Except for it only having 2 megs of memory, you just described my Palm III. I have been occasionally buying more of them when I find them on eBay. I paid $5 for my last one and $20 for the second last one which came with a folding keyboard that was still in the shrinkwrap. They were both essentially brand new, with no 'usage wear' and mint screens.
Not credit-card sized, but they're years and years old. I like having a PDA that uses common AAA batteries. The built-in-sealed-battery rechargable ones I have tried have been junk in comparison.
I will continue to buy Palm IIIs as I see them as a deal, and probably continue to use them for several decades or more longer. I sync them to NetBSD with JPilot, btw.
marx would have hated the internet. he denounced similar iniatives, early precursors of the internet, that the soviet union put into place after 1917, in his post-humously published 'der Grundrisse'.
Bzzzt! Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany - March 14, 1883 London) was long dead before Lenin was anything more than another terrorist in pre-revolutionary Russia.
One would think that somebody who apparently champions Marx would know a little bit about the man.
...but can't anybody produce 'bio-weaponry' by purchasing used blankets at a thriftstore and infecting them with smallpox? Why is it 'new' that eBay can be used? Why would it cost $10,000?
If the government is serious about helping its citizens stay at the forefront of science and technology, it should be doing all it can to help those people with the wherewithal and determination to attain advanced degrees.
Or it should be pushing the 'ninnies' out of the nest and into the real world, and encouraging the propagataion of knowledge widely to everybody who is done with school and out in the real world. The notion of an 'elect few scholars' is just wrong. Ingrown elites tend to face inward. There should be much, much more outreach to 'the rest of us' in the form of less expensive 'hard-core' books, better educational television programming (less of the 'gee-whiz' crap that gets considered 'science education'). Money should be spent, to give a concrete example, to make Knuth's books a $16 boxed set, so EVERY curious 15 year old could own a copy.
Too many of the people who nestle in and work forever on advanced degrees are people who do it because they can't or won't cope with the real world. Whereas the 'real world' is purportedly the domain of the knowledge.
Well, my prediction is that there won't be much available for sale at the iTunes store, if the content producers/owners decide that 99 cents isn't a high enough price.
People buy music, and they're paying for music. They're not paying for the idea that it should only be 99 cents per track. If all Apple's store is selling is indie tracks whose publisher settles for 99 cents per track, then the market will move on to online venues that sell at a price point the content producers/providers are willing to sell at.
Mr. Jobs at Apple understands this, though. I predict he'll price the tracks at what he has to, to keep the operation going.
As to the price dropping, don't be ridiculous. That isn't how inflation works.
I was using Solaris in xinerama mode on two screens a few years ago. It's better than just having two displays and fiddling with display environment variables all the time.
Dual booting? I just have a KVM switch, and my main desktop machine at present runs NetBSD. There's a Windows 2000 machine I can switch to for tasks where it's necessary. Usable desktop-speed hardware is CHEAP these days, and with KVM switches there's no need to have more than one keyboard/monitor. I run NetBSD on a Pentium 550 MHz (one that I paid less than $5 for at auction) for my desktop machine and it's plenty snappy. I don't use a bloatware WM, though.
I haven't dual booted in five years or more. The idea of booting OUT of Unix just seems weird. How would I receive email and browsing the web? Windows machines are not suitable for regular daily use on the Internet. The Windows machine is for games and multimedia editing and stuff.
Yes, that's what I am saying. If Apple insists that THEY, as the marketplace, can set the price that sellers are allowed to sell in their marketplace, the sellers will make their way to another marketplace to sell their wares.
You can make it into a historical rant about the music industry but it's just how free markets work. I can't buy an iPod at the 'dollar store' for some reason. Since Apple has decided that they are not going to make the iPod available at the 'dollar store' because they need to see more than a dollar per iPod sale, they are doing the same 'dastardly thing' as the music industry will when markets that don't force them to sell their product for a dollar open up.
