Another thing to note: SpaceX is in California. I'd be willing to bet that Florida and Texas republicans will still want their pork projects for all the aerospace companies working out of Texas and Florida.
Not to defend pork spending, but Florida does have one huge advantage over California: it's the most south-eastern point in the US, and launching eastward from there gives any craft a free speed boost going into orbit. Any eastern state could do the same, but the further south you are, the more orbit options you have. I don't know where SpaceX's rocket parts are made (is it actually California, or is that just their HQ?), but obviously the further away this is from the launch site, the more costly the transportation.
There's no technical reason you couldn't launch eastward from California, except you'd be launching over land, and populated areas. For jettisoning booster stages (or falling debris from a failed launch), this is a bad idea.
You are right about the lateral movement, but the shuttle stack doesn't just move laterally one way--it actually reverses (since the stack is still bolted to the pad) and the timing is such that when the SRBs fire, the stack is pointed true vertical again.
The SRBs are not held down once they fire though. Check out this incredible series of slow-motion video from a lot of cameras you might never have seen footage from--it's like porn for space tech junkies. Jump to 6m28s for the first camera on the SRBs, which record the explosive bolts that hold the SRBs down. You'll actually see the bolts fire and release the SRBs a fraction of a second *before* we see the flames come out from the SRBs.
I posted earlier today about STS-68, which aborted the launch sequence at T-1.9 seconds, the closest to T-0 the shuttle ever got in an on-pad abort. There's a video of that launch attempt on Youtube too, but there's a second video (not on Youtube, unfortunately) showing the engines firing up and then shutting down. They actually flame out one by one, presumably to lessen the magnitude of the lateral motion that now lasts for several back-and-forth swings.
It's a lot harder to find 15" laptops WITHOUT a number pad. And the touchpad is always off center. It's annoying. I don't need a numpad, and would like to not have to be stuck with one.
The initial research, back in the mid-1980s, with technical users, showed that Trackpoints were radically more efficient than moving your hand off the keyboard to access a pointing device.
Subsequent research, with mainstream consumers, showed that most people had trouble learning how to use it.
I suspect that's because the mid-80s research didn't consider using a stationary area below the space bar for a pointing device, or using one of the two thumbs to move it around. How recent was the subsequent consumer research? Most non-Mac consumers probably hadn't used a mouse before Windows 3.x came out, so there wouldn't have been much bias toward any pointer technology if the latter research occurred before 1991 or so.
Apple's PowerBook 100 was the first laptop with a palm rest, which integrated perfectly with it being the first with a trackball, too. Even into the mid-90s many PC laptops still had no palmrest, let alone a larger pointing device. And by the time trackballs became common Apple had already dropped them in favour of trackpads.
I have used several business laptops with trackpoints, from IBM/Lenovo and HP. My current work laptop, a Thinkpad X201, doesn't even have a trackpad, and the trackpads on our X220s are so small they're useless so I end up using the trackpoints anyway.
Anyway, all that to say I believe I've used them enough to have an informed opinion of them, and mine is that they're fine if minimizing surface space is critical, but a proper-sized trackpad beats it hands down 9 times out of 10. I do like how on Thinkpads you can simulate the scroll wheel using the trackpoint while holding the middle "mouse" button beneath the spacebar, but most PC laptops don't bother, and instead reserve a strip on the side of the trackpad. This (and two-finger scrolling) is very poorly implemented on the X220's tiny trackpad.
On Mac laptops, the trackpads are so much larger and more functional (it can even recognize Chinese and other Asian language handwriting, which doesn't look like an out-of-box trackpad option in Windows), the trackpoint has zero advantages that I can see.
Adding insult to injury, the reason why the Columbia was destroyed upon re-entry is in part because the Environmental Protection Agency got into a feud with NASA over the foam being used for the cryogenic tank connectors. The original foam being used would have broken up and was much, much lighter where it wouldn't have caused any problem like what caused damage to the leading edge tiles that ultimately caused the problems for the Columbia. The problem was that the original foam had chlorofluorocarbon compounds that were perceived as "hazardous to the environment". I don't know how many lives were spared by the switch to the new foam due to slightly reduced skin cancer rates worldwide, but I know of at least seven astronauts who are dead because of that change. I sure hope that EPA bureaucrat feels nice warm fuzzies over all of the lives he saved because of that move.
The EPA bureaucrat has nothing on his conscience over the Columbia tragedy. The "EPA killed the Columbia astronauts!" hysteria that you wasted half your comment on, was Rush Limbaugh bullshit.
