Mike, brought up a very good point. I will offer the minimum that I would want myself. At the previous company I worked for, when they said I had to have/use one. I said the minimum I required then was that it be in color. I can't stand the cheap-cheap amber screen ones. (besides being small, they are hard on the eyes)
I have owned a Palm (forget with model number with the same, "said firm" and it was in color. That was the one I had in mind. Since I used it and actually liked it. I currently own a Sony Clie TS-25, and would offer that one, BUT, Sony is discontinuing it from the U.S. market. They are not abandoning it all together. I heard they will be available only in their domestic Japanese market. Apparently, the margin is too cutthroat for them here. But, what I offer in the raffle for doing the survey is a color screen Palm, nothing more. That should eliminate all the really cheapos. The price tag I had in mind for my budget was $100-$150 PDA. Nuff said. Thanks Don -----Original Message----- From: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Aug 29, 2004 2:55 PM To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [uug] Attention gear-heads, propeller-heads, and geeks. On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:26:15AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As a bonus, yes, a bonus, I'm throwing a PALM PDA raffle. The odds > should be good. 300 to 1. You have to leave your email at the end > of the survey, so I can contact the winner. If any of you are wondering whether or not to respond to this survey, allow me (an unabashed armchair economist) to simplify the decision for you. If Don is rational and ethical, he will give away the cheapest Palm PDA he possibly can (basically, it has to work). Yes, the odds are good ... but the deal is offset by the cost of the PDA. If Don responds to this email telling us that he is giving away a more expensive PDA, then I will take back what I said about Don being rational. Your time and effort = ( 1/300 of a Palm PDA ( * $27.95 at Fry's = $.09 ) ) * (0-1, depending on how much you trust Don to follow through with this promise) + (the warm fuzzy feeling you get by helping an MBA student). If you trust Don completely, and if only 300 people respond, then it is worth a little over 9 cents to you to respond to this survey. I can't quite figure out the dollar value of the warm fuzzy feeling, but mark my words, it does have one. In any case, most people will not recognize all the facts, which means that they are likely to value the survey quite a bit higher (several dollars of perceived value, probably), which will result in more survey takers. Don recognizes this fact, and so I think his decision to through in a Palm PDA raffle is a good one. Mike (whose time and effort are apparently worthless, given all these silly postings he keeps making) ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
