Boss, you know I was thinking. My back's sort of hurting and I think it's due to my chair. So I was thinking we had a few options we ought to explore:
1) We get me this $500 artsy green chair. Sure I might look a bit like a pretentious emo douche and all the hot girls we hire will think I'm gay. But it would totally be worth it.
2) We could make a pile of $500 in singles, set it on fire and then try to put it out by urinating on it. If we drink a lot of water beforehand we might be able to douse the inferno with enough leftover for me to get a chair from Staples.
3) You could just give me $500 and I'll forget about my back issues.
Yep. I was down to one of these or the $79 generico special at Office Max. I don't have a coupon, but I think I'm going to roll the dice on the special. I like to live on the wild side.
Good. The current software's beautiful to look at and very functional. But it's a bloated, CPU-hogging beast.
The pussification of America is now complete.
Diamond2 will likely be roughly about the same when it comes out. Maybe $50 cheaper . . . what a bargain! It's a great, powerful phone, but the $350 subsidized phone age is over.
@imTheKing: I still think there's a very good chance they won't be in business (on any meaningful scale) in a couple years. No matter how great the product, it's going to be hard to compete against the resources of companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and RIM. Each of those players have much deeper pockets and broader ecosystems they can potentially tap into to give them some differentiating factor.
And even non-smartphones are increasingly absorbing the main functionality desired by the vast majority of users (things like music, web browsing, apps for the most popular platforms like Twitter/Facebook/etc.) With the smartphone/dumbphone lines getting blurred and much more financially sturdy competition I just don't see where they find their niche.
@jcraig: If you're Steve Jobs you can have him any way, any time.
@wutlulzky: I know they were originally hoping for this piece to get nominated for an Oscar, but Francis Ford Coppola had to pull out at the last minute.
That or it's a puppet video clip on YouTube.
For the record, I think he said "hairless siamese cat" not "perilous siamese cat"
@moracity: So basically a spot-on portrayal of the real Walt.
@lilaliendog: Clearly he doesn't know a thing about Gizmodo then.
$1 large sweet tea baby! Love me some McD's.
I buy my beer for the same reason I read Gizmodo - I'm lazy.
So if I drive out into the middle of a barren field and kick it up to about 50mph besides severe damage to my car I could let people know that traffic is flowing smoothly on the Jones farm.
Maybe if I went fast enough I could draw something. Crop circles, the next generation.
I don't needs my sleep, but I needs my TV. Yay foobaww season!! RAWR!
Hotplate party at my house!
@RemembertheAmiga: Here on planet Sprint, I drive an HTC and can use Sling and Orb as much as I want over EVDO and have no issues whatsoever.
Despite their claim that they won't get in the hardware space and ruffle the feathers of OEM partners, I can't help but think they might be using this 'co-exist' talk as a way to put out their own phone - WM6.5 for their OEM partners, WM7 on their own phone while they test the waters. They need something more than just a 'Zune phone' though. While the Zune's slick as hell, any phone can do multimedia now. They're still missing from the portable gaming space and the Xbox has too massive an audience for them to not be thinking seriously about that space. An Xbox phone (and a non-phone standalone device) is their best chance for success in the mobile space IMO.
@winshape: Then maybe I'll bitch about them including crappy batteries.
Now you'll tell me they include Duracells. :P
@FriarNurgle: As will I (at least when it comes to my netbook - Thinkpad's still the only way to go when it comes to serious computing and work.)
That is a nice price on a decent little machine though. Would be great student device for someone who wants an attractive machine with a bit more oomph than a netbook has to offer.
