This was the problem with Ubuntu Touch. I had the tablet and would have loved it except it's a different processor architecture and the software you are used to is not available. They did provide LibreOffice and a couple other minor things but other than that there is only so much that can be done in HTML 5. Maybe if a major manufacturer like Samsung does this and provides a relatively easy IDE or even starts / funds a project to compile software for the architecture it will take off.
Meet the Apple: Solar panels. (PV) are a consumer product for a very narrow market. They primarily make fiscal sense only in non-grid tied rural homes where the cost of connecting to the said grid approaches that of the panels themselves. And remote low amperage power situations like traffic signals, radio/cellular sites, well pumps, and satellites.
Meet the Orange: Commercial generation (from any source) is mass market only. Lends itself well to the interests of large industry and their supporting industry, and of course their lobbyists and the politicians they support/feed/coddle.
There is no comparison. PV panel subsidies and tax breaks are - as said previously - simply a political stunt. If you must argue about the merits of renewable energy vs fossil fuel (which is the apparent elephant in the room) then it's really down to nuclear, coal, and natural gas VS hydro, wind, and the one technology that actually has the potential to replace our current mass generation system- solar thermal. (yes Virginia, solar thermal works when it's dark too)
What we should be asking is why none of our politicians are working to subsidise a mass generation technology that would work. Not pointing fingers (ok - I am) but the money and lobbyists belong to the current, and disgustingly profitable fossil fuel industry. The solar thermal plants belong to startups, universities and a couple of local governments. Who do you think will win?
When I was the IT manager - definitely. Stress 24/7. Sucked ass.
Becoming a "grunt" again was the best move I ever made. "Not my problem" is my new mantra. I take care of my systems. Make recommendations. Sleep well knowing that as long as I do my job with due diligence - well, its not my problem.
Very good advice above but one thing was missed. You said that you have allot of internal media. If the NGO is office based vs everyone working remotely - due to the bandwidth needed - I'd recommend going with a media server on your local net and the cloud for everything else. Netgear makes a nice line (ReadyNAS) of inexpensive networked attached storage units with hardware RAID that include pretty much every kind of media services out of the box. Plus you get a brand name to provide support / repair for all the reasons mentioned above. Back it up to the cloud.
Regarding all the comments about not trusting the cloud: I work hospital IT and we take every precaution you can imagine to protect our data - multiple off-site backups, generators, rooms full of batteries, extreme physical security, redundant fiber and network cores etc... Over the 20 years I've done this I have still witnessed several circumstances that hosed us despite all of these efforts.
The companies that host true cloud solutions have deeper pockets than my employer and spread data around the country or even the planet. Their entire business model depends on taking care of your data. If someone digs up your fiber then call another provider or jump in the car and go to the next town over. There are always "what if" naysayers about any strategy and they are correct. Shit happens - Nothing is perfect. For a company of 20 however the cloud puts the kind of precautions my employer goes to within your reach.
Sounds like you are using GNUmed where the patient schedule is done in your standard calendar app.
In this case I'm afraid you need to shift paradigms. Most modern smartphone OS's actually have no native PIM applications that you can sync to - unlike the older Palm and WinCE devices. Everything is designed to talk to and display information stored in the cloud or on a server.
In this case for the short term I'd get a large screened device like a DroidX or even a Dell Streak and either use web browser based display (via SSL of course) or setup a VPN (built into Android) and use VNC to view your desktop.
Long term - develop an Android app to do the above in a pleasing / useful way.
Also - Google's cloud recently won security certification for government use. I'm sure HIPPA isn't far behind. Maybe just hang on to the Palm devices a little longer and then a move to standard Android will become feasible.
BTW Kudos for being careful and doing your Due Diligence. I happen to work in health care IT and see jaw dropping breaches of confidentiality - especially by small offices - all the time.
Most people that think of syncing really don't need that much and what you need is almost never confidential. For example you probably really just need your contacts and your schedule.
Unless you are a criminal, neither would be subject to questions of ethics - and unless you are a high ranking politician would not even rank as sensitive information. For those - go with the cloud. Evolution will sync your contacts to Google and google calendar is great - especially for small groups or individuals. Both are native on Android. For email - just setup your own server or use the hosted email you have now with the built in mail client. Turn on SSL (TLS) encryption and Bob's your uncle.
If you need to sync and carry documents / spreadsheets or the like, just use android and do an rsync with a directory on your sever or workstation. You can transfer files via bluetooth, USB or WiFi.
