how interesting that because i am opposed to all religious evangelism (secular or atheistic), you perceive me to be a Christian !!! Even when I say at the beginning of the post that i am an ambivalent agnostic.
And then you tell me to *read* the post i reply to.
For real. I hate all that. The last place I wanna be when I'm not at work is at work.
I've talked about this with some of the product guys at companies such as Nokia and Ericsson and the like, and the problem is that the only people (of any significant number) that can afford to buy these phones is businesses who will give them to their reps, so they need to push them to the people who buy them, not the people who use them.
I involved in mobile gaming and entertainment and this really pisses us off. These guys want your content but are almost scared to have it as they may not be seen to have a "serious" enough product.
One of the bug hardware guys was thinking about putting out a "business" version of their new whizzy phone so that companies would be happy to buy them and then flood the market with details on how to flash it back to the "fun" version. The point being that the device had been bought so now they can sell content to the big reps who want games to play when they are sat on trains and planes for hours at a time.
I'm surprised you guys don't have the 92xx yet. Its been out here for a loong time now.
Watch out though they are much more cool than they are terribly useful. Thery are too big and heavy and i get conscious that i'm carrying around (another?) 600+ quid (that's a thousand bucks to those who can't count:-) device in my pocket to bump into table corners with.
It sometimes annoys me i spent all this money on one, but to be at the bar with a pint when i get a support call or my whinging boss telling me that something has stopped running or needs to be brought up, and just simply open the phone, telnet in on a qwerty keyboard, run a quick nohup job, shut the phone.. "yeah, it's fixed now", RULES.
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how interesting that because i am opposed to all religious evangelism (secular or atheistic), you perceive me to be a Christian !!! Even when I say at the beginning of the post that i am an ambivalent agnostic.
And then you tell me to *read* the post i reply to.
Ermmmm, HELLO.......
Neither have you Sir.
(before i say this, let me state that i don't sit on either side of this fence)
Please, if you are trying to sound intelligent, have the nouse to recognise that:
absence_of_proof does not imply proof_of_absence.
arrogant asshole.
Different people have different beleives neither camp has been *proved*. get over it.
evangelising atheism is still evangelising. so don't say that expression of personal belief pisses you off.
For real. I hate all that. The last place I wanna be when I'm not at work is at work.
I've talked about this with some of the product guys at companies such as Nokia and Ericsson and the like, and the problem is that the only people (of any significant number) that can afford to buy these phones is businesses who will give them to their reps, so they need to push them to the people who buy them, not the people who use them.
I involved in mobile gaming and entertainment and this really pisses us off. These guys want your content but are almost scared to have it as they may not be seen to have a "serious" enough product.
One of the bug hardware guys was thinking about putting out a "business" version of their new whizzy phone so that companies would be happy to buy them and then flood the market with details on how to flash it back to the "fun" version. The point being that the device had been bought so now they can sell content to the big reps who want games to play when they are sat on trains and planes for hours at a time.
Fantastico. Made Me Laugh.
I'm surprised you guys don't have the 92xx yet. Its been out here for a loong time now.
:-) device in my pocket to bump into table corners with.
Watch out though they are much more cool than they are terribly useful. Thery are too big and heavy and i get conscious that i'm carrying around (another?) 600+ quid (that's a thousand bucks to those who can't count
It sometimes annoys me i spent all this money on one, but to be at the bar with a pint when i get a support call or my whinging boss telling me that something has stopped running or needs to be brought up, and just simply open the phone, telnet in on a qwerty keyboard, run a quick nohup job, shut the phone.. "yeah, it's fixed now", RULES.