This would be great if it can be implemented directly into web browsers. For example, a Firefox plugin that allows me to specify "view text only" for Flash content.
Or is this "proprietary" information that will only be given to Google and Yahoo and not shared with the us commoners?
I don't know what brain damage causes people to think that they should present text a half a dozen words at a time in a slideshow, but it would be great if my browser would default to showing me all the text from a flash slideshow and then let me choose if I really want to see it pieced out a few words at a time.
Your linux iptables based firewall needs to sit between the Comcast modem and the rest of your PC's...
The rest of your PC's what?
The rest of your PC's hardware? The rest of your PC's software? What if you have several PCs, does it need to sit between the Comcast modem and all of your PCs'...?
Seriously? What are you calling a desktop replacement, the P2120 or the T2010? Because I've lost track of all the times complete strangers have looked at my P2120 and said "what is that?" or "is that a computer?".
The T2010 is a bit larger and I do wonder if it's physically bigger than I want. But I think calling the P2120 a desktop replacement bends reality all out of shape.
What's an M$ limit? Your link doesn't work. I couldn't possibly accept any resolution less than the 1280x768 on my Lifebook P2120. I'm considering a T2010 which has 1280x800 but it's edging up pretty close to $2000.
I'm toying with the idea of 4G RAM and a spare battery and charger which pushes it over the $2000 mark, but the advantages of a small 9 hour battery plus a larger 11 hour battery plus an external battery charger is very attractive. I would love it if I could make it through the weekend with just two batteries and no power cord/brick.
A $500 laptop that's small enough to use while walking around would be great, but not if it sacrifices battery life or has a tiny resolution (anything under 1280x768 is tiny.)
How can people seriously call these things "ultra mobile" when they have to keep getting plugged into a wall outlet? An gee, I wonder why none of the photos show them plugged in. I suppose with a 50 foot extension cord you could be "ultra mobile".
My Lifebook P2120 gets about 8 hours with its dual battery setup and I consider that adequate although I wish it could do better. How many people work less than 8 hours? When I leave the house I grab my P2120, I don't pack a bag with a charger or spare battery. Eight hours can just barely get me through the day if I'm careful to set the screen brightness to minimum and hibernate a couple times.
Call me when an "ultra mobile" gets 10 hours of "typical" battery life, not 3 hours of "up to" battery life.
I'm looking at the Lifebook T2010 as a replacement for my slow and somewhat beat up (dropped it a few times) P2120.
The T2010 is a bit bigger than the P2120, but with 11 hours of battery life I'm probably going to overlook its flaws and its steep price tag.
My typical use is wandering around theatre using software to control the stage lighting via 802.11g. To me "ultra mobile" means the computer comes with me as I move around and I don't have to stop working several times a day to recharge, or carry a pile of spare batteries, or drag an extension cord around.
That's a tiny little table. It fits in 1/6 of my screen. Most of the tables I deal with on a daily basis are 2-5 screen widths wide and 5-20 screen heights tall.
Most of the tables are spreadsheets where I can highlight a row or use the arrow keys to move the cell selection. However, there is one particular application I use where the table is a read only view that doesn't allow me to highlight or select anything. What I end up having to do is scroll vertically until the row I want is at the top or bottom of the window and then scroll horizontally until the column I need to see comes into view.
That depends. What if out of 100 boxes there's one of them that is just a tiny bit flaky and although it was running fine the "live" upgrade tickles it in just the wrong way and it drops all its current connections on the floor.
What if out of 100 there are a couple that don't go smoothly?
With the method we use the box gets tested after the upgrade but before being returned to service. With your method it generates a post-outage review and root cause analysis.
If your load balancer can't take a server out of the pool while allowing current sessions to finish cleanly then you need to shop for a new load balancer.
A decent load balancer will obviously give you the choice of whether to take a server out of service immediately disrupting existing sessions or simply stop sending new sessions to it while allowing existing sessions to continue.
As for your comment about physical connections, that's what portchannels and multilink trunks are for. Or VRRP and HSRP depending on which level of "connected to" you mean.
I'd rather have at least two of anything important and have statefull failover between them.
If you've got this system that's so critical you can't reboot it for a kernel upgrade, what do you do when the building catches fire or a tanker truck full of toxic waste hops the curb and plows through the wall of your datacenter?
I'd rather have a full second set of anything that critical. It should be in a different state (or country) and have a well designed and frequently used method of seamlessly transferring the load between the two (or more) sites without dropping anything.
