So you're saying that AOL should be required to fund development of a Web technology that they're not even using?
Yeah - Sort of like the way you pay to have a life raft serviced and maintained, even though the ship's not going anywhere this week....Or do you really think that Microsoft is going to provide IE to them for free FOREVER?
Probably because he's been confused by all those court findings against Microsoft using it's monopoly status to forge backroom deals to crush competitors.
If your PDA is on the list, chances are good it's supported. You point your IR window at the gadget, it beams you a ToDo, or maybe a calandar appointment.
I think they're just beaming links for PalmOS machines. Check out their instructions for PDA users (basically 'Turn your damned beam-recieve on!')
Apparently they've found a way to implement BeamPro EXPO on a cheap PIC, and maybe threw in a few non-Palm OS beam standards into the repeat loop. I've been wondering how long it was going to take somebody to develop this.... The possible applications really are great:
Go to a restaurant, wave PDA at symbol, pick up an address book entry with their number, address, hours, and a concise version of their takeout menu.
See a movie you like, but it's not playing yet? [Wave] it offers to put the opening date in your calandar, then offers a ToDo link with the website address.
(For those of you who haven't used a PalmOS PDA, beamed events are cached with a 'Would you like to accept [...] into your datebook?', so you can turn down things you don't want.)
Not a EE, car nut or ME, but...
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...instead of using a wastegate to dump excess exhaust energy, use the turbine to run an alternator...
Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a (slightly) larger generator in the drive line, then use a powered blower to compress the incoming air? Less parts/chance of failure, less back pressure on the engine, etc, etc, etc... It also seems like it'd be more mechanically efficient as well.
And if you're building the car from the wheels up, why not put a little more brains in it to shut down things like the AC system and the heated seats momentarily when the turbo starts gulping down LOTS of power? (At least until the increased output catches up to the turbo demands...)
(I rented a car recently that actually turned the stereo up slightly whenever it's little engine started sounding too loud. A neat trick!)
Also, I think you need to also take into account that during a fair chunk of the time you're mentioning, the Russian space program was kind of out-of-order - If you cut the regeme change period out, it could take you back to the good old days...
March 18, 1980 - a Vostok rocket exploded on its launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 at the Plesetsk Space Center.
Many publishers and self-published authors require their published content to be distributed with DRM protection. It is certainly possible to build into the native OEBPS Publication wrapper a DRM protection system. Microsoft LIT, as previously mentioned, is an excellent example proving this assertion since LIT is a DRM-protected wrapper of essentially an OEBPS Publication. No more need be said on this.
I can't imagine his 'XML searchability' and multi-device interface (How would a program tell the difference between a serial braille printer and a 286 running a term program, for example?) are going to make the document text any more secure to being lifted, honestly.
Untill he figures this out, it seems like the article can be basically summed up as 'You should publish everything in XML, and call it by my nifty new name.'
CF seems to be the industry standard since Handspring kept their springboard slot all to themselves.
Propriatary hardware is Bad, sure enough, but there's probably other reasons why CF is still here and Springboards are gone...
Maybe the huge number of CF-using digital cameras that provide a large base of users to keep price low...
The fact that you can use a CF peripheral (With adapter) in both your PDA and Laptop is handy... The fact that CF is (to some degree) pin-compatable with PC-Card slots makes the adaptor dirt cheap, too.
But the big reason is probably how old CF is - the Compact Flash association was founded in 1995, about the time USR aquired Palm, and (IIRC) four years before Hanspring was even formed.
Thanks for the info - I'm personally not in the market (I've already got a hi-res(Handera) PDA I'm pretty happy with and don't forsee any great need for a celphone at the moment), but I'm sure there are others looking.
Personally, I'd like to see a dumb, dumb, dumb, cheap celphone (Maybe even just a keypad and a 'low battery' LED, no screen, or maybe just a one line LCD.) that recieves/transmits well, is relatively small/light, and has BT enabled. That way, I can do the complicated stuff on the touch-sensitive PDA and just talk on the phone.
You know, I didn't see Donna mentioned. I wonder why?;> ...Probably because you diden't read Handspring's announcement...
Upon execution of the spin-off and closing of the merger, the Palm Solutions board of directors will consist of seven members from the current Palm, Inc. board plus three members of the current Handspring board of directors: John Doerr, Bruce Dunlevie and Dubinsky.
