Love our 'sonic 2-liner, but setting it back up again made me want to punch a Time Warner representative in the face.
With a Digital Phone installation up here, they offer you a shitty 2-handset GE system without any decent features or a competent interface. Sure, it's WiFi friendly (at 5.8 GHz), but sure as hell is not user friendly (no answering machine, seriously?).
So I dug out the Panasonic.
Out comes a family member screaming that we can't do that, and that TWC says *NO OTHER PHONE* will work with the modem (which is hooked up through a giant extention cord to our 'main' phone jack, as is).
I said 'fuck it' and hooked up the Panasonic either way. Turns out, TWC representatives are morons and I have a dialtone.
@franco1975: In my experience, it's pretty droppy. I'm not sure whether it has a sensor or some algorithm for this, but it seems to drop half of my calls to my aunt and most of my calls from my father.
The CEO, Sanjay Jha was on CNBC yesterday afternoon, and he basically tipped his hand: they're prepping the company for an acquisition to someone like Dell.
Moto hopes the Android sets sell well enough to bid up the asking price. It's sort of like how a major athlete tries to bump up his stats prior to becoming a free agent.
I was pretty sure we've come to a point where no one gives a shit about slide out keyboards anymore.
Holy shit, it's like a really tiny computer!
My God, it'll change everything!
QUEEF!
Implied or not, it's going to have one. We've gone through quite a spell with certain phones that trump its lack thereof, so I think we can wrap our minds around either.
@Kaiser-Machead: "I was pretty sure we've come to a point where no one gives a shit about slide out keyboards anymore."
I wouldn't buy a phone without one... So I guess we've just come to a point where irritating elitists assume that everyone shares their personal preferences...
I object to this entire article. To start with, I have seen nothing but positive reviews about the product itself. Next, if you are writing an article about the product today, just to whine about the fact that the product is better than what they showed you (as opposed to the norm of showing us features that we expect and rushing through features that should be available) then I would say that Moto has a brilliant marketing strategy. I will take a CEO that commands action over a CEO that is a great presenter any day of the week.
@HanselJalooloo: "if you are writing an article about the product today", well, they aren't. It's an article about how poorly the presentation was for the device.
"To start with, I have seen nothing but positive reviews about the product itself [...] just to whine about the fact that the product is better than what they showed you"
Notice at the end of the article: "Which is a shame, because the Cliq turned out to be a pretty swell little phone, actually!", and again the fact that it was an article about a keynote that was supposed to be for the phone.
"I would say that Moto has a brilliant marketing strategy. I will take a CEO that commands action over a CEO that is a great presenter any day of the week."
You would have a horrible company when nobody at the company even knows the name of the product you are releasing or what it actually does. Otherwise you would be spending millions of dollars on keynotes that confused the hell out of people and led many who were inimpressed by the apparent laziness and lack of organization lose interest in your products and your company.
"Wow, this product looked like shit before, but it's actually pretty good!" isn't the best way to sell a product. Those particular people would have just steered clear of it from the beginning.
Whenever I see it referred to as the "Cliq", I am swept back to high school.
Standing alone, near the stoner bench, looking at the jocks and the cheers thinking, "doouchebags...."
Camara and Sibley is the firm of "Kiwi Camara", who represented Jammie Thomas Rasset against the RIAA in her filesharing suit. Kiwi is apparently the youngest graduate ever of Harvard Law School, and seems big on bucking the establishment and taking on the big guys. Too bad he lost rather spectacularly against the RIAA this time, with the jury awarding a $1.92M penalty against his client, a decision I believe has already been appealed.
Kiwi is apparently also following up with a class action suit against the RIAA with class members consisting of anyone who paid them hush money since they started filing rampant suits against P2P users.
I wonder if he's personally involved in this case as well.
I was actually excited when I sent this in because the EULA strikes a serious nerve with me.
I for one have wanted this fight to focus around the EULA from the beginning as I think it is ridiculous that I can’t legally install OSX on any computer I choose because when it comes down to it, Apple makes PCs no matter how many "I’m a Mac" commercials they run.
Yes I "can" do it, but I technically nullify my license in doing so which is asinine.
@UnderLoK: I technically can't use a regular single license package of OS X to install on multiple systems, but did even more than the family pack "allows".
@Kaiser-Machead: I’m sure many people do violate it either on purpose or on accident, but being restricted to their own product line "or else" is something I can’t agree with as I would hate to see other companies pull the same stunt.
You have to admit...they've got guts. They want to go down swinging. Perhaps they'll take a few pieces of Apple with them.
