Don't get me wrong - I have NO problem with access to any of those channels, but what *I* have wanted for *years* is for cable (and satellite) companies to provide me with the content *I* want at a reasonable price. Not charge me for a 120 channels because that's the only way I can see the 20 that I actually *want*.
I wouldn't mind so much IF cable wasn't so expensive. I looked from switching back from Dish Network to my local cable co.. The price I pay for *everything* that's available on my line-up is US$89/mo. via Dish Network. I wanted to get the local channels in HDTV. But to do that I'd have to switch back to cable. To switch back to cable, and keep my current channel lineup would have been US$170/mo!!! And that's not including the HDTV support...! To add insult - my local cable co (Comcast) doesn't *have* as many channels as Dish Network does.
The Dish Network ads are right - cable cos. *are* pigs...
My problem with this sync, is that it kills the Palm Desktop sync. No thanks. What *I'd* like is to see an importer from Palm Desktop *into* TB's addressbook. I don't want TB's address book to be my definitive source for the Palm Desktop.
And man my wife is gonna be pissed when she sees the Amex Platinum bill. What could I do? I'm trying to keep my Apple stock share up...! It *seemed* reasonable to do at the time....
I ordered the Jenna Jameson day long movie marathon on PPV this morning and had my PVR and my bottle of lotion at the ready... I am SO screwed.... and not in the good way either...!;)
But cell phones CAN be a REAL threat. Notebook PC's and PDAs cannot *really* interfere with instrumentation, unless they're right next to the cockpit controls. In the case of the PDA - it doesn't generate that much RI. And in the case of the Notebook PC - they're pretty heavily shielded - by design. However, while a single cellphone won't do much harm... 20 or 30 phones with their signals bouncing around in that aluminum tube will amplify and can be a serious threat. Case in point...
Several years ago a bunch of press members were on a military transport in Germany. They were told to turn off their phones while on board - and didn't listen. When they went to land they *almost* plowed the plane into the ground as they were 5 miles off course. The press members *then* turned off their phones and - like magic - the instruments in the cockpit all showed that they were, in fact, 5 miles off course.
So let that be a lesson to you - TURN YOUR DAMN PHONE OFF IN THE PLAIN - YOU DINKS!
The last release of Paradox (v10) actually *removed* features that were in Paradox 9. Rather than fix the problems in them, they just killed the functionality outright. That's just a joke. People still use that database for their work. I don't know who I feel sorry for more, Corel or those stupid enough to still invest money and time in their products.
Corel's been a walking corpse for some time. I'm just glad someone's going to finally get Corel to realize that it's time to crawl in it's grave and call it done.
Have you *EVER* tried to load a different OS (as in what did not come originally on the system) nto a Sony Notebook?? You will tear your hair and generally feel like throwing out the notebook... /blockquote
I use a Vaio with SuSE 8.2, and I feel your pain. For the most part my Vaio GRV550 has worked great. And while I'd *like* to get another Vaio and run SuSE on that, I probably won't. Sony makes good notebook PC's, but they don't make *great* ones. To say this new Vaio model could be a "Powerbook killer" is pretty dammed insulting to the Powerbook, considering some of the crap that Sony pulls with respect to incompatible hardware. Also, you're right, they're support is horid if you don't use the OS distro it shipped with.
And the Centrio chip? How the hell could this vaio be a powerbook killer when the chip in it has essentially limited (read nonexistant) support for any non-MS OS (esp Linux).
I'm sorry, Sony's going to have to do better or I'm going to look elsewhere - maybe IBM or Dell.
I'll bet you hear voices in your head, too, huh? Telling you that Bill really *is* the antichrist...:-/
Look, they finished the transition of VirtualPC into MS, and then put up everything on their website upon completion of that transition. It's as simple as that. Is there some agenda to kill it? Perhaps. Certainly there was when Sony bought Virtual GameStation, since it's long gone now.. Regardless, they've done what they said they were going to do, end of story.
Q: What is the duration of the transition period after this transaction? A: The transition period is approximately six months from today (February 20, 2003).
Imagine that. Microsoft said it would take six months and it took *looking at my calendar* six months! So what was there to complain about?
Reading comprehension, gang. It's a good thing! Just think, if JWZ had that ability, he wouldn't have had that nasty little toothbrush problem!!
You've GOT to be kidding. Look, if you think an LAF is reason enough to use one widget library over another, perhaps you should consider another language more to the taste of Windows programmers... Perhaps VB.NET?
If you don't like what you're being paid or your work condition, you *should* quit and then go into contracting. You'd make on average twice as much per hour and you get paid for every hour you're there. There are some downsides, however.
- Lower/no bennies - When you're not working, you're not paid - no vacation - no nothing.
All these things balance out. I've had to work long hours - it's just part of the game.
