The ability to record WHAT I want, WHEN I want, and use it HOW I want, even after the *AA buys themselves the entire goverment?...Priceless.
Personally, I'm waiting for either a good deal on a decent tuner card, or general prices to come down - But I don't watch enough television to make the wait difficult. (Hell, I don't even have an antenna installed at this point.) Would be nice to watch CSI with, though
Oh, another option - Two or three sub-$100 VCRs, controlled by a cheap *IX server running for input/output/scheduling.
You can actually get real.PDF readers for Symbian, Palm and PocketPC, provided you have access to a Win desktop to do the conversion/stripdown of the PDFs on.
Or you can use this nifty new tool to generate HTML sets, then read away on any number of devices - Plucker optimized for the Handera330 is a personal favorite, but...
Do I use it? You bet! In order, I'd have to say the uses are: scheduling/Phone, shopping lists, Ebooks (Plucker(Yay, full 330 support!), Jpilot and Cron ROCK too much for one hand!) and the occasional game.
First PDA: a Palm 1000, bought on clearance a few weeks after I lost my 'Little' black book (2"+ thick) containing dates, scheduling and contact information (Phone numbers up to 4 years old, pending appointments for the next year.) The realization that the info sometimes really IS worth more than the container was kind of sunk home.
Most recent PDA: Handera 330 - It fixes most of the problems with previous palm models (inaudable alarms, crap backlight, storage limits, screen, battery life and recharge issues) while remaining compatable with the longest (to date) line of Palm peripherals (III series) and accepting the most popular of the new portable interface standards(CF and SD).
Next PDA: Who knows? Won't buy a Sony(Got burned out on their squeeze-the-turnip thinking with Beta, don't see them doing anything diffrent with the Clie line.), Not interested in the Tungsten or the WinCE platforms untill they get a battery life of over a week on a charge. We'll see.
I think what people fail to realize is that for many businesses, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying.
I think it helps to have already survived the first N rounds of free-providers-collapsing-under-their-own-weight. If there were the same quality, free providers available now that there were five years ago, the users would just switch - I mean, that's how Yahoo GOT all those customers, isen't it?
Maybe I'm being touchy, but I wonder if anybody cares about conflict of interest anymore?
Some questions about the article: We compare the Tungsten to Pocket PC's here, The new OS allows Palms to begin catching-up with some of the things rival Pocket PCs can do
But to the older Dragonball Palms here:
The Tungsten T has a retail price of $499. For comparison purposes, the older m515 sells for $349....Obviously pointing up the disadvantages on both sides - If the argument is turned around - IE:"The new palms are capable of much more, and are priced comparitively with hardware-similar units" it's not half as damning, is it?
But on the other hand... However, the T does feel a little heavy for its size....actually makes a comparison to neither, because it's hard to actually fault the unit by comparison to either platform. It would be valid to say 'The Tungsten is physically smaller than most of the PocketPC models, and has a similar, or lighter, weight', which, again, isen't half as damning.
Gee, if I ask Microsoft what their opinion of the competition's newest handheld is, they say they're not impressed. What a shock.
1) - So,I take it BeOS's total meltdown (At least partially from failure to sell their premium product, because they coulden't get a toehold against MS) dosen't qualify as competition killed off?
2) - If they're making money at $6/head, then why not offer that pricing more generally, rather than only at school bookstores, and requiring a Student ID on top of that?
3) - IIRC/IANAL, most of the anti-monopoly laws weren't enacted to protect other businesses, but instead to protect the consumers from being abused by the monopolists. My upgrade from Win2.11 to 3.0 was $20 - An upgrade from ME to XP was more like $100. I know that the price of a loaf of bread has only doubled in the same time, so I'm assuming it's not inflation.
Diesel engines can run on a variety of (plant-extracted) oils without any/much modifications to the engine.
I think the magic Google word you're looking for here is Biodiesel.
The problem is, of course, that the nation uses lots of frying grease, but nowhere near enough to replace Gasoline.
I believe there's a rather extensive intro article on Biodiesel in Home Power(Apologies for PDF - They're lame, but what do you do?), which should answer most of the questions you never had about the subject.:)
...at the time of this posting. But you have to download it to your machine - using it ON majcher dosen't work, of course, as he says. It diden't work for me when I File > Save Page As...'s under Mozilla, but it worked fine for me when I used wget (wget -k -r http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html) to download the page and call it in my browser. You might want to try that.
But if this is true, then it is no more possible for a man to say "it's good to help the little old lady across the street" than for a pot of boiling water to do so.
