The key advantage PocketPCs have over Palms is the Microsoft backs it's OS with hundreds of millions in marketing dollars. Remember, 30% of Dells revenue comes directly from Microsoft in the way of marketing dollars. The market has been getting purchased by Microsoft since they came up with MS Windows CE some 8+ years ago. Remember, the original market choose PalmOS and it has cost Microsoft BILLIONS to get into the 40% quarterly sales level in a shrinking market. That is not something to be proud of IMO.
Do you think that Microsofts WinCE division would have been losing around $250 million per quarter( for the last 8+ years ) if Microsoft was not paying people/companies to use it? Unlikely.
the ultimage air blaster was one which looked like a bazooka and had a red pump arm on the top. My older brother had one of these and I saw this in a photo a few years ago but can't find anything on it now.
The Wham-O Air Blaster looks pretty cool but a shoulder held bazooka was dabomb.
I remember the Virtibird helicopter toy being fun too.
One note for anybody else reading this: Go to the General Outgoing server settings first and then go to it's "advanced" option. Here you're allowed to add more outgoing servers. Then you'll have a choice within the "advanced" option for the individual accounts.
Nice and thanks again.
LoB
can we assign a unique SMTP server per personna?
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The last time I checked, Thunderbird did not allow me to use a different outgoing SMTP server based on the personna(reply-to) used.
This is a big problem these days because SPAM filters at the ISP block email where the reply-to address is not within the same domain as the sending SMTP server.
I was told that the Fry'es stores in SoCal are selling a Linux computer for $179.
I do agree that the poor do not need personal computers. They should have access to a computer but they don't need to own one and should spend that $100+ on cloths/etc instead. A local government office should provide the computer access if they are really concerned with the poor having computer access.
The not-so-poor can purchase their own sub $200 computer since those are available today. IMHO
www.zaurususergroup.com does not look like a Zaurus support site to me. It used to but now it shows something about a scooter or something about badgerracing.com... strange
Personally, I used to be a Palm boy but not have an iPaq 4155, which is tiny, and has built in bluetooth and wifi. Yes it's less reliable than the palm and obviously has worse battery life. But the wireless options and screen quality sell it to me. Personally I couldn't give a monkey's what OS it runs provided I can sync to my desktop PC, and run my GPS nav software.
Gawd, are Microsoft based PDA's still unreliable? Geesh, they've been losing money in that market/division for something like 8 years now. Heck, my rev 1 Zaurus( SL-5000 model ) hasn't been rebooted in about 2 years. I guess THAT is why the OS matters.
I'm sure Dell and HP just love the support money Microsoft must be paying them to keep selling those devices. Not to mention the money soon to be flowing in from the winPods they are selling.
It's obvious from the first 2 sections. You know it's FUD when Microsoft executives start telling us what "the customers" are asking them...
First he says that it's about Linux TCO vs UNIX and not Linux TCO vs Windows. He tries to solidify this point by saying that when customers are telling them they're getting better TCO with Linux, that it's not always about Windows. Why would a Microsoft customer, say to Microsoft that they are getting better TCO on Linux vs UNIX? Remember also, they don't have to prove any of this and can make it up as they go. Heck, they do that in court too.:-/ This is categorized under the Uncertanty part of FUD. Uncertant about all the positive press Linux is getting with regards to being cheaper than Windows.
Next was how he was saying that MICROSOFT CUSTOMERS are asking Microsoft about protection from patents and copyrights. Is SCO going after Microsoft or something? This just seems silly for a Microsoft customer to be asking them. Especially with all the Microsoft licenses they have to agree to in order to use the software. IMO, this is another on of the "the cutomers are asking" PR stunts to try and add credence to the SCO vs Linux issue. ie, the Fear part of FUD.
I could go on, but it's pretty obvious this is just a PR presentation and ComputerWorld offered up their stage for it.