Many people are 'passionate' about the GPL and are never going to accept the idea of diversity in software licenses. A lot of non-coders have, it seems, made GPL advocacy their life's work.
Now what really, really baffles me is that articles like this make it sound like the variable pricing I just mentioned, is going to somehow magically eat away at iTunes market share.
No, the variable pricing you just mentioned is going to eat away at the catalog of songs available for Apple to sell at $0.99 per song. Then the paucity of tunes available on iTunes will eat away at iTunes market share.
But nobody wants to pay that much for something that's not expandable.
Anybody who bought a Mac 128, 512, or SE was willing to. In fact, one of the big selling points of the early Macintosh was that it was unexpandable, and thus easy to use and maintain.
'Cringley' does NOT do a lot of good journalism. He tends to place himself in the middle of the story in ways that make it a very biased story. He's also a pretty strident historical revisionist. Most of the people who cheer him on and champion him as a journalist are people who consider him to be on 'their side.'
I think you need to read the penultimate paragraph of Cringely's article before dismissing this as just another personal attack. What he is suggesting is extraordinary - so extraordinary that I find it hard to believe, but it's certainly news that he wrote it. By any standards, it belongs on Slashdot.
Your comment is generic enough, but also specific enough to Cringely, that it could be made regarding any of the many 'articles' by 'Cringeley' (not his real name) that have been posted to Slashdot. He is a hack writer of the same journalistic stature as Matt Drudge or the National Enquirer.
But he posts contrived paranoiac screeds that the 'Slashdot community' just laps up. Yay banner impressions!!
As I said above, same as it ever was, in the case of Cringely.
I see it as an excellent and refreshing example where one socio-political group appropriates language (the word 'gay') to fulfull their agenda, and a larger group grabs the word back and makes a mockery of it.
It wouldn't be nearly as funny if the second larger group had done it in a hateful fashion.
I support people's right to be who they want to be and act the way they wish. I, myself, living in a rather dismal 'middle America' small town, have had little high school dinks accuse me of being homosexual to my face. However, it is not 'homophobic' to react in revulsion to something you find repulsive. It isn't 'corprophobic' to be repulsed when seeing somebody eat shit. It isn't 'homophobic' to be repulsed when seeing someone make out with a member of the same sex.
GET OVER YOUR COMPULSION TO IMPOSE YOUR WORLDVIEW ON OTHER PEOPLE.
Yes, and the 'April Fools' aspect of the page is only amplfied by the fact that a whole bunch of slashdot 'regulars' will now order the t-shirt. Their moms will force them to return the shirts (her credit card number and all, ya know.) April Fools! on the people running the page, who thought they were gonna make a mint by it being posted on slashdot.
Vista moves a lot of OS software out of kernel space (where it will crash the whole machine if it dies) and into user space. For instance, the networking and driver interfaces. This is good for security,
Is it, really? It's good for system stability. But it's easier for malevolent code to 'break into' user-level execution space than into kernel space. Do we really want malware out there that can 'on the fly' replace the networking functionality without crashing the machine? You want to run the PATRIOT-act compliant TCP/IP stack dynamically, whenever the ActiveX on a government web page tells your OS to?
Why would anyone care about this? The moment you get a new OS installed (be it Windows or Linux), the first thing you do is tweak Control Panel-type settings to adjust fonts, etc.
He is saying that WYSIWYG will scale properly. The 'page preview' on the screen will scale exactly to the printed page of output. Which, as you say, doesn't matter to most users anyway. But it's something 'right' that Microsoft will now be doing. Not ironically, they are implementing it as a 'side effect.' Quality in Microsoft products seems to always be a side effect.
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Except for it only having 2 megs of memory, you just described my Palm III. I have been occasionally buying more of them when I find them on eBay. I paid $5 for my last one and $20 for the second last one which came with a folding keyboard that was still in the shrinkwrap. They were both essentially brand new, with no 'usage wear' and mint screens.
