Mine is the version 2 type as well, so perhaps they just got stocked here faster. (at least by 2 hours or so.)
About that CyWIG thing: It seems to me that these devices could be used as a cheap wireless LAN access device. Plug one into your machine with internet connectivity, and plug the other into your laptop. Make them route your Internet traffic for you. It will probably take some hacking on it to get it to work, but I think the possibility is there. Any idea what kind of bandwith these can get between them?
And if the only thing separating a
toy from an organiser is a diary, address book and notepad then I'd say that Palm better watch out.
Perhaps Palm does need to watch out. I'm not sure if the threat is from Cybiko or not, though. Although the Cybiko has the features you mentioned, I don't think it's as quick or easy to use as my palm. In my opinion, it is not appropriate to carry around as a replacement for my Palm Pilot. For about a quarter of the price, though, it may be close.
regarding the expandability, there is a slot in the botton of the cybiko to insert upgrade cards. I think the only one available is a 1MB memory upgrade. (that helps). The slot looks a lot like PCMCIA, so perhaps soon we can start sticking all kinds of stuff in there.
There is a linux C SDK for the Cybiko, so as you mentioned, maybe if these things get into the right hands we'll have lots of cool apps and hacks for it.
I don't mean to talk the Cybiko down, I just don't think that it is an effective organizer, and of course there is not nearly the amount of software for it.
I've got a Palm and a cybiko. The palm has a much more advanced, intuitive, and fast system. It's easier to navigate around in and find stuff quickly. The cybiko feels cheaper and slower. Plus, I don't think it has a backlight on the LCD. What a shame.
If you want an organizer, get a Palm Pilot. If you want a toy, get a cybiko.
I played with sponsorpool for a while. I was one of the only ones using it while Tom was first trying it out. After using it for a few months, the donations started picking up. I eventually sold the site, but I think that after a while this type of scheme could have at least payed my hosting/bandwith bill.
I guess the point here is twofold. It takes time for the donations to ramp up. And you're not going to make a million, but it might be worth your while.
If you're interested in sponsorpool, drop Tom Swiss a mail and ask him about it. It's kind of a cool project.
Or because you finally have some kind of reason to stare at the sun, so you do something you know you shouldn't and that would hurt you regardless of the circumstances.
I think you can accomplish the same thing by asking all of the chinese (living in China) to climb onto chairs and jump off of them at noon. When they landed, they would push the Earth a little bit away from the Sun. It could be done every day for a while if it didn't work the first time.
Actually, you could include everyone as long as they jumped off at noon local time. we could have this earth moved wherever we wanted it in a jiffy!
perhaps they would spend as much time with their patients as is necessary to figure out what the problem is, let the patient know what the options for treatment are, help the patient make a sane decision, and treat the problem. This is in stark contrast to the small amount of time that physicians may see their patients under the current insurance controlled quagmire.
you can do this with very little hardware
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Many large ISPs/network providers offer services that will take care of most of this for you. You can lease a fixed number of modem ports in the cities of your choice. They will provide the phone connectivity to them and the network connectivity from them to the rest of the world.
For the services not specifically in the package they offer, like authentication, mail, news, DNS and stuff, you can throw a few boxes in colo somewhere. (maybe at the same provider)
This will be a pretty low cost-of-entry way into the market. Grab some sales reps and see if they can offer anything like this.
I know sprint and level3 and probably uunet, psi, and a billion others do, too. (Disclaimer, I work for one of the above, so big deal.)
and you think that supplying you with a list of decent places to eat is a function of the government, even just the municipal government? I'd rather see ads for child porn on a government site before a list of approved dining establishments.
Private organizations are pretty good at listing decent restaurants. Please leave it to them rather than to something I am forced to fund.
It is often claimed that GPL'd code is not used in some projects because it would force the authors of the project to be more open with their code then they would like.
In short, I would like to know how you two believe this concept carries over into the content world. Is their an analogous effect, and is this type of work better or worse off than software in overcoming this effect?
More specifically, I see that the works in Project Gutenberg are primarily (all?) public domain, so they may be referenced, altered, and distributed in quite a few ways with few problems. The content in Nupedia, however, is held under a licence more like the GPL. Do you feel that this restriction will cause that content to be used less by people since it would place restrictions on the way in which they could release and distribute derivitave works? As the amount of content released under the Gnu Free Documentation Licence increases, do you think that it will have as easy of a time becoming accepted and used as software released under the GPL, or do you think that the restrictive nature of the license will have a more deleterious effect on the works released under it?