If you can't transfer the workload to a location at least a couple hundred miles away without users noticing then you're not in the big league.
And as long as the workload is in another datacenter, what's the big deal about rebooting for a kernel upgrade.
5: the engineer in the vehicle has no control over the images being taken Unless the vehicle in question is a train I think you're using the wrong term. In the US the typical word for this person is "driver".
A Roomba is a long way from a dishwasher. I agree, not full AI, but it's constantly getting closer. There is continual research into AI and robotics. Eventually this will result in more sophisticated home machines... or skynet. Unless some hard limitations are met in terms of processing power or manufacturing that makes intelligent robots impossible/not cost effective to build, it will happen. I agree. My dishwasher is 100% reliable and always does exactly what it's supposed to do. My Roomba is completely worthless. I couldn't find a single room in the house that it can cope with. It is completely unable to deal with area rugs or cords (lamp cords or computer cables). Its drop sensors usually prevented it from driving completely over the edge of a step, but it would just perch precariously on the edge of a step without backing away. Running an old fashioned upright vacuum cleaner is just much less of a hassle.
Any idea how it compares to a Fujitsu P2120? I've had my P2120 for several years and have replaced both of its batteries so I still get about 8-10 hours of battery life on a charge but I am starting to get dissatisfied with the speed.
I just tried using Thunderbird again for email, but will probably revert back to using mutt over an ssh session because Thunderbird is so damn slow on this machine. Firefox is also a pig. I've got my P2120 maxed out with a half a gig of RAM but I still have to restart Firefox every week or so because it just grinds to a halt if I leave it running longer.
My suspicion is that the Eee PC is probably not significantly faster than the P2120 and might even be slower.
Incidentally, this code is offered in the spirit of scientific inquiry. Any abusive use of this code is your own doing. I wrote it to test the hypothesis that front-running is going on based on whois queries. I personally generate a very small number of queries and check them later to see if they have been registered.
The script below is what I use to do the verification.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @previouslookups=`cat ${home}/whoislookup.txt`; my $total=0; my $unregistered=0; my $registered=0;
for (@previouslookups) {
if(/No match for (.*)$/){
my $name=$1;
my $whoisresult=`whois $name`;
$total++;
my $ucname=uc($name);
if ($whoisresult=~/No match for "$ucname"\./){
print "No match for $name\n";
$unregistered++;
}else{
print $whoisresult;
print "\n\nMatch for $name\n\n";
$registered++;
my @curlresult=`curl http://name/`;
print "Curl had $#curlresult lines\n";
}
This just uses command line whois. It probably wouldn't be too hard to replace the commandline whois with a web based lookup using the LWP module or something similar. I suppose this script could be run from cron a few times an hour without in any way being considered abusive or a violation of anyone's terms of service.
This picks two dictionary words and joins them together, possibly adding one or two numbers in as well just for the heck of it. It keeps a log of which domains are not found. A separate script can be run periodically to read the logfile and recheck to see if the domains have been registered. This code is offered under the GPL version 1, 2, 3, BSD, MPL, and any other license you can think of.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my @words=`cat/usr/share/dict/words`; my @numbers;
my $whoisresult=`whois $name`; my $ucname=uc($name); if ($whoisresult=~/No match for "$ucname"\./){
open LOGFILE, ">>", "${HOME}/whoislookup.txt" or die "Couldn't open $!\n";
print LOGFILE "No match for $name\n";
close LOGFILE; }
If it doesn't have the scrolling feature of ReadThemAll then it's not worth having. I've been using this app on a Palm for many years. I don't spend a whole lot of time reading on my Palm because I don't have a lot of down time outside of the house and I quite like pulling a book off the shelf when at home. But, I always have a bunch of Project Gutenberg text files loaded on my Palm and if I do get a boring moment the only app I would consider using is ReadThemAll.
No other autoscrolling feature makes any sense after you've seen the line by line redrawing method. I don't have a Kindle and don't see much reason to buy one, but if it doesn't have this mode I wouldn't even consider it even if my Palm died.
Heinlein's book portrayed the marine corps in a future with space travel. I'm not sure how you draw a conclusion about fascist utopia or anything else from the very minimal mention of the civilian world in that book.
There clearly was a civilian democracy in the book, but it just wasn't mentioned much. You might just as well try to draw conclusions about whaling from Call of the Wild or the behaviour of dogs and wolves from Moby Dick.