That part about Novell just means they now have a target they can shoot at. Especially since Novell is once again going after the desktop OS market( Ray Norda started this back in the mid 1990's. With Linux too! ). Anybody else notice how they've been using 'birdshot' in their PR gun against Linux/OSS the last couple of years? They are no better off today though. IMHO.
I also see your point about the context of Leon's "time to die" statement but since I had no recollection of that, it was Roys context that popped into mind. It comes from the point of view that those who play on Microsofts playing field are likely to be stating Roys context of the phrase when Microsoft decided it wants their customers. Something like 20 years history of these killings by Microsoft puts the blame on those thinking they can make a lasting business on Microsofts turf.
Remember when Roy was on the roof, it was pouring rain and he pulled Deckard up from the side of the building with a nail sticking though his hand? Then, as the both sat agonizingly to the roof, Roy said to Deckard:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack Ships on fire off the shores of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark off of Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...like tears, in rain. Time to die." -- Roy Batty( Rutger Hauer )
Leon might have said it too but THIS is what I remember and what I was referring to. A good excuse for me to watch the movie again though.:-)
It's been awhile but I thought that Roy Batty( Rutger Hauer ) said this on the roof after he pulled Deckard up from the side of the building, said the line and then looked up and died..
Looks like there's soon to be a BladeRunner night in my future.:-)
that caught my attention too but then I figured it was telling of how they have to play against Microsoft and that the customer will/does get caught in the middle.
We all know the crap/trap/etc Microsoft does to keep it's monopoly and anybody/company that gets in it's way is going to end up hurting it's customers trying to stay in business when Microsoft decided, for them, that it's "time to die"( --Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer in BladeRunner ).
This was the one response which lead me to believe it really wasn't Real Networks PR department doing the responses.
Atleast that's how I read between the lines in this particular response.
Maybe the fact that the Bush Administration just released news that N. Korea MIGHT be planning a nuckler(sic) test is an indication that last Thursdays explosion is likely to be from a nuke.
Or maybe it's the fact that 3 days later and Japan, Washington, S. Korea, etc have no official statement besides that they are looking into it.
This sounds to me like they are all figuring out how their damage control system is going to handle this. Surely, a Saturday release from the Bush Whitehouse of "interesting" activity in N. Korea, but nothing about the blast, seems suspect and a typical REACTION to a major event which the public expects them to be on top of.
This doesn't look good IMHO. A 2.4mile mushroom cloud in N. Korea and NOBODY is/was talking about this until today! Yikes.
BTW, the latest reports of S. Korea saying it was not a nuke seem suspect and lacking in facts. On the funny side, someone in Washington said it could be a forest fire! What kind of trees go up that fast? Black Powder Oak or maybe they have some new fangled Aspen Quaking trees out there...;-) A forest fire, how brilliant is that?
Without a way to check "the system" if MY vote was counted, how are we to know our vote REALLY was applied? The e-voting machines and systems could allow voters to go online, enter in a unique ID from any computer/phone/pda browser and see that THIER vote is in the system and was counted. Will it happen? I doubt it. They would rather have a system where you are left to trust those running the show.
I will tell you now, if THIS election is decided by the judicial process too, it might be the time to purchase some form of protection for your family and home... IMO.
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What about the bat Microsoft swings at it's custom
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The bat that Steve talks about swinging to protect its MS Window monopoly is the same bat used to pound customers into paying outrageous licensing fees for insecure product. Remember how that kinder gentler Microsoft was/is threatening US School districts with the help of their BSA buddies? Microsoft with ANY bat is not a good thing. Why isn't THIS brought up when Open Source and Microsoft are mentioned in the same session? The BSA would be DOA with FOSS. Or atleast the Microsoft problems which are most of BSA's mandate. IMHO.
And another thing about this Ballmer guy: THIS was nicely worded, as only Microsoft could: "If you have two popular operating systems, both will get attacked -- whatever is popular is going to be attacked," Ballmer said.
