On Feb 25, 7:32*pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in ...



Jonathan wrote:
"William Mook" wrote in message
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On Feb 23, 8:34 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
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You mean you guys actually ...pay...for laptop Internet service?

I already pay for Internet service on my google phone, so I simply
use that as a router/tether. *Free /unlimited/ down/up loads either
wireless or through usb. I use a netbook btw, not a clunky, hot
heavy and battery-hungry laptop.

Really, what provider do you have? I'm genuinely curious since most that
advertise "unlimited" actually in the small print limit you to typically 5GB a
month.

T-Mobile. I signed up after they put out the original sidekick. The plan says
unlimited megabits then and still does for the phone. But when I looked into
the cost of adding a laptop, it was like $60 a month and had a 5gb limit.
So by linking through the phone I can bypass that limit, and the cost, with
the netbook. A netbook is the way to go imo. The only real loss is not
having a dvd drive. Bought an asus and I works great. Batteries last twice
as long, it's weighs nothing, costs nothing and runs XP or 7 like a home pc.

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Data: 268 / Unlimited Megabytes

Service * *Used * * *Included * * *Remaining * * Time Period
*Data * * * *268 * * * Unlimited * * *Unlimited * * Whenever
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It's only a matter of time before phones and laptops become one
in the same. When that finally happens, we can have the temerity
to consider this the computer-age. We're not there yet imho.

Eh, I like to keep them separate. *A phone is too small for an effective
laptop and a laptop is too large to be an effective phone.

Right, but it's really only needing a breakthrough in displays to make it
happen.
As in a display that can fit in a phone, but expand to a laptop. I hear they're
on the way. Some kind of thin sheet that can be rolled up.



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Greg Moore
Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC.

Or a transparent display that you wear like sunglasses - which
projects a virtual 3D display above an icon in 3-space. That's the
easiest. So, likely the first.

You have a virtual screen floating above processor - placed and
oriented in your visual field of view to correspond to the location
and orientation of the processor. Ditto with a virtual keyboard. A
small camera set watches the motion of your fingers tapping on a table
top relative to the location of virtual keys.

This is also very secure since others cannot see what you're looking
at - unless you ask them to share with their 3D sunglasses.