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Oops, bad wording. I consult with power CEOs.
I'm on the road dozens of hours a week, so slashdot helps to pass the time. Plus I gain a ton of insight from the comments.
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I think Google has some interesting "backdoor" powers when it comes to tackling the Office "menace."
First, if they can incorporate Open Office or even their own Office-style applet and combine it with the ability to search the web for information in real time, they could offer researchers, writers, students and even businesses the ability to grab information about the topic they're writing on instantly. Start writing a paper on cattle mutilations and GoogleWriter could offer you instant access to facts, opinions, Wikis, blogs and more on the topic.
GoogleNumbers could offer insight into the spreadsheet you're forming, offering equations and possibly enhancements.
GooglePresentations could incorporate Google Images or some search routines to bring in key phrases, pictures, graphs, who knows what information.
I'm not saying Opera is the end-game for Google, but it opens the door to incorporating more desktop oriented software the user is familiar with while attaching Google's top-notch aggregated data feeds for the user to tap.
I'm sure most users (especially big corporations) will hate to be faced with a hard choice between running a lower functionality Google Earth and Blogsearch or ditching the obsolescent, passe Word and Excel for Google's own proprietary Opera-based platform! Decisions, decisions.... I'm sure Bill Gates is sweating bullets about that scenario...
Google is heading in the direction that every corporation needs to head in -- taking the information of the world and prioritizing it for the specific user. They're working on it. If your company doesn't see the reason to take advantage of all the freely available information available, they're going to be left in the dust. Today we're living in a world where anyone can get online, and with the right tools, they can take all that information, sort it properly, and find key market analyses that even the best paid analysts couldn't figure out.
I ditched one of my businesses last year based on information I built from Google "searches." I was smart to do it when that market was at its top, as a year later the market is virtually wiped out of profitability. 10 years ago I'd have to perform an expensive market analysis and might never have seen it coming.
Today I use Google every day to analyze the products and services my companies sell. Sometimes I find some random blogger moaning about a product, other times I get "insider information" slipped on some random Asian news source that gives me an edge over my competition. I don't get fed crap from my suppliers or my employees anymore as I can tap the opinions of billions of consumers in moments.
How anyone can't see the power of Google in a corporate environment is beyond me. Information is priceless, and the ability to use information properly is more profitable than mining gold.
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Really? Google SMS has won me contracts in meetings where I discretely sent an SMS to 46645 for information I needed and had it back instantly. Google Earth helps track down where flights are for business people I'm picking up at the airport to wine and dine or work out problems with -- savings me hours over what the airlines report so I'm not stuck waiting. Google Maps integrates with my GPS and is way more accurate than any other online software I've ever used, and my PDA didn't have enough memory to store every map I needed.
Google's toys are quickly becoming the power-CEO's tools to distinguishing themselves from the CEO that has the cute little administrative assistant doing all their research work and getting back to them in an hour or two. I use Google to acquire the knowledge I need, instantly, which makes me much more worthwhile to my customers.
Google's ability to aggregate terabytes of information and prioritize them for what I need is amazing. They're seriously only limited by the interface, and I believe we'll see even more useful applications when Google has a standard interface they can program for.
That's interesting. Before my h6315 died, I had one of my programmers adapting the SMS-email-notification software to open my Outlook Web Access instead of POP3. Our beta software worked very well, and handled everything the BB seems to do. I _can_ understand how people love it for its simplicity in doing e-mail, though, but for me it just isn't enough. E-mail isn't even a major communication channel for me anymore, there's a myriad of other ways I receive communications, so that is likely why the BB fails in my eyes. Thanks for the review though.
Is Opera Google's doorway to beating Microsoft?
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Google is in a unique position to be a software developer that can create new applications before the market sees a need for them, and be a success at it. I believe they've found a great way to dismiss Microsoft back to the 90's and leave them in the dust.
Google is finding (in many ways) that they're running up against a standards wall. Gmail is very successful in part because of "AJAX" but you know there is more out there. Remember, these guys make software that is mostly server-hosted.
