I have had experiences like that, yes. However, a system that allows you to avoid them would actually be very dangerous. When you are that sleepy, you aren't far from simply falling asleep at the wheel.
A friend of mine recently fell asleep while driving and drove off into the desert at 80mph, flipping the car and requiring subsequent hospitalization, although thankfully not a funeral.
Consider pulling over (someplace safe, of course!) and taking a nap rather than continuing to drive in circumstances like this. It could save your life. Even a short nap will make a big difference.
The problem with this way of thinking is that SSL certs are used to address more than one threat model. For certain threat models, the degree of verification offered by organizations like OpenSSL and Verisign is worthwhile (assuming you actually get it). For others, it's not.
But consider this. Suppose Mozilla adds support for the free certificate authorities that only verify that you own your domain. So it will accept these certs and put a lock icon where it belongs.
The DNS is not secure. That is, the fact that you appear to own your domain is not securely authenticated. So this means that in theory, someone can spoof the person who is checking your cert request. That makes that person's machine the weak point in the chain.
How much would it cost to spoof this person? Well, you find the one who's least careful. You get control of his or her internet connection. Maybe it costs a couple of thousand bucks. And now you can generate a cert for any domain, and Mozilla will accept it without question.
So for your web site where you're just trying to keep passwords private, and not really worried about a serious cracking effort costing thousands of dollars, having that free CA is a great deal. The problem is that in order for you to get what you want, all the sites that actually need real security have to give it up.
Yeah, it means that if they try to check out your computer and they don't have a PI license, in Texas they can expect to be sentenced to up to a year in jail.
Which isn't a problem unless they present the evidence in court, of course...:')
Dude, were you even/alive/ in the seventies? I was. Yes, times were hard. We had a war to pay off. Inflation was bad. The OPEC embargo was really hard on the economy.
On the other hand, we had working infrastructure, that we were paying for. We didn't have homeless people living on the streets. We didn't have the subprime crisis, or the S&L scandal - we had working Savings and Loans. That's where I had my first checking account after college.
The seventies/were/ good economic times. When you say they weren't, you're buying into neocon newspeak.
As for Obama's economic policies, where do you get this welfare state crap? Pure speculation? We live in a welfare state right now. The problem is that it's corporations that are getting the welfare, not poor people. Trust me, welfare for poor people is a/lot/ cheaper.
The budget deficit was balanced (ish) when Bush came into office. And the reason it's not balanced now is because of his policies. So you really can't say that it makes no difference who you vote for.
It's no contradiction to vote for Obama in this election while doing your best to help Ron Paul to be a real contender in the next election. So please do go help Ron Paul. But please also vote. Hell, vote for McCain if you think he's the better choice. But don't just abdicate your responsibility because your choice is, as it always is, between two people who aren't perfect.
This is exactly what McCain wants, and exactly why the Republicans are pushing so hard for this. They only need to cost a few Democrats their seats in the next election to get their majority back. If they can get people like you to simply not vote, then they can succeed.
Democracy doesn't mean always getting what you want. It doesn't even mean getting to vote for what you want. It means getting to vote. If you don't vote, you aren't helping anyone.
I'm disappointed with this outcome too, but it's pre-election-year politics. They're doing what they think they have to to keep their majority and get a Democratic president in the oval office. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong.
But if you really think it makes no difference whether the Republicans or the Democrats are in control of the government, go back and read your history books. Ask your friends from third world countries who they would rather have in the White House. Take a look at the fiscal policies of the past decade.
If you want to get a chance to vote for someone with whom you agree every time, figure out what to do and do it. Get involved in politics, or start a movement, or whatever. But that's orthogonal to the voting process. You not voting is *exactly* what the Republican party wants.
My experience as a former nice guy with lots of female "friends" is that nice guys are mostly assholes trying to be nice guys. The thing that's keeping you from success is not that you're a nice guy. It's that you're not really a nice guy. Nice guy needs to be who you are, not what your strategy is, or it doesn't work.
I have been thinking of picking up a Bialetti for home now that the Pasquini is out at the retreat center, but I'm not sure it's the right thing to do.
I have an Aeron, and it's not bad, but there are too many adjustments that are done by friction, and I haven't ever been able to get it to stay in place properly when I get it set up properly. I finally gave up the arms as a bad job and took them off. But I still can't tilt the seat forward the right amount.