The interesting word is "attacked". Notice he didn't say 'broken into'. There is a night and day difference between being attacked and having attacks suceed. And in MS Winodws case, crashing to its knees from almost every attack.
Microsoft is THE master marketing company and could probably sell an elephant as a duck. Oh wait, they do.;-)
who really upgrades anyways, pre-installs is their bread and butter with regards to keeping their OS monopoly rolling. What is interesting is that they expect existing computers, running their current OS's, will be able to run the updates from their next OS. THIS IS NEW for the most part. Usually, they shoved so much kludge into the next OS that only current hardware would/could run the OS.
So, if they can't force hardware upgrades then they will be slowing down sales of their future OS. This isn't typical for Microsoft and I don't expect this to happen. Or atleast they most likely won't be upgrading XP or 2003 to the 2007 version. Just small bits and pieces.
gawd, remember when they wouldn't upgrade USB support into Win95? OEMs were probably hammered into only pre-loading Win98 with that incredible USB support.
Trust me, Microsoft will not do anything at the expense of OS uptake( not upgrade ). XP won't get much useful stuff. that'll only be in 2007. IMHO
A friend purchased a 3GHz( yes 3 ) Intel Pentium 4 with HyperThreading a few months back. I asked why he didn't purchase an AMD CPU and he said he needed x86 compatibility... So much for informed hardware engeers. Anyway, I recently asked him about the system since I just built an AMD 2600+ based system and wanted to know if he had some code he wanted to compare/test. Well, he told me that his 3GHz CPU really only runs most applications at 1.5GHz except if they are multi-threaded or hyperthread aware.
Is this true? Does Intel put a 3GHz label on 1.5GHz dual/core CPU's or whatever this hyperthreading is? Sounds dual/core-ish to me...
It's funny how that 1.5GHz number shows up again in Intel product. I remember when they could not build anything faster than 7xxMHz and then all of a sudden, they had a "new technology" that got them 1.5GHz( 2x 750MHz ) and it was found out later that only PART of the CPU was running at 2x. This all happened when AMD beat Intel passed the 1GHz barrier. Are they again playing "tricks" to get a big GHz label on their parts?
So any of you people up on this dual-core and hyperthreading thing and feel like explaining to the rest of us what's going on? TIA.
this just makes up for the years I had to have my User Agent set to MS IE just to get a page loaded in Netscapes browsers.
And though this isn't a "kind" tactic to get counted, it's not anywhere near what Microsoft has done in the past. Remember when it hired a group to send out "grass root" requests to State A.G.'s saying how much the antitrust case is wrong and would hurt the country???? I can go on and on but it still does not make this right. But screw Microsoft, I choose to do what it takes to control my own destiny when my choices are activly restricted.
IIRC, AMD licensed the Alpha memory bus design and it's still used today. It's how AMD ended up with such a fast bus and beat Intel for ~2 years with a faster FSB.
So, if you run and AMD CPU then you're keeping the DEC Alpha technology alive. Also, don't forget that the DEC StrongARM was part of the DEC technical vision too. It's how Intel got into the handheld market. Too bad DEC thought Microsoft was it's future....
I thought that was only available in Africa and only to very poor school systems. The story was that the school system which already purchased some for one school, was told that they can't purchase the 441 for any which aren't in the poorest of the poor areas.
since it was stated( true? ) that USB floppy drives where going "away", I wonder if whay you mentioned could work with USB flash memory dongles? If somehow a USB port could be provided at each "head" then the user could just plug in his/her own memory card for local storage. Heck, it might even get used as the users persistant home directory if they had it plugged in during login.
The trick is to be able to tie a USB port to a location so that the right device was made accessable to the right "head"/location.
I've been thinking about a combination of LTSP and 4-headed clients for another level of price point.
