Mine has a keyboard! Have you heard of Bluetooth?:-)
I think it's actually the smallest thing resembling a normal keyboard on the market: it's the Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard from Think Outside. It has shortcomings, like no dedicated number keys, but it folds and fits in a pocket just as well as the Pocket PC.
And anyone who thinks ARM Pocket PC systems are useless is just not well informed. At least when they have four-inch or larger displays like the two I mentioned, they are very useful, especially due to the fact that they literally fit in a pocket. I have so much software installed on my old hx4700 that I had to ditch the standard Windows Mobile menu and replace it with a pull-down hierarchical menu system, so that I could organize and find apps quickly (as opposed to scrolling through an endless unstructured list of meaningless icons). Quite a lot of it was free/OSS, too.
Yes, anyone has indeed considered it, at least considered the possibility, which is more than one can apparently say for some of the experts producing reports and studies like the last one about giant wind farms here on/. in the last week or two. They seem to have rather optimistic tunnel vision, which seems to be a common affliction with too many people who become too emotionally attached to ideas. They want so much to "make it so" (to mimic Jean-Luc Picard) that they become a bit delusional in the process.
What you suggested as a consequence is something that should be addressed and investigated in depth to rule it out. Trying to mention such issues is sometimes like being a protester trying to stare down a steamroller with its clutch released.
I worked for the company that developed it almost 20 years ago. It sought to accomplish much the same thing, and though "Internet" wasn't part of the marketing it was definitely intended to work over a standard IP network. The company used it in-house to run common applications on one or two "app servers", which were then served via the DesqView/X clients to Windows workstations throughout the company. IIRC there was only one, maybe two, competing products in the market at the time. It was capable of serving Windows to a UNIX workstation, and vice versa, all done via X-Windows protocol.
Really products like that are the direct predecessors of these revamped Internet-specific products we're seeing now.
... and how really obese people superficially resemble them more than, say, Sylvester Stallone, it stands to reason that a swine flu virus would just feel more at home in an obese human, right? Hugely fat people have better accommodations for picky little swine flu viruses who don't want a room at Motel 6, they want the honeymoon suite at the Ritz.
No one seems to have noticed the real "transformative" or impressionist addition made by the "painter", huh? He altered the background and shading in the photo to reflect a gradient from red to white to blue.
I'd say that's plenty transformative enough. Regardless, I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate in even pointing this out, given that I disagree with most of the justifications for the existence of copyright in the first place.
This "photog" Garcia is apparently a prick who isn't happy with just his 15 minutes of fame... he wants money and "justice", too.
I never TOLD YOU to buy the same things I did. I described how *I* solved the problem, and why I solved it that way. The real fucking twats here are you, Anonymous Coward, and CompMD: it's both of you who have criticized MY method of solving the problem, NOT the other way around. CompMD criticizes my approach, so I defend it, and then you jump in, fucking twat that you are, and berate me for defending my method when criticized?
It's rare that I feel the urge to use this combination of words, but go fuck yourself, because sperm production is about all the usefulness you seem to have, and we certainly don't want your disease spreading.
Hack? Upgrade? Bullshit: I bought the BT-338 and loaded the Tom-Tom software. Do you actually call that hacking? If you think that's hacking, I guess the really difficult things I do with that and other hardware must be sufficiently indistinguishable from magic to you, huh?
I can also do a helluva lot more with my "hacked" device, as I described, than you can do with your one-hit-wonder M5.
... principles involving heat exchange and thermodynamics, why on earth would anyone ever let them patent such a scheme? That's no more complicated a concept than circulating air from a home through an underground heat sink of stones, which no one would dare try to patent.
... is of little use unless you know precisely where to point it, eh? Is it also clairvoyant, or can it pick up a "criminal vibe" so that it knows where to zoom in?
If not, it will not help catch the smart crooks. All it might do is help catch the dumb ones, who are inevitably gonna get nabbed anyway because they're dumb and are in the wrong line of work for dumb people.
The "Retr0brite" method discovered last year could restore the case to its original color. It counters the bromides and other additives that actually cause the yellowing. It uses hydrogen peroxide with Oxiclean-type stuff, an extra booster if desired, and UV rays as a catalyst.
When I first read the title I thought it read "Stacking of new space vehicle begins at KFC", and I'm thinking to myself "KFC is making sandwiches outta rockets now?"
Then I read it more carefully. It's weird because I eat at KFC maybe once a year, so why is "KFC Stacker" embedded in my brain?