Just because the book was about a marine corps recruit doesn't mean that the entire world is the marine corps and doesn't imply that the soldier's viewpoint is an omniscient view of the world.
The book did state that only veterans could vote, but it also clearly stated that current active duty soldiers can NOT vote. It simply proposed an alternative to "any warm body over 18 years old" for determining voter eligibility.
In the context of the current story, it proposed that perhaps SOME mechanism of earning a vote would be better than giving votes away to people who would willingly trade them for iPods.
Do they have some mechanism for surviving the intial format or is this a complete hoax? Even assuming the drive is installed in a Windows computer, isn't the first step always to format the drive? I've added lots of drives to Windows machines and it never occured to me to try to access them without formatting them. Do these come preformatted?
As to the reference about these drives being used for government databases, certainly they would be reformatted when added to a RAID, wouldn't they? Even if preformatted for non-RAID use I don't suppose it would be possible to use them in a RAID without formatting first and what database would ever be on a non-RAID device?
Don't forget the vacuum cleaners used to clean the carpets in the buildings where the network designers and operators work, or the stereos that play music while people are browsing the net, or the electric lights that let the non-touch-typists see their keyboards at night.
Come on, unless they're somehow able to measure electricity used only while a computer user is actively viewing Internet content it's absurd to count desktop computers in the total. Or, alternatively, it's absurd to attribute the electricity usage to "the Internet". It would be valid to estimate the electricity usage of computers and/or data communications equipment, but to try to pin a number on "the Internet" and include multifunction equipment that serves non-Internet functions is just sloppy.
Come to think of it, there are probably lots of FT-2000s that carry some Internet circuits and some PSTN circuits, how do they account for that? What about the 5Es and DMSs that are carrying modem calls? Do they accurately attribute the percentage of the switch's electrical usage based on the percentage of modem vs voice calls?
I think it was in a Robert Heinlein novel that one of the characters said that the answer to the question "Why don't they . .." is always "Money". There may be exceptions to that, but when dealing with companies you won't often be wrong if you assume that answer to that question.
You might ask for suggestions on finding Linux compatible devices or strategies for advocating Linux, but asking "why don't they" or "why do they" is pretty much a waste of everyone's time. The answer is quite simply that the people at the company who are responsible for deciding which project will make money and which project will lose money currently believe that writing Linux software isn't in the "will make money" category. If they didn't believe that, you wouldn't be asking the question because they'd be one of the companies that is writing Linux software.
Frankly, your Ask Slashdot post is basically a whine. You want something and apparently you haven't been able to find a company that believes providing it is a viable business model. So you whine about "why don't they" do what you want. If by chance you've happened upon one of the rare cases where something could be done at a profit and nobody is currently doing it, don't post to Slashdot. Run, don't walk, to your nearest library and grab all the books you can find on starting a business. It's extremely rare to find something that can be done at a profit that nobody is doing yet.
Spammers would love such a law, as that would effectively outlaw any spam-blocking at the ISP level.
Be careful what you wish; your wish may be granted. Not necessarily. If the ISP provided spam filtering as a selectable service with the end user given options about what means of filtering is being used that would probably be acceptable. After all, the POTS network has some support for call blocking doesn't it? A common carrier must not restrict what it's customers send or receive, but a single company could probably legally combine the common carrier function of delivering all messages with and recipient controlled active filtering feature.
It might lead to some legal hair splitting if anybody wanted to make a case of it, but I think a good lawyer could argue that the filtering is being done by the end recipient and the company (who has a common carrier role as well) is simply providing the tools to allow the end recipient to perform the filtering in a simple and easy to use manner.
As long as the end user has the power to remove the filtering I think the ISP would be fulfilling its common carrier role. Of course for some ISPs that might require an overhaul of their spam filtering technology to allow it to be user controlled rather than blanket applied to all users regardless of their wishes.
You make a good point, but my experience with Opera on Palm TX is that it just doesn't work. I tried everything. Followed lots of howtos on the Internet. Tweaked lots of settings. It does nothing but crash.
I can think of no company that is as utterly disappointing as Palm. I suppose there's probably some behind the scenes story of how someone pillaged the company in the manner of the 80's corporate raiders who bought companies for the purpose of stripping them down and selling the parts. I can think of no other explanation for how any company that had as brilliant a product as the Palm Personal/Professional, could so completely bungle every single step of the way.