The one thing the Aeron is great for is that it's a mesh, so you can sit on it when you get back from a bike ride without feeling like you're going to soak the padding with your manly sweat. This is the reason I haven't just spaced the thing.
I hear that the new Aerons are better, but I haven't personally seen any evidence that this is true. So I would really check this out carefully before buying.
And honestly, I'd run this by him. You're going to spend a lot of money to get him a good chair, and chairs are a very personal choice - what works for one person won't work for another. Also a lot of advice you get on ergonomics from chair stores isn't correct, so if you buy a chair based on that advice, you could wind up with a $500 albatross.
What I would personally recommend is that you just tell him you want to get him a chair, and research it with him. If you don't have time, get him something else. This is a really nice idea for a gift, but it's not an easy one.
Oh great, let's just kill the heck out of them. That always works.
I wasn't telling you you had to do something about Burma. I'm just saying, when you're in your SUV, paying $8/gallon for gas, and feeling like your life is crap because you can't pay your mortgage, remember that things could be a lot worse. And then try to put your anger at your own situation in perspective.
There are people in this world who have real problems. The kind that kill you and your loved ones, slowly and painfully. So when someone comes to you and says, have you thought about what you could do to make the world a better place, be patient with them. Maybe their advice is good, maybe it's bad, but there's no need to get angry at them.
Try to listen, and reason about what they say, and if you argue back, argue back by pointing out actual logical flaws in what they've said, or things they've said that you don't accept. There's no reason to get angry just because someone doesn't disagree with your worldview. Life is too short, and you are so, so fortunate. Try to rejoice about that.
If working smarter, not harder, is what really benefits society, then I guess you don't need to eat, do you? Because food preparation isn't something you can really work smart at. Particularly food that's actually good for you.
No, that kind of food requires manual labor. It has to be hand-picked. It has to be lovingly packed for shipping, so that it arrives at your home intact. It has to be weeded, or sprayed, and if you go organic, the plant or tree it grew on probably has to be encased in netting to protect it from birds, which is all done by hand.
It's not the case that society benefits more from your "smart" work than from the work of the person who picks and packs your tomato, or the guy in the kitchen at your favorite restaurant who prepares your favorite steak for dinner.
The difference is simply that if you are a knowledge worker, or a creative worker, you may be able to get a better multiplier on your efforts. Your work may be experienced by more people. Or you may have a skill that is unusual, and gives you more bargaining power than the ability to pick a tomato gives a farm worker. That doesn't make you better than the farm worker, and it doesn't make what you do better either. It's just your good fortune that you wound up in a situation where you could choose a job that wasn't unskilled labor.
Hunh. I'm a computer geek. I was expelled from high school, and dropped out of college because it was a waste of money. I make enough money to hire people to clean my house, although we don't actually hire them.
Sorry, pal, but even my job wasn't hard-earned. I got it because I lucked out. Can you honestly say that you got yours any other way? How much of where you are today is the result of your hard work - something you deserve? How much is just because things went well for you, from the very beginning?
You know, this is really discouraging. Why don't you people talk about what you care about, instead of what you hate about each other? Jesus, this is sickening.
Halfway around the planet real human beings just like you and me are being forced to return to the charnel ground where they used to live by a military junta, because that junta prefers them to be hopeless and cowed instead of hopeful and possibly trying for change. They get to smell their dead neighbors as they sit in their ruined houses.
And your life is so trivial that you worry about how much it costs to drive your 170 pound ass to work? Get some perspective, man. If the price of gas doubles, you're still one of the most fortunate people in the world. If the roof over your head gets repossessed, and you're forced to live in a cardboard box, you're still better off than those people.
I don't wish that fate on you; I'm just saying, count your blessings. Stop beating up on each other. Try to find some common ground.
BTW, pop quiz: do you know which military junta I'm talking about, and where they are?
The OLPC accepts a generous variety of *DC* voltages, meaning that you can charge it directly off of a solar cell, or off of a DC generator that produces variable voltage depending on the input effort.
I know of no other laptop that works this way, including the Classmate and the Eee. All the other laptops I've ever seen take one specific DC voltage, which is not so helpful.
