Absolutely right, the treo 600 is an excellent phone and PDA. With the FREE DioPlayer MP3 player on a few 1gb SD cards each with a different mix of music to suit my changing moods. I can change from the Industrial Futurepop to the Industrial Dancepop to the Industrial Hardcore to the Complete works of Johnny Cash just by slotting a different card and pressing play - Nothing's worse than having a nice rocking random industrial mix suddenly switch to Ring of Fire at the end of a track. 1gb for a styled megamix is plenty, 40gb means you have to organize things and then navigate, futz with settings or whatever; I say slot the mix you want and run. I can even have it run in the background while I do whatever else I need to on the device (including making phone calls). Add in internet access (Blazer sucks, run Firefox on the home PC through WinHand Anywhere and get whatever you need). Not to mention the universal remote control programs available to operate my stereo/dvd/tv/vcr etc. Enough power to work all day, and it charges from the USB port on any PC I'm close to long enough. Treo600 easily slays an Ipod. Windows mobile phone is a joke.
OMFG! You BASTARD! You complete and Utter Bastard! I have spent months in physical therapy after the brain surgery to have that memory physically scrubbed out. I JUST NOW LEARNED HOW TO WALK AGAIN! Now I have to go back to the hospital to have that contaminated section of my brain removed. Perhaps I'll just get a shotgun and shoot myself. THAT'S THE REAL REASON KURT KILLED HIMSELF - HE READ THE SCRIPT TO JERSY GIRL AND COULDN'T TAKE IT!!!111!!!!
That's the old hermetic principle: As above, so below. Essentially in this context, you will tend to behave according to the expectations of your appearance. Dress like a professional = work like a professional. Dress like a thug = act like a thug. It's the reason guys feel tough when they put on that black leather jacket, or act a little more polite and civilized when they put on the tux.
The PalmOne Treo 650 pda-phone is already very close to being a thumb-operated device. You can navigate almost everywhere and select almost anything using the 5-way navigational keypad, then there's the built-in hardware keyboard. I routinely use this device single-handedly, using only my thumb to navigate and enter text. It's actually pretty rare that I HAVE TO break out the stylus and tap something on the screen (usually my thumbnail is good enough). The bigest limit is the size of the keyboard is larger than the range of motion of my thumb, requiring slight shifting of the way I hold it in my hand as I'm using it, but I would not categorize that as a problem with the design as it's not something that is a nuisance to work with. Bottom line is, what is the innovation we're seeing from MS? We already HAVE this.
What's wrong with.txt and.html format? All my ebooks have been saved in either of these, and I've converted them to the proprietary format of whatever flavor of doc reader I'v felt like using at any given time. The problem is with sources that provide ONLY the proprietary version and don't even give you and option for.txt or.html. If I can't read the book in whatever reader/browser I have, I'm not going to pay to download and read it.
Contrary to the marketing BS this Windows Smartphone Edition phone is NOT a PDA. It's a slightly more advanced than average cell phone. Here's what it can do that my current low-end standard cell phone (Samsung a660) cannot do: It can sync contacts, calendar, and email from Outlook; It has an external LCD; It has an excellent browser (IE kills all other microbrowsers); It has a SD slot. No handwriting recognition or integrated keyboard of any kind, and "naturally" no touchscreen display for the no stylus to use. Gawdawful GUI (even worse than Nokia's). Utterly unstable, lousy battery life, will lose all contact and other data at any given moment. I could go on.
Ultimate verdict: Not a PDA and a barely passable cell phone. Save some money and get a much better device (PDA + Phone) in the Treo 650 - Phone + PDA + BlueTooth + SD/IO + HighRes + Better camera with video (no time limit on clip) + NON-VOLITILE MEMORY!!!
Perhaps we can do this on the cheap? Use the model of ICBM with MIRVs, but instead pack a passenger in there instead of a nuke. Target the specific locations to land the guys in and voila, intercontinental travel in less than 3 hours. And just think of the huge bragging rights you get when your passenger IRV parachutes down on the lawn of your rich pal's estate on the opposite side of the planet!
I don't necessarily have to play with other people, and I'm sure everyone here is the same way. Sometimes I have plenty of fun when I play with myself.
This is what my shit list is for. Someone pisses me off, I find out who they are, get their email addy (and other relevant useful infos necessary for reg sites), jot the info in cryptopad for later use. And then I periodically sign up for as much spam-generating crap as I can find in ten minutes or so using that email address.
