As for adding a NIC, I don't think anyone cares, really, whether there's a standard 10Base-T or whatever card available. The Palm is not a device designed for connecting up via Ethernet for extended periods of time. A much better solution would be wireless connectivity, whether it be CDPD, Ricochet, WaveLAN, or whatever.
SWM, 6000 keystrokes/hr, seeks other for beaming, HotSyncing, possible LTR. I'll be your cradle if you're into PDA. Send picture of Palm Connected Device.
I should go home. I must be missing PalmOS Night at the fetish bar or something.
I have a set of Virtual IO i-Glasses that I procured from their going-out-of-business auction. (Since then, I believe someone else has picked up their IP and run with it.) I use it to watch TV while I'm working at home.
One thing I noticed, though, after thoroughly unscientific testing: everyone who put this headset on began to lower their head until their chins were literally resting on their chest.
My theories why this happens:
The weight of the unit, with its center of gravity out in front of your head, will push it down. (I checked out one of the Sony HUDs, and it has similar trouble.)
This is the interesting one. I would imagine that, if we weren't forced to hold up our heads in order to see what we wanted to, our neck would naturally relax. Most of my participants didn't even notice where their head went until they took the headset off.
Don't get me wrong. I dig the concept of the HUD. Their cool factor is undeniable. But until they can beam an image onto a regular pair of glasses, which I don't find particularly feasible, or from the temple of a pair of glasses directly onto the retina, ain't no friggin way HUDs are going to fly. (Scenario 3: your office furniture becomes a recliner with a split keyboard and a HUD. Whoever comes up with this needs product placement in The Matrix II.:)
Anyway, my i-Glasses always get the desired response from visitors: "Dude, that is so fucking cool!" But I think I'd rather use a Braille reader than that thing for real work.
Even though I still bristle to think of the psychedelic rat puke that was Wired's outrageous, color-blind design scheme, and while plenty of their articles were silly, simple-minded, or just plain wrong (see: [Apple logo] Pray.), there was enough in the pulpware version of Wired for a whole lot of people to look around and think, hey, maybe I can do this stuff. Right now, vivid and Organic are probably Indian leg-wrestling for Wired's office space, which sits between them. Without a voice like Wired, odds are they wouldn't have been able to survive with stupid script tricks and graphical magic.
I have to respect their bleeding-edge online design, as well, despite my firm grounding in usability. It's still important to have some of us doing cool for cool's sake.
Look what Wired spawned. Technolust. The meme. neo-cyber-nano-*. Street cred. TWIT$. Hell, I first heard about Edward Tufte in one of those rare black-on-white pages. Wired is to be credited (or blamed, as may be your taste) for the very commoditization of cool we see on the web and off -- for better or worse.
Anyway, I buried Wired at 5.01, when they tried to make the fonts more accessible and the editor-in-chief talked about growing up. The Wired we wanted was Peter Pan. We never asked it to put on a suit.
It sure is easy to second-guess DIVX. But even if they didn't whiff on the privacy issues, the technical issues, and the video quality relative to DVD, they would still have failed for one more reason Circuit City wanted it to succeed.
CC wanted more traffic into its stores. DIVX was a potential non-store revenue generator for CC and the other places (i.e., DIVX silver conversions and multiple viewings), but the effect that people aren't noticing is that DIVX owners had to trek to the local Circuit City to buy the new discs. That means lots more foot traffic, which means lots more opportunity to set up the $300 impulse buy that electronics stores live for.
Here's the problem: who in their right minds would shop CC 50 times a year, knowing full well they're going to get a sales pitch when they're just trying to rent a copy of Toy Story? They may as well have put DIVX racks in used-car dealerships.
The next flaw with DIVX is that it is not significantly more convenient than video rental (don't forget, you're not eliminating trips to the store, you're just reducing them from 2 to 1), and no more convenient than DVD. In that respect, I have no idea whatsoever what they were trying to do with DIVX Gold. Oh boy: lower quality, more expensive than DVD, and tied to a proprietary medium! Sign me up!
I think this is a classic case of the vapor/pre-marketing/beta-release methodology Microsoft has used to claw back turf it lost when they discovered maybe CERN and NCSA were on to something with HTTPD. First off, Windows has always been behind on web servers. Remember EMWAC? The Win32 platform suffered by being so different from Unix that any port of new Unix-based packages requires Herculean effort to bring to Windows. Apache has time in service, legacy, and flexibility on its side. What Microsoft has that Apache is missing is 9 figures worth of PR.
Microsoft rolled their own, with a view to pitching it as a central part of the OS. I mean, I don't think I've ever seen a Solaris slick with a "now featuring APACHE!" starburst across the top. It's just always been there, or at least readily available. Microsoft has had the luxury of selling the most rudimentary services and tools (HTTP, NNTP, mailer, even scripting) as quantum leaps in OS evolution.
Unix types know three things when it comes to software: 1) It's probably in there; 2) If it's not there, I can probably find and install it; and 3) If it breaks, I can probably fix it.
Windows folks, by contrast, have been trained to follow the path of least resistance by being spoon-fed these black boxes that inevitably blow up in their faces. An exploit like this shows up on CERT or Rootshell, and everybody.asp is a sitting duck. Sooner or later, CIOs are going to catch on here.
