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MrBlahBlah
08/17/09

In reply to New Sony Ericsson Chief Is Ready to Make the ~~Hard~~ Obvious Choices About Smartphones
Dumbphones will always have a market because not everyone wants to pay for the data. Also, not everyone wants the added connectivity. For example, there are many people who have backberries for work, so they just buy a dumphone for their personal cell number - no need to duplicate functionality. I'm not one of these people, and neither are most people who read this website, but to say that the dumbphone is on its way to extinction is a load of crap. Unless wiereless providers start offering data for free.
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winkerVsbecks
08/17/09

In reply to New Sony Ericsson Chief Is Ready to Make the ~~Hard~~ Obvious Choices About Smartphones
I don't get why Gizmodo keeps stressing that dumb phones are dead.

There is a cellphone market outside the US.

India and China (huge markets) mostly look for dumb and cheap phones. Europe isn't all crazy for smart phones yet.

BTW what percentage of people in the US have smart phones?

I agree we all need smart phones but the reality is, dumb phones make a very big part of the market still.
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Margatron
08/17/09

@winkerVsbecks: my dumb phone has just enough access to the net to satisfy me. I can dl ringtones and games and that's all I want. I don't want to do my email and surf casually on my phone. I have better things to do.
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amandizzle
08/17/09

@Margatron: Same here. My last two phones have been SE because they offer very small models. I might not be able to check my email or wikipedia every time I think of some question that I NEED answered, but I can quickly check the weather when the sky looks threatening and that's all I need. I'm too frugal and too unwilling to give up something else in my life so I can afford a smartphone data plan, no matter how droolworthy those phones are. I'm good with a dumbphone.
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GodwinChicken
07/23/09

In reply to Sony's Interior Walls Are Slowly Coming Down
I don't think MS was all that great, between having 2 different DRM schemes: Plays for Sure and Zune DRM which they purposely made incompatible. Then you have Xbox and no portable integration there yet. Windows Home Server just got some features to use Windows Media Center and Windows 7 libraries.

It's a start but MS still needs to get a little better. They have a major advantage in that their OS is used on 90% of the world's PCs.
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Ryanraven
07/23/09

In reply to Sony's Interior Walls Are Slowly Coming Down
Honestly when a company gets that BIG and can't control itself i find it sad. Some companies just cant handle the growth and split or crumble in so many ways, they loose much strength. Think IBM, GM, Chrystler. I for one am very impressed with the fortitude that M$ has shown, hopefully companies like Apple and Google will be the same.
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(Starman) Starman [Key in repetitiveness.]
07/24/09

@Ryanraven: Ignoring your sad dollar signage representation of MSFT, you think that MicroSoft has fortitude!? You should take a look at their divisions as of late, boy...
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Segador
07/23/09

In reply to Sony's Interior Walls Are Slowly Coming Down
When they ditch the Memory Stick and join the rest of the world, I'll stand up and take notice.
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gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack
07/23/09

@Segador:

The W has a memory stick slot and a SD card slot.

So take notice
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TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
07/24/09

@gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack: The Vaio P also comes with both memstick and SDHC slots built right in.
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Segador
07/24/09

@gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack: That is good to hear. My older Viao has only the mem stick slot.
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Deoki
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
I am very sad for Torvalds not being there, considering how many things work on Linux these days. Very bad job Giz. You made me (and more readers) very bitter.
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FuzzysFriedChicken
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
No mention of Jobs on LSD?
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gemcosta
07/15/09

@FuzzysFriedChicken: Jobs is very sensitive to this. Giz wouldn't want to bite the ballsack they're licking.
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Chris Tomalty
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
What about Torvalds?
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@LegoAddict: Maybe when Linux makes it to the desktop ;)
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jrghoull
07/15/09

@UnderLoK:

hahah he does have a point though. though linux is still small in the desktop world, it's used to run alot of commercial and business tech and all the companies mentioned above i'm sure use it to some extent.
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@jrghoull: Hey, I gave props to Michael Widenius (MySQL) below!
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OMG! Ponies!
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
I solved the Pancake Problem by the time I was 10.

x = P + (P x M oz.) + 2B + E *3 + SB where SB > 5.