As noted in this comment, the Columbia Accident Investigation Report states that the external tank used on that mission, and therefore the foam that broke off and doomed the shuttle, was an older tank and therefore still used the old CFC foam.
Even NASA's most seasoned launch commentator was taken off-guard.
"Three, two, one, zero and liftoff," announced commentator George Diller, his voice trailing as the rocket failed to budge. "We've had a cutoff. Liftoff did not occur."
Commentators do not have realtime views of the raw data that would indicate a cutoff.
Space shuttle mission STS-68 had a similar last-second abort; at 1:00 in the video it even shows the countdown clock at T-0 seconds, even though the main engines actually started the abort sequence a couple seconds earlier. But with the shuttles, it was very obvious to the commentator when liftoff didn't happen because there were solid rocket boosters that didn't fire.
The hilarious irony is how much people bitch about Facebook on/., while simultaneously bitching about how other social networks "aren't as good" as Facebook.
How is that in any way ironic or inconsistent?
Many of us bash the failings of our governments. That doesn't stop us also pointing out how other types of governments have worse failures and therefore "aren't as good."
To paraphrase Churchill, "It has been said that Facebook is the worst of all social networks... except all those others that have been tried from time to time."
My iPhone 4S has a monthly plan of 250 daytime minutes, unlimited evening/weekends, free calls to other local phones on the same carrier, visual voice mail, call display, 2000 outgoing text messages, and 6 GB data.
It costs $65 a month, $10 less than your pre-iPhone bill. And this is in Canada, a country considered one of the worst when it comes to rip-off level cell phone plans.
What country are you in, and what the heck do you have on your plan that it costs $200/month, and will put you over cap for a single round of Windows and program updates (usually a few tens of megabytes at most, if you're not updating a newly-rebuilt system)?
No phrase in human history has been more misinterpreted than "the right to keep and bear arms", btw.
Agree with the rest of your post, but not this.
The most mis-interpreted phrases in human history are any where people preface with "The Bible says..." or "The Koran says..." Using the 2nd Amendment of the USA to suit various agendas is nothing compared to that.
I'm Canadian and agree 100% that our paper voting system is better. But, one problem a Canadian approach would have in the US system is that they vote for close to a dozen government offices all at once.
One way a Canadian model might work for the US, is that ballots for each office are given to voters when they get there, and are colour-coded. This would prevent accidentally putting a ballot into the wrong box. And then votes for each office can be counted manually, in parallel.
But we then run into the second roadblock: for historical and constitutional reasons, there's no equivalent to Elections Canada that oversees a federal election, so every state gets to decide their own voting method.
Aha, so what we should do is make the vote machine pay out a $100 bill with each vote receipt. That will ensure that they are designed and built right and it will cause all elligible voters to go and vote.
It also likely means whoever's in first spot on the ballot gets elected, since the majority of voters (real and fake/invalid) don't care. Though this can be mitigated by the e-voting machine randomizing the order of candidates on-screen.
Actually, if earnings = income, then people in the US middle class are right in that range.
25% tax applies up to $85,650, and 28% up to $178,650, of taxable income (meaning of course your actual income can be higher still). Add a few more percentage points to cover state taxes, if any.
Sure, you have sales and service taxes today, but there's also a lot of benefits in today's society that serfs couldn't even dream of having.
A statistic that keeps getting bandied out is that almost half of working Americans don't pay any federal income tax thanks to credits and subsidies. That actually doesn't support the notion that "the rich are shouldering too much of the burden", that actually indicates almost half the population doesn't make enough to justify taking any more money from them.
And there's still shortcomings between carriers even in the same country.
When SMSing someone on the same carrier, long (>160 characters) texts will appear to the recipient as a single text message if the phone supports it. I know, it's technically sent as multiple messages, but the receiving system knows how to re-assemble it into one.
When SMSing to someone on a different carrier, the message is not only broken up, it sometimes appears out of order. From some carriers, there'll be a helpful (1 of 3) notice, then from another carrier I have to read all of them and mentally re-assemble them myself to read in the right order. Usually, the tail message arrives first because it's got less text than the preceding one(s).
AC, you obviously missed the fact that this thread did NOT involve American politics, even if earlier threads did. Hit "Parent" all the way up. The AC who started this thread (or maybe you're the same one) started with "As if the party that promises...". Grammatically, use of "the" ahead of party means he's referring to a specific party, and from the comment title "Liberals are somehow..." it's obvious which one he's referring to. Hint, in case you miss the obvious: it's the Liberal Party of Canada, NOT an American party.
