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Re: Jack Burtons BEST Quotes from Big Trouble in Little China John Carpenter Kurt Russell

felix — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:59:09 -0000

YES.

Re: Lightweight Hiking Shirts - Hiking in Finland

felix — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 16:51:54 -0000

I've got the Patagonia capilene 1 and the Icebreaker, and like both of them (probably the patagonia a hair more, lighter and softer). Was very curious about the Rab MeCo 120. I find the others both reasonably loose fitting - couldn't tell from the images of the Rab, but it seems like a tighter cut?

Re: http://www.designstaff.org/articles/hello-world-2011-10-31.html

felix — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:32:01 -0000

Really excited to see where this goes. I think in many cases design gets "leaned" out of startups in the rush to execute - often this is really detrimental to engagement. Love to see tips on minimum viable... design? :)

Re: Capped Collections

felix — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:41:26 -0000

When you say "auto archiving" in my mind that means, as it rolls off the cap it gets archived in another collection. But I can't find any docs to support this, so does it mean that it just gets deleted?

Re: It’s taken long enough but XP slips below 50% market share.

felix — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:02:01 -0000

I'd argue that it's hard to put a good spin on the notion that well over half Microsoft's installed base is running an OS that is a decade old.

Re: Some thoughts on RIM

felix — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:17:10 -0000

Sure - although, pre-launch reviews of the first iPad were not so glowing either. Obvs the world's changed since then and the bar is higher, but I think the point remains - initial reviews aren't everything, come out with something, stick with it and crank out new versions again and again and again.

Re: Books Without Borders: A Victory For Amazon, But Also For Independent Book Stores

felix — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:41:38 -0000

Interesting premise but where did you get the data for indies closing by the dozens? What I've been reading has been showing the opposite - that in recent times indies have been growing (slowly, but growing - http://bit.ly/eDKewQ ). So my interpretation would be that Borders closing is not the opportunity for indies, but just a symptom.

Re: How the Microsoft & Nokia deals shows tech bias and no business sense

felix — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 12:53:25 -0000

I'm still on the fence about this deal - although I think I'm leaning towards it being a win for microsoft and an I'm still not sure for Nokia. I guess in terms of what you've said above about it being bad for Nokia to be just another android reseller. Why is WinPhone 7 any different? It will be a licensed product that Nokia will have to compete against. Potentially it's worse because, Android being open Nokia could have put their own special sauce on it - whereas I would suspect that they'll have less flexibility with WinPhone 7. I would have guessed that they could have gotten preferential treatment from the Goog - but maybe not. Instead they've presumably decided to be first among equals with an unproven product. What's the upside?

Re: “Apple Is Evil! Boycott The iPad! – Written From My iPad”

felix — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:58:37 -0000

I find this argument odd "There seems to be this desire to paint Apple’s relatively closed system as “evil” in some way. But the reality, of course, is that it’s not evil. If anything, it has just proven to be good business."

I don't disagree with most of the rest of the piece, but suggesting this behaviour couldn't be evil because it's good business for Apple? Isn't that sort of the root of all "evil" behaviour in as much as you're going to ascribe any business behaviour as good or evil? Evil behaviour seems to mean good for your company at the expense of another company and the consumer as well?

Re: Google Nexus S giveaway!

felix — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:11:14 -0000

Love to see the state of the art in the Android world. :)

Re: Smartphone cameras change the game

felix — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:01:00 -0000

Wow, that is neat. iPad is good, but nothing like it would be with an iPhone (oh and have it be wireless while I'm asking for stuff. :) I imagine it must be coming to the iPhone too, I hope.

Re: This Facebook phone thing is nonsense

felix — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:02:22 -0000

Wow. I completely didn't remember the ESPN phone. Even having been reminded, I'm not sure I actually did know about it. Huh. Nice!

Happily, it turns out that the Zuck isn't that dumb and isn't building his own phone.

Re: Microsoft’s WinPhone7 parade exposes a fundamental problem

felix — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:15:51 -0000

Heh, that's quite a neat point. I think you are reading too much into it, but that doesn't make not insightful. :)

Re: State of the Smartphones: iPhone up, Android up, RIMM screwed

felix — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:15:54 -0000

I'm not convinced about Microsoft. They have a very poor track record of buying their way into anything (silverlight? search? display ads? cloud computing? mp3 players? portal? etc...). I agree though, that they still can't be discounted - it seems like they're finally getting IE9 right, so who knows? They must see that it's their future, but still.

I also agree with you about HP. I think they are a dark horse, very dark. BUT they are (or were) an engineering power house, they've got OS experience (or did) so they have all the ingredients to make a success story - if they can hire good people and back them with resources while letting them run independent of the company.

And I think we're pretty much in agreement about iOS/Android.

Now RIM. I disagree with the old installed base business. I think people are going through phone lifecycles quicker and quicker as phones become increasingly sophisticated. The iOS devices (iPhones and iPads) are making heavy inroads into the enterprise and I suspect that Android will too before long. It'll start in smaller business that don't need to overhead that having extra RIM servers around but it'll move to larger ones that are going to have to support iOS/Android anyway and don't need the extra overhead of local rim servers plus rim's external service.

