I've owned several Palms, over the last 5 years. I love graffitti, it's quick and easy for me now.
For Xmas, my bud got me a Dell Axim for a present. One of the first things I figured out, was how to put it in "Block Recognizer" mode, so that it understands Grafitti.
Now Palm's moving away from Grafitti, basically leaving all of their existing customer base wtih their best upgrade option for the future, being to move to the competitions products, since it better suits their ingrained habits.
The X is no different than the other characters. You create the character, without lifting the stylus from the screen. No pen lift, so it's a "unistroke"
I was in Best Buy, or The Good Guys the other day, and happened to see a display of stereo equipment. The manufacturer was pitching the product line as using Firewire to interconnect all the devices. Personally I think this is a great design. Suddenly each device has a power cord, and a single data cable. And then the reciever has a "hub" built in. FAR less spaghetti behind the system, FAR less opportunities for noise to leak into the wiring, etc.
He committed a very blatant crime. He's getting everything he deserves, I'd say. If anything the only reason that I would say this sucks, is if the taxpayers have to support him while he's incarcerated. Hopefully they'll just put him on a slow boat back home.
There's a totally obvious economic benefit here. He gave the documentation away, in the hope that others would be able to get satellite TV for free. Getting something for free, that would normally be paid for, possibly expensively, is a definite economic benefit. Doesn't get any more cut and dried than that.
I don't have the device, so I didn't have a manual handy to whip out. I suppose I could have dug a little deeper, but I assumed the company would put their *best* foot forward with their marketing. Rare to see someone understate their products capabilities.
If I'd been reviewing a product that over-delivered, I'd probably mention in the review, that the product did more than it promised.
After reading the review, I flipped over to the website, and the U80 spec jumped out at me.
At several points in the review they credit the devices with being U160.
Unfortuantely, according to Addonics own marketing materials, the adapters top out at U80.
SO we've got a very limited review, of an expensive item, that allows you to use cheaply made drives on server class systems, putting your data at greater risk. And the "review" has technical errors in it.
We're talking about homebrew PC's. There are very few businesses that want homebrew x86 boxes, made with new parts. So if you try and sell them on homebrew mac's made with grey market second hand parts, etc, you can bet the CFO won't let that fly.
So we're bsically talking about homebrew machines for the home.
Who in gods name, needs gigabit at home? You can basically take it to the bank, that the bottleneck any home user will have, will be their pipe to the net. Arcnet will be faster than 99% of the home net connections out there. And if you do have the $$ to get a T3+ at home, you probably won't bother building a Mac from scratch.
Gigabit's only really a selling point, if you've got something to connect to it, that will actually USE the bandwidth. Otherwise it's just a spoiler or a Civic.
So I sever all exposure to mass media. No more newspapers, magazines, etc. And while I'm at it, stop reading slashdot, since I've disconnected my internet. So no more independent media either.
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So phreak03 claims the site has been up for "several years".
The author of the site, claims on it, that it was posted in Dec'01. Not really what I'd consider "several years".
The Cringely article referenced in the piece was posted Feb 7,2002.
Odd, what?
But I think it's definitely LESS, not more bub. Sorry to shatter your illusions.
I've owned several Palms, over the last 5 years. I love graffitti, it's quick and easy for me now.
For Xmas, my bud got me a Dell Axim for a present. One of the first things I figured out, was how to put it in "Block Recognizer" mode, so that it understands Grafitti.
Now Palm's moving away from Grafitti, basically leaving all of their existing customer base wtih their best upgrade option for the future, being to move to the competitions products, since it better suits their ingrained habits.
Seems like a disastrous decision to me.
At least on my Dell Axim, it's called "block recognizer" as opposed to "letter recognizer"
Block Recognizer - "With BR, you can input character strokes you may have learned using Grafitti from Palm"
Letter Recognizer - "With LR you can input natural character strokes as well as strokes you may have learned using Jot from CIC."
