As soon as you have devices that do everything a PDA does, but better and still cheap, the PDA as it is now will disappear. The problem is a lot of these devices now try to do everything, but don't do anything well (and they're expensive). Once that begins to change, it will be no surprise.
That's what i thought the origami was going to be. Why not have a blackberry-type device which is super easy to use, works perfectly with Exchange, and has all the cool pen-based pda functionality. As long as they could pull it off without being cumbersome, i think it would work. Thats why some devices succeed and some fail: crappy ones are too cumbersome to actually use.
Gotcha. The one we went to was actually in Metairie on Veterans. Just a few blocks from Clearview. I live in Baton Rouge actually.
I've got an old Atari Star Wars game myself. Had it since i was about 7 years old (i'm 24 now). My grandfather was a pharmacist and had a drug store and movie theatre back in the 50's. I've got an old pinball game from his store that's so old it doesn't have flippers. Just a whole bunch of holes for the ball to fall in once you launch it. Also an old slot machine that gives out rolls of mints. Pretty cool stuff.
Actually, it's super common in new houses these days, and the whole thing makes a lot of sense. Since the fireplace is gas instead of wood-burning, there's just an IR sensor that turns on the gas. The fireplace can be sealed too (glass or whatever), instead of open to the room. Plus, there's no chimney all the way to the top of the house, only a vent that goes directly out the back of the fireplace to the outside.
I almost defy you to show me a house $200k around here that doesn't have one. Plus, this is Louisiana. The winter gets to about 50 degrees for about 3 weeks.
My parents flipped out after they built their new house because the fireplace would suddenly come on when they weren't home. Turns out the neighbor's garage door opener was the same frequency/channel as the remote to the gas fireplace.
There (used to be before Katrina) a 'penny' arcade in New Orleans that we went to all the time. It was full of pretty current games, all in good shape. The trick was, every game was *actually* still a quarter. They were open until 3am on weekends too. Needless to say the place was always full of people. I understand that the newest games are mad expensive (>$10k), but still. $1.25 in an arcade game just wasn't destined to last.
I thought the whole point was to provide a replacement for the Blackberry. If they had a system that was super-integrated with Exchange, they could easily win over all the Blackberry-addicted executives if RIM had to shut down.
With RIM still around, i bet its still a Blackberry competitor. Network admins would love a single solution integrated with Exchange and Active Directory.
Actually, there is no more Powerbook 15. It's been removed from the online store for about a week. They have refurbs and whatnot still available, but no new ones directly from Apple.
I agree with the parent. Try to find a job with the school's IT dept. Sometimes each college at the university will have its own IT group too. This is what I did (I graduated from LSU '05), and it was better for my job than actually getting my CS degree. Even if IT is not what you want to do, you may get to play with 'big toys' that you wouldn't otherwise. Then again, there's probably people here on/. that run Active Directory on their home network...
Having real IT experience by the time i graduated helped me to easily land a good IT job at a hospital.
Very few does not mean all. I understand what you're saying, but a full out block of the cell signals is hardly a realistic fix for bad manners. Like i said in an earlier post, i wear a hospital pager 24/7. Tons of people do. Do movie theatre owners really want to alienate higher-income medical professionals, or just crack down on the knuckle-heads?
What we really need is people with common sense/courtesy. Don't have an obnoxious ringtone. Don't talk on the phone in a movie theatre, etc.
My situation: I've got to wear a hospital pager 24/7. New movie theatre with signal-jamming capability? I can't go. Sure, I've got sense enough to keep it on vibrate, but i'm the minority. We have to resort to actually crippling the devices to keep people from being idiots.
How about mine: I live in Baton Rouge, louisiana. After Katrina, the capitol city went from ~220,000 to 450,000. Literally double the population with ex-New Orleans residents overnight. The traffic was horrendous (worse than Houston where i came from) BEFORE the storm... Needless to say there are no jobs in Baton rouge.
Yeah, but in this case that doesn't matter. Today was the day, and all we needed to know was Blackberry staying or going.
Thats big news a little before quitting time on a friday. Especially since its a long holiday weekend here (mardi gras). Getting the news that blackberries would be shut down or not just before a 4-day weekend was big deal to us.
