Well, if this runs Windows CE, don't be so sure that it won't be able to run Vorbis or DivX. PocketMVP is for Pocket PC (also Windows CE) and by concidence can play both Vorbis and DivX perfectly.
I always thought that dark matter was perfectly invisible, and not just a large number of very dim stars.
Maybe those stars could help account for the missing mass, but measuring at 1% it doesn't seem very likely.
Will they be able to distinguish from cell phones in cars, multiple cell phones in cars, and cell phones not in cars? I wouldn't want the news to report that often the largest traffic jams occur in hotels and office buildings.
However, my guess is that they'll see how fast the cell phone was ever moving, to see if it is inside a car or not.
"for around tariffs as low as 40 paise per minute or 0.8 cents per minute. "
Somehow, I doubt such a plan would succeed. Is such a low tariff even possible, much less for this kind of expensive service?
As for wireless PDA synching, I'd say WiFi works better for that; while I haven't tried it on my Pocket PC yet others have and it's supposed to work wonderfully, especially for copying large files.
But what would the uses be? Is it meant for embedded devices? That would sound like an interesting idea, having a Linux computer in each VCR and toaster...
Someone could then set up a crond job to "cat/dev/heat >/mnt/toast" every morning.
Not sure if it's worth the price; It's just better to get an older PDA for about the same price. For example, go look on pricewatch.com You can get a IIIxe (8mb, b+w, backlight) for $100 or a IIIc (8mb, COLOR, LiIon battery) for $120.
As for me, I got an HP Jornada 525 for $170. (this was almost exactly a year ago) I got 16 megs, 320x240 color, and a 133 MHz SH-3. Yes, it does run on Pocket PC; however, anti-Microsoft sentiments aside, it's not a bad thing. I can play Doom, Quake, emulate Gameboy, NES, listen to MP3's, watch MPEG video. I have a scaled-down version of Emacs, and can compile LaTeX documents and view the resulting DVI files. I can put 128 megs onto a $40 CompactFlash card. Files are easy to put onto it; unlike PalmOS, it uses a real filesystem and it's trivially easy to copy files over. I can even use my Linux box to do so. using a USB CompactFlash adapter.
Try looking into older PocketPC's; they might be cheap and trust me, they're really not that bad. Otherwise, get an older Palm or Visor. $100 for this is not worth it.
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Well, if this runs Windows CE, don't be so sure that it won't be able to run Vorbis or DivX. PocketMVP is for Pocket PC (also Windows CE) and by concidence can play both Vorbis and DivX perfectly.
I always thought that dark matter was perfectly invisible, and not just a large number of very dim stars. Maybe those stars could help account for the missing mass, but measuring at 1% it doesn't seem very likely.
Will they be able to distinguish from cell phones in cars, multiple cell phones in cars, and cell phones not in cars? I wouldn't want the news to report that often the largest traffic jams occur in hotels and office buildings. However, my guess is that they'll see how fast the cell phone was ever moving, to see if it is inside a car or not.
"for around tariffs as low as 40 paise per minute or 0.8 cents per minute. " Somehow, I doubt such a plan would succeed. Is such a low tariff even possible, much less for this kind of expensive service?
As for wireless PDA synching, I'd say WiFi works better for that; while I haven't tried it on my Pocket PC yet others have and it's supposed to work wonderfully, especially for copying large files.
But what would the uses be? Is it meant for embedded devices? That would sound like an interesting idea, having a Linux computer in each VCR and toaster... Someone could then set up a crond job to "cat /dev/heat > /mnt/toast" every morning.
Well, it should be easy, considering Doom was already ported to Pocket PC here and here.
Not sure if it's worth the price; It's just better to get an older PDA for about the same price. For example, go look on pricewatch.com You can get a IIIxe (8mb, b+w, backlight) for $100 or a IIIc (8mb, COLOR, LiIon battery) for $120.
As for me, I got an HP Jornada 525 for $170. (this was almost exactly a year ago) I got 16 megs, 320x240 color, and a 133 MHz SH-3. Yes, it does run on Pocket PC; however, anti-Microsoft sentiments aside, it's not a bad thing. I can play Doom, Quake, emulate Gameboy, NES, listen to MP3's, watch MPEG video. I have a scaled-down version of Emacs, and can compile LaTeX documents and view the resulting DVI files. I can put 128 megs onto a $40 CompactFlash card. Files are easy to put onto it; unlike PalmOS, it uses a real filesystem and it's trivially easy to copy files over. I can even use my Linux box to do so. using a USB CompactFlash adapter.
Try looking into older PocketPC's; they might be cheap and trust me, they're really not that bad. Otherwise, get an older Palm or Visor. $100 for this is not worth it.
And no, I am NOT trying to troll or flame.