"the main problem I see with all of these devices is that they only Sync with Windows out of the box.
Empower Tech, Softfield, Sharp, and now Royal should all be providing software to Sync with Linux"
From the Softfield website for their VR3 PDA:"CD-ROM Software: VRSync for Linux PC"
Now, the VRSync for Linux SW was not very useful when I bought my VR3, but I found I didn't need it. Here's why:
XWindows.
The VR3 runs X, and if I want to access my PDA info on my PC, I just use X to remotely control the PDA. No syncing. Everything is stored in flash. No way to lose data, even if my batteries die. 2xAAA NiMH batteries, pop it on the cradle during the day (so I can use X!) and recharge without ever thinking about it.The batteries cost l.t. $10, and have lasted over 1.5 years so far, at least 10:1 savings over alkaline.
Ya know, it's funny. We here on slashdot are always talking about privacy at home and at work, but when it happens to a group of people that we consider to be in a lower status (eg in high school instead of college), we are all for the big brother concept.
Have you actually been reading the comments? By my count, there are about two comments opposed on principle and one saying it won't work for each one that says it might be a good idea. Hardly a landslide of slashdot opinion saying that high school students have no right to privacy.
I'm not sure what to make of it. I'm not sure that privacy is being eroded here--the schools already seem to have the data they're mining, it's not some new requirement. But pigeonholing students in "profiles" is a weak tool, at best, with many risks.
As some have already suggested, probably the better solution is to reduce class size and increase teacher-student one-on-one time. But that means more time and more teachers, and that costs $$$. In terms of the survival and betterment of our civilization, teachers are probably in the most important career on the planet. Pity we don't treat them that way.
I have heard anecdotally that when someone tried to patent the waterbed, they were refused because it had been fully described by Robert Heinlein in "Stranger In a Strange Land".
Arthur Clarke has also been quoted as saying he wished he had patented his geosynchronous orbit idea.
Political correctness be damned, I refuse to stop calling a spade a spade on account of people like you. Likewise, I refuse to stop calling blind obedience where I see it.
Good! I dislike the whole PC thing, too. My beef is that making a blanket statement like that, while posting as AC, and then EXCUSING himself from even signing his name, is simply vile.
You, on the other hand, are not an Anonymous Coward. I'm honored you took the time to disagree with me.
I lived in Utah for 17 years. I am not a Mormon, and am more opposed to the Mormon Church than I am to Microsoft.
What you have said, sir Coward, is blatantly offensive to not just Mormons, but to anyone who holds a religious faith. If you hold to a religious faith, you should be doubly ashamed of yourself. If you are going to criticize a person or a group, have the honor to name yourself, your problem, and the group or person you criticize.
Next time the account creation mechanism doesn't work, try simply signing your name.
Not /.'ed, malformed URL...
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Though I wouldn't mind hearing an opera in Ent that is about the Entwives.
Do you have ANY idea how long that opera would be? I think the Ents would think Wagner's Ring cycle a bit, hoom, hom, well, hasty. Most of the audience would die of hunger by the end of the opening number. Only the Ents can dig deep.
Besides, the Entwives live in the moors north of the Shire. In FOTR, Samwise Gamgee mentions a cousin who saw what looked like an elm tree walking across the moors. Pity Tolkien never connected those dots explicitly--it would have been nice for the Ents and Entwives to get back together.
Well, I never used the term "operating system". I simply noted that the default Solaris installation doesn't have the features I mentioned. The fact that the "default shell" is deficient, was, I think, my point.
However, the pointer to sunfreeware is useful. Thanks.
Holy s***, that is the gayest f***ing comment I have EVAR read. You win the Faggot Of The Century award for that one, buddy.
Maybe it would make more sense if you go and read the story "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers" in All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven. Published in 1971, the collection is probably most famous for "Man Of Steel, Woman of Kleenex".
Of course, while the NYTimes should probably have gone the extra mile to identify the book and the author for the benefit of the readers of the article, they were probably accurately quoting Mr. Allen's statement as to the title of the book. If he read it as a kid, it's been what--40 years or so?
As for "Destination Moon", the only similarities I have found to the book "Rocket Ship Galileo" are that a ship designed by a Dr. Cargraves flies to the moon. The movie avoided the bug-eyed monsters common to the time, but the book! Oh, my! Space Nazis! Conspiracy theories! Boy Scouts! It's classic Heinlein, and I love to re-read it every year or so, but it's NOT his best work. It was his first novel, after all.
"Pop-Up Dos Release 2.02 Copyright (C) 1989 LOGITECH Inc, (C) 1988 Star Division GmbH."
I found it on a floppy I had archived in 1991(!). Other than finding a disk drive to read a 5.25", 1.2M floppy, it works great! And it DOES look like Win1.0, other than the color scheme I chose 12 years ago (green menus with purple pointer? Why?)
I don't know, but that looks more like a thimble to me. And wouldn't previously existing images which even resemble this "patented" icon invalidate the patent? Seems pretty flimsy to me.
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FYI, Debian DOES offer DVD ISOs. Begin here (http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#dvd) and start digging.
OOPS!
A is di-dah, not da-dit. So the resulting combination would not be "K" (da-di-dah), but "W" (di-da-dah).