I can't imagine what google is working on next, but I have been contemplating their need for a "proof-of-concept" engine that would be considered a web browser to some, but in all reality it would be an operating system. This sub-operating system would be hardware abstracted from the real OS, but give Google the ability for power users to see what Google can do with data.
Opera makes sense to me. I wish they'd have more platforms supported (Pocket PC was surprisingly ignored until this past month) but it is very standards-oriented and gives Google a real opportunity to denounce Internet Explorer without coming out and saying it directly.
Google can't come out and make a new mini-OS "web browser" that supplies its own standards, so what they can do is take the browser that seems to follow the standards the closest, and adopt their applets to work perfectly in this standard browser. If IE can't run the software, Google can offer a reduced-capacity version of their applet for IE, and basically users who want the powerful one will dump IE for Google. That would be Google's first nail in Microsoft's coffin.
For anyone to think that Google doesn't have the desire to be the next Microsoft, you have to see how much money Google is burning to come up with the best and newest data aggregating applets. Microsoft can't keep up, and they're quickly losing the race to releasing new -- and NEEDED -- applications. Word, Excel, IE -- they're all old news. Google Earth, Google Maps, Google SMS, Google Blogsearch, they're all applications that can be enhanced even further if Google had a standard platform to write their uber-versions for. Opera can be that standard platform that extends Google from merely a website to becoming its own operating system.
1. No connector conspiracy. Uses bog standard USB to charge and the headphone jack is the most generic one available.
This is huge. My one poblem with USB charging has been the slowness in the past, but I believe this has been "fixed." I spoke with an HTC alpha tester and it seems HTC has offered manufacturers a USB port instead of a proprietary one, but the manufacturers prefer the proprietary one. Hopefully this will change soon.
2. Integrated browser seems to work reasonably well, although it's kinda slow
I use two browsers on my PocketPC Phone: Pocket IE with MultiIE (great app!) and NetFront. They both are so fast I am surprised I am on a 3.6K GPRS connection. I post 99% of my slashdot posts here with my Pocket PC Phone, I can't imagine doing it on a blackberry.
3. The address book could use some UI tweaks, but it's loads better than most address books on phones that I've seen.
This may be true of basic phone. I hate the Blackberry address book. I prefer the touch screen apps I've used for my Pocket PC phone. I ended up making my own address book using HTML on my server and it works even better.
4. The text input works reasonably well. Occasionally it gets tripped up on a word (and I usually know what words it's going to have trouble with, so this isn't as bad as it could be), but it is a bit awkward to go back and edit stuff. Still, it's the fastest text input I've seen this side of the full size Blackberries. Blows regular cell phone (multi-tap) text input out of the water.
I grow my right thumb nail really long and pointy and can type super fast on my Pocket PC phone. Some people I AIM with can't believe I'm on a phone. Then again, I've been using that thumb nail for probably 10 years since the Newton days.
5. No MP3 support, no camera. The lack of a camera is a big plus for me, I work in places where you can bring a cell phone in, but not a camera. The lack of MP3 support isn't an issue for me either because I own an iPod.
I use my crappy Pocket PC camera once in a while, but without it I wouldn't miss it. I use the MP3 support always, one less device to carry. Fidelity is surprisingly good, too.
6. The phone is largely unrestricted as to what you can load onto it. There's no rediculous charge to load ringtones or backgrounds. You can either load these from your computer or just over the network (any picture you load in the browser can be set as your background).
Yeah, my h6315 could use WAV and MP3 for ringtones and any graphic format for backgrounds. I don't use them at all, sort of useless to me.
7. You can use the phone as a modem--although not over the Bluetooth.:(, it is a bit clunky with the USB cable attached.
Really? That is ridiculous. My h6315 has built-in Bluetooth dial up networking, per spec. When I have my micronotebook, I get a quick GPRS connection that works great. I hate cables.
8. Battery life is pretty reasonable. I've had it for 7 months now and the battery still lasts for 4-5 days without being turned off. Playing games on the phone drains the battery faster (can only play for 5-8 hours or so before the battery is dead). I've never killed the battery with talking, but I'm not a big talker.
