No way in hell am I going to pay $500 for something I'll have to replace in 2 years because the battery (which is already underpowered when you consider this is a phone, not just a music player) won't last longer than a couple of hours
This is indeed a huge problem. My MotoQ doesn't even last a full day on a charge, and if I forget to plug it in at night before I go to bed, fogettaboutit. I have to dig out the wall charger, as the cradle won't charge a completely dead battery.
46% of potential Ferrari buyers said they would buy a Ferrari for $12,000-$18,000.
Ah, I was waiting for the car analogy folks to show up. Just out of curiosity, why go with the Ferrari in this instance? Our research shows that 77% of people in your position would have gone with a BMW or Mercedes comparison. 20% would have made comparison to a Jaguar, and the remaining 3% would have compared the phone to a Cadillac Escalade.
I saw a demo of this. It went something like: "I see you're trying to enter your credit card information so you can edit this word document. Would you like some help?"
Meetings Make You Dumber... Researchers are finding that meetings are actually bad places to be creative. You're not actually 'dumber' when you're in the meeting, just more likely to lose your creative edge.
Sounds like someone wrote this writeup while in a meeting...
to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine.
Meanwhile, a drunk driver who kills someone can get off scott free, with no jail time at all. Sweet.
The question is: is this paper going to be like a Polaroid? Sure it's convenient, but I'll take a bit of a hassle to make sure my materials are still there when I or my estate's executor or my children need to get at them; that my relics will remain.
Then get an Epson photo printer. The prints are scratch/moisture resistant, and fade resistant for 200 years, or so they say. (I guess we'll find out in 200 years)
The reason land lines are on their way out is because of the convenience of cell phones,
No, the reason land lines are on their way out is because the land network has become a baseline platform which allows any kind of communication that can be squeezed into packets. Email, VC, IM, IP Telephony... The ubiquity of cell phones are a result of this, as the phone companies realized they needed to create and promote a new, closed network, as their revenue from their existing, open network was on its way out.
Eventually, free/low-cost wi-max will be available everywhere, at which point Sprint, Verizon, and so on will either die out, or have moved on to creating the next closed communications model, whatever they decide that is.
'Popular Windows software that is conspicuously missing from Microsoft's list includes Adobe Systems Inc.'s entire line of graphics and multimedia software,
That's not surprising. According to the design department over here, Adobe products aren't even made for the PC.
Seriously? You mean that DSL and cable are on their way out?
No, I mean that traditional phone service is on its way out, and internet access is on the high road to becoming a commodity business (i.e. limited profit potential except through volume and organizational efficiency enhancement.)
Just to clarify a commodity business is a completely different ballgame than a premium business, which is what the current wireless industry is.
So as a humble user who wants to chat on IRC over a wireless carrier.... who am I to MANDATE to these sovereign owners any sorts of conditions?
I'm with you, but proponents of this would argue that the FCC basically gave monopoly of a public resource (spectrum) to these companies for a finite amount of time, and in exchange, the companies would build a network to use that spectrum. After a period, allowing the companies to reoup their investment, the network would become open.
I don't think their respective investments have yet been recouped, though it would be nice to see a little more choice of carrier. Sprint/Verizon/Cingular customer service are all terrible.
I have never voted. No party respects the values of equality, freedom and democracy that I have.
That brings up a good point. If there were an "abstain" column, then you could show your interest in politics by participating, but also show your disdain for the available candidates, by choosing neither of them.
If it is the case that a large portion of America doesn't vote because they don't like the choices, this would be an interesting way to track that.
As soon as "internet voting" has been reviewed to see how well a rigged election can be performed, the U.S will switch, too.
I'm not sure which is worse:
a) a general election using faulty touch screens, or
b) a "secure" online election, but voting is easy enough that we have 90% turnout... which includes the 45% of the population that has absolutely no clue about anything to do with the election, and vote based on whatever (mis)information they read on a blog that morning.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of individual molecules in their atmospheres.
Jesus. If they can see that far out, imagine what they can see when they look straight down.
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No way in hell am I going to pay $500 for something I'll have to replace in 2 years because the battery (which is already underpowered when you consider this is a phone, not just a music player) won't last longer than a couple of hours
This is indeed a huge problem. My MotoQ doesn't even last a full day on a charge, and if I forget to plug it in at night before I go to bed, fogettaboutit. I have to dig out the wall charger, as the cradle won't charge a completely dead battery.
The hacker himself made comments indicating that the company's email servers are connected somehow to the financial information eBay hosts.
$100 says this guy has a huge short on ebay stock.
Oh, it starts innocently enough, usually with CSS and XHTML. But soon they are learning JavaScript, PHP, and even SQL!
I always knew Java was a gateway drug.
46% of potential Ferrari buyers said they would buy a Ferrari for $12,000-$18,000.