If I show respect for the elderly, others will see me showing that respect, and hopefully it will become more socially acceptable to be kind to the elderly than not. Since I'm human, I'm going to age as well, and will be old someday. Some of the younger people who saw me helping that old lady might be willing to help me, then. I personally benefit from living in a society where kindness is glorified and cruelty is derided. The best (And possibly only) way to ensure this is by providing a good example.
Presto, morals without a Divine Enforcer.
For my next trick, I'll prove how you can make crop circles without a UFO!
As for why you shoulden't laugh in people's faces, that's easy to prove. Try it as a regular policy, and it'll prove itself eventually. I suggest you get some life insurance to provide for your loved ones before you start, though. They'll miss your income when you're gone, but they probably won't miss your Mad logik skillz.
PS - The whole 'bag of chemicals' argument is so tired - It's not even an argument, or proof, it's an emotional appeal, a rephrasing of "What, you WANT to believe that you're not SPECIAL?"
I'm using a K6-300, 128mb of RAM, and Moz seems to work fine for me, speed-wise. The reloading of graphic images to save them is lame, but I don't do it THAT often.:)
I can't remember how many HH books I've read - A friend buys them, and passes them around (Is this a copyright violation?:) ). It's not life-changing-I-can't-believe-it SF, but it's an OK read untill Vinge/ Varley(Irontown Blues?)/Nagata/Rucker/etc... release something I'm willing to pay the $$$ for.
So, who's going to be the first company to make up CD's full of click-to-install games and applications for Mandrake, to be hung on a peg next to the $300 computer at $15/ea?
Seriously - Why not?
And I think Joe Consumer will be willing to put up with the diffrence between OpenOffice and MSOffice for the $x00 dollars price diffrence. Hell, they're shopping at Wal*Mart, for crying out loud - You KNOW they're looking for a bargain!
I guess you havent't been following the Pocket PC thing, have you? They've spent LOTS of money to get an ever-dwindling market share against PalmOS systems...
When my phone ate it's last set of NiCd's, I went to Radio Shack, and bought a $1.50 4-AA battery holder - Then took the contacts out, and mounted them in the phone's battery bay with a few small self-tapping screws.(More work, but the compartment was too tight of a fit for the pack itself.), and popped three AA NiCd's cut out of a larger, burned out pack in it. It's a tight fit, but it definately works.
1) OS5, by all accounts, is expected to add no new features to OS4, but be designed for the ARM. Also, with the installed base of Palm-compatible devices and apps, I really doubt creativity in the pre-OS 5 arena will go away very soon.
Perhaps. I'd expect for Palm to provide a API for enhanced screen resolutions, however, if the new devices have them. (Ala' what they did with the VFS interface) Since Sony's track record on operating system upgrades is kind of spotty at best, I'd be worried about being orphaned when the new software is written to Palm's OS5 APIs, which (hopefully) won't be compatable with Sony's (Rather kludge) API.
6) True on the peripherals, but Sonys are relatively new to the market.More and more are appearing, but if you really need a GPS right now, early Clie adoption isn't for you.
Or ever, actually. It seems that, as soon as a third party starts shipping a Clie Peripheral, Sony changes the interfaces on their next shipping model. Hardly the sort of thing that inspires people to develop for their hardware.
I know they've been promising all sorts of things in MemoryStick format (Cameras, modems, etc...) - So far, the only one I've even heard of shipping is the BlueTooth module. Anybody want to provide an update?
Does anybody know of a good source for aluminum/copper/whatever fin material to make a heatsink for a harddrive? IE: remove the stickers from the top, light coat of heatsink grease, apply large heatsink, maybe with zip ties or some form of clip. Maybe if the fins stuck up half the bay height, you could install the drive above upside down and do likewise with it, and place a grill in the bezel slot to allow air to be drawn over it by the case fans?
I tried google, and the closest thing I found was the The coolermaster Cool Drive, which seems to be crippled by the need to stay in a single 5.25" bay, and therefore probably dosen't supply anywhere near enough airflow space or fin area.
Is there some way that he could maintain two (Say) remote desktops in such a way that if one failed, the other would pick up more-or-less seamlessly for the other?
I think something like this exsists for web servers, so maybe that solution could be adapted to VNC/Xfree/Citrix/whatever serving?
I mean, if he just goes with (insert remote client/server here), he's just as far up the creek if the server machine dies as he is now if his desktop dies, right?
For who, Microsoft? Maybe you could take your fingers out of the poison-dusted candy jar of IE-forced HTML extensions and back off on your 'Artistic vision' far enough to let all the OTHER browsers work with your site?
Or maybe you're happy with MS forcing their standards on the internet?
