Your average iPod will play for 10 hours on a charge. You average PDA is lucky to last one hour. Putting the MP3 decoding in hardware is a huge battery saver. Although keeping it in software adds OGG support.
2) crash!
In the event that you didn't know #1, and your battery drains, those Pocket PCs have a nasty habit of deleting every file they can find.
3) effortless synch
With a PDA you have to manually move folders of MP3s over. Not much playlist support. The iPod with iTunes is effortless, especially with Party Shuffle.
Synching in general is my main gripe about my PDA. Its a royal pain in the ass to synch unless you use 100% microsoft, and it takes forever. No thanks. Palm is better on the Macs, but not by much. And considering problem #2, being able to quickly synch with many different apps and servers is VITAL.
Until somebody solves problem #3, Ive pretty much shelved my Axim. I use an iPod and a Hipster PDA instead. It wont synch, but neither will it crash.
You can't (via "AJAX") query any site but the one that served the script without the browser imposing this scary security warning. We run the sites in question, they just have different domain names.
Use a proxy.
Create a page in your favorite scripting language that forwards the HTTP request for you. Then put that page in your domain, and make AJAX calls to it.
5 lines of ASP, PHP, Perl, or Python... or 20 lines of JSP. Easy!
Im going to have to agree... this article seemed like yet another big fluffy acedemic rant about what's wrong with computer software these days, without giving ANY practical new ideas.
I mean, look at his roadmap at the end: Be people-centric? Collaborate? Use standards? Keep improving? Is that supposed to be profound? I doubt its even correct!
Its neither necessary nor sufficient for developers to do any of the above and make great software. Is 'C' people-centric? How much GREAT software was written by one or two people? How many open standards are poorly written and SHOULD be ignored? If we all listened to this guy, the web would NEVER have gotten off the ground - we be stuck in collaboration meetings in VRML-land, discussing how to improve our people-centricness.
I started out interested in the article... thinking I'd get something along the lines of 'what would Engelbart do?' But no... it just turned out to be yet another Johnny-Come-Lately praising Blogs, Wikis, and Google, and without anything original to add. Yet another ivory tower HACK trying to justify his mongo paycheck.
I KNOW this one will get moderated as a TROLL, but I dont care. These kinds of people really cheese me off...
If you want to see some info about their testing procedures... go to: safevoting.org
They SOMEHOW got their hands on video from a closed-door session between Diebold, and the texas secretary of state. Their machines DONT ADD PROPERLY, some people can VOTE TWICE, and they've done virtually NOTHING to fix the existing problems that their customers just happen to discover.
ok... its important to remember our history... Lai and Singh are the same two MORONS who made similar claims about magnetic fields almost ten years ago:
and NOBODY was able to duplicate their results. Although the two made $10,000 a pop being 'expert witnesses' for people who brough lawsuits against Motorola et. al. claiming their cell phones gave them tumors. It looks like they must have ran out of money.
This is the WORST kind of junk science imaginable.
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1) battery life
Your average iPod will play for 10 hours on a charge. You average PDA is lucky to last one hour. Putting the MP3 decoding in hardware is a huge battery saver. Although keeping it in software adds OGG support.
2) crash!
In the event that you didn't know #1, and your battery drains, those Pocket PCs have a nasty habit of deleting every file they can find.
3) effortless synch
With a PDA you have to manually move folders of MP3s over. Not much playlist support. The iPod with iTunes is effortless, especially with Party Shuffle.
Synching in general is my main gripe about my PDA. Its a royal pain in the ass to synch unless you use 100% microsoft, and it takes forever. No thanks. Palm is better on the Macs, but not by much. And considering problem #2, being able to quickly synch with many different apps and servers is VITAL.
Until somebody solves problem #3, Ive pretty much shelved my Axim. I use an iPod and a Hipster PDA instead. It wont synch, but neither will it crash.
Use a proxy.
Create a page in your favorite scripting language that forwards the HTTP request for you. Then put that page in your domain, and make AJAX calls to it.
5 lines of ASP, PHP, Perl, or Python... or 20 lines of JSP. Easy!
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Im going to have to agree... this article seemed like yet another big fluffy acedemic rant about what's wrong with computer software these days, without giving ANY practical new ideas.
I mean, look at his roadmap at the end: Be people-centric? Collaborate? Use standards? Keep improving? Is that supposed to be profound? I doubt its even correct!
Its neither necessary nor sufficient for developers to do any of the above and make great software. Is 'C' people-centric? How much GREAT software was written by one or two people? How many open standards are poorly written and SHOULD be ignored? If we all listened to this guy, the web would NEVER have gotten off the ground - we be stuck in collaboration meetings in VRML-land, discussing how to improve our people-centricness.
I started out interested in the article... thinking I'd get something along the lines of 'what would Engelbart do?' But no... it just turned out to be yet another Johnny-Come-Lately praising Blogs, Wikis, and Google, and without anything original to add. Yet another ivory tower HACK trying to justify his mongo paycheck.
I KNOW this one will get moderated as a TROLL, but I dont care. These kinds of people really cheese me off...
If you want to see some info about their testing procedures... go to: safevoting.org
They SOMEHOW got their hands on video from a closed-door session between Diebold, and the texas secretary of state. Their machines DONT ADD PROPERLY, some people can VOTE TWICE, and they've done virtually NOTHING to fix the existing problems that their customers just happen to discover.
Windows Media format
Quicktime format
let the slashdotting begin...
ok... its important to remember our history... Lai and Singh are the same two MORONS who made similar claims about magnetic fields almost ten years ago:
http://www.electric-words.com/cell/research/laisin gh/memory1.html
and NOBODY was able to duplicate their results. Although the two made $10,000 a pop being 'expert witnesses' for people who brough lawsuits against Motorola et. al. claiming their cell phones gave them tumors. It looks like they must have ran out of money.
This is the WORST kind of junk science imaginable.