same thing in a different way is that legal? If I came up with an alternative chemical to cure cancer, would I not be able sell it because the other guy's patent covered caner cures? Can you see what I'm getting at.?.
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That's not true for most people. I don't know about you, but most people will spend several hours a day for at least 4 years writing and reviewing notes. If you want to spend a few hours looking for the best / easiest method, it seems like time well spent. Even if you do conclude that pen and paper are still your best option. I found that over the last year or so, a growing number of people were taking notes with an iPaq and folding keyboard. I know I found my PDA was lighter then the 4 or 5 notebooks I would have needed, and easier to pull out and review at odd free moments. I didn't need to draw diagrams often, but when I did I would use my zaurus' paint program, and reference the filename in the text of my notes. Simple, if not elegant. I can see, however, how that might not work in some classes.
there are a few things like solving intercepts, and more likely basic games and programs. I remember a few times during math tests, when I finished early with the equation problems I knew how to solve, I would go back to the ones I didn't and try to solve them by writing a basic program that would try all possible solutions from 0 on up untill it started to zero in on the answer. Sometime it would come up with an answer, sometimes I ran out of time waiting for the calc to find a answer. An over clocked calc would have been a bit of an advantage.
So I was a dork... a dork who was bad at math, but good at solving problems.
I heard the plot was very character driven
I'm sure from outside the US, you have unique perspective of our political system. I think you should remember though. The images of the US you receive are filtered by the media outlets. Here, we constantly debate which way the media, so its hard to say that what gets filtered to you is the whole truth. On top of that, I think that Europeans tend to be more liberal (do European's use the term progressive?) then Americans. I'm not saying its wrong, but if you believe in the theory that people tend to seek information that supports their views, and rejects alternatives, then your media would be further filtered by local anchors. And please don't take Fahrenheit 911 as a true documentary. Its not. Moore bent the hell out of the truth. He played tricks like taking clips of bush speaking about Irish bombings and mixed them with clips of Sept. 11, implying that the subject was local terrorism.
,Cal
Sure we are aware of all the accusations you know, but we also know that there is no conclusive evidence. In fact, there is usually quite a bit of evidence to the contrary, but by the time it comes out its not a big story anymore and doesn't get on TV here, much less over seas.
Really, I see this as a good reason why we'll have to reject your offer to vote in our elections. We have a hard enough time getting the whole story here. Besides there is that whole independence thing.
P.S. I hope you don't take this as an attack on you, it wasn't meant to be.
I don't like the way the government is spending money either, but the devaluation of the dollar was a conscience decision. By lowering the value of a dollar, products produced in the US are cheaper on the world market. That protects US manufacturers/producers from imports and improves our ability to compete in global markets.
Because this plan makes imports more expensive, I think the plan would be more effective if we could develop some sort of energy policy that didn't evolve imported oil.
Of course, its only my take on things.
BTW I think the CDN is still weak. Compare it to the Euro and the rest of the world currency market, not just the US dollar... Of cource I did no fact checking, so I could be wrong here to.
Some of the Via boards have built in hardware mpeg encoders and decoders. I wonder if they used one of those.
Thats true, and sort of my point. I think I unstated the loss of market share Microsoft will likely experience though. Operating Systems and software in general are becoming commodities... if they aren't already. Anyway, there is still plenty of room in the software market for Microsoft even with Linux nipping at its heals. BTW Loss of market share doesn't always mean a loss of revenue. MS has lots of opportunities to develop new core competencies.
No body is going to win... except customers, maybe. This is normal market dynamics with an open source twist. A first mover (sorta) is moving up market and a lower price competitor is moving in. Sure Microsoft will lose some market share with the introduction of a new competitor. Anyway, on the continuum of price/product strategy Linux will be the low cost leader, or even a integrated offering with companies like Red Hat, and Microsoft's products will move into a differentiated position.
People always ask, how can MS compete against a free product. I would point to the bottled water market. Even with nearly free water almost everywhere, high priced competitors still do pretty well, because people think bottled water is of better quality. Same thing can happen with software. I'm looking forward to cool stuff Microsoft is going to have to produce to keep itself above the Linux tide.
I saw a couple of posts that suggested that the ARM cores have only reached 400mhz. Actually some Pocket PCs are already comeing out with 500+ mhz, and more interestingly, Samsung has a 1ghz processor. I have read a press report that the 1ghz processor is shipping, but I havn't seen one in any consumer device yet, so I assume its more of an industrial type part.
We were just talking about this in class the other day. Its not all that new. UPS has been building many Dell's computers for awhile now.