They sure can sell the stuff, though. So well that the marketing folks can compromise the reputations of otherwise superlative programmers.
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PalmOS 2.0+ all have a TCP/IP stack built-in.
As for adding a NIC, I don't think anyone cares, really, whether there's a standard 10Base-T or whatever card available. The Palm is not a device designed for connecting up via Ethernet for extended periods of time. A much better solution would be wireless connectivity, whether it be CDPD, Ricochet, WaveLAN, or whatever.
Am I the only one thinking CMGI?
They're pretty light on Linux properties, though they own everything else...
for beaming, HotSyncing, possible LTR.
I'll be your cradle if you're into PDA.
Send picture of Palm Connected Device.
I should go home. I must be missing PalmOS Night at the fetish bar or something.
One thing I noticed, though, after thoroughly unscientific testing: everyone who put this headset on began to lower their head until their chins were literally resting on their chest.
My theories why this happens:
- The weight of the unit, with its center of gravity out in front of your head, will push it down. (I checked out one of the Sony HUDs, and it has similar trouble.)
- This is the interesting one. I would imagine that, if we weren't forced to hold up our heads in order to see what we wanted to, our neck would naturally relax. Most of my participants didn't even notice where their head went until they took the headset off.
Don't get me wrong. I dig the concept of the HUD. Their cool factor is undeniable. But until they can beam an image onto a regular pair of glasses, which I don't find particularly feasible, or from the temple of a pair of glasses directly onto the retina, ain't no friggin way HUDs are going to fly. (Scenario 3: your office furniture becomes a recliner with a split keyboard and a HUD. Whoever comes up with this needs product placement in The Matrix II.Anyway, my i-Glasses always get the desired response from visitors: "Dude, that is so fucking cool!" But I think I'd rather use a Braille reader than that thing for real work.
Even though I still bristle to think of the psychedelic rat puke that was Wired's outrageous, color-blind design scheme, and while plenty of their articles were silly, simple-minded, or just plain wrong (see: [Apple logo] Pray.), there was enough in the pulpware version of Wired for a whole lot of people to look around and think, hey, maybe I can do this stuff. Right now, vivid and Organic are probably Indian leg-wrestling for Wired's office space, which sits between them. Without a voice like Wired, odds are they wouldn't have been able to survive with stupid script tricks and graphical magic.
I have to respect their bleeding-edge online design, as well, despite my firm grounding in usability. It's still important to have some of us doing cool for cool's sake.
Look what Wired spawned. Technolust. The meme. neo-cyber-nano-*. Street cred. TWIT$. Hell, I first heard about Edward Tufte in one of those rare black-on-white pages. Wired is to be credited (or blamed, as may be your taste) for the very commoditization of cool we see on the web and off -- for better or worse.
Anyway, I buried Wired at 5.01, when they tried to make the fonts more accessible and the editor-in-chief talked about growing up. The Wired we wanted was Peter Pan. We never asked it to put on a suit.
But even if they didn't whiff on the privacy issues, the technical issues, and the video quality relative to DVD, they would still have failed for one more reason Circuit City wanted it to succeed.
CC wanted more traffic into its stores. DIVX was a potential non-store revenue generator for CC and the other places (i.e., DIVX silver conversions and multiple viewings), but the effect that people aren't noticing is that DIVX owners had to trek to the local Circuit City to buy the new discs. That means lots more foot traffic, which means lots more opportunity to set up the $300 impulse buy that electronics stores live for.
Here's the problem: who in their right minds would shop CC 50 times a year, knowing full well they're going to get a sales pitch when they're just trying to rent a copy of Toy Story? They may as well have put DIVX racks in used-car dealerships.
The next flaw with DIVX is that it is not significantly more convenient than video rental (don't forget, you're not eliminating trips to the store, you're just reducing them from 2 to 1), and no more convenient than DVD. In that respect, I have no idea whatsoever what they were trying to do with DIVX Gold. Oh boy: lower quality, more expensive than DVD, and tied to a proprietary medium! Sign me up!
I think this is a classic case of the vapor/pre-marketing/beta-release methodology Microsoft has used to claw back turf it lost when they discovered maybe CERN and NCSA were on to something with HTTPD.
First off, Windows has always been behind on web servers. Remember EMWAC? The Win32 platform suffered by being so different from Unix that any port of new Unix-based packages requires Herculean effort to bring to Windows.
Apache has time in service, legacy, and flexibility on its side. What Microsoft has that Apache is missing is 9 figures worth of PR.
Microsoft rolled their own, with a view to pitching it as a central part of the OS. I mean, I don't think I've ever seen a Solaris slick with a "now featuring APACHE!" starburst across the top. It's just always been there, or at least readily available. Microsoft has had the luxury of selling the most rudimentary services and tools (HTTP, NNTP, mailer, even scripting) as quantum leaps in OS evolution.
Unix types know three things when it comes to software:
1) It's probably in there;
2) If it's not there, I can probably find and install it; and
3) If it breaks, I can probably fix it.
Windows folks, by contrast, have been trained to follow the path of least resistance by being spoon-fed these black boxes that inevitably blow up in their faces. An exploit like this shows up on CERT or Rootshell, and everybody.asp is a sitting duck. Sooner or later, CIOs are going to catch on here.
They sure can sell the stuff, though. So well that the marketing folks can compromise the reputations of otherwise superlative programmers.