I think I must have been one of the few users to like the Gmail app.
It's great for a number of reasons:
1) It doesn't weigh down your BB with loads of email in the core system
2) You load it up when YOU want to read your email, not when the email comes through
3) Closing it is a nice way of forgetting about work
4) You could search all your old mail
I actually got stuck in Madrid airport without BIS quite recently, so I tried the mobile web version of gmail. It was a terrible experience - it was unresponsive, the ui was too big, yet too cluttered, waiting for 2 pages to reload every time you wanted to look at a new email etc etc was a pain. And this was on wifi on Blackberrys latest and greatest (9900)
Long story short I will miss the gmail app. IT wasn't great, but it had a lot of plus points. Sure, I can got get the gmail plugin and set it up via the native app, but if I wanted to do that I'd have done it in the first place.
I've only recently converted to blackberry, I'm a fussy bugger about keyboards and it really can't be beaten. This makes me sad.
I guess you've never worked in retail, nor understand quite how retail works.
Do you not sell on price alone. If this were the case the world would be full of geeks running e-stores out of bedrooms which allow for the lowest overheads thus the smallest margin.
Customers (outside of/. (they do exist)) generally want advice, the unwashed masses aren't supergeeks like we are. Bricks and Mortar stores allow customers to compare ranges of products in the flesh and speak to a real person who has likely had years of training and experience.
We've got to a situation now where these stores are browsed at the weekends, the customer uses the shops expertise, nice warm displays etc then the first thing they do when they get to work on a monday is buy it online. This is obviously not a sustainable model for retail, which a large percentage of our economy is based on.
Further to counter you point, even the online PRICE COMPARISON engines have been moving away from purely PRICE listings. They all have an element of customer service reviews, and now most of them recommend a "smart choice" which is the cheapest of the retailers with x% positive feedback. As you might have guessed, the retailers operating on the smallest margins are often those who don't provide the service, so this recommended retailer isn't always the cheapest.
I work in eCommerce, in particular the high end AV and home electricals' market.
"Premium" brands have been penalising eCommerce only ventures for a number of years now. It can be as simple as giving traditional retailers better retro (% of turn over paid back once a year) and has harsh as limited stock. The same goes on in online photography.
To be clear, we're not an online only brand, we have a number of high street stores with decent turnover. Now, the manufacturers are getting even tougher. The amount of premium brands we've had to take off our website in the past 6 months to keep our decent terms for the traditional is shocking. These weren't small accounts either, they run into 7 figures of the UKs finest GBP.
Why? The brands think by selling online you're selling on price (which is largely true thanks to sites like pricegrabber, pricerunner, kelkoo etc) and this devalues their brand.
How they control the market is nothing short of cartel like, but it's not going to change, only get worse if this law comes into effect.
FWIW, even as someone who is struggling to do online business thanks to these they do have a point. Pure, price comparison based online shopping will eventually leave us with very few trained product experts or the ability to see products in the "flesh" before buying online. A balance needs to be found.
Actually, as one of those people who developed Ulcerative Colitis shortly after giving up smoking this comes as no surprise.
Colitis (the better known Crohns disease is a colitis) is a horribly crippling condition, not just physically but mentally too as you never know when you're next going to end up in hospital or on horrible body destroying anti inflammatory steroids.
I welcome ANY development in linking nicotine to a suppression of colitis symptoms.
Queue all the "OMG FACEBOOK WILL BECOMES MYSAPCE!!!!1" comments...
Under it's current ownership I can't see that happening. The site is run by developers (which is great in my opinion).
If you don't believe me go and check their blog. Failing that try and change your name and you're presented with...
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Is it not just a layer on top of the filesystem, like VSS / Shadow copy?
Implementing this on a network with a lot of shared drives is a godsend. You go from constantly pulling "critical" deleted files off tape to almost never having to go near one.
Now i'm a Unix fanboy but that's crazy. We run Microsoft Dynamics Ax (mssql based) on a 7 year old server with a 20gb database. The server hasn't been rebooted in nearly 2 years, has 2gb of ram and quad p3 733s and absolutely flys.
Some marketing firm is going to get a big bonus for such a decent slashvertisment.
It still boggles the mind that anything we see now will have happened 300,000,000 years ago.
The system / actions we're only just seeing happen now might have already been destroyed by old age / a huge intergalactic war. My money is on Lrr from Omicron Persei VIII.
