the article states that in the US you will probably have to sign a 2 year contract with a cell phone carrier as well
check out www.abovethecrowd.com for a nice write up of Google's revenue sharing model. They pay people to sell their products like MS pays others to use Bing.
i played with Wave and think it sucks. it's slow, it's a resource hog and no one is on it. I joined a few public waves and now my Chrome RAM usage goes up to 600MB of RAM.
I played with Chrome OS and think it sucks as well. you can't do anything without an internet connection.
even my iphone can do a lot more without an internet connection in places like the NYC subway
for the first 7 years they release patches, service packs, tools, add ons like Powershell and you can call support for issues. they will also provide developers with API and other support in developing applications for the OS
for the last three years it's only security hotfixes
new features like reading these new drives will probably never be added and are for a new version of the OS which is completely fair
New London did have to pay market rates for the homes. it's just that the original ED took place before the big housing bubble run up in prices of 2004-2007
the northeast already has a nice rail system called LIRR/Metro-North and NJ Transit. It brings millions of people to work every day. too bad it's fairly expensive and very full at the moment. they are in the process of digging new tunnels to expand the number of trains they are able to run.
as for long distance rail, Amtrak is already unreliable. there is no reason to think that a new high speed train will be reliable and there is no benefit over flying. airports already have the infrastructure like rent a cars and public transportation that will have to be duplicated at a new high speed rail station.
for the speed it sounds nice, but that is not the entire way. i've traveled on the Eurostar in Italy and it took something like 20 minutes to slow down and speed up when entering and leaving big stations like Venezia, Roma and Fiorenze.
i also know someone that used to take the Acela from NYC to Boston for work years ago and it took like 3 hours each way. The Delta Shuttle was 1 hour. 90 minutes if you count getting to the airport early. back when we bought a competitor we used to fly to Boston in the morning and come back for dinner. if we took the train it would mean extra expenses in staying at a hotel
of course it's "leaks" by marketing. my favorite was all the idiots falling for the Pre hype like the unboxing videos of supposedly "stolen" Pre's where nothing about the OS or use was demonstrated. all the idiots thought it was really rogue employees doing it instead of the marketing drones. if they were real unboxing videos people would have used the phone and not just taken it out of the box
and it's not like corporations will buy all the new 2TB drives to use as a OS drive in their ancient XP workstations? they will just buy a new PC with Windows 7 installed or use a 7 corporate image
Intuit seems to have no problem making a new version of TurboTax with all the new tax law changes every year. where i work we get tax data from a third party company every month and load it into a database because in telecom taxes change on a monthly basis sometimes and we have to keep track of it. no big deal.
i'm typing this on a HP Compaq 8510p, a business laptop. maybe i'm unlucky but it seems like mine is self destructing. SquareTrade's figures put Apple at #3 and Asus at #1. those are pre unibody aluminum MBP MacBook Pro figures too.
as it was already said a lot of government agencies and contractors rely on RIM. as well as any company that wants secure mobile email. the traffic is encrypted and it's a VPN from your phone to your email server. and all the internet traffic from the phone flows through your organization's network where it can be filtered and managed. Intranet access is easy with blackberries as well without opening up ports on the firewall or putting internal website IP's on public DNS servers.
I have an iphone 3GS as well and it doesn't match the security or manageability of Blackberry Enterprise Server. You can buy extra products but it's easier to just use RIM's service if you need this functionality
the estimate for iphone sales is 10 million this quarter. Apple and RIM have different quarter time frames so it won't be for a little while until we find the real sales numbers. RIM sales seem to have flattened out while iPhone sales are skyrocketing and it's cheaper than RIM depending on the device.
so i would guess that Apple is going to poach RIM customers as contracts expire
so how do you get your email on your phone without opening up the POP and IMAP ports on your firewall? there are only 2 ways for this and that's RIM or Microsoft.
at some point common sense will tell you that this project isn't going anywhere and your job may be in trouble and maybe i should look for another job? it's like all the dot coms from 10 years ago where people drank the kool aid and thought that investors will just keep feeding them more money to have fun at the office even though there is no profit and no one has any idea how to make a profit
i read somewhere in the last year that Yelp tries to blackmail businesses to "advertise" there or face a ton of negative reviews. i never use it even though i live in NYC. i know the good places or ask someone who knows about a place.
they aren't advanced, they have more crazy features we don't care about here like reading your body sweat or buying a soda using a cell phone. the UI's have sucked for years since the companies have always been on thin margins. the reason why none of this stuff comes out in the US is because kids in Japan live with parents for a lot longer and have more money to spend. in the US kids like to move out and they have less disposable income since they have bills to pay. other features like buying from vending machines are useless since everyone takes credit cards or you buy a 24 pack at the grocery store and take it to work with you.
just like fighter pilots use energy and physics today, you'll need to use gravity in space combat. it's everywhere and if you use it properly you'll be able to maneuver faster than the other guy and probably kill him
yes, get an iphone and use one of the twitter apps
the article links to another article about Apple censorship but that is from March. in the meantime iPhone OS 3 shipped and every time you install anything that might have a bad word you get a little pop up with a warning where you click OK unless you are a child and your parents censor your iphone/ipod touch
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the article states that in the US you will probably have to sign a 2 year contract with a cell phone carrier as well
check out www.abovethecrowd.com for a nice write up of Google's revenue sharing model. They pay people to sell their products like MS pays others to use Bing.
HTML 5 supports offline caching and I think even Google will allow it. other than that 64GB SSD's are probably the smallest you will find next year
i played with Wave and think it sucks. it's slow, it's a resource hog and no one is on it. I joined a few public waves and now my Chrome RAM usage goes up to 600MB of RAM.
