They COULD have... If palm would have let them licence 4.1 for a reasonable price.
Yet another reason to hate closed source OSes. @yay.
My Treo 180 just had a hardware failure (And dealing with Palm's tech support is enough to inspire hate in ANYBODY), so I dug out my HE330 to use while I'm debating whether or not 5 months from purchase new falls within the definition of 'One year warranty' with folks from india.
I may just sell the 180 when it comes back - If Handera actually made a smartphone (Or even a PDA with integrated BT (gag)), it would actually be worth the $500-$600 everybody else charges.
Clean hydrogen or alcohol turbines will make the pollution/mileage issue moot.
Do you know some way of isolating/finding hydrogen that I don't? Most of the breakdown methods I've heard of to produce semi-clean hydrogen in the kind of quantities necessary for this sort of thing are pretty inefficient - and it seems to get worse when you need to carry the hydrogen around (Which usually requires liquification/compression - Which means even MORE energy thrown at the process) Now, of course, you could always carry the hydrogen uncompressed and use it to solve some of your lift problems, but that's a horse of a different color entirely.
I guess I'd like to see Jobs get the proverbial stick out of his ass, sell the Newton source code (to Compaq?), and let it get ported to exsisting iPaq hardware. As the post points out, the hardware hasen't gotten any better spec wise - It's just gotten a hell of a lot smaller.
I'd love to see the Newton OS running on hardware that didn't require a special body harness to carry around.
I came to an amicable agreement with my (now) ex-wife, we drew up an outline of how we wanted to settle things, then I went to the library.
Then, after reading three seperate books on the subject, and getting three contradicting answers as to what needed to be done (with filing fees attached to each attempt.), I just went to a lawyer and paid a fairly reasonable sum to get it taken care of.
I guess if I wanted to sink a week's worth of effort into a DIY attempt, and maybe waste more money than the lawyer would have cost in lost wages, it would have been possible.
So these guys may develop the latest and greatest, to end all wars weapon - but if they can't keep criminals away from it- then that is bad.
So, they develop a prototype of their stun gun - Like most prototypes, it's 6x larger than the finished product, and looks like the offspring of a punk toaster and a HeathKit. It's powered by a pair of car batteries.
Criminals break into their workshop and steal their three laptops, the laser printer and the Oscilliscope (Criminal B thinks it's a portable TV). Criminal A almost breaks a leg tripping over the batteries on the floor.
Why not use put an X10 appliance module (Or several of them, if you like) on the line to your system, then buy an IR-to-X10 interface, and tell your ultraspiffy IR remote to cycle the power (Module A1 off, Module A1 on) to your AV system and force all of it into a power-off mode before giving out commands to the devices themselves? (X10 DOES have discrete commands for 'On' and 'off')
It'd be nice in paving the way to little perks like having the system dim the room lights when you press 'Play', too....
Somebody finally noticed. It's amazing how many times I've read 'Rigid Airship' in this thread WRT the NT - It's SEMI rigid, folks, which is supposed to allow it to achieve reasonable speeds (unlike a nonrigid), but not to crack in half when you look at it funny (See: The Akron, The Macon, the Shenendoah etc, etc...)
All airships are/were heavier than air at takeoff, really - I mean, if they were actually trimmed to a negative total, they'd never come down - At least not without venting a nontrivial amount of fairly expensive helium.
If he works 50 weeks a year (Two weeks off for vacation, sick days, misc. holidays and such), and five days a week, those eighty minutes (two trips a day) add up to ((50*5*80)/60)=333.33_ extra hrs.
If the poster above is to be believed, let's assume he saved $8,431 by not owning a car... So, he's in effect getting paid($8,431/333.3_)=$25.293/hr. to ride his bike.
Which, of course, dosen't include the benefits of actually getting some exercise, or the annoyances of weather, or whatever have you. It's just a ballpark figure - Your milage may (literally!) vary.
Or should we limit this entire thing to the 5% of camera phones on the market with the onboard processing capability sufficient to process this without locking up?
