Actually there is a Micro USB slot that opens up the Micro SD card to function as a HD (and it's lockable) as well as a direct WiFi sharing function.
Not sure about all the Office needs, since all I need is really good messaging and a good keyboard, as well as a open filesystem so I can shuffle things around.
Android and all the variants basically have all this, but I don't see any of them with a halfway decent keyboard, so I'm sticking with BlackBerry until the ship is sunk. Hopefully BlackBerry can stick with it, if only to keep options open.
Can someone tell me why BlackBerry is so disregarded? I see a few posters saying that they love their Q10 (I love mine) - and people immediately jump on them saying that it's a sinking ship. Aside from their financial trouble, what exactly is wrong with the phones? The new OS is amazing, based on nerd-friendly QNX, and the keyboard is the best hardware keyboard you can get. The software keyboard on the all-touch devices is pretty damn good too. The only reason I keep hearing that people don't want a BlackBerry is because they're not doing well. Shouldn't quality of a product dictate what phone you get more than their status on the stock market?
I've been wearing the suckers in both ears since I was in 2nd grade due to a high level of conductive hearing loss. I'm lucky that my family can afford them.
I've been approached many times – both domestically and while abroad – by people who needed them, but couldn't afford them. This may make sense in third world countries where people may not have access to more advanced technology, but it makes zero sense in "first world" countries.
One possible reason why the technology is so expensive is that many of the leading companies (Oticon, Phonak, amongst others) are actually in Switzerland and Denmark, and manufacture them -as far as I can tell- in their home countries. Just a thought.
Either way, there should be some kind of government program for these. The Walmart and AirMall (seriously - look at the AirMall catalog next time you fly.) brands just won't cut it if someone has advanced hearing-loss.
A lot of people might also have a bad impression of Bing since it's forced on them: Verizon routinely shoves Bing down their client's throats. For BlackBerries and wherever else they can regulate it, Bing is the only option for search engines, unless you use the Google App instead of searching through the browser.
It seems they're buying public usage instead of earning it - maybe another reason why they're not profitable yet.
It may be petty of me, but I know I personally dislike Bing for this reason.
Back when I was on Win2k (or Windows, period) I used Winamp... and then they started adding crap I didn't want that slowed down the program. At least I had the option to keep the older version.
Sounds like iTunes is doing it again. Social networking in my music player?! Not needed. I'm not on Facebook, I'm not on Twitter, I don't want that in my music player, I must be a Luddite.
Can't they have a iTunes "lite" that only connects your iPad/Pod, organizes your music, and that's it?
The iTunes "Plus" can play your videos, tweet your OMGLOLs, and buy DRM music for you.
30 seconds is the different between (Score:5, Funny) and (Score:-1, Redundant).I think moderation should switch to (Score:Gold Medal) and (Score:Silver Medal) so late punsters don't feel so bad.
Tabs at the side would take up even more space than tabs at the top or bottomâ"Âit doesn't matter if you pass five or six tabs or whateverâ" most page titles are longer than you would want to take up space on the side. Consider "Slashdot|Google Chrome, the Google Browser"
At least for me; I like my porn er... Internet.. fullscreen.
It's also possible they're facing north out of comfortâ" It is common to feed cows large magnets about the size of a thick index finger that stay in one of their stomachs for the remainder of their lives. It's there to keep accidentally eaten nails or iron particles from damaging the cow further.
Maybe the cows are facing north because any other direction scrapes the magnet unnecessarily?
my alg2 teacher would do this to the class. we'd read all this math poetry, and then watch movies. (mirror has two faces, etc) i can almost hear his voice when i read that poem.
mr. fa-cha? are you reading?! i can feel your spirit... hello?!
macgregor?! okay, natalie portman was kickass as the queen, the only thing that is bad about her is her lame dialogue (and nonexistant char. devel.) anakin was overly pukey cute (but.. mommy, you always say that the thing thats wrong with the universe... blahblah)jar jar (nevermind) niam leeson- yes, i am wise, yes, i know what i am doing, and.. oh yes, suck my dick obi wan! obiwan: yes master! whatever you say master! anything master!! (that is until leeson died) macgregor is AWESOME in most of his other movies, but in TPM his dialogue and role and char SUCKS. when i watched the movie, (12:00 opening morning) i had heard that it had lame dialogue, but on the opening lines "i have a bad feeling about this" i cringed.. i thought desperately to myself: oh god, its true!!! those opening lines are killer man!;) anyways.. enough of my critique.. 8)
woah.. i think the last remnant of my idealism towards the computer/geek community just got ripped to shreds. to think that someone could manage to use a homophobic slur in a discussion about STARWARS! even though i know that you are in no way a representative of the geek/slashdot culture you've still tarnished my idealism concerning the population of slashdot.
someone goes into jail a small time criminal, not really that mentally fucked up, but then... post jail- he/she emerges into the bright happy world a traumatized, (you can imagine what kind of ass candy a 19 y/o kid has to offer to scary "bubbas") hardened, ("here kid, lemme teach you a little something about the tricks of the trade") betrayed, (yes, the gov't betrayed him) wasted, (spending a few years in prison, esp. during those crucial late teen/early adulthood times, can make someone jaded/tired about life) yes, he did a stupid thing, the equivilant of graffiti, but mabye he should pay a fine, obligatory counseling, public/community service, monitored access to the net, anything, but NOT something that is going to excerbate the problem. 8) i'll get off my soapbox/loudspeaker now.
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Actually there is a Micro USB slot that opens up the Micro SD card to function as a HD (and it's lockable) as well as a direct WiFi sharing function.
Not sure about all the Office needs, since all I need is really good messaging and a good keyboard, as well as a open filesystem so I can shuffle things around.