Only after you call out Rockoon's comment a knee-jerk reaction (4 links and emotional ranting against US Democrats and personal attack against ATMAvatar), do you even get a chance at calling my far more measured response a "knee-jerk reaction."
Also, with all the shiny touchscreens using the LCARS interface on Star Trek series and movies, how come we never see any janitorial staff keeping these things clean and gleaming?
Why would we? We never see washrooms or crew going to/from them, but I'm pretty sure they're on the ship, too.
(By contrast, off the top of my head I can think of two scenes from Babylon 5 where they not only show characters cleaning up in a washroom, but are pivotal in setting up part of the plot, too).
How are consoles cleaned on modern military craft? I'm sure every station must get regular wipedowns. We never see that in the movies either. And as aaronb noted, there's probably a tech reason for the consoles always looking pristine.
All your links are, in two words matching your tone, FUCKING IRRELEVANT. Because those are for AMERICAN incidents.
Despite GP forgetting to capitalize the "L" in Liberal, by context the GP and GGP posts were obviously referring to the Liberal Party of Canada (there is no major US federal party called Liberal), and *specifically* incidents of voter suppression tactics in our last election.
There were cases of Liberal-backed robocalls during the election that were violated Elections Canada rules, in that they failed to identify the party that the call represented. That is a fucking far cry from claiming to be Elections Canada and misdirecting known non-Conservative voters to non-existent voting stations.
Quite frankly, I think any card-carrying party member should probably have their head examined. I consider extreme partisanship to be something of a mental disorder. You can kind of forgive it in the young, because if they weren't worshiping at the feet of the party leader, they'd probably be worshiping at the feet of Marilyn Manson or some football superstar. But it's the middle aged guys that get me. You would think that at some point along the road they would have become wise to the fact that parties are fundamentally corrupt creatures, dens of inequity and sin, machines of special interests masquerading as electoral beacons.
Given the rising numbers of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians and mega churches, and rejection of science and rational thinking at state levels, why is it at all surprising that today's middle-aged population aren't wising up to the corruption but instead lean toward extreme partisanship?
This despite the Nexus having a 22% higher battery capacity: Nexus: 1750 mAh iPhone 4S: 1432 mAh
Obviously the larger screen and pixel count account for the poor web and video test results, so the user has to decide if the tradeoff is worth it for them.
Nortel did this as well, and got hit with a lawsuit by all the people they laid off just a few months or years from retirement. Nortel lost.
This happened a few years before my father was laid off in 2002, so although he no longer went in or did any work, he was "bridged" over to retirement age (a year and a half), at which point the pension kicked in.
Of course, we know what happened to the pension last year...
Since Motorola does business in Germany also, what's to prevent the German court from imposing (stiffer) penalties on Motorola Germany for NOT abiding by the German ruling? Seems two can play that legal game, and then Motorola is in a Catch 22.
Funny, mine had email contacts and calendar since day one via BlackBerry Bridge.
Oh, you mean native applications written and preinstalled by RIM (because the ones in App World didn't count).
Yes, exactly. My original review touched on that directly. We had a single user with a Blackberry. RIM denied native PIM apps to users without Blackberries, including the boss, for a full year. The boss denied RIM any of our money.
I won't rehash it, so here's my original review, with the disclaimer that the at time of evaluation the Playbook had only been out for a month, and I know it's improved greatly since then... but it took a YEAR for email, contacts and calendars to be added, not a few months like they said at first.
But, you're talking about first impressions, and that was mine.
Having considered the matter carefully, I've come to the conclusion that a person who has dedicated a large portion of their lives to the study of climate effects knows more about the subject than I do.
I'd add a "according to scientific principals" in there somewhere, otherwise it can be easily twisted around:
"Having considered the matter carefully, I've come to the conclusion that a person who has dedicated a large portion of their lives to the study of the word of God knows more about the subject than I do."
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Another thing to note: SpaceX is in California. I'd be willing to bet that Florida and Texas republicans will still want their pork projects for all the aerospace companies working out of Texas and Florida.
Not to defend pork spending, but Florida does have one huge advantage over California: it's the most south-eastern point in the US, and launching eastward from there gives any craft a free speed boost going into orbit. Any eastern state could do the same, but the further south you are, the more orbit options you have. I don't know where SpaceX's rocket parts are made (is it actually California, or is that just their HQ?), but obviously the further away this is from the launch site, the more costly the transportation.
