A Black Hole of Happiness

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The problem will not be with the iPhone. It's the IT assjacks who will cite unknown security concerns about opening up their exchange server to the outside world. It's the same reason you can't easily get work email on your home computer, absent a VPN connection. There's no reason you couldn't run outlook on your computer at home and put in the relevant server information for work, and get all your email there, but firms don't want to do that. instead at best they offer up "Outlook Web Access" over an internet connection with a VPN. Same issue for iPhone.

so, instead, blackberry has figured out a way to convince them all that its servers are secure, and that blackberry is the only way to have secure external email access. Apparently that's because blackberry hired all the smart IT people who know how to set up secure email, so no companies can hire them.

Well, that blows.

Here is a good demonstration of what the iPhone can do: http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiph...our_large.html

I think Visual Voicemail is one of my favorite features, since I hate having to listen to other voicemails to get to the one I want. And rewinding, fast forwarding, etc. is so fucking easy.

TM

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
How can a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup now that they've all moved to the southern U.S.?

Go Leafs Go!

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Well, that blows.

Here is a good demonstration of what the iPhone can do: http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiph...our_large.html

I think Visual Voicemail is one of my favorite features, since I hate having to listen to other voicemails to get to the one I want. And rewinding, fast forwarding, etc. is so fucking easy.

TM

So your plan to skip out with only one device has been foiled yet again?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
How can a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup now that they've all moved to the southern U.S.?

The NHL has been declining since the demise of the Montreal Maroons.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Not yet. (Although, if the firm can hook up to its current IMAP POP Exchange* or whatever platform, you can get your email hooked up to it.) But, see below. I'm sure Blackberry is sweating their collective asses off.

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/new...nc-for-iphone/

TM

*I have no idea what any of these words mean.

You can synch through Blackberry Connect, a software bridge that's available. The problem comes when you try to convince the IT boys and girls to open a great big fucking hole in the firm's firewall for Blackberry Connect to hook up to the servers.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So your plan to skip out with only one device has been foiled yet again?

Blackberry Pearl.

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So your plan to skip out with only one device has been foiled yet again?

This visual will have me smiling all day long.

Thank you, my Canadian friend!

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
So your plan to skip out with only one device has been foiled yet again?

Yes, although, I think I can still skip out for the weekend if I just forward my work email to gmail.

TM

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Yes, although, I think I can still skip out for the weekend if I just forward my work email to gmail.

TM

Secure THAT, IT suckaz!

[bold_n_brazen]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Secure THAT, IT suckaz!

Apparently Apple is working on a Nano phone for Q4 which will sell for under $300.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/0...eut/index.html

In completely unrelated news, the banner at the top of CNN.com caused me a moment of panic because my brother and his family are flying today in my dad's plane, and Central Florida is in their path. Thankfully, the plane that crashed is not my dad's.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Secure THAT, IT suckaz!

In YO FACE!



TM

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The problem will not be with the iPhone. It's the IT assjacks who will cite unknown security concerns about opening up their exchange server to the outside world. It's the same reason you can't easily get work email on your home computer, absent a VPN connection. There's no reason you couldn't run outlook on your computer at home and put in the relevant server information for work, and get all your email there, but firms don't want to do that. instead at best they offer up "Outlook Web Access" over an internet connection with a VPN. Same issue for iPhone.

so, instead, blackberry has figured out a way to convince them all that its servers are secure, and that blackberry is the only way to have secure external email access. Apparently that's because blackberry hired all the smart IT people who know how to set up secure email, so no companies can hire them.

The precise reason TO get the iphone. No work calls (new number) no work emails.

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
The NHL has been declining since the demise of the Montreal Maroons.

There are plenty of maroons in Montreal, still.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

A blogger says:

• We've just this week seemed to have commenced in earnest the awful DC tradition of 90+ degree days with high, high humidity. The trouble with the terrible DC summer, however, is that it's hard to sum up in one simple statistic.
  
  The heat is bad, yes, but it's also the humidity. But there are more hot-and-humid cities out there -- Atlanta, say. What makes DC different is its aspiration to be a northeastern-style walkable urban center where you can walk four blocks, get on a Metro, ride a way, then find yourself just a four block walk from, say, some destination somewhere. Which is fine, except you wind up arriving for your work-related event looked sweaty and ridiculous. All of which could be mitigated by attire except that DC is also one of the most formal of American cities at this point. I'll always remember this July 12 breakfast with Chuck Schumer from last summer for exactly how uncomfortable everyone (the Senator included) looked in our jackets and ties and wondering who, exactly, we were all trying to impress by dressing like that?

Do people in other hot and humid cities drive more? Wear less formal clothes? Is DC really one of the most formal of American cities at this point?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
A blogger says:

• We've just this week seemed to have commenced in earnest the awful DC tradition of 90+ degree days with high, high humidity. The trouble with the terrible DC summer, however, is that it's hard to sum up in one simple statistic.
  
  The heat is bad, yes, but it's also the humidity. But there are more hot-and-humid cities out there -- Atlanta, say. What makes DC different is its aspiration to be a northeastern-style walkable urban center where you can walk four blocks, get on a Metro, ride a way, then find yourself just a four block walk from, say, some destination somewhere. Which is fine, except you wind up arriving for your work-related event looked sweaty and ridiculous. All of which could be mitigated by attire except that DC is also one of the most formal of American cities at this point. I'll always remember this July 12 breakfast with Chuck Schumer from last summer for exactly how uncomfortable everyone (the Senator included) looked in our jackets and ties and wondering who, exactly, we were all trying to impress by dressing like that?

Do people in other hot and humid cities drive more? Wear less formal clothes? Is DC really one of the most formal of American cities at this point?

A few years ago, a Houston official (was it a judge, RT?) proposed making neckties illegal in Houston in the summer.

To answer another of your questions, Houston is unquestionably hotter than New York, but New York is a more miserable place in the summer. In Houston, I went from my air-conditioned apartment to my air-conditioned car to my air-conditioned office. To the extent I spent time outside, it was by the pool.

You have to walk in NY. I planned my walk to work this morning to maximize the shade. Even though it's a relatively short walk (10 - 15 mins.), that enough to work up a good sweat when it's hot and humid and you're wearing business attire.