Joost got Juiced

I bought a kindle for my Wife and I can tell you it needs more than an on the fly upgrade. She found the screen background to be too dark, without enough contrast. So she made the fonts bigger to compensate. This caused her to turn the page more and that made her thumb sore from turning the page so much. It needs a better screen and a better lighter touch turn page button. An otherwise terrific device.

#2 And what do you call assassins who accuse assassins anyway, my friend?

John:

IBM’s “upgrades” usually involved a gear change rather than a belt change….

Their rationale was that the slower machine wore more slowly, and required less frequent service. Most of these boxes were rented at the time, which made this an advantage for IBM, AND, they could market the less expensive machine as needed.

They weren’t totally honest about this – “upper management” at the client companies probably never understood any of this, but the workers in the trenches usually knew all about it. Some of us knew how to wrap electrical tape around a pulley, too, getting a substantial speed increase out of some devices.

(The hardware was kinda slow in those days. Timing issues between the CPU and the peripherals were generally handled by magic….)

#6 I find google practices worse than MS towards users. But since we’re at a time of suckers than don’t mind being taken for a ride even when a company brags about it, I’m sure many will like it when it comes out, just like macfans love the smell that beckons a million flies.