2×09 hellyeah! show: from my cold, dead hands

In this driven episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss the unlocked Samsung Galaxy Nexus, The State of the Web, boutique water, Emory’s love affair with the Fujitsu Scansnap S-1300, Alan’s recent Netflix activity, Intel’s smartphone, the U.S. Postal Service, and Google Drive.

Check out the show notes after the break…

Emory’s stuff

• Google directly selling Samsung Galaxy Nexus unlocked for $399

• https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=galaxy_nexus_hspa

I watched Homeland

Started the Suicide Mission in Mass Effect 2

The State of the Web by The Oatmeal

• http://theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_spring

Coconut water

Had another hard drive fail!

Scanning in errything

• Fujitsu Scansnap S-1300

ask me about my Cat Tape

Alan’s stuff

• Netflix activity

• Trekkies (1997)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)

Intel has a smartphone?

• not available in the U.S. (sells for $420 in India)
• a 1.6 GHz single core, hyperthreaded 64-bit x86 CPU
• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/the-first-intel-smartphone-comfortably-mid-range-eminently-credible.ars?clicked=related_right

USPS threatening to halt Saturday delivery

• May 15 deadline for Congress to resolve funding issues
• this scenario has happened before

• 1947, 1957, 1968, 1975, 1987, and 2001

current situation

• First-Class Mail usage on the decline
• $238 billion projected losses by 2020 (up to $33 billion per year)

questionable as to whether cutting a day will save enough money ($1.9 billion/year estimated savings)

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2012/04/the_end_of_saturday_mail_is_coming_and_friday_mail_might_be_next_.html

Google Drive

• Google Docs vs. Google Drive standardization issues
• no symlink support???!!!
• data ownership questions

• “the EFF found little about [Google’s terms] that was more suspicious than in any other similar cloud service”
• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/04/your-google-drive-files-now-in-googles-promo-materials.ars?clicked=related_right

at the same time, Microsoft Skydrive gets an upgrade

• 7 GB free storage
• improved client software
• http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/04/microsoft-takes-on-dropbox-with-major-skydrive-update.ars

Storage as a service or application — compare to iCloud/Dropbox and storage-as-API

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrymagid/2012/04/25/more-thoughts-on-google-drive-a-hybrid-of-cloud-storage-and-computing/