Not credit-card sized, but they're years and years old. I like having a PDA that uses common AAA batteries. The built-in-sealed-battery rechargable ones I have tried have been junk in comparison.
I will continue to buy Palm IIIs as I see them as a deal, and probably continue to use them for several decades or more longer. I sync them to NetBSD with JPilot, btw.
Bzzzt! Karl Marx (May 5, 1818 Trier, Germany - March 14, 1883 London) was long dead before Lenin was anything more than another terrorist in pre-revolutionary Russia.
One would think that somebody who apparently champions Marx would know a little bit about the man.
An AC gets a +1 Insightful for defending Marxism in an off-topic subthread?
Did somebody get a Che t-shirt and next year they'll be a sophomore?
...but can't anybody produce 'bio-weaponry' by purchasing used blankets at a thriftstore and infecting them with smallpox? Why is it 'new' that eBay can be used? Why would it cost $10,000?
"Google gains control of software patent."
"Micro$oft said to have wanted to use technique"
"Software patents declared good by slashbots."
If the government is serious about helping its citizens stay at the forefront of science and technology, it should be doing all it can to help those people with the wherewithal and determination to attain advanced degrees.
Or it should be pushing the 'ninnies' out of the nest and into the real world, and encouraging the propagataion of knowledge widely to everybody who is done with school and out in the real world. The notion of an 'elect few scholars' is just wrong. Ingrown elites tend to face inward. There should be much, much more outreach to 'the rest of us' in the form of less expensive 'hard-core' books, better educational television programming (less of the 'gee-whiz' crap that gets considered 'science education'). Money should be spent, to give a concrete example, to make Knuth's books a $16 boxed set, so EVERY curious 15 year old could own a copy.
Too many of the people who nestle in and work forever on advanced degrees are people who do it because they can't or won't cope with the real world. Whereas the 'real world' is purportedly the domain of the knowledge.
Well, my prediction is that there won't be much available for sale at the iTunes store, if the content producers/owners decide that 99 cents isn't a high enough price.
People buy music, and they're paying for music. They're not paying for the idea that it should only be 99 cents per track. If all Apple's store is selling is indie tracks whose publisher settles for 99 cents per track, then the market will move on to online venues that sell at a price point the content producers/providers are willing to sell at.
Mr. Jobs at Apple understands this, though. I predict he'll price the tracks at what he has to, to keep the operation going.
As to the price dropping, don't be ridiculous. That isn't how inflation works.
So far in this thread, you're the only one ranting about the 'rootkit fiasco.'
Using a digital camera, you end up with a flat and unmanipulable bitmap.
Using the Tablet PC, you can use whatever vector-based drawing tool you are comfortable with, and elements can be resized, rearranged, etc.
I don't know how 'lossy' comes into it, unless you drop the digital camera or it's batteries die.
I was using Solaris in xinerama mode on two screens a few years ago. It's better than just having two displays and fiddling with display environment variables all the time.
Dual booting? I just have a KVM switch, and my main desktop machine at present runs NetBSD. There's a Windows 2000 machine I can switch to for tasks where it's necessary. Usable desktop-speed hardware is CHEAP these days, and with KVM switches there's no need to have more than one keyboard/monitor. I run NetBSD on a Pentium 550 MHz (one that I paid less than $5 for at auction) for my desktop machine and it's plenty snappy. I don't use a bloatware WM, though.
I haven't dual booted in five years or more. The idea of booting OUT of Unix just seems weird. How would I receive email and browsing the web? Windows machines are not suitable for regular daily use on the Internet. The Windows machine is for games and multimedia editing and stuff.
Yes, that's what I am saying. If Apple insists that THEY, as the marketplace, can set the price that sellers are allowed to sell in their marketplace, the sellers will make their way to another marketplace to sell their wares.
You can make it into a historical rant about the music industry but it's just how free markets work. I can't buy an iPod at the 'dollar store' for some reason. Since Apple has decided that they are not going to make the iPod available at the 'dollar store' because they need to see more than a dollar per iPod sale, they are doing the same 'dastardly thing' as the music industry will when markets that don't force them to sell their product for a dollar open up.