I just watched the "Original Stolzer Parkhaus video - 3:25" video on that site. What ramps? The only "ramp" I have seen is the slight depression the tires of the red BMW are in. That's 3cm or so.... If you don't have 3cm clearance under your car you'll have other problems than parking your car. Just driving around would damage it.
I don't claim that my Audi TT is a supercar (it clearly isn't), but that "ramp" is not a problem at all. I've seen a Lamborghini take a speedbump once (+/-20cm high, I guess) and it had to slow to a crawl, but it didn't seem to be a problem getting over it.
I watched the SWF "Automotion Promotional Movie" and the tyre depression looked to be around 3" in the final shot. As always YMMV.
Am I the only one who really wants to leave a video camera running a car to catch all the inner workings of the garage? Watching your car whirl around above masses of others would be like porn to me.
Here is a link: AutoMotion Parking Systems Video Thanks for that. Not nearly as cool as my mind had made it out to be but still really neat.
I'd hate to be the person responsible for maintaining all the mechanical runners, plus I know my trackcar would ground itself once you'd driven it into the ramps. Even a standard supercar would have clearance issues.
Am I the only one who really wants to leave a video camera running a car to catch all the inner workings of the garage? Watching your car whirl around above masses of others would be like porn to me.
Come to think of it, why hasn't anyone done this (or linked to this) already?!
Ok, it might stop the bullet going through the skin but the second level damage could easily still put you out of action. From watching the video there's a fair amount of flex in the product.
Imagine a heavy round being stopped by your kneecap.
Not just too scary but there are many, many stupid things you can do in GT that you can't in real life like adjusting speed while on the limit in a bend or barreling into the corkscrew on the brakes and not lose the rear.
Would you really want to sleep in the same room as an ultra high gain wifi antenna?
I have (probably unfounded) concerns about upgrading my B to G as i sleep 100cm's away from the idea trasmitter location.
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I think I must have been one of the few users to like the Gmail app.
It's great for a number of reasons:
1) It doesn't weigh down your BB with loads of email in the core system
2) You load it up when YOU want to read your email, not when the email comes through
3) Closing it is a nice way of forgetting about work
4) You could search all your old mail
I actually got stuck in Madrid airport without BIS quite recently, so I tried the mobile web version of gmail. It was a terrible experience - it was unresponsive, the ui was too big, yet too cluttered, waiting for 2 pages to reload every time you wanted to look at a new email etc etc was a pain. And this was on wifi on Blackberrys latest and greatest (9900)
Long story short I will miss the gmail app. IT wasn't great, but it had a lot of plus points. Sure, I can got get the gmail plugin and set it up via the native app, but if I wanted to do that I'd have done it in the first place.
I've only recently converted to blackberry, I'm a fussy bugger about keyboards and it really can't be beaten. This makes me sad.
I guess you've never worked in retail, nor understand quite how retail works.
/. (they do exist)) generally want advice, the unwashed masses aren't supergeeks like we are. Bricks and Mortar stores allow customers to compare ranges of products in the flesh and speak to a real person who has likely had years of training and experience.
Do you not sell on price alone. If this were the case the world would be full of geeks running e-stores out of bedrooms which allow for the lowest overheads thus the smallest margin.
Customers (outside of
We've got to a situation now where these stores are browsed at the weekends, the customer uses the shops expertise, nice warm displays etc then the first thing they do when they get to work on a monday is buy it online. This is obviously not a sustainable model for retail, which a large percentage of our economy is based on.
Further to counter you point, even the online PRICE COMPARISON engines have been moving away from purely PRICE listings. They all have an element of customer service reviews, and now most of them recommend a "smart choice" which is the cheapest of the retailers with x% positive feedback. As you might have guessed, the retailers operating on the smallest margins are often those who don't provide the service, so this recommended retailer isn't always the cheapest.
I work in eCommerce, in particular the high end AV and home electricals' market. "Premium" brands have been penalising eCommerce only ventures for a number of years now. It can be as simple as giving traditional retailers better retro (% of turn over paid back once a year) and has harsh as limited stock. The same goes on in online photography. To be clear, we're not an online only brand, we have a number of high street stores with decent turnover. Now, the manufacturers are getting even tougher. The amount of premium brands we've had to take off our website in the past 6 months to keep our decent terms for the traditional is shocking. These weren't small accounts either, they run into 7 figures of the UKs finest GBP. Why? The brands think by selling online you're selling on price (which is largely true thanks to sites like pricegrabber, pricerunner, kelkoo etc) and this devalues their brand. How they control the market is nothing short of cartel like, but it's not going to change, only get worse if this law comes into effect. FWIW, even as someone who is struggling to do online business thanks to these they do have a point. Pure, price comparison based online shopping will eventually leave us with very few trained product experts or the ability to see products in the "flesh" before buying online. A balance needs to be found.
