If you want a hard drive that bad, there are PDAs with PCMCIA slots. Get a PCMCIA drive cradle and attach a laptop IDE drive to it, then plug it into the PCMCIA slot.
Having a hard drive included would be basically making it a small tablet PC, and would add a bit of weight to the device. I've always been under the impression that PDAs were supposed to be lighter than other mobile computing devices.
Extra RAM would be nice, as would extra flash memory built-in. But I'll settle for 64 meg CF cards or 64 meg SD cards at least for now.
This is the first PDA I've ever considered as worth the purchase price, but I still think PDAs have a long way to go. I'd prefer to see a PDA with a 640x480 screen capable of at least 65k colors, but preferably capable of the 24-bit "true color" laptop TFT displays are. I'd even settle for 480x640.
I'll still wait a while before purchasing any PDA.
China has a population of about 1.5 billion, correct? For the purpose of this exercise I'll assume 35% of this population is married.
1.5 billion * 0.35 = 525 million people in marraiges by my assumption.
I'll also assume that these 35% have one child each. That means 787.5 million people.
Ignoring the 50% or so of the population not counted in this grand assumption, one IP address per person would require:
47 class A (/8) networks
12,017 class B (/16) networks
3,076,172 class C (/24) networks
Now enacting a law stating a married couple may have only one public IP address at any one time would reduce this number by 33% to:
32 class A (/8) networks
7,931 class B (/16) networks
2,030,274 class C (/24) networks
Then changing that law to be one public IP address per family at one time would reduce this second set of numbers by 50% to:
16 class A (/8) networks
3,966 class B (/16) networks
1,015,137 class C (/24) networks
This is obviously a huge saving in IP addresses!
Now don't flame me on this; I know my assumptions are horribly inaccurate, but I just couldn't resist a somewhat practical reply to the parent comment.
NTFS is actually not bad with fragmentation. I'm running a Win2k Pro box and a WinXP Pro box; neither's partition has ever reached more than 12% fragmentation, and even that was after having the partitions 98% full. Most people won't notice NTFS file fragmentation as a problem until it reaches 50% to 60% anyway. FAT32, however, is quite a different story. I can start to notice performance hits around 9% fragmentation or so. Also, according to my MCSE training kit, the main cause of filesystem fragmentation on windows machines is using a page file that does not have a static size. Using a statically-sized page file can decrease defragmentation dramatically. (If you don't believe me, set your paging file to a static size between 1.5 and 3 times the amount of physical RAM you have, reboot, defragment, and test with every FS torture you can think of.)
If the craft will be nuclear powered and will be able to go to three moons in turn, is there any possibility that a slightly modified design would be able to return to earth and be reused for later ventures? It seems this should be the next logical step, since reusing a probe on more missions means that we'd spend less on actually building the crafts and more on studying the findings and other useful space ventures.
Myabe more intelligent people will be elected, but as the saying goes, there is no such thing as an honest politician. Even if more intelligent people are elected, it doesn't mean they'll serve the people better.
So we're supposed to fear the worst unnecessarily? Or did I misread this?
Also, I've read in paper-only publications that hydrogen isn't as feasible as alcohol-only fuels--a fuel cartridge as small as an inkjet printer cartridge such as the ones that fit in the Canon BCI-21 print head can power a cell phone for a month or more using alcohol--so maybe studies like this will push more toward the alcohol alternative, which will actually be cheaper to convert to since most infrastructure is already equipped for the distribution of liquid fuels.
You're right. OSI Layer 3 does not deal with port numbers. The Application Layer is the OSI model's Layer 7.
Looks like someone forgot his/her coffee when writing the article, like I did reading it.
I had a basic idea of a lot of stuff here an some knowledge of some things, too. This was a nice crash-course.
Kinda makes me wonder, though, how often articles like this spawn ideas in the minds of the "wrong people," leading to attacks or attempts to attack. Anyone else ever wonder that?
It's good to see Microsoft doing something about licensing for schools, but I wonder how many people will actually know about or apply for this? Or more precisely, how useful will this really be? I can see only a limited amount of success with this program.
If you figure that out, let me know. I'll be the first customer.
In the meantime I'll figure out where to get the $6000 to buy the mirror just so I can confuse my technolocigally-impared parents.
Let's not forget the voice recognition! After all, isn't the stereotypical teenage girl also changing clothes, applying makeup, or styling their hair while at the mirror? They have to have a way for the IM to be input since their hands are busy...
You bring up an excellent point--I'd never considered that. Thanks for pointing that out.
Deriving money from lawsuits will only help SCO stay afloat temporarily, and this stunt is just another ploy to get money...I agree with imhotep1 now that I've had a little more thought on the situation--SCO's days are numbered. And that number is small.
which company I like less anymore, Microsoft or SCO.
I've never exactly been a fan of anything relating to SCO or Caldera, and now it's just getting to the point that I hate them with the same amount of passion with which I hate Microsoft. Monopolistic practices and being an asshole by making outlandish claims and having a NDA that makes it a guarantee that no one will want to look at the code are not much different to me...That factored with the allegations that SCO copied Linux code into their own...
Well, I guess that's just more reason for me to run a mostly-Linux setup (damn winscanners).
