Remember their devices from yesteryear? You know, the business-only, no bullshit phones that would be totally useless for Joe Consumer?
Actually, I remember their devices from yesteryear as one of the first two-way pagers. AFAIK Motorola was the only other company doing two-way paging and they didn't have the back end to allow the kind of messaging that has been the hallmark of Blackberry devices from the start.
I believe the upcoming BBX handsets are going to address the consumer market and Blackberry Balance will be used for convergence. RIM has always understood the needs of large infrastructures to exert a certain level of control and the BES allows enterprises to place as much or as little control as they wish. It's a stark contrast to the Pied Piper strategy Apple employs or the cat herding that Android (or OSS in general) tends to engender.
Actually they are working on it. Since electric cars don't run on gasoline and our current system only taxes gasoline sales to fund highway maintenance a new system is in the works and a GPS type road usage system has been proposed.
Except the rule sets the limit based on the data that the 85th percentile will be traveling 10 miles over the posted speed. So if they want you to only go 65 MPH (105 KPH for non US residents) they will set the speed limit to 55 MPH (89 KPH) to ensure the 85th percentile will be going 65. BTW many states have a law that you must travel at the average speed of traffic for safety meaning if there are over 50% of the vehicles on the road doing 75 in a 55 and you are only doing 55 then you are breaking the law as much as they are. You are just breaking a different law.
Please show me where I said he was amazing? I said he was a visionary. Visionaries almost by definition are douche bags. In fact I was saying that had he not been such a douche and let somebody help him make some of the business decisions Apple might have grown more than it did in the eighties.
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I was actually listening to Nikki Sixx's radio show about a month ago and he was talking about the fact that at every show they would put a bottle of baby powder in the changing area with Vince Neal's (I believe it was Vince he said) name on it. At one of the venue's Nikki asked Vince about the baby powder and Vince said he thought it was Nikki's. Seems at some point it got put on the list of items that Vince must have. Vince never even knew he asked for it.
I'm guessing you are not familiar with the actual history (The facts) since the case would still be in the courts if Microsoft hadn't settled. The truth according to me is that Jobs was a visionary with decent business acumen while Gates was an average coder who became a very shrewd businessman and marketer. Had Jobs had the forethought (and ability to allow someone else to make decisions besides himself) to get some shrewd businessmen/lawyers/marketers Apple would most likely had a much larger footprint by 1990. Instead he trusted Microsoft to honor their contract and got burned. Which I believe ultimately lead to Jobs acting more and more like Gates.
No, just like with murder charges wilfulness is important.
When you put someone on trial for first degree murder you're saying "we think they commited murder, but specifically we think they did it entirely wilfully and planned ahead" (give or take)
They're saying that in the event that the basic charges are found to be true, they'll assess whether it was a simple fuckup on Google's part or whether they knew what they were doing and did it anyways.
not a lawyer, all that jazz.
Which has always struck me as odd. How can we (United States) claim that our justice system is blind when we turn around and categorize levels of a crime based on intent (willfulness)? I'm not saying I disagree with the practice just that our system isn't nearly as blind as it is portrayed.
WOW! Way to read WAY too much into a simple statement. Since there are several storiestoday about the earth's population reaching 7 billion this month it's not too hard to leap to the conclusion there will be food shortages and cramped cities. Especially considering that the population has more than doubled from 3 Billion in 1960.
That is precisely why I keep a "clean room" guy on retainer. Any time I will be installing/registering any software/service I leave the room. When I come back the software/service is magically installed/registered. I actually hired another guy to find the guy. That way I don't even know who he is. I just leave the money on the table next to the keyboard.
I don't even know what iTunes match is so it's definitely not a factor in my decision. And the fact that I can listen to my AAC/M4A files (MP3's are so twentieth century) on my iPod touch, corporate BlackBerry Torch, and personal MyTouch 4G without really thinking about it makes SugarSync very attractive. That said I only discovered it a few days ago and haven't had time to give it a proper shakedown. I merely corrected the notion that there were no cloud based streaming options for Android.
Well there's no native client so you can't set up automated syncing to your account but you can access the files via your browser of choice. So you could manually upload your music collection from your PC and install the client on your mobile device of choice as long as it runs Android, BB, or iOS and tell your mobile device to sync with those files. You never connect the two devices to transfer files again.
iCloud for music is excellent. Especially with the service that scans your MP3 stash and allows you to download AAC files on the go. This functionality is something Android lacks.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with SugarSync?
