That said, I fail to see how choosing Linux doesn't result into 'lock in'.
He who has his data in an obscure format gets fucked in the ass with a big stick at migration time.
The wise man, with his data in XML files you can read in a text editor, goes merrily on his way shouting 'fuck you and the £500m bill you just sent me' to his vendor.
$420 bucks saved in return for having a junk yard in your house. Proof of concept? Cool. Pontless 'because I could'? Cool. Way to save money? Lame.
Pretty nifty idea though... I have a Brish Leyland duce and a half truck rad around here somewhere... now that thing should be enough to keep even a P4 within normal operating temperatures.
Not only does upload cost more to peer at places like LINX but offering 15mb upload would significantly undercut their (much!) more expensive leased line options.
Immagine that you were a business owner and you could buy three of these (cheap) and a pair of backup T1 lines (not that expensve) to replace your OC3 (very expensive). Bad news for their profits.
I wonder what the transfer cap on these things is? Probably something rediculous like 1gb/day that allows you to operate your line at full speed for all of 550 seconds before you exceed your quota and get terminated.
Orange in the UK used to offer free 0800 28.8k/sec access to the internet (via some service like OneTel).
A month before GPRS was lauched this was increased to 35p/min, and GPRS was advertised as being '35 times cheaper than dialing up'.
Anyone else remember the first BT GPRS tarrif that could cost you £114/min if they actually delivered on their advertised data rate?
Now at least you can buy unlimited GPRS from some suppliers in the UK (for around £50/$80mo) but it's a damn sight more expensive and not as quick as (HS)CSD used to be AND they have the unmitigate d gall to cap use at 100mb in their AUP! Bastards through and through. I await the revolution when they are first against the wall (well after Old Bill and patent lawyers of course).
The ammount of carbon in the world (excepting exceptions, pedants please piss off) doesn't change, it just gets put in different places.
The best place for it is in the ground (as happens in this process, air->ground-as-liquid) rather than in the air (as happens when you burn fossil fuels, ground-as-coal->air).
As long as it doesnt leach out and contaminate the area (not likley, and even if it does it's not serious) then this is exactly the right thing to do.
...is like the relationship between Petrol and a Car.
You can put a monkey in a car and they might dent it, pee on it, scratch it... but it'll carry on (mostly) working. Let the monkey lose with Petrol and the whole damn thing is going to blow and some poor sod will lose their eyebrows.
While some of Newtons ideas were later proven to be incorrect by Einstein
Without the imperfect (but functional) model developed by Newton (which we still use today with some refinements! very few situations require a more complex model of forces and effects) it seems unlikley that Einstein would have been able to develop relativity, indeed many other advances would not have been made until someone else replicated Newton's work.
Newton himself said "If I have seen further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" (which is etched onto the Brish pound coin) - and he is definatly one of the giants upon which later physists stood. Science is a process, not a product, and viewing it in terms of right and wrong is foolish - it's a series of advances leading to a more and more accurate understanding of the universe. No step towards that goal is any less worthy than another.
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The New Adventurer's Domain, and there are open slots: 129.241.186.207:5121
It's an action-orientated PW with light RP and it's pretty huge now. Powerplaying is gently discouraged, but no one will bitch at you for having a fighter(10)/bard(1)/rdd(10) - unless you happen to be trying to use dev crit kukris:)
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...but I'm still playing on a neverwinter nights persistant world. Being addicted is bad enough without having to pay by the month for it.
My old (not deleted because I have no idea who has it, and it is listed as point of contact in places that have no way to update that) was updated less than a week after the announcement was made. Of course I have had it since the day that hotmail opened (long before MS brought it, which was the day I stopped activly using it).
Those at the new end of the spectrum might have to wait, but us old timers are rewarded already:o)
Charge from the USB connector? Tick. Use as a USB mass storage device? Tick.
So where the the use USB devices (like keyboards etc) - any device with a Linux driver in fact, and the 640x480 screen? Then they will finally have caught up with the Zaurus.
Even the Qtopia PIM apps are starting to catch up now, so why should I chose one of these things at all?