Does the M5 have both SD and CF slots? How much RAM and ROM? Does it have a 4 inch 640x480 native resolution display? Can you run Windows Mobile 6.1 on it like I am now on the hx4700?
Nope. There's a reason the hx4700 was the most expensive Pocket PC on the market at the time. It was actually better than everything else.
I've long considered a 4 inch display a functional minimum. I chose the hx4700 because of the size AND the fact that it's a true 640x480 display, not 320x240. Only a few others like the Dell Axim x51(?) were comparable in that regard. (HP didn't actually USE the full res, instead cutting it back down in half by pixel-doubling; it took a third-party hack to enable use of the native resolution... which is REALLY tiny even at 4 inches.)
I've never even used a dedicated GPS navigation device at all; I went straight to a general-purpose device in the form of a good Pocket PC (iPAQ hx4700) and a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver (Globalsat BT-338). The iPAQ does a multitude of other useful things when it's not being used as a navigator (PDA, PIM, MP3 player, Wi-Fi VOIP phone, universal remote control, etc.), has a 4-inch screen to rival most of the dedicated devices, and the batteries in the GPS receiver last 20 hours. I also have topographic nav software for it as well, so I can pop the extended battery onto the iPAQ and take the pair on the trail for a weekend backpacking trip. I've also been able to pick and choose from a variety of navigation software to use, which would NOT be an option with a dedicated device. The combined price tag was larger than an equivalent dedicated device, but the combined capabilities are far greater.
Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, Navigon... eat your hearts out.
Why didn't you bring up stuff like this at the old Slashdot Meetups? Maybe they wouldn't have fizzled! I'll have to get my old Sinclair QL back from my coworker I sold it to, and compare that to my Dell laptop.
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Transfer of license is neither illegal nor criminal. What IS criminal and SHOULD be illegal is trying to make it so.
Mine has a keyboard! Have you heard of Bluetooth? :-)
I think it's actually the smallest thing resembling a normal keyboard on the market: it's the Stowaway Universal Bluetooth Keyboard from Think Outside. It has shortcomings, like no dedicated number keys, but it folds and fits in a pocket just as well as the Pocket PC.
Nah, not to you, just in general to all those Pocket PC/Windows CE/Mobile/ARM naysayers (take your pick) out there. :-)
And anyone who thinks ARM Pocket PC systems are useless is just not well informed. At least when they have four-inch or larger displays like the two I mentioned, they are very useful, especially due to the fact that they literally fit in a pocket. I have so much software installed on my old hx4700 that I had to ditch the standard Windows Mobile menu and replace it with a pull-down hierarchical menu system, so that I could organize and find apps quickly (as opposed to scrolling through an endless unstructured list of meaningless icons). Quite a lot of it was free/OSS, too.
Portable and power efficient? You mean like a Dell Axim X51v or HP iPAQ hx4700? Hey, I'm just extending your own argument....
Yes, anyone has indeed considered it, at least considered the possibility, which is more than one can apparently say for some of the experts producing reports and studies like the last one about giant wind farms here on /. in the last week or two. They seem to have rather optimistic tunnel vision, which seems to be a common affliction with too many people who become too emotionally attached to ideas. They want so much to "make it so" (to mimic Jean-Luc Picard) that they become a bit delusional in the process.
What you suggested as a consequence is something that should be addressed and investigated in depth to rule it out. Trying to mention such issues is sometimes like being a protester trying to stare down a steamroller with its clutch released.
I worked for the company that developed it almost 20 years ago. It sought to accomplish much the same thing, and though "Internet" wasn't part of the marketing it was definitely intended to work over a standard IP network. The company used it in-house to run common applications on one or two "app servers", which were then served via the DesqView/X clients to Windows workstations throughout the company. IIRC there was only one, maybe two, competing products in the market at the time. It was capable of serving Windows to a UNIX workstation, and vice versa, all done via X-Windows protocol.
Really products like that are the direct predecessors of these revamped Internet-specific products we're seeing now.
... when she describes it as "a huge problem". I wonder if she moonlights doing stand-up?
... and how really obese people superficially resemble them more than, say, Sylvester Stallone, it stands to reason that a swine flu virus would just feel more at home in an obese human, right? Hugely fat people have better accommodations for picky little swine flu viruses who don't want a room at Motel 6, they want the honeymoon suite at the Ritz.
No one seems to have noticed the real "transformative" or impressionist addition made by the "painter", huh? He altered the background and shading in the photo to reflect a gradient from red to white to blue.