Yes, they could indeed have sent them useless junk that their power systems wouldn't support (not everybody has 120VAC wall current, you know). But it turns out that sending them computers that run easily off of a range of DC voltages, and that draw substantially less power, was a better choice. So that's the one they went with...:')
Face it. It looks like the OLPC didn't have enough testing at the manufacturing level before settling on the cheapest keyboard supplier. The other strange thing about this is that despite the laptop's intended market being people who would normally not have access to computers because of cost or location they only provide a 30 day warranty.
The ignorance of this statement is astonishing. There have been reports of a problem with OLPC keyboards. People have had success repairing the problem. You don't know anything about the service strategy of the OLPC (as witness your statement about the 30-day warranty, which is for G1G1 OLPCs, not end-user OLPCs).
And yet, you're fully prepared to make a harshly critical and categoric statement about the failings of the project, as if it were proven fact, not your completely ignorant conjecture.
Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but really, "face it?" Face what? A completely random statement from a random person? Why should we "face it?"
Your claim that they are taking a loss at $50/unit doesn't make a lot of sense. First of all, if that's true, then why is it that the open-mesh guys are able to sell an identical unit for $50? The problem isn't that they were taking a loss - it's that they weren't making enough profit. Secondly, consider Linksys routers. You can routinely buy these for $50 a pop, and they contain a lot more hardware than the Meraki. If Linksys is making a decent living in this business, why can't Meraki?
The bottom line is that Meraki has a losing business plan, and that's why we're seeing all this thrashing. There's no way they can make money fast enough to satisfy their investors at $50/pop, they need to monetize their dashboard system, they need ads, and that's just not what most end-users want. All of this stupid price model tweaking stuff they're doing is almost certainly motivated by promises they made to investors that they subsequently couldn't keep.
If they are in fact poisoning the firmware (I have two Meraki minis, but haven't had a chance to confirm that their firmware is poisoned), I'm pretty sure this is a felony, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to prove it and fix it. Given that the open mesh boxes are $50 each, I can just buy two and replace the two Merakis I bought as a test project, and I'll come out ahead. It's too bad for the people who bought hundreds or thousands of these devices, though. For them, it might be worth consulting a lawyer.
I know the reason they/gave/ is that YouTube content is blasphemous, but what they/didn't/ tell you is that there have been a lot of really embarrassing videos on YouTube recently. One you might have seen in the news was the one where they showed that there was a gunshot before the explosion that officially was supposed to have killed Benazir Buttho. But it's my understanding that there have been a lot of videos that are/personally/ embarrassing to politicians in Islamabad as well, and this is more probably the motivation behind the ban.
It serves all the sitting politicians' interests to paint this as a religious thing (including the Bush government); it's up to us to try to see through the propaganda.
That's not a great analogy. A buggy whip is obsolete in an automotive world because automobiles can't be made to accelerate by scaring them.
It's true that stateless address configuration takes away one problem that DHCPv4 solves. So stateless is a bit like Bonjour, only you get a routable address. Not a bad thing. But there are a lot of other things that DHCP does in a network infrastructure that stateless can't do so easily, from DNS updates (unless you solve the key distribution problem somehow) to service discovery.
IPv6 with stateless address configuration is really great for plug-and-play scenarios. This is a huge feature, so it's easy to understand why people get religious about it. But DHCP does actually solve problems. So it's not a buggy whip either. I think we'll see a mix of stateless and stateful on the IPv6 Internet; time will tell where the balance is eventually struck.
Proprietary modifications are the problem of the person doing the modification. Because they're proprietary, we (the open source community) never see them again. You can mark this down as a loss, in a sense, but because it's effectively invisible to us, we don't have to deal with it. We don't have to do the track-and-merge dance that forked open-source distributions have to do. So it's actually, weirdly, a benefit.
The problem with relicensing is that you wind up with a code fork that can never heal. Once you have relicensed, the GPL code goes its own way, and the BSD code goes its own way. The maintainers of the GPL code can continue to incorporate changes from the BSD fork, but the maintainers of the BSD fork are prohibited from merging changes from the GPL fork.
Er, the t809 is a really sweet piece of hardware, not software. Sigh. It is, too. It's very rugged - doesn't break into bits when you drop it like some other phones I've had. I wish it had better software.
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I have had experiences like that, yes. However, a system that allows you to avoid them would actually be very dangerous. When you are that sleepy, you aren't far from simply falling asleep at the wheel.