P equals the number of pancakes in a stack

M equals Maple Syrup

B equals Butter Pats

E equals Eggs (sunnyside up)

SB equals a Side of Bacon

Any stack of Pancakes is to be covered in a number of ounces of warm Maple Syrup equal to the number of Pancakes plus 2 Pats of Butter plus Three Eggs Sunnyside Up, with a Side of Bacon of no less than 6 rashers of Bacon.

Using this formula, you will have a crazy delicious breakfast and be able to have a rad day sledding and throwing snowballs, providing there is adequate snow to shut down the schools and permit reindeer games.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: That's great, but did you happen to stumble upon the post-sledding optimum hot-chocolate to marshmallow ratio in your adventures? Remember: for every 8 ounces of cocoa, you must have no less then 10 mini-marshmallows. Real ones, too, none of that freeze-dried crap.
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Grendel
07/15/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Blasphemy!! Outrage!!

I will kindly... provide the correction..

Whereby;

X = n[(P + MP) + B + E + Hb] + [(Sb^n+1) +(Sb)]

=> Whereby

n is a function of number of times ordered based on the Munchies Theorem

Hb Equals a Side Hash Browns

And SB, is a Side of Bacon as function of n whereas Sb>2 with respect (and dictated by) the quantum laws of porker preservation while oak smoke flavor is super saturated by coffee sipping.

But you were 10, so I guess you may be gradually forgiven.

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RamonaAepytus
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
I've actually met and talked with Dean Kamen! It was awesome.
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@RamonaAepytus: It always amazes me how excited that guy is. If his other ventures didn't work out he could always take over for Oxyclean.
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bosskev
07/15/09

In reply to When Tech Gods Were Mortal Men
Poor Larry Ellison. Even as the fourth richest person in the world he's already forgotten.
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UnderLoK
07/15/09

@bosskev: He is a shrimp compared to Michael Widenius... Not in dollars mind you.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/15/09

@bosskev: who?
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bosskev
07/15/09

@DeusExMach has jumped the snark: Uh...the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation (think databases), one of the world's largest business software companies?
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/15/09

@bosskev: what corporation?
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bosskev
07/15/09

@DeusExMach has jumped the snark: OK, fine, I fell for it.
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DeusExMach wonders what the hell happened to his star.
07/16/09

@bosskev: heh... Homerpalooza... classic.
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Hello Mister Walrus
06/26/09

In reply to Why Sony's Howard Stringer Has One of the Hardest Jobs in the World
To be fair, Sony's competition has been really, really good. Can you imagine if Bill Gates suddenly decided that he wanted to crush you (XBox)?
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Curves
06/26/09

In reply to Why Sony's Howard Stringer Has One of the Hardest Jobs in the World
The biggest challenges always create the most opportunities. If he has the vision, and can influence his people to reach past their limits, he might actually pull it off.
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tylerstyle
06/26/09

@Curves: "The riskier the road, the greater the profit." 62nd Rule of Acquisition.
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Curves
06/26/09

@tylerstyle: I will have to search for those rules; they have to be online someplace. I am sure its really good reading.
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frigg
02/27/09

In reply to Sir Howard Stringer Named Supreme Leader of All Things Sony
Sony is run like a loosely-connected federation of fiefdoms, each one tapping out their own products in their own corner of the company. The only thing that holds them all together is Sony's annual meeting when Sir Howard Stringer puts on a set of tights, takes out his lute, and sings 17th century songs while company employees joust on horseback, and feast on roasted boar, pottage, and mead.
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Homerjay is utterly alone.
01/20/09

In reply to The Next Gadget Gods
I like how you consider staying alive to be 'a priority other than tech'
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