Phasor Burn

I’m waiting for my new 18-200mm lens to come in. Saneal was going to take 6+ weeks to get it, (and their ecommerce site is a joke - it doesn’t do https!)

So I went at it via Amazon (usa).

Note on Availability: This item is in high demand, and supplies from the manufacturer are limited. Its availability fluctuates, and if the item is not currently in stock, we cannot guarantee that we will receive additional quantities in a timely manner. Orders are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ooh, I’m lucky to have gotten my order in when I did. Apparently even all of the Amazon partners are out of stock on this unit at the moment.

Yes I did splurge, and customs is going to be a bit painful, but I want instant gratification damnit!

The Amazon partner ships to Canada with USPS (USA postal service). Not too bad, I thought originally, since it was an express parcel and not regular bulk parcel.

Check out the grey-oval high lighted area i added. WTF. Bunch of jokers, they are batch processing oriented still? What, do they run their tracking system on a mainframe and dump the results nightly to their web front end? Weirdos.

You’d think from the stock movement this week, with the iPhone announcement, that RIM and Palm are toast . . .

Hindsight being 20/20 though, look at the last 12 months. RIM far out performed Apple.

I R not a stock analyst. I’m sure there’s lots more going on here than I know about. Even the NTP lawsuit with RIM factors into this, no doubt.

Palm is still a stock-dog, though, over the last 12 months.

That… almost …. looks like a real M$FT product. LOL.

Apple is the new NASA

. . . and the iPhone is the new Newton . . .

It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. Apple to take on Sony within 5 years? Or have they already started and nobody noticed? (Who the hell buys walkmans these days, even the mp3 versions?).

They have rebranded to Apple Inc. With this rebranding they have launched two new products aimed squarely at the consumer electronics arena.

http://www.apple.com/appletv/

TV shows and Movies are currently not available for download from the iTunes Store for Canada

The usual problems of being in Canada occur. No iTunes (and therefor AppleTV) tv/movies content available yet. Stupid distribution rights holders haven’t negotiated with Apple yet. !@$

Will have to settle for bit torrent and playback from the powerbooks for now. Apple, help me send you my $ per show. Make the distribution rights holders pay attention. Otherwise, it’s piracy arrrrrhh . . . and I will continue to not feel bad about doing so.

As soon as it’s legally available for reasonable $/episode or $/movie, I’ll open my wallet.

http://www.apple.com/iphone/

iPhone looks droolicious but It’ll probably be 2008 before it is in Canada. Which is ok, I’d rather wait for the 2nd version of a new product, let the extreme bleeding edge early adopters take on the initial bugs etc, and I’ll wait for the price drop on the next gen.

Definitely will replace my crappy Motorola Razr with this when the time comes . . .

It’s hard to think of a better demonstration of Microsoft’s irrelevance in today’s Web world than the iPhone. While that may not have been Apple’s purpose in developing the iPhone, it’s certainly the effect.

Click the quote, above, for more details on shutting out Microsoft. Mwhahahaha.

And it doesn’t come in brown, either.