Coming from Palm it's a little weird getting used to cutting the cord but it really is great and does work.
I've been in IT for more than 20 years and very very rarely have I seen automation be a money saver. No matter the industry.
Automation does enable other things however. Many businesses would not be possible without automation. For example global overnight shipping...and large hospitals. I work for an average size metropolitan hospital and I can tell you - even at our modest size - the business of tracking patients, all their meds, tests and even what room they are in would not be possible. At least not without a staff that would dwarf what we currently have. Processing the mess that is the medical "reimbursement" system in the US is a whole other topic. Even WITH automation that requires a staff of about a third as many individuals as we have inpatients.
Health care IT is finally starting to get to the point where there is a definite direct benefit to the patient too. For example - medical imaging has reached a point where it's virtually all digital. The patients studies are pushed back and forth between providers (hospitals). In our case we recieve patient transfers from a very wide rural area. The smaller hospitals and clinics send us the patients scans digitally and most of the time the surgeons at our hospital have been able to plan treatment before the patient even arrives.
We also have IV pumps that know the safe levels of the drugs they are putting into the patients. If a nurse makes a mistake - say not moving a decimal appropriately when she is setting up the infusion rate (very common error) - the pump will not allow her to put 10x the drug into your vein... We can also get the infusion information pulled back to the patient record and even locate where the pumps physically are thanks to their wireless connection.
Saving money is truly the last thing that should be considered for hospital automation.
And stop advertising or using outside DNS for your internal network. That's like putting a map in your yard to where you keep all of your valuables in your house.
I run the IT department for a half billion plus company. We do not purchase HP or Gateway because of this type of treatment. Gateway once told me that the only software they support on their laptops was the Bios. Even including the software that they bundled with the laptop! Last one I ever purchased from them - and that was 10yrs ago.
Stop buying from these asshats - vote with your dollars, euros, pesos etc.
I've been all over the world (Africa, S. America, Europe etc.) and now I do allot of motorcycle travel so I've made and learned from a lot of mistakes.
As of late when I'm on the bike I like to update my photo blog as I go - so I settled on a PDA that has both a modem and WiFi (the discontinued Sharp Zaurus SL6000 if you care). I also take a folding full size keyboard like the ones from ThinkOutside. Every few days I get tired of tenting and find hotel that has wifi included with the bed and shower - do my uploading and email and then return to the campfire - lather, rince, repeat as needed.
I use compact cameras that have at least a 10x zoom - as versatile as a bag full of lenses but much easier to deal with. Spare batteries and mem cards. I also carry a small pair of NICE binoculars.
One other gadget I've grown to love is a small - tough standalone GPS (not connected to the PDA - connected version tend to be fragile and PDA's frequently grow legs) with good battery life. Maps only work if you know where you are. It's also really cool to be able to later find and/or return to specific places you marked or pair specific location data with photographs.
On the non-gadget list HIGHLY recommend Imodium, Ibuprofin, and Benadryl in both cream and tablets. Good multi-tool. Water purification tablets. Small flint/steel (this sounds nuts but is actually crazy useful - since discovering this I keep one on my keychain). A 1/4 roll of toilet paper. And the smallest headlamp you can find. Headlamps are terrific in camp and I've been in enough "lodges" where the power is turned off at 8pm...
Put all of this in a bag that never leaves you. For example - on my motorcycle I have a magnetic tank-bag that turns into a day trip sized backpack. If you are going international add your passport to this list. Put it in a ziplock bag and don't let it leave your person. Keep a copy separate somewhere else in your gear and leave your passport numbers with a friend back home. This may truly save your butt.
If you get your stuff together and it feels like too much - it is. Don't drag things around you think you "might" need. I'd say all of the gadgets including the camera and binoculars are on the "maybe" list. Depends on you. All of the other stuff I mentioned - drugs, tools etc. That list is the direct result of lessons learned... YMMV.
Amazing what you can get used to. Regardless of ease - WTF should you have to call them at all? It's like the junk cars most Americans drive. I had 3 Asian imports that never had problems - including one I put almost 200k miles on in two years. Then I got my first American piece of crap. In the shop every other month. No one I work with understands why I'm dissatisfied.
I bet you were one of the first to pony up $400 for the "upgrade" too. Moron.
