I agree with what people are saying about the T|X. I had gone to Best Buy to purchase a Compaq iPaq pocketpc, but the only one left was a display unit, which they refused to sell to me. So, being impatient, I just bought the Palm T|X.
What a piece of CRAP! I used to have a Palm VII (the one with the wireless internet service) some years ago, and loved it, but the Palm T|X, while it looked great in concept, failed miserably. Before I was even able to install any third party software on it, the thing had to be hard reset no less than 10 times on the first night I used it.
The next day I returned it to best buy for a full refund, and just ordered the pocket pc. I had to wait nearly 2 weeks to get it, but I've been using it ever since, with only a few slight problems that are few and far between.
I've never actually commented on an article here but this kinda burns me up so I feel the need to speak my mind.
This is to the people ranting about negative points on Flash that they clearly know nothing about.
Yes, a lot of people design their flash poorly, and it runs slow on older computers, and it does eat bandwidth. But what you need to realize is the potential for low bandwidth media rich content that flash is able to deliver, thanks to them agic of vector graphics. They look cleaner, animate smoother, can be scaled to any size without an increase in file size, and of course are far more efficient than bitmaps or other major image formats.
The MP3 compression is especially impressive, enabling full songs to be streamed to dialup users with decent (not good, but decent) quality.
Flash is also universally supported by Windows, Mac, and certain versions of linux. It is a universal platform in the sense that Java is for web use, and in my experience is much less resource-intensive than Java, because Java has always been very laggy for me.
If you've had bad experiences with Flash, don't blame Flash, blame the developer that put it together, because they clearly skipped the part about learning how to make efficient swf files.
Love it or hate it, Flash is here to stay, and is only going to become more popular. I do however have a problem with Adobe acquiring Macromedias line of products. I've never cared for Adobe products, and now they will probably end up adding all those little things I end up hating.
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I agree with what people are saying about the T|X. I had gone to Best Buy to purchase a Compaq iPaq pocketpc, but the only one left was a display unit, which they refused to sell to me. So, being impatient, I just bought the Palm T|X. What a piece of CRAP! I used to have a Palm VII (the one with the wireless internet service) some years ago, and loved it, but the Palm T|X, while it looked great in concept, failed miserably. Before I was even able to install any third party software on it, the thing had to be hard reset no less than 10 times on the first night I used it. The next day I returned it to best buy for a full refund, and just ordered the pocket pc. I had to wait nearly 2 weeks to get it, but I've been using it ever since, with only a few slight problems that are few and far between.
I said CERTAIN versions, not ALL versions. I run Ubuntu, and was able to install it quite easily.
I've never actually commented on an article here but this kinda burns me up so I feel the need to speak my mind. This is to the people ranting about negative points on Flash that they clearly know nothing about. Yes, a lot of people design their flash poorly, and it runs slow on older computers, and it does eat bandwidth. But what you need to realize is the potential for low bandwidth media rich content that flash is able to deliver, thanks to them agic of vector graphics. They look cleaner, animate smoother, can be scaled to any size without an increase in file size, and of course are far more efficient than bitmaps or other major image formats. The MP3 compression is especially impressive, enabling full songs to be streamed to dialup users with decent (not good, but decent) quality. Flash is also universally supported by Windows, Mac, and certain versions of linux. It is a universal platform in the sense that Java is for web use, and in my experience is much less resource-intensive than Java, because Java has always been very laggy for me. If you've had bad experiences with Flash, don't blame Flash, blame the developer that put it together, because they clearly skipped the part about learning how to make efficient swf files. Love it or hate it, Flash is here to stay, and is only going to become more popular. I do however have a problem with Adobe acquiring Macromedias line of products. I've never cared for Adobe products, and now they will probably end up adding all those little things I end up hating.