As much as I wanted to mod you down, here's my response instead:
The beautiful thing about PDAs are their flexibility. I'm a college student and I use one, my father is a systems administrator and uses one, and my mother is in human resources and uses one. My mom has a Zire71 and uses it for keeping her meetings planned out, all of contacts for people in her office (as well as the many family and family friends), and she keeps her recipes on a mobile database.
My Dad uses his (Toshiba e755) to do remote network administration and to give presentations in meetings (yes, full-blown powerpoint presentations) among the reasons my mother uses hers.
I use mine (Sony NZ-90) to take notes in class, take pictures (2 megapixel camera built-in), email/browsing with wifi, mp3 player for walking to/from class, and keep track of my diabetes, among the other things my mom and dad both use it for.
It's all up to you what you want to do with it. I have art friends who use it to quickly sketch ideas, finance majors who keep track of every expense on there, and my sister who's a nurse and keeps her drug dictionary on there. Get a cheap Zire, see if you use it at all, and go from there. It's not for everyone, but for those of us who use them, it becomes incredibly important.
Yeah, i've been a part of Opera since 5.x and used the cracked version for a total of 2 weeks before I too realized I needed to show how much I like their product.
Read this story from last month about Xandros 2.0. With the crossover office built in, it's easier than ever to simply select a Windows application you want to install, and it will guide you through it. Check out this screenshot and be amazed at how truly simple this is. I've been using this for the past couple weeks, and I have to say it's the first time I haven't had to go back into Windows to use Dreamweaver -- my primary app. Of course, the crossover office can be used with other distros, but I'm a Xandros convert through and through.
All I'm doing is warning people this is not the end all be all of books. I understand there are differences of opinions and I was merely sharing my own. You don't like my opinion? That's fine.
God, I think this is perhaps the worst book I've read in a few years. The Da Vinci Code is a "thriller" that cannot be followed at all and presents information as fact that is in fact complete bull. In terms of writing, the book is written similarly to a grade-school child who cannot use inventive vocabulary and sticks to the "He was shocked." and "It surprised him that X was that way." Please, read something else -- anything else.
I was really going to mod you down, but decided to discuss this one.
PalmSource has all sorts of momentum. They have created the best PDA experience hands-down. Setup for bluetooth and wifi is a piece of cake compared to Pocket PC. Their applications run fast and are not bloatware. And it's not just me saying this. Although they're not the only kids on the block, they still have a tremendous following for their ability to create a solid OS. By reinventing themselves and allowing their OS to be used on various platforms, they are set up for success.
I was going to mod you down, but decided to debate this instead. What PalmOS are you running? I've been using Palm since the Palm IIIx, and I've never had it crash on me outside of poorly designed software. You said you needed a hard reset -- for what? A soft reset should be just fine for any crashes that occur -- the only hard reset I've ever had to do is when I screwed up upgrading the OS.
There's a reason why most industrial PDAs are Palm based. It's very solid. It may not look like mini-windows (like Pocket PC) but it's fast, solid, and just works.
Yes, this is something I've been saying for quite some time! Why can't we create basically a palm with a really big screen to be a tablet PC? some palms already have bluetooth and wifi built in -- and they're the same size as a deck of cards! This would mean we would only need our ~400 Mhz chip used in PDAs now, and have a compactflash slot -- and it could even have 10x the battery life of current PDAs! Turn it in landscape mode and have a soft keyboard. The options are endless, and this is all using technology that already exists.
Wow, I'm a sociology major, and I paid over 500 for used books. I priced them all on half.com and came out a whopping 80 bucks cheaper (not including shipping). Once I had gotten all that in and paid shipping, I'm sure that 80 would have easily been recouped. Most of my profs were surprised that the books cost that much. But they still use em...
When I was visiting a friend in Sweden, we took the train from Stockholm to Uppsala, and in Uppsala there is graffiti that is actually advertisements as you're pulling in to Uppsala. Seems like a pretty cool way to embrace a new artform.
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Yeah, I just looked around file-sharing programs and it's all over. They're all different sizes, so I wonder what really is going there.
All I have to say is RAID 0. I started running RAID SATA and it's better than sex. Seriously, 300 mb/s throughput? That's insane...
