Really? Can you take notes while talking on the phone?
Can you look up info while taking a call?
Yes and yes, as long as use hands-free obviously (blue-tooth or oldschool with wires), its no problems. And there is an "old school" handsfree set that comes with the phone by default.
I personally have a SonyEricsson P800 (precursor to the P900). I have previously had several Palms, but they lie around unused at the moment. For a "Personal Digital Assistant" and the basic needs, the P800 fills them greatly for me, leaving no need for an actual PDA.
Its a great phone, great calendar etc. The screen is not the same quality as on the latest palms, but better than older palms, and definitely does the job.
I think PDA:s will never reach the main-stream and may very well have seen their peak as consumer products.
The new smartphones will edge PDA:s out of the mainstream market (why have two devices?), but I do however think that PDA:s will have roles to fill in niche-markets for corporate users.
Palm would probably do best trying to retrench into devices that have more specific uses for the corporate and public sectors, such as wlan enabled (like the Tungsten C) PDA:s for warehouse workers, POS, healthcare etc.
Trying to compete with smartphones is a fools cause (and CEO:s ego cause) as long as they cannot keep up with Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola et al at their own game.
Not saying that its "forbidden", I just find it Strange that they change the design of their site to mirror that of Apples at the sametime as they shamelessly copy iPhoto and iTunes gui:s _after_ they have gotten into the media by being the "lookalike and namealike" company of Windows.
Seems to me that they are looking for free publicity anyway possible, even if it means publicity as "the copycats".
I bet SCO must be kicking themselves for not going after Linspire instead of.. well, just about everyone else.
SCO would have had a field day considering Linspires shameless rip-offs (first "Lindows", then Apple's software _and_ web-site, and now this).
Had they gone after Linspire, there might actually have been people believing their ludicrous claims considering Linspires track-record..
Just compare: this with this
Actually, with the Gentoo portage, current Gentoo users should be the ones least interested in new Gentoo distributions, since Gentoos portage allows updating of components to "the latest version" regardless of what cd-version you used to install it.
To me the greatest benefit of Gentoo is this: I do not need to blow a machine clean and install a new version or risk a lot with an uncertain install of large packages, I just gradually update my system as new versions become available!
And contrary to popular belief, Gentoo is pretty "user friendly" since it allows "on the fly updating". But this is of course once you actually have your system working flawlessly to begin with..:)
We should still be reasonably safe using the RSA-algorithm for a while more since the number is the equivalent of a 576-bit key. Most cryptography programs support upto 4096-bit keys, and the strength of a key increases exponentially for every bit if my memory does not fail me (correct me if it does).
Safe, that is unless someone invents quantum computers and makes them easy to produce..:)
Konqueror, Nautilus, Epiphany, Galeon, Firefox, Mozilla et etc.. I have to agree that its getting kind of ridiculous.
Ok, choice is nice and all, but this duplication of functionality and work is probably extremely unproductive as a whole for the progress of open source software.
It should be enough with 2-3 choices for browsers instead of 20: one or two lightweight ones á Firefox, and one or two "fully featured" like Mozilla.
But OpenIPO is designed to let ANYONE bid on IPO shares.
Sounds to me like legal way to scam/cash in on hype and an overenthusiastic general public.
Benjamin Graham (Warren Buffets "idol") used to say that IPO stands for "It's Probably Overpriced". Factor that in with an irrational and overenthusiastic general public lacking investment skills thinking all IPO:s are winners (they usually forget the last bubble in good times) and you have a table set for even more inflated IPO:s and ludicrous business models going public.
Probably stating the obvious here, but once this gets dependable and easy to form to different needs, "BioBricks" might spell the end of people dying due to lack of suitable organ donors.
I think we will rather see that before we see any horror scenarios like "Blade Runner like replicant slaves".
I am aware of that. I am also aware that he did not sympathize with the nazis and only did his work because he had to. But nonetheless, he _did_ the work.
There are stories of Heisenberg having to fake nazi sympathies in letters to friends because the nazis read everything he wrote, something that caused a lot of his old friends to think he really did sympathize with the nazis at the time and take offence.
Einstein calling Heisenberg "a big Nazi" is surely too funny to be true.
Why would it not be true? Werner Heisenberg did a lot of nuclear research in germany during the second world war, research that was meant to lead to a german atom bomb.
I dont think just because Einsteing was Einstein everything he said every day had to sound poetic and/or thouroughly thought thru, maybe he just spoke his mind occasionally?:)
I'm all for Mono, software should be cross platform, and and it would be nice to see this succeed where Java unfortunately didn't.
Its always interesting to see people dismiss java as a failure out of hand with no real arguments for it.
Did it fail? Depends on your point of view.
Is java cross-platform? Most certainly is! And will continue to be so to a bigger extent than.Net/Mono, C et al will be for the overseeable future. (Dont give me the "C is portable too" crap, just today I found differences in the behaviour of strtok between platforms, not to speak of "compile everywhere").