RIM will coast and still technically be a player for years, but in practice they'll be completely marginalized and irrelevant in a couple years. From market leaders they'll be just be has beens coasting on their momentum and a large but ever shrinking installed base - getting by with giving out 2 for 1 or free phone deals.

So for the near future it's going to be a 2 horse race for 1st and 2nd, and then a bunch of vapor will metamorph into the race to see who cleans up the rest. That's how I see it. :)

Re: iPhone 4 Case Review: Gumdrop Air Shell

felix — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:09:15 -0000

Wow, that's great! Are there similar ones still on ebay? Love to see which one you got. Does your case not suffer from the flash problem?

(thanks for the tip about the second batch - just pinged them to see if I could get in on that. :)

Re: I don’t get Steve Ballmer

felix — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:44:46 -0000

Point well taken, I really do underestimate his ability to sweat copiously. And yell. Incoherently.

Re: iPhone 4 Case Review: Gumdrop Air Shell

felix — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:50:48 -0000

I'm pretty not that into the case anymore. Part of the issue, I think, is that I got white on a black iPhone. It's a minor issue, but because it's somewhat translucent, it turns into kind of a not so white white, which bothers me a little. Probably should have just stuck with good ol' black.

The larger issue though, which is going to make me get another case is that I recently discovered that it completely screws up the flash. I never really use flash on the iPhone, but recently I tried a couple and it reflects the light back into the lens and completely renders flash photos unusable. A real problem that I've heard happens with a lot of the new cases. Sigh.

What do you think of yours?

Re: iPhone 4 Case Review: Gumdrop Air Shell

felix — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:50:30 -0000

I will try and post some pics - but I am hampered by my distinct laziness. :)

The cover, though, won't provide any lay-on-the-table protection for the face. You can imagine the sides of the cover "hooking" on to the black indent above the steel band but ending flash with the face. Potentially it might be a tiny bit over in some areas, but that's just engineering issues - I wouldn't trust it to provide any lift of the glass off the table.

Re: My search for an ultralight iPhone 4 hard case

felix — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:02:08 -0000

interesting cases - I hadn't seen those. Some interesting options there, although I don't love the apple cutout on the back.

Re: My search for an ultralight iPhone 4 hard case

felix — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:00:48 -0000

I have a gumdrop airshell waiting for me at home. Expect a review before long. :)

Seriously, you're phone's cracked and dented? Pictures!

Re: Movie Review: The Last Airbender could not have been worse

felix — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:13:51 -0000

Yes! I will totally blame shyamalan for the end of the world!! :)

Re: iPhone 4 Case Review: Bumper

felix — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:23:59 -0000

Yeah, I like the Bumper less and less. Especially for something as expensive as it is, it just doesn't satisfy me. Although, I guess if you're the type who's ok with those silicon covers it's kind of that same mushiness - so it's definitely a personal preference issue. The 3rd party connectors is a problem, but only if you have 'em.

It did bother me a lot that there weren't any other options at launch. I mean, I understand the need for secrecy - but really, they left the phone at a bar - the cat was out of the bag already!! Still, now there seem to be some options hitting the scene - although I think still no quality anti-glare screen protectors. Sigh.

Re: iPhone 4 Case Review: Bumper

felix — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:21:59 -0000

Huh, I just read somewhere that there's a softer material lining the back so it doesn't scratch up the phone? Is that true? I kinda really, really hate those ventilated sides - but I would really like that soft back. Looking at a few other hard cases that are coming out too - but that's the first I've seen of any feature like that which is compelling.

Re: Libretto W100 embodies what’s wrong with the netbook/tablet market

felix — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:32:03 -0000

Yeah, I don't really have an iPad, but pretty much everyone I know has one. One of my buds has a set up that's probably similar to Ben's - he manages a ton of windows and osx machines from the iPad and absolutely loves that functionality - finds it way nicer to use than the netbook he had been toting prior to that.

Of course, I think he's not using LogMein or VMware - so maybe those specific apps aren't satisfactory yet. Hopefully they'll fix those up!

But I guess my point is not that all netbooks suck, or that windows sucks on smaller devices, it's just that I think that for most people they aren't satisfying user experiences. There will be niches for power users and users with particular needs that make others preferable - but they're niches.

Re: First look video: Toshiba “touch” netbook prototype shows how Japanese might fight back against iPad (oh, and a cool 3D laptop, too)

felix — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:16:36 -0000

I agree - it is pointless to make interesting tablet hardware without coupling it with interesting tablet software. I hope that given Android's ready availability - someone soon takes it along the same path that Apple took with iOS from phone to tablet. Competition could ramp up quicker in the tablet space than it did in the phone space because of that. The dark horse here, though, is HP - the only other very large company that owns the entire stack now. I don't have a ton of hope for that, but the ingredients are there...