Even the article suggests that the trimming of the PDA field was not unexpected, given the flat sales. And the reason is made clear by talking to PDA shoppers or even looking at this thread: Everyone is fine with what they've got.
I'd be freaking lost without my PDA. I used a Palm 3 that I was given for a little while, then bought the Visor Deluxe when it came out, and used it until just recently. When it finally died (backlight failed) I dropped $90 on a Clie SJ-22. It's a great little PDA with a very bright white backlight that's on by default, 16meg memory, reads memory sticks, etc. I'll use it until it dies some horriffic death (hopefully in a few years) and get whatever is simple, cheap, highly-reviewed and well-supported.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that people use these things primarily for their original purpose: to *organise things.* The vast majority of PDA users might *like* color screens, mp3 playback, cameras, etc. But when they get to talking about it, you soon understand that they still mostly just want it to keep their lives in order. It's interesting that even many one-percenters on/. seem to be the same way. I love new tech just like anyone else, but it's a lot cheaper for me to play with the neat gizmos seperately, and not have my mishaps affect my PDA. Any other thoughts?
Please. Don't shoot at somebody unless you honestly intend to end his life. That means you make the first shot count, and then empty the weapon on him. Unless you're firing a shotgun, don't fire the thing unless you're willing to fire the entire magazine.
Going for a non-lethal shot is just putting yourself more at risk by taking more time instead of going for the central mass. Not to mention the ensuing legal battle and revenge issues that could conceivably cause problems down the road...
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I think what he's attempting to solve is the problem of some apps throwing a fit when they can't find a bunch of swap space, regardless of the 4 gigs of RAM installed...
You can do this with a properly-tied button-up shirt, if I remember correctly. I saw it in a book and conviced a professor to try it in a physics class.
He was dubious, so I offered to sit behind the egg catcher when the egg was thrown.
Then he missed the freaking catcher and hit me with the egg. Second throw worked, though.
I'm in the same boat. I bought the GBA in anticipation of the RPGs which would be developed for it. Of course, even with the afterburner mod, it was still unpleasant. Now I have an SP, which I've logged 300+ hours on while at a dispatching job.:-)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, while not the PSX game, is boatloads of fun. I'm still waiting for Earthbound.
I second this. I left LR for school, but easily observed that there are more tech opportunities around Jackson, Tennessee than near Little Rock, Arkansas.
I use an XBox modded w/ GentooX linux ($30, DVD Drive didn't work) as a file server in my dorm room. It's a very nice small box, and with the 80GB hard drive I put in, it lets me backup my laptop over FTP/Samba more often than I otherwise would. I even have my roommates doing backups of their important files... Already saved one of them when his HD died.
I recomend an XB as a linux box any day. Thing is, most of us geeks can piece together a cheap PC for cheap. I did it because I like the low noise/heat/size of the XBox.
But see, they *couldn't* get it, at least not for their free service. Because the moment you make it free, it becomes much more attractive to spammers, and you can't trust all your non-paying customers.
This is all so silly. What's going to stop them from spoofing the headers to look like legit mail anyway? They already do it.
In order to make a whitelist TLD usable, you have to have verification that email *actually* comes from where it says it does.
And if we did that, we'd have fixed the problem anyway.
Running around like a beheaded chicken, moaning and crying about the economy, isn't going to help you at all.
But if you study the things you need to study, work as if you actually care, talk to people in the market, and generally take responsibility for your actions, you're going to come out a whole heck of a lot better than 90% of graduates. Who cares if you have to bag groceries for 6 months while you look? The people who succeed long-term are usually not the ones that get lucky, it's the ones that take their licks and do the best for what they've got.
That is absolutely, positively, definitively the case at my university. When I announced last semester my change to Computer Science from Accounting, people looked at me as if I'd just announced that I was from Pluto. The trend here is that about 40% of CS majors switch because of the math.