A friend of mine recently fell asleep while driving and drove off into the desert at 80mph, flipping the car and requiring subsequent hospitalization, although thankfully not a funeral.
Consider pulling over (someplace safe, of course!) and taking a nap rather than continuing to drive in circumstances like this. It could save your life. Even a short nap will make a big difference.
The problem with this way of thinking is that SSL certs are used to address more than one threat model. For certain threat models, the degree of verification offered by organizations like OpenSSL and Verisign is worthwhile (assuming you actually get it). For others, it's not.
But consider this. Suppose Mozilla adds support for the free certificate authorities that only verify that you own your domain. So it will accept these certs and put a lock icon where it belongs.
The DNS is not secure. That is, the fact that you appear to own your domain is not securely authenticated. So this means that in theory, someone can spoof the person who is checking your cert request. That makes that person's machine the weak point in the chain.
How much would it cost to spoof this person? Well, you find the one who's least careful. You get control of his or her internet connection. Maybe it costs a couple of thousand bucks. And now you can generate a cert for any domain, and Mozilla will accept it without question.
So for your web site where you're just trying to keep passwords private, and not really worried about a serious cracking effort costing thousands of dollars, having that free CA is a great deal. The problem is that in order for you to get what you want, all the sites that actually need real security have to give it up.
Yeah, it means that if they try to check out your computer and they don't have a PI license, in Texas they can expect to be sentenced to up to a year in jail.
Which isn't a problem unless they present the evidence in court, of course... :')
Dude, were you even /alive/ in the seventies? I was. Yes, times were hard. We had a war to pay off. Inflation was bad. The OPEC embargo was really hard on the economy.
On the other hand, we had working infrastructure, that we were paying for. We didn't have homeless people living on the streets. We didn't have the subprime crisis, or the S&L scandal - we had working Savings and Loans. That's where I had my first checking account after college.
The seventies /were/ good economic times. When you say they weren't, you're buying into neocon newspeak.
As for Obama's economic policies, where do you get this welfare state crap? Pure speculation? We live in a welfare state right now. The problem is that it's corporations that are getting the welfare, not poor people. Trust me, welfare for poor people is a /lot/ cheaper.
If you didn't vote, you didn't oppose it.
The budget deficit was balanced (ish) when Bush came into office. And the reason it's not balanced now is because of his policies. So you really can't say that it makes no difference who you vote for.
You're an inspiration to us all, man. :')
It's no contradiction to vote for Obama in this election while doing your best to help Ron Paul to be a real contender in the next election. So please do go help Ron Paul. But please also vote. Hell, vote for McCain if you think he's the better choice. But don't just abdicate your responsibility because your choice is, as it always is, between two people who aren't perfect.
This is exactly what McCain wants, and exactly why the Republicans are pushing so hard for this. They only need to cost a few Democrats their seats in the next election to get their majority back. If they can get people like you to simply not vote, then they can succeed.
Democracy doesn't mean always getting what you want. It doesn't even mean getting to vote for what you want. It means getting to vote. If you don't vote, you aren't helping anyone.
I'm disappointed with this outcome too, but it's pre-election-year politics. They're doing what they think they have to to keep their majority and get a Democratic president in the oval office. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong.
But if you really think it makes no difference whether the Republicans or the Democrats are in control of the government, go back and read your history books. Ask your friends from third world countries who they would rather have in the White House. Take a look at the fiscal policies of the past decade.
If you want to get a chance to vote for someone with whom you agree every time, figure out what to do and do it. Get involved in politics, or start a movement, or whatever. But that's orthogonal to the voting process. You not voting is *exactly* what the Republican party wants.
My experience as a former nice guy with lots of female "friends" is that nice guys are mostly assholes trying to be nice guys. The thing that's keeping you from success is not that you're a nice guy. It's that you're not really a nice guy. Nice guy needs to be who you are, not what your strategy is, or it doesn't work.
Buy one used! Mine never had a weird taste...
I have been thinking of picking up a Bialetti for home now that the Pasquini is out at the retreat center, but I'm not sure it's the right thing to do.
What do you think of the Mukka?
Dude, you are *so* old. That stopped being funny in... well, actually it was never funny, but it's *so* 2003...
