I love their devices. The T3 is a great size for a PDA and the Zodiac is awesome for a gamer's PDA however neither had crap for WiFi (although both had bluetooth). They had nice screens and PalmOS is ok but the rest of the device seemed dated. Single expansion slot, moderate memory, etc. Adding $130 on the cost of the thing also puts the T3 firmly on the high end.
I went with an e805 that has a 640x480 screen as well as built in WiFi and a ton of memory. So until Palm can come out with a decent PDA that has a 640x480 screen and integrated WiFi I'll be stuck with the evil empire.
The 6820 is directly based on the 6800 which came out Q2 2003. It's the only *line* of phones with that specific style of keyboard but if you wanted to open that ball of wax Slashdot better start covering the Nokia 3650, Siemens SX1, the Blackberries, Sidekicks, and plethora of smartphones. All of them have unique keyboards and more features than the 68xx.
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In that case the old people got it right. If you aren't technically competent enough to take care of yourself on the internet then staying off is a good idea. I wish they used the same logic with their vehicles. Remember, it's a privelage and not a right:)
So SlashDot is now turfing for cell phone reviewers? There's nothing especially exciting or geeky about this device. They've been making the flip-open messaging handsets for a while now. Hell, even the reviewer in underwhelmed (3.75/5). It's not exceptional in any way.
The title of this article should read "Nokia comes out with new version of same old crap... like they do a dozen times every year."
No joke? Hmm... thought I heard the announcers talking about how he was a backup gaurding Stockton or some crap but I guess that was someone else. If you haven't guessed, I'm not a basketball guy.
You do need to be connected to download the updates. And you do need to enable the firewall which isn't in XP's default configuration. Maybe Windows users who are installing it often already know that but I don't have to install and enable a firewall on my Linux boxen for them to stay up long enough to update themselves and the last time I installed XP it managed to stay up the 20 requisite minutes so this was a tad bit foreign.
And NATing to use a single computer behind a university connection?
Last time I reinstalled my XP partition, by the time I downloaded the XP updates and latest AVG sigs my machine was already rebooting with RPC errors. That was a fat pipe and I'd have to guess I had blaster within 5 minutes of touching the net. This was unfortunately at the wife's office at Uni... no firewall, no proxy.
Opinion: It's always a good idea to run a strong firewall in front of your home network.
Fact: If you're running Windows you MUST run a strong firewall in front of your home network.
Anybody know what the ratio of mechanical related crashes to terrorist related crashes is? I'm just guessing but I bet it'd be in the hundreds or thousands to one. I don't mind sacraficing an hour or so to ensure my safety on a flight but maybe that hour should be spent training the mechanics and inspecting the planes. But that's just silly-talk. This is, in fact, business and those kind of inspections cost businesses money. Taking the time to have federal employees inspect an 80 year old lady's shoes is free... to them and the the illusion is sufficient.
That game was freakin pathetic. The US got completely trounced by the little Arroyo dude that was apparently a Maverics cut. I guess Arroyo isn't gangsta enough to play professional ball but not a single one of them 6'8" dudes could defend the quick little pip-squeek.
What I watched of our rowing, beach v-ball, and gymnast teams was great though!
Holy crap, this is the best thing I've read on the internet in weeks...
With headlines like "Availability of Fish" and graph titles like "Difficulty of owning Windows vs Difficulty to make this graph" in the executive summary who wouldn't get a chuckle. They even make jabs at Mac OSX. It will be interesting to see how many PHBs and dumbarse editorial writers will try to link to this in their defense of Windows TCO.
Knock off this CVS access FUD. Yes, TG told Gentoo and others to remove links to their CVS archives not because they don't want people to peek around at their free code but because... CVS GIVES THEM AN INCOMPLETE PRODUCT!
The special sauce in WineX isn't Wine or the wine-derived code... it's the binary-only, proprietary, closed-source DirectX shared objects owned by Aladdin. The WineX CVS is little more than plain old Wine with a nip and a tuck. In fact, Wine alone will do MORE than WineX CVS without the shared objects because, absent DX sos, it's useless.
So all the Gentooians go pluck the CVS version of WineX thinking they're getting real WineX, the damn thing doesn't do, well, anything at all and they're forever soured to WineX and possibly Linux in general. Removing that option is good for Transgaming and the community in general and isn't, believe it or not, a nefarious plot to stop people from easily getting what's freely available anyway.
Reports have indicated that the XBox 2 may not be able to play Xbox 1 games; a serious point of consideration for the large numbers of people who bought their XBoxes recently.
They've also indicated that they XBox2 will use non-standard hardware in an effort to fight piracy and hacking. 90% of my reason for owning an XBox is emulation and media. The platform games are a far distant 3rd and of those only a few are exclusives. If they lock down the XBox 2 as severely as the GC, I for one will NOT be buying it and (as pilthy as it may seem) the sales for the few games I would've bought for the system will be going to Sony.