And from the customer's viewpoint, the bandwidth sure would suck (What, $.35/picture?), but isen't that why the phone services implement/advertise this sort of thing in the first place? (See: AOLBuddy, which will let you get information like weather reports, Sports scores and what have you via AIM, if your phone supports it... And you don't mind having to send 25 (m)ore messages @.10/ea to get to "Van Helsing".)
I mean, most phones with cameras have the capability built-in to send pictures to email addresses - Why not put the decode engine on a mail address, then print the address under the matrix code. (Yes, you have to type the address in, but only once. And isen't [decode@sematext.org] easier to type than [Http://www.geocities/SiliconValley/2146/Home.htm] or [http://www.sbtranspo.com/route_map_13.php]?)
If your job consists of being handed a schedule for the week and showing up, then I can't see any use for a PDA.
If you've got the kind of work where you have to commit to something fourteen weeks in the future at the drop of a hat, that's the sort of thing these things excel at.
If you're looking for games/toys, buy a better cel phone. If you've spent more buying extra sheets for your DayRunner than you would on an eBay'd PalmIII($60), then I'd definately suggest a PDA.
what are we gonna end up with - implantable PDAs and PDAs that are mini-laptops?
On the Laptop end, the Clie' UX-50 is making a stab at laptop-esqueness, and on the other, Fossil keeps trying PalmOS PDA/watches on the market, but can't seem to find the 'sweet spot' balance of functionality/price/usability to make them viable.
but where it's a black and white lcd, and it's small, your productivity is pretty much nil.
Let's see here - from apple's spec sheet, the iPod has a 2-inch (diagonal) liquid crystal display (with white LED backlight) 160-by-128-pixel resolution. It's also 4.1"x 2.4" x 0.62" in size.
By comparison, a Palm m505 has 160x160 resolution, (IIRC) white LED backlight, and is about 4.5"x3.1"x0.4" in size - The screen is larger, but the pixel resolutions are almost the same -
The new iPods also apparently come with a variety of applications and such - A friend's had a fair amount of things, including games and calandar/contact info databases.
If I was going to fault anything, it'd be the interface to the new applications, not the size of the screen...
You might want to take a look at the specs for Easy Calc - I doubt it's everything for everybody, but I can't think of anything he's missed. It's also GPL.
Maybe thermal updrafts interfering with the local climate? Of course, there's the enviromental damage to whatever you're blocking the sunlight from reaching.
What I'd like to see is a material that's photovoltaic, and strong enough to be parked on. Then go around and start replacing parking lots with it.
Unions were originally formed because of the horrible conditions employees were facing.
You mean like getting their skulls busted by hired security whenever they attempted a picket?
If things worked like you think they do, I'd be all for the goverment taking their hands off as well - but business has proven time and again that they're more than willing to play as dirty as necessary in order to get their way - I'm not going to take what little advantage the unions have managed to gather out of their hands.
RE: the idea of unions being all-empowered from the tip of some politician's pen - In case you missed the Project Censored article a while back, maybe you'd like to take a look at this before saying much more along those lines. Maybe what you're saying was true in the '70's, but times seem to have changed.
In a sane world, where unions have no power to compel membership or membership dues and employers have the ability to fire striking workers, the free market will not allow unions to jack up salaries.
So, in your 'sane world', the tigers have no teeth or claws, but the hunters still have their guns.
I bet, in your 'sane world', the CEO/CFO/Whatever still make 40* more than the working body, though - Odd that 'obscene' profits are only a sign of insanity when the people actually doing the work get them.
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They COULD have... If palm would have let them licence 4.1 for a reasonable price.
Yet another reason to hate closed source OSes. @yay.
My Treo 180 just had a hardware failure (And dealing with Palm's tech support is enough to inspire hate in ANYBODY), so I dug out my HE330 to use while I'm debating whether or not 5 months from purchase new falls within the definition of 'One year warranty' with folks from india.
