Okay, I have a Treo 700p, and I've used the 750 and numerous blackberry's. Anyone who liked the Treo or the blackberry isn't going to find this keyboard any worse, except maybe textural feel. The size is about the same, though the blackberry's are a bit wider.
But not having a real keyboard was a dealbreaker for me and the iPhone.
I have fat fingers and I can "feel" my way around the Treo keyboard, where my thumb does cover 4-5 buttons if I'm not careful. You can't "feel" your way around an on-the-screen keyboard.
They remember the 1990's experience where they tried this before, and it almost killed the company. Problem is, they weren't diversified then. It's possible with proper selection of vendors they might be able to keep the "Mac" experience and reliability they wish, as apposed to allowing a free-for-all.
Three Fords, 1 Buick and 1 Plymouth. I've never had a single one of them have a transmission survive past 130,000 miles (current ride excepted - a Taurus).
I put anywhere from 35-60,000 miles a year on my car. Three years is about right.
I'm a BIG fan of the Visual Studio 6 + 7 debugger (the only versions I've used in recent years). And I was a waffler with Eclipse until recently. Until I had to debug an issue on a complex J2EE project for which I A) didn't have source for either of the two products involved, B) had to debug remotely C) while on a conference call with three of the original developers. I was sold, and having the ability to break on class-load? Awesome functionality. I realize most of this is the JVM and not Eclipse, but Eclipse made the whole adventure easy.
When computing the cost of a ride, I include the actual cost of the ride over three years as part of the equation. So that $15,000 car I paid cash for, has to last me at least three years @ $5000/year plus maintenance and misc repairs. (I drive A LOT).
Once I get over roughly $7000/y, I'm past break even (not somewhere I want to be), and one large repair bill could be motivation enough to trade it in.
I have to agree with you. If we can somehow manage to collect taxes for 250+ million people by April 15th every year, I don't see why we can't directly vote on law ourselves.
The technology is there, people are going to game the system no matter what, arguably it can be made harder by an impartial computer than with bribable humans...
I think they've made some improvements to NTFS to help with the grind, but that's just speculation. But as for adding memory, even today there are a SHITLOAD of mobos and laptops that are stuck at 2GB maximum. So even though it's cheap (2GB of memory for 40$.. I remember when it was $40/MB), sometimes it's just not POSSIBLE.
Ribbons suck as UI elements. I finally upgraded to Office 2007. I want to shoot the motherfucker who decided to change an army of menus into multi-click high-resource intensity "ribbons".
But I'm going to get used to it, because I'm stuck on the corporate upgrade treadmill.
I'll tell you this, I'll drop any and all desire to use a Unix platform if Microsoft offers me the following:
* TTY terminal support for console applications
* fork() style process copy semantics
* proper job control. (resume/suspend)
* Unified (per-user) filesystem with 1st class symlinks
I work on console-based server-side stuff for most of my career, and these three things, more than any other, and my constant pains since I started working on NT 3.1.
I *LOVE* XP. I *LOVE* Linux. I want a fusion of the best of both.
I think this is part of the problem, and were experiments like Prism came into being... how to make something tabular integrate with the OS. Why reinvent the task-management wheel?
And the reason for that is that the XP installation is frozen in time, to 2001. Most Linux distros are far more up to date than an XP install CD is. Many (I'd dare to wager MOST) of the broadcom network chipsets that are in use today didn't even exist in 2001.
I'd use more than 1 window if some particular version of Session Manager hadn't broken the reload logic for multiple windows..54 or.53 I think was the last version that worked well for me that way.
And I'd also use more than one window if Mozilla ran each Window in process isolation like IE has done since version 4.0. Seriously, resource synchronization is a solved problem.:-)
It's getting bad enough in Firefox land with the growing memory and CPU bugs that I'm ready to switch to Opera. 160 tabs == 2.5GB of memory.:-)
Why is this bad? I run my browser for weeks at a time before restarts (I have enough memory that Firefox's memory leaks aren't too painful). I have my two email clients open, meebo, several call management trees (tech support), my knowledge management trees, and my generic web research. Plus google reader, and a few myriad tabs for daily browsing and research.
