As I can't find it worth while to keep transferring my contacts, calendar and everything else between cell phones every time I upgrade, I opted to use the same compatible device that I've been using since 1997.. It's hard to beat a Palm Pilot when there was (and still is to a degree) such a HUGE community of developers. I even bought a licensed copy of DateBk6 about a year ago, those guys are still going strong.

Wrote a full article a while back about it here.

Oh puulease. I still use a Palm Tungsten C (yes, a Palm PDA - not even a phone!) every day. If someone ridicules you for it, they're a fucking hippster. Who the hell cares what other people think? This crowd should be used to that kind of stuff, anyway.

Can your apps run in Wine under Linux? This might be a very feasable "workaround". I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.

How is this any different than allowing police to break into homes and install covert cameras? Do they already allow this?

Can you leave your editorial comments to the comments section please?

It's a way for entrepreneurs to get funding for their creative ideas and projects. Usually you'd have to find an investor. To answer your question as to why it's appealing to invest in a project that may or may not succeed, just ask a professional investor. It's the thrill of being a part of a great idea and helping it get off the ground.

Nobody is frightened to pay money for something if it's not made by a benevolent dictator. If it's good enough to warrant paying for, it *really* doesn't matter what platform it's on.

Like many have echoed in here, nobody that isn't alrady passionate about stuff like this is going to really give a hoot about decentralization. You have to "beat" Facebook at their interface. Then people will like it. Here's my take - K.I.S.S. Facebook's interface is already very simple. We have to almost think of the old-school BBSes (the original decentralized social networks) and see how clean some of those interfaces were. I personally would love to see an ANSi re-implementation in HTML5. People *do* have the capacity to use the keyboard to navigate, and once they learn it, as long as it's efficient, people will start flocking. There's nothing wrong with a menu system - UI simplicity is Facebook's whole goal, after all. It's just that they have so much sh*t going on that it's almost impossible to do. That's everyone's problem with design. Not that I'm a designer, but I did make my own ANSi menus for Renegade back in the day. And they rocked.

That will fix the problem. What are you gonna do if someone hijacks a train? Make it go slower? You can't really steer it into anything.

I'm sick of this whole airplane thing. It's a joke. It's way too expensive to fly, you have to go through shit like this, and it's just not worth it anymore.

I've been using UVNC SC for years, and it works fantastically. Just throw your custom executable on your website/blog/DropBox/whatever and e-mail the URL to the supported. It doesn't get much easier than this (although I admit, even with this it's difficult sometimes to get people to click on a link correctly).

I recently moved to ChunkVNC ( www.chunkvnc.com ) and it works great as well.

Benefits of UVNC SC/ChunkVNC:
+ It's free (No subscription, no one-time-charge)
+ It only runs when the user runs it (and removes itself when the session ends)
+ No end-user port forwarding required (as the user is creating an outgoing connection, not allowing one in - a la "reverse server connection")
+ Customizable

I highly recommend it.

Seriously. 9 years of facepalming is enough. Let's forget the SCO morons and focus on the future, which is celebrating and embracing open source in all ways imaginable.

Fluorisis isn't the only danger to fluoride in the blood (and not used as a topical treatment) - The penial gland in the brain is the organ that fluoride collects the most in. It basically calcifies and prevents it from functioning. The penial gland is pivotal to the secretion of melatonin (and DMT when you sleep for those extra-real dream sequences) which affects sleeping patterns, the onset of puberty and seeing majesty (i.e. Trogdor). It's pretty important to our individual process of creativity and feeling good. Which I could see why so many conspiracies were formed in the way of 'poisioning the cities' water supplies'.

I personally wouldn't have bitched one bit if MS took a stand against Flash. In fact, I would applaud them.

You're talking about fairly advanced topics when it comes to normal peoples' level of computer knowledge. E-mail would be the best method of content delivery, and it might work, but it would incur costs (at least at first). Schools move at the pace of their funding, and the U.S. educational system is horribly ridden with red tape as well as 'certain vendors' that wouldn't want that due to loss of money somewhere along the line. Also, schools have so many regulations to follow, so many student/teacher privacy issues, blah blah blah...ugh.

I've worked with California schools as a technical consultant/engineer in the past, and let me tell you... for the most part, the people on the ground (teachers, other staff) are respectable and well open to doing things like this (though they won't understand it one bit)... but the system itself is a total bitch. It ends up imploding upon itself very often, in my experience. Kinda sucks.

Funny how Redhat, with 1/72 revenue of Microsoft, still manages to make a better product... *smirk*