It's not meeting a small set of needs, it's focused on folks for whom anything digital is tedious and who already have a nice pen-and-paper system of information management.
I know folks who (unlike us geeks) literally get ill at the thought of digitizing paper records like an address book, since every digital implementation sucks in various ways and sync never works perfectly... plenty of data loss horror stories too.
Personally, I'd prefer just having my old brick Nokia or Qualcomm phone from 2000 in terms of capabilities... SIM-based address book, simple call history/redial, minimal to no ringtone selection, and a way to mute and lock.... guess this phone isn't for me either.
Perhaps someone can organize a non-profit to reward people who embrace civil-disobedience.
That'd be a quick way of being marked a terrorist organization and having all members thrown in some black-site prison, and funders put on watch-lists. I wish I were kidding. Welcome to the United Police State of Amerika.
Some distros may be better than Windows, but not Ubuntu. It's a bloated buggy hog of a thing that is overkill on netbooks, and Windows will beat it everytime.
Bye bye karma.
I agree, Windows, but for a completely different reason. Two years ago, I got a then-new Atom netbook to play around with both netbooks and hackintosh.
My results were:
OSX looked the coolest, but was very buggy and tough to keep updated... and touchpad was difficult to use
UNR was the most usable, but lacked good driver support
XP had the best driver support but 600px is way too small to get anything done... it shines with an external monitor, but that negates the whole ultra-portability of the netbook
If I had the patience to get power management working and was satisfied with an external mouse, Ubuntu would have been quite usable and my favorite choice on the netbook... however, for the non-tinkerer, Windows is the only decent choice as it "works" out of the box. This is, of course, by design as Intel and Microsoft conspired to kill the linux netbook phenomenon as netbooks had the potential to pull the rug out from the PC market.
Amusingly, the tablets (iPad, Playbook, Galaxy Tab) are poised to do that now, and Intel/Microsoft are not in a good position to compete/disrupt this effort.
There may be some folk thrown under the bus, but the bus (backscatter scanners, big brother, new world order) will keep moving in the general same direction.
Once the media was fully corrupted/owned by corporations and intelligence community, we lost the battle and it was only a matter of time before 1984-style big-brother became reality... to quote Mr. Smith:
what good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?
The (non-rich) people have lost their voice, and it's a matter of time before this scandal is old-news, sadly.
React to the specific PH of the concrete? If only all concrete were the same. Its been in use for several hundred years, and the formula has been constantly evolving.
Remember Monsanto and "roundup ready" seeds? Now imagine a "bio-healing ready" concrete... concrete that is differentiated by a specific compound formula which is standardized for a specific bacteria (of course several grades of the product combo will exist for both quality and usage differences... which also allow for market segmentation)
All it will take is some enterprising megacorp with the legal muscle to patent this combo (and defend the patents) and you can effectively raised margin on concrete 10x at least.
Anything can be de-commoditized if it provides unique value and a big enough megacorp.
I used my phone book just the day before yesterday. Probably the first time I've needed it in 3-4 years. I had to look up the number for Verizon tech support because my DSL connection died.
I actually sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to look up the number without Internet access before I remembered the phone book.
I was forced once to interact with my neighbors in a similar situation (phoneline dead, no cell either). Of course, in this day and age we're spared such unpleasantries by the abundance of wireless signals and the like.
If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators.
Explain to me how this is different on the Droid X or G2? Google's hands aren't clean here... they're letting the manufacturers screw you over just as bad as Apple by not fighting anti-tampers and locked bootloaders.
Ie, gmail, sms, work mail and IM all in one thread?
This offers that, in one sense. I think @facebook.com will fail, but it's not the same as your iPhone/Android... now if Google released a (limited) wave client that was a mobile app...:-)
I mean, we can ignore Apple and Google playing nicely with each other on: webkit html5 iOS maps search provider for safari up-to-date mac versions of most google stuff etc...
What I would personally like to see is someone with a young child, preferably female that instructs their child to start screaming if anyone touches their genitals.
link... have you called your airline contacts and congresscritters? I sure have.
3. In 2 years when the 'tablet computing' fad has largely blown off, Intel and AMD will realize that its just not that important to keep pushing down their marginal revenues until its just not worth the investment to keep with it.
