Well, my Treo 600 is Palm based and works great. I too would like a Linux based phone but Palm OS will have to do until (if?) Treo comes out with a Linux based platform. I thought the new Motorola phones are scheduled to be Linux based.
On a related note I did recently purchase a Linux based PMP- the Cowan A2. If only it had a phone and PDA features it would be perfect. Yes it's big but the battery lasts FOREVER and I find the tiny RAZR and below phones just too small to conveniently use. I like a big screen and a full keyboard. The phone options with those features are just too limited.
Perhaps the world has moved on (at least a little) from the type of research the people here like to discuss. Drugs and biotech seem to me to be the big money research areas at the moment- besides the huge government subsidies and highly regulated markets they also have the "think of the children" factor helping to pay for any toy they bring to market.
Those of you within the DoD should voice your support for the OSSI's effort to T02 or the CTO at DISA. It's important for NIST to understand this delay on their part can have a significant (negative) operational impact and if there's not an actual technical issue, this has to be resolved post haste.
The staff at Most Universities is equally close-minded- even among members of the Computer Science department. I wish where I taught there was the same openness to Linux and willingness to support something other than Internet Explorer and Microsoft products but I'm sad to say this in not the case. It will be a long, hard row for anyone to change this.
This is not the case. Section 105 does prohibit the US Government from initiating copyright but it can hold them. Patents are rather common (at least within the DoD). The DoD will foot the bill for patents to individuals if the Government is granted unlimited rights to it.
Instead of fighting over consumers who are already connected and may have a plethora of options- why don't the telcos put their money where their advertising mouths are and try to offer access to those who have no other option than dial up currently? From what I can see, and I am no lover of cable, cable is in the forefront in this area. Charter cable is my only option- I'd use DSL if it were offered since cable is so expensive. However, 8 years after I first used DSL it's STILL not offered in my community. As a result, I'm an totally off the telco grid- VOIP, cell phone and cable. Verizon doesn't get one dime of my money. In the course of rewiring my house I have not even made provisions for terrestial phone service. So who cares about DSL?
Why would you say this? Have u used KDE? Preview (check), anti-aliasing (check), Translucency (check), interface ripped off from OS/X (check), Panel (check) and so on. It's had these for a while.... And by the way, with Linux the user interface has nothing to do with the operating system itself- X11 and all that.
The ideal is to be able to use what you've paid for. I play Battlefield 2 quite a bit- I like playing it despite EA's best attempts to fuck it up (they are talented at that at least). However, EA has seen fit to have layer upon layer of unlocks with points that merely discourage actually playing the game- you feel you are racing towards some goal however meaningless it may be instead of just enjoying yourself. Image buying a CD and then finding you could only play 1 song until you expressed the appropriate homage to the artist or having your DVD downgraded if you gave it a negative review. I see all of these phenom as part of the same attempt to lower our expectations. Open - sourced based games, developed by users are really the only answer. If only if this were economically feasible....
I think the case of the Rosenburgs is especially interesting- given that the Soviet records provided NO evidence that Mr. Rosenburg was guilty of the crimes for which he was executed or that Ms Rosenburg was involved at all. There is however significant evidence that the testimony against the Rosenburgs was obtained under duress.
You only alluded, I think, to the end result. Did you get the product out? What was the cost? Oh snap, only the first question matters! Whomever was in charge was probably one of the word advocates and clearly they don't give a flying F what you or anyone else is subjected to as long as they get whatever it is out. I suspect business people would look at your case and say, "See, Microsoft Turd works!". They might even make it case study for how FOSS advocates gum up the works. That's the situation as I see in many places.
Yesterday I was stopped by a cop in the Concord, MA national park because the muffler on my old vw bus was a bit loud. I handed him my Vermont driver's license, which is a bit of paper with no SSN, only a coded address and no photo. His response- "What's this". "My driver's license" I replied. "Well how do they hope to stop terrorists with this?"
Being an opponent of the current craze for every more comprehensive and intrusive IDs and ID checks here in the US, I hope some proponents of the Real ID act will pay heed to unintended consequences of this absurdity.
Clinton was attacked for his personal faults- far more than professional incompetency. Few people attack Bush's personal traits beyond those which affect his ability to perform.
