BT THE NEED 4 TXT SPK IS ALLVTD BY NEW FONES WTH PRDCTVE TXT INPT...
Although I've heard people complaining that it's too hard and they were used to the old way, and it doesn't stop Vodafone NZ calling their picture-messaging service PXT:-(
At least here in New Zealand we have a reasonable number of small, cheap online computer part shops - and most of them accept cheques. NZ$63 for 256MB of PC2100 DDR RAM and so forth.
Vorbis produces *different* artifacts. Personally, I much prefer the degradation of Vorbis to the MP3 artifacts that at times make it sound like drums have been filled with water.
If it was cheaper, it would be really neat - there's a lot of things you could do with such a device. Problem is, it's US$5000 - for that price, you could buy *several* decent laptops, or even more decent PDAs:-(
But you don't need to move your arms - just leave them in the same place, one outstreched holding the Palmpilot with a thumb on the scroll-down button:-)
I don't think I could stand the speed of audiobooks, anyway - I've been known to get through the LOTR trilogy in a week... or less:-)
IMHO reading books on a Palm V works quite well, particularly if you are walking somewhere at the same time (45 minutes from home to university). Smaller than a paperback and turning the pages isn't so fiddly; also, it's much harder to loose your place:-)
The Empire Strikes Back was good. A New Hope was okay. Return of the Jedi was at least watchable. Alas, the new ones are truly awful - your time would be better spent the time better watching Blake's 7 reruns:-)
Are you saying that people who don't say things like "I'm useless without my cellphone and PDA" *would* last in a forest with a knife, two matches and a fishhook?
FWIW, I once worked out that it would likely cost me more in international bandwidth per hour to use AllAdvantage than they would pay me for staring at their ads:-)
UKP1.20 for a *one hour* call? Here (NZ) it's ~NZ$0.30/minute for a (GSM) data call - still cheaper than text messages, and apparently 14.4kbps (Vodafone did something to increase it from 9600bps when Telecom brought in a 14.4k CDMA data service).
OTOH GPRS and CDMA 1xRTT are cheaper at ~NZ$0.02/kb (IIRC), but not too many people have phones supporting them yet.
When the person who owns the cellphone is on an expensive prepay plan (NZ$0.99/min), and typically go through NZ$20 every few months, then being charged for incoming calls would seriously impact on the cost of their phone, and their popularity with e.g. students would be much lower.
Said person may therefore elect to send SMS text-messages to other's cellphones at a much cheaper rate (for NZ$0.20, admittedly hideously expensive for 160 bytes, I can send a text message to pretty much any GSM phone in the world) to reduce their costs, as the person they wish to communicate is likely to have a cellphone.
FWIW, it costs ~NZ$0.50-0.99/min here to call a cellphone from a landline.
If you equate "better" with "lower total cost", then the cellular-user pays system may be better (although this may start to break down depending on toll call charges). If you equate "better" with "more customers" then the caller-pays system is better. In my case, I don't care about total cost, as it isn't going to bring down my personal costs of owning a cellphone; in contrast, caller-pays means I can afford one.
Judging from the cries of friends on ICQ that their ssh sessions to barretts.mcs.vuw.ac.nz were running rather slowly, it may have been more than just the webserver that was a fraction too slow.
Open Source won't fix the problem. How do I know some devious person has not modified the apps that run on the voting boxes, prehaps even by backdooring the compiler used?
Yes: but this means you need to have the means to copy the photos from the US$856 flash card to the US$0.50c CD sufficiently nearby to use it every 24 shots. This either means you can't take more than 24 shots before having to go back to your workstation, or you need to buy a (considerably more expensive than US$856) laptop with CD writer, and drag *it* around.
If they had called it "Aero" COMPAQ would have done them for trademark infringement (they had two "aeros", a 486sx laptop (I have one; they are small and useful) and a WinCE PDA).
> I was hoping this might be an Apple thread that'd stay away from the lame "It's too expensive for me, hmph!" whining people with no sense of TCO seem to cry out, that gets debunked every single time.
*cough* If you're not a business (most people I know aren't), TCO doesn't matter - I can build a *much* faster, etc box from scratch for the same price as a Mac, but I can't run OS X on it. Therefore I'm not about to buy a Mac, just as I'm not about to buy one of those ugly HP Pavilions.
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BT THE NEED 4 TXT SPK IS ALLVTD BY NEW FONES WTH PRDCTVE TXT INPT...
:-(
:-)
Although I've heard people complaining that it's too hard and they were used to the old way, and it doesn't stop Vodafone NZ calling their picture-messaging service PXT
I &heart; my R520m
You are of course ignoring the fact that many US online shops *don't ship outside the US*, and when they do, shipping costs tend to get rather large.
At least here in New Zealand we have a reasonable number of small, cheap online computer part shops - and most of them accept cheques. NZ$63 for 256MB of PC2100 DDR RAM and so forth.