I'm so sick of this kind of BS. Anyone that uses Both windows and Linux on a regular basis knows that windows is a much bigger pain to use, and especially to install new hardware into. I use Mandriva, Suse and sometimes Ubuntu and each time I've added a chunk of hardware for the last few years - I plug it in and Linux just loads the appropriate driver and I'm running. Windows on the other hand normally requires a driver load which usually borks the whole system, requires searching the internet, downloads, reboots, blue screens, installs and general hosing around. For example, A recent install of a bluetooth dongle made my XP laptop so unstable (with current drivers and two days of messing around) that I restored to a previous point before I tried to install and gave up. I went to my Mandriva box and plugged it into the USB port. 20 seconds later I had a bluetooth enabled box. That was it!
I also hate the windows GUI. After using KDE and getting used to multiple desktops, simple clipboards (with a history), FREE, usable, widgets on the panel - nice touches like clicking the clock gets you a calendar etc. Windows is clunky, slow and fragile. It sucks.
The media - especially the tech media for crisakes - should stop propagating this FUD.
I've had DishNetwork since the local cable provider awnsered the question about when they would get the SciFi channel with "Oh - you're one of Them..."
I've had the sat long enough (6 yrs methinks) that I'm grandfathered in for the distant network feeds. I love having both east and west timezones.
As a new subscriber - look into the hassle you will need to go through for the network channels where you are moving. If it's in the boonies you may be able to get them off the dish. Otherwise you will also need an off the air antenna to get the networks. (The other trick is to tell them that one of your recievers is for your RV - Remember to vote out the wanker's that created this dumb-ass law!)
BTW I have one of the high end dish PVR's (721) and it rocks!
noyfb@hotmail.com must be getting shit loads of spam from real...
Who in their right (or left) mind puts their real email into those stupid things anyway?
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I was real excited about the device - Linux, Security, Phone - wow! But I guess they only intend it for the European/Asian markets as it's only GSM. Pitty.
A famous quote purports that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Isn't that what we are doing with all the airport / event / monument security? Is it just me or didn't this type of thing fail to begin with and allow 9-11 to happen in the first place?
In the last year I've been frisked, searched, sniffed by dogs, exposed to all sorts of radiaion and generally delayed in every possible fashon - each time thinking to myself how useless and costly the whole process is.
Ok maybe I have an engineer's mind on this but it seems to me that we should actually fix the problem. Start by making hijacking a non-issue. Stop paying for these checkpoints and make planes that cannot be co-opted. Lock down the computer controlled flight deck and let the passengers have naked jello wrestling if they so desire - BFD the plane is still going where it's supposed to.
Then move up the ladder to other issues ending up with breaking the US's drug like dependance on forigen oil (ok oil in general). Is it just me or do we need an intervention here? Lets see, what to drug addicts do to assure their supply. They threaten, steal, coerce, and get generally violent don't they? Pretty much describes US behavior whenever our precious oil supply is involved. And pretty much like a drug addict we've pissed off all our friends and family and our only companions are other addicts (are you listening UK? Hello Japan!).
NO Mr. President! You cannot tear up the Bill of Rights just beacuse you used the "T" word. Pound Sand!
Your customers are telling you what they want and how much they will spend. You can't pay for this kind of market research! Summary:
1) Must be.MP3 format. Read that again. Again! 2) Digital media is about choice and freedom - not piracy. We want to play the music on whatever device/software we have handy. Not just the ones you want to sell us. 3) Let me either subscribe OR purchase entire cd's at once. (have we ever heard of a.zip.tar or stuffit archive folks) 4) $10 to $30 subscriptions and $8 to $12 per album.
I'd love running Linux on my handheld - having the same apps in my hand that run on my desk would rock! But I'm WAY too attached to my Kyocera Smartphone. I will never carry two (or more) devices again. Please Sharp - CDMA Module. Or better, put them together in the next version and leave the slots for an 802.11 card.
BS... I have this conversation about 3 or 4 times a day now.
Folks allways use the same myth "Linux is too hard for the average user... Blah blah blah" or "My mom won't be able to install software...yada yada"
Can they do it with windows? When was the last time your mom/inlaw/friend of the family/etc. actually purchased something for their computer without calling you first and then calling you to install it when they did? My mom calls me for help with her Mac @ work for crisakes....
I say if I have to support annother PC user out there then it might as well be something I like - that actually works and doesn't pick pockets and invade it's owners privacy thank you.
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This was the problem with Ubuntu Touch. I had the tablet and would have loved it except it's a different processor architecture and the software you are used to is not available. They did provide LibreOffice and a couple other minor things but other than that there is only so much that can be done in HTML 5. Maybe if a major manufacturer like Samsung does this and provides a relatively easy IDE or even starts / funds a project to compile software for the architecture it will take off.