Is java a failure on the client? Well, as far as circulation goes, probably, but that has three main reasons:
1. Higher learning curve, VB will always be easier to learn.
2. Old myths die hard: yes, Java was slow and java interfaces where ugly and clunky. 5 years ago! Newsflash, Java has moved forward in great leaps since the days of Java 1.1
3. Applets are mostly useless. But: Java != Applets!
Java is a great success just about everywhere else BUT on the desktop computer though, there are millions of java-enabled handsets, there are tens of thousands of java server deployments etc etc.
But.. Hopefully in the future I wont have to choose "java or.Net", hopefully they will interoperate more or less seamlessly, something that there is already work in progress on in more than one place.
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Apple probably wants to stop this from happening anymore than nessecary..
In the place I work currently as a developer I don't have enough to do, and I have to chase up my boss every now and then to find something to do.
Not having a constant line of "things to do" is even more stressful in my opinion than having lots and lots to do!
Personally, I am terrified that someone will see thru my work and realize how little I actually do and think I am a lazy sod. Its not lack of will to work that is causing this, it is plain and simple a lack of things to do, and I hate it.
Although, I have tended my resignation, so I will be leaving at the end of the summer because I dont like the lack of action. But I wouldnt want to be "found out" before so they give me bad references.
If you would check your facts, you would know that "multinationals" (western companies with employees in developing countries) more often than not provide better benefits and salaries than most local competitors, actually up to 8 times higher salaries according to the IMF!
The alternatives to taking low-paying hazardous jobs from multinationals in developing countries often amount to "no jobs" or considerably worse things such as child prostitution.
And as poorer countries, it is quite obvious that they will have a hard time living up to western standards of salary level and working conditions, but these things tend to increase over time if you let them. Both western europe and the US had their share of "sweat-shops" 100 years ago.
Expecting poor countries to be held to the same high standard as rich countries is naive and stupid: they simply cant live up to them considering their poverty! The only thing that _will_ get them out of their poverty is by letting them sell their goods and services to us so that their economies can grow.
"So, according to your point of view, exploiting third world countries inhabitants, running sweat shops, etc are both legitimate and moral decisions by companies?"
So you are proposing that we don't trade with certain countries because they are too poor? That seems productive..
How do you suppose we get them out of poverty (and thus "sweat-shop" conditions) if we refuse to let them grow their economies to their best ability?
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Really? Can you take notes while talking on the phone?
Can you look up info while taking a call? Yes and yes, as long as use hands-free obviously (blue-tooth or oldschool with wires), its no problems. And there is an "old school" handsfree set that comes with the phone by default.
I personally have a SonyEricsson P800 (precursor to the P900). I have previously had several Palms, but they lie around unused at the moment. For a "Personal Digital Assistant" and the basic needs, the P800 fills them greatly for me, leaving no need for an actual PDA. Its a great phone, great calendar etc. The screen is not the same quality as on the latest palms, but better than older palms, and definitely does the job.
I think PDA:s will never reach the main-stream and may very well have seen their peak as consumer products.
The new smartphones will edge PDA:s out of the mainstream market (why have two devices?), but I do however think that PDA:s will have roles to fill in niche-markets for corporate users.
Palm would probably do best trying to retrench into devices that have more specific uses for the corporate and public sectors, such as wlan enabled (like the Tungsten C) PDA:s for warehouse workers, POS, healthcare etc.
Trying to compete with smartphones is a fools cause (and CEO:s ego cause) as long as they cannot keep up with Nokia, SonyEricsson, Motorola et al at their own game.
Not saying that its "forbidden", I just find it Strange that they change the design of their site to mirror that of Apples at the sametime as they shamelessly copy iPhoto and iTunes gui:s _after_ they have gotten into the media by being the "lookalike and namealike" company of Windows.
Seems to me that they are looking for free publicity anyway possible, even if it means publicity as "the copycats".
I bet SCO must be kicking themselves for not going after Linspire instead of.. well, just about everyone else.
SCO would have had a field day considering Linspires shameless rip-offs (first "Lindows", then Apple's software _and_ web-site, and now this).
Had they gone after Linspire, there might actually have been people believing their ludicrous claims considering Linspires track-record..
Just compare: this with this
Actually, with the Gentoo portage, current Gentoo users should be the ones least interested in new Gentoo distributions, since Gentoos portage allows updating of components to "the latest version" regardless of what cd-version you used to install it.
:)
To me the greatest benefit of Gentoo is this: I do not need to blow a machine clean and install a new version or risk a lot with an uncertain install of large packages, I just gradually update my system as new versions become available!
And contrary to popular belief, Gentoo is pretty "user friendly" since it allows "on the fly updating". But this is of course once you actually have your system working flawlessly to begin with..
We should still be reasonably safe using the RSA-algorithm for a while more since the number is the equivalent of a 576-bit key. Most cryptography programs support upto 4096-bit keys, and the strength of a key increases exponentially for every bit if my memory does not fail me (correct me if it does).
