I worked in a telecom store selling these thing, and I never heard of that problem. The biggest problem we had with the Revo's was the connection between the screen and the rest of the machine. It could sometimes wear out, making the screen flicker, or not work at all. But though it was the biggest problem, we didn't run into an awful lot of units which suffered from it.
Oh yeah, I second the Revo! Great (relatively) high-res screen, and qute a nice keyboard. When you're not using it, just close it and throw it in your bag. Don't worry, a Revo can take a lot of beating before it gives up. Wonderful little machine.
For a better keyboard, even better screen and more memory, try a Series5. They are a bit bigger, and according to my experience a bit more fraigle, but they have "real" keys on the keyboard.
Since both of these devices are quite old you can probably get them dirt cheap. I have a vague memory that one of them didn't have a backlight for the screen, but I'm not sure if that's correct.
That's not the point. The point is that if a company pays millions of dollars every year to design new products, others shouldn't be able to just copy that design for free.
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere:...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2:...A witch!
Those sites getting more popular is a good thing, right? Instead of just looking at the clockrate, people will actually compare performance. The average Joe has no idea what makes a P4 2.0 GHz better than a Celeron 2.0 GHz. They're the same speed for crying out loud! Yeah, you get the point.
On my last job I administrated four Windows Terminal Servers that servet a few hundred clients. We used terminals like Compaq T1000, T1010, T20, T30 and just before I quit we bought some of those new fancy HP terminals with XP embedded. We alsu used old AST PC:s with NT4 and an autostarting Terminal Server Client, that worked pretty fine too, but of course they took longer to boot up, and they weren't completely quiet like the terminals. This is an old idea with a new interface. What the article is something different, though of course the idea isn't all that new.
The only difference between RFID cards and the magnetic ones are that the RFID cards can be read from a short distance. And about the tracking system, without one the use of any cards would be pretty pointless.
Richard Stallman is such a baby. Doors that have to be opened with keycards are everywhere, and usually you can't leave them open for more than 30 or 60 seconds, or an alarm will go off.
Hey, that thing looks almost exactly like the Truck-o-Saurus in the Simpson's episode Bart the daredevil. I wonder which one came first, or if it's the same one (with a different name).
The note sais "they hope to make the new format as standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has become for 2D images". It doesn't say anything about compression or other things like that.
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I worked in a telecom store selling these thing, and I never heard of that problem. The biggest problem we had with the Revo's was the connection between the screen and the rest of the machine. It could sometimes wear out, making the screen flicker, or not work at all. But though it was the biggest problem, we didn't run into an awful lot of units which suffered from it.
And a little karma whoring to give you that fuzzy feeling:
Revo
Revo plus (slightly upgraded Revo)
Series5
Oh yeah, I second the Revo! Great (relatively) high-res screen, and qute a nice keyboard. When you're not using it, just close it and throw it in your bag. Don't worry, a Revo can take a lot of beating before it gives up. Wonderful little machine.
For a better keyboard, even better screen and more memory, try a Series5. They are a bit bigger, and according to my experience a bit more fraigle, but they have "real" keys on the keyboard.
Since both of these devices are quite old you can probably get them dirt cheap. I have a vague memory that one of them didn't have a backlight for the screen, but I'm not sure if that's correct.
I guess the e means electrical, and I can't really see any problem with the name.
That's not the point. The point is that if a company pays millions of dollars every year to design new products, others shouldn't be able to just copy that design for free.
PhD!=talent
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water? Peasant 1: Bread. Peasant 2: Apples. Peasant 3: Very small rocks. Peasant 1: Cider. Peasant 2: Gravy. Peasant 3: Cherries. Peasant 1: Mud. Peasant 2: Churches. Peasant 3: Lead! Lead! King Arthur: A Duck. Sir Bedevere: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!
[...] the info that they want...
You mean porn, right?
Those sites getting more popular is a good thing, right? Instead of just looking at the clockrate, people will actually compare performance. The average Joe has no idea what makes a P4 2.0 GHz better than a Celeron 2.0 GHz. They're the same speed for crying out loud! Yeah, you get the point.
On my last job I administrated four Windows Terminal Servers that servet a few hundred clients. We used terminals like Compaq T1000, T1010, T20, T30 and just before I quit we bought some of those new fancy HP terminals with XP embedded. We alsu used old AST PC:s with NT4 and an autostarting Terminal Server Client, that worked pretty fine too, but of course they took longer to boot up, and they weren't completely quiet like the terminals.
This is an old idea with a new interface. What the article is something different, though of course the idea isn't all that new.
The only difference between RFID cards and the magnetic ones are that the RFID cards can be read from a short distance. And about the tracking system, without one the use of any cards would be pretty pointless.
Richard Stallman is such a baby. Doors that have to be opened with keycards are everywhere, and usually you can't leave them open for more than 30 or 60 seconds, or an alarm will go off.
Yeah! Do all kinds of things that make the actual terrorists blend in perfectly. Good idea. Yeah.
Damn! Quite funny that it got modded Informative anyway :-)
Clickable.
Karma whoring at it's best.
There is already a browser called iBrowse.
This is Slashdot, we don't make points.
I'd say true geeks use the correct names for companies and their products.
Yes, I've been looking for such a keyboard since I first saw the backlit PowerBook keyboards...
And that's about the same thing as "son of a bitch"?
Hey, that thing looks almost exactly like the Truck-o-Saurus in the Simpson's episode Bart the daredevil. I wonder which one came first, or if it's the same one (with a different name).
Wow, aren't *you* a bundle of joy...
Perhaps this should give people a clue that violence is not always a good way of fixing things...
No matter what I thik that fish looks a bit too happy. What's he smoking??
The note sais "they hope to make the new format as standard as MP3 has become for audio, and JPEG has become for 2D images". It doesn't say anything about compression or other things like that.