That's awesome. I'm on the phone all day long. I have used almost 5000 minutes in my record month and I use gigs of GPRS data. My T-mobile plan I've had since the Voicestream days is still in effect, and I rarely pay over $100. I also get unlimited SMS.
9. The screen is gorgous. Among the best screens available in cell phones. It's a great when paired with the web browser, but it's also good for reading emails if you set the font size small and have good eyes.
I could say my h6315 was awesome, I think. The 7100 I'm temporarily using has a gorgeous resolution, though. Really sharp, great anti-aliasing.
10. The included belt clip is a bit disappointing. The cell phone will fa
The only thing it has going for it is the push email. My MS Smartphone receives email but only when it connects and checks my mailbox. Maybe if I had an important email that was received 1 minute after it just checked, I'd have to wait 29 more minutes to have it automatically check again. If my almost half-hour were THAT important to me, I would consider a BB
My T-mobile h6315 had "push e-mail" too. An SMS notification came in to the phone, was captured by software that hid the SMS and downloaded the e-mail to your client. It was transparent and nearly instantaneous -- I'd get e-mails literally 30 seconds after the sender sent it. It worked flawlessly for a number of accounts.
I was using the HP iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC phone. WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS, great screen, great battery, tons of expandability. This was T-mobile worst product in terms of user ratings, but it worked flawless for me. I loved the phone and it made me a lot of money over year.
Unfortunately, T-mobile no longer has a Pocket PC PDA phone. I won't get a Treo (hate Palm and Linux isn't ready yet), I won't get a Blackberry. I could buy a phone from HP and adapt it to T-mobile, but T-mobile offers a $70 replacement fee for any phone you buy from them for the life of the product. They offered me a $70 Treo or a $70 Blackberry since they discontinued the h6315. If they would get a new Pocket PC on their lineup, I'd pay full retail for it instantly. Unfortunately, they had so many "problems" with the h6315 that I doubt we'll see much in the near future.
do you think that RIM would be having these problems if it was a US company rather than a Canadian one? Microsoft gets away with infringing patents all the time, but it's yet to be proved that RIM actually *has* and yet they are punished far more harshly than Microsoft ever was.
I think that is a stretch (and you could target many US megacorps). RIM likely doesn't support Congressional candidates with much cash. I believe the location of a corporation has little effect if that corporation subsidizes campaigns enough to buy laws and law enforcement. Remember, it isn't that money that is corrupting the law, it is the power to make corruptible laws that causes these problems.
My Pocket PC PDA phone finally failed after I ripped out the charging jack by accident. A family member had an unused Blackberry 7100 phone that I threw my SIM card into. I've been using in for 2 days and I honestly believe the Blackberry is one of the worst produced handhelds I have ever seen. The scroll wheel is efficient only if you use the push e-mail, but the device does not seem very powerful, intuitive or expandable. Simple can be a good thing, but not if simple means "simple enough for the mentally challenged."
If Blackberry's major market was offering non-techie CEOs an easy to use device, I guess it works fine. Yet as common PC users become power users, I'd guess they'll outgrow the device and want more power and expandability (and customizable user interface). Using it right now reminds me more of an etch-a-sketch combined with a speak-and-spell. The Blackberry with T-mobile doesn't even use T-mobiles GPRS Internet plan, they want me to get some Blackberry plan. Even my old Nokias use the GPRS Internet plan (a great backup if you break phones as often as I do).
If Blackberry beats out the patent problems, will they have much of a future with a product that seems outdated by almost 5 years? Do many users here use their Blackberry and like it? I've been using PDAs since before the original Newton, and this device is just hokey. I feel like I have a trophy wife that looks nice but doesn't actually do anything. What am I missing?
Everyone knows that the Chinese could shut down the U.S. military by mailing a baker's dozen fingercuffs to the Commander in Chief and the War Cabinet.
Can't push the nuke button without use of your fingers, can you?
I love my HP h6315, PDA phone, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth. Great apps, great screen, great battery life.
Unfortunately HP & Tmobile discontinued it. I finally broke it (ripped out charging port) and can't find a replacement. The blackberry is a joke. Zero use for me, worst interface ever.