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I just bought a Nokia 770, the previous generation of the n800 but with a much more reasonable price. It works ok on many sites, but struggles with Slashdot's commenting system. Collapsed comments don't open up when you click them. Any iPhone owners want to comment on how the iPhone handles a slashdot comments page with a couple hundred comments?
The Nokia 770's sceen resolution blows the iPhone away, but the screen is physically much smaller than I had thought it would be. It's actually almost identical in size to the screen on the Palm TX although much higher resolution.
"Well, LoveGoblin, there are plenty of fish in the sea." "Yeah, I know, grandpa. And how will I know which one I like unless I've tried them all?" The fact that your grandfather refers to you as Love Goblin is extremely disturbing.
It's simple, anytime anybody introduces a new cell phone with advanced features they're lynched by screaming hordes of Slashdot trolls screaming Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? and waving torches like something out of an old Frankenstein movie.
Cell phone companies divert so much of their budget to security forces to protect their US operations from these pitchfork bearing Slashdotters that there isn't much left to develop cell phone features.
Apple has the advantage of a legion of devoted followers who will engage in glorious battle with the "Just a phone" trolls thereby acting as cannon fodder (or pitchfork and torch fodder) to insulate the Apple employees working on actually developing products.
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This would be great if it can be implemented directly into web browsers. For example, a Firefox plugin that allows me to specify "view text only" for Flash content.
Or is this "proprietary" information that will only be given to Google and Yahoo and not shared with the us commoners?
I don't know what brain damage causes people to think that they should present text a half a dozen words at a time in a slideshow, but it would be great if my browser would default to showing me all the text from a flash slideshow and then let me choose if I really want to see it pieced out a few words at a time.
Your linux iptables based firewall needs to sit between the Comcast modem and the rest of your PC's...
The rest of your PC's what?
The rest of your PC's hardware? The rest of your PC's software? What if you have several PCs, does it need to sit between the Comcast modem and all of your PCs' ...?
Seriously? What are you calling a desktop replacement, the P2120 or the T2010? Because I've lost track of all the times complete strangers have looked at my P2120 and said "what is that?" or "is that a computer?".
The T2010 is a bit larger and I do wonder if it's physically bigger than I want. But I think calling the P2120 a desktop replacement bends reality all out of shape.
What's an M$ limit? Your link doesn't work. I couldn't possibly accept any resolution less than the 1280x768 on my Lifebook P2120. I'm considering a T2010 which has 1280x800 but it's edging up pretty close to $2000.
I'm toying with the idea of 4G RAM and a spare battery and charger which pushes it over the $2000 mark, but the advantages of a small 9 hour battery plus a larger 11 hour battery plus an external battery charger is very attractive. I would love it if I could make it through the weekend with just two batteries and no power cord/brick.
A $500 laptop that's small enough to use while walking around would be great, but not if it sacrifices battery life or has a tiny resolution (anything under 1280x768 is tiny.)
How can people seriously call these things "ultra mobile" when they have to keep getting plugged into a wall outlet? An gee, I wonder why none of the photos show them plugged in. I suppose with a 50 foot extension cord you could be "ultra mobile".
My Lifebook P2120 gets about 8 hours with its dual battery setup and I consider that adequate although I wish it could do better. How many people work less than 8 hours? When I leave the house I grab my P2120, I don't pack a bag with a charger or spare battery. Eight hours can just barely get me through the day if I'm careful to set the screen brightness to minimum and hibernate a couple times.
Call me when an "ultra mobile" gets 10 hours of "typical" battery life, not 3 hours of "up to" battery life.
I'm looking at the Lifebook T2010 as a replacement for my slow and somewhat beat up (dropped it a few times) P2120.
The T2010 is a bit bigger than the P2120, but with 11 hours of battery life I'm probably going to overlook its flaws and its steep price tag.
My typical use is wandering around theatre using software to control the stage lighting via 802.11g. To me "ultra mobile" means the computer comes with me as I move around and I don't have to stop working several times a day to recharge, or carry a pile of spare batteries, or drag an extension cord around.
Would that be the same pssh that has this message displayed prominently on it's web page?
"WARNING
pssh is substantially UNTESTED and probably INSECURE. Do not use it for security-critical applications.
"
That's a tiny little table. It fits in 1/6 of my screen. Most of the tables I deal with on a daily basis are 2-5 screen widths wide and 5-20 screen heights tall.
Most of the tables are spreadsheets where I can highlight a row or use the arrow keys to move the cell selection. However, there is one particular application I use where the table is a read only view that doesn't allow me to highlight or select anything. What I end up having to do is scroll vertically until the row I want is at the top or bottom of the window and then scroll horizontally until the column I need to see comes into view.