I wonder if this device is indicative of why Sony dropped their US Palm lineup. It seems this would've been a device ideal for PalmOS; at the very least, a device who's operating system could be in direct competition to Palm. This thing obviously does more than just navigation. With its media capabilities and touchscreen interface, it may be Sony has a slick embeded OpenPDA-like embedded OS soon to be found on a 'Clie' near you.
Prices here in the midwest are already approching that level. I believe the cheapest DSL plan here runs about $27, just slightly above what AOL charges. If you're not getting that rate, call em up and they'll adjust your payments (although you may have to renew your contract).
Agreed... anyone spouting off about Linux in an unrelated story should be flogged. It'd be like some wanker claiming 'Listen to the Universe in MPlayer'. Equally pointless and mis-representative.
*clicks link to NYT article* Ctrl-F "iPod" -- no results. *clicks link to lead Ph.D's site* Ctrl-F "iPod" -- no results. *clicks link to cheesy gadget site* -- no crap? All kinds of iPod stuff there. At a gadget and portable audio site? Wow... I'm now incredibly enlightened.
This news item is covering some cheesy site's WAV->mp3 conversion as much as the research. Just because some pro-iPod dumbarse gadget site feels the need to plug iPods (look at that, correct place and time) doesn't mean Slashdot has to repeat their drivel. And what's at these other links? Dr. Whittle himself released pdfs, and wavs, and ppts, and htmls... forget that crap... some cheeseball converted the wavs to play on an iPod (or any other mp3 player); now that's a F'n headline! Slashdot isn't supposed to follow the stupids... at least not in a science category article.
I'm pretty sure that more people listen to mp3s on their computer than on iPods. I don't have numbers to back that up or anything but I'd bet on it. It was a shameless plug that made everyone think that the article might have had even the tinyest bit to do with iPods... which it doesn't.
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I love their devices. The T3 is a great size for a PDA and the Zodiac is awesome for a gamer's PDA however neither had crap for WiFi (although both had bluetooth). They had nice screens and PalmOS is ok but the rest of the device seemed dated. Single expansion slot, moderate memory, etc. Adding $130 on the cost of the thing also puts the T3 firmly on the high end.
I went with an e805 that has a 640x480 screen as well as built in WiFi and a ton of memory. So until Palm can come out with a decent PDA that has a 640x480 screen and integrated WiFi I'll be stuck with the evil empire.
The 6820 is directly based on the 6800 which came out Q2 2003. It's the only *line* of phones with that specific style of keyboard but if you wanted to open that ball of wax Slashdot better start covering the Nokia 3650, Siemens SX1, the Blackberries, Sidekicks, and plethora of smartphones. All of them have unique keyboards and more features than the 68xx.
In that case the old people got it right. If you aren't technically competent enough to take care of yourself on the internet then staying off is a good idea. I wish they used the same logic with their vehicles. Remember, it's a privelage and not a right :)
So SlashDot is now turfing for cell phone reviewers? There's nothing especially exciting or geeky about this device. They've been making the flip-open messaging handsets for a while now. Hell, even the reviewer in underwhelmed (3.75/5). It's not exceptional in any way.
The title of this article should read "Nokia comes out with new version of same old crap... like they do a dozen times every year."
No joke? Hmm... thought I heard the announcers talking about how he was a backup gaurding Stockton or some crap but I guess that was someone else. If you haven't guessed, I'm not a basketball guy.
Bah! Still ~10x higher than allofmp3.com. And they give you the real non-DRM non-proprietary crap... Even lossless if you like.
And their legality is just 'questionable'.
You do need to be connected to download the updates. And you do need to enable the firewall which isn't in XP's default configuration. Maybe Windows users who are installing it often already know that but I don't have to install and enable a firewall on my Linux boxen for them to stay up long enough to update themselves and the last time I installed XP it managed to stay up the 20 requisite minutes so this was a tad bit foreign.
And NATing to use a single computer behind a university connection?
Last time I reinstalled my XP partition, by the time I downloaded the XP updates and latest AVG sigs my machine was already rebooting with RPC errors. That was a fat pipe and I'd have to guess I had blaster within 5 minutes of touching the net. This was unfortunately at the wife's office at Uni... no firewall, no proxy.
Opinion: It's always a good idea to run a strong firewall in front of your home network.
Fact: If you're running Windows you MUST run a strong firewall in front of your home network.
Anybody know what the ratio of mechanical related crashes to terrorist related crashes is? I'm just guessing but I bet it'd be in the hundreds or thousands to one. I don't mind sacraficing an hour or so to ensure my safety on a flight but maybe that hour should be spent training the mechanics and inspecting the planes. But that's just silly-talk. This is, in fact, business and those kind of inspections cost businesses money. Taking the time to have federal employees inspect an 80 year old lady's shoes is free... to them and the the illusion is sufficient.
