the Nook doesn't have a microphone either, AFAIK, so you can't use it for VOIP or similar services like Skype. I use VOIP extensively when travelling, it saves me a lot of money on mobile phone charges, so not having a mic (or a mic socket) would be a major loss.
I would consider the Asus Slider. http://www.engadget.com/tag/asus,slider has lots about it. It depends how much time you will spend carrying it, vs how much time sitting using a tablet and wishing you had a a laptop/netbook or a keyboard.
I've had the MD say that we can lock down iphones and ipads used by sales staff etc, e.g. to require secure passwords, to auto-lock, to self erase on sufficient wrong passwords. But we are not to do it on his devices because he doesn't want to be inconvenience! Senior staff (junior director level) pick up on that and demand to have non-self-locking devices and to be allowed to have trivial lock codes as well.
They also want to be able to use their own ipads/iphones for corporate use and want us to provide personal support for their own systems, even to the point of asking someone to visit their home to fix their wifi so they can work from home:-(
A laptop computer which is more than adequate for a sales person costs less than a weeks salary, so to be honest, BYOD is not about saving money, it's about pandering to staff who want to be able to goof around on the internet all day and be immune to inspection of their device (browser history etc) in case of abuse. IT staff can't ensure they have backups, anti-virus, content control etc. If someone has confidential information on their own computer, when they leave you can't require it to be wiped.
My suspicion is this. Corporates do not, generally, buy Mac. You can't get Apple to come on site to fix them. There's no discounting which makes the bean counters feel happy. There's no corporate accessory stuff like docking bays. You don't get to do all the centralised lock-down like you can with Windows policy servers. The only way you get a Mac into such a work place is to smuggle it in through the back door, using a BYOD policy. However, the suits now like their iPads and so are forcing the IT departments to relax their policies.
perhaps what we need is a peer-to-peer form of DNS, using something like the way bitcoin works to allow distribution of root nameservers, with reputation scoring for central services. people can vote up popular domains, and bad domains (scammers, phishers and spammers) voted down.
Godaddy used to be my first port of call as a DNS provider. I didn't like their email service much, preferring to use Google*. However, not so long ago Godaddy decided that they needed their customers to pay more, so would deliberately allow their basic service to degrade and thus "encourage" customers to pay for premium service:
http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm
* unfortunately, google's free hosted service only allows 10 users now before you have to pay, they used to allow 25. I understand that Google want to commercialize their services, but it is disappointing.
there were some great programming tools for the Atari and Amiga which allowed people to write some great applications and build up their skills.. blizzard basic, and the like.
yes, I distinctly remember Toshiba having fuel-cell technology that was nearly fit for consumer use for a long time.
I'm no patent lawyer, but I can't see how Apple's patent won't get thrown out. Simply taking something existing and adding the phrase "on a mobile phone" or "for a laptop computer" doesn't, IMNSHO, add the crucial inventiveness stage that ensures a patent can be defended. Of course, it'll take an organisation with deep pockets to fight Apple given they have cash reserves equivalent to a small nation!
to be fair, the real terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq think nothing of using women and children as mules to carry explosives and drugs, or use as suicide bombers.
I'm not excusing or condoning the TSA's practices, but given their modus operandi is to screen random people, they cannot be seen to profile by race or ethnicity, so they treat everyone like sh*t.
Proper security costs proper money as it requires intelligent staff, high quality information gathering systems, a level of alertness that's hard to maintain, a willingness to actually fix aircraft to be more secure (separate doors for pilot etc) and so on. Cheaper, as Bruce S. has pointed out many times, to maintain the theatre, and hope that the theatricals make the terrorists nervous so they become more visible.
I used to enjoy visiting the US (from England), but I feel I am treated with contempt at the borders.
For example, a few weeks ago I flew in via Washington Dulles. Out of the 20+ passport contro booths, 14 were open, 12 for US citizens and those with residency, but 2, yes just 2 for the rest of us (who outnumbered the Americans). It wasn't until every single US resident, including those from a later flight, was processed that the rest of us were allowed to use the now idle passport offices.
Late last year I had something confiscated which I should have packed (my fault, entirely). I decided to surrender it rather than find the post office, re-queue and risk missing my flight. What sucked was the way that the TSA staffer was very happy to pocket the tiny swiss army multitool. I wish I'd broken off the blade so as to keep the item.