And in other news, satan is ice skating to work today.
Does anyone else find it ironic that video is presented by "php-nuke"? :)
Actually, as one of those people who developed Ulcerative Colitis shortly after giving up smoking this comes as no surprise.
Colitis (the better known Crohns disease is a colitis) is a horribly crippling condition, not just physically but mentally too as you never know when you're next going to end up in hospital or on horrible body destroying anti inflammatory steroids.
I welcome ANY development in linking nicotine to a suppression of colitis symptoms.
Under it's current ownership I can't see that happening. The site is run by developers (which is great in my opinion).
If you don't believe me go and check their blog. Failing that try and change your name and you're presented with...
# Your Facebook profile must be attached to your real name.
# You must include your full name.
# Celebrity names, nicknames, or other fake names are not allowed and will not be approved.
# Obscenity, curses, and swear words are not allowed and will not be approved.
# ISn't~ ThIs 3 AnN0YiNg 2 ReAd? Non-standard capitalization and special characters are not allowed and will not be approved.
# Do not try to combine sentences into one word; Jane Lookatmysupercoolnewnickname Smith will not be approved.
You actually know what you're talking about.
You must be new here.
Is it not just a layer on top of the filesystem, like VSS / Shadow copy?
Implementing this on a network with a lot of shared drives is a godsend. You go from constantly pulling "critical" deleted files off tape to almost never having to go near one.
Now i'm a Unix fanboy but that's crazy. We run Microsoft Dynamics Ax (mssql based) on a 7 year old server with a 20gb database. The server hasn't been rebooted in nearly 2 years, has 2gb of ram and quad p3 733s and absolutely flys.
Some marketing firm is going to get a big bonus for such a decent slashvertisment.
Not that I understand anything about DirectX but wouldn't this be the first step to getting something functioning in WINE?
It still boggles the mind that anything we see now will have happened 300,000,000 years ago.
The system / actions we're only just seeing happen now might have already been destroyed by old age / a huge intergalactic war. My money is on Lrr from Omicron Persei VIII.
<Patrician|Away> what does your robot do, sam
<bovril> it collects data about the surrounding environment, then discards it and drives into walls
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You must be new here...
We already have traffic lights that respond to motion / induction loops in the ground in the UK, surely this started state-side?
It's better than "squirting" Apache into OO.org.
/. after all.
One could make any number of Apache squirting jokes but this is
I just watched the "Original Stolzer Parkhaus video - 3:25" video on that site. What ramps? The only "ramp" I have seen is the slight depression the tires of the red BMW are in. That's 3cm or so.... If you don't have 3cm clearance under your car you'll have other problems than parking your car. Just driving around would damage it.
I don't claim that my Audi TT is a supercar (it clearly isn't), but that "ramp" is not a problem at all. I've seen a Lamborghini take a speedbump once (+/-20cm high, I guess) and it had to slow to a crawl, but it didn't seem to be a problem getting over it.
I watched the SWF "Automotion Promotional Movie" and the tyre depression looked to be around 3" in the final shot. As always YMMV.Here is a link: AutoMotion Parking Systems Video Thanks for that. Not nearly as cool as my mind had made it out to be but still really neat.
I'd hate to be the person responsible for maintaining all the mechanical runners, plus I know my trackcar would ground itself once you'd driven it into the ramps. Even a standard supercar would have clearance issues.
Am I the only one who really wants to leave a video camera running a car to catch all the inner workings of the garage? Watching your car whirl around above masses of others would be like porn to me.
Come to think of it, why hasn't anyone done this (or linked to this) already?!
Ok, it might stop the bullet going through the skin but the second level damage could easily still put you out of action. From watching the video there's a fair amount of flex in the product.
Imagine a heavy round being stopped by your kneecap.
Not just too scary but there are many, many stupid things you can do in GT that you can't in real life like adjusting speed while on the limit in a bend or barreling into the corkscrew on the brakes and not lose the rear.
:)
Plus he was driving a type R in gran turismo
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You can't be. There's nothing to do with ipods in the article.
Would you really want to sleep in the same room as an ultra high gain wifi antenna? I have (probably unfounded) concerns about upgrading my B to G as i sleep 100cm's away from the idea trasmitter location.