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The key advantage PocketPCs have over Palms is the Microsoft backs it's OS with hundreds of millions in marketing dollars. Remember, 30% of Dells revenue comes directly from Microsoft in the way of marketing dollars. The market has been getting purchased by Microsoft since they came up with MS Windows CE some 8+ years ago. Remember, the original market choose PalmOS and it has cost Microsoft BILLIONS to get into the 40% quarterly sales level in a shrinking market. That is not something to be proud of IMO.
Do you think that Microsofts WinCE division would have been losing around $250 million per quarter( for the last 8+ years ) if Microsoft was not paying people/companies to use it? Unlikely.
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The hover-copter is pretty cool. A friends kid has this and we had a blast playing with it the last time we visited. :-)
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the ultimage air blaster was one which looked like a bazooka and had a red pump arm on the top. My older brother had one of these and I saw this in a photo a few years ago but can't find anything on it now.
The Wham-O Air Blaster looks pretty cool but a shoulder held bazooka was dabomb.
I remember the Virtibird helicopter toy being fun too.
LoB
holy crap, thanks.
One note for anybody else reading this: Go to the General Outgoing server settings first and then go to it's "advanced" option. Here you're allowed to add more outgoing servers. Then you'll have a choice within the "advanced" option for the individual accounts.
Nice and thanks again.
LoB
The last time I checked, Thunderbird did not allow me to use a different outgoing SMTP server based on the personna(reply-to) used.
This is a big problem these days because SPAM filters at the ISP block email where the reply-to address is not within the same domain as the sending SMTP server.
It's a must-have feature me to move to it.
LoB
I was told that the Fry'es stores in SoCal are selling a Linux computer for $179.
I do agree that the poor do not need personal computers. They should have access to a computer but they don't need to own one and should spend that $100+ on cloths/etc instead. A local government office should provide the computer access if they are really concerned with the poor having computer access.
The not-so-poor can purchase their own sub $200 computer since those are available today. IMHO
LoB
www.zaurususergroup.com does not look like a Zaurus support site to me. It used to but now it shows something about a scooter or something about badgerracing.com... strange
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Gawd, are Microsoft based PDA's still unreliable? Geesh, they've been losing money in that market/division for something like 8 years now. Heck, my rev 1 Zaurus( SL-5000 model ) hasn't been rebooted in about 2 years. I guess THAT is why the OS matters.
I'm sure Dell and HP just love the support money Microsoft must be paying them to keep selling those devices. Not to mention the money soon to be flowing in from the winPods they are selling.
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It's obvious from the first 2 sections. You know it's FUD when Microsoft executives start telling us what "the customers" are asking them...
:-/ This is categorized under the Uncertanty part of FUD. Uncertant about all the positive press Linux is getting with regards to being cheaper than Windows.
First he says that it's about Linux TCO vs UNIX and not Linux TCO vs Windows. He tries to solidify this point by saying that when customers are telling them they're getting better TCO with Linux, that it's not always about Windows. Why would a Microsoft customer, say to Microsoft that they are getting better TCO on Linux vs UNIX? Remember also, they don't have to prove any of this and can make it up as they go. Heck, they do that in court too.
Next was how he was saying that MICROSOFT CUSTOMERS are asking Microsoft about protection from patents and copyrights. Is SCO going after Microsoft or something? This just seems silly for a Microsoft customer to be asking them. Especially with all the Microsoft licenses they have to agree to in order to use the software. IMO, this is another on of the "the cutomers are asking" PR stunts to try and add credence to the SCO vs Linux issue. ie, the Fear part of FUD.
I could go on, but it's pretty obvious this is just a PR presentation and ComputerWorld offered up their stage for it.
That part about Novell just means they now have a target they can shoot at. Especially since Novell is once again going after the desktop OS market( Ray Norda started this back in the mid 1990's. With Linux too! ). Anybody else notice how they've been using 'birdshot' in their PR gun against Linux/OSS the last couple of years? They are no better off today though. IMHO.
LoB
Right on about the "shoulders of Orion".