What I can say is that at least the TSA are becoming faster/more efficient at their games. Flying back from Phoenix recently the staff were actually fairly reasonable, especially when testing my son's medicine.
er, yes, but you have to remember that this is a cellular network. sure, bandwidth for each cell might be limited, so make the cells smaller and have more cells.
as it happens, most cellular operators have problems because they've not put in sufficient backhaul from the cell tower to the internet (via their central routers).
I'm not going to try too hard to counter the fanboyism. I hope I am not feeding the trolls.
Apple were far from the first to invent the tablet, but what they did do was turn a niche market into a mass consumer product through a combination of producing up to date hardware running an OS and application suite that was widely accepted and popular. I could denigrate it to say it was simply an iPod/iPhone maxi, but the new form did allow it to be so much more.
What really irks me about globalisation is that many big corporations have closed down local operations - manufacturing, test, etc - in order to maximise profit, but then get upset when grey import channels are established to allow the consumer to take advantage of the cheaper manufacturing!
For example, CDWow used to buy completely legitimate CDs and DVDs from cheaper markets like Hong Kong and ship them into Europe. The official importers, controlled by the studios, complained and managed to get those channels closed down:
courts-ban-cd-wows-grey-imports.
So, at the same time the jobs were lost as part of a cost-cutting measure, those newly redundant people were expected to continue to pay full price.
the movie "carts of darkness" is enjoyable to watch and might give you a new perspective on people who collect recyclables from trashcans:
http://www.nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness/
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https://market.android.com/details?id=org.woltage.irssiconnectbot&hl=en this offers better keyboard mapping features
the Nook doesn't have a microphone either, AFAIK, so you can't use it for VOIP or similar services like Skype. I use VOIP extensively when travelling, it saves me a lot of money on mobile phone charges, so not having a mic (or a mic socket) would be a major loss.
lag when typing in URLs could be caused by the Google Instant search feature. if you're constrained to poor wifi or laggy 3G, best to turn it off.
autocorrect/autospell can also be a cause of lag.
I would consider the Asus Slider. http://www.engadget.com/tag/asus,slider has lots about it. It depends how much time you will spend carrying it, vs how much time sitting using a tablet and wishing you had a a laptop/netbook or a keyboard.
maybe what you want is G-Lite
+1
:-(
I've had the MD say that we can lock down iphones and ipads used by sales staff etc, e.g. to require secure passwords, to auto-lock, to self erase on sufficient wrong passwords. But we are not to do it on his devices because he doesn't want to be inconvenience! Senior staff (junior director level) pick up on that and demand to have non-self-locking devices and to be allowed to have trivial lock codes as well.
They also want to be able to use their own ipads/iphones for corporate use and want us to provide personal support for their own systems, even to the point of asking someone to visit their home to fix their wifi so they can work from home
A laptop computer which is more than adequate for a sales person costs less than a weeks salary, so to be honest, BYOD is not about saving money, it's about pandering to staff who want to be able to goof around on the internet all day and be immune to inspection of their device (browser history etc) in case of abuse. IT staff can't ensure they have backups, anti-virus, content control etc. If someone has confidential information on their own computer, when they leave you can't require it to be wiped.
My suspicion is this. Corporates do not, generally, buy Mac. You can't get Apple to come on site to fix them. There's no discounting which makes the bean counters feel happy. There's no corporate accessory stuff like docking bays. You don't get to do all the centralised lock-down like you can with Windows policy servers. The only way you get a Mac into such a work place is to smuggle it in through the back door, using a BYOD policy. However, the suits now like their iPads and so are forcing the IT departments to relax their policies.
perhaps what we need is a peer-to-peer form of DNS, using something like the way bitcoin works to allow distribution of root nameservers, with reputation scoring for central services. people can vote up popular domains, and bad domains (scammers, phishers and spammers) voted down.
Godaddy used to be my first port of call as a DNS provider. I didn't like their email service much, preferring to use Google*. However, not so long ago Godaddy decided that they needed their customers to pay more, so would deliberately allow their basic service to degrade and thus "encourage" customers to pay for premium service:
http://rscott.org/dns/GoDaddy_Selective_DNS_Blackouts.htm
* unfortunately, google's free hosted service only allows 10 users now before you have to pay, they used to allow 25. I understand that Google want to commercialize their services, but it is disappointing.
there were some great programming tools for the Atari and Amiga which allowed people to write some great applications and build up their skills.. blizzard basic, and the like.
anyone remember arexx, which was a powerful tool?