The treo feels nice but that OS sucks. With Linux, though, everything changes.
The only thing I need beyond that is 320x240 res, WiFi and Bluetooth. Any Treo users know if it's possible?
A friend is visiting the States with us right now, her first visit. 23, female, college degree in economics. After converting from metric, she's blown away at how cheap electronics, food, gas, and even liquor is.
I'm starting a business right now in Europe (acrylics) and the pay vs taxes vs cost of living saddens me.
These are likely the same parties behind the push for UN control of ICANN's business.
If you think they're merely out for fair sharing, think again. I may hate the rights I've lost through Bush and Clinton's wars and social programs, but I see no real difference in Europe. In some ways I see fewer freedom and more tyranny.
Dont those changers take up a lot of space in the mobile home?
It is a common myth that trailers are tiny. My community is a circle drive park. Average lots are 1/3 acre, average trailer is 1500 sqft.
That's 12-16 CDs a month. @ $15 each that's around $210/month and $2520/year!! I bet many people wish they were as poor as you!
Many of my friends pay $1500+/month in rent or $2200+/month in mortgage+property taxes. I don't. I could live very comfortably on $25K/year income. Is that rich?
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I'm on the road dozens of hours a week, so slashdot helps to pass the time. Plus I gain a ton of insight from the comments.
I think Google has some interesting "backdoor" powers when it comes to tackling the Office "menace."
First, if they can incorporate Open Office or even their own Office-style applet and combine it with the ability to search the web for information in real time, they could offer researchers, writers, students and even businesses the ability to grab information about the topic they're writing on instantly. Start writing a paper on cattle mutilations and GoogleWriter could offer you instant access to facts, opinions, Wikis, blogs and more on the topic.
GoogleNumbers could offer insight into the spreadsheet you're forming, offering equations and possibly enhancements.
GooglePresentations could incorporate Google Images or some search routines to bring in key phrases, pictures, graphs, who knows what information.
I'm not saying Opera is the end-game for Google, but it opens the door to incorporating more desktop oriented software the user is familiar with while attaching Google's top-notch aggregated data feeds for the user to tap.
I'm sure most users (especially big corporations) will hate to be faced with a hard choice between running a lower functionality Google Earth and Blogsearch or ditching the obsolescent, passe Word and Excel for Google's own proprietary Opera-based platform! Decisions, decisions.... I'm sure Bill Gates is sweating bullets about that scenario...
Google is heading in the direction that every corporation needs to head in -- taking the information of the world and prioritizing it for the specific user. They're working on it. If your company doesn't see the reason to take advantage of all the freely available information available, they're going to be left in the dust. Today we're living in a world where anyone can get online, and with the right tools, they can take all that information, sort it properly, and find key market analyses that even the best paid analysts couldn't figure out.
I ditched one of my businesses last year based on information I built from Google "searches." I was smart to do it when that market was at its top, as a year later the market is virtually wiped out of profitability. 10 years ago I'd have to perform an expensive market analysis and might never have seen it coming.
Today I use Google every day to analyze the products and services my companies sell. Sometimes I find some random blogger moaning about a product, other times I get "insider information" slipped on some random Asian news source that gives me an edge over my competition. I don't get fed crap from my suppliers or my employees anymore as I can tap the opinions of billions of consumers in moments.
How anyone can't see the power of Google in a corporate environment is beyond me. Information is priceless, and the ability to use information properly is more profitable than mining gold.
Really? Google SMS has won me contracts in meetings where I discretely sent an SMS to 46645 for information I needed and had it back instantly. Google Earth helps track down where flights are for business people I'm picking up at the airport to wine and dine or work out problems with -- savings me hours over what the airlines report so I'm not stuck waiting. Google Maps integrates with my GPS and is way more accurate than any other online software I've ever used, and my PDA didn't have enough memory to store every map I needed.
Google's toys are quickly becoming the power-CEO's tools to distinguishing themselves from the CEO that has the cute little administrative assistant doing all their research work and getting back to them in an hour or two. I use Google to acquire the knowledge I need, instantly, which makes me much more worthwhile to my customers.