I also see your point about the context of Leon's "time to die" statement but since I had no recollection of that, it was Roys context that popped into mind. It comes from the point of view that those who play on Microsofts playing field are likely to be stating Roys context of the phrase when Microsoft decided it wants their customers. Something like 20 years history of these killings by Microsoft puts the blame on those thinking they can make a lasting business on Microsofts turf.
LoB
Remember when Roy was on the roof, it was pouring rain and he pulled Deckard up from the side of the building with a nail sticking though his hand? Then, as the both sat agonizingly to the roof, Roy said to Deckard:
:-)
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Attack Ships on fire off the shores of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark off of Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time...like tears, in rain. Time to die." -- Roy Batty( Rutger Hauer )
Leon might have said it too but THIS is what I remember and what I was referring to. A good excuse for me to watch the movie again though.
LoB
It's been awhile but I thought that Roy Batty( Rutger Hauer ) said this on the roof after he pulled Deckard up from the side of the building, said the line and then looked up and died..
:-)
Looks like there's soon to be a BladeRunner night in my future.
LoB
that caught my attention too but then I figured it was telling of how they have to play against Microsoft and that the customer will/does get caught in the middle.
We all know the crap/trap/etc Microsoft does to keep it's monopoly and anybody/company that gets in it's way is going to end up hurting it's customers trying to stay in business when Microsoft decided, for them, that it's "time to die"( --Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer in BladeRunner ).
This was the one response which lead me to believe it really wasn't Real Networks PR department doing the responses.
Atleast that's how I read between the lines in this particular response.
LoB
Maybe the fact that the Bush Administration just released news that N. Korea MIGHT be planning a nuckler(sic) test is an indication that last Thursdays explosion is likely to be from a nuke.
Or maybe it's the fact that 3 days later and Japan, Washington, S. Korea, etc have no official statement besides that they are looking into it.
This sounds to me like they are all figuring out how their damage control system is going to handle this. Surely, a Saturday release from the Bush Whitehouse of "interesting" activity in N. Korea, but nothing about the blast, seems suspect and a typical REACTION to a major event which the public expects them to be on top of.
This doesn't look good IMHO. A 2.4mile mushroom cloud in N. Korea and NOBODY is/was talking about this until today! Yikes.
BTW, the latest reports of S. Korea saying it was not a nuke seem suspect and lacking in facts. On the funny side, someone in Washington said it could be a forest fire! What kind of trees go up that fast? Black Powder Oak or maybe they have some new fangled Aspen Quaking trees out there...;-) A forest fire, how brilliant is that?
LoB
Without a way to check "the system" if MY vote was counted, how are we to know our vote REALLY was applied? The e-voting machines and systems could allow voters to go online, enter in a unique ID from any computer/phone/pda browser and see that THIER vote is in the system and was counted. Will it happen? I doubt it. They would rather have a system where you are left to trust those running the show.
I will tell you now, if THIS election is decided by the judicial process too, it might be the time to purchase some form of protection for your family and home... IMO.
LoB
The bat that Steve talks about swinging to protect its MS Window monopoly is the same bat used to pound customers into paying outrageous licensing fees for insecure product. Remember how that kinder gentler Microsoft was/is threatening US School districts with the help of their BSA buddies? Microsoft with ANY bat is not a good thing. Why isn't THIS brought up when Open Source and Microsoft are mentioned in the same session? The BSA would be DOA with FOSS. Or atleast the Microsoft problems which are most of BSA's mandate. IMHO.
;-)
And another thing about this Ballmer guy:
THIS was nicely worded, as only Microsoft could:
"If you have two popular operating systems, both will get attacked -- whatever is popular is going to be attacked," Ballmer said.
The interesting word is "attacked". Notice he didn't say 'broken into'. There is a night and day difference between being attacked and having attacks suceed. And in MS Winodws case, crashing to its knees from almost every attack.
