Wireless Internet and Woosh sucking
When i first heard the words mobile media, the first thing that came to mind was wireless internet, more specifically Woosh. I recently had the displeasure of being duped by these horrible bastards into signing up for one of their plans. What i first noticed about their wireless 'broadband' was that the download speeds were actually not too bad (i got up to around 250kbps), but the rate on which Woosh loaded the regular web page (such as www.trademe.co.nz, another example of some horrible bastards) it went slower then my old-old dial up connection. I assume it takes a little while to find a suitable and stable connection from the wireless network tower to the little plastic nob-antena-thingy thats connected to my laptop (through a highly developed sucktion cup of course). By now ive learnt to deal with the slower speeds than my old broadband connection, and ive come to appreciate some of the pro's to wireless internet such as being able to transport the laptop without having to de-cable as much stuff as i would normally have to.
I dunno though, if i'd join with them if i could go back in time, there arn't really that many pro's for the everyday consumer to have wireless internet, at least on a laptop anyway. Perhaps when they can get a good enough keyboard on a mobile phone so we can actually use that stupid web function. I guess as the technology increases so will the demand for internet on the go, and once when we all have internet on the go (in a useable form, unlike my cellphones shitty little web function), i guess it will be just like our ipods and needed as if it were attached to ourselves.
Another thought, would anyone agree that perhaps it's time to move on from the old keyboard? I know we have the mouse and thats all good, i like the mouse...but what about the keyboard? cant we change that? or are we doomed to live with it? I mean, our fingers arnt gonna get any smaller so keyboards are going to have to stay roughly around the same size as they are now. Maybe in 30 years everyone will type on the numpad like a big text message, and keyboards will just be a little numpad in the centre and everyone will type crap text slang. Then the languages of the world will have to change to adapt to the new slang as nobody will know what the old language means, no one will know what 'because' means as everyone will be typing 'bcos'. Maybe grammar will be more important than spelling in the end, and microsofts stupid little green squiggly line will be more importand than the red one (you know, that horrible green line that always recommends stuff that doesn't make any sense), thus microsoft will actually need to put some effort into making the green one work, and why not their products at the same time.
I dunno though, if i'd join with them if i could go back in time, there arn't really that many pro's for the everyday consumer to have wireless internet, at least on a laptop anyway. Perhaps when they can get a good enough keyboard on a mobile phone so we can actually use that stupid web function. I guess as the technology increases so will the demand for internet on the go, and once when we all have internet on the go (in a useable form, unlike my cellphones shitty little web function), i guess it will be just like our ipods and needed as if it were attached to ourselves.
Another thought, would anyone agree that perhaps it's time to move on from the old keyboard? I know we have the mouse and thats all good, i like the mouse...but what about the keyboard? cant we change that? or are we doomed to live with it? I mean, our fingers arnt gonna get any smaller so keyboards are going to have to stay roughly around the same size as they are now. Maybe in 30 years everyone will type on the numpad like a big text message, and keyboards will just be a little numpad in the centre and everyone will type crap text slang. Then the languages of the world will have to change to adapt to the new slang as nobody will know what the old language means, no one will know what 'because' means as everyone will be typing 'bcos'. Maybe grammar will be more important than spelling in the end, and microsofts stupid little green squiggly line will be more importand than the red one (you know, that horrible green line that always recommends stuff that doesn't make any sense), thus microsoft will actually need to put some effort into making the green one work, and why not their products at the same time.
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