I routinely have 30+ tabs, and I peaked at 180 last month.
Keeping in mind that some of America's Prime Farmland already is desert except for the liberal use of irrigation. There is no limit to the amount of food we can grow on this planet, except for the amount of potable water.
Which is simply avoiding the fact that C and C++ arrays are raw pointers, that while powerful, provide no context on bounds. I'm not one for demanding they enforce bounds checking, but add the capability to have a.length property on a naked pointer when say, I enable RTTI, then
1. there's no arguments about what the size represents, the size of the data type [sizeof()] or the number of bytes allocated 2. I can choose to pay the penalty for having secure and more reliable code.
Oh, and give me decent java-style reflection capabilities. Fix the name mangling, once and for all.
No, they marketed to women who like small pink notebooks, cooking, dieting and doing traditional "womanly tasks". If you're a no-nonsense, no-frills, ball-busting kinda gal, you can go shop Lenovo.
Dell decided on their target audience, and it's your own sensibilities dragging up insult.
All true, yet there's a vast majority of lurkers and modders who will upmod a pro-Microsoft post just as much as a pro-Linux one, if they are both Insightful or Informative. Though the Slashdot moderation system irks me sometimes, and has been abused more often than not, I think it works it's wonder in keeping the bias balanced.
I've not seen another site anywhere on the 'Net where Linux, Apple and Microsoft get equal treatment (excluding the editors). The community here will equally trash, bash, and promote all three in similar fashion. It's why I continue to come here year after year.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, I have a Treo 700p, and I've used the 750 and numerous blackberry's. Anyone who liked the Treo or the blackberry isn't going to find this keyboard any worse, except maybe textural feel. The size is about the same, though the blackberry's are a bit wider.
But not having a real keyboard was a dealbreaker for me and the iPhone.
I have fat fingers and I can "feel" my way around the Treo keyboard, where my thumb does cover 4-5 buttons if I'm not careful. You can't "feel" your way around an on-the-screen keyboard.
They remember the 1990's experience where they tried this before, and it almost killed the company. Problem is, they weren't diversified then. It's possible with proper selection of vendors they might be able to keep the "Mac" experience and reliability they wish, as apposed to allowing a free-for-all.
Three Fords, 1 Buick and 1 Plymouth. I've never had a single one of them have a transmission survive past 130,000 miles (current ride excepted - a Taurus).
I put anywhere from 35-60,000 miles a year on my car. Three years is about right.
I have cygwin, xvi (old copy), and eclipse all on a flash drive. I'm *NEVER* without my development environment anymore.
I'd like to hear your reasons...
I'm a BIG fan of the Visual Studio 6 + 7 debugger (the only versions I've used in recent years). And I was a waffler with Eclipse until recently. Until I had to debug an issue on a complex J2EE project for which I A) didn't have source for either of the two products involved, B) had to debug remotely C) while on a conference call with three of the original developers. I was sold, and having the ability to break on class-load? Awesome functionality. I realize most of this is the JVM and not Eclipse, but Eclipse made the whole adventure easy.
Though I love Eclipse (especially the debugger), give me Maven, git and subversion/svk and vi anyday.
When computing the cost of a ride, I include the actual cost of the ride over three years as part of the equation. So that $15,000 car I paid cash for, has to last me at least three years @ $5000/year plus maintenance and misc repairs. (I drive A LOT).
Once I get over roughly $7000/y, I'm past break even (not somewhere I want to be), and one large repair bill could be motivation enough to trade it in.
Except those receipts fade after a year... faster if not taken care of, or left in a wallet.
Interbreeding is a poor choice for drawing the species lines.
Lions and Tigers can breed, and they are definitely different species.
Different Family's maybe? A Cat will never breed with a Horse, for example...
Webrings...
what is old is new again!
I have to agree with you. If we can somehow manage to collect taxes for 250+ million people by April 15th every year, I don't see why we can't directly vote on law ourselves.
