I doubt it. Most people that are interested in trading live shows do stuff w/etree (http://www.etree.org). shns are a far better quality recording for live stuff.
I do download *SOME* live MP3's, but not for the purpose of recording to CD.
it took quite a bit of time for NCR to realize this.. Trying to pull a fast one here.
I don't really know, but it seems to me that if they really were worried about infrigement they should have filed this a while back. What do I know though?
That is an awful lot of money for what you get here. 8mb,.44" thick, and no color... $400... I would much rather a slightly larger machine w/more processing power (33mhz is slow) and more ram and upgrade capabilities...
(2) Cost - these rail systems still cost on the order of $5M US/km to build, while each highway lane only costs about $200K to build. So, you are still getting less for your tax money with this stuff.
question is though. what is the long term costs of these things. Is rail harder to keep up than pavement?
What about our favorite bar game -- Golden Tee 2k? That has an access card you can apply for and you swipe it through and you play tournament games (FOR MONEY) right from your local watering hole (or whereever). This has been around for at least several years that I know of. I guess it isn't like playing a 4 player race car game hooked up against 50 other players, but it is the same general idea.
I happen to prefer drunk golf than drunk driving:)
I seriously want to know how this was considered flamebait. I think you people should realize that some people's opinions are worthy of discussion.
I don't normally support Windows, but I do support it on the PDA platform. Do NOT moderate down comments when there are TRUE flames out there.
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of course it isn't. No language does EVERYTHING you want it to do as easily as you want it to. You have to put work into it. XML is a useful language just like every other language.
It really irks me when people say that about "X", each language has something that it does especially well, XML has its place...
we continuously see articles showing "promise" of a Linux handheld yet I have seen no TRUE concrete evidence of mass production of any of these products. Compaq has Yopi (or whatever it is), and now Sharp has this thing (the only two REAL vendors that I have seen). Problem is, Compaq's machine (while it seems to have actual photos of the product has yet to put anything of hte sort on the market and probably will just stick to its iPAQ line). Sharp on the other hand has non-realistic looking photos on its site and I highly doubt the future of this PDA.
Like many others have said, Linux is a great OS with great possibilities, but the lack of good character recognition, and lack of a decent GUI have led to the downfall of Linux as a viable OS for the handheld market.
Until I see a REAL LIVE Linux based handheld running w/a decent touchscreen based GUI (where I have to type little) I will stick to my Cassiopeia and WinCE.
you basically carry one of these daily in the US at least... My drivers' license and student ID are much like this... It really doesn't phase me any. I don't NEED it at all times, if I don't have it on my person, I am not in constant fear of being arrested b/c of it or anything.
Carrying something voluntarily is something MUCH different than being implanted w/something. I can choose not to bring the damn thing w/me if I feel like it.
I honestly can't see any democratic government persuading the public into allowing themselves to be tagged in this manner. I really don't see us all itching a spot on our wrist like Sylvester does in Demolition Man.
No utopian leader is going to use smooth talking and bullshit to get us to bow down to this, but if they do, you can beat I will be one of the "crazies" in the sewers eating rat burgers.
the fact that NS6 will NOT install for me is a problem that I face. There is something wrong w/Java or something. There is absolutely no reason that Netscape should have a difficult install for a system that is quite standard. If you are going to try to market a product at least have it install easily.
Yes, I know Linux isn't a big priority but still.:)
just b/c the name changes does not mean that the public is going to accept this crap any more than it would have before.
I really don't like what the government is doing these days. We originally seperated from an overpowering system to form our own where little intervention was seen at the national level. Now look what we have...
It is a shame that our government believes that they need this sort of power to control us! We talk about how horrible China is? At least they have proxies to allow them access to the "civilized" world.
perhaps they will improve the daily emailing of headers.
I would get a list of like 25 headers in a newsgroup that gets MANY more than that. It also would not let me remove myself from the list w/o a password. There has to be a better way (sending confirmation by email).
I stand corrected, but I think that it should mention that it is talking about the IPAQ Desktop rather than the "iPAQ" which *I* feel is the handheld:)
I don't see why this machine is being compared to an iPAQ.. This is a "set-top box" not a handheld. Don't make us all excited for a *NICE* Linux handheld when it isn't anything of the sort.
even if *they* aren't it looks like other places have to agree too. Problem here is that just b/c an ISP has your # linked to an email doesn't mean it is going to solve anything...
yeah, the DAT tax was at least somewhat valid. *Most* people do not use DAT for purposes other than recording music (although I don't see a lot of pirated music being stored on DAT).
the CDR tax would be a definite annoyance, and it wouldn't really make the RIAA happy. They are still going to attempt to shut down Napster, and they are going to attempt to do whatever possible to stop the illegal copying of music. Bastards!
I say the hell w/the damn taxes, and the hell w/the RIAA. Let us have our cheap CDR's, and free music.:)
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I doubt it. Most people that are interested in trading live shows do stuff w/etree (http://www.etree.org). shns are a far better quality recording for live stuff.
I do download *SOME* live MP3's, but not for the purpose of recording to CD.
it took quite a bit of time for NCR to realize this.. Trying to pull a fast one here.
I don't really know, but it seems to me that if they really were worried about infrigement they should have filed this a while back. What do I know though?
I would prefer to be stringing together empty beer bottles.. If I drank 5k bottles of beer, *that* would be a party :)
That is an awful lot of money for what you get here. 8mb, .44" thick, and no color... $400... I would much rather a slightly larger machine w/more processing power (33mhz is slow) and more ram and upgrade capabilities...
