The Milestone's (Droid's) keyboard is pretty good for a mobile keyboard. Far better in my opinion than a Blackberry's and far bigger. I use it a lot.

I've already GOT a G2. It didn't look like that, nor was it very good.

This is mighty confusing. For clarification:
T-Mobile G1 = HTC Dream
T-Mobile G2 Touch = HTC Hero
T-Mobile G2 = HTC Vision (maybe)

Why on earth they had to make ANOTHER G2 is confusing. Their track record isn't exactly great, you know.

Literally FLY on the back of a giant eagle's arm? huh? Someone's got this confused, guys...

> unlike in the USA, most countries it is sender pays for SMS rather than recipient

Owch! If I ever go to the USA, I'm turning that right off!

I find touchscreens hard to type on personally, and find keyboards that bit better. I'm not sure I'd take a tablet seriously, I can't vouch for many people in terms of that. But one thing that bites me is some are locked down (and thus defective and not kind to the user, after all it's theirs) by design.

1) It's not created a space all on its own. It's just another of many.

2) Tablets are a fad. People can't type nearly as fast as with a keyboard. I still can't take them seriously.

3) Netbooks ftw. Laptops ft(even better)w

I suppose the researchers were happy, then. I suppose they were government funded? Who else would pay for that kind of research?

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: MONEY CAN'T BUY YOU HAPPINESS. You just need someone to love.

I never said refuse to use a timesheet. I'd bring the issue up to management until they fixed it though. Cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility is one thing that almost everyone has got now, and something that shouldn't be overlooked, especially if it sticks you to one OS, one you wouldn't use even if a bear threatened you.

So... how will putting phone-scannable barcodes on stamps actually help? And what do I need it for?

>IE (and hence windows)
I don't think that's needed.

> plenty of corporate portals
That should be shot. And programmed properly. If I'd come across one, if it was not vital, I'd refuse to use it. On accounts of it forcing me to use an insecure browser. If it was vital, I'd complain loudly and demand to use someone else's PC for it.

Sound disrespectful? Not as disrespectful as the programmers.

I'm as surprised as you. I think only people who have no idea about security use it. And not even more of them.

I hear the Spanish have this already. Their policy is to add a premium to MP3 players, phones, computers etc of a few euros, so that they can download any copyrighted music to it and play it for free whilst paying for it using the premium! Clever, huh?

Is there a Linux port? I'd love some malware. I miss having people trying to install software on my computer without permission! Maybe I should go get a Mac.

I've found that iTunes is very slow on XP with 1 gig of ram. On VBox Hackintosh, it's a lot quicker, and even dare I say it, smoother. It's nicely linked into the OS (though syncing to an iPod is slow as hell). The problem is making a Windows version - lots of different OS code, probably a load of UNIX code they have to replicate and convert badly into windows syscalls when it already has the same calls but incompatible. This is probably some of the reason why they didn't want a Linux version - it'd have to be another version to maintain, plus Linux is quite different from Mach. But the userspace stuff is not surprisingly similar. I think they just couldn't keep up with the flak. It's slow enough already.

As not a fan of Apple or iTunes, I'll give them that their products work well together, just not with anyone else's. And as for iOS updates? Asking Apple if that's okay? Not allowing downgrades? I think not. It's MY iPod after all.

I hope you've found my speech useful. Yours sincerely, the guy who wrote it.

Pushy II on Acorn. :P

They complained you had to click Start to shut down.
They said it took too long.
Why do MS want it? They just want everything. They probably want everyone to hate them, too.
If they want everything and want everyone else to have nothing, they want to force everyone to use their system. Seems a bit anti intuitive to me. I don't like companies that piss about like that, that's why I'm fed up with them, and won't buy from them ever. They should innovate, not shut everyone else down. They think they'll get money, but the real way to make money is to make something better, something more competitive. something more likely to make people actually want it, not to force them.

Anyway, how simple is... terminate tasks, sync disks, unmount, send shutdown signal? I can do it in 5 seconds.

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