Not just rss- damned story disappeard just as I was ready to have a flame war about the potential errors caused by trying to use that cell phone in a car, a plane, a bus, or a train. And looking at that last sentence, I think I've read too many Dr. Seuss books to my kid this week.
Any communist or socialist country that still has peasants (or any visible class structure at all) has failed to implement "From Each According to His Abilities, To Each According to His Need" and therefore falls short of what the Apostles did 2000 years ago (Acts Chapters 4&5- should be required reading for any so-called humanist) that was the moral inspiration for Marx.
And your an asshat.
To some extent, yes. That still does not change the basic question though- if Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, how come the laws are different?
We can't have the people distributing that capitalist bourgeois garbage over a Fine Socialist Network, now can we?
Would work if China was a Fine Socialist Network- but unfortuneatly nobody's figured out yet that to have a FSN one needs to figure out how to replace the free market feedback loops with computer programms detailing needs, wants, and resources, complete with AI algorithims assigning resources to needs and wants equally. Maoist China is almost as big of a failure at this as Stalin was.
Ah, but does it run PocketXML? Or mobile.NET?:-) Seriously though- the IPAQs have all the battery life of a full sized laptop- nothing good in that arena at all.
Actually, cutting JPL out of the picture and just using standard robot designs combined with the public data about the heat shield, and I'll bet you could lob one of these babies from any given satelite launcher. It's just a game of spacewar (the original) after all.
Fingerprint recognition can only be a backup to an alternative login method. After a heavy weekend of DIY or on my boat, I suspect my fingerprints are at least temprarily degraded beyond recognition. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not wrong. A friend of mine is a carpenter, and was an early adopter of the HP5545- never did get the damned fingerprint reader to read his heavily scared thumb the same way twice. I finally advised him that if he wanted to use security, to use the numeric PIN method instead....
Not to mention it would really suck to have a car accident at the same time your palmtop battery was at 0 (my Nokia Cell phone has 72 hours of standby- my HP2215 can barely handle 5 hours of usage or 24 hours of standby)
Only to people who have already spent the ~$2000 to subscribe to MSDN- for them the source is available because every damned version of Windows CE is vendor tweaked from an SDK provided by Microsoft.
"What are you doing with your PDA in the bathroom anyway?"
The average human wastes about 6-8 months of their life on the toilet; I prefer to use that time reading, answering e-mail, or browsing. That portion of my body is rather automatic- it doesn't take a lot of brain power to take a shit, so I need some form of entertainment. Why not use the time wisely? Of course, it's more convient at home, where I've got the WiFi network to keep me connected.
Since his server was slashdotted before there were even five comments posted, it would seem this strategy was ill-advised.
I read it as a subscriber before it went public- my guess is his overuse of graphics and horrendous ammounts of banner and sidebox advertising got to him. The rest of the site was simple enough- but if I was ever going to do this, I'd want the entry page to be under 100k, tops, with no banner advertising.
While that report may be true- I personally would want the devices separate, but linked. To that end, when my next phone contract is up in march, I'll be getting a bluetooth enabled phone. The PocketPCs do a hell of a lot more than just keep notes and addresses- just take a look at the bundled software list sometime. And while it certainly is nice to have a "convergence" device, PocketPCs with color, backlit screens on quite a bit, just don't have the battery strength I'd want in a cell phone (my cell phone should have at LEAST 48 hours standby- my PocketPC is lucky to get 5 hours usage out of a battery before recharging).
If all you need is access- I've used Activesync to back up files from a PocketPC with a broken screen. From the looks of the fingerprint reader, it's a good deal more robust than the screen (which is very much the most fragile piece of any PDA). But I'd assume, based on my experience, that Activesync would continue to be able to sync to/from the device, if you could turn it on at all.
If they were, it'd be running a lot better. Picoweb is a great little webserver. Small and fast. Doesn't script very well though. But because it's pulling it's pages from RAM, flash, or worst case scenario, microdrive it's really fast in comparison to a desktop box. Kind of like if you installed apache on a huge ramdrive.
2) I use my HP 2215 INSTEAD of a laptop. It's far easier to carry around, I've added on GPS and WiFi, and a Scott-E-Vest to make it wearable. My next one will definately be a 2755 as I love the idea of the flip-top screen cover, even if it does get fingerprints.
