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    • Thu Aug 21st 19:50 PM
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      When Google Crashes, The Web 2.0 Bubble Bursts
      Wow, I bet you regret writing this ....
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    • Thu Aug 21st 19:46 PM
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      5 Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G
      And another thing .. European cell networks are better than the US. Contrary to popular belief (as shown in a previous post) there are about 750 million people in Europe as opposed to 300 million in the US; the reason European cell networks are better is because everyone has a common technical standard (GSM) and not multiple competing ones. It's nothing to do with geography, it's to do with lack of standards.
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    • Thu Aug 21st 19:33 PM
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      5 Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G
      1. In General networks in California suck, that goes for all or most of them. Maybe your VZ EvDO is an exception. I run a nationwide network with seven nodes in California using a variety of carriers and they're all worse than Internet access in downtown Basra. On the East coast the AT&T 3G does what it says on the box, every time. I don't know why CA seems to be the Internet poor relation, but it really seems to be. I don't see why this is the poor iPhone's fault.

      2. Turn off the 3G and it's fine. From what you said you got it as an iPhone 1.0 replacement and the 3G network is slow, so why bother having it on. You got a cheaper replacement, it has a good GPS and a non-proprietary headphone jack. Still a better deal.

      3. Wi-fi is a crippled and archaic technology that has it's uses in very limited circumstances, and is probably great on Sony PSP's and the like but will never have cellular type coverage because the technology just isn't designed for it. Try planning cells with only three usable channels in a 24 story high rise and see how far you get. Oh, and nobody understands how to configure their PCs or handhelds for it either. Cell phones work right out of the box, Wi-fi doesn't.

      4 & 5 - You've obviously never seen a Blackberry bill. Even with all the options an iPhone is cheaper.

      The iPhone has some problems - no cut & paste, limited Enterprise manageability, a couple of limitations in the Exchange integration (which, incidentally, are MS limitations not iPhone's) - but since the day 2.0 came out my Blackberry has stayed firmly off, and the upside's outweigh the downsides.

      Oh, and by the way - I'm a dyed-in-the wool Microsoft/Intel guy, not an Apple user.

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    • Thu Aug 21st 19:15 PM
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      DirecTV Dumps TiVo, I Dump DirecTV
      Well, I've had DTV 8 years, and SD Tivo in various incarnations since day 1. No cable out here so no options. Three years ago I just bought a 4 Hughes Series 2 TiVo's, upgraded them to 250GB, hacked them with Weetheet's really simple method and voila! Ethernet at 100Mbit, multi room viewing from the hard drive of all the TiVO's, remote web interface, download recordings to PC, the lot. Cost practically nothing although a few hours on the phone persuading DTV to activate them :-)

      Now .. no HD. A bit stuck. Then I discovered TVersity, and D-Link media players. I can probably just about live with DTV's HD DVR for HD programming, as long as that's all it needs to do.

      And yes, I have Verizon FiOS (30/15) but they won't deliver video to my address, some franchise problem.

      Echostar/Dish? Not an option.

      Why is this so hard? I'm reasonably computer savvy, have an enormous fiber internet pipe, and I'm struggling to get the functionality the Hughes TiVO had 5 years ago.
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