Look at the history of the softare industry and you'll see that honesty is the best policy.
Case in point -- Phillipe Kahn decided to "open the kimono" a bit and show off Paradox for Windows 18 months before it was ready to ship. Stock values went through the roof and people thought it was going to come out practially at any moment. Especially when he said it would be shipping in six months (18 months later it finally *did* ship).
If they'd only known at the time just how rehearsed all of that was. When they realized Paradox for Windows *wasn't* going to ship any time soon, stock values dropped sharply and Borland was investigated to see if any wrongdoing had occured. Fortunately what had been decided was that Borland's board of the time was just stupid in showing a product too soon. R&D knew it wasn't ready, but overzealous management thought that R&D was just being too cautions. Next time, listen to those who are being honest with you. Don't listen to just what you want to hear...
Today Borland (and many other software companies) all have the same policy; "We'll show it to you when it's ready. When will it be ready? When it is, that's when."
Personally I think *every* software vendor should be honest in the cost and timeline of something. And the same holds true for other vendors as well. Look at King County, Washington and the now demolished King Dome. They took the lowest bid on the dome from a company that simply couldn't deliver based on the the timeline and cost to contruct the dome. The result - Seattlites for *years* had to content with something that was dark, dismal, looked like a garbage can, and is still *being paid for today* even tho it's been demolished and replaced. If they had gone with an *honest* vendor and an *honest* price, who knows - it might still be standing today....
Now should you, as a software vendor, be held civially or criminally liable when you are less than honest about what you can deliver and when? No. I think you should be punished accordingly - your business should go elsewhere and you should simply cease to exist when your customers disappear. That's what's happened in the past and it's been effective. Many of the companies that couldn't deliver on their promises have gone. Or they *learned* (as in the case of Borland) and have gone on to thrive.
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Actually 900mhz is supported in limited areas in the US, also.
As for the 900mhz phones I used, nice try, but I paid for some of the best and they were still crap. More than likely what I ran into was a variation of the "collision domain" that I mentioned before - everyone was using cordless phones and saturating the bandwidth with their use.
Also, 800mhz might be cellular range (I stand corrected) but they work in a broad range that pushes into the same area that 900mhz phones use in the USA - therefore my statement still holds - cell phones run slipshot over the 900mhz cordless phone band.
You're missing the real issue here...
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It's just that in a network with 802.11b equipment, it'll throttle back to 10-20Mbps.
You should be *very* afraid of this. If an ISP decides to put a high-power 802.11b network in your town, your 802.11g router has just retarded itself back to 802.11b speeds. Think about it this way, when the FCC gave the OK for 900mhz cordless phones, they worked great *UNTIL* AT&T got the OK to use the same frequency range for cell phones. Then all of those home cordless phones became static-ridden junk. We're going to have the same level of saturation in the next few years for the 2.4ghz band (the band that the current cordless phones AND 802.11 routers use).
I can just see the complaints being filed with the FCC as all of this wireless equipment we're buying starts going to pot on us because we have this giant radio signal "collision domain" that we're going to use up.
Why would one intentially seek to raise the hackles of the Google Lawyers?
That's an easy one to answer. Roogle is based on RSS, which comes from the XMLRPC 'designer', Dave Winer. Dave loves to draw attention to himself like a whore at a convention in Vegas... He *knows* he'll get shut down, but what he's *hoping* for is that Google (or someone) will pick up on his Roogle idea.
I use my Newton MP2100 daily. In fact it's sitting here next to me as I type this. I put Linux docs and HOWTO's relevant to my work on it that I need on it and well as various notes on Java programming. When SJ ended the Newton I tried other PDA's: CE, PalmOS (I stuck with that one for about 4 years) but in the end the *only* PDA I have *ever* used that allowed me to truly store and manage the information I needed for daily life was my Newton. So I switched back.
Now, Paul Guyot at http://www.kallisys.com has made an ATA driver for CF cards and instead of having a slot with a 20MB card for storage I have a slot with 128MB of storage divided up as 4 32MB stores.
Need support? Not a problem. The community is still alive and well. Sign up for the Newtontalk list at http://www.newtontalk.net and ask away. We get PalmOS converts daily signing up.
Surfing the web and checking email works fine on the Newton. I can even chat with people via IM programs like Jabber and ICQ or on the IRC. In addition to that I get weeks of use out of a set of batteries.
Now would I *like* for something newer/smaller/faster/prettier to come along? Sure. But so far nothing comes close to managing information for me the way my Newt does.
And unlike the Simpsons episode's depiction, when I type "Beat up Martin" it digitizes it into "Beat up Martin"... I really was hoping to see "Eat up Martha" but no such luck..;)
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Oh what a great idea... there's only one problem with that... Where I live external antennas are against the CC&Rs for my neighborhood.