In fact I would choose SugarSync over iCloud even on an Apple product simply because I can sync/stream to just about any device with a browser although there are native clients for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS devices. They have a free 5GB plan and their $4.99/mo. plan gives you 30GB. I had been using DropBox until I discovered SugarSync.
When I heard they were "considering" spinning off their PC division my first thought was...Guess who's sales of PC electronics just took a nose dive? Sure their margins are razor thin but they had sales. Who wants to buy a product that may not be supported in 6 mo. because the company that made it no longer supports it. Granted hp does that now but the consumer has the illusion of a supporting company. I've watched hp squander opportunity after opportunity. Perhaps it's the Digital Equipment Corporation curse. DEC floundered and it's carcass was purchased by Compaq in 1998. It gave Compaq indigestion and they were swallowed by hp in 2002. Now hp is circling the drain.
Car analogy opportunity missed...
Get a sports car up to 100MPH/161KPH and make a sharp turn and it will likely go reasonably well under ideal circumstances. Try the same with a double decker bus full of passengers and the results will not be nearly so nice for anyone except the evening news who now have a juicy story to lead off with.
Which is why he should be sent to the Australian Outback with a canteen and a sleeping bag and instructed to survive a couple of weeks without the aid of modern conveniences or the help of anyone. Confidence is a great attribute. Believing you are better than everyone else because you excel at certain things others struggle with can get you killed or worse. I grew up with a high IQ and non-existent social skills. Teaching this kid how to feign social integration will go a long way to getting the grant money he will need to save the world some day.
Not one bit different, down to the careless, unempathic, arrogant perspective he has of the rest of the world and those who don't share his belief. JUST like an Apple Zealot.
Distance learning, consulting a specialist when the local Dr. is in over his head. I haven't tried to do two way video communication over dial-up in a very long time but I can't imagine it's improved much.
Google announced it is buying Motorola's mobile division in August and now Sony is going to swallow Ericsson mobile. I remember when "car" phones first came out those were about the only choices you had. How long until Microsoft buys Nokia?
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Remember their devices from yesteryear? You know, the business-only, no bullshit phones that would be totally useless for Joe Consumer?
Actually, I remember their devices from yesteryear as one of the first two-way pagers. AFAIK Motorola was the only other company doing two-way paging and they didn't have the back end to allow the kind of messaging that has been the hallmark of Blackberry devices from the start.
I believe the upcoming BBX handsets are going to address the consumer market and Blackberry Balance will be used for convergence. RIM has always understood the needs of large infrastructures to exert a certain level of control and the BES allows enterprises to place as much or as little control as they wish. It's a stark contrast to the Pied Piper strategy Apple employs or the cat herding that Android (or OSS in general) tends to engender.
Actually they are working on it. Since electric cars don't run on gasoline and our current system only taxes gasoline sales to fund highway maintenance a new system is in the works and a GPS type road usage system has been proposed.
Except the rule sets the limit based on the data that the 85th percentile will be traveling 10 miles over the posted speed. So if they want you to only go 65 MPH (105 KPH for non US residents) they will set the speed limit to 55 MPH (89 KPH) to ensure the 85th percentile will be going 65. BTW many states have a law that you must travel at the average speed of traffic for safety meaning if there are over 50% of the vehicles on the road doing 75 in a 55 and you are only doing 55 then you are breaking the law as much as they are. You are just breaking a different law.
Please show me where I said he was amazing? I said he was a visionary. Visionaries almost by definition are douche bags. In fact I was saying that had he not been such a douche and let somebody help him make some of the business decisions Apple might have grown more than it did in the eighties.
I was actually listening to Nikki Sixx's radio show about a month ago and he was talking about the fact that at every show they would put a bottle of baby powder in the changing area with Vince Neal's (I believe it was Vince he said) name on it. At one of the venue's Nikki asked Vince about the baby powder and Vince said he thought it was Nikki's. Seems at some point it got put on the list of items that Vince must have. Vince never even knew he asked for it.
I'm guessing you are not familiar with the actual history (The facts) since the case would still be in the courts if Microsoft hadn't settled. The truth according to me is that Jobs was a visionary with decent business acumen while Gates was an average coder who became a very shrewd businessman and marketer. Had Jobs had the forethought (and ability to allow someone else to make decisions besides himself) to get some shrewd businessmen/lawyers/marketers Apple would most likely had a much larger footprint by 1990. Instead he trusted Microsoft to honor their contract and got burned. Which I believe ultimately lead to Jobs acting more and more like Gates.