Pluses for me over a laptop:
PIM information is more available (I've yet to see a laptop that wakes up 15 minutes before an appointment, or one that you'd WANT to carry with you everywhere you go).
Small keyboard (yep, I've got the microthumbboard) is easier to use in cramped conditions, like plane, restroom, bus, or train.
Synchronization- I'm sure there's a way to get the laptop to do this, but it's nice to be able just to grab the thing out of the cradle and know I've got the same e-mail, contacts, calendar and todo list as my desktop machine (and part of the web too- Avantgo and rsssync mean that pieces of the web get copied to the device locally).
Having said that, big negatives that the laptop does better include:
More hard drive space- I do have a hitachi 2GB on there but I'm always running out.
Screen resolution- for many applications, especially Acrobat Reader, QVGA just is very very small at only 320x240.
All in all, though, I'm satisfied- and use mine every day.
I guess it would just depend on how incredibly thin your thin client is- why not just write a client side program that handles the scanning, then pushes to the server-side parent application?
I don't know of a single scanner-only that could do what you are asking- most are TWAIN sources. OTOH, you might look into the latest round of Epson Stylus Photoprinters- they might be able to do what you are asking for (as they do it all- scanner, printer, and flash card reader all in one.
1) incorrect- HP press release would NEVER mention Windows Media Version (still 9 not 10) or the QVGA screen (when HP already has a full VGA model, as well as some of their competitors). Final analysis was "surprisingly good machine- now if HP could only get it right".
Make that 3 years now- but this is the first reasonably priced model to have it. IPAQs since the merger with HP can generally be divided into 4 categories: Phones, Early Adopter Wow Models, Business Usage Models, and Media Players. The 5550 was an Early Adopter Wow Model, the 4755 is it's direct replacement. The 2755 is the replacement for the business usage 2215.
My question is- is slashdot getting paid for this, this is the second review in under two weeks for this particular IPAQ and I didn't learn anything new.
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Not just rss- damned story disappeard just as I was ready to have a flame war about the potential errors caused by trying to use that cell phone in a car, a plane, a bus, or a train. And looking at that last sentence, I think I've read too many Dr. Seuss books to my kid this week.
Ah, ok, that makes more sense. Thank you for a very nice and reasoned explaination.
Sigh, you've never been there.
Any communist or socialist country that still has peasants (or any visible class structure at all) has failed to implement "From Each According to His Abilities, To Each According to His Need" and therefore falls short of what the Apostles did 2000 years ago (Acts Chapters 4&5- should be required reading for any so-called humanist) that was the moral inspiration for Marx.
And your an asshat.
To some extent, yes. That still does not change the basic question though- if Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997, how come the laws are different?
This is the 2nd time this week that this has happened to me!
We can't have the people distributing that capitalist bourgeois garbage over a Fine Socialist Network, now can we?
Would work if China was a Fine Socialist Network- but unfortuneatly nobody's figured out yet that to have a FSN one needs to figure out how to replace the free market feedback loops with computer programms detailing needs, wants, and resources, complete with AI algorithims assigning resources to needs and wants equally. Maoist China is almost as big of a failure at this as Stalin was.
One way to foul this all up- have multiple NAT routers between you and the file server in question.
And from their actions, do they even HAVE copyright laws in China?
Ah, but does it run PocketXML? Or mobile .NET? :-) Seriously though- the IPAQs have all the battery life of a full sized laptop- nothing good in that arena at all.
Actually, cutting JPL out of the picture and just using standard robot designs combined with the public data about the heat shield, and I'll bet you could lob one of these babies from any given satelite launcher. It's just a game of spacewar (the original) after all.
Fingerprint recognition can only be a backup to an alternative login method. After a heavy weekend of DIY or on my boat, I suspect my fingerprints are at least temprarily degraded beyond recognition. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
You're not wrong. A friend of mine is a carpenter, and was an early adopter of the HP5545- never did get the damned fingerprint reader to read his heavily scared thumb the same way twice. I finally advised him that if he wanted to use security, to use the numeric PIN method instead....
Why not just go for a TMobile HP 6xxx model? Then you get it subsidized AND a cell phone AND a PDA.
The fingerprint reader is separate from the screen- and the screen only works with a finger nail or some plastic, wood, or metal blunt object.
