unfortunately, without another phone already in the pipeline, developers aren't going to flock to this device. It's a chicken and egg thing, the iphone was really the only platform to have customers without apps, and nowadays, you don't have app developers without customers.

This.

After seeing what nokia had done with w7, i lost faith. After seeing the lack of keyboard on the n9, I bought an atrix. While i'd like to see maemo/meebo take off, and i dearly loved my n900, I'll be keeping my atrix as having a rooted webtop environment and a walled garden phone makes due for me.

Show me any under-20 something with an extensive book collection from any time period and I'll show you the exception to the rule.

"We feed our rabbits a solid diet of mint leaves and cinnamon sticks."

I would like to review Anonymous Coward's review of the above movie review. It was well put together, but had line breaks at odd points. I wasn't expecting much from this review of the movie review, but this review of a review came through and delivered the critique I have come to expect from ACs here at /.

I'm not being sarcastic here, but this is why i've felt that the atrix i own is an inferior phone to the n900. In the n900, the upper corner always took you to the multi task screen where you could close the application out, and if you closed the app, it always worked. This was because it had a not-as-friendly-to-touch interface that was based of of linux guidelines. There was consistency, but if the button wasn't visible, all applications still responded to it (unless they were frozen, then a freeze popup would happen, allowing you to close).

This has been bugging me for the past few months with the android, and now i know why it just doesn't feel up to snuff. The android phone is the first phone i've ever owned that had mystery behavior.

That's a really long way to go for a car analogy.

Why 63? Because 64 would be just too KA-RAY-ZEE?

He accidentally the whole word.

Ok, so this is a slashvertisement for a service that specializes in angel investments, but what was the impact? How many businesses were successfully funded? How many of those continued to provide a living and way out of poverty or novel, useful product to society? How many year one businesses beat the 90% failure rate that most small businesses fall to in the first year?

What good has this service done with its 85% collected funds?

Would it matter if 25% of 188 million was collected vs 85% of 53 million? What if the collection rate was 100% of 47? Do these metrics mean anything to anybody besides kickstarter? All told, this summary leaves us with a massive case of slashdot blueballs.

http://www.dansdata.com/ifeel.htm

I had one of these circa 2002.

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Education is surprisingly easy to get if you want it bad enough. Employers and most successful users of the "educated" metric don't look at degrees as a measure of intelligence, but as a measure of willingness to stick with something. If you are willing to run through the four year paces to get a BS degree, then you will most likely be willing to sit in a cube and be productive. Education is not a method for finding an individual's potential, but instead a metric for the saturation point of information and drudgery. It is possible to get a BS without being able to formulate an analogy or think critically, but it is not possible to get a 4 year degree without putting up with an extraordinary amount of bullsh*t.

There is way to keep disallowing it, but every... single... time that an app requests your location, you will be prompted that "BLah blah blah app is requesting access to your location information" or some such message (i don't use an iphone, my wife does). The first time you click allow, that app will have rights to access your stuff forever and ever and ever. Want to find a starbucks because you're draggin? The first time you click allow to find your closest over-priced java provider will be the last time you will have the right to deny starbucks an intimate knowledge of where you spend your time.

I switched from the n900 to the motorola atrix and I'm going to say it: for a linux geek who doesn't care about an app market, the n900 (and its successor) beat the pants off of android devices. I would routinely go 3-4 days without charging vs my 36 hour android battery life, the slide out keyboard was pretty good and beats the on-screen keyboards any day, and multitasking without having applications hide in the background is still sorely missed.

Now the n900 wasn't perfect, but if it had a capacitive screen, 3g on AT&T, and a 1ghz+ chip, it would have been.