On the other hand, have you seen the laptop market recently? Trying to find a light, well made laptop with a DVD writer and a decent screen is next to impossible - you can get badly made crap from Dell (where the drivers all work) or a Thinkpad from IBM (with a ATI card! aargh! no working 3d!).
In that environment a powerbook running Linux seems like a pretty good idea to me, at least for those that are perfectly happy with Linux and dont want to change tyvm.
The one thing that is putting me off buying a G4 powerbook is the thought that in a year or two when the G5 power book comes out, the whole OS will probably go 64 bit native and the old powerbooks will no longer get software upgrades.
Linux on a PDA is one of the few things that mistifies me. Having had and used a Zaurus for a very long time I am frankly shocked by how good the interface is, especially when you consider that it's taken a long time for the desktop version to aquire half as much polish.
It's vastly easier to navigate through than the PocketPC version, and more flexible than the Palm version - possibly because it was designed as one entity (in qtopia) than being a bunch of disparate parts like desktop Linux.
Anyway, it's a great choice, with the new PIM apps finally rounding out the package - mplayer, kismet, nethack... what else do you need on a pda?:o)
(Incidently with this model you should be able to install kismet with GPS support so that it automatically logs the location of wireless networks as you war{travel} - much easier than having another unit plugged into the serial port!)
In Europe there are almost no AM stations left, so you would be adding functionality half the market would not use. (I suspect that Japan and large chunks of Asia are the same.)
Now, a Long Wave tuner so that I could pick up Radio4LW and the cricket, that would be worth having.
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That said, I fail to see how choosing Linux doesn't result into 'lock in'.
He who has his data in an obscure format gets fucked in the ass with a big stick at migration time.
The wise man, with his data in XML files you can read in a text editor, goes merrily on his way shouting 'fuck you and the £500m bill you just sent me' to his vendor.
Give me a credit card *sized* phone, then i'll give you $500 for it.
In the mean time, fuck off and let me enjoy my obsolete technology. At least it gets 18 days standby or 10 hours talk time with bluetooth.
Roll on Clinton (the second comming) 2008.
...I'd be twice the sucker I actually am.
:)
Thank god for the ponces and their fast stuff obsession making things cheap for me
$420 bucks saved in return for having a junk yard in your house. Proof of concept? Cool. Pontless 'because I could'? Cool. Way to save money? Lame.
Pretty nifty idea though... I have a Brish Leyland duce and a half truck rad around here somewhere... now that thing should be enough to keep even a P4 within normal operating temperatures.
Not only does upload cost more to peer at places like LINX but offering 15mb upload would significantly undercut their (much!) more expensive leased line options.
Immagine that you were a business owner and you could buy three of these (cheap) and a pair of backup T1 lines (not that expensve) to replace your OC3 (very expensive). Bad news for their profits.
I wonder what the transfer cap on these things is? Probably something rediculous like 1gb/day that allows you to operate your line at full speed for all of 550 seconds before you exceed your quota and get terminated.
Noy soy norteamericano! Soy ingles!
Thats not what my scanner says, dude, prepare to be mugged!
Orange in the UK used to offer free 0800 28.8k/sec access to the internet (via some service like OneTel).
A month before GPRS was lauched this was increased to 35p/min, and GPRS was advertised as being '35 times cheaper than dialing up'.
Anyone else remember the first BT GPRS tarrif that could cost you £114/min if they actually delivered on their advertised data rate?
Now at least you can buy unlimited GPRS from some suppliers in the UK (for around £50/$80mo) but it's a damn sight more expensive and not as quick as (HS)CSD used to be AND they have the unmitigate d gall to cap use at 100mb in their AUP! Bastards through and through. I await the revolution when they are first against the wall (well after Old Bill and patent lawyers of course).
The ammount of carbon in the world (excepting exceptions, pedants please piss off) doesn't change, it just gets put in different places.
The best place for it is in the ground (as happens in this process, air->ground-as-liquid) rather than in the air (as happens when you burn fossil fuels, ground-as-coal->air).
