Hehehehe. I have a Samsung and an iPhone and I can promise you the Samsung is the better phone. Easier text entry (fuck that onscreen keyboard in iOS sux dogs arse), real bluetooth, a file system, a removable battery, expandable memory, flash and the ability to act as a usb mass storage device without the need for itunes on any machine I want to connect to.
Whenever I see someone with an iPhone I think "you poor idiot". Blinded by bling without the ability to actually think things through for yourself.
Well if you get really pedantic, your all wrong because everything your posting is based on the assertion that the state and federal parliaments and the courts in Australia are legitimate. There are plenty of legal problems dating back almost 1000 years that could be used to argue that they aren't and that acts of parliament have no power over us because we are not party to any contract with them...
One relevant point is the Mabo decision which basically said, "Yeah the Crown broke its own law in occupying this continent and that makes the whole thing illegitimate, but we're going to just say that we've been established here long enough we must be legitimate... or at least legitimate enough to assert our own legitimacy".
I think the same kind of thing applies with appeals to the Privy Council. According to the letter of the law and the history, s74 is as legitimate as anything else in the artifice of the Commonwealth, but convention agrees with you that it's pretty much void.
I have had my phone start getting noticeably hot after software updates and removed the battery. So far thankfully it has been from poor quality third party apps but it does happen and it's nice to have the option to stop it before it starts smoking.
The iphone 4 uses a "Built-in rechargeable lithium-ion battery. (http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html)
Which highlights the main point of this whole sorry episode. What stupid idiot designs a hand held carry in your pocket type device with a lithium ion battery that can't be removed in a hurry?
People keep saying Apple are good at design, but it seems to be only aesthetically. In terms of functionality, Apple design has got to be the most brain dead stupid crap around.
I don't think you fully read the post you replied to.
If you do something nobody else can do, or you do something nobody else will do, you deserve whatever you can get for it from your voluntary customers.
See? You can't get that job. Only AJ can. Having a job where he can increase his pay by $1.5 million is exactly what makes him deserve a job where he can give himself a $1.5 million raise. The fact that you don't understand that is exactly why you could never be CEO of a company that has enough value to be really profitable to destroy.
The strikes and overtime bans were stopped weeks ago because they were effecting customers. There were no strikes or overtime bans at the time of the grounding. Greedy management is basically sending them to the wall. Makes you wonder what sort of morons appoint greedy foreign psychopaths to run large companies when anyone with half a brain can see that it's in there interest to give themselves huge pay increases and separation pay while running the companies into the ground.
The maintenance engineers stopped overtime bans weeks ago. The industrial action in effect when the grounding occurred was pilots wearing red ties. CASA has publicly stated there was no safety reason for the grounding.
Bullshit. At that time of the grounding, the only industrial action taking place was pilots wearing red ties. Qantas has been going backwards because they are outsourcing maintenance to save money and they charge too much. The only difference between Qantas and Virgin is that Qantas gives you complementary snack. That cannot be worth the difference in price.
This whole story is just another one of those "Australian business people are so stupid they keep importing shonksters from over seas to drive our local industries into the ground" things. Coles and the milk price war is another fine example. If Qantas is really doing so badly they need to import budget pilots and outsource maintenance (gambling away the Qantas reputation for safety), why did Joyce get a big pay rise? Because he is really worth it, or because he's yet another greedy foreigner who doesn't give a shit what happens after he leaves?
I don't think that's quite true. Apple has initiated all of this and Samsung has retaliated quite reluctantly. I have been wondering why Samsung didn't launch this action months ago. Samsung doesn't seem to want to stifle competition, because they make money from phones Apple sells.
No, It won't allow you to make full use of the bluetooth, it won't work as an fm radio and it won't let you use it as removable storage without installing itunes on every pc you want to connect it too.
Did I mention car-career-house-suburb? No. I mentioned a high standard of living which precludes that. See the links I put in my reply to the other AC for possible energy solutions, coward.