Respect and restraint is due, in my opinion, only when you should expect a similar level of respect and restraint in return. I save my respect for the holder of the office, not the office itself. In a monoarchy for instance, it's appropriate to honor the office since they have little choice in who holds that office. They honor the office and expect those who hold it to live up to the position. In a democracy we should know who we're electing and not put anyone in place whom we don't respect as much or more than "the office".
I think what you are searching for is the all-time classic- in a two with two barbers, one neatly shaved and groomed, the other with unkempt, poorly cut hair who's shop would you choose to use?
When the alternatives were the Motif or Sunview provided text editors and a Framemaker version that cost about the same as a PC, I guess Applixware might have been "wildly popular" in the same way Yugos might be wildly popular among those who had been waiting for three years for their Trabant to be delivered. Applixware sucked then and it sucks now.
A couple of vendors- Verizon/SBC, Charter and Comcast have absolute grip over acccess to everyone's household. Unless you live in a major city- and I mean IN the city- you usually have only one and at most two options- the local cable monopoly and the local phone monopoly. Nobody else can play.
How can we expect people to pay the resulting exhorbinate prices and put up with the lousy, and I mean lousy, service which these monopolies provide? It's $40/month for the lowest band of 384k down/128k up "service" in my town. There's only one provider- Charter internet and their terms of service (no in house servers, etc) and service are terrible. They refuse to support Linux in any form or fashion and just try to get a convenient appointment out of them...
Until the people of the US become upset enough to demand multiple companies be given access to the physical infrastructure coming into our houses we'll continue to fall behind the rest of the world when it comes to broadband usage.
Just ask Charter for support- if you need any. My connection was runn8ing very slowly all of the sudden (lots of noise on the lines as it eventually turned out) so I give them a call- as soon it turned out I was using Linux they responded that they don't offer support for that OS. Several phone calls and about two hours on the line later I got to someone who did send out a tech and fixed the problem which clearly had NOTHING to do with my OS but off the cuff- they are anti-Linux.
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Well, my Treo 600 is Palm based and works great. I too would like a Linux based phone but Palm OS will have to do until (if?) Treo comes out with a Linux based platform. I thought the new Motorola phones are scheduled to be Linux based.
On a related note I did recently purchase a Linux based PMP- the Cowan A2. If only it had a phone and PDA features it would be perfect. Yes it's big but the battery lasts FOREVER and I find the tiny RAZR and below phones just too small to conveniently use. I like a big screen and a full keyboard. The phone options with those features are just too limited.
Perhaps the world has moved on (at least a little) from the type of research the people here like to discuss. Drugs and biotech seem to me to be the big money research areas at the moment- besides the huge government subsidies and highly regulated markets they also have the "think of the children" factor helping to pay for any toy they bring to market.
Can you post a link to your conclusion or send in something more? I'm interested in the details of your research.
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Those of you within the DoD should voice your support for the OSSI's effort to T02 or the CTO at DISA. It's important for NIST to understand this delay on their part can have a significant (negative) operational impact and if there's not an actual technical issue, this has to be resolved post haste.
The staff at Most Universities is equally close-minded- even among members of the Computer Science department. I wish where I taught there was the same openness to Linux and willingness to support something other than Internet Explorer and Microsoft products but I'm sad to say this in not the case. It will be a long, hard row for anyone to change this.
This is not the case. Section 105 does prohibit the US Government from initiating copyright but it can hold them. Patents are rather common (at least within the DoD). The DoD will foot the bill for patents to individuals if the Government is granted unlimited rights to it.
Instead of fighting over consumers who are already connected and may have a plethora of options- why don't the telcos put their money where their advertising mouths are and try to offer access to those who have no other option than dial up currently? From what I can see, and I am no lover of cable, cable is in the forefront in this area. Charter cable is my only option- I'd use DSL if it were offered since cable is so expensive. However, 8 years after I first used DSL it's STILL not offered in my community. As a result, I'm an totally off the telco grid- VOIP, cell phone and cable. Verizon doesn't get one dime of my money. In the course of rewiring my house I have not even made provisions for terrestial phone service. So who cares about DSL?
Why would you say this? Have u used KDE? Preview (check), anti-aliasing (check), Translucency (check), interface ripped off from OS/X (check), Panel (check) and so on. It's had these for a while.... And by the way, with Linux the user interface has nothing to do with the operating system itself- X11 and all that.
