Electric cars are still just too expensive for most buyers and don't come in the right options. No EV minivans, full size SUVs or pick-ups means a lot of buyers can't find an electric version of the type of car they want. I think the Model S is an awesome car but it's effectively a luxury sedan and the market for luxury sedans isn't that big. To get "butts in seats" someone has to come up with an EV pickup and sedan which get comparable range to their gas counterparts at the same price point.

Hopefully battery prices will fall significantly with the new technologies being developed, but until they do I think we'll continue to see more gas powered cars than hybrids, and more hybrids than full EVs.

Free markets work when the markets are truly free, which the US telecom market is not. Service is broken into local monopolies, so before declaring that the market economy has failed, remember that in this area we aren't working with one.

We have exactly three options regarding the future of broadband in the US: do nothing, regulate or deregulate. The telecoms want us to do nothing since it lets them maintain the status quo with local monopolies and move at their own pace with very little pressure. If we want things to move faster than the pace the providers set for us we have to regulate more (remember, we're already regulating!) and force providers to do more, or deregulate and hope that competition forces things to move faster from the bottom up. My opinion is that the only thing the providers fight harder than regulations on what services they have to provide is a move to truly deregulate the markets, look at the fight between Comcast and AT&T in Illinois over U-Verse service as an interesting case study of that.

Keep in mind that free market forces are not truly in play in the US since our telecom system has evolved as a series of local monopolies. While much more competition is present today than in the past, in large part because of the way competing technologies now blur the lines between phone and cable companies, it's still not a true free marketplace today since local monopoly agreements are already in place.

Thanks for pointing out that LotusLive is not standard iNotes, I missed that when I checked the site and was trying to figure out why the LotusLive iNotes didn't include scheduling.

I have to wonder which braniac at IBM decided to dilute their branding even more by marketing a product as iNotes that doesn't do everything that Domino iNotes can do, its as if the whole iNotes, DWA, iNotes renaming wasn't bad enough in confusing customers so they decided to add this to the mix. I have to say that the M$ marketing dept runs circles around IBMs, at least with OWA you know what OWA means.

That command rebuilds all view indexes in a database and will take more or less time based on how big the database (presumably your mailbox in this example) is. Dropping all the indexes off a mysql db and rebuilding them won't happen instantly either.

The Notes 8.5 Basic client is always included, it's the standard Windows code when it's not run within the Eclipse Framework. There are a couple ways to invoke it, an easy one is to create a short cut to notes.exe and add -sa at the end of the target line.

Just keep in mind that Eclipse is what ties in the widgets, activities, etc, so don't be surprised when you just get Notes when you launch as Basic.

That's another good example of why you need training, but it's not a problem with Notes. Google uses labels the same way Notes uses Folders and so you can make the exact same mistake there. You just don't see as many people hating on GMail because a) it's free and b) their employer didn't tell them to use it (though both of those are syarting to change).

There's nothing wrong with the approach with views and tags, just something with the not educating your staff in how to safely save their messages.

True, but the reason to do this would be to get it back into education (at least in the US where Outlook/Exchange has become dominant), and into small and medium businesses. Right now Notes/Domino is a great tool for SMBs who are interested in running some home grown apps that SMBs don't generally go for.

IBM's reason to pursue outsourcing Notes and Domino would be to pick up more consulting business, while at the same time trying to knock off Microsoft's Small Business Server which comes preloaded with Exchange, IIS, SQL Server and SharePoint.

DavidTC knows what he's talking about, though I'd through in a caveat that Fannie and Freddie bought mortgages that they knew they shouldn't have thus enabling, indirectly, the real malfeasance being perpetrated by the Investment banking industry.

Here's a link to get you started on your research: http://www.thislife.org/extras/radio/355_transcript.pdf