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The ability to record WHAT I want, WHEN I want, and use it HOW I want, even after the *AA buys themselves the entire goverment? ...Priceless.
Personally, I'm waiting for either a good deal on a decent tuner card, or general prices to come down - But I don't watch enough television to make the wait difficult. (Hell, I don't even have an antenna installed at this point.) Would be nice to watch CSI with, though
Oh, another option - Two or three sub-$100 VCRs, controlled by a cheap *IX server running for input/output/scheduling.
Is a full Typewriter/Mac fusion, and very slickly done, to boot. Check it out here.
You can actually get real .PDF readers for Symbian, Palm and PocketPC, provided you have access to a Win desktop to do the conversion/stripdown of the PDFs on.
Or you can use this nifty new tool to generate HTML sets, then read away on any number of devices - Plucker optimized for the Handera330 is a personal favorite, but...
Do I use it? You bet! In order, I'd have to say the uses are: scheduling/Phone, shopping lists, Ebooks (Plucker(Yay, full 330 support!), Jpilot and Cron ROCK too much for one hand!) and the occasional game.
First PDA: a Palm 1000, bought on clearance a few weeks after I lost my 'Little' black book (2"+ thick) containing dates, scheduling and contact information (Phone numbers up to 4 years old, pending appointments for the next year.) The realization that the info sometimes really IS worth more than the container was kind of sunk home.
Most recent PDA: Handera 330 - It fixes most of the problems with previous palm models (inaudable alarms, crap backlight, storage limits, screen, battery life and recharge issues) while remaining compatable with the longest (to date) line of Palm peripherals (III series) and accepting the most popular of the new portable interface standards(CF and SD).
Next PDA: Who knows? Won't buy a Sony(Got burned out on their squeeze-the-turnip thinking with Beta, don't see them doing anything diffrent with the Clie line.), Not interested in the Tungsten or the WinCE platforms untill they get a battery life of over a week on a charge. We'll see.
I think what people fail to realize is that for many businesses, less people is *just fine*, if those people are paying.
I think it helps to have already survived the first N rounds of free-providers-collapsing-under-their-own-weight.
If there were the same quality, free providers available now that there were five years ago, the users would just switch - I mean, that's how Yahoo GOT all those customers, isen't it?
Maybe I'm being touchy, but I wonder if anybody cares about conflict of interest anymore?
...Obviously pointing up the disadvantages on both sides - If the argument is turned around - IE:"The new palms are capable of much more, and are priced comparitively with hardware-similar units" it's not half as damning, is it?
...actually makes a comparison to neither, because it's hard to actually fault the unit by comparison to either platform. It would be valid to say 'The Tungsten is physically smaller than most of the PocketPC models, and has a similar, or lighter, weight', which, again, isen't half as damning.
Some questions about the article:
We compare the Tungsten to Pocket PC's here,
The new OS allows Palms to begin catching-up with some of the things rival Pocket PCs can do
But to the older Dragonball Palms here:
The Tungsten T has a retail price of $499. For comparison purposes, the older m515 sells for $349.
But on the other hand...
However, the T does feel a little heavy for its size.
Gee, if I ask Microsoft what their opinion of the competition's newest handheld is, they say they're not impressed. What a shock.
...pinfeed cruft was called chaff (As in agri waste) and punched card/tape litter was called chad.
:)
At least that's what we called it when we wrote up the report about that fire in the datacenter...
Blast it, if you're going to be so reasonable, what the hell are we going to fight over???
:)
My bad.
1) - So,I take it BeOS's total meltdown (At least partially from failure to sell their premium product, because they coulden't get a toehold against MS) dosen't qualify as competition killed off?
2) - If they're making money at $6/head, then why not offer that pricing more generally, rather than only at school bookstores, and requiring a Student ID on top of that?
3) - IIRC/IANAL, most of the anti-monopoly laws weren't enacted to protect other businesses, but instead to protect the consumers from being abused by the monopolists. My upgrade from Win2.11 to 3.0 was $20 - An upgrade from ME to XP was more like $100. I know that the price of a loaf of bread has only doubled in the same time, so I'm assuming it's not inflation.
I think the magic Google word you're looking for here is Biodiesel.
The problem is, of course, that the nation uses lots of frying grease, but nowhere near enough to replace Gasoline.
I believe there's a rather extensive intro article on Biodiesel in Home Power(Apologies for PDF - They're lame, but what do you do?), which should answer most of the questions you never had about the subject.
What are you doing with your last few weeks as a 'free man'? Have you considered making a run for it?
...at the time of this posting. But you have to download it to your machine - using it ON majcher dosen't work, of course, as he says.