I'd say that's plenty transformative enough. Regardless, I feel like I'm playing devil's advocate in even pointing this out, given that I disagree with most of the justifications for the existence of copyright in the first place.
This "photog" Garcia is apparently a prick who isn't happy with just his 15 minutes of fame... he wants money and "justice", too.
I never TOLD YOU to buy the same things I did. I described how *I* solved the problem, and why I solved it that way. The real fucking twats here are you, Anonymous Coward, and CompMD: it's both of you who have criticized MY method of solving the problem, NOT the other way around. CompMD criticizes my approach, so I defend it, and then you jump in, fucking twat that you are, and berate me for defending my method when criticized?
It's rare that I feel the urge to use this combination of words, but go fuck yourself, because sperm production is about all the usefulness you seem to have, and we certainly don't want your disease spreading.
... when it misbehaves! I'm reducing the pain of the experience.
Hack? Upgrade? Bullshit: I bought the BT-338 and loaded the Tom-Tom software. Do you actually call that hacking? If you think that's hacking, I guess the really difficult things I do with that and other hardware must be sufficiently indistinguishable from magic to you, huh?
I can also do a helluva lot more with my "hacked" device, as I described, than you can do with your one-hit-wonder M5.
... principles involving heat exchange and thermodynamics, why on earth would anyone ever let them patent such a scheme? That's no more complicated a concept than circulating air from a home through an underground heat sink of stones, which no one would dare try to patent.
... is of little use unless you know precisely where to point it, eh? Is it also clairvoyant, or can it pick up a "criminal vibe" so that it knows where to zoom in?
If not, it will not help catch the smart crooks. All it might do is help catch the dumb ones, who are inevitably gonna get nabbed anyway because they're dumb and are in the wrong line of work for dumb people.
The "Retr0brite" method discovered last year could restore the case to its original color. It counters the bromides and other additives that actually cause the yellowing. It uses hydrogen peroxide with Oxiclean-type stuff, an extra booster if desired, and UV rays as a catalyst.
http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/
I mean, "Rotation, Processing and Surge Facility" definitely sounds like something KFC would be doing to chicken, right?
When I first read the title I thought it read "Stacking of new space vehicle begins at KFC", and I'm thinking to myself "KFC is making sandwiches outta rockets now?"
Then I read it more carefully. It's weird because I eat at KFC maybe once a year, so why is "KFC Stacker" embedded in my brain?
... where's my boot camp and interventionist therapy?
Does the M5 have both SD and CF slots? How much RAM and ROM? Does it have a 4 inch 640x480 native resolution display? Can you run Windows Mobile 6.1 on it like I am now on the hx4700?
Nope. There's a reason the hx4700 was the most expensive Pocket PC on the market at the time. It was actually better than everything else.
I've long considered a 4 inch display a functional minimum. I chose the hx4700 because of the size AND the fact that it's a true 640x480 display, not 320x240. Only a few others like the Dell Axim x51(?) were comparable in that regard. (HP didn't actually USE the full res, instead cutting it back down in half by pixel-doubling; it took a third-party hack to enable use of the native resolution... which is REALLY tiny even at 4 inches.)
I've never even used a dedicated GPS navigation device at all; I went straight to a general-purpose device in the form of a good Pocket PC (iPAQ hx4700) and a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver (Globalsat BT-338). The iPAQ does a multitude of other useful things when it's not being used as a navigator (PDA, PIM, MP3 player, Wi-Fi VOIP phone, universal remote control, etc.), has a 4-inch screen to rival most of the dedicated devices, and the batteries in the GPS receiver last 20 hours. I also have topographic nav software for it as well, so I can pop the extended battery onto the iPAQ and take the pair on the trail for a weekend backpacking trip. I've also been able to pick and choose from a variety of navigation software to use, which would NOT be an option with a dedicated device. The combined price tag was larger than an equivalent dedicated device, but the combined capabilities are far greater.
Garmin, Magellan, TomTom, Navigon... eat your hearts out.
Why didn't you bring up stuff like this at the old Slashdot Meetups? Maybe they wouldn't have fizzled! I'll have to get my old Sinclair QL back from my coworker I sold it to, and compare that to my Dell laptop.
If you change that to Right Said Fred, then you can finally say you have some real non-imaginary friends.
... if the equipment makers and ophthalmologists price those fifteen minutes out of reach of people on small fixed incomes with Medicare.