I just don't agree that 'tablet computing' is a fad. Bill Gates was definitely correct that this form factor held lots of promise but Microsoft just could not untether themselves from the Windows gravy-train and thus constantly missed the mark with their tablet OS (not to mention pricing put it well out of the general consumer market). Intel got lucky in an emergency conspiracy with Microsoft to kill the netbook market but the tablet market is out of their control (with upcoming wave: Google/Android, HP/Palm, and RIM/BlackberryOS will put a permanent dent in PC sales). I bet both Intel and AMD are pretty disappointed in Microsoft's lack of real competitive OS here and have no "in" with the tablet players of today.
I love me some AMD, but this is just confirmation that mobile is where the money is at, and Intel and AMD are both out of the running compared to ARM-class chips (power usage), and are struggling to keep relevant.
Specifically the "iPad cannibalization" meme is probably scaring the pants off the x86 chipmakers, who hope to stave off (or take relevant share) of the nascent tablet invasion.
It's built on a browser, but really, if it went laser-focus on just social sites and the such, it would make a good companion, especially if it gave the option to load the links in other browsers.
I would never use it because I'm reliant on 1password, and since this is not a supported browser, it makes my auth more difficult... I think the same could be said about many extensions on FF/Safari/Chrome. Maybe Rockmelt would be best done as an extension?
Chrome 9 is dev. The analagous test would be with Chrome 8 (beta). On my old-ass "IBM" thinkpad T60 (centrino duo w/ ATI gfx), I get 20fps on Chrome8, and 24fps on FF 3.6.12.
It's a complete re-write from scratch. It is indeed a 1.0 product. You might as well say Windows 1.0 wasn't 1.0 because they had previously been making DOS. The two platforms share nearly nothing in common beyond the "Windows" branding.
Even Microsoft thinks it's the 7th release, why do they call it Windows Phone 7? Why not call it something like Zune Phone (far more accurate)?
I see them as being in one of the best positions to challenge RIM ( I wish to $diety SOMEONE would.
If Microsoft is the challenger then they're going to fail. EAS sucks, and WP7 doesn't support encrypted Exchange connections... this "series" of phones aren't business devices. I couldn't use it at work where an encrypted connection is required for Exchange (where an iPhone would). Perhaps the Blackberry competitor you're looking for is the Droid Pro? Or maybe it's the iPhone, which does 95% of everything a BB can do, and plenty more (Apps). It sure as hell isn't any of the WP7 series.
I'm pretty sure as amusing as it is to see "Diaper Dave" Vitter and other oddities in your representation, it's pretty clear that in highly corrupt areas, not only do big-ticket items cost more, but quality of those things is dangerously low. Take a look at those schools in China.
This among other reasons, is why corruption can be deadly and should be fought tooth and nail.
The displacement of large water which causes the tsunami would not affect deep-water installations... now hurricanes and typhoons would be disastrous.
Anecdotally, I was in Thailand during the Indian Ocean Tsunami. I spoke to folks who had been flooded, who swam away from floating ATM machines and such, and also a boat captain who told me that one mile out, they felt the tsunami... it was like a small sudden wave/bump and passed in a few seconds.
Novell extended the patent protection to anyone who uses their software. And again, if Microsoft tried to sue a company merely for using Mono software, the EU could come down again.
Fine. Great. Microsoft gets punished... well after my company and my career have been harmed, potentially fatally. The real problem is the corrupt patent office(s) and legal environment that allows companies like Apple, Blizzard and Microsoft to easily litigate what they want patent-wise.
Mono is a trap, and solely exists at Microsoft's pleasure. Once MS decides the want to kill it, out go the patent infringement lawsuits and anyone using Mono is on shaky ground unless they donate to Microsoft's coffers.
The fact that it hasn't happened yet is no insurance. Copyright/left is one thing, patents are another and I don't trust Microsoft.
Realistically, all registered handlers should be interdicted like the call-interface.
However, I can see how it's in Apple's best interest to leave this to Skype:
Skype is competing with their FaceTime and Phone/SMS interfaces.
If Apple were to implement generic protocol handler inderdiction/approvals, this opens up a huge can of worms and it Apple begins to own the problem (more than they currently do).
I see where Apple doesn't want to do the right thing, and ultimately, it's still Skype's fault that they don't allow the user to approve call links.
When one part has the money and the other part is where the "poor" or "undesireables" go, this is not going to end well.
We had a chance in the past few years to make internet access a protected right and utility, much like access to power or water... but we failed and now it's going to kill the internet.
Rent-seeking predatory corporation are already licking their chops at all the potential "synergy" and "monetization" they can make of the soon-to-be-gone public commons. Once there is blood in the water, it will be a feeding frenzy for all these local monopolies.
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Too basic? Then this phone isn't for you.