That's not entirely true. A recent study done in Australia shows that at least this country could switch to entirely renewable energy within 10 years for an initial cost of 3% of GDP using off the shelf technology. Over the longer term it would end up cheaper than staying with fossil fuels. And that's without even looking at reducing consumption.
I think it's a little backwards to assume you need lots of energy to maintain a high standard of living.
Not having Best Buy locally I can't say for sure but if TFA is anything to go by, I would buy there because I get an installation of Windows without having to agree to the EULA.
If I must have windows, I would prefer to have it without a EULA.
Samsung didn't copy Apple any more than Apple copied a whole bunch of previous products. Samsung has definitely improved on what Apple has done and that is why Apple is feeling threatened.
I have both an iPhone4 and a Galaxy S. The Galaxy S running Android 2.3.4, which is what the SGS II ships with, looks and feels very different to the iPhone. It also provides a much more useful tool than the iPhone in that you can send files over bluetooth, use it as a mass storage device without needing iTunes, watch flash videos, etc etc. Apple knows this and they are scared.
There was a faster package manager... forgot what it was called, but I liked it better than default. Still slow at actually installing and updating, but it didn't require attention, I could just queue the things I wanted it to do and go to sleep. Wake up and the thing is updated. That's fine for me. The Android thing (could be a Samsung/filesystem problem) requires me to restart upgrades multiple times. I never had problems with email.... Always seemed fine. Lack of push may annoy some people, but for me every half hour is more than enough.
Oh if I had mod points and hadn't already sprayed my funk all over this thread. big +1 insightful there. No need to break in, just do it with a real portable coms device....
As posted earlier, Yeah I know how to install a custom ROM, but I haven't needed to void the warranty because the phone limps through. I am now seriously considering cyanogen though. I liked that on my old HTC G1 and last night's 5 reboots to update 20 apps has made it clear the current OS is broken. Still better for me than the iPhone4 (for completely utilitarian reasons, no fanboism), but still broken.
For sure. What I love about the N900 is the tech is not black magic, well at least not for me being a debian user for ~7 years. The "lack of apps" comment I made was true. Referring to the lack of quality apps targeting the form factor, but some wondeful apps still exist. I remember being stuck at Canberra airport waiting an hour for a delayed flight home and killing time making art with mypaint - complete with pressure sensitivity. Try that on a capacitive iPhone or Android.... (Although the N9 appears to be capacitive - ahh well, fodder for the unwashed masses who feel the existence of opposable thumbs means all we should really use is our thumbs. At least this thread is so old my trolling will not likely be modded troll........:p )
Nah, measure pro, I think it's called is really handy. The Angry Birds version was expensive and didn't have as many levels. I do miss having a programmable IR remote for my Cannon camera built into my phone though. Samsung doesn't even have the hardware.
I haven't play with an N9, but I recently switched from an N900 to a Samsung. The Samsung has a 1Ghz A8 processor, the N900 had a 600Mhz A8 processor. The Samsung runs Android 2.2, the N900 runs maemo.
The Samsung is slow and freezes frequently, the N900 is quick and responsive. Skype on the Samsung is a separate app that takes for ever to load, frequently fails to load, crashes or freezes the phone and doesn't support video even though it has a forward facing camera, the N900 has skype integrated as part of the normal phone functionality and supports video. The Samsung has a slow and painful way of connecting the phone as a mass storage device that often fails and attempts to start Kies on a windows machine, the N900 asks how you want to connect and then connects.
There are so many things about the N900 that felt way superior to a Samsung Galaxy S. The OS just felt rock solid compared to Android. The only downside I found with the N900 was the lack of apps written for it.
If the N9/meego made the most of what was learned from maemo and improved on it, I would imagine that it would probably be the best smart phone around. It's just a shame it's stillborn IMHO.
