While many of the above comments are interesting the query was for favorable charitable organizations.
The Sierra Club is the most effective Conservation Group politically. This is the first group I joined when W became President. Note that they will call you every month to squeeze more $$$ out of you. You can ask to be taken off their call list and still contribute annually which is what I do.
The Nature Conservancy is another particularly effective outfit whose tact is to purchase land outright ensuring that it is permanently set aside for conservation.
The World Wildlife Fund is another conservation group worthy of your time and money.
Finally for balance I support the Blue Ribbon Coalition as they keep trails open that might be closed by my other contributions.
Another poster made a great point that Green Peace's brand of violent activism is not worthy of support.
Alternatives for mp3 players:
- RAM
- Hard Disk
- mini disc
- CD
RAM based units are annoying...
At 3.5mins & 4.5MB per song 64 MB stores what, 50 minutes of music? How often will the listener get tired of this same set? Me, I would want to swap music after each run.
While the capacity is low, filling the thing with music takes too long. One must go through his collection looking for 14 motivating songs, hooking up all the gear and downloading to the device. This process will take something like 20 - 30 minutes.
So we have 30 minutes of work to maintain each exercise session. Not very efficient.
Due to inherent fragilty, hard disk players are not recommended for athletic use.
Like RAM units Minidisks don't store enough, recording is slow and besides, they're yet another media format.
Therefore, the conclusion for the fitness enthusiast is that CD based mp3 players are the only way to go.
It is agreed that today's best unit is the
iriver iMP-350 SlimX. I just bought one for $130 and I love it!
You can use any of a hundred different programs in any OS to burn your mp3 CDs. My current exercise CD has 158 songs or 9.2 HOURS!
It has a FM receiver to tune in gym TVs while on the treadmill.
Another plus of the iriver for us workout geeks is the sweet remote controller. No digging through your pack to hit PAUSE when that gym bunny says "Hi" to you!
What UI Guru thinks it a good idea for me to learn how to write letters all over again?
I have been writing legibly for almost forty years now but for the life of me I can't write the letter "V" on a Palm. I usually end up with a "U" and think "OK I'll just know that is a "V" when I read it again later". Or I can stop what I'm doing, bring up the software keyboard, enter a "V", lower the software keyboard, and then get back to the task at hand.
UI experts everywhere are vomiting in their trashcans.
Can't enter a "V" by drawing it on the Zaurus? Teach the Zaurus your own handwriting! Reconfigure the whole darn alphabet to the way you've been writing all your life...
or use the sweet-ass keyboard...
or the pickboard...
or you're some Old Timer V7 admin, how about Unicode?
or really love poking things with that stylus? You've got a software keyboard here too! Only this time candidate words are suggested speeding up your efforts!
Do you have some oddball character that you find yourself entering over and over again? Teach it to the Zaurus and enter it with one keystroke instead of having to navigate the infernal maze of Pilot pop-up windows.
Sharp gives you FIVE alternatives to far and away the worst UI gaffe on the Palm, Graffiti.
On the issue of software UI (excluding data entry) I will agree with you that the Sharp has a bit of catching up to do. Guess what? It's being updated all the time and I can download improvements! Not so with the Palm. Save for minor revision levels a Palm is stuck with the OS it shipped with.
Throw in the hardware though and the overall UI goodness tilts the other way. I mentioned the sweet-ass keyboard before. How about being able to reprogram the hard buttons? That's a nice UI plus.
Office compatibility is another usability draw the Palm will never have.
I know all this because I've owned three Pilots and I have found myself using my Zaraus more than I ever used those Pilots. It is purely the User Interface Goodness has pushed it's usefulness head and shoulders above the Pilot crowd.
Your hysterical slight "It's people like you who keep Linux unusable" begs to be addressed
Over the years I have purchased and installed five linux distos. Because the experience "sucked" I have switched back to windows each time (next I am going to try Ximian Gnome on my laptop). Your broad brushstrokes of people that disagree with your minor positions alienate compatriots in what is obviously your larger war.