It's not meeting a small set of needs, it's focused on folks for whom anything digital is tedious and who already have a nice pen-and-paper system of information management.
I know folks who (unlike us geeks) literally get ill at the thought of digitizing paper records like an address book, since every digital implementation sucks in various ways and sync never works perfectly... plenty of data loss horror stories too.
Personally, I'd prefer just having my old brick Nokia or Qualcomm phone from 2000 in terms of capabilities... SIM-based address book, simple call history/redial, minimal to no ringtone selection, and a way to mute and lock.... guess this phone isn't for me either.
Perhaps someone can organize a non-profit to reward people who embrace civil-disobedience.
That'd be a quick way of being marked a terrorist organization and having all members thrown in some black-site prison, and funders put on watch-lists. I wish I were kidding. Welcome to the United Police State of Amerika.
Some distros may be better than Windows, but not Ubuntu. It's a bloated buggy hog of a thing that is overkill on netbooks, and Windows will beat it everytime.
Bye bye karma.
I agree, Windows, but for a completely different reason. Two years ago, I got a then-new Atom netbook to play around with both netbooks and hackintosh.
My results were:
If I had the patience to get power management working and was satisfied with an external mouse, Ubuntu would have been quite usable and my favorite choice on the netbook... however, for the non-tinkerer, Windows is the only decent choice as it "works" out of the box. This is, of course, by design as Intel and Microsoft conspired to kill the linux netbook phenomenon as netbooks had the potential to pull the rug out from the PC market.
Amusingly, the tablets (iPad, Playbook, Galaxy Tab) are poised to do that now, and Intel/Microsoft are not in a good position to compete/disrupt this effort.
There may be some folk thrown under the bus, but the bus (backscatter scanners, big brother, new world order) will keep moving in the general same direction.
Once the media was fully corrupted/owned by corporations and intelligence community, we lost the battle and it was only a matter of time before 1984-style big-brother became reality... to quote Mr. Smith:
what good is a phone call... if you're unable to speak?
The (non-rich) people have lost their voice, and it's a matter of time before this scandal is old-news, sadly.
React to the specific PH of the concrete? If only all concrete were the same. Its been in use for several hundred years, and the formula has been constantly evolving.
Remember Monsanto and "roundup ready" seeds? Now imagine a "bio-healing ready" concrete... concrete that is differentiated by a specific compound formula which is standardized for a specific bacteria (of course several grades of the product combo will exist for both quality and usage differences ... which also allow for market segmentation)
All it will take is some enterprising megacorp with the legal muscle to patent this combo (and defend the patents) and you can effectively raised margin on concrete 10x at least.
Anything can be de-commoditized if it provides unique value and a big enough megacorp.
I used my phone book just the day before yesterday. Probably the first time I've needed it in 3-4 years. I had to look up the number for Verizon tech support because my DSL connection died.
I actually sat there for 5 minutes trying to figure out how I was going to look up the number without Internet access before I remembered the phone book.
I was forced once to interact with my neighbors in a similar situation (phoneline dead, no cell either). Of course, in this day and age we're spared such unpleasantries by the abundance of wireless signals and the like.
If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators.
Explain to me how this is different on the Droid X or G2? Google's hands aren't clean here... they're letting the manufacturers screw you over just as bad as Apple by not fighting anti-tampers and locked bootloaders.
Ie, gmail, sms, work mail and IM all in one thread?
This offers that, in one sense. I think @facebook.com will fail, but it's not the same as your iPhone/Android... now if Google released a (limited) wave client that was a mobile app... :-)
I've heard of all the others but this one puzzles me.
I mean, we can ignore Apple and Google playing nicely with each other on:
webkit
html5
iOS maps
search provider for safari
up-to-date mac versions of most google stuff
etc...
What I would personally like to see is someone with a young child, preferably female that instructs their child to start screaming if anyone touches their genitals.
link... have you called your airline contacts and congresscritters? I sure have.
3. In 2 years when the 'tablet computing' fad has largely blown off, Intel and AMD will realize that its just not that important to keep pushing down their marginal revenues until its just not worth the investment to keep with it.
I just don't agree that 'tablet computing' is a fad. Bill Gates was definitely correct that this form factor held lots of promise but Microsoft just could not untether themselves from the Windows gravy-train and thus constantly missed the mark with their tablet OS (not to mention pricing put it well out of the general consumer market). Intel got lucky in an emergency conspiracy with Microsoft to kill the netbook market but the tablet market is out of their control (with upcoming wave: Google/Android, HP/Palm, and RIM/BlackberryOS will put a permanent dent in PC sales). I bet both Intel and AMD are pretty disappointed in Microsoft's lack of real competitive OS here and have no "in" with the tablet players of today.