Google's ability to aggregate terabytes of information and prioritize them for what I need is amazing. They're seriously only limited by the interface, and I believe we'll see even more useful applications when Google has a standard interface they can program for.
That's interesting. Before my h6315 died, I had one of my programmers adapting the SMS-email-notification software to open my Outlook Web Access instead of POP3. Our beta software worked very well, and handled everything the BB seems to do. I _can_ understand how people love it for its simplicity in doing e-mail, though, but for me it just isn't enough. E-mail isn't even a major communication channel for me anymore, there's a myriad of other ways I receive communications, so that is likely why the BB fails in my eyes. Thanks for the review though.
Google is in a unique position to be a software developer that can create new applications before the market sees a need for them, and be a success at it. I believe they've found a great way to dismiss Microsoft back to the 90's and leave them in the dust.
Google is finding (in many ways) that they're running up against a standards wall. Gmail is very successful in part because of "AJAX" but you know there is more out there. Remember, these guys make software that is mostly server-hosted.
I can't imagine what google is working on next, but I have been contemplating their need for a "proof-of-concept" engine that would be considered a web browser to some, but in all reality it would be an operating system. This sub-operating system would be hardware abstracted from the real OS, but give Google the ability for power users to see what Google can do with data.
Opera makes sense to me. I wish they'd have more platforms supported (Pocket PC was surprisingly ignored until this past month) but it is very standards-oriented and gives Google a real opportunity to denounce Internet Explorer without coming out and saying it directly.
Google can't come out and make a new mini-OS "web browser" that supplies its own standards, so what they can do is take the browser that seems to follow the standards the closest, and adopt their applets to work perfectly in this standard browser. If IE can't run the software, Google can offer a reduced-capacity version of their applet for IE, and basically users who want the powerful one will dump IE for Google. That would be Google's first nail in Microsoft's coffin.
For anyone to think that Google doesn't have the desire to be the next Microsoft, you have to see how much money Google is burning to come up with the best and newest data aggregating applets. Microsoft can't keep up, and they're quickly losing the race to releasing new -- and NEEDED -- applications. Word, Excel, IE -- they're all old news. Google Earth, Google Maps, Google SMS, Google Blogsearch, they're all applications that can be enhanced even further if Google had a standard platform to write their uber-versions for. Opera can be that standard platform that extends Google from merely a website to becoming its own operating system.
1. No connector conspiracy. Uses bog standard USB to charge and the headphone jack is the most generic one available.
:(, it is a bit clunky with the USB cable attached.
This is huge. My one poblem with USB charging has been the slowness in the past, but I believe this has been "fixed." I spoke with an HTC alpha tester and it seems HTC has offered manufacturers a USB port instead of a proprietary one, but the manufacturers prefer the proprietary one. Hopefully this will change soon.
2. Integrated browser seems to work reasonably well, although it's kinda slow
I use two browsers on my PocketPC Phone: Pocket IE with MultiIE (great app!) and NetFront. They both are so fast I am surprised I am on a 3.6K GPRS connection. I post 99% of my slashdot posts here with my Pocket PC Phone, I can't imagine doing it on a blackberry.
3. The address book could use some UI tweaks, but it's loads better than most address books on phones that I've seen.
This may be true of basic phone. I hate the Blackberry address book. I prefer the touch screen apps I've used for my Pocket PC phone. I ended up making my own address book using HTML on my server and it works even better.
4. The text input works reasonably well. Occasionally it gets tripped up on a word (and I usually know what words it's going to have trouble with, so this isn't as bad as it could be), but it is a bit awkward to go back and edit stuff. Still, it's the fastest text input I've seen this side of the full size Blackberries. Blows regular cell phone (multi-tap) text input out of the water.
I grow my right thumb nail really long and pointy and can type super fast on my Pocket PC phone. Some people I AIM with can't believe I'm on a phone. Then again, I've been using that thumb nail for probably 10 years since the Newton days.
5. No MP3 support, no camera. The lack of a camera is a big plus for me, I work in places where you can bring a cell phone in, but not a camera. The lack of MP3 support isn't an issue for me either because I own an iPod.
