Pushing technology forward doesn't have to mean thinner phones.
You can push technology forward by creating longer lasting phones, and that would be more beneficial to most of us than shaving off another 1mm from the thickness.
We've reached the point where phones are thin enough for now. Concentrate on improving other things, and including the features we want instead of getting rid of them for the sake of thinness. We're literally regressing in features in order to free up space and make phones thinner.
I'm not saying we shouldn't strive for thinner phones, or fitting technology into smaller packages. I'm just saying that it doesn't need to be the #1 priority that trumps all other things.
Crap, you're right. They'll probably cut the original introduction and put in some lame one that explains the whole story or something stupid like that, and then add really bad CGI of Jabba the Hutt in some random scene arguing with Rick Deckard about money he's owed.
I'm with you. Buying into the hype is just setting yourself up for disappointment. Even if everybody *loves* it, I'll wait until it's been out on DVD for a while before I watch it.
Hollywood is out of ideas. All they're capable of is doing a bad job rehashing things we used to love.
I'm not sure how it works to be honest, and I live in a right to work state. I don't think it's quite that simple, but I could be wrong.
I've only had a couple bosses in my life that would make me worry about losing my job if they found out I was looking, and that's exactly why I was looking in the first place (because they were shitty bosses).
I don't think most bosses here would actually fire you for looking even if they could.
Because I want to see what's out there, and who is interested without risking my job.
Sometimes I interview with companies just to check it out, see what's available, see what my value on the market is, etc.
I really like my job and don't really want to leave, but if I found something I couldn't refuse I would take it. It also might give me leverage when I ask for a raise.
If my boss found out I was doing that, he'd probably freak out a bit or get nervous. I don't really want that.
Uh, no. It's broken down bits of plastic. If you scoop your hand in the water you'll find bits of plastic stuck to your hand. Fish eat that crap, and then we eat the fish.
It's basically a soupy mixture of sea water and bits of plastic that stretches for miles.
It's not a giant heap of trash that you would imagine a dump to look like. The trash isn't easily visible because it breaks down into smaller pieces over time. That doesn't mean it's not there.
There's videos on the subject where they show this if you bothered to try looking.
I've been in middle seats on long international flights. You can still see out of the window in your peripheral vision, or by simply looking left or right.
They typically make the window seat passengers open the window blinds during take off and landing, which is probably the most nauseating part of the flight.
You don't even have to do that much on most distros anymore. There's GUI front ends that make it even easier. With packages that aren't included in the GUI, you can just download them and double click them like any other executable. Easy.
Speaking for people who think Linux is hard that is. For the most part I'm with you, I prefer using the command line.
That's not a better question. EVERY Olympic team invests loads of money into clothing design to gain an advantage. Period. There's nothing unfair about it.
On top of that, they do it for nearly every freaking sport! This isn't even something new, how can you not know about this?
Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time an Olympian or Olympic team has complained about something like this.
That's funny, because my non-tech savvy co-worker saw my phone on my last visit to our Shreveport office and commented about how his wife has exactly the same phone, and loves it.
One of the women who was in my defensive driving class last night also had one.
I don't see nearly as many Android based phones as I see iPhones, but they're still pretty popular.
I would really like to know how you managed to break the glass lens cover on your phone by dropping it from 2 feet onto carpet.
I've dropped my G1 about 4 times now, always onto concrete or asphalt and always from 4 feet or higher. The sides are a bit scuffed up, but the lens is just fine.
I disagree. I like facebook. It is a good way for me to keep track of my friends across the world.
(I haven't used Friend Feed before, so I'll look into that now..)
I used sites like myspace for a while, but most of them don't do a very good job of letting you interact with people and even worse of a job keeping you updated on what's going on.
facebook shows you most of the relevant updates you care about right when you login and does a good job of notifying of when there is an update to something you might want to see.
You don't have to surf to all of your friends profiles every day to keep track of them, anything they post is going to show up on your wall when you login.
I like that.