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Hehehehe. I have a Samsung and an iPhone and I can promise you the Samsung is the better phone. Easier text entry (fuck that onscreen keyboard in iOS sux dogs arse), real bluetooth, a file system, a removable battery, expandable memory, flash and the ability to act as a usb mass storage device without the need for itunes on any machine I want to connect to.
Whenever I see someone with an iPhone I think "you poor idiot". Blinded by bling without the ability to actually think things through for yourself.
Well if you get really pedantic, your all wrong because everything your posting is based on the assertion that the state and federal parliaments and the courts in Australia are legitimate. There are plenty of legal problems dating back almost 1000 years that could be used to argue that they aren't and that acts of parliament have no power over us because we are not party to any contract with them...
One relevant point is the Mabo decision which basically said, "Yeah the Crown broke its own law in occupying this continent and that makes the whole thing illegitimate, but we're going to just say that we've been established here long enough we must be legitimate... or at least legitimate enough to assert our own legitimacy".
I think the same kind of thing applies with appeals to the Privy Council. According to the letter of the law and the history, s74 is as legitimate as anything else in the artifice of the Commonwealth, but convention agrees with you that it's pretty much void.
Struth! "Chrimbo" is taking aussie slanging words to a a ridiculous extreme.
I have had my phone start getting noticeably hot after software updates and removed the battery. So far thankfully it has been from poor quality third party apps but it does happen and it's nice to have the option to stop it before it starts smoking.
Which highlights the main point of this whole sorry episode. What stupid idiot designs a hand held carry in your pocket type device with a lithium ion battery that can't be removed in a hurry?
People keep saying Apple are good at design, but it seems to be only aesthetically. In terms of functionality, Apple design has got to be the most brain dead stupid crap around.
Thanks. I always get a good chuckle when people misconjugaterize verbs.
See? You can't get that job. Only AJ can. Having a job where he can increase his pay by $1.5 million is exactly what makes him deserve a job where he can give himself a $1.5 million raise. The fact that you don't understand that is exactly why you could never be CEO of a company that has enough value to be really profitable to destroy.
No. That stopped weeks ago. Pilots have been wearing red ties.
The strikes and overtime bans were stopped weeks ago because they were effecting customers. There were no strikes or overtime bans at the time of the grounding. Greedy management is basically sending them to the wall. Makes you wonder what sort of morons appoint greedy foreign psychopaths to run large companies when anyone with half a brain can see that it's in there interest to give themselves huge pay increases and separation pay while running the companies into the ground.
The maintenance engineers stopped overtime bans weeks ago. The industrial action in effect when the grounding occurred was pilots wearing red ties. CASA has publicly stated there was no safety reason for the grounding.
Bullshit. At that time of the grounding, the only industrial action taking place was pilots wearing red ties. Qantas has been going backwards because they are outsourcing maintenance to save money and they charge too much. The only difference between Qantas and Virgin is that Qantas gives you complementary snack. That cannot be worth the difference in price.
This whole story is just another one of those "Australian business people are so stupid they keep importing shonksters from over seas to drive our local industries into the ground" things. Coles and the milk price war is another fine example. If Qantas is really doing so badly they need to import budget pilots and outsource maintenance (gambling away the Qantas reputation for safety), why did Joyce get a big pay rise? Because he is really worth it, or because he's yet another greedy foreigner who doesn't give a shit what happens after he leaves?
I don't think that's quite true. Apple has initiated all of this and Samsung has retaliated quite reluctantly. I have been wondering why Samsung didn't launch this action months ago. Samsung doesn't seem to want to stifle competition, because they make money from phones Apple sells.
No, It won't allow you to make full use of the bluetooth, it won't work as an fm radio and it won't let you use it as removable storage without installing itunes on every pc you want to connect it too.
Did I mention car-career-house-suburb? No. I mentioned a high standard of living which precludes that. See the links I put in my reply to the other AC for possible energy solutions, coward.