These arguments on both sides are absurd.
Meet the Apple: Solar panels. (PV) are a consumer product for a very narrow market. They primarily make fiscal sense only in non-grid tied rural homes where the cost of connecting to the said grid approaches that of the panels themselves. And remote low amperage power situations like traffic signals, radio/cellular sites, well pumps, and satellites.
Meet the Orange: Commercial generation (from any source) is mass market only. Lends itself well to the interests of large industry and their supporting industry, and of course their lobbyists and the politicians they support/feed/coddle.
There is no comparison. PV panel subsidies and tax breaks are - as said previously - simply a political stunt. If you must argue about the merits of renewable energy vs fossil fuel (which is the apparent elephant in the room) then it's really down to nuclear, coal, and natural gas VS hydro, wind, and the one technology that actually has the potential to replace our current mass generation system- solar thermal. (yes Virginia, solar thermal works when it's dark too)
What we should be asking is why none of our politicians are working to subsidise a mass generation technology that would work. Not pointing fingers (ok - I am) but the money and lobbyists belong to the current, and disgustingly profitable fossil fuel industry. The solar thermal plants belong to startups, universities and a couple of local governments. Who do you think will win?
When I was the IT manager - definitely. Stress 24/7. Sucked ass.
Becoming a "grunt" again was the best move I ever made. "Not my problem" is my new mantra. I take care of my systems. Make recommendations. Sleep well knowing that as long as I do my job with due diligence - well, its not my problem.
Very good advice above but one thing was missed. You said that you have allot of internal media. If the NGO is office based vs everyone working remotely - due to the bandwidth needed - I'd recommend going with a media server on your local net and the cloud for everything else. Netgear makes a nice line (ReadyNAS) of inexpensive networked attached storage units with hardware RAID that include pretty much every kind of media services out of the box. Plus you get a brand name to provide support / repair for all the reasons mentioned above. Back it up to the cloud.
Regarding all the comments about not trusting the cloud: I work hospital IT and we take every precaution you can imagine to protect our data - multiple off-site backups, generators, rooms full of batteries, extreme physical security, redundant fiber and network cores etc... Over the 20 years I've done this I have still witnessed several circumstances that hosed us despite all of these efforts.
The companies that host true cloud solutions have deeper pockets than my employer and spread data around the country or even the planet. Their entire business model depends on taking care of your data. If someone digs up your fiber then call another provider or jump in the car and go to the next town over. There are always "what if" naysayers about any strategy and they are correct. Shit happens - Nothing is perfect. For a company of 20 however the cloud puts the kind of precautions my employer goes to within your reach.
I guess Skynet hasn't learned it's lesson about Windows Vista yet... Wrong way, Wooton er Mr. 1000...
Sounds like you are using GNUmed where the patient schedule is done in your standard calendar app.
In this case I'm afraid you need to shift paradigms. Most modern smartphone OS's actually have no native PIM applications that you can sync to - unlike the older Palm and WinCE devices. Everything is designed to talk to and display information stored in the cloud or on a server.
In this case for the short term I'd get a large screened device like a DroidX or even a Dell Streak and either use web browser based display (via SSL of course) or setup a VPN (built into Android) and use VNC to view your desktop.
Long term - develop an Android app to do the above in a pleasing / useful way.
Also - Google's cloud recently won security certification for government use. I'm sure HIPPA isn't far behind. Maybe just hang on to the Palm devices a little longer and then a move to standard Android will become feasible.
BTW Kudos for being careful and doing your Due Diligence. I happen to work in health care IT and see jaw dropping breaches of confidentiality - especially by small offices - all the time.
Most people that think of syncing really don't need that much and what you need is almost never confidential. For example you probably really just need your contacts and your schedule.
Unless you are a criminal, neither would be subject to questions of ethics - and unless you are a high ranking politician would not even rank as sensitive information. For those - go with the cloud. Evolution will sync your contacts to Google and google calendar is great - especially for small groups or individuals. Both are native on Android. For email - just setup your own server or use the hosted email you have now with the built in mail client. Turn on SSL (TLS) encryption and Bob's your uncle.
If you need to sync and carry documents / spreadsheets or the like, just use android and do an rsync with a directory on your sever or workstation. You can transfer files via bluetooth, USB or WiFi.
Coming from Palm it's a little weird getting used to cutting the cord but it really is great and does work.
I've been in IT for more than 20 years and very very rarely have I seen automation be a money saver. No matter the industry.