The ideal is to be able to use what you've paid for. I play Battlefield 2 quite a bit- I like playing it despite EA's best attempts to fuck it up (they are talented at that at least). However, EA has seen fit to have layer upon layer of unlocks with points that merely discourage actually playing the game- you feel you are racing towards some goal however meaningless it may be instead of just enjoying yourself. Image buying a CD and then finding you could only play 1 song until you expressed the appropriate homage to the artist or having your DVD downgraded if you gave it a negative review. I see all of these phenom as part of the same attempt to lower our expectations. Open - sourced based games, developed by users are really the only answer. If only if this were economically feasible....
I think the case of the Rosenburgs is especially interesting- given that the Soviet records provided NO evidence that Mr. Rosenburg was guilty of the crimes for which he was executed or that Ms Rosenburg was involved at all. There is however significant evidence that the testimony against the Rosenburgs was obtained under duress.
Donate $50 to the EFF.
Today.
You mean BROTHEL door don't you?
You only alluded, I think, to the end result. Did you get the product out? What was the cost? Oh snap, only the first question matters! Whomever was in charge was probably one of the word advocates and clearly they don't give a flying F what you or anyone else is subjected to as long as they get whatever it is out. I suspect business people would look at your case and say, "See, Microsoft Turd works!". They might even make it case study for how FOSS advocates gum up the works. That's the situation as I see in many places.
Didn't seem to stop Jenna W. from purchasing alcohol. Either way, it seems like their ID requirement is yet another reason NOT to visit Texas.
Yesterday I was stopped by a cop in the Concord, MA national park because the muffler on my old vw bus was a bit loud. I handed him my Vermont driver's license, which is a bit of paper with no SSN, only a coded address and no photo. His response- "What's this". "My driver's license" I replied. "Well how do they hope to stop terrorists with this?"
Being an opponent of the current craze for every more comprehensive and intrusive IDs and ID checks here in the US, I hope some proponents of the Real ID act will pay heed to unintended consequences of this absurdity.
Clinton was attacked for his personal faults- far more than professional incompetency. Few people attack Bush's personal traits beyond those which affect his ability to perform.
Respect and restraint is due, in my opinion, only when you should expect a similar level of respect and restraint in return. I save my respect for the holder of the office, not the office itself. In a monoarchy for instance, it's appropriate to honor the office since they have little choice in who holds that office. They honor the office and expect those who hold it to live up to the position. In a democracy we should know who we're electing and not put anyone in place whom we don't respect as much or more than "the office".
I think what you are searching for is the all-time classic- in a two with two barbers, one neatly shaved and groomed, the other with unkempt, poorly cut hair who's shop would you choose to use?
When the alternatives were the Motif or Sunview provided text editors and a Framemaker version that cost about the same as a PC, I guess Applixware might have been "wildly popular" in the same way Yugos might be wildly popular among those who had been waiting for three years for their Trabant to be delivered. Applixware sucked then and it sucks now.
I have to say this is one of the wittier comments I've read on slashdot.
A couple of vendors- Verizon/SBC, Charter and Comcast have absolute grip over acccess to everyone's household. Unless you live in a major city- and I mean IN the city- you usually have only one and at most two options- the local cable monopoly and the local phone monopoly. Nobody else can play.
How can we expect people to pay the resulting exhorbinate prices and put up with the lousy, and I mean lousy, service which these monopolies provide? It's $40/month for the lowest band of 384k down/128k up "service" in my town. There's only one provider- Charter internet and their terms of service (no in house servers, etc) and service are terrible. They refuse to support Linux in any form or fashion and just try to get a convenient appointment out of them...
Until the people of the US become upset enough to demand multiple companies be given access to the physical infrastructure coming into our houses we'll continue to fall behind the rest of the world when it comes to broadband usage.
So the net should reflect some sort of alternate universe?
Ummm. Try being from North Africa, Romania or Pakistan in Ireland. You'd very soon see a different side of the "friendly Irish".
Just ask Charter for support- if you need any. My connection was runn8ing very slowly all of the sudden (lots of noise on the lines as it eventually turned out) so I give them a call- as soon it turned out I was using Linux they responded that they don't offer support for that OS. Several phone calls and about two hours on the line later I got to someone who did send out a tech and fixed the problem which clearly had NOTHING to do with my OS but off the cuff- they are anti-Linux.