I use my crappy Pocket PC camera once in a while, but without it I wouldn't miss it. I use the MP3 support always, one less device to carry. Fidelity is surprisingly good, too.
6. The phone is largely unrestricted as to what you can load onto it. There's no rediculous charge to load ringtones or backgrounds. You can either load these from your computer or just over the network (any picture you load in the browser can be set as your background).
Yeah, my h6315 could use WAV and MP3 for ringtones and any graphic format for backgrounds. I don't use them at all, sort of useless to me.
7. You can use the phone as a modem--although not over the Bluetooth.
Really? That is ridiculous. My h6315 has built-in Bluetooth dial up networking, per spec. When I have my micronotebook, I get a quick GPRS connection that works great. I hate cables.
8. Battery life is pretty reasonable. I've had it for 7 months now and the battery still lasts for 4-5 days without being turned off. Playing games on the phone drains the battery faster (can only play for 5-8 hours or so before the battery is dead). I've never killed the battery with talking, but I'm not a big talker.
That's awesome. I'm on the phone all day long. I have used almost 5000 minutes in my record month and I use gigs of GPRS data. My T-mobile plan I've had since the Voicestream days is still in effect, and I rarely pay over $100. I also get unlimited SMS.
9. The screen is gorgous. Among the best screens available in cell phones. It's a great when paired with the web browser, but it's also good for reading emails if you set the font size small and have good eyes.
I could say my h6315 was awesome, I think. The 7100 I'm temporarily using has a gorgeous resolution, though. Really sharp, great anti-aliasing.
10. The included belt clip is a bit disappointing. The cell phone will fa
The only thing it has going for it is the push email. My MS Smartphone receives email but only when it connects and checks my mailbox. Maybe if I had an important email that was received 1 minute after it just checked, I'd have to wait 29 more minutes to have it automatically check again. If my almost half-hour were THAT important to me, I would consider a BB
My T-mobile h6315 had "push e-mail" too. An SMS notification came in to the phone, was captured by software that hid the SMS and downloaded the e-mail to your client. It was transparent and nearly instantaneous -- I'd get e-mails literally 30 seconds after the sender sent it. It worked flawlessly for a number of accounts.
I was using the HP iPAQ h6315 Pocket PC phone. WiFi, Bluetooth, GPRS, great screen, great battery, tons of expandability. This was T-mobile worst product in terms of user ratings, but it worked flawless for me. I loved the phone and it made me a lot of money over year.
Unfortunately, T-mobile no longer has a Pocket PC PDA phone. I won't get a Treo (hate Palm and Linux isn't ready yet), I won't get a Blackberry. I could buy a phone from HP and adapt it to T-mobile, but T-mobile offers a $70 replacement fee for any phone you buy from them for the life of the product. They offered me a $70 Treo or a $70 Blackberry since they discontinued the h6315. If they would get a new Pocket PC on their lineup, I'd pay full retail for it instantly. Unfortunately, they had so many "problems" with the h6315 that I doubt we'll see much in the near future.
do you think that RIM would be having these problems if it was a US company rather than a Canadian one? Microsoft gets away with infringing patents all the time, but it's yet to be proved that RIM actually *has* and yet they are punished far more harshly than Microsoft ever was.
I think that is a stretch (and you could target many US megacorps). RIM likely doesn't support Congressional candidates with much cash. I believe the location of a corporation has little effect if that corporation subsidizes campaigns enough to buy laws and law enforcement. Remember, it isn't that money that is corrupting the law, it is the power to make corruptible laws that causes these problems.
My Pocket PC PDA phone finally failed after I ripped out the charging jack by accident. A family member had an unused Blackberry 7100 phone that I threw my SIM card into. I've been using in for 2 days and I honestly believe the Blackberry is one of the worst produced handhelds I have ever seen. The scroll wheel is efficient only if you use the push e-mail, but the device does not seem very powerful, intuitive or expandable. Simple can be a good thing, but not if simple means "simple enough for the mentally challenged."