Automation does enable other things however. Many businesses would not be possible without automation. For example global overnight shipping...and large hospitals. I work for an average size metropolitan hospital and I can tell you - even at our modest size - the business of tracking patients, all their meds, tests and even what room they are in would not be possible. At least not without a staff that would dwarf what we currently have. Processing the mess that is the medical "reimbursement" system in the US is a whole other topic. Even WITH automation that requires a staff of about a third as many individuals as we have inpatients.
Health care IT is finally starting to get to the point where there is a definite direct benefit to the patient too. For example - medical imaging has reached a point where it's virtually all digital. The patients studies are pushed back and forth between providers (hospitals). In our case we recieve patient transfers from a very wide rural area. The smaller hospitals and clinics send us the patients scans digitally and most of the time the surgeons at our hospital have been able to plan treatment before the patient even arrives.
We also have IV pumps that know the safe levels of the drugs they are putting into the patients. If a nurse makes a mistake - say not moving a decimal appropriately when she is setting up the infusion rate (very common error) - the pump will not allow her to put 10x the drug into your vein... We can also get the infusion information pulled back to the patient record and even locate where the pumps physically are thanks to their wireless connection.
Saving money is truly the last thing that should be considered for hospital automation.
Put a hosts file on your workers systems. Done.
And stop advertising or using outside DNS for your internal network. That's like putting a map in your yard to where you keep all of your valuables in your house.
I run the IT department for a half billion plus company. We do not purchase HP or Gateway because of this type of treatment. Gateway once told me that the only software they support on their laptops was the Bios. Even including the software that they bundled with the laptop! Last one I ever purchased from them - and that was 10yrs ago.
Stop buying from these asshats - vote with your dollars, euros, pesos etc.
I've been all over the world (Africa, S. America, Europe etc.) and now I do allot of motorcycle travel so I've made and learned from a lot of mistakes.
As of late when I'm on the bike I like to update my photo blog as I go - so I settled on a PDA that has both a modem and WiFi (the discontinued Sharp Zaurus SL6000 if you care). I also take a folding full size keyboard like the ones from ThinkOutside. Every few days I get tired of tenting and find hotel that has wifi included with the bed and shower - do my uploading and email and then return to the campfire - lather, rince, repeat as needed.
I use compact cameras that have at least a 10x zoom - as versatile as a bag full of lenses but much easier to deal with. Spare batteries and mem cards. I also carry a small pair of NICE binoculars.
One other gadget I've grown to love is a small - tough standalone GPS (not connected to the PDA - connected version tend to be fragile and PDA's frequently grow legs) with good battery life. Maps only work if you know where you are. It's also really cool to be able to later find and/or return to specific places you marked or pair specific location data with photographs.
On the non-gadget list HIGHLY recommend Imodium, Ibuprofin, and Benadryl in both cream and tablets. Good multi-tool. Water purification tablets. Small flint/steel (this sounds nuts but is actually crazy useful - since discovering this I keep one on my keychain). A 1/4 roll of toilet paper. And the smallest headlamp you can find. Headlamps are terrific in camp and I've been in enough "lodges" where the power is turned off at 8pm...
Put all of this in a bag that never leaves you. For example - on my motorcycle I have a magnetic tank-bag that turns into a day trip sized backpack. If you are going international add your passport to this list. Put it in a ziplock bag and don't let it leave your person. Keep a copy separate somewhere else in your gear and leave your passport numbers with a friend back home. This may truly save your butt.
If you get your stuff together and it feels like too much - it is. Don't drag things around you think you "might" need. I'd say all of the gadgets including the camera and binoculars are on the "maybe" list. Depends on you. All of the other stuff I mentioned - drugs, tools etc. That list is the direct result of lessons learned... YMMV.
Amazing what you can get used to. Regardless of ease - WTF should you have to call them at all? It's like the junk cars most Americans drive. I had 3 Asian imports that never had problems - including one I put almost 200k miles on in two years. Then I got my first American piece of crap. In the shop every other month. No one I work with understands why I'm dissatisfied.
I bet you were one of the first to pony up $400 for the "upgrade" too. Moron.
I'm so sick of this kind of BS. Anyone that uses Both windows and Linux on a regular basis knows that windows is a much bigger pain to use, and especially to install new hardware into. I use Mandriva, Suse and sometimes Ubuntu and each time I've added a chunk of hardware for the last few years - I plug it in and Linux just loads the appropriate driver and I'm running. Windows on the other hand normally requires a driver load which usually borks the whole system, requires searching the internet, downloads, reboots, blue screens, installs and general hosing around. For example, A recent install of a bluetooth dongle made my XP laptop so unstable (with current drivers and two days of messing around) that I restored to a previous point before I tried to install and gave up. I went to my Mandriva box and plugged it into the USB port. 20 seconds later I had a bluetooth enabled box. That was it!