That game was freakin pathetic. The US got completely trounced by the little Arroyo dude that was apparently a Maverics cut. I guess Arroyo isn't gangsta enough to play professional ball but not a single one of them 6'8" dudes could defend the quick little pip-squeek.
What I watched of our rowing, beach v-ball, and gymnast teams was great though!
...but the date is right there in the article. Seriously though, haven't they tried this a few dozen times already?
Holy crap, this is the best thing I've read on the internet in weeks...
With headlines like "Availability of Fish" and graph titles like "Difficulty of owning Windows vs Difficulty to make this graph" in the executive summary who wouldn't get a chuckle. They even make jabs at Mac OSX. It will be interesting to see how many PHBs and dumbarse editorial writers will try to link to this in their defense of Windows TCO.
Bah... I read it in the crapper all the time. Now if you meant you were actually IN the toilet, I stand corrected.
I bought a WineX subscription... but that kinda defeats the point eh?
'aye's for British, 'arrr's for pirate you insensitive clod. Unless you string the 'aye's together for an 'aye aye Kaptin'.
:)
Also, don't foget 'eh' for Canadians, 'doh' for homer, 'fsck' for Linux nerds, and 'duh' for the Bush Administration.
Knock off this CVS access FUD. Yes, TG told Gentoo and others to remove links to their CVS archives not because they don't want people to peek around at their free code but because... CVS GIVES THEM AN INCOMPLETE PRODUCT!
The special sauce in WineX isn't Wine or the wine-derived code... it's the binary-only, proprietary, closed-source DirectX shared objects owned by Aladdin. The WineX CVS is little more than plain old Wine with a nip and a tuck. In fact, Wine alone will do MORE than WineX CVS without the shared objects because, absent DX sos, it's useless.
So all the Gentooians go pluck the CVS version of WineX thinking they're getting real WineX, the damn thing doesn't do, well, anything at all and they're forever soured to WineX and possibly Linux in general. Removing that option is good for Transgaming and the community in general and isn't, believe it or not, a nefarious plot to stop people from easily getting what's freely available anyway.
It's Texas... miles and miles of wide-open nothing. Use your imagination.
:)
If you could WiFi behind a tree in the woods I'd sympathize with your argument
Reports have indicated that the XBox 2 may not be able to play Xbox 1 games; a serious point of consideration for the large numbers of people who bought their XBoxes recently.
They've also indicated that they XBox2 will use non-standard hardware in an effort to fight piracy and hacking. 90% of my reason for owning an XBox is emulation and media. The platform games are a far distant 3rd and of those only a few are exclusives. If they lock down the XBox 2 as severely as the GC, I for one will NOT be buying it and (as pilthy as it may seem) the sales for the few games I would've bought for the system will be going to Sony.
I wonder if this device is indicative of why Sony dropped their US Palm lineup. It seems this would've been a device ideal for PalmOS; at the very least, a device who's operating system could be in direct competition to Palm. This thing obviously does more than just navigation. With its media capabilities and touchscreen interface, it may be Sony has a slick embeded OpenPDA-like embedded OS soon to be found on a 'Clie' near you.
Prices here in the midwest are already approching that level. I believe the cheapest DSL plan here runs about $27, just slightly above what AOL charges. If you're not getting that rate, call em up and they'll adjust your payments (although you may have to renew your contract).
Agreed... anyone spouting off about Linux in an unrelated story should be flogged. It'd be like some wanker claiming 'Listen to the Universe in MPlayer'. Equally pointless and mis-representative.
...now what am I going to do with all of my free time. I guess it's back to video games... *sigh*
Hmm...
*clicks link to NYT article* Ctrl-F "iPod" -- no results.
*clicks link to lead Ph.D's site* Ctrl-F "iPod" -- no results.
*clicks link to cheesy gadget site* -- no crap? All kinds of iPod stuff there. At a gadget and portable audio site? Wow... I'm now incredibly enlightened.
This news item is covering some cheesy site's WAV->mp3 conversion as much as the research. Just because some pro-iPod dumbarse gadget site feels the need to plug iPods (look at that, correct place and time) doesn't mean Slashdot has to repeat their drivel. And what's at these other links? Dr. Whittle himself released pdfs, and wavs, and ppts, and htmls... forget that crap... some cheeseball converted the wavs to play on an iPod (or any other mp3 player); now that's a F'n headline! Slashdot isn't supposed to follow the stupids... at least not in a science category article.
I'm pretty sure that more people listen to mp3s on their computer than on iPods. I don't have numbers to back that up or anything but I'd bet on it. It was a shameless plug that made everyone think that the article might have had even the tinyest bit to do with iPods... which it doesn't.