Just because muslims call islam their religion doesn't mean i have to tolerate it under any/all circumstances. Once they start burning buildings and killing people, that changes things. Do we all stand up and give backing to the Branch Dividians of Waco, Texas? No. The minute they start stockpiling weapons, that changes everything. And jeez, the Branch Dividians were only stockpiling weapons. The middle east is actually *using* them every day...
quoted from earlier:
Islam is not a race, or a sexual preference. Islam is an ideology, and deserves to be scrutinized as such. Furthermore, the statement "Islam is a religion of peace." is a hypothesis, and deserves to be treated as such. At the moment, the experimental evidence (including the Quran) seems to contradict that hypothesis.
Actually, he's a good speller. Its just that the 'R' key on his keyboard couldn't stand up to the violence resulting from the fits of rage caused by a stint with AOL.
Yep, i've gotten to the point where i won't sell a gun. might as well keep it, because i know i'll wish i didn't at some point. Doesn't help things that my dad is an FFL and a Dillon dealer. Between the two of us, we have one of every Kimber that's been released. He's gotta have each model in a Custom, a Pro, an Ultra... the madness never stops.
For the same money you can go get a Smith 22a. You'll never wear it out, and it'll work without cleaning it if you're so inclined. My kids aren't going to be learning to handle a gun with my prized Kimber collection of 1911's...
"How quickly we forget Xbox 360 basic and premium..."
Is this comment in response to the parent (my grandparent)? The thing about the xbox is that alot of players WILL want the premium, since its not just useless little extras. Getting the harddrive and HD cables makes a big difference. Without the HD cables, there's really no reason to even buy a 360 over an old xbox...
But seriously, what would be an acceptable answer?
Oh I've got a Linksys 4-port + wireless router, oh don't worry, its locked down tight. WEP key *AND* MAC filtering enabled. Windows XP SP2 firewall? Oh yeah, its enabled. I feel sorry for those poor bastards who try to wardrive on MY cable modem...
I don't know anybody who's going to be running blade switches at home or configuring VLANs. Although you may filter out the 'i have no idea, the guy at best buy told me i needed it' people, its not much of a gauge for 'real' it people. What you do it home may not be a really good indicator of how network-inclined somebody may be.
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PDAs are slowly going the way of the pager.
As soon as you have devices that do everything a PDA does, but better and still cheap, the PDA as it is now will disappear. The problem is a lot of these devices now try to do everything, but don't do anything well (and they're expensive). Once that begins to change, it will be no surprise.
That's what i thought the origami was going to be. Why not have a blackberry-type device which is super easy to use, works perfectly with Exchange, and has all the cool pen-based pda functionality. As long as they could pull it off without being cumbersome, i think it would work. Thats why some devices succeed and some fail: crappy ones are too cumbersome to actually use.
Gotcha. The one we went to was actually in Metairie on Veterans. Just a few blocks from Clearview. I live in Baton Rouge actually.
I've got an old Atari Star Wars game myself. Had it since i was about 7 years old (i'm 24 now). My grandfather was a pharmacist and had a drug store and movie theatre back in the 50's. I've got an old pinball game from his store that's so old it doesn't have flippers. Just a whole bunch of holes for the ball to fall in once you launch it. Also an old slot machine that gives out rolls of mints. Pretty cool stuff.
Actually, it's super common in new houses these days, and the whole thing makes a lot of sense. Since the fireplace is gas instead of wood-burning, there's just an IR sensor that turns on the gas. The fireplace can be sealed too (glass or whatever), instead of open to the room. Plus, there's no chimney all the way to the top of the house, only a vent that goes directly out the back of the fireplace to the outside.
I almost defy you to show me a house $200k around here that doesn't have one. Plus, this is Louisiana. The winter gets to about 50 degrees for about 3 weeks.
My parents flipped out after they built their new house because the fireplace would suddenly come on when they weren't home. Turns out the neighbor's garage door opener was the same frequency/channel as the remote to the gas fireplace.
There (used to be before Katrina) a 'penny' arcade in New Orleans that we went to all the time. It was full of pretty current games, all in good shape. The trick was, every game was *actually* still a quarter. They were open until 3am on weekends too. Needless to say the place was always full of people. I understand that the newest games are mad expensive (>$10k), but still. $1.25 in an arcade game just wasn't destined to last.
I thought the whole point was to provide a replacement for the Blackberry. If they had a system that was super-integrated with Exchange, they could easily win over all the Blackberry-addicted executives if RIM had to shut down.
With RIM still around, i bet its still a Blackberry competitor. Network admins would love a single solution integrated with Exchange and Active Directory.
Actually, there is no more Powerbook 15. It's been removed from the online store for about a week. They have refurbs and whatnot still available, but no new ones directly from Apple.
