Perhaps it's an old problem. When an old boss and friend of mine bought one, it was when the first version came out... I remember him complaining about the batteries running out too quickly on him... perhaps it was defective, but it probably imprinted a bad impression in my mind. =)
When handhelds can last for more than a 1/2-day trip and come close to a realistic business trip in battery life, then I'll be impressed. One of the things that kept me from buying a Palm was the low battery life and the lack of a frickin' recharger...
"We hope to have a variety of interesting and sexy products shipping in high volume in time to be under the Christmas tree," he said. -----
It's getting all hot and steamy in the handheld industry. People in the lab are drooling in anticipation... just don't tell our significant others about the objects of our fancy. =)
At my old job, the company was all microsoft-all-the-way... why?
Because that's what they had used before, and that's what they were used to... they didn't want to take the time to invest in switching over to a new design.
Now, I'm sitting here thinking to myself, unaffacted by the latest lovebug crisis with my nice unix mail system at work and linux system at home... what is gonna happen to their system there? the IIS server went down everyday, the NT fileserver blue screened every other day, they had 2 techs running around fixing everything and all software was written in Visual Basic and Access. (Notice that I said this was my old job).
Not to mention this, but their security in general was laughable. Keypad combinations... for which the number was never changed and was possible to circumvent through other doors in the office.
Bearing this in mind, I seriously wonder just how much they care about security...
Before I left, I told a fellow code-monkey that for an initial down payment on a few lowend systems, a linux guru, and a month of tweaking, they could have a stable, fast, inexpensive, and secure system...the only caveat? It was linux... and this company was locked into microsoft.
I think the understatement of the year will be that Microsoft is manufacturing a couple industries to deal with the crap they force on companies.
I wonder how many other companies are similar in nature? =)
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Perhaps it's an old problem. When an old boss and friend of mine bought one, it was when the first version came out... I remember him complaining about the batteries running out too quickly on him... perhaps it was defective, but it probably imprinted a bad impression in my mind. =)
When handhelds can last for more than a 1/2-day trip and come close to a realistic business trip in battery life, then I'll be impressed. One of the things that kept me from buying a Palm was the low battery life and the lack of a frickin' recharger...
"We hope to have a variety of interesting and sexy products shipping in high volume in time to be under the Christmas tree," he said.
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It's getting all hot and steamy in the handheld industry. People in the lab are drooling in anticipation... just don't tell our significant others about the objects of our fancy. =)
At my old job, the company was all microsoft-all-the-way... why?
Because that's what they had used before, and that's what they were used to... they didn't want to take the time to invest in switching over to a new design.
Now, I'm sitting here thinking to myself, unaffacted by the latest lovebug crisis with my nice unix mail system at work and linux system at home... what is gonna happen to their system there? the IIS server went down everyday, the NT fileserver blue screened every other day, they had 2 techs running around fixing everything and all software was written in Visual Basic and Access. (Notice that I said this was my old job).
Not to mention this, but their security in general was laughable. Keypad combinations... for which the number was never changed and was possible to circumvent through other doors in the office.
Bearing this in mind, I seriously wonder just how much they care about security...
Before I left, I told a fellow code-monkey that for an initial down payment on a few lowend systems, a linux guru, and a month of tweaking, they could have a stable, fast, inexpensive, and secure system...the only caveat? It was linux... and this company was locked into microsoft.
I think the understatement of the year will be that Microsoft is manufacturing a couple industries to deal with the crap they force on companies.
I wonder how many other companies are similar in nature? =)