You gotta keep your Tinfoil Hat on until you have the book published, otherewise you're just broadcasting your ideas to the rest of the planet. Jeez, man, you should have heard the phrase "Keep it under your hat." TINFOIL HAT for privacy. It works. It can be stylish. Soon it will be fashionable Just like these things!
I think you're right. We've got him IN PRINT saying the originals don't exist anymore, which sounds like he's disavowing ownership of these movies. I think a good lawyer could get the originals properly put in public domain.
Fix the tax structure is EXACTLY what needs to be done. The Russian tax code fix did what it needed to: improved revenue to the government and reduced an enormous burdon on the economy. A reasonable low flat tax rate (say 13-17%) with NO LOOPHOLES or tax havens would eliminate any tax-based motives for outsourcing or any of the other financial shenanigans that have been going on. Unfortunately, that would also eliminate an entire sector of the economy which exists solely to help people understand and exploit the mind-bogglingly arcane tax code we have. The new tax form:
A: How much money did you make this year? ________
The best PDA-phone combo I've used so far is the Samsung i500. It's about the size of an old motorola timeport flip phone, has a normal phone keypad, graffiti pad on the lower portion of the flip and a reasonably large bright touchscreen on the upper flip, palm 4.1 OS (for which there is a CRAPLOAD of free/cheap high quality apps). No querty keyboard which helps to reduce the width and simplify the UI (you don't need it with graffiti anyway - I'm a long-time palm user so YMMV). It's very comfortable and intuitive as a phone, and very sharp as a PDA. Only real downside to this phone is no SD slot:-(
Already too much stuff on my belt. I have the PDA-phone-MP3player, Leatherman Wave, Mini-Mag flashlight, zippo ligher, and a Keychain. If only SOMEHOW I could get all these other devices to merge into one SUPER-ULTIMATE-ALL-PURPOSE TOOL of MAXIMUM ABILITY....
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Absolutely right, the treo 600 is an excellent phone and PDA. With the FREE DioPlayer MP3 player on a few 1gb SD cards each with a different mix of music to suit my changing moods. I can change from the Industrial Futurepop to the Industrial Dancepop to the Industrial Hardcore to the Complete works of Johnny Cash just by slotting a different card and pressing play - Nothing's worse than having a nice rocking random industrial mix suddenly switch to Ring of Fire at the end of a track. 1gb for a styled megamix is plenty, 40gb means you have to organize things and then navigate, futz with settings or whatever; I say slot the mix you want and run. I can even have it run in the background while I do whatever else I need to on the device (including making phone calls). Add in internet access (Blazer sucks, run Firefox on the home PC through WinHand Anywhere and get whatever you need). Not to mention the universal remote control programs available to operate my stereo/dvd/tv/vcr etc. Enough power to work all day, and it charges from the USB port on any PC I'm close to long enough. Treo600 easily slays an Ipod. Windows mobile phone is a joke.
Damn! that's one heck of a password!
That's freaking brilliant! I MUST try this. The chances of this actually working are much higher than me legitimately landing a good job.
Thank you for the idea, now I'm off to the patent office.
OMFG! You BASTARD! You complete and Utter Bastard! I have spent months in physical therapy after the brain surgery to have that memory physically scrubbed out. I JUST NOW LEARNED HOW TO WALK AGAIN! Now I have to go back to the hospital to have that contaminated section of my brain removed. Perhaps I'll just get a shotgun and shoot myself. THAT'S THE REAL REASON KURT KILLED HIMSELF - HE READ THE SCRIPT TO JERSY GIRL AND COULDN'T TAKE IT!!!111!!!!
Obviously this discovery can also allow previously posted articles to Travel Through Time and appear a day later.
Wow.
That's the old hermetic principle: As above, so below. Essentially in this context, you will tend to behave according to the expectations of your appearance. Dress like a professional = work like a professional. Dress like a thug = act like a thug. It's the reason guys feel tough when they put on that black leather jacket, or act a little more polite and civilized when they put on the tux.
Blackberry is the most godawful piece of crap interface I've encountered.
scroll scroll scroll (scroll some more), click, scroll scroll, click, oh crap this isn't the page I wanted, click, scroll scroll scroll scroll....
Of course, I'm slightly biased in favor of more capable devices. See my post below...