Android and all the variants basically have all this, but I don't see any of them with a halfway decent keyboard, so I'm sticking with BlackBerry until the ship is sunk. Hopefully BlackBerry can stick with it, if only to keep options open.
Can someone tell me why BlackBerry is so disregarded? I see a few posters saying that they love their Q10 (I love mine) - and people immediately jump on them saying that it's a sinking ship. Aside from their financial trouble, what exactly is wrong with the phones? The new OS is amazing, based on nerd-friendly QNX, and the keyboard is the best hardware keyboard you can get. The software keyboard on the all-touch devices is pretty damn good too. The only reason I keep hearing that people don't want a BlackBerry is because they're not doing well. Shouldn't quality of a product dictate what phone you get more than their status on the stock market?
The technology he's talking about sounds a little bit like the stuff a lot of Vernor Vinge's books have, particularly Marooned in Realtime.
I find it interesting that this article is mostly concerned with the military aspects of this kind of technology. What about the spiritual?
What if communicating like this was close to attaining something we used to have, but lost somehow?
My WiFi is called "I_peed_in_the_hall"
I've been wearing the suckers in both ears since I was in 2nd grade due to a high level of conductive hearing loss. I'm lucky that my family can afford them.
I've been approached many times – both domestically and while abroad – by people who needed them, but couldn't afford them. This may make sense in third world countries where people may not have access to more advanced technology, but it makes zero sense in "first world" countries.
One possible reason why the technology is so expensive is that many of the leading companies (Oticon, Phonak, amongst others) are actually in Switzerland and Denmark, and manufacture them -as far as I can tell- in their home countries. Just a thought.
Either way, there should be some kind of government program for these. The Walmart and AirMall (seriously - look at the AirMall catalog next time you fly.) brands just won't cut it if someone has advanced hearing-loss.
A lot of people might also have a bad impression of Bing since it's forced on them: Verizon routinely shoves Bing down their client's throats. For BlackBerries and wherever else they can regulate it, Bing is the only option for search engines, unless you use the Google App instead of searching through the browser.
It seems they're buying public usage instead of earning it - maybe another reason why they're not profitable yet.
It may be petty of me, but I know I personally dislike Bing for this reason.
Back when I was on Win2k (or Windows, period) I used Winamp... and then they started adding crap I didn't want that slowed down the program. At least I had the option to keep the older version.
Sounds like iTunes is doing it again. Social networking in my music player?! Not needed. I'm not on Facebook, I'm not on Twitter, I don't want that in my music player, I must be a Luddite.
Can't they have a iTunes "lite" that only connects your iPad/Pod, organizes your music, and that's it?
The iTunes "Plus" can play your videos, tweet your OMGLOLs, and buy DRM music for you.
30 seconds is the different between (Score:5, Funny) and (Score:-1, Redundant).I think moderation should switch to (Score:Gold Medal) and (Score:Silver Medal) so late punsters don't feel so bad.
Defensive, much?
Tabs at the side would take up even more space than tabs at the top or bottomâ"Âit doesn't matter if you pass five or six tabs or whateverâ" most page titles are longer than you would want to take up space on the side. Consider "Slashdot|Google Chrome, the Google Browser"
At least for me; I like my porn er... Internet.. fullscreen.
It's also possible they're facing north out of comfortâ" It is common to feed cows large magnets about the size of a thick index finger that stay in one of their stomachs for the remainder of their lives. It's there to keep accidentally eaten nails or iron particles from damaging the cow further.
Maybe the cows are facing north because any other direction scrapes the magnet unnecessarily?
http://www.magnetsource.com/Solutions_Pages/cowmags.html
Wow.. Goatse and the MacBook Air together on the same thread--is there an Apple ad somewhere here?
MacBook Air--so small you can store it anywhere!
oh god no.. math poetry... memories.. egads!!
my alg2 teacher would do this to the class. we'd read all this math poetry, and then watch movies. (mirror has two faces, etc) i can almost hear his voice when i read that poem.
mr. fa-cha? are you reading?! i can feel your spirit... hello?!
anyways..
macgregor?! okay, natalie portman was kickass as the queen, the only thing that is bad about her is her lame dialogue (and nonexistant char. devel.) anakin was overly pukey cute (but.. mommy, you always say that the thing thats wrong with the universe... blahblah)jar jar (nevermind) niam leeson- yes, i am wise, yes, i know what i am doing, and.. oh yes, suck my dick obi wan! obiwan: yes master! whatever you say master! anything master!! (that is until leeson died) macgregor is AWESOME in most of his other movies, but in TPM his dialogue and role and char SUCKS. ;) anyways.. enough of my critique.. 8)
when i watched the movie, (12:00 opening morning) i had heard that it had lame dialogue, but on the opening lines "i have a bad feeling about this"
i cringed.. i thought desperately to myself: oh god, its true!!! those opening lines are killer man!
woah.. i think the last remnant of my idealism towards the computer/geek community just got ripped to shreds. to think that someone could manage to use a homophobic slur in a discussion about STARWARS! even though i know that you are in no way a representative of the geek/slashdot culture you've still tarnished my idealism concerning the population of slashdot.
someone goes into jail a small time criminal, not really that mentally fucked up, but then... post jail- he/she emerges into the bright happy world a traumatized, (you can imagine what kind of ass candy a 19 y/o kid has to offer to scary "bubbas") hardened, ("here kid, lemme teach you a little something about the tricks of the trade") betrayed, (yes, the gov't betrayed him) wasted, (spending a few years in prison, esp. during those crucial late teen/early adulthood times, can make someone jaded/tired about life) yes, he did a stupid thing, the equivilant of graffiti, but mabye he should pay a fine, obligatory counseling, public/community service, monitored access to the net, anything, but NOT something that is going to excerbate the problem. 8) i'll get off my soapbox/loudspeaker now.