That depends. What if out of 100 boxes there's one of them that is just a tiny bit flaky and although it was running fine the "live" upgrade tickles it in just the wrong way and it drops all its current connections on the floor.
What if out of 100 there are a couple that don't go smoothly?
With the method we use the box gets tested after the upgrade but before being returned to service. With your method it generates a post-outage review and root cause analysis.
If your load balancer can't take a server out of the pool while allowing current sessions to finish cleanly then you need to shop for a new load balancer.
A decent load balancer will obviously give you the choice of whether to take a server out of service immediately disrupting existing sessions or simply stop sending new sessions to it while allowing existing sessions to continue.
As for your comment about physical connections, that's what portchannels and multilink trunks are for. Or VRRP and HSRP depending on which level of "connected to" you mean.
I'd rather have at least two of anything important and have statefull failover between them.
If you've got this system that's so critical you can't reboot it for a kernel upgrade, what do you do when the building catches fire or a tanker truck full of toxic waste hops the curb and plows through the wall of your datacenter?
I'd rather have a full second set of anything that critical. It should be in a different state (or country) and have a well designed and frequently used method of seamlessly transferring the load between the two (or more) sites without dropping anything.
If you can't transfer the workload to a location at least a couple hundred miles away without users noticing then you're not in the big league.
And as long as the workload is in another datacenter, what's the big deal about rebooting for a kernel upgrade.
Any idea how it compares to a Fujitsu P2120? I've had my P2120 for several years and have replaced both of its batteries so I still get about 8-10 hours of battery life on a charge but I am starting to get dissatisfied with the speed.
I just tried using Thunderbird again for email, but will probably revert back to using mutt over an ssh session because Thunderbird is so damn slow on this machine. Firefox is also a pig. I've got my P2120 maxed out with a half a gig of RAM but I still have to restart Firefox every week or so because it just grinds to a halt if I leave it running longer.
My suspicion is that the Eee PC is probably not significantly faster than the P2120 and might even be slower.
The script below is what I use to do the verification.
This picks two dictionary words and joins them together, possibly adding one or two numbers in as well just for the heck of it. It keeps a log of which domains are not found. A separate script can be run periodically to read the logfile and recheck to see if the domains have been registered.
This code is offered under the GPL version 1, 2, 3, BSD, MPL, and any other license you can think of.
If it doesn't have the scrolling feature of ReadThemAll then it's not worth having. I've been using this app on a Palm for many years. I don't spend a whole lot of time reading on my Palm because I don't have a lot of down time outside of the house and I quite like pulling a book off the shelf when at home. But, I always have a bunch of Project Gutenberg text files loaded on my Palm and if I do get a boring moment the only app I would consider using is ReadThemAll.
No other autoscrolling feature makes any sense after you've seen the line by line redrawing method. I don't have a Kindle and don't see much reason to buy one, but if it doesn't have this mode I wouldn't even consider it even if my Palm died.
Heinlein's book portrayed the marine corps in a future with space travel. I'm not sure how you draw a conclusion about fascist utopia or anything else from the very minimal mention of the civilian world in that book.
There clearly was a civilian democracy in the book, but it just wasn't mentioned much. You might just as well try to draw conclusions about whaling from Call of the Wild or the behaviour of dogs and wolves from Moby Dick.
Just because the book was about a marine corps recruit doesn't mean that the entire world is the marine corps and doesn't imply that the soldier's viewpoint is an omniscient view of the world.
The book did state that only veterans could vote, but it also clearly stated that current active duty soldiers can NOT vote. It simply proposed an alternative to "any warm body over 18 years old" for determining voter eligibility.
In the context of the current story, it proposed that perhaps SOME mechanism of earning a vote would be better than giving votes away to people who would willingly trade them for iPods.
Do they have some mechanism for surviving the intial format or is this a complete hoax? Even assuming the drive is installed in a Windows computer, isn't the first step always to format the drive? I've added lots of drives to Windows machines and it never occured to me to try to access them without formatting them. Do these come preformatted?
As to the reference about these drives being used for government databases, certainly they would be reformatted when added to a RAID, wouldn't they? Even if preformatted for non-RAID use I don't suppose it would be possible to use them in a RAID without formatting first and what database would ever be on a non-RAID device?
