I've had my fair share of laughs from this whole turn of events, but giving this some serious thought (after cutting through all the Indian government's political BS), I surmise this will grow into some sort of distribution platform for schools across rural India.
Imagine a low-cost, alway-on media server for educational materials that is more current than several-year-old textbooks, and is available to students at virtually no cost (hopefully the government will subsidize the hardware).
I would imagine schools might be able to buy a notebook shell type accessory, which has just a display and keyboard. The accessory plugs into this unit (or perhaps connects wirelessly) and can then access all materials available to the educational institution.
It cuts the cost of storage and some motherboard electronics from the individual laptops that students can own, making the system viable and inexpensive.
we will actually reach that population level again.
Environmental damage here we come! ..I've already been told by many women that they wouldn't sleep with me even if I was the last man on Earth. I wonder if they were serious.
And in a parallel universe, a couple of giant roaches are transporting a box of humans to see if they can survive through 4 weeks of isolation on an island...
no, I get what you mean. that's why I don't own an iphone or a smartphone, but I can certainly see the utility for one, for a lot of people. I can check email on my phone though, which is handy 'if' I had to use it. The same holds for the 2MP camera on my phone too. It's not a great camera, but it works like it's supposed to, and I have access to one all the time - for the times when I do have to snap a picture, but am just carrying my cellphone (which is all the time), but not my good camera (which is reserved for vacations and trips). Even the iphone in the US is a pretty basic phone if you looked around the world. In Japan, I can swipe a cellphone across a bluetooth scanner to pay for my bullet train ticket. In Australia, I can use a cellphone to withdraw money from an ATM. In India, I can text-message from a cellphone to pay my utility bills. If you're saying technology moving in this fashion is uncalled for, you're just change-resistant.
if you don't need anything other than a cellphone, obviously you're not a potential customer for this market. I'm more likely to forget something behind if I'm carrying three things (with three adapters), rather than one (because I'll also be more dependent on the one device to leave it behind). Also, a cellphone that can take pictures and play some music is handy, so I'm not carrying my point-and-shoot camera and ipod all the time. Possibly, I won't even need to buy the other two devices. Convergence can help a lot of people. If it checks email too, why not? This way I can refrain from switching devices from a backpack every few minutes, say while I'm on the bus. The fat lady next to me would like that.
Fewer adapters imply fewer devices to worry about charging, and a greener planet from less transformers in landfills.
"Why people must have the most doo-dahs and whiz-bang features on a phone is beyond me. It makes and receives calls, super. Honestly, when I shop for a new cell it's always the cheapest quad-band I can find. Spent $70 on my last phone..."
so that people don't have to make extra room in their pockets for other gadgets that primarily provide the doo-dahs and whiz-bang features. plus a single adapter to carry while traveling.
I think the guy who reads the emails and chooses the cute li'l tiny ads that go next to them, got a bit frustrated as he missed the goatse.cx emails (thanks to the new hardworking spam guy who checks if your messages have some) and hit the delete button.
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I've had my fair share of laughs from this whole turn of events, but giving this some serious thought (after cutting through all the Indian government's political BS), I surmise this will grow into some sort of distribution platform for schools across rural India. Imagine a low-cost, alway-on media server for educational materials that is more current than several-year-old textbooks, and is available to students at virtually no cost (hopefully the government will subsidize the hardware). I would imagine schools might be able to buy a notebook shell type accessory, which has just a display and keyboard. The accessory plugs into this unit (or perhaps connects wirelessly) and can then access all materials available to the educational institution. It cuts the cost of storage and some motherboard electronics from the individual laptops that students can own, making the system viable and inexpensive.
Environmental damage here we come! ..I've already been told by many women that they wouldn't sleep with me even if I was the last man on Earth. I wonder if they were serious.
... its probably iMEI (and stands for Message Exchange Interface) or, Multiple Extension Internetworking...
And in a parallel universe, a couple of giant roaches are transporting a box of humans to see if they can survive through 4 weeks of isolation on an island...
no, I get what you mean. that's why I don't own an iphone or a smartphone, but I can certainly see the utility for one, for a lot of people. I can check email on my phone though, which is handy 'if' I had to use it. The same holds for the 2MP camera on my phone too. It's not a great camera, but it works like it's supposed to, and I have access to one all the time - for the times when I do have to snap a picture, but am just carrying my cellphone (which is all the time), but not my good camera (which is reserved for vacations and trips). Even the iphone in the US is a pretty basic phone if you looked around the world. In Japan, I can swipe a cellphone across a bluetooth scanner to pay for my bullet train ticket. In Australia, I can use a cellphone to withdraw money from an ATM. In India, I can text-message from a cellphone to pay my utility bills. If you're saying technology moving in this fashion is uncalled for, you're just change-resistant.
if you don't need anything other than a cellphone, obviously you're not a potential customer for this market. I'm more likely to forget something behind if I'm carrying three things (with three adapters), rather than one (because I'll also be more dependent on the one device to leave it behind). Also, a cellphone that can take pictures and play some music is handy, so I'm not carrying my point-and-shoot camera and ipod all the time. Possibly, I won't even need to buy the other two devices. Convergence can help a lot of people. If it checks email too, why not? This way I can refrain from switching devices from a backpack every few minutes, say while I'm on the bus. The fat lady next to me would like that. Fewer adapters imply fewer devices to worry about charging, and a greener planet from less transformers in landfills.
"Why people must have the most doo-dahs and whiz-bang features on a phone is beyond me. It makes and receives calls, super. Honestly, when I shop for a new cell it's always the cheapest quad-band I can find. Spent $70 on my last phone ..."
so that people don't have to make extra room in their pockets for other gadgets that primarily provide the doo-dahs and whiz-bang features. plus a single adapter to carry while traveling.
I think the guy who reads the emails and chooses the cute li'l tiny ads that go next to them, got a bit frustrated as he missed the goatse.cx emails (thanks to the new hardworking spam guy who checks if your messages have some) and hit the delete button.