And even IF I could put one up I can't get ANY of the UHF signals the HDTV stations transmit on due to my location vs. the transmitters...
Like I hadn't thought of any of this... What a boner...
Don't get me wrong - I have NO problem with access to any of those channels, but what *I* have wanted for *years* is for cable (and satellite) companies to provide me with the content *I* want at a reasonable price. Not charge me for a 120 channels because that's the only way I can see the 20 that I actually *want*.
I wouldn't mind so much IF cable wasn't so expensive. I looked from switching back from Dish Network to my local cable co.. The price I pay for *everything* that's available on my line-up is US$89/mo. via Dish Network. I wanted to get the local channels in HDTV. But to do that I'd have to switch back to cable. To switch back to cable, and keep my current channel lineup would have been US$170/mo!!! And that's not including the HDTV support...! To add insult - my local cable co (Comcast) doesn't *have* as many channels as Dish Network does.
The Dish Network ads are right - cable cos. *are* pigs...
My problem with this sync, is that it kills the Palm Desktop sync. No thanks. What *I'd* like is to see an importer from Palm Desktop *into* TB's addressbook. I don't want TB's address book to be my definitive source for the Palm Desktop.
How do you go about installing it??
Perhaps the iHP-120 from iRiver IS ugly...
But it plays Ogg and I'd buy it for that over an iPod any day.
And man my wife is gonna be pissed when she sees the Amex Platinum bill. What could I do? I'm trying to keep my Apple stock share up...! It *seemed* reasonable to do at the time....
Glad I had lot of CDRs lying around....
I ordered the Jenna Jameson day long movie marathon on PPV this morning and had my PVR and my bottle of lotion at the ready... I am SO screwed.... and not in the good way either...! ;)
But cell phones CAN be a REAL threat. Notebook PC's and PDAs cannot *really* interfere with instrumentation, unless they're right next to the cockpit controls. In the case of the PDA - it doesn't generate that much RI. And in the case of the Notebook PC - they're pretty heavily shielded - by design. However, while a single cellphone won't do much harm... 20 or 30 phones with their signals bouncing around in that aluminum tube will amplify and can be a serious threat. Case in point...
Several years ago a bunch of press members were on a military transport in Germany. They were told to turn off their phones while on board - and didn't listen. When they went to land they *almost* plowed the plane into the ground as they were 5 miles off course. The press members *then* turned off their phones and - like magic - the instruments in the cockpit all showed that they were, in fact, 5 miles off course.
So let that be a lesson to you - TURN YOUR DAMN PHONE OFF IN THE PLAIN - YOU DINKS!
That means "Time Stand Still" really *is* a completely irrelevant tune... ;-)
The last release of Paradox (v10) actually *removed* features that were in Paradox 9. Rather than fix the problems in them, they just killed the functionality outright. That's just a joke. People still use that database for their work. I don't know who I feel sorry for more, Corel or those stupid enough to still invest money and time in their products.
Corel's been a walking corpse for some time. I'm just glad someone's going to finally get Corel to realize that it's time to crawl in it's grave and call it done.
Paradox is dead, Long live Paradox.
I'll bet you hear voices in your head, too, huh? Telling you that Bill really *is* the antichrist... :-/
Look, they finished the transition of VirtualPC into MS, and then put up everything on their website upon completion of that transition. It's as simple as that. Is there some agenda to kill it? Perhaps. Certainly there was when Sony bought Virtual GameStation, since it's long gone now.. Regardless, they've done what they said they were going to do, end of story.
From the Connectix Aquisition FAQ:
Imagine that. Microsoft said it would take six months and it took *looking at my calendar* six months! So what was there to complain about?
Reading comprehension, gang. It's a good thing! Just think, if JWZ had that ability, he wouldn't have had that nasty little toothbrush problem!!
I have had physical relations with other humans and even *I* know what this is. It's the GNU Lesser General Public Licnese...
You can read about here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html
Now if you'll excuse me I need to go back to my mundane life of co-mingling with other humans...
Oh and they're female in case you're wondering...
You've GOT to be kidding. Look, if you think an LAF is reason enough to use one widget library over another, perhaps you should consider another language more to the taste of Windows programmers... Perhaps VB.NET?
If you don't like what you're being paid or your work condition, you *should* quit and then go into contracting. You'd make on average twice as much per hour and you get paid for every hour you're there. There are some downsides, however.
- Lower/no bennies
- When you're not working, you're not paid - no vacation - no nothing.
All these things balance out. I've had to work long hours - it's just part of the game.
Deal with it.
Better yet, pick his nose. That will be *sure* to make an impression he won't forget...!
I think you meant 20th or 30th anniversary... we weren't going into space (to speak of) in 1952... ;)
Look at the history of the softare industry and you'll see that honesty is the best policy.
