It is not a new idea, but I think RIM needs to get over the handheld manufacturing business and build a solid mail client app (iOS and Android) for their BES server. They will make money on the app without any doubt, however, retaining the revenue on BES clients will be priceless. More and more corporate users are leaving their BlackBerry devices at home because their personal phones are more sexy even though their company pays their BES licences. One day these corporate clients decide the stop paying for BES licenses and go with a simpler mail protocol. This will be the revenue that will never come back to RIM.
I grew up in Western Europe and have used nothing but the "A" paper formats for most of my life. I even know its background/reasoning etc. due to my printing/publishing education.
However, I have been in the US for the past 10 years and I actually like the letter paper size better than A4 nowadays. The proportions of a letter size piece of paper is actually nicer than A4. A4 "feels" incorrect. Now "legal" is a whole different thing, "legal" paper size is strange.
I do not know if that is the right tool for the job though... A GPS navigator can be had for less than $100. You will break even in 2 months on your data plan. And best of all, no distractions while driving (examples: reading email, watching an episode of Glee, etc.).
You do realize that if a plane has Wifi (I fly Delta) you can get it in business class and all the way in the back in coach at $15 per trip. I have yet to find a client who cares about the additional $15 expense for rapid email responses. Nevertheless, one thing is certain is that there is no 3g signal at 10k+ feet
Unless I spend every other week at a trade show or conference; need to be in a park to be creative; be in a bus twice a day; travel Amtrak weekly; or Greyhound across the country; I could care less about a recurring monthly payment.
This brings us back to the exact point of the Slashdot post: what do you need? I personally could care less about 3g, others may need 3g. I thought about responding "Just wifi, thank you". Even though it answers the question in the post, it would have been a little light in the information department.
Can't use the tablet while driving, have wifi in the coffee shop while on a driving break.
Can't use the tablet with G3 on the plane, when lucky the in-air wifi is working.
Have wifi in the airport terminal.
Have wifi at home.
Have wifi at work.
That is about where I would have the need for a tablet, so wifi will do, thank you I will keep the $50/month in pocket.
You do realize that before the micro computers there were mini computers, which in fact were smaller versions of the mainframe (the original macro computer).
After the micro computer came the IBM PC, from there on all went down the hill.
And that is simply because they can. California sets the standard for their state, the market follows for the whole US. You cannot blame California for that.
Now setting pollution agreements for ships is much harder because they are registered in [fill in your favorite banana republic]. You cannot set standards for that, only thing you can hope for is a gentleman's agreement or a worldwide policy. And we have no way to do the latter.
What we could do is set rules of pollution when a ship cruises in territorial waters, however, that would only solve a minor part the problem as pollution is not regulated in the international waters.
Oh yes, while washing your car all the muck flows into the drain, creek, river, lake, one more river, bay and finally ocean.
Wait, isn't the muck on your car originally deposited there by rain which carried ocean cruiser exhaust?
As far as I know (and my knowledge is limited), particles do not stay in one spot.
Just like a volcano eruption in Iceland changes climate on the US west coast eventually.
Obviously with a different scale of magnitude.
If it is a reasons to end all this madness, I am all for increasing the madness with exaggerative complains about virtual nudity and groping.
These machines are expensive, don't work, are too slow, are not in use when I go through TSA (been through one once, while I have been flying twice a week for the last 8 years) and most of all I am certain that these machines are just as effective as the metal detectors next to it.
What really needs to happen is that TSA people take their job serious and look and observe people coming through the checkpoint. Too many are just chit chatting with each other or complain when the next break will be.
If there was an up or down vote on extend or none on security, I would vote none in a heartbeat.
In my opinion coasting for ten or twenty years does not help. What makes you think that suddenly they invent the wheel and all is back to suger and honey?
IBM is a good example of a company that was hot back in the day and has been coasting for quite a while. All it will do is turn the company into a commodity with nothing but the same old shit. That is the same as dying.
It is the difference between a company that does nothing but milk its market share versus a company that innovates and moves with the market.
Sales numbers can be huge and impressive, it says nothing about the long term potential of the company.
With them we should send all the telephone sanitizers, hairdressers and advertising account executives so that they can prep the environment before the other ships arrive.
Thanks for pointing this out. My filthy mind never connected the dots, I was contemplating on reading the hidden comments to figure out how the poster reached the conclusion to confess this particular fetish.
this could actually help tech workers in the US. in a left-handed kind of way, that is.
>p>You are aware that companies do outsource to places other than India, right?
There is outsourcing to places like Canada, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia (minus India) that will be the benefactors of this.
For the US, India has been a preference in the past because of their understanding of English and level of education.
Spain has been outsourcing to Latin America and US data that cannot be 'off-shored' goes to Canada.
It will be interesting to see how quickly VPN pipes are redirected to some other place, after all it is the customers of the off-shoring companies that set the direction.
Well, if the sender is a system that has issues, and you do not reply to that system but use the phone to yell at people...
To gmail it will look like you are ignoring these emails, especially when the subject line tells you what is wrong.
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It is not a new idea, but I think RIM needs to get over the handheld manufacturing business and build a solid mail client app (iOS and Android) for their BES server.
They will make money on the app without any doubt, however, retaining the revenue on BES clients will be priceless.
More and more corporate users are leaving their BlackBerry devices at home because their personal phones are more sexy even though their company pays their BES licences. One day these corporate clients decide the stop paying for BES licenses and go with a simpler mail protocol. This will be the revenue that will never come back to RIM.