It diden't work for me when I File > Save Page As...'s under Mozilla, but it worked fine for me when I used wget (wget -k -r http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html) to download the page and call it in my browser. You might want to try that.
Presto, morals without a Divine Enforcer.
For my next trick, I'll prove how you can make crop circles without a UFO!
As for why you shoulden't laugh in people's faces, that's easy to prove. Try it as a regular policy, and it'll prove itself eventually. I suggest you get some life insurance to provide for your loved ones before you start, though. They'll miss your income when you're gone, but they probably won't miss your Mad logik skillz.
PS - The whole 'bag of chemicals' argument is so tired - It's not even an argument, or proof, it's an emotional appeal, a rephrasing of "What, you WANT to believe that you're not SPECIAL?"
I'm using a K6-300, 128mb of RAM, and Moz seems to work fine for me, speed-wise. The reloading of graphic images to save them is lame, but I don't do it THAT often. :)
I can't remember how many HH books I've read - A friend buys them, and passes them around (Is this a copyright violation? :) ). It's not life-changing-I-can't-believe-it SF, but it's an OK read untill Vinge/ Varley(Irontown Blues?) /Nagata /Rucker /etc... release something I'm willing to pay the $$$ for.
...Don't do much to stop waste from seeping into the groundwater - Which is probably a bigger concern.
> I'll tell each and every one of you what the format of the future is: PCMCIA, PC Cards.
... Or are the 'Clik!' drives making a comeback I haven't heard of yet?
So, who's going to be the first company to make up CD's full of click-to-install games and applications for Mandrake, to be hung on a peg next to the $300 computer at $15/ea?
Seriously - Why not?
And I think Joe Consumer will be willing to put up with the diffrence between OpenOffice and MSOffice for the $x00 dollars price diffrence. Hell, they're shopping at Wal*Mart, for crying out loud - You KNOW they're looking for a bargain!
He specified a /usable/ keyboard - IE: Probably one larger than a videocasette, and with a little more travel than a slab of particleboard.
The Psion was a answer for a question nobody cared about - It diden't do much better in Europe, where it WAS heavily marketed.
I guess you havent't been following the Pocket PC thing, have you? They've spent LOTS of money to get an ever-dwindling market share against PalmOS systems...
When my phone ate it's last set of NiCd's, I went to Radio Shack, and bought a $1.50 4-AA battery holder - Then took the contacts out, and mounted them in the phone's battery bay with a few small self-tapping screws.(More work, but the compartment was too tight of a fit for the pack itself.), and popped three AA NiCd's cut out of a larger, burned out pack in it. It's a tight fit, but it definately works.
Perhaps. I'd expect for Palm to provide a API for enhanced screen resolutions, however, if the new devices have them. (Ala' what they did with the VFS interface) Since Sony's track record on operating system upgrades is kind of spotty at best, I'd be worried about being orphaned when the new software is written to Palm's OS5 APIs, which (hopefully) won't be compatable with Sony's (Rather kludge) API.
Or ever, actually. It seems that, as soon as a third party starts shipping a Clie Peripheral, Sony changes the interfaces on their next shipping model. Hardly the sort of thing that inspires people to develop for their hardware.
I know they've been promising all sorts of things in MemoryStick format (Cameras, modems, etc...) - So far, the only one I've even heard of shipping is the BlueTooth module. Anybody want to provide an update?
Does anybody know of a good source for aluminum/copper/whatever fin material to make a heatsink for a harddrive? IE: remove the stickers from the top, light coat of heatsink grease, apply large heatsink, maybe with zip ties or some form of clip. Maybe if the fins stuck up half the bay height, you could install the drive above upside down and do likewise with it, and place a grill in the bezel slot to allow air to be drawn over it by the case fans?
I tried google, and the closest thing I found was the The coolermaster Cool Drive, which seems to be crippled by the need to stay in a single 5.25" bay, and therefore probably dosen't supply anywhere near enough airflow space or fin area.
Is there some way that he could maintain two (Say) remote desktops in such a way that if one failed, the other would pick up more-or-less seamlessly for the other?
I think something like this exsists for web servers, so maybe that solution could be adapted to VNC/Xfree/Citrix/whatever serving?
I mean, if he just goes with (insert remote client/server here), he's just as far up the creek if the server machine dies as he is now if his desktop dies, right?
For who, Microsoft? Maybe you could take your fingers out of the poison-dusted candy jar of IE-forced HTML extensions and back off on your 'Artistic vision' far enough to let all the OTHER browsers work with your site?
Or maybe you're happy with MS forcing their standards on the internet?