Ah, I was waiting for the car analogy folks to show up. Just out of curiosity, why go with the Ferrari in this instance? Our research shows that 77% of people in your position would have gone with a BMW or Mercedes comparison. 20% would have made comparison to a Jaguar, and the remaining 3% would have compared the phone to a Cadillac Escalade.
Consumers Unlikely To Pay $500 for iPhone
I hear it's also got less space than a Nomad. Lame.
After all, what happens when the rental period expires and you just want to quickly read one of your own documents?
That's what I call "Rent-to-0wned".
I saw a demo of this. It went something like: "I see you're trying to enter your credit card information so you can edit this word document. Would you like some help?"
Meetings Make You Dumber... Researchers are finding that meetings are actually bad places to be creative. You're not actually 'dumber' when you're in the meeting, just more likely to lose your creative edge.
Sounds like someone wrote this writeup while in a meeting...
to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine.
Meanwhile, a drunk driver who kills someone can get off scott free, with no jail time at all. Sweet.
The question is: is this paper going to be like a Polaroid? Sure it's convenient, but I'll take a bit of a hassle to make sure my materials are still there when I or my estate's executor or my children need to get at them; that my relics will remain.
Then get an Epson photo printer. The prints are scratch/moisture resistant, and fade resistant for 200 years, or so they say. (I guess we'll find out in 200 years)
Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author of what Zoeller says is a defamatory paragraph about him on the Wikipedia site.
Is that the one that says the number of lawsuits he's filing against Wikipedia has tripled in the last six months?
I, for one, welcome our new weaponsmith chimps overlords.
What do you mean "new"?
This same type of tech is being integrated into cameras, by a company called zink. It's just like the old polaroid days.
The reason land lines are on their way out is because of the convenience of cell phones,
No, the reason land lines are on their way out is because the land network has become a baseline platform which allows any kind of communication that can be squeezed into packets. Email, VC, IM, IP Telephony... The ubiquity of cell phones are a result of this, as the phone companies realized they needed to create and promote a new, closed network, as their revenue from their existing, open network was on its way out.
Eventually, free/low-cost wi-max will be available everywhere, at which point Sprint, Verizon, and so on will either die out, or have moved on to creating the next closed communications model, whatever they decide that is.
In April of this year, the Entertainment Software Ratings Board will move to using full-time reviewers to determine ratings for game content.
Yeah, I heard they're hiring them directly from the Russian Glavlit.
How ironic then, that the Windows version of their software frequently has features the Mac version doesn't.
:)
Dude, it was a joke... seriously. Everyone knows PCs work great for design.
Maybe they'll include HDMI output, like microsoft is doing for this year's revision of the X360.
'Popular Windows software that is conspicuously missing from Microsoft's list includes Adobe Systems Inc.'s entire line of graphics and multimedia software,
That's not surprising. According to the design department over here, Adobe products aren't even made for the PC.
Seriously? You mean that DSL and cable are on their way out?
No, I mean that traditional phone service is on its way out, and internet access is on the high road to becoming a commodity business (i.e. limited profit potential except through volume and organizational efficiency enhancement.)
Just to clarify a commodity business is a completely different ballgame than a premium business, which is what the current wireless industry is.
So as a humble user who wants to chat on IRC over a wireless carrier.... who am I to MANDATE to these sovereign owners any sorts of conditions?
I'm with you, but proponents of this would argue that the FCC basically gave monopoly of a public resource (spectrum) to these companies for a finite amount of time, and in exchange, the companies would build a network to use that spectrum. After a period, allowing the companies to reoup their investment, the network would become open.
I don't think their respective investments have yet been recouped, though it would be nice to see a little more choice of carrier. Sprint/Verizon/Cingular customer service are all terrible.
Skype essentially wants to turn the wireless phone companies into just another network of the kind currently operated on the ground.
Yes, and the kind currently operated on the ground are facing a dead-end business model.
I have never voted. No party respects the values of equality, freedom and democracy that I have.
That brings up a good point. If there were an "abstain" column, then you could show your interest in politics by participating, but also show your disdain for the available candidates, by choosing neither of them.
If it is the case that a large portion of America doesn't vote because they don't like the choices, this would be an interesting way to track that.
As soon as "internet voting" has been reviewed to see how well a rigged election can be performed, the U.S will switch, too.
I'm not sure which is worse:
a) a general election using faulty touch screens, or
b) a "secure" online election, but voting is easy enough that we have 90% turnout... which includes the 45% of the population that has absolutely no clue about anything to do with the election, and vote based on whatever (mis)information they read on a blog that morning.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify signatures of individual molecules in their atmospheres.
Jesus. If they can see that far out, imagine what they can see when they look straight down.
who cares about the MOON!
The boston police?