So what are my other options for keeping track of people I care about? Use my phone/email contact list to send them an email or call them on the phone every month?
Nah. That's the only way of doing it and it's not very efficient:p
hah I saw that. Sounds like the traffic sucks there!
I can understand what you mean about living close to work being expensive in some cities, but I don't think people have to worry about that in most cities:)
I didn't mean to imply that Texas was the gold standard or anything. It's just a big state, and doing a lot of driving isn't abnormal around here compared to a lot of other places.
If you do a google search for average commute to work and average mile commute to work you will see that the average miles people drive to work is about 15 miles one way or 30 miles total.
NY has the highest average commute time at nearly 40 mins. The average for the US is 25.1 mins.
Having long commutes might not be uncommon, but they are not the norm. The average driver does NOT drive 40+ (80+ miles both ways) to work.
Some times you trip to work feels a lot longer than it actually is. Hop on mapquest or google maps and calculate your actual trip to work. I bet it's shorter than you think.
My trip to work was literally half what I expected it to be. Same with one of the guys I work with who swore his trip was a lot longer than what it turned out to be.
Anyway my main point was that people who have a short drive to work are NOT the elite few. That is all.
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Pushing technology forward doesn't have to mean thinner phones.
You can push technology forward by creating longer lasting phones, and that would be more beneficial to most of us than shaving off another 1mm from the thickness.
We've reached the point where phones are thin enough for now. Concentrate on improving other things, and including the features we want instead of getting rid of them for the sake of thinness. We're literally regressing in features in order to free up space and make phones thinner.
I'm not saying we shouldn't strive for thinner phones, or fitting technology into smaller packages. I'm just saying that it doesn't need to be the #1 priority that trumps all other things.
If you count the number of times you get to be 12 in seconds, you get to be 12 over 30 million times. That's a lot of times to be 12!
Crap, you're right. They'll probably cut the original introduction and put in some lame one that explains the whole story or something stupid like that, and then add really bad CGI of Jabba the Hutt in some random scene arguing with Rick Deckard about money he's owed.
I'm with you. Buying into the hype is just setting yourself up for disappointment. Even if everybody *loves* it, I'll wait until it's been out on DVD for a while before I watch it.
Hollywood is out of ideas. All they're capable of is doing a bad job rehashing things we used to love.
I'm not sure how it works to be honest, and I live in a right to work state. I don't think it's quite that simple, but I could be wrong.
I've only had a couple bosses in my life that would make me worry about losing my job if they found out I was looking, and that's exactly why I was looking in the first place (because they were shitty bosses).
I don't think most bosses here would actually fire you for looking even if they could.
Because I want to see what's out there, and who is interested without risking my job.
Sometimes I interview with companies just to check it out, see what's available, see what my value on the market is, etc.
I really like my job and don't really want to leave, but if I found something I couldn't refuse I would take it. It also might give me leverage when I ask for a raise.
If my boss found out I was doing that, he'd probably freak out a bit or get nervous. I don't really want that.
Uh, no. It's broken down bits of plastic. If you scoop your hand in the water you'll find bits of plastic stuck to your hand. Fish eat that crap, and then we eat the fish.
It's basically a soupy mixture of sea water and bits of plastic that stretches for miles.
It's not a giant heap of trash that you would imagine a dump to look like. The trash isn't easily visible because it breaks down into smaller pieces over time. That doesn't mean it's not there.
There's videos on the subject where they show this if you bothered to try looking.
No it's not correct. (Well maybe the Star Trek part) People have been spouting that crap since the day I started reading Slashdot.
Yes, we'll reach some sort of limit at some point, but technology will still find a way to progress even when that happens.
In terms of speed, we're not close to that limit yet.
In terms of functionality, features, looks, feel, there will always be room for change.
ESPECIALLY with phones and smaller electronic devices.
Because that's even more of a pain in the ass than DST for your average parent.
Even the shift from my daughter going from elementary to middle school through off my schedule big time.
Shifting my schedule throughout the year to get more day light is a pain in the ass.