:)
Safe, that is unless someone invents quantum computers and makes them easy to produce..
they're sending a a little something to land on Titan next January.
Well, we should be glad they are not attempting to land on Europa.
Konqueror, Nautilus, Epiphany, Galeon, Firefox, Mozilla et etc.. I have to agree that its getting kind of ridiculous.
Ok, choice is nice and all, but this duplication of functionality and work is probably extremely unproductive as a whole for the progress of open source software. It should be enough with 2-3 choices for browsers instead of 20: one or two lightweight ones á Firefox, and one or two "fully featured" like Mozilla.
But OpenIPO is designed to let ANYONE bid on IPO shares.
Sounds to me like legal way to scam/cash in on hype and an overenthusiastic general public.
Benjamin Graham (Warren Buffets "idol") used to say that IPO stands for "It's Probably Overpriced".
Factor that in with an irrational and overenthusiastic general public lacking investment skills thinking all IPO:s are winners (they usually forget the last bubble in good times) and you have a table set for even more inflated IPO:s and ludicrous business models going public.
Probably stating the obvious here, but once this gets dependable and easy to form to different needs, "BioBricks" might spell the end of people dying due to lack of suitable organ donors.
I think we will rather see that before we see any horror scenarios like "Blade Runner like replicant slaves".
I am aware of that. I am also aware that he did not sympathize with the nazis and only did his work because he had to. But nonetheless, he _did_ the work. There are stories of Heisenberg having to fake nazi sympathies in letters to friends because the nazis read everything he wrote, something that caused a lot of his old friends to think he really did sympathize with the nazis at the time and take offence.
Einstein calling Heisenberg "a big Nazi" is surely too funny to be true. :)
Why would it not be true? Werner Heisenberg did a lot of nuclear research in germany during the second world war, research that was meant to lead to a german atom bomb.
I dont think just because Einsteing was Einstein everything he said every day had to sound poetic and/or thouroughly thought thru, maybe he just spoke his mind occasionally?
I'm all for Mono, software should be cross platform, and and it would be nice to see this succeed where Java unfortunately didn't.
.Net/Mono, C et al will be for the overseeable future. (Dont give me the "C is portable too" crap, just today I found differences in the behaviour of strtok between platforms, not to speak of "compile everywhere").
.Net", hopefully they will interoperate more or less seamlessly, something that there is already work in progress on in more than one place.
Its always interesting to see people dismiss java as a failure out of hand with no real arguments for it. Did it fail? Depends on your point of view. Is java cross-platform? Most certainly is! And will continue to be so to a bigger extent than
Is java a failure on the client? Well, as far as circulation goes, probably, but that has three main reasons:
1. Higher learning curve, VB will always be easier to learn.
2. Old myths die hard: yes, Java was slow and java interfaces where ugly and clunky. 5 years ago! Newsflash, Java has moved forward in great leaps since the days of Java 1.1
3. Applets are mostly useless. But: Java != Applets!
Java is a great success just about everywhere else BUT on the desktop computer though, there are millions of java-enabled handsets, there are tens of thousands of java server deployments etc etc.
But.. Hopefully in the future I wont have to choose "java or
Apple probably wants to stop this from happening anymore than nessecary..
"The very premise of Tomb Raider was a cute, D-cup chick running around with a bunch of guns, third person."
Actually according to http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001401/bio Angelina Jolie is a C-cup..
In the place I work currently as a developer I don't have enough to do, and I have to chase up my boss every now and then to find something to do. Not having a constant line of "things to do" is even more stressful in my opinion than having lots and lots to do! Personally, I am terrified that someone will see thru my work and realize how little I actually do and think I am a lazy sod. Its not lack of will to work that is causing this, it is plain and simple a lack of things to do, and I hate it. Although, I have tended my resignation, so I will be leaving at the end of the summer because I dont like the lack of action. But I wouldnt want to be "found out" before so they give me bad references.
If you would check your facts, you would know that "multinationals" (western companies with employees in developing countries) more often than not provide better benefits and salaries than most local competitors, actually up to 8 times higher salaries according to the IMF! The alternatives to taking low-paying hazardous jobs from multinationals in developing countries often amount to "no jobs" or considerably worse things such as child prostitution. And as poorer countries, it is quite obvious that they will have a hard time living up to western standards of salary level and working conditions, but these things tend to increase over time if you let them. Both western europe and the US had their share of "sweat-shops" 100 years ago. Expecting poor countries to be held to the same high standard as rich countries is naive and stupid: they simply cant live up to them considering their poverty! The only thing that _will_ get them out of their poverty is by letting them sell their goods and services to us so that their economies can grow.
"So, according to your point of view, exploiting third world countries inhabitants, running sweat shops, etc are both legitimate and moral decisions by companies?"
So you are proposing that we don't trade with certain countries because they are too poor? That seems productive.. How do you suppose we get them out of poverty (and thus "sweat-shop" conditions) if we refuse to let them grow their economies to their best ability?