The Actual words I said to my professor or Chair Dr. Schaffer of my thesis, was that I planned to raffle a hundred dollar PDA, to get the replies that I needed.
His reply was, "that's fine". I didn't give any more thought to it than that regarding the specs, since I'm not there yet and haven't started looking. I might consider an Ipaq, since there is a model that runs Linux, and this is a Unix group. I've been soliciting only Linux and Unix groups, and that's the closest thing to Unix in a PDA. The other requirement I remembered was that the OS NOT be Windoze. So that left only the Palm OS. And Palm has OS 4 and OS 5. I'm running Palm OS 5 and I like it, more features. I ran OS 4 before in the Palm PDA, it was ok, less features, I only used the address book part of it. So the offer is again, a color screen, running Palm OS 5. It could end up being a Palm or Sony Clie. 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
