pe, 2008-04-18 kello 21:57 -0400, Kevin Dean kirjoitti: > I have to say, I'm baffled by that sentiment. GTA02v5 is fully > functional, the only "problem" is that it's not as efficient as it > could be, just like every other product on the planet.
Hear hear. For fuck's sake, people. "Boohoo, there's gonna be a better version down the line." Where the hell have you lived your tech lives? This is how it _always_ is, and blowing any piece of admitted suboptimality so out of proportion Escher would be proud is _not_ the way to encourage an open development process. Don't like a couple of LEDs being slightly brighter than strictly necessary? Okay, there's the Perfect v6 coming up. Oh wait, it still doesn't have wake-on-bluetooth (I'm almost sorry for mentioning this bit of old news since it may stir up yet another storm in a teacup - again). And it won't, too much reworking would be involved. So you'd better just skip the FreeRunner altogether, you know, to get the perfect phone. Don't think that's comparable to the lack of a minor power saving hw feature? Well, there's this new Atheros AR6002 wifi chip that's more power efficient than Neo's AR6001, so clearly, since we _already know_, as many are stressing over the fucking LED thing, that the FreeRunner is using a suboptimal solution, they should just scrap that piece of shit and rebuild using this more power-efficient chip. Of course, this all will mean that they'll never get any actual products out, since there's always room for improvement especially in our fast-paced tech world, but hey, it's all to satisfy the people who want their phones Just Perfect. And the point was? Yeah, the point. There was one here somewhere, let me look for it. Oh yeah. Here it is: Nothing. Will. Ever. Be. Perfect. Get over it. Not to say you shouldn't wait for v6 if it would grind your soul inside every time to see the led blink on a v5. Please do. Just leave the rest of us in peace. Oh, and hope that the OM guys won't ever think of a cheap way to make FR again slightly better and start producing a v7. Why, that would mean that your phone would instantly become useless crap, wouldn't it. Wouldn't it? -- Mikko Rauhala - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - <URL:http://www.iki.fi/mjr/> Transhumanist - WTA member - <URL:http://www.transhumanism.org/> Singularitarian - SIAI supporter - <URL:http://www.singinst.org/> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community