I'm really, really thinking of getting myself a smart phone. Something that I can carry around that has a good calendar, a good address book, a good todo list manager and a way to quickly make notes that I can easily process later.
Maybe it doesn't have to be a phone. Maybe it can be a separate device. I don't know.
I would get an iPhone, but I'm currently on a plan. The Android phone (marketed as HTC Dream in Australia) looks kind of cool, but... uhh... it doesn't look like I can buy one outright.
Whatever happened to owning things?
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EULA!!
Ownership and computers have been separating for a very long time.
Ownership in general is in decline. The banks own most of the houses, "rich people" own the rest (or the banks do) so we can pay them weekly to live in them. You don't own your phone unless you're prepaid (in which case you don't own the right to make calls at any time, only if you've paid for credit for that month!). You CAN own your car, but chances are if you do it's >15 years old and no other bugger wants it.
You own your clothes, but similar story - not many people want them once you're over them. Ditto appliances.
You DO own your computer (unless you do the Harvey norman thing), but you don't *really* own anything on it unless you wrote it yourself. But then, someone else still has the IP for the OS, and hell, for the chip underneath it too.
But then, do you actually NEED to own anything other than the shirt on your back? sure it'd be nice, but I guess not strictly speaking, essential. And that's where EULAs come in... bastards reserving the right to be bastards one day.
And really, that's what a phone contract is.
Yeah, but I have ownership-style rights for all of the Free Software.
I want to own the telephone handset so that I can keep it if / when I leave the country.
Get a developer edition Android from google.
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