Whats the point of putting more features in a cell-phone when the keys are too damn small to use any of them? I have enough trouble with a regular keyboard let alone on a miniscule key-pad where my thumb covers four keys.
The only reason why these "everything but the kitchen sink" phones are so popular in Japan is because they have such small thumbs.
Maybe if they integrated these phones with a better input device, like a laser-keyboard perhaps, then they might actually be useful.
No matter how cool gmail looks (and it does look cool), you are asking for trouble when you agree to route all of your e-mail through a free corporate account.
After you begin to rely upon their service, you could be at their mercy if you use them as your primary account. They could choose to take away features at a whim (or not provide them as technology advances) or outright discontinue you at will. I don't know about the rest of you, but its a real pain to to switch e-mail (especially if you have a gig of stuff on their servers).
Not don't get me wrong, by all accounts, Google is a great company. However, like all corportations, Google needs to make $$$. They will start off with innocent banners in your e-mail, but as the company matures they will begin to look at their bottom line more and more (especially if the founders retire) and you'll be at their mercy.
This is going to sound insane, but I'm hoping that Microsoft builds up a distributed 100K server cluster (or equivalent) to compete against them. Someone needs to keep Google honest:)
NASA really has everyone believing the "dust on the panels" routine. I'm sure it could be a problem under certain circumstances, but if you ask me, they are hyping this problem so that they can set expectations artificially low.
By setting low expecations, they make themselves look like heroes if they are able to exceed their original mission parameters, and they cover their butts if things turn sour.
I think this is pretty common among technical types, since technology (especially cutting edge tech 100 million miles away on an unexplored world) is so unpredictable.
Any defensive system like this is only going to protect against a certain percentage of missles. It just makes the attacker throw more nukes at you or develop some type of counter-measure (i.e., reflective surfaces, dummy warheads, etc etc).
The defensive side isn't about to sit idle when this happens, so it needs to sink resources into developing its own counter-counter measures. You now have an arms which provides you the same protection as before, but now with less resources in both countries economies. The peace types would rather see this money be used for less nefarious purposes. Things like education, health-care, save the spotted owl, etc etc.
I wouldn't exactly call this exciting.
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So basically, this strange guy provides slow unreliable internet access to people enjoying a bit of air and sunshine in the park.
I don't know about the rest of you, but if I want unreliable internet access, I'll do that at home with with Comcast. At least with them, I don't need some weirdo to point a funny antenna at me when I'm trying to surf the web.
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Whats the point of putting more features in a cell-phone when the keys are too damn small to use any of them? I have enough trouble with a regular keyboard let alone on a miniscule key-pad where my thumb covers four keys.
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The only reason why these "everything but the kitchen sink" phones are so popular in Japan is because they have such small thumbs.
Maybe if they integrated these phones with a better input device, like a laser-keyboard perhaps, then they might actually be useful.
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Of course, even with one of these I still wouldn't buy one. The screens need to be bigger too
No matter how cool gmail looks (and it does look cool), you are asking for trouble when you agree to route all of your e-mail through a free corporate account.
:)
After you begin to rely upon their service, you could be at their mercy if you use them as your primary account. They could choose to take away features at a whim (or not provide them as technology advances) or outright discontinue you at will. I don't know about the rest of you, but its a real pain to to switch e-mail (especially if you have a gig of stuff on their servers).
Not don't get me wrong, by all accounts, Google is a great company. However, like all corportations, Google needs to make $$$. They will start off with innocent banners in your e-mail, but as the company matures they will begin to look at their bottom line more and more (especially if the founders retire) and you'll be at their mercy.
This is going to sound insane, but I'm hoping that Microsoft builds up a distributed 100K server cluster (or equivalent) to compete against them. Someone needs to keep Google honest
NASA really has everyone believing the "dust on the panels" routine. I'm sure it could be a problem under certain circumstances, but if you ask me, they are hyping this problem so that they can set expectations artificially low.
By setting low expecations, they make themselves look like heroes if they are able to exceed their original mission parameters, and they cover their butts if things turn sour.
I think this is pretty common among technical types, since technology (especially cutting edge tech 100 million miles away on an unexplored world) is so unpredictable.
Any defensive system like this is only going to protect against a certain percentage of missles. It just makes the attacker throw more nukes at you or develop some type of counter-measure (i.e., reflective surfaces, dummy warheads, etc etc). The defensive side isn't about to sit idle when this happens, so it needs to sink resources into developing its own counter-counter measures. You now have an arms which provides you the same protection as before, but now with less resources in both countries economies. The peace types would rather see this money be used for less nefarious purposes. Things like education, health-care, save the spotted owl, etc etc.
So basically, this strange guy provides slow unreliable internet access to people enjoying a bit of air and sunshine in the park. I don't know about the rest of you, but if I want unreliable internet access, I'll do that at home with with Comcast. At least with them, I don't need some weirdo to point a funny antenna at me when I'm trying to surf the web.