As long as it doesnt leach out and contaminate the area (not likley, and even if it does it's not serious) then this is exactly the right thing to do.
...is like the relationship between Petrol and a Car.
You can put a monkey in a car and they might dent it, pee on it, scratch it... but it'll carry on (mostly) working. Let the monkey lose with Petrol and the whole damn thing is going to blow and some poor sod will lose their eyebrows.
While some of Newtons ideas were later proven to be incorrect by Einstein
Without the imperfect (but functional) model developed by Newton (which we still use today with some refinements! very few situations require a more complex model of forces and effects) it seems unlikley that Einstein would have been able to develop relativity, indeed many other advances would not have been made until someone else replicated Newton's work.
Newton himself said "If I have seen further, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants" (which is etched onto the Brish pound coin) - and he is definatly one of the giants upon which later physists stood. Science is a process, not a product, and viewing it in terms of right and wrong is foolish - it's a series of advances leading to a more and more accurate understanding of the universe. No step towards that goal is any less worthy than another.
The New Adventurer's Domain, and there are open slots: 129.241.186.207:5121
:)
It's an action-orientated PW with light RP and it's pretty huge now. Powerplaying is gently discouraged, but no one will bitch at you for having a fighter(10)/bard(1)/rdd(10) - unless you happen to be trying to use dev crit kukris
...but I'm still playing on a neverwinter nights persistant world. Being addicted is bad enough without having to pay by the month for it.
The new MINI isn't, you can fit two of the old ones inside one of the new ones!
My old (not deleted because I have no idea who has it, and it is listed as point of contact in places that have no way to update that) was updated less than a week after the announcement was made. Of course I have had it since the day that hotmail opened (long before MS brought it, which was the day I stopped activly using it).
:o)
Those at the new end of the spectrum might have to wait, but us old timers are rewarded already
Well, yes, but isn't that what the duct_tape_flashlight mod is for?
How well does it work? And which drivers are you using?
(Well enough to play NWN, or well enough to do basic stuff?)
Unique? The Zaurus C7x0, C8x0 and some of the 5x00 and 6x00 models have been doing this for a long time now.
Charge from the USB connector? Tick.
Use as a USB mass storage device? Tick.
So where the the use USB devices (like keyboards etc) - any device with a Linux driver in fact, and the 640x480 screen? Then they will finally have caught up with the Zaurus.
Even the Qtopia PIM apps are starting to catch up now, so why should I chose one of these things at all?
...is 74.8 stolen copies of Windows XP Professional.
On the other hand, have you seen the laptop market recently? Trying to find a light, well made laptop with a DVD writer and a decent screen is next to impossible - you can get badly made crap from Dell (where the drivers all work) or a Thinkpad from IBM (with a ATI card! aargh! no working 3d!).
In that environment a powerbook running Linux seems like a pretty good idea to me, at least for those that are perfectly happy with Linux and dont want to change tyvm.
The one thing that is putting me off buying a G4 powerbook is the thought that in a year or two when the G5 power book comes out, the whole OS will probably go 64 bit native and the old powerbooks will no longer get software upgrades.
Linux on a PDA is one of the few things that mistifies me. Having had and used a Zaurus for a very long time I am frankly shocked by how good the interface is, especially when you consider that it's taken a long time for the desktop version to aquire half as much polish.
:o)
It's vastly easier to navigate through than the PocketPC version, and more flexible than the Palm version - possibly because it was designed as one entity (in qtopia) than being a bunch of disparate parts like desktop Linux.
Anyway, it's a great choice, with the new PIM apps finally rounding out the package - mplayer, kismet, nethack... what else do you need on a pda?
(Incidently with this model you should be able to install kismet with GPS support so that it automatically logs the location of wireless networks as you war{travel} - much easier than having another unit plugged into the serial port!)
If you line your roof with lead the only three letter agency that comes to visit will be the EPA.
In Europe there are almost no AM stations left, so you would be adding functionality half the market would not use. (I suspect that Japan and large chunks of Asia are the same.)
Now, a Long Wave tuner so that I could pick up Radio4LW and the cricket, that would be worth having.