I've been looking for something similar to this for the pickers in the warehouse to use, tied into an inventory/order app running on the LAN. The price is good. It would be nice to see something a little larger for ease of use/readability (maybe 5x7"), and of course 3-hour battery life is not going to cut it. Also a normal SD slot would be nice, to plug in a barcode scanner. But it's close... it would be nice to see more devices in a "big PDA" form factor.
I agree that the organism created by the combining of an egg and sperm starts at conception. I disagree on the point that it is a human life....
At what point does it become a human being? There has to be a line somewhere where a human being begins, and the only line that's made sense to me has been conception. What line do you use?
It's all about marketing and appealing to the largest audience possible. Now that PG-13 is the preferred rating studios shoot for, the MPAA ratings system is becoming less and less meaningful. Seems like almost every film that comes out these days is rated PG-13. They're either PG movies with some racy dialogue or maybe a short "intense" scene tossed in, or R movies with some gore/nudity stripped out. Aliens vs. Predator has the same rating as The Terminal? Give me a freakin' break.
I'd say a better question to ask is where have the smart viewers gone.
Now that we have the Internet, the smart viewers spend their free time surfing the web instead of watching TV. TV shows are only going to get worse until we reach some state of true TV/web convergence.
When I switched from using Win/Outlook Express to Mac/Mail, the feature I missed most was the ability to forward html emails intact as I received them.
One of my websites takes user input in a form, and e-mails the results in an html table. Sometimes, I need to forward these messages to other people. With OE, this was no problem. But Mail would convert the forwarded messages to text-only, stripping out all the table code in the process.
I wasn't able to find a fix for this, so I switched to Thunderbird for its excellent html support. It works well for the most part, although there are some annoying Mozilla quirks (separate inbox required for each account, for example) and the bugs that come along with its "technology preview" status. I also miss some of the integration that Mail offers (with Address Book, iPhoto, etc.)
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I've been looking for something similar to this for the pickers in the warehouse to use, tied into an inventory/order app running on the LAN. The price is good. It would be nice to see something a little larger for ease of use/readability (maybe 5x7"), and of course 3-hour battery life is not going to cut it. Also a normal SD slot would be nice, to plug in a barcode scanner. But it's close ... it would be nice to see more devices in a "big PDA" form factor.
At what point does it become a human being? There has to be a line somewhere where a human being begins, and the only line that's made sense to me has been conception. What line do you use?
It's all about marketing and appealing to the largest audience possible. Now that PG-13 is the preferred rating studios shoot for, the MPAA ratings system is becoming less and less meaningful. Seems like almost every film that comes out these days is rated PG-13. They're either PG movies with some racy dialogue or maybe a short "intense" scene tossed in, or R movies with some gore/nudity stripped out. Aliens vs. Predator has the same rating as The Terminal? Give me a freakin' break.
Now that we have the Internet, the smart viewers spend their free time surfing the web instead of watching TV. TV shows are only going to get worse until we reach some state of true TV/web convergence.
When I switched from using Win/Outlook Express to Mac/Mail, the feature I missed most was the ability to forward html emails intact as I received them.
One of my websites takes user input in a form, and e-mails the results in an html table. Sometimes, I need to forward these messages to other people. With OE, this was no problem. But Mail would convert the forwarded messages to text-only, stripping out all the table code in the process.
I wasn't able to find a fix for this, so I switched to Thunderbird for its excellent html support. It works well for the most part, although there are some annoying Mozilla quirks (separate inbox required for each account, for example) and the bugs that come along with its "technology preview" status. I also miss some of the integration that Mail offers (with Address Book, iPhoto, etc.)