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denton, you keep tabs all day (from your phone of all places) on your retirement money? :-/ is that like that old people version of people constantly checking their myspace or something!? 🙂
I just got the droid over the weekend after my samsung was failing. I initially went in for a new battery but walked out with the droid. I love it. I think it’s great. The apps are comparable to the iphone and a lot of the ones are free. If you use the gps navigator, I found the google version to be way cooler than the VZ navigator. The browser is a lot faster and I love the status messages although it can be annoying and like other androids, you have google chat. Picture quality is good not great and the same goes for video. Some people complain about the keyboard but I actually like it. I especially like the auto-correct feature so that when I type cant it corrects to can’t. Call quality for me so far has been excellent.
The two cons I have noticed so far is that the data usage will zap the battery power and in order to answer a call, you have to unlock it. I haven’t downloaded any songs to opine on the mp3 feature but I just added the pandora radio app (which was free) to the phone and I’m excited to use it.
“Denton, how do you like the Droid?
My plan is up in a week and want to replace my phones and am thinking of getting it.
Can you access the internet fairly easily with it? I can access the internet with my current phone, but it is slow and I can’t search. I need to know the http.”
et, it moves right along. No problem. I don’t need to get email (of course droid does it) but I do like to stay in touch w my retirement money thru the day. droid (and verizon) works great.
I read it- agree with much of what he says. I didn’t expect a treatise but I think his basic premise is right on the mark- Bloomberg’s “luxury City” is a big mistake. I’ve long believed Bloomberg concentrated too much on the idea that NYC is supposed to be expensive and only for the wealthy. Too much was given to Manhattan at the cost to the other boroughs- and as the writer points out, 3 out of 4 New Yorkers live in the outer boroughs. Had city planning and direction been more balanced (and this is a major failing of nearly every mayor NYC has ever had), we might be in a stronger position today.
I also find myself having to say the Guiliani had a better sense of the City as a whole than I feel Bloomberg does. But that’s not to say I think he was a better mayor. Bloomberg came in when NYC needed a businessman at the helm, but he never seemed to get that NYC is not a “business.” Many aspects of it need to be run like one- but cities are much more than financial entities and I’ve never felt Bloomberg completely understands that. That’s one of the reasons I feel there is a bigger gap between economic classes and a shrinking middle class. Just my op.
Just read it & thought it was rather weak. Not that I necessarily disagree, but don’t think he made his case well. He does not quantify the ‘problem’ at all, and his solutions sound vague.
What policies does he feel would improve the disadvantaged areas of the city and how would those be implemented while cutting taxes and regulation, which he cites as one of NYC’s problems?
Also it’s not clear how the stuff about neighborhoods later in the article relates to economic growth and job creation.
denton, you keep tabs all day (from your phone of all places) on your retirement money? :-/ is that like that old people version of people constantly checking their myspace or something!? 🙂
*rob*
I just got the droid over the weekend after my samsung was failing. I initially went in for a new battery but walked out with the droid. I love it. I think it’s great. The apps are comparable to the iphone and a lot of the ones are free. If you use the gps navigator, I found the google version to be way cooler than the VZ navigator. The browser is a lot faster and I love the status messages although it can be annoying and like other androids, you have google chat. Picture quality is good not great and the same goes for video. Some people complain about the keyboard but I actually like it. I especially like the auto-correct feature so that when I type cant it corrects to can’t. Call quality for me so far has been excellent.
The two cons I have noticed so far is that the data usage will zap the battery power and in order to answer a call, you have to unlock it. I haven’t downloaded any songs to opine on the mp3 feature but I just added the pandora radio app (which was free) to the phone and I’m excited to use it.
All in all a pretty awesome device.
“Denton, how do you like the Droid?
My plan is up in a week and want to replace my phones and am thinking of getting it.
Can you access the internet fairly easily with it? I can access the internet with my current phone, but it is slow and I can’t search. I need to know the http.”
et, it moves right along. No problem. I don’t need to get email (of course droid does it) but I do like to stay in touch w my retirement money thru the day. droid (and verizon) works great.
“I also find myself having to say the Guiliani had a better sense of the City as a whole than I feel Bloomberg does.”
Can you bring me over some of what you’ve been smoking?
Looks like there was some major PWNage happening here this afternoon.
I read it- agree with much of what he says. I didn’t expect a treatise but I think his basic premise is right on the mark- Bloomberg’s “luxury City” is a big mistake. I’ve long believed Bloomberg concentrated too much on the idea that NYC is supposed to be expensive and only for the wealthy. Too much was given to Manhattan at the cost to the other boroughs- and as the writer points out, 3 out of 4 New Yorkers live in the outer boroughs. Had city planning and direction been more balanced (and this is a major failing of nearly every mayor NYC has ever had), we might be in a stronger position today.
I also find myself having to say the Guiliani had a better sense of the City as a whole than I feel Bloomberg does. But that’s not to say I think he was a better mayor. Bloomberg came in when NYC needed a businessman at the helm, but he never seemed to get that NYC is not a “business.” Many aspects of it need to be run like one- but cities are much more than financial entities and I’ve never felt Bloomberg completely understands that. That’s one of the reasons I feel there is a bigger gap between economic classes and a shrinking middle class. Just my op.
Dibs – Are you saying hipsters are repellant or are you talking about mountaineering rappelling?
“Did you guys see the Newsweek article?”
Just read it & thought it was rather weak. Not that I necessarily disagree, but don’t think he made his case well. He does not quantify the ‘problem’ at all, and his solutions sound vague.
What policies does he feel would improve the disadvantaged areas of the city and how would those be implemented while cutting taxes and regulation, which he cites as one of NYC’s problems?
Also it’s not clear how the stuff about neighborhoods later in the article relates to economic growth and job creation.
And hipsters wear them on those repelling and climbing hooks; oftentimes hooked to the ever present backpack.