You sound bigoted Ilan in that you offer no specifics to back up your claims that the Zaurus UI "sucks". Further You claim any dissent from you opinion aids the terrorists.
The keyboard alone makes it infinitly more usable than a Palm. Throw in MS Office compability and the Palm runs off to suck an exhaust pipe (anyone want to buy my IIIx?).
The only UI gripes the review mentioned is a cumbersome synch proggie. The flipside is that while sync'ing one can pick and choose which fields to accept from either PC or Zaurus. The Palm just blindly duplicates to both devices any records found to be different. Hell, one can choose 5 default actions:
1. Duplicate (dumb Palm only option)
2. Ignore conflits
3. Notify operator (and let them chose at field granularity) default
4. Zaurus wins
5. Outlook wins
In fact these can be set seperately for each app sync'd!
Perhaps if Sharp had defaulted to "duplicate" the reviewer might not have felt burdened by the extra power.
MS Office compatibility was not mentioned in the review and I think one of the biggest advantages of the Zaurus over much of the competition. I can enter my Excel spreadsheets and Word docs and have FULL functionality.
But the real kicker for me is the micro keyboard. AFAIK only the Handsprings have such a keyboard and the screens are MUCH smaller. I can enter info 3 times faster with the keyboard and I have been using the Grafitti since the Palm came out. I use this thing much, much more just because when entering data I not longer feel like I have a learning disability. (:-{)}
On the size issue I'll take the extra weight if the trade-off is the larger screen and IO options. 'sides the darn thing fits in my pants pocket. How much smaller does it need to be?
Queer. When I post the correct link to/. I get the same problem as the original author, i.e. a space is inserted between the first "2" and the "9". Remove the space to get the correct address.
...who cares how thin you are if you have a heart attack? High fat diets are ridiculous for anyone planning on living past 50 years old.
I once lost 55 lbs in six weeks eating nothing but complex carbs and working out twice a day. Kept it off as long as I worked out, even after changing the diet to admit fats and protein.
That was drastic but it can be done.
Become friends with your Natural food store and mix up your work outs to stay entertained! I ride my bike for 45 minutes at lunch five days a week and after work and weekends practice yoga three days a week interspersed with lifting two and rock climbing one.
Make it a phased approach changing no more than one thing a week. If you find you cannot change a habit move on to the next and try that one again later (I had the hardest time giving up peanut butter).
Simply, eat Organic/Naturally, get your cardio work outs and lift.
My daughter is to teach me rollerblading next week and next year my goal is to get into kayaking.
As a Salon subscriber I wonder why all you people whining about the loss of this great voice didn't already put a measly $30 where your mouth is?
I read a lot of people in this forum commenting "I read Salon but don't like the ads", or "I like other people to support my habits", or "I would subscribe but I bought crack instead".
You left and centrist surfers have no one to blame but yourselves when you have nothing to read save for Ann Coulterish drival.
Christ man it's only $30! How much was that crappy Moby CD or that XML book that you'll never read, that tattoo that you're gonna hate in five years?
Support your political perspective or join the dark side.
This signals the cusp of MS's reversal of fortunes. Due solely to it's deviant nature Microsoft is losing mindshare globally.
It is profound to see individuals at the grass roots (GNU, OpenOffice, Linux, Mozilla etc.) doing what the Justice Department seemingly cannot, bring this monster to heel.
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While many of the above comments are interesting the query was for favorable charitable organizations.
The Sierra Club is the most effective Conservation Group politically. This is the first group I joined when W became President. Note that they will call you every month to squeeze more $$$ out of you. You can ask to be taken off their call list and still contribute annually which is what I do.
The Nature Conservancy is another particularly effective outfit whose tact is to purchase land outright ensuring that it is permanently set aside for conservation.