I played with Chrome OS and think it sucks as well. you can't do anything without an internet connection.
even my iphone can do a lot more without an internet connection in places like the NYC subway
for the first 7 years they release patches, service packs, tools, add ons like Powershell and you can call support for issues. they will also provide developers with API and other support in developing applications for the OS
for the last three years it's only security hotfixes
new features like reading these new drives will probably never be added and are for a new version of the OS which is completely fair
New London did have to pay market rates for the homes. it's just that the original ED took place before the big housing bubble run up in prices of 2004-2007
the northeast already has a nice rail system called LIRR/Metro-North and NJ Transit. It brings millions of people to work every day. too bad it's fairly expensive and very full at the moment. they are in the process of digging new tunnels to expand the number of trains they are able to run.
as for long distance rail, Amtrak is already unreliable. there is no reason to think that a new high speed train will be reliable and there is no benefit over flying. airports already have the infrastructure like rent a cars and public transportation that will have to be duplicated at a new high speed rail station.
for the speed it sounds nice, but that is not the entire way. i've traveled on the Eurostar in Italy and it took something like 20 minutes to slow down and speed up when entering and leaving big stations like Venezia, Roma and Fiorenze.
i also know someone that used to take the Acela from NYC to Boston for work years ago and it took like 3 hours each way. The Delta Shuttle was 1 hour. 90 minutes if you count getting to the airport early. back when we bought a competitor we used to fly to Boston in the morning and come back for dinner. if we took the train it would mean extra expenses in staying at a hotel
of course it's "leaks" by marketing. my favorite was all the idiots falling for the Pre hype like the unboxing videos of supposedly "stolen" Pre's where nothing about the OS or use was demonstrated. all the idiots thought it was really rogue employees doing it instead of the marketing drones. if they were real unboxing videos people would have used the phone and not just taken it out of the box
and it's not like corporations will buy all the new 2TB drives to use as a OS drive in their ancient XP workstations? they will just buy a new PC with Windows 7 installed or use a 7 corporate image
MS has a clear support policy. Maybe you like Apple's 3 year support policy better than Microsoft's 10 year 7/3 policy?
Intuit seems to have no problem making a new version of TurboTax with all the new tax law changes every year. where i work we get tax data from a third party company every month and load it into a database because in telecom taxes change on a monthly basis sometimes and we have to keep track of it. no big deal.
and it will magically work the way it's supposed to work
I work 5 blocks south and receive calls on my iPhone on my iPhone just fine. Some buildings are built like a faraday cage
with all the educated people here, you should know that celebrating the time around the winter solstice goes back a long way
i'm typing this on a HP Compaq 8510p, a business laptop. maybe i'm unlucky but it seems like mine is self destructing. SquareTrade's figures put Apple at #3 and Asus at #1. those are pre unibody aluminum MBP MacBook Pro figures too.
as it was already said a lot of government agencies and contractors rely on RIM. as well as any company that wants secure mobile email. the traffic is encrypted and it's a VPN from your phone to your email server. and all the internet traffic from the phone flows through your organization's network where it can be filtered and managed. Intranet access is easy with blackberries as well without opening up ports on the firewall or putting internal website IP's on public DNS servers.
I have an iphone 3GS as well and it doesn't match the security or manageability of Blackberry Enterprise Server. You can buy extra products but it's easier to just use RIM's service if you need this functionality
the estimate for iphone sales is 10 million this quarter. Apple and RIM have different quarter time frames so it won't be for a little while until we find the real sales numbers. RIM sales seem to have flattened out while iPhone sales are skyrocketing and it's cheaper than RIM depending on the device.
so i would guess that Apple is going to poach RIM customers as contracts expire
so how do you get your email on your phone without opening up the POP and IMAP ports on your firewall? there are only 2 ways for this and that's RIM or Microsoft.
reminds me of someone i know that bought all the electronics as soon as they came out. think when DVD first came out and players cost $1000.
in the 1990's he refused to buy a computer because he said he was waiting for his ultimate one to be available
at some point common sense will tell you that this project isn't going anywhere and your job may be in trouble and maybe i should look for another job? it's like all the dot coms from 10 years ago where people drank the kool aid and thought that investors will just keep feeding them more money to have fun at the office even though there is no profit and no one has any idea how to make a profit
google does the exact same thing and has for a while
to push android they have a revenue sharing agreement with other companies. check out abovethecrowd.com.
i read somewhere in the last year that Yelp tries to blackmail businesses to "advertise" there or face a ton of negative reviews. i never use it even though i live in NYC. i know the good places or ask someone who knows about a place.
they aren't advanced, they have more crazy features we don't care about here like reading your body sweat or buying a soda using a cell phone. the UI's have sucked for years since the companies have always been on thin margins. the reason why none of this stuff comes out in the US is because kids in Japan live with parents for a lot longer and have more money to spend. in the US kids like to move out and they have less disposable income since they have bills to pay. other features like buying from vending machines are useless since everyone takes credit cards or you buy a 24 pack at the grocery store and take it to work with you.
just like fighter pilots use energy and physics today, you'll need to use gravity in space combat. it's everywhere and if you use it properly you'll be able to maneuver faster than the other guy and probably kill him
almost every movie ever made has been based on another work
yes, get an iphone and use one of the twitter apps
the article links to another article about Apple censorship but that is from March. in the meantime iPhone OS 3 shipped and every time you install anything that might have a bad word you get a little pop up with a warning where you click OK unless you are a child and your parents censor your iphone/ipod touch