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Just seems like an upgrade to nothing.
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(2) Cost - these rail systems still cost on the order of $5M US/km to build, while each highway lane only costs about $200K to build. So, you are still getting less for your tax money with this stuff.
question is though. what is the long term costs of these things. Is rail harder to keep up than pavement?
Pepsi is signing quite a few contracts w/other Universities to do just that (well, machines off campuses)
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might as well cut the backbone
I find it interesting that MS would continue to squash things. They already squash all their competition, now they are squashing their own stuff!
by sinking money into Corel it didn't kill it is what I meant.
how did they kill it? They did nothing but sink money into it. Corel has been on a downhill slide for a long time.
What killed Corel was the introduction of Microsoft Office. The buying of shares in Corel did nothing but allow them to hold on for longer...
Corel is a good company with good products. They unfortuantly can't keep up w/the domination that Microsoft creates... Such is life.
What about our favorite bar game -- Golden Tee 2k? That has an access card you can apply for and you swipe it through and you play tournament games (FOR MONEY) right from your local watering hole (or whereever). This has been around for at least several years that I know of. I guess it isn't like playing a 4 player race car game hooked up against 50 other players, but it is the same general idea.
:)
I happen to prefer drunk golf than drunk driving
I seriously want to know how this was considered flamebait. I think you people should realize that some people's opinions are worthy of discussion.
I don't normally support Windows, but I do support it on the PDA platform. Do NOT moderate down comments when there are TRUE flames out there.
of course it isn't. No language does EVERYTHING you want it to do as easily as you want it to. You have to put work into it. XML is a useful language just like every other language.
It really irks me when people say that about "X", each language has something that it does especially well, XML has its place...
we continuously see articles showing "promise" of a Linux handheld yet I have seen no TRUE concrete evidence of mass production of any of these products. Compaq has Yopi (or whatever it is), and now Sharp has this thing (the only two REAL vendors that I have seen). Problem is, Compaq's machine (while it seems to have actual photos of the product has yet to put anything of hte sort on the market and probably will just stick to its iPAQ line). Sharp on the other hand has non-realistic looking photos on its site and I highly doubt the future of this PDA.
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Like many others have said, Linux is a great OS with great possibilities, but the lack of good character recognition, and lack of a decent GUI have led to the downfall of Linux as a viable OS for the handheld market.
Until I see a REAL LIVE Linux based handheld running w/a decent touchscreen based GUI (where I have to type little) I will stick to my Cassiopeia and WinCE.
Just my worthless
you basically carry one of these daily in the US at least... My drivers' license and student ID are much like this... It really doesn't phase me any. I don't NEED it at all times, if I don't have it on my person, I am not in constant fear of being arrested b/c of it or anything.
Carrying something voluntarily is something MUCH different than being implanted w/something. I can choose not to bring the damn thing w/me if I feel like it.
I honestly can't see any democratic government persuading the public into allowing themselves to be tagged in this manner. I really don't see us all itching a spot on our wrist like Sylvester does in Demolition Man.
No utopian leader is going to use smooth talking and bullshit to get us to bow down to this, but if they do, you can beat I will be one of the "crazies" in the sewers eating rat burgers.
the fact that NS6 will NOT install for me is a problem that I face. There is something wrong w/Java or something. There is absolutely no reason that Netscape should have a difficult install for a system that is quite standard. If you are going to try to market a product at least have it install easily.
:)
Yes, I know Linux isn't a big priority but still.
hey, they did have an article posted about "Deja" I wonder if this would fall under that category ;-)
just b/c the name changes does not mean that the public is going to accept this crap any more than it would have before.
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I really don't like what the government is doing these days. We originally seperated from an overpowering system to form our own where little intervention was seen at the national level. Now look what we have...
It is a shame that our government believes that they need this sort of power to control us! We talk about how horrible China is? At least they have proxies to allow them access to the "civilized" world.
Just my worthless
perhaps they will improve the daily emailing of headers.
:)
I would get a list of like 25 headers in a newsgroup that gets MANY more than that. It also would not let me remove myself from the list w/o a password. There has to be a better way (sending confirmation by email).
That would rock
I stand corrected, but I think that it should mention that it is talking about the IPAQ Desktop rather than the "iPAQ" which *I* feel is the handheld :)
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Just my worthless
hehe, we are the lovers of the old tactile keyboards that sounded like a anti-aircraft gun chugging out shells as you typed ;)
I don't see why this machine is being compared to an iPAQ.. This is a "set-top box" not a handheld. Don't make us all excited for a *NICE* Linux handheld when it isn't anything of the sort.
even if *they* aren't it looks like other places have to agree too. Problem here is that just b/c an ISP has your # linked to an email doesn't mean it is going to solve anything...
I got yelled at for saying this before. They expect you to filter this sort of shit if you don't care to see it.
yeah, the DAT tax was at least somewhat valid. *Most* people do not use DAT for purposes other than recording music (although I don't see a lot of pirated music being stored on DAT).
:)
the CDR tax would be a definite annoyance, and it wouldn't really make the RIAA happy. They are still going to attempt to shut down Napster, and they are going to attempt to do whatever possible to stop the illegal copying of music. Bastards!
I say the hell w/the damn taxes, and the hell w/the RIAA. Let us have our cheap CDR's, and free music.
Just my worthless rambling.