Many people are 'passionate' about the GPL and are never going to accept the idea of diversity in software licenses. A lot of non-coders have, it seems, made GPL advocacy their life's work.
Sad but true.
Now what really, really baffles me is that articles like this make it sound like the variable pricing I just mentioned, is going to somehow magically eat away at iTunes market share.
No, the variable pricing you just mentioned is going to eat away at the catalog of songs available for Apple to sell at $0.99 per song. Then the paucity of tunes available on iTunes will eat away at iTunes market share.
It's really not very complicated.
But nobody wants to pay that much for something that's not expandable.
Anybody who bought a Mac 128, 512, or SE was willing to. In fact, one of the big selling points of the early Macintosh was that it was unexpandable, and thus easy to use and maintain.
'Cringley' does NOT do a lot of good journalism. He tends to place himself in the middle of the story in ways that make it a very biased story. He's also a pretty strident historical revisionist. Most of the people who cheer him on and champion him as a journalist are people who consider him to be on 'their side.'
Try telling that to the KDE and Gnome developers. (It's senseless to argue such matters with Microsoft.)
I would trust the opinion of an Anonymous Coward posting on slashdot over anything Cringely writes. Except for your comment, of course... heheh
Your comment is generic enough, but also specific enough to Cringely, that it could be made regarding any of the many 'articles' by 'Cringeley' (not his real name) that have been posted to Slashdot. He is a hack writer of the same journalistic stature as Matt Drudge or the National Enquirer.
But he posts contrived paranoiac screeds that the 'Slashdot community' just laps up. Yay banner impressions!!
As I said above, same as it ever was, in the case of Cringely.
I see it as an excellent and refreshing example where one socio-political group appropriates language (the word 'gay') to fulfull their agenda, and a larger group grabs the word back and makes a mockery of it.
It wouldn't be nearly as funny if the second larger group had done it in a hateful fashion.
I support people's right to be who they want to be and act the way they wish. I, myself, living in a rather dismal 'middle America' small town, have had little high school dinks accuse me of being homosexual to my face. However, it is not 'homophobic' to react in revulsion to something you find repulsive. It isn't 'corprophobic' to be repulsed when seeing somebody eat shit. It isn't 'homophobic' to be repulsed when seeing someone make out with a member of the same sex.
GET OVER YOUR COMPULSION TO IMPOSE YOUR WORLDVIEW ON OTHER PEOPLE.
Thank you.
Yes, and the 'April Fools' aspect of the page is only amplfied by the fact that a whole bunch of slashdot 'regulars' will now order the t-shirt. Their moms will force them to return the shirts (her credit card number and all, ya know.) April Fools! on the people running the page, who thought they were gonna make a mint by it being posted on slashdot.
Sounds to me like you have a terrible job and are just taking it out on all of us with your sour attitude.
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Smile!
I am using the Mozilla suite on NetBSD. I don't know why you would assume what you did.
Vista moves a lot of OS software out of kernel space (where it will crash the whole machine if it dies) and into user space. For instance, the networking and driver interfaces. This is good for security,
Is it, really? It's good for system stability. But it's easier for malevolent code to 'break into' user-level execution space than into kernel space. Do we really want malware out there that can 'on the fly' replace the networking functionality without crashing the machine? You want to run the PATRIOT-act compliant TCP/IP stack dynamically, whenever the ActiveX on a government web page tells your OS to?
Why would anyone care about this? The moment you get a new OS installed (be it Windows or Linux), the first thing you do is tweak Control Panel-type settings to adjust fonts, etc.
He is saying that WYSIWYG will scale properly. The 'page preview' on the screen will scale exactly to the printed page of output. Which, as you say, doesn't matter to most users anyway. But it's something 'right' that Microsoft will now be doing. Not ironically, they are implementing it as a 'side effect.' Quality in Microsoft products seems to always be a side effect.