IMO, Dubinsky and Hawkins are probably the most worthwhile thing they're getting out of this.
if Handspring remains, their price will drop due to the lower PalmOS license fee
Didn't Handera just bow out, citing higher licence fees?...And I don't think there's a lot of competition between the two platforms - Palm's only celphone is ARM based, none of Handspring's are.
I think the Treo will probably be rebranded under the Palm lineup, to go against Siemens/Ericsson/Nokia's low-end digitally connected phones (at a price-competitive level) which it should do pretty well in... Between T9 and a treo's thumbpad, I know which I'd rather use to type in a URL or a email address.
Hawkins and Dubinsky will become part of the new management of the combined company and are "expected to help lead the company toward its new goals".
Isn't the reason they QUIT Palm in the first place because they had such a hard time dealing with the rest of the management?
Honestly, though - This will probably be a Good Thing for Palm - They just can't seem to get their act together, IMO. Most of what they're selling nowadays only looks good in comparison to Sony's trash.
That's the most interesting way of spelling Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins that I've ever seen... Or are you changing the names to protect the innocent, Mr. Webb?
I'd much rather have an integrated cell phone and pager than I would an integrated cell phone and PDA
You're aware that many celphones are capable of pager-style number reception, right?
And, of course, SMS.
This isn't the fault of the technology, so much as it is of little companies that refuse to play together - Why would Company A allow Company B to transmit pages over it's airtime, when you could be eating up your minutes, instead? Likewise, why would company B let Company A have your pager telephone number, when it's all they've got to keep you as a customer?
(Heck, I'd rather have a pager/PDA than a cell phone/pda, too.)
I think you're basically describing Trodo, a one-for-one media swapping service.
There's problems with it's business model (Ex: ANY 'Book' is one 'credit' - So a moth-eaten copy of 'The Two Towers' is worth as much as an obscure out-of-print short story collection.), but my limited experience so far (one taken, one given.) has been good.
If you want to sign up, a link is here.(No cost to you, small benefit to me.)
Oh, Elanor, I KNEW you were right, but now I have proof! I'd better start some of your DIY projects NOW! (search on "Diary #134" for her plans to make a cap to simulate EW weapons from common household items!)
Like Elanor says: "Skeptics: You must explain ALL occurrences taken together as a complete SET, or you have explained NONE of them." Go, Girl!
It'll catch on here, if for no other reason than because it's profitable for businesses - They get to keep 'loose change', and such. See this article for details. (Non-WSJ link, to protest their 'registration required' policy)
Direct blog link... - I'm sure something wouldn't be TOO hard to work out. Worst comes to worst, modify Stepcounter to log to a memo, then use some brain dead scripting via 'memos'(pilot-link) to pick it out at hotsync.
That's almost exactly the opposite of most of the quoted results of VFSMark that I've seen, directly or indirectly. For example:
Since I have a HE330 in front of me, VFSMark on my Simpletech 128mb card reads:
File Create: 124% File Delete: 118% File Write: 320% File Read: 117% File Seek: 129% DB Export: 86% DB Import: 145% Record Access: 145% Resource Access: 65%
VFSMark: 138
By comparison, The last time I incovenienced a Sony user to run VFSMark and beam me the results, his Sony (32mb Memory Stick on a T415) clocked in at: File create: 33% File delete: 20% File write: 10% File read: 77% DB Export: 32% DB import: 46% Record access: 62% Resource access:56% VFSmark: 43%
(If you're not familiar with VFSMark, it benchmarks VFS implementations, based on the speed of a M500/SD being 100%)
I realize that this isen't indicative of the General Goodness of MemoryStick - Just it's implementation on these handhelds. But that jibes with what I've seen elsewhere, both in terms of technical specs and actual performance.
Not calling you a fibber or anything, but I find the idea that a serial-access memory system (MS) would be three times faster than an 8-bit parallel-access system(CF) kind of hard to believe. Forgive my doubting-thomasness, but can you back that up?
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So you're saying that AOL should be required to fund development of a Web technology that they're not even using?
...Or do you really think that Microsoft is going to provide IE to them for free FOREVER?
Yeah - Sort of like the way you pay to have a life raft serviced and maintained, even though the ship's not going anywhere this week.
Why do you pose it like it's some big mystery?
Probably because he's been confused by all those court findings against Microsoft using it's monopoly status to forge backroom deals to crush competitors.
You know, competitors like Netscape?
