Oh look, it got sifted... oh how I pine for the Courier... why did you forsake it so MS? Whhhhyyy?

>> ^direpickle:

I've always thought Bubba Feet was a terrible bounty hunter. The only thing he ever does is suck and die.


I agree. He was an informant, then a courier, then lunch.

Oh, *spoiler alert*,

I'm not holding my breath...I don't give a shit about pretty much anything. Unless they tried interfering with not giving a shit...then that means war.>> ^cosmovitelli:

The effectiveness of their actions is irrelevant.
Their intentions and assumption of international authority demands urgent criminal prosecution. Or would you rather wait till they start ideological interference with something you do give a shit about?

>> ^rottenseed:
I wish that there were some way to put a check or money-order in some sort of enveloping package and send it to them through some sort of courier service. If only there were a way...

The effectiveness of their actions is irrelevant.

Their intentions and assumption of international authority demands urgent criminal prosecution. Or would you rather wait till they start ideological interference with something you do give a shit about?


>> ^rottenseed:
I wish that there were some way to put a check or money-order in some sort of enveloping package and send it to them through some sort of courier service. If only there were a way...

Which is probably why their funding dropped 95% rather than 100%.>> ^rottenseed:

I wish that there were some way to put a check or money-order in some sort of enveloping package and send it to them through some sort of courier service. If only there were a way...

I wish that there were some way to put a check or money-order in some sort of enveloping package and send it to them through some sort of courier service. If only there were a way...

It looks like he'd like to voice a few ideas not only in regards to Apple but also in regards to what MS should be doing (in the market). But he can't because it's not his role anymore. (I can imagine that he wouldn't want to over-step Ballmer. It'd be very destabalising to MS.)

And I liked what I saw of Courier, too.

>> ^shuac:

How interesting. Some poor-sportsmanship, methinks. Definite sour-grapeage.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

It's only been about 6 months for me, but I'm still using my iPad 2 heavily - can't see that changing in a year. Definitely not a perfect device but pretty damn useful for Kindle, movies, web browsing and games. I'm typing on it now.>> ^spoco2:

As far as I'm concerned (And I have three tablets in my desk at work, an iPad1, and iPad2 and a Xoom, and I write apps for them), they're all useless lumps really. I have zero desire to have one. My thoughts are pretty much exactly as per this Engadget article
The sad thing is that Microsoft had the design and functionality damn spot on with their Courier device. THAT, with the stylus and interface/note taking etc. etc. really WOULD have been a useful device. Something that would have replaced the stack of notepads I have at work.
But no, they scrapped it
I don't care how huge this tablet market currently is, what I'd like to know is how many people are regularly using theirs a year after getting it...

As far as I'm concerned (And I have three tablets in my desk at work, an iPad1, and iPad2 and a Xoom, and I write apps for them), they're all useless lumps really. I have zero desire to have one. My thoughts are pretty much exactly as per this Engadget article

The sad thing is that Microsoft had the design and functionality damn spot on with their Courier device. THAT, with the stylus and interface/note taking etc. etc. really WOULD have been a useful device. Something that would have replaced the stack of notepads I have at work.

But no, they scrapped it

I don't care how huge this tablet market currently is, what I'd like to know is how many people are regularly using theirs a year after getting it...

Don't you have bicycle couriers in your city? An 80kg cyclist with no regard for public safety traveling at 45km/h is actually very likely to strike and kill pedestrians, and this certainly does happen where I live... although cars are still a bigger threat.>> ^drk421:

I bet all the deaths are from car drivers hitting bicyclists or pedestrians. I don't think a bicyclist killing a pedestrian or another bicyclist is very common.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42853221/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/?gt1=43001
"Did he fire, a reporter asked.

"He did resist the assault force, and he was killed in a firefight," an official said.

Four adult males were killed: bin Laden, his son, and the two couriers.

"One woman killed when used as a shield," and other women were injured, the officials said. The women's names were not given; it's not clear whether bin Laden's wife was among them."

...you can argue whether any of the news is accurate, that's one thing... but I mean - you rob a bank, get away, run to a house, fortify it.. the police are going to come after you with guns drawn. And thus, I assumed he was shot because that's how the whole thing went down. People shooting at each other.

So assuming we did this as surgically as possible, with at least some attempt at apprehending him peacefuly, then I don't think there's anything wrong with people celebrating, and I would think it's more about the 'victory' here than the actual death of a human.
(again, assuming everything is as cut and dry as it sounds.. but that's another argument)

Have to admit, this is pretty clever. Pity they killed Courier, it was far more exciting than either the hilariously impotent Kin, or Phone 7, which really, really doesn't need to crowd the market of mobile OSs any further.

All I have to say in response to this is.

DAMN YOU Microsoft! Where is the Courier? How dare you kill off such an awesome looking product

@blankfist, let me try to explain the point of net neutrality by way of metaphor.

Transport yourself to a golden libertarian universe, where everything is private, and the government doesn't exist.

Now, let's say you wanted to print and distribute a newspaper. You buy yourself a high-volume printer, and start circulating some copies. To get the copies around town, you need to use the private roads that connect the location housing your printer, to the people who buy your paper. Due to infrastructure costs and physical constraints, there are only a handful of road service providers in your area. Let's call them AR&R (American Road & Rail), Roadcast, and Horizon.

You sign up with, say, AR&R, and start distributing your paper around town. Your circulation starts growing, and everything is going great.

Then one day, you decide to write an article that's critical of AR&R, telling people that they've got a reckless disregard for people's safety, and have been intentionally cutting corners with traffic lights when designing intersections.

The next day, your couriers find that they can't go more than 5mph on the roads, and are of course unable to make all their deliveries. You call AR&R to find out what's going on, but they just tell you to contact tech support, who just runs you through tedious and repetitive diagnostics, and never see a problem.

Eventually, you just decide to drop AR&R, and switch carriers to Roadcast. Unfortunately, you find that Roadcast is just as slow with your newspaper deliveries (but oddly, everything else is fine). So you try out Horizon. Horizon lets you deliver your papers at full speed again.

After all this, you write another article, critical of AR&R and Roadcast, and raise the question of whether road service providers might be censoring the distribution of newspapers that are critical of their business practices.

Immediately, you find your Horizon road service slowing to a crawl. You're effectively censored, as there are no other providers to turn to (and you don't have the resources or knowledge to start your own road service!).

You find yourself wishing there was some higher entity you could appeal to, that could tell the road service providers that they can't deny or limit access to people on the basis of the content of their vehicles, a sort of Road Neutrality, to coin a phrase.

But no, everyone knows that nothing is more evil than forcing people to do something they don't voluntarily choose to do...

Microsoft axed it's Courier tablet and HP's Slate doesn't look too promising either. I'm not sure what possessed Adobe to join the fray, but I'm still betting on the Notion Ink Adam.