The World Wildlife Fund is another conservation group worthy of your time and money.
Finally for balance I support the Blue Ribbon Coalition as they keep trails open that might be closed by my other contributions.
Another poster made a great point that Green Peace's brand of violent activism is not worthy of support.
Cheers,
Bill
I forgot to mention that the slimX has 8 minutes of Shock Protection!!! This is much more than any other disc device I've heard of. Bill
Alternatives for mp3 players:
- RAM
- Hard Disk
- mini disc
- CD
RAM based units are annoying...
At 3.5mins & 4.5MB per song 64 MB stores what, 50 minutes of music? How often will the listener get tired of this same set? Me, I would want to swap music after each run.
While the capacity is low, filling the thing with music takes too long. One must go through his collection looking for 14 motivating songs, hooking up all the gear and downloading to the device. This process will take something like 20 - 30 minutes.
So we have 30 minutes of work to maintain each exercise session. Not very efficient.
Due to inherent fragilty, hard disk players are not recommended for athletic use.
Like RAM units Minidisks don't store enough, recording is slow and besides, they're yet another media format.
Therefore, the conclusion for the fitness enthusiast is that CD based mp3 players are the only way to go.
It is agreed that today's best unit is the iriver iMP-350 SlimX. I just bought one for $130 and I love it!
You can use any of a hundred different programs in any OS to burn your mp3 CDs. My current exercise CD has 158 songs or 9.2 HOURS!
It has a FM receiver to tune in gym TVs while on the treadmill.
Another plus of the iriver for us workout geeks is the sweet remote controller. No digging through your pack to hit PAUSE when that gym bunny says "Hi" to you!
Cheers,
Bill
Ashcroft cares about us all.
Beal
Your "gang of Democrats" took a five year old child from his extended relatives and returned him to his father.
ASScroft would never do something so decent.
Right wing zealots should stick with the Waco thing. That was fucked up.
Cheers,
Beal
What UI Guru thinks it a good idea for me to learn how to write letters all over again?
I have been writing legibly for almost forty years now but for the life of me I can't write the letter "V" on a Palm. I usually end up with a "U" and think "OK I'll just know that is a "V" when I read it again later". Or I can stop what I'm doing, bring up the software keyboard, enter a "V", lower the software keyboard, and then get back to the task at hand.
UI experts everywhere are vomiting in their trashcans.
Can't enter a "V" by drawing it on the Zaurus? Teach the Zaurus your own handwriting! Reconfigure the whole darn alphabet to the way you've been writing all your life...
or use the sweet-ass keyboard...
or the pickboard...
or you're some Old Timer V7 admin, how about Unicode?
or really love poking things with that stylus? You've got a software keyboard here too! Only this time candidate words are suggested speeding up your efforts!
Do you have some oddball character that you find yourself entering over and over again? Teach it to the Zaurus and enter it with one keystroke instead of having to navigate the infernal maze of Pilot pop-up windows.
Sharp gives you FIVE alternatives to far and away the worst UI gaffe on the Palm, Graffiti.
On the issue of software UI (excluding data entry) I will agree with you that the Sharp has a bit of catching up to do. Guess what? It's being updated all the time and I can download improvements! Not so with the Palm. Save for minor revision levels a Palm is stuck with the OS it shipped with.
Throw in the hardware though and the overall UI goodness tilts the other way. I mentioned the sweet-ass keyboard before. How about being able to reprogram the hard buttons? That's a nice UI plus.
Office compatibility is another usability draw the Palm will never have.
I know all this because I've owned three Pilots and I have found myself using my Zaraus more than I ever used those Pilots. It is purely the User Interface Goodness has pushed it's usefulness head and shoulders above the Pilot crowd.
Your hysterical slight "It's people like you who keep Linux unusable" begs to be addressed
Over the years I have purchased and installed five linux distos. Because the experience "sucked" I have switched back to windows each time (next I am going to try Ximian Gnome on my laptop). Your broad brushstrokes of people that disagree with your minor positions alienate compatriots in what is obviously your larger war.