If your PDA is on the list, chances are good it's supported. You point your IR window at the gadget, it beams you a ToDo, or maybe a calandar appointment.
I think they're just beaming links for PalmOS machines. Check out their instructions for PDA users (basically 'Turn your damned beam-recieve on!')
Apparently they've found a way to implement BeamPro EXPO on a cheap PIC, and maybe threw in a few non-Palm OS beam standards into the repeat loop. I've been wondering how long it was going to take somebody to develop this.... The possible applications really are great:
Go to a restaurant, wave PDA at symbol, pick up an address book entry with their number, address, hours, and a concise version of their takeout menu.
See a movie you like, but it's not playing yet? [Wave] it offers to put the opening date in your calandar, then offers a ToDo link with the website address.
(For those of you who haven't used a PalmOS PDA, beamed events are cached with a 'Would you like to accept [...] into your datebook?', so you can turn down things you don't want.)
The only thing I can imagine this being useful for is playing 'secret agent' - What are you going to do with 800x600 pictures?
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Now, on the other hand, with a C-Pen 800C, you could do some real damage.
What, you didn't read your copy of the B.G.Micro catalog when it came in the mail?
Page 19,center lefthand: Sony PCM audio - Converts audio to PCM, and back again!
BNCs for audio, DB9(RS-232 serial) and DB15(???) for digital output. $15.95/ea.
work with MS or Palm to get a good software interface on there.
I hate to dissapoint you, but Stinger isn't doing so well on the software front.
How about at The Linux Counter project?
Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a (slightly) larger generator in the drive line, then use a powered blower to compress the incoming air? Less parts/chance of failure, less back pressure on the engine, etc, etc, etc... It also seems like it'd be more mechanically efficient as well.
And if you're building the car from the wheels up, why not put a little more brains in it to shut down things like the AC system and the heated seats momentarily when the turbo starts gulping down LOTS of power? (At least until the increased output catches up to the turbo demands...)
(I rented a car recently that actually turned the stereo up slightly whenever it's little engine started sounding too loud. A neat trick!)
Other than that, neat idea!
Maybe you need to do a little more research.
Also, I think you need to also take into account that during a fair chunk of the time you're mentioning, the Russian space program was kind of out-of-order - If you cut the regeme change period out, it could take you back to the good old days...
March 18, 1980 - a Vostok rocket exploded on its launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 at the Plesetsk Space Center.
Many publishers and self-published authors require their published content to be distributed with DRM protection. It is certainly possible to build into the native OEBPS Publication wrapper a DRM protection system. Microsoft LIT, as previously mentioned, is an excellent example proving this assertion since LIT is a DRM-protected wrapper of essentially an OEBPS Publication. No more need be said on this.
Hasen't anybody told him LIT has been cracked? Can't he do a web search?
I can't imagine his 'XML searchability' and multi-device interface (How would a program tell the difference between a serial braille printer and a 286 running a term program, for example?) are going to make the document text any more secure to being lifted, honestly.
Untill he figures this out, it seems like the article can be basically summed up as 'You should publish everything in XML, and call it by my nifty new name.'
CF seems to be the industry standard since Handspring kept their springboard slot all to themselves.
Propriatary hardware is Bad, sure enough, but there's probably other reasons why CF is still here and Springboards are gone...
Maybe the huge number of CF-using digital cameras that provide a large base of users to keep price low...
The fact that you can use a CF peripheral (With adapter) in both your PDA and Laptop is handy... The fact that CF is (to some degree) pin-compatable with PC-Card slots makes the adaptor dirt cheap, too.
But the big reason is probably how old CF is - the Compact Flash association was founded in 1995, about the time USR aquired Palm, and (IIRC) four years before Hanspring was even formed.
Thanks for the info - I'm personally not in the market (I've already got a hi-res(Handera) PDA I'm pretty happy with and don't forsee any great need for a celphone at the moment), but I'm sure there are others looking.
Personally, I'd like to see a dumb, dumb, dumb, cheap celphone (Maybe even just a keypad and a 'low battery' LED, no screen, or maybe just a one line LCD.) that recieves/transmits well, is relatively small/light, and has BT enabled. That way, I can do the complicated stuff on the touch-sensitive PDA and just talk on the phone.
You know, I didn't see Donna mentioned. I wonder why? ;> ...Probably because you diden't read Handspring's announcement...