No, just like with murder charges wilfulness is important.
When you put someone on trial for first degree murder you're saying "we think they commited murder, but specifically we think they did it entirely wilfully and planned ahead" (give or take)
They're saying that in the event that the basic charges are found to be true, they'll assess whether it was a simple fuckup on Google's part or whether they knew what they were doing and did it anyways.
not a lawyer, all that jazz.
Which has always struck me as odd. How can we (United States) claim that our justice system is blind when we turn around and categorize levels of a crime based on intent (willfulness)? I'm not saying I disagree with the practice just that our system isn't nearly as blind as it is portrayed.
I don't think the sale of Skype is finalized yet but you can be sure as soon as it is this will be an invaluable tool of the Empire to combat piracy.
There are many parts of the world that would disagree with you.
WOW! Way to read WAY too much into a simple statement. Since there are several stories today about the earth's population reaching 7 billion this month it's not too hard to leap to the conclusion there will be food shortages and cramped cities. Especially considering that the population has more than doubled from 3 Billion in 1960.
That is precisely why I keep a "clean room" guy on retainer. Any time I will be installing/registering any software/service I leave the room. When I come back the software/service is magically installed/registered. I actually hired another guy to find the guy. That way I don't even know who he is. I just leave the money on the table next to the keyboard.
Plausible Deniability BABY!
We'll get back to you on that Mr. Ballmer.
I don't even know what iTunes match is so it's definitely not a factor in my decision. And the fact that I can listen to my AAC/M4A files (MP3's are so twentieth century) on my iPod touch, corporate BlackBerry Torch, and personal MyTouch 4G without really thinking about it makes SugarSync very attractive. That said I only discovered it a few days ago and haven't had time to give it a proper shakedown. I merely corrected the notion that there were no cloud based streaming options for Android.
Well there's no native client so you can't set up automated syncing to your account but you can access the files via your browser of choice. So you could manually upload your music collection from your PC and install the client on your mobile device of choice as long as it runs Android, BB, or iOS and tell your mobile device to sync with those files. You never connect the two devices to transfer files again.
iCloud for music is excellent. Especially with the service that scans your MP3 stash and allows you to download AAC files on the go. This functionality is something Android lacks.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with SugarSync?
In fact I would choose SugarSync over iCloud even on an Apple product simply because I can sync/stream to just about any device with a browser although there are native clients for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS devices. They have a free 5GB plan and their $4.99/mo. plan gives you 30GB. I had been using DropBox until I discovered SugarSync.
When I heard they were "considering" spinning off their PC division my first thought was...Guess who's sales of PC electronics just took a nose dive? Sure their margins are razor thin but they had sales. Who wants to buy a product that may not be supported in 6 mo. because the company that made it no longer supports it. Granted hp does that now but the consumer has the illusion of a supporting company. I've watched hp squander opportunity after opportunity. Perhaps it's the Digital Equipment Corporation curse. DEC floundered and it's carcass was purchased by Compaq in 1998. It gave Compaq indigestion and they were swallowed by hp in 2002. Now hp is circling the drain.
Car analogy opportunity missed...
Get a sports car up to 100MPH/161KPH and make a sharp turn and it will likely go reasonably well under ideal circumstances. Try the same with a double decker bus full of passengers and the results will not be nearly so nice for anyone except the evening news who now have a juicy story to lead off with.
Well once you figure in the ones who have an account for their dog/cat/parakeet/business/fraternity/WTF? it's not quite as rosy as all that.
Which is why he should be sent to the Australian Outback with a canteen and a sleeping bag and instructed to survive a couple of weeks without the aid of modern conveniences or the help of anyone. Confidence is a great attribute. Believing you are better than everyone else because you excel at certain things others struggle with can get you killed or worse. I grew up with a high IQ and non-existent social skills. Teaching this kid how to feign social integration will go a long way to getting the grant money he will need to save the world some day.
Not one bit different, down to the careless, unempathic, arrogant perspective he has of the rest of the world and those who don't share his belief. JUST like an Apple Zealot.
FTFY
Distance learning, consulting a specialist when the local Dr. is in over his head. I haven't tried to do two way video communication over dial-up in a very long time but I can't imagine it's improved much.
Google announced it is buying Motorola's mobile division in August and now Sony is going to swallow Ericsson mobile. I remember when "car" phones first came out those were about the only choices you had. How long until Microsoft buys Nokia?
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