Don't forget the vacuum cleaners used to clean the carpets in the buildings where the network designers and operators work, or the stereos that play music while people are browsing the net, or the electric lights that let the non-touch-typists see their keyboards at night.
Come on, unless they're somehow able to measure electricity used only while a computer user is actively viewing Internet content it's absurd to count desktop computers in the total. Or, alternatively, it's absurd to attribute the electricity usage to "the Internet". It would be valid to estimate the electricity usage of computers and/or data communications equipment, but to try to pin a number on "the Internet" and include multifunction equipment that serves non-Internet functions is just sloppy.
Come to think of it, there are probably lots of FT-2000s that carry some Internet circuits and some PSTN circuits, how do they account for that? What about the 5Es and DMSs that are carrying modem calls? Do they accurately attribute the percentage of the switch's electrical usage based on the percentage of modem vs voice calls?
I think it was in a Robert Heinlein novel that one of the characters said that the answer to the question "Why don't they . . ." is always "Money". There may be exceptions to that, but when dealing with companies you won't often be wrong if you assume that answer to that question.
You might ask for suggestions on finding Linux compatible devices or strategies for advocating Linux, but asking "why don't they" or "why do they" is pretty much a waste of everyone's time. The answer is quite simply that the people at the company who are responsible for deciding which project will make money and which project will lose money currently believe that writing Linux software isn't in the "will make money" category. If they didn't believe that, you wouldn't be asking the question because they'd be one of the companies that is writing Linux software.
Frankly, your Ask Slashdot post is basically a whine. You want something and apparently you haven't been able to find a company that believes providing it is a viable business model. So you whine about "why don't they" do what you want. If by chance you've happened upon one of the rare cases where something could be done at a profit and nobody is currently doing it, don't post to Slashdot. Run, don't walk, to your nearest library and grab all the books you can find on starting a business. It's extremely rare to find something that can be done at a profit that nobody is doing yet.
Be careful what you wish; your wish may be granted. Not necessarily. If the ISP provided spam filtering as a selectable service with the end user given options about what means of filtering is being used that would probably be acceptable. After all, the POTS network has some support for call blocking doesn't it? A common carrier must not restrict what it's customers send or receive, but a single company could probably legally combine the common carrier function of delivering all messages with and recipient controlled active filtering feature.
It might lead to some legal hair splitting if anybody wanted to make a case of it, but I think a good lawyer could argue that the filtering is being done by the end recipient and the company (who has a common carrier role as well) is simply providing the tools to allow the end recipient to perform the filtering in a simple and easy to use manner.
As long as the end user has the power to remove the filtering I think the ISP would be fulfilling its common carrier role. Of course for some ISPs that might require an overhaul of their spam filtering technology to allow it to be user controlled rather than blanket applied to all users regardless of their wishes.
You make a good point, but my experience with Opera on Palm TX is that it just doesn't work. I tried everything. Followed lots of howtos on the Internet. Tweaked lots of settings. It does nothing but crash.
I can think of no company that is as utterly disappointing as Palm. I suppose there's probably some behind the scenes story of how someone pillaged the company in the manner of the 80's corporate raiders who bought companies for the purpose of stripping them down and selling the parts. I can think of no other explanation for how any company that had as brilliant a product as the Palm Personal/Professional, could so completely bungle every single step of the way.
I just bought a Nokia 770, the previous generation of the n800 but with a much more reasonable price. It works ok on many sites, but struggles with Slashdot's commenting system. Collapsed comments don't open up when you click them. Any iPhone owners want to comment on how the iPhone handles a slashdot comments page with a couple hundred comments?
The Nokia 770's sceen resolution blows the iPhone away, but the screen is physically much smaller than I had thought it would be. It's actually almost identical in size to the screen on the Palm TX although much higher resolution.
"Yeah, I know, grandpa. And how will I know which one I like unless I've tried them all?" The fact that your grandfather refers to you as Love Goblin is extremely disturbing.
It's simple, anytime anybody introduces a new cell phone with advanced features they're lynched by screaming hordes of Slashdot trolls screaming Where In the US Can You Get Just a Cell Phone? and waving torches like something out of an old Frankenstein movie.
Cell phone companies divert so much of their budget to security forces to protect their US operations from these pitchfork bearing Slashdotters that there isn't much left to develop cell phone features.
Apple has the advantage of a legion of devoted followers who will engage in glorious battle with the "Just a phone" trolls thereby acting as cannon fodder (or pitchfork and torch fodder) to insulate the Apple employees working on actually developing products.