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That's not entirely true. A recent study done in Australia shows that at least this country could switch to entirely renewable energy within 10 years for an initial cost of 3% of GDP using off the shelf technology. Over the longer term it would end up cheaper than staying with fossil fuels. And that's without even looking at reducing consumption.
I think it's a little backwards to assume you need lots of energy to maintain a high standard of living.
Not having Best Buy locally I can't say for sure but if TFA is anything to go by, I would buy there because I get an installation of Windows without having to agree to the EULA.
If I must have windows, I would prefer to have it without a EULA.
Samsung didn't copy Apple any more than Apple copied a whole bunch of previous products. Samsung has definitely improved on what Apple has done and that is why Apple is feeling threatened.
I have both an iPhone4 and a Galaxy S. The Galaxy S running Android 2.3.4, which is what the SGS II ships with, looks and feels very different to the iPhone. It also provides a much more useful tool than the iPhone in that you can send files over bluetooth, use it as a mass storage device without needing iTunes, watch flash videos, etc etc. Apple knows this and they are scared.
There was a faster package manager... forgot what it was called, but I liked it better than default. Still slow at actually installing and updating, but it didn't require attention, I could just queue the things I wanted it to do and go to sleep. Wake up and the thing is updated. That's fine for me. The Android thing (could be a Samsung/filesystem problem) requires me to restart upgrades multiple times. I never had problems with email.... Always seemed fine. Lack of push may annoy some people, but for me every half hour is more than enough.
Oh if I had mod points and hadn't already sprayed my funk all over this thread. big +1 insightful there. No need to break in, just do it with a real portable coms device....
As posted earlier, Yeah I know how to install a custom ROM, but I haven't needed to void the warranty because the phone limps through. I am now seriously considering cyanogen though. I liked that on my old HTC G1 and last night's 5 reboots to update 20 apps has made it clear the current OS is broken. Still better for me than the iPhone4 (for completely utilitarian reasons, no fanboism), but still broken.
For sure. What I love about the N900 is the tech is not black magic, well at least not for me being a debian user for ~7 years. The "lack of apps" comment I made was true. Referring to the lack of quality apps targeting the form factor, but some wondeful apps still exist. I remember being stuck at Canberra airport waiting an hour for a delayed flight home and killing time making art with mypaint - complete with pressure sensitivity. Try that on a capacitive iPhone or Android.... (Although the N9 appears to be capacitive - ahh well, fodder for the unwashed masses who feel the existence of opposable thumbs means all we should really use is our thumbs. At least this thread is so old my trolling will not likely be modded troll........ :p )
Nah, measure pro, I think it's called is really handy. The Angry Birds version was expensive and didn't have as many levels. I do miss having a programmable IR remote for my Cannon camera built into my phone though. Samsung doesn't even have the hardware.
I rate the contact system and phone integration as better on an N900. Thanks for the filesystem info. I'll look into alternatives.
I haven't play with an N9, but I recently switched from an N900 to a Samsung. The Samsung has a 1Ghz A8 processor, the N900 had a 600Mhz A8 processor. The Samsung runs Android 2.2, the N900 runs maemo.
The Samsung is slow and freezes frequently, the N900 is quick and responsive. Skype on the Samsung is a separate app that takes for ever to load, frequently fails to load, crashes or freezes the phone and doesn't support video even though it has a forward facing camera, the N900 has skype integrated as part of the normal phone functionality and supports video. The Samsung has a slow and painful way of connecting the phone as a mass storage device that often fails and attempts to start Kies on a windows machine, the N900 asks how you want to connect and then connects.
There are so many things about the N900 that felt way superior to a Samsung Galaxy S. The OS just felt rock solid compared to Android. The only downside I found with the N900 was the lack of apps written for it.
If the N9/meego made the most of what was learned from maemo and improved on it, I would imagine that it would probably be the best smart phone around. It's just a shame it's stillborn IMHO.