The first computer I owned was a Timex-Sinclair Z100. No monitor (it attached to an old portable BW portable TV I wasn't using. I typed in programs from the magazines all night long so my kids could fight over who would try them out the next morning. Programs were stored on audio cassetes on a portable cassette player. God forbid I typed one number wrong and had to go over the whole thing to debug. Wasn't it great though?
I'm not exactly one of the "masses" but for $399 and not much effort, I've got a 120GB server. My time is valuable to me and although I'd like to, I'm not going to throw a box together and install some distro or another. Like I said I'll buy that.
Beg to differ. Battery costs don't enter into the picture for a good long while, Toyota is underwriting the cost of the car so that they are making zippo profit on it (it's a halo project) and my Prius gets ~50MPG. I mostly use it as a station car and use $20 worth of gas every 6 weeks.
I read books EXCLUSIVELY on my Axim 5 PPC. Why? I don't like caryimg around 5 lbs. of book, I have nowhere to store paper books any more. I'm 56, a geek, and I'm proud of it. I've been reading books on my pda since I got my first Handspring. I will never switch back to paper again. All my books are stored on my HD and take little space. When wanted I transfer them to a CF or SD card and read using MS Reader, Acrobat 1.0, or Mobipocket. Best sellers are becoming available in ebook form from a number of sources
Micro$oft is even giving away 3 books a week this summer as a promotion.
I have been a car guy longer than I've been a geek. Automobile magazine had an article last year about how you couldn't tell one mid-size car from the next because it looked like they were all cut with the same cookie cutter. I WANT ONE!!
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I read a LOT of books on my pocket pc.
The first computer I owned was a Timex-Sinclair Z100. No monitor (it attached to an old portable BW portable TV I wasn't using. I typed in programs from the magazines all night long so my kids could fight over who would try them out the next morning. Programs were stored on audio cassetes on a portable cassette player. God forbid I typed one number wrong and had to go over the whole thing to debug. Wasn't it great though?
I'm not exactly one of the "masses" but for $399 and not much effort, I've got a 120GB server. My time is valuable to me and although I'd like to, I'm not going to throw a box together and install some distro or another. Like I said I'll buy that.
Beg to differ. Battery costs don't enter into the picture for a good long while, Toyota is underwriting the cost of the car so that they are making zippo profit on it (it's a halo project) and my Prius gets ~50MPG. I mostly use it as a station car and use $20 worth of gas every 6 weeks.
The hell with Hatch! I'll go and leave that booby to moulder on the mother planet. BTW where's my phaser?
RealMedia? How about some good old mpeg. Does this mean I can watch all the Red Dwarf episodes on my Zaurus?
I read books EXCLUSIVELY on my Axim 5 PPC. Why? I don't like caryimg around 5 lbs. of book, I have nowhere to store paper books any more. I'm 56, a geek, and I'm proud of it. I've been reading books on my pda since I got my first Handspring. I will never switch back to paper again. All my books are stored on my HD and take little space. When wanted I transfer them to a CF or SD card and read using MS Reader, Acrobat 1.0, or Mobipocket. Best sellers are becoming available in ebook form from a number of sources Micro$oft is even giving away 3 books a week this summer as a promotion.
I have been a car guy longer than I've been a geek. Automobile magazine had an article last year about how you couldn't tell one mid-size car from the next because it looked like they were all cut with the same cookie cutter. I WANT ONE!!