I hate tearing seams - I gave up on Levis years ago ‘cos they last me 6 weeks. Must be something about the way I wear them or the fact I ride my bike alot, ‘cos they just open up at the crotch. Carharrt triple stitched and Dutch combats are about the only seams I’ve found that cope. Anyway, seams bug me.
So, seamless is the way to go. HP are just bringing out their h6310 ‘communicator’. It’s basically a cut down version of the h2210, which I already have, minus the CF slot, with a half speed processor, ‘cept they threw in 802.11b and quad-band GSM/GPRS. Yeah, yeah, I want one. Still, it sounds like they screwed up on the seamless front by letting it switch from GPRS to 802.11b automatically (cool) even when you aren’t subscribed to the wi-fi provider (hobbs). Basically, go anywhere near a wi-fi zone you can’t hook up to, and you lose your connection. This is the sort of thing that makes me want to gouge flesh out of peoples faces with my half-bitten fingernails.
And then I am reading a speech by Bill Gates about ’seamless computing’, which you could read here. Don’t bother tho’, it goes something like:
bods want everything to work all the time
security is an issue - go biometric
spam is an annoyance
e-crap^H^H^H^H^Hsome insight about e-commerce
But tucked in there, he talked about a forthcoming service called “sharepoint” where people could use secure sites to share documents and data without requiring IT support, and using digital devices that allowed you to share speech and video unobtrusively. “Great”, I hear you say, “that is exactly the sort of thing I want”.
Wake up, it’s not going to be like that. It’s going to be close, for sure, but inevitably you’ll need umpteen patches, so many bits of freeware, and a dozen or so workarounds. It’s going to be just like the new iPAQ, and I am going to want to gouge faces.