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About that CyWIG thing: It seems to me that these devices could be used as a cheap wireless LAN access device. Plug one into your machine with internet connectivity, and plug the other into your laptop. Make them route your Internet traffic for you. It will probably take some hacking on it to get it to work, but I think the possibility is there. Any idea what kind of bandwith these can get between them?
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
Perhaps Palm does need to watch out. I'm not sure if the threat is from Cybiko or not, though. Although the Cybiko has the features you mentioned, I don't think it's as quick or easy to use as my palm. In my opinion, it is not appropriate to carry around as a replacement for my Palm Pilot. For about a quarter of the price, though, it may be close.
regarding the expandability, there is a slot in the botton of the cybiko to insert upgrade cards. I think the only one available is a 1MB memory upgrade. (that helps). The slot looks a lot like PCMCIA, so perhaps soon we can start sticking all kinds of stuff in there.
There is a linux C SDK for the Cybiko, so as you mentioned, maybe if these things get into the right hands we'll have lots of cool apps and hacks for it.
I don't mean to talk the Cybiko down, I just don't think that it is an effective organizer, and of course there is not nearly the amount of software for it.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
If you want an organizer, get a Palm Pilot. If you want a toy, get a cybiko.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
So far, it's kinda neat, but certainly targeted at a quite young demographic. It's more of a game-boy with wireless than a Palm Pilot with wireless.
At least it will give me something to do on the bus ride home.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I can't believe someone found a flaw in the otherwise ingenious and infalliable plan!
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I guess the point here is twofold. It takes time for the donations to ramp up. And you're not going to make a million, but it might be worth your while.
If you're interested in sponsorpool, drop Tom Swiss a mail and ask him about it. It's kind of a cool project.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
It's actually quite an old (and not racist, but humorously flawed) proposition.
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BIOS support? you don't have to boot from it, you know.
All your dangifiknow are belong to us.
I didn't realize that it was trolling to point to resources that answer the question. I'll refrain from doing that in the future.
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Or because you finally have some kind of reason to stare at the sun, so you do something you know you shouldn't and that would hurt you regardless of the circumstances.
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ask cecil adams about this.
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Actually, you could include everyone as long as they jumped off at noon local time. we could have this earth moved wherever we wanted it in a jiffy!
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In fact, I can think of some people that would pay me to find your records online.
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perhaps they would spend as much time with their patients as is necessary to figure out what the problem is, let the patient know what the options for treatment are, help the patient make a sane decision, and treat the problem. This is in stark contrast to the small amount of time that physicians may see their patients under the current insurance controlled quagmire.
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Or put it in your colon and let it get those pollups instead of just sitting around and getting colon cancer.
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For the services not specifically in the package they offer, like authentication, mail, news, DNS and stuff, you can throw a few boxes in colo somewhere. (maybe at the same provider)
This will be a pretty low cost-of-entry way into the market. Grab some sales reps and see if they can offer anything like this.
I know sprint and level3 and probably uunet, psi, and a billion others do, too. (Disclaimer, I work for one of the above, so big deal.)
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theres a few more that I can't think of.
Plus, if you want more ideas, I bet I can think of one every 15 minutes for an entire night. I'll meet you at the local watering hole. You buy.
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This may come in handy when they decide to Deregulate Banking.
Private organizations are pretty good at listing decent restaurants. Please leave it to them rather than to something I am forced to fund.
(the f stands for "fourth")
a beowulf cluster of these? oh yeah - fp!
In short, I would like to know how you two believe this concept carries over into the content world. Is their an analogous effect, and is this type of work better or worse off than software in overcoming this effect?
More specifically, I see that the works in Project Gutenberg are primarily (all?) public domain, so they may be referenced, altered, and distributed in quite a few ways with few problems. The content in Nupedia, however, is held under a licence more like the GPL. Do you feel that this restriction will cause that content to be used less by people since it would place restrictions on the way in which they could release and distribute derivitave works? As the amount of content released under the Gnu Free Documentation Licence increases, do you think that it will have as easy of a time becoming accepted and used as software released under the GPL, or do you think that the restrictive nature of the license will have a more deleterious effect on the works released under it?
You mean 2 days ago? Seems a little late to be posting that, doens't it?
Plus, it was in a front page story.
I have seen a +5 FP before, but I just can't find it now.
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