"Lacking movie/music playback, Word/Excel document capabilities, and color screens" - My Palm does all that. I'd say what they've done wrong is marketting, since you're clearing not aware of it!
As another poster said, Palm provides DocumentsToGo... I use that to update my budget spreadsheet on the go. Works great.
Daniel
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Agreed... I recently got a Tungsten E2 for waaaay cheaper than any of the non-Palm PDAs and it does everything I want it to do perfectly - read books, keep track of calendar entries, write down ideas, put tidbits of info on the scratchpad, etc. Why pay more than twice the price for extra functionality that I don't use? Palm fills a very useful niche for me.
Actually it seems that the mobile phone companies are at last moving away from this. I'm speaking specifically of Sony Ericsson. Their latest W800 is rocking in terms of that type of interoperability. It uses a memory stick, you can copy files directly on-off that, they finally realised that "can only use special DRM'ed mp3s as a ringtone" is NOT a feature any user wants, so you can use whatever you want as your ringtone.
If they keep going in this direction (and, alongside with it, keep having a good phone with rock-solid featureS) I'll keep buying Sony Ericsson...
Blizzard have had a fair number of hits, excellent games which were very well made and sold many copies. Warcraft 2 was a major hit. Diablo 2 is *still* selling copies. Stacraft - don't get me started. Warcraft 3 itself is hardly a failure. I'd say they're pretty used to publishing successful games. I doubt that WoW's success came as a shock to them.
Maybe we could harvest that spinnning to produce energy... with the fabulous numbers of outrageous claims published every day on slashdot, there's probably enough spinning to solve the energy crisis!
Is anyone else getting the feeling that this whole "Google is actually evil like Microsoft" theme could easily be the beginnings of a FUD campaign organised by - who else - Microsoft?
So far Google hasn't don't anything worthy of being called "evil". Seems like some people are just digging for anything at all that can be said against them.
Have a look around the Accenture Technology Labs, they have some pretty nifty large-screen displays which are robust, reasonably cheap (for an ops centre), very useful, and pretty damn cool.
As an ops centre, having visibility over what people are doing/monitoring is probably something you want, especially in crisis situations.
The Register story also points out that although they spend more on song downloads, that's still less than they used to spend on CDs - so the RIAA still loses out.
Please note: I'm not arguing that the RIAA doesn't deserve to lose out. The whole music distribution system (incl. most legal download sites, imho) is one big rip-off and should go down as soon as possible, to become a faded memory of the 19th century.
That's probably the most important part of the turntable... seems like you need to rip up another turntable to make this floppy turntable with its unreliable motor...
Exactly. With a bit of hacking around you can even get the AI to read the books for you. That way you can terminate yourself and let the AI live your life more efficiently.
Just you wait till e-paper comes of age... then you'll sit in a deck chair in the sun with a nice sheet of e-paper that can display more books than you can shake a stick at.
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You'll be fine, unless you're particularly sensitive to Orange...
The future is bright...
Daniel
"Lacking movie/music playback, Word/Excel document capabilities, and color screens" - My Palm does all that. I'd say what they've done wrong is marketting, since you're clearing not aware of it!
Daniel
As another poster said, Palm provides DocumentsToGo... I use that to update my budget spreadsheet on the go. Works great.
Daniel
Agreed... I recently got a Tungsten E2 for waaaay cheaper than any of the non-Palm PDAs and it does everything I want it to do perfectly - read books, keep track of calendar entries, write down ideas, put tidbits of info on the scratchpad, etc. Why pay more than twice the price for extra functionality that I don't use? Palm fills a very useful niche for me.
Daniel
Actually it seems that the mobile phone companies are at last moving away from this. I'm speaking specifically of Sony Ericsson. Their latest W800 is rocking in terms of that type of interoperability. It uses a memory stick, you can copy files directly on-off that, they finally realised that "can only use special DRM'ed mp3s as a ringtone" is NOT a feature any user wants, so you can use whatever you want as your ringtone.
If they keep going in this direction (and, alongside with it, keep having a good phone with rock-solid featureS) I'll keep buying Sony Ericsson...
Daniel
Blizzard have had a fair number of hits, excellent games which were very well made and sold many copies. Warcraft 2 was a major hit. Diablo 2 is *still* selling copies. Stacraft - don't get me started. Warcraft 3 itself is hardly a failure. I'd say they're pretty used to publishing successful games. I doubt that WoW's success came as a shock to them.
Daniel
Obviously the submitter and the editors found out the hard way that brain tissue doesn't grow back...
Daniel
Maybe we could harvest that spinnning to produce energy... with the fabulous numbers of outrageous claims published every day on slashdot, there's probably enough spinning to solve the energy crisis!
Daniel
Is anyone else getting the feeling that this whole "Google is actually evil like Microsoft" theme could easily be the beginnings of a FUD campaign organised by - who else - Microsoft?
So far Google hasn't don't anything worthy of being called "evil". Seems like some people are just digging for anything at all that can be said against them.
Daniel
Have a look around the Accenture Technology Labs, they have some pretty nifty large-screen displays which are robust, reasonably cheap (for an ops centre), very useful, and pretty damn cool.
As an ops centre, having visibility over what people are doing/monitoring is probably something you want, especially in crisis situations.
Daniel
If:
1) It requires a GMail account
2) It is automatically available to all GMail users from their web interfaces
Then:
3) It is a masterstroke. In one day they'll go from zero IM users to zillions. Bravo Google.
Daniel
Sounds like your average IT department...
Only one solution: extermination.
Daniel
1) They do, but resistance ain't one of them.
2) That's because it has a very high internal resistance.
3) for sure. So what? What's this got to do with anything?
Daniel
ok, find me a 0 ohm conductor, smarty! :p
Easy... any superconductor will do.
Daniel
Woops...
Easy, just ask McGyver for a hand!
Daniel
The Register story also points out that although they spend more on song downloads, that's still less than they used to spend on CDs - so the RIAA still loses out.
Please note: I'm not arguing that the RIAA doesn't deserve to lose out. The whole music distribution system (incl. most legal download sites, imho) is one big rip-off and should go down as soon as possible, to become a faded memory of the 19th century.
Daniel
Speaking English natively rarely coincides with speaking it with any skill whatsoever. This applies even more when it comes to writing English!
Yeah, alright, mod me down for off-topic, I dare you.
Daniel
Sounds like a good plan for a neat article:
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"How to turn an expensive top-of-the-range set of computer parts into a diy, low-quality turntable"
Would be a big hit on
Daniel
That's probably the most important part of the turntable... seems like you need to rip up another turntable to make this floppy turntable with its unreliable motor...
Doesn't sound like such a good deal!
Daniel
Then after that you soak it in ketchup and eat it.
Daniel
This is just the feature I've been waiting for. I wouldn't dream of buying a monitor without this priceless capability.
Daniel
It's neither! This new planet is a gas giant larger than Jupiter... hardly a rocky desert planet by any stretch.
Daniel
Exactly. With a bit of hacking around you can even get the AI to read the books for you. That way you can terminate yourself and let the AI live your life more efficiently.
Daniel
Just you wait till e-paper comes of age... then you'll sit in a deck chair in the sun with a nice sheet of e-paper that can display more books than you can shake a stick at.
Daniel