Case in point -- Phillipe Kahn decided to "open the kimono" a bit and show off Paradox for Windows 18 months before it was ready to ship. Stock values went through the roof and people thought it was going to come out practially at any moment. Especially when he said it would be shipping in six months (18 months later it finally *did* ship).
If they'd only known at the time just how rehearsed all of that was. When they realized Paradox for Windows *wasn't* going to ship any time soon, stock values dropped sharply and Borland was investigated to see if any wrongdoing had occured. Fortunately what had been decided was that Borland's board of the time was just stupid in showing a product too soon. R&D knew it wasn't ready, but overzealous management thought that R&D was just being too cautions. Next time, listen to those who are being honest with you. Don't listen to just what you want to hear...
Today Borland (and many other software companies) all have the same policy; "We'll show it to you when it's ready. When will it be ready? When it is, that's when."
Personally I think *every* software vendor should be honest in the cost and timeline of something. And the same holds true for other vendors as well. Look at King County, Washington and the now demolished King Dome. They took the lowest bid on the dome from a company that simply couldn't deliver based on the the timeline and cost to contruct the dome. The result - Seattlites for *years* had to content with something that was dark, dismal, looked like a garbage can, and is still *being paid for today* even tho it's been demolished and replaced. If they had gone with an *honest* vendor and an *honest* price, who knows - it might still be standing today....
Now should you, as a software vendor, be held civially or criminally liable when you are less than honest about what you can deliver and when? No. I think you should be punished accordingly - your business should go elsewhere and you should simply cease to exist when your customers disappear. That's what's happened in the past and it's been effective. Many of the companies that couldn't deliver on their promises have gone. Or they *learned* (as in the case of Borland) and have gone on to thrive.
Actually 900mhz is supported in limited areas in the US, also.
As for the 900mhz phones I used, nice try, but I paid for some of the best and they were still crap. More than likely what I ran into was a variation of the "collision domain" that I mentioned before - everyone was using cordless phones and saturating the bandwidth with their use.
Also, 800mhz might be cellular range (I stand corrected) but they work in a broad range that pushes into the same area that 900mhz phones use in the USA - therefore my statement still holds - cell phones run slipshot over the 900mhz cordless phone band.
It's just that in a network with 802.11b equipment, it'll throttle back to 10-20Mbps.
You should be *very* afraid of this. If an ISP decides to put a high-power 802.11b network in your town, your 802.11g router has just retarded itself back to 802.11b speeds. Think about it this way, when the FCC gave the OK for 900mhz cordless phones, they worked great *UNTIL* AT&T got the OK to use the same frequency range for cell phones. Then all of those home cordless phones became static-ridden junk. We're going to have the same level of saturation in the next few years for the 2.4ghz band (the band that the current cordless phones AND 802.11 routers use).
I can just see the complaints being filed with the FCC as all of this wireless equipment we're buying starts going to pot on us because we have this giant radio signal "collision domain" that we're going to use up.
Are these anything like Chef's Chocolate Salted Balls??
http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/southpark
That's an easy one to answer. Roogle is based on RSS, which comes from the XMLRPC 'designer', Dave Winer. Dave loves to draw attention to himself like a whore at a convention in Vegas... He *knows* he'll get shut down, but what he's *hoping* for is that Google (or someone) will pick up on his Roogle idea.
Brand new.. Can't help you. Top of the line: No problem.... check out ebay or http://www.jksalesinc.com/ and order one there.
:P
Now, OTOH, if you're just trying to be a ridiculing jerk, well... Bite me...
I use my Newton MP2100 daily. In fact it's sitting here next to me as I type this. I put Linux docs and HOWTO's relevant to my work on it that I need on it and well as various notes on Java programming. When SJ ended the Newton I tried other PDA's: CE, PalmOS (I stuck with that one for about 4 years) but in the end the *only* PDA I have *ever* used that allowed me to truly store and manage the information I needed for daily life was my Newton. So I switched back.
;)
Now, Paul Guyot at http://www.kallisys.com has made an ATA driver for CF cards and instead of having a slot with a 20MB card for storage I have a slot with 128MB of storage divided up as 4 32MB stores.
Need support? Not a problem. The community is still alive and well. Sign up for the Newtontalk list at http://www.newtontalk.net and ask away. We get PalmOS converts daily signing up.
Surfing the web and checking email works fine on the Newton. I can even chat with people via IM programs like Jabber and ICQ or on the IRC. In addition to that I get weeks of use out of a set of batteries.
Now would I *like* for something newer/smaller/faster/prettier to come along? Sure. But so far nothing comes close to managing information for me the way my Newt does.
And unlike the Simpsons episode's depiction, when I type "Beat up Martin" it digitizes it into "Beat up Martin"... I really was hoping to see "Eat up Martha" but no such luck..