Preston Crawford <me at prestoncrawford.com> wrote: > So I need my phone to be separate from my PDA so it > can fly out of my bike shorts and slam on the ground > at 30 mph. Wow! You sound _exactly_ like someone who hasn't seen the rugged Kyocera phones. And even the Treos are pretty sturdy (more so than Pocket PC PDAs/phones). Nothing like listening to some MP3s from a SD on a bike (yes, even this "Fat Guy" rides one ;-)! > So I'm not going to return my Pocket PC based on your > recommendation. Dude, I was just wondering how you evaluated. I'm sorry for even mentioning it, but you _did_ bring up the fact that you had to go Windows on a Linux list. I thought I'd just mention the options you have for a Linux compatible device, that's all. Maybe someone _else_ might be intersted? > Can you stop with this? Do you have a guilt complex or something? REALITY CHECK: _You_ didn't have to explain a thing about Windows or the fact that you have a Pocket PC, etc... just to ask about encoding. But you did. Sorry I mentioned what options you might have missed. Maybe someone else will use the info next time. Okay? > I have an SD slot, my point is that I don't want to load up > one gigantic MP3 file into the MP3 player application. And this _entire_ question had what to do with needing a Pocket PC-based PDA? Again, _you_ introduced it. Now you're upset that I mentioned there were other options. Sorry, didn't mean to offend. But on a Linux list, when someone starts mentioning options and what things don't do that are Linux compatible, I tend to offer several options that do. That's all. Don't have a guilt complex or something because that's _not_ what I'm trying to do! > Well, you should have just said RTFM and left it at that, > probably. And you didn't need to say that you had to go Pocket PC just to ask a question about encoding. I'm _not_ complaining you did. But I _am_ pointing out this fact, and why some asshole like myself might bring up the Linux compatible options out there. This is _exactly_ what I mean about hypocrisy. I did *NOT* complain about you going on about Pocket PC why you couldn't use a Linux compatible device. But you _are_ complaining about I am mentioning some Linux alternatives that you ... obviously ... didn't bother to investigate. Sorry to have "guilted" you on a Linux list, not my intent. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)