Of course, 60 gigabytes won't be easy to fill with.mp3 files. I've got maybe 250 CDs collected over the years, and with every one of them ripped I've yet to fill half of my 30 Gb iPod. Until I started collecting audio books.
The real utility of a.mp3 player with that much capacity is the ability to hold multible audio books and audio periodicals. I've come to realize how nice it is to have something to listen to while I'm on break or on a flight that isn't the 30-favorite songs that everyone ends up playing no matter how many.mp3 files they've got. Audio book files are quite large, and to be able to store them and your collection of music files requires drives big enough to be pretty much overkill for music alone.
The Logitech IO Pen is a pretty neat toy which you write with like a pen but it stores your notes as computer files which you can later edit in your processor later on after the trip. You will need to use their special paper to write on, but it's just regular paper with little dots all over it to recognize the direction of the ballpoint movement.
I learned BASIC in 7th grade on the boxes in my public school's apple IIe room. I remember spending all of my free time during the (public school-quality) computer class trying to figure out how to write one of those 'virus' things I heard about on a BBS and since I didn't have a 'real' computer I ended up writing a really long program called "boom" on my IIe, which essentially was a sort of BASIC virus that would wipe the floppy disk (what with no hard drive and all) and save itself onto the disk under a random filename chosen from a line from my favorite band at the time. All the assignments for the class were about 30 lines long, but 'boom' was easiy 500, and everyone in the class watched me code it and were more interested in anything not related to programming "merry christmas" programs, so they happily let me run the file on all their computers. About a week after we got out for summer, the teacher called me up very angrily and wanted to know if I knew anything about why every students disk had the same program on it, with filenames like "esusbuil" and "uiltmyho", and yet nothing else. What could I say, but "Boom!"
BASIC was awesome.
So then the last major compatibility gap to bridge will be to get a version of ICQ that's compatible with those two (and vice versa)? Or better yet, Trillian?
It seems that the usable selection of cellphones available is pretty much dictated by the companies who provide service to them. Anyone can buy an old-style phone off eBay, but to use it the service companies have to allow the phone to be programmed to their networks. When the business pressure of the users of any given phone style is outweighed by the cost and hassle of providing service to those phones (i.e. when current technology progresses to the point where old-style phones get too old and their technology is difficult to remain backwards-compliant with), the providers will, one by one, stop letting the phones be used. Of course, there may remain niche markets for old tech phones in areas where larger numbers of their users live (and maybe willing to pay a premium for the service?).
If the section on Biochemistry were as in-depth as its section on Star Trek, that thing would be invaluable indeed. But since it isn't, I'm now forced by curiosity to spend my lunch hours jumping from 7 of 9 to the battle of Kittimur instead of finding the proper axes of a Michaelis-Menton plot..
I remember getting one of these calculator watches for Christmas. On the website they don't mention that those babies had a 1/100th second stopwatch and could store phone numbers, too. I wore short sleeves for most of the winter just to show mine off! In fact, I remember wearing through the band (which was cheap plastic) after a couple of years from taking it on and off showing it to people.
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Of course, 60 gigabytes won't be easy to fill with .mp3 files. I've got maybe 250 CDs collected over the years, and with every one of them ripped I've yet to fill half of my 30 Gb iPod. Until I started collecting audio books.
The real utility of a .mp3 player with that much capacity is the ability to hold multible audio books and audio periodicals. I've come to realize how nice it is to have something to listen to while I'm on break or on a flight that isn't the 30-favorite songs that everyone ends up playing no matter how many .mp3 files they've got. Audio book files are quite large, and to be able to store them and your collection of music files requires drives big enough to be pretty much overkill for music alone.
The Logitech IO Pen is a pretty neat toy which you write with like a pen but it stores your notes as computer files which you can later edit in your processor later on after the trip. You will need to use their special paper to write on, but it's just regular paper with little dots all over it to recognize the direction of the ballpoint movement.
I learned BASIC in 7th grade on the boxes in my public school's apple IIe room. I remember spending all of my free time during the (public school-quality) computer class trying to figure out how to write one of those 'virus' things I heard about on a BBS and since I didn't have a 'real' computer I ended up writing a really long program called "boom" on my IIe, which essentially was a sort of BASIC virus that would wipe the floppy disk (what with no hard drive and all) and save itself onto the disk under a random filename chosen from a line from my favorite band at the time. All the assignments for the class were about 30 lines long, but 'boom' was easiy 500, and everyone in the class watched me code it and were more interested in anything not related to programming "merry christmas" programs, so they happily let me run the file on all their computers. About a week after we got out for summer, the teacher called me up very angrily and wanted to know if I knew anything about why every students disk had the same program on it, with filenames like "esusbuil" and "uiltmyho", and yet nothing else. What could I say, but "Boom!" BASIC was awesome.
So then the last major compatibility gap to bridge will be to get a version of ICQ that's compatible with those two (and vice versa)? Or better yet, Trillian?
It seems that the usable selection of cellphones available is pretty much dictated by the companies who provide service to them. Anyone can buy an old-style phone off eBay, but to use it the service companies have to allow the phone to be programmed to their networks. When the business pressure of the users of any given phone style is outweighed by the cost and hassle of providing service to those phones (i.e. when current technology progresses to the point where old-style phones get too old and their technology is difficult to remain backwards-compliant with), the providers will, one by one, stop letting the phones be used. Of course, there may remain niche markets for old tech phones in areas where larger numbers of their users live (and maybe willing to pay a premium for the service?).
If the section on Biochemistry were as in-depth as its section on Star Trek, that thing would be invaluable indeed. But since it isn't, I'm now forced by curiosity to spend my lunch hours jumping from 7 of 9 to the battle of Kittimur instead of finding the proper axes of a Michaelis-Menton plot..
Maybe they haven't heard yet about Sploogle (http://www.sploogle.com)? It's pretty low-tech, but I like the name better than Booble.
I remember getting one of these calculator watches for Christmas. On the website they don't mention that those babies had a 1/100th second stopwatch and could store phone numbers, too. I wore short sleeves for most of the winter just to show mine off! In fact, I remember wearing through the band (which was cheap plastic) after a couple of years from taking it on and off showing it to people.