Please change the topic!!!! Reading opinions about off topic stuff is getting extremely annoying! If there is a list monitor, please tell us how we can clean up this list and keep it on topic; if people want to carry on their private conversations, please take it off list; some of us don't have time to be mislead by subjects on messages. The list is intended as a customer/user technical assistance to each other, and I'm about to get off the list if the abuse of the free space continues. Monitor, please advise! Thanks.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sabahattin Gucukoglu Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:51 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: RE: [Braillenote] BN PK re missing files and E-mail problems Hi Don, On 4 Aug 2004 at 15:19, Don Bishop <[email protected]> spoke, thus: > I was definitely being sarcastic. I've been on this list for over 3 years > and maybe that's just too long. But, time and time again, I hear people > wishing the bn could do all sorts of things which are really beyond the > capability of a notetaker or pda. They seem to think it should be able to > be a replacement for their pc and it isn't. That depends on the features in question. I don't suggest that you are wrong, necessarily, but the point of my last message was to emphasise the need to concentrate on fixing existing bugs that are - time and time again and without any real justification - popping up again and again on this list. It is too much for me that if anyone searched the archives they would probably find at least ten copies of the answer they are seeking. I have that archive, right here, easily accessible as a mail folder which I imported from the MBOX which is downloadable from the list page. I am seeing the same stuff, over and over again: PackMate vs Braillenote, why the translator doesn't work like x, why the email program isn't doing y, why this and that error occurred when saving a document. Given the recent discussion about the incidental file erasures and the so- called "Email overload", these are problems which I can see a number of ways of fixing, and which don't require any change of hardware at all. They require only a change of software and a change of attitude, and possibly a change of release cycles. It is these sort of fixes, if anything, that need attention now rather than later, and certainly before implementing any new features (when the SDK becomes available, that will be the community's responsibility). > The bn is a great device and getting even better, but a pc it will never > be, certainly not with the current hardware configuration. A handheld is never a PC, whatever its configuration. But, and I say this with some regret, I can see myself alone with the competition and surviving without a PC and simply cannot see the same for the BrailleNote. Why? Because the email program is, from where I am, useless. The competition has the industry, mainstream advantage. Yes, I agree with you that the BrailleNote is an excellent device and generally does what it does do well, exceptionally well. I am looking forward to all the new features, as well as some fixes. But there are much-needed improvements in programs that are already there. Those improvements must come first! > But, this keeps coming up time and time again, and I really do wonder > sometimes if people really do realize just what the capabilities and > limitations are of the device they're purchasing. >From a technical viewpoint, the BrailleNote is a small computer. It has a CPU, some storage modules, controllers for operating various devices, and so on. Theoretically, that little BrailleNote can do anything, albeit slowly. People out there have taken the trouble to port a version of UNIX to varying numbers of handhelds, and use them for doing everything from web browsing to developing programs. I aint kidding you here. There are two things you see differently: first, PulseData has already decided what you can and cannot do. Secondly, the operating system you are running and mainstream programs are not visible to you directly. The first point is a matter of PulseData releasing its SDK and being better at squashing bugs. The latter is a serious impairment. This impairment justifies people's requests for media players, instant messaging programs, and everything else that a normal handheld owner can already do. So, yes - a handheld is a handheld. But no - it can do more than PulseData decides it can do. We are going off-topic for the message I sent, I don't want another Packmate Vs BrailleNote discussion (yawn). I just wanted to make it clear that PulseData's decisions have a big impact on its users, not the case for other devices, and that as such these problems must be addressed now. It is not enough that we be expected to use buggy software whose three or four releases should have fixed most, if not all, outstanding problems in them, particularly those which have been talked about often or which appear to be critical or grave. [...] > Sorry I even mentioned it. No problem, here's a new twist for you if you haven't had it already. And I'm pleased you were just being sarcastic! Cheers, Sabahattin -- Thought for the day: Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human intelligence for long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 7,502-1615 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