The technology is there, people are going to game the system no matter what, arguably it can be made harder by an impartial computer than with bribable humans...
We don't put many 100,000kg mass payloads into orbit anymore... if we ever have. Unless the entire shuttle counts.
I think they've made some improvements to NTFS to help with the grind, but that's just speculation. But as for adding memory, even today there are a SHITLOAD of mobos and laptops that are stuck at 2GB maximum. So even though it's cheap (2GB of memory for 40$.. I remember when it was $40/MB), sometimes it's just not POSSIBLE.
And WTF is up with Excel 2007 not obeying the scroll wheel anymore?
Gack. 20 minutes of using Office 2007 and I'm screaming to downgrade.
Ribbons suck as UI elements. I finally upgraded to Office 2007. I want to shoot the motherfucker who decided to change an army of menus into multi-click high-resource intensity "ribbons".
But I'm going to get used to it, because I'm stuck on the corporate upgrade treadmill.
I'll tell you this, I'll drop any and all desire to use a Unix platform if Microsoft offers me the following:
* TTY terminal support for console applications
* fork() style process copy semantics
* proper job control. (resume/suspend)
* Unified (per-user) filesystem with 1st class symlinks
I work on console-based server-side stuff for most of my career, and these three things, more than any other, and my constant pains since I started working on NT 3.1.
I *LOVE* XP. I *LOVE* Linux. I want a fusion of the best of both.
I think this is part of the problem, and were experiments like Prism came into being... how to make something tabular integrate with the OS. Why reinvent the task-management wheel?
And the reason for that is that the XP installation is frozen in time, to 2001. Most Linux distros are far more up to date than an XP install CD is. Many (I'd dare to wager MOST) of the broadcom network chipsets that are in use today didn't even exist in 2001.
For all of it's longevity, I think XP is awesome.
I'd use more than 1 window if some particular version of Session Manager hadn't broken the reload logic for multiple windows. .54 or .53 I think was the last version that worked well for me that way.
:-)
:-)
And I'd also use more than one window if Mozilla ran each Window in process isolation like IE has done since version 4.0. Seriously, resource synchronization is a solved problem.
It's getting bad enough in Firefox land with the growing memory and CPU bugs that I'm ready to switch to Opera. 160 tabs == 2.5GB of memory.
Why is this bad? I run my browser for weeks at a time before restarts (I have enough memory that Firefox's memory leaks aren't too painful). I have my two email clients open, meebo, several call management trees (tech support), my knowledge management trees, and my generic web research. Plus google reader, and a few myriad tabs for daily browsing and research.
I routinely have 30+ tabs, and I peaked at 180 last month.
Keeping in mind that some of America's Prime Farmland already is desert except for the liberal use of irrigation. There is no limit to the amount of food we can grow on this planet, except for the amount of potable water.
Which is simply avoiding the fact that C and C++ arrays are raw pointers, that while powerful, provide no context on bounds. I'm not one for demanding they enforce bounds checking, but add the capability to have a .length property on a naked pointer when say, I enable RTTI, then
1. there's no arguments about what the size represents, the size of the data type [sizeof()] or the number of bytes allocated
2. I can choose to pay the penalty for having secure and more reliable code.
Oh, and give me decent java-style reflection capabilities. Fix the name mangling, once and for all.
No, they marketed to women who like small pink notebooks, cooking, dieting and doing traditional "womanly tasks". If you're a no-nonsense, no-frills, ball-busting kinda gal, you can go shop Lenovo.
Dell decided on their target audience, and it's your own sensibilities dragging up insult.
Where can I learn more about this grid of markers? :-)
All true, yet there's a vast majority of lurkers and modders who will upmod a pro-Microsoft post just as much as a pro-Linux one, if they are both Insightful or Informative. Though the Slashdot moderation system irks me sometimes, and has been abused more often than not, I think it works it's wonder in keeping the bias balanced.
I've not seen another site anywhere on the 'Net where Linux, Apple and Microsoft get equal treatment (excluding the editors). The community here will equally trash, bash, and promote all three in similar fashion. It's why I continue to come here year after year.