I was originally going to do CS, but I was afraid of the math. Really, though, is it worth a lifetime of doing a job I can just tolerate because I don't want to take Linear Algebra?
What's really interesting is that I see people around me dropping out because they HATE courses like C and Operating Systems (UNIX, mostly). Those courses are the reason I want to be here!
I believe that most of the current crop of CS folks are in it because of the money, which the/. crowd knows is drying up fast. I think that most of the "I have to flip burgers" crowd are simply incompetant or unwilling to work hard. The people I see graduating here and going on to great jobs are the ones that love doing the work. That's going to be me, friend. There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going to.
Am I the only one who thinks that the outsourcing thing is a fad? There is simply no replacement for having people on the ground close to your market. Managers may simply be disgusted with the current crop of dot-com hopefuls who hate technology. It's going to balance out, just like anything else, and become a trade.
And those of us who stick it out now and show people what quality work looks like will be on top when that happens. Not rich, mind you, but certainly not poor.
I use a Toshiba 5005-s504 for my main PC, and it's been great at university. Fits fine into the small dorm room, plus I can carry it to work with me. For people who don't need to tote it anywhere and everywhere, like students, large laptops offer either far superior performance, or a very nice pricepoint.
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Even the article suggests that the trimming of the PDA field was not unexpected, given the flat sales. And the reason is made clear by talking to PDA shoppers or even looking at this thread: Everyone is fine with what they've got.
/. seem to be the same way. I love new tech just like anyone else, but it's a lot cheaper for me to play with the neat gizmos seperately, and not have my mishaps affect my PDA. Any other thoughts?
I'd be freaking lost without my PDA. I used a Palm 3 that I was given for a little while, then bought the Visor Deluxe when it came out, and used it until just recently. When it finally died (backlight failed) I dropped $90 on a Clie SJ-22. It's a great little PDA with a very bright white backlight that's on by default, 16meg memory, reads memory sticks, etc. I'll use it until it dies some horriffic death (hopefully in a few years) and get whatever is simple, cheap, highly-reviewed and well-supported.
I guess the point I'm trying to make is that people use these things primarily for their original purpose: to *organise things.* The vast majority of PDA users might *like* color screens, mp3 playback, cameras, etc. But when they get to talking about it, you soon understand that they still mostly just want it to keep their lives in order. It's interesting that even many one-percenters on
Oh, Lord. That's even worse.
Please. Don't shoot at somebody unless you honestly intend to end his life. That means you make the first shot count, and then empty the weapon on him. Unless you're firing a shotgun, don't fire the thing unless you're willing to fire the entire magazine.
Going for a non-lethal shot is just putting yourself more at risk by taking more time instead of going for the central mass. Not to mention the ensuing legal battle and revenge issues that could conceivably cause problems down the road...
I think what he's attempting to solve is the problem of some apps throwing a fit when they can't find a bunch of swap space, regardless of the 4 gigs of RAM installed...
That's why you bring your big freaking rifle, and then when the bloodied bear comes running towards you, have your buddy open up with a Spaz-12.
Probably wouldn't be able to hang it on a wall afterward, though.
You can do this with a properly-tied button-up shirt, if I remember correctly. I saw it in a book and conviced a professor to try it in a physics class.
He was dubious, so I offered to sit behind the egg catcher when the egg was thrown.
Then he missed the freaking catcher and hit me with the egg. Second throw worked, though.
I was going to post the exact same thing. How much is the SJ20 now, $80? I love mine. I'd be lost without it.
You could use button combos for start and select, and use start and select as the missing two.
Granted, the layout is gonna suck for action games that use all those buttons, but RPGs will be just fine. What about screen resolution?
I'm in the same boat. I bought the GBA in anticipation of the RPGs which would be developed for it. Of course, even with the afterburner mod, it was still unpleasant. Now I have an SP, which I've logged 300+ hours on while at a dispatching job. :-)
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, while not the PSX game, is boatloads of fun. I'm still waiting for Earthbound.
