<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wolfmane@gmail.com">wolfmane@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:35 PM, gary liquid <<a href="mailto:liquid@gmail.com">liquid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Denis,<br>
><br>
> From the very first day I bought my tablet I knew I was on borrowed time.<br>
> Just the same as when I purchase a new desktop or laptop or car or phone.<br>
> Evolutions occur and hardware becomes old.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Talk about "disposable society"... Have you no shame? Hardware only<br>
becomes obsolete if you are a slave to fashion or are a compulsive<br>
gamer. My laptop is over 8 years old, and I'd still be happy and using<br>
it if the backlight hadn't gone out last fall. My car is a 2000 model<br>
with 100,000 miles, and I maintain it very well and wouldn't trade it<br>
for a new one if you paid me. My phone doesn't even have a camera, and<br>
I'll probably never get another one unless it dies or I change<br>
providers to a different network type. My desktop PC is a Via Epia<br>
M10000, and if it weren't for the electronics manufacturers' lobby<br>
successfully pressuring the legislation that forced HDTV<br>
(planned/forced obsolescence on the grandest scale!!! >:o ) I<br>
wouldn't be looking to upgrade that, either. I wouldn't have tried to<br>
set aside my Handspring Visor if it weren't for my N800, although it<br>
turns out I _can't_ set it aside because the ITs don't have a PIM that<br>
plays nicely with my data....<br>
<br>
Newer and faster is all too often NOT better!!!<br></blockquote><div><br><br>
Mark,<br>
<br>
you are 100% right of course and the current generation devices will continue to work till the end of days.<br><br>A lot of people buy devices as tools and they will work as expected, but a great number of people buy things because they appeal, and will upgrade at some arbitary point in the future when the next thing appeals to them.<br>
<br>I spent a lot of money on my device and had very high expectations of it - when I bought it I found I could not scroll text like I used to on my old pda book reader, and other things jumped at me - like in your case.<br>
<br>
I have had ideas in my head and in code for the last few years about how I want to interact with a touch device.<br>
I am getting close to my goal and the n8x0 has shown me its possible, but you would not believe just how much hacking and sidestepping and pieces of lateral thinking I have had to go through to get it running as *I* want.<br>
<br>Please go and see what I have achieved (the first video will show you what I do on my current n810 machine):<br><br><a href="http://liqbase.net/">http://liqbase.net/</a><br><br>This is a piece of custom crafted extremely optimized software which is simply not possible using the current standard tools on these devices.<br>
<br>The next generation *should* enable decent UI features which most normal users appreciate without making the developers tear their hair out to give them.<br><br>Gary<br><br><br></div></div>