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Originally posted by hxh167
Of course I know PiDeveloper posted before me, but that's after I posted mine. When I hit the reply button, their post just wasn't there. I saw their post after I posted mine. That's why I post mine another post. I said I like their way to go right now. OK Don't get too angry, OK I just didn't see their explanation why they cannot implant a procedure not to shrink the screen-sized picture. If you cannot do it, you can explain it, right? Dave explained a lot why he cannot do this, or do that. He said a lot of things he CANNOT do and I still like him. You need to let your user to know what you can and cannot do because of what reason. Not just a lot of silence. This reminds me Palm didn't want to have a native Chinese version of Palm OS. Now what, with the competition from Linux and Micro$oft, they are licensing Acer to make native Chinese Palm OS PDA and it's OS 4.0. Will Acer be the first to make OS4 PDA? We will see.
About whether the new software is free or not is not the key point. I would love to pay for VFS support although I don't mind it's free. The point is they should not misguide people. They posted their messages and they deleted them. What does this behavior mean? You decide. I am just an end user saying what I think. If I don't agree what you said, I will say what's my reasons.
BTW, I know the controller of SM card is on the machine--in this case, the module or the software-- not on the SM card itself. On the other hand, the controller of CF card is on CF card itself. So you said they use the software and the CPU's own power to control SM card? No wonder the module is so slooooooow. Then they even need to put more efforts to optimize the software. Don't blame the hardware too much. If they can have a hardware controller solution, good. If not, they really need to make more efforts on the software. Remember nVidia? They made their graphic card much faster by just writing a better driver. The most recent example is Dave's software for CF adapter. Originally, I was not satisfied with its speed either. But he really put a lot of effort and he finally got an answer that we as customers satisfied. That's what I admire and like to see. If PiDevelopers put more efforts on their existing softwares rather than put one product after the other to the market, I will love them.
I bought a MatchBookDrive when it's in preorder stage. I bought Dave's software when the day I got my CF adapter. I got my MemPlug long before a lot of people here got theirs. I keep these two and wait to see what will happen in the future. I just don't like PiDevelopers' attitude to get things complicated. Who knows how much blame they should share with Palmgear about the backorder stuff?Don't be mad at me. I am scared.
BTW, I forgot to mention it again. I am using VDX. So I cannot use PiDirect and maybe even the future VFS software, that's another reason why I don't even care about whether these softwares are free or not. It is just plain useless for me right now. Not I don't want to use it.
My apologies. There's just something that riles me about people who don't appreciate the value of and effort put into "virtual" works, like software, songs, books, etc., anything that can be converted into 1's and 0's and maintain its essence. I unfairly lumped you into that category of people.
I've found PiDeveloper to be an earnest and honest advocate for PI Technology's products in his communications here at VisorCentral. I read the posts by PiDeveloper that were later deleted by him, and they concerned technical details about PiDirect that he later said he was better off not disclosing considering that PiDirect was a then-unannounced product. No mention of a price or lack thereof, so no conspiracy there. I don't know what you mean about "PiDevelopers' attitude to get things complicated," so I'll leave you to clarify that. I stand by my previous assessment of him and by my opinion that the MemPlug is the premier external memory card solution out there. PiDirect, VFS, and availability at CompUSA will only enhance their preeminent position.
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People are crying for a better PiViewer. Instead, they gave us an answer to use gMovie's still mode. This is not an answer. Even just a small request like "please don't shrink the size of 160x120 pictures, keep the original size so we can see it". They won't do it. Is this a difficult thing to do? I don't think so. I just want a good jpg file viewer that can see pictures at VDX's screen resolution. With pictures at VDX's resolution, I can store more pictures than in original resolution. They don't want to make their softwares better. They just want to make things that can make money for them like PiDirect.
06-06-2001 01:29 AM
Non-PalmOS 4.0 devices should be able to run it. It's just that PalmOS 4.0 devices will have VFS support built into the OS, though most software applications aren't written to take advantage of it yet. Sony first implemented VFS on PalmOS with the Clie, I believe, and Palm adopted Sony's implementation to fold into PalmOS 4.0. The VFS API can be implemented on pre-PalmOS 4.0 devices through shared libraries created by third-party software developers, like the Flashadapter and memPlug folks are trying to do..
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