Vorbis produces *different* artifacts. Personally, I much prefer the degradation of Vorbis to the MP3 artifacts that at times make it sound like drums have been filled with water.
The talk was co-run by Interface (the VUW Computer Club and ACM Student Chapter) and the School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences.
If you're a VUW student and want us (Interface) to do more stuff like this, you should join us .
If it was cheaper, it would be really neat - there's a lot of things you could do with such a device. Problem is, it's US$5000 - for that price, you could buy *several* decent laptops, or even more decent PDAs :-(
Jef Poskanzer's Experimental Command Line Interface allows interactive usage of several programs; as a demonstration, it lets you play Adventure!
But you don't need to move your arms - just leave them in the same place, one outstreched holding the Palmpilot with a thumb on the scroll-down button :-)
:-)
I don't think I could stand the speed of audiobooks, anyway - I've been known to get through the LOTR trilogy in a week... or less
IMHO reading books on a Palm V works quite well, particularly if you are walking somewhere at the same time (45 minutes from home to university). Smaller than a paperback and turning the pages isn't so fiddly; also, it's much harder to loose your place :-)
Also Haskell, Prolog, Visual FoxPro... :-)
*cough*
:-)
The Empire Strikes Back was good. A New Hope was okay. Return of the Jedi was at least watchable. Alas, the new ones are truly awful - your time would be better spent the time better watching Blake's 7 reruns
Are you saying that people who don't say things like "I'm useless without my cellphone and PDA" *would* last in a forest with a knife, two matches and a fishhook?
And if it doesn't get through, the sheep will submit it again, and again, until we all vote yes just to get them to stop. [see: bank.nz]
FWIW, I once worked out that it would likely cost me more in international bandwidth per hour to use AllAdvantage than they would pay me for staring at their ads :-)
UKP1.20 for a *one hour* call? Here (NZ) it's ~NZ$0.30/minute for a (GSM) data call - still cheaper than text messages, and apparently 14.4kbps (Vodafone did something to increase it from 9600bps when Telecom brought in a 14.4k CDMA data service).
OTOH GPRS and CDMA 1xRTT are cheaper at ~NZ$0.02/kb (IIRC), but not too many people have phones supporting them yet.
When the person who owns the cellphone is on an expensive prepay plan (NZ$0.99/min), and typically go through NZ$20 every few months, then being charged for incoming calls would seriously impact on the cost of their phone, and their popularity with e.g. students would be much lower.
Said person may therefore elect to send SMS text-messages to other's cellphones at a much cheaper rate (for NZ$0.20, admittedly hideously expensive for 160 bytes, I can send a text message to pretty much any GSM phone in the world) to reduce their costs, as the person they wish to communicate is likely to have a cellphone.
FWIW, it costs ~NZ$0.50-0.99/min here to call a cellphone from a landline.
If you equate "better" with "lower total cost", then the cellular-user pays system may be better (although this may start to break down depending on toll call charges). If you equate "better" with "more customers" then the caller-pays system is better. In my case, I don't care about total cost, as it isn't going to bring down my personal costs of owning a cellphone; in contrast, caller-pays means I can afford one.
Judging from the cries of friends on ICQ that their ssh sessions to barretts.mcs.vuw.ac.nz were running rather slowly, it may have been more than just the webserver that was a fraction too slow.
Open Source won't fix the problem. How do I know some devious person has not modified the apps that run on the voting boxes, prehaps even by backdooring the compiler used?
Yes: but this means you need to have the means to copy the photos from the US$856 flash card to the US$0.50c CD sufficiently nearby to use it every 24 shots. This either means you can't take more than 24 shots before having to go back to your workstation, or you need to buy a (considerably more expensive than US$856) laptop with CD writer, and drag *it* around.
The more interesting question is: are these licenses DFSG compliant?
I suspect this may be harder to achieve than OSI compliance.
If they had called it "Aero" COMPAQ would have done them for trademark infringement (they had two "aeros", a 486sx laptop (I have one; they are small and useful) and a WinCE PDA).
Tremor has been available for some time, just not under a BSD license.
Use GNU stow.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/stow/plex86 /usr/local/stow
apt-get install stow # or whatever your distro uses
man stow
and when you want to install something,
make;make install
cd
stow plex86
Either this, or switch to a distro which has more prepacked things that you want.
> I was hoping this might be an Apple thread that'd stay away from the lame "It's too expensive for me, hmph!" whining people with no sense of TCO seem to cry out, that gets debunked every single time.
*cough* If you're not a business (most people I know aren't), TCO doesn't matter - I can build a *much* faster, etc box from scratch for the same price as a Mac, but I can't run OS X on it. Therefore I'm not about to buy a Mac, just as I'm not about to buy one of those ugly HP Pavilions.
Is that a Sparc5 or an Ultra5?
:)
And is that a SunPC or a SunPCI card? They are rather different.
Of course, if you have got an S-BUS SunPC card working under Solaris 8 I would like to hear how you did it