I've always been tempted to grab a stapler, open it like I'm stappling something the wall, and swing it as hard as I can at my roommate.
Would that make me a bad person?
Somebody's been listening to Dave Ramsey. :-)
The truth is, that living alone at $40k, you can live fantastically well if you're debt-free.
Del Taco?
I, for one, interpret it as the right to keep and arm bears.
Waiting for 20 seconds...
Here we go...
OK.
I second this. I left LR for school, but easily observed that there are more tech opportunities around Jackson, Tennessee than near Little Rock, Arkansas.
I use an XBox modded w/ GentooX linux ($30, DVD Drive didn't work) as a file server in my dorm room. It's a very nice small box, and with the 80GB hard drive I put in, it lets me backup my laptop over FTP/Samba more often than I otherwise would. I even have my roommates doing backups of their important files... Already saved one of them when his HD died.
I recomend an XB as a linux box any day. Thing is, most of us geeks can piece together a cheap PC for cheap. I did it because I like the low noise/heat/size of the XBox.
Do you really want one from Bill Richardson either, though?
But see, they *couldn't* get it, at least not for their free service. Because the moment you make it free, it becomes much more attractive to spammers, and you can't trust all your non-paying customers.
This is all so silly. What's going to stop them from spoofing the headers to look like legit mail anyway? They already do it.
In order to make a whitelist TLD usable, you have to have verification that email *actually* comes from where it says it does.
And if we did that, we'd have fixed the problem anyway.
I never said that it couldn't get you anywhere, I said it would never get you anywhere *worth going to.*
wheeeee
I'm playing now...
Man, it went on for like 2 minutes. What's your best time?
Calling now...
ring...
ring...
No answer. Maybe they took it down when there was so much traffic, or maybe you're full of crap?
Exactly.
Running around like a beheaded chicken, moaning and crying about the economy, isn't going to help you at all.
But if you study the things you need to study, work as if you actually care, talk to people in the market, and generally take responsibility for your actions, you're going to come out a whole heck of a lot better than 90% of graduates. Who cares if you have to bag groceries for 6 months while you look? The people who succeed long-term are usually not the ones that get lucky, it's the ones that take their licks and do the best for what they've got.
That is absolutely, positively, definitively the case at my university. When I announced last semester my change to Computer Science from Accounting, people looked at me as if I'd just announced that I was from Pluto. The trend here is that about 40% of CS majors switch because of the math.
/. crowd knows is drying up fast. I think that most of the "I have to flip burgers" crowd are simply incompetant or unwilling to work hard. The people I see graduating here and going on to great jobs are the ones that love doing the work. That's going to be me, friend. There are no shortcuts to anyplace worth going to.
I was originally going to do CS, but I was afraid of the math. Really, though, is it worth a lifetime of doing a job I can just tolerate because I don't want to take Linear Algebra?
What's really interesting is that I see people around me dropping out because they HATE courses like C and Operating Systems (UNIX, mostly). Those courses are the reason I want to be here!
I believe that most of the current crop of CS folks are in it because of the money, which the
Am I the only one who thinks that the outsourcing thing is a fad? There is simply no replacement for having people on the ground close to your market. Managers may simply be disgusted with the current crop of dot-com hopefuls who hate technology. It's going to balance out, just like anything else, and become a trade.
And those of us who stick it out now and show people what quality work looks like will be on top when that happens. Not rich, mind you, but certainly not poor.
Gotta love moderators who don't click the links, eh?
I use a Toshiba 5005-s504 for my main PC, and it's been great at university. Fits fine into the small dorm room, plus I can carry it to work with me. For people who don't need to tote it anywhere and everywhere, like students, large laptops offer either far superior performance, or a very nice pricepoint.
Backup?
I'm sure I've got myself backed up around here.
Somewhere.
*looks worried*
Seriously.
I plan to live forever.
*looks at watch*
So far, so good!