I may just sell the 180 when it comes back - If Handera actually made a smartphone (Or even a PDA with integrated BT (gag)), it would actually be worth the $500-$600 everybody else charges.
Clean hydrogen or alcohol turbines will make the pollution/mileage issue moot.
Do you know some way of isolating/finding hydrogen that I don't? Most of the breakdown methods I've heard of to produce semi-clean hydrogen in the kind of quantities necessary for this sort of thing are pretty inefficient - and it seems to get worse when you need to carry the hydrogen around (Which usually requires liquification/compression - Which means even MORE energy thrown at the process)
Now, of course, you could always carry the hydrogen uncompressed and use it to solve some of your lift problems, but that's a horse of a different color entirely.
I guess I'd like to see Jobs get the proverbial stick out of his ass, sell the Newton source code (to Compaq?), and let it get ported to exsisting iPaq hardware. As the post points out, the hardware hasen't gotten any better spec wise - It's just gotten a hell of a lot smaller.
I'd love to see the Newton OS running on hardware that didn't require a special body harness to carry around.
I came to an amicable agreement with my (now) ex-wife, we drew up an outline of how we wanted to settle things, then I went to the library.
Then, after reading three seperate books on the subject, and getting three contradicting answers as to what needed to be done (with filing fees attached to each attempt.), I just went to a lawyer and paid a fairly reasonable sum to get it taken care of.
I guess if I wanted to sink a week's worth of effort into a DIY attempt, and maybe waste more money than the lawyer would have cost in lost wages, it would have been possible.
Different name, and more guns.
So these guys may develop the latest and greatest, to end all wars weapon - but if they can't keep criminals away from it- then that is bad.
So, they develop a prototype of their stun gun - Like most prototypes, it's 6x larger than the finished product, and looks like the offspring of a punk toaster and a HeathKit. It's powered by a pair of car batteries.
Criminals break into their workshop and steal their three laptops, the laser printer and the Oscilliscope (Criminal B thinks it's a portable TV). Criminal A almost breaks a leg tripping over the batteries on the floor.
Are you really sure that you want advertising in newspaper websites directly tied to content?
Editor: Well, ViagraOnline.com is willing to pay us the most per click, but we need a relevant article to attach it to... Again.
Think content isen't already slaved sufficiently to advertising dollars? Try picking up the 'Home' section of your sunday local.
Why not use put an X10 appliance module (Or several of them, if you like) on the line to your system, then buy an IR-to-X10 interface, and tell your ultraspiffy IR remote to cycle the power (Module A1 off, Module A1 on) to your AV system and force all of it into a power-off mode before giving out commands to the devices themselves? (X10 DOES have discrete commands for 'On' and 'off')
It'd be nice in paving the way to little perks like having the system dim the room lights when you press 'Play', too....
Source 'The USS Macon, lost and found' - National Geographic 01/92 p 118
Somebody finally noticed. It's amazing how many times I've read 'Rigid Airship' in this thread WRT the NT - It's SEMI rigid, folks, which is supposed to allow it to achieve reasonable speeds (unlike a nonrigid), but not to crack in half when you look at it funny (See: The Akron, The Macon, the Shenendoah etc, etc...)
All airships are/were heavier than air at takeoff, really - I mean, if they were actually trimmed to a negative total, they'd never come down - At least not without venting a nontrivial amount of fairly expensive helium.
You might want to take a look at the Zire71s, Or maybe the Treo600, if you can find one.
If he works 50 weeks a year (Two weeks off for vacation, sick days, misc. holidays and such), and five days a week, those eighty minutes (two trips a day) add up to ((50*5*80)/60)=333.33_ extra hrs.
If the poster above is to be believed, let's assume he saved $8,431 by not owning a car... So, he's in effect getting paid($8,431/333.3_)=$25.293/hr. to ride his bike.
Which, of course, dosen't include the benefits of actually getting some exercise, or the annoyances of weather, or whatever have you. It's just a ballpark figure - Your milage may (literally!) vary.
Or should we limit this entire thing to the 5% of camera phones on the market with the onboard processing capability sufficient to process this without locking up?
