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Wow. Someone pissed in your cornflakes this morning.

The guy was just stating that at least Sony's still supporting their products from a bug-fix standpoint... I mean, with all the people complaining that Sony has no support when it comes to upgrades, this was a surprisingly non-negative comment towards the company.

There's a world outside the US? ;)

Yikes. A yankee pride flame war starting up here.

Face it, work ethics in North America are unbelievably different than any other region in the world.

Companies in North America have to pay big bucks just to have an employee sit on their butt, answer a minimum of 3 phone calls per hour, take a minimum of 2 fifteen minute coffee breaks, and a minimum 45 hour lunch, and have them take off 20 minutes early to beat traffic.

Sony is probably spending twice as much per employee in North America, and getting about half the productivity. Working out the math, that means they'd have to spend four times more than their Japanese counterpart to get equal performance... and I think that's a generous assessment. Yikes.

Actually Japanese won't move their plants to anywhere, you see most of those japanese companies make their stuff in Japan, it's a cultural thing.

Unless you can provide the service 50% or more cheaper than what they can get in Japan, otherwise they'll not move their plants. They are not like those cash hungry American that moved like 98% of their factories to China and Taiwan, so all they do in US is put on the Brand sticker.

OS 4.1 for N710C is available you numb nut. cost $50.

As for the s300/s320 rom is too small to fit it.

Is this where we all chant "U-S-A....U-S-A". Vermin.

"Actually Japanese won't move their plants to anywhere"

Not to beat a dead horse, but Sony makes all their first generation PlayStations in China. Plans are on the table now to begin making PS2's in China as well.
And Sony is just one of many Japanese firms that have opened manufacturing facilities in China. Sorry, dude. but the Made in Japan electronics mystique is quickly evaporating. Might want to put in some longer hours.

I hate to take this bait, but I'm an American and I work nearly fourteen hours a day, and hardly slow down for anything. I went back this weekend to see if I could get more done and nearly every office in my building was full of people doing the same. Is this the American work ethic you're talking about? Or did you get your ideas from movies and television? I, for one, wouldn't know - I don't get time to watch.

Sony's drivers let you mount the CLIE's memory stick as a extra hard drive. To do this, they make the memory stick appear as a SCSI drive, supporting SCSI commands over the USB connection.

CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead

Are there any way to get the card in a M505 to show up as a hard drive ..? As on a sony .. ?