I have an Aeron, and it's not bad, but there are too many adjustments that are done by friction, and I haven't ever been able to get it to stay in place properly when I get it set up properly. I finally gave up the arms as a bad job and took them off. But I still can't tilt the seat forward the right amount.
The one thing the Aeron is great for is that it's a mesh, so you can sit on it when you get back from a bike ride without feeling like you're going to soak the padding with your manly sweat. This is the reason I haven't just spaced the thing.
I hear that the new Aerons are better, but I haven't personally seen any evidence that this is true. So I would really check this out carefully before buying.
And honestly, I'd run this by him. You're going to spend a lot of money to get him a good chair, and chairs are a very personal choice - what works for one person won't work for another. Also a lot of advice you get on ergonomics from chair stores isn't correct, so if you buy a chair based on that advice, you could wind up with a $500 albatross.
What I would personally recommend is that you just tell him you want to get him a chair, and research it with him. If you don't have time, get him something else. This is a really nice idea for a gift, but it's not an easy one.
Oh great, let's just kill the heck out of them. That always works.
I wasn't telling you you had to do something about Burma. I'm just saying, when you're in your SUV, paying $8/gallon for gas, and feeling like your life is crap because you can't pay your mortgage, remember that things could be a lot worse. And then try to put your anger at your own situation in perspective.
There are people in this world who have real problems. The kind that kill you and your loved ones, slowly and painfully. So when someone comes to you and says, have you thought about what you could do to make the world a better place, be patient with them. Maybe their advice is good, maybe it's bad, but there's no need to get angry at them.
Try to listen, and reason about what they say, and if you argue back, argue back by pointing out actual logical flaws in what they've said, or things they've said that you don't accept. There's no reason to get angry just because someone doesn't disagree with your worldview. Life is too short, and you are so, so fortunate. Try to rejoice about that.
If working smarter, not harder, is what really benefits society, then I guess you don't need to eat, do you? Because food preparation isn't something you can really work smart at. Particularly food that's actually good for you.
No, that kind of food requires manual labor. It has to be hand-picked. It has to be lovingly packed for shipping, so that it arrives at your home intact. It has to be weeded, or sprayed, and if you go organic, the plant or tree it grew on probably has to be encased in netting to protect it from birds, which is all done by hand.
It's not the case that society benefits more from your "smart" work than from the work of the person who picks and packs your tomato, or the guy in the kitchen at your favorite restaurant who prepares your favorite steak for dinner.
The difference is simply that if you are a knowledge worker, or a creative worker, you may be able to get a better multiplier on your efforts. Your work may be experienced by more people. Or you may have a skill that is unusual, and gives you more bargaining power than the ability to pick a tomato gives a farm worker. That doesn't make you better than the farm worker, and it doesn't make what you do better either. It's just your good fortune that you wound up in a situation where you could choose a job that wasn't unskilled labor.
Hunh. I'm a computer geek. I was expelled from high school, and dropped out of college because it was a waste of money. I make enough money to hire people to clean my house, although we don't actually hire them.
Sorry, pal, but even my job wasn't hard-earned. I got it because I lucked out. Can you honestly say that you got yours any other way? How much of where you are today is the result of your hard work - something you deserve? How much is just because things went well for you, from the very beginning?
You know, this is really discouraging. Why don't you people talk about what you care about, instead of what you hate about each other? Jesus, this is sickening.
Halfway around the planet real human beings just like you and me are being forced to return to the charnel ground where they used to live by a military junta, because that junta prefers them to be hopeless and cowed instead of hopeful and possibly trying for change. They get to smell their dead neighbors as they sit in their ruined houses.
And your life is so trivial that you worry about how much it costs to drive your 170 pound ass to work? Get some perspective, man. If the price of gas doubles, you're still one of the most fortunate people in the world. If the roof over your head gets repossessed, and you're forced to live in a cardboard box, you're still better off than those people.
I don't wish that fate on you; I'm just saying, count your blessings. Stop beating up on each other. Try to find some common ground.
BTW, pop quiz: do you know which military junta I'm talking about, and where they are?
The OLPC accepts a generous variety of *DC* voltages, meaning that you can charge it directly off of a solar cell, or off of a DC generator that produces variable voltage depending on the input effort.