Upon execution of the spin-off and closing of the merger, the Palm Solutions board of directors will consist of seven members from the current Palm, Inc. board plus three members of the current Handspring board of directors: John Doerr, Bruce Dunlevie and Dubinsky.
IMO, Dubinsky and Hawkins are probably the most worthwhile thing they're getting out of this.
if Handspring remains, their price will drop due to the lower PalmOS license fee
...And I don't think there's a lot of competition between the two platforms - Palm's only celphone is ARM based, none of Handspring's are.
Didn't Handera just bow out, citing higher licence fees?
I think the Treo will probably be rebranded under the Palm lineup, to go against Siemens/Ericsson/Nokia's low-end digitally connected phones (at a price-competitive level) which it should do pretty well in... Between T9 and a treo's thumbpad, I know which I'd rather use to type in a URL or a email address.
Hawkins and Dubinsky will become part of the new management of the combined company and are "expected to help lead the company toward its new goals".
Isn't the reason they QUIT Palm in the first place because they had such a hard time dealing with the rest of the management?
Honestly, though - This will probably be a Good Thing for Palm - They just can't seem to get their act together, IMO. Most of what they're selling nowadays only looks good in comparison to Sony's trash.
That's the most interesting way of spelling Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins that I've ever seen... Or are you changing the names to protect the innocent, Mr. Webb?
Anyone who can list a feature of a Visor that they think Palm will drop is talking out of their ass until they hear it from Palm.
Springboards?
I'd much rather have an integrated cell phone and pager than I would an integrated cell phone and PDA
You're aware that many celphones are capable of pager-style number reception, right?
And, of course, SMS.
This isn't the fault of the technology, so much as it is of little companies that refuse to play together - Why would Company A allow Company B to transmit pages over it's airtime, when you could be eating up your minutes, instead? Likewise, why would company B let Company A have your pager telephone number, when it's all they've got to keep you as a customer?
(Heck, I'd rather have a pager/PDA than a cell phone/pda, too.)
That idea, as they say, came and went.
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Top Gun SSH is open source, but it's for the Palm - I don't know if it'd be a good starting point for what you're looking for, but it works.
I think you're basically describing Trodo, a one-for-one media swapping service.
There's problems with it's business model (Ex: ANY 'Book' is one 'credit' - So a moth-eaten copy of 'The Two Towers' is worth as much as an obscure out-of-print short story collection.), but my limited experience so far (one taken, one given.) has been good.
If you want to sign up, a link is here.(No cost to you, small benefit to me.)
Chalk another one up for Elanor White and the schiz^D^D^D^D^D Veterans of the thousand psychic wars.
Oh, Elanor, I KNEW you were right, but now I have proof! I'd better start some of your DIY projects NOW! (search on "Diary #134" for her plans to make a cap to simulate EW weapons from common household items!)
Like Elanor says: "Skeptics: You must explain ALL occurrences taken together as a complete SET, or you have explained NONE of them." Go, Girl!
(/chuckle)
It'll catch on here, if for no other reason than because it's profitable for businesses - They get to keep 'loose change', and such. See this article for details. (Non-WSJ link, to protest their 'registration required' policy)
A good candidate for issuing such a card is probably The Gift Certificate Company.
(/giggling)
That's almost exactly the opposite of most of the quoted results of VFSMark that I've seen, directly or indirectly. For example:
Since I have a HE330 in front of me, VFSMark on my Simpletech 128mb card reads:
File Create: 124%
File Delete: 118%
File Write: 320%
File Read: 117%
File Seek: 129%
DB Export: 86%
DB Import: 145%
Record Access: 145%
Resource Access: 65%
VFSMark: 138
By comparison, The last time I incovenienced a Sony user to run VFSMark and beam me the results, his Sony (32mb Memory Stick on a T415) clocked in at:
File create: 33%
File delete: 20%
File write: 10%
File read: 77%
DB Export: 32%
DB import: 46%
Record access: 62%
Resource access:56%
VFSmark: 43%
(If you're not familiar with VFSMark, it benchmarks VFS implementations, based on the speed of a M500/SD being 100%)
I realize that this isen't indicative of the General Goodness of MemoryStick - Just it's implementation on these handhelds. But that jibes with what I've seen elsewhere, both in terms of technical specs and actual performance.
Not calling you a fibber or anything, but I find the idea that a serial-access memory system (MS) would be three times faster than an 8-bit parallel-access system(CF) kind of hard to believe. Forgive my doubting-thomasness, but can you back that up?