I also hate the windows GUI. After using KDE and getting used to multiple desktops, simple clipboards (with a history), FREE, usable, widgets on the panel - nice touches like clicking the clock gets you a calendar etc. Windows is clunky, slow and fragile. It sucks.
The media - especially the tech media for crisakes - should stop propagating this FUD.
For some reason I find the banner ad for visualstudio.net across the top of this story quite amusing...
Looks like that context sensitive ad engine is working!
Have a look at www.vocera.com
It works - I've used it. Very freakin cool!
I've had the sat long enough (6 yrs methinks) that I'm grandfathered in for the distant network feeds. I love having both east and west timezones.
As a new subscriber - look into the hassle you will need to go through for the network channels where you are moving. If it's in the boonies you may be able to get them off the dish. Otherwise you will also need an off the air antenna to get the networks. (The other trick is to tell them that one of your recievers is for your RV - Remember to vote out the wanker's that created this dumb-ass law!)
BTW I have one of the high end dish PVR's (721) and it rocks!
...Your choice WMA for .88 or MP3 for $1.
Quick poll, how many of us would pay a little extra for a simple non DRM download - Show of hands...
That's easy...
Does your mom use Linux? If she does, I guarentee you are a Linux Specialist!
I've got the latest (7135). Had the last version too (6035). They rock. Buy spare batteries and the stereo headset right out of the gate.
noyfb@hotmail.com must be getting shit loads of spam from real...
Who in their right (or left) mind puts their real email into those stupid things anyway?
I was real excited about the device - Linux, Security, Phone - wow! But I guess they only intend it for the European/Asian markets as it's only GSM. Pitty.
A famous quote purports that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Isn't that what we are doing with all the airport / event / monument security? Is it just me or didn't this type of thing fail to begin with and allow 9-11 to happen in the first place?
In the last year I've been frisked, searched, sniffed by dogs, exposed to all sorts of radiaion and generally delayed in every possible fashon - each time thinking to myself how useless and costly the whole process is.
Ok maybe I have an engineer's mind on this but it seems to me that we should actually fix the problem. Start by making hijacking a non-issue. Stop paying for these checkpoints and make planes that cannot be co-opted. Lock down the computer controlled flight deck and let the passengers have naked jello wrestling if they so desire - BFD the plane is still going where it's supposed to.
Then move up the ladder to other issues ending up with breaking the US's drug like dependance on forigen oil (ok oil in general). Is it just me or do we need an intervention here? Lets see, what to drug addicts do to assure their supply. They threaten, steal, coerce, and get generally violent don't they? Pretty much describes US behavior whenever our precious oil supply is involved. And pretty much like a drug addict we've pissed off all our friends and family and our only companions are other addicts (are you listening UK? Hello Japan!).
NO Mr. President! You cannot tear up the Bill of Rights just beacuse you used the "T" word. Pound Sand!
Your customers are telling you what they want and how much they will spend. You can't pay for this kind of market research! Summary:
.MP3 format. Read that again. Again! .zip .tar or stuffit archive folks)
1) Must be
2) Digital media is about choice and freedom - not piracy. We want to play the music on whatever device/software we have handy. Not just the ones you want to sell us.
3) Let me either subscribe OR purchase entire cd's at once. (have we ever heard of a
4) $10 to $30 subscriptions and $8 to $12 per album.
Let me get my 2x4... Bonk!
I'd love running Linux on my handheld - having the same apps in my hand that run on my desk would rock! But I'm WAY too attached to my Kyocera Smartphone. I will never carry two (or more) devices again. Please Sharp - CDMA Module. Or better, put them together in the next version and leave the slots for an 802.11 card.
BS... I have this conversation about 3 or 4 times a day now.
Folks allways use the same myth "Linux is too hard for the average user... Blah blah blah" or "My mom won't be able to install software...yada yada"
Can they do it with windows? When was the last time your mom/inlaw/friend of the family/etc. actually purchased something for their computer without calling you first and then calling you to install it when they did? My mom calls me for help with her Mac @ work for crisakes....
I say if I have to support annother PC user out there then it might as well be something I like - that actually works and doesn't pick pockets and invade it's owners privacy thank you.