I used to have them themed around their purpose (server, workstation, etc.) or box type (laptop, tower, etc.) but now they are all named after a particular type of liquid. Here goes:
My Thinkpad (XP): ardbeg My Powerbook (Panther): knockando My Tower (XP): lagavulin Web/DB Server (2kS): oban Mail/DNS/etc. (FreeBSD 4.X): cardhu Fileserver (FreeBSD 5.X): springbank Router (m0n0wall): cragganmore
oh, and the wife's Thinkpad (XP): jimbeam (ah well, she's not a fan of the single malt)
And you've done extensive research on this, I take it. Because it certainly sounded like you are an authority on the subject.
I actually hear people say "I Tivo'd this show last night..." all the time. They also personify Tivo - "Tivo recorded something for me." Not "my Tivo" or "the Tivo", just "Tivo".
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Microsoft came out with a "controller for the left hand" that added a ton of features/functionality a little while ago - I think it has since been discontinued. It wasn't that sensitive for motion (the buttons were fine and it even had chording) but then again I'm right-handed...
Pretty much sounds like BeOS and the BeBoxes... Oh damn, they faded away too.
I had an Amiga 500 w/HD, then an Amiga 3000T with the Picasso graphics card, and later ran BeOS on a PowerPC as my main machine, and still have BeOS as a spare partition on my Athlon.
The problem is many things: the community activity, development, new applications, and cool hardware/features. Hence I also run a MacOSX laptop, a SuSE Laptop, and some FreeBSD servers - but they still don't give me the excitement I had with the Amiga and the BeOS.
Anybody play Garrison on the Amiga? A great Gauntlet clone, added the Valkyrie as a character - almost as fast as the elf, but the best armor of the bunch. She could actually take a Death pounding on her for a little while. Get some of the scrolls/potions that boosted abilities to get speed up to the elf, and I could last forever. All my high scores were definitely with her.
They should add an inexpensive UPS to the package - maybe even internally - then the CDROM could be used even less frequently...
(assuming the user didn't turn it off after every use - like my parents still do even now that they have DSL - ARGH. Remember how long a Power Computing Mac with 5+ SCSI devices including RAID takes to spin up? jeesh.)
Palm bought Handspring to flesh out their core markets. Handspring had basically committed to being only a "convergence" pda company (the treo line had become their only moneymaker), and had spent a lot of time listening to both customers and providers.
The treo 600 is supposed to be the distillation of all this - hardware revisions were made to directly answer the requests of Sprint, et al. This is another thing - Handspring had very good relations with the providers - and a completely different set (Sprint, Cingular, Orange) than Palm (ATTW).
Notice that palm has never once tried to make an true phone/pda (the tungsten W only supports "handsfree" phone). My guess is, if anything, the tungsten W is short lived.
The tungsten C, on the other hand, with the fast processor, high res screen, keyboard, ram, and WLAN is another direction the market is going - notice all the PockPC models, the new Sony's, etc.
Handspring the brandname is probably quite short-lived. The treo line and the engineering behind it and in the future? A much better chance.
You have a drawer full of them? (all of which, I assume, you're not using)
Why don't you donate them? Many types of charities take cell phones as donations, as well as your local police department, who usually allocates them to battered women shelters (to give them an "anonymous" phone to keep in touch with/a way to call for help, etc.). Neither my wife nor I have any of our old cellphones.
If the act of giving isn't enough for you, remember you can always deduct the donation from your taxes...
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Certainly do.
I used to have them themed around their purpose (server, workstation, etc.) or box type (laptop, tower, etc.) but now they are all named after a particular type of liquid. Here goes:
My Thinkpad (XP): ardbeg
My Powerbook (Panther): knockando
My Tower (XP): lagavulin
Web/DB Server (2kS): oban
Mail/DNS/etc. (FreeBSD 4.X): cardhu
Fileserver (FreeBSD 5.X): springbank
Router (m0n0wall): cragganmore
oh, and the wife's Thinkpad (XP): jimbeam
(ah well, she's not a fan of the single malt)
And you've done extensive research on this, I take it. Because it certainly sounded like you are an authority on the subject.
I actually hear people say "I Tivo'd this show last night..." all the time. They also personify Tivo - "Tivo recorded something for me." Not "my Tivo" or "the Tivo", just "Tivo".
Microsoft came out with a "controller for the left hand" that added a ton of features/functionality a little while ago - I think it has since been discontinued. It wasn't that sensitive for motion (the buttons were fine and it even had chording) but then again I'm right-handed...
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My guess is they are trying to compete with the Linksys, the Turtle Beach Audiotron, and others...
Maybe combine it with a home NAS device (easy to expand a Tivo into that, I would think).
Pretty much sounds like BeOS and the BeBoxes... Oh damn, they faded away too.
I had an Amiga 500 w/HD, then an Amiga 3000T with the Picasso graphics card, and later ran BeOS on a PowerPC as my main machine, and still have BeOS as a spare partition on my Athlon.
The problem is many things: the community activity, development, new applications, and cool hardware/features. Hence I also run a MacOSX laptop, a SuSE Laptop, and some FreeBSD servers - but they still don't give me the excitement I had with the Amiga and the BeOS.
Anybody play Garrison on the Amiga? A great Gauntlet clone, added the Valkyrie as a character - almost as fast as the elf, but the best armor of the bunch. She could actually take a Death pounding on her for a little while. Get some of the scrolls/potions that boosted abilities to get speed up to the elf, and I could last forever. All my high scores were definitely with her.
They should add an inexpensive UPS to the package - maybe even internally - then the CDROM could be used even less frequently...
(assuming the user didn't turn it off after every use - like my parents still do even now that they have DSL - ARGH. Remember how long a Power Computing Mac with 5+ SCSI devices including RAID takes to spin up? jeesh.)
How about the "Wolfram 2" then?
What's a "sentance"?
What?
Palm bought Handspring to flesh out their core markets. Handspring had basically committed to being only a "convergence" pda company (the treo line had become their only moneymaker), and had spent a lot of time listening to both customers and providers.
The treo 600 is supposed to be the distillation of all this - hardware revisions were made to directly answer the requests of Sprint, et al. This is another thing - Handspring had very good relations with the providers - and a completely different set (Sprint, Cingular, Orange) than Palm (ATTW).
Notice that palm has never once tried to make an true phone/pda (the tungsten W only supports "handsfree" phone). My guess is, if anything, the tungsten W is short lived.
The tungsten C, on the other hand, with the fast processor, high res screen, keyboard, ram, and WLAN is another direction the market is going - notice all the PockPC models, the new Sony's, etc.
Handspring the brandname is probably quite short-lived. The treo line and the engineering behind it and in the future? A much better chance.
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Great... so can I finally get rid of my Indigo2?
You have a drawer full of them? (all of which, I assume, you're not using)
Why don't you donate them? Many types of charities take cell phones as donations, as well as your local police department, who usually allocates them to battered women shelters (to give them an "anonymous" phone to keep in touch with/a way to call for help, etc.). Neither my wife nor I have any of our old cellphones.
If the act of giving isn't enough for you, remember you can always deduct the donation from your taxes...
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