73 de N3SLK Steve
Actually, I read "NGSCB" as No Good SCAB.
It sorta fits, too.
Empower Tech, Softfield, Sharp, and now Royal should all be providing software to Sync with Linux"
From the Softfield website for their VR3 PDA:"CD-ROM Software: VRSync for Linux PC"
Now, the VRSync for Linux SW was not very useful when I bought my VR3, but I found I didn't need it. Here's why:
XWindows.
The VR3 runs X, and if I want to access my PDA info on my PC, I just use X to remotely control the PDA. No syncing. Everything is stored in flash. No way to lose data, even if my batteries die. 2xAAA NiMH batteries, pop it on the cradle during the day (so I can use X!) and recharge without ever thinking about it.The batteries cost l.t. $10, and have lasted over 1.5 years so far, at least 10:1 savings over alkaline.
Best geek toy I've ever bought.
Steve
Have you actually been reading the comments? By my count, there are about two comments opposed on principle and one saying it won't work for each one that says it might be a good idea. Hardly a landslide of slashdot opinion saying that high school students have no right to privacy.
I'm not sure what to make of it. I'm not sure that privacy is being eroded here--the schools already seem to have the data they're mining, it's not some new requirement. But pigeonholing students in "profiles" is a weak tool, at best, with many risks.
As some have already suggested, probably the better solution is to reduce class size and increase teacher-student one-on-one time. But that means more time and more teachers, and that costs $$$. In terms of the survival and betterment of our civilization, teachers are probably in the most important career on the planet. Pity we don't treat them that way.
No, it's just that EVERY FAA organization acronym starts with "A". The "A" designates the fAA, and ST is the office of Space Transportation.
Not as funny as all that.
I have heard anecdotally that when someone tried to patent the waterbed, they were refused because it had been fully described by Robert Heinlein in "Stranger In a Strange Land".
Arthur Clarke has also been quoted as saying he wished he had patented his geosynchronous orbit idea.
Cheers!
Good! I dislike the whole PC thing, too. My beef is that making a blanket statement like that, while posting as AC, and then EXCUSING himself from even signing his name, is simply vile.
You, on the other hand, are not an Anonymous Coward. I'm honored you took the time to disagree with me.
Bullshit.
I lived in Utah for 17 years. I am not a Mormon, and am more opposed to the Mormon Church than I am to Microsoft.
What you have said, sir Coward, is blatantly offensive to not just Mormons, but to anyone who holds a religious faith. If you hold to a religious faith, you should be doubly ashamed of yourself. If you are going to criticize a person or a group, have the honor to name yourself, your problem, and the group or person you criticize.
Next time the account creation mechanism doesn't work, try simply signing your name.
There's an extra space being inserted after '28'. It's not in my code, but the link in my preview works...
It'll be /.'ed now, for sure.
Do you have ANY idea how long that opera would be? I think the Ents would think Wagner's Ring cycle a bit, hoom, hom, well, hasty. Most of the audience would die of hunger by the end of the opening number. Only the Ents can dig deep.
Besides, the Entwives live in the moors north of the Shire. In FOTR, Samwise Gamgee mentions a cousin who saw what looked like an elm tree walking across the moors. Pity Tolkien never connected those dots explicitly--it would have been nice for the Ents and Entwives to get back together.
But, as I said, in Linux they're there by default. Sun should be embarrassed to charge money for Solaris ;-).
Nobody needs to reply to this--I know I look like a troll.
Well, I never used the term "operating system". I simply noted that the default Solaris installation doesn't have the features I mentioned. The fact that the "default shell" is deficient, was, I think, my point.
However, the pointer to sunfreeware is useful. Thanks.
Maybe it would make more sense if you go and read the story "What Can You Say About Chocolate Covered Manhole Covers" in All The Myriad Ways by Larry Niven. Published in 1971, the collection is probably most famous for "Man Of Steel, Woman of Kleenex".
Additional features Solaris lacks:
Command-line completion (I keep hitting TAB and getting _TAB_, dammit!)
Command line history (I keep hitting UP-ARROW and getting some escaped-garbage-text)
Where are the tools? gcc? make? less? _top_, fer gossake?
Once you're used to Linux and the embarrassment of riches it offers by _default_, it's tough to go back...
As for "Destination Moon", the only similarities I have found to the book "Rocket Ship Galileo" are that a ship designed by a Dr. Cargraves flies to the moon. The movie avoided the bug-eyed monsters common to the time, but the book! Oh, my! Space Nazis! Conspiracy theories! Boy Scouts! It's classic Heinlein, and I love to re-read it every year or so, but it's NOT his best work. It was his first novel, after all.
From the exit msg:
"Pop-Up Dos Release 2.02
Copyright (C) 1989 LOGITECH Inc, (C) 1988 Star Division GmbH."
I found it on a floppy I had archived in 1991(!). Other than finding a disk drive to read a 5.25", 1.2M floppy, it works great! And it DOES look like Win1.0, other than the color scheme I chose 12 years ago (green menus with purple pointer? Why?)
Steve
I don't know, but that looks more like a thimble to me. And wouldn't previously existing images which even resemble this "patented" icon invalidate the patent? Seems pretty flimsy to me.
How about these images I just googled (TM)?
Thimble
Thimble
Trash Can
Trash Can
Trash Can