The X is no different than the other characters. You create the character, without lifting the stylus from the screen. No pen lift, so it's a "unistroke"
I was in Best Buy, or The Good Guys the other day, and happened to see a display of stereo equipment. The manufacturer was pitching the product line as using Firewire to interconnect all the devices. Personally I think this is a great design. Suddenly each device has a power cord, and a single data cable. And then the reciever has a "hub" built in. FAR less spaghetti behind the system, FAR less opportunities for noise to leak into the wiring, etc.
How can you say there's no economic benefit, to getting something for free, that you would otherwise be obligated to pay a sum of money for?!?!
He committed a very blatant crime. He's getting everything he deserves, I'd say. If anything the only reason that I would say this sucks, is if the taxpayers have to support him while he's incarcerated. Hopefully they'll just put him on a slow boat back home.
There's a totally obvious economic benefit here. He gave the documentation away, in the hope that others would be able to get satellite TV for free. Getting something for free, that would normally be paid for, possibly expensively, is a definite economic benefit. Doesn't get any more cut and dried than that.
aka the web page, clearly state U80.
I don't have the device, so I didn't have a manual handy to whip out. I suppose I could have dug a little deeper, but I assumed the company would put their *best* foot forward with their marketing. Rare to see someone understate their products capabilities.
If I'd been reviewing a product that over-delivered, I'd probably mention in the review, that the product did more than it promised.
After reading the review, I flipped over to the website, and the U80 spec jumped out at me.
At several points in the review they credit the devices with being U160.
Unfortuantely, according to Addonics own marketing materials, the adapters top out at U80.
SO we've got a very limited review, of an expensive item, that allows you to use cheaply made drives on server class systems, putting your data at greater risk. And the "review" has technical errors in it.
I think I'll pass.
I assume you're looking at doing this, primarily "just because"? You don't have an actual valid purpose for all that bandwidth, do you?
"who will ever need..."
But based on current usage, what home user can justify gigabit ether, and not justify the price of a "new" Mac?
I'm thinking a gigabit switch will cost damn near as much as a new Mac. And you ain't building that from spare parts, for sure.
Dear god. Does this mean that the editors are actually going to edit? Next thing you know they'll start reading posts to make sure they aren't dupes.
And those really specialized industries that are strongholds for the like, would *never* touch a homebrew mac, for any price, homey.
Be honest here folks.
We're talking about homebrew PC's. There are very few businesses that want homebrew x86 boxes, made with new parts. So if you try and sell them on homebrew mac's made with grey market second hand parts, etc, you can bet the CFO won't let that fly.
So we're bsically talking about homebrew machines for the home.
Who in gods name, needs gigabit at home? You can basically take it to the bank, that the bottleneck any home user will have, will be their pipe to the net. Arcnet will be faster than 99% of the home net connections out there. And if you do have the $$ to get a T3+ at home, you probably won't bother building a Mac from scratch.
Gigabit's only really a selling point, if you've got something to connect to it, that will actually USE the bandwidth. Otherwise it's just a spoiler or a Civic.
So this is a link to a very limited 1 page summary, of an article that was covered on /. in September.
So instead of discussing the merits of the particular story, lets try to segue into an argument about DRM.
HELLO!!! The DRM aspects mentioned in the digest, have NOTHING to do with where you were trying to take the discussion. Nothing at all.
So I sever all exposure to mass media. No more newspapers, magazines, etc. And while I'm at it, stop reading slashdot, since I've disconnected my internet. So no more independent media either.
Uh-oh. How do I know, when we've won.
I think the editor should have called it MacBigot...
The anti-PC rhetoric in a couple places was pretty tiresome.
It's hard enough to get someone to read something directly quoted on /.
You don't really expect someone to follow further links too, do you? Talk about optimism.
For some reason advertisers never come up with new, smaller advertising formats.
So when I pulled up the whole story, to read the comments on slashdot, what did I see right away? A HUGE OSDN ad, right below the story text.
Perhaps Michael should take his complaints about large adverts down the hall to his boss.
You just don't get more photogenic, than RMS do you? Toss his mug up there demo'ing things on TV, and things will fly off the shelves, won't they?
Possibly the reason he owns one, is because he wants to "know his enemy"?
I think you'd have to get there first, to qualify as a squatter.