The PalmOne Treo 650 pda-phone is already very close to being a thumb-operated device. You can navigate almost everywhere and select almost anything using the 5-way navigational keypad, then there's the built-in hardware keyboard. I routinely use this device single-handedly, using only my thumb to navigate and enter text. It's actually pretty rare that I HAVE TO break out the stylus and tap something on the screen (usually my thumbnail is good enough). The bigest limit is the size of the keyboard is larger than the range of motion of my thumb, requiring slight shifting of the way I hold it in my hand as I'm using it, but I would not categorize that as a problem with the design as it's not something that is a nuisance to work with. Bottom line is, what is the innovation we're seeing from MS? We already HAVE this.
Sorry, you did not win First Post.
Please play again.
With apologies to the true fans out there, I'm reminded of this:
FROA #109. [Integrity, self-respect, moral clarity] and an empty sack is worth the sack.
What's wrong with .txt and .html format? All my ebooks have been saved in either of these, and I've converted them to the proprietary format of whatever flavor of doc reader I'v felt like using at any given time. The problem is with sources that provide ONLY the proprietary version and don't even give you and option for .txt or .html. If I can't read the book in whatever reader/browser I have, I'm not going to pay to download and read it.
Contrary to the marketing BS this Windows Smartphone Edition phone is NOT a PDA. It's a slightly more advanced than average cell phone. Here's what it can do that my current low-end standard cell phone (Samsung a660) cannot do: It can sync contacts, calendar, and email from Outlook; It has an external LCD; It has an excellent browser (IE kills all other microbrowsers); It has a SD slot. No handwriting recognition or integrated keyboard of any kind, and "naturally" no touchscreen display for the no stylus to use. Gawdawful GUI (even worse than Nokia's). Utterly unstable, lousy battery life, will lose all contact and other data at any given moment. I could go on.
Ultimate verdict: Not a PDA and a barely passable cell phone. Save some money and get a much better device (PDA + Phone) in the Treo 650 - Phone + PDA + BlueTooth + SD/IO + HighRes + Better camera with video (no time limit on clip) + NON-VOLITILE MEMORY!!!
Perhaps we can do this on the cheap? Use the model of ICBM with MIRVs, but instead pack a passenger in there instead of a nuke. Target the specific locations to land the guys in and voila, intercontinental travel in less than 3 hours. And just think of the huge bragging rights you get when your passenger IRV parachutes down on the lawn of your rich pal's estate on the opposite side of the planet!
I don't necessarily have to play with other people, and I'm sure everyone here is the same way. Sometimes I have plenty of fun when I play with myself.
Wait, that didn't sound right...
This is what my shit list is for. Someone pisses me off, I find out who they are, get their email addy (and other relevant useful infos necessary for reg sites), jot the info in cryptopad for later use. And then I periodically sign up for as much spam-generating crap as I can find in ten minutes or so using that email address.
You gotta keep your Tinfoil Hat on until you have the book published, otherewise you're just broadcasting your ideas to the rest of the planet. Jeez, man, you should have heard the phrase "Keep it under your hat." TINFOIL HAT for privacy. It works. It can be stylish. Soon it will be fashionable Just like these things!
You must be new here.
I think you're right. We've got him IN PRINT saying the originals don't exist anymore, which sounds like he's disavowing ownership of these movies. I think a good lawyer could get the originals properly put in public domain.
A: How much money did you make this year? ________
B: 16% of Line A: _______
Please send the amount listed on line B.
You don't need a CPA to figure that out.Someone mod parent as funny.
The best PDA-phone combo I've used so far is the Samsung i500. It's about the size of an old motorola timeport flip phone, has a normal phone keypad, graffiti pad on the lower portion of the flip and a reasonably large bright touchscreen on the upper flip, palm 4.1 OS (for which there is a CRAPLOAD of free/cheap high quality apps). No querty keyboard which helps to reduce the width and simplify the UI (you don't need it with graffiti anyway - I'm a long-time palm user so YMMV). It's very comfortable and intuitive as a phone, and very sharp as a PDA. Only real downside to this phone is no SD slot :-(
Already too much stuff on my belt. I have the PDA-phone-MP3player, Leatherman Wave, Mini-Mag flashlight, zippo ligher, and a Keychain. If only SOMEHOW I could get all these other devices to merge into one SUPER-ULTIMATE-ALL-PURPOSE TOOL of MAXIMUM ABILITY....
One gizmo to rule them all, maybe?
I just hope it has a "You are Here-->" indicator so we all know where we are.
Why not a Palm OS?
You mean something like this?