There's no technical reason you couldn't launch eastward from California, except you'd be launching over land, and populated areas. For jettisoning booster stages (or falling debris from a failed launch), this is a bad idea.
You are right about the lateral movement, but the shuttle stack doesn't just move laterally one way--it actually reverses (since the stack is still bolted to the pad) and the timing is such that when the SRBs fire, the stack is pointed true vertical again.
The SRBs are not held down once they fire though. Check out this incredible series of slow-motion video from a lot of cameras you might never have seen footage from--it's like porn for space tech junkies. Jump to 6m28s for the first camera on the SRBs, which record the explosive bolts that hold the SRBs down. You'll actually see the bolts fire and release the SRBs a fraction of a second *before* we see the flames come out from the SRBs.
I posted earlier today about STS-68, which aborted the launch sequence at T-1.9 seconds, the closest to T-0 the shuttle ever got in an on-pad abort. There's a video of that launch attempt on Youtube too, but there's a second video (not on Youtube, unfortunately) showing the engines firing up and then shutting down. They actually flame out one by one, presumably to lessen the magnitude of the lateral motion that now lasts for several back-and-forth swings.
Sheesh, some people don't recognize humour/sarcasm even with a smiley these days.
It's a lot harder to find 15" laptops WITHOUT a number pad. And the touchpad is always off center. It's annoying. I don't need a numpad, and would like to not have to be stuck with one.
You're searching wrong. Even their 17" laptop doesn't have a number pad! :-)
Trackpoints are 100% useless.
The initial research, back in the mid-1980s, with technical users, showed that Trackpoints were radically more efficient than moving your hand off the keyboard to access a pointing device.
Subsequent research, with mainstream consumers, showed that most people had trouble learning how to use it.
I suspect that's because the mid-80s research didn't consider using a stationary area below the space bar for a pointing device, or using one of the two thumbs to move it around. How recent was the subsequent consumer research? Most non-Mac consumers probably hadn't used a mouse before Windows 3.x came out, so there wouldn't have been much bias toward any pointer technology if the latter research occurred before 1991 or so.
Apple's PowerBook 100 was the first laptop with a palm rest, which integrated perfectly with it being the first with a trackball, too. Even into the mid-90s many PC laptops still had no palmrest, let alone a larger pointing device. And by the time trackballs became common Apple had already dropped them in favour of trackpads.
I have used several business laptops with trackpoints, from IBM/Lenovo and HP. My current work laptop, a Thinkpad X201, doesn't even have a trackpad, and the trackpads on our X220s are so small they're useless so I end up using the trackpoints anyway.
Anyway, all that to say I believe I've used them enough to have an informed opinion of them, and mine is that they're fine if minimizing surface space is critical, but a proper-sized trackpad beats it hands down 9 times out of 10. I do like how on Thinkpads you can simulate the scroll wheel using the trackpoint while holding the middle "mouse" button beneath the spacebar, but most PC laptops don't bother, and instead reserve a strip on the side of the trackpad. This (and two-finger scrolling) is very poorly implemented on the X220's tiny trackpad.
On Mac laptops, the trackpads are so much larger and more functional (it can even recognize Chinese and other Asian language handwriting, which doesn't look like an out-of-box trackpad option in Windows), the trackpoint has zero advantages that I can see.
Adding insult to injury, the reason why the Columbia was destroyed upon re-entry is in part because the Environmental Protection Agency got into a feud with NASA over the foam being used for the cryogenic tank connectors. The original foam being used would have broken up and was much, much lighter where it wouldn't have caused any problem like what caused damage to the leading edge tiles that ultimately caused the problems for the Columbia. The problem was that the original foam had chlorofluorocarbon compounds that were perceived as "hazardous to the environment". I don't know how many lives were spared by the switch to the new foam due to slightly reduced skin cancer rates worldwide, but I know of at least seven astronauts who are dead because of that change. I sure hope that EPA bureaucrat feels nice warm fuzzies over all of the lives he saved because of that move.
The EPA bureaucrat has nothing on his conscience over the Columbia tragedy. The "EPA killed the Columbia astronauts!" hysteria that you wasted half your comment on, was Rush Limbaugh bullshit.
As noted in this comment, the Columbia Accident Investigation Report states that the external tank used on that mission, and therefore the foam that broke off and doomed the shuttle, was an older tank and therefore still used the old CFC foam.