And from the customer's viewpoint, the bandwidth sure would suck (What, $.35/picture?), but isen't that why the phone services implement/advertise this sort of thing in the first place? (See: AOLBuddy, which will let you get information like weather reports, Sports scores and what have you via AIM, if your phone supports it... And you don't mind having to send 25 (m)ore messages @.10/ea to get to "Van Helsing".)
I mean, most phones with cameras have the capability built-in to send pictures to email addresses - Why not put the decode engine on a mail address, then print the address under the matrix code. (Yes, you have to type the address in, but only once. And isen't [decode@sematext.org] easier to type than [Http://www.geocities/SiliconValley/2146/Home.htm] or [http://www.sbtranspo.com/route_map_13.php]?)
If your job consists of being handed a schedule for the week and showing up, then I can't see any use for a PDA.
If you've got the kind of work where you have to commit to something fourteen weeks in the future at the drop of a hat, that's the sort of thing these things excel at.
If you're looking for games/toys, buy a better cel phone. If you've spent more buying extra sheets for your DayRunner than you would on an eBay'd PalmIII($60), then I'd definately suggest a PDA.
(1000->Professional->TRGPro->Handera330)
If you don't get why, go to The Sybian website to get in on the joke.
what are we gonna end up with - implantable PDAs and PDAs that are mini-laptops?
On the Laptop end, the Clie' UX-50 is making a stab at laptop-esqueness, and on the other, Fossil keeps trying PalmOS PDA/watches on the market, but can't seem to find the 'sweet spot' balance of functionality/price/usability to make them viable.
but where it's a black and white lcd, and it's small, your productivity is pretty much nil.
Let's see here - from apple's spec sheet, the iPod has a 2-inch (diagonal) liquid crystal display (with white LED backlight) 160-by-128-pixel resolution. It's also 4.1"x 2.4" x 0.62" in size.
By comparison, a Palm m505 has 160x160 resolution, (IIRC) white LED backlight, and is about 4.5"x3.1"x0.4" in size - The screen is larger, but the pixel resolutions are almost the same -
The new iPods also apparently come with a variety of applications and such - A friend's had a fair amount of things, including games and calandar/contact info databases.
If I was going to fault anything, it'd be the interface to the new applications, not the size of the screen...
You might want to take a look at the specs for Easy Calc - I doubt it's everything for everybody, but I can't think of anything he's missed. It's also GPL.
Maybe thermal updrafts interfering with the local climate? Of course, there's the enviromental damage to whatever you're blocking the sunlight from reaching.
What I'd like to see is a material that's photovoltaic, and strong enough to be parked on. Then go around and start replacing parking lots with it.
Unions were originally formed because of the horrible conditions employees were facing.
You mean like getting their skulls busted by hired security whenever they attempted a picket?
If things worked like you think they do, I'd be all for the goverment taking their hands off as well - but business has proven time and again that they're more than willing to play as dirty as necessary in order to get their way - I'm not going to take what little advantage the unions have managed to gather out of their hands.
RE: the idea of unions being all-empowered from the tip of some politician's pen - In case you missed the Project Censored article a while back, maybe you'd like to take a look at this before saying much more along those lines. Maybe what you're saying was true in the '70's, but times seem to have changed.
Yeah - anybody over nineteen understands the issues at hand well enough to realize he should be executed for treason instead of recalled.
In a sane world, where unions have no power to compel membership or membership dues and employers have the ability to fire striking workers, the free market will not allow unions to jack up salaries.
So, in your 'sane world', the tigers have no teeth or claws, but the hunters still have their guns.
I bet, in your 'sane world', the CEO/CFO/Whatever still make 40* more than the working body, though - Odd that 'obscene' profits are only a sign of insanity when the people actually doing the work get them.
Or maybe you could just join FidoNet, which tried to do the same thing back in the 80's -
Or maybe you could just set up a Packet Radio node.
But if you want to re-re-reinvent the wheel, who's to stop you?