Well from a personal perspective, I still find it easier to deal with. Most windows mobiles I find viable come without touch sensitive screens which I have always found annoying. I do take your point about palmOS being long in the tooth.
If one compares palmOS 5 to the versions of WinM available at the time it came out it was really much better. The problem is that palm has been unable to successfully update it.
Even compared with the modern versions though the main disadvantage is merely that palm is unable to incorporate drivers for such things as wifi and native (rather than 3rd party) solutions for such things as flash. The actual GUI itself is IMHO still superior. If Palm can ever get a meaningful OS update together it could get real interesting. I have limited hope however.
Windows mobile not windows. Different animal entirely.
Though it might be noted that each of the systems you mention is actually slower than the one before. (with the possible exception of 95' - 98')
You monitor your house with wireless cameras while you are away?! How.. um... obsessive..
btw anything with a full web browser can do that. Assuming of course you have your house festooned with web capable security cameras.
You'd think after 6 revisions each of which was as bad as the last that one would stop expecting them to com out with something decent.
With what appears to be the possible future demise of Palm though it may stop being thought o as awful simply because there is little to compare it to.
As the old joke goes
Q: how many microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: None, they just change the standard to darkness.
I'm not saying the writer is wrong, but making accusatory claims and then revealing evidence makes one sound very biased. Pre-verifying the claims rather than merely pointing out where they are lowers ones perceived reasonableness as well as the perceived likely value of the evidence. A statement as to where the evidence came from might be more useful.
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I'm not debating the point I'm just trying to be even handed.
My concern is the market is going to go the way the market is going to go regardless of which maefesto of computer ethics and the greater good one wishes to espouse.
My concern is that If the GPL is modified into a political hammer It might go poorly if the linux community is bound into a system they cannot modify back later. This appears not to be the case though according to the other reply.
P.s. you may want to rewrite that thing I'm having trouble with the coherency of it. Arguments that don't make sense tend to have a negative rather than positive effect on one's cause. I'm not talking about concepts necessarily , more like punctuation, sentence structure and assumed points. It's very hard to understand what you are saying.
question: how hand tying is v3 to the gpl?
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One of the things society is trying to do right now is determine the value of DRM. The current corporate wisdom is that DRM is critical to a continuing economy. Many of course disagree with this, but the issue has yet to be actually settled.
On the assumption that the world may go either way, If GPL3 is adopted, will it mean that it is impossible to return to a more GPL2 like stance in say GPL4?
Federal republic actually. IIRC a straight federation would be more similar to the old confederacy,in which I agree your point would hold.
If the public domain issue was based on a legal decision, as is likely, I fail to see how a state could have more protection than the federal government.
There are other less high minded reasons for censorship. Off the top of my head, One thing I noticed was that the concrete barrier the car blasted into at freeway speed had no impact protection on it. There probably should have been a bunch of those big yellow water barrels or something to divert the impact.
There may be an argument that there is lawsuit material here.
My point about the decency based censorship attempt though was that as a public agency they have to at least make some kind of token attempt because there are going to be fantastically large number of people offended by the thing on that basis. If they didn't it could possibly go even worse for them public relations wise.
IIRC The reason you can get all those pretty NASA photos for free is that any media created by the government is automatically considered to be property of the American people and as such falls under the public domain.
I took a peek at the NJ turnpike authority website and while the "about us" area is apparently broken, it looks very much like a straight out government agency. (I'm still not totally sure though, the turnpike is a toll road and very well might be private)
I am not opposed to NJ trying to keep video like this off the net. I personally find purient interest in such things to be a bit disgusting. I suspect however that they really needed the freedom of information act (which gives them like 50 years or something, I forget) rather then the DMCA for protection here.
Unless I am very much mistaken there are numerous engines that already do this. IIRC Toyota and BMW have current vehicles that have this technology. Vehicles I remember in particular are the 2007 mini cooper(not the turbo) which is really BMW, and that new Toyota hatchback who's name I've forgotten that looks like a jelly bean. The Mini has an engine made by Renault, so they probably do it too.
I've seen this same thing in two coffee shops in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area. They were both places which had free but non-open access. i.e. places where you have to log in or get some kind of code number or something. One was a Caribou in Roseville and the other was some restaurant in Minneapolis (I forget where) In an area that small it might be possible to catch the perpetrator if one could target him/her narrowly enough. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do that?
Exactly how annoying is this stuff? I've been looking at buying a new laptop, but I thought I should hold out for vista. Should I be buying th xp machine instead?
Once upon a time Two shirt makers named Smith and Wesson built themselves a gun empire.
They did it by finding a guy who had a patent on revolvers that had cylinders bored all the way through. The gun the patents were listed for was horrible, and the patent was questionable at best. There was ample examples of prior art for one thing. They realized however that if they honored the patent and bought a license it made the quality of the patent vastly stronger.
The deal they made was that they would pay a fairly generous license fee for exclusive rights, but the patent holder would pay for all the patent challenges. The patent holder spent all the royalties on lawsuits and retired a pauper, but Smith and Wesson had a monopoly on revolvers for 20 years.