(Link in that comment that refutes the Linbaugh bullshit: http://mediamatters.org/research/200508090007)
Even NASA's most seasoned launch commentator was taken off-guard.
"Three, two, one, zero and liftoff," announced commentator George Diller, his voice trailing as the rocket failed to budge. "We've had a cutoff. Liftoff did not occur."
Commentators do not have realtime views of the raw data that would indicate a cutoff.
Space shuttle mission STS-68 had a similar last-second abort; at 1:00 in the video it even shows the countdown clock at T-0 seconds, even though the main engines actually started the abort sequence a couple seconds earlier. But with the shuttles, it was very obvious to the commentator when liftoff didn't happen because there were solid rocket boosters that didn't fire.
The hilarious irony is how much people bitch about Facebook on /., while simultaneously bitching about how other social networks "aren't as good" as Facebook.
How is that in any way ironic or inconsistent?
Many of us bash the failings of our governments. That doesn't stop us also pointing out how other types of governments have worse failures and therefore "aren't as good."
To paraphrase Churchill, "It has been said that Facebook is the worst of all social networks... except all those others that have been tried from time to time."
My iPhone 4S has a monthly plan of 250 daytime minutes, unlimited evening/weekends, free calls to other local phones on the same carrier, visual voice mail, call display, 2000 outgoing text messages, and 6 GB data.
It costs $65 a month, $10 less than your pre-iPhone bill. And this is in Canada, a country considered one of the worst when it comes to rip-off level cell phone plans.
What country are you in, and what the heck do you have on your plan that it costs $200/month, and will put you over cap for a single round of Windows and program updates (usually a few tens of megabytes at most, if you're not updating a newly-rebuilt system)?
No phrase in human history has been more misinterpreted than "the right to keep and bear arms", btw.
Agree with the rest of your post, but not this.
The most mis-interpreted phrases in human history are any where people preface with "The Bible says..." or "The Koran says..." Using the 2nd Amendment of the USA to suit various agendas is nothing compared to that.
I'm Canadian and agree 100% that our paper voting system is better. But, one problem a Canadian approach would have in the US system is that they vote for close to a dozen government offices all at once.
This is why the hanging chad issue came about--they had to punch out their vote for close to a dozen different positions (see http://americanhistory.si.edu/vote/large/7_02a_lrg.jpg for the 2000 Florida one).
One way a Canadian model might work for the US, is that ballots for each office are given to voters when they get there, and are colour-coded. This would prevent accidentally putting a ballot into the wrong box. And then votes for each office can be counted manually, in parallel.
But we then run into the second roadblock: for historical and constitutional reasons, there's no equivalent to Elections Canada that oversees a federal election, so every state gets to decide their own voting method.
Aha, so what we should do is make the vote machine pay out a $100 bill with each vote receipt. That will ensure that they are designed and built right and it will cause all elligible voters to go and vote.
Including up to 1.8 million dead people, and 24 million invalid/inaccurate registrations.
It also likely means whoever's in first spot on the ballot gets elected, since the majority of voters (real and fake/invalid) don't care. Though this can be mitigated by the e-voting machine randomizing the order of candidates on-screen.
And like the joke about jihadists who die for the cause and get rewarded 72 virgins, afterwards you find out they're the *wrong* gender.
Actually, if earnings = income, then people in the US middle class are right in that range.
25% tax applies up to $85,650, and 28% up to $178,650, of taxable income (meaning of course your actual income can be higher still). Add a few more percentage points to cover state taxes, if any.
Sure, you have sales and service taxes today, but there's also a lot of benefits in today's society that serfs couldn't even dream of having.
A statistic that keeps getting bandied out is that almost half of working Americans don't pay any federal income tax thanks to credits and subsidies. That actually doesn't support the notion that "the rich are shouldering too much of the burden", that actually indicates almost half the population doesn't make enough to justify taking any more money from them.
And there's still shortcomings between carriers even in the same country.
When SMSing someone on the same carrier, long (>160 characters) texts will appear to the recipient as a single text message if the phone supports it. I know, it's technically sent as multiple messages, but the receiving system knows how to re-assemble it into one.
When SMSing to someone on a different carrier, the message is not only broken up, it sometimes appears out of order. From some carriers, there'll be a helpful (1 of 3) notice, then from another carrier I have to read all of them and mentally re-assemble them myself to read in the right order. Usually, the tail message arrives first because it's got less text than the preceding one(s).