After about 10 minutes of my post, it sped up. I guess everyone started and I didn't have to pray to the gods...
Hrm, still only 6 KiB/s...maybe time to pray to the bittorrent gods...
The beautiful thing about PDAs are their flexibility. I'm a college student and I use one, my father is a systems administrator and uses one, and my mother is in human resources and uses one. My mom has a Zire71 and uses it for keeping her meetings planned out, all of contacts for people in her office (as well as the many family and family friends), and she keeps her recipes on a mobile database.
My Dad uses his (Toshiba e755) to do remote network administration and to give presentations in meetings (yes, full-blown powerpoint presentations) among the reasons my mother uses hers.
I use mine (Sony NZ-90) to take notes in class, take pictures (2 megapixel camera built-in), email/browsing with wifi, mp3 player for walking to/from class, and keep track of my diabetes, among the other things my mom and dad both use it for.
It's all up to you what you want to do with it. I have art friends who use it to quickly sketch ideas, finance majors who keep track of every expense on there, and my sister who's a nurse and keeps her drug dictionary on there. Get a cheap Zire, see if you use it at all, and go from there. It's not for everyone, but for those of us who use them, it becomes incredibly important.
Start from there and then roll your own to your liking.
Mouse gestures are a pr0n viewer's best friend...
Try 7.50 beta 1. It's absolutely incredible and does a great job of being smart about the sidebar and clutter in general.
Read this story from last month about Xandros 2.0. With the crossover office built in, it's easier than ever to simply select a Windows application you want to install, and it will guide you through it. Check out this screenshot and be amazed at how truly simple this is. I've been using this for the past couple weeks, and I have to say it's the first time I haven't had to go back into Windows to use Dreamweaver -- my primary app. Of course, the crossover office can be used with other distros, but I'm a Xandros convert through and through.
Finish your reason, it's something I'm interested in!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these...
All I'm doing is warning people this is not the end all be all of books. I understand there are differences of opinions and I was merely sharing my own. You don't like my opinion? That's fine.
And again, another reason to use Opera. Simply press F12 and unselect "Enable referrer logging" and you're good to go.
Baylor's on there twice. Sic 'Em Bears.
God, I think this is perhaps the worst book I've read in a few years. The Da Vinci Code is a "thriller" that cannot be followed at all and presents information as fact that is in fact complete bull. In terms of writing, the book is written similarly to a grade-school child who cannot use inventive vocabulary and sticks to the "He was shocked." and "It surprised him that X was that way." Please, read something else -- anything else.
PalmSource has all sorts of momentum. They have created the best PDA experience hands-down. Setup for bluetooth and wifi is a piece of cake compared to Pocket PC. Their applications run fast and are not bloatware. And it's not just me saying this. Although they're not the only kids on the block, they still have a tremendous following for their ability to create a solid OS. By reinventing themselves and allowing their OS to be used on various platforms, they are set up for success.
There's a reason why most industrial PDAs are Palm based. It's very solid. It may not look like mini-windows (like Pocket PC) but it's fast, solid, and just works.
Yes, this is something I've been saying for quite some time! Why can't we create basically a palm with a really big screen to be a tablet PC? some palms already have bluetooth and wifi built in -- and they're the same size as a deck of cards! This would mean we would only need our ~400 Mhz chip used in PDAs now, and have a compactflash slot -- and it could even have 10x the battery life of current PDAs! Turn it in landscape mode and have a soft keyboard. The options are endless, and this is all using technology that already exists.
No No No, you can still run Open BeOS and be uber-leet because it's open, yet it's a throwback.
That my friend, is why I'm a home economics major. You won't see a chinese in there.
You want me to be happy too right?
Wow, I'm a sociology major, and I paid over 500 for used books. I priced them all on half.com and came out a whopping 80 bucks cheaper (not including shipping). Once I had gotten all that in and paid shipping, I'm sure that 80 would have easily been recouped. Most of my profs were surprised that the books cost that much. But they still use em...
And I say well done Michael, well done.
When I was visiting a friend in Sweden, we took the train from Stockholm to Uppsala, and in Uppsala there is graffiti that is actually advertisements as you're pulling in to Uppsala. Seems like a pretty cool way to embrace a new artform.