well at least I'm not the only one who feels this way.
what I was wondering was if there could be an actual explanation for this sad state of affairs.
I can understand that sony might feel that its clie line takes away from some of its other products, but shouldn't palmone be striving to make products that you actually want to buy ?
Does anybody understand why the pda market moves sideways while others move forward ?
I just can't believe the way the pda market is so messed up.
How can you bring out a device like this so long after sony's th-55 ?
Repeat after me : it's not the specs, it's the performance.
With a properly configured th-55 and a reasonably large memory stick, you can watch full screen 22fps video with no dropped frames (hours of it) take pics, take mpeg videos, you have bluetooth for web connection through your phone, connection to your computer, gps whatever, wifi, voice recorder, mp3 playback, single-handed operation, tons of buttons, jog-dial and the machine's small and looks good.
So how can palmone be coming out with a device that's bulkier, heavier, apparently lags because of the hard drive, has no camera, has to have holes in it or it overheats, and costs $100 more ?
I don't even understand how this can happen !/END RANT
As human technology progresses, there will come a point where it surpasses human biology in complexity and sophistication. So there will be a time where you can connect a computer to your brain (hardware). But the important question is : how do you want it to interface with your mind (software) ?
I wonder if AI will be sufficiently advanced at that time that the problem won't really be ours to solve, just put a layer of AI between the main machine and the mind. Then again, maybe by the time this is possible, we'll have re-engineered ourselves so much that there won't really be any distinction between the parts anymore...
I do think there's food for thought here though...Do we want what we have now, but faster and better ? Or an AI assistant that grows with us from birth, an alternate mind that exists to serve, sort of a mind secretary that provides extra documentation, correlations, and memory to the main mind without it even having to ask (my PDA in 50 years)? Wouldn't that discourage the main mind from
learning certain crucial skills though ?
I guess the real question is : how far do we want integration to go ? Do we want to think of our computer as "it" ? Or as part of "I" ?
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well at least I'm not the only one who feels this way.
what I was wondering was if there could be an actual explanation for this sad state of affairs.
I can understand that sony might feel that its clie line takes away from some of its other products, but shouldn't palmone be striving to make products that you actually want to buy ?
Does anybody understand why the pda market moves sideways while others move forward ?
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I just can't believe the way the pda market is so messed up.
How can you bring out a device like this so long after sony's th-55 ?
Repeat after me : it's not the specs, it's the performance.
With a properly configured th-55 and a reasonably large memory stick, you can watch full screen 22fps video with no dropped frames (hours of it) take pics, take mpeg videos, you have bluetooth for web connection through your phone, connection to your computer, gps whatever, wifi, voice recorder, mp3 playback, single-handed operation, tons of buttons, jog-dial and the machine's small and looks good.
So how can palmone be coming out with a device that's bulkier, heavier, apparently lags because of the hard drive, has no camera, has to have holes in it or it overheats, and costs $100 more ?
I don't even understand how this can happen !
As human technology progresses, there will come a point where it surpasses human biology in complexity and sophistication. So there will be a time where you can connect a computer to your brain (hardware). But the important question is : how do you want it to interface with your mind (software) ?
I wonder if AI will be sufficiently advanced at that time that the problem won't really be ours to solve, just put a layer of AI between the main machine and the mind. Then again, maybe by the time this is possible, we'll have re-engineered ourselves so much that there won't really be any distinction between the parts anymore...
I do think there's food for thought here though...Do we want what we have now, but faster and better ? Or an AI assistant that grows with us from birth, an alternate mind that exists to serve, sort of a mind secretary that provides extra documentation, correlations, and memory to the main mind without it even having to ask (my PDA in 50 years)? Wouldn't that discourage the main mind from learning certain crucial skills though ? I guess the real question is : how far do we want integration to go ? Do we want to think of our computer as "it" ? Or as part of "I" ?