AC, you obviously missed the fact that this thread did NOT involve American politics, even if earlier threads did. Hit "Parent" all the way up. The AC who started this thread (or maybe you're the same one) started with "As if the party that promises...". Grammatically, use of "the" ahead of party means he's referring to a specific party, and from the comment title "Liberals are somehow..." it's obvious which one he's referring to. Hint, in case you miss the obvious: it's the Liberal Party of Canada, NOT an American party.
Only after you call out Rockoon's comment a knee-jerk reaction (4 links and emotional ranting against US Democrats and personal attack against ATMAvatar), do you even get a chance at calling my far more measured response a "knee-jerk reaction."
Also, with all the shiny touchscreens using the LCARS interface on Star Trek series and movies, how come we never see any janitorial staff keeping these things clean and gleaming?
Why would we? We never see washrooms or crew going to/from them, but I'm pretty sure they're on the ship, too.
(By contrast, off the top of my head I can think of two scenes from Babylon 5 where they not only show characters cleaning up in a washroom, but are pivotal in setting up part of the plot, too).
How are consoles cleaned on modern military craft? I'm sure every station must get regular wipedowns. We never see that in the movies either. And as aaronb noted, there's probably a tech reason for the consoles always looking pristine.
All your links are, in two words matching your tone, FUCKING IRRELEVANT. Because those are for AMERICAN incidents.
Despite GP forgetting to capitalize the "L" in Liberal, by context the GP and GGP posts were obviously referring to the Liberal Party of Canada (there is no major US federal party called Liberal), and *specifically* incidents of voter suppression tactics in our last election.
There were cases of Liberal-backed robocalls during the election that were violated Elections Canada rules, in that they failed to identify the party that the call represented. That is a fucking far cry from claiming to be Elections Canada and misdirecting known non-Conservative voters to non-existent voting stations.
Quite frankly, I think any card-carrying party member should probably have their head examined. I consider extreme partisanship to be something of a mental disorder. You can kind of forgive it in the young, because if they weren't worshiping at the feet of the party leader, they'd probably be worshiping at the feet of Marilyn Manson or some football superstar. But it's the middle aged guys that get me. You would think that at some point along the road they would have become wise to the fact that parties are fundamentally corrupt creatures, dens of inequity and sin, machines of special interests masquerading as electoral beacons.
Given the rising numbers of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians and mega churches, and rejection of science and rational thinking at state levels, why is it at all surprising that today's middle-aged population aren't wising up to the corruption but instead lean toward extreme partisanship?
Thinner by 0.36mm, true.
But the iPhone 4S lasts far longer than the Nexus in web browsing and video playback, though it loses in talk time.
This despite the Nexus having a 22% higher battery capacity:
Nexus: 1750 mAh
iPhone 4S: 1432 mAh
Obviously the larger screen and pixel count account for the poor web and video test results, so the user has to decide if the tradeoff is worth it for them.
Nortel did this as well, and got hit with a lawsuit by all the people they laid off just a few months or years from retirement. Nortel lost.
This happened a few years before my father was laid off in 2002, so although he no longer went in or did any work, he was "bridged" over to retirement age (a year and a half), at which point the pension kicked in.
Of course, we know what happened to the pension last year...
Since Motorola does business in Germany also, what's to prevent the German court from imposing (stiffer) penalties on Motorola Germany for NOT abiding by the German ruling? Seems two can play that legal game, and then Motorola is in a Catch 22.
Funny, mine had email contacts and calendar since day one via BlackBerry Bridge.
Oh, you mean native applications written and preinstalled by RIM (because the ones in App World didn't count).
Yes, exactly. My original review touched on that directly. We had a single user with a Blackberry. RIM denied native PIM apps to users without Blackberries, including the boss, for a full year. The boss denied RIM any of our money.
Meet me.
I won't rehash it, so here's my original review, with the disclaimer that the at time of evaluation the Playbook had only been out for a month, and I know it's improved greatly since then... but it took a YEAR for email, contacts and calendars to be added, not a few months like they said at first.
But, you're talking about first impressions, and that was mine.
Having considered the matter carefully, I've come to the conclusion that a person who has dedicated a large portion of their lives to the study of climate effects knows more about the subject than I do.
I'd add a "according to scientific principals" in there somewhere, otherwise it can be easily twisted around:
"Having considered the matter carefully, I've come to the conclusion that a person who has dedicated a large portion of their lives to the study of the word of God knows more about the subject than I do."