I agree with the parent. Try to find a job with the school's IT dept. Sometimes each college at the university will have its own IT group too. This is what I did (I graduated from LSU '05), and it was better for my job than actually getting my CS degree. Even if IT is not what you want to do, you may get to play with 'big toys' that you wouldn't otherwise. Then again, there's probably people here on /. that run Active Directory on their home network...
Having real IT experience by the time i graduated helped me to easily land a good IT job at a hospital.
Very few does not mean all. I understand what you're saying, but a full out block of the cell signals is hardly a realistic fix for bad manners. Like i said in an earlier post, i wear a hospital pager 24/7. Tons of people do. Do movie theatre owners really want to alienate higher-income medical professionals, or just crack down on the knuckle-heads?
What we really need is people with common sense/courtesy. Don't have an obnoxious ringtone. Don't talk on the phone in a movie theatre, etc.
My situation: I've got to wear a hospital pager 24/7. New movie theatre with signal-jamming capability? I can't go. Sure, I've got sense enough to keep it on vibrate, but i'm the minority. We have to resort to actually crippling the devices to keep people from being idiots.
I think you mis-spelled 'glitch'. Its actually spelled 'feature'.
How about mine: I live in Baton Rouge, louisiana. After Katrina, the capitol city went from ~220,000 to 450,000. Literally double the population with ex-New Orleans residents overnight. The traffic was horrendous (worse than Houston where i came from) BEFORE the storm... Needless to say there are no jobs in Baton rouge.
Yeah, but in this case that doesn't matter. Today was the day, and all we needed to know was Blackberry staying or going.
Thats big news a little before quitting time on a friday. Especially since its a long holiday weekend here (mardi gras). Getting the news that blackberries would be shut down or not just before a 4-day weekend was big deal to us.
The big fear with a diary was that someone might get ahold of it and read it.
With a blog, the fear is that nobody will...
Just because muslims call islam their religion doesn't mean i have to tolerate it under any/all circumstances. Once they start burning buildings and killing people, that changes things. Do we all stand up and give backing to the Branch Dividians of Waco, Texas? No. The minute they start stockpiling weapons, that changes everything. And jeez, the Branch Dividians were only stockpiling weapons. The middle east is actually *using* them every day...
quoted from earlier:
Islam is not a race, or a sexual preference. Islam is an ideology, and deserves to be scrutinized as such. Furthermore, the statement "Islam is a religion of peace." is a hypothesis, and deserves to be treated as such. At the moment, the experimental evidence (including the Quran) seems to contradict that hypothesis.
I'm with you about the saturn controller. Nobody has made a D-pad like that for any other system as far as i've seen.
You must be new here... Welcome to America!
"Whose dumb idea was professional gaming, anyhow? We make enough people rich and arrogant for being able to play inconsequential games as is."
Dang, just barely too long to be a sig... Seriously though, exactly what i was thinking.
Actually, he's a good speller. Its just that the 'R' key on his keyboard couldn't stand up to the violence resulting from the fits of rage caused by a stint with AOL.
He he. 'family in the business'. Yeah, it does sound kind of cool that way now that i think about it.
Yep, i've gotten to the point where i won't sell a gun. might as well keep it, because i know i'll wish i didn't at some point. Doesn't help things that my dad is an FFL and a Dillon dealer. Between the two of us, we have one of every Kimber that's been released. He's gotta have each model in a Custom, a Pro, an Ultra... the madness never stops.
For the same money you can go get a Smith 22a. You'll never wear it out, and it'll work without cleaning it if you're so inclined. My kids aren't going to be learning to handle a gun with my prized Kimber collection of 1911's...
"How quickly we forget Xbox 360 basic and premium..."
Is this comment in response to the parent (my grandparent)? The thing about the xbox is that alot of players WILL want the premium, since its not just useless little extras. Getting the harddrive and HD cables makes a big difference. Without the HD cables, there's really no reason to even buy a 360 over an old xbox...
In other news, researchers stunned to discover that water is indeed wet.
But seriously, what would be an acceptable answer?
Oh I've got a Linksys 4-port + wireless router, oh don't worry, its locked down tight. WEP key *AND* MAC filtering enabled. Windows XP SP2 firewall? Oh yeah, its enabled. I feel sorry for those poor bastards who try to wardrive on MY cable modem...
I don't know anybody who's going to be running blade switches at home or configuring VLANs. Although you may filter out the 'i have no idea, the guy at best buy told me i needed it' people, its not much of a gauge for 'real' it people. What you do it home may not be a really good indicator of how network-inclined somebody may be.