Not to mention it would really suck to have a car accident at the same time your palmtop battery was at 0 (my Nokia Cell phone has 72 hours of standby- my HP2215 can barely handle 5 hours of usage or 24 hours of standby)
My guess is that it will turn out to be This.
Only to people who have already spent the ~$2000 to subscribe to MSDN- for them the source is available because every damned version of Windows CE is vendor tweaked from an SDK provided by Microsoft.
"What are you doing with your PDA in the bathroom anyway?"
The average human wastes about 6-8 months of their life on the toilet; I prefer to use that time reading, answering e-mail, or browsing. That portion of my body is rather automatic- it doesn't take a lot of brain power to take a shit, so I need some form of entertainment. Why not use the time wisely? Of course, it's more convient at home, where I've got the WiFi network to keep me connected.
Since his server was slashdotted before there were even five comments posted, it would seem this strategy was ill-advised.
I read it as a subscriber before it went public- my guess is his overuse of graphics and horrendous ammounts of banner and sidebox advertising got to him. The rest of the site was simple enough- but if I was ever going to do this, I'd want the entry page to be under 100k, tops, with no banner advertising.
While that report may be true- I personally would want the devices separate, but linked. To that end, when my next phone contract is up in march, I'll be getting a bluetooth enabled phone. The PocketPCs do a hell of a lot more than just keep notes and addresses- just take a look at the bundled software list sometime. And while it certainly is nice to have a "convergence" device, PocketPCs with color, backlit screens on quite a bit, just don't have the battery strength I'd want in a cell phone (my cell phone should have at LEAST 48 hours standby- my PocketPC is lucky to get 5 hours usage out of a battery before recharging).
If all you need is access- I've used Activesync to back up files from a PocketPC with a broken screen. From the looks of the fingerprint reader, it's a good deal more robust than the screen (which is very much the most fragile piece of any PDA). But I'd assume, based on my experience, that Activesync would continue to be able to sync to/from the device, if you could turn it on at all.
If they were, it'd be running a lot better. Picoweb is a great little webserver. Small and fast. Doesn't script very well though. But because it's pulling it's pages from RAM, flash, or worst case scenario, microdrive it's really fast in comparison to a desktop box. Kind of like if you installed apache on a huge ramdrive.
Pluses for me over a laptop:
PIM information is more available (I've yet to see a laptop that wakes up 15 minutes before an appointment, or one that you'd WANT to carry with you everywhere you go).
Small keyboard (yep, I've got the microthumbboard) is easier to use in cramped conditions, like plane, restroom, bus, or train.
Synchronization- I'm sure there's a way to get the laptop to do this, but it's nice to be able just to grab the thing out of the cradle and know I've got the same e-mail, contacts, calendar and todo list as my desktop machine (and part of the web too- Avantgo and rsssync mean that pieces of the web get copied to the device locally).
Having said that, big negatives that the laptop does better include:
More hard drive space- I do have a hitachi 2GB on there but I'm always running out.
Screen resolution- for many applications, especially Acrobat Reader, QVGA just is very very small at only 320x240.
All in all, though, I'm satisfied- and use mine every day.
I guess it would just depend on how incredibly thin your thin client is- why not just write a client side program that handles the scanning, then pushes to the server-side parent application?
I don't know of a single scanner-only that could do what you are asking- most are TWAIN sources. OTOH, you might look into the latest round of Epson Stylus Photoprinters- they might be able to do what you are asking for (as they do it all- scanner, printer, and flash card reader all in one.
1) incorrect- HP press release would NEVER mention Windows Media Version (still 9 not 10) or the QVGA screen (when HP already has a full VGA model, as well as some of their competitors). Final analysis was "surprisingly good machine- now if HP could only get it right".
2) correct, it seems.
Make that 3 years now- but this is the first reasonably priced model to have it. IPAQs since the merger with HP can generally be divided into 4 categories: Phones, Early Adopter Wow Models, Business Usage Models, and Media Players. The 5550 was an Early Adopter Wow Model, the 4755 is it's direct replacement. The 2755 is the replacement for the business usage 2215.
My question is- is slashdot getting paid for this, this is the second review in under two weeks for this particular IPAQ and I didn't learn anything new.
I'd point out that it ALSO is an excellent opportunity to bash Clinton, the USSR (famous for really bad statistics). high brow scientists, and condom manufacturers.