The user interface is going to be the least of the problems...for one thing most kids used to sending SMS (and that is 75% where I live) types faster with the 9-button keypad than with a regular PC keyboard....
Well I do agree to most of what you say...except the WAP part. 90% of today's web pages today simply can't be viewed on regular cellular phones. And while they could make some fancy color screen surfin devices, GSM is fair to slow for serious use.
However, in three years we'll have a replacement for GSM, UMTS, in most parts of Europe. That's a lot faster than ISDN. And the devices created for UMTS (which Nokia for one is researching in) will come with full-fledged web-browser and will also run on GSM where UMTS isn't available. I don't see this as short-sightedness.
The WAP was doomed before it launched, and when UMTS is here I don't think it will stand a chance at all. As you say....it's useless.
This is not troll bait. I'm trying to be serious here! Way too many Americans think they are on the top of the world. You was. 50 years ago. The only area you have superiority now is weapons (what is worse...you seem to be proud of it)...
You even lag five years behind the rest of the world in (non-weapon) technology nowadays. 25 years ago people usually looked up to USA and copied their culture, but now most people have opened their eyes and is now influencing US rather than the other way around.
And when it comes too freedom, give me any other country anytime! US isn't free. It's a bunch of confused people believing they are.
There are stories here in Norway about companies that have had their computers held back as evidence for years and because of that gone bankrupt...which is of course very sad.
You have some of the same situation over in the US: If someone supect your gun is used in a crime, the police takes it and it is not going to be delivered back any time soon. In the US a gun can be used for lawful purposes (guns are banned in Norway except for hunting purposes) and so your company might actually (in an extremely rare case!) go bankrupt because it can't use that gun for lawful purposes.
The only difference is that the information on a computer can be bitwise copied, while a gun can not. Clearly the Norwegian police is doing wrong here...But just because they don't know about bitwise copying doesn't mean they're facist (as they were claimed to be in the beginnning).
I don't know about the situation in the US. However I've heard the state is immune in US which is clearly not good either. Here in Norway people can at least sue the police if they have a good case. IANAL though.
How should I take this post? Do you say that the American democracy have ended?
The point about democracy is that the politicians represent the people. You, the people, have voted the politicians in, and so the people==the politicians. If you don't like it, get out and vote!
My plan for saving America:
- Make people accept political debates on TV. Here in Norway the TV stations compete on having the hottest politicians dicuss rationally in the two months before election...people like wathcing political debates...
- Ban political TV advertising. It only leads to the person with the most money for advertising winning.
- Make Bush explain what he means by "lower taxes to rip down the wall between rich and poor"...
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The user interface is going to be the least of the problems...for one thing most kids used to sending SMS (and that is 75% where I live) types faster with the 9-button keypad than with a regular PC keyboard....
Well I do agree to most of what you say...except the WAP part. 90% of today's web pages today simply can't be viewed on regular cellular phones. And while they could make some fancy color screen surfin devices, GSM is fair to slow for serious use. However, in three years we'll have a replacement for GSM, UMTS, in most parts of Europe. That's a lot faster than ISDN. And the devices created for UMTS (which Nokia for one is researching in) will come with full-fledged web-browser and will also run on GSM where UMTS isn't available. I don't see this as short-sightedness. The WAP was doomed before it launched, and when UMTS is here I don't think it will stand a chance at all. As you say....it's useless.
This is not troll bait. I'm trying to be serious here! Way too many Americans think they are on the top of the world. You was. 50 years ago. The only area you have superiority now is weapons (what is worse...you seem to be proud of it)...
You even lag five years behind the rest of the world in (non-weapon) technology nowadays. 25 years ago people usually looked up to USA and copied their culture, but now most people have opened their eyes and is now influencing US rather than the other way around.
And when it comes too freedom, give me any other country anytime! US isn't free. It's a bunch of confused people believing they are.
There are stories here in Norway about companies that have had their computers held back as evidence for years and because of that gone bankrupt...which is of course very sad.
You have some of the same situation over in the US: If someone supect your gun is used in a crime, the police takes it and it is not going to be delivered back any time soon. In the US a gun can be used for lawful purposes (guns are banned in Norway except for hunting purposes) and so your company might actually (in an extremely rare case!) go bankrupt because it can't use that gun for lawful purposes.
The only difference is that the information on a computer can be bitwise copied, while a gun can not. Clearly the Norwegian police is doing wrong here...But just because they don't know about bitwise copying doesn't mean they're facist (as they were claimed to be in the beginnning).
I don't know about the situation in the US. However I've heard the state is immune in US which is clearly not good either. Here in Norway people can at least sue the police if they have a good case. IANAL though.
How should I take this post? Do you say that the American democracy have ended?
The point about democracy is that the politicians represent the people. You, the people, have voted the politicians in, and so the people==the politicians. If you don't like it, get out and vote!
My plan for saving America:
- Make people accept political debates on TV. Here in Norway the TV stations compete on having the hottest politicians dicuss rationally in the two months before election...people like wathcing political debates...
- Ban political TV advertising. It only leads to the person with the most money for advertising winning.
- Make Bush explain what he means by "lower taxes to rip down the wall between rich and poor"...