Posts by Michael James 6 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jul 2007
Osbourne shot itself in the wallet by accidentally telling customers, "Don't buy our current model, the new one will be so much better." The Nokia variant is, "Don't buy our current model, it's a dead end product. By the way; our new line will be crap for 3 generations." It'll need deep pockets to pull out of that one.
I just hope Apple have a reader tablet in the pipeline. If they produced something with an e-paper display, that accepted open formats, with an iTunes like library manager they would have the iPod of the text generation. (Yes I'm over 50)
A decent home server is the other appliance no-one is producing yet.
Looks like a mac mini but higher so 4 hot swappable disks can slide into it.
Time capsule like router/wireless/backup functionality.
Runs a master iTunes Library for media serving.
Has a network control panel allowing a parent fine grained control of internet gaming.
Runs a local web cache with good logging so the parent knows what's being browsed.
Runs a bittorrent client that can be set to take advantage of off-peak download limits.
Very low power so it can be left running all the time.
Small SSD cache disk (32Gig?) so it can power down its disks most of the time.
Like the BOFH I live aware of the logical relations between things. "No it's no good trying to load a web page, you haven't even got a link light on your network card." "Yes, the link's now on, but the page still won't load, because DHCP hasn't given you an IP number, you'll have to pirate one." And so on up through the layers of dependence. The hard thing is realizing that not everyone can look at a door-lock and know how it works. Poor things think that a key is enough to keep even an honest person honest.
For most things I'm the fixer, but I can make Windows fail every time just with the force of my contempt and skepticism.
This keyboard is like a well designed office chair. Makes everything else feel like an upturned milk crate. It props up the front edge and slopes back slightly providing a nice wrist rest that allows typing with wrists rested and dead level. It's split and mounded in the middle like the old Microsoft Natural keyboard so hands fall straight onto the keys with no sideways twisting. The keys have good deep movement and feel. Standard American 101 layout with the \ key above the enter key. I love it and I'm a rabid Linux/MacOS/Anything-but-Windows user. This they did well.
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