Fedora Core 2 was my first sucessful venture into Linux. I have tried several distros before, and none of them gave me the out of the box expirence I needed. I installed Fedora on a Old Sony laptop that even the version of windows that came preinstalled didn't support well. Fedora found all the hardware and configured it correctly. It even found and properly setup a printer that I have had trouble with for years on windows (apparently the first version of my printer had problems that were never addressed my Cannon and later models fixed it). In any case, everything works great and I'm impressed. I have installed Fedora on 2 more computers sence, with no problems. I even learned enough to install a usable slackware system on my everyday laptop. Between Slackware and Fedora, I like Fedora better, but because of an odd situation, of haveing no boot option except the hard drive, slack was the only option. I'm glad I tried it for comparision anyway. Finally, Fedora really had a better selection of software on the installation CDs, but with all those CDs it ought to.
No matter how advanced the poduct is all of it eventually becomes a commodity, if the market is big enough. Once that happens, its very difficult for the providers of that product to control the industries it supplies. IBM is trying to jump-start the process(well I think it has already started, and IBM is just speeding it up) so it can capture more control in the direction of the computer/IT industry.
Of cource, thats all in the article... but I like the way I said it better. I've been reading about successfully manageing business in a changing market, by understanding the process in which a new technology becomes a commodity.
my tradeshow class at GSU visited the show and from what I could tell the show was really just an event thrown together to attract more visitors. It wasn't reallyment to present a well thought out vision of the future or anything simular. It was really just a publicly stunt. A fun one though.
I have a T610 which is the same as a T616, just different carriers. Setting up a bluetooth dial up wasn't to much trouble. It took a call to tech help because all the information I could find was based on the T68, but thats ok. I found out later that while the menus are different the process of setting up a dial up connection is the same for both phones. I have had my phone for a long time now, so I'm sure finding T610 info is much easier now.
I think the problem is you just don't know. I use my PDA and laptop with bluetooth cell phone everyday, but because my cell phone stays in my pocket you couldn't tell.
A reasonably inexpensive phone with BT
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Is free cheap enough?
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If you never go beyond the standard package, exactly what makes using the zaurus more complex? I mean how much more difficult is taping on the "Notepad" icon on the Z any more difficult then tapping on the "Memo" icon from the Palm? The only real differnce in usability for basic functions is you have to choose a input method at the bottom of the screen. Instead of just defaulting HWR I have to choose between HWR, a onscreen keyboard, or the thumbboard.
I have one. Its useful... sorta. Relative to Palm 3.0 (I havn't tried 5.0 yet) the PIM is just as simple. The Office Suite is far better out of the box. It even has Power Point which I have found very usefull at getting ready for presentations, and for studing notes before a test(all my teacher post note in PPT format now, I don't know why). Excell spreadsheets work well, and so do MSWord .doc's. ...errr simpler?
Now I orginally bought this thing so I could play around with the software on the linux side, but I lost interest in it when I found it was less usefull then I origenally thought it would be.
Generally, like palms, its quicker amd simpler to use then WinCE, but for every day users there is a general lack of software. If you really want to there is alot that con be done at a comand line, that is unavilible out of the box, but make sure you are already versed in the ways of linux.
Otherwise, think of it as a expandible Palm with a good media player and MS Office compatibility.
Actually that is incorrect. Treo 300 owners get to keep their 300 with this offer. They just have to give the serial number to prove they own one. Sorry. I have seen them for $99.00 on handspring.com though.
Is it possible that we just slashdoted an entire catagory of websites? I can't get anything that is remotely related to Halo movies...
Everyone keeps saying this company is not like dell, but I don't think they are looking at the statment the way this guy ment it. I think he made the comment from a supply chain managment perspective then a computer industry POV. For instance, he says that he will have his suppliers handle most of the assembly, simularly dell has assembled parts delivered to a UPS wharehouse where UPS does the assembly (I think UPS, it could be some other shipping company). Many people are under the impression that Dell specializes in making computers, but in actualality Dell's real specialty is logistics. That is what this company wants to be in the auto industry. Good luck, because that level of marketing is hard to achive.
No need to worry, unless your ISP is comcast. The court documents doesn't list a name, unlike some of the other user names, but only the ISP.
yeah, but the ping sucks...
I'm having trouble figuring out how to ask this question, but here it goes. The patent seems very vague. It says something like check recipient client's language preference, then use a library (DLL) to translate the message before sending. Isn't that a bit like saying "I found a cure for cancer that involves introducing a chemical into the body's systems?" So what if I come up with another method of doing the same thing in a different way is that legal? If I came up with an alternative chemical to cure cancer, would I not be able sell it because the other guy's patent covered caner cures? Can you see what I'm getting at.?.
I love it when a FAQ document doesn't take itself to seriously....
Q: Can I convert Ogg Theora files into VP3?
A: Why would you want to do something stupid like that?
Are you nuts?
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