Posts Tagged ‘browser’
Kindle 3G – it’s a trap
The bottom line here is that $50 (or £40) for 3G won’t get the buyer unlimited global web surfing. It looks too good to be true, and therefore it is. In the words of Admiral Ackbar – ‘it’s a trap!’. That 3G is there so that Amazon can sell you books. Whilst it may be possible to use it (for the time being) to do some surfing too at no extra cost that’s a feature that can’t be (and therefore won’t be) economically sustainable.
Filed under: technology, travel | 38 Comments
Tags: 3G, amazon, browser, ebook, kindle, web, WWAN
Why do they never learn?
They in this case are the machines that we use every day, or more specifically the software running on them. By using language like ‘they’ perhaps I’m already using a person like metaphor that’s inappropriate to the situation. Regardless, we’re confronted each day by machines that make us do repetitive tasks rather than taking them […]
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Tags: browser, greasemonkey, machine learning, mobile, platypus, scripting
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