By honoring this patent and arranging for exclusive rights they may be able to keep others from even building other music players. Assuming patent law hs not changed, this could actually shoot the Zoon right through the head.
I went shopping for a new wireless router the other day , and 3 or the four manufacturers had N draft 1.0 units out. The one that wasn't had one that was labeled 802.11g MIMO, and cost the same as the others.
I understand N draft 1.0 was formally rejected a few months ago, but it seems the manufacturers aren't paying a lot of attention.
Assuming the various N draft 1.0 products can actually talk to each other we may have the new standard already without meaning to.
I went to the local computer Superstore the other day to look at N routers. Of the four available, 3 complied with N draft one. Is it likely that by the time N comes out there will be enough N draft 1 systems out there that hardware companies may feel compelled to make their systems backward compatible to it?
Also, if not what are the chances that a given "Nd1" router could be upgraded to the standard with just a firmware change?
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a good authority on this subject as my memory is vague and my sources third hand at best, but as memory serves, and it may not, so feel free to correct me, one of the big problems with fullerenes is that even if they are totally non reactive they still wind up being highly poisonous because of their size, shape and tendency not to bond with anything.
They tend to do unpleasant things like go through your skin, clog blood vessels, and never ever break down.
So the plan is to go spraying them around a war zone asp part of either bullets or armor, with much the same abandon as the U.S. did with depleted uranium in the gulf?
Considering the controversy currently surrounding that behavior this does not strike me as a particularly good idea from first glance.
conspiracy theory is like taffy. The more you pull it the better it tastes!
Personally I was hoping for Croatian mafia or something. Can we work Elvis into it maybe?
I thought about it. My theory went that they had real terrorist do it by getting ahold of the communications system the cell was using and co opting their controller. It has been a classic technique in almost every war the US and Israel have fought since WWII. the 1969 war with Egypt was a classic example. See who says Bush had to do it? This way we get even more shadowy groups involved! 8D
So we got the CIA and Mossad, Can anyone come up with a third gunman? It is traditional.
fungal marketing is what it turns into really. The bathroom walls of night clubs or other "hip" places covered with stickers with cryptic urls on them, because if they told you what they really were you probably wouldn't look. It's wall spam.
All this really does, assuming they don't add annoying additional data, is make a license plate readable by machines. Heck they could even attach it to the license plate tags for convenience. Make distribution easier.
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Well from a personal perspective, I still find it easier to deal with. Most windows mobiles I find viable come without touch sensitive screens which I have always found annoying. I do take your point about palmOS being long in the tooth.
If one compares palmOS 5 to the versions of WinM available at the time it came out it was really much better. The problem is that palm has been unable to successfully update it.
Even compared with the modern versions though the main disadvantage is merely that palm is unable to incorporate drivers for such things as wifi and native (rather than 3rd party) solutions for such things as flash. The actual GUI itself is IMHO still superior. If Palm can ever get a meaningful OS update together it could get real interesting. I have limited hope however.
Windows mobile not windows. Different animal entirely. Though it might be noted that each of the systems you mention is actually slower than the one before. (with the possible exception of 95' - 98')
yeah I'll take that. It does come out over forceful on a re read. I plead 4 am syndrome
You monitor your house with wireless cameras while you are away?! How.. um... obsessive.. btw anything with a full web browser can do that. Assuming of course you have your house festooned with web capable security cameras.
You'd think after 6 revisions each of which was as bad as the last that one would stop expecting them to com out with something decent. With what appears to be the possible future demise of Palm though it may stop being thought o as awful simply because there is little to compare it to. As the old joke goes Q: how many microsoft engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: None, they just change the standard to darkness.
I'm not saying the writer is wrong, but making accusatory claims and then revealing evidence makes one sound very biased. Pre-verifying the claims rather than merely pointing out where they are lowers ones perceived reasonableness as well as the perceived likely value of the evidence. A statement as to where the evidence came from might be more useful.
I'm not debating the point I'm just trying to be even handed.
My concern is the market is going to go the way the market is going to go regardless of which maefesto of computer ethics and the greater good one wishes to espouse.
My concern is that If the GPL is modified into a political hammer It might go poorly if the linux community is bound into a system they cannot modify back later. This appears not to be the case though according to the other reply.
P.s. you may want to rewrite that thing I'm having trouble with the coherency of it. Arguments that don't make sense tend to have a negative rather than positive effect on one's cause. I'm not talking about concepts necessarily , more like punctuation, sentence structure and assumed points. It's very hard to understand what you are saying.
One of the things society is trying to do right now is determine the value of DRM. The current corporate wisdom is that DRM is critical to a continuing economy. Many of course disagree with this, but the issue has yet to be actually settled.
On the assumption that the world may go either way, If GPL3 is adopted, will it mean that it is impossible to return to a more GPL2 like stance in say GPL4?
Mmmm.. That does make me wonder if it wasn't leaked rather than stolen then.
Federal republic actually. IIRC a straight federation would be more similar to the old confederacy,in which I agree your point would hold.