Microsoft is THE master marketing company and could probably sell an elephant as a duck. Oh wait, they do.
LoB
who really upgrades anyways, pre-installs is their bread and butter with regards to keeping their OS monopoly rolling. What is interesting is that they expect existing computers, running their current OS's, will be able to run the updates from their next OS. THIS IS NEW for the most part. Usually, they shoved so much kludge into the next OS that only current hardware would/could run the OS.
So, if they can't force hardware upgrades then they will be slowing down sales of their future OS. This isn't typical for Microsoft and I don't expect this to happen. Or atleast they most likely won't be upgrading XP or 2003 to the 2007 version. Just small bits and pieces.
gawd, remember when they wouldn't upgrade USB support into Win95? OEMs were probably hammered into only pre-loading Win98 with that incredible USB support.
Trust me, Microsoft will not do anything at the expense of OS uptake( not upgrade ). XP won't get much useful stuff. that'll only be in 2007.
IMHO
LoB
thanks. I see there are other comments on this now so it's a bit clearer now. thanks.
LoB
A friend purchased a 3GHz( yes 3 ) Intel Pentium 4 with HyperThreading a few months back. I asked why he didn't purchase an AMD CPU and he said he needed x86 compatibility... So much for informed hardware engeers. Anyway, I recently asked him about the system since I just built an AMD 2600+ based system and wanted to know if he had some code he wanted to compare/test. Well, he told me that his 3GHz CPU really only runs most applications at 1.5GHz except if they are multi-threaded or hyperthread aware.
Is this true? Does Intel put a 3GHz label on 1.5GHz dual/core CPU's or whatever this hyperthreading is? Sounds dual/core-ish to me...
It's funny how that 1.5GHz number shows up again in Intel product. I remember when they could not build anything faster than 7xxMHz and then all of a sudden, they had a "new technology" that got them 1.5GHz( 2x 750MHz ) and it was found out later that only PART of the CPU was running at 2x. This all happened when AMD beat Intel passed the 1GHz barrier. Are they again playing "tricks" to get a big GHz label on their parts?
So any of you people up on this dual-core and hyperthreading thing and feel like explaining to the rest of us what's going on? TIA.
LoB
Regarding your "crappy tactic" comment: See item #23
Lob
this just makes up for the years I had to have my User Agent set to MS IE just to get a page loaded in Netscapes browsers.
And though this isn't a "kind" tactic to get counted, it's not anywhere near what Microsoft has done in the past. Remember when it hired a group to send out "grass root" requests to State A.G.'s saying how much the antitrust case is wrong and would hurt the country???? I can go on and on but it still does not make this right. But screw Microsoft, I choose to do what it takes to control my own destiny when my choices are activly restricted.
Don't like? Tough.
LoB
paste this into your Mozilla/Firefox bookmark.html file and start pinging metered sites every hour for a nice bump in Mozilla/Firefox statistics. ;-)
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IIRC, AMD licensed the Alpha memory bus design and it's still used today. It's how AMD ended up with such a fast bus and beat Intel for ~2 years with a faster FSB.
So, if you run and AMD CPU then you're keeping the DEC Alpha technology alive. Also, don't forget that the DEC StrongARM was part of the DEC technical vision too. It's how Intel got into the handheld market. Too bad DEC thought Microsoft was it's future....
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I thought that was only available in Africa and only to very poor school systems. The story was that the school system which already purchased some for one school, was told that they can't purchase the 441 for any which aren't in the poorest of the poor areas.
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since it was stated( true? ) that USB floppy drives where going "away", I wonder if whay you mentioned could work with USB flash memory dongles? If somehow a USB port could be provided at each "head" then the user could just plug in his/her own memory card for local storage. Heck, it might even get used as the users persistant home directory if they had it plugged in during login.
The trick is to be able to tie a USB port to a location so that the right device was made accessable to the right "head"/location.
I've been thinking about a combination of LTSP and 4-headed clients for another level of price point.
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