I've been in middle seats on long international flights. You can still see out of the window in your peripheral vision, or by simply looking left or right.
They typically make the window seat passengers open the window blinds during take off and landing, which is probably the most nauseating part of the flight.
It was a joke :)
That's why they're saying wooosh... Because the joke went over your head. It happens :)
You don't even have to do that much on most distros anymore. There's GUI front ends that make it even easier. With packages that aren't included in the GUI, you can just download them and double click them like any other executable. Easy.
Speaking for people who think Linux is hard that is. For the most part I'm with you, I prefer using the command line.
I'm sure you don't care until they start injecting ad images and commercials into your porn library.
How you can possibly think it's OK for them to force music into your library is beyond me.
Who cares if it's free. I don't want a bunch of crap I don't like cluttering up my personal things.
Doesn't make what he said any less confusing. He could have clarified wtf he was talking about when he quoted what he was saying to the Nokia rep.
This sentence: "Because YOU had hired us to develop APPs for you, and YOU had NOT asked for it!" was confusing as hell in the context it was given.
I literally read that quote several times thinking I was reading it wrong.
That's not a better question. EVERY Olympic team invests loads of money into clothing design to gain an advantage. Period. There's nothing unfair about it.
On top of that, they do it for nearly every freaking sport! This isn't even something new, how can you not know about this?
Also, I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time an Olympian or Olympic team has complained about something like this.
That's funny, because my non-tech savvy co-worker saw my phone on my last visit to our Shreveport office and commented about how his wife has exactly the same phone, and loves it.
One of the women who was in my defensive driving class last night also had one.
I don't see nearly as many Android based phones as I see iPhones, but they're still pretty popular.
Don't be so sure of your self.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/06/nokia-mobile-internet-phones
You're being silly. You can still save plenty by using it for outgoing calls.
I haven't had any problems with it yet, and it's a free service that saves me money, so how can I complain?
I would really like to know how you managed to break the glass lens cover on your phone by dropping it from 2 feet onto carpet.
I've dropped my G1 about 4 times now, always onto concrete or asphalt and always from 4 feet or higher. The sides are a bit scuffed up, but the lens is just fine.
I disagree. I like facebook. It is a good way for me to keep track of my friends across the world.
(I haven't used Friend Feed before, so I'll look into that now..)
I used sites like myspace for a while, but most of them don't do a very good job of letting you interact with people and even worse of a job keeping you updated on what's going on.
facebook shows you most of the relevant updates you care about right when you login and does a good job of notifying of when there is an update to something you might want to see.
You don't have to surf to all of your friends profiles every day to keep track of them, anything they post is going to show up on your wall when you login.
I like that.
So what are my other options for keeping track of people I care about? Use my phone/email contact list to send them an email or call them on the phone every month?
Nah. That's the only way of doing it and it's not very efficient :p
Really? The judge is supposed to care if Darl goes and cries to his friends how he was cheated?
..and we shall call it 'internet subtraction'.
hah I saw that. Sounds like the traffic sucks there!
I can understand what you mean about living close to work being expensive in some cities, but I don't think people have to worry about that in most cities :)
I didn't mean to imply that Texas was the gold standard or anything. It's just a big state, and doing a lot of driving isn't abnormal around here compared to a lot of other places.
If you do a google search for average commute to work and average mile commute to work you will see that the average miles people drive to work is about 15 miles one way or 30 miles total.
NY has the highest average commute time at nearly 40 mins. The average for the US is 25.1 mins.
Having long commutes might not be uncommon, but they are not the norm. The average driver does NOT drive 40+ (80+ miles both ways) to work.
Some times you trip to work feels a lot longer than it actually is. Hop on mapquest or google maps and calculate your actual trip to work. I bet it's shorter than you think.
My trip to work was literally half what I expected it to be. Same with one of the guys I work with who swore his trip was a lot longer than what it turned out to be.
Anyway my main point was that people who have a short drive to work are NOT the elite few. That is all.
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/american_community_survey_acs/001695.html