Cheers!
Beal
The keyboard alone makes it infinitly more usable than a Palm. Throw in MS Office compability and the Palm runs off to suck an exhaust pipe (anyone want to buy my IIIx?).
The only UI gripes the review mentioned is a cumbersome synch proggie. The flipside is that while sync'ing one can pick and choose which fields to accept from either PC or Zaurus. The Palm just blindly duplicates to both devices any records found to be different. Hell, one can choose 5 default actions:
1. Duplicate (dumb Palm only option)
2. Ignore conflits
3. Notify operator (and let them chose at field granularity) default
4. Zaurus wins
5. Outlook wins
In fact these can be set seperately for each app sync'd!
Perhaps if Sharp had defaulted to "duplicate" the reviewer might not have felt burdened by the extra power.
Cheers,
Beal
MS Office compatibility was not mentioned in the review and I think one of the biggest advantages of the Zaurus over much of the competition. I can enter my Excel spreadsheets and Word docs and have FULL functionality.
But the real kicker for me is the micro keyboard. AFAIK only the Handsprings have such a keyboard and the screens are MUCH smaller. I can enter info 3 times faster with the keyboard and I have been using the Grafitti since the Palm came out. I use this thing much, much more just because when entering data I not longer feel like I have a learning disability. (:-{)}
On the size issue I'll take the extra weight if the trade-off is the larger screen and IO options. 'sides the darn thing fits in my pants pocket. How much smaller does it need to be?
Cheers,
Beal
http://www.aip.org/enews/physnews/1999/split/pnu42 9-2.htm
/. I get the same problem as the original author, i.e. a space is inserted between the first "2" and the "9". Remove the space to get the correct address.
Queer. When I post the correct link to
Beal
By stating "Hopefully the slashdotting won't keep a legit pilot from checking" the poster is admitting foreknowledge of possibile DOS.
This story should be pulled.
"Hopefully" readers will have more sense than the poster and not view this webcam.
Beal
Of 143 comments none are of level 4? Now 144. Bill
I once lost 55 lbs in six weeks eating nothing but complex carbs and working out twice a day. Kept it off as long as I worked out, even after changing the diet to admit fats and protein. That was drastic but it can be done.
IMHO the best plan blends the approaches of Dr. Weil and Bill Phillips
Become friends with your Natural food store and mix up your work outs to stay entertained! I ride my bike for 45 minutes at lunch five days a week and after work and weekends practice yoga three days a week interspersed with lifting two and rock climbing one.
Make it a phased approach changing no more than one thing a week. If you find you cannot change a habit move on to the next and try that one again later (I had the hardest time giving up peanut butter).
Simply, eat Organic/Naturally, get your cardio work outs and lift.
My daughter is to teach me rollerblading next week and next year my goal is to get into kayaking.
I feel great!
Beal
I read a lot of people in this forum commenting "I read Salon but don't like the ads", or "I like other people to support my habits", or "I would subscribe but I bought crack instead".
You left and centrist surfers have no one to blame but yourselves when you have nothing to read save for Ann Coulterish drival.
Christ man it's only $30! How much was that crappy Moby CD or that XML book that you'll never read, that tattoo that you're gonna hate in five years?
Support your political perspective or join the dark side.
Beal
"18" is so bad I would return it if I could.
Bill
There is no niche between a Palm Pilot (in my briefcase) and a subnotebook (used to type this reply).
This has been born out by the failure of every smart keyboard since the TRS-100.
Beal
This signals the cusp of MS's reversal of fortunes. Due solely to it's deviant nature Microsoft is losing mindshare globally.
It is profound to see individuals at the grass roots (GNU, OpenOffice, Linux, Mozilla etc.) doing what the Justice Department seemingly cannot, bring this monster to heel.
Beal