I know of no other laptop that works this way, including the Classmate and the Eee. All the other laptops I've ever seen take one specific DC voltage, which is not so helpful.
They thanked me by sending me a really cool toy. YMMV, of course.
The good news about all this bad press is that with any luck it will drive down the price of OLPCs on ebay, and then I can corner the market...
Yes, they could indeed have sent them useless junk that their power systems wouldn't support (not everybody has 120VAC wall current, you know). But it turns out that sending them computers that run easily off of a range of DC voltages, and that draw substantially less power, was a better choice. So that's the one they went with... :')
The ignorance of this statement is astonishing. There have been reports of a problem with OLPC keyboards. People have had success repairing the problem. You don't know anything about the service strategy of the OLPC (as witness your statement about the 30-day warranty, which is for G1G1 OLPCs, not end-user OLPCs).
And yet, you're fully prepared to make a harshly critical and categoric statement about the failings of the project, as if it were proven fact, not your completely ignorant conjecture.
Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but really, "face it?" Face what? A completely random statement from a random person? Why should we "face it?"
Your claim that they are taking a loss at $50/unit doesn't make a lot of sense. First of all, if that's true, then why is it that the open-mesh guys are able to sell an identical unit for $50? The problem isn't that they were taking a loss - it's that they weren't making enough profit. Secondly, consider Linksys routers. You can routinely buy these for $50 a pop, and they contain a lot more hardware than the Meraki. If Linksys is making a decent living in this business, why can't Meraki?
The bottom line is that Meraki has a losing business plan, and that's why we're seeing all this thrashing. There's no way they can make money fast enough to satisfy their investors at $50/pop, they need to monetize their dashboard system, they need ads, and that's just not what most end-users want. All of this stupid price model tweaking stuff they're doing is almost certainly motivated by promises they made to investors that they subsequently couldn't keep.
If they are in fact poisoning the firmware (I have two Meraki minis, but haven't had a chance to confirm that their firmware is poisoned), I'm pretty sure this is a felony, but I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to prove it and fix it. Given that the open mesh boxes are $50 each, I can just buy two and replace the two Merakis I bought as a test project, and I'll come out ahead. It's too bad for the people who bought hundreds or thousands of these devices, though. For them, it might be worth consulting a lawyer.
I know the reason they /gave/ is that YouTube content is blasphemous, but what they /didn't/ tell you is that there have been a lot of really embarrassing videos on YouTube recently. One you might have seen in the news was the one where they showed that there was a gunshot before the explosion that officially was supposed to have killed Benazir Buttho. But it's my understanding that there have been a lot of videos that are /personally/ embarrassing to politicians in Islamabad as well, and this is more probably the motivation behind the ban.
It serves all the sitting politicians' interests to paint this as a religious thing (including the Bush government); it's up to us to try to see through the propaganda.
That's not a great analogy. A buggy whip is obsolete in an automotive world because automobiles can't be made to accelerate by scaring them.
It's true that stateless address configuration takes away one problem that DHCPv4 solves. So stateless is a bit like Bonjour, only you get a routable address. Not a bad thing. But there are a lot of other things that DHCP does in a network infrastructure that stateless can't do so easily, from DNS updates (unless you solve the key distribution problem somehow) to service discovery.
IPv6 with stateless address configuration is really great for plug-and-play scenarios. This is a huge feature, so it's easy to understand why people get religious about it. But DHCP does actually solve problems. So it's not a buggy whip either. I think we'll see a mix of stateless and stateful on the IPv6 Internet; time will tell where the balance is eventually struck.
Proprietary modifications are the problem of the person doing the modification. Because they're proprietary, we (the open source community) never see them again. You can mark this down as a loss, in a sense, but because it's effectively invisible to us, we don't have to deal with it. We don't have to do the track-and-merge dance that forked open-source distributions have to do. So it's actually, weirdly, a benefit.
The problem with relicensing is that you wind up with a code fork that can never heal. Once you have relicensed, the GPL code goes its own way, and the BSD code goes its own way. The maintainers of the GPL code can continue to incorporate changes from the BSD fork, but the maintainers of the BSD fork are prohibited from merging changes from the GPL fork.
Er, the t809 is a really sweet piece of hardware, not software. Sigh. It is, too. It's very rugged - doesn't break into bits when you drop it like some other phones I've had. I wish it had better software.