I grew up in Western Europe and have used nothing but the "A" paper formats for most of my life.
I even know its background/reasoning etc. due to my printing/publishing education.
However, I have been in the US for the past 10 years and I actually like the letter paper size better than A4 nowadays.
The proportions of a letter size piece of paper is actually nicer than A4. A4 "feels" incorrect.
Now "legal" is a whole different thing, "legal" paper size is strange.
I do not know if that is the right tool for the job though...
A GPS navigator can be had for less than $100.
You will break even in 2 months on your data plan.
And best of all, no distractions while driving (examples: reading email, watching an episode of Glee, etc.).
You do realize that if a plane has Wifi (I fly Delta) you can get it in business class and all the way in the back in coach at $15 per trip. I have yet to find a client who cares about the additional $15 expense for rapid email responses. Nevertheless, one thing is certain is that there is no 3g signal at 10k+ feet
Unless I spend every other week at a trade show or conference; need to be in a park to be creative; be in a bus twice a day; travel Amtrak weekly; or Greyhound across the country; I could care less about a recurring monthly payment.
This brings us back to the exact point of the Slashdot post: what do you need? I personally could care less about 3g, others may need 3g. I thought about responding "Just wifi, thank you". Even though it answers the question in the post, it would have been a little light in the information department.
You are right.
Apple iPad users are too busy polishing their nails while driving.
Can't use the tablet while driving, have wifi in the coffee shop while on a driving break.
Can't use the tablet with G3 on the plane, when lucky the in-air wifi is working.
Have wifi in the airport terminal.
Have wifi at home.
Have wifi at work.
That is about where I would have the need for a tablet, so wifi will do, thank you I will keep the $50/month in pocket.
You do realize that before the micro computers there were mini computers, which in fact were smaller versions of the mainframe (the original macro computer).
After the micro computer came the IBM PC, from there on all went down the hill.
Oh, and I love carbon neutral salt.
And that is simply because they can. California sets the standard for their state, the market follows for the whole US. You cannot blame California for that.
Now setting pollution agreements for ships is much harder because they are registered in [fill in your favorite banana republic]. You cannot set standards for that, only thing you can hope for is a gentleman's agreement or a worldwide policy. And we have no way to do the latter.
What we could do is set rules of pollution when a ship cruises in territorial waters, however, that would only solve a minor part the problem as pollution is not regulated in the international waters.
Because the Ketchup bottle says so...
57 varieties
Oh yes, while washing your car all the muck flows into the drain, creek, river, lake, one more river, bay and finally ocean.
Wait, isn't the muck on your car originally deposited there by rain which carried ocean cruiser exhaust?
As far as I know (and my knowledge is limited), particles do not stay in one spot.
Just like a volcano eruption in Iceland changes climate on the US west coast eventually.
Obviously with a different scale of magnitude.
So, the 80/20 rule applies...
We need cleaner cars.
I am just not sure if TSA people are able to understand the 'captcha' picture coming on the screen. They keep on hitting 'Try Another'.
If it is a reasons to end all this madness, I am all for increasing the madness with exaggerative complains about virtual nudity and groping.
These machines are expensive, don't work, are too slow, are not in use when I go through TSA (been through one once, while I have been flying twice a week for the last 8 years) and most of all I am certain that these machines are just as effective as the metal detectors next to it.
What really needs to happen is that TSA people take their job serious and look and observe people coming through the checkpoint. Too many are just chit chatting with each other or complain when the next break will be.
If there was an up or down vote on extend or none on security, I would vote none in a heartbeat.
I am all for it as long as they do not touch my Facebook.
In my opinion coasting for ten or twenty years does not help. What makes you think that suddenly they invent the wheel and all is back to suger and honey?
IBM is a good example of a company that was hot back in the day and has been coasting for quite a while. All it will do is turn the company into a commodity with nothing but the same old shit. That is the same as dying.
It is the difference between a company that does nothing but milk its market share versus a company that innovates and moves with the market. Sales numbers can be huge and impressive, it says nothing about the long term potential of the company.
Ray Ozzies departure addresses this as well.
With them we should send all the telephone sanitizers, hairdressers and advertising account executives so that they can prep the environment before the other ships arrive.
So OpenOffice could be rebranded as PostOpenOffice, sounds cool, Oracle may regain interest in such a product.
Thanks for pointing this out.
My filthy mind never connected the dots, I was contemplating on reading the hidden comments to figure out how the poster reached the conclusion to confess this particular fetish.
Not on cable, the FCC does not allow such filth to be broadcasted for free.
That terrorists are incorporating themselves!
Now, do I win a prize?
this could actually help tech workers in the US. in a left-handed kind of way, that is.
>p>You are aware that companies do outsource to places other than India, right?
There is outsourcing to places like Canada, Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia (minus India) that will be the benefactors of this.
For the US, India has been a preference in the past because of their understanding of English and level of education.
Spain has been outsourcing to Latin America and US data that cannot be 'off-shored' goes to Canada.
It will be interesting to see how quickly VPN pipes are redirected to some other place, after all it is the customers of the off-shoring companies that set the direction.
Well, if the sender is a system that has issues, and you do not reply to that system but use the phone to yell at people...
To gmail it will look like you are ignoring these emails, especially when the subject line tells you what is wrong.
I never looked at it that way, I use KILL and KILLALL all the time and on purpose.