I love me some AMD, but this is just confirmation that mobile is where the money is at, and Intel and AMD are both out of the running compared to ARM-class chips (power usage), and are struggling to keep relevant.
Specifically the "iPad cannibalization" meme is probably scaring the pants off the x86 chipmakers, who hope to stave off (or take relevant share) of the nascent tablet invasion.
As soon as you provide a list of terrorists discouraged from boarding planes in the first place because of elevated security policies.
I'd say as a liberty-minded fiscally conservative citizen, it's DHS (and the scanner mnfrs) that have the burden of proof.
We *the taxpayers* are paying their bills, we're not subjects. Where is their proof of efficacy and justification for existence?
Plain and simple.
We make fun of China and other places, but it seems that our judiciary is now pretty much bought in many places.
Check out this article on how many businesses see corruption as a barrier to entry to markets.
It's built on a browser, but really, if it went laser-focus on just social sites and the such, it would make a good companion, especially if it gave the option to load the links in other browsers.
I would never use it because I'm reliant on 1password, and since this is not a supported browser, it makes my auth more difficult... I think the same could be said about many extensions on FF/Safari/Chrome. Maybe Rockmelt would be best done as an extension?
Chrome 9 is dev. The analagous test would be with Chrome 8 (beta). On my old-ass "IBM" thinkpad T60 (centrino duo w/ ATI gfx), I get 20fps on Chrome8, and 24fps on FF 3.6.12.
It's a complete re-write from scratch. It is indeed a 1.0 product. You might as well say Windows 1.0 wasn't 1.0 because they had previously been making DOS. The two platforms share nearly nothing in common beyond the "Windows" branding.
Even Microsoft thinks it's the 7th release, why do they call it Windows Phone 7? Why not call it something like Zune Phone (far more accurate)?
I see them as being in one of the best positions to challenge RIM ( I wish to $diety SOMEONE would.
If Microsoft is the challenger then they're going to fail. EAS sucks, and WP7 doesn't support encrypted Exchange connections... this "series" of phones aren't business devices. I couldn't use it at work where an encrypted connection is required for Exchange (where an iPhone would). Perhaps the Blackberry competitor you're looking for is the Droid Pro? Or maybe it's the iPhone, which does 95% of everything a BB can do, and plenty more (Apps). It sure as hell isn't any of the WP7 series.
I'm pretty sure as amusing as it is to see "Diaper Dave" Vitter and other oddities in your representation, it's pretty clear that in highly corrupt areas, not only do big-ticket items cost more, but quality of those things is dangerously low. Take a look at those schools in China.
This among other reasons, is why corruption can be deadly and should be fought tooth and nail.
The displacement of large water which causes the tsunami would not affect deep-water installations... now hurricanes and typhoons would be disastrous.
Anecdotally, I was in Thailand during the Indian Ocean Tsunami. I spoke to folks who had been flooded, who swam away from floating ATM machines and such, and also a boat captain who told me that one mile out, they felt the tsunami... it was like a small sudden wave/bump and passed in a few seconds.
Novell extended the patent protection to anyone who uses their software. And again, if Microsoft tried to sue a company merely for using Mono software, the EU could come down again.
Fine. Great. Microsoft gets punished... well after my company and my career have been harmed, potentially fatally. The real problem is the corrupt patent office(s) and legal environment that allows companies like Apple, Blizzard and Microsoft to easily litigate what they want patent-wise.
Mono is a trap, and solely exists at Microsoft's pleasure. Once MS decides the want to kill it, out go the patent infringement lawsuits and anyone using Mono is on shaky ground unless they donate to Microsoft's coffers.
The fact that it hasn't happened yet is no insurance. Copyright/left is one thing, patents are another and I don't trust Microsoft.
Realistically, all registered handlers should be interdicted like the call-interface.
However, I can see how it's in Apple's best interest to leave this to Skype:
I see where Apple doesn't want to do the right thing, and ultimately, it's still Skype's fault that they don't allow the user to approve call links.
When one part has the money and the other part is where the "poor" or "undesireables" go, this is not going to end well.
We had a chance in the past few years to make internet access a protected right and utility, much like access to power or water... but we failed and now it's going to kill the internet.
Rent-seeking predatory corporation are already licking their chops at all the potential "synergy" and "monetization" they can make of the soon-to-be-gone public commons. Once there is blood in the water, it will be a feeding frenzy for all these local monopolies.