I keep all my old emails. I'm a nut - I have them going back to the early 90s.
I want them all to be online, all the time. I also want to be able to use anything to get at them, to me that means imap. I don't trust myself or my isp to run my own mail server.
I want to pay someone like google or yahoo $20-$30/yr for a few GB of space that can also send mail on behalf of my domain. And have it be imap accessible, too. That way I can always move it and back it up.
When will that happen?
Anyone do it now?
On a sidenote, I've been using yahoo/yahoopops for a while - I like the sync with outlook features that yahoo provides. If google can start adding all the other portal features (briefcase, notepad, real address book, calendar), then they've got something.
This is nonsense. TiVo is a market defining brand, up there with Xerox and Kleenex.
Last time I checked, I was able to blow my nose without a license fee, and copy a piece of paper without threat of litigation.
A market defining brand, maybe.
Innovative IP? Hardly.
They took a bunch of great concepts, wrapped it together very well, and now they're losing market share and margins to competitors. They had the first mover advantage, now it's gone, and no lawsuit should bring it back.
Kevin J. Andersen has the writing skill of a competent elementary school author.
I enjoy scifi, even sometimes when the writing is poor (Kilgore Trout anyone?), however I draw the line at Kevin J. His writing makes me want to puke with its simplicity and predictability.
I think this is a great step towards linux getting on the desktop, but a lot more has to be done to get everything together so someone could sit down at a linux box do email, cruise the web and then do something useful with the system...
Oy, I just wish Be had some hardware and software...It's just so smooth, so easy and quite nimble.
I know that everyone has said this already, but someone has to remind.
You got that right. So called "computer geeks" are graduating high school knowning nothing but Windows.
I think the problem in this thread is displayed above - a school should not teach Windows nor Linux, but should give basic skills to enable a student to learn on their own. I know this is flamebait, but I find it laughable to read about a school's curriculum in this thread. What's going to be assigned? A heavy dose of sci-fi for literature, some light hacking and a new OS for every grade?
High schools are not meant to teach computer geeks. Computer geeks teach themselves, that makes them geeks as they give up their spare time to learn on their own. A school should enable this self-teaching ability. Many schools lack the proper environment to foster this behavior and we should encourage this before mandating 1984 as required reading or another pet project.
Rizzo wrote: It's sad how people fail to remember that before the Beatles did what they did, NO ONE ELSE had. Ask any serious musician conscious at the time and they all say the same thing: Sgt. Pepper blew their mind.
I don't want to go knocking the Beatles too much, but after a while they lost their cachet. Lots of other bands were able to beat the beatles out on an innovative front. It's just that the beatles were the first ones to cross the atlantic successfully.
Psychedelic rock was already a hit out in California well before the beatles discovered it. On the same CA vein, anyone interested in the origins of the magical mystery tour should just read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The Furthur bus was the first.
As for bringing in real rock and roll, I wouldn't argue that the beatles were the first to successfully bridge that gap. Bands like the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones really did a far better job of synthesizing American blues and r&b with their own idea of rock.
Absolutely correct M_F_A_C. Why bother with some huge damned screen when you can just plug a pair of LCD glasses into a portable base unit? Sure it will be expensive, but probably just as much as a hit as a huge LCD screen. You can't show it to anyone else (multiple goggle hookups would be neat if everyone has a pair) unless you plugged into a monitor, but think of all the weight and battery power that this would save. The technology is already out there in those gaming goggles, I'm just surprised that no one has started to make a laptop using these. Do they get painful after extended use? Not reliable? Anyone know?
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Pegasus.
May not be open source these days, but it's still a classic.
Ad-supported Eudora is another option.
I keep all my old emails. I'm a nut - I have them going back to the early 90s.
I want them all to be online, all the time. I also want to be able to use anything to get at them, to me that means imap. I don't trust myself or my isp to run my own mail server.
I want to pay someone like google or yahoo $20-$30/yr for a few GB of space that can also send mail on behalf of my domain. And have it be imap accessible, too. That way I can always move it and back it up.
When will that happen?
Anyone do it now?
On a sidenote, I've been using yahoo/yahoopops for a while - I like the sync with outlook features that yahoo provides. If google can start adding all the other portal features (briefcase, notepad, real address book, calendar), then they've got something.
This is nonsense. TiVo is a market defining brand, up there with Xerox and Kleenex.
Last time I checked, I was able to blow my nose without a license fee, and copy a piece of paper without threat of litigation.
A market defining brand, maybe.
Innovative IP? Hardly.
They took a bunch of great concepts, wrapped it together very well, and now they're losing market share and margins to competitors. They had the first mover advantage, now it's gone, and no lawsuit should bring it back.
Kevin J. Andersen has the writing skill of a competent elementary school author.
I enjoy scifi, even sometimes when the writing is poor (Kilgore Trout anyone?), however I draw the line at Kevin J. His writing makes me want to puke with its simplicity and predictability.
I think this is a great step towards linux getting on the desktop, but a lot more has to be done to get everything together so someone could sit down at a linux box do email, cruise the web and then do something useful with the system...
Oy, I just wish Be had some hardware and software...It's just so smooth, so easy and quite nimble.
I know that everyone has said this already, but someone has to remind.
I just hope that there's a BeOS port in the works. The OS is great - it just needs some serious software.
Lizardking - Quadrophenia is perhaps one of the finest works to come out of The Who
I think the problem in this thread is displayed above - a school should not teach Windows nor Linux, but should give basic skills to enable a student to learn on their own. I know this is flamebait, but I find it laughable to read about a school's curriculum in this thread. What's going to be assigned? A heavy dose of sci-fi for literature, some light hacking and a new OS for every grade?
High schools are not meant to teach computer geeks. Computer geeks teach themselves, that makes them geeks as they give up their spare time to learn on their own. A school should enable this self-teaching ability. Many schools lack the proper environment to foster this behavior and we should encourage this before mandating 1984 as required reading or another pet project.
I don't want to go knocking the Beatles too much, but after a while they lost their cachet. Lots of other bands were able to beat the beatles out on an innovative front. It's just that the beatles were the first ones to cross the atlantic successfully.
Psychedelic rock was already a hit out in California well before the beatles discovered it. On the same CA vein, anyone interested in the origins of the magical mystery tour should just read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. The Furthur bus was the first.
As for bringing in real rock and roll, I wouldn't argue that the beatles were the first to successfully bridge that gap. Bands like the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones really did a far better job of synthesizing American blues and r&b with their own idea of rock.
I've gone enough of a musical tirade.
Adios.
Absolutely correct M_F_A_C. Why bother with some huge damned screen when you can just plug a pair of LCD glasses into a portable base unit? Sure it will be expensive, but probably just as much as a hit as a huge LCD screen. You can't show it to anyone else (multiple goggle hookups would be neat if everyone has a pair) unless you plugged into a monitor, but think of all the weight and battery power that this would save. The technology is already out there in those gaming goggles, I'm just surprised that no one has started to make a laptop using these. Do they get painful after extended use? Not reliable? Anyone know?