I agree with you on this issue; it is something of the pot calling the kettle black. However, the term "UNIX" has become very generic, referring quite commonly to an entire class of operating systems. In this case, I think the scales should be slightly tilted toward Apple.
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Having a hard drive included would be basically making it a small tablet PC, and would add a bit of weight to the device. I've always been under the impression that PDAs were supposed to be lighter than other mobile computing devices.
Extra RAM would be nice, as would extra flash memory built-in. But I'll settle for 64 meg CF cards or 64 meg SD cards at least for now.
Yes, now that (the C760) is very close to what I was hoping for. Thanks for the info!
480x640 would be a screen 480 pixels wide and 640 pixels tall (picture a VGA LCD on its side).
I'll still wait a while before purchasing any PDA.
China has a population of about 1.5 billion, correct? For the purpose of this exercise I'll assume 35% of this population is married.
1.5 billion * 0.35 = 525 million people in marraiges by my assumption.
I'll also assume that these 35% have one child each. That means 787.5 million people.
Ignoring the 50% or so of the population not counted in this grand assumption, one IP address per person would require:
Now enacting a law stating a married couple may have only one public IP address at any one time would reduce this number by 33% to:
Then changing that law to be one public IP address per family at one time would reduce this second set of numbers by 50% to:
This is obviously a huge saving in IP addresses!
Now don't flame me on this; I know my assumptions are horribly inaccurate, but I just couldn't resist a somewhat practical reply to the parent comment.
That's not robbery. That's highway robbery.
NTFS is actually not bad with fragmentation. I'm running a Win2k Pro box and a WinXP Pro box; neither's partition has ever reached more than 12% fragmentation, and even that was after having the partitions 98% full. Most people won't notice NTFS file fragmentation as a problem until it reaches 50% to 60% anyway. FAT32, however, is quite a different story. I can start to notice performance hits around 9% fragmentation or so. Also, according to my MCSE training kit, the main cause of filesystem fragmentation on windows machines is using a page file that does not have a static size. Using a statically-sized page file can decrease defragmentation dramatically. (If you don't believe me, set your paging file to a static size between 1.5 and 3 times the amount of physical RAM you have, reboot, defragment, and test with every FS torture you can think of.)
If the craft will be nuclear powered and will be able to go to three moons in turn, is there any possibility that a slightly modified design would be able to return to earth and be reused for later ventures? It seems this should be the next logical step, since reusing a probe on more missions means that we'd spend less on actually building the crafts and more on studying the findings and other useful space ventures.
Myabe more intelligent people will be elected, but as the saying goes, there is no such thing as an honest politician. Even if more intelligent people are elected, it doesn't mean they'll serve the people better.
Yeah, except IBM's superior force of evolved Pokemon is going to crush SCO's.
Also, I've read in paper-only publications that hydrogen isn't as feasible as alcohol-only fuels--a fuel cartridge as small as an inkjet printer cartridge such as the ones that fit in the Canon BCI-21 print head can power a cell phone for a month or more using alcohol--so maybe studies like this will push more toward the alcohol alternative, which will actually be cheaper to convert to since most infrastructure is already equipped for the distribution of liquid fuels.
You're right. OSI Layer 3 does not deal with port numbers. The Application Layer is the OSI model's Layer 7. Looks like someone forgot his/her coffee when writing the article, like I did reading it.
Kinda makes me wonder, though, how often articles like this spawn ideas in the minds of the "wrong people," leading to attacks or attempts to attack. Anyone else ever wonder that?
It's good to see Microsoft doing something about licensing for schools, but I wonder how many people will actually know about or apply for this? Or more precisely, how useful will this really be? I can see only a limited amount of success with this program.
If you figure that out, let me know. I'll be the first customer. In the meantime I'll figure out where to get the $6000 to buy the mirror just so I can confuse my technolocigally-impared parents.
Let's not forget the voice recognition! After all, isn't the stereotypical teenage girl also changing clothes, applying makeup, or styling their hair while at the mirror? They have to have a way for the IM to be input since their hands are busy...
You're lucky then. People like me would get 70 years bad luck, plus be out the $5500!
They will as long as Microshaft has a line or more of code in any of it.
You bring up an excellent point--I'd never considered that. Thanks for pointing that out. Deriving money from lawsuits will only help SCO stay afloat temporarily, and this stunt is just another ploy to get money...I agree with imhotep1 now that I've had a little more thought on the situation--SCO's days are numbered. And that number is small.
I've never exactly been a fan of anything relating to SCO or Caldera, and now it's just getting to the point that I hate them with the same amount of passion with which I hate Microsoft. Monopolistic practices and being an asshole by making outlandish claims and having a NDA that makes it a guarantee that no one will want to look at the code are not much different to me...That factored with the allegations that SCO copied Linux code into their own...
Well, I guess that's just more reason for me to run a mostly-Linux setup (damn winscanners).
I agree with you on this issue; it is something of the pot calling the kettle black. However, the term "UNIX" has become very generic, referring quite commonly to an entire class of operating systems. In this case, I think the scales should be slightly tilted toward Apple.
I have to wonder that myself. Since we all know the government is squeaky-clean, this is a curious issue, indeed.