If Blackberry's major market was offering non-techie CEOs an easy to use device, I guess it works fine. Yet as common PC users become power users, I'd guess they'll outgrow the device and want more power and expandability (and customizable user interface). Using it right now reminds me more of an etch-a-sketch combined with a speak-and-spell. The Blackberry with T-mobile doesn't even use T-mobiles GPRS Internet plan, they want me to get some Blackberry plan. Even my old Nokias use the GPRS Internet plan (a great backup if you break phones as often as I do).
If Blackberry beats out the patent problems, will they have much of a future with a product that seems outdated by almost 5 years? Do many users here use their Blackberry and like it? I've been using PDAs since before the original Newton, and this device is just hokey. I feel like I have a trophy wife that looks nice but doesn't actually do anything. What am I missing?
With all the concern over fake/unjust ratings and reviews, I wonder if Google might release a contextual review/rating averaging engine.
By contextually searching blogs, review sites and news reports, one could have the most aggressive aggregate information available.
Combined with AdSense, it's incredible power.
It isn't the Chinese!
Everyone knows that the Chinese could shut down the U.S. military by mailing a baker's dozen fingercuffs to the Commander in Chief and the War Cabinet.
Can't push the nuke button without use of your fingers, can you?
Thanks. I'll pick one up today, doesn't hurt to be prepared.
My company does a security proof-test of customers' access points. It is not hard to get most encryption keys from standard corporations.
:)
Instead of open I should have said open/insecurely closed
I love my HP h6315, PDA phone, GPRS, WiFi, Bluetooth. Great apps, great screen, great battery life.
Unfortunately HP & Tmobile discontinued it. I finally broke it (ripped out charging port) and can't find a replacement. The blackberry is a joke. Zero use for me, worst interface ever.
The treo feels nice but that OS sucks. With Linux, though, everything changes.
The only thing I need beyond that is 320x240 res, WiFi and Bluetooth. Any Treo users know if it's possible?
Couple times per year.
A friend is visiting the States with us right now, her first visit. 23, female, college degree in economics. After converting from metric, she's blown away at how cheap electronics, food, gas, and even liquor is.
I'm starting a business right now in Europe (acrylics) and the pay vs taxes vs cost of living saddens me.
These are likely the same parties behind the push for UN control of ICANN's business.
If you think they're merely out for fair sharing, think again. I may hate the rights I've lost through Bush and Clinton's wars and social programs, but I see no real difference in Europe. In some ways I see fewer freedom and more tyranny.
Open WiFi access points make these rules useless.
FWIW Digg crashes 1 out of 5 times for me on 4 different operating systems. The advertising makes me bonkers.
Google's use of the word "widget" is Evil. There are some words that shouldn't be redefined, especially by a megacorp.
I've used widget for years - maybe 15. When making a generic description of a generic item, widget is the placeholder word to use.
Now what do we do? Can they trademark a commonly used nothing-word? Will we see Google Ptooie and Google Grrr next?
Just because all that is true, doesn't mean it's all correct :)
Pick up Step Into Liquid. The WMHD DVD will cause permanent goosebumps.
I agree with 100% of your post. If the content is true HD-sourced and high quality I'll buy it. Most movies don't warrant more than 480i though.
Dont those changers take up a lot of space in the mobile home?
It is a common myth that trailers are tiny. My community is a circle drive park. Average lots are 1/3 acre, average trailer is 1500 sqft.
That's 12-16 CDs a month. @ $15 each that's around $210/month and $2520/year!! I bet many people wish they were as poor as you!
Many of my friends pay $1500+/month in rent or $2200+/month in mortgage+property taxes. I don't. I could live very comfortably on $25K/year income. Is that rich?
There are a few. Drop me an e-mail and I can send you some pointers.
:)
The AVS Forum is a vidgeeks church. The info there is second to none. I even tuned my lady's 15" Hello Kitty TV and my jaw drops every time
Rich?
;)
I live in a trailer park.*
I drive a 96 Toyota.
My top employyes at all my businesses each earn more than I do.
* My print media newsletter is called Mobile Home Millionaire but it doesn't necessarily mean me