If the public domain issue was based on a legal decision, as is likely, I fail to see how a state could have more protection than the federal government.
There are other less high minded reasons for censorship. Off the top of my head, One thing I noticed was that the concrete barrier the car blasted into at freeway speed had no impact protection on it. There probably should have been a bunch of those big yellow water barrels or something to divert the impact.
There may be an argument that there is lawsuit material here.
My point about the decency based censorship attempt though was that as a public agency they have to at least make some kind of token attempt because there are going to be fantastically large number of people offended by the thing on that basis. If they didn't it could possibly go even worse for them public relations wise.
IIRC The reason you can get all those pretty NASA photos for free is that any media created by the government is automatically considered to be property of the American people and as such falls under the public domain.
I took a peek at the NJ turnpike authority website and while the "about us" area is apparently broken, it looks very much like a straight out government agency. (I'm still not totally sure though, the turnpike is a toll road and very well might be private)
I am not opposed to NJ trying to keep video like this off the net. I personally find purient interest in such things to be a bit disgusting. I suspect however that they really needed the freedom of information act (which gives them like 50 years or something, I forget) rather then the DMCA for protection here.
Unless I am very much mistaken there are numerous engines that already do this.
IIRC Toyota and BMW have current vehicles that have this technology. Vehicles I remember in particular are the 2007 mini cooper(not the turbo) which is really BMW, and that new Toyota hatchback who's name I've forgotten that looks like a jelly bean. The Mini has an engine made by Renault, so they probably do it too.
I've seen this same thing in two coffee shops in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area. They were both places which had free but non-open access. i.e. places where you have to log in or get some kind of code number or something. One was a Caribou in Roseville and the other was some restaurant in Minneapolis (I forget where)
In an area that small it might be possible to catch the perpetrator if one could target him/her narrowly enough. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do that?
Exactly how annoying is this stuff? I've been looking at buying a new laptop, but I thought I should hold out for vista. Should I be buying th xp machine instead?
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Apple may be crazy like a fox here.
Once upon a time Two shirt makers named Smith and Wesson built themselves a gun empire.
They did it by finding a guy who had a patent on revolvers that had cylinders bored all the way through. The gun the patents were listed for was horrible, and the patent was questionable at best. There was ample examples of prior art for one thing. They realized however that if they honored the patent and bought a license it made the quality of the patent vastly stronger.
The deal they made was that they would pay a fairly generous license fee for exclusive rights, but the patent holder would pay for all the patent challenges. The patent holder spent all the royalties on lawsuits and retired a pauper, but Smith and Wesson had a monopoly on revolvers for 20 years.
By honoring this patent and arranging for exclusive rights they may be able to keep others from even building other music players. Assuming patent law hs not changed, this could actually shoot the Zoon right through the head.
I went shopping for a new wireless router the other day , and 3 or the four manufacturers had N draft 1.0 units out. The one that wasn't had one that was labeled 802.11g MIMO, and cost the same as the others.
I understand N draft 1.0 was formally rejected a few months ago, but it seems the manufacturers aren't paying a lot of attention.
Assuming the various N draft 1.0 products can actually talk to each other we may have the new standard already without meaning to.
I went to the local computer Superstore the other day to look at N routers. Of the four available, 3 complied with N draft one. Is it likely that by the time N comes out there will be enough N draft 1 systems out there that hardware companies may feel compelled to make their systems backward compatible to it?
Also, if not what are the chances that a given "Nd1" router could be upgraded to the standard with just a firmware change?
I am not by any stretch of the imagination a good authority on this subject as my memory is vague and my sources third hand at best, but as memory serves, and it may not, so feel free to correct me, one of the big problems with fullerenes is that even if they are totally non reactive they still wind up being highly poisonous because of their size, shape and tendency not to bond with anything.
They tend to do unpleasant things like go through your skin, clog blood vessels, and never ever break down.
So the plan is to go spraying them around a war zone asp part of either bullets or armor, with much the same abandon as the U.S. did with depleted uranium in the gulf?
Considering the controversy currently surrounding that behavior this does not strike me as a particularly good idea from first glance.
conspiracy theory is like taffy. The more you pull it the better it tastes! Personally I was hoping for Croatian mafia or something. Can we work Elvis into it maybe?
I thought about it. My theory went that they had real terrorist do it by getting ahold of the communications system the cell was using and co opting their controller. It has been a classic technique in almost every war the US and Israel have fought since WWII. the 1969 war with Egypt was a classic example. See who says Bush had to do it? This way we get even more shadowy groups involved! 8D
So we got the CIA and Mossad, Can anyone come up with a third gunman? It is traditional.
fungal marketing is what it turns into really. The bathroom walls of night clubs or other "hip" places covered with stickers with cryptic urls on them, because if they told you what they really were you probably wouldn't look. It's wall spam.
Smells like someone is trying to bring back viral marketing again. It was a stupid idea the first time.
All this really does, assuming they don't add annoying additional data, is make a license plate readable by machines. Heck they could even attach it to the license plate tags for convenience. Make distribution easier.