How about Lua on android and iOS?
it seems this particular wheel keeps getting reinvented.
yes, I distinctly remember Toshiba having fuel-cell technology that was nearly fit for consumer use for a long time. I'm no patent lawyer, but I can't see how Apple's patent won't get thrown out. Simply taking something existing and adding the phrase "on a mobile phone" or "for a laptop computer" doesn't, IMNSHO, add the crucial inventiveness stage that ensures a patent can be defended. Of course, it'll take an organisation with deep pockets to fight Apple given they have cash reserves equivalent to a small nation!
I think you'll find that the cost per device of iOS to Apple is less than the Microsoft tax on Android.
Apple have a surprisingly small team of engineers, compared with those who work on WinPhone7 and used to work on SymbianS60.
to be fair, the real terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq think nothing of using women and children as mules to carry explosives and drugs, or use as suicide bombers.
I'm not excusing or condoning the TSA's practices, but given their modus operandi is to screen random people, they cannot be seen to profile by race or ethnicity, so they treat everyone like sh*t.
Proper security costs proper money as it requires intelligent staff, high quality information gathering systems, a level of alertness that's hard to maintain, a willingness to actually fix aircraft to be more secure (separate doors for pilot etc) and so on. Cheaper, as Bruce S. has pointed out many times, to maintain the theatre, and hope that the theatricals make the terrorists nervous so they become more visible.
I used to enjoy visiting the US (from England), but I feel I am treated with contempt at the borders.
For example, a few weeks ago I flew in via Washington Dulles. Out of the 20+ passport contro booths, 14 were open, 12 for US citizens and those with residency, but 2, yes just 2 for the rest of us (who outnumbered the Americans). It wasn't until every single US resident, including those from a later flight, was processed that the rest of us were allowed to use the now idle passport offices.
Late last year I had something confiscated which I should have packed (my fault, entirely). I decided to surrender it rather than find the post office, re-queue and risk missing my flight. What sucked was the way that the TSA staffer was very happy to pocket the tiny swiss army multitool. I wish I'd broken off the blade so as to keep the item.
What I can say is that at least the TSA are becoming faster/more efficient at their games. Flying back from Phoenix recently the staff were actually fairly reasonable, especially when testing my son's medicine.
compare the strong Swiss Franc against US Dollars
er, yes, but you have to remember that this is a cellular network. sure, bandwidth for each cell might be limited, so make the cells smaller and have more cells.
as it happens, most cellular operators have problems because they've not put in sufficient backhaul from the cell tower to the internet (via their central routers).
it's like teaching them how a car works vs teaching them how to post bad car analogies on slashdot?
I think a better analogy is the difference between teaching carpentry and woodwork designs vs assembling Ikea furniture.
I'm not going to try too hard to counter the fanboyism. I hope I am not feeding the trolls.
Apple were far from the first to invent the tablet, but what they did do was turn a niche market into a mass consumer product through a combination of producing up to date hardware running an OS and application suite that was widely accepted and popular. I could denigrate it to say it was simply an iPod/iPhone maxi, but the new form did allow it to be so much more.
Here's a couple of examples of tablets, I didn't look too hard, these are just from casual memory.
Fujitsu had a sequence of Stylistic tablets, for example one came out in 2004, here's a review http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/fujitsu-stylistic-st5022d-tablet/1707-3121_7-31252752.html
Sony had a couple too, the U50 and U71 http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/VGN-U50/
mod parent up!
I have patented the process of resigning as CEO and becoming chairman of a company.
Steve Jobs owes me millions, mwha ha ha ha!
oy! don't you DARE go doubting the existence of the tooth fairy, who made me richer when I was a child and my teeth fell out. :-D
some companies are bringing manufacturing back to the USA: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/29/why-we-left-our-factories-in-china/
What really irks me about globalisation is that many big corporations have closed down local operations - manufacturing, test, etc - in order to maximise profit, but then get upset when grey import channels are established to allow the consumer to take advantage of the cheaper manufacturing!
For example, CDWow used to buy completely legitimate CDs and DVDs from cheaper markets like Hong Kong and ship them into Europe. The official importers, controlled by the studios, complained and managed to get those channels closed down: courts-ban-cd-wows-grey-imports.
So, at the same time the jobs were lost as part of a cost-cutting measure, those newly redundant people were expected to continue to pay full price.
a lot of Dell server manufacturing in Europe moved to Poland, because the workers were better educated, worked harder and were cheaper.
the movie "carts of darkness" is enjoyable to watch and might give you a new perspective on people who collect recyclables from trashcans: http://www.nfb.ca/film/carts_of_darkness/