Do you remember that scene in the new star trek movie where you had the captain of that federation starship crash his ship in the romulan vessel as a last act of defiance? I see psystar doing the same thing....in a legal manner not literal of course.
How do you pronounce psystar anyway? "pisstar"? "fistar"? "sci-star"? =/
@olternaut: "Perhaps they'll take a few pieces of Apple with them."
Yes, because maiming your golden goose is always a sound strategic goal of any company. Seriously, I just don't get PsyStar. They can't rationally battle it out with Apple, hurting the company which makes the OS software that is their entire raison d'être. Not directed at you, just frustrated by Psystar's continued existence.
@Geisrud: Though I don't believe that sealed copies of OS X are marked with the phrase "Not for Resale" (I believe only the reinstall discs are marked, but I could be wrong), there are certain rules that would apply to Psystar if they want to redistribute it for profit. If they're buying them regular from Apple and Amazon, I don't know how they even intend to turn any kind of profit.
11/23/09
With a Digital Phone installation up here, they offer you a shitty 2-handset GE system without any decent features or a competent interface. Sure, it's WiFi friendly (at 5.8 GHz), but sure as hell is not user friendly (no answering machine, seriously?).
So I dug out the Panasonic.
Out comes a family member screaming that we can't do that, and that TWC says *NO OTHER PHONE* will work with the modem (which is hooked up through a giant extention cord to our 'main' phone jack, as is).
I said 'fuck it' and hooked up the Panasonic either way. Turns out, TWC representatives are morons and I have a dialtone.
11/23/09
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11/23/09
Stop staring at the lady across the alley with binoculars.
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11/23/09
#tips
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#tips
09/11/09
They were worried Giz was going to hit them again with TV-B-Gone. ;)
09/11/09
Moto hopes the Android sets sell well enough to bid up the asking price. It's sort of like how a major athlete tries to bump up his stats prior to becoming a free agent.
09/11/09
Holy shit, it's like a really tiny computer!
My God, it'll change everything!
QUEEF!
Implied or not, it's going to have one. We've gone through quite a spell with certain phones that trump its lack thereof, so I think we can wrap our minds around either.
09/12/09
I wouldn't buy a phone without one... So I guess we've just come to a point where irritating elitists assume that everyone shares their personal preferences...
09/12/09
Is there any particular importance in it to make a big mention? Most phones have it, and there's nothing new about this one, so really, big woop.
09/11/09
09/11/09
"To start with, I have seen nothing but positive reviews about the product itself [...] just to whine about the fact that the product is better than what they showed you"
Notice at the end of the article: "Which is a shame, because the Cliq turned out to be a pretty swell little phone, actually!", and again the fact that it was an article about a keynote that was supposed to be for the phone.
"I would say that Moto has a brilliant marketing strategy. I will take a CEO that commands action over a CEO that is a great presenter any day of the week."
You would have a horrible company when nobody at the company even knows the name of the product you are releasing or what it actually does. Otherwise you would be spending millions of dollars on keynotes that confused the hell out of people and led many who were inimpressed by the apparent laziness and lack of organization lose interest in your products and your company.
"Wow, this product looked like shit before, but it's actually pretty good!" isn't the best way to sell a product. Those particular people would have just steered clear of it from the beginning.
09/11/09
Standing alone, near the stoner bench, looking at the jocks and the cheers thinking, "doouchebags...."
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07/29/09
DieGo to CourtKiwi is apparently also following up with a class action suit against the RIAA with class members consisting of anyone who paid them hush money since they started filing rampant suits against P2P users.
I wonder if he's personally involved in this case as well.
07/29/09
DieGo to CourtI for one have wanted this fight to focus around the EULA from the beginning as I think it is ridiculous that I can’t legally install OSX on any computer I choose because when it comes down to it, Apple makes PCs no matter how many "I’m a Mac" commercials they run.
Yes I "can" do it, but I technically nullify my license in doing so which is asinine.
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07/29/09
DieGo to CourtDo you remember that scene in the new star trek movie where you had the captain of that federation starship crash his ship in the romulan vessel as a last act of defiance? I see psystar doing the same thing....in a legal manner not literal of course.
How do you pronounce psystar anyway? "pisstar"? "fistar"? "sci-star"? =/
07/29/09
07/29/09
Yes, because maiming your golden goose is always a sound strategic goal of any company. Seriously, I just don't get PsyStar. They can't rationally battle it out with Apple, hurting the company which makes the OS software that is their entire raison d'être. Not directed at you, just frustrated by Psystar's continued existence.
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