I once sold $5-$20 items on eBay for a period of six months. I have NEVER seen so much lost mail. I was the seller. I'm an honest guy. I shipped the product out as soon as I had the payment EVERY time. And when there were reports of lost mail, I always shipped another free of charge.
I can't help but think that it's the buyers half of the time. I know the USPS isn't that unreliable. These people were just taking advantage of the system. It works both ways.
They get a brick of a laptop, thinking, "Hey, it's nearly as powerful, and I can carry it around!" Then they realize that lugging around 8 lbs of computing wonder isn't all they conceptualized it to be.
I've been toting a 7.5 pound desktop replacement for about 2 years now. Sure, I've still got a phat Athlon system that's twice as fast in the home office, but I rarely use it. I'd much prefer to sit on the sofa in my living room with my Thinkpad in my lap.
However, to do that you'd need to know where the glove is in space, not just its configuration with respect to itself, which would require more sophisticated hardware.
There have been terestrial telescopes that can see farther than Hubble for quite some time now. This isn't that big of a deal. And besides, what's to stop us from just launching a new and improved Hubble ][?
I've been using a 15" 1600x1200 screen for about two years now (Thinkpad A30p), and I couldn't be happier. There is a large market for smaller devices with greater functionality. Heck, that's how the PDA started in the first place--people didn't want to carry around their laptops just for an address book and a calendar.
2MB of memory is really plenty for this device. That amount of memory will provide enough capacity to carry your fat address book and manage even the busiest of schedules. That's really where this thing is headed anyhow. It's not made for browsing the web or playing games. It's just a basic PDA with a MUCH smaller form factor.
I agree that many people would be well-suited with a larger PDA, but there is definitely a market for this type of device. I certainly won't be buying one (I'd prefer a cellphone with PDA functionality), but I know many people who can't wait to get their hands on these.
I make charitable donations every year. I always make sure that my donations go to an organization that is registered as a non-profit so that I can realize tax benefits from my donations. Now I can support my favorite OSS project with these donations. I'm sure that there are many more out there like me as well. Mozilla isn't going to die any time soon.
I was actually just giving a taste of my experience with OS X. I run the latest version out there with CUPS integrated. I find that the OS X print spooler has memory leaks when printing large (>1MB) jobs. XP handles this just fine. OS X says that 640MB of RAM isn't enough and starts swapping. XP never exceeds 350M or so. Now tell me again why you think I'm living in an opposite universe?
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Of course it's not a technical problem. There are far too many people who live "in the middle of Silicon Valley" without decent broadband for this to be a technical problem. That's why it's such a problem. The technical issues of broadband are easy.
I consider myself to be a FreeBSD zealot. With the exception of a test box at the house which seems to have a different OS every week, all of my servers run FreeBSD. But I know that it's not the perfect OS for every job. That's why I run XP on my laptop and OSX on my G4.
Don't diss the entire community because a few people on a FreeBSD list are rude. The BSD community has given a great deal to the public. And they have plenty more to offer.
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What's DLinux? ;-)
What I'm wondering is why this scam comment is rated +5. Sure, it's a scam and thus on-topic, but come on! The mods need to take some action here!!
I once sold $5-$20 items on eBay for a period of six months. I have NEVER seen so much lost mail. I was the seller. I'm an honest guy. I shipped the product out as soon as I had the payment EVERY time. And when there were reports of lost mail, I always shipped another free of charge.
I can't help but think that it's the buyers half of the time. I know the USPS isn't that unreliable. These people were just taking advantage of the system. It works both ways.
With real laptops getting to be cheaper than high-end PDAs, I don't see why anybody would want to spend so much on a PDA.
I'm getting about 30KBps on this link.
There is no innovation. It's purely litigation.
I have never actually signed a EULA.
The simpler alternative is to just not produce a history file at all. In the .cshrc, add this line:
unset history
However, to do that you'd need to know where the glove is in space, not just its configuration with respect to itself, which would require more sophisticated hardware.
Sophisticated hardware such as this?
There have been terestrial telescopes that can see farther than Hubble for quite some time now. This isn't that big of a deal. And besides, what's to stop us from just launching a new and improved Hubble ][?
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Actually, the current terms are that the printer is yours after 3 years, not two.
Thanks for the link, though. I think I'm going to pick up one of these.
I've got a 4:3 (i.e. non-widescreen) Sony Wega that has a DVI input. I've had it for almost a year now.
I've been using a 15" 1600x1200 screen for about two years now (Thinkpad A30p), and I couldn't be happier. There is a large market for smaller devices with greater functionality. Heck, that's how the PDA started in the first place--people didn't want to carry around their laptops just for an address book and a calendar.
2MB of memory is really plenty for this device. That amount of memory will provide enough capacity to carry your fat address book and manage even the busiest of schedules. That's really where this thing is headed anyhow. It's not made for browsing the web or playing games. It's just a basic PDA with a MUCH smaller form factor.
I agree that many people would be well-suited with a larger PDA, but there is definitely a market for this type of device. I certainly won't be buying one (I'd prefer a cellphone with PDA functionality), but I know many people who can't wait to get their hands on these.
I make charitable donations every year. I always make sure that my donations go to an organization that is registered as a non-profit so that I can realize tax benefits from my donations. Now I can support my favorite OSS project with these donations. I'm sure that there are many more out there like me as well. Mozilla isn't going to die any time soon.
Marc's a nice guy though.
Marc may be a nice guy, but IMO he's a no-talent ass-clown struggling to stay in the spotlight.
I was actually just giving a taste of my experience with OS X. I run the latest version out there with CUPS integrated. I find that the OS X print spooler has memory leaks when printing large (>1MB) jobs. XP handles this just fine. OS X says that 640MB of RAM isn't enough and starts swapping. XP never exceeds 350M or so. Now tell me again why you think I'm living in an opposite universe?
Of course it's not a technical problem. There are far too many people who live "in the middle of Silicon Valley" without decent broadband for this to be a technical problem. That's why it's such a problem. The technical issues of broadband are easy.
I couldn't agree more. Now if only printing under OS X was as smooth as it is on Windows XP.
that Office will certainly be last. That's still a good source of revenue.
On that same note, here's a pdf of the memo from the DoD CIO on this very topic.
Theo has already spoken.
That's perfectly legit, so long as the "Net" remains in the copyright notices. I believe you'll find that Theo didn't alter copyright notices.
I consider myself to be a FreeBSD zealot. With the exception of a test box at the house which seems to have a different OS every week, all of my servers run FreeBSD. But I know that it's not the perfect OS for every job. That's why I run XP on my laptop and OSX on my G4.
Don't diss the entire community because a few people on a FreeBSD list are rude. The BSD community has given a great deal to the public. And they have plenty more to offer.