as for sharing information, what information? will these pda's be nothing more than a web forum? without some content creation tools, i see little use for sharing of information. and what kind of content is really worth creating on a hand held pda (within the grasp of a 10-15 year old)?
You're kidding, right? Wow, kids these days are spoiled. I remember when typewriters where the high-tech method of creating content, not to mention the other steps either direction of pen-and-paper or a 16k 'personal computer'.
You should also consider that having a tool that will allow you to do anything is not the best method of bringing out your creativity. A significantly better way is to start out with some severe limitations, and create within those limitations. Sure, your initial ideas won't necessarily be possible to implement, but you'll use the old creativity muscles a lot more in a restricted environment.
Think back to the old video games. There were excellent games even in the earliest systems, when only the most abstract representation of both the control and the environment were possible. The content is not the medium. Advances in the medium make more things possible, but it doesn't necessarily make everything better.
And most importantly, limitations in content creation tools doesn't automatically make everything suck. Especially in the hands of teenagers, who often have more time and patience for the limitations of systems than adults do.
So is there any legal overlap between the Treo that is a handheld PDA/phone (which could potentially end up with an mp3 attachment) and the Treo that is a handheld mp3 player? The former has an accent over the 'e' whereas the latter's is on the 'o'.
No. As hard as it is to understand for people who only know English, accents really matter -- they aren't just there for show -- there are words in many languages that only differ by an accent.
While that may be true, it is still similar enough that I would worry about copyright infringement. I can tell you that if I ever tried to market a drink called Cocoa-Cola, then I would be in a heap of trouble, and there's an extra letter in there, not just a moved accent.
Not that I wouldn't expect them to have checked out the name with their lawyers before hand, but who can say, really?
In my opinion, the U.S.
should ban cloning an entire human for whatever purpose, as this could be used for some very evil things. But banning research is stupid.
That's quite the double standard. The research itself 'could be used for some very evil things,' not just the cloning. Heck, sporks 'could be used for some very evil things,' but I don't hear for a general ban on sporks. Granted, I haven't been watching CSPAN as much as I could, and there may very well be some sort of anti-spork legislation that I'm unaware of.
Where do you draw the line, and why? Potential for evil exists in all things. Religious debates aside, which may be foolish when discussing evil, clones have far less potential for evil than powered flight and theoretical physics.
For many years, I hardly had any friends who weren't from work. Yes, we would go out drinking a few times a week, play video games, Make Science, all the normal things people do.
Of course, I was in the video game industry, and maybe we're a more social breed of tech types. But the places I've working within the game industry have always been filled with the best people to work with, and it's very natural for us to spend time together.
It wasn't until I was a victim of layoff that I started developing friends outside of work.
=Brian
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"Proogread everything."
http://www.subluminal.com/ - Living life at just under the speed of light.
I've been reading eBooks since I owned a Newton 100 (The Hacker Crackdown was my first). It's extremely handy, for several reasons:
1) I can carry around many books in the space of a PDA (currently a Palm);
2) You can read the book with one hand (get your mind out of the gutter) - I can hold the palm in one hand and turn the pages with my thumb on the scroll button. Sure, it's not much, but that's just that little bit of convenience that paperbacks don't have;
3) Low light conditions - I can just turn on the backlight, and I have an instant built-in reading light;
4) It goes where I do - since I keep the Palm with me, it's always right there if I happen to have a few minutes or more free and I didn't think (or feel like) bringing my book.
However, I have no need of a specialized eBook reader nor Adobe's format. I buy my books and magazines from Palm Digital Media (used to be Peanut Press) at http://www.peanutpress.com/ They have a decent if not overwhelmingly complete selection, they don't overcharge, and everything's quick and easy. I'm not going to give up on paper books any time soon, if ever, but I have easily integrated eBooks into my life.
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You're kidding, right? Wow, kids these days are spoiled. I remember when typewriters where the high-tech method of creating content, not to mention the other steps either direction of pen-and-paper or a 16k 'personal computer'.
You should also consider that having a tool that will allow you to do anything is not the best method of bringing out your creativity. A significantly better way is to start out with some severe limitations, and create within those limitations. Sure, your initial ideas won't necessarily be possible to implement, but you'll use the old creativity muscles a lot more in a restricted environment.
Think back to the old video games. There were excellent games even in the earliest systems, when only the most abstract representation of both the control and the environment were possible. The content is not the medium. Advances in the medium make more things possible, but it doesn't necessarily make everything better.
And most importantly, limitations in content creation tools doesn't automatically make everything suck. Especially in the hands of teenagers, who often have more time and patience for the limitations of systems than adults do.
=Brian
While that may be true, it is still similar enough that I would worry about copyright infringement. I can tell you that if I ever tried to market a drink called Cocoa-Cola, then I would be in a heap of trouble, and there's an extra letter in there, not just a moved accent.
Not that I wouldn't expect them to have checked out the name with their lawyers before hand, but who can say, really?
=Brian, WINAL
That's quite the double standard. The research itself 'could be used for some very evil things,' not just the cloning. Heck, sporks 'could be used for some very evil things,' but I don't hear for a general ban on sporks. Granted, I haven't been watching CSPAN as much as I could, and there may very well be some sort of anti-spork legislation that I'm unaware of.
Where do you draw the line, and why? Potential for evil exists in all things. Religious debates aside, which may be foolish when discussing evil, clones have far less potential for evil than powered flight and theoretical physics.
=Brian
For many years, I hardly had any friends who weren't from work. Yes, we would go out drinking a few times a week, play video games, Make Science, all the normal things people do.
Of course, I was in the video game industry, and maybe we're a more social breed of tech types. But the places I've working within the game industry have always been filled with the best people to work with, and it's very natural for us to spend time together.
It wasn't until I was a victim of layoff that I started developing friends outside of work.
=Brian
--
"Proogread everything."
http://www.subluminal.com/ - Living life at just under the speed of light.
I've been reading eBooks since I owned a Newton 100 (The Hacker Crackdown was my first). It's extremely handy, for several reasons:
1) I can carry around many books in the space of a PDA (currently a Palm);
2) You can read the book with one hand (get your mind out of the gutter) - I can hold the palm in one hand and turn the pages with my thumb on the scroll button. Sure, it's not much, but that's just that little bit of convenience that paperbacks don't have;
3) Low light conditions - I can just turn on the backlight, and I have an instant built-in reading light;
4) It goes where I do - since I keep the Palm with me, it's always right there if I happen to have a few minutes or more free and I didn't think (or feel like) bringing my book.
However, I have no need of a specialized eBook reader nor Adobe's format. I buy my books and magazines from Palm Digital Media (used to be Peanut Press) at http://www.peanutpress.com/ They have a decent if not overwhelmingly complete selection, they don't overcharge, and everything's quick and easy. I'm not going to give up on paper books any time soon, if ever, but I have easily integrated eBooks into my life.
=Brian