steel-wool panty liners = Java?

[David J. C. Beach]

John Chambers wrote, On 08/04/2004 06:16 PM:
> Yes,  the  device  has a full-time Internet connection, anywhere that
> there's GPRS or GSM service.  But you can't install software over the
> Net,  like  java  was  designed  to do.  So far, I've found that most
> installs take several tries, as the Windows code either crashes, goes
> zombie, or gives insane failure messages, different every time.

Yes.  Can you imagine how quickly a virus would be able to spread if it
were that easy to install new executable code on one of these things? 
It'd be almost as bad as Windows itself!  (Worse?)  I'll bet the
engineers that designed the system discussed the topic at length, and
determined that it would be much safer to require the user to install
new software from their computer (rather than having it sent via GPRS /
GSM).  It would also be much less of a support nightmare for them this
way -- and in a business like handhelds, I'm sure